sentences:  He died at age forty from a cerebral hemorrhage in January 1989, prior to the film's release.The film was shot on location in Marion, Arkansas, Memphis, Tennessee, and West Memphis, Arkansas.Roger Ebert, film critic for the "Chicago Sun-Times", did not like the film because of its screenplay, and wrote, "This is a simpleminded rock 'n' roll history in which the pleasures are many and the troubles are few.