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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:38,363 --> 00:00:40,545 It's the early 1970s. 2 00:00:40,797 --> 00:00:42,964 And a force is sweeping through rock 3 00:00:43,064 --> 00:00:46,150 with a sound big enough to fill football stadiums. 4 00:00:46,350 --> 00:00:48,890 Its name, Led Zeppelin. 5 00:00:49,204 --> 00:00:53,755 A group that will become the first gladiators of Stadium Rock. 6 00:00:53,955 --> 00:00:57,010 # It's been a long time since I rock-and-rolled 7 00:00:59,540 --> 00:01:02,498 # It's been a long time since I did the Stroll 8 00:01:05,141 --> 00:01:08,941 # Ooh, let me get it back, let me get it back, let me get it back 9 00:01:09,041 --> 00:01:11,290 # mm-baby, where I come from 10 00:01:11,490 --> 00:01:15,332 For the next 20 years, stadium rock will be an elite club 11 00:01:15,432 --> 00:01:19,300 with only a handful of ambitious bands can hope to join. 12 00:01:26,824 --> 00:01:28,931 Do you believe in rock 'n roll? 13 00:01:29,017 --> 00:01:32,452 For this groups, size really does matter. 14 00:01:32,700 --> 00:01:36,597 It is arrogance with a cock. 15 00:01:40,736 --> 00:01:45,571 These are performers who specialize in driving audiences wild. 16 00:01:45,982 --> 00:01:48,870 It's the greatest job in the world! 17 00:01:53,007 --> 00:01:56,759 But they will discover through a global stadium rock show 18 00:01:56,859 --> 00:02:00,176 that their music isn't just being listened to around the world 19 00:02:00,276 --> 00:02:02,720 but might also help change it. 20 00:02:04,113 --> 00:02:05,564 We had the whole planet. 21 00:02:05,823 --> 00:02:09,443 And it turns out that the 'lingua franca' of the world 22 00:02:09,543 --> 00:02:11,726 is not English, it's rock 'n roll. 23 00:02:13,304 --> 00:02:16,587 This is the story of the age of Stadium Rock. 24 00:02:17,543 --> 00:02:19,713 When a succession of great artists 25 00:02:19,813 --> 00:02:22,210 took the music onto a global stage 26 00:02:22,310 --> 00:02:24,920 and played for the higher stakes possible. 27 00:02:25,534 --> 00:02:28,593 You are sort of like the Aztec Sun Prince. 28 00:02:28,628 --> 00:02:31,854 You're there in your palace but you know 29 00:02:31,954 --> 00:02:33,848 when the year's up, the priest is gonna come, 30 00:02:33,883 --> 00:02:37,198 drag you out, take you up the pyramid and cut your heart out with a knife. 31 00:02:36,656 --> 00:02:41,615 # ...of the world. 32 00:02:54,052 --> 00:03:00,957 # There's a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold 33 00:03:01,290 --> 00:03:06,849 # And she's buying a stairway to heaven 34 00:03:06,949 --> 00:03:10,163 Led Zeppelin came to America at the end of the 60s, 35 00:03:10,263 --> 00:03:15,801 and by 1973 were playing to audiences of over 50,000 people. 36 00:03:19,264 --> 00:03:23,304 On stage, singer Robert Plant, combined power and intimacy 37 00:03:23,404 --> 00:03:27,181 to create a magical vibe that defined stadium rock. 38 00:03:28,151 --> 00:03:33,725 # And she's buying a stairway to heaven 39 00:03:33,834 --> 00:03:36,675 Great stadium rock is really about the universal. 40 00:03:36,710 --> 00:03:40,655 It's about having those songs that the whole world wants to sing. 41 00:03:41,340 --> 00:03:44,819 Sometimes it lacks the subtlety and refinement that gets critics excited 42 00:03:44,854 --> 00:03:49,334 and they tend to be quite harsh about stadium rock, 43 00:03:49,369 --> 00:03:52,099 it's almost become a term of abuse. 44 00:03:52,152 --> 00:03:57,006 And yet, the great stadium rock bands take it beyond a big show, 45 00:03:57,206 --> 00:04:02,041 they take it into the realm of spirit and substance. 46 00:04:02,716 --> 00:04:05,070 But I've got some good news. Listen! 47 00:04:05,170 --> 00:04:10,914 # If there's a bustle in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now, 48 00:04:11,114 --> 00:04:15,428 # It's just a spring clean for the May Queen 49 00:04:16,249 --> 00:04:22,237 I remember seeing Led Zeppelin and it was really a religious experience. 50 00:04:22,337 --> 00:04:25,573 It was so perfect, 51 00:04:25,673 --> 00:04:29,362 and so much everything that I would ever want to aspire to be. 52 00:04:31,526 --> 00:04:34,194 Backstage, Zeppelin's manager, Peter Grunt, 53 00:04:34,294 --> 00:04:36,759 scourge of concert promoters around the world, 54 00:04:36,859 --> 00:04:39,334 would be working his own kind of magic. 55 00:04:39,603 --> 00:04:42,008 Don't fucking talk to me, it's my bloody act! 56 00:04:42,108 --> 00:04:45,325 I think I'll leave you anytime. You couldn't even give them a starting line. 57 00:04:45,425 --> 00:04:48,224 You are the fucking controller of the thing, aren't you? 58 00:04:49,366 --> 00:04:53,012 For concert promoters, Grunt was an intimidating and infamous figure. 59 00:04:53,212 --> 00:04:56,458 But he would have a lasting impact on the business of rock. 60 00:04:57,692 --> 00:05:00,454 You rented it and you controlled it. 61 00:05:00,489 --> 00:05:03,217 Isn't selling fucking pirate posters. 62 00:05:03,629 --> 00:05:07,088 Led Zeppelin were a monumentally important band. 63 00:05:07,188 --> 00:05:08,594 They literally changed the economics. 64 00:05:08,694 --> 00:05:11,225 They said, we'll take 90% and you'll keep 10%, 65 00:05:11,425 --> 00:05:13,050 to the promoters, which was an inversion 66 00:05:13,085 --> 00:05:14,125 of the way it had always worked. 67 00:05:14,160 --> 00:05:16,196 And they had the nerve and the toughness to do it. 68 00:05:16,296 --> 00:05:19,114 And they were such a powerful draw, that having 10% of Led Zeppelin 69 00:05:19,214 --> 00:05:21,589 was still worth it to the promoters. 70 00:05:27,157 --> 00:05:30,031 The big bands of the era followed Zeppelin's lead, 71 00:05:30,131 --> 00:05:32,202 both The Who and The Rolling Stones 72 00:05:32,302 --> 00:05:35,794 found the emphasis of their career shifting from making records 73 00:05:35,894 --> 00:05:38,494 to filling the largest spaces possible. 74 00:05:41,112 --> 00:05:42,991 These were, as it were, slightly old guard, 75 00:05:43,091 --> 00:05:47,404 these were people who had been big towards the end of the 1960s. 76 00:05:47,504 --> 00:05:50,930 But they in turn inspired new generations. 77 00:05:51,030 --> 00:05:53,509 # I see a little silhouette of a man 78 00:05:53,544 --> 00:05:57,113 # Scaramouch, scaramouch will you do the fandango 79 00:05:57,148 --> 00:06:00,784 # Thunderbolt and lightning - very very frightening me 80 00:06:00,819 --> 00:06:06,918 # Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo, Gallileo Figaro - magnifico 81 00:06:08,404 --> 00:06:13,220 1975 was the year the group Queen emerged onto the world's stage. 82 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:17,182 'Bohemian Rhapsody' brought comparisons with the epics of Led Zeppelin. 83 00:06:17,530 --> 00:06:21,720 On tour in Japan, they were hailed as visiting gods. 84 00:06:24,674 --> 00:06:28,453 We got on the plane, a young, up-and-coming, hopeful group in England, 85 00:06:28,553 --> 00:06:31,860 and we got off the plane in Tokyo like The Beatles. 86 00:06:31,960 --> 00:06:36,186 It was very... blindingly strange. 87 00:06:38,763 --> 00:06:41,949 # Oh mama mia, mama mia, mama mia let me go 88 00:06:42,049 --> 00:06:46,251 We're completely overwhelmed by what's happened since we came here. 89 00:06:46,351 --> 00:06:48,693 It's never happened to us in any other country. 90 00:06:59,586 --> 00:07:03,831 Most groups, at that point, were very much against 91 00:07:03,931 --> 00:07:05,023 putting on any kind of show. 92 00:07:05,123 --> 00:07:07,129 It was very much like, let's get into our music, man, 93 00:07:07,329 --> 00:07:09,551 and everything else can take a back seat. 94 00:07:09,651 --> 00:07:12,389 We weren't like that. We thought, "No. We entertain people." 95 00:07:12,901 --> 00:07:16,488 # A baby I was when you took my hand 96 00:07:16,717 --> 00:07:19,601 # And the light of the night burned bright 97 00:07:20,419 --> 00:07:23,514 # And the people all stared didn't understand 98 00:07:23,714 --> 00:07:26,953 # But you knew my name on sight 99 00:07:27,429 --> 00:07:30,839 Queen's live act was centered around singer Freddy Mercury, 100 00:07:30,939 --> 00:07:34,291 one of the greatest frontmen in the history of rock. 101 00:07:34,714 --> 00:07:37,935 People actually believed when he first used to come on sort of... 102 00:07:38,135 --> 00:07:39,648 Hell thunderbolts! 103 00:07:44,619 --> 00:07:47,815 And we used to dress somebody up as Freddy and just flash a light, 104 00:07:47,915 --> 00:07:49,364 and now I'm here, now I'm there, 105 00:07:49,464 --> 00:07:51,532 and of course, one of them was him. 106 00:07:55,661 --> 00:07:58,326 It seemed almost like a magic show. 107 00:08:05,046 --> 00:08:07,669 The thing about it that I loved mostly was that 108 00:08:07,722 --> 00:08:10,478 he wasn't asking your permission, he simply was saying, 109 00:08:10,578 --> 00:08:12,843 this is who I am, take it or leave it. 110 00:08:13,286 --> 00:08:15,583 That's what rock... It's putting your chin out and say, 111 00:08:15,683 --> 00:08:17,634 "Go ahead, take your best shot." 112 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:26,878 Queen's show always ended with the audience demanding more. 113 00:08:26,968 --> 00:08:29,803 And it was this ritual which inspired Brian May 114 00:08:29,903 --> 00:08:33,054 to write the most famous stadium anthem of them all. 115 00:08:34,457 --> 00:08:37,391 There was a place called Bingley Hall, near Birmingham, 116 00:08:37,491 --> 00:08:38,709 which we used to play, 117 00:08:38,809 --> 00:08:42,264 and one night it was packed and heaving and sweaty. 118 00:08:42,364 --> 00:08:43,706 It was an amazing gig. 119 00:08:43,820 --> 00:08:46,668 And when we came off they didn't stop singing. 120 00:08:46,768 --> 00:08:47,840 They were singing to us. 121 00:08:47,940 --> 00:08:49,665 They were singing 'You'll never walk alone'. 122 00:08:49,812 --> 00:08:51,719 And we all looked at each other and thought, 123 00:08:51,819 --> 00:08:56,401 "Something is really happening here. This is a complete interaction." 124 00:08:56,897 --> 00:08:59,552 And that night I woke up in the middle of the night 125 00:08:59,752 --> 00:09:03,349 thinking, what would an audience do if you gave them permission, 126 00:09:03,449 --> 00:09:04,622 what would they do. 127 00:09:06,774 --> 00:09:09,043 They could stand, they could clap, they could sing something 128 00:09:09,078 --> 00:09:11,203 which made them feel they were bonded together, 129 00:09:11,238 --> 00:09:13,051 something which made them feel strong. 130 00:09:14,984 --> 00:09:17,791 # We will, we will rock you 131 00:09:17,826 --> 00:09:21,066 Come on! Sing it everybody! 132 00:09:21,101 --> 00:09:24,271 # We will, we will rock you 133 00:09:24,306 --> 00:09:28,278 I think it was very stripped down bareness of it. 134 00:09:29,950 --> 00:09:32,478 It was just sort of caught people. 135 00:09:34,478 --> 00:09:35,873 You know, "Rock!" 136 00:09:39,875 --> 00:09:41,233 When it was played live, 137 00:09:41,333 --> 00:09:44,716 'We will rock you' would segue into a song of Freddy Mercury's, 138 00:09:44,816 --> 00:09:48,393 the equally bombastic, 'We are the Champions'. 139 00:09:49,880 --> 00:09:55,834 # We are the champions, my friend 140 00:09:57,081 --> 00:10:03,918 # And we'll keep on fighting till the end 141 00:10:05,022 --> 00:10:08,359 The songs would provide an explosive concert finale 142 00:10:08,459 --> 00:10:10,369 for the rest of Queen's career. 143 00:10:13,660 --> 00:10:17,086 'We will rock you' and 'We are the champions' 144 00:10:17,186 --> 00:10:20,683 are triumphalist rock songs. 145 00:10:22,884 --> 00:10:28,698 It is all about the communication, the empathy, the energy exchange, 146 00:10:28,798 --> 00:10:32,101 between thousands of people in a stadium 147 00:10:32,201 --> 00:10:35,819 and that larger-than-life character on the stage. 148 00:10:35,919 --> 00:10:39,310 # We are the champions 149 00:10:40,824 --> 00:10:43,297 That is the essence of stadium rock. 150 00:10:43,397 --> 00:10:52,378 # No time for losers, 'cause we are the champions... 151 00:10:54,396 --> 00:10:57,476 # of the world. 152 00:11:18,504 --> 00:11:22,695 The sports arenas of the USA were stadium rock spiritual home. 153 00:11:22,795 --> 00:11:25,512 And both 'We will rock you' and 'We are the champions' 154 00:11:25,612 --> 00:11:27,933 became an eternal part of their culture. 155 00:11:30,909 --> 00:11:32,611 It was in the 1970s 156 00:11:32,711 --> 00:11:35,624 that American bands created a brand of theatrical rock 157 00:11:35,724 --> 00:11:37,723 purpose-built for these venues. 158 00:11:38,278 --> 00:11:40,277 Kiss! Kiss! Kiss! 159 00:11:40,375 --> 00:11:45,844 American stadium rock is really just rock as grand entertainment. 160 00:11:46,144 --> 00:11:50,002 In America you get a tradition that gives you Aerosmith, 161 00:11:50,102 --> 00:11:52,865 and ultimately gives you Bon Jovi. 162 00:11:52,965 --> 00:11:54,245 Or it gives you Kiss. 163 00:11:54,536 --> 00:11:58,532 Just the theater of rock without any substance. 164 00:12:00,603 --> 00:12:03,808 # You show us everything you've got 165 00:12:04,008 --> 00:12:07,186 # You keep on dancin and the room gets hot 166 00:12:07,386 --> 00:12:12,107 # You drive us wild, we'll drive you crazy 167 00:12:12,272 --> 00:12:14,558 Kiss were four glam rock fans 168 00:12:14,658 --> 00:12:16,851 who hit upon the idea of using makeup 169 00:12:16,951 --> 00:12:20,332 to transform themselves into larger-than-life rock stars. 170 00:12:20,874 --> 00:12:24,134 The plan was to create an illusion. 171 00:12:24,578 --> 00:12:29,611 Because if you can get people to believe what they're seeing 172 00:12:29,711 --> 00:12:33,829 is more than what it is, it becomes more than it is. 173 00:12:33,929 --> 00:12:41,054 # I wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day 174 00:12:42,994 --> 00:12:45,141 Kiss were hated by music critics, 175 00:12:45,241 --> 00:12:47,328 but built up a fan base of millions, 176 00:12:47,428 --> 00:12:51,449 because their shows could successfully entertain tens of thousands of people. 177 00:12:51,939 --> 00:12:54,323 It's not spontaneous. Everything is scripted. 178 00:12:54,423 --> 00:12:57,581 The focus is not necessarily on the music. 179 00:12:57,681 --> 00:13:00,178 The frontman basically is barely playing. 180 00:13:00,278 --> 00:13:03,450 He misses more notes than he hits. 181 00:13:03,530 --> 00:13:05,748 The emphasis is on the spectacle. 182 00:13:06,818 --> 00:13:10,796 I could care less whether 'New Musical Express' 183 00:13:10,896 --> 00:13:14,812 or some other music magazine believes that what we do is valid. 184 00:13:14,912 --> 00:13:19,387 A billion dollars later, they can kiss my ass, baby! 185 00:13:22,050 --> 00:13:23,679 The band was deliberately marketed 186 00:13:23,779 --> 00:13:26,540 outside the ghetto of hardcore rock fans. 187 00:13:28,547 --> 00:13:30,871 This is Kiss. Each sold separately. 188 00:13:30,971 --> 00:13:33,823 And you can put them in any crazy pose you want. 189 00:13:34,320 --> 00:13:39,012 They were, with the Kiss dolls, appealing to people who were 4. 190 00:13:39,112 --> 00:13:41,659 Literally they had no relationship to rock music, 191 00:13:41,759 --> 00:13:44,626 they would not be able to say what rock music was 192 00:13:44,726 --> 00:13:46,784 and they may have owned the Kiss dolls. 193 00:13:46,785 --> 00:13:48,894 They blow fire and spit blood and... 194 00:13:48,936 --> 00:13:50,451 - And that's neat, uh? - Yeah. 195 00:13:51,194 --> 00:13:56,306 At their peak, Kiss earned $50 million a year from merchandise alone. 196 00:13:57,089 --> 00:13:59,061 Their products could be found everywhere. 197 00:13:59,261 --> 00:14:02,402 Even in the dressing room of the man who would eventually deliver 198 00:14:02,502 --> 00:14:05,872 stadium rock from this glam and platform heel phase, 199 00:14:05,972 --> 00:14:07,558 Bruce Springsteen. 200 00:14:10,831 --> 00:14:14,978 Bruce Springsteen was one of the first people viewed as 201 00:14:15,078 --> 00:14:18,411 being necessary to save rock 'n roll. 202 00:14:18,511 --> 00:14:21,008 He was a good looking guy, writing great songs, 203 00:14:21,108 --> 00:14:25,785 who seemed, more than anything else, relentlessly sincere. 204 00:14:26,729 --> 00:14:29,941 He is the 70s rock Dylan. 205 00:14:30,867 --> 00:14:32,773 # Don't run back inside, 206 00:14:32,973 --> 00:14:36,323 # you know just what I'm here for 207 00:14:38,158 --> 00:14:40,448 # So you're scared and you're thinking 208 00:14:40,648 --> 00:14:44,886 # That maybe we ain't that young anymore 209 00:14:45,086 --> 00:14:49,167 # Show a little faith there's magic in the night 210 00:14:49,791 --> 00:14:53,976 # You ain't a beauty but hey you're alright 211 00:14:56,334 --> 00:14:59,126 # And that's alright with me 212 00:15:01,276 --> 00:15:05,372 # You can hide 'neath your covers and study your pain 213 00:15:05,872 --> 00:15:08,492 Bruce Springsteen and his group the E Street Band, 214 00:15:08,592 --> 00:15:11,021 had no need for costumes or pyrotechnics. 215 00:15:11,197 --> 00:15:14,299 Songs like 'Thunder Road' were widescreen tales 216 00:15:14,399 --> 00:15:16,190 of escape and freedom. 217 00:15:18,133 --> 00:15:20,552 The honesty of the music he played... 218 00:15:20,652 --> 00:15:25,714 You know, there wasn't a lot of fanfare and smoke and mirrors and bullshit. 219 00:15:25,814 --> 00:15:27,558 It was some guys on that stage, 220 00:15:27,658 --> 00:15:30,503 putting their heart and soul into what they were doing. 221 00:15:30,603 --> 00:15:33,010 # Except roll down the window 222 00:15:33,110 --> 00:15:36,615 # And let the wind blow back your hair 223 00:15:38,496 --> 00:15:40,012 # Well the night's busting open 224 00:15:40,112 --> 00:15:44,858 # These two lanes will take us anywhere 225 00:15:45,303 --> 00:15:48,204 # We got one last chance to make it real 226 00:15:49,075 --> 00:15:52,530 # To trade in these wings on some wheels 227 00:15:53,103 --> 00:15:54,642 # Climb in back 228 00:15:55,059 --> 00:15:57,620 # Heaven's waiting on down the tracks 229 00:15:59,248 --> 00:16:01,607 Springsteen wore his heart on his sleeve, 230 00:16:01,707 --> 00:16:04,880 but also tapped into the common experiences of a generation 231 00:16:04,980 --> 00:16:08,332 coming of age in America in the 1970s. 232 00:16:09,435 --> 00:16:10,704 That moment in the 70s 233 00:16:10,739 --> 00:16:13,931 was a moment of crashed expectations in America. 234 00:16:14,425 --> 00:16:16,669 We were told there was no more oil on the ground. 235 00:16:16,769 --> 00:16:18,943 The speed limit had been dropped to 55 236 00:16:19,143 --> 00:16:25,209 and Watergate and the fall of Vietnam were just the icing on the cake. 237 00:16:25,601 --> 00:16:28,497 From now on it's just gonna be work in a rotten job 238 00:16:28,597 --> 00:16:30,647 for not enough money and inflation's going wild, 239 00:16:30,747 --> 00:16:33,219 and you're never gonna be able to have your own house. 240 00:16:33,319 --> 00:16:34,968 It was just like, "The fun is over!" 241 00:16:35,168 --> 00:16:37,003 # It's town full of losers 242 00:16:37,103 --> 00:16:40,600 # And I'm pulling out of here to win 243 00:16:45,450 --> 00:16:47,512 Springsteen came out of the music scene 244 00:16:47,612 --> 00:16:51,165 centered around the troubled New Jersey resort of Asbury Park. 245 00:16:52,100 --> 00:16:56,044 A town scarred by race riots at the start of the 1970s, 246 00:16:56,144 --> 00:16:58,204 and in a downward spiral. 247 00:16:59,896 --> 00:17:02,187 I was a loner. I didn't really fit in very well, 248 00:17:02,287 --> 00:17:03,980 and so it was through music 249 00:17:04,015 --> 00:17:07,212 that I fundamentally connected myself to my world, 250 00:17:07,308 --> 00:17:09,039 to the world that was out there. 251 00:17:09,139 --> 00:17:14,698 I had my... where my ideas and my actions had some impact. 252 00:17:15,457 --> 00:17:18,797 It was basically street music. 253 00:17:19,985 --> 00:17:21,587 That's where it came from. 254 00:17:23,535 --> 00:17:26,777 In 1975, Springsteen had been a struggling figure 255 00:17:26,877 --> 00:17:29,325 on the verge of being dropped by his record label. 256 00:17:29,525 --> 00:17:32,392 But with the album and single 'Born to Run' 257 00:17:32,492 --> 00:17:35,330 he turned his career round in unprecedented fashion. 258 00:17:38,700 --> 00:17:40,797 I knew when I heard that song, 259 00:17:40,897 --> 00:17:43,897 ok, we have a whole new thing going on here. 260 00:17:44,097 --> 00:17:47,140 This is not just a song, this is a movie soundtrack. 261 00:17:47,795 --> 00:17:53,724 # In the day we sweat it out in the streets of a runaway American dream 262 00:17:54,161 --> 00:17:59,856 # At night we ride through mansions of glory in suicide machines 263 00:18:00,747 --> 00:18:03,435 # Sprung from cages out on highway 9, 264 00:18:03,574 --> 00:18:05,020 # Chrome wheeled, fuel injected 265 00:18:05,120 --> 00:18:07,709 # and steppin' out over the line 266 00:18:09,748 --> 00:18:12,579 # Baby this town rips the bones from your back 267 00:18:12,679 --> 00:18:15,503 # It's a death trap, it's a suicide rap 268 00:18:15,603 --> 00:18:18,086 # We gotta get out while we're young 269 00:18:18,490 --> 00:18:23,797 # 'Cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run 270 00:18:23,862 --> 00:18:27,142 'Born to Run', a street anthem song with real passion, 271 00:18:27,242 --> 00:18:31,082 turned Springsteen into the most talked about performer in America. 272 00:18:32,051 --> 00:18:34,761 Bruce really was uncomfortable with it. 273 00:18:34,861 --> 00:18:37,169 He wanted it but not that way. 274 00:18:37,269 --> 00:18:41,442 He wanted it more in his own terms. He wanted it to go a little slower. 275 00:18:41,542 --> 00:18:43,834 It seemed that it was getting out of hand for him. 276 00:18:44,199 --> 00:18:47,719 When 'Born to Run' hit, Springsteen was still playing theaters, 277 00:18:47,819 --> 00:18:50,268 places that held no more than 2000 people. 278 00:18:50,368 --> 00:18:53,805 Now, as a star turn, he could fill arenas, 279 00:18:53,905 --> 00:18:56,298 venues that held up to 20,000. 280 00:18:57,260 --> 00:18:58,976 But Springsteen drew back, 281 00:18:59,076 --> 00:19:02,853 fearful of losing his personal connection with the audience. 282 00:19:03,202 --> 00:19:08,120 He seemed to be really weary of taking any steps too fast. 283 00:19:08,220 --> 00:19:10,708 He stayed in clubs when he could be filling theaters. 284 00:19:10,808 --> 00:19:14,727 He stayed in theaters for a long time when he could be playing arenas. 285 00:19:14,827 --> 00:19:18,955 He didn't move to arenas until he really knew he could do it right. 286 00:19:21,819 --> 00:19:24,621 You're trying to get around to as many cities as you can. 287 00:19:24,821 --> 00:19:27,134 That's what's best for the fans. 288 00:19:28,265 --> 00:19:30,994 Yeah, you can stay in a club, 289 00:19:31,106 --> 00:19:33,541 and play that club 30 nights in a row, 290 00:19:35,139 --> 00:19:39,334 or you can play 6 nights in the theater, 291 00:19:39,434 --> 00:19:41,704 or one night in the arena, you know what I mean? 292 00:19:42,385 --> 00:19:45,419 # Rosalita jump a little lighter 293 00:19:45,519 --> 00:19:48,318 # Se�orita come sit by my fire 294 00:19:48,418 --> 00:19:51,313 # I just want to be your love, ain't no lie 295 00:19:51,413 --> 00:19:54,210 # Rosalita you're my stone desire 296 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:58,959 It was on his first major arena tour in 1978 297 00:19:59,059 --> 00:20:01,806 that Springsteen learnt to love the big stage. 298 00:20:04,191 --> 00:20:06,639 When he went out there and it felt good, 299 00:20:06,839 --> 00:20:08,930 it was a delight to him. 300 00:20:09,061 --> 00:20:14,240 He figured out that size was not the obstacle that he thought it was. 301 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:18,458 That the shape of the building was not the issue. 302 00:20:18,558 --> 00:20:24,287 It was the shape of the music and the shape of what he projected. 303 00:20:25,302 --> 00:20:27,062 And you could see it worked. 304 00:20:33,082 --> 00:20:37,395 The band's three hour set would climax with the song 'Rosalita'. 305 00:20:37,495 --> 00:20:41,389 Springsteen used it as an opportunity to pull out every stop. 306 00:21:04,062 --> 00:21:06,252 It just did everything, you know. 307 00:21:06,367 --> 00:21:10,425 It's all this big story, it was funny, it was silly. 308 00:21:10,525 --> 00:21:14,306 There were many different arrangemental things that just simply 309 00:21:14,406 --> 00:21:16,775 was meant to drive you crazy. 310 00:21:57,699 --> 00:22:00,264 By the end of the 70s it was becoming clear 311 00:22:00,364 --> 00:22:04,163 that stadium rock could embrace both the blue-collar epics of Springsteen 312 00:22:04,263 --> 00:22:07,313 and the camp theatrics of Kiss and Queen. 313 00:22:08,026 --> 00:22:09,509 But on the streets of London 314 00:22:09,609 --> 00:22:13,454 a group had formed who would broaden stadium rock even more 315 00:22:13,555 --> 00:22:16,266 by bringing their own global take to the music, 316 00:22:17,889 --> 00:22:19,033 The Police. 317 00:22:18,906 --> 00:22:25,647 # Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light 318 00:22:26,909 --> 00:22:28,742 # Those days are over 319 00:22:28,920 --> 00:22:32,162 # You don't have to sell your body to the night 320 00:22:32,194 --> 00:22:34,059 The Police are significant because 321 00:22:34,159 --> 00:22:37,397 they actually did bring a new sound to stadium rock. 322 00:22:37,597 --> 00:22:41,478 That there was a reggae tinge to it was different because 323 00:22:41,578 --> 00:22:44,364 when you talk about stadium rock, you are talking about rock; 324 00:22:44,464 --> 00:22:46,760 this are white guys with guitars. 325 00:22:46,860 --> 00:22:48,600 Now, The Police were white guys with guitars, 326 00:22:48,700 --> 00:22:52,858 but they had also clearly heard a few reggae records in their time. 327 00:22:52,958 --> 00:22:59,196 # Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light 328 00:23:00,320 --> 00:23:03,768 Stewart Copeland had founded The Police in 1977, 329 00:23:03,868 --> 00:23:06,288 along with base playing frontman, Sting. 330 00:23:06,388 --> 00:23:09,368 They were soon joined by guitarist Andy Summers. 331 00:23:10,432 --> 00:23:14,268 The exotic rhythms that propelled The Police's early classic, 'Roxanne', 332 00:23:14,368 --> 00:23:17,494 came naturally to Copeland, who'd grown up in the Middle East. 333 00:23:17,594 --> 00:23:23,456 # Roxanne, you don't have to put on the red light 334 00:23:27,031 --> 00:23:31,274 Since I grew up with backward rhythm, our rhythms were slightly out of kelter. 335 00:23:31,374 --> 00:23:34,086 Instead of... Roxanne 336 00:23:34,571 --> 00:23:36,967 It was Roxanne... 337 00:23:37,855 --> 00:23:41,985 # Roxanne, you don't have to wear that dress tonight 338 00:23:43,408 --> 00:23:45,150 The base, which goes... 339 00:23:46,630 --> 00:23:51,407 move it over one beat, so it goes... 340 00:23:53,220 --> 00:23:54,520 Real simple. 341 00:23:55,527 --> 00:23:58,581 'Roxanne' was first released in April, 1978, 342 00:23:58,781 --> 00:24:00,804 but would not be an immediate hit. 343 00:24:01,101 --> 00:24:03,489 The British music scene was dominated by punk 344 00:24:03,589 --> 00:24:05,912 and 'Roxanne' simply didn't fit in. 345 00:24:06,849 --> 00:24:09,528 A lot of the hacks then just wouldn't give us a shot. 346 00:24:09,628 --> 00:24:12,728 We were just about finished as a band, you know, 347 00:24:12,828 --> 00:24:14,661 we couldn't get gigs really. 348 00:24:14,761 --> 00:24:17,724 If we got a gig, we'd have to spend all the money hiring the PA 349 00:24:17,824 --> 00:24:19,326 and the van to get there. 350 00:24:20,354 --> 00:24:22,103 As a last roll of the dice, 351 00:24:22,203 --> 00:24:26,789 The Police decided to chance their luck with a self-financed American tour. 352 00:24:27,630 --> 00:24:29,640 It felt different when we came to the US. 353 00:24:29,740 --> 00:24:31,444 It felt like it was a clean slate. 354 00:24:31,544 --> 00:24:34,470 People accepted us just on the music alone. 355 00:24:34,670 --> 00:24:38,044 They didn't care about punk credentials or anything like that. 356 00:24:38,144 --> 00:24:39,868 They just reacted to the music. 357 00:24:40,022 --> 00:24:42,502 # And all this guilt will be on your head 358 00:24:42,602 --> 00:24:45,434 # I guess you'd call it suicide 359 00:24:45,534 --> 00:24:48,635 # But I'm too full to swallow my pride 360 00:24:48,670 --> 00:24:51,478 # I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing 361 00:24:51,578 --> 00:24:54,546 # I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing 362 00:24:54,646 --> 00:24:57,619 # I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing 363 00:24:57,794 --> 00:25:00,737 They responded to our music, and just city by city, 364 00:25:00,837 --> 00:25:02,936 incrementally, tour after tour. 365 00:25:03,036 --> 00:25:05,565 You know, people imagine that it happened suddenly. It wasn't. 366 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,059 It was a lot of shows. It was step by step by step. 367 00:25:11,888 --> 00:25:13,599 They drove around in a van. 368 00:25:14,288 --> 00:25:19,046 They played every crappy bar and kept coming back, and back, and back. 369 00:25:19,114 --> 00:25:21,695 I knew people who thought The Police were from Boston, 370 00:25:21,795 --> 00:25:26,009 because they played in the New York to Boston corridor so much. 371 00:25:29,007 --> 00:25:32,251 The Police at the far corner of the store, here to say "hello". 372 00:25:32,407 --> 00:25:33,763 Come over to meet them... 373 00:25:35,007 --> 00:25:36,716 The group's progress in the US 374 00:25:36,816 --> 00:25:39,702 immediately reflected back in their British record sales. 375 00:25:39,795 --> 00:25:41,563 And within a year of going to America 376 00:25:41,663 --> 00:25:44,330 the band would be a number one act in the UK. 377 00:25:45,744 --> 00:25:48,332 But Stewart's brother, Miles, the group's manager, 378 00:25:48,432 --> 00:25:50,781 had a plan that would take them global. 379 00:25:51,520 --> 00:25:53,797 There were two things that were really important. 380 00:25:53,797 --> 00:25:56,054 Number one is, when you interview the group, 381 00:25:56,154 --> 00:25:57,940 most groups had the same thing to say. 382 00:25:58,577 --> 00:26:00,124 How did you get your name, what did you do, 383 00:26:00,224 --> 00:26:01,466 it was always the same story. 384 00:26:01,566 --> 00:26:03,085 Yeah, we formed this little group and friends 385 00:26:03,185 --> 00:26:05,741 we went playing at the Marquee Club and we did this and that... 386 00:26:06,509 --> 00:26:08,426 I heard that one before, ok? 387 00:26:08,526 --> 00:26:09,866 So, to put the group in situation 388 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:11,823 where they've done something nobody else has done, 389 00:26:11,923 --> 00:26:13,534 means that any time they do an interview, 390 00:26:13,569 --> 00:26:15,145 the interviews are much more interesting. 391 00:26:15,502 --> 00:26:17,221 Secondly, if you would put them in a situation 392 00:26:17,321 --> 00:26:20,098 where the photographs are gonna be interesting. 393 00:26:20,345 --> 00:26:24,105 You've got a picture of them in Delhi wearing maharaja suits, 394 00:26:24,140 --> 00:26:26,685 you go, "Wow! The Police are touring the world. My God! They're in India. 395 00:26:26,785 --> 00:26:29,230 "They're in Egypt. They're... God!" 396 00:26:29,312 --> 00:26:31,911 It just created this mystique of excitement. 397 00:26:32,476 --> 00:26:35,890 The Police's 1980 world tour saw them play countries 398 00:26:35,925 --> 00:26:39,042 where few Western rock acts had ever performed. 399 00:26:39,263 --> 00:26:42,149 # I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing 400 00:26:42,249 --> 00:26:45,621 # I can't, I can't, I can't stand losing 401 00:26:47,119 --> 00:26:48,982 This morning we left Bombay 402 00:26:49,182 --> 00:26:52,729 and we will be landing in Cairo in about three hours. 403 00:26:52,829 --> 00:26:56,334 I think we should just... get off, you know, let's go. 404 00:26:57,450 --> 00:26:59,794 It was fantastic fun. 405 00:26:59,894 --> 00:27:03,958 Everywhere was total mayhem as we went around and enjoyed this 406 00:27:03,958 --> 00:27:09,112 but as well as the fun of it it was very press worthy. 407 00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:11,390 It's nice to be here in Athens. 408 00:27:14,350 --> 00:27:18,039 By 1981, The Police had built an international following, 409 00:27:18,139 --> 00:27:21,386 and the band's enormous potential was starting to be recognised 410 00:27:21,486 --> 00:27:23,052 by the rock establishment. 411 00:27:25,114 --> 00:27:27,040 Freddy was very taken, you know. 412 00:27:27,140 --> 00:27:30,295 And he got hold of a video of The Police and said, 413 00:27:30,395 --> 00:27:33,401 "Look. Look at this guy. Look at Sting. Look what a showman he is. 414 00:27:33,501 --> 00:27:36,427 "This guy is gonna be the next whatever it is, you know." 415 00:27:42,609 --> 00:27:46,782 The Police were not the only ones looking beyond Britain and America for success. 416 00:27:47,284 --> 00:27:50,950 Having scored an American #1 with 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love", 417 00:27:51,050 --> 00:27:54,220 Queen received an offer to play in South America, 418 00:27:54,320 --> 00:27:57,965 a continent totally ignored by the big rock bands. 419 00:27:58,225 --> 00:28:00,740 I remember they guy who wanted to promote us, 420 00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:02,913 he came over and said, "Look, I tell you. 421 00:28:02,913 --> 00:28:04,694 "You can play football stadiums down here", 422 00:28:04,729 --> 00:28:06,673 and we went, "Yeah, come on... 423 00:28:06,773 --> 00:28:08,532 Argentina, Brazil, they've never heard of us. " 424 00:28:08,567 --> 00:28:13,059 And he says, "No. I promise you you will fill football stadiums everywhere you go." 425 00:28:13,159 --> 00:28:17,201 Fred, how do you feel playing and singing before 200,000 people? 426 00:28:17,301 --> 00:28:18,525 I haven't done it yet. 427 00:28:21,939 --> 00:28:23,872 # Another one bites the dust 428 00:28:24,679 --> 00:28:27,400 The tour would take them to Argentina and Brazil, 429 00:28:27,500 --> 00:28:30,306 countries then under military dictatorships. 430 00:28:30,406 --> 00:28:32,261 # Another one bites the dust 431 00:28:32,319 --> 00:28:35,500 There was a great fear among governments that 432 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,295 a large number of people gathered together would be a dangerous force politically. 433 00:28:39,395 --> 00:28:41,392 # How do you think I'm going to get along 434 00:28:41,492 --> 00:28:43,188 # Without you when you're gone 435 00:28:43,548 --> 00:28:46,249 There was a sort of squad of military in front of the stage, 436 00:28:46,349 --> 00:28:48,395 a lot of rifles everywhere and 437 00:28:48,495 --> 00:28:52,628 so we raised the English and the Argentinean flags simultaneously 438 00:28:52,728 --> 00:28:54,372 each side of the stage. 439 00:29:02,288 --> 00:29:07,163 In only a few years time, stadium rock would align itself with political causes. 440 00:29:07,363 --> 00:29:11,326 But for now, Freddy Mercury had a more old fashioned idea 441 00:29:11,426 --> 00:29:13,345 of the role of the entertainer. 442 00:29:15,268 --> 00:29:16,958 He was completely apolitical. 443 00:29:17,058 --> 00:29:21,197 And he was always insistent on the fact that we had nothing to do with politics. 444 00:29:21,232 --> 00:29:26,967 We should stay out of it completely and hopefully thereby above it. 445 00:29:31,515 --> 00:29:33,437 By the time the tour reached Brazil 446 00:29:33,537 --> 00:29:36,879 they were playing to over 130,000 people. 447 00:29:36,980 --> 00:29:39,117 Their stadium moment had arrived 448 00:29:39,217 --> 00:29:41,761 and the band connected with their huge audiences 449 00:29:41,861 --> 00:29:43,588 in a spectacular way. 450 00:29:43,688 --> 00:29:46,289 # Hurry back hurry back, 451 00:29:46,389 --> 00:29:49,472 # Don't take it away from me, 452 00:29:49,572 --> 00:29:56,328 # Because you don't know what it means to me 453 00:29:58,521 --> 00:30:02,645 That experience in Argentina and Brazil echoes down now. 454 00:30:02,845 --> 00:30:05,296 Generally if I meet someone in the street 455 00:30:05,396 --> 00:30:09,609 and they get very emotional and teary, and want to put their arms around me, 456 00:30:09,644 --> 00:30:11,329 usually it's an Argentinean 457 00:30:11,994 --> 00:30:13,820 or a Brazilian. 458 00:30:13,920 --> 00:30:16,583 And I feel the same... all that feeling comes back, 459 00:30:16,683 --> 00:30:19,823 an amazing bond that we had in South America at that time. 460 00:30:19,923 --> 00:30:22,444 # I want to break free 461 00:30:24,162 --> 00:30:26,496 # I want to break free 462 00:30:26,596 --> 00:30:28,461 It was just as well that Queen had built up 463 00:30:28,496 --> 00:30:30,856 an enormous fan base in South America, 464 00:30:31,014 --> 00:30:34,501 in the US their career would go into rapid decline. 465 00:30:34,645 --> 00:30:37,326 Largely as a result of one of their videos. 466 00:30:37,426 --> 00:30:40,180 # I've got to break free 467 00:30:42,691 --> 00:30:44,482 # God knows 468 00:30:45,417 --> 00:30:49,245 # God knows I want to break free 469 00:30:50,491 --> 00:30:52,589 I was out there at the time doing some interviews 470 00:30:52,689 --> 00:30:55,334 and I remember when you put this video on people would go suddenly 471 00:30:55,519 --> 00:30:56,548 blanche. 472 00:30:56,912 --> 00:30:58,716 And go, "Well, we'll move swiftly on." 473 00:30:58,816 --> 00:31:03,438 As if the fact that we dressed up as girls and lampooned Coronation Street 474 00:31:03,538 --> 00:31:04,922 they just didn't get the joke. 475 00:31:06,418 --> 00:31:09,858 A lot of America really wasn't ready for that kind of thing. 476 00:31:09,958 --> 00:31:12,576 And they dropped the record like a stone. 477 00:31:13,598 --> 00:31:16,754 # I don't want to live alone 478 00:31:17,127 --> 00:31:20,600 Freddy did say, "Well, I don't know about America. 479 00:31:20,700 --> 00:31:23,391 "I suppose I'll have to fucking die before we get to be there again." 480 00:31:24,088 --> 00:31:25,237 And, you know... 481 00:31:27,082 --> 00:31:28,765 not far off really. 482 00:31:29,917 --> 00:31:31,726 As Queen discovered to their cost, 483 00:31:31,826 --> 00:31:34,827 it was essential to understand the American market. 484 00:31:35,027 --> 00:31:38,956 And in the early 80s, few were better at this than The Police. 485 00:31:39,102 --> 00:31:44,028 In 1983, they delivered a record that would take America by storm. 486 00:31:44,371 --> 00:31:47,308 # Every breath you take 487 00:31:48,410 --> 00:31:51,020 # Every move you make 488 00:31:52,322 --> 00:31:56,329 # Every bond you break, every step you take 489 00:31:56,497 --> 00:31:58,353 # I'll be watching you 490 00:31:58,378 --> 00:31:59,718 We all knew that it was a hit. 491 00:31:59,818 --> 00:32:01,477 We all knew that that was the best song 492 00:32:01,577 --> 00:32:03,498 Sting had every written up until that point. 493 00:32:03,886 --> 00:32:08,421 He had a knack of writing a song that ostensibly was about this, 494 00:32:08,521 --> 00:32:12,210 but you listen closely to the lyrics and really it's about that. 495 00:32:12,310 --> 00:32:14,997 You know, it's a song about voyeurism and stalking, 496 00:32:15,097 --> 00:32:16,983 but it sounds like a love song. 497 00:32:17,083 --> 00:32:20,423 # Oh, can't you see 498 00:32:21,134 --> 00:32:24,286 # You belong to me 499 00:32:25,105 --> 00:32:29,077 'Every Breath You Take' became The Police's first American #1, 500 00:32:29,177 --> 00:32:31,571 and the band embarked on a 9 month tour 501 00:32:31,671 --> 00:32:34,399 that saw them played the most hallowed turf in rock, 502 00:32:34,499 --> 00:32:40,438 Shea Stadium, where The Beatles had performed to 56,000 people in 1965. 503 00:32:41,161 --> 00:32:45,756 In 1983, The Police played to over 70,000. 504 00:32:46,949 --> 00:32:49,153 I remember walking out introducing the group, 505 00:32:49,253 --> 00:32:51,352 and I go, "Ladies and gentlemen. And now..." 506 00:32:51,452 --> 00:32:53,525 And the place erupted. 507 00:32:53,625 --> 00:32:57,920 And I'm hearing this "Oahhhh!" from the crowd, you could feel the wind of this. 508 00:32:58,020 --> 00:32:59,757 And you're thinking, "Oh my God!" 509 00:32:59,857 --> 00:33:02,077 These guys are gonna have that for 2 hours. 510 00:33:03,628 --> 00:33:06,232 This is called 'Synchronicity'. 511 00:33:14,135 --> 00:33:15,404 It is an incredible buzz. 512 00:33:15,504 --> 00:33:19,204 You just feel this very positive energy coming towards you. 513 00:33:19,239 --> 00:33:22,862 It's like... a wave. You kind of absorb it. 514 00:33:22,962 --> 00:33:24,845 It's very empowering. 515 00:33:25,503 --> 00:33:28,668 It's a great experience. It's a drug. 516 00:33:31,513 --> 00:33:33,692 Shea Stadium sold out within hours 517 00:33:33,792 --> 00:33:36,497 and the show marked the coronation of The Police 518 00:33:36,597 --> 00:33:39,371 as the new kings of stadium rock. 519 00:33:40,861 --> 00:33:42,954 That's when we went into the stratosphere. 520 00:33:43,054 --> 00:33:46,142 At that point we're no longer the cutting edge of the latest new thing. 521 00:33:46,242 --> 00:33:48,391 We now own America. 522 00:34:11,727 --> 00:34:15,766 The Police were now in a position to enjoy the spoils of their victory. 523 00:34:16,638 --> 00:34:22,056 # Giant steps are what you take walking on the moon 524 00:34:22,156 --> 00:34:24,025 We would finish the last song 525 00:34:24,125 --> 00:34:27,370 and three limousines are right up against the stage. 526 00:34:27,470 --> 00:34:33,132 And my limousine has my cold drinks, my towels, everything I need, 527 00:34:33,432 --> 00:34:39,221 'cause I come off soaking wet, I mean, just heart pounding, head exploding. 528 00:34:41,650 --> 00:34:44,446 The t-shirt salesmen, they're just having money throwed at them. 529 00:34:44,546 --> 00:34:49,227 10 dollar bills, 15... they make change, and the money goes into a big trash bin. 530 00:34:49,421 --> 00:34:53,585 They grab all those bags of loot and throw them on the plane with us. 531 00:34:53,671 --> 00:34:56,983 As it's taking off we can see that whole part of the state 532 00:34:57,083 --> 00:35:00,711 that's just jammed with cars trying to get out of the stadium. 533 00:35:00,811 --> 00:35:05,334 And we throw the bags like that and it was just like Ebenezer Scrooge 534 00:35:05,434 --> 00:35:06,444 swimming in his money, 535 00:35:06,544 --> 00:35:09,857 I swear to God it was a green blizzard in our plane. 536 00:35:10,601 --> 00:35:12,321 The 'Synchronicity' world tour 537 00:35:12,421 --> 00:35:17,104 saw the band play to millions of fans at over a hundred shows. 538 00:35:17,376 --> 00:35:19,610 We were a huge cash cow while it was going, 539 00:35:19,710 --> 00:35:23,487 so we're like the three treasures protected inside a fortress. 540 00:35:23,655 --> 00:35:25,403 I was saying to Stewart the other day, 541 00:35:25,438 --> 00:35:29,900 it's like you sort of return to the mind of a child, you become very simple. 542 00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,639 Every move you make you're sort of catered to it. 543 00:35:32,797 --> 00:35:35,773 What's that over there? Whatever it is they'll bring it here 544 00:35:35,873 --> 00:35:37,095 so I can have a look at it. 545 00:35:37,295 --> 00:35:41,182 I want a... and there's three guys going, "What?" 546 00:35:41,282 --> 00:35:44,237 And I want a... string quartet. 547 00:35:45,181 --> 00:35:48,063 And I began to feel that I was loosing my ability to 548 00:35:48,163 --> 00:35:51,169 be a human being in the human world. 549 00:35:51,999 --> 00:35:54,440 There's only one way to get out of there, 550 00:35:54,540 --> 00:35:56,914 which was the meltdown of the golden cage. 551 00:35:59,481 --> 00:36:02,678 # In my life, yeah, yeah, 552 00:36:03,122 --> 00:36:06,204 Sting was talking about possibly to end the band. 553 00:36:06,304 --> 00:36:12,093 I think at that point we were so confused and glutted with it all 554 00:36:12,193 --> 00:36:16,249 that we went "Oh, yeah, yeah. Let's end it all." 555 00:36:16,349 --> 00:36:17,427 What a great idea. 556 00:36:18,852 --> 00:36:21,828 By the time the tour came to an end in 1984, 557 00:36:21,928 --> 00:36:24,631 The Police had decided to call it a day. 558 00:36:32,389 --> 00:36:35,789 The Police peaked at a time when the record industry was booming. 559 00:36:35,889 --> 00:36:41,033 Gorged on multi-platinum records by Michael Jackson, Prince, and others. 560 00:36:42,062 --> 00:36:44,098 Every major artist would have to work out 561 00:36:44,198 --> 00:36:47,292 how to navigate this brave new blockbuster world. 562 00:36:47,594 --> 00:36:50,144 And Bruce Springsteen was no different. 563 00:36:50,859 --> 00:36:54,539 John Landau, his manager and producer, was pushing him to really go out, 564 00:36:54,639 --> 00:37:01,199 and one time try to be as far reaching, as successful, 565 00:37:01,299 --> 00:37:04,440 as blockbuster as he could be. 566 00:37:12,219 --> 00:37:14,646 The stadiums were beckoning Bruce. 567 00:37:14,910 --> 00:37:18,778 But first, he needed a killer single that would prepare the way. 568 00:37:20,435 --> 00:37:23,498 "Ok, what is the single?" Well, you listen to the radio 569 00:37:23,598 --> 00:37:26,215 and say, ok, that's what's going on 570 00:37:26,315 --> 00:37:32,331 and you try, basically, to do your version of what might fit in to that. 571 00:37:32,431 --> 00:37:35,242 # I get up in the evening 572 00:37:35,357 --> 00:37:40,414 'Dancing in the Dark' was the lead single for the new album 'Born in the USA'. 573 00:37:40,626 --> 00:37:43,383 It had a rhythm track influenced by Michael Jackson 574 00:37:43,483 --> 00:37:47,419 and Bruce even consented to appear in his first proper video. 575 00:37:47,596 --> 00:37:50,167 At last, Springsteen was willing to see 576 00:37:50,267 --> 00:37:52,405 just how far he could go. 577 00:37:52,605 --> 00:37:58,333 # Hey there, baby I could use just a little help 578 00:37:58,582 --> 00:38:00,921 # You can't start a fire 579 00:38:01,636 --> 00:38:04,921 # You can't start a fire without a spark 580 00:38:05,137 --> 00:38:07,519 # This gun's for hire 581 00:38:08,236 --> 00:38:11,864 # Even if we're just dancing in the dark 582 00:38:14,101 --> 00:38:17,790 At that point I said, "Well, I'm here, let me see what happens, 583 00:38:17,890 --> 00:38:21,256 "let me see where it goes, let me see what my limitations are." 584 00:38:21,314 --> 00:38:23,150 You know, you take the ride... 585 00:38:23,818 --> 00:38:26,978 I would have regretted terribly if I felt like I had that opportunity 586 00:38:27,078 --> 00:38:30,612 and hadn't made the most of it, or hadn't taken it 587 00:38:30,712 --> 00:38:33,827 to where I thought I could. 588 00:38:34,176 --> 00:38:38,964 'Born in the USA' would become one of the most successful records of the 1980s. 589 00:38:39,382 --> 00:38:43,249 Its songs dominated the American charts for nearly two years. 590 00:38:43,989 --> 00:38:48,971 It had a ridiculous, ridiculous fate 591 00:38:48,972 --> 00:38:53,677 of having seven top ten singles. 592 00:38:53,979 --> 00:38:58,074 To promote the album, Springsteen embarked on a 15-month world tour 593 00:38:58,174 --> 00:39:01,111 *** him finally move up to play stadiums. 594 00:39:12,730 --> 00:39:16,926 The first day, one of the things we did*, we were outside, in day time, 595 00:39:17,026 --> 00:39:20,207 so you could see the massive audience we had. 596 00:39:20,307 --> 00:39:22,553 And that was kind of good fun. 597 00:39:22,653 --> 00:39:26,197 # Born down in a dead man's town 598 00:39:26,476 --> 00:39:29,008 # The first kick I took was when I hit the ground 599 00:39:29,108 --> 00:39:31,173 The title track, 'Born in the USA', 600 00:39:31,273 --> 00:39:33,958 would be Springsteen's most controversial song. 601 00:39:34,058 --> 00:39:36,081 Behind the all American swagger 602 00:39:36,181 --> 00:39:39,264 its lyrics spoke of darkness and disillusion. 603 00:39:39,364 --> 00:39:42,472 # Born in the USA 604 00:39:42,836 --> 00:39:46,082 # (I was) Born in the USA 605 00:39:46,282 --> 00:39:48,447 In that song Bruce had encapsulated 606 00:39:48,547 --> 00:39:51,801 the frustration, bitterness and the disappointment 607 00:39:52,001 --> 00:39:57,942 of so many of the people we'd met who'd served in the Vietnam War. 608 00:40:00,009 --> 00:40:03,773 # And so they put a rifle in my hands 609 00:40:04,283 --> 00:40:07,842 # Sent me off to a foreign land 610 00:40:08,424 --> 00:40:11,771 # To go and kill the yellow man 611 00:40:11,871 --> 00:40:18,639 A lot of people misred the lyrics, and Reagan was king at that point. 612 00:40:18,739 --> 00:40:23,110 Everybody thought this was a nationalistic pro-Reagan song, 613 00:40:23,210 --> 00:40:26,232 that was good for 5-6 million probably, you know. 614 00:40:27,297 --> 00:40:31,074 Amongst those who misinterpreted the song was Reagan himself. 615 00:40:32,337 --> 00:40:36,622 America's future rests in a thousand dreams inside your hearts. 616 00:40:37,037 --> 00:40:39,775 If rests in the message of hope in songs of a man 617 00:40:39,875 --> 00:40:45,020 so many young Americans admire, New Jersey's own Bruce Springsteen. 618 00:40:47,590 --> 00:40:49,009 You gotta laugh. 619 00:40:49,109 --> 00:40:55,546 You realise you clueless these people that are in charge of things are. 620 00:40:55,885 --> 00:41:00,282 He doesn't know who Bruce Springsteen is, I'm surprised he didn't say 621 00:41:00,382 --> 00:41:02,899 Bruce Springstine or something, who knows? 622 00:41:03,504 --> 00:41:05,819 I probably could've made a record that would've been 623 00:41:05,919 --> 00:41:09,733 more easily understood but it wouldn't have been as good. 624 00:41:09,833 --> 00:41:12,518 The record is right on the money. 625 00:41:12,618 --> 00:41:15,533 There may be some misinterpretations of it out there, you know, 626 00:41:15,633 --> 00:41:17,934 but it was the right record. 627 00:41:19,529 --> 00:41:24,231 'Born in the USA' would go on to sell over 15 million copies in America. 628 00:41:24,825 --> 00:41:29,161 President Reagan was not the only person buying into the idea of Bruce, 629 00:41:29,261 --> 00:41:32,209 the most ordinary mega-star on the planet. 630 00:41:41,951 --> 00:41:45,920 Well, he's one of us. He's part of New Jersey. 631 00:41:46,020 --> 00:41:48,042 He loves Philadelphia, he really does. 632 00:41:48,142 --> 00:41:51,384 He's the boss, you know, we call him 'the boss' and he is the boss. 633 00:41:58,419 --> 00:42:02,267 The people who really love Springsteen, the real believers, 634 00:42:02,567 --> 00:42:07,732 they think that when Springsteen is not in the studio or on tour, 635 00:42:07,832 --> 00:42:11,053 he actually goes back to New Jersey and works in a car wash. 636 00:42:11,153 --> 00:42:14,551 So he becomes this idea, this impossible idea 637 00:42:14,651 --> 00:42:17,412 that makes him messianic. 638 00:42:26,727 --> 00:42:28,730 He wasn't putting on an act or anything, 639 00:42:29,378 --> 00:42:32,341 he really was a kind of regular guy. 640 00:42:32,903 --> 00:42:35,440 And the fact that he was commercially successful 641 00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:40,839 was simply a matter of greatness as far as I'm concerned. 642 00:42:41,338 --> 00:42:42,433 That's it. 643 00:42:45,685 --> 00:42:48,525 For all of 'Born in the USA's huge success 644 00:42:48,625 --> 00:42:51,418 in the overheated rock industry of the 1980s 645 00:42:51,518 --> 00:42:54,327 other artist's albums were selling even more. 646 00:42:55,000 --> 00:42:56,633 The numbers were vast. 647 00:42:56,892 --> 00:42:58,500 And even Dire Straits, 648 00:42:58,600 --> 00:43:01,487 fronted by unassuming Geordie Mark Knopfler, 649 00:43:01,587 --> 00:43:05,721 suddenly discovered they were one of the most popular groups in the world. 650 00:43:05,962 --> 00:43:08,311 # ... and alarm 651 00:43:10,997 --> 00:43:13,873 # You did not desert me 652 00:43:13,973 --> 00:43:17,764 # My brothers in arms 653 00:43:21,666 --> 00:43:24,398 I love the fact that any stuff that I may have done 654 00:43:24,433 --> 00:43:27,557 has influenced so many kids around the world, 655 00:43:28,567 --> 00:43:30,952 because it just happened to be in front of them. 656 00:43:31,052 --> 00:43:32,792 It's not because it was good or anything 657 00:43:32,827 --> 00:43:34,967 it was just because it was in front of them. 658 00:43:35,109 --> 00:43:36,772 And that's what happens. 659 00:43:36,872 --> 00:43:40,267 And you just take your little place in the chain. 660 00:43:41,738 --> 00:43:48,354 # I want my MTV 661 00:43:48,421 --> 00:43:51,721 Dire Straits' 1985 album 'Brothers in Arms' 662 00:43:51,821 --> 00:43:54,107 would sell over 30 million copies. 663 00:43:54,323 --> 00:43:57,285 In large part this was thanks to a monster single, 664 00:43:57,395 --> 00:44:00,289 the unforgettable 'Money for Nothing'. 665 00:44:13,403 --> 00:44:15,686 That's the secret of the whole thing. 666 00:44:15,786 --> 00:44:17,609 It's just to do with the picking. 667 00:44:31,612 --> 00:44:34,619 # Now look at them yo-yos that's the way you do it 668 00:44:35,228 --> 00:44:38,653 # You play the guitar on the MTV 669 00:44:38,814 --> 00:44:41,982 # That ain't workin' that's the way you do it 670 00:44:42,182 --> 00:44:45,191 # Money for nothin' and the chicks for free 671 00:44:45,291 --> 00:44:49,021 'Money for Nothing' was a wry commentary on the slick world of MTV 672 00:44:49,121 --> 00:44:50,779 and the 80s music industry. 673 00:44:52,783 --> 00:44:56,170 But with the song's success, Mark Knopfler soon took his place 674 00:44:56,270 --> 00:44:58,340 in the world he was satirizing. 675 00:45:01,054 --> 00:45:04,717 Everybody wanted to see us. Everybody wanted to have the records. 676 00:45:04,817 --> 00:45:06,982 You reach a kind of critical mass. 677 00:45:08,390 --> 00:45:10,446 It is not a normal existence. 678 00:45:10,546 --> 00:45:15,107 There were certainly periods where I'd be probably drinking too much, 679 00:45:15,207 --> 00:45:20,155 probably having my personality smacked about a bit 680 00:45:20,255 --> 00:45:21,976 by the size of events. 681 00:45:23,304 --> 00:45:27,554 The 'Brothers in Arms' tour saw Dire Straits play 248 shows 682 00:45:27,654 --> 00:45:30,301 in 117 different cities. 683 00:45:30,540 --> 00:45:34,092 They packed out Wembley Arena for 13 nights. 684 00:45:34,495 --> 00:45:37,245 # Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies 685 00:45:37,378 --> 00:45:39,495 # Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say 686 00:45:39,761 --> 00:45:42,082 # Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman 687 00:45:42,421 --> 00:45:44,805 # Down in the tunnels, trying to make it pay 688 00:45:44,967 --> 00:45:47,722 # He got the action, he got the motion 689 00:45:47,879 --> 00:45:50,153 # Oh Yeah the boy can play 690 00:45:50,396 --> 00:45:52,717 # Dedication devotion 691 00:45:52,849 --> 00:45:55,248 # Turning all the night time into the day 692 00:45:55,327 --> 00:45:57,463 # He do the song about the sweet lovin' woman 693 00:45:57,552 --> 00:45:59,699 # He do the song about the knife 694 00:45:59,733 --> 00:46:06,312 # He do the walk, he do the walk of life, yeah he do the walk of life 695 00:46:07,052 --> 00:46:08,527 The sheer scale of the success 696 00:46:08,627 --> 00:46:12,518 enjoyed by Dire Straits and others at the height of the 80s music boom 697 00:46:12,618 --> 00:46:14,673 would have an important consequence. 698 00:46:16,544 --> 00:46:21,767 The market for rock music had a huge booming from the mid 80s. 699 00:46:21,867 --> 00:46:26,297 Loads of people benefited from that, lots of artists benefited from that, 700 00:46:26,397 --> 00:46:29,612 and you could say a degree of guilt came with that. 701 00:46:29,712 --> 00:46:35,008 A sense of, we have this popularity, we have this audience, this platform. 702 00:46:35,108 --> 00:46:39,986 Is all we're going to do with it just sell more records and tickets, 703 00:46:40,086 --> 00:46:43,082 or can we, should we do something more? 704 00:46:43,350 --> 00:46:46,380 'Money for nothing and chicks for free', 705 00:46:46,522 --> 00:46:48,546 that's the chorus of one of their songs. 706 00:46:48,701 --> 00:46:51,690 But their hearts are in helping to feed those who are starving... 707 00:46:51,790 --> 00:46:53,709 and making great music. 708 00:46:53,809 --> 00:46:56,959 From London, Dire Straits! 709 00:46:58,080 --> 00:47:00,316 On July 13th, 1985, 710 00:47:00,416 --> 00:47:03,362 Dire Straits were in the middle of their run at Wembley Arena, 711 00:47:03,462 --> 00:47:07,616 but took time out to play a charity show over in Wembley Stadium, 712 00:47:07,716 --> 00:47:11,567 that would be seen on TV by a third of the world's population. 713 00:47:13,415 --> 00:47:15,946 We just turned up to do the gig as normal. 714 00:47:16,046 --> 00:47:18,628 We walked across the car park to do 'Live Aid', 715 00:47:18,828 --> 00:47:22,752 but somebody said, there's 700 million people watching or something, 716 00:47:22,787 --> 00:47:26,298 and you just think to yourself, "Wow! I hope I don't mess up. " 717 00:47:30,950 --> 00:47:33,230 Dire Straits did far from mess up. 718 00:47:33,330 --> 00:47:35,222 They took to the stage with Sting 719 00:47:35,322 --> 00:47:38,845 who sang the intro to 'Money for Nothing' as he had on the record. 720 00:47:39,672 --> 00:47:49,988 # I want my, I want my MTV 721 00:47:52,171 --> 00:47:55,361 'Live Aid' marked the moment when the biggest names in rock 722 00:47:55,461 --> 00:47:59,723 realised the could mobilise a global audience in a call to action. 723 00:48:01,295 --> 00:48:05,308 What music does, it's still the Pied Piper. 724 00:48:06,143 --> 00:48:09,160 The Pied Piper didn't get the rats out of the sewers, 725 00:48:09,260 --> 00:48:11,043 or whatever he did lead them to the thing, 726 00:48:11,078 --> 00:48:12,958 it was the music which drew them 727 00:48:13,174 --> 00:48:14,931 to the river to be drowned. 728 00:48:15,066 --> 00:48:19,464 And so rock 'n roll was globalisation's Pied Piper 729 00:48:19,564 --> 00:48:22,422 and it summoned people to the electronic hearth, 730 00:48:23,096 --> 00:48:25,844 this was the world's fireplace now, the television. 731 00:48:30,097 --> 00:48:33,345 Queen were one group Bob Geldof wanted on board, 732 00:48:33,445 --> 00:48:37,676 but the band's Roger Taylor had warned him that Freddy Mercury would be reluctant 733 00:48:37,776 --> 00:48:40,362 to mix music and politics. 734 00:48:44,479 --> 00:48:46,943 Rog said to me that Fred won't want to do it, 735 00:48:47,043 --> 00:48:50,061 so I didn't sell it as a political thing to Queen. 736 00:48:50,161 --> 00:48:55,561 I said, "Fred, of any band in all the world, of any artist, 737 00:48:55,661 --> 00:49:00,179 "you were born for this stage. You. Darling of the world!" 738 00:49:00,216 --> 00:49:02,035 # Buddy you're a boy make a big noise 739 00:49:02,135 --> 00:49:05,015 # Playin' in the street gonna be a big man some day 740 00:49:05,115 --> 00:49:06,282 # You got mud on yo' face 741 00:49:06,382 --> 00:49:07,639 # You big disgrace 742 00:49:07,739 --> 00:49:09,807 # Kickin' your can all over the place 743 00:49:09,827 --> 00:49:14,112 - Sing it! # We will we will rock you 744 00:49:15,248 --> 00:49:19,119 # All we hear is Radio ga ga 745 00:49:19,493 --> 00:49:20,937 # Radio goo goo 746 00:49:21,545 --> 00:49:22,874 # Radio ga ga 747 00:49:22,912 --> 00:49:24,128 We just put our heads down 748 00:49:24,228 --> 00:49:27,254 played hard and let Freddy strut his stuff. 749 00:49:27,647 --> 00:49:33,037 He just managed to dominate, seize the... Wembley, 750 00:49:33,237 --> 00:49:35,469 and take it over and conduct. 751 00:49:35,722 --> 00:49:41,537 # Someone still loves you! 752 00:49:47,573 --> 00:49:49,947 I don't know if it was just me, but I thought Queen, 753 00:49:50,047 --> 00:49:55,465 and this is your old pub-punk-rocker, I thought Queen were amazing. 754 00:49:57,773 --> 00:50:01,831 And I think that's when they specifically marked their stamp 755 00:50:01,931 --> 00:50:05,643 as one of the greatest rock 'n roll bands in their own right. 756 00:50:05,743 --> 00:50:11,332 # We are the champions 757 00:50:15,250 --> 00:50:19,273 # Of the world 758 00:50:23,789 --> 00:50:27,302 'Live Aid' would also be an important watershed for U2, 759 00:50:27,402 --> 00:50:32,095 the last great band to emerge from stadium rock's golden age. 760 00:50:33,006 --> 00:50:37,055 # It puts my back up, puts my back up against the wall 761 00:50:37,598 --> 00:50:41,345 # Sunday, Bloody Sunday 762 00:50:41,947 --> 00:50:44,894 # Sunday, Bloody Sunday 763 00:50:44,931 --> 00:50:46,438 During their second number, 764 00:50:46,538 --> 00:50:50,731 lead singer Bono would make his mark with a gesture of high drama. 765 00:50:55,368 --> 00:50:58,299 Bono, in his need to reach out and touch the audience 766 00:50:58,399 --> 00:51:01,095 which he'd been doing in smaller venues and in theaters. 767 00:51:01,195 --> 00:51:03,493 You know, he'd always go running off to do... 768 00:51:03,593 --> 00:51:06,062 this thing that he used to do, which was to drag somebody up and dance. 769 00:51:06,162 --> 00:51:08,079 Springsteen used to do the same thing as well. 770 00:51:08,179 --> 00:51:10,156 Probably a trick that he'd picked up from Springsteen. 771 00:51:10,256 --> 00:51:12,903 He decided to do that at Wembley Stadium... 772 00:51:21,575 --> 00:51:23,067 It took several minutes, 773 00:51:23,167 --> 00:51:27,438 but Bono ended up with a ten-second clinch surrounded by photographers. 774 00:51:27,830 --> 00:51:31,648 The images of his embrace were seen all around the world. 775 00:51:33,425 --> 00:51:35,830 Bono had provided the perfect TV moment, 776 00:51:35,930 --> 00:51:37,669 and that was a TV event. 777 00:51:37,769 --> 00:51:39,820 It wasn't an ordinary live concert. 778 00:51:39,920 --> 00:51:41,952 All their albums were back into the charts. 779 00:51:42,137 --> 00:51:46,841 And that led on to 'The Joshua Tree', the biggest album of their career, 780 00:51:46,941 --> 00:51:49,819 and the moment when they became the biggest band in the world. 781 00:52:04,050 --> 00:52:07,093 If 'Live Aid' had given stadium rock a conscience, 782 00:52:07,193 --> 00:52:11,501 with 'The Joshua Tree' U2 would be the ones who would keep it alive. 783 00:52:12,240 --> 00:52:14,074 Behind the album's iconic imagery 784 00:52:14,329 --> 00:52:17,721 they along held belief in music with a message. 785 00:52:18,716 --> 00:52:25,091 The total package together spoke of something serious and austere. 786 00:52:25,818 --> 00:52:26,747 And kind of heavy. 787 00:52:26,847 --> 00:52:29,410 # And I can see those fighter planes 788 00:52:29,699 --> 00:52:32,214 # I can see those fighter planes 789 00:52:32,590 --> 00:52:35,185 # Across the mud huts where the children sleep 790 00:52:35,561 --> 00:52:38,415 # Through the alleys of a quiet city street 791 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:40,994 # You take the staircase to the first floor 792 00:52:41,094 --> 00:52:45,081 At the heart of 'The Joshua Tree' was the song 'Bullet the Blue Sky', 793 00:52:45,181 --> 00:52:47,744 a direct response to the Reagan Administration's 794 00:52:47,945 --> 00:52:50,647 covert military operations in Central America. 795 00:52:50,747 --> 00:52:52,850 # Outside is America 796 00:52:53,281 --> 00:52:55,586 # Outside is America 797 00:53:02,706 --> 00:53:06,861 U2's outspokenness made the media sit up and take notice. 798 00:53:06,961 --> 00:53:11,279 But for many stadium rock bands the music was the message. 799 00:53:14,180 --> 00:53:17,017 The bands that were emerging in the 80s, apart from U2, 800 00:53:17,117 --> 00:53:19,800 seemed almost like designer stadium bands. 801 00:53:20,231 --> 00:53:25,902 Bon Jovi take the formula of Bruce Springsteen and reduce it to a pop rock. 802 00:53:26,002 --> 00:53:29,776 They lead into to Guns 'n Roses, it's just all empty bombast. 803 00:53:32,791 --> 00:53:35,553 Big had become sort of synonymous with something bland, 804 00:53:35,653 --> 00:53:40,459 and so probably U2 felt it tainting them through their seriousness, 805 00:53:40,559 --> 00:53:42,238 their perceived seriousness. 806 00:53:42,841 --> 00:53:44,824 As the 80s became the 90s, 807 00:53:44,924 --> 00:53:47,980 U2 decided it was time to lighten up their image. 808 00:53:48,756 --> 00:53:53,470 When they came to tour their futuristic 1991 album, 'Achtung Baby', 809 00:53:53,570 --> 00:53:56,751 the band entrusted lighting designer, Willie Williams, 810 00:53:56,851 --> 00:54:01,844 with the task of dreaming up the most elaborate stadium rock show yet seen, 811 00:54:02,153 --> 00:54:03,680 'Zoo TV'. 812 00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:14,144 It became clear that where we were going had to be 813 00:54:14,605 --> 00:54:16,988 something on a scale that hadn't been seen before. 814 00:54:17,068 --> 00:54:21,394 And I was really pushing for a video art installation on stage 815 00:54:21,494 --> 00:54:22,989 in which they could perform. 816 00:54:45,516 --> 00:54:47,796 What they put together was 817 00:54:47,896 --> 00:54:50,836 the most extravagant multi-media experience. 818 00:54:51,628 --> 00:54:55,940 It felt like an absolute technological 'splend'. 819 00:55:11,055 --> 00:55:15,038 Zoo TV used its video screens as the focus of the show 820 00:55:15,138 --> 00:55:18,230 that was a dark celebration of the modern world. 821 00:55:18,356 --> 00:55:20,433 Let's see what we've got on TV. 822 00:55:21,003 --> 00:55:23,860 The stage set projected films and slogans 823 00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,503 and could even pick up local TV stations. 824 00:55:26,603 --> 00:55:28,941 What is this? Soap operas? 825 00:55:31,966 --> 00:55:34,739 Behind Zoo TV sensory overload 826 00:55:34,839 --> 00:55:38,868 was a belief that stadium rock could do more than merely entertain. 827 00:55:38,888 --> 00:55:43,456 It could challenge, provoke or change the way an audience looked at the world. 828 00:55:44,550 --> 00:55:47,865 U2 are artists with a mission. 829 00:55:47,965 --> 00:55:52,509 To them a mass audience is a repository of potential for good. 830 00:55:52,609 --> 00:55:56,354 And a great artist can reach into that audience 831 00:55:56,454 --> 00:56:01,287 and can pull out something better, if you like, 832 00:56:01,387 --> 00:56:04,217 artistically and morally. 833 00:56:05,250 --> 00:56:09,049 The band would even conduct live satellite links with their own reporter 834 00:56:09,149 --> 00:56:12,061 in the then besieged city of Sarajevo. 835 00:56:12,161 --> 00:56:17,946 There's about 10 to 15 thousand refugees that are being 836 00:56:18,584 --> 00:56:23,222 attacked by artillery and they have nowhere to go. 837 00:56:31,092 --> 00:56:33,641 But music remained the core of the show. 838 00:56:33,846 --> 00:56:35,729 After an audiovisual assault, 839 00:56:35,979 --> 00:56:39,033 U2 introduced something new in stadium rock, 840 00:56:39,244 --> 00:56:42,803 the B-Stage, where they performed an intimate set, 841 00:56:42,903 --> 00:56:45,091 totally surrounded by the audience. 842 00:56:46,018 --> 00:56:48,039 # It was a cold and wet December day 843 00:56:48,545 --> 00:56:50,769 # When we touched the ground at JFK 844 00:56:50,947 --> 00:56:53,181 # Snow was melting on the ground 845 00:56:53,329 --> 00:56:55,459 # On BLS I heard the sound 846 00:56:55,655 --> 00:56:57,939 # Of an angel 847 00:57:00,477 --> 00:57:02,717 # New York, like a Christmas tree 848 00:57:02,881 --> 00:57:05,207 # Tonight this city belongs to me 849 00:57:05,421 --> 00:57:08,171 # Angel 850 00:57:12,197 --> 00:57:16,950 With Zoo TV, U2 had created the ultimate stadium rock show. 851 00:57:18,880 --> 00:57:22,142 U2 were the only act that I can remember seeing 852 00:57:22,242 --> 00:57:24,730 who really were great in a football stadium. 853 00:57:24,830 --> 00:57:26,325 You go to see the Stones and they do it, 854 00:57:26,425 --> 00:57:27,972 but you'd much rather see them in an arena, 855 00:57:28,072 --> 00:57:30,333 you'd much rather see them in Madison Square Garden 856 00:57:30,433 --> 00:57:32,346 than see them at Giants Stadium. 857 00:57:33,584 --> 00:57:36,982 U2 actually made the stadium work. 858 00:57:46,551 --> 00:57:49,068 U2 are the best stadium rock band that's ever been. 859 00:57:49,103 --> 00:57:51,586 It doesn't mean they're the best rock band's ever been, 860 00:57:51,686 --> 00:57:55,579 but they have the ambition to fill those spaces with something... 861 00:57:56,081 --> 00:58:00,608 truly remarkable and new and challenging. 862 00:58:00,889 --> 00:58:05,063 Everybody who saw Zoo knows they'll never see the likes of that again. 863 00:58:30,389 --> 00:58:33,889 Transcription and synchronization by Fry. 73752

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