Thirty years ago, this movie was rated as one of the best rock films ever made by Barry Norman and other critics alike. Now remastered, this dark gritty story of how a band were taken but then manipulated by the seedy music industry is still as powerful as ever. Set in the industrial heartland of England, Flame is a truly excellent film in that it leaves you with a sense of how good musicians are marketed purely for their commercial value (and the hangers-on and dodgy agents want their slice), then considered as ready to be discarded.
Noddy, Jim, Don and Dave all do a fine job, and the movie is as moving now as when it was first realeased.
The DVD box set is excellently packaged, and the featurette interviews of all four members of Slade is, to me, worth the money itself. Add to that the remastered CD of the Slade In Flame album, which include the singles How Does It Feel? and Far Far Away, and you have a brilliant value-for-money bit of Slade media to keep.
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Thirty years ago, this movie was rated as one of the best rock films ever made by Barry Norman and other critics alike. Now remastered, this dark gritty story of how a band were taken but then manipulated by the seedy music industry is still as powerful as ever. Set in the industrial heartland of England, Flame is a truly excellent film in that it leaves you with a sense of how good musicians are marketed purely for their commercial value (and the hangers-on and dodgy agents want their slice), then considered as ready to be discarded.
Noddy, Jim, Don and Dave all do a fine job, and the movie is as moving now as when it was first realeased.
The DVD box set is excellently packaged, and the featurette interviews of all four members of Slade is, to me, worth the money itself. Add to that the remastered CD of the Slade In Flame album, which include the singles How Does It Feel? and Far Far Away, and you have a brilliant value-for-money bit of Slade media to keep.
Do buy it, watch it, and treasure it.