the early years of the 70s are sad in music. because you lose people. and you lose the beatles. the small gathering on saville row is only the beginning. the event is so momentous that historians may one day view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. the beatles are breaking up. it was like a death for a lot of people. rock n roll as we understood it in the 1960s was no longer with us. being without the beatles never. and i wonder what i m doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. well, you might know i lost my old band, or i left it. imagine there s no heaven it s easy if you try for so long, you kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going.
the kind of plane president nixon uses. but the president s plane doesn t have an organ nor a 15-foot mirrored bar, nor in the private quarters does it have two bedrooms and a fireplace. i m a bit upset there s not a pool table on board. apart from that, i think it s about the best way to travel. americans are now spending $2 billion a year on music. that s $700 million more than the whole movie industry grosses from ticket sales in one year. about three times the amount of money taken in by all spectator sports. i m telling you that rock n roll is basically no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet. supply and demand. it s no different. rock n roll had been a little gritty novelty business. it was not the center of the world in the 50s and 60s. in the 70s it becomes the main event. that has repercussions in all sorts of positive and negative ways.
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pulsating to the back beat blitzkrieg bop just real and raw and there s no crap involved, as opposed to the standard schlap we hear on the top 40. the ramones are part of a wider new york scene. you had people like patti smith. i m an artist. rock n roll is my art. the new york dolls. the dead boys. rock and roll anybody can play. and richard hell. richard hell was one to cut his own hair. ripping his clothes and safety pinning them together. he was the king of the punks. the safety pin thing, for instance, is his. it s pretty clear that he invented that. hey, ho, let s go punk in the united states is a statement of sorts of what music is and how it ought to be played. in england, punk rock is not a musical statement, it is a social one. if punk has a home territory, it is here on kings road in the middle of london, the same street that launched the mini skirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s.
i was worried that i d never get another shot. he was not at all happy. he thought his career was over. rock is probably the most cultural event in the history of america. it outswung the whole generation of freaks. it s what guys seem to get off on. they like the high-energy sort of event. if sight and sound is your pleasure, you bet your bottom, we ve got them, baby. unless you have been living in a sealed cave, you probably noticed that america s latest craze is disco dancing. this is punk rock. its purpose to promote violence, sex and destruction in that order. pure rock n roll. pure stamina!