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Culture. it changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do as far as promotion is concerned. you had to be a performance artist as well as a musician. >> the intelligent ones recognized that it is a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. >> when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear to me that david wanted to make a commercial album. now im going to make a p...

Promotion was concerned. you had to be a performance artist as well as a musician. ♪ >> the intelligent ones recognized that its a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. ♪ monkey ♪ ♪ dont you know youre going to shock the monkey ♪ >> the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. ♪ lets dance ♪ ♪ put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ >> when david and i decided that we were going to work together, it was pretty clear to ...

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Week. and it was his breakthrough record. itjust was. thanks to that tune, he actually recorded it the previous year and he played it for the record company. the record company said what is so often said, which is we don�*t hear a single. he was quite happy to go along with the plans. hejust went was quite happy to go along with the plans. he just went under way and wrote starman. whatever the... starman is a proper upward —— pop record. it appeals to everybody. and had the combination of ...

It changed the entire dynamic of what you had to do as far as promotion was concerned. you had to be a performance artist as well as a musician. ♪ >> the intelligent ones recognized that its a marriage between the visual artist and the musician at this point. ♪ monkey ♪ ♪ dont you know youre going to shock the monkey ♪ >> the man or the woman who finds the right combination will take it all. ♪ lets dance ♪ ♪ put on your red shoes and dance the blues ♪ >> when david and i decide...

And had a sense of humor. he was more the voice of steely van than donald fashion gan. >> came out in the songs and songwriting where, there are so many great steely dan songs, and, you know, i read a quote this weekend that i absolutely love, which was when -- they used to get the greatest studio musicians to come out, and it was all about the music. the extraordinary thing about the beatles songwriting was the simplicity. how did they do that? its like that scene in amadeous. with steely dan, ...

Critics who say how can you leave country behind? >> can we just get off of her back. shes an artist. shes a song writer. let her make whatever music she wants to. >> and he says shes still country at heart. >> taylor swift can make a pop record all day long but if you look at the lyrics thats how country song writers make songs. that is what country is all about. she knows what it means to not sand off the rough edges but put a magnifying glass to it. >> with her new single, swift told good mor...

Who say, how can you leave country behind? >> can we just get off her back for a minute? shes an artist. shes a songwriter. let her make whatever music she wants to. >> and john rich says taylor swift is still country at heart. >> taylor swift can make a pop record all day long, but if you look at the lyrics, that is the way country songwriters write songs. shes a country songwriters. she knows what writing a song is all about. she knows what it means to, you know, not sand off the rough edges b...

Happy new year. >> happy new year. >> lets start. give us your bold music predictions for 2014. >> my bold music predictions for twaent 14, well, i am a dj along with being a comedian on vh-1, and you know, you kind of have to look at what was moving people in 2013 to know whats going to happen in 2014. one of the biggest things that i saw was that dance music has really, like, taken its place in pop. you know, when you see daft punk be considered a pop record, which once upon a time, they were ...