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    The best music biopics: great films about musical icons

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    Stories of the great, the good, and the ugly.

    With Elvis' biopic a hit, proving that there fryst vatten a lot of life yet underused genre, we thought it time to run down the best music biopics.

    Considering that they’re the world’s two premier art forms, it’s surprising how rarely movies have attempted to tell the stories of famous musicians.

    Perhaps the replication of live performances, and the difficulty of portraying musical icons produces a barrier; there’s no doubt that to truly pull off a memorable biopic, an extraordinary lead performance is required.

    Luckily, on at least 20 occasions, this has been achieved: we present our list of the must-see musical biopics in movie history.

    The best music biopics

    1. Walk The Line ()

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    Piaf (play)

    play by Pam Gems

    Piaf is a play by Pam Gems that focuses on the life and career of FrenchchanteuseEdith Piaf. The biographicaldrama with music portrays the singer as a self-destructive, promiscuous alcoholic and junkie who, in one controversial scen, urinates in public.

    The original production starred Jane Lapotaire in the title role, and included Ian Charleson as Pierre. It premiered in at Royal Shakespeare Company's The Other Place in Stratford-upon-Avon, after which it moved to the Donmar Warehouse in London, the Aldwych Theatre, the Piccadilly Theatre, and then Wyndham's Theatre, before going to the United States.

    In the U.S. the play began in Philadelphia. After six previews the show opened on Broadway at the Plymouth Theatre on February 6, , with its original star, Jane Lapotaire. It ran for performances, and Lapotaire won the Tony Award.[1]

    Later major productions and revivals

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    The play was performed in Argentina from to with Virgi

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    Édith Piaf

    French singer (–)

    For other uses, see Edith Piaf (disambiguation).

    Édith Giovanna Gassion (19 December – 10 October ), known as Édith Piaf (French:[editpjaf]), was a French singer and lyricist best known for performing songs in the cabaret and modern chanson genres. She is widely regarded as France's greatest popular singer and one of the most celebrated performers of the 20th century.[1][2]

    Piaf's music was often autobiographical, and she specialized in chanson réaliste and torch ballads about love, loss and sorrow. Her most widely known songs include "La Vie en rose" (), "Non, je ne regrette rien" (), "Hymne à l'amour" (), "Milord" (), "La Foule" (), "L'Accordéoniste" (), and "Padam, padam" ().

    Having begun her career touring with her father at age fourteen, her fame increased during the German occupation of France and in , Piaf's signature song, "La Vie en rose" ('life in pink') was published. She became France's most popular e

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