All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records

All Things Must Pass opens with the striking statement that Tower Records, one of the largest record stores in the world, earned one billion in 1999. With the onset of the digital age and globalization, it filed for bankruptcy five years later and closed its last store in 2006.

With wit and humor, first time director Colin Hanks and writer Steven Leckart trace Tower's rise in Sacramento in 1961 to its fall, capturing the chain's charisma, family atmosphere, and personal approach through interviews of its visionary founder, octogenarian Russ Solomon, Tower's employees and customers. Included are regulars Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stone's contributing editor Steve Kopper, Dave Grohl, and 1970's footages of Elton John at Tower's Sunset Strip store.

An insightful documentary about the lasting legacy of this cultural landmark and the end of the vinyl records industry era.