Apple TV Plus to Explore Peak Year for Rock and R&b in ‘1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything’ Docu-Series

When debates are had about what year in history represented popular music’s peak, the argument is often made for 1971.

Apple TV Plus clearly gives some credence to that belief.

The platform has announced imminent plans to premiere “1971: The Year That Music Changed Everything,” an eight-episode documentary series dedicated to using archival footage and vintage and fresh interviews to explore why rock ‘n’ roll and R&b reached maximum vitality during that politically fraught time.The series, which bows May 17, comes from a filmmaking team that includes principals who worked together on such previous film documentaries as “Amy” (about the late Amy Winehouse), “Exit Through the Gift Shop” and “Senna.”“1971” has the luxuriant running time to hit upon many if not most of the inordinate number of masterpieces that came out that year, from the Who’s “Who’s Next” to Marvin Gaye’s “What’s Goin’ On.” It

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