All You Need Is Love: The Story of Popular Music - Episodes- Followmy.tv

Popular music is an essential part of our daily lives. Yet we know comparatively little about it – where it came from, how it developed, how it has influenc... read more

It is generally assumed that American popular music comes from the coastal regions of Africa; that the slaves brought drums to the United States; that jazz o... read more

Thanks to the hit movie, “The Sting”, everyone reckons they know about Ragtime. But do they? This Episode includes the oldest known piece of film (1898) sho... read more

Jazz is not a black music, nor a white music. Nor is it structureless improvisation. Nor did it originate in New Orleans. As created at the turn of the ce... read more

Blues is a word you have to think about before it can be understood. Contrary to popular belief, blues – as a form of music – does not appear until 1910 or ... read more

Music Hall, as a description, means exactly what it says. A hall, usually at the back of a tavern or pub, in which music was performed by local entertainers... read more

Tin Pan Alley existed to make money. IT organized and rationalized an embryonic music industry for the mutual benefit of these who did the organizing. Ti... read more

This is a story of how a remarkable and very different number of theatrical elements were welded together into something also remarkable and very different c... read more

For most of its history, popular music has rarely been that which most people like Jazz, for instance, has always been a minority interest. But in the era w... read more

In the late forties, white record companies labelled commercial black music “race music”. Eventually, Jerry Wexler, then working at Billboard magazine as a ... read more

Country music was, originally, home-made music. It described the births, marriages and deaths that happened in every community. It celebrated love, just as... read more

After Nashville had raped American country music, it might seem that the folk traditions this music embodied had been lost. Not so, because these traditions... read more

The story of rock n roll begins and ends in Memphis, Tennessee, in the tiny studio of record producer Sam Phillips. He tells of how he discovered Elvis Pres... read more

“They were very scruffy” recounts Allan Williams, the Beatles’ first manager, as he describes the Beatles’ early escapades in Hamburg and Liverpool Soon Bri... read more

The sixties began, according to Eric Burdon as “a party”. “The aim of all of us, Hendrix, The Who, The Stones” Burdon goes on, “was to ball every chick in ... read more

This Episode takes place almost entirely on stage; fans are always seen from the performer’s point of view. Thus, we begin to feel and experience first hand... read more