World Premiere!
Sweet Soul Music on A Saturday Night!
R-E-S-P-E-C-T!!!!

Saturday July 21, 2007 - 9:00pm
Egyptian Theatre, Hollywood

RESPECT YOURSELF

(2007, 115 mins, Tremolo Productions, Directed by Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon)

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of Stax Records, this brand new documentary created for PBS is the authoritative history of the rise of the Memphis soul label that changed the world. The film is jammed with amazing archive rarities. Live performances, forgotten TV appearances, home movies, news footage, lost recordings of all the legendary Stax artists from Otis Redding and Isaac Hayes to Sam & Dave and the Staples Singers. The film is also the story of the civil rights movement and how the music created at Stax mirrored the glories and pains of that struggle. The film offers fresh insights from the survivors together with heartfelt testimony from Stax devotees ranging from Bono and Elvis Costello to Chuck D.

Discussion following with the filmmakers

NOT ON DVD!

NEVER ON VHS!

NEVER ON US TV!

Tonight's Stars!

Musicians & Composers (seen and/or heard):

Bono • Booker T. & The MGs • Elvis Costello • Steve Cropper • Chuck D. • Donald Duck Dunn • Isaac Hayes • Booker T. Jones • Otis Redding • Sam & Dave • Mavis Staples • Rufus Thomas