BB King at 80 and a Bob Dylan Season

[Alan]

BB King at 80 on BBC Radio 2
21.30 - 22.00 Tuesdays starting 20 September

www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/r2music/documentaries/bbkingat80.shtml

And a Bob Dylan season on BBC 4

BOB DYLAN SEASON
Saturday 24 September - Friday 30 September 2005
To coincide with Martin Scorsese's two-part Arena film No Direction Home on BBC Two, we are showing a week of Bob Dylan programmes including two new Arena documentaries, a tribute concert and three classics from the archive.


www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/music/bobdylan/

[Russ Young]

B.B. King turned 80 on Sept. 16. I saw him live a few weeks ago and he still puts on a very good show -- although there is a lot of canned patter with the audience and the band, his playing and singing are still unmistakable.

I've been waiting for his birthday to share this photo of him playing with Bill Harvey's band in the "early 1950s:"