Let’s spend the nights together ...Keith to take over BBC Four
ROLLING Stones legend Keith Richards has invited fans to join him to escape for a weekend – watching TV.
Richards, 72, will take over BBC Four for three days later this month to screen his favourite programmes and films.
The channel’s Lost Weekend will see Richards host three days of shows from 7pm to 4am, Friday to Sunday.
He will pick all of the programmes and will feature in between them in snippets from an in-depth interview.
Richards said: “No one has taken over a TV channel before. Let’s see how it flies!”
Director Julien Temple, acclaimed for films such as The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle and Absolute Beginners, will be at the helm of the project.
Temple said: “It’s an open invitation for the audience to get to know Keith in depth over three nights in a way that has never been seen before.”
Films selected by Richards include Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps and The Man Who Would Be King starring Sean Connery and Michael Caine.
There will also be archive footage of musicians including Johnny Cash and Richards with guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix.
The schedule will feature neverbefore-seen archive footage of the Rolling Stones. Temple will screen his 75-minute director’s cut of Keith Richards – The Origin Of The Species, shown on BBC Two earlier this year.
The documentary told the story of Richards’ formative years in the postwar period as part of the BBC Music My Generation season.
The pair first met when Temple directed the music video for the Rolling Stones hit Undercover Of The Night in 1983.
The full schedule of what will air and when on the Lost Weekend will not be released beforehand.