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Where To Stream Rock Family Trees Season 1 Episode 5

The British R&B Boom

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. This week's programme charts the careers of groups as diverse as Manfred Mann and Cream as they turned black music into white rock.