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New Wave: Dare To Be Different - DVD

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U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. In this riveting and star studded documentary, Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, corporate-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America. The dynamic soundtrack includes more than 50 songs from the era and a new original theme song by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts!

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    U2, Talking Heads, Depeche Mode, Blondie, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Cure Over half a billion records sold but you may never have heard of them if not for a small suburban radio station on Long Island, NY WLIR. In August, 1982, a small group of radio visionaries knew they couldn't compete with the mega-stations in New York City. With one brave decision, they changed the sound of radio forever. In this riveting and star studded documentary, Program Director Denis McNamara, the 'LIR crew and the biggest artists of the era tell the story of how they battled the FCC, the record labels, corporate-radio and all the conventional rules to create a musical movement that brought the New Wave to America. The dynamic soundtrack includes more than 50 songs from the era and a new original theme song by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts!
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    New Wave: Dare To Be Different
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    DVD
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    MVD Visual
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Rating 5 out of 5 stars with 2 reviews

5 star rating. 2 reviews
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  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    We dared to be Different

    Great film. I was one of a few people in my circle that felt 70's Music was played out and WLIR was the only place we found cool music that found it's way onto an infant MTV and became the foundation of the GREATEST Decade of all time: The 80's. BUY THIS DVD!!!

    This review is from New Wave: Dare To Be Different - DVD

    Posted by hotrotts

  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars

    Wonderful movie abour how radio used to be

    This movie tells the story of WLIR 92.7, one of the last truly independent commercial radio stations in America. WLIR played a critical role in the rise of "new wave" music in the 80's, AND was the center of a vibrant local music scene populated by kids who lived for this music. It was owned by a local man and struggled to stay alive financially, hobbled by a limited signal that didn't entirely reach NYC from its home in suburban Nassau County, Long Island. The rest of America deserves to know how bands like the English Beat came to them: washed up on our shores by shows like Off The Boat, featuring imported songs that WLIR staff literally plucked off a boat from England and rushed to the studio. The movie is the story of WLIR, its people and the bands that made New Wave a movement. You'll laugh, you'll cry. If you ever cared about radio, New Wave or punk music, or rock n roll, you want to see this.

    This review is from New Wave: Dare To Be Different - DVD

    Posted by KarenYoung521

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