the original fleetwood mac was a four-piece full-on blues band. asher: they were an english band that became a dual-citizenship band. they were as american as they were british. all your life you ve never known a woman taken by the wind we had had an album out about two years previous to joining fleetwood mac called buckingham nicks and mick really liked the music and they asked us to join. rhiannon fleetwood: fleetwood mac, first stevie and lindsey album, for sure changed our lives. we had arrived. got a fever fever man: describe being rich and famous in california. this is it, kid. got a fever fever fever yeah yeah taken by the wind
you know, i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. well, as you might know, i lost my old band, or i left it. imagine there s no heaven [ applause ] it s easy if you try asher: for so long you kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. you know, i no longer have to, oh the beatles need an album, you and paul better go and write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. i just write when i feel like it. imagine all the people cavett: you know, yoko, you ve even been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart or took them all apart. i have trouble with english, so.. could we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and i ve made since they broke up. [ applause ] if she did it
were, and particularly reflected the fascinating individual, david byrne would become. i wrote a song about urban guerrillas from the point of view of their daily lives instead of from the point of view of their politics. up up and ready to go. this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. what makes the 70s so special is there was still a sense of nacvetc, the innocence that music could really make a difference in your life. this ain t no party, this ain t no disco. this ain t no fooling around. this ain t no muffler, you pick any genre that you like and i will tell you that any of the best music made in that genre is from the 1970s.
uh, they put you in one category. they say, he s a soul artist. that s all they expect for you to sing. and that s all they want you to sing. that s not true. soul is being able to express yourself. wild: stevie wonder went to berry gordy and he negotiated his creative freedom, and he used every bit of it. very superstitious writing s on the wall stevie wonder making some of the greatest records anyone s ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. ladder s bout to fall questlove: it s the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half-court with your eyes closed. music of my mind . oh, he made it. he ain t gonna do it again. talking book . innervisions . fulfillingness first finale . oh, my god, he did it! and then, suddenly, songs in the key of life.
the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. rollin: 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. but the president s plane doesn t have an organ, nor a 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset that there s not a pool table onboard. apart from that, i think this is about the best way to travel. culhane: americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in