Music

Records, cassettes, Cds and mp3s. These are not just vehicles for music, they are reflections of ourselves and the time we live in. We’ve come a long way from the phonograph to today's mp3. How we got here and the ways in which music has changed and shaped us is the story we are about to tell.

It's the song played in three, yes, three Martin Scorsese movies. Released in 1969, Mick Jagger and the song-stealing backup singer Merry Clayton who was called in last-minute wearing her pajamas and hair rollers tells the story about that hit-making night (on this day in 1969) in the recording studio.