Ed Driscoll is a blogger and freelance journalist who writes about media, culture, and technology. He contributed pieces to The Weekly Standard in 2004 and 2005 covering music and cultural history.
MURRAY LERNER, a documentary filmmaker now in his 70s, filmed a legendary open-air rock concert on England's Isle of Wight in August of 1970. Tied up until 1997 in legal hassles, Lerner has only just now released a Woodstock-style documentary of the event's highlights along with a collection of…
AFTER YEARS of being bootlegged, an official DVD of 1985's monster, 13-hour Live Aid concert was released this fall by organizer Bob Geldof. The proceeds will go to benefit the Band Aid Trust, with the noble goal of feeding the hungry in Ethiopia. To watch the DVD is to unearth a time capsule of…