Wednesday, 27 November 2013

92.

Herbie Hancock's 'Rock it' in 1983 made number 92. He was a jazz musician but experimented and broke the hip hop sounds. This was music with no lyrics. MTV had just begun in America at this time, where there was a huge amount of racism. As Hancock was a black musician, during the early 80's MTV wouldn't show black artists so they refused to have him. Records would be covered by white artists and they made them huge hits. This was unfair because it would be written and sung by black musicians.
Hancock finally got given a video for this song in which he appeared in a TV set very quickly. This music video included dummies all around a house and these dummies toured Britain's art galleries. There was a doll masturbating in the bedroom which is why is was banned in Britain.


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