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>> that tonight's gonna be a good, good night. >> with the help of a computer. the past is just cool stuff that you can discover. and that's what a whole generation of new music makers do. yes, the 2000 are the age of the machine, but that doesn't mean there's not a search for the soul inside the machine. one. two. >> three. go to the night tonight. let's live it up. i got my money. hey, let's spend it up. i feel. go out and smash it like a oh my hard. jump off that sofa. what? let's kick it. oh, i know you will have a ball if we get down. and go out and just lose it all. i feel. stressed out. i wanna let go. let's go way out. face down and losing all control. chin chin chin chin. here we go, here we go. we got a rock. go easy. go now we on top, top, top, top. feel the
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shot. body rock, rock. >> rock is probably the most important cultural event in the history of america. >> and out swarmed the whole new generation of freaks. >> it's what guys seem to get off on. they like this high energy sort of event, and at the sight and sound of souls. >> your pleasure. >> you can bet your bottom we got em, baby. >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. this is punk rock, and its purpose is to promote violence, sex, and destruction in that order. pure rock n roll energy. >> pure drugs, 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 was found dead last night. the 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. >> the small gathering on savile row is only the beginning. >> the event is so momentous
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that historians may 1st 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 n roll as we understood it in the 1960s, was no longer with us. >> but there could never be another beatles. never. >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. well, 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, you know? >> 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, imagine all the
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people you know. >> yoko. you've even been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart and took them all. >> i have trouble with english. can we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and i've made since they broke up. >> if she. if 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, the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier heavier beatle these days, respectably married. >> and when the kids come to his concerts, 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. >> but i'm not the only. >> mccartney went home and made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity.
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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 for the new album with atlantic, and it's going to be called ringo's rotogravure. i sell records, and it doesn't matter if i've been in the beatles or not. if they don't like the record either, they won't buy it. you know, ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the 70s. >> and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called all things must pass, may be the greatest beatles solo album of all. you don't need no passport, and you don't need no visas. >> over the years, you know, i had such a lot of songs mounting up that i really wanted to do, but i only got my quota of 1 or 2 tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellas? >> uh, well, very subtly, yes. by john, in the name of the lord. >> and you'll be free. my lord. in a
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way that you're all too. and see i'd just like to thank you all for coming here. >> as you all know, it's a special benefit concert. the lord is a on you all the way to see ravi shankar went to george harrison and said, this terrible thing is happening in bangladesh. >> what can we do? and that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done, the concert for bangladesh was the granddaddy of all issue themed concerts. >> and not only did you get george harrison, man, you got eric clapton. >> it got dylan out of hiding. 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.
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>> have you got any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together, i suppose, you know, for a few years, the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt that he wasn't going to be around that long, and not everybody makes it. >> you know, they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now? barry? different places. >> but now we're trying to waste me. take me. burn a candle right down. >> 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. called rubber house, that record is the embodiment of a
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band making masterpieces on a daily basis, and i remember reading a review saying that this was like a debauched album, and i was like, i don't even know what debauched means, but i got to get some of this debauchery stuff. >> out. >> of 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. oh yeah i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. >> so i thought rather than just sing them, which would probably bore the pants off everybody, i'd like to kind of portray the songs. then i turned myself to face me, but i never caught a glimpse. >> david bowie has always been
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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 troubadour club. >> things happen gradually until we played the troubadour club in los angeles, and which holds 250 people. it just happened on the first night. >> every great songwriter i could think of came through the troubadour, jackson browne, j.d. henley and frey, linda ronstadt, kristofferson, joni mitchell, james taylor. >> the big c change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. >> is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people? >> why do you have to do this? >> 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.
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>> well, hit the rowdy road and many times i met there many stories told me all the way to get there. who? and 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 be the goffin and king of england. you know, goffin and king were very big those days. >> we had no idea who these people were, who the mysterious mr. king was, who'd written all these songs and chains that the beatles did, and i'm into something good, which was part of the british invasion. we did discover that 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
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my feet. >> i feel the sky tumbling down. i feel my heart start to tremble. and whenever. you're. >> writing carole king is the embodiment of what happens. because in the 60s, she is trying to write hit songs for other people. and then in the 70s, with tapestry, it's the definition of an album of self-expression. let me go into my house in laurel canyon and tell you about my life after church. you always went out for pancakes. if you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls cars, you know what you're listening to. tapestry. >> there are 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 that's written by my friend john david souther who's my
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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 professional songwriter because the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. jesus love like a river flows. >> raindrops falling on a broken rose. >> for my money, linda is still underrated just for sheer singing power and style and. emotion. and the night glows in like a. >> call. dark web. faithless. love like a. river. flows. >> there have been a lot of
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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. it's a song about a welsh. >> she rings like a bell through the night of the. you love your lover. >> the original fleetwood mac was a four piece full on blues band. >> they were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. where you live, you've know, on take it, by the way, we had had an album out about two years previous to joining fleetwood mac called buckingham nicks, and mick really liked the music and they asked us to join the. >> emil bove fleetwood mac first. stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. dance
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fever dreamer described being rich and famous in california. >> this is it kid. >> dream of dreamer. just. like the. wind, like the dead hit records sometimes bore an audience. >> oh, well, they they're not going to have another hit or this one isn't as good as that. >> record company is like frothing at the mouth and the imaging 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 structure of the
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go from that to commanding a stage in front of, you know, 15,000 people. amazing. oh, baby, give me one more chance to show you that i love you. >> won't you please let me back in your heart. oh, darling, i was blind to let you go. let you go. baby. now since i see you in his arms. >> the only american group to have four consecutive number one records. >> i want you back. >> for the first time, young black kids had their beatles. hey, man. >> what happened? five hands, ten legs and 11 alphabets. >> letter. you don't know? >> the jackson five. that's us. and that's no joke. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville 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. berry gordy was a
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songwriter. >> he said, we're gonna make music for the world. >> 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 where you take the artist and polish them up and make them a great package that they can play. the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the 60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was svelte, clean shaven, debonair. and 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? take it side punish me. >> with brutality. talk to me. funny so you can see all what's going on what's going on and what's going on. tell
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me what's going on. >> marvin gaye was very much affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on over there. he's seeing the protest here, and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty. changing him as an artist in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. mother. marvin. >> everybody thinks we're wrong, but they do. >> initially, berry gordy did not want marvin to do what's going on. >> motown was supposed to be non-threatening. 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. >> yeah. what's going on right now, people? >> ultimately, when he agrees to put out what's going on, berry tells marvin, okay, if
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you're right, i'll learn something. and if i'm right, you'll learn something. and of course, as berry will say, i learned something. >> every artist at motown will suddenly also want to try their chance at freedom. >> when people say so, uh. 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 berry gordy, and he negotiated his creative freedom. and he used every bit of it. berry. suspicion. >> 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. get up off it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from
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half court with your eyes closed. >> music in my mind. oh, he made it. he ain't gonna do it again. talking innervisions fulfillingness. first finale. oh, my god, he did it. and then suddenly. songs in the key of life. i believe and things don't understand. >> and you're surprised. a certain way. >> 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're right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. and if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure and what you treasure, you can bet your bottom we got them baby dancing, dancing. >> soul train finally offered america
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its first view of afrocentricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. >> i would literally run home from church to get home to see soul train. it was the one reliable place to see the artist you loved. >> there's no question that soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences that they had never performed for. rhythmatic. acrobatic. >> she's a dynamite attraction at the drop of a coin, she comes alive. yeah. >> 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 there was so much precision to it. dancing, dancing, dancing.
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>> part was a big deal, because in a decade that was 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 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. >> the audiences have come to expect a better standard of performance, a better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they've come to expect a show we still have time for i still goodbye. >> every time i think about it, i want to cry. >> in the 70s, the group started to become more theatrical. they realized that just giving them the music isn't enough. we've got to give them something to look at.
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>> more naked people, more misbehavior, more over-the-top stuff going on. just just more. no time playing stadiums was too unreal. >> it would just be a sea of faces into infinity with your sweet, flowing. >> life. down, down. crazy crazy crazy on you. >> lee zeldin stadium tours put 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 arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here, and this sort of iconography of the
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rock star as this huge figure, the crazy old 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 are rich, powerful, temperamental and pampered. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour and in the vernacular of the record biz, where to be merely 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 two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset that there's not a pool table on board, but apart from that, i
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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 that rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet. supply and demand. it's the same business. >> rock n roll had been a little gritty novelty business. it was not the 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. now, 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
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thrown against the wall. >> it can be a bit of a hypocrite. you know, if you're consistently 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'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 kind of being discarded at that point in the day. >> we sweating. i on the streets of runway merchan using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock. >> machines sprung from cages on highway 94. >> wheels suggested steppin out over the line whoa, baby! >> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it just speaks exactly to the american
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spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. baby, we were born to run. >> this we were born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the 70s. >> it was the cover of time and newsweek. >> bruce did not like it at the time. me, on the other hand, i'm like my friends on the cover of time and newsweek. >> this is cool. when born to run comes out in 1975, it's a desire to really escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. >> it is an anthem to save your soul. >> kobe believed in himself at the youngest possible age. >> people who may never even know what a basketball looks like felt his presence.
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>> he might play isaac hayes record, he might play salsa, record. it wasn't so much about a style as it was an esthetic of dancing. there are all types of people. >> there are people who dance. people pop up and down. >> you can get high, stay here all night. >> why are people dancing again? >> i wish i knew, but i'm glad it's happening. >> what we now know is disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor with eight on the hi hat. just so everything is bam bam bam bam bam. that's the sound of disco burn, baby. >> burn. >> i love disco, i always loved dance music anyway, because whatever i did as a producer
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was always danceable. >> okay, here we go. the the melody. >> giorgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalist 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. >> i love to love you baby. it was four minutes of singing, 14 minutes of a lot of not singing. >> love to love you baby. >> um. >> and i always wonder for the life of me. like, was moroder just like in the booth. like more passion, more actually. >> i threw everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off, made sure that the tape is running. >> and i said,
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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 wanted to do the sun comes up. >> unless you've been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america's latest craze is disco dancing. >> that's dancing without the g. >> what's. >> discos? bird? snappy. where have you been? i want to put on my my my my my boogie shoes. >> in the queen with the disco take in. >> and 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, and i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren't giving credit where i think the credit was supposed
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to go. >> do it again the second half of the chorus, but bring that sound in. that's great. yeah. >> okay, one two, three four. >> tragedy. the bee gees always liked r&b. they always liked soul. i always saw them as a pop band, but that always had r&b leanings. >> the bee gees did what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. hi, hi hi hi. >> stayin alive, stayin alive. hi hi hi. 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 roping 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.
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>> it's where you come when you want to escape. >> it's really escapism in the front door of that spot was insane. >> i sometimes would just walk by and watch the people not get in because that was fun too. oh, you're not shaved. >> there's no way in a million years you're going to get in. >> it doesn't matter if you're not shaving. >> listen, 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 freak out, you freak. >> says chic. >> freak out. the great chic, led by bernard edwards and nile rodgers, go to studio 54 to get in. and they don't. so they write a song. have you heard about the new dance craze? >> listen to us. i'm sure you'll be amazed. >> it was kind of a diss at studio 54 for rejecting him. the part where they say freak out actually began as something else. you freak, says chic. it
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went from something off to freak off to being freak out. just come on down to 54. >> find a spot out on the floor. ah, freak out. le freak. >> say chic, freak out. >> that's probably the best thing that actually 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, and i just kept hearing someone talk over the song. >> i said, a hip hop hit it hip, hip hip hop. >> you don't stop, you rock it out, baby. bubble to the boogie. >> bang bang the boogie to the boogie the beat. now what you hear is not a test. >> driving to the beat of the beat. >> and me, the groove. >> and my friends are gonna try to move your feet.
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>> 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 like, yo, y'all got hip hop. >> so when people talked about the song, they go, what's that hip hop song? and it was the first hip hop song to crack the top 40. it changed everything. >> rapper's delight in 1979 opens this incredible door to the last new american art form, which is hip hop. >> i get chills just thinking about it. >> is this really true? >> never did i think that something like this could happen. >> when i was ten years old, my mom and dad said you were kidnaped from the hospital. >> i had no idea. >> i declare to be your only savior. come on. poisoned. seriously?
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fund.com. >> i'm bill weir on the california coast and this is cnn kick out the jams, mother. >> detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. it's all night. the mc5, the motor city five, and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums that indicate that there's 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 yeah kick out the jams i gotta kick em out. >> punk rock was so effing scary to us because here we are with our big majestic songs and here
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comes punk with their like. >> the ramones get started as a reaction to everything else that's going on. people see them and they go, this is the answer. oh, let's go, hey, oh let's go. >> i had to see how great rock n roll is supposed to be done. >> how should it be done? no pyrotechnics, no phony showmanship, just pure rock n roll energy, pure guts, pure stamina. >> and muscle genera sde teiman. dancing around the lucas lilieholm. >> it's just real and raw, and there's no crap involved as opposed to the standard schlock we hear on the top 40. >> the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patti smith. >> i'm an artist. >> rock n roll is my art. >> the new york dolls with us, sweetheart, the dead boys, no rock n roll, anybody could play.
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>> and richard hell, isn't that. >> number's called i belong to the blank generation. >> richard hell was one of the first to cut his own hair. he was 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 that he invented that. >> punk in the united states is a musical aberration, 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. >> if punks have a home territory, it is here on king's road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the miniskirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s. >> emil bove belongs to punk rockers kings row, belongs to punks. >> what's the slightly done for us? nothing. i got me a job. >> there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean, there isn't. >> there isn't an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. some and calling to the faraway towns. >> now war is declared and
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battle come down. >> you've been said to be a political group. >> yeah. say, i've said it. yeah, it's true. there was jobs and 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. stop running, but i have no fear, cause london is drowning. >> i, i live by the river. i never felt so much like a 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 that you call punk. they might buy it if you call it new wave. >> you hear a lot about 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, excellent.
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>> talking heads was the ultimate college band, and they did a sophisticated, spiky music that reflected who they were, and that particularly reflected the fascinating individual that david byrne would emerge to become. >> i thought i'd write a song about urban guerrillas from the point of view of their daily lives, instead of from the point of view of their politics. >> ed lavandera is loaded with weapons, packed up and ready to go. >> 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 that there was 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 mudd club or cbgb. i ain't got time for that. >> now you pick any genre you
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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 was great about a me decade is that 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 in the night time. >> i might not ever get home. this ain't no party. this ain't no disco. this ain't no fooling around. i love to hold your hand. i love to kiss your man i ain't got time for that. jive. trouble in transit. got through the roadblock. we blended in with the crowd. we got computers. we're tapping phone lines. i know that that
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