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Jeff Buckley: The Last Goodbye

Incandescent. That word fully describes Jeff Buckley to a T. His meteoric rise to fame was a brilliant flash of light, only to be snuffed out by his apparently accidental drowning at age 30. Born in Southern California, Jeff spent his early years growing up in Orange County. He began playing guitar at the age …

Do You Remember? VH1’s “Behind the Music”

Television

Do You Remember? VH1’s “Behind the Music”

On January 1, 1985, MTV’s parent corporation launched a new music video network aimed at building upon what the original music channel had created, but it focused on a slightly older demographic. When VH1 first came into existence, it was all about music videos and music shows. Favorites like “Behind the Music”, “VH1 Legends”, “Best …

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Film and Documentary

Mystify: The Michael Hutchence Story

Richard Lowenstein’s long-awaited documentary Mystify: Michael Hutchence arrived in July 2019 after a decade in the works. It’s no surprise that Lowenstein seems to struggle a bit to determine the best path to take to frame Hutchence’s story; after all, they were close friends. That being said – it was definitely worth the wait. Mystify …

Film and Documentary

Saturday Night Fever: A Retro Review

What do you get when you make a movie about the insane disco craze of the 70s? You get music, dancing, and a whole lot more that could have been left on the cutting room floor. Ironically, it’s the numerous and heavily choreographed musical sequences that have failed to stand the test of time. John …

Film and Documentary

Tina: The Documentary

On March 2, 2021, the documentary, “Tina Turner,” debuted at the Berlin Film Festival where it received a very favorable rating. The Oscar winning documentary duo, Dan Lindsay and T. J. Martin, went on to watch HBO release in the U.S. on March 27, and saw it garner the largest HBO audience for a documentary …

Music

Fleetwood Mac Rumours: A Retro Review

It’s often said that the best music comes from deep inside, or from a broken heart. Never is that adage more apparent than when listening to Fleetwood Mac’s iconic album, Rumours. The studio sessions were heavily marked by cocaine use, as well as the strife among band members, and the relationship breakups that shaped most …

Film and Documentary

This is Spinal Tap: A Retro Review

The “mockumentary,” This Is Spinal Tap, is considered to be one of the funniest movies ever made. While it’s about a lot of obscure, abstract things, the main thing is the way the real story is not in the questions or the answers, but what is continuously and hilariously occurring in the background. The movie …

Music

Commodores: Still Sailin’ On

Funk and soul band, Commodores, were first formed in 1968 at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) from two former student music groups, the Mystics and the Jays. The new six-man band featured Lionel Richie, Thomas McClary, and William King from the Mystics … Richie later described some members of the Mystics as “jazz buffs;” and …

Television

MTV’s “The Real World” The Original “Reality Show”

In the early 90s, Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray were looking for new ideas and watched a 70s show on PBS called “An American Family.” It was a chronicle of the daily life of the Louds, an upper middle-class family in Santa Barbara, California, but ended up documenting the break-up of the family when the …

Pop Culture

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Rainbow Bar & Grill Retrospective

If only the building at 9015 Sunset Blvd on the Hollywood Strip could talk … oh, the stories it could tell. The Rainbow Bar & Grill, owned at that time by Elmer Valentine, Lou Adler, and Mario Maglieri, opened in April 1972 with a party for Elton John. The location was the former Villa Nova …

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Tami Danielson, Author at PopDaze : 90s Nostalgia Entertainment - Page 4 of 9

Jeff Buckley: The Last Goodbye

Do You Remember? VH1’s “Behind the Music”

Mystify: The Michael Hutchence Story

Saturday Night Fever: A Retro Review

Tina: The Documentary

Fleetwood Mac Rumours: A Retro Review

This is Spinal Tap: A Retro Review

Commodores: Still Sailin’ On

MTV’s “The Real World” The Original “Reality Show”

Somewhere Over the Rainbow: The Rainbow Bar & Grill Retrospective

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