I've just watched this from the other night and it was quite good as these kinds of programmes go. Glenn Matlock was very articulate, but Pete Burns now looks as if a firework has exploded in his face. They even resisted showing that clip of the Bill Grundy interview, which has to be a first for programmes of this kind.

One major complaint: no camera or microphone should ever be allowed anywhere remotely near Don Letts; he must be the most boring, monotonous person in the entire universe and ruins everything he takes part in. I ended up with my finger poised over the mute button, ready to silence him as soon as he appeared.

Rusty Egan must be Rylan's dad.

Great programme. Just watched the New Romantics one which was also great. Rusty is actually a really good talker inspite of the teeth 😁
So basically we can blame the Sex Pistols for Simply Red

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

Annie Nightingale looks like an embalmed Fern Cotton

Watched the Electronic Music episode
OMD gave the same interview, almost verbatim, that they gave for Synth Brittania

there rock-docs should be a 'must watch' for the younger generations. itll help give them context and highlight the differences between those times and these.

Ha. Some of the Reggae fraternity find Don fairly heavy going too. He seems to have spent a few decades discussing Punk's association with Reggae and how he was the focus of most everything.

For a long time that Bill Grundy clip was hard to see and now, for a longer time it's been hard not to see.

It's as if he's trying to be the most serious person in the world, completely without a sense of humour or even any emotions. He just goes on and on and on in that boring monotone... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The problem with these kind of docs is that they are usually based on the available footage of the broadcaster and opinion of the maker.

Music pioneer or oportunistic rag trade shop owner?

The Damned were just about ignored in both punk and goth episodes. Not the history I seem to remember.

This Trailblazer series has been quite good.

Yet on his BBC6 radio show he speaks in an annoyingly sing-song up & down style which, if anything, is even more irritating.