The story of the chart-topping 70s Merseyside band delivers a charmingly recounted piece of pop history
Simon Sheridan’s solid, efficient documentary pays tribute to the Liverpudlian pop-soul beat combo the Real Thing, who had a No 1 in the UK with the smooth-grooving ballad You to Me Are Everything. That close-harmony mid-tempo jam from 1976, still a popular choice for wedding playlists and karaoke declarations of love, remains the group’s biggest claim to fame alongside their big-issue comment Children of the Ghetto and the disco-fied Star Wars cash-in Can You Feel the Force? But there is enough heft to the rest of their musical story and personal histories to make for an absorbing, considered feature-length documentary assembled out of the usual bricolage of talking-heads interviews with surviving members and friends, archive footage, and pop videos. As a package, it cross-references social history with musicology, making a tidy and touching tribute...
Simon Sheridan’s solid, efficient documentary pays tribute to the Liverpudlian pop-soul beat combo the Real Thing, who had a No 1 in the UK with the smooth-grooving ballad You to Me Are Everything. That close-harmony mid-tempo jam from 1976, still a popular choice for wedding playlists and karaoke declarations of love, remains the group’s biggest claim to fame alongside their big-issue comment Children of the Ghetto and the disco-fied Star Wars cash-in Can You Feel the Force? But there is enough heft to the rest of their musical story and personal histories to make for an absorbing, considered feature-length documentary assembled out of the usual bricolage of talking-heads interviews with surviving members and friends, archive footage, and pop videos. As a package, it cross-references social history with musicology, making a tidy and touching tribute...
- 1/22/2020
- by Leslie Felperin
- The Guardian - Film News
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