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Male. >> the world is reactive with shock and grief to the first rock and roll assassination. >> it was like in one moment the '60s and the '70s got murdered. >> in his life has given more love than most men and women on the face of the earth. we're here to prove love is not dead even though john is. >> you start the decade with the death of a beatle. you don't know where you're going to go from that point. culturally or musically. >> for a while it seemed there was nothing new on the horizon. i've now seen the latest achievement in home entertainment. the power of sight. the power of sound. >...

These fringe bands that by the end of the '80s were selling out stadiums. ♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> what's new? computer programmers or musicians? >> i'd say no, actually. >> what are you? >> bank robbers. ♪ how does it feel to treat me like you do ♪ ♪ >> in the u.k. disco did not suck. it never sucked. and bands like new warder combined it with the new synthesizer sound and they gave us these incredible songs that got us out on the dance floor. ♪ ♪ >> i like what's happening in dance places the last year or two.

From you ♪ ♪ shot in the dark >> you turn on your television set and you see this weird, beastly presentation that was birthed in the pit of hell. >> where do they get this information from that i'm satan? do i have horns -- i know i'm a bit strange-looking but do i breathe fire and have horns? >> critics say there's something seriously wrong with metal music, outrageous by design, that it may have contributed to a number of teenage suicides. >> has rock 'n' roll finally gone too far? a growing number of people think so. today they took their case to a u.s. senate hearing. teir complaint? ...

To a didactic kind of approach to songwriting. ♪ if you should fall into my arms ♪ ♪ and tremble like a flower >> artists in the '80s, david bowie for that matter, realized if you want to make it, you've got to be on mtv. >> but there's one group that's not happy with mtv. many black artists who have been told their music doesn't fit the format. >> that's what's happening. we're being sat in the back of the bus television-style. and if pittman gets away with this and there are other cable shows that form, they're going to try it. >> mtv doesn't exclude black acts. what mtv does exclude i...

♪ ♪ >> 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 couldn't 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 michael jackson because he can sing good, he's bad, he knows how to dance. >> he's so sexy and so gorgeous. >> he's exciting! >> michael jackson is the man of the '80s. >> mtv starts to get pressure from cbs records, which was michael jackson's label....