The week in TV: Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd; Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story and more – review

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In a bumper week for rock-related programmes, a long-gestating profile of Syd Barrett offers little that’s new, Bon Jovi get the show they don’t quite deserve – and there are glaring gaps in a history of Gary Glitter’s crimes

Have You Got It Yet? The Story of Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd (Sky Arts)
Thank You, Goodnight: The Bon Jovi Story (Disney+)
Glitter: The Popstar Paedophile (ITV1)
The Jinx: Part Two (Sky Documentaries)
Ibiza: Secrets of the Party Island (BBC Three) | iPlayer

It’s now 40 years since the rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap was released. By rights, it should have destroyed the rock documentary as a genre, so devastating was its spoofing of rock stars’ bottomless self-absorption. But four decades on, the schedules are filled with rockumentaries, and nowhere more than on Sky Arts.

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