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The Who are a British rock band considered to be one of the most influential of the 20th century. The group formed in 1964, and went on to sell over 100 million records worldwide. In 1969, The Who released their album Tommy, which was about a deaf, dumb and blind boy and his attempts to communicate with the rest of the world. On February 14, 1970, The Who recorded a live album at Leeds University in England. The band wanted to use the live recording to show how different their live sound was to that on Tommy. Live at Leeds is now considered to be one of the best live rock albums of all time. In this video, fans and crew remember the concert.

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The Who Perform Live At Leeds appeared first on Witnify.

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On January 30, 1969, The Beatles gave their final live performance from the rooftop of Apple Records in London, England. The concert was a surprise and lasted 42 minutes. The concert was recorded for the 1970 documentary film Let It Be, and the Beatles played nine takes of five songs. In this video, one of the police officers sent to shut down the concert remembers getting to witness the concert, saying: “And despite my instructions to arrest The Beatles along with my colleagues, no one was ever going to do that because to have done so would have ended perhaps what would become the greatest concert that ever happened”.

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The Beatles Give Their Final Live Performance appeared first on Witnify.

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Andrew Loog Oldham became the manager of The Rolling Stones in 1963 when he was only nineteen years old. He produced all of The Stones’s albums from 1963 to 1967 and is credited with promoting an image for The Rolling Stones to contrast that of The Beatles. Oldham’s relationship with The Rolling Stones became strained due to his drug use and the band’s legal problems, and he stopped managing the band in 1967. In this video, Oldham discusses the story of him “locking” Mick Jagger and Keith Richards to write music.

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“I Want to Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles was recorded in October 1963 and released in the United States on December 26, 1963. The song went on to become the band’s first number one hit in the United States, and was responsible for sparking Beattlemania in the United States. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on February 1, 1964, and remained there for seven weeks, before being replaced by another Beatles song “She Loves You”. In this video, American musicians recall the impact that the Beatles had on their lives. Says Tom Petty: “The Beatles was probably the big influence. Whoever was playing, rhythmically, I loved all that.”

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The Impact Of The Beatles’s “I Want To Hold Your Hand” appeared first on Witnify.

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The Grateful Dead were an American rock band from California that first came together in 1965. The band was known for live performances of long musical improvisation, and have sold more than 35 million albums worldwide. In 1994, the band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The band’s founding members were Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Ron “Pigpen” Mckernan, Phil Lesh and Bill Kreutzmann. In this video, the band sits down to discuss the band’s history and progression. When asked how the Grateful Dead have managed to stay current, Weir says: “I don’t think we’ve stayed current. I don’t think we ever were current. I think we’ve been sort of singular in our whole endeavor, and will probably stay that way. I mean, all we’re trying to do is just satisfy our own standards. They’re pretty steep.” When asked about changes in the music, Garcia responds: “It changes as we change. I mean, the musicians over the years, the musicians have all gotten to be better, and our experience with each other has gotten to be greater and our experience at doing the Grateful Dead music, whatever that is, has gotten to be – there’s more time we put in, so it’s something we’re getting to be almost good at. But for us it keeps opening up in front of us. We would never have imagined we’d be playing the music we’re playing now two years ago or five years ago or whatever.”

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The Grateful Dead On Their Musical Progression appeared first on Witnify.

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In this video, Robert Page and Jimmy Plant of Led Zeppelin discuss what it was like to play with drummer Jason Bonham, son of original Led Zeppelin member John Bonham. John Bonham died of alcohol poisoning on September 25, 1980. The band felt that they could not go on after his death, and officially disbanded on December 4, 1980

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Jimi Hendrix remains one of the most influential electric guitarists of all time, in spite of the fact that his career was cut short by his tragic death on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27. In this video clip, Hendrix is asked how often he practices the guitar. He responds: “I like to play to myself… in the room or before we go on stage or something like this, or whenever I feel down or depressed or whatever, you know. I can’t practice though, this is always constantly, what do you call it? Like a jam, you know. It’s hard for me to remember any notes ’cause I’m constantly trying to create other things. That’s why I make a lot of mistakes.”

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Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel are childhood friends who went on to form one of the most popular American folk rock duos of the 1960s. In this video, Paul Simon discusses his relationship with Art Garfunkel, saying: “Periodically, we got on each other’s nerves. When I say periodically I mean, if we’re together than every day, probably. It has a flow to it, and in a performance situation if you don’t experience nerves in the typical butterflies-in-your-stomach type of nervousness, it comes out in some way and it just… you know, I guess you get on each other’s nerves because your nerves are heightened.” Of the duration of their friendship, Simon says: “I’ve known Art since I’m 10 years old. So, I think we’ve developed our own style of disagreement. It’s a very subtle way of irritating the other person. I must also add that we laugh a lot, and it’s a very very long relationship. It’s the longest relationship that I have in my life… It’s really odd to know somebody for that long.”

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Paul McCartney reminisces on writing songs with his fellow Beatles member, John Lennon. He tells a funny story of a time when Lennon, who was practically blind without his glasses on, mistook a nativity scene for a group of people playing cards for a ridiculous amount of hours outside. McCartney mentions how Lennon was greatly inspired by rock and roll pioneer Buddy Holly–and mentions how they both appreciated how unlike Elvis, Holly wrote his own music: “Buddy wrote and played. And played the solos. He was a self-contained guy, which was what we were trying to emulate.”

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Paul McCartney on John Lennon & Their Love of Buddy Holly appeared first on Witnify.

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Michael Stipe on writing the band REM’s hit song Losing My Religion

Michael Stipe and Mike Mills of the band R.E.M. discuss why they decided to disband and their upcoming retrospective album. The split came after 31 years together and was an amicable one. Mills and Stipe tell Norwegian TV: “We have the rare opportunity to walk away on our own terms and for the only reason to be because we want to. No outside pressures, no bad things happening, no anger, no lawyers…” R.E.M. posted the news on their website in September of 2011 after many mainstream successes and critical acclaim as pioneers of alternative rock from the 1980s to the 1990s.

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Michael Stipe on Losing My Religion appeared first on Witnify.