Returning Series

Legends

5.0 1

2006

1h

6 seasons

Documentary

The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.

Seasons

Cast

Wild Bill Hickok (archive footage) (uncredited), Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Carpenter

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self, Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Laverne Andrews

Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage)

Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice), Narrator (voice)

Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage), Self - The Andrews Sisters (archive footage)

Joy Beverley (archive footage)

Peter Stringfellow

Self (uncredited), Self

Self (archive footage)

Barbara Orbison

Self - Road Manager

Self (archive footage)

Olivia Harrison

Self - Promotions Man

Sophie Walton Masters

Self - Commentary (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Rosemary Clooney

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Gloria Hunniford

Yvonne Littlewood

Self (archive footage)

Django Reinhardt

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self / Various characters (archive footage)

Kit Hesketh-Harvey

Self (archive footage)

Daphne Oxenford

Various Roles (archive footage)

Michael Brandon

Self - Narrator (voice)

Ethel Barrymore

Aunt Jessie Tuttle (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Snyder (archive footage) (uncredited)

Vernon Hines (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gladys Hotchkiss (archive footage) (uncredited)

Roy (archive footage) (uncredited)

Allyn Ann McLerie

Katie Brown (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Elvira Kent (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mae (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sid Sorokin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Pete Ramsey (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mabel (archive footage) (uncredited)

Sidney Skolsky (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mike Harper (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self - Younger Sister

Andrew Loog Oldham

Rosemary Squires

Self (archive footage)

Betty Boothroyd

Marcel Stellman

Self (archive footage)

Carla Mendonça

Narrator (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Paul Gambaccini

Self (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Louis Prima Jr.

Bruce Boyd Raeburn

Self - Narrator (voice)

Jacqui Dankworth

Laurie Holloway

Julian Lloyd Webber

Self (archive footage)

Mark Nightingale

Ella Fitzgerald

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage)

Richard Clayderman

Self (archive footage)

Self / Various (archive footage)

Self - Narrator (voice)

Tim Brooke-Taylor

Stanley Dorfman

Lauretta Feldman

Self (archive footage)

Geoffrey Robertson

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mel Funn (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Inga (archive footage) (uncredited)

Elizabeth (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mary (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

G.O.D. (archive footage) (uncredited)

Rosalind Ashford

Abdul 'Duke' Fakir

Claudette Robinson

Mariella Frostrup

Self - Narrator

Josephine Baker

Self (archive footage)

Narrator (voice)

Daniel André Pageon

Carole Bayer Sager

Self - Co-founder, Aldon Music

Self - The Tokens

Self - Narrator (voice)

Blondie Chaplin

Self - Beach Boys Guitarist

Self - Recording Engineer

Self - Drummer, The Foo Fighters

Self - Producer

Self - Beach Boy

Self - Founding Member, Beach Boys

Self - Biographer

Self - Beach Boys Roadie

Self (archive footage)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Self / The Mechanic (archive footage) (uncredited)

Joan Sutherland

Richard Bonynge

Plácido Domingo

Luciano Pavarotti

Franco Zeffirelli

Randy "Badazz" Alpert

Robert Edmondson

Self - Trombone, The Tijuana Brass

Self - Guitar, The Tijuana Brass

Self - Bass, The Tijuana Brass

Self (uncredited)

Naphtalia Loderick

Actor in Reenactment Scenes

Maurice Tompkins

Actor in Reenactment Scenes

Actor in Reenactment Scenes

Osian Williams-Huw

Actor in Reenactment Scenes

Self - Son of Leonard Chess

Charlie Musselwhite

Steven Van Zandt

Philip Glenister

Self - Narrator (voice)

Self (archive footage)

Self - Thin Lizzy Road Manager

Brian Robertson