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Behind the Music is a television series on VH1 that ran from 1997 to 2003, and continues to air sporadically with new episodes.

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Premise

Each show focuses on a musician or musical group, documenting both the successes of the musicians and the problems they faced during their careers. Except for the first two episodes (which focused on Milli Vanilli and M.C. Hammer), all programs are narrated by Jim Forbes. Forbes was later used to narrate the Milli Vanilli episode when it was modified to include the death of Rob Pilatus.

VH1's criterion for choosing the musicians who appear on the show is, in many cases, to profile those who are no longer in the music industry, or were moderately significant enough in rock history to appear on the series. This is as opposed to VH1's other biography show, VH1's Legends, which profiles musicians that have been very significant to the industry. However, there are some artists that were profiled on both Behind the Music and Legends, including Tina Turner, Elton John, and John Lennon (although Behind The Music exclusively focused on the days leading to his murder in 1980).

Behind the Music came to be after Paul Gallagher and George Moll produced a one-hour special entitled Dying in Vein which first aired on VH1 in December 1996. While Dying in Vein was a magazine style show, its approach to storytelling served as the prototype for Behind the Music.

A short-lived half-hour spinoff series titled BTM2 (short for "Behind the Music 2") chronciled the careers of newer upcoming artists.

Musicians

This is a list of artists who have appeared in episodes of the series:





















The Saturday Night Live "More Cowbell" sketch was a fictitious episode profiling Blue Öyster Cult. Another fictitious episode was The Simpsons episode Behind the Laughter.

Other features

Other than musicians, some episodes were documentaries on musical events, films, and non-musicians who were influential on the music world. The following appeared in episodes of the series: "Behind the Laughter" was an episode of The Simpsons that aired on the Fox network in 2000 and spoofed the style of the program. Jim Forbes also narrated this episode and many of the interstitial graphics used a style similar to Behind the Music.

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