Rewind: 60 Years of Welsh Pop

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From the swinging 60s to Cool Cymru, fantastic performances from the BBC Wales archives.

From the swinging sixties to Cool Cymru, fantastic performances from the BBC Wales archives.

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Rewind: 60 Years of Welsh Pop: Series 2: Cool Cymru

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Cool Cymru

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Revisiting a cultural movement that gave birth to 'Cool Cymru'.

Revisiting a cultural movement that began in the late 1990s. Welsh music, film and the arts experienced a cultural resurgence and ‘Cool Cymru’ was born.

This episode of Rewind revisits a cultural movement that began in the late 1990s. Welsh music, film and the arts experienced a cultural resurgence and ‘Cool Cymru’ was born.  

This was the era of Britpop, but Wales had its very own music scene going on. Stereophonics, Manic Street Preachers and Catatonia were proudly wearing the red dragon of Wales on their sleeve and were making waves across the globe. Super Furry Animals, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci, Feeder and Duffy also made a huge impact on the scene and we celebrate them all as we delve into the BBC archives for this compilation of great Cool Cymru performances.
  
With big hits such as A Design For Life, Buck Rogers and Mulder and Scully, we remember this golden age of music blasting out of Wales and onto the world stage.

Rewind: 60 Years of Welsh Pop: Series 2

Looking back at the last 60 years of Welsh pop.

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