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A Band Called Death

This Band was Punk, before Punk was Punk

2013 · NR · 1h 36m

Directed by Mark Christopher Covino and Jeff Howlett

7.2

TMDB audience score
90 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early '70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is credited as being the first black punk band, and the Hackney brothers, David, Bobby, and Dannis, are now considered pioneers in their field. But it wasn’t until recently — when a dusty 1974 demo tape made its way out of Bobby’s attic nearly 30 years after Death’s heyday — that anyone outside a small group of punk enthusiasts had even heard of them.

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Cast

  • Dannis Hackney
    Self

  • Bobby Hackney
    Self

  • David Hackney
    Self (archive footage)

  • Henry Rollins
    Self

  • Elijah Wood
    Self

  • Kid Rock
    Self

  • Alice Cooper
    Self

  • Mick Collins
    Self

  • Mickey Leigh
    Self

  • Robbie Duncan
    Self

  • Questlove
    Self

  • Vernon Reid
    Self

  • Wayne Kramer
    Self