♪ it's what guys seem to get off on. they like this high-energy sort of event. >> you can bet your bottom we got 'em, baby. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> this is punk rock and its purpose is to promote violence,

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died today in london according to a police source from an overdose of drugs. janice joplin was found dead last night. cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock-music group, 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 that historians 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 understood in the 1960s, was no longer with us. >> the beatles. never. >> i wonder what i am doing here with no drummers, no nothing like that. as 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 that the music they would come up with, individually, would be that good. >> i don't -- no longer have to, oh, the beatles need an album. you and paul better go and write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i just write when i feel like. >> you know, yoko, you have even 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 made since they broke up. she did it. >> the fact is yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles. money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. a desire to go off and do their

own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he is a fleshier, heavier beatle these days. respectively, married. and when the kids come, they don't scream anymore, they listen. >> the significant thing is that both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity. beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. so this is just the mock-up, folks. and it's going to be called ringo's. >> i sell records. 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 has tremendous success in the '70s. george harrison who had been

stockpiling these songs explodes. maybe the greatest beatle solo album of all. >> over the years, you know, i had such a lot of songs mounting up that i really wanted to do. but only one or two tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellows? >> well, very subtly, yes. >> i just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it's a special-benefit concert. >> ravi shankar went to george harrison and said this horrible thing is happening in bangladesh. what can we do? and that created the first ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh

was the granddaddy of all issue-themed kertd concerts. and not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it put two beatles back on the stage again. it was unparalleled, at the time. and it may still be unparalleled. >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s finding new ways to express themselves in the '70s. have you any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together, i suppose. >> for a few years, rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> he wasn't going to be around that long. not everybody makes it, you know? >> they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold, now? ♪

>> in 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live if 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 review saying this was like the botched album and i was like i don't even know what debotched mean but i got to get some of this debauchery stuff. ♪

having come out of the '60s which was its own animal. the '70s had to show its new skin, it had to shed the old one. >> i was not very confident of my voice as a singer. so rather than just sing them, which would probably bore everybody, i'd like to kind of portray the songs. >> david bowie has always been a game changer. he really is taking the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off. sq and he is taking it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow.

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♪ california, california ♪ ♪ oh make me feel good rock and roll, i'm your biggest fan ♪ >> 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 final year in college. >> virtually, no one was from southern california. they were all drawn to the light and the light is the trubudor club. >> until we played the club in los angeles, and which held 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i can think of came through the

troubadar. joany mitchell, james taylor. >> the big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to -- constantly, so many people? >> i feel an obligation to -- 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 ♪ ♪ well, i hit the rowdy road ♪ ♪ many stories told me of the way to get there ♪ ♪ so, on and on i go, seconds tick the time ♪ ♪ there is 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 be the goffin and king, you know. >> we had no idea who these people were, who the mysterious mr. king was who had written all these songs and chains that the beatles did. and i am into something good which is part of the british invasion. we did discover it was this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from basically 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. and then, in the '70s, with tapestry, it is the definition of an album with 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 were listening to? tapestry. >> there was a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers to music at the time. >> we are going to do a song written by my friend john david, who is my favorite california songwriter and one of my favorite singers. it's called "faithless love." >> she was, in many ways, my greatest collaborator. i mean, i became a professionaler songwriter because the best voice of my generation was doing my song. ♪ raindrops falling ♪

>> still, underrated just for sheer-singing power and style and emotion. ♪ and the night rolls in like a cold, dark wind ♪ ♪ faithless love ♪ >> things that identified me with the l.a. sound. me and jackson brown and the eagles. we need some new blood in this town. you know? we're starting to get stale. >> the original fleetwood mac was a four piece full on band. >> they were an english band that became a dual citizenship

band. they were as american, as they were british. >> we had an album about two years previous to joining fleetwood called buckingham knicks. and they asked us to join. >> fleetwood mac first stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> describe being rich and famous in california. this is it, kids .

>> hit records sometimes bore an audience. oh well, they're not going to have another hit. or this isn't good as good as that. >> record companies like frothing at the mouth. and the image of the band was becoming a whole thing. so, 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 band is five people, five very independent, quite strong-minded, quite stubborn individuals. >> 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 ♪

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we were shocked because not only were they incredibly talented but they looked like us. ♪ >> how long you been singing? >> three years. >> so you went to grab it right away. going to snatch it right out of my hand there. >> michael was precocious. he knew he was cute. and then, you would watch him go, from that, to commanding a stage in front of, you know, 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ won't you please let me back in your heart ♪ >> the only american group to have four consecutive number-one records.

>> for the first time, young-black kids had their beatles. >> hey, man. >> you don't know? the jackson five. >> that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hits system. >> motown was a very unique place because a lot of record companies were being run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. he was a songwriter. >> ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. he ended up making the greatest black music, ever. >> he created a machine. when you take the artist and polish him up and makes him a great package, they can play the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the '60s, marvin gaye wanted to besy frank sinatra.

>> marvin won'ted to compete at a high level. i am selling records like they sell. why can't i have that artistic expression? ♪ talk to me, oh, what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going on, what's going on ♪ ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ >> marvin gaye was very much affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he is hearing all these stories about what's going on over there. he is seeing the protest here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he is talking about the war. he is talking about poverty. changing in a way that gordy is not superhappy about.

>> initially, barry gordy did not want marvin to do what's going on. >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening. here, you now have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war that could potentially ruin good money. you don't, lightly, talk about the government. ♪ yes, i want to know what's going on right now ♪ >> ultimately, when he agrees, okay, if you are right, i will learn something. and if i'm right, you'll learn something. and, of course, as barry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown was, suddenly, also, gonna try their chance at freedom. >> when people say, so -- they put you in one category. they say, he's a soul artist. that's all they expect for you to sing and that's all they want

you to sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to barry 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's ever 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 of my mind. oh, he made it. he ain't gonna do it again. you talking about? oh, my god, he did it. and then, suddenly.

>> what the beatles did in the '60s, i feel, stevie wonder was the person to do that for music, in the '70s. >> hi there and welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. fit sight and sound of soul is your pleasure and what's you treasure, you can bet your bottom we got 'em, baby. >> soul train finally offered america its first view of afraf afro-centricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> it was the one reliable place to see the artist you loved. >> there is no question soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences that they had never performed for.

>> ten years before he did the moonwalk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on "soul train." >> people had done the robot before. but there was a way that he did it. it was -- it was faster. it was sharper. and it was street. i could just see his afro bouncing and just because it was so much precision to it. ♪ dancing, dancing, dancing ♪

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rock. the music that infuriated so many people in the '50s and '60s. the music that so many thought too loud, vulgar, and somehow dangerous to our morals. rock has not only refused to go away. it has become an institution. >> hart was a big deal because in a decade that was dominated by a type of rock and roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a c, but i won't go on further. they were willing to play with those guys and succeed, on their terms. >> the stuff from the '60s was like, oh, that's way too hippie. now, we have to up it a notch.

>> come to expect a standard of performance. better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they have come to expect a show. ♪ still have time, might still get by ♪ >> in the '70s, the group started to become more theatrical. they realized that just giving them the music isn't enough. we have got to give them something to look at. more people, more misbehavior, more over-the-top stuff going on. just -- just more. >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces. ♪

♪ crazy, crazy, crazy on you ♪ >> stadium tours brought a lot of people together to hear music at the same time. what they also do is they force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. >> in the '70s, that distance between the performer on stage and that audience grew. if you went to any of the big 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. >> 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, their rich,

powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they are the led zeppelin. a rock group on tour. and in the vernacular of the record biz, with nearly big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a charted 707. the kind of plane president nixon uses. the president's plane doesn't have an organ, nor a 15-foot mirrored bar. nor, in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> 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 will tell you that rock and roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, chevrolet. supply and demand.

it's the same business. >> rock and roll had been a little, gritty novelty business. it was not center of the world in the '50s and '60s. and in the '70s, it becomes the main event and that has repercussions in all sorts of positive and negative ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. the gross for the tour is in the region of $11 million. so, you know, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top. and money just being thrown against the wall. >> bit of a hypocrite. you know, if you are constantly evoking the ideas of young people and bouncing off the ideas of young people. taking young people's money, and putting it in your pocket. you know? and -- and really, what you are is you're a middle-aged family man. and it's only the hypocrisy that i am worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock and

roll by going back to basics. using elements from the past, that were kind of being discarded, at that point. >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio. and was not what was mainstream rock. ♪ >> bruce springsteen created this whole counter culture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. >> born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the '70s. it was the cover of time and "newsweek." >> me, on the other hand. i'm like my friend's on the

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invited to david's legendary space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> he is one of the guys who really took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. he might play isaac hayes' record. he might play a salsa record. it wasn't so much about a style, as it was an esthetic of dancing. >> there were all types of people. people who dance, people pop up and down, all night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i was new. 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. so, everything is -- ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ >> that's the sound of disco. >> i love disco. i always loved dance music, anyway, because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. >> the melody. >> georgio working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. donna summer, and they make some of the biggest records of all time. ♪ oh, love to 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 ♪

>> i always wondered for the life of me, like, just in the booth like -- >> actually, i saw everybody out of the studio. switched the lights off. made sure that the tape is running. and i said, okay, let's do it. and i think she did it in ten minutes. >> the donna summer records, some of the biggest records of all time and they kicked off a revolution. >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancing, without the g. >> where have you been?

>> and what they generate with the records. 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 give it a new name or weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again. but bring that sound in. that's great. yeah. okay. one, two, three, four. >> bee gees always liked r and b, always liked soul. but they always had r and b leanings. >> the bee gees did what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. ♪ >> 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 '70s. >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's really escapism. >> the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would walk by to watch people not get in because that was fun, too. >> not shaved, there's no way you are going to get in. >> it doesn't matter. if you are not shaved, listen, just go home. >> you had to be selected, you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let everybody in who wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ freak out ♪ >> they go to studio 54 to get in and they don't. so they write a song.

♪ have you heard about the new dance crave ♪ >> it was kind of a dis to studio 54 for rejecting them. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. it went, from something off, to freak off, to being freak out. ♪ freak out ♪ >> that's probably the best thing that 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 "good times" come on and i just kept hearing someone talk

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kick out the jams mother [ bleep ]! >> detroit 1969 is where punk was originally born. ♪ the motor city five and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums that indicate there's a new style of music coming back. it's garage rock, it's minimalist, it's aggressive, it's loud, it's very often

obnoxious. ♪ pick up the sound yeah pick up the sound ♪ >> 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 of everything else going on. people see them and go, this is the answer. ♪ hey ho let's go ♪ >> how great rock 'n' roll is supposed to be done. >> how should it be done? >> no pyrotechnics, no phoney showmanship. pure rock 'n' roll energy, pure good stamina. ♪ ♪ >> it's just real and raw and there's no crap involved.

as opposed to the standard shalack we hear on the top 40. >> it remind us of one part of a wider new york scene. >> you have people like patty smith -- >> i'm an artist. the new york dolls. >> the new york dolls -- >> the dead boys. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> i belong to the blacks and the racists. >> 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. >> ultimately the united states has an aberration of music statement what music is. in england punk rock is not a musical statement, it's a social one. >> if punk has a home territory it is here on king's road in the middle of london. the same street that launched the mini skirts and the look and mood of the swinging '60s.

>> king's road belongs to punks! >> what's this got to do with us? >> nothing. i ain't got a job. >> there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean there isn't. >> there is an anger and frustration that drove punk rock on and got a lot of people behind it. ♪ war is declared a battle come down ♪ >> you're said to be a political group. >> yeah. say i've said it, it's true. >> if there was jobs, maybe we'd be singing about love and kissing or something. >> the clash musically is the best of the lot. it doesn't sound like traditional punk, but it doesn't sound like anybody else but the clash either. ♪ running but i have no fear ♪ ♪ i live by the river ♪ >> punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene include people who were more complex in their musical performance style.

people aren't going to buy something that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> that punk rock these days, can we have your thoughts on that? >> it's better to call it a new wave, really. i think by defining it as punk, you're automatically putting a boundary around what's possible. and i bands like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads, the ultimate college band. they did spiky music who reflected who they were and reflected the fascinating individual that david byrne would emerge to become. >> i thought i wrote a song about urban guerillas about the boyfriend of their daily lives, instead of the point of view of their politics. note a van that's roaded with weapons that's up and ready to go ♪ >> this area of new wave music is where stars of the 1980s are going to come from. ♪ a place that nobody knows ♪ >> 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 ♪ ♪ this ain't no cbgd i ain't got time for that now ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and the best music made in that genre is made in the 1970s. and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. what was great about a me 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. ♪ i might not ever get home. ♪ this ain't no party this ain't no disco this ain't no fooling around ♪ ♪ i'd love to hold you i'd love to kiss you but i ain't got time for that now ♪ ♪ trouble in transit got through

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