Ahoy mateys! Richard Curtis, the pen behind Mr. Bean, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’s Diary has set sail with Pirate Radio, his second film as director (and his first since 2003’s mother-of-all-romantic comedies Love Actually)—and we have five 2-CD soundtracks to give away.
What’s it all about? Here’s the official synopsis of the loosely fact-based comedy, pirated from Focus Features. It docks on Nov. 13.
“Pirate Radio is the high-spirited story of how 8 DJs’ love affair with rock ‘n’ roll changed the world forever. In the 1960s this group of rogue DJs, on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic, played rock records and broke the law all for the love of music. The songs they played united and defined an entire generation and drove the British government crazy. By playing rock ‘n’ roll they were standing up against the British government who did everything in their power to shut them down. The band of rebels is lead by The Count, played by the Academy Award-winning Philip Seymour Hoffman, Quentin the boss of Radio Rock, Gavin the greatest DJ in Britain, Midnight Mark, Doctor Dave, and Young Carl, who comes of age amidst the chaos of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The film features an unbelievable selection of music including The Beatles, The Stones, Beach Boys, Dusty Springfield, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, David Bowie, Otis Redding, and Cat Stevens, just to name a few. The film is laugh out loud funny and speaks to the rock ‘n’ roll rebel in all of us.”
So what’s on the playlist? We thought you’d ask. (more…)
