摇滚乐在披头四、猫王之后，乐风出现了转折。社会上一片颓废、荒芜，音乐上也大胆地向美好的美国梦挑战。首先，性手枪合唱团将朋克音乐导入主流风潮，然而，虽然他们名闻遐迩，但颠峰状态并没有维持太久，终究没有到达1960年代披头四、滚石合唱团的地位。其它摇滚乐团如MC五人组、地下丝绒乐团、佩蒂史密斯乐团、门都蔚为风尚，他们的曲风可说前所未见，虽然有时略为粗糙，但表现形式更为愤怒、暴烈、狂野、震撼，也是迷幻年代的最高峰。这个时期文化上的特色即是大环境弥漫了反社会的意识型态、虚无的忧郁、疯狂的性爱与毒品、脱缰的暴力与一片浑沌。
本集介绍了朋克音乐的起源，包括Iggy Pop及纽约玩偶乐团。看朋克音乐如何在纽约大整合，包括理察海尔、电台司令及佩蒂史密斯乐团。并介绍朋克音乐在英国的兴衰，及The Clash最早期的演出。

Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom (attended by 72,000 people) and John F. Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States (attended by about 100,000 people). On the same day, concerts inspired by the initiative happened in other countries, such as Australia and Germany. It was one of the largest-scale satellite link-ups and television broadcasts of all time: an estimated global audience of 1.9 billion, across 150 nations, watched the live broadcast.[2

艾玛（艾玛·邦顿 Emma Bunton 饰）、梅尔B（梅兰妮·布朗 Melanie Brown 饰）、梅尔C（梅兰妮·奇斯霍姆 Melanie Chisholm 饰）、维多利亚（维多利亚·贝克汉姆 Victoria Beckham 饰）和杰瑞（格蕾·哈莉威尔 Geri Halliwell 饰）组成了一支名叫辣妹组合的乐队，在善于经营的经纪人克利福德（理查德·格兰特 Richard E. Grant 饰）的宣传之下，辣妹组合乐队很快就俘获了大批粉丝的心。
虽然事业蒸蒸日上，但五个女孩发现，属于她们自己的时间正在一点点的被压缩。女孩们的好友妮可（森尚子 Naoko Mori 饰）分娩在即，姑娘们希望能够抽出一点时间去探望一下她，然而这一合理的要求却遭到了克利福德的拒绝。

The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show that featured Conan O'Brien as host from June 1, 2009 to January 22, 2010 as part of NBC's long-running Tonight Show franchise. The program's host, Conan O'Brien, previously hosted NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien, which followed The Tonight Show with Jay Leno for 16 years, until O'Brien's brief succession over Leno.Many members of the Late Night cast and crew made the transition to The Tonight Show. The Max Weinberg 7, the house band from O'Brien's Late Night, served as the house band under the new name, Max Weinberg and The Tonight Show Band. Andy Richter returned to the show as announcer, and also began resuming his role as sidekick, shortly before the show's conclusion. The opening and closing theme song from Late Night was also carried over to Tonight, in a slightly altered form.In January 2010, after the show had been on the air for seven months, it was announced that NBC was intending to move Jay Leno from primetime back to his original timeslot at 11:35 pm, with O'Brien's show starting shortly after midnight. In response to the announcement, O'Brien released a press statement saying that he would not continue as host of The Tonight Show if it was moved to any time after midnight to accommodate The Jay Leno Show. He feared it would ruin the long and rich tradition of The Tonight Show. It had been on after the late local newscasts from the beginning. After two weeks of negotiations, NBC announced that they had paid $45 million to buy out O'Brien's contract, ending both his tenure as host as well as his relationship with NBC after 22 years.

A documentary series about pop and rock albums that are considered the best or most distinctive of a well-known band or musician or that exemplify a stage in the history of music.

著名儿童绘本《皮特猫》的动画版9月21日在Amazon上线，由《奇迹男孩》《房间》的小男主雅各布·特瑞布雷配音主角小蓝猫，音乐来自著名音乐人Elvis Costello和Diana Krall，他们也配音皮特猫的父母，第1季聚焦皮特自我发现的过程：第一次写歌、第一次冲浪、第一次和乐队表演……激励孩子们对这个世界的好奇和创造力，以及积极的心态。

"Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued" follows five current artists as they put music to words penned by the rock legend during the Summer of Love. Showtime‘s documentary puts Oscar winner T Bone Burnett together with Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford (Mumford & Sons), Jim James (My Morning Jacket), Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) and Rhiannon Giddens (Carolina Chocolate Drops) to record an album of the songs a 26-year-old Bob Dylan originally wrote in 1967 for the record that became The Basement Tapes.

一切的源头应该追朔到由于内战与连年乾旱爆发大饥荒的非洲古老的艾塞俄比亚. 在1984年圣诞节前原 Boomtown Rates 合唱团的团员、也是爱尔兰知名摇滚歌手 Bob Geldof 与英籍电子团Ultravox 的 Midge Ure 合写一首 "Do They Know It\'s Christmas" 并召集了当红的英籍歌手与团体如保罗。杨、文化俱乐部(主唱乔治男孩)、杜兰杜兰合唱团、史汀…组成临时超级团体 Band Aid 演唱，期望能募款七万五千英镑来帮助这些难民。