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Oil City confidential / Cadiz Music presents a product of Malitsky Production ; a Julien Temple film ; associate producer, George Hencken ; executive producer, Richard England ; produced by Stephen Malit ; directed by Julien Temple.
Van Pelt - Ormandy Music and Media Center Music DVD 1769
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- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dr. Feelgood (Musical group).
- Rock musicians--England--Canvey Island--Biography.
- Rock musicians.
- Rock groups--England--Canvey Island--Biography.
- Rock groups.
- Rock music--1971-1980.
- Rock music.
- Canvey Island (England : Town)--Social conditions--20th century.
- Canvey Island (England : Town).
- Canvey Island (England : Town)--Social life and customs--20th century.
- England--Canvey Island.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Biographies.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Cadiz Music, [2010]
- System Details:
- DVD; PAL; stereo or 5.1 surround.
- digital
- optical
- mixed
- stereo
- PAL
- video file
- DVD video
- Summary:
- Outside of the United Kingdom, only the most obsessive music fans were aware of what was known as "pub rock" during its brief heyday in the early to mid-1970s. But in England, pub rock was a important precursor to the punk and new wave scene; the pub bands rejected the growing pretension of glam and progressive rock, and instead embraced a back-to-basics sound rooted in stripped down r-'n-b and country-rock. The toughest of the pub rock bands was Canvey Island's Dr Feelgood, a quartet whose revved-up, no-frills music was more tuneful and celebratory than punk but communicated much of the same swagger and sense of menace. Dr Feelgood never earned more than a tiny cult following in the United States, but for a spell they were a major draw in the UK, and their wild rags-to-riches-to-rags-again story is brought to the screen in Oil City Confidential, Julien Temple's last film in his trilogy on British music of the 1970s. Rather than following the rules of standard rockumentaries, Temple uses the music as a prism through which he examines the social and cultural conditions of the times.
- Participant:
- Dr. Feelgood: Lee Brilleaux ; Wilko Johnson ; John Martin ; John B. Sparkes, Chris Fenwick.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Stephen Organ ; editor, Caroline Richards ; music by Dr. Feelgood.
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the 2009 documentary.
- OCLC:
- 712024760
- Publisher Number:
- 844493061076
- CADIZDVD107 Cadiz Music
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