didn t necessarily get that quickly. do yoyou really w want toto hurt me? ? do you really want to make me cry? boy george: do you really want to hurt me? is a good song. it s a song that old people like and young people like. so i think the proof is in the pudding. buy it and eat it. majewski: mtv actually met with duran duran s managers and said, we re looking for kind of like james bond videos, on lococation, and d their mananagers are t ths that wenent to the b band mems and saidid, look, we realllly need to o up the ae with thesese clips. wewe need to g give this c chl somemething theyey ve neverr seen b before. m moving on t the floor no, babe you re a bird of paradise man: there are some that have accused your videos of being soft porn. well, excuuuuse me! [ laughter ] we like to call them tastefully smutty. her name is rio and she dances on the sand
they got the beat, they got the beat yeah, they got the beat majewski: that was as punk rock as it got for me. to see girls up there, you know, not just singing backup or not just standing in some cool outfit in front of a band,, like thehey were the band.. doesn t m matter whatat they and the jealous games people play hey, hehey, hey gumbel: whwhile the gogo-go s e alwaysys managed toto look likeke they re h havi, they arere to be takaken seriou. theyey re the fifirst femalele p evever to haveve a number r one, and they are at the top of the list of female rock stars whose e impact witithin the iniy is stronger r than ever.r. thehe phone rinings in t the middle e of the nigi my fathther yells, , what yu gonna dodo with yourur life? hoffffs: i thougught her voie was s extraordininary, and cycyndi was a a very good visual c content crereator. i mean, those videos were so colorful and fun. thisis being mararch 31st, it s alslso a monday.
because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant. you and i would differ on what s ignorance and educated. [ laughter ] simpson: the women didn t get the rating system they wanted, but they did get a commitment to begin applying a printed inscription on the packaging of albums, cassettes, and music videos warning that they contain blatant explicit lyrics. good rock and roll breaks all the rules, okay? that s just the way it is. that s the way it always has been. elvis presley was not good for the children either. good morning, everybody. i m very pleased to announce live aid which, without a doubt, will be the largest pop concert ever held. majewski: live aid was the brainchild of bob geldof and midge ure. and the two of them were looking to raise as much money as possible for the famine victims in ethiopia. ramsey: when tomorrow s 17-hour fundraising concert starts, sellout crowds in the stadiums will be joined
hoffs: when he plays guitar, it s just part of his body in a way that i ve never really seen before. and it s not contrived, it s just it s just happening. majewski: what was his music? was it r&b? you know, his music was just straight down the middle, mainstream, grab you by the throat, and balls, pop. we go down to the river and into the river we dive at this point a lot of it is about being there, which is why we haven t done too much of the video thing. a lot of it is it allows too much distance, like what our band is about is about breaking down distance. connelly: bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrity. so how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video?
what do you think of that? we re not at all. we re the cure of the 80s. and i know i was wrong when i said it was true that it couldn t be me and be her in between without you majewski: the holy trinity of alternative british music is the cure, depeche mode, and the smiths. all three of them started out as these fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. .give it to me will you take the pain i will give to you again and again and will you return it? [ cheers and applause ] what s new order, computer programmers or musicians? i d say neither, actually. what are you, then? eh, bank robbers. how does it feel to treat me like you do when you ve. majewski: in the u.k., disco did not suck. it never sucked.