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Simon Bates and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 7 April 1983 and featuring Dexys Midnight Runners, Culture Club, Joboxers, Twisted Sister and Nick Heyward. Show more
Leonard Sachs chairs the old-time music hall programme. With Mike Reid, Wilma Reading, Denny Willis & Company, Sheila Mathews, Michael Darbyshire and Josephine Gordon. Show more
Glamour with a seventies subversive quality in this selection from the BBC's back pages. Roxy Music operate their Ladytron, Queen are Killer and Elton John is back.
A colourful nugget of pop mined from the BBC's archive, Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale, performed on Top of the Pops in 1967. Show more
Documentary telling the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured the UK's hearts with Bohemian Rhapsody. Show more
Concert by the rock band Queen from Christmas Eve 1975 at London's Hammersmith Odeon. The featured hits include Keep Yourself Alive, Liar, Now I'm Here and Bohemian Rhapsody. Show more
Compilation of classic archive performances from the guitar gods of the late 60s and 70s, including Status Quo, The Who, Dire Straits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Benson and Link Wray. Show more
Documentary showing how the long-playing album changed popular music for ever between the mid-1960s and the late 1970s by allowing artists to express themselves as never before. Show more
Simon Bates and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 7 April 1983 and featuring Dexys Midnight Runners, Culture Club, Joboxers, Twisted Sister and Nick Heyward. Show more
Documentary telling the story of Queen as it follows their journey from a band gigging at pubs and colleges to the moment they captured the UK's hearts with Bohemian Rhapsody. Show more
Compilation of classic archive performances from the guitar gods of the late 60s and 70s, including Status Quo, The Who, Dire Straits, Lynyrd Skynyrd, George Benson and Link Wray. Show more
