Marvin Gaye is my first choice. I'm shocked that they haven't made about him already.

sitruk7 said:

Jamie Foxx will spend 2006 pretending to be Marvin.

the mamas and the papas, or maybe t-rex. marc bolan was an interesting character.

Freddie Mercury.

Anxiety said:

Tell me about Marc Bolan.

you can never have too many elvis movies...i'd like to see one done about him like Ray was...a movie that doesn't sugarcoat a person's life...make a movie about big ole bloated druggie elvis

Lady Day & James Brown!

sitruk7 said:

dig in:

http://www.marc-bolan.com/

"Oh man I need TV when I got T.Rex" - David Bowie, 'All the Young Dudes'

Thanx Anx! I'll have to check that out.

Harlepolis said:

I was just about to say JB! Definately!

sitruk7 said:

i'd love to see a JB movie.

Harlepolis said:

What did you think of . . .

right off hand . . .

John Coltrane
Stevie Wonder
Sly Stone

namepeace said:

Scroll down NP!

http://www.prince.org/msg/8/135435

You need to read this, boo
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Harlepolis said:

I figured you were prolly refusing to acknowledge this movie's existence, but I just wanted to hear why!

I've never seen LSTB, btw. So now I know I don't need to!

Oops. I should've known there was a thread on this already. No disrespect to anyone.

No one will probably agree with this one, but I think making a movie about The Police would be quite interesting...I have their box set, Message In A Box, and there is a booklet that comes with it. This explains all of their humble beginnings, how they formed, etc. This would make a very good storyline for a movie.
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namepeace said:

NP, you seriously need to check that book

sitruk7 said:

Ain't no biggie

Cool.

Anxiety said:

Ooh Marc Bolan.

I'm a T. Rex fan, so yeah that would make an interesting story.

namepeace said:

i think its worth seeing for Ross' awesome performance...its a good film..just not a good bio..

newpowersoul said:

Vince for once I agree completely with you...Freddie's story needs to be told

NICO...nicoicon was good, but i would make a good biopic of her.

I'd love to see something on Otis Redding or Hank Williams, I don't know much about their music aside from their hit songs, I think their lives were interesting enough for a movie. Even though Marvin Gaye has been mentioned, he's worthy of a movie.

when it comes to movies about musicians i'd like to see one about parliament-funkadelic since their albums were like movies anyway...

prince

michael jackson (the prison scenes ,... hilarious)

Thelonius Monk
James Brown
Robert Johnson

Joe Meek.

He wasn't an artist or musician per-se, but a record producer.

He really was a complete and utter "character". He was a pioneer of electro-pop in the late fifties and early sixties. He used to hang around graveyards tape-recording the ambience. He believed he could communicate with cats. He was gay and tended to make pop-stars of pretty-boy types. He was also obsessed with flying saucers and seances.

He ended up shooting the landlady of his apartment and then shooting himself. Definitely weird but still a genius.

Here's a brief biography: http://www.tsimon.com/meek.htm

Here's a downloadable album of some of his "output". I guess he was pretty wild for the times: http://www.comfortstand.c...talog/037/

sitruk7 said:

I agree,a Marvin biopic is long overdue.A script was completed in 1997 and submitted to a major movie studio,but I think Marvin's family had problems with it.Every other scene featured Marvin snorting coke.The sad truth is,Marvin's life was filled with drama and tragedy,and there's no way around it.