This film came out soon after id spent a few months on this incredible island, where the islanders are still recovering, 25 years on, from the hurricane and volcano. The music and anecdotes are great and if you visit the island youll hear many more.... Like the guys who taught Sting to waterski not knowing how to themselves and just telling him to 'stand up!' Or the local girl who turned down a dance with Mick Jagger... George Martin's house is now the best hotel/ restaurant on the island and each room has a gold or silver disc and photos of famous guests on display. The film makes a great taster for a visit, so please do, once theyve got themselves vaccinated there.
Under the Volcano
2021
Documentary
Under the Volcano
2021
Documentary
Plot summary
On a remote Caribbean island, under the shadow of an active volcano, the world's biggest recording artists made music and myth that defined an era.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
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Hoping it encourages a visit
A unique and absorbing musical documentary
This is a love letter to a very special time on a very special island on which Beatles producer built his dream recording studio. Rare footage and interviews with the rock stars who recorded their biggest albums there and with the people of Montserrat who made the island and AIR Studios Montserrat such a treasure.
A unique moment in time and place that even someone not in the industry can appreciate.
Great storytelling by not just the music greats who recorded there, but also by the islanders who fed and housed them, or taught Sting how to sailboard, or told another rocker that his song was going to be a huge success because it was so fun to dance to, and then the song actually became a huge success!
The music made on this small island was blasted out of my Walkman in high school, and I've had to repurchase every format of every release since then from cassettes to digital, so you know it made great memories for me.
I'm grateful for the look back, but terribly saddened by the double whammy of natural destruction that lay waste to the island and the beautiful people of Montserrat. Noting those tragedies, it's was truly a moment in time that a pre-this, and a post-that could ever have happened, and it happened here. Then.
Don't miss out now.