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When we first started playing together, we started playing because we wanted to play rhythm and blues, and howlin wolf was one of our idols and its a great pleasure hes booked on the show. it really is a pleasure. so i think its better you shut up and we let howlin wolf onstage. ♪ how many more years that i have to let you dog me around ♪ >> the rolling stones invite howlin wolf, who is a 60-year-old black man from the

♪ i aint going to work on maggies farm no more ♪ >> its not just about dylan going electric, but its also about the fusion of an emerging tradition in popular music that was really political, with rock n roll which had largely not been overtly political. >> theres nothing like the feeling of your audience not being with you and walking out on you. people took it personally. >> you know, who needs him anymore? hes a part of your establishment and forget him. >> theyre all my friends. >> they ...

South side of chicago who never in a million years would have been on "shindig," and there he is. ♪ you dont believe a word i said ♪ >> the stones clearly wore their heart on their sleeves for blues and r&b. you can hear traces of delta blues inside of keiths guitar. ♪ they tried to be as authentic to the core as possible, even so much that their first few american recordings were done in chess in chicago. ♪ the dogs begin to bark ♪ the hounds begin to howl >> weve got to get the chica...

Out in the ocean ♪ >> "heart like a wheel," she discovered that song, brought it to me, and i loved it. i thought it was beautiful. but i was also thinking in terms of we should make some hits. ♪ now that were through ♪ feeling better cause im over you ♪ >> im a ballad singer. i like to sing ballads best, but we needed up tome pempo songs fe record. as an afterthought, it was this song we used to close the show. ♪ youre no good, youre no good ♪ ♪ ill say it again, youre no good, yo...

So long ♪ >> music in the 60s was like any great art movement. the greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better. >> the mic on the piano is quite low. >> in the studio, the beatles natural creativity was sort of brimming over, and george martin was a brilliant collaborator and champion of that. >> run back the tape, please, would you? >> you can slow down or speed up the tape. you can put in backwards stuff. you can put in electronic sounds that you couldnt possibly reproduce l...

They shared music together. 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 this again she definitely made into a bigger song. ♪ it wasnt to save me >> because i couldnt sing it like that. ♪ i made up my mind i would leave today ♪ >>...

>> once she got there, we got to work right away. we used to practice every day. >> bobby introduced me to a really good guitar player named kenny edwards and we formed a little band. we called ourselves the stone ponies. ♪ look out your window, the rain is turning into snow ♪ >> we started playing beatnik dives and strange pizza parlors wherever we could get a job. there was a trip where i heard this band called the birds. it had a light show and a lot of acid tripping kind of stuff going o...

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.

>> once she got there, we got to work right away, and we used to practice every day. ♪ >> bobby introduced me to a really good guitar player named kenny edwards, and we formed a little band. we called ourselves the storm ponies. ♪ look out your window ♪ the rain is turning into snow ♪ >> we started playing little beatnik dives and pizza parlors, wherever we could get a job. there was a trip where i heard this band called the bird. they had a light show and a lot of acid tripping kind of ...

Nice, nice. ♪ >> 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 w...