Hellraisers

This tv documentary is about how mental Richard Harris, Oliver Reed, Keith Moon, Ozzy Osbourne and even the snooker player Alex Higgins were. It was made in the late 90s so Liam Gallagher is held up as the current bad boy. Highly amusing. The whole doc is entertaining and also bananas, and sometimes sad. G'wan the lads. Richard Harris, what a legend.
 
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I've posted a couple of other good documentaries - check out this one about Björk and David Attenborough, and this one about Nile Rodgers.

When Björk Met Attenborough

"The line blurs between music and nature, 

because that's almost like the same thing to me." - Björk

Björk met up with David Attenborough during the making of Biophilia. This documentary show them talking and is basically an hour long love-in for nature, the universe and all things musical. It shows some of the amazing lengths Björk went to and some of the amazing intruments people have made, using tesla coils and massive pendulums to harness physical forces and turn them into visual and musical instruments. ("Bjorks creativity is sometimes ahead of what we can do technically") and has David Attenborough being a total legend as per usual. Oliver Sacks also features, talking about the amazing power of music on memory. Beautiful.

"No, I love nature more"

Bjork plays The Electric Picnic this year, get tickets here.

bjork.com/

Nile Rodgers: The Hitmaker (full 1 hour BBC documentary)

Get this in your disco lovin' head holes:



(Thanks Jim for the heads up!)

nilerodgers.com/

The Story of Funk - 3 part BBC 6 Music radio show with Pam Grier

Pam Grier (most famous for her role as Foxy Brown) narrates a BBC 6 Music 3 part documentary about the history of funk.  Really well put together and perfect for lazy post-Christmas listening.  Available to listen again for a few more days. For more info about the documentary click here, or just click below to go straight into listening on the BBC iplayer:

Part 1: Funk Used To Be A Bad Word
(available for 3 more days)

bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01pd2x6

Part 2: Let's Take It To The Stage
(available for 4 more days)

bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01pgmhg

Part 3: From P-Funk To G-Funk
(available for 5 more days)

bbc.co.uk/radio/player/b01pgmv6

www.bbc.co.uk/6music