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Greatest Rock experience ever comes to DVD

5 DVD's and 10 hours of fantastic documentation in this great box.

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The 5 boxed set includes on 

DISC ONE:      Rock'n'Roll explodes
                      Good Rockin' Tonight

Scene index: Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Patti Page, Elvis Presley, Sun Records, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Buddy Holly, Dynamite, The Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Danny and the Juniors, Scandals and untimely ends, Neil Sedaka, Righteous Brothers, Phil Spector, Lieber & Stoller, Ben E. King, Chubby Checker.

DISC TWO:     Britain Invades, America Fights Back
                      The Sounds of Soul

Scene index: Liverpool's rock legacy, Hamburg (The Beatles), The Cavern Club (Brian Epstein), George Martin, The Beach Boys, The Temptations, Gerry and The Pacemakers, The Animals, The Rolling Stones "Around and Around" + "Satisfaction" + "Paint It Black", Herman's Hermits, Peter and Gordon, The Kinks, Marianne Faithfull, The Supremes, The Lovin' Spoonfull, The Young Rascals, The Byrds, Mamas and the Papas, The Who, The Hollies, The Spencer Davis Group, "More popular than Jesus", Chuck Berry.

Aretha Franklin, Arthur Conley, Ray Charles & Michael Bolton, gospel, James Brown, Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, Ray Charles, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, race records: crossing color lines, Gladys Knight & The Pips, Apollo memories, Martha and the Vandellas, The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Temptations, Hall and Oates with Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffen, Marvin Gaye, The Jackson 5, The O'Jays, Curtis Mayfield and the Impressions, James Brown, Luther Vandross, Chuck Berry.

DISC THREE:  Plugging in
                      My Generation

Scene index: Bob Dylan, Sam "Lightnin' Hopkins, Phil Ochs, Richie Havens, Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, The Byrds, The Mamas and the Papas, The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix, Montery Pop Festival 1967, The Animals, Janis Joplin, The Who, Violent rape vs. erotic sacrifice, Chuck Berry.

Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin, The weird ones, The Grateful Dead, Jam Session at the Family Dog, Jimi Hendrix, Doors, The Band, The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man", Cream, The Who, Woodstock (Richie Havens), Country Joe and the Fish, Santana, Crosby, Still, Nash & Young, Isle of Wright: Joni Mitchell, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Chuck Berry.

DISC FOUR:   Guitar Heroes
                     The '70s: Have a Nice Decade

Scene index:Santana, Van Halen, Sexy as Hell: Dire Straits, Origins (les Pauls trio), The Who, Elvis Presley, Rickie Nelson, Chuck Berry, Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, The Rolling Stones "The Last Time", The Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Cream, Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Guns'n'Roses, U2, House of Blues Jam.

Elton John, Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Allman Brothers Band, Parliament/Funkadelic, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder, Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd), Queen, Aerosmith, Stagecraft and merchandising: Kiss, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, The way to live (David Bowie: Fame), Jackson Browne, Fleetwood Mac, Peter Frampton, Disco menace (Village People), Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Nightmare over: Springsteen, Chuck Berry.

DISC FIVE:   Punk
                    Up from the Underground

Scene index: Out of the watseland, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop, MC5, The Velvet Underground, New York Dolls, The Heatbreakers, Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can't Play, Can't Sing. New Sound, The Clash, New bands everywhere, Elvis Costello, filthy lucre, on tour and off the edge, X, Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, The Pretenders, U2, The Police, Nivana, Green Day, Chuck Berry.

MTV era dawns, Devo, Go-go's, Culture Club, Kurtis Blow, Run D.M.C., Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Michael Jackson, Public Enemy, The Beastie Boys, Madonna, Eurythmics, Dire Straits and Sting, Red Hot Chilly Pepper, N.W.A., Ice-T, Bruce Springsteen, Salt-n-Pepa, U2, Green Day, R.E.M., The Goats, Chuck Berry.

On the different discs many of the artists plays more than one sung. Each and every part on the discs are rounded up by Chuck Berry.

It's an ultimate collection, not only because there are several Rolling Stones songs on the discs, but because it covers the last 50 years of music. 

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