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LATER.
ALEXANDER FIELD, NEW YORK.
>>> AND THANK YOU.
AND LET'S MOVE ON TO TALK ABOUT
THE BEATLES ARRIVED IN AMERICA
50 YEARS AGO AND ROCK AND ROLL
HAS NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE
THE BRITISH INVASION, AND THERE
WAS A FAMOUS LITTLE DITTY THAT
YOU MIGHT RECALL.
LET'S LISTEN.
♪ THERE IS A HOUSE ♪
♪ IN NEW ORLEANS ♪
♪ THEY CALL THE RISING SUN ♪
♪ AND IT'S BEEN THE RUIN OF MANY
A POOR BOY ♪
♪ AND GOD I KNOW I'M ONE ♪
>> WELL, LOOK AT WHO IS HERE,
LITTLE BIT OLDER AND A LITTLE
BIT MORE HANDSOME AND A LITTLE
BIT WISER, AND I'M TALKING ABOUT
THE LEAD BAND MEMBER OF THE
LEGEND AND THE ANIMALS, AND ERIC
P BURRDON, AND WE HANG OUT UP AT
THE APOLLO, AND YOU SAID THAT
YOU HATED IT, BEING IT A PART OF
THE BRITISH INVASION.
WHY IS THAT?
>> WELL, E DIDN'T HATE BEING A
PART OF THE BRITISH INVASION,
BUT I HATED THE EXPRESSION
"BRITISH INVASION" IN A WORLD OF
PEACE AND LOVE, AND NOW WE HAVE
GOT AN INVASION A BRITISH
INVASION?
IT JUST AT THE TIME IT DIDN'T
SIT RIGHT WITH ME, AND NOW ALL
IS FORGIVEN AND I'M SORRY, YOU
KNOW, BECAUSE MY EXPRESSION, IT
WAS MY FEELING, AND EXPRESSING
MY FEELINGS AT THE TIME.
>> AS I RECALL THE INTERVIEW,
YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE UNHAPPY
ABOUT THE COSTUMES AND YOU
DIDN'T LIKE BEING SO OUTFITTED
AND BEING SO PUT TOGETHER AND
MANAGED, RIGHT?
>> OH, WE WEREN'T MANAGED, WE WE
WERE MISMANAGED TO HELL, AND WE
HAD A GUY WHO WAS GIVING US,
GETTING US THE WORST POSSIBLE
DEALS, AND PUTTING US IN THE
WORST SITUATIONS, BUT HE WAS
RUNNING AROUND MAKING HIS OWN
DEALS, AND I'M SURE MAKING MONEY
WHILE WE WERE OUT AND THE ROAD
POUND
POUNDING AWAY, AND TRYING TO
GET, YOU KNOW, TRYING TO PREACH
THE WORD OF THE BLUES TO PEOPLE.
>> YES, BECAUSE YOU --
>> AND WE FOUND THAT -- YEAH?
>> SORRY TO CUT YOU, BUT YOU
WERE MORE, AND YOU WANTED TO DO
MUS
MUSIC.
AND YOU SAID THAT YOU WERE
INFLUENCED BY SOUL MUSIC AND R&B
AND JAZZ AND AMERICAN ARTISTS
AND ESPECIALLY THE BLACK ARTISTS
HERE, AND DO YOU THINK THAT IN
MANY WAYS PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO
SORT OF MAKE YOU HOMOGENEOUS,
AND SORT OF MANUFACTURE YOU TO
BE LIKE THE BEATLES, AND FOR THE
BRITISH INVASION TO BE EVERYONE
SORT OF ALIKE?
>> YES, WE WERE DRESSED LIKE
LITTLE DOLLS, AND THEY DRESSED
US UP IN THE MOST STRANGE
COSTUME, AND THEY WERE EVEN
GOING TO BRING THIS A
CHOREOGRAPHER TO SHOW US HOW TO
MOVE ON STAGE.
I MEAN, IT WAS RIDICULOUS.
IT WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS SO FAR
AWAY FROM OUR NATURE, AND, YEAH,
WE WERE JUST PUSHED AROUND AND
TOLD, WHEN YOU ARRIVE IN
AMERICA, DON'T MENTION THE WAR.
YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THE
WAR.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE FELT THAT WE
WERE BEING GAGGED.
>> YEAH.
>> IT WASN'T A VERY PLEASANT
SITUATION.
ONCE WE GOT ON THE ROAD AND WE
MET PEOPLE LIKE YOUNG AMERICANS
IN THE SOUTH IN PARTICULAR WHO
WOULD TALK TO ME IN BETWEEN SHOW
SHOWS AND SAY, OH, WE ARE SO
GLAD THAT YOU CAME, YOU KNOW, WE
HAVE BEEN WAITING TO CUT LOOSE
AND FEEL FREER IN THE SOCIETY,
BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, COMING OUT
OF THE '50s AND INTO THE EARLY
'60s, THERE WAS NOTHING BUT THE
FEAR AND THE TERROR OF COMMUNIST
INVASION, AND WE HAD THE BAY OF
PIGS AND ALL OF THAT STUFF THAT
WAS GOING ON, AND IT MUST HAVE
BEEN A VERY HAPPY FREE
ENVIRONMENT.
IT TOOK AGES FOR US TO GET IT
OVER THAT.
>> AND YOU WANTED TO TALK MORE
ABOUT SOCIAL CHANGE RATHER THAN
BEING SORT OF MARKETED.
I UNDERSTAND THAT.
I THINK THAT MANY PEOPLE RESPECT
YOU FOR THAT, ESPECIALLY,
BECAUSE YOU WENT ON THE HAVE
SUCCESS WITH OTHER BANDS AFTER
THAT.
BUT CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING
A LITTLE BIT MORE SERIOUS NOW,
AND, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT THIS IS
IMPORTANT STUFF FOR YOU.
WHEN YOU AND I LAST SPOKE, WE
TALKED ABOUT THE DEATH OF JIMI
HENDRIX, AND THE ***
OVERDOSE, AND YOU SAW HIM IN THE
LAST DAYS, AND THIS WEEK, WE ARE
MOURNING THE DEATH OF ACTOR
PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMANN AND
MAYBE IT IS NOT MAKING A
COMEBACK, BUT WHY DO YOU BELIEVE
IT IS COMING BACK WITH TALENTED
ACTORS AND MUSICIANS, AND OTHER
PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FAMOUS?
>> WELL, IT IS VERY HARD FOR ME
TO EQUATE JIMI HENDRIX WITH
***, BECAUSE HE WAS A BRIGHT
PERSO
PERSONALITY.
HE WAS, YEAH, HE WAS INTO WHAT
PEOPLE NOW CALL DRUGS.
I DON'T THINK THAT YOU CAN CALL
MARIJUANA AND THINGS LIKE
LISURGIC ACID DRUGS, AND THEY
WERE THINGS THAT WE WERE
EXPERIMENTING WITH, BUT I WAS
NOT AROUND HIM FOR 18 MONTHS TO
TWO YEARS LEADING UP TO THE
DEMISE.
AND I WAS SILLY ENOUGH TO GO ON
TELEVISION AND GIVE MY PERSONAL
OPINION OF WHAT I SAW THE
MORNING AFTER HE'D BEEN TAKEN
AWAY TO THE HOSPITAL, PRONOUNCED
DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT THE CENTENARY
HOP IN LONDON, AND SO HE WAS
DEAD WHEN HE LEFT THE PLACE, HIS
GIRLFRIEND'S PLACE, AND IT WAS A
MONUMENTAL TRAGEDY, BUT TO ME,
WHAT I AM NOT A FORENSIC
SCIENTIST OR DETECTIVE, BUT
WALKING INTO A ROOM WHERE MY
FRIEND HAD BEEN LYING THIS A BED
SO LONG THAT I COULD SEE THE
INDENTATION IN THE MATTRESS AND
FINDING A NOTE BY THE SIDE OF
THE BED CRUMPLED ON THE FLOOR,
AND I READ IT, AND IT IS THE
STORY OF JESUS, AND IT IS SO
EASY TO EXPLAIN AND AS THEY
CRUCIFIED HIM A WOMAN TOOK HIS
NAME.
AND ELONGATED STUFF ABOUT CHRIST
AND I BELIEVE I REALLY BELIEVE
THAT IN HIS HEAD, HE WAS HAVING
A JESUS FE E NO, MA'AM NA,
MOMENT, AND A WELL KNOWN THING.
-- PHENOMENA MOMENT, AND SIT ISA
WELL KNOWN THING.
AND PEOPLE ARE SO CLOSE THAT
THEY ARE HAVING A CHRIST-LIKE
EXPERI
EXPERIENCE.
I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED
TO HIM.
I WENT ON THE TV AND TRIED TO
MAKE IT GET ACROSS AND THEY
CRUCIFIED ME ON TV, AND I NEVER
QUITE GOT OVER IT.
>> WELL, I AM SORRY THAT HAPPEN
HAPPENED TO YOU, BUT I THINK
THAT YOU BRING ABOUT A VERY GOOD
POINT THAT YOU SAY THAT PEOPLE
WHO ARE USING THE DRUGS, THINK
THAT THEY ARE HAVING A MOMENT
WHERE THEY ARE CLOSE TO THE
MAKER, AND THEY ROB BLI IN SOME
WAY WANT TO GET CLOSER TO THE
MAKER AND KEEP USING MORE DRUGS,