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The 50 Best Music Documentaries of All Time
Photo-Illustration: Vulture, Photos: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Miramax, Netflix, Searchlight Pictures
This story was originally published in and has been updated to reflect recent releases.
The past few years have been something of a golden age for music documentaries — with the Oscar-winning success of Searching for Sugar Man and 20 Feet From Stardom opening up the field for films about less-obvious stars. Lately, there have been a flood of movies about cult bands, forgotten local acts, and background players — and even a few docs, like Amyand Moonage Daydream, that have found new ways to approach some of the most popular musicians of the past half-century. Netflix has done so well with music-themed films that it commissioned some of its own, such as What Happened, Miss Simone? Thanks in part to art-house patrons, Blu-ray buyers, and premium-cable subscribers, the market for movies about musicians has become lucrative enough t
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The US musician, artist and comic book writer Daniel Johnston died on 10 September from suspected heart attack at his home in Austin, Texas. He was 58 years old. Suffering from bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, as well as diabetes and hydrocephalus, Johnston was often viewed as an outsider artist, but he made a considerable impact on the mainstream. His music was covered by the likes of Mercury Rev, Tom Waits and Spiritualized, and the rock opera Speeding Motorcycle was based on his songs. Famously, Kurt Cobain was spotted wearing a T-shirt featuring Johnston’s Hi, How Are You album cover art drawing of a cartoon frog from
Born in Sacramento, California, Johnston grew up in West Virginia and moved to Austin, Texas in His chosen hometown honoured him by displaying a mural of the aforementioned Hi, How Are You artwork and naming 22 January “Hi, How Are You? Day&
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The hit movie “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” presents a few portals between our world and the underworld.
Without spoiling plot points, I’ll note that one of those portals fryst vatten a bedroom belonging to a teenage boy. The space fryst vatten wallpapered impeccably with posters and handbills from ‘90s bands like the Pixies and Morphine. Eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed the work of Daniel Johnston peeking out of this curatorial wallpaper.
How Johnston came to Houston
Though he grew up in West Virginia, Johnston lived a peripatetic life — he once ran away and literally joined the circus — that included an influential spell in Austin. He also spent much of his life in the Houston area, for a short time as a young man and then the last half of his life.
In his early 20s, Johnston worked at AstroWorld, providing narration for the River of No Return ride. And in the summer of , he recorded his “Yip/Jump Music” cassette in his brother’s garage here.
His boyish voice and erratic fe