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Defining Rockumentaries

A Mode and its History

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Populäre Musikkulturen im Film

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That the British director Jeff Stein broke down crying in front of The Who is a myth, according to himself, – a good story, admittedly, but made up. Apart from that, however, he did anything possible to convince them of his idea: “I just remember just asking, begging, pleading so many times […] I wore them down. I was a tremendous, you know, pain in the ass, I suppose. I just wouldn’t give up.”

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Niebling, L. (2016). Defining Rockumentaries. In: Heinze, C., Niebling, L. (eds) Populäre Musikkulturen im Film. Film und Bewegtbild in Kultur und Gesellschaft. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10896-0_6

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