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The seeds of what will happen in the next decade are already all there by the end of the 80s. college rock like r.e.m. was something new entirely. ♪ collar me, dont collar me ♪ ♪ ive got my spine, ive got my orange crush ♪ heilemann: the way that peter buck played the guitar and the way that stipe song, where the voice was incredible but you couldnt quite figure out what he was saying, it just kind of made them more alluring and more mysterious. you could get why that band would become h...

♪ youve been hiding ♪ in the 80s, the videos were so expensive and so complicated, and you had to wear things that you would never dream of wearing before. at first it was a lot of fun to really get dressed up and pull in that corset, just wear tons of makeup and great big huge hair. you had to have that "sexy" kind of thing, you know? im coming out of a gold mold. ann has a welding iron, and shes this amazon welder woman or something. ann wilson: we felt lost in the theater of it. it got to...

In the roles of the white slave owners and the villains. ill be by to fetch you in the morning, captain. sleep well. it is difficult to explain in todays culture how unprecedented "roots" was. no one had ever seen the story of slavery before, told from the point of view of the africans. [ indistinct singing ] bianculli: it may be the first time that television allowed an embracing of black pride. then wes free. wes free, honey. one of the reasons that "roots" was so incredibly popular is not bec...

- my dining companion is part of a more recent wave of immigrants. jamilka borges moved here from puerto rico in 2007 and began working in what was then a restaurant scene that was just getting started. - [indistinct singing] [cheers and applause] - you spent your whole life in puerto rico before you came here? - i did. i moved here, what, when i was 21, and, i dont know, pittsburgh is, like, really unique, like in the sense that everybody knows each other. its such a small town that, like, here...

With some guitar dude on the front and, you know, special hidden reinforcement and spikes and shit? - no, its not "death race." its not "death race." - brooke is one of the best girl drivers, female drivers, that ive seen. - wait a minute, whats the difference between male and female drivers? is there any? - theres not very many females that actually compete with the guys. - yeah, but wouldnt it be great to see some big meathead falling to his knees sobbing after youve just totally destroyed-- -...