In 1968 Joe Cocker had his first and biggest hit with A Little Help From My Friends - what was then, and arguably remains, the greatest ever cover version of a Beatles song. He then performed it live with his band, on a BBC show called How It Is - a kind of forerunner to The Old Grey Whistle Test.It's a fantastic performance, which happens to be captured by studio direction so bold and experimental that it's appropriate to describe as mind-blowing even now. It's astonishing, and must be one of the best pieces of live music footage in the BBC archive. So watch this to fully appreciate why Joe Cocker, who has died at the age of 70, was one of the greatest singers this country has ever produced. And what amazing stuff TV directors were getting up to (and quite possibly taking) in the late Sixties.

All eight episodes of Adam Buxton's BUG - the TV spin-off of the BUG live show which was broadcast on Sky Atlantic HD last year - are now freely available to view on Adam's YouTube channel.The programmes, which filled a half-hour slot on Sky Atlantic in the summer of 2012, featured clips of music videos and some of our favourite YouTube comments from five years of BUG live shows.And new videos were also made for some of Adam's quality comic songs, by some of our favourite directors, like David Wilson, Dougal Wilson, The Layzell Brothers and Cyriak.Check out Episode 1 of the BUG TV show below - and all eight episodes of Adam Buxton's BUG can be found the Adam Buxton YouTube channel.

A new British TV show that showcases music videos on the edge of the mainstream and from some of the hottest directors around, has debuted on 4Music. Video Junkie will be broadcast over the next three weeks in the early hours of Thursdays, promising to celebrate the art of music video with a line-up of "innovative, provocative, stylish and trippy promos - both new and from the archive." The first episode features the UK TV premieres of the Atrak’s Tuna Melt, BR00KECANDY’s Das Me, the viral sensation Bad Motherfucker from Biting Elbows, a double bill of videos directed by Eric Wareheim, Shugo Tokumaru's Katachi, Flying Lotus's Zodiac Shit, and much more. Video Junkie Thursdays 01.30am (30 May, 6 and 13 Jun) Freeview 18, Virgin 330, Sky 360