The series in which musicians tell the story of rock music, from its origins in the Mississippi Delta to global domination.

In the mid-seventies, the American music business was shaken out of its complacency by the eccentric sounds of artists like Jonathan Richman. But it was when the anarchic style was picked up in Britain by bands including the Sex Pistols and the Clash that the punk revolution really took off.
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Dancing in the Street: a Rock and Roll History 9.15pm BBC2
Tonight's edition covers one of the better-documented periods of rock 'n' roll history - the brief heyday of punk. The roots are firmly placed in America, where oddballs like Jonathan Richman and Patti Smith were spawning a crude new sound in reaction against the tedium of corporate rock. Early punk was a well-kept New York secret - but it took a bunch of loudmouthed Englishmen named the Sex Pistols to bring it to the attention of the world.
Archive footage and new interviews with the Pistols, the Clash, the Ramones and Deborah Harry tell the full, hilarious story from its intoxicating roots to a messy collapse.