and not what was mainstream rock. chrome wheeled, fuel injected, and stepping out over the line, oh 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 yeah, yes we were born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the 70s. it was the cover of time and newsweek. bruce didn t like it at the time. me, on the other hand, my friend s is on the cover of newsweek. this is cool. when born to run comes out in 1975 it is the desire to escape the claustrophobia of the 1970s. it is an anthem to save your soul. chicken?! chicken.
estimated $4 billion that s with a b $4 billion a year. i remember really being upset about this word disco. it was r&b music to me. i felt like they stripped it and gave it a new name and weren t giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. do it again. second half of the chorus but bring in the sound. that s great. one, two, three, four. tragedy the bee gees always liked r&b and always liked soul. i always thought they were a pop band that always had r&b leanings. the bee gees do what pop stars do. they really got the zeitgeist of what was going on. staying alive staying alive staying alive [ applause ] this is the scene outside a new york disco called studio 54. this is the place that s in with
is $3.5 million. now the gross of the tour is in the region of $11 million. so yeah, it s a living. it was so decadent and over the top and money just whoo being thrown against the wall. feel like a hypocrite, if you are consistently invoking the ideas of young people and bouncing off the ideas of young people, taking young people s money and putting it in your pocket and really what you are is a middle-aged family man. it is 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. in the day you sweat out on the streets of a runaway american dream using a sound that was not on the radio.
welcome aboard. you are right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure, you bet your bottom, we got them, baby. soul train finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. it was a new idea to say black is beautiful. i would run home from church to get home to see soul train. it was the one reliable place to see the artists you loved. there s no question that soul train broke a lot of artists and introduced a lot of artists to audiences they never performed for before. she s a dynamite attraction ten years before he did the moonwalk, michael jackson debuted the robot in 1973 on soul train. people had done the robot before. but there was a way that it was faster. it was sharper.
money. you don t lightly talk about the government. yes, i want to know what s going on right now ultimately when he agrees to put out what s going on, berry tells marvin, okay, if you re right, i ll learn something. and if i m right, you ll learn something. and of course, as barry will say, i learned something. every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. when people say soul, they put you in one category. they say, he is a soul artist. that s all they expect for you to sing. that s all they want you to sing. that s not true. soul is being able to express yourself. stevie wonder went to berry gordy and he negotiated his creative freedom and he used every bit of it. very superstitious writings on