what would frank zappa say to you for self-centering? >> frank would chastise me. i cannot say i completely self censored. but i have to think about. i have a song called in for the kill on the new record. i use a freight i'm in for the kill, fire at will press referencing like going for. you're at that moment in time you're really going for. but here i am using gun phraseology. and life and death words to describe my exuberance. i still put the song on the record. mcanany i wrote a song back in 1979 called shoot them down. and in the song i use the phrase shoot them down with a gun. metaphorically buried this was pre-columbine, preschool shootings, pre-any of that stuff. and honestly i don't if i could write that same song today with the same exact lyrics. knowing how some people are reacting to lyrics like that or taking words like that. kennedy: aren't where does music go from here? does it become so watered down and safe that seems the opposite of what rock 'n' roll is supposed to be. >> welby can't do that. can't do that. you've got to write your songs, he got

so we were heavily into frank zappa when we were -- still am. just absorb things. and he was the -- he blew our minds. so we loved his album "hot rats" that he made i think in '69. there was a tune on that record called "sons of mr. green jeans." we nicked that. >> jimmy: i know on "peaky blinders," you have well-known, great musicians contributing songs to the sound transaction. i think -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: who else was on that soundtrack? >> oh, man. we've had -- we've been really lucky. nick cave has been generous, radiohead, p.j. harvey, tom waits, white stripes. >> jimmy:are you involved in that at all, as far as contacting these people or talking to them about it? >> i do what i can. the times that i've met musicians, they seem to really like the show. maybe it's because of the music. or the teams. i don't really know. they seem to be into it and they've been really generous in giving the music, like i said. >> jimmy: right. i don't know that there's any other show that has a soundtrack that is that -- i mean, maybe since "the sopranos" o

1973 a couple of them were in santana, which some of you may have heard of one of them worked with frank zappa and david bowie. and so, you know, i'm getting to listen to all this really cool music and and call it research, you know, and i guess that's sort of the beauty i think of being a tenured full professor is i just say i'm i can just sort of go on this tangent for six or eight months and see if it pans out and if it doesn't maybe i'll do something else maybe not and so i highly recommend becoming a tenured full professor to anyone who could possibly find the opportunity to do so i i hate to do this too, but i'm gonna bring it back to richard nixon. so what was the most i guess surprise rising thing you learned about arthur fletcher's relationship with richard nixon or interactions with richard nixon. so i think i froze for the first half, but are you asking me about the most surprising thing most surprising thing or or to flip it on its side the most nixon own nixonian thing that nickel would do in his interactions with fletcher. isn't that the thing though when when we immerse ourselve

frank zappa. >> the establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to endlesslike. 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 -- ignorance and educated. >> the woman didn't get the rating 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 and roll breaks all the rules. okay? that's just the way it is. that's the way it always has been. elvis presley was not good for the children, either. >> morning, everybody. i am very pleased to announce, to live aid, which, without a doubt, will be the largest pop concert ever held. >> 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, sell-out crowds in the stadiums will be joined by a television audience of, perhaps, 1.5 billion people around the world. >> watching live aid