Today Apple TV+ announced “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” an immersive, new docuseries that will explore the musicians and soundtracks that shaped the culture and politics of 1971. Executive produced by Academy, BAFTA and Grammy Award winners Asif Kapadia (“Amy,” “Senna”) and James Gay-Rees (“Amy,” “Senna,” “Exit Through the Gift Shop”), the eight-part docuseries will premiere May 21 on Apple TV+.
An immersive, deep-dive rich with archival footage and interviews, “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” will show how the musical icons of the time were influenced by the changing tides of history; and, in turn, how they used their music to inspire hope, change and the culture around them. The docuseries will examine the most iconic artists and songs that we still listen to 50 years later, including The Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, Bob Marley, Marvin Gaye, The Who, Joni Mitchell, Lou Reed and more.
Hailing from Universal Music Group’s (UMG) Mercury Studios in association with On The Corner Films, Asif Kapadia will serve as series director and will executive produce alongside James Gay-Rees, David Joseph and UMG’s Adam Barker. Chris King serves as editor and executive producer. Danielle Peck is series producer and directs alongside James Rogan.
“1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything” joins Apple’s award-winning offering of unscripted series and films including “Boys State,” which won two Critics Choice Documentary Awards and the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize Award; Critics Choice Award-winning and Emmy and Grammy Award-nominated “Beastie Boys Story”; the global smash hit documentary “Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry”; Werner Herzog’s Critics Choice Documentary Award nominee “Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds”; as well as upcoming documentary “The Supermodels,” from Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Documentaries; and the recently announced “Number One on the Call Sheet,” from acclaimed storytellers Jamie Foxx, Kevin Hart, Datari Turner and Dan Cogan.
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1971: the Year of Sticky Fingers, my favorite Stones album (thanks in large part to Mick Taylor).
But did it change everything? 😉
Well it certainly changed how zippers were used….
I can think of more significant years, like 1967-68? Summer of love: war protest, psychedelia, civil rights…
1959(Jazz), 1976(Rock), 1987(Country) and 1991(Grunge) also come to mind.
I really enjoyed Soundbreaking, a series that was on PBS. It’s a great documentary of music recording. The absolute best part was the Beatles era with George Martin masterminding their music and really developing multitrack recording. Worth a check in the iTunes Store
…oh, and also check out The Wrecking Crew. It’s about the session musicians who backed all of the famous musicians in the 60’s and 70’s 👍 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wrecking_Crew_(music)?wprov=sfti1
The documentaries of the greatest American studios of the last two generations — Motown, Muscle Shoals, Stax, Chess — are all well worth the viewing as well.
It’s unfortunate that there aren’t many well-distributed documentaries exploring the music traditions of other countries, which are equally as fascinating as US music. Samba in Brazil, Flamenco in Spain, Electronica in Belgium and France, African rhythms that people like Paul Simon introduced to Americans with his seminal work Graceland. Jamaican Ska and Reggae. Cuban Son. Puerto Rican Bachata. Argentinian Tango. and so on. The diversity is infinitely greater than what Anglophone pop culture pushes at you.
Apple Music, by the way, does a very poor job exposing listeners to new regional music or music in foreign languages, which is a massive disservice to artists and listeners. Apple can’t even tag music with correct genres and subgenres, for goodness’ sake. Nor does Apple and other major distributors properly credit the composer and original artists on which modern music borrows, samples, and steals. If you love music, you owe it to yourself to do real research behind the Top40 schlock that algorithms feed you.
I think my mom would go for that year especially if it covers some of her fav. bands such as the Stupremes(?), Doors, and I think Paul and the Reveres. I am interested in much later music.
Paul Revere and the Raiders
Oops! Yeah, Thanks.
Door And Supremes.
These were mainly late 60s bands.
Think of all the awesome documentaries that will be made about the current generation of music. Mumble rap, Miami rape rap, bro country and all that creative genius of song writing about a beer, truck, dirt road and an American girl, …. and let’s not forget the sea change that is k-pop ( the fall of the west), and the social freedom fighters over the airways of Disney radio. Truly we live in a unique time musically. History will view today’s music as the master template of post modern collectivism in art and social justice.
Old guys criticizing new music. How original.
“[He] became a national figure of controversy and criticism. He was blamed for making young people lose “control of their emotions”, and was attacked for being out of uniform: because of an injury, Sinatra had been ruled unfit for duty in 1943.”