Rock Family Trees The British R&B Boom (Season 1, Episode 5)
TV Episode | Documentary, Music

Rock Family Trees

The British R&B Boom (Season 1, Episode 5)

TV Episode | Documentary, Music

In the early sixties, young people in Britain bored with the blandness of home-grown pop started listening to American blues. They absorbed it, made it their own and in the process created a new type of rock music.

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17 cast members

Name	Known for
John Peel Self - Narrator Self - Narrator See fewer	The Goodies (1970)
Ginger Baker Self Self See fewer	The Harder They Fall (2021)
John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Legend (I) (2015)
Graham Bond Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Beware of Mr. Baker (2012)
Pete Brown Self Self See fewer	S.O.U.L.--Sounds of Underground London (2003)
Jack Bruce Self Self See fewer	True Lies (1994)
Eric Clapton Self (archive footage) Self (archive footage) See fewer	Lethal Weapon (1987)
Cream Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Snowpiercer (2013)
Chris Dreja Self Self See fewer	Blow-Up (1966)
Hughie Flint Self Self See fewer	The Old Grey Whistle Test (1971)
The Graham Bond Organization Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	Last Night in Soho (2021)
Paul Jones Self Self See fewer	The Gentlemen (2019)
Manfred Mann Self Self See fewer	Kick-Ass (2010)
John Mayall Self Self See fewer	City by the Sea (2002)
Jim McCarty Self Self See fewer	Blow-Up (1966)
Tom McGuinness Self Self See fewer	The Fantasist (1986)
The Yardbirds Themselves (archive footage) Themselves (archive footage) See fewer	The Boat That Rocked (2009)