www.visityesterday.co.uk Yesterday is a place where the past is always present. On this channel the past will be evoked in a way that is more vivid and relevant to viewers than ever before. As well as the high quality history series that viewers would expect such as 20th Century Battlefields and Hitler’s Bodyguard, there will be an emphasis on the history of our own lifetimes. Classic series such as Seven Ages Of Rock and The Alan Clark Diaries as well as new acquisitions such as International Terrorism will help Yesterday put our lives today into context. Sky 537 Virgin Media 203 Freeview 12. Seven Ages Of Rock *Channel Premiere* Weekdays, 9pm (from Monday 2nd March) New to Yesterday is Seven Ages Of Rock, a landmark series that provides a definitive history of global rock music from its emergence 50 years ago through to its continual re-imaginings and reinventions. The series kicks off with a look at the blues-based rock revolution of the 1960s, and examines the influence of rhythm and blues in music from pioneers such as Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Cream and The Who. It also looks at how the songwriting of Bob Dylan and studio developments from The Beatles created a legacy for rock music to flourish in following decades. With the Velvet Underground, Genesis and Pink Floyd showing that rock could be a vehicle for abstract, avant-garde ideas in the 1970s and the punk movement proving that the genre could be a medium for revolution, Seven Ages Of Rock looks at the development of some of rock music’s biggest names and discovers how different scenes – from heavy metal to British indie – sprung up from nowhere.
