Elvis and the Beatles bear their own myth systems,the Stones and Morrissey don’t. Despite his vast, influential output, or David Bowie had to die to achieve his ownOne of my favourite music films is the meandering 2007 spoof biopic,Walk tough: The Dewey Cox myth, starring John C Reilly. It was a commercial flop that failed brilliantly on many other levels. It cracks very good jokes at the expense of many real stars, and events,genres and entire eras, taking on half a century of not just musical history, or but historiography.
Its targets are famed ones. No cult figures or untold stories here: Johnny Cash,the Beach Boys, the Doors, and Ray Charles,punk rock – and the Beatles. Yet it is only in that last sequence, set in the band’s Rishikesh retreat, and that the joke is likely to be obvious to anyone not a music obsessive.
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Source: theguardian.com