don t stand so close to me why do you think we re so popular over there? well, i think there s 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 best new band of the year. taking note of the swirling, dreamy, soaring quality of the sound. giant steps are what you take walking on the moon it was incredible to see them. and i couldn t 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? we re not at all. we re the cure of the 80s. and i know i was wrong when i said it was true it couldn t be me and be her between without you the holy trinity of alternative british music is the
was it r&b? his music was just straight down the middle, mainstream, grab you by the throat and balls pop. 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
really get dressed up and pull in that corset and just wear tons of makeup and great big, huge hair. you had to have that sexy kind of thing, you know. i m coming out of a gold mold, ann has a welding iron and she s like this amazon welder woman or something. we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. it did feel like, i can t steer the ship anymore. where is it going, you know? where are we headed? i think heavy metal is the true rock n roll of the 80s. rock n roll is basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. [ bleep ] like a beast heavy metal is not something new in physics, it is rock and roll. loud, rude, it glorifies sex and violence, it hates authority,
i ve got it bad, so bad who s going to decide what s a sexual content of a lyric? who s going to decide what is obscene? same housewives who are spearheading the movement? in all candor, i would tell you it s outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. fans felt i m capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. i don t 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 don t 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 what s ignorance and educated. the women didn t get the rating system they wanted. but they did get a commitment to begin applying a printed
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, we d fed the pop audience. but where s the rock n roll? oh, we re halfway there oh, living on a prayer take my hand we ll 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. pour your sugar on me at the end of the 80s, everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously.