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Male. >> the world is reactive with shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. >> it was like in one moment the 60s and the 70s got murdered. >> in his life has given more love than most men and women on the face of the earth. were here to prove love is not dead even though john is. >> you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you dont know where youre going to go from that point. culturally or musically. >> for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. ive no...

These fringe bands that by the end of the 80s were selling out stadiums. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> whats new? computer programmers or musicians? >> id say no, actually. >> what are you? >> bank robbers. ♪ how does it feel to treat me like you do ♪ ♪ >> in the u.k. disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new warder combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. ♪ ♪ >> i like whats happening in d...

From you ♪ ♪ shot in the dark >> you turn on your television set and you see this weird, beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. >> where do they get this information from that im satan? do i have horns -- i know im a bit strange-looking but do i breathe fire and have horns? >> critics say theres something seriously wrong with metal music, outrageous by design, that it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. >> has rock n roll finally gone too far? a growing n...

To a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. ♪ if you should fall into my arms ♪ ♪ and tremble like a flower >> artists in the 80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you want to make it, youve got to be on mtv. >> but theres one group thats not happy with mtv. many black artists who have been told their music doesnt fit the format. >> thats whats happening. were being sat in the back of the bus television-style. and if pittman gets away with this and there are other cable shows th...

♪ ♪ >> when he does that moonwalk, if you were sitting on the couch by the end of it, you were on the floor in front of the tv. you couldnt believe what you were seeing. >> i would say the moonwalk was really one of the first viral moments that affected rock history. the next week "thriller" started selling a million copies a week. >> i like michael jackson because he can sing good, hes bad, he knows how to dance. >> hes so sexy and so gorgeous. >> hes exciting! >> michael jackson is the man...

♪ we go down to the river and into the river we die ♪ >> at this point a lot of it is about being there, which is why we havent done too much of the video thing. a lot of it, it allows too much distance. like what our band is about, its about breaking down distance. ♪ at night i wake up >> bruce was all about credibility and intelligence and integrity. so how would he translate his music and his attitude toward the world to what seemed like this frivolous world of the music video? bruce is...

Ann has a welding iron and shes like this amazon welder woman or something. >> we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to the point where the videos were more important than the songs. >> it did feel like, i cant steer the ship anymore. where is it going, you know? where are we headed? >> i think heavy metal is the true rock n roll of the 80s. rock n roll is basically music made by people who were thinking with their crotches. ♪ ♪ [ bleep ] like a beast >> heavy metal is not something new ...

>> in all candor, i would tell you its outrageous filth and that if i could find some way constitutionally to do away with it, i would. >> fans felt im capable of making my own decisions about the music i want to listen to. i dont need tipper gore deciding that this is too obscene for me. >> the next witness will be mr. frank zappa. >> the establishment of a rating system voluntary or otherwise opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain christia...

Good evening and welcome to you both. jon, i want to start you off by playing for all of us a clip from todays hearings. well talk about dit on the othr side. >> you previously testified that you sought advice from ambassador sondland at this time about what to do, is that correct? >> i did. >> what was his advice? >> well, he suggested that i needed to go big or go home, and he said that the best thing to do would be to, you know, send out a tweet, praise the president, that sort of thing. my r...

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