Zooming in on the exposed flank of 1970s rock 'n' roll

BEFORE the music business was all about YouTube stars and digital downloads, it was a mad rock 'n' roll circus where sex and drugs were part of the act for the larger-than-life musicians on stage and the sleazy record label execs working behind the scene.

Just ask The Rolling Stones' frontman Mick Jagger, who is the executive producer of HBO's latest original series Vinyl. Together with Martin Scorsese, who directed the two-hour pilot, and screenwriter Terence Winter (Boardwalk Empire), the show mixes facts with fiction and is an intriguing warts-and-all expose …