This is a thoroughly entertaining dive into the musical biography genre - Wright has a good visual ability to work his way through the usual mix of clips and interviews with a wide range of admirers and observers to talk about the band in question. There's clever visual choices to bust open the narrative a bit more, and while, yes, it does get a little relentlessly gaggy in the beginning with underlined visual puns, it mostly moves fairly straightforwardly through 50-odd years of musical history with a band that never quite lives in the zeitgeist of their time - they're always either too many steps ahead or, occasionally, just a little too early to start hitting a nostalgia button. It does feel a little overextended at the end rather than hitting a good leaving point and then stopping, but that's a minor complaint on a film that's so damn entertaining to watch.
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