Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories
Directors: Bruce McDonald
Producers: David Brady, Jan Haust
Editors: Eamonn O'Connor, Duff Smith
Supervising Editor: Eamonn O'Connor
To watch the three part series go to: www.bravo.ca
Here are some reviews:
Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories is a wonderful, intoxicating series that documents the street’s place in Canadian music history from the 1950s to the 1970s. It is gloriously packed with stories, vignettes, photographs and footage of wild times and rock’n’roll madness in the back rooms and on the stages of bars and nightclubs on the street.
Read the rest of John Doyle's review in the The Globe and Mail here.
Directed by Canada’s own music-aficionado filmmaker himself, Bruce McDonald, this series is a must-see for anyone interested in Toronto history... It’s definitely three nights worth of tube time.
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It might be the best documentary about a musical scene made in this country, and certainly sets the bar high for anyone who wants to tell any of the many musical stories dying to be documented in this country.
The absence of any previous documentation of Toronto’s musical culture Haust blames on the city’s crippling inferiority complex. “Our history was lost in the cultural crossfire between Britain and America. We never measured up … or thought we didn’t. Even when Bob Dylan chose Robbie Robertson and Levon and the Hawks as his first electric backup band — as proud a moment in rock history as we could ever claim as our own — Toronto’s own press dismissed them as ‘third-rate’ and unworthy of such glory.”
Click to read the rest of Greg Quill's review in the Toronto Star
In his three-part documentary Yonge Street — Toronto Rock & Roll Stories, director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, This Movie Is Broken) uncovers an era when, as executive producer Jan Haust puts it, “The truth [was] stranger than the publicity.”
Do not dismiss the new three-part documentary Yonge Street: Toronto Rock & Roll Stories -- which airs across Canada on Bravo! on three consecutive nights, beginning Monday -- merely because it has the audacity to have the word "Toronto" in its title.
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