KISS, LED ZEPPELIN, QUEEN Featured In Next Week's BBC Documentary

June 11, 2007

According to KissKollector.com, KISS, LED ZEPPELIN and QUEEN are among the artists that will be featured in next week's episode of the new BBC documentary "Seven Ages of Rock". Titled "We are the Champions", the episode will focus on so-called "stadium rock" from 1965 to 1993.

Says director/producer Sebastian Barfield: "Stadium rock is not a genre — it exists somewhere far above the ebb and flow of genre and fashion, and is a term used to describe the music played by bands and artists as musically diverse as LED ZEPPELIN, QUEEN, THE POLICE or U2 — acts who can regularly perform to upwards of 50,000 people."

"In a strictly musical sense, there is little that connects these bands — the hopped up glam riffs of KISS are far removed from the futuristic sonics of Bono and Edge. Rather, the link is in the outlook and actions of the musicians themselves. To start with, all these bands share a similar sense of ambition — a desire to use their music to connect with as many as they can. Showmanship is clearly a shared common element — all have figured out how to make a large stage work for them." And he adds: "Gene Simmons charmed us with some of the most outrageous things committed to tape."

The episode airs next Saturday (June 16) at 22.10 (U.K. time) on BBC 2, and will re-run the next night on BBC 1.

"Seven Ages of Rock" is a seven-episode documentary on the emergence of rock music as a global force, told through the musicians who have shaped the enduring genre.

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