white male. the world has reacted with immense 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 he s given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove that love is not dead, even though john is. you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don t really know where you re going to go from that point. you know, 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. video. the power of sound. stereo. mtv. music television. we all are so excited about this new concept in tv. we ll be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. at the time the world was saying we don t think anybody s going to watch videos over and
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, and adolescent boys love it. this is it, this is the hot stuff.
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, 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
well, 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 cure, depeche mode, and the smiths. all three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the
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 i ll 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. everybody wants to rule the world there s a room where the light won t find you holding hands while the walls come tumbling down when they do i ll be right behind you so glad we ve almost made it so sad they have to fade it everybody wants to rule the