The Music Lovers The Music Lovers The Music Lovers is a 1971 British drama film directed by Ken Russell. The screenplay by Melvyn Bragg, based on "Beloved Friend", a collection of personal correspondence edited by Catherine Drinker Bowen and Barbara von Meck, focuses on the life and career of 19th-century Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. It was one of the director's biographical films about classical composers, which include "Elgar" (1962), "Delius: Song of Summer" (1968), "Mahler" (1974) and "Lisztomania" (1975), made from an often idiosyncratic standpoint. Much of the film is without dialogue and the story is presented in flashbacks, nightmares, and fantasy
Lisztomania (song) Lisztomania (song) "Lisztomania" is a song by the French band Phoenix from their fourth album "Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix". It is their second single from the album, although a music video of the song was released before "1901". The music video shows them performing live and going outside to find a blimp like the one shown on the album cover. The song helped the album to be their most successful following their previous hit, "1901". It peaked at #11 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart in the US and as well as #15 in Belgium. Phoenix released a remix