have a good night. we ll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. we like to call them tastefully smutty. they never had any problems saying how they feel. u2! what are your dreams? to rule the world. michael jackson is the man of the 80s. music that is all beat and talk. it s rap music. i ll speak my mind heavy metal. it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority. and adolescent boys love it. this weird beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. john lennon was shot by an unknown at this time white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and 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 d
john lennon was shot by an unknown at this time white male. the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and 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 fm did for radio. at the time the world was saying, we don t think anybody s going to watch videos over and over. but we knew we had something special. my little pretty one, pretty o
rap music began in harlem and the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people would gather to spin records and then recite their own lyrics, their raps, over the instrumental sections. come on now the breaks was curtis blow s biggest hit, selling 680,000 copies last year and hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. as a young kid running around with a local deejay crew, i watched the transition from all the disco music that we used to play at all the block parties, to slowly but surely hip-hop taking over. the music underneath rapping is called scratching, and it s a process of using two turntables and a mixer, making new sounds out of already existing albums. thing that gave life to music in the 80s for me was hip-hop because it took the sounds of the 60s and 70s and brought it
right now, all around us, and so compelling you never miss the fact there is no melody is a music that is all beat, strong beat, and talk. it s rap music. rap music began in harlem in the south bronx on playgrounds like this one where people would gather to recite their own lyrics, their raps over the instrumental section. the brakes was curtis blow s biggest hit. selling 680,000 copies last year and hitting the top of the rhythm and blues sales charts. as a young kid running around with a local dj crew, i watched the transition from all the disco music we used to play at all the block parties to slowly but surely hip-hop taking over. the music underneath rapping is called scratching and it is a process of using two turntables
Transcripts for CNN The Eighties 20220102 06:44:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.