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'20 To Life: The Life & Times Of John Sinclair' -the movie (MDV/2007)
Produced by Steve Gebhardt & John Sinclair
A Musicus Production with Big Chief Productions
Executive Producer: Robert A. Johnson
With appearances by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, MC-5, Up, Ed Sanders, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Ed Moss, Andre Williams,
Bo Dollis and Cyril Neville. Original 16mm footage from the 1960s and ’70s by Leni Sinclair.
Graphic design by Gary Grimshaw. Music supervision by John Sinclair. Edited by Tom Hayes. Directed by Steve Gebhardt.
Soundtrack performances by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, John Coltrane, Miles Davis Sextet, Detroit Artists Workshop Music
Ensemble, Ed Moss & the Society Jazz Orchestra, MC5, Cecil Taylor, The Kingsmen, The Youngbloods, Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, Detroit featuring Rusty Day, The Up, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band, Sly & the Family Stone, John Sinclair & Bill Lynn, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Charles Neville & Diversity, the Wild Magnolias & Re-Birth Brass Band, Ed Moss & His Hot 5.
Begun in 1991 and completed in 2007, 20 TO LIFE is the real-life story of this legendary poet-provocateur and American cultural warrior John Sinclair, whose exploits have reverberated throughout the international underground for 40 years.
The disparate elements of Sinclair’s unique story have been brilliantly assembled and painstakingly delineated by director Steve Gebhardt and editor Tom Hayes in this multi-layered 87-minute feature film from Musicus Media. The soundtrack was supervised by Sinclair himself and features music by the MC-5, John Lennon, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Cecil Taylor, Sun Ra, Allen Ginsberg, Sly & the Family Stone, Thelonious Monk, Charles Neville, the Wild Magnolias and the Re-Birth Brass Band.
Produced by Steve Gebhardt & John Sinclair
A Musicus Production with Big Chief Productions
Executive Producer: Robert A. Johnson
With appearances by John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Allen Ginsberg, MC-5, Up, Ed Sanders, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Ed Moss, Andre Williams,
Bo Dollis and Cyril Neville. Original 16mm footage from the 1960s and ’70s by Leni Sinclair.
Graphic design by Gary Grimshaw. Music supervision by John Sinclair. Edited by Tom Hayes. Directed by Steve Gebhardt.Soundtrack performances by John Sinclair & His Blues Scholars, Chuck Berry, Howlin’ Wolf, John Coltrane, Miles Davis Sextet, Detroit Artists Workshop Music
Ensemble, Ed Moss & the Society Jazz Orchestra, MC5, Cecil Taylor, The Kingsmen, The Youngbloods, Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra, Detroit featuring Rusty Day, The Up, Allen Ginsberg, Ed Sanders, John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band, Sly & the Family Stone, John Sinclair & Bill Lynn, Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Charles Neville & Diversity, the Wild Magnolias & Re-Birth Brass Band, Ed Moss & His Hot 5.
