All-New Format Now Features Superstar Artists Like Janet Jackson, Stevie Nicks, Barenaked Ladies, Train And Destiny's Child Telling Their Own Stories in Hit Weekly VH1 Series

NEW YORK, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The music world's biggest stars have zillions of screaming fans, titanic bank accounts, and fabulous lifestyles. They also have shoeboxes full of embarrassing young photos, hilarious high-school portraits, and home video of early performances.

Making its season premiere Saturday, June 30 at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT), VH1's hit weekly series "Before They Were Rock Stars" returns with an all-new look, style and tone, turning back the hands of time to reveal the stars before they started to shine, with a new show format now featuring the artists themselves as they tell their own stories, complete with personal home movies, childhood photos, high-school yearbooks, rare footage of early performances, and vintage TV and film appearances. Dweezil Zappa is the narrator.

Intriguing, informative and hilarious, "Before They Were Rock Stars" also features interviews with the friends, family and musical colleagues who knew them when, and digs up stuff even the artists didn't know existed .

Upcoming on "Before They Were Rock Stars" this season:

-- In a new "Before They Were Rock Stars" interview, Stevie Nicks reminisces about her early band Fritz, and the first time she met Lindsey Buckingham