Keith Richards will front a new film all about Dartford.

The Rolling Stones legend has focused much of his 60-minute film documentary, The Origin of the Species, on growing up in the 1950s in Kent.

The 72-year-old singer-songwriter said: “There was a feeling in the late 50s/early 60s that there was a change coming. Harold Macmillan actually said it - the ‘winds of change’ and all that - but he didn’t mean it in quite the same way.

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“I certainly felt that for my generation, what was happening and the feeling in the air was - it’s time to push limits. The world is ours now and you can rise or fall on it.”

More bombs fell on Dartford than anywhere else in Britain during the war and Richards cheated death when he escaped a direct hit from one of Hitler’s doodlebugs which sprayed bricks and mortar over his cot as a baby.

Richards enlisted the director of the Sex Pistols’ famous God Save the Queen video, Julien Temple to journey back to his years in Dartford shortly after the Second World War.

Temple said: “Listening to the early Stones as a kid changed everything for me. I felt a new way of living emerging, a new kind of person becoming possible - something I wanted to be a part of. And without a doubt I thought Keith Richards was the Origin of the Species. This film sets out to explore how both he and the 60s in England came about.”

In the BBC Music documentary, Keith speaks openly about the years following the war that were met with rationing, austerity, the beginning of the National Health Service and the end of National Service.

Concluding at the era where the Rolling Stones began, the film will explore not only Keith’s coming of age but the cultural issues of the time and will feature hot spots from across Dartford where he spent much of his earlier years.

VIDEO: Trailer for the BBC Music film.

The film will air on BBC Two in July as part of their My Generation series.