The history of the concert movie is not a particularly distinguished one. From one of supposedly the best live rock bands of the 70s, Led Zeppelin, we got the self indulgent bloat of The Song Remains The Same. Their peers The Rolling Stones gave us a film Gimme Shelter where the music was absolutely the [...]
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