-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com 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. >> sight and sound and soul are your pleasure, you can bet your bottom dollar we 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, its purpose is to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order. >> rock and roll is pure stamina! ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london from an overdose of drugs. >> janice joplin was found dead the cause of death was said to

be an overdose of drugs. >> a rock music group lead singer, jim morrison is dead. he was 27. >> the early years in music was sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gather something 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. >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or nothing like that, 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 waited for

the next beatles album to see where it was going. and we hoped the music they came up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have, oh the beatles need an album. you better go write songs tomorrow. that kind of thing, i just write when i feel like it. ♪ imagine all the people >> yoko, you have before called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. >> please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made since we broke up. 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. business 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, respectfully married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream any more, they listen. >> the significant thing is they

made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact 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, it doesn't matter if they've got 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 single album of all. ♪ you don't need a passport

>> over the years i had such a lot of stockpile of songs i wanted to do. but i only got a quo that or one or two 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. as you all know, it's a special benefit concert. ♪ ♪ >> ravi shankhar said a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh what can we do? 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 on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time

and may still be unparalleled. ♪ ♪ >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who 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 had? >> because we stay together i suppose. >> for a few years, e 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 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 is like a debached album, i didn't know what debached means, but i got to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪ ♪ >> having come out of the '60s which was its own animal. the '70s had to show a new skin. it had to shed the old one. ♪ ♪ ♪ ooh yeah >> i was never very confident of

my voice as a singer. i thought rather than just sing, which would probably bore the pants off everybody. i would like to kind of, portray the songs. ♪ and i turn myself and face me and i never caught a glimpse ♪ >> david bowie has been a game changer. he has taken the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off and taken it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ time may change me ♪ but i can't change time ♪ i said that time may change me i can't trace 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 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 companies were. and there's lots of sun. >> the way i got to california was just really simple, i got there in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually nobody 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. in los angeles, it holds 250 people. happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter, came through, jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchell, 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 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 theim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there many stories told all the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ so on and on i go ♪ the shed -- seconds tick the time out ♪ ♪ there's so much left to know while 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 group from england. they 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 is part of the british invasion. we did discover this remarkable 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 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 girl's cars you know what you are listening to "tapestry." ♪

>> there were a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the tomb. >> we are going to do a song written by john david sausser 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 ♪ rain drops falling >> 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 ♪ >> there have been articles and things that identify me with the l.a. sound, me, jackson brown and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. we're starting to get stale. ♪ ♪ but you love to love 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. ♪ ever know taken by the wind >> we had an album out, two

years previous called buckingham nicks. nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. ♪ ♪ >> fleetwood mac, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. ♪ freedom >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kid. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ forever ♪ ever ♪ >> 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, the image 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 ♪ >> the band is five people, five 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 may have 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. ♪

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incredibly talented but they looked like us. ♪ no pretty face >> 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 back in your heart ♪ ♪ oh, darling i was trying to let you go ♪ ♪ not since i don't need you anymore. >> 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.

>> and 11 alphabets -- >> you don't know. the jackson five. >> that's us. thought's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. >> motown was unique. record companies were run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. barry gordie was a song writer. he said i'm going to make music for the world. >> 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 u take the artist, polish them up. d make them a great package, they can play the "ed sullivan show" and kill. >> marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was have svelte, clean-shaven, 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 ♪ when 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. he is hearing all these stories about what is going on over there. he's seeing the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourself, america. >> he is talking about the war, he's talking about poverty. changing as an artist in a way that barry gordie is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially barry gordie did not want marvin to do what he's

going to do. >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could 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 to put out "what's going on," barry tells marvin, okay, if you're right, i'll learn something. and if i'm right, you'll learn something. and of course, as barry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say soul, 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 yourself. >> stevie wonder went to barry gordie and he negotiated his

creative freedom and he used every bit of it. >>. ♪ very superstitious writings on the wall ♪ >> stevie wonder making some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. ♪ writing's on the wall >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. music in my mind. he made it. he ain't going to do it again. oh, my god he did it! and suddenly, the key of life. ♪ 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. [ applause ] ♪

>> hi there, welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on "the soul train." if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure, we got them, baby. >> "soul train" finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> i would run home from church to get home to see "soul train." the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. >> there's no question that "soul train" broke a lot of artists and introduces a lot of artists to audiences they 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 there was a way that it was faster. it was sharper. and it was street. i could just see his afro bouncing and there was so much precision to it. ♪ dancing dancing dancing ♪ she's a dancing machine >> oh baby.

rock, 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's become an institution. ♪ >> heart was a big deal because in the decade that was dominated by a type of rock 'n roll that rimes with rock and begins with a "c," but i won't go on further, they were able to play with those guys and succeed on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s, that's way too hippie. now we have to up it a notch. ♪ ♪ >> the audience 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 ♪ >> the '70s the groups started to become more theatrical. they realized just giving them the music isn't enough. we have to give them something to look at. >> mr. naked people. more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. just, 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 ♪ on you, 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. >> if you went to any of the 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're rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they're led zeppelin, the group on tour and in the vernacular of the record business, where big

is nearly nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. ♪ the president's plane doesn't have an organ or 15-foot mirrored bar,nor in the private quarters does it have 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 the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that's $700 million more than the 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 basically is no different than ibm, zero rocks, sarah lee, chevrolet, supply and demand, it's the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the '50s and '60s. in the '70s it becomes the main event.

it has repercussions in all sort 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. >> feel like a hypocrite, if you consistently invoking the ideas of young people and bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket and really what you are is a middle-aged family man. it is 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. ♪ every day you sweat out on the streets on the wrong way ♪ >> using a sound that was not on

the radio. and not what was mainstream rock. ♪ ♪ on a highway now ♪ stepping out over the line ♪ whoa >> 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 ♪ yeah yes we were >> "born to run" was a 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. my friend is on the cover of "newsweek." this is cool. ♪ >> when "born to run" comes out in 1975 it is the desire to escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an anthem to save your soul. ♪

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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 may play a salsa record. i might play an isaac hayes record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an an aesthetic of dancing. >> there all types of people here. people who dance, people who 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. ♪ >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of pouring the floor with eight on the high hat. so everything is -- ♪ burn baby burn

>> 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. >> george meroudder put together technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest record of all time. ♪ ooh love to love you baby ♪ ooh love you 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 was he just in the booth, 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 go ahead. 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 -- >> unless you have been living in a sealed cage you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancin' without the g. >> what's disco? >> snuffy, where have you been? ♪ i want to but on my boogie shoes and dance with you ♪ >> the queen of the disco, what they generate with the records, we are talking about an

estimated 4 billion -- that's with a "b" -- $4 billion a year. >> 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. second half of the chorus but bring in the sound. that's great. one, two, three, four. >> the beegees always liked r & b and always liked soul. i always thought they were a pop band with r & b leanings. >> they were pop stars too. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ staying alive ♪ staying alive ♪ 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

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 watch the people not get in. because that was fun too. >> oh, you are not shaved. there's no way you're going to get in. it doesn't matter if you are not shaved. 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 >> the great sheik, go to studio 54 to get in. and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ have you heard about the knew dance craze? ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you'll

be amazed. >> it was a disto studio 54 for rejecting them. 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 ♪ out on the floor ♪ oh freak out ♪ so chic >> freak out. >> probably the best thing that ever 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. i kept hearing somebody talk over the song. ♪ you don't stop

what you hear is not a -- rock to the beat me the fwruv and my friends are going to try to move your feet. >> so when people talk about it what's that hip-hop song and it was the first hip-hop song to crack the top 40. >> so when people talk about it they go what is that hip hop song? it was the first to crack the top 40. >> it changes everything. >> it opens the door to the last american art form which is hip hop.

kick out the jams [ bleep ]. >> detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. the motor city five and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums that indicate 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. ♪

>> 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 ramones get started as a reaction of everything else that's going on. people see them and go this is the answer. ♪ let's go >> here to see how great rock 'n roll is supposed to be done. >> how is it supposed to be done? >> no pyrotechniks no phony showmanship. just pure rock 'n roll. pure good stamina. ♪ >> just real and raw and there's no crap involved, as opposed to the standard schlap we hear on

the top 40. >> the ramons are part of a wider new york scene. >> you had artists like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead police. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell was one to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing is his. it's pretty clear he invented that. >> punk in the united states is a statement of sorts of what music is and how it ought to be played. in england it is not a musical statement, it is a social one. >> if punk has a home territory it is here on kings road in london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the swinging '60s. >> what's this like? >> nothing. >> there isn't any future for a kid now.

i mean there isn't. >> there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ london calling through a far away town ♪ ♪ war is declared and battle come down ♪ >> you are said to be a political group. >> yeah, i've said it. >> it's jobs and maybe we'd be singing about love and kissing or something. >> the clash is the best of the lot. doesn't sound like traditional punk but doesn't sound like anybody else but the clash either. ♪ i don't have any fear because i live by the river ♪ >> punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were a little bit 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. >> what's your thoughts on punk

rock? >> i think it's better to just call it a new wave, really. i think by defining it as punk you're automatically putting a boundary around what is possible. talking heads is excellent. >> talking head can 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 the point of view of their politics. ♪ >> 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 my yev day, the thought

that music could really make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ i ain't got 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 was great about a me decade is it allowed the greatest artist of our times to do their greatest work because they were really 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 ♪ i ain't got time for that now ♪ now ♪ ♪

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