Music TV - February 17 - 23

More reggae this week with programmes featuring Toots & The Maytals and Bob Marley as BBC Four's Reggae Britannia season continues. There's also more sunshine sounds with a documentary on the music of the late great Beach Boy, Dennis Wilson.

Friday 18 February - BBC Four

1930 - 2100: Salzburg Festival Part One

Founded for political reasons, used by the Nazis for political reasons, revived after the Second World War by the US Army for political reasons, dominated for two decades by Herbert von Karajan, a double member of the Nazi party and rescued by Gerard Mortier who believed that all art has a political purpose, the Salzburg Festival remains the most important music festival in Europe - contentious, outrageous and with a phenomenally high standard of performance.

This is the first full-length history of this tortured, annual cultural bun-fight, with an all-star cast including Herbert von Karajan, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Georg Solti, Simon Rattle, Riccardo Muti, James Levine, Karl Bohm, Toscanini, Placido Domingo, Valery Gergiev and more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymlj0

2100 - 2200: Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul

Repeated: BBC Four - Friday 2600, Sunday 2330

The untold story of one of the most influential artists ever to come out of Jamaica, Toots Hibbert, featuring intimate new performances and interviews with Toots, rare archive from throughout his career and interviews with contemporaries and admirers including Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Jimmy Cliff, Bonnie Raitt, Willie Nelson, Marcia Griffiths and Paolo Nutini.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymljb

Toots Hibbert of Toots & The Maytals

2200 - 2330: Reggae at the BBC

Repeated: BBC Four - Friday 2700, Sunday 2430

An archive celebration of great reggae performances filmed in the BBC Studios, drawn from programmes such as The Old Grey Whistle Test, Top of the Pops and Later... with Jools Holland, and featuring the likes of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Gregory Isaacs, Desmond Dekker, Burning Spear, Althea and Donna, Dennis Brown, Buju Banton and many more.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymljd

View more clips featuring the greats of British Reggae as part of BBC Four's Reggae Britannia season.

2330 - 2430: Toots & The Maytals at Glastonbury 2010

Repeated: BBC Four - Sunday 2600

Mark Radcliffe introduces a set from Jamaica's Toots & The Maytals on the West Holts Stage, recorded at Glastonbury 2010.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00syzjc

2430 - 2600: Arena - Bob Marley Exodus '77

Marley's legendary concert at the Rainbow in the summer of 1977 took reggae music and the message of Rastafaria to a world that hitherto had been exposed to neither. The programme is a visual evocation of the world of 1977, a world that seems very far away now, and of the spirit of Marley's most significant album. It is not a film about the making of an album, it's a film about an artist and his world; about the impact of the world on Bob Marley and of Bob Marley on the world.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007np3m

Saturday 19 February - BBC Four

2355 - 2455: Love Songs at the BBC: A Valentine's Day Special

Repeated: BBC Four - Saturday 2655

It's a time for guilty pleasures, for courtship, for declarations of love, for looking someone in the eye and whispering sweet nothings, accompanied by a compilation of some of the squishiest love songs from the likes of Celine Dion, Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes, Jason and Kylie, 10cc and Lionel Richie, all from the Top of the Pops era. If Hot Chocolate and Chaka Khan don't get the temperatures rising, then nothing will.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ymh70



2455 - 2555: Legends - Dennis Wilson: The Real Beach Boy

Dennis Wilson was the drummer in The Beach Boys. And he was the real Beach Boy. In a band of geeks who sang about surfing, cars and girls, Dennis was the only one who surfed, the one who drove hot rod cars in competition and the one who got all the girls.

This documentary tells the story of Dennis's life and music, with unseen archive footage and original interviews with Beach Boys Al Jardine and David Marks, his sons Michael and Carl and many friends and fellow musicians. These include Taylor Hawkins, drummer with the Foo Fighters who provided a vocal for the lost track on Pacific Ocean Blue, Holy Man, for which Dennis never laid down a vocal when he recorded the song in 1977.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00r0t24

Dennis Wilson

Monday 21 February - BBC Four

2300 - 2400: Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation

Affectionate but honest portrait of Thin Lizzy, arguably the best hard rock band to come out of Ireland.

Starting with the remix of the classic album Jailbreak by Scott Gorham and Brian Downie, the film takes us through the rollercoaster ride that is the story of Thin Lizzy. From early footage of singer Phil Lynott in Ireland in his pre-Lizzy bands the Black Eagles and Orphanage, it follows his progress as he, guitarist Eric Bell and drummer Brian Downie form the basic three-piece that was to become Thin Lizzy - a name taken from the Beano.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xln7l

Next week, choice viewing featuring the likes of Steve Winwood, Tom Petty and James Taylor and Carole King.