Air date: 2004-09-19

Runtime: 30 min

American rock enters Norway and turns the perception of what popular music is upside down. And what really happened during the rock riots in Oslo in 1956?

Air date: 2004-09-26

Runtime: 30 min

Inspired by The Shadows, shadows bands spring up across the country in the sixties. And the parent generation calls their music barbed-wire music.

Air date: 2004-10-03

Runtime: 30 min

Surrounded by screaming girls, parties, and scandals, the Pussycats are the first to live out what we associate with the sixties: Protest, colour, and free sex.

Air date: 2004-10-10

Runtime: 30 min

As the generational conflict intensifies, a rawer and bolder pop music emerges: Rhythm and blues.

Air date: 2004-10-17

Runtime: 30 min

Throughout the 60s, only the schlager singers sing in Norwegian. Then the Norwegian singer-songwriter wave emerges.

Air date: 2004-10-24

Runtime: 30 min

In the 70s, people begin in earnest to buy records. The record companies smell money, and the artists dream of breaking through abroad.

Air date: 2004-10-31

Runtime: 30 min

With an intense hatred of the record industry, harsh opinions that disco sucks, and an appearance that scares most people senseless, the punks take over Norway.

Air date: 2004-11-07

Runtime: 30 min

In the 80s, the record market explodes, also in Norway. But it’s pop that sells, not rock.

Air date: 2004-11-14

Runtime: 30 min

Even though the punks try to make Norwegian a rock language, it’s only when deLillos, Raga Rockers, Jokke, and DumDum Boys enter the stage that it takes off.

Air date: 2004-11-21

Runtime: 30 min

Norwegian rock and pop musicians have always dreamed of making it abroad. Finally, it happens: A-ha goes to the top in the USA.

Air date: 2004-11-28

Runtime: 30 min

In the 90s, rock’s niches grow large enough to embrace narrow genres, and Norwegian techno, black metal, and world music conquer Europe.

Air date: 2004-12-05

Runtime: 30 min

At the turn of the millennium, many new artists have risen to prominence. They chart their own course for pop and rock.