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becky sharp
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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2012 2:42 pm Post subject: The Wicked Pickett - The Life and Times of Wilson Pickett |
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I found this an interesting listen because I came to it knowing nothing, apart from his music, about Wilson Pickett.
He was described on this by someone as a sweet,shy guy but sweet, shy guys don't hold guns to people's heads do they? 
Great voice and a great talent but a complex man...doesn't mention it on the programme but I've read elsewhere since listening to this that he said this about his mother "she was the baddest woman in my book, I get scared of her now. She used to hit me with anything, skillets, stove wood — (one time I ran away and cried for a week). Stayed in the woods, me and my little dog"....he eventually left to live with his father in Detroit in 1955 ...perhaps this treatment from his mother goes a long way to explain (but not excuse )the behaviour of the man.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01d5nn0
This programme, like some previous ones,cut out before the end  so I thought I'd contact Feedback,like Helen,about it but I am being given this message "Error 502 - Bad Gateway" when I do. |
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oldraver
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I've just listened to it...and it cut off before the end. Grrr...
I love Pickett...and all the Atlantic/Stax soul. He sure was a bad ass, but those records he made from '65 to '69 were something else.
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littlepieces
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 1:48 pm Post subject: |
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thanx for the link becky very much a complex man but great voice
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Helen May
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:46 pm Post subject: Re: The Wicked Pickett - The Life and Times of Wilson Picket |
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This programme, like some previous ones,cut out before the end so I thought I'd contact Feedback,like Helen,about it but I am being given this message "Error 502 - Bad Gateway" when I do. |
Had a look at the iPlayer page, it's a long process to get where you want but this link is, I think, the page I used.
https://iplayerhelp.external.bbc.co.uk/templates/bbciplayer/emailForms/emailPage?entryID=&id=KI5DOT6CRKERNTS7GUIGDNSEGK&moduleID=&uid=347766872
Hope that helps!
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Helen May
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PS to above Becky.
I suddenly realised you maybe were talking about the Feedback programme's contact! Had a look and this one seems to be working http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/feedback/contact/
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becky sharp
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| Posted: Thu Mar 15, 2012 4:12 pm Post subject: |
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Thanks for the links, Helen.....that's the one I tried first without any luck.
I take my 'hat' off to you for completing the first one....what a rigmarole!!...designed, it would seem, to put you off,which it did me after I clicked on a link and lost all the information I had already put!! 
Those few minutes will have to remain a mystery as I've given it up as a bad job!! |
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