Exclusive: Documentary marks the 50th anniversary of the seminal album.
A new Beatles film marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band’s seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is in post-production.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper And Beyond, directed by Alan G. Parker (Hello Quo), will be sold internationally by former Im Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen.
The film picks up on The Beatles as they end their gruelling tour schedule in August 1966 (coincidentally following on from Ron Howard’s recent Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week) to return to the studio to record the landmark ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.
As one of the biggest selling records of all time, described by Rolling Stone magazine simply as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…”, ‘Sgt Pepper’ (released in June 1967) marked a pivotal moment in the 60’s, cementing the advent of Psychedelia and the Summer of Love.
The album includes...
A new Beatles film marking the 50th anniversary of the iconic band’s seminal album ‘Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ is in post-production.
It Was Fifty Years Ago Today…Sgt Pepper And Beyond, directed by Alan G. Parker (Hello Quo), will be sold internationally by former Im Global executive Tim Grohne’s Primal Screen.
The film picks up on The Beatles as they end their gruelling tour schedule in August 1966 (coincidentally following on from Ron Howard’s recent Beatles documentary Eight Days A Week) to return to the studio to record the landmark ‘Sgt. Pepper’ album.
As one of the biggest selling records of all time, described by Rolling Stone magazine simply as “The most important rock & roll album ever made…”, ‘Sgt Pepper’ (released in June 1967) marked a pivotal moment in the 60’s, cementing the advent of Psychedelia and the Summer of Love.
The album includes...
- 1/18/2017
- by geoffrey@macnab.demon.co.uk (Geoffrey Macnab)
- ScreenDaily
Strictly Come Dancing topped last night's (November 9) ratings with 10.3 million viewers.
The BBC One dance competition had 43.1% of the audience share when it aired at 6.30pm, continuing its winning streak over ITV show The X Factor.
X Factor's audience was up by 570,000 viewers from last week, attracting 8.22m (34.5%). A further 254k (1.1%) tuned in to the singing competition on ITV +1.
Back on BBC One, Atlantis dropped slightly with 4.35m (18%) at 8pm, while The Royal British Legion Festival of Rememberance at the Royal Albert Hall pulled in 5.32m (24.8%) at 9.15pm.
A repeat of documentary The Irresistible Rise of Boris Johnson brought in 1.16m (4.8%) at 7.30pm for BBC Two, followed by Dad's Army with 1.86m (7.7%) at 8.30pm. 1.1m (4.93%) tuned in for Status Quo documentary Hello Quo at 9pm.
Following The X Factor, The Jonathan Ross Show attracted 3.69m (17.3%) on ITV, while The Chase: Celebrity Special pulled in 3.23m (13.3%) earlier at 7pm.
Channel 4 had a quiet evening,...
The BBC One dance competition had 43.1% of the audience share when it aired at 6.30pm, continuing its winning streak over ITV show The X Factor.
X Factor's audience was up by 570,000 viewers from last week, attracting 8.22m (34.5%). A further 254k (1.1%) tuned in to the singing competition on ITV +1.
Back on BBC One, Atlantis dropped slightly with 4.35m (18%) at 8pm, while The Royal British Legion Festival of Rememberance at the Royal Albert Hall pulled in 5.32m (24.8%) at 9.15pm.
A repeat of documentary The Irresistible Rise of Boris Johnson brought in 1.16m (4.8%) at 7.30pm for BBC Two, followed by Dad's Army with 1.86m (7.7%) at 8.30pm. 1.1m (4.93%) tuned in for Status Quo documentary Hello Quo at 9pm.
Following The X Factor, The Jonathan Ross Show attracted 3.69m (17.3%) on ITV, while The Chase: Celebrity Special pulled in 3.23m (13.3%) earlier at 7pm.
Channel 4 had a quiet evening,...
- 11/10/2013
- Digital Spy
My dad would love this film. He raised me on a diet of Status Quo, Queen and Gloria Estefan (no really), so this documentary was practically made for him. Naturally, if you’re a fellow Quo fan you’ll love it too.
But what if you’re not? What if you don’t miss long hair, making denim look good, and Brian May talking music instead of badger culls? In short, what if you’re a young person – are the life, times and reunion of this supposedly seminal band really for you?
For legal reasons: absolutely. How else would you discover that Status Quo once sued the BBC after Radio One quit playing their records on the grounds they were “too old”?
In all seriousness, it’s anecdotes like that which make Hello Quo! a treat for anybody. The rags to riches tale – following the band from grimy East End...
But what if you’re not? What if you don’t miss long hair, making denim look good, and Brian May talking music instead of badger culls? In short, what if you’re a young person – are the life, times and reunion of this supposedly seminal band really for you?
For legal reasons: absolutely. How else would you discover that Status Quo once sued the BBC after Radio One quit playing their records on the grounds they were “too old”?
In all seriousness, it’s anecdotes like that which make Hello Quo! a treat for anybody. The rags to riches tale – following the band from grimy East End...
- 10/30/2012
- Shadowlocked
It’s Monday, so we all know what that means! Yes, it’s time for another rundown of DVDs and Blu-ray’s hitting stores online and offline this week. It’s a jam-packed week, with plenty of movies waiting to take you money, so let us breakdown the new releases and highlight what you should – and shouldn’t – be buying from today, October 29th 2012.
Pick Of The Week
The Five-Year Engagement (DVD/Blu-ray)
Judd Apatow-produced romantic comedy starring Emily Blunt and Jason Segel. Anglo-American couple Violet (Blunt) and Tom (Segel) fall in love and soon after decide to get married. But the wedding is repeatedly delayed by the various intricate and perplexing circumstances in which they find themselves, to the point where both parties – and their families – start to wonder if they are doing the right thing after all. The Five-Year Engagement Review
And the rest…
Brake (DVD/Blu-ray...
Pick Of The Week
The Five-Year Engagement (DVD/Blu-ray)
Judd Apatow-produced romantic comedy starring Emily Blunt and Jason Segel. Anglo-American couple Violet (Blunt) and Tom (Segel) fall in love and soon after decide to get married. But the wedding is repeatedly delayed by the various intricate and perplexing circumstances in which they find themselves, to the point where both parties – and their families – start to wonder if they are doing the right thing after all. The Five-Year Engagement Review
And the rest…
Brake (DVD/Blu-ray...
- 10/29/2012
- by Phil
- Nerdly
Cologne, Germany - British/German sales group K5 has sold documentary Hello Quo about U.K. rock band Status Quo to Studiocanal in Germany and Anchor Bay in the U.K. The deals for the “rockumentary” come ahead of the American Film Market, where K5 will be presenting Alan G. Parker's film to international buyers. The documentary, produced by Alexa Morris, features interviews about Status Quo with such music bigwigs as Brian May of Queen, Thin Lizzy, The Buzzcocks, Slade, Paul Weller of The Jam, The Sweet and artist and producer Jeff Lynne, originally of Elo. Hello Quo traces the band's history from
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- 10/29/2012
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Die Nibelungen
As folk tales go, the old German epic poem Nibelungenlied is as important to that country's culture and psyche as The Iliad is to the Greeks. Fritz Lang's 1924 film version, split into two halves with a combined running time of almost five hours, removed all the Wagnerian stodge (and beards), delivering the silent-era version of a blockbuster. He couldn't match the American directors like Dw Griffiths in terms of budgets and scope of production, but he could outclass them.
Lang's film revels in style and artifice, using film tricks and elaborate sets to conjure a world that still impresses. Die Nibelungen, the emboldening tale of dragon-slayer Siegfried, his quest for power and the revenge that followed, was a film that would alert the world to the proficiency and ability of German cinema and give insight into the nation.
If anything Lang did his job too well: such...
As folk tales go, the old German epic poem Nibelungenlied is as important to that country's culture and psyche as The Iliad is to the Greeks. Fritz Lang's 1924 film version, split into two halves with a combined running time of almost five hours, removed all the Wagnerian stodge (and beards), delivering the silent-era version of a blockbuster. He couldn't match the American directors like Dw Griffiths in terms of budgets and scope of production, but he could outclass them.
Lang's film revels in style and artifice, using film tricks and elaborate sets to conjure a world that still impresses. Die Nibelungen, the emboldening tale of dragon-slayer Siegfried, his quest for power and the revenge that followed, was a film that would alert the world to the proficiency and ability of German cinema and give insight into the nation.
If anything Lang did his job too well: such...
- 10/26/2012
- by Phelim O'Neill
- The Guardian - Film News
I first saw the Quo back in 1981 and although they said ‘goodbye’ in 1984 on their farewell tour we, the loyal fans, were delighted that they could not resist entering back into the recording studio and heading back on the road again...and again...and again. This year, like their semi centennial celebrating brothers The Stones, they rack up another milestone, in what has now become known as ‘the business’. However, unlike the Stones, the Quo were never cool but could always be relied on for a rawdy good night out.
Theirs is a very British type of pop pub rock which never found favour in the States. The Americans never took to the Quo. Having invited twelve bar blues they weren’t really interested in a bunch of Limeys speeding it up and feeding it back to them. Good...their loss; and it allowed the Quo to concentrate on providing...
Theirs is a very British type of pop pub rock which never found favour in the States. The Americans never took to the Quo. Having invited twelve bar blues they weren’t really interested in a bunch of Limeys speeding it up and feeding it back to them. Good...their loss; and it allowed the Quo to concentrate on providing...
- 10/24/2012
- Shadowlocked
Beasts Of The Southern Wild (12A)
(Benh Zeitlin, 2012, Us) Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry. 93 mins
That rarest of things: a genuine, unclassifiable original that seems to have come out of nowhere. It's set in a nowhere time and place, a sort of post-Katrina New Orleans-meets-Kevin Costner's Waterworld, where our six-year-old narrator observes her father's illness and her bayou community's plight with dreamy detachment. It's a film that takes great risks – bare-bones story, non-professional actors, prehistoric creatures, jerky camerawork – but it all pays off beautifully.
Ginger & Rosa (12A)
(Sally Potter, 2012, UK/Den/Can/Cro) Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola. 90 mins
Two 1960s girlfriends come of age in very different ways in this outstanding drama, shadowed by anxieties over the nuclear family and the nuclear threat. Beautifully shot and powerfully acted, it sits neatly between Fish Tank and An Education.
Frankenweenie (PG)
(Tim Burton, 2012, Us) Charlie Tahan, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder.
(Benh Zeitlin, 2012, Us) Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry. 93 mins
That rarest of things: a genuine, unclassifiable original that seems to have come out of nowhere. It's set in a nowhere time and place, a sort of post-Katrina New Orleans-meets-Kevin Costner's Waterworld, where our six-year-old narrator observes her father's illness and her bayou community's plight with dreamy detachment. It's a film that takes great risks – bare-bones story, non-professional actors, prehistoric creatures, jerky camerawork – but it all pays off beautifully.
Ginger & Rosa (12A)
(Sally Potter, 2012, UK/Den/Can/Cro) Elle Fanning, Alice Englert, Alessandro Nivola. 90 mins
Two 1960s girlfriends come of age in very different ways in this outstanding drama, shadowed by anxieties over the nuclear family and the nuclear threat. Beautifully shot and powerfully acted, it sits neatly between Fish Tank and An Education.
Frankenweenie (PG)
(Tim Burton, 2012, Us) Charlie Tahan, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder.
- 10/19/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
On this week's show, Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw and Catherine Shoard look beyond the hype and review Sundance hit (and now Oscar contender) Beasts of the Southern Wild, then move on to beasts of an animated nature in Madagascar 3. Also up for review are Sally Potter's coming-of-age movie Ginger & Rosa and the exhaustive Status Quo documentary, Hello Quo
Xan BrooksPeter BradshawCatherine ShoardElliot SmithPhil Maynard...
Xan BrooksPeter BradshawCatherine ShoardElliot SmithPhil Maynard...
- 10/19/2012
- by Xan Brooks, Peter Bradshaw, Catherine Shoard, Elliot Smith, Phil Maynard
- The Guardian - Film News
Anybody who laughs at Status Quo's musicianship (including the Radio 1 powers that be that unceremoniously threw them off the station's playlist) obviously haven't counted the 118 million albums the band have sold worldwide in their three decades as a band. Or remembered how they kickstarted Live Aid in 1985 with just the right amount of vroom to help ensure the enduring success of the day.
The Quo - still going strong
Now, like any self-respecting pillars of the rock establishment, the Quo have got a rockumentary all of their own, charting their success and with contributions from such like-minded luminaries as Brian May, Paul Weller, Sir Cliff, Thin Lizzy and Buzzcocks. The list goes on...
'Hello Quo!' - a fly-on-the-wall documentary Access All Areas Collector's Edition is available on DVD and Blu-Ray from 29 October, and HuffPostUK Entertainment has an exclusive clip - Watch Above.
Meanwhile, do you agree with...
The Quo - still going strong
Now, like any self-respecting pillars of the rock establishment, the Quo have got a rockumentary all of their own, charting their success and with contributions from such like-minded luminaries as Brian May, Paul Weller, Sir Cliff, Thin Lizzy and Buzzcocks. The list goes on...
'Hello Quo!' - a fly-on-the-wall documentary Access All Areas Collector's Edition is available on DVD and Blu-Ray from 29 October, and HuffPostUK Entertainment has an exclusive clip - Watch Above.
Meanwhile, do you agree with...
- 10/18/2012
- by The Huffington Post UK
- Huffington Post
With over 118 million album sales worldwide, more chart hits than any other rock group and a total of 415 weeks in the UK Singles chart, it's safe to say that Status Quo are sort of a big deal. Considered by many to be one of - if not the - most influential rock band from the UK, the boys have fronted sell out tour after sell out tour, bringing a euphoric sound to the millions for the last 43 years.
Now, with the release of the fly-on-the-wall documentary Hello Quo!, the boys are set to conquer yet another media outlet. Produced by well-known music filmmaker Alan G Parker, the documentary depicts the phenomenon that is Status Quo, combining behind-the-scenes, never before seen footage with fantastic interviews from Brian May, Paul Weller, Sir Cliff Richard, Thin Lizzy, Buzzcocks, Slade and Midge Ure (to name but a few).
And so, with this in mind,...
Now, with the release of the fly-on-the-wall documentary Hello Quo!, the boys are set to conquer yet another media outlet. Produced by well-known music filmmaker Alan G Parker, the documentary depicts the phenomenon that is Status Quo, combining behind-the-scenes, never before seen footage with fantastic interviews from Brian May, Paul Weller, Sir Cliff Richard, Thin Lizzy, Buzzcocks, Slade and Midge Ure (to name but a few).
And so, with this in mind,...
- 10/15/2012
- Shadowlocked
London -- A no-holds-barred insight into the 50-year career of the legendary British rock band Status Quo, complete with sex, drugs and rock-n-roll, is to be touted to film buyers. The feature length documentary, Hello Quo, is directed by Alan G. Parker (Who Killed Nancy) and produced by Alexa Morris. Parker's resume also boasts feature documentary Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyers’ Cut) which earned him an Emmy Award nomination in 2010. K5, the German/Brit group, will tout the movie after snapping up the rights to the film that features interviews about Status Quo with
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- 7/17/2012
- by Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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