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 were sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. This small gathering on savile row is only the beginning. The event is so momentous that 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 for a lot of people. Rock and roll as we understood in the 1960s was no longer with us. There could never be another beatles. Never. And i wonder what im doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. You might know i lost my old band, or i left it. Imagine theres no heaven, its 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 the music they came up with individually would be that good. I dont no longer have, oh, the beatles need an album. You and paul better go write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. I just write when i feel like it. Imagine all the people yoko, you have been called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. Please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and ive made since we broke up. She did it. The fact is that 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. Hes a fleshier, heavier beatle these days, respectfully married. When the kids come to his concerts, they dont scream anymore, they listen. The significant thing is both john lennon and Paul Mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. But im not the only one mccartney went home and made that record where he plays all the instruments on his own. This kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. Its going to look roughly like this. This is our First Showing of it. This is just the mockup, folks. The new album. Its going to be called ringos reviewer. I sell records. In got the beatles or not. It doesnt matter if ive been in the beatles or not. If they dont like the record they wont buy it. 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. Maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. You dont need no passport you dont need no visas over the years i had such a lot of stockpile of songs i wanted to do. But i only got a quota of one or two tunes per album. Were you held down by the other fellows . Well very subtly, yes. I would just like to thank you all for coming here. As you all know, its a special benefit concert. Ravi shankhar 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 issuethemed concerts. And not only did you get George Harrison, 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 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. Have you any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has . Because we stayed together i suppose. For a few years, the Rolling Stones had taken a lot of casualties. Even brian felt he wasnt going to be around that long. Not everybody makes it. They were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now . 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, muddysounding studio. Baby, i cant stay you got to roll me and call me the tumbling dice that record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. And i remember reading a review saying this is like a debauched album. I was like i dont even know what debauched means but ive got to get some of this debauchery stuff. Baby, i cant stay you got to roll me and call me the tumbling roll me and call me the tumbling dice 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. Ooh, yeah i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. I thought rather than just sing them, which would probably bore the pants off everybody, i would like to kind of portray the songs. Then i turned myself to face me and i never caught a glimpse david bowie has always been a gamechanger. He really is taking the promise of rock that the beatles kicked off and hes taking it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. Changes, changes turn and face the strange changes pretty soon now youre going to get older time may change me but i cant trace time i said that time may change me i cant trace time hey, how ya doing . Uh, phil. Are you guys good with brakes . Were ok. Just ok . We got a saying here. If the brakes dont stop it, something will. Thats not a real saying. It is around here. I wrote it. Just ok is not ok. Especially when it comes to your network. At t is americas best wireless network, according to americas biggest test. Now with 5g e. More for your thing. Thats our thing. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else. Means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. Does this sound dismal . It isnt. Its the most wonderful life on earth. Now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller transitions™ light under control™ transitions™ presents four new colors style colors by transitions™ from capital one. Nd i switched to the spark cash card transitions™ presents four new colors i earn unlimited 2 cash back on everything i buy. And last year, i earned 36,000 in cash back. Which i used to offer Health Insurance to my employees. Whats in your wallet . This year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own. And this is kind of a a letter back home. Ooh, california, oh, california, im coming home oh, make me feel good rock n roll band im your biggest fan california, im coming home you look to the horizon that you want to move toward. And that horizon was here in l. A. Thats where the Record Companies were. And theres lots of sun. The way i got to california was just really simple. I got there in a 57 chevy by skipping my finals that year in college. Virtually no one was from southern california. Theyre all drawn to the light. And the light is the Troubadour Club. Things happened gradually until we played the Troubadour Club in los angeles. Which holds 250 people. It just happened on the first night. Every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour, jackson brown, j. D. , henley and frey, linda ronstadt, kristofferson, joni mitchell, james taylor. The big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. Is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people . Why do you do this . I feel an obligation 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 well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there many stories told me all the ways to get there ooh so on and on i go the seconds tick the time out theres so much left to know while im on the road to find out everyone was 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 the people were, the mysterious mr. King was. Who had written all these songs, chains the beatles did, im into something good, which was part of the british invasion. We did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. Carole king made the transition from being behindthescenes woman to a star in her own right. I feel the earth move under my feet, i feel the sky tumbling down i feel my heart start to tremble whenever youre around carole king is the embodiment of what happens. Because in the 60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people. Then in the 70s with tapestry its the definition of an album of selfexpression. 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 youre listening to . Tapestry. There were a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. Were going to do a song written by my friend john david souther, whos my favorite california songwriter and one of my favorite singers. Its 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. Faithless 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 blows in like a cold dark wind faithless love, like a river flows there have been 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, were starting to get stale. She rings like a bell through the night but you love to love her the original Fleetwood Mac was a fourpiece fullon blues band. They were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. They were as american as they were british. A woman taken by the wind we had an album out, two years previous to joining Fleetwood Mac, called buckingham nicks. And mick really liked the music. And they asked us to join. Fleetwood mac, first stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. We had arrived. Freedom describe being rich and famous in california. This is it, kid. Freedom Freedom Forever ever hit records sometimes bore an audience. Oh, well. Theyre not going to have another hit. Or this one isnt as good as that. Record Companies Like frothing at the mouth, the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. So we were getting ready to make rumors, with everyone falling apart. If loving you isnt the right to do how can i ever change things that i feel the band is five people, five very independent, quite strong minded, quite stubborn individuals. If i could, baby, id give you my world two lovely couples, john and chris married. Their marriage was on the rocks. And stevie and lindsey might as well have been married. That all was falling apart. You can go your own way go your own way you can call it another lonely day we were testifying. And rumors became the church. If you have psoriasis, Little Things can be a big deal. Thats why theres otezla. Otezla is not a cream. Its a pill that treats moderate to Severe Plaque Psoriasis differently. With otezla,75 clearer skin is achievable. Dont use if youre allergic to otezla. It may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. 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Ooh, baby give me one more chance show you that i love you, wont you please let me back to you heart oh, darling i was trying to let you go the only American Group to have four consecutive number one records. Oh, oh, oh i want you back for the first time young black kids had their beatles. Hey, man. What has five hands . Ten legs. And 11 alphabet letters. You dont know . The jackson five. Thats us. And thats no jive. 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 songwriter. He said im going to make music for the world. Ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. 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, cleanshaven, debonair, and all that changed in the 70s. Marvin wanted to compete at a high level. Why cant i make a record like the beatles . Im selling records like they sell. Why cant i have that artistic expression . Picket sign punish me with brutality talk to me so you can see oh, whats going on whats going on yeah, whats going on tell me whats going on ooh marvin gaye was very much affected by the vietnam war. His brother was in vietnam. So hes hearing all these stories about whats going on over there. Hes seeing the protests here and its changing him. He holds up a mirror to america, look at yourself, america. Hes talking about the war, hes talking about poverty. Changing as an artist in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. Mother mother, everybody thinks were wrong, they do initially berry gordy did not not want marvin to do whats going on. Motown was supposed to be nonthreatening. Here you now have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. That could potentially ruin good money. You dont lightly talk about the government. Yes, i want to know whats going on right now ultimately when he agrees to put out whats going on, berry tells marvin, okay, if youre right, ill learn something. And if im right, youll learn something. And of course, as berry will say, i learned something. Every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. When people say soul, they put you in one category. They say, hes a soul artist. Thats all they expect for you to sing. Thats all they want you to sing. Thats 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. Very superstitious, writings on the wall Stevie Wonder making some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. Letters about to fall its the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. Music of my mind. Oh, he made it. He aint going to do it again. Talking book. Innervisions. Fulfillingness first finale. Oh, my god, he did it. And then suddenly songs in the key of life. When you believe in things you dont understand then you suffer superstition aint the way what the beatles did in the 60s i feel Stevie Wonder was the person to do that for music in the 70s. [ cheers and applause ] hi, there. Welcome aboard. Youre right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. If the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure and what you treasure, you can bet your bottom we got them, baby. Soul train finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. It was a new idea to say black is beautiful. I would run home from church to get home to see soul train. It was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. Theres no question that soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences they never performed for before. Shes a dynamite attraction 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 he did it. 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 shes a dancing machine oh, baby [upbeat music] now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller transitions™ light under control™ transitions™ presents four new colors style colors by transitions™ transitions™ presents four new colors at t provides edgetoedge intelligence, covering virtually every part of your manufacturing business. So this wont happen. Because youve made sure this sensor and this machine are integrated. She can talk to him, yes. Atta, boy. Some people assign genders to machines. And you can be sure you wont have any problems. Except for the daily theft of your danish. Not cool at t provides edge to edge intelligence. It can do so much for your business, the list goes on and on. Thats the power of. This shipment will be delivered. Rock, the music that infuriated so many people in the 50s and 60s. The music that so many thought too loud, vulgar and somehow dangerous to our morals. Rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. Heart 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 wont go on further, they were willing to play with those guys and succeed on their terms. The stuff from the 60s was like oh, thats 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. Theyve come to expect a show. We still have time and i still might get by every time i think about it i want to cry in the 70s the groups started to become more theatrical. They realized just giving them the music isnt enough. Weve got to give them something to look at. More naked people, more misbehavior, more over the top stuff going on. Just just more. Oh no time playing stadiums was too unreal. It would just be a sea of faces into infinity. With your sweet bag of lies crazy, crazy, crazy crazy on you stadium tours put a lot of people near music. 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. 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 rock star as this huge figure. Crazy, crazy on 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. The president s plane doesnt have an organ nor a 15foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. Im a bit upset it doesnt have a pool table on board. Apart from that, i think this is about the best way to travel. Americans are now spending 2 billion a year on music. Thats 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. Im telling you rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sarah lee, chevrolet. Supply and demand, its 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 yeah, its a living. It was so decadent and over the top and money just whoo being thrown against the wall. Feel like a hypocrite, if you are consistently evoking the ideas of young people and bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young peoples money and putting it in your pocket, you know, and really what you are is youre a middleaged family man. And its only the hypocrisy that im 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 sweat out on the streets of a runaway American Dream using a sound that was not on the radio. And was not what was mainstream rock. Sprung from cages on highway 9 chrome wheeled, fuel injected, stepping out over the line, oh Bruce Springsteen created his own counterculture. It just speaks exactly to the american spirit. You couldnt hit it on the head more than Bruce Springsteen did. Baby, we were born to run yeah, yes 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, my friends on the cover of newsweek. This is cool. When born to run comes out in 1975 it is the desire to escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. It is an anthem to save your soul. Were doing karaoke later, and youre gonna sing. Jamie, this is your house . I know, its not much, but its home. Right, kids . Kids . Papa, papa [ laughs ] you didnt tell me your friends were coming. Oh, yeah. This one is tiny like a child. Yeah, she is. Oh, but seriously, its good to be surrounded by what matters most a home and auto bundle from progressive. Oh, sweetie, please, play for us. Oh, no, i couldnt. Please. Okay. [ singing in spanish ] for everything that i give, i get so much in return. Join our family of home instead caregivers and help make a world of difference. Home instead senior care. Apply today. Life isnt a straight line. Things happen. And sometimes you can find yourself heading in a new direction. But at fidelity, we help you prepare for the unexpected with Retirement Planning and advice for what you need today and tomorrow. Because when youre with fidelity, a partner who makes sure every step is clear, theres nothing to stop you from moving forward. Introducing the new Capital One Savor card. Y step is clear, earn 4 cash back on dining and 4 on entertainment. Now when you go out, you cash in. Whats in your wallet . woman too late for lunch. O minutes. Starkist saves the day. Sweet and spicy tuna in a pouch smart choice, charlie. charlie no drain, no pain. Just tear, eat. And go try all of my tuna, salmon and chicken pouches. clap, clap olly. I was lucky enough to be invited to david mancusos legendary space in soho called the loft. I thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. Mancuso is one of the guys who really took the art form of playing the records and how he curated the records. He might play isaac hayes record, he might play a salsa record. It wasnt so much about a style as it was an an aesthetic of dancing. There all types of people here. People who dance, people who hop up and down. You can get high. Stay here all night. Why are people dancing again . I wish i knew. But im glad its happening. What we now know as disco really starts with a band called the trammps. The drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor with eight on the high hat. So everything is bam, bam, bam. Burn, baby, burn thats the sound of disco. Burn, baby, burn burn, baby, burn i loved disco. I always loved dance music anyway. Because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. The melody. Giorgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. Donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. And they make some of the Biggest Record of all time. Ooh, love to love you, baby ooh, 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 oh, love to love you, baby i always wondered for the life of me like was more oeder just in the booth, 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, okay, lets do it. And i think she did it in ten minutes. Oh the donna summer records were some of the Biggest Records of all time. And they kicked off a revolution. I wanna do it till the sun comes up unless youve been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed americas latest craze is disco dancing. Thats dancin without the g. Whats disco . Snuffy, where have you been . I want to put on my, my, my, my boogie shoes and boogie with you the queen of the discos take in, what they generate with the records, we are talking about an estimated 4 billion thats with a b 4 billion a year. I remember really being upset about this word disco. It was r b music to me. I felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and werent giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. Do it again. Second half of the chorus but bring that sound in. Thats great. Yeah. One, two, three, four. Tragedy the bee gees always liked r b. They always liked soul. I always thought they were a pop band that always had r b leanings. The bee gees do what pop stars do. They really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. Ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive staying alive ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive [ applause ] this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. This is the place thats in with the disco crowd. I have been to goat ropings and space shots. Ive 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. Its where you come when you want to escape. Its really escapism. In the front door of that spot was insane. I sometimes would walk by to watch the people not get in. Because that was fun, too. Oh, youre not shaved. Theres no way youre going to get in. It doesnt matter. If youre not shaven, just go home. You had to be selected. You had to be chosen to get in. We cant let in everybody who wants to come in. I wish we could. Oh, freak out le freak, cest chic freak out the great chic, led by Bernard Edwards and niall rogers, go to studio 54 to get in. And they dont. So they write a song. Have you heard about the knew dance craze listen to us im sure youll be amazed it was kind of a diss to studio 54 for rejecting them. The part where they say freak out actually began as something else. Freak out le freak, cest chic it went from something off to freak off to being freak out. Just come on down to the 54 find a spot out on the floor oh, freak out thats probably the best thing that ever came out of studio 54 was that song. Disco was a revolutionary force. Funk marries disco and it leads to hiphop. Its 1979, i heard chics good times come on. I kept hearing somebody talk over the song. To the hip, hip hiphop you dont stop a rock it out bubba to the bang, bang boogie boobie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat to the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat what you hear is not a rock to the beat me the groove and my friends are going to try to move your feet. Whats great about the song is thats where hiphop gets its name from. We didnt know it was called rappers delight. So when people talk about it, they go what is that hiphop song . It was the first to crack the top 40. It changes everything. Rappers delight in 1979 opens the door to the last new american art form, which is hiphop. We are farmers. Bumpadum, bumbumbumbum now im gonna tell my momma that im a traveller transitions™ light under control™ transitions™ presents four new colors style colors by transitions™ transitions™ presents four new colors hey, how ya doing . Uh, phil. Are you guys good with brakes . Were ok. Just ok . We got a saying here. If the brakes dont stop it, something will. Thats not a real saying. It is around here. I wrote it. Just ok is not ok. Especially when it comes to your network. At t is americas best wireless network, according to americas biggest test. Now with 5g e. More for your thing. Thats our thing. To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else. Means to fight the hardest battle, which any human being can fight and never stop. Does this sound dismal . It isnt. Its the most wonderful life on earth. Kick out the jams, mother [ bleep ]. Detroit, 1969 is where punk was originally born. Yeah, its all right the motor city five and iggy and the stooges release two pioneering albums that indicate theres a new style of music coming back. Its a garage rock. Its minimalist. Its aggressive. Its loud and its very often obnoxious. Got to kick out the jams, yeah, kick out the jams got to kick em out punk rock was so fing scary to us because here we are with our big majestic songs. And here comes punk with their the ramones get started as a reaction of Everything Else thats going on. People see them and go this is the answer. Hey, ho, lets go hey, ho, lets go here to see how great rock n roll is supposed to be done. How is it supposed to be done . No pyrotechnics, no phony showmanship. Just pure rock n roll. Pure guts, pure stamina. Theyre piling in the backseat theyre generating steam heat pulsating to the back beat blitzkrieg bop just real and raw and theres no crap involved, as opposed to the standard schlap we hear on the top 40. The ramones are part of a wider new york scene. You had people like patti smith. Im an artist. Rock n roll is my art. The new york dolls. The dead boys. Rock and roll anybody can play. And richard hell. Richard hell was one to 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. Its pretty clear that he invented that. Hey, ho, lets go punk in the United States is a statement of sorts of 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 punk has a home territory, it is here on kings road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s. Whats this done for us . Nothing. Aint got me a job. There isnt any future for a kid now. I mean there isnt. There is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of people behind it. London calling through the far away towns war is declared and battle come down you have been said to be a political group. Yeah, ive said it. Its true. If there were jobs, maybe wed be singing about love and kissing or something. The clash, musically, is the best of the lot. Doesnt sound like traditional punk, but it doesnt sound like anybody else but the clash either. But i have no fear because london is drowning i live by the river punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex in their musical performance style. People arent going to buy something that you call punk. They might buy it if you call it new wave. We hear a lot about punk rock these days. Can we have your thoughts on that . I think its better to just call it a new wave, really. I think by defining it as punk youre automatically putting a boundary around what is possible. Bands like talking heads are excellent. Talking heads was the ultimate. They did spiky music that reflected who they were and particularly reflected the fascinating individual that david byrne would emerge to become. I wrote a song about urban guerrillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of the point of view of their politics. Heard of a van that is 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. What makes the 70s so special is that theres still a sense of naivety, the thought that music could really make a difference in your life. This aint no party this aint no disco this aint no fooling around no time for dancing or loveydovey i aint 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 youll 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 their greatest work because they were really exploring. Thats as deep as popular art ever gets. I might not ever get home this aint no party this aint no disco this aint no fooling around i love to hold you i love to kiss you i aint got time for that now i must say to you that the state of the union is not good. Well these people, somehow, turn politics into power and make the government work. We are privileged to witness a significant achieve. I must say to you that the state of the union is not good. Well these people, somehow, turn politics into power and make the government work. We are privileged to witness a significant achieve. In the cause of peace. What was once a distant Foreign Policy issue has become a domestic issue. There is no malaise in the spirit of this country. We can turn this country around and we can turn our economy around and the time to do it is now