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a rock musebic group is dead. he was 27. >> the early year oz of the '70s are sad because you lose people you lose the beatles. >> this small gatherring is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that hist oorians 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 knew it in the 1960s was no longer with us. ♪ >> you know i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you may 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 came up with individually would be that good. >> i no longer oh, the beatles need an album and i just write when i feel like it. ♪ imagine all the people >> you know yoko you've even been called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. >> can we please give her credit for all the nize music george and paul and i made since we broke up. she did it. >> the fact is yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, business broke up the beatles. the desire to do theireen stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fresher, heavier beatle these days respectably married and they don't scream anymore. they listen. >> both john lenin and paul

mccartney made musicing focussed on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney made that album where he plays all the instruments on his own beautiful music. >> this is just the markupx folks and it's going to be called -- >> i sell records and it doesn't matterer ifb i've been to the beatles or not. if they don't like the record, they won't buy it. >> ringo till this day has tremendous success in the '70s. and george harrison explodes like a supernova in an album called "all things must pass" maybe the greatest solo beatles album. >> over the years i had such a

lot of songs mounting up but i eonly got one or two tunes per album. >> were you held doup by the other fellas? >> well, very subtly, yes. ♪ the lord is >> i'd just like the thank you all for can coming here. as you know it's a special benefit concert. >> he went to him and said there's this thing going opon in bangladesh what can we do? and that was the first full blown benefit concert. >> and you got eric clapton. >> it put two beatles back on the stage and it was unparalleled that time and may

still be unparalleled. ♪ a great dealf omusic in the 70s was people who succeeded in the '60s finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. >> can any reason why your group is together as long as it has? >> because we stay together i suppose. >> and everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for where do we secure our foot hold. ♪ >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france.

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good rock 'n' roll band i'm your biggest fan ♪ ♪ california 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. there was lots of sun. >> the way i got to california is really simple, 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 which holds 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour club. jackson brown, j.d., henley and frey, linda ronstadt, joni mitchell and 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 people and to myself to share myself maybe as honestly as i can. ♪ i left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there many stories told me all the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ so on and on i go ♪ the seconds tick the time out ♪ ♪ and there's so much left to know ♪ ♪ well 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. 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," 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 time. >> 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 songwriter because of the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ faithless love like a river flows ♪ ♪ raindrops 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 ♪ ♪ like a river flows >> 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 ♪ wouldn't you love to love her ♪ >> the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece full on blues band. >> an english band that became the dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. ♪ in all your life you have never known ♪ ♪ and never been taken by the wind ♪ >> we had an album out, two years out, the buckingham nicks.

nick really liked the music. they asked us to join. ♪ rihanna >> 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, kids. ♪ freedom ♪ freedom ♪ forever ♪ ever ♪ >> the 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 imaging 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 very 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 me under the lonely day ♪ >> we were testifying. and "rumors" became the church. ♪ ♪ ooh-ooh

sound effect.] ♪ i am who i wanna be ♪ who i wanna be ♪ who i wanna be. ♪ i'm a strong individual ♪ feeling that power ♪ i'm so original, ♪ ya sing it louder. ♪ i am, oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪ ehhh ehhh ehhh ehhh ♪ i am, oooh oooh oooh oooh ♪ i am

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was he incredibly talented but he looked like us. ♪ when i had you to myself i didn't want you around ♪ ♪ your pretty face always stands out in a crowd ♪ >> 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 ♪ ♪ one two three ♪ oh darling i've been trying to let you go ♪ ♪ >> 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. >> you don't know. the jackson five.

>> that's us. that's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. motown was a unique place. a lot of record companies were run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. berry gordy. was song writer. >> ironically he was trying to make black music to cross over to the white world and ended up being the creator of the best black music ever. >> he created a machine where you take the artist, polish them up. make them a great package they can play the "ed sullivan show." and kill. >> marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. he was clean, svelte. all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at a high level. 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 ♪ so 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. seeing the protests here, and it changes him. he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he is talking about the war, poverty. he is changing into an artist that berry gordy is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially he did not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening, and here you now have marvin gaye making a

protest record about the war. that could ruin good money. you don't lightly talk about the government. ♪ yeah, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on," berry tells marvin, okay, if you are right, i'll learn something. if i'm right, you will learn something. and, of course, as berry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so, 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 berry gordy, and he negotiated his creative freedom, and he used every bit of it.

♪ very superstitious ♪ writing's 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. oh, he made it. he's going to do it again. "talking wolf" oh, my god he did it. and then suddenly -- ♪ ♪ you 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.

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rock, the music that infuriated so many in the 5'50s and '60s. the music so many thought too loud, vulgar, somehow dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. ♪ heart was a big deal because in the decade dominated by a type of rock 'n' roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a c, but i won't go on further, they were willing to play with the guys and succeed on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s, that's way too hippy. 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 groups became more theatrical. they realized just giving them the music isn't enough. we have to give them something to look at. >> more naked people, more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. 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 ♪ crazy on you >> stadium tours put a lot of people together to hear your music at the same time.

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 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 biz where being big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, the zeppelin uses

a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. ♪ the president's plane doesn't have an organ nor a 15-foot mirrored bar or in private quarters 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 about the best way to 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 three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> i'm telling you rock 'n' roll is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet, supply and demand. 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 sorts 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 are evoking the idea of young people, bouncing off the ideas of young people. taking young people's money and taking it and putting it in your pocket. 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 sort 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 was not 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. 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 "time" and "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

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i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> mancuso is one of the guys who took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. he may play isaac hayes' record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. >> you have all kinds of people here. you have people who are dancing. you can get high. you can 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 four on the floor with eight in the high hat. so everything is, bum, bum, bum. ♪ burn baby burn >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn baby burn ♪ burn baby burn >> i loved disco. i always loved dance music anyway. whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> george moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocal lists. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest records 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 to 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 do it. 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 do it with you >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing.

that's dancin' without the "g." >> fluffy, where have you been? ♪ i want to put on my boogie shoes and dance with you ♪ >> what they generate with the records, we are talking about an estimated 4 billion, 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. >> to bring that sound in that's great. one, two, three, four. >> the beegees always liked r&b and soul. i always thought it was a pop band with r&b leanings. >> the beegees were pop stars, too. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ stayin' alive ♪ stayin' alive >> 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, 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 is 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. no way you can 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 chic, go to studio 54 to get in, and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ i guess you heard about

the new batch craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you will be amazed ♪ >> it was kind of a dis for the studio 54 who reject them. the part where they say "freak out" actually began as something out. ♪ 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 chic's "good times" come on. i kept hearing somebody talk over the song. ♪ you don't stop ♪ bring it ♪ and me the groove and my friends are going to try to move your feet ♪ >> what's great about this song is that's where hip hop gets its name from. >> we didn't know the name of this song was called "rapper's delight." the next time i went to the record store. you guys got "hip hop"? >> it was the first hip hop song to crack the top 40. >> "rapper's delight" opened this incredible door to the last new american art form which is hip-hop. t. nothing stronger. nothing gentler. nothing lasts longer. flonase sensimist. 24 hour non-drowsy allergy relief

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detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. ♪ the mc five, the motor city five, and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums to reveal new music coming back. it's garage rock. it's minimalist. it's aggressive, loud and 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. ♪ >> the ramones get started as a reaction to everything else going on. people see them and go this is the answer. ♪ hey ho let's go ♪ >> this is how rock and roll is supposed to be done. >> how is it supposed to be done? >> no phony showmanship. it's pure rock and roll. pure good stamina. ♪ >> real and raw, and there's no crap involved. as opposed to the standard

schlap we hear on the top 40. >> the ramones were part of a wider new york scene. >> patty smith -- >> i'm an artist. rock and roll is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead boys. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell 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 is an aberration of music statement of what music is. and how it ought to be played. in england punk rock is not a musical statement. it is a social one. >> if punk has a home territory it's on kings row in the middle of london. the same street that launched the mini skirt and the mood of 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 punk on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ to the far away town and now war is declared and battle come down ♪ ♪ >> you've been said to be a political group. >> yeah, so i've said it. it's true. >> if there were jobs, 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 live by the river >> punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were more complex in their musical performance style. people won't buy something that you call punk.

they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> what's your thoughts on punk rock? >> it's better to call it a new wave, really. by defining it as punk, you're automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. bands like talking heads are excellent. >> they were the ultimate college band. 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 guerillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of about 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 naivete, the innocence 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 that the best music made in that genre was made in the 1970s, and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what's great about a me decade is it allowed some of the greatest artists of our time to do some of 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 ♪

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♪ love you yeah yeah yeah an epidemic called british mania. >> they do a story on probably what they think is a goofy band from england doing quite well. >> these boys with their dish mop hair style trz the latest social lmgical fenomnaup. they make nonmusic wear nonhaircuts, give nonmercy. meanwhile, yeah yeah yeah. this is alexander kendrick in beatle land. >> some little girl heard a hint of what the beatle said were about and starts calling the local dj. he asks his friend to bring a beatles record from england and has the striegsz put it on and hear there's something happening. >> so marcia albert of dublin driver of silver spring has an

honorer of presenting something new. marcia, the carol james show is yours. >> ladies and gentlemen frrks the first time in the united states are the beatles sipging "i want to hold your hand ♪ ♪ i want to tell you something >> it was impossible to anticipate how much that momentum would continue. ♪ hold your hand >> thats sauchk was contagious and i think the teenagerer found a voice. >> here's what's happening, baby. the beatles. ♪ yeah you >> there was a moment where this is our music. like hearing the future. ♪ i want to hold your hand

>> we first found out about the beatles in the airport. an enormous crowd of kids i never heard of them and then that night i booked them for $10,000. >> for four white guys that were british the crowd of everywhere was unbelievable. >> the beatles are a burn of guys from liverpool. people in london would have looked down at liverpool. it was a poor town and poor towns become places where all kinds of contraband gets exchanged and one of them at that point was great music. they 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 can kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ all my love, all my kisses, you don't know what you've been missing, oh, boy ♪ ♪ when you're with me, oh, boy >> so i would listen to buddy holly and gene vincent and jerry lee lewis, fats domino, all the great rock 'n rollers. ♪ on blueberry hill >> 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 from the '50s was a big influence for them with the harmonies.

♪ wake up, little susie, wake up ♪ ♪ wake up, little susie, wake up ♪ >> so the beatles from liverpool are taking this pop sound but putting their own spin on it. ♪ >> what is the sound? how does it differ from other rock 'n' roll and pop? >> it just happened that, all of a sudden, hundreds of rock groups all from liverpool made records, and it was a bit more like the original rock 'n' roll than the stuff they've had over the last few months. ♪ >> initially, there was no tradition of great british bands conquering america. that had not happened, but it's that moment where everything turns. ♪ >> there's no single moment that more embodies the moment when

rock 'n' roll became the province of teenagers. that's something that you would not just love but that you would go crazy for. >> there's the beatles! ♪ can't buy me love ♪ love ♪ can't buy me love >> the beatles have come to this country and taken all the women away and everybody's going crazy about them. ♪ i'll get you anything >> it was like aliens landed. look at how they look and how they act, and wow! ♪ i don't care too much for money ♪ ♪ money can't buy me love >> i came here at 6:00 in the morning to see them and all they do is push them farther and farther away. and then they don't even let you see them! >> i've got every beatle record at home, and we didn't get to see them! what kind of police protection? i'd have liked to get a piece of beatles, please! the way they got them out of here! ♪

>> 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! >> cut that crap out! hey, murray. >> the press had gone into this with the idea that this was a youthful novelty that could be dismissed and maybe even deflated in a press conference. >> are you going to get a haircut at all? >> no, no. >> i had one yesterday. >> you guys are nothing but a bunch of british elvis presleys. >> it's not true, it's not true! >> will you sing something? >> no! sorry! >> next question. >> 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 read their own poetry on a documentary, "meet the beatles," all over the world. >> oh, really? >> i don't get that. >> i don't understand this. >> if elvis was the first wave of mega fandom, then the beatles sort of blew that out of the water, to the point where even elvis was losing sleep. >> the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from liverpool. ladies and gentlemen, the beatles! there's gonna be 16 of us. are you sure?

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>> the beatles showed up with their great sense of humor, their completely infectious pop songs, their "whoo," you know, their everything. ♪ woo >> it was just impossible not to fall in love with them. >> as soon as they started playing on the "ed sullivan show," we all knew, they're playing live, because that doesn't sound like the record. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> the idea of driving, swinging r&b mixed with imaginative wordplay and lyrics and harmonies and the perfect three-minute record, they defined it. ♪ woo, when i saw her standing there ♪ >> 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 that we didn't have,

and with longer hair. ♪ ♪ and the way she looked was way beyond compare ♪ >> 73 million people watched that night. ♪ since i saw her standing there ♪ >> yeah! >> when the beatles did the sullivan show, everything at the radio station 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. ♪ >> gerry and the pacemakers. ♪ >> 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 larry.

>> i'm dennis. >> i'm dave. >> for the first six months they were singing, they sold over a million records a month. and in the words of one of their biggest hit songs, we're mighty glad all over to have them with us tonight. ladies and gentlemen, the dave clark five. ♪ ♪ you say that you love me ♪ say 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 feeling glad all over ♪ yes i'm glad all over ♪ baby i'm ♪ glad all over ♪ so glad you're mine >> they're rivaling the beatles now as the top singing group in britain. how do you feel about that?

>> we're very pleased, but i don't think you'd say we'd be rivals. we've got a completely different sound. >> we were the first band to tour america. we did i think it was 46 cities. then you realized you've made it. ♪ >> suddenly, it's like the gates of hell are opened. ♪ something tells me i'm into something good ♪ ♪ something tells me >> i mean, every transatlantic ocean liner seems to have another british band that rockets up to the top of the american charts. ♪ so ferry cross the mersey and always take me there ♪ >> there was this powder keg of energy from the young people in england and it touched the flame to the fuse and boom. ♪ we are walking down the highways and byways ♪ ♪ >> maybe she's not there, but they're here and they're the zombies! ♪ but 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 looked ♪ ♪ the way she acted and the color of her hair ♪ ♪ her voice was soft and cool ♪ her eyes were clear and bright, but she's not there ♪ >> i loved the zombies, because they were keyboard oriented. rod argent, the first guy to really develop the idea of rock 'n' 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 ♪ you got me so i don't know what i'm doing ♪ >> 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. ♪ yeah ♪ you really got me now ♪ you got me so i don't know

what i'm doing ♪ ♪ oh yeah ♪ you really got me now ♪ you got me so i can't sleep at night ♪ ♪ you really 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. >> the animals were a grittier, r&b-based band with eric burdon, 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 a 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 the rising sun." it was crying out to be rocked. ♪ my mother was a tailor ♪ she sewed my new blue jeans, yeah ♪

♪ my father was a gambling man ♪ down in new orleans >> the english group music thing also arose where groups not only were performing their own stuff compact on the stage, they didn't need anyone else. they just had the four blokes with their amplifiers and guitars and they could the lot. >> the who are just sort of like in that catalytic converter of rock 'n' roll. they were maybe the most explosive musical unit. ♪ i'm daddy i'm daddy ♪ >> yeah, it was interesting. the beatles all lock in and play together and help each other. ♪ i'm daddy rolling stone >> the who is like four different creatures who weren't even like noticing each other. everyone in the who was like the lead player in the who. ♪ >> all these great bands created this thirst in music, but the

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when we first started playing together, we started playing because we wanted to play rhythm and blues, and howlin' wolf was one of our idols and it's a great pleasure he's booked on the show. it really is a pleasure. so i think it's better you shut up and we let howlin' wolf onstage. ♪ how many more years that i have to let you dog me around ♪ >> the rolling stones invite howlin' wolf, who is a 60-year-old black man from the south side of chicago who never in a million years would have been on "shindig," and there he is. ♪ you don't believe a word i said ♪ >> 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

chess in chicago. ♪ the dogs begin to bark ♪ the hounds begin to howl >> we've got to get the chicago kids used to rhythm and blues. that's where it started. you know, the white people over there know nothing about rhythm and blues at all. >> because it's negro music, isn't it? >> in america, even in the black community had abandoned certain aspects of black culture. even by the mid-'60s. the blues in particular had been sort of pushed aside by soul music and r&b, which was considered more modern. ♪ pretty little women stand in a line ♪ ♪ make love to you baby >> the stones, the animals, the yardbirds, the british groups picked up the american blues, where the americans had kind of let it go. >> and in a strange way, we were taking back to america what america had given us, which was american music. ♪ gonna have a lot of fun, oh,

yeah, baby, whoo ♪ >> you and chuck have kind of taken england by storm. how do you feel about other people borrowing your material? >> i'm very grateful to know that my material is the type of material that the entertainers today would like to use. ♪ long tall sally ♪ oh, baby, yeah ♪ yeah, baby ♪ ooh, baby ♪ have fun tonight ♪ >> the british invasion 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

♪ get my way ♪ i will stay ♪ stay by your side to keep you satisfied ♪ ♪ it's gonna be all right ♪ all right, all right ♪ it's gonna be all right >> the same year the beatles play on "ed sullivan" for the first time is the same year the "t.a.m.i. show" comes out as a movie, and "t.a.m.i. show"'s got everybody. >> "t.a.m.i. show" is really the first rock 'n' roll concert movie. the stones headlining, and the first time that us white kids got to see james brown and nobody will ever get over it. ♪ ♪ got your high-heeled sneakers on ♪ >> everyone remembers james brown's performance. he gave them what black audiences had been seeing for years but had not really 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. ♪ ♪ i, i, i >> and it really began his journey into becoming a mainstream figure. ♪ babe, babe, babe, babe ♪ >> the stones then close, and they were afraid it was the biggest mistake they ever made following james brown. ♪ ♪ what a crazy town ♪ never stop rockin' until the moon went down ♪

>> we see, you know, jagger coming alive, you know, 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. ♪ okay, guys, the bus is down, but we've got a spot.

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when i say staples, i mean staples. >> it's okay, mister. i was led astray. >> oh, shut up, john. they're waiting for you in the studio. >> i'm dying to do a bit of work. >> oh, listen to the teacher's pet. >> save the class, eh? >> oh, lay off. >> get a move on. they're waiting for you. ♪ it's been a hard day's night >> "hard day's night" sort of perfectly encapsulated beatlemania. it is the most perfect representation of 1964 beatles. ♪ i should be sleeping >> brian epstein said, if the beatles were going to go, they were going to go big. and they went big. >> the fact that the beatles were exposed as writers of hit songs exposed them to the public even more than perhaps just a pop singing idol would. ♪ and it's worth it just to hear

you say ♪ >> they made the announcement that they were going to tour america. ♪ you're going to give me everything ♪ >> the beatles wanted $25,000. well, i didn't have $25,000. and so i borrowed $25,000 on the house. there were no computers, but we sold it out in 3 1/2 hours. >> 17,000 screaming youngsters have jammed their way into the huge amphitheater. but they're the lucky ones. outside, thousands of others were not so fortunate. >> here they are, the beatles! ♪ ♪ let you down, let you down ♪ and leave you flat ♪ i'm going to let you down and leave you flat ♪ ♪ because i told you before ♪ oh, you can't do that >> the beatles' output was phenomenal. they seemed to always be either touring, making a movie or making a record. ♪ no, you can't do that >> hello.

see these little fellows? they're the beatles. inflatable beatles. they're yours for just $2. ♪ the best things in life are free ♪ >> they had posters and magazines and stickers and dolls and cartoons. like this is the start of where 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 ] ♪ 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. 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 ♪ ♪ ♪ 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 on me ♪

>> the first time i heard "you really got a hold on me" by the beatles, i was very, very, very happy. ♪ i don't like you but i love you ♪ >> the beatles chose one of my songs. and they wrote great songs! ♪ oh, i, i, i, i did something wrong ♪ ♪ now i long for yesterday

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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

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 ♪ how does it feel ♪ to be on your own ♪ with no direction home >> not only did he take it, but he managed to just chokehold them all and make them see his vision. ♪ like a rolling stone ♪ >> other musicians started bringing poetry and politics and soul-searching to popular music. ♪ men shall know and men shall see ♪ ♪ we all are brothers and we all are free ♪ >> it was obvious to me and the hollies that we had a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us, and we utilized our music to be able to reach people. >> pop musicians in today's generation are in a fantastic position. they could rule the world, man. >> well, i don't argue -- >> they could rule the world, so

why don't we do more of it? we can stop world wars before they ever started. >> i disagree. i don't believe -- >> you know who starts world wars? >> i for one -- >> you know who start world wars? people that are over 40. >> really, really -- >> that conversation was unstoppable. you couldn't shut it down. ♪ he's oh so good and he's oh so fine ♪ ♪ and he's oh so healthy in his body and his mind ♪ ♪ he's a well respected man about town ♪ ♪ doing the best things so conservatively ♪ >> i think ray davies from the kinks and pete townshend from the who were the two social commentators. ♪ people try to put us down talking about my generation ♪ ♪ just because we get around, talking about my generation ♪ ♪ things they do look awful cold talking about my generation ♪ ♪ hope i die before i get old ♪ talking about my generation ♪ it's my generation, baby, why don't you all fade away ♪

♪ talking about my generation ♪ you don't try to dig what we all say ♪ ♪ talking about my generation ♪ not trying to cause a big sensation ♪ >> every political move, nation to nation, is really to try and break down these barriers between people. ♪ my generation ♪ >> all of them were obsessively listening to one another. and what became the game was, who can take rock 'n' roll someplace more interesting? ♪ ♪ if i needed someone to love ♪ you're the one that i'd be thinking of ♪ ♪ if i needed someone >> you know, records had been two or three of your singles, some covers of some other artist's song, and just a bunch

of filler. "rubber soul" basically started the idea of the record as a complete statement. that's really a game-changer. ♪ in my life i love you more >> i think that brian and the beach boys felt that he didn't fit into this new british invasion thing that was happening. ♪ round round get around ♪ i get around ♪ get around ♪ oohh ♪ round, round, round, round ♪ i get around >> when the beach boys heard "rubber soul," brian wilson was inspired to try to create something as pure and beautiful and this album of everything was great. >> i remember going over to brian's house, and i looked into the living room and i saw that everything had been taken out except the piano. and the living room was completely filled with sand.

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nice, nice. ♪ >> in the mid-'60s, you see brian wilson retreating into the studio, and he's concentrating on writing and producing these amazing songs. ♪ i may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you ♪ >> the recording studio had been a rigid place where there were engineers literally in like suits and ties and lab coats. when all of a sudden, there were these crazy young geniuses who reinvented the studio as an instrument to be played with. ♪ god only knows what i'd be without you ♪ >> technology is evolving for how to record, and brian wilson was absolutely on the cutting edge of that. ♪ wouldn't it be nice if we were older ♪ ♪ and we wouldn't have to wait so long ♪ >> music in the '60s was like

any great art movement. the greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better. >> the mic on the piano is quite low. >> in the studio, the beatles' natural creativity was sort of brimming over, and george martin was a brilliant collaborator and champion of that. >> run back the tape, please, would you? >> you can slow down or speed up the tape. you can put in backwards stuff. you can put in electronic sounds that you couldn't possibly reproduce live. >> something happens on air, i couldn't tell you what because we have a special man who sits here and goes like this, and the guitar turns into a piano or something, you know. and then you may say, why don't you use a piano? because the piano sounds like a guitar. ♪ we're sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band ♪ >> there were f.m. radio stations that did nothing but play "sergeant pepper's lonely hearts club band" over and over for the first three or four days that it came out because that's all anybody wanted to listen to. ♪ lucy in the sky with

diamonds ♪ >> "sergeant pepper's" became the thing. you dropped the needle on it, you'd hear a little crackle, and then you'd be taken away on this journey. ♪ i read the news today, oh, boy ♪ >> "sergeant pepper" was our opera. it sounded unlike anything we were used to. ♪ >> in the '60s, lyrics are generally infantile, and it's noise, not music. but the "sergeant pepper" album was a brilliant album, signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained. it really caught the moment. ♪ >> pop music is crucial to today's art, and it's crucial that it should remain art, and it is crucial that it should progress as art.

♪ ♪ pleased to meet you all now ♪ hope you guess my name >> the british invasion changed pretty much everything. >> it was not just a sound or a band or a phenomenon, but it was the beginning of the most powerful decade in popular music. ♪ religion was being forced ♪ down in monterey >> rock 'n' roll music was very important in the growth of the society. we were able to speak our minds. we did shake up the world. >> there's no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world, you know. there is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ ♪ love, love, love >> how many people that you

started loving in 1964 do you still love? the beatles and the british invasion may be the greatest love story, in a cultural sense, that's ever been. ♪ all you need is love all together now! ♪ all you need is love everybody! ♪ all you need is love, love, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ love is all you need, love is all you need ♪ ♪ ♪ love is all you need ♪ love is all you need ♪ oh, yeah

♪ she loves you yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ she loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ love is all you need sticks, please. ♪ . >> there are colonies of hippies, springing up in most american cities. >> it's all related, the psychedelics and protesting. >> smoke pot with your kids, and then you'll understand why the kids are happier. >> it's giant love-in. >> you cannot ignore a change of morality. >> they're fascists. they don't like hippies and the things we do. >> we do have to maintain law, order and decency on the streets. >> what we're thinking about is a peaceful