The career-sabotaging Monkees classic is basically a feature-length episode of the series, as if rewritten by some semi-politically aware UCLA critical theory students, and with all the jokes taken out and put back in the wrong places, but with a much better soundtrack, pick of the crop being Carole King’s exquisite Porpoise Song and a live Circle Sky. We’ve always had a soft spot for Daddy’s Song, too. And the same thing goes for Christmas.
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David Bowie – Five Years
Saturday, 21.20, BBC2Been a shitty week for deaths, one of the saddest being Trevor Bolder of the Spiders of Mars, which adds extra poignancy to this big new documentary. In it they’re going to take five turning points in the career of Dave Bowie of The Dave Bowie Band, and though we don’t think he’s interviewed for it, seemingly everyone who’s ever worked with him is and there are loads of rare clips.
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