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♪ its gonna be all right ♪ all right, all right ♪ its gonna be all right >> the same year the beatles play on "ed sullivan" for the first time is the same year the "t.a.m.i. show" comes out as a movie, and "t.a.m.i. show"s got everybody. >> "t.a.m.i. show" is really the first rock n roll concert movie. the stones headlining, and the first time that us white kids got to see james brown and nobody will ever get over it. ♪ ♪ got your high-heeled sneakers on ♪ >> everyone remembers james...

This thirst in music, but the ones that really had the true, true talent have really stood the test of time. >> five singing boys from england who have sold a lot of albiums -- albums. [ laughter ] theyre called the rolling stones. ive been rolled while i was stoned myself. i dont know what theyre going to sing about, but here they are at it. ♪ ♪ i dont want you to be no slave ♪ ♪ i dont want you to work all day ♪ ♪ i dont want you to be true ♪ i just want to make love to you ♪ >...

♪ help me get my feet back on the ground ♪ ♪ wont you please, please help me ♪ ♪ help me, help me ♪ ooh >> have you got time to actually spend this money? >> what money? he says. >> doesnt he give any to you? >> no, no. have you seen that car of his? >> the beatles taught every other band that writing your own music made you more powerful. ♪ >> that last lines got -- >> i think whats really funny about a band like the stones is they did tons of covers on their first couple albums. ...

Rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. ♪ crazy crazy on you >> it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock nevertheless. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. >> in their 20s, theyre rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. theyre the led zeppelin, a rock g...

♪ my father was a gambling man ♪ down in new orleans >> the english group music thing also arose where groups not only were performing their own stuff compact on the stage, they didnt need anyone else. they just had the four blokes with their amplifiers and guitars, and they could do the lot. >> the who are just sort of like in that catalytic converter of rock n roll. they were maybe the most explosive musical unit. ♪ im daddy im daddy ♪ >> yeah, it was interesting. the beatles all lock ...

Pretty much everything. >> it was not just a sound or a band or a phenomenon, but it was the beginning of the most powerful decade in popular music. ♪ religion was being forced ♪ down in monterey >> rock n roll music was very important in the growth of the society. we were able to speak our minds. we did shake up the world. >> theres no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world, you know. there is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good. ♪ ♪ love, love...

>> in the mid-60s, you see brian wilson retreating into the studio, and hes concentrating on writing and producing these amazing songs. ♪ i may not always love you, but long as there are stars above you ♪ >> the recording studio had been a rigid place where there were engineers literally in like suits and ties and lab coats. when all of a sudden, there were these crazy young geniuses who reinvented the studio as an instrument to be played with. ♪ god only knows what id be without you ♪ >...

♪ i cant get no satisfaction ♪ i cant get no satisfaction ♪ cause i tried and i tried and i tried and i tried ♪ ♪ i cant get no ♪ i cant get no ♪ when im driving in my car ♪ and a man comes on the radio ♪ hes telling me more and more ♪ ♪ about some useless information ♪ ♪ supposed to buy my imagination ♪ ♪ i cant get no ♪ no no no >> there was a dialogue going on between soul music and the british invasion. a, because this is a way for me

On those kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ all my love, all my kisses, you dont know what youve been missing, oh, boy ♪ ♪ when youre with me, oh, boy >> so i would listen to buddy holly and gene vincent and jerry lee lewis, fats domino, all the great rock n rollers. ♪ on blueberry hill >> it was like a new language for us. >> the power of the jukebox, theres nothing quite like it. ♪ my dream came true >> the beatles took a bunch of those strains, the everly brothers from...

This is called "hey, mr. tambourine man." ♪ >> a lot of the stuff that dylan wrote in 63, 64, 65 was very political. it wasnt really what the beatles were doing or the stones were doing or the kinks were doing or any of those rock n roll bands. and for a period of time there was this distinction between the folk culture and the rock n roll culture. ♪ hey mr. tambourine man