Luther: Never Too Much

[ironymaiden]

So this was a filler film - I put this on my schedule because I wanted to see the one before and one after and a music doc is always cromulent.

crying over Luther Vandross was not on my bingo card. it was wild to watch - I'm a white girl and while I knew his name and certain hits, he had a career in an alternate universe from mine on radio stations I didn't listen to and tv shows I didn't watch - which was a topic in the film, that he was locked in as a "black artist" for most of his career.
fam, he was David Bowie's vocal arranger. he made bank singing jingles that US X-ers know in their bones ("Let it be Lowenbrau"). he was all over disco records, he wrote part of The Wiz. while I was obsessed with Devotchka in the aughts he was winning a Grammy for a song about his dad that was multi-platinum (deserved!)...I heard it for the first time today.

all of which is to say it was very entertaining for someone who knew nothing; the group of folks behind me were spontaneously singing along at points and clearly delighted.

it was produced by Sony so I'm sure it will show up on streaming before long, recommended

Comments

[yourlibrarian]

Sounds interesting! I also don't know much about his career so I'll check it out if I come across it.