BBC Born to be Wild The Golden Age of American Rock 3of3 Welcome to the Jungle

This second part tells the story of the 1970s, when rock stars became multimillionaires and the music they made was the soundtrack for middle America. After the rage and protest of the previous decade, rock music of the early 70s was gentle and sweet the songs of Crosby, Stills, Nash Young and the Doobie Brothers. Although the USA was riven by political disasters the end of the Vietnam War, Watergate and the gasoline crisis rock music seldom commented on them, although Alice Cooper s Nixon satire Elected was a rare exception. But in the middle of the decade new voices started to emerge, such as Bruce Springsteen s songs of working class glory or Tom Petty s tight, 1960sinspired sound.