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Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BBC. Show all posts
December 8, 2008
The Big Fat Anniversary Quiz [BBC: CHANNEL 4: Pts. 1 - 12]
December 7, 2008
Whatever Happened To the Mini Pops? [A Paedophiliac's Dream?] 1983
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3A.Tuesday 11 October 2005What to say if you liked it
A thorough, and entertaining, disection of one of TV's most controversial shows – the one in which scantily-clad kids chirruped pop hits of the early 80s. The girls were covered in make-up and, some suggest, the makers should have been covered in shame.
What to say if you disliked it
Yet another attempt to stir up controversy about a programme that is probably best forgotten
What was good about it?
• Seeing the ailing old Cecil Korer, who commissioned the show for Channel 4, still enjoying it for its sheer entertainment value and visibly upset by allegations that the programme indulged the tastes of paedophiles. Although mistakes in judgement were made, the show never deserved the torrent of abuse it received. Typical comments included "repellent series", "ghastly and disgusting" and "should be called Mini Whores." Korer sadly accepted: "Its reputation has sullied its innocence. It's just kids pretending to be pop stars."
• The fact that nine-year-old Minipop Joanna Wyatt (now a successful voiceover artist) knocked Ebony & Ivory off the number one in France with her rendition of Stupid Cupid
• Haircut 100 hero Nick Heyward being prepared to appear and praise the show for its colour and energy – achieved even though six programmes were churned out in six days.
• Alexander Armstrong – top narrating bloke.
• Joanne Fisher, the Minipop who committed the greatest "crime" – Nine To Five in a nightdress – revealing that she didn't have a clue what she was singing about when she got to the "when we make love" lyric. Joanne now looks like Jodie Marsh's slightly prettier sister and has become successful in the equestrian sport of dressage.
• Recollections of the three weeks the Minipops spent touring Canada where they were heralded as superstars, had the third best-selling album ever (after Michael Jackson and Kenny Rogers) and were mobbed wherever they went.
• Journalist Grace Dent – "If you were part of the Why Don't You gang, it's the kind of thing you can trot out at a party and it'll probably get you laid. If you're one of the Minipops, you've got to keep it to yourself because people will think you were part of a paedophile ring."
What was bad about it?
• Toyah Willcox taking the role of censorious bore, attacking the show and pretending it was making her sick. She's probably only jealous that a Bonnie Langford-ish girl did a better version of It's A Mystery than she could ever manage.
• Cheryl Baker also chipped in with a bit of outrage. "You've got some funny old people out there watching telly."
• So did journalist Michael Holden, claiming it "appealed to people who ought to be killed."
• The child psychologist who predicted that the kids involved would all need psychiatric help – none of them did; they all seemed to have loved the experience and been left unscarred. The only tragic story concerned Scott Sherrin, who had a breakdown and drowned in the River Thames at the age of 23, but that may have been equally due to his appearances on This Life and in the stage version of Fame. One of the kids, Jonas Hurst, even rose to the dizzy heights of reading the news on RI:SE.
• Gimme Gimme Gimme A Man After Midnight. Aside from the fact that little kids should not be up after midnight, and even if they are, they should not be in need of a man, this was horrible because it sounded like a speeded-up Pinky and Perky.
• The pushy parents at the Minipops auditions.
• The clip of arty-farty Channel 4 show Alter Image – a far worse televisual crime than Minipops
• The version of Happy Birthday sounded no less girlish than Clare Crogan's horrible hit single
• We only got to hear brief extracts of rather remarkable arrangements of Message In A Bottle and Rock This Town
mini pops' playlist with 20 vids
BBC2: TV HELL NIGHT [incl.] Pedophilia & The Minipops + Sex Pistols vs. Bill Grundy (1976)[Pts. 1-6 Broadcast - 1992] BONUS: Christopher Mayhew & LSD
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Broadcast in 1992 as part of TV Hell night on BBC2.
This part features Churchill's People, The Minipops (PRE-PUBESCENT GIRLS MADE UP HEAVILY LIP SINCING TO POP SONGS), "Dead Time" on Panorama, London Plus, 60 Minutes and a man trying to jump on eggs on Nationwide.
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Broadcast in 1992 as part of TV Hell night on BBC2.
This part features clips of the "Albion Free State" on the open access programme Open Door in 1974, the Sex Pistols on Today with Bill Grundy in 1976, Live into 1985, and The Borgias in 1981.
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Boomph With Becker (1972), That Was The Week That Was (1963), A BOTTLE IS THROWN AT BOB HOPE FOR SEXIST JOKE, The Six O'Clock News studio invasion (1988), Miss World (1970), Mainstream (1979) and the launch of BBC2 which was delayed by a power cut.
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from The Brits 1989, The Booker Prize presented by Selina Scott, Miss Scotland 1979, Crossroads, Sin, Nationwide, Channel 4 News, Week In Week Out on BBC Wales and Big Breadwinner Hog
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Big Breadwinner Hog, Nationwide (1975), TSW (Television South West) Opening Night (1982) and Club X on Channel 4 (1989)
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Triangle (a soap set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed between Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Gothenburg), and a previously untransmitted Panorama programme featuring Christopher Mayhew taking LSD.
Broadcast in 1992 as part of TV Hell night on BBC2.
This part features Churchill's People, The Minipops (PRE-PUBESCENT GIRLS MADE UP HEAVILY LIP SINCING TO POP SONGS), "Dead Time" on Panorama, London Plus, 60 Minutes and a man trying to jump on eggs on Nationwide.
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Broadcast in 1992 as part of TV Hell night on BBC2.
This part features clips of the "Albion Free State" on the open access programme Open Door in 1974, the Sex Pistols on Today with Bill Grundy in 1976, Live into 1985, and The Borgias in 1981.
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Boomph With Becker (1972), That Was The Week That Was (1963), A BOTTLE IS THROWN AT BOB HOPE FOR SEXIST JOKE, The Six O'Clock News studio invasion (1988), Miss World (1970), Mainstream (1979) and the launch of BBC2 which was delayed by a power cut.
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from The Brits 1989, The Booker Prize presented by Selina Scott, Miss Scotland 1979, Crossroads, Sin, Nationwide, Channel 4 News, Week In Week Out on BBC Wales and Big Breadwinner Hog
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Big Breadwinner Hog, Nationwide (1975), TSW (Television South West) Opening Night (1982) and Club X on Channel 4 (1989)
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Broadcast on BBC2 in 1992 as part of TV Hell night.
This part features clips from Triangle (a soap set aboard a North Sea ferry which sailed between Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Gothenburg), and a previously untransmitted Panorama programme featuring Christopher Mayhew taking LSD.
BBC TV Hell Night: [FEAT. Vivienne Westwood & Morwenna Banks [Pt. 1 - 2 "Hello Goodbye" TV Chat Shows: BBC2 1992]
Presented by Danny Baker entitled "Hello Goodbye" on TV chat shows. Shown on BBC2 in 1992 as part of BBC TV Hell night. Features clips from Russell Harty, Wogan, Des O'Connor, Parkinson, Harold Wilson, The Late Show, and One Hour With Jonathan Ross.
Guests: Vivienne Westwood
(this clip was inspiration for: Knowing Me Knowing You with Alan Partridge)
David Icke, Grace Jones and Paul Morley
Presented by Danny Baker entitled "Hello Goodbye" on TV chat shows
BBC2 1992 part of BBC TV Hell night
Features [Robert Maxwell on Wogan and Russell Harty - Keith Allen storms off a previously unbroadcast BBC Late Show debate about situation comedy which included Vic Reeves, Tariq Ali, and Morwenna Banks where he made the comment "You haven't got a chip on your shoulder. You've got a vindaloo,"
which was reportedly the inspiration for the Fat Les: Vindaloo
Also: Joan Crawford on Picture Parade and Marty Feldman and Johnny Spreight on Late Night Lineup + nervous Anne Bancroft on Wogan
November 27, 2008
November 21, 2008
Robert Palmer (R.I.P.) BBC 1995 9-Part Series (my old friend, RP's special: thanx mooncake40)
Dancing in the Street
Robert Palmer
(not the singer)
For forty years, rock and roll has continued to reinvent itself, to challenge, to upset as well as delight, to break rules and make new ones. Dancing in the Street is a full-scale salute to that turbulent roller-coaster ride and an accompanying guide to the ten-part BBC series.
Well-known American music journalist Robert Palmer illuminates the roots of rock in the fifties and explores its development through to its continuing growth today. In ten key chapters he investigates how the many tributaries - from blues and gospel to reggae, punk and rap - converge and connect.
Dancing in the Street is illustrated with over 150 photographs, and includes new interviews with major artists as well as with often forgotten songwriters, musicians and record producers. Artists as diverse as Bo Diddley, Marvin Gaye, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols combine to create an authoritative and engagingly personal history of rock and roll music.
- Whole Lotta Shakin'
- Be My Baby
- So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star
- R-E-S-P-E-C-T
- Crossroads
- Eight Miles High
- Hang On To Yourself
- No Fun
- Make It Funky
- Planet Rock
Whole Lotta Shakin'
Whole Lotta Shakin', the first episode of Dancing in the Street, begins the BBC's landmark 10-part series on the evolution of rock music with the innovators of the late-1940s and 1950s: renegade musicians, both black and white, whose blending of musical styles made their work impossible to categorize; record producers with the vision to record it anyway, and the colour-blind disk jockeys who spun these records for audiences that couldn't figure out - or didn't care - if the artists were black or white. Longstanding barriers of music, race and class began to buckle to the strains of what Cleveland DJ Alan Freed labeled "rock and roll", a black euphemism for sex.
Be My Baby
Be My Baby, the second of 10 hour-long episodes of Dancing in the Street, explores the growing importance of a new genius in rock and roll: the producer.
So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star
In the early 1960s, the collision of two powerful forces permanently changed the landscape of rock and roll. The impact of the Beatles and Bob Dylan splintered the music in a thousand directions, smashing its boundaries, and leaving in its wake new ideas about the sound of rock and roll and the expressive power of its lyrics. Out of this confluence flowed folk rock and a new generation of artists who placed greater emphasis on introspection and self-expression.
The combined effect of these two forces and the folk rock explosion that ensued is the subject of So You Want to be a Rock and Roll Star, the third installment of BBC's 10-part Dancing in the Street.
R-E-S-P-E-C-T
The tone for black music in the 1960s was set by Ray Charles, who combined the music of the church with lyrics about love and romance. This secularized gospel appealed to black and white audiences alike, forming the basis for the sophisticated dance music of Motown and the raw emotion of Southern soul. The joyful, upbeat black music that swept the country during the civil rights movement of the 1960s is the subject of R-E-S-P-E-C-T, the fourth in the 10-part BBC series, Dancing in the Street.
Crossroads
Crossroads, the fifth installment in the BBC's Dancing in the Street, shows how Mississippi blues found its way to England's dance clubs and into the embrace of British teenagers, only to be exported back to America in forms both familiar and totally unexpected.
Eight Miles High
In Eight Miles High, part six of the BBC's epic 10-part series, Dancing in the Street, the influence of drugs on rock music is explored through the ultimate high of 1960s San Francisco and beyond.
Hang On To Yourself
As the 1960s drew to a close, new musicians emerged who would challenge the prevailing optimism of the time, often aggressively. Using the rock stage as a theater, they would adopt and shed onstage personas in an effort to connect with larger and more distant audiences. The result was an astonishing parade of glittering heroes, aliens and demons making music that awed, challenged and infuriated. These personas - and the artists who inhabited them - are the subject of Hang On To Yourself, the seventh in the BBC's 10-part series, Dancing in the Street.
No Fun
In short, rock and roll was in danger of becoming just another leisure industry; it needed an injection of something new. No Fun, episode eight of the BBC's 10-part series Dancing in the Street, documents how punk rock spit in the face of the bland, commercial music of the 1970s and turned rock and roll back into something anyone could play.
Make It Funky
Make It Funky, episode nine in the BBC's 10-part series, Dancing in the Street, begins with James Brown, the undisputed Godfather of Soul and Father of Funk, and traces his legacy through the black music of the 1970s, from the biting social protest of Sly and the Family Stone and Stevie Wonder to George Clinton's outrageous escapist fantasies.
Planet Rock
The outrage of punk rock faded during the early 1980s, and mainstream music recovered its composure, filling arenas across the world with classic rock sounds and heavy metal power. But a new, sparse sound with a style all its own was bubbling up from the street, bringing a combination of tough, urban attitude and cool electronic sophistication to rock and roll. Planet Rock, the final episode in BBC's 10-part series Dancing in the Street, traces the development of rap and electrofunk from their roots in the streets of the Bronx to their branches all over the globe.
thanks mooncake40
January 8, 2007
Fleetwood Mac [Peter Green]: Albatross + Man of the World + Oh, Well ['69 BBC]
Fleetwood Mac - Albatross
Fleetwood Mac, originally brought together by Peter Green, were a traditional blues band during the late 1960s, but their smash hit 'Albatross' had broader appeal.
'Albatross' and its follow up 'Man Of The World' were untypical of Fleetwood Mac's stage material, but made the band famous.
Fleetwood Mac - Man of the World [Peter Green]
fleetwood mac oh, well'69 BBC sessions
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