>> important culture event in the history of america. it's what guys seem to get off on. they like this high energy event. >> sights and sounds and songs and pleasure. unless you have been living in a cage you probably noticed that the latest craze is disco dancing. >> it's purpose is to promote violence sex and destruction in that order.

>> rock singer jimmy hendrix died today in london according to a police source for an overdose of drugs. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. jim morrison is dead. he was 27.

>> the early years of the 70s are sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beetles. the small gathering is only the beginning. and so momentous the historians were the decline of the british empires. they're bing up >> it was a death for aot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s wfr no longer with us. >> i wonder what i'm doing here. it's nothing like that. but i left it. ♪ >> for so long you put away a

beatles album to see where they were going and we just hoped the music would be that good. >> you write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. >> you've even been called the dragon lady that brought the beatles apart. >> can we give her the credit for all the nice music that ringo and paul and i have made since they broke up. she did it. >> the fact is she did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money break up the beatles, a desire to do their own stuff broke off the beatles. >> when the kids come to his concerts they don't scream anymore, they listen. >> the significant thing is that both john lennon and paul mccartney made muse nick their own ways that was focused on the

fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney went home and made that record where he plays all the instruments on his own. beautiful, wonderful, warm music. it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> a new album. >> to this day people dismiss him way too much has tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison that had been stock piling these amazing songs explodes like a super nova. maybe the greatest album of all. over the years i really wanted to do but i only got my quota of

one or two per album. we held down. >> oh, well, very subtly, yes. i'd just like to thank you for coming here. >> he went to george harrison and said this terrible thing is happening, what can we do? and that created the first major super star benefit concert ever done. >> the concert was the granddaddy of all issue themed concerts and not only did you get george harrison, man. it put two beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and may still be unparalleled.

>> a great deal of music in the 70s was people who have succeeded in the 60s finding new ways to express themselves in the 70s. have you any idea why your group particularly lasted as long as it has? could we stay together i suppose? for a few years it's taken a lot of causalities. >> not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now. ♪ >> the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france and record this record. a very hot uncomfortable muddy

sounding studio. that record is the embodiment of the band making masterpieces on a daily basis. i don't even know what it means. i have to get some of this stuff. ♪ >> having come out of the 60s which was it's own animal. the 70s had to show a new scu s. it had to shed the old one. >> i was never confident in my

voice as a singer. so i thought rather than just sing them, i'd like to kind of portray the songs. ♪ >> david bowie has always been a game changer. it's the promise of rock that the beatles kick off and he's taking it all sorts of intere interesting places. ♪ he drives like this, you can tell her to drive more like this. because you'll get this. you can even set boundaries for so if she should be here, but instead goes here, here, or here.

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>> that was here in l.a. >> there's several out there. and virtually no one from southern california. >> the club in los angeles and held 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great song writer i can think of came through. j.d., linda rondstat. it was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to express why you have to do this. >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try to

share myself. maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ well i many times i met there and many stories told me on the way to get there. so on and on the seconds take the time-out and so much left i'm on the road to find out. serge trying to do whatever came into their head. >> we want to be the king. they were big that day. >> we had no idea who these people were. written all of these songs and i'm into something good that was

part of the british invasion. we discover it was this carol king. >> she made the transition from being the behind the scenes woman to a star of writing. ♪ >> king is the embodiment of what happened because she was trying to write hit songs for other people and then in the 70s it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house and tell you about my life. >> if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls carls you know what you're listening to?

tapestry. >> there's a lot of women that were some of the most significant writers to music at the time. >> my favorite california song writer and it's called faithless love. >> she was in many ways my greatest colab ray to. i became a professional song writer with this best voice of my generation was doing my song. ♪ >> it's underrated for singing power and style and emotion.

♪ with jackson brown and the eagles we need new blood in this town. we're starting to get steal. the original fleetwood mac was a blues band. >> they were as american as they were british. >> and really liked the music and they asked us to join.

fleatwood mac first album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kids. ♪ >> hit records sometimes, oh well they're not going to have another hit or this one isn't as good as that. >> it's the imaging of the band becoming a whole thing. so we were getting ready to make rumors with everyone falling apart.

♪ >> it's five people independent. quite strong minded. quite stubborn individuals. >> two lovely couples. john, chris married. the marriage was on the rocks. steve and lindsey might as well have been married. that all was falling apart. we were testifying and rumors became the church.

we were shocked because not only were they incredibly talented, they looked like us.

>> how long have you been singing? >> 30 years. >> so you went to grab it right away and snatch it right out of my hand. >> he knew he was cute and he would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. >> the only american group to have four consecutive number one records. ♪ >> for the first time, young black kids have their beatles. >> the jackson 5.

>> that's us. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown system. >> motown is a very unique place. a lot of companies are being run by business men. we had a music man at the helm. he's a song writer. >> ironically here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over into the white world and made the greatest black music ever. he created a machine where you take the artist and polish them up and play the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the 60s he wanted to be frank sinatra. and all of that changed in the 70s. wanted to compete in a high level. i'm selling records like they sell. expression.♪have that artistic

>> very much effected by vietnam war. and seen a protest here and it's changing him. >> look at yourselves america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty changing. he's an artist in a way he's not super happy about. initially he didn't want marvin to do what's going on. >> motown was supposed to be now threatening. now you have a protest record

about the war that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. >> yes, i want to know what's going on right now. >> ultimately when he agrees, if your right, i'll learn something and if i'm right you'll learn something and of course as barry will say i learn something. >> every artist at motown also want to try their chance at freedom. >> people say so he's a solo artist. that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. it's being able to express yourself. he negotiated his creative freedom and he used every bit of it. ♪

making some of the greatest records anyone 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. >> he made it. >> oh my god he did it and then suddenly songs. what the beatles did in the 60 stevie wonder was the person to do that in the 70s.

>> you can bet your bottom we got them, baby. it's a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> it was one reliable place to see the artist you loved. >> there's no question soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences that they have never performed for. >> 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 it was the way he did it. it was faster, it was sharper

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>> music that so many thought too loud and vulgar and danger to our morals. it's not only gone away it's become an institution. heart was a big deal because in a decade that was dominated by a type of rock and roll that rimes with rock and i'm going to go on further. they were willing to play with those guys and succeed on their terms. >> that's way too hippie. we have to up it a notch. >> they come to expect a better standard of performance.

better quality they come to expect a show. >> in the 70s the group started to become more theatrical. just giving them the music is enough. we have to give them something to look at. >> more over the top stuff going on. just more. >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ >> stadium tours got a lot of people together hearing music at the same time and what they also do is they 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 bigger shows it was always about the star up here and the audience down here and sort of the rock star as this huge figure. ♪ >> it was bound to happen but it comes as a shock. 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 led zepplin. >> they are rich powerful, tempermental. it is very big. to get around, they use 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 that there's not a pool table on board but 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. three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> rock and roll is no different than ibm, xerox, supply and demand. it's the same business. >> rock and roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the 50s and 60s and in the 70s it's the main event and that has repercussions in positive and negative ways.

>> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now the gross for the tour is in the region of $11 million. so, you know, it's a living. >> is so over the top and money being thrown against the wall. >> you can be a bit of a hypocrite. your consistently bouncing off the ideas of young people and taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket and what you are is a middle aged family man and it's only the p hipocracy i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to go back to basics. >> using elements from the past that were being discarded at that point. ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock.

♪ >> bruce springsteen created his own counter culture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. >> born to run was a statement in the middle of the 70s. it was the cover of time and newsweek. >> me on the other hand i'm like my friends on the cover of time and newsweek. this is cool. >> it is an anthem to save your

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>> he's one of the guys that took the art form of playing the records and how he cure rated the records it wasn't so much a style as dancing. >> stay here all night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i wish i knew but i'm glad it's happening. >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band, the drummer earl young invents the

idea of four on the floor with 8 on the high hat so everything is -- ♪ >> that's the sound of disco. >> >> i love disco. i also love dance music anyway because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> okay. >> working out of munich put together a technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment and they make the biggest record of all time. >> love to love you baby was four minutes of singing and 14 minutes of a lot of not singing.

>> switch the lights off and make sure that the tape is running and i said okay let's do it and i think she did it in ten minutes. >> the donna summer record is some of the biggest records of all time and they kicked off a revolution. >> unless you have been living in a saled cage you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancing with a d. >> where have you been?

>> and what they generate with the record we're talking about an estimated $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this work disco. it was r&b music to me and i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and not giving credit where the credit was supposed to go. >> bring that sound in, that's great. >> the beegees always liked r&b and soul. always thought they were a pop band with r&b leanings. >> they did what pop stars do. they really got what was going on. ♪

>> this is the seen outside of studio 64. >> 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 really escapism. >> the front door that spot was insane. i would sometimes walk by to watch people not get in. that was fun too. >> there's no way you're going to get in. >> it doesn't matter. just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let in everybody that wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ >> they go to studio 54 to get in and they don't so they write

a song. ♪ >> it was kind of a diss of studio 54. the part where they say freak out, actually began as something else. it went from something off to freak off, to being freak out. ♪ >> that's probably the best thing that came out of studio 54 was that song. >> disco was a revolutionary force. funk marries disco and it leads to hip hop. ♪ >> it's 1979. i heard good times come on and i just kept hearing someone talk

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kick out the jams -- >> detroit 1969 is where punk was originally born. >> the mc 5, the motor city five and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums to reveal a new type of music coming back. it's aggressive, out, minimalist and it's very often obnoxious.

♪ >> punk rock is so f-ing scary to us because here we are with our big majestic song, and here comes punk. ♪ >> the ramones get started as a reaction of everything else going on. people see them and go this is the answer. ♪ hey, ho, let's go >> this is how rock and roll is supposed to to be done. >> how should it be done? >> no pyrotechnics. no phony showmanship. it's pure good stamina. ♪ ♪ generates the heat, blitzkrieg bop ♪ >> real and raw and there's no crap involved as opposed to the standard schlap we here on the

top 40. >> the ramons were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patti smith. >> i'm an artist. rock 'n roll is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead police. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> i belong to the blank generation. >> richard hell cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing, for example, is his. it's pretty clear he invented that. >> a musical collaboration, 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's a social one. >> if punks have a home territory it is here on kings road in the middle of london. the same street that launched the mini skirts.

>> what's this like? >> nothing. >> there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean there isn't. >> there is an anger and frustration that drove punk rock on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ london calling to the faraway towns, now war is declared dead and the wall will come down ♪ >> said to be a political group. i've said it. it's true. >> maybe we'd be singing about love and kissing or something. >> the clash musically is the best of the lot. it doesn't sound like traditional music, but it doesn't sound like anybody else either. ♪ because london is drowning out, i live by the river ♪ >> punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene include people who were more complex in their musical performance style. people won't buy something that you call it punk.

they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> you hear a lot of that punk rock these days. we have your thoughts on that? >> i think it's best to call it a new wave, really. by defining it as punk you're automatically putting a boundary on what's possible. i think bands like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads was the ultimate college band. they did a sophisticated spiky music that reflected who they were. and especially reflected the fascinating individual that david byrne would ultimately become. >> i wrote a song about urban guerillas and about their daily lives instead of about their politics. ♪ heard of a van that loaded with weapons packed up and ready to go ♪ >> this area of new wave music is where stars of the 1980s are going to come from. >> what makes the '70s so special is that there's still a

sense of naivete, the sense that music could make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around, this ain't no mud club or cbgb's, i've got no time for that now ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and the best music made in that genre is the 1970s and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what is great to me is it allowed some of the greatest of our time to do their greatest work because they were really exploring. that's as deep as art ever gets. ♪ this ain't no party, this ain't no disco, this ain't no fooling around ♪ ♪ i'd like to kiss you but i ain't got time for that now ♪

♪ we blended in with the crowd ♪ we got computer, we're tapping phone lines, i know that that ain't allowed ♪ ♪ you make me shiver, we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. >> there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. >> we like to call them tastefully smutty. >> a group thaef that's never had any problems saying how they feel, u2. >> what are your dreams? >> to rule the world. >> michael jackson is the man of the '80s. >> music to a beat and talk. it's rap music. ♪ i'll speak my mind >> heavy metal. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authorities. and adolescent boys love it. >> this weird beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell.