Too much, too soon. Amy, director Asif Kapadia’s documentary about the sadly late, undeniably great Amy Winehouse, opens with a prophetic scene of a teenage Winehouse singing a campy, Marilyn Monroe-esque version of “Happy Birthday,’’ with her lifelong school chums Juliette Ashby […]
“I’d like to introduce someone who just joined the band. His name is Gram Parsons.”
Both screenings for Les Blank’s long-awaited documentary on Leon Russell were sold out and I hadn’t made prior arrangements, but luckily, my homie, longtime former San Francisco Chronicle rock writer Joel Selvin showed up and there I was in plus-one […]
