Once Upon a Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco & Punk (Rockumentary)

Well-executed and extensive BBC documentary entitled Once Upon a Time in New York – The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco & Punk. Making the point that by the 1970s most pop music in the USA was dominated by West Coast artists and that NYC – despite being home to a plethora of creative types, was experiencing a period of stunted growth – the video goes on to explain how three unique and revolutionary genres of music managed to sprout from the squalor of this gritty, decades-old New York. From the...

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