'Secrets of the Pop Song' - airing soon on BBC2...

How do you write a pop song? What are the magic ingredients? How do they make us feel the way we feel? With unprecedented access, this new three part series follows the songwriting process from pen and paper to first public performance. Along the way we find out some of the songwriting secrets of the trade. Professional songwriter Guy Chambers, best known for his collaboration with Robbie Williams, writes three brand new songs: a ballad, a breakthrough single and an anthem and he does it with three famous collaborators: acclaimed singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, the chart busting band The Noisettes and pop maestro Mark Ronson. Songwriting big hitters Sting, Brian May, Lemont Dozier, Boy George and Neil Tennant tell us how they wrote some of their best-known hits.


EP1 “Ballad”
Saturday 2nd July at 9.45pm
Produced & Directed by: Clare Beavan / Editor: Enda Mullen

EP2 “Breakthrough Single”
Saturday 9th July at 9.45pm
Produced & Directed by: Linda Brusasco / Editor: Steve Ellis & David Richards

EP3 “Anthem”
Saturday 16th July at 9.45pm
Editor Producer: Mathew Tucker / Editor: Tim Pearce

Series Editor: Helen Terry / Executive Producer: Alex Cooke / Series Producer: Clare Beavan
Assistant Producers: Dan Murdoch & Poppy Edwards / Production Manager: Claire Bugden