as being soft porn. we like to call them tastefully smutty. a group that s never h had any prproblems saying how they feel, u2! -what are your dreams? -to rule the world. [ music plays ] michael jackson is the man of the 80s. man: music that is all beat and talk. it s s rap musicic. m my life is s over, so i migs well speak my mind pauley: heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence.. it hateses authorityty, and d adolescentnt boys lovev. swagaggart: thisis weird, beastly y presentatition that was birthed in the pit of hell. move it back. officer: john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. miller: the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. man: in his life, has given n me loveve than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. graham: you know, you start the
[ music plays ] michael jackson is the man of the 80s. man: music that is all beat and talk. it s s rap music. my life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley: heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence.. it hateses authorityty, and d adolescentnt boys lovev. swagaggart: thisis weird, beastly y presentatition that was birthed in the pit of hell. move it back. officer: john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. miller: the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. man: in his life, has given more love than most men and women on the face of this earth. we re here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. graham: you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you dodon t reallyly know whwhere you rere going to oo fromom that poinint, culturary oror musicallyly. announcer:r: for a whwhile it seeeem
-what are your dreams? -to rule the world. [ music plays ] michael jackson is the man of the 80s. man: music that is all beat and talk. it s s rap music. my life is over, so i might as well speak my mind pauley: heavy metal, it glorifies sex and violence.. it hateses authorityty, and d adolescentnt boys lovev. swagaggart: thisis weird, beastly y presentatition that was birthed in the pit of hell. move it back. officer: john lennon as he was entering his premise was shot by an unknown at this time white male. miller: the world has reacted with immense shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. it was like in one moment the 60s and 70s got murdered. man: in his life, has given n me loveve than mostst men and w won on the face of this earth. we re here to prove love is not dead, even though john is. graham: you know, you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you dodon t reallyly know whwhere you rere going to oo fromom that poinint, culturary oror mu
[ cheers and applause ] this is the thing about the 80s. everyone t thinks it s s about y haircucuts, lots o of makeup,, insane clothes, and it was, but the thing about this music that lasts is that t their songngs werere so good.. melvoin:n: you can g go back and listenen to those e recor, from the e engineeringng to thehe musiciansnship to the writing and performance of it and it surpasses most music. brown: e everybody h had a sto, and they wanteted to tell l i. the artists that were coming through the tv and into y your lives.s. e everybody w wants toto rule the e world questlove: i ll say the music of the 80s is more effective than what came to us in the 60s simply b because allll of us were incluluded this t time. no decade was more effective in dance music and politics in d different g genres than the 80s. there will never, ever be another decade like it, ever. everybody wants to rule the world
i like michaelel jackson because e he can sing good, he s s bad and h he knows how to d dance. he s s so sexy andnd so gorgeo. he s exciting! michchael jacksoson is the mn of the 80s. graham: mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson s label. rock andnd roll in i itself rereally was the thing that broke a lot of rules. and when you re very successful, you try to make your own rules occasionally. graham: as the story goes, cbs essentially said, we will pull every other artist we have onon mtv if y you don t p play this. they h had to be e essentially blackmkmailed into doioing it. i it doesn t t matter whoho sg or right just beat it he was the artist that mtv really needed. they didn n t know they neededed him, but boboy, when wewe started t e ththe michael l jackson viv, it was just unbelievable. and no one s going to. questlove: then there s the domino effect. suddenly you see prince videos from warner brothers do the same thing. so o toni