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Talk over the song. i say hip, hop, hop, hip, hop. now what you what s great about this song is that s where hip hop gets its name from. we didn t know it was called rapper s delight. the next day i went to the record store and said y all got hip hop. what s that hip hop song? it was the first hip hop song to crack the top 40. it opens the door to the last new american art form which is hip hop. y28cny ywty ....
Not want marvin to do what s 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 don t lightly talk about the government. yeah, i want to know what s going on right now ultimately when he agrees to put out what s going on, berry tells marvin, okay, if you re right, i ll learn something, and if i m right, you ll learn something. and of course, as berry will say, i learned something. every artist at motown was suddenly also wanting to try their chance at freedom. when people say, so, they put you in one category. they say, he s a soul artist, that s all they expect for you to sing and that s all they want you to sing. that s not true. soul is being able to express yourself. stevie wonder went to berry gordon and he negotiated his creative freedom and he used every bit of it. ....
Legendary space in soho called the loft. i thought that was one of the most utopian scenes i had ever encountered in music. mancuso is one of the guys who took the art form of playing the record and how he curated the records. he might play isaac hayes record. he might play a salsa record. it wasn t so much about a style as it was an aesthetic of dancing. there are all types of people here, people who dance, people who pop up and down, you can get high, stay here all night. why are people dancing again? i wish i knew. but i m glad it s happening. what we now know as disco really starts with a band called the tramps. the drummer, earl young, invents the idea for the floor with eight on the high hat. ....
that s us. and that s no jive. the jacksons were the last act from the classic motown hitsville system. motown was a very unique place. a lot of record companies were run by businessmen. we had a music man at the helm. berry gordon wrote music for the world. ironically, here was trying his best to make black music that would cross over to the white world. he ended up creating the best black music ever. he created a machine. where you take the artist, polish them up. and make them a great package and they can play the ed sullivan show and kill. marvin gaye wanted to be frank sinatra. he was clean, svelte. all that changed in the 70s. marvin wanted to compete at a high level. why can t i make a record like the beatles? i m selling records like they sell. ....
Musicians to play to the back of the hall. in the 70s that distance between the performer on stage and that audience grew. if you went to any big arena rock shows, it was always about the star up here and the audience down here. and this sort of, iconography of the rock star as this huge figure. crazy crazy on you it was bound to happen, but it comes as a shock, nevertheless. in a poll taken by a leading pop music magazine in england, the beatles came in second. the most popular rock group in england these days is called the led zeppelin. in their 20s, they re rich, powerful, temperamental, and pampered. they re the led zeppelin, a rock group on tour, and in the vernacular of the record business, where to be big is ....