Rock 'n' Roll America

  • : 2015
  • : 3
  • : 2
  • BBC Four
  • 21
  • Documentary

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Sweet Little Sixteen
Episode overview
03, 2015
In Cold War mid-1950s America, as the new suburbia was spreading fast in a country riven by racial segregation, rock 'n' roll took the country by surprise. Out of the Deep South came a .. show full overview
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Whole Lotta Shakin'
Episode overview
10, 2015
As rock 'n' roll took off with teens in 1955 it quickly increased record sales by 300 per cent in America. Big business and the burgeoning world of TV moved in. Elvis made a big-money .. show full overview
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Be My Baby
Episode overview
17, 2015
Third and final episode of the BBC4 series. In the years bookended by Buddy Holly's death in early 1959 and the Beatles landing at JFK in spring 1964, rock 'n' roll calmed down, went .. show full overview