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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,200 --> 00:00:03,430 - [Narrator] Our history is no more than a series of 2 00:00:03,466 --> 00:00:07,996 incredible events, each one of us can influence it's course. 3 00:00:09,350 --> 00:00:11,120 The tiniest of our decisions can 4 00:00:11,150 --> 00:00:14,050 influence the future of mankind. 5 00:00:14,083 --> 00:00:17,473 To know the past is to anticipate the future. 6 00:00:22,083 --> 00:00:25,053 July 5th, 1954 Nashville Tennessee, 7 00:00:26,216 --> 00:00:27,446 Elvis Presley steps through the 8 00:00:27,483 --> 00:00:31,053 door of the Sun Record Studio. 9 00:00:31,083 --> 00:00:34,073 10 years later hundreds of hysterical fans are waiting 10 00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:38,180 excitedly, they're at the very first Beatles concert. 11 00:00:40,100 --> 00:00:43,300 November 19th, 1976 the Sex Pistols release 12 00:00:43,333 --> 00:00:45,173 "Anarchy in the UK", 13 00:00:46,283 --> 00:00:50,083 the song is a truly anarchist manifesto. 14 00:00:50,116 --> 00:00:52,476 These three different but intimately connected events 15 00:00:53,016 --> 00:00:57,046 are the founding elements of the history of rock. 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:00,220 (rock music) 17 00:01:05,383 --> 00:01:07,233 Music is everywhere. 18 00:01:08,433 --> 00:01:12,303 We listen to it in the subway or when we're out jogging. 19 00:01:12,333 --> 00:01:15,233 It gathers us together for huge concerts 20 00:01:15,266 --> 00:01:18,466 and sometimes it provides a helping hand. 21 00:01:27,183 --> 00:01:29,323 Today we can listen to what we want, 22 00:01:29,350 --> 00:01:32,020 when we want and as we want. 23 00:01:36,166 --> 00:01:37,996 It wasn't always so. 24 00:01:41,116 --> 00:01:43,266 Our story begins in the United States at the 25 00:01:43,300 --> 00:01:46,100 beginning of the 1950s. 26 00:01:46,133 --> 00:01:50,223 It's the age of the Blues, the Cold War and segregation. 27 00:01:52,033 --> 00:01:54,023 The United States is living through a period that is 28 00:01:54,050 --> 00:01:56,380 very different from the one that we know. 29 00:01:56,416 --> 00:02:00,366 Black and white communities live apart from each other. 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,000 The period is both rigid and turbulent. 31 00:02:06,183 --> 00:02:09,473 Political tension, Cold War, segregation, 32 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:13,000 the struggle for equal civil rights. 33 00:02:14,050 --> 00:02:17,000 The whites are in a majority, 34 00:02:17,033 --> 00:02:19,333 they are in command of the country. 35 00:02:19,366 --> 00:02:22,066 The black communities are in the minority, 36 00:02:22,100 --> 00:02:25,200 one of their only means of expression, the Blues, 37 00:02:25,233 --> 00:02:29,023 a music born in the cotton fields and Jazz. 38 00:02:30,083 --> 00:02:33,033 At first they call it race music, 39 00:02:33,066 --> 00:02:37,246 then the name evolved to become Rhythm'N'Blues, 40 00:02:37,283 --> 00:02:39,333 more politically correct. 41 00:02:41,266 --> 00:02:43,146 This music is represented by artists 42 00:02:43,183 --> 00:02:45,473 like BB King or Little Richard. 43 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:51,130 Black artists playing for a black community. 44 00:02:52,100 --> 00:02:54,220 But music knows no boundaries 45 00:02:54,250 --> 00:02:58,170 and very quickly whites will take an interest, 46 00:02:59,266 --> 00:03:02,016 such is the case of Alan Freed. 47 00:03:03,283 --> 00:03:07,223 A radio DJ, he plays black music, notably the Blues 48 00:03:07,250 --> 00:03:09,000 but not only that, 49 00:03:11,333 --> 00:03:16,173 he broadcasts the first examples of a new genre. 50 00:03:16,200 --> 00:03:19,170 A music that doesn't yet have a name, 51 00:03:19,200 --> 00:03:22,300 very quickly they name it Rock'N'Roll. 52 00:03:24,033 --> 00:03:26,253 Rock'N'Roll is at the crossroads between two separate 53 00:03:26,283 --> 00:03:30,303 worlds, taking inspiration from both the Blues and Country, 54 00:03:30,333 --> 00:03:34,203 it's roots are as black as they are white. 55 00:03:34,233 --> 00:03:37,123 The conservative puritan world is horrified, 56 00:03:37,150 --> 00:03:39,130 for them the radio presenter is trying to bring 57 00:03:39,166 --> 00:03:41,996 whites down to the level of blacks. 58 00:03:42,033 --> 00:03:46,173 Alan Freed will be subject to many threats. 59 00:03:46,200 --> 00:03:49,220 July 5th, 1954 Nashville Tennessee, 60 00:03:49,250 --> 00:03:54,020 a young truck driver wants to give his mother a present. 61 00:03:54,050 --> 00:03:56,130 His name is Elvis Presley. 62 00:03:57,433 --> 00:03:59,473 This young man walks through the door of the Sun Records 63 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:02,130 Studio to record two songs, 64 00:04:02,166 --> 00:04:04,276 the session costs him four dollars 65 00:04:04,316 --> 00:04:08,396 and he comes away with a record to give to his mother. 66 00:04:14,316 --> 00:04:17,146 Rock'N'Roll is about to explode. 67 00:04:35,300 --> 00:04:40,000 - [Narrator] Welcome to the memory of humanity. 68 00:04:40,033 --> 00:04:43,223 Here we can control time, analyse and compare billions 69 00:04:43,250 --> 00:04:47,330 of events and alter them to rewrite history endlessly. 70 00:04:50,166 --> 00:04:53,216 For example, just imagine that Elvis never went to 71 00:04:53,250 --> 00:04:56,480 Nashville on that July day in '54. 72 00:04:57,016 --> 00:05:00,426 That he never opened the door of the Sun Records Studio. 73 00:05:00,466 --> 00:05:04,246 He would never have known what he'd missed. 74 00:05:06,166 --> 00:05:08,476 This sort of opportunity, the result of chance 75 00:05:09,016 --> 00:05:12,996 and favorable circumstances is so rare and surprising 76 00:05:13,033 --> 00:05:17,203 that we can never know if we have missed one. 77 00:05:17,233 --> 00:05:19,423 Elvis would have continued with his odd jobs 78 00:05:19,450 --> 00:05:24,070 and now and then singing for his mother or himself. 79 00:05:24,100 --> 00:05:27,170 The world would have had a different face, 80 00:05:27,200 --> 00:05:32,150 Rock would have not gone global, at least not so rapidly. 81 00:05:32,183 --> 00:05:35,423 Most importantly it would almost certainly have 82 00:05:35,450 --> 00:05:38,300 exclusively remained within the domain of the black 83 00:05:38,333 --> 00:05:43,073 community with whites preferring country music. 84 00:05:43,100 --> 00:05:45,230 Rock would have become the protest music of black 85 00:05:45,266 --> 00:05:49,276 Americans and would probably have been ghettoized. 86 00:05:49,316 --> 00:05:52,146 We can envisage a militant Rock in support of 87 00:05:52,183 --> 00:05:55,233 the Black Panthers, electrifying the racial riots 88 00:05:55,266 --> 00:05:57,396 of the following decades. 89 00:05:57,433 --> 00:06:00,353 Rock would have taken the place of Rap. 90 00:06:00,383 --> 00:06:02,073 Black communities would express 91 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,320 themselves through Hard Rock. 92 00:06:10,266 --> 00:06:13,466 - [Narrator] Elvis is Rock'N'Roll. 93 00:06:14,000 --> 00:06:18,170 His voice, his music, his energy, his career. 94 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,120 In a few years Elvis turns it all upside down. 95 00:06:23,333 --> 00:06:26,183 No more ballroom dancing, it's now individual hip gyrating 96 00:06:26,216 --> 00:06:28,266 and provocative gestures. 97 00:06:31,050 --> 00:06:33,070 He is the principal agent in the popularization 98 00:06:33,100 --> 00:06:37,100 of Rock among the white American general public. 99 00:06:38,200 --> 00:06:41,230 He will earn 48 gold discs in 1956 alone. 100 00:06:44,100 --> 00:06:46,150 During the course of his career he will sell more 101 00:06:46,183 --> 00:06:50,273 than 700 million records and give more than 1,000 concerts. 102 00:06:53,466 --> 00:06:56,376 The first white man to associate sex appeal with the new 103 00:06:56,416 --> 00:07:00,996 form of music, he adds a more dynamic, more forceful sound. 104 00:07:06,466 --> 00:07:09,196 Very quickly his highly sexual way of dancing 105 00:07:09,233 --> 00:07:12,133 will bring down the wrath of conservatives. 106 00:07:12,166 --> 00:07:14,176 They tried to get him banned, they burned his records 107 00:07:14,216 --> 00:07:17,296 in public, they canceled his concerts. 108 00:07:19,100 --> 00:07:21,350 The church condemns his music. 109 00:07:22,366 --> 00:07:25,196 Parents hate him, kids love him. 110 00:07:28,066 --> 00:07:31,226 And in the '50s kids become a real social group, 111 00:07:31,266 --> 00:07:35,346 with their high purchasing power their opinions count. 112 00:07:37,050 --> 00:07:39,220 For a long, long time the young have classed with taboos 113 00:07:39,250 --> 00:07:44,080 related to sexuality and the American puritan morality. 114 00:07:44,116 --> 00:07:45,996 For too long they've been told to behave 115 00:07:46,033 --> 00:07:48,373 and follow their parents model. 116 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,130 In this prosperous post-war period they need changes, 117 00:07:52,166 --> 00:07:56,166 they want to enjoy life before they get too old. 118 00:07:56,200 --> 00:08:00,280 For the American young, the hour of freedom has arrived. 119 00:08:05,333 --> 00:08:09,073 - [Narrator] No Rock without a guitar. 120 00:08:09,100 --> 00:08:12,070 The history of Rock cannot be disassociated from 121 00:08:12,100 --> 00:08:15,080 its flagship instrument, the guitar. 122 00:08:15,116 --> 00:08:17,326 A guitar is a string instrument consisting of a wooden 123 00:08:17,366 --> 00:08:20,116 sound box and a sound board, 124 00:08:20,150 --> 00:08:23,330 when the strings vibrate they emit sounds. 125 00:08:23,366 --> 00:08:25,246 It's as simple as that. 126 00:08:25,283 --> 00:08:29,373 You still have to play, Johnny Cash used it like a rifle. 127 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:34,380 Elvis made it sound like never before. 128 00:08:36,316 --> 00:08:40,396 Very quickly it will evolve and Rock will evolve with it. 129 00:08:42,116 --> 00:08:45,246 At the end of the '50s Leo Fender markets the first 130 00:08:45,283 --> 00:08:48,233 solid body guitar, the Broadcaster. 131 00:08:49,466 --> 00:08:53,376 It's a single piece of solid wood with no sound box, 132 00:08:53,416 --> 00:08:57,396 a cavity dug into the block holds one or several magnetic 133 00:08:57,433 --> 00:09:02,023 microphones connected by a cable to an amplifier this new 134 00:09:02,050 --> 00:09:05,350 tool provides a totally new range of sound. 135 00:09:07,450 --> 00:09:11,300 The electric guitar becomes the symbol of rock, 136 00:09:11,333 --> 00:09:14,483 liberated from acoustic constraints it will take on 137 00:09:15,016 --> 00:09:18,366 the most diverse of shapes and even become a means of 138 00:09:18,400 --> 00:09:20,420 expression itself. 139 00:09:20,450 --> 00:09:24,000 Jimi Hendrix will go as far as to set his on fire 140 00:09:24,033 --> 00:09:26,333 at the end of one of his performances. 141 00:09:26,366 --> 00:09:29,316 As he will say, "You sacrifice the things you love, 142 00:09:29,350 --> 00:09:31,320 "and I love my guitar." 143 00:09:38,450 --> 00:09:43,070 - [Narrator] Elvis breached the wall of puritan society, 144 00:09:43,100 --> 00:09:45,200 other artists flooded through it, 145 00:09:45,233 --> 00:09:48,233 like Jerry Lee Lewis or Chuck Berry. 146 00:09:49,450 --> 00:09:52,300 At the beginning of the '60s Rock has lost its initial 147 00:09:52,333 --> 00:09:55,233 vitality, it's behaving more orderly, 148 00:09:55,266 --> 00:09:58,066 more respectable, more marketable. 149 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:01,370 Censorship and money have done their work. 150 00:10:03,050 --> 00:10:05,000 A few resisters like Johnny Cash continue to defy 151 00:10:05,033 --> 00:10:07,173 the established order with numbers like, 152 00:10:07,200 --> 00:10:11,000 "Ring of Fire" but even Elvis whose is now dubbed The King 153 00:10:11,033 --> 00:10:12,453 is no longer the same. 154 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:17,100 America is hoping to return to real values, 155 00:10:17,133 --> 00:10:20,053 no more rebel role models for the young, 156 00:10:20,083 --> 00:10:23,003 it's time for a well behaved Rock. 157 00:10:24,183 --> 00:10:26,283 Although born in the United States it's in England 158 00:10:26,316 --> 00:10:29,316 that Rock will find its second wind. 159 00:10:31,050 --> 00:10:34,320 In 1963 The Beatles hit the scene with "She Loves You", 160 00:10:34,350 --> 00:10:37,220 the world will never be the same. 161 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:40,320 It's a tidal wave. 162 00:10:40,350 --> 00:10:43,330 They're handsome, they're young, they're tunes are gripping, 163 00:10:43,366 --> 00:10:46,116 it's the start of Beatlemania. 164 00:10:47,333 --> 00:10:50,103 Like many of the Rock bands that followed they came 165 00:10:50,133 --> 00:10:53,403 from the Liverpool working classes, those popular districts 166 00:10:53,433 --> 00:10:57,333 are to be come veritable forges of talent. 167 00:10:57,366 --> 00:11:00,266 Their album "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" 168 00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:04,300 is considered to be one of the best Rock albums of all time. 169 00:11:04,333 --> 00:11:09,253 Their influence will be decisive on the history of Rock. 170 00:11:09,283 --> 00:11:12,323 In an eight year career they will record 13 albums, 171 00:11:12,350 --> 00:11:16,420 200 songs and sell more than 300 million albums, 172 00:11:16,450 --> 00:11:20,080 more than 2 billion to the present day. 173 00:11:20,116 --> 00:11:22,396 But for The Beatles there's no provocation, 174 00:11:22,433 --> 00:11:27,183 no rebellion, that will be the role of The Rolling Stones. 175 00:11:27,216 --> 00:11:31,216 The Stones are not The Beatles, they will even do all they 176 00:11:31,250 --> 00:11:34,280 can to be seen as the exact opposite. 177 00:11:36,216 --> 00:11:39,066 Their image of bad boys priming with arrogance, 178 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:42,420 rebellion and sexuality very quickly proves profitable. 179 00:11:42,450 --> 00:11:46,250 Parents hate the band, so the kids love it. 180 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:52,080 The number "Satisfaction" is a revolution. 181 00:11:52,116 --> 00:11:56,416 A perfect synthesis of the Blues, Rhythm and Blues and Rock. 182 00:11:56,450 --> 00:11:59,120 Between The Beatles and The Rolling Stones there's 183 00:11:59,150 --> 00:12:03,200 something for everyone, Rock begins to spread wide. 184 00:12:07,016 --> 00:12:09,176 It takes on a new dimension. 185 00:12:10,333 --> 00:12:13,083 As well as youth emancipation the first political 186 00:12:13,116 --> 00:12:16,166 themes begin to emerge, they start to reject war, 187 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,330 especially the Vietnam War. 188 00:12:24,116 --> 00:12:27,026 These are the first protest songs. 189 00:12:28,200 --> 00:12:31,470 At the Woodstock Music Festival on August 15th, 1969 190 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,300 the genius Jimi Hendrix plays the American national anthem 191 00:12:35,333 --> 00:12:37,253 on an electric guitar. 192 00:12:44,050 --> 00:12:46,470 The incredible sound he manages to draw out of his guitar 193 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:50,320 allows him to imitate the sounds of bombs, 194 00:12:50,350 --> 00:12:52,220 the message is clear. 195 00:13:02,150 --> 00:13:06,430 - [Narrator] Bigger and bigger, in 1969 Woodstock 196 00:13:06,466 --> 00:13:09,046 is the festival of excess. 197 00:13:10,283 --> 00:13:14,153 At the time there had never been such fervor for music. 198 00:13:14,183 --> 00:13:18,273 For four days braving the rain and the mud 450,000 people 199 00:13:19,483 --> 00:13:24,053 will attend the first great Rock concert of all time. 200 00:13:24,083 --> 00:13:27,303 Nobody anticipated the size of the event. 201 00:13:28,416 --> 00:13:31,396 The infrastructure was vastly insufficient, 202 00:13:31,433 --> 00:13:35,003 the organizers are very quickly overwhelmed. 203 00:13:35,033 --> 00:13:36,423 There will be three deaths, 204 00:13:36,450 --> 00:13:39,320 four miscarriages and two births. 205 00:13:40,466 --> 00:13:44,296 On the last day only 30,000 are left to watch 206 00:13:44,333 --> 00:13:48,423 Jimi Hendrix's concert, Woodstock goes down into legend. 207 00:13:50,100 --> 00:13:54,050 Those who came will be able to say, "I was there." 208 00:13:55,283 --> 00:13:59,123 Years later the monsters of Rock in Moscow will pass 209 00:13:59,150 --> 00:14:03,200 Woodstock by a mile, 1.6 million people traveled to listen 210 00:14:04,266 --> 00:14:08,226 to Metallica and AC/DC, rock craves excess. 211 00:14:10,233 --> 00:14:14,123 Heavier and heavier sound, ever more extravagant costumes, 212 00:14:14,150 --> 00:14:16,450 increasingly gigantic concerts. 213 00:14:16,483 --> 00:14:20,273 Let's count all the records sold around the world. 214 00:14:20,300 --> 00:14:23,130 The top three, the only one's to have sold more 215 00:14:23,166 --> 00:14:26,196 that a billion copies are by Rock stars. 216 00:14:26,233 --> 00:14:28,383 The first is Elvis Presley. 217 00:14:37,416 --> 00:14:39,446 - [Narrator] Rock doesn't stop at borders, 218 00:14:39,483 --> 00:14:42,233 it pushes them wide open. 219 00:14:42,266 --> 00:14:45,176 The '70s demand renewal yet again. 220 00:14:47,183 --> 00:14:49,403 The major bands of the '60s no longer exist 221 00:14:49,433 --> 00:14:52,133 or have become institutions. 222 00:14:52,166 --> 00:14:54,126 It's time for experiments 223 00:14:54,166 --> 00:14:57,216 and it will go off in all directions. 224 00:14:59,316 --> 00:15:02,326 Pink Floyd like Velvet Underground or The Stooges 225 00:15:02,366 --> 00:15:05,396 claim they make art and not just Rock. 226 00:15:05,433 --> 00:15:09,333 They're looking for new sounds, adding experimental 227 00:15:09,366 --> 00:15:13,176 instruments, developing new philosophies. 228 00:15:13,216 --> 00:15:16,346 Artists feel they need to move forward. 229 00:15:19,066 --> 00:15:21,326 Pink Floyd's progressive psychedelic Rock offers 230 00:15:21,366 --> 00:15:24,366 a total, highly immersive spectacle. 231 00:15:25,450 --> 00:15:28,180 It's no longer a question of music 232 00:15:28,216 --> 00:15:30,426 but of images and experience. 233 00:15:32,416 --> 00:15:36,176 We are a long way from Elvis's concerts, 234 00:15:36,216 --> 00:15:41,146 where the singer alone was enough to carry the show. 235 00:15:41,183 --> 00:15:45,183 In 1979 "The Wall" is huge concert during which a 236 00:15:45,216 --> 00:15:48,346 wall is built, gradually blocking off the stage. 237 00:15:48,383 --> 00:15:52,003 At end of the show, the wall collapses. 238 00:16:00,166 --> 00:16:02,476 At the other extreme of this creative explosion 239 00:16:03,016 --> 00:16:04,216 Rock gets harder. 240 00:16:12,083 --> 00:16:15,223 Returning to it's Blues roots they add guitar distortion 241 00:16:15,250 --> 00:16:18,280 and aggressively loud vocals. 242 00:16:18,316 --> 00:16:20,476 It's the birth of Hard Rock. 243 00:16:22,083 --> 00:16:24,433 Queen, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple 244 00:16:24,466 --> 00:16:27,296 and of course, AC/DC. 245 00:16:29,316 --> 00:16:32,446 Hard Rock will itself give birth to Heavy Metal, 246 00:16:32,483 --> 00:16:35,333 even heavier more saturated. 247 00:16:35,366 --> 00:16:37,996 Bands like KISS or Metallica will 248 00:16:38,033 --> 00:16:40,383 hurl themselves into the arena. 249 00:16:40,416 --> 00:16:43,376 (heavy rock music) 250 00:17:08,333 --> 00:17:12,383 As in the '50s and then the '60s the Rock of the '70s 251 00:17:12,416 --> 00:17:15,096 will also spark controversy. 252 00:17:20,483 --> 00:17:23,273 - [Narrator] To create is to dare. 253 00:17:23,300 --> 00:17:27,250 The Rock movement is continually questionings itself. 254 00:17:27,283 --> 00:17:30,333 Artists are constantly seeking renewal, 255 00:17:30,366 --> 00:17:34,166 a race to innovation Rock takes it's inspiration from 256 00:17:34,200 --> 00:17:37,030 Jazz, the Blues and Country. 257 00:17:37,066 --> 00:17:40,996 Country itself is descended from traditional Irish songs 258 00:17:41,033 --> 00:17:44,273 so there's some bagpipe DNA in every number 259 00:17:44,300 --> 00:17:46,220 by Elvis or Metallica. 260 00:17:49,366 --> 00:17:52,416 In the end it soon becomes impossible to use the word 261 00:17:52,450 --> 00:17:55,470 Rock without being simplistic. 262 00:17:56,000 --> 00:18:00,030 There isn't one Rock but a number of Rocks. 263 00:18:00,066 --> 00:18:04,116 Where artistic creation is concerned nothing is invented, 264 00:18:05,183 --> 00:18:08,383 everything is inspired by something else. 265 00:18:10,100 --> 00:18:13,050 If we go far enough back up the family tree of Rock 266 00:18:13,083 --> 00:18:15,473 we can certainly connect it to Beethoven's compositions 267 00:18:16,000 --> 00:18:18,280 or classical literature. 268 00:18:18,316 --> 00:18:21,146 So there's a common point between a Hard Rock fan 269 00:18:21,183 --> 00:18:23,153 and a Renaissance poet. 270 00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:28,220 The history of art is an uninterrupted series of 271 00:18:28,250 --> 00:18:32,170 creations taking mutual inspiration, one from another. 272 00:18:32,200 --> 00:18:36,280 Sometimes cultural marriages can prove to be unexpected. 273 00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:42,220 In 1967 Andy Warhol, a great figure of Modern Art, 274 00:18:42,250 --> 00:18:46,120 decides to experiment with a new form of art and produces 275 00:18:46,150 --> 00:18:50,230 the first album by psychedelic band Velvet Underground. 276 00:18:51,333 --> 00:18:54,123 Pink Floyd had a similar attitude with painters, 277 00:18:54,150 --> 00:18:58,020 like Pierre Soulages, break the codes, dare to try 278 00:18:58,050 --> 00:19:01,430 new material, claim a truly artistic approach. 279 00:19:04,233 --> 00:19:06,133 - [Narrator] Out of the creative chaos 280 00:19:06,166 --> 00:19:08,216 of the '70s Punk is born. 281 00:19:13,366 --> 00:19:17,246 Oil crisis, massive strikes, unemployment and inflation, 282 00:19:17,283 --> 00:19:19,373 the rise of the far right. 283 00:19:21,183 --> 00:19:24,233 The young once again have had enough. 284 00:19:28,433 --> 00:19:31,223 They experienced daily life as a lead weight, 285 00:19:31,250 --> 00:19:35,330 to them the future is a dead end and necessarily bleak. 286 00:19:37,116 --> 00:19:40,016 The watch word, no future. 287 00:19:40,050 --> 00:19:42,420 Punk denounces, criticizes, rejects, 288 00:19:42,450 --> 00:19:46,250 the reactions is brutal, the music is screamed. 289 00:19:46,283 --> 00:19:50,083 For the Sex Pistols the scene is too tame, 290 00:19:50,116 --> 00:19:54,096 subjected to what they now call the Rock Industry. 291 00:19:54,133 --> 00:19:57,153 Opposed to the consumer society they want pure music, 292 00:19:57,183 --> 00:20:01,273 reject studio arrangement and prefer raw live performances. 293 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:05,050 The dirtier then music is the more they consider it to 294 00:20:05,083 --> 00:20:08,203 be authentic, for the first time the music counts 295 00:20:08,233 --> 00:20:10,323 for less then the message. 296 00:20:13,283 --> 00:20:17,233 Fashion codes fit the music, Mohican hair cuts, black ripped 297 00:20:17,266 --> 00:20:21,346 clothing, skulls, bovver boots and fishnet stockings. 298 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:28,170 On November 19th, 1976 the release of "Anarchy in the UK" 299 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:32,280 by The Sex Pistols is a truly anarchist manifesto. 300 00:20:33,450 --> 00:20:36,280 The message, anti-conformity and rejection 301 00:20:36,316 --> 00:20:38,346 of the established order. 302 00:20:38,383 --> 00:20:42,473 Politicians and churchmen rush to the ramparts yet again. 303 00:20:45,150 --> 00:20:47,130 Naturally this is the best publicity 304 00:20:47,166 --> 00:20:49,166 the movement could have. 305 00:20:51,050 --> 00:20:53,120 Punk becomes increasingly popular, 306 00:20:53,150 --> 00:20:57,080 selling more and more records, more clothing. 307 00:20:57,116 --> 00:20:59,396 In the 1980s the Punk style is widely adopted 308 00:20:59,433 --> 00:21:02,383 by fashion houses, record companies and the media, 309 00:21:02,416 --> 00:21:05,166 pushing cynicism to the limit. 310 00:21:08,450 --> 00:21:12,430 The success of Punk dug the movements own grave. 311 00:21:12,466 --> 00:21:15,446 Opposed to the consumer society it is finally standardized, 312 00:21:15,483 --> 00:21:18,403 packaged and sold in supermarkets. 313 00:21:19,466 --> 00:21:22,166 But the young need a rebel music, 314 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:24,480 if one dies another takes over. 315 00:21:29,300 --> 00:21:32,300 Today Rock has more faces then ever, 316 00:21:32,333 --> 00:21:34,153 it's influence has been spreading 317 00:21:34,183 --> 00:21:37,053 throughout the world for decades. 318 00:21:40,016 --> 00:21:42,366 What face will it have tomorrow? 319 00:21:44,066 --> 00:21:46,146 But that is another story. 320 00:21:55,000 --> 00:21:57,370 - [Narrator] When it emerges at the beginning of the '50s 321 00:21:57,400 --> 00:22:01,170 Rock immediately sparks a strong reaction of rejection 322 00:22:01,200 --> 00:22:05,270 for some and genuine fascination for others. 323 00:22:05,300 --> 00:22:08,420 To the powers that be it's amoral, subversive 324 00:22:08,450 --> 00:22:13,050 and rebellious character constitutes a real threat. 325 00:22:13,083 --> 00:22:16,283 The sudden bursting upon the public stage of communities 326 00:22:16,316 --> 00:22:20,476 until then kept apart, revives ancient fears. 327 00:22:21,016 --> 00:22:24,226 But it is also an innocent form of entertainment. 328 00:22:24,266 --> 00:22:28,116 The first Rock musicians never seek to disturb public order, 329 00:22:28,150 --> 00:22:32,220 on the contrary they want to be accepted. 330 00:22:32,250 --> 00:22:35,400 From the '60s Rock artists will gradually build a 331 00:22:35,433 --> 00:22:40,183 counter-culture, but the more publicity the movements 332 00:22:40,216 --> 00:22:42,446 attract the closer their affinity 333 00:22:42,483 --> 00:22:46,073 becomes with the model they criticize. 334 00:22:47,466 --> 00:22:50,426 Then new voices are raised to scream their revolt 335 00:22:50,466 --> 00:22:54,116 against the system, louder and louder until these 336 00:22:54,150 --> 00:22:58,230 early pioneers in turn are taken up by the consumer society. 337 00:23:00,250 --> 00:23:04,300 The Rock audience then becomes a consumer of rebellion, 338 00:23:05,233 --> 00:23:07,283 Rock becomes an industry. 339 00:23:08,483 --> 00:23:11,303 You could think that Rock allowed itself to be perverted 340 00:23:11,333 --> 00:23:15,103 by the very model it claimed to be fighting. 341 00:23:15,133 --> 00:23:18,273 You could see in it a sort of cynicism. 342 00:23:19,366 --> 00:23:22,266 You could believe that Rock is dead. 343 00:23:24,083 --> 00:23:27,073 But that is attribute too much intention to a music that 344 00:23:27,100 --> 00:23:30,300 from the very first hip gyrating from Elvis 345 00:23:30,333 --> 00:23:33,383 to the guitar riffs of AC/DC never claimed anything 346 00:23:33,416 --> 00:23:37,066 more than to please it's audience. 347 00:23:37,100 --> 00:23:39,480 To provide a breath of fresh air. 348 00:23:42,183 --> 00:23:46,323 Some landmarks, Rock is a traditional escape valve 349 00:23:46,350 --> 00:23:50,300 for the young, it didn't put an end to wars, 350 00:23:50,333 --> 00:23:54,203 it didn't change the world, it just offered the right 351 00:23:54,233 --> 00:23:57,123 to be young and to stay that way. 352 00:23:58,133 --> 00:24:01,023 (dramatic music) 29319

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