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

Hi, BBC Four has a loosely themed black/funk/disco night on Friday with nothing much new. But Channel 4 pops up with a brand new Rolling Stones Documentary Film on Saturday Night, shot earlier this year in South America. RTE2 makes an effort with a U2 concert film on the same night, here's the details ...



Friday
7.30pm & Midnight Top of The Pops 1982 #28
An edition first broadcast on August 19 1982, in which Kid Jensen introduces performances by Modern Romance, Haircut 100, Captain Sensible, The Kids from Fame, Soft Cell, Dexys Midnight Runners, Survivor, Talk Talk and Duran Duran. Full details here http://thetvdb.com/?tab=episode&seriesid=78332&seasonid=653323&id=5507759&lid=7

9pm & 12.35am Black Music Legends of the 1980s: Prince
Prince: A Purple Reign Profile of the enigmatic American musician, who rose to fame in the 1980s with hits including 1999, Kiss and Raspberry Beret. As well as achieving significant commercial success around the world, he won critical acclaim for his adventurous, genre-blurring albums, such as Sign O' the Times and Around the World in a Day - while also making headlines for his sexually explicit lyrics and stage shows, as well as his legal battle to retain control of his name and music. Featuring contributions by guitarist Dez Dickerson, Public Enemy frontman Chuck D, soul singer Beverley Knight and Paisley Park label president Alan Leeds

10pm & 1.35am Disco at the BBC
Archive performances of disco classics by acts including Chic, Rose Royce, Labelle, Gladys Knight and Village People, from shows such as Top of the Pops, The Old Grey Whistle Test and Later with Jools Holland

11pm & 2.35am The Genius of Funk
A compilation of performances from the BBC archive, beginning in the 1970s with acts including Earth, Wind & Fire, Kool & the Gang, Average White Band and Herbie Hancock

12.15am Later With Jools Holland (BBC2 NI)
Jools presents a compilation of some of the best performances by black artists from the Later archives, including D-Influence's appearance on the very first episode in 1992. The programme also features appearance by Mark Morrison and Dizzee Rascal, as well as Emeli Sande, Craig David and Stormzy, all of whom made their TV debuts on the show



Saturday
10.15pm U2: Innocence and Experience Live in Paris (RTE2)
Performances from the rock band's tour of the French capital caught on camera. U2 played at several venues around the city, with the stage designed to sit in the middle of the audience. The film combines footage from several of these concerts, featuring tracks from their most recent album Songs of Innocence as well as classic hits including I Will Follow, Pride, Vertigo, Sunday Bloody Sunday and Bullet the Blue Sky

11pm The Rolling Stones: Ole Ole Ole! A Trip across Latin America (Channel 4)
Documentary following the Rolling Stones' tour in early 2016 through 10 Latin American cities, with live performances, intimate stories and personal insights into their tour life


11.45pm Neil Diamond: Electric Prom
The singer-songwriter performs a selection of his greatest hits and cover versions from his album Dreams, accompanied by a six-piece band, at London's Roundhouse in 2010. The concert explores the songs he loves from the 1960s and 70s, and reinvents his classic tracks

12.50am Sings Neil Diamond
An archive collection of performances from artists covering tracks by Neil Diamond. Including Red Red Wine by UB40, Urge Overkill's version of Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon, Robert Wyatt's take on I'm a Believer and Lulu singing Boat That I Row

1.20am Top of The Pops 1982 #28
Same as Friday

1.55am John Denver: Country Boy
Documentary exploring the private life and public legacy of singer-songwriter John Denver, America's original `country boy', who died in 1997. The programme features the accounts of those closest to him, revealing the man behind the music

2.55am Country at the BBC
A compilation of BBC session performances by country artists from the past four decades, including Tammy Wynette, Emmylou Harris, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton, Charley Pride, Kris Kristofferson, Garth Brooks, Willie Nelson, Alison Krauss, Taylor Swift, kd lang and Billie Jo Spears



Sunday
6.30pm - Junior Eurovision: The Final
Coverage of the singing contest, as 14-year-old Zena Donnelly from Blackrock, Co Dublin, performs her self-written song Brice Ar Bhrice in Malta

12.05am Film: Once (BBC1)
A Dublin vacuum cleaner repairman, with a sideline as a busker, and an immigrant Czech pianist struggling to support her family, discover they are kindred spirits and set out to record an album together. Romantic musical drama, starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, who both wrote songs featured in the film. With Geoff Minogue and Hugh Walsh



Sky Arts has all 6 episodes of the 'Anarchy in Manchester' series across the weekend late night. It's the best of seminal 70s Tony Wilson Granada Music which has some fine rare vintage performances from the likes of The Jam, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, Elvis Costello and many others. Well worth sticking a tape in if you haven't seen it.

They also have Quadrophenia live (Saturday 6pm) and lots of other repeats.

Obscure Channel TV Music Biopic of the week is Take me Home: The John Denver Story (True Entertainment, Saturday 9pm) Or it's on Youtube in full. Watch out for those Mountains, John