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Sounds like 'let the sunshine in' from the musical 'Hair'

You know you've stayed up late when BBC 4 stops playing music.

A quick reminder that Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday are busy nights this week on BBC Four ...


At 9pm it's Danny Baker's Rocking Decades.

On Monday - The Seventies

New series. The irrepressible radio DJ celebrates the best of British rock music throughout the past 40 years. In the first edition, he focuses on the sounds of the 1970s in the company of former Joy Division and New Order bassist Peter Hook, Viv Albertine from the Slits, and Rolling Stone correspondent-turned-gastronome Loyd Grossman

Tuesday is Eighties Night

Danny Baker is joined by guests singer Pauline Black, comedian Adam Buxton and journalist Mark Ellen to celebrate British rock music of the 1980s. In a period which saw use of the synthesiser and the arrival of Goths, New Romantics and 2 Tone, the definition of what was encompassed by the genre was often stretched

And the Bakemeister finishes up on Wednesday with the Nineties

Danny Baker celebrates British rock as it enters the dance decade of the 1990s. Along with author and musician Louise Wener, comedian Josie Long, journalist Alexis Petridis and a slew of archive clips, the era of `Britpop' and `Madchester' is brought alive. Danny also selects a number of classic performances from the decade. Last in the series

At 10.30 each night, it's Danny Baker Rocks (whatever decade he was looking at earlier) a bit. It looks like a sort of Danny Baker does TOTP2


Also at 10pm tonight the spoof documentary 'The Life of Rock with Brian Pern' (which continues next Monday)

The host (Simon Day) presents his guide to The Life of Rock from prehistoric man to the present day, in a spoof three-part chronology of some of the biggest moments in rock history. In the first episode, Pern examines rock music's prehistoric origins, tries to discover the world's smartest band, and recalls the time he dressed up as a crab. Features Vic and Bob, Paul Whitehouse, Matt Lucas and lots of others

All the shows are repeated in the early hours if you miss them

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Any chance any of those will be repeated at a daycent time...like, say midnight on a Saturday :-)

Edit: Anyone watch tonight? Was it good?

The only repeat scheduled at a reasonable hour is The Life of Brian Pern which on again Thursday at Midnight, alas.

My Reception was cutting out for that, but it looked quite funny.

The first Danny Baker programme was a bit 'people sitting around talking about music as if they know everything about it'. But I really liked the second one, some very rare live performances with a nice cameo from Nick Lowe (who was connected to two of last weeks TOTP songs, spookily).

They should get Danny Baker to make more of those, it must be fairly cheap and it would be better than the lazy 'Sounds of the Seventies' tyoe compilations they keep churning out.