A history of the "27 Club" (music stars who died at 27), examining its six most iconic members. Imagine a club that people are dying to get into-- literally! Sounes examines the lives of six musicians and singers who died at the age of 27, plus other music industry figures who died at that age, to discover what-- apart from coincidence-- this phenomenon signifies. He discovers a common story of excess, madness, and self-destruction. Reveals previously...

Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the three most influential and pivotal artists of the Rock age. This film goes behind the music to discover one of the defining artists of the 20th Century. Interviews from Bob Dylan's schooldays include his English teacher and the guitarist from his first schoolboy band. The film follows his progress through his rebel days in college in Minneapolis to his development in the burgeoning folk clubs of New York's Greenwich...

"Seattle band, The Gits and their charismatic front person Mia Zapata were on the verge of international rock stardom but on July 7, 1993, days before their third US tour, Mia Zapata, The Gits 27-year-old singer-songwriter, was brutally assaulted and murdered by a stranger. Zapata?s death sent chilling ripples through progressive communities throughout the United States. She became a cause-celebre for women?s rights activists outraged by the brutal...

For over half of a century, Pete Seeger's life and music cut across the major issues of the day. A tireless supporter of union organization in the 1930s and 1940s, he joined the Communist Party, performing his songs with banjo and guitar accompaniment to promote worker solidarity. He sang out against American involvement in World War II in the early 1940s, only to change his tune after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. He enlisted in the Army and,...

Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Elvis's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, tells her whole story for the first time in a memoir faithfully completed by her daughter, Riley Keough, after Lisa Marie's death.