Check also: “DIARY OF A POSITIVE SOUL” article by Marsha Roberts “THE WORLD HEALTH ORGANISATION: EBOLA REVEALS WHAT IS UP “ article by Claude Forthomme …………………………………………………………………………………………………………. There was only two ways to listen to pop music in 1970: radio or 45 RPM records. Otherwise my career would be over before it got started. I had to do something special, something that complimented the lyrics yet stood on its own as a narrative, something that would still be compelling even without hearing the music. It would be easy for my film to get lost in their shadow. In 1970 The Beatles were the biggest phenomenon in pop music. You might say I couldn’t I miss with a Beatles song, right? Wrong. This is a blow-by-blow account of those 24 hours. I was a bull pawing the ground ready to charge. Everything else was up to me. No problem. I wouldn’t be paid for it and the show was under no obligation to hire me if they didn’t like what I came up with. I had exactly one day to turn it into a music video-film. ’The Long and Winding Road’ by The Beatles was my first assignment.
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