Mixing music dance fantasy and drama this multiple bafta winning series broke new ground in charting the ups and downs of a fictional female rock trio trying to make their way in a male orientated industry penned by emigre new yorker howard schuman rock follies brought the style of 1930s american musicals and a touch of weimar decadence to the seventies rock scene casting a satirical eye on an often sordid world where burned out sixties idealism has given way to a commercialism that often