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Dublin, 2005. The beginning of
a new chapter in the story of The Corrs.
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It has been 15 years
since this Irish family band
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came to the attention of the music world.
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They have won over millions of fans with
a fusion of traditional' Irish music and pop.
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The Factory. The Corrs are back in the
rehearsal moms they've used many times.
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They've a mini-tour planned, where they?!
fly out songs from their next album, Home.
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They'll be performing in Bonn, Monte Carlo,
the Montreux Jazz Festival
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and the G8 concert.
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Nowadays they take filings in their stride,
but they weren't always so laid-back.
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The beginning was mad.
It's all been kinda crazy.
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We were excited and yet nervous
and everything was a big deal.
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There's nothing like it.
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It's been brilliant.
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We had no idea what was coming.
We just thought it was a laugh.
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I do have some sort of vague recollection.
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Looking back,
we were taking ourselves very seriously.
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All through our childhood,
musicians came in and out of our house.
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Mum and Dad leaving
a couple of nights a week to gig.
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We used to say that Mum and Dad
had gone to sing.
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They would go at the weekends.
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I remember Mum putting on her rollers
in her hair and doing her make-up.
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They'd do that every weekend,
as well as my father having a full-time job.
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It was a lot of work,
but they really loved it so that was their life.
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They did everything
that was in the charts at the time.
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They did The Carpenters, Eagles.
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They'd do The Police,
Every Breath You Take.
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Brotherhood of Man, you know, and that.
Stevie Wonder, everything.
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I mean, I suppose they really nurtured
the love of music in us.
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Singing was my hobby.
That's what I did all the time.
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Even before school in the morning
and when I got home,
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I'd listen to music and sing with it.
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So, you know, I think...
I think I wanted to be a singer, yes.
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We all studied music at home mostly.
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Our father taught us all piano.
That was our first introduction to it.
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All those terrifying piano lessons
have paid off at last.
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You don't know the story
of the terrifying piano lessons.
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I started learning classical violin
when I was six.
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There was an amazing teacher in Dundalk
Father McNally a priest.
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He's taught a lot of pupils who end up
in great orchestras around the world.
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I think Mum and Dad gave us a really happy
childhood and I remember being home.
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A lot of my memories are Andrea, as well.
We were brought up close together.
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Jim was off doing his thing.
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Sharon was always there,
but she was three years older
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so she had slightly different things
going on in her life.
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I suppose I remember just...
stealing biscuits and...
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Eating ice...
Having a good time. It was good.
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In the late '80s, while Caroline and Andrea
were still at the Dun Lughaidh Convent,
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Jim and Sharer:
were already earning a living.
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Sharon worked evenings
in their aunt's bar, McManus's.
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Wei! known as a local music venue, Sharon
and Jim often performed there as a duo,
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fitting it in with the several other bands
Jim played for and Sharon 's day job.
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I managed a record shop
for probably about a year and a half,
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which I loved because so much music
was available to me within the record store.
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So I loved that and I loved getting
some really independent music in
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and getting different stuff for the customers
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because I think, at the time in Dundalk,
you really just got the mainstream.
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You didn't get much different
so I was interested in that.
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I did that, then I worked in the bar at nights.
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It was a great time.
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We were having a 301 of fun
and we were working in our aunt's pub.
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Even at school,
I worked in the pub at weekends,
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then when we left school,
we still worked there.
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People would say to you, �Are you going
to college? What's your plan in life?�
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We'd say, 'We've got to work on this band."
And I remember people just going, 'What?'
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Jim was older, more experienced,
he'd played with a lot of bands.
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He was more experienced chordally,
how to put a song together.
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Also he was much more technically minded.
He had the studio set up.
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Melody and lyrics, I suppose,
Andrea did a lot more of that.
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We were a}! still quite young.
Andrea was 16.
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We were still in school when we first started
so we were all just learning.
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We were all learning together
in a lot of ways.
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I was always dabbling with writing
on the piano.
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I was only able to really launch into it
properly when I got my first recorder,
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a little PortaStudio, TASCAM PoltaStudio,
and then I was able to start writing properly.
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The idea of being able to overdub
different parts onto a tape,
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it was heaven for me, I loved it.
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Jim collected all the gear for the studio.
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He had rented a house
very close to our family house in Dundalk
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and I remember he had boxes on the walls
for the soundproofing.
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It was a room, basically.
AH it was a room in a house.
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A very cold house. I remember that.
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We spent all our time there.
People thought, 'What are they doing?"
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He collected a lot of gear.
A small S-track studio, whatever he needed.
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He'd a few synthesizers
and all this sort of stuff.
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We used to just write the music, sit down
and write the music and try and record it.
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They worked hard at perfecting
their playing and their songwriting.
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But as yet, there were no plans to take
their music beyond Jim's makeshift studio.
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In 1990, the director Alan Parker auditioned
local bands for his film The Commitments.
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- Who are your influences?
- Barry Manilow.
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It was the catalyst they needed.
The Corrs became a band.
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- Te� the camera your name, can 'gnu'?
- Sony'?
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- Tell the camera your name.
- Jim Corr.
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- This your first time you've sung in public?
- In public, yeah.
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Alan Parker himself conducted interviews
in the kitchens of The Waterfront,
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a well-known Dublin music venue.
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- Caroline Corr.
- How old are you?
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I'm 17.
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- Just tell the camera your name.
- Sharon Corr.
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I was terrified.
Just like, you know, I don't know,
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a deer in the headlights, you know.
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I was really terrified. So was Jim.
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So was Caroline. Andrea was 15, going,
"I'm great." She was, you know...
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In The Commitments,
they were blink-and-you'll-miss-us roles.
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Well, for me, anyway.
I can barely find myself in the movie.
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Andrea had a more substantial part.
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- Where are you going?
- Out.
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- Can I borrow your hairdryer?
- Go and shite.
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Leave my aftershave alone.
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The band came together.
That's the significant thing about the movie.
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It was beginning of us meeting John,
our manager.
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I did the music on The Commitments as...
They gave me a title.
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Music Supervisor,
no, Coordinator, some title.
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Ros Hubbard had asked me...
No, she hadn't.
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John had a band called Minor Detail
with his brother Willie.
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And they broke up and John fanned
a band called The Hughes Version.
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I had a band. Jim had just joined my band.
That's how desperate he was!
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I liked his music
and I started actually to produce with him
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and record his music
because I had a little studio.
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And so myself and John became friends
prior to him becoming a manager of ours,
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which only happened
when we auditioned for the film.
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Ros Hubbard, who I've known forever,
she's a casting agent.
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She was casting the movie.
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They auditioned.
Everybody performed on the stage.
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Then after that, Parker being Parker, said
everybody who he saw he wanted to read.
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So we all went down to the kitchens.
Having seen all that, Ros Hubbard,
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the casting director, said,
"You've got to manage them."
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We'd all decided amongst us,
OK, John's going to be our manager
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and John's going to take on this band
and it all just happened.
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It was the last thing on my mind.
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I've said before,
I never set out to be a manager.
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It was probably a momentous time.
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Really, at the time, we thought, "This feels
right." I think we just went with our feeling.
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They hadn't a clue what they were
heading into and I had some idea.
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I had been there or thereabouts.
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You don't want to harp on about
how difficult it is it's great fun
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but it's not an easy life.
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Did they know that? Ask them.
I'm sure they'll lie and say, "Yes, we knew."
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Nobody knows. You don't know
how successful it's going to be.
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That's the paradox of the whole thing.
You can't know.
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If you knew beforehand,
therein' be no courage or striving involved.
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You'd stop 'cos you knew it wouldn't work
or just coast 'cos you know it will work.
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We didn't know if it'd fail or work,
we just did.
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The composer of Riverdance, Bill Whelan,
was a friend of John's
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and he got Bill Whelan
to produce our demos.
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The fiddle wasn't originally
a part of the Corrs thing.
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I suppose because we just didn't think of it.
We kind of thought...
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Everything was really pop orientated
at the time and it was really techno.
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There was an lot of technology involved.
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Everything had really gone away
from acoustic instruments.
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You know, bar the guitar.
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But it was all about keyboards
and drum machines.
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I don't know who suggested it...
It could've been John Hughes, our manager.
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He said, "Sharon plays the violin,
doesn't she?" "Yeah."
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'Well, why aren't you using it?�
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So we did and then we came up with
this blend of traditional Irish
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within our music.
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So...
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Which was, I suppose,
the thing that separated us
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from every other band around at the time.
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In 1992, they were back at The Waterfront.
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This time it was the venue
for their first ever public performance.
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It was packed out with family and friends,
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there to show support for a nervous band.
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I remember the Waterfront gig very well.
Everybody was petrified.
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I actually think it was our first gig.
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Would you welcome, please,
all from one family onstage,
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their first gig: The Corrs!
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At the time, I was playing keyboards.
After that, I'd learn drums with a friend.
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I had a boyfriend who'd played drums.
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I remember playing with him
and just learning a few beats.
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Jim went, "This'd be great in the band.
Why don't we do this?"
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So I ended up playing the drums
and I really loved it.
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- Find you're getting blisters?
- No, I just keep using the gloves and don't.
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Make sure that I don't.
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We had a lot to learn,
an awful lot to learn about ourselves
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and exactly what we'd do onstage.
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The Corrs' unique sound
was developing fast.
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It was time for their first professional gig
at Whelan's Bar in Dublin.
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That night, in the audience,
was VIP guest Jean Kennedy Smith,
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American ambassador to Ireland
and sister of John F. Kennedy.
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She was so impressed that she invited
the band to play in Boston and New York.
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It was the opportunity of a lifetime.
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After that, we decided we would go over
to Los Angeles and New York
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and visit record companies
and try and get some sort of a deal.
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A few were interested,
but not very interested.
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On the last day in New York,
at Atlantic Records, we met Jason Flom
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who really loved the music.
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He wanted to try and get us
to meet with David Foster
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who was a name that, at the time,
we weren't really that familiar with.
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We were told he was working
with Michael Jackson in the Hit Factory
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and that it was very difficult to see him
because of the obvious security.
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So Jason tried to set up the meeting
and wasn't able to do it.
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We actually, with our manager John,
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we took the decision to actually arrive and
crash in on the session at the Hit Factory.
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And we used our Irish charm
and we got in the doors of the Hit Factory.
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I mean, we dressed up very, very well to try
and make an impression and we got in.
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We sat in the lobby waiting for David.
Sure enough, he came out.
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I happened to be walking
into the lobby by chance.
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The group had taken it upon themselves
to come to the Hit Factory
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and wait and wait and wait
on the hopes that I would come out.
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And I did and I took a look at them
and here's these three beautiful sisters
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and their handsome brother.
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They had their instruments with them
and said, �Hi, we're here."
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I went, "Oh, right, The Corrs.
Yeah, I remember getting the phone call."
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I was so spellbound by their looks,
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I said, "Let's go upstairs and play for me."
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They played for me.
They did some acoustic music.
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They played a tape first.
That sounded incredible.
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They said,
'We want to play you some music."
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They had the violin. Sharon on the violin,
Andrea on the tin whistle.
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Caroline on the bodhran drum.
I didn't know what a bodhran drum was.
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And Jim on piano and guitar.
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And they just blew me away.
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We played Forgiven, Not Forgotten for him.
I think that impressed him the most.
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We sat around a piano, me with
the bodhran, Andrea with the tin whistle,
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Sharon on the violin and Jim on the piano
and we just played for him.
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We did the harmonies and I think he loved
the harmonies. I think that's David's thing.
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Vocals and harmonies,
he's amazing at doing that, and he loved it.
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So that got us in the door, anyway.
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I was just hooked,
I mean, completely hooked.
221
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You just know right away
when you're looking at real, real talent.
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This family, no small testament
to their parents, Jean and Gerry,
223
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just has an abundance of talent.
224
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They're also really quality human beings
225
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and those two separate issues
made it a slam dunk for me.
226
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There was no question. That day I decided,
for sure, that I was going to sign them.
227
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The band flew back to Dublin. John and
David spent months locked in negotiations.
228
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Finally, at the end of 1994,
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The Corrs were signed
to Foster's own label, 143,
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a subsidiary of Atlantic.
231
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Andrea has the kitchen sink with her.
She has the heaviest suitcase of all.
232
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In January 1995,
The Corrs left Ireland for California
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to begin recording their first album.
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It'd be several' months before
Jean and Gerry saw their children again,
235
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a taste of wings to come.
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Family fife would never be the same.
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Forgiven, Not Forgotten
was our first studio album.
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We had written those songs
over a five-year period.
239
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We lived out in Malibu in Los Angeles for
about eight months while we recorded that.
240
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That was a new experience for us.
241
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In October 1995, Forgiven, Not Forgotten
was released.
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Once Forgiven, Not Forgotten
was completed,
243
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The Corrs were initiated
into the promotional process.
244
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This meant a gruelling round
of appearances in the US and beyond,
245
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sometimes taking in three cities a day.
246
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It took them to most of the United States
247
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and to venues in Europe and Australia.
248
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"about going to LA, which you'll probably
think, like, 'Why are we going to LA?"
249
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We are now saying
later than the 11th March, well...
250
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The reason people are so keen
on The Corrs is twofold.
251
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One, because the music is very appealing
to all ages.
252
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Two, because they work incredibly hard.
253
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They are the label's hardest-working band,
254
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with the possible exception of Phil Collins,
255
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who's always worked hard.
256
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They're certainly the hardest-working group.
They're unfailingly professional.
257
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The band began their world tour in Ireland
where they had a growing audience.
258
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That first tour of Ireland
was nerve-racking.
259
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So really, really scared getting onstage.
260
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Ifs madness 'cos going to Dublin
was a big deal to me.
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I used to get home from Dublin going,
"Phew!
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"Thanks be to God that's over with.
I'll rest tomorrow."
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It was the Big Smoke. That's the madness
of how much we've travelled now.
264
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I think about my slight fear
of coming up to Dublin
265
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and the happiness
of getting back to Dundalk.
266
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So we go from that
to absolutely non-stop work.
267
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Moving everywhere, never at home
and I remember John telling me
268
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there'd be a time when we'd never be home,
269
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we'd be touring all the time and I sat going...
270
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That's the most horrible thought, you know.
271
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But it worked out. I was just a scaredy-cat.
272
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As venues got bigger, so did the band.
273
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They recruited Anto Brennan, lead guitar,
and Keith Duffy on bass.
274
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Keith and Ante are with us
from the beginning. We're a team.
275
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They fitted us personality-wise.
You had to spend a lot of time together.
276
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Keith and Anto are like our old road dogs
at this stage!
277
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They're part of our family, you know,
in every sense of the word.
278
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They came into the studio, apparently,
279
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and they started playing with us.
280
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They were, like, "What's the story here?
Are we playing or not?" Jim was reticent.
281
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I don't know if he said this, but he was a little
reticent about other members of the band.
282
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You know, we needed to develop a bit
so they started to work with us.
283
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There's nothing like it. There really is
nothing like the feeling of playing to...
284
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It's not only...
285
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You get a buzz off the crowd
and seeing what you can do,
286
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but essentially what you realize...
287
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This is what you're doing it for, this is why...
288
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The Forgiven, Not Forgotten tour began in
Ireland, taking them back home to Dundalk.
289
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Going back to play in Dundalk was great.
We were still new to the whole thing.
290
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We're nervous, it's home.
291
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We're looking forward to it.
It's nice to finally get back to play here.
292
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Some of our music teachers are downstairs
so that'll be interesting.
293
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...a few skeletons in my closet
sitting in the audience tonight.
294
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Good evening, ladies and gentlemen.
A big welcome home for The Corrs.
295
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This is off the record 'cos I'm engaged.
Very easy to look at.
296
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- No problem.
- Even the man!
297
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It's Dublin. It's scary!
298
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The Irish leg finished
at me National Stadium in Dublin.
299
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I can't even speak!
Caroline, come on, talk to them.
300
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We have to wait till we get up there.
301
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Before-hand it's just waiting around,
doing your thing.
302
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It's a really big point in our career,
the main point in our career.
303
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We've been working on this for six years
304
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and now we're playing
in the Stadium in Dublin,
305
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in the capital city, and 2,500 people.
306
00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,047
It's a lot and it's great
that we've sold all those tickets.
307
00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:14,210
- Oh, my God!
- You hair is great. All the hairs are good.
308
00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:29,609
Don't be afraid to dance to this!
309
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I came offstage and my hands...
I'd never done a tour before.
310
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My hands were in bits.
311
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We were all making mistakes. A mixture of
being petrified and happy at the same time.
312
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Then it was on to Australia, Denmark,
Japan and Canada.
313
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The first territory we got really big in,
I think, was Australia.
314
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Touring there, it was incredible,
the reaction we got.
315
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:02,766
They'd' been touring solidly for over a year",
316
00:27:02,800 --> 00:27:05,451
but they had one mere important gig.
317
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New Year's Eve 1996
at The Point in Dublin.
318
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I'm coming down with some sort of a cold
that Sharon is wrecked with.
319
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:14,844
That's right, yeah.
320
00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:19,886
Caroline and Andrea have got it, as well.
Otherwise I'm grand. Good Christmas.
321
00:27:19,920 --> 00:27:24,767
Glad it's over, though. God, there was
some seriously heavy socializing.
322
00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:29,441
- We don't have a violin player.
- No?
323
00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,485
- Where is she?
- We don't know. She's never been late.
324
00:27:33,520 --> 00:27:36,729
Sharon Corr,
she's nearly three-quarters of an hour late.
325
00:27:37,360 --> 00:27:42,685
So it's looking good, the piano monitor
is down, we don't have a violin player.
326
00:27:42,720 --> 00:27:46,327
Looks like everybody" be snowbound.
Happy New Year.
327
00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:52,531
- OK, she's here.
- We'll try and get a doctor here.
328
00:27:52,560 --> 00:27:56,281
I was at the doctor yesterday.
I just have to fight this thing.
329
00:27:56,320 --> 00:28:01,963
I'm a lot better. I had a really high fever.
I couldn't get out of bed. I could hardly walk.
330
00:28:02,000 --> 00:28:03,001
Everybody has it.
331
00:28:03,040 --> 00:28:06,761
I think we're gonna need
to boost the backing vocals tonight.
332
00:28:07,840 --> 00:28:09,922
Something I can do in front of a camera
333
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,361
put make-up on, make myself look better!
334
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:15,522
So if you take...
335
00:28:17,280 --> 00:28:18,361
Please.
336
00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,243
We were going to cancel some shows
337
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:23,204
and we should have cancelled,
they were so sick.
338
00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:25,402
But we weren't allowed.
339
00:28:25,440 --> 00:28:30,048
No, no, no, no, no, no, please go away!
I mean it.
340
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:34,483
Never before, I don't think,
could I have said that� I don't care.
341
00:28:34,520 --> 00:28:38,241
I don't care if we don't sell any albums.
Right now, I don't care.
342
00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,089
- Are you gone yet?
- Yeah.
343
00:28:40,120 --> 00:28:41,121
Good.
344
00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:47,007
We been a rewarding year, ifs been
a very good year, but we need a break.
345
00:28:47,040 --> 00:28:51,887
We don't just need a week off or two days,
like we've been getting, we need a month.
346
00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:56,721
But we can't have it for the moment.
We're doing The Point tonight.
347
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,287
That is the most amazing thing
for a band to get to do.
348
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:06,123
Like, being from Ireland, that's where all
the major acts come, they play The Point.
349
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:09,881
But I've been bedridden for two days.
I still feel terrible.
350
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:16,326
I think, "God, why does this have to happen
just when I'm about to do The Point?", but...
351
00:29:16,360 --> 00:29:21,207
We shouldn't really be complaining.
We could be doing nothing at all.
352
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,562
The objective this year
was to sell this album,
353
00:29:53,600 --> 00:29:57,571
literally from door to door
or country to country or stage to stage.
354
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,969
The objective next year is
they have to write hit songs, radio hit songs.
355
00:30:02,000 --> 00:30:06,164
Then we're gonna have to do
the whole thing all over again.
356
00:30:06,200 --> 00:30:08,441
Amen.
357
00:30:18,320 --> 00:30:21,961
Like any other second record,
it was "the second album syndrome".
358
00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:25,891
Most... Second time round,
people just can't sustain it.
359
00:30:25,920 --> 00:30:28,924
You spend your fife writing your first mom'.
360
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:31,930
You've a year to write your second
and it doesn't work.
361
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,442
This album had to mean everything,
you know,
362
00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:39,007
so there was a lot of going back
for more songs,
363
00:30:39,040 --> 00:30:42,681
you know, to try and write the hit.
364
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:45,166
That usual elusive...
365
00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:48,761
kind of mad thing that
record companies say, Where's the hit?"
366
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:52,725
Record companies want one thing,
artists another, managers something else.
367
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:55,730
What I and the band want
were probably identical.
368
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:59,810
What the company wanted was different,
but that's a healthy relationship.
369
00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:08,525
To record the album Talk on Corners,
they returned to California
370
00:31:08,560 --> 00:31:12,724
to repeat the success
that they'd had with David Foster:
371
00:31:23,680 --> 00:31:26,684
Can we hear it from the top
with the drums in?
372
00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:47,200
- It's not good enough, just not good enough.
- Not good enough?
373
00:31:47,240 --> 00:31:48,526
No.
374
00:31:48,560 --> 00:31:52,884
The making of this album was fraught
with conflict, both within the band
375
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,651
and between the band
and the record company.
376
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,085
Very good.
377
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:01,360
Also on the second version...
378
00:32:01,400 --> 00:32:04,722
Atlantic were not convinced
that the songs the band had Gerrard
379
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,161
contained that all-important hit single.
380
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:11,603
This is a track we wrote yesterday.
Make You Mine, something like that.
381
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:13,927
And it's going very fast.
382
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:16,964
It's going great. Hopefully a hit.
383
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:29,281
Talk on Corners was ready for release.
The label felt It wasn't finished.
384
00:32:29,320 --> 00:32:31,846
We had gone back to do some more.
385
00:32:31,880 --> 00:32:36,488
We said, "That's it, we're done. We knew
we're done. It's not gonna get any better."
386
00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,605
The company wanted to leave So Young
off the album.
387
00:32:40,640 --> 00:32:42,130
We had to fight to get it on.
388
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:51,803
It ended up being a hit
in a number of countries.
389
00:34:00,800 --> 00:34:03,406
They weren't too fussed
on What Can I Do.
390
00:34:03,440 --> 00:34:07,126
That also was a hit
in quite a number of countries so...
391
00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,248
Sometimes you have to fight your corner
392
00:34:10,280 --> 00:34:13,523
and we did as regards those two songs,
thankfully.
393
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:57,562
We put out the record'.
It entered the British charts at seven.
394
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:02,891
It had done very respectably. It hadn't been
a monster, but it certainly hadn't been a flop.
395
00:35:03,440 --> 00:35:05,488
We got through the Christmas
396
00:35:05,520 --> 00:35:09,605
and you could see file record
was going away, it'd had its fife.
397
00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:15,522
At that point, we got... The success was
relatively small in the UK and in Europe.
398
00:35:15,560 --> 00:35:21,169
We'd done extremely well over in Australia
and a couple of other countries and Ireland,
399
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:23,043
but yet we had to break the UK.
400
00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,889
Hello, John Giddings.
401
00:35:24,920 --> 00:35:29,403
I put them on at Shepherds Bush
and nobody had heard of them.
402
00:35:29,440 --> 00:35:34,002
I'd put posters up all around London.
People said, 'Who are this band?"
403
00:35:34,040 --> 00:35:36,122
The point was to create a profile.
404
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:39,171
We'd started selling nut
the Town S; Country Club,
405
00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,771
but we wanted to get to the next level.
406
00:35:41,840 --> 00:35:44,764
So we said, �What do we need to do?
Play somewhere bigger.
407
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:48,521
�How do we play somewhere bigger?
We're not big enough."
408
00:35:55,440 --> 00:35:58,444
We couldn't get big TV in England,
409
00:35:58,480 --> 00:36:01,131
couldn't get Top Of The Pops
or any of that stuff.
410
00:36:01,920 --> 00:36:05,402
Having been around the world,
I'd seen that on Patrick's Day,
411
00:36:05,440 --> 00:36:09,240
on a global basis,
people were looking for anything Irish.
412
00:36:09,280 --> 00:36:11,442
I'd figured, we're as Irish as you get
413
00:36:11,480 --> 00:36:15,121
so why not have a concert on Patrick's Day
414
00:36:15,160 --> 00:36:19,404
and go to the BBC and say,
Would you broadcast this?"
415
00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:21,602
I spoke to our agent, John Giddings.
416
00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,690
We came upon the idea of booking
the Albert Hall on St Patrick's Day.
417
00:36:25,720 --> 00:36:29,850
Everybody wanted a good time
on St Patrick's Day with an Irish band.
418
00:36:29,880 --> 00:36:33,885
He said, "I have you the Albert Hall."
I was expecting a small club.
419
00:36:33,920 --> 00:36:35,922
It was sort of panicky but brilliant.
420
00:36:35,960 --> 00:36:38,691
I went to the BBC and the BBC...
421
00:36:39,560 --> 00:36:44,168
to their lasting brilliance, I suppose,
said, �Sure, we'll broadcast it.�
422
00:36:44,200 --> 00:36:48,683
When you look back on it, that was
a defining moment in their career.
423
00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:50,882
Live TV from the Albert Hall.
424
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:54,970
They sold out the Albert Hall.
They were live on TV and it took off.
425
00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:59,244
We got our shot. They broadcast us.
Terry Wogan introduced us.
426
00:36:59,280 --> 00:37:03,569
Live from the Albert Hall.
That changed everything.
427
00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:40,601
A couple of events happened.
428
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,769
We were involved
in a Fleetwood Mac tribute album.
429
00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:47,805
We picked the song Dreams.
We were huge fans of Rumours.
430
00:37:56,280 --> 00:38:00,444
We asked Mick Fleetwood, the drummer,
if he'd be interested in playing with us.
431
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:21,331
We'd only rehearsed it at sound check.
432
00:38:21,360 --> 00:38:24,842
All I can remember is that I was petrified.
433
00:38:24,880 --> 00:38:27,247
I'd never done anything like this before.
434
00:38:31,240 --> 00:38:33,049
We also had to get it in sync
435
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:36,607
and that's hard for drummers
who'd never played together.
436
00:38:36,640 --> 00:38:38,483
On the night, it just worked out.
437
00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:42,241
It was fantastic. It just gelled and it worked.
438
00:38:42,280 --> 00:38:44,123
One, two, three, four!
439
00:38:54,440 --> 00:38:59,287
It was our first really big show in London
and it was nerve-racking
440
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,209
and very, very exciting.
441
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,488
My way to get over those nerves
442
00:39:10,520 --> 00:39:15,526
is to just really, really concentrate
and think of the songs
443
00:39:15,560 --> 00:39:19,929
and every word in the song
and the person that's within the song
444
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,123
so that I can try and forget the nerves
445
00:39:23,160 --> 00:39:25,401
just in case they take me over, you know.
446
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:33,009
People got a real chance to see us perform,
447
00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,964
which is the part of us that actually, I think,
448
00:39:36,000 --> 00:39:40,005
represents us fully
because it shows our versatility.
449
00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:43,487
If you just listen
to one of the songs on Top Of The Pops,
450
00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:46,444
you just see a very small part of us.
451
00:39:46,480 --> 00:39:49,051
When we play live, you see the whole thing
452
00:39:49,080 --> 00:39:53,051
and the range of music we're interested in
and are involved in.
453
00:39:58,720 --> 00:40:01,007
I mostly remember, afterwards,
454
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:05,204
everybody being really very excited about it
and it was great.
455
00:40:05,240 --> 00:40:10,849
I just kind of had to go off and be alone
because I had no clue how it went at all.
456
00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:15,522
I remember just sitting off in the backroom
of the Albert Hall afterwards
457
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:19,281
when it was being broadcast live on the TV
and kind of going,
458
00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,369
"It's OK, it's actually OK."
459
00:40:22,400 --> 00:40:26,530
Thank you all for coming out.
It's been a great St Patrick's Day.
460
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:28,688
The Albert Hall opened up things for us.
461
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:33,089
From there on in,
the album went from strength to strength.
462
00:40:39,600 --> 00:40:44,401
This dream that we'd been dreaming of
for years was suddenly coming to fruition.
463
00:40:45,240 --> 00:40:50,371
From literally nobody knowing a thing
to all of a sudden being very, very noticed.
464
00:40:55,280 --> 00:40:58,841
We were very fresh.
What we were praying was really fresh.
465
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:01,565
That mixture of the Irish, the pop, the rock.
466
00:41:01,600 --> 00:41:04,809
I think then people really started to see us.
467
00:41:15,440 --> 00:41:19,729
The record had gone from seven to 53
in the charts.
468
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:24,721
The week after that broadcast, it was
at number 13, then went in the top ten.
469
00:41:24,760 --> 00:41:28,128
Then stayed there for the year,
then went to number one ten times.
470
00:41:28,160 --> 00:41:31,289
Then we had four top ten singles
and it was non-stop.
471
00:41:31,320 --> 00:41:34,130
Please put your hands together
for Mick Fleetwood!
472
00:41:34,160 --> 00:41:37,482
Let's hear it for this fantastic band!
473
00:41:37,520 --> 00:41:39,966
Playing with passion!
474
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:49,523
After the Albert Halt, everything just went
kind of crazy. We were constantly touring.
475
00:41:49,560 --> 00:41:53,007
I suppose that's the thing
as soon as something takes off,
476
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:55,805
you've got to go out there
and reap the benefits.
477
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:59,128
Especially when you've been working for it
and you've wanted it.
478
00:42:06,320 --> 00:42:10,644
The success of the concert
led to the re-release of Talk on Corners,
479
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:15,004
featuring a remix of Dreams
by DJ Todd Terry.
480
00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:47,091
It just stood out and sparked an interest
and that really grabbed the public's attention
481
00:42:47,120 --> 00:42:50,567
because it was that different
and yet recognizable.
482
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:03,849
When we recorded Dreams,
it was a Jot different than what it became.
483
00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:07,327
Todd Terry did a mix for us,
which fumed out to be fantastic.
484
00:43:07,360 --> 00:43:12,048
We all thought at the time
that this could be a great single for us.
485
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:15,289
Before that,
we hadn't heard our music being played.
486
00:43:15,320 --> 00:43:19,245
Maybe the odd radio station here and there,
but never to that extent.
487
00:43:19,280 --> 00:43:21,647
Radio 1 were playing it and playing it.
488
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:26,163
It obviously was watched by a lot of people.
Everybody bought the record.
489
00:43:32,080 --> 00:43:34,242
People really liked Talk on Corners.
490
00:43:34,280 --> 00:43:40,049
They got curious and started buying the first
album, which was Forgiven, Not Forgotten.
491
00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:42,970
We were actually in the States doing promo.
492
00:43:43,000 --> 00:43:46,049
I remember being in a hate! in Detroit,
493
00:43:46,080 --> 00:43:48,560
getting the news that we were number one
494
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:51,365
and number two with
Forgiven, Not Forgotten.
495
00:43:51,400 --> 00:43:54,643
That was incredible,
but strange because people think
496
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:56,489
you feel like you're on top of the wand,
497
00:43:56,520 --> 00:44:00,730
but we were doing
lots of promo in the States.
498
00:44:00,760 --> 00:44:03,206
And it wasn't exactly catching fire
499
00:44:03,240 --> 00:44:05,607
so we weren't feeling the euphoria
500
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:07,927
we probably should've been feeling.
501
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:12,966
It was the time we walked into the room
and it was, Wow! That was different.
502
00:44:13,000 --> 00:44:17,528
We were used to walking
into the room and, Who's that?"
503
00:44:17,560 --> 00:44:19,642
So it was our high time, really.
504
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,685
Wonderful feeling to see it coming together
and working to that extent.
505
00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:55,727
But I think that was honestly
beyond our expectations to achieve that.
506
00:45:00,560 --> 00:45:04,929
There was Dreams, What Can I Do,
So Young and Runaway.
507
00:45:04,960 --> 00:45:07,566
And Runaway
would've been a number one.
508
00:45:07,600 --> 00:45:12,606
It was strong enough, except there was
this young lady from LA with curls,
509
00:45:12,640 --> 00:45:15,803
jumping around in a gymslip singing.
510
00:45:15,840 --> 00:45:19,526
Britney Spears' debut record had come out
and it just blasted us.
511
00:45:19,560 --> 00:45:21,562
We had four top ten hits off that record.
512
00:45:43,920 --> 00:45:48,323
To be the number one album of the year
is based on pure record sales.
513
00:45:48,360 --> 00:45:50,044
The amount you sell.
514
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:51,923
We sold so many records.
515
00:45:51,960 --> 00:45:55,328
Everybody had that album.
That's pretty much the way it was.
516
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:03,204
It was success upon success.
517
00:46:03,240 --> 00:46:06,881
From being a struggle to make,
I do love that album.
518
00:46:06,920 --> 00:46:10,242
I think it's great,
but we had our own struggles within it,
519
00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,408
as every band does in every album.
520
00:46:12,440 --> 00:46:15,410
It really turned out good.
521
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:26,803
The number one selling record in the UK
in '98 was Talk on Corners.
522
00:46:27,920 --> 00:46:33,450
To have you at the top of that list
with an album is the most amazing feeling.
523
00:46:38,600 --> 00:46:42,286
When we got success in Ireland
and Australia, we hadn't been there.
524
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:45,244
We were in somewhere like Detroit
525
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:49,410
doing an in-store signing for two people,
having Spinal Tap moments
526
00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:51,602
in obscure places round the world.
527
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:54,849
Meanwhile, there's a country
absolutely loving you.
528
00:47:24,560 --> 00:47:28,724
No sooner has the elation subsided
from the dramatic success we had,
529
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:30,603
we're thinking, �How do we better this?"
530
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:37,803
Lansdowne Road was the biggest stadium
you could play in Ireland.
531
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:43,131
Denis Desmond, who had been with us
from the beginning here in Ireland said,
532
00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:45,481
"I think you're ready for Lansdowne Road."
533
00:47:45,520 --> 00:47:50,924
It was decided to do it and the first time
I realized how serious it was,
534
00:47:50,960 --> 00:47:53,850
I was in Donnybrook at the traffic lights
535
00:47:53,880 --> 00:47:56,884
and a bus came out of the depot,
then another.
536
00:47:56,920 --> 00:48:02,529
Three of them came past and they had
"Corrs at Lansdowne Road" on the side.
537
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:06,167
We're doing this, there's no way out now.
It says it on the buses.
538
00:48:06,200 --> 00:48:11,650
I live in that area. I can hear the concerts
and the excitement of the people going in.
539
00:48:11,680 --> 00:48:15,924
I can smell the hotdogs,
I've been the person going to the concert.
540
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,927
This was our night. It was incredible.
541
00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:24,488
I remember hearing...
I think REM played the night before us.
542
00:48:24,520 --> 00:48:29,208
I could actually hear them playing
and it made me more and more nervous,
543
00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:31,288
listening to those guys playing.
544
00:48:31,320 --> 00:48:36,850
Cos they were, like, REM and we were,
like, The Corrs and it was just...
545
00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:41,010
Just quite... really exciting, a little daunting.
546
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:47,605
We're thinking, "Are we ready to do this'?
We're coming home. It's all our Irish fans."
547
00:48:47,640 --> 00:48:52,328
In those situations, you just want to give
the best concert you can possibly give.
548
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:58,728
I remember sitting at the side of the stage
and watching the piece fill up with people.
549
00:48:59,720 --> 00:49:02,326
The nerves were building for all of us.
550
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:07,287
It was daunting, the fact that we sold out
something like 40, 45,000 tickets,
551
00:49:07,320 --> 00:49:12,645
feeling, "My God, we have arrived.
It doesn't get better than this, you know."
552
00:49:15,160 --> 00:49:17,322
What on earth am I doing here?
553
00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:26,800
Just going on was like you're a gladiator
being thrown to lions. It felt a bit like that.
554
00:49:26,840 --> 00:49:30,367
I've seen the footage of John
holding onto me, bringing me on.
555
00:49:30,400 --> 00:49:35,645
I feel like, "How could you do that?",
but the lions were very welcoming.
556
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:41,690
Then you get to the essence of The Corrs
how bloody good they are.
557
00:49:41,720 --> 00:49:43,722
How really good they are.
558
00:49:45,560 --> 00:49:48,928
On the day of the show,
I remember the curtains puking back
559
00:49:48,960 --> 00:49:52,089
and seeing the sheer size of the audience.
560
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:54,691
That was frightening. That was, "Oh, God!"
561
00:50:30,040 --> 00:50:34,489
I remember, that gig, I was almost
a little too nervous to appreciate it.
562
00:50:34,520 --> 00:50:39,526
I remember feeling... The only way I could
describe it was like I was in a phone box.
563
00:50:39,560 --> 00:50:45,044
Just isolated. It was almost like I wasn't
at the gig, yet I was performing the gig.
564
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:48,607
It was just, I think,
the nerves got me a little bit too much.
565
00:50:48,640 --> 00:50:51,803
They don't normally,
but they did on that occasion.
566
00:51:01,480 --> 00:51:07,044
The support that we had from the crowd,
from the huge crowd there, was palpable.
567
00:51:15,560 --> 00:51:20,441
There was such a good atmosphere
in the audience.
568
00:51:20,480 --> 00:51:23,529
One of those limes
when you play and you go...
569
00:51:23,560 --> 00:51:27,565
You reach a moment... It's very fortunate
and very rare that you do it.
570
00:51:27,600 --> 00:51:31,161
That feeling where, all of a sudden,
you feel like
571
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:35,524
you're playing at home, only to those that
love you so you can't do anything wrong.
572
00:51:35,560 --> 00:51:38,291
If you fell, they'd love you anyway.
573
00:51:38,320 --> 00:51:42,644
It's like you're playing to your parents
and you're a kid, if you get that feeling.
574
00:51:42,680 --> 00:51:46,366
That was there
in Lansdowne Road. It was good.
575
00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:05,688
You are so fantastic.
576
00:52:05,720 --> 00:52:09,042
It was quite incredible
and pretty overpowering.
577
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:17,569
It was a real nice end of a chapter
to come home
578
00:52:17,600 --> 00:52:21,127
and play in Ireland
and feel from the audience
579
00:52:21,160 --> 00:52:24,130
what we've achieved over the years,
it was a great feeling.
580
00:52:39,360 --> 00:52:44,526
The Corrs became the second Irish band
in history to play a stadium in Ireland.
581
00:52:44,560 --> 00:52:46,324
U2 were the first
582
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:48,010
Thank you so much.
583
00:52:52,520 --> 00:52:55,524
Thank you. Good night. Thanks very much.
584
00:53:02,640 --> 00:53:06,281
In direct contrast to the vastness
of Lansdowne Road,
585
00:53:06,320 --> 00:53:10,370
timings were scaled right down
for the next album, Unplugged.
586
00:53:20,520 --> 00:53:24,002
MTV Unplugged
would be one of my favorite albums
587
00:53:24,040 --> 00:53:27,362
because I think it got the truth in the songs
588
00:53:27,400 --> 00:53:30,961
and the musicality within them
and also the drama.
589
00:53:31,000 --> 00:53:34,004
They're like mini-dramas
when it has an orchestra.
590
00:53:35,000 --> 00:53:37,207
So I love it, I love that album.
591
00:54:01,760 --> 00:54:07,369
Doing the MTV Unplugged
was a wonderful experience.
592
00:54:07,400 --> 00:54:11,405
To go back
and perform the songs organically
593
00:54:11,440 --> 00:54:14,887
in a very raw way with just an orchestra
594
00:54:14,920 --> 00:54:17,241
is very, very challenging.
595
00:54:38,080 --> 00:54:40,560
It was really special to do, you know,
596
00:54:40,600 --> 00:54:44,207
with just that intimate little audience
and then being filmed.
597
00:54:53,280 --> 00:54:56,602
You are completely live, the audio's live.
598
00:54:56,640 --> 00:54:59,484
It's a tough gig to do and get it right.
599
00:54:59,520 --> 00:55:03,491
There was a few limes we messed up
and we just started again.
600
00:55:03,520 --> 00:55:05,170
You do it as best you can.
601
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:09,683
You won't get it perfect, but you want
to do your absolute best on the day
602
00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:11,529
so it was tough going.
603
00:58:13,640 --> 00:58:18,043
We did a couple of songs that we loved
and wanted to do.
604
00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:22,927
The REM, Everybody Hurts.
And Old Town. Just love the song.
605
00:58:22,960 --> 00:58:28,490
The Phil Lynott song,
I just think it is so musical and uplifting
606
00:58:28,520 --> 00:58:33,526
and yet heartbreaking, all those things
that you love in the best of songs.
607
00:58:56,080 --> 00:59:01,530
It was quite funny because Fiachra Trench,
who orchestrated it, actually did that whole...
608
00:59:01,560 --> 00:59:04,769
He had made that up in the original.
609
00:59:35,560 --> 00:59:40,691
It was during the making of In Blue
that Jean Corr became seriously ill.
610
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:47,929
It became apparent that Mum was pretty ill
611
00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:52,568
when we were doing our In Blue record,
which was our third record.
612
00:59:52,600 --> 00:59:58,482
I remember being in the studio at the time,
but we didn't realize quite how ill she was.
613
00:59:58,520 --> 01:00:01,842
We thought Mum was going over
to Newcastle's Freeman Hospital
614
01:00:01,880 --> 01:00:06,761
to be assessed
and then, within a week, Mum had died.
615
01:00:06,800 --> 01:00:12,443
Trying to deal with that and trying
to make sense of that was very difficult.
616
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:14,801
I'm fortunate to have faith
617
01:00:14,840 --> 01:00:17,684
that, you know, she is in a better place.
618
01:00:17,720 --> 01:00:20,007
Mum was our biggest fan
619
01:00:20,040 --> 01:00:24,045
and always wanted us to be together
620
01:00:24,080 --> 01:00:26,003
playing music
621
01:00:26,040 --> 01:00:29,681
so, for her,
it would not have been an option to stop.
622
01:00:29,720 --> 01:00:34,328
Yeah, I believe she's there within our music,
you know.
623
01:00:34,360 --> 01:00:37,204
Mum would've wanted us to carry on,
which we did.
624
01:01:11,680 --> 01:01:15,844
It had been suggested that we co-write
and we work with other people
625
01:01:15,880 --> 01:01:19,487
to try and get that "hit song"
626
01:01:19,520 --> 01:01:23,127
'cos we still, at that point,
hadn't had a number one single.
627
01:01:23,160 --> 01:01:26,642
In Blue,
we basically started writing it in Dublin
628
01:01:26,680 --> 01:01:30,287
and we'd demo things
and produce them up to a certain level.
629
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:32,641
We didn't have a producer for a long time.
630
01:01:32,680 --> 01:01:35,001
There's a reason why the best albums
631
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:39,204
have generally got a great producer
along with them, you know.
632
01:01:39,240 --> 01:01:43,006
It's very, very hard to have such objectivity
on your own thing.
633
01:02:34,680 --> 01:02:38,321
Eventually we got Mitchell Froom in
to work with us.
634
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:42,365
Mitchell we'd worked with
on MTV Unplugged and we loved his vibe.
635
01:02:42,400 --> 01:02:47,884
He's very, very... He's very musical
and he's very about spontaneity.
636
01:02:47,920 --> 01:02:50,526
He is, like, "I love it" on the one-take vocal.
637
01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:02,450
I'll often feel that I focused best
the first time I sang something.
638
01:03:02,480 --> 01:03:06,280
Often it's when you're most focused
and you get it dead right.
639
01:03:06,320 --> 01:03:08,891
You know, just in the whole feeling of it.
640
01:03:29,840 --> 01:03:34,482
We did three songs with Mutt Lange
and one of the songs was Breathless.
641
01:03:46,800 --> 01:03:49,644
Mutt Lange is just an amazing guy
to work with.
642
01:03:49,680 --> 01:03:53,401
Breathless was great.
I think we all knew it'd be pretty strong.
643
01:03:53,440 --> 01:03:58,207
But it's always got to do with the climate
of the music industry at the time
644
01:03:58,240 --> 01:04:00,242
and whether it's the sound of the time.
645
01:04:00,280 --> 01:04:04,001
You can put out something amazing
and it flops.
646
01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:06,247
You go, "What happened there?"
647
01:04:06,280 --> 01:04:08,760
But Breathless did everything for us.
648
01:04:21,240 --> 01:04:24,289
Suddenly we're hearing
it's getting massive radio play.
649
01:04:24,320 --> 01:04:28,405
I remember going over to London
to do all the radio shows possible
650
01:04:28,440 --> 01:04:32,809
to try and make sure and secure
a number one, our first number one.
651
01:04:40,880 --> 01:04:44,521
We were doing Party in The Park
and it was obviously chart day.
652
01:04:44,560 --> 01:04:48,610
It was Sunday and we knew
this was a possibility,
653
01:04:48,640 --> 01:04:51,564
but we didn't know it as a reality.
654
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:54,968
We got up onstage and we played
to a great crowd
655
01:04:55,000 --> 01:04:59,005
and then, straight afterwards,
we found out that we'd gone to number one.
656
01:04:59,040 --> 01:05:02,840
That was the first single
number one in the UK.
657
01:05:02,880 --> 01:05:07,522
So it was a good comeback, very good,
and we had a good celebration.
658
01:05:12,840 --> 01:05:16,162
It was a couple of years
of dreams absolutely coming true.
659
01:05:16,200 --> 01:05:18,601
It was almost like a fantasy.
660
01:05:18,640 --> 01:05:23,601
And I think, had you written the script,
you wouldn't have written it
661
01:05:23,640 --> 01:05:28,646
to come true as much as this
because people wouldn't believe it.
662
01:05:32,320 --> 01:05:36,803
Breathless got to number one
in 18 countries.
663
01:05:37,520 --> 01:05:40,683
That was huge. That was fantastic.
664
01:05:45,520 --> 01:05:48,603
That certainly paid off; that collaboration.
665
01:05:54,760 --> 01:05:57,684
In the summer of 2000, In Blue came out.
666
01:05:57,720 --> 01:06:02,886
It had come out under one of the saddest
circumstances you can imagine.
667
01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:06,083
They had survived, they'd put it out.
668
01:06:06,120 --> 01:06:09,727
And out she came and it went
to number one in nearly 20 countries.
669
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:24,643
In 2001, they recorded a DVD
of their concert at Wembley Arena.
670
01:06:24,680 --> 01:06:27,365
The Corrs had come of age.
671
01:06:43,160 --> 01:06:48,803
They've now become
a bona fide arena act throughout Europe.
672
01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:52,401
Lots of acts become arena acts in the UK,
not in Europe.
673
01:06:52,440 --> 01:06:57,287
The music appeals from 15 to 50,
the age group. H's not just one genre.
674
01:07:18,080 --> 01:07:20,447
They're like a new Fleetwood Mac.
675
01:07:20,480 --> 01:07:26,010
They appeal to the same kind of audience.
People who like good music played well.
676
01:07:36,520 --> 01:07:39,364
This was a whole new ballgame.
677
01:07:41,120 --> 01:07:44,249
The Corrs were truly on the map
and they soon found
678
01:07:44,280 --> 01:07:49,844
that fame puts you at the beck and ca}!
of a wide variety of people.
679
01:07:49,880 --> 01:07:52,486
I think that we've been relatively lucky
680
01:07:52,520 --> 01:07:56,366
when it comes to paparazzi
and newspapers.
681
01:07:56,400 --> 01:08:01,850
I hate the criticism of our albums
and I hate when it's a bad review for a gig
682
01:08:01,880 --> 01:08:06,124
and stuff like that,
that kind of stuff gets to me.
683
01:08:06,160 --> 01:08:10,484
Cos I kind of feel like...
you know, killing them
684
01:08:10,520 --> 01:08:13,842
for saying something bad
about something you worked so hard on
685
01:08:13,880 --> 01:08:16,486
and something that is so honest.
686
01:08:16,520 --> 01:08:18,522
But when it's stuff to do with,
687
01:08:18,560 --> 01:08:23,407
"Andrea's new boyfriend, close friends,
fingers crossed"
688
01:08:23,920 --> 01:08:25,763
and you don't know the person...
689
01:08:29,520 --> 01:08:32,330
That kind of stuff is silly.
That doesn't matter.
690
01:08:32,360 --> 01:08:35,842
That kind of keeps me safe, as well,
'cos they write the lies
691
01:08:35,880 --> 01:08:38,486
so sometimes
the truth they think are lies, as well.
692
01:08:38,520 --> 01:08:45,290
As I always say, nothing scares managers
as much as boyfriends. Except husbands!
693
01:08:45,320 --> 01:08:49,484
If I kept waiting to get married,
we would never have gotten married.
694
01:08:49,520 --> 01:08:53,605
There'd never be a space. There's always
something The Corrs can be doing.
695
01:08:53,640 --> 01:08:55,927
"Could you wait just one more year?"
696
01:08:55,960 --> 01:08:59,089
She'd say, "OK, OK,
but that's it, Johnny." "Fine."
697
01:08:59,120 --> 01:09:02,283
Then I'd say, "Could you wait another year?"
698
01:09:02,320 --> 01:09:05,290
So I said to John, "I'm getting married in July
699
01:09:05,320 --> 01:09:09,882
"and I need a least a month off beforehand
in preparation."
700
01:09:09,920 --> 01:09:14,721
I think I had about... maybe a maximum
of a week and a half off beforehand
701
01:09:14,760 --> 01:09:16,489
and we got married.
702
01:09:26,840 --> 01:09:31,767
It was very traditional and yet classic.
It was a very beautiful wedding.
703
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:43,724
It was just great fun
and a really, really fun, magical day.
704
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:46,764
Every picture of the wedding of me,
I'm crying.
705
01:09:46,800 --> 01:09:49,371
I couldn't stop crying the whole day long.
706
01:09:49,400 --> 01:09:52,768
All the photographs
that she has on the wall,
707
01:09:52,800 --> 01:09:58,569
you just see, like, me in any of them,
in the background or anywhere, I'm...
708
01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:01,206
But it was beautiful.
709
01:10:04,600 --> 01:10:08,082
I knew Sharon and Gavin would marry.
It was only a case of when.
710
01:10:19,480 --> 01:10:22,450
You begin to think, �The first one has gone.
711
01:10:22,480 --> 01:10:25,882
'What direction is the band gonna go in?"
712
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:29,083
Those thoughts obviously
have to come into your mind.
713
01:10:36,440 --> 01:10:39,603
I do remember
the record company were sod of,
714
01:10:39,640 --> 01:10:42,962
"Is this the end
because Sharon's getting married?"
715
01:10:43,000 --> 01:10:45,810
And I was just going, "Oh, my God,
716
01:10:45,840 --> 01:10:50,164
"they have absolutely no idea
how much I love this."
717
01:10:54,720 --> 01:10:59,965
Sharon had sort of left the gate open
and the rot had set in
718
01:11:00,000 --> 01:11:02,207
so now the rest figured...
719
01:11:02,240 --> 01:11:04,402
Well, I suppose he proposed.
720
01:11:04,440 --> 01:11:07,011
The manager's defenseless.
721
01:11:07,040 --> 01:11:10,203
You just gotta to keep gracious.
�I'm very happy for you both."
722
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:18,004
We decided to marry pretty fast.
We didn't want a long engagement.
723
01:11:18,040 --> 01:11:21,044
We'd known each other for a long time
at that stage
724
01:11:21,080 --> 01:11:23,686
so we got married three months later.
725
01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:30,890
I would've made them be together
if they hadn't wanted to be. They're perfect.
726
01:11:30,920 --> 01:11:35,687
We had been travelling so extensively
and working so intensively
727
01:11:35,720 --> 01:11:40,282
that I think all of us needed a period of time
when we get our own lives back.
728
01:11:42,400 --> 01:11:47,042
Jim realized a long-held ambition.
He learned to fly a helicopter.
729
01:12:47,120 --> 01:12:52,286
I was with Caroline one night
and we were having a good night.
730
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,322
We'd had a good few drinks.
731
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:58,331
At a certain point, I was getting
slightly despondent about acting
732
01:12:58,360 --> 01:13:05,767
and thinking that, as our parents
watched us become a band,
733
01:13:05,800 --> 01:13:08,531
maybe I'll watch my children act, you know.
734
01:13:08,560 --> 01:13:12,121
And Caroline was,
"Tut tut tut, that's a disgrace.
735
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:15,960
"You have to do flats.�
And I said, "OK. No, you're right.�
736
01:13:16,000 --> 01:13:21,325
So the next day, hangover and all,
I went to Johnny.
737
01:13:21,360 --> 01:13:25,001
I said, "I have to do this.
We have to make time that I get to do this."
738
01:13:25,040 --> 01:13:27,964
Through the Hubbards, a script,
739
01:13:28,000 --> 01:13:31,209
The Boys 81 Girl From County Clare,
was sent to me.
740
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:35,962
I really liked it and wanted to do it
and so I auditioned for it
741
01:13:36,000 --> 01:13:38,731
and a few days later, I heard that I got it.
742
01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:44,403
I was surprised when I got pregnant,
but I was really, really happy about it.
743
01:13:44,440 --> 01:13:46,966
Of course, you're thinking about the band,
744
01:13:47,000 --> 01:13:50,402
how this will work with the band,
how you'll do your work schedule.
745
01:13:50,440 --> 01:13:53,205
So there was a bit of concern, yeah.
746
01:13:53,240 --> 01:13:55,242
She was pregnant.
747
01:13:57,080 --> 01:14:01,449
As I said, if there's one thing a manager
gets scary about, it's husbands,
748
01:14:01,480 --> 01:14:04,484
but if he really gets paranoid, it's children!
749
01:14:04,520 --> 01:14:08,650
I think everybody kind of needed time out,
you know.
750
01:14:08,680 --> 01:14:12,287
Andrea was doing a movie,
Jim was learning how to fly helicopters.
751
01:14:12,320 --> 01:14:16,405
I think everybody needed space
and needed time for themselves.
752
01:14:16,440 --> 01:14:18,329
That was really important for us.
753
01:14:24,000 --> 01:14:27,721
And so began �The New Carts�.
754
01:14:35,480 --> 01:14:37,881
We hadn't had a record out for four years.
755
01:14:37,920 --> 01:14:42,244
In a pop world, that can seem like it's over,
they're well gone.
756
01:14:42,640 --> 01:14:46,326
They'd made their money, got married,
they've having children.
757
01:14:46,360 --> 01:14:49,330
Surely, you know,
they're going to just enjoy it.
758
01:14:49,800 --> 01:14:51,086
Which part?
759
01:14:52,000 --> 01:14:57,006
The recording and writing of
Borrowed Heaven spanned a year at least.
760
01:14:57,040 --> 01:14:58,849
If not longer.
761
01:15:00,280 --> 01:15:04,888
This break away from it
and doing other things you wanted to do,
762
01:15:04,920 --> 01:15:10,290
I suppose it revitalized the love of music and
I found myself going naturally to the piano.
763
01:15:10,320 --> 01:15:14,484
Without any idea of a clock ticking
or must-do,
764
01:15:14,520 --> 01:15:17,967
but doing something
for absolutely the pleasure of it.
765
01:15:19,000 --> 01:15:22,482
So it would be like,
you'd write a song and get excited,
766
01:15:22,520 --> 01:15:25,888
then ring up and go,
"Johnny, book the studio."
767
01:15:25,920 --> 01:15:30,403
In June 2003,
we began Borrowed Heaven.
768
01:15:30,440 --> 01:15:35,207
They spent about a year
in and out of the studio getting it together.
769
01:15:35,240 --> 01:15:37,242
"Coming in early on the verse.
770
01:15:38,280 --> 01:15:40,123
She lived like she knew
771
01:15:41,240 --> 01:15:45,325
Can I just come up in my own a little?
It's not affecting theirs, is it?
772
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:48,685
She lived like she knew
773
01:15:48,720 --> 01:15:53,362
Andrea wrote that song, wrote the lyrics
of the song. That was about our mum.
774
01:15:53,400 --> 01:15:58,361
It was an attempt by Andrea
to try and make sense of her passing away.
775
01:16:31,800 --> 01:16:35,361
OK, we go again.
Can I have a little bit of Anto?
776
01:16:52,720 --> 01:16:54,563
Mercy, mercy!
777
01:16:59,920 --> 01:17:02,241
I can't... Thank you very much!
778
01:17:06,880 --> 01:17:11,966
We collaborated with a producer, Olle
Romo. It was the first time working with him.
779
01:17:12,000 --> 01:17:18,610
It worked out very, very well. It was partly
recorded in Dublin, partly in Los Angeles.
780
01:17:18,640 --> 01:17:23,487
It can be Oole, Olla, Ol�
and it just drives us all crazy.
781
01:17:23,520 --> 01:17:26,410
Olla, Oola. It's kind of like apple in Irish.
782
01:17:26,440 --> 01:17:31,002
Olle. Olle Romo.
Now I don't even know if I've got it right.
783
01:17:33,720 --> 01:17:38,248
It was good making the video for Summer
Sunshine. We hadn't made one in a while.
784
01:17:40,160 --> 01:17:43,801
The idea being
that it's a frame packed with heads.
785
01:17:43,840 --> 01:17:46,730
A frame full of heads. A frame full of you.
786
01:17:46,760 --> 01:17:50,446
We worked with Kevin Godley on it,
which was great. He's a little darker:
787
01:17:50,480 --> 01:17:53,848
Fur Summer Sunshine,
a tot of treatments were inst...
788
01:17:53,880 --> 01:17:57,441
There was just an emptiness
a lot of the time.
789
01:17:58,320 --> 01:18:03,281
It's great, actually. It's just interesting...
than other videos we've done, I think.
790
01:18:03,320 --> 01:18:07,962
You know, it's actually doing some
action stuff and we're not just performing.
791
01:18:16,240 --> 01:18:17,924
It is behind the door...
792
01:18:17,960 --> 01:18:19,564
It's not over here!
793
01:18:20,480 --> 01:18:22,323
Kevin got the darkness within it.
794
01:18:22,360 --> 01:18:27,491
He got what it kind of meant,
as well as being optimistic.
795
01:18:52,480 --> 01:18:56,087
We were asked to do an award show
called the Meteor Awards.
796
01:18:58,360 --> 01:19:01,967
The perception was, "Oh, they're back."
A sort of comeback.
797
01:19:02,000 --> 01:19:04,526
Were people nervous? Absolutely.
798
01:19:07,080 --> 01:19:11,563
First time playing the song, you're aware
of people going, 'Wow, what's this?"
799
01:19:12,560 --> 01:19:14,403
Been dusting off the cobwebs.
800
01:19:14,440 --> 01:19:19,048
It's more than two years
since we played, but we're really...
801
01:19:19,080 --> 01:19:22,971
In May 2004,
Borrowed Heaven was released.
802
01:19:30,160 --> 01:19:32,401
When we released Borrowed Heaven,
803
01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:39,050
it was at a time when the record industry
was in a state of absolute turmoil.
804
01:19:39,080 --> 01:19:42,801
We didn't realize how big the changes
would be on a global level
805
01:19:42,840 --> 01:19:45,446
in terms of our record company.
806
01:19:46,000 --> 01:19:50,130
We always kept relations with...
not just the heads of the company,
807
01:19:50,160 --> 01:19:55,087
but the people that were going to the shops
and selling you and going to the radios.
808
01:19:55,120 --> 01:19:58,124
It was like a decapitation, I suppose.
809
01:19:58,160 --> 01:20:01,289
Suddenly, all the heads of the company
that we had known
810
01:20:01,320 --> 01:20:07,089
and grown to like and have a good business
relationship with were not there anymore.
811
01:20:07,120 --> 01:20:10,408
You kind of wondered,
if you release an album now,
812
01:20:10,440 --> 01:20:13,489
will these people want to work it
if they're not stable in their jobs?
813
01:20:13,520 --> 01:20:15,602
But it went straight in at number two.
814
01:20:16,280 --> 01:20:18,282
You might say, 'What about number one?"
815
01:20:18,320 --> 01:20:21,927
Number 50 was closer
to where we might've come in.
816
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:25,601
If you're gonna be out of the market
for four years in a pop world
817
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:28,644
and come back in at number two,
that's nearly a miracle.
818
01:20:49,520 --> 01:20:55,368
Basically, what we're trying to do is have
the band promote this record, rehearse it.
819
01:20:55,400 --> 01:20:58,802
John Hughes was planning
the Borrowed Heaven tour
820
01:20:58,840 --> 01:21:01,810
scheduled for the second half of 2004.
821
01:21:01,840 --> 01:21:05,561
Then Caroline announced
she had plans of her own.
822
01:21:05,600 --> 01:21:09,082
I think John was the last person I called.
823
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:13,966
"We have a world tour penciled in,
we're doing a show...
824
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:17,004
and you're pregnant. Right."
825
01:21:17,680 --> 01:21:21,844
I was really happy when I found nut
I was pregnant with my second child,
826
01:21:21,880 --> 01:21:25,168
but it did concern me, you know.
827
01:21:25,200 --> 01:21:27,771
We had so much work to do.
828
01:21:27,800 --> 01:21:31,088
It says "Promo in Bangkok, 18, 19 and 20."
829
01:21:32,200 --> 01:21:34,646
And I can't do that many days.
830
01:21:34,680 --> 01:21:40,483
We had a promotional tour of Europe.
We had a tour of gigs in Europe.
831
01:21:40,520 --> 01:21:46,163
We had America.
There was also talk of Japan and Australia.
832
01:21:46,200 --> 01:21:49,044
Yeah, that slightly concerned me.
833
01:21:50,040 --> 01:21:52,850
We had always thought
about changing the line-up.
834
01:21:52,880 --> 01:21:58,205
So Jason Duffy, who is Keith Duffy
our bass player's brother, he came in.
835
01:22:00,840 --> 01:22:05,641
Kieran Kiely, who plays accordion,
keyboard, he came in as a second
836
01:22:05,680 --> 01:22:07,728
and just augmented the sound.
837
01:22:10,440 --> 01:22:12,283
Then Caroline got pregnant.
838
01:22:12,320 --> 01:22:15,529
Jason became the drummer,
she became the percussionist.
839
01:22:16,120 --> 01:22:19,806
Which was good for her.
She could play piano, which she does,
840
01:22:19,840 --> 01:22:22,320
she could sing, then go back as percussion.
841
01:22:28,000 --> 01:22:31,288
They rehearsed for
the Borrowed Heaven tour at Bray Studios
842
01:22:31,320 --> 01:22:33,641
with a full lighting and sound set-up.
843
01:22:38,760 --> 01:22:40,762
Tell me if it's too much.
844
01:22:43,240 --> 01:22:45,242
As opposed to individually.
845
01:23:15,640 --> 01:23:19,929
When you've got that going on, the whistle
and the thing, there's a lack of...
846
01:23:19,960 --> 01:23:22,406
Just feels a bit empty.
847
01:23:22,440 --> 01:23:23,965
OK.
848
01:23:24,000 --> 01:23:29,166
The extra musicians have added so much.
Ifs making on stage, it really is.
849
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:33,649
It feels so powerful and yet dynamic
and spontaneous.
850
01:23:45,160 --> 01:23:50,087
Jason will do something on drums
and it will completely propel you forward.
851
01:23:56,080 --> 01:24:00,324
It's like everybody has this domino effect
and it goes off each other.
852
01:24:00,360 --> 01:24:02,044
It's really good on stage.
853
01:24:03,840 --> 01:24:06,605
Please say Jim isn't in the pilot's seat.
854
01:24:09,880 --> 01:24:13,282
To be on the mad again was very exciting,
855
01:24:13,320 --> 01:24:18,611
but also a little bit frightening because
of the all-consuming nature of touring.
856
01:24:18,640 --> 01:24:20,688
You're going, "I'll lose my life again."
857
01:24:23,040 --> 01:24:27,364
We embarked on a European tour,
which was mainly summer festivals.
858
01:25:11,360 --> 01:25:15,888
It's a Spinal Tap day. I don't know
where we are, what we're doing.
859
01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:05,082
I'm not going to America
when the guys go in August.
860
01:26:05,120 --> 01:26:07,407
I'll be sitting at home getting bigger!
861
01:26:07,440 --> 01:26:09,442
So what if you put it to there?
862
01:26:09,480 --> 01:26:11,926
Like instead of...
863
01:26:11,960 --> 01:26:14,281
- Oh, that's what it was, right.
- It's...
864
01:26:14,320 --> 01:26:18,405
- That makes a lot more sense.
- It's easier to grab onto it, isn't it?
865
01:26:19,320 --> 01:26:22,767
This is just a prototype.
This is the only one in existence.
866
01:26:22,800 --> 01:26:26,043
If it burns down and explodes,
we're lost, mate.
867
01:26:28,600 --> 01:26:31,888
- Corrs logo! It's a prototype.
- Necks good.
868
01:26:33,960 --> 01:26:35,962
Cool. It works.
869
01:26:41,240 --> 01:26:45,245
For the US tour,
we missed Caroline very much.
870
01:26:45,280 --> 01:26:49,330
That was weird, that was very strange,
especially the bow at the end
871
01:26:49,360 --> 01:26:51,886
for it just to be three, it's like...
872
01:27:11,080 --> 01:27:13,082
After that, we took a bit of a break
873
01:27:13,120 --> 01:27:18,923
and we came back to Europe to do a more
comprehensive tour of the individual cities.
874
01:27:25,800 --> 01:27:28,007
Caroline, Caroline!
875
01:27:28,040 --> 01:27:31,726
Where's Dad? Gerry?
876
01:27:31,760 --> 01:27:33,091
Do you know where Dad is?
877
01:27:33,120 --> 01:27:36,966
Caroline, Caroline, Caroline!
878
01:27:37,000 --> 01:27:39,401
' WOW!
879
01:27:39,440 --> 01:27:41,090
- Oh, my...
- Where's Dad?
880
01:27:41,120 --> 01:27:45,762
I'm sure that you've noticed
that Caroline is not here tonight.
881
01:27:46,480 --> 01:27:48,847
Which way, Ciaran, do you think?
882
01:27:49,920 --> 01:27:53,481
Well, today is very, very special.
Caroline had a baby girl.
883
01:28:01,640 --> 01:28:05,645
Let us... Let's celebrate
this little girl's life.
884
01:28:54,040 --> 01:28:56,930
Most nights,
we've been getting on stage and saying,
885
01:28:56,960 --> 01:28:59,566
'We are sure that you will miss Caroline."
886
01:28:59,600 --> 01:29:03,605
"She is not with us tonight."
She had a baby girl six weeks ago.
887
01:29:07,120 --> 01:29:11,648
But tonight is very, very special
because Caroline is here.
888
01:29:16,720 --> 01:29:18,961
Thank you.
889
01:29:20,080 --> 01:29:22,321
It is great to be back on tour.
890
01:29:22,360 --> 01:29:28,163
I've been so excited about coming back for
the last few weeks now I've had the baby.
891
01:29:28,200 --> 01:29:29,361
So...
892
01:29:31,800 --> 01:29:35,327
So it's great,
but now I'm gonna go back where I belong.
893
01:29:37,360 --> 01:29:39,044
Thank you.
894
01:30:36,560 --> 01:30:39,370
Thank you very much,
Geneva, and good night!
895
01:30:50,680 --> 01:30:52,409
Thank you. Good night.
896
01:32:04,480 --> 01:32:05,481
Thank you.
897
01:32:26,120 --> 01:32:30,045
The last gig was in the tiny ski resort
of Ischgl in Austria
898
01:32:30,080 --> 01:32:34,369
where it had become a tradition
to invite top bands to open tire ski season.
899
01:33:10,080 --> 01:33:12,890
Is this the farewell tour?
900
01:33:12,920 --> 01:33:15,605
Might be our last. I don't know.
901
01:34:19,400 --> 01:34:22,006
All good things have to come to an end
902
01:34:22,040 --> 01:34:27,251
and it could possibly be
the right time to get out.
903
01:35:44,040 --> 01:35:49,444
It was really Carolina's idea for us to do
a traditional album and the old Irish songs.
904
01:35:49,480 --> 01:35:52,131
We didn't play traditional music as kids.
905
01:35:52,160 --> 01:35:56,324
As we got older, we started to play it,
then incorporate it into our music.
906
01:35:56,360 --> 01:36:02,129
We've decided to cal! the album Home
because it is like a homecoming for us.
907
01:36:02,160 --> 01:36:05,323
Back to our roots in terms of music
908
01:36:05,360 --> 01:36:09,001
because this album is a collection of songs
we grew up listening to.
909
01:36:09,040 --> 01:36:12,283
Our parents were performing these
when we were younger.
910
01:36:14,120 --> 01:36:19,650
It's an album of Irish songs. There are two
that aren't, but they sound like they are.
911
01:36:19,680 --> 01:36:26,006
It's all covers so the challenge for us was
to put our own stamp on these numbers.
912
01:36:26,040 --> 01:36:29,362
Some of them not well known,
but most of them are.
913
01:36:29,400 --> 01:36:33,883
I'm excited about this new record
and, regardless of how it does,
914
01:36:33,920 --> 01:36:36,571
I think it's a really beautiful record.
915
01:36:36,600 --> 01:36:39,365
It was a great experience to do it.
916
01:36:43,400 --> 01:36:44,925
OK?
917
01:36:56,960 --> 01:37:01,284
All of these songs were recorded live,
the six of us in a room.
918
01:37:01,320 --> 01:37:06,008
We took the best take and overdubbed
on top of the songs if it was necessary.
919
01:37:06,800 --> 01:37:11,283
The BBC live Concert Orchestra
was overdubbed on top of that tater
920
01:37:11,320 --> 01:37:14,005
so it's as close to live as you can get.
921
01:37:25,640 --> 01:37:29,964
I like what we're doing at the moment
and I like where we're at.
922
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:34,324
A Rot of comfort can he taken
from the amount of success wave had.
923
01:37:34,360 --> 01:37:38,604
A lot of comfort taken
from the amount of work we've done.
924
01:37:54,880 --> 01:37:58,009
Lagan Love is really special
925
01:37:58,040 --> 01:38:02,204
because I think, you know,
because it's the Lagan and it's Belfast.
926
01:38:02,240 --> 01:38:06,245
It's Northern Ireland and there's
something about the track that...
927
01:38:06,280 --> 01:38:10,444
Because there's sort of like
a marching rhythm on the drums,
928
01:38:10,480 --> 01:38:13,962
it sort of managed to capture
929
01:38:14,000 --> 01:38:18,608
a little of the feeling of the Troubles
in the North of Ireland and also the hope
930
01:38:18,640 --> 01:38:22,167
of, you know, getting through that
and finding peace.
931
01:38:37,200 --> 01:38:39,806
I'm really happy with the whole album.
932
01:38:39,840 --> 01:38:43,481
I love Lagan Love.
I think it's an amazing song.
933
01:38:43,520 --> 01:38:46,126
Head Like A Wheel is very special.
934
01:38:47,560 --> 01:38:50,848
I love Black Is The Color
�cos of the darkness of it.
935
01:38:50,880 --> 01:38:54,965
Sorry, I'll go through the whole album now!
I like this album.
936
01:39:06,600 --> 01:39:09,365
I kind of can? believe us, in a way.
937
01:39:09,400 --> 01:39:12,927
I can't believe our naivety...
938
01:39:12,960 --> 01:39:17,761
and... what was ahead of us.
939
01:39:17,800 --> 01:39:19,802
And, I suppose, our intensity on it.
940
01:39:19,840 --> 01:39:24,129
I kind of look at it like...
an absolutely crazy family.
941
01:39:24,160 --> 01:39:28,529
You can? help but be perceived
as being nice when you're in a family band.
942
01:39:28,560 --> 01:39:31,291
That perception is always going to be there.
943
01:39:31,320 --> 01:39:34,051
Of course, we're completely mad at times.
944
01:39:34,080 --> 01:39:38,722
Over the years, we've had these,
you know, horrific arguments.
945
01:39:38,760 --> 01:39:41,331
We're basically just a bunch of musicians,
946
01:39:41,360 --> 01:39:44,842
but this family thing adds this slight...
947
01:39:44,880 --> 01:39:47,963
nauseating thing to it!
948
01:39:48,000 --> 01:39:50,002
It's really uncool, in a way.
949
01:39:51,360 --> 01:39:54,603
But I don't really give a damn, to be honest.
950
01:39:54,640 --> 01:39:57,166
When people came to see a show of ours,
951
01:39:57,200 --> 01:40:00,363
they don't go, "God, aren't they beautiful?"
952
01:40:00,400 --> 01:40:03,449
They go, "That was a great gig
and they are good musicians,"
953
01:40:03,480 --> 01:40:05,323
and that's what we wanted.
954
01:40:05,360 --> 01:40:07,249
If you hadn't heard our music,
955
01:40:07,280 --> 01:40:10,648
you wouldn't know we were a family
so it wouldn't matter.
956
01:40:10,680 --> 01:40:14,651
We write and record music
and we travel the world doing that.
957
01:40:14,680 --> 01:40:17,251
I suppose,
we've a deep loyalty to each other.
958
01:40:17,280 --> 01:40:20,682
That'll never go away.
We're family. You can't get away from that.
959
01:40:20,720 --> 01:40:25,965
But it is a world that is...
The music industry is all about cool.
960
01:40:26,000 --> 01:40:31,609
And we just seem to go through that
without either being it or not being it,
961
01:40:31,640 --> 01:40:36,202
which I think is nice because
I think it's better not to be in fashion
962
01:40:36,240 --> 01:40:40,086
because then you risk the chance
of going out of fashion.
963
01:40:40,120 --> 01:40:44,967
I feel proud of what we've done
and I suppose I feel...
964
01:40:45,000 --> 01:40:49,244
we could've done something else
and failed miserably at it.
965
01:40:49,280 --> 01:40:54,081
I hope, in the future, that we continue
to do what we're doing...
966
01:40:56,120 --> 01:40:57,406
and still be enjoying it.
967
01:40:57,440 --> 01:40:59,886
I would most definitely do it all again.
968
01:40:59,920 --> 01:41:04,130
I wouldn't be able to do it all again
physically, but I'd be there in spirit.
969
01:41:04,160 --> 01:41:06,640
I wouldn't change a thing about it,
970
01:41:06,680 --> 01:41:11,368
but I think that, if we had realized
the amount of work that it'd take
971
01:41:11,400 --> 01:41:16,247
and the amount of travelling we'd have to do
to achieve the success,
972
01:41:16,280 --> 01:41:19,921
we might have thought twice about it,
but I wouldn't change anything.
973
01:41:19,960 --> 01:41:22,770
It has been fantastic, it really has.
92397
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