20.11.80 Chicago, ILL, intro to ´Independence Day´
‘‘I grew up in this...this little town....I remember....that....I never did good in school, I was never interested, I was never....never paid attention (?)...I remember the first time, my mother, she was, she used to have the radio on in the morning all the time before.... my father’d be getting ready to go to work and we’d be getting to go to school down in the kitchen.....she’d always have the radio on tuned to the Top 40 station in New York City...it was, uh....it was WMCA, WMCA was the name of the station...and I remember that I thought that all the stuff, later on when I thought back, that all the stuff in school that they were trying to....to pound through your head and get it through your head, that when I first started listening to the radio....it was all these....all these, just beautiful songs and singers that (?)...that same stuff that they were trying to push through your head, these guys would sing and they’d get it, they’d get it through to your heart somehow....and....and one of the first, I remember, one of the first singles, I went out and bought a 45, I had one of those little....uh, little Walt Disney record players....and....I was about 15....I was younger, I guess it was 1965....and I was riding down the road....and on came ‘Like a Rolling Stone’ and....and I remember I couldn’t ....on the little, I had this junky speaker, I could’t hear, I couldn’t hear what all the verses were, I couldn’t hear all the words but I remember when he got to the chorus, I always remember that line that just asked ‘How does it feel to be on your own ?’ ....and I guess that was the first time that I realised that I really was....so this is for everybody out there who’s on their own tonight.....good luck....”

20.11.80 Chicago, ILL, intro to ´Factory´
‘‘My dad quit high school when he was 16....and joined the army and the only time he ever got to go anywhere was when they sent him to, sent him to World War II....some people never get to hear those songs and things that are on the radio....”

20.11.80 Chicago, ILL, intro to ´The Promised Land´
‘‘Alright, this is for...this is for someone who sent me a letter backstage, this is for Neil....Neil Schonrad, I think, I think his name is....he’s three years old and....he’s the real future of rock and roll....”

Compiled by : Johanna Pirttijärvi