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Music's Lost History Artist Edition Only The Beatles Had Done It Before · Arroe Collins Music's Lost History

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  Speaker 1: Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 2: Arrow Collins is back, back, back. Name the artist before
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  Speaker 2: we tell you. Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, welcome back to Music's Lost History, the Artist Edition.
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  Speaker 1: It's not every day that we can say a band's
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  Speaker 1: impact is actually bigger than their reputation. Without a doubt,
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  Speaker 1: one of the bands that helped define mainstream rock in
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  Speaker 1: the 1970s and 80s. Here's what one critic said. they
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  Speaker 1: bridged the gap between hard rock, arena rock, and pop radio.
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  Speaker 1: The band's lineup is where it was really at. It
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  Speaker 1: was built deliberately as an Anglo-American band. That means the
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  Speaker 1: musical collaboration featured musicians from the United States as well
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  Speaker 1: as Britain. Another group at the time was the trio America,
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  Speaker 1: which was formed in London by three American children from
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  Speaker 1: the U.S. Air Force personnel. Now, if you truly listen closely,
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  Speaker 1: you can physically hear what our featured band was doing
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  Speaker 1: with their sound. You can hear the British music traditions
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  Speaker 1: fusing with American influences. They took American blues, danced it
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  Speaker 1: with rock and roll, and reshaped it in a way
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  Speaker 1: of introducing it to American culture. Would it work? Did
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  Speaker 1: it work?
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  Speaker 2: Here's one more clue.
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  Speaker 1: Can you name this band that was doing things on
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  Speaker 1: Billboard's charts that only the Beatles had accomplished? And it
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  Speaker 1: did affect Bon Jovi.
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  Speaker 2: Music's lost history. Name the artist before we tell you.
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  Speaker 2: Music's lost history.
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  Speaker 1: Aero Collins is back. Hey, thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: coming back to Music's Lost History, the Artist Edition. This week,
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  Speaker 1: we're putting focus on a British-American band whose self-titled album
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  Speaker 1: was almost an overnight music phenomenon. The album peaked at
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  Speaker 1: number four. The door had officially been pushed open, which
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  Speaker 1: introduced them to a moment that only the Beatles had
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  Speaker 1: ever experienced. I mean, their first eight songs all went
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  Speaker 1: top 20 on Billboard's charts. They literally went from the
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  Speaker 1: studio right to the arena. Then something happened. Mick had
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  Speaker 1: a vision, and maybe a fascination with synthesizers and keyboards.
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  Speaker 1: They traded in their guitars and set up an untouched future,
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  Speaker 1: and oh, the drama was about to begin. Its biggest
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  Speaker 1: engines were about to go their own way, but nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the way of slowing down the steam. The real
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  Speaker 1: legacy here is that the band helped turn rock into
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  Speaker 1: a mass media language, which opened up the door for
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  Speaker 1: Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, the Goo Goo Dolls, and even
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  Speaker 1: Guns N' Roses. The winning formula was great for radio
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  Speaker 1: and its listeners. We're talking about the band Foreigner.
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  Speaker 2: Music!
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  Speaker 1: I'm Arrow, and that's music's lost history, The Artist Edition.