Documentary exploring Elton John's childhood, apprenticeship in the British music business, sudden stardom in the US at the dawn of the 70s and his musical heyday. Plus the backstory to the album reuniting him with Leon Russell, his American mentor. Features extensive exclusive interviews with Elton, plus colleagues and collaborators including Bernie Taupin, Leon Russell and others.
This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new follow-up to the Beach Boys' cutting-edge mega-hit, Pet Sounds. The new album was to be called "SMiLE". SMiLE pushed the envelope both musically and lyrically, and was supposed to out-do the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper record. But Brian wasn't able to sell the project to his band-mates when they returned. The project was shelved and Wilson's well-documented decline into depression, drug abuse, recluseness, and obesity had begun. Thirty-odd years later, Wilson announced that in 2004, SMiLE would be performed live in its entirety in London. This film tells the story of a damaged but healing artist bringing his greatest work to light.
Enjoy the Beach Boys in a 90 minute concert celebrating their 25 year anniversary with guest artists like Glen Campbell, Ray Charles, The Everly Brothers, Jeffery Osborne, Belinda Carlisle and Three Dog Night. The concert was recorded in December 1986 on the sunny Waikiki beach in Hawaii.
Danny Hutton is a musician and a voice-over artist. Hutton's family moved from Ireland to Los Angeles when he was a child, and he had an early job working at a warehouse for Disney/Buena Vista Records. He moved on to doing voice-over work and singing songs for MGM and Hanna Barbara cartoons, during which time he was one of thousands who unsuccessfully tried out to be in The Monkees. In 1968, Hutton became a founding member of the 70s rock group Three Dog Night and remained with the band until their official breakup in 1977, after which he managed LA-area punk bands and fronted the Danny Hutton Hitters. When Three Dog Night reformed in the mid-80s, he returned to the band and remains an active band member.
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