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 had to fade it everybody wants to rule the world goldman: rock is probably the most important cultural event in the history of america, and out swarmed a whole generation of freaks. it s what guys seem to get off on, they like this high-energy sort of event. cornelius: and if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure, you can bet your bottom, we got em baby.
wild: bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock n roll by going back to basics. van zandt: using elements from the past that were kind of being discarded at that point. in the day we sweat it out on the streets of a runaway american dream george: using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock. .suicide machines sprung from cages on highway 9 chrome-wheeled, fuel-injected and steppin out over the line whoa wilson: bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn t hit it on the head more than bruce springsteen did. baby, we were born to run born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the 70s. it was the cover of time and newsweek.
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.
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
could be a bit of a hypocrite, you know, if you re consistently evoking the ideas of young people, of bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young people s money and putting it in your pocket, you know. and really what you are is you re a middle-aged family man. and it s only the hypocrisy that i m worried about. bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of rock n roll by going back to basics. using elements from the past that were kind of being discarded at that point. using a sound that was not what was on the radio and was not what was mainstream rock. bruce springsteen created his own counter-culture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn t hit it on the head