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tom homan yossi we say, long form journalism. the whole story with anderson cooper sunday at eight on cnn. >> we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. >> there are some that have accused you of videos being soft porn. >> we like to call them tastefully. a group. >> that's never had any problems saying how they feel. you two. >> what are your dreams? >> to rule the world? >> michael jackson is the man of the 80s. >> music that is all beat and talk. it's rap music. >> my life is over, so i might as well speak my mind. >> heavy metal. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority. and adolescent boys love it. >> this weird. >> beastly. presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell.
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ohn lennon, as he was entering his promise. he was shot by an unknown at this time, white male. >> the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination.
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>> it was like in one moment, the 60s and the 70s got murdered. >> in his life has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we're here to prove that love is not dead. even though john is. >> you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don't really know where you're going to go from that point. you know, culturally or musically. >> for a while, it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. announcing the latest achievement in home entertainment, the power of sight video the power of sound, stereo, mtv music television. >> we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we'll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. >> at the time, the world was saying, we don't think anybody's going to watch videos over and over, but we knew we had something special. >> ooh, my little pretty woman, a pretty one. when you gonna
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give me some time, sharona? >> mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. you had a personal concert all day., and. >> when you have the rotation of, say, maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts whether you've been down, but you visit me, please, if i open my door in cars. >> britain was ahead of the curve. they had a ton of videos in their inventory, and that was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. >> if you look at some of the groups on the popular music charts in america today, you can't help asking, where on earth did they come from? well, the answer is the same today as it was two decades ago. they come from britain. >> the music isn't anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. >> you got to understand, they were 20 years ago. we're a new generation and new a new wave. >> you were working as a waitress in a. cocktail bar
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when i met you. >> by the early 1980s, new wave is used to describe these sleek, dressy, cool bands that are coming out of england. >> you want me, baby don't you want me? oh. >> british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didn't necessarily get that quickly. >> do you really. want to hurt me? do you really want to make me cry? >> do you really want to hurt me is a good song. it's a song that old people like and young people like. so i think the proof is in the pudding. buy it and eat it. >> mtv actually met with duran duran's managers and said, we're looking for kind of like james bond videos on location, and their managers are the ones that went to the band members and said, look, we really need to up the ante with these clips. you know, we need to give this
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channel something they've never seen before. >> drooling on the floor. now, babe, you're a bird of paradise. >> there are some that have accused you of videos being soft porn. >> well. >> excuse me. >> we like to call them tastefully my name is. >> rio and she dances on the sand. just like that river twisting through a dusty lane and when she sang. >> when i first met. duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like rock stars. so why not become rock stars? >> instead? don't stand so don't stand so close to me. >> why do you think we're so popular over there? >> well. >> i think there's a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years, from the days of the beatles and the rolling stones,
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where british bands seem to be better at it than the americans. >> the police have sold 4 million albums in one year. rolling stone chose them as the best new band of the year, taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of the sound. >> you can't u-box. >> poppy harlow. >> it was incredible to see them and i couldn't believe what i was hearing out of three people. i was shocked. >> i once read that you were called the pink floyd of the 80s. what do you think of that? >> we're not at all. we just. they're the cure of the 80s. >> i don't know, i was wrong when i said it was true that it couldn't be me and be her in between. >> the holy trinity of alternative british music is the cure. depeche mode and the smiths. all three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. >> getting to me, will you take
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the pain? i won't give it to you again and again. and will you return it? >> what's new order computer programmers or musicians? >> i'd say neither, actually. >> what are you then? >> a bank robbers? >> how does it feel to treat me like you do when you play. >> in the uk? disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new order combined it with the new synthesizer sound. and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. >> i still find it so hard to say what i need to say. >> i like what's happening in dance places now. over the last year or two, i think the music is becoming very healthy you can say the universe is
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artist as well as a musician. >> calls the fox right on the right. >> the intelligent ones recognize that it's a marriage between the visual artist and the musician. at this point. >> don't you know you're gonna shock the monkey? >> the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. >> let's dance. put on your red shoes and dance the blues. >> when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a commercial album. like, you know, now i'm going to go make a pop record, but it was going to be his version of pop. >> my songs always tend to be impressionistic or even have a surreal quality to them, and on this album, it's the first time that i've really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting.
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>> and paul. into my arms. tremble like a flower. >> artists in the 80s and david bowie, for that matter, realized if you want to make it, you got to be on mtv. >> but there's one group that's not happy with mtv. many black artists who have been told their music doesn't fit the format. that's what's happening. we're being sat in the back of the bus, television style. and if pittman gets away with this and there are other cable shows that form, they're going to try it. mtv doesn't exclude. >> black acts. >> what mtv does exclude is music that's not rock n roll. >> mtv came out with no consideration on how to infuse black music into their mix. >> i'm just floored by the fact that there are so many, so few black artists featured on it. why is that? >> we have to. >> try and do what we think. not only new york and los angeles will appreciate, but also some town in the midwest that will be scared to death by prince or a string of other black faces.
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>> interesting. okay. thank you very much. >> when are we going to see anybody of color on mtv? because you said music, television. when are you going to start covering all genres of music? >> music has no color and it shouldn't have color. and i don't believe in that. what i do, i don't want it labeled black or white. i want it labeled as music. >> 1983. motown has this big tv special. motown's 25th anniversary at that time. thriller is out and thriller is doing well. but michael jackson couldn't get billie jean on mtv. >> she was more like a. bit of. >> the scene. >> when the rest of the world was going crazy and he can't get on mtv. michael jackson, come on.
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>> when he does that moonwalk, if he was sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldn't believe what you were seeing. >> i will. >> say that the moonwalk was. really one. >> of the first. >> viral moments. >> that affected rock history. >> the next week. >> thriller started. >> selling a million copies a week. >> i like michael jackson because. because he's good, he's bad. he knows how to dance. >> he's so sexy and so gorgeous. >> he's exciting. >> michael jackson is the man of the 80s. >> mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson's label. >> rock n roll in itself really. >> was the thing that. >> broke a lot of rules. and when you're very successful, you try to make your own rules. occasionally. >> as the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you don't play this. they had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. >> it doesn't matter who's wrong or right. just beat it. >> beat it. he was the artist
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that mtv really needed. they didn't know they needed him. but boy, when we started to see those michael jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. >> and then there was a domino. >> effect. >> suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing. >> so tonight i'm gonna party like it's 1999. >> lisa prince wasn't just a materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was done? well, prince was a huge star on black radio stations. >> i mean, people had a real underground cult following. and he was a very sexy, hot performer. >> the sweat of your body covers me. can you, my darling? can you picture. >> prince loved the idea that he was taking his punk funk music and turning it on to a white audience, and that wouldn't have happened if not for mtv. >> this is what it sounds like when doves cry. >> when i was younger, i always
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said that one. day i was going to play all kinds of music and not be judged for the color of my skin, but the quality of my work. see, you we >> prince had a great androgyny. >> he blurred. >> the gender line. >> he sings, he writes, he plays. >> every time i see him, it's just like, oh, really? okay, i quit. >> when he plays guitar, it's just part of his body in a way that i've never really seen before. and it's not contrived. it's just it's just happening. >> what was his music? was it r&b? you know? his music was just straight down the middle. mainstream grab you by the throat and balls pop. >> we go down to the river
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and into the river. we die. >> at this point, a lot of it is about being there. which is why we haven't done too much of the video thing. a lot of it is it allows too much distance. like what our band is about is about breaking down distance. >> at night. >> bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrity. so how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video? bruce is not going to be next to a winking model on a sailboat. >> you can't start a fire you can't start a fire without a spark. this gun's for hire. >> he ends up doing essentially an in concert video starring a then unknown courteney cox. it's like this weird recreation of something that organically happens in a bruce springsteen concert. >> born in the u.s. >> if there was an artist in the
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famous, all rich and all men. rock n roll has been pretty much dominated by men until the last few years. >> you're a heartbreaker. >> pat benatar is hot, very hot. three albums in the past three years, all million sellers. and the latest album hit the top of the charts in just one month. her style is defiant, raucous, tough and very sexy. >> we are young. heartache to heartache. we stand. no promises, no debate. >> it appears. >> to me that the. >> one on stage is what i would picture a modern woman to be someone who is aggressive and soft at the same time, has a lot of strength and conviction, and can look good and still have brains. >> you would think that in the era of music becoming a visual form more than ever, that it would all be about objectification. but there were a lot of strong women on that
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video screen. >> meet the darlings of l.a .'s new music scene. the go-go's see the people walking. >> down the. >> street. >> unlike earlier girl groups such as the ronettes or the supremes, the go-go's write their own songs and play their own instruments. >> they got the beat. they got the beat. yeah, they got the beat. >> that was as punk rock as it got for me to see girls up there, you know, not just singing back up or not, just like standing in some cool outfit in front of a band like they were the band. >> doesn't matter what they say. in the. davos can't be. >> while the go-go's have. >> always managed to look like they're having fun. >> they are to. >> be. >> taken seriously. they're the first. >> female group. >> ever to have. >> a number one album, and. >> they are.
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>> at the top of. >> a list. >> of female rock stars whose impact within. >> the industry is. >> stronger than ever. >> the phone rings in the middle of the night. my father yells, what you gonna do with your life? >> i thought her voice was extraordinary, and cyndi was a very good visual content creator. i mean, those videos were so colorful and fun. >> this being. march the 31st. >> it's also a monday. some of you might consider it a manic monday. you'd be interested in knowing there's a hit song of the same name, and we're joined by the architects of that song. they are the bangles. you guys are very hot. yes. >> clap already. i was just in the. >> middle of a dream. >> when the bangles came out. everyone was like, oh, it's like another go-go's. the bangles were like, uh uh, we're not the new go-go's. we're the new beatles. >> but i can't be late. cause then i guess i just. >> a lot of people call that a 60s sound. do you do you think so? >> just. >> that's our main influence. we don't go in and consciously
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say, let's make this a buffalo springfield song. it's just that seems to be the way the songs end up sounding. >> just another manic monday. wish it was sunday. >> there's always a certain amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. >> i mean, it's run by a very chauvinistic. i'd imagine, recording industry. >> yeah. >> so we concentrate on the music, you know, we don't really worry about those things. we just keep writing songs. i think that there was a little bit of an attitude like, they're okay for chicks. they can play okay for girls. we didn't understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. >> people magazine this week says it'll take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a mega-star. whitney houston. >> how will i know if he really loves me? i say a prayer with every heart. >> whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad.
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>> doge greatest love of. all. time. >> it kind of stopped you in your tracks, because you just couldn't believe that one woman could be blessed with that much. with the looks and the talent. >> this lady started out as a dancer, went to new york, went to paris, worked with bands, came back as a single and is she hot? this is madonna. >> if you saw madonna, then she looked just like the girls who hung out at a club called the funhouse. all the girls there had the mesh thing and they had the boots, and it was kind of a mix of new wave punk with this other dance sensibility. >> celebrate. >> i think madonna was able to use that core of dance music and use the style of the streets that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. >> we are a couple of weeks into the new year. what do you hope will happen not only in 1984,
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but for the rest of your professional life? what are your dreams? what's left. >> to rule the world? >> star, star. bright first star i see tonight. star light. star bright. make everything all right, all right. >> all of a sudden there was girls around that had the gloves with the fingers cut out of it. and the hair wrapped up in the net. and wearing the short skirts. there was like, hundreds of thousands of jewish girls around the country wearing crucifixes because of madonna. >> what do you. >> like about it? >> well, i like the way she thinks about acting free. she acts like a different attitude that no one else has to dress how she wants, acts how she wants things, how she wants. she does what she wants. >> i think her. >> appeal is that. >> she is feminine. >> she is herself. she is sexual, but she's strong. she's an individual woman. >> madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. she understood the vibe and the look and the sound. it all came together with her.
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>> everyone underestimates you. you keep giving them little surprises. if they get you all in one glance, then what's. what's going to make them look again? >> ooh, like a virgin feels so good inside. >> with madonna. sang like a virgin and started rolling around the ground. people thought it was a career ending moment for her. >> i. oh. >> in this wedding dress rolling around on the floor, it kind of stopped everybody in their tracks. i was thinking, what is she doing and why is she doing it? but literally by the next morning, she's the biggest star in the world. >> madonna had no doubt. she was like, this is happening. get out of the way. >> can a personal loan unlock
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this like, amazon welder woman or something. >> we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. >> it did feel like i can't steer the ship anymore. where is it going? you know? where are we headed? >> i think heavy metal is is the true rock and roll of the 80s, and rock and roll was basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches and having hundreds of places. >> i. >> like a piece. >> heavy metal. it is not something new in physics. it is rock n roll, loud, rude. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority and adolescent boys love it. >> this is it. this is the hot stuff. >> hey! >> alan, turn it off for a second so we can talk. >> in the dark. one step away
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from you i'm in the dark. >> you turn on. >> your television set and you see this weird, beastly. presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. >> where do they. >> get this information. >> from that i am satan. do i appear to you to have horns? i know i'm a bit strange looking, but i haven't quite got horns and breathe. i don't speak like that. >> critics say there's something seriously wrong with metal music. outrageous by design that it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. >> has rock n roll. >> finally gone. >> too far? >> well, a growing number of people think so. >> and today they took their case to a u.s. senate hearing their complaint that rock lyrics and videos are crossing the line into trash and. >> we are asking the recording industry to voluntarily assist parents who are concerned by placing a warning label on music products inappropriate for younger children due to explicit sexual
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or violent lyrics. >> in the 80s, these artists, who were pushing boundaries in different ways, were bringing those messages and images into our homes, and that provided a political opportunity to push back against it. >> we can. >> say they're senators. >> wives, you know, and they're messing around in washington, but they obviously have some real concerns. there's a lot that they do that i applaud because they are taking responsibility as citizens. >> i brought along two videos which i believe are representative of the kind of presentation which had caused the furor. >> oh, got it made, got it made, got it made. i'm hot for teacher. i got. effects, baby. >> who's gonna. >> decide what's a sexual. content of a lyric? who's going to decide. >> what is. >> obscene? and like that same housewives who are who are spearheading the movement.
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>> in all candor, i would tell you, it's outrageous filth that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. >> fans felt, you know, i'm capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. i don't need tipper gore deciding that this is too obscene for me. >> so the next witness will be mr. frank zappa, the establishment. >> of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain christians don't like. i think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. >> yeah, you and i would differ on what's ignorance and educated. >> the women didn't. >> get the ratings system they. >> wanted, but they did get a commitment to begin applying a printed inscription on the packaging of albums, cassettes and music videos warning that they contain blatant, explicit lyrics. >> good rock n roll breaks all the rules. okay, that's just the way it is. that's the way it
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always has been. elvis presley was not good for the children either. >> good morning everybody. >> i'm very pleased to announce live aid. which without a doubt will be the largest pop concert ever held. >> live aid was the brainchild of bob geldof and midge ure, and the two of them were looking to raise as much money as possible for the famine victims in ethiopia. >> when tomorrow's 17 hour fundraising concert. >> starts. >> sellout crowds. >> in the. >> stadiums will be joined by a television audience of perhaps 1.5 billion. >> people around. >> the world. >> oh, come on, baby. getting the rough. come on now. in the middle of the road. yeah. >> watching live aid on tv was my version of driving to woodstock. and i watched every second of it. >> everybody's in the fight and be preceded to live like a refugee. have to live like a
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>> group there. wayne gretzky. >> he's the goat. >> this keeps. >> it light. >> up. >> there anson. >> carter he's. >> definitely the grinder. >> of the group. >> handsome man. >> rocket always looks dapper. they're all a bunch of beauties. >> watch nhl on tnt and stream on max wednesdays. >> right now all. >> around us and so compelling. you never miss the fact there's no melody is a music that is all beat, strong, beat and talk. it's rap music. >> rap music began in harlem, in the south bronx, on playgrounds like this one, where people would gather to spin records and then recite their own lyrics, their raps over the instrumental sections. come on now. >> brakes on the bus, brakes on the. >> car, the. brakes was kurtis blow's biggest hit, selling 680,000 copies last year and hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. >> as a young kid, running around with a local dj crew, i watched the transition from all the disco music that we used to play at all the block parties to
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slowly but surely hip hop taking over. >> the music underneath. rapping is. >> called. >> scratching, and it's a process of using two turntables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already existing albums. >> the thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip hop, because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it to the forefront. >> a child is born with no state of mind, blind to the ways of mankind. god is smiling on you, but he's frowning too, because only god knows what you go through. >> the message was the first hip hop song that wasn't just a party song, it was talking about what was going on. it was talking about urban decay. it was talking about drugs, crime, prison, all of these things that were hitting these communities really hard. >> scramblers, burglars, gamblers, pickpocket, peddlers, even panhandlers. you say, i'm cool. >> when a message hit, man, it was. >> like, okay, put that down. what did you just say? put the record back, play that again.
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>> don't push me cause i'm close to the edge. >> everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of. >> rappers we're getting iller. >> there's no one chill. it's not michael jackson. and this is not dub. it's one def rapper. >> when run-d.m.c. came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hip hop and making something brand new out of it. >> you can't touch me. >> with a ten foot pole. and i even made the devil sell me his soul. >> so run-d.m.c. kind of led zeppelin ized hip hop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. >> schoolgirl sleazy, classy, kind of sassy miniskirt hanging way up the knee. it was three young ladies in a school gym. >> aerosmith had sort of fallen off the map at that point, and it sort of brings them back into the fore. and it also breaks run-d.m.c. in a much bigger way, because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip hop and. >> white. >> run-dmc's latest. >> album, entitled raising hell,
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has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks, a first for a rap record. >> the album is called licensed to ill. that's a stupid name for an album. >> seung min kim play for school, man. you don't want to go. yakima. please. but she still says no. >> hip hop was our baby. this was our culture. this is our music. we created it. and then here come the beastie boys. and we were afraid that we were going to lose. >> it. you gotta fight for your right to play. >> and then when we started listening to their music, they really were funky and they could really get busy. so we were like, okay, all right. >> i'll be it. i love brash, spunky monkey who we got the bottle. >> beastie boys, come out. what people thought would be a pop hip hop group. no, it was straight hip hop. beastie boys was dope, you know what i mean?
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>> glass monkey junkie, that funky monkey. >> licensed to ill. >> really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hip hop culture. >> can you give. >> us some definitions of the ls l l. >> l l stands for ladies love, legend. >> and leather. long and lean. lover of ladies. last of the red hot lovers. looking for. >> a little. >> look and learning the one you're liking. >> it's just a lot of ls >> the guy's. >> going to be talking about yourself. >> how much of a lover. >> how the women love him to death. you know what i mean? >> how they can. >> how they can throw down. how good they can dance. >> how bad they are. nobody better not mess with me. >> and all of that kind of foolishness. if they were to address the issues, the issues being poverty, the issues being not having political power, you see what i'm saying? all of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. planet earth was my place of birth, born to be the. >> sole controller of the universe. rakim is the god emcee. he single handedly changed the phrasing of rap
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music and hip hop. he came to the world like a poet. on the boulevard, so i bow guard and never get scarred. >> i learned different rhythms. listening to jazz. i learned different rhythms. so i kind of incorporated that with my rhyme style, you know, not just the regular doom, doom, doom i was in between doom doom doom doom doom doom., all i can be and more. >> and see all there is to see before. >> of course, what i'm trying to do. i'm trying to set an example for the little kids, you know what i'm saying? got to teach the babies, you know what i'm saying? try to lead them in the right path. >> yes. >> the rhythm. >> the rebel. >> without a pause, i'm lowering my level. >> the summer of 1987. rebel without a pause comes out. it was a call to arms. it was the sound of anger. it was the sound of something boiling under. public enemy literally said that we want to be music's worst nightmare. >> public enemy is extreme politics. >> that meant almost. >> no radio airplay, even. >> on black stations. >> it's rap. >> for a reason. >> they call it a. >> mind. revolution. >> and rebel in his own mind. support of my rhyme, desire to
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scatter. >> rebel without a pause. >> was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was going on. it was really a desperate call to have us being heard. >> you talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. shouldn't you maybe be thinking about who are the people i've got out here? haven't you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally.? >> responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutally brutalized and ignored for years. you might have standing in the welfare line, the way that you survive is crime. my life is over. so i might as well speak my mind until the. >> i.c.e. t is the first west coast gangsta rap reality rap dudes six in the morning. police at my door. iced tea did it way before n.w.a did. >> it. straight outta compton. crazy named. ice cube from the gang called with attitudes. when i'm called off, i got a sawed off. squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off. you too boy if you.
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>> the los angeles rap group n.w.a. drew fire from police because its album straight outta compton talked in brutal and vulgar language about retaliating against cops for their anti-gang sweeps in the l.a. area. >> n.w.a gave us the gritty, grimy, streets of compton. this is what's going on with us. >> as i. >> leave. believe i'm stompin. but when i come back, boy, i'm comin straight outta compton. >> kick back and embrace the southern charm. enter for your chance to win hgtv dream home 2025. brought to you by wayfair. every style, every home. >> nabil abdallah. home. is. >> sergio gor music.
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history. >> i don't. >> want to. >> be remembered as just a basketball player. >> a special encore presentation of kobe next on cnn. >> i won't my. mtv. >> people can talk about videos, but in the 80s, the actual sound. >> of what. >> popular music was and what was accepted as a sound, a drum sound or a keyboard sound or a bassline sound changed profoundly over the course of the decade. >> contracts me crazy go back no one else could. were you drive me crazy and i can't help myself. >> coming to the end of the 80s. like watching a kaleidoscope. you open it up and you see a little bit of everything. >> a love shack is a little place where we can get together. >> it was a time when everybody
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was getting involved and everybody was expressing themselves loudly. we are having the best time ever. >> never gonna give you up. never gonna let you down. never gonna run around and desert you. >> every audience seems to get fed. you know, we fed the pop audience. but where's the rock n roll? >> oh, we're halfway there. oh, livin on a prayer. take my hand. we'll make it. i swear. >> bon jovi comes in with a huge record. >> on tv on their. >> def leppard. fantastic record. and that begins to bring that kind of music back. >> at the end of the 80s. everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously. something new needs to happen
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here, and it's got to be real sounding more garage less produced. >> maggie long music. >> this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle and bands like nirvana that weren't looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or what was being played on radio i can see you every night. eventually, radio and mtv came to them. the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there. by the end of the 80s. college rock, like r.e.m., was something new entirely. >> for me. down. follow me. i've got my spine. i've got my orange crush. >> the way that peter buck played guitar and the way that stipe sang where the voice was incredible, but you couldn't
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quite figure out what he was saying. it just made them more alluring and kind of more mysterious. you could get why that band would become. >> huge for me, i. >> mean. >> it wasn't new wave. it wasn't a new romantic. they started calling it alternative music. >> typekit josh stein. it's the end of the world as. i feel fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. now. >> you know, if this is the thing about the 80s, everyone thinks it's about crazy haircuts, lots of makeup, insane clothes. and it was. but the thing about this music that lasts is that their songs were so good. >> you can go back. >> and listen to those records. >> from the. engineering to the. musicianship to. >> the writing and to. >> the performance of it, it. >> surpasses most.
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>> music. >> everybody had a story and they wanted to tell it. the artists that were coming through the tv and into your lives everybody wants to. >> i'll say that the music of the 80s is more effective than what came to us in the 60s, simply because all of us were included this time. no decade was more effective in dance, music and politics and different genres than the 80s. there will never, ever be another decade like it ever. >> anybody wants to know there's a rule. when i don't find you holding hands while the walls come tumbling down. when they do, i'll be right behind you so glad we've almost. made it. and so sad they had to make it everybody wants

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