Arena - Yearning

A live performance filmed for BBC Arena's Texas Saturday Night in 1981and introduced by Kinky Friedman.

Arena is the BBC's multi award-winning arts strand.

Gil celebrates the women of his home state Bahia. Filmed in 1989 for the BBC Arena Rhythms of The World: Gilberto Gil.

The Everly's perform Barbara Allen and Put My Little Shoes Away, songs they learnt in their childhood home, at the Royal Albert Hall in 1989. Filmed for BBC Arena's Rhythms of The World: Three Sides of The South.

Clip from the BBC Arena Johnny Mercer: The Dream's on Me. Mercer talks about writing Sklyark and we see that song performed by Maude Maggart.

A sequence from BBC Arena's film A Brother with Perfect Timing which moves between Ibrahim (aka Dollar Brand) in his hotel room and images from his home country of South Africa.

Sandoval live at the Varadero music festival in Cuba. Taken from BBC Arena's Carribean Nights made in 1986.

Archive footage of John Lennon singing Imagine and of John and Yoko in 'The Imagine Room'. Taken from the 2003 BBC Arena film Imagine Imagine.

Georgie Fame plays with Van Morrison. Filmed for BBC Arena's 1991 film 'One Irish Rover'

Jorge Ben performs in London in 1993. Filmed for BBC Arena's Rhythms of The World: Jorge Ben in Performance.

Seeger sings the song her husband Ewan MacColl wrote for her at the beginning of their thirty year romance. Recorded in 1990 very shortly after MacColl had past away for the BBC Rhythms of The World: The Ballad of Ewan MacColl.

Frank Sinatra introduces Nat King Cole singing Unforgettable in a clip taken from BBC Arena's 1988 The Unforgettable Nat King Cole

The Everly Brothers sing All I Have to Do is Dream to their elderly Aunt. Filmed for the 1984 BBC Arena film Songs of Innocence and Experience

We find John Peel at home in his 1981 study. His wife and children play on the lawn as he listens to Misty's album 'In Roots' and muses on his love of Reggae and desire to have a longer show

John Lewis is recorded in 1993 Playing 'Round Midnight' in tribute to Dizzy Gillespie. From Arena: Cool (2009.

Paul and Linda McCartney, interviewed in 1992 for the BBC Arena 'Linda McCartney Behind The Lens', talk about their wedding and early marriage.

Director Anthony Wall introduces exiled South African Jazz trumpeter Masekela and we see him perform at his mobile recording studio on the South Africa / Botswana border. Clip taken from the 1985 Arena film Hugh Masekela 'The African Ambassador'

In a clip from Arena's 2010 Johnny Mercer - The Dream's on Me the voice of Jane Asher summarises the important career of lyracist and singer Johnny Mercer.

The connection between Bob Dylan and banjo plucking legend Doc Watson.

Elvis' meteoric rise to stardom never interfered with his love of a burger.

Caetano Veloso is filmed for the BBC Arena Bahia of All the Saints in his home near Salvador Bahia, he talks about his early life and his involvement in Candomble, we meet his mother and he performs the song Oju Oba

Tony Bennett is filmed for BBC Arena as he performs his signature tune at Ceasars in New York City in 1996. Taken from the film Tony Bennett's New York

David Eugene Edwards plays Cotton Mouth to a young girl who passes him in a southern wood. Taken from the 2004 BBC Arena film Searching for The Wrong Eyed Jesus.

The Opening of BBC Arena's 1998 film Frank Sinatra: The Voice of the Century. Sinatra performs I've Got You Under My Skin followed by testimony from Tony Bennet and Sammy Dennis Jnr. on his influence and importance