these fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. [ cheers and applause ] what s new? computer programmers or musicians? i d say no, actually. what are you? bank robbers. how does it feel to treat me like you do in the u.k. disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new warder combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. i like what s happening in dance places the last year or two.
from you shot 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 m satan? do i have horns i know i m a bit strange-looking but do i breathe fire and have horns? 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? a growing number of people think so. today they took their case to a u.s. senate hearing. teir 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
to a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. if you should fall into my arms and tremble like a flower artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you want to make it, you ve 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 there are 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
when he does that moonwalk, if you were 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 would say 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 he can sing 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, was really the thing that broke a lot of rules. 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
we go down to the river 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, it allows too much distance. like what our band is about, it s about breaking down distance. at night i wake up 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