The TV Series Check listings for broadcast dates on your local PBS station. Corporate execs can always manufacture pregroomed stars. . It's the nature of the game. A savvy, substantive history of the music that has rocked the world for four decades first came to public television Sunday, September 24, 1995. And the beat goes on. . .
Renegades introduces viewers to the pioneers of rock.
The series travels southern backroads to New Orleans, Memphis and Nashville and then moves north to Chicago, interviewing Little Richard, Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, pioneer disk jockey Hoss Allen and producers Dave Bartholomew, Sam Phillips, and Phil and Marshall Chess along the way. These musical renegades of the '50s reveal how they borrowed from rhythm and blues, country, gospel, and jazz to create a whole new sound - Rock and Roll. In the Groove reports on the years between Elvis and the Beatles, when the hit single became an intricately crafted work of art and producers, songwriters and musicians created studio magic. Respect chronicles the transformation of black gospel music into a defining sound for all Americans. Also, soul music's role in the simultaneous quest for African American equality in the '60s.