José Ramón Pardo Bustillo
Acting
Biography
José Ramón Pardo (born August 17, 1941, in Gijón, Asturias, Spain) is a Spanish music journalist, writer, and broadcaster. He worked for major newspapers and radio stations before joining Televisión Española, where he was a scriptwriter and contributor to programmes such as Tocata, Aplauso, and A Tope. He later founded the music label RamaLama Music and has written extensively on Spanish pop and rock history.
Known For
In July 1965, the Beatles visited Spain to give only two concerts: one at the Plaza de Toros de las Ventas, in Madrid, on June 2, and the other, the following day, at the Monumental in Barcelona. It was a quick and unexpected visit that the Franco regime did not take kindly to, and which gave rise to succulent anecdotes.
¡Qué vienen los Beatles!
The morning of the 28th of March, 1977, the news broke out that the prestigious composer of "Ode to joy", Waldo de los Ríos, was found dead with two gunshots to the face. This documentary is a project trying to decipher all the secrets behind the public figure of the celebrated Argentinian musician, who lived in Spain since the 60s. During the investigation, we find a life of fame, luxury, passion, homophobia, dictatorship, esotericism, depression, solitud, an enigmatic suicide... and oblivion. We try to understand how one of the biggest composers of universal history transformed his own life into a requiem. From home-movies, photographs, personal letters, audio tapes and other inedit material, the documentary presents the most intimate and hidden portrait of this revolutionary musical genius.
Waldo
Tocata was a Spanish music television show that aired on Televisión Española from 1983 to 1987. It featured live performances, music videos, and studio interviews, becoming a key platform for contemporary music of the 1980s.
Tocata
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