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it feels wicked cold. thank you so much. tune in to watch anderson and andy cohen. they will be delivering. the new year's eve starts sunday night here on cnn. i'm john berman. i will be warm for the week. thank you so much for watching "360" the original series "the '80s" starts now. >> we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. >> there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. >> we mike like to call them -- >> if anybody wants to say how they feel. >> what are your dreams? >> to rule the world. >> michael jackson is the man of the ''80s. >> music is all beat and talk. it's rap music. >> my life is over, so i might as well speak my mind. >> heavy metal glorifies sex and hates authority and adolescent
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boys love it. >> it's weird, beastly presentation. that was berthed in the pit of hel hell. >>
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. >> he was shot by an unknown at this time white male. >> the world has reacted with shock and brief to the first rock 'n' roll assassination. >> it was like in one moment the '60s and '70s got murdered. >> in his life, he's given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we are here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. >> you start the decade with the death of a beetle. you don't know where you will go. >> there was nothing new on the horizon, announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment, the power of sight. the power of sound. >> stereo. >> mtv, music television. [ music playing ] >> we are so excited about this new concept in tv. we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio.
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[ music playing ] >> at the time the world was saying, we don't think anybody is going to watch videos over and over, but we knew we had something special. [ music playing [ music playing ] >> mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room, you had a personal concert all day. >> when have you the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new x. ♪ ♪ ♪. >> britain was ahead of the curve. they had a ton of invent oimplts that was what paved the way for this accidental british invasion. >> few look at some of the groups on the popular music charts in america today, you can't help from asking, where on earth did they come from? well the answer is the same today than two decades ago, they come from britain.
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>> the music isn't anything like the famous group that came from there. >> you got to understand, 20 years ago, we're a new generation, a few wave. [ music playing ] >> by the early 1980s, new wave was used to describe as sleek, dressy, cool bands coming out of england. [ music playing ] >> british artists all understood how to use visuals in the way that i think american artists didn't necessarily get that quickly. ♪ do you really want to hurt me ♪ ♪ do you really want to make me cry ♪ >> "do you want to hurt me" is a song that old people like and young people like. so i think the proof is in the pudding. bite and eat it. -- buy it and eat it. >> mtv actually met with durand
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durand's managers, we're looking for like james bond videos on location. their managers were the ones that when to the the band members and said, look, we need to raleally up the ante with the clips. we need to give them something they've never seen before. [ music playing ] >> there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. >> you need -- we like to call them tastefully smurty [ music playing ] >> when i first pet dur and durand, they were saying they thought they looked like rock stars, so why not become rock stores?
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[ music playing [ music playing ] >> why do you think we are so popular over there? >> well, i think there's a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years from the days of the beetles and the rolling stones where british bands seem to be better at it than americans. >> the police have sold 4 million albums if one year. rolling stones chose them as the best new band, taking the swirling quality of the sound [ music playing ] >> it was incredible to see them and i couldn't believe what i was hearing out of three people. i was shocked. >> i once read that you are th pink floyd of the ''80s, what do you think of that? >> maybe not at all. [ music playing ] >> the cure of the ''80s. >> the holy trinity of alternative british music is the
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cure. the pesh mode and the sniffs. all three started out as these fringe bands, but by the end of the ''80s were selling out stadiums. [ music playing [ music playing ] >> what's new, are you programmers or musicians? >> i'd say neither. >> what are you then? >> bank robbers. [ music playing ] ♪ how does it feel ♪ to treat me like you do >> reporter: in the uk, disco did not suck. bands combined it with the few synthesizeer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. ♪ and i still find it so hard ♪ to see what i need to say
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>> it was happening in dance places, over the last year or two, i think the music is becoming very healthy. [ music playing ] i saw the change in rich when we moved into the new house.
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it has long been called storm of tiny bubbles, the champagne of beers. ♪ if you've got the time welcome to the high life. ♪ we've got the beer ♪ miller beer . >> it has done wonders for the sagging record industry. it has made overnight stars out of rock groups whose records have been gathering dust. >> this year since 1977, record sales are up, the reason, music
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videos. >> we had no idea that music videos would have that much of an impact on the musical culture. it changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do as far as promotion was concerned. you had to be a performance artist as well as a mu session. >> the intelligent ones recognize that it's a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. >> the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. [ music playing ] ♪ put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ >> when david and i decided that we were going to work towing, it was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a commercial album. now i'm going to go make a pop record. but it was going to be his version of pop. >> my songs always intend to be
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impressionistic or have a surreal quality to them. on this album is the first time that i've really tried to adapt to a didactic approach. [ music playing ] >> artists of the '80s and david bowie, for that matter, realize if you want to make it, you got to be on mtv. >> but there is one group not any with mtv. many black artists have been told their music doesn't fit the format. >> that's what's happening, we are sit in the back of the bus television style. they get away with this. if they get away wit, cable will try it. >> what tv does exclude music that's not rock 'n' roll. >> mtv came out with no consideration with how to infuse black music into their mix. >> i'm thrown by the fact there are so black artists featured on it. why is that? >> we have to try and do what we
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think not only in new york and los angeles will appreciate but also somedown town in the mid-west that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces. >> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv? because you said music television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? [ music playing ] >> he's a person of color sand and he shouldn't have kilometre i don't believe in that. what i do i don't want it labeled black or white. i want it labelled as music. [ music playing [ music playing ] >> 1983, mo-town has a big tv special mo--towns anniversary. at that time thriller is out and "thriller" is doing well, but michael jackson couldn't get "billy jean" on mtv.
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>> when the rest of the world was going crazy and you can't get on mtv, michael jackson? c'mon. [ music playing [ music playing ] >> when he does that moonwalk, we were sitting on the couch. by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldn't believe what you were seeing. >> i would say the moonwalk was really one of the firviral mome that affected history. the next week "thriller" started selling a million copies a week. >> i like michael jackson, he's good, he's bad. >> he is so gorgeous. >> it's exciting. >> michael jackson is the man of the ''80s. >> mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson's label. >> rock 'n' roll, in itself, was the thing that broke a lot of rules. when you are very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. >> as the story goes, cbs essentially said we will pull
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every other artist we have on mtv if you don't play this. they had to essentially blackmail them into doing it. ♪ just beat it >> he was the hartist mtv needed. they didn't know, when we saw those michael jackson videos, it was unbelievable. >> then there was a domino effect. suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing ♪ tonight i'm going to party like it's 1999 ♪ >> prince wasn't just a materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was filmed? >> prince was a huge star on black radio stations. people, he had a real underground cult following. he was a sexy, hot performer. ♪ the sweat of her body covers me ♪ >> prince loved the idea that he was taking his punk funk music
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and turning it on to a white once and that wouldn't have happened if not for mtv ♪ this is what it sound like when the doves cry ♪ >> when i was younger i always said that one day i was going to play all kind of music and not be judged for the color of my skin but the quality of my work. ♪ purple rain >> prince had a great androgeney he blurred the gender line, he sings, he writes, he plays. every time i see him, oh, really? okay i quit. when he plays guitar, it's just a part of his body in a way that i've never really seen before and it's not contrived. it's just, it's just happening. >> what was his music? was it r & b?
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you know, his music was just straight down the middle main stream, grab you by the throat and balls pop. ♪ we go down to the river >> at this point a lot of it is about being there, which is why we haven't done too much of the video thing. a lot of it is, it has allowed me to have too much distance. it's about breaking down distance. >> bruce was all about credibility and intelligent and integrity. so how would he translate his music and his attitude towards the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video. bruce is not going to be next to a wink model on a sailboat. ♪ you can't start a fire ♪ you can't start a fire without a spark ♪ ♪. >> he ends up doing essentially
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and in-concert video starring a then unknown courtney cox. it's like this weird recreation of something that organically happens at a bruce springstein concert. if there was an artist in the ''80s that transcended the video, he was the guys, he didn't need to do great music videos to still be a great artist. he's bruce springsteen. it was great music. ♪ born in the usa ♪ cannot live without it.
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. david bowie, mick jager, billy joel, rod stewart, all famous, all rich and all men. rock 'n' roll has been pretty much dominated by men until the last few years ♪ heart breaker >> atmosphere benefatar is hot. the latest album hit the stop of the charts in one month. her style is defiant, raucous, tough and very sexy ♪ we are young ♪ heartache to heartache >> when i'm on stage is what i picture a modern woman to be. someone who is aggressive and soft at the same time. has a lot of strength and convex
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and can look good and still have a brain. >> you would think that in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever that it would all be about objectification but there were a lot of strong women on that video screen. [ music playing ] >> meet the darlings of l.a.'s new music scene, the go gos [ music playing ] >> unlike other girl groups, the supremes, the go go's write their own songs and play their own instruments ♪ they got the beat ♪ they got the beat ♪ yeah, they got the beat >> that was as punk rock as it got for me to see girls up there, you know, not just singing back-up, or not just like stand income some cool outfit in front of a band. like they were the band. ♪ no matter what they say [ music playing ]
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>> while the go go's have always managed to look leak they are having fun. they are to be taken seriously. >> that irthe first female group ever to have a number one album. and they're at the top of the list of female rock stars in the industry is stronger than ever ♪ the phone rings in the middle of the night ♪ ♪ my father yells what are you doing with your life ♪ >> i found her voice was extraordinary t. videos were so colorful and fun. >> this being march 31st, it's also a monday, so you might consider it's a manic monday. you may be interested to know there is a hit song by that name. they are the bengals. you girls are very hot, yes? ♪ i was just in the middle of a dream < musical notes>. >> when the bangles came out, everybody was like, it's like another go go's, they were like, no, we're not the new go go's,
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wooer the new boeatlbeatles. >> a lost people call that a '60s sound. >> that's our main influence, we don't say let's make a springfield song, that's the way they ends up sounding ♪ just another manic monday ♪ ♪ wesh it were sunday < musical notes>. >> there is always a certain amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. >> i mean, it's run by a very chauvinistic recording industry. >> we concentrate on the music. we don't really worry about those things. we keep writing songs. >> i think there was a little attitude like they're okay for chicks. they can play okay for girls. we didn't understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. >> "people" magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from
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becoming a megastar. whitney houston ♪ how will i know if he really loves me ♪ ♪ i say a prayer with every heart beat ♪ >> whether she was doing a dance song or a ballad owe it stopped you in your tracks because you couldn't believe one woman could be blessed with that much t. looks and the talent. >> this woman started out as a dancer, when to the new york, paris, came back as a single. is she hot! this is madonna [ music playing ] >> if you saw madonna then she looked like girls that hung out at a club the fun house. they had the mesh thing the bullets. it was a mix of new wave punk with this other dance set ability ♪ holiday ♪ holiday >> i think madonna was able to
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use that core of dance music and use the style of the streets that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. >> we are a couple of weeks into the new year. what do you hope will happen not only in 1984 but the rest of your professional life? what are your dreams? >> to rule the world. [ music playing ] ♪ star light, star bright >> all of a sudden there was girls around that had the gloves with the fpgers cut out of it and the hair wrapped up in the net and wearing the short skirts. there was like hundreds of thousands of jewish girls in the country wearing crucifixs because of madonna. >> i like the way she can move about and sing. it's like the attitude that no one else has. she dresses like she wants, acts like she wants. she does what she wants. >> i think her appeal is that she is feminine, she is herself. she is sexual, but she's strong!
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she's an individual woman. >> madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. she understood the vibe and the look and the sound. it all came together with her. >> you keep giving little surprises. if they get you all in one glance, then what's going to make them look again? oh like a virgin ♪ ♪ feels so good inside >> when madonna sang "leak a virgin" and started rolling on the ground, people thought it was a career-ending moment for her. ♪ oh, oh, oh >> in this weding dress rolling around on the floor. it kind of stopped everybody in their tracks that was thinking what is she doing? and why is she doing it? clearly by the next morning, she was the biggest star in the world. >> madonna had no doubt, she was like this is happening. get out of the way.
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. >> in the '80s the videos were so expensive and so complicated and you had to wear things that you never would dream of wearing before and at first it was a lot of fun to really get dressed up
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around pull on that corsette and wear tons of make-up and great big huge hair. >> you had to have that sex hair kind of thing, i'm coming out of a gold mold and she has a welding iron, she's an amazon welder or something. >> we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. >> it did feel like i can't steer the ship anymore. where is it going? you know, where are we headed in. >> i think heavy metal is the true rock n rom of the ''80s and rock 'n' roll was basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. [ music playing ] >> "heavy metal" it is not physics. it is rock 'n' roll, loud, rude,
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adolescent boys love it. >> this is it. this is hot stuff. >> you turn on your television, you see this weird embassily presentation that was bermented in the pit of hell. >> where do they get that i'm satan, do i have pictures of horns? i don't have horns. >> critics say there is something seriously wrong with metal music. outrageous by design. it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. >> has rock n rom finally gone too far? a growing number think so. they took it to a hearing. er that complaint, rock videos and lyrics are crossing the line
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into trash and smut. >> we are asking the recording industry to voluntarily assist biernts are concerned by placing a warning label on music products inappropriate for younger children due to explicit sexual or violent lyrics. >> in the ''80s the artists pushing boundaries in different ways were bringing those messages and images into our homes and that provided an opportunity to push back against it. >> we can say their as far as wives oh, they're messing around in washington. but they obviously have some real concerns. there is a lot that they do that applaud, because they are taking responsibility as citizens. >> i brought along two videos which i believe is a
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representation. [ music playing ] >> who is going to decide what's a sexual content of a lyric? who is going to decide what is obscene? same housewives spearheading the movement? >> in all candor, i would tell you it's outrageous filth. if i can find some way kwons institutionally to do away with it, i would. >> fans felt, i'm capable of making decisions about the music i listen to. i don't need tipper gore deciding this is too obscene for me. >> the next witness will be frank zappa. >> the establishment of a rating system voluntary or otherwise opens the door to moral quality control programs based on things certain christians don't like. i think we should leave it up to the parents, not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. >> you and i weren't ignorant and educated. >> the women didn't get the rating system theyped.
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they were able to print inscription only a bulls, cassettes and puke videos warning they contain blatant express it lyrics. >> good rock 'n' roll breaks all the rules. okay. that's the what i it is, it always has been. elvis presley was fought good for the children either. >> good morning, everybody. i am very pleased to announce to live aid which without a doubt will be the largest pop concert ever held. >> live aid was the brainchild of bob geldoff and they were looking to raise money nor famine victims in ethiopia. >> tomorrow's funds raising concert starts, sold outcrowds will be joined by an audience of perhaps 1.5 billion of people around the world. watching live aid on tv was my
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version of driving to woodstock. and i watched every second of i it. [ music playing ] >>. >> the great thing about live aid, it showed that musicians for me seem to be the most altruistic people in the world. >> whose heart is in dublin, ireland? the spirit of the world, nobody had any problem saying how they feel. >> when u2 played live aid, rock 'n' roll was getting serious, u2 could change the world, bono could change the world.
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[ music playing [ music playing ] >> u2 formed ten years ago when its members were still school boys is now arguably the hottest rock 'n' roll band in the world. their last album "the joshua tree" so far sold 13 million copies world wide. >> u2 somehow in the video age were still developing and becoming a great fan and maintaining that kind of connection with people and not getting the message lost in the medium. >> they spent the last ten years finding out how to be in u2. you spend the next ten years see whack u2 can do. hey, man. oh!
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. >> right now, all around us and so compelling you never miss the fact there is no melody is a music that is all beat, strong beat and talk. it's rap music. >> rap music began in harlem in the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people gather to recite lyrics, their raps over the instrument am sections. >> examine now. >> the breaks was curtis blow's biggest hit, hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. >> i watched the transition from all the disco music that we used to play in all the back parties to slowly but surely hip-hop
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taken over. >> the music underneath is called scratching, the process of using two turn tables and a memberser, making two sound out of already existing albums. >> they gave them life is hip-hop. it took the sounds of the '60 and '70s and brought it to the forefront ♪ a child is born with no state of mind ♪ ♪ mind to the ways of man kind >> the message was the first hip-hop song that wasn't a party song. it was talking about urban decay, drugs, crime, prison, all of these things hitting these communities really hard. >> with a message hitting it, it was, okay, put that down, pull the record back, play that
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again. you. >> everyone knew the game changed. it opened the flood gates for the next jen iraqis of rappers. >> when run dmc came out, they were taking rock 'n' roll music putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand-new out of it. >> run dmc led sep onized hip-hop, it was fit for arena, knocking the scoreboard down. >> he had sort of fallen off the map and brings them into the forward and run dmc in a different way. you start to get more white kids into hip-hop. >> run dmc's latest album, entitled "raveing hell" has sold
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more than 14 million copies, the first for a rap album if 13 weeks. >> it's a stupid fame for an album. [ music playing ] >> hip-hop was our baby. this is our culture. this is our music. we created it. here come the beasty boys. we were afraid we were going to use it. >> then we started listening to the music, they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all ri t right. boasty boys come out where people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. no, they were straight hip-hop. beasty boys was dope, you know
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what i mean? ♪ that chunky monkey >> it spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. >> can you give us some definitions of the lls? >> ll stands for ladies, love, legend, lover of ladies, last of the red hot lovers looking for little a. lot of ls. >> he's talking about how much of a lover, the women love him to death. how they can though down, how good they can dance, ohow bad they are. nobody better mess with me. >> that foolishness. they want to address the issues t. issues being poverty t. issues being fought having political power. you see what i'm saying? all of these issue, they should be adressing this with near energy ♪ the planet was my place to be ♪ >> rakim single handedly changed the phrasing of hip-hopch he
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came to the world like a poet ♪ it's hard on the boulevard >> i've learned different rhythms listen to jazz, so i currently incorporated that in my rhyme style, not just a regular tune. ♪ i can be more ♪ and see all there is as more >> i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, trying to lead them in the right path. >> the summer of 1987, "rebel without a pause" comes out. it was a call to arms, it was the sound of anger, it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said we want to be music's worst nightmare. >> public enemy's extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. it's rap for a reason. they call it a mind revolution. ♪ a rebel in his own mind
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>> "rebel without a pause" was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn't you maybe be thinking about who are the people i've got out here? haven't you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally -- >> i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. ♪ ♪ my mother standing in the welfare line ♪ ♪ the way you survive this crime ♪ ♪ i might as well speak my mind ♪ >> ice t is the first west coast gangster rap. reality rap. 6:00 in the morning police at my door. ice t did it way before nwa did it. ♪ straight outta compton ♪ ice cube from a gang called with attitude ♪ ♪ squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off ♪ >> the los angeles rap group nwa
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drew fire from police because its album "straight outta compton" talked in brutal and vulgar language about retaliating against cops for their anti-gang sweeps in the l.a. area. >> nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gang-banging streets of compton. this is what's going on with us. ♪ as i leave believe i'm stomping ♪ ♪ when i come back, boy, i'm coming straight outta compton ♪ (drumsticks click) ♪
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♪ give a little bit ♪ ♪ give a little bit... -hello. ♪ give a little bit... ♪ ... of your love to me oh, haha. ♪ there's so much that we need to share ♪ ♪ so send a smile and show that you care ♪ ♪ i'll give a little bit of my love to you ♪
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♪ ♪ if you've got the time welcome to the high life. ♪ we've got the beer ♪ miller beer
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♪ i want my mtv you can talk about videos, but in the '80s the actual sound of what popular music was and what was accepted as a sound, a drum sound or keyboard sound or bass line sound changed profoundly over the course of the decade. ♪ she drives me crazy ♪ like no one else ♪ she drives me crazy ♪ and i can't help myself >> coming to the end of the '80s was like watching a kaleidoscope. you open it up and you see a little bit of everything. ♪ the love shack is a little old place where we can get together ♪ >> it was the time when everybody was getting involved
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and everybody was expressing themselves loudly. we are having the best time ever. ♪ never gonna give you up ♪ never gonna let you down ♪ never gonna run around and desert you ♪ >> every audience needs to get fed. you know, we'd fed the pop audience. but where's the rock and roll? ♪ oh, we're halfway there ♪ oh, living on a prayer ♪ take my hand ♪ we'll make it i swear >> bon jovi comes in with a huge record. ♪ pour some sugar on me >> def leppard. fantastic record. ♪ pour some sugar on me >> and that begins to bring that kind of music back. >> at the end of the '80s, everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. something new needs to happen here and it's got to be
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real-sounding, more garage, less produced. ♪ i need an easy friend >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that weren't looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio. ♪ i can see you every night >> eventually radio and mtv came to them. >> the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the '80s. college rock like r.e.m. was something new entirely. ♪ follow me, yeah follow me ♪ got my spine i've got my orange crush ♪ >> the way that peter buck played guitar and the way that stipe sang where the voice was incredible but you couldn't
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quite figure out what he was saying it just made them more alluring and mysterious, you can get why that band would become huge. >> it wasn't new wave, it wasn't a new romantic. they started calling it alternative music. ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ it's the end of the world as we know it ♪ ♪ and i feel fine ♪ fine, fine, fine >> you know, this is the thing about the '80s. everyone thinks it's about crazy haircuts, lots of makeup, insane clothes, and it was. but the thing about this music that lasts is that their songs were so good. >> you can go back and listen to those records, from the engineering to the musicianship to the writing and to the performance of it. it surpasses most music. >> everybody had a story, and
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they wanted to tell it. the artists that were coming through the tv and into your lives. ♪ everybody wants to rule the world ♪ >> i'll say that the music of the '80s is more effective than what came to us in the '60s simply because all of us were included this time. no decade was more effective in dance music, in politics, in different genres than the '80s. there will never, ever be another decade like it, ever. ♪ everybody wants to rule the world ♪ ♪ there's a room where the light won't find you ♪ ♪ holding hands while the walls come tumbling down ♪ ♪ when they do i'll be right behind you ♪ ♪ so glad we've almost made it ♪ so sad they have to fade it ♪ everybody wants to rule the world ♪ ♪
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as soon as we have intelligent machines creeping into our lives. >> the video games is nothing short of a phenomenon. >> personal computers, walk around stereos, mobile telephones. >> a major moment in the history of flight. >> experts tell us, all of this is just the tip of the iceberg of what's to come. >> there's literally a hyperculture that's forming, almost a cult. >> we're no longer on the verge of the personal computer revolution. we're right in the midst of it, thank you. ♪ ♪

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