Respect Yourself: The Stax Record Story

Respect Yourself: The Stax Record Story

Country:United States of America

Director:Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville

Program:Contemporary World Cinema

Year: 
2007

Duration: 
115

Summary:

It started some 50 years ago, when the white bank clerk Jim Stewart and his sister Estelle Axon took over an old movie theatre in a black neighbourhood of Memphis to start a music studio, concentrating on soul and R&B artists. Ignoring the growing segregation, they enabled musicians from different cultural backgrounds to find each other in music. They achieved successes with the band Booker T & the MG’s, a mix of black and white musicians. One of the most prominent artists was Otis Redding. His death in 1967, coupled with legal and financial problems, contributed to the company’s bankruptcy in 1975. This film relates the rise and fall of Stax Records through interviews, music, and unique archival footage.

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