“Session Men” is a fascinating peek into an unseen world of musical magic, a documentary about players whose names you didn’t know while they were working behind the scenes to create songs that have been the American soundtrack over the last 50 years.
Some friends who saw the movie “Bohemian Rhapsody” were talking about how much they wish they’d been able to go to a Queen concert at the height of the band’s popularity. That led to a discussion of which acts from the past we each would have liked to see. Atop everyone’s list was The Beatles, […]
In my review of Mel Gibson’s “Hacksaw Ridge,” I said that I was conflicted — I enjoyed the movie a lot, but couldn’t completely put his vile anti-Semitic remarks of a decade ago behind me. I’m even more conflicted about Chuck Berry, who died this weekend at 90. Yes, he was one of the architects […]
I was in Ohio for a few days last week looking at colleges with my daughter, and we made a couple of Hall of Fame stops. Literally. The first was the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, which I’d visited before, about 6 years ago. It’s a six-story structure that starts at the […]