Directing
Community Rating
7.6
TMDB estimate
Born
March 1, 1947 (age 79)
Born in
Dorset, England
Director Derek Burbidge, who made rock videos back then (including "Cars" for Gary Numan and pretty much all the Police's early MTV highlights), is into simplicity, not flash (a useful approach when catching thirty-odd bands on the fly in three different countries). The bands are given space to work up their own rhythm -- the editing doesn't do it for them. Burbidge is as fond of the mammoth close-up as Sergio Leone ever was, and half of "Roxanne" seems to explore Sting's nostrils from previously unseen angles. Performers like Lux Interior and Jello Biafra seem to be dripping sweat right onto you. The effect is to take you into the front row.

Supertramp : Live in Paris '79
as Director
2012

Ten Years After - Goin' Home (Live at the Marquee 1983)
as Director
2009

Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
2007

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
as Director
2005

AC/DC: Family Jewels
as Director
2005

W.A.S.P. | Live at the Lyceum, London
as Director
1984

Police in Montserrat
as Director
1983

Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams
as Director
1983

The Police: Around The World
as Director
1982

Urgh! A Music War
as Director
1981

Foreigner - Live at the Rainbow '78
as Director
1978