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Oh, what kind of music did I start out

listening to as a kid? I guess basically

the music I started out was the music my

mother listened to. You know, the R&B

music, the music that make you shake and

get ready for a party.

Well, I remember listening to uh I

remember listening to records on my

little radio late at night under my

pillow, you know, and I don't really

know how old I was. I think I had a pet

turtle at the same time.

Mr. Tambourine Man by the Birds. I think

I think that was the first thing that

really got me excited cuz it sounded it

didn't sound like anything else. Come

Together. The Beatles.

Hunky Duck Woman. The Rolling Stones.

Whispering Bells by the Dell Vikings.

Oh Jesus. Uh

I'm a man.

I'm a Rolling Stone.

Energy is what you need in rock and

roll. Energy in three chords. People

try to put us to death.

Talking about my generation.

When I was a kid, my dad used to yell

down the steps, "Area, get off that

piano."

Just because we get around.

Talking about

rock and roll is a great bastard. It's a

great uh mongrel. It steals from things.

We were the generation that was going to

change things, make way for this

Aquarian age, which by the way, I think

happened December 19th of last year.

Prince, he's not of my generation.

But he will be if he keeps living this

way.

The basic essence that rock and roll

needs to have is to make you feel good.

Rolling Stone magazine presents 20 years

of the music that changed the world.

Like a rolling stone.

featuring David Bowie, David Burn,

George Clinton,

Artha Franklin,

Jerry Garcia,

George Harrison,

Mick Jagger,

Cindy Looper,

Joanie Mitchell,

Randy Newman,

Lou Reed,

Robbie Robertson,

Smokeoky Robinson, Grace Slick,

Sting,

Tina Turner,

and Neil Young.

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20 years ago,

rock and roll went technicol, took over

the whole world. Country was exploding

with new cool ideas and attitudes about

civil rights, free speech, free love,

drugs,

and especially about the war in Vietnam.

Rock and roll united these ideas into a

new world view. And suddenly, our music

was everywhere. Rock and roll was no

longer simply teenage dance music. It

also voiced the concerns of a generation

that was prepared to question

everything.

Why is it they can put down on our

music? I mean, they say it's bad. I

mean, they say it's a bunch of noise.

Turn down the noise. But is it really

noise? Do they ever listen to the word

paradise

strikes deep

into your life? It will creep.

It starts when you're always afraid.

Step out of line, the man come and take

you away. We got stopped. Hey, what's

that sound? Everybody look what's going.

We got to stop. Hey, what's that sound?

Everybody look what's going to stop.

Everybody

just because we're not going along with

society like everybody else goes, they

want everybody to do the same thing and

live their own life. They want all they

want to do. They want you to grow up,

get an education, raise children, and

die.

Is this our strip?

Let's get it back.

We thought what we were doing was the

natural thing for those group of people

to do that whoever it was. And it was

more or less a bunch of u middle class

uh college dropout kids trying to figure

out something to do beside follow

Eisenhower into the grave.

And don't you want somebody to love?

Don't you need somebody to love?

Wouldn't you love somebody to love? You

better find somebody to love.

Your eyes, I say, your eyes may look

like

in your head. Baby, I'm afraid you don't

know where it is.

Don't you want somebody to love? Don't

you need somebody to love? Wouldn't you

love somebody to love? You better find

somebody to love.

The hate Ashbury community has created

the council for a summer of love in San

Francisco. I don't know where they got

that summer of love stuff. For us, it

was what it meant was that, oh, now the

now the Grey Line tour bus stops in

front of our house, you know? and they'd

stop and look and we'd wave, you know,

hey,

nobody wants to get hurt. Nobody wants

to hurt anybody. We would all like to be

able to live an uncluttered life, a

simple life, a good life, you know, and

like think about moving the whole human

race ahead a step or a few steps. a few

steps.

Well, right now I'd settle for a step.

Monterey was actually where the first

chance I had to see all of these

entertainers that I had only heard or

read about. The experimentation in the

music, the fact that it was open, we

were all open to doing anything.

That was the main thing. You can look

any way you want to. You can sound any

way you want it. Uh, whatever it is you

want to be, go for it.

We love you all, man, because this is

very groovy, man. Monterey is very

groovy, man. This This is This is

something, man. This is This is our

generation, man. All you people, we're

all together, man. It's groovy. And dig

yourselves cuz it's really groovy.

came and listened.

Some of them came and pray

down

into fire.

The thing about the Grateful Dead and

Monterey Pop Festival was we had the

misfortune to be programmed right

between The Who and Jimmyi Hendris, you

know. So, here's The Who. First time in

America, they destroy all their stuff.

Bam. Beautifully, you know, and here's

Clouds of Smoke. We come out and play

our tunes, you know, ding ding ding, you

know, and then Jimmyi Hendris comes on

after us and destroys all his stuff. And

you know, it's like we were in the most

forgettable spot on the program just

playing music. You know,

both Jimmyi Hendris and Pete Townsen

were the flaming men. Usually the

audience who has not seen that sort of

thing uh are in awe of entertainers. I

know I am as an audience, but all of us

stood around with our jaws hanging open.

And these are the other entertainers

watching uh Jimmyi Hendricks and the Who

doing this stuff were just literally

drooling idiots, you know, with little

drool hanging down going, I don't

believe it.

The Beatles had made me want to become a

um a pop star. This guy made me want to

become a musician.

Drop me baby

all night long.

Me baby all night long.

Me baby

all night long.

Roll me baby.

Roll me baby like a wagon

me baby. You just don't know how good my

baby is.

Hey.

We would get letters from white kids who

would say, "Hey man, we got your

records. We love them, but we can't let

our parents know that we had them

because they wouldn't let us play them

in the house or they would make us throw

them away or they wouldn't allow it, you

know. So, right from the very outset, we

were closing this gap.

I love black music more than anything

else, period. There's nothing I've ever

heard in my life to compare to listening

to Otis Reading.

It is now star time. I'm talking about

the man that sings pain in my heart. The

man that sings shake. The man that sings

satisfaction. The man that sings fa far.

I'm talking about the star of the show.

It's Mr. Otis Ready.

Yeah.

Now it might be

a little bit sentimental. No. No.

She has a greed and care. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

But the soft word they all spoke so

gent. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And it makes it easy

to bear. I get it together.

Oh, she won't regret it. No. No.

Young girls, they don't forget it. Love

is their own happiness.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

But it's all so easy.

All you got to do is try a little li.

All you got to do is know how to love.

You got to hold her and sweeter. Never

leave her like a door like a door.

I feel it. I feel it. Got the G.

Never leave. Get got

a little

got me got you got the fre

got

you got

no you got to hold her

t

is ready. Ladies and gentlemen,

I don't think we saw Otus live, but I

know I do have a record I found in my

collection that says that's signed by

him to the Beatles, to John, Paul,

George, and Ringo. You got my respect,

Otus.

Sweeter than honey.

So guess what? So is my honey.

All I want you to do for me is give it

to me.

Just

what it means to me. R E S E C T

just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

Just a little bit.

I think it was in ' 67 uh an

introduction and I think that yes, it

made invasions into the pop market. Sold

it. It wasn't like uh here we come. But

then again, it was

like good music.

Soul combined rhythm and blues with

black gospel music and became identified

with the new sense of black pride

sweeping the nation.

Mother

of you

mother brother.

There's far too many of you

brother. You know we got to find our

way.

to bring some love

here today.

Father,

the What's Going On album to me, and I

say this right now, it's the greatest

album that's ever been recorded. It's a

very spiritual type of album with a very

spiritual message. It's one of those

albums that if it came out right today,

it'd be a smash. So it never dies.

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Get some

punish

so you can see

what's going on. What's going on? What's

going on? What's going on? What's going

on? What's going

on? Baby,

I'm going take you higher. My baby baby.

I won't take you higher.

Higher. Won't take you higher. But baby

my

higher will take you higher.

I want to take

baby

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slide to me was the epitome of soul

music. I mean, he was like raw energy

but with an intellectual arrangement and

he was funny and he brought all of us

together. Whether you like rock and roll

or whe you thought it was good or bad,

you could it made you all talk, made all

people talk, black and white. He made

you question yourselves, your time.

All of the songs were about love. It

occurred to us for some reason a whole

bunch of people on different continents

that it would be interesting to write

about something else beside that. Let's

how about let's look at another area. Uh

and consequently I think the lyrics got

a lot broader, a lot more interesting.

Um people it was okay to use larger

words. Uh if people didn't understand

them, maybe they'd look them up.

Make the way

they're red, white, and blue.

When the man plays to the

point that can do

it ain't me, it ain't me. I ain't no

sinner song.

It ain't me. It ain't me. I ain't no

one.

Yeah.

Harry stop.

Let's send you down to war.

But when you ask him how much should we

give the only answer more

me

you got to remember also this is a very

violent period too. So this you've got

peace thing violence army drugs all just

coming

together and making a confrontation. I

think what we have to accept is what

President Kennedy said in 1963. This is

their war. We can help them, but we

can't win it for them.

And it's 1 2 3. What are we fighting

for? Don't ask me. I don't give a damn.

The next stop is Vietnam.

I want this nation to be at peace. And

we shall be.

And it's five, six, seven. Open up the

pearly gates. Well, there ain't no time

to wonder why. All going to die. I might

fight for my girlfriend. I might fight

for uh for nothing. I might fight for no

reason whatsoever, but I don't know if

I'd fight for my country.

I wasn't totally convinced at the end of

the 60s that uh some sort of physical

action wasn't going to come down. So, I

uh thought I'd be a lot more comfortable

in the mountains. You know, at least I

could see them coming.

There's nothing in the street

to me

and the sensing

on the left

is now maring on the night

long overnight.

I'll turn my hand to you constitution.

Goodbye all the moose

guitar

change around pick up my guitar play

just like yesterday

I get on my knees

we don't get fooled again

don't get fool again

No,

don't be fooled again.

Heat. Heat.

I came upon a child of God. He was

walking along the road and I asked him,

"Where are you going?"

And this he told me,

"I'm going on down to farm. Going to

join in a rocking roll.

I'm going to camp out on the line. I'm

going to try and get my soul

free.

I think Woodstock was the peak, the as

close as we had to perfection of the

hippie ideal. It was an enormous

population of people with an enormous

capacity for cooperation.

We heard that the freeways were jammed.

It was like a celebration. We jammed a

freeway. They thought we'd jam the

freeway. Not Crosby Stills and Nash or

not the who, but everybody.

Our our kind of people.

There were enough of us to jam a

freeway. That was a big deal. That's

what that was. Woodstock let us know how

many of us there were.

What would you do if I sat at a

stand

years and I'll sing you a song.

I will try not to sing out a kid.

Oh, really?

Well, I love

my way.

I won't be

someone's love.

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all over the country. They're coming

together.

You realize that you're not the only

people in your city who are doing the

things you are, but they're everywhere.

People that were there felt very, very

strong about being there. And they felt

like this is a special moment. We're

never Everybody got it then. It wasn't

like later on that they had to realize

that this was tremendous. This was a

city in itself. We own this city. We are

the people.

We played really awful at Woodstock. I

mean, if we were bad at Monterey Pop

Festival, we were colossally horrible at

at Woodstock. Everybody else loved it.

Everybody had a great time. We played

terrible. We were only too glad to get

out of there. We had a great time

hanging out, but playing was a disaster.

I was drowned. I was washed on the land

for a day.

I fell down to my feet and I th

my bra.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But it's all

is a gas.

As the 60s came to a close, the Rolling

Stones wound up the last major tour of

the decade.

I read in one of the papers that you'll

be giving a free concert in San

Francisco.

We are doing a free concert in San

Francisco on December 6th and uh uh the

location is not Golden Gate Park

unfortunately, but it's somewhere

adjacent to it, which is a bit larger.

Let me repeat, the Rolling Stones free

concert is going to be on tomorrow at

the Altimat Speedway. Alimoth's another

one where we were supposed to play, but

we never did. When you advertise the

Rolling Stones, no matter where they

are, the Rolling Stones means a crowd.

We were the ones who knew the Hell's

Angels of those about as well as anybody

did. I mean, there were the Hell's

Angels who were our friends and the

Hell's Angels who weren't friendly at

all. I ended up acting as a kind of a

security man. We were in that space of

having health angels on both sides of

us. It was so completely out of control

and completely out of hand and it had

turned into a major media event. I mean,

it was one of those kind of no-win

situations.

Allow me to introduce myself. I'm a man

of well and tears

been around for a long long years

a man s

I was with Jesus Christ and his down

fire

wash his hands

see his Baby,

nice to meet you, baby.

I want your birthday.

How you going get down?

When you're on stage, you are

responsible in some way, whether you

like it or not, for the mood you create.

But unfortunately, you can't be

responsible for all the people sitting

at the back. How can you be?

As the 60s faded into the 70s, rock and

roll seemed to lose something. Maybe it

was a sense of unity or or adventure,

the money.

Or maybe the music lost its innocence as

a drugs kicked in. First, there was

Ultimont.

And then within a space of 10 months,

the tragic loss of three of rock and

roll's most distinctive voices,

Morrison, Hrix,

and Janice.

Count your fingers.

I know. What else?

What else can you do?

I know how you feel.

I know you feel it through.

Sit there.

Count,

count your little fingers,

my unhappy.

Oh, little girl, little girl.

Yeah,

I know you're unhappy

and I know,

babe. I know just how you feel.

I think they were spinning the roulette

wheel with drugs and sometimes you win,

sometimes you lose it big time. We were

too young, too wealthy, and too happy to

be suicidal.

Is through.

No time to wallow in the mine.

Now, we can only lose.

And I love become a funeral p.

Come on, baby. Like my fire.

Come on, baby. Like my fire.

Oh yeah.

Know that it will be untrue.

Know that I would be a liar.

Even what to say to you.

Girl, we couldn't get tire

on fire.

Sh on fire.

Sh on fire.

Sh.

It's the essence of of it is is that

attitude that I don't care. I'm living,

you know, I'm doing it. It's life

itself. The person in his instrument and

or her instrument or whatever. Just that

magical moment when everything is

perfect and nothing matters and you've

elevated yourself far above anything

that you could ever think about or care

about. You're in another world and

sometimes you just can't give back from

there. And that's what happened to a lot

of people. I I loved Hendricks and I and

and the way he plays the guitar. Nobody

else can play guitar. Nobody else ever

will play electric guitar like that. He

plays like it's a woman, you know, you

can see all the curves and you and his

electricity flying off everywhere. It's

totally out of control. He's playing it

like uh he's living there.

Something that uh gets me going and

turns me on is the energy in rock and

roll, guitar, strumming, pounding,

pushing.

Heat.

Heat.

Yeah.

Heat.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.

You learn baby. I'll be journeying. I'll

be on the good good time. I've been

discerning

way down.

I like to think every

lot of love.

What a whole lot of love.

A whole lot of love.

What a whole lot of love.

When the guys started putting on makeup,

uh it wasn't that much of a shift from

the long hair and beads and purses and

uh stuff that guys had been wearing in

the 60s.

It was all effeminate

and that was one of the great

criticisms. But I mean, so well, show

business is effeminite in a way because

show businesses crosses lines of gender.

I would look back at the creatures in

denim and long hair and and sort of just

standing and they look for more

androgynous

uh than anything else I'd seen. They

looked like they'd run a mile if they

saw someone of the opposite sex. I think

what a lot of the glam rock bands did,

in fact, was do exactly the reverse.

They brought sex back into rock and roll

in a big way.

The young

car.

The glitter glam movement, which emerged

from England in the early '7s,

challenged the boundaries of taste,

fashion, and personal expression.

I like people who are AC/DC,

you know what I mean?

You may call it nothing but a breakdown

in gender. that same androgynous

phenomenon of the pop scene that

produces boys with long hair and ruffled

shirts. And you may be right, but back

to the music.

The television man is crazy.

Oh man, I need TV when I got T-Rex.

This guy in T-Rex, uh, you know, I

thought he was very special. Mark Bolan,

I thought he was, uh, the best of the

bunch. You're dirty and sweet and black.

Don't look back. But I love you.

You're dirty and sweet. Oh yeah.

You're slim and you're weak. You got

teeth of the hydra.

Your duty sweeten your girl.

Get it on.

Get it on.

Get it on.

Bowie. He represents it all to me.

Uh, excitement, space. See, I'm just the

space cadet. He's the commander.

You can't put your finger on David. I

mean, he's just uh abstract to me. Maybe

that's why he's a singer, actor,

stage actor, or whatever. He's got all

of those elements just working there

that he really is like the man that fell

to earth.

Changes

changes. Don't tell us to grow up and

out of it.

Changes

changes. Pretty soon you left us up in

our next time may change me.

I can't trace

strange

pass.

Oh changes are taking

the pace I'm going through

changes

to changes. Look out on your rock and

rollers

to changes

changes. Pretty soon now you're going to

get older. Time may change me, but I

can't chase. I said that time may change

me.

I can trace.

I like to mix it up and see what happens

when you put different things with rock

and roll. And rock and roll is such a

great palette to work from. You know,

you can add almost anything to it and

something interesting will come out of

it. I mean, it's for me it's like an

endless source of inspiration.

That's the description. It's you can

take from everything because something

everything comes from something and then

you make it your own.

The generations just keep coming and the

styles keep changing with the

generations.

So, you're a little bit older and a lot

less bolder than you used to be.

There's no school for rock singers as

far as I know yet. Surprising. And there

isn't one, but you know, this is how you

wear trousers and this is when you go

down to your knees. used to shake them

down, but now you stop and think about

your dignity.

So now sweet 161.

Sometimes I'd wear I get I just got

cheap suits.

Well, all you got to do is get up.

Poverty. I came about the way I do my

clothes from poverty at first.

Rock and roll.

We were doing our funkadelic thing, but

we still was playing like mostly black

clubs. So it was like the temptations on

acid.

Sweet 161.

Feel a little tired feeling under the

gun when all the trucks children are out

there playing his lips.

Get into your kids

and come back

and roll.

My fashion statement is uh you know

right here folks.

Rock and roll

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baby rock and roll never forget.

It takes a very strong imaginative

effort to actually put yourself into a

trashy scene and enjoy it.

Um no not at all.

Help God.

I don't know how he's rated. I always

rated him highly for the quantity of

good work that he did. I mean, it was

Albert. He did, you know, six albums

while I was brushing my teeth and he's

working hard.

I remember when I was young and they had

so much fun holding high stone had a

local cherry on a place with my own the

biggest kick I ever got doing a thing

called a crack down rock

and cheese rocking around the corner

God

sh

I never knew me and I guess I never will

night

La.

I think it's nice people can put on a

concert that's got all these lights and

effects and special things like that.

It's really, you know, it's what's

inside that counts. That's what I think.

You know, all that is like a diversion

from the real issue, which is what's the

song about?

So, you're scared and you're thinking

that maybe we ain't that young

anymore. Come

right with me.

Now I got this guitar and I learned how

to make her talk.

My car's out back. If you're ready to

take that long

walk from your front porch to my front

seat. The doors open. The ride ain't

free.

And I know you're lonely. There words

that I spoke. Tonight will be free.

All promises will be broken. There were

ghosts in the eyes of all the boys.

They hustly

cool before dawn. You hear their races

roaring on.

You can do the voice. They're gone on

the

climb.

It's a town for losers. We're pulling

out of here.

Heat.

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Heat.

[Applause]

Got to do that you can just to keep your

love alive.

Trying not to confuse it with what you

do to survive.

Look around for the friends that I used

to turn to the moment they do.

Looking into your eyes, I see what

I'm running on empty. But I'm running

into the sun, but I'm running behind.

Honey, you really me

so kind.

I want to know who you are, but I'm

running behind.

Don't know. I don't even know what I'm

hoping to find. Running

into the sun, but I'm running behind.

70s started out weird and they just seem

to get weirder and weirder. A lot of

people dropped out. I know. I dropped

out and then when no one was looking,

rock and roll became show business.

I'm making my fans wait.

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It's tough to handle this fortune and

fame. Everybody's so

I mean we've been willing to sell out on

some levels for a long time but nobody's

been buying. You know

I have a limo right in the back.

I like the doors in case I'm attacked.

Lucky I'm sane after all I've been

through. Life's been good to me. So

yeah, we're thinking all the Manchester

United team are going to become tax

exiles. You see, I just thought there

might be implications there. Yeah. Can

you find out what's happened to me car

Lamborghini?

Well, maybe it just goes right back to

when the when the freeway was crammed on

the way to Woodstock. It was in the

newspaper and uh the guys read the

newspaper, you know, same guys that read

the Wall Street Journal and they they

read and they said, "Wow, look at that

market,

you know, and the rest is history." By

the mid70s, Rock's reigning super groups

were doing bigger business than ever.

On the dark desert high

cool wind in my head.

Warm smell of dust

rising up through the air

up ahead in the distance.

I saw a shimmering light

and my side could

head down for the night.

So I called up the captain.

Please bring me my wine. He said we

haven't had that spirit here since 1969.

And still those voices are calling from

far away.

wake you up in the middle of the night

just to hear them say,

"Welcome to the Hotel California."

Such a lovely place. Such a lovely

place. Such a lovely place.

We're living it up at the Hotel

California.

What a nice surprise.

What a nice surprise. sing.

I'm telling you that rock and roll

basically is no different than IBM,

Xerox, Sarah Lee, Chevrolet.

Supply and demand. It's the same same

business.

Packing up shacking up. all you won't

do.

If I could, baby, I'd give you my world

to open up. Everything's waiting for

you.

You can go your own way.

Go your own way.

You can call it thunder

day.

You can go your own way.

The 70s were such an apathetic period

anyway. Well, we can't change the world.

We can't change oursel. Let's make

money.

We're looking forward to that being a a

hit. We got to spread that record.

65,000 nationally on it. It's only been

out 3 to four weeks. The record's a hit.

Well, I come up here and lie to you.

By now, rock and roll was the biggest

grossing branch of the entertainment

industry. Wells way to becoming a $4

billion a year business.

In the band and Bob Dylan, and we were

all like street punks or something who

got lucky playing rock and roll.

end of a road. We had played up and down

that highway many, many times and we

weren't learning a lot from it anymore.

So, I came up with this idea of The Last

Walls, thinking that maybe this we could

do something very musical and very

classy and it would be a very tasty way

for the band to to say goodbye.

I love to watch you dance, Tony.

Yeah,

I love it. I love to watch you dance.

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Then came disco.

Well, you can't tell by the way I use my

walk. I'm a woman's man. No time to

talk. Music

being kicked around since I was born.

And you may look the other way.

I used to go out to these Latin clubs

and you know used to do dances got

called Latin hustle you know but this is

great you know learning steps because

after years of doing all these kind of

like that it was a great relief to be

able to do something again which had

another sort of slide to it

there's a time for every instrument

there's a time for the singer there's a

time for the music so I think for disco

time for the instruments and not so much

the singer

there always was a kind of dance music

that was basically sort of repetitious

and simple and was basically built right

on or four time, you know, on a big bass

drum on the on the ones and uh uh threes

where you could where even white people

could tell where it was. Whether you're

a brother or wife, whether you're a

mother, you're staying alive. Staying

alive. Feel the city breaking and

everybody shaking. Stay in the line.

Stay in the line.

Staying alive. Staying alive.

Staying alive.

[Music]

I can't do that. Hey man, let me tell

you something. Little kids are doing it.

All ladies are doing it. Everybody's

doing it. Now come on, dance.

Everybody going strong.

[Applause]

I heard somebody say

it's going

down.

disco.

But not everyone loved disco.

This is now officially the world's

largest anti- disco rally.

We took all the disco records that you

brought tonight.

We got them in a giant box

and we're going to pull them up real

good.

I am an antic.

I am an anacaster.

Don't know what I want, but I know how

to get it. I want to destroy possible.

That's why the punks were cool. when

everything else was going to hell, they

came along and they said, "You know,

you're up yours with your slick record."

I thought punk brought something to the

party. And I think it was healthy that

someone just came in and disturbed

everything and shuffled up the deck.

Some of the better of the the punk bands

have developed into

sort of like folk music. I don't mean

folk music as a traditional folk music

but the allegory can be allegory can be

drawn in the 60s when protesters used

acoustic guitar. Now instead of acoustic

guitars you know they have higheed 300

beats a minute speed rock and uh yelling

about the same things about how that air

is poisoned out there. I see an old man

have a heart attack in Manhattan.

He died while we just stood there. Look

at him and

I

don't care about you.

I see men rolling drunks. Body ass in

the street. A man was sleeping and

puking. A man with no legs coming down

the street trying to d something.

you.

I don't care about you.

I don't care about you.

I don't care about when Ramones and and

Talking Heads first went over there to

Britain, the audiences were showing

their appreciation to to the groups by

doing what they called gobbing, which

was spitting at the at the performers.

And they could really spit pretty far.

So you'd see somebody, you know, 20 feet

back, even further, and you'd think,

"Nah, no way. Nothing's going to come at

me. I'm safe." And then you'd see this

this rain of stuff coming coming out.

And it's pretty hard to explain to

somebody that this is the audience's way

of showing their appreciation.

And that's what rock and roll ought to

be. every every 5 years or so, uh, their

their ideas and image, the kids ought to

come up and just hit you right in the

face. I don't mean breaking noses, but I

mean with what it is they have to say

and dressing different so that adults

are going, "Oh god." Yeah, that's it.

You know, make them throw up. Yeah.

Now, when I walk the streets, kings and

queens step aside. Every woman I meet,

they all stay satisfied.

I want to tell you, pretty baby. Well, I

see. I'll make my own. And I'm here to

tell you, honey,

that I'm bad to the bone.

To the bone.

To the bone.

[Music]

Alves Presley, and this is general

knowledge, you can check this, was

banned in several states in America

because he had a piece of rubber hose

down here on his tight jeans. A piece of

And so when he used to convalt and

perform, what else would you suggest? If

you're looking for trouble,

you came to the right place.

You're looking for trouble,

just look right at my face.

I was born standing up

and talking back.

My daddy was a green light

cuz I'm evil.

My little lane of misery.

Well, I'm evil,

so don't you mess around with me.

Elvis Presley for me, like for a lot of

people, was the one who stood the

highest on the mountain with the

brightest torch. And it changed my life.

And it it made me think that this is

what I'm going to do. And I didn't know

anything else. I couldn't see anything

else. I didn't even understand school

after that. What do you do when you've

risen to absolute success? Where is

there for you to go? Las Vegas, you

know, wow, what some reward, you know

what I mean? Gee, that's great. You

know, okay, work as hard as you can, and

you get to go from Mississippi to Las

Vegas. You know, it's like it's wrong.

you know, he he deserves something

better, but the music world doesn't have

the imagination to invent it for him.

And he wasn't lucky enough to have uh

come up with his own

uh his own guidance system.

And once you're gone, you can't

[Music]

out of the blue and into the blind.

out of the blue and into the black. It's

just like rock and roll. And you know,

it's better to burn out than to fade

away. That's the thing. A rock and roll

star shouldn't fade away.

Fruity

about bam boom. Hey boy.

Tutti Frutti. Oh, tutti frutt. Oh,

[Music]

tutti frutti. Oh, tutti frutti. Oh,

bam. Boom. Got a gown named Daisy. She

almost drive me crazy. I got a gown name

Daisy. She almost drive me crazy. No

daddy love me. Yes indeed. Boy don't

know what she do to me.

Rudy

[Music]

bamboo.

A new wave of rockers road to stardom on

a combination of punk aggression and

disco's big dance beat.

When I met you in the restaurant,

you could tell I was no damn.

You as me was my pleasure. A movie of

pleasure. I'll have a cup of tea and

tell you my dreaming.

Dreaming is free.

Dreaming

dreaming is

dreaming.

I think it was a new wave, a whole

different set of uh values, a whole

different set of

icons to to believe in.

You don't have to put on the red light

days over. You don't have to sell your

bodies through the night.

You don't have to wear that dress

tonight.

You don't care if it's wrong or if it's

right.

You going to have to red

flag

that friendship. still around every

evening and they worry about the times

ahead

when everybody else is overwhelmed back

and the promise of an early bed. You

either shut up or get cut out. They

don't want to hear a bad angels and the

real

and the radio is in the hands of lots of

silly men trying to the way that you

radio is salvation.

is cleaning up the nation.

They say you better listen to the

fireside realized

cuz they did that in

you.

was exciting for us because we were

excited by what the some of the other

groups were doing and of course we were

excited by what we were doing and we

thought it didn't matter that there were

sometimes only 20 people in the

audience.

You may find yourself living in a

shotgun shack. You may find yourself in

another part of the world. You may find

yourself behind the wheel of a large

automobile. You may find yourself in a

beautiful house with a beautiful wife.

You may ask yourself, "Well,

how did I get here?" Letting the days go

by. Let the water hold me down. Letting

the days go by. Water flowing

underground

again after the money's on. Once in a

lifime, water flowing underground. You

may ask yourself, "How do I work this?"

You may ask yourself, "Where is that

automobile?" You may tell yourself,

"This is not my beautiful house." You

may tell yourself, "This is not my

beautiful life." Letting the days go by

and hold me down. Letting the days go

by. Water flowing underground

again after the mighty song. Once a

lifing

Soon as you step up on that stage and

the lights come on, you're not the same

uh anymore. You might be the same person

inside, but uh you got a spotlight on

you and and the guy at the bar doesn't.

I I'm more comfortable on stage than I

am in uh life, you know, and then and

certainly than I am writing. I'd much

rather perform than write any day

because it's easier. There's people

applauding, you know. I mean, it's all

right. You don't have to listen to

yourself. strange American phenomenon

where we take these heroes and we build

them up and we build them up and

blow them out of the sky.

Somebody like John Lennon, I mean, he

was fine until he came here and it's

American roulette time.

What do you do if somebody comes at you

with uh with aggression?

I'd run.

I might try and talk to him as I was

running. Oh, peace, brother. peace,

you know, but I I believe in run away

and live to fight another day.

Yes.

When John died was obviously um enormous

shock.

I I couldn't believe it really because

um as we all know he was such a nice

person really. I mean he was stubborn

and there was certain things about him

which maybe people would have wanted to

change in him but you know he was such a

great person that it seemed ridiculous.

You know, I mean, some ways it's

understandable if somebody goes to try

and assassinate Adolf Hitler or

something, but John Lennon had just, you

know, given all that love and great

songs seemed ridiculous.

Imagine

it's easy.

No hell below us

above us only sky.

Imagine all the people

living

for today.

Imagine

there's no country.

It isn't hard to do.

Nothing to kill or die for.

[Music]

No religion

too.

Imagine all the people

living

life in fear.

You may say I'm a dreamer,

but I'm not the only one.

I hope someday

you'll join us

and the world will live as one.

Thank you.

As the 80s began, there was a burst of

energy in rock and roll. New artists,

new ideas, new technologies to be

explored, and a whole new way to present

the music.

Listen. Yeah. Now, that ain't working.

That's the way you do it. You play the

guitar on the MTV.

That ain't working. That's the way you

do it. Money for nothing and your chicks

for free. Money for nothing.

Look at that. Look at that.

When they asked me what I thought MTV

what effect it would have, I said it

wouldn't have any effect.

There's no one

right just

like

There's no be

whoever it is who's making records is

your competition when you make records.

So you've got to look at it like that to

stay on top of it, to stay a breast of

what's happening. You've got to listen

to everybody and you've got to care what

they're doing.

Every there's like that 10% maybe 8% of

stuff that is really brilliant or really

special or really soulful or really

beautiful or there's something about it

that's gorgeous. Starting to give just I

can feel it in the air a little bit. I'm

enjoying a little bit more. I'm I don't

find myself turning off the radio with

anguish as much. Uh the stage I think

it's starting to to come around a little

bit.

I ain't going to work on Maggie's farm

no more.

Said I ain't going to work on Maggie's

farm no more.

Well, I wake up in the morning, walk out

into the rain. A head full of ideas are

driving me insane. It's a shame, but I

even str

ain't going to work on Maggie's farm no

more.

I ain't going to work for Maggie's

brother no more.

said, "I ain't going to work on Maggie's

brother no more."

Well, he hands you a nickel. He charge

you a dime. You need a better card if

you want a good time. It's a shame, but

I even the floor.

I ain't going to work for Maggie Farm no

more. No more.

No more.

Never

more information should be disseminated

in in in pop music. I'm not necessarily

talking about protest music or anything

else. I just think there is space in

songs for opinions to be given. It was a

slow day and the sun was beating on the

soldiers by the side of the road.

There was a bright light, a shattering

of shop windows, the bomb and the baby

carriage was wired to the radio. These

are the days of miracle and wonder. This

is a long distance call.

The way the shower falls us in slowmo.

The way we look to a saw. Oh yeah. The

way we look to a distant constellation

that's dying in a corner of the sky.

These are the days of miracles and

wonder. Don't cry, baby. Don't cry.

Don't cry. So turn around, jump shot it.

Everybody jump start it. Every

generation throws a hero up the pop

charts. Medicine is magical and magical

as art. They blow the boy in the bubble

and the baby with a baboon heart. I

believe our days of lasers in the

jungle. Lasers in the jungle somewhere.

These are the days of miracle and

wonder. Don't cry, baby. Don't cry.

Don't cry. Don't cry. Don't talk to me

about the planes, man. I've heard it.

Just take a look around.

What we going to do? blow up the whole

damn country. I don't know.

It's Christmas and kept out,

man. It's Christmas and kept out.

It's Christmas and kept out.

[Music]

I don't think uh rock and roll can

really uh change the way people feel

about a specific issue. I think what it

does do is affect the way an audience

and the listeners feel about themselves.

to kind of invest them with uh the

feeling that they can if they want to

change something they can do it.

[Music]

My mother,

there's too many of them.

brother.

There's far too many

to bring back love here to

father.

There's no need to escalate.

Only love.

As an optimist, I always like to say,

"Yes, things got a little better, but

things

things still could get so much better."

What's going on?

What's going on?

What's going on?

What's going on up? What's going on?

What's going on? What's going on? You

tell me. I'll tell you. You tell me.

I'll tell you what's going on. What's

going on? What's going on? What's going

on?

Bob Gelof did such an fantastic job of

creating a spontaneous moment that

everybody I think for the only benefit

concert I've ever been involved in at

that level. The real excitement and

sense of purpose was quite genuine with

every artist that I worked with on it.

There really was a feeling that you've

got to go and do it cuz it really is

going to do some good.

Rock Alurism reached a peak with Live

Aid. A wildly successful benefit for 20

years.

What a long strange trip it's been. You

know, when you think about it, I mean,

it's amazing that so many of us are

still around. But that's the beauty of

rock and roll. It keeps you young.

It's already too late to do anything

about rock and roll. You know, the

damage has been done. We're stuck with

it. I don't see any end. You know,

they're going to have to eventually drag

us off stage screaming and kicking and

shouting.

Anytime I see somebody going out on a

limb and doing something a little

different, then there's that spark.

There's that rebellious spark, which is

what rock is.

The heart starts going. The adrenaline

starts going. It's what you love. It's

what you are. It's it's um it's within

you. It's you. You are what you are and

you love it.

You go as hard as you can until you get

the crowd as as high and so near orgasm.

And then you go twice as hard for as

long as you can until you drop. And that

to me is rock and roll.

Ah. Wa. It's way past my bedtime. It's

the 80s. Get a trim in the morning. Ties

pressed. Little decaffeinated coffee.

Take my vitamins.

See you later.

Get along in your rock and roll and

drift away.

Thanks for the joy that you given me.

I want you to know I believe in your

song

and rhythm and rhyme and harmony.

You've helped me along

making me strong. Oh, give me the peace

boy to free my soul. I want to get lost

in your rock and roll and drift away.

Give me to free my soul. I want to get

lost in your rock and roll

away.

Hey, hey, give me the beat.