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Originally shown on BBC4 but currently being rerun on BBC2 on Saturday.

Watched the first episode and structurally it was completely hopeless - trying to get too much into too little space with no idea about how to join the dots - but the archive and interview footage was excellent. Wish they'd gone for a thorough 13 or 26-part job because Larry Parnes' story for one deserved more than five or ten minutes.

― Dingbod Kesterson, Monday, 18 August 2008 08:13 (eighteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

Fuck that was awful.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty bad. I liked the first one, because it's an era of British music that doesn't get mentioned in docs much, except as a precursor to the 60's. Last programme was funny, with Pete Waterman claiming he almost qualified as a punk because the NME hated him. Not enough Townshend or Tennant, possibly too much Albarn, fortunately no Oasis whatsoever...

― snoball, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on Waterman's side here. The most absurd either/or "argument" I've ever seen in a BBC music documentary series - no wonder there was no writing credit.

And Alex McGillicuddy out of Franz Ferdinand really ought to be taken out the back of a barn etc.

― Marcello Carlin, Monday, 1 September 2008 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

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