These nearly 3000 items from the BBC Archive have been made freely available for personal, educational, and research use, licensed under the terms of the RemArc licence.
The material is searchable, can be browsed by ‘Theme’ or ‘Decade’, and filtered by media type.
You can download individual items from the collection, or use the search and filtering to produce your own downloadable collections.
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Lucille Mapp Singer
Jamaican singer Lucille Mapp, the guest star in Charlie Chester's next Laughter Service show in 1961
31 KB
1960s, music, images
Lulu 1
'Lulu and the Luvers' appear on Top Beat from the Albert Hall.
45 KB
1960s, music, images
Lulu
'Lulu and the Luvers' appear on Top Beat from the Albert Hall.
50 KB
1960s, music, images
Male Voice Choir
Male Voice Choir singing, 1992
17 MB
1960s, music, video
Misra & Khan
Mahapurush Misra playing the tabla and Imrat Khan playing the sitar in 'Indian Music with Imrat Khan', September 1969
45 KB
1960s, music, images
Odetta
folk singer Odetta with J.J. Eden.
43 KB
1960s, music, images
Opera
An orchestra playing in the 1960s
14 MB
1960s, music, video
Orchestra
An orchestra playing in the 1960s
19 MB
1960s, music, video
Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr
25 KB
1960s, music, images
Rolling Stones
Bill Wyman, Brian Jones, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones performing on Top Beat, direct from the Royal Albert Hall, on Monday April 27th 1964.
33 KB
1960s, music, images
Roy Orbison
A contact sheet showing Roy Orbison backstage at Top of the Pops.
45 KB
1960s, music, images
Russ Conway
Russ Conway (on the piano) with guests Rosa Goldi and Humphrey Lyttelton.
32 KB
1960s, music, images