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In Short: Friday is Neil Sedaka, Saturday is Disco Night.

Friday 9pm &12.45, Sunday 11.35pm Neil Sedaka: King of Song

A documentary portrait of the US musician's life and career, in which he had two distinct periods of success. He broke onto the scene in the late 1950s, selling over 25 million records in the space of five years, but his career took a downward turn when the Beatles and the British Invasion hit the States. However he found popularity in the UK in the early 1970s, before returning to his homeland and achieving fresh stardom with famous numbers like Solitaire and Laughter in the Rain. The singer reveals how he created his other catchy classics Calendar Girl, (Is This the Way To) Amarillo, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen and Stupid Cupid

Friday 10pm & 1.45am, Sunday Night12.35am Neil Sedaka: All You Need is the Music

A programme from 1983 looking at the diverse range of hits by the singer, from the rock `n` roll era to a more lyrical age. He performs many of his famous numbers, including Solitaire, Bad Blood, The Hungry Years, Laughter in the Rain and New York City Blues

Friday 10.45pm & 2.35am, Sunday Night 1.20am Kings of Rock 'n' Roll

Celebration of the musical icons of the 1950s, including Bill Haley and the Comets, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and Elvis Presley. Featuring some of the more scandalous tales of the era, from Jerry Lee Lewis' marriage to his 13-year-old cousin to the original sexually explicit lyrics of Little Richard's hit Tutti Frutti. Featuring archive footage of the performers and contributions by celebrities including Tom Jones, Paul McCartney, Cliff Richard, Jack White, Jools Holland, Hank Marvin, John Waters and Minnie Driver, who reveal how the songs of the era have inspired them

Friday 11.45pm Even More Guitar Heroes at the BBC

Archive performances of the most iconic artists and bands from the 1960s and 1970s, featuring Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo, the Who's single Long Live Rock, Tunnel of Love by Dire Straits and Lynyrd Skynyrd's classic Sweet Home Alabama. Plus, rare clips of George Benson, Leo Kottke, Link Wray and Tom Petty

Saturday 10.40pm Boogie Fever: A TOTP2 Disco Special 90 minutes long!

Steve Wright presents performances of disco classics from the BBC archives, featuring George McCrae, Chic, Gloria Gaynor, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Edwin Starr, the Weather Girls, Liquid Gold, Heatwave, the Bee Gees, Earth Wind & Fire, Tina Charles, the JALN Band, Hi-Tension, Sylvester, the Village People, Boney M, Linx, Yazz, Infernal, the Three Degrees, Blondie, the Gibson Brothers and Rick Dees and His Cast of Idiots

Saturday 12.10am Queens of Disco

Graham Norton celebrates the careers of some of the greatest names in disco music, including Gloria Gaynor, Donna Summer, Grace Jones and Chaka Khan. He also explores Madonna's return to her 1980s roots and the success it brought her in the UK pop charts

Monday 9pm & 2.50am The Story of Top of The Pops 1979

A look back at a heady year for the chart show, which recorded its highest audience of 19 million viewers, as physical format singles peaked at four times that number. Social problems in Britain during the Winter of Discontent did not stop inventive musicians from making hay as eager fans queued up to embrace their output, and new wave, 2-tone, reggae, rock, folk and electro hits competed for the top slots. Among the featured artists are Gary Numan, Nile Rodgers, Jah Wobble and Woody from Madness

Monday 10pm & 12.50am The Life of Rock with Brian Pern

Middle Age of Rock The host profiles a selection of rock stars who, like himself, applied their creative energies to acting, charity singles and protest songs. Plus, former Top of the Pops presenter Noel Edmonds reveals how Russians tried to take down the aircraft carrying Phil Collins from Wembley to Philadelphia during Live Aid in 1985. Spoof rock documentary, starring Simon Day

Best of the Rest:
Sky Arts 1 has a Rory Gallagher Documentary at 2.10am on Saturday Night (also on Wednesday at 6pm) http://www.locatetv.com/tv/rory-gallagher-ghost-blues/6737017. They also have the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert tonight at 9.30pm and repeated over the weekend http://www.locatetv.com/tv/freddie-mercury-the-tribute-concert/494019#13-Feb-2014. Lots of other good music shows on that station, well worth a look if you have it.

Yesterday has more old BBC shows on Sunday, including the first ever TOTP (10pm, Sound of The Sixties)

grey_so_what wrote: »

I'd go with that Skid, not so sure I could take a "whole lotta" Neil Sedaka...

Yeah, two hours of Neil Sedaka might be like eating 20 Candy Flosses. Some nice tunes, but once The Beatles rolled into town he was made to look very old fashioned. Although I have dismissed programmes like that before, and then got sucked into them so you never know.

Guitar Heroes just started,

early Quo, before they forgot how to play more than three chords.

Ol' Donie wrote: »

Evening chaps! How was LLS? Amazing?

Oh yeah, as always!

Never heard this from The Quo before. Kinda alright, in a funny way

It got them royalties from Death in Vegas, apparently. I think it also sounds like Uncle Pat (by Ash)

grey_so_what wrote: »

Did I miss "Tunnel of Love" Donie?...

Dire Straits....

No, just started

turn it up!