{"id":29408,"date":"2024-04-30T21:03:42","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-documentary-looks-at-1969s-rock-n-roll-revival-music-festival\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T21:03:42","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T21:03:42","slug":"new-documentary-looks-at-1969s-rock-n-roll-revival-music-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-documentary-looks-at-1969s-rock-n-roll-revival-music-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary looks at 1969\u2019s Rock N Roll Revival music festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-04-30\/M_Revival69_043024.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Greenwich Entertainment<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">A new documentary will give music fans a behind-the-scenes look at Toronto\u2019s 1969 Rock N Roll Revival music festival, which featured <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>\u2019s first time performing outside <strong>The Beatles<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The documentary, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Lj_ou4NEd0o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><span class=\"s1\"><strong>Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span class=\"s1\">,<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">\u00a0details how promoters <strong>John Brower<\/strong> and <strong>Kenny Walker<\/strong> were able to book Lennon for the show and how his appearance almost didn\u2019t happen. In the end he took the stage for a debut performance of <strong>The Plastic Ono Band<\/strong>, which featured <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong>, <strong>Eric Clapton<\/strong>, <strong>Klaus Voormann<\/strong> and <strong>Alan White<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The documentary also features footage from the festival\u2019s other performers \u2014\u00a0<strong>Little Richard<\/strong>, <strong>Bo Diddley<\/strong>, <strong>Jerry<\/strong> <strong>Lee Lewis<\/strong> and <strong>The Doors<\/strong>. It includes\u00a0interviews from The Doors\u2019 <strong>Robby Kreiger<\/strong>, Voormann and White, <strong>Alice Cooper\u00a0<\/strong>and<strong> Rush<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Geddy Lee<\/strong>, who attended the festival.<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s2\">The film features archival footage from the <\/span><span class=\"s1\">late director\u00a0<strong>D. A. Pennebaker<\/strong>, who shot the festival for the 1969 documentary <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">Sweet Toronto<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><em><span class=\"s1\">Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World <\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">will\u00a0be released in theaters and digitally on June 28.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"raw-html-embed\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lj_ou4NEd0o\" title=\"Revival69: The Concert That Rocked the World | Official Trailer\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwich Entertainment A new documentary will give music fans a behind-the-scenes look at Toronto\u2019s 1969 Rock N Roll Revival music festival, which featured John Lennon\u2019s first time performing outside The Beatles. The documentary, Revival69: The Concert That Rocked The World,\u00a0details how promoters John Brower and Kenny Walker were able to<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/new-documentary-looks-at-1969s-rock-n-roll-revival-music-festival\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}