What is Pop Films / Plus Short: Beach Boys Live in London about?

Name: Pop Films / Plus Short: Beach Boys Live in London
Genre: Documentary,Music/Performing Arts

POP FILMS, 1967, Contemporary, 70 min. Director Peter Whitehead was a music video pioneer. Whitehead was originally commissioned to shoot a single film for the BBC TV show "Top Of The Pops" of a band that was unable to appear in the studio. Viewer reactions to his witty visual juxtapositions of music and imagery led to the BBC commissioning further works. The pieces de resistance are his sensational Rolling Stones films. PLUS short: “Beach Boys Live In London,” (1967, Contemporary, 30 min.) Dir. Peter Whitehead. A unique look at the "Pet Sounds"-era Beach Boys as documented by Peter Whitehead. When the Beach Boys completed recording the landmark "Pet Sounds” album in April 1966 - they set off for a tour of England where their evolution from surf band to purveyors of baroque pop was perceived as being a growth parallel to that of the Beatles' journey from beat group to rock band.

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What is Pop Films / Plus Short: Beach Boys Live in London about?: POP FILMS, 1967, Contemporary, 70 min. Director Peter Whitehead was a music video pioneer. Whitehead was originally commissioned to shoot a single film for the BBC TV show "Top Of The Pops" of a band that was unable to appear in the studio. Viewer reactions to his witty visual juxtapositions of music and imagery led to the BBC commissioning further works. The pieces de resistance are his sensational Rolling Stones films.

PLUS short: “Beach Boys Live In London,” (1967, Contemporary, 30 min.) Dir. Peter Whitehead. A unique look at the "Pet Sounds"-era Beach Boys as documented by Peter Whitehead. When the Beach Boys completed recording the landmark "Pet Sounds” album in April 1966 - they set off for a tour of England where their evolution from surf band to purveyors of baroque pop was perceived as being a growth parallel to that of the Beatles' journey from beat group to rock band.