Bob Stanley: Pop Double-Bill

Today, Bob Stanley will be presenting a pair of brilliant films on almost-forgotten teen sensations.

As well as making plenty of his own great pop as one third of Saint Etienne, Bob Stanley recently achieved the impossible with Yeah Yeah Yeah - a comprehensive and engaging history of modern pop music. Today he'll be presenting a pair of brilliant films on almost-forgotten teen sensations.

LONELY BOY (Canada 1962, 27 mins, pictured) is a vérité snapshot of the Bieber-like mania surrounding young Canadian crooner Paul Anka. TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR (UK 1973, 50 mins) is a TV documentary about EMI's attempt to manufacture their own Jimmy Osmond in the shape of 12 year-old Darren Burn.

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