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BBC music highlights

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JEFF BECK: Sad news

  12 January 2023

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64228780 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/jan/12/heart-full-of-soul-the-maverick-genius-of-jeff-beck-the-guitarists-guitarist https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/jeff-beck-death-bacterial-meningitis-yardbirds-b2260722.html

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THE WHO: live at Glastonbury 2015 – BBC recording

  26 December 2022

Were you there and would like to relive the moment? Well, you can, right HERE

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A REALLY good listen via the BBC: No Singing, No Movement: Part 2, Sudan’s New Generation

  22 December 2022

In the second programme in the series, Yousra visits a ground-breaking music festival in the northern desert of Sudan, on the banks of the Nile, to meet musicians working in Sudan now. She meets the all-female band Salut Yal Bannot, who are pushing at the boundaries and addressing issues facing women in Sudan. But for […]

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LOU REED: A Life at The BBC

  11 December 2022

Lou Reed met avant-garde musician John Cale in New York City in 1965; before long they were joined by guitarist Sterling Morrison and drummer Mo Tucker, and the Velvet Underground was born. The combination of Reed’s experimental approach to sound with Reed’s tough, literate lyrics openly referencing drugs, sex and fetishism, created rock music that […]

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CHRIS FARLOWE: Live At The BBC (CD)

  10 December 2022

We are told: The complete BBC recordings 1965-1968. Includes extensive linernotes with comments by Chris Farlowe. Chris Farlowe was one of the hottest young British artists to emerge from the Sixties R&B club scene, much admired by Tom Jones and Mick Jagger. Farlowe’s band the Thunderbirds included top class musicians, notably guitarist Albert Lee and […]

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BBC Music Jazz

  9 December 2022

Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna go back to summer 1898 when The Gramophone Company opened offices in London’s Covent Garden. This was the very first disc record company in the UK, later becoming well known as HMV and EMI, and was the London affiliate of inventor Emile Berliner’s US National Gramophone Company. […]

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THE KINKS: At the BBC [5CD+DVD Box Set]

  9 December 2022

Limited edition collectors’ 5 CD + DVD complete set. This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Kinks recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band: from the first steps on the Pye label, to the glory days as one of the greatest acts of all […]

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BBC – The Science Of Music

  8 December 2022

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sk5xs

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THIN LIZZY; Live At The BBC (6 CD and 1 DVD Box set)

  7 December 2022

“This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Lizzy recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band: from the first steps as a three piece on the Decca label, to this incredible archive represents a great set of previously unreleased recordings in the Lizzy catalogue. The […]

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THE ROLLING STONES On Air (1963-65 BBC Radio Recordings) (2CD Deluxe Edition)

  6 December 2022

    We are told ….. A collection capturing the formative years of the Rolling Stones as they’ve rarely been heard before. The Rolling Stones — On Air is a new compilation of radio recordings made by the group between 1963 and 1965 for BBC shows of the time such as Saturday Club, Top Gear, […]

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THE PRETTY THINGS: Live At The BBC (2CD)

  5 December 2022

Sourced from BBC Archives, rare performance footage of The Pretty Things in the 60’s and 70’s Contains expanded liner notes by Richard Morton Jack Sourced from the BBC archives, the set covers numerous tracks from the 1960 & 1970s period – including smash hits such as ‘Rosalyn’, Don’t Bring Me Down’, ‘Midnight To Six Man’, […]

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PINK FLOYD: At the BBC

  4 December 2022
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LEE MAVERS: The BBC finds out, sort of

  3 December 2022

Just over 30 years ago, band The La’s released their sole LP – a masterpiece that shaped guitar music. But its brilliant frontman has been elusive ever since, writes Shaun Curran. MORE

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DR. FEELGOOD; Gettin’ Their Kicks At The BBC With Wilko Johnson 1973-75 (2CD)

  2 December 2022

    This 2-disc collection of every single one of Dr Feelgood’s BBC recordings during the Wilko Johnson years is an essential purchase for new and old fans alike. The 42 tracks cover the classic line-up’s seven visits to the BBC and capture the band at their very best throughout. Broadcasting legend Bob Harris championed […]

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FAIRYTALE OF NEW YORK: News

  1 December 2022

The BBC has revealed that Radio 2 will play an alternate “Fairytale of New York” for the 2022 Christmas period. Every year, when the festive season rolls around, the song makes headlines due to its lyrics, which contains the word “f****t”. The 1987 track, which is performed by Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues frontman Shane […]

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RANKED BBC: As the Beeb celebrates its centenary, we take a look at its most memorable pop moments, from the birth of grime to the first sightings of Bob Dylan and Bob Marley, plus TOTP goes Madchester and countless classic Peel sessions

  30 November 2022

GUARDIAN MUSIC: 100. Vic Reeves and the Wonder Stuff – Dizzy (Top of the Pops, 1991) There’s a reason that Vic Reeves’s attempt to recreate the video for his cover of Tommy Roe’s 1969’s hit – complete with yellow tartan suits, washing machines and Bob Mortimer scampering between Reeves’s legs – was so shambolic: they […]

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MUSIC EVOLUTION: Is this the end of the composer? By Rebecca Morelle Science reporter, BBC News

  10 November 2022

First published in 2012 Professor Armand Leroi from Imperial College London explains why he thinks a Darwinian computer program that can evolve music from noise could kill off the composer. You might think that creating the perfect piece of music – whether it’s a classical great, jazz masterpiece or pop hit – is all down […]

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LIAM GALLAGHER: Live @ The BBC

  1 November 2022

Jo Whiley opens the doors of BBC’s Radio Theatre for a Radio 2 In Concert with the king of swagger, Liam Gallagher. After being in the spotlight for over 25 years, he releases his debut solo album As You Were. Liam Gallagher became the embodiment of the rock ‘n’ roll dream, with his brother Noel, […]

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RICHARD THOMPSON: BBC 2 Session – Goodbye

  29 October 2022
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EMELI SANDE: At the BBC

  28 October 2022

John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks to leading performers and songwriters about the album that made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience at the BBC’s iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the artist about the album in question, […]

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TODD RUNGREN: Live At The BBC 1972-1982

  26 October 2022

This four-disc collection comprises three CDs and a DVD (NTSC / Region Free) featuring all of the surviving radio and television broadcasts in the BBC archive transmitted on radio and television in the UK between 1972 and 1982. The set features on CD Todd’s solo 1972 BBC Radio One “In Concert” performance, recorded soon after the release of […]

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THE PRETTY THINGS: Live At The BBC (Vinyl 2LP)

  17 October 2022

Compiled by the two original members of the band, and sourced from the BBC archives, this Double LP covers numerous songs from the 1960s & 1970s period, including smash hits such as ‘Don’t Bring Me Down’ and ‘Midnight To Six Man’ with later classic album tracks ‘Defecting Grey’, ‘S.F. Sorrow Is Born’, ‘Singapore Silk Torpedo’, […]

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BANNED BY THE BBC: Which song(s) banned by the BBC do you think were the most ridiculous bans?

  9 October 2022

A user writes: The number of songs which the BBC has banned is long and undistinguished. In fact I regularly use the BBC ban-list in debates when people talk about what ‘snowflakes’ we have become (looking at some of the older items on that list – we have always been snowflakes). But the era that […]

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BBC FOUR: Explores the archives for the sultry sounds and looks of ‘Jazz Divas Gold’!

  8 October 2022

Featured Jazz legends include Ella Fitzgerald, Marion Montgomery, Cleo Laine, Blossom Dearie, Sarah Vaughan, Nina Simone, Peggy Lee, Betty Carter, Amy Winehouse, Eartha Kitt and many more who can be seen from 1965 to 2008 on BBC treasures such as Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life, Show of the Week, Not […]

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