Rock singer jimi hendrix died today in london, according to a Police Source from an overdose of drugs. Janis joplin was found dead last night. The cause of death was said to be an overdose of drugs. Jim morrison, the lead singer for the doors, a rock music group, is dead. He was 27. The early years of the 70s are sad in music because you lose people, and you lose the beatles. This small gathering on saville row is only the beginning. The event so momentous that historians may someday view it as a landmark in the decline of the british empire. The beatles are breaking up. It was luke a like a death for a lot of people. Rock n roll as we understood it in the 60s was no longer with us. Being without the beatles never. And i wonder what im doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. You might know i lost my old band or i left it. Imagine theres no heaven its easy if you try for so long, you kind of waited for the next beatles album to see where music was going. And we just hoped that the music they would come up with individually would be that good. You know, i no longer, oh, the beatles need an album. You and paul go write 20 songs tomorrow kind of thing. I just write when i feel like it. Imagine all the people you know, yoko, youve even been called the dragon lady who brought the beatles apart or took them all i have trouble with english. Can we please give her the credit for all the nice music that george made and ringo made and paul made and ive made since they broke up. Because she did it. The fact is, yoko ono did not break up the beatles. Time broke up the beatles. Money broke up the beatles. Business broke up the beatles. A desire to go off and do their own stuff broke up the beatles. Hes a fleshier, heavier beatle these days. Respectably married. When the kids come to his concerts, they dont scream anymore. They listen. The significant thing is that both john lennon and Paul Mccartney made music in their own particular ways that was focused on the fact that they were deeply in love with a woman. But im not the only one mccartney went home, made the record where he plays all the instruments on his own. This kind of cozy domesticity. Beautiful, warm, wonderful music. Its going to look roughly like this. This is our First Showing of it. This is just the mockup, folks. The new album with atlantic. Its going to be called i sell records. Doesnt matter if im with the beatles or not. If they dont like the record they wont buy it. Ringo, who to this day people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the 70s. A and George Harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova, an album all things must pass may be the greatest beatings solo album of all. You dont need no passport over the years, now, such a lot of songs mounted up i only wanted to do. I got a quota of one, or two per album. Were you held down by the other fellows . Well, very subtly, yes. Id just like to thank you all for coming here. As you all know, its a special benefit concert. Ravi shankhar went to George Harrison and said, a terrible thing is happening in bangladesh what can we do . That created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. The concert for bangladesh was the grandaddy of all issuethemed concerts. Not only did you get George Harrison, you got eric clapton. It got dylan out of hiding. It put two beatles back on the stage again. It was unparalleled at the time and 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 got any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has . Because we stayed together, i suppose. For a few years, the Rolling Stones had taken a lot of casualties. Even brian felt that he wasnt going to be around that long. Not everybody makes it. They were fighting for like where do we secure our foothold now . In 1971, the Rolling Stones leave their home for tax purposes to go live in france and record this record, exile on main street in a very hot, uncomfortable, muddysounding studio. That record is the embodiment of a band making masterpieces on a daily basis. And i remember reading the review saying this was a debauched album. I didnt know what debauched means, but ive got to get some of this debauchery stuff. Having come out of the 60s, which was its own animal, the 70s had to show a new skin. It had to shed the old one. Ooh yeah i was never very confident of my voice as a singer. I thought rather than just sing, which would probably bore the pants off everybody, id like to kind of portray the songs. Then i turn myself to face me and i never caught a glimpse david bowie has always been a game changer. 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This year i took some time off from touring and went off on some adventures of my own. And this is kind of a a letter back home. Ooh california oh california im coming home oh make me feel good rock n roll band im your biggest fan california im coming home you look to the horizon that you want to move toward. And that horizon was here in l. A. Thats where the Record Companies were, and theres lots of sun. The way i got to california was just really simple. I got there in a 57 chevrolet by skipping my finals that year in college. Virtually no one was from southern california. Theyre all drawn to the light. And the light is the Troubadour Club. Things happened gradually until we played the Troubadour Club in los angeles, which holds 250 people. It just happened on the first night. Every great songwriter i can think of came through the troubadour. Jackson browne, j. D. , linda ronstadt, joni mitchell, james taylor. The big sea change was people writing their own songs and expressing themselves. Is it difficult to reveal yourself constantly to so many people . Why do you have to do this . I feel an obligation to people and to myself to try and share myself, maybe as honestly as i can. I left my folk and friends with the aim to clear my mind out well i hit the rowdy road and many kinds i met there many stories told me all the ways to get there ooh so on and on i go the seconds tick the time out theres so much left to know and im on the road to find out everyone was just trying to do whatever came into their head. In the early days paul and i, we wanted to be the goff and king of england. They were very big those days. We had no idea who the people were, who the mysterious mr. King was. Wed written all these songs and chains that the beatles did, im into something good, which was part of the british invasion. We did discover this remarkable woman, carole king. Carole king made the transition from being behind the scenes woman to a star in her own right. I feel the earth move under my feet i feel the sky tumbling down i feel my heart start to tremble whenever youre around carole king is the embodiment of what happens because in the 60s, she is trying to write hit songs for other people. Then in the 70s, with tapestry, its the definition of an album of selfexpression. Let me go into my house in Laurel Canyon and tell you about my life. After church you always went out for pancakes. If you were lucky enough to ride in one of the girls cars you know what you are listening to . Tapestry. There was a lot of very important women who were some of the most significant writers and contributors to music at the time. Were going to do a song written by my friend john david souther, who is my favorite california songwriter and one of my favorite singers. Its called faithless love. She was in many ways my greatest collaborator. I became a professional songwriter because the best voice of my generation was doing my songs. Faithless love like a river flows raindrops falling on a broken rose for my money, linda is still underrated just for sheer singing power and style and emotion. And the night falls in like a cold dark wind faithless love like a river flows there have been articles and things that identify me with the l. A. Sound, me and Jackson Browne and the eagles. We need some new blood in this town. Were starting to get stale. She rings like a bell through the night and oh you love to love her the original Fleetwood Mac was a fourpiece, fullon blues band. They were an english band that became a dual citizenship band. They were as american as they were british. All your life youve never known a woman tainted by the wind we had an album out, two years previous to joining Fleetwood Mac, called buckingham nicks. Nick really liked the music. They asked us to join. Rhiannon Fleetwood Mac, first, stevie and lindsey album for sure changed our lives. We had arrived. Freedom describe being rich and famous in california. This is it, kid. Freedom freedom hit records sometimes bore an audience. Oh, well, theyre not going to have another hit. Or, this one isnt as good as that. Record company is like frothing at the mouth, and the imaging of the band was becoming a whole thing. So we were getting ready to make rumors with everyone falling apart. If loving you isnt the right to do how can i ever change things that i feel stretching the band. Theres five people, five free, independent, quite strongminded, quite stubborn individuals. If i could baby id give you my world two lovely couples, john and chris married. Their marriage was on the rocks. And stevie and lindsey might as well have been married. That all was falling apart. You can go your own way go your own way you can call it another lonely day we were testifying. And rumors became the church. 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Oohooh let me tell you now we were shocked because not only were they incredibly talented but they looked like us. I didnt want you around no pretty faces always stand out in a crowd how long you been singing . Three years. See you went to grab it right away. Snatch it right out of my hand. Michael was precocious, he knew he was cute. You would watch him go from that to commanding a stage in front of 15,000 people. Amazing. Ooh baby give me one more chance wont you please let me oh darling ive been trying to let you go i want you back the only American Group to have four consecutive number one records. Oh oh oh i want you back for the first time young black kids had their beatles. Hey, man. You dont know . The jackson five. Thats us. And thats no jive. The jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. Motown was a very unique place because a lot of Record Companies were being run by businessmen. We had a music man at the helm. Berry gordy was a songwriter. Ironically, here he was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. He ended up making the greatest black music ever. He created a machine. Where you take the artist, polish them up. Make them a great package that they can play the Ed Sullivan Show and kill. Back in the 60s, marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. He was svelte, clean shaven, debonair, and all of that changed in the 70s. Marvin wanted to compete at a high level. Why cant i make a record like the beatles . Im selling records like they sell. Why cant i have that artistic expression . Punish me with brutality talk to me honey so you can see whats going on whats going on, yeah, whats going on tell me whats going on ooh marvin gaye was affected by the vietnam war. His brother was in vietnam. So hes hearing all these stories about whats going on over there. Hes seeing the protests here, and its changing him. He holds up a mirror to america. Look at yourselves, america. Hes talking about the war. Hes talking about poverty. Changing artists in a way that berry gordy is not super happy about. Everybody thinks were wrong they do initially berry gordy did not want marvin to do whats going on. Motown was supposed to be nonthreatening and you have marvin gaye making a protest record about the war that could potentially ruin good money. You dont lightly talk about the government. Thats why i want to know whats going on right now ultimately when he agrees to put out whats going on, berry tells marvin, okay, if youre right, ill learn something. If im right, youll learn something. And of course as berry would say, i learned something. Every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. When people say soul, they put you in one category. They say, hes a soul artist. Thats all they expect for you to sing, and thats all they want you to sing. Thats not true. Soul is being able to express yourself. Stevie wonder went to berry gordy and he negotiated his creative freedom. And he used every bit of it. Very superstitious writings on the wall Stevie Wonder making some of the greatest records anyone has ever made in popular music in america, back to back to back. Its the equivalent of shooting a perfect shot from halfcourt with your eyes closed. Music in my mind. Oh, he made it. He aint going to do it again. Talking. Oh my god he did it. And then suddenly songs in the key of life. You believe in things you dont understand what the beatles did in the 60s i feel Stevie Wonder was the person to do that for music in the 70s. Hi there and welcome aboard. You are right on time for a beautiful trip on the soul train. Whats your pleasure and whats your treasure . Bet your bottom we got them, baby. Soul train finally offered america its first view of afrocentricity. It was a new idea to say, black is beautiful. 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Rock has not only refused to go away, it has become an institution. Heart was a big deal. Because in the decade dominated by a type of rock n roll that rhymes with rock and begins with a c, but i wont go on further, they were willing to play with those guys and succeed on their terms. The stuff from the 60s, was like thats way too hippie. Now we have to up it a notch. The audiences had come to expect a better standard of performance, a better quality of lighting and sound and staging. They had come to expect a show. We still have time and i still defy every time i think about it i want to cry in the 70s the groups started to become more theatrical. They realized just giving them the music isnt enough. Weve got to give them something to look at. More naked people. More misbehavior. More overthetop stuff going on. Just just more. Oh young child playing stadiums was too unreal. It would just be a sea of faces into infinity. With your sweet bag of lies crazy crazy crazy on you crazy on you stadium tours put a lot of people near music at the same time. What they also do is force the musicians to play to the back of the hall. In the 70s that distance between the performer onstage and that audience grew. If you went t