[ bleep ]. detroit, 1969, where punk was originally born . you have the motor city five and iggy and the stooges, released two pioneering albums that indicate there is a new style of music coming back. it is a garage rock. it is minimalist, it is aggressive, it is loud, and it is very often of noxious. there we are, with our big majestic songs, and here comes punk like the ramon s get started as a reaction to everything else that is going on. people see them and they go this is the answer.
when you believe in things you don t understand then you suffer superstition ain t the way yeah questlove: what the beatles did in the 60s, i feel stevie wonder was the person to do that for music in the 70s. [ cheers and applause ] hi, there, and welcome aboard. you re right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. and if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure and what s your treasure, you can bet your bottom we got em baby. dancin , dancin , dancin questlove: soul train finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. i would literally run home from church to get home to see soul train. it was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. de passe: there s no question that soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences
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with your sweet flowing love, love crazy, crazy, crazy on you ooh, crazy on you stadium tours put a lot of people together to hear music at the same time. what they also do is they force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. wild: in the 70s that distance between the performer on stage and that audience grew. george: if you went to any of the big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here, and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. let me go crazy, crazy on you oh [ cheers and applause ] chancellor: it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock nevertheless, in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england,
if it was jobs, maybe we would be singing about loves and kissing someone. the clash, musically, is the best of the lot. it doesn t sound like traditional punk, but it doesn t sound like anybody but the clash. i have no fear. i live by the river. i never felt so much like punk, i think, was such a white umbrella, and that wider seen included people who were a little more complex in their musical performance style. people won t buy something if it is called punk, they might buy it if it is called new wave. i think it is better just to call it a new wave, really, i think by defining it as punk, you are automatically putting that a boundary around what is possible, and i think fans like talking heads are excellent. talking heads was the ultimate college band, and they did a sophisticated, spiky music that reflected who they