Certainly one of rock’s most easygoing, gleefully teased and retrospectively celebrated subgenres will obtain the feature-length remedy in HBO’s upcoming Music Field: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary.
Directed by Garret Worth (HBO’s Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage) and government produced by the Ringer’s Invoice Simmons (HBO’s Andre the Big, Showbiz Youngsters), Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary will debut on HBO on Nov. 29 at 9 p.m. ET and be obtainable to stream on Max.
You possibly can watch the trailer for Music Field: Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary beneath.
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‘Yacht Rock: A Dockumentary’ Is Packed With ’70s and ’80s Mushy Rock Stars
The documentary will chronicle the rise of the breezy West Coast sound that dominated the airwaves within the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, minting stars resembling Christopher Cross, Michael McDonald, Kenny Loggins, Steely Dan and Toto. Many of those artists had been veteran session musicians who took their cues from jazz, funk and R&B, funneling these kinds into a brand new pressure of slick, assiduously crafted pop-rock.
Though these artists scored quite a few hits throughout their heyday, many struggled to outlive within the age of MTV. “The ‘video killed the radio star’ factor, it was simply completely true in my case,” Cross laments within the trailer, whereas McDonald provides: “I anticipated to be completely forgotten by the top of the ‘80s.”
These artists’ important and business fortunes took a flip within the twenty first century, when a 2005 net sequence referred to as Yacht Rock led to a widespread reappraisal of the style. Whereas there’s a light-weight ribbing inherent within the “yacht rock” designation, the style’s greatest stars and songs are beloved by thousands and thousands, and so they stay the soundtrack to many followers’ lives.
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