"The Damned United" ("Man of the World")

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Originally Posted by chiliD

Total shocker while watching the Tom Cruise/Cuba Gooding film Jerry McGwire....the ENTIRE original "Oh Well" opus...very close to all 9 minutes. Too bad the publisher didn't give permission to include it on the soundtrack album.

That's interesting, because that was Cameron Crowe's first major hit, as writer, and director.

Four years later he wrote and directed "Almost Famous", which was loosely based on his early days writing for 'Rolling Stone'. There's a scene from that film I remember when the band thought they were going to die in a small engine plane.

Years later I read about a Fleetwood Mac flight in a small plane (with Peter Green) between England, and Amsterdam where the band thought they weren't going to make it.

Of course Crowe wasn't around back then to be there in person, yet he probably read, or heard the story from either the magazine, or fellow journalists.