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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 2 00:00:12,010 --> 00:00:16,148 GEMMA: Next up on the couch is music industry guru, kingpin, 3 00:00:16,181 --> 00:00:18,250 and former head of Creation Records. 4 00:00:18,283 --> 00:00:21,085 He's political, occasionally controversial, 5 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,722 and he's a great friend. 6 00:00:22,754 --> 00:00:25,757 He is, of course, Mr. Alan McGee. 7 00:00:26,358 --> 00:00:32,297 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 8 00:00:40,906 --> 00:00:42,541 ♪ Dealers keep a-dealin' 9 00:00:42,574 --> 00:00:44,409 ♪ Thieves keep a-thievin' 10 00:00:44,443 --> 00:00:46,245 ♪ Whores keep a-whorin' 11 00:00:46,279 --> 00:00:48,113 ♪ Junkies keep scorin' 12 00:00:48,147 --> 00:00:50,082 ♪ Trade is on the meat rack 13 00:00:50,115 --> 00:00:52,017 ♪ Strip joints full of hunchbacks 14 00:00:52,050 --> 00:00:53,919 ♪ Bitches keep a-bitchin' 15 00:00:53,953 --> 00:00:55,553 ♪ Clap just keeps a-itchin' 16 00:00:55,587 --> 00:00:57,389 ♪ Ain't no use in prayin' 17 00:00:57,422 --> 00:01:00,927 ♪ That's the way it's stayin', baby 18 00:01:03,095 --> 00:01:05,163 ♪ Johnny ain't so crazy 19 00:01:05,198 --> 00:01:08,501 ♪ He's always got a line for the ladies 20 00:01:08,534 --> 00:01:10,470 ♪ Yeah-yeah-yeah 21 00:01:10,502 --> 00:01:14,406 ♪ Get yer rocks off Get yer rocks off, honey 22 00:01:14,439 --> 00:01:17,909 ♪ Shake 'em now-now Get 'em off downtown 23 00:01:17,942 --> 00:01:21,880 ♪ Get yer rocks off Get yer rocks off, honey 24 00:01:21,913 --> 00:01:25,550 ♪ Shake 'em now-now Get 'em off downtown 25 00:01:40,698 --> 00:01:42,867 ♪ Creeps keep a-crawlin' 26 00:01:42,901 --> 00:01:44,469 ♪ Drunks keep a-fallin' 27 00:01:44,502 --> 00:01:46,504 ♪ Teasers keep a-teasin' 28 00:01:46,537 --> 00:01:48,306 ♪ Holy joes are preachin' 29 00:01:48,341 --> 00:01:50,208 ♪ Cops keep a-bustin' 30 00:01:50,242 --> 00:01:52,177 ♪ Hustlers keep a-hustlin' 31 00:01:52,210 --> 00:01:54,112 ♪ Death keeps a-knockin' 32 00:01:54,145 --> 00:01:55,980 ♪ Souls are up for auction 33 00:01:56,013 --> 00:01:57,582 ♪ Ain't no use in prayin' 34 00:01:57,615 --> 00:02:01,553 ♪ That's the way it's stayin', baby 35 00:02:03,522 --> 00:02:05,023 ♪ Johnny ain't so crazy 36 00:02:05,056 --> 00:02:08,894 ♪ He's always got a line for the... ♪ 37 00:02:09,796 --> 00:02:11,731 (MUSIC DISTORTS) 38 00:02:11,763 --> 00:02:13,165 (BELL RINGS) 39 00:02:13,197 --> 00:02:15,066 ALAN: Drowning in money. 40 00:02:15,100 --> 00:02:18,169 Don't need to be a shrink to work that one out. 41 00:02:18,203 --> 00:02:22,808 A wee ginger cunt from Glasgow in the land of the beautiful. 42 00:02:22,841 --> 00:02:25,678 You're wondering how I got away with it, eh? 43 00:02:25,712 --> 00:02:27,379 - Well, I'm assuming you are. - (BELL RINGS) 44 00:02:27,411 --> 00:02:28,813 Since you're watching this film. 45 00:02:28,846 --> 00:02:30,615 CAPTAIN OVER PA: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, 46 00:02:30,649 --> 00:02:32,218 this is your Captain. 47 00:02:32,250 --> 00:02:34,185 We're about to start our descent 48 00:02:34,220 --> 00:02:36,422 into Los Angeles LAX airport, 49 00:02:36,454 --> 00:02:39,058 where the local time is 2:34 p.m, 50 00:02:39,090 --> 00:02:41,893 and the weather is a clear and sunny 72 degrees. 51 00:02:41,928 --> 00:02:44,897 The rest of you will be travelling to '70s Glasgow, 52 00:02:44,929 --> 00:02:47,232 where it is a constant bleak and frosty, 53 00:02:47,266 --> 00:02:49,135 and the, uh, outlook is grim... 54 00:02:49,167 --> 00:02:50,701 ♪ I really love your tiger light 55 00:02:50,736 --> 00:02:52,370 ♪ That's neat that's neat, 56 00:02:52,405 --> 00:02:53,773 ♪ That's neat, that's neat 57 00:02:53,805 --> 00:02:55,774 ♪ I really love your tiger feet 58 00:02:55,808 --> 00:02:58,511 ♪ I really love your tiger feet 59 00:02:59,278 --> 00:03:01,381 ♪ Your tiger feet ♪ 60 00:03:02,481 --> 00:03:04,049 ALAN: Glasgow wasn't all bad. 61 00:03:04,082 --> 00:03:05,550 We lived in a decent house. 62 00:03:05,583 --> 00:03:07,652 I had two sisters, so I had my own bedroom. 63 00:03:07,685 --> 00:03:09,187 This is me doing a closing encore 64 00:03:09,220 --> 00:03:10,288 at the Barrowlands, 65 00:03:10,322 --> 00:03:12,190 with a tennis racket. What a tool. 66 00:03:12,224 --> 00:03:15,428 (MUSIC PLAYING) 67 00:03:15,460 --> 00:03:16,895 (DOOR OPENS) 68 00:03:24,502 --> 00:03:27,172 Thank you, Glasgow! Goodnight! 69 00:03:27,206 --> 00:03:30,476 (ALAN PANTING) 70 00:03:30,508 --> 00:03:33,512 Jesus Christ, have you got your sister's make-up on? 71 00:03:33,544 --> 00:03:34,846 I'm not a pooftie, Dad. 72 00:03:34,880 --> 00:03:37,615 Well, why are you poncing about like one? 73 00:03:37,649 --> 00:03:38,684 You're a bloody disgrace. 74 00:03:38,716 --> 00:03:39,952 I'm just pissing about, Dad. 75 00:03:39,986 --> 00:03:41,320 You should be on the street with your football. 76 00:03:41,352 --> 00:03:43,088 Go and wash that shite off, go on. 77 00:03:44,022 --> 00:03:45,590 (DOOR SLAMS) 78 00:03:45,624 --> 00:03:47,091 You should be on the street 79 00:03:47,125 --> 00:03:48,960 playing football, you wee cunt! 80 00:03:48,994 --> 00:03:52,465 ♪ There was a soldier A Scottish soldier 81 00:03:52,498 --> 00:03:53,798 ALAN: It's a cliche, 82 00:03:53,833 --> 00:03:56,335 but I never felt I fitted in with my family. 83 00:03:56,369 --> 00:03:57,536 JOHN: I just don't get it. 84 00:03:57,568 --> 00:03:59,270 Ah, but your mates don't spend it on make-up 85 00:03:59,304 --> 00:04:00,772 and posters of men dressed up as tarts. 86 00:04:00,805 --> 00:04:02,941 ALAN: I loved my ma and my sisters. 87 00:04:02,975 --> 00:04:03,909 JOHN: You're not a kid. 88 00:04:03,941 --> 00:04:06,611 ALAN: But Dad hated everything I did. 89 00:04:06,645 --> 00:04:09,614 You get nothing in this life if you're not prepared to work. 90 00:04:09,649 --> 00:04:11,617 ALAN: And Grandma just hated me. 91 00:04:11,650 --> 00:04:13,386 (QUIETLY) You wee ginger bastard. 92 00:04:13,418 --> 00:04:14,552 (YOUNG ALAN WHISTLES) 93 00:04:14,585 --> 00:04:16,154 ALAN: I had two obsessions back then, 94 00:04:16,189 --> 00:04:18,757 serious now, music and money. 95 00:04:18,791 --> 00:04:20,225 I've got an Advertiser. 96 00:04:20,259 --> 00:04:22,461 Do you want an Advertiser, sir? Put your money in the box. 97 00:04:22,493 --> 00:04:24,095 There you go, thank you. 98 00:04:24,128 --> 00:04:27,833 (MUSIC PLAYING ON STEREO) 99 00:04:35,673 --> 00:04:39,578 (YOUNG ALAN WHISTLES) 100 00:04:39,611 --> 00:04:43,715 Oh, wee man, are you into your music? 101 00:04:44,382 --> 00:04:45,885 Yeah. 102 00:04:46,418 --> 00:04:47,954 You like T-Rex? 103 00:04:48,887 --> 00:04:50,788 Aye, so what? 104 00:04:50,822 --> 00:04:52,457 Nothing, they're fucking cool. 105 00:04:52,490 --> 00:04:54,159 (BOY SHOUTING IN DISTANCE) 106 00:04:54,192 --> 00:04:55,361 Do you like Thin Lizzy? 107 00:04:55,394 --> 00:04:57,763 Do you know they're playing the Barras? 108 00:04:57,796 --> 00:04:59,296 Fuck off, are they playing the Barras? 109 00:04:59,330 --> 00:05:00,498 Aye. 110 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:01,633 Next week. 111 00:05:01,666 --> 00:05:03,035 Cockney Rebel supporting. 112 00:05:03,067 --> 00:05:04,704 YOUNG BOBBY: You mean in the Barras, aye? 113 00:05:10,209 --> 00:05:11,343 Bobby. 114 00:05:11,377 --> 00:05:13,079 "Rebel, rebel". Fucking ace, man. 115 00:05:15,481 --> 00:05:18,284 Go get the other copy, Bobby. I'll buy it you. 116 00:05:19,351 --> 00:05:21,153 - Aye? - Aye. 117 00:05:23,055 --> 00:05:25,824 So, where the fuck do you make that kind of money? 118 00:05:25,856 --> 00:05:30,195 See, so I get 4p for every newspaper I sell, 119 00:05:30,228 --> 00:05:31,964 but they cost 15p. 120 00:05:31,997 --> 00:05:33,498 Now if I turn up an hour early though, 121 00:05:33,531 --> 00:05:35,601 five instead of 6:00, there's no one around. 122 00:05:35,634 --> 00:05:37,503 So, I take a load of extras, sell them on top. 123 00:05:37,536 --> 00:05:38,671 YOUNG BOBBY: They don't count 'em? 124 00:05:38,704 --> 00:05:39,772 YOUNG ALAN: No. 125 00:05:39,805 --> 00:05:41,273 Guess how much I made last week. 126 00:05:41,305 --> 00:05:42,875 - Don't know. - Guess. 127 00:05:43,776 --> 00:05:45,010 A fiver. 128 00:05:45,043 --> 00:05:46,712 Twenty. 129 00:05:46,745 --> 00:05:49,414 I'm gonna be a millionaire one day. 130 00:05:49,447 --> 00:05:52,284 What, selling fucking papers? (LAUGHS) 131 00:05:52,317 --> 00:05:54,453 Fuck off, Bobby, I'm just a rebel. 132 00:05:54,486 --> 00:05:55,788 BOTH: Rebel! 133 00:05:55,820 --> 00:05:57,922 (SINGING) ♪ Rebel, Rebel you've torn your dress. 134 00:05:57,957 --> 00:06:01,093 ♪ Rebel, Rebel your face is a mess ♪ 135 00:06:01,127 --> 00:06:02,595 (JOHN EXHALES) 136 00:06:02,627 --> 00:06:05,264 ALAN: Dad was a talentless bastard, 137 00:06:05,296 --> 00:06:07,031 but he had one skill. 138 00:06:07,065 --> 00:06:11,202 He could smell money, like a pig with truffles. 139 00:06:13,372 --> 00:06:14,573 - (DOOR SLAMS) - ALAN: I earned it. 140 00:06:14,606 --> 00:06:15,907 He's not lying, Dad. 141 00:06:15,940 --> 00:06:17,709 Mom, I earned it. I swear I did. 142 00:06:17,743 --> 00:06:19,411 I'd just sell a few extras, I take. 143 00:06:19,445 --> 00:06:20,512 You mean steal. 144 00:06:20,546 --> 00:06:22,981 Dad, I actually increased circulation. 145 00:06:23,014 --> 00:06:24,850 Oh, it's okay to steal from the people 146 00:06:24,882 --> 00:06:26,952 paying your wages, he's doing them a favor. 147 00:06:26,986 --> 00:06:28,853 Dad, it's not fucking stealing. 148 00:06:28,887 --> 00:06:30,654 - No, no! - Don't you dare! 149 00:06:30,688 --> 00:06:31,822 You think you're clever, Alan, 150 00:06:31,856 --> 00:06:34,626 but you're not clever, you know nothing. 151 00:06:35,526 --> 00:06:38,062 Oh, John, John! 152 00:06:38,096 --> 00:06:42,901 Darling, let me see you. Oh, you're bleeding. 153 00:06:44,870 --> 00:06:45,771 Jesus. 154 00:06:45,805 --> 00:06:48,040 It's no good, Ma, I can't make it stick. 155 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:49,774 You'll have to go to A&E. 156 00:06:49,808 --> 00:06:51,743 All right. Well then, you take him, Laura. 157 00:06:51,776 --> 00:06:53,078 (YOUNG ALAN BREATHES HEAVILY) 158 00:06:53,111 --> 00:06:57,983 and if anyone asks, Al, you fell when you were out. 159 00:06:58,250 --> 00:06:59,719 Okay? 160 00:07:02,288 --> 00:07:03,522 That's my good boy. 161 00:07:03,555 --> 00:07:04,824 ALAN: It was shameful 162 00:07:04,856 --> 00:07:07,325 if Social Services paid you a visit back then. 163 00:07:07,358 --> 00:07:11,662 Like most families, we sorted out our own mess. 164 00:07:11,695 --> 00:07:12,864 ANNOUNCER ON RADIO: Hear the band 165 00:07:12,897 --> 00:07:14,767 the whole world is talking about. 166 00:07:14,800 --> 00:07:18,137 Oasis, live at the Hollywood Bowl, 167 00:07:18,170 --> 00:07:20,472 only on KPWR. 168 00:07:20,505 --> 00:07:21,940 ALAN: Mate, slow down a minute. 169 00:07:21,974 --> 00:07:24,276 - ANNOUNCER: Where rock rocks. - Mate. 170 00:07:24,308 --> 00:07:26,779 RADIO PRESENTER: Wow, that gig is sold out. 171 00:07:26,812 --> 00:07:29,248 These guys, they are like the new Beatles... 172 00:07:29,281 --> 00:07:31,917 ALAN: The 1960s, they basically buried Jesus, 173 00:07:31,950 --> 00:07:34,685 and Bowie was the new messiah. 174 00:07:34,719 --> 00:07:36,654 I wanted to walk where he walked, 175 00:07:36,688 --> 00:07:38,490 and do all the things he did. 176 00:07:38,524 --> 00:07:41,226 (MUSIC PLAYING) 177 00:07:41,260 --> 00:07:45,865 But, I didn't have any talent, which limited my options some. 178 00:07:51,803 --> 00:07:54,505 JOHN: Okay, son, you're gonna be Murray's apprentice. 179 00:07:54,538 --> 00:07:55,873 - This is a big opportunity. - Right. 180 00:07:55,908 --> 00:07:58,543 Hey, hey, hey, don't embarrass me, all right? 181 00:07:58,577 --> 00:08:00,012 (CAR HORN HONKS) 182 00:08:00,545 --> 00:08:01,914 Good boy. 183 00:08:03,848 --> 00:08:05,751 (YOUNG ALAN BREATHES HEAVILY) 184 00:08:07,620 --> 00:08:09,822 (METAL CLANGING) 185 00:08:11,055 --> 00:08:12,892 ALAN: I tried not to embarrass my dad, 186 00:08:12,925 --> 00:08:15,627 but that didn't stop his mates from ripping my pants off 187 00:08:15,661 --> 00:08:17,296 and spraying my balls red. 188 00:08:17,329 --> 00:08:18,863 You fucking wee tube. 189 00:08:18,897 --> 00:08:20,800 ALAN: As an initiation. 190 00:08:24,402 --> 00:08:26,371 Fucking bastards. 191 00:08:28,072 --> 00:08:30,808 - Fucking... - You dirty wee ginger bastard. 192 00:08:30,842 --> 00:08:33,512 I'm not... Oh, no. I can explain. 193 00:08:33,545 --> 00:08:34,947 TV PRESENTER: President Kennedy... 194 00:08:34,979 --> 00:08:36,681 ALAN: People talk about telly in reference to history. 195 00:08:36,715 --> 00:08:38,383 You remember watching the news about Kennedy, 196 00:08:38,416 --> 00:08:39,851 or the moon landing. 197 00:08:40,518 --> 00:08:41,586 Queen's Coronation. 198 00:08:41,619 --> 00:08:42,687 YOUNG ALAN: Fuck. 199 00:08:42,720 --> 00:08:44,221 That. 200 00:08:44,254 --> 00:08:46,958 There was only one historical televised event in our house. 201 00:08:46,992 --> 00:08:48,959 They're a group called the Sex Pistols. 202 00:08:48,993 --> 00:08:51,397 ALAN: And that changed everything. 203 00:08:52,598 --> 00:08:55,666 ♪ I am an anti-Christ 204 00:08:55,700 --> 00:08:58,903 ♪ I am an anarchist 205 00:08:58,936 --> 00:09:00,604 ♪ Don't know what I want 206 00:09:00,638 --> 00:09:02,774 ♪ But I know how to get it 207 00:09:02,807 --> 00:09:06,444 ♪ I wanna destroy the passer-by ♪ 208 00:09:07,911 --> 00:09:09,714 The new craze, they tell me. 209 00:09:09,748 --> 00:09:15,854 ♪ Cause I wanna be anarchy 210 00:09:17,722 --> 00:09:20,126 ♪ No dogs body 211 00:09:20,993 --> 00:09:24,195 ♪ Anarchy for the UK 212 00:09:24,228 --> 00:09:27,900 ♪ It's coming sometime and maybe 213 00:09:27,932 --> 00:09:29,733 What a fucking rotter. 214 00:09:29,767 --> 00:09:31,469 You dirty fucker. 215 00:09:31,502 --> 00:09:35,141 ♪ Your future dream is a shopping scheme 216 00:09:35,174 --> 00:09:36,509 ♪ 'Cause I 217 00:09:37,776 --> 00:09:44,784 ♪ I wanna be anarchy 218 00:09:46,819 --> 00:09:53,190 ♪ In the city and I wanna be anarchy ♪ 219 00:09:53,224 --> 00:09:55,627 ALAN: Musicians are such boring people. 220 00:09:55,660 --> 00:10:00,599 Why should talent have anything to do with rock and roll? 221 00:10:00,632 --> 00:10:04,270 Why should music be in the possession of people 222 00:10:04,302 --> 00:10:05,836 so (BLEEP) dull? 223 00:10:05,871 --> 00:10:07,106 TV PRESENTER: I'll say nothing else about him. 224 00:10:07,138 --> 00:10:08,539 - (BREATHES HEAVILY) - We'll be back tomorrow, 225 00:10:08,573 --> 00:10:10,608 I'll be seeing you soon, I hope, I'm not seeing you again, 226 00:10:10,642 --> 00:10:12,044 from me though, goodnight. 227 00:10:12,076 --> 00:10:14,078 ALAN: Now there were new rules. 228 00:10:14,979 --> 00:10:16,914 There were no rules. 229 00:10:16,948 --> 00:10:18,216 I didn't need talent, 230 00:10:18,249 --> 00:10:21,586 I just needed a guitar and some mates. 231 00:10:21,619 --> 00:10:23,654 (GUITARS PLAYING) 232 00:10:23,688 --> 00:10:26,392 We have Andrew Innes on lead guitar. 233 00:10:26,425 --> 00:10:31,163 And on the bass guitar, the wee ginger bastard himself, 234 00:10:31,195 --> 00:10:32,797 Alan McGee. 235 00:10:32,830 --> 00:10:36,034 (YOUNG BOBBY SHOUTING) 236 00:10:37,401 --> 00:10:39,171 (DOOR OPENS) 237 00:10:39,204 --> 00:10:42,507 Look at this, son. Is this this new punk rock thing? 238 00:10:44,343 --> 00:10:46,010 Aye. 239 00:10:46,044 --> 00:10:47,445 What's the name of this outfit? 240 00:10:47,478 --> 00:10:48,980 (YOUNG BOBBY GRUNTS) 241 00:10:50,047 --> 00:10:51,316 - The Drains. - The Drains. 242 00:10:51,349 --> 00:10:52,984 Well, I don't want you blocking the drains, Bobby. 243 00:10:53,017 --> 00:10:54,353 Just keep it down a wee bit, eh? 244 00:10:54,386 --> 00:10:55,587 Aye, see you, Dad. 245 00:10:55,619 --> 00:10:57,522 The fucking Drains, eh? 246 00:10:57,555 --> 00:10:59,325 (DOOR CLOSES) 247 00:10:59,891 --> 00:11:01,293 Your dad's cool, Bobby. 248 00:11:01,326 --> 00:11:02,994 What's that thing he was wearing? 249 00:11:03,695 --> 00:11:05,530 Ah, he's into his politics. 250 00:11:05,564 --> 00:11:07,733 He'll run for Parliament one day. 251 00:11:07,766 --> 00:11:09,467 Aye, he's a socialist. 252 00:11:09,501 --> 00:11:12,471 My dad talks about socialists. Fucking hates 'em. 253 00:11:12,503 --> 00:11:14,038 Oh, what's your old man into? 254 00:11:14,506 --> 00:11:15,707 Just boring stuff. 255 00:11:15,739 --> 00:11:18,409 What's all this Grandma Barr tells us, painting your pubes. 256 00:11:18,443 --> 00:11:19,877 Oh no, Dad. That was just fucking some... 257 00:11:19,911 --> 00:11:21,345 Are you fucking mental? What's gotten into you? 258 00:11:21,379 --> 00:11:24,014 This is all that punk rock shite they've been talking about, aye. 259 00:11:24,049 --> 00:11:26,050 - Hey, this is a decent house. - On, aye. 260 00:11:26,084 --> 00:11:29,787 Hey, if I so much as hear you mention those sexy pistols, 261 00:11:29,820 --> 00:11:31,556 you'll wish you were never born. 262 00:11:31,589 --> 00:11:33,757 Now get that shit off. 263 00:11:33,791 --> 00:11:35,392 You look ridiculous. 264 00:11:35,426 --> 00:11:36,894 YOUNG INNES: And what have we got up here? 265 00:11:36,929 --> 00:11:40,464 Lena Zavaroni, The fucking Bay City Rollers. 266 00:11:40,498 --> 00:11:43,801 Ah, let's go to London, let's just fucking go. 267 00:11:43,834 --> 00:11:45,603 My Dad'll never let me go to London, Innes. 268 00:11:45,637 --> 00:11:46,872 Doesn't matter, you're nearly 18. 269 00:11:46,905 --> 00:11:51,577 (PUNK ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 270 00:11:57,849 --> 00:12:00,484 JOHN: Do you know what punk means? 271 00:12:00,517 --> 00:12:05,791 It's American slang for homosexuals in prison. 272 00:12:05,824 --> 00:12:08,260 ♪ I got a feeling inside of me 273 00:12:08,292 --> 00:12:10,928 ♪ It's kinda strange like a stormy sea 274 00:12:10,963 --> 00:12:13,365 ♪ I don't know why I don't know why ♪ 275 00:12:13,397 --> 00:12:15,433 Have you ever even been to London? 276 00:12:15,467 --> 00:12:16,434 Do you know anyone there? 277 00:12:16,468 --> 00:12:18,336 No, I can be whatever I wanna be in London. 278 00:12:18,368 --> 00:12:20,571 My dad'll skin me alive, you daft cunt. 279 00:12:20,604 --> 00:12:21,806 Fucking do you for kidnapping. 280 00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:23,208 And you for kiddie fiddling, Alan. 281 00:12:23,241 --> 00:12:25,243 You come and join us when you've got some pubes, eh, Bob. 282 00:12:25,276 --> 00:12:28,680 (LAUGHING) 283 00:12:28,714 --> 00:12:30,616 We've only just started going out with each other. 284 00:12:31,749 --> 00:12:33,050 You're a ginger prick, Alan. 285 00:12:33,084 --> 00:12:35,521 You've got a chance to become a qualified electrician. 286 00:12:35,554 --> 00:12:36,788 You cannae just leave. 287 00:12:36,820 --> 00:12:38,255 Innes, it's in here, man. 288 00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:40,291 Can you hold that for us, pal? Right, here we go. 289 00:12:41,959 --> 00:12:43,961 It feels like you're running away from me. 290 00:12:43,994 --> 00:12:45,028 ♪ I can't stop ♪ 291 00:12:45,063 --> 00:12:48,099 - Wanker. - (YOUNG BOBBY LAUGHS) 292 00:12:48,132 --> 00:12:51,002 YOUNG ALAN AND YOUNG INNES: Oh, fuck off. 293 00:12:51,036 --> 00:12:52,436 You two, out. 294 00:12:52,470 --> 00:12:53,671 Fucking hell, right. 295 00:12:53,704 --> 00:12:56,773 I'll get you in the Freemasons, we look after one another. 296 00:12:56,807 --> 00:12:59,444 Fucking hell! Piss off. 297 00:12:59,478 --> 00:13:00,911 I'll write to you every day, Yvonne. 298 00:13:00,945 --> 00:13:02,513 Fucking pen pal. 299 00:13:03,113 --> 00:13:05,950 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 300 00:13:05,983 --> 00:13:07,118 YVONNE: No! 301 00:13:07,151 --> 00:13:08,586 YOUNG ALAN: All right. 302 00:13:11,955 --> 00:13:14,392 Think about the future, son, eh? 303 00:13:14,425 --> 00:13:16,428 I'm always thinking about the future, Dad. 304 00:13:17,028 --> 00:13:18,496 It's you that's not. 305 00:13:24,735 --> 00:13:26,137 ALAN: Los Angeles, 306 00:13:26,171 --> 00:13:29,974 land of the back stabbers, the vacuous, and the soulless. 307 00:13:30,007 --> 00:13:32,243 They say in London, you're never more than 308 00:13:32,276 --> 00:13:34,411 six feet away from a sewer rat. 309 00:13:34,445 --> 00:13:38,548 Well, in LA, it's the same, except here, it's dealers... 310 00:13:38,583 --> 00:13:40,752 - (KNOCKING ON DOOR) - ALAN:... whores, pimps, 311 00:13:40,785 --> 00:13:42,788 and fucking agents. 312 00:13:51,363 --> 00:13:53,231 - Sup, man, how you doing? - Good to see you, Rich. 313 00:13:53,263 --> 00:13:55,666 - Don't mind if I do, huh? - (ALAN SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY) 314 00:13:57,002 --> 00:13:59,405 You Brits are fucking crazy, man. 315 00:13:59,438 --> 00:14:02,374 You come to LA, you hang out in a fucking hotel room. 316 00:14:02,406 --> 00:14:03,907 That's why you guys are all pale. 317 00:14:03,941 --> 00:14:06,411 So, we got the, uh... (SNIFFS) 318 00:14:06,445 --> 00:14:07,478 Got the what? 319 00:14:07,512 --> 00:14:08,647 The gear. 320 00:14:12,983 --> 00:14:15,387 (LAUGHING) 321 00:14:15,421 --> 00:14:18,956 I'm fucking with you, man. Got the fucking gear. 322 00:14:18,989 --> 00:14:20,291 It's strong though, man. 323 00:14:20,325 --> 00:14:22,926 Okay, that shit's like some new shit that's come in. 324 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,595 People are going crazy over that shit. 325 00:14:30,767 --> 00:14:33,238 That is all there. 326 00:14:34,372 --> 00:14:36,107 ALAN: Forget everything in that last voice-over, 327 00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:38,844 I fucking love LA. 328 00:14:38,877 --> 00:14:40,044 Later, bro. 329 00:14:40,078 --> 00:14:42,081 I've got it, I've got it. Yeah, I'll call you. 330 00:14:42,547 --> 00:14:43,648 Cheers, Rich. 331 00:14:43,681 --> 00:14:45,850 (UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING) 332 00:14:45,883 --> 00:14:47,820 (PHONE RINGING) 333 00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:51,522 Hey, Felipe, yeah. 334 00:14:51,555 --> 00:14:54,292 Oh, yeah, that's right, yeah, Gemma, it's the magazine. 335 00:14:54,325 --> 00:14:57,061 Yeah, some interview, yeah, show them my poolside table, 336 00:14:57,094 --> 00:14:58,863 take in a couple of smudges. 337 00:14:59,730 --> 00:15:01,700 Yeah, lovely, love you. 338 00:15:01,733 --> 00:15:03,401 (ALAN SIGHS) 339 00:15:05,469 --> 00:15:07,473 YOUNG INNES: Oh, this is fucking great. 340 00:15:10,208 --> 00:15:12,344 Well, what do you think? 341 00:15:13,978 --> 00:15:15,346 It's a shithole, Innes. 342 00:15:15,379 --> 00:15:17,648 That may very well be the case, but it's fucking free. 343 00:15:18,215 --> 00:15:19,517 Where do we sleep? 344 00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:20,685 Anywhere you like. 345 00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:26,089 What the fuck, man? 346 00:15:26,123 --> 00:15:28,526 It's London, what did you expect? 347 00:15:34,632 --> 00:15:38,536 I'm a nihilist, man, there's nothing to it. 348 00:15:44,743 --> 00:15:46,844 ALAN: So anyway, I'd left a decent job, 349 00:15:46,877 --> 00:15:48,613 decent home, decent birds, 350 00:15:48,647 --> 00:15:51,148 to move into some London shithole with my best mates 351 00:15:51,181 --> 00:15:53,183 and some random smackheads. 352 00:15:53,218 --> 00:15:55,152 Thought I got scurvy once. 353 00:15:55,185 --> 00:15:56,320 Scurvy? 354 00:15:56,353 --> 00:15:59,056 - Yeah, scurvy. - Can you spell that for me? 355 00:15:59,089 --> 00:16:05,228 Yeah, S-C-U-R-V-E, no, Y, 356 00:16:05,262 --> 00:16:06,564 fucking one of them. 357 00:16:06,598 --> 00:16:07,866 Scurvy is like a medieval disease 358 00:16:07,898 --> 00:16:10,535 that pirates would get from not eating properly. 359 00:16:13,238 --> 00:16:15,640 ALAN: We settled down, despite the squalor. 360 00:16:15,672 --> 00:16:18,041 By the time we got to London, punk was over. 361 00:16:18,075 --> 00:16:20,912 It had left all these various counter-cultures in its wake, 362 00:16:20,945 --> 00:16:22,980 all wanting to be seen and heard. 363 00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,583 We spent our dole money making a demo. 364 00:16:25,616 --> 00:16:27,318 Bobby's learning bass with Caesar McNulty. 365 00:16:27,350 --> 00:16:28,585 - Altered Images? - Aye. 366 00:16:28,619 --> 00:16:31,455 Throb's learning guitar. It's in the demo. 367 00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:36,561 Just smell that, Alan. Do you know what it is? 368 00:16:37,061 --> 00:16:38,228 B-O? Fish? 369 00:16:38,262 --> 00:16:39,731 It's the smell of possibilities. 370 00:16:39,763 --> 00:16:40,831 Laughing Apple. 371 00:16:41,398 --> 00:16:42,934 Hopeless this morning. 372 00:16:43,935 --> 00:16:45,170 - No. - Laughing Apple. 373 00:16:45,203 --> 00:16:47,171 I heard this job's going at British Rail. 374 00:16:47,204 --> 00:16:48,439 British Rail? 375 00:16:48,473 --> 00:16:50,876 I could go London to Glasgow line to see Yvonne. 376 00:16:50,908 --> 00:16:51,875 Fuck Yvonne. 377 00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,245 No, no, let's face it, one of us needs a job. 378 00:16:54,278 --> 00:16:56,180 You can't run a venue and press records 379 00:16:56,214 --> 00:16:58,650 and promote a band on 13 a week, can we? 380 00:16:58,682 --> 00:17:01,852 Laughing Apple. Greatest band to come out of Scotland! 381 00:17:01,887 --> 00:17:02,988 Laughing Apple, Laughing Apple. 382 00:17:03,021 --> 00:17:06,391 Laughing Apple! Greatest band to come out of Scotland! 383 00:17:06,423 --> 00:17:08,926 MAN: Fuck off home, you scroungers. 384 00:17:08,959 --> 00:17:10,094 Cunt! 385 00:17:10,128 --> 00:17:14,266 (BAND TUNING INSTRUMENTS) 386 00:17:20,939 --> 00:17:22,007 ALAN: We sorted out our line up 387 00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:25,075 with that nihilist and skaghead flatmate on drums. 388 00:17:25,109 --> 00:17:26,377 Are you sure about him? 389 00:17:26,411 --> 00:17:28,880 I didn't say he could play, I said he had a kit. 390 00:17:28,912 --> 00:17:34,486 (PLAYING DRUMS) 391 00:17:36,188 --> 00:17:37,522 It'll be fine. 392 00:17:37,555 --> 00:17:41,959 Hello, we're the Laughing Apple and nobody knows why. 393 00:17:45,095 --> 00:17:51,002 (PLAYING GUITAR RIFF) 394 00:18:07,751 --> 00:18:13,190 ♪ I would never leave my trust to her 395 00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:16,360 ♪ I would deny my love 396 00:18:16,393 --> 00:18:19,896 ♪ I leave my all to her 397 00:18:19,930 --> 00:18:27,204 ♪ I leave my clothes maybe I'll leave my memory 398 00:18:27,238 --> 00:18:30,142 ♪ I live for passion 399 00:18:30,174 --> 00:18:35,245 ♪ I love to go away go away Go away go away go away 400 00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:36,614 ♪ Goodbye 401 00:18:38,382 --> 00:18:43,822 ♪ I love you precious feeling ♪ 402 00:18:52,831 --> 00:18:56,068 (PLAYING DRUM SOLO) 403 00:18:59,636 --> 00:19:03,974 (GRUNTS) 404 00:19:08,912 --> 00:19:12,349 (SLOW CLAPPING) 405 00:19:12,382 --> 00:19:13,751 You alright? 406 00:19:14,184 --> 00:19:15,286 You good? 407 00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:16,987 Yeah. 408 00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:19,357 Thank you, cheers. 409 00:19:21,124 --> 00:19:23,227 ALAN: So now I had a proper job 410 00:19:23,259 --> 00:19:25,363 that I proper fucking hated. 411 00:19:25,395 --> 00:19:27,130 Come on, lads and lasses. 412 00:19:27,164 --> 00:19:29,800 ALAN: But even though we weren't selling out gigs, 413 00:19:29,834 --> 00:19:32,938 I was still spending every penny pressing our records. 414 00:19:33,703 --> 00:19:34,538 Ah, good. 415 00:19:34,572 --> 00:19:35,606 ALAN: Surprisingly. 416 00:19:35,639 --> 00:19:37,241 We sold all the other copies. 417 00:19:37,274 --> 00:19:39,344 You have? 418 00:19:39,376 --> 00:19:41,278 Oh, yeah, yeah, I thought you would. 419 00:19:41,312 --> 00:19:43,582 Do you have any more bands on your label? 420 00:19:43,614 --> 00:19:44,716 Label? 421 00:19:44,749 --> 00:19:45,650 (TRAIN CHUGGING) 422 00:19:45,682 --> 00:19:48,118 Get your tickets out, come on! 423 00:19:48,151 --> 00:19:50,087 ANNOUNCER ON TV: This year's Christmas number one 424 00:19:50,121 --> 00:19:51,921 is from Renee and Renato, 425 00:19:51,956 --> 00:19:54,325 and here they are with Save Your Love. 426 00:19:54,359 --> 00:19:55,460 (MUSIC PLAYING) 427 00:19:55,492 --> 00:19:58,629 (MACHINE WHIRRING) 428 00:20:01,833 --> 00:20:07,104 ♪ Save your love, my darling Save your love 429 00:20:07,138 --> 00:20:10,842 (MACHINE CONTINUES WHIRRING) 430 00:20:13,510 --> 00:20:16,012 ♪ A serenade I long to sing you 431 00:20:16,046 --> 00:20:19,116 (CYNICALLY) So, how's it working out in London, eh? 432 00:20:20,316 --> 00:20:22,319 Couldn't be better. (CHUCKLES) 433 00:20:22,353 --> 00:20:24,889 Tell that to your pal, Innes. 434 00:20:24,921 --> 00:20:26,957 Had a kidney pack up and moved back. 435 00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:30,996 Drugs, no doubt, that and living in a shithole. 436 00:20:32,396 --> 00:20:34,432 ALAN: Innes was more into the scene 437 00:20:34,466 --> 00:20:36,467 than just the music, and he did lose a kidney. 438 00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:37,734 No, mam, he's on the mend, 439 00:20:37,768 --> 00:20:39,303 and his dad says he can move back 440 00:20:39,336 --> 00:20:40,838 only if he gets a place at Uni though. 441 00:20:40,872 --> 00:20:42,373 But we've got a new guitarist now, 442 00:20:42,405 --> 00:20:44,107 and he's more sensible. 443 00:20:44,141 --> 00:20:46,978 (CROWD CHATTERING) 444 00:20:47,010 --> 00:20:48,846 GEMMA: So, you were shooting for the moon, 445 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,614 but you still had a boring job, huh? 446 00:20:50,648 --> 00:20:52,850 Come on, all jobs are boring, when you think about it. 447 00:20:52,883 --> 00:20:55,920 Even being a millionaire is bloody monotonous, you know. 448 00:20:55,953 --> 00:20:57,321 As soon as someone makes a million, 449 00:20:57,354 --> 00:20:59,123 all they can think about doing is making another million, 450 00:20:59,157 --> 00:21:00,291 another million, another million. 451 00:21:00,324 --> 00:21:01,825 Well, hence drowning in money. 452 00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:02,727 I told you that? 453 00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:05,229 Your dream, your recurring nightmare. 454 00:21:05,263 --> 00:21:06,797 Have it on a sandwich, you'll be great. 455 00:21:06,831 --> 00:21:07,865 Thank you. 456 00:21:07,898 --> 00:21:10,068 ANNOUNCER ON TV: The Christmas number one 1983, 457 00:21:10,101 --> 00:21:12,303 The Flying Pickets. 458 00:21:12,335 --> 00:21:13,637 YOUNG ALAN: We've started focusing on 459 00:21:13,671 --> 00:21:17,409 promoting the bands now, managing. 460 00:21:17,441 --> 00:21:19,410 JOHN: Brian Epstein, eh? 461 00:21:19,442 --> 00:21:21,345 Well, he was a Jessie, you know. 462 00:21:21,379 --> 00:21:23,514 Yvonne, every Christmas 463 00:21:23,547 --> 00:21:25,248 - she turns up here with you - (YVONNE SOBBING) 464 00:21:25,283 --> 00:21:27,485 JOHN: I breathe a sigh of relief. 465 00:21:27,517 --> 00:21:30,321 (YVONNE SLURPS AND GULPS) 466 00:21:30,353 --> 00:21:32,222 - (GUARD WHISTLES) - (TRAIN HORN BLOWS) 467 00:21:32,256 --> 00:21:34,159 Yvonne moved down to London, 468 00:21:34,191 --> 00:21:35,392 we got married, 469 00:21:35,426 --> 00:21:37,495 she started working in the office with me at British Rail, 470 00:21:37,528 --> 00:21:39,430 ALAN: We tried to be a normal couple but... 471 00:21:39,462 --> 00:21:41,231 (MAN ON RADIO SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 472 00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:42,633 Could we start a new club? 473 00:21:42,667 --> 00:21:46,071 (FAINT MUSIC PLAYING) 474 00:21:52,576 --> 00:21:55,779 (LOUD MUSIC PLAYING IN CLUB) 475 00:22:07,424 --> 00:22:10,661 (LOUD MUSIC CONTINUES) 476 00:22:16,433 --> 00:22:17,635 Oi! 477 00:22:19,003 --> 00:22:20,071 You Alan McGee? 478 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,175 You owe me 15 quid cab fare. 479 00:22:27,778 --> 00:22:29,279 What? 480 00:22:29,313 --> 00:22:30,547 You talking to me? 481 00:22:30,581 --> 00:22:32,083 Where's the PA? 482 00:22:32,116 --> 00:22:33,216 ALAN: Every now and then, 483 00:22:33,250 --> 00:22:35,652 a band comes along that changes your life. 484 00:22:35,686 --> 00:22:38,890 Television Personalities changed mine. 485 00:22:40,557 --> 00:22:43,327 (GUITAR DISTORTION SOUNDING) 486 00:22:43,361 --> 00:22:44,829 PUB LANDLORD: Who the fuck are you? 487 00:22:47,597 --> 00:22:49,200 ALAN: Part cabaret. 488 00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:50,568 Go faster. 489 00:22:50,601 --> 00:22:51,835 ALAN: Part chaos. 490 00:22:51,869 --> 00:22:52,904 Musician. 491 00:22:54,037 --> 00:22:55,238 Engineer. 492 00:22:55,271 --> 00:22:56,373 ALAN: Piss take punks. 493 00:22:56,407 --> 00:22:58,142 ♪ Walkin' down the Kings Road 494 00:22:58,174 --> 00:22:59,209 Organized Anarchy. 495 00:22:59,244 --> 00:23:01,279 ♪ I see so many faces 496 00:23:01,312 --> 00:23:02,680 (JOE IMITATES PLAYING DRUM) 497 00:23:02,712 --> 00:23:04,414 ♪ Many places 498 00:23:04,448 --> 00:23:05,882 ♪ They come down for the day 499 00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:08,920 Fuck me! This thing run on gas? 500 00:23:09,353 --> 00:23:10,388 (INCREASES BASS) 501 00:23:10,421 --> 00:23:12,123 ♪ And try and look trendy 502 00:23:12,157 --> 00:23:13,224 (CROWD CHEERING) 503 00:23:13,257 --> 00:23:15,660 - ♪ I think it's a shame - I'll need that an' all. 504 00:23:15,692 --> 00:23:17,362 ♪ That they all look the same 505 00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:20,065 ♪ Here they come 506 00:23:21,431 --> 00:23:24,367 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 507 00:23:24,401 --> 00:23:27,204 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 508 00:23:27,238 --> 00:23:28,907 ♪ The part time punks 509 00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:31,809 ♪ Here they come 510 00:23:32,676 --> 00:23:35,246 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 511 00:23:36,313 --> 00:23:38,748 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 512 00:23:38,783 --> 00:23:40,551 ♪ The part time punks 513 00:23:40,584 --> 00:23:41,786 ♪ The part time punks 514 00:23:41,818 --> 00:23:44,521 ♪ Then they go to Rough Trade 515 00:23:44,555 --> 00:23:47,624 ♪ To buy Siouxsie And the Banshees 516 00:23:47,658 --> 00:23:49,828 ♪ They heard John Peel Play it 517 00:23:50,728 --> 00:23:52,296 ♪ Just the other night 518 00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:53,665 ♪ Just the other night 519 00:23:53,698 --> 00:23:56,633 ♪ They'd like to buy the O Level single 520 00:23:56,668 --> 00:23:59,437 ♪ Or read about Seymour 521 00:23:59,469 --> 00:24:01,538 ♪ But they're not pressed in red 522 00:24:01,572 --> 00:24:04,241 ♪ So they buy The Lurkers instead 523 00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:05,509 ♪ The Lurkers instead 524 00:24:05,543 --> 00:24:07,078 ♪ Here they come 525 00:24:07,112 --> 00:24:08,478 (CROWD CHEERING) 526 00:24:08,511 --> 00:24:11,414 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 527 00:24:11,448 --> 00:24:14,384 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 528 00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:17,488 ♪ The part time punks! ♪ 529 00:24:17,521 --> 00:24:19,590 Thank you, thank you. 530 00:24:19,623 --> 00:24:21,291 We are the Television Personalities, 531 00:24:21,325 --> 00:24:24,261 this next song is the same as the last one... 532 00:24:24,295 --> 00:24:26,296 (SHOUTING) Only louder! 533 00:24:26,331 --> 00:24:27,698 (CROWD CHEERING) 534 00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:29,633 ♪ They play their records very loud 535 00:24:29,667 --> 00:24:32,703 ♪ And pogo in the bedroom 536 00:24:32,736 --> 00:24:34,505 ♪ In front of the mirror 537 00:24:34,538 --> 00:24:35,705 (CROWD CHEERING) 538 00:24:35,739 --> 00:24:37,607 ♪ But only when their mum's gone out ♪ 539 00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:38,941 (CROWD CHEERING) 540 00:24:38,976 --> 00:24:40,512 ALAN: They never made it though. 541 00:24:40,545 --> 00:24:43,279 Sexton Ming and Jowe Head were performance artists, 542 00:24:43,314 --> 00:24:45,115 and the band was just an extension of that. 543 00:24:45,149 --> 00:24:47,584 Dan Treacy was a brilliant front man. 544 00:24:47,617 --> 00:24:49,119 Sofa surfer got locked out one night 545 00:24:49,152 --> 00:24:50,654 and kicked half to death by some cunts, 546 00:24:50,688 --> 00:24:51,922 he never really recovered. 547 00:24:51,956 --> 00:24:53,390 The Slaughterhouse Joe Foster, 548 00:24:53,423 --> 00:24:56,193 the anarchist with multiple personalities, all of them mad, 549 00:24:56,227 --> 00:24:58,329 Ed Ball, the coolest fucker you've ever seen, 550 00:24:58,362 --> 00:24:59,964 even when he lost his hair. 551 00:24:59,997 --> 00:25:04,068 And Dick Green, the dullest man to ever tune up a guitar. 552 00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:06,603 With these three liabilities, 553 00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:08,472 I knew we could take over the world. 554 00:25:08,506 --> 00:25:09,841 ♪ The part time punks 555 00:25:11,942 --> 00:25:13,276 ♪ The part time punks 556 00:25:13,311 --> 00:25:15,313 ♪ The part time punks 557 00:25:17,146 --> 00:25:19,282 ANNOUNCER ON TV: The 1985 Christmas number one, 558 00:25:19,315 --> 00:25:21,419 it's Shaky. Merry Christmas Everyone. 559 00:25:21,451 --> 00:25:23,320 ALAN: I mean, we were still working for the railways, 560 00:25:23,353 --> 00:25:27,792 but my next thing I'm trying to get this fanzine together. 561 00:25:27,825 --> 00:25:29,861 Like, it's a magazine, to sell to fans at the gigs. 562 00:25:29,893 --> 00:25:31,362 Trying to get into publishing really. 563 00:25:31,395 --> 00:25:32,262 JOHN: Come on. 564 00:25:32,296 --> 00:25:34,731 BARBARA: Well, I am proud of you, son. 565 00:25:34,766 --> 00:25:36,534 It's good to have a dream. 566 00:25:36,567 --> 00:25:38,268 JOHN: Come on. 567 00:25:38,303 --> 00:25:41,671 We need more dreamers in this family. 568 00:25:41,705 --> 00:25:44,375 Your dad's never really had a dream. 569 00:25:44,409 --> 00:25:45,676 Did you, John? 570 00:25:45,709 --> 00:25:48,578 No, maybe it's a good job I didn't. 571 00:25:48,612 --> 00:25:49,979 Who'd have put a roof over our head 572 00:25:50,014 --> 00:25:51,516 and food on the table, eh? 573 00:25:54,218 --> 00:25:55,986 (ALAN SIGHS) 574 00:25:56,019 --> 00:25:57,821 GEMMA: It must have been hard though. 575 00:25:57,854 --> 00:26:00,525 It's ten to 4:00. You're in work at 7:00. 576 00:26:00,557 --> 00:26:02,926 I dunno, I got a real buzz out of being the outsider. 577 00:26:02,959 --> 00:26:04,394 ALAN: I was answering to no one. 578 00:26:04,428 --> 00:26:05,763 (TRAIN CHUGGING IN DISTANCE) 579 00:26:05,796 --> 00:26:07,364 Except the rail company. 580 00:26:07,398 --> 00:26:08,699 True, what a bunch of cunts. 581 00:26:08,732 --> 00:26:10,033 - (TRAIN HORN) - (ALAN GASPS) 582 00:26:11,401 --> 00:26:14,037 GEMMA: So, would you say that managing Jesus and Mary Chain 583 00:26:14,071 --> 00:26:16,741 was your first big break? 584 00:26:16,775 --> 00:26:19,309 Uh, I didn't really see it as a break at the time 585 00:26:19,343 --> 00:26:21,813 because you're too busy getting on with it, 586 00:26:21,845 --> 00:26:24,882 but, yeah, I knew I'd found something special. 587 00:26:26,484 --> 00:26:27,518 Jesus and Mary Chain. 588 00:26:27,551 --> 00:26:28,586 The Jesus and Mary Chain. 589 00:26:28,619 --> 00:26:30,321 Jesus and Mary Chain. 590 00:26:30,354 --> 00:26:31,389 - Jesus... - And... 591 00:26:31,421 --> 00:26:32,489 - Mary... - Chain. 592 00:26:32,523 --> 00:26:34,158 Jesus and Mary Chain. 593 00:26:34,191 --> 00:26:36,459 DUTCH INTERVIEWER: The Jesus and Mary Chain... 594 00:26:36,494 --> 00:26:38,029 (SPEAKING DUTCH) 595 00:26:42,165 --> 00:26:43,000 Hi, guys. 596 00:26:43,034 --> 00:26:44,302 ALAN: Let's rewind. 597 00:26:44,334 --> 00:26:45,502 (MUSIC REWINDING) 598 00:26:45,536 --> 00:26:47,305 So, I'm in London getting a decent turnout for the club, 599 00:26:47,337 --> 00:26:49,472 recording demos for the bands that ask, signing, 600 00:26:49,506 --> 00:26:50,841 pressing and selling records 601 00:26:50,874 --> 00:26:52,742 for the ones that we fucking love. 602 00:26:52,776 --> 00:26:54,411 In Glasgow, word is that 603 00:26:54,444 --> 00:26:56,246 we're big-time Charlies down in London, 604 00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,017 and Bobby is putting Primal Scream together with Innes, 605 00:26:59,049 --> 00:27:00,884 who's getting over losing his kidney. 606 00:27:00,918 --> 00:27:02,853 He gets given a demo to give to me, 607 00:27:02,886 --> 00:27:06,423 interesting racket, Velvets meets The Stooges. 608 00:27:06,457 --> 00:27:08,392 We come down to do a gig, Joe does the sound, 609 00:27:08,424 --> 00:27:10,927 but Joe had worked his way through a bag of pink speed 610 00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,029 and hadn't slept in days. 611 00:27:12,063 --> 00:27:13,965 (CLUB MUSIC PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) 612 00:27:13,998 --> 00:27:16,267 Chaos, straight off. 613 00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:19,671 (CROWD CHEERING) 614 00:27:19,703 --> 00:27:20,904 But I loved it. 615 00:27:20,938 --> 00:27:24,142 (LOUD CLUB MUSIC PLAYING) 616 00:27:25,742 --> 00:27:26,910 I signed them. 617 00:27:26,943 --> 00:27:29,413 (LOUD CLUB MUSIC PLAYING) 618 00:27:35,052 --> 00:27:38,055 The drummer, trappy cunt, complained about the money, 619 00:27:38,088 --> 00:27:40,657 so we sack him off, we put Bobby in. 620 00:27:40,690 --> 00:27:43,392 It's two drums on stands, any fucker can do it. 621 00:27:43,427 --> 00:27:46,531 Abraca-fucking-dabra, now they're sexy. 622 00:27:47,730 --> 00:27:49,166 Joe does the recordings 623 00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,036 with that same mental, evil, fucking racket. 624 00:27:52,068 --> 00:27:54,270 (DISTORTED MUSIC PLAYING) 625 00:27:54,305 --> 00:27:56,841 John Peel plays the record, it goes bananas. 626 00:27:56,873 --> 00:27:58,508 I sign them to a bigger label. 627 00:27:58,542 --> 00:27:59,810 I stay on as manager. 628 00:27:59,844 --> 00:28:01,478 They record Psychocandy, bang! 629 00:28:01,511 --> 00:28:03,813 The album goes gold, we're in the charts. 630 00:28:03,847 --> 00:28:05,081 Proper charts. 631 00:28:05,115 --> 00:28:07,050 - Jesus and Mary Chain. - Jesus and Mary Chain. 632 00:28:07,084 --> 00:28:09,254 MAN: Jesus and Mary Chain. 633 00:28:11,455 --> 00:28:14,192 The recent concert has been completely dogged by riots. 634 00:28:14,225 --> 00:28:17,661 People say that it was you who organized the riots 635 00:28:17,694 --> 00:28:19,662 at the Jesus and Mary Chain concerts. 636 00:28:19,696 --> 00:28:21,665 People can say what they want. 637 00:28:21,699 --> 00:28:22,900 (BACKGROUND MUSIC PLAYING) 638 00:28:22,933 --> 00:28:24,067 WOMAN ANNOUNCER: That happened tonight 639 00:28:24,101 --> 00:28:25,936 accompanied by, no doubt, rioting. 640 00:28:25,969 --> 00:28:28,738 It's Jesus and Mary Chain. 641 00:28:28,771 --> 00:28:32,341 ALAN: You see, magic isn't about pulling rabbits out of hats, 642 00:28:32,375 --> 00:28:36,580 but it is about making something materialize. 643 00:28:36,613 --> 00:28:40,183 (MUSIC PLAYING) 644 00:28:40,217 --> 00:28:41,953 Hailed as the most controversial band 645 00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:44,155 since the Sex Pistols. 646 00:28:44,188 --> 00:28:45,855 JIM: We're not remotely like the Sex Pistols. 647 00:28:45,889 --> 00:28:46,924 The comparison's silly. 648 00:28:46,958 --> 00:28:49,993 Don't particularly like them, so... 649 00:28:50,026 --> 00:28:53,863 We're a very commercial group, you know. 650 00:28:53,896 --> 00:28:57,133 Some say that the Jesus and Mary Chain 651 00:28:57,167 --> 00:28:59,637 is all about aggression, violence. 652 00:28:59,670 --> 00:29:01,005 You know what The Beatles did 653 00:29:01,037 --> 00:29:03,106 when they were doing it in the '80s? 654 00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:05,376 We've got our eyes on the pop charts, you know, 655 00:29:05,409 --> 00:29:10,014 direct competition is, like, Culture Club and Duran Duran. 656 00:29:10,046 --> 00:29:11,582 DUTCH INTERVIEWER: The New Musical Express 657 00:29:11,615 --> 00:29:14,884 compared it with Joy Division for its intensity. 658 00:29:14,918 --> 00:29:16,888 Joy Division were fucking shite. 659 00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:18,189 We don't even like being mentioned 660 00:29:18,221 --> 00:29:19,824 in the same breath as them. 661 00:29:19,856 --> 00:29:20,958 Joy Division were boring. 662 00:29:20,990 --> 00:29:24,828 - (RECORD SCRATCHES) - (CRICKETS CHIRPING) 663 00:29:24,862 --> 00:29:27,131 ALAN: Conjuring success and victory, 664 00:29:27,163 --> 00:29:30,968 but these days, that's in film, and TV and music. 665 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:33,269 (CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) 666 00:29:33,304 --> 00:29:36,040 See, if you possess a certain understanding, 667 00:29:36,073 --> 00:29:37,874 you can make it work in your favor. 668 00:29:37,908 --> 00:29:40,645 (CHATTERING CONTINUES) 669 00:29:42,912 --> 00:29:44,681 Gonna be bigger than U2. 670 00:29:44,715 --> 00:29:46,450 We were being magicians with Creation Records, 671 00:29:46,482 --> 00:29:48,485 we were like accidental alchemists. 672 00:29:48,518 --> 00:29:52,457 Sometimes we seemed to turn shit into gold. 673 00:29:52,489 --> 00:29:53,891 Alan, bank statements. 674 00:29:53,924 --> 00:29:57,894 ALAN: And sometimes, much as we loved it 675 00:29:57,928 --> 00:30:00,031 it just stayed shit. 676 00:30:00,064 --> 00:30:01,298 (SCREAMS) Fuck! 677 00:30:01,332 --> 00:30:03,066 (SONG PLAYING IN BACKGROUND) 678 00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,036 ♪ So young 679 00:30:05,068 --> 00:30:08,604 Look, is it just the cash flow, because if it is... 680 00:30:08,639 --> 00:30:12,743 I'm afraid it's the maintenance of your overdraft and loans. 681 00:30:12,776 --> 00:30:14,010 I'm about to do a deal 682 00:30:14,044 --> 00:30:17,015 that is gonna turn everything around. 683 00:30:19,816 --> 00:30:21,250 What's that? 684 00:30:21,285 --> 00:30:24,921 Demos of future releases, chart material, pure pop. 685 00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:26,224 Hits! 686 00:30:28,926 --> 00:30:34,431 Alan, the money you earn from managing the, uh, Mary and... 687 00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:37,101 - Jesus and Mary Chain. - Jesus and Mary Chain, 688 00:30:37,133 --> 00:30:39,170 you can't keep funding a label 689 00:30:39,202 --> 00:30:41,238 out of your own pocket. (CHUCKLES) 690 00:30:41,271 --> 00:30:42,439 Why not? 691 00:30:42,472 --> 00:30:45,041 Some of these acts I've got are gonna be bigger than U2. 692 00:30:45,075 --> 00:30:46,544 I've done the research, 693 00:30:46,576 --> 00:30:49,279 and the fact is, the record industry in this country 694 00:30:49,313 --> 00:30:50,848 ain't what it used to be. 695 00:30:50,881 --> 00:30:52,882 Comedy is the new rock and roll, Alan, 696 00:30:52,917 --> 00:30:55,419 Newman and Baddiel, they just sold out Wembley Arena. 697 00:30:55,452 --> 00:30:57,620 "That's your Mom that is!" (LAUGHS) 698 00:30:57,654 --> 00:31:00,825 They're very good, but do you have an act that can do that? 699 00:31:00,857 --> 00:31:02,291 Will any of they? 700 00:31:02,325 --> 00:31:03,727 No. 701 00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,965 What you have is a very small, potentially healthy, business 702 00:31:08,998 --> 00:31:12,435 with a thick and lowering glass ceiling. 703 00:31:12,469 --> 00:31:14,838 What we have to do is minimize the venture, 704 00:31:14,872 --> 00:31:16,206 try and increase the profits 705 00:31:16,239 --> 00:31:19,142 and then use them to address the charges on your debts, 706 00:31:19,176 --> 00:31:21,345 just run a small tight ship. 707 00:31:22,845 --> 00:31:24,248 It's not the '60s anymore, Alan. 708 00:31:26,284 --> 00:31:27,851 Or? 709 00:31:27,883 --> 00:31:29,286 Or you lose everything. 710 00:31:31,188 --> 00:31:32,790 Thanks a bunch, Nostradamus. 711 00:31:34,892 --> 00:31:36,094 Catch you later, eh? 712 00:31:37,228 --> 00:31:39,663 (MUSIC PLAYING) 713 00:31:39,697 --> 00:31:42,200 Joe, I've just been meeting the biggest cunt of my life, 714 00:31:42,232 --> 00:31:43,566 I mean, everyone, 715 00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:46,703 every fucker in the office 10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. 716 00:31:46,737 --> 00:31:47,638 Whilst we appreciate 717 00:31:47,671 --> 00:31:49,306 everything that's going on at the moment. 718 00:31:53,276 --> 00:31:57,081 Shut up, Ed! It's the fucking bailiffs. 719 00:31:57,113 --> 00:31:58,915 - Who? The bailiffs? - ED: Oh, man! 720 00:31:58,949 --> 00:32:01,818 No, no, no, no, we've got a band called The Bailiffs. 721 00:32:01,852 --> 00:32:02,853 No, no, no, no. 722 00:32:03,886 --> 00:32:05,488 Demos, promos, white labels, 723 00:32:05,521 --> 00:32:08,157 anything you can find in this box, any value. 724 00:32:08,191 --> 00:32:09,559 ED: TV piece. 725 00:32:10,126 --> 00:32:11,494 (SHOUTING) Hey! 726 00:32:11,527 --> 00:32:12,596 Later. 727 00:32:18,901 --> 00:32:21,138 Uh, you're Alan McGee? 728 00:32:21,171 --> 00:32:23,708 As I live and breathe. 729 00:32:25,042 --> 00:32:27,545 Demos, promos, white labels. 730 00:32:28,645 --> 00:32:30,713 Worth a fortune. 731 00:32:30,747 --> 00:32:33,851 Sorry, boys, just on the phone to New York closing a deal. 732 00:32:33,883 --> 00:32:37,253 Got a band that are gonna be bigger than U2, unbelievable! 733 00:32:37,286 --> 00:32:41,158 - How much was it again? - £400. (LAUGHS) 734 00:32:41,191 --> 00:32:42,392 Nae sweat. 735 00:32:44,894 --> 00:32:45,930 Uno. 736 00:32:45,962 --> 00:32:47,297 Dos. Tres. 737 00:32:47,331 --> 00:32:49,933 Go on, Dick. At this rate, how long? 738 00:32:49,967 --> 00:32:52,201 - (JOE BELCHES LOUDLY) - ALAN: How long can we survive? 739 00:32:52,236 --> 00:32:53,337 At this rate? 740 00:32:53,370 --> 00:32:55,573 Alan, we're already dead. 741 00:32:55,605 --> 00:32:57,507 You know, on a long enough timeline, 742 00:32:57,540 --> 00:32:59,943 the survival rate of most things is zero. 743 00:32:59,977 --> 00:33:02,345 Shut up, Ed. How long? 744 00:33:02,379 --> 00:33:06,049 If we can somehow maintain this line of credit 745 00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:07,884 - we've got about a month. - Month? 746 00:33:08,818 --> 00:33:10,786 It's not bad, we can fix it. 747 00:33:10,821 --> 00:33:13,157 Rome was built in a month. 748 00:33:13,190 --> 00:33:14,825 That's not exactly the same. 749 00:33:14,857 --> 00:33:16,425 Shut up, Ed. 750 00:33:16,459 --> 00:33:19,162 We'll have to postpone the next release, just fuck it. 751 00:33:19,196 --> 00:33:21,265 We do that, we're not a record label anymore. 752 00:33:21,297 --> 00:33:24,367 Well, I mean, how could things get any worse? 753 00:33:24,401 --> 00:33:26,203 I'm pregnant, Alan. 754 00:33:27,371 --> 00:33:29,806 You see, by then, me and Yvonne had already split up. 755 00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,875 But we hooked up one night on the rebound 756 00:33:31,908 --> 00:33:34,111 and she got knocked up, 757 00:33:34,144 --> 00:33:35,746 so, we're separated. 758 00:33:35,779 --> 00:33:38,782 It doesn't look like we're gonna get back together, does it, so... 759 00:33:42,719 --> 00:33:45,488 Get a fucking grip, you stupid ginger gargoyle. 760 00:33:45,521 --> 00:33:47,157 ALAN: See, Yvonne had had enough 761 00:33:47,190 --> 00:33:48,357 of the all-nighters 762 00:33:48,392 --> 00:33:50,927 and the bands crashing over, and poverty. 763 00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,163 She was having a baby and all of that was gonna stop, 764 00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:54,799 whether I liked it or not. 765 00:33:54,832 --> 00:33:56,266 And pretty rude about it. 766 00:33:56,299 --> 00:33:57,633 You horrible goblin. 767 00:33:57,667 --> 00:34:00,237 So, you just weren't ready to be a father? 768 00:34:00,270 --> 00:34:01,771 I had no say. 769 00:34:01,805 --> 00:34:02,940 I'm keeping it. 770 00:34:02,972 --> 00:34:04,307 You have no fucking option. 771 00:34:04,341 --> 00:34:07,644 The truth is we'd drifted apart. 772 00:34:07,678 --> 00:34:09,714 You can't afford to divorce me. 773 00:34:10,314 --> 00:34:11,882 You've got no choice, pal. 774 00:34:12,649 --> 00:34:14,851 But see if she'd said something, 775 00:34:14,884 --> 00:34:16,053 anything at all, 776 00:34:16,085 --> 00:34:18,589 begged me to stay, I would have. 777 00:34:20,390 --> 00:34:22,691 But when someone tells me I don't have a fucking option, 778 00:34:22,725 --> 00:34:25,094 that's when I'm at my absolute worst. 779 00:34:25,127 --> 00:34:27,363 I've got to prove them wrong. 780 00:34:27,397 --> 00:34:31,402 So, you guys split, divorced? 781 00:34:31,435 --> 00:34:34,538 Yeah, she kept the poxy semi, gave birth to Daniel. 782 00:34:34,571 --> 00:34:38,241 Met someone else, you know, good man. 783 00:34:38,274 --> 00:34:39,743 Bit of a boring cunt, mind. 784 00:34:40,109 --> 00:34:42,145 Waiter! 785 00:34:42,178 --> 00:34:43,881 ALAN: So now, I was officially single. 786 00:34:43,913 --> 00:34:45,882 - Thatcher's a Nazi. - Yeah. 787 00:34:45,915 --> 00:34:49,118 (PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) 788 00:34:49,152 --> 00:34:51,254 - Disgrace to feminism. - Yes! 789 00:34:51,288 --> 00:34:53,123 ALAN: Free to make an absolute twat out of myself 790 00:34:53,156 --> 00:34:54,457 at any opportunity. 791 00:34:54,491 --> 00:34:57,962 MAN: Turns out I went to the doctors and it was piles. 792 00:34:57,995 --> 00:34:59,261 WOMAN: Yes! 793 00:34:59,296 --> 00:35:00,564 (LAUGHING) 794 00:35:00,596 --> 00:35:01,865 Bobby! 795 00:35:03,334 --> 00:35:05,268 Oh, fuck off. 796 00:35:05,301 --> 00:35:07,238 Ah! We, we played a fundraiser 797 00:35:07,270 --> 00:35:09,305 for the striking miners last week. 798 00:35:09,339 --> 00:35:11,374 A fundraiser? 799 00:35:11,408 --> 00:35:12,843 Yeah, we raised a few quid, didn't we, Ed? 800 00:35:12,875 --> 00:35:16,312 Fundraising isn't gonna help the oppressed of this country. 801 00:35:16,346 --> 00:35:17,448 (SHOUTING) 802 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,716 You have to be out there, rioting. 803 00:35:19,748 --> 00:35:21,685 Yeah, but that's never gonna happen, is it? 804 00:35:21,718 --> 00:35:22,719 Oh. 805 00:35:22,752 --> 00:35:24,254 What do you mean? Of course, it's gonna happen. 806 00:35:24,288 --> 00:35:26,022 Look at the Sandinistas and Nicaragua. 807 00:35:26,056 --> 00:35:27,390 Yes! 808 00:35:27,424 --> 00:35:29,292 I'm right behind the Sandinistas, 809 00:35:29,326 --> 00:35:31,361 but there's kids going without food 810 00:35:31,393 --> 00:35:33,263 in those mining villages in Yorkshire. 811 00:35:33,296 --> 00:35:36,200 What a bourgeois thing to say. 812 00:35:36,232 --> 00:35:39,068 Stick to making your little records. 813 00:35:39,102 --> 00:35:41,272 Yeah, fuck off, go on. 814 00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:43,473 Stay away from politics. 815 00:35:44,975 --> 00:35:46,377 Thanks a fucking bunch, boys. 816 00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:48,011 Man! She's right. 817 00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:55,319 ♪ Up and away in the cold light of day 818 00:35:55,352 --> 00:35:57,488 ♪ Up and away 819 00:35:59,455 --> 00:36:00,856 ♪ Up and away 820 00:36:00,890 --> 00:36:02,392 - ♪ In the cold light of day - You alright, Mary? 821 00:36:02,424 --> 00:36:04,227 Aye, I'm good, and you? 822 00:36:04,261 --> 00:36:05,495 Still teaching? 823 00:36:05,529 --> 00:36:07,565 Aye, primary school. 824 00:36:08,464 --> 00:36:10,033 I can handle the little school kids. 825 00:36:11,268 --> 00:36:12,436 Keep up the good work, eh? 826 00:36:12,468 --> 00:36:14,403 Children are our future. 827 00:36:14,437 --> 00:36:17,206 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 828 00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:18,442 (BOTTLE SHATTERING) 829 00:36:26,315 --> 00:36:29,419 (BREATHING DEEPLY) 830 00:36:29,453 --> 00:36:31,989 (LAUGHING) 831 00:36:34,323 --> 00:36:36,459 (FLUSHING TOILET) 832 00:36:38,261 --> 00:36:43,400 (SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING) 833 00:36:43,433 --> 00:36:46,636 (TAP RUNNING) 834 00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:52,942 Alright? 835 00:36:52,977 --> 00:36:55,879 ALEISTER: Please allow me to introduce myself. 836 00:36:55,913 --> 00:37:00,484 The name is Aleister, but you can call me Al. 837 00:37:00,517 --> 00:37:04,020 That's a song title if I ever heard one. 838 00:37:04,053 --> 00:37:07,390 Ideas are everywhere. 839 00:37:07,424 --> 00:37:11,829 You have only to reach out and grab them. 840 00:37:12,328 --> 00:37:15,533 (BREATHING HEAVILY) 841 00:37:26,475 --> 00:37:30,546 - (LAUGHING) - Who is Aleister Crowley? 842 00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:32,748 Aleister Crowley, author of The Book of Thelema 843 00:37:32,781 --> 00:37:36,452 do what thou wilt, the cultist and prophet. My hero! 844 00:37:36,486 --> 00:37:39,957 Famous poet, magician, artist. 845 00:37:39,989 --> 00:37:44,495 Your father has a particular mind. 846 00:37:44,527 --> 00:37:49,165 He only wants what he believes is best for you. 847 00:37:49,498 --> 00:37:50,567 Oh, yeah! 848 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,002 The Stones wrote that song about him. 849 00:37:53,036 --> 00:37:53,969 That's right. 850 00:37:54,002 --> 00:37:57,207 I once slept with faith and found a corpse 851 00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,176 in my arms when I awoke. 852 00:38:00,643 --> 00:38:05,982 And yet another night, I drank and danced with doubt 853 00:38:06,015 --> 00:38:09,852 and found her a virgin in the morning. 854 00:38:09,886 --> 00:38:12,722 They called him the wickedest man in the world. 855 00:38:16,493 --> 00:38:18,395 He was into child sacrifice. 856 00:38:18,428 --> 00:38:20,263 No, that's a myth. 857 00:38:20,296 --> 00:38:21,431 He was really talking about... 858 00:38:21,464 --> 00:38:22,799 (CAMERA CLICKS) 859 00:38:22,832 --> 00:38:23,968 You know... 860 00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:25,703 (CAMERA CLICKS) 861 00:38:26,303 --> 00:38:27,437 Wanking. 862 00:38:27,469 --> 00:38:31,509 I was wrong and handled the narcotics. 863 00:38:32,509 --> 00:38:34,178 Get to fuck. 864 00:38:37,413 --> 00:38:38,614 Calm down. 865 00:38:38,647 --> 00:38:41,283 (PARTY MUSIC PLAYING) 866 00:38:41,317 --> 00:38:42,453 Who's he talking to? 867 00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:43,687 Anyone that'll listen. 868 00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,357 Anyone of an independent mind 869 00:38:47,390 --> 00:38:50,861 must be one who resists authority. 870 00:38:53,462 --> 00:38:55,899 A rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel. 871 00:38:55,933 --> 00:38:57,601 (MUSIC PLAYING) 872 00:38:57,634 --> 00:39:03,607 Take my advice, young man, let go of your past. 873 00:39:06,609 --> 00:39:09,445 Well, let's round it up to a nice even number then. 874 00:39:09,478 --> 00:39:11,013 I'll pay you for five next time. 875 00:39:11,047 --> 00:39:13,650 ALEISTER: Stay on the path you have chosen. 876 00:39:13,683 --> 00:39:15,686 ♪ Rise you make me ♪ 877 00:39:15,718 --> 00:39:20,022 ALEISTER: If enough people agree with and follow the rebel, 878 00:39:20,056 --> 00:39:25,429 then we finally achieve greatness. 879 00:39:25,462 --> 00:39:26,997 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 880 00:39:27,029 --> 00:39:29,899 ALAN: Crowley was right, we were rebels. 881 00:39:29,933 --> 00:39:32,435 So what if you are going out of business. 882 00:39:32,468 --> 00:39:34,605 We keep doing what we did best, 883 00:39:34,638 --> 00:39:35,739 signing bands 884 00:39:35,772 --> 00:39:37,340 that were fucking genius. 885 00:39:37,373 --> 00:39:40,578 (FAST-PACED MUSIC PLAYING) 886 00:39:42,578 --> 00:39:45,783 (LOUD MUSIC PLAYING) 887 00:39:57,192 --> 00:40:00,797 We keep running till the wheels fall off the fucking bus. 888 00:40:02,332 --> 00:40:03,500 Here's to excess! 889 00:40:03,533 --> 00:40:05,468 Apparently it leads to the Palace of Wisdom. 890 00:40:05,502 --> 00:40:06,902 - William Blake? - (GLASSES CLINKING) 891 00:40:06,935 --> 00:40:08,404 The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. 892 00:40:08,437 --> 00:40:11,107 He might have been describing the entertainment industry. 893 00:40:11,808 --> 00:40:13,676 How do you keep the label going? 894 00:40:13,710 --> 00:40:16,413 I have a dream, we can do this, boys. 895 00:40:16,446 --> 00:40:19,482 ALAN: Well, I gave that speech about tightening belts, 896 00:40:19,515 --> 00:40:21,117 squeezing money out of every angle. 897 00:40:21,151 --> 00:40:24,388 Facing the record pluggers, stepping up fly posting. 898 00:40:24,421 --> 00:40:27,658 Fight of our lives, all that fanny, and then Ed. 899 00:40:27,690 --> 00:40:29,959 Of all people, Ed pipes up. 900 00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:32,830 Or... 901 00:40:32,863 --> 00:40:35,565 Margaret Thatcher had introduced this thing called 902 00:40:35,598 --> 00:40:37,066 The Enterprise Allowance Scheme 903 00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:38,435 under the Conservative Government 904 00:40:38,468 --> 00:40:42,071 allows you to have £40 a week extra, it's free money. 905 00:40:42,105 --> 00:40:43,574 - (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) - Whoever thought I'd be grateful 906 00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:44,641 to this fucking witch. 907 00:40:44,674 --> 00:40:47,044 Only joking, this bit never happened. 908 00:40:48,477 --> 00:40:49,578 (GASPS) 909 00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:51,381 You were running Creation Records 910 00:40:51,413 --> 00:40:53,716 on £40 a week each? 911 00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:56,787 We were the coolest label on the planet 912 00:40:56,819 --> 00:40:58,821 and running on empty. 913 00:40:58,855 --> 00:41:01,625 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 914 00:41:01,658 --> 00:41:03,826 Why has he got such a way with women? 915 00:41:04,761 --> 00:41:06,563 - You know why? - Go on. 916 00:41:06,596 --> 00:41:09,266 'Cause he listens, or rather he pretends to. 917 00:41:09,299 --> 00:41:10,734 It's a bad example, yeah. 918 00:41:10,767 --> 00:41:12,602 Where the fuck have you been? 919 00:41:12,634 --> 00:41:14,069 But what's the point in that? 920 00:41:14,103 --> 00:41:16,272 I mean, look at her, she's not gonna have sex with him, is she? 921 00:41:16,306 --> 00:41:18,575 Got more chance than you have talking to Male Silly Bollocks 922 00:41:18,607 --> 00:41:19,676 dancing with himself. 923 00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:22,079 That's what's brilliant about it. 924 00:41:22,111 --> 00:41:24,580 Lovely talking to you, darling, sorry your boyfriend's a tosser. 925 00:41:24,614 --> 00:41:27,751 Hey, big day tomorrow. Yeah? 926 00:41:27,783 --> 00:41:29,819 It's fine, I know what I'm doing, piece of piss. 927 00:41:29,852 --> 00:41:31,788 Are you sure you don't want me to come with you? 928 00:41:36,794 --> 00:41:38,627 Uh, excuse me? 929 00:41:38,661 --> 00:41:40,696 Alan fucking McGee. 930 00:41:40,730 --> 00:41:42,565 MITCH: I'm not gonna bullshit you, man, 931 00:41:42,598 --> 00:41:43,700 there's no need. 932 00:41:43,732 --> 00:41:45,167 You know what we do, 933 00:41:45,201 --> 00:41:47,705 and you know we're fucking good at it. 934 00:41:49,538 --> 00:41:51,107 Let's face it, Al, 935 00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:55,344 you have got a very, very cool record label. 936 00:41:55,377 --> 00:41:57,513 And with us behind you, 937 00:41:57,547 --> 00:41:59,717 you could become a very wealthy man. 938 00:42:01,884 --> 00:42:06,221 So, we are owned by a corporation, 939 00:42:06,254 --> 00:42:09,658 but they let us do what we like, you know? 940 00:42:09,692 --> 00:42:11,160 The bean counters just leave us alone 941 00:42:11,194 --> 00:42:13,596 to get on and make great rock and roll records. 942 00:42:13,629 --> 00:42:16,565 - Great! - Good, yeah, fuck! 943 00:42:16,598 --> 00:42:18,234 Yeah, bottom line. 944 00:42:18,268 --> 00:42:22,172 I'm just like you, Al, a maverick. 945 00:42:22,205 --> 00:42:25,942 Difference is, I do my thing on the inside, 946 00:42:25,975 --> 00:42:27,911 that's the only way to get results. 947 00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,782 Are you sure? Okay. 948 00:42:31,814 --> 00:42:34,784 People say to me, "Hey, Mitch, you used to have that 949 00:42:34,817 --> 00:42:36,819 real cool record label, what happened?" 950 00:42:36,852 --> 00:42:39,489 And I say to them, "Well, really cool is great, 951 00:42:39,522 --> 00:42:42,392 but it didn't get me that Chateau in the Ardennes." 952 00:42:43,893 --> 00:42:47,196 Or that Primrose Hill postcode, you know what I mean? 953 00:42:47,230 --> 00:42:48,931 ALAN: I've got a vivid imagination. 954 00:42:48,964 --> 00:42:51,901 Everyone wants to get rich, Al. 955 00:42:51,933 --> 00:42:53,935 And if that means getting fucked in the arse 956 00:42:53,969 --> 00:42:57,839 every once in a while, so what? 957 00:42:57,873 --> 00:43:00,042 (GRUNTING) It hurts, initially! 958 00:43:01,743 --> 00:43:03,412 But it's the kind of pain you forget. 959 00:43:05,616 --> 00:43:06,917 Like childbirth. 960 00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:08,951 You alright, Al? 961 00:43:09,618 --> 00:43:10,754 Sorry? Yes. 962 00:43:10,786 --> 00:43:13,223 Uh, what were you saying? 963 00:43:13,256 --> 00:43:17,259 I was saying, have we got a deal? 964 00:43:17,292 --> 00:43:22,230 ALAN: Corporate always fucks what's cool. 965 00:43:22,265 --> 00:43:24,301 GEMMA: Wait a minute, you turned down a deal 966 00:43:24,334 --> 00:43:27,303 from a major record company and went to a loan shark? 967 00:43:27,337 --> 00:43:30,340 ALAN: Yeah! See, corporations want to own you forever. 968 00:43:30,372 --> 00:43:32,241 The loan shark just wants his money back. 969 00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,710 It's a more honest transaction. You don't pay them... 970 00:43:34,743 --> 00:43:37,314 We break your fucking legs. 971 00:43:37,346 --> 00:43:40,683 But eventually, you did sign with a corporation. 972 00:43:40,716 --> 00:43:43,586 Eventually, but on our own terms. 973 00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:44,821 We weren't doing it for ourselves, 974 00:43:44,855 --> 00:43:46,156 we were doing it for the bands. 975 00:43:46,189 --> 00:43:47,957 ALAN: We had a couple of indie hits in the charts, 976 00:43:47,991 --> 00:43:50,193 I paid them back and we were flying again. 977 00:43:50,225 --> 00:43:52,161 See, fuck that mullet cunt! 978 00:43:52,194 --> 00:43:54,730 I didn't need a chateau in the Ardennes, 979 00:43:54,763 --> 00:43:56,532 whatever the fuck that is. 980 00:43:56,565 --> 00:43:58,968 All I needed was some mothers' little helpers, 981 00:43:59,002 --> 00:44:01,705 Dixies, Damies, 982 00:44:01,738 --> 00:44:03,739 Bobbys, Bennys, 983 00:44:03,774 --> 00:44:05,709 Charlies, Farlies, 984 00:44:05,741 --> 00:44:07,042 Jellys, Fannys, 985 00:44:07,076 --> 00:44:09,245 Red Devils, Black Bombers, Purple Hearts, 986 00:44:09,277 --> 00:44:11,314 Special Teas, a wee bit of Les. 987 00:44:12,013 --> 00:44:15,785 Everything was absolutely fine. 988 00:44:15,819 --> 00:44:19,022 (WOMAN SCREAMING) 989 00:44:20,457 --> 00:44:23,359 Exactly how long has he been in the fucking studio? 990 00:44:23,393 --> 00:44:25,595 Which studio? This is their fifth. 991 00:44:25,629 --> 00:44:27,497 Kevin Shields is a genius. 992 00:44:27,529 --> 00:44:28,732 Shut up, Ed! 993 00:44:28,765 --> 00:44:30,065 He's absolutely killing us! 994 00:44:30,098 --> 00:44:33,035 You know we're already up to £250,000 in a recording. 995 00:44:33,069 --> 00:44:34,837 He'll fucking ruin us. 996 00:44:34,870 --> 00:44:36,906 There's no fucking end in sight. 997 00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:41,276 Hey Joe, you get yourself down there, 998 00:44:41,310 --> 00:44:43,013 get on the desk, you're a brilliant engineer. 999 00:44:43,046 --> 00:44:44,948 You can get this fucking mixed by the end of the week. 1000 00:44:44,980 --> 00:44:46,049 He won't let me near him. 1001 00:44:46,082 --> 00:44:47,683 He's not even returning our calls. 1002 00:44:47,716 --> 00:44:49,285 He's got this sonic vision. 1003 00:44:49,319 --> 00:44:50,387 Shut up, Ed. 1004 00:44:50,419 --> 00:44:51,687 He'll have a fucking hole in his head when I'm done. 1005 00:44:51,721 --> 00:44:54,556 I've had to re-mortgage my own house. 1006 00:44:54,589 --> 00:44:56,392 - Jesus. - I know. 1007 00:44:56,426 --> 00:44:57,995 You own a house? 1008 00:44:58,794 --> 00:45:00,363 I don't need this shit! 1009 00:45:00,397 --> 00:45:03,065 My mother's sick and I've got a money-spunking 1010 00:45:03,098 --> 00:45:05,167 mad, fucking genius who won't return calls. 1011 00:45:05,201 --> 00:45:06,602 Fuck this! 1012 00:45:06,636 --> 00:45:10,007 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 1013 00:45:13,910 --> 00:45:15,478 (KNOCKS ON DOOR) 1014 00:45:17,814 --> 00:45:19,382 Excuse me, Sir, can I help? 1015 00:45:19,915 --> 00:45:21,651 I'm here to see my band. 1016 00:45:21,683 --> 00:45:22,952 Which band? 1017 00:45:23,687 --> 00:45:25,721 My Bloody Valentine. 1018 00:45:25,756 --> 00:45:28,058 Oh, right, yeah. Uh, are you Alan McGee? 1019 00:45:28,091 --> 00:45:29,960 - (BAND MUSIC PLAYING) - Yeah, can you let me in, pal? 1020 00:45:29,993 --> 00:45:32,027 Well, I've been instructed not to. 1021 00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:35,966 Instructed not to instructed by whom? 1022 00:45:35,998 --> 00:45:37,567 The band, Mr. Shields. 1023 00:45:37,600 --> 00:45:38,867 (BAND MUSIC PLAYING) 1024 00:45:38,902 --> 00:45:40,871 Fuck off, jobsworth! 1025 00:45:40,904 --> 00:45:42,872 Who do you think's paying for this fucking studio? 1026 00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:45,007 Who do you think's paying your fucking wages? 1027 00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,975 Now get in there and drag that slippery cunt 1028 00:45:47,009 --> 00:45:49,678 out here now, Kevin! 1029 00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:51,714 If you don't calm down, Sir, I will have to call the police. 1030 00:45:51,747 --> 00:45:55,051 Aye, good idea, call them. I want to report a robbery. 1031 00:45:55,085 --> 00:45:58,421 That's my fucking name, you've had everything I've got. 1032 00:45:58,453 --> 00:46:01,356 Of course, he's a genius, but two years? 1033 00:46:01,390 --> 00:46:02,792 It's not the money but I suppose it is. 1034 00:46:02,826 --> 00:46:04,093 It's gonna cost us half a million. 1035 00:46:04,127 --> 00:46:07,297 But what really hurts is that we believed in him 1036 00:46:07,330 --> 00:46:08,864 and he treats us like this. 1037 00:46:08,897 --> 00:46:10,432 I know the man's a sonic pioneer. 1038 00:46:10,466 --> 00:46:12,167 I know he's pushing the envelope. 1039 00:46:12,201 --> 00:46:14,770 I know he's making futuristic music 1040 00:46:14,805 --> 00:46:17,306 but the problem is, by the time we get to release it, 1041 00:46:17,339 --> 00:46:19,608 the future will be a distant fucking memory. 1042 00:46:19,642 --> 00:46:21,977 We'll all be long dead, I'm not a philistine, 1043 00:46:22,011 --> 00:46:23,546 I know art takes time, but come on, man, 1044 00:46:23,580 --> 00:46:26,716 two weeks to master one track, two fucking weeks. 1045 00:46:26,748 --> 00:46:28,884 Oh, cheers, pal, if you can just drop me here, that's great. 1046 00:46:28,917 --> 00:46:29,986 We're not a taxi service. 1047 00:46:30,018 --> 00:46:31,154 That's perfect, thanks. 1048 00:46:31,187 --> 00:46:33,823 (MUSIC PLAYING IN DISTANCE) 1049 00:46:33,857 --> 00:46:35,424 MAN: Not for me, a load of fucking shit. 1050 00:46:35,457 --> 00:46:38,527 But from every negative comes a positive. 1051 00:46:39,194 --> 00:46:41,430 What the fuck is this place? 1052 00:46:41,464 --> 00:46:43,100 It's where the young blokes hang. 1053 00:46:44,132 --> 00:46:46,002 This is my scene, man. 1054 00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:48,305 - Ooh, nice. - Thanks. 1055 00:46:48,337 --> 00:46:49,638 (EERIE DANCE MUSIC PLAYING) 1056 00:46:49,672 --> 00:46:51,174 This is Alan, Alan, Bez. 1057 00:46:51,207 --> 00:46:54,611 (OMINOUS VOICE SINGING OVER MUSIC) 1058 00:46:56,111 --> 00:46:58,980 ALAN: They called it acid house 1059 00:46:59,015 --> 00:47:01,017 and I appreciated the energy. 1060 00:47:01,049 --> 00:47:03,084 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 1061 00:47:03,118 --> 00:47:04,520 What are you... What are you drinking? 1062 00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:06,690 What's that? 1063 00:47:11,093 --> 00:47:12,561 What is it? 1064 00:47:13,029 --> 00:47:14,163 ED: Ecstasy. 1065 00:47:14,196 --> 00:47:16,466 ALAN: No one was drinking, just water. 1066 00:47:16,832 --> 00:47:18,033 Hydration. 1067 00:47:18,067 --> 00:47:19,736 ALAN: I fucking hate water. 1068 00:47:21,937 --> 00:47:23,839 Give it 20 minutes. 1069 00:47:23,873 --> 00:47:26,042 ALAN: But it was when ecstasy kicked in 1070 00:47:26,076 --> 00:47:28,445 that I really fucking got it. 1071 00:47:28,477 --> 00:47:34,216 See, in the old days, it was cheap speed made in bathtubs. 1072 00:47:34,250 --> 00:47:38,187 Or prescription uppers, Dixies, Bombers, 1073 00:47:38,219 --> 00:47:40,622 both of which are pretty anti-social. 1074 00:47:40,656 --> 00:47:43,960 And nobody could afford cocaine, that was far too chic. 1075 00:47:43,993 --> 00:47:48,731 But this stuff, E's, cheap and friendly. 1076 00:47:48,765 --> 00:47:50,967 A revelation and a revolution. 1077 00:47:51,000 --> 00:47:53,804 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 1078 00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:03,580 It all became clear in that instant, 1079 00:48:03,613 --> 00:48:06,482 pop culture never dies. 1080 00:48:06,982 --> 00:48:09,084 It reincarnates. 1081 00:48:09,118 --> 00:48:12,154 Everything was going to be alright. 1082 00:48:12,187 --> 00:48:15,191 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 1083 00:49:36,138 --> 00:49:38,173 The future has arrived, Ed, 1084 00:49:38,207 --> 00:49:40,810 we gotta get Bobby into this, Gillespie, 1085 00:49:40,843 --> 00:49:42,344 he'll fucking love it, man! 1086 00:49:42,377 --> 00:49:44,580 ALAN: And then, Ed, again of all people, Ed pipes up. 1087 00:49:44,614 --> 00:49:46,716 We should put acid records out. 1088 00:49:46,748 --> 00:49:49,250 Ed, you're a genius, man, yeah, definitely. 1089 00:49:49,285 --> 00:49:51,254 I'm telling you, man, I've got it all planned. 1090 00:49:51,286 --> 00:49:52,422 Definitely. 1091 00:49:52,455 --> 00:49:54,857 We can start sampling bits of film, Alan, 1092 00:49:54,890 --> 00:49:57,661 and I know all the DJs. 1093 00:49:57,694 --> 00:50:00,864 (NEWS REPORT PLAYING INDISTINCTLY) 1094 00:50:01,864 --> 00:50:03,433 (CASH REGISTER DINGS) 1095 00:50:05,067 --> 00:50:06,803 What's this beat you're spinning, mate? 1096 00:50:06,835 --> 00:50:07,904 It's great. 1097 00:50:07,937 --> 00:50:09,339 It's a dishwasher. 1098 00:50:10,939 --> 00:50:13,775 All these records that we're gonna be putting out, eh? 1099 00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:16,413 Where the fuck are we gonna find the acts, eh? 1100 00:50:17,946 --> 00:50:19,215 Manchester. 1101 00:50:20,149 --> 00:50:22,218 - Manchester? - Yeah. 1102 00:50:22,250 --> 00:50:25,821 (MUSIC PLAYING ON TAPE RECORDER) 1103 00:50:25,855 --> 00:50:28,757 If I ordered a chicken sandwich and an egg sandwich, 1104 00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:30,593 which one do you reckon will come first? 1105 00:50:30,625 --> 00:50:31,727 What? 1106 00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:55,851 DICK: Alan! Is he in here, where's Alan? 1107 00:50:55,884 --> 00:50:57,285 Is he alone? 1108 00:50:57,319 --> 00:50:58,555 JOE: You know what? 1109 00:51:00,189 --> 00:51:01,223 He's gone. 1110 00:51:01,256 --> 00:51:02,925 He's gone where? 1111 00:51:04,294 --> 00:51:06,029 Alan, he's gone. 1112 00:51:07,196 --> 00:51:08,698 What do you mean, gone? 1113 00:51:09,198 --> 00:51:10,767 Gone to Manchester. 1114 00:51:11,468 --> 00:51:13,036 What, for a meeting? 1115 00:51:13,069 --> 00:51:14,837 (DANCE MUSIC PLAYING) 1116 00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:17,305 ED: Alan feels like he needs to be submerged 1117 00:51:17,339 --> 00:51:19,009 in the waters of acid house. 1118 00:51:20,375 --> 00:51:22,078 I wonder where he got that from. 1119 00:51:22,111 --> 00:51:23,411 It's him and his fucking silly bollocks. 1120 00:51:23,446 --> 00:51:25,681 Alan doesn't need to be in Manchester. 1121 00:51:25,714 --> 00:51:27,182 He needs to be in London with us. 1122 00:51:27,216 --> 00:51:29,419 Running this record label, remember? 1123 00:51:29,451 --> 00:51:31,921 Good luck trying to get him back, Dick. 1124 00:51:31,953 --> 00:51:33,989 Much better drugs up there. 1125 00:51:34,022 --> 00:51:36,526 Yeah, how is it little fishes can swim with the big sharks 1126 00:51:36,558 --> 00:51:38,194 and not get eaten, huh? 1127 00:51:38,227 --> 00:51:39,928 Faster, more nimble. 1128 00:51:39,962 --> 00:51:42,798 I could be like BMG, they're a great white. 1129 00:51:43,732 --> 00:51:45,834 You notice a scene rising up an A&R, 1130 00:51:45,868 --> 00:51:48,904 arsehole has to take it to an executive arsehole, 1131 00:51:48,937 --> 00:51:51,039 who's got to take it to the chairman arsehole, 1132 00:51:51,073 --> 00:51:53,509 and if they agree, they take it to the lawyer arseholes. 1133 00:51:53,542 --> 00:51:54,677 And when that's done, 1134 00:51:54,710 --> 00:51:55,845 they all go to their marketing arseholes 1135 00:51:55,877 --> 00:51:57,379 and, when everyone's got their fingers 1136 00:51:57,413 --> 00:51:58,748 out of each other's arseholes, they might sign a band. 1137 00:51:58,781 --> 00:52:01,049 And by then, everyone's missed the fucking boat. 1138 00:52:01,082 --> 00:52:04,586 With Creation, it was just me, and I'm at the scene. 1139 00:52:04,620 --> 00:52:07,589 I had first choice. I had the artist signed, 1140 00:52:07,623 --> 00:52:10,024 recorded, pressed, and spinning in clubs 1141 00:52:10,058 --> 00:52:14,930 before the corporates could open a bottle of chardonnay. 1142 00:52:14,964 --> 00:52:17,967 (DANCE MUSIC PLAYING) 1143 00:52:28,176 --> 00:52:29,778 You left your business, 1144 00:52:29,812 --> 00:52:32,314 all your stuff, without any warning. 1145 00:52:32,348 --> 00:52:34,017 ALAN: Yeah, well, that's rock and roll. 1146 00:52:34,049 --> 00:52:35,951 It was just like grab a bag 1147 00:52:35,984 --> 00:52:38,421 and fuck off someplace, no planning, no packing. 1148 00:52:38,453 --> 00:52:39,488 Shite like that 1149 00:52:39,522 --> 00:52:41,090 - just vanish. - No, not when you have 1150 00:52:41,122 --> 00:52:42,124 a business. 1151 00:52:43,392 --> 00:52:44,727 The boys all had it under control. 1152 00:52:44,761 --> 00:52:50,100 Besides, when I got back, I was totally rejuvenated. 1153 00:52:50,132 --> 00:52:52,368 I need that Polygram contract now! 1154 00:52:52,401 --> 00:52:53,703 We were a solvent business, 1155 00:52:53,736 --> 00:52:55,504 flying by the seat of our leather pants, maybe. 1156 00:52:55,538 --> 00:52:56,972 But getting away with it. 1157 00:52:57,006 --> 00:52:59,709 These guys are gonna be bigger than U2, ya cunt. 1158 00:53:00,643 --> 00:53:01,711 No, 1159 00:53:01,743 --> 00:53:04,012 but I've got it in front of me in black and white. 1160 00:53:04,046 --> 00:53:05,381 Creation Records? 1161 00:53:05,413 --> 00:53:07,182 - What? - Alan McGee? 1162 00:53:07,216 --> 00:53:08,283 McGee? 1163 00:53:08,317 --> 00:53:09,385 That's me. 1164 00:53:09,417 --> 00:53:12,622 (SCREAMING) 1165 00:53:15,390 --> 00:53:18,760 Ed! Ed! Help me out here! 1166 00:53:18,794 --> 00:53:20,161 Girls. 1167 00:53:20,194 --> 00:53:22,463 Teenage Fanclub are now my band. 1168 00:53:22,497 --> 00:53:24,332 I will ring him the fuck again, then. 1169 00:53:24,366 --> 00:53:27,036 (SCREAMING) 1170 00:53:27,069 --> 00:53:29,071 (PHONE RINGS) 1171 00:53:33,042 --> 00:53:34,177 Hello? 1172 00:53:34,210 --> 00:53:37,079 ♪ I know I can't believe ♪ 1173 00:53:37,111 --> 00:53:39,014 Yeah, I'll be right up. 1174 00:53:39,047 --> 00:53:41,383 Get me a flight to Glasgow! 1175 00:53:41,417 --> 00:53:43,953 No, no, a flight tomorrow's no good. 1176 00:53:43,986 --> 00:53:45,922 Hey, pal, can you drive me to Glasgow? 1177 00:53:45,955 --> 00:53:47,123 Glasgow? 1178 00:53:47,156 --> 00:53:48,358 (CAR HONKS) 1179 00:53:48,390 --> 00:53:49,925 - Mate, mate! Hold the train. - (WHISTLE BLOWING) 1180 00:53:49,959 --> 00:53:50,826 Calm down, son, 1181 00:53:50,859 --> 00:53:52,493 there's another one in half an hour. 1182 00:53:52,527 --> 00:53:53,930 Thank fuck for that. 1183 00:53:53,962 --> 00:53:56,498 It's the sleeper, mind, but you'll still get there. 1184 00:53:56,531 --> 00:53:57,565 The sleeper? 1185 00:53:57,598 --> 00:53:58,934 - (LAUGHING) - (TRAIN RUMBLES) 1186 00:53:58,968 --> 00:54:00,770 (MUMBLES INDISTINCTLY) 1187 00:54:02,370 --> 00:54:03,672 Fuck! 1188 00:54:05,306 --> 00:54:06,609 Fuck! 1189 00:54:20,089 --> 00:54:21,090 Susie! 1190 00:54:21,890 --> 00:54:23,058 Laura! 1191 00:54:23,091 --> 00:54:24,227 (SOBBING) 1192 00:54:27,363 --> 00:54:28,797 She's gone. 1193 00:54:30,533 --> 00:54:32,401 I tried, I couldn't get a flight. 1194 00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,170 - It's alright, Alan. - I tried. 1195 00:54:34,203 --> 00:54:35,605 I couldn't get a flight. 1196 00:54:36,238 --> 00:54:38,440 (ALL CRYING) 1197 00:54:38,473 --> 00:54:41,076 It's okay, darling, you're here now. 1198 00:54:41,109 --> 00:54:42,477 You're here for the funeral. 1199 00:54:42,511 --> 00:54:45,280 (ALL SOBBING) 1200 00:54:45,314 --> 00:54:46,616 Come on. 1201 00:54:57,026 --> 00:54:58,995 (MUSIC PLAYING) 1202 00:55:02,797 --> 00:55:05,801 - What song was that? - I just... I just made it up. 1203 00:55:05,835 --> 00:55:08,570 You just made it up? Do you know anything I know? 1204 00:55:08,603 --> 00:55:10,839 (CHUCKLING) I don't... I don't think so. 1205 00:55:10,872 --> 00:55:12,774 - (BOTH LAUGHING) - I'm sure you get this 1206 00:55:12,808 --> 00:55:13,843 from my side of the family though. 1207 00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:15,343 I'm sure it's not your dad's. 1208 00:55:15,377 --> 00:55:16,545 Oh, God no. 1209 00:55:16,578 --> 00:55:18,946 You keep practicing, son, you keep practicing. 1210 00:55:18,980 --> 00:55:20,582 Aye. 1211 00:55:20,616 --> 00:55:22,485 You're gonna be a big star one day. 1212 00:55:22,518 --> 00:55:23,920 I hope. 1213 00:55:26,422 --> 00:55:29,626 (GUITAR PLAYING SOFTLY) 1214 00:55:33,763 --> 00:55:36,966 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 1215 00:55:40,636 --> 00:55:42,904 Alan, I've been saving up, 1216 00:55:42,939 --> 00:55:45,174 just wee bits here and there. It's not much, 1217 00:55:45,207 --> 00:55:47,009 - but I want you to take it. - Mom, you don't have to do that. 1218 00:55:47,042 --> 00:55:48,643 I know I don't have to do it, but I want to do it, 1219 00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:51,580 I want to give you this so you can go to London 1220 00:55:51,614 --> 00:55:54,684 and get started. 1221 00:55:54,716 --> 00:55:59,854 You follow your dream, come back a big pop star. 1222 00:55:59,888 --> 00:56:03,158 Show your dad, show everybody. 1223 00:56:03,192 --> 00:56:05,027 That's my boy. 1224 00:56:05,060 --> 00:56:07,863 (GUITAR PLAYING) 1225 00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:12,734 - (LOUD KNOCKING ON DOOR) - Oh, you can hammer away 1226 00:56:12,768 --> 00:56:14,070 - all you like. - Let me in! 1227 00:56:14,102 --> 00:56:17,205 - Let me in! - No, I will not, John McGee. 1228 00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,876 You have got my heart roasted. 1229 00:56:19,908 --> 00:56:22,911 You've laid a hand on our Alan for the last time! 1230 00:56:22,944 --> 00:56:25,747 You would cause a fight in an empty fucking house, 1231 00:56:25,781 --> 00:56:28,317 and now you've got me swearing! 1232 00:56:28,350 --> 00:56:30,585 You're just jealous! 1233 00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:33,288 You're just jealous because Alan's different! 1234 00:56:33,323 --> 00:56:34,489 He's artistic! 1235 00:56:34,522 --> 00:56:39,062 He's got imagination, and you've got none! 1236 00:56:45,134 --> 00:56:46,402 Yeah. 1237 00:56:46,435 --> 00:56:49,138 (SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING) 1238 00:56:51,839 --> 00:56:53,843 JOHN: Such a shock, you know? 1239 00:56:54,910 --> 00:56:56,745 Thank you so much for coming over. 1240 00:56:56,777 --> 00:56:57,946 I really appreciate that. 1241 00:56:57,980 --> 00:57:01,184 (PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) 1242 00:57:09,125 --> 00:57:10,092 How are you doing, Alan? 1243 00:57:10,125 --> 00:57:12,794 All right, yeah. I've got a splitting headache. 1244 00:57:14,395 --> 00:57:15,864 I'll get you some water, okay? 1245 00:57:24,439 --> 00:57:26,207 There you go. 1246 00:57:26,241 --> 00:57:28,844 Taking drugs at your mother's funeral, eh? 1247 00:57:28,877 --> 00:57:31,314 It's paracetamol, he's been having headaches. 1248 00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:35,350 Dad, please. Dad. Da. 1249 00:57:40,689 --> 00:57:43,792 They say, other than losing a child, 1250 00:57:43,826 --> 00:57:46,929 losing your mother is the worst bereavement, 1251 00:57:46,962 --> 00:57:49,866 and it happens to nearly all of us. 1252 00:57:49,899 --> 00:57:53,435 I wish it had been that sour-faced, old coffin dodger 1253 00:57:53,468 --> 00:57:54,869 I was burying. 1254 00:57:54,904 --> 00:57:57,873 Wee ginger bastard. 1255 00:58:20,828 --> 00:58:22,097 How you feeling, mate? 1256 00:58:25,901 --> 00:58:26,935 Sorry about all this. 1257 00:58:26,968 --> 00:58:29,004 I mean, they insisted on staying. 1258 00:58:29,038 --> 00:58:32,007 I can get rid of them if you want. 1259 00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:33,509 (SIGHING) 1260 00:58:33,542 --> 00:58:34,877 Let them sleep. 1261 00:58:35,645 --> 00:58:36,846 (BOTH CHUCKLE) 1262 00:58:38,814 --> 00:58:39,982 We were living the rock and roll 1263 00:58:40,015 --> 00:58:41,650 even more than the bands were. 1264 00:58:41,683 --> 00:58:44,019 Surely that made things harder to get done? 1265 00:58:44,053 --> 00:58:46,788 No, not really, because we only did something 1266 00:58:46,821 --> 00:58:49,524 if we really believed in it. 1267 00:58:49,558 --> 00:58:52,794 And somehow, an album would just, 1268 00:58:52,828 --> 00:58:56,864 like, appear, materialize, 1269 00:58:56,899 --> 00:59:00,069 and suddenly, everything would just make sense. 1270 00:59:01,803 --> 00:59:04,739 ♪ Together as one 1271 00:59:04,772 --> 00:59:06,007 You've fucking done it! 1272 00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,843 This is gonna go down as one of 1273 00:59:07,877 --> 00:59:09,777 the greatest albums 1274 00:59:09,812 --> 00:59:11,013 in rock history! 1275 00:59:11,046 --> 00:59:12,881 And it's my mates from school! 1276 00:59:12,915 --> 00:59:16,119 - (ALL APPLAUDING) - ♪ Together as one 1277 00:59:17,185 --> 00:59:18,853 Bloody man. 1278 00:59:18,886 --> 00:59:20,823 You're the fucking dude, man! 1279 00:59:20,857 --> 00:59:23,559 Oh! You guys are gonna be bigger 1280 00:59:23,591 --> 00:59:24,893 than U2! 1281 00:59:24,926 --> 00:59:26,794 Wished that you would have come to join us here, 1282 00:59:26,828 --> 00:59:28,830 be part of Creation and... 1283 00:59:28,864 --> 00:59:30,766 (SIGHS) Oh, fuck that. 1284 00:59:30,799 --> 00:59:31,867 I'm down to one kidney. 1285 00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:33,770 You cunts would have fucking killed me. 1286 00:59:34,569 --> 00:59:36,138 You off your head? 1287 00:59:37,004 --> 00:59:38,807 ALAN: I suppose we were a victim 1288 00:59:38,841 --> 00:59:40,542 of our own success. 1289 00:59:40,575 --> 00:59:42,710 Three international hit albums. 1290 00:59:42,743 --> 00:59:44,512 We'd done amazing by ourselves. 1291 00:59:44,547 --> 00:59:45,948 ♪ Come together as one 1292 00:59:45,980 --> 00:59:47,816 ALAN: But we had to move forward. 1293 00:59:47,850 --> 00:59:49,852 ♪ We are together 1294 00:59:49,884 --> 00:59:51,219 ALAN: Not for us. 1295 00:59:51,252 --> 00:59:53,555 We owed it to the bands that stuck with us. 1296 00:59:53,587 --> 00:59:56,993 Acts that would never leave, but deserved to be heard, 1297 00:59:57,026 --> 00:59:58,060 by the whole world. 1298 00:59:58,093 --> 00:59:59,761 ♪ Because together 1299 00:59:59,794 --> 01:00:01,662 ♪ We got power 1300 01:00:01,696 --> 01:00:03,564 ♪ Apart we got power 1301 01:00:03,598 --> 01:00:07,001 ♪ Come together as one 1302 01:00:07,035 --> 01:00:09,004 ALAN: We had no choice but to take Sony's money. 1303 01:00:09,038 --> 01:00:10,539 ♪ We are together 1304 01:00:10,571 --> 01:00:13,041 (VOCALIZING) 1305 01:00:13,075 --> 01:00:14,942 ♪ Together as one 1306 01:00:14,975 --> 01:00:17,378 ALAN: It's time to stop fucking about 1307 01:00:17,413 --> 01:00:18,881 and grow up. 1308 01:00:18,913 --> 01:00:21,783 ♪ Today on this program you will hear 1309 01:00:21,817 --> 01:00:23,051 ♪ Gospel 1310 01:00:23,085 --> 01:00:25,353 ♪ And rhythm and blues ♪ 1311 01:00:25,388 --> 01:00:27,957 So what if we're owned by a corporation? 1312 01:00:27,989 --> 01:00:29,357 They let us do pretty much what we liked, 1313 01:00:29,390 --> 01:00:32,560 the bean counters leave us to get on with making records. 1314 01:00:32,593 --> 01:00:35,897 Yeah, but I'm a maverick. I'm doing my thing inside... 1315 01:00:35,931 --> 01:00:39,001 No matter how much they blew up our asses, 1316 01:00:39,033 --> 01:00:41,602 Sony didn't care that we were the coolest record label 1317 01:00:41,636 --> 01:00:42,970 on the planet. 1318 01:00:43,004 --> 01:00:44,839 And all the critical acclaim meant fuck all to them. 1319 01:00:44,873 --> 01:00:46,073 We had to deliver a band 1320 01:00:46,107 --> 01:00:47,875 that were gonna sell multi-millions. 1321 01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:50,779 A band that could justify their investment. 1322 01:00:50,812 --> 01:00:54,817 ♪ I was blind Now I can see ♪ 1323 01:00:54,850 --> 01:00:56,085 ALAN: See, I'm a tight bastard. 1324 01:00:56,118 --> 01:00:58,487 That Sunday was Mom's anniversary, 1325 01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:00,589 and I'd gone to visit my dad and my sisters 1326 01:01:00,622 --> 01:01:01,991 on a cheap, away day return. 1327 01:01:02,024 --> 01:01:04,893 I hadn't packed a bag, didn't even have a toothbrush. 1328 01:01:04,926 --> 01:01:06,328 (WHISTLE BLOWING) 1329 01:01:07,161 --> 01:01:08,730 What time's the next train? 1330 01:01:08,763 --> 01:01:09,997 Oh, that's it for tonight. 1331 01:01:10,031 --> 01:01:11,767 Next one's 6:00 a.m. 1332 01:01:11,799 --> 01:01:12,935 I'll get this one then. 1333 01:01:12,968 --> 01:01:14,870 - Hold on! - No! Sorry! 1334 01:01:14,902 --> 01:01:17,138 Oh! You again, you jobsworth cunt. 1335 01:01:17,172 --> 01:01:18,107 Cunt! 1336 01:01:18,140 --> 01:01:20,009 See, this jobsworth prick. 1337 01:01:20,042 --> 01:01:24,246 This prick didn't know it, he changed history. 1338 01:01:24,279 --> 01:01:25,881 Fuck! 1339 01:01:25,913 --> 01:01:27,616 Fuck you! 1340 01:01:27,649 --> 01:01:29,050 All right, Susan. 1341 01:01:29,084 --> 01:01:30,852 Yeah, I missed the bloody train. 1342 01:01:30,886 --> 01:01:34,523 I know. Got any plans? 1343 01:01:34,556 --> 01:01:36,158 Well, if you're not sick of the sight of me, 1344 01:01:36,192 --> 01:01:38,059 I've got 18 Wheeler playing down at King Tut's. 1345 01:01:38,093 --> 01:01:40,062 Get there early, check out the support, maybe. 1346 01:01:40,096 --> 01:01:42,664 Oh, come on, Alan. Dad's never exactly been good 1347 01:01:42,696 --> 01:01:43,931 at showing affection, has he? 1348 01:01:43,964 --> 01:01:45,734 Too late for affection, 1349 01:01:45,768 --> 01:01:47,870 just appreciate a wee bit of recognition. 1350 01:01:47,902 --> 01:01:49,471 He still thinks I'm a deluded wee punk. 1351 01:01:49,504 --> 01:01:52,807 He does not. He recognizes you're doing well. 1352 01:01:52,841 --> 01:01:54,609 He's just torn. 1353 01:01:54,643 --> 01:01:56,012 Torn? 1354 01:01:56,044 --> 01:01:57,912 Aye, he doesn't understand all this music business stuff. 1355 01:01:57,946 --> 01:01:59,747 He's frightened you're gonna fall on your arse. 1356 01:01:59,781 --> 01:02:01,049 Ah, see, he wants me to fall down 1357 01:02:01,082 --> 01:02:02,884 and just stay the fuck down, 1358 01:02:02,917 --> 01:02:04,318 but I keep getting back up. 1359 01:02:04,352 --> 01:02:07,455 He does not. He just wants you to have a job with security. 1360 01:02:07,489 --> 01:02:10,091 ALAN: Security? Talk about delusional. 1361 01:02:10,125 --> 01:02:12,628 I've got a company with Sony, for fuck's sake. 1362 01:02:12,660 --> 01:02:13,863 Oh, I know. 1363 01:02:13,895 --> 01:02:15,830 You're Thatcher's little wet dream you, ain't you? 1364 01:02:15,864 --> 01:02:18,134 You're an entrepreneur. (LAUGHS) 1365 01:02:18,167 --> 01:02:19,968 I don't care who you're friends with. 1366 01:02:20,002 --> 01:02:21,902 You're not booked. So you're not playing tonight. 1367 01:02:21,937 --> 01:02:23,038 (POP MUSIC PLAYING) 1368 01:02:23,071 --> 01:02:24,239 What, you want a slot? 1369 01:02:24,272 --> 01:02:25,640 I'll give you a fucking slot in your throat. 1370 01:02:27,109 --> 01:02:28,944 (MUSIC CONTINUES) 1371 01:02:28,977 --> 01:02:30,112 What are you drinking? 1372 01:02:30,145 --> 01:02:32,748 Vodka tonic, please. I'll get us a seat. 1373 01:02:32,781 --> 01:02:33,982 MAN: Fucking cunts. 1374 01:02:36,017 --> 01:02:37,085 Double vodka and tonic, 1375 01:02:37,118 --> 01:02:38,653 double Jack Daniel's and Coke, please. 1376 01:02:38,687 --> 01:02:39,988 Hey, hey. 1377 01:02:40,020 --> 01:02:41,089 You're Alan McGee. 1378 01:02:41,122 --> 01:02:42,723 Local boy done good. 1379 01:02:42,757 --> 01:02:43,993 What brings you home, pal? 1380 01:02:44,026 --> 01:02:46,161 Oh, just a bit of family business. 1381 01:02:46,194 --> 01:02:47,796 Any of this lot yours? 1382 01:02:47,830 --> 01:02:49,864 Aye, 18 Wheeler. 1383 01:02:49,897 --> 01:02:51,700 And then my pal, Debbie, is on support. 1384 01:02:51,734 --> 01:02:53,069 What was that back at the door? 1385 01:02:53,102 --> 01:02:55,971 It's just some Manchester band giving me some fanny 1386 01:02:56,004 --> 01:02:57,939 about saying they were booked to play tonight, 1387 01:02:57,973 --> 01:02:59,108 but it's the first I've heard of it. 1388 01:02:59,140 --> 01:03:01,175 Looked like it was going to kick off. 1389 01:03:01,210 --> 01:03:02,311 Aye. 1390 01:03:02,343 --> 01:03:04,011 Hope not tonight though, because I've got no bouncers. 1391 01:03:04,044 --> 01:03:05,146 But don't tell them that. 1392 01:03:05,180 --> 01:03:06,982 Better squeeze them in somewhere. 1393 01:03:07,015 --> 01:03:08,783 You don't want a bunch of Manc scallies kicking off. 1394 01:03:08,817 --> 01:03:10,319 Trust me. I lived there. 1395 01:03:10,352 --> 01:03:11,187 I will, Al. 1396 01:03:11,219 --> 01:03:12,754 Gave them 20 minutes. 1397 01:03:12,788 --> 01:03:14,457 Give the DJ time to go for a shite. 1398 01:03:14,489 --> 01:03:15,924 What they called? 1399 01:03:15,957 --> 01:03:17,325 Oh, it's a crap name, man. 1400 01:03:18,993 --> 01:03:20,261 Oasis. 1401 01:03:26,968 --> 01:03:30,138 Malcolm, Malcolm. 1402 01:03:30,172 --> 01:03:31,774 Go and have a fag. 1403 01:03:32,774 --> 01:03:35,243 It's 20 minutes, you understand? 1404 01:03:35,277 --> 01:03:40,182 We start proceedings with a band who should be called 1405 01:03:40,214 --> 01:03:42,852 Fucking Cheeky Bastards. 1406 01:03:42,884 --> 01:03:45,254 I'd like to welcome to the stage, 1407 01:03:45,286 --> 01:03:46,187 Oasis. 1408 01:03:46,221 --> 01:03:49,225 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 1409 01:03:50,959 --> 01:03:52,361 Get on with it. 1410 01:03:52,393 --> 01:03:54,161 I mean, there's you talking about the recognition you need 1411 01:03:54,196 --> 01:03:55,864 with your own dad, and you're not even paying attention 1412 01:03:55,897 --> 01:03:57,298 to your own wain. 1413 01:03:58,067 --> 01:03:59,268 He's just a kid, 1414 01:03:59,301 --> 01:04:01,303 and that's your family. 1415 01:04:01,335 --> 01:04:03,906 Dad's got a grandson he doesn't even see. 1416 01:04:03,939 --> 01:04:05,873 Do you think that doesn't disappoint him? 1417 01:04:05,906 --> 01:04:08,376 (SUSAN CONTINUES RANTING) 1418 01:04:24,692 --> 01:04:28,196 ♪ People say it's just a waste of time 1419 01:04:28,230 --> 01:04:31,700 ♪ Then they said I should feed my head 1420 01:04:31,732 --> 01:04:35,236 ♪ That to me was just a day in bed 1421 01:04:35,270 --> 01:04:38,640 ♪ I'll take my car and drive real far 1422 01:04:38,674 --> 01:04:42,143 ♪ They're not concerned about the way we are 1423 01:04:42,176 --> 01:04:45,747 ♪ In my mind my dreams are real 1424 01:04:45,781 --> 01:04:49,017 ♪ Now we're concerned about the way I feel 1425 01:04:49,051 --> 01:04:51,819 ♪ Tonight 1426 01:04:51,853 --> 01:04:54,189 ♪ I'm a rock 'n' roll star 1427 01:04:56,058 --> 01:04:58,826 ♪ Tonight 1428 01:04:58,861 --> 01:05:01,363 ♪ I'm a rock 'n' roll star 1429 01:05:04,031 --> 01:05:05,600 PRESENTER 1: In just under three years, 1430 01:05:05,634 --> 01:05:08,069 Oasis will have gone from being a new signing 1431 01:05:08,102 --> 01:05:09,738 to one of rock's true giants. 1432 01:05:09,770 --> 01:05:11,940 PRESENTER 2: The live gig of the decade. 1433 01:05:11,973 --> 01:05:13,140 PRESENTER 3: Oasis gears up to rock 1434 01:05:13,174 --> 01:05:14,743 a quarter of a million fans. 1435 01:05:14,777 --> 01:05:16,444 PRESENTER 1: Oasis is gonna play to more than 1436 01:05:16,477 --> 01:05:19,246 a third of a million people in just over one day. 1437 01:05:19,281 --> 01:05:21,149 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 1438 01:05:21,183 --> 01:05:22,650 ♪ Today was just a blur 1439 01:05:22,683 --> 01:05:25,286 ♪ You've got a head like a ghost train 1440 01:05:25,319 --> 01:05:27,288 GIRL: I don't know any teenage lad 1441 01:05:27,321 --> 01:05:28,890 who wouldn't wanna be like them. 1442 01:05:28,922 --> 01:05:31,225 (CROWD SHOUTING AND CHEERING) 1443 01:05:31,259 --> 01:05:32,761 I don't know any teenage girl that would say 1444 01:05:32,794 --> 01:05:35,062 that they didn't actually want to go out with Liam Gallagher. 1445 01:05:35,096 --> 01:05:38,065 (ROCK MUSIC PLAYING) 1446 01:05:38,098 --> 01:05:41,135 (CROWD SHOUTING AND CHEERING) 1447 01:05:41,169 --> 01:05:44,305 ♪ But you don't care 1448 01:05:44,339 --> 01:05:46,308 Noel! I love your eyebrows. They're sexy. 1449 01:05:46,341 --> 01:05:48,442 PRESENTER 4: The most honest band on the planet. 1450 01:05:48,475 --> 01:05:50,277 We're not pop stars, we're lads. 1451 01:05:50,312 --> 01:05:52,180 ♪ That the devil sends 1452 01:05:52,214 --> 01:05:53,348 ♪ You think they're talking about you 1453 01:05:53,381 --> 01:05:54,449 ♪ But you don't know who 1454 01:05:54,482 --> 01:05:55,682 ♪ I'll be scraping their lives 1455 01:05:55,716 --> 01:05:58,353 ♪ From the sole of my shoe tonight ♪ 1456 01:06:13,033 --> 01:06:16,238 (SONG ENDS) 1457 01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:20,476 Nice one. 1458 01:06:23,178 --> 01:06:24,246 Did you hear that? 1459 01:06:24,279 --> 01:06:26,915 Yeah. Good band. 1460 01:06:26,948 --> 01:06:29,216 Good? They're fucking amazing. 1461 01:06:29,250 --> 01:06:30,618 Hey, man, come here. 1462 01:06:31,486 --> 01:06:33,320 - Who do I talk to? - What, in the band? 1463 01:06:33,355 --> 01:06:36,091 - Aye, who's the leader? - Joan of Arc. 1464 01:06:36,123 --> 01:06:39,060 He's the only sensible cunt amongst them. 1465 01:06:39,093 --> 01:06:40,561 - Do you want a record deal? - You what? 1466 01:06:40,594 --> 01:06:42,497 Do you want a record deal? I'm Alan McGee... 1467 01:06:42,531 --> 01:06:44,200 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool. 1468 01:06:47,002 --> 01:06:48,404 I know who you are. 1469 01:06:50,038 --> 01:06:51,439 You're not already signed, are you? 1470 01:06:51,473 --> 01:06:52,306 No. 1471 01:06:52,339 --> 01:06:53,374 - Have you got a manager? - No. 1472 01:06:53,408 --> 01:06:55,209 Do you want a tape? 1473 01:06:55,243 --> 01:06:57,912 I don't need a tape, I've heard and seen enough. 1474 01:06:59,114 --> 01:07:00,415 Mate, calm down. 1475 01:07:00,448 --> 01:07:02,084 You've had a drink, and you're a bit excited. 1476 01:07:02,116 --> 01:07:03,218 Take a tape. 1477 01:07:03,250 --> 01:07:05,319 ALAN: That tape had most of 1478 01:07:05,352 --> 01:07:06,788 Definitely Maybe on it. 1479 01:07:06,821 --> 01:07:08,957 PRESENTER: The fastest-selling album ever. 1480 01:07:08,991 --> 01:07:10,492 Twenty-five weeks in the charts, 1481 01:07:10,524 --> 01:07:13,160 - with singles like... - CROWD: Live Forever! 1482 01:07:13,194 --> 01:07:15,263 Rock 'N' Roll Star! 1483 01:07:15,297 --> 01:07:16,631 ALAN: See, 1484 01:07:16,665 --> 01:07:18,967 Noel had been writing songs since he was 16, 1485 01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,167 and Liam... 1486 01:07:20,201 --> 01:07:23,105 Liam was just a born rock star. 1487 01:07:23,138 --> 01:07:24,471 Give it up for Oasis, 1488 01:07:24,506 --> 01:07:27,274 making their TV debut with Supersonic. 1489 01:07:27,308 --> 01:07:28,944 (CROWD CHEERING) 1490 01:07:30,978 --> 01:07:32,779 Put this on it. 1491 01:07:32,814 --> 01:07:34,315 My bouncer has nicked the headliner's rider, 1492 01:07:34,348 --> 01:07:35,750 so we're gonna do one. 1493 01:07:36,317 --> 01:07:38,020 Big fan of your label. 1494 01:07:38,053 --> 01:07:39,286 BAND MEMBER: Hey, hey. 1495 01:07:39,321 --> 01:07:40,654 ALAN: It was a case of right place, 1496 01:07:40,689 --> 01:07:42,022 right time. 1497 01:07:42,056 --> 01:07:43,459 Synchronicity. 1498 01:07:45,527 --> 01:07:46,428 Fuck you! 1499 01:07:46,460 --> 01:07:48,363 From the moment I was born, 1500 01:07:48,395 --> 01:07:49,964 I was meant to miss that train. 1501 01:07:49,997 --> 01:07:52,266 Some people's destiny was to meet particular people, 1502 01:07:52,299 --> 01:07:53,667 or go to foreign lands. 1503 01:07:53,701 --> 01:07:57,138 But my whole life had been leading up to me 1504 01:07:57,171 --> 01:07:59,440 missing that fucking train. 1505 01:08:00,975 --> 01:08:04,011 Now you had one of the biggest bands in the world. 1506 01:08:04,044 --> 01:08:06,714 Finally, bigger than U2. 1507 01:08:06,747 --> 01:08:07,982 (BOTH LAUGH) 1508 01:08:08,015 --> 01:08:09,417 Where does it go from here? 1509 01:08:09,451 --> 01:08:12,219 Well, for me, it's a party in a club on Sunset. 1510 01:08:12,252 --> 01:08:13,287 You coming? 1511 01:08:13,321 --> 01:08:14,957 I'd love to, but I have a deadline. 1512 01:08:14,989 --> 01:08:18,126 Hey, can we meet up again when I'm back in London? 1513 01:08:18,158 --> 01:08:19,294 I can do an update piece. 1514 01:08:19,327 --> 01:08:21,830 Absolutely. 1515 01:08:21,862 --> 01:08:24,431 Oh, if there's one thing I love more than being talked about, 1516 01:08:24,465 --> 01:08:26,201 it's being written about. 1517 01:08:26,233 --> 01:08:27,401 I just wish I could write it. 1518 01:08:27,435 --> 01:08:28,469 What're you talking about? 1519 01:08:28,504 --> 01:08:31,171 It's a puff piece, mainly photos. 1520 01:08:31,206 --> 01:08:32,241 Oh! 1521 01:08:32,273 --> 01:08:33,474 Tell them to get the fuck... 1522 01:08:33,507 --> 01:08:35,042 Go and sell it to Rolling Stone or someone. 1523 01:08:35,076 --> 01:08:38,380 Tell them Alan McGee is up there with Brian Epstein, 1524 01:08:38,412 --> 01:08:39,614 Peter Grant, Malcolm McLaren, 1525 01:08:39,648 --> 01:08:43,285 as one of the greatest rock managers in history. 1526 01:08:43,318 --> 01:08:45,187 That's what I'd tell them anyway. 1527 01:08:45,220 --> 01:08:46,387 You're so modest. 1528 01:08:46,420 --> 01:08:49,457 Modesty gets you nowhere. Listen. 1529 01:08:49,491 --> 01:08:52,160 I know that every fucker out there 1530 01:08:52,193 --> 01:08:54,362 knows that I'm talentless. 1531 01:08:54,395 --> 01:08:56,397 But I'm a situationist, huh? 1532 01:08:56,430 --> 01:09:00,835 - Yeah. - I make things happen. 1533 01:09:00,868 --> 01:09:03,538 Sheer determination, I... I get it. 1534 01:09:04,639 --> 01:09:05,541 You do. 1535 01:09:05,573 --> 01:09:07,174 Well, let's definitely meet up in London. 1536 01:09:07,207 --> 01:09:08,442 I... I might be in a position 1537 01:09:08,475 --> 01:09:10,277 where I can write a piece that matches your ego. 1538 01:09:10,310 --> 01:09:11,545 That's a very noble ambition. 1539 01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:13,214 Good luck with that. 1540 01:09:13,247 --> 01:09:15,017 Hey, oh, can I have my glasses? 1541 01:09:17,352 --> 01:09:19,354 Thanks. Have fun at your party. 1542 01:09:24,459 --> 01:09:27,528 ALAN: Like I said, LA, 1543 01:09:27,562 --> 01:09:28,831 land of the soulless... 1544 01:09:29,464 --> 01:09:30,564 WOMAN: Cheers. 1545 01:09:30,599 --> 01:09:32,568 ALAN: ...the vacuous, 1546 01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:34,402 the back stabbers, and, of course... 1547 01:09:34,435 --> 01:09:35,636 Oh, hey, man. 1548 01:09:35,670 --> 01:09:37,272 ALAN: ...the wannabes. 1549 01:09:37,304 --> 01:09:38,539 So Noel and Liam, 1550 01:09:38,572 --> 01:09:40,274 is it true they just beat up each other? 1551 01:09:40,308 --> 01:09:41,910 - What? - The brothers, 1552 01:09:41,943 --> 01:09:43,579 do they beat the shit out of each other on stage. 1553 01:09:43,612 --> 01:09:44,680 Right. 1554 01:09:45,580 --> 01:09:47,683 (SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY) 1555 01:09:49,218 --> 01:09:51,420 (RAP MUSIC PLAYING) 1556 01:09:52,252 --> 01:09:53,621 Nice shoes. 1557 01:09:57,358 --> 01:09:59,394 Oh, you like them? 1558 01:09:59,426 --> 01:10:00,594 Got them in. 1559 01:10:00,629 --> 01:10:03,797 By some miracle, they've survived Glastonbury. 1560 01:10:03,831 --> 01:10:05,566 Are you English? 1561 01:10:06,233 --> 01:10:07,334 Scottish. 1562 01:10:07,368 --> 01:10:08,702 Ah. 1563 01:10:08,737 --> 01:10:11,206 And this Glastonbury, is it... Is it close to Liverpool? 1564 01:10:11,239 --> 01:10:13,241 I love The Beatles. 1565 01:10:13,274 --> 01:10:14,541 It's a festival. 1566 01:10:14,576 --> 01:10:16,411 Like Burning Man, but with rain and mud, 1567 01:10:16,444 --> 01:10:18,246 and fucking awful toilets. 1568 01:10:18,278 --> 01:10:19,313 Cool! 1569 01:10:19,348 --> 01:10:22,382 So, what brings you to LA? 1570 01:10:22,416 --> 01:10:23,550 Bit of business. 1571 01:10:23,585 --> 01:10:25,888 Huh, yeah, what is it you do? 1572 01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,555 I own a record label. 1573 01:10:27,589 --> 01:10:29,157 - Really? - Hmm. 1574 01:10:29,189 --> 01:10:30,825 Wow, that is so interesting 1575 01:10:30,858 --> 01:10:35,897 because, um, I'm a singer-songwriter, um... 1576 01:10:35,929 --> 01:10:37,531 Della. 1577 01:10:37,564 --> 01:10:41,335 Will you... Will you take a listen? 1578 01:10:41,368 --> 01:10:42,603 I mean, it needs work, 1579 01:10:42,638 --> 01:10:45,607 but it has my number on it on the back. 1580 01:10:45,639 --> 01:10:47,541 ALAN: Now, one of three things 1581 01:10:47,575 --> 01:10:49,376 can happen here. 1582 01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:50,679 She gets what she wants. 1583 01:10:51,412 --> 01:10:52,514 (MOANING) 1584 01:10:52,546 --> 01:10:53,881 ALAN: I get what I want. 1585 01:10:53,915 --> 01:10:56,484 I'm like a cross between Joni Mitchell 1586 01:10:56,518 --> 01:10:58,754 and Patti Smith. 1587 01:11:01,523 --> 01:11:04,159 Creation would be the perfect label for me. 1588 01:11:06,260 --> 01:11:08,263 How do you know I own Creation? 1589 01:11:08,296 --> 01:11:12,233 Or, we both get fuck all and jog on. 1590 01:11:12,267 --> 01:11:13,734 Don't try and hustle a hustler. 1591 01:11:13,768 --> 01:11:17,305 I've got people listening to demos all day long. 1592 01:11:17,339 --> 01:11:18,674 Thank you. 1593 01:11:19,608 --> 01:11:20,843 Fucking asshole. 1594 01:11:23,912 --> 01:11:24,813 Alan! 1595 01:11:24,845 --> 01:11:26,147 ALAN: You see this, Charlie? 1596 01:11:26,180 --> 01:11:28,515 He's someone else that's gonna change my life, 1597 01:11:28,549 --> 01:11:29,584 and not for the better. 1598 01:11:29,617 --> 01:11:31,586 Yo! Cheeky fucking... 1599 01:11:31,618 --> 01:11:33,121 ALAN: I couldn't remember his name 1600 01:11:33,153 --> 01:11:35,255 for the life of me. But when you've done enough drugs... 1601 01:11:35,290 --> 01:11:36,323 Rambo, I'm with him. 1602 01:11:36,357 --> 01:11:37,693 ALAN: ...you just open your mouth, 1603 01:11:37,725 --> 01:11:39,560 and say the first name that comes into your head. 1604 01:11:39,594 --> 01:11:40,863 All right, Ralph? 1605 01:11:40,895 --> 01:11:43,563 I was just talking about you the other day to, um, 1606 01:11:43,598 --> 01:11:44,631 oh, what's his name, 1607 01:11:44,665 --> 01:11:46,502 tall fucker with the piggy eyes. 1608 01:11:46,535 --> 01:11:49,104 (STUTTERS) Who gives a fuck? How are you, darling. 1609 01:11:49,136 --> 01:11:50,671 I'm good, Ralph. You? 1610 01:11:50,705 --> 01:11:53,341 Yeah, really great. Actually, really smashing. 1611 01:11:53,375 --> 01:11:54,408 How was rehab? 1612 01:11:54,442 --> 01:11:56,245 Fantastic. Best ever. 1613 01:11:58,279 --> 01:11:59,313 I'm producing again. 1614 01:11:59,346 --> 01:12:00,581 - No way! - Yeah, I know. 1615 01:12:00,614 --> 01:12:01,715 - Back in the zone. - I'm being totally 1616 01:12:01,748 --> 01:12:03,652 different this time, I swear to God. 1617 01:12:03,684 --> 01:12:04,852 A little bird told me 1618 01:12:04,885 --> 01:12:07,621 you are fucking killing the music business. 1619 01:12:07,654 --> 01:12:09,892 World domination time. 1620 01:12:09,925 --> 01:12:11,993 Too modest. Um... 1621 01:12:12,027 --> 01:12:13,729 Fancy a cheeky toot? 1622 01:12:14,696 --> 01:12:16,531 I shall live and die in LA. 1623 01:12:16,563 --> 01:12:20,701 ALAN: There are a million Ralphs in LA. 1624 01:12:20,734 --> 01:12:23,270 Rastafarians who left the public schools of England 1625 01:12:23,304 --> 01:12:24,538 to be Hollywood producers. 1626 01:12:24,572 --> 01:12:26,507 Of course, they conned me out of the inheritance. 1627 01:12:26,541 --> 01:12:28,543 But who needs a fucking castle. Chin-chin. 1628 01:12:28,577 --> 01:12:29,978 ALAN: Never seen a frame of anything 1629 01:12:30,011 --> 01:12:32,147 he's produced, and I don't think anyone else had. 1630 01:12:32,179 --> 01:12:35,116 Just met at some forgotten Hollywood bash somewhere. 1631 01:12:35,149 --> 01:12:37,551 - That's the thing about cocaine. - Shall we? 1632 01:12:37,585 --> 01:12:39,587 ALAN: You end up sniffing it off toilet seats 1633 01:12:39,621 --> 01:12:41,790 with total strangers who become your best friend 1634 01:12:41,822 --> 01:12:43,890 for the next few hours. 1635 01:12:43,925 --> 01:12:44,993 RALPH: Ah! 1636 01:12:48,328 --> 01:12:49,563 What's your new movie about? 1637 01:12:49,598 --> 01:12:52,634 Oh, I met this amazing, really charming young man 1638 01:12:52,666 --> 01:12:56,336 from Compton, called Hercules the Reaper. 1639 01:12:56,370 --> 01:12:57,605 (FARTS) 1640 01:12:57,639 --> 01:13:00,542 Actually, oh, this place is absolutely moribund. 1641 01:13:00,575 --> 01:13:02,277 Let's go to his club. 1642 01:13:02,309 --> 01:13:03,477 - Club? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1643 01:13:03,511 --> 01:13:04,845 It's right up your Straza. 1644 01:13:04,879 --> 01:13:07,381 - Let's go. - Come. Tidy up. 1645 01:13:07,415 --> 01:13:08,750 Here we go. 1646 01:13:14,621 --> 01:13:15,957 Oh, Christ. 1647 01:13:18,158 --> 01:13:20,328 RALPH: Give us a couple of beers, will you? 1648 01:13:21,830 --> 01:13:24,299 This is the life. Love this town. 1649 01:13:24,332 --> 01:13:26,167 (SNIFFLES) Ah. 1650 01:13:26,201 --> 01:13:29,738 So, what is this film? Is it like some kind of, uh, 1651 01:13:29,770 --> 01:13:32,541 - documentary or a... - No, it's a biopic. 1652 01:13:32,573 --> 01:13:33,841 The story of a man's incredible life. 1653 01:13:33,875 --> 01:13:35,210 Well, it looks like a vanity project 1654 01:13:35,242 --> 01:13:36,577 because he's paying for it all, but it's not. 1655 01:13:36,611 --> 01:13:38,412 Forrest Gump meets Boyz in the Hood. 1656 01:13:38,446 --> 01:13:39,814 - Forrest Gump? - RALPH: Yeah. 1657 01:13:39,848 --> 01:13:41,448 - What's that about, then? - More like a black Forrest Gump 1658 01:13:41,483 --> 01:13:43,651 with good music, you know. 1659 01:13:43,684 --> 01:13:45,753 We're lucky, we'll have them singing songs 1660 01:13:45,786 --> 01:13:48,023 and shooting each other in the playground. 1661 01:13:48,055 --> 01:13:49,156 I hate biopics. 1662 01:13:49,189 --> 01:13:50,959 Yeah, let's hope nobody else sings like you, you cunt. 1663 01:13:51,893 --> 01:13:54,363 We'll see. Do you need some music for it? 1664 01:13:54,395 --> 01:13:55,796 I don't, what, your kind of music? 1665 01:13:55,830 --> 01:13:57,698 (EXHALES) I don't think so, unless you're gonna black up. 1666 01:13:57,732 --> 01:14:00,935 (PARTY MUSIC PLAYING) 1667 01:14:02,504 --> 01:14:03,872 Hey. 1668 01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:06,408 Herc, my brother. 1669 01:14:08,843 --> 01:14:10,377 This is my very good friend, Alan. 1670 01:14:10,412 --> 01:14:11,479 Where are you? 1671 01:14:11,511 --> 01:14:13,348 He's a major player in the music biz. 1672 01:14:14,948 --> 01:14:15,782 Major. 1673 01:14:15,817 --> 01:14:17,451 (CHUCKLES) Pull up. 1674 01:14:17,484 --> 01:14:18,585 Thank you. 1675 01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:20,689 Hello, how are you? 1676 01:14:20,721 --> 01:14:23,825 Ralph tell you? They're making a movie about me. 1677 01:14:23,858 --> 01:14:25,827 - What? - A movie, yes. 1678 01:14:25,861 --> 01:14:29,863 Some real shit. Rags to riches. 1679 01:14:29,897 --> 01:14:31,832 RALPH: But Alan's just like you, Herc. 1680 01:14:31,867 --> 01:14:33,902 He's from the hood. 1681 01:14:33,934 --> 01:14:34,968 What? 1682 01:14:35,002 --> 01:14:36,904 Well, in the UK, we call them council estates, 1683 01:14:36,938 --> 01:14:38,372 but they're really the same thing. 1684 01:14:38,406 --> 01:14:42,876 It's just lots of poor people crammed into suffering together. 1685 01:14:42,911 --> 01:14:46,747 Hmm, I'd like to visit the UK one day. 1686 01:14:46,781 --> 01:14:48,550 Not at the moment, though. 1687 01:14:48,582 --> 01:14:50,684 Feds won't let me leave the country. 1688 01:14:50,718 --> 01:14:52,487 Oh, the Feds are persecuting Herc, Alan. 1689 01:14:52,519 --> 01:14:53,787 They're all up in his shit. 1690 01:14:53,821 --> 01:14:56,390 They won't give a brother a break, right? 1691 01:14:56,425 --> 01:14:57,659 Right, well... 1692 01:14:57,692 --> 01:15:00,028 Brother, take it to the VIP. 1693 01:15:01,595 --> 01:15:02,863 Laters, homes. 1694 01:15:02,898 --> 01:15:03,931 You. 1695 01:15:05,666 --> 01:15:06,767 In here. 1696 01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:07,901 What's happening? 1697 01:15:07,934 --> 01:15:09,870 Whatever you like, my friend. 1698 01:15:09,904 --> 01:15:13,073 What happens in Compton, stays in Compton. 1699 01:15:13,107 --> 01:15:14,509 (LAUGHS) 1700 01:15:14,541 --> 01:15:16,343 Hello, ladies. This is my friend, Alan. 1701 01:15:16,376 --> 01:15:18,379 He's terribly shy. 1702 01:15:18,412 --> 01:15:21,648 - (INHALING AND EXHALING DEEPLY) - (FLY BUZZING) 1703 01:15:21,683 --> 01:15:24,886 (MAURICE BEATBOXING) 1704 01:15:33,627 --> 01:15:36,430 MAURICE: ♪ If you hear any noise ♪ 1705 01:15:36,464 --> 01:15:37,799 (BEATBOXING) 1706 01:15:37,831 --> 01:15:39,800 RALPH: Oh, Sleeping Beauty. 1707 01:15:39,834 --> 01:15:41,803 - Welcome back. - (MAURICE BEATBOXING) 1708 01:15:41,836 --> 01:15:43,470 This is Maurice. 1709 01:15:43,504 --> 01:15:44,772 Fucking fantastic. 1710 01:15:44,804 --> 01:15:46,840 - (MAURICE BEATBOXING) - (FLY BUZZING) 1711 01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:48,576 I said... I said you might give him... 1712 01:15:48,608 --> 01:15:49,977 Give him a record deal. 1713 01:15:50,010 --> 01:15:52,813 Maurice, you haven't already got a record deal, have you? 1714 01:15:52,846 --> 01:15:54,381 Shit. I didn't... I didn't think of that. 1715 01:15:54,416 --> 01:15:56,284 He might... He might already have a record deal. I don't know. 1716 01:15:56,317 --> 01:15:58,687 Ricky ticky tick. Ricky ticky ticky ticky 1717 01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,788 ticky ticky tick tick. 1718 01:16:00,821 --> 01:16:03,190 - Ralph. - This is... 1719 01:16:03,224 --> 01:16:04,892 Ralph. 1720 01:16:04,925 --> 01:16:07,495 (BEATBOXING) Ricky ticky tick. 1721 01:16:07,528 --> 01:16:10,697 - Ralph, can I have a wee word? - Yeah, yeah, sure. 1722 01:16:10,732 --> 01:16:13,901 As I say, you're on my soundtrack, I swear. 1723 01:16:13,934 --> 01:16:15,469 (MAURICE BEATBOXING) 1724 01:16:15,502 --> 01:16:18,473 (MAURICE LAUGHING) 1725 01:16:19,940 --> 01:16:22,277 (SERENE MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO) 1726 01:16:22,309 --> 01:16:27,514 How did we end up in a fucking crack den? 1727 01:16:27,547 --> 01:16:28,950 I know. 1728 01:16:28,983 --> 01:16:30,485 It's awesome, isn't it? 1729 01:16:32,420 --> 01:16:34,355 - (ALAN SIGHING DEEPLY) - Alan, no-one's going to jack you. 1730 01:16:34,389 --> 01:16:36,558 They all know I'm down with Herc's crew. 1731 01:16:37,457 --> 01:16:38,527 (ALAN EXHALING) 1732 01:16:38,559 --> 01:16:39,960 Looking at that lovely lolly there, it reminds me, 1733 01:16:39,993 --> 01:16:41,795 there's a fabulous whore house over there 1734 01:16:41,830 --> 01:16:43,163 I used to frequent. 1735 01:16:43,197 --> 01:16:45,799 Let's pop in for some breakfast and a happy ending, hmm? 1736 01:16:45,832 --> 01:16:47,701 Take... Take me to the hotel. 1737 01:16:47,736 --> 01:16:49,069 All right, Grandpa. 1738 01:16:49,871 --> 01:16:51,473 There we go. 1739 01:16:52,506 --> 01:16:55,910 Ah, I'm afraid I can't take you up the hill. 1740 01:16:55,943 --> 01:16:58,280 The reverse is a little unpredictable on this thing. 1741 01:16:58,313 --> 01:16:59,514 It's all right. 1742 01:17:01,715 --> 01:17:03,984 (COUGHING) 1743 01:17:04,018 --> 01:17:08,890 Oh, well, better out than in, as Mummy used to say. 1744 01:17:08,922 --> 01:17:11,459 Oh, now listen, tonight, there's a fabulous bash 1745 01:17:11,492 --> 01:17:13,861 in Topanga. Porn producer friend of mine. 1746 01:17:13,894 --> 01:17:15,562 Wall to wall totty. 1747 01:17:15,595 --> 01:17:17,364 - Fancy it? - I'd better not. 1748 01:17:17,398 --> 01:17:18,867 Fine, well, I'll give you a tinkle later, 1749 01:17:18,899 --> 01:17:20,734 in case you grow your cock back. 1750 01:17:20,768 --> 01:17:22,037 One for the road? 1751 01:17:24,371 --> 01:17:25,973 NEWS REPORTER: We begin with that breaking news. 1752 01:17:26,006 --> 01:17:28,076 A state of emergency in California. 1753 01:17:28,108 --> 01:17:29,910 Here's what we know right now. 1754 01:17:32,313 --> 01:17:34,416 Homes have been destroyed there... 1755 01:17:34,448 --> 01:17:37,251 (POUNDING MUSIC PLAYING) 1756 01:17:39,053 --> 01:17:40,688 ...mandatory evacuations... 1757 01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:44,992 ♪ Remember when you ran away and I got on my knees 1758 01:17:45,026 --> 01:17:49,028 ♪ And begged you not to leave because I'd go berserk? 1759 01:17:49,063 --> 01:17:51,800 ♪ Well, you left me anyhow 1760 01:17:51,832 --> 01:17:54,201 ♪ And then the days got worse and worse 1761 01:17:54,236 --> 01:17:56,069 (ALAN SCREAMING) 1762 01:17:56,104 --> 01:17:58,439 ♪ They're coming to take me away, ha-ha 1763 01:17:58,471 --> 01:18:01,876 ♪ They're coming to take me away Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha 1764 01:18:01,908 --> 01:18:03,376 ♪ To the funny farm where 1765 01:18:03,411 --> 01:18:05,011 ♪ Life is beautiful all the time 1766 01:18:05,045 --> 01:18:07,814 ♪ And I'll be happy to see those nice young men 1767 01:18:07,848 --> 01:18:09,117 ♪ In their clean white coats 1768 01:18:09,149 --> 01:18:12,086 ♪ And they're coming to take me away, ha-ha! 1769 01:18:13,920 --> 01:18:16,389 (GLASS SHATTERING) 1770 01:18:16,424 --> 01:18:18,024 NEWS REPORTER: ...southern California this morning. 1771 01:18:18,059 --> 01:18:20,428 I want you to take a quick look at this town, 1772 01:18:20,461 --> 01:18:22,997 that's actually the main part of the... 1773 01:18:23,029 --> 01:18:25,332 ♪ You know you laughed I heard you laugh 1774 01:18:25,366 --> 01:18:26,500 ♪ You laughed 1775 01:18:26,533 --> 01:18:28,335 - ♪ You laughed and laughed - (ALAN SCREAMING) 1776 01:18:28,368 --> 01:18:30,604 ♪ And then you left, but now you know I'm utterly mad 1777 01:18:32,038 --> 01:18:33,974 ♪ And they're coming to take me away 1778 01:18:34,009 --> 01:18:36,810 ♪ Ha-ha, they're coming to take me away, ho-ho 1779 01:18:36,844 --> 01:18:39,147 ♪ To the happy home 1780 01:18:45,319 --> 01:18:46,220 (ALAN SCREAMS) 1781 01:18:46,254 --> 01:18:49,291 (L OUD METAL MUSIC PLAYING) 1782 01:19:19,987 --> 01:19:21,288 ALAN: I don't believe 1783 01:19:21,322 --> 01:19:26,661 that anybody feels the way I do about you. 1784 01:19:26,693 --> 01:19:30,997 Exhaustion, panic attacks. It's a breakdown, Ed. 1785 01:19:31,031 --> 01:19:32,233 Looks like the rock and roll 1786 01:19:32,267 --> 01:19:34,468 has finally caught up with me, eh? 1787 01:19:34,501 --> 01:19:36,971 ED: I'm gonna stay with you as long as it takes. 1788 01:19:41,075 --> 01:19:43,477 I need you to get me the fuck home. 1789 01:19:43,510 --> 01:19:45,980 I can't stay here. This place is evil. 1790 01:19:49,917 --> 01:19:52,853 Hey, how you doing? 1791 01:19:52,886 --> 01:19:55,724 Nice and cozy. You're all right, mate. 1792 01:19:55,756 --> 01:19:57,090 Just some Valium. 1793 01:19:57,125 --> 01:19:58,693 You don't need that. 1794 01:20:01,162 --> 01:20:02,764 You know, a fear of flying comes from 1795 01:20:02,796 --> 01:20:05,065 the fear of not being in control, 1796 01:20:05,099 --> 01:20:07,868 and that's caused by the fear of 1797 01:20:07,902 --> 01:20:10,203 not feeling worthy of your position. 1798 01:20:10,237 --> 01:20:11,939 And that leads to all sorts of things, 1799 01:20:11,973 --> 01:20:16,611 like excessive drink, excessive drug-taking. 1800 01:20:16,644 --> 01:20:20,181 For fear of actually engaging in reality, 1801 01:20:20,214 --> 01:20:24,352 because in reality, we're not in control. 1802 01:20:26,086 --> 01:20:30,223 That's why God gave everyone an ego. 1803 01:20:30,256 --> 01:20:33,794 To feel like we're important enough, 1804 01:20:33,827 --> 01:20:37,765 to feel like we're in control. 1805 01:20:37,797 --> 01:20:40,801 (SOOTHING MUSIC PLAYING) 1806 01:20:45,939 --> 01:20:47,408 That's pretty deep, Ed. 1807 01:20:50,245 --> 01:20:54,248 You've got so many people that love you, so many. 1808 01:20:59,586 --> 01:21:02,056 You're gonna get all the help you need. 1809 01:21:11,232 --> 01:21:13,635 I just want you to get better, Alan. 1810 01:21:17,571 --> 01:21:20,742 (SUSAN SOBS) 1811 01:21:24,946 --> 01:21:28,149 (PEPPY MUSIC PLAYING) 1812 01:21:29,315 --> 01:21:31,618 GEMMA: Heck, this joint took some finding. 1813 01:21:31,652 --> 01:21:33,087 ALAN: Avoid central London these days. 1814 01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:34,154 How long are you in town? 1815 01:21:34,188 --> 01:21:35,523 GEMMA: Uh, four days. 1816 01:21:35,555 --> 01:21:37,223 I'm doing a piece on Bono with Rolling Stone. 1817 01:21:37,257 --> 01:21:39,193 - Ouch! - It's been years. 1818 01:21:39,227 --> 01:21:40,560 Tell me about it. 1819 01:21:40,594 --> 01:21:43,163 You're doing really well. I read a lot of your stuff. 1820 01:21:43,197 --> 01:21:44,966 That Lou Reed piece. 1821 01:21:44,998 --> 01:21:47,001 The memories of Michael Ronson piece. 1822 01:21:47,035 --> 01:21:48,368 You read that? 1823 01:21:49,370 --> 01:21:51,337 Hey, I heard that you had Bill Clinton 1824 01:21:51,371 --> 01:21:53,107 come and crash at your house. 1825 01:21:53,139 --> 01:21:55,075 He was looking for somewhere free to crash. 1826 01:21:55,108 --> 01:21:56,442 He's a tight cunt like me. 1827 01:21:56,477 --> 01:21:59,246 So I think someone from the Labour Party hooked it up. 1828 01:21:59,278 --> 01:22:01,247 Oh, yeah, I wanted to ask you about that. 1829 01:22:01,282 --> 01:22:03,117 You'd taken some time off. 1830 01:22:03,149 --> 01:22:05,185 ALAN: Now, call it what it was. 1831 01:22:05,219 --> 01:22:06,254 It was a breakdown. 1832 01:22:06,287 --> 01:22:08,889 ♪ She said maybe 1833 01:22:08,922 --> 01:22:10,757 ALAN: Agoraphobia. 1834 01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:14,596 Or agoraphobia as the Americans call it, 1835 01:22:14,629 --> 01:22:17,799 which makes it sound like some kind of luxury wool. 1836 01:22:19,166 --> 01:22:23,403 No, it ain't woolly. It's fear and dread. 1837 01:22:24,438 --> 01:22:27,274 It's all around you, and it's far away. 1838 01:22:27,306 --> 01:22:29,410 It's just fucking terrible. 1839 01:22:29,443 --> 01:22:31,545 I went to therapy, all that jazz. 1840 01:22:35,183 --> 01:22:36,250 Just get better. 1841 01:22:36,283 --> 01:22:37,617 Yeah, all right. 1842 01:22:37,652 --> 01:22:39,386 See you soon. 1843 01:22:45,026 --> 01:22:46,461 (DOOR SLAMS SHUT) 1844 01:22:48,162 --> 01:22:49,397 Fuck. 1845 01:22:50,331 --> 01:22:51,599 Come in, come in. 1846 01:22:57,004 --> 01:23:00,608 Oh, no. No, no, no. No, here. 1847 01:23:01,541 --> 01:23:03,644 Oh, sorry. 1848 01:23:03,978 --> 01:23:05,413 It's okay. 1849 01:23:10,785 --> 01:23:12,953 (CHUCKLES) Talk about predictable, eh? 1850 01:23:12,987 --> 01:23:16,390 WOMAN: I suppose I was feeling extremely pressured. 1851 01:23:16,424 --> 01:23:18,893 I mean, my parents are high-flyers, you know? 1852 01:23:18,926 --> 01:23:22,130 And I wanted them to be proud of my achievements. 1853 01:23:22,162 --> 01:23:24,799 All of the time, though. 1854 01:23:24,831 --> 01:23:27,968 Did you read the info on the Alcoholics Anonymous? 1855 01:23:28,001 --> 01:23:29,636 I'm with Groucho Marx. 1856 01:23:29,670 --> 01:23:32,573 I wouldn't want to join a cult that would have me as a member. 1857 01:23:32,605 --> 01:23:34,808 (LAUGHS) 1858 01:23:34,841 --> 01:23:35,908 They're not a cult. 1859 01:23:35,943 --> 01:23:37,378 I started self-medicating. 1860 01:23:37,411 --> 01:23:40,781 Prozac, Valium, beta-blockers. 1861 01:23:40,814 --> 01:23:44,419 Me too, but I was writing myself prescriptions 1862 01:23:44,452 --> 01:23:49,123 for ecstasy, speed, coke, acid, whiskey, 1863 01:23:49,157 --> 01:23:50,892 - almost every day. - (BANGING ON DOOR) 1864 01:23:52,827 --> 01:23:55,029 I've been trying to contact you. Where you been? 1865 01:23:55,062 --> 01:23:59,267 I've got something here that'll liven you right up. 1866 01:23:59,300 --> 01:24:00,435 ALAN: If there's one thing dealers hate more 1867 01:24:00,468 --> 01:24:02,303 than not being paid, it's being paid. 1868 01:24:02,336 --> 01:24:03,605 You owe them, they've got the upper hand. 1869 01:24:03,638 --> 01:24:06,306 Pay off the debt, and they lose interest charges. 1870 01:24:06,340 --> 01:24:08,041 You don't have to settle the tab yet. 1871 01:24:08,075 --> 01:24:10,711 How much is the tab? How much? 1872 01:24:10,743 --> 01:24:12,179 ALAN: They're no different to bankers. 1873 01:24:12,212 --> 01:24:13,746 It's exactly the same transaction. 1874 01:24:13,781 --> 01:24:15,181 Thank you. 1875 01:24:15,215 --> 01:24:18,252 But Alan, you're my best customer. 1876 01:24:18,285 --> 01:24:20,955 There we go. There we go, all right? 1877 01:24:20,987 --> 01:24:22,288 All right, well, look, 1878 01:24:22,322 --> 01:24:24,325 give me the money for that next time. 1879 01:24:24,358 --> 01:24:26,660 ALAN: They just have a better product. 1880 01:24:26,693 --> 01:24:28,062 Oh, shit. 1881 01:24:28,095 --> 01:24:29,830 (DOOR CREAKS) 1882 01:24:29,863 --> 01:24:30,964 That's Alan's dealer. 1883 01:24:30,997 --> 01:24:33,968 He's not in the kitchen, is he? 1884 01:24:34,001 --> 01:24:35,003 Where is he? 1885 01:24:39,072 --> 01:24:40,941 That was my dealer just round, eh? 1886 01:24:42,475 --> 01:24:44,411 Flushed it down the pan. 1887 01:24:44,444 --> 01:24:46,279 At least your ones were over the counter. 1888 01:24:46,313 --> 01:24:47,413 (WOMAN SCOFFS) 1889 01:24:47,447 --> 01:24:50,218 (LAUGHS) Well, it's not important 1890 01:24:50,251 --> 01:24:54,255 what type of crutches we all use. 1891 01:24:54,287 --> 01:24:56,322 See, what's important is getting to the root of 1892 01:24:56,357 --> 01:24:59,460 why we needed those crutches in the first place. 1893 01:24:59,492 --> 01:25:01,861 TONY BLAIR ON TV: Education, education and education. 1894 01:25:01,895 --> 01:25:06,166 Susan's gone to meet a doctor. He's got a clinic. 1895 01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,501 ALAN: Crutches? 1896 01:25:07,533 --> 01:25:10,136 Oasis were becoming the biggest band on the planet, 1897 01:25:10,170 --> 01:25:13,674 and here I was, a shivering mess. 1898 01:25:13,706 --> 01:25:15,408 It's like I was throwing the best party in the world, 1899 01:25:15,442 --> 01:25:16,777 but got shit-faced the night before, 1900 01:25:16,809 --> 01:25:18,478 and was too hungover to join in. 1901 01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:21,247 Was I the ghost at the feast, 1902 01:25:21,281 --> 01:25:22,783 the mythical creator of this world, 1903 01:25:22,817 --> 01:25:26,053 hosting this party in my absence? 1904 01:25:26,086 --> 01:25:28,555 Truth is, no one gave a fuck. 1905 01:25:28,589 --> 01:25:31,459 The party just rolled on, whether I was there or not. 1906 01:25:33,126 --> 01:25:35,362 What the fuck? 1907 01:25:35,395 --> 01:25:37,764 I replaced it with cold tea. 1908 01:25:37,799 --> 01:25:39,433 You're a man. 1909 01:25:39,465 --> 01:25:41,736 It's up to you what you do with your life, son. 1910 01:25:44,470 --> 01:25:48,007 I don't want this to come across the wrong way, but... 1911 01:25:48,041 --> 01:25:49,408 Oh, go on. 1912 01:25:49,443 --> 01:25:54,614 Bottom line is, it was fun. 1913 01:25:58,352 --> 01:26:00,220 I was having a good time. 1914 01:26:00,254 --> 01:26:01,455 I could afford it. 1915 01:26:01,487 --> 01:26:03,456 The only person I was putting at risk was me. 1916 01:26:03,491 --> 01:26:04,859 If someone had said to me, 1917 01:26:04,892 --> 01:26:08,327 "Hey, Alan, all that shite is gonna fuck you up one day," 1918 01:26:08,362 --> 01:26:13,334 well, truth is, I still would have done it. 1919 01:26:13,367 --> 01:26:14,835 And you know something? 1920 01:26:14,867 --> 01:26:16,504 If I wasn't such a fucking lightweight, 1921 01:26:16,537 --> 01:26:18,872 I wouldn't be sitting here right now, 1922 01:26:18,906 --> 01:26:22,510 in this circle of whatever. I'd be out there, 1923 01:26:22,542 --> 01:26:25,845 be out there with my mates, right now. 1924 01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:27,447 If I had the constitution of some of the rock stars 1925 01:26:27,480 --> 01:26:28,782 I was looking after, 1926 01:26:28,815 --> 01:26:31,419 I'd still be out there, taking everything in sight. 1927 01:26:32,586 --> 01:26:33,587 Hey? 1928 01:26:38,524 --> 01:26:42,395 It was exceedingly dull. 1929 01:26:42,429 --> 01:26:44,864 It's just noise. Put it back. 1930 01:26:44,898 --> 01:26:49,368 (MIMICKING INSTRUMENTS) Music does not exist in science. 1931 01:26:49,403 --> 01:26:55,709 Why is it, some noise... (CONTINUES INDISTINCTLY) 1932 01:26:55,742 --> 01:26:57,278 See, what you call something 1933 01:26:57,310 --> 01:26:59,212 completely changes perceptions of it. 1934 01:26:59,246 --> 01:27:02,416 You say "nervous breakdown," people think "funny farm", 1935 01:27:02,450 --> 01:27:04,451 but you say rehab, now you're cool. 1936 01:27:04,483 --> 01:27:08,254 I've got millions riding on a bunch of noises 1937 01:27:08,287 --> 01:27:10,123 that it's impossible to even quantify. 1938 01:27:10,157 --> 01:27:13,093 It's enough to make anybody absolutely crackers. 1939 01:27:16,496 --> 01:27:18,498 You're an industry casualty. 1940 01:27:18,532 --> 01:27:22,269 It's like membership to the "Terminal Fame Club 1941 01:27:22,301 --> 01:27:24,171 "of Rock and Roll Fatality." 1942 01:27:27,006 --> 01:27:28,675 I can come back tomorrow, if you like? 1943 01:27:28,709 --> 01:27:30,510 No, I'm good, I'm good. 1944 01:27:31,478 --> 01:27:33,480 Everyone's asking about you. 1945 01:27:33,514 --> 01:27:36,517 Oh, yeah? What did you tell them? 1946 01:27:37,417 --> 01:27:38,685 That you're ill. 1947 01:27:40,121 --> 01:27:42,489 Just tell them the truth, Dick. 1948 01:27:42,522 --> 01:27:44,291 It's nothing to be ashamed of. 1949 01:27:44,323 --> 01:27:46,693 What, that you're in rehab? 1950 01:27:46,727 --> 01:27:48,162 Yeah. 1951 01:27:48,194 --> 01:27:49,764 It's pure rock and roll, isn't it? 1952 01:27:50,997 --> 01:27:52,332 Thank God for that. 1953 01:27:52,366 --> 01:27:55,135 I was running out of illnesses. You know, I told The Guardian 1954 01:27:55,169 --> 01:27:57,705 that you was having an operation to remove piles. 1955 01:27:57,737 --> 01:28:00,573 Fuck off, what did you tell them that for? 1956 01:28:00,608 --> 01:28:02,576 Well, I had it done. 1957 01:28:02,609 --> 01:28:03,777 Could you not think of something 1958 01:28:03,810 --> 01:28:07,547 a bit more sexy than piles? 1959 01:28:09,684 --> 01:28:10,918 Well, maybe we should tell them 1960 01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:13,721 that you're having plastic surgery on your penis. 1961 01:28:13,754 --> 01:28:16,390 Okay, tell the world I've got a tiny cock. 1962 01:28:16,422 --> 01:28:18,559 - How's that sexy? - No, no, no, no, no. 1963 01:28:18,591 --> 01:28:20,493 You're gonna have a penis reduction. 1964 01:28:20,527 --> 01:28:24,698 Christ, Dick, just stick to the rehab story. 1965 01:28:24,732 --> 01:28:27,835 Keep my cock out of the press. 1966 01:28:27,867 --> 01:28:28,935 Okay. 1967 01:28:32,206 --> 01:28:33,172 This came for you as well, 1968 01:28:33,206 --> 01:28:35,776 It's, um... It's addressed to you personally. 1969 01:28:39,212 --> 01:28:40,247 ALAN: New Labour? 1970 01:28:43,050 --> 01:28:46,620 But, it did get me off the rollercoaster for a while. 1971 01:28:46,653 --> 01:28:48,488 As soon as I got out though, 1972 01:28:48,522 --> 01:28:50,291 I knew I needed to reconnect. 1973 01:28:51,724 --> 01:28:53,560 I started going to see my bands again. 1974 01:28:53,594 --> 01:28:55,529 It felt strange watching them straight. 1975 01:28:55,562 --> 01:28:57,230 (MUSIC PLAYING) 1976 01:28:58,631 --> 01:28:59,799 I was still the same Alan. 1977 01:28:59,832 --> 01:29:01,434 Only now I was seeing things 1978 01:29:01,468 --> 01:29:03,603 that I would remember the next day, 1979 01:29:03,636 --> 01:29:04,670 and most of it... 1980 01:29:04,703 --> 01:29:06,572 Till the day you fucking die. 1981 01:29:06,605 --> 01:29:08,474 ...wasn't worth remembering. 1982 01:29:08,509 --> 01:29:09,676 Just gotta get in your own world, man, 1983 01:29:09,710 --> 01:29:11,011 you know what I mean, like, sort it out. 1984 01:29:11,044 --> 01:29:12,380 Everyone gets told they're worthless, 1985 01:29:12,412 --> 01:29:13,479 you know what I mean, 1986 01:29:13,514 --> 01:29:14,614 like, you've gotta prove it, ain't you? 1987 01:29:14,648 --> 01:29:16,382 Maybe one day they'll sit up and listen. 1988 01:29:16,416 --> 01:29:17,618 As you were, Alan. 1989 01:29:18,586 --> 01:29:20,687 What's he like, eh? 1990 01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:21,821 And I'd lost Joe. 1991 01:29:21,854 --> 01:29:23,689 Creation was becoming too corporate 1992 01:29:23,723 --> 01:29:25,792 for our in-house anarchist. 1993 01:29:26,493 --> 01:29:27,594 I think this is as much as 1994 01:29:27,627 --> 01:29:29,362 Dick could squeeze out, you know. 1995 01:29:29,395 --> 01:29:30,831 I'm sure it's a fortune. 1996 01:29:31,998 --> 01:29:33,466 Please stay. 1997 01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:35,703 Nah, not for me. 1998 01:29:37,337 --> 01:29:42,108 Bloody rock and roll. All them corporate tosspots. 1999 01:29:45,612 --> 01:29:46,846 Been a blast, though. 2000 01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:47,882 Yeah. 2001 01:29:51,484 --> 01:29:52,920 (SINGING) ♪ Here they come 2002 01:29:54,587 --> 01:29:55,956 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 2003 01:29:55,988 --> 01:29:57,558 Come on! 2004 01:29:57,590 --> 01:30:01,727 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la The part time punks 2005 01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:04,931 ♪ The part time punks Here they come! 2006 01:30:06,433 --> 01:30:09,069 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la 2007 01:30:09,103 --> 01:30:13,474 ♪ La-la-la-la-la-la The part time punks ♪ 2008 01:30:13,506 --> 01:30:14,640 ALAN: And there he went, 2009 01:30:14,675 --> 01:30:16,576 the world's wealthiest anarchist. 2010 01:30:16,609 --> 01:30:19,412 And in true unconventional style, 2011 01:30:19,446 --> 01:30:21,015 went on to marry a midget. 2012 01:30:21,047 --> 01:30:22,248 You know what, Ed? 2013 01:30:23,617 --> 01:30:29,322 I just realized I don't know any of these people. 2014 01:30:31,625 --> 01:30:32,993 You resented Sony. 2015 01:30:33,894 --> 01:30:36,196 No, it wasn't resentment, it was more 2016 01:30:36,229 --> 01:30:39,332 I'd given my favorite toy to the big boys. 2017 01:30:40,533 --> 01:30:42,737 Now I had nothing left to play with. 2018 01:30:42,769 --> 01:30:45,872 So, is that when you started getting into politics? 2019 01:30:45,906 --> 01:30:50,176 Well, they do say politics is rock and roll for the ugly. 2020 01:30:50,210 --> 01:30:52,712 I started hooking up with Malcolm McLaren. 2021 01:30:52,746 --> 01:30:54,681 Sex Pistols were my favorite band, 2022 01:30:54,715 --> 01:30:56,283 and I was in awe of him. 2023 01:30:56,315 --> 01:31:00,687 Ennui's a killer, Alan. Everything I've done, 2024 01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,857 the shop, the clothes, the Sex Pistols, 2025 01:31:03,889 --> 01:31:06,625 the opera, the hip-hop, the art, 2026 01:31:06,660 --> 01:31:10,697 was all a reaction against boredom. 2027 01:31:10,730 --> 01:31:12,898 Since man learned to harness fire, 2028 01:31:12,933 --> 01:31:15,669 and build shelter and clothe and feed himself, 2029 01:31:15,702 --> 01:31:18,338 boredom reared its ugly head. 2030 01:31:18,371 --> 01:31:24,979 All creativity, all culture is a reaction against boredom. 2031 01:31:26,679 --> 01:31:30,383 You've done hedonism, 2032 01:31:30,416 --> 01:31:32,718 and you need to find something to stop you from falling 2033 01:31:32,752 --> 01:31:35,422 into that claustrophobic comfort. 2034 01:31:36,956 --> 01:31:43,729 We are alchemists of magical stuff. 2035 01:31:43,764 --> 01:31:49,769 We take boredom, and we weave it into a spectrum. 2036 01:31:49,803 --> 01:31:53,741 A gift that often bestows. 2037 01:31:53,773 --> 01:31:58,478 We are masters of other people's destiny. 2038 01:32:04,751 --> 01:32:06,854 You've always voted Labour, right? 2039 01:32:06,886 --> 01:32:08,354 Mom always voted Labour. 2040 01:32:08,389 --> 01:32:10,090 What do you think about this Tony Blair dude? 2041 01:32:10,122 --> 01:32:13,560 I think he's giving them a real chance of winning the election. 2042 01:32:13,594 --> 01:32:14,995 Did Noel agree with you? 2043 01:32:15,028 --> 01:32:17,663 (CHUCKLES) Noel's like me. 2044 01:32:17,697 --> 01:32:18,864 Good on him. 2045 01:32:18,898 --> 01:32:22,469 Listen, we can help. They fucking love us. 2046 01:32:22,501 --> 01:32:23,769 They want us to get involved. 2047 01:32:23,803 --> 01:32:25,005 You can't tell him what to do. 2048 01:32:25,037 --> 01:32:27,540 British music brought £8 billion into the... 2049 01:32:27,573 --> 01:32:28,975 But you can lay out the facts 2050 01:32:29,009 --> 01:32:31,745 and trust that he'll do exactly what you want him to do. 2051 01:32:31,778 --> 01:32:33,913 We represent all this cool Britannia bollocks. 2052 01:32:33,947 --> 01:32:35,681 They still didn't win the election. 2053 01:32:35,715 --> 01:32:36,850 But they will, this time. 2054 01:32:36,882 --> 01:32:38,618 It's fucking obvious it's the right idea. 2055 01:32:38,652 --> 01:32:40,854 PRESENTER: And the winner is Oasis! 2056 01:32:40,888 --> 01:32:43,823 (CROWD CHEERING) 2057 01:32:49,595 --> 01:32:52,933 Politics isn't that much different from entertainment. 2058 01:32:52,965 --> 01:32:55,870 Seven people in this room tonight 2059 01:32:55,903 --> 01:32:58,271 will give a little bit of hope to young in this country. 2060 01:32:58,304 --> 01:33:02,810 That's me, our kid, Bonehead, Guigsy, 2061 01:33:02,843 --> 01:33:06,013 Alan White, Alan McGee, and Tony Blair. 2062 01:33:06,045 --> 01:33:07,647 And if you've all got anything about you, 2063 01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:09,915 you'll get up there and shake Tony Blair's hand, man. 2064 01:33:09,948 --> 01:33:11,750 Why, because it's like, uh... 2065 01:33:11,785 --> 01:33:14,054 It's like selling an idea, right? 2066 01:33:14,086 --> 01:33:15,589 Correct. 2067 01:33:15,621 --> 01:33:18,057 Packaging and selling. 2068 01:33:26,899 --> 01:33:29,435 Ah, Alastair Campbell, Communications Director. 2069 01:33:29,469 --> 01:33:33,474 We spoke on the phone. And you are Alan McGee. 2070 01:33:34,675 --> 01:33:35,809 Where's Tony? 2071 01:33:35,843 --> 01:33:37,577 Oh, Tony can't be with us, I'm afraid. 2072 01:33:37,609 --> 01:33:38,644 Have you met Peter Mandelson? 2073 01:33:38,679 --> 01:33:40,380 - Mandy! - Mmm-hmm. 2074 01:33:40,413 --> 01:33:42,248 We've got Peter to thank for the modernization 2075 01:33:42,282 --> 01:33:43,582 of the Labour Party. 2076 01:33:43,616 --> 01:33:46,020 The man is a political genius. 2077 01:33:46,819 --> 01:33:47,888 Peter, Alan McGee. 2078 01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,523 Oh, super. Man of the hour. 2079 01:33:50,556 --> 01:33:52,059 Ah! Dying to meet you, Alan. 2080 01:33:52,091 --> 01:33:54,960 Can't tell you how much we appreciate your help. 2081 01:33:54,995 --> 01:33:57,464 (REPORTERS SHOUTING) 2082 01:33:57,496 --> 01:33:58,831 Do you really think that it's a good idea 2083 01:33:58,864 --> 01:34:01,533 for pop stars to get involved in politics? 2084 01:34:01,568 --> 01:34:04,571 Do you think you can influence the future Labour government? 2085 01:34:04,604 --> 01:34:06,607 What's in it for you, McGee? 2086 01:34:06,639 --> 01:34:10,810 Well, we're all big fans of The Oasis, and The Blur. 2087 01:34:10,844 --> 01:34:12,679 Blur aren't one of my bands. 2088 01:34:12,711 --> 01:34:14,214 It's all Britpop, isn't it? 2089 01:34:15,648 --> 01:34:17,116 Spice Girls? 2090 01:34:17,151 --> 01:34:18,586 No. 2091 01:34:18,618 --> 01:34:20,152 - MAN: Silly. - (CHUCKLES) Thank you. 2092 01:34:20,187 --> 01:34:21,054 Sweet boy, 2093 01:34:21,086 --> 01:34:23,756 saving me once again from humiliation. 2094 01:34:23,790 --> 01:34:25,091 Nothing in it for me. 2095 01:34:25,125 --> 01:34:26,926 I pay something called income tax on my earnings. 2096 01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:28,028 They're supposed to be spent 2097 01:34:28,062 --> 01:34:29,962 helping people less fortunate than me. 2098 01:34:29,996 --> 01:34:31,931 I just want to see others given a chance. 2099 01:34:31,965 --> 01:34:33,967 Not what I was expecting at all. 2100 01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,903 - I'm sure. - I can't imagine any of this lot 2101 01:34:35,935 --> 01:34:38,272 on a picket line or a demonstration. 2102 01:34:40,806 --> 01:34:42,975 New Labour. 2103 01:34:43,010 --> 01:34:44,211 Modernization. 2104 01:34:44,243 --> 01:34:45,711 Can you understand why some people might think 2105 01:34:45,746 --> 01:34:47,814 that this is a publicity stunt? 2106 01:34:47,846 --> 01:34:49,049 Some sort of hype? 2107 01:34:49,081 --> 01:34:51,084 Creation Records doesn't need any hype. 2108 01:34:51,117 --> 01:34:53,786 We look after the biggest band on the planet. 2109 01:34:53,819 --> 01:34:55,956 Alastair is going to want to talk to you 2110 01:34:55,988 --> 01:34:58,123 about the campaign song. 2111 01:34:58,157 --> 01:35:00,360 We're expecting great things. 2112 01:35:00,393 --> 01:35:01,928 FEMALE REPORTER: Does this mean that you might possibly stand 2113 01:35:01,961 --> 01:35:03,597 for election yourself one day? 2114 01:35:03,630 --> 01:35:04,931 - Me? - I think Alan... 2115 01:35:04,965 --> 01:35:06,366 Are you taking the fucking piss? 2116 01:35:06,399 --> 01:35:07,934 (ALL LAUGHING) 2117 01:35:07,968 --> 01:35:09,803 That's all the questions we're going to answer right now. 2118 01:35:09,836 --> 01:35:10,938 Alan's a very busy man. 2119 01:35:10,970 --> 01:35:14,007 (REPORTERS CLAMORING) 2120 01:35:14,041 --> 01:35:16,944 I genuinely believed in Tony Blair. 2121 01:35:16,977 --> 01:35:19,412 He was a man that wanted to progress the party 2122 01:35:19,446 --> 01:35:21,915 without scaring away the working classes. 2123 01:35:21,948 --> 01:35:23,517 ♪ In a different life 2124 01:35:23,550 --> 01:35:25,819 ♪ In a different light than I did before 2125 01:35:25,853 --> 01:35:28,121 ♪ And I've found the cause ♪ 2126 01:35:28,153 --> 01:35:30,189 That's the campaign song he chose. 2127 01:35:30,223 --> 01:35:31,292 Mmm-hmm. 2128 01:35:31,325 --> 01:35:33,326 It's house music for people who hate house music. 2129 01:35:33,359 --> 01:35:35,862 Well, somebody in Peter's team suggested 2130 01:35:35,894 --> 01:35:39,598 that maybe Oasis could do a cover of it 2131 01:35:39,631 --> 01:35:41,033 for the campaign theme. 2132 01:35:41,067 --> 01:35:42,903 ♪ Things can only get better 2133 01:35:42,935 --> 01:35:44,904 Let's face it, that's shite. 2134 01:35:44,938 --> 01:35:48,942 ♪ Can only get better now I found you 2135 01:35:48,974 --> 01:35:52,278 ♪ Can only get better ♪ 2136 01:35:54,047 --> 01:35:59,819 Under a Labour government, things can only get better. 2137 01:35:59,853 --> 01:36:04,090 ♪ Things can only get better 2138 01:36:04,122 --> 01:36:10,029 ♪ Can only get better now I found you 2139 01:36:10,063 --> 01:36:13,065 ♪ Things can only get Can only get 2140 01:36:13,099 --> 01:36:14,767 (PEOPLE CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY) 2141 01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:16,669 ALAN: We helped them win. 2142 01:36:16,702 --> 01:36:20,973 We were invited to the podium. Everybody saw us on TV. 2143 01:36:21,006 --> 01:36:22,675 It was all part of the circus. 2144 01:36:25,979 --> 01:36:29,783 But then came the invite to Chequers. 2145 01:36:29,817 --> 01:36:31,318 The very private country residence 2146 01:36:31,350 --> 01:36:33,652 of the incumbent prime minister. 2147 01:36:33,687 --> 01:36:35,688 Hello, hello. 2148 01:36:35,721 --> 01:36:37,056 ALAN: To walk in the footsteps 2149 01:36:37,090 --> 01:36:38,925 of leaders and kings 2150 01:36:38,959 --> 01:36:41,528 like Churchill, Eisenhower, Gorbachev. 2151 01:36:41,562 --> 01:36:43,997 Did you know Tony used to be in a band? 2152 01:36:44,029 --> 01:36:45,465 Yes, I heard about that. 2153 01:36:45,498 --> 01:36:47,768 Great thinkers and world leaders discussed 2154 01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:51,404 means of peace and laws for the betterment of mankind. 2155 01:36:52,206 --> 01:36:54,675 Now, Kate, come and let me show you 2156 01:36:54,707 --> 01:36:56,376 around our little pad. 2157 01:36:56,410 --> 01:36:58,077 You'll love it. 2158 01:36:58,111 --> 01:36:59,246 See you boys later. 2159 01:36:59,278 --> 01:37:01,013 ALAN: A wee ginger tool from Glasgow... 2160 01:37:01,046 --> 01:37:02,248 What a place you've got here, Tony. 2161 01:37:02,282 --> 01:37:04,017 Oh, it's a bit ostentatious for my taste, 2162 01:37:04,050 --> 01:37:05,352 but, yes, I suppose it is magnificent. 2163 01:37:05,385 --> 01:37:06,887 ALAN: ...in the court of kings. 2164 01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:08,489 We need to get started on this new deal 2165 01:37:08,522 --> 01:37:11,658 for unemployed musicians as soon as possible, please. 2166 01:37:11,690 --> 01:37:14,461 Right, yes, uh, Chris Smith's your man. He's not here. 2167 01:37:14,493 --> 01:37:16,295 JIMMY: Now then, now then, now then! 2168 01:37:16,328 --> 01:37:17,429 Ha-ha-ha. 2169 01:37:17,464 --> 01:37:18,430 TONY: Sir Jimmy. 2170 01:37:18,465 --> 01:37:20,767 JIMMY: Anthony, Anthony, Anthony, my dear boy. 2171 01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:21,835 TONY: Ah! 2172 01:37:21,867 --> 01:37:23,803 JIMMY: Oh! (CHUCKLES) 2173 01:37:24,837 --> 01:37:26,139 Oh, have you met Alan McGee? 2174 01:37:26,171 --> 01:37:28,174 JIMMY: I do not believe he has had the pleasure. 2175 01:37:28,207 --> 01:37:30,176 ALAN: Jimmy Saville. 2176 01:37:30,943 --> 01:37:32,044 All right? 2177 01:37:32,077 --> 01:37:35,313 Um, Mr. Britpop, I presume. 2178 01:37:35,348 --> 01:37:36,917 ALAN: Everyone in music knew. 2179 01:37:36,950 --> 01:37:38,385 Malcolm told me. 2180 01:37:38,417 --> 01:37:40,118 Johnny Rotten even said it on the BBC in the '70s. 2181 01:37:40,153 --> 01:37:41,888 JIMMY: Sir James... 2182 01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:43,155 ALAN: It's hard to believe 2183 01:37:43,189 --> 01:37:45,991 all these royals and politicians didn't know. 2184 01:37:46,026 --> 01:37:47,059 (LAUGHING) 2185 01:37:47,093 --> 01:37:48,294 - Excuse me. - JIMMY: Eh? 2186 01:37:48,327 --> 01:37:49,962 Oh, yes, the little girl's room 2187 01:37:49,996 --> 01:37:52,065 is just across the hall, young lady. 2188 01:37:52,098 --> 01:37:53,433 You'll get used to the lie of the land, 2189 01:37:53,466 --> 01:37:55,768 over the course of the weekend. 2190 01:37:55,803 --> 01:37:59,104 CHERIE BLAIR: Tony's band was called Ugly Rumour. 2191 01:37:59,138 --> 01:38:00,541 TONY BLAIR: That's right. 2192 01:38:01,107 --> 01:38:02,542 ALAN: Jimmy Savile, 2193 01:38:02,576 --> 01:38:06,746 one of the most prolific child rapists in history. 2194 01:38:06,779 --> 01:38:08,849 Did you see the way Blair was sucking up to him? 2195 01:38:08,881 --> 01:38:10,817 Oh, he makes my skin crawl. 2196 01:38:10,849 --> 01:38:12,084 You don't understand, 2197 01:38:12,117 --> 01:38:14,787 that beast is the sickest cunt in show business. 2198 01:38:15,921 --> 01:38:17,491 What have we done? 2199 01:38:20,126 --> 01:38:22,462 Try the chamomile tea. It's out of this world. 2200 01:38:22,496 --> 01:38:25,331 See, this decade, it started with a bang, 2201 01:38:25,363 --> 01:38:29,201 and ended with an explosion. 2202 01:38:29,234 --> 01:38:31,002 What we wrestled out of the hands 2203 01:38:31,037 --> 01:38:33,607 of the dullest cunts on earth 2204 01:38:33,639 --> 01:38:36,809 got taken back, and they weren't losing it again. 2205 01:38:39,245 --> 01:38:43,849 Corporate disguised itself as hipster, 2206 01:38:43,882 --> 01:38:46,886 and indie just disappeared. 2207 01:38:48,321 --> 01:38:51,056 They were gonna do whatever they wanted, 2208 01:38:51,090 --> 01:38:54,227 no matter what the people thought. 2209 01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:55,629 GEMMA ON RECORDING: My next guest on the couch 2210 01:38:55,662 --> 01:38:58,331 is music industry guru, kingpin, 2211 01:38:58,364 --> 01:39:00,634 and former head of Creation Records, 2212 01:39:00,666 --> 01:39:02,736 who brought us the likes of Primal Scream, 2213 01:39:02,769 --> 01:39:06,806 Jesus and Mary Chain, and, of course, Oasis. 2214 01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:08,742 He's political, 2215 01:39:08,774 --> 01:39:12,612 occasionally controversial, and he's a great friend. 2216 01:39:12,644 --> 01:39:16,182 He is, of course, Mr. Alan McGee. 2217 01:39:16,215 --> 01:39:18,151 And roll VT. 2218 01:39:18,184 --> 01:39:19,419 ALAN: Beaming lights. 2219 01:39:19,452 --> 01:39:21,353 PRESENTER: Alan McGee, the man with a masterplan, 2220 01:39:21,388 --> 01:39:24,291 whose Creation Records went supersonic 2221 01:39:24,323 --> 01:39:28,960 by taking him from Brit Rail employee to Britpop president. 2222 01:39:28,995 --> 01:39:30,196 But some might say he went from 2223 01:39:30,229 --> 01:39:32,397 rolling with it to rolling in it, 2224 01:39:32,431 --> 01:39:36,036 by selling his shares little by little to Sony 2225 01:39:36,068 --> 01:39:37,669 before collapsing the label. 2226 01:39:37,703 --> 01:39:40,105 - Did he slide away? - Whoa, wait a minute, whoa. 2227 01:39:40,139 --> 01:39:41,206 Is this a stitch-up? 2228 01:39:41,241 --> 01:39:42,408 PRESENTER: Leaving the bands all around 2229 01:39:42,442 --> 01:39:43,676 - the world without contracts. - What is that? 2230 01:39:43,710 --> 01:39:45,310 - No. - What is your first question? 2231 01:39:45,345 --> 01:39:47,247 PRESENTER: One thing's for sure. 2232 01:39:47,281 --> 01:39:50,317 Creation Records didn't live forever, know what I mean? 2233 01:39:50,349 --> 01:39:52,785 Stop that racket. 2234 01:39:52,818 --> 01:39:56,022 You can edit it in afterwards. What's your first question? 2235 01:39:56,054 --> 01:39:58,924 Uh, what happened with Creation? 2236 01:39:58,957 --> 01:40:00,359 Why did you shut it down? 2237 01:40:05,598 --> 01:40:07,100 It was mine. 2238 01:40:07,132 --> 01:40:09,102 I made it. I folded it. 2239 01:40:09,135 --> 01:40:10,236 No one got hurt. 2240 01:40:10,269 --> 01:40:12,871 Most of the bands got re-signed to Sony. 2241 01:40:12,904 --> 01:40:14,741 We didn't need Creation anymore. 2242 01:40:14,773 --> 01:40:16,975 Yeah, but why kill it? 2243 01:40:17,010 --> 01:40:18,812 It doesn't make any sense. 2244 01:40:18,845 --> 01:40:19,913 Why not? 2245 01:40:19,946 --> 01:40:23,116 Look, I built the biggest independent record company 2246 01:40:23,148 --> 01:40:24,783 out of nothing. 2247 01:40:24,817 --> 01:40:28,020 I discovered and signed the world's biggest act, 2248 01:40:28,054 --> 01:40:31,190 and reignited a record industry I was told was dying. 2249 01:40:31,224 --> 01:40:35,362 CD sales went up 800% between '89 and '99 2250 01:40:35,394 --> 01:40:36,495 with me on the charts. 2251 01:40:36,528 --> 01:40:38,931 And overseas sales made the UK more money 2252 01:40:38,965 --> 01:40:40,033 than the motor industry. 2253 01:40:40,065 --> 01:40:42,602 My bands did that, and everyone else, 2254 01:40:42,635 --> 01:40:45,705 Pulp, Blur, Radiohead, benefitted. 2255 01:40:45,737 --> 01:40:49,875 I got a whole country into E's and dance music. 2256 01:40:49,910 --> 01:40:52,745 And then I got them into coke and rock and roll. 2257 01:40:52,778 --> 01:40:55,247 And once I'd done that, I got political, 2258 01:40:55,282 --> 01:40:57,217 and went and put some of the biggest cunts 2259 01:40:57,250 --> 01:40:59,185 on God's green earth into government. 2260 01:40:59,218 --> 01:41:01,321 Mandy Mandelson, what a tool. 2261 01:41:01,354 --> 01:41:02,689 (WHISPERS) He said cunt. 2262 01:41:02,723 --> 01:41:04,857 Tony Blair, they made out they cared about social justice, 2263 01:41:04,890 --> 01:41:08,126 when all they cared about was keeping hold of power 2264 01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:10,296 and lining their own pockets. 2265 01:41:10,330 --> 01:41:12,732 Who got them to make a new deal for the musicians? 2266 01:41:12,764 --> 01:41:13,665 I did. 2267 01:41:13,698 --> 01:41:15,568 Despite George Martin's objections. 2268 01:41:15,602 --> 01:41:18,237 That's government policy. I changed that. 2269 01:41:18,270 --> 01:41:21,108 Anyway, Blair had me ex-communicated, 2270 01:41:21,140 --> 01:41:23,910 because I tried to turn Malcolm McLaren 2271 01:41:23,943 --> 01:41:25,345 into Mayor of London. 2272 01:41:25,379 --> 01:41:26,746 Ex-communicated! 2273 01:41:26,779 --> 01:41:28,547 Who does he think he is, the bastard Pope? 2274 01:41:28,581 --> 01:41:30,450 See, you give them a little bit of power, 2275 01:41:30,483 --> 01:41:32,819 they lose all touch with reality. 2276 01:41:32,853 --> 01:41:34,319 Christ, look at me! 2277 01:41:34,354 --> 01:41:36,422 I lost it when I got a bit of power 2278 01:41:36,455 --> 01:41:37,991 running a record label. 2279 01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:43,663 I know how those fuckers think. 2280 01:41:44,296 --> 01:41:45,498 Look, Gemma, 2281 01:41:48,068 --> 01:41:53,707 there is magic in this world. 2282 01:41:55,442 --> 01:42:00,913 - ♪ Hold on - Some people are alchemists. 2283 01:42:02,247 --> 01:42:03,982 - ♪ Hold on - It chooses you. 2284 01:42:04,017 --> 01:42:07,854 You become able to make things happen because of it. 2285 01:42:07,886 --> 01:42:13,259 - Able to manifest destiny. - ♪ Don't be scared 2286 01:42:13,292 --> 01:42:16,228 - ♪ You'll never change... - You see, if I'd fallen off 2287 01:42:16,261 --> 01:42:18,464 of that ladder when I was a kid, 2288 01:42:18,497 --> 01:42:22,000 this world wouldn't be the same. 2289 01:42:22,035 --> 01:42:24,871 Everyone I touched, 2290 01:42:24,903 --> 01:42:27,473 - everyone I worked with... - ♪ May your smile 2291 01:42:27,506 --> 01:42:29,308 ♪ Shine on 2292 01:42:29,341 --> 01:42:31,310 ...gone on, been a success. 2293 01:42:31,344 --> 01:42:33,379 ♪ Shine on 2294 01:42:33,412 --> 01:42:34,513 Even you, Gem. 2295 01:42:34,546 --> 01:42:36,148 ♪ Don't be scared 2296 01:42:36,183 --> 01:42:37,250 Made millions. 2297 01:42:37,282 --> 01:42:38,384 ♪ Don't be scared 2298 01:42:38,417 --> 01:42:40,487 - It's a Midas touch. - ♪ Your destiny 2299 01:42:40,519 --> 01:42:44,323 ♪ May keep you warm ♪ - Excuse me if I'm wary 2300 01:42:44,357 --> 01:42:46,760 of what I apply my skills to next. 2301 01:42:59,438 --> 01:43:00,605 That's a lot to take on board 2302 01:43:00,639 --> 01:43:02,642 for someone that hasn't been in your shoes. 2303 01:43:05,444 --> 01:43:07,346 But why don't you try and change 2304 01:43:07,380 --> 01:43:09,315 the way that you fit into your environment, 2305 01:43:09,348 --> 01:43:12,519 rather than try and change your environment? 2306 01:43:15,255 --> 01:43:19,592 I mean, friends, family. Build a bridge. 2307 01:43:19,625 --> 01:43:22,696 Don't try and change the course of the river. 2308 01:43:27,466 --> 01:43:29,402 Hmm. (SCOFFS) 2309 01:43:30,871 --> 01:43:34,207 Yeah, you're right. 2310 01:43:34,239 --> 01:43:36,509 Listen, everybody, sorry about that. 2311 01:43:36,542 --> 01:43:38,944 (SCOFFS) I'm a tool. 2312 01:43:38,978 --> 01:43:40,614 Scrap that shite. 2313 01:43:41,980 --> 01:43:44,416 Let's... Let's go again from the beginning. 2314 01:43:44,450 --> 01:43:46,352 - Huh? - Really? 2315 01:43:46,385 --> 01:43:48,319 Roll VT. Did I say that right? 2316 01:43:48,354 --> 01:43:49,956 - PRODUCER: Roll VT. - Right. 2317 01:43:49,988 --> 01:43:55,026 My guest on the couch is music industry guru, 2318 01:43:55,060 --> 01:43:58,430 kingpin, and former head of Creation Records... 2319 01:43:58,464 --> 01:44:00,399 ALAN: See, I don't really believe 2320 01:44:00,433 --> 01:44:03,336 it's about bridges or rivers. 2321 01:44:03,368 --> 01:44:05,938 It took me a long time to realize. 2322 01:44:05,971 --> 01:44:08,174 I see that thing you push against... 2323 01:44:08,207 --> 01:44:11,044 Dad! Dad! Dad! 2324 01:44:11,077 --> 01:44:15,614 ...that's the same thing that's pushing you forward. 2325 01:44:15,648 --> 01:44:21,520 And it can sometimes be the wall that's propping you up. 2326 01:44:21,554 --> 01:44:23,590 (SINGING OFF-KEY) ♪ There are many things that 2327 01:44:23,622 --> 01:44:26,558 ♪ I would like to say to you 2328 01:44:26,593 --> 01:44:29,729 ♪ But I don't know how 2329 01:44:31,596 --> 01:44:35,100 ♪ I said maybe 2330 01:44:35,134 --> 01:44:40,573 ♪ You're gonna be the one that saves me 2331 01:44:40,605 --> 01:44:46,411 ♪ And after all 2332 01:44:46,446 --> 01:44:51,151 ♪ You're my wonderwall 2333 01:44:53,519 --> 01:44:57,556 ♪ I said maybe 2334 01:44:57,590 --> 01:44:58,925 ♪ You're gonna be the one that saves me 2335 01:44:58,957 --> 01:45:01,059 ALAN: So be a punk, be a poet, 2336 01:45:01,093 --> 01:45:07,567 be political, be posh, be proud, or be poor. 2337 01:45:07,599 --> 01:45:10,803 But be a rebel always. 2338 01:45:12,537 --> 01:45:15,540 Because there's always something to rebel for. 2339 01:45:15,573 --> 01:45:19,545 ♪ I said maybe 2340 01:45:19,578 --> 01:45:24,683 ♪ You're gonna be the one that saves me 2341 01:45:24,716 --> 01:45:30,121 ♪ You're gonna be the one that saves me 2342 01:45:30,156 --> 01:45:32,024 - ♪ You're gonna be the one - ALAN: Thank you, Glasgow. 2343 01:45:32,058 --> 01:45:33,059 Goodnight. 2344 01:45:33,091 --> 01:45:35,895 ♪ You're gonna be the one that saves me 2345 01:45:55,380 --> 01:45:56,615 ♪ Start 2346 01:45:56,649 --> 01:45:57,950 ♪ Breathe 2347 01:45:57,983 --> 01:45:59,317 ♪ Hitch 2348 01:45:59,352 --> 01:46:00,586 ♪ Begin 2349 01:46:00,620 --> 01:46:02,421 ♪ See 2350 01:46:02,455 --> 01:46:03,823 ♪ Dream 2351 01:46:03,857 --> 01:46:05,524 ♪ Come 2352 01:46:05,558 --> 01:46:06,591 ♪ Go 2353 01:46:06,626 --> 01:46:08,528 ♪ Appear 2354 01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:10,229 ♪ Disappear 2355 01:46:10,263 --> 01:46:11,596 ♪ Reappear 2356 01:46:11,630 --> 01:46:13,298 ♪ Remember the future 2357 01:46:13,332 --> 01:46:14,533 ♪ Predict the present 2358 01:46:14,567 --> 01:46:16,336 ♪ Guess when 2359 01:46:16,368 --> 01:46:17,636 ♪ Guess less 2360 01:46:17,670 --> 01:46:19,404 ♪ Guess more 2361 01:46:19,438 --> 01:46:20,806 ♪ Guest list 2362 01:46:20,839 --> 01:46:22,908 ♪ Rev, rev, rev, say yes 2363 01:46:22,943 --> 01:46:24,310 ♪ Observe 2364 01:46:24,343 --> 01:46:25,544 ♪ Understand 2365 01:46:25,577 --> 01:46:26,978 ♪ Look 2366 01:46:27,013 --> 01:46:28,681 ♪ Look 2367 01:46:28,715 --> 01:46:30,349 ♪ Lock snap 2368 01:46:30,381 --> 01:46:31,884 ♪ Hang photographs 2369 01:46:31,917 --> 01:46:33,318 ♪ Crawl 2370 01:46:33,353 --> 01:46:34,920 ♪ Crawl 2371 01:46:34,953 --> 01:46:36,522 ♪ Crawl 2372 01:46:36,555 --> 01:46:37,622 ♪ Rise 2373 01:46:37,657 --> 01:46:39,458 ♪ Cry 2374 01:46:39,492 --> 01:46:40,626 ♪ Stand 2375 01:46:40,660 --> 01:46:42,495 ♪ Step 2376 01:46:42,528 --> 01:46:43,996 ♪ Step fall 2377 01:46:44,029 --> 01:46:45,598 ♪ Cry 2378 01:46:45,631 --> 01:46:47,332 ♪ Laugh 2379 01:46:47,366 --> 01:46:48,701 ♪ Cry with laughter 2380 01:46:48,733 --> 01:46:50,435 ♪ Stand alone 2381 01:46:50,470 --> 01:46:51,904 ♪ Run 2382 01:46:51,938 --> 01:46:53,404 ♪ Speed 2383 01:46:53,438 --> 01:46:54,973 ♪ Race 2384 01:46:55,007 --> 01:46:56,509 ♪ Fall 2385 01:46:56,542 --> 01:46:58,277 ♪ Forget 2386 01:46:58,310 --> 01:46:59,577 ♪ Bleed 2387 01:46:59,612 --> 01:47:01,013 ♪ Read 2388 01:47:01,046 --> 01:47:02,580 ♪ Heal 2389 01:47:02,614 --> 01:47:04,349 ♪ Need 2390 01:47:04,384 --> 01:47:05,584 ♪ Imagine 2391 01:47:05,617 --> 01:47:07,452 ♪ Help 2392 01:47:07,486 --> 01:47:09,889 ♪ Go tweezers under your scalp 2393 01:47:11,523 --> 01:47:12,959 ♪ Travel 2394 01:47:12,992 --> 01:47:14,692 ♪ Unravel 2395 01:47:14,727 --> 01:47:16,528 ♪ Eclipse your world 2396 01:47:16,563 --> 01:47:18,596 ♪ Collect 2397 01:47:18,630 --> 01:47:20,031 ♪ Reflect 2398 01:47:20,065 --> 01:47:21,701 ♪ Expect 2399 01:47:21,734 --> 01:47:23,301 ♪ Release 2400 01:47:23,335 --> 01:47:24,670 ♪ Disconnect 2401 01:47:24,703 --> 01:47:26,371 ♪ Perfect 2402 01:47:26,406 --> 01:47:27,640 ♪ Play 2403 01:47:27,674 --> 01:47:29,375 ♪ Speak 2404 01:47:29,408 --> 01:47:30,942 ♪ Sting 2405 01:47:30,977 --> 01:47:32,310 ♪ Bleed 2406 01:47:32,345 --> 01:47:33,646 ♪ Tell 2407 01:47:33,679 --> 01:47:35,513 ♪ Smash 2408 01:47:35,547 --> 01:47:36,715 ♪ Break 2409 01:47:36,750 --> 01:47:38,517 ♪ Admire 2410 01:47:38,550 --> 01:47:40,085 ♪ Regret 2411 01:47:40,118 --> 01:47:41,787 ♪ Romanticize 2412 01:47:41,821 --> 01:47:43,390 ♪ Criticize 2413 01:47:43,422 --> 01:47:44,690 ♪ Fantasize 2414 01:47:44,724 --> 01:47:46,559 ♪ Proofify 2415 01:47:46,591 --> 01:47:47,826 ♪ Watch pigs fly by 2416 01:47:47,859 --> 01:47:49,496 ♪ Wonder why 2417 01:47:49,528 --> 01:47:51,330 ♪ Ha-ha, they try 2418 01:47:51,362 --> 01:47:52,563 ♪ Propel high 2419 01:47:52,598 --> 01:47:53,666 ♪ Plane 2420 01:47:53,698 --> 01:47:55,701 ♪ Enlighten 2421 01:47:55,734 --> 01:47:57,368 ♪ Feel threatened 2422 01:47:57,403 --> 01:47:58,704 ♪ Dance 2423 01:47:58,737 --> 01:47:59,938 ♪ Doubt 2424 01:48:02,041 --> 01:48:03,743 ♪ Dance 2425 01:48:03,777 --> 01:48:05,078 ♪ Enchant 2426 01:48:05,111 --> 01:48:06,746 ♪ Spread love 2427 01:48:06,778 --> 01:48:08,447 ♪ Speak above 2428 01:48:08,480 --> 01:48:09,748 ♪ Stand on a wave 2429 01:48:09,782 --> 01:48:11,951 ♪ Calculate quantum mechanics 2430 01:48:11,984 --> 01:48:13,117 ♪ Surf 2431 01:48:13,152 --> 01:48:14,487 ♪ Dance 2432 01:48:14,519 --> 01:48:16,022 ♪ Believe in trance 2433 01:48:16,055 --> 01:48:17,456 ♪ Escape 2434 01:48:17,489 --> 01:48:18,724 ♪ Make love 2435 01:48:18,757 --> 01:48:20,792 ♪ Not war 2436 01:48:20,826 --> 01:48:22,495 ♪ Stand up for 2437 01:48:22,528 --> 01:48:23,729 ♪ Fly a kite 2438 01:48:23,763 --> 01:48:25,497 ♪ And speak the light 2439 01:48:25,531 --> 01:48:26,799 ♪ Hold on tight 2440 01:48:26,831 --> 01:48:28,633 ♪ Never give up the fight 2441 01:48:28,667 --> 01:48:29,768 ♪ Trip 2442 01:48:29,801 --> 01:48:31,504 ♪ Be inappropriate 2443 01:48:31,537 --> 01:48:32,672 ♪ Stay there 2444 01:48:32,705 --> 01:48:34,540 ♪ Transmit 2445 01:48:34,573 --> 01:48:35,841 ♪ Commit 2446 01:48:35,875 --> 01:48:37,977 ♪ Be fully wrong 2447 01:48:38,010 --> 01:48:39,077 ♪ Rise 2448 01:48:39,112 --> 01:48:40,747 ♪ Brave 2449 01:48:40,779 --> 01:48:42,581 ♪ Keep the faith 2450 01:48:42,614 --> 01:48:43,849 ♪ Explain 2451 01:48:43,882 --> 01:48:45,684 ♪ Remain the same 2452 01:48:45,718 --> 01:48:47,153 ♪ Evolve again 2453 01:48:47,185 --> 01:48:48,822 ♪ Philosophize 2454 01:48:48,854 --> 01:48:50,455 ♪ Surprise 2455 01:48:50,488 --> 01:48:51,857 ♪ Teach me how 2456 01:48:51,890 --> 01:48:53,491 ♪ Know this 2457 01:48:53,526 --> 01:48:54,727 ♪ Radiate 2458 01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:56,262 ♪ Investigate 2459 01:48:56,295 --> 01:48:58,897 ♪ Single-handedly with God's help 2460 01:49:00,733 --> 01:49:01,801 ♪ Help her 2461 01:49:01,834 --> 01:49:03,702 ♪ Her help 2462 01:49:03,736 --> 01:49:04,871 ♪ Her trip 2463 01:49:04,903 --> 01:49:07,005 ♪ Her love 2464 01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:08,541 ♪ Hurt 2465 01:49:08,575 --> 01:49:09,774 ♪ Disturb 2466 01:49:09,809 --> 01:49:11,411 ♪ Operate 2467 01:49:11,443 --> 01:49:13,011 ♪ Don't do 2468 01:49:13,045 --> 01:49:14,445 ♪ Do 2469 01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:15,781 ♪ Don't 2470 01:49:15,814 --> 01:49:17,716 ♪ Accept 2471 01:49:17,750 --> 01:49:18,818 ♪ Struggle 2472 01:49:18,852 --> 01:49:20,653 ♪ Produce 2473 01:49:20,685 --> 01:49:22,520 ♪ Experiment 2474 01:49:22,554 --> 01:49:23,756 ♪ Break on through 2475 01:49:23,790 --> 01:49:25,190 ♪ All one 2476 01:49:25,224 --> 01:49:29,095 ♪ Give of love 2478 01:49:37,870 --> 01:49:41,073 (MUSIC FADES OUT)183043

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