YONGE STREET: TORONTO ROCK & ROLL STORIES - SIZZLER

DOCUMENTARY 3 x 60′
Original Broadcaster: BRAVO
Producer: DAVID BRADY PRODUCTIONS
From internationally acclaimed director Bruce MacDonald, YONGE STREET is a love story about a street, a city, and its musical sound.
This documentary series tells the untold iconic tales of those first steps, including performers revealing their struggles to make the scene on Yonge Street. We hear about Rock & Roll's dodgy beginnings in the late 1950s through to 1975. When strip clubs took over Yonge Street and dropped the curtain on this most exciting era of the city's musical and social history.
Full of colourful anecdotes and previously unseen and unheard archival material, YONGE STREET features illuminating, entertaining reminiscences by many of the musicians and performers who were there when it all went down. We share in the stories related by Robbie Robertson (The Band), Rompin' Ronnie Hawkins, Gordon Lightfoot, Daniel Lanois, and Bob Dylan.
The series captures all the flavour, excitement, and energy of the period when "the Devil's music" stormed Yonge Street and became the essential destination for musicians, singers and music fans not only in Toronto, but across Canada and beyond. The stories of YONGE STREET still reverberate and ricochet around the world.

[@jannsmith8906]

So glad to find a way to watch this again. My mom was actually in one of the scenes. Not on purpose but we saw her in one of the Yorkville coffee house scenes. I’ve been trying to find a way to watch it again for years!

[@ezpz4333]

I need to see this!! I’ve heard a lot about how influential Robbie was to the Toronto music scene but all these tv specials about that time rarely get uploaded :(

[@frankandrews1005]

Hello from Winnipeg! Does anyone know the name of the song/artist performing over the opening sequence for this series? I believe it's Eric Mercury; no idea what the song is. Thank you!

[@caraeastcott9152]

Where to watch full series?

[@tboysrocknroll9252]

I want to know where as well...