♪ when will i be loved? [ cheers and applause ] probably the most important cultural event in the history of america, and that's a whole new generation of freaks. >> it's what guys gets off on, the high energy event. >> you can bet your bottom we got them, baby. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave you probably noticed america's latest crazy is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock and its purpose so the promote violence, sex, and destruction, in that order. >> pur e rock 'n' roll!

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>> janis joplin was found dead last night. accord toeing police report, the reason was drugs. >> jim doors is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s are sad in music because you lose people, and you lose the beatles. >> this small gathering is only the beginning. the event is so momentous historians may one day view it as a decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock 'n' roll as we understand it in the 1960s was no longer with us. >> there will never be another beatles. never. >> you're like, one day what i'm doing here with a no drummers or nothing lick that? imagine i lost my old band or 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 better go write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i do it when i feel like it. >> yoko you have been called the beatle lady who took the beatles apart. >> can we give her credit for the nice music george made and ringo made and i made since we broke up? if she did it -- >> the fact is, yoko ono did not break up the beatles. full-time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles, business broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier heavier beatle these days, happily

married. when the kids come to their concert they don't scream, they listen. >> john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own ways that involved the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. >> mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all the instruments on his own them 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 mockup, folks. and it's going to be called ringo's -- >> 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, you know? >> ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much that has tremendous success in the '70s. george harrison who had been stockpiling these amazing songs explodes like a superno extva.

maybe the greatest beatles individual album of all. >> over the years i had so many songs mounting up but i only got one or two songs perales bum. >> were you held down by the others? >> very subtly, yes. >> i'd just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it's a special benefit concert. ♪ a love is a weight on your heart ♪ >> ravi 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 concert for bangladesh is the granddaddy of all issue themed concerts and not only did you get him you got eric

clapton. >> it put two beatles back on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and may still be unparalleled. ♪ >> the great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeed at in the '70s trying to to find new ways to express themselves. >> have you got any idea why your group lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together, i suppose. >> over the years the rolling stones felt a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt he wasn't going to be around that long. >> they were fighting for, 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, exile on main street, in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddy sounding studio. ♪ baby, baby ♪ oh, honey >> that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. i i remember reading reviews saying this is like a debauched album. i remember going, i don't know what that means but i got to get some of this debauch stuff. ♪ baby, baby ♪ >> 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 not very confident in my voice as a singer. i thought rather than just singing which would probably bore the pants off everybody, i'd like to portray the songs. ♪ turned to face me, and i never caught a glimpse ♪ >> david bowie has always been a game changer. he took the promise of rock the beatles kicked off and is taking it other places for people to follow. ♪ changes ♪ change ♪ pretty soon you're going get older ♪ ♪ time may change me, but i can't change time ♪ ♪ i said that time may change me ♪ ♪ i can't trace time ♪ >> the allman brothers put me in the white house, and i didn't

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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. ♪ ♪ ooh, california ♪ oh, california ♪ i'm coming home

♪ oh make me feel good rock 'n' 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. and there's lots of sun. >> the way i got to california is just really simple, i got there in a '57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> no one is drawn to california. they're drawn to the light and the light is the troubado club. >> every great song writer i could think of came through the troubador. >> linda ronstadt, joni mitchell, james taylor. >> the big sea change is people writing their own songs.

>> it's difficult to reveal constantly to so many people, why do you do this? >> i find an on will i gags to myself and to people to share myself as honestly as i can. i left my folk and friends account aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well, i hit the rowdy road ♪ and many kinds i met there ♪ many stories told me of the ways to get there ♪ ♪ ooh ♪ so on and on i go ♪ the seconds tick 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. >> in the early days paul and i, we wanted to to be the govening

king of england. >> we had no idea who these people were. all these songs and chains that the people did. we did discover it was this remarkable woman, carole king. >> she made the transition from being a behind the scenes woman to being a star in her own right. >> i feel the earth move under my feet ♪ ♪ i feel the sky come tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to tremble whenever you're rigarou♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens because in the '60s she's trying to write hit songs and then in the '70s with tapestry it's the definition of an album of self-expression. >> 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're listening to? tapestry. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> there was 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 a song written by my friend, john david souther, one of my favorite california writers and singers. it's called "faithless love." >> she was in my ways my greatest collaborator. i became a song writer because the greatest voice of our general race was doing my songs. ♪ like a river flows ♪ ♪ rain drops falling on a breaken nose ♪ >> for my money linda is still

underrated just for sheer singing power and style and emotion. ♪ and the night rolls in ♪ like a cold dark wind ♪ faithless love ♪ like a river flows >> there have been a lot of articles and things that identify me with the l.a. sound, me and jackson browne and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town, you know? we're starting to get stale. ♪ >> this is a song about a welsh -- ♪ she rings like a bell through the night and wouldn't you love to love her ♪ >> the original fleetwood mac was awe four-piece full-on blews band. >> they were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. they were at american as they were british. ♪ all your wife you never know

woman taken by the wind ♪ >> about two years previous to joining fleetwood mac called buckingham nicks and mick really liked the music and they asked us to join. >> fleetwood mac, for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> describe being rich and famous in california. >> this is it, kids. ♪ dreamer, dreamer ♪ oh ♪ taken by the wind >> hit 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 the band was becoming a whole thing. we were getting ready to make "rumors" with everyone falling apart. ♪ loving you isn't the right thing to do ♪ ♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> the structure of the band is five people, five really independent quite strong-minded, quite stubborn individuals. ♪ if i could, baby, i'd give you my world ♪ >> two lovely couples, john and chris, married. their marriage was on the rocks. and stevie and lindsey might as well have been married. that all was falling apart. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ go your own way ♪ you can call it another lonely

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>> we were shocked because not only were they incredibly talented, but they looked like us. ♪ when i had you to myself i didn't want you around ♪ ♪ pretty faces always stand out in a crowd ♪ >> how long have you been singing? >> three years. >> went to grab it right away. snatch it 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. ♪ oh, baby, give me one more chance ♪ ♪ won't you please let me ♪ back in your heart ♪ i said i need you >> 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.

>> hey, man. >> 11 alphabets letter. >> you don't know? the jackson five. that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> last classic if the mo town system. >> mo town was a unique place. a lot of companies were run by music men. we had a businessman at the helm. >> he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. ended up making the greatest black music ever. >> he created a machine where you take the artist, polish them up, make a great package where you can play the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the '60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> clean shaven, debonair. all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete on a high level.

why can't i make a record like the beatles? i'm making records. why can't i have the artistic? ♪ with brutality ♪ talk to me so you can see ♪ oh, what's going on ♪ what's going on ♪ yeah, what's going on ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ whoo >> marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. he's brother was in vietnam. he's hearing stories of what's going on over there, seeing the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america. >> he's talking about the war, poverty, changing artist in ways berry gordy is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong, they do ♪ >> initially berry gordy did not

want marvin to do it. >> mo town is supposed to be nonthreatening. now you have him making a record that could ruin good money. you don't talk about the government. ments i want to know what's going on right now, people ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out "what's going on" marvin said, if you're right, i'll learn something. if i'm right, you'll learn something. >> as berry gordy would say, i learn something. >> every artist at mo town wanted to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say soul, they put you in one category. they say, he's a soul artis. that's all they expect for to you swing and that's all they want you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to gordy

and negotiated his artistic freedom and used every bit of it. ♪ very superstitious ♪ writings on the wall >> stevie wonder making some of the greatest records anybody's made in popular music in america, back-to-back-to back. >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half-court with your eyes closed. music in my mind. talking. business. oh, my god, he did it. and then suddenly songs in the key of life. ♪ don't understand and you're surprised ♪ ♪ superstition >> what the beatles did in the '60s, i feel stevie wonder was the person to did that for music

in the '70s. >> hi, there and welcome aboard. you're right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. if the sight and sounds of soul is your pleasure, what's your treasure? you can bet your bottom we got them, baby. >> "soul train" finally offered america its first view of afro sen tristy. >> i would literally run home from church to see "soul train". it was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. >> there's no question "soul train" broke a lot of artists and bruced artists to audiences they had never performed for. ♪ she's a dynamite attraction >> ten years before he did the moon walk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on

"soul train." >> people had done the robot before, but there was a way he did it. it was faster, it was sharper, and it was straight. i could just see his afro bouncing, and because there was so much precision to it. ♪ dancing, dancing, dancing ♪ she's a dance machine >> oh, baby.

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rock, the music that infuriating so many people in the '50s and '60s, the music so many thought too loud and dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> heart was a big deal, because in a decade that was dominated by a type of rock 'n' roll that rhymes with rock and begins can a "c," but i won't go any further they were able to succeed on their terms. >> stuff from the '60s that was like that's too hippy, we need to kick it up a notch. ♪

>> the audiences have come to expect a better standard of performance, better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they're come to expect a show. ♪ may still have time, might still get by ♪ ♪ every time i think about imi want to cry ♪ >> in the '70s, the group became more free throwtheatericle. >> more over the stuff going on. just more. ♪ no time >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces. ♪ with your sweet glowing light ♪ ♪ crazy, crazy, crazy on you ♪ ooh, crazy on you >> stadium tours put a lot of

people together to hear music at the same time. what they also do is they force musicians to play to the back of the hall. >> in the '70s that distance between the performer on stage and crowd grew. >> when you went to the shows it was always about the star up here and the audience down here and the iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. ♪ crazy on you >> it was bound to happen, but it comes the a shock never thls. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group these days is called the led zeppelin. >> in their 20s they are powerful, rich, and pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a pop

group on tour. in the rock biz where to be big is nothing, the zeppelin is very big. to get around the zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. but the president's plane doesn't have an organ, nor a 15-foot mirrored bar. nor in the private quarters does it have a bedroom or fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset it doesn't have a pool table on board. apart from that, i think this is the best way to travel. >> americans are spending $2 million a year on music. that's $700 million more than the movie industry grosses in ticket sales. >> i'm telling you that rock 'n' roll is no different from ibm, xerox, chevrolet. supply and demand. >> rock 'n' roll had been a gritty novel 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. now, the gross for the tour is in the reason of $11 million. so, yeah, it's a living. >> it was so decadent is over the top, and money just, whew, being thrown against the wall. >> could be a hypocrite if you're evoking the ideas of young people, taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket. really what you are is you're a middle-aged family man, and it's only the hypocrisy i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock 'n' roll by going back to basics. >> using elements of past that

were discarded at that point. ♪ in the day we sweat out on the streets ♪ >> using a sound that was was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock. ♪ sprung from cages on highways ♪ ♪ stepping out over the line ♪, whoa >> bruce springsteen created his own counter culture. just speaks exactly to the american spirit. couldn't hit it more on the head than bruce springsteen did. baby we were born to run ♪ >> "born to run" was a towering statement in the middle of the '70s. it was the cover of time and news week. >> bruce did not like it at the time. me on the other hand i'm like, my friend is on the cover of "time" and "newsweek." this is cool.

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i was lucky enough to be invited to david vancuzo's length dare space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes in music. >> man cuso took fried in curating the records. he might play isaac hayes, salsa record. it wasn't a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. >> they have all types of people there. people who dance, people who pop up and down, people who get high, stay 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 four on the floor with eight on the high hat. >> so everything is bam bam bam. ♪ burn baby burn >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn baby burn >> i love disco. i always love dance music any way, because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> did it go? >> the melody. >> giorgio working out of munich, putting together technology and soulful vocalists. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment, and they make some of the biggest records of all time. ♪ i love to love you baby ♪ i love to love you baby >> "love to love you baby" was four minutes of singing, 14 minutes of --

[ laughs ] a lot of not singing. ♪ love to love you baby ♪ oh, love to love you baby >> i always wondered for the life of me, was moroder in the booth just like, more passion. >> actually, i threw everybody out 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 were some of the biggest records of all time, and they kicked off a revolution. ♪ i want to do it with you until the sun comes up ♪ >> unless you have been living in a cave, you noticed america's biggest crazy is disco dancing.

>> where have you been? ♪ i want to put on my boogie shoes ♪ >> we are talking about an estimated 4 billion -- that's with a "b" -- $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word, disco. it was r and b music to me and i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i thought credit was supposed to go. >> bring that sound in. that's great. one, two, three, four. >> the bee gees always liked soul. i thought of them as a pop band that had soul leanings. >> they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ah, ah, ah, ah, staying alive, staying alive ♪

♪ staying 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. i have 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 1970s. >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's escapism. >> the front door was insane. i would sometimes walk by and not let people get in. that's fun, too. >> you're not shaved. listen, just go home. >> you had to be selected, you had to be choses tn to get in. >> we can't let in everybody. i wish we could.

>> the great shechic go to stud 54 to get in, and they don't, so they write a song. ♪ have you heard about the new craze ♪ ♪ listen to us, i'm sure you'll be amazed ♪ >> it's kind of a diss. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. ♪ freak out >> it went from something off to off to being freak off to being freak out. >> just come on down to the 54 ♪ ♪ find your spot out on the floor ♪ ♪ oh, freak out ♪ he freak,ing say chic >> that's probably one of the best things to come 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 time come on and i heard someone talk over the song. ♪ hip hip-hop and you don't stop ♪ ♪ bug it out baby ♪ now what you hear is not a test ♪ ♪ and me the groove and my friends are going to try to >> what's great about the song is that's where hip hop gets its fame from. >> the next day, i went to the record store like, yo, y'all got hip hop? >> and it was the first hip-hop song to crack the top 40. it changed everything. >> rappers delight opens this incredible door to the art form, which is hip-hop.

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detroit, 1969, is where punk was originally born. the mc 5, the motor city 5, release two pioneering albums that indicate that there is a new style of music coming back.

it's a garage rock. it's minimalist. it's aggressive. it's loud. and it's, very often, obnoxious. >> punk-rock was so effing scary to us because, here we are, with our big, majestic songs. and here comes punk with their -- >> the ramones get started as a reaction of everything else that is going on. people see them, and they go, this is the answer. >> i had to see how great rock and roll is supposed to be done. >> how should it be done? >> no pyrotechnics. no phony showmanship. just pure rock and roll men and stamina.

>> it's just real and raw, and there's no crap involved. as opposed, to the standard we hear on the top 40. >> the ramones were one part of a wider, new york scene. >> i am an artistment ro. rock and roll is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> the dead boys. and richard. >> i belong to the black generation. >> richard was one of the first to cut his own hair. he was ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> the safety pin, for instance, is his. it's pretty clear that he invented that. >> punk, in the united states, is a statement of sorts about what music is, and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. >> the home territory. it is here, on kings road, in the middle of london. the same street that launched

the mini skirts and the mood of the swingin '60s. >> there is no future for a kid now. i mean, there isn't. >> there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on, and got a lot of young people behind it. >> said to be a political group. >> i have said it. it's true. >> may be singing about loving, kissing someone. >> the clash, musically, is the best of a lot. it doesn't sound like traditional punk but it doesn't sound like anybody but the clash, either.

>> punk was, i think, a kind of wide umbrella. and that wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex, in their musical-performance style. people aren't going to buy something you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> punk rock, these days. can we have your thoughts on that? >> i think it's better to just call it a new wave, really. i think, by defining it as punk, you are automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. and i think bands like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads with the ultimate, college band. and they did a sophisticated, spiky music that reflected who they were. and it particularly reflected the fascinating individual that david bern would emerge to become. >> i thought i'd write a song about urban gorillas from the point of view of daily lives, instead of the point of view 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 there is still a sense of naivety. 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 that the best music made in that genre was made in the 1970s. and you will have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what was great about the decade is it allowed the greatest artists of our times to do some of their greatest work because they were really exploring. that is 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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