How many more times on BBC4

Devil#20

...are they going to show Freddy Mercury and Queen documentaries. Bar a few tracks they were bobbins. Some of their albums are dire and not a single good track on them IMO. Like many bands were underrated Queen, again IMNSHO were always overrated. 1 and 2 and SHA were reasonably good albums but beyond that they pandered to the audience and were never as good after that.

Shrews

What times it on? Asking for a friend.

Funkfingers

Devil#20 said:

...are they going to show Freddie Mercury and Queen documentaries?

That old content is on AGAIN as a cheap alternative for viewers who do not care for whatever is being shown on BBC1 or BBC2. (Eurovision Song Contest preview hype.)  

lustycourtier

Queen are the only fools and horses of music. People who claim to love them can only name a few classics and conviently forget the rubbish. 

viz

Devil#20 said:

1 and 2 and SHA were reasonably good albums

(The third of which is in D, by the way)

scrumhalf

That's still way behind Sky Arts who will happily show hour after hour after hour of Andre Rieu. 

prowla

I thought this was going to be a Led Zep thread.

Sporky

lustycourtier said:

Queen are the only fools and horses of music. People who claim to love them can only name a few classics and conviently forget the rubbish. 

Yet more proof that we need wizlols. 

Cols

They’ll keep showing them while Queen remain popular and relevant.

With about 300 million album sales they’re one of the most successful bands in history, and remain enormously popular on streaming.  The remains of the band still tour with Adam Lambert and pack out stadiums worldwide, and to be frank the audience are not there primarily for Lambert.

The biographical film Bohemian Rhapsody grossed over $1 billion, which is pretty unusual for a musical biopic.  Evidently people are fascinated by the life stories and personalities beyond the music.

Although you don’t like Queen, plenty of people obviously do.  

EricTheWeary

There has been no new content produced for BBC4 for years now due to BBC cuts. So they keep recycling the same material and so on their rock/pop music night that's going to start seeming obvious after a while. 
But Queen pretty much one of the biggest bands in the history of modern popular music, it's not hard to see it as a safe bet tucked into Friday night. 

fretmeister

I love them.

And I don’t care that there’s dross with the excellence. That’s true of every band. Apart from Pink Floyd as they never had a single good song.

ooo! Music is subjective! Whodathunkit? 

snowblind

I thought this thread was going was going to be about the Led Zep doc they had on the other night too. Not that I got to see much of it as good lady wife hates Plant's voice and insisted I change the channel.

I'm also one of those who doesn't quite get Queen's apparent monstrous appeal. Every time I hear that their Greatest Hits is the best selling album in UK history I succumb to a momentary bafflement followed quickly after by relief that I never bought it myself.

darthed1981

lustycourtier said:

Queen are the only fools and horses of music. People who claim to love them can only name a few classics and conviently forget the rubbish. 

Quite a good analogy - but aren't most bands the same?

Very few consistently reach the quality across their catalogue that their most ardent fans attribute to them.

Queen are probably exceptional in that very few people who claim Queen to be their favourite band own more than that box set with the three greatest hits albums in (back when owning things was a thing).

Musical_Mystery_Tour

Cols said:

With about 300 million album sales they’re one of the most successful bands in history,

Then again, even Milli Vanilli managed to shift eight million albums. 

Not a big fan of Queen myself, but if others like them then fair enough. The Bohemian Rhapsody movie was an okay watch to be fair, largely because of Rami Malek doing an excellent job, but like most biopics, it bears about as much relation to the truth as the average speech by a politician.

RocknRollDave

BBC4 is now basically an iPlayer of old stuff for people who haven’t worked out how to use iplayer.

Kurtis

All those kinds of channels seem to be repeats of repeats of repeats... 

Philly_Q

RocknRollDave said:

BBC4 is now basically an iPlayer of old stuff for people who haven’t worked out how to use iplayer.

scrumhalf said:

That's still way behind Sky Arts who will happily show hour after hour after hour of Andre Rieu. 

I like to imagine there's a big tape reel that they just leave running.  One day the tape will break and there'll be nothing on for weeks until somebody notices.

Cols

snowblind said:

I thought this thread was going was going to be about the Led Zep doc they had on the other night too. Not that I got to see much of it as good lady wife hates Plant's voice and insisted I change the channel.
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Argh, missed this, what was it called?  Is it on iPlayer?

*Cue legion of people chiming in to comment that they think Led Zep are shit*

Funkfingers

scrumhalf said:

That's still way behind Sky Arts who will happily show hour after hour after hour of Andre Rieu. 

My theory is that Rieu is a SKY Television shareholder.

By the metric of live performances per year and revenue generated, Rieu is a colossal success. Somebody out there likes him. A skeptical person might say that television stations need to have something to broadcast between the adverts.

Cols said:

snowblind said:

I thought this thread was going was going to be about the Led Zep doc they had on the other night

Argh, missed this, what was it called?  Is it on iPlayer?

Led Zeppelin: In The Light, shown in four parts on SKY Arts. Hence, no iPlayer style replay option for Freeview punters such as I.

Not to worry. The series will be repeated again fairly soon. Which was pretty much the point of this Discussion to begin with.

EricTheWeary

Part 3 of the Led Zep thing is on tonight at 22:45. 

boogieman

EricTheWeary said:

There has been no new content produced for BBC4 for years now due to BBC cuts. So they keep recycling the same material and so on their rock/pop music night that's going to start seeming obvious after a while. 
But Queen pretty much one of the biggest bands in the history of modern popular music, it's not hard to see it as a safe bet tucked into Friday night. 

The problem is whoever is in charge of the Friday night repeats obviously doesn’t like anything heavier than Queen. Even then it’s more usually Carole King, Neil Diamond, Dusty Springfield etc etc. The Beeb must have other stuff in the can, where’s all the rock, metal, world music or jazz shows?