Rock Legends

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Elvis Costello

Hailed as Britain's "best ever pop singer" by Rolling Stone, the English-born Dusty Springfield charted several 1960s hits, including "Son of a Preacher Man." Leading music critics cast fresh light on the career of Dusty Springfield.

Leading music critics cast a fresh light on the career of psychedelic pioneers Jefferson Airplane, from helping define the San Francisco Sound to headlining some of the biggest rock festivals of the 1960s.

Leading music critics tell the story of Santana, the San Francisco-based Latin rock band that exploded onto the music scene with their breakthrough performance at 1969's Woodstock music festival.

A look at how Creedence Clearwater Revival were the preeminent American singles band of the late 1960s and '70s, thanks largely to John Fogerty's rough, inimitable voice and seemingly bottomless supply of great melodies.

Leading music critics tell the story of the Grateful Dead and how their blend of psychedelia, blues, rock and roll, country, folk, and jazz came together to create their own unique sound.

Leading music critics cast fresh light on the Police, the band who became globally popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s and are regarded as one of the first new-wave groups to achieve mainstream success, playing a style of rock influenced by punk, reggae, and jazz.

This is going to be a fun one! Talking Heads are featured on a new episode of Rock Legends. Headed by the extremely talented David Byrne, Talking Heads provided the world with some of the funkiest dance beats of the 70s and 80s. Will Hodgkinson of The Times describes them perfectly, “It’s party music but it’s intelligent party music.”

The Pretenders, originally three Englishmen and an American woman, emerged at the end of the 1970s as one of new wave's most commercially-successful groups. Leading music critics cast fresh light on the career of the Pretenders.

Get an inside look into the career of Earth, Wind & Fire, one of the most critically acclaimed funk bands ever! Beginning with their formation in Chicago in the early seventies, leading music critics examine the band’s success throughout the decades. Having sold over 100 million records, they are one of the world’s best-selling bands of all time.

Soul singer Otis Redding is profiled.