During the week of February 14, 1972, daytime television was thrown for a loop as John Lennon and Yoko Ono joined “The Mike Douglas Show” as co-hosts, bringing along a selection of unlikely guests to provoke and entertain the show’s Philadelphia-based studio audience and a national viewership of 40 million.
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BOOTLEG FILES 883: “Let the Good Times Roll” (1973 concert film featuring Chuck Berry, Little Richard and Bo Diddley).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: None.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: Music rights clearance issues are a big obstacle.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Not likely.
During the early 1970s, there was a wave of nostalgia for the music and pop culture of the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Broadway musical “Grease,” the movie “American Graffiti” and the sitcom “Happy Days” were the most prominent examples of this retro celebration of the era, while Sha Na Na kept the old tunes alive with their kinetic stage and television appearances, but a series of concerts dubbed “The Rock and Roll Revival” brought a number of the prominent music stars from that period to perform their old hits for admiring audiences.
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