This survey of a few of the most notable music films starts with Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, the musician turned Oscar-winning director who is in the thick of it with a Hulu film about Sly Stone and another on NBC about the 50-year history of music on “Saturday Night Live.” Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson: When we were doing the doc and I was watching the Sly footage (from a performance in the summer of 1969), I was like, wow, Sly doesn’t know that this is the chapter before the world will open. It’s about something that happened in the wake of the Kennedy assassination and all the changes that were building up from the ’50s and the ’60s: civil rights, women’s rights, the anti-war movement.
Author: Steve Pond
Published at: 2025-06-02 22:13:42
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