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BBC Four Music Specials

Season 2001 2001

  • 2001-05-08T20:00:00Z on BBC Four
  • 1h 20m
  • 1h 20m (1 episode)
  • United Kingdom
  • Special Interest, Documentary
A legacy collection of one-off documentaries or live performance, which aired on BBC four, and were not part of the BBC Music series. Each episode examines music culture or history, an artist or band, music genre, or an aspect of a music style.

1 episode

Season Premiere

2001-05-08T20:00:00Z

2001x01 The New Romantics: A Fine Romance

Season Premiere

2001x01 The New Romantics: A Fine Romance

  • 2001-05-08T20:00:00Z1h 20m

Culture Club, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Marilyn, Adam and the Ants, Duran Duran, ABC... At the dawn of the 80s, a whole host of strangely dressed men in make-up burst forth onto the music scene brandishing synthesisers and kicking against the visual ugliness of punk.

They came mainly from the London club scene, led by gender-bending host Steve Strange and pioneering electronic DJ Rusty Egan, and conquered the charts with classic tracks such as Do You Really Want to Hurt Me, To Cut a Long Story Short, Kings of the Wild Frontier, Planet Earth, Fade to Grey, Calling Your Name and Poison Arrow.

Magenta Devine narrates this gay and colourful behind-the-scene documentary of sex & drugs & frocks & hair-rollers, which includes interviews with Boy George, Gary Kemp, Adam Ant, Nick Rhodes, Steve Strange, Rusty Egan, Marilyn, Jonathan Ross, Caryn Franklin, Fiona Bruce and Robert Elms.

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