Soul Music: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The series closely follows the plot of the novel, which, like many of Pratchett's novels it introduces an element of modern society into the magical and vaguely late medieval, early modern world of the Disc, in this case Rock and Roll music and stardom, with nearly disastrous consequences. It also introduces Susan Sto Helit, daughter of Mort and Ysabell and granddaughter of Death. The series takes the association of the "Band with Rocks In" with the Beatles even further than the book does, evolving their style from 1950s rock and early 1960s beat music (and mixing-bowl haircuts) in Ankh-Morpork, to acid rock in Scrote, to spiritual hippie rock in Quirm. In Sto Lat, they sound like the Jimi Hendrix Experience or Bad Company, but are dressed in clothes similar to the Beatles on the cover of the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.

Series details

• Title: Soul Music
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Action, Adventure
• Premiere date: 1997-05-12
• Final broadcast date listed: 1997-05-12
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Channel 4
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 25 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 5051

Cast and credited roles

• Christopher Lee — Death
• Andy Hockley — Imp Y Celyn
• Debra Gillett — Susan Sto Helit
• Bernard Wrigley — Asphalt
• Graham Crowden — Mustrum Ridcully
• Neil Morrissey — Mort
• Bryan Pringle — Albert (Alberto Malich the Wise – Death's servant)
• George Harris — Lias Bluestone
• Jimmie Hibbert — Additional Voices
• Rob Rackstraw — Glod Glodsson
• Melissa Sinden — Ysabell

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1997-05-12; final listed air date 1997-05-12; episode order: 7.

Source and licence

Adapted from Soul Music on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.