Frontline

The Way the Music Died

Season 22    Episode 15
May 27, 2004    TV-MA
The modern music scene was created in 1969, at Woodstock. Half a million fans, dozens of artists, and the politics of the times came together as a big bang moment that eventually would generate billions of dollars. But over the last twenty years, MTV, compact discs, corporate consolidation, Internet piracy, and greed have contributed to a perfect storm for the recording industry. FRONTLINE examines how the business that has provided the soundtrack of the lives of a generation is on the verge of collapse.

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Cast of The Way the Music Died
  • Will LymanSelf - Narrator (voice)

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