What a lovely, heartwarming cover:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6k-99qcCE

yep, it's true! i like it! :)

Somebody can Upload All the songs in one zip file ... pleaseeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

 

Gracias

 

SalU2!

:laugh4:

[Fix You] The Old Become Young@Heart for a Feature Film

 

 

One of the hot documentary topics rolling around right now is Young@Heart, which shows old folks touring around and performing popular pop/rock music. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the doc has been picked up by Working Title Films to be adapted into a feature.

 

Now, the original documentary is about senior citizens from New England who defy age by going on tour and covering rock and pop songs (the most recent showcase included The Clash, Coldplay, Talking Heads and Jimi Hendrix). With an average age of 80, nothing seems to stop these people. You can even check some of them out over on YouTube -- there's a man performing Fix You by Coldplay with a little tank of air by his side, and a flipping great performance by the old peeps of Schizophrenia by Sonic Youth.

 

As for the adaptation, it's only in its beginning stages -- Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner will produce along with the doc's filmmaker Stephen Walker and producer Sally George. There is no director or screenwriter secured yet. This could be a pretty fun movie, and I can only hope that this will start a trend that will continue on to see young girl rockers on the mainstream screen.

 

In the interim, if you want to see some white-haired, wild singing, Young@Heart will be screened at the LA Film Festival which runs from June 21-July 1.

 

Source: http://www.cinematical.com/

Aw, that's very touching. Hearing Fix You sung by that gentleman gives you a slightly different perspective on the lyrics, don't you think? Guess this is an old thread, but thanks for sharing the video.

So who came first? Young At Heart or The Zimmers??

Somebody's been a copycat!!:rolleyes:

Young @ Heart Documentary Acquired by Fox Searchlight

 

 

Last month, over on my personal blog, I posted about a group of feisty old folks who go by the name of ‘The Young @ Heart Chorus’. The idea isn’t really anything new; a group of unlikely folks singing covers of songs that play against their type. In this case, seniors taking on tracks from the likes of Sonic Youth, The Ramones, The Clash and…Coldplay! I’d come across some clips of one of their performances and must admit it was unbelievably moving. Upon some digging, I realized that these clips (featured below) were actually taken from a documentary shot for Britain’s Channel 4. Directed by Stephen Walker, the film follows the crew as they prepare for an upcoming performance. A sort of ‘Old School of Rock’ if you will. Here’s a short synopsis:

 

At an age when most people are either dead or living out their last days in retirement homes, these men and women are up on stage singing their hearts out about the big taboos surrounding old age: about love and sex, loss of youth, loneliness and death. In their mouths, familiar lyrics take on whole new meanings.

 

After unsuccessfully searching around Google Video for a full length upload of the film, i’m delighted to hear that Fox Searchlight has actually picked up ‘Young @ Heart’ for North American distribution. This is great news for both me and Stephen Walker, as this is the first documentary Searchlight has acquired in ten years! Quite the honour. This news comes to us from MovieWeb, but details are still sparce. As of now there’s no mention of a theatrical release date or dvd plans, so we’ll just have to be patient and see what comes of this. Until then, check out the clips below and let us know what you think.

 

http://www.thedocumentaryblog.com/index.php/2007/07/05/young-heart-documentary-acquired-by-fox-searchlight/

Anyway, with all these wrinkly groups around, surely it's only a matter of time before Oldplay hit the scene!:rolleyes:

Seniors singing hip tunes a must-see at Sundance

 

 

PARK CITY, Utah — Meet the new penguins — septuagenarians, octogenarians and even the occasional nonagenarian.

That would be 70-, 80- and 90-somethings in plain language — the stars of the Sundance Film Festival's Young@Heart, about a senior-citizen chorus group that tries to reclaim a little vigor by tackling punk, rock and R&B songs.

 

Just as Sundance helped launch the blockbuster March of the Penguins, it has made Young@Heart one of the must-see documentaries of the festival, a comedic tearjerker about the group's struggle to grasp the music of Sonic Youth, Coldplay and The Clash while coping with the complications of aging.

 

Parts of it are uproarious, as the wrinkled would-be rockers belt out The Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated or struggle with the tongue-twisting lyrics of Allen Toussaint's Yes We Can Can.

 

Dark humor is approached fearlessly: When they sing the Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive, they really mean it.

 

But there are also moments of poignancy: among them, Fred Knittle, suffering from congestive heart failure and breathing with the aid of an oxygen tank, crooning in a rich, deep voice Coldplay's Fix You, lending the song an entirely different dimension. It's all the more heartbreaking to know his solo rendition was originally planned as a duet.

 

Director Stephen Walker says the juxtaposition of the younger generation's music being performed by people nearing the end of their lives is a reminder to anyone about the importance of living life to the fullest: "We are all on a train, and these guys are getting off at an earlier stop, but we all will get off at some point."

 

Interestingly, U2 kicked off the festival with their U2 3D movie the night before Young@Heart made its debut. That was one band that would not allow their songs to be used in the film, said Walker, who doesn't blame Bono or The Edge, who expressed interest in seeing Young@Heart in an earlier interview. Walker says the denial was just the work of lawyers and publishing executives, who probably never consulted the artists.

 

"Everyone else we could get," Walker said. "Coldplay, no problem at all. They were absolutely fine about it. Talking Heads, really no problem at all. There was a helluva lot of music to clear in the film. We got the Jimi Hendrix estate to sign off, and they came on board. There's a ton of music."

 

He hopes one of the artists from U2 might see or hear about the movie before Fox Searchlight releases it April 18. He has footage of one elderly singer doing a soulful version of One— and it turned out to be among his final songs with the group before he died. Walker has always wanted to add it to the film.

 

Only a handful of the singers made the trek to Park City for the movie's Sundance run. Young@Heart singer Steve Martin, 79, who brags that he owned the name long before the famous comedian, is the self-described Casanova of the movie. He's a bit of a flirt and came to the festival accompanied by two other singers from the group, women, naturally: Jeanne Hatch, 81, and Dora Morrow, 85.

 

At a party for the film at the Blind Dog restaurant, they sipped wine, told jokes and mingled with a post-screening crowd young enough to be their grandchildren. They posed for pictures, basking in their newfound celebrity.

 

They've got the fast-living lifestyle of rock stars down. Told that they have a lot of spirit in the movie, Hatch said: "That's because we drink a lot of spirits!"

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u6k-99qcCE

 

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/movieawards/sundance/2008-01-26-youngatheart_N.htm

:laugh3: it's so cute ... :P

awwwwwwww haha I just saw this on tv. It's coming out soon :wink:

I wanna be sedated...Young@Heart opens Fla. Film Festival

 

This year's opening night film for the Fla. Film Festival is a stone-cold lock crowd-pleaser, the documentary Young@Heart.

 

A senior citizens chorus Massachusetts, singing and performing as therapy...and the songs! The Clash, Coldplay, The Ramones. Check out the trailer.

 

Opening night is Mar. 28. Get those tickets now as this one is selling out as I type this.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3uOOhm8Fj8

'Young @ Heart': Great old rockers aren't for sitting

 

Time is on their side when the Young @ Heart Chorus fire up some old hits.

 

 

To judge from the opening shots - a packed theater, screaming fans - "Young @ Heart" could be your average concert documentary. But then the first member of the band steps forward, opens her mouth ... and seems to be missing a few teeth. She is, in fact, 92 years old and one of the most charming participants in one of the most delightful movies to come along this year.

 

Frankly, the concept behind the Young @ Heart Chorus sounds more gimmicky than compelling: Senior citizens from Northampton, Mass., perform songs by the likes of Coldplay, the Clash and Sonic Youth. But the chorus members and their director, Bob Cilman, take the group so seriously that their story turns out to be a profound testament to perseverance and passion.

 

Regrettably, director Stephen Walker doesn't exhibit the same calm wisdom seen in his inspiring subjects. Not only does he insert himself into the film in needless, and increasingly grating, fashion, but he and producer Sally George ask the chorus to participate in winkingly ironic music videos for songs like "Stayin' Alive."

 

To their credit, these up-for-anything artists do make the most of the opportunity, offering the director an especially rousing take on the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated." But it's when he finally steps back and lets them do their thing that the movie becomes something special, a unique chronicle that is alternately sweet, funny and heartbreaking.

 

Songs like Talking Heads' "Life During Wartime" or Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" take on entirely new meaning when interpreted, with thoughtful sincerity, by someone who's seen the better part of a century.

 

Watch ailing octogenarian Fred Knittle sing Coldplay's "Fix You," in honor of two recently deceased colleagues, and you may feel as if you're learning something new about life itself.

 

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/movies/2008/04/09/2008-04-09_young__heart_great_old_rockers_arent_for.html

Retired, Yes, but Never Too Old to Rock

 

"Young@Heart" features a chorus of singers whose average age is 80, led by Bob Climan, center.

 

Time revises every taste and closes every gap. To observe the Young@Heart Chorus, a fluctuating group of about two dozen singers whose average age is 80, perform “Stayin’ Alive” by the Bee Gees in Stephen Walker’s documentary “Young@Heart” is to be uplifted, if slightly unsettled.

 

Sung by people approaching the end of their lives, the song is no longer about strutting through the urban jungle with your elbows out; it is a blunt survival anthem. These singers, most of them well-rehearsed amateurs, refuse to go gently into that good night. For them music is oxygen.

 

When they perform punk classics like “Should I Stay or Should I Go” by the Clash or “I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones, the notion of a generation gap begins to crumble. Apart from the rebellious attitude behind the songs’ creation, these are elementary meat-and-potatoes tunes: “Sing Along With Mitch” material but with a hip credential.

 

The Clash song is a lusty group cheer, which, interpreted by people of advanced age, could be taken as a stubborn assertion of choosing life over death. “I Wanna Be Sedated,” an extremely catchy song any way you look at it, comes across as an ironic refusal to follow a doctor’s orders and lie back in a medicated haze. Members who suffer from chronic multiple ailments are shown struggling out of sickbeds to attend rehearsals.

 

At moments the movie, made for British television, risks being a cloying, rose-colored study of happy old folks at play, and the cheer sounds forced. But the lives of the several members it examines at some depth are too real and complicated to resemble a commercial starring Wilford Brimley as a Norman Rockwell grandpa. The movie offers an encouraging vision of old age in which the depression commonly associated with decrepitude is held at bay by music making, camaraderie and a sense of humor.

 

Since its beginnings as a collective arts project in 1982 at a center for the elderly in Northampton, Mass., the chorus has developed into a popular local ensemble with an international reputation. It has made 12 tours of Australia, Europe and Canada and serenaded Norwegian royalty. Accompanying the singers is a solid core of professional rock musicians who help ground their sometimes wavering voices.

 

Sandwiched into the movie are several surreal music videos made by the film’s producer, Sally George. The wittiest, created around “Road to Nowhere” by Talking Heads, depicts singers happily stranded on the side of an American highway.

 

The movie concentrates on the rigorous two-month preparations for a 2006 concert at the Academy Theater in Northampton. Guided by the chorus’s demanding longtime director, Bob Cilman, the members are learning new material, including “Yes We Can Can,” the Allen Toussaint hit for the Pointer Sisters, whose lyrics repeat “can” 71 times in intricate, staccato patterns; Sonic Youth’s enigmatic, equally demanding “Schizophrenia”; and the Coldplay ballad “Fix You.”

 

The fact that the chorus’s members are willing to tackle such daunting material attests to the spirit of adventure that is a crucial spur to their shared bonhomie. More than one member admits that his or her favorite music is classical, opera or show tunes. These rock songs are unfamiliar. Instead of comfortable walks around the block, rehearsals (there are three a week) are demanding hikes over hilly terrain. The challenge only makes it more exciting.

 

Late during the making of “Young@Heart” two members of the chorus, Bob Salvini and Joe Benoit, died within a week. Although neither death was a complete surprise, occurring so close together, they come as shock to a group dedicated to living in the present as fully and exuberantly as possible. The upbeat realism of everyone connected with “Young@Heart” might be summarized in six words: Life goes on until it doesn’t.

 

“Young@Heart” is rated PG (Parental Guidance suggested). It includes some strong language.

 

YOUNG@HEART

 

Opens on Wednesday in New York and Los Angeles.

 

Directed by Stephen Walker; director of photography, Eddie Marritz; edited by Chris King; produced by Sally George; released by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Running time: 1 hour 48 minutes.

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/09/movies/09youn.html?bl&ex=1207886400&en=7e0160acf86c54ad&ei=5087%0A

Young@Heart "cover" band in Germany

 

I know it's half a year since the last post here...

But this movie is out in Germany at the moment.

The links in the older posts don't work anymore, so here's a new one first:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg5QBi5tnZU]YouTube - Fix You (Coldplay) Young@Heart Chor[/ame]

 

We got a trailer DVD in the cinema some weeks ago and my boss showed it immediately to me - he knows how much I love Coldplay and he likes them as well!

 

But tonight we had a very special event in our cinema:

A woman from my town saw this movie at a festival some time ago and decided that she could establish such a choir in our town as well!

So she did.

Tonight the movie was shown first, then the choir "Steh auf" (Stand up) performed one song in front of 200 people.

It was their first "gig"!!

The oldest lady was 93 years old!

I was there to take pictures and enjoyed my second watch of the movie.

The version of "Fix you" really is great and touching IMO - like the whole documentary.

(But a pity that the video that Fred is watching while rehearsing was blurry :))

 

I know this may not be interesting for you but I wanted to share the reason why I couldn't listen to Lost+ today!!

Those people performing tonight were really lovely. They did an interview with the 93-year-old lady and they asked her if she's still interested in her looks.

She said: "Well I try everyday to look good, but a look in my mirror proves me wrong!"

She was so sweet!