2007
93 minutes
PRESS RELEASE
POSTER
Love Story was our first film. We started trying to make Love Story at the end of 2002. Arthur Lee had just been released after serving five and a half years in prison, and was making up for lost time, playing a series of spellbinding concerts to fans old and new.
We’d never done anything remotely like it before, but loved the band and felt that somebody should try and tell their story, and so sounded Arthur out about doing it.
Eventually we managed to persuade him and went out to LA in May 2005 to do interviews with Arthur, Johnny Echols, Michael Stuart-Ware and Alban “Snoopy” Pfisterer, Elektra Records boss Jac Holzman, Producer/Engineer Bruce Botnick, arranger David Angel, and The Door’s John Densmore. We were also fortunate and very grateful to come across archive interviews with the late Bryan Maclean and
Ken Forssi.
Further insights came from Robert Rozelle, John Fleckenstein, Dave Chapple, Dave Green, Mike & Rusty from Love / Baby Lemonade, Mick and John Head from Shack, Bobby Gillespie and Mani, Mayor of London Ken Livingstone and MP’s Peter Bradley and Stephen Pound.
The Film was completed and premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2006.
Sadly the interviews we did with Arthur were to be his last; he died in Memphis in August 2006 following a battle with acute myeloid leukaemia, shortly before we finished the film. He was an amazing person and an incredible, unique musician, singer, songwriter and performer & Love were a great band.It was a privilege to have been given the opportunity to try and tell Arthur’s and Love’s story.
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