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Season 1

  • S01E01 Joni Mitchell in Shadows and Light

    • October 6, 1980
    • BBC Two

    Part of a programme devised by Joni Mitchell and built around her concert at the Greek Theatre, Los Angeles, earlier this year.

  • S01E02 The Kinks

    • October 7, 1980
    • BBC Two

    Highlights from a concert given by The Kinks in front of an audience of 14,000 people in Providence, Rhode Island.

  • S01E03 Cream's Last Concert

    • October 8, 1980
    • BBC Two

    A chance, to see again part of the farewell performance of one of the premier British bands of the 60s. The concert was recorded at the Royal Albert Hall in November 1968.

  • S01E04 Rainbow

    • October 9, 1980
    • BBC Two

    Filmed highlights of their performance at the recent ' Monsters of Rock ' heavy metal music festival held at Castle Donnington in Derbyshire.

  • S01E05 Randy Newman

    • October 10, 1980
    • BBC Two

    A programme recorded for Dutch television in which the sardonic American singer/song-writer performs some of his songs with the ROTTERDAM SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.

Season 2

  • S02E01 Squeeze

    • August 30, 1982
    • BBC Two

    Tonight's live concert comes from the Regal Theatre, Hitchin. Squeeze, originally formed in 1973, recently had the satisfaction of playing to a capacity audience in New York's Madison Square Garden. Tonight's concert will feature past hits as well as new songs and they threaten to ask a few friends to join them on stage during the evening. Introduced by David Hepworth

  • S02E02 The Band

    • August 31, 1982
    • BBC Two

    After 16 years on the road, The Band staged a farewell concert that marked the end of a golden era for an entire generation of rock and they were joined on stage by one of the greatest line-ups of rock musicians ever to appear together. The Band RICK DANKO (bass, violin and vocal) LEVON HELM (drums, mandolin and vocal) GARTH HUDSON (organ, accordion, saxophone and synthesisers) RICHARD MANUEL (piano, keyboards, drums and vocal) ROBBIE ROBERTSON (lead guitar and vocal) Artists and songs Ronnie Hawkins : ' Who do you love' Dr John: Such a night' Neil Young: ' Helpless ' Staple Singers: The weight' Neil Diamond: Dry your eyes' Joni Mitchell : Coyote ' Paul Butterfield : Mystery train' Muddy Waters: ' Mannish boy ' Eric Clapton : Further on up the road' Emmylou Harris : ' Evangeline' Van Morrison : Caravan' Bob Dylan : Forever young' and ' Baby let me follow you down' Ringo Starr , Ron Wood and all: ' I shall be released'

  • S02E03 The Doors

    • September 1, 1982
    • BBC Two

    No One Here Gets Out Alive A profile of Jim Morrison Recently there has been a strongly revived interest in one of the foremost cult bands of the 60s-the Doors. This film attempts, with the help of friends and associates, to discover what motivated the band s I iead - singer - JIM MORRISON - leading to his early death in Paris in July 1971.