Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017
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About the Movie
Music meets the Mob in "BANG! The Bert Berns Story," the acclaimed documentary that shines a spotlight on the amazing but little-known songwriter and record producer from the golden age of rhythm and blues. Narrated by Stevie Van Zandt, the film features a galaxy of greats from the rock music pantheon – Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, Van Morrison, alongside rhythm and blues immortals such as Solomon Burke, Ronald Isley, Ben E. King and Cissy Houston – who testify to the talent and character of Bert Berns in this gripping, warts-and-all portrait of his dramatic life story. The man who discovered Neil Diamond and Van Morrison, creator of the classics "Twist and Shout," "Brown Eyed Girl" and "Piece of My Heart," among many others, Berns was doomed with heart disease as a teenager and didn't even start work in the music business until he was 30 years old. In seven short years, he rose from a $50 a week song plugger to one of the leading record men of his day – a producer and songwriter who rubbed shoulders with peers such as Leiber and Stoller, Goffin and King, Burt Bacharach. At the height of the New York rhythm and blues scene in the '60s, Berns alone among his contemporaries went to England to make records after The Beatles turned his Isley Brothers hit, "Twist and Shout," into an international anthem. With the partners in Atlantic Records, Berns formed his own label, Bang Records, where he launched hits by Neil Diamond, Van Morrison and the No. 1 smash by The McCoys, "Hang On Sloopy." At the peak of his success, Berns turned to gangster associates to help defend his company, making longtime friends and business partners into enemies and fracturing his relationship with best friend and mentor, Atlantic Records' Jerry Wexler. In a tale told vividly for the film by such associates of Berns as Carmine "Wassel" DeNoia, a well-known Mob figure around the Brill Building, and Berns' scrappy widow, Ilene Berns, this feel-good story of an inspired songwriter in a hurry with his life takes an unexpected dark turn in the third act. "BANG! The Bert Berns Story" not only unearths this vital previously untold chapter of music history, but throbs with a pulsating soundtrack of Berns hits from The Drifters' "Under the Boardwalk" to British rock group Them’s "Here Comes the Night" in this jolting, absorbing life story.
TOMATOMETER
100%
导演: Brett Berns / Bob Sarles
类型: 纪录片 / 音乐 / 历史
制片国家/地区: 爱尔兰
语言: 英语
上映日期: 2016-03-11(爱尔兰)
片长: 94分钟
剧情简介
该片主要讲述了音乐人伯特·伯恩斯的生平。 作为上世纪 60 年代的一位知名唱片制作人，他曾推过《褐眼女孩》（Brown Eyed Girl）、《夜晚来临》（Here Comes the Night）、《心房一片》（Piece of My Heart）等大热的曲目。伯恩斯最初是一名曲作者，不过后来加入了大西洋唱片公司，在那里与披头士和滚石等乐队有过合作。之后，伯恩斯成立了 BANG Records 和 Shout Records 两家唱片公司，并且签下了 McCoy、Strangelove、Neil Diamond 等艺人。除了升至生涯，本纪录片还提到了伯恩斯与 Carmine "Wassel" DeNoia（他的好友兼经理人）和“匪徒”Tommy Eboli（曾是纽约 Genovese 犯罪家族的 Boss）的关系。此外，范·莫里森（Van Morrison）、保罗·麦卡特尼（Paul McCartney）、基斯·理查兹（Keith Richards）、Ben E. King、所罗门·伯克（Solomon Burke）也都有在该纪录片中亮相。伯恩斯之子布雷特（Brett Berns）对该片提供了指导，而吉他手布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀（Bruce Springsteen）和《黑道家族》（Sopranos）影星史蒂芬·范·赞特（Steven Van Zandt）亦献声当旁白。
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