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August 16th - 22:00 - 23:25 BBC4

Woodstock - Three Days That Defined A Generation
For three days in August 1969, half a million people from all walks of life converged on a small dairy farm in upstate New York. They came to hear the concert of their lives, but most experienced something far more profound: a moment that came to define a cultural revolution.
This documentary tells the story of the lead-up to those three historic days, through the voices of those who were there and the music of the time. It includes extraordinary moments from the concert itself, iconic images of both performers and festival goers, and tells how this groundbreaking event, pulled off right at the last minute, nearly ended in disaster and put the ideals of the counterculture to the test.

Followed at 23;25 by
Jimi Hendrix - The Road To Woodstock
The definitive documentary record of one of Jimi Hendrix’s most celebrated performances, featuring action from the Woodstock stage and interviews with his band members.

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A good friday again. Takes me back to the IOW 1970 festival  big_smile

Come on the Blades (sorry Idolbone just had to borrow your line)

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For Fleetwood Mac fans:  Friday 20th Sept.


20:00 Fleetwood Mac: A Musical History
Well-known fans pay tribute to Fleetwood Mac with a selection of greatest hits. (R)

21:00 Fleetwood Mac's Songbird: Christine McVie
Christine McVie is undoubtedly the longest-serving female band member of any of the enduring rock ‘n’ roll acts that emerged from the 1960s. While she has never fronted Fleetwood Mac, preferring to align herself with ‘the boys’ in the rhythm section whom she first joined 50 years ago, Christine is their most successful singer-songwriter. Her hits include ‘Over My Head’, ‘Don’t Stop’ and ‘Everywhere’.
After massive global success in both the late 1970s and mid-1980s, Christine left the band in the late 1990s, quitting California and living in semi-retirement in Kent, only to rejoin the band in 2014. In this 90-minute film, this most English of singers finally gets to take centre-stage and tell both her story and the saga of Fleetwood Mac from her point of view.

22:30 Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop
The story of one of the biggest-selling bands of all time, told in their own words. (R)
23:30

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Fri   27th Sept 21:00 - 22:00   BBC 4

Joan Armatrading - Me, Myself, I

Joan Armatrading is one the most influential singer-songwriters in Britain. A national icon, she is known for her singular vision, both as a writer and as a performer. She has performed around the world to sell-out stadiums, releasing records and touring almost constantly from the early 70s to the present day.
In this documentary Joan talks about her self-belief and her unique ability to craft songs that have spoken to millions. Known for her reclusiveness, Joan has, for the first time, granted access to her life and music. Joan tells her story from Caribbean émigré to becoming one of the most revered songwriters of our generation.
The film covers Joan’s childhood growing up in Birmingham, and how she began writing songs from a young age. Joan met some of the key people in her life when she joined the rock musical Hair in 1968. She left home to go on tour and forged a musical partnership with songwriter Pam Nestor. Their collaboration led to a major record deal and an opportunity to work with Elton John’s producer, Gus Dudgeon. Her album, Whatever’s for Us, received rave reviews and chimed with the burgeoning songwriting movement on the west coast of America. The album signalled a new energy and freedom taking shape in the 70s in Britain among the black population. Joan was propelled into the musical stratosphere, signing with major American label A&M for over ten years. She created her own genre of songwriting, defying stereotypes and breaking barriers, becoming one of the first black singer-songwriters in Britain.
Joan went on to forge an unbeatable dynamic with rock producer Glyn Johns, who had produced seminal albums with the Rolling Stones, the Eagles and the Who. She created one of the most-loved and iconic songs of the 70s when she wrote Love and Affection in 1976. She was 26 years old. It was a song that took simple emotional fragility and made it somehow both sensuous and raunchy.
Joan made three more hit albums in three years with Glyn and her music would become anthemic to the feminist movement gathering pace since the early 70s. Despite her gold records, international status and touring worldwide, Joan had to overcome misogyny in the music studio and fight racism in the music business.
In 1978, Bob Dylan asked her to play at his festival BlackBushe. Joan, the only woman on the bill, played alongside rock gods such as Eric Clapton. Ask her how she felt, being up there, and you will hear Joan’s fearlessness - ‘The Rock Gods don’t scare me!’ - showing the determination and strength that contributed to her success.
By the 80s, Joan refused to be pigeonholed into a 70s guitar sound and she would diversify her style, experimenting with synths and finding a new direction to create music without a producer. Joan was also one of the first black British musicians to appear on MTV, creating innovative music videos and capturing the imagination of younger artists in the States who had never seen a British black woman play and sing like her before.
Joan was nominated for a Grammy three times, one of which was for the song How Cruel, a song that articulated the racism that many black British people encountered in the UK at the time. Notably, it highlighted to African-Americans that the same problems with race were happening on both sides of the Atlantic.
Songs like Me Myself I and Drop the Pilot became overnight hits in the 80s, testimony to Joan’s consummate songwriting ability. By the late 80s, Joan was one of the first women to write, arrange and produce all her albums, building a music studio at her home and working with the likes of Elton John, Pino Palladino and Mark Knopfler.
As well as unprecedented access to Joan, watching her play a sold-out tour, the film features exclusive, previously unseen archive and interviews with key collaborators from music producers Glyn Johns and Steve Lillywhite to musician Pino Palladino. The film also features interviews and cover versions of Joan’s songs, from Martha Wainwright singing Me Myself I and Meshell Negeocello covering How Cruel to Shingai Shoniwa from the Noisettes performing Love and Affection.

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18th October:-

For Clappers fans,  a  couple of re-runs:-

21:30
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Documentary charting the life of Eric Clapton told through his own words and songs. (R)

23:35
Eric Clapton at the BBC: The Rock 'n' Roll Years
An archive journey through Eric Clapton's performing life at the BBC and elsewhere. (R)
00:05

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Friday 13th March - 23:00 - 00:00

Slipknot Unmasked - All Out Life
A unique and fascinating insight into the career and controversies of one of the most successful and contentious heavy metal bands of all time; Slipknot. The film combines new interviews, backstage access and an exclusive live session from the nine-piece group, performing six career-defining tracks at the legendary Maida Vale Studios in front of an intimate audience.
The six tracks, one from each of the band’s albums, transports the group, acknowledged by many as one of the most extreme live acts ever, from their usual arena sized shows to a uniquely intimate and intense setting. The film highlights the group’s phenomenal 25-year career, revealing how one of the most relentless and intense-sounding groups ever have struggled with drink, drugs, depression and the death of a band member, topped the charts, outsold their peers and picked up a Grammy along the way, whilst staying as bold, fearless and exhilarating as ever.

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Why-aye man….. an’ aboot time …. or would have been, but it slipped  through the net...
After a seemingly lengthy hiatus in suitable programmes for the discerning Blues afficionado, something new..
BBC 4 - Friday 28th Feb 9:30pm - 10:30pm (then on catch-up)
Eric Burdon; Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal
Born in 1941, Eric Burdon was – along with his band The Animals – one of the most important standard bearers of the British Invasion of America, right after The Beatles and ahead of The Rolling Stones, The Who and The Kinks. Their 1964 interpretation of House of the Rising Sun was a global hit and inspired Bob Dylan (who recorded an acoustic version on his first album) to go electric and hit the stage from then on backed by a rock band.
Eric Burdon is a street kid from Newcastle upon Tyne. He burnt the midnight oil in the nightclubs on the docks. Had music not intervened, he might well have slipped into a career as a petty criminal, the kind of English gangster so aptly parodied by Guy Ritchie in films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch. But Burdon’s voice was his ticket to escape that bleak industrial destiny, and his We Gotta Get out of This Place went on to inspire Springsteen’s Born to Run.
Burdon was always an incurable hothead, prone to rages and no stranger to breaking contracts, a situation that would make him a lifelong underdog and impede his path to world stardom. By the end of the 70s he was so broke that he was living in a car on Sunset Strip.
Burdon regularly changed both his band and musical style. Alongside his passion for original American blues, he got together in the late 60s with black LA band War – itself a political statement in the Black Panther era – and, inspired by Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, expanded his musical spectrum with jazz and funk. Burdon was involved in discovering Jimi Hendrix in Greenwich Village and they remained friends right up to the literal end (the pair spent the night before Jimi’s death together).
Eric Burdon’s creative output has made an important and profoundly authentic contribution to popular culture. Together with Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and The Rolling Stones, he counts as one of that legendary generation’s last men standing. This film will convey the zeitgeist of the 60s and 70s, while revealing Eric Burdon’s personal vision and moving us all with his retrospective ruminations on triumph and failure.

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One for the Brit nostalgia crowd:-

Fri 20th March

9:00 - 10:00pm - The Story of Ready, Steady Go!
The story of Britain’s iconic 1960s music show, Ready Steady Go! The programme revolutionised television ‘for the kids’ and coincided with the tremendous explosion of British pop talent that took the world by storm. It championed emerging talent like The Beatles, The Who, Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black, Otis Redding and The Rolling Stones.
This definitive documentary covers every aspect of a pioneering show. Its style rewrote the rulebook for music programmes, with its intoxicating blend of performance, celebrity interviews and items on fashion. It often featured cameras in shot, live mishaps and the young audience interacting with their pop star heroes.
We go behind the scenes and speak to the people who made it all happen, including original producer Vicki Wickham and the programme’s pioneering director, Michael Lindsay-Hogg. Plus further contributions from Annie Nightingale, Eric Burdon, Chris Farlowe, Mary Wilson, Martha Reeves, Paul Jones, Gerry Marsden and Jools Holland.

10:00 - 11:00 - The Best of Ready Steady Go!
Documentary that features the very best bits of Britain’s first authentic 1960s pop show, Ready Steady Go! The iconic programme was an exciting combination of music performances, fashion commentary, celebrity interviews and mime competitions – all of which kids were thrilled to watch.
Kicking off in 1963, for over three years music fans around the country would religiously tune in to watch unmissable performances from some of the top recording artists of the time. Each week, the line-up offered an evocative snapshot of the British pop scene.
This priceless archive has rarely been seen and includes some of the most memorable performances from the greatest stars of the day. Tune in to see The Beatles perform Twist and Shout on a moving stage, The Rolling Stones presenting their very own episode, and Otis Redding’s sensational duet with Chris Farlowe and Eric Burdon. Other acts include Cilla Black, Lulu, and Martha and the Vandellas. Dusty Springfield also takes centre stage.

Friday 27th March

21:30 - 22:30 - Rock n Roll Island - Where legends Were Born
Award-winning documentary that celebrates the incredible musical history of Eel Pie Island, a small island in the Thames in south west London which became the epicentre of rhythm and blues in the 1960s.
In its heyday, the likes of The Stones, The Yardbirds, The Who, David Bowie, Elton John, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, John Mayall, Long John Baldry and many others cut their teeth at the venue before becoming legends of the music industry.
Interviewed guests include Rod Stewart from The Faces, Top Topham from The Yardbirds, Mick Avory from The Kinks, Steve Hackett from Genesis, Dave Brock from Hawkwind, Andy Bown from Status Quo, Martin Turner from Wishbone Ash, Phil May from The Pretty Things, Don Craine and Keith Grant from The Downliners Sect, Geoff Cole from the Ken Colyer Band, Bob Dwyer from The Southern Stompers, Cleo Sylvestre from Honey B Mama, Blaine Harrison from The Mystery Jets, Paul Stewart from The Others, Sam Cutler, former tour manager with The Stones, as well as numerous fans known as Eelpilanders and island resident and inventor Trevor Baylis.
Combining these interviews with original black and white images and archive footage from the era, the documentary explores the unique experiences of the people who either played at the Eel Pie Island Hotel or went there to listen to music and dance on the famous bouncing dance floor.
Cheryl Robson, who created the project, says, ‘You can feel the incredible fondness for the Eel Pie experience when talking to those who actually went there. There was definitely something in the water in south west London, which affected all those who went, played, sang or danced. The energy was infectious.’
Narrated by actor Nigel Planer, who was once a resident of Eel Pie Island.

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Thanks for that, I’ll be watching.
I actually have a friend who does the folk music scene who has played Eel Pie Island - many years ago!

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Lester wrote:

Thanks for that, I’ll be watching.
I actually have a friend who does the folk music scene who has played Eel Pie Island - many years ago!

Lester

Thanks Lester; when I saw the write-up for the Eel Pie show I thought there's be one or two on the forum it would interest.

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May 1st - 9:30pm - 10:30pm  BBC4

The Shadows At Sixty
A look back at the incredible success of The Shadows as they celebrate their 60th anniversary. Starting from where they began as The Drifters to then becoming the backing band for Cliff Richard and enjoying huge success in their own right, the progarmme celebratesThe Shadows' achievement across a time of constant change within the cultural, social and musical landscape.
The Shadows were at the forefront of the UK beat boom generation and the first backing group to emerge as big stars in their own right. Using unseen archive, personal testimony and interviews with the band and those they have influenced, including Brian May, David Gilmour, Pete Townswend, The Shadows At Sixty is not just a trip down memory lane but an in-depth, often emotional story of a group's journey through 6 decades

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Darn! nearly missed this one…

Rockfield: The Studio On The Farm BBC 2 Catch-up (till mid-Aug)

The tale of the legendary studio’s origins going back 50 years when brothers Kingsley & Charles Ward, just starting in dairy farming in Wales, wanted to do something a “little” different; little knowing the status their studio would acquire down the years.

Give you an idea of the place's status; check out the artists rosta:-

1960s
Amen Corner:  Doc Thomas Band (Mott the Hoople):   The Interns:  Love Sculpture

1970s
Ace:  Alquin:  Andy Irvine and Paul Brady:  Arthur Brown:  Bintangs:  Be-Bop Deluxe:  Black Sabbath: Blonde on Blonde
Budgie:  Rocky Burnette:  Carlene Carter:  City Boy: Dave Edmunds:  Del Shannon:  Dr. Feelgood:  Edwin Starr
Flamin' Groovies:  Foghat:  Gary Shearston:  Graham Parker & the Rumour:  Hawkwind:  Help Yourself:  Joan Armatrading
Judas Priest:  Lone Star:  Man:  Mike Oldfield:  Motörhead:  Prelude:  Queen:  Radio Birdman:  Roy Harper:  Rush
Tyla Gang:  Van der Graaf Generator

1980s
Adam and the Ants:  Age of Chance:  Alain Bashung:  Bad Manners:  Bauhaus:  Christian Death:  Clannad:  The Cult
The Damned:  Di'anno:  Echo & the Bunnymen:  Edie Brickell & New Bohemians:  Fields of the Nephilim: Human Drama
Ian Gillan:  The Icicle Works:  Iggy Pop:  Joey Parratt:  The Mighty Lemon Drops:  Monsoon:  Modern English:  Robert Plant
Simple Minds:  Skids:  Smashed Gladys:  The Stone Roses:  The Stranglers:  That Petrol Emotion:  The Teardrop Explodes
The Undertones:  The Waterboys:  Danny Wilde:  The Wonderstuff:  Thrashing Doves:  Tom Cochrane:  T'Pau

1990s
60 Ft. Dolls:  Annie Lennox:  Ash:  Aztec Camera:  Beta Band:  Big Country:  Black Grape:  Black Sabbath:  The Bluetones
The Boo Radleys:  Carcass:  Cast:  The Charlatans:  Coldplay:  Del Amitri:  EMF:  Energy Orchard:  Gay Dad:  Gene
Headswim:  Herbert Grönemeyer:  HIM:  Hot House Flowers:  Julian Lennon:  Lush:  Manic Street Preachers:  Menswear
Monk & Canatella:  The Mutton Birds:  Ned's Atomic Dustbin:  Northside:  Oasis:  Paradise Lost:  Paul Weller:  The Pogues
Sepultura:  Stereophonics:  The Stone Roses:  Super Furry Animals:  Symposium:  Teenage Fanclub:  Toploader
The Wedding Present:  Witness;  XTC

2000s
Badly Drawn Boy:  Band of Skulls:  Beta Band:  Bullet for My Valentine:  Catatonia:  The Coral:  The Darkness:  Delays
Delphic:  The Enemy:  Funeral for a Friend:  George Michael:  Gyroscope:  Heaven & Hell:  In Case of Fire:  Joe Strummer
Kasabian:  KT Tunstall:  M83:  Manic Street Preachers:  Morning Runner:  New Order:  Nigel Kennedy:  Ocean Colour Scene
Oceansize:  Paolo Nutini:  The Proclaimers:  Simple Minds:  Starsailor:  Suede:  Super Furry Animals:  Supergrass
Violent Soho

2010s
Bear's Den:  Bellowhead:  Ben Montague:  Broken Hands:  Chinaski;  The Darkness:  Dinosaur Pile-Up:  Emma Blackery
Frightened Rabbit:  Frost*:  Gun:  Gwyneth Herbert;  Idles (band):  J.Fla:  Jayce Lewis:  Kasabian:  KOLO:  Lower Than Atlantis
The Maccabees:  Maxïmo Park:  Merrymouth:  Nada Surf:  Ocean Colour Scene:  Opeth;  Phantom Limb:  Pixies:  The Proclaimers

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Friday Aug 28th - BBC 4  21:30hrs

In tribute, BBC 4 are re-showing the documentary portrait Peter Green: Man of The World
Legendary blues guitarist BB King named Peter Green as one of the greatest exponents of the blues, and the 'only guitar player to make me sweat'. If Green had only written Black Magic Woman, his name would still have a place in blues rock history forever.
His three short years leading Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac saw the band established as one of the biggest-selling groups of the 1960s. Yet at the height of their fame Green left the group, with his life spiralling into turmoil as drug-induced mental health issues took control. Rumours of his demise began to spread, and sightings of him became notorious.
After years battling his mental illness, Green is writing and recording again. Featuring archive performances and interviews with Carlos Santana, Noel Gallagher, founding members of Fleetwood Mac and Green himself, this film tells the story of one of blues rock's living legends.

To be followed by - Fleetwood Mac: Don't Stop.

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Thanks, should be worth watching.
No longer a ‘living legend’ unfortunately.

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"Last week's news" I know, but find it on catch-up or YouTube; you won't regret it....

BC4 - Friday 26th Nov... 21:00 - 22:00

Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story.

Brit Award winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne. Sam is amazed how few people, outside of his native north east, know much about his hero’s work. He’s now on a mission to win back Hull’s place in music history.

In this film, he traces the career of the man whose words and music put Newcastle and supergroup Lindisfarne on the musical map in the 1970s. Alan continued to write classic songs until his early death in 1995. He spoke of love and life, championed the underdog and the misunderstood, and celebrated working-class people and his hometown - both of which he loved with a passion. Alan lived and wrote through turbulent times - writing eloquently about the troubles in Northern Ireland, the Falklands War and the miners’ strike.

Sam digs out great archive interviews, performances and unseen footage, and meets friends, family and bandmates who knew Alan Hull best. Sam also hears from top stars like Sting, Elvis Costello, Mark Knopfler, Dave Stewart and Peter Gabriel. All were huge fans of songs such as Lady Eleanor, Fog on the Tyne, Winter Song, Clear White Light and Run For Home. But he also finds that Alan inspired an entire new generation of musicians like Kay Greyson: a young rapper from Tyneside. To his surprise, Sam discovers ‘Hully’ also took the lead role in an acclaimed BBC TV primetime drama. He reveals a complex man - a political animal, a drinker and an agitator, beset by his own insecurities but someone who could break hearts and inspire minds with his lyrics and melodies.

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Saturday 4th December - BBC2

10:00 - 11:30pm - Phil Lynott: Song For While I’m Away
Documentary on the life and music of Phil Lynott, telling the story of how a young working-class black boy from 1950s Dublin became Ireland’s greatest rock star.

As lead singer of Thin Lizzy, Phil was a songwriter, a poet, a dreamer and a wild man. Told extensively through the words of Phil himself and focusing on some of his iconic songs, the film gets to the heart of Philip as a father, husband, friend, son and rock icon.

11:30pm - 12:05am - Sight & Sound In Concert: Thin Lizzy
Archive performance by Irish guitar rockers Thin Lizzy in concert at the Regal Theatre, Hitchin (1983). The set includes Jailbreak, Cold Sweat and The Boys Are Back in Town.

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Friday 10th December - BBC4....

21:00 - 22:25 - Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone At Alexandra Palace
Nick Cave plays songs at the piano from across his repertoire in a rarely seen stripped-back set, from early Bad Seeds and Grinderman right through to the Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 2019 album, Ghosteen. The performance, which was filmed at London’s Alexandra Palace, features tracks including Into My Arms, The Mercy Seat, Higgs Boson Blues and Girl in Amber.

Recorded in June 2020, as the UK slowly emerged from lockdown, and conceived as a reaction to the confinement and isolation of the preceding months, Idiot Prayer is a souvenir from a strange and precarious moment in history.

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Friday 14th Jan 2022...

A night for Rolling Stones fans,....

21:00 - Rolling Stones: Crossfire Hurricane
Crossfire Hurricane, directed by Brett Morgen, provides a remarkable new perspective on the Stones' unparalleled journey from blues-obsessed teenagers in the early 60s to rock royalty. It's all here in panoramic candour, from the Marquee Club to Hyde Park, from Altamont to 'Exile, from club gigs to stadium extravaganzas.

With never-before-seen footage and fresh insights from the band themselves, Crossfire Hurricane places the viewer on the frontline of the band's most legendary escapades.

Taking its title from a lyric in Jumping Jack Flash, Crossfire Hurricane gives the audience an intimate insight, for the first time, into exactly what it's like to be part of the Rolling Stones, as they overcame denunciation, drugs, dissensions and death to become the definitive survivors.

The odyssey includes film from the Stones' initial road trips and first controversies as they became the anti-Beatles, the group despised by authority because they connected and communicated with their own generation as no-one ever had. 'When we got together,' says Wyman, 'something magical happened, and no one could ever copy that'.

Riots and the chaos of early tours are graphically depicted, as is the birth of the Jagger-Richards songwriting partnership. The many dramas they encountered are also fully addressed, including the Redlands drug bust, the descent of Brian Jones into what Richards calls 'bye-bye land', and the terror and disillusionment of 1969's Altamont Festival.

The film illustrates the Stones' evolution from being, as Mick vividly describes it, 'the band everybody hated to the band everybody loves': through the hedonistic 1970s and Keith's turning-point bust in Canada, to the spectacular touring phenomenon we know today. Richards also reveals the song that he believes defines the 'essence' of his writing relationship with Jagger more than any other.

The film combines extensive historical footage, much of it widely unseen, with contemporary commentaries by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood and former Stones, Bill Wyman and Mick Taylor.

22:50 - The Rolling Stones: Totally Stripped
Originally broadcast in 1995, a fly-on-the-wall account of The Rolling Stones that captures rehearsals, interviews, live shows and footage of the band in the studio, recording and performing stripped-down versions of some of their classic songs.

00:25 - 01:10 - The Rolling Stones At The BBC
To celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of The Rolling Stones we delve into the BBC vaults to deliver some timeless Stones archive. From the early days of their career and some unforgettable performances on Top of the Pops with the Last Time, Let's Spend the Night Together and Get Off of My Cloud through the late 60s and early 70s era of prolific song writing when the band were knocking out a classic album every other year and offering up such classics as Honky Tonk Women and Gimme Shelter.

The late 70s brought a massively successful nod to disco with Miss You and the early 80s a stomping return to form with the rock 'n' roll groove of Start Me Up. Peppered amongst the performances are snippets of wisdom from the two main men - the Glimmer Twins, aka Mick and Keith. Plus as a special treat, some lost footage of the band performing 19th Nervous Breakdown on Top of the Pops in 1966 - recently discovered in a BBC documentary from the 1960s about women with depression.

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