Unless you have been living in a sealed cave, youve probably noticed that americas latest craze is disco dance. This is punkrock, and its purpose to promote violence, sex, and destruction, in that order. Rock singer Jimi Hendrix died today in london according to a Police Source from an overdose of drugs. Janice joplin was found dead last night. The cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. Jim morrison, the Lead Singer for the doors, a rockmusic group, is dead. He was 27. The early years of the 70s are sad in music. Because you lose people. And you lose The Beatles. The small gathering on Salvo Row is only the beginning. The event is so momentous that historians may, one day, view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. The beatles are breaking up. It was like a death for a lot of people. Rock and roll, as we understood, in the 1960s, was no longer with us. Never. I wonder what i am doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. Well, you might know i lost my old band or i left it. Imagine theres no heaven its easy if you try for so long, you kind of waiting for the next Beatles Album to see where music was going. And we just hoped thAt The music they would come up with individually would be that good. You know, i dont no long very to, oh, The Beatles need an album. You and paul better go write 20 Songs Tomorrow Kind of thing. I just write when i feel like it. Imagine all the people you know, yoko, you have even been called the dragon lady, who brought The Beatles apart or took them i have trouble with english. Please, give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made since they broke up. She did it. The fact is Yoko Ono did not break up The Beatles. Time broke up The Beatles. Money broke up The Beatles. Business broke up The Beatles. A desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up The Beatles. He is a fleshier, heavieR Beatle these days. Respectably married and when the kids come, they dont scream, anymore. They listen. The significant thing is that, both, John Lennon and Paul Mccartney made music in their own, particular ways that was focused on the fact thAt They were deeply in love with a woman. Mccartney went home. Made that record where he plays all of the instruments on his own. This kind of cozy domesticity. Beautiful, wonderful, warm music. This is our first showing of it. This is just the mockup, folks. New album. And its going to be called ringos i sell records. It doesnt matter if i had been in The Beatles or not. If they dont like the record, they wont buy it, you know . Ringo, who to this day, people dismiss way too much has tremendous success in the 70s. And george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called all things must pass. Maybe, the greatest Solo Album of all. Over the years, you know, i had such a lot of songs mounting up that i really wanted to do. But i only got by a quota of one or two per album. Were you held down by the other fellows . Well, very subtly, yes. Id just like to thank you all for coming here. As you all know, its a specialbenefit concert. Ravi shenkar said this terrible thing is happening in bangladesh. What can we do . And that created the first major Superstar Benefit Concert ever done. The concert foR Bangladesh was the granddaddy of all issuethemed concerts. And not only did you get george harrison. You got eric clapton. It got dylan out of hiding. It put two beatles back on the stage, again. It was unparalleled, At The time. And it may, still, be unparalleled. A great deal of music of the 70s was people who had succeeded in the 60s. Finding new ways to express themselves in the 70s. Have you any idea why your group, particularly, has lasted as long as it has . Because we stay together, i suppose. You know, for a few years, The Rolling Stones had taken a lot of casualties. He wasnt going to be around that long. Not everybody makes it. I know . They were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now . In 1971, The Rolling Stones leave their home for Tax Purposes to go live in france. And record this Record Exile on main street. In a very hot, uncomfortable, muddysounding studio. That record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. And i remember reading a Review Saying thAt This is like a debauched album. I was like i dont even know what debauched mean but i got to get some of this debauchery stuff. Come out of the 60s, which was its own animal. The 70s had to show a new skin. It had to shed the old one. I was never very confident in my voice as a singer. So rather than just sing them, which would probably bore the pants off everybody, i would like to kind of [ inaudible ] the songs. I turn myself to face me and i never caught a glimpse David Bowie has always been a game changer. He really is taking the promise of rock The Beatles kicked off and he is taking it all sorts of interesting places for others to follow. Every Day Unilever does good for communities across america. Every squeeze every smile every drop every style every spray every bubble every day dove, suave hellmanns donate everyday products to local communities. Every Day U does good. Unilever ok, at at T Everyone gets ouR Best deals on all smartphones. Let me break it down. You got your new customers they get ouR Best deals. You got your existing customers they also get ouR Best deals. Everyone. Gets. The deals. Questions . Got it. But, why did you use a permanent marker . Because i want to make sure you remember. I am going to get a new whiteboard. Its not complicated. Only At T gives everyone ouR Best deals on every smartphone. Like the Samsung Galaxy S21 5g for free. 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Things happened gradually until we played the Troubadour Club in Los Angeles and which held 250 people. It just happened on the first night. Every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour. Jackson brown. Jd henley and frey. Joni mitchell. James taylor. The big Sea Change was people writing their own songs. And expressing themselves. Is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people . Why do you have to do this . I feel an obligation to to myself and to people to try and share myself. Maybe, as honestly as i can. I left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out well, i hit the rowdy road and many times many stories told me of the way to get there so on and on i go seconds tick the time on theres so much left to know when i am on the road to find ouT Everyone is just trying to do whatever came into their head. In the early days, paul and i. We wanted to be the and king of england. They were very big those days. We had no idea who these people were. Who the mysterious mr. King was who wrote the songs and chains The Beatles did. We did discover that it was this remarkable woman, Carole King. Carole king made the transition from basically being behindthescenes woman, to a star in her own rite. I feel the Earth Move under my feet i feel the sky tumbling down i feel my heart start to tremble whenever youre around Carole King is the he embodiment of what happens because in the 60s , she is trying to write songs for other people. In the 70s, with tapestry, its the definition of selfexpression. Let me go into my house in laurel canyon, and tell you about my life. After church, you always went out for pancakes. If you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls cars, you know what you were listening to . Tapestry. There was a lot of very important women, who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music At The time. We are going to do a song thats written by My Friend john david souther. Who is my favorite California Songwriter and one of my favorite singers. Its called faithless love. She was, in many ways, my greatest collaborator. I mean, i became a professional songwriteR Because the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. [ singing ] linda was still underrated, just for sheersinging Power And Style and emotion. Faithless love like a river flows there are articles and things that identify me with the l. A. Sound. Me and Jackson Brown and the eagles. We need some new blood in this town. You know, were starting to get stale. The original Fleetwood Mac is a full on band. They were an English Band that became a dual citizenship band. They were as american, as they were british. We had had an album out about two years previous to Fleetwood Mac. Called buckingham knicks. And they asked us to join. Fleetwood mac, first Stevie And Lindsey album, for sure, changed our lives. We had arrived. Describe being rich and famous in california. This is it, kids. Hit records, sometimes, bore an audience. Well, theyre not going to have another hit. Or this one isnt as good as that. Record companies like frothing At The mouth. And the image of the band was becoming a whole thing. So we were getting ready to make rumors with everyone falling apart. Loving you isnt the right thing to do how can i ever change things that i feel the band is five people. Five very independent, quite strong minded, quite stubborn individuals. Two lovely couples. John and chris, married. Their marriage was on the rocks. And Stevie And Lindsey might as well have been married. That, all, was falling apart. You can go your own way, you can go your own way we were testifying and rumors became the church. With armor all, a little bit of this. Protects you. From a lot of that. Keep your Car Cleaner longer. Armor all extreme shield plus ceramic. The tempurpedic breeze makes sleep. Feel. Cool. 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Oh, baby, give me one more Chance Wont you please let me back in your heart the only american group to have fourconsecutive numberone records. For the first time, Youngblack Kids had theiR Beatles. Hey, man. What has five heads, ten legs, and you dont know . The jackson five. Thats us. The jacksons were the last act from the classic mow town hitsville system. Motowns a very unique place because a lot of Record Companies were being run by business men. We had a Business Man At The helm. Ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. He ended up making the greatestblack music, ever. He created a machine. When you take the Artist And Polish him up and make them a great package. ThAt They can play the Ed Sullivan Show and kill. Back in the 60s, Marvin Gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. He was clean shaven, debonaire, and all that changed in the 70s. Marvin wanted to compete at a high level. Why cant i make a record like The Beatles . I am selling records like they sell. Why cant i have that artistic expression . Talk to me, oh, whats Going On, whats Going On whats Going On, tell me whats Going On Marvin Gaye was very much affected by the vietnam war. His brother was in vietnam. So he is hearing all these stories about whats Going On over there. He is seeing the protest here and its changing him. He holds up a mirror to america. Look at yourselves, america. He is talking about the war. He is talking about poverty. In a way that Barry Gordy is not superhappy about. Initially, Barry Gordie, did not marvin to do whats Going On. Motown was supposed to be nonthreatening. Here, you now have Marvin Gaye making a Protest Record about the war that could potentially ruin good money. You dont lightly talk about the government. Yes, i want to know whats Going On right now, people ultimately, when he agrees to put out whats Going On, okay, if youre right, i will learn something. And if youre right, youll learn something. And, of course, as barry will say, i learned something. Every artist at motown was, suddenly, also, going to try their chance at freedom. When people say soul, they put you in one category. They say hes a soul artist. Thats all they expect for you to sing and thats all they want you to sing. Thats not true. Soul is is being able to express yourself. Stevie wonder went to Barry Gordie and he negotiated his creative freedom. And he used every bit of it. Very superstitious, Writings On The Wall Stevie Wonder making some of the greatest records anyones ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. Its the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from Half Court with your eyes closed. Music on my mind. Oh, he made it. He aint gonna do it again. What you talking about . First finale. Oh, my god, he did it. And then, suddenly, songs of life. What The Beatles did, in the 60s, i feel Stevie Wonder because the person to do that for music, in the 70s. Hi there and welcome aboard. 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Hart was a big deal was in the decade that was dominated by a type of Rock And Roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a c, but i wont go on further, they were willing to play with those guys, and succeed on their terms. The stuff from the 60s was like, oh, thats way too hippie. Now, we have to up it a notch. The audience has come to expect a bunch of standard of performance. Better quality of Lighting And Sound and staging. They have come to expect a show. We still have time, we might still get by every time i think about it i want to cry in the 70s, the groups started to become more theatrical. They realized just giving them the Music Isnt enough. We got to give them something to look at. More naked people. More misbehavior. More overthetop stuff Going On. Just just more. Playing stadiums was too unreal. It would just be a sea of faces into infinity. Crazy, crazy, Crazy On You Stadium Tours brought a lot of people together to hear music, At The same time. WhAt They also do is they force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. In the 70s, that distance between the performer, onstage, and that audience grew. If you went to any of the bigger rock shows, it was all about The Star up here, and the audience down here. And this sort of iconography of the Rock Star as this huge figure. It was bound to happen. But it comes as a shock, nevertheless. In a poll taken by a leading popmusic magazine in england, The Beatles came in second. The most popular Rock Group in england, these days, is called the led zeppelin. In their 20s, they are rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. They are the led zeppelin. A Rock Group on tour. And in the vernacular of the record biz, where to be nearly big is nothing, zeppelin is very big. To get around, the zeppelin uses a chartered 707. The kind of Plane President nixon uses. The president s plane doesnt have an organ, nor a 15foot mirrored bar. Nor, in the private quarters, does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. I am a bit upset there is not a table onboard. Apart from that, this is the best way to travel. Americans are now spending 2 Billion a year on music. Thats 700 Million more than the whole Movie Industry grosses from Ticket Sales in one year. Aboutthree times the amount of money taken in by allspectator sports. Telling you Rock And Roll is basically no different than ibm, xerox, chevrolet. Supply and demand. Its the same business. Rock and roll had been a little, gritty novelty business. It was not the center of the world, in the 50s and 60s. And in the 70s, it becomes the main event. And that has repercussions in all sorts of positive and negative ways. The total cost of this tour is 3. 5 million. The gross for the tour is in the region of 11 million. So, you know, its a living. It was so decadent and over the top and money just, whoo, being thrown against the wall. If you are a hypocrite, you know, if you are consistently evoking the ideas of young people. OR Bouncing off the ideas of young people. Taking young Peoples Money and putting it in your pocket. You know, and and really, what you are is youre a middleaged family man. And its only the hypocrisy that i am worried about. Bruce springsteen was trying to reclaim the soul of Rock And 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 counterculture. It just speaks, exactly, to the american spirit. You couldnt hit it on the head more than Bruce Springsteen did. Born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the 70s. It was the cover of time and newsweek. Me, on the other hand, i am like My Friend is on the cover of time and newsweek. This is cool. 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It wasnt so much about a style, as it was an aesthetic of dancing. There are four types of people. People who dance, people pop up and down, get high, stay here all night. Why are people dancing again . I wish i knew. But im glad its happening. What we, now, know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. The drummer, earl young, invents the idea of four on the floor. So, everything is burn, baby burn thats the sound of disco. I love disco. I always love dance music, anyway, because whatever i did as a producer was always danceable. The melody. Georgio moroder working out of munich put together technology and soulful vocalists. Donna summeR Being the ultimate embodiment and they make some of the biggest records of all time. I love to love you Baby Love to love you baby was four minutes of singing. 14 minutes of a lot of not singing. Oh, love to love you, baby and i always wondered for the life of me, like, just like in the booth like more passion . Actually, i threw everybody out of the studio. Switched the lights off. Made sure thAt The tape is running. And i said, okay, lets do it. And i think she did it in ten minutes. The Donna Summer records were some of the biggest records of all time. And they kicked off a revolution. Unless you have been living in a sealed cave, youve probably noticed that americas latest craze is disco dancing. Th Thats Dancin without the g. Where have you been . Discos take in and whAt They generate with the records, we are talking about an estimated 4 Billion, thats with a b, 4 Billion a year. I remember really being upset about this word, disco. It was R And B music to me. And i felt like they stripped it. And gave it a new Name Or Werent giving credit where, i think, the credit was supposed to go. Bring that sound in. Thats great. Yeah. Okay. One, two, three, four. The bee gees always liked R B. But they always had R B leanings. The bee gees, did what Pop Stars do. They really got the zeitgeist of what was Going On. This is the scene outside a new York Disco called Studio 54. This is the place thats in with the disco crowd. I have been to Goat Ropings and space shots. I have been in a lot of strange places and seen a lot of strange things but Nothing Stranger than Studio 54, At The height of its popularity in the 70s. Its where you come when you want to escape. Its really escapism. The front door of that spot was insane. I sometimes would just walk by to watch the people not get in. Because that was fun, too. You are not shaved. Theres no way you are going to get in. It doesnt matter. If you are not shaved, listen, just go home. You had to be selected. You had to be chosen to get in. We cant let everybody in, who wants to come in. I wish we could. The great chic go to Studio 54 to get in and they dont. So they write a song. It was kind of a this is the new 54. The part where they say, freak out, actually began as something else. Freak out it went from something off, to freak off, to being freak out. Just Come On down, find your spot on the Floor Freak out thats probably the best thing that ever came out of Studio 54 was that song. Disco was a revolutionary force. Funk marries disco. And it leads to hiphop. Its 1979, i heard chics Good Times Come On. I kept hearing Somebody Talk over the song. To the hip, Hip Hiphop you dont stop a rock it out bubba to the bang, Bang Boogie Boobie to the rhythm of the boogie the beAt To the boogie to the rhythm of the boogie the beat what you hear is not a rock to the beat me the groove and My Friends are going to try to move your feet. Whats great about the song is thats where hiphop gets its name from. We didnt know it was called rappers delight. The next day i went to the record store, yo, you all got hiphop . What is that song . It was the first to crack the top 40. It changes everything. 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How should it be done . No pyrotechnics, no phony showmanship. Just pure Rock N Roll. Pure guts, pure stamina. Theyre piling in the backseAt Theyre generating Steam Heat pulsating to the back Beat Blitzkrieg Bop just real and raw and theres no crap involved, as opposed to the standard schlap we hear on the top 40. The ramons were one part of a wider New York scene. You had people like patti smith. Im an artist. Rock N Roll is my art. The New York dolls. The dead boys. Rock and Roll Anybody can play. And richard hell. Richard hell was one to cut his own hair. Ripping his clothes and Safety Pinning them together. He was the king of the punks. The Safety Pin thing, for instance, is his. Its pretty clear that he invented that. Hey, ho, lets go punk in the united states is a musical ab ber ration, a statement of sorts of what music is and how it ought to be played. In england, Punk Rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. If punk has a home territory, it is here on Kings Road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the Mini Skirt and the Look And Mood of the swinging 60s. Whats this done for us . Nothing. Aint got me a job. There isnt any future for a kid now. I mean there isnt. There is an indigenous Anger And Frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of people behind it. London calling through the far away Towns War is declared and battle come down you have been said to be a political group. Yeah, ive said it. Its true. If there were jobs, maybe wed be singing about Love And Kissing or something. The clash, musically, is the best of the lot. Doesnt sound like traditional punk, but it doesnt sound like anybody else but The Clash either. But i have no feaR Because london is drowning i live by the River Punk was a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex in their musical performance style. People arent going to buy something that you call punk. They might buy it if you call it new wave. We hear a lot about Punk Rock these days. Can we have your thoughts on that . I think its better to just call it a new wave, really. I think by defining it as punk youre automatically putting a boundary around what is possible. Bands like Talking Heads are excellent. Talking heads was the ultimate college band, and they did a sophisticated spiky music that reflected who they were and particularly reflected the fascinating individual that David Byrne would emerge to become. I wrote a song about urban guerrillas from the Point Of View of their daily lives instead of the Point Of View of their politics. Heard of a van that is loaded with weapons packed up and ready to go this area of new Wave Music is where stars of the 1980s are going to come from. What makes the 70s so special is thAt Theres still a sense of naivety, the thought that music could really make a difference in your life. This aint no party this aint no disco this aint no fooling around no time for Dancing Or Loveydovey i aint got time for that now you pick any genre you like and the best music made in that genre is made in the 1970s, and youll have a hard time proving me wrong. What was great about a Me Decade is it allowed the greatest artists of our times to do their greatest work because they were really exploring. Thats as deep as popular art ever gets. I might not ever get home this aint no party this aint no disco this aint no fooling around i love to hold you i love to kiss you i aint got time for that now there are colonies of hippies springing up in most american cities. Its all related, the psychedelics, the war, the protesting