John Fardy
speaker
834 appearances
8 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Sep
John Fardy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And, you know, the famous performance of Motown 25 where he did Billie Jean and you saw the moonwalk for the first time, they've just redone all that.
So a lot of this movie is reconstructed concert footage and a lot of the movie is the songs playing over the absence of anything happening other than people walking around.
So the cynic in you can't help but think
they are really hoping this is just going to sell.
I know people don't sell music in the same way, but it's certainly going to put the songbook front and center again.
So I'm baffled.
I don't know how these people are involved.
Now, Colman Domingo has said things like, you know, we don't know what happened.
I want to play a character and that's fair enough.
But with all the noise around this, you have to wonder why
He chose it.
And, you know, there's this famous quote by T-Bone Burnett, the musician that, you know, the history of rock and roll is a guy with a guitar going, daddy.
And there's a lot of truth in that.
If you look at Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, all these people, they had these really weird relationships with their dad.
And in all those biopics, you see the effect those weird relationships had, whether it be drugs, whether it be, you know, sleeping with too many people who weren't their husbands or wives or whatever.
Whereas in this, we don't see really what effect this abusive father had on Michael.
And we're all left to suppose what effect it did have.
But they don't mention that at all.
So I was just left with a kind of bitter taste.
And as I say, I say that as someone who was once a huge fan.
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