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    From Britney to the Beatles, it was a watershed year for music documentaries

    The chase for eyeballs has been a boon for eardrums. With a flood of money pouring in from such streamers as Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+ and Disney+ as they chase subscribers, artists young and old were are cashing fat checks for the screen rights to their lives, on and offstage (so long as they retained final cut). Meanwhile, acclaimed directors including Peter Jackson ("Get Back"), Todd Haynes ...
    by Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Dec 16, 2021 5 minutes

    The chase for eyeballs has been a boon for eardrums.

    With a flood of money pouring in from such streamers as Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV+ and Disney+ as they chase subscribers, artists young and old were are cashing fat checks for the screen rights to their lives, on and offstage (so long as they retained final cut). Meanwhile, acclaimed directors including Peter Jackson ("Get Back"), Todd Haynes ("The Velvet Underground") and Edgar Wright ("The Sparks Brothers") were drawn to music docs in ways not seen since Martin Scorsese fixed his lens on the Band for "The Last Waltz" or Jonathan Demme shot the Talking Heads' "Stop Making Sense."

    2021 produced so many first-rate music documentaries that a film on the "Black Woodstock" (Questlove's revelatory "Summer of Soul") was quickly followed by one on the mutant Woodstock (HBO Max's "Woodstock '99: Peace, Love

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