British Invasion: 5 DVD Box Set featuring Bonus Disc

This 5-DVD set is simply fabulous. The four main discs each give you a 70 to 80 minute documentary about the artist in question(Small Faces. Dusty Springfield, Herman's Hermits & Gerry and The Pacemakers), plus a supplemental section where all of the same music performances from the documentary(and additional bonus performances) appear complete and uncut. And the documentary producers have searched the world for rare and previously unseen material, not only from American, British & German T.V. programs, but also from Australian, Swedish & Norwegian programs. The Herman's Hermits documentary features interviews with all four of the surviving group members(Lek Lekenby died in 1994), and footage of an early line-up(before the start of the group's recording career!) filmed at Liverpool's legendary Carvern Club, and an assortment of T.V. performances(most of them live), and a supplemental section with a complete live 25 minute performance from Australian T.V. The Small Faces documentary has nearly all known surviving television footage of the group, and interviews with surviving members Kenney Jones & Ian McLagan(and limited interview footage with deceased members Steve Marriott & Ronnie Lane). The Gerry & The Pacemakers documentary features extensive interviews with frontman Gerry Marsden & Liverpool music journalist Bill Harry. And The Dusty Springfield documentary features interviews with background vocalist Madeline Bell and a limited amount of interview footage with the late Ms.Springfield herself. There have been numerous DVD collections of Dusty released around the world, and some of the significant footage was already used elsewhere(and so those clips aren't here), but the surprise is that the producers have managed to locate many clips that hadn't been seen before. About half of the Dusty Springfield clips are live, but for the lip-synced performances on all four documentaries, full fidelity(often stereo) audio has been dubbed in. All four of the main DVD's give you material from the 1964,1965 & 1966 New Musical Express Poll Winners Concerts. The exclusive 5th disc gives you further T.V. performances(these ones lip-synced) by Herman's Hermits & Dusty Springfield, plus 90 minutes of outtake interview footage that wasn't used in the main documentary. The producers' attention to quality & detail are outstanding, and the producers are planning further releases this fall, including one by Manfred Mann. This box set is a quality product. It is a lesson on how to do vintage rock right on DVD. Because the music clips are included in the documentaries and then included again complete and uncut, means that documentary fans and the fans who just want the music can all be satisfied.

This is the best DVD set of its type I have ever seen. The main reason is that most such productions give about a 30-second clip of each song and then cut back to the interviews. In this set all the songs are performed in their entirety. The sound has been nicely cleaned up and although quite a few songs are lip-synched, that was the way they were presented then.The interview style is very simple, just the artists talking to an invisible interviewer, and unlike many retro sets there is no attempt to cram interviews with as many people as possible into the program. The result is a far more in-depth look at each artist or band.As a bonus feature, all the complete performances can be viewed without the interviews. This is great, because, as far as I am concerned, I can only watch the interviews a few times, but the songs can be listened to over and over again.I hope this set will be as successful as it deserves to be and the producers will issue more sets with the same format. Very highly recommended.Just to add a footnote: the 'Complete performances' section on each disc not only carries extra songs, but in some cases, most notably the Small Faces disc, different performances of the same songs. That's the kind of added value typical of this wonderful set.

This is a great series of documentaries on some of the best Pop Music acts of the 1960's, including Herman's Hermits, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Dusty Springfield and the Small Faces. Each disc is filled with performances by all the acts plus fascinating information and interviews. A wonderful research on the best in 60's Pop Music.

I thought it covered more of the groups that were the British Invasion. This is a Dusty Springfield/Herman's Hermits/Gerry & Pacemakers/Small Faces "best" of collection. There are tons more groups that come to mind when I hear "British Invasion". I thought I was getting 1 or two songs from the groups above, AND one or two songs from the rest of the groups that made the British Invasion. This is still good footage, but I was expecting much more.

It's getting so hard to remember that time when the music itself was electrifying, and we were truly high on pop songs. And now with the passage of time we see the stories of the human beings behind the icons. Dave Peck and crew have created some music bios for the ages with this group. Great historical footage, great interviews, and always with the Reelin' In The Years high standards of quality. These are the guys that expertly started matching up master recordings with old lip synched performances. They still do it, but they don't even bother to mention they're doing it now. They truly are great artists in what they do. Plus they add vintage live performances to prove to you what great entertainers these artists really were. And they did a beautiful job of blending in a lesser known group like The Small Faces in with the better known artists. I can't wait for the next Box Set.

This set of videos took me back to my late teens, when this music was alive and vital. I learned all that I wanted toknow about the careers of some of my favourite bands. But to see live performances of all that great music was thereal payoff. Great nostalgia.

I am so very, very impressed with this set. Everything from the sound and video quality to the editing to the AMAZING content has been handled with such first class treatment! This is the standard that all documentaries should be set to. I just can't get enough!From the notes in the booklets, I am encouraged to read that this is the first four in a series. Producers if you are listening, I would like to give you a few ideas for further volumes: The Searchers, Manfred Mann, Cilla Black, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Zombies, The Yardbirds, The Spencer Davis Group, The Move, and The Animals.It is so refreshing to finally see these wonderful musicians getting to tell their story. Whether or not people realize it, we all owe them so much.

I 5 DVD contenuti in questo box sono Regione 1 e quindi non visibili con il lettore DVD ma solo col computer!!A parte questo (che comunque andrebbe scritto nelle specifiche del prodotto) i DVD sono molto belli.Chi ama la musica inglese di quegli anni e la british invasion dovrebbe assolutamente averli.I DVD sono in inglese ma con una discreta conoscenza della lingua e con i sottotitoli in inglese sono comprensibilissimi.

Great stuff that I remember well, thanks in most part to the Ed Sullivan show. I'm glad somebody got it right by putting it right video wise. Hope there will be more.

Good Condition

Amazing