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{\an8}[man] I came to London in March of 1970.
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{\an8}There's something about my life
about getting to places slightly late.
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[Greenfield]
I went to Apple for some reason or other.
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They had already done
the concert on the roof. I missed that.
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And the building
was kind of hollow and empty.
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{\an8}And then, all of a sudden, it was over.
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The small gathering on Savile Row
is only the beginning.
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The event is so momentous
that historians may one day view it
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as a landmark in the decline
of the British Empire.
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{\an8}The Beatles are breaking up.
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{\an8}[man] The Beatles
have changed so many lives
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{\an8}that, um, the need for them still exists.
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{\an8}The hope that they represent still exists.
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And as long as that exists
then they have to exist.
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We're all in it together.
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If the Beatles don't exist,
you don't exist.
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{\an8}[woman] It was a horrible feeling
that it might be all over.
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{\an8}They inspired that whole generation
to go and conquer the world.
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The whole youth culture
could not have happened without them.
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What I feared was the establishment
was gonna claw back pop music
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to where it had been pre-Beatles.
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Awful, awful light entertainment.
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{\an8}♪ I've been sitting here all day ♪
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{\an8}♪ Thinking ♪
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{\an8}[Nightingale] As we got into 1971,
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{\an8}you could see they did not want
the counterculture.
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{\an8}They did not want youth movements.
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It was them and us.
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♪ Now my days are gone ♪
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♪ Memories linger on ♪
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♪ Thoughts of when I was boy ♪
[audio fades]
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[camera shutters clicking]
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[man] The dream's over.
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{\an8}-[man 2] In 1971...
-[woman] Music said something.
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[protesters chant]
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[woman] The world was changing.
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{\an8}[man 3]
We were creating the 21st century in 1971.
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[guitar music playing]
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[man] Myself and, I guess,
a certain contingent of musicians
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{\an8}at the beginning of the '70s
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{\an8}wanted to manufacture
a new kind of vocabulary
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{\an8}about what rock music was
and could become.
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The history of rock could be recycled
in a different way.
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We were fed up with the hippies.
We wanted to go somewhere else.
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{\an8}[man] I was writing for Rolling Stone,
and a friend of mine
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{\an8}who had become the West Coast publicist
for Mercury Records called and asked
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if I wanted to interview
this obscure English artist
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that they were trying to publicize
because he was unknown.
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I'd never heard of him.
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And he sent me
The Man Who Sold The World...
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which I didn't really like
very much at all,
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but I wasn't about to turn down
a trip to San Francisco.
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So I-- I went.
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[Mendelssohn]
I remember he emerged from the plane
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and he was wearing a dress
and carrying a purse.
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And I felt terribly intimidated.
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You know, he was really pretty.
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[male radio announcer] KSTN,
KSTN-FM Stockton. Your official station.
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[male radio host] David is with us.
How you doin', David?
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-Good to see you.
-[Bowie] Oh, thank you very much.
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[radio host]
Have you been in this country before?
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[Bowie]
No, it's the first time in the States.
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-[host] Wow. How do you like it so far?
-[Bowie] Yeah. Great. Incredible.
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[radio host] It says here
that you are one of those Englishmen
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who has happened upon the pop scene
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and just captured
the hearts and minds of--
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[both, together] ...minds of nearly all
of the audiences that have heard him.
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-[radio host] Isn't that wonderful?
-[Bowie] Wow. Yeah.
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-[radio host] Did you know that? Yeah.
-[Bowie] I'm quite a guy. [chuckles]
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{\an8}[man] I mean, being truthful, his career
was not doing well in those days.
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{\an8}He was kind of a cult artist,
and his sales weren't that high at all.
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After we made The Man Who Sold The World,
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he went with a manager
called Tony Defries.
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And Tony Defries didn't like the album.
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{\an8}[Visconti] And he sacked our band.
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{\an8}Even me. I lost him. I lost contact
with him for at least a year.
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{\an8}[man] The idea was to create a new entity.
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{\an8}We were deconstructing David
and reconstructing Bowie.
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That was the footing we were on in 1971.
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[male interviewer] I'm reading this bio
here because I just received it here.
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And some interesting things
about you here.
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Did you know this,
that your name was David Robert Jones...
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[Bowie] Oh, yeah.
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[interviewer] ...but that Davy Jones
of the Monkees claimed the name...
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-[Bowie] Yeah.
-...and you-- you became David Bowie.
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{\an8}[Mendelssohn] There was one party
in the Hollywood Hills
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{\an8}that was intended to introduce him
to the LA cognoscenti,
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but the cognoscenti were greatly
outnumbered by these starlet types.
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And they didn't know what to make of him.
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They were incredulous. [chuckles]
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[man singing, strumming guitar]
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A guy in a dress
sitting in the lotus position
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singing Jacques Brel songs.
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I kind of wished that he'd consulted
with me, because I--
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I would've said, "No Jacques Brel.
They're not gonna get it."
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And they didn't.
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An hour into the party, everyone hearing
that an Andy Warhol superstar
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was having a party up the road,
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everybody essentially left
the Bowie party...
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including Bowie.
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{\an8}[Bowie] I don't know what
all that was about.
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{\an8}I landed there, and I found that
all I could do was radio shows...
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and the odd private house where
I would play for whoever we could get in.
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So I can't really, um,
give you an honest opinion
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of what I thought of American audiences
because I didn't see any.
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[Nightingale] The music industry
has not been easy on weirdos ever.
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{\an8}And in 1971, he was struggling very much.
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{\an8}Trying to find where he was going,
whether he ever would.
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He'd been rejected and rejected, he'd made
records that hadn't gone anywhere,
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and then just been ridiculed
as a freak in a dress.
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Most people would've given up.
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{\an8}[Greenfield] By then,
everything was so polarized in America.
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{\an8}People had burnt out,
and they're cynical and they're angry.
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The "peace and flowers" love thing
was well over.
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Looking back on it now,
it's hard to understand how bad it was.
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{\an8}The jury hearing the charges
against Charles Manson
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{\an8}and three girl members
of his so-called "Family"
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{\an8}brought in its verdict this afternoon.
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All were found guilty of murder
in the first degree.
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[male reporter] To his family
of followers, Manson was a kind of god.
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But to the California police,
he was something quite different.
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A car thief, pimp and Satanist
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who'd masterminded eight murders,
at least.
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Members of the so-called "Family"
talked to a BBC 24 Hours team
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soon after Manson had been arrested.
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Well, when I first met him,
the man talked to me,
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and he says, uh, "Why don't you come up?
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And, uh, the rules are that, you know,
there is no rules."
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This drawing is a drawing of awareness.
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And I think that Charles Manson
is the most totally aware person alive.
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[male reporter]
You tried to show Charlie your picture?
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[woman] But sadly enough, you know, like,
he's aware of everything that's truly evil
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as well as everything that's truly good,
and I feel that he's a victim.
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[Greenfield] At that point in time
if you had long hair,
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you were judged immediately.
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You were a drug addict. You were a freak.
You were an enemy of the state.
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So parents and children hated each other.
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[man] America, there's a phenomenon
of parents thinking that--
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{\an8}that they depict
satanic qualities in children.
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{\an8}And really,
they don't like their children.
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{\an8}So many parents really hate their children
in the United States.
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{\an8}Did you read in the paper the other day
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{\an8}about that father in a western state?
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His son grew long hair,
and the father got angry.
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The son refused to cut it,
and he went into the bedroom
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and got a shotgun and shot his son dead.
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Just over long hair.
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[man] We moved to LA when it was
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{\an8}all groovy, peace and love,
flowers and bubbles,
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{\an8}and people thought
that we were kind of a joke
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as we looked so, you know, heavy and
sinister and threatening and everything.
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And then Charles Manson happened,
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and the demise of the Beatles happened.
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The timing just fell into place
for what we were doing.
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{\an8}[male reporter]
Right now there's a young man
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{\an8}who calls himself Alice Cooper on stage.
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[man] The hippie thing, I thought,
was extremely phony.
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{\an8}I just thought it got syrupy as hell.
"Oh, everybody love everybody."
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You know, 'cause everybody was on drugs.
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Come on. You know, quit bullshitting.
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You know, this--
this thing is really stupid.
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{\an8}[Dunaway] We had been concentrating
on doing this avant-garde music.
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{\an8}We didn't even try to write hit singles
until it became obvious
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that we weren't gonna be eating
unless we did. [chuckles]
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You know, Alice has always been
very hip to what's happening,
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and we knew
that we wanted to appeal to kids.
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And we were thinking,
"What is the target audience
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for record-buying public in America?"
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And it was 18 years old.
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Okay, here on The Barry Richards Thing,
we have Alice Cooper with us,
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and, uh,
that's the name of the whole group, right?
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-Yeah.
-It's also your name.
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-Yes, it's my name.
-Are you gonna do, uh, "Eighteen"?
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Yeah, yeah, "Eighteen."
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All right, this is the new, uh, 45
from Alice Cooper, "Eighteen."
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[audience cheering]
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[playing harmonica]
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[Cooper]
We were shocked that it was a hit.
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{\an8}But it was so simple and so "duh"
that it worked on the radio.
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{\an8}And the song was giving
the 18-year-old guy, at least, a voice.
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♪ Lines form on my face and hands ♪
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♪ Lines form from the ups and downs ♪
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♪ I'm in the middle without any plans ♪
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♪ I'm a boy and I'm a man ♪
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♪ I'm eighteen
And I don't know what I want ♪
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♪ Eighteen
I just don't know what I want ♪
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♪ Eighteen, I gotta get away ♪
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♪ I've gotta get outta this place ♪
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♪ I'll go runnin' in outer space
Oh yeah ♪
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[male reporter] For years now,
the young have been drifting away
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to a world of their own,
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unable or unwilling to accept
what the established order has to offer.
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They wonder aloud about a system
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that produces material riches
and creates emotional poverty.
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A system that leaves many of its young
with no sense of self-worth,
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no sense of importance in the home,
no useful role in society.
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♪ 'Cause I'm eighteen
I get confused every day ♪
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♪ Eighteen
I just don't know what to say ♪
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{\an8}[Cooper] When you have that hit single
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{\an8}it's the Willy Wonka golden key
because it means you're generating money.
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And so everybody's listening now,
and you're not this freak show.
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You're suddenly viable.
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-[song ends]
-[audience cheering]
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We represented the great disenfranchised.
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It was a new audience.
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[male narrator] Britain, so they say,
is now rather like
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the morning after the night before.
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The party's well and truly over.
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The image or, if you like, myth
of the swinging '60s
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has given way to the sober '70s.
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{\an8}[man] We've grown up a little, all of us.
And there has been a change,
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{\an8}and we are a bit freer and all that,
but it's the same game.
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{\an8}Nothing's really changed, you know.
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{\an8}People are living in fucking poverty
with fucking rats crawling over 'em.
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It's the same, only I'm 30 and a lot of
people have got long hair, that's all.
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[narrator]
Three boys in their early teens,
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and one aged 11,
growing up in the East End of London.
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Already these four lives
are lives at risk.
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Already the future shadows them.
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[male interviewer] Do you ever think about
getting old and everything like that?
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[Mick Jagger] Think about? I am old.
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I already think I'm old, you know.
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{\an8}[man] For the new generation
coming in, there was a vacuum.
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{\an8}Bands like the Stones, and the Who,
and obviously the Beatles,
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{\an8}had led us through the '60s.
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But the younger generation
were looking to find what they loved.
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{\an8}[man 2] The younger kids
feel really kind of neglected, you know.
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{\an8}They haven't got their own music.
They haven't got their own culture.
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They haven't got a say yet in anything.
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[horn honks]
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[Visconti] I remember seeing
A Hard Day's Night in Brooklyn,
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{\an8}and I saw that London
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{\an8}where it was the Beatles going
to drinking clubs
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{\an8}and gambling clubs and all that.
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And I was very disappointed when I arrived
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to see that the UK
was pretty old-fashioned.
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It was actually quite a drab place.
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It was time to come up
with something different,
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but the Beatles were a hard act to follow.
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{\an8}[Nightingale] The thing is,
the Beatles weren't just a pop group.
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{\an8}They weren't popular entertainers.
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{\an8}They were artists
in the real sense of the word.
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So as we got into 1971,
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if you were a pop group
with screaming girls
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you were not gonna get good reviews
in Melody Maker and NME.
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The musical snobbery
was really growing at that time.
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{\an8}[man] It's much more fulfilling nowadays
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{\an8}because the audiences
are much more educated.
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{\an8}The people are very aware.
Even some of the chicks are aware
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of what kind of strings and things
are used
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on certain bass guitars
and things like that.
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♪ Love comes to you and you follow ♪
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[Harris] Bands were taking themselves
a bit too seriously.
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{\an8}They were becoming slightly pretentious,
overblown.
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{\an8}And it was rather frowned on by some of
the more superior rock critics
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{\an8}to have hit singles.
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♪ Sharp distance ♪
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{\an8}[Harris] When I started on Radio 1,
I was given an acetate of a single
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{\an8}that I could take onto my first program
and play as an exclusive.
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{\an8}And it was "Ride a White Swan."
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{\an8}He was one of the few people
at that moment
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who was driven to appeal
to 13, 14, 15-year-olds.
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{\an8}[man] There was very few people
making good singles, I think, you know.
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{\an8}So that's when I figured
I ought to make some singles.
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'Cause I like singles. It's, like, uh,
a three-minute adrenaline buzz.
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{\an8}♪ Wear a tall hat like a druid
In the old days ♪
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{\an8}♪ Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown ♪
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{\an8}♪ Ride a white swan
Like the people of the Beltane ♪
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♪ Wear your hair long, babe
You can't go wrong ♪
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♪ Catch a bright star
And a-place it on your forehead ♪
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♪ Say a few spells
And baby, there you go ♪
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♪ Take a black cat
And a-sit it on your shoulder ♪
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♪ And in the morning you'll know
All you know, oh ♪
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{\an8}[Visconti]
After David went with Tony Defries,
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{\an8}I just blanked him from my consciousness.
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{\an8}And Marc was the one I went with.
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They were friends, not that they were
in collusion with each other,
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{\an8}but they both started playing
at the same time
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with their image as pop stars.
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[Harris] Marc was a chameleon.
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{\an8}When I first met him, he was a hippie
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{\an8}sitting playing an acoustic guitar
on a Persian rug, you know.
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He had emerged in '65 when he was a mod.
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And now Marc was beginning to move across
into that blurred line, androgynous look.
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A sort of embryonic
'70s rock and roll style.
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[man] I always remember hearing
"Ride a White Swan" on the radio
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{\an8}and thinking that he was amazing.
And then seeing him.
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{\an8}And he was the first person to really wear
the eye shadow and do the glam thing.
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And that's how he walked around.
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That was Marc in the street,
when he came to dinner.
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And everything that Marc did was fun.
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{\an8}[Visconti] It was a time when most of the
rock and roll bands
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{\an8}were very masculine.
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The idea of dressing androgynously
was new and refreshing.
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But, you know, when it came to music,
he had a '50s mind.
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He jumped back a generation,
playing Chuck Berry guitar.
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And he was writing rock and roll songs.
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{\an8}[Bolan] When "White Swan" was a hit,
I realized that something was changing.
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{\an8}You know,
the kids were getting a bit younger,
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{\an8}and they were selling out the concerts.
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{\an8}Which they hadn't done before,
to be honest.
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And then, uh, I put out "Hot Love"
and it went straight to number one.
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And then all the audiences were--
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were predominantly chicks mostly...
after my balls. [chuckles]
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Which was very cute. [chuckles]
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♪ Well, she's my woman of gold
And she's not very old, ah ha ha ♪
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♪ She's my woman of gold
And she's not very old, ah ha ha ♪
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{\an8}♪ I don't mean to be bold
But may I hold your hand? ♪
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{\an8}[Visconti]
Once Marc got his first hit single
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{\an8}the hippie emphasis on spirituality
was virtually abandoned.
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{\an8}And he started to be very sexual.
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♪ Well, she ain't no witch
And I love the way she twitch, ah ha ha ♪
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{\an8}♪ I'm her twopenny prince
And I give her hot love, ah ha ♪
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{\an8}[Harris] I talked with some of the fans
that came to see the shows.
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{\an8}A lot of 12, 13, 14, 15-year-old girls.
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{\an8}And I asked, "What is it about Marc?"
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And-- And some of them
were crying in their efforts
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to express their emotion for him.
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[Harris] I've come out of the front door
of the Newcastle City Hall
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to speak with some of the people
who saw the concert tonight.
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-Did you enjoy it?
-[woman] He was gentle and pretty...
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[Harris]
What particularly do you like about them?
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[woman 2]
They're just lovely, and gorgeous...
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[Harris chuckles]
Did you enjoy the concert tonight?
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[woman 2]
And I think he's got beautiful hair.
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-[Harris] You enjoyed it did you?
-Oh, oh, it was lovely!
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[Harris] For the younger girls, [stammers]
you know, the new generation coming in,
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he was just so exciting
because they wanted liberation.
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Liberation of expression
and liberation of thought.
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[male reporter]
Yet another row about sex education.
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The schoolchildren and their parents,
their teachers, are all, today,
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in the middle of an atmosphere
where information about sex
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has never been freer.
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The upheaval that followed
the making by Dr. Martin Cole
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of the sex education film for adolescents
called Growing Up
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has opened, once again,
all the old thorny debates
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about just how much children
want and need to know,
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ought to be told, by whom and at what age.
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[female narrator] Boys and girls
often have sexual intercourse
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long before they are ready to have babies.
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{\an8}♪ Beneath the bebop moon ♪
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{\an8}[narrator] There is nothing wrong
with this, and many people believe
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{\an8}that sexual experience in adolescents
is essential for normal development.
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People have been getting along very well
since the dawn of time...
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without sex education.
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And why, in the last four or five years,
has this been thrust upon us?
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[narrator] Early in adolescence,
a boy will notice
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that he can become sexually excited.
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I was shocked by the sheer
clinical joylessness of the film.
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Sex should be fun, it should be
thrilling, it should be exciting.
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And that film, I think, might, um,
uh, almost put people off for life.
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[girl] People want to know the facts.
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I like the straightforward approach.
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A-And I think this is what's necessary.
We don't want your morals.
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[male interviewer] But now you're 15.
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What is it you want to know about sex
that any teacher can tell you?
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Well-- In--
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It's the positions. Stuff like that.
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And the way how it's done.
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[interviewer]
You want technical instructions?
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Yeah.
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[interviewer] Do you want to know
about relationships? Emotion? Love?
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Well, it would be helpful.
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[chattering]
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{\an8}[Greenfield] I had come to London
about a year before then.
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I basically left America because
I couldn't stand being there anymore.
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But it was also an odd time in London.
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The London underground press
was still in full ramp and swing.
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And Portobello was the scene.
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And yet, you know, Britain had
a conservative government then.
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People were trying to keep the lid on.
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[male reporter] OZ magazine,
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like a number of other
underground publications in Britain,
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symbolized the clash between
two conflicting notions of morality.
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[male TV host]
There can be few people these days
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who haven't heard the phrase
"underground press."
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Frequently they are publications
which shock and offend many people.
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[male reporter 2]
He's a journalist who started
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the controversial
underground magazine, OZ.
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{\an8}It seems to me there's an attitude
towards sex which is different.
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It's now become much more libertarian,
uh, and guiltless.
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{\an8}[man] OZ, for example,
is extraordinarily hard to read.
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{\an8}Not merely is it hung up on drugs
to an extent which is quite amazing
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to anyone who's not actually on drugs,
but it is physically difficult to read.
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{\an8}[Greenfield] OZ was another planet.
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{\an8}Provocative, outrageous, sexual.
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They-- [chuckles]
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It was all consciously over the top.
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I never gave it
a lot of serious credibility.
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But then somebody
got his or her nose out of joint
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that OZ had crossed a line
in terms of obscenity.
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[male interviewer] I have several members
of the underground press
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-here in London with me today.
-[siren wailing]
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I gather it's becoming
a hazardous occupation.
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Jim, you want to tell us about
the problems OZ has been having?
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{\an8}[man] Just before Christmas,
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{\an8}we had been busted big time
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after we'd invited schoolchildren
to help edit an issue of OZ.
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{\an8}[male interviewer]
That issue was intended for, uh,
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-young-ish readerships. It was--
-[Anderson] No, it wasn't.
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It was intended for the usual OZ
readerships. That's the whole point.
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The police are trying to say
it was intended
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{\an8}to go into the schools specifically
and to disrupt schoolchildren.
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{\an8}[man stammers] It was merely produced
by schoolchildren.
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{\an8}We just got 'em 48 pages of, you know,
color and glossy paper
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and they could put in what they wanted.
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And basically, that's what's got us
into all of this trouble.
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{\an8}[Anderson] Well... we were quite shocked
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{\an8}with one or two things
that they wanted to do,
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but whatever they wanted to do
was fine by us.
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And they all saw it
as a wonderful opportunity.
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{\an8}[man] The judiciary and the government
still hadn't caught on
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{\an8}that there had been a tectonic shift
in the way young people thought and acted.
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OZ was doing the unthinkable,
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actually telling teenage kids,
"Don't get nervous about sex."
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At that time, conservatives of one sort
or another went completely berserk.
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[male reporter 2] At last,
the permissive society is under attack.
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This Manchester rally reaffirms the stand
which Christians are taking
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against the rising tide of pornography.
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We believe in purity and love
in sexual life.
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We are especially concerned
about pornographic literature
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on sale in this city.
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Welling inside the British people
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is the desire to rebuild
the moral fiber of this country,
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which has been under attack.
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There's no doubt about that.
It's been under attack.
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[woman] People began to talk about this
as a turning point in society.
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{\an8}It was a sort of crisis
of moral authority.
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[clacking]
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I was working as a secretary at OZ.
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It just did feel that the establishment
was out to get them.
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Freedom of expression seemed to me
a basic human right.
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You know, unarguably something
we had to defend,
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even if sometimes it went beyond
the bounds of what I liked.
435
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I really did not like the cover
of that issue.
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I thought, "How could Jim and Felix
have chosen that cover?"
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{\an8}[Anderson] Look,
we didn't think it through, frankly.
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{\an8}We had the idea of using the double spread
of the naked blue lesbians.
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And when it was suggested,
we both began to laugh.
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It was sort of erotic,
but it was just a fantasy, really.
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But we hadn't even looked at it properly.
And then I noticed the blow job.
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And we said,
"Oh, we'll put one of the pictures
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of the schoolkids in front of that.
That'll settle that."
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We had already been charged with
publishing obscene material,
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which was just a very minor charge.
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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]
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