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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
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take my hand, we ll make it i swear bon jovi comes in with a huge record. pour some sugar on me def leppard, fantastic record. pour some sugar on me and that brings to bring that kind of music back. pour your sugar on me nancy wilson: at the end of the 80s everybody came to the same conclusion simultaneously: something new needs to happen here, and it s got to be real-sounding. more garage, less produced. i need an. peresman: there was music that was bubbling out of places like portland and seattle and bands like nirvana that weren t looking to fit in to what was being played on mtv or radio. i can see you every night eventually radio and mtv came to them.
the seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock like r.e.m. was something new entirely. collar me, don t collar me i ve got my spine, i ve got my orange crush heilemann: the way that peter buck played the guitar and the way that stipe song, where the voice was incredible but you couldn t quite figure out what he was saying, it just kind of made them more alluring and more mysterious. you could get why that band would become huge. [ indistinct singing ] peresman: it wasn t new wave. it wasn t a new romantic. they started calling it alternative music. it s the end of the world as we know it it s the end of the world as we know it i feel fine fine, fine fine, fine