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'''Behind the Music''' is a television series on VH1 that ran from 1997 to 2006, and continues to air sporadically with new episodes.
| Contents |
| Premise |
| Musicians |
| Other features |
| Technical data |
| Pop Culture |
| See also |
| External links |
Premise
Each show focuses on a musician or musical group, documenting both the successes of the musicians and the problems they faced during their careers. Except for the first two episodes (which focused on Milli Vanilli and M.C. Hammer), all programs are narrated by Jim Forbes. Forbes was later used to narrate the Milli Vanilli episode when it was modified to include the death of Rob Pilatus. The UK airings of the episodes focusing on Thin Lizzy and Genesis were narrated by Mary Anne Hobbs whilst Forbes narrated the US airings.
VH1's criterion 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, Queen, Elton John, John Lennon (although ''Behind The Music'' exclusively focused on the months and days leading to his murder in 1980) and Pink Floyd (although their ''Behind the Music'' was the U.S. airing of the BBC produced documentary ''Behind the Wall'' in June 2000). The ''Pink Floyd: Behind the Wall'' documentary focused mainly on the making of the band's 1979 album'' The Wall'', the concert shows that went with it and the making of the '' movie and features no narrator.
Another episode of ''Behind the Music'' on KISS was re-christened ''KISS: Behind the Makeup'' in July of 2001 (which was 2-hours in length). This featured Matt Pinfield, formerly of MTV's ''Headbangers Ball'', as narrator instead of Jim Forbes.
''Behind the Music'' came to be after Paul Gallagher and George Moll produced a one-hour special entitled ''Dying in Vein'' which first aired on VH1 in December 1996. While ''Dying in Vein'' was a magazine style show, its approach to storytelling served as the prototype for ''Behind the Music''.
A short-lived half-hour spinoff series titled ''BTM2'' (short for "Behind the Music 2") chronicled the careers of newer upcoming artists.
Musicians
The following 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
★ American Pie
★ Top Gun
★ Woodstock '69
Technical data
★ alternate title: ''VH1's Behind the Music''
★ runtime: 60-90 minutes per episode
★ series premiere: August 1997
Pop Culture
★ "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''.
★ The show was parodied on the ''South Park'' episode "".
★ The show is also the base for the running parody ''Behind the Music that Sucks'', which has been produced by Internet humor site Heavy.com since 1998.
★ ''Saturday Night Live's "More Cowbell" sketch was a fictitious episode profiling Blue Öyster Cult.
★ Adult Swim's ''Robot Chicken'' did a skit where the Muppet band, ''The Electric Mayhem'', was profiled on ''Behind the Music''.
★ Weird Al Yankovic mentioned the Lynyrd Skynyrd episode in his song ''Trapped in the Drive-Thru''.
See also
★ List of television programs
External links
★ All Movie Guide entry for ''Behind the Music''
★ Unofficial episode commentary
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