THE INTERVIEWS: January 2016

Sunday, 31 January 2016

The Most Dangerous Band In The World: The Story of Guns N’ Roses on BBC Four

In 1985, Sunset Strip in Los Angeles gave birth to what would become one of the most successful and notorious rock bands of all time: Guns N’ Roses. Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Izzy Stradlin and Steven Adler formed a band that would change the history of rock 'n’ roll.

They produced one of the greatest debut albums of all time and went on to play to countless millions. Always uncompromising, Guns N’ Roses are an essential band in the musical lexicon.

Award-winning director Jon Brewer (B.B. King: The Life Of Riley and Nat King Cole: Afraid Of The Dark) tells the story of ‘The Most Dangerous Band In The World’ and how they came from playing bars on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles to stadiums across the world. The explosive rise of one of the most notorious bands of our times – it's a story of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll in excess. The film has been painstakingly compiled from a host of exclusive, never-before-heard interviews, and the early footage of Guns fan and friend Marc Canter.

It is testament to the legacy of this band that the past few years have been dominated with rumours of a reunion of the original members - which is now set to take place in 2016 at Coachella festival – with more dates rumoured. This raw, insightful and compelling documentary tells the story of how it all began and what really happened behind the scenes. The film features exclusive interviews with the likes of Steven Adler – drummer, Guns N’ Roses; Marc Canter – childhood friend of Slash from Guns N’ Roses; Vicky Hamilton – former manager of Guns N’ Roses; Saul Hudson (aka Slash) – lead guitarist of Guns N’ Roses; Mario Maglieri – owner of The Rainbow and Whiskey A Go Go; Michael Monroe – lead singer of Hanoi Rocks; Matt Sorum – drummer of Guns N’ Roses; Tom Zutaut – A&R Executive who discovered and signed Guns N’ Roses. It also features exclusive live footage from Marc Canter– the man who documented the early days of Guns N’ Roses.

Guns N’ Roses are one of the most successful rock bands of all time, with their debut album Appetite for Destruction selling over 30 million copies worldwide and spawning some of the most famous rock songs ever written, like Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O’ Mine and Paradise City. Since that release in 1987, the original line-up of Guns N’ Roses have gone to sell over 80 million records worldwide, releasing G N’ R Lies 1988, Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II in 1991, and The Spaghetti Incident? in 1993.

Director Jon Brewer is quickly becoming one of the most sought-after filmmakers of the past decade; he has a way of telling the stories of icons which has captured audiences worldwide. His previous work has included documentaries on Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King and Nat King Cole.

This film was commissioned for BBC Four by Jan Younghusband, Head of Commissioning, Music TV.

The Most Dangerous Band In the World: The Story of Guns N’ Roses is set for a premiere on BBC Four at 10pm on Friday 5 February 2016

Saturday, 30 January 2016

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Saturday, 23 January 2016

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Sunday, 17 January 2016

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Saturday, 16 January 2016

Alan Rickman was the toughest actor I ever interviewed — and the smartest

Rickman wasn't an easy interview.
Alan Rickman died this week at age 69, and while his role in "Harry Potter" sprang to mind for many, I remembered a different movie.

It was 2008's "Bottle Shock," an offbeat little film about the early days of the California wine business.

Rickman played Steven Spurrier, an English wine merchant who staged a now-legendary taste-off between French and California wines — that the Californians won!

I recalled "Bottle Shock" because I interviewed Rickman about it, when I was living in Los Angeles and doing celebrity journalism, writing profiles for the LA Times. I had been a longtime admirer of Rickman thanks to a great movie called "Truly, Madly, Deeply," directed by the late Anthony Minghella before he achieved much larger fame with "The English Patient."

Rickman was remarkable. You generally interview movie actors under two scenarios: at breakfast or lunch, usually at a restaurant of the actor's choosing, sometimes at his or her home; or at media cattle calls in fancy hotels. The "Bottle Shock" interview took place at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills, in a suite of rooms.

You could tell Rickman was holding his nose about the whole thing, remaining almost completely -read more-https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/alan-rickman-toughest-actor-ever-141700321.html

David Bowie Talks About "Searching for God" and "Spirituality" in Unaired 60 Minutes Interview

In another interview with 60 Minutes, Bowie talked about being asked, "Why do you do what you do?" and struggling to come up with an answer. "I really had to think about that," he said. "I guess, I guess, taking away all the theatrics or the costuming and the outer layers of what I do, I'm a writer...I write. I started examining the subject matter that i write about, and it really only boils down to a few songs based around...loneliness, to a certain extent, couple[d] with isolation, some kind of spiritual search, and a looking for a way into communicating with other people."

Bowie touched on spirituality again at a different point in the same interview. "Searching for music is like searching for God," he said. "They're very similar. There's an effort to reclaim the unmentionable, the unsayable, the unseeable, the unspeakable, all those things, comes into being a composer and to writing music and to searching for notes and pieces of musical information that don't exist."

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Ultimately, Bowie told 60 Minutes he was grateful he ended up writing andperforming his music. "I think generally, I just cannot really envision life without -read more -http://www.eonline.com/uk/news/730590/david-bowie-talks-about-searching-for-god-and-spirituality-in-unaired-60-minutes-interview?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories

Sunday, 10 January 2016

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