A new documentary about the life of the popular New York music influencer Danny Fields called “Danny Says,” is being released on September 30 in theaters, On Demand, on iTunes and on Amazon Video.
As a music manager and publicist, Fields worked with some of the biggest acts in the 1960s and ’70s, including the Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, Nico, Judy Collins, the Stooges and the Ramones.
Synopsis:
Once dubbed the underground “mayor of New York,” Danny Fields (née Feinberg) has played a pivotal role in the music and culture of the late 20th century, working for The Doors, Cream, Lou Reed, and Nico, and managing groundbreaking artists like The Stooges, MC5 and The Ramones. DANNY SAYS follows Fields from Harvard Law dropout, to “hippie yenta” at Warhol’s Factory, to Director of Publicity at Elektra Records, to punk pioneer and beyond. Led by Fields’ hilariously droll commentary and largely crafted from over 250 hours of interviews and items from his immense archive (thousands of photographs, audio cassettes and ephemera), the film features outrageous anecdotes recounted by Iggy Pop, Alice Cooper, Judy Collins, Tommy Ramone, Lenny Kaye, Wayne Kramer, and John Cameron Mitchell, among many others. They tell the wild story of a man whose taste and opinion, once deemed defiant and radical, turned out to have been prescient.
Check out a word from director, Brendan Toller, as he talks about his thoughts on making the film:
Danny Says, A Word From the Filmmaker, Brendan Toller from Brendan Toller on Vimeo.
