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BBC Music to put spotlight on the 1950s
By Chris Cooke | Published on Monday 14 March 2016
The BBC last week announced plans for a bunch of programmes celebrating music from the 1950s. This will be the first of a series of celebrations under the banner ‘BBC Music: My Generation’, which will see the spotlight put in turn on each decade of the latter half of the 20th century.
The first set of programmes, which will actually focus on the mid-1950s through to the mid-1960s, will air next month and will include a Tom Jones-led documentary about the period on BBC2, and BBC4 programmes about Billy Fury and The Everly Brothers. Radio 2 will set up a whole station dedicated to music from the 1950s, albeit for just four days, while 6 Music will air programmes looking at the alternative side of music from the era hosted by the likes of Iggy Pop, Stuart Maconie and Richard Hawley.
Says BBC Music boss Bob Shennan: “Only the BBC can present such a diverse season of multiplatform programming looking at the decade where popular music began – the 1950s. Radio, television and online will be celebrating the musical decades with a huge range of programming that will satisfy music fans of all ages and tastes”.
