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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:04,922 --> 00:00:09,092 {\an8}[man] I came to London in March of 1970. 2 00:00:10,886 --> 00:00:14,966 {\an8}There's something about my life about getting to places slightly late. 3 00:00:19,478 --> 00:00:22,148 [Greenfield] I went to Apple for some reason or other. 4 00:00:24,399 --> 00:00:27,109 They had already done the concert on the roof. I missed that. 5 00:00:29,696 --> 00:00:32,526 And the building was kind of hollow and empty. 6 00:00:33,784 --> 00:00:36,294 {\an8}And then, all of a sudden, it was over. 7 00:00:36,370 --> 00:00:40,250 The small gathering on Savile Row is only the beginning. 8 00:00:40,332 --> 00:00:44,922 The event is so momentous that historians may one day view it 9 00:00:45,003 --> 00:00:48,093 as a landmark in the decline of the British Empire. 10 00:00:48,757 --> 00:00:51,007 {\an8}The Beatles are breaking up. 11 00:00:51,093 --> 00:00:53,763 {\an8}[man] The Beatles have changed so many lives 12 00:00:53,846 --> 00:00:57,346 {\an8}that, um, the need for them still exists. 13 00:00:57,432 --> 00:00:59,272 {\an8}The hope that they represent still exists. 14 00:00:59,351 --> 00:01:01,811 And as long as that exists then they have to exist. 15 00:01:01,895 --> 00:01:03,305 We're all in it together. 16 00:01:04,022 --> 00:01:06,532 If the Beatles don't exist, you don't exist. 17 00:01:07,401 --> 00:01:10,951 {\an8}[woman] It was a horrible feeling that it might be all over. 18 00:01:12,531 --> 00:01:15,991 {\an8}They inspired that whole generation to go and conquer the world. 19 00:01:17,077 --> 00:01:20,157 The whole youth culture could not have happened without them. 20 00:01:22,249 --> 00:01:27,629 What I feared was the establishment was gonna claw back pop music 21 00:01:27,713 --> 00:01:29,883 to where it had been pre-Beatles. 22 00:01:29,965 --> 00:01:33,425 Awful, awful light entertainment. 23 00:01:35,053 --> 00:01:37,813 {\an8}♪ I've been sitting here all day ♪ 24 00:01:38,557 --> 00:01:40,227 {\an8}♪ Thinking ♪ 25 00:01:40,309 --> 00:01:42,349 {\an8}[Nightingale] As we got into 1971, 26 00:01:42,436 --> 00:01:44,606 {\an8}you could see they did not want the counterculture. 27 00:01:44,688 --> 00:01:46,478 {\an8}They did not want youth movements. 28 00:01:47,774 --> 00:01:49,234 It was them and us. 29 00:01:49,318 --> 00:01:52,398 ♪ Now my days are gone ♪ 30 00:01:52,487 --> 00:01:55,157 ♪ Memories linger on ♪ 31 00:01:56,074 --> 00:02:00,254 ♪ Thoughts of when I was boy ♪ [audio fades] 32 00:02:05,501 --> 00:02:07,041 [camera shutters clicking] 33 00:02:08,044 --> 00:02:09,254 [man] The dream's over. 34 00:02:13,675 --> 00:02:16,675 {\an8}-[man 2] In 1971... -[woman] Music said something. 35 00:02:25,062 --> 00:02:26,692 [protesters chant] 36 00:02:26,772 --> 00:02:28,442 [woman] The world was changing. 37 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:34,110 {\an8}[man 3] We were creating the 21st century in 1971. 38 00:02:47,292 --> 00:02:51,262 [guitar music playing] 39 00:02:53,757 --> 00:02:57,087 [man] Myself and, I guess, a certain contingent of musicians 40 00:02:57,177 --> 00:02:59,257 {\an8}at the beginning of the '70s 41 00:02:59,346 --> 00:03:03,176 {\an8}wanted to manufacture a new kind of vocabulary 42 00:03:03,267 --> 00:03:06,227 {\an8}about what rock music was and could become. 43 00:03:07,688 --> 00:03:11,978 The history of rock could be recycled in a different way. 44 00:03:13,485 --> 00:03:17,905 We were fed up with the hippies. We wanted to go somewhere else. 45 00:03:43,473 --> 00:03:46,693 {\an8}[man] I was writing for Rolling Stone, and a friend of mine 46 00:03:46,768 --> 00:03:51,858 {\an8}who had become the West Coast publicist for Mercury Records called and asked 47 00:03:51,940 --> 00:03:55,900 if I wanted to interview this obscure English artist 48 00:03:55,986 --> 00:03:59,696 that they were trying to publicize because he was unknown. 49 00:03:59,781 --> 00:04:01,411 I'd never heard of him. 50 00:04:04,244 --> 00:04:06,914 And he sent me The Man Who Sold The World... 51 00:04:08,207 --> 00:04:10,287 which I didn't really like very much at all, 52 00:04:10,375 --> 00:04:13,045 but I wasn't about to turn down a trip to San Francisco. 53 00:04:13,128 --> 00:04:15,128 So I-- I went. 54 00:04:23,931 --> 00:04:27,101 [Mendelssohn] I remember he emerged from the plane 55 00:04:27,184 --> 00:04:29,984 and he was wearing a dress and carrying a purse. 56 00:04:30,062 --> 00:04:32,982 And I felt terribly intimidated. 57 00:04:33,065 --> 00:04:34,725 You know, he was really pretty. 58 00:04:36,026 --> 00:04:40,946 [male radio announcer] KSTN, KSTN-FM Stockton. Your official station. 59 00:04:42,491 --> 00:04:44,331 [male radio host] David is with us. How you doin', David? 60 00:04:44,409 --> 00:04:45,829 -Good to see you. -[Bowie] Oh, thank you very much. 61 00:04:45,911 --> 00:04:47,291 [radio host] Have you been in this country before? 62 00:04:47,371 --> 00:04:48,661 [Bowie] No, it's the first time in the States. 63 00:04:48,747 --> 00:04:51,207 -[host] Wow. How do you like it so far? -[Bowie] Yeah. Great. Incredible. 64 00:04:51,291 --> 00:04:53,251 [radio host] It says here that you are one of those Englishmen 65 00:04:53,335 --> 00:04:54,995 who has happened upon the pop scene 66 00:04:55,087 --> 00:04:56,627 and just captured the hearts and minds of-- 67 00:04:56,713 --> 00:04:59,593 [both, together] ...minds of nearly all of the audiences that have heard him. 68 00:04:59,675 --> 00:05:01,335 -[radio host] Isn't that wonderful? -[Bowie] Wow. Yeah. 69 00:05:01,426 --> 00:05:04,806 -[radio host] Did you know that? Yeah. -[Bowie] I'm quite a guy. [chuckles] 70 00:05:05,681 --> 00:05:10,191 {\an8}[man] I mean, being truthful, his career was not doing well in those days. 71 00:05:10,269 --> 00:05:14,569 {\an8}He was kind of a cult artist, and his sales weren't that high at all. 72 00:05:15,357 --> 00:05:17,817 After we made The Man Who Sold The World, 73 00:05:17,901 --> 00:05:21,411 he went with a manager called Tony Defries. 74 00:05:21,488 --> 00:05:23,818 And Tony Defries didn't like the album. 75 00:05:26,451 --> 00:05:28,291 {\an8}[Visconti] And he sacked our band. 76 00:05:29,496 --> 00:05:33,326 {\an8}Even me. I lost him. I lost contact with him for at least a year. 77 00:05:37,880 --> 00:05:41,840 {\an8}[man] The idea was to create a new entity. 78 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:46,346 {\an8}We were deconstructing David and reconstructing Bowie. 79 00:05:47,389 --> 00:05:50,679 That was the footing we were on in 1971. 80 00:05:50,767 --> 00:05:53,347 [male interviewer] I'm reading this bio here because I just received it here. 81 00:05:53,437 --> 00:05:55,357 And some interesting things about you here. 82 00:05:55,439 --> 00:05:58,359 Did you know this, that your name was David Robert Jones... 83 00:05:58,442 --> 00:05:59,532 [Bowie] Oh, yeah. 84 00:05:59,610 --> 00:06:01,240 [interviewer] ...but that Davy Jones of the Monkees claimed the name... 85 00:06:01,320 --> 00:06:04,110 -[Bowie] Yeah. -...and you-- you became David Bowie. 86 00:06:05,282 --> 00:06:07,872 {\an8}[Mendelssohn] There was one party in the Hollywood Hills 87 00:06:07,951 --> 00:06:11,461 {\an8}that was intended to introduce him to the LA cognoscenti, 88 00:06:11,538 --> 00:06:16,248 but the cognoscenti were greatly outnumbered by these starlet types. 89 00:06:17,252 --> 00:06:19,552 And they didn't know what to make of him. 90 00:06:20,422 --> 00:06:22,592 They were incredulous. [chuckles] 91 00:06:22,674 --> 00:06:25,394 [man singing, strumming guitar] 92 00:06:27,179 --> 00:06:30,389 A guy in a dress sitting in the lotus position 93 00:06:30,474 --> 00:06:32,314 singing Jacques Brel songs. 94 00:06:34,811 --> 00:06:37,611 I kind of wished that he'd consulted with me, because I-- 95 00:06:37,689 --> 00:06:40,899 I would've said, "No Jacques Brel. They're not gonna get it." 96 00:06:42,236 --> 00:06:43,276 And they didn't. 97 00:06:45,906 --> 00:06:51,246 An hour into the party, everyone hearing that an Andy Warhol superstar 98 00:06:51,328 --> 00:06:53,788 was having a party up the road, 99 00:06:53,872 --> 00:06:56,882 everybody essentially left the Bowie party... 100 00:06:58,043 --> 00:06:59,383 including Bowie. 101 00:07:02,589 --> 00:07:04,379 {\an8}[Bowie] I don't know what all that was about. 102 00:07:04,466 --> 00:07:07,756 {\an8}I landed there, and I found that all I could do was radio shows... 103 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:14,020 and the odd private house where I would play for whoever we could get in. 104 00:07:14,726 --> 00:07:17,936 So I can't really, um, give you an honest opinion 105 00:07:18,021 --> 00:07:20,821 of what I thought of American audiences because I didn't see any. 106 00:07:22,150 --> 00:07:26,700 [Nightingale] The music industry has not been easy on weirdos ever. 107 00:07:27,239 --> 00:07:31,199 {\an8}And in 1971, he was struggling very much. 108 00:07:31,285 --> 00:07:34,955 {\an8}Trying to find where he was going, whether he ever would. 109 00:07:35,539 --> 00:07:39,379 He'd been rejected and rejected, he'd made records that hadn't gone anywhere, 110 00:07:39,459 --> 00:07:42,749 and then just been ridiculed as a freak in a dress. 111 00:07:43,463 --> 00:07:44,973 Most people would've given up. 112 00:07:47,176 --> 00:07:51,346 {\an8}[Greenfield] By then, everything was so polarized in America. 113 00:07:51,430 --> 00:07:56,060 {\an8}People had burnt out, and they're cynical and they're angry. 114 00:07:56,602 --> 00:08:00,812 The "peace and flowers" love thing was well over. 115 00:08:01,523 --> 00:08:06,153 Looking back on it now, it's hard to understand how bad it was. 116 00:08:07,404 --> 00:08:10,284 {\an8}The jury hearing the charges against Charles Manson 117 00:08:10,365 --> 00:08:13,285 {\an8}and three girl members of his so-called "Family" 118 00:08:13,368 --> 00:08:15,618 {\an8}brought in its verdict this afternoon. 119 00:08:15,704 --> 00:08:18,874 All were found guilty of murder in the first degree. 120 00:08:19,791 --> 00:08:23,051 [male reporter] To his family of followers, Manson was a kind of god. 121 00:08:23,128 --> 00:08:26,298 But to the California police, he was something quite different. 122 00:08:26,381 --> 00:08:28,471 A car thief, pimp and Satanist 123 00:08:28,550 --> 00:08:31,220 who'd masterminded eight murders, at least. 124 00:08:32,304 --> 00:08:36,394 Members of the so-called "Family" talked to a BBC 24 Hours team 125 00:08:36,475 --> 00:08:38,975 soon after Manson had been arrested. 126 00:08:39,061 --> 00:08:40,851 Well, when I first met him, the man talked to me, 127 00:08:40,938 --> 00:08:42,648 and he says, uh, "Why don't you come up? 128 00:08:42,731 --> 00:08:46,071 And, uh, the rules are that, you know, there is no rules." 129 00:08:46,151 --> 00:08:48,531 This drawing is a drawing of awareness. 130 00:08:48,612 --> 00:08:52,662 And I think that Charles Manson is the most totally aware person alive. 131 00:08:52,741 --> 00:08:54,371 [male reporter] You tried to show Charlie your picture? 132 00:08:54,451 --> 00:08:57,751 [woman] But sadly enough, you know, like, he's aware of everything that's truly evil 133 00:08:57,829 --> 00:09:00,419 as well as everything that's truly good, and I feel that he's a victim. 134 00:09:01,708 --> 00:09:04,418 [Greenfield] At that point in time if you had long hair, 135 00:09:04,503 --> 00:09:06,463 you were judged immediately. 136 00:09:06,547 --> 00:09:11,337 You were a drug addict. You were a freak. You were an enemy of the state. 137 00:09:11,426 --> 00:09:14,426 So parents and children hated each other. 138 00:09:15,806 --> 00:09:19,016 [man] America, there's a phenomenon of parents thinking that-- 139 00:09:19,101 --> 00:09:21,521 {\an8}that they depict satanic qualities in children. 140 00:09:21,603 --> 00:09:23,403 {\an8}And really, they don't like their children. 141 00:09:23,480 --> 00:09:26,400 {\an8}So many parents really hate their children in the United States. 142 00:09:26,483 --> 00:09:27,823 {\an8}Did you read in the paper the other day 143 00:09:27,901 --> 00:09:30,531 {\an8}about that father in a western state? 144 00:09:30,612 --> 00:09:34,242 His son grew long hair, and the father got angry. 145 00:09:34,324 --> 00:09:36,664 The son refused to cut it, and he went into the bedroom 146 00:09:36,743 --> 00:09:39,083 and got a shotgun and shot his son dead. 147 00:09:40,873 --> 00:09:42,423 Just over long hair. 148 00:09:44,376 --> 00:09:46,706 [man] We moved to LA when it was 149 00:09:46,795 --> 00:09:50,755 {\an8}all groovy, peace and love, flowers and bubbles, 150 00:09:50,841 --> 00:09:53,141 {\an8}and people thought that we were kind of a joke 151 00:09:53,218 --> 00:09:57,718 as we looked so, you know, heavy and sinister and threatening and everything. 152 00:09:58,765 --> 00:10:00,805 And then Charles Manson happened, 153 00:10:01,476 --> 00:10:04,476 and the demise of the Beatles happened. 154 00:10:04,563 --> 00:10:08,903 The timing just fell into place for what we were doing. 155 00:10:11,486 --> 00:10:13,356 {\an8}[male reporter] Right now there's a young man 156 00:10:13,447 --> 00:10:16,737 {\an8}who calls himself Alice Cooper on stage. 157 00:10:19,161 --> 00:10:21,211 [man] The hippie thing, I thought, was extremely phony. 158 00:10:22,164 --> 00:10:27,214 {\an8}I just thought it got syrupy as hell. "Oh, everybody love everybody." 159 00:10:27,294 --> 00:10:29,424 You know, 'cause everybody was on drugs. 160 00:10:30,172 --> 00:10:32,302 Come on. You know, quit bullshitting. 161 00:10:32,382 --> 00:10:34,682 You know, this-- this thing is really stupid. 162 00:10:35,427 --> 00:10:40,887 {\an8}[Dunaway] We had been concentrating on doing this avant-garde music. 163 00:10:40,974 --> 00:10:45,154 {\an8}We didn't even try to write hit singles until it became obvious 164 00:10:45,229 --> 00:10:49,609 that we weren't gonna be eating unless we did. [chuckles] 165 00:10:49,691 --> 00:10:52,901 You know, Alice has always been very hip to what's happening, 166 00:10:52,986 --> 00:10:57,156 and we knew that we wanted to appeal to kids. 167 00:10:57,241 --> 00:11:01,121 And we were thinking, "What is the target audience 168 00:11:01,203 --> 00:11:05,293 for record-buying public in America?" 169 00:11:05,374 --> 00:11:07,334 And it was 18 years old. 170 00:11:07,835 --> 00:11:10,625 Okay, here on The Barry Richards Thing, we have Alice Cooper with us, 171 00:11:10,712 --> 00:11:12,342 and, uh, that's the name of the whole group, right? 172 00:11:12,422 --> 00:11:13,672 -Yeah. -It's also your name. 173 00:11:13,757 --> 00:11:16,217 -Yes, it's my name. -Are you gonna do, uh, "Eighteen"? 174 00:11:16,301 --> 00:11:17,301 Yeah, yeah, "Eighteen." 175 00:11:17,386 --> 00:11:20,506 All right, this is the new, uh, 45 from Alice Cooper, "Eighteen." 176 00:11:20,597 --> 00:11:23,557 [audience cheering] 177 00:11:34,695 --> 00:11:37,735 [playing harmonica] 178 00:11:37,823 --> 00:11:39,913 [Cooper] We were shocked that it was a hit. 179 00:11:39,992 --> 00:11:46,162 {\an8}But it was so simple and so "duh" that it worked on the radio. 180 00:11:46,248 --> 00:11:50,378 {\an8}And the song was giving the 18-year-old guy, at least, a voice. 181 00:11:50,460 --> 00:11:54,010 ♪ Lines form on my face and hands ♪ 182 00:11:55,632 --> 00:11:59,432 ♪ Lines form from the ups and downs ♪ 183 00:12:00,762 --> 00:12:04,932 ♪ I'm in the middle without any plans ♪ 184 00:12:05,767 --> 00:12:09,187 ♪ I'm a boy and I'm a man ♪ 185 00:12:09,771 --> 00:12:15,361 ♪ I'm eighteen And I don't know what I want ♪ 186 00:12:15,444 --> 00:12:19,954 ♪ Eighteen I just don't know what I want ♪ 187 00:12:20,532 --> 00:12:24,622 ♪ Eighteen, I gotta get away ♪ 188 00:12:26,622 --> 00:12:30,962 ♪ I've gotta get outta this place ♪ 189 00:12:31,043 --> 00:12:36,473 ♪ I'll go runnin' in outer space Oh yeah ♪ 190 00:12:36,548 --> 00:12:38,878 [male reporter] For years now, the young have been drifting away 191 00:12:38,967 --> 00:12:40,257 to a world of their own, 192 00:12:40,344 --> 00:12:45,274 unable or unwilling to accept what the established order has to offer. 193 00:12:45,349 --> 00:12:47,139 They wonder aloud about a system 194 00:12:47,226 --> 00:12:50,806 that produces material riches and creates emotional poverty. 195 00:12:51,480 --> 00:12:55,530 A system that leaves many of its young with no sense of self-worth, 196 00:12:55,609 --> 00:13:00,069 no sense of importance in the home, no useful role in society. 197 00:13:00,155 --> 00:13:05,655 ♪ 'Cause I'm eighteen I get confused every day ♪ 198 00:13:06,411 --> 00:13:11,041 ♪ Eighteen I just don't know what to say ♪ 199 00:13:11,124 --> 00:13:12,794 {\an8}[Cooper] When you have that hit single 200 00:13:12,876 --> 00:13:17,456 {\an8}it's the Willy Wonka golden key because it means you're generating money. 201 00:13:17,548 --> 00:13:21,338 And so everybody's listening now, and you're not this freak show. 202 00:13:21,426 --> 00:13:22,926 You're suddenly viable. 203 00:13:23,011 --> 00:13:26,561 -[song ends] -[audience cheering] 204 00:13:26,640 --> 00:13:29,980 We represented the great disenfranchised. 205 00:13:32,813 --> 00:13:34,193 It was a new audience. 206 00:13:48,996 --> 00:13:51,206 [male narrator] Britain, so they say, is now rather like 207 00:13:51,290 --> 00:13:53,420 the morning after the night before. 208 00:13:53,500 --> 00:13:55,710 The party's well and truly over. 209 00:13:55,794 --> 00:13:58,884 The image or, if you like, myth of the swinging '60s 210 00:13:58,964 --> 00:14:01,304 has given way to the sober '70s. 211 00:14:06,763 --> 00:14:09,183 {\an8}[man] We've grown up a little, all of us. And there has been a change, 212 00:14:09,266 --> 00:14:12,016 {\an8}and we are a bit freer and all that, but it's the same game. 213 00:14:12,102 --> 00:14:13,982 {\an8}Nothing's really changed, you know. 214 00:14:14,062 --> 00:14:17,772 {\an8}People are living in fucking poverty with fucking rats crawling over 'em. 215 00:14:17,858 --> 00:14:21,948 It's the same, only I'm 30 and a lot of people have got long hair, that's all. 216 00:14:27,993 --> 00:14:30,123 [narrator] Three boys in their early teens, 217 00:14:30,204 --> 00:14:33,374 and one aged 11, growing up in the East End of London. 218 00:14:34,666 --> 00:14:38,166 Already these four lives are lives at risk. 219 00:14:38,253 --> 00:14:40,423 Already the future shadows them. 220 00:14:43,091 --> 00:14:45,301 [male interviewer] Do you ever think about getting old and everything like that? 221 00:14:45,385 --> 00:14:47,295 [Mick Jagger] Think about? I am old. 222 00:14:47,387 --> 00:14:49,007 I already think I'm old, you know. 223 00:14:49,932 --> 00:14:53,272 {\an8}[man] For the new generation coming in, there was a vacuum. 224 00:14:53,352 --> 00:14:56,062 {\an8}Bands like the Stones, and the Who, and obviously the Beatles, 225 00:14:56,146 --> 00:14:57,976 {\an8}had led us through the '60s. 226 00:14:58,815 --> 00:15:02,275 But the younger generation were looking to find what they loved. 227 00:15:03,237 --> 00:15:07,657 {\an8}[man 2] The younger kids feel really kind of neglected, you know. 228 00:15:07,741 --> 00:15:11,661 {\an8}They haven't got their own music. They haven't got their own culture. 229 00:15:11,745 --> 00:15:14,665 They haven't got a say yet in anything. 230 00:15:15,249 --> 00:15:16,579 [horn honks] 231 00:15:18,627 --> 00:15:21,757 [Visconti] I remember seeing A Hard Day's Night in Brooklyn, 232 00:15:21,839 --> 00:15:23,589 {\an8}and I saw that London 233 00:15:23,674 --> 00:15:26,764 {\an8}where it was the Beatles going to drinking clubs 234 00:15:26,844 --> 00:15:28,184 {\an8}and gambling clubs and all that. 235 00:15:28,262 --> 00:15:30,762 And I was very disappointed when I arrived 236 00:15:30,848 --> 00:15:32,808 to see that the UK was pretty old-fashioned. 237 00:15:33,517 --> 00:15:35,687 It was actually quite a drab place. 238 00:15:36,353 --> 00:15:39,483 It was time to come up with something different, 239 00:15:39,565 --> 00:15:42,435 but the Beatles were a hard act to follow. 240 00:15:43,402 --> 00:15:46,452 {\an8}[Nightingale] The thing is, the Beatles weren't just a pop group. 241 00:15:46,530 --> 00:15:49,120 {\an8}They weren't popular entertainers. 242 00:15:49,199 --> 00:15:52,119 {\an8}They were artists in the real sense of the word. 243 00:15:52,202 --> 00:15:54,962 So as we got into 1971, 244 00:15:55,038 --> 00:15:57,538 if you were a pop group with screaming girls 245 00:15:57,624 --> 00:16:01,134 you were not gonna get good reviews in Melody Maker and NME. 246 00:16:01,795 --> 00:16:06,125 The musical snobbery was really growing at that time. 247 00:16:09,511 --> 00:16:11,561 {\an8}[man] It's much more fulfilling nowadays 248 00:16:11,638 --> 00:16:14,468 {\an8}because the audiences are much more educated. 249 00:16:14,558 --> 00:16:17,438 {\an8}The people are very aware. Even some of the chicks are aware 250 00:16:17,519 --> 00:16:19,729 of what kind of strings and things are used 251 00:16:19,813 --> 00:16:23,193 on certain bass guitars and things like that. 252 00:16:23,275 --> 00:16:27,395 ♪ Love comes to you and you follow ♪ 253 00:16:27,487 --> 00:16:29,617 [Harris] Bands were taking themselves a bit too seriously. 254 00:16:29,698 --> 00:16:32,158 {\an8}They were becoming slightly pretentious, overblown. 255 00:16:32,242 --> 00:16:37,122 {\an8}And it was rather frowned on by some of the more superior rock critics 256 00:16:37,206 --> 00:16:38,366 {\an8}to have hit singles. 257 00:16:38,457 --> 00:16:42,587 ♪ Sharp distance ♪ 258 00:16:42,669 --> 00:16:46,919 {\an8}[Harris] When I started on Radio 1, I was given an acetate of a single 259 00:16:47,007 --> 00:16:50,717 {\an8}that I could take onto my first program and play as an exclusive. 260 00:16:50,802 --> 00:16:52,802 {\an8}And it was "Ride a White Swan." 261 00:16:52,888 --> 00:16:54,928 {\an8}He was one of the few people at that moment 262 00:16:55,015 --> 00:16:58,265 who was driven to appeal to 13, 14, 15-year-olds. 263 00:16:59,561 --> 00:17:03,611 {\an8}[man] There was very few people making good singles, I think, you know. 264 00:17:03,690 --> 00:17:06,030 {\an8}So that's when I figured I ought to make some singles. 265 00:17:06,777 --> 00:17:10,237 'Cause I like singles. It's, like, uh, a three-minute adrenaline buzz. 266 00:17:10,739 --> 00:17:14,079 {\an8}♪ Wear a tall hat like a druid In the old days ♪ 267 00:17:14,159 --> 00:17:17,539 {\an8}♪ Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown ♪ 268 00:17:17,621 --> 00:17:20,871 {\an8}♪ Ride a white swan Like the people of the Beltane ♪ 269 00:17:20,958 --> 00:17:24,168 ♪ Wear your hair long, babe You can't go wrong ♪ 270 00:17:29,299 --> 00:17:32,719 ♪ Catch a bright star And a-place it on your forehead ♪ 271 00:17:32,803 --> 00:17:36,223 ♪ Say a few spells And baby, there you go ♪ 272 00:17:36,306 --> 00:17:39,636 ♪ Take a black cat And a-sit it on your shoulder ♪ 273 00:17:39,726 --> 00:17:43,146 ♪ And in the morning you'll know All you know, oh ♪ 274 00:17:43,230 --> 00:17:46,150 {\an8}[Visconti] After David went with Tony Defries, 275 00:17:46,233 --> 00:17:48,613 {\an8}I just blanked him from my consciousness. 276 00:17:48,694 --> 00:17:51,914 {\an8}And Marc was the one I went with. 277 00:17:51,989 --> 00:17:55,659 They were friends, not that they were in collusion with each other, 278 00:17:55,742 --> 00:17:58,662 {\an8}but they both started playing at the same time 279 00:17:58,745 --> 00:18:00,995 with their image as pop stars. 280 00:18:04,418 --> 00:18:06,168 [Harris] Marc was a chameleon. 281 00:18:06,879 --> 00:18:09,049 {\an8}When I first met him, he was a hippie 282 00:18:09,131 --> 00:18:13,011 {\an8}sitting playing an acoustic guitar on a Persian rug, you know. 283 00:18:13,093 --> 00:18:17,013 He had emerged in '65 when he was a mod. 284 00:18:17,097 --> 00:18:22,307 And now Marc was beginning to move across into that blurred line, androgynous look. 285 00:18:22,394 --> 00:18:25,154 A sort of embryonic '70s rock and roll style. 286 00:18:25,814 --> 00:18:28,534 [man] I always remember hearing "Ride a White Swan" on the radio 287 00:18:28,609 --> 00:18:31,989 {\an8}and thinking that he was amazing. And then seeing him. 288 00:18:32,070 --> 00:18:35,950 {\an8}And he was the first person to really wear the eye shadow and do the glam thing. 289 00:18:36,033 --> 00:18:37,623 And that's how he walked around. 290 00:18:37,701 --> 00:18:40,371 That was Marc in the street, when he came to dinner. 291 00:18:40,454 --> 00:18:43,214 And everything that Marc did was fun. 292 00:18:44,082 --> 00:18:47,462 {\an8}[Visconti] It was a time when most of the rock and roll bands 293 00:18:47,544 --> 00:18:49,344 {\an8}were very masculine. 294 00:18:49,421 --> 00:18:53,881 The idea of dressing androgynously was new and refreshing. 295 00:18:53,967 --> 00:18:57,927 But, you know, when it came to music, he had a '50s mind. 296 00:18:58,013 --> 00:19:01,523 He jumped back a generation, playing Chuck Berry guitar. 297 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:04,390 And he was writing rock and roll songs. 298 00:19:04,478 --> 00:19:08,318 {\an8}[Bolan] When "White Swan" was a hit, I realized that something was changing. 299 00:19:08,398 --> 00:19:10,278 {\an8}You know, the kids were getting a bit younger, 300 00:19:10,359 --> 00:19:11,989 {\an8}and they were selling out the concerts. 301 00:19:12,069 --> 00:19:14,109 {\an8}Which they hadn't done before, to be honest. 302 00:19:14,196 --> 00:19:16,776 And then, uh, I put out "Hot Love" and it went straight to number one. 303 00:19:16,865 --> 00:19:18,575 And then all the audiences were-- 304 00:19:18,659 --> 00:19:23,709 were predominantly chicks mostly... after my balls. [chuckles] 305 00:19:23,789 --> 00:19:25,169 Which was very cute. [chuckles] 306 00:19:32,130 --> 00:19:37,220 ♪ Well, she's my woman of gold And she's not very old, ah ha ha ♪ 307 00:19:39,888 --> 00:19:44,848 ♪ She's my woman of gold And she's not very old, ah ha ha ♪ 308 00:19:47,646 --> 00:19:53,276 {\an8}♪ I don't mean to be bold But may I hold your hand? ♪ 309 00:19:53,360 --> 00:19:55,700 {\an8}[Visconti] Once Marc got his first hit single 310 00:19:55,779 --> 00:19:59,369 {\an8}the hippie emphasis on spirituality was virtually abandoned. 311 00:19:59,449 --> 00:20:01,449 {\an8}And he started to be very sexual. 312 00:20:02,953 --> 00:20:08,133 ♪ Well, she ain't no witch And I love the way she twitch, ah ha ha ♪ 313 00:20:10,752 --> 00:20:15,922 {\an8}♪ I'm her twopenny prince And I give her hot love, ah ha ♪ 314 00:20:16,008 --> 00:20:19,548 {\an8}[Harris] I talked with some of the fans that came to see the shows. 315 00:20:19,636 --> 00:20:22,756 {\an8}A lot of 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old girls. 316 00:20:23,182 --> 00:20:24,852 {\an8}And I asked, "What is it about Marc?" 317 00:20:24,933 --> 00:20:27,773 And-- And some of them were crying in their efforts 318 00:20:27,853 --> 00:20:30,313 to express their emotion for him. 319 00:20:30,397 --> 00:20:32,767 [Harris] I've come out of the front door of the Newcastle City Hall 320 00:20:32,858 --> 00:20:34,818 to speak with some of the people who saw the concert tonight. 321 00:20:34,902 --> 00:20:37,322 -Did you enjoy it? -[woman] He was gentle and pretty... 322 00:20:37,404 --> 00:20:38,994 [Harris] What particularly do you like about them? 323 00:20:39,072 --> 00:20:41,702 [woman 2] They're just lovely, and gorgeous... 324 00:20:41,783 --> 00:20:43,873 [Harris chuckles] Did you enjoy the concert tonight? 325 00:20:43,952 --> 00:20:46,212 [woman 2] And I think he's got beautiful hair. 326 00:20:46,288 --> 00:20:49,248 -[Harris] You enjoyed it did you? -Oh, oh, it was lovely! 327 00:20:49,333 --> 00:20:53,213 [Harris] For the younger girls, [stammers] you know, the new generation coming in, 328 00:20:53,295 --> 00:20:57,335 he was just so exciting because they wanted liberation. 329 00:20:57,424 --> 00:21:00,264 Liberation of expression and liberation of thought. 330 00:21:02,888 --> 00:21:05,558 [male reporter] Yet another row about sex education. 331 00:21:05,641 --> 00:21:09,521 The schoolchildren and their parents, their teachers, are all, today, 332 00:21:09,603 --> 00:21:12,863 in the middle of an atmosphere where information about sex 333 00:21:12,940 --> 00:21:14,530 has never been freer. 334 00:21:14,608 --> 00:21:17,688 The upheaval that followed the making by Dr. Martin Cole 335 00:21:17,778 --> 00:21:21,618 of the sex education film for adolescents called Growing Up 336 00:21:21,698 --> 00:21:25,038 has opened, once again, all the old thorny debates 337 00:21:25,118 --> 00:21:28,788 about just how much children want and need to know, 338 00:21:28,872 --> 00:21:32,332 ought to be told, by whom and at what age. 339 00:21:32,417 --> 00:21:35,497 [female narrator] Boys and girls often have sexual intercourse 340 00:21:35,587 --> 00:21:37,757 long before they are ready to have babies. 341 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,590 {\an8}♪ Beneath the bebop moon ♪ 342 00:21:41,885 --> 00:21:44,255 {\an8}[narrator] There is nothing wrong with this, and many people believe 343 00:21:44,346 --> 00:21:48,476 {\an8}that sexual experience in adolescents is essential for normal development. 344 00:21:48,559 --> 00:21:52,599 People have been getting along very well since the dawn of time... 345 00:21:53,981 --> 00:21:55,861 without sex education. 346 00:21:55,941 --> 00:22:00,651 And why, in the last four or five years, has this been thrust upon us? 347 00:22:01,572 --> 00:22:03,532 [narrator] Early in adolescence, a boy will notice 348 00:22:03,615 --> 00:22:05,575 that he can become sexually excited. 349 00:22:08,412 --> 00:22:12,582 I was shocked by the sheer clinical joylessness of the film. 350 00:22:12,666 --> 00:22:16,796 Sex should be fun, it should be thrilling, it should be exciting. 351 00:22:16,879 --> 00:22:20,419 And that film, I think, might, um, uh, almost put people off for life. 352 00:22:21,508 --> 00:22:23,638 [girl] People want to know the facts. 353 00:22:23,719 --> 00:22:26,259 I like the straightforward approach. 354 00:22:26,346 --> 00:22:30,176 A-And I think this is what's necessary. We don't want your morals. 355 00:22:30,267 --> 00:22:31,727 [male interviewer] But now you're 15. 356 00:22:31,810 --> 00:22:36,770 What is it you want to know about sex that any teacher can tell you? 357 00:22:36,857 --> 00:22:38,857 Well-- In-- 358 00:22:38,942 --> 00:22:41,492 It's the positions. Stuff like that. 359 00:22:41,570 --> 00:22:43,030 And the way how it's done. 360 00:22:43,780 --> 00:22:45,320 [interviewer] You want technical instructions? 361 00:22:45,407 --> 00:22:46,407 Yeah. 362 00:22:46,491 --> 00:22:50,451 [interviewer] Do you want to know about relationships? Emotion? Love? 363 00:22:51,413 --> 00:22:52,713 Well, it would be helpful. 364 00:23:01,006 --> 00:23:03,256 [chattering] 365 00:23:11,892 --> 00:23:15,402 {\an8}[Greenfield] I had come to London about a year before then. 366 00:23:17,314 --> 00:23:22,654 I basically left America because I couldn't stand being there anymore. 367 00:23:22,736 --> 00:23:25,316 But it was also an odd time in London. 368 00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:30,830 The London underground press was still in full ramp and swing. 369 00:23:30,911 --> 00:23:33,661 And Portobello was the scene. 370 00:23:33,747 --> 00:23:38,127 And yet, you know, Britain had a conservative government then. 371 00:23:38,210 --> 00:23:40,090 People were trying to keep the lid on. 372 00:23:40,921 --> 00:23:42,051 [male reporter] OZ magazine, 373 00:23:42,130 --> 00:23:45,550 like a number of other underground publications in Britain, 374 00:23:45,634 --> 00:23:49,354 symbolized the clash between two conflicting notions of morality. 375 00:23:49,429 --> 00:23:51,599 [male TV host] There can be few people these days 376 00:23:51,682 --> 00:23:54,602 who haven't heard the phrase "underground press." 377 00:23:54,685 --> 00:23:58,605 Frequently they are publications which shock and offend many people. 378 00:23:58,689 --> 00:24:00,479 [male reporter 2] He's a journalist who started 379 00:24:00,566 --> 00:24:02,986 the controversial underground magazine, OZ. 380 00:24:03,068 --> 00:24:06,568 {\an8}It seems to me there's an attitude towards sex which is different. 381 00:24:06,655 --> 00:24:09,445 It's now become much more libertarian, uh, and guiltless. 382 00:24:09,533 --> 00:24:12,953 {\an8}[man] OZ, for example, is extraordinarily hard to read. 383 00:24:13,036 --> 00:24:16,576 {\an8}Not merely is it hung up on drugs to an extent which is quite amazing 384 00:24:16,665 --> 00:24:20,785 to anyone who's not actually on drugs, but it is physically difficult to read. 385 00:24:21,378 --> 00:24:23,588 {\an8}[Greenfield] OZ was another planet. 386 00:24:23,672 --> 00:24:27,892 {\an8}Provocative, outrageous, sexual. 387 00:24:27,968 --> 00:24:29,338 They-- [chuckles] 388 00:24:29,428 --> 00:24:32,638 It was all consciously over the top. 389 00:24:33,432 --> 00:24:36,062 I never gave it a lot of serious credibility. 390 00:24:36,727 --> 00:24:40,977 But then somebody got his or her nose out of joint 391 00:24:41,064 --> 00:24:44,324 that OZ had crossed a line in terms of obscenity. 392 00:24:44,401 --> 00:24:46,861 [male interviewer] I have several members of the underground press 393 00:24:46,945 --> 00:24:48,605 -here in London with me today. -[siren wailing] 394 00:24:48,697 --> 00:24:51,527 I gather it's becoming a hazardous occupation. 395 00:24:51,617 --> 00:24:54,327 Jim, you want to tell us about the problems OZ has been having? 396 00:24:54,411 --> 00:24:55,751 {\an8}[man] Just before Christmas, 397 00:24:55,829 --> 00:24:58,579 {\an8}we had been busted big time 398 00:24:58,665 --> 00:25:02,915 after we'd invited schoolchildren to help edit an issue of OZ. 399 00:25:08,008 --> 00:25:10,138 {\an8}[male interviewer] That issue was intended for, uh, 400 00:25:10,219 --> 00:25:11,969 -young-ish readerships. It was-- -[Anderson] No, it wasn't. 401 00:25:12,054 --> 00:25:14,774 It was intended for the usual OZ readerships. That's the whole point. 402 00:25:14,848 --> 00:25:16,678 The police are trying to say it was intended 403 00:25:16,767 --> 00:25:19,647 {\an8}to go into the schools specifically and to disrupt schoolchildren. 404 00:25:19,728 --> 00:25:22,108 {\an8}[man stammers] It was merely produced by schoolchildren. 405 00:25:22,189 --> 00:25:25,569 {\an8}We just got 'em 48 pages of, you know, color and glossy paper 406 00:25:25,651 --> 00:25:27,241 and they could put in what they wanted. 407 00:25:27,319 --> 00:25:29,739 And basically, that's what's got us into all of this trouble. 408 00:25:35,953 --> 00:25:38,413 {\an8}[Anderson] Well... we were quite shocked 409 00:25:38,497 --> 00:25:40,827 {\an8}with one or two things that they wanted to do, 410 00:25:40,916 --> 00:25:43,626 but whatever they wanted to do was fine by us. 411 00:25:43,710 --> 00:25:46,300 And they all saw it as a wonderful opportunity. 412 00:25:47,798 --> 00:25:52,138 {\an8}[man] The judiciary and the government still hadn't caught on 413 00:25:52,219 --> 00:25:58,479 {\an8}that there had been a tectonic shift in the way young people thought and acted. 414 00:25:59,643 --> 00:26:02,063 OZ was doing the unthinkable, 415 00:26:02,145 --> 00:26:07,395 actually telling teenage kids, "Don't get nervous about sex." 416 00:26:08,110 --> 00:26:13,410 At that time, conservatives of one sort or another went completely berserk. 417 00:26:14,575 --> 00:26:18,035 [male reporter 2] At last, the permissive society is under attack. 418 00:26:18,120 --> 00:26:22,880 This Manchester rally reaffirms the stand which Christians are taking 419 00:26:22,958 --> 00:26:25,918 against the rising tide of pornography. 420 00:26:26,003 --> 00:26:30,133 We believe in purity and love in sexual life. 421 00:26:30,215 --> 00:26:33,675 We are especially concerned about pornographic literature 422 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:35,640 on sale in this city. 423 00:26:35,721 --> 00:26:38,311 Welling inside the British people 424 00:26:38,390 --> 00:26:43,190 is the desire to rebuild the moral fiber of this country, 425 00:26:43,270 --> 00:26:44,810 which has been under attack. 426 00:26:44,897 --> 00:26:47,317 There's no doubt about that. It's been under attack. 427 00:26:47,399 --> 00:26:52,069 [woman] People began to talk about this as a turning point in society. 428 00:26:52,154 --> 00:26:55,994 {\an8}It was a sort of crisis of moral authority. 429 00:26:56,074 --> 00:26:57,084 [clacking] 430 00:26:57,159 --> 00:26:59,489 I was working as a secretary at OZ. 431 00:27:00,495 --> 00:27:04,625 It just did feel that the establishment was out to get them. 432 00:27:05,250 --> 00:27:08,630 Freedom of expression seemed to me a basic human right. 433 00:27:09,588 --> 00:27:12,878 You know, unarguably something we had to defend, 434 00:27:12,966 --> 00:27:16,136 even if sometimes it went beyond the bounds of what I liked. 435 00:27:16,220 --> 00:27:18,760 I really did not like the cover of that issue. 436 00:27:18,847 --> 00:27:22,177 I thought, "How could Jim and Felix have chosen that cover?" 437 00:27:22,267 --> 00:27:24,647 {\an8}[Anderson] Look, we didn't think it through, frankly. 438 00:27:25,229 --> 00:27:29,819 {\an8}We had the idea of using the double spread of the naked blue lesbians. 439 00:27:29,900 --> 00:27:32,530 And when it was suggested, we both began to laugh. 440 00:27:33,237 --> 00:27:37,027 It was sort of erotic, but it was just a fantasy, really. 441 00:27:37,115 --> 00:27:40,445 But we hadn't even looked at it properly. And then I noticed the blow job. 442 00:27:40,536 --> 00:27:42,656 And we said, "Oh, we'll put one of the pictures 443 00:27:42,746 --> 00:27:45,496 of the schoolkids in front of that. That'll settle that." 444 00:27:47,292 --> 00:27:49,922 We had already been charged with publishing obscene material, 445 00:27:50,003 --> 00:27:51,763 which was just a very minor charge. 446 00:27:51,839 --> 00:27:54,509 But they had decided to up the ante 447 00:27:54,591 --> 00:27:57,341 {\an8}in changing it to a very serious offense 448 00:27:57,427 --> 00:27:59,467 {\an8}of conspiracy to corrupt public morals. 449 00:27:59,555 --> 00:28:01,345 To implant in the minds of children 450 00:28:01,431 --> 00:28:04,601 improper and unsavory desires, or something like that. 451 00:28:05,561 --> 00:28:07,941 [Lennon] We think it's disgusting fascism. 452 00:28:08,021 --> 00:28:11,821 {\an8}And Yoko and I are gonna propose to Richard Neville, so then he can marry us, 453 00:28:11,900 --> 00:28:14,650 {\an8}and then he'd be British and they can't deport him. 454 00:28:14,736 --> 00:28:16,856 So that's solved that one. 455 00:28:16,947 --> 00:28:19,947 {\an8}[Rowe] It was amazing how much support there was in the youth 456 00:28:20,033 --> 00:28:22,163 {\an8}and artists and musicians. 457 00:28:22,244 --> 00:28:26,164 Bands were part of the counterculture. They were part of us. 458 00:28:26,248 --> 00:28:28,708 And I think a lot of the music reflected 459 00:28:28,792 --> 00:28:31,712 the complex position of our younger generation. 460 00:28:35,591 --> 00:28:41,601 ♪ Don't you know you're driving Your mamas and papas insane? ♪ 461 00:28:44,349 --> 00:28:48,059 {\an8}♪ Oh, you pretty things ♪ 462 00:28:48,145 --> 00:28:53,395 {\an8}♪ Don't you know you're driving Your mamas and papas insane? ♪ 463 00:28:54,651 --> 00:28:56,611 {\an8}♪ Let me make it plain ♪ 464 00:28:56,695 --> 00:29:00,655 {\an8}♪ Gotta make way for the Homo Superior ♪ 465 00:29:00,741 --> 00:29:03,331 {\an8}♪ Look out at your children ♪ 466 00:29:03,410 --> 00:29:06,410 {\an8}♪ See their faces in golden rays ♪ 467 00:29:06,496 --> 00:29:09,996 {\an8}♪ Don't kid yourself they belong to you ♪ 468 00:29:10,083 --> 00:29:13,003 {\an8}♪ They're the start of the coming race ♪ 469 00:29:13,086 --> 00:29:16,586 {\an8}♪ The earth is a bitch We've finished our news ♪ 470 00:29:16,673 --> 00:29:20,643 {\an8}♪ Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use ♪ 471 00:29:20,719 --> 00:29:23,849 {\an8}♪ All the strangers came today ♪ 472 00:29:23,931 --> 00:29:27,481 {\an8}♪ And it looks as though They're here to stay ♪ [singing fades] 473 00:29:33,190 --> 00:29:35,320 {\an8}[Bowie] I'd just got back from America. 474 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:39,110 {\an8}And I'd just moved to Haddon Hall in Beckenham. 475 00:29:39,821 --> 00:29:42,451 And everything seemed all systems go. 476 00:29:42,533 --> 00:29:44,743 "All right, I understand what I've got to do now." 477 00:29:45,410 --> 00:29:49,120 [woman] At the weekends we'd be down at Haddon Hall. 478 00:29:49,206 --> 00:29:52,996 {\an8}And David was just busy writing his songs, always. 479 00:29:53,877 --> 00:29:57,707 By then, he was already starting work on the new album. 480 00:29:57,798 --> 00:29:59,838 And, you know, David was absorbing. 481 00:29:59,925 --> 00:30:01,425 I mean, he was like a sponge, 482 00:30:01,510 --> 00:30:06,140 taking what he needed from other people and making it his own. 483 00:30:06,223 --> 00:30:10,643 [Bowie] For me, it felt like absolutes were breaking down. 484 00:30:10,727 --> 00:30:15,607 As much as I admired artists who perceived music as being all of their life, 485 00:30:15,691 --> 00:30:18,991 for me, personally, I wanted to do something more, something broader, 486 00:30:19,069 --> 00:30:20,779 which brought in other art forms. 487 00:30:20,863 --> 00:30:25,413 And make rock more representative of what contemporary culture felt like. 488 00:30:25,492 --> 00:30:28,122 -[rumbling] -[glass shattering] 489 00:30:30,622 --> 00:30:33,462 [rumbling echoing] 490 00:30:36,795 --> 00:30:39,795 The '60s were a coda to the rest of the century. 491 00:30:39,882 --> 00:30:42,182 It was like the questions were raised then, 492 00:30:42,259 --> 00:30:46,469 but still, there was an idealism which, in itself, had its own absolutes. 493 00:30:46,555 --> 00:30:51,765 And its own belief that there was an answer to particular things. 494 00:30:51,852 --> 00:30:57,022 And I think the '70s showed conclusively that everything we knew was wrong. 495 00:31:01,528 --> 00:31:03,608 {\an8}[man] I think it's important to point out the fact 496 00:31:03,697 --> 00:31:06,327 {\an8}that a culture is an experiment. 497 00:31:06,408 --> 00:31:08,538 {\an8}It may work and it may not. 498 00:31:08,619 --> 00:31:11,369 {\an8}And we have to start asking that question about our own way of life. 499 00:31:15,751 --> 00:31:18,171 [woman] People were born here, lived here, 500 00:31:18,253 --> 00:31:22,053 got married from here, brought their own families up again here. 501 00:31:22,633 --> 00:31:25,183 I don't think you'll ever get the community feeling 502 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:26,640 that we had here. 503 00:31:26,720 --> 00:31:30,390 You'll never get it in flats because they're not real. 504 00:31:30,474 --> 00:31:33,774 This is all sort of artificial now. 505 00:31:39,316 --> 00:31:41,606 [male narrator] In 1970, it was stated 506 00:31:41,693 --> 00:31:44,663 that there were nearly two million unfit houses. 507 00:31:44,738 --> 00:31:48,238 A state of limbo, when the present is not permanent 508 00:31:48,325 --> 00:31:51,365 and the future only an unguaranteed promise. 509 00:31:51,453 --> 00:31:54,293 The children play in dirt and filth, 510 00:31:54,373 --> 00:31:56,923 and are happy because they know no better. 511 00:31:59,169 --> 00:32:02,089 {\an8}[Nightingale] Me being a World War II baby, 512 00:32:02,172 --> 00:32:06,722 {\an8}as time went by in my youth, things just got better and better. 513 00:32:06,802 --> 00:32:12,522 So I had no understanding that things might get bad again. 514 00:32:15,018 --> 00:32:16,438 [Visconti] People were trapped. 515 00:32:17,271 --> 00:32:19,571 {\an8}And that's what the important thing about glam rock is. 516 00:32:19,648 --> 00:32:23,938 {\an8}They took this on and things changed, things shifted. 517 00:32:24,444 --> 00:32:26,034 Young kids have principles. 518 00:32:26,113 --> 00:32:28,033 They don't like what their parents like, 519 00:32:28,115 --> 00:32:30,775 and they don't even like what their older siblings like. 520 00:32:30,868 --> 00:32:34,118 -[crowd cheering] -In 1971, all of a sudden 521 00:32:34,204 --> 00:32:37,714 the more you glittered, the bigger your personality. 522 00:32:39,334 --> 00:32:41,634 ["Get It On" playing] 523 00:32:41,712 --> 00:32:44,262 [crowd chanting] T. Rex! T. Rex! 524 00:32:46,049 --> 00:32:48,509 "You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you. 525 00:32:48,594 --> 00:32:52,014 You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl." That's nice. 526 00:32:52,097 --> 00:32:58,477 "Wear your unclean new vest and shoes and cuffs full of eagles. 527 00:32:58,562 --> 00:33:00,942 You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl." 528 00:33:01,023 --> 00:33:07,493 "Get on. Get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, get it on, ooh oh ooh." 529 00:33:15,829 --> 00:33:17,369 {\an8}♪ Well, you're dirty and sweet ♪ 530 00:33:17,456 --> 00:33:21,996 {\an8}♪ Clad in black, don't look back And I love you ♪ 531 00:33:22,085 --> 00:33:24,665 {\an8}♪ You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah ♪ 532 00:33:24,755 --> 00:33:27,165 {\an8}[crowd cheering, screaming] 533 00:33:27,758 --> 00:33:29,718 {\an8}♪ Well, you're slim and you're weak ♪ 534 00:33:29,801 --> 00:33:34,101 {\an8}♪ You've got the teeth Of the hydra upon you ♪ 535 00:33:34,181 --> 00:33:37,061 {\an8}♪ You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl ♪ 536 00:33:39,561 --> 00:33:44,571 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 537 00:33:47,861 --> 00:33:52,321 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 538 00:33:52,407 --> 00:33:55,077 [John] He asked me to do Top of the Pops and I said, "Absolutely." 539 00:33:55,744 --> 00:33:58,124 {\an8}He wrote very simple, classic rock 'n' roll. 540 00:33:58,205 --> 00:34:01,375 {\an8}But Marc was so outrageously cocky and fabulous. 541 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:04,550 He would come around and say, "I sold a million records this morning." 542 00:34:04,628 --> 00:34:06,508 And I went, "Great! How fabulous for you." 543 00:34:07,756 --> 00:34:09,336 ♪ Well, you're built like a car ♪ 544 00:34:09,424 --> 00:34:12,144 {\an8}[Visconti] My first experience of seeing girls screaming 545 00:34:12,219 --> 00:34:15,049 {\an8}was at a concert in Croydon. 546 00:34:15,138 --> 00:34:16,718 {\an8}It suddenly exploded. 547 00:34:18,433 --> 00:34:21,443 I have some footage I took on Super 8 film. 548 00:34:21,520 --> 00:34:23,520 It's backstage, it's in black-and-white, 549 00:34:23,605 --> 00:34:26,065 and a girl is biting a piece of Marc's hair. 550 00:34:27,317 --> 00:34:30,397 That was the beginning of the craziness. 551 00:34:31,572 --> 00:34:36,452 {\an8}♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 552 00:34:37,536 --> 00:34:39,496 {\an8}[John] Marc was like someone who was traveling through. 553 00:34:39,580 --> 00:34:41,250 {\an8}♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 554 00:34:41,331 --> 00:34:43,461 {\an8}He was just stopping off for a couple of years and then going away. 555 00:34:43,542 --> 00:34:45,592 {\an8}And of course he went away too soon. 556 00:34:45,668 --> 00:34:47,458 [male interviewer] I've been reading recently, Marc, 557 00:34:47,545 --> 00:34:51,255 an article which suggests that you are the successor to the Beatles. 558 00:34:51,341 --> 00:34:53,391 {\an8}♪ Well, you're windy and wild ♪ 559 00:34:53,467 --> 00:34:57,807 {\an8}♪ You've got the blues in your shoes And your stockings ♪ 560 00:34:57,890 --> 00:35:00,560 {\an8}♪ You're windy and wild, oh yeah ♪ 561 00:35:03,145 --> 00:35:05,105 {\an8}♪ Well, you're built like a car ♪ 562 00:35:05,189 --> 00:35:09,529 {\an8}♪ You've got a hubcap diamond star halo ♪ 563 00:35:09,610 --> 00:35:12,610 {\an8}♪ You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl ♪ 564 00:35:15,157 --> 00:35:17,027 [interviewer] "Sex is a part of it, but it's sex 565 00:35:17,117 --> 00:35:20,247 by courtesy of the magic prince," and I presume that means you. 566 00:35:20,329 --> 00:35:21,329 Whoo! 567 00:35:21,413 --> 00:35:23,333 [interviewer] "Who is going to deflower the young virgin 568 00:35:23,415 --> 00:35:27,495 -in an atmosphere of blissful romance." -That sounds nice. I like that. 569 00:35:27,586 --> 00:35:32,586 [man shouting] I am talking to a sick nation! A sick nation! 570 00:35:32,674 --> 00:35:33,974 [people on street laugh] 571 00:35:34,051 --> 00:35:37,221 {\an8}[man] I think the whole of what's called "Western civilization" 572 00:35:37,304 --> 00:35:39,564 {\an8}is totally decadent to the point 573 00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:45,150 that I have no expectation whatever that it will recover any moral sanity. 574 00:35:45,229 --> 00:35:46,309 [cheering, screaming] 575 00:35:46,396 --> 00:35:48,816 I was wondering which people you thought you appealed to most, 576 00:35:48,899 --> 00:35:50,899 or whether it's, you know, really just young girls. 577 00:35:50,984 --> 00:35:53,114 They're not all just young girls here. I mean, I think-- 578 00:35:53,195 --> 00:35:54,855 [male host] They are mostly young girls here, Marc. 579 00:35:54,947 --> 00:35:56,777 Let's not get away from the fact. I'd say there are 90% young girls. 580 00:35:56,865 --> 00:35:58,575 [Bolan] Well, yeah, 200 people. You know. 581 00:35:58,659 --> 00:36:00,949 -200 people. -[audience laughs] 582 00:36:02,037 --> 00:36:05,457 I have nothing against them. I'm just saying that they are mostly girls. 583 00:36:06,291 --> 00:36:07,291 It's very nice. 584 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:09,920 {\an8}[Nightingale] Marc was very pop. 585 00:36:10,003 --> 00:36:13,223 {\an8}And he loved it. He liked being a star. 586 00:36:13,298 --> 00:36:16,128 {\an8}But maybe the image tripped him up in a way. 587 00:36:16,218 --> 00:36:18,138 It's very hard to straddle 588 00:36:18,220 --> 00:36:22,270 going from a pop sensibility into being taken seriously. 589 00:36:22,349 --> 00:36:23,599 Really difficult. 590 00:36:23,684 --> 00:36:26,404 But Marc Bolan enabled young guys 591 00:36:26,478 --> 00:36:29,018 to see that they could express themselves like that. 592 00:36:29,106 --> 00:36:31,436 That guys would now wear makeup. 593 00:36:32,192 --> 00:36:35,322 Which had not been allowed before, absolutely not. 594 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:39,370 Uh, unforgettable television experience coming your way. 595 00:36:39,449 --> 00:36:43,619 This will either, uh, knock you out or offend you, one of the two. 596 00:36:43,704 --> 00:36:45,414 We don't care which as long as you react. 597 00:36:45,497 --> 00:36:49,127 This is where we separate the teenagers from the adults 598 00:36:49,209 --> 00:36:54,799 as we present the always outrageous and sometimes offensive Alice Cooper. 599 00:36:54,882 --> 00:36:55,882 {\an8}[exhales sharply] 600 00:36:59,386 --> 00:37:02,346 {\an8}[Cooper] Our attitude was you grab 'em by the throat. 601 00:37:02,431 --> 00:37:04,811 {\an8}You're gonna talk about us tomorrow. 602 00:37:04,892 --> 00:37:06,522 That was really our attitude. 603 00:37:06,602 --> 00:37:09,192 We weren't gonna be subtle, we were gonna be sensational. 604 00:37:10,564 --> 00:37:12,574 It got to the point where if you go to a concert, 605 00:37:12,649 --> 00:37:14,229 all you're gonna see is a guitar solo. 606 00:37:14,318 --> 00:37:17,278 A drum solo. You know, how far can that go? 607 00:37:17,362 --> 00:37:19,242 You know, you wanna see something that you're gonna go home 608 00:37:19,323 --> 00:37:20,913 and talk about and scare your parents with. 609 00:37:21,658 --> 00:37:23,328 {\an8}[Dunaway] 1971, 610 00:37:23,410 --> 00:37:26,960 {\an8}that dark character really started to take hold 611 00:37:27,039 --> 00:37:30,249 and become the powerful image of what we were doing. 612 00:37:38,050 --> 00:37:43,220 ♪ Body ♪ 613 00:37:43,305 --> 00:37:47,515 [Dunaway] We would do the song "Black Juju" with Alice in the makeup, 614 00:37:47,601 --> 00:37:53,111 the spider eyes, and the middle of the song would bring everything down. 615 00:37:53,190 --> 00:37:54,980 Click, click, tick, tick. 616 00:38:00,781 --> 00:38:04,621 And Alice would be swinging a watch, hypnotizing the audience. 617 00:38:09,164 --> 00:38:14,094 [spoken] Bodies need rest. 618 00:38:17,005 --> 00:38:22,715 We all need our rest. 619 00:38:25,013 --> 00:38:29,643 Sleep an easy sleep. 620 00:38:33,230 --> 00:38:34,480 Rest. 621 00:38:35,482 --> 00:38:36,942 [Dunaway] It didn't work every night. 622 00:38:37,025 --> 00:38:39,315 Sometimes you'd hear hecklers, 623 00:38:39,403 --> 00:38:42,743 but other nights you could hear a pin drop. 624 00:38:42,823 --> 00:38:44,073 [Cooper] Rest. 625 00:38:44,157 --> 00:38:48,697 [Dunaway] Every single person would be staring at Alice. 626 00:38:48,787 --> 00:38:49,997 [Cooper] Rest. 627 00:38:54,918 --> 00:38:55,918 Rest. 628 00:38:56,003 --> 00:39:00,633 [Manson] Give your evil soul... [laughs] to yourself. 629 00:39:00,716 --> 00:39:02,716 [laughs] 630 00:39:03,635 --> 00:39:06,635 And open your eyes and be rather than seem to be. 631 00:39:07,306 --> 00:39:10,676 But come on back to us. 632 00:39:11,351 --> 00:39:15,111 A form of conditioning or-- or reconditioning or restructuring 633 00:39:15,189 --> 00:39:18,439 of... a young, uh, group of young people 634 00:39:18,525 --> 00:39:22,775 to-- to believe in crime, and violence and murder. 635 00:39:22,863 --> 00:39:25,073 You have eyes. Open them. 636 00:39:25,157 --> 00:39:28,537 [song continues] 637 00:39:41,381 --> 00:39:42,761 -[song ends] -[audience cheers] 638 00:39:42,841 --> 00:39:44,841 [Cooper] After the show, people would come back 639 00:39:44,927 --> 00:39:47,757 and they would tell us what that all meant. 640 00:39:47,846 --> 00:39:50,266 [cheering continues] 641 00:39:50,349 --> 00:39:51,929 They had figured it all out. 642 00:39:53,810 --> 00:39:57,150 [Dunaway] We wouldn't try to explain it because there wasn't really an explanation 643 00:39:57,231 --> 00:40:00,981 other than, you know, it's just a visual theatric, that's all. 644 00:40:02,152 --> 00:40:05,662 But we had tapped into this powerful thing. 645 00:40:11,912 --> 00:40:17,422 {\an8}[Defries] Sometime in early '71, the proposition was put to David 646 00:40:17,501 --> 00:40:22,631 {\an8}by the organizers of the Glastonbury Fair that they'd like him to perform. 647 00:40:22,714 --> 00:40:25,974 {\an8}[Gillespie] The train stopped miles from where Glastonbury was. 648 00:40:26,051 --> 00:40:28,721 {\an8}We had to walk to get to the place. 649 00:40:28,804 --> 00:40:31,894 [Defries chuckles] David's wearing his big floppy hat 650 00:40:31,974 --> 00:40:35,314 and his floppy trousers and his long hair. 651 00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:37,770 We walk down the road 652 00:40:37,855 --> 00:40:43,815 and eventually we get to a field where the festival is gonna happen. 653 00:40:44,570 --> 00:40:48,490 Which has turned into pretty much unscheduled chaos. 654 00:40:49,449 --> 00:40:52,239 [man] It tends to be a bit muddy. Have you got any boots with you? 655 00:40:52,911 --> 00:40:55,121 [chuckles] You do? Nice. 656 00:40:55,998 --> 00:40:57,998 {\an8}Very much looking forward to seeing you. 657 00:40:58,083 --> 00:41:02,803 {\an8}And see you later on tonight. And it will be beautiful, I promise you. 658 00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:05,720 [rock music playing] 659 00:41:26,320 --> 00:41:30,530 [man] ♪ Girl with a heart That keeps on changing ♪ 660 00:41:32,117 --> 00:41:36,117 {\an8}♪ Girl with a mind that's moving on ♪ 661 00:41:37,831 --> 00:41:41,291 ♪ Picking up on things That life's afforded ♪ 662 00:41:42,961 --> 00:41:46,971 ♪ Loosen up on teathers Foreseen she's on ♪ 663 00:41:48,842 --> 00:41:52,762 ♪ You don't know... ♪ [sings indistinctly] 664 00:41:54,723 --> 00:41:59,393 [sings indistinctly] 665 00:42:11,406 --> 00:42:15,486 ♪ Come on, now, keep on changing ♪ 666 00:42:16,745 --> 00:42:20,575 ♪ Come on, girl, little I want the jive ♪ 667 00:42:22,209 --> 00:42:26,709 ♪ Come on, love 'Cause it ain't gonna bother me ♪ 668 00:42:27,589 --> 00:42:29,879 Whoo. [vocalizing] 669 00:42:31,802 --> 00:42:35,472 [Defries] David went on early in the morning of the next day. 670 00:42:35,556 --> 00:42:37,096 At dawn. 671 00:42:37,182 --> 00:42:39,772 And he was gonna perform new material. 672 00:42:41,478 --> 00:42:43,108 [Bowie] I think you know how I feel at the moment. 673 00:42:43,188 --> 00:42:44,018 It's... 674 00:42:44,606 --> 00:42:46,356 fucking cold as hell. 675 00:42:47,192 --> 00:42:49,402 [guitar strumming] 676 00:42:49,486 --> 00:42:51,276 It's gettin' a bit better. 677 00:42:51,363 --> 00:42:53,163 {\an8}[Gillespie] We were there at 5:00 in the morning 678 00:42:53,240 --> 00:42:56,990 {\an8}and the sun was literally just starting to peep up. 679 00:42:57,536 --> 00:42:59,036 And he's up there on the stage. 680 00:42:59,121 --> 00:43:04,041 Most people were still asleep or heading for a place to have a pee or something. 681 00:43:05,002 --> 00:43:09,632 {\an8}[Bowie] ♪ I still don't know What I was waiting for ♪ 682 00:43:10,716 --> 00:43:15,386 {\an8}♪ And my time was running wild ♪ 683 00:43:15,470 --> 00:43:18,350 {\an8}♪ A million dead-end streets and ♪ 684 00:43:20,184 --> 00:43:23,734 {\an8}♪ Every time I thought I'd got it made ♪ 685 00:43:24,771 --> 00:43:28,731 {\an8}♪ It seemed the taste was not so sweet ♪ 686 00:43:31,069 --> 00:43:36,069 {\an8}♪ Now I placed myself to face me ♪ 687 00:43:38,118 --> 00:43:42,158 {\an8}♪ But I've never caught a glimpse ♪ 688 00:43:43,916 --> 00:43:48,876 {\an8}♪ Of how the others must see the faker ♪ 689 00:43:51,131 --> 00:43:54,761 {\an8}♪ I'm much too fast to take the test ♪ 690 00:43:55,344 --> 00:43:58,514 ♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ 691 00:44:01,433 --> 00:44:03,983 ♪ Ch-changes ♪ 692 00:44:06,063 --> 00:44:08,323 ♪ Don't have to be a richer man ♪ 693 00:44:08,982 --> 00:44:12,032 ♪ Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes ♪ 694 00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,409 ♪ Ch-changes ♪ 695 00:44:19,117 --> 00:44:21,197 ♪ Just gonna be a different man ♪ 696 00:44:21,912 --> 00:44:25,212 ♪ Time may change me ♪ 697 00:44:26,124 --> 00:44:30,424 ♪ But I can't trace time ♪ 698 00:44:32,923 --> 00:44:36,433 [festival crowd, scattered applause] 699 00:44:37,928 --> 00:44:39,468 [Bowie] Uh, thank you. 700 00:44:41,014 --> 00:44:43,644 Yeah. [chuckles, speaks indistinctly] 701 00:44:43,725 --> 00:44:47,055 [Defries] There are many people who remember Glastonbury 702 00:44:47,145 --> 00:44:50,395 as being a landmark of Bowie. 703 00:44:50,482 --> 00:44:52,942 It wasn't. [chuckles] 704 00:44:53,652 --> 00:44:58,322 As a songwriter, David was beginning to realize who he was. 705 00:44:59,575 --> 00:45:05,825 But he hadn't discovered that ability to project himself off of the stage. 706 00:45:15,215 --> 00:45:17,585 {\an8}[Anderson] I was all ready to go down to Glastonbury 707 00:45:17,676 --> 00:45:21,466 {\an8}when Richard said, "Jim, the trial is on Monday. 708 00:45:21,555 --> 00:45:25,725 You can't possibly go to Glastonbury, take acid, and be ready for the trial." 709 00:45:25,809 --> 00:45:29,099 "Ooh, yes, that's okay. No problem. I always can wing it. It's easy." 710 00:45:30,939 --> 00:45:33,439 So I reluctantly didn't go. 711 00:45:35,152 --> 00:45:37,492 {\an8}That's how unseriously I took the trial. 712 00:45:37,571 --> 00:45:39,531 {\an8}I thought it would just be a piece of cake. 713 00:45:40,699 --> 00:45:41,949 {\an8}-How wrong I was. -[woman screams] 714 00:45:42,034 --> 00:45:44,874 [crowd clamors, chants] 715 00:45:47,998 --> 00:45:49,998 [speaks indistinctly] 716 00:45:50,083 --> 00:45:51,503 [screams] 717 00:45:57,216 --> 00:45:59,676 [John] Certain songs, they stay with you forever. 718 00:46:00,344 --> 00:46:02,764 [man] She was writing from her heart. 719 00:46:02,846 --> 00:46:06,556 [woman] We really were holding up a mirror to our society. 720 00:46:06,642 --> 00:46:09,602 [John] The incredible feeling of nothing's impossible. 721 00:46:11,063 --> 00:46:12,903 [man] Bowie came to New York. 722 00:46:12,981 --> 00:46:14,981 [Bowie] I was so single-minded. 723 00:46:15,067 --> 00:46:16,857 -["Ziggy Stardust" playing] -[audience cheers] 724 00:46:16,944 --> 00:46:19,154 [man] It didn't fit into the mainstream society. 725 00:46:19,821 --> 00:46:22,451 [Bowie] It really felt like the new era. 726 00:46:22,533 --> 00:46:26,083 Christ. We are the future. 727 00:46:26,161 --> 00:46:30,171 ["Ball of Confusion" playing] 65745

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