♪ ♪ rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london 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 rock music group is dead. he was 27. >> the early years in music was sad in music because you lose people and you lose the beatles. >> this small gathering 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. >> there will never be another beatles, never. ♪ >> i wonder what i'm doing here with no drummers or nothing like that. you might now i lost my old band, or i left it. ♪ imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try ♪ >> for so long you waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. and we just hoped the music they came up with individually would be that good. >> i don't no longer have, 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 >> yoko, you have been called the dragon lady who took the beatles apart. >> please give her credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and i've made since we broke up. she did it. >> the fact is that yoko ono did not break up the beatles. time broke up the beatles, money broke up the beatles. business broke up the beatles. the desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. >> he's a fleshier and heavier beatle these days, respectfully married. when the kids come to his concerts, they don't scream any more, they listen. >> the significant thing is both john lennon and paul mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact they were deeply in love with a woman. ♪ but i'm not the only one >> mccartney went home and made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. this kind of cozy domesticity, beautiful, wonderful, warm music. >> it's going to look roughly like this. this is our first showing of it. >> this is just the mock-up, folks. >> the new album. >> it's going to be called "ringo's reviewer." >> i sell records. it doesn't matter if they've got 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, 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 beatles solo album of all. ♪ you don't need a passport ♪ you don't need no visas >> over the years i had such a lot of stockpile of songs i wanted to do. but i only got a quota of one or two per album. >> were you held down by the other fellows? >> well very subtly, yes. ♪ >> i would just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it's a special benefit concert. ♪ >> ravi shankhar went to george harrison and said a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh what can we do? that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. >> the concert for bangladesh was the grandaddy of all issue-themed concerts. not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and 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 had? >> because we stay together i suppose. >> for a few years, the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. >> even brian felt he wasn't going to be around that long. not everybody makes it. >> they were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now? 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>> three years. >> see you went to grab it right away. snatch it right out of my hand. >> michael was precocious. he knew he was cute. you would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. amazing. ♪ ooh, baby give me one more chance ♪ ♪ show you that i love you one, won't you please let me ♪ ♪ back to you heart ♪ oh, darling i was trying to let you go ♪ ♪ not since i don't need you anymore ♪ >> the only american group to have four-consecutive number one records. ♪ oh oh oh ♪ i want you back >> for the first time young black kids had their beatles. >> hey, man. >> and 11 alphabets -- >> you don't know? the jackson five. >> that's us. >> and that's no jive. >> the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. >> motown was a very unique place. a lot of record companies were being run by businessmen. berry gordy was a music man at the helm. berry gordy was a songwriter. he said i'm going to make music for the world. >> ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. ended up making the greatest black music ever. >> he created a machine, where you take the artist, polish them up. and make them a great package, they can play the "ed sullivan show" and kill. >> back in the '60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. >> he was svelte, clean-shaven, all that changed in the '70s. >> marvin wanted to compete at 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? ♪ punish me with brutality talk to me ♪ ♪ when you can see what's going on ♪ ♪ what's going on yeah, what's going on ♪ ♪ tell me what's going on ♪ ooh >> marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. his brother was in vietnam. so he's hearing all these stories about what is going on over there. he's seeing the protests here and it's changing him. >> he holds up a mirror to america, look at yourself, america. >> he is talking about the war, he's talking about poverty. changing as an artist in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. ♪ everybody thinks we're wrong they do ♪ >> initially berry gordy did not not want marvin to do "what's going on." >> motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you 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 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 the wall ♪ >> stevie wonder making some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. ♪ letter's about to fall >> it's the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from half court with your eyes closed. music in my mind. he made it. he ain't going to do it again. oh, my god he did it! and suddenly, the key of life. ♪ when you believe in things you don't understand ♪ ♪ and you suffer superstition is the way ♪ >> what the beatles did in the '60s i feel stevie wonder was the person to do that for music in the '70s. 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>> i wish i knew. but i'm glad it's happening. ♪ >> what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the trammps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea of pouring the floor with eight on the high hat. so everything is -- ♪ burn, baby, burn >> that's the sound of disco. ♪ burn, baby, burn ♪ burn, baby, burn >> i loved disco. i always loved 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 vocalist. donna summer being the ultimate embodiment. and they make some of the biggest record of all-time. ♪ ooh, love you 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 ♪ oh, love you love you, baby >> i always wondered for the life of me was he just in the booth, more passion, more -- >> actually, i threw everybody out of the studio, switched the lights off, made sure that the tape is running and i said, okay, let's go ahead. and i think she did it in ten minutes. ♪ oh >> the donna summer records were some of the biggest records of all-time. and they kicked off a revolution. ♪ ♪ i wanna do it till the sun comes up ♪ >> unless you have been living in a sealed cave you probably noticed america's latest craze is disco dancing. that's dancin' without the g. >> what's disco? >> snuffy, where have you been? ♪ i want to put on my, my, my, my boogie shoes and boogie with you ♪ >> the queen of the disco, 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 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 the disco crowd. >> i have been to goat ropings and space shots. i've 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. ♪ >> it's where you come when you want to escape. it's really escapism. >> in the front door of that spot was insane. i sometimes would walk by to watch the people not get in. because that was fun, too. >> oh, you are not shaved. there's no way you're going to get in. it doesn't matter. if you're not shaven, just go home. >> you had to be selected. you had to be chosen to get in. >> we can't let in everybody who wants to come in. i wish we could. ♪ oh, freak out ♪ le freak, say chic >> the great chic, go to studio 54 to get in. and they don't. so they write a song. ♪ have you heard about the knew dance craze ♪ ♪ listen to us i'm sure you'll be amazed ♪ >> it was a diss to studio 54 for rejecting them. 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 to the 54 ♪ find a spot out on the floor ♪ oh, freak out ♪ le freak, c'est chic ♪ freak out >> that's 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 hip-hop. >> it's 1979, i heard chic's "good times" come on. i kept hearing somebody talk over the song. ♪ to the hip, hip hip-hop ♪ you don't stop what you hear is not a -- rock to the beat me the groove and my friends are going to try to move your feet. >> what's great about the song is that's where hip-hop gets its name from. >> we didn't know this song was called "rapper's delight." the next day i went to the record store. yo, y'all got hip-hop? 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>> no pyrotechnics. no phony showmanship. pure rock and roll. pure good stamina. ♪ >> it's just real and raw and there's no crap involved. >> as opposed to the standard schlock we here on the top 40. >> the ramones were one part of a wider new york scene. >> you had people like patty smith. >> i'm an artist. rock and roll is my art. >> the new york dolls. >> [ bleep ], sweetheart. >> the dead police. >> rock and roll anybody can play. >> and richard hell. >> richard hell was one of the first to cut his own hair. he was ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. >> he was king of the punks. >> the safety pin thing is his. it's pretty clear he invented that. >> punk in the united states is a musical aberration, a statement of sorts about what music is and how is it ought to be played. in england punk rock is not a musical statement, it's a social one. >> if punk has a home territory it is here on king's road in the middle of london. the same street that launched the minuiskirt and the swinging '60s. >> what's this like? >> nothing. >> there isn't any future for a kid now. i mean there isn't. >> there is an indigenous anger and frustration that drove a lot of punk on and got a lot of young people behind it. ♪ london calling ♪ through the faraway towns ♪ war is declared >> you've been said to be a political group. >> yeah. i've said it. it's true. >> if there were jobs maybe we'd be singing about love and kissing. >> the clash is the most musical of the lost. it doesn't sound like traditional punk but it doesn't sound like anybody else either. ♪ ♪ i live by the river >> punk was i think a kind of wide umbrella and that wider scene included people who were a little more complex in their musical performance style. people aren't going to buy something if you call it punk. they might bay buy it if you call it new wave. >> what's your thoughts on punk rock? >> i think it's better to call it new wave. by defining it as punk you're automatically putting a boundary on what's 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 that 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. ♪ ♪ ready to go >> 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's still a sense of naivete, the innocence that music could really make a difference in your life. ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ this ain't no cbgb ♪ i ain't got time for that now ♪ >> you pick any genre you like and i will tell you that the best music made in that genre was made in the 1970s and you'll have a hard time proving me wrong. >> what was great about a me decade was it allowed the braetest artists of our times to do their greatest work because they were really xlorpg that is as deep as popular art ever gets. ♪ ♪ this ain't no party ♪ this ain't no disco ♪ this ain't no fooling around ♪ i'd love to hold you ♪ i'd love to kiss you ♪ but i ain't got time for that now ♪ ♪ trouble in transit ♪ ♪ we got computers ♪ we're tapping phone lines ♪ we know that that ain't allowed ♪ tonight our topic will be murder as a growth industry. >> murder has become an epidemic in america. >> in the last ten years the homicide rate has increased by leaps and bounds. my god. >> somebody fired a shot. >> these tragedies keep getting closer and closer to home. i'm afraid to let my kids walk out the door. >> each urban crime wave will touch off a new round of gun buying. >> step out, mr. bundy. >> i'll plead not guilty right now. >> there has been a disturbing growth in cult phenomenon in this country. >> i shall be god. and beside me there shall be no other.

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