>> it's probably the most important cultural event in the history of america. >> they like this high energy sort of event. >> the sight and sounds. >> you can bet your bottom, we got them, baby. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock and it's purpose is to promote violence, sex, and destruction in that order. >> pure rock and roll. ♪

rock singer jimmy hendrix died today in london according to a police source from an overdose of drugs. janice joplin was found dead last night. the cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison, the lead singer of the doors is dead.

he was 27. >> the early years of the 70s was sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beetles. >> this small gathering 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 beetles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll as we understood it in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles, never. >> one day, no drummers, or no nothing like that. i lost my old band or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven ♪ it's easy if you try >> so long you waited for the next beatles album so see where music was going.

and we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> i no longer have to, oh, the beatles need an album, you and paul better write 20 songs tomorrow, that kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. >> you know, you have even been called the dragon lady that broke the beatles apart. >> can we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and paul made and ringo made and i made since we broke up? she made it. >> the fact is yoko did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles, the desire to do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier heavier beatle these days. married. and when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream anymore. they listen. >> both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was

focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. this kind of domesticity. beautiful, wonderfully warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> new album. >> it's going to be called ringo. >> i sell records. and it doesn't matter if i have 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 had tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison that was stock piling these amazing songs, explodes like a super nova on an album called all things may pass which may be the greatest beatles solo album of all. >> over the years, i had such a lot of songs that i wanted to do, but i only got my quota of

one or two tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellas? >> well, very csubtly, yes. ♪ >> i'd just like to thank you all for coming here. you all know it's a very special benefit concert. >> 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 for bangladesh was the grandaddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> i got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles on the stage again. it's unparalleled at that time and it may still be

unparalleled. >> a great deal of music in the 70s was people that had succeeded in the 60s finding new ways to express themselves in the 70s. >> have you got any idea why your group particularly has losted as long as it has? >> because we stay together, i suppose. >> for a few years the rolling stones had taken a lot of causalities. >> he felt he wasn't going to be around that long and not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ >> in 1971, 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 a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. i remember them saying this is a debauched album. i was like, i don't know what debauched means but i got to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪ >> having come out of the 60s, which was it's own animal, the 70s had to show a nu skin. it had to shed the old one. >> i was never very confident of my voice as a singer.

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>> this year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own and this is kind of a letter back home. ♪ ♪ california, i'm coming home, make me feel good rock and roll, 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. 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 no one is from southern california. they're all drawn to the light. >> things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles that held 250 people. >> every great song writer i could think of, came through the troubadour. joni mitchell, james taylor. the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to be viewed by so many people. >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try to

show myself. ♪ ♪ ♪ there's so much left to know when 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 king of england. it was very big those days. >> we have no idea who these people were, the mysterious mr. king was that had written all the songs.

we did discover it was carol king. >> she made the transition from basically 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 arou around ♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens because in the 60s she's trying to write hit songs for other people but in the 70s it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me 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 calrs, do yu know what you're 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 time. >> we're going to do songs written by my favorite california song writer. and one of my favorite singers. it's called faithless love. >> she was in many ways my greatest colab ray torator. i became a professional song writer because the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ rain drops falling >> for my money, linda is still underrated just for sheer singing power and style and emotion. ♪ like a cold dark wind,

faithless love ♪ ♪ like a river flows >> there are articles that identify me with the l.a. sound. we need some new blood in this town. we're starting to get stale. ♪ >> the original fleatwood mac was a full on blues band. >> they became a dual citizenship band. >> we had an album out about two years previous and they really liked the music and they asked us to join.

>> the first album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kids. ♪ >> records sometimes bore an audience, oh, well, they're not going to have another hit or this one isn't as good as that. >> record companies frothing at the mouth and the imaging of a band was becoming a whole thing. >> with everyone falling apart.

>> the structure of the band is five people, independent, quite strong minded, quite stubborn individuals. >> two lovely couples, john and chris married. their married was on the rocks and stevie and lindsey might as well have been married. that was all falling apart. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ you can call it another lonely day ♪ >> we were testifying and rumors became the church.

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stand out in the crowd ♪ >> you went to grab it right away. going to snatch it right out of my hand there. >> he was precocious. he knew he was cute and then you 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. ♪ i want you back >> for the first time, young black kids had their beatles. >> you don't know? the jackson 5.

>> that's us. >> and littlejohn. >> they were classic from the o motown system. >> a lot were being run by business men. we had a music man at the helm. barry gordy was a song writer. >> here he was trying to make black music that would cross over into the white world, he ended up making the best black music ever. >> he created a machine where you take the artist and polish them up and make them a great package so they can play the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the 60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was clean shaven and debonair and all of that changed in the 70s. >> he wanted to compete at a high level. why can't i make a record like the beatles. i'm telling records like they sell, why can't i have that artistic expression?

♪ talk to me, you can see ♪ what's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ tell me what's going on >> marvin gaye was effected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all of these stories about what's going on over there. he is seeing the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourselves, america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty. in a way that berry gordy's not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong ♪ >> initially berry gordy did not want marvin to do what's going on. >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening. now you have marvin gaye making

a protest record about the war that could ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. >> ultimately when he agrees to put out what's going on, berry tells marvin, if you're right i'll learn something and if your right, i'll learn something. and as berry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown will also want to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, they put you in one category, they say, here's a solo artist, that's all they expect 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 negotiated his creative freedom, and he used every bit of it. ♪ there is superstition,

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a better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they have come to expect a show. >> in the 70s the group with more theatrical. just giving them the music isn't enough. we have to give them more to look at. >> more naked people, more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. just more. >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ ♪ crazy, crazy, crazy on you ♪ crazy on you >> stadium tours are where a lot of people can come hear music at the same time. 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 big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here and just sort of the rock star as this huge figure. >> it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock never t nevertheless. in a poll taken in england the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeplin. a rock group on tour and in the record biz where to be really big is nothing, it's very big. to get around, it uses a

chartered 707, the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president's plane doesn't have an organ or 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, this is about the best leg of 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 3 times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> i'm telling you that rock and roll is no different than ibibm, xerox, chevrolet, it's the same thing it's a business. >> 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. the gross for the tour is in the region of $11 million. so, you know, it's a living. >> it was so decedant and over the top and money being thrown against the wall. >> if you're consistently invoking the ideas of young people and taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket and really what you are is you're a middle aged family man. and it's only the hypocracy that i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock and roll by going 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. 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 friend is 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's an anthem to save your soul. ♪

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called the loft. i thought that was one of the most eutopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> he took the art form of playing the records and how he cu curated the records. >> it wasn't so much about a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. >> all types of people. people pop up and down. get high. stay here all night. >> why are people dancing. >> 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 events the idea of four on the floor with eight on the high hat.

so everything is -- ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn >> i love disco. i always love dance music anyway. whatever i did as a producer was always dance. >> the melody. >> working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment and they make the biggest records of all time. ♪ i love to love you baby ♪ i love to love you baby >> it was four minutes of singing, 14 minutes of a lot of not singing. ♪ >> i always wondered for the life of me, was he just in the

booth like more passion. >> actually i saw everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off. made 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 records are some of the biggest records of all time and they kicked off a revolution. ♪ >> unless you were in a sealed cave, you probably noticed america's next craze is disco dancing. >> where have you been? ♪ i'm going to put on my boogie shoes ♪ >> we are talking about

estimated $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r&b music to me and i felt like they stripped it and weren't giving it credit where the credit was supposed to go. >> bring that sound in, that's great. ♪ >> they always liked r&b. they always liked soul. i always thought of them as a pop band, but they always had r&b leanings. >> they did what pop stars do. they really got what was going on. ♪ ♪ >> this is the scene outside of a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that's in with

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mom. ♪ take outside the jammed -- >> detroit 1969 was where punk was originally born. >> the emcee 5, motor city 5 and the stooges were the indication of a new style come back. garage rock, minimalist, aggressive, loud and very often obnoxious. ♪

>> punk rock was so f'g scary to us, because here we are with our big majestic songs and here comes punk with -- ♪ ♪ >> the ramones get started as a reaction to everything else going on. people see them and they go, this is the answer. ♪ let's go >> it's how rock'n roll should be done. >> how should it be done? >> no techniques, just pure guts and stamina. ♪ >> it's real and raw and there's no crap involved. >> as opposed to the standard

slap we here on the top 40. >> the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. rock'n roll is my art. >> anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell was the first to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> the king of the punks. >> the safety pin was his. it's pretty clear he invented that. >> punk in the united states was a musical elaboration, a statement what music is and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement, it's social one. >> punk rock is on king's road in the middle of london, the same state that launched the miniskirt and swinging '60s. >> what has this done for us? >> nothing.

>> there is no future for a kid now. there isn't. >> there was an indigenous anger and frustration that drove punk and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ ♪ the far away town war is declared ♪ >> you've been said to be a -- >> i have said it, it's true. >> there's jobs maybe we'd be saying about love and kissing someone. >> the clash, musically is the best of the lot. doesn't sound like traditional punk but doesn't sound like anybody else but the clash either. ♪ >> punk was a wide umbrella and included people who were a little more complex in their musical performance style. they won't buy it if you call it

punk, but maybe new wave. >> what are your thoughts on punk rock? >> i think it's a new wave, really. by defining it as punk, you're automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. and bands like talking head are excellent. >> talking heads did a sophisticated spiky music that reflected who they were and fascinating individual david byrne would become. >> it's about gorillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of their politics. ♪ >> this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. >> what makes the '70s so special is that there was still a sense of naivete. the sense 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 ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and i will tell you the best music made in that genre was neighborhood the 1970s. you will have hard time moving me long. what was great about a me decade was it allowed the greatest artists of our time to do their work because they were really exploring, 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 ♪ ♪

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