taylor swift doing one of the things she does best, making history. the grammy winner has the most weeks on the billboard chart as a solo artist, surpassing the king of rock and roll himself, elvis presley. congratulations, of course, to taylor swift on that. speaking of her music, there is one song you may know, but maybe you don't know the story behind it. cnn explores the case the music world couldn't shake off in taking on taylor swift tairing tonight at 9:00. i'm m brianna kekeilar. thank you u so much for watchin. "the seventies: what's going on" starts right now.

rock is probably the most cultural event in the history of america. it outswung the whole generation of freaks. >> it's what guys seem to get off on. they like the high-energy sort of event. >> if the sight and sound is your pleasure, you bet your bottom, we've got them, baby. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock. its purpose to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order. >> pure rock 'n' roll. pure stamina! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪♪

♪♪ ♪ rorock singer r jimi hendrd dieded today in n london, acacc to a policice source, from an overdose of drugs. > janis joplilin was found d last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. >> jimim morrison, t the lead sr for the dodoors, a rock k music group,p, is dead. he was 2 27. >> the early years of the '70s are sad in music. because you lose people. anand you losese the beatltles. >> the smamall gatheriring on saviville row isis only the e beginnnning. ththe event isis so momentntous historiansns may one d day view as a l landmark inin the declin the british empire.

ththe beatles s are breakiking . > it was lilike a deathth fot of peoeople. rock ' 'n' roll asas we undersr itit in the 191960s was nono lo with us. >> beieing withoutut the beatlt nenever. ♪ >> and i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. well, you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long, you kind of waitited for thehe next beatatl album to s see where m music wa going. and we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have to, oh, the beatles need an album, you and paul better go write 20 songs tomorrow, kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. ♪ imagine all the people ♪ >> you know, yoko, you've even been called the dragon lady who

brought the beatles apart or took them all -- might have trouble with english -- >> please give her the credit for the nice music that paul made and ringo made and paul made and i've made since we broke up, if she did it. >> the fact isis, yoko onono dit break upup the beatltles. titime broke u up the beatatles. money y broke up t the beatlese. business broke up the beatles. a desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier, heavier beatle these days. respectably married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don't't scream anymorore, they listen. >> the significant thing is that boboth john lelennon and p paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ but i'm not the only one ♪ >> mccartneyey went homeme, mad that rececord where e he plays the e instrumentnts on his o ow. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this.

this is our first showing of it. so this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album with atlantic. >> it's going to be called -- > ringo's - -- >> i selell records.s. doesn't matter if i'm with the beatles or not. if thehey don't lilike the rece theyey won't buyuy it, you k kn. > ringo, whwho to this s daye dismiss s way too mumuch, has tremendousus success i in the '. anand george h harrison, w who been stockckpiling thehese amaz sosongs, explolodes like a a sua on a an album cacalled "all l t must pass.s." may be the greatest beatles solo album of all. ♪ you don't need no passport ♪ >> over the years, you know, such a lot of songs mounted up i only wanted to do. i got a quota of one, or two per album.m. >> w were you heheld down byby otother fellowows? >> welell, very susubtly, yes.s. ♪♪ ♪♪ >> i'd just like to thank you

all for r coming herere. you u all know i it's a spececi benefit coconcert. ♪ ♪ >> ravi shshankhar wenent to ge harrisison and saiaid, this tete ththing is hapappening in n bangladeshsh, what canan we do? that created the first major supersrstar benefifit concert t done.. > the concert f for banglada was s the grandadaddy of allll isissue-themeded concerts.s. not t only did y you get geoeor haharrison, yoyou got ericic cl. >> it gogot dylan ouout of hidi. it putut two beatltles back on stage agaiain. it wasas unparalleleled at theh and may ststill be unpnparallel. ♪ ♪♪ >> a great deal of mususic of t '70s wasas people whwho had succeeded in the '60s finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> have you got any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as itit has? > because w we stayed t togei

suppose. >> for a few years, the rolling stonones had takenen a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt that he wasn't goioing to be a around t long. not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ ♪ >> 197971, the rololling stones leleave their r home for tax purposes to go live in france. and record this record. "e"exile on mamain street.t." in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy-sounding studio. ♪ ♪ >> that record is the embodiment of a a band makiking masterprpin a a daily basisis. anand i remembmber readingng th reviview saying g this was a a

debauched album. i was like, i don't even know what debauched means, but i've got to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪ ♪ >> having cocome out of f the ' which was s its own ananimal, t '70s hadad to show a a new skin had d to shed ththe old one.e. ♪ ♪ ooh yeah ♪ >> i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. i thoughght rather t than just , whwhich would d probably b bore pants s off everybybody, i'd l o kikind of portrtray the sosongs. ♪ and i turn myself to face me and i nenever caughtht a glimps♪ >> davavid bowie h has always sa

gameme-changer. he really y is taking g the pro of rock k that the b beatles ki off, a and he's tataking it ala sorts s of interesesting placec otothers to fofollow. ♪ ch-chch-ch-changeges ♪ ♪ time e to make a a change ♪ ♪ c ch-ch-ch-chchanges ♪ ♪ preretty soon y you're goinin get oldeder ♪ ♪ time mamay change m me but i i can't tracace time ♪ ♪ i said d that time e may chane but i i can't tracace time ♪

this year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own. and this is kind of a -- a letter back home. ♪ ♪ ♪ ooh california oh california i'm coming home ♪ ♪ oh make me feel good rock 'n' roll banand i'm yourur biggest calilifornia i'm'm coming hohom♪ >> you looook to the h horizon you wawant to moveve toward. and thatat horizon w was here i l.l.a. > that's whwhere the rerecor cocompanies wewere. and therere's lots o of sun. > the way i i got to cacalif is just rereally simplple. i got t there in a a '57 chevyv skipipping my fifinals that t y collllege. >> virtualally no one e was fro

southehern califorornia. they're e all drawn n to the li. and d the light t is the trorou club. >> things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles which h hol 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour. jackson browne, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstatadt, joni mimitchell, jajames tayloror. >> the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to reveal it constantly to so many people? why do you have to do this? >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people, to try and share myself, maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ i left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and

many kinds i met there ♪ ♪ many stories told me all the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ ♪ so on and on i go the secoconds tics t the time o♪ ♪ there's so much left to know and i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was just trying to do whatever came into their head. >> in ththe early dadays paul a, we w wanted to b be the goffffi king of england. goffin and king were very big in those days. >> we had no idea who the people were, who o the mysterious mr. king was. wrote the songs, chains the beatles did, i'm into something gogood, which h was part o of t british h invasion.. wewe did discocover this r rema woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from being behind the scenes woman to a star in her own right. ♪ i feel the earth move under my feet i feel the sky tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to

tremble whenever you're around ♪ >> carole king is the embodimemt of what happens. because in the '60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people. then in the '70s with "tapestry," it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about my l life. >> afterer church, y you alwayst out for pancakes. if you were lucky enouough to re in one of the girl's cars, you know what you are listening to? "tapestry." ♪ >> there was a lotot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. >> we're going to do a song written by my friend john david souther, who's my favorite california songwriter and one of my favororite singerers.

it's called "faiaithless lovove" >> she w was in manyny ways my greaeatest collalaborator. i became a a professioional songwrititer becausese the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ faithless love like a river flows ♪ ♪ raindrops falling on a broken rose ♪ >> for my money, linda is still underrated just for sheer singing power and style and emotion. ♪ and the night falls in like a cold dark wind ♪ ♪ faithless love like a river flows ♪ >> there have been articles and things that identify me with the

l.a. sound, me and jackson browne and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. you know? we're starting to get stale. ♪ >> a song about a welsh bitch. ♪ she rings like a bell through the night t and wouldndn't you to lovove her ♪ >> the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece, full-on blues band. >> they were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ♪ all your life you've never known a woman tainted by the wind ♪ >> we had an album out, two years previous to joining fleetwood mac, called buckingham nicks. nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. ♪ rhiannon ♪ >> fleetwood mac, first stevie and lindsey album, for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kid.

♪ >> hit records sometimes bore an audience. oh, well, they're not going to have another hit. or, this one isn't as good as that. > record cocompanies, l like frothing at the mouth, the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. so we were getting ready to make "rumors" with everyone falling apart. ♪ if loving you isn't the right to do ♪ ♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> stretching the band. there's five people. five very independent, quite strong-minded, quite stubborn

individuals. ♪ if i could baby i'd give you my world ♪ >> two lovely couples, john and chris married. their marriage was on the rocks. anand stevie a and lindsey migh well have been married. that all was falling apart. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go your own way ♪ ♪ you can call it another lonely day ♪ >> we were testifying. and "rumors" became the church.

♪ ♪ oohoh, ooh ♪ ♪ let me tell you now ♪ graham: we were shocked. because not only were they incredibly talented, ♪ ♪ ooh-ooh l let me tellll you n♪ we were shocked. not only were they incredibly talented, but they looked like us. ♪ when i had you to myself i didn't want you around ♪ ♪ no pretty faces always stand out in a crowd ♪ >> how long you been singing? >> thrhree years.. >> s see you wenent to grab b it away. snatch it right out of my hand.

>> michaelel was precococious. he knew hehe was cute.e. you woululd watch hihim go fromt to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ ooh baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ one two three ♪ ♪ won't you let me back in your heart ♪ ♪ oh darling i've been trying to let you go ♪ >> the only american group to have four consecutive number one records. ♪ oh oh oh i want you back ♪ > for the first time young black kids had their beatles. >> hey, man. >> you don't know? the jackson five. >> that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. >> mototown was a a very uniquq place.

a lot t of other companies w we beining run by b businessmenen. we hadad a music m man at the e. beberry gordy y was a songngwri. >> ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. ended up making the greatest black music ever. >> he created a machine. where you u take the a artist, polilish them upup. make them a great package that they c can play "t"the ed sulll show" and kill. >> back in the '60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was svelte, clean-shaven, debonaire. all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at a high level, why can't t i make rerecord like e the beatleles? i'm m selling records likeke th sesell. why can'n't i have t that artis exprpression? ♪ p picket signgn ♪ ♪ punish h me with brbrutality ♪ ♪ talk to m me honey soso you c see whatat's going o on ♪

♪ what's going on yeah what's going on ♪ ♪ tell me what's going on ooh ♪ >> marvin gaye was very much affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on n over thehere. he's s seeing the e protests he. and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. > he's talklking about the w. he's t talking abobout povertyt. changing artists in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially berry gordy did not wantnt marvin toto do "what't's on." >> m motown was s supposed t to nononthreatenining and youou ha mamarvin gaye makingng a protes rerecord aboutut the war t that potentialllly ruin gooood money. yoyou don't lilightly talklk abe governmement. ♪ yes i want to know what's going on right now people ♪

>> ultimately when he agrees to put out "w"what's goining on," y tells marvrvin, okay, , if you' right, i i'll learn n something. and if i'm right, you'll learn something. and of couourse, as beberry wil say, i l learned somomething. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so they put you in one category. they say, he is a soul artist. that's all they expect for you to sing. that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yoururself. >> stevie wonder went to berry gordy and he negotiated his creative freedom. and he used every bit of it. ♪ ♪ very superstitious ♪ ♪ writing's on the wall ♪ >> stevie wonder making some of the e greatest r records anynyo ever madade in populular music americica, back to back to back. >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. "music in my mind." oh, he made it.

he ain't going to do it again. "talkiking." "indivivisible." "first finale." oh my god, he did it. and then suddenly "songs in the key of life." ♪ you believe in things you don't understand ♪ ♪ >> what the beatles did in the '60s i feel stevie wonder was the person to do that for music in the '70s. >> hi there, welcome aboard. you're right on time for a beautiful trip on "the soul train." what's your pleasure and what's your treasure? bet yourur bottom wewe got them

baby. ♪ this is this is this is ♪ >> "soul train" finally offered amererica its fifirst view o of afrocecentricity. it was a new idea to say, black is beautiful. >> i would literally run home from church to get home to see "soul train." it was thehe one reliaiable plao see the artists you loved. >> there's no question "soul train" broke a lot of artists and d introduceded a lot of f a to audiences that they had never performed for. ♪ >> ten years before he did the moonwalk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on "soul train." >> people had done the robot before. but t there was s a way he d di. it was faster. it was sharper. and it was street. ♪ i i could justst see his a afro

bouncing. becaususe there wawas so much h precision to it. ♪ dancing dancing dancing ♪ ♪ she's a dancing machine ♪ ♪ oh baby ♪

♪ rock, , the music c that infurud so many pepeople in the 50s and 60s, rock, the music that infuriated so many people in the '50s and '60s. the music that so many thought too loud, vulgar, and somehow dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. ♪

>> heart was a a big deal.l. because e in the dececade that dominated by a type of rock 'n' roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a "c," but i won't gogo on furtheher, they wewere g toto play withth those guyuys a succeed on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s was like, oh, that's way too hippie, now we have to up it a notch. ♪ ♪ >> the audiences had come to expect a better standard of performance. a better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they had come to expect a show. ♪ we still have time we might still get by ♪ ♪ every time i think about it i want to crcry ♪ >> in the '70s the groups started toto become momore theatrtrical.. they realilized just g giving t the mumusic isn't t enough. we have e to give ththem someth toto look at. >> more nanaked peoplele. more misbehavior.

more over-the-top stuff going on.. just -- just more. ♪ oh young child ♪ >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ with your sweet bag of lies ♪ ♪ crazy crazy crazy on you ♪ ♪ crazy on yoyou ♪ >> stadium tours put a lot of people near music at the same time. what they also do is force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. >> in the '70s, that distance between the performer on stage and that audience grew. >> if you went to any of the big arena rockck shows, itit was al about t the star u up here andn audience down here. and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. ♪ crazy crazy on you ♪

♪ oh ♪ >> it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock nevertheless. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. >> in their 20s, they're rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour. in the vernacular of the record biz, where to be merely big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. ♪ but the president's plane doesn't have an organ nor a 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset there's not a pool table on board.

apart from that, i think it's about the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that's $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> i'm telling you that rock 'n' roll is basically no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet. supply and demand. it's the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a little gritty novelty business. it was not the c center of t th world in the '50s and '60s. in the '70s it becomes the main event. that has repercussions in all sorts of positive and negative ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now, the gross of the tour is in the region of $11 million. so -- yeah, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top, and money just -- whoo -- being thrown against the wall. >> could be a bit of a

hypocrite, you know, if you're consistently evoking the ideas of young people and bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket, you know. and really what you are is a middle-aged family man. and it's only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. ♪ >> bruce springsteen was trying to receclaim the s soul of roco roroll by going back to basics. > using elelements fromom th that werere kind of f being didiscarded atat that point. ♪ every day you sweat out on the streets of a runaway american dream ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio, was not what was mainstream rock. ♪ suicide machine ♪ ♪ sprung from cages on highway nights fuel-injected stepping out over the line whoa ♪ >> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it jusust speaks e exactly to o americanan spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head

more than bruce springsteen did. ♪ baby y we were boborn to run ♪ >> "born to run" was a towering statement in the middle e of th '70s. itit was the c cover of "t"time "newsweeeek." >> brucece did not l like it at timeme. me, on the other hand, i'm like, my friend's on the cover of "time" and "newsweek." ththis is coolol. >> whehen "born toto run" comem in 1975, it is the desire to escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an anthem to save your soulul.

♪ christgau: i was lucky enough to be invited ♪ i was lucky enough to be invited d to david m mancuso's legendary space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. > mancuso i is one of t the who reallyly took the e art for playing the records and how he curated the records. he might play an isaac cage record.

he might play a salsa record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. >> there are all types of people here. people who dance. peoplele who pop u up and downw. yoyou can get t high. stay here alall night. >> why are peoeople dancining a? > i wish i i knew. bubut i'm gladad it's happppeni. ♪ >> w what we nowow know as d di really statarts with a a band cd the e tramps. the drumummer, earl l young, ins the ididea of fourur on the flf wiwith eight o on the highgh ha. soso everythining is bam, , bam! ♪ burn babyby burn ♪ >> t that's the e sound of d di. ♪ b burn baby b burn ♪ ♪ burn n baby burn n ♪ >> i i love disco. i always loved dance music anyway. because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> okay, there you go.

you need the melody -- >> gioiorgio morododer workingn of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest records of all-time. ♪ ah love to love you baby ♪ ♪ ah h love you l love you baba♪ "love to l love you bababy" wasr minutetes of singiging. 14 m minutes of f -- a lot of not singing. ♪ oh love to love you baby ♪ ♪ o oh love youou love you u ba♪ >> i i always wowondered foror life of me, was moroder in the booth like, more passion, more! >> actually, i shooed everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off, made sure the tape is running, and i said, okay, let't's go aheadad. anand i think k she did itit in minutes.

♪ ooh ♪ >> the donna summer records were some o of the biggggest recordr alall time. and they k kicked off f a revolution. ♪ i want to do it till the sun comes up ♪ >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave, you've probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancin'. that's dancin' without the g. >> what's disco, man? >> fluffy,y, where havave you b? ♪ i want to but on my boogie shoes to boogie with you ♪ >> what the discos take in and what they generate with the records, we're talking about an estimated 4 4 billion, w with a" $4 billion a year. >> i r remember rereally beingnt about ththis word didisco. itit was r&b m music to meme. i felt likike they strtripped id gaveve it a new w name and w we giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again, second half of

the chorus, but bring that sound in, that's great. yeah. okay. one, two, three, four. ♪ tragedydy ♪ > the beegegees always lilik, they alwayays liked sosoul. i i always sawaw them as a a po but ththat always s had r&b leanings. . >> the b bee gees didid what po stars do. they reaeally got ththe zeitgeif whwhat was goioing on. ♪ ah ahah ah ah stataying alive stayaying alive e ♪ ♪ ah h ah ah ah s staying alili♪ >> this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. this is ththe place ththat's inh the didisco crowd.d. > i have bebeen to goatat ro and space shots. i've been in a lot of strange places and seen a lot of strange things. but nothing stranger than studio 54 at the height of its popularity in the '70s. ♪ >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's really escapism.

>> in the front door of that spot wasas insane. i sometimemes would just walk b to watch the people not get in. because that was fun too. >> oh, you are not shaved. there's no way yous is getting in. it doesn't matter, you're not shaven. listen, just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ oh freak out ♪ ♪ le freak c'est chic ♪ ♪ freak out ♪ >> the great sheik, go to ststuo 54 to get in. and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ have you heard about the new dance craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you'll be amazed ♪ >> it was kind of a diss at studio 54 4 for rejectcting the. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. ♪ freak out ♪ >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out.

♪ just come on down to the 54 find your spot out on the floor ♪ ♪ oh freak out ♪ ♪ le freak c'est chic ♪ ♪ freak out ♪ >> that't's probablyly the best thing that came out of studio 54 was that song. > disco wasas a revolutution force. funk marries disco, and it leads to hip-hop. ♪ >> it's 1979, i heard chic's "good times" come on. and i just kept hearing someone talk over the song. ♪ i said a hip hop the hip hip hoppy you don't stop ♪ ♪ rock k it out bababy ♪ ♪ to the e boogie banang bang t g is thahat's where e hip-hop gets itsts name fromom. questlove: we didn't k know ththe name of f the song was cacalled "rapppper's delig" the e next day i went t to the recocord stor,

like, "yo,o, y'all gotot 'hip h" "hm?m?" grgraham: so w when peoplele k about the song, they go, "what't's that hipip-hop song" and it w was the firirst hip-p song t to crack ththe top 40. it changeded everythining. heheilemann: "rapper'r's delight"t" in 199 opens ththis incredidible dor to the lasast new amererican arart form, whwhich is hipip-. ♪

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kikick out thehe jams, mother[bleleep] ♪ detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. ♪ ♪ it's all right ♪ the mc5, the motor city 5, and iggy and the stooges rerelease two pioneering albums that indicate that there's a new style of music coming back. it's a garage rock, it's minimalist, it's aggressive, it's loud, and it's very often obnoxious. ♪ let me kick out the jams ♪ ♪ yeah, kick out the jams ♪ ♪ i got to kick 'em out ♪ punk rock was so f'ing scary to us because e here we arare withth our big m majestic sos, and hehere comes p punk wiwith their l like... ♪ connelly: the ramones get started as a reaction to everything else that's going on. people see them and they go, "this is the answer." ♪ h hey, ho, lelet's go ♪

♪ hey, ho, let's go ♪ i had to see how great rock 'n' roll is s supposed toto be done.. woman: hohow should i it be done?e? no pyrotechnics, no phony showmanship, justst pure rockck 'n' roll l e, pure guts,s, pure stamamina. ♪ they're piling in the back seat ♪ ♪ they're generating steam heat ♪ ♪ pulsating to the back beat ♪ ♪ the blitzkrieg bop ♪ it's just real and raw and there's no crap involved. as opppposed to ththe standad schlocock we hear r on the top. the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. where yoyou had peopople likeke patti smimith. i'i'm an artist. rorock 'n' rololl is my. the new york dolls. dodon't [bleepep] wit, sweetheart. the dead boys. in r rock 'n' roroll, ananybody can n play. anand richard d hell. this n next number is cacalld "i b belong to the blalank generatation." mattttson: richahard hell was one e of the firirst to cutut his own h hair. hehe was rippiping his clolos and thenen safetyty-pinning t them togeth.

he w was the kining of the p p. the safefety-pin thihing, fofor instance, is his. it's pretty clear that he invented that. ♪ hey, ho, , let's go ♪ punk in the united states is a music elaboration, a statement of sorts about what music is and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. if punks have a home territory, it is here on king's road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the miniskirt and the look and mood of the swingin' 60s. king's road belongs to punk rockers. king's road belongs to us! -what's society done for us? -nothing. it ain't got me a job. there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean, there isn't. mattson: there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. ♪ londodon callingg to the faraway t towns ♪ ♪ now war is declared and battle come down ♪ you've been said to be a political group. yeah, they have said it. yeah, it's true. if there was jobs, maybe we'd be singing about

love and kissing or something. graham: the clash, musically is the best of the lot. it doesn't sound like traditional punk, but it doesn't sound like anybody else but ththe clash eieither. ♪ but i have no fear ♪ ♪ 'cause london is drowning, and i ♪ ♪ i live by the river ♪ ♪ i never felt so much alike ♪ mattson: punk was, i think, a kind of wide umbrella, and that wider scene included people who werere a little e bit momore complexex in their musical performance style. people aren't gonna buy something that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. man: you hear r a lot of t that punknk rock thesese days. can we have your thoughts on that? i think it's better just to call it new wave, really. i think by defining it as punk, you're automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. and i think bands like talking heads are excellent. connelly: the talking heads was the ultimate college band and they did sophisticated, spiky music that reflected who they were. and it particularly reflected the fascinating individual

ththat david b byrne woululd emerge t to become. i thought i'd write a song about urban guerillas from the point of view of their daily lives, instead of from the point of view of their politics. ♪ heard of a van that's loaded with weapons ♪ ♪ packed up and ready to go ♪ this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. questlove: what makes the 70s so special is that there is still a sense of naiveté. the innocence that music could really make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no partyty, thisis ain't no o disco ♪ ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ ♪ this ain't no mudd club or cbgb ♪ ♪ i ain't got time for that now ♪ you pick any genre you like and i will tell you thatat the best t music madede t genre wawas made in n the 197. anand you'll h have a hardrd e proving meme wrong. wiwild: what w was great about a a "me" decadade

is thahat it allowowed the grert artists ofof our timeses to do some of their greatest work because they were really exploring. that is as deep as popular art ever gets. ♪ . ...work in n the nightttt♪ ♪ i might not ever get home ♪ ♪ this ain't no party, this ain't no disco ♪ ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ ♪ i'd love to hold you, i'd love to kiss you ♪ ♪ but i ain't got time for that now ♪ ♪ trouble in transit, got through the roadblock ♪ ♪ we blended in with the crowd ♪ ♪ we got computers, we're tapping phone lines ♪ ♪ i know that that ain't allowed ♪ ♪ ah, make me shiver, i may feel tender... ♪ we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. man: there are some that have accused your videos