

A restored edition, with additional material, was released theatrically in 2012.Ī documentary about The Beatles rehearsing and recording songs for the album Let It Be, it was filmed in January 1969. The first documentary film about the Rolling Stones, shot during the band's tour of Ireland in September 1965. Several days in the lives of the Beatles.

The film features several major acts of the day, including The Platters, but largely focuses on the success of Haley and his band, whose single " Rock Around the Clock" is widely considered to be the first rock and roll hit.

Ĭonsidered the first true rock and roll feature film, it is a highly fictionalized account of the origins of rock. The film features ten songs performed by the Glenn Miller Orchestra. The film tells the story of the Glenn Miller Orchestra and big band leader Glenn Miller (1904–1944) ( James Stewart) from his early days in the music business in 1929 through to his 1944 death when the airplane he was flying on was lost over the English Channel during World War II. List of motion pictures about music bands (real or fictional) Year The following are significant theatrical films that tell the stories of real or imagined musical groups. While numerous films in the intervening years have featured popular music in their sound tracks, and many have profiled solo artists, the list of films about popular bands is much shorter. Popular music and motion pictures have been linked since the dawn of the talkies and The Jazz Singer (1927).
