After VH1 relaunched Behind the Music in 2009 with specials on Lil Wayne and 50 Cent, the long-running documentary series will head to VH1 Classic in 2010 with eight new half-hour specials dedicated to some of the biggest artists in rock history. Behind the Music Remastered will feature episodes on John Lennon, Metallica, Genesis, Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard and Judas Priest. While all of these artists have previously been featured on BTM, the Remastered series will pick up where those episodes left off with new interviews and footage from the past decade. Behind the Music Remastered will premiere on VH1 Classic on Saturday, February 6th.

This is cool news. I always loved Behind the Music.

Awesome!

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That is pretty cool. Essentially, it makes them 1 1/2 hour episodes (minus the commercials) if they are the original and the 30 minute relaunch back to back, which I am sure they will.

I used to love this show, but like MG stated they all became so cliche. Still cool stories and I enjoyed even if all rock bands share similar histories.

So this time they're going to focus more on rap artists? I think i'll pass...

I loved those Behind The Music and Legends series back in the late 90's and early 2000's. I have zero interest in the ones that have come out in the last few years, with the possible exception of Ratt which came out about 3 years ago. I will watch for these new ones in the future and will enjoy them very much.

I will keep an eye out. Thanks, manny.

Theres some episodes Id love to see again

Stevie Nicks
REM
Aerosmith
David Bowie
No Doubt

There was supposed to be a Scott Weiland one I guess it got shelved for reasons not stated but would love to see that

I miss VH1's Legends documentary series...they did them on U2, Queen, Black Sabbath & David Bowie, I believe...I only got to see them once each...those were better than the BTM's, IMO...

[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1's_Legends]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VH1's_Legends[/url]

I agree with Shawn and those weren't as formulaic.

I was addicted to Behind the Music. I wish they'd play them on the regular VH1, though, and just leave VH1 Classics and all video channel. I absolutely HATE all the crap they play on VH1 now. It used to be one of my favorite channels when they actually covered music (I know... that has not happened in a long time). I won't even go into MTV.

Yeah, MTV and VH1 both used to actually be cool. Now they suck so horribly bad. Horribly bad.

Good album there MB (the madonna one)

I loved Behind the music Im pissed that they shelved the one they were doing on Weiland I was soooooooo looking forward to that, but i love the older ones too, I wish theyd put those out on DVD

They really need to cover Iron Maiden!

What happened to Dennis Stratton?

As for Blaze, he'd be pretty much a footnote in the history of Maiden. Yea, it's tragic that he lost his wife and he seems to have a somewhat decent solo career, but for an hour program, I can't seeing spending too much time on Blaze, especially after he left Maiden.