Here's the link to last night's BBC2 programme on rock guitarists (region restricted)
It features Johnny M playing the intro to 'This Charming Man' intercut with James from the Manics struggling with the same. The I'm In A Rock & Roll Band series is produced by John Piper, who made The Brit Girls and My Generation programmes for Channel Four with me back in the 1990s. We also worked together on the T. Rex: Dandy In The Underworld documentary with valuable contributions from Mozz and Boz Boorer. (Available on the TV Rex On TV DVD)
This episode of I'm In A Rock & Roll Band is directed by Matt O'Casey, another of our Manchester music-loving production colleagues. (Matt made When Boxing Ruled The World with me for BBC1 and recently did the BBC4 programme on Dennis Wilson.)
There haven't been enough good music docs on British telly in recent years so it's good to see programmes like I'm In A Rock & Roll Band getting a decent budget and a good primetime TV slot. The series comes out of the same BBC department that produces Later...With Jools Holland. Mark Cooper is the head man there.
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