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Episode 5

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.

First broadcast in 2016.

1 hour

Last on

Sat 14 Apr 2018 04:00

Music Played

  • Elvis Presley

    Hard Headed Woman

    • Presley - The All Time Greatest Hit.
    • RCA.
    • PD-90100.
  • Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

    WOOLY BULLY

    • Sam The Sham & The Pharaohs.
    • Rock In Box Records.
    • RIBCD-042.
  • Wanda Jackson

    Funnel Of Love

    • HEART TROUBLE.
    • CMH.
    • CD-8708.
  • SQ脺RL feat. Madeline Follin

    Funnel Of Love

    • Only Lovers Left Alive (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • ATP/Recordings.
    • B00IGHWACA.
  • THE COMMODORES

    Machine Gun

    • BOOGIE NIGHTS ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK.
    • EMI.
    • 855631-4.
  • Julie London

    CRY ME A RIVER

    • AFTER MIDNIGHT.
    • VERVE.
    • 516-8712.
  • The Yardbirds

    STROLL ON

    • The In Crowd UK Mod R&B.
    • RPM.
    • RPM-226.
  • Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

    From Her To Eternity

    • Best Of.
    • Mute.
    • LCDMUTE-L4.
  • Sparks

    Big Boy

    • PROFILE: THE ULTIMATE SPARKS COLLECTION.
    • RHINO.
    • R2-70731.
  • The Three Degrees

    Everybody Gets To Go To The Moon

  • Quindon Tarver

    WHEN DOVES CRY

    • Baz Luhrmann's Romeo and Juliet.
    • Unknown.
  • David Bowie

    Nature Boy

    • Moulin rouge Soundtrack.
    • iNTERSCOPE.
    • na-na.
  • Cat Stevens

    Don't Be Shy

    • REMEMBER CAT STEVENS THE ULTIMATE COLLECTION.
    • ISLAND.
    • CID-8079.
  • X (Band)

    Breathless

    • More Fun in the New World.
    • Rhino.
    • R2 78257.

Broadcast

  • Sat 14 Apr 2018 04:00