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All You Need Is Love Vol 6 - Always Chasing Rainbows - Tin Pan Alley
Label Tony Palmer
Catalog TPDVD134
Format DVD
Discs 1
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2009-04-06
Origin:UK
Description
Over the past forty plus years British film director Tony Palmer has established himself as one of the country’s foremost director’s of documentary and factual based films. One of Tony Palmers first successes was the film All My Loving which was released in 1968. Some seven years later Tony had the idea, encouraged by John Lennon to document the history of popular music. The result was the groundbreaking and award winning series of films made for television under the title “All You Need Is Love”

The full series of films was released in 2008 to great critical and commercial acclaim.

Volume six covers the big business behind the performance side of music the writing of music and music publishing.

Tin Pan Alley existed to make money. It organized and rationalized an embryonic music industry for the mutual benefit of these who did the organizing. Tin Pan Alley brought to popular music a collective sense of purpose. Songs were no longer the creative prerogative of a few gifted, composers. They could be written to order, in ten minutes, for all combinations of instruments and voices. Its organization included pluggers, copyists, demonstrators and arrangers. Songs were written by committee, by number, and by role. There was “product”, and the greater the “product”, the greater the profit.
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