Black musicians, in particular, have traditionally got short shrift in the genre, so it’s apt that Homecoming hits screens just before Sydney Pollack’s long-shelved, shiver-inducing Aretha Franklin gospel session Amazing Grace at last comes to cinemas. You’d have to go back quite a way to find a concert doc that has taken on this level of pop-cultural cachet. ![]() Last week, it was reported that Homecoming is the first of three specials Beyoncé will deliver to Netflix in a $60m (£46m) deal, the company having trounced the offer of her previous television partner, HBO. ![]() Since it debuted on the platform last week, the internet has been thick with analysis and awed gushing over the 137-minute celebration of the R&B titan’s landmark 2018 Coachella set: not just from Twitter minions, but the likes of Michelle Obama and Lin-Manuel Miranda. ![]() H ave you seen Homecoming yet? Netflix has yet to reveal viewing figures for Beyoncé’s exhilarating, self-directed concert documentary, but by the measure of feverish social media volume, it feels like the streaming event of 2019 so far.
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