Best music biopics

Maybe the first movie to tackle a city’s era-defining music scene — Manchester, from Joy Division’s late-’70s hatching of post-punk through the Madchester heyday of rave culture in the ’90s — this is also the story of Factory Records, the label that presented New Order, the Happy Mondays and James to the world; it’s also about Factory owner, TV presenter and scene captain Tony Wilson, played here by Steve Coogan in a role that introduced him globally. Ripping up the music biopic playbook, Coogan’s Wilson breaks the fourth wall throughout the loose plot; musicians appear as themselves to question the veracity of the film’s plot; and viewers are nodded into the legendary Hacienda nightclub (painstakingly re-created here). Wilson opened that club while running his label (eventually, into the ground) and DJ culture overtook the

List of music biopics