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>> this is cbs news coverage of man on the moon. >> it was almost like this enormous flywheel of momentum, gathering speed, and the level of public attention on those three astronauts and especially on neil armstrong, because by that time we all knew that neil was going to be the first one to put his foot on the moon. >> aldron will follow 20 minutes later. armstrong will take that first step in more ways than one. >> here they are as they left the command space center at 6:30
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this morning. there the van backs up to this cage elevator and takes them up a couple of floors to the second level. then out of that cage and across a few feet through a large hat in the permanent launch structure. >> the count down going well. 28 minutes and counting. >> is that a picture there of former president johnson and mrs. johnson as they arrive in that -- the v.i.p. area. >> pilot transfer is complete. we're on internal power with the launch vehicle at this time. t-minus 15 seconds away from the apollo 11 lift-off. guidance is internal. 10. 9. ignition sequence start. 3. 2. 1. 0.
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space quarters, we are watching the count down to the landing on the moon and waiting for the spacecraft to come around on this side of the moon again so we can get confirmation that all is still going well. >> 11, you have a pretty big audience. it's going live in u.s., live in japan, western europe and much of south america. appreciate the great show. >> they weren't just going on a pleasure cruise here. they had a lot of work to do. >> they needed to be tez top of their game working as a crew and with the control center. so they're probably in the zone. i would have been in the zone big time. >> everything had been tried on the missions leading up to that point except the landing itself. and there was a good reason for that. the landing was the most complex part of the entire apollo mission. it was essentially a controlled fall. >> going for landing 3,000 feet. >> we're go, same tide, we're
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go, 3 1/2. >> neil armstrong took over manually during the decent because they were coming over the planned area to land, but there were boulders and other kind of stuff. he had to land the lunar lander from where it was headed to land, which also caused everybody to start worrying because they had a finite amount of fuel. for him to do what he did caused everybody on the ground to get really nervous. >> drifting to the right a little. contact. >> the angle has landed. >> we're on the ground u. you have a bunch of guys about to turn blue. >> armstrong is on the moon, neil armstrong, 38-year-old american, standing on the surface of the moon on this july 28th, 1969. >> that's one small step for man. one giant leap for mankind.
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>> it was a moment when it seemed like the whole country and even most of the world kind of stopped in their tracks and just took all this in with a sense of wonder and almost disbelief. my god, can this really be happening? >> it looks beautiful. >> it's different, but it's very pretty out here. >> ready to come out? >> all set. >> okay, i'm on the top step. >> you have three more steps, and then a long one. there you go. dere men from the planet earth, july 1969. it came in for all mankind. >> the real moment of truth is next. they still have to get off the surface of the moon. they push the button on the
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computer and then, bang, they see the moon receding from them. and then some minutes later they're back in orbit and they're on their way to rendezvous with mike collins. >> of all the entire world to watch the apollo 11 watch man take the first steps on the moon, the mid pacific obscured their return to earth. so, it was already daylight when the carrier approached and found columbia in the ocean swells. >> neil and mike, i want you to know i think i'm the luckiest man in the world because i have the privilege of speaking to so many and welcoming you back to earth. >> it was such a huge event in our country's history. i grew up in new york. this is bigger than the mets winning the world series in 19
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of th 69. i was looking up to them. they're cooler than the beatles. these guys were the epitome of cool. >> there was another one of these suckers scheduled for november, so the people who did it were so busy getting ready for the next one, they didn't have time to celebrate the first one. >> apollo 12, houston. >> hello, houston. yankee clipper with intrepid has arrived on time. >> we didn't actually spend much time asking ourselves about the greater meaning of this. we weren't aware of what was going on around the world in terms of the reaction of people. we just pressed right on. >> i think i see my crater. there it is, there it is. son of a gun, right down the middle of the road. >> outstanding, 42 degrees, pete. >> it wasn't until afterwards we began to realize the depth of the significance of it. >> apollo 11, the moon was
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unattainable, a mystery. but after apollo 11, the moon is mysterious no longer. >> all of human experience will be divided into two eras. before man walked on the moon and after man walked on the moon. >> the whole world was together at that particular moment. it was an example that in spite of all that's going on down here, in spite of all that we're going through, there is hope. >> my generation is the generation that changed the moon from an object to a place. and that will never happen again. there can only be one first time. >> the space program in the 1960s set the standard of what we could do. i mean, even saying today we can land a man on the moon, but we can't do this. when we think of it within the space program, go to mars? yeah, we can go to mars. we went to the moon in 1969. we can do anything. >> to all those americans who built the spacecraft and put
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> yeah, yeah, yeah, this is beatle land formerly known as britain, where an epidemic called beatle mania has seized the teenage population, especially female. >> cbs, they do a story on what they probably think is a goofy band from england that's doing quite well. >> these four boys from liverpool with their dish mop hair are britain's latest musical and, in fact, social logical phenomenon. they make non-music, wear
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non-haircuts, give non-mercy. meanwhile, "yeah, yeah, yeah." this is alexander kendrick in beatle land. >> some little girl heard just a hint of what the beatles were about and called her local dee jay. he asked his friend to bring over a beatles record from england and has the vision to put it on and hear that there is something happening. >> so marcia albert of dublin drive, silver spring, is going to introduce something new on wwdc. it's all yours. >> ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the united states, here are the beatles singing "i want to hold your hand" ♪ oh, yeah, i tell you something, i think you'll understand ♪ ♪ >> that song was impossible to anticipate how much the momentum would continue. ♪ i want to hold your hand ♪
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>> hi, everybody all over america. this is the wdc party. >> that song was absolutely contagious and i think the teenager found a voice. >> it's what's happening, baby, the beatles. ♪ yeah, you ♪ >> there was a moment where you just heard, this is our music now. it was like here in the future. ♪ i want to hold your hand ♪ ♪ >> i have to ask how you first found out about it. >> we first saw the beatles in the airport with an enormous kids gather around. we asked what was going on. they said the beatles were here. we didn't even know who the beatles were. we never heard of them. that night i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, john lennon and
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george harrison for $3,000. >> for them to come out of nowhere it was quite unbelievable. the beatles are a bunch of guys from liverpool. people in london would have looked down on liverpool back then, but liverpool was a poor town. poor towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged, and one of them at that point was great music. >> a lot of the sailors and people coming back from america were bringing back these records. some were pop records, some were called race records because they were by black artists. ♪ ♪ >> the level of influence that american rock and roll, blues, country and western, motown had on those kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ ♪ >> so i would listen to buddy
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holly, all the great rock and rollers. >> it was like a new language for us. >> the power of the jukebox, there's nothing quite like it. ♪ my dream came true ♪ >> the beatles took a bunch of those strains, the everly brothers in the '50s was a big influence for them with the harm niezgoda. ♪ wake up, little susie, wake up ♪ ♪ wake up, little susie, wake up snooi ♪ ♪ >> so the beatles were taking their pop sound and putting a spin on it. ♪ ♪ >> what is the sound, how does it differ from other rock and roll pop? >> it just happened that all of a sudden hundreds of rock groups all from liverpool made records,
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and it was a bit more like the original rock and roll than the stuff they had over the last few months. >> initially there was no tradition of great british bands conquering america. that had not happened. it's that moment where everything turns. ♪ ♪ >> there's no single moment that more embodies the moment when rock and roll became the province of teenagers. it is something that you would not just love, but that you would go crazy for. >> there's the beatles. ♪ can't buy me love, no ♪ love ♪ can't buy me love ♪ >> the beatles come to this country, take all the women away, and everybody is going crazy about them. >> it was like aliens landed.
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look at how they look and how they act. wow. ♪ money can't buy me love ♪ >> push them far and far away and then they don't let you see them. >> i have every beatle record at home. and i didn't get to see them. because of police protection. i'd like to get a piece of the beatles at least. ♪ ♪ >> paul, ringo, george, john. >> the reporters had the same attitude that most adults in america had, which was no one took musicians seriously. they didn't understand anything about youth culture. >> cut that crap out. >> the press had gone into this with the idea that this was a useful novelty that could be
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dismissed and maybe even deflated in a press conference. >> won't you get a haircut at all? >> no, i had one yesterday. [ laughter ] >> you guys are a bunch of british elvis presslys. >> it's not true, it's not true. >> sing something. >> no. sorry. >> no, we need money first. >> when you saw them sparring with the press, it was just another aspect of them that made them even more unique. >> tomorrow night at 7:00, the beatles will reed poetry on a documentary, meet the beatles all over the world. >> really? >> elvis was the first wave of megafandom, then the beatles sort of blew that out of the water to the point elvis was losing sleep.
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>> the city never witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from liverpool. ladies and gentlemen, the beatles. [ screaming ] this complicated, tricky language about their network and offers and blah blah blah. look. sprint's going to do things differently. and let you decide for yourself. they're offering a new 100% total satisfaction guarantee. try it out and see the savings. if you don't love it, get your money back. see? simple. now sprint's unlimited plan comes with one of the newest phones included for just $35 a month. so switch now. for people with hearing loss, visit sprintrelay.com welcome to our lounge. enjoy your stay. thanks very much. ♪ ♪ find calm in over 1,000 airport lounges worldwide. it's another way we've got your back. the business platinum card from american express. don't do business without it. the first survivor of ais out there.sease and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen.
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ed sullivan show, we all knew they were playing live. that doesn't sound like the record. ♪ ♪ >> the idea of driving, swinging, r & b mixed with harmonies and the perfect three-minute record, they defined it. ♪ ♪ >> the beatles took this dream of what america represented, the freedom that was in american music and they brought it back to us with an excitement and a ferocity we didn't have and with longer hair. >> 73 million people watched that night. ♪ ♪ >> when the beatles did the sullivan show, everything on the
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radio changed. there were no more requests other than the beatles. >> looking back, i believe without ed sullivan, there wouldn't have been a british invasion. ♪ ♪ >> jerry and the pace makers. ♪ ♪ >> it wasn't just the beatles. the british invasion had legs because there was more great music to back it up. >> a big hello from us. >> rick. >> i'm dennis. >> i'm dave. >> for the first six months they were singing, they sold a million records a month. in the words of one of their hit songs, we're mighty glad to have them tonight. ladies and gentlemen, the dave clark five. ♪ ♪
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♪ you say that you love me, the way you love me ♪ ♪ all of the time, all of the time ♪ ♪ you say that you need me, say you need me ♪ ♪ you'll always be mine, always be mine ♪ ♪ i'm glad you're mine ♪ >> they're the top singing group in britain. how do you feel about that? >> we're very pleased, but i don't think you can say we'd be rivals. we'd have a different sound. >> we were the first band to tour america. we did 46 cities. then you realized you made it. >> suddenly it's like the gates of hell are open. ♪ something tells me i'm into something good ♪ ♪ >> every transatlantic ocean
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liner has another rock group at the top of the american charts. ♪ ♪ >> there was this powder keg of energy from the young people of england and touched the flaim to fuse, and boom. ♪ ♪ >> maybe she's not there, but they're here and they're the zombies. ♪ it's too late to say you're sorry ♪ ♪ how would i know, why should i care ♪ ♪ please don't bother trying to find her, she's not there ♪ ♪ well, let me tell you about the way she left, the way she does the color of her hair ♪ ♪ but she's not there ♪ >> i love the zombies because they were keyboard oriented.
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the first guy to really develop the idea of rock and roll soloing on a keyboard. >> a first-time welcome now for the top four with their top hit, you really got me going, the kinks. ♪ girl, you really got me going ♪ ♪ >> the kinks were already a very big band in the u.k. but if you break in america, you break big and you sell a lot of records. ♪ you really got me ♪ i don't know what i'm doing ♪ oh, yeah, you really got me now ♪ ♪ you got me, you really got me, you really got me ♪ ♪ >> before you were called the animals, you had another name. what made you change it to the animals? >> well, because we were a bunch of animals.
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>> the animals were grittier r & b based band who wasn't cute like a beatle. he was a little more dangerous. >> now you're going to do the new record for us? >> yeah. >> and it's called? >> the house of the rising sun. >> that song was the song that bob dylan had already recorded a year or two earlier like a folk traditional song. >> bob came along with his album, house of rising sun. it was crying out to be rocked. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> the english group music also rose where groups not only were performing their own stuff compact on the stage.
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they didn't need anyone else. they had the four blokes with their amplified guitars and they could do a lot. >> the who are just sort of like in that catalytic converter of rock and roll. they were maybe the most explosive musical unit. ♪ ♪ >> it's interesting, the beatles all lock in and play together and help each other. ♪ i'm daddy rolling stone ♪ >> the who were like four different creatures who didn't know each other. everyone was like the lead player in the who. all these great bands created this thirst in music, but the ones that really had the true, true talent have really stood the test of time. >> five singing boys from england who sold a lot of albums. [ laughter ]
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they're called the rolling stones. i've been rolled and i've been stoned myself. i don't know what they sing about, but here they are. [ applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ i just want to make love to you ♪ ♪ baby ♪ >> we're the bad boys of this british invasion, and the girls were crazy. ♪ ♪ >> it was sexual. >> is it? ♪ love to you, love to you ♪ baby, love stou ♪ >> we've been doing this how many years? >> two years. >> how much longer do you give yourself doing this, going around being -- >> i don't know. i never thought we'd -- i'd be doing it two years even. i think we sort of pretty well set up for at least another
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>> holly wilkes. ♪ ♪ >> the rolling stones invite holland wolf who is a 60-year-old black man from the south side of chicago who never in a years would have been on sh shindig, and there he is. >> the stones clearly wore their heart on their sleeves for blues and r & b. you can hear traces of delta blues inside of keith's guitar. they tried to be as authentic to the core as possible. even so much that their first few american recordings were done in ches in chicago. ♪ ♪ >> they have to get the chicago kids rhythm and blues. that's where it started.
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white people over there know nothing but rhythm and blues. >> they had certain aspects of black culture in the mid 60s. the blues in particular had been pushed aside by soul music and r & b was considered more modern. ♪ ♪ >> the stones, the animals, the yard birds, british groups picked up the american blues where americans let it go. >> and in a strange way, we were taken back to america what america had given us, which is american music. ♪ ♪ >> you and chuck have kind of taken england by storm. how do you feel about other people borrowing your material? >> i am very grateful to know that my material is the type of material that the entertainers
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today would like to use. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> they played a huge role in not just introducing themselves to america, but reintroducing a lot of black music to mainstream america. ♪ ♪ ♪ it's gonna be all right, all right, all right, it's gonna be all right ♪ ♪ >> the same year beatles played on ed sullivan is the year the
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tammy show comes out as a movie. the tammie show has everybody. >> the tammie show was really the first rock and roll concert movie. stones headlining and the first time that us white kids got to see james brown. and nobody will ever get over it. ♪ ♪ >> everyone remembers james brown's performance. he gave them what black audiences have been seeing for years, but they've not been seen outside of the black community. and people were electrified by it. >> james brown just kills the show, just like what's the phrase they have in gospel music? he wrecks house. ♪ ♪ >> and it really began his journey into becoming a mainstream figure.
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♪ ♪ clap a clap >> the stones then close and it's the biggest mistake they ever made following james brown. ♪ ♪ >> we see jagger coming alive, doing things that he hadn't done before. >> it was great because you're seeing a seasoned professional with james brown and a young performer and band figuring out who the hell they are. ♪ ♪
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when i say staples, i mean staples. >> don't pay me, sir. >> oh, shut up. they're waiting for you in the studio. >> i'm dying to do a bit of work. >> teacher's pet. >> i'll layoff. >> get a move. ♪ it's been a hard day's night ♪ >> hard day's knighton capsulated beatles mania. it is the perfect representation of 1964 beatles mania. >> brian epstein said if the beatles were going to go, they would go big. and they went big. >> to expose them to the public even more than perhaps just a top singing idol. >> they made the announcement they were going to tour america.
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beatles wanted $25,000. well, i didn't have $25,000, and so i borrowed $25,000 on the house. there were no commuteeputers, b sold it out in 17 hours. >> 17,000 screaming youngsters jambed their way into the huge amphitheater. they're the lucky ones. others outside were not so fortunate. >> here they are, the beatles! ♪ ♪ ♪ i told you before, you can't do that ♪ ♪ >> the beatles output was phenomenal. they seemed to always be either touring, making a movie or making a record. ♪ ♪
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>> hello. see these little fellas? they're the beatles, inflatable beatles. they're yours for just $2. ♪ ♪ >> they had posters and magazines and stickers the teenager becomes the most desirable target for the dollar. >> i lived in the projects in brooklyn, you know, in a black community, and the beatles were everywhere. so it wasn't like this was a white phenomenon. they were everywhere. ♪ that's what i want >> the beatles created a rock industry. they were selling in ways no one had ever sold before, and they were playing venues that were bigger than anyone had ever played before. >> ladies and gentlemen, honored by their country, decorated by their queen, and loved here in america, here are the beatles! [ cheers and applause ]
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♪ help me if you can ♪ i'm feeling down ♪ and i do appreciate you being around ♪ ♪ help me get my feet back on the ground ♪ ♪ won't you please, please help me ♪ ♪ help me, help me ♪ ooh >> have you got time to actually spend this money. >> what money? he says. >> doesn't he give any to you? >> no, no. have you seen that car of his? >> the beatles taught every other band that writing your own music made you more powerful. ♪ >> that last line's got -- >> i think what's really funny about a band like the stones is they did tons of covers on their first couple albums. it wasn't until they really figured out how to write their own songs that they really became a real band.
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they really had to find their own voice. ♪ ♪ ♪ i can't get no satisfaction ♪ i can't get no satisfaction ♪ cause i tried and i tried and i tried and i tried ♪ ♪ i can't get no ♪ i can't get no ♪ when i'm driving in my car ♪ and a man comes on the radio ♪ he's telling me more and more ♪ ♪ about some useless information ♪ ♪ supposed to buy my imagination ♪ ♪
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♪ i can't get no ♪ no no no >> there was a dialogue going on between soul music and the british invasion. a, because this is a way for me to make a nod to the mainstream. and b, because the songs were good. ♪ i can't get me no ♪ oh, no, no ♪ i can't get me no >> "satisfaction's" fantastic. he doesn't even know the words even, he doesn't care. he's just kind of singing the song. ♪ keep trying to find me somebody ♪ ♪ somebody to love >> at the time, motown and the british invasion, they're going hand in hand with sort of redefining what america dances and listens and socializes to. ♪ >> motown, it evolved with the rest of the world, but we did have to compete with this british invasion for places on the charts. ♪ really got a hold on me ♪ i said you really got a hold
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doing or any of those rock 'n' roll bands. and for a period of time there was this distinction between the folk culture and the rock 'n' roll culture. ♪ hey mr. tambourine man ♪ play a song for me ♪ i'm not sleepy ♪ and there is no place i'm going to ♪ >> in 1964, during that first tour, the beatles had the opportunity to meet bob dylan. he understood what they were doing musically, and they were awakened by the more personal perspective of his songs. >> dylan was a huge influence on john lennon. i think it inspired him to write more serious songs, deeper songs and be more experimental lyrically. ♪ i once had a girl or should i say she once had me ♪ >> bob dylan going electric is another one of those big seismic changes in the pop music era in the '60s. >> he was bold enough to leave
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his comfort zone. ♪ i ain't going to work on maggie's farm no more ♪ >> it's not just about dylan going electric, but it's also about the fusion of an emerging tradition in popular music that was really political, with rock 'n' roll which had largely not been overtly political. >> there's nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personally. >> you know, who needs him anymore? he's a part of your establishment and forget him. >> they're all my friends. >> they felt betrayed, like you're supposed to be our woody guthrie and you sold out. ♪ how does it feel
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