The rock music scene of the early 1970s--the Rolling Stones, the Stampeders, Whiskey Howl, Alice Cooper--they're all here! Along with classic footage from concerts and recording sessions, Rock-A-Bye looks behind the scenes at record companies and radio studios. The stars also have their say. Ronnie Hawkins chats from the back seat of a Rolls, and Zal Yanovsky of The Lovin' Spoonful tells hilarious anecdotes of his rise to fame, which lasted only 18 months. The camera also goes into a small New York club where Muddy Waters sings and plays guitar, the bluesman who inspired so many great rock musicians. The film ends with Alice Cooper, the first shock rocker, singing "Dead Babies" with a doll and a hatchet. This classic, entertaining rockumentary captures an era!
Production
Fly-on-wall access money literally cannot buy today.
Direction
Bensimon lets legends ramble beautifully unedited.
Director
Jacques Bensimon
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot just before the 1973 oil crisis and punk's demolition of this exact rock excess—it's a documentary of dinosaurs who don't know the meteor's coming.
Zal Yanovsky was forced out of The Lovin' Spoonful after a drug bust; his bitter candor here got the film limited US distribution.
CA
