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The Yardbirds in Blow-Up. Jimmy Page is at far left and Jeff Beck at far right. You hear the band before you see it. The scene—one of the most fondly remembered and often discussed in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 British Mod classic Blow-Up —is roughly five minutes in length.
Apr 20, 2020 · And in the middle of Blow-Up, the main character (played by David Hemmings) wanders into a club where a hard-edged band is playing. In that scene, fans of Led Zeppelin can catch a young Jimmy...
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Blow-Up (sometimes styled as Blowup or Blow Up) is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Also featured was 1960s model Veruschka.
However, when they refused, in stepped the Yardbirds during that brief period when both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page were in the band. The Yardbirds’ short scene (which can be seen in the video below) was filmed at Elstree Studios, U.K., over a four-day period in September 1966. When speaking about the band's involvement with the project in a ...
Dec 20, 2018 · Blow Up. By chance, The Yardbirds had a Beck/Page era. Jimmy Page had temporarily replaced a band member in 1966 and Jeff beck was still the band’s lead guitarist. During this time, director Michelangelo Antonioni was filming the iconic mystery thriller, Blowup.
Aug 31, 2017 · This dynamic of “interested” and “uninterested” plays out throughout Blow-Up. Look at the Yardbirds scene. Jeff Beck throws his broken guitar neck into the crowd and people go fucking crazy over it. They tear at each other to get this shattered guitar because it belonged to Jeff Beck of the Yardbirds. Thomas is the lucky winner of the ...
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Among the homeless men whose photos were taken by the David Hemmings character is Julio Cortázar, who wrote the original short story on which "Blow-Up (1966)" is based. The film contains a rare performance of The Yardbirds during the period when Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck were both in the band.
