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1990 ‘Oh, Sweet Mystery of Rock’ Brean Sands weekender, Somerset

The half-hour video ‘Oh, Sweet Mystery of Rock, Where are You?’ was filmed at a rock’n’roll weekender at the Brean Sands Pontins resort, Somerset, in November 1989 and was first aired on BBC2 on the 26th of July 1990 (to be repeated 4 times: 23.09.1991 on BBC2 | 16.04.2002 & 18.94.2002  on BBC4 | 04.10.2004 on BBC4). It appeared on YouTube (in 3 parts) but was removed.

We have at least a short clip filmed on his 8 mm camera by fan Bernard Bowen-Davies who was there:

A clip from the video itself shows the (original) Comets fronted by Jacko Buddin. *rpw934 (YTcomm) recalls that “the guitarists from the other bands on the bill all came out and knelt in front of the stage while Frank Beecher played ‘Goofin Around’.”

It was conceived and presented by the journalist Ray Gosling.

“The cars must have come before the music but it was as if they’d met before. They were so made for each other.”

 

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