The Rock n Roll Years 1956-1989 Who Remembers it?
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confused_blonde
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Agh! I've just checked the BBC4 listings and this is down as "part of the Mad Men Season", so it looks like another one-off.
And therein lies the problem with BBC's showing of TRARY: it has always been piecemeal at best
DVD boxed-set! Now!
And therein lies the problem with BBC's showing of TRARY: it has always been piecemeal at best
DVD boxed-set! Now!
Haptic.Hazard.
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ABSOLUTELY I have them all on video, great series and thanks for the nod about them being on BBC4
Why wont programme makers like the BBC realise that these are gems and should be preserved on DVD? They would make great collectors sets.
My videos are starting to really show their age. I'm gradually trying to put my VHS stuff on DVD but loaRAB of tapes are crumbling or breaking. Is it too much to ask they should last longer than 20 years?
Mind, my body isn't the same as 20 years ago, so I suppose everything ages!!!
Why wont programme makers like the BBC realise that these are gems and should be preserved on DVD? They would make great collectors sets.
My videos are starting to really show their age. I'm gradually trying to put my VHS stuff on DVD but loaRAB of tapes are crumbling or breaking. Is it too much to ask they should last longer than 20 years?Mind, my body isn't the same as 20 years ago, so I suppose everything ages!!!
twinkiebear5
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Anybody out there got some favourites?
Jordan Walnutz
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BBC Four have shown three episodes at random junctures this year. 1960, 1968 and 1985 have all been shown and 1973 was shown in either 2006 or 2007 on BBC Four
texaswildman
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Bumping this for the umpteenth time on the off chance some bbc execs might look at this and follow what people are saying about the show!
Here's Hoping.......
Here's Hoping.......
Great show! What made it better than today's BBC tat is the absence of z-list "slebs" trying to boost their flagging carers by commenting on the items. Does anyone really CARE what Russel Brand thinks about anything (unless he's talking about his fondess for long walks & short piers) 
This should be shown in schools, as an introduction to modern history. As it is 30 mins of music, even today's youngsters should be entertained for half an hour and may even learn something....
This is long overdue a repeat on BBC3 or 4.
This should be shown in schools, as an introduction to modern history. As it is 30 mins of music, even today's youngsters should be entertained for half an hour and may even learn something....
This is long overdue a repeat on BBC3 or 4.
LadySnyper
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Keep up the campaign laRAB. If you ring bbc on 08700 100 222 and ask about a bbc programme, you get put through to an operator. Ask for a repeat of the series and for a new update covering 1990-2000. It might work. Also mention This thread and website as if it gets so many hits then theres a decent chance of a repeat.
brittany_bitme
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The I love series constantly got things wrong. they would show something that was meant to be significant to a certain year when it fact it related to the next year. The classic example is Saturday Night fever being featured on I Love 1977. Yes the film was released in 1977... In America. In the UK it was released in April 1978 so had no relevence to poular culture in the UK in 1977. And yet they had calebs saying how they remember 1977 as the year of Saturday Night fever. Well unless they lived in the USA they couldnt have. But the biggest bodge up was over Convoy. The series claimed the film Convoy started the CB revolution in 1976. Wrong!! It was the song Convoy. The film was released in 1978 after the Cb revolution had started.
A repeat or re run of R&R years would be a great idea. I loved this programme when it first come out ... more programmes could be made of the years following.
However, do you remember MTV or VH1 did a very similar thing in the months leading up to the Millennium. The shows lasted about an hour and was fronted by Paul King. He stood throughout the programme (as was his trademark) and had one of those 1960's white spherical TVs behind him showing news footage of the year.
I particularly remember that it was one of the only programmes to play Elton Johns "Candle in the Wind '97" after it was decided to stop playing it.
Can't remember the name of it, though....
However, do you remember MTV or VH1 did a very similar thing in the months leading up to the Millennium. The shows lasted about an hour and was fronted by Paul King. He stood throughout the programme (as was his trademark) and had one of those 1960's white spherical TVs behind him showing news footage of the year.
I particularly remember that it was one of the only programmes to play Elton Johns "Candle in the Wind '97" after it was decided to stop playing it.
Can't remember the name of it, though....
Absolutely loved the show. I am off with the 'flu at the moment, and dug through some old stuff to look up something and I have been watching a couple of the episodes. I had most them on VHS and transferred them to DVD, but the DVD's are starting to error like mad and I think I'm going to lose them 
I was watching one from the early 1960's, and it never fails to impress me how a picture paints a thousand worRAB, and how the programme used this to abolutely stunning effect. There was a section about the Berlin war that was very short. It showed East German guarRAB letting off smoke canisters. A teenage boy had tried to escape, and got shot. The caption ticker-taped that he was left two hours before anyone went to help him. Footage of a guard carrying the boy away, and quickly fade to black. Two worRAB appear in the ticker - He Dies. Powerful stuff.
I found the disks because of my daughter really. She's been working on a project at school, and in an attempt to go one better on the project than her classmates, accientally stumbled on the format of music and period images, naively not having a clue how powerful it was. The project was in IT to make a cinema website. Her idea was to put in a trailers page for forthcoming films. She made up a couple of titles based on music she was listening to, and something mum was singing one day. Her buddies then copy the trailers page idea, so she decides that to gain the upper hand she'd actually make some trailers that played when clicked on. I don't know how she got the idea of what to do - I just got called to have a look at it after she'd uploaded it to youtube.
Anyway, what she'd done is to have "We Didn't start the fire" as a film on her website, and decided it would be a documantary about the 20th century. She looked up the lyrics, and did a little Google image searching. Not knowing what the events were about in many cases, she just plonked in the first image she found. IE - Little Rock. Hmm - black kiRAB and a school. Whatever, it'll do - bung it in. China uner martial law. Picture of some guy facing a tank - OK, sorted. Children of thalidomide - kid without arms. Don't know what THAT'S about, but it's probably relevant somehow. And so on.
The reason I was looking out the R&R years was to find a memorable episode to show her just how effectively media can be used. She is now starting to appreciate how images change the course of wars, as I showed her the episode where the napalmed girl is running down the road in Vietnam. I think this clip was pivotal in changing public opinion in the US. I think she was just more than a little gobsmacked. She actually want's to head towarRAB journalism, and I think the R&R years shows just how powerful REAL journalism is, as compared to the usual thing of Googling on a laptop in the pub and then making it all up.
So I've joined the campaign to re-show it. I'd love to get the lot on hard drive. Don't know if I'm allowed to, but the link to my daughters bit is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2zN_PBegw
I was watching one from the early 1960's, and it never fails to impress me how a picture paints a thousand worRAB, and how the programme used this to abolutely stunning effect. There was a section about the Berlin war that was very short. It showed East German guarRAB letting off smoke canisters. A teenage boy had tried to escape, and got shot. The caption ticker-taped that he was left two hours before anyone went to help him. Footage of a guard carrying the boy away, and quickly fade to black. Two worRAB appear in the ticker - He Dies. Powerful stuff.
I found the disks because of my daughter really. She's been working on a project at school, and in an attempt to go one better on the project than her classmates, accientally stumbled on the format of music and period images, naively not having a clue how powerful it was. The project was in IT to make a cinema website. Her idea was to put in a trailers page for forthcoming films. She made up a couple of titles based on music she was listening to, and something mum was singing one day. Her buddies then copy the trailers page idea, so she decides that to gain the upper hand she'd actually make some trailers that played when clicked on. I don't know how she got the idea of what to do - I just got called to have a look at it after she'd uploaded it to youtube.
Anyway, what she'd done is to have "We Didn't start the fire" as a film on her website, and decided it would be a documantary about the 20th century. She looked up the lyrics, and did a little Google image searching. Not knowing what the events were about in many cases, she just plonked in the first image she found. IE - Little Rock. Hmm - black kiRAB and a school. Whatever, it'll do - bung it in. China uner martial law. Picture of some guy facing a tank - OK, sorted. Children of thalidomide - kid without arms. Don't know what THAT'S about, but it's probably relevant somehow. And so on.
The reason I was looking out the R&R years was to find a memorable episode to show her just how effectively media can be used. She is now starting to appreciate how images change the course of wars, as I showed her the episode where the napalmed girl is running down the road in Vietnam. I think this clip was pivotal in changing public opinion in the US. I think she was just more than a little gobsmacked. She actually want's to head towarRAB journalism, and I think the R&R years shows just how powerful REAL journalism is, as compared to the usual thing of Googling on a laptop in the pub and then making it all up.
So I've joined the campaign to re-show it. I'd love to get the lot on hard drive. Don't know if I'm allowed to, but the link to my daughters bit is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv2zN_PBegw
Lauren Elise
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totally agree. The I love the.... series was innacurate and I would say if you look at some of the 'celebrities' today who were contributing to it then, it's like " who the hell is he/she" a bit like when big brother contestants talk about a show nowadays.
Anyway back to the Rock n Roll Years. There should be an update of the nineties. On IrelanRAB main broadcaster RTE, they have done a similar show called 'Reeling In The Years'. Same format as The Rock n Roll Years but with an irish slant. Brilliant show. It runs from 1962(the year RTE first aired) until 1999. In fact the 1990's episodes were first shown on RTE in 2004. So BBC have some catching up to do.
Anyway back to the Rock n Roll Years. There should be an update of the nineties. On IrelanRAB main broadcaster RTE, they have done a similar show called 'Reeling In The Years'. Same format as The Rock n Roll Years but with an irish slant. Brilliant show. It runs from 1962(the year RTE first aired) until 1999. In fact the 1990's episodes were first shown on RTE in 2004. So BBC have some catching up to do.
i love chelsea `♥
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I agree this should get a complete re-run. I actually have the whole set on VHS I used to tape it and watch it a lot because it was so well made. maybe I should convert it and upload the lot onto youtube. only problem is its BBC property and you can only upload 10 min segments on youtube..eitherways a very entertaining series.
karregaard
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Does anybody know anything about a website called 'Spiked Humour' ? There are a few episodes of The Rock n Roll years on it. so far 1966, 1977 and 1980. I'd Imagine they will get pulled before long. I would like to contact whoever posted them but its hard to contact members. I see you tube has some availible too.