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The Rock 'n' Roll Years

on BBC One London

1963
The last programme in the series which revisits the years when rock 'n' roll began, connecting the events with the music via newsreels, headlines, movies, broadcasts and rock performance footage. The news - Gaitskell dies and Wilson becomes Leader of the Opposition,
Khruschev and Kennedy sign a test ban treaty, Martin Luther King leads the Washington march, Profumo is disgraced, Cooper floors
Clay, JFK is assassinated and Doctor Who is born.
The music - BOBBY VEE ,
GERRY AND THE PACEMAKERS, JAN AND DEAN, THE BEATLES, PETER, PAUL AND MARY and THE SEARCHERS.
Videotape editor ANDY QUESTED Research DENISE SMITH Producer ANN FREER

Contributors

Unknown:
Martin Luther King
Music:
Bobby Vee

BBC One London

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BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

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