British glam rock superstars Slade made their collective acting debut in this drama about a pop group’s struggles with success. In the late 1960s, Barry…
Browsing: Music on Film & TV
1 9 7 6 – 1 9 7 7 (Australia) 425 x 25 minute episodes This daily pop music-centric magazine show from the Australian ABC was…
1 9 6 5 (UK) 35 x 30 minute episodes A sequel to The Beat Room, the Monday evening show Gadzooks! It’s All Happening offered the same kind…
1 9 8 2 – 1 9 8 3 (UK) 6 x 60 minute episodes This Channel 4 music programme was hosted by Rick Wakeman and…
1 9 7 4 – 1 9 7 6 (UK) 30 minute episodes This rock and soul music show from Tyne Tees TV featured the talents…
1 9 7 7 – 1 9 8 1 (UK) 92 x 30 minute episodes Get It Together was a weekly TV pop show – filmed…
A pretty young student called Terry (former ‘Miss America 1959’ Mary Ann Mobley) gets into trouble when she’s exposed as the songwriter of some disreputable…
This 24-carat piece of 60s pop trivia was made as a showcase for the popular British blues-soul band The Spencer Davis Group. The band are…
Gimme Shelter follows The Rolling Stones on their 1969 US tour, catching them at their absolute apex. Interspersed with the live concert footage we see the negotiations between…
This rock ‘n’ roll comedy starring Tom Ewell and the pneumatic Jayne Mansfield is witty, stylish, clever and (by today’s standards) extraordinarily sexist. Tom Miller…
Long before “Glasto” became all about high fences, giant video screens and corporate advertising, the events were far simpler – based around the summer solstice,…
Although promoted in cinemas as a feature film, Go-Go Big Beat was actually made up of three shorter documentaries: Swinging UK, UK Swings Again and Mods and Rockers. The…
Jimmy Clanton stars as Johnny Melody, a poor orphan boy who makes it big through a talent search held by Alan Freed. The hardships, ironies and…
1 9 6 4 – 1 9 6 7 (Australia) 222 x 55 minute episodes Go!! first went to air on 4 August 1964, four…
A rock gospel according to Saint Matthew, David Greene’s Godspell was derived from the successful stage show which debuted off-Broadway in 1971. Play and screenplay author…
When Dennis Quaid – all duded out and blonded up as Jerry Lee Lewis – swaggers to the stage to pump a piano and sing…
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren’s self-aggrandising, self-congratulatory rewrite of recent history. His beloved Sex Pistols figured only as puppets, with McLaren tugging…
1 9 6 9 – 1 9 7 5 (Australia) Today, music shows on television are as common as bread and butter. But in 1969, the…
1 9 6 8 – 1 9 6 9 (USA) Imitating his earlier show, Where the Action Is, Dick Clark again employed Mark Lindsay and Paul Revere,…
The Beatles first feature film was a surprisingly sensational comedy, which revolved around a fictional 36 hours in their hectic schedule during a trip to London.…