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KKDJ music television has brought back American classic rock from the 70s, 80s and 90’s by playing your favorite non-stop music videos

Was I the only child of my generation who watched the broad, laugh-tracked 1950s-set family sitcom Happy Days and assumed it to be a portrait of contemporary American life? The Milwaukee teenagers in baseball jackets genuflecting to a greaser called The Fonz in a milk bar while the catchy theme tune sang of “rockin’ and rollin’ all week long”? I thought America was still like that in the 1970s.

Such is the abiding mythic iconography of the birthplace of rock’n’roll. A new three-part doc Rock’n’Roll America plots how this image of hot rods and pompadours conquered the world under Eisenhower and refused to go home. Forged on the well-worn BBC Music docs anvil, archive footage of jitterbugging delinquents saying “Cool, daddy!” illuminates bronchial testimony from desiccated old session bassists with one anecdote, while moody narration from David Morrissey reminds us we’re not actually in Milwaukee.

The various cradles of the genre – Beale Street, Bourbon Street, Sun Studios – are these days tourist quarters, which makes it easy for film-makers. I kept expecting see Reginald D Hunter making his recent BBC journey Songs Of The South, which visited many of the same hallowed juke joints and honky-tonks. This does mean, though, that we get to meet flamboyant septuagenarian New Orleans tour guide Deacon John Moore, who takes us into fabled venue the Dew Drop Inn dressed in blazer, dicky bow and possibly spats. “This is where many a tear had to fall,” he emotes, gazing at a disused room. “The stage would’ve been right around here.”

 

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