Arena - Rage
Explore the emotion of rage in music through the Arena music documentary archive.
The Specials- Message to You Rudy—Arena
The Specials are filmed for the BBC Arena Rudies Come Back (1980). The band describe 'rude boys' and perform their song Message to You Rudy
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Gilberto Gil- Un Samba Provocação—Arena
Gil performs the bitter comic track Da Bob Dylan A Bob Marley: Un Samba Provocacao. Filmed in 1989 for the BBC Arena Rhythms of The World: Gilberto Gil.
Robert Cray - The Last Time—Arena
Robert Cray performs Live, filmed for the BBC Arena Rhythms of The World: Robert Cray Live! in Atlanta, Georgia in 1989.
Caetano Veloso - Charlie Angel 45—Arena
Veloso sings Jorge Ben's song as part of BBC Arena's 1988 All on a Mardi Gras Day
Ramblin' Jack Elliot - Pretty Boy Floyd—Arena
Ramblin Jack Elliot performs Woody Guthrie's song Pretty Boy Floyd in 1988 for BBC Arena's film Woody Guthrie
Woody Guthrie - Ranger's Command—Arena
Rare film footage of Woody Guthrie singing Ranger's Command.
Ian Dury- Clever Trevor—Arena
The track Clever Trevor as used in the 1987 BBC Arena film Night Moves which documents the lives and trials of the long distance truck driver.
Ruben Blades- El Padre Antonio—Arena
Blades performes El Padre Antonio. Recording taken from BBC Arena's Carribean Nights made in 1986.
Mighty Sparrow- Slave—Arena
Mighty Sparrow performing his hit song Slave. Recording taken from BBC Arenas Carribean Nights - Calypso, Carnival and Steel Pan, made in 1986.
Chuck Brown and The Soul Searchers—Arena
Chuck Brown and his band perform in a Washington DC club for BBC Arena's 1986 film Welcome to the Go-Go.
Jerry Lee Lewis on The Holy Ghost—Arena
Lewis talks about who's in control (The Holy Ghost) and we see an archive clip of him playing Breathless on American Bandstand in 1957. Taken from BBC Arena's The Jerry Lee Lewis Story (1990)
Ewan McColl - My Old Man—Arena
McColl filmed singing his song My Old Man.Taken from the 1990 BBC Arena, Rhythms of The World film The Ballad of Ewan MacColl.
Vernon Oxford - Power in the Blood—Arena
Country music preacher Vernon Oxford performs in a church on the Shankhill road in 1989. Taken from the BBC Arena film Power in the Blood
Michael Smith- Me Cyaan Believe It—Arena
Smith perfoms his most famous work in 1982 at Lambeth Town Hall. Filmed by BBC for the Arena film Upon Westminster Bridge
Pete Doherty - F*ck Forever—Arena
Pete Doherty is filmed performing F*ck Fovever for BBC's 2006 profile of the musician Arena: Pete Doherty
Slayer - Raining Blood—Arena
Slayer perform Raining Blood and lead singer Tom Araya explains the song's imagery in the 1989 BBC Arena programme Heavy Metal.
Black Sabbath - War Pigs—Arena
Black Sabbath perform War Pigs in 1971. Taken from the 1989 BBC Arena programme, Heavy Metal.
Jess Conrad bites off fellow singer Heinz's nose—Arena
Jess Conrad describes his rivalry and violent confrontation with fellow 1960s singer Heinz. Taken from Arena: The Strange Story of Joe Meek (1991).
Working Week - The Art of Ligging—Arena
Working week back this musical interlude from Nigel Finch's 1985 BBC Arena film Ligmalion
Brenda Fassie - Good Black Woman—Arena
We see Brenda Fassie in her house with her brother and then as she performs 'Good Black Woman' to an enraptured audience in Capetown. Excerpted from Arena: Brenda Fassie (1993).
Dizzie Gillespie stabs Cab Calloway—Arena
A clip from BBC Arena's 'A Tribute to Dizzy Gillespie' in which director Anthony Wall and Gillespie's contemporary Milt Hinton tells of a face off between Gillespie and Cab Calloway.
The Grateful Dead- Stagger Lee—Arena
The Grateful Dead performing 'Stagger Lee. From the BBC Arena Production 'The Grateful and The Dead' (1993)
Fela Kuti - Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense—Arena
Fela Kuti explains the meaning of his name and performs Teacher Don't Teach Me Nonsense. From the 1984 BBC Arena film of the same name
