Seven Ages of Rock
Artist Song Year UK Chart US Chart
John Lee Hooker Boom Boom 1962 - -
Howlin ' Wolf Spoonful 1960 - -
The Rolling Stones Not Fade Away 1964 3 48
The Rolling Stones Around and Around 1964 ( Five By Five EP ) 1 ( EP chart ) -
Howlin ' Wolf How Many More Years 1951 - -
The Rolling Stones Little Red Rooster 1964 1 -
The Yardbirds For Your Love 1965 3 6
The Rolling Stones The Last Time 1965 1 9
The Rolling Stones ( I Ca n't Get No ) Satisfaction 1965 1 1
The Kinks You Really Got Me 1964 1 7
The Who I Ca n't Explain 1965 8 97
The Who My Generation 1965 2 74
The Animals The House of the Rising Sun 1964 1 1
Bob Dylan Like a Rolling Stone 1965 2 4
Cream I Feel Free 1966 11 116
Cream Crossroads 1968 ( Wheels of Fire Album ) 3 1
Cream Sunshine of Your Love 1967 ( Disraeli Gears Album ) 5 4
The Rolling Stones Gim me Shelter 1969 ( Let It Bleed Album ) 1 3
The Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil 1968 ( Beggars Banquet Album ) 3 5
Episodes -- Programme 1 : The Birth of Rock
The broadcast of the VH1 episode is very differently structured and features several different songs , interviews , and artists , as well as the main focus , Jimi Hendrix , being completely removed and the new focus being the Rolling Stones . This is not an issue with other episodes which are only mildly different . Performing bands , in order of appearance John Lee Hooker Howlin ' Wolf The Rolling Stones The Yardbirds The Kinks The Who The Animals Bob Dylan Cream In the early 1960s the music for teenagers was sweet and soulless , manufactured pop with a beat for crooners such as Bobby Vinton and Bobby Vee . The music of blues singers such as John Lee Hooker , Muddy Waters and Howlin ' Wolf was powerful and rebellious and had come out of struggle in a way that spoke to the British Working Class , who were not politically constrained as they were in white America . In 1962 , The Rolling Stones formed and started playing in the Crawdaddy Club in Richmond . Their Blues with a British twist proved a hit with teenage audiences . The Rolling Stones began creating their own songs with lyrics loaded with arrogance and sex . Their space at the Crawdaddy club was taken by The Yardbirds , who attempted to produce their own twist on the blues , helped by their guitarist Eric Clapton , who was considered by some [ who ? ] to be so proficient with the guitar that he garnered the popular nickname `` God '' . However , he split from the Yardbirds after their commercial success to become a serious blues musician . A new wave of British bands were now emerging . The Kinks produced an electrified gritty sound expanding musical possibilities . Inspired by them , The Who combined a macho image , pop art and fast driven rock . In 1965 , year zero of rock , the Who released a song that the program postulates defined the era , `` My Generation '' , and was incredibly innovative in both its sound and rebellious message . The Animals had first opened the path for these bands with the reimagining of `` the House of the Rising Sun '' , which they came across when it was covered by Bob Dylan from the New York City folk scene . He now took inspiration from these new British bands by going electric to produce `` the Wild Thin Mercury sound of Rock Music '' , which added sophisticated lyrics to rock . Back in Britain , Eric Clapton had found creative freedom in his own band Cream , which were much more musically skilled than most other groups at the time . They took the language and feel of the blues producing the 'endless-solo ' . Disraeli Gears took the blues and combined it with the drug-filled psychedelia , showing the artistic potential of rock . When The Who went to the Monterey Pop Festival , they innovated the live performance by channelling aggression , playing at high volume and destroying their instruments . This established the festival as the centre of the rock performance but also signalled the end of the innocent optimism of the summer of love . Anxieties over the Vietnam war and social unrest rising and , after the Woodstock Festival , business started to take over what artists were doing . This new mood was channelled by the Rolling Stones using darkness as a new creative zeal . However , they were plunged into their own darkness with the death of Brian Jones and the chaos of Altamont , where , according to Al Kooper , the innocence of the Sixties finally died . The Beatles are not mentioned throughout the episode . Many of this episode 's featured songs are completely different , and so they are listed separately here :
Seven Ages of Rock (also known as 7 Ages of Rock) is a BBC Two series, co-produced by BBC Worldwide and VH1 Classic in 2007 about the history of rock music.