How can you production design a dream?
This post was written by John El Manahi.
Thanksgiving 1975, my cousin played the record KISS: ALIVE! for my younger sister and me. Saying I was blown away would be an understatement. I was 12 years old, already listening to Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, and more, but this was different. Being a movie freak and an avid reader of fantasy and comic books, the personae and identity of the band sparked my imagination in a way that hit all the targets.
I immediately started playing guitar, was in a working band from age 15 years old, and went to L.A. on my own to pursue music. It’s incredible that 40 years later, I would get to recreate the magic of KISS at that time as the production designer of Spinning Gold, a biopic of 1970s record producer Neil Bogart, co-founder of Casablanca Records.
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