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Harden, eldon john, jackson brown. it is just week after week of amazing, game-changing songwriters. ♪ some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools ♪ ♪ who were making plans and thinking of the future ♪ >> i mean you tried to get a gig at the troubadour. you wanted to play the troubadour. all kinds of industry people hung around in the bar. >> the troubadour was a bustling place. they had a hoot netflix nanny night. i used to go to any hoot-nanny night. >> youd wait and get on ...

♪ >> so the beatles from liverpool are taking this pop sound but putting their own spin on it. ♪ >> what is the sound? how does it differ from other rock n roll and pop? >> it just happened that, all of a sudden, hundreds of rock groups all from liverpool made records, and it was a bit more like the original rock n roll than the stuff theyve had over the last few months. ♪ >> initially, there was no tradition of great british bands conquering america. that had not happened, but its that mo...

♪ ooh, baby ♪ have fun tonight ♪ >> the british invasion played a huge role in not just introducing themselves to america, but reintroducing a lot of black music to mainstream america. ♪ ♪ its gonna be all right ♪ all right, all right ♪ its gonna be all right ♪ get my way ♪ i will stay ♪ stay by your side to keep you satisfied ♪ ♪ 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 tim...

>> the stones then close, and they were afraid it was the biggest mistake they ever made following james brown. ♪ ♪ what a crazy town ♪ never stop rockin until the moon went down ♪ >> we see, you know, jagger coming alive, you know, doing things that he hadnt done before. >> it was great, because youre seeing a seasoned professional with james brown, and a young performer and band figuring out who the hell they are. ♪

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She was like 5 or 6 years old. >> we learned so much about singing from each other. it was completely incorporated into what we did. we sang at the dinner table. we sang in the car. we sang with our hands in the dish water. i thought spanish was this magical, musical language. when i was growing p i thought people sang in spanish and spoke in english. if you spoke spanish on the playground you would be punished. you werent allowed to do it. my sister and brother and i eventually formed a little ...

♪ we are walking down the highways and byways ♪ ♪ >> maybe shes not there, but theyre here and theyre the zombies! ♪ but its too late to say youre sorry ♪ ♪ how would i know ♪ why should i care ♪ please dont bother trying to find her ♪ ♪ shes not there ♪ well let me tell you about the way she looked ♪ ♪ the way she acted and the color of her hair ♪ ♪ her voice was soft and cool ♪ her eyes were clear and bright, but shes not there ♪ >> i loved the zombies, becaus...

Considered more modern. ♪ pretty little women stand in a line ♪ ♪ make love to you baby >> the stones, the animals, the yardbirds, the british groups picked up the american blues, where the americans had kind of let it go. >> and in a strange way, we were taking back to america what america had given us, which was american music. ♪ gonna have a lot of fun, oh, yeah, baby, whoo ♪ >> you and chuck have kind of taken england by storm. how do you feel about other people borrowing your mate...

She was supportive of me. i was writing songs and hoping, you know, to make my own record, but, of course, linda was, you know, really coming into her own and starting to be really successful. ♪ and i know its insane >> i think a songwriter doing their songs is different than a singer doing their songs. but she definitely made into a bigger song. ♪ save me >> because i couldnt sing it like that. ♪ i made up my mind i would leave today ♪ >> i mean linda came out and turned it into this po...

And for a period of time there was this distinction between the folk culture and the rock n roll culture. ♪ hey mr. tambourine man ♪ play a song for me ♪ im not sleepy ♪ and there is no place im going to ♪ >> in 1964, during that first tour, the beatles had the opportunity to meet bob dylan. he understood what they were doing musically, and they were awakened by the more personal perspective of his songs. >> dylan was a huge influence on john lennon. i think it inspired him to write mo...