Who is Harry Nillson

Yes, thanks for starting this thread. I havent watched it yet, but I bought it for my wife to give to me for Christmas. She's so thoughtful!

You're welcome. It sounds like it brought out the same emotions for you that it did for me and many others.

Winoguy, yes your wife is very thoughtful and that's a great idea. I might do the same thing with some music.

just saw this documentary and was inspired to check out his recorded work. always thought nillson was to soft/aor to garner my interest, but on more critical listening have concluded that he really was a melodic genius and arguably the best white singer of his era. someone in the film that he influenced the beatles as much as they influenced him, and that may be correct--mccartney's solo work in particualr sounds sounds very heavily indebted to him.
on a largely unrelated note, check out "last days here", a documentary about the drug-crazed lead singer of the obscure (but actually outstanding) heavy metal band pentagram. interesting and weird, with a surprisingly happy ending.

On another kind of unrelated note, the biographical film "Control" is about the rise and fall of Ian Curtis, the lead singer of Joy Division. This is a very good, but really sad film. Highly recommended.

Saw it last year on Netflix--highly recommended.