0:00:02 > 0:00:05- He's smashing!- I kissed him! I kissed his hand!- I kissed his hand!- I kissed his hand!
0:00:05 > 0:00:08I went, "Oh!"
0:00:10 > 0:00:15Pop music. It's illuminated our lives and made the world a better place.
0:00:15 > 0:00:19This is its story, told by those of us who love it the most.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20The fans.
0:00:22 > 0:00:26Fans from all over the country have been digging out and sharing with us
0:00:26 > 0:00:30some of their most treasured, rare and unlikely memorabilia.
0:00:31 > 0:00:36Their first record, a favourite ticket, a drumstick!
0:00:36 > 0:00:39All precious and all with a wonderful story.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44It's a way of life. It really was. Northern Soul was a way of life.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48When punk came along, it changed the way I thought about everything.
0:00:48 > 0:00:51I wanted a bit more bite to it.
0:00:51 > 0:00:54And The Smiths gave me that - and then some.
0:00:54 > 0:00:57So, whether you're a fan of psychedelia or heavy metal,
0:00:57 > 0:00:59glam or prog rock,
0:00:59 > 0:01:03punk, reggae, acid house or hip-hop - and I like them all -
0:01:03 > 0:01:05this is about us,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08the people who devoured this thing called pop and saw it change who we
0:01:08 > 0:01:11were and the world we lived in.
0:01:15 > 0:01:20Tonight, we're in the era when things got a little more heated.
0:01:20 > 0:01:24And where two extraordinary friends changed everything.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28The age of giddy innocence was well and truly over.
0:01:28 > 0:01:31Now, it was no longer enough to flirt with pop music,
0:01:31 > 0:01:34we wanted to get serious.
0:01:34 > 0:01:37For younger people, it just felt like it was exploding.
0:01:37 > 0:01:41You didn't have to comform to what your parents did.
0:01:41 > 0:01:44Nobody had ever seen anything like him before.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46I didn't have a life before David Bowie!
0:01:46 > 0:01:50So, let's talk about what we believed in.
0:01:51 > 0:01:53What we looked like.
0:01:54 > 0:01:56How we boogalooed.
0:01:57 > 0:01:59And who we could be.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06This programme contains some strong language.
0:02:09 > 0:02:11MUSIC: I Feel Free by Cream
0:02:20 > 0:02:24Now, everyone likes to fight their corner about what era was the best to be a pop fan.
0:02:27 > 0:02:30But I'm afraid, my friends, I win this battle hands down.
0:02:34 > 0:02:39The fact is, the golden years were during my youth.
0:02:39 > 0:02:44Look at it. All this magnificent music, all these styles, genres,
0:02:44 > 0:02:47all of this invention. And yet the fact is,
0:02:47 > 0:02:52if it hadn't been for what happened to pop music between 1966 and 1976,
0:02:52 > 0:02:54none of this would exist.
0:02:54 > 0:02:58And more importantly, neither would the effect it had on millions of
0:02:58 > 0:02:59lives, changing them forever.
0:03:07 > 0:03:11To be a fan of music in this period was to wake up every morning,
0:03:11 > 0:03:14throw back the covers and think, "What now?"
0:03:17 > 0:03:22But if you were a fan waking up one August morning in 1966,
0:03:22 > 0:03:23the news wasn't good.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29The biggest band in the world were exiting the stage.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33Having grown tired of their life as a teenage fan's pin-up,
0:03:33 > 0:03:35the Beatles had played their last gig.
0:03:39 > 0:03:43Retreating to the studio, they no longer wanted to hold our hands,
0:03:43 > 0:03:46they wanted to expand our minds.
0:03:52 > 0:03:55With the screaming of the Beatlemania years fading,
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Jo Edkins was now searching for the music's hidden meaning.
0:04:03 > 0:04:04And for nearly 50 years,
0:04:04 > 0:04:07she's kept her precious copy of the album
0:04:07 > 0:04:10that introduced her to their new sound.
0:04:10 > 0:04:12This is the album.
0:04:12 > 0:04:17Sergeant Pepper. And, well, a very famous album, this montage...
0:04:17 > 0:04:22This is interesting, because I remember this as having far more people in it.
0:04:22 > 0:04:24I know we used to look through it,
0:04:24 > 0:04:27trying to work out who we could recognise and...
0:04:28 > 0:04:30There's Dylan up there, for example.
0:04:30 > 0:04:34I mean, it didn't look like any other album LP cover at the time.
0:04:34 > 0:04:37And it was funny, because those were the early Beatles,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41that's what they looked like then, all miserable, grumpy.
0:04:41 > 0:04:43This is what we look like now. Bright and cheerful!
0:04:45 > 0:04:48MUSIC: Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite by The Beatles
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Sergeant Pepper was about more than just the music.
0:04:51 > 0:04:53For fans, it was a gift full of pop art,
0:04:53 > 0:04:57bright colours and this essential set of cardboard cut-outs.
0:04:59 > 0:05:03There was a postcard and those were a couple of stripes to put on your
0:05:03 > 0:05:05shoulder, to make you a sergeant.
0:05:06 > 0:05:10And that was a cut-out moustache that would hook into your nose.
0:05:11 > 0:05:15I don't know anybody who ever cut anything out of this.
0:05:18 > 0:05:21It was also the first album to print the songs' lyrics on its sleeve.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25Words and music had equal billing.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28It was as if the Beatles had something to say to us.
0:05:29 > 0:05:32My favourite track was Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35It sounded like poetry to me.
0:05:35 > 0:05:36I didn't like real poetry, I mean...
0:05:38 > 0:05:40Wordsworth's "Daffodils"...
0:05:40 > 0:05:42What's that about?
0:05:44 > 0:05:46You're on a boat on the river.
0:05:46 > 0:05:50I imagine it's a punt, since I live in Cambridge.
0:05:50 > 0:05:54Meeting somebody, very attractive, or possibly somebody they love.
0:05:55 > 0:05:58"Picture yourself on a boat in the river,
0:05:58 > 0:06:01"with tangerine trees and marmalade skies.
0:06:03 > 0:06:05"Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly...
0:06:06 > 0:06:08"..the girl with kaleidoscope eyes."
0:06:10 > 0:06:13It seemed to be using interesting imagery.
0:06:13 > 0:06:17It seems to have words you couldn't quite understand,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19but you felt that they meant something.
0:06:19 > 0:06:22And that's what I thought poetry was then.
0:06:22 > 0:06:24MUSIC: Tomorrow Never Knows by The Beatles
0:06:28 > 0:06:31With their abstract lyrics and sonic textures,
0:06:31 > 0:06:34the Beatles were tapping into the sound of the times.
0:06:34 > 0:06:35Psychedelia.
0:06:39 > 0:06:42Here, sounds and ideas were getting wilder and looser.
0:06:44 > 0:06:46This was a new movement, rejecting tradition,
0:06:46 > 0:06:50embracing a new way of life and looking at the world in a very different way.
0:06:53 > 0:06:55These music fans were on a different planet
0:06:55 > 0:06:57to the teenyboppers of yesterday.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02And it was the Beatles' music of this period that whetted
0:07:02 > 0:07:04Don Letts's appetite.
0:07:08 > 0:07:12The Beatles came to me at a point in my life when I was trying to find
0:07:12 > 0:07:14my own identity through the music I consumed
0:07:14 > 0:07:15or the clothes I was wearing.
0:07:17 > 0:07:21Indeed, Don became so obsessed, he started to amass one of
0:07:21 > 0:07:24the largest collections of Beatles memorabilia in the country.
0:07:25 > 0:07:27Not all of it official releases.
0:07:29 > 0:07:31I think the Beatles are really, you know,
0:07:31 > 0:07:33one of the first bands to kind of be bootlegged so much.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37I mean, this is a small selection, I've got about 100.
0:07:37 > 0:07:39Yeah, these coloured vinyls.
0:07:39 > 0:07:42I remember these. That little thing on there, trademark of quality,
0:07:42 > 0:07:44this pig, meant they were good-quality bootlegs.
0:07:46 > 0:07:48The early incarnation of the Beatles, you know,
0:07:48 > 0:07:50with the short collars and the mop tops and the
0:07:50 > 0:07:52"Ooh" and the Jelly Baby thing.
0:07:52 > 0:07:54That's not my favourite period.
0:07:54 > 0:07:57When they got really interesting is when they started taking the drugs.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00And they could be musicians and be who they wanted to be.
0:08:00 > 0:08:03So beards and kaftans start happening.
0:08:03 > 0:08:08Not the greatest style, but the music started to get really interesting.
0:08:09 > 0:08:15And they just kind of captured the mood...
0:08:15 > 0:08:17I was going to say of the country, but of the whole world.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20For young people, it just felt like it was exploding.
0:08:30 > 0:08:34For some of us, this was also the year of protest and uprisings,
0:08:34 > 0:08:36from Paris to Prague and Vietnam.
0:08:36 > 0:08:41And the heartbeat of these changing times was our pop music.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47With the right sounds, fans could bathe their ears, free their minds,
0:08:47 > 0:08:50change their look and reshape the world.
0:08:50 > 0:08:51Well, that was the idea.
0:08:52 > 0:08:54Our pop music would be the soundtrack.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Its lyrics, the manifesto.
0:09:00 > 0:09:03Philosophy can be sometimes one word, and that is love.
0:09:03 > 0:09:05All you need is love.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07MUSIC: Glimpses by The Yardbirds
0:09:15 > 0:09:19Hand-in-hand with this movement was an exciting new way
0:09:19 > 0:09:21for fans to really get into the music.
0:09:23 > 0:09:25Out in the open!
0:09:25 > 0:09:28One of the biggest things to emerge from the scene was the birth of
0:09:28 > 0:09:30the open-air festival.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33By the late '60s, there were any amount of free festivals taking place
0:09:33 > 0:09:37where bands were playing in front of packed fields full of mud-caked,
0:09:37 > 0:09:40wildly dressed or naked hippies,
0:09:40 > 0:09:43all of them freaking out to the now sounds.
0:09:43 > 0:09:45Because a lot of them were stoned.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53And if you were a farmer with a few acres and a relaxed attitude,
0:09:53 > 0:09:56it wouldn't be long before an enterprising hippie got in touch,
0:09:56 > 0:09:58stuck up a stage and invited...
0:09:59 > 0:10:00..everyone.
0:10:06 > 0:10:09And that's what happened here on the sleepy Isle of Wight in 1970,
0:10:09 > 0:10:14as one of the epoch-defining music festivals came to this field.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20And the teenage Roger Simmonds was along for the trip.
0:10:22 > 0:10:24This is right where I stood.
0:10:25 > 0:10:27About 46 years ago.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30The stage was over there...
0:10:32 > 0:10:34..on that little bit of a hillock there,
0:10:34 > 0:10:36so pointing slightly towards the hill.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41You can see the backdrop there, Tennyson Down, and the Monument,
0:10:41 > 0:10:43and they could see that above the stage.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47And this is the stage area here.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51Pretty much looking back to where I am at the moment.
0:11:01 > 0:11:03- ARCHIVE:- Here come the hippies, the advance guard
0:11:03 > 0:11:06of an invasion force flooding into the Isle of Wight
0:11:06 > 0:11:07today for the music festival.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14An island four miles off the coast of Hampshire and 40 years behind
0:11:14 > 0:11:16the times, the Isle of Wight was full of tradition,
0:11:16 > 0:11:18suspicion and retired locals.
0:11:21 > 0:11:26So when 600,000 music fans, six times the island's population,
0:11:26 > 0:11:29turned up for the biggest musical gathering the world had ever seen,
0:11:29 > 0:11:32the islanders said, "Come on in, kids!
0:11:32 > 0:11:33"Have a good time!"
0:11:35 > 0:11:36Oh, no, hang on...
0:11:36 > 0:11:39The island cannot cope with the quantity of people.
0:11:41 > 0:11:43Kids running about naked,
0:11:43 > 0:11:45fucking in the bushes
0:11:45 > 0:11:47and doing every damn thing
0:11:47 > 0:11:50that they feel inclined to do.
0:11:54 > 0:11:57But not everyone got so lucky in the bushes.
0:11:57 > 0:11:59Most were there for only one thing.
0:11:59 > 0:12:00The music.
0:12:03 > 0:12:04When the festival line-up was announced,
0:12:04 > 0:12:07featuring some of the biggest acts of the time,
0:12:07 > 0:12:09it was too much for Brian Hinton to miss.
0:12:12 > 0:12:16His programme is a memento of an event that really blew his mind.
0:12:19 > 0:12:20This is the programme.
0:12:20 > 0:12:22Absolute work of art.
0:12:22 > 0:12:24You have the mandala.
0:12:24 > 0:12:28So, the idea of Eastern mysticism is coming in.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31Flowers flowering in a very extraordinary way.
0:12:31 > 0:12:36It's a very beneficent, pot-soaked sort of 1970 world.
0:12:36 > 0:12:39And then, when I saw the list of bands, I thought,
0:12:39 > 0:12:42"They CAN'T have Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, The Doors..."
0:12:42 > 0:12:45You know, Hendrix hadn't really played the UK for years.
0:12:45 > 0:12:47You know, these were really big names.
0:12:47 > 0:12:52If I miss this, I'm mad, because this has got, you know,
0:12:52 > 0:12:54all the people that you would never see in the UK.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59And there was a buzz about it.
0:12:59 > 0:13:03Everyone at school saying, "Are you going to the Isle of Wight?"
0:13:03 > 0:13:07I hadn't really been away from home before, other from Boy Scout camps!
0:13:07 > 0:13:09And suddenly, there I am,
0:13:09 > 0:13:14by myself among half a million people in this huge arena,
0:13:14 > 0:13:15or this huge space.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22And there was a truck outside
0:13:22 > 0:13:25on which naked men were playing rock music,
0:13:25 > 0:13:26part of Hawkwind.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29And I thought, "Well, this is different."
0:13:29 > 0:13:30You know? I have come to a different place.
0:13:32 > 0:13:33Yeah, it was a wonderful...
0:13:33 > 0:13:35Well, it was the best weekend of my life.
0:13:35 > 0:13:37Yeah. So far!
0:13:41 > 0:13:43Dubbed Britain's Woodstock,
0:13:43 > 0:13:45music fans stayed on the island for five days.
0:13:47 > 0:13:49Roger never really left.
0:13:51 > 0:13:54Well, welcome to my festival room.
0:13:54 > 0:13:56This is my little shrine.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Representative of the Isle of Wight festivals.
0:14:00 > 0:14:02I've got the collage of tickets there.
0:14:02 > 0:14:04That's a weekend ticket, which of course I had,
0:14:04 > 0:14:06but there were day tickets as well.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09A poster for the event.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12And I can remember walking back with my friend John
0:14:12 > 0:14:15that I went with and I said to him as we left the festival site,
0:14:15 > 0:14:18I thought, "Do you know what, we've had such a great time here," I said,
0:14:18 > 0:14:21"I wouldn't mind living here one day."
0:14:21 > 0:14:22And I did.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29This was more than just a music festival.
0:14:29 > 0:14:31It was over half a million people
0:14:31 > 0:14:34showing it was possible to live another way of life.
0:14:40 > 0:14:42The underground press came along.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46They would do daily bulletins for the people.
0:14:47 > 0:14:49In a way, this is the internet.
0:14:49 > 0:14:51This is the internet in 1970.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53It was a free news sheet that was given out.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Thousands of copies of these were distributed.
0:14:56 > 0:14:58By the nature of things, only a few now exist,
0:14:58 > 0:15:00because most people threw them away.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03They probably used them for loo paper, because there wasn't any there.
0:15:03 > 0:15:08And it's got things like, "Ken Coughin meet Gary at One Stop Records.
0:15:08 > 0:15:13"Phillip Jakeman meet John at main gate with asthma inhaler."
0:15:13 > 0:15:16"Caroline says please go to Canvas City immediately,
0:15:16 > 0:15:20"as your friend Linda has been busted."
0:15:20 > 0:15:22Now very valuable, they're very collectable.
0:15:22 > 0:15:25It's the counterculture in action.
0:15:25 > 0:15:28MUSIC: Naked Eye by The Who
0:15:34 > 0:15:39Music fans were treated to one of the greatest gatherings of bands in this or any era.
0:15:39 > 0:15:43From a standout performance by The Who...
0:15:43 > 0:15:45And in the early hours of Sunday morning,
0:15:45 > 0:15:46resplendent in bright orange,
0:15:46 > 0:15:50came Jimi Hendrix in what would be his last British gig before
0:15:50 > 0:15:52his shocking death three weeks later.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57# Well, I stand up next to a mountain
0:15:58 > 0:16:01# And I chop it down with the edge of my hand... #
0:16:21 > 0:16:24But it was The Doors who were Roger's festival highlight,
0:16:24 > 0:16:27a band that embodied the counterculture movement.
0:16:30 > 0:16:31I guess The Doors, I can hear...
0:16:31 > 0:16:33I can hear Jim Morrison.
0:16:34 > 0:16:39I certainly hear Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek playing that organ.
0:16:39 > 0:16:42And that set that they delivered, it was...
0:16:42 > 0:16:44it was almost sinister.
0:16:44 > 0:16:49# Come on, baby... #
0:16:58 > 0:17:02As a teenager, I was possibly a little bit reserved.
0:17:02 > 0:17:04Not shy so much, but reserved.
0:17:06 > 0:17:11And I think just being with like-minded people and realising that you didn't
0:17:11 > 0:17:15have to conform to what your parents did and what they said
0:17:15 > 0:17:17you should be doing.
0:17:17 > 0:17:20It stuck with me. And I think also I became a bit more,
0:17:20 > 0:17:23perhaps a bit more gregarious, a bit more outward.
0:17:24 > 0:17:28And I think that helped me through life in general, really.
0:17:32 > 0:17:35Roger didn't leave an important part of his brain somewhere in a field
0:17:35 > 0:17:37on the Isle of Wight -
0:17:37 > 0:17:40he found a new way to express his personality.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42But peace and happiness,
0:17:42 > 0:17:46bright clothes and love wasn't for all music fans.
0:17:46 > 0:17:50There were some who wanted their music with a whiff of sulphur
0:17:50 > 0:17:51and a rumble of thunder.
0:17:55 > 0:17:57Here's something. Back in the early '70s,
0:17:57 > 0:17:59the majority of people in Britain
0:17:59 > 0:18:01still considered themselves Christian.
0:18:01 > 0:18:05And quite a lot of them still went to church on a Sunday.
0:18:05 > 0:18:10So when young music fans started to embrace the darker side, well,
0:18:10 > 0:18:11that was considered diabolical.
0:18:15 > 0:18:19This new, sombre sonic experience was comprised in equal parts of
0:18:19 > 0:18:21the devil and his demons,
0:18:21 > 0:18:23disease, doom, death.
0:18:24 > 0:18:26And Birmingham.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28MUSIC: Sleeping Village by Black Sabbath
0:18:30 > 0:18:34It was the city's dark, Satanic steel mills filled with grinding,
0:18:34 > 0:18:38thumping machinery that gave this new music a distinctive sound.
0:18:40 > 0:18:44And for local lad Graham Bentley, it was just what he was looking for.
0:18:48 > 0:18:54This is it. This is the place where everything's kept, the archive room.
0:18:54 > 0:18:55Yeah, this is my vinyl over here.
0:19:02 > 0:19:04It wasn't called heavy music then.
0:19:04 > 0:19:09It was sort of called aggro music, or aggressive music, or meaty music.
0:19:09 > 0:19:10There's one band called Hard Meat.
0:19:11 > 0:19:13They played at the Badge Club in Northampton.
0:19:13 > 0:19:18And so did a band called Earth, who I really wanted to see,
0:19:18 > 0:19:21because I'd seen all the other meaty, aggressive bands,
0:19:21 > 0:19:22I hadn't seen Earth.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24So I went down to the Badge Club.
0:19:24 > 0:19:25I was really disappointed,
0:19:25 > 0:19:30because I went in there and the drum kit said Black Sabbath.
0:19:30 > 0:19:33I thought, is it some sort of religious band or something?
0:19:33 > 0:19:36Sabbath? Anyway, we were sitting on the floor,
0:19:36 > 0:19:38it was only about 30 people in there.
0:19:38 > 0:19:40Four dark-clad blokes came out,
0:19:40 > 0:19:44took the lights out of the ceiling with handkerchiefs,
0:19:44 > 0:19:46threw them behind the drum kit and then...
0:19:48 > 0:19:51You know, that first Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54MUSIC: Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath
0:20:17 > 0:20:19Went out and got this as soon as it came out.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25Black Sabbath, first gatefold sleeve album I'd ever had.
0:20:27 > 0:20:29And it's just unbelievable stuff.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31What I liked about this album as well,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33was when you put that on your turntable...
0:20:34 > 0:20:36..if you can see what it's doing there.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39That's psychedelic in itself, isn't it?
0:20:39 > 0:20:41Heavy-metal psychedelia.
0:20:45 > 0:20:48They're from Birmingham, and I was born in Birmingham.
0:20:48 > 0:20:50And I just thought,
0:20:50 > 0:20:52they've done this music for me.
0:20:55 > 0:20:59And those sort of chords, that sort of distinct distortion
0:20:59 > 0:21:03that they get, it just hits you. You know, right in here.
0:21:03 > 0:21:04And it's fantastic.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08# Please believe me, my love, and I'll show you
0:21:08 > 0:21:10# I will give you... #
0:21:10 > 0:21:13For the teenage Graham, on the cusp of adulthood,
0:21:13 > 0:21:15that was a transformative experience.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19So that's when I was 18.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21That was when I was 20.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23See, I'd grown my hair quite long.
0:21:24 > 0:21:26I think that's because of Black Sabbath!
0:21:28 > 0:21:31Black Sabbath. That is Black Sabbath, isn't it, really?
0:21:38 > 0:21:39I loved Sabbath, too.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41Really loved them. In fact,
0:21:41 > 0:21:45my obsession with music got very serious in the early '70s.
0:21:49 > 0:21:53Every day, I was bombarded with new sounds, new fashions,
0:21:53 > 0:21:55new challenging ideas.
0:21:55 > 0:21:57This was my time.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00Music felt like it really mattered.
0:22:00 > 0:22:01As did how you looked!
0:22:03 > 0:22:06I got some of my more outre sartorial choices
0:22:06 > 0:22:10from a movement started by a young man in Stamford Hill.
0:22:10 > 0:22:12MUSIC: 20th Century Boy by T.Rex
0:22:13 > 0:22:15Mark Feld.
0:22:18 > 0:22:20When Mark wore some glitter,
0:22:20 > 0:22:24added a feather boa and changed his name to Bolan, Glam was born.
0:22:26 > 0:22:28And for Britain in the early '70s,
0:22:28 > 0:22:32this meant style was like a ray of sunshine on a cloudy day.
0:22:37 > 0:22:38My dream was to meet him.
0:22:38 > 0:22:43I wasn't alone in that. But in 1973, this dream came true,
0:22:43 > 0:22:47when he wandered into the record shop where I'd just started work.
0:22:47 > 0:22:49In he came, Marc Bolan.
0:22:49 > 0:22:51Afghan coat, orange loonpants.
0:22:51 > 0:22:53Purple Anello & Davide shoes.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56But it was the shirt he was wearing, I thought, "That's a star's shirt."
0:22:56 > 0:23:00It was silk and had Chuck Berry doing the duck walk all over in different colours.
0:23:00 > 0:23:01Like an Andy Warhol print.
0:23:01 > 0:23:05Anyway, he sorted out a few records and I thought, what am I going to say to Marc Bolan?
0:23:05 > 0:23:07Going to have to talk to Marc Bolan.
0:23:07 > 0:23:10He was invited behind the counter to have a cup of tea with his friend, the manager.
0:23:10 > 0:23:15As he passed me, I thought, I've got to say something. So like that kid in the Simpsons, I went,
0:23:15 > 0:23:18"Mr Bolan, that shirt you're wearing is the greatest shirt I've ever seen."
0:23:18 > 0:23:21"Oh, you like the shirt, do you? It's great, I got it at Spencer's in New York.
0:23:21 > 0:23:23"Do you know Spencer's?" I barely knew New York!
0:23:23 > 0:23:25No, I didn't. I was 15!
0:23:25 > 0:23:28Anyway, he went off to use the toilet.
0:23:28 > 0:23:32When he came out, he had a little bag of records with him and he had the Afghan coat
0:23:32 > 0:23:35and he had the orange loonpants and the purple Anello & Davide shoes.
0:23:35 > 0:23:40Didn't have the shirt on. He had it in his hand rolled up in a ball. "Here you go, it's yours," he said.
0:23:40 > 0:23:41Now that, my friends, is a star.
0:23:41 > 0:23:43He gave me his shirt.
0:23:43 > 0:23:46And I didn't leave it off, and I'm not joking, for about three weeks.
0:23:46 > 0:23:47Everywhere I went.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51And not only that, I would say to people, "Ask me about this shirt. Ask me where I got this shirt!"
0:23:51 > 0:23:54"Where did you get that shirt?" "Marc Bolan gave it to me!"
0:23:54 > 0:23:56# Get it on
0:23:56 > 0:23:57# Bang a gong
0:23:57 > 0:23:58# Get it on... #
0:24:01 > 0:24:03So, what happened to that precious shirt?
0:24:03 > 0:24:07Well, my mum took a cavalier attitude to the words "dry-clean only".
0:24:07 > 0:24:10And she shrunk it. "How could you, it was so precious!" I said.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12"Oh, yeah," she said.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15"What was it doing on your bedroom floor, then?"
0:24:15 > 0:24:18If only my mum had been more like Ruth Chambers' mum.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22She kept Ruth's childhood bedroom like a pop time capsule.
0:24:23 > 0:24:27This is my bedroom from when I was in my teens.
0:24:35 > 0:24:37And these cupboards are still here, just as I left them, really.
0:24:40 > 0:24:43These pictures would have been from the Musical Express,
0:24:43 > 0:24:45or possibly Jackie comic.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47And I obviously thought a lot of them,
0:24:47 > 0:24:49because they're all behind plastic.
0:24:49 > 0:24:52And it looks as good today as it did when I put it there.
0:24:52 > 0:24:54But there's another one of T. Rex up here.
0:24:54 > 0:24:59I think this was a little bit later when they got slightly more make-up.
0:25:01 > 0:25:03# La la la la-la la-la... # Come on!
0:25:05 > 0:25:09The first concert that I went to, I was 15.
0:25:12 > 0:25:15I think the whole experience of the first concert was so overwhelming,
0:25:15 > 0:25:17with hundreds of screaming fans.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21I was joining in, you just got caught up in it.
0:25:23 > 0:25:24# La la la la-la la-la... #
0:25:24 > 0:25:28What was particularly exciting, I went with some people from school.
0:25:28 > 0:25:32And when it got to the end of the concert, Phil Legend, the drummer,
0:25:32 > 0:25:34threw some things out.
0:25:34 > 0:25:35And I heard something land on the floor.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39I didn't know what was, but I thought it might be something important.
0:25:39 > 0:25:43So I just bent down quickly, picked it up and put it straight in my coat.
0:25:43 > 0:25:46And it wasn't till we got on the Tube, on the Underground,
0:25:46 > 0:25:48that I did get this thing out of my...
0:25:48 > 0:25:50Under my coat. And so what it was, was that.
0:25:52 > 0:25:53I said, "Oh, I've got a drumstick!"
0:25:59 > 0:26:03He was different. I think that was a big part of it.
0:26:03 > 0:26:07It was an awareness that there is another world out there,
0:26:07 > 0:26:10and it's all very exciting and it was OK to be individual and express
0:26:10 > 0:26:12yourself, and not try and be the same.
0:26:12 > 0:26:13Actually, try and be different.
0:26:20 > 0:26:21Yeah!
0:26:28 > 0:26:30# Well you can bump and grind
0:26:31 > 0:26:34# And it's good for your mind
0:26:35 > 0:26:37# Well you can twist and shout... #
0:26:37 > 0:26:40Marc Bolan's liberating look and music
0:26:40 > 0:26:44had a lasting effect on a young teenager called Danielz.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46His fandom started off innocently enough,
0:26:46 > 0:26:48with singles and T. Rex concerts.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51But became something rather more intense.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57Danielz, remind me again who it is you're a massive fan of.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Well, Frank Zappa.
0:27:02 > 0:27:04- Marc Bolan, actually.- Why?
0:27:04 > 0:27:05How did it happen?
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Well, it was a song called Jeepster.
0:27:07 > 0:27:11That was the first song that I actually heard that affected me.
0:27:11 > 0:27:13Obviously, I'd heard Hot Love and Ride A White Swan.
0:27:13 > 0:27:15But that song, it did something to me.
0:27:15 > 0:27:18From that moment on, I never looked back.
0:27:21 > 0:27:22You say it did something.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25- What?- Like a lot of kids, I was really into football.
0:27:29 > 0:27:31Then, I didn't want to play football any more all of a sudden.
0:27:31 > 0:27:35I wanted to get a guitar, learn how to play like Marc Bolan.
0:27:35 > 0:27:39And then when I saw a photograph of him, his image blew me away.
0:27:39 > 0:27:42People of the older generation at that time were saying, is it a man?
0:27:42 > 0:27:45Is it a woman? And of course, I loved all that,
0:27:45 > 0:27:47because he looked different from anyone else.
0:27:49 > 0:27:53Certainly, there's been change in England in two years.
0:27:53 > 0:27:54And we are part of the change.
0:27:54 > 0:27:58I mean, guys now can wear make-up, they can shout and scream.
0:27:59 > 0:28:02And then, you know, as the fandom and obsession grew,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04you actually went along and sought him out?
0:28:04 > 0:28:06And you gave him a bit of that and tried to get him.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09This woman said, "I know Marc Bolan's mum!"
0:28:09 > 0:28:11So, anyway, I got the address, I went round there.
0:28:11 > 0:28:13I must've been, what, 16, 17 at the time.
0:28:13 > 0:28:16And I said, ridiculously, "Is Marc in?"
0:28:16 > 0:28:18It was like, is he coming out to play?
0:28:18 > 0:28:21Ridiculous thing to say. I didn't know what else to say.
0:28:21 > 0:28:24Is Marc in? And his dad, Simeon Feld, said, "No,
0:28:24 > 0:28:27"Mark's actually touring in America at the time."
0:28:27 > 0:28:31He had his white... the Rolls-Royce was outside in the council estate, parked there.
0:28:31 > 0:28:33- Marc Bolan's Rolls-Royce? - Yeah, it was parked there.
0:28:33 > 0:28:36- On the council estate? - Yeah, it was the only car there.
0:28:36 > 0:28:39And I said, "Well, that's obviously Marc's car."
0:28:39 > 0:28:41And he says, "Do you want to go and sit in it?"
0:28:41 > 0:28:43And I said, "Yeah, great, great."
0:28:43 > 0:28:45So I've got the keys, obviously.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48He took me out, opened the door, I sat in it.
0:28:48 > 0:28:51And he also said, "I've got a pair of his shoes.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53"You can have those if you want!"
0:28:53 > 0:28:55So, I thought it was going to be, you know, the stage shoes.
0:28:55 > 0:28:58But it wasn't, it was these training shoes.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01- Well, let's have a look, you've got them here. - And I've got them here, yeah.
0:29:01 > 0:29:05- Let's see.- Do you know, for years, I kept them.
0:29:05 > 0:29:06This was from 1974.
0:29:06 > 0:29:10I thought, well, they're not the sort of thing that Marc would wear... Yeah, they've got an M.
0:29:10 > 0:29:13Have you ever put your nose in there and inhaled?
0:29:13 > 0:29:16No! What kind of fan are you? What kind of fan are you?
0:29:16 > 0:29:18That's getting a bit weird, you know!
0:29:18 > 0:29:21I'm a heartbeat away from doing it now!
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Be my guest! If it might have 1974...
0:29:24 > 0:29:25Very rich.
0:29:25 > 0:29:28Ah, man! That's the essence of the man!
0:29:34 > 0:29:40Marc Bolan was the first British pop star to openly flirt with the idea of sexual ambiguity.
0:29:42 > 0:29:46And what he started inspired a competitive friend of his to take
0:29:46 > 0:29:48to outrageous new levels.
0:29:48 > 0:29:51MUSIC: All The Young Dudes by David Bowie
0:29:54 > 0:29:58The impact David Bowie had back then cannot be overstated.
0:30:04 > 0:30:07His appearance shocked the older generation.
0:30:09 > 0:30:12But the kids... Well, we loved it!
0:30:21 > 0:30:25This is where I keep my David Bowie autograph,
0:30:25 > 0:30:26that we got in Slough College.
0:30:27 > 0:30:29Just milling about after the concert.
0:30:29 > 0:30:34Um... There's David Bowie, signing autographs.
0:30:34 > 0:30:37It says "For", and then a question mark.
0:30:38 > 0:30:41Probably because I didn't say who it should be dedicated for.
0:30:41 > 0:30:42"Love, Bowie."
0:30:44 > 0:30:47For fans John Meech and his wife, Rose,
0:30:47 > 0:30:50it was David Bowie who was their matchmaker.
0:30:54 > 0:30:56Ziggy Stardust was the first album that I bought.
0:30:56 > 0:30:58And it was just amazing.
0:30:58 > 0:31:01And then, I mean, we weren't actually together at the time.
0:31:01 > 0:31:04But I remember we went, Friday lunchtimes from work,
0:31:04 > 0:31:06go to the local pub for a drink.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08And John sat there and he was saying, "Well,
0:31:08 > 0:31:10"I've managed to get some tickets for David Bowie.
0:31:10 > 0:31:12"Would anyone like one?"
0:31:12 > 0:31:16And I can remember now, nobody else is going to have that ticket!
0:31:16 > 0:31:20And literally, flying across the pub table to grab it out of your hand,
0:31:20 > 0:31:22- almost, didn't I?- Pretty much, yes.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25And so, that is my ticket.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27That's the one I flew across the table and grabbed.
0:31:27 > 0:31:31It was the first time that we both saw David Bowie together.
0:31:31 > 0:31:35May 1973, which was our first date, actually.
0:31:35 > 0:31:38Which is, you know, reasonable first date.
0:31:38 > 0:31:42I can't complain! And this year we're celebrating our 40th wedding anniversary.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46So, I think we can thank David Bowie for that, can't we?
0:31:49 > 0:31:53When we got there, I mean, there were so many people.
0:31:53 > 0:31:55It was serious dressing up.
0:31:55 > 0:32:00- Yes.- You realised then that this really is a phenomenon.
0:32:00 > 0:32:04Yeah, you did get the impression it was the start of something big.
0:32:04 > 0:32:07A lot of glam, I suppose you'd call it.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14It was very dark in there.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17And for the number of people there, it was also quite quiet.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19Because everybody was just waiting.
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Then they played the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
0:32:24 > 0:32:27And then, suddenly, the lights went up and there he was.
0:32:31 > 0:32:32Walked in straight into the first song.
0:32:32 > 0:32:35It was so different.
0:32:38 > 0:32:40You know, like, just a lightning bolt.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44# She wants my honey not my money she's a funky-thigh collector
0:32:44 > 0:32:46# Laying on electric dreams
0:32:48 > 0:32:50# Come on, come on
0:32:50 > 0:32:53# We've really got a good thing going
0:32:53 > 0:32:55# Come on, come on
0:32:55 > 0:32:57# If you think you're gonna make it
0:32:57 > 0:32:59# You better hang on to yourself... #
0:33:00 > 0:33:02I think it did change the fashion world in a way.
0:33:02 > 0:33:06Because everybody, you know, people started dressing like him.
0:33:06 > 0:33:08You cut my hair in that Ziggy Stardust look.
0:33:08 > 0:33:09That's it, isn't it?
0:33:09 > 0:33:11That's the one!
0:33:11 > 0:33:13Didn't turn out quite like I expected!
0:33:15 > 0:33:18It wasn't a great success, was it?
0:33:18 > 0:33:19We're halfway there.
0:33:20 > 0:33:21It's the same length.
0:33:23 > 0:33:25MUSIC: The Jean Genie by David Bowie
0:33:30 > 0:33:33Most of the reasons that I do what I do
0:33:33 > 0:33:36- is because I just like startling people.- Startling?
0:33:36 > 0:33:38Yeah. Something to do.
0:33:41 > 0:33:44Under the bed at the end of this corridor
0:33:44 > 0:33:48is Linda Saunders' teenage Ziggy Stardust companion.
0:33:51 > 0:33:54This is my very precious scrapbook.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02I didn't have a life before David Bowie!
0:34:05 > 0:34:06In the early '70s,
0:34:06 > 0:34:09Linda was a teenager living in the little village of Willows Green,
0:34:09 > 0:34:12near Chelmsford, when a lightning bolt struck.
0:34:15 > 0:34:19I mean, I grew up in a tiny little village, nothing ever happened.
0:34:19 > 0:34:21I think the most exciting thing
0:34:21 > 0:34:23was the ice cream coming round on a Thursday.
0:34:26 > 0:34:28Nobody had ever seen anything like him before.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34And he was just a bright, shining light amongst all the grey, really!
0:34:36 > 0:34:39He just brought a bit of excitement.
0:34:39 > 0:34:40I kissed his hand!
0:34:42 > 0:34:44I kissed his hand!
0:34:44 > 0:34:46I kissed his hand, I kissed him!
0:34:46 > 0:34:49- Oh, he's lovely!- I've been waiting to see him for ages.
0:34:49 > 0:34:52- He's fantastic!- Oh, don't worry.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54I just fell in love with him!
0:34:57 > 0:35:01I was very shy as a teenager, and I did sort of feel different at times.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05And I wanted to be different, but in a positive way.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10And he just made that OK.
0:35:11 > 0:35:14And then, one night in 1973,
0:35:14 > 0:35:18Linda finally got to see her hero in the flesh.
0:35:18 > 0:35:20That's the ticket.
0:35:20 > 0:35:23And that's the photo of what I wore on the day,
0:35:23 > 0:35:24which you can barely see.
0:35:24 > 0:35:26It's so old and faded!
0:35:27 > 0:35:30My dad photographed that in the garden.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32It was called a Miss Mouse dress.
0:35:32 > 0:35:34I got it from Topshop in London.
0:35:34 > 0:35:39And big Sacha platform, pink metallic shoes.
0:35:39 > 0:35:42But I wrote on the back, that that's going to see David Bowie
0:35:42 > 0:35:44at Hammersmith in 1973.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51But for these fans, waiting outside the venue to see Ziggy Stardust,
0:35:51 > 0:35:54the concert was a bittersweet affair.
0:35:54 > 0:35:58For this was when David Bowie killed off his stage alter ego.
0:36:02 > 0:36:04Of all the shows on this tour,
0:36:04 > 0:36:08this particular show will remain with us the longest.
0:36:08 > 0:36:09Because...
0:36:09 > 0:36:10CHEERING
0:36:12 > 0:36:16..not only is it the last show of the tour,
0:36:16 > 0:36:19but it's the last show that we'll ever do.
0:36:19 > 0:36:20Thank you.
0:36:22 > 0:36:24You just think, that's it!
0:36:24 > 0:36:27You know, you finally got to see him and now it's the end.
0:36:31 > 0:36:33It was just...
0:36:33 > 0:36:35Just couldn't take it in, it was awful.
0:36:37 > 0:36:41You know, we just sat on the Tube coming home and just didn't speak.
0:36:42 > 0:36:46It's hard to explain, but everybody, I think,
0:36:46 > 0:36:50that did like him, had a sort of personal thing.
0:36:50 > 0:36:54It wasn't... Even though he was shared with millions of people,
0:36:54 > 0:36:55it wasn't...
0:36:55 > 0:36:59You know, that relationship you had was special to you.
0:36:59 > 0:37:02And that's what I felt from the very beginning.
0:37:02 > 0:37:04And up until the day he died.
0:37:13 > 0:37:15In killing off Ziggy Stardust,
0:37:15 > 0:37:18David Bowie had finally achieved the kind of success
0:37:18 > 0:37:20he'd dreamt about for so long.
0:37:20 > 0:37:22A success that hadn't been overnight.
0:37:24 > 0:37:27# Ground control to Major Tom
0:37:32 > 0:37:34# Ground control to Major Tom... #
0:37:36 > 0:37:39Space Oddity, a hit four years previously,
0:37:39 > 0:37:41and the song that first announced Bowie to the world.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45It's a song that pretty much everyone knows well.
0:37:45 > 0:37:49# Ground control to Major Tom... #
0:37:49 > 0:37:51But there is an earlier version.
0:37:53 > 0:37:56A demo that's never been released.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01Going now to see a fellow who's got the most exhaustive
0:38:01 > 0:38:03and valuable David Bowie collection in the world.
0:38:03 > 0:38:06I suppose he started it by impressing his friends and now,
0:38:06 > 0:38:07it would impress the planet.
0:38:07 > 0:38:10But where do you keep stuff like this? It's all right for King Tut,
0:38:10 > 0:38:13he had a pyramid! This fellow, though, has got a great idea.
0:38:13 > 0:38:17He keeps all this trove in a cunningly disguised suburban house.
0:38:20 > 0:38:23# This is ground control to Major Tom
0:38:23 > 0:38:27# You've really made the grade... #
0:38:27 > 0:38:30I've been around pop memorabilia a long time.
0:38:30 > 0:38:33I've never seen anything as rare and precious as this.
0:38:33 > 0:38:35- Tell us what this is.- Yes.
0:38:35 > 0:38:36It's rather special, Danny.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40This is David's copy of the original Space Oddity, recorded in '68.
0:38:40 > 0:38:43Wasn't released until July '69, of course.
0:38:43 > 0:38:45But that's not the released one, is it?
0:38:45 > 0:38:50This is completely unique in that no other copies around.
0:38:50 > 0:38:53Just David, by himself, doing everything.
0:38:53 > 0:38:56Stylophone and the guitar and all the voices.
0:38:56 > 0:39:01- No-one was ever supposed to own that or hear it outside of Bowie and his manager.- That's it, really.
0:39:01 > 0:39:04I mean, it was literally a work in progress.
0:39:04 > 0:39:06And of course, it has some different words, different phrasings,
0:39:06 > 0:39:09bits are missing. Bits added in.
0:39:09 > 0:39:11It's unique.
0:39:11 > 0:39:15Can we hear a little bit? I know you can't... There's all kinds of strictures on it.
0:39:15 > 0:39:17We're allowed to play a little bit of it.
0:39:17 > 0:39:18MUSIC PLAYS
0:39:31 > 0:39:34# Ground control to Major Tom
0:39:37 > 0:39:40# Ground control to Major Tom
0:39:44 > 0:39:48# Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
0:39:51 > 0:39:54- # Ground control to Major Tom - Ten, nine, eight
0:39:54 > 0:40:00- # Commencing countdown, engines on - Seven, six, five
0:40:00 > 0:40:03# Four, three, two
0:40:03 > 0:40:08# Check ignition and may God's love be with you... #
0:40:08 > 0:40:10Blast off!
0:40:10 > 0:40:14SUSTAINED CHORDS
0:40:23 > 0:40:24MUSIC STOPS
0:40:24 > 0:40:26I'm so glad they lost that, "blast off!"
0:40:26 > 0:40:27Yeah!
0:40:27 > 0:40:30Apart from the extraordinary experience of hearing it,
0:40:30 > 0:40:36all the changes he made were better. And it just... It's got so much of, in that version of it, so mannered.
0:40:36 > 0:40:38And a lot of stylophone.
0:40:38 > 0:40:42Yeah. Stylophone, I mean, Bolan had just given it to him.
0:40:42 > 0:40:44And he thought, perfect!
0:40:44 > 0:40:45Did Bolan give him the stylophone?
0:40:45 > 0:40:47- Yeah.- Did he?- Yeah, yeah.
0:40:47 > 0:40:49Bolan said, "You might like this."
0:40:49 > 0:40:53And he must've thought that was going to begin an unbroken run of success. But of course...
0:40:53 > 0:40:57Of course, when it became a success in late '69, then,
0:40:57 > 0:40:59you know...
0:40:59 > 0:41:02Yeah. You know, it was like, finally!
0:41:02 > 0:41:04Somebody's listening to me, people are...
0:41:04 > 0:41:06I'm here, you know, I'm David Bowie.
0:41:06 > 0:41:11- I've been around for a while, but you know, now you've caught up with me.- Take that, Tyrannosaurus Rex!
0:41:11 > 0:41:12Take that!
0:41:16 > 0:41:20By the mid-1970s, David Bowie was a household name across Britain.
0:41:22 > 0:41:26But there was another global superstar who was starting to emerge here.
0:41:26 > 0:41:30One that a growing number of the British population would soon claim as their own.
0:41:32 > 0:41:35Reggae music itself wasn't new to the charts,
0:41:35 > 0:41:38but there had never been anything like Bob Marley & The Wailers.
0:41:38 > 0:41:42MUSIC: Concrete Jungle by Bob Marley & The Wailers
0:41:42 > 0:41:47# No sun will shine in my day today
0:41:47 > 0:41:50# No sun will shine... #
0:41:50 > 0:41:53And for ten-year-old Tennyson Goulbourne,
0:41:53 > 0:41:55growing up in South London in 1973,
0:41:55 > 0:41:58this was the pop star he'd been waiting for.
0:41:59 > 0:42:03# I said darkness, darkness... #
0:42:03 > 0:42:06This is, I think, my first album.
0:42:06 > 0:42:08Yeah, Catch A Fire.
0:42:08 > 0:42:12Bob Marley & The Wailers.
0:42:12 > 0:42:15Sister took me down to Woolworths to buy this one!
0:42:15 > 0:42:17This is the original one.
0:42:17 > 0:42:18Comes as a lighter.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23And my favourite track used to be Stir It Up.
0:42:26 > 0:42:29MUSIC: Stir It Up by Bob Marley & The Wailers
0:42:31 > 0:42:33You must know this one!
0:42:35 > 0:42:37Bob Marley,
0:42:37 > 0:42:38he was one of the first Rastas...
0:42:39 > 0:42:42..that used to come on television.
0:42:42 > 0:42:43# Stir it up
0:42:46 > 0:42:48# Little darling
0:42:48 > 0:42:50# Stir it up
0:42:51 > 0:42:52# Come on, baby
0:42:55 > 0:42:56# Stir it up... #
0:42:56 > 0:42:58He came to my school.
0:42:58 > 0:43:02In my school, we had pictures of him up on the wall.
0:43:02 > 0:43:04And back in those days,
0:43:04 > 0:43:09it was a rarity to see black people with pictures up on the school wall,
0:43:09 > 0:43:10or anywhere.
0:43:12 > 0:43:15# ..since I've got you on my mind... #
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Obviously, it put a smile on my face,
0:43:17 > 0:43:21because this was our first signs of having a role model
0:43:21 > 0:43:23inspiring to anyone black.
0:43:29 > 0:43:32It was here, Tiny T's school, Peckham Manor,
0:43:32 > 0:43:34where the photos of Bob Marley hung.
0:43:35 > 0:43:39And it was all because of one magical lunchtime in 1972,
0:43:39 > 0:43:45when Bob and Johnny Nash came to perform live to the schoolboys in this gym.
0:43:47 > 0:43:48Wow!
0:43:50 > 0:43:52This is much bigger than I thought it was.
0:43:53 > 0:43:57'Arts teacher Keith Baugh and schoolboy George Dyer witnessed this
0:43:57 > 0:43:58'once-in-a-lifetime event.'
0:44:00 > 0:44:04I can't believe, George, it was 44 years ago that we...
0:44:04 > 0:44:05We had that special performance.
0:44:05 > 0:44:07Do you remember it?
0:44:07 > 0:44:08Well, yeah.
0:44:08 > 0:44:10Keith organised the gig,
0:44:10 > 0:44:14and took some rare photos of Bob Marley's extraordinary school concert.
0:44:14 > 0:44:15Here's a great one.
0:44:17 > 0:44:19You can see a few of the students here.
0:44:19 > 0:44:22- And you may recognise some of them! - Yeah, I do!
0:44:22 > 0:44:25I'd arranged a small, makeshift stage,
0:44:25 > 0:44:27about 200 or 300 chairs.
0:44:27 > 0:44:29And it was absolutely fantastic.
0:44:29 > 0:44:33These guys are so professional, they're so relaxed.
0:44:33 > 0:44:35You know, it was something really special.
0:44:35 > 0:44:37This is just another shot.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41You can just see the passion that those two guys are putting into the performance.
0:44:41 > 0:44:44As soon as we saw Bob and Johnny,
0:44:44 > 0:44:47there was a great outburst of applause.
0:44:47 > 0:44:49You know, we were going...
0:44:50 > 0:44:52Give it the big large one, you know.
0:44:52 > 0:44:55They felt wanted, you know.
0:44:56 > 0:45:01Well, I can hear Johnny singing I Can See Clearly Now.
0:45:01 > 0:45:05# I can see clearly now the rain has gone... #
0:45:05 > 0:45:09The head of the school came in during that performance.
0:45:09 > 0:45:13And Johnny's vocal was filling this hall,
0:45:13 > 0:45:15and the head whispered in my ear,
0:45:15 > 0:45:18"That guy's got a voice like an angel."
0:45:19 > 0:45:21Oh, it was brilliant.
0:45:21 > 0:45:24- # It's gonna be a bright - Bright
0:45:24 > 0:45:27# Bright sunshiny day... #
0:45:29 > 0:45:33When we came out of the sports hall, heading back to the car,
0:45:33 > 0:45:36of course Bob saw these students playing football here.
0:45:36 > 0:45:40And his first instinct was to go and join in.
0:45:40 > 0:45:44And of course, they passed the ball to him and the first thing he did,
0:45:44 > 0:45:47with a guitar in one hand, was show them...keepy-uppies?
0:45:47 > 0:45:51- Yeah, yeah. - The ball eventually went to Johnny.
0:45:51 > 0:45:53- Yes.- And I guess, like an American footballer,
0:45:53 > 0:45:55he booted it as hard as he could,
0:45:55 > 0:45:59and the ball went sailing over the terraced houses.
0:46:00 > 0:46:02And that was the end of that game!
0:46:04 > 0:46:05Bob had a charisma.
0:46:05 > 0:46:09And I'll never forget that smile on his face.
0:46:14 > 0:46:18Reggae has done more for race relations in England
0:46:18 > 0:46:22than a lot of things, because... I can only speak for myself,
0:46:22 > 0:46:30this is where I managed to integrate away from school with other races.
0:46:30 > 0:46:32And when you're all enjoying something,
0:46:32 > 0:46:35you've now got a common cause.
0:46:39 > 0:46:47# This is the face of Fu Manchu... #
0:46:49 > 0:46:53'We used to have parties downstairs in our basement.
0:46:53 > 0:46:56'And that's where my dad's sound system was kept.'
0:46:56 > 0:46:59We used to leave school early
0:46:59 > 0:47:01and my big brother even used to hop school.
0:47:01 > 0:47:02Yes.
0:47:07 > 0:47:11And it was, like, Collingwood Girls School, Samuel Pepys,
0:47:11 > 0:47:15they would all congregate down in the basement.
0:47:15 > 0:47:18Plastic bags up at the windows.
0:47:18 > 0:47:20All chatting, dancing.
0:47:20 > 0:47:24And then it came about four o'clock, everyone would have to vacate.
0:47:25 > 0:47:27Before my parents came home.
0:47:27 > 0:47:29Yes!
0:47:30 > 0:47:33MUSIC: Trench Town Rock by Bob Marley
0:47:37 > 0:47:39# One good thing about music
0:47:39 > 0:47:43# When it hits you, you feel no pain... #
0:47:43 > 0:47:46Coming together around the latest sounds
0:47:46 > 0:47:48was a massive part of my life, too.
0:47:48 > 0:47:51Man alive, the hours I spent listening to new records,
0:47:51 > 0:47:54talking about them, longing to be in bands!
0:47:54 > 0:47:56They're incalculable.
0:47:56 > 0:47:58In fact, at the record shop, I did little else.
0:47:58 > 0:48:02Occasionally, however, I was rudely interrupted by a customer.
0:48:05 > 0:48:07I could spot them as soon as they came in the shop.
0:48:07 > 0:48:09They never needed to tell me what they wanted.
0:48:09 > 0:48:14Ah, leopard-skin boots, mismatched colours, a few stars under the eyes.
0:48:14 > 0:48:16Bowie, Roxy music, around there, mate.
0:48:16 > 0:48:19Too much hair, smelling of patchouli oil,
0:48:19 > 0:48:22full-length denim greatcoat, probably a headache.
0:48:22 > 0:48:24Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, just over there.
0:48:24 > 0:48:27And then there were the pale, introverted types, looking very serious.
0:48:27 > 0:48:31They took things further, possibly a copy of Lord Of The Rings with them.
0:48:31 > 0:48:32You want progressive rock, mate.
0:48:32 > 0:48:33They were great!
0:48:35 > 0:48:38MUSIC: Fanfare For The Common Man by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
0:48:49 > 0:48:52This is, I hate to say,
0:48:52 > 0:48:56is one of the very few pictures I have of me when I was around 14.
0:48:56 > 0:49:00That was pretty much the uniform of the day for us prog rockers.
0:49:02 > 0:49:05For the teenage prog rock fan Michael Coughlan,
0:49:05 > 0:49:09the highlight of his week was leaving his home in Crawley and heading up
0:49:09 > 0:49:14to a concert in town, to lose himself in another time, another space.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17Here you have it.
0:49:17 > 0:49:21The programmes. I've kept most of the stubs.
0:49:21 > 0:49:24Genesis. Yes, at QPR.
0:49:24 > 0:49:26Peter Gabriel at the Dome.
0:49:26 > 0:49:30Camel. ELP, £2.20, in 1974.
0:49:37 > 0:49:39Few hours, you'd be escaping with your mates,
0:49:39 > 0:49:40you'd be up on a train to London.
0:49:40 > 0:49:44You'd get to this, it was an hour-and-a-half, two hours of complete immersion.
0:49:47 > 0:49:50It felt literally like you are immersed in something organic,
0:49:50 > 0:49:54with all these lights flashing and music playing and people around you.
0:49:55 > 0:49:58And this was, if nothing else, massive escapism.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00It was taking you to a very, very different place.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03MUSIC: Breathe by Pink Floyd
0:50:10 > 0:50:12You know, these bands weren't singing about
0:50:12 > 0:50:13growing up on a council estate.
0:50:16 > 0:50:18This was about, you know, a completely imaginary world.
0:50:22 > 0:50:24And then you'd come out, you'd talk about what you'd seen,
0:50:24 > 0:50:28you'd get on the train, come home. You'd go to school the next morning if it was a weekday.
0:50:28 > 0:50:31As most of them seem to be weekdays! Thursdays, Tuesdays.
0:50:31 > 0:50:32Shocking parents!
0:50:38 > 0:50:41When you look at some of the performances and you look at some of
0:50:41 > 0:50:44the individuals and the characters involved in prog rock,
0:50:44 > 0:50:48it was also a way of developing your personality and defining yourself as
0:50:48 > 0:50:51something that took you beyond what you were at the time.
0:50:51 > 0:50:55So I think it helped me come out of that shy, geeky, bookish,
0:50:55 > 0:50:57glasses-wearing, nerdy person.
0:50:57 > 0:51:00MUSIC: The Return Of The Giant Hogweed by Genesis
0:51:00 > 0:51:02# ..stop them
0:51:02 > 0:51:08# All around every river and canal their power is growing... #
0:51:10 > 0:51:12I love prog rock.
0:51:12 > 0:51:15Then again, during this period, I loved hard rock, soft rock,
0:51:15 > 0:51:19what was in the charts, glam rock, R&B, reggae.
0:51:19 > 0:51:22There was only one sort of music I didn't know anything about.
0:51:22 > 0:51:24And to tell the truth, still don't.
0:51:24 > 0:51:26See, it wasn't really made for me.
0:51:26 > 0:51:29And geographically, it was miles from me.
0:51:29 > 0:51:31It belonged to the North.
0:51:31 > 0:51:33MUSIC: Come On Train by Don Thomas
0:51:37 > 0:51:41This was a music for kids who worked, and worked hard,
0:51:41 > 0:51:43mostly in heavy industries now vanished.
0:51:43 > 0:51:45# Gotta go back home... #
0:51:48 > 0:51:51It contained the promise of a weekend away, something to look forward to.
0:51:54 > 0:51:58Their destination, an old ballroom in Wigan,
0:51:58 > 0:52:01where thousands of mainly white, working-class music fans
0:52:01 > 0:52:05would come from miles around to dance all night long
0:52:05 > 0:52:06to rare old tunes.
0:52:09 > 0:52:11This was Northern Soul.
0:52:12 > 0:52:14# Train, come on train
0:52:17 > 0:52:18# Train, come on train... #
0:52:21 > 0:52:24I'll just come and get you some of my memorabilia.
0:52:26 > 0:52:31Cheryl Saunders has still got a treasure trove of memorabilia from the best weekends of her life.
0:52:34 > 0:52:36I worked in a bacon factory in Selby.
0:52:38 > 0:52:39It was so boring.
0:52:39 > 0:52:42Slices of bacon going past you constantly all day.
0:52:42 > 0:52:45Vacuum-packed, noisy.
0:52:46 > 0:52:48And it was great to be able to think,
0:52:48 > 0:52:51I've got a weekend to look forward to.
0:52:51 > 0:52:54I'll be seeing my friends, I'll be listening to the music that I love.
0:52:54 > 0:52:57It's probably totally cliche, but it was a way of life.
0:52:57 > 0:53:01It really was! Northern Soul was a way of life.
0:53:01 > 0:53:04And there were times I shouldn't have gone because there were more
0:53:04 > 0:53:06important things that I should have done.
0:53:06 > 0:53:08But I was going to that all-nighter, no matter what.
0:53:08 > 0:53:10If I'd planned it, I was going.
0:53:14 > 0:53:17These are the shorts that I used to wear to Wigan.
0:53:17 > 0:53:18I used to have two pairs.
0:53:20 > 0:53:23And this is my boob tube that I used to wear.
0:53:26 > 0:53:28And this was tucked into my shorts,
0:53:28 > 0:53:32because it was so hot and sweaty and dirty.
0:53:32 > 0:53:34Something just to have a little mop off.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39The queues to get in often stretched right down the road,
0:53:39 > 0:53:41five or six deep.
0:53:44 > 0:53:48Take it easy, please! Take it easy!
0:53:48 > 0:53:50Don't push!
0:53:50 > 0:53:52Getting in, you'd be standing out in the queue.
0:53:52 > 0:53:55There would be pushing to get through little doors.
0:53:55 > 0:53:57You'd get in, and your bag would be coming after you,
0:53:57 > 0:54:00somebody throwing it later because you couldn't get through,
0:54:00 > 0:54:02it was just too tight.
0:54:02 > 0:54:05And upstairs and open those doors, like, "Oh, my God!
0:54:05 > 0:54:07"This is it, I've found my spot now."
0:54:07 > 0:54:12# The night begins to turn your head around
0:54:14 > 0:54:20# You know you're gonna lose more than you've found
0:54:20 > 0:54:24# Yes, the night begins to turn your head around... #
0:54:24 > 0:54:29The first time, it was like being hit by a wall of sound and heat.
0:54:29 > 0:54:33It felt exciting, it felt like you were part of something.
0:54:34 > 0:54:38My predominant smell of Wigan, I've heard somebody say that it was Aramis,
0:54:38 > 0:54:40but in my head it's Brut.
0:54:40 > 0:54:44That's all I can smell, because they put Brut talc on the floor,
0:54:44 > 0:54:46and the boys would be wearing it.
0:54:47 > 0:54:51Sweaty smell, dirty, horrible place, but a great, great vibe.
0:54:53 > 0:54:55# And the second time I tried... #
0:54:58 > 0:55:02It didn't really matter to these fans which artists sang the songs,
0:55:02 > 0:55:04or what their heroes looked like,
0:55:04 > 0:55:06so long as you could dance to the tunes.
0:55:06 > 0:55:09This was all about the fans' performance.
0:55:09 > 0:55:13# It's all up to you now
0:55:13 > 0:55:16# Seven days is too long... #
0:55:16 > 0:55:19The friendships that I've made,
0:55:19 > 0:55:22the dirty, smutty clubs, the music, the atmosphere.
0:55:22 > 0:55:26I can say that those people make up my friends.
0:55:26 > 0:55:29I mean, I have got friends that are not into the music.
0:55:29 > 0:55:33But I don't have the same friendship with them as I do with the people
0:55:33 > 0:55:34that I met at all-nighters.
0:55:34 > 0:55:36And that's what it is for me.
0:55:36 > 0:55:39It's a way of life, it's my family.
0:55:39 > 0:55:40It's a family I picked.
0:55:51 > 0:55:541970s music not only offered fans an escape
0:55:54 > 0:55:56for a few hours or a night,
0:55:56 > 0:55:59but its new culture of completely alternative personalities
0:55:59 > 0:56:01was a thrilling option.
0:56:04 > 0:56:07And here, we're back to Bowie.
0:56:08 > 0:56:10A man of many masks.
0:56:10 > 0:56:12Literally, in this case.
0:56:18 > 0:56:21And I'm about to meet someone who has the physical remains
0:56:21 > 0:56:23of one of his best-known personas.
0:56:23 > 0:56:29Bought by her friend, it's now lovingly cared for by an ardent fan.
0:56:29 > 0:56:32I was told you were bringing something extraordinary today,
0:56:32 > 0:56:35that is beyond mere fandom.
0:56:36 > 0:56:38Tell everyone what that is.
0:56:38 > 0:56:41OK. Do you remember the documentary, Cracked Actor?
0:56:41 > 0:56:47- Yeah.- This is the facemask that was made from Cracked Actor.
0:56:47 > 0:56:48Not based on it, that is it?
0:56:48 > 0:56:51No, that's it. That's it.
0:56:51 > 0:56:52Good grief!
0:56:52 > 0:56:54That is absolutely gorgeous.
0:56:54 > 0:56:56Isn't it? Do you want to try the weight?
0:56:56 > 0:56:59Man alive! It weighs a tonne.
0:56:59 > 0:57:03And feel. You know, the outrageously high cheekbones.
0:57:03 > 0:57:07I mean, they're impossibly high. And you'll find that he's got a dimple in his chin.
0:57:07 > 0:57:10- I never knew. Did you know? - It's a funny thing doing that.
0:57:10 > 0:57:13- It's almost intimate. - It is almost intimate!
0:57:13 > 0:57:15It is. It is, I don't like to do it to him.
0:57:16 > 0:57:18Where do you keep it? What you do with it?
0:57:18 > 0:57:20That's a terrible question.
0:57:20 > 0:57:22I can tell you what I do with it!
0:57:22 > 0:57:24- Have you ever kissed it?- Honestly?
0:57:24 > 0:57:25I kiss it every night!
0:57:25 > 0:57:27And every morning!
0:57:27 > 0:57:31And what does it mean beyond the physical thing to you?
0:57:31 > 0:57:35If you think about it, you get a mask, you put it on.
0:57:35 > 0:57:37You become someone else.
0:57:37 > 0:57:43David Bowie wanted to be able to not go on stage as himself.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45- No.- He didn't want to wear the denims.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48He wanted to be a different character,
0:57:48 > 0:57:51and he wanted to be able to help people
0:57:51 > 0:57:53to access their inner characters.
0:57:53 > 0:57:56So he gave us permission to do that.
0:57:56 > 0:57:59Yeah, I must say, a mask, of all performers,
0:57:59 > 0:58:02- is pretty appropriate for Bowie's career.- Absolutely.
0:58:02 > 0:58:06Because it's this symbolism of, you can be whoever you want to be.
0:58:16 > 0:58:20What the Beatles and the counterculture had set rolling in 1966 had
0:58:20 > 0:58:24morphed into a kaleidoscope of different fan personas,
0:58:24 > 0:58:25just a glorious decade on.
0:58:30 > 0:58:33It suddenly seemed it could help us be the people we wanted to be.
0:58:33 > 0:58:37To suggest opportunities, open doors.
0:58:37 > 0:58:38It really could change things.
0:58:38 > 0:58:44You know, I've been blessed with many things in life, I know that.
0:58:44 > 0:58:48One of the things I feel most lucky about, is that it was in this period,
0:58:48 > 0:58:52when music exploded with possibilities and magnificent sound,
0:58:52 > 0:58:54that I got to be a fan.
0:58:55 > 0:58:57MUSIC: Kooks by David Bowie
0:59:03 > 0:59:06# Will you stay in our lovers' story
0:59:06 > 0:59:10# If you stay you won't be sorry
0:59:10 > 0:59:13# Cos we believe in you
0:59:14 > 0:59:17# Soon you'll grow, so take a chance
0:59:17 > 0:59:19# With a couple of kooks
0:59:19 > 0:59:21# Hung up on romancing... #