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world ♪ ♪ it's probably the most cultural event in the history of america. and a whole new generation of freaks. >> what guys seem to get off on. they like these high-energy sort of events. >> the sights and sounds of soul is your pleasure. you can bet your bottom we've got them, baby. >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock, and its purpose is to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order. >> rock and roll is pure stamina! ♪
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for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s were sad in music. because you lose people. and you lose the beatles. >> this small gatherings are on savile row is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire -- the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles, never. >> you know, 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
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>> for so long you waited for a new beatles album. and we just hoped the music they'd come up with individually would be that good. >> i no longer have to -- oh, the beatles need an album, you and paul have to write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i just write when i feel like. ♪ imagine all the people >> you know, yoko, you've even been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart. took -- >> can we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and i've made since we broke up? if she did it. >> the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier and heavier beatle these days. respectably married. and 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 music in their
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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 >> mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album. >> it's going to be called ringo's reviewer. >> i sell records. and it doesn't matter if i've been in the beatles or not. if they don't like the record, they won't buy it. >> ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the '70s. and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called "all things must pass." maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. ♪ you don't need no passport ♪ and you don't need no visas >> over the years i had such a lot oftopile of songs i
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wanted to do. but i only got my quota of one or two tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellows? >> well, very subtly, yes. ♪ >> i would just like to thank you all for coming here. you all know it is a special benefit concert. ♪ >> ravi shankar went to george harrison and said this terrible thing is happening in bangladesh, what can we do. and that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh was the grandaddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles back on the stage at the time. it was unparalleled at the time, and it may still be
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unparalleled. ♪ >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s, finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> have you any idea why 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 that he was not going to be around for that long. not everybody makes it. whe 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.
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"exile on main street." in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy-sounding studio. >> that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. and i remember reading the review saying this was look a debached album. and i said i don't even know what debauched means but i've got to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪ and tumbling down ♪ >> having come out of the '60s, which was its own animal, the '70s had to show its skin. it had to shed the old one. ♪ ooh yeah >> i was never very confident of
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my voice as a singer. i thought rather than just sing them, which would probably bore the pants off of everybody, i'd like to kind of portray the songs. ♪ then i turn myself to face me ♪ ♪ and i never caught a glimpse >> david bowie has always been a game changer. he really has taken the promise of rock that the beatles have kicked off and he's take ten all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ ch-ch-changes ♪ turn and face the strange ♪ ch-ch-changes ♪ pretty soon you're going to get older ♪ ♪ time may change me ♪ but i can't change time ♪ i said that time may change me but i can't trace time ♪ boost. it's about moving forward, not back. it's looking up, not down. it's being in motion. boost® high protein it's intelligent nutrition with 15 grams of protein and 26 vitamins and minerals. boost® the number one high protein complete nutritional drink.
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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 band i'm your biggest fan california i'm coming home ♪ >> you look to the horizon that you want to move toward. and that horizon was here in l.a. >> that's where the record
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companies were. and there was lots of sun. >> the way i got to california is just really simple. i got there in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually no one was from southern california. they're all drawn to the light. and the light is the troubadour club. >> things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles. which holds 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i could think of came through the troubadour. henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchell and james taylor. 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
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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 seconds tick the time out ♪ ♪ and there's so much left to know ♪ ♪ well i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was just trying to do whatever came into their head. >> in the early days paul and i we wanted to be the goffin and king from england. goffin and king were very big those days. >> we had no idea who the people were, the mysterious mr. king was. wrote the songs, chains the beatles did, i'm into something good. which was part of the british invasion. we did discover it was this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the
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transition from basically 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 trembling ♪ ♪ whenever you're around >> carole king is the embodiment 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 life. >> after church you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls' cars, you know what you're listening to? "tapestry." >> there were a lot of very important women who were some of
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the most creative writers and contributors to music at the time. >> we are going to do a song written by john david sausser who's one of my favorite california songwriters 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 of 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
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♪ 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. we're starting to get stale. ♪ >> 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. ♪ in all your life you have have never known ♪ ♪ a woman taken by the wind >> we had an album out, two years before joining fleetwood mac called the buckingham nicks. mick really liked the music. they asked us to join.
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♪ rie hannon >> fleetwood mac, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. ♪ freedom >> being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kid. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ forever ♪ gathered by the wind ♪ >> hit records sometimes bore an audience. they're not going to have another hit. or 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. ♪ if loving you isn't the right to do ♪
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♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> the band is five people, five very independent, quite strong-minded, quite stubborn individuals. ♪ if i could baby i'd build you my world ♪ >> two lovely couples, john and chris married. their marriage was on the rocks. and stevie and lindsey might as well have been married. that all was falling apart. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ go your own way ♪ you can call me under the lonely day ♪ >> we were testifying. and "rumors" became the church. ♪ [ applause ]
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>> how long you been singing? >> three years. >> see you went to grab it right away. snatch it right out of my hand. >> michael was precocious, he knew he was cute. you would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ ooh baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ won't you please let me gladden your heart ♪ ♪ oh, darling i was blind 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. >> 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.
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>> motown was a very unique place because a lot of record companies were being run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. berry gordy was a songwriter. he said we were making music for the world. >> ironically he was trying to make black music to cross over to the white world and ended up making the greatest black music ever. >> he created a machine. where you take the artist and polish them up. and make them a great package where they can play "the ed sullivan show" and kill. >> back in the '60s marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was clean-shaven, svelte. and all that changed in the '70s. >> 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? ♪ punish me with brutality ♪ talk to me
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♪ so you can see ♪ what's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ yeah what's going on ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ ooh >> marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on over there. he's seeing the protests here, and it's changing him. >> he hold up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty. he is changing into an artist in a way that berry gordy's not super happy about. ♪ mother, mother ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong ♪ they do >> initially berry gordy did not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could potentially ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government.
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♪ yes, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ ♪ people >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on," berry telling marvin, okay, if you are right, i'll learn something. and if i'm right you'll learn something. and of course, as berry will say, i learned something. >> 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's 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 yourself. >> 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 greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in
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america, back to back to back. ♪ letters about to fall >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. "music of my mind ♪ oh, he made it. he ain't going to do it again. "talking book." "innervisions." "fulfillingness's first finale." and finally "songs in the key of life." ♪ you believe in things ♪ you don't understand ♪ then you suffer ♪ superstition ain't the way >> what the beatles did in the '60s i feel stevie wonder was the person to do that for music in the '70s. [ cheers and applause ] >> hi there, welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on "the soul train." the sight and sound of soul is
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your pleasure, and what you treasure you can bet your bottom we've got them, baby. >> "soul train" finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> i'd run home from church to get home to see "soul train." it was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. >> there's no question that "soul train" broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audience that's 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 there was a day he did it. it was faster. it was sharper. and it was street.
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'60s. the music so many thought too loud, vulgar, somehow dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. ♪ >> heart was a big deal. because in the decade 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 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 have come to expect a show. ♪ we still have time and i still defy a troublemaker on a high ♪
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>> in the '70s the groups started to become more theatrical. they realized that just giving them the music isn't enough. we've got to give them something to look at. >> more naked people, more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. just more. ♪ oh ♪ no time >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ with your sweet bag of lies ♪ crazy crazy crazy ♪ crazy on you >> stadium tours put a lot of people near music. 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.
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if you went to any big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. ♪ crazy crazy on you >> 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 are rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the vernacular of the record biz, where to be merely big is nothing, the zeppelin is very big. to get around the zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. ♪
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the president's plane doesn't have an organ nor a 15-foot mirrored bar nor in the private quarters two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset it doesn't have 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'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 rock 'n' roll is 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 center of the world in the '50s and '60s. and in the '70s it becomes the main event. and that has repercussions in all sorts of 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.
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so yeah, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top and money just -- whoo, being thrown against the wall. >> feel like a hypocrite, if you are 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 you're a middle-aged family man. and it's only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. ♪ >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n' roll by going back to basics. >> using elements from the past that were kind of being discarded at that point. ♪ in the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway american dream ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio. and was not what was mainstream rock. ♪ sprung from cages on highway
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9 ♪ ♪ chrome wheel fuel injected ♪ stepping out over the line ♪ whoa, maybe this >> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it just 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 ♪ yes we were >> "born to run" was a towering statement in the middle of the '70s. it was the cover of "time" and "newsweek." >> bruce didn't like it at the time. me on the other hand, i'm like my friend's on the cover of "time" and "newsweek," this is cool. >> when "born to run" comes out in 1975, it's a desire to really escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an anthem to save your soul. ♪ ray's always been different. last year, he said he was going to dig a hole to china.
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most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> mancuso is one of the guys who really took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. he might play isaac hayes' record. he might play a salsa record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an an aesthetic of dancing. >> all types of people. people when pop up and down. get high. you can 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 called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor with eight on the high hat. ts, tss, ts, ts. so everything is bam, bam, bam. ♪ burn baby burn
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>> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> the melody. >> giorgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. donna summer being the biggest embodiment. and they make some of the biggest records of all time. ♪ ooh love to love you baby ♪ ooh love to love you baby >> "love to love you baby" was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of -- a lot of not singing. ♪ oh, love to love you baby ♪ oh, love you love you baby >> i always wondered for the life of me like was moroder just
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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's do it. and i think she did it in 10 minutes. ♪ oh >> the donna summer records were some of the biggest records of all time. and they kicked off a revolution. ♪ i want to do it with you >> unless you have been living in a sealed cage you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancin' without a g. >> what's disco? >> snuffy, where have you been? ♪ i want to but on my boogie shoes and dance with you ♪ >> what they generate with the records, we are talking about an estimated 4 billion, with a b, $4 billion a year.
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>> i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r & b music to me. i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again top of the chorus but bring that sound in. it's great. one, two, three, four. ♪ tragedy >> the bee gees always liked r&b. they always liked soul. i always thought it was a pop band but that had r&b leanings. >> the bee gees did what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ staying alive ♪ staying alive ♪ ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ staying alive [ applause ] >> this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that's in with the disco crowd. >> i have been to goat ropings
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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 was insane. i sometimes would walk by to just watch the people not get in. because that was fun too. >> oh, you're not shaved. there's no way you can get in. it doesn't matter if you're not shaved. 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 >> the great chic led by bernard edmonton and nile rodgers 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 amazed >> it was kind of a diss of
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studio 54 for rejecting them. the part where they say "freak out" actually began as something else. ♪ freak out ♪ le freak >> it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. ♪ just come on down to the 54 ♪ on the spot ♪ out on the floor ♪ ah, freak out ♪ le freak, c'est chic >> 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 and i heard chic's "good times" come on. and i just kept hearing somebody talk over the song. ♪ i said hip, hop, the hiby dibby you don't stop ♪
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♪ and rock it out baby he ♪ the boogie to the boogie the beat ♪ ♪ and me the groove and my friends are going to try to move your feet ♪ >> we didn't know the name of the song was rapper's delight. the next day we got "hip hop." >> it was the first hip hop song to crack the top 40. it changed everything. >> "rappers delight" opens the incredible door to the last new american art form which is hip-hop. ♪
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>> punk rock was so f'ing scary to us because here we are with our big majestic songs and here comes punk with their -- ♪ >> the ramons get started. people see them and go, this is the answer. ♪ >> this is how great rock 'n' roll is supposed to be done. >> how is it supposed to be done? >> no pyrotechnics or phony showmanship. pure stamina. ♪ >> real and raw and there's no crap involved as opposed to the standard schlap we hear on the top 40.
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>> the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. this is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead police. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> the king of the punks. the safety pin thing is his. it is pretty clear that he invented that. >> funk in the united states is an aberration of music, a statement of what music is. in england punk rock is not a musical statement, it's a social one. >> if punk has a home territory it's here on king's road, in the middle of london and launched the miniskirt and the swinging '60s. >> what's this like? >> nothing. >> there isn't any future for a kid now.
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i mean, there isn't. >> there was an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ war is declared >> you've been said to be a political group. >> yeah, so i've said it. it's true. >> maybe we would be singing about loving and kissing. >> the clash is the best of the lot. doesn't sound like traditional punk but it doesn't sound like anybody else either. ♪ ♪ i live by the river >> punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were more complex in their musical performance style. people won't buy something that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> you love that punk rock these days, and what's your thoughts
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on that? >> i think it's better to call it a new wave. by defining it as punk, you're automatically putting a boundary on what's possible. fans like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads was the ultimate. they did spiky music who reflected who they were and reflected the fascinating individual that david burn would emerge to become. >> i wrote a song about urban guerrillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of from the daily view about their politics. ♪ there was a man loaded with bullets ♪ ♪ propped 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 innocence that music
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could make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and the best music made in that genre was made in the 1970s, and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what's great about the "me" decade is it allowed some of our best artists of our time to do their best work because they were exploring. that's as deep as popular art ever gets. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ i love to hold you ♪ i love to kiss you ♪ but i ain't going down ♪ ♪ we're not computers
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♪ and there ain't no burning allowed ♪ there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. >> it's all related. >> i'm planning on having a good time as long as i can. >> smoke pot with your kids and then you'll understand why your kids are happy. >> it's a giant love-in. >> people should be uninhibited. >> you can't ignore it. >> they don't like hippies and the things we do. >> we do have to maintain, law, order and decency on the streets. >> we're thinking about a peaceful planet. >> they are trying to do what no one else has ever done befo
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