For four decades, AC/DC has reigned as one of the best-loved and hardest-rocking bands in the world. Featuring guitarist Angus Young as their visual symbol and musical firebrand, they grew from humble origins in Australia to become an arena-filling phenomenon with worldwide popularity. To date, AC/DC has sold over 200 million albums worldwide, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003. Perryscope Productions is proud to have worked alongside AC/DC over the years, providing millions of fans the opportunity to find ACDC merchandise at shows and retailers all over the world. 

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Pink Floyd are one of the most commercially successful and influential rock bands of all time. They have sold more than 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million certified units in the United States. Pink Floyd have won several awards, including a "Best Engineered Non-Classical Album" Grammy in 1980 for The Wall, and a BAFTA award for "Best Original Song" in 1982 for "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" from The Wall film. In 1995, they won a Grammy for best "Rock Instrumental Performance" for "Marooned". In 2008, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden presented Pink Floyd with the Polar Music Prize for their contribution to modern music; and in 1996 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2005 Pink Floyd was inducted into the UK Music Hall of Fame, and the Hit Parade Hall of Fame in 2010.

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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie  was an English singer, songwriter and actor. He was a figure in popular music for over five decades, regarded by critics and musicians as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s. His career was marked by reinvention and visual presentation, his music and stagecraft significantly influencing popular music. During his lifetime, his record sales, estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists. In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver, releasing eleven number-one albums. In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996. And just when he was releasing some of his finest recorded work, 2016's highly acclaimed Blackstar, he left us too soon.

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Janis Lyn Joplin was an American singer-songwriter who first rose to fame in the late 1960s as the lead singer of the psychedelic/acid rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist. Her first ever large scale public performance was at the Monterey Pop Festival; this led her to becoming very popular and one of the major attractions at the Woodstock Festival and the Festival Express Train Tour.

Joplin was well known for her performing ability and was a multi-instrumentalist. Her fans referred to her stage presence as "electric;" at the height of her career, she was known as "The Queen of Psychedelic Soul." Known as "Pearl" among her friends, she was also a painter, dancer and music arranger. Rolling Stone ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time in 2004 and number 28 on its 2008 list of 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995. Joplin remains one of the top-selling musicians in the United States, with Recording Industry Association of America certifications of 15.5 million albums sold in the USA.

Big Brother and the Holding Company is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1965 as part of the same psychedelic music scene that produced the Grateful Dead, Quicksilver Messenger Service, and Jefferson Airplane. They are best known as the band that featured Janis Joplin as their lead singer. Their 1968 album Cheap Thrills is considered one of the masterpieces of the psychedelic sound of San Francisco; it reached number one on the Billboard charts, and was ranked number 338 in Rolling Stone's the 500 greatest albums of all time. The album is also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

The Woodstock Music & Art Fair was a music festival, billed as "An Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music". It was held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in the Catskills near the hamlet of White Lake in the town of Bethel, New York, from August 15 to 18, 1969. 32 acts performed outdoors before an audience of 400,000 people, at what is widely regarded as a pivotal moment in popular music history. Rolling Stone listed it as one of the greatest moments that changed the history of rock and roll, and is considered to be the definitive nexus for the counterculture generation.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers belong to a special class of artists, a class comprised of those few acts that have sustained decades-long careers despite the restlessness of popular music's audience. The Heartbreakers' tours are among the most successful in the business, year after year. Together for some three plus decades, they have scored major hits in every one of those decades. They've earned 18 Grammy nominations, entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and prestigious lifetime achievement awards from Billboard, MTV, ASCAP, and other organizations.

With ten multi-platinum albums and sixteen Top 30 hits, Foreigner is universally hailed as one of the most popular rock acts in the world with a formidable musical arsenal that continues to propel sold-out tours and album sales, now exceeding 75 million. Responsible for some of rock and roll’s most enduring anthems including Juke Box Hero, Feels Like The First Time, Urgent, Head Games, Hot Blooded, Cold as Ice, Dirty White Boy, Waiting For A Girl Like You, and the worldwide #1 hit, I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner continues to rock the charts more than thirty years into the game.

The Police have won a number of music awards throughout their career, including six Grammy Awards, two Brit Awards—winning Best British Group once, an MTV Video Music Award, and in 2003 were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Four of their five studio albums appeared on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. The Police were included among both Rolling Stone’s and VH1's lists of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.

George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. In 1965, he co-founded the progressive rock band Pink Floyd with drummer Nick Mason, keyboardist Rick Wright and guitarist, singer, and songwriter Syd Barrett.

Pink Floyd subsequently achieved international success with the concept albums The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals, and The Wall. By the early 1980s, they had become one of the most critically acclaimed and best-selling acts in the history of popular music; as of 2013, they have sold more than 250 million albums worldwide.

Waters' solo career has included three studio albums: The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Radio K.A.O.S. and Amused to Death. In 1990, he staged one of the largest and most extravagant rock concerts in history, The Wall – Live in Berlin, with an official attendance of 200,000. As a member of Pink Floyd, he was inducted into the US Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2005. 

David Jon Gilmour (born 6 March 1946), is an English musician, singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he is best known for his work as the guitarist and co-lead vocalist of the progressive rock band Pink Floyd. It was estimated that by 2012 the group had sold over 250 million records worldwide, including 75 million units sold in the United States.

In addition to his work with Pink Floyd, Gilmour has produced a variety of artists, for example the Dream Academy, and has had a solo career. In 2005, Gilmour was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his services to music. He was awarded with the Outstanding Contribution title at the 2008 Q Awards. In 2011, Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 14 in their list of the greatest guitarists of all time. Additionally, Gilmour was voted number 36 in the greatest voices in rock by Planet Rock listeners in 2009.

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English musician, composer, singer, songwriter, and painter. Best known as a founder member of the band Pink Floyd, Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist and principal songwriter in its early years and is credited with naming the band.

Barrett's innovative guitar work and exploration of experimental techniques such as dissonance, distortion and feedback influenced many musicians, including David Bowie and Brian Eno. His recordings are also noted for their strongly English-accented vocal delivery. After leaving music, Barrett continued with painting and dedicated himself to gardening. Biographies began appearing in the 1980s. Pink Floyd wrote and recorded several tributes to him, most notably the 1975 album Wish You Were Here, which included "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", as homage to Barrett.

Otis Redding received many posthumous accolades, including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He received the honorific nickname ‘King of Soul’.

Genesis are an English rock band formed at Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey in 1967. The most commercially successful line-up includes keyboardist Tony Banks, guitarist Mike Rutherford and drummer/singer Phil Collins. Other important members were singer Peter Gabriel and guitarist Steve Hackett. The band underwent many changes in musical style over its career, from folk music to progressive rock in the 1970s, before moving towards pop at the end of the decade. They have sold 21.5 million RIAA-certified albums in the US and their worldwide sales are estimated to be between 100 million and 130 million.

Their discography includes fifteen studio and six live albums, six of which topped the UK chart. They have won numerous awards and nominations, including a Grammy Award for Best Concept Music Video with "Land of Confusion", and inspired a number of tribute bands recreating Genesis shows from various stages of the band's career. In 2010, Genesis were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

The Band was inducted into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in 1989 and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994. In 2004, Rolling Stone ranked them No. 50 on their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, and in 2008, they received the Grammy's Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2004, "The Weight" was ranked the 41st best song of all time in Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list.

Isaac Lee Hayes Jr. was an American singer, songwriter, actor, producer, and voice artist. Hayes was one of the creative forces behind the southern soul music label Stax Records.  He served as both an in-house songwriter and as a session musician and record producer in the mid 1960’s.  Hayes was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2005 in recognition of writing scores of notable songs for himself and others.  Hayes was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. In addition to music he acted in film and television from 1973 until 2006 in shows such as The A-Team, Miami Vice, and Southpark as well as movies like Truck Turner, I’m Gonna Git You Sucka and All Dogs Go to Heaven.                

Hayes recorded several successful soul albums such as “Hot Buttered Soul” and “Black Moses” while continuing to work as a composer of musical scores for motion pictures.  Most notably for the film Shaft, which garnered him an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1972, making him the third African American to win in any competitive field to be awarded an Oscar.  He has also won a Golden Globe, several Grammy Awards and has received 9 BMI awards and six Million-Air Citations. He was nominated for a BAFTA Award, NAACP Image Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award.   

ROCKTOPIA is a revolutionary performance celebrating the fusion of classical music with classic rock.  ROCKTOPIA LIVE IN BUDAPEST: A CLASSICAL (R)EVOLUTION was filmed live at the world-famous Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest in June 2016 specifically for PBS, conducted by Randall Craig Fleischer. The broadcast features six world-class vocalists, five top notch rock musicians, the 40-member Hungarian Opera Choir and the 65-piece Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra.  ROCKTOPIA delivers one-of-a-kind musical arrangements featuring the works of classical composers, rock bands and artists including Mozart, Journey, Handel, U2, Tchaikovsky, Heart, Beethoven, Styx, Foreigner, Rachmaninoff, Pink Floyd, Copland, The Who and more.

ROCKTOPIA LIVE IN BUDAPEST: A CLASSICAL (R)EVOLUTION is part of special programming premiering on PBS stations beginning November 26, 2016  (check local listings).  Support your local PBS station by pledging to receive the DVD and CD which features full length versions of these musical mash ups.

ROCKTOPIA LIVE ON TOUR

See ROCKTOPIA live this Spring when the first tour kicks off in North America.  Best seats and meet and greet opportunities will be available through your local PBS station.  The live tour will perform with local symphonies and choirs across the country and will feature even more dynamic performances than what’s featured on the DVD and broadcast.

Heavy Metal magazine is an American science fiction and fantasy comics magazine, known primarily for its blend of dark fantasy/science fiction and erotica.  It was licensed from the French magazine Metal Hurlant and began in the U.S. as Heavy Metal in April 1977. 

Noted for it’s high quality artwork the magazine draws in fine artists from all over the world as contributors that create long running serials or iconic one off stories and art for the magazines pages.  In 1981 an animated feature film was adapted from several of the magazines serials, it has become a cult classic. The magazine continues to attract a variety of artists to create for the magazine and collectors continue to search for iconic Heavy Metal editions.