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>> it would have been a brand new -- the first one of its kind. >> exactly. thank you. >> oh, my gosh. >> henry winkler is a great, great guy. what a lovely man. without the seventies starts now. probably the most cultural event in the history of america and whole generation of freaks. >> what guys seem to get off on. they like this high energy sort of sglent the sight and sound is your pleasure. bet your bottom we have got them, baby. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed the latest craze is disco dancing. ♪
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group is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s are sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> the small gathering on savo row is only the beginning. it is historic they may decline the british empire the beatles are breaking up. >> a death for a lot of people. as we understood in the '60s, rock was no longer with us. >> ♪ ♪ >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or anything like that. you may 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 wait until the next beatles album to see
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where music was going and we just hoped the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have to the beatles need a new album you and paul need to write 20 songs tomorrow or anything. i just write when i feel like it. ♪ imagine all the people >> you have been called the dragon lady that put the beatles apart. >> can we give her the credit for the nice music that george, ringo and paul made since they have broke up. she did it. ♪ >> the fact is yolk coe oknow did not break up the beatles. time and money broke up the beatles, business broke up the beatles. a desire to off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he is a heavier beatles these days, respectably mary rid and when kids come to their concerts they don't scream anymore. they listen. >> the significant thing is both
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john lennon and paul mccartney made music focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ i'm not the only one >> mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. this cozy domesticicity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> look like this. this is our first showing of it. this is the mock up, folks. it will be called ringo's -- >> i sell records and it doesn't matter if -- or not. if they don't like it they won't buy it. you know? >> ringo to this day dismiss way too much has tremendous success in the '70s and george harrisson who had been stockpiling these amazing songs explodes in an album called all things must passing maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. ♪ you don't need a passport or visas ♪ >> over the years a lot of songs
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mounting up that i wanted to do but only got one or two per album. >> were you held down by other fellas. >> very subtly yes. ♪ >> i'd like to thank you all for coming here. as you know it is a special benefit concert. ♪ >> he twoen george harrison and said this terrible thing is happening in bangladesh. what can we do? that created the first superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh was the grand daddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> got dylan out of hiding. it put two with beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time
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and may still be unparalleled. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> do you have any idea your group particularly has lasted as long as it has. >> because we stay together, i suppose. >> for a few years the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt he wasn't going to be around that long. not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france and record this record exile on main street in a hot,
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uncomfortable, muddy sounding studio. ♪ that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. i remember reading a review saying this is like a debotched album. it's like i don't know what debotched means but i have to get some of this debotchry stuff. ♪ >> the '60s was its own animal. the '70s had to show a new skin and shed the old one. ♪
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i was never confident of my voice as a singer. so rather than just sing them which would with probably bore the pants off of everybody i'd like to portray the songs. ♪ then i turned myself to face me and i never caught a glimpse ♪ >> david bowie has always been a game changer. he's taken the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off and taking it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ changes ♪ ♪ i built my business with passion. but i keep it growing by making every dollar count.
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you want to move toward. that horizon was here in l.a. >> that's where the record companies were. >> the way i got to california is just really simple. i got there on in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually no one was from southern california. they are drawn to the light and the light is a troubadour club. >> we played the troubadour club. it happened on the same night. >> everyone dame through the troubadour. the change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people? why do you have to do this? >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try to
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show 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 times i met there ♪ many stories told me of the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ohh, so on and on i go the seconds tick the time out ♪ so much left to know when i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was trying to do whatever came in to their head. >> in early days, paul and i wanted to be the king of england. they were big those days. >> we had no idea who they were. the mysterious mr. king was who had written these songs that the beatles dichltd i'm in to something good that was part of the british invasion. we discovered it was this
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remarkable woman carole king. >> carole king made the transition being behind the scenes woman to a star in her own rite. ♪ i feel the earth move 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 embodiment of what happens. because in the '60s she's trying to write hit songs for other people. then in the '70s with tapestry it is the definition of an album with self expression. let me go to my house in laurel canyon and tell me about my life. >> after church you always went after church for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls cars you know what you were listening to?
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"tapestry." >> there was a lot 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, who is my favorite california song writer and one of my favorite singers. it's called "faithless love." >> she was in many ways my greatest collaborator. i became a professional song writer because the best voice of my generation was doing my song. ♪ faithless love like a river flows rain drops fall on a broken ♪ >> for my money linda is still underrated just from sheer singing power, style and emotion. ♪
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♪ faithless love ♪ like a river flows >> there have been a lot of articles that identify me with the l.a. sound, me, jackson browne and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. we are starting to get stale. ♪ >> song about a -- >> the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece full on blues sgland an english band that became a dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ♪ >> we had an album out two years prior to joining fleetwood mac and she liked the music and asked us to join.
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♪ >> fleetwood mac, first stevie, for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. ♪ >> being rich and famous in california. this is it, kid. ♪ >> hit records sometimes bore an audience. oh, well, they are not going to have another hit. this one isn't as good as that. >> record companies like frothing at the mouth and the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. so we were getting ready to make "rumors" with everyone falling apart. ♪
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♪ lovin' you isn't the right thing to do ♪ ♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> the band is five people, five 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. stevie and lindsey might have well have been married. that was all 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.
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didn't want you around ♪ >> how long have you been singing? >> three years. >> so you want to grab it right away and snatch it right out of my hand mr. michael was precocious. he knew he was cute and you would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ oh, baby give me one more chance ♪ won't you please let me back in your heart ♪ ♪ oh darling i was blind to let you go ♪ >> the only american group to have four consecutive number one records. ♪ ♪ 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. that's no jive.
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>> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hits system. >> motown was a unique place. a lot of record companies were run by business maymen we had ag writer at the helm. >> he was trying to make black music that would cross over to toe white world with and inned up making the best black music ever. he created a machine. when you take an artist and polish them up and make a great package and they can play ed sullivan show and kill. >> in '60s marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was clean shaven, debonair and that changed in the '70s. >> more wanted to compete on the high level. why can't i make a record like the beatles. i'm selling records like they sell. why can't i have that artistic expression? ♪
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♪ talk to me so you can see what's goin' on ♪ ♪ what's goin' on tell me what's goin' on ♪ >> marvin was affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. he is hearing all of the stories about what is going on there. he is seeing protests there and it is changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourselves, america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty. the way that barry is not super happy about. ♪ >> initially barry did not want marvin to do "what's going on kwlts. >> motown is supposed to be nonthreatening and here you have
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marvin gaye protesting a war. you don't likely talk about the government. ♪ yes i want to know what's going on right now, people ♪ >> when he agrees to put out "what's going on", marvin, if you are right i'll learn something and if you are right i'll learn something. and of course as barry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown suddenly also wanted to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, they put you in one category. they say, he's a soul artist. that's all they expect and want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to barry gordie and he negotiated his creative freedom and he used every bit of it. noets ♪ ♪ very superstitious writing on
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the wall ♪ >> stevery wonder makes some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, 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. >> filming his first finale. he did it. ♪ 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.
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welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on the "soul train" if the sight and sound is your pleasure, you can bet your bottom dollars we got it. >> soul train offered america its first view of afro sen tristy. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> i would run home from church to get home to see "soul train." it was one reliable place to see the artists you loved. >> no question "soul train" broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences they had never performed for before. ♪ >> ten years before he did the moon walk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on "soul train." >> people had done the robot before but the way he did it. it was faster. it was sharper.
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infuriated so many people in the '50s and '60s. the music that so many thought lo too loud, vulgar and dangerous to our morals. rock has refused to go away and has become an institution. ♪ >> heart was a big deal because in a decade that was dominated by a type of rock 'n' roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a "c" but i won't go on further, they were willing to play with those guys and succeed on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s was like too hippy and now we have to up it a notch. ♪ >> the audience has come to expect a standard of performance, lighting sound and staging. they have come to expect a show.
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♪ we still have time >> in the '70s the group started to become thea trick call. they realized giving them music wasn't enough. we have to give them something to look at. more naked people, more misbehavior, more over-the-top stuff going on. just more. ♪ >> staying stadiums was too unreal. it would be a sea of faces. ♪ ♪ crazy crazy crazy on you ♪ crazy on you >> stadium tours got a lot of people together to hear music at the same time. what they also do is force musicians to play to the back of the hall n. the '70s that distance between the performer
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on stage and that audience grew. if you went to any big arena rock shows it was always about the star of here and the audience down here and sort of an iconography of the rock stars as this huge figure. ♪ crazy on you ♪ >> it was bound to happen but it comes as a shock nevertheless. in a poll take en 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 are rich, powerful, temperamental and pampered. they are led zeppelin, a rock group on tour and in a vernacular of the record biz, whether nearly big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president
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nixon uses. 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 little upset there isn't a pool table on board. apart from that i think this is about the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that is 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 rock 'n' roll is basically no different than ibm, xerox, chevrolet, supply and demand. it's the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a little gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the '50s and '60s. in the '70s it becomes the main event that has repercussions in all sorts of negative and positive ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million.
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the gross for the tour is in the region of $11 million. so, you know, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top and money just being thrown against the wall. >> could be a bit of a hypocrite. if you are consistently evoking the ideas of young people. bouncing off the ideas of young people. taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket and really what you are is you are a middle-aged family man. it is only the hypocrisy i'm worried about. ♪ >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n' roll by going back to basics. >> from the past. they were being discarded at that point. ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was main stream rock.
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♪ >> bruce springsteen created his own counter culture. it speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. ♪ baby we were born to run ♪ >> born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the '70s. it was the cover of "time" and "newsweek." >> he didn't like it at the time. me on the other hand -- on the cover of "newsweek," this is cool. >> when "born to run" comes out in 1975, it is a desire to escape the claustrophobia of the united states. it is an anthem to save your soul. ♪ [ applause ]
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space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i encountered in music. >> he was one of those guys that took the art form of playing record and highway he curated the records. he might play isaac hayes record, salsa record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an esthetic of dancing. >> four types of people. people who dance, hop up and down. you can get high. stay here all night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪
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♪ >> everything is -- ♪ burn baby burn. >> that's the sound of disco ♪ burn baby burn ♪ >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music any way because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> george, working out 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. ♪ >> love to love you baby ♪ >> love to love you baby was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of a lot of not singing. ♪ love to love you baby >> i always wonder for the life
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of me was she just in the booth like. >> i asked everyone out of the studio, switched the lights off. made sure the tape is running and i said, okay, let's do it. and i think she did it in ten minutes. >> the donna summer records, some of the biggest records of all time. they kicked off a revolution. ♪ >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancing without the "g." >> big bird where have you been? >> i want to put on my boogie shoes ♪ >> we are talking an estimated 4 million, million /* billion,
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with a b, four billion a year. >> i remember being upset about the word disco. it was r&b music to me and i felt they stripped it and gave it a new name and didn't give credit where i thought the credit was supposed to go. >> bring that sound in. it's great. okay. >> one, two, three, four. ♪ >> were the bee gees always liked r&b and soul. i thought it was a pop band that had r&b leanings. >> the bee geese do what pop stars do, they got of what was going on. ♪ stayin' alive ♪ stay in' alive ♪ >> this is the scene outside of a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that's in with
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the disco crowd. >> i have been to goat ropings and spice shops. i have 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 is really escapism. >> the front door of that spot was insane. i would sometimes walk by to watch people not get in. that was fun, too. >> you are not shaved. no way you are going to get in. it doesn't matter if you are not shaved. just go home. >> you had to be selected, chosen to get in. >> we can't let in everyone who with wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ oh freak out >> the chic led by -- go to studio 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
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amazed ♪ >> it was a diss to studio 54. the part 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 54. find a spot out on the floor ♪ ♪ freak out le freak le chic. >> that's probably the best thing that came out of studio 54, that song. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco and leads to hip hop. ♪ it is 1979, i heard chic's good times come on and i heard somebody talk over the song.
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>> hip hip hop and you don't stop ♪ [ rapping ] ♪ me the groove and your friends are going to try to move your feet ♪ >> that's where hip hop gets its name from. >> we didn't know the song is called rapper's delight. the next day i go to the record store you all have hip hop -- >> people talk about what's that hip hop song and it was the first to hit the top 40. it changed everything. >> it opened the door to the last new american art form which is hip hop. ♪ e lexus es. ♪ with available technology to help you find just what you're looking for. ♪
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♪ >> punk rock was so scary to us because here we are with our big majestic rocks and here comes punk with -- ♪ >> the ramons get started. as a reaction to everything else that's going on. people see them and go this is the answer. ♪ let's go >> how great rock 'n' roll is supposed to be done. >> how is it done. >> no pyrotechnics no, showmanship, just pure rock 'n' roll are and stamina. ♪ >> real and there's no crap involved. opposed to the standard schlap
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we hear in the top 40. >> they were part of a larger scene. >> you had people like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. rock 'n' roll is my art. >> richard held. >> i belong to the -- generation. >> richard hell was with ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> king of the punks. the safety pin thing is his. pretty clear he invented that. >> punk in the united states is a musical aberration, 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 punk has a home territory it is here on kings row in the middle of london them same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swingin' '60s. >> look belongs though punk rockers.
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>> got me a job. >> there's no future for a kid now. there isn't. >> there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove punk on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ >> said to be a political group. >> yeah. it's true. >> so maybe we are singing about love and kissing someone. >> the clash musically is the best of the lot. it doesn't sound like traditional punk but doesn't sound like anybody else over than the clash either. ♪ >> punk was i think a wide umbrella. and that wider scene included people who were more complex in their musical performance style. people aren't going to buy something called punk.
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they might if you call it new wave. >> punk rock these days, can we have your thoughts of than. >> i think it is better to call it a new wave, really. i think by defining it as punk you are automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. i think fans like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads was the ultimate college band. they did is a sophisticated spiky music who reflected who they were and the fascinating david that david burn would with emerge to become. >> i have wrote a song about urban guerrillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of the point of view of their politics. ♪ >> this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. >> what makes the '70s so special is there is still a sense of knivty. the innocence that music could
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really make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no foolin' around ♪ this ain't no -- >> you pick any genre you like and i will tell you the best music made in that genre was made in '70s and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. what is great about a me decade it allowed the greatest artist of our times to do their best work because they were exploring. that is as deep as popular art ever gets. ♪ ♪ this ain't no party this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no foolin' around ♪
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