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Fifty years ago at this time, the world was just beginning to absorb the impact of Marvin Gaye's seminal concept album What's Going On. The LP, released on May 21, 1971, told a story in music from the point of view of a Vietnam veteran returning to an America beset by poverty, injustice and ecological crisis. In a…

Fifty years ago the Vietnam War was raging, the civil rights era had morphed into the Black Power movement, President Nixon declared a war on drugs and not only the U.S. but other countries seemed in danger of coming apart at the seams. It was also a time of groundbreaking popular music—records that went beyond merely…

1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything, an eight-part docuseries from the team behind the Oscar-winning documentary film Amy, is heading to Apple TV+ Executive produced by Oscar, BAFTA and Grammy winners Asif Kapadia (Amy, Senna) and James Gay-Rees (Amy, Senna) the docuseries will explore the musicians and…

Amy Oscar winners James Gay-Rees and Asif Kapadia are executive producing a new BBC One documentary series about the 1993 murder of 18-year-old black student, Stephen Lawrence, by a group of white teenage boys. On the 25th anniversary of the murder, the three-part series will look at the events of the past quarter…

Amy, about the life and death of English singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, won the Documentary Feature Oscar this year for director Asif Kapadia despite objections to the movie being raised by her father. The film, which also won Best Documentary Feature at the BAFTAs only a week ago, was put into production and went…

Shortly after Asif Kapadia stepped onstage at the BAFTAs last weekend to collect his Best Documentary award for Amy, Amy Winehouse's father Mitch sent out a tweet making his feelings clear. "This is a one dimensional, miserable and misleading portrait of Amy," he wrote. "Asif knows." It wasn't his first such missive…