About Behind The Music

VH1 is going BEHIND THE MUSIC again in 2009.

BEHIND THE MUSIC emerged from the cable television jungle of the 1990s to become the most celebrated music documentary series in TV history. BTM blew up the small screen with true tales of drugs and debauchery, breakups and makeups. The show's addictive portraits of the flipside of pop music stardom became as legendary as many of the bands themselves.

And now the oft-imitated, never-duplicated show, which has been chronicling the unexpected twists and turns of the pop life since 1997, returns from a brief hiatus with a twist of its own. The 2009 season of BEHIND THE MUSIC concentrates on artists in their prime, at the top of their game. Expanding on the storytelling legacy that has earned the series five Emmy nominations, each episode will include verite footage of the artists at work today, connecting the past with the present, the music with the life.
BEHIND THE MUSIC tells artists' stories through in-depth, intimate interviews with the artists and their families, friends and colleagues, along with rare and never-before-seen video and film footage -- and of course the iconic narration of Jim Forbes, who will continue to tell it like it is in 2009.

In more than 200 episodes to date, BEHIND THE MUSIC has featured artists across the pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop spectrum, from AC/DC and Motley Crue, to Britney Spears and Madonna, to Snoop Dogg and the Notorious B.I.G., to the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Green Day.