the same band on the same day after one big. >> reporter: why? >> i think we took too much of the attention away from the lead singer, and he was an attention seeker. he was taking all his clothes off on stage and literally climbing the rigging. >> reporter: so what were you doing to compete with that? >> playing quite well. he didn't like it. >> reporter: in 2007, the four found each other when mumford, who had written some songs, wanted to put a band together to play them. who puts a studio under a train? >> the cheapest real estate you can get. >> reporter: they began rehearsing in this london studio. >> we're actually right under the train, right? >> you'll hear it, don't worry. >> here you go. here it comes. that's the train. >> reporter: it was here the band found its sound. >> singing together for the first time, i remember that feeling. >> reporter: what do you remember about it? >> i remember it sounding better than i thought it would. >> me too. ♪ and it was your heart on the line ♪ >> reporter: their debut album,

sigh no more, released in 2009 would sell more than 8 million copies worldwide. and you shot your first album cover right here? >> right here in this window. >> reporter: winston marshall's mother owned the antiques shop downstairs while the band lived upstairs at the time. >> hassleblad stood exactly in the middle of the road to find the best way to frame it. it's fantastic. pwith the name?w did you come up >> it was born a little butt of the antique store. we wanted it to feel like a family business. i wish my name wasn't in it. we thought about changing it. >> reporter: to what? >> marshall and sons. >> reporter: marshall and mumford also had both been inspired as teenagers. >> we hear that you pay good money to sing into a can. >> reporter: by the soundtrack to the 2000 film "o brother

where art thou." ♪ >> i think it was a powerful film because it brought that mountain music to london city boys who never would have been exposed to it. it made it really cool. >> glamorized it. ♪ the place where he was born and raised ♪ >> reporter: in 2011, an appearance on the grammys with bob dylan -- ♪ -- brought them more attention in america. >> and the grammy goes to -- >> reporter: two years later, they were back at the grammys. >> babel, muhammmford & sons wh their album won album of the year. why do people hate mumford so much one british magazine asked? the band was accused of playing dress-up with their attire and instruments, a charge they even

parodied ified in one of their . ♪ did any of that get under your skin? >> the authenticity thing got under my skin a little bit. we definitely don't expect or even desire to be liked by everyone. that was a frustration to me, because it was just -- i thought it was narrow minded. ♪ when it feels like nothing else matters, you put your arms around me ♪ >> reporter: it doesn't stop mumford's ascent. but in 2013, ted dwane's emergency brain surgery nearly did. how serious was that? >> is there a not serious version of it? >> it's only been the last like year where i've sort of rethought about it. that was brutal. >> reporter: what exactly were you feeling? >> i feel like somebody hit me in the head with a baseball bat and i was czyz city. >> reporter: while on tour, a

blood vessel in dwane's brain had burst, but come how he played for days before being diagnosed. what did you think when they told you what you had? >> i was so relieved. >> reporter: when they told you what it was? >> my tour manager came out you're going have to have brain surgery in the morning. sweet! make it go away. it was the most incredible pain. sure enough, i woke up the next morning and felt much better. >> reporter: less than three weeks after that close call, the group headlined the glastonbury festival in london. >> the reaction when marcus said ted's alive on stage with 100,000 people standing in front of us, the wave of emotion that came over everyone. i can't imagine what it was like for you. ♪ >> reporter: your shows must be so much bigger than they were in the beginning in terms of all of this. >> but it's funny. when we look at each other on stage, that hasn't really changed. ♪

chasthe eent of a sold-out show. >> the ones that didn't sell out, and that frustrates me. because we want to sell shows out. well love playing live. >> reporter: do you ask before a show whether you sold out? >> yeah, i do. always. pmumford, the son of a minister becomes evangelical. >> so there is some sense of abandon that we get to be in awe of which is an extraordinary thing. when you hear 18,000 people, it's an amazing feeling. it's a miracle. it's something in the power of congregation that's cool. >> thank you very much, everybody. we're mumford & sons. >> don't forget to watch the grammy awards right here on cbs sunday starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. eastern. the "overnight news" will be around here, nobody ever does it. i didn't do it. so when i heard they added ultra oxi

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yesterday, the nation honored the legacy of dr. martin luther king jr. it was 55 years ago that the civil rights icon delivered the american dream sermon at ebenezer baptist church in atlanta. now we asked his children, the niece and martin luther king iii and his granddaughter yolanda to read part of that speech. ♪ we shall not

>> i would like to discuss -- >> some of the problems that we confront in the world today. >> and some of the problems that we confront in our own nation -- >> -- by using as a subject the american dream. >> i chose this subject because america is essentially a dream. it is a dream of a land where men of all races, of all nationalities, and of all creeds can live together as brothers. >> the substance of the dream is expressed in these sublime words. we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, that they're endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. >> that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. >> now we notice in the very beginning that at the center of this dream is an amazing

universalism. >> it does not say some men but it says all men. it does not say all white men, but it says all men, which includes black men. >> blacks and whites together. >> it does not say all gentiles, but it says all men, which includes jews. it does not say all protestants, but it says all men, which includes catholics. >> that is something else that we notice in this american dream, which is one of the things that distinguishes our form of government with some of the other tote at talitarian sy. >> each individual has inherent rights that are neither derived from or conferred by the state. >> there are gifts from the

hands of the all mighty god. ♪ keep your eyes on the prize >> for the american dream reminds us that every man is the heir of a legacy of worthfulness. ♪ we are not afraid >> but ever since the founding fathers of our nation dreamed this dream, america has been something of a schizophrenic personality. >> on the one hand, we have proudly professed the noble principles of democracy. on the other hand, we have sadly practiced the very antithesis of those principles. >> indeed, slavery and segregation have been strange paradoxes. >> in a nation founded on the principle that all men are created equal. ♪ we shall overcome

>> but now more than ever before, america is challenged to realize its noble dream, for the shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of an anemic democracy. >> and the price, the price that the united states must pay for the continued exploitation and oppression of the negro and other minority groups is the price of its own destruction. >> so in a real sense our hour is late and the clock of destiny is ticking out. >> we must act now before it is too late. >> it is trite but urgently true that if america is to remain a first class nation, she can no longer have second class citizens. >> words that are as important today as they ever were. the "overnight news" will be right back.

so consider this. sunday could end up being lizzo night at the grammys. she has been nominated for eight awards. that's the most of any artist. lizzo took time out of her superstar schedule for a chat with our own gayle king. >> i used everything that happened to me and made myself stronger. >> reporter: while it may seem that she came out of nowhere, lizzo, now 31, has actually been perfecting her craft for almost a decade. we met her here at bk9, her favorite caribbean restaurant in brooklyn, to talk about her long ride to the top. what's your name on your birth setter cal? >> my name is melissa viviane jefferson. >> reporter: beginning with her name. >> lizzo happened in middle school. me and my friends, we all had this thing where we would put o on the ends of our names. it was lexo, nino.

you would be gayleo. so i went by lizzo. >> reporter: lizzo was the youngest of three and grew up in the suburbs of houston. her love of music started when she learned to play the flute in fifth grade. >> yeah, i was a band nerd. i was so good at flute. my dad wanted me to be this contemporary flutist. >> reporter: at 18 she attended the university of houston on a musical scholarship, studying classical flute. >> i love classical music, tchaikovsky, it makes me feel alive. >> reporter: but just two years into college, lizzo dropped out. her beloved father, who had always encouraged her to play music, had passed away. >> i kind of rea >> reporded. i didn't have a purpose. i didn't feel like i had a purpose for being a musician or anything. so that turned into oh, can i sleep on your couch?

and that eventually i got really guilt-ridden. so all i had was this car was a subaru. that was my home for a while. i spent thanksgiving in that car, and i remember i cried myself to sleep. >> reporter: lizzo says surviving these rough times motivated her to make music again, and with few options, she answered an ad off of craigslist. >> it was this band looking for a singer. >> reporter: craigslist? >> yeah. okay, i'm going to say i was a singer. >> reporter: but she didn't know she was a singer. >> you're a singer. you're not a rapper. thanks. because, honey, i could not sing so i jusent forit theyplay a was singing like full throttle, no technique, no intonation, no control. by the end of it, i was like -- and i was looking around at them. we don't know what you did or said, but you felt it, and we like it.ck, lizzo.

that is the "cbs overnigh ♪ it's tuesday, january 21st, 2020. this is the "cbs this morning." making the case. president trump's impeachment trial unfolds in the senate today. but before opening statements, a debate over rules amid a push for fresh witnesses. viral spread. international concern grows as new cases of the potentially deadly coronavirus are reported, now possibly outside of asia. and together again. harry, the duke of sussex has reportedly returned to canada to be with his wife and son.