[ music plays ] Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Man music that is all beat and talk. Its rap music. My life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. Swaggart this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Move it back. Officer john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. Miller the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. Man in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. Graham you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, culturally or musically. Announcer for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. Announcing the latest achi
What are your dreams . To rule the world. [ music plays ] Michael Jackson is the man of the 80s. Man music that is all beat and talk. Its rap music. My life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. It hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. Swaggart this weird, Beastly Presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. Move it back. Officer john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. Miller the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first Rock And Roll assassination. It was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. Man in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. Were here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. Graham you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. You dont really know where youre going to go from that point, culturally or musically. Announcer for a while it seemed there was nothing new
we ll be doing for tv what fm did for radio. man: there are some that have accused your videos as being soft porn. we like to call them tastefully smutty. a group that s never had any problems saying how they feel, u2! -what are your dreams? -to rule the world. [ music plays ] michael jackson is the man of the 80s. man: music that is all beat and talk. it s rap music. my life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley: heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence. it hates authority, and adolescent boys love it. swaggart: this weird, beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. move it back. officer: john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. miller: the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. man: in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove l
for your right to party and then when we started listening to their music, they really were funky, and they could really get busy. we were like, okay, all right. [ indistinct rapping ] rakim: beastie boys come out what people thought would be a pop hip-hop group. no, they were straight hip-hop. beastie boys was dope [laughs] you know what i mean? brass monkey junkie get funky funky questlove: license to ill spread really like wildfire, and introduced a lot of people to hip-hop culture. can you give us some definition of the l.l.? l.l. stands for ladies love legend of long and lean, lover of ladies, last of the red hot lovers. looking for a little. looking and learning and liking just a lot of l s. the guys only be talking about themselves. how much of a lover, how the women love him to death, how they can throw down, how good they can dance,
graham: mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson s label. rock and roll in itself really was the thing that broke a lot of rules. and when you re very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. graham: as the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have on mtv if you don t play this. they had to be essentially blackmailed into doing it. it doesn t matter who s wrong or right just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. they didn t know they needed him, but boy, when we started to see the michael jackson videos, it was just unbelievable. and no one s going to. questlove: then there s the domino effect. suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing. so tonight i m going to party like it s 1999 pauley: prince wasn t just materializing out of nowhere. where was he before this video was done? prince was a huge star on black radio stations.