Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 1. Super Fly wasn’t Curtis Mayfield’s first work for film, nor was it his last. 2. Mayfield understood the film from personal ...

Remaking “Super Fly” was never going to be without its perils. The 1972 film, directed by Gordon Parks Jr., was one of the essential building blocks of the decade’s Blaxploitation movement, and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While there are countless legendary soundtracks in cinema history, it is a rare feat for one to outperform the film it is featured ...

Steamboat Springs’ WinterWonderGrass music festival runs for three days – two of which I showed up to in ski pants, the other with toes still thawing from a few hours standing in the Yampa River ...

Even if you weren't born when Super Fly was released in 1972, there's a good chance you've heard at least part of Curtis Mayfield's Grammy-nominated soundtrack. Because the original score is so iconic ...

Get those lungs ready, Philadelphia fans. A few dozen hearty choruses of “Fly, Eagles, Fly” — loud enough to hear in Minnesota — might just be the boost the underdog Birds need to edge the big, bad ...

In 1972, in the heyday of soul and funk, director Gordon Parks Jr. set out to find the perfect artist to encapsulate the energy of New York City for his first film, the blaxploitation classic “Super ...