Looking at major figures in rock music history, we discover the story of their lives and the impact they made on popular culture. Using interviews, news archive and performances, each story will reveal the unique aspect of these iconic stars. Season 11.Titles in this Series:
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Americana is American Roots music it incorporates everything from Blues to Country Music, to Zydeco, to Bluegrass, Appalachian Music, Folk. Acoustic instruments are very much at the heart of Americana music. Banjo, mandolin, violin, steel guitars - it’s very much a rural tradition to Americana music. Featuring clips of Willie Nelson, Emmy...
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Bluegrass music is a form of American Roots music. It originates from the Appalachian Mountain regions of America, and it very much features acoustic instruments; acoustic guitar, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle. It’s music from struggle, but it’s music, which has this sense of joy, and when it gets going, there’s an almost religious fervour....
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Country Music’s roots are found in the mountains of Appalachia. The people who lived in the mountains had come from Western Europe; they had brought their Celtic music with them; they had brought their English ballads with them too. But when they migrated from the mountains, when they went down into Tennessee, then they took their music w...
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Funk is about the groove; Funk is about the beat. Without the drums, without the bass, there is no Funk. Previously, Rock and Roll would put the beat on the two and the four, but by putting it on the one, changes the sound of the music and the rhythm of the music, and that really becomes the basis of what Funk is. James Brown is the origi...
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Gospel is a genre of religious music, which is very much focused on a strong vocal delivery. These amazing harmonies and lyrics, which are celebratory.
It’s music of unparalleled spirituality. It’s the music of hope; it’s the music of light, and it’s the music of better times ahead. It’s a combination of African Spirituals from Africans w...
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Grunge is very loud, very rebellious; lots of very heavy guitar and fuzz effects, but in terms of its recording techniques, it’s very lo-fi; everything is stripped back, and really taken back to just the instruments. The lyrics tended to be about real life stuff, alienation; a kind of weariness at the world; a cynicism, but also a lot of...
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Sweden alone is the world’s third biggest export of music, and for such a small area, this is kind of incredible. Since the 1970s, Scandinavia has had this incredible propensity to pump out catchy sing-along Pop songs; far greater than any other European country; singing in English Scandi-Pop is a very specific type of Pop music. It merge...
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The British Invasion was massive. America, for a brief period, and one that really hasn’t been repeated, went crazy for all things British. It was youthful excitement, Swinging Sixties, and it was through the music that you got the access. The incredible success of the Beatles led to record companies encouraging more of the same. They wan...
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The Monterey Pop Festival was organised in just seven weeks by producer, Lou Adler, with John Phillips from the Mamas and the Papas. And it’s really the first time such a large music event is put on. It’s part of the 1967 Summer of Love, the culmination of this counter-culture movement, the hippy child ideal. And it really becomes a kind...
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