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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 morris, lead singer for the doors, the rock group, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s were sad in music because you lose people, and you lose the beatles. >> the small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may 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 it in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> the beatles, never. ♪ ♪ >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers and no 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 kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going and we just hoped the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> you know, i no longer have to -- oh, the beatles need an album. you and paul are going to write 20 songs kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. ♪ imagine all the people ♪ >> yoko, you've been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart. >> please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul have made since they broke up. [ applause ] >> she did it. >> the fact is yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles. money brock 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 fresher, heavier beatle these days. he's married. when kids come to his concert they don't scream any more, they listen. >> the significant thing is john lennon and paul mccartney made music in authority ways because 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 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 mark-up, folks. >> the new album -- >> and it's going to be called ringo -- >> i sell records. it doesn't matter if i've been the beatles or not. if they don't like the record, they won't buy t. >> 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 super nova on an album called "all things must pass" may be the greatest beatle solo album of all. ♪ you don't need no passport and you don't need no visas ♪ ♪ >> over the years i had songs mounting up i wanted to do. but i only got my quota one or two per album. >> were you held down by the other fellas? >> well, very subtly, yes. ♪ ♪ >> i'd just like thank you for coming here, the special benefit concert. >> robbie shanker went to george harrison and said, this terrible thing is happening. what can we do? that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the congress cert for bangla

was the first issue themed concert. not only you got george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it put two beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time. it may still be unparalleled. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> a integral deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s, finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> do you have any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stayed together, i suppose. >> for a few years the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> david brianfeld wasn't going to be around that long. not everybody makes it here. >> 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 a review saying this was like a debauched album. i don't even know what debauched means, but i have 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 confident of my voice as a singer. just sing. i'd like to kind of portray the songs. ♪ then i turn myself to face me, but i never caught a glimpse ♪ ♪ >> david bowie has always been a game changer. he took the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off and he's taken it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ ♪ ♪ changes, changes, pretty soon you're going to get older ♪ ♪ i may chantime may change me,

i can't trace that ♪ ♪ this is something big. this is something bigger. that is big. not as big as that. big. bigger. big. bigger. this is big. and that's bigger.

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♪ mmm california, oh, california, i'm coming home ♪ ♪ oh, make me feel good, rock and 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. lots of sun. >> the way i got to california was really simple. i got there in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually no one was from southern california. they're all drawn to the light, and the light is the troubadour club. >> things happened gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles. it was 250 people. it happened on the first night. >> every great song writer i can think of came through the troubadour. brown, j.d., henley and frye.

linda ronstadt, james taylor. >> the big c-change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to review constantly so many people? why do you have to do this? >> i feel an obligation to myself and to people to try and share myself. maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ i left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ oh ♪ well, i hit the rowdy road ♪ many times i met there, many stories told me of the way to get there ♪ ♪ ooh, ooh, ooh ♪ so on and on i go, take the time-out ♪ ♪ there's so much left to know when i'm on the road to find out ♪ ♪ >> everyone is just trying to do

whatever came into their head. >> paul and i wanted to be the gotham and king of england. >> we had no idea who these people were, the mysterious mr. king was who wrote these songs and changed the songs the beatles did. i'm into something good which is part of the british invasion. we discovered this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from basically being the behind the scenes woman to singing her own songs. ♪ i feel the earth move under my feet ♪ ♪ i feel the sky coming down ♪ i feel my heart start to trembling ♪ ♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens because in the '60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people, and then in the '70s with tapestry, it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about

my life. >> after church, you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls' cars, you know what you're listening to? "tapestry." ♪ ♪ >> there was a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music of the time. >> we're going to do say song written by my friend john david who is one of my favorite song writers and one of my favorite singers, "faithless love" >> i became a song writer because the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ faithless love like a river flows ♪ ♪ raindrops falling on a

broken -- >> for my money, linda is still under rated just singing power, style and emotion. ♪ and the night rolls in like a