Best Musical Biographies
 

Musical Biographies of musicians, composers and performers.

My favorites :

1. Amadeus (1984)
2. Bound For Glory (1976)
3. Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
4. Bird (1988)
5. The Buddy Holly Story (1978)
6. Walk the Line (2005)
7. Ray (2004)
8. What's Love Got To Do With It (1993)
9. Shine (1996)
10. Sid and Nancy (1986)
11. De-Lovely (2004)
12. Coal Miner's Daughter (1980)
13. La Bamba (1987)
14. The Great Ziegfield (1936)
15. The Doors (1991)

nice list

i'd have to include:
selena
the rat pack
why do fools fall in love

Yankee Doodle Dandy, 42' with Jimmy Cagney playing George M. Cohan. Great film, great songs - although I do prefer Cagneys gangster pictures.

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Anyway, I'll add Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People (2002) which charts the rise of Joy Division, New Order and The Happy Mondays through the eyes of svengali, visionary and pretentious arsehole, Tony Wilson.

walk the line was phenomenal

Amadeus was awesome. His laugh rules

One of my bosses laughs like that. It's a little disturbing. :p

Has anyone seen The Buena Vista Social Club?

Sure, but not really up for discussion if you want to keep making a distinction between BioPics and documentary. Buena Vista Social Club is a terrific flick, but it hardly seems fair to judge it against Bird and Amadeus.

Ah. I haven't seen it, so can't compare. It was recommended by a musician friend, so I figured it's probably fairly accurate about what happened.

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The music is amazing, and you get to see all of these (then) forgotten musicians. I denote "then forgotten" because the success of the movie, the soundtrack and the subsequent touring made stars out of all of them again. And rightfully so. But what The Buena Vista Social Club is best at, as a movie (for me anyway), is the glimpse inside Castro's Cuba. It is an amazing chronicle of great music, yes, but I love the sociological aspects just as much, if not more.

Yeah, you should definitely see it....but it isn't a Musical BioPic. It's a Wem Wenders documentary where he and Ry Cooder travel to Cuba and find these great folks and, in the process, turn them into international stars.

Sounds excellent! Thanks for the info, H. :)