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    Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is a 1971 American independent blaxploitation action thriller film written, co-produced, scored, edited, directed by...
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  • Sweetback is an English band composed of members from the band Sade, not including the frontwoman Sade Adu. They are a jazz/funk band with R&B overtones...
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    guitarist of the English band Sade. He is also a member of the English band Sweetback. In 2024, Denman, along with the rest of the band was nominated for the...
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  • Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is the soundtrack to Melvin Van Peebles' 1971 feature film of the same name. The soundtrack was performed by then-unknown...
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    expanding the audiences of blaxploitation films. Variety credited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song and the less radical Hollywood-financed film Shaft (both...
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  • (played by Mario himself), as he attempts to film and distribute Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, a film that was widely credited with showing Hollywood...
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    released his best-known work, creating and starring in the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, considered one of the earliest and best-regarded examples...
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    co-producing the majority of his albums. Additionally, he is also a member of Sweetback. Matthewman was born on 18 August 1960 in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire...
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    Larrieux guested on the self-titled debut album of Sade's backing band Sweetback, yielding the single "You Will Rise", which reached number 42 on the Hot...
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    Trent D'Arby (1987) Dusk - The The (1992) Debut - Björk (1993) Sweetback - Sweetback (1996) Strong, Martin C. (2000). The Great Rock Discography (5th ed...
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  • blaxploitation films, and features Melvin Van Peebles in a cameo appearance as "Sweetback". The film begins with a flashback to a young Mordechai Jefferson Carver...
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    1996 Hale, Denman, and Matthewman formed its own band as a side project, Sweetback, and released a self-titled album. In October 2000, Sade Adu came out...
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    supply the entire soundtrack of the Melvin Van Peebles feature film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The soundtrack, composed by Van Peebles, was released...
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    Firebrand Books. ISBN 978-1563411175. Knadler, Stephen P. (Winter 2002). "Sweetback Style: Wallace Thurman and a Queer Harlem Renaissance". Modern Fiction...
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  • Matthewman, Paul Denman, and Andrew Hale, went on to other projects, including Sweetback, which released a self-titled album in 1996. Matthewman also played a...
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    Life to Live.[citation needed] In 1971, he appeared in the film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Melvin Van Peebles directed and played the lead role...
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    first examples of this subgenre were Shaft and Melvin Van Peebles' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. Others are Black Caesar, Black Devil Doll, Blacula,...
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  • the Valley of the Dolls, The Street Fighter, A Clockwork Orange, Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, Fritz the Cat, Flesh Gordon, Alice in Wonderland: An...
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    Role Notes 1971 Vanishing Point Super Soul's Engineer Uncredited Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Biker Credited as Johnny Amos 1973 The World's Greatest...
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    Melvin Van Peebles' struggles to film and distribute the movie Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. His son, Mario Van Peebles both directed the film and...
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    subject 1982 2016 Sweet Smell of Success Narrative feature 1957 1993 Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Narrative feature 1971 2020 Swing Time Narrative feature...
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  • Mary 21 Melvin Van Peebles 89 US Director, Actor, Screenwriter Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song Watermelon Man 22 Roger Michell 65 UK Director Notting...
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    ISBN 0-312-42579-1. "Forever badass: Melvin Van Peebles on his Philly funk gig and Sweetback memories | Cover Story | News and Opinion". Philadelphia Weekly. Archived...
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  • Panther trials Panther 21 Rice–Poindexter case Robert Templeton Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) "Panther Power" (2000) Black power movement Revolutionary...
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  • three-picture contract, instead developing the independent film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song. The music for Watermelon Man, written and performed...
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    What It Was... Is! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" (commentary accompanying Xenon Entertainment DVD release of Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song). Warren...
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  • scenes in his low budget films. Film critic Roger Ebert described Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song, directed by Melvin Van Peebles, as "a textbook on guerrilla...
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  • for him. Melvin Van Peebles claimed that the success of his film Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song caused Shaft to be changed from a "white movie" into...
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  • Panther trials Panther 21 Rice–Poindexter case Robert Templeton Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) "Panther Power" (2000) Black power movement Revolutionary...
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  • Natural Death and As Serious as a Heart-Attack Watermelon Man (1970) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1972) Don't...
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