WILL STONE fact-checks the colourful life of Ozzy Osbourne
White Riot
Gripping documentary on the birth and life of the anti-racist movement Rock Against Racism
JAMES CROSSLEY applauds a lucid biography of the German radical preacher who reemerged as a hero in the GDR
Prizes all round: the Bard hands plaudits to the Miners Gala, OT&JC, Joe Solo, Black Sabbath’s frontman and the Lionesses
Star cartoonist JAMIE BRITTON is in awe of a graphic novel of epic proportions that explores class, religion and globalisation via the strange cultivation of Ginseng in the US Midwest
GUILLERMO THOMAS is intrigued by a history of the Middle East that demonstrates how promising post colonial beginnings were snuffed out by Western imperialist interests
MARIA DUARTE recommends the intricate study of a high-performance and highly dysfuntional German family
RUBIKA SHAH’S feature-length directorial debut expertly documents the emergence of Rock Against Racism (RAR) that emerged in 1976, just as punk was exploding across Britain.
Using intriguing archive material, eschewing editorialisation and allowing the seven-year story of RAR to be told in the words of those involved, White Riot sidesteps the cliches and pitfalls easily fallen into when portraying punk, or indeed British life, in the mid to late-1970s.
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