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Lisztomania is a 1975 British surreal biographical musical comedy film written and directed by Ken Russell about the 19th-century composer Franz Liszt. The screenplay is derived, in part, from the book Nélida by Marie d'Agoult (1848), about her affair with Liszt.
Lisztomania or Liszt fever was the intense fan frenzy directed toward Hungarian composer Franz Liszt during his performances. This frenzy first occurred in Berlin in 1841 and the term was later coined by Heinrich Heine in a feuilleton he wrote on 25 April 1844, discussing the 1844 Parisian concert season.
Starr played 'The Pope' in Ken Russell's Lisztomania (1975), [8] and a fictionalised version of himself in Paul McCartney's Give My Regards to Broad Street in 1984. [9] He also appeared as himself, and downtrodden alter-ego Ognir Rrats, in Ringo (1978), an American-made television comedy film based loosely on The Prince and the Pauper. [10]
Lisztomania (1975). Ken Russell was the master of the music biopic. Although he only made a few of them during the 1970s, he exploded the rags-to-riches narrative arc that had already settled into ...
Georgina Hale (4 August 1943 – 4 January 2024) was a British actress. In a career spanning six decades, her credits include work in radio, stage, film, and television. She was the recipient of such accolades as a British Academy Film Award, in addition to a nomination for a Laurence Olivier Aw
Lisztomania is the first soundtrack album by English keyboardist Rick Wakeman. It was released in November 1975 by A&M Records as the soundtrack for the Ken Russell 's musical biographical film Lisztomania about the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt .
Critics loathed the bombastic liberties taken by Russell (little did they know 1975’s Lisztomania was still forthcoming), but Molly Haskell’s description of Jackson in The Village Voice is ...
"Lisztomania" is a song by the French band Phoenix from their fourth album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. It is their second single from the album, although a music video of the song was released before " 1901 ".