Cross-media recommendations across film, TV, games, books & music — picked by taste.
In Blue is a music title that draws listeners who want emotion at the centre of a performance. The picks here share that through-line: a long-awaited live return, musicians finding purpose through tribute and collaboration, and a blues guitarist chasing a legendary lost song. Each one treats music not as backdrop but as the animating force of the story or the stage.
Film
The Corrs: BBC Radio 2 Live at Hyde Park
A long-awaited live return, with a setlist built from fan favourites — pure performance, no filler.
Film
Song Sung Blue
Two musicians down on their luck form a Neil Diamond tribute band and rediscover life and love.
Film
Crossroads
A young blues guitarist seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician Robert Johnson.
Film
Fats Domino: Walking to New Orleans
Fats Domino performs a full catalogue of his classic hits, from Blueberry Hill to Walking to New Orleans.
For live performance, The Corrs: BBC Radio 2 Live at Hyde Park captures a long-awaited return concert with fan favourites. For narrative, Crossroads follows a blues guitarist's obsessive search for a legendary lost Robert Johnson song.
Song Sung Blue and Crossroads both centre on musicians and their craft — one is a true story about forming a Neil Diamond tribute band, the other a quest for a mythic piece of blues history.
The picks here all treat music as the heart of the story or the performance — whether that's a live comeback concert, a tribute band that changes lives, or a quest for a lost song that becomes an obsession.