1988 but still spectacular - and how sad is it that 5 terrestrial and numerous other Freeview channels have nothing else worth watching all evening?

there's more to life than television

I spent the evening watching the recently released “Ballad of Mott The Hoople” DVD. It brilliantly chronicles the formation, rise and demise of one of the UK’s most under-rated bands. (Plus covered the five sell-out reunion gigs in Hammersmith in 2009). Lot of archive footage, and interviews with all but one of the band members plus Mick Jones, Roger Taylor, Dick Asher, Guy Stevens’ wife plus others. A really good insight into the life of a band, and how it was “the business of music” that caused the band to split up at the height of their fame in 1974. A well made documentary that I can recommend to anyone who has an interest in how it all was in the late 1960s/early 1970s.