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

I did go to see Black Grape last week. Shaun Ryder looks surprisingly well considering all the drugs he took.

Good night out. I've gone past supporting new music - now I mainly go to see 90s indie Bands reliving former glories. It keeps me out of trouble.

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The more you protest, the more of this gets posted

Hello! it's Lionel Richie the album buyers have been looking for.

Up a staggering 103 places to No.1 after his triumphant Glasto set last week. Normally old artists have to die to get that kind of sales boost.

The veteran crooner, who's been celebrating his album's success British-style with a cup of tea, said he was "overwhelmed" to have performed at Worthy Farm and thinks that's why he has soared into this week's top spot.

His album, The Definitive Collection By Lionel Richie & The Commodores, only reached number 10 when it was released back in 2003.

But this week it jumped up 103 places.

It's his first UK number one album since Back To Front 23 years ago.

http://news.sky.com/story/1513786/glastonbury-triumph-sends-richie-to-number-one




This is the last week ever where the Charts will be announced on a Sunday afternoon, the UK is moving to a Friday release date (like most of the World).

Hello, it's a mix of the old and the new this weekend as Rock n Roll America and other old stuff on BBC4 battles T in The Park on BBC3. Bits and bobs elsewhere. Everything from Chuck Berry to The Prodigy and more ...


Thursday

1.15am Top of The Pops 1980
Steve Wright presents an edition originally broadcast on August 21, 1980. Featuring the Nick Straker Band, ELO, Sheena Easton, Hazel O'Connor, the Piranhas, Kelly Marie, Cliff Richard, the Jam, Shakin' Stevens and Billy Joel, plus David Bowie with the week's number one, Ashes to Ashes.



Friday

9pm & Midnight - Rock N Roll America (Part 2)
Whole Lotta Shakin' The mid-1950s saw Elvis Presley made his TV debut with Heartbreak Hotel, following it with a gyrating version of Hound Dog that outraged the conservative media. A `cleaned-up' artist was required, and Christian family man Pat Boone sated that need. Whle Jerry Lee Lewis caused upset with Whole Lotta Shakin and the Everlys shocked with Wake Up Little Susie, bespectacled geek Buddy Holly calmed things down with his school friends the Crickets. Contributors include Jerry Lee Lewis, Don Everly and Tom Jones

10pm & 2am Chuck Berry in Concert
The legendary rock 'n' roll singer performs at the BBC Television Theatre in 1972, featuring hits Johnny B Goode, Nadine and Roll Over Beethoven, as well as an innuendo-laden rendition of My Ding-a-Ling

11pm & 3am Elvis: That's Alright Mama 50 years on
Actor and musician Sam Palladio hosts a musical tribute to Elvis Presley, 60 years after the artist recorded his first single That's All Right at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The presenter traces Elvis's story from a childhood spent in poverty to the moment he entered a recording booth to perform the track that would act as a springboard to his success. Featuring performances of a selection of the King of Rock 'n' Roll's finest songs from artists including Candi Staton, the Pierces and Laura Bell Bundy

1am Sounds of The Sixies
1968-69 - The Swinging Sixties Music from the flower power era, featuring bands including Herman's Hermits, the Crazy World of Arthur Brown, the Alan Price Set, Manfred Mann and the Rolling Stones

1.30 am Sounds of The Sixties
The Folk Revival Folk performances by artists including Pete Seeger, Tim Buckley, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen


T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Sam Smith, Rudimental
9pm - Kasabian



Saturday

10.45pm - Big Hits: TOTP 1964 to 1975
A selection of performances from the first years of Top of the Pops, featuring the Rolling Stones, Peter Sarstedt, Tom Jones, Stevie Wonder, Julie Driscoll, Queen, the Kinks, Procol Harum, Stealers Wheel, the Seekers and Status Quo

12.15am - Top of The Pops 1980
As above

T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Jessie J, George Ezra
9pm - The Vaccines, The Script
10pm - The Libertines, Avicii



Sunday

11pm Kings of 70s Romance
Lesley Joseph narrates a documentary celebrating unlikely sex symbols from the world of pop in the 1970s, when the songs of Gilbert O'Sullivan, Barry White, Leo Sayer, David Soul and Demis Roussos conjured up images of candle-lit dinners, red roses and cosy nights in. Featuring contributions by Gloria Hunniford and Martha Kearney

Midnight - Elvis That's Alright Mama 50 years on
As above

T in The Park (BBC Three)
8pm - Paloma Faith, James Bay
9pm - Clean Bandit, Jamie T
10pm - Noel Gallagher, The Prodigy



Elsewhere, In His Life: The John Lennon Story is on True Entertainment on Monday at 10am. Sure it might be worth taping, Beatles films are usually a bit of fun. Sky Arts has lots of Queen over the weekend and a few other bits and bobs.

The Spy Who Loved Me is on RTE2 on Sunday at 6.15. The Best Bond Intro and the Best Bond theme, in my opinion. Alan will explain better than I could