Seven ages of rock - a history of rock music over the past 50 years

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• I was born in 1958 and remember my older brother playing boogie on the piano to Chuck Berry when I was 4. I grew up with blues music - bands like Cream, the Stones and The Animals sent me down the road they'd followed to Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Little Walter and the rest. I still listen to them, along with Taj Mahal, Robert Cray, Hendrix, Allmans, Cooder etc. My children have done the same. Blues has longevity, blues has soul, blues had a baby and they called it rock 'n' roll (sorry, Mr Morganfield).
  Sarosh Daruvala, near Bishop's Stortford

  I was 9 yrs old in 1966 - Los Angeles. I remember my dad coming home from work with a record in his hand, putting it on the turntable and saying "listen to this!!!" - it was Bob Dylan singing Mr Tambourine Man....and the rest of the album was great, too - it was a fantastic time in life - everything felt totally new and revolutionary....my parents took us to the Elysian Park Easter love-in, we rented a house in Big Sur and my dad was at the Monterey Pop festival when Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin burned up the stage. Everyone felt they were experiencing something new. It felt like life was really cooking...on our drives up the coast, the roadsides in Santa Barbara were lined with hitchhikers trying to thumb a lift north - to San Francisco. We had friends who lived in Sausalito, and my dad took us to visit the Haight - I just remember the streets thronged with people, one guy I remember jingling as he walked - he had sewn coins all over his clothes and flashed and jangled as he walked. We got the underground press newspapers and we cut out all the posters and taped them up all over our bedroom walls - they'd be worth a fortune now. A friend of ours in Big Sur loved Jimi Hendrix....we used to put the portable record player out on the hood of the car and play "Axis of Love" - I remember the album cover - and Jefferson Airplane....but I was still a child and basically, an onlooker....I wanted so much to be older...thankfully, my parents protected me from the drugs which were swirling around....there were casualties amongst friends and family.....but it was a wild time...and music was a driving force....people weren't plugged into their computers then...they were out in the world, living it, viscerally......
  csw, canterbury

  Born in 1953 I remember music as a part of my life as far as my memory goes,my father , an enthusiast amateur pianist plays polka from Chopin when we couldn't get sleep. Later I discovered the modern music on the radio. The mixed up musical environment and the teaching of my father brought me to a very diverse taste of music from early classical music in the 13th century till today. I can't thank my parents enough for their education the gave is in developing taste for good quality music, it's an important part of my life today
  Jan van den Berg, Netherlands.

  I missed the first episode of seven ages of rock, could you play it again or put it on youtube, also would be good if this was made into a book
  Josh from canterbury, kent

  Born in 1948, I lived through all of this. Leeds University in the 60s was memorable, and I'd love the opportunity for a nostalgia-fest, but I too missed the first episode "The Birth of Rock". Any chance of showing it again?
  Cheryl Wilcocks West Yorkshire