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It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Three cinematographers craft a
unique period look for Vinyl, HBO's
deep dive into the music scene of
1970s New York City.
By Patricia Thomson
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S

ome 15 years ago, when Mick Jagger first had the idea for
an onscreen history of rock, he never imagined television
as the ideal medium - a feature film seemed the way to
go. But the long gestation paid off. First Martin Scorsese,
then writer-producer Terry Winter and HBO linked arms
with the Rolling Stones front man, and Vinyl has now come
to fruition during the golden age of cable.

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"Now is the perfect time for the story to be done in this
format," says Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC, who shot The Wolf
of Wall Street for Scorsese before reteaming with him on
Vinyl 's pilot, and then handing the show's reins to fellow cinematographers Reed Morano, ASC and David Franco. "It
probably would have been a pretty interesting movie, but a
series gives you the chance to see a whole era."
As eras go, the 1970s are a musical gold mine. Punk
and glam rock were emerging from the underground, and
disco was igniting dance floors even as soft-rock sirens like
Karen Carpenter and diehards like Robert Goulet still
crooned on the airwaves. All these musical forms are woven
into Vinyl 's 10 episodes, with everyone from Alice Cooper to
Led Zeppelin written into the script.
The plot centers on Richie Finestra (Bobby
Cannavale), the brazen, desperate, coke-fueled head of
American Century, a fictional New York record company
that's at its nadir when the series begins. The story follows

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