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crumbling_mice
For those of you who can;t access this....I wouldn;t worry too much. I've watched it in it's entirety and whilst some of the Keith interludes are mildy amusing, at times it becomes cringing. We've all seen plenty of Keith puffing huge clouds of smoke as he guffaws and spits out a one liner, but this just goes into overkill and Temple has flooded it with this stuff, pretty badly edited to make it look edgy.
My advice is unless you really like 1950s and 60s comedy and music stuff that you could access via YouTUbe I'd skip to just the Keith sections and the interludes lifted from early UK TV.
Shame really as I was looking forward to this for some while. Most of what Keith says is in his book or the recent documentary i.e about his childhood years and post war Britain.
This was a really good opportuntiy to have Keith Richards the man, rather than Keith Richards the stereotype, but as always it slips to the latter, which I guess works well for those who aren;t as obsessive about the Stones as us, but for me, it was a little bit sad really and cliched to death. Just my opinion.
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Cristiano Radtke
My pleasure, JivingSisterFanny.
From the BBC Four Facebook page comes this comment, with which I agree 100%:
"I hope you're reading the comments because the Keith Richards weekend has been (so far) the most enjoyable TV I've seen for years. Whoever came up with the idea - thank you. You've basically come up with the perfect Desert Island Discs TV format. More please."
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crumbling_mice
YOu are probably right Majesty and I also made the mistake of staying up to watch a lot of it and did get fatigued, especially when he was talking about staying up for 9 days and there I was struggling after one night....to be fair to me, I'd vaped far too much skunk and Keith was probably on something a little more stimulant in nature.
On reflection and after having some sleep, there is some gems in and amongst, but things like Hancock I saw first time round and didn;t really need to watch it again!
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Green Lady
Seems to have been a hit, judging by the letters page of the Radio Times: