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Yes I was very impressed . Really does the band justice. All the 'talking heads' were great, including Bono and Sinead O Connor. Rolling Stone magazine's David Frickle and guy from Columbia Records stood out, but lots of others to. All well chosen and sympathetic to the Rats music. Maybe the narration overplayed the politics of the music as if the Rats almost singlehandedly modernised and liberalised Ireland but it's hard to take the music out of the times and place it in a social vacuum.
Some of the footage I had not seen before, but it was all brilliantly edited and given social and historical context. The band members only appear as voiceovers, except Bob. Gary was shown out riding his motorbike briefly.
Amazingly there was photo of Bob's old Welfare Card from Dun Laoghaire dole office, where he had written 'the world owes me a living..'. Shots of Geldof's old notebooks and jottings give an idea of how he was always writing songs.
Part -1 goes up to trying to conquer America and Mondays getting to number one.
The only thing that did not work for me was the brief scenes of the 'gimp' dragging the rocks around. Probably meant as some sort of metaphor but likely to be lost on most people. Gimp was David McSavage so maybe that was the video he appeared in and not Monster Monkeys. Possibility he was the gimp in TGB video.
Looking forward to part two, but hope it doesn't dwell too much on Live Aid and deals more with how the band continued until 1985, the bitter breakup and subsequent healing, regrouping and new album.
I'd give it 9/10 and I'm someone who watches lots of documentaries about different subjects.
-- Edited by Noel on Saturday 7th of March 2020 04:17:34 PM
-- Edited by Noel on Saturday 7th of March 2020 05:02:27 PM
