The Seven Ages of Rock

The Seven Ages of Rock - BBC 2 9:10 pm

Did anyone else catch this?


I enjoyed it, the first 20 minutes were a bit dull but it soon picked up some great footage in there. Although their definition of the ’birth’ of Rock was a little different, nothing much about Chuck Berry, Elvis Presley and the like.

Only Little Richard and Howlin' Wolf were mentioned in their direct influence on Jimi Hendrix and the The Rolling Stones but it felt a bit tacked on but they've got to start somewhere I guess and Hendrix is a bigger viewings puller than Little Richard. Not an awful lot about The Beatles either, everything only seemed to be mentioned in relation to Hendrix, Sgt Peppers was only given 4 minutes or so due to Hendrix’s famous rendition of the title track two days after the albums release. Maybe that’s what the programme’s creators intended, a view of the 60’s through his eyes, it would make sense as his death pretty much heralded the end of the era, Anyway Its not like there’s anything else competing for my attention on a Saturday evening so I’ll definitely be watching.

Looking forward to ’Art Rock’ and Pink Floyd in the next episode!