BeebRock - The BBC4/BBC3/BBC2/BBC1 Music Programmes thread

Hi, there's all kinds of everything this weekend (although not All Kinds Of Everything, apologies to Dana fans). The new one is a Skinhead Doc on Friday night - hard to know if there's anything music related in it but sure maybe it'll be worth a look. Elsewhere there's another chance to see that Boy George programme from last week, the Highwayman Country reunion thing and all sorts of Deep South styled Rock ...


Thursday
7.30pm & 1.30am Top of The Pops 1982 #18
John Peel presents the edition from May 27, featuring music by Debbie Harry, Genesis, Japan, Soft Cell, Duran Duran and Madness

1.55am Island at the BBC
Archive performances by artists associated with the Island record label during its 50 years. Tracks include Cat Stevens' Father and Son, Roxy Music's Do the Strand and Bob Marley and the Wailers' Stir It Up. The programme also features Steel Pulse, U2, PJ Harvey, Bob Marley, Amy Winehouse and Baaba Maal



Friday
7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1982 #19
Kid Jensen hosts an edition first broadcast on June 3 1982, featuring appearances by Junior, Charlene, ABC, Fun Boy Three, Echo & the Bunnymen, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Adam Ant, and Madness. Plus, a dance performance by Zoo

9pm & 12.30 The Story of Skinhead with Don Letts New!
The director and 6Music presenter offers a first-hand account of the skinhead movement, tracing its origins in the 1960s as a `harmonious subgroup' through to its evolution throughout the 1970s and 1980s into a `threatening and bigoted subculture steeped in far-right politics and violence'. Don reflects on the movement's social impact across music, style and culture, its modern-day legacy, and its associated stigma associated by exploring white power nationalists in the US, fascist revivalists in Italy and Neo-Nazis in Germany

10pm & 1.10am Big Hits - Top of The Pops 1964-75
Archive performances from the first 12 years of Top of the Pops, featuring the Rolling Stones, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Queen, the Kinks and Status Quo

11.05pm Later with Jools Holland (BBC2)
Extended edition of the music programme. Chrissie Hynde and the Pretenders will be playing tracks from upcoming ninth studio album, Alone, their first since 2008. Joining them will be the record's producer, Dan `The Black Keys' Auerbach. Rising British rock and soul star Samm Henshaw, and fellow Londoner Ray BLK also perform respective new tracks, and Empire of the Sun will be showcasing a couple of tunes from their third LP, Two Vines. Plus, rising British blues rock guitarist and singer Joanne Shaw Taylor makes her debut on the show. Also chatting to Jools is Paul Rodgers, original member of Free, and Bad Company

11.15pm The Highwaymen: Friends to the End (TG4)
The Highwaymen - Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson - were American country music's first supergroup, a quartet featuring the genre's pioneering stars. Between 1985 and 1995, the Grammy-winning group recorded three albums and toured the world. This documentary explores how these men came together and the fruits of their historic collaboration. Contributors include surviving members Nelson and Kristofferson, plus Toby Keith, John Mellencamp and Jessi Colter


11.30pm & 3am Sounds of the Seventies
Documenting the chaotic imagery and rebellious energy of the punk rock era, including archive footage of prominent bands such as the Stranglers, the Damned, the Sex Pistols, the Jam, the Undertones, X-Ray Spex and Joy Division

12.10am Boy George's 1970s: Save me from Suburbia (BBC2)
The BBC's My Generation season continues as Boy George revisits his teenage years. While history may remember the 1970s as being marked by strikes, poverty and civil dischord, the singer reveals that - for the young George O'Dowd - the decade was the beginning of his musical, social and sexual coming-of-age. He discusses how sexual repression and disenfranchisement, along with the advent of glam rock, disco and punk, gave rise to the flamboyant persona he would later unleash on the world, via Culture Club's memorable first appearance on Top of the Pops in 1982



Saturday
10.30pm & 1.30am Sweet Home Alabama: The Southern Rock Story
How groups including Lynyrd Skynyrd and the Allman Brothers Band helped popularise a style of rock music rooted in the culture of America's Deep South during the 1970s. The programme explores how the genre had an impact beyond the world of music, shaping the cultural identity of some of America's most deprived and marginalised regions. Featuring contributions by Gregg Allman, Mike Mills, Charlie Daniels, Doug Gray, Al Kooper and Bonnie Bramlett

11.30pm & 2.30am Southern Rock at the BBC
Archive performances by classic Southern rock acts on shows including The Old Grey Whistle Test, In Concert and Wogan. Featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd, the Charlie Daniels Band, the Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Delaney & Bonnie with Eric Clapton, Dickey Betts, formerly of the Allman Brothers Band, the Marshall Tucker Band, Black Oak Arkansas, Greg Allman with Cher, and Edgar Winter

12.30am Top of The Pops 1982 #18
Same as Thursday

1am Top of The Pops 1982 #19
Same as Friday




Sky Arts has one of those tribute concert things for Carole King on Friday at 8pm, cheekily followed by another one for James Taylor. Afterwards they have that well regarded Hollies Doc, Look through any Window (11.50pm)

On Sunday, GOLD rounds off the weekend with another airing of The Blues Brothers at 11pm. Before that its on Thursday at 10.45pm. And sure why not? Stick it on as again and again!

Jimmy Carter always seemed like a decent President.

Shame he only got one term.

At least he made a comeback in England, playing for both LIverpool and Arsenal.

F**kin Plane crashes, when you look at those who died that way, those crashes deprived us of a lot of good music.

Bold move opening this compilation with Sweet Home Alabama,

I'd have kept that until the end.