negative ways. the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now, the gross for 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 evoking the ideas of young people and 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. in the day we sweat out on the streets of a runaway american dream using a sound that was not on the radio.
hi, there. welcome aboard. you re right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. if the sight and sound of soul is your pleasure and what you treasure, you can 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.
nonthreatening. here you now have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war. that could potentially ruin good 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 berry 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 s 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.
-we re doing karaoke later, and you re gonna sing. -jamie, this is your house? -i know, it s not much, but it s home. right, kids? -kids? -papa, papa! -[ laughs ] -you didn t tell me your friends were coming. -oh, yeah. -this one is tiny like a child. -yeah, she is. oh, but seriously, it s good to be surrounded by what matters most a home and auto bundle from progressive. -oh, sweetie, please, play for us. -oh, no, i couldn t. -please. -okay.
the queen of the discos take in, what they generate with the records, we are talking about an 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 that sound in. that s great. yeah. one, two, three, four. tragedy the bee gees always liked r&b. they 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. ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive staying alive ah, ah, ah, ah staying alive [ applause ]