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Thread #68563 Message #1155648
Posted By: GUEST
06-Apr-04 - 10:00 AM
Thread Name: Scorsese The Blues soon on BBC4
Subject: RE: Scorsese The Blues soon on BBC4
Well, you and I, we probably just really like the music, but it is as well to remember that movies, DVDs, cds, books, TV progs et al are viewed as product for sales and profit by their makers, and I can't help but feel that people are jumping on the Blues bandwagon. These people didn't do much to help these artists when they were alive. I recall that BBC Radio Times ran a cover photo of Buddy Holly about 25 years after his death and ran programmes and articles saying how great he was, when to my knowledge, Holly & the Crickets toured the UK and they was never once on the BBC. They ignored them completely I also recall that the BBC it was that banned an entirely innocuous recording of a rocked-up version of Griegs In the Hall of the Mountain King, by Nero & the Gladiators. Actually it was crap anyway, but I'm wandering off the point!