"This popular notion that Brian Wilson did nothing during the 70s but lay in bed and then magically reappeared in the 80s minimizes the compelling and fascinating music he made during a very turbulent period of his life."
"Hello darkness, my old friend...but what's the story behind that haunting opening line?"
"Rock music: Several fragments of Paleolithic flutes have been discovered in caves and dated to tens of thousands of years old."
"The music world would never be the same again." - On the last photo of John Lennon.
"It's where Aerosmith really began to achieve iconic or legendary rock status."
"Country music is a black art; it has black roots."
"George Harrison was one of the biggest musical names of the 20th century."
"Their music defined the sound of the 60s and sparked the phenomenon of Beatlemania."
"The Beatles personal contribution, the double A-side single, became one of England's best-selling singles in 20 years."
"Heartbreak Hotel was the biggest selling hit of 1956 and was Elvis's first million-selling single."
"Metallica became the first band ever to play a concert on all seven continents in one year."
"I think there's so much to learn from great music, even if it was created over 50 years ago, because you can hear the roots of so much modern music in the greats of the past."
"The Beatles is one of the reasons why the mania became a phenomenon in the first place. Like, nobody cared about music in the same way without Elvis, Beatles, and the Stones."
"The sophistication in music of the 60s... there was an incredible music sophistication that started in the mid 60s."
"While the question of who truly invented heavy metal may never be settled, one thing is for certain: there can be but one Black Sabbath."
"The Jam had something that I really don't think has ever been captured again. It's the ability to be fresh and exciting, intelligent, commercial because they had to be, and have a huge impact."
"More than any other band of their era, they really documented what was going on. For anyone who was brought up in that period, they were just like the greatest thing that ever happened."
"On August 11th, 1973, a DJ named Kool Herc threw a back-to-school party in the Bronx that changed music as we know it."
"Freddie Mercury died too young. To mark the 20th anniversary, this documentary traces the creation of the glam rock super band Queen."
"Elvis often made it clear to his audience that black musicians should be credited for the music he performed."
"I think he's most likely to go down as a marker for this era of music."
"Rap before Nicki Minaj and rap after Nicki Minaj."
"Sergio Simpson's an essential character in the modern country music story."
"By chance, former classmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet on the railway platform."
"It was number nine, and finally on March 2nd, 1963, The Beatles had their first number one hit."
"The Beatles were very lucky. Their alchemy with George Martin synthesized real gold."
"What was happening was an instant snowballing of popularity as words spread about the new and improved Beatles back from Hamburg."
"The greatest recordings of this era... some of the greatest music that America has ever created..."
"It was a beautiful tribute to one of the most influential names in music history, and it's clear that Brown himself would have approved."
"Puff has 30 years of Bad Boy, it's Bad Boy. Yeah, you cannot take it out of music history."
"We made music history as an independent artist."
"Rap would look so [ __ ] different if a lot of those people were still here."
"The Beatles were at the cutting edge of live performance."
"Do you think that trying to give somebody a really hearty, fatty, meaty meal at the beginning of the day is like their body's not ready for it?"
"The character's debut came out in June 1972 as 'The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars.' What do you want me to say? It's a classic."
"Fairport Convention changed dramatically from the moment Sandy Denny joined."
"It's just a tremendous collection of songs and really quite a seminal record in the emergence of English British folk rock."
"Bowie released many critically acclaimed albums throughout his career, some of his most popular songs included Space Oddity, Changes, Heroes, and let's dance."
"Neil wrote 'Limelight' in the late 70s to express his discomfort with the constant attention that came with Rush's megastardom."
"The sound of mainstream pop and rock drumming in the 1980s was, to a large extent, the sound of Jeff Porcaro."
"It might well be the Beatles' 'The Long and Winding Road.'"
"Quick as the name is considered one of the greatest hip-hop G-funk albums of history."
"The story of Elvis Presley's rise is emblematic of the American dream."
"The album laid the blueprint for an AOR genre and became a staple of FM radio in the US."
"And it even led to The folks at EMI deciding to embrace the inner street fan within them, as they renamed their building to Abbey Road Studios as a tribute to the Beatles' ending."
"Abbey Road is the best possible ending the Beatles could have made."
"Echoes was a turning point in Pink Floyd's history."
"The boy who would become the undisputed king of pop started singing with his brothers at the age of five."
"Aretha Franklin was an incomparable artist who came to be recognized as one of the most profound voices in music, known universally as the Queen of Soul." - Recording Academy statement
"1988 was hands-down the best year of hip-hop. I might even do a documentary about 1988."
"N.W.A.'s 'F**k the Police' marked a pivotal moment in rap history."
"Give us all we really need, shelter. And I was really like pleading to God, you know, 'Please, Lord, give us shelter.'"
"The Beatles are something else, they're the stuff of legend."
"Beyoncé made history last night, breaking the record for the person with the most Grammys."
"Black music infiltrates everything; we are the creators of so many different things that we do not get credit for."
"In 1972, Freddie added the alias Mercury to his assumed name."
"The legacy of crisscross... took the Music World by storm."
"It resulted in Slaughter being one of the last bands from that hair metal era to hit it big."
"The seattle music scene is renowned for its legendary contributions to rock history."
"Pearl Jam recorded '10' in the spring of 1991."
"For the first time ever, five hip-hop icons unite under one roof."
"Bathory took black metal from an amorphous catch-all used to describe any number of wildly divergent styles and turned it into a bonafide movement."
"Little-known guitarist Lindsey Buckingham and singer Stevie Nicks closed out the year by joining the rock group Fleetwood Mac."
"'Echoes' is the point where Pink Floyd became the Pink Floyd you know."
"Robert Johnson died in 1938, but it wasn't until a couple of decades later when his work was reissued that he finally achieved the fame he supposedly sold his soul for."
"The Buggles and Video Killed the Radio Star continued to have a long Legacy."
"No story in the world could end up the way it is other than hip-hop. It's a beautiful story and it's an American story."
"The Message was the first time hip-hop actually grew up."
"People were still not taking rap seriously until about 2014-2015. That was pretty much the year when everything changed."
"During one calendar year, they released Help, Rubber Soul, Yesterday and Today, and Revolver."
"Legions of Beatles fans literally stopped traffic just so they can walk where their Heroes once had."
"Putting the beat back into the Beatles. Here Comes the Sun, the last Beatle song."
"The Beatles were always lucky, and this sounds like the last Beatles song."
"The Beatles turned the whole recording scene upside down, they were as Brian Epstein memorably said, bigger than Elvis."
"Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band remains the United Kingdom's best-selling studio album."
"This is a great opportunity to own a piece of Beatles history."
"Getting to see The Fab Four in this element of rehearsing, collaborating, spitballing, vibing with each other... is so special." - Amy Nolte
"His 1982 album, Thriller, is the best-selling album of all time."
"George reflects on the harrowing days of Beatlemania in the 1960s and every single trick in the Beatles' book was thrown at this song."
"Without any of these influences from America, you wouldn't have had the Beatles."
"Remembering Jackie Wilson: a legend in music history."
"Thank you so much for coming, you're definitely intertwining a very important story in music and hip-hop."
"If it weren't for the records themselves, a lot of this music would have been forgotten."
"American Pie remains one of the most beloved and powerful songs in American popular music history."
"92 was a dope year for hip-hop. I feel like there's going to be a lot of history to come out of this one."
"This rock singer found top 10 success with a cover of The Crickets 'I Fought the Law'. The single was released in late 1965."
"By 1972's 'Exile on Main Street,' the Stones were left seemingly unchallenged as the world's greatest rock and roll band."
"Some Girls provided the shot in the arm that the Stones' career so desperately needed."
"The Stones still had a kind of currency here so they could tap into punk and they could tap into disco."
"Ultimately SoundCloud rap changed rap music history."
"Michael Jackson's discography over the course of 30 years..."
"Tunak Tunak Tun walked so that Gangnam Style could run."
"Songs from his home studio... that's the story of Dollar Mendy and Tunak to Noktun, a song that has an important place not just in music history but in internet history."
"No Scrubs is notably one of the biggest songs of the 90s, 2000s, 2010s."
"The Birds changed the West Coast music scene overnight."
"I've realized that far after I'm gone from here that I will be a part of music history."
"The 20th century was one of the most expansive periods in music history, particularly for America."
"The Beatles' later work is when they started really getting their minds opened up."
"Eleanor Rigby is buried in a Liverpool Cemetery that McCartney used to go to in his childhood."
"There was no turning back for the genre after an opening verse that tore the roof off of convention."
"But understand, Nicki more than any female rapper at the time made hip-hop about the ladies for real."
"Jimi Hendrix's passionate rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner at Woodstock had a cultural impact."
"Queen stole the show at Live Aid with an incredible 21-minute set."
"It's Glen Campbell, it's John Paul Jones on the melotron on the zeppo. I mean what's the difference tonight?"
"Bob Marley's refusal to be intimidated and his powerful 90-minute set in front of 80,000 fans."
"Johnny Cash performed live at California's San Quentin Prison, leading a rowdy crowd of inmates."
"Michael Jackson popularized the moonwalk, stopping the world for a moment."
"Bob Dylan's electric performance at Newport signaled the decline of folk and the rise of rock and roll."
"Selena did for Tejano music what Elvis and the Beatles did for rock and roll."
"Fuzz was huge because it helped shape the sound of the 60s."
"New Orleans is the birth of all American music in my opinion."
"I had three generations of music because my dad was born in the 40s, my mom was born in the 60s, and I'm born in the 90s."
"Harry also inducted Stevie Nicks into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his suit that he wore to do that is like hung up."
"My dad told me how this song came to be. I remember he would joke with me that Maggie Mae was the Mrs. Robinson of the 70s."
"It's not an exaggeration to say that this album left a permanent mark on the world."
"The Sherman Brothers wrote 'The Bare Necessities,' one of the studio's most memorable tunes."
"In the 90s, rock got darker, but so did everything else. Rock still had upbeat, fun bands like The Offspring, Green Day, and Third Eye Blind."
"It broke the industry, it blew The Beatles and everyone else away, and added more mystique to these purveyors of the California dream."
"As the years ticked by, Smile became the most legendary unreleased album in music."
"The longevity and iconic status of the vinyl record as a music format cannot be ignored though."
"How can anyone say they're hip-hop without knowing about the old school? It's a crime, I tell you."
"We literally created almost like NWA... we created something powerful."
"David Bowie began his wildly unconventional life in an ordinary working-class London neighborhood."
"Playing by the rules was the key to success, but by rejecting conformity, David Bowie ironically became Brixton's most famous native son."
"There was never a calculation that we had decided that this music is grunge."
"NSYNC's most famous song of all time, 'Bye Bye Bye,' that is about Lou Perlman and breaking free from him."
"Blondie transcended from cult status to musical icons."
"How can rock music be white people music when black people were the ones who invented it?"
"Basement Productions was the original name for Soul Intent. They did release their first EP under this name, making itself title and it consisted of six songs, three by Eminem and three by Chaos Kid respectively."
"The music of Woodstock famous worldwide... became the soundtrack of our youth."
"I think no one kept mentioning Machine Head and I'm like, the Robb Flynn-Phil Demmel connection. How could we not mention Violence?"
"The success of Nat King Cole's capital recordings led to the nickname 'the house that NAT built.'"
"We could talk about an album seriously from three years ago or two years ago that didn't get the love that deserve because that doesn't mean like the project never happened."
"Is Beethoven really the greatest composer who ever lived, and more importantly, how do you know?"
"Beethoven is the biggest name in what's called the Western Classical Canon."
"Jump leaped over internal conflict and years of artistic dissension to become the lead single for Van Halen's humongous 1984 album."
"Stop for a minute and think about how great the rock and roll era was."
"In order to understand why somebody does what they do we have to go back way back back into time so sorry I had to pull out the Casey and Jo Jo lyrics you know because we're talking about like 90s R&B right now and I just had to do it."
"Taking a trip back in time through synthetic sounds."
"He bridged a lot of stuff, him and Big Daddy Kane, Public Enemy, man."
"Horizon 4 holds a very special place in my heart."
"1984 was a year where you had the biggest blockbuster albums ever with hit single after hit single."
"1984 was the greatest year in music history, bar none."
"Violator: The defining masterpiece of the new wave period."
"Linkin Park was the single biggest point of entry into rock and metal for a whole generation of kids."
"London Calling by The Clash is one of the best singles of the 70s."
"Hip hop is almost 50 years old now, with dozens of subgenres based on every musical aesthetic imaginable."
"In 1973, Elton John reportedly pranked the band by storming the stage in a gorilla costume."
"Robert Johnson's legend lives on, fueled by rumors of a pact with the devil."
"Rita Marley was a good-looking woman in her prime. Without Rita, we never would have had Bob Marley, let's keep it real."
"When Coldplay released 'Yellow,' everything would change."
"For many people, Dark Side of the Moon is the Crown Jewel in Pink Floyd's catalog."
"John Denver passionately fought for Take Me Home Country Roads."
"Rocky Mountain High it's come a long way from the FCC scrutiny and sporadic radio Banning that happened in 72. it's become a pop culture anthem of Americana that made John Denver one of the most beloved entertainment icons of his Generation."
"That's a record for the '80s as the most streamed number one and number two hit of the decade in the same week."
"Arguably the track that birthed the sub-genre of thrash."
"Black Sabbath, the pioneers of heavy metal who inadvertently created Paranoid, a song that changed all of music forever."
"You know, when I go back to like when I think about Jack Johnson and I think about you know you know all of the guy what he did you know even Jack Johnson I mean you got to really respect the craft you know what I'm saying."
"From that break came a massive hit that started as a fast song but when it was slowed down and played on a piano instead of a guitar it became one of the most heart-wrenching rock ballads of the late 80s."
"Black people invented every form of music that's out there. If we have our money, if we have restitution, we would never need these other people who are canceling Nike contracts and all this stuff."
"The Sherman Brothers were an American songwriting duo made up of Robert and Richard Sherman."
"Middle Eastern music and European music have common roots."
"Video game music has been around long enough that it is itself an equally important and vast catalog of music that is now set to be reinterpreted."
"You have to give 80s and 90s New York hardcore a massive amount of credit for laying the foundation for so so much of what we now look at as hardcore culture."
"Led Zeppelin coming together was destiny and it's exactly what rock and roll needed."
"In 1959, Barry Gordy founded Motown Records... touching all people regardless of skin color."
"People have borrowed things. It happened in classical music 400 years ago. It probably happened in Gregorian chant. 'Hey, you stole my chant!'"
"She has a musical Legacy that goes back to the 1960s."
"Welcome back to One Hit Wonderland. We take a look at bands and artists known for only one song."
"More than probably anybody else, they were the ones that took that 90s basement screamo kind of sound to the mainstream."
"Elvis was only 21 when he became ridiculously famous."
"People love the set regardless, stamped in the hall of fame of hip-hop."
"Just watching this legendary footage from Queen's conquering performance at the Live Aid festival is enough to convince almost anyone that Freddie Mercury and the boys were the best live musical acts of all time."
"There was no bigger presence in rap history than Biggie Smalls."
"Little Richard’s style and success would make him one of the first crossover black artists."
"Metallica basically created the modern idea of metal."
"The king is James Brown, he had the elements that produced what became popular music and R&B."
"He views himself as a preserver of music history."
"We needed a way to celebrate his music and enough time had sort of passed that I think not just my dad, but a lot of artists that I used to sort of just take for granted were in the ether."
"Houston's debut album Whitney Houston 1985 became the bestselling debut album by a female artist at the time."
"Speaking of feminist anthems you gotta love that the original writer of respect Otis Redding admitted live on stage that Aretha Franklin stole this song from him and made it her own." - "Respect"
"Nick Drake who was barely recognized while he was alive yet many years later would be recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time."
"Not only does Cash's version rank among the best recordings of its era, it's also one of the boldest covers of recent memory." - Johnny Cash
"Paranoid by Black Sabbath seems like a perfect example of something that influenced the genre."
"If music was only ever the popular people from the 60s or the 70s or the 80s and then everyone else just wasn't good enough or the times didn't change or there weren't fresh perspectives, it would just be a snooze fest."
"The most pervasive and creatively successful record in Bowie's catalog."
"These kids from Westerville, Ohio changed the face of heavy music overnight with that song and video."
"West coast rap originated in northern california when a rapper named too short emerged with his debut album in 1987."
"Atmosphere is among the most beautiful things that Joy Division and Hannett created together."
"Discovery and interstella brought this visual identity to the world, turning them into ageless icons."
"Athens, Georgia: A vibrant college town with an amazing musical history. It's definitely a cool city to live in."
"The Ramones of the Black Sabbath of punk rock meaning while you can trace back the heavy-metal mythology to all the blue cheers or alice cooper's you fucking like it wasn't until Sabbath that it all congealed."
"John's love of classical music led the second and groundbreaking deep purple lineup into the concerto for group and orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall."
"We're about to witness the strength of Street knowledge." - Ice Cube
"America loves outlaws and underdogs, and NWA was both." - Anthony Fantano
"Straight Outta Compton is daring, influential, and pivotal to rap music history." - Anthony Fantano
"But long before the tragedy, he was best known as the mind behind some of the greatest pop songs in history using his signature 'Wall of Sound.'"
"Paul McCartney was often different than the rest of the band... on the Abbey Road cover Paul has his right foot forward while everyone else has their left foot forward."
"Actress Mary Wilson: 'One of the legendary Supremes whose Timeless hits included where did our love go and baby love.'"