Radio 2 – 60s Season
Programmes: August and September
Ray Mazarek's Summer Of Love
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In this exclusive programme, Ray Manzarek, keyboard player with legendary band The Doors, takes listeners on a fascinating journey, exploring the musical roots of a band who shaped the sound of the Sixties and the Summer of Love – 1967.
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The programme features music by Jo Stafford, Patti Page, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Them featuring Van Morrison, The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles as well as The Doors.
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"It's a real pleasure to be able to share these tracks with Radio 2 listeners," says Ray. "Light My Fire was the number one record in America in the middle of the Summer of Love. So in this programme, I'll be playing the records that influenced The Doors and helped develop the sound that we created."
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Ray Mazarek's Summer Of Love
Saturday 4 August 2007, 8.00-9.00pm
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Elvis And Me
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Paul McCartney and Robert Plant are among the Elvis Presley fans
taking part in Elvis and Me – a programme marking the 30th anniversary of
Presley's death featuring both famous and "ordinary" fans talking about
what Elvis means to them.
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Through their reflections of The King and his music the programme
explores the emotional connection Elvis's fans felt and the adoration he
still commands 30 years after his death.
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The programme includes interviews with famous Presley fans Alan
Bleasdale, Paul McCartney, Robert Plant, Tim Rice, Cliff Richard
and Jimmy Webb and memories from those who worked closely with him – his
backing group The Jordanaires, guitarist James Burton and songwriters
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller who penned some of his most successful
hits.
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Elvis and Me
Saturday 11 August 2007, 8.00-9.00pm
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Elvis – 68 Comeback
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The amazing impact and legacy of a TV special filmed for NBC called Elvis, now better know as Elvis's 68 Comeback special, is explored in
this one-hour documentary.
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Elvis stands as one of the great television moments in rock music
history and a stunningly brilliant milestone in Elvis Presley's career.
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Elvis rocked the world in the Fifties, a leader among musicians who brought
about a revolution in music and pop culture.
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Through most of the Sixties he
concentrated mainly on his movie career, which was very successful, but
had become a grind and had not given him many opportunities to prove
himself as a serious actor.
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By 1968, it had been more than seven years
since Elvis had appeared on stage in front of a live audience. In this
television special, Elvis played his greatest role - simply being
himself.
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Elvis – 68 Comeback
Tuesday 14 August 2007, 10.30-11.30pm
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Don't Start Me Talking – About Elvis
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The groundbreaking oral history programme Don't Start Me Talking returns
to get the public talking about their love of The King.
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Don't Start Me Talking – About Elvis
Wednesday 15 August 2007, 11.00-11.30pm
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The Hippy Trail
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In the Sixties a few adventurous European and American youngsters, lured by
tales of mystical experiences as well as sex and drugs, made their way
through North Africa, the Middle East, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan,
to India.
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In an age before cheap flights, it was a long and arduous
journey overland, often made on very little money.
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When The Beatles and their entourage went as well, the trickle of hippies
became a flood and through the Seventies India became the place to find a new
way of life, on the beach, selling trinkets and living on a few pennies a
day.
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In this programme, writer Hardeep Singh Kohli travels through India from
the Sikh Golden Temple, where many hippies took advantage of free food
and lodging, to the beaches of Goa, where he finds the strange drop-out
remnants of another age.
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The programme features the music of not just the Sixties, but also the hippy
soundtrack of the Seventies, Eighties and Nineties, including the enormously popular Goan
Trance scene.
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The Hippy Trail
Tuesday 11 September 2007, 10.30-11.30pm
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A Taste Of Summer
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1967 was The Summer of Love, when beatnik folk gave way to hippie rock
and Hendrix set his Stratocaster ablaze.
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A Taste Of Summer marks the anniversary of an extraordinary musical and
social flowering, when hundreds of thousands of hippies descended on San
Francisco to protest against war and expand their minds.
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This programme chronicles a community who danced to the Grateful Dead and
Jefferson Airplane, believing they would still be dancing when the sun
rose on a New Age. Some of them are dancing still.
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A Taste Of Summer
Saturday 22 September 2007, 8.00-9.00pm
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Don't Start Me Talking 2 – About Radio
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This episode of Don't Start Me Talking gives a voice to the most
important person in the radio equation – the listener.
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This is the story of the last days of the 91Èȱ¬'s Light Programme and the
birth of Radio 2 told entirely in the words of the great British public.
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If you were there, it's how you remember it. If you weren't - this is how
it was!
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Don't Start Me Talking 2 – About Radio
Wednesday 26 September 2007, 11.00-11.30pm
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1967 Radio Soundscape
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This Rock 'n' Roll Years-style documentary covers the music, news and
events of September 1967.
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1967 Radio Soundscape
Saturday 29 September 2007, 8.00-9.00pm
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