Post by hhsussex on Sept 27, 2016 7:54:24 GMT
For anyone who has iPlayer and for the next 26 days I implore you to take a look at this. Keith Richards curated three nights of BBC4 programming over last weekend, with various films and documentaries interspersed with his reminiscences and some wonderfully researched film material from the history of the BBC over the last 60 years. The result is like nothing I have ever seen before, from his craggy features, wreathed perpetually in smoke,telling of Robert Mitchum dropping into the Stones hotel room in 1965 because he "smelt something good in there", to the wonderfully deadpan dismissal of the punks "Sid Vicious - silly sod".
What is special is the choice of material illustrating how broad the BBC's output was, and how much we have lost, from episodes of Captain Pugwash, Hancock's Half Hour, the wonderfully deconstructionist Spike Milligan Q series, through amazing blues from Muddy Waters, electrifying performances of Otis Redding, to blurry footage of Andres Segovia and some wonderful nocturnal film of badgers and foxes. All this and a Stones recorded jingle for Rice Krispies "We sold out before the Who"!
A great man, and a wonderful life.
What is special is the choice of material illustrating how broad the BBC's output was, and how much we have lost, from episodes of Captain Pugwash, Hancock's Half Hour, the wonderfully deconstructionist Spike Milligan Q series, through amazing blues from Muddy Waters, electrifying performances of Otis Redding, to blurry footage of Andres Segovia and some wonderful nocturnal film of badgers and foxes. All this and a Stones recorded jingle for Rice Krispies "We sold out before the Who"!
A great man, and a wonderful life.
