Behind the Music
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Behind the Music is a television series on VH1 that ran from 1997 to 2003, and continues to air sporadically with new episodes. Each show focuses on a musician or musical group, documenting both the successes of the musicians and the problems they faced during their careers. Each episode is narrated by Jim Forbes.
VH1's criteria for choosing the musicians who appear on the show is, in many cases, to profile those who are no longer in the music industry, or were moderately significant enough in rock history to appear on the series. This is as opposed to VH1's other biography show, VH1's Legends, which profiles musicians that have been very significant to the industry. However, there are some artists that were profiled on both Behind the Music and Legends, including Tina Turner, Elton John, and John Lennon (although Behind The Music exclusively focused on the days leading to his murder in 1980).
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Musicians
This is a list of artists who have appeared in episodes of the series:
Other features
Other than musicians, some episodes were documentaries on musical events, films, and non-musicians who were influential on the music world. The following appeared in episodes of the series:
- 1968 in music
- 1970 in music
- 1972 in music
- 1975 in music
- 1977 in music
- 1981 in music
- 1984 in music
- 1987 in music
- 1992 in music
- 1994 in music
- 1999 in music
- 2000 in music
- Flashdance
- Alan Freed
- The Day The Music Died
- Grease
- Hair
- Lilith Fair
- The Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Saturday Night Fever
- Russell Simmons
- Studio 54
- Woodstock '69
"Behind the Laughter" was an episode of The Simpsons that aired on the Fox network in 2000 and spoofed the style of the program. Jim Forbes also narrated this episode and many of the interstitial graphics used a style similar to Behind the Music.
Technical data
- alternate title: VH1's Behind the Music
- runtime: 60-90 minutes per episode
- series premiere: August 1997
See also
External links
- IMDb entry for Behind the Music (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159156/)
- TV Tome entry for Behind the Music (http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/ShowMainServlet/showid-3317/)
- All Movie Guide entry for Behind the Music (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:271088)
- Unofficial episode commentary (http://www.roctober.com/roctober/behindthemusic1.html)