Bruce Springsteen: For The Love Of Music!
Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Stevie Wonder, The Beatles, and Mick Jagger are in the movie 20 Feet From Stardom, but they are not the stars of the movie.
The stars of the movie are Darlene Love, Cheryl Crow, and the hundreds of backup singers who have never made it to the front of the stage.
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The movie, in documentary form, is the story of great musical talent unrealized. Many of the performances that are featured are far beyond outstanding. The movie is a musical treat. The interviews are revealing and inspiring, too. Many performers work well behind the spotlight. Others are still trying to make it big. Their descriptions of this effort make for tremendous theater.
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Cheryl Crow is one of the very few to go from backup to star. Her steps and methods in this move were not chronicled in the film! Inquiring minds do want to know!
The question featured in the movie is why do some make it and why are some left along the wayside. It is definitely not a question of talent as was shown time and again in amazing performances. The business, science invention, and the Internet worlds ask these same questions. Fate? Location? Opportunity?
Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, and Sting, among others, all voiced that they recruited the best talents to back them up. In Springsteen’s case, his back-up singers have been with him for twenty-five years. How can you be the best in the back of the stage, but not in the front of the stage? Why would you be satisfied with the back of the stage?
Questions unanswered make for an enjoyable night out at the movies for the love of music and the music lover.
Alfred North Whitehead a renowned scholar summed up this fame dilemma in the following quote from his God letters:
“A God capricious is fame,
When striving to make noted your name.
He boldly neglects you,
But sometimes selects you,
In an area far from your game.”
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