Cameron may not have written every episode but he positively shines out of this ten hour hymn to music and the people who help bring it to the audiences. It's in everything: the details about rock history ('this is where Led Zeppelin were introduced to America...' etc.), the story (Reg gets to understand the music by being on tour), the fact Cameron's probably interviewed and is friends with most of the guest artists, his own history of joining a band on tour when only 16; the obsessive super-fan collector (surely Cameron himself?), Phil's Lynryd Skynyrd story (no doubt substantially true)...
The entire thing is like a beautiful extension of Almost Famous. And you keep getting these reflections: a Hawaiian security guard with a Gift (Aloha); Shelley's husband coming to visit and bear gripping Bill (Aloha), 'I have something for you' (Elizabethtown), the nutty super-groupie (Almost Famous)...
There's something about Imogen Poots, she can say the simplest thing, or give the simplest look, and it's just so sweet, so real - she sort of reminds me of Audrey Hepburn, in a way...
At the time of writing it is no longer available to watch on Amazon, or anywhere, and you can't buy physical copies. It's beyond ridiculous. In fact it's criminal.
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