The Beat Room
BBC2's The Beat Room - billed as "30 minutes of
non-stop beat and shake" - delved more deeply into the
R&B music that Ready Steady Go! helped to popularise.
It featured a range of blues artists from both sides of the
Atlantic, including Sonny Boy
Williamson, Little Walter, Chris
Farlowe and Long John
Baldry.
The show also invented dancing troupe, The Beat Girls, who
three years later became Pans People on Top Of The Pops.
The high spot, backstage at least, was an over-excited John Lee
Hooker asking producer Michael Hurll to take him to Shepherds Bush
market so he could buy a gun to shoot a member of his touring band
who was getting on his nerves.
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