What’s on ‘Built For Speed’, Friday 2nd July 2021

This Friday on ‘Built For Speed’ we take a look at some music-related films.  We’ll review musical ‘In the Heights’ which comes from ‘Hamilton’ co-creator Lin Manuel-Miranda.  We’ll also tell you about the new documentary ‘The Sparks Brothers’ which looks at enigmatic synth-pop, art rock etc….band Sparks.  Just for something different we’ll also have a look at the Chilean documentary

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Film review: ‘ZAPPA’, by Nick Gardener from ‘Built For Speed’

Frank Zappa, musician, composer, band leader, producer, visual artist, the list goes on, was a perplexing and brilliant figure and perhaps appropriately but still frustratingly, the lengthy and detailed documentary, simply titled Zappa, doesn’t allow us to gain a complete handle on that brilliance.  The film comes from director Alex Winter, yes Bill from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure who,

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