Director
Sebastian Barfield
DIRECTOR
Kate Broome
Anna Gravelle
Alastair Laurence
Deep Sehgal
Francis Whately
Stars (in credits order)
Colin Salmon
Narrator
James Brown
Self
Etta James
Jerry Butler
Bobby Womack
Solomon Burke
Jerry Wexler
Self - Billboard Magazine 1947-1951
Gerald Early
Peter Guralnick
Earl Palmer
Magnificent Montague
Beyoncé
Kelly Rowland
Mary J. Blige
Ray Charles
Hype Williams
Self - Video Director
Lou Adler
George Clinton
Destiny's Child
Themselves
Mary Wilson
Mavis Staples
Steve Cropper
Self - Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Ruth Brown
Self - Singer
Wyclef Jean
Clive Davis
Self - President, Arista Records 1974-99
Bootsy Collins
Mathew Knowles
Self - Manager, Destiny's Child
Percy Sledge
Branford Marsalis
Self - Saxophonist
Otis Williams
Wilson Pickett
Jimmy Jam
Self - Record Producer
Gene Barge
Nelson George
Self - Music Writer
Barry Michael Cooper
Ben E. King
Allen Toussaint
Self - Pianist
Terry Lewis
Martha Reeves
Sam Moore
Self - Sam & Dave
Fontella Bass
Candi Staton
Ahmet Ertegun
Self - Atlantic Records
Andre Harrell
Self - CEO, Uptown Records 1986-96
Mable John
Barrett Strong
Self - Songwriter
Lamont Dozier
David Porter
Brian Holland
Eddie Holland
Renaldo Benson
Dan Penn
Wilson Waters Jr.
Abdul 'Duke' Fakir
William Stevenson
Greg Errico
Spooner Oldham
Luigi Creatore
Daniel Wolff
Wayne Jackson
Self - The Memphis Horns
Robert Hamlett
Fred Wesley
Al Bell
Self - Vice President, Stax
Stanley Crouch
Self - Music Critic
Isaac 'Dickie' Freeman
Erica Kennedy
Self - Journalist and Novelist
Cosimo Matassa
Mark Anthony Neal
Cynthia Robinson
Uriel Jones
Self - Drummer, The Funk Brothers
Dean Salvara
Young Ray Charles
David Ritz
Pee Wee Ellis
David 'Fathead' Newman Jr.
Michael Lydon
Self - Biographer
Jerry Martini
Rickey Vincent
Self - DJ and Music Critic
Alan Walden
Self - Otis Redding Management
Marvell Thomas
Self - Stax Musician
Barney Ales
Greg Tate
Portia Maultsby
Self - Professor, Indiana University
James Roberson
Marshall Chess
Self - Professor, Duke University
L.C. Cooke
Roosevelt Jamison
Self - James Carr's Manager
Deanie Parker
Self - Marketing Manager, Stax
Robert Margouleff
Quinton Claunch
Self - Producer, Goldwax Records
Robert Pruter
Carl Davis
Malcolm Cecil
Diana Ross
Self(archiveFootage)
Dick Clark
Aretha Franklin
Muhammad Ali
Sam Cooke
The Rolling Stones
Themselves(archiveFootage)
Otis Redding
Sonny Liston
Roebuck 'Pops' Staples
The Staple Singers
Johnnie Taylor
The Dixie Hummingbirds
Bertha Franklin
R.H. Harris