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Arthur Lee
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. Eventually we managed to persuade him and flew 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 from Primal Scream, Mayor of London (at that time) Ken Livingstone and MP’s Peter Bradley and Stephen Pound.
The Film premiered at the London Film Festival in October 2006 and received its US premiere at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2007. After a cinema run in key cities both in the UK & US, the DVD was released in 2008.
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 leukemia, 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 and Love’s story.
Some clips from the film...
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