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He was lanky, he wore glasses and he sang as if permanently battling hiccups. Aesthetically, Buddy Holly might have been the most unlikely-looking rock ’n’ roll star of the 1950s. But he was, after Elvis Presley, unquestionably the most influential.
It was an all-too-brief career that lasted barely eighteen months from ‘That’ll Be The Day’ topping the Billboard charts to the plane crash in February, ...
“Harmonies from Heaven” celebrates –over the period of the end of the 1950s and the beginning of the ‘ 60’s– the phenomenon of the Everly Brothers, arguably the greatest harmony duo that the world has ever witnessed, who directly influenced the greatest and most successful bands of the 60s and 70s, the Beatles, the Stones, the Beach Boys and Simon & Garfunkel to name but ...
“I want to make people cry even when they don’t understand my words.” Edith Piaf
In this unique film for BBC FOUR we explore the story of the lyric-driven French chanson and look at some of the greatest artists and examples of the form.
Award-winning singer and musician Petula Clark who shot to stardom in France in the late 1950’s for her nuanced singing and lyrical exploration ...
This film tells, in Carole’s own words, of her family and her upbringing in Brooklyn, and the subsequent success that she had as half of husband and wife songwriting team Goffin & King for Aldon Music on Broadway.
It was during this era in the early sixties that they created a string of pop hits such as ‘Take Good Care of My Baby’ for Bobby Vee, ‘The ...
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons may be the most widely heard piece of classical music ever composed. As the composer Max Richter suggests, “The piece is part of the musical landscape, and a part of my daily life. I hear it in supermarkets, and it’s always turning up in TV ads.” He has approached his “Vivaldi Recomposed”-project as an admirer ...