A British film about a pirate radio ship featuring performances by Kenneth Cope, Patsy Rowlands and the late great Kenny Everett. Police foil a racket…
Browsing: Music on Film & TV
1 9 6 7 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 152 x 45 minute episodes 31-year-old Simon Dee (born Cyril Henty-Dodd) hosted this 45-minute programme from…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 13 x 30 minute episodes This short-lived BBC music show aired on Saturday nights from January to March 1959. Introduced…
1 9 7 0 – 1 9 7 1 (UK) 68 x 30 minute episodes Disco 2 – or Lineup’s Disco 2 as it was initially billed…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 26 x 25 minute episodes When Rediffusion’s Five O’Clock Club ended in 1966, producer Muriel Young moved to…
1 9 6 1 – 1 9 6 5 (UK) 215 x 25 minute episodes Discs-A-GoGo was a weekly pop music programme produced by TWW (Television…
Quickie follow-up to the enormously successful Rock Around The Clock (1956), also featuring the granddaddy of rock’n’roll – Bill Haley and his Comets. There’s great period value in…
An effort by Columbia Pictures to capitalise on the Twist dance craze, produced by notorious cost-cutter Sam Katzman as a virtual remake of Don’t Knock The Rock (1956). The…
In April 1965, when Bob Dylan arrived for a two-week tour of Britain, director D.A. Pennebaker followed his entourage around, filming him in concert, in…
Although the title would have you believe that this is a biopic of the entire band, we learn next to nothing about Ray Manzarek, John…
1 9 5 9 (UK) 22 x 30 minute episodes Drumbeat was the BBC’s attempt to rival ITV’s Oh Boy!, aiming to capture the growing teenage…
When an aristocratic family hits hard times, they encourage their son Tony (Tommy Steele) to marry a Ruritarian princess (June Laverick) to get them out…
1 9 6 6 – 1 9 6 9 (UK) 27 x 25 minute shows During 1966, Dusty Springfield provided a six-show BBC TV series. Dudley…
1 9 8 4 (UK) 23 x 60 minute episodes Hosted by DJ and American football commentator Nicky Horne with DJ/columnist Gary Crowley and journalist Lesley-Ann…
Fisherman – Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962) Commercial Photographer – Live A Little, Love A Little (1968) Water Skiing Instructor – Clambake (1967) Frogman – Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)…
1 9 5 6 – Current (Europe) It has been called “a monument to drivel” but the annual show has topped television ratings since the first…
Small-time comically Jewish talent agent Johnny Jackson (Laurence Harvey) tries to hit the big time with a bongo player named Bert Rudge (Cliff Richard), whom he…
1 9 8 7 – 1 9 8 9 (Australia) 72 x 180 minute episodes The Factory was an Australian music programme that aired for…
This British film about a music contest in Liverpool was created strictly as a showcase for Gerry and The Pacemakers who had a hit with…
1 9 6 3 – 1 9 6 6 (UK) 120 x 25 minute episodes Every Tuesday and Friday tea time from 1963 to 1966, children…