Miles Davis was 44 years old, playing jazz at a rock festival. To the most hostile crowd he’d ever faced. They threw bottles…
1955, Chuck Barry was about to become the biggest star in America. Maybelline was climbing the charts number five and rising. Radio stations…
1966 small club in Greenwich Village, New York City. A young guitarist named Jimmyi Hendris was playing a set. His fingers were flying…
The question hangs in the air like a challenge. Why are you so small? It is 1971, a private gymnasium in Los Angeles,…
Camp Pendleton, California. United States Marine Corps Base. July 15th, 1971. Thursday morning, 9:00 in the morning. The sun is already brutal. Southern…
Hong Kong, Cowoon District, Golden Harvest Studios, Sound Stage 2. August 1973, Thursday morning, 9:00 in the morning. The film set is alive…
Los Angeles, California. Downtown Sports Arena. February 12th, 1972. Saturday evening, 8:30 in the evening. The air inside the arena is thick with…
Los Angeles, California, summer of 1967. The most prestigious martial arts gymnasium in the city is about to witness a confrontation that will…
Oakland, California. Iron House Gym on Broadway Street. June 1967. Saturday morning, 1000 a.m. The gym smells like sweat and iron. Old sweat…
Enter the Dragon, 1972. The film that would make Bruce Lee a global icon. But on set, not everyone believed what they were…