Hallo. ihr Filmfans, ich habe den Film 68 selbst im Kino Kammerlichtspiele Glauchau (DDR) gesehen. Bin heute noch mit 69 Jahren begeistert Habe den Song gerade noch mal gehört, Gänsehaut pur .... Spitzenfeeling !
....aber wie schon mal anderswo festgestellt, klingt die im Film zu sehende + zu hörende Version von " Free me " = aggressiver und instrumental anders abgemischt wie die auf der offiziellen Soundtrack - LP erschiene Fassung und hat den wirklichen Gänsehauteffekt für mich..... Das betrifft auch die gegenüber der LP - Fassung im Film zu sehende ebenfalls anders abgemischte Version von " Jerusalem, Jerusalem " der Georg Bean Group, auch im Filmabspann.....Diese 2 Versionen suche ich bis heute immer noch vergeblich auf einem offiziellen Tonträger ( ich habe sie nur seit 1973 als Tonband - Monoaufnahmen vom ARD - Fernsehen vorliegen, als der Film da mal in Deutsch lief einschließlich der Szene, als Steven Shorter alias Paul Jones mitten im Song aus seinem Käfig ruft zu den Polizisten :..." Ihr Schweinehunde...." )
Ja auch ich kann mich an diese Filmszene erinnern als wäre es erst gestern gewesen. Den Film würde ich soooo gern haben oder wenigstens noch mal sehen. Hab gleich wieder Pipi in den Augen ....
DerTeemeister, the song is identified as "Free Me" at second one of the video. It is from the "Privilege" soundtrack. I'm not aware of another version by Paul Jones, though Patti Smith covered it on her album "Easter." Thanks!
Thank you too, my brother wrote "Set me free" as well in his book of taped songs in 69. So the man from the radio named the song "Set me free" as well. There must be another version with more organ, maybe without drums - at least in my memory ;-) Or, my brother taped a "live in the Studio"-version from German television with Paul on the mike and just one other musician at the organ.
The name of the song isn't "Set me free", but: "Free me". There must be another version by Paul Jones just with organ and voice, that my brother used to listen to in 1969 - I wasn't able to find that one again.
Stimmt,diese Fassung hier ist nur auf dem Soundtrackalbum enthalten. Die Version im Film ist eine Andere !!! Mehr Orgel und verzerrte Gitarre......Einfach voluminöser.
I bought the soundtrack album of Privilege, the film, and on Capitol label, U. s,. I bought an album Paul Jones sings songs from Privilege.. so two versions there…
No idea where this version came from, but it's not the version that is in the movie because I ran this movie for a long run and I know the soundtrack very well. This song had a very upfront band mix, not his mix that sounds like it's recorded in a tunnel. The presence of the instruments in the original were powerful. This sounds like a bad reverb/echo effect was added that muted everything...a HORRIBLE distortion of the original, powerful performance. Plus, as has already been mentioned, even the title is posted incorrectly.
This version is from the soundtrack of the film on record album. You can blame the inadequacies of the sound on my rudimentary recording equipment if you'd like.
Tolle Erinnerungen an einen tollen Film; meine Regierung (Eltern) fand es nicht gut, dass mir so ein "Beatnik" gut gefiel. Ging gar nicht - war mir aber egal. Was ich heute noch hochinteressant finde: wie die verlogene Kirche den Sänger verbogen hat. Aktueller gehts nicht !
None of this makes sense. Not do I care to delve into some bizarre-o masochistic chained victim crap. I'm here bc I heard this song in the movie, "The Gentlemen." I like it until I saw all this garbage that someone not so adept at clarifying meaning...and realized it's just acid-induced mediocre attempts at making some statement. Blech.
The movie for which this song was written is about a singer whose popularity becomes so extreme that he loses control of his own destiny. It stars Paul Jones who had recently left the British rock/blues band Manfred Mann. He is the one who sang Do Wah Ditty Ditty which topped the US pop charts in 1964 and Jones was still popular at the time. This movie was likely meant to catapult him into stardom as a solo act.. The film was heavily promoted in Canada where I was a teenager. It targeted the under-20s and also featured super model Jean Shrimpton. It supposedly conveyed a message , and although I "got it" even at 18, I was not overly impressed. The picture above is taken from a scene where Jones, portraying singer Steven Shorter, is performing on stage handcuffed in a make-shift jail cell which he is using to symbolize his loss of personal freedom. The song is versatile, so adapting it to different venues such as "The Gentlemen" is quite doable.
Der Schlagstock am Gitter... Diese Stimme. Ich werde diesen Film nie vergessen.
Hallo. ihr Filmfans, ich habe den Film 68 selbst im Kino Kammerlichtspiele Glauchau (DDR) gesehen. Bin heute noch mit 69 Jahren begeistert Habe den Song gerade noch mal
gehört, Gänsehaut pur .... Spitzenfeeling !
....aber wie schon mal anderswo festgestellt, klingt die im Film zu sehende + zu hörende Version von " Free me " = aggressiver und instrumental anders abgemischt wie die auf der offiziellen Soundtrack - LP erschiene Fassung und hat den wirklichen Gänsehauteffekt für mich..... Das betrifft auch die gegenüber der LP - Fassung im Film zu sehende ebenfalls anders abgemischte Version von " Jerusalem, Jerusalem " der Georg Bean Group, auch im Filmabspann.....Diese 2 Versionen suche ich bis heute immer noch vergeblich auf einem offiziellen Tonträger ( ich habe sie nur seit 1973 als Tonband - Monoaufnahmen vom ARD - Fernsehen vorliegen, als der Film da mal in Deutsch lief einschließlich der Szene, als Steven Shorter alias Paul Jones mitten im Song aus seinem Käfig ruft zu den Polizisten :..." Ihr Schweinehunde...." )
Ja auch ich kann mich an diese Filmszene erinnern als wäre es erst gestern gewesen.
Den Film würde ich soooo gern haben oder wenigstens noch mal sehen.
Hab gleich wieder Pipi in den Augen ....
Love this movie so much that I bought the DVD.
Ja diesen Film habe ich nie vergessen ich würde ihn gern nochmal sehen
Claus Gärtner ich auch nicht hätte ihn gern mal wieder gesehen melde dich mal ob du ihn findest
Geht kaum besser. Der Film ist natürlich extrem gut
Ich erinnere mich noch gut daran.Der Song geht einen unter die Haut.
Always enjoy listening to this and reading the story. Enjoyed the movie. Wish I could find the soundtrack.
Der Film war einfach super, dass lied das Größte
Stefan LANGE ich würde ihn gern noch mal sehen
Hast Recht , ich auch. Werden wir uns wohl mal bestellen müssen
Stefan LANGE
es gibt ihn nur in Engl. Sprache ...und das ist nicht so meins...;-)
DerTeemeister, the song is identified as "Free Me" at second one of the video. It is from the "Privilege" soundtrack. I'm not aware of another version by Paul Jones, though Patti Smith covered it on her album "Easter." Thanks!
Thank you too, my brother wrote "Set me free" as well in his book of taped songs in 69. So the man from the radio named the song "Set me free" as well. There must be another version with more organ, maybe without drums - at least in my memory ;-) Or, my brother taped a "live in the Studio"-version from German television with Paul on the mike and just one other musician at the organ.
i knew of patti smith's song but i had no idea it was a cover of another song- only found out when i saw the movie a few years ago
Great ! 🤘
The name of the song isn't "Set me free", but: "Free me". There must be another version by Paul Jones just with organ and voice, that my brother used to listen to in 1969 - I wasn't able to find that one again.
Stimmt,diese Fassung hier ist nur auf dem Soundtrackalbum enthalten. Die Version im Film ist eine Andere !!! Mehr Orgel und verzerrte Gitarre......Einfach voluminöser.
There are two different versions the one on the LP and the EP, I think there's a reprise on the LP too which is the one you are thinking of
I think this is from the movie Paul Jones starred in, "Privilege."
I bought the soundtrack album of Privilege, the film, and on Capitol label, U. s,. I bought an album Paul Jones sings songs from Privilege.. so two versions there…
No idea where this version came from, but it's not the version that is in the movie because I ran this movie for a long run and I know the soundtrack very well. This song had a very upfront band mix, not his mix that sounds like it's recorded in a tunnel. The presence of the instruments in the original were powerful. This sounds like a bad reverb/echo effect was added that muted everything...a HORRIBLE distortion of the original, powerful performance. Plus, as has already been mentioned, even the title is posted incorrectly.
This version is from the soundtrack of the film on record album. You can blame the inadequacies of the sound on my rudimentary recording equipment if you'd like.
This is the LP version, completely different recording to the EP version, not just a different mix
Tolle Erinnerungen an einen tollen Film; meine Regierung (Eltern) fand es nicht gut, dass mir so ein "Beatnik" gut gefiel. Ging gar nicht - war mir aber egal. Was ich heute noch hochinteressant finde: wie die verlogene Kirche den Sänger verbogen hat. Aktueller gehts nicht !
None of this makes sense. Not do I care to delve into some bizarre-o masochistic chained victim crap. I'm here bc I heard this song in the movie, "The Gentlemen." I like it until I saw all this garbage that someone not so adept at clarifying meaning...and realized it's just acid-induced mediocre attempts at making some statement. Blech.
The movie for which this song was written is about a singer whose popularity becomes so extreme that he loses control of his own destiny. It stars Paul Jones who had recently left the British rock/blues band Manfred Mann. He is the one who sang Do Wah Ditty Ditty which topped the US pop charts in 1964 and Jones was still popular at the time. This movie was likely meant to catapult him into stardom as a solo act..
The film was heavily promoted in Canada where I was a teenager. It targeted the under-20s and also featured super model Jean Shrimpton. It supposedly conveyed a message , and although I "got it" even at 18, I was not overly impressed. The picture above is taken from a scene where Jones, portraying singer Steven Shorter, is performing on stage handcuffed in a make-shift jail cell which he is using to symbolize his loss of personal freedom.
The song is versatile, so adapting it to different venues such as "The Gentlemen" is quite doable.
What a useless, anti-intellectual comment - as if it’s somehow a terrible film to analyse media and exercise critical thought...
patti smith covered this song