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Reply #30 posted 02/21/17 4:03pm

fred12

Aretha Franklin

Sam Cooke

Darlene Love

Otis Redding

Marvin Gaye

Carole King

Prince

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Reply #31 posted 02/22/17 3:51am

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Sam Cooke
Aretha Franklin
Debarge
Mahalia Jackson
Prince
Michael Jackson


Aretha's would be pretty interesting but only if she's not involved. She has never revealed who the father of her first child is. It was and is still rumored to be her father's child. But I've often thought it's Probably Sam Cooke's baby.
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Reply #32 posted 02/22/17 4:11am

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fred12 said:

Aretha Franklin

Sam Cooke

Darlene Love

Otis Redding

Marvin Gaye

Carole King

Prince

Sam Cooke but I do not think his estate will ever allow it.

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Reply #33 posted 02/22/17 7:59am

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Rick James
Marvin Gaye
Diana Ross
George Clinton/P-Funk
Stevie Wonder
Michael Jackson (he deserves a proper one, longer-arching one)
Prince
Maurice White/Earth Wind & Fire
Phil Collins
George Michael
Guns N Roses
A mini-series on Weird Al would be kinda cool

As far as labels, I'd love to see one on Solar Records. An in-depth documentary on MTV would be much appreciated as well.
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Reply #34 posted 02/22/17 9:35am

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laurarichardson said:



fred12 said:


Aretha Franklin


Sam Cooke


Darlene Love


Otis Redding


Marvin Gaye


Carole King


Prince




Sam Cooke but I do not think his estate will ever allow it.


Why not?
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Reply #35 posted 02/22/17 9:43am

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laurarichardson said:



fred12 said:


Aretha Franklin


Sam Cooke


Darlene Love


Otis Redding


Marvin Gaye


Carole King


Prince




Sam Cooke but I do not think his estate will ever allow it.


His story would be the most marketable and interesting IMO.

From the beginning as a Gospel singer, to crossing over into secular music and that backlash. Thd start up of soul music, to his murder. And even right after withhis widow marrying his protégé Bobby Womack. Drama sells.
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Reply #36 posted 02/24/17 9:01pm

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LittleBLUECorvette said:

laurarichardson said:



fred12 said:


Aretha Franklin


Sam Cooke


Darlene Love


Otis Redding


Marvin Gaye


Carole King


Prince




Sam Cooke but I do not think his estate will ever allow it.


His story would be the most marketable and interesting IMO.

From the beginning as a Gospel singer, to crossing over into secular music and that backlash. Thd start up of soul music, to his murder. And even right after withhis widow marrying his protégé Bobby Womack. Drama sells.



Can their estate actually stop it? Whitney's family didn't like the TV movie on Whitney but they were powerless to stop it.
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Reply #37 posted 02/24/17 9:31pm

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MotownSubdivision said:

Phil Collins

I'd rather have a movie about Genesis than Phil by himself.

A biopic about The Beatles seems like it would be a moneymaker. There's been Fab 4 movies before, but not really about their recording career. There's one about the Stuart Sutcliffe / Pete Best era, and even one about John Lennon as a teenager and his relationships with his Aunt Mimi and his mother.

I don't think jazz movies have to make a lot of money, so I'd like to see ones about Sun Ra & Rahsaan Roland Kirk. The Oak Ridge Boys would be nice too, but there are a lot of members before the well known 4 member lineup that has been together since around 1974. The original lineup started in the late 1950s and they were a gospel group, not a secular one. Others I'd like to see are:

Ink Spots or Mills Brothers
Mandrell Sisters
history of Muzak
Marian Anderson
Dick Clark
Roy Clark

B.B. King

Thomas Dorsey

Kraftwerk

Tim Maia (I guess this would get made in Brazil, but I can watch subtitled movies)

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #38 posted 02/26/17 8:13am

luvsexy4all

Thin Lizzy....Phil played by Rain Pryor

Queen...Freddie played by Liza Minneli

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Reply #39 posted 02/26/17 12:25pm

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Michael Jackson

Stevie Wonder

Prince

Freddie Mercury/Queen

Aretha Franklin

Debarge

Marvin Gaye

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Reply #40 posted 02/26/17 1:09pm

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luvsexy4all said:

Thin Lizzy....Phil played by Rain Pryor


Queen...Freddie played by Liza Minneli





LMAO...im a big Thin Lizzy fan...im gonna laugh all day at Rain Pryor as Phil Lynott...so funny cause its dead ass accurate
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Reply #41 posted 02/27/17 10:51am

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Prince Buster

Prince Paul

The Fresh Prince

The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!

If you can add value to someone's life then why not. Especially if it colors their days...
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Reply #42 posted 02/27/17 6:21pm

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RJOrion said:

luvsexy4all said:

Thin Lizzy....Phil played by Rain Pryor

Queen...Freddie played by Liza Minneli

LMAO...im a big Thin Lizzy fan...im gonna laugh all day at Rain Pryor as Phil Lynott...so funny cause its dead ass accurate

it would be a first for a woman to play a man....i dont know if she can sing and speak like phil however...

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Reply #43 posted 02/28/17 3:52pm

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You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #44 posted 02/28/17 4:15pm

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luvsexy4all said:

RJOrion said:

luvsexy4all said: LMAO...im a big Thin Lizzy fan...im gonna laugh all day at Rain Pryor as Phil Lynott...so funny cause its dead ass accurate

it would be a first for a woman to play a man....i dont know if she can sing and speak like phil however...

No, it's been done already--Cate Blanchatt playing Bob Dylan in I'm Not There:

"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything." --Plato

https://youtu.be/CVwv9LZMah0
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Reply #45 posted 04/02/17 5:54pm

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SoulAlive said:

what about a Diana Ross biopic?

I'm not sure Mary Wilson would sign off on that and probably not Florence Ballard's family either, and I don't think a Diana life story can be done without The Supremes in it. Would Patti LaBelle approve her likeness since Cindy Birdsong came from her group The Bluebells? I doubt Berry Gordy would want his character to appear in a Diana biopic either.

You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton
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Reply #46 posted 04/03/17 4:38am

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Hudson said:

Donna's autobiography was very boring, I'm a huge fan but I don't see the cause for a biopic.

I've never been a Donna fan but I like some of her Classics, respect her place in music History and I feel she deserves all the propers she got before & after her passing....Even though you say her auto-Bio is boring a Great Screenwriter and talented Director can make it come to life on a giant Screen...

Boring books can become Great Movies if there's true dedication behind the project...

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Reply #47 posted 04/03/17 7:17am

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Sly Stone

David Bowie

Frank Zappa

Morrissey

Prince

Janet Jackson

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Reply #48 posted 04/03/17 7:25am

HuMpThAnG

Mary Wells

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Reply #49 posted 04/03/17 8:33am

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Mariem Hassan:

Saudi Arabian Hendrix. Beat that.

All you others say Hell Yea!! woot!
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Reply #50 posted 04/04/17 1:20pm

SoulAlive

hmmm I suppose they could do a biopic that starts with Diana beginning her solo career in 1970 (if they really had to)

MickyDolenz said:

I don't think a Diana life story can be done without The Supremes in it.

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