Episode 2: In the Beginning

Your Backstage Pass allows you to learn about how the worlds of theatre and television came together as live music audiences grew more demanding. Rock and roll shows grew in ambition and scale and burst out from functional civic halls and venues to take place in sporting arenas and stadia. After riding an open topped bus with Paul McCartney, who opens up about the breakup of the Beatles, you will hear from those that set up ESP Lighting, the London company and about the early days when the visionary Chipmonck – the eponymous voice of the Woodstock Festival - came from the States to work with the Rolling Stones as their lighting designer and needed UK based crew and equipment to get their European tour on the road in the early seventies. From this the company blossomed and its stable of clients read like a check list of rock and roll royalty each hoping to catch the musical press headlines by being bigger, better and more visually exciting than other bands or artistes going on the road with those in the company ‘making it up and they went along because no one had ever done it before.’ Part of Pantheon Podcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices