This BBC documentary recalls an era when, for the first time in the UK since punk, music was the focus point of the mainstream media, homegrown bands were incredibly successful and some of the best albums of the 90s were produced. This is the story of Bri

In part 3, Stuart Maconie recalls the swift rise of the Happy Mondays and the Stone Roses from the dormant indie scene of the late 80s.\nThe Happy Mondays had their club mixes and extreme lifestyle, the Stone Roses had their Smiths-influenced dreamy pop a

Madchester wasn’t only about music: loose trousers, bowl haircuts, anoraks… relaxed and deliberately uncool, the “baggy” style was a fashion statement that was quickly adopted by the music obsessed youth.\nBut music and clothes weren’t enough to

This BBC documentary goes deeper into exploring an era of music that has already been mentioned in The Mancunian Way and The Great Bleep Forward: Madchester, or how in the late 80s, Manchester became the world capital of pop. Who could have predicted that

As it offen happens when chemicals are involved, at some point the drugs stopped working. In a few years, Madchester had become a mockery of itself. The Hacienda was plagued by drug-related violence and criminality, the bands were repeatedly pointed at fo

Although music critics are unimpressed since 1983′s Let’s Dance, David Bowie keeps meeting commercial success. To support his latest album Never Let Me Down, he plans the “Glass Spider Tour”, a spectacular and very ambitious show which became a te

With the release of Station to Station in 1976, Bowie introduces yet another persona: the Thin White Duke. But things aren’t going well to say the least. Drugs are taking him over the edge and he is starting to worry for his life. He and his friend Iggy

Part 3 of the David Bowie Story focuses on Bowie’s fascination for America, an “alternative world” that catches his imagination. But it was getting harder and harder for him to get out of the Ziggy Stardust persona, which had became an easy way to e

Part 2 of The David Bowie Story explores Bowie’s fantastic rise to stardom in the early 70s. Despite his irresponsible nature creating tensions with his producers, his quirky personality, his sexual ambiguity and his sense of drama was making his music

Today we introduce the first part of a detailed and very well documented 6-part BBC documentary series about the life and times of one of the greatest and most influential artist in popular music: David Bowie.Part 1 starts in the 60s and tells the story o