David Joseph, and
Danielle Peck also directs alongside
James Rogan, so Kapadia won’t be tackling every episode himself. The show is based on David Hepworth’s book “Never a Dull Moment: 1971 The Year That Rock Exploded.” AppleTV+ is building up a nice little library of music-related titles with this,
Beastie Boys Story,
Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You, and
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry.
Here is the official synopsis for the upcoming series:
A deep-dive, rich with archival footage and interviews, “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” shows how the musical icons of the time were influenced by the changing tides of history; and, in turn, how they used their music to inspire hope, change and the culture around them. The series examines the most iconic artists and songs that we still listen to 50 years later, including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed and more.
Apple has shared the trailer for its upcoming Apple TV+ docuseries “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” which premieres May 21.
Here’s how Apple describes the docuseries: “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” will show how the musical icons of the time were influenced by the changing tides of history; and, in turn, how they used their music to inspire hope, change and the culture around them. The docuseries will examine the most iconic artists and songs that we still listen to 50 years later, including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed and more.
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image captionEmergency officers at the scene of the New Cross fire in January 1981
The New Cross fire of January 1981 and the riots in Brixton that took place in April that year are to be examined in Sir Steve McQueen s next TV production.
The Black People s Day of Action held in March 1981 will also feature in Uprising, a vivid and visceral three-part documentary series for BBC One.
Sir Steve said the London house fire and its aftermath were momentous events in our nation s history .
The series follows his Small Axe series of films about UK race relations.
Those films, inspired by stories from London s West Indian community between the 1960s and 80s, lead the way at this year s Bafta TV Awards, having earned 15 nominations last month.
Steve McQueen and BBC Team for U.K. Race Relations Series Uprising
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After the global success of “Small Axe,” the BBC and acclaimed British filmmaker Steve McQueen are teaming again for documentary series “Uprising.”
The three-part series will explore three seminal events of 1981 that changed race relations in the U.K. and defined them for a generation. In January 1981, a fire at a party in the London suburb of New Cross killed 13 Black teenagers. In March, more than 20,000 people joined Black People’s Day of Action, the first organized protest by Black Britons. And April was when the Brixton riots took place.
BBC starts Uprising with Steve McQueen
UK pubcaster BBC1 has ordered a factual series examining three significant events involving black British people in 1981, with Small Axe and 12 Years a Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen directing.
Steve McQueen
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Uprising (3×60’) series examines the New Cross Fire in January 1981, which killed 13 black teenagers; the Black People’s Day of Action in March, when more than 20,000 people joined the first organised mass protest by black British people; and the Brixton riots in April.
With James Rogan (Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation) also directing, Uprising will reveal how these three events intertwined and how, in the process, race relations were defined for a generation.