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The end of the '60s, around 1970,

there was a huge divide in America
because of Vietnam.

Every kid I knew was anti-Vietnam,

and we were all at odds
with the silent majority.

In New York, students protesting

are met by construction workers.

The confrontation dramatizes
the deep split

within the conscience of the country.

I went to Kent State.
I think it was a Friday night.

And this was when we burned down
the ROTC buildings

'cause the ROTC was
the military presence on our university.

Training reserves and, you know,
the military presence had to go.

To start, we'll make a perimeter.
A circle right out in here.

Then the Monday, they'd
positioned these National Guardsmen...

with rifles pointing into us students.

You fucking pigs!

This then was the climax
of three days of rioting on the campus.

...this area immediately.

Leave this area immediately.

In moments, clouds of tear
gas covered the center of the campus.

I heard what I assumed
were some fireworks.

They were actually the rifles.

The shootings today
have caused a shock wave of reaction.

Shocked. Yeah, I mean these kids
were lying in the ground, you know.

Bleeding to death.

There's people dying down here.
Get an ambulance up here.

Kent State,
to the four of us, that was insane.

And Neil picked up his guitar
and wrote "Ohio."

"This summer you hear
the drumming. Four dead in Ohio."

We loved Neil Young.

Soldiers are gunning us down

Should have been done long ago

At that time, you know,
all these bands were making music

that was referring to protest
and the Vietnam War.

That was our language.

The music was articulating
everything you're seeing and feeling.

Killing our children
for standing up for their rights.

We questioned what was going on

and we thought that music
could change the world.

Tin soldiers and Nixon comin'
We're finally on our own

So by the time it came to 1971,

we were fueled by this amazing music
that everyone was making.

The dream's over.

- In 1971...
- Music said something.

The world was changing.

We were creating the
21st century in 1971.

Brother, brother, brother

There's too many of you dying

We have begun a new year
with the same old story.

Eleven Americans
were killed in Vietnam in a day.

You know we've got to find a way

One of the things
that I worked with Marvin on

were his double vocals.

To bring some loving here today

He would harmonize with himself.

Marvin was a sweetheart

but he was upset with his brother
being in Vietnam

and why we were there
in the first place.

Elvis Presley and this next singer
are the only two solo acts

to have 12 top ten records
in the past ten years.

With "What's Going On,"
here's Marvin Gaye.

The war... my brother
was in the war at the time.

I was incensed so I
wrote and I produced.

I am a great believer in God, and I
feel the world is in an awful state.

I don't know. I see the country
headed for civil war, in a sense.

And I knew that there
was this thing in me

that wanted to come out
and make a statement.

You gotta remember,
first it was Marvin crooning

and making ballads basically.
But when he wrote "What's Going On,"

he went political and made us
remember what's going on.

So it was a welcomed change
because I had lost a brother in Vietnam.

Oh, but who are they to judge us

1971,

I worked in a record store, and I'm 18.
I'm eligible for the draft.

Everything is clouded by the Vietnam War

'cause my friends are coming home dead,
you know.

Already the guy next door to me.

And drafted is so
different than joining.

They sit back in air-conditioned rooms
and say, "Okay, you...

you guys go out there and fight the war.

We'll tell you where to go
and how to do it."

Just stay and do my time,
which I'm gon' do. Get out of Vietnam.

I still don't know why I'm here.
That's God's truth.

Three months and I don't know
why I'm shooting these people.

Vietnam was in your neighborhood.

And, to me,
the music was not a soundtrack.

It was much more than that
because it infiltrated.

Money is tighter than it's ever been

Hey, man, I just don't understand
What's going on across this land

There was nothing more beautiful
than "What's Going On," Marvin Gaye.

It's so seductive. It was a hit.

I'm listening to every word
and caring about every word.

And, like, you go, "Yeah, that's me,"

but your parents are singing along
'cause it was a Trojan horse.

It came as beautiful music.

So it just came right in.

And tell me, friend

How in the world have you been?

I wanna know, I wanna know...

I wanted to write stinging things

and do music that would really
make people say, "Wow, he's after us"

and maybe incense them also.

But something wouldn't let me do that.
It was a very divine project.

Now, now I'm back on the scene

What's happening, brother?

What's happening? What's happening?
What's happening, brother?

Do you ever see much
of the Beatles these days?

The Beatles as I remember them? No.

This is actually a Beatle wife
fixing a tea

for one of the Fab Four. Ex-Beatles.

- Fab Three.
- Fab Three or so...

Paul, he's isolated himself from us,

which is really his own doing.

And then Paul and Linda,

and the Yoko and John situation.

- Would you like something else?
- No.

- Just like the old days, isn't it?
- Yes.

Obviously, we've been so close
and through so much together,

familiarity breeds contempt.

Those freaks was right when they said

You was dead

But it's all right.
It's not as bad as it seems, you know.

Paul and John and myself,
we all know it's bitchiness.

That's all it is.
It's just being bitchy to each other.

How do you sleep at night?

Yeah. That's the nasty one.

- Hello, Phil.
- Hello, John.

Hey, Phillip.

The conflict, musically for me, with
John is a very subtle thing, really.

You know, I want peace too.

Right, can I just record some level?

But I don't think you get peace

by going around shouting,
"Give peace a chance, man!"

Turn on!

I think, you know,
English food is the best.

- True, true.
- Do you agree on English sausages?

I do agree that we are freeing ourselves

by using English sausages these days.

I do agree that they...
we are freeing ourselves by using...

Thing is,
I believe in all the songs going on.

You're aimed at the windows
and it's bouncing back off.

- That's the trouble.
- So...

You know.
Whatever motive they put them out for.

- Or maybe I'll swap positions with you.
- It'd be better if you swap places or...

And at the moment, there's... the American
one was Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On."

You know, I mean, if a musician uses his
talent to sing that, you know, that'll do.

First of all, John, do you think
there's been a change in pop music?

Yeah. I mean, I think the music reflects
the state that the society's in.

And the thing we should really be
talking about is the violence,

you know, that goes on in this society.

That's a far more important subject
to talk about than where's your hemline

and did you sleep with somebody
when you were 15 or 16?

I think that humans always tend
to talk about rubbish.

The Beatles breaking up
and all that was... It was depressing.

I was a huge John Lennon fan,
and I loved John and Yoko.

I totally bought into their whole thing.

Or people are always struggling for,
sort of, nirvana or some status quo.

It doesn't exist.

You know,
but he had been through a big trauma.

I mean, the Beatles was
a huge trauma for those guys.

You know, they were the most famous
four people in the world.

Should we listen to the tape
or should we just get on?

And everyone wanted at them and,
you know,

it must've taken a long time
for them to process that.

Come on, gang. Come on.

I think everybody's in that state.

At every record,
or book, art or anything

that's a reflection of where
the person's at at the moment.

He... conceives it
and puts it into action.

We're on.

Okay, stop. Sorry. Are you ready?

You know, when I worked with the boys,
all their tracks had magic.

John's and George's.

Okay, we're ready this time.

John's were just more political
and message-y.

I'm sick and tired of hearing things

From uptight, short-sighted
Narrow-minded hypocrites

All I want is the truth

Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-belli...

Come on, I'm doing Eddie Cochran.
It doesn't last long.

There's no limit to where
anybody's music can go, innit?

And I think Beatles stood still a bit.

- Politicians, all I want is the truth
- The truth

Just gimme some truth

No short-haired, yellow-bellied
Son of Tric...

Come on, you ****.

What did you stop for?

John, don't sing it
the Eddie Cochran way yet.

- Just come in. Just sing.
- Okay, okay. Okay.

To get the sound that
you have imagined is the hard thing.

...want is the truth

Just gimme some truth

I don't know what's going on, you know.

I just believe in evil.

I believe in that kind of thing.
And I think that's what it is.

And I think we have to fight it
on all levels as well as in the streets.

And if it's the guy in the street or
the guy in the office or the president,

maybe the president will get it,
you know.

All I want is the truth

Just gimme some truth

Uh, this is the truth.

It's getting there.

According to the Los Angeles Times,

there is no visible support
for the president anywhere in Europe.

It's hard to think of any time
in the last generation

when affairs seemed so close
to being out of a president's control.

Disaffection in the colleges
is nationwide.

Here's one of the men
around the president

we don't hear much about...
Alex Butterfield, Deputy Assistant.

You should know that Nixon
was paranoid at that time

because he could foresee
there was gonna be increasing problems.

- Well, we'll check that out, sir.
- Be sure that's checked out.

You're just recommending the continuation
of our policy of non-exchanging.

Okay. All right.

The recording system,
I think that was put in February 18th.

How does it work in here?

It depends on voice activation.

Right.

I said,
"This is for keeps and everything?"

"Oh," he said.
"Yeah, we want good equipment."

To be put in the file, in my file.

I don't want it in your file or Bob's

or anybody else's. My file.

Everything was taped,
which, of course, was probably stupid.

I think we ought to discuss that...
in some privacy.

On the other hand, I felt the tapes
were an insurance against people

who might go out and lie
about what had been said.

And now to commemorate this event,

we have, as our special guests tonight,
the Ray Conniff Singers.

And if the music is square,
it's because I like it square.

Nixon was not unpopular at all,

except for those young
people protesting.

He blamed all the protests
on young people.

He thought of them as just too goddamn
young to understand anything.

President Nixon, stop bombing
human beings, animals and vegetation.

You go to church on Sundays
and pray to Jesus Christ.

If Jesus Christ were here tonight,
you would not dare drop another bomb.

Bless the Berrigans.

He would fake this smile
but it was a hatred thing.

You knew he was seething.

All I can say is, I must apologize.

I assure you, Mr. President, this is
as much a shock to me as it was to you.

Seething.

His favorite word was cocksucker.

Ma, he's making eyes at me

But our policy was not
going to be changed

simply because the war
had become unpopular.

We had demonstrations,
thousands of them.

But that was not the voice of America.

The voice of America
was the silent majority.

Music is very important to me.

Especially with music where
you listen to it over and over again.

"What's Going On" was huge,

but by this point I was much more
into the Who, "Won't Get Fooled Again."

We'll be fighting in the streets

With our children at our feet

And the morals that they worship
Will be gone

And the men who spurred us on

Sit in judgment of all wrong

They decide
And the shotgun sings the song

My name's Keith Forsyth
and I was one of the burglars

that broke into the FBI office in 1971,

confiscating secret files
and distributing them to the press

so that people would see
the FBI's attempts

to suppress the anti-war movement.

This was something that was not
commonly accepted by the general public.

But you listen to the Who,

you certainly remember the refrain,
"won't get fooled again."

We don't get fooled again

At that point I was living
in Philadelphia, listening to the radio,

driving a cab part-time
for the Yellow Cab Company.

And at the same time I was also part of
the illegal resistance to the war,

being involved with people
who were breaking into draft boards

and stealing or destroying files.

People like John and Bonnie.

We were sending these young men
to Vietnam as cannon fodder.

They were being sacrificed.

So my husband, John, and the group of us
who had been meeting

were planning to break
into an FBI office.

As a result of intense surveillance
by the FBI

attempting to break
the anti-war movement,

it was obvious what the FBI
was doing surreptitiously.

But it would have been seen as paranoia.
So we had to have proof.

Familiar music

Familiar sound

There's mutual thoughts

For the underground

My husband and I had
three young children.

We were going to do everything we could
to protect our children from jeopardy.

But all of our actions were as a couple.

And our democracy
was fundamentally threatened.

Underground

We looked at what possible
FBI offices we could hit,

and we eventually settled on the Media
office as being the most vulnerable.

The smaller office in Media,
a suburb of Philadelphia,

was just in an apartment building,
so it looked feasible.

Contracts were signed today
for a heavyweight championship fight

between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.

A match at Madison Square Garden
in New York on March 8th.

In terms of how to minimize
the various risks involved in this,

somebody said, "Well, why don't we do this
on the night of the Frazier-Ali fight?"

I really admired Muhammad Ali
because he was a draft resister.

And when he became a draft resister,
they took his title away from him.

My enemy is the white people,

not the Vietcong or Chinese or Japanese.

You my opposer when I want freedom.
You my opposer when I want justice.

You my opposer when I want equality.

You won't even stand up for me
in America for my religious beliefs,

and you want me to go
somewhere and fight,

but you won't even stand up for me
here at home.

I'll show you what a real champion is.

Take that thing on down,
I ain't that heavy.

- Move it on down, commissioner. Come on.
- 215 pounds.

- 215 pounds, you know he's in trouble.
- 215 pounds.

- Muhammad.
- Are we gonna go?

Float like a butterfly,
sting like a bee.

Rumble, young man, rumble.

Muhammad Ali.

The main event, 15 rounds,

for the undisputed heavyweight
championship of the world.

Introducing Muhammad Ali.

Joe Frazier.

Muhammad Ali in the red trunks.
Joe Frazier.

Frazier will try to bore in
and catch his man.

'Course,
we were rooting for Muhammad Ali,

but on the night,

the building manager
was really our most pressing concern

because he lived on the floor
right below the FBI office.

You know, this was an old building and
soundproofing was not its strong suit.

He hit this man
with his thundering punches.

And I could hear the fight
being played on the radio...

in the room below.

That is
one of the most exciting first rounds

I think we've seen in a long time.

It's pretty nerve-racking

breaking into an FBI office
in the middle of the night.

You have to stop and take
a couple deep breaths.

There's no question about it,
Joe Frazier is absolutely relentless.

Pick the lock, push the door in.

Stop right away.
There was a dead bolt on the inside.

Muhammad Ali
has never taken such a battering.

So I took out my pry bar, and I remember
listening for the right moment.

Time is important here.

I just yanked that sucker
as hard as I could

and broke it open. We were in.

Ali, he takes the mandatory eight count.

The only knockdown of the fight.

We didn't know, of course,

what anything in any of those
file cabinets were gonna yield,

we didn't know that.

The winner by unanimous decision,

and still heavyweight champion
of the world, Joe Frazier.

Yeah!

But it didn't take us very long
to find shocking activities.

Meet the new boss

Same as the old boss

There was a directive telling agents

to increase the paranoia among the left

and they had informants
who were switchboard operators

and were listening in
on professors' phone calls.

Then I'll get on my knees and pray

We don't get fooled again

We sent them to three newspapers

and, fortunately, the Washington Post
made the decision to make it a big story.

The documents prove for the first time

that the FBI undertook a program to
harass and destroy political organizations

whose views the federal
police agency disagreed with.

"We must frustrate every effort
of these groups and individuals

to consolidate their forces."

Of course, then it was a huge story.

Is there any response on your part

to the suggestions that you resign?

I have no comment to make on that.

And there was a realization
that this is how evil things can get.

Obviously, it seems to me
that whatever the monster is,

the monster is insane.

And getting careless.

That means it's out of control.
And that's our only hope.

All I've got is hope.
I think this is the end of that era.

We wanna get a worldwide positive move.

Somewhere all the youth
can send a vibe to.

And that's what's going on.
Power and vibration.

I don't want to be a soldier, mama
I don't want to die

We're angry because we feel
we have been used

in the worst fashion
by the administration of this country.

Someone has to die so that Nixon

won't be the first president
to lose a war.

I don't wanna be a failure, mama

I don't wanna cry

I mean, Bob Dylan
and John Lennon and Marvin Gaye,

all they were were kids like us
that had a gift.

And they spoke for all of us.

I don't want to die

Billy Adolph, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Bronze Star, Purple Heart
and all the other bullshit.

Power to the people and to the brothers.

Power to the people!

And if you read carefully
the president's last speech,

you can see that he says
the issue is communism.

And we cannot fight communism
all over the world.

Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight, we have the Plastic Ono Band.

Long live the revolution.

At least 200,000 anti-war protestors

jammed the streets of Washington today

in what was probably the biggest
peace demonstration to be held

since they began six years ago.

The May Day Protest,
I did understand it.

But I felt I was pretty much
in Nixon's camp,

and we were on the other side.

I am not reactionary.

Protestors,
they do not live in the real world.

They're basically idealists

turned off by the horrors of war
on television night after night.

The Saigon command
in its latest weekly casualty report

listed 33 Americans
killed in action and 305 wounded.

All we saw were
guys getting slaughtered over there.

And we were getting this information
also while we were high on drugs,

so, you know, it was,
like, really grisly.

'Cause you don't wanna
be tripping on acid

and turn on the news
after a napalm attack,

but that's what we were looking at.

Today is the first anniversary

of the shooting of the Kent State four.

Why did they die? I do not know.

Many die every day senselessly.

These four died to history.

You have to question,
and I was always taught to question.

And the service won't let you question,
because they don't have an answer.

Think they ought to send us all back
to the States, that's where...

We're part of the United States,

we're supposed to be standing up
for that flag,

not some other country, I don't think.

From the turbulence
and upheaval of that world,

it was very difficult
to remain aloof from it.

How could you not be affected by it?

And I think John Lennon felt that anger.

John, you know,
when he first wrote "Imagine,"

he rang and said, "Are you free?"
So I said, "Yeah."

- Long time.
- Long time, pleased to see you.

I'd just got back from India
where big war was looming

on the issue of Bangladesh,
formerly a part of Pakistan.

Good evening.

A civil war has broken out
between the two halves of Pakistan.

Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,
the leader of East Pakistan,

declared the region
an independent republic,

which he said will be called Bangladesh.

West Pakistan has the money
and the government and the resources.

In a radio broadcast,
President Yahya Khan

accused Sheikh Mujibur Rahman of treason

and ordered the army
to take any steps necessary.

The United States supported Pakistan,

whereas the Soviet
Union backed Bengalis.

So, it was a global division as well,
like the war in Vietnam.

I had to shave my mustache off,
have my hair cut

because I went in with the false papers.

I would be terrified. I suppose
you adjust to the situation, I guess.

- Yes, I mean...
- So what's going on there, then?

East Pakistan
is part of a nation called Bengal.

Yeah,
but is half of that nation in India?

It's half of... that's right.
Now, this is East Pakistan.

Yeah, is the religion the same
in the two Bengals?

No, no. Here, they are Muslim.

But the interesting thing is
that the religious differences,

which used to be very great, because of
the intervention of the Pakistan army,

which is also a Muslim army,

these people don't care a fuck
for religion now.

I thought that might happen
in Ireland too... didn't though, did it?

John, I think his radicalism
increased at a very rapid pace.

And he wanted to go and see those worlds
that were resisting.

Do you want to have any public activity
in any socialist country, you'll mean...

You are willing to make
press conference some places?

Oh, sure, sure.

Sure. I'd do anything...
that was useful, you know?

He and Yoko
were about to move to New York.

I think I was probably the only one
of his friends who said don't do it.

There are too many
kooks in that country.

What's the tune of "Imagine"?

It's almost a childlike tune.

Well, I'll play you them all
in about an hour.

There's a nice one
called "Crippled Inside."

But the desire to go
was part of his internationalism,

which you also saw an element of that
in "Imagine,"

this is what the world should be like.

Imagine all the people

Sharing all the world
You

You may say I'm a dreamer

But I'm not the only one

They sell war all the time.

Every night on telly they sell war
and violence and that.

John Wayne has been selling war
since I was a kid.

And the world will be as one

All I'm trying to do
is get as much space and song

just to equal the balance a bit.

- Yeah. That's the one I like best.
- Sure.

What if there's another piano,
because if we can...

The same kind of piano
and do an octave higher,

- 'cause that might be beautiful, you know.
- Yeah.

Well, I'll go on the white one, 'cause
that's what I wanted to do, use that one.

- Yeah.
- Yeah.

Oh, I see.

It's like asking Coca-Cola,

"Do you think these stupid little ads
have effect?" You know.

I was in the Himalayas,
and they have Coca-Cola.

And I think we can get people
hooked on peace.

Imagine all the people

Imagine all the people

Living for today

Imagine no possessions

- Play it over your rhythm.
- Yeah, all right.

See, I think it would be better
if he just played.

Nicky, we can try your...
an octave higher on the piano.

Playing the same as me almost.

- The bass sounds too trebly.
- Yeah. You know,

I actually thought it was best
when there was no drums at all

- and no bass even.
- Yeah, me too.

It sounds really nice on the comms

when I was just listening to it
with the piano.

To do something
is better than not to do something.

We have that choice, you know.
What little choice we have.

Imagine there's no heaven

It's easy if you try

I don't know how much effect we have.

No hell below us

But what's the alternative, you know?

Be apathetic, not bothered by anything.

Above us, only sky

Then what would I do then?

Imagine all the people

I just wanna live.

Living for today
I

And what I wanna do is express myself.

Imagine there's no countries

It isn't hard to do

Nothing to kill or die for

"Imagine," it was a song that was
designed to create a feeling of hope.

Imagine all the people

Living life in peace
You

And it's the hope which created
the activism, the activity.

The feeling that if you got off
your backside

and participated in some actions,
you could change the world.

I hope someday you will join us

And the world will live as one

Few musical events in recent years
have attracted as much attention

as George Harrison's concert
for the relief of the refugee children

of the holocaust in East Pakistan.

It's scheduled for August 1st
here at the Garden.

And although tickets don't even
go on sale until Thursday,

the lines have already started to form.

Mr. Harrison, with all of
the enormous problems in the world,

how did you happen to choose this one?

Because I was asked by a friend
if I'd help, you know. That's all.

I talked with George,

and he was very sympathetic,
and he wanted... Yes, it came about.

At that stage, the most important thing

was to bring world attention
to the fact

that the Bengalis
were being treated very poorly.

The concert happened to be
on August the 1st

because that was the only day
Madison Square Garden was available.

So there was very little time
to organize it with Phil Spector.

The concert,
I just agreed for the phenomenon

of the idea of working with
all that great talent.

I mean Eric and Leon Russell.

- Ringo.
- Yeah.

And Ringo.

I wasn't invited.

He didn't want it to be
like the Beatles situation.

And I just called him
and said I'm coming.

If not for you

Dylan, that was, I think,
from coercion by George.

If not for you

And Bob was very cooperative.

Babe, the night would see me
Wide awake

The day would surely have to break

But it would not be new

If not for you

This concert marks the first time
that George Harrison

will have the center stage to himself.

Ironically, probably the last time
the fans were turned on like this

is when the Beatles themselves played
together as a group at Shea Stadium.

From Madison Square Garden,
this is Geraldo Rivera

reporting for channel 7,
Eyewitness News.

George, look over here!

Look over here!

Outside Madison Square Garden,

you could buy anything
except tickets for the rock concert

to benefit homeless children
in East Pakistan.

The scalpers were peddling
standing-room-only tickets for $35 apiece.

Bangladesh was the first huge show
for charity.

There were two concerts.

One in the afternoon at 2:00
and one at 8:00.

George was very nervous.

George had a lot on his plate.

You know. I mean, you gotta remember,
man, he put this whole thing together.

And it was all on him.

Hare Krishna.

Gandhi said, "Create and preserve
the image of your choice."

The point is that I can be
Lennon and McCartney too,

but I'd rather be Harrison, you know.

Here we go.

I wanna be God-conscious,
and at the same time,

if I can relay something on somebody
in the form of music...

Thank you, thank you. You're so kind.

...it gives back, you know, so much.

The crowd was ecstatic.

For him not having played
in front of an audience for so long.

I mean, there was jamming,
and there was real stuff going on.

It wasn't just like a
spit-out Beatles set

that had been the way
they'd had to do it before.

I think that was exciting to him.

Overnight,
everybody knew the name of Bangladesh

all over the world because it came out
in all the newspapers everywhere.

Good evening.

One of the cruelest legacies
produced by war is inflation.

Prosperity without war requires action.

I am today ordering a freeze

on all prices and wages
throughout the United States.

The freeze is unfair.

The administration is aware
that there is great doubt

about the Nixon approach.

How many people today seen a white man
has messed up everything?

Nixon, that he's using now
Black capitalism.

The very nature of capitalism
is to exploit and oppress people.

In 1971 I was a member
of the Black Panther Party

working on free breakfast programs
for schoolchildren.

Because I wanted kids to wake up
in the morning and have food.

You'd be surprised
how many hungry people there live.

The United States government
was shooting rockets to the moon.

There's nobody living on the moon.

Kids and people down here are hungry.

My brothers and sisters,
it burns my craw

from the justice point of view.

You see, it seems that we're always
on the short end of the stick.

And I feel somebody
will have to say something

according to those who are accordable.

I think this is my cross to bear.

I'm a messenger. I'm like Noah.

Oh, make me wanna holler

The way they do my life, yeah

The poverty level,
discrimination, the war.

There's never been an album like that
totally dedicated to what was going on.

When that album came out,
Marvin Gaye reset the whole situation.

And Motown's not known for revolution.

Oh, make me wanna holler
And throw up both my hands

Solving social ills with song.
It's a watershed album.

Marvin Gaye,
he changed everything with that album.

It was like Sgt. Pepper.
It had that kind of an impact.

When Marvin wanted to do a protest album
talking about police brutality,

the Vietnam war, I was petrified.

But he convinced me.

He told me he wanted to
awaken the minds of mankind.

Because it was slightly different
and innovative,

they felt like they
were taking a chance.

But everybody always telling me,
"You have something special."

And someday, somehow, someway,
I'm supposed to do something

that is supposed to affect
everybody's lives in some way.

What time does that say?
I can't even see it.

Oh, it's time.

I think people are a bit cooler
in New York. I love it, you know.

- Oh, sh... A quarter to.
- Oh, John.

Nearly broke the lights.

I didn't meet John and Yoko
until November of '71.

What was interesting is that John
was planning a concert tour for peace,

and the Nixon administration
was afraid of him.

And John and Yoko were saying
they're hearing clicks on the phone.

They thought the phones were tapped.

And it wasn't until,
you know, years later

that they found out
the FBI really was following him.

Wanted him thrown out of the country.

It seems that you're radicalized.

You're more interested in politics now
than at the time of...

- Of Beatles?
- Yeah.

The Beatles was a period of my life,
you know. I've got a long time to go.

So this is Christmas

And what have you done?

As an artist, I always try
to express myself, you know,

and to help create an atmosphere
where we're not afraid of each other.

I mean, why are they killing everyone?
It's fear.

And so this is Christmas

For weak and for strong

1971, I don't think the music
was a reflection of the times

as much as the music
also caused the times.

...that the war movement was over.

Yeah!

John Lennon was being investigated

because rock stars
were the most influential people.

My husband would say
dissent is the gasoline of democracy.

He liked to use that term.

Apathy, isn't it?

Okay, so flower power didn't work.
So what? We start again.

I just think the monster is insane.

We're doing what is right, as promised.

And he's careless.
And that's what it's about.

Okay. Fine, fine. We'll call you later.

I still think
we ought to take the dikes out now.

Will that drown people?

That would drown about 200,000 people.

Well, no...
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb.

Have you got that ready?

That, I think, would just be too much.

The nuclear bomb? Does that bother you?

I just want you to think big, Henry,
for Christ's sake...

1971, the band was not in a good way.

Sly disappeared.

Flower power!

Pills, cocaine, angel dust.

That was just the way
the world was at that time.

The pressure was now on them
to come up with an album.

They were all on their own.

And no one knew
where it was all going to end.