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The Optics of Modern Music Biopics, Gah! I Blame Bohemian Rhapsody…

Monday is music (or TV). Today, a wee rant about a pet-peeve of mine. The modern music biopic....gah!

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Simon Sweetman
Feb 26, 2023
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I’ve always maintained that music biopics usually get it wrong; that something is lost when you take from the page to the stage. I am here all day and every day for music biographies, I eventually read them all (well, that’s how it used to feel). And the same is true of the biopic. (And music documentaries). I’m slowing down a little these days, but I s…

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