10 Amazing Music Movies You Must See Before You Die
8. Nowhere Boy
"The guitar's alright for a hobby but you'll never make a living at it", was his uncle's advice. John Lennon's response? "I'm starting a rock 'n' roll band." The rest, as they say, is history, and that history is dramatised beautifully in Nowhere Boy by first-time director Sam Taylor-Wood. While Beatles films and documentaries arent in short supply, what makes Nowhere Boy stand out so successfully is its focus on the lesser known factors surrounding the adolescence of John Lennon. The director concentrates on Lennon's fraught teenage years, charting the death of his mother at the hands of a drunk driver, the custody battle that saw him brought up by his aunt and his failure to thrive in the regimented confines of school; in other words, all the gritty bits normally avoided by directors seeking to sugar-coat the bands route to success. As such the movie was a far bigger success than expected, earning $6bn at the box office and scooping up numerous award nominations.
