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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:25,863 --> 00:00:29,784 (ethereal rock music) 4 00:00:29,784 --> 00:00:31,327 - [Marc] He came from the past, 5 00:00:33,412 --> 00:00:35,915 his frozen eyes had known our planet's childhood, 6 00:00:36,749 --> 00:00:39,085 his acts to his heart by leads of love. 7 00:00:40,044 --> 00:00:42,838 With one soulful wail a thousand mean ones were burned 8 00:00:44,715 --> 00:00:47,468 and in turn and jive on into my songs, 9 00:00:48,678 --> 00:00:50,346 for his name as Electric Warrior. 10 00:00:52,974 --> 00:00:56,727 (fire roaring and crackling) 11 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,483 (people chattering) 12 00:01:05,820 --> 00:01:09,824 - I went to this festival, it was in August '71, 13 00:01:09,824 --> 00:01:14,036 there's like a 175,000 people were attending. 14 00:01:14,036 --> 00:01:17,957 And in the afternoon, the compare, the MC, 15 00:01:17,957 --> 00:01:21,043 was kind of saying who was gonna come on later that night. 16 00:01:21,085 --> 00:01:23,045 We're gonna have "The Faces," 17 00:01:23,045 --> 00:01:25,798 and the whole audience just went, "yay!" 18 00:01:25,798 --> 00:01:27,842 You know, just "yay, The Faces!" 19 00:01:27,842 --> 00:01:32,388 And then we're gonna have "T-Rex" and the whole audience, 20 00:01:32,388 --> 00:01:36,309 175,000 people got up and booed. 21 00:01:37,476 --> 00:01:39,353 I've never heard that before. 22 00:01:40,771 --> 00:01:43,774 (lively rock music) 23 00:01:47,028 --> 00:01:49,030 ♪ Well, you're dirty and sweet ♪ 24 00:01:49,030 --> 00:01:53,534 ♪ Clad in black, don't look back and I love you ♪ 25 00:01:53,534 --> 00:01:58,539 ♪ You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah ♪ 26 00:01:58,581 --> 00:02:00,791 ♪ Well, you're slim and you're weak ♪ 27 00:02:00,791 --> 00:02:05,046 ♪ You've got the teeth of the hydra upon you ♪ 28 00:02:05,046 --> 00:02:10,051 ♪ You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl ♪ 29 00:02:10,509 --> 00:02:15,514 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 30 00:02:18,184 --> 00:02:22,521 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 31 00:02:25,399 --> 00:02:27,610 So this is this Sunday night. 32 00:02:27,610 --> 00:02:29,362 The Faces come on, kick the footballs out, 33 00:02:29,362 --> 00:02:30,863 everybody goes crazy. 34 00:02:31,864 --> 00:02:34,116 Couple of hours later, Marc Bolan comes on 35 00:02:34,158 --> 00:02:36,494 near midnight or something, 36 00:02:36,494 --> 00:02:39,455 the whole audience gets up and starts booing. 37 00:02:39,455 --> 00:02:41,624 You know the whole audience, I'm not kidding. 38 00:02:41,624 --> 00:02:44,752 I mean, we are just going like, what's he gonna do? 39 00:02:44,752 --> 00:02:46,128 You know, I'd never seen this before. 40 00:02:46,128 --> 00:02:50,633 I'd never really seen 175,000 people booing at someone. 41 00:02:50,633 --> 00:02:52,218 (crowd booing) 42 00:02:52,218 --> 00:02:55,930 Marc walked up to the microphone and said, "fuck off!" 43 00:02:58,015 --> 00:03:00,267 Walked back to his amp, turned it up. 44 00:03:00,267 --> 00:03:03,562 The whole audience sat down and shut up. 45 00:03:03,562 --> 00:03:06,524 I couldn't believe, I mean, well this is incredible! 46 00:03:06,524 --> 00:03:08,776 So he starts the performance. 47 00:03:08,776 --> 00:03:11,779 (lively rock music) 48 00:03:23,207 --> 00:03:28,212 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 49 00:03:30,715 --> 00:03:35,052 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 50 00:03:38,180 --> 00:03:40,933 He did over an hour performance 51 00:03:40,933 --> 00:03:42,351 and there was like an extra 10 minutes, 52 00:03:42,351 --> 00:03:45,104 he was battering guitar with a couple of tambourines, 53 00:03:45,104 --> 00:03:48,649 which I'm thinking, "what's gonna happen at the end?" 54 00:03:48,649 --> 00:03:51,235 (guitar music) 55 00:03:53,154 --> 00:03:56,449 What's gonna happen when he finishes it? 56 00:03:56,449 --> 00:03:59,869 (guitar music continues) 57 00:04:06,167 --> 00:04:09,086 - Rock on! (crowd cheers) 58 00:04:09,086 --> 00:04:10,421 - The audience got up 59 00:04:10,421 --> 00:04:13,215 and gave him a 15 minute standing ovation. 60 00:04:13,215 --> 00:04:15,134 I've never seen anything like that. 61 00:04:15,134 --> 00:04:17,762 You know, in a way he saw a little bit of a punk attitude 62 00:04:17,762 --> 00:04:20,723 right there in 1971. 63 00:04:20,723 --> 00:04:25,728 (crowd cheering) (lively rock music) 64 00:04:30,983 --> 00:04:34,653 (lively rock music) 65 00:04:34,653 --> 00:04:36,530 - [Hol] Da, da, da (laughs) you know. 66 00:04:36,530 --> 00:04:37,740 (lively guitar music) 67 00:04:37,740 --> 00:04:38,657 - Yeah. 68 00:04:38,657 --> 00:04:41,243 - That was the basic structure change, 69 00:04:41,285 --> 00:04:42,953 was like, do you want to real, you know, 70 00:04:42,953 --> 00:04:44,538 you wanna keep the song rolling? 71 00:04:45,498 --> 00:04:47,166 - Right, so the, uh... 72 00:04:47,166 --> 00:04:49,919 going back to the E and just holding for like two extra bars 73 00:04:49,919 --> 00:04:53,005 in the, in between each- 74 00:04:53,005 --> 00:04:55,132 - Yeah, one- - Between, before each verse. 75 00:04:55,132 --> 00:04:57,259 - There needs to be, "you're my girl." 76 00:04:57,259 --> 00:05:00,262 (lively rock music) 77 00:05:10,773 --> 00:05:12,233 - Verse. 78 00:05:12,233 --> 00:05:13,901 ♪ Well, you're dirty and sweet ♪ 79 00:05:13,901 --> 00:05:18,739 ♪ Clad in black, don't look back and I love you ♪ 80 00:05:18,739 --> 00:05:23,118 ♪ You're dirty and sweet, oh yeah ♪ 81 00:05:23,118 --> 00:05:23,953 - Verse. 82 00:05:23,953 --> 00:05:25,454 ♪ Well, you dance when you walk ♪ 83 00:05:25,454 --> 00:05:30,000 ♪ So let's dance, take a chance, understand me ♪ 84 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:32,711 ♪ You're dirty, sweet and you're my girl ♪ 85 00:05:32,711 --> 00:05:34,505 - Chorus, three cycles. 86 00:05:35,339 --> 00:05:40,344 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 87 00:05:42,847 --> 00:05:47,142 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 88 00:05:50,521 --> 00:05:54,567 - That'd be much more drama and much more spooky. 89 00:05:54,567 --> 00:05:55,401 - Yeah. 90 00:05:55,401 --> 00:05:57,069 - And I think you gotta have the sexy, 91 00:05:57,069 --> 00:05:58,279 but then you have to have it spooky. 92 00:05:58,279 --> 00:06:01,532 Wanna do something a little more, even more whispered, 93 00:06:01,532 --> 00:06:02,700 - More spooky. 94 00:06:02,700 --> 00:06:07,705 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 95 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:14,378 ♪ Get it on, bang a gong, get it on ♪ 96 00:06:16,755 --> 00:06:20,259 - Not only is he an important historic artist, 97 00:06:20,259 --> 00:06:21,468 he's also one of the great 98 00:06:21,468 --> 00:06:22,928 songwriters of that era, you know? 99 00:06:22,928 --> 00:06:24,555 And that's the fun thing 100 00:06:24,555 --> 00:06:27,683 about this "Angelheaded Hipster" album 101 00:06:27,683 --> 00:06:29,518 is that you get to hear his songs 102 00:06:29,518 --> 00:06:32,646 and how great they were lyrically and musically. 103 00:06:32,646 --> 00:06:34,940 Really, really powerful work. 104 00:06:34,940 --> 00:06:39,945 (lively rock music continues) ♪ Oh yeah ♪ 105 00:06:53,334 --> 00:06:58,339 - Oh yeah. 106 00:06:58,672 --> 00:06:59,590 Hey. 107 00:06:59,590 --> 00:07:01,508 - Hey, how are ya, Al? 108 00:07:01,508 --> 00:07:05,596 - What I believed was we were going to explore 109 00:07:05,596 --> 00:07:09,350 Marc Bolan as a composer, as a songwriter, 110 00:07:09,350 --> 00:07:11,644 where he's never gotten his due. 111 00:07:11,644 --> 00:07:16,649 He's gotten his due as a rocker with cool grooves. 112 00:07:17,107 --> 00:07:19,777 You listen back to those songs and they are deep. 113 00:07:21,987 --> 00:07:24,573 No, I'm just trying to listen, excuse me a second, 114 00:07:24,573 --> 00:07:27,868 I'm just gonna listen to the songs they're doing today. 115 00:07:27,868 --> 00:07:30,412 (upbeat drum music) 116 00:07:30,412 --> 00:07:32,039 Trying to make a "a happening," 117 00:07:32,039 --> 00:07:33,916 as they used to say in the sixties. 118 00:07:34,792 --> 00:07:37,002 Put a bunch of people together. 119 00:07:37,002 --> 00:07:40,839 ♪ Metal guru, is it you ♪ 120 00:07:40,839 --> 00:07:44,051 ♪ Metal guru, is it you ♪ 121 00:07:44,051 --> 00:07:47,513 - My aim for this album was one thing only. 122 00:07:47,513 --> 00:07:52,184 I liked the music of Bolan years ago, 123 00:07:52,184 --> 00:07:56,230 but I felt that he deserved universal acclaim 124 00:07:56,230 --> 00:08:00,275 and to be recognised for who he really was. 125 00:08:00,275 --> 00:08:03,821 ♪ Metal guru could it be ♪ 126 00:08:03,821 --> 00:08:04,655 ♪ You're gonna bring ♪ 127 00:08:04,655 --> 00:08:08,117 His life was cut short, as a lot of people's, 128 00:08:08,117 --> 00:08:11,328 but he didn't achieve the acclaim and the fame 129 00:08:11,328 --> 00:08:13,706 that Jimi Hendrix did before he died. 130 00:08:14,540 --> 00:08:16,041 He was on the cusp of that. 131 00:08:16,041 --> 00:08:20,713 And I just felt, well, how about trying to get people 132 00:08:20,713 --> 00:08:24,049 to really see just how good his songs were, 133 00:08:24,049 --> 00:08:25,551 you know, and how good he was. 134 00:08:26,969 --> 00:08:29,221 ♪ Metal guru, is that you ♪ 135 00:08:29,221 --> 00:08:32,474 - He was the pioneer of the glam rock movement 136 00:08:32,474 --> 00:08:34,768 and inspired people like me and Bowie. 137 00:08:34,768 --> 00:08:36,770 - He brought glitter to the masses 138 00:08:36,770 --> 00:08:39,231 and I thought, "no, he's done it, he's done it! 139 00:08:39,231 --> 00:08:41,233 "He's done it first!" 140 00:08:41,233 --> 00:08:42,818 (speaking foreign language) 141 00:08:42,818 --> 00:08:47,322 - The music of T-Rex, the music of Marc Bolan 142 00:08:47,322 --> 00:08:51,410 leaves so much room for your own fantasy. 143 00:08:51,702 --> 00:08:53,620 - He was so ahead of his time, Marc. 144 00:08:53,746 --> 00:08:56,457 He was the first person to wear mascara and glitter 145 00:08:56,457 --> 00:08:58,667 and, you know, really camp it up. 146 00:08:58,667 --> 00:09:01,336 - I feel exactly the same. 147 00:09:01,336 --> 00:09:06,091 Marc was the the first guy he was so loved in England, 148 00:09:06,091 --> 00:09:07,342 you know what I mean? 149 00:09:07,342 --> 00:09:11,138 The music he was playing was relevant. 150 00:09:11,138 --> 00:09:12,639 - [Interviewer] I've been reading recently Marc, 151 00:09:12,639 --> 00:09:14,808 an article which suggests that you are 152 00:09:14,808 --> 00:09:16,602 the successor to the Beatles. 153 00:09:16,602 --> 00:09:18,312 That you, in fact, claim that you're a successor 154 00:09:18,312 --> 00:09:19,938 of The Beatles. - I never said that. 155 00:09:19,938 --> 00:09:21,148 - [Interviewer] You didn't say that? 156 00:09:21,148 --> 00:09:21,982 - No way. 157 00:09:21,982 --> 00:09:23,400 - Do you have in your mind any intentions- 158 00:09:23,400 --> 00:09:24,234 - [Marc] They said that. 159 00:09:24,234 --> 00:09:25,360 - They said that, okay. 160 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,112 - Five years ago it was the Beatles. 161 00:09:27,112 --> 00:09:29,031 This last five years it's been T-Rex. 162 00:09:29,031 --> 00:09:31,700 We played for the kids that never saw the Beatles, 163 00:09:31,700 --> 00:09:33,619 never saw Jimi Hendrix. 164 00:09:33,619 --> 00:09:36,663 They're seeing us as those sort of people, you know, 165 00:09:36,663 --> 00:09:38,457 because they never saw, they weren't around then. 166 00:09:38,457 --> 00:09:41,001 The average age of the audience is 15. 167 00:09:41,001 --> 00:09:44,922 (crowd cheering and whistling) 168 00:09:46,256 --> 00:09:47,549 This is a song that, uh... 169 00:09:48,509 --> 00:09:50,803 Lots of people ask me to sing. 170 00:09:50,803 --> 00:09:52,846 Song called "Cosmic Dancer." 171 00:09:52,846 --> 00:09:56,183 (crowd cheering and whistling) 172 00:09:56,183 --> 00:09:58,393 (sombre music) 173 00:09:58,393 --> 00:10:03,357 ♪ I was dancing when I was twelve ♪ 174 00:10:05,234 --> 00:10:10,239 ♪ I was dancing when I was twelve ♪ 175 00:10:12,116 --> 00:10:17,121 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah, yeah ♪ 176 00:10:19,081 --> 00:10:24,086 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah, baby ♪ 177 00:10:25,838 --> 00:10:30,843 ♪ I danced myself right out the womb ♪ 178 00:10:32,678 --> 00:10:37,641 ♪ I danced myself right out the womb ♪ 179 00:10:39,893 --> 00:10:44,898 ♪ Is it strange to dance so soon, yeah ♪ 180 00:10:46,400 --> 00:10:51,321 ♪ I danced myself right out the womb, yeah ♪ 181 00:10:52,656 --> 00:10:55,659 (lively rock music) 182 00:11:18,015 --> 00:11:18,849 - Are they good? 183 00:11:18,849 --> 00:11:20,267 Those roles? 184 00:11:21,435 --> 00:11:22,394 (Nick laughs) - [Hal] They're so good. 185 00:11:22,394 --> 00:11:23,395 - [Person] They're, yeah. (laughs) 186 00:11:23,395 --> 00:11:25,105 - [Hal] You're so good. 187 00:11:25,105 --> 00:11:26,523 He's committed three (indistinct) now. 188 00:11:26,523 --> 00:11:27,608 - He's committed, (laughs) yeah, yeah. 189 00:11:27,608 --> 00:11:30,277 - [Person] He's fully committed to that one fill. 190 00:11:30,277 --> 00:11:31,570 (all laughing) 191 00:11:31,570 --> 00:11:33,363 I wonder maybe it didn't work so well 192 00:11:33,363 --> 00:11:34,489 when we're doing it slow. 193 00:11:34,489 --> 00:11:37,367 I don't know, but I always, as a kid- 194 00:11:37,367 --> 00:11:38,202 - [Person] Oh yeah, yeah. 195 00:11:38,202 --> 00:11:39,661 - As a kid I was always like, 196 00:11:39,703 --> 00:11:41,663 "fucking hell." - [Person] Yeah. 197 00:11:41,663 --> 00:11:44,208 - But maybe now listening to them back, I'm like, hm. 198 00:11:46,210 --> 00:11:48,879 Um, anyway, let's, uh... 199 00:11:50,255 --> 00:11:54,259 I just had to work out words as well, so... a bit. 200 00:11:54,259 --> 00:11:55,093 All right. 201 00:11:58,305 --> 00:12:01,099 ♪ I was, I ♪ 202 00:12:01,099 --> 00:12:02,809 It's actually, I'd love it if the voice 203 00:12:02,809 --> 00:12:05,270 was more present in the headphones. 204 00:12:06,772 --> 00:12:09,983 Present and big, it seems kind of small and uh... 205 00:12:11,068 --> 00:12:11,902 - [Person] Okay, hold on one second. 206 00:12:11,902 --> 00:12:14,404 - I don't know, it could be a little bit louder 207 00:12:14,404 --> 00:12:16,823 and a little bit wider and... 208 00:12:16,823 --> 00:12:18,033 - [Person] And then low? 209 00:12:22,579 --> 00:12:24,498 (sombre music) 210 00:12:24,498 --> 00:12:29,503 ♪ I was dancing when I was twelve ♪ 211 00:12:31,922 --> 00:12:36,927 ♪ I was dancing when I was twelve ♪ 212 00:12:39,221 --> 00:12:44,226 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah ♪ 213 00:12:46,103 --> 00:12:51,108 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah ♪ 214 00:12:53,235 --> 00:12:58,240 ♪ Dance myself right out the womb ♪ 215 00:13:00,325 --> 00:13:05,330 ♪ I danced myself right out the womb ♪ 216 00:13:07,874 --> 00:13:12,879 ♪ Is it strange to dance so soon ♪ 217 00:13:14,506 --> 00:13:19,511 ♪ I dance myself right out the womb ♪ 218 00:13:21,638 --> 00:13:26,643 ♪ I was dancing when I was eight ♪ 219 00:13:28,979 --> 00:13:33,984 ♪ I was dancing when I was eight ♪ 220 00:13:36,737 --> 00:13:41,742 ♪ Is it strange to dance so late ♪ 221 00:13:42,617 --> 00:13:47,622 ♪ Oh, oh ♪ 222 00:13:51,084 --> 00:13:56,089 ♪ Danced myself into the tomb ♪ 223 00:13:57,758 --> 00:14:02,763 ♪ I danced myself into the tomb ♪ 224 00:14:05,223 --> 00:14:10,228 ♪ Is it strange to dance so soon ♪ 225 00:14:12,147 --> 00:14:17,152 ♪ I danced myself into the tomb ♪ 226 00:14:19,780 --> 00:14:24,785 ♪ Is it wrong to understand ♪ 227 00:14:26,912 --> 00:14:31,917 ♪ The fear that dwells inside a man ♪ 228 00:14:33,960 --> 00:14:38,924 ♪ What's it like to be a loon ♪ 229 00:14:40,509 --> 00:14:45,514 ♪ I liken it to a balloon ♪ 230 00:14:46,681 --> 00:14:48,767 ♪ Oh, oh ♪ 231 00:15:03,824 --> 00:15:05,492 - [Interviewer] Marc, you've just become a father. 232 00:15:05,492 --> 00:15:06,326 How do you feel? 233 00:15:06,326 --> 00:15:07,869 Do you feel different? 234 00:15:07,869 --> 00:15:09,329 - Uh, I'm still waiting to feel different, 235 00:15:09,329 --> 00:15:11,123 but I'm still wanting to grow up, you know, 236 00:15:11,123 --> 00:15:12,457 and I haven't done that yet. 237 00:15:12,457 --> 00:15:15,419 No, it's lovely, I helped deliver the baby as well. 238 00:15:15,419 --> 00:15:16,753 It's called Roland Bolan. 239 00:15:16,753 --> 00:15:18,672 Roland Seymour Bolan. 240 00:15:18,672 --> 00:15:20,132 And it was really cute 'cause it looks like me. 241 00:15:20,132 --> 00:15:22,801 So it was really, it's an amazing thing. 242 00:15:22,801 --> 00:15:24,052 Just a miracle, I reckon. 243 00:15:24,052 --> 00:15:26,263 Babies they're, you know, they just plop out 244 00:15:26,263 --> 00:15:28,056 and he came out dancing. 245 00:15:28,056 --> 00:15:29,933 He was out, he was getting down here. 246 00:15:31,226 --> 00:15:36,231 ♪ Danced myself right out the womb ♪ 247 00:15:37,983 --> 00:15:42,404 ♪ I danced myself right out the womb ♪ 248 00:15:44,698 --> 00:15:47,325 - He said that as a child, 249 00:15:47,325 --> 00:15:50,537 he knew everything that he was going to do in life 250 00:15:50,537 --> 00:15:53,248 and what he was going to accomplish in life, 251 00:15:53,248 --> 00:15:55,584 but he never knew that he would've a son. 252 00:15:57,169 --> 00:16:00,547 His reaction was that the best thing that happened 253 00:16:00,547 --> 00:16:04,217 for him in his life was that Roland was born. 254 00:16:05,427 --> 00:16:10,432 (sombre music) (Nick vocalising) 255 00:16:24,988 --> 00:16:29,993 - [Hal] Perfection. (all laughing) 256 00:16:30,327 --> 00:16:32,537 - How'd it go? - Yeah, we got it. 257 00:16:32,537 --> 00:16:34,706 - Oh, we got it? - We're good. 258 00:16:34,706 --> 00:16:37,876 (plucky guitar music) 259 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:41,630 - I always thought he was a better lyric writer 260 00:16:41,630 --> 00:16:45,467 than like Bowie and some of these people of that time 261 00:16:45,467 --> 00:16:47,177 that people considered to be 262 00:16:48,678 --> 00:16:50,972 kind of deeper writers or something like that. 263 00:16:52,849 --> 00:16:55,560 (stammers) it was the use of language 264 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,812 and the use of imagery. 265 00:16:57,812 --> 00:17:00,565 The production of that particular record 266 00:17:00,565 --> 00:17:02,859 that was so extraordinary for me, 267 00:17:02,859 --> 00:17:07,322 and these very simple but complex words at the same time. 268 00:17:07,322 --> 00:17:08,865 It's just a perfect record. 269 00:17:09,741 --> 00:17:12,452 ♪ I was dancing when I was twelve ♪ 270 00:17:12,452 --> 00:17:14,829 Marc Bolan to me, uh... 271 00:17:16,414 --> 00:17:21,419 kind of seemed to invent a kind of language with his songs 272 00:17:22,420 --> 00:17:26,633 that really, that was perfected on that particular record. 273 00:17:29,135 --> 00:17:32,722 A kind of way of using words and images 274 00:17:32,722 --> 00:17:36,142 that I think is entirely unique. 275 00:17:36,142 --> 00:17:38,478 And slowing "Cosmic Dancer" down a bit, 276 00:17:39,563 --> 00:17:41,106 kind of allows some of that, 277 00:17:41,106 --> 00:17:43,024 his writing and his lyric writing 278 00:17:43,024 --> 00:17:45,110 to sort of breathe a little bit, you know? 279 00:17:45,110 --> 00:17:47,988 I didn't wanna do one of the faster ones, particularly. 280 00:17:50,574 --> 00:17:51,992 He's a really, uh... 281 00:17:53,493 --> 00:17:57,080 I don't know, it's a very emotional song for me. 282 00:17:58,957 --> 00:18:02,210 You know? (sombre music) 283 00:18:02,210 --> 00:18:07,215 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah ♪ 284 00:18:09,259 --> 00:18:13,054 ♪ I was dancing when I was ah ♪ 285 00:18:13,054 --> 00:18:15,140 (energetic rock music) 286 00:18:15,140 --> 00:18:18,768 ♪ Well you can bump and grind ♪ 287 00:18:18,768 --> 00:18:22,063 ♪ it is good for your mind ♪ 288 00:18:22,063 --> 00:18:25,650 ♪ Well you can twist and shout ♪ 289 00:18:25,650 --> 00:18:28,153 ♪ Let it all hang out ♪ 290 00:18:28,153 --> 00:18:29,863 ♪ But you won't fool ♪ 291 00:18:29,863 --> 00:18:32,032 - Everything in there, it's like this room, 292 00:18:32,032 --> 00:18:34,409 you know, everything is, ah! 293 00:18:34,409 --> 00:18:36,202 Let's see how they interact. 294 00:18:36,202 --> 00:18:38,955 Let's see how this person interacts with this song. 295 00:18:39,998 --> 00:18:42,584 (lively music) 296 00:18:55,555 --> 00:18:56,806 That felt nice. 297 00:18:56,806 --> 00:18:58,808 - [Person] Yeah. 298 00:18:58,808 --> 00:19:01,394 - [Person] Everybody's amazing. 299 00:19:03,188 --> 00:19:04,939 - You know, that some of the mementos, 300 00:19:04,939 --> 00:19:06,608 this one's very special to me 301 00:19:06,608 --> 00:19:09,110 because these are actual Polaroids 302 00:19:09,152 --> 00:19:11,529 that my mom and my dad were taking 303 00:19:11,529 --> 00:19:13,323 together while they were on tour. 304 00:19:14,449 --> 00:19:16,868 It was around the time of, I think it was 305 00:19:16,868 --> 00:19:20,121 their first tour and that's where you could kind of see 306 00:19:20,121 --> 00:19:21,539 the professional relationship 307 00:19:21,539 --> 00:19:24,125 and also the love affair came together. 308 00:19:24,167 --> 00:19:25,835 - Gloria was a staff writer with Motown. 309 00:19:25,835 --> 00:19:28,296 She was part of the corporation they called it, 310 00:19:28,296 --> 00:19:30,674 where she would write, you know she wrote for Gladys Knight. 311 00:19:30,674 --> 00:19:32,550 When she started appearing in T-Rex, 312 00:19:32,550 --> 00:19:34,803 she's credited as The Gloria Jones. 313 00:19:34,803 --> 00:19:37,138 'Cause Marc was very appreciative of her writing. 314 00:19:37,180 --> 00:19:39,849 She's not just a backup singer, she's The Gloria Jones. 315 00:19:39,849 --> 00:19:42,435 You know, and she rearranged "Tainted Love" and recorded it. 316 00:19:42,435 --> 00:19:45,313 - On your mark or get set go, go, Gloria Jones! 317 00:19:46,523 --> 00:19:49,067 (groovy music) 318 00:19:52,821 --> 00:19:56,950 ♪ Sometimes I feel I've got to ♪ 319 00:19:56,950 --> 00:19:59,911 ♪ Run away, I've got to ♪ 320 00:19:59,911 --> 00:20:00,870 ♪ Get away from ♪ 321 00:20:00,870 --> 00:20:03,790 - You really see how much fun they were having 322 00:20:03,790 --> 00:20:06,251 and how playful it was and you know, 323 00:20:06,251 --> 00:20:07,419 two people fell in love 324 00:20:07,419 --> 00:20:10,380 and they fell in love musically and personally. 325 00:20:10,380 --> 00:20:14,634 My dad definitely, he had a unique style and he never, 326 00:20:14,634 --> 00:20:16,136 sometimes he didn't get as much credit, 327 00:20:16,136 --> 00:20:17,804 but he could really play. 328 00:20:17,804 --> 00:20:19,889 And if you hear, and it was about the sounds 329 00:20:19,889 --> 00:20:21,141 and what they were coming up with, 330 00:20:21,141 --> 00:20:23,601 with Tony Visconti and you hear those sounds 331 00:20:23,601 --> 00:20:25,437 and they're coming out in the records today. 332 00:20:25,437 --> 00:20:28,815 - He was great where he put the rhythm pattern, 333 00:20:28,815 --> 00:20:30,608 you know, it was the guitar. 334 00:20:30,608 --> 00:20:33,361 You listen to any record of his, you know, 335 00:20:33,361 --> 00:20:35,822 with before he comes in like, you know, it's him. 336 00:20:36,948 --> 00:20:39,033 It's just ah, get-go. 337 00:20:39,033 --> 00:20:41,619 (upbeat music) 338 00:20:44,622 --> 00:20:46,416 ♪ Well, she's my woman of gold ♪ 339 00:20:46,416 --> 00:20:51,421 ♪ And she's not very old, uh-huh ♪ 340 00:20:52,088 --> 00:20:53,923 ♪ Well, she's my woman of gold ♪ 341 00:20:53,923 --> 00:20:54,758 ♪ And she's not very ♪ 342 00:20:54,758 --> 00:20:56,718 - I actually learned to play guitar, 343 00:20:56,718 --> 00:21:00,096 the first song I ever learned how to play was "Hot Love." 344 00:21:00,096 --> 00:21:01,389 ♪ I don't mean to be bold ♪ 345 00:21:01,389 --> 00:21:05,226 ♪ But may I hold your hand? ♪ 346 00:21:05,268 --> 00:21:08,146 - It doesn't sound like he's imitating Elvis Presley. 347 00:21:08,146 --> 00:21:09,439 ♪ She's my woman of gold ♪ 348 00:21:09,439 --> 00:21:11,691 ♪ And she's not very old, uh-huh ♪ 349 00:21:11,691 --> 00:21:14,903 It somehow sounds like he's doing it in a different way. 350 00:21:14,903 --> 00:21:16,154 It sounded modern. 351 00:21:16,154 --> 00:21:20,533 ♪ And I love the way she twitch, uh-huh ♪ 352 00:21:20,533 --> 00:21:22,911 - He comes out wearing this glittery jackets, 353 00:21:22,911 --> 00:21:26,039 he had glitter his cheeks and red shoes that were women's, 354 00:21:26,039 --> 00:21:27,665 I found out, and a feather boa. 355 00:21:27,665 --> 00:21:30,919 And he's just chopping away on Les Paul, 356 00:21:30,919 --> 00:21:35,048 and we just got colour TV from '71 to '74, 357 00:21:35,048 --> 00:21:39,344 Sweet, Slayed, Bowie, T-Rex, Wizard, Mot, Queen, 358 00:21:39,344 --> 00:21:41,179 everybody trying to outdo each other with colours. 359 00:21:41,179 --> 00:21:43,890 But let's be honest, Bolan was the first one 360 00:21:43,890 --> 00:21:46,518 to actually step out there and really take advantage 361 00:21:46,518 --> 00:21:50,104 of what colour TV could do to teenage kids. 362 00:21:50,104 --> 00:21:53,483 ♪ La, la, la, la-la, la-la ♪ 363 00:21:53,483 --> 00:21:58,446 ♪ La, la, la, la-la, la-la ♪ 364 00:21:58,446 --> 00:22:00,281 ♪ Ooh ♪ 365 00:22:02,951 --> 00:22:06,621 (upbeat music continues) 366 00:22:06,621 --> 00:22:09,958 - You have to remember, Marc was this explosion 367 00:22:09,958 --> 00:22:13,169 of extraordinary imagination, fantasy. 368 00:22:13,169 --> 00:22:16,548 And he lived in this world of elves and goblins and stuff, 369 00:22:16,548 --> 00:22:19,217 but actually he was really coming from East London 370 00:22:19,217 --> 00:22:21,594 and he probably wrote that on the tube coming in 371 00:22:21,594 --> 00:22:24,055 and you know, somehow it was all in his head. 372 00:22:25,515 --> 00:22:28,935 (upbeat music continues) 373 00:22:29,894 --> 00:22:30,728 ♪ La, la, la ♪ 374 00:22:30,728 --> 00:22:32,939 - I totally fell in love with that sound of that record. 375 00:22:32,939 --> 00:22:36,609 I knew that he was riffing on old rock and roll. 376 00:22:36,609 --> 00:22:39,320 I knew something was going on with the guitar sound 377 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:42,198 and with his singing and their songwriting 378 00:22:42,198 --> 00:22:44,242 that was kind of avant garde. 379 00:22:45,743 --> 00:22:48,246 - The androgynous look of the early seventies 380 00:22:48,246 --> 00:22:52,584 to me as a kid from Sheffield, me and my soul brothers, 381 00:22:52,584 --> 00:22:54,627 who I'm still tight with now, 382 00:22:54,627 --> 00:22:56,421 were probably the only half a dozen people 383 00:22:56,421 --> 00:22:58,673 that I know that didn't care. 384 00:22:58,673 --> 00:23:01,301 We didn't go round beating up people 385 00:23:01,301 --> 00:23:03,553 because they liked The Partridge Family. 386 00:23:03,553 --> 00:23:06,890 But we regularly got beaten up for liking Bowie and Bolan 387 00:23:06,890 --> 00:23:09,017 because he's a fucking puff. 388 00:23:09,017 --> 00:23:10,727 And that's the way it was portrayed. 389 00:23:10,727 --> 00:23:12,687 You know, it's like I didn't see like that. 390 00:23:12,687 --> 00:23:15,189 I saw him as being theatrical. 391 00:23:15,189 --> 00:23:17,066 I saw him as being artistic 392 00:23:17,066 --> 00:23:19,319 and I saw him as standing out from the crowd 393 00:23:19,319 --> 00:23:22,614 and not looking like Tony Orlando or Donny Osmond. 394 00:23:22,614 --> 00:23:26,075 - Certainly there's been a change in England in two years 395 00:23:26,075 --> 00:23:27,619 and we are part of the change. 396 00:23:27,619 --> 00:23:29,454 I mean, guys now can wear makeup. 397 00:23:29,454 --> 00:23:31,664 I'm now a famous person, but two years ago 398 00:23:31,664 --> 00:23:35,460 I couldn't have done, and I can even swear a little bit 399 00:23:35,460 --> 00:23:37,128 or show my legs. 400 00:23:37,128 --> 00:23:39,714 (guitar music) 401 00:23:44,677 --> 00:23:47,639 (lively rock music) 402 00:24:02,487 --> 00:24:06,157 ♪ Friends say it's fine, friends say it's good ♪ 403 00:24:06,157 --> 00:24:11,079 ♪ Everybody says it's just like Robin Hood ♪ 404 00:24:16,709 --> 00:24:20,421 ♪ I move like a cat, charge like a ram ♪ 405 00:24:20,421 --> 00:24:25,009 ♪ Sting like a bee, babe, I wanna be your man ♪ 406 00:24:25,009 --> 00:24:27,595 (lively rock music continues) 407 00:24:27,595 --> 00:24:29,430 - When I was growing up, 408 00:24:29,472 --> 00:24:33,226 there was like certain people that were really sexy 409 00:24:33,226 --> 00:24:36,020 when you were little and you didn't understand why. 410 00:24:36,020 --> 00:24:39,440 And it was Marc Bolan was like, yeah. 411 00:24:39,482 --> 00:24:43,319 He was like, I didn't understand what it was he was doing, 412 00:24:43,319 --> 00:24:45,655 but it was just like whatever that is 413 00:24:45,655 --> 00:24:50,576 that kind of girly boy situation, I really like that. 414 00:24:50,576 --> 00:24:52,704 Yeah, I'm, mh-hm. 415 00:24:52,704 --> 00:24:55,123 (lively rock music continues) 416 00:24:55,123 --> 00:24:57,125 - [Donny] it was for little girls 417 00:24:57,125 --> 00:25:00,586 and little girls don't like big hairy men. 418 00:25:00,586 --> 00:25:05,425 A younger girl would like a male that is not threatening. 419 00:25:05,425 --> 00:25:09,262 The age was 11 to 13, probably down to nine. 420 00:25:10,346 --> 00:25:12,306 (lively rock music continues) 421 00:25:12,306 --> 00:25:13,683 - [Interviewer] Let's talk about your new record 422 00:25:13,683 --> 00:25:15,226 "20th century Boy." 423 00:25:15,226 --> 00:25:16,894 What's the story behind it? 424 00:25:16,894 --> 00:25:20,481 - [Marc] Lyrically the content is erection rock. 425 00:25:20,523 --> 00:25:21,983 And I consider that every young male 426 00:25:21,983 --> 00:25:24,777 in the 20th century thinks he's a super stud 427 00:25:24,777 --> 00:25:26,446 and the records made for him. 428 00:25:26,446 --> 00:25:28,656 - [Interviewer] You described it as your best ever. 429 00:25:28,656 --> 00:25:29,490 - [Marc] I never did that. 430 00:25:29,490 --> 00:25:30,867 You read that I described it- 431 00:25:30,867 --> 00:25:31,784 - [Interviewer] Well, I read it in- 432 00:25:31,784 --> 00:25:32,827 - [Marc] Yeah well, you're down spoken. 433 00:25:32,827 --> 00:25:33,911 Yeah, right. 434 00:25:33,911 --> 00:25:35,121 - [Interviewer] isn't true that you said 435 00:25:35,121 --> 00:25:36,247 that this record is- - [Marc] No. 436 00:25:36,247 --> 00:25:39,876 What I said is I think it's a funky sound is what I said. 437 00:25:42,170 --> 00:25:43,004 - That was huge, you know, 438 00:25:43,004 --> 00:25:45,089 there's that on the telly and you're like, 439 00:25:45,089 --> 00:25:48,593 "oh, what the fuck is that?" (laughs) 440 00:25:48,593 --> 00:25:50,178 Like what's, yes. 441 00:25:50,178 --> 00:25:52,972 Like I wanna know what that is. 442 00:25:52,972 --> 00:25:54,974 - Eyeliner I think is still a political act, 443 00:25:54,974 --> 00:25:57,769 you know, in some places. 444 00:25:57,769 --> 00:26:01,814 It was playing with gender, it was playing with power. 445 00:26:01,814 --> 00:26:03,483 Gender is power. 446 00:26:03,483 --> 00:26:08,488 (upbeat rock music) (crowd cheering) 447 00:26:11,282 --> 00:26:12,116 - Yeah! 448 00:26:13,576 --> 00:26:14,911 Get it on, yeah! 449 00:26:16,829 --> 00:26:21,250 (upbeat rock music continues) 450 00:26:21,250 --> 00:26:26,047 To take something feminine and put it on a man or a musician 451 00:26:26,047 --> 00:26:27,173 and make it sexy. 452 00:26:28,257 --> 00:26:31,886 I think that's dangerous, I think people love that. 453 00:26:31,886 --> 00:26:34,097 Like Joan always says with her guitar, 454 00:26:34,097 --> 00:26:35,890 it's pussy to the wood. 455 00:26:35,890 --> 00:26:38,017 (upbeat rock music continues) 456 00:26:38,017 --> 00:26:41,938 ♪ 'Cause you're my lover, yes you are ♪ 457 00:26:41,938 --> 00:26:46,943 It's something that affects people emotionally and sexually. 458 00:26:47,151 --> 00:26:49,070 And it's just glitter. 459 00:26:49,070 --> 00:26:51,948 It's just paint and powder and pigment. 460 00:26:51,948 --> 00:26:55,159 But when people see it, it pushes. 461 00:26:56,202 --> 00:26:57,954 ♪ Just like a car ♪ 462 00:26:57,954 --> 00:27:00,164 ♪ You're pleasing to behold ♪ 463 00:27:00,164 --> 00:27:03,209 - Marc Bolan, he was a big part of my life as a kid. 464 00:27:03,209 --> 00:27:08,214 You're going from being non-sexual to sexual. 465 00:27:08,840 --> 00:27:11,843 (upbeat rock music) 466 00:27:13,427 --> 00:27:15,972 ♪ Your motivation ♪ 467 00:27:15,972 --> 00:27:18,224 ♪ ls so sweet ♪ 468 00:27:18,224 --> 00:27:19,809 ♪ Your vibrations ♪ 469 00:27:19,809 --> 00:27:20,601 - Sex is a part of it, yes, 470 00:27:20,643 --> 00:27:23,062 but it's sex by courtesy of the Magic Prince, 471 00:27:23,062 --> 00:27:24,897 and I presume that means you. 472 00:27:24,897 --> 00:27:25,731 - Whoo! 473 00:27:25,731 --> 00:27:27,275 - Who is going to deflower the young virgin 474 00:27:27,275 --> 00:27:29,402 in an atmosphere of blissful romance. 475 00:27:29,402 --> 00:27:31,195 - That sounds nice, I like that. 476 00:27:31,195 --> 00:27:32,697 - What does (indistinct) mean? 477 00:27:32,697 --> 00:27:34,991 (audience laughing) 478 00:27:34,991 --> 00:27:35,825 - I don't know. 479 00:27:35,825 --> 00:27:38,536 I think what they're trying to imply is that, um... 480 00:27:38,536 --> 00:27:41,455 I don't know, the appeal of what I'm supposed to be 481 00:27:41,455 --> 00:27:44,375 to that thing is like a teenage crush thing. 482 00:27:45,668 --> 00:27:48,754 ♪ And I'm gonna suck ya ♪ 483 00:27:48,754 --> 00:27:52,592 (upbeat rock music continues) 484 00:27:55,678 --> 00:27:58,097 ♪ Uh-Uh, wow ♪ 485 00:27:59,640 --> 00:28:03,477 (upbeat rock music continues) 486 00:28:10,693 --> 00:28:13,571 - Are you guys gonna do those cuts that are on the record 487 00:28:13,571 --> 00:28:15,948 or are you just doing it different. 488 00:28:15,948 --> 00:28:17,825 The one before that we got it right. 489 00:28:17,825 --> 00:28:18,659 - [Person] I would love to hear that. 490 00:28:18,659 --> 00:28:19,493 - Yeah, maybe that's 491 00:28:19,493 --> 00:28:20,536 something to work with. - [Joan] Sure. 492 00:28:20,536 --> 00:28:21,495 - [Person] And may maybe that's what we got. 493 00:28:21,495 --> 00:28:24,040 - Because without the stops I'm kind of lost. 494 00:28:24,916 --> 00:28:26,667 You know what I'm talking about? 495 00:28:26,667 --> 00:28:28,002 - [Interviewer] There are fans clustering 496 00:28:28,002 --> 00:28:29,837 outside your office door. - Bless them. 497 00:28:29,837 --> 00:28:31,881 - [Interviewer] Does this get on your nerves at all? 498 00:28:31,881 --> 00:28:33,633 - Um, sometimes, you know, 499 00:28:33,633 --> 00:28:36,469 but at the moment they dunno where I live fortunately, 500 00:28:36,469 --> 00:28:37,428 but not really. 501 00:28:37,428 --> 00:28:39,764 I mean, some of them very cute. 502 00:28:39,764 --> 00:28:41,098 - [Interviewer] How often do you come here? 503 00:28:41,098 --> 00:28:42,183 - [Fan] Come every day. 504 00:28:42,183 --> 00:28:43,017 - [Interviewer] For how long? 505 00:28:43,017 --> 00:28:43,893 - [Fan] About two years now. 506 00:28:43,893 --> 00:28:45,853 - [Interviewer] So you're professional Marc Bolan fan? 507 00:28:45,853 --> 00:28:46,687 - Oh yeah. 508 00:28:46,687 --> 00:28:47,855 - We follow him around everywhere. 509 00:28:47,855 --> 00:28:48,981 - [Interviewer] Oh, every day? 510 00:28:48,981 --> 00:28:49,982 Everywhere he goes? - Every time, 511 00:28:49,982 --> 00:28:51,692 everyday, we know where he is. 512 00:28:51,734 --> 00:28:53,110 - [Interviewer] Do you go to work? 513 00:28:53,110 --> 00:28:54,403 - We do part-time work. 514 00:28:54,403 --> 00:28:55,529 - [Interviewer] I see. - At weekends. 515 00:28:55,529 --> 00:28:56,822 'Cause then you know the office is shut 516 00:28:56,822 --> 00:28:57,990 so we can't come here. 517 00:28:57,990 --> 00:28:59,492 - [Interviewer] You've been dogging his footsteps 518 00:28:59,492 --> 00:29:01,994 for two years and he's never once got angry? 519 00:29:01,994 --> 00:29:03,496 - No, never. 520 00:29:03,496 --> 00:29:05,456 Perhaps he's been angry but he doesn't show it to us, 521 00:29:05,456 --> 00:29:06,958 you know? - Yeah. 522 00:29:06,958 --> 00:29:07,792 - But he's really a nice person. 523 00:29:07,792 --> 00:29:09,710 - But what is it about him that makes you 524 00:29:09,752 --> 00:29:12,922 so terribly excited for such a long time? 525 00:29:12,922 --> 00:29:14,173 - Everything. 526 00:29:14,173 --> 00:29:17,009 He's so good looking and his music and the way he dresses, 527 00:29:17,009 --> 00:29:18,636 the way he acts, everything. 528 00:29:18,636 --> 00:29:20,513 - And you're not at all deterred by the fact 529 00:29:20,513 --> 00:29:23,057 that he has a wife and a mistress and a baby? 530 00:29:23,057 --> 00:29:25,601 - Well, we put up with it. (both giggle) 531 00:29:25,601 --> 00:29:27,144 - We just wanna be genuine friends 532 00:29:27,144 --> 00:29:28,521 'cause we care about him. 533 00:29:28,521 --> 00:29:32,525 We like to know that he's all right and well and everything. 534 00:29:32,525 --> 00:29:35,486 (upbeat rock music) 535 00:29:35,486 --> 00:29:37,280 ♪ The wild winds blow ♪ 536 00:29:37,280 --> 00:29:38,155 - It happens right at the end 537 00:29:38,155 --> 00:29:40,491 after the last chorus, I believe 538 00:29:40,491 --> 00:29:43,744 ♪ The way you flip your hip it always makes me weak ♪ 539 00:29:43,744 --> 00:29:48,249 Only listened to this a billion times when I was 13 or something. 540 00:29:49,500 --> 00:29:54,505 ♪ 'Cause you're my love ♪ 541 00:29:54,672 --> 00:29:59,677 ♪ Oh, girl I'm just a Jeepster for your love ♪ 542 00:30:01,804 --> 00:30:06,809 ♪ I said, girl I'm just a vampire for your love ♪ 543 00:30:07,893 --> 00:30:11,230 ♪ And I'm going to suck ya ♪ 544 00:30:11,230 --> 00:30:13,983 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah ♪ 545 00:30:15,026 --> 00:30:18,863 (upbeat rock music continues) 546 00:30:22,575 --> 00:30:27,496 - With Bolan there was sex within the whole sound. 547 00:30:27,496 --> 00:30:29,749 It always had some feeling of sex in there 548 00:30:29,749 --> 00:30:31,625 because of his appearance as well 549 00:30:31,625 --> 00:30:33,711 and the way he projected himself. 550 00:30:33,711 --> 00:30:34,920 - [Interviewer] You were one of the first rock artistes 551 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:36,756 who got into the bisexual treatment. 552 00:30:36,756 --> 00:30:38,341 - Artiste is quite nice. (both laugh) 553 00:30:38,341 --> 00:30:39,383 Sounds very bisexual. 554 00:30:39,383 --> 00:30:41,802 - [Interviewer] You're not really bisexual, I gather? 555 00:30:41,802 --> 00:30:44,805 - Um, I've experienced many things in my life. 556 00:30:44,847 --> 00:30:45,931 I think, you know, as a child, 557 00:30:45,931 --> 00:30:47,683 my mother always told me that 558 00:30:48,726 --> 00:30:51,729 if you love someone in any sphere, 559 00:30:51,729 --> 00:30:53,064 you know, love them all the time. 560 00:30:53,064 --> 00:30:55,191 I love many men and many women, 561 00:30:55,191 --> 00:30:57,401 but I happen to like titties 562 00:30:57,401 --> 00:31:00,529 so I tend to sexually go more towards women, 563 00:31:00,529 --> 00:31:02,656 but I've checked everything out. 564 00:31:02,656 --> 00:31:04,617 - [Interviewer] So it wasn't just an image 565 00:31:04,617 --> 00:31:07,036 when you were being bisexual, you really were? 566 00:31:07,036 --> 00:31:09,330 - No, David Bowie and I were gonna get married at one time. 567 00:31:10,206 --> 00:31:11,499 - [Interviewer] Well thank you very much. 568 00:31:11,499 --> 00:31:12,625 - My pleasure. 569 00:31:12,625 --> 00:31:14,460 - This one for you Marc! 570 00:31:14,460 --> 00:31:19,465 (crowd cheering) (upbeat rock music) 571 00:31:32,019 --> 00:31:35,856 ♪ And it's plain to see you were meant for me, yeah ♪ 572 00:31:35,898 --> 00:31:37,149 ♪ I'm your toy ♪ 573 00:31:37,149 --> 00:31:39,235 - I first met Marc Bolan he became 574 00:31:39,235 --> 00:31:41,278 a very, very good friend of mine. 575 00:31:41,278 --> 00:31:43,114 (crowd applauding) 576 00:31:43,114 --> 00:31:45,741 We actually met very early on in the sixties 577 00:31:45,741 --> 00:31:49,245 before either of us were even a tadpole known. 578 00:31:49,245 --> 00:31:50,329 We were nothing. 579 00:31:50,329 --> 00:31:53,999 We were just two nothing kids with huge ambitions. 580 00:31:53,999 --> 00:31:56,544 And we both had the same manager at the time 581 00:31:56,544 --> 00:31:58,629 and we met each other, firstly, 582 00:31:58,629 --> 00:32:02,633 painting the wall of our then manager's office. 583 00:32:02,633 --> 00:32:05,386 (all laughing) 584 00:32:05,386 --> 00:32:06,345 Hello, who are you? 585 00:32:07,430 --> 00:32:09,432 I'm Marc, man. (crowd laughing) 586 00:32:09,432 --> 00:32:10,266 Hello. 587 00:32:10,266 --> 00:32:11,183 What do you do? 588 00:32:11,183 --> 00:32:13,561 I'm a singer. (crowd laughing) 589 00:32:13,561 --> 00:32:14,395 Oh yeah? 590 00:32:14,395 --> 00:32:17,148 So am I. (crowd laughing) 591 00:32:17,148 --> 00:32:17,982 You a mod? 592 00:32:19,358 --> 00:32:20,943 Yeah, I'm King Mod. 593 00:32:21,902 --> 00:32:23,904 Your shoes are crap. (crowd laughing) 594 00:32:23,904 --> 00:32:26,615 - [Jeff] We modelled in 1962 595 00:32:26,615 --> 00:32:28,284 for the annual IMBEX, 596 00:32:28,284 --> 00:32:32,163 International Men's and Boy's exhibition Olympia. 597 00:32:32,163 --> 00:32:33,497 And that's where we first met. 598 00:32:33,497 --> 00:32:34,999 - He'd been in all the magazines. 599 00:32:34,999 --> 00:32:35,833 He was it. 600 00:32:35,833 --> 00:32:37,668 He wore the best suits and at 14 601 00:32:37,668 --> 00:32:39,837 he'd been on the streets like looking cool. 602 00:32:39,837 --> 00:32:40,921 Very young mod. 603 00:32:40,921 --> 00:32:44,550 Mark Feld within that year changed his name to Marc Bolan 604 00:32:44,550 --> 00:32:47,636 and Marc taught me a very, very important thing in life 605 00:32:47,636 --> 00:32:49,305 that in Carnaby Street in those days 606 00:32:49,305 --> 00:32:51,682 they'd throw away anything that didn't have a button on 607 00:32:51,682 --> 00:32:53,559 or there was a tear or something. 608 00:32:53,559 --> 00:32:55,519 They put it in the dust bins at night. 609 00:32:55,519 --> 00:32:58,189 So if you hit Carnaby Street about eight o'clock 610 00:32:58,189 --> 00:33:01,233 you could get a full wardrobe just out the dust bins. 611 00:33:01,233 --> 00:33:03,319 And so I, bless Marc, 612 00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,238 he kept my wardrobe going for years that bloke. 613 00:33:06,238 --> 00:33:09,241 (lively rock music) 614 00:33:12,661 --> 00:33:15,706 ♪ Walkin' in the woods one day ♪ 615 00:33:15,706 --> 00:33:17,875 ♪ I met a man who said ♪ 616 00:33:17,875 --> 00:33:20,127 - [Marc] I was expelled from school when I was 14. 617 00:33:20,127 --> 00:33:21,003 But I always read. 618 00:33:21,921 --> 00:33:23,339 I mean I write words that don't even exist 619 00:33:23,339 --> 00:33:24,840 but to me I understand it. 620 00:33:25,883 --> 00:33:28,093 "The wizard" I did in 1965, 621 00:33:29,094 --> 00:33:30,846 The "Hippy Gumbo" followed after that. 622 00:33:30,846 --> 00:33:32,598 - [Person] The "Hippy Gumbo" ain't no good. 623 00:33:32,598 --> 00:33:33,432 Chop 'em up for firewood. 624 00:33:34,642 --> 00:33:36,268 - [Marc] Dylan made me aware that you could 625 00:33:36,268 --> 00:33:38,229 use good words with pop music. 626 00:33:38,229 --> 00:33:40,314 Before that I'd just written poetry. 627 00:33:40,314 --> 00:33:45,277 ♪ Met a man he was nice ♪ 628 00:33:45,319 --> 00:33:49,073 ♪ Said his name was paradise ♪ 629 00:33:50,783 --> 00:33:53,369 (jaunty music) 630 00:34:13,055 --> 00:34:17,393 ♪ Hippy Gumbo he's no good ♪ 631 00:34:17,393 --> 00:34:22,022 ♪ Chop him up for firewood ♪ 632 00:34:22,022 --> 00:34:26,569 ♪ Hippy Gumbo he's no good ♪ 633 00:34:26,569 --> 00:34:31,574 ♪ Chop him up for firewood ♪ 634 00:34:36,412 --> 00:34:40,624 ♪ But in the morning with the sun ♪ 635 00:34:40,624 --> 00:34:45,504 ♪ He pulled an automatic gun ♪ 636 00:34:45,504 --> 00:34:50,050 ♪ He blew my soul, he blew my brain ♪ 637 00:34:50,092 --> 00:34:54,805 ♪ He explained I could not do the same ♪ 638 00:34:54,805 --> 00:34:59,393 ♪ Hippy Gumbo he's no good ♪ 639 00:34:59,393 --> 00:35:03,022 ♪ Chop him up for firewood ♪ 640 00:35:03,022 --> 00:35:05,899 - Should we get kind of hushed and abstract 641 00:35:05,899 --> 00:35:08,986 or are we kind of like trucking through, do you think? 642 00:35:08,986 --> 00:35:10,321 - [Person] I always get louder. 643 00:35:10,321 --> 00:35:11,155 - Louder? 644 00:35:11,155 --> 00:35:11,989 Okay. - [Person] Yeah. 645 00:35:11,989 --> 00:35:13,365 - Let's do that. 646 00:35:13,365 --> 00:35:17,369 ♪ Hippy Gumbo he's no good ♪ 647 00:35:17,369 --> 00:35:21,790 ♪ Chop him up and burn the wood ♪ 648 00:35:21,790 --> 00:35:25,919 ♪ Hippy Gumbo he's no good ♪ 649 00:35:25,919 --> 00:35:30,633 ♪ Chop him up and burn the wood ♪ 650 00:35:30,633 --> 00:35:32,468 - Does anybody want a coconut toffee? 651 00:35:34,219 --> 00:35:35,179 Coconut toffee? 652 00:35:37,181 --> 00:35:38,807 Do you want a coconut toffee? 653 00:35:38,807 --> 00:35:40,100 They're really fucking good. 654 00:35:40,142 --> 00:35:41,810 Can I say like the second verse, 655 00:35:41,810 --> 00:35:43,103 when the bass came in it was like, 656 00:35:43,145 --> 00:35:45,439 what if it did get a little bit more jaunty almost, 657 00:35:45,439 --> 00:35:47,941 just a bit more, like strange 658 00:35:47,941 --> 00:35:50,486 and upbeat on the second verse. 659 00:35:50,486 --> 00:35:51,987 When I was singing it today, I was like, 660 00:35:51,987 --> 00:35:53,989 "oh yeah, it's a love song." 661 00:35:56,033 --> 00:35:58,786 But it's funny actually, you know, singing his words, 662 00:35:58,786 --> 00:36:00,037 singing someone else's words. 663 00:36:00,037 --> 00:36:01,288 'Cause when you sing your own song, 664 00:36:01,288 --> 00:36:04,124 you like every line has a different meaning 665 00:36:04,124 --> 00:36:05,751 and you sort of play with that. 666 00:36:05,751 --> 00:36:07,753 And today I had that with his song. 667 00:36:07,753 --> 00:36:09,046 It's like every line was like, 668 00:36:09,046 --> 00:36:10,589 oh I could read a million things 669 00:36:10,589 --> 00:36:12,257 into each one of these lines. 670 00:36:12,257 --> 00:36:17,262 He's just a free individual and I can only imagine 671 00:36:17,304 --> 00:36:19,431 what that must have felt like. 672 00:36:19,431 --> 00:36:20,432 (smooth rock music) 673 00:36:20,432 --> 00:36:24,520 - When I was just getting into Marc Bolan about 1970, 674 00:36:24,520 --> 00:36:27,856 I'd read that he had this book of poems out. 675 00:36:27,856 --> 00:36:30,484 So I went to my local library and they had it. 676 00:36:30,484 --> 00:36:34,071 So I took it out and I spent three weeks copying it out 677 00:36:34,071 --> 00:36:36,407 word for word into an exercise book. 678 00:36:36,407 --> 00:36:39,743 I still got that at home next to a proper copy now. 679 00:36:39,743 --> 00:36:41,161 There they are. 680 00:36:41,203 --> 00:36:43,372 The version I wrote out is like an 11 year old kid. 681 00:36:43,372 --> 00:36:44,873 Every single poem. 682 00:36:44,873 --> 00:36:47,334 And I'm telling you, what head have you got on today? 683 00:36:47,334 --> 00:36:48,168 Because as you're writing 'em out 684 00:36:48,168 --> 00:36:49,378 and you're reading 'em going, 685 00:36:49,378 --> 00:36:50,796 "oh this is weird." 686 00:36:50,796 --> 00:36:55,175 It was old Tolkien esque stuff and it was, it was just mad. 687 00:36:55,217 --> 00:36:57,594 I just love the fact that he was full of expression 688 00:36:57,594 --> 00:37:00,305 but he just went off and didn't matter what it was. 689 00:37:00,305 --> 00:37:03,183 About lions or dragons or grass or mushrooms. 690 00:37:03,183 --> 00:37:05,602 It was just off with the fairies, really. 691 00:37:05,602 --> 00:37:07,646 I mean, literally, off with the fairies. 692 00:37:07,646 --> 00:37:09,940 - [Marc] "The star of youth was spawned one day 693 00:37:09,940 --> 00:37:12,025 "born on the horses of the sleigh. 694 00:37:12,025 --> 00:37:14,862 "In a green of elm, the sky, outstretched spake. 695 00:37:14,862 --> 00:37:17,656 "Drink deep O' Twinkler in my lake. 696 00:37:17,656 --> 00:37:20,951 "For a wish you'll be burdened to coronet on your dome, 697 00:37:20,951 --> 00:37:22,619 "like a willow the wisp all a tender, 698 00:37:22,619 --> 00:37:25,998 "you'll surrender in the deep foamy kitchens of the muse. 699 00:37:25,998 --> 00:37:27,833 "And one word they will say 700 00:37:27,833 --> 00:37:29,877 "and like a pelican and yellow amethyst, 701 00:37:29,877 --> 00:37:32,337 "they bless long your stay in the abbey blue, 702 00:37:32,337 --> 00:37:34,548 "but in glitter hue you wept for summers' limbs 703 00:37:34,548 --> 00:37:36,383 "upon the pleasant turf 704 00:37:36,383 --> 00:37:39,386 "and your shields of ice in the chilly times. 705 00:37:39,386 --> 00:37:42,848 "Creamed in gray wolfs hair, you stride your windy stare, 706 00:37:42,848 --> 00:37:44,725 "you'll miss no cathedral bed. 707 00:37:44,725 --> 00:37:47,603 "For you dote on the treasure in the chest of your head." 708 00:37:49,313 --> 00:37:51,064 - He used to come in and he was, 709 00:37:51,064 --> 00:37:52,775 you know, he'd be number one in the charts. 710 00:37:52,775 --> 00:37:54,735 But the big thing was 711 00:37:54,735 --> 00:37:57,654 he was the biggest selling poet in Britain 712 00:37:57,654 --> 00:37:59,239 and he loved that. 713 00:37:59,239 --> 00:38:02,534 - Well right now there's a group called "Tyrannosaurus Rex." 714 00:38:02,534 --> 00:38:04,828 Marc Bolan is the, well there are only two in the group 715 00:38:04,828 --> 00:38:07,706 but Marc Bolan is the singer and he was with John's children 716 00:38:07,706 --> 00:38:10,375 who released a number of records and Marc decided to go out 717 00:38:10,375 --> 00:38:12,920 and form his own little group, just the two of them. 718 00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:16,715 And he sings very gentle, soft little songs. 719 00:38:16,715 --> 00:38:19,176 And one of them is playing right now in the background 720 00:38:19,176 --> 00:38:20,010 and it's very beautiful. 721 00:38:20,010 --> 00:38:22,262 - Okay, let's have a look. - Okay. 722 00:38:22,262 --> 00:38:24,723 ♪ Broken dusty mama ♪ 723 00:38:24,723 --> 00:38:28,435 ♪ Her face melted just like wax ♪ 724 00:38:28,435 --> 00:38:31,146 ♪ Her once gazelle-like features ♪ 725 00:38:31,146 --> 00:38:33,941 ♪ Bloodied by the age axe ♪ 726 00:38:33,941 --> 00:38:35,526 - He wouldn't just pose in front of the mirror 727 00:38:35,526 --> 00:38:39,071 with his guitar and act out Elvis fantasies. 728 00:38:39,071 --> 00:38:43,283 So I think he was born to be this, to be what he became. 729 00:38:43,283 --> 00:38:46,703 I think Marc Bolan had this dream as soon as he could speak. 730 00:38:46,703 --> 00:38:51,708 ♪ The seal of seasons moved with grace love ♪ 731 00:38:52,292 --> 00:38:56,588 ♪ Upon the Orkney oceans face love ♪ 732 00:38:56,588 --> 00:39:00,425 ♪ She swam and moved just like a prancer ♪ 733 00:39:00,425 --> 00:39:03,095 ♪ A gypsy dancer ♪ 734 00:39:03,095 --> 00:39:06,557 ♪ A salty shimmered shell of foam ♪ 735 00:39:06,557 --> 00:39:09,101 He would've wanted a rock band right then, 736 00:39:09,101 --> 00:39:10,102 he couldn't afford it. 737 00:39:10,102 --> 00:39:12,187 He had a 12 quid guitar, 738 00:39:12,187 --> 00:39:15,107 he had a bongo drum player Steve Peragrin Took, 739 00:39:15,107 --> 00:39:16,525 that's all he had. 740 00:39:16,525 --> 00:39:20,612 ♪ One breath and shells grew on my nut tree ♪ 741 00:39:20,612 --> 00:39:21,488 ♪ it swayed ♪ 742 00:39:21,488 --> 00:39:23,782 - [Marc] I care very deeply about mankind as it is. 743 00:39:23,782 --> 00:39:26,034 And I just try to, in my own way, 744 00:39:26,034 --> 00:39:27,953 make it a bit more interesting. 745 00:39:27,953 --> 00:39:29,371 And I do believe in unicorns. 746 00:39:30,497 --> 00:39:34,543 I believe in the tree spirit and I have Scenescof 747 00:39:34,543 --> 00:39:37,796 and Scenescof is, I suppose, very much like Sauron 748 00:39:37,796 --> 00:39:38,672 in Lord of the Rings. 749 00:39:38,672 --> 00:39:41,717 He's sort of an arch villain that I use all the bad things. 750 00:39:41,717 --> 00:39:44,928 I lay it all on Scenescof so I can use him 751 00:39:44,928 --> 00:39:47,973 as an outlet for all the bad things. 752 00:39:47,973 --> 00:39:50,726 (ethereal music) 753 00:40:12,497 --> 00:40:16,084 (ethereal music continues) 754 00:40:37,439 --> 00:40:39,316 (ethereal music continues) 755 00:40:39,316 --> 00:40:43,904 ♪ Ri-Ri-Na ♪ 756 00:40:43,904 --> 00:40:48,325 ♪ Ta-Na-Ni-Na ♪ 757 00:40:48,325 --> 00:40:53,121 ♪ Ri-Ri-Na ♪ 758 00:40:53,121 --> 00:40:57,417 ♪ Ta-Na-Ni-Na ♪ 759 00:40:57,417 --> 00:41:02,005 ♪ Ta-Na-Ni-Ni-Ni-Na ♪ 760 00:41:02,005 --> 00:41:06,885 ♪ Ta-Na-Ni-Ni-Ni-Na ♪ 761 00:41:06,885 --> 00:41:11,181 ♪ Ni-Ni-Na ♪ 762 00:41:11,181 --> 00:41:16,186 ♪ Ah-Ah-Ah ♪ 763 00:41:20,357 --> 00:41:28,573 ♪ it was grand to have known her ♪ 764 00:41:29,533 --> 00:41:32,077 ♪ it was grand ♪ 765 00:41:33,286 --> 00:41:35,038 - It's not so easy to 766 00:41:36,581 --> 00:41:38,750 be vulnerable around people you don't know 767 00:41:38,750 --> 00:41:41,920 and in a space that you're not used to. 768 00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,673 And so the challenge becomes how can I become vulnerable 769 00:41:44,673 --> 00:41:48,719 in every circumstance or whenever I choose to be? 770 00:41:50,679 --> 00:41:54,266 The plan was to do a very, very deconstructed version. 771 00:41:55,392 --> 00:41:57,102 We took it in a different direction 772 00:41:57,102 --> 00:41:59,479 where it's more about this celebration. 773 00:41:59,521 --> 00:42:01,481 The song we chose was "Scenescof." 774 00:42:02,816 --> 00:42:05,152 I don't know if I'm pronouncing that right. 775 00:42:05,152 --> 00:42:05,986 What is that? 776 00:42:05,986 --> 00:42:07,029 What is Scenescof? 777 00:42:07,029 --> 00:42:10,240 Is it scenes... sea of? 778 00:42:11,408 --> 00:42:14,703 That line, "I don't need anyone to dictate all my fun." 779 00:42:14,703 --> 00:42:16,371 It's an anthem of freedom. 780 00:42:16,371 --> 00:42:18,165 But that's exactly, yeah, 781 00:42:18,165 --> 00:42:19,791 we'll move into that just a little bit at the end. 782 00:42:19,791 --> 00:42:21,126 But that was beautiful. 783 00:42:22,044 --> 00:42:24,588 For me as a young kid in San Francisco 784 00:42:24,588 --> 00:42:25,505 walking around the city. 785 00:42:25,547 --> 00:42:28,258 Okay so now. 786 00:42:28,258 --> 00:42:29,968 I have no idea what's gonna happen 787 00:42:32,137 --> 00:42:33,388 and I... 788 00:42:33,388 --> 00:42:37,893 And as uncertain as every single aspect of my life was, 789 00:42:37,893 --> 00:42:39,102 I had that to rely on. 790 00:42:40,395 --> 00:42:43,148 I just didn't need anybody but that song. 791 00:42:44,274 --> 00:42:47,235 - [Interviewer] Do you have any special things 792 00:42:47,235 --> 00:42:49,488 that you want to do in America? 793 00:42:50,697 --> 00:42:52,949 - [Marc] I want to play to people there 794 00:42:52,949 --> 00:42:55,744 like we have done here, like the concert tour that we did. 795 00:42:55,744 --> 00:42:58,163 It was just really playing to people 796 00:42:58,163 --> 00:43:01,041 and having within a quieter thing, 797 00:43:01,041 --> 00:43:03,543 an excitement which equals sort of rock and roll, 798 00:43:03,543 --> 00:43:06,838 but doesn't have any of the violence or no violent feelings. 799 00:43:06,838 --> 00:43:08,715 If people dance or people move about 800 00:43:08,715 --> 00:43:11,927 or sort of scratch at the air, it's because they want to 801 00:43:11,927 --> 00:43:14,638 and it's because they're enjoying the music. 802 00:43:14,638 --> 00:43:17,682 (crowd applauding) (groovy music) 803 00:43:17,682 --> 00:43:19,434 ♪ I love ev'ry dance ♪ 804 00:43:19,434 --> 00:43:20,894 - There was still conga drums 805 00:43:20,894 --> 00:43:22,729 now it was Mickey Finn on conga Drums. 806 00:43:22,729 --> 00:43:24,064 It's a transitional period 807 00:43:24,064 --> 00:43:26,233 like the acoustic is dropping away, 808 00:43:26,233 --> 00:43:28,235 the electric is introduced. 809 00:43:28,235 --> 00:43:33,240 ♪ I love ev'ry dance with my baby ♪ 810 00:43:33,281 --> 00:43:37,160 ♪ By the light of the magical moon ♪ 811 00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:40,539 - Tyrannosaurus Rex was unknown in America. 812 00:43:40,539 --> 00:43:43,375 I had never heard them on FM radio. 813 00:43:43,375 --> 00:43:44,835 You know, I don't think anyone 814 00:43:44,835 --> 00:43:47,087 should underestimate Mickey Finn. 815 00:43:47,087 --> 00:43:50,215 These were like poly rhythms even back then 816 00:43:50,215 --> 00:43:53,343 and for them to be playing no bass player, 817 00:43:53,343 --> 00:43:54,803 that's extraordinary. 818 00:43:54,803 --> 00:43:58,557 So Mickey Finn is not just keeping time for Marc, 819 00:43:58,557 --> 00:44:00,684 he's also playing rhythm, 820 00:44:00,684 --> 00:44:03,603 which is dual and Marc is playing rhythm as well. 821 00:44:04,563 --> 00:44:07,232 But the voice is what was astonishing. 822 00:44:07,232 --> 00:44:11,486 ♪ By the light of the magical moon ♪ 823 00:44:12,362 --> 00:44:14,823 - [Marc] What I fought for England was like rustic gods 824 00:44:14,823 --> 00:44:18,118 or or pan and I related to pan, not as an evil Goddess, 825 00:44:18,118 --> 00:44:21,037 like a pastoral deity and music, I'm sure, 826 00:44:21,037 --> 00:44:25,876 is just piped down to you from the sort of higher spheres. 827 00:44:25,876 --> 00:44:28,461 (groovy music) 828 00:44:35,886 --> 00:44:39,306 ♪ Come the sun, see it run across the sky ♪ 829 00:44:39,306 --> 00:44:44,311 ♪ Cosmic eye is for you and no one else ♪ 830 00:44:44,561 --> 00:44:47,939 ♪ Come the sun, see it run across the sky ♪ 831 00:44:47,939 --> 00:44:52,944 ♪ See it cry for you and no one else ♪ 832 00:44:53,528 --> 00:44:55,947 ♪ Love, love you ♪ 833 00:44:55,947 --> 00:44:58,909 ♪ Oh girl I do love you ♪ 834 00:44:58,909 --> 00:45:01,536 ♪ Ah-Ah-Ah ♪ 835 00:45:01,536 --> 00:45:04,414 - It's like a worship for me to write 'cause I don't do it, 836 00:45:04,414 --> 00:45:06,458 do you know, it's like I'm being used 837 00:45:06,458 --> 00:45:10,003 by melody as a being if you want. 838 00:45:10,003 --> 00:45:11,463 And there are certain chords that just 839 00:45:11,463 --> 00:45:14,257 there are magic mists within those chords. 840 00:45:14,257 --> 00:45:16,927 You play a sort of C major chord 841 00:45:16,927 --> 00:45:19,679 and I hear like 25 melodies and symphonies up here. 842 00:45:19,679 --> 00:45:21,014 I've just gotta pull one out. 843 00:45:21,014 --> 00:45:23,308 You know. (Marc vocalises) 844 00:45:23,308 --> 00:45:24,142 You know, it's just anything. 845 00:45:24,142 --> 00:45:25,060 It's all there. 846 00:45:25,060 --> 00:45:27,229 There's no strain it just gushes out. 847 00:45:28,647 --> 00:45:30,607 (celestial music) 848 00:45:30,607 --> 00:45:33,401 ♪ We are children of Rarn ♪ 849 00:45:33,401 --> 00:45:37,072 ♪ We've trodden the vales of the sun ♪ 850 00:45:37,072 --> 00:45:39,032 ♪ The child will cry ♪ 851 00:45:39,032 --> 00:45:41,993 ♪ On swans they fly ♪ 852 00:45:41,993 --> 00:45:45,497 ♪ We are the children of Rarn ♪ 853 00:45:45,497 --> 00:45:48,625 ♪ And we are the seekers of space ♪ 854 00:45:48,625 --> 00:45:51,795 ♪ We've seen our master's face ♪ 855 00:45:51,795 --> 00:45:53,421 ♪ It's young and gold ♪ 856 00:45:53,421 --> 00:45:55,632 ♪ And silvery old ♪ 857 00:45:55,632 --> 00:45:58,718 ♪ We are the seekers of space ♪ 858 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:00,929 There aren't people like Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix 859 00:46:00,929 --> 00:46:02,973 or Jimmy Page if you like, 860 00:46:02,973 --> 00:46:05,225 whoever you relate to out of those sort of people. 861 00:46:05,225 --> 00:46:07,394 That's through the use of a guitar, 862 00:46:07,394 --> 00:46:09,980 which is like a piece of wood with string on it, 863 00:46:09,980 --> 00:46:12,899 really, when you relate to it that, made by man. 864 00:46:12,899 --> 00:46:15,443 That certain things can stir your emotions up 865 00:46:15,443 --> 00:46:17,195 out of a piece of carpentry, 866 00:46:17,195 --> 00:46:20,657 or blowing a piece of steel pipe and and making you cry. 867 00:46:20,657 --> 00:46:23,868 What happens, you know, within that pipe, 868 00:46:23,868 --> 00:46:26,621 you know it's a spirit coming through. 869 00:46:26,621 --> 00:46:29,541 It's when people deny sort of spiritual factors, 870 00:46:29,541 --> 00:46:31,710 it's very sad, 'cause it's everywhere around us. 871 00:46:31,710 --> 00:46:33,837 - He started using electric guitars by then 872 00:46:33,837 --> 00:46:36,339 and he renamed the group T-Rex. 873 00:46:36,339 --> 00:46:38,925 (groovy music) 874 00:46:38,925 --> 00:46:42,012 ♪ Ride it on out like a bird in the sky ways ♪ 875 00:46:42,012 --> 00:46:45,473 ♪ Ride it on out like you were a bird ♪ 876 00:46:45,473 --> 00:46:48,685 ♪ Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam ♪ 877 00:46:48,685 --> 00:46:53,690 ♪ Ride it on out like you were a bird ♪ 878 00:46:56,943 --> 00:47:00,030 ♪ Wear a tall hat like a druid in the old days ♪ 879 00:47:00,030 --> 00:47:03,450 ♪ Wear a tall hat and a tattooed gown ♪ 880 00:47:03,450 --> 00:47:06,619 ♪ Ride a white swan like the people of the Beltane ♪ 881 00:47:06,619 --> 00:47:11,624 ♪ Wear your hair long, babe you can't go wrong ♪ 882 00:47:14,919 --> 00:47:18,048 ♪ Catch a bright star and a place it on your forehead ♪ 883 00:47:18,048 --> 00:47:21,343 ♪ Say a few spells and baby, there you go ♪ 884 00:47:21,343 --> 00:47:24,888 ♪ Take a black cat and sit it on your shoulder ♪ 885 00:47:24,888 --> 00:47:29,851 ♪ And in the morning you'll know all you know, oh ♪ 886 00:47:29,976 --> 00:47:33,229 - When he recorded "Ride a White Swan," 887 00:47:33,229 --> 00:47:34,898 he played it to me upstairs and I said, 888 00:47:34,898 --> 00:47:36,524 "well that's just a great way 889 00:47:36,524 --> 00:47:39,027 "to be Chuck Berry in the modern world. 890 00:47:39,027 --> 00:47:40,570 "It's perfect, Marc." 891 00:47:41,196 --> 00:47:43,656 And I took the demo before release 892 00:47:44,074 --> 00:47:45,533 to the Isle of Wight with me 893 00:47:45,533 --> 00:47:48,620 and played it every two hours throughout five days. 894 00:47:49,913 --> 00:47:53,333 I was the promo man on Ride a White Swan. 895 00:47:53,333 --> 00:47:56,086 (ethereal music) 896 00:47:58,755 --> 00:48:02,759 ♪ She was born to be my Unicorn ♪ 897 00:48:13,395 --> 00:48:16,106 ♪ Robed head offerns ♪ 898 00:48:16,106 --> 00:48:20,360 ♪ Cat child tutored by the learned ♪ 899 00:48:27,742 --> 00:48:30,537 ♪ Darkly ghostish host ♪ 900 00:48:30,537 --> 00:48:35,166 ♪ Haggard vizier of the moats ♪ 901 00:48:35,166 --> 00:48:40,171 ♪ Seeks the sandled shores of God's baby of the moors ♪ 902 00:48:51,391 --> 00:48:54,978 ♪ Ride it on out like a bird in the sky ways ♪ 903 00:48:54,978 --> 00:48:58,648 ♪ Ride it on out like you were a bird ♪ 904 00:48:58,648 --> 00:49:01,901 ♪ Fly it all out like an eagle in a sunbeam ♪ 905 00:49:01,901 --> 00:49:06,406 ♪ Ride it on out like you were a bird ♪ 906 00:49:07,365 --> 00:49:09,576 - [Maria] I was heavily pushing the unicorn. 907 00:49:09,576 --> 00:49:11,786 She was born to be my unicorn. 908 00:49:11,786 --> 00:49:16,666 - We thought put unicorn first drawn as initially an intro. 909 00:49:16,666 --> 00:49:20,920 Then it took a different direction of having all of unicorn 910 00:49:20,962 --> 00:49:23,256 and swan as the coda. 911 00:49:23,256 --> 00:49:25,341 (upbeat music) 912 00:49:25,341 --> 00:49:27,010 ♪ La-Di-Di-Di-Da ♪ 913 00:49:27,010 --> 00:49:27,844 ♪ La-Di-Di-Di-Da ♪ 914 00:49:27,844 --> 00:49:29,053 - You know, at thanksgiving sometimes, 915 00:49:29,053 --> 00:49:31,097 like if I bring a care package over to somebody's house, 916 00:49:31,097 --> 00:49:33,933 if I've made pie, and I made a pumpkin pie and a pecan pie, 917 00:49:33,975 --> 00:49:36,561 and I had a piece of each in Tupperware 918 00:49:36,561 --> 00:49:39,439 and they moulded together and became one pie. 919 00:49:39,439 --> 00:49:41,774 - Pie is my favourite word. 920 00:49:41,774 --> 00:49:42,609 - Really? 921 00:49:42,609 --> 00:49:43,943 - Yeah. - Like in a mathematics? 922 00:49:43,943 --> 00:49:47,238 - No, I tell people, "now let's go have some pie." 923 00:49:47,238 --> 00:49:48,156 - Oh, okay. 924 00:49:48,156 --> 00:49:50,074 - "Ride a White Swan," went up to number two 925 00:49:50,074 --> 00:49:52,535 so right away we're gonna make another record immediately, 926 00:49:52,535 --> 00:49:54,537 and he wanted drums on this one. 927 00:49:54,537 --> 00:49:57,207 I introduced Marc to Bill and he says, 928 00:49:57,207 --> 00:49:58,249 "oh you are from the group Legend. 929 00:49:58,249 --> 00:50:00,793 "Well, I'm gonna call you Bill Legend from now on." 930 00:50:00,793 --> 00:50:03,796 So Bill played on "Hot Love," and by the end of the session 931 00:50:03,796 --> 00:50:05,256 Marc says you're my drummer. 932 00:50:06,299 --> 00:50:08,301 - I didn't know where it was gonna go. 933 00:50:08,301 --> 00:50:11,721 Okay, we had like what, "Hot Love," in the charts? 934 00:50:11,721 --> 00:50:12,972 What was gonna be the next one? 935 00:50:13,014 --> 00:50:15,767 Would that be a number one or what about the one after that? 936 00:50:15,767 --> 00:50:19,145 If it was, but I never assumed or presumed 937 00:50:19,145 --> 00:50:20,980 that it was going to be successful. 938 00:50:21,022 --> 00:50:23,149 - [Tony] Waiting in the wings was Steve Currie, 939 00:50:23,149 --> 00:50:24,317 the bass player. 940 00:50:24,317 --> 00:50:27,111 From there on end this was a T-Rex band 941 00:50:27,111 --> 00:50:29,531 that was gonna be the band for the next three years. 942 00:50:30,740 --> 00:50:33,743 (upbeat rock music) 943 00:50:48,132 --> 00:50:49,551 - He was so wonderful, he come down and said, 944 00:50:49,551 --> 00:50:51,553 "Elton, I sold a million records this morning." 945 00:50:51,553 --> 00:50:54,264 And I went, "fabulous, Marc, how great for you." 946 00:50:54,264 --> 00:50:57,475 But he wasn't egotistical, he was so fantastic. 947 00:50:57,475 --> 00:51:00,895 (upbeat music continues) 948 00:51:08,486 --> 00:51:11,447 - Rock music is the thing that one feels about and enjoys, 949 00:51:11,447 --> 00:51:12,824 and if one doesn't feel and enjoy it, 950 00:51:12,824 --> 00:51:14,534 then one shouldn't really talk about it or listen to it. 951 00:51:14,534 --> 00:51:15,493 Can we go to the audience 952 00:51:15,493 --> 00:51:16,536 or do you wanna cut off? - [Interviewer] Yes, 953 00:51:16,536 --> 00:51:17,370 by all means, yes. 954 00:51:17,370 --> 00:51:18,204 - What do you think a pop star is? 955 00:51:18,204 --> 00:51:19,038 Can anyone say? 956 00:51:19,038 --> 00:51:19,914 Just as on a flash. 957 00:51:19,914 --> 00:51:22,041 Come on, doesn't matter, they'll cut it out. 958 00:51:22,041 --> 00:51:23,376 - [Person] Hard worker. - [Person] Hard worker. 959 00:51:23,376 --> 00:51:24,794 - I was gonna say (indistinct). 960 00:51:24,794 --> 00:51:25,712 - Well that's nice. 961 00:51:25,712 --> 00:51:26,671 That makes, really. - It is, it is. 962 00:51:26,671 --> 00:51:28,131 I think it is a job. 963 00:51:28,131 --> 00:51:31,426 I mean people think that it's, you just go into a studio 964 00:51:31,426 --> 00:51:34,012 and a couple of hours it's all over. 965 00:51:34,012 --> 00:51:36,055 It's not like that at all, is it? 966 00:51:36,097 --> 00:51:37,515 - Not at all. - I mean it's damn hard work. 967 00:51:37,515 --> 00:51:38,474 It really is. 968 00:51:38,474 --> 00:51:42,562 - But isn't everything? (funky rock music) 969 00:52:03,374 --> 00:52:07,086 (funky rock music continues) 970 00:52:13,176 --> 00:52:18,056 ♪ I could never understand the wind at all ♪ 971 00:52:18,056 --> 00:52:21,559 ♪ Was like a ball of love ♪ 972 00:52:28,149 --> 00:52:32,987 ♪ I could never, ever see the cosmic sea ♪ 973 00:52:32,987 --> 00:52:37,992 ♪ Was like a bumblebee ♪ 974 00:52:38,117 --> 00:52:41,788 ♪ And when I'm sad, I slide ♪ 975 00:53:01,099 --> 00:53:03,142 ♪ I have never, ever ♪ 976 00:53:03,142 --> 00:53:04,977 - The funny thing about this song is 977 00:53:04,977 --> 00:53:07,647 I definitely wrote some new baselines 978 00:53:07,647 --> 00:53:08,648 and wrote some parts in it 979 00:53:08,648 --> 00:53:10,817 that emphasised the funkiness of the song. 980 00:53:10,817 --> 00:53:14,570 But the truth is we wouldn't have had to change 981 00:53:14,570 --> 00:53:17,323 any of the notes to make it funky. 982 00:53:17,323 --> 00:53:21,077 We just would've had to play it like Snarky Puppy 983 00:53:21,077 --> 00:53:23,287 'cause the song itself is funky. 984 00:53:23,287 --> 00:53:25,998 I did an arrangement that I felt would reflect 985 00:53:25,998 --> 00:53:28,459 and bring out kind of the funkiness of the tune 986 00:53:28,459 --> 00:53:30,586 but also kind of the weirdness 987 00:53:30,586 --> 00:53:33,965 and kind of dissonance, in a certain way. 988 00:53:35,383 --> 00:53:38,469 'Cause it's not a thing that I think can be played cleanly, 989 00:53:38,469 --> 00:53:41,347 that song, it has to be kind of murky 990 00:53:41,347 --> 00:53:43,558 and ambiguous, you know? 991 00:53:43,558 --> 00:53:45,393 But the baselines, actually, in that song, 992 00:53:45,393 --> 00:53:49,147 in that arrangement could be parliament baselines. 993 00:53:49,147 --> 00:53:52,483 (funky music continues) 994 00:53:55,027 --> 00:53:57,113 - On "The Slider" there was that spontaneity. 995 00:53:57,113 --> 00:53:59,615 It wasn't time enough to think, you know, 996 00:53:59,615 --> 00:54:02,201 Bill Legend said he would just barely know the song 997 00:54:02,243 --> 00:54:04,787 and then Marc would say that's it, that's a take. 998 00:54:04,787 --> 00:54:08,166 You know, nowadays records are usually made to a click track 999 00:54:08,166 --> 00:54:09,876 and by the time you get to the end of the song, 1000 00:54:09,876 --> 00:54:11,878 it's still the same exact tempo. 1001 00:54:11,878 --> 00:54:14,130 There was no click track in the seventies 1002 00:54:14,130 --> 00:54:16,215 and if you listen to "The Slider," 1003 00:54:16,215 --> 00:54:17,925 it starts out like (slow tempo vocalisation). 1004 00:54:20,219 --> 00:54:22,054 By the end of "The Slider" it's (upbeat tempo vocalisation). 1005 00:54:23,055 --> 00:54:26,434 It must have cranked up about 15 beats per minute. 1006 00:54:26,434 --> 00:54:28,811 (upbeat music) 1007 00:54:28,811 --> 00:54:31,272 (funky music) 1008 00:54:40,990 --> 00:54:45,661 ♪ I have never, never nailed a nose before ♪ 1009 00:54:45,661 --> 00:54:50,666 ♪ That's how the garden grows ♪ 1010 00:54:55,129 --> 00:54:59,801 ♪ I could never understand the wind at all ♪ 1011 00:54:59,801 --> 00:55:04,472 ♪ Was like a ball of love ♪ 1012 00:55:04,472 --> 00:55:08,142 ♪ And when I'm sad, I slide ♪ 1013 00:55:11,729 --> 00:55:12,855 - I feel like the time he was making music 1014 00:55:12,855 --> 00:55:15,441 there was a lot of like really, 1015 00:55:15,441 --> 00:55:17,902 like important figures in rock. 1016 00:55:17,902 --> 00:55:19,987 So he might get overlooked in that regard 1017 00:55:19,987 --> 00:55:22,990 but like yeah, he's just really good. 1018 00:55:22,990 --> 00:55:26,702 - I think he probably has a lot to do with like 1019 00:55:26,702 --> 00:55:28,871 a man carrying himself like that, 1020 00:55:28,871 --> 00:55:33,626 like making that okay and like that's cool. 1021 00:55:33,626 --> 00:55:38,089 Like people like him and Bowie and stuff, you know, 1022 00:55:38,089 --> 00:55:40,383 you don't have to be like the super masculine, 1023 00:55:42,051 --> 00:55:44,512 you know character to be a male singer. 1024 00:55:44,512 --> 00:55:51,143 You can be a character or you know be your own thing. 1025 00:55:51,936 --> 00:55:55,273 (funky music continues) 1026 00:56:03,364 --> 00:56:05,867 (funky music) 1027 00:56:27,430 --> 00:56:30,766 (funky music continues) 1028 00:56:56,918 --> 00:56:57,877 (crowd cheering) 1029 00:56:57,877 --> 00:56:59,503 - When you hear Marc Bolan, 1030 00:56:59,503 --> 00:57:02,924 it is really apparent that he is not posing, 1031 00:57:02,924 --> 00:57:06,052 he's pulling from those artists that came before him. 1032 00:57:06,052 --> 00:57:08,304 It's not like he just appeared from an alien planet 1033 00:57:08,304 --> 00:57:10,222 with a totally new language of music. 1034 00:57:10,222 --> 00:57:13,517 His, you know the lineage behind him is apparent, 1035 00:57:13,517 --> 00:57:18,230 but it's the conviction that that makes it still feel fresh, 1036 00:57:18,230 --> 00:57:20,858 when I listen to records like "Tanx," or "The Slider," 1037 00:57:20,858 --> 00:57:23,069 it's like you'd still feels fresh. 1038 00:57:24,153 --> 00:57:26,864 ♪ Beneath the bebop moon ♪ 1039 00:57:26,864 --> 00:57:30,451 ♪ I want to croon with you ♪ 1040 00:57:32,745 --> 00:57:35,081 - I come from a very poor background 1041 00:57:35,081 --> 00:57:38,417 and I'm kind of like a fairytale what happened to me. 1042 00:57:38,417 --> 00:57:40,711 But within that fairytale, it's hard work, 1043 00:57:40,711 --> 00:57:42,964 and now after seven years, I'm a businessman 1044 00:57:42,964 --> 00:57:45,466 and I do my own shit to protect my people. 1045 00:57:47,802 --> 00:57:49,011 - I have to thank Marc 1046 00:57:49,011 --> 00:57:51,263 'cause he came over one night for dinner 1047 00:57:51,263 --> 00:57:54,433 and he talked, you know, "oh, back off. 1048 00:57:54,475 --> 00:57:56,435 "Well Boogaloo." (laughs) 1049 00:57:56,477 --> 00:58:00,064 And they left, 1050 00:58:00,064 --> 00:58:02,066 we went to bed and you know 1051 00:58:02,066 --> 00:58:04,443 when you're in that twilight zone? 1052 00:58:04,485 --> 00:58:05,778 I just heard, 1053 00:58:05,778 --> 00:58:09,740 ♪ Back off, Boo-ga-loo, I said, back off ♪ 1054 00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:12,535 ♪ Back off, Boo-ga-loo, I said ♪ 1055 00:58:12,535 --> 00:58:15,329 ♪ Back off, Boo-ga-loo, I said ♪ 1056 00:58:15,329 --> 00:58:19,709 ♪ Back off, Boo-ga-loo, Boo ♪ 1057 00:58:19,709 --> 00:58:21,794 - LA was kind of the hot bed 1058 00:58:21,794 --> 00:58:24,422 and I always would hear like the new stuff 1059 00:58:24,422 --> 00:58:26,590 because we'd drive around Sunset Boulevard 1060 00:58:26,590 --> 00:58:29,260 or go by the Continental Hyatt house, 1061 00:58:29,260 --> 00:58:33,014 or try and get into Rodney's club. 1062 00:58:33,014 --> 00:58:35,808 And so you got a sense of like 1063 00:58:35,808 --> 00:58:39,020 the coming thing on the street when you came to LA, 1064 00:58:39,020 --> 00:58:40,855 and it was T-Rex. 1065 00:58:40,855 --> 00:58:45,860 It was that kind of pumping, groovy hop-rock, 1066 00:58:47,737 --> 00:58:49,780 little bit of Eddie Cochran 1067 00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:52,491 and a little bit of like futurism, 1068 00:58:52,491 --> 00:58:56,871 and it felt so fresh and like insidious. 1069 00:58:56,871 --> 00:58:59,749 It got under your skin in the way he used vocals 1070 00:58:59,749 --> 00:59:03,461 and like you know women's voices, men's voices 1071 00:59:03,461 --> 00:59:05,963 and it was such a great kind of gumbo 1072 00:59:05,963 --> 00:59:08,299 of all these influences. 1073 00:59:08,299 --> 00:59:10,634 You couldn't get it outta your head 1074 00:59:10,634 --> 00:59:13,054 or like you couldn't get the rhythm outta your body. 1075 00:59:13,054 --> 00:59:15,556 (funky music) 1076 00:59:19,602 --> 00:59:22,605 (people chattering) 1077 00:59:23,731 --> 00:59:24,648 - A Bob Marley song. 1078 00:59:24,648 --> 00:59:26,358 - [Person] She wants us to hear it? 1079 00:59:26,358 --> 00:59:27,193 - Yeah, 1080 00:59:28,903 --> 00:59:29,904 not to emulate it or anything 1081 00:59:29,904 --> 00:59:31,447 but just to kind of get the vibe. 1082 00:59:31,447 --> 00:59:33,157 - No more BPM than that. 1083 00:59:33,157 --> 00:59:34,492 What is that? 1084 00:59:34,700 --> 00:59:37,328 - [Person] What's the BPM on the drums? 1085 00:59:37,328 --> 00:59:39,121 - [Person] One, four, two. 1086 00:59:39,121 --> 00:59:40,539 - [Person] One, four, two. 1087 00:59:40,539 --> 00:59:41,874 - Oh. - [Person] One down? 1088 00:59:42,792 --> 00:59:44,543 - 140. 1089 00:59:44,585 --> 00:59:47,421 - [Person] Can you do 140, please? 1090 00:59:48,631 --> 00:59:51,425 - This gonna be awesome. - Yeah. 1091 00:59:51,425 --> 00:59:53,886 (funky music) 1092 01:00:11,403 --> 01:00:14,698 ♪ Well you can bump and grind ♪ 1093 01:00:14,698 --> 01:00:18,160 ♪ it is good for your mind ♪ 1094 01:00:18,160 --> 01:00:21,580 ♪ Well you can twist and shout ♪ 1095 01:00:21,580 --> 01:00:23,916 ♪ Let it all hang out ♪ 1096 01:00:23,916 --> 01:00:28,212 ♪ But you won't fool the children of the revolution ♪ 1097 01:00:28,212 --> 01:00:33,175 ♪ No, you won't fool the children of the revolution ♪ 1098 01:00:33,175 --> 01:00:37,012 ♪ No, no, no ♪ 1099 01:00:37,012 --> 01:00:40,182 ♪ Oh, no, no ♪ 1100 01:00:40,182 --> 01:00:45,187 ♪ No, no, no ♪ 1101 01:00:49,191 --> 01:00:51,235 ♪ You can Terraplane ♪ 1102 01:00:51,235 --> 01:00:52,778 ♪ Terraplane ♪ 1103 01:00:52,778 --> 01:00:54,238 ♪ In the falling rain ♪ 1104 01:00:54,238 --> 01:00:55,906 ♪ In the falling rain ♪ 1105 01:00:55,906 --> 01:00:57,700 ♪ I drive a Rolls-Royce ♪ 1106 01:00:57,700 --> 01:00:59,410 ♪ I drive a Rolls-Royce ♪ 1107 01:00:59,410 --> 01:01:01,412 ♪ 'Cause it's good for my voice ♪ 1108 01:01:01,412 --> 01:01:03,831 ♪ But you won't fool, oh yeah ♪ 1109 01:01:03,831 --> 01:01:05,499 ♪ The children of the revolution ♪ 1110 01:01:05,499 --> 01:01:08,169 ♪ Hey, yeah, you won't fool ♪ 1111 01:01:08,169 --> 01:01:11,005 ♪ No, no, the children of the revolution ♪ 1112 01:01:11,005 --> 01:01:13,424 ♪ No, no, no ♪ 1113 01:01:14,425 --> 01:01:16,552 - Hey, one second, do you remember... 1114 01:01:16,552 --> 01:01:18,721 Do you remember the baseline you were doing before? 1115 01:01:19,930 --> 01:01:21,640 - [Person] Like there was something more sparse, right? 1116 01:01:21,682 --> 01:01:22,516 - Yeah. 1117 01:01:22,516 --> 01:01:25,436 - Wayne, instead that thing could you throw like, 1118 01:01:25,436 --> 01:01:27,771 do like beef artist shit in there? 1119 01:01:27,771 --> 01:01:28,856 - [Macy] Get in there. 1120 01:01:29,773 --> 01:01:33,319 - I just think that's, if that was beefed up. 1121 01:01:33,319 --> 01:01:35,821 (funky music) 1122 01:01:46,290 --> 01:01:51,295 ♪ All right, you don't fool me now ♪ 1123 01:01:52,171 --> 01:01:55,925 ♪ Baby, bump and grind ♪ 1124 01:01:55,925 --> 01:01:58,636 ♪ We're gonna bump and grind ♪ 1125 01:01:58,636 --> 01:02:00,554 - She's such a dynamic person 1126 01:02:00,554 --> 01:02:02,473 and she comes from such a different genre 1127 01:02:02,473 --> 01:02:05,142 but I think for how she got it 1128 01:02:05,142 --> 01:02:07,686 and how she kind of thought it was as Bob Marley, 1129 01:02:07,728 --> 01:02:09,897 it felt like a, it's like a chant 1130 01:02:09,897 --> 01:02:11,899 of like we have to do something, 1131 01:02:11,899 --> 01:02:14,360 and we have to fight for it and we have to bump, 1132 01:02:14,360 --> 01:02:18,697 if we don't bump the table, no one will. 1133 01:02:18,697 --> 01:02:20,783 And she took it and turned it into, 1134 01:02:20,783 --> 01:02:24,203 it could be an anthem of a whole new generation. 1135 01:02:24,203 --> 01:02:26,038 (upbeat music) 1136 01:02:26,038 --> 01:02:31,043 - Marc took a train ride alone to surprise me at Manchester. 1137 01:02:31,794 --> 01:02:34,296 I was opening for Bob Marley, 1138 01:02:35,339 --> 01:02:39,134 and any other day I would've been in the hotel, 1139 01:02:40,552 --> 01:02:43,013 that day I decided to go to the mall. 1140 01:02:44,265 --> 01:02:47,851 So he goes over to the auditorium 1141 01:02:47,851 --> 01:02:50,020 and guess who's there on stage? 1142 01:02:50,020 --> 01:02:50,854 Bob. 1143 01:02:51,814 --> 01:02:53,482 So I said, "well, what did you do?" 1144 01:02:53,482 --> 01:02:56,944 He said, "he and I just sat there and looked at each other 1145 01:02:56,944 --> 01:02:58,320 "and played the guitar. 1146 01:02:58,320 --> 01:03:00,364 "Bob just sang to me and played 1147 01:03:00,364 --> 01:03:02,032 "and he said I just crossed my legs 1148 01:03:02,032 --> 01:03:04,159 "and just listened to him." 1149 01:03:04,159 --> 01:03:06,745 And so they had that wonderful moment 1150 01:03:06,745 --> 01:03:10,374 and that was that peace, one love. 1151 01:03:11,250 --> 01:03:12,960 Marc was very happy 1152 01:03:12,960 --> 01:03:16,463 'cause he was comfortable in integrating, 1153 01:03:16,463 --> 01:03:19,133 bringing the two cultures together. 1154 01:03:20,050 --> 01:03:25,055 At that time Marc was starting to change his sound 1155 01:03:25,514 --> 01:03:28,892 but he actually loved where he was going. 1156 01:03:28,892 --> 01:03:33,564 He liked the fact of riding down Sunset Boulevard 1157 01:03:33,564 --> 01:03:37,401 in our gold Cadillac with David Bowie driving 1158 01:03:37,401 --> 01:03:39,903 and they're in these gangster hats, 1159 01:03:39,903 --> 01:03:42,406 and all of a sudden a couple of people look over and say, 1160 01:03:42,406 --> 01:03:45,367 "oh there's Marc Bolan and David Bowie 1161 01:03:45,367 --> 01:03:47,661 "driving down Sunset Boulevard." 1162 01:03:47,661 --> 01:03:50,414 I mean so that's where life was. 1163 01:03:50,414 --> 01:03:53,417 ♪ Bolan likes to rock now ♪ 1164 01:03:53,417 --> 01:03:57,963 ♪ Oh yeah, he does, yeah he does ♪ 1165 01:03:57,963 --> 01:04:01,008 ♪ Bolan likes to rock now ♪ 1166 01:04:01,008 --> 01:04:05,054 ♪ Oh yes, he does, yes he does ♪ 1167 01:04:05,054 --> 01:04:08,640 ♪ Oh yes, he does ♪ 1168 01:04:08,640 --> 01:04:11,477 (uplifting music) 1169 01:04:14,772 --> 01:04:16,815 ♪ Is there a sane man ♪ 1170 01:04:16,857 --> 01:04:20,069 - I was 16 and I really wanted to interview Marc Bolan 1171 01:04:20,944 --> 01:04:22,696 and he was coming to San Diego. 1172 01:04:22,696 --> 01:04:25,324 He played the San Diego Civic Theatre 1173 01:04:25,324 --> 01:04:26,784 and I went backstage to meet him 1174 01:04:26,784 --> 01:04:29,078 and do one of two interviews. 1175 01:04:29,078 --> 01:04:31,789 Drove up from San Diego the next day, 1176 01:04:31,789 --> 01:04:33,290 I believe with Neal Preston, 1177 01:04:33,290 --> 01:04:35,834 and we had a great interview with him 1178 01:04:35,876 --> 01:04:37,127 at the Beverly Wilshire. 1179 01:04:38,045 --> 01:04:40,381 And Marc, you can see from the photos, 1180 01:04:40,381 --> 01:04:42,758 he kind of was holding court in this room, 1181 01:04:42,758 --> 01:04:44,301 kind of an opulent room. 1182 01:04:44,301 --> 01:04:48,097 He ordered some champagne and he on a show day, 1183 01:04:48,097 --> 01:04:49,807 you know, 'cause he was playing Santa Monica 1184 01:04:49,807 --> 01:04:51,058 that night, I guess. 1185 01:04:51,058 --> 01:04:55,646 And he drank this champagne and was charmingly loopy, 1186 01:04:55,646 --> 01:05:00,651 and kind of performed the Marc Bolan character for us. 1187 01:05:00,943 --> 01:05:05,531 - What I remember about that day is pretty much summed up 1188 01:05:07,491 --> 01:05:08,325 in, 1189 01:05:09,952 --> 01:05:13,247 the now... 1190 01:05:13,247 --> 01:05:14,790 The somewhat famous 1191 01:05:17,459 --> 01:05:19,253 nipple photo. 1192 01:05:19,253 --> 01:05:21,380 You know, he's just so matter of fact here. 1193 01:05:21,380 --> 01:05:24,049 And it wasn't like he was taking the outta me or anything, 1194 01:05:24,049 --> 01:05:27,511 it was just thought this will make a good photo. 1195 01:05:27,511 --> 01:05:31,390 But you know, the look on his face is just priceless. 1196 01:05:31,390 --> 01:05:35,185 - He was fun and cheeky 1197 01:05:35,185 --> 01:05:38,188 but underneath it, I remember very clearly 1198 01:05:38,188 --> 01:05:40,524 was a kind of wounded bravado. 1199 01:05:40,524 --> 01:05:43,360 'Cause he had a little bit of a story to tell, 1200 01:05:43,360 --> 01:05:46,280 which was about this album "Tanx" 1201 01:05:46,280 --> 01:05:49,199 had come out in January of that year, 1202 01:05:49,199 --> 01:05:53,537 gone to number one in the UK, big hit, right? 1203 01:05:53,537 --> 01:05:55,247 And they were trying to like 1204 01:05:55,247 --> 01:05:57,916 put him over the top in America. 1205 01:05:57,958 --> 01:06:00,043 But what happened was 1206 01:06:00,043 --> 01:06:04,006 he had already played out the glam rock thing in England. 1207 01:06:04,006 --> 01:06:07,301 So by the time "Tanx" comes out he said, 1208 01:06:07,301 --> 01:06:10,596 "I don't wanna put on the makeup in England anymore, 1209 01:06:10,596 --> 01:06:12,389 "'cause like I played that character. 1210 01:06:12,389 --> 01:06:16,310 "I did it and now all the people that imitated me 1211 01:06:16,310 --> 01:06:19,062 "have taken over but I need to move on." 1212 01:06:20,022 --> 01:06:22,858 And he said, "I'll wear the makeup in the US 1213 01:06:22,858 --> 01:06:24,610 "because I haven't played that out, 1214 01:06:24,610 --> 01:06:26,403 "I haven't played that out here yet." 1215 01:06:26,403 --> 01:06:28,822 But he was slightly irritated 1216 01:06:28,822 --> 01:06:32,951 that his influence had not landed here 1217 01:06:32,993 --> 01:06:35,245 and was possibly waning there. 1218 01:06:35,245 --> 01:06:37,206 - [Marc] Boston's the only city on this whole tour 1219 01:06:37,206 --> 01:06:39,291 that has not sold well, I don't know why that is 1220 01:06:39,291 --> 01:06:40,918 and I must accept that. 1221 01:06:40,918 --> 01:06:42,794 To anyone out there, we're just gonna rock and roll 1222 01:06:42,794 --> 01:06:44,213 so you're gonna come and rock and roll. 1223 01:06:44,213 --> 01:06:46,048 You know, but I'll play the three people. 1224 01:06:46,048 --> 01:06:51,053 ♪ I could have loved you, Girl, like a planet ♪ 1225 01:06:54,097 --> 01:06:59,102 ♪ I could have chained your heart to a star ♪ 1226 01:07:00,771 --> 01:07:04,858 ♪ But it really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1227 01:07:04,858 --> 01:07:07,903 ♪ No it really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1228 01:07:07,903 --> 01:07:10,447 - At first it seems a little whimsical 1229 01:07:10,447 --> 01:07:11,657 and then it says you know, 1230 01:07:11,657 --> 01:07:13,659 "well, but it really doesn't matter at all." 1231 01:07:13,659 --> 01:07:17,204 Life's a gas and you know, life isn't always a gas. 1232 01:07:18,163 --> 01:07:23,168 ♪ I could have built a house on the ocean ♪ 1233 01:07:26,171 --> 01:07:31,176 ♪ I could have placed our love in the sky ♪ 1234 01:07:32,553 --> 01:07:36,932 ♪ But it really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1235 01:07:36,932 --> 01:07:40,018 ♪ it really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1236 01:07:40,018 --> 01:07:43,438 ♪ Life's a gas ♪ 1237 01:07:43,438 --> 01:07:46,024 (sombre music) 1238 01:07:47,985 --> 01:07:50,654 - Marc and I had an extraordinary relationship. 1239 01:07:50,654 --> 01:07:53,740 We both knew we were gonna do great things 1240 01:07:53,740 --> 01:07:55,492 and we were very close in the beginning, 1241 01:07:55,492 --> 01:07:58,620 and then as it got closer to us actually making it, 1242 01:07:58,620 --> 01:08:01,623 we drifted apart and we'd be very wary of each other. 1243 01:08:03,542 --> 01:08:06,420 He started getting fairly, you know, known 1244 01:08:06,420 --> 01:08:10,424 and invite me to do mine performances on his tours 1245 01:08:10,424 --> 01:08:11,758 and stuff like that. 1246 01:08:12,593 --> 01:08:14,428 But we kind of drifted, you know, 1247 01:08:14,428 --> 01:08:18,223 we were at either end of the room by that time, you know, 1248 01:08:18,223 --> 01:08:20,934 even being sort of superficially pleasant with each other. 1249 01:08:20,934 --> 01:08:22,644 It was like, who was gonna do it first? 1250 01:08:22,644 --> 01:08:25,939 ♪ It really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1251 01:08:25,939 --> 01:08:27,482 ♪ it really doesn't matter ♪ 1252 01:08:27,482 --> 01:08:31,069 - He talked a lot about Bowie and Bowie who'd kind of, 1253 01:08:31,111 --> 01:08:33,405 obviously started out around the same time. 1254 01:08:33,405 --> 01:08:36,158 There's a lot of intertwined history with them. 1255 01:08:36,158 --> 01:08:39,703 They were close friends, but I think because 1256 01:08:39,703 --> 01:08:41,872 of the kind of culture of the UK pop scene 1257 01:08:41,872 --> 01:08:44,791 where there's Melody Maker and there's Sounds, 1258 01:08:44,791 --> 01:08:47,419 and there's New Musical Express. 1259 01:08:47,419 --> 01:08:51,048 And so these are weekly's and they need content, right? 1260 01:08:51,048 --> 01:08:54,301 So they would really like luxuriate in this world 1261 01:08:54,301 --> 01:08:56,928 where all the pop artists would snipe at each other. 1262 01:08:56,928 --> 01:08:59,097 Rod Stewart would snipe at Elton John, 1263 01:08:59,097 --> 01:09:02,100 who'd snipe at Marc Bolan, who'd Snipe at Bowie, 1264 01:09:02,100 --> 01:09:04,186 who'd snipe at Jethro Tull, you know, 1265 01:09:04,186 --> 01:09:07,648 and they just would like be crabs in a bucket. 1266 01:09:07,648 --> 01:09:10,817 So I got the feeling that Marc was coming off 1267 01:09:10,817 --> 01:09:13,904 of a publicised feud with David Bowie. 1268 01:09:13,904 --> 01:09:16,782 So he is alternately really complimentary of David Bowie 1269 01:09:17,783 --> 01:09:19,701 and then a little jealous. 1270 01:09:19,701 --> 01:09:23,121 (sombre music continues) 1271 01:09:27,834 --> 01:09:31,797 ♪ It really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1272 01:09:31,797 --> 01:09:34,883 ♪ it really doesn't matter at all ♪ 1273 01:09:34,883 --> 01:09:37,886 ♪ Life's a gas ♪ 1274 01:09:37,886 --> 01:09:41,306 (sombre music continues) 1275 01:09:47,562 --> 01:09:49,564 - That had a great feel. - [Person] Yeah, yeah. 1276 01:09:49,564 --> 01:09:50,982 - You worked so extra hard. 1277 01:09:50,982 --> 01:09:53,026 - [Interviewer] You vanished a bit at the end of the year. 1278 01:09:53,026 --> 01:09:54,069 - [Marc] I didn't realise that 1279 01:09:54,069 --> 01:09:57,656 I'd only put two singles out this year and one album, 1280 01:09:57,656 --> 01:10:00,242 but I also didn't wanna be that involved, 1281 01:10:00,242 --> 01:10:05,247 in my opinion, over 'Marlena Dietriching' the act 1282 01:10:05,247 --> 01:10:08,417 or over painting yourself or becoming a circus clown, 1283 01:10:08,417 --> 01:10:10,752 or pretending to be Judy Garland or something, 1284 01:10:10,752 --> 01:10:13,296 which I don't ever see rock and roll as. 1285 01:10:13,296 --> 01:10:16,425 ♪ His name was always buddy ♪ 1286 01:10:16,425 --> 01:10:20,053 ♪ And he'd shrug and ask to stay ♪ 1287 01:10:20,053 --> 01:10:23,640 ♪ She'd sigh like twig the wonder kid ♪ 1288 01:10:23,640 --> 01:10:26,393 ♪ And turn her face away ♪ 1289 01:10:26,393 --> 01:10:29,938 - Bowie, had started to do the glam rock thing 1290 01:10:29,938 --> 01:10:33,608 and had put out "Aladdin Sane" that same year 1291 01:10:33,608 --> 01:10:36,194 and then announced from the stage in July 1292 01:10:36,194 --> 01:10:39,281 that he'd retired and it was a big deal. 1293 01:10:39,281 --> 01:10:40,949 Bolan was a little jealous because he says, 1294 01:10:40,949 --> 01:10:43,201 "they're playing Bowie like he's James Dean." 1295 01:10:43,243 --> 01:10:46,788 Like he's too big and too starry for rock 1296 01:10:46,788 --> 01:10:50,167 and here was Bolan in the US still trying to make it, 1297 01:10:50,167 --> 01:10:53,962 and they had put him on a tour opening for Three Dog Night. 1298 01:10:53,962 --> 01:10:55,672 ♪ Oh baby ♪ 1299 01:10:55,672 --> 01:10:58,759 (upbeat rock music) 1300 01:10:58,759 --> 01:11:02,137 - In 73 I saw him, they were opening for Three Dog Night. 1301 01:11:02,137 --> 01:11:05,432 I was with my friends and my little sister in the front row 1302 01:11:05,432 --> 01:11:07,726 and we knew that we were there to see T-Rex. 1303 01:11:07,726 --> 01:11:09,936 So in my little group right in the front, 1304 01:11:09,936 --> 01:11:12,105 I mean literally the front, we could touch Marc. 1305 01:11:12,105 --> 01:11:15,108 That's when I really wanted to become a guitar player. 1306 01:11:15,108 --> 01:11:17,527 - His success in England was phenomenal. 1307 01:11:17,527 --> 01:11:19,821 It didn't translate so much to America. 1308 01:11:19,821 --> 01:11:22,783 Of course, Get it on, Bang A Gong was a huge hit over there. 1309 01:11:22,783 --> 01:11:25,243 I think his records were too out there 1310 01:11:25,285 --> 01:11:27,871 for American audiences at that particular time. 1311 01:11:28,830 --> 01:11:29,664 - [Interviewer] Can you see that 1312 01:11:29,664 --> 01:11:31,792 this repetitive riff is going to change? 1313 01:11:31,792 --> 01:11:34,336 That you're gonna do something totally different? 1314 01:11:34,336 --> 01:11:36,046 Something that, I mean you did the Cilla Black show, 1315 01:11:36,046 --> 01:11:37,547 which no one thought you would do. 1316 01:11:37,547 --> 01:11:38,799 Is there gonna come a time on record 1317 01:11:38,799 --> 01:11:41,009 when Marc is just gonna change like that? 1318 01:11:41,009 --> 01:11:42,344 - [Marc] I've just done it in the new album. 1319 01:11:42,344 --> 01:11:43,637 It's just that you know when you hear it, 1320 01:11:43,637 --> 01:11:44,805 you'll know what I mean. 1321 01:11:44,805 --> 01:11:45,639 And then you're saying, 1322 01:11:45,639 --> 01:11:48,099 "man, well why are you doing something so different?" 1323 01:11:48,099 --> 01:11:49,184 You watch. (upbeat music) 1324 01:11:49,184 --> 01:11:53,188 ♪ It don't make no difference ♪ 1325 01:11:53,188 --> 01:11:58,193 ♪ 'Cause I move in the mud ♪ 1326 01:11:58,985 --> 01:12:02,948 ♪ I said sing it to me children ♪ 1327 01:12:02,948 --> 01:12:06,284 ♪ I'm the groover honey yeah ♪ 1328 01:12:06,284 --> 01:12:09,830 ♪ I'm the groover honey yeah ♪ 1329 01:12:09,830 --> 01:12:12,207 ♪ I'm the groover honey ♪ 1330 01:12:12,207 --> 01:12:15,001 I'm much more interested in American music at the moment, 1331 01:12:15,001 --> 01:12:17,963 spending most of my time in America as I have been recently. 1332 01:12:17,963 --> 01:12:20,090 Into a lot of Black American music. 1333 01:12:20,090 --> 01:12:22,384 I've expanded the whole sound incredibly. 1334 01:12:22,384 --> 01:12:24,886 I've double-headed the tour, it's Marco Bolan and T-Rex 1335 01:12:24,886 --> 01:12:27,973 as Zinc Alloy and The Hidden Riders of Tomorrow. 1336 01:12:27,973 --> 01:12:30,016 Which in fact is the title of the new album. 1337 01:12:30,016 --> 01:12:32,602 And I'm using two drummers, two sax players 1338 01:12:32,602 --> 01:12:34,187 and the chicks, two black chicks, 1339 01:12:34,187 --> 01:12:35,605 which I use in the records. 1340 01:12:35,605 --> 01:12:38,733 It's exciting for me starting out at the beginning, 1341 01:12:38,733 --> 01:12:41,653 super hardened, as you said before, cooling slightly, 1342 01:12:41,653 --> 01:12:45,615 when I know what I've got, my next phase is equally as hot, 1343 01:12:45,615 --> 01:12:47,075 if not more so. 1344 01:12:47,075 --> 01:12:52,080 ♪ Dawn storm, oh my dawn storm ♪ 1345 01:12:52,247 --> 01:12:57,043 ♪ I realise you're blue ♪ 1346 01:12:57,043 --> 01:13:01,965 ♪ Please babe, oh don't squeeze babe ♪ 1347 01:13:01,965 --> 01:13:06,803 ♪ All that I say must be true ♪ 1348 01:13:06,803 --> 01:13:10,849 ♪ Times they are strange ♪ 1349 01:13:10,849 --> 01:13:15,854 ♪ And I won't rearrange ♪ 1350 01:13:17,355 --> 01:13:22,360 ♪ No, no, no, not my love for you ♪ 1351 01:13:23,320 --> 01:13:27,532 ♪ Times they are strange ♪ 1352 01:13:27,532 --> 01:13:32,537 ♪ And I won't rearrange ♪ 1353 01:13:33,496 --> 01:13:38,501 ♪ No, no, no, not my love for you ♪ 1354 01:13:39,669 --> 01:13:42,756 ♪ Baby I'm not crazy ♪ 1355 01:13:44,090 --> 01:13:48,386 - We rented a wonderful home on Benedict Canyon. 1356 01:13:48,386 --> 01:13:52,933 We had so many, many, many people around us 1357 01:13:52,933 --> 01:13:57,938 and during that time Marc started experimenting with dance 1358 01:13:59,189 --> 01:14:02,692 'cause disco was becoming popular. 1359 01:14:02,692 --> 01:14:07,697 ♪ And I won't rearrange ♪ 1360 01:14:08,615 --> 01:14:12,619 ♪ No, no, no, not my love for you ♪ 1361 01:14:12,619 --> 01:14:14,663 Some of the change was accepted 1362 01:14:15,622 --> 01:14:19,125 and then some criticism was there, 1363 01:14:19,125 --> 01:14:21,711 isolation was there. 1364 01:14:22,754 --> 01:14:25,340 (sombre music) 1365 01:14:47,487 --> 01:14:50,907 (sombre music continues) 1366 01:14:52,492 --> 01:14:57,497 ♪ And I won't rearrange ♪ 1367 01:14:57,998 --> 01:15:03,003 ♪ No, no, no, not my love for you ♪ 1368 01:15:04,879 --> 01:15:09,884 ♪ Times they are strange and I won't rearrange ♪ 1369 01:15:13,471 --> 01:15:17,726 ♪ No, no, no, not my love for you ♪ 1370 01:15:22,063 --> 01:15:25,483 (sombre music continues) 1371 01:15:27,360 --> 01:15:31,072 - This song was almost kind of a very consoling song. 1372 01:15:31,072 --> 01:15:34,576 It was like this love song like a serenade to someone 1373 01:15:34,576 --> 01:15:38,747 that you could tell, whoever he was singing it to, 1374 01:15:38,747 --> 01:15:42,333 he saw them as like a, as like the dawn light, 1375 01:15:42,333 --> 01:15:44,044 like very pure and like, - Yeah. 1376 01:15:47,338 --> 01:15:48,173 - Calm. 1377 01:15:49,382 --> 01:15:52,719 (eerie celestial music) 1378 01:15:56,389 --> 01:16:01,394 ♪ You damaged the soul of my suit ♪ 1379 01:16:03,104 --> 01:16:08,109 ♪ You pulled my love out by the roots ♪ 1380 01:16:09,402 --> 01:16:13,156 ♪ But I'm not such a bad boy ♪ 1381 01:16:16,451 --> 01:16:20,580 (eerie celestial music continues) 1382 01:16:21,831 --> 01:16:23,792 - I'll never forget, he came home 1383 01:16:23,792 --> 01:16:25,877 and he was really, really sad. 1384 01:16:26,878 --> 01:16:31,674 And then he realises that now I understand who fans are, 1385 01:16:32,592 --> 01:16:35,261 but he said, "I have to be me 1386 01:16:35,261 --> 01:16:39,015 "and I have to create and I have to change." 1387 01:16:39,015 --> 01:16:41,976 And I thought that they would want that 1388 01:16:41,976 --> 01:16:44,938 and that they would change with me. 1389 01:16:44,938 --> 01:16:46,940 He said, "but I'm finding out 1390 01:16:46,940 --> 01:16:50,110 "that now I have to change for myself." 1391 01:16:51,111 --> 01:16:52,487 - He said he was working on a record 1392 01:16:52,487 --> 01:16:54,948 that was gonna be his "Blonde on Blonde," 1393 01:16:54,948 --> 01:16:56,825 which I guess is the "Zinc Alloy" album. 1394 01:16:56,825 --> 01:16:59,536 He had already written "Interstellar Soul," 1395 01:16:59,536 --> 01:17:01,996 which he was very happy about, 1396 01:17:01,996 --> 01:17:03,289 and he was heading towards the thing 1397 01:17:03,289 --> 01:17:05,333 that Bowie himself would do in '75, 1398 01:17:05,333 --> 01:17:06,793 which was the "Young American" stuff. 1399 01:17:06,793 --> 01:17:11,798 So he just kept, you know, kind of crossing paths with Bowie 1400 01:17:12,674 --> 01:17:16,219 probably in an annoying way, ultimately, career wise. 1401 01:17:16,219 --> 01:17:21,182 - David went totally R and B where Marc went more into punk. 1402 01:17:21,975 --> 01:17:26,104 Marc and Lonnie Jordan hit it off, 1403 01:17:26,104 --> 01:17:28,565 he's the keyboard player for War. 1404 01:17:28,565 --> 01:17:31,526 He said, "Lonnie, you're going to be in Los Angeles, 1405 01:17:31,526 --> 01:17:32,986 "I'm going to call you." 1406 01:17:32,986 --> 01:17:35,446 He said, "I've an idea for a wonderful song 1407 01:17:35,446 --> 01:17:38,116 "that I need you to play the piano on." 1408 01:17:38,116 --> 01:17:41,077 Lonnie said, "no problem man, I'm there." 1409 01:17:41,077 --> 01:17:45,707 So he goes into the studio, plugs his guitar in. 1410 01:17:45,707 --> 01:17:48,835 All of a sudden you hear, wham! 1411 01:17:49,711 --> 01:17:54,674 "Surprise, surprise, the boys are home." 1412 01:17:54,757 --> 01:17:57,427 ♪ Surprise, surprise ♪ 1413 01:17:57,427 --> 01:18:02,307 ♪ The boys are home ♪ 1414 01:18:02,307 --> 01:18:07,312 ♪ My guardian angel's run down my telephone ♪ 1415 01:18:09,814 --> 01:18:12,650 ♪ The heat's on, mister ♪ 1416 01:18:12,692 --> 01:18:17,697 ♪ Can't you hear them scream ♪ 1417 01:18:17,864 --> 01:18:22,869 ♪ What ever happened to the teenage dream ♪ 1418 01:18:27,081 --> 01:18:32,086 ♪ The curfew comes at the crack of light ♪ 1419 01:18:35,006 --> 01:18:40,011 ♪ The sad old wino aches to dissipate the fright ♪ 1420 01:18:40,428 --> 01:18:42,597 - Whenever you look at these great artists, 1421 01:18:42,597 --> 01:18:44,515 there's always something missing. 1422 01:18:44,515 --> 01:18:48,311 Their preoccupation and their focus and their energy 1423 01:18:48,311 --> 01:18:50,313 has been spent in a certain area, 1424 01:18:51,189 --> 01:18:53,149 and so they miss out on others. 1425 01:18:53,149 --> 01:18:54,943 - [Interviewer] Such as? 1426 01:18:54,943 --> 01:18:56,110 - Common sense. 1427 01:18:58,363 --> 01:19:00,031 ♪ A broken god ♪ 1428 01:19:00,031 --> 01:19:03,743 - The fans didn't want to accept his new music. 1429 01:19:04,702 --> 01:19:07,664 He cried and he said, "why? 1430 01:19:07,664 --> 01:19:10,124 "Why can't they change with me?" 1431 01:19:11,167 --> 01:19:13,211 Then he understood, 1432 01:19:13,211 --> 01:19:18,216 I am so glad that I have my worth. 1433 01:19:18,383 --> 01:19:21,511 That I understand every song that I have written. 1434 01:19:22,428 --> 01:19:25,932 But he said, "my dream is to become a film director." 1435 01:19:28,142 --> 01:19:30,520 - First it's Rosemary who's gonna ask Marc a question. 1436 01:19:30,520 --> 01:19:31,354 - Yeah. 1437 01:19:31,354 --> 01:19:33,481 Have you any plans to make another film? 1438 01:19:34,399 --> 01:19:35,900 - Yeah, I'm in fact gonna be making one 1439 01:19:35,900 --> 01:19:37,318 in about three months time 1440 01:19:37,318 --> 01:19:39,737 and I play a murderer in it, So watch out. 1441 01:19:39,779 --> 01:19:40,905 We start in four weeks time. 1442 01:19:40,905 --> 01:19:43,491 - Mm-hm and where will you make that? 1443 01:19:43,491 --> 01:19:44,867 - We'll do it in Monte Carlo. 1444 01:19:44,867 --> 01:19:45,952 I'll definitely be doing films. 1445 01:19:45,952 --> 01:19:47,704 I'll be directing that one too. 1446 01:19:47,704 --> 01:19:49,998 - He was a dream maker. 1447 01:19:49,998 --> 01:19:54,627 He and Stan Lee actually spoke 1448 01:19:54,627 --> 01:19:58,006 about the future where Stan ended up going. 1449 01:19:58,006 --> 01:19:59,882 - [Marc] What about Silver Surfer, are they in there? 1450 01:19:59,882 --> 01:20:01,259 - [Stan] Yeah, he's one of my favourites. 1451 01:20:01,259 --> 01:20:05,179 If I saw this nut on a flying surfboard in a story, 1452 01:20:05,179 --> 01:20:07,098 you see, and I said, "who's that guy?" 1453 01:20:07,098 --> 01:20:09,517 He said, "well I figured a guy like Galactus 1454 01:20:09,517 --> 01:20:12,478 "would have to have a Herald who goes before him 1455 01:20:12,478 --> 01:20:14,480 "and flies on a flying surfboard," 1456 01:20:14,480 --> 01:20:16,524 and so was born the Silver Surfer. 1457 01:20:16,524 --> 01:20:18,026 - [Marc] And he was beautiful. 1458 01:20:19,902 --> 01:20:23,531 ♪ Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen ♪ 1459 01:20:23,531 --> 01:20:28,536 ♪ What ever happened to the teenage dream, yeah ♪ 1460 01:20:33,458 --> 01:20:36,294 - [Person] That whole summer I'd looked after him 1461 01:20:36,294 --> 01:20:37,795 throughout the TV show. 1462 01:20:37,837 --> 01:20:41,341 I managed him every week on that TV show 1463 01:20:41,341 --> 01:20:44,344 and you know there was a TV series? 1464 01:20:44,344 --> 01:20:49,349 (upbeat music) (crowd cheering) 1465 01:20:50,475 --> 01:20:51,642 - All right. 1466 01:20:51,642 --> 01:20:54,312 Welcome to a new show called Marc. 1467 01:20:54,312 --> 01:20:58,566 Could be a lot of new sounds, a lot of new experiences. 1468 01:20:58,566 --> 01:21:01,402 The biggest and the best so far this week 1469 01:21:01,402 --> 01:21:04,322 are an amazing group called "Jam!" 1470 01:21:04,322 --> 01:21:07,325 (upbeat rock music) 1471 01:21:08,785 --> 01:21:12,455 ♪ Oi ♪ 1472 01:21:12,455 --> 01:21:13,831 ♪ All over the country ♪ 1473 01:21:13,873 --> 01:21:15,208 ♪ We want a new direction ♪ 1474 01:21:15,208 --> 01:21:16,709 ♪ I said all over this land ♪ 1475 01:21:16,709 --> 01:21:18,252 ♪ We need a reaction ♪ 1476 01:21:18,252 --> 01:21:20,088 ♪ Well there should be a youth explosion ♪ 1477 01:21:20,088 --> 01:21:23,591 - Most of the older stars were really quite anti punk. 1478 01:21:23,591 --> 01:21:25,676 Marc was in the tour, he's like, "wow, what goes on? 1479 01:21:25,676 --> 01:21:27,595 "Wow, man, what's it like at the Roxy? 1480 01:21:27,595 --> 01:21:29,055 "Wow man, could you take me down?" 1481 01:21:29,055 --> 01:21:30,765 And We did go down to the Roxy 1482 01:21:30,765 --> 01:21:32,308 and he launched this album 1483 01:21:32,308 --> 01:21:34,811 "Dandy in the Underworld" at the Roxy Club. 1484 01:21:36,104 --> 01:21:41,109 ♪ Prince of Players, Pawn of none ♪ 1485 01:21:42,193 --> 01:21:47,198 ♪ Born with steel reins on the heart of the Sun ♪ 1486 01:21:48,449 --> 01:21:53,454 ♪ Gypsy explorer of the New Jersey Heights ♪ 1487 01:21:54,247 --> 01:21:59,252 ♪ Exalted companion of cocaine nights ♪ 1488 01:21:59,585 --> 01:22:03,297 ♪ 'cause he's a Dandy in the Underworld ♪ 1489 01:22:03,297 --> 01:22:07,009 ♪ Dandy in the Underworld ♪ 1490 01:22:07,009 --> 01:22:11,889 ♪ When will he come up for air ♪ 1491 01:22:11,889 --> 01:22:13,808 ♪ Will anybody ever care ♪ 1492 01:22:13,808 --> 01:22:16,102 - We went to see the Ramones. 1493 01:22:16,102 --> 01:22:18,312 We were at the back, 1494 01:22:18,312 --> 01:22:21,441 when I looked up Marc pulled up 1495 01:22:21,441 --> 01:22:24,569 all the way to the front stage 1496 01:22:24,569 --> 01:22:26,320 and that's who he was, he just, 1497 01:22:26,320 --> 01:22:28,906 he loved music, he loved creating. 1498 01:22:28,906 --> 01:22:31,159 - I find that The Pistol is very believable. 1499 01:22:31,159 --> 01:22:36,122 I find, um, the Ramones beautifully unbelievable. 1500 01:22:36,122 --> 01:22:39,292 "Suzy ls a Headbanger," "Sheena ls a Punk Rocker," 1501 01:22:39,292 --> 01:22:42,920 Debora was a zebra, which is my first hit right in '67. 1502 01:22:42,962 --> 01:22:47,216 It's all, I mean, it's all related to violence in the mind, 1503 01:22:47,216 --> 01:22:48,634 not in the body. 1504 01:22:48,634 --> 01:22:50,428 (upbeat music) 1505 01:22:50,428 --> 01:22:54,390 ♪ Life is the same and it always will be ♪ 1506 01:22:54,390 --> 01:22:58,352 ♪ Easy as picking foxes from a tree ♪ 1507 01:22:58,352 --> 01:23:00,688 ♪ But I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1508 01:23:00,688 --> 01:23:02,940 ♪ All I want is easy action ♪ 1509 01:23:02,940 --> 01:23:04,942 ♪ I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1510 01:23:04,984 --> 01:23:09,989 ♪ All I want is easy action ♪ 1511 01:23:10,948 --> 01:23:15,077 ♪ A stud is a lamb with the thoughts of a tiger ♪ 1512 01:23:15,077 --> 01:23:19,290 ♪ Who moves like a cat and knows how to ride her ♪ 1513 01:23:19,290 --> 01:23:21,459 ♪ But I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1514 01:23:21,459 --> 01:23:24,921 ♪ All I want is easy action ♪ 1515 01:23:24,921 --> 01:23:28,341 (upbeat music continues) 1516 01:23:30,760 --> 01:23:33,346 - It was very absurd, it didn't even make any sense. 1517 01:23:33,346 --> 01:23:35,181 Some of it was like almost rambling, 1518 01:23:37,475 --> 01:23:41,812 but it was such like a beautiful and very clear images 1519 01:23:41,812 --> 01:23:44,065 and kind of like extreme lyrics, 1520 01:23:44,065 --> 01:23:46,609 and that was very fun for me. 1521 01:23:46,609 --> 01:23:48,861 ♪ I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1522 01:23:48,861 --> 01:23:50,863 ♪ All I want is easy action ♪ 1523 01:23:50,863 --> 01:23:52,865 ♪ I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1524 01:23:52,865 --> 01:23:55,785 ♪ All I want is easy action ♪ 1525 01:23:55,785 --> 01:23:58,704 This is super fucking cool, it's such a punk track. 1526 01:23:58,704 --> 01:23:59,622 - Yeah, it is. - Like you said, 1527 01:23:59,622 --> 01:24:00,581 "Hey, hey, hey!" 1528 01:24:00,581 --> 01:24:01,874 (mimicking icing guitar riffs) 1529 01:24:01,874 --> 01:24:04,293 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1530 01:24:04,293 --> 01:24:05,169 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1531 01:24:05,169 --> 01:24:08,673 ♪ A stud is a lamb with the thoughts of a tiger ♪ 1532 01:24:08,673 --> 01:24:09,507 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1533 01:24:09,507 --> 01:24:13,094 ♪ Who moves like a cat and knows how to ride her ♪ 1534 01:24:13,094 --> 01:24:14,095 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1535 01:24:14,095 --> 01:24:16,347 ♪ But I can't get no satisfaction ♪ 1536 01:24:16,347 --> 01:24:20,142 ♪ All I want is easy action, baby ♪ 1537 01:24:20,142 --> 01:24:22,228 ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪ 1538 01:24:22,228 --> 01:24:24,605 ♪ Stroll on ♪ 1539 01:24:24,605 --> 01:24:27,108 - He found his roots when he started the TV show 1540 01:24:27,108 --> 01:24:30,403 and discovering like Generation X with Billy Idol, 1541 01:24:30,403 --> 01:24:35,408 the Damned and he kind of evolved to the godfather of punk. 1542 01:24:36,951 --> 01:24:39,412 - This is a new group called Generation X 1543 01:24:39,412 --> 01:24:41,956 who have a lead singer called Billy Idol, 1544 01:24:41,956 --> 01:24:45,126 who's supposed to be as pretty as me. 1545 01:24:45,126 --> 01:24:47,837 We'll see now, Generation X! 1546 01:24:47,837 --> 01:24:50,840 (upbeat rock music) 1547 01:24:57,305 --> 01:25:01,684 ♪ Well I'm trying to forget your generation ♪ 1548 01:25:01,684 --> 01:25:06,480 ♪ Using any way I see ♪ 1549 01:25:06,480 --> 01:25:10,735 ♪ Well, the ends must justify the means ♪ 1550 01:25:10,735 --> 01:25:13,654 ♪ I said, your generation don't mean a thing to me ♪ 1551 01:25:13,654 --> 01:25:15,031 - We were fans. 1552 01:25:15,031 --> 01:25:17,033 In some way or other we'd grown up with Marc 1553 01:25:17,033 --> 01:25:20,411 and I think that shows you his attitude to other musicians 1554 01:25:20,411 --> 01:25:22,204 and maybe groups that are starting out. 1555 01:25:22,204 --> 01:25:25,458 He championed us and he stood up for us that day. 1556 01:25:25,458 --> 01:25:27,251 Someone like Marc kind of made you 1557 01:25:27,251 --> 01:25:29,378 want to do something with your life. 1558 01:25:31,213 --> 01:25:34,133 ♪ We can be heroes ♪ 1559 01:25:35,259 --> 01:25:37,845 (sombre music) 1560 01:25:39,597 --> 01:25:42,433 - And then we got together again in and around 1974 1561 01:25:42,433 --> 01:25:46,062 and we became really firm friends up until he died, 1562 01:25:46,062 --> 01:25:49,607 and it again, another great tragedy, you know. 1563 01:25:49,607 --> 01:25:52,652 - Thank you for goodbye and all the boys in the band, 1564 01:25:52,652 --> 01:25:56,739 David, everybody, all the cats, you know they are, 1565 01:25:56,739 --> 01:25:59,075 this is a new song. (guitar squeals) 1566 01:25:59,075 --> 01:26:01,661 - [Person] One, two, three. - Yeah! 1567 01:26:01,661 --> 01:26:04,246 (upbeat music) 1568 01:26:27,436 --> 01:26:30,856 (upbeat music continues) 1569 01:26:48,374 --> 01:26:52,211 ♪ What am I gonna do with you ♪ 1570 01:26:54,255 --> 01:26:56,132 - There's been a lot of talk about revolutions. 1571 01:26:56,132 --> 01:26:57,967 The only revolution that's gonna happen 1572 01:26:57,967 --> 01:27:01,095 is if people like myself or or Mick Jagger 1573 01:27:01,095 --> 01:27:02,930 or Rod Stewart or whoever 1574 01:27:02,930 --> 01:27:05,057 try to get into other fields, 1575 01:27:05,057 --> 01:27:07,518 be it television, be it movies, 1576 01:27:07,518 --> 01:27:10,104 then we will get a revolution. 1577 01:27:10,104 --> 01:27:13,023 If it's left to other people, there'll be no revolution. 1578 01:27:13,023 --> 01:27:14,400 Cheers. 1579 01:27:14,400 --> 01:27:16,610 - He was fascinated with the whole James Dean concept 1580 01:27:16,610 --> 01:27:19,655 of like die young and leave a beautiful corpse. 1581 01:27:20,531 --> 01:27:22,908 There's a point also where you wanna live 1582 01:27:22,908 --> 01:27:24,744 and I know he definitely would love 1583 01:27:24,744 --> 01:27:26,454 to be behind these cameras right now. 1584 01:27:26,454 --> 01:27:29,457 That's where he was going into more film and television. 1585 01:27:29,457 --> 01:27:31,584 (sombre music) 1586 01:27:31,584 --> 01:27:36,589 ♪ If I could have grown ♪ 1587 01:27:39,258 --> 01:27:44,263 ♪ All upon my own ♪ 1588 01:27:47,266 --> 01:27:50,394 ♪ if I could have grown ♪ 1589 01:27:50,394 --> 01:27:55,399 ♪ I grew ♪ 1590 01:27:55,399 --> 01:27:58,486 ♪ if I could have grew ♪ 1591 01:27:58,486 --> 01:28:00,404 ♪ I do ♪ 1592 01:28:02,782 --> 01:28:03,616 - Do you know about karma? 1593 01:28:03,616 --> 01:28:08,621 Which is you are here on earth for a certain specific lesson 1594 01:28:09,205 --> 01:28:11,832 and when you die you take the form 1595 01:28:11,832 --> 01:28:13,751 of another being after a certain time, 1596 01:28:14,960 --> 01:28:17,087 this is obviously my time to be a poet and a musician, 1597 01:28:17,087 --> 01:28:19,548 but next time I might be a dustman or a cat. 1598 01:28:20,466 --> 01:28:22,968 You know, to learn humility perhaps as a cat 1599 01:28:22,968 --> 01:28:26,597 or now it's probably to attune 1600 01:28:26,597 --> 01:28:29,934 to the whimsical changes of mankind. 1601 01:28:29,934 --> 01:28:33,270 (sombre music continues) 1602 01:28:33,270 --> 01:28:37,608 ♪ Hey let's do it like we're friends ♪ 1603 01:28:37,608 --> 01:28:40,820 ♪ Let's do it, do it ♪ 1604 01:28:40,820 --> 01:28:42,947 ♪ Let's do it like we're friends ♪ 1605 01:28:42,947 --> 01:28:43,781 - [Interviewer] Do you ever wake up in the middle 1606 01:28:43,781 --> 01:28:46,909 of the night and think in another 20 or 30 years 1607 01:28:46,909 --> 01:28:50,162 I'm going to be 50 or 60, what shall I be doing? 1608 01:28:52,581 --> 01:28:53,415 You don't? 1609 01:28:53,415 --> 01:28:55,543 - Never think about, I mean. 1610 01:28:55,543 --> 01:28:57,294 - [Interviewer] And it doesn't haunt you that at night? 1611 01:28:57,336 --> 01:28:59,505 - Um, I don't think I'll live that long. 1612 01:28:59,505 --> 01:29:00,297 - [Interviewer] You don't? 1613 01:29:00,339 --> 01:29:01,841 - No. 1614 01:29:01,841 --> 01:29:04,426 (sombre music) 1615 01:29:07,137 --> 01:29:12,101 ♪ If I could have grown ♪ 1616 01:29:14,311 --> 01:29:18,858 ♪ All upon my own ♪ 1617 01:29:21,527 --> 01:29:22,945 - It's such a long time ago, you know, 1618 01:29:22,945 --> 01:29:25,322 but I can remember vividly 1619 01:29:25,322 --> 01:29:30,327 Marc skipping around playing and Steve and Mickey, 1620 01:29:30,536 --> 01:29:33,581 and I think the sadness 1621 01:29:33,581 --> 01:29:36,375 is that they're all gone. (sighs) 1622 01:29:38,002 --> 01:29:41,839 I look back on it was so much affection in one sense 1623 01:29:41,839 --> 01:29:44,550 and I wish I could have helped him. 1624 01:29:44,550 --> 01:29:49,555 ♪ You could call it home ♪ 1625 01:29:51,348 --> 01:29:53,601 ♪ if I cry my tears ♪ 1626 01:29:53,601 --> 01:29:55,853 - [interviewer] What do you normally do on September 16th? 1627 01:29:55,853 --> 01:29:58,522 - I light a candle, play a bunch of T-Rex songs 1628 01:29:58,522 --> 01:30:02,276 and usually my closest friends... 1629 01:30:06,947 --> 01:30:08,365 They'll call me. 1630 01:30:08,365 --> 01:30:10,701 And then if I want to hang out with someone that cares, 1631 01:30:10,701 --> 01:30:13,704 I'll be there, if not, I'll just stay by myself. 1632 01:30:13,704 --> 01:30:17,499 ♪ Do it like we're friends ♪ 1633 01:30:17,499 --> 01:30:20,085 ♪ Hey let's do it ♪ 1634 01:30:20,085 --> 01:30:23,255 ♪ Let's do it like we're friends ♪ 1635 01:30:23,255 --> 01:30:26,675 ♪ Let's do it, do it ♪ 1636 01:30:26,675 --> 01:30:30,095 ♪ Let's do it like we're friends ♪ 1637 01:30:30,095 --> 01:30:34,433 - He came into the world knowing what he was doing. 1638 01:30:35,392 --> 01:30:37,770 Marc came into the world dancing. 1639 01:30:39,271 --> 01:30:42,232 And he loved people, he loved to see children dance. 1640 01:30:42,232 --> 01:30:45,903 - [All] You won't fool the children of the revolution! 1641 01:30:46,236 --> 01:30:49,239 (upbeat rock music) 1642 01:30:53,327 --> 01:30:57,414 ♪ Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da ♪ 1643 01:30:57,456 --> 01:31:00,417 ♪ Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da, Ba-Da ♪ 1644 01:31:00,459 --> 01:31:05,297 ♪ But you won't fool the children of the revolution ♪ 1645 01:31:05,297 --> 01:31:07,007 ♪ No, you won't fool ♪ 1646 01:31:07,007 --> 01:31:08,884 These are vulnerable children. 1647 01:31:09,760 --> 01:31:12,221 They absolutely have nothing. 1648 01:31:13,222 --> 01:31:17,101 But since attending our training school, 1649 01:31:18,352 --> 01:31:22,272 they are now expressing and understanding 1650 01:31:22,272 --> 01:31:25,359 that they have a purpose for being. 1651 01:31:25,359 --> 01:31:30,364 ♪ You can tear a plane in the falling rain ♪ 1652 01:31:32,116 --> 01:31:35,828 ♪ I drive a Rolls Royce ♪ 1653 01:31:35,828 --> 01:31:37,997 ♪ 'Cause it's good for my voice ♪ 1654 01:31:37,997 --> 01:31:39,873 ♪ But you won't fool ♪ 1655 01:31:39,873 --> 01:31:42,918 - Great stars go in and out of fashion sometimes. 1656 01:31:42,918 --> 01:31:44,753 Any great, great artists, 1657 01:31:44,753 --> 01:31:46,755 there's times where they're more in vogue 1658 01:31:46,755 --> 01:31:48,966 and times where they're not cool anymore 1659 01:31:48,966 --> 01:31:50,300 or they have the wrong look. 1660 01:31:50,300 --> 01:31:52,219 But they will always come back. 1661 01:31:52,219 --> 01:31:54,179 They'll always bubble up to the surface 1662 01:31:54,179 --> 01:31:57,975 and there's no question, so he'll be with us forever. 1663 01:31:57,975 --> 01:32:01,270 (upbeat rock music) ♪ Ow ♪ 1664 01:32:01,270 --> 01:32:03,605 - Sometimes you can play with art in a reckless way 1665 01:32:03,605 --> 01:32:05,190 and it benefits you, you know? 1666 01:32:05,190 --> 01:32:07,693 I think Marc Bolan definitely did that. 1667 01:32:07,693 --> 01:32:09,153 You know, I think David Bowie definitely did that. 1668 01:32:09,153 --> 01:32:11,864 I think Hendrix did that, but you know, 1669 01:32:11,864 --> 01:32:14,450 that wave has come and gone, 1670 01:32:14,450 --> 01:32:18,495 and hopefully a new one will rise up again. 1671 01:32:18,495 --> 01:32:20,998 ♪ Let it all hang out ♪ 1672 01:32:20,998 --> 01:32:21,832 - [Marc] "Children of the Revolution," 1673 01:32:21,832 --> 01:32:24,668 that song I wrote for all the kids at the whole world. 1674 01:32:25,586 --> 01:32:30,340 ♪ No, you won't fool the children of the revolution ♪ 1675 01:32:30,340 --> 01:32:32,509 - He was 30 years of age, 1676 01:32:32,509 --> 01:32:37,139 and I just got that feeling that he had a lot more in him. 1677 01:32:37,139 --> 01:32:40,768 You can only but guess where his music might have gone to 1678 01:32:40,768 --> 01:32:44,021 or where he might have been at a decade later 1679 01:32:44,021 --> 01:32:46,065 or two decades later. 1680 01:32:46,065 --> 01:32:47,399 Who knows? 1681 01:32:47,399 --> 01:32:49,985 (upbeat rock music continues) 1682 01:32:49,985 --> 01:32:54,031 - These children for the first time in their lives, 1683 01:32:54,031 --> 01:32:55,783 they have value. 1684 01:32:55,783 --> 01:32:58,535 They're able to say I can be somebody 1685 01:32:58,577 --> 01:33:00,829 because they are the future. 1686 01:33:00,829 --> 01:33:01,789 - Whoo! 1687 01:33:01,789 --> 01:33:04,083 (indistinct). 1688 01:33:04,083 --> 01:33:07,961 One and a two and a bubbly-bubba-boo-boo-yeah! 1689 01:33:07,961 --> 01:33:12,966 (upbeat rock music) (crowd cheering) 1690 01:33:15,344 --> 01:33:16,178 Yeah! 1691 01:33:19,389 --> 01:33:23,227 (upbeat rock music continues) 1692 01:33:29,191 --> 01:33:33,779 ♪ Baby, I wanna walk you home ♪ 1693 01:33:38,951 --> 01:33:43,038 ♪ Oh baby, I wanna walk you home ♪ 1694 01:33:49,419 --> 01:33:51,839 ♪ There's a shadow in the basement ♪ 1695 01:33:51,839 --> 01:33:56,844 ♪ And I'm scared to sleep alone ♪ 1696 01:33:59,638 --> 01:34:04,643 ♪ Baby, doesn't everybody weep ♪ 1697 01:34:09,439 --> 01:34:13,610 ♪ Oh baby, doesn't everybody weep ♪ 1698 01:34:20,033 --> 01:34:22,202 ♪ I'd slide up there beside you ♪ 1699 01:34:22,202 --> 01:34:27,207 ♪ But my nightmare's oh too steep ♪ 1700 01:34:31,128 --> 01:34:33,881 ♪ Ow ♪ 1701 01:34:33,881 --> 01:34:38,886 ♪ Come on ♪ 1702 01:34:40,971 --> 01:34:45,934 ♪ Whoo ♪ 1703 01:34:49,730 --> 01:34:54,735 ♪ Baby, I love you baby ♪ 1704 01:34:58,739 --> 01:35:03,577 ♪ I love you baby ♪ 1705 01:35:03,577 --> 01:35:08,582 ♪ I love you baby ♪ 1706 01:35:08,582 --> 01:35:13,587 ♪ I love you baby ♪ 1707 01:35:13,587 --> 01:35:15,881 ♪ I love you baby ♪ 1708 01:35:15,881 --> 01:35:18,425 ♪ Oh, yes I do ♪ 1709 01:35:20,886 --> 01:35:24,723 (upbeat rock music continues) 1710 01:35:45,494 --> 01:35:49,331 (upbeat rock music continues) 1711 01:35:53,710 --> 01:35:56,713 (lively rock music) 1712 01:36:01,885 --> 01:36:04,012 ♪ I've been down there ♪ 1713 01:36:04,012 --> 01:36:05,973 ♪ Everybody's been there ♪ 1714 01:36:05,973 --> 01:36:10,978 ♪ Everyone, everyone ♪ 1715 01:36:13,563 --> 01:36:18,151 ♪ It's true ♪ 1716 01:36:18,151 --> 01:36:22,281 ♪ Desolation angel on the cover of my paper ♪ 1717 01:36:22,281 --> 01:36:27,286 ♪ Loves everyone, everyone ♪ 1718 01:36:29,162 --> 01:36:34,084 ♪ Oh ♪ 1719 01:36:34,084 --> 01:36:36,378 ♪ Rock on ♪ 1720 01:36:36,378 --> 01:36:41,383 ♪ Rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1721 01:36:42,301 --> 01:36:47,306 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1722 01:36:49,933 --> 01:36:54,938 ♪ Baby, rock on ♪ 1723 01:36:54,938 --> 01:36:58,608 ♪ Mild mouthed Rita she's a Chevy Chase cheetah ♪ 1724 01:36:58,608 --> 01:37:03,613 ♪ Loves everyone, everyone ♪ 1725 01:37:05,615 --> 01:37:10,620 ♪ Ah, Ah, Ah, oh ♪ 1726 01:37:11,246 --> 01:37:14,958 ♪ Teddy's going steady he's a silver-plated poet ♪ 1727 01:37:14,958 --> 01:37:19,963 ♪ Loves everyone, everyone ♪ 1728 01:37:23,175 --> 01:37:27,179 ♪ Oh ♪ 1729 01:37:27,179 --> 01:37:32,184 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1730 01:37:35,395 --> 01:37:40,359 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1731 01:37:43,111 --> 01:37:48,116 ♪ Baby, rock on ♪ 1732 01:37:48,241 --> 01:37:50,327 ♪ Prophet pumped the car-scar ♪ 1733 01:37:50,327 --> 01:37:51,912 ♪ Deeper only sweeter ♪ 1734 01:37:51,912 --> 01:37:55,499 ♪ Loves everyone, everyone ♪ 1735 01:37:57,334 --> 01:38:01,171 (lively rock music continues) 1736 01:38:20,565 --> 01:38:25,570 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1737 01:38:28,740 --> 01:38:33,745 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1738 01:38:36,915 --> 01:38:41,336 ♪ Rock on, rock on, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ 1739 01:38:48,844 --> 01:38:51,054 ♪ Baby, rock on ♪ 126394