This six part documentary on The Beach Boys has been broadcast on BBC6 before, but it holds up for another spin/stream. Originally from 1973 and hosted by Bob Harris.
Enjoy!
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This six part documentary on The Beach Boys has been broadcast on BBC6 before, but it holds up for another spin/stream. Originally from 1973 and hosted by Bob Harris.
Enjoy!
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Really not a single BB fan around here?
I mentioned this to my wife yesterday, as The Beach Boys are one of the few areas where our musical interests overlap. If the documentary is from ’73, that would date it to the time around the Holland album, perhaps their most interesting period. Haven’t heard this before, so I’m looking forward to tuning in. Thanks for the heads up.
Not ’73, I was wrong there. It’s goes up to 15 Big Ones, which Harris rightfully considers a let down.
Lots on the early seventies though. Very good era for the band.
First episode only available for three more days. Hurry!
Where’s HP when you need him? Back in the day this thread would have had 97 comments by now. Let’s all have a moment’s silence for our dearly-loved departed ones.
Even that one who keeps putting his hand up your bottom?
He’s gone too I’m afraid – all gone, all gone
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Its a great series, re-broadcast every so often. I have it saved from a while back using that lovely Get Iplayer software which remarkably still works. Love this era, especially Surfs Up and Sunflower. Always good when BBC6 repeat the Beatles story and Rolling Stones story which were also from 1973. The year all these retrospective radio series started it would seem.
That one on the Stones, transmitted in 1973, goes into huge detail about largely forgotten incidents (e.g. a potential Hillsborough-type tragedy narrowly averted at an early festival in Richmond), and was high profile enough for Jagger to be on the cover of the Radio Times.
…are you sure that wasn’t the week that he did Jackanory?