music documentaries: Last News

released the trailer for “Bitchin’: The Sound and Fury of Rick James” Tuesday and it gives viewers a taste of the music icon’s crazy life.The doc will spill some juicy tea about James’ music career, his journey to Toronto to escape joining the Navy, his drug use, sexual trysts and much more.“There was plenty of dope around,” keyboardist Levi Ruffin Jr. revealed in the doc.

Tina Turner bids a final farewell to her fans in a touching new film that shows how she has overcome her painful past and finally found happiness.In the feature-length documentary, simply titled “Tina,” the singer looks back on camera for the first time at her younger years filled with struggle and pain, then the true love and global fame she found as a middle-aged woman.Now 81 and plagued by ill health, including a stroke and cancer, the soul and rock music legend also suffered kidney failure which led to a transplant in 2017.In the film she tells how she wants to enter the third and final chapter of her life out of the spotlight, and it is revealed that she has a form of post-traumatic stress disorder from the domestic abuse she suffered

The doc is streaming exclusively on Disney+, and was officially released Nov. 25 at 12 a.m.

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped.With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the industry.“Basically, my career has been, year after year, waiting to be disposed of,” says the late legend in the new documentary “Zappa,” which arrives on demand Friday.But, before dying of prostate cancer at 52 in 1993, Zappa would build a Rock & Rock Hall of Fame résumé over 62 albums released in his lifetime.

many aspects of her private life, announced the premiere date for her forthcoming AppleTV+ documentary feature film, “Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.”Directed by R.J. Cutler (“The September Issue,” “The War Room”), the documentary is slated to premiere in theaters and on Apple TV+ in February 2021.The five-time Grammy winner released her debut album “When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” in 2019 and followed it up this year with the official James Bond theme song “No Time To Die” for the upcoming film.

If the narrator of popular rock docuseries “Breaking the Band” sounds familiar, that’s because it’s former Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider — who’s parlayed his hard-rockin’ raspy pipes into a successful voiceover career.