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Soul Boys of the Western World
Description
The film goes inside the life and the success of one of the most famous band - Spandau Ballet of the 80s. The audience will have answers for questions: how they create a global music empire, what challenges they face in their life and their work.
The film goes inside the life and the success of one of the most famous band - Spandau Ballet of the 80s. The audience will have answers for questions: how they create a global music empire, what challenges they face in their life and their work.
Actors:
Richard Blade,
Tony Hadley,
The Human League,
Perry Haines,
Steve Strange,
Steve Lewis,
Boy George
Richard Blade
23 May 1956, England, UK
Tony Hadley
2 June 1960, Islington, London, England, UK
The Human League
Perry Haines
Steve Strange
28 May 1959, Porthcawl, South Wales, UK
Steve Lewis
Boy George
14 June 1961, Eltham, Kent, England, UK
Genre:
Musical, Biography, Documentary
Director:
George Hencken
George Hencken
Country:
United States
Keywords:
#Adam Ant #Bananarama #Danny Baker #George Hencken #Soul Boys of the Western World #Wellingmax
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October 03, 2014
[Hencken] makes a very persuasive case for Spandau Ballet's place in the Britpop pantheon.
April 28, 2015
The advantage to Hencken's approach is that it makes Soul Boys Of The Western World play like a movie version of a printed oral history.
May 01, 2015
This slapdash but endearing doc about the rise, fall and resurrection of '80s pop outfit Spandau Ballet is an inside job, packed with strong archive footage yet lacking anything you'd call truly incisive.
September 30, 2014
This trawl through the band's history has enough guile and guts to keep you watching.
April 29, 2015
The band wasn't that great. Neither is the movie, which, if directed with a bit more sensitivity toward the latent comedy, could have been hilarious.
April 30, 2015
Standard issue band history doc, but it smartly finds depth in a particularly shallow era in pop.
May 14, 2015
This has the quality of an illustrated oral history, though the incessant nostalgia and revisionist history are exhausting.
April 28, 2015
[Soul Boys] does a fantastic job explaining the youth movement that birthed the New Romantic genre.
April 28, 2015
You won't be convinced that Spandau Ballet was the best band of the 1980s. Even if they did have the best bums.
April 27, 2015
An absorbing and insightful delve into how the band defined the post-punk -- and consciously flamboyant UK -- music scene and went on to be an international phenomenon.
May 07, 2015
An energetic, entertainingly assembled documentary portrait ...
April 28, 2015
It helps to be a Spandau fan, of course, but the smart, layered contextualizing and historicizing of the group within the film makes it a gift for any pop-culture aficionado.