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Your new song. ♪ get a head of steam on shoveling the coal ♪ ♪ whats that i hear now ringing in my ear ♪ >> you got two or three songs. if you were no good, you probably didnt last the second song, people were, "hey, get off!" maybe not even the first song. ♪ well, you and i travel to the beat of a different drum ♪ >> i heard this song called "different drum" by the greenbriar boys. it was written by mike nez beth who was going to eventually join the monkeys. ♪ you say it would wor...

Thing. you my starve to death or wait tables before you get discovered. she said im willing to take the chance. >> i was 18 years old. we had a house on the beach for $80 a month in santa monica. we split the rent three ways. it was just great. it was right on the beach. >> 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. we formed a little band. we called ourselves the storm ponies. ♪ look ...

Chains the beatles did, im into something good, which is part of the british invasion. we did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. >> carole king made the transition from being behind-the-scenes woman to a star in her own right. ♪ i feel the earth move under my feet, i feel the sky tumbling down ♪ ♪ i feel my heart start to tremble whenever youre around ♪ >> carole king is the embodiment of what happens. because in the 60s she is trying to write hit songs for other people. then i...

Joni mitchell, chrkris kristofferson, elton john. every week, game-changing songwriters. ♪ some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools ♪ ♪ who were making plans and thinking of the future ♪ >> 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. >> it was the place to play like in the minor leagues in baseball. this was your chance. this was your great chance. >> the troubadour was a bustling place. y...

♪ i want my mtv you can talk about videos, but in the 80s the actual sound of what popular music was and what was accepted as a sound, a drum sound or keyboard sound or bass line sound changed profoundly over the course of the decade. ♪ she drives me crazy like no one else ♪ ♪ she drives me crazy and i cant help myself ♪ >> coming to the end of the 80s like watching a kaleidoscope. you open it up and you see a little bit of everything. ♪ the love shack is a little old place where w...

Welcome to the week in rock. it was week lit up in a large way by the release of "in utero," a much anticipated third album by nirvana. ♪ rape me >> walmart is refusing to sell nirvanas new release which includes a song called "rape me." the chain says it wants to be sensitive to its customers moral standards. >> to get into walmart they had to change the title from "rape me" to "waif me." i dont think kurt was too happy about that.

Chris christopherson, elton john, every week, game changing songwriters. ♪ some of them were dreamers and some of them were fools ♪ who were making plans and thinking of the future ♪ >> you tried to get a gig at the trrubadour. >> it was the place to play. like in the minor leagues in baseball. this was your chance. this was your great chance. >> the troubdo yo dour was a bu willing place. i used to go to any hoot-nanny night. >> youd wait and get on the list and go up there and sing

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. they are the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the ...

>> we played little clubs in tucson, but there wasnt very much opportunity for us there. at some point reality stepped in. my sister had they kids. and then my brother went to work for the police department. bobby wanted to earn some money playing music, so he went off to california. and i was the last man standing. ♪ all the leaves are brown and the sky is gray ♪ >> i went to l.a. with the intention of forming a band. when i saw the quality of the singers that were out there, i started writ...

>> linda was always very tight with her girlfriends. they sang together. 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. some people prefer the songwriter doing them. some people prefer linda doing them. but this ag...