Coronavirus spoiling your concert plans? Watch these music movies at home. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Martha Eylül 23, 2022

Coronavirus spoiling your concert plans? Watch these music movies at home. - The Philadelphia Inquirer

Posted: 14 Mar 2020 12:00 AM PDT

Soul Power. Leon Gast's 1996 When We Were Kings, about the 1974 "Rumble in the Jungle" bout between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman, is one of the great sports documentaries. Twelve years later, it was followed by Soul Power, director Jeff Levy-Hinte's chronicle of a concert held before the fight. The bill, headlined by James Brown in a mustachioed, hard-nosed funk phase, matches African American and African acts. Bill Withers, the Spinners, and B.B. King are joined by African greats Miriam Makeba, Manu Dibango, Tabu Ley Rochereau, and Franco. Ali steals the show by showing up.