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Fillmore Slim (né Clarence Sims) begins pursuing a music career in the 1950s, but is lured away by the pimp game during the 1960s and 1970s. He eventually returns to music in the 1980s and continues to tour today at age 77.

Set in the mid-1990s, a young, wannabe A&R guy struggles to get out of the mail room and an older, crazy, forgotten rock 'n' roller holds the key.

The life story of Keith Moon, the notoriously wild drummer of the legendary rock band, The Who.

Set in the 1980s, a young man from the L.A. hood looks to his gift for "popping," a street dance, as his way out of the hood.

The life story of Lou Pearlman, the former multiplatinum boy band manager-turned-convicted felon.

Traces the rise and fall, and then another rise and fall and then rise, of a trio of internationally beloved operatic superstars.

To make ends meet, Jack, a down-on-his-luck rocker-turned-father, secretly joins a group of young musicians in a wedding cover band led by misfit Ben. Things start looking up for this ragtag band, but when Jack's secret gets revealed, he rediscovers what's truly important in life while teaching Ben to find his own voice as a musical talent.

Follows the life of Brian Epstein, who discovered and managed the Beatles from 1961 through 1967, when he died of a drug overdose at 32.

The sudden and unexpected rise to stardom of a young country singer challenges the stability of his family and his own ability to cope with fame.

The life story of the legendary gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt. He was this handsome gypsy whose music was just reaching the mainstream when a fire started in the gypsy caravan and he rushed in to save his wife (getting badly burned in the process). The doctors wanted to amputate his left hand and right leg, but the gypsies (kidnapped) him and nursed him back to health. He played anyway, until he was captured during WWII by the Nazis, who had outlawed jazz in Europe and wanted to completely exterminate gypsies. His music wound up saving his life." He later became the toast of the Paris jazz set and realized his dream to play with Ellington at Carnegie Hall.

The Rolling Stones' Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Mick Taylor and Charlie Watts record their "Exile on Main Street" album in the south of France in the summer of 1971.

Kit Lambert discovers the rock band The Who while he is trying to make a film about the band, known then as the High Numbers. Instead, he decides to manage the band and to launch their musical career, and with Chris Stamp -- brother of Terence Stamp -- Lambert pushes Townshend to take The Who into more experimental avenues. The result is the seminal rock opera album "Tommy," which later becomes a Ken Russell film. Lambert also works with Jimi Hendrix and other artists, and is as known for self-destruction as they are.

The story of late Sugar Hill Records co-founder Sylvia Robinson, an influential rap pioneer and producer known as the "Mother of Hip-Hop."

Set it in the sultry nightlife scene of modern day New Orleans and the world of jazz, R&B, neo-Soul, and funk. A singer is mentored by a mysterious man...

A suburban soccer mom and housewife becomes the founder and guitarist for an all-mom surf-punk band.

Sam Phillips is a pioneer in the music industry during the 1950s as a producer helps launch the careers of Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis.