Danny Says

2015

Biography / Documentary / History / Music

Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 74% · 31 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 51% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 858 858

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Plot summary

DANNY SAYS is a documentary unveiling the amazing journey of Danny Fields. Fields has played a pivotal role in music and culture with seminal acts including: the Doors, the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, MC5, Nico, the Ramones and beyond.

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1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by meathookcinema 8 / 10

A documentary about a hidden force who helped change people's lives

A documentary about Danny Fields, the record industry A&R man/artist liaison/cultural barometer who was the friend of so many great bands and artists and more importantly, had a hand in making sure they could get record deals and record their music so that their genius could be shared with the world.This documentary gets it just right- there are moments of animation to illustrate the narrative but these don't overpower the film, there are many musicians and personalities who are either interviewed or spoken about but it doesn't feel like some kind of bragging rollcall. There are also perceptive and very interesting insights into being gay in a small town and also when Danny had left home and was carving his adult life.As for the artists, all of the groups and singers who changed my life are here. From hanging out with The Velvet Underground to working and socialising with The Doors, The Ramones, Jonathan Richman, The Stooges, Nico, MC5...This is a life spent in the thick an alternative American musical history and you feel privileged to be a part of this. There are also hidden gems that are priceless- a taped phone call with Nico, a recording of the first time Lou Reed is played The Ramones and how elated he is by it.I bought Raw Power by Iggy and the Stooges at the age of 14 and it changed my life. And Danny Fields is partly responsible for this. This documentary helps to shed light on a hidden force who made this possible.
Reviewed by st-shot 7 / 10

Clive Davis of Punk

While music producer Clive Davis was guiding and grooming the royalty of pop music, scruffy Danny Field was busy discovering and promoting the punk sound in lower Manhattan before it blossomed world wide. Iggy Pop, The Ramones, The NY Dolls, Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground, Nico, Warhol and The Factory, Field was a tireless ( started doing amphetamines as a kid ) promotor of an underground movement with a sharp eye for talent that was ushering a new sound onto the music scene.Field is a remarkable witness to the times of course but his engaging openness and honesty, comic sarcasm and lack of bitterness with little care for cash make him a wonderful guide to this period in history. There are brief interviews with some of the "surviving" players back then along with some footage from that rebellious era that Danny sardonically recalls. Iggy Pop among others chips in a good tale or two along the way but Danny remains the admirable focus of the doc, someone who labored for love and not greed and inadvertently helped change the music scene around the world a raucous way.
Reviewed by ferguson-6 7 / 10

Credit where it's due

Greetings again from the darkness. Tying in nicely with the repertory showing of Rock 'n Roll High School (1979) at the Oak Cliff Film Festival, this documentary from Brendan Toller aims to give credit to one of the unsung (and mostly unknown) influencers of cultural and music changes in the 1960's and 1970's. Danny Fields was the behind-the-scenes "mover and shaker" who helped shine the light on bands such as The Doors, Velvet Underground, The Stooges, MC5 and The Ramones.Fields is described as having his pulse on the underground music scene, and this is meant to be a compliment … he knew what the "cool" people were listening to. More than just a keen social observer, Fields finished 6th in his class at Penn – as the youngest graduate - and went on to drop out of Harvard Law School in order to be on the front line of the cultural changes occurring in the 60's.Director Toller's respect and admiration for Fields is on full display, and we are treated to interviews from the likes of Alice Cooper and Iggy Pop, to multiple sit downs with Fields himself … the highlights of the film. The stories about "16" Magazine, Jim Morrison, Nico and Edie Sedgwick are all interesting, but it's watching as Fields personally recalls his involvement that offer us something we've never before seen.Fields' time at Elektra Records is chronicled, as is his fallout with The Ramones … whose song provides the title of the movie (also covered by Tom Waits and Foo Fighters). It's also noted that Fields decision to take The Ramones on a UK tour, helped drive the popularity of The Sex Pistols and The Clash … the foundation of the new Punk era. It's always refreshing when accolades and credit find the proper target – even when delayed by a few decades.
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