Terry Pratchett said "Rock and Roll is sung about and talked about as though it is some kind of a living thing – it won’t fade away, it’ll never die. The Geeky Guide to Everything described it as a "quirky celebration.of rock music's history". PopMatters notes "the whole adventure is a parody of the music industry in the world outside of the story". NeedCoffee said "the songs that The Band with Rocks In sings manage to be send-ups and faithful recreations of the various styles rock-n-roll has been through". And this made for an entertaining musical and visual experience". The Geeky Guide To Everything noted "Each new number depicted a different aspect or period of rock music ranging from the likes of beat music all the way to the Beatles. Soul Music is notable for having numerous allusions to various aspects of the music industry, including groupies, music-recording devices, and most notably the history of rock and roll.
Rob Rackstraw - Glod Glodsson, The Librarian.It also introduces Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell and granddaughter of Death. The series closely follows the plot of the novel, which, like many of Pratchett's novels, introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval / early modern world of the Disc - in this case rock and roll music and stardom - with nearly disastrous consequences. The film's tagline is: " A story of reality, fantasy and the bits in the middle". Editz did the title sequences, Flix Facilities did the digital picture editing, and Hullabaloo Studios did the audio post-production. The soundtrack is, however, now available through iTunes.
The series soundtrack was also released on CD, but the disc is now out of production. It was the first film adaptation of an entire Discworld novel (following the Welcome to the Discworld short, which was based on a fragment of the novel Reaper Man).
The feature-length miniseries was developed by Acorn Media, and directed by Jean Flynn. It was first broadcast on 28 December 1998 and released on DVD in 2001, alongside Wyrd Sisters in a box set entitled "Soul Music", by Vision Video. Soul Music is a seven-part animated television adaptation of the 1994 book of the same name by Terry Pratchett, produced by Channel 4 Television Corporation, Cosgrove Hall Films, ITEL, and Ventureworld Films.
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