12 January, 2023

The Lamb Returns the Favor

One of Peter Gabriel's inspirations for Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway album was Alejandro Jodorowsky's trippy "acid Western art film" (as Wikipedia calls it), El Topo.

Now director Alejandro González Iñárritu has made Bardo and it was inspired by classic 1970s concept albums, including The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

To find models for his unusual narrative, Iñárritu looked to an unlikely source of inspiration. “In the ’70s, I loved these albums that were concept albums,” he said. “There were no singles, there was no division. The Pink Floyd albums, or Yes, or Genesis’ ‘The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.’ Albums like that or David Bowie’s were telling a story and the songs were blending and it was just an atmosphere — a dream state, and the story’s kind of subjective.

The movie is now available on Netflix.


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