Ein Film von Mike Treen. Am 11.4. um 15:00 im fsk. In Englisch.

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The Session Man, a 90-minu­te docu­men­ta­ry fea­ture film, tells the sto­ry of Nicky Hopkins, the high­ly gifted and pro­li­fic ses­si­on pia­nist, and unsung hero.

Nicky not only play­ed with The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, he also play­ed on solo albums of all four mem­bers of the Beatles in the ear­ly part of a stel­lar care­er that span­ned over 30 years. During that time, he con­tri­bu­ted to over 250 albums and a vast num­ber of sin­gle releases.

Nicky’s legen­da­ry pia­no riffs and won­derful musi­cal motifs hel­ped ordi­na­ry tracks beco­me extra­or­di­na­ry and ico­nic. So many of them remain popu­lar today. The gene­ra­ti­ons that fol­lo­wed the Golden Era of Rock And Roll soon dis­co­ver tho­se ico­nic tracks that made Nicky Hopkins a legend among­st his peers – tracks like Revolution by The Beatles, Like A Rainbow, Sympathy For The Devil and Angie by the Rolling Stones, Jealous Guy by John Lennon from his Imagine album and You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker.

Nicky’s sto­ry is told in the film by Albert Lee, Antonia Cipollina, Arthur Rochester, Benmont Tench, Bill Wyman, Billy Nicholls, Bro Paul Brown, Chris Kimsey, Chris Welch, Chuck Leavell, Dave Davies, Glyn Johns, Graham Parker, Gray Levett, Greg Phillinganes, Harry Shearer, Helen O’Hara, Jack Casady, Jim Keltner, Joe Tansin, John Goddard, Jorma Kaukonen, Julian Dawson (Nicky’s bio­grapher – aut­hor of And on Piano… Nicky Hopkins), Keith Richards, Merrell Fankhauser, Mick Jagger, Mike Hurst, Mike McCartney, Moira Hopkins (Nicky’s widow), Morgan Fisher, Nils Lofgren, Paddy Milner, Pete Edmonds, Pete Sears, Pete Townshend, Peter Frampton, PP Arnold, Rory Kaplan, Sarah Sleet (CEO of Crohn’s & Colitis UK), Shel Talmy, Slim Jim Phantom, Terry Reid and Tom Speight.

The Session Man’s nar­ra­tor, Bob Harris, for­mer pre­sen­ter of the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test, had no hesi­ta­ti­on at the end of the film in con­fir­ming that, “Nicky Hopkins’ con­tri­bu­ti­ons made him rock and roll’s grea­test ses­si­on man.”

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