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Episode 3

Mark Kermode takes us on a unique and personal tour of the last six decades of pop music and film. First broadcast in 2016.

It could be argued that modern pop music began in the mid 1950s with Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley and the Comets. This iconic song was used for the opening credits of the teen high school drama Blackboard Jungle in 1955, and then, a year later, the movie Rock Around the Clock came out featuring Bill and The Comets in a fictionalised account of the birth of rock n roll.

More than 60 years on, Mark Kermode brings us a unique and personal tour of his very own Celluloid Jukebox. In each programme we will hear music from the six decades that cinema and pop music have been partners. The musical selection will be eclectic and free flowing - sometimes connected by theme or genre, sometimes by year or artist and sometimes through Mark's particular and personal associations. He shares anecdotes and gives context to the choices, and each programme will feature extracts of dialogue from some of the films featured, as well as other audio archive.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 3 Oct 2020 04:00

Music Played

  • Slade

    Them Kinda Monkeys Can't Swing

    • SLADE IN FLAMES.
    • POLYDOR.
    • 849-182-2.
  • The Chantays

    PIPELINE

    • TEEN BEAT VOL.3 (VARIOUS ARTISTS).
    • ACE.
    • CDCHD-602.
  • Pink Floyd

    Obscure By Clouds

    • OBSCURED BY CLOUDS.
    • HARVEST.
    • SHSP-4020.
  • Seo Jorge

    Starman

    • The Life Aquatic.
    • EMI.
    • n/a-n/a.
  • The Soggy Bottom Boys

    I'M A MAN OF CONSTANT SORROW

    • OH BROTHER WHERE ART THOU?.
    • MERCURY.
    • 170-069 2.
  • The Wonders

    THAT THING YOU DO!

    • THAT THING YOU DO! (SOUNDTRACK).
    • PLAY-TONE/EPIC.
    • EK-67828.
  • THE FOLSKMEN

    OLD JOE'S PLACE

    • A MIGHTY WIND OST.
    • DMZ/COLUMBIA.
    • 512656-2.
  • Noel Harrison

    Windmills of Your Mind

    • WESTERN HOUSE WONDERS- VOLUME 1.
    • UNITED ARTISTS.
    • ULP-1218.
  • Visioneers

    SHAFT IN AFRICA

  • Joan Baez

    Rejoice in the Sun

    • Rejoice In The Sun.
    • MCA Records.
    • MCS-5899.
  • Cat鈥檚 Eyes

    The Duke Of Burgundy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)

  • Julee Cruise & Angelo Badalamenti

    Questions In A World Of Blue

    • Questions In A World Of Blue.
    • Warners.
    • 1574.
  • Bobby Womack

    ACROSS 110TH STREET

    • JACKIE BROWN OST.
    • MAVERICK.
    • 9362-46841-2.
  • Interpol

    Rest My Chemistry

    • Our Love to Admire.
    • Capitol.
    • 8.
  • U2

    Bad

    • Island.
  • Cassius

    Action (feat. Mike D & Cat Power)

    • Polydor/Interscope.

Broadcasts

  • Thu 12 Apr 2018 01:00
  • Thu 8 Nov 2018 01:00
  • Tue 5 Nov 2019 01:00
  • Sat 3 Oct 2020 04:00