John lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. The world has reacted with shock and grief to the first rock n roll assassination. 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. Were here to prove that love is not dead even know though john is. You know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point 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, the power of sound. Stereo. Mtv music television. We are so excited about this new concept in tv. Well be doing for tv what fm did for radio. At the time, the world was saying, we dont think anybodys going to watch videos over and over. But we knew we had something special. Pretty one when you going to give me some time mtv made you feel like those artists were in the room. You had a personal concert all day. When you had the rotation of say maybe 100 different videos being rotated over and over on mtv, they do a great job of exposing new acts will you lift me please if i open my door written was ahead of the curve. They had a ton of videos in their inventory. That was what paved the way for this accidental second british invasion. If you look at some of the groups in the music charts today you cant help but ask where on earth did they come from. They come from britain. The music isnt anything like the famous group that came from there, the beatles. Youve got understand they were 20 years ago. Were a new generation and new wave. You were working as a waitress in a cocktail bar, 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. Dont you want me baby dont you want me oh british artists all understood how to use visuals in a way that i think american artists didnt necessarily get that quickly. Do you really want to hurt me do you really want to make me cry its a good song. Its a song that old and young people like. I think the proof is in the pudding. Buy it and eat it. Mtv actually met with duran durans blrgs and said were 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. We need to give this channel something theyve never seen before. Bird of paradise there are some that have accused you of videos being soft porn. Well, excuse me. We like to them tastefully smutty. Just like that river drifting through the dusty when i first met duran duran, they were saying that they thought they looked like rock stars. So why not become rock stars . Dont stand, dont stand so, dont stand so close to me why do you think you were so popular over there. I think theres a tradition that goes back over the past 20 years from the days of the beatles and the Rolling Stones where british bands seem to be better at it than 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. It was incredible to see them and i couldnt 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 . Were not at all. Were just the cure confident 80s. 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. 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Lets 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 im 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 is the first time that ive really tried to adapt to a didactic kind of approach to song writing. You should fall into my arms tremble like artists of the 80s and david bowfor that matter realized if you want to make it, youve got to be on mtv. But theres one group not happy with mtv. Many black artists have been told their music doesnt fit the format. Thats whats happening. Were being sat in the back of the bus. Theyre going to try it. Doesnt exclude black acts. It excludes the music thats not rock n roll. Mtv came out with no consideration how to infuse black music into their mix. Im just floored by the fact that theres so few black artists on it. Why is that . We have to try and do what we think not only in 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. 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 shouldnt have color. And i dont believe in that. What i do i dont want it labeled black or white. I want it labeled as music. And 1983 motown has this big tv special motowns 25th anniversary. At that time, thriller is out and thriller is doing well but Michael Jackson couldnt get billie jean on mtv. She was more like a beauty queen when the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get on mtv, Michael Jackson . Come on. When he does that moon walk, if he was sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. You couldnt believe what you were seeing. I would say that the moon walk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. The next week thriller starred selling a million copies a week. I like Michael Jackson because hes good, hes bad, he knows how to dance. Ooze so sexy and hes so gorgeous. Exciting. Michael jackson is the man of the 80s. Mtv starts taking pressure from cbs records which was Michael Jacksons label. Rock n roll in itself really was the thing that broke a lot of rules. Youre 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 dont play this. They had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. Just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. They didnt know they needed him but boy, when we started to see those Michael Jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. Then theres the domino effect. Suddenly you see prince videos from Warner Brothers do the same thing. Tonight were going to party like its 1999 prince wasnt just a materializing out of nowhere. Where was he before this video was done. Prince was a huge star on black radio stations. I mean, he had a real underground cult following and he was very sexy hot performer. The sbaet of your body covers me my darling can you picture this prince loved the idea that he was taking his punk funk music and turning it on to a white audience and that wouldnt have happened if not for mtv. This is what it sounds like when doves cry whether he i was younger i always 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. Purple rain. Prince had a great androgyny. He blurred the gender line. He sings. He writes, he plays. Every time i see him, its just like oh. Really . Okay. I quit. When he plays guitar, its just part of his body in a way that ive never really seen before. And its not contrived. Its just its 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 and into the river we die at this point, a lot of it is is about beaning there which is why we havent 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. Bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrate. 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 cant start the fire, you cant start the fire without a spark, this guns for hire he ends up doing essentially an inconcert video starring a then unknown courteney cox. This weird recreation of something that organically happens in a Bruce Springsteen done sert. Hes the one guy who didnt actually need to do great music videos to still be a great audience. Hes Bruce Springsteen. It was great music. Its not a quick fix. Its my decision to make beauty last. Roc® retinol, started visibly reducing its not a quick fix. K. The better it works. Retinol correxion® from roc. Methods, not miracles. ™ snap achoo snap achoo achoo snap snap achoo achoo feel a cold coming on . Zicam cold remedy nasal swabs shorten colds with a snap, and reduce symptom severity by 45 . Shorten your cold with a snap, with zicam. My lineage was the vecchios and zuccolis. Through ancestry, through dna i found out that i was only 16 italian. He was 34 eastern european. 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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 video screen. Meet the darlings of l. A. s new music scene, the gogos. See the people walking down the street unlike earlier girl groups such as the ronettes or the supremes, the gogoes write their own songs and play their own instruments. They got the beat 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 backup or not just like standing in some cool outfit in front of a band. Like they were the band. While the gogos have always managed to look like theyre having fun, they are to be taken seriously. Theyre the First Female Group ever to have a number one album, and they are 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, its also a monday. Some off you might consider it a manic monday. Youll be interested in knowing there is a hit song of the same name. Were joined by the architects of that song. They are the bangles. You guys are very hot, yes . 6 oclock already, i was just in the middle of a dream when the bangles came out, everyone was like, oh, its like another gogos. The bangles were like uhuh, were not the new gogoes, were the new beatles. A lot of people call that a 60s sound. Do you think so . Thats our main influence. We dont go in and consciously say lets make this a Buffalo Springfield song. That seems to be the way the songs end up sounding. Just another manic monday wish it were sunday theres always a certain amount of people who will never take women as a group seriously. Its run by a very chauvinistic, i imagine, Recording Industry. We concentrate on the music, you know. We dont really worry about those things. We just keep writing songs. I think that there was a little bit of an attitude like theyre okay for chicks. They can play okay for girls. They can play okay for girls. We didnt understand why our gender mattered or why it defined us. People magazine this week says it will take an act of congress to keep this woman from becoming a megastar. Whitney houston how will i know if he really loves me i say a prayer with every heartbeat whether she was doing a dance song or she was doing a ballad the greatest love of all it kind of stopped you in your tracks because you just couldnt 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 the 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. Holiday celebrate i think madonna was able to use that core dance music and use the style of the streets that were going on and evolve that into a pop career. We are a couple weeks into the new year. What do you hope will happen not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life . What are your dreams . Whats left . To rule the world. Star light star bright first star i see tonight star light star bright make everything 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 her . I like the way she thinks about she acts like with a different attitude that no one else has. She dresses how she wants, acts how she wants, sings how she wants. She does what she wants. I think her appeal is that she is feminine, she is herself, she is sexual. But shes strong shes an individual woman. Madonna understood the mtv phenomenon. She understood the vibe and the look and the sound. It all came together with her. Everyone underestimates you. You keep giving them little surprises. If they get you all in one glance, then whats going to make them look again . Ooh, like a virgin feels so good inside when madonna sang like a virgin and started rolling around on the ground, people thought it was a careerending moment for her. Oh, oh oh, oh in this wedding dress, rolling around on the floor. It kind of stopped everybody in their tracks. They were thinking, what is she doing and why is she doing it . But literally by the next morning she was the biggest star in the world. Madonna had no doubt. She was like, this is happening. Get out of the way. If you have medicare parts a and b and want more coverage, guess what . You could apply for a Medicare SupplementInsurance Plan whenever you want. No enrollment window. No waiting to apply. That means now may be a great time to shop for an aarp Medicare SupplementInsurance Plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. Medicare doesnt cover everything. And like all standardized Medicare SupplementInsurance Plans, these help cover some of what medicare doesnt pay. So dont wait. Call now to request your free decision guide. It could help you find the aarp Medicare Supplement plan that works for you. These types of plans have no networks, so you get to choose any doctor who accepts medicare patients. 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Heavy metal is not something new in physics, it is rock and roll. Loud, rude, it glorifies sex and violence, it hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. This is it, this is the hot stuff. Alan, turn it off for a second so we can talk. 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 im satan . Do i appear to you to have horns . I know im a bit strange looking but do i breathe fire and have horns . Critics say theres something seriously wrong with metal music, outrageous by design, that it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. Has rock and roll finally gone too far . A growing number of people think so. 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 smut. 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 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 theyre senators wives, ooh, and theyre messing around in washington. But they obviously have some real concerns. Theres 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 that have caused the furor. Got it bad, got it bad, got it bad im hot for teacher ive got it bad, so bad whos going to decide whats a sexual content of a lyric . Whos going to decide what is obscene . Same housewives who are spearheading the movement . In all candor, i would tell you its outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it i would. Fans felt im capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. I dont need tipper gore deciding that this is too obscene for me. 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 dont 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 whats ignorance and educated. The women didnt 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 . Thats just the way it is. Thats the way it always has been. Elvis presley was not good for the children either. Good morning, everybody. Im 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 ur. And the two of them were looking to raise as much money as possible for the famine victims in ethiopia. When tomorrows 17hour Fundraising Concert starts, sellout crowds in the stadium will be joined by a Television Audience of perhaps 1. 5 billion people around the world. S will be joined by a Television Audience of perhaps 1. 5 billion people around the world. Come on baby get in the road 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 has a right to be free saying you dont have to live like a refugee dont have to live like a refugee all we hear is radio ga ga radio goo goo radio ga ga the great thing about live aid, it showed that musicians for me seemed to be the most altruistic people in the world. A group whose heart is in dublin, ireland. [ cheers and applause ] whose spirit is with the world. A group thats never had any problems saying how they feel. U2. When u2 play live aid, things had changed. Rock and roll was getting serious. Music could change the world. Bono could change the world. Sunday bloody sunday sunday bloody sunday u2, formed ten years ago when its members were still schoolboys is now arguably the hottest rock and roll band in the world. Their last album the joshua tree lasso far sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. U2 somehow in the video age were still developing and becoming a great band and maintaining that kind of connection with people and not getting the message lost in the medium. We spent the last ten years finding out how to be in u2. Well spend the next ten years seeing what u2 can do. Right now, all around us, and so compelling you never miss the fact theres no melody, is a music that is all beat, strong beat, and talk. Its rap music. Rap music began in harlem and 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 the breaks was curtis blows 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 slowly but surely hiphop taking over. The music underneath rapping is called scratching, and its 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 hiphop 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 hes frowning too because only god knows what you go through the message was the first hiphop song that wasnt 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 these things that were hitting these communities really hard. Smugglers scramblers, burglars, gamblers pickpocket peddlers even panhandlers you say im cool when the message hit it was put that down, what did he just say . Put the record back. Play that again. Dont push me because im close to the edge everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. Its not Michael Jackson this is not thriller when rundmc came out, they were taking rock and roll music and putting it together with hiphop and making something brand new out of it. You cant touch me with an tenfoot pole rundmc kind of led zeppelinized hiphop because it was fit for an arena, knocking the scoreboard down. Little skirt hanging way up her knee there were three young ladies aerosmith had fallen off the map at that point. It sort of brings them back into the foreand also breaks rund. M. C. In a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hiphop. Walk this way run dmcs latest album titled raising hell has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. A first for a rap record. The album is called license to ill thats a stupid name for an album. Wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go you ask your mom please but she still says no hiphop was our baby. This was our culture. This was our music. We created it. And then here come the beattie boys and we were afraid that we were going to lose it. You got to fight for your right to party 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 love brass monkey but beastie boys come out with what people thought would be a pop hiphop group. It was straight hiphop. Beastie boys was dope, if you know what i mean. Brass monkey that funky monkey license to ill really spread like wildfire and introduced a lot of people to hiphop culture. Can you give us some definitions of the lls in your name . Ll stands for long and lean lover of ladies last of the red hot lovers looking for a little. Lesson learning. Just a lot of the wills. The guys only be talking about yourself. How much of a lover, how the women love him to death, 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 im saying . All of these issues, they should be addressing this with their energy. Planet earth it was my place of birth rakim is the god emcee. He singlehandedly changed the phrasing of rap music and hiphop. He came to the world like a poet. Hard on the boulevard i never get scarred i learned different rhythms listening to jazz. I learned different rhythms. So i kind of incorporated that in my rhyme style. Not just the regular doom, doom, doom. I was in between, doodoom, doodoom, doodoom see all there is to see before. What im trying to do, im trying to set an example for the little kids. You know what im saying . Got to teach the babies, know what im saying, try to lead them in the right path. 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 we want to be musics worst nightmare. Public enemys extreme politics has meant almost no radio air play, even on black stations. Its rap for a reason. They call it a mind revolution. A rebel in his own mind Rebel Without a pause was heavily influenced by rakim and heavily influenced by what was just going on. It was really a desperate call to have us being heard. You talk about black all the time to a multiracial audience. Shouldnt you maybe be thinking about who are the people ive got out here . Havent you got a responsibility to them rather than what you personally i have a responsibility to my people and my culture, because my people and my culture have been brutalized and ignored for years. My mother standing in the welfare line the way you survive is crime i might as well speak my mind ice t is the First West Coast gangster rap. Reality rap. 6 00 in the Morning Police at my door. Ice t did it way before nwa did it. Straight outta compton ice cube from a gang called with attitude squeeze the trigger and bodies are hauled off the los angeles rap group nwa drew fire from police because its album Straight Outta Compton talked in brutal and vulgar language about retaliating against cops for their gang sweeps notice l. A. Area. Nwa gave us the gritty, grimy gangbanging streets of compton. This is whats going on with us. As i leave believe im stomping when i come back, boy, im coming Straight Outta Compton i want my mtv thank you for dining with us. Hope to see you again soon. Whoa, whoa, i got this. Just gotta get the check. Almost there. I cant reach it. If you have alligator arms, you avoid picking up the check. What . Its what you do. I got this. 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The love shack is a little old place where we can get together it was the time when everybody 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 needs to get fed. You know, wed fed the pop audience. But wheres the rock and roll . Oh, were halfway there oh, living on a prayer take my hand well make it i swear bon jovi comes in with a huge record. Pour some sugar on me def leppard. Fantastic record. Pour some sugar on me 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 here and its got to be realsounding, more garage, less produced. I need an easy friend this music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle, and bands like nirvana that werent 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. Follow me, yeah, follow me got my spine ive got my orange crush the way that peter buck played guitar and the way that stipe sang where the voice was incredible but you couldnt 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. It wasnt new wave, it wasnt a new romantic. They started calling it alternative music. Its the end of the world as we know it its the end of the world as we know it and i feel fine fine, fine, fine you know, this is the thing about the 80s. Everyone thinks its 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 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 rule the world ill 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, in politics, in different genres than the 80s. There will never, ever be another decade like it, ever. 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