♪ rock singer jimi hendricks died today in london. janice joplin was found dead. the cause, an overdose of drugs. >> jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, is dead. he was 27. >> the early years of the '70s were sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small fwat gathering is only the beginning. the event is so moe men tuss that historians may one day view it as a decline in the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. >> it was like a death for a lot of people. rock and roll was no longer with us. >>. ♪ >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might know, i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long, you kind of waited 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. >> and i don't no longer, oh, the beatles need anal b album. i just write when i feel like it. >> you know, yoko, you've even been called the dragon lady who broke the beatles apart. >> could we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george and ringo and paul and i have made since we broke up? she did it. >> the fact is, yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time break up the beatles. money. business. the desire to go off and do their own stuff. >> he's a fleshier, heavier beatle. respectively married and the kids don't scream anymore. they listen. >> both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ mccartney went home, made that record where he plays all the instruments on his own. beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look like this. this is our first showing of it. >> new album with -- it's going to be called -- >> i sell records. and it doesn't matter if i'm with the beatles or not. if they don't like the record, they won't buy it. >> ringo, who to this day, people dismiss way too much, had tremendous success in the '70s and george harrison, who has been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova. maybe be greatest beatles solo album of all. >> over the years, you know, i had such a lot of songs mounted up that i really wanted to do, but i had my quota of one or two tunes per album. >> were you held down by the other fellas? >> well, very subtly, yes. ♪ >> i'd just like to thank y'all for coming here. you know it's a special benefit concert. ♪ >> robbie went to george harrison and said this terrible thing is happening. what can we do? and that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh was the gran daddy of all issue themed concerts and not only did you get george harrison, you get eric clapton. >> it put two beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and may still be. >> a great deal of music of the '70s was people who had succeeded in the '60s. >> have you any idea why your group in particular has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together. >> for a few years, the roling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now? >> 1971, the rolling stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france and record this record. exile on main street. in an uncomfortable, hot, muddy sounding studio. ♪ >> that record is the embodiment of making masterpieces on a daily basis. i remember reading this was a debotched album. i don't know what that means, but i got to get some of this deboccieri stuff . ♪ >> having come out in the '60s, it was its own animal. the '70s had to show a new skin. it had to shed the old one. ♪ >> i was not very confident in my voice as a singer. just sing. which will probably bore everybody. i'd like to kind of -- ♪ >> david bowie's been a game changer. he's taking the promise of rock and taking it all sort of interesting places for others to follow. ♪ one role of a lifetime...one sore throat. but she had enough. she took new mucinex instasoothe sore throat lozenges. show your sore throat who's boss. new mucinex instasoothe. works in seconds, lasts for hours. we're carvana, the company who invented car vending machines and buying a car 100% online. now we've created a brand-new way for you to sell your car. whether it's a year old or a few years old. we wanna buy your car. so go to carvana and enter your license plate answer a few questions. and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready, we'll come to you, pay you on the spot and pick up your car, that's it. so ditch the old way of selling your car, and say hello to the new way at carvana. i brought in ensure max protein, with thirty grams of protein. those who tried me felt more energy in just two weeks! 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you take the artist, polish them up, when they can play the ed sullivan show and kill. >> back in the '60s, he wanted to be frank sinatra. >> clean shaven. debonair. all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete on a high level. why can't i make a record like the beatles? i'm selling records like they sell. why can't i have that artistic expression? ♪ >> was pretty much acted by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam so he's hearing all these stories about what's going on over there. he's seen the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america. look at yourselves, america. >> he's talking about the war. he's talking about poverty changing artists the way gordie is not super happy about. ♪ >> initially, he did not want marvin to do what was going on. >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening. here you now have marvin gaye making a protest record. you don't likely talk about the government. ♪ >> ultimately when he agrees to put out what's going 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it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock never the less. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group is led zeppelin. >> they are rich and pampered. the led zeppelin. and in the vernacular of the record biz, aczeppelin is very big. to get around, zeppelin uses a chartered 707. the kind president nixon uses. but it doesn't have an organ, a bar. nor two bedrooms and a fireplace. >> i'm a bit upset there's not a pool table. apart from that, i think it's the best way to travel. >> americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that's 700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. >> rock 'n' roll is no different than ibm, xerox, chevrolet. supply and demand. it's the same business. >> rock 'n' roll had been a little gritty novelty business. in the '70s, it becomes the main event and that has repercussions in all kinds of ways. >> the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. the gross for tour is in the region of $11 million. so you know, it's a living. >> he was so decadent and over the top and money just being thrown against the wall. >> can be a bit of a hypocrite if you're consistently evoking the ideas of young people, 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 rock 'n' roll. ♪ >> using a sound that was not what was on the radio and what was not mainstream rock. ♪ >> bruce springsteen created his own counterculture. it just speaks exactly to the american spirit. you couldn't hit it on the head more than he did. ♪ >> born to run was a towering statement in the middle of the '70s. ruth did not like it at the time. me on the other hand, i'm like, my 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>> there isn't any future for a kid now. >> there is an anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. ♪ >> it was a political group. >> so i've said it. >> it's true. >> and maybe we'll be singing about love and kissing or something. >> the clash musically is the best of the lot. it doesn't sound like tradi traditional punk but it doesn't sound like anybody else either. ♪ >> it was kind of a wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were a little bit more complex in their musical performance style. people aren't going to guy something if you call it punk. they might buy new wave. >> i think it is better to call it a new wave. i think by defining it as punk,ure automatically putting a boundary around what is possible and i think fans like talking heads are excellent. >> they are the ultimate college band and they did a spiky music who reflected who they are and the fascinating individual that david burn would em ernl to become. >> i worote it from the point o view from their daily lives instead of the politics. >> this area of new wave music is where the stars of the 1980s are going to come from. >> what makes the 70s so special is that there is still a sense of naivety, that music could really make a difference in your life. ♪ >> you pick any genre i like and i will tell you that the best music in that genre was made in the 1970s and you'll have a hard time proving me wrochk. >> it allowed the greatest artist of our trials to do greatest work because they are exploring. that is as deep as pop ever gets. ♪ video killed the raid star, now has the internet killed the record industry? 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