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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 i m doing here with no drummers and no nothing like that. 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 ....
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 onboard. 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 rock n roll basically is no different than ibm, xerox, sara lee, chevrolet. supply and demand. it s the same business. 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. the total cost of this tour is $3.5 million. now, the gross for the tour is in the region of $11 million. ....
The standard schlock we hear on the top 40. ramones were one 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. [ bleep ] sweetheart. the dead boys. rock and roll anybody can play. and richard hell. this next number is called richard hell was one of the first to cut his own hair. he was ripping his own 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 musical aberration. 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 miniskirt and the look and mood of the swinging 60s. ....