Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1 – It’s the new millennium and music is facing an existential threat: illegal piracy.
In Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution Walkley Award-winning journalist Marc Fennell (The Kingdom, Framed, The Mission) uncovers the bizarre story of the Aussie start up, Guvera, that promised to revolutionise music forever, but instead vanished in a $180 million mystery.
Through exclusive interviews, never-before seen footage and photographs, incredible archive and dramatic reenactments, Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution charts the spectacular rise and fall of Guvera – once nicknamed the “iTunes Killer”- which once had A-list superstars like Alice Cooper and Mos Def lining up behind it with one mission: to destroy internet piracy.
Marc is joined by iconic Australian musician Ben Lee as they take a nostalgic trip to the 90s, the golden age, before piracy threatened to take down the multi-billion-dollar music industry and an unlikely saviour, Guvera, emerged.
Episode One:
Award-winning journalist, Marc Fennell, goes on a journey back to the 90s to understand the impact of illegal piracy on the booming music industry, and investigates the bizarre story of an Aussie startup with an audacious plan for a music revolution.
Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution on SBS and SBS on Demand – SBS Original Series Premiere / Tuesday 15 October at 8.35pm (2 Parts)
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Red Flag: Music’s Failed Revolution on SBS and SBS on Demand S1E1
