All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (2015)

All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records: Directed by Colin Hanks. With Russ Solomon, Michael Solomon, Heidi Cotler, Paul Brown. ‘All Things Must Pass’ is a documentary that explores the rise and fall of Tower Records, and its legacy forged by its rebellious founder, Russ Solomon.

“Nostalgic, slowburning (sometimes a bit boring) story about the rise and fall of the biggest record store company in the world called Tower Records, which rose to fame during the seventies. Bruce Springsteen and Elton John declare their unconditional love for Tower Records, because both and many other famous artists where household guests at Tower Records, which opened an hour earlier especially for these popstars to let them be able to go on their weekly shopping spree for new records.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThere was something quite special about that feeling of visiting an actual existing recordstore, which simple can not be experienced by simply downloading A TRACK.Going to the record store, with all these zillion records stacked up high, gave a feeling of coming home. And it was a home, for many music lovers AND musicians for many many years.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eInternet killed the record store though after 2000. But the record store miraculously DID SURVIVE in Japan, of all places!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eA bit too many management talking heads are the only downside of this documentary. For that reason I skipped the middle part. But the first part of the origin and rise to fame of Tower Records and the last part about the downfall are pretty interesting and fun to watch.”