Tony Palmer’s All You Need is Love
July 15th, 2010 |
by Rob Horrocks
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Cultural studies, General, Music Consumption, Music as Culture, Music history | 3 Comments
Tony Palmer’s – All You Need is Love from Interactive Cultures on Vimeo.
Prof Tim Wall and Dr Paul Long presenting to the Sights and Sounds conference, University of Salford, June 2010. All You Need is Love is a 17 part documentary covering the Story of Popular Music. The program was originally broadcast between 1976 and 1981, but since that time it has neither been commercially released or repeated.
July 15th, 2010 at 6:14 pm (#)
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This comment was originally posted on Twitter
July 16th, 2010 at 11:25 pm (#)
News just in folks: AYNIL is repeated from this week on Sky Arts!
Now, this platform is quite a significant one and resonates with the focus of work that TW and I have been doing recently on the ‘Britannia’ series which featured so prominently in BBC4.
AYNIL in its original incarnation was produced for commercial TV. In fact, it ran for 17 weeks on ITV in a prime-time slot on Saturday night. For part of its run it was scheduled after ‘Rich Man, Poor Man’, the first TV ‘mini-series’ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074048/). More significantly, it competed against ‘Match of the Day’ on BBC1 and producer/director Tony Palmer has suggested that the BBC had to reschedule as a result (TBC).
That a series designed for the ‘mainstream’ viewer is now repeated as a connoisseurs piece on a niche channel has a lot to tell us about: repeats, audiences, taste cultures as well as many other aspects of the altered TV landscape.
Certainly, and as I hope TW would agree, the fact that terrestrial TV treats of pop and its history in rather facile manner (‘I’m in a Rock and Roll Band’, and other cartoons), indicates how briefly popular music bloomed as a space for serious cultural consideration.
Paul
July 25th, 2010 at 2:34 pm (#)
Hi Paul
They said on Sky Arts that the series is running for 4 months; do you know if that means that they plan to repeat it again as they’re getting to the end of the run next week? I stupidly managed to deleted Episode 1 from the Sky Box so hope that they are.
I am so pleased that is being shown again and especially glad to see Episode 8, as Steve wrote it.
It’s scary how well I remember Rich Man Poor Man too!!!
Lynne Chapman
Administrator
The Stephen Sondheim Society