All posts tagged "John Lennon"

“Strange Fruit”: The Beatles & Apple Records’ failed attempts at “Western communism”
Strange Fruit: The Beatles’ Apple Records (2012) — a nearly three-hour UK-made documentary about the Beatles‘ multi-faceted artist-owned organization, the home of any of their future recordings — is now streaming on Night Flight Plus. Paul McCartney...
- Posted May 21, 2019
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Night Flight on IFC: Episode 17!
“Night Flight” was the most radically fun, nostalgically cranium-bursting cable TV program of all time, originally airing in the ’80s (and syndicated shows aired during the ’90s) during the wee hours on Fridays and Saturdays on the...
- Posted November 30, 2018
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“Song for a Future Generation”: Athens, GA’s the B-52s were the South’s first new wave band
In 1985, Night Flight packed up the van in NYC and headed south on Interstate 81 for our somewhat misleadingly titled “Take Off to Southern Rock,” which was actually a geographic-based music video travelogue of ’80s rock...
- Posted October 23, 2018
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I hope we live to tell the tale: Tears for Fears’ “Shout” & Arthur Janov’s Primal Scream Therapy
In this two-hour block of “Night Flight” from 1985, “Night Flight: Visions” took a virtual trip “Around the World,” checking in at destinations around the globe, some of them quite exotic and far-flung, but like a lot...
- Posted October 11, 2018
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Going Off Piste: “Going Underground: McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter-Culture”
Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter-Culture — now streaming on Night Flight Plus — explores the impact of the mid-to-late ’60s British counterculture scene on the Beatles, and on Paul McCartney in particular....
- Posted May 31, 2018
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“All You Need is Love: The Story of Popular Music”: Tony Palmer’s 17-part UK TV docu-series
If you’ve been watching the snack-size “Night Flight Highlights” episodes we’ve been airing on the IFC channel every Friday night since April 20th, you may have seen excerpts from Tony Palmer’s ambitious All You Need Is Love:...
- Posted May 22, 2018
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“Sie liebt dich, ja ja ja”: Spencer Leigh’s “The Beatles – Hamburg & the Hamburg Sound”
In The Beatles – Hamburg & the Hamburg Sound, celebrated British deejay and music biographer Spencer Leigh gives viewers a two-and-a-half hour guided walking tour of Hamburg, a seaport city in northern Germany some five hundred miles...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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“If They Move… Film ‘Em”: In 1984, Sam Peckinpah directed Julian Lennon’s “Valotte”
In Night Flight’s “Visions of Platinum: Part 1,” which originally aired on June 12, 1985, record producer Phil Ramone told us about working with Julian Lennon, whose “Valotte” music video was, somewhat surprisingly, directed by the legendary...
- Posted December 29, 2017
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