All posts tagged "John Lennon"

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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“The Concise John Lennon’s New York”: A Magical History Tour of Lennon’s Big Apple
If you’ve never been to New York City, and would like to see some of the Big Apple’s sights that will be forever associated with John Lennon and the Beatles, have a look at The Concise John...
- Posted September 8, 2017
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Night Flight’s 1988 John Lennon Video Profile: Sailing into the Bermuda Triangle on “Borrowed Time”
“On the advice of Yoko’s astrology consultants, John Lennon sailed to Bermuda in June, 1980,” Pat Prescott tells us during her introduction of the music video for “Borrowed Time,” featured Night Flight’s 1988 video profile on John...
- Posted September 10, 2016
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“The whole world is watching”: Turning points in the ’68 Democratic Convention and the trial of the Chicago Eight
Night Flight contributor Pat Thomas remembers the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago — which in some ways resembles much of what seems to be happening during this hot summer of 2016 — and takes a look at...
- Posted July 28, 2016
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Frank Zappa’s animated opinion-filled 1971 interview with legendary Village Voice “Scenes” columnist Howard Smith
Blank on Blank/PBS Digital Studios have just released their latest flash-animated cartoon, this one excerpted from a taped conversation — recorded 45 years ago, on June 6th, 1971 — between legendary Village Voice writer Howard Smith and...
- Posted June 7, 2016
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