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>> this is probably the most important cultural event in the history of america. a whole generation of freaks. >> that's what guys get off on. >> sight and sound and soul is your pleasure you can bet your bottom dollar we've got them baby. >> you have probably noticed that america's latest craze is punk rock. >> pure rock 'n' roll, pure stamina.
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london, according to a police source, from an overdose of drugs. >> janis joplin died tonight, the cause to be an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison is dead, he was
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27. >> the early days, you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> the small gathering on saville row, 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. rock n roll as we understood it in the 60s is no longer with us. >> the beatles forever. >> you know like one day what i'm doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. you might know i lost my old band or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven ♪ ♪ it's easy if you try ♪ ♪ >> for so long you kind of waited to the next beatles album to see where music was going and
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we hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. >> i no longer have to or the beatles need a new album, you and paul write 20 songs or something like that, i just write when i want to. >> yoko you have been called the dragon lady, who broke the beatles up. >> the music that george and i and ringo and paul got together. >> yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the bailts, the desire to do their other than stuff broke up the beatles. >> when kids come to his concert they don't scream anymore, they listen. >> the significant thing is that both john lennon and paul
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mccartney focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. mccartney went home and made that record where he plays all those instruments on his home, cozy domesticity. warm like this. >> this is our first showing of it, like the mock up folks. and it's going to be called ringo's reviewer. >> if they don't like the music they won't buy it you know. >> ringo has tremendous success in the '70s and george harrison who has been stockpiling these amazing songs, exploded on afternoon album, all things must pass. had the greatest success at all. >> over the last mum of years --
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number of years, i had so many songs i wanted to do but i only got one or two per album. >> you got held down by the others? >> well very subtly, yes. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i'd just like to thank you all for coming here. as you know it's a special benefit concert. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> ravi shankar went to george harrison, said, something tremendous is happening, what can we do. >> the concert for bangladesh, was the granddaddy of all concerts. not only did you get george harrison, it got eric clapton. >> it was unparalleled for the time and it may still be
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unparalleled. ♪ ♪ ♪ [cheering and applause] >> 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. >> do you have any idea it has been so successful as they have? >> because we stayed together i imagine. >> not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for, where do we secure our foothold now? ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [♪ singing ♪ ] >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france. and record this record, expoo exile onmain street in a very hy
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sounding studio. [♪ singing ♪ ] >> that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a databases. i remember reading this is a debauched music, i don't know what debauched means but i got to get some this debauchery stuff. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> having come out of the 60s which was its own animal, the 70s had to show a new skin. it had to shed the old one. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was never very confident of
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my voice, them, i'd like to kind of portray the ♪ then i turned myself to face me and i never caught a glumps ♪ >> david bowie is taking it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. [♪ singing ♪ ] ♪ i said that time may change me ♪ ♪ i can't trace time ♪
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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. [ guitar plays ] ♪ california o california, i'm coming home ♪ ♪ o make me people good rock 'n' roll band i'm your biggest fan, california i'm coming home ♪
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>> you look to the horizon that you want to move towards and that horizon was here in l.a. >> that's where the record companies are, not just some. >> the way i got to california is just really civilized, got there in a 57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. >> virtually no one was in southern california and they were all drawn to the light and the light was the tr trubad owradou club.>> revealing themsn to so many people, why do you have to do this? >> i feel an obligation to
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myself and to people to try to tell myself as maybe honestly as i can. ♪ i left my friends with the aim to clear my mind out ♪ ♪ well i hit the rowdy road and many times i met there. many stories told me of the ways to get there ♪ ♪ oh oh oh ♪ ♪ so on and on i go ♪ ♪ as seconds take the time out ♪ ♪ so much left to know when i'm on the road to find out ♪ >> everyone was just trying to do whatever scale into their head. >> in the early days paul and i we wanted to bring the goffin and king of england. goffin and king were very big those days. >> we wrote all these songs and
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chains that the bea beatles did. we discovered it was this remarkable woman carole king. ♪ i feel the earth move under my feet ♪ ♪ i feel the sky tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to trembling whenever you're around ♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens. because in the '60s she's trying to write songs for other people and in the 70s with tapestry it is the definition 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 are lucky enough to ride in one of the girls' cars what are you listening to?
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tapestry. >> there were a lot of very important women who were significant writers at the time. >> we're going to do a song by john david souther, one of my favorite singers called "faithless love." >> i became a professional songwriter, with the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. ♪ star like a river flows ♪ ♪ raindrops falling on a broken road ♪ >> for my money, was un
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underwritten ♪ >> 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 brow brown and te eagles. we need some other sound we're starting to get stale. >> the original fleetwood mack was a four pique piece full on blues band. >> they became a dual citizenship band, they were as american as they were british. >> we had an album up about two years previous to joining fleetwood mack, they really
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liked us and asked us to join. >> fleetwood mack first stevie and lindsay album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. >> being rich and famous in california. this is it kid! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 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. >> the record company's frothing at the mouth, getting ready to
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maim rumors with everyone falling apart. ♪ loving you isn't the right thing to do ♪ ♪ how can i ever change things that i feel ♪ >> structure of the band is five quite strong minded quite stubborn individuals. ♪ i give you my world ♪ >> two lovely couples, john, chris, married, their marriage was on the rocks. and stevie and lindsay might as well have been married. that all was falling apart. ♪ you can go your own way ♪ ♪ go your own way ♪ ♪ you could call it under the long day ♪ >> we were testifying and rumors became the church.ry pair.
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>> how long you been singing? >> three years. >> wanted to grab it away, snatch it out of my hand there. >> michael was precocious. he knew he was cute. then go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ be oh baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ show me that you love me ♪ ♪ won't you let me ♪ ♪ back in your heart ♪ ♪ let you go ♪ ♪ can't do anymore ♪ >> the only american group to have four consecutive number 1 records. [cheering and applause] >> for the first time, young black kids had their beatles. >> hey man. living, you don't know, the jackson 5.
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>> that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> the last act from the motown hits system. >> motown was a very incredible place. we had a music man at the helm. barry goredy. >> ironically he was trying to make black music that would cross over to the white world and make the greatest black music ever. >> take the artist and polish him up play about the ed sul vaughn show and kill. >> back in the '60s he wanted to be frank sinatra. >> all of that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at a high level, why can't i compete like the beatles, why can't i have that artistic expression?
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>> ♪ talk to me honey so you can see ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going on ♪ ♪ hey what's going on ♪ ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ ♪ >> affected by the vietnam war, his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on there, he's seeing the protest here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourself, america. >> he is talking about the war and poverty the way barry goredy is not super-happy about. >> everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially barry gordy didn't want marvin to do "what's going on." >> now you have marvin gaye
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making a protest record about the war. you don't talk about the government. >> ♪ i want to know what's going on right now people ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out, what's going on, if you're right i'll lirn something and if i'm right as barry gordy said i learned something. >> every ar stift at motown also wanted to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say soul they put you in one category. they say he's a soul artist. that's all they expect for you to sing and all they want to you sing. that's not true. soul is being able to express yourself. >> stevie wonder went to barry goredy and he expressed his
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artistic freedom and used every part of it. ♪ ♪ >> stevie wonder making some of the best meurvetion anyone has made in america back to back to back. >> it's the equivalent to of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. i made it! he ain't doing it again. fulfilling his first finale, oh my god he did it and then suddenly, "songs in the key of life." [♪ singing ♪ ] >> 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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[applause] >> hi there and welcome aboard you're right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure we got 'em baby. >> offered its first view of afro-centricity. >> it was soul train, the one reliable place to see the artistry we loved. >> there's no question soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced artists to audiences that they had never performed for before. [♪ singing ♪ ] >> 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
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♪ every time i make about it, i want to cry ♪ ♪ >> the 70s the groups began to become more theatrical, just giving them the music is not enough. we got to give them more to look at. >> nor naked people more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on just more. >> playing stadiums was too unreal. it would be just a sea of faces into infinity. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> stadium tours lot of people hadn't heard music for some 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.
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everyone, going to any of the bigger rock shows it was balances the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of iconography of this figure. >> it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock nevertheless, in a poll taken by a leading to. music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in gland these days is called the led zeppelin. >> in their 20s they are rich powerful pampered, the led zeppelin, in the vernacular of the record busy, being big is nothing, the led zeppelin is very big. they use a chartered 707, the
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kind that president nixon uses. the president's plane does not have an organ or a 15 foot mirrored bar nor two bedrooms and a fireplace place. >> apart from this, i think this is the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that is 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 any spectator sports. >> i can tell you rock 'n' roll is no different than chevrolet, and sarah lee. it's supply and demand. >> it was not the center of the world in the 50s and 60s, in the 70s it is the main event, repercussions in all associate of positive and negative ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million.
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now the gross for the tour is in the reason of $11 million. so, you know, it's a living. >> it was so decadent and over the top and money just, whoa, being thrown against the wall. >> a hypocrite, if you are consistently evoking the ideas of young people, bouncing the ideas of young people, taking young people's money and putting it in your pocket, you know, and really what you are is a middle aged family man and it's only the hypocrisy that i'm worried about. >> bruce springsteen was trying to recall the life of rock 'n' roll. >> using images from the past that are trying to be discarded at that point. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio. and was not what was mainstream rock. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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>> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. speaks directly to the american spirit. you couldn't have hit it on the head better than bruce springsteen did. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> 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, my friend is on the cover of time and news week. this is cool. >> when born to run comes out in 1975 it was a desire to really escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an an them to save yourself.
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> i was lucky enough to be invited to david mancuso's little bittary space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. >> david mancuso took over how he curated the music, he may have played, off the record, it wasn't as much of the style as it was an esthetic about dancing. >> all sorts of people, people who dance people who pop up and
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down, who people who get high. >> why are people dancing? >> i wish i knew but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> what we now know as disco, reality starts with a band called the tramps, four on the floor, high hat. so everything is pow pow. that's the sound of disco. >> note burn baby burn ♪ >> i love disco, i always loved dance music nayeri because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. the melody. >> donna summer being the ultimate embodiment and they
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make some of the biggest records of all time. ♪ 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 ♪ ♪ >> and always wondered for the life of me was just in the booth like, more passion, more -- >> 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 were some of the biggest records of all time and they kicked off a revolution.
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♪ ♪ ♪ >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave you've probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing, that is dancing without a g. >> where have you been? ♪ i want to put on my my my my boogie shoes ♪ >> what they take should and generate with the records we are talking about an estimated $4 billion, with a b, 4 billion dollars a year. >> i remember being upset about this word, disco, it was r and b music, weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> to bring that sound in that's great. okay. one two three four. >> the bee gees always liked r n b and soul.
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they always had r n b linings. >> they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. >> ♪ stayin' alive, ah-ha ha stayin' alive, 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've 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. >> and the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would just walk by to watch the people not get in because that was not fun too. >> you are not shaved.
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no way you will get in. you haven't shaved, just go home. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ freak out ♪ >> the great sh sheik go to stus 54. it was kind of it's the new 54 protecting them. the part where they say freak out, actually began as something else. it went from something off, to freak off, to being freaked out. ♪ just come on down to 54 ♪ ♪ find a spot out on the floor ♪ ♪ ah freak out ♪ ♪ lefariq, say chick.
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♪ >> the best thing to come out of 54 was that song. >> funk marries disco and it leads to hip hop. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> it's 1979. i heard chic's good times come on. i can't hear someone talk over the song. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> me >> what's great about this song is that's where hip-hop gets its name from. >> we didn't know the name of the song was called "rapper's delight." the next day i went to the record store. yo, y'all got "hip hop"? hm? >> so when people talk about it, they go, what is that hip hop song? it was the first hip-hop song to crack the top 40. it changed everything.
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>> detroit 1969 is where punk was originally born. ♪ >> dmc 5, the motor city 5, 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 to everything else going on. people see them and go, this is the answer. ♪ hey ho let's go ♪ ♪ hey ho let's go ♪ >> how great rock 'n' roll is supposed to be done.
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>> how should it be done? >> no pyrotechnics, no phoney showmanship. pure rock 'n' roll energy, pure good stamina. ♪ ♪ ♪ blitzkrieg bop ♪ >> it's just real and raw and there's no crap involved. as opposed to the standard shalack we hear on the top 40. >> the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you have people like patty smith -- >> i'm an artist. rock 'n' roll is my art. >> the new york dolls -- >> the dead boys. >> rock 'n' 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, for instance, is his. it's pretty clear he invented
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that. >> punk in the united states is a musical collaboration, a statement of sorts about how music is to be played. 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 row belongs to punkers! >> what's society done for 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've been 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.
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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 i think kind of a wide umbrella. and that wider scene included people who were a little 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? >> i think it's better just 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 think bands like talking heads are excellent. >> talking heads was 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 byrne would emerge to become.
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>> i thought i'd write a song about urban guerillas about the boyfriend of their daily lives, instead of the point of view of their politics. ♪ a van that's loaded with weapons packed 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.
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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 the roadblock ♪ ♪ we blended in with the crowd ♪ ♪ i know that that ain't allowed ♪ a warm welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm paula newton. ahead on "cnn newsroom," former president jimmy carter

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