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♪ crazy, crazy, crazy on you ♪ >> stadium tours brought a lot of people together to hear music at the same time. what they also do is they force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. >> in the 70s, that distance between the performer on stage and that audience grew. if you went to any of the big rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. >> it was bound to happen. but it comes as a s...

♪ directs you where to go ♪ >> the 90s represented being who you are. this is the kind of music im going to make and i dont care who likes it and who doesnt like it, and im not going to sound like anybody else. this is who i am. >> people were starving for authenticity, they were starving for what the real experience was, the messy, chaotic, fallible experience of being human. and the 90s gave complete green light permission for that to be explored. >> you talk about this band a lot. then yo...

>> and what they generate with the records. we are talking about an estimated $4 billion, thats with a b, $4 billion a year. >> i remember really being upset about this word, disco. it was r and b music to me. and i felt like they stripped it and give it a new name or werent giving credit where i think the credit was supposed to go. >> do it again. but bring that sound in. thats great. yeah. okay. one, two, three, four. >> bee gees always liked r and b, always liked soul. but they always had r a...

♪ she was more like a beauty queen from a movie scene ♪ >> when the rest of the world was going crazy and he cant get on mtv? michael jackson? come on. >> 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 micha...

Obnoxious. ♪ pick up the sound yeah pick up the sound ♪ >> punk rock was so fing scary to us. because here we are with our big, majestic songs. and here comes punk. ♪ >> the ramones get started as a reaction of everything else going on. people see them and go, this is the answer. ♪ hey ho lets go ♪ >> how great rock n roll is supposed to be done. >> how should it be done? >> no pyrotechnics, no phoney showmanship. pure rock n roll energy, pure good stamina. ♪ ♪ >> its just real and...

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Was the granddaddy of all issue-themed kertd concerts. and not only did you get george harrison, you got eric clapton. >> it put two beatles back on the stage again. it was unparalleled, at the time. and it may still be unparalleled. >> a great deal of music of the 70s was people who had succeeded in the 60s finding new ways to express themselves in the 70s. have you any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? >> because we stay together, i suppose. >> for a few years, rol...

Singletons and the spice, all the way across the board, this became the era where we took charge of our own culture, our own cultural icons and telling our own stories, express even music or theater or in cinema. >> in los angeles, one woman is stirring memories and trying to bring about an understanding of the events that tore that city apart a little more than a year ago. her name is anna devere smith and shes taken the riot and turned it into theater. >> twilight, thats my name. >> this is a ...

Kinds of us, of americans now with so many different kinds of ideas about what is just and what is not? >> whenever you bow to a period of racial strife in america, there is always a big pop culture surge of black voices. >> hopefully people will want to come and see this, which is about race, which is the uncomfortableness of being different, but that is being paid attention to makes me happy.