Once Upon a Time in New York: The Birth of Hip Hop, Disco and Punk
How the squalid streets of '70s New York gave birth to music that conquered the world - punk, disco and hip hop - inspired by the Velvet Underground, loft parties and the Bronx.
How the squalid streets of '70s New York gave birth to music that would go on to conquer the world - punk, disco and hip hop.
In the 1970s the Big Apple was rotten to the core, yet out of the grime, grit and low rent space emerged new music unlike anything that had gone before.
Inspired by the Velvet Underground, a new wave of 'punk' rock emerged in lower Manhattan including The New York Dolls, The Ramones and the Patti Smith Group. Meanwhile, downtown loft parties held by gay New Yorkers heralded the birth of disco, which would eventually spawn the ultimate club for the privileged few: Studio 54. The swanky mid-town discos were out of bounds to black New York so in the Bronx DJs such as Kool Herc, Grandmaster Flash and Afrika Bambaataa created their own parties, heralding the birth of hip hop.
With David Johansen, Patti Smith, John Cale, Richard Hell, Grandmaster Flash, Afrika Bambaataa, Kool Herc, Nile Rodgers, Chuck D, Tommy Ramone, Chris Stein, Fab 5. Freddy, Lenny Kaye, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Syl Sylvain, Nicky Siano, David Mancuso, DJ AJ, David Depino, Jayne County, Leee Childers, Nelson George, Victor Bokris and Vince Aletti.
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Clips
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Nile Rodgers Everybody Dance
Duration: 02:43
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Nile Rodgers on Disco
Duration: 01:36
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Grandmaster Flash on DJing
Duration: 03:24
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Grandmaster Flash on His Story
Duration: 01:53
Music Played
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Bernard Herrmann
Taxi Driver - Main Title
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Ramones
Blitzkrieg Bop
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Donna Summer
I Feel Love
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Incredible Bongo Band
Bongo Rock
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Michael Tilson Thomas
Rhapsody in Blue
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Ella Fitzgerald
Manhattan
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The Shirelles
Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
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The Byrds
All I Really Want To Do
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Bernard Herrmann
Thank God for the Rain
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The Velvet Underground
Venus In Furs
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The Velvet Underground
I'm Waiting for the Man
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The Velvet Underground
Heroin
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Lou Reed
Walk On The Wild Side
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Sly & the Family Stone
Dance to the Music
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MFSB
Mysteries Of The World
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Manu Dibango
Soul Makossa
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MFSB
Love is the Message
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Jayne County
I'm Living In Shame
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The Isley Brothers
Get Into Something
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Funky Nassau
The Beginning of the End
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The O鈥橨ays
For the Love of Money
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New York Dolls
Babylon
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New York Dolls
Personality Crisis
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The Eagles - Take It Easy
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New York Dolls
Jet Boy
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Television
Marquee Moon
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Television
Little Johnny Jewel
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Patti Smith Group
Gloria
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Blondie
Heatwave
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Talking Heads
96 Tears
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Talking Heads
Psycho Killer
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Patti Smith Group
Horses
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Bee Gees
Stayin' Alive
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Vicki Sue Robinson
Turn the Beat Around
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Odyssey
Native New Yorker
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Chic
Dance, Dance, Dance (Yowsah, Yowsah, Yowsah)
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Chic
Le Freak
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James Brown
Give It Up Or Turn It Loose
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The Jimmy Castor Bunch
It's Just Begun
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Chic
Good Times
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Incredible Bongo Band
Apache
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Babe Ruth
The Mexican
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Afrika Bambaataa & Soulsonic Force
Planet Rock
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Fred Wesley and The J.B.鈥檚
Blow Your Head
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Blondie
Heart of Glass
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Blondie
Call Me
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Blondie
Rapture
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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five
The Message
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Executive Producer | Mark Cooper |
Director | Ben Whalley |
Broadcasts
- Mon 5 Mar 2007 21:00
- Fri 9 Mar 2007 22:00
- Sat 10 Mar 2007 03:15
- Sat 2 Jun 2007 22:00
- Sun 3 Jun 2007 01:00
- Sun 13 Jan 2008 23:4091热爆 Two except East & Yorkshire
- Thu 24 Jan 2008 00:45
- Fri 3 Oct 2008 21:00
- Fri 6 Aug 2010 22:35
- Mon 9 Aug 2010 00:40
- Fri 13 May 2011 23:00
- Sat 14 May 2011 02:05
- Fri 12 Aug 2011 23:40