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- [Narrator] Our history
is no more than a series of
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incredible events, each one of
us can influence it's course.
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The tiniest of our decisions can
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influence the future of mankind.
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To know the past is to
anticipate the future.
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July 5th, 1954
Nashville Tennessee,
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Elvis Presley steps through the
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door of the Sun Record Studio.
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10 years later hundreds of
hysterical fans are waiting
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excitedly, they're at the
very first Beatles concert.
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November 19th, 1976
the Sex Pistols release
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"Anarchy in the UK",
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the song is a truly
anarchist manifesto.
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These three different but
intimately connected events
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are the founding elements
of the history of rock.
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(rock music)
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Music is everywhere.
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We listen to it in the subway
or when we're out jogging.
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It gathers us together
for huge concerts
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and sometimes it
provides a helping hand.
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Today we can listen
to what we want,
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when we want and as we want.
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It wasn't always so.
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Our story begins in the
United States at the
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beginning of the 1950s.
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It's the age of the Blues,
the Cold War and segregation.
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The United States is living
through a period that is
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very different from
the one that we know.
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Black and white communities
live apart from each other.
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The period is both
rigid and turbulent.
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Political tension,
Cold War, segregation,
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the struggle for
equal civil rights.
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The whites are in a majority,
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they are in command
of the country.
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The black communities
are in the minority,
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one of their only means
of expression, the Blues,
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a music born in the
cotton fields and Jazz.
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At first they call
it race music,
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then the name evolved to
become Rhythm'N'Blues,
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more politically correct.
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This music is
represented by artists
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like BB King or Little Richard.
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Black artists playing
for a black community.
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But music knows no boundaries
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and very quickly whites
will take an interest,
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such is the case of Alan Freed.
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A radio DJ, he plays black
music, notably the Blues
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but not only that,
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he broadcasts the first
examples of a new genre.
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A music that doesn't
yet have a name,
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very quickly they
name it Rock'N'Roll.
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Rock'N'Roll is at the
crossroads between two separate
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worlds, taking inspiration from
both the Blues and Country,
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it's roots are as black
as they are white.
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The conservative puritan
world is horrified,
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for them the radio
presenter is trying to bring
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whites down to the
level of blacks.
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Alan Freed will be
subject to many threats.
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July 5th, 1954
Nashville Tennessee,
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a young truck driver wants
to give his mother a present.
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His name is Elvis Presley.
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This young man walks through
the door of the Sun Records
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Studio to record two songs,
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the session costs
him four dollars
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and he comes away with a
record to give to his mother.
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Rock'N'Roll is about to explode.
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- [Narrator] Welcome to
the memory of humanity.
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Here we can control time,
analyse and compare billions
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of events and alter them to
rewrite history endlessly.
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For example, just imagine
that Elvis never went to
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Nashville on that
July day in '54.
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That he never opened the door
of the Sun Records Studio.
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He would never have
known what he'd missed.
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This sort of opportunity,
the result of chance
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and favorable circumstances
is so rare and surprising
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that we can never know
if we have missed one.
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Elvis would have continued
with his odd jobs
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and now and then singing
for his mother or himself.
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The world would have
had a different face,
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Rock would have not gone
global, at least not so rapidly.
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Most importantly it would
almost certainly have
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exclusively remained within
the domain of the black
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community with whites
preferring country music.
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Rock would have become
the protest music of black
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Americans and would probably
have been ghettoized.
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We can envisage a militant
Rock in support of
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the Black Panthers,
electrifying the racial riots
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of the following decades.
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Rock would have taken
the place of Rap.
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Black communities would express
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themselves through Hard Rock.
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- [Narrator] Elvis
is Rock'N'Roll.
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His voice, his music,
his energy, his career.
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In a few years Elvis
turns it all upside down.
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No more ballroom dancing, it's
now individual hip gyrating
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and provocative gestures.
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He is the principal agent
in the popularization
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of Rock among the white
American general public.
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He will earn 48 gold
discs in 1956 alone.
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During the course of his
career he will sell more
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than 700 million records and
give more than 1,000 concerts.
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The first white man to associate
sex appeal with the new
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form of music, he adds a more
dynamic, more forceful sound.
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Very quickly his highly
sexual way of dancing
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will bring down the
wrath of conservatives.
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They tried to get him banned,
they burned his records
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in public, they
canceled his concerts.
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The church condemns his music.
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Parents hate him, kids love him.
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And in the '50s kids
become a real social group,
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with their high purchasing
power their opinions count.
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For a long, long time the
young have classed with taboos
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related to sexuality and the
American puritan morality.
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For too long they've
been told to behave
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and follow their parents model.
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In this prosperous post-war
period they need changes,
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they want to enjoy life
before they get too old.
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For the American young, the
hour of freedom has arrived.
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- [Narrator] No Rock
without a guitar.
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The history of Rock cannot
be disassociated from
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its flagship
instrument, the guitar.
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A guitar is a string instrument
consisting of a wooden
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sound box and a sound board,
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when the strings vibrate
they emit sounds.
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It's as simple as that.
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You still have to play, Johnny
Cash used it like a rifle.
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Elvis made it sound
like never before.
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Very quickly it will evolve
and Rock will evolve with it.
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At the end of the '50s Leo
Fender markets the first
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solid body guitar,
the Broadcaster.
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It's a single piece of solid
wood with no sound box,
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a cavity dug into the block
holds one or several magnetic
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microphones connected by a
cable to an amplifier this new
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tool provides a totally
new range of sound.
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The electric guitar
becomes the symbol of rock,
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liberated from acoustic
constraints it will take on
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the most diverse of shapes
and even become a means of
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expression itself.
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Jimi Hendrix will go as
far as to set his on fire
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at the end of one
of his performances.
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As he will say, "You
sacrifice the things you love,
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"and I love my guitar."
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- [Narrator] Elvis breached
the wall of puritan society,
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other artists
flooded through it,
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like Jerry Lee Lewis
or Chuck Berry.
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At the beginning of the '60s
Rock has lost its initial
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vitality, it's
behaving more orderly,
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more respectable,
more marketable.
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Censorship and money
have done their work.
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A few resisters like Johnny
Cash continue to defy
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the established order
with numbers like,
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"Ring of Fire" but even Elvis
whose is now dubbed The King
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is no longer the same.
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America is hoping to
return to real values,
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no more rebel role
models for the young,
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it's time for a
well behaved Rock.
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Although born in the United
States it's in England
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that Rock will find
its second wind.
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In 1963 The Beatles hit the
scene with "She Loves You",
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the world will
never be the same.
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It's a tidal wave.
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They're handsome, they're young,
they're tunes are gripping,
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it's the start of Beatlemania.
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Like many of the Rock bands
that followed they came
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from the Liverpool working
classes, those popular districts
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are to be come veritable
forges of talent.
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Their album "Sgt Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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is considered to be one of the
best Rock albums of all time.
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Their influence will be
decisive on the history of Rock.
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In an eight year career
they will record 13 albums,
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200 songs and sell more
than 300 million albums,
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more than 2 billion
to the present day.
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But for The Beatles
there's no provocation,
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no rebellion, that will be the
role of The Rolling Stones.
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The Stones are not The Beatles,
they will even do all they
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can to be seen as
the exact opposite.
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Their image of bad boys
priming with arrogance,
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rebellion and sexuality very
quickly proves profitable.
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Parents hate the band,
so the kids love it.
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The number "Satisfaction"
is a revolution.
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A perfect synthesis
of the Blues, Rhythm
and Blues and Rock.
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Between The Beatles and
The Rolling Stones there's
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something for everyone,
Rock begins to spread wide.
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It takes on a new dimension.
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As well as youth emancipation
the first political
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themes begin to emerge,
they start to reject war,
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especially the Vietnam War.
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These are the first
protest songs.
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At the Woodstock Music
Festival on August 15th, 1969
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the genius Jimi Hendrix plays
the American national anthem
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on an electric guitar.
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The incredible sound he manages
to draw out of his guitar
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allows him to imitate
the sounds of bombs,
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the message is clear.
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- [Narrator] Bigger and
bigger, in 1969 Woodstock
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is the festival of excess.
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At the time there had never
been such fervor for music.
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For four days braving the rain
and the mud 450,000 people
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will attend the first great
Rock concert of all time.
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Nobody anticipated
the size of the event.
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The infrastructure was
vastly insufficient,
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the organizers are very
quickly overwhelmed.
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There will be three deaths,
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four miscarriages
and two births.
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On the last day only
30,000 are left to watch
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Jimi Hendrix's concert,
Woodstock goes down into legend.
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Those who came will be
able to say, "I was there."
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Years later the monsters
of Rock in Moscow will pass
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Woodstock by a mile, 1.6 million
people traveled to listen
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to Metallica and AC/DC,
rock craves excess.
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Heavier and heavier sound,
ever more extravagant costumes,
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increasingly gigantic concerts.
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Let's count all the records
sold around the world.
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The top three, the only
one's to have sold more
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that a billion copies
are by Rock stars.
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The first is Elvis Presley.
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- [Narrator] Rock
doesn't stop at borders,
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it pushes them wide open.
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The '70s demand
renewal yet again.
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The major bands of the
'60s no longer exist
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or have become institutions.
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It's time for experiments
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and it will go off
in all directions.
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Pink Floyd like Velvet
Underground or The Stooges
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claim they make art
and not just Rock.
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They're looking for new
sounds, adding experimental
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instruments, developing
new philosophies.
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Artists feel they
need to move forward.
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Pink Floyd's progressive
psychedelic Rock offers
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a total, highly
immersive spectacle.
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It's no longer a
question of music
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but of images and experience.
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We are a long way
from Elvis's concerts,
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where the singer alone was
enough to carry the show.
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In 1979 "The Wall" is huge
concert during which a
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wall is built, gradually
blocking off the stage.
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At end of the show,
the wall collapses.
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At the other extreme of
this creative explosion
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Rock gets harder.
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Returning to it's Blues roots
they add guitar distortion
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and aggressively loud vocals.
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It's the birth of Hard Rock.
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Queen, Aerosmith, Led
Zeppelin, Deep Purple
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and of course, AC/DC.
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Hard Rock will itself
give birth to Heavy Metal,
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even heavier more saturated.
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Bands like KISS
or Metallica will
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hurl themselves into the arena.
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(heavy rock music)
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As in the '50s and then the
'60s the Rock of the '70s
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will also spark controversy.
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- [Narrator] To
create is to dare.
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The Rock movement is
continually questionings itself.
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Artists are constantly
seeking renewal,
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a race to innovation Rock
takes it's inspiration from
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Jazz, the Blues and Country.
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Country itself is descended
from traditional Irish songs
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so there's some bagpipe
DNA in every number
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by Elvis or Metallica.
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In the end it soon becomes
impossible to use the word
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Rock without being simplistic.
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There isn't one Rock
but a number of Rocks.
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Where artistic creation is
concerned nothing is invented,
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everything is inspired
by something else.
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If we go far enough back
up the family tree of Rock
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we can certainly connect it
to Beethoven's compositions
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or classical literature.
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So there's a common point
between a Hard Rock fan
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and a Renaissance poet.
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The history of art is an
uninterrupted series of
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creations taking mutual
inspiration, one from another.
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Sometimes cultural marriages
can prove to be unexpected.
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In 1967 Andy Warhol, a
great figure of Modern Art,
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decides to experiment with a
new form of art and produces
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the first album by psychedelic
band Velvet Underground.
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Pink Floyd had a similar
attitude with painters,
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like Pierre Soulages, break
the codes, dare to try
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new material, claim a
truly artistic approach.
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- [Narrator] Out of
the creative chaos
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of the '70s Punk is born.
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Oil crisis, massive strikes,
unemployment and inflation,
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the rise of the far right.
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The young once again
have had enough.
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They experienced daily
life as a lead weight,
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to them the future is a dead
end and necessarily bleak.
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The watch word, no future.
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Punk denounces,
criticizes, rejects,
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the reactions is brutal,
the music is screamed.
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For the Sex Pistols
the scene is too tame,
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subjected to what they now
call the Rock Industry.
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Opposed to the consumer
society they want pure music,
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reject studio arrangement and
prefer raw live performances.
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The dirtier then music is
the more they consider it to
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be authentic, for the
first time the music counts
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for less then the message.
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Fashion codes fit the music,
Mohican hair cuts, black ripped
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clothing, skulls, bovver
boots and fishnet stockings.
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On November 19th, 1976 the
release of "Anarchy in the UK"
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by The Sex Pistols is a
truly anarchist manifesto.
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The message, anti-conformity
and rejection
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of the established order.
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Politicians and churchmen rush
to the ramparts yet again.
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Naturally this is
the best publicity
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the movement could have.
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Punk becomes
increasingly popular,
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selling more and more
records, more clothing.
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In the 1980s the Punk
style is widely adopted
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by fashion houses, record
companies and the media,
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pushing cynicism to the limit.
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The success of Punk dug
the movements own grave.
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Opposed to the consumer society
it is finally standardized,
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packaged and sold
in supermarkets.
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But the young need
a rebel music,
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if one dies another takes over.
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Today Rock has more
faces then ever,
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it's influence
has been spreading
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throughout the
world for decades.
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What face will it have tomorrow?
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But that is another story.
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- [Narrator] When it emerges
at the beginning of the '50s
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Rock immediately sparks a
strong reaction of rejection
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for some and genuine
fascination for others.
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To the powers that be
it's amoral, subversive
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and rebellious character
constitutes a real threat.
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The sudden bursting upon the
public stage of communities
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until then kept apart,
revives ancient fears.
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But it is also an innocent
form of entertainment.
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The first Rock musicians never
seek to disturb public order,
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on the contrary they
want to be accepted.
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From the '60s Rock artists
will gradually build a
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counter-culture, but the
more publicity the movements
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attract the closer
their affinity
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becomes with the
model they criticize.
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Then new voices are raised
to scream their revolt
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against the system, louder
and louder until these
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early pioneers in turn are taken
up by the consumer society.
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The Rock audience then becomes
a consumer of rebellion,
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Rock becomes an industry.
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You could think that Rock
allowed itself to be perverted
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by the very model it
claimed to be fighting.
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You could see in it
a sort of cynicism.
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You could believe
that Rock is dead.
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But that is attribute too
much intention to a music that
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from the very first
hip gyrating from Elvis
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to the guitar riffs of
AC/DC never claimed anything
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more than to please
it's audience.
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To provide a breath
of fresh air.
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Some landmarks, Rock is a
traditional escape valve
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for the young, it didn't
put an end to wars,
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it didn't change the world,
it just offered the right
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to be young and
to stay that way.
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(dramatic music)
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