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RALPH LAUREN: I never thought
I was in the fashion business.
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If someone said,
"Are you a fashion designer?"
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No, I hate fashion.
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ANNA WINTOUR:
Fashion has to be desirable,
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and Ralph sees that.
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RALPH: I think it's important
people express who they are.
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♪ (MUSIC PLAYS, CONCLUDES) ♪
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[TV static drones]
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[bright tone]
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[leaves rustle]
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[gentle tones]
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[suspenseful orchestral music]
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♪ ♪
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- "Son,
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"I write to you
in your 15th year.
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"I am writing you
because this was the year
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"you saw Eric Garner choked to
death for selling cigarettes,
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"because you know now
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"that Renisha McBride
was shot for seeking help,
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"that John Crawford was shot
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"for browsing
a department store.
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"You have seen men in uniform
drive by and murder Tamir Rice,
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"a child whom they were
oath-bound to protect.
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"You have seen men
in the same uniforms
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"pummel Marlene Pinnock,
someone's grandmother,
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"on the side of a road.
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"All of this is common
to black people.
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"All of this
is old for black people.
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"What I told you is what your
grandparents tried to tell me,
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"that this is your country,
that this is your world,
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"that this is your body,
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"and you must find some way
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to live within the all of it."
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[somber piano music]
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♪ ♪
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[no audible dialogue]
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♪ ♪
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[no audible dialogue]
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[somber piano music
continues]
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♪ ♪
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- The Apollo
is synonymous with
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what it means to be you
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as black people.
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It's synonymous with
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what it means to be
at your highest level.
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It's synonymous with
what it means
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to be the you
that you would love to be.
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It's synonymous with
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what can you imagine
yourself doing
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and doing it
beyond your imagination.
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- When I think
about the Apollo,
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I think about African-American
contribution to culture,
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to music, to dance,
to performance,
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just to history and a legacy
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and to know that the Apollo
holds space for all of that.
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[somber piano music
continues]
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♪ ♪
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- They paved the way,
but they also paid a lot.
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I don't know where
any of us would be
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without all those performances
on that stage.
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It's the beginning
of all of it.
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♪ ♪
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- If the United States
is the big circle,
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inside of that is New York.
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Inside of New York,
of course, is New York City.
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Inside of New York City,
of course, is Harlem.
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And inside of Harlem,
is the Apollo Theater.
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[energetic jazz music]
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♪ ♪
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- Hi, ladies!
How you doing?
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Where--where you from?
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- We're from New Orleans.
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- My name is Billy Mitchell,
right?
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I am the historian
here at the Apollo Theater.
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I've been here off and on
for 51 years.
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- Wow.
- Wow.
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- I started
running errands here
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when I was 15 years old.
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I'm 66 now, girl.
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- So you done saw some--
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you done saw some people
come through here.
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- Everybody.
- Yeah.
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- What do you think
about the Apollo Thea--
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when you hear the name
Apollo Theater,
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what do you automatically--
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- Music, showtime.
- "Live at the Apollo."
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Well, I know it was
one of the original places
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where our entertainers
could come and perform at.
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- You haven't been inside?
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- No!
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- You want to take
a look inside?
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- Yes!
- Come on.
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Let's look inside.
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Come on, come on,
come on in, come here.
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Come on with you.
Come on with me.
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Watch yourselves, guys.
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We're coming over there by you.
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♪ ♪
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They're rehearsing for
the production called "Ella."
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- Go upstage. Go upstage,
Go upstage.
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- We're just excited.
- So am I!
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I love doing this more than
you love seeing it, girl.
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You have no idea.
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This is what I do!
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Come on with me.
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- You can, uh, move the music
stands first and uh,
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Joe will give us the cue
to bring in the scrim.
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And we're also gonna listen
to the opening sound cues.
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If we're good, we should
move on to young Ella.
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- One, two.
Hey, hey.
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One, two.
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- And let's get this other one
up over here, under here.
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- Can I have young Ella
to the stage, please?
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Stand by on stage
for young Ella, everybody.
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- We used to go
down to the Apollo
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on Amateur Night,
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and there were two sisters
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who were the dancingest
sisters in the world
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called the Edwards Sisters.
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[upbeat swing music]
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When I saw those ladies dance,
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I says, "No way I'm going
out there and try to dance,"
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'cause they stopped the show.
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♪ ♪
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And when I got out there,
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somebody hollered
out in the audience,
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"What is she gonna do?"
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- It's November 21, 1934,
and it's Wednesday night.
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It's time for the world-famous
Amateur Night at the Apollo.
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Okay, Ella,
welcome to Amateur Night.
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You got your dancing shoes
ready?
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- [exhales deeply]
- You don't wanna dance?
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[laughter]
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[scoffs]
Well, what are you gonna do?
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- The man said,
"You're out here.
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Do something."
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And I remember my mother
had a record
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of Miss Connee Boswell
called "Judy,"
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and I went out
and I tried to sing "Judy"
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like Miss Connee Boswell.
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And they said,
"Ooh, that girl can sing."
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And I won first prize.
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- ♪ If her voice can bring ♪
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♪ Every hope of spring ♪
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♪ That's Judy ♪
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♪ My Judy ♪
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♪ If her eyes say "yes" ♪
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♪ But you're wrong
in your guess, that's Judy ♪
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♪ My Judy ♪
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♪ If you hear her call ♪
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♪ In her soft Southern drawl ♪
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♪ "Hi, stranger" ♪
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♪ That's danger ♪
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- Ella Fitzgerald
was part of
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that first year
of Amateur Night.
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She ended up singing
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and forgot the words
to the song
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and started to scat.
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And it turned out
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she was the best scatter
to ever live.
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- [scatting]
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♪ ♪
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- There's a legend
about a piece of wood
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called the Tree of Hope.
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Every performer who ever played
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the Apollo Theater
touched that tree,
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so that when you go up
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as a rising
young amateur hopeful
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and you touch that tree,
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the magic
of all of that contact
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goes through your bones
as it went into that tree.
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It's a cutout of a piece of
wood that came out of a tree
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in front of
the Lafayette Theatre,
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which my father operated
with his partner, Leo Brecher,
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before they moved
to 125th Street.
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Performers used to hang out
on the island on 7th Avenue
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hoping that my father,
Frank Schiffman,
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would come out
and give them a job.
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[slow jazz music]
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- Frank Schiffman was one
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of the most vicious competitors
ever in the theatrical scene.
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♪ ♪
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By 1935, they had eliminated
all the other competition.
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They were the only game
in town in Harlem
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for African-American
theatrical entertainment.
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♪ ♪
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- I was raised on the streets
at Lenox Avenue.
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125th Street
was my playground.
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[energetic jazz music]
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♪ ♪
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When people talked about
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the Harlem of the Cotton Club
and the Savoy,
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black folks couldn't go
into these places.
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♪ ♪
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I was born in 1930.
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White folks
were going to these places.
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♪ ♪
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People forget that Harlem
was just a wayward station
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for former slaves
to try to get out
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of just being lynched openly.
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Racism was right there
in New York City.
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♪ ♪
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- You have to understand
where America was in 1934.
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We were still
a segregated country.
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♪ ♪
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Music and art
provided an avenue
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out of the legacy of slavery.
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♪ ♪
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- When the Apollo
opened its doors in 1934,
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it was one of the few
nonsegregated theaters
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that provided opportunities
to people of color,
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specifically
African-Americans.
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[applause]
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- When I was a kid,
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I would go to the Apollo
and see a big band.
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The Apollo was my palace.
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[Duke Ellington's
"Old Man Blues"]
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[upbeat jazz music]
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♪ ♪
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- In the '30s, jazz was the
popular music of its moment.
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♪ ♪
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It was the music that
teenagers wanted to hear,
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it was the music
that adults courted to,
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and it was what record labels
wanted to sell to the public.
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So just think about it:
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You walk into a theater,
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and you see a stage
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filled with
well-dressed black men
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in matching suits,
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shining instruments,
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working together
like a machine.
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[lively trumpet solo]
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♪ ♪
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It was a model
of black achievement
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that people relished in
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and, in fact, desired
in their own lives,
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and that was the power
of that big band era.
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♪ ♪
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- In the Apollo's
earlier heyday,
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it was the only place
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that black acts
could come and perform
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and then launch themselves
into a great career.
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♪ ♪
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- And much of that
had to do with
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Mr. Schiffman
procuring the services
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of one Ralph Cooper.
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[phone rings]
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- Hello.
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- Ralph was always
really cool.
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Always wore suits
around Harlem.
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Ralph always had that
show-business air about him.
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- Ralph Cooper
was this showbiz genius.
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He created the idea
of Amateur Night.
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He was a talent scout
that would bring people in...
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[Billie Holiday's
"Strange Fruit"]
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Like Billie Holiday.
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The reason that Billie Holiday
made her debut at the Apollo
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was 'cause Ralph Cooper
saw her in a little club
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and came and just touted her
on to Frank Schiffman.
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- ♪ Southern trees ♪
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♪ Bear strange ♪
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♪ Fruit ♪
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- "Strange Fruit"
was not something
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that Frank Schiffman
wanted to do.
266
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He was really terrified
to have her sing that
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and begged her not to sing it.
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- ♪ Black bodies swinging ♪
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♪ In the Southern breeze ♪
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♪ Strange fruit hanging ♪
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♪ From the poplar trees ♪
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♪ ♪
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- Billie Holiday,
when she did "Strange Fruit,"
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the label that she was on,
275
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they didn't want
to put it on the label
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because a lot of their
consumers were from the South,
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and they didn't want
to offend them.
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- ♪ The bulging eyes ♪
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♪ And the twisted mouth ♪
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- She came to the Apollo
and she sung it at the Apollo
281
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because she knew
that was a safe space.
282
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"The people that are here
will connect with that."
283
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And that was innovative
in its own way
284
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because that was protest music,
285
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and early protest music.
286
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- ♪ Then the sudden smell ♪
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♪ Of burning flesh ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ Here is a fruit ♪
290
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♪ For the crows to pluck ♪
291
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♪ For the rain to gather ♪
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♪ ♪
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♪ For the wind to suck ♪
294
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♪ For the sun to rot ♪
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♪ For the tree ♪
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♪ To ♪
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♪ Drop ♪
298
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- Frank Schiffman kept these
copious notes on performances
299
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and how much money he made,
and it was about control.
300
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It was about him
controlling every element
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of what happened
in that theater.
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[slow piano music]
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♪ ♪
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- You know,
they kept cards on us all.
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Oh, there were things like
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um...
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"Good voice; talks too much."
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[laughing]
You know?
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♪ ♪
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- I started at the Apollo
when I was nine.
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♪ Black bear ♪
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♪ Black bear ♪
313
00:16:38,582 --> 00:16:40,792
♪ Something in
the bottom of the bottle ♪
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♪ Makes you grate 'em all
down, down, down, down ♪
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I tap-danced...
[chuckles]
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I did impressions, and I sang.
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Little Leslie Uggams.
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[gentle orchestral music]
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They were
showing movies still.
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Always a tap dancer...
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00:16:59,959 --> 00:17:02,958
[rapid rhythmic tapping]
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A comedian...
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00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:06,709
- Did you all hear the one
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about the guy...
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00:17:08,375 --> 00:17:10,290
that, uh...
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[laughter]
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Did I say something funny?
328
00:17:15,916 --> 00:17:18,040
- And then you had the star.
329
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- ♪ When we were dancing ♪
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♪ And you're dangerously
near me ♪
331
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♪ I get ideas ♪
332
00:17:28,500 --> 00:17:30,916
♪ I get ideas ♪
333
00:17:31,000 --> 00:17:32,875
- And the first person
I worked with
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was Louis Armstrong.
335
00:17:35,458 --> 00:17:37,709
He was just a sweetheart.
336
00:17:37,791 --> 00:17:39,208
And I just loved watching him.
337
00:17:39,290 --> 00:17:43,583
I had my little space on stage
in the corner
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where I would watch
every performance that he did.
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- ♪ Lovely idea ♪
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♪ That I'm falling in love ♪
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00:17:54,125 --> 00:17:56,083
♪ With you ♪
342
00:17:56,165 --> 00:17:57,875
- It was like a school.
343
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- ♪ Somewhere there's heaven ♪
344
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♪ It's where you are ♪
345
00:18:05,625 --> 00:18:09,083
♪ Somewhere there's music ♪
346
00:18:09,165 --> 00:18:11,250
- Ella, she had an open door,
347
00:18:11,333 --> 00:18:13,083
and she was always saying
to my mother and I,
348
00:18:13,165 --> 00:18:15,416
"Come on in,
I want you to eat something."
349
00:18:15,500 --> 00:18:19,959
There was always tons of food
in her dressing room.
350
00:18:20,040 --> 00:18:23,959
- ♪ Until you will,
how still my heart ♪
351
00:18:24,040 --> 00:18:29,000
♪ How high the moon ♪
352
00:18:29,083 --> 00:18:31,250
- Dinah Washington
had a lot of influence on me
353
00:18:31,333 --> 00:18:32,416
'cause I worked with her too.
354
00:18:32,500 --> 00:18:35,375
- ♪ Only ♪
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00:18:35,458 --> 00:18:39,583
♪ A moment ago ♪
356
00:18:39,666 --> 00:18:43,083
♪ You sent this smile ♪
357
00:18:43,165 --> 00:18:46,625
♪ And whispered hello ♪
358
00:18:46,709 --> 00:18:49,125
- I was kind of like
her little girl,
359
00:18:49,208 --> 00:18:50,750
and she would say to me,
360
00:18:50,834 --> 00:18:52,625
"I want you always
to be a lady."
361
00:18:52,709 --> 00:18:54,083
I said, "Okay."
362
00:18:54,165 --> 00:18:58,625
- ♪ I felt my hand
melt into your hand ♪
363
00:18:58,709 --> 00:19:01,458
- And she used to keep
$100 bills
364
00:19:01,541 --> 00:19:04,000
so that when people
would come backstage,
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00:19:04,083 --> 00:19:06,290
didn't make it
or somebody needed something,
366
00:19:06,375 --> 00:19:08,959
she'd have $100 bills.
367
00:19:09,040 --> 00:19:10,458
- ♪ My bumpley heart ♪
368
00:19:10,541 --> 00:19:11,916
- She cared about everybody.
369
00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,500
- ♪ Was letting me know ♪
370
00:19:15,583 --> 00:19:20,416
♪ That this was
no commonplace story ♪
371
00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:25,416
- So I grew up watching these
wonderful, wonderful people
372
00:19:25,500 --> 00:19:29,165
who were at the top
of their craft.
373
00:19:29,250 --> 00:19:32,208
[organ trills]
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♪ ♪
375
00:19:34,541 --> 00:19:35,541
- Welcome to
the Apollo Theater.
376
00:19:35,625 --> 00:19:36,834
My name is Billy Mitchell,
377
00:19:36,916 --> 00:19:39,666
but most people
call me Mr. Apollo.
378
00:19:39,750 --> 00:19:41,165
So move over
a little bit more.
379
00:19:41,250 --> 00:19:42,709
Some of you move down a little
bit, move down a little bit.
380
00:19:42,791 --> 00:19:44,541
Excellent, watch, watch,
don't trip over it.
381
00:19:44,625 --> 00:19:45,666
Come down a little more.
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00:19:45,750 --> 00:19:47,290
So we are right now
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in front of
the Wall of Legends.
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00:19:49,916 --> 00:19:51,625
Now, these are photos
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00:19:51,709 --> 00:19:54,625
of all the stars
that performed at the Apollo
386
00:19:54,709 --> 00:19:57,416
over and over again
to sold-out shows.
387
00:19:57,500 --> 00:19:58,875
[soft piano music]
388
00:19:58,959 --> 00:20:00,709
Most of these
great entertainers,
389
00:20:00,791 --> 00:20:04,709
their beginnings were here
at the Apollo Theater.
390
00:20:04,791 --> 00:20:08,000
♪ ♪
391
00:20:08,083 --> 00:20:10,959
- I think the challenge
that faces the Apollo
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00:20:11,040 --> 00:20:13,583
and that faces black Harlem
393
00:20:13,666 --> 00:20:18,625
is, will it continue to be
a kind of living, vibrant space
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00:20:18,709 --> 00:20:22,875
of black cultural production,
of black community making,
395
00:20:22,959 --> 00:20:25,333
of black expression?
396
00:20:25,416 --> 00:20:29,375
Or will it be
more like a shrine
397
00:20:29,458 --> 00:20:31,709
to those things in the past?
398
00:20:31,791 --> 00:20:37,875
♪ ♪
399
00:20:37,959 --> 00:20:43,000
- Okay, so now to
the real focus of the meeting.
400
00:20:43,083 --> 00:20:45,208
- What is the identity
of Apollo?
401
00:20:45,290 --> 00:20:47,791
- What are we?
402
00:20:47,875 --> 00:20:51,375
Who are we gonna be known as
to make people want to come?
403
00:20:51,458 --> 00:20:53,709
But what are we to people?
404
00:20:53,791 --> 00:20:57,208
- With the current
political environment
405
00:20:57,290 --> 00:20:59,541
and things that
directly affect
406
00:20:59,625 --> 00:21:02,083
the African-American
community,
407
00:21:02,165 --> 00:21:04,416
I think it's important for us
408
00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:07,750
to be a place where we can
talk about these issues.
409
00:21:07,834 --> 00:21:09,625
- The Apollo can be the place
410
00:21:09,709 --> 00:21:13,125
that creates new works
411
00:21:13,208 --> 00:21:15,709
that you can't see
anywhere else,
412
00:21:15,791 --> 00:21:19,625
new works that are born out of,
as they say,
413
00:21:19,709 --> 00:21:21,916
the African-American
cultural experience.
414
00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:23,541
That's what we can be.
415
00:21:27,583 --> 00:21:30,416
- So we are here
working and developing
416
00:21:30,500 --> 00:21:34,125
"Between the World and Me"
by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
417
00:21:34,208 --> 00:21:37,000
We're just seeing actors
for this first time
418
00:21:37,083 --> 00:21:40,165
interpreting the work
of Ta-Nehisi.
419
00:21:40,250 --> 00:21:43,750
- We want to
create the programming
420
00:21:43,834 --> 00:21:47,208
that you're gonna be
talking about decades later.
421
00:21:47,290 --> 00:21:50,791
"Between the World and Me"
is right on target.
422
00:21:50,875 --> 00:21:52,791
- "Son,
423
00:21:52,875 --> 00:21:56,125
"I write you in your 15th year.
424
00:21:56,208 --> 00:21:58,458
"I'm writing you
because this was the year
425
00:21:58,541 --> 00:22:02,583
you saw Eric Garner choked to
death for selling cigarettes."
426
00:22:02,666 --> 00:22:04,959
- So the book
"Between the World and Me,"
427
00:22:05,040 --> 00:22:06,625
it's letters to his son.
428
00:22:06,709 --> 00:22:10,290
How do I explain
to my young black son
429
00:22:10,375 --> 00:22:11,959
how to grow up
and become a man
430
00:22:12,040 --> 00:22:13,583
in the age of Trayvon Martin?
431
00:22:13,666 --> 00:22:15,125
He's reckoning with his own
432
00:22:15,208 --> 00:22:17,834
internal turmoil
and tension, right?
433
00:22:17,916 --> 00:22:20,125
But let's try that.
434
00:22:20,208 --> 00:22:23,709
- "No one is held responsible.
435
00:22:23,791 --> 00:22:25,666
"All our phrasing,
race relations,
436
00:22:25,750 --> 00:22:27,834
"racial chasm,
racial justice,
437
00:22:27,916 --> 00:22:29,541
"racial profiling,
white privilege,
438
00:22:29,625 --> 00:22:31,208
"even white supremacy
439
00:22:31,290 --> 00:22:34,709
"serves to obscure that racism
is a visceral experience,
440
00:22:34,791 --> 00:22:38,625
"that it dislodges brains,
blocks airways, rips muscle,
441
00:22:38,709 --> 00:22:42,333
"extracts organs,
cracks bones, breaks teeth.
442
00:22:42,416 --> 00:22:45,791
"You must always remember
that sociology,
443
00:22:45,875 --> 00:22:48,916
"the history, the economics,
the graphs, the charts,
444
00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:52,000
"the regressions all land,
with great violence,
445
00:22:52,083 --> 00:22:54,500
upon the body."
446
00:22:54,583 --> 00:22:55,875
- Hmm.
447
00:22:55,959 --> 00:22:57,375
- I wrote
"Between the World and Me"
448
00:22:57,458 --> 00:23:01,208
because my friend Prince Jones
was murdered in 2000,
449
00:23:01,290 --> 00:23:04,000
and both Kamilah and I
went to school with him.
450
00:23:04,083 --> 00:23:05,375
We both knew him.
451
00:23:05,458 --> 00:23:07,208
- "He was dressed
in his formal clothes
452
00:23:07,290 --> 00:23:08,750
"as though it were
his senior prom
453
00:23:08,834 --> 00:23:12,375
"and frozen
in the amber of his youth.
454
00:23:12,458 --> 00:23:15,916
"His face was lean
and brown and beautiful,
455
00:23:16,000 --> 00:23:18,875
"and across that face,
I saw that open, easy smile
456
00:23:18,959 --> 00:23:21,500
of Prince Carmen Jones."
457
00:23:21,583 --> 00:23:25,709
- In the 15 years since
the murder of Prince Jones,
458
00:23:25,791 --> 00:23:28,083
so little had changed.
459
00:23:28,165 --> 00:23:30,709
This was an attempt
to vent that,
460
00:23:30,791 --> 00:23:33,040
to speak to that anger,
461
00:23:33,125 --> 00:23:36,375
to speak to that rage,
to speak to that--that pain.
462
00:23:36,458 --> 00:23:39,416
- "Our parents
resorted to the lash
463
00:23:39,500 --> 00:23:43,083
"the way flagellants
in the plague years
464
00:23:43,165 --> 00:23:44,916
resorted to the scourge."
465
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:48,290
- Thank you, yeah.
Great.
466
00:23:48,375 --> 00:23:49,791
That's helpful.
467
00:23:49,875 --> 00:23:50,959
That is helpful.
468
00:23:52,208 --> 00:23:53,625
- It's important that
469
00:23:53,709 --> 00:23:56,834
people who
come from the same experience
470
00:23:56,916 --> 00:24:01,791
out of which the work was drawn
get a chance to see it.
471
00:24:01,875 --> 00:24:05,083
The Apollo is probably rare
472
00:24:05,165 --> 00:24:08,165
among those environments and
venues where that's possible.
473
00:24:09,333 --> 00:24:10,834
[car horn honks]
474
00:24:18,875 --> 00:24:21,959
- [singing Usher's
"Nice And Slow"]
475
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:25,416
♪ Let me take you to
a place that's nice and quiet ♪
476
00:24:26,791 --> 00:24:28,791
- Have a seat, sit down.
Everybody sit down.
477
00:24:28,875 --> 00:24:31,165
I want to speak
to you about booing.
478
00:24:31,250 --> 00:24:34,625
Those of you
that are 16 and above...
479
00:24:34,709 --> 00:24:36,458
you can get booed tonight.
480
00:24:36,541 --> 00:24:39,458
Now, little history
about booing.
481
00:24:39,541 --> 00:24:41,959
For 82 years,
482
00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,040
people have been coming
to the Apollo Theater
483
00:24:45,125 --> 00:24:47,290
to boo the amateurs.
484
00:24:47,375 --> 00:24:50,333
[energetic funk music]
485
00:24:51,333 --> 00:24:52,750
- Amateur Night
at the Apollo
486
00:24:52,834 --> 00:24:56,125
is our weekly variety show
487
00:24:56,208 --> 00:24:59,458
that's been going on
since 1934.
488
00:24:59,541 --> 00:25:03,165
- [vocalizes]
489
00:25:03,250 --> 00:25:07,165
- We're always taught,
you go to the theater...
490
00:25:07,250 --> 00:25:10,000
and that's how you were
supposed to be, right?
491
00:25:10,083 --> 00:25:13,709
But--but culturally,
that's not how--who we are.
492
00:25:13,791 --> 00:25:15,125
♪ ♪
493
00:25:15,208 --> 00:25:18,165
- First, you give them
the power of the boo.
494
00:25:18,250 --> 00:25:21,500
And everybody's,
at some time in their life,
495
00:25:21,583 --> 00:25:24,541
wants to boo someone,
you know?
496
00:25:24,625 --> 00:25:25,666
- Boo!
497
00:25:25,750 --> 00:25:28,040
Get off, boom!
498
00:25:28,125 --> 00:25:31,458
Sing your best
once you open your mouth,
499
00:25:31,541 --> 00:25:33,208
'cause you don't have
no second chance.
500
00:25:33,290 --> 00:25:36,290
- I went for the regular
Wednesday Amateur Night.
501
00:25:36,375 --> 00:25:39,541
I just remember
looking out and seeing, like,
502
00:25:39,625 --> 00:25:42,666
everybody booing, everybody.
[laughter]
503
00:25:42,750 --> 00:25:46,290
And that was the best thing
that ever happened to me.
504
00:25:46,375 --> 00:25:49,040
After that, I was fearless.
505
00:25:49,125 --> 00:25:51,000
- ♪ I treated you ♪
506
00:25:51,083 --> 00:25:55,040
♪ Bad ♪
507
00:25:55,125 --> 00:25:56,791
♪ And wrong, my dear ♪
508
00:25:56,875 --> 00:25:57,916
- If you performed
on Amateur Night
509
00:25:58,000 --> 00:26:00,916
and you survived,
even if you didn't win,
510
00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:02,375
that was an accomplishment.
511
00:26:02,458 --> 00:26:03,541
[booing]
512
00:26:03,625 --> 00:26:05,541
Like, Lauryn Hill
didn't do well,
513
00:26:05,625 --> 00:26:07,583
but she learned a lot
from that experience
514
00:26:07,666 --> 00:26:12,208
and she went on and obviously
had, you know, a great career.
515
00:26:12,290 --> 00:26:14,875
- ♪ And I wonder ♪
516
00:26:14,959 --> 00:26:18,250
♪ Who's loving you ♪
517
00:26:20,834 --> 00:26:22,165
- Hello everyone, welcome.
518
00:26:22,250 --> 00:26:24,666
Welcome to the world-famous
Apollo Theater.
519
00:26:24,750 --> 00:26:26,916
We have orchestra seating
straight ahead,
520
00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,791
the mezzanine seating here.
521
00:26:29,875 --> 00:26:31,583
Good evening, welcome.
522
00:26:31,666 --> 00:26:33,875
Welcome to the world-famous
Apollo Theater.
523
00:26:33,959 --> 00:26:36,208
Orchestra seating
straight ahead.
524
00:26:36,290 --> 00:26:37,541
Good evening, welcome.
525
00:26:37,625 --> 00:26:39,250
Welcome to the world-famous
Apollo Theater.
526
00:26:39,333 --> 00:26:40,750
[mellow guitar music]
527
00:26:40,834 --> 00:26:42,458
- What I'm gonna ask you
to do right now
528
00:26:42,541 --> 00:26:44,208
for this special moment,
529
00:26:44,290 --> 00:26:46,875
I want you to take the person's
hand who's sitting next to you.
530
00:26:46,959 --> 00:26:48,583
Put their hand in your hand
right now.
531
00:26:48,666 --> 00:26:50,083
Doesn't matter if you've
never seen this person before
532
00:26:50,165 --> 00:26:51,208
in your life.
533
00:26:51,290 --> 00:26:52,375
Just take their hand,
534
00:26:52,458 --> 00:26:53,875
put their hand in your hand
right now.
535
00:26:53,959 --> 00:26:56,583
Everybody should be holding
someone--somebody's hand.
536
00:26:56,666 --> 00:26:58,333
I was a stagehand
537
00:26:58,416 --> 00:26:59,959
on Amateur Night,
Ralph Cooper's show.
538
00:27:00,040 --> 00:27:04,125
- Hey, how about a nice big
hand for my little band, huh?
539
00:27:04,208 --> 00:27:07,083
- And this lady
who always jumps up and down
540
00:27:07,165 --> 00:27:08,959
and rubs on people
and go crazy,
541
00:27:09,040 --> 00:27:10,333
her name is Eva Isaac.
542
00:27:10,416 --> 00:27:13,500
[old-school hip-hop beat]
543
00:27:13,583 --> 00:27:15,000
♪ ♪
544
00:27:15,083 --> 00:27:18,165
She had a permanent seat
during Amateur Night.
545
00:27:18,250 --> 00:27:19,625
[crowd screams]
546
00:27:19,709 --> 00:27:21,083
- They put me
on the front row, like,
547
00:27:21,165 --> 00:27:22,333
this is the front row
at Apollo
548
00:27:22,416 --> 00:27:23,791
and I'm in the center, 108.
549
00:27:23,875 --> 00:27:25,040
That my seat.
550
00:27:25,541 --> 00:27:27,625
Boy, I'll tell you, I would...
[laughs]
551
00:27:27,709 --> 00:27:29,000
Come close
to that stage,
552
00:27:29,083 --> 00:27:32,750
I'll pull you,
I'ma hug the heck to you.
553
00:27:32,834 --> 00:27:34,959
- I was singing to myself
out loud, so she said,
554
00:27:35,040 --> 00:27:36,583
"Joe, I didn't know
you could sing."
555
00:27:36,666 --> 00:27:38,916
- I said,
"You gonna sing tonight."
556
00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:41,916
- Does anybody noticed how
beautiful Eva looks tonight?
557
00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:43,625
[cheers and applause]
558
00:27:43,709 --> 00:27:45,040
- Second half comes up.
559
00:27:45,125 --> 00:27:47,165
I go out to change the mic.
560
00:27:47,250 --> 00:27:49,541
And as I'm changing the mic,
Eva stands up and says,
561
00:27:49,625 --> 00:27:51,165
"Ralph, let Joe sing."
562
00:27:51,250 --> 00:27:54,000
- "Let Joe sing."
563
00:27:54,083 --> 00:27:57,208
Well, what Eva want, Eva get.
564
00:27:57,290 --> 00:27:59,165
- Ralph looks at me
and hands me the mic
565
00:27:59,250 --> 00:28:00,500
and walks offstage.
566
00:28:00,583 --> 00:28:02,000
So I says,
567
00:28:02,083 --> 00:28:03,333
♪ Don't you remember ♪
568
00:28:03,416 --> 00:28:07,916
♪ You told me you love me,
baby ♪
569
00:28:08,000 --> 00:28:09,625
- Joe come out there singing.
570
00:28:09,709 --> 00:28:11,541
I jumped and people
started clapping.
571
00:28:11,625 --> 00:28:14,165
Joe starting singing and
making records ever since then.
572
00:28:14,250 --> 00:28:15,834
That was my man.
[laughs]
573
00:28:15,916 --> 00:28:17,290
- ♪ Oh ♪
574
00:28:17,375 --> 00:28:21,500
♪ Yeah ♪
575
00:28:21,583 --> 00:28:23,290
♪ Welcome to Amateur Night ♪
576
00:28:23,375 --> 00:28:25,625
- ♪ It's time for something new
just right ♪
577
00:28:25,709 --> 00:28:28,791
- ♪ Welcome to Amateur Night,
it's time, yo ♪
578
00:28:28,875 --> 00:28:30,333
♪ Whoo! ♪
579
00:28:30,416 --> 00:28:33,666
- Joe Gray performed 27 years
with Amateur Night
580
00:28:33,750 --> 00:28:35,541
every Wednesday.
581
00:28:35,625 --> 00:28:37,208
- Whoo!
582
00:28:37,290 --> 00:28:39,916
- There's not many artists
who can say
583
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,541
that they've hit the stage
as many times as Joe Gray.
584
00:28:42,625 --> 00:28:44,709
[overlapping chatter]
585
00:28:44,791 --> 00:28:46,791
- Okay, ladies and gentlemen,
welcome, welcome,
586
00:28:46,875 --> 00:28:49,709
to Apollo Amateur Night
auditions.
587
00:28:49,791 --> 00:28:51,040
We are thrilled
to have you here,
588
00:28:51,125 --> 00:28:53,375
There are many, many
legends and stars
589
00:28:53,458 --> 00:28:56,500
that have come before you
that sat in these same seats,
590
00:28:56,583 --> 00:29:00,125
and we are hoping that some
of you turn into that as well.
591
00:29:00,208 --> 00:29:01,625
- I'm Bianca Graham.
592
00:29:02,959 --> 00:29:06,083
♪ Birds flying high ♪
593
00:29:06,165 --> 00:29:09,916
♪ You know how I feel ♪
594
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:13,791
♪ Sun in the sky,
you know how I feel ♪
595
00:29:13,875 --> 00:29:16,750
- We've had some
amazing, iconic figures
596
00:29:16,834 --> 00:29:18,250
come through here,
597
00:29:18,333 --> 00:29:21,583
but we've also had
some neurosurgeons,
598
00:29:21,666 --> 00:29:23,290
some franchise owners,
599
00:29:23,375 --> 00:29:27,750
some garbagemen,
some schoolteachers.
600
00:29:27,834 --> 00:29:32,250
- ♪ So many people
using their-- ♪
601
00:29:32,333 --> 00:29:33,416
- Okay, thank you, sir.
602
00:29:33,500 --> 00:29:36,916
- ♪ Love ♪
- Okay, thank you.
603
00:29:37,000 --> 00:29:38,916
Thank you.
604
00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:40,290
- Sometimes access,
605
00:29:40,375 --> 00:29:42,250
particularly
for our community,
606
00:29:42,333 --> 00:29:44,750
is not always a clear line.
607
00:29:44,834 --> 00:29:48,040
So when you have
a point to say,
608
00:29:48,125 --> 00:29:50,083
"Oh, anyone can try it out"
609
00:29:50,165 --> 00:29:51,541
and the access is very clear,
610
00:29:51,625 --> 00:29:54,666
you just sign your name up
and you can get a spot.
611
00:29:54,750 --> 00:29:56,333
You just better be good,
612
00:29:56,416 --> 00:29:57,875
and you just better
be ready for it.
613
00:30:02,290 --> 00:30:05,250
[instrumentalists warming up]
614
00:30:07,208 --> 00:30:10,083
- Sometimes we just see it
week to week to week to week.
615
00:30:10,165 --> 00:30:13,416
We forget, man, this person
came all the way
616
00:30:13,500 --> 00:30:16,165
from backhoe Georgia
to get here
617
00:30:16,250 --> 00:30:18,750
and didn't really
have money for the plane
618
00:30:18,834 --> 00:30:20,625
and then got there
619
00:30:20,709 --> 00:30:23,333
and then we sort of
dismissed them, you know?
620
00:30:23,416 --> 00:30:24,791
"Well, you get
one time through, oh, fine.
621
00:30:24,875 --> 00:30:26,000
It's gonna be all right."
622
00:30:26,083 --> 00:30:27,458
Well, not really.
623
00:30:27,541 --> 00:30:28,959
Okay, everybody.
624
00:30:29,040 --> 00:30:30,625
So we're gonna
get started
625
00:30:30,709 --> 00:30:33,290
with our rehearsal
and sound check.
626
00:30:33,375 --> 00:30:35,625
I keep reminding myself
627
00:30:35,709 --> 00:30:38,834
and reminding our band
and reminding the crew
628
00:30:38,916 --> 00:30:43,000
how valuable this is to that
person's moment in their life.
629
00:30:43,083 --> 00:30:46,541
Doesn't matter if they're
gonna turn into Gladys Knight.
630
00:30:46,625 --> 00:30:49,040
In this moment,
we have to think they are.
631
00:30:49,125 --> 00:30:51,500
So up first,
we have Bianca Graham.
632
00:30:51,583 --> 00:30:54,625
"I Have Nothing,"
"One Night," and "How Sad."
633
00:30:54,709 --> 00:30:56,666
[Whitney Houston's
"I Have Nothing"]
634
00:30:56,750 --> 00:30:58,541
- I came on a Greyhound bus.
635
00:30:58,625 --> 00:31:02,500
And, uh, it broke down
in Philadelphia on me.
636
00:31:02,583 --> 00:31:06,625
So, uh, when I got here
to audition,
637
00:31:06,709 --> 00:31:08,666
they weren't
letting anybody in.
638
00:31:08,750 --> 00:31:10,208
♪ ♪
639
00:31:10,290 --> 00:31:12,000
I went home and I practiced
640
00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:16,666
and I just got myself together
and decided to come back up.
641
00:31:16,750 --> 00:31:19,083
♪ Share ♪
642
00:31:19,165 --> 00:31:20,834
♪ My life ♪
643
00:31:20,916 --> 00:31:24,541
♪ Take me for what I am ♪
644
00:31:24,625 --> 00:31:27,750
My friend, uh, was murdered
645
00:31:27,834 --> 00:31:30,709
by the police--one of the
police officers in Cincinnati.
646
00:31:30,791 --> 00:31:34,709
It's definitely for him and
our city and our community,
647
00:31:34,791 --> 00:31:36,083
um, back at home.
648
00:31:36,165 --> 00:31:40,375
♪ I said
take my love ♪
649
00:31:40,458 --> 00:31:42,875
♪ I'll never ask ♪
650
00:31:42,959 --> 00:31:46,750
♪ For too much ♪
651
00:31:46,834 --> 00:31:49,666
We actually had a fundraising
party before we left
652
00:31:49,750 --> 00:31:53,709
from Cincinnati with
all our friends and family.
653
00:31:53,791 --> 00:31:58,375
♪ I don't really need to look
very much further ♪
654
00:31:58,458 --> 00:32:00,625
♪ I don't want to have to go ♪
655
00:32:00,709 --> 00:32:03,458
♪ Where you don't follow,
I... ♪
656
00:32:03,541 --> 00:32:05,583
I've come a long way
657
00:32:05,666 --> 00:32:08,040
to be able to do this.
658
00:32:08,125 --> 00:32:10,040
It means a lot to me.
659
00:32:10,125 --> 00:32:13,791
♪ There's nowhere to hide ♪
660
00:32:13,875 --> 00:32:14,750
♪ But your love ♪
661
00:32:14,834 --> 00:32:19,040
♪ I'll remember forever ♪
662
00:32:19,125 --> 00:32:22,083
♪ ♪
663
00:32:22,165 --> 00:32:25,583
♪ Don't make me close ♪
664
00:32:25,666 --> 00:32:28,040
♪ One more door ♪
665
00:32:28,125 --> 00:32:30,541
♪ I don't want to hurt ♪
666
00:32:30,625 --> 00:32:32,416
♪ Anymore ♪
667
00:32:32,500 --> 00:32:35,290
♪ Stay in my arms ♪
668
00:32:35,375 --> 00:32:37,290
♪ If you dare ♪
669
00:32:37,375 --> 00:32:39,250
♪ Or must I ♪
670
00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:42,125
♪ Imagine you there ♪
671
00:32:42,208 --> 00:32:45,834
♪ Don't walk away from me ♪
672
00:32:45,916 --> 00:32:47,083
♪ No ♪
673
00:32:47,165 --> 00:32:50,791
♪ Don't walk away from me,
yeah ♪
674
00:32:50,875 --> 00:32:55,125
♪ Don't you dare
walk away from me ♪
675
00:32:55,208 --> 00:32:58,125
[cheers and applause]
676
00:32:58,208 --> 00:32:59,916
- The genius
of the Amateur Night
677
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,709
is conceding the authority
678
00:33:03,791 --> 00:33:06,583
to the audiences themselves.
679
00:33:06,666 --> 00:33:09,333
It's almost taking it
out of the hands of the owner.
680
00:33:09,416 --> 00:33:12,333
[peaceful music]
681
00:33:12,416 --> 00:33:15,333
♪ ♪
682
00:33:15,416 --> 00:33:17,916
- In terms of who allowed
for that to happen,
683
00:33:18,000 --> 00:33:19,458
who created that environment
684
00:33:19,541 --> 00:33:21,583
for artists to be able
to be innovative,
685
00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:25,208
Amateur Night, you know,
really came from Ralph Cooper.
686
00:33:25,290 --> 00:33:27,333
♪ ♪
687
00:33:27,416 --> 00:33:29,834
- Ralph Cooper,
you are a legend.
688
00:33:29,916 --> 00:33:34,541
You are still alive and well,
running the Apollo Theater,
689
00:33:34,625 --> 00:33:36,834
and giving young blacks
an opportunity.
690
00:33:36,916 --> 00:33:38,541
Where did you get your ideas?
691
00:33:38,625 --> 00:33:40,834
- Well, the ideas
were Harlem-born.
692
00:33:40,916 --> 00:33:42,666
Ideas were
more or less Harlem.
693
00:33:42,750 --> 00:33:44,834
You know, the entertainment
is like one big tree,
694
00:33:44,916 --> 00:33:48,709
and, uh, so many things
come from that one tree.
695
00:33:48,791 --> 00:33:50,333
There's a lot of limbs
that go out.
696
00:33:50,416 --> 00:33:51,541
And, of course, Tony,
697
00:33:51,625 --> 00:33:54,165
there was always
two kinds of show business.
698
00:33:54,250 --> 00:33:55,916
There was
a white show business,
699
00:33:56,000 --> 00:33:57,959
and there was
a black show business.
700
00:33:58,040 --> 00:34:00,959
[Eartha Kitt's "C'est Si Bon"]
701
00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:02,333
♪ ♪
702
00:34:02,416 --> 00:34:04,791
- ♪ C'est si bon ♪
703
00:34:04,875 --> 00:34:07,750
♪ De partir n'importe ou ♪
704
00:34:07,834 --> 00:34:10,041
♪ Bras dessus, bras dessous ♪
705
00:34:10,125 --> 00:34:14,166
- My father was doing all
of the booking of the theater.
706
00:34:14,250 --> 00:34:15,875
I kept looking
at the programming,
707
00:34:15,958 --> 00:34:20,541
and I never saw some of the
big giants of show business:
708
00:34:20,625 --> 00:34:24,000
Sidney Poitier, Eartha Kitt,
Lena Horne.
709
00:34:24,083 --> 00:34:25,541
I said--I said to my father,
710
00:34:25,625 --> 00:34:27,875
"Why don't you
try to book them?"
711
00:34:27,958 --> 00:34:29,708
And he said,
712
00:34:29,791 --> 00:34:32,708
"I'll give you the story
that the agencies give me.
713
00:34:32,791 --> 00:34:34,375
"They're white acts.
714
00:34:34,458 --> 00:34:36,583
"They want to play
the Persian Room,
715
00:34:36,666 --> 00:34:39,166
Waldorf Astoria downtown."
716
00:34:39,250 --> 00:34:41,208
I said,
"I don't believe that."
717
00:34:41,291 --> 00:34:43,875
So I wrote Eartha Kitt
a letter.
718
00:34:43,958 --> 00:34:45,333
And she called me up
719
00:34:45,416 --> 00:34:47,125
and invited me to
come and have lunch with her.
720
00:34:47,208 --> 00:34:50,250
- Hello, Dan, it's me.
721
00:34:50,333 --> 00:34:52,291
The cruise is divine.
722
00:34:52,375 --> 00:34:54,625
I'm in very good hands.
723
00:34:54,708 --> 00:34:58,083
Yes, I got the car
and the caviar.
724
00:34:58,166 --> 00:35:01,583
Before I left, she called
the William Morris Agency,
725
00:35:01,666 --> 00:35:04,416
and she said, "I want to play
the Apollo Theater."
726
00:35:04,500 --> 00:35:05,750
[jazz music]
727
00:35:05,833 --> 00:35:08,291
- [gasps]
How sweet.
728
00:35:08,375 --> 00:35:09,958
It's just divine.
729
00:35:10,041 --> 00:35:13,166
- Now she goes out
and marries a white guy,
730
00:35:13,250 --> 00:35:17,291
and the hate mail started
from the black community.
731
00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:19,416
She was scared to death.
732
00:35:19,500 --> 00:35:21,083
But here comes the date.
733
00:35:21,166 --> 00:35:24,125
The theater was
jammed to the walls.
734
00:35:24,208 --> 00:35:29,125
And I'm standing with Eartha
in the wings and she said,
735
00:35:29,208 --> 00:35:32,750
"Bobby,
they're here to kill me.
736
00:35:32,833 --> 00:35:33,750
You'll see."
737
00:35:33,833 --> 00:35:35,291
[percussive music]
738
00:35:35,375 --> 00:35:36,666
She walked out on the stage.
739
00:35:36,750 --> 00:35:40,291
People stood up
and applauded for ten minutes,
740
00:35:40,375 --> 00:35:42,500
for ten minutes.
741
00:35:42,583 --> 00:35:44,750
And what they were
saying to her was,
742
00:35:44,833 --> 00:35:48,125
"We know you don't have
to come here to the Apollo.
743
00:35:48,208 --> 00:35:51,500
"We know you come here
because you want to come here,
744
00:35:51,583 --> 00:35:53,125
and we love you for that."
745
00:35:53,208 --> 00:35:58,458
♪ ♪
746
00:35:58,541 --> 00:36:00,958
You know how important
that makes me?
747
00:36:01,041 --> 00:36:03,625
I was taking care
of buying toilet paper,
748
00:36:03,708 --> 00:36:05,083
and from that point on,
749
00:36:05,166 --> 00:36:08,625
I brought every act that we
ever brought in to the Apollo,
750
00:36:08,708 --> 00:36:10,875
every show, every act,
everything.
751
00:36:10,958 --> 00:36:13,875
[Pearl Bailey's
"She's Something Spanish"]
752
00:36:13,958 --> 00:36:16,875
[upbeat big band music]
753
00:36:16,958 --> 00:36:18,375
♪ ♪
754
00:36:18,458 --> 00:36:22,000
- ♪ She's something Spanish,
she certainly is ♪
755
00:36:22,083 --> 00:36:25,500
♪ How we say
send her right back to Cádiz ♪
756
00:36:25,583 --> 00:36:29,333
♪ Because a moment
that the lady came to town ♪
757
00:36:29,416 --> 00:36:32,500
- It was in the late '50s,
early '60s.
758
00:36:32,583 --> 00:36:34,291
I couldn't get
any other acts to come in
759
00:36:34,375 --> 00:36:37,166
in the bad weather
of New York winters,
760
00:36:37,250 --> 00:36:41,166
so I would put in
the Jewel Box Revue.
761
00:36:41,250 --> 00:36:44,333
- The costumes, the antics,
762
00:36:44,416 --> 00:36:46,666
the skits,
everything about it.
763
00:36:46,750 --> 00:36:47,875
I mean, you know,
764
00:36:47,958 --> 00:36:51,708
these are men
dressing as women.
765
00:36:51,791 --> 00:36:55,333
It was just to be seen.
766
00:36:56,791 --> 00:37:01,000
- There was a group that
reared its head and said,
767
00:37:01,083 --> 00:37:05,500
"That undermines the value
of the black family."
768
00:37:05,583 --> 00:37:07,583
Glorification of homosexuality
769
00:37:07,666 --> 00:37:11,875
was a big thing in the
black community, you know that.
770
00:37:11,958 --> 00:37:13,208
"If you do that show,
771
00:37:13,291 --> 00:37:15,875
we're gonna
ruin your theater."
772
00:37:15,958 --> 00:37:18,541
I had a lot of money
invested in that show.
773
00:37:18,625 --> 00:37:20,208
- How did you
straighten it out?
774
00:37:20,291 --> 00:37:22,875
- I straightened it out
for 150 bucks.
775
00:37:22,958 --> 00:37:26,083
Bought 'em off,
and the show was productive
776
00:37:26,166 --> 00:37:28,833
for both me and the community.
777
00:37:28,916 --> 00:37:31,583
♪ ♪
778
00:37:31,666 --> 00:37:34,625
[languid jazz music]
779
00:37:34,708 --> 00:37:41,333
♪ ♪
780
00:37:53,833 --> 00:37:55,416
- When I was little,
781
00:37:55,500 --> 00:38:01,208
there was still a lot of
prejudices going on in Harlem.
782
00:38:01,291 --> 00:38:04,250
They had a store
called Blumstein's.
783
00:38:04,333 --> 00:38:05,541
African-American people
784
00:38:05,625 --> 00:38:08,125
weren't allowed
to go in there.
785
00:38:08,208 --> 00:38:09,416
Being a little girl, well,
786
00:38:09,500 --> 00:38:12,583
"Why can't we go in there?"
you know.
787
00:38:12,666 --> 00:38:14,625
There were a lot of stores
that black people
788
00:38:14,708 --> 00:38:17,833
weren't allowed to go to
on 125th Street.
789
00:38:17,916 --> 00:38:24,875
♪ ♪
790
00:38:49,041 --> 00:38:50,458
- "Black body is beautiful,
791
00:38:50,541 --> 00:38:52,250
"that black hair
must be guarded,
792
00:38:52,333 --> 00:38:53,583
"black skin must be guarded,
793
00:38:53,666 --> 00:38:56,166
"our noses must be protected.
794
00:38:56,250 --> 00:38:58,458
"Both, we are all
our beautiful bodies.
795
00:38:58,541 --> 00:39:00,166
- Oh, that is both.
Okay.
796
00:39:00,250 --> 00:39:01,708
- And so feel free,
again,
797
00:39:01,791 --> 00:39:03,166
finding those moments
to connect,
798
00:39:03,250 --> 00:39:04,166
to talk to one another.
799
00:39:04,250 --> 00:39:05,666
- Sure, sure, sure.
800
00:39:05,750 --> 00:39:08,166
- "Now, black beauty was never
celebrated in the movies,
801
00:39:08,250 --> 00:39:10,041
"in television,
or in textbooks.
802
00:39:10,125 --> 00:39:12,000
"Everyone in any import,
from Jesus
803
00:39:12,083 --> 00:39:14,125
"to George Washington,
was white.
804
00:39:14,208 --> 00:39:16,000
"That's why your grandparents
805
00:39:16,083 --> 00:39:18,375
"banned Tarzan and Lone Ranger
toys with white faces
806
00:39:18,458 --> 00:39:19,666
"from the house.
807
00:39:19,750 --> 00:39:21,166
"They were rebelling
against the history
808
00:39:21,250 --> 00:39:24,333
"that spoke of black people
only as sentimental firsts:
809
00:39:24,416 --> 00:39:26,291
"first black general,
first black mayor,
810
00:39:26,375 --> 00:39:28,333
"a category
of trivial pursuits.
811
00:39:28,416 --> 00:39:29,958
"Serious history
was in the West,
812
00:39:30,041 --> 00:39:31,166
"and the West was white.
813
00:39:31,250 --> 00:39:33,208
Everything that was white
mattered."
814
00:39:33,291 --> 00:39:35,000
- "Our history, weaponized.
815
00:39:35,083 --> 00:39:37,625
"They had their champion.
Somewhere, we must have ours.
816
00:39:37,708 --> 00:39:39,583
"But then I'd read writers
817
00:39:39,666 --> 00:39:42,041
"central to the canon
of our history.
818
00:39:42,125 --> 00:39:46,875
"From then, I knew that
Mansa Musa of Mali was black
819
00:39:46,958 --> 00:39:49,708
"and Shabaka of Egypt
was black
820
00:39:49,791 --> 00:39:52,708
"and Yaa Asantewaa
was black, black, black,
821
00:39:52,791 --> 00:39:54,000
black, black, black."
822
00:39:54,083 --> 00:39:55,000
- Yes!
[laughter]
823
00:39:55,083 --> 00:39:57,166
[James Brown's "Out of Sight"]
824
00:39:57,250 --> 00:39:58,916
- ♪ Got your
high-heeled sneakers on ♪
825
00:39:59,000 --> 00:40:00,750
[audience screams]
826
00:40:00,833 --> 00:40:03,375
♪ And your slip-in mules ♪
827
00:40:03,458 --> 00:40:07,083
♪ Got your
high-heeled sneakers on ♪
828
00:40:07,166 --> 00:40:10,375
♪ And your slip-in mules ♪
829
00:40:10,458 --> 00:40:12,583
♪ You're all right ♪
830
00:40:12,666 --> 00:40:16,208
♪ You know
you're out of sight ♪
831
00:40:16,291 --> 00:40:18,666
- When James Brown
came to Harlem, it was--
832
00:40:18,750 --> 00:40:20,291
everybody was there.
833
00:40:20,375 --> 00:40:22,750
♪ ♪
834
00:40:22,833 --> 00:40:24,625
- He loved the community.
835
00:40:24,708 --> 00:40:25,916
And we would have everything
836
00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:29,083
from kids who were cutting
school to see James Brown
837
00:40:29,166 --> 00:40:31,125
to doctors and lawyers,
838
00:40:31,208 --> 00:40:35,375
people of all walks of life
that represented Harlem.
839
00:40:35,458 --> 00:40:38,375
[James Brown's
"Let Yourself Go"]
840
00:40:38,458 --> 00:40:41,750
[lively soul music]
841
00:40:41,833 --> 00:40:45,250
James Brown became
synonymous with the Apollo
842
00:40:45,333 --> 00:40:49,458
after his first
"Live at the Apollo" album.
843
00:40:49,541 --> 00:40:50,750
He knew that if he could
844
00:40:50,833 --> 00:40:52,916
capture the energy
from the Apollo audience,
845
00:40:53,000 --> 00:40:55,000
it was gonna make
for something very special,
846
00:40:55,083 --> 00:40:56,583
and he was absolutely right.
847
00:40:56,666 --> 00:40:57,916
- ♪ Hey, hey ♪
848
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,166
♪ One time, I feel all right ♪
849
00:41:00,250 --> 00:41:01,166
♪ Uh! ♪
850
00:41:01,250 --> 00:41:02,791
♪ Let me hear! ♪
851
00:41:02,875 --> 00:41:04,000
♪ Two times ♪
852
00:41:04,083 --> 00:41:07,791
♪ Hey, hey,
I feel all right ♪
853
00:41:07,875 --> 00:41:09,125
♪ Uh, uh ♪
854
00:41:09,208 --> 00:41:10,958
- The album was
hugely successful.
855
00:41:11,041 --> 00:41:13,666
I mean, it was on the charts
for, like, 1 1/2 years.
856
00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:15,625
It certainly
was the beginning
857
00:41:15,708 --> 00:41:20,458
of James crossing over
into mainstream acceptance.
858
00:41:20,541 --> 00:41:22,000
- ♪ I feel all right ♪
859
00:41:22,083 --> 00:41:24,750
♪ Hit it!
uh, uh, uh, uh ♪
860
00:41:24,833 --> 00:41:26,291
You got it for yourself,
come on!
861
00:41:26,375 --> 00:41:28,958
♪ Hey, hey, I feel all right ♪
862
00:41:29,041 --> 00:41:30,791
♪ One time!
Uh! ♪
863
00:41:30,875 --> 00:41:32,166
♪ Now you got it, put it on! ♪
864
00:41:32,250 --> 00:41:37,000
♪ ♪
865
00:41:37,083 --> 00:41:38,291
- At that time,
866
00:41:38,375 --> 00:41:41,291
the minimum wage
was a dollar an hour,
867
00:41:41,375 --> 00:41:44,000
so if I wanted
to go to a dance
868
00:41:44,083 --> 00:41:46,000
or go to the Apollo,
869
00:41:46,083 --> 00:41:49,208
we had to sneak in.
870
00:41:49,291 --> 00:41:51,166
One of us would pay to get in,
871
00:41:51,250 --> 00:41:55,541
and then they would
open the fire escape door.
872
00:41:55,625 --> 00:41:59,500
Then--then the rest of us
would come in.
873
00:41:59,583 --> 00:42:01,416
This was regular.
874
00:42:03,916 --> 00:42:06,333
- The day that
the welfare checks came out
875
00:42:06,416 --> 00:42:09,958
was a very good day
to open up an expensive show
876
00:42:10,041 --> 00:42:12,208
because people had
the money available,
877
00:42:12,291 --> 00:42:14,625
and we used to look at that
welfare check and say,
878
00:42:14,708 --> 00:42:17,000
"Oh, that's the day
I want to open this show."
879
00:42:17,083 --> 00:42:21,166
- The Apollo Theater proudly
presents the Motortown Revue!
880
00:42:21,250 --> 00:42:24,166
[frenetic horn music]
881
00:42:24,250 --> 00:42:26,166
♪ ♪
882
00:42:26,250 --> 00:42:28,541
- The first show
I booked with Motown
883
00:42:28,625 --> 00:42:32,250
included Smokey Robinson
and the Miracles,
884
00:42:32,333 --> 00:42:37,083
Diana Ross and the Supremes,
Martha and the Vandellas,
885
00:42:37,166 --> 00:42:38,541
The Temptations,
886
00:42:38,625 --> 00:42:41,875
The Four Tops
with Stevie Wonder.
887
00:42:41,958 --> 00:42:43,208
That was the show.
888
00:42:43,291 --> 00:42:44,708
- Right about here,
ladies and gentlemen,
889
00:42:44,791 --> 00:42:46,916
like to introduce to you
a very outstanding young man,
890
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:48,375
a young man that's more or less
891
00:42:48,458 --> 00:42:50,666
considered being
a genius of our time,
892
00:42:50,750 --> 00:42:52,833
and he happens to be
only 12 years old.
893
00:42:52,916 --> 00:42:54,208
Let try to now
make him feel happy,
894
00:42:54,291 --> 00:42:56,541
so meet and greet the
12-year-old genius himself,
895
00:42:56,625 --> 00:43:00,083
Little Stevie Wonder!
896
00:43:00,166 --> 00:43:04,041
- When the Motown Revue
came to the Apollo,
897
00:43:04,125 --> 00:43:06,541
the party was on.
898
00:43:06,625 --> 00:43:09,583
- Everybody say, "Yeah!"
899
00:43:09,666 --> 00:43:10,750
all: Yeah!
900
00:43:10,833 --> 00:43:13,000
- Say, "Yeah!"
901
00:43:13,083 --> 00:43:14,125
all: Yeah!
902
00:43:14,208 --> 00:43:15,958
- Say, "Yeah!"
all: Yeah!
903
00:43:16,041 --> 00:43:17,291
- Yeah!
all: Yeah!
904
00:43:17,375 --> 00:43:19,583
- ♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
905
00:43:19,666 --> 00:43:22,583
[Stevie Wonder's "Fingertips"]
906
00:43:22,666 --> 00:43:25,625
[raucous soul
and harmonica music]
907
00:43:25,708 --> 00:43:31,041
♪ ♪
908
00:43:31,125 --> 00:43:34,750
♪ Yeah, just
a little bit of sou-ou-oul ♪
909
00:43:34,833 --> 00:43:35,916
♪ Yeah, yeah ♪
910
00:43:36,000 --> 00:43:38,375
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪
911
00:43:38,458 --> 00:43:41,458
♪ Clap your hands
just a little bit louder ♪
912
00:43:41,541 --> 00:43:44,625
♪ Clap your hands
just a little bit louder ♪
913
00:43:44,708 --> 00:43:48,458
[upbeat harmonica solo]
914
00:43:48,541 --> 00:43:51,291
- That was done live
at the Apollo,
915
00:43:51,375 --> 00:43:52,458
and that's how the world
916
00:43:52,541 --> 00:43:54,458
got to know about
Little Stevie Wonder.
917
00:43:55,041 --> 00:43:57,291
- The fabulous Supremes!
How about it, yeah?
918
00:43:57,375 --> 00:44:01,291
[upbeat band music]
919
00:44:01,375 --> 00:44:03,125
- We walked onstage.
920
00:44:03,208 --> 00:44:04,791
Thank you.
921
00:44:04,875 --> 00:44:06,750
We started singing
our little cute song.
922
00:44:06,833 --> 00:44:09,958
We had these little cute
dresses on, short dresses.
923
00:44:10,041 --> 00:44:11,625
We were so frightened
924
00:44:11,708 --> 00:44:15,583
because the Apollo audiences
were the toughest audience.
925
00:44:15,666 --> 00:44:19,125
And we said,
"Well, suppose they boo us?"
926
00:44:19,208 --> 00:44:20,625
♪ Stop hurting me ♪
927
00:44:20,708 --> 00:44:23,625
- ♪ Hurting me ♪
- ♪ Hurting me ♪
928
00:44:23,708 --> 00:44:25,958
[vocalizing]
929
00:44:26,041 --> 00:44:29,291
- ♪ Now, don't you
think you're, oh ♪
930
00:44:29,375 --> 00:44:32,208
And we went into the song
and, I mean,
931
00:44:32,291 --> 00:44:34,500
all of us were
really frightened.
932
00:44:34,583 --> 00:44:35,958
We kept looking at each other.
933
00:44:36,041 --> 00:44:38,500
all: ♪ Count
the times you've cried ♪
934
00:44:38,583 --> 00:44:43,000
♪ You know how many
times I've cried ♪
935
00:44:43,083 --> 00:44:45,958
- But, uh, by the time
we finished our second song,
936
00:44:46,041 --> 00:44:47,375
they were applauding us,
937
00:44:47,458 --> 00:44:50,666
and we knew that
we had been accepted.
938
00:44:50,750 --> 00:44:53,750
[applause]
939
00:44:54,958 --> 00:44:57,666
- I don't remember
seeing anyone
940
00:44:57,750 --> 00:44:58,958
in the audience whatsoever.
941
00:44:59,041 --> 00:45:00,833
I never looked at the audience.
942
00:45:00,916 --> 00:45:02,333
I knew the back wall.
[chuckles]
943
00:45:02,416 --> 00:45:04,000
I knew every mark
on the back wall.
944
00:45:04,083 --> 00:45:07,833
♪ I don't want you, oh, no ♪
945
00:45:07,916 --> 00:45:10,166
♪ But I need you ♪
946
00:45:10,250 --> 00:45:13,708
♪ Don't want to kiss you ♪
947
00:45:13,791 --> 00:45:16,041
♪ But I need you ♪
948
00:45:16,125 --> 00:45:17,916
First time The Miracles and I
played there,
949
00:45:18,000 --> 00:45:19,416
Ray Charles was the headliner,
950
00:45:19,500 --> 00:45:21,916
and we did not have
formal arrangements.
951
00:45:22,000 --> 00:45:23,208
♪ ♪
952
00:45:23,291 --> 00:45:26,750
♪ You really got a hold on me ♪
953
00:45:26,833 --> 00:45:28,500
♪ And it's all right ♪
954
00:45:28,583 --> 00:45:32,208
The manager at the Apollo at
the time, he went crazy on us.
955
00:45:32,291 --> 00:45:33,541
We didn't know
we had to have that,
956
00:45:33,625 --> 00:45:35,041
so he's just raising hell.
957
00:45:35,125 --> 00:45:38,708
♪ Baby, I love you ♪
958
00:45:38,791 --> 00:45:40,750
And then
here comes Ray Charles.
959
00:45:40,833 --> 00:45:43,708
He said, "Do any of you
know how to play your songs?"
960
00:45:43,791 --> 00:45:45,541
So I knew how
to play them on piano,
961
00:45:45,625 --> 00:45:47,166
so he had me to come sit down.
962
00:45:47,250 --> 00:45:48,666
I was a nervous wreck.
963
00:45:48,750 --> 00:45:52,083
- Okay, well,
everything's cool, baby.
964
00:45:52,166 --> 00:45:54,666
- And when he heard me play
it one time, he took it over.
965
00:45:54,750 --> 00:45:55,916
"Okay, saxophones,
966
00:45:56,000 --> 00:45:57,416
"you write down
ba-da-da-da right here
967
00:45:57,500 --> 00:45:59,750
and trumpets, you go ahead
and put that down there."
968
00:45:59,833 --> 00:46:03,416
Just did a whole arrangement
to both of our songs
969
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:05,416
right off the top of his head
that morning.
970
00:46:05,500 --> 00:46:07,416
[Ray Charles'
"Hallelujah, I Love Her So"]
971
00:46:07,500 --> 00:46:10,083
- ♪ Let me tell you
about a girl I know ♪
972
00:46:10,166 --> 00:46:13,083
♪ She is my baby,
and she lives next door ♪
973
00:46:13,166 --> 00:46:15,750
♪ Every morning
'fore the sun comes up ♪
974
00:46:15,833 --> 00:46:18,208
♪ She bring my coffee
in my favorite cup ♪
975
00:46:18,291 --> 00:46:19,541
♪ That's why I know now ♪
976
00:46:19,625 --> 00:46:21,083
♪ Whoa, I know ♪
977
00:46:21,166 --> 00:46:23,416
♪ Hallelujah,
I just love her so ♪
978
00:46:23,500 --> 00:46:27,208
- These artists who weren't
necessary literate musicians
979
00:46:27,291 --> 00:46:30,500
who maybe got a record deal
and a hit song
980
00:46:30,583 --> 00:46:32,750
and need to
take it on the road,
981
00:46:32,833 --> 00:46:36,291
how do you acquire
those skills?
982
00:46:36,375 --> 00:46:38,125
You hang out backstage.
983
00:46:38,208 --> 00:46:39,875
- ♪ Oh ♪
984
00:46:39,958 --> 00:46:44,333
♪ Sometimes I get
a good feeling, yeah ♪
985
00:46:44,416 --> 00:46:48,000
all: ♪ Yeah ♪
986
00:46:48,083 --> 00:46:51,833
♪ I get a feeling
that I never ♪
987
00:46:51,916 --> 00:46:55,166
♪ Never, never, never,
had before, no, no ♪
988
00:46:55,250 --> 00:46:59,000
- The Apollo was
more like a university.
989
00:46:59,083 --> 00:47:01,291
♪ ♪
990
00:47:01,375 --> 00:47:02,583
- It was like going to school
991
00:47:02,666 --> 00:47:05,125
when Gladys and I
played the Apollo Theater.
992
00:47:05,208 --> 00:47:09,125
I learned how to be gracious
to the audience.
993
00:47:09,208 --> 00:47:12,416
- ♪ Something's
got a hold on me, yeah ♪
994
00:47:12,500 --> 00:47:14,625
all:
♪ Oh, it must be love ♪
995
00:47:14,708 --> 00:47:16,625
- Backstage was hectic.
996
00:47:16,708 --> 00:47:19,291
You could smell the makeup
and the perfume,
997
00:47:19,375 --> 00:47:22,958
and people were constantly
looking for an iron.
998
00:47:23,041 --> 00:47:25,500
- ♪ I've got a feeling,
I feel so strange ♪
999
00:47:25,583 --> 00:47:29,708
- The Apollo had
a very unique ranking system.
1000
00:47:29,791 --> 00:47:31,083
When you first started there,
1001
00:47:31,166 --> 00:47:33,000
your dressing room
was up on eight.
1002
00:47:33,083 --> 00:47:35,333
[laughs]
You had to work your way down.
1003
00:47:35,416 --> 00:47:37,666
- Any artist that would
come close to my room
1004
00:47:37,750 --> 00:47:39,666
as they're going down
the stairs to do their show,
1005
00:47:39,750 --> 00:47:42,750
I said, "After you finish,
can we play some cards?"
1006
00:47:42,833 --> 00:47:44,708
And every time I played,
I lost my money.
1007
00:47:44,791 --> 00:47:45,958
- ♪ It must be love ♪
1008
00:47:46,041 --> 00:47:47,333
- When artists would
come offstage,
1009
00:47:47,416 --> 00:47:48,500
you wouldn't go and change.
1010
00:47:48,583 --> 00:47:50,083
But if you did go
and change your clothes,
1011
00:47:50,166 --> 00:47:51,375
you would change them quickly
1012
00:47:51,458 --> 00:47:53,625
and the Apollo
had lots of steps,
1013
00:47:53,708 --> 00:47:56,500
so you run back down
and catch the next act,
1014
00:47:56,583 --> 00:47:58,208
because if they
did anything new,
1015
00:47:58,291 --> 00:47:59,541
you wanted to check it out
1016
00:47:59,625 --> 00:48:02,083
and see how well it was
accepted by the audience.
1017
00:48:02,166 --> 00:48:04,708
And if so, then you might go
back and try to change it
1018
00:48:04,791 --> 00:48:06,041
and put it into your act.
1019
00:48:06,125 --> 00:48:07,583
- Everybody
wanted to be better
1020
00:48:07,666 --> 00:48:09,708
than the next group
following them.
1021
00:48:09,791 --> 00:48:11,416
Everybody was close.
1022
00:48:11,500 --> 00:48:14,458
Competitive as hell,
but close like a family.
1023
00:48:14,541 --> 00:48:17,416
[upbeat jazz music]
1024
00:48:17,500 --> 00:48:20,416
[rhythmic tapping]
1025
00:48:20,500 --> 00:48:26,708
♪ ♪
1026
00:48:26,791 --> 00:48:29,750
- You can't mention the Apollo
without dance,
1027
00:48:29,833 --> 00:48:31,750
that voices music.
1028
00:48:31,833 --> 00:48:33,541
I'm talking
all types of dance...
1029
00:48:33,625 --> 00:48:35,375
[rhythmic tapping]
1030
00:48:35,458 --> 00:48:37,541
Honi Coles,
1031
00:48:37,625 --> 00:48:40,500
Sammy Davis, Jr.,
1032
00:48:40,583 --> 00:48:44,125
and Gregory Hines.
1033
00:48:44,208 --> 00:48:48,458
Of course, Sandman Sims.
1034
00:48:48,541 --> 00:48:50,291
I studied them.
1035
00:48:50,375 --> 00:48:52,375
I was taught by all of them.
1036
00:48:52,458 --> 00:48:55,375
[rapid rhythmic tapping]
1037
00:48:55,458 --> 00:49:02,458
♪ ♪
1038
00:49:03,208 --> 00:49:04,208
From The Temptations
1039
00:49:04,291 --> 00:49:06,250
to Gladys Knight and the Pips,
1040
00:49:06,333 --> 00:49:08,750
Cholly Atkins was
like a dancer
1041
00:49:08,833 --> 00:49:12,166
who choreographed
all of that stuff.
1042
00:49:13,375 --> 00:49:16,250
Those four and five brothers
who was stepping.
1043
00:49:16,333 --> 00:49:19,250
[The Temptations' "My Girl"]
1044
00:49:19,333 --> 00:49:20,583
♪ ♪
1045
00:49:20,666 --> 00:49:24,583
- ♪ I've got sunshine ♪
1046
00:49:24,666 --> 00:49:27,791
♪ On a cloudy day ♪
1047
00:49:27,875 --> 00:49:30,333
♪ ♪
1048
00:49:30,416 --> 00:49:34,291
♪ When it's cold outside ♪
1049
00:49:34,375 --> 00:49:36,291
♪ I've got the month of May ♪
1050
00:49:36,375 --> 00:49:39,291
- That was a very
deliberate move
1051
00:49:39,375 --> 00:49:44,125
to have the feared black man
in an Italian suit
1052
00:49:44,208 --> 00:49:48,583
performing disciplined steps.
1053
00:49:48,666 --> 00:49:49,916
- ♪ My girl ♪
1054
00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:52,500
- We had Dr. Kings.
We had the orators.
1055
00:49:52,583 --> 00:49:54,125
We know that people were
1056
00:49:54,208 --> 00:49:57,500
making those statements
with words.
1057
00:49:57,583 --> 00:50:00,416
But on the level of style,
1058
00:50:00,500 --> 00:50:03,458
they could achieve
the same thing
1059
00:50:03,541 --> 00:50:06,500
and get white people
to soften their stance
1060
00:50:06,583 --> 00:50:09,166
against, you know,
black freedom.
1061
00:50:09,250 --> 00:50:10,666
[The Isley Brothers'
"Twist & Shout"]
1062
00:50:10,750 --> 00:50:12,666
- ♪ Shake it up baby, now ♪
1063
00:50:12,750 --> 00:50:14,625
- ♪ Shake it up, baby ♪
1064
00:50:14,708 --> 00:50:16,708
- ♪ Twist and shout ♪
1065
00:50:16,791 --> 00:50:18,708
- ♪ Twist and shout ♪
1066
00:50:18,791 --> 00:50:21,000
- ♪ Come on baby, now ♪
1067
00:50:21,083 --> 00:50:22,375
- ♪ Come on, baby ♪
1068
00:50:22,458 --> 00:50:26,291
- In our teenage years,
suddenly
1069
00:50:26,375 --> 00:50:31,291
this new kind of music started
coming over to England.
1070
00:50:31,375 --> 00:50:33,916
We'd been sort of brought up
on this sort of white music,
1071
00:50:34,000 --> 00:50:35,666
which was a little bit square.
1072
00:50:35,750 --> 00:50:38,666
Suddenly there was
this really hip stuff,
1073
00:50:38,750 --> 00:50:40,333
and it just connected.
1074
00:50:40,416 --> 00:50:42,750
We just fell in love with it.
1075
00:50:42,833 --> 00:50:45,041
We wanted to sing like them.
1076
00:50:45,125 --> 00:50:48,666
We wanted to write like that
and perform like that.
1077
00:50:48,750 --> 00:50:50,583
- ♪ Well, shake it up,
baby, now ♪
1078
00:50:50,666 --> 00:50:52,708
together:
♪ Shake it up, baby ♪
1079
00:50:52,791 --> 00:50:54,541
- ♪ Twist and shout ♪
1080
00:50:54,625 --> 00:50:56,041
together:
♪ Twist and shout ♪
1081
00:50:56,125 --> 00:50:58,375
- We then brought it
into what we did,
1082
00:50:58,458 --> 00:51:00,875
and we were
introducing this music
1083
00:51:00,958 --> 00:51:03,875
back to the white audience
who didn't know about it,
1084
00:51:03,958 --> 00:51:06,083
particularly in America.
1085
00:51:06,166 --> 00:51:07,541
together:
♪ Work it on out ♪
1086
00:51:07,625 --> 00:51:10,041
- ♪ You know
you look so good ♪
1087
00:51:10,125 --> 00:51:11,416
together:
♪ Look so good ♪
1088
00:51:11,500 --> 00:51:14,708
- So when we first
came to New York,
1089
00:51:14,791 --> 00:51:17,291
the Apollo was the first place
we wanted to go,
1090
00:51:17,375 --> 00:51:18,833
and instead
we were warned off.
1091
00:51:18,916 --> 00:51:20,208
"No, you can't go up there.
1092
00:51:20,291 --> 00:51:21,416
"It's, like--
it's too dangerous, you know.
1093
00:51:21,500 --> 00:51:23,041
It's too crazy.
You can't go up there."
1094
00:51:23,125 --> 00:51:25,541
And we didn't
on that trip.
1095
00:51:25,625 --> 00:51:27,916
You know, the early
Beatle trip, we didn't go.
1096
00:51:28,000 --> 00:51:32,625
It was only much later
when we went into the Apollo.
1097
00:51:32,708 --> 00:51:36,875
- ♪ When you ♪
1098
00:51:36,958 --> 00:51:40,458
♪ Walk ♪
1099
00:51:40,541 --> 00:51:44,750
♪ Through a storm ♪
1100
00:51:44,833 --> 00:51:48,916
♪ Hold your head ♪
1101
00:51:49,000 --> 00:51:52,958
♪ Up high ♪
1102
00:51:53,041 --> 00:51:56,083
♪ And don't ♪
1103
00:51:56,166 --> 00:51:59,958
♪ Be afraid ♪
1104
00:52:00,041 --> 00:52:01,833
As a black woman performing,
1105
00:52:01,916 --> 00:52:04,791
traveling around the country
and all that jazz,
1106
00:52:04,875 --> 00:52:07,750
it was hard as heck.
1107
00:52:07,833 --> 00:52:08,875
We would have to, of course,
1108
00:52:09,000 --> 00:52:10,291
not go through
the restaurants,
1109
00:52:10,375 --> 00:52:13,958
not use the bathrooms,
not stay in the hotels.
1110
00:52:14,041 --> 00:52:16,125
We slept sometimes
in the station wagon.
1111
00:52:16,208 --> 00:52:17,916
♪ There's a ♪
1112
00:52:18,000 --> 00:52:21,958
♪ Golden... ♪
1113
00:52:22,041 --> 00:52:24,416
- We'd be on the highway
and go into a restaurant
1114
00:52:24,500 --> 00:52:28,291
and, you know,
you'd sit there for an hour
1115
00:52:28,375 --> 00:52:30,291
before somebody
would come and say,
1116
00:52:30,375 --> 00:52:31,583
"We wish you'd leave."
1117
00:52:31,666 --> 00:52:33,250
[sorrowful ballad]
1118
00:52:33,333 --> 00:52:38,333
- ♪ Of a lark ♪
1119
00:52:38,416 --> 00:52:40,000
♪ ♪
1120
00:52:40,083 --> 00:52:44,291
♪ Walk on ♪
1121
00:52:44,375 --> 00:52:45,791
I know I was singing better
1122
00:52:45,875 --> 00:52:48,291
than any of those white girls
staying in the real hotels,
1123
00:52:48,375 --> 00:52:49,708
going to the restaurants,
1124
00:52:49,791 --> 00:52:53,000
and getting paid much,
much more than we were.
1125
00:52:53,083 --> 00:52:55,875
♪ Through the rain ♪
1126
00:52:55,958 --> 00:53:01,041
♪ Though your dreams ♪
1127
00:53:01,125 --> 00:53:04,375
♪ Be tossed ♪
1128
00:53:04,458 --> 00:53:06,791
♪ And blown ♪
1129
00:53:06,875 --> 00:53:08,291
Not because
we weren't worth it,
1130
00:53:08,375 --> 00:53:10,833
but we weren't allowed
to be worth it.
1131
00:53:10,916 --> 00:53:13,791
[slow piano-driven jazz]
1132
00:53:13,875 --> 00:53:18,875
♪ ♪
1133
00:53:18,958 --> 00:53:21,583
- Imagine the feeling:
1134
00:53:21,666 --> 00:53:24,166
You're driving up
in your tour bus
1135
00:53:24,250 --> 00:53:25,875
and you're in Harlem
1136
00:53:25,958 --> 00:53:28,208
and you're going down
125th Street
1137
00:53:28,291 --> 00:53:31,000
and you pull up in front
of the Apollo Theater.
1138
00:53:31,083 --> 00:53:36,083
The relief,
the joy to be home.
1139
00:53:36,166 --> 00:53:43,125
♪ ♪
1140
00:53:45,958 --> 00:53:48,208
- It was always our community
1141
00:53:48,291 --> 00:53:51,875
welcoming home
its great artists.
1142
00:53:51,958 --> 00:53:53,958
- Hi!
1143
00:53:54,041 --> 00:53:55,750
[funky soul music]
1144
00:53:55,833 --> 00:53:58,583
Welcome to the Apollo.
1145
00:53:58,666 --> 00:54:02,500
It's a special evening.
1146
00:54:02,583 --> 00:54:06,416
We want you to sit back,
relax,
1147
00:54:06,500 --> 00:54:09,875
and loan your souls to us
for a few minutes.
1148
00:54:09,958 --> 00:54:12,333
I promise you, we're gonna
give 'em right back to you.
1149
00:54:12,416 --> 00:54:14,166
All right?
1150
00:54:14,250 --> 00:54:16,250
I also promise you,
1151
00:54:16,333 --> 00:54:19,083
as you've heard before,
before you leave here,
1152
00:54:19,166 --> 00:54:21,750
you will have
enjoyed this show
1153
00:54:21,833 --> 00:54:25,083
as much any that you've had
an occasion to see.
1154
00:54:25,166 --> 00:54:26,291
All right?
1155
00:54:26,375 --> 00:54:27,916
♪ What you want ♪
1156
00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:29,458
♪ Baby, I got it ♪
1157
00:54:29,541 --> 00:54:30,916
♪ What you need ♪
1158
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,333
♪ You know I got it ♪
1159
00:54:32,416 --> 00:54:33,791
♪ All I'm asking ♪
1160
00:54:33,875 --> 00:54:35,958
♪ Is for a little respect
when you get home ♪
1161
00:54:36,041 --> 00:54:37,166
♪ Baby ♪
1162
00:54:37,250 --> 00:54:40,000
♪ I need it,
yes, I do ♪
1163
00:54:40,083 --> 00:54:42,541
Many years ago, oh, my God,
1164
00:54:42,625 --> 00:54:45,041
the Apollo Theater was among
1165
00:54:45,125 --> 00:54:49,875
the first three, four
engagements of my career.
1166
00:54:49,958 --> 00:54:52,250
I was about 17 years old.
1167
00:54:52,333 --> 00:54:56,250
Back in that day,
I did four shows a day.
1168
00:54:56,333 --> 00:54:58,958
Sometimes we did five
on the weekend.
1169
00:54:59,041 --> 00:55:01,958
[Jr. Walker & The All Stars'
"Do the Boomerang"]
1170
00:55:02,041 --> 00:55:03,583
♪ ♪
1171
00:55:03,666 --> 00:55:06,500
- We used to do here
five shows a day.
1172
00:55:06,583 --> 00:55:08,208
- 29 shows a week.
1173
00:55:08,291 --> 00:55:10,791
- The first day
we performed at the Apollo--
1174
00:55:10,875 --> 00:55:12,333
- [laughs]
Don't tell that story.
1175
00:55:12,416 --> 00:55:13,791
- No, you tell it.
- We sound so dumb.
1176
00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:15,500
- After we did the first show,
1177
00:55:15,583 --> 00:55:17,458
I went upstairs
to our dressing room,
1178
00:55:17,541 --> 00:55:20,916
which we dressed at
the last dressing room up top.
1179
00:55:21,000 --> 00:55:23,416
And I packed my clothes, man.
1180
00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:24,958
We were going out the door
1181
00:55:25,041 --> 00:55:27,125
and Spain told us--
the doorman in the back--
1182
00:55:27,208 --> 00:55:28,500
- We said, "See, y'all!"
1183
00:55:28,583 --> 00:55:30,458
- "Where do y'all think
y'all going?"
1184
00:55:30,541 --> 00:55:32,291
We'd done our show,
and we were getting ready
1185
00:55:32,375 --> 00:55:34,125
to go back to our hotel.
1186
00:55:34,208 --> 00:55:36,125
They said,
"You go back upstairs.
1187
00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:37,458
You got four more shows."
1188
00:55:37,541 --> 00:55:38,666
- To do!
[laughs]
1189
00:55:38,750 --> 00:55:40,458
We said, "What?"
1190
00:55:40,541 --> 00:55:43,000
- "Four shows?"
- "Four more shows?"
1191
00:55:43,083 --> 00:55:46,208
- We were in the theater
from 11:00 that morning
1192
00:55:46,291 --> 00:55:48,333
until maybe 12:00 at night.
1193
00:55:48,416 --> 00:55:49,791
- The first time
The Miracles and I
1194
00:55:49,875 --> 00:55:52,000
ever played at the Apollo,
we were just kids, man.
1195
00:55:52,083 --> 00:55:53,166
I'm only 17.
1196
00:55:53,250 --> 00:55:55,000
Mr. Schiffman called Barry
and told him
1197
00:55:55,083 --> 00:55:56,291
he wanted his money back.
1198
00:55:56,375 --> 00:55:57,833
He wasn't even gonna
pay us any money.
1199
00:55:57,916 --> 00:55:59,000
We couldn't even
get out of the hotel
1200
00:55:59,083 --> 00:56:00,333
with the money
he was paying us.
1201
00:56:00,416 --> 00:56:02,708
- Mr. Schiffman,
you didn't pay me enough!
1202
00:56:02,791 --> 00:56:04,291
♪ ♪
1203
00:56:04,375 --> 00:56:06,625
- ♪ Step to the right, now ♪
1204
00:56:06,708 --> 00:56:08,916
♪ ♪
1205
00:56:09,000 --> 00:56:11,208
♪ Do the Boomerang, girl ♪
1206
00:56:11,291 --> 00:56:14,958
♪ ♪
1207
00:56:15,041 --> 00:56:16,625
- I can think back
1208
00:56:16,708 --> 00:56:21,708
how poor my family was
in 1932 and '33
1209
00:56:21,791 --> 00:56:24,000
and '34 and '35,
1210
00:56:24,083 --> 00:56:25,791
'36, '37.
[laughter]
1211
00:56:25,875 --> 00:56:29,583
'38, '39, '40, '41, '42, '43.
1212
00:56:29,666 --> 00:56:34,041
We were poor,
P-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-
1213
00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:38,250
O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-R.
[laughter]
1214
00:56:38,333 --> 00:56:40,291
- Comedians
are always necessary
1215
00:56:40,375 --> 00:56:42,375
because we're the ones
who tell you the truth.
1216
00:56:42,458 --> 00:56:43,916
- Figure this out for a case.
1217
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,875
Can you believe I have
two cops in Chicago
1218
00:56:46,958 --> 00:56:49,041
suing me for
kicking them and biting them
1219
00:56:49,125 --> 00:56:51,041
while they was trying to
throw me in front of a train?
1220
00:56:51,125 --> 00:56:53,500
[laughter]
1221
00:56:53,583 --> 00:56:55,708
- If somebody said
to me tomorrow,
1222
00:56:55,791 --> 00:56:57,333
"You're going to the Apollo,"
1223
00:56:57,416 --> 00:56:59,041
I'd tremble.
[laughs]
1224
00:56:59,125 --> 00:57:00,875
Yeah, that was frightening,
'cause of--
1225
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:03,458
and then the
overwhelming reaction.
1226
00:57:03,541 --> 00:57:05,125
Reaction.
1227
00:57:05,208 --> 00:57:07,750
The laughs, this--
1228
00:57:07,833 --> 00:57:09,708
the theater shakes.
1229
00:57:09,791 --> 00:57:11,708
- Richard Pryor,
1230
00:57:11,791 --> 00:57:13,416
Redd Foxx,
1231
00:57:13,500 --> 00:57:15,083
Moms Mabley,
1232
00:57:15,166 --> 00:57:16,583
"Pigmeat" Markham:
1233
00:57:16,666 --> 00:57:18,750
They were groundbreaking
in the fact that
1234
00:57:18,833 --> 00:57:22,083
they didn't try
to be mainstream.
1235
00:57:22,166 --> 00:57:24,083
They kept it, you know,
1236
00:57:24,166 --> 00:57:25,583
for lack of a better word,
real.
1237
00:57:25,666 --> 00:57:26,750
[laughter]
1238
00:57:26,833 --> 00:57:28,083
- If you ever get arrested,
1239
00:57:28,166 --> 00:57:30,083
you understand
what they think of niggers.
1240
00:57:30,166 --> 00:57:31,125
I mean, they just
shoot niggers
1241
00:57:31,208 --> 00:57:32,541
accidentally all the time.
1242
00:57:32,625 --> 00:57:34,708
[laughter]
- I know, brother.
1243
00:57:34,791 --> 00:57:37,625
- And you can't shoot a nigger
accidentally that much.
1244
00:57:37,708 --> 00:57:38,958
Every...
1245
00:57:39,041 --> 00:57:40,208
[imitates white person]
"My gun just fell out
1246
00:57:40,291 --> 00:57:41,583
and just, uh..."
[laughter]
1247
00:57:41,666 --> 00:57:43,625
"Just went crazy,
shot him six times."
1248
00:57:43,708 --> 00:57:45,125
[laughter]
1249
00:57:45,208 --> 00:57:46,958
[applause]
1250
00:57:47,041 --> 00:57:49,791
- What the fuck is up
with the police?
1251
00:57:49,875 --> 00:57:51,750
My God!
1252
00:57:51,833 --> 00:57:52,750
I'm scared.
1253
00:57:52,833 --> 00:57:54,250
I ain't getting rid of no guns.
1254
00:57:54,333 --> 00:57:55,583
Fuck that shit!
1255
00:57:55,666 --> 00:57:58,458
And I had a cop
pull me over the other day.
1256
00:57:58,541 --> 00:58:00,458
Scared me so bad,
made me think
1257
00:58:00,541 --> 00:58:03,750
I stole my own car!
[laughter]
1258
00:58:03,833 --> 00:58:05,291
"Get out the car.
You stole this car!"
1259
00:58:05,375 --> 00:58:08,125
I'm like, "Damn, maybe I did!"
[laughter]
1260
00:58:08,208 --> 00:58:11,625
"Oh, Lord, I done stole a car!"
[laughter]
1261
00:58:11,708 --> 00:58:13,958
- You still a black man,
you still got to deal with it,
1262
00:58:14,041 --> 00:58:18,458
so we will continue
to be making jokes
1263
00:58:18,541 --> 00:58:19,833
out of struggle.
1264
00:58:19,916 --> 00:58:21,375
[car horn honks]
1265
00:58:22,875 --> 00:58:25,833
[soft piano music]
1266
00:58:25,916 --> 00:58:28,833
[siren whoops]
1267
00:58:28,916 --> 00:58:35,916
♪ ♪
1268
00:58:45,916 --> 00:58:49,625
- I think we've always
had moments like that.
1269
00:58:49,708 --> 00:58:51,833
When you're at that point
of innocence in your life
1270
00:58:51,916 --> 00:58:55,500
and when things
are normalized in your world,
1271
00:58:55,583 --> 00:58:58,000
how do you register fear?
1272
00:58:58,083 --> 00:58:59,375
- I mean, as a black man,
1273
00:58:59,458 --> 00:59:01,208
you're born
into this world with PTSD.
1274
00:59:01,291 --> 00:59:02,333
- [chuckling]
Yeah.
1275
00:59:02,416 --> 00:59:03,375
- I mean,
the first time a cop
1276
00:59:03,458 --> 00:59:05,833
put a gun in my face,
I was nine years old.
1277
00:59:05,916 --> 00:59:07,000
- Mm.
- Mm.
1278
00:59:07,083 --> 00:59:08,541
- And I wasn't, like,
Shaquille O'Neal size.
1279
00:59:08,625 --> 00:59:12,041
I was an average nine-year-old,
but that was PTSD.
1280
00:59:12,125 --> 00:59:13,708
You know, any time
they kick down the door
1281
00:59:13,791 --> 00:59:16,708
to arrest my uncle, that's--
you know, that's PTSD, man.
1282
00:59:16,791 --> 00:59:17,875
You know what I'm saying?
1283
00:59:17,958 --> 00:59:21,041
So we're born
into this world
1284
00:59:21,125 --> 00:59:23,791
at a disadvantage, of course.
1285
00:59:23,875 --> 00:59:25,250
- We're haunted...
- Mm-hmm.
1286
00:59:25,333 --> 00:59:29,875
- By these experiences, and
we tend to be isolated in them.
1287
00:59:29,958 --> 00:59:33,208
As a community, we have always
lived out of spite.
1288
00:59:33,291 --> 00:59:34,416
- Mm.
1289
00:59:34,500 --> 00:59:38,416
- You know,
in spite of the circumstances,
1290
00:59:38,500 --> 00:59:43,375
we found the joy or the humor
or the--the freedom of truth.
1291
00:59:43,458 --> 00:59:46,541
[soft piano music]
1292
00:59:46,625 --> 00:59:52,583
♪ ♪
1293
00:59:52,666 --> 00:59:55,583
- "Think of your mother,
who had no father,
1294
00:59:55,666 --> 00:59:58,916
"and your grandmother, who was
abandoned by her father,
1295
00:59:59,000 --> 01:00:02,083
"and your grandfather, who was
left behind by his father,
1296
01:00:02,166 --> 01:00:03,583
"and think of how
Prince's daughter
1297
01:00:03,666 --> 01:00:05,791
"was now drafted
into those solemn ranks,
1298
01:00:05,875 --> 01:00:07,375
"deprived of her birthright,
1299
01:00:07,458 --> 01:00:10,000
"that vessel
which was her father
1300
01:00:10,083 --> 01:00:13,416
"which brimmed with
25 years of love.
1301
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:15,625
"I held you,
1302
01:00:15,708 --> 01:00:16,708
"and a great fear,
1303
01:00:16,791 --> 01:00:19,208
"wide as all our
American generations,
1304
01:00:19,291 --> 01:00:20,958
took me."
1305
01:00:21,041 --> 01:00:24,083
I think our destination is,
like, pure explosion,
1306
01:00:24,166 --> 01:00:26,750
and then the next piece
is literally the fog,
1307
01:00:26,833 --> 01:00:28,916
and we're just trying
to see our way through it.
1308
01:00:29,041 --> 01:00:31,125
If we're flashing back
and forth in time,
1309
01:00:31,208 --> 01:00:34,125
so it's like Eric Garner,
Tray--and like,
1310
01:00:34,208 --> 01:00:36,000
it's those newsreel
and headlines,
1311
01:00:36,083 --> 01:00:38,000
and it's just
bam, bam, bam, bam.
1312
01:00:38,083 --> 01:00:39,791
It should feel like
broken glass.
1313
01:00:39,875 --> 01:00:42,958
[relentlessly chaotic drumming]
1314
01:00:43,041 --> 01:00:50,041
♪ ♪
1315
01:01:19,416 --> 01:01:22,500
- The man believes
that he can kill him.
1316
01:01:22,583 --> 01:01:24,500
He's a lieutenant.
What it mean?
1317
01:01:24,583 --> 01:01:26,375
[shouting]
1318
01:01:26,458 --> 01:01:28,833
I mean, even if
the boy was in the wrong,
1319
01:01:28,916 --> 01:01:31,583
he's not
supposed to shoot him.
1320
01:01:31,666 --> 01:01:33,291
- He has an
outstanding record.
1321
01:01:33,375 --> 01:01:37,166
He has received 20 citations
in this department.
1322
01:01:37,250 --> 01:01:38,791
I would say I didn't think
1323
01:01:38,875 --> 01:01:40,333
the lieutenant,
under the circumstances,
1324
01:01:40,416 --> 01:01:41,833
had any other alternative.
1325
01:01:41,916 --> 01:01:44,833
[disjointed jazz music]
1326
01:01:44,916 --> 01:01:46,333
♪ ♪
1327
01:01:46,416 --> 01:01:48,666
- That kid,
that kid James Powell
1328
01:01:48,750 --> 01:01:51,916
who was shot down
in cold blood the other day--
1329
01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,541
and it was murder--
1330
01:01:53,625 --> 01:01:56,375
was my son and your son
1331
01:01:56,458 --> 01:01:59,541
and the son of every
black mother and father
1332
01:01:59,625 --> 01:02:01,333
in this country.
1333
01:02:01,416 --> 01:02:06,041
We must demand--
demand, my brothers,
1334
01:02:06,125 --> 01:02:09,250
that this lieutenant, Gilligan,
1335
01:02:09,333 --> 01:02:13,000
be promptly suspended
and arrested for murder!
1336
01:02:13,083 --> 01:02:15,666
And this should be done
immediately!
1337
01:02:15,750 --> 01:02:18,666
[applause]
1338
01:02:18,750 --> 01:02:25,750
♪ ♪
1339
01:02:27,375 --> 01:02:31,041
- In 1964,
when the riots started,
1340
01:02:31,125 --> 01:02:33,208
we made up signs.
1341
01:02:33,291 --> 01:02:35,583
And the one black store
that was near us,
1342
01:02:35,666 --> 01:02:37,416
where, you know,
you go down the little steps
1343
01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:39,583
to go down into his store,
you know.
1344
01:02:39,666 --> 01:02:41,041
And we had told him,
1345
01:02:41,125 --> 01:02:43,541
"Put a sign up there,
'Black Owned,'
1346
01:02:43,625 --> 01:02:46,083
"because we gonna
fix these people
1347
01:02:46,166 --> 01:02:49,083
"and they're gonna
burn Harlem up,
1348
01:02:49,166 --> 01:02:51,916
burn, burn, burn."
1349
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,041
[sirens wailing]
1350
01:02:54,125 --> 01:02:57,083
- Stores were being broken.
Windows were being shattered.
1351
01:02:57,166 --> 01:02:59,416
At the height of the problem,
1352
01:02:59,500 --> 01:03:00,750
there was a ring of people
1353
01:03:00,833 --> 01:03:03,625
around the front door
of the Apollo protecting it.
1354
01:03:03,708 --> 01:03:06,083
I didn't lose a pane of glass.
1355
01:03:06,166 --> 01:03:09,041
[crowd chanting]
1356
01:03:09,125 --> 01:03:12,291
♪ ♪
1357
01:03:12,375 --> 01:03:14,750
[screaming]
1358
01:03:14,833 --> 01:03:16,125
♪ ♪
1359
01:03:16,208 --> 01:03:18,000
[gunfire]
1360
01:03:19,208 --> 01:03:20,958
- Well, the Harlem riots
1361
01:03:21,041 --> 01:03:23,291
actually shouldn't
surprise anyone.
1362
01:03:23,375 --> 01:03:25,583
Our people are still
the victims of brutality,
1363
01:03:25,666 --> 01:03:28,958
and most of them are being
brutalized by the police.
1364
01:03:29,041 --> 01:03:31,458
It's surprising to me
that the explosion,
1365
01:03:31,541 --> 01:03:33,125
the racial explosion,
1366
01:03:33,208 --> 01:03:35,416
hasn't gotten farther out
of hand than it actually has.
1367
01:03:35,500 --> 01:03:37,458
And it's not a reflection
1368
01:03:37,541 --> 01:03:39,875
of the ability
of the New York Police
1369
01:03:39,958 --> 01:03:43,166
to contain
the negroes in Harlem.
1370
01:03:43,250 --> 01:03:44,750
It's actually a reflection
1371
01:03:44,833 --> 01:03:46,458
of the ability
of the negroes in Harlem
1372
01:03:46,541 --> 01:03:48,625
to hold or exercise restraint
1373
01:03:48,708 --> 01:03:53,375
in the face most
severe form of brutality.
1374
01:03:53,458 --> 01:03:55,958
We don't see
any American Dream.
1375
01:03:56,041 --> 01:03:59,291
We've experienced
only the American nightmare.
1376
01:03:59,375 --> 01:04:00,291
- Hmm.
1377
01:04:00,375 --> 01:04:02,375
[crowd clamors]
1378
01:04:02,458 --> 01:04:05,333
- We haven't benefitted
from America's democracy.
1379
01:04:05,416 --> 01:04:08,500
We've only suffered
from America's hypocrisy.
1380
01:04:08,583 --> 01:04:12,333
And the generation that's
coming up now can see it
1381
01:04:12,416 --> 01:04:14,208
and are not afraid to say it.
1382
01:04:14,291 --> 01:04:16,166
If you're going to jail,
so what?
1383
01:04:16,250 --> 01:04:17,916
If you're black,
you were born in jail.
1384
01:04:18,000 --> 01:04:19,541
- Mm.
- "Black," that's that black.
1385
01:04:19,625 --> 01:04:21,333
You know what I mean?
You were born in jail.
1386
01:04:21,416 --> 01:04:22,791
- "Black."
- Denzel nailed it.
1387
01:04:22,875 --> 01:04:24,208
- I thought it was Denzel
at first.
1388
01:04:24,291 --> 01:04:25,333
I was like, "Is it?"
1389
01:04:25,416 --> 01:04:27,500
- We need a New Age Malcolm,
man.
1390
01:04:27,583 --> 01:04:29,125
We need another Malcolm
right now.
1391
01:04:29,208 --> 01:04:31,166
- This is the New Age Malcolm.
1392
01:04:31,250 --> 01:04:33,500
Teaching this to young people
in a way that they get it,
1393
01:04:33,583 --> 01:04:36,041
I feel like is radical
as fuck 'cause it's free.
1394
01:04:36,125 --> 01:04:37,208
- You gotta read it, though.
1395
01:04:37,291 --> 01:04:38,333
- Yeah, but it's
a starting point, though.
1396
01:04:38,416 --> 01:04:39,666
It's a freedom.
1397
01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:42,583
- I would agree to say that
we need something that is--
1398
01:04:42,666 --> 01:04:44,041
not saying books
aren't tangible, but--
1399
01:04:44,125 --> 01:04:45,875
- Visceral.
- Exactly.
1400
01:04:46,458 --> 01:04:49,750
- "Prince had been driving
to see his fiancée.
1401
01:04:49,833 --> 01:04:52,875
"He was killed
yards from her home.
1402
01:04:52,958 --> 01:04:55,333
"And the only witness
to the killing of Prince Jones
1403
01:04:55,416 --> 01:04:56,833
"was the killer himself.
1404
01:04:58,083 --> 01:05:00,916
"He was charged with nothing.
1405
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,791
"He was punished by no one.
1406
01:05:04,875 --> 01:05:06,750
He was returned to his work."
1407
01:05:10,458 --> 01:05:13,375
[Jimmy Smith's
"T'ain't No Use]
1408
01:05:13,458 --> 01:05:16,375
[languid organ music]
1409
01:05:16,458 --> 01:05:23,500
♪ ♪
1410
01:05:33,500 --> 01:05:36,458
- Stick your hands up.
Let's go.
1411
01:05:36,541 --> 01:05:38,291
Come on, right this way.
1412
01:05:38,375 --> 01:05:44,875
♪ ♪
1413
01:05:47,166 --> 01:05:50,166
[fire roars]
1414
01:06:17,500 --> 01:06:20,041
- I guess I'm really upset
about people
1415
01:06:20,125 --> 01:06:24,125
overlooking the city,
overlooking Harlem.
1416
01:06:24,208 --> 01:06:27,625
But my fight has just started.
1417
01:06:27,708 --> 01:06:30,083
My fight now is for
1418
01:06:30,166 --> 01:06:34,291
the black America
become American.
1419
01:06:34,375 --> 01:06:35,791
- ♪ Uh! ♪
1420
01:06:35,875 --> 01:06:38,125
♪ With your bad self ♪
1421
01:06:38,208 --> 01:06:40,083
♪ Say it louder! ♪
1422
01:06:40,166 --> 01:06:42,291
together:
♪ I'm black and I'm proud! ♪
1423
01:06:42,375 --> 01:06:44,500
- ♪ Say it louder! ♪
1424
01:06:44,583 --> 01:06:46,625
together:
♪ I'm black and I'm proud! ♪
1425
01:06:46,708 --> 01:06:48,500
- ♪ Yeah!
Some people say... ♪
1426
01:06:48,583 --> 01:06:50,000
- We had had enough.
1427
01:06:50,083 --> 01:06:53,125
That hit us like whoo!
1428
01:06:53,208 --> 01:06:54,291
Hit us hard.
1429
01:06:54,375 --> 01:06:59,333
- Black power
means black dignity.
1430
01:06:59,416 --> 01:07:01,875
Just as surely as
you're proud to be white,
1431
01:07:01,958 --> 01:07:03,416
we're proud to be black.
1432
01:07:03,500 --> 01:07:06,291
Black is beautiful, baby.
It's pretty.
1433
01:07:06,375 --> 01:07:07,541
[applause]
1434
01:07:07,625 --> 01:07:11,500
- Hey, white man.
1435
01:07:11,583 --> 01:07:14,208
Look at me.
1436
01:07:14,291 --> 01:07:16,000
Can't see me, huh?
1437
01:07:16,083 --> 01:07:19,375
Well, I'm gonna
make you see me,
1438
01:07:19,458 --> 01:07:22,958
because black is beautiful,
baby.
1439
01:07:23,041 --> 01:07:26,333
- I am your teacher.
You are a negro.
1440
01:07:26,416 --> 01:07:27,708
- No!
- What are you?
1441
01:07:27,791 --> 01:07:30,333
- I'm black and beautiful.
- What's your nationality?
1442
01:07:30,416 --> 01:07:34,250
- My nationality
is Afro-American.
1443
01:07:34,333 --> 01:07:36,625
- It was at the Apollo
1444
01:07:36,708 --> 01:07:39,875
in which James Brown
got onstage
1445
01:07:39,958 --> 01:07:42,541
and rally-cried
to the community,
1446
01:07:42,625 --> 01:07:43,750
"I'm black and I'm proud."
1447
01:07:43,833 --> 01:07:45,208
That wasn't just a performance.
1448
01:07:45,291 --> 01:07:48,333
That was an opportunity
to really be in dialogue
1449
01:07:48,416 --> 01:07:50,541
about what was happening
and how we needed
1450
01:07:50,625 --> 01:07:52,583
to continually embrace
our own identity.
1451
01:07:52,666 --> 01:07:53,916
together:
♪ I'm black and I'm proud! ♪
1452
01:07:54,000 --> 01:07:55,083
♪ ♪
1453
01:07:55,166 --> 01:07:56,375
Say it louder!
1454
01:07:56,458 --> 01:07:57,875
together:
♪ I'm black and I'm proud! ♪
1455
01:07:57,958 --> 01:07:59,166
- ♪ Ow! ♪
1456
01:07:59,250 --> 01:08:00,875
- James Brown, he just
encapsulates everything
1457
01:08:00,958 --> 01:08:03,625
that black America
was looking for at that time.
1458
01:08:04,666 --> 01:08:09,416
- He got rid of that hairdo
and grew an Afro.
1459
01:08:09,500 --> 01:08:13,666
- I actually remember in 1968,
1460
01:08:13,750 --> 01:08:16,375
I went to my parents
and I said,
1461
01:08:16,457 --> 01:08:18,750
"I'd like to grow a natural."
1462
01:08:18,833 --> 01:08:21,250
It was a conversation
you had to have
1463
01:08:21,332 --> 01:08:23,417
because it was seen as
1464
01:08:23,500 --> 01:08:26,708
a radical militant act
at that time,
1465
01:08:26,792 --> 01:08:29,457
even in the black community.
1466
01:08:29,542 --> 01:08:32,582
- Did you hear what I said?
I'm a preacher.
1467
01:08:32,667 --> 01:08:35,457
Black power!
[chuckles]
1468
01:08:35,542 --> 01:08:37,457
♪ ♪
1469
01:08:37,542 --> 01:08:38,542
♪ Look here
there's one more thing ♪
1470
01:08:38,625 --> 01:08:39,917
♪ I got to say right here ♪
1471
01:08:40,000 --> 01:08:43,291
- I stand before you today
1472
01:08:43,375 --> 01:08:45,582
as a candidate
for the Democratic nomination
1473
01:08:45,667 --> 01:08:49,082
for the presidency of
the United States of America.
1474
01:08:49,166 --> 01:08:52,125
[applause]
1475
01:08:52,207 --> 01:08:55,125
[Marvin Gaye's
"What's Going On?"]
1476
01:08:55,207 --> 01:08:58,792
I am not the candidate
of black America,
1477
01:08:58,875 --> 01:09:02,291
although I am black and proud.
1478
01:09:02,375 --> 01:09:05,582
- ♪ Mother, mother ♪
1479
01:09:05,667 --> 01:09:09,582
♪ There's too many
of you crying ♪
1480
01:09:09,667 --> 01:09:11,958
♪ ♪
1481
01:09:12,041 --> 01:09:15,125
♪ Brother, brother, brother ♪
1482
01:09:15,207 --> 01:09:18,625
♪ There's far too many
of you dying ♪
1483
01:09:18,708 --> 01:09:23,457
- If we are fighting for
greater freedoms, for access,
1484
01:09:23,542 --> 01:09:25,457
and then that access happens,
1485
01:09:25,542 --> 01:09:28,041
what happens
to the black institutions
1486
01:09:28,125 --> 01:09:31,667
that used to be
the only place you could go?
1487
01:09:31,750 --> 01:09:33,667
They began to decline,
1488
01:09:33,750 --> 01:09:35,833
as did
the general neighborhood
1489
01:09:35,917 --> 01:09:39,291
in which these institutions
are situated.
1490
01:09:39,375 --> 01:09:43,833
- ♪ You know
we've got to find a way ♪
1491
01:09:43,917 --> 01:09:48,792
♪ To bring some
loving here today, oh ♪
1492
01:09:48,875 --> 01:09:53,000
- The mainstream economy
had moved to the suburbs.
1493
01:09:53,082 --> 01:09:56,833
And all that
we had left was
1494
01:09:56,917 --> 01:09:59,332
street hustle.
1495
01:09:59,417 --> 01:10:01,500
- ♪ Talk to me ♪
- ♪ Sister ♪
1496
01:10:01,582 --> 01:10:03,708
- ♪ So you can see ♪
- ♪ Sister ♪
1497
01:10:03,792 --> 01:10:06,875
- The state of the union
is not good.
1498
01:10:06,958 --> 01:10:10,000
Millions of Americans
are out of work.
1499
01:10:10,082 --> 01:10:11,500
Recession and inflation
1500
01:10:11,582 --> 01:10:14,332
are eroding the money
of millions more.
1501
01:10:14,417 --> 01:10:17,708
Prices are too high,
and sales are too slow.
1502
01:10:17,792 --> 01:10:22,708
- [vocalizing]
1503
01:10:22,792 --> 01:10:24,041
- I'll tell you what happened.
1504
01:10:24,125 --> 01:10:28,207
The Apollo had 1,683 seats.
1505
01:10:28,291 --> 01:10:31,250
The Felt Forum
had 4,600 seats.
1506
01:10:31,332 --> 01:10:37,375
1,683 seats
cannot survive.
1507
01:10:37,457 --> 01:10:40,375
The industry has outgrown us.
1508
01:10:40,457 --> 01:10:43,708
- ♪ Home ♪
1509
01:10:43,792 --> 01:10:47,000
♪ Is where the heart is ♪
1510
01:10:47,082 --> 01:10:48,833
♪ ♪
1511
01:10:48,917 --> 01:10:51,082
♪ When I spread my wings
and flew away ♪
1512
01:10:51,166 --> 01:10:54,625
♪ Spread my wings
and flew away ♪
1513
01:10:54,708 --> 01:10:57,750
♪ I left my heart with you ♪
1514
01:10:57,833 --> 01:10:59,375
- ♪ Whether my feet ♪
1515
01:10:59,457 --> 01:11:01,792
♪ Are walking ♪
- ♪ Walking, walking ♪
1516
01:11:01,875 --> 01:11:04,417
- Gladys Knight, the
first time I ever played her,
1517
01:11:04,500 --> 01:11:06,708
I paid her $800
1518
01:11:06,792 --> 01:11:11,041
for she and The Pips
for 31 shows.
1519
01:11:11,125 --> 01:11:13,417
The last time I played her,
1520
01:11:13,500 --> 01:11:17,708
I paid her $80,000
for 16 shows.
1521
01:11:17,792 --> 01:11:19,917
- ♪ And when I
spread my wings ♪
1522
01:11:20,000 --> 01:11:20,917
- ♪ Spread my wings ♪
1523
01:11:21,000 --> 01:11:23,125
- ♪ And flew away ♪
- ♪ Flew away ♪
1524
01:11:23,207 --> 01:11:26,250
- ♪ I left my heart with you ♪
- ♪ I left my heart with you ♪
1525
01:11:26,332 --> 01:11:27,917
- ♪ And when I
spread my wings ♪
1526
01:11:28,000 --> 01:11:29,250
- ♪ Spread my wings ♪
1527
01:11:29,332 --> 01:11:31,457
- ♪ And flew away ♪
- ♪ Flew away ♪
1528
01:11:31,542 --> 01:11:35,250
- ♪ I left my heart with you ♪
1529
01:11:35,332 --> 01:11:36,792
It got to be that way.
1530
01:11:36,875 --> 01:11:39,125
Hey, if we gonna do all
these shows, you got to pay.
1531
01:11:39,207 --> 01:11:40,291
- Right.
1532
01:11:40,375 --> 01:11:41,500
- 'Cause somebody
was making the money.
1533
01:11:41,582 --> 01:11:44,750
♪ Home is where the heart is ♪
1534
01:11:44,833 --> 01:11:48,917
♪ Not the sight
of my eyes kept you ♪
1535
01:11:49,000 --> 01:11:50,500
♪ ♪
1536
01:11:50,582 --> 01:11:53,667
- My partner was a fellow
by the name of Walter Brecher.
1537
01:11:53,750 --> 01:11:55,166
He took care of the money.
1538
01:11:55,250 --> 01:11:56,792
He said to me, "Bobby,
1539
01:11:56,875 --> 01:12:00,457
we're having trouble
making this work financially."
1540
01:12:00,542 --> 01:12:03,457
[slow piano music]
1541
01:12:03,542 --> 01:12:09,332
♪ ♪
1542
01:12:11,207 --> 01:12:16,542
- The Apollo,
it gave pride to our people.
1543
01:12:16,625 --> 01:12:18,332
But if there was no Apollo,
1544
01:12:18,417 --> 01:12:22,166
there wouldn't be a place for
African-American communities
1545
01:12:22,250 --> 01:12:26,207
to express
their artistic visions.
1546
01:12:26,291 --> 01:12:29,667
We can't see those just
slip beneath the waves
1547
01:12:29,750 --> 01:12:32,708
as if we weren't here.
1548
01:12:32,792 --> 01:12:39,750
♪ ♪
1549
01:12:46,625 --> 01:12:49,708
- Business began
to fall off,
1550
01:12:49,792 --> 01:12:53,792
and the Apollo
went into bankruptcy.
1551
01:12:53,875 --> 01:13:00,917
♪ ♪
1552
01:13:02,500 --> 01:13:05,917
And they
closed the theater down.
1553
01:13:13,750 --> 01:13:16,708
[Kenny Burrell
and Grover Washington, Jr.'s
1554
01:13:16,792 --> 01:13:19,667
"Asphalt Canyon Blues"]
1555
01:13:19,750 --> 01:13:22,667
[slow jazz music]
1556
01:13:22,750 --> 01:13:24,457
♪ ♪
1557
01:13:24,542 --> 01:13:28,041
Percy Sutton, who was
a local leader in Harlem,
1558
01:13:28,125 --> 01:13:29,542
very well-known,
1559
01:13:29,625 --> 01:13:32,041
he had been
a civil rights attorney.
1560
01:13:32,125 --> 01:13:34,833
He had represented Malcolm X.
1561
01:13:34,917 --> 01:13:39,082
He purchased the Apollo
out of bankruptcy.
1562
01:13:39,166 --> 01:13:41,417
♪ ♪
1563
01:13:41,500 --> 01:13:43,917
- The Apollo had been dark
for some time,
1564
01:13:44,000 --> 01:13:46,291
and my grandfather
had this notion
1565
01:13:46,375 --> 01:13:50,792
to buy the Apollo Theater.
1566
01:13:50,875 --> 01:13:54,917
He saw the Apollo Theater
as a beacon and a spark
1567
01:13:55,000 --> 01:13:59,917
that could ignite a
revitalization of 125th Street.
1568
01:14:00,000 --> 01:14:02,750
- Percy Sutton
called me up to his office,
1569
01:14:02,833 --> 01:14:05,917
and he had this idea
1570
01:14:06,000 --> 01:14:08,958
to restore and to bring back
the Apollo Theater.
1571
01:14:09,041 --> 01:14:11,082
And he said, "I would like you
to work with me on it."
1572
01:14:11,166 --> 01:14:14,082
[suspenseful orchestral music]
1573
01:14:14,166 --> 01:14:20,833
♪ ♪
1574
01:14:23,000 --> 01:14:25,250
[power tool whirs]
1575
01:14:25,332 --> 01:14:28,125
- Bob, what kind of tickets
are you buying?
1576
01:14:28,207 --> 01:14:29,750
- I'm buying Tito Puente.
1577
01:14:29,833 --> 01:14:31,207
- He's buying Tito Puente
1578
01:14:31,291 --> 01:14:34,958
from the temporary box office
at the Apollo Theater.
1579
01:14:35,041 --> 01:14:37,000
Pretty soon, you'll
have your new box office.
1580
01:14:37,082 --> 01:14:44,041
♪ ♪
1581
01:14:49,542 --> 01:14:52,000
- I remember when it reopened,
1582
01:14:52,082 --> 01:14:55,125
and I remember
the way the place looked.
1583
01:14:55,207 --> 01:14:58,582
It was just so special to all
of us, you know what I mean?
1584
01:14:58,667 --> 01:15:02,125
It was like,
wow, we have the Apollo back,
1585
01:15:02,207 --> 01:15:05,457
and look at it now.
1586
01:15:05,542 --> 01:15:09,667
You could feel
the vibration in the street.
1587
01:15:09,750 --> 01:15:12,625
We were happy to have it back.
1588
01:15:12,708 --> 01:15:19,708
♪ ♪
1589
01:15:20,875 --> 01:15:23,917
- That building
could not come down
1590
01:15:24,000 --> 01:15:28,667
because Harlem is the Apollo,
1591
01:15:28,750 --> 01:15:32,332
and the Apollo is Harlem.
1592
01:15:32,417 --> 01:15:35,332
[Kool & The Gang's
"Steppin' Out"]
1593
01:15:35,417 --> 01:15:38,542
[upbeat disco music]
1594
01:15:38,625 --> 01:15:41,166
♪ ♪
1595
01:15:41,250 --> 01:15:45,166
- ♪ Every day,
you find a way ♪
1596
01:15:45,250 --> 01:15:49,250
♪ To bring a smile
to my face ♪
1597
01:15:49,332 --> 01:15:52,542
♪ All these things
you do for me ♪
1598
01:15:52,625 --> 01:15:56,582
♪ That's why we're moving on ♪
1599
01:15:56,667 --> 01:15:57,917
♪ Steppin' out ♪
1600
01:15:58,000 --> 01:16:00,250
♪ ♪
1601
01:16:00,332 --> 01:16:01,542
- The grand reopening,
1602
01:16:01,625 --> 01:16:04,207
it was a kind of
a magical night.
1603
01:16:04,291 --> 01:16:06,875
Harlem was so excited
for this.
1604
01:16:06,958 --> 01:16:09,375
Everyone came out.
1605
01:16:09,457 --> 01:16:11,708
- We're just delighted
1606
01:16:11,792 --> 01:16:15,542
to see this sense of joy
return to Harlem.
1607
01:16:15,625 --> 01:16:18,792
- Having gone through
the journey of the renovation
1608
01:16:18,875 --> 01:16:21,207
and seeing
that grand chandelier
1609
01:16:21,291 --> 01:16:22,875
that's in the center
of the house,
1610
01:16:22,958 --> 01:16:24,582
seeing that being put up
1611
01:16:24,667 --> 01:16:29,291
and now seeing that, you know,
on the opening night,
1612
01:16:29,375 --> 01:16:30,582
that was amazing.
1613
01:16:30,667 --> 01:16:33,291
- I want you to get
a little bit of this.
1614
01:16:33,375 --> 01:16:34,500
[cheers and applause]
1615
01:16:34,582 --> 01:16:35,542
♪ Ooh ♪
1616
01:16:35,625 --> 01:16:37,291
♪ Sugar pie, honey bunch ♪
1617
01:16:37,375 --> 01:16:38,417
Come on!
1618
01:16:38,500 --> 01:16:40,082
♪ You know that I love-- ♪
1619
01:16:40,166 --> 01:16:42,082
Let me hear everybody
this time!
1620
01:16:42,166 --> 01:16:43,625
all:
♪ Can't help myself ♪
1621
01:16:43,708 --> 01:16:44,625
- There it is!
1622
01:16:44,708 --> 01:16:47,875
♪ I love you and nobody else ♪
1623
01:16:47,958 --> 01:16:49,542
♪ ♪
1624
01:16:49,625 --> 01:16:51,917
♪ In and out my life ♪
- ♪ In and out my life ♪
1625
01:16:52,000 --> 01:16:54,875
- ♪ You come and you go ♪
- ♪ Come and you go ♪
1626
01:16:54,958 --> 01:16:57,375
- ♪ Leaving
your picture behind ♪
1627
01:16:57,457 --> 01:16:58,417
- ♪ Ooh ♪
1628
01:16:58,500 --> 01:17:00,417
- ♪ I've kissed it
a thousand times ♪
1629
01:17:00,500 --> 01:17:03,457
- ♪ Ooh ♪
1630
01:17:03,542 --> 01:17:06,750
- ♪ World is spinning,
I feel nothing ♪
1631
01:17:06,833 --> 01:17:09,750
♪ Burning sweet, away from me ♪
1632
01:17:09,833 --> 01:17:11,667
♪ But it's in the air ♪
1633
01:17:11,750 --> 01:17:14,500
♪ Everywhere, ooh ♪
1634
01:17:14,582 --> 01:17:18,125
♪ ♪
1635
01:17:18,207 --> 01:17:21,207
[cheers and applause]
1636
01:17:22,917 --> 01:17:24,750
- "It's Showtime
at the Apollo"!
1637
01:17:24,833 --> 01:17:26,625
♪ ♪
1638
01:17:26,708 --> 01:17:29,582
Tonight, the best
of cutting-edge music.
1639
01:17:29,667 --> 01:17:33,417
- Percy Sutton, he pitched
this idea of doing a show.
1640
01:17:33,500 --> 01:17:35,708
It was definitely a way
to highlight and feature
1641
01:17:35,792 --> 01:17:37,542
R&B, hip-hop, rap.
1642
01:17:37,625 --> 01:17:38,833
- ♪ If you're a misogynist ♪
1643
01:17:38,917 --> 01:17:40,667
♪ Then you probably
cannot get with this ♪
1644
01:17:40,750 --> 01:17:42,958
♪ If you sit with this
we'll leave no witnesses ♪
1645
01:17:43,041 --> 01:17:45,082
♪ See, nobody can
touch what Jah bless ♪
1646
01:17:45,166 --> 01:17:46,125
♪ And I mean this ♪
1647
01:17:46,207 --> 01:17:47,500
♪ So I be like Osiris ♪
1648
01:17:47,582 --> 01:17:48,750
♪ Better yet, I'm Isis ♪
1649
01:17:48,833 --> 01:17:49,958
♪ If you talking females ♪
1650
01:17:50,041 --> 01:17:51,457
♪ You should say
that I'm the nicest ♪
1651
01:17:51,542 --> 01:17:54,542
- A lot of people that
heard about the Apollo,
1652
01:17:54,625 --> 01:17:56,166
now they can see it.
1653
01:17:56,250 --> 01:17:59,667
All the rap acts
and the hip-hop acts,
1654
01:17:59,750 --> 01:18:01,792
they weren't getting
on "The Tonight Show."
1655
01:18:01,875 --> 01:18:05,207
- ♪ Ba-da-ba, ba-da-ba,
ba-da-ba, ba-da-ba ♪
1656
01:18:05,291 --> 01:18:09,375
- Watching the Apollo,
that was a religious thing.
1657
01:18:09,457 --> 01:18:12,041
It made people feel like,
"Hey, this could be you."
1658
01:18:12,125 --> 01:18:13,625
- ♪ B-b-b-bounce,
baby, bounce ♪
1659
01:18:13,708 --> 01:18:15,958
♪ Only one thing counts ♪
- ♪ Uh! ♪
1660
01:18:16,041 --> 01:18:17,291
- ♪ And I'm here to announce ♪
1661
01:18:17,375 --> 01:18:19,500
♪ The flex, the X,
when the wood is erect ♪
1662
01:18:19,582 --> 01:18:22,166
♪ And to the Mecca Audio crew,
'nuff respect ♪
1663
01:18:22,250 --> 01:18:24,542
- I don't think I'd be
a writer without hip-hop.
1664
01:18:24,625 --> 01:18:26,958
These guys are
the first people
1665
01:18:27,041 --> 01:18:29,291
who showed me
that words were beautiful
1666
01:18:29,375 --> 01:18:32,500
and I could feel it,
I--I--I--I could imagine it.
1667
01:18:32,582 --> 01:18:35,542
In a way, these guys
have moved words around.
1668
01:18:35,625 --> 01:18:37,082
And then there's the beat,
right?
1669
01:18:37,166 --> 01:18:38,332
You know,
there's a drum,
1670
01:18:38,417 --> 01:18:39,917
you know, which is in hip-hop,
which, you know,
1671
01:18:40,000 --> 01:18:42,332
speaks to something deep
and cultural and ancestral.
1672
01:18:42,417 --> 01:18:44,041
- ♪ So what you want, money? ♪
1673
01:18:44,125 --> 01:18:45,082
- ♪ Pump it up, ha! ♪
1674
01:18:45,166 --> 01:18:46,082
- ♪ So what you want, money? ♪
1675
01:18:46,166 --> 01:18:47,542
- ♪ Pump it up, ha! ♪
1676
01:18:47,625 --> 01:18:49,000
- ♪ Hey,
so what you want, money? ♪
1677
01:18:49,082 --> 01:18:53,082
Hip-hop brought our expression,
our culture,
1678
01:18:53,166 --> 01:18:57,667
and just everything that
we were about to the world.
1679
01:18:57,750 --> 01:18:58,708
♪ Oh! ♪
1680
01:18:58,792 --> 01:19:01,207
♪ ♪
1681
01:19:01,291 --> 01:19:04,417
I would go to school,
and we would battle.
1682
01:19:04,500 --> 01:19:06,875
So I would go, uh,
like a--
1683
01:19:06,958 --> 01:19:08,875
[simple beatboxing]
1684
01:19:08,958 --> 01:19:11,667
And I had different sounds
that I would use, so I'll...
1685
01:19:11,750 --> 01:19:15,417
[quick beatboxing]
1686
01:19:15,500 --> 01:19:17,417
And then I'll add
other things to it.
1687
01:19:17,500 --> 01:19:21,958
[complex beatboxing]
1688
01:19:22,041 --> 01:19:23,417
- Kick up the fucking drums!
1689
01:19:23,500 --> 01:19:24,792
[Public Enemy's
"Can't Truss It"]
1690
01:19:24,875 --> 01:19:26,582
- All right, all right.
- Come on, come on!
1691
01:19:26,667 --> 01:19:29,332
- Penalty for the
black people's damage
1692
01:19:29,417 --> 01:19:31,417
in the United States of Death.
1693
01:19:31,500 --> 01:19:32,917
Kick up the drums!
1694
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:35,750
♪ Pump it up, here I come,
here I come, y'all ♪
1695
01:19:35,833 --> 01:19:37,417
- One of the things
1696
01:19:37,500 --> 01:19:42,082
that the hip-hop revolution
provided the music industry
1697
01:19:42,166 --> 01:19:47,082
is, we began to have
young black men and women
1698
01:19:47,166 --> 01:19:49,958
address the power structures
of the United States
1699
01:19:50,041 --> 01:19:53,291
in very direct
and explicit terms.
1700
01:19:53,375 --> 01:19:55,207
- ♪ Lemme year you say
fight the power! ♪
1701
01:19:55,291 --> 01:19:56,917
Come on, New York!
Pump it up, come on!
1702
01:19:57,041 --> 01:19:58,291
together:
♪ Fight the power! ♪
1703
01:19:58,375 --> 01:19:59,708
♪ Lemme hear you say
fight the power! ♪
1704
01:19:59,792 --> 01:20:01,500
♪ Check it, pump it up,
come on! ♪
1705
01:20:01,582 --> 01:20:03,792
- Every week,
we were putting on shows
1706
01:20:03,875 --> 01:20:05,625
and it was selling out.
1707
01:20:05,708 --> 01:20:09,457
It still was just
barely covering it.
1708
01:20:09,542 --> 01:20:12,625
The big problem
is the 1,500 seats.
1709
01:20:12,708 --> 01:20:14,457
It just isn't enough,
1710
01:20:14,542 --> 01:20:17,500
and, eventually, it just
became too much of a burden.
1711
01:20:17,582 --> 01:20:20,457
- ♪ The rhyme designed
to fill your mind ♪
1712
01:20:20,542 --> 01:20:23,667
- I've been losing an average
of $2 million a year
1713
01:20:23,750 --> 01:20:25,833
since I've been operating
the Apollo Theater.
1714
01:20:25,917 --> 01:20:28,792
[Dizzy Gillespie's
"Duke's Last Soliloquy"]
1715
01:20:28,875 --> 01:20:31,417
[morose trumpet music]
1716
01:20:31,500 --> 01:20:35,457
- Mr. Sutton would tell me
how difficult it had been,
1717
01:20:35,542 --> 01:20:38,000
that the business model
just couldn't work
1718
01:20:38,082 --> 01:20:41,166
as a commercial establishment.
1719
01:20:41,250 --> 01:20:43,166
It really,
from a business standpoint,
1720
01:20:43,250 --> 01:20:46,792
was not, um, viable.
1721
01:20:46,875 --> 01:20:49,792
He made a deal
with the state,
1722
01:20:49,875 --> 01:20:52,125
and the state took it over
1723
01:20:52,207 --> 01:20:55,582
and that's when
the Apollo Theater Foundation,
1724
01:20:55,667 --> 01:20:57,667
a not-for-profit, was formed
1725
01:20:57,750 --> 01:21:01,833
in order to position ourselves
for sustainability.
1726
01:21:01,917 --> 01:21:04,332
- Because of that flip,
1727
01:21:04,417 --> 01:21:07,332
we were able to put it on
a stable financial basis
1728
01:21:07,417 --> 01:21:11,958
as a legitimate force
in the cultural institution
1729
01:21:12,041 --> 01:21:14,207
and venue space
here in New York City.
1730
01:21:14,291 --> 01:21:16,041
[Pharrell William's "Happy"]
1731
01:21:16,125 --> 01:21:19,166
- ♪ It might seem crazy,
what I'm about to say ♪
1732
01:21:19,250 --> 01:21:21,917
[upbeat pop music]
1733
01:21:22,000 --> 01:21:25,207
♪ Sunshine, she's here,
you can take a break ♪
1734
01:21:25,291 --> 01:21:27,207
♪ ♪
1735
01:21:27,291 --> 01:21:31,375
♪ I'm a hot air balloon
that can go to space ♪
1736
01:21:31,457 --> 01:21:33,041
♪ ♪
1737
01:21:33,125 --> 01:21:35,500
♪ With the air
like I don't care ♪
1738
01:21:35,582 --> 01:21:38,542
♪ Baby, by the way ♪
1739
01:21:38,625 --> 01:21:40,000
♪ Because I'm happy ♪
1740
01:21:40,082 --> 01:21:44,500
♪ Clap along if you feel
like a room without a roof ♪
1741
01:21:44,582 --> 01:21:46,582
- When you think
about the music,
1742
01:21:46,667 --> 01:21:50,041
even the songs that we sing
in our own private spaces
1743
01:21:50,125 --> 01:21:51,917
are so beautiful
and speak to something
1744
01:21:52,000 --> 01:21:54,375
so human
1745
01:21:54,457 --> 01:21:58,542
that even the people who
hold you underneath their boot
1746
01:21:58,625 --> 01:22:00,207
can't help but sing along.
1747
01:22:00,291 --> 01:22:02,750
[Aretha Franklin's
"Rock Steady"]
1748
01:22:02,833 --> 01:22:04,250
[funky pop song]
1749
01:22:04,332 --> 01:22:06,417
- ♪ Rock steady, baby ♪
1750
01:22:06,500 --> 01:22:09,417
♪ That's what I feel, now ♪
1751
01:22:09,500 --> 01:22:13,917
♪ Let's call this song
exactly what it is ♪
1752
01:22:14,000 --> 01:22:15,582
♪ Step and move your hips ♪
1753
01:22:15,667 --> 01:22:18,625
♪ With a feeling
from side to side ♪
1754
01:22:18,708 --> 01:22:22,041
♪ Sit yourself down
in your car and take a ride ♪
1755
01:22:22,125 --> 01:22:24,917
♪ And while you're moving,
rock steady ♪
1756
01:22:25,000 --> 01:22:27,792
♪ Rock steady, baby ♪
1757
01:22:27,875 --> 01:22:30,708
♪ Let's call this song
exactly what it is ♪
1758
01:22:30,792 --> 01:22:32,750
- ♪ What it is, what it is,
what it is ♪
1759
01:22:32,833 --> 01:22:34,708
- ♪ It's a funky
and low-down feeling ♪
1760
01:22:34,792 --> 01:22:37,082
♪ Move your hips
from left to right ♪
1761
01:22:37,166 --> 01:22:39,250
♪ What it is,
is I might be doing ♪
1762
01:22:39,332 --> 01:22:41,625
♪ This funky dance all night ♪
1763
01:22:41,708 --> 01:22:44,457
- ♪ Wave your hands
up in the air ♪
1764
01:22:44,542 --> 01:22:48,457
- You just know that when
one of these icons passes,
1765
01:22:48,542 --> 01:22:50,000
people will come
to the Apollo
1766
01:22:50,082 --> 01:22:51,625
and that you know
you'll be able to be there
1767
01:22:51,708 --> 01:22:55,625
with others that
are also grieving
1768
01:22:55,708 --> 01:22:59,833
for the loss of someone that
was important in our community.
1769
01:22:59,917 --> 01:23:04,125
♪ ♪
1770
01:23:04,207 --> 01:23:07,291
- I think that it has a lot to
do with the marquee as well
1771
01:23:07,375 --> 01:23:10,833
and being under that banner
1772
01:23:10,917 --> 01:23:15,250
knowing that these people
had been here.
1773
01:23:15,332 --> 01:23:18,000
You were sharing a little bit
of their history.
1774
01:23:18,082 --> 01:23:20,833
- ♪ I lost someone ♪
1775
01:23:20,917 --> 01:23:23,125
[somber soul music]
1776
01:23:23,207 --> 01:23:26,375
♪ My love ♪
1777
01:23:26,457 --> 01:23:29,000
♪ ♪
1778
01:23:29,082 --> 01:23:30,958
♪ Someone ♪
1779
01:23:31,041 --> 01:23:34,875
♪ Who's greater
than the stars ♪
1780
01:23:34,958 --> 01:23:36,582
♪ Above ♪
1781
01:23:36,667 --> 01:23:39,375
- James Brown performed
on the Apollo stage
1782
01:23:39,457 --> 01:23:41,000
over 200 times.
1783
01:23:41,082 --> 01:23:43,041
all: James Brown,
James Brown, James Brown!
1784
01:23:43,125 --> 01:23:45,625
- The folks outside
1785
01:23:45,708 --> 01:23:50,457
were wrapped around the corner
and on 125th Street,
1786
01:23:50,542 --> 01:23:52,542
so it really was home to him.
1787
01:23:52,625 --> 01:23:54,000
- ♪ Someone ♪
1788
01:23:54,082 --> 01:23:56,041
♪ ♪
1789
01:23:56,125 --> 01:23:58,542
♪ That's the one ♪
1790
01:23:58,625 --> 01:24:00,125
♪ ♪
1791
01:24:00,207 --> 01:24:03,332
♪ That's the someone ♪
1792
01:24:03,417 --> 01:24:04,875
- It was James Brown
1793
01:24:04,958 --> 01:24:06,833
that with one song
1794
01:24:06,917 --> 01:24:10,875
erased the word "negro"
from our vocabulary forever
1795
01:24:10,958 --> 01:24:13,582
and made us say it
and say it loud,
1796
01:24:13,667 --> 01:24:15,542
that were black
and we were proud.
1797
01:24:15,625 --> 01:24:17,500
[applause]
1798
01:24:17,582 --> 01:24:19,542
He made a way out of no way.
1799
01:24:19,625 --> 01:24:21,332
Open up the casket.
1800
01:24:21,417 --> 01:24:23,875
Let the world see a man's man.
1801
01:24:23,958 --> 01:24:27,542
Look at him:
The Godfather, James Brown.
1802
01:24:27,625 --> 01:24:29,417
[applause]
1803
01:24:29,500 --> 01:24:31,207
- ♪ You know I like
to sing this song ♪
1804
01:24:31,291 --> 01:24:32,875
- Go and sing your song.
1805
01:24:32,958 --> 01:24:34,875
- ♪ I said, I like
to sing this song ♪
1806
01:24:34,958 --> 01:24:36,708
- Go and sing your song.
1807
01:24:36,792 --> 01:24:40,166
- People feel that the Apollo
is their sanctuary.
1808
01:24:40,250 --> 01:24:42,207
It is their place of worship.
1809
01:24:42,291 --> 01:24:44,166
It is their place
of convening.
1810
01:24:44,250 --> 01:24:48,582
- ♪ It makes me think
about the good things ♪
1811
01:24:48,667 --> 01:24:50,582
♪ Ow! ♪
[audience screams]
1812
01:24:50,667 --> 01:24:52,750
- For many people,
this is church.
1813
01:24:52,833 --> 01:24:54,375
- ♪ Ow! ♪
1814
01:24:54,457 --> 01:24:55,500
- It's a place where people
1815
01:24:55,582 --> 01:24:58,250
come to see their dreams
come true,
1816
01:24:58,332 --> 01:25:02,291
to look for hope
and aspiration.
1817
01:25:02,375 --> 01:25:05,375
[crowds cheering]
1818
01:25:09,500 --> 01:25:13,457
- Harlem, it is now
my honor to introduce
1819
01:25:13,542 --> 01:25:15,833
the first sitting president
1820
01:25:15,917 --> 01:25:18,417
to ever speak
at the Apollo Theater.
1821
01:25:18,500 --> 01:25:20,417
Please welcome to Harlem
1822
01:25:20,500 --> 01:25:25,582
Barack Obama, the president
of the United States!
1823
01:25:25,667 --> 01:25:28,582
[upbeat pop music playing]
1824
01:25:28,667 --> 01:25:30,417
♪ ♪
1825
01:25:30,500 --> 01:25:33,457
[cheers and applause]
1826
01:25:33,542 --> 01:25:38,000
♪ ♪
1827
01:25:38,082 --> 01:25:39,291
- Hello, Harlem!
1828
01:25:39,375 --> 01:25:42,291
[cheers and applause]
1829
01:25:42,375 --> 01:25:45,750
Oh, it is good
to be here tonight!
1830
01:25:45,833 --> 01:25:47,291
[cheers and applause]
1831
01:25:47,375 --> 01:25:49,082
♪ I... ♪
1832
01:25:49,166 --> 01:25:52,291
[cheers and applause]
1833
01:25:52,375 --> 01:25:55,417
♪ So in love with you ♪
1834
01:25:55,500 --> 01:25:58,417
[loud cheers and applause]
1835
01:25:58,500 --> 01:26:00,250
[peaceful music]
1836
01:26:00,332 --> 01:26:02,625
- I believe
as a master communicator,
1837
01:26:02,708 --> 01:26:07,625
he knew that music
creates instant connection.
1838
01:26:07,708 --> 01:26:09,000
[applause]
1839
01:26:09,082 --> 01:26:11,000
- The Sandman
did not come out.
1840
01:26:11,082 --> 01:26:13,332
[laughter and applause]
1841
01:26:13,417 --> 01:26:15,833
I--I--now, don't worry, Rev.
1842
01:26:15,917 --> 01:26:17,708
I--I cannot sing like you,
1843
01:26:17,792 --> 01:26:21,542
but I did--I just wanted
to show my appreciation.
1844
01:26:21,625 --> 01:26:26,332
- He took the hearts
of everybody that was there.
1845
01:26:26,417 --> 01:26:31,041
It was a way,
and a beautiful way, of saying,
1846
01:26:31,125 --> 01:26:34,667
"Hey, I'm one of you."
1847
01:26:34,750 --> 01:26:38,041
- When you walk out
of the wings
1848
01:26:38,125 --> 01:26:40,667
and you take the mic,
1849
01:26:40,750 --> 01:26:45,082
you have stood on top
of the music scores,
1850
01:26:45,166 --> 01:26:50,000
the gag lines, the costumes,
1851
01:26:50,082 --> 01:26:52,417
the singers.
1852
01:26:52,500 --> 01:26:54,542
You've stood on top
of all of them,
1853
01:26:54,625 --> 01:26:58,417
and their spirit
and their souls
1854
01:26:58,500 --> 01:27:00,207
are in that floor.
1855
01:27:00,291 --> 01:27:03,166
[wistful piano music]
1856
01:27:03,250 --> 01:27:09,082
♪ ♪
1857
01:27:09,166 --> 01:27:10,833
- So I just wanted
to take this opportunity
1858
01:27:10,917 --> 01:27:11,958
just to say ashe.
1859
01:27:12,041 --> 01:27:12,917
all: Ashe.
1860
01:27:13,000 --> 01:27:14,582
- Thank you, amen.
all: Amen.
1861
01:27:14,667 --> 01:27:16,332
- Amen, ameen.
all: Amen.
1862
01:27:16,417 --> 01:27:17,375
- [chuckles]
1863
01:27:17,457 --> 01:27:19,041
And just to have
that moment, yeah?
1864
01:27:19,125 --> 01:27:20,082
Ta-Nehisi?
1865
01:27:20,166 --> 01:27:22,750
- I just want to say, um...
1866
01:27:22,833 --> 01:27:27,207
Prince was killed 18 years ago
and, like,
1867
01:27:27,291 --> 01:27:29,750
he was killed in the era
before camera phones
1868
01:27:29,833 --> 01:27:32,166
and this sort of thing
used to happen regularly
1869
01:27:32,250 --> 01:27:34,875
and these folks
would just be forgotten.
1870
01:27:34,958 --> 01:27:37,457
Kam knew Prince,
Greg knew Prince,
1871
01:27:37,542 --> 01:27:41,917
and he is not forgotten,
and that's so crucial.
1872
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:44,542
Thank y'all. Thank y'all.
1873
01:27:46,457 --> 01:27:48,125
- I just want
to welcome you all tonight
1874
01:27:48,207 --> 01:27:52,125
to the first showing
of the adapted stage version
1875
01:27:52,207 --> 01:27:55,207
of "Between the World and Me"
by Ta-Nehisi Coates.
1876
01:27:55,291 --> 01:27:58,207
[cheers and applause]
1877
01:27:58,291 --> 01:27:59,542
So thank you very much
1878
01:27:59,625 --> 01:28:02,207
and welcome to
the "Between the World and Me."
1879
01:28:04,500 --> 01:28:05,750
[low chords]
1880
01:28:05,833 --> 01:28:08,125
- "I kept thinking about
how Southern men had
1881
01:28:08,207 --> 01:28:11,500
"and had always been
ground zero for us.
1882
01:28:11,582 --> 01:28:14,125
"They auctioned our bodies
down there
1883
01:28:14,207 --> 01:28:17,958
"in the same devastated
and rightly named
1884
01:28:18,041 --> 01:28:20,417
"Financial District.
1885
01:28:20,500 --> 01:28:24,125
"There was once a burial ground
for the auction there.
1886
01:28:24,207 --> 01:28:26,708
"They built a department store
over it.
1887
01:28:31,917 --> 01:28:35,958
"I will never forget that.
1888
01:28:36,041 --> 01:28:39,457
"Neither should you.
1889
01:28:39,542 --> 01:28:41,375
"Damn it all.
1890
01:28:41,457 --> 01:28:43,125
"And hell upon those
who would tell us
1891
01:28:43,207 --> 01:28:47,207
to be twice as good
and shoot us no matter."
1892
01:28:49,125 --> 01:28:52,000
[applause]
1893
01:28:52,082 --> 01:28:55,000
[slow piano music]
1894
01:28:55,082 --> 01:28:58,582
♪ ♪
1895
01:28:58,667 --> 01:29:02,332
- "Samori, I am speaking to you
as I always have,
1896
01:29:02,417 --> 01:29:05,000
"as the sober and serious man
1897
01:29:05,082 --> 01:29:08,332
"I have always
wanted you to be,
1898
01:29:08,417 --> 01:29:11,457
"who does not apologize
for his human feelings,
1899
01:29:11,542 --> 01:29:16,000
"who does not make excuses
for his height, his long arms,
1900
01:29:16,082 --> 01:29:20,582
"his beautiful smile.
1901
01:29:20,667 --> 01:29:23,542
"You're growing
into consciousness,
1902
01:29:23,625 --> 01:29:24,875
"and my wish for you is that
1903
01:29:24,958 --> 01:29:29,332
"you feel no need
to constrict yourself
1904
01:29:29,417 --> 01:29:32,833
to make
other people comfortable."
1905
01:29:32,917 --> 01:29:35,833
[applause]
1906
01:29:35,917 --> 01:29:37,166
♪ ♪
1907
01:29:37,250 --> 01:29:42,875
"I never wanted you
to be twice as good as them.
1908
01:29:42,958 --> 01:29:45,750
"I have always wanted you
1909
01:29:45,833 --> 01:29:49,417
"to attack every day
of your brief,
1910
01:29:49,500 --> 01:29:55,207
bright life in struggle."
1911
01:29:55,291 --> 01:29:58,207
[applause]
1912
01:29:58,291 --> 01:30:05,291
♪ ♪
1913
01:30:07,291 --> 01:30:09,958
Well, the Apollo, for me,
1914
01:30:10,041 --> 01:30:13,166
has always represented truth.
1915
01:30:13,250 --> 01:30:14,708
When you grace that stage,
1916
01:30:14,792 --> 01:30:17,417
when a performer
would walk upon that stage,
1917
01:30:17,500 --> 01:30:19,542
you had to bring all of you:
1918
01:30:19,625 --> 01:30:21,082
All of your spirit,
all of your soul,
1919
01:30:21,166 --> 01:30:24,833
all of your God-given talent,
all of your authenticity.
1920
01:30:24,917 --> 01:30:28,625
This is what's going on
in this world at this moment,
1921
01:30:28,708 --> 01:30:31,582
and we must attend to it,
1922
01:30:31,667 --> 01:30:33,500
we must prepare for it,
1923
01:30:33,582 --> 01:30:35,457
and we must struggle with it.
1924
01:30:35,542 --> 01:30:38,291
[piano-driven steady beat]
1925
01:30:38,375 --> 01:30:39,750
♪ ♪
1926
01:30:39,833 --> 01:30:41,875
- ♪ My grandmother's suits
were tailor-made ♪
1927
01:30:41,958 --> 01:30:43,375
♪ Sundays, Mahalia played ♪
1928
01:30:43,457 --> 01:30:45,750
♪ Familiar ways like
the way she knelt and prayed ♪
1929
01:30:45,833 --> 01:30:46,958
♪ Will the Master forgive us? ♪
1930
01:30:47,041 --> 01:30:48,792
♪ The trespasses
had us real afraid ♪
1931
01:30:48,875 --> 01:30:50,917
♪ I never listened,
but I still obeyed ♪
1932
01:30:51,000 --> 01:30:53,417
♪ I got to see how Philly
played at such an early age ♪
1933
01:30:53,500 --> 01:30:55,958
♪ What my father was into
sent him to his early grave ♪
1934
01:30:56,041 --> 01:30:58,250
♪ I started doing what
I'm supposed to do in life ♪
1935
01:30:58,332 --> 01:30:59,582
♪ Trying to move
out of the dark ♪
1936
01:30:59,667 --> 01:31:01,125
♪ Closer to the light ♪
1937
01:31:01,207 --> 01:31:03,457
♪ You get a chance
to do it over, do it right ♪
1938
01:31:03,542 --> 01:31:05,457
♪ Tomorrow is a promise
every time ♪
1939
01:31:05,542 --> 01:31:06,625
♪ You say good night ♪
1940
01:31:06,708 --> 01:31:09,291
- ♪ Here we go,
here, here we go again ♪
1941
01:31:09,375 --> 01:31:11,958
♪ Trayvon will never
get to be a older man ♪
1942
01:31:12,041 --> 01:31:14,291
♪ Black children, they
childhood stole from them ♪
1943
01:31:14,375 --> 01:31:16,582
♪ Let me do this again,
check it out ♪
1944
01:31:16,667 --> 01:31:19,625
♪ Here we go,
here, here we go again ♪
1945
01:31:19,708 --> 01:31:22,125
♪ Stephon Clark will never
get to be a older man ♪
1946
01:31:22,207 --> 01:31:24,792
♪ Black children, they
childhood stole from them ♪
1947
01:31:24,875 --> 01:31:27,582
♪ Robbed of our names and
our language, stole again ♪
1948
01:31:27,667 --> 01:31:29,457
♪ Who stole the soul
from black folk? ♪
1949
01:31:29,542 --> 01:31:31,750
♪ Same man that stole the land
from Chief Black Smoke ♪
1950
01:31:31,833 --> 01:31:33,750
♪ And made the whip
crack along our back slow ♪
1951
01:31:33,833 --> 01:31:35,207
♪ Made us go through
the back door ♪
1952
01:31:35,291 --> 01:31:37,750
♪ And raffle black bodies
on the slave blocks ♪
1953
01:31:37,833 --> 01:31:39,041
♪ I wish
the hatin' would stop ♪
1954
01:31:39,125 --> 01:31:41,625
♪ War, war!
And a battle with us ♪
1955
01:31:41,708 --> 01:31:44,332
♪ I know that Black Lives
Matter, and they matter to us ♪
1956
01:31:44,417 --> 01:31:46,542
♪ These are the things
we gotta discuss ♪
1957
01:31:46,625 --> 01:31:49,667
♪ The new plantation:
Mass incarceration ♪
1958
01:31:49,750 --> 01:31:52,332
♪ The hate the hate made,
I inherited from them ♪
1959
01:31:52,417 --> 01:31:53,625
♪ But I ain't gon'
point the finger ♪
1960
01:31:53,708 --> 01:31:55,000
♪ We got anointed singers ♪
1961
01:31:55,082 --> 01:31:57,625
♪ Like Nina, Marvin,
Billie, Stevie ♪
1962
01:31:57,708 --> 01:32:00,041
♪ Need to hear them songs
sometimes, so believe me ♪
1963
01:32:00,125 --> 01:32:01,041
♪ Who freed me ♪
1964
01:32:01,125 --> 01:32:02,082
♪ Lincoln or Cadillac? ♪
1965
01:32:02,166 --> 01:32:03,500
♪ Drinking or battle raps? ♪
1966
01:32:03,582 --> 01:32:05,332
♪ So is it Godspeed
that we travel at? ♪
1967
01:32:05,417 --> 01:32:07,291
♪ Endangered
in our own habitat ♪
1968
01:32:07,375 --> 01:32:10,000
♪ With guns and dope, man,
y'all can have it back ♪
1969
01:32:10,082 --> 01:32:11,375
♪ As a matter of fact ♪
1970
01:32:11,457 --> 01:32:13,000
♪ You know, we from a family
of fighters ♪
1971
01:32:13,082 --> 01:32:15,250
♪ Fought in
your wars and our wars ♪
1972
01:32:15,332 --> 01:32:16,833
♪ You put a nigger
in "Star Wars" ♪
1973
01:32:16,917 --> 01:32:18,875
♪ Maybe you need two ♪
[laughter and applause]
1974
01:32:18,958 --> 01:32:20,917
♪ Then, maybe then,
we'll believe you ♪
1975
01:32:21,000 --> 01:32:23,250
♪ See black people
in the future ♪
1976
01:32:23,332 --> 01:32:25,792
♪ We wasn't shipped here
to rob and shoot ya ♪
1977
01:32:25,875 --> 01:32:28,250
♪ We hold these truths
to be self-evident ♪
1978
01:32:28,332 --> 01:32:30,207
♪ All men and women
are created equal ♪
1979
01:32:30,291 --> 01:32:32,041
♪ Including black Americans ♪
1980
01:32:32,125 --> 01:32:35,125
[rapturous cheers and applause]
1981
01:32:40,041 --> 01:32:42,917
[upbeat jazz music]
1982
01:32:43,000 --> 01:32:50,000
♪ ♪
1983
01:33:00,875 --> 01:33:03,833
[applause]
1984
01:33:05,667 --> 01:33:08,667
[cheers and applause]
1985
01:33:13,542 --> 01:33:15,250
[slow piano music]
1986
01:33:15,332 --> 01:33:18,082
- "Son,
1987
01:33:18,166 --> 01:33:22,291
"I think back
to our trip to Homecoming.
1988
01:33:22,375 --> 01:33:27,332
"I think back to the warm
blasts rolling over us.
1989
01:33:27,417 --> 01:33:30,417
"We were at the football game.
1990
01:33:30,500 --> 01:33:31,917
"We were sitting
in the bleachers
1991
01:33:32,000 --> 01:33:34,250
"with old friends
and their children,
1992
01:33:34,332 --> 01:33:39,082
"caring neither
for fumbles nor first downs.
1993
01:33:39,166 --> 01:33:40,750
"There was a moment,
1994
01:33:40,833 --> 01:33:44,667
"a joyous moment,
beyond the Dream,
1995
01:33:44,750 --> 01:33:46,875
"a moment imbued by a power
1996
01:33:46,958 --> 01:33:50,417
"more gorgeous
than any voting rights bill.
1997
01:33:50,500 --> 01:33:54,291
"This power, this black power,
1998
01:33:54,375 --> 01:33:57,500
"originates in a view
of the American galaxy
1999
01:33:57,582 --> 01:34:01,582
"taken from
a dark and essential planet.
2000
01:34:01,667 --> 01:34:06,582
"Black power is the dungeon-
side view of Monticello,
2001
01:34:06,667 --> 01:34:10,958
"which is to say
the view taken in struggle.
2002
01:34:11,041 --> 01:34:14,792
"And black power births
a kind of understanding
2003
01:34:14,875 --> 01:34:16,457
"that illuminates
all the galaxies
2004
01:34:16,542 --> 01:34:18,457
"in their truest colors.
2005
01:34:18,542 --> 01:34:20,792
"Even the Dreamers feel it,
2006
01:34:20,875 --> 01:34:24,166
"for it is Billie
they reach for in sadness
2007
01:34:24,250 --> 01:34:28,625
"and Mobb Deep is what
they holler in boldness
2008
01:34:28,708 --> 01:34:31,500
"and Isley they hum in love
2009
01:34:31,582 --> 01:34:34,875
"and Dre they yell in revelry
2010
01:34:34,958 --> 01:34:38,875
and Aretha is the last sound
they hear before dying."
2011
01:34:38,958 --> 01:34:42,000
[stirring piano music]
2012
01:34:42,082 --> 01:34:45,625
"We have made something
down here.
2013
01:34:45,708 --> 01:34:49,625
"We have taken the
one-drop rules of Dreamers
2014
01:34:49,708 --> 01:34:51,457
"and flipped them.
2015
01:34:51,542 --> 01:34:54,958
"They made us into a race,
2016
01:34:55,041 --> 01:35:00,000
but we made ourselves
into a people."
2017
01:35:00,082 --> 01:35:02,958
[smooth stirring music]
2018
01:35:03,041 --> 01:35:10,041
♪ ♪
2019
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:16,917
- Come on down. Come on down.
2020
01:36:17,000 --> 01:36:18,917
This is 30 years of signatures
2021
01:36:19,000 --> 01:36:21,000
of all of the stars
that performed here.
2022
01:36:21,082 --> 01:36:22,708
We have Snoop Dogg.
2023
01:36:22,792 --> 01:36:23,833
- Whoa!
2024
01:36:23,917 --> 01:36:25,750
- There's John Legend.
There's Beyoncé.
2025
01:36:25,833 --> 01:36:26,750
[kids exclaiming]
2026
01:36:26,833 --> 01:36:29,082
There's Prince,
Whoopi Goldberg,
2027
01:36:29,166 --> 01:36:30,958
Stevie Wonder.
[kids exclaiming]
2028
01:36:31,041 --> 01:36:32,625
Then over here we have
2029
01:36:32,708 --> 01:36:35,667
Barack Obama, Michelle Obama!
[kids shout]
2030
01:36:35,750 --> 01:36:37,667
Yeah, man.
2031
01:36:38,708 --> 01:36:43,291
- ♪ How many hills
and mountains ♪
2032
01:36:43,375 --> 01:36:47,917
♪ We've had to climb? ♪
2033
01:36:48,000 --> 01:36:51,166
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
2034
01:36:51,250 --> 01:36:54,332
♪ And how many ways ♪
2035
01:36:54,417 --> 01:37:00,625
♪ Have we had to sacrifice ♪
2036
01:37:00,708 --> 01:37:03,750
♪ Just to survive? ♪
2037
01:37:03,833 --> 01:37:06,833
♪ From slavery
to segregation ♪
2038
01:37:06,917 --> 01:37:10,125
♪ For freedom
and our liberation ♪
2039
01:37:10,207 --> 01:37:16,291
♪ Your number can't account
for how much we've paid ♪
2040
01:37:16,375 --> 01:37:19,582
♪ And deep within
this revolution ♪
2041
01:37:19,667 --> 01:37:22,667
♪ There lives
a Harlem institution ♪
2042
01:37:22,750 --> 01:37:28,166
♪ Where many dreams were born
and legends were made ♪
2043
01:37:28,250 --> 01:37:33,667
♪ So don't turn back now ♪
2044
01:37:33,750 --> 01:37:38,500
♪ We've come too far
not to make it ♪
2045
01:37:38,582 --> 01:37:41,792
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2046
01:37:41,875 --> 01:37:46,332
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2047
01:37:46,417 --> 01:37:51,166
♪ It might be hard,
you can take it ♪
2048
01:37:51,250 --> 01:37:54,332
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2049
01:37:54,417 --> 01:37:57,375
♪ How many ways ♪
2050
01:37:57,457 --> 01:38:03,250
♪ Have we had
to overcome? ♪
2051
01:38:03,332 --> 01:38:06,708
♪ ♪
2052
01:38:06,792 --> 01:38:11,542
♪ And how many lives
must we lose ♪
2053
01:38:11,625 --> 01:38:16,250
♪ Until we are one? ♪
2054
01:38:16,332 --> 01:38:19,417
♪ Until we have won ♪
2055
01:38:19,500 --> 01:38:22,708
♪ Our music is a revelation ♪
2056
01:38:22,792 --> 01:38:26,041
♪ The sound
of every generation ♪
2057
01:38:26,125 --> 01:38:32,250
♪ Powerful enough
to free us from chains ♪
2058
01:38:32,332 --> 01:38:35,375
♪ And after everything
we've been through ♪
2059
01:38:35,457 --> 01:38:38,542
♪ There is nothing
that we can't do ♪
2060
01:38:38,625 --> 01:38:44,250
♪ There is nothing
that can stand in our way ♪
2061
01:38:44,332 --> 01:38:49,625
♪ So don't turn back now ♪
2062
01:38:49,708 --> 01:38:54,250
♪ We've come too far
not to make it ♪
2063
01:38:54,332 --> 01:38:57,417
♪ Don't turn back now,
yeah, yeah ♪
2064
01:38:57,500 --> 01:39:01,792
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2065
01:39:01,875 --> 01:39:03,917
- ♪ It might be hard ♪
2066
01:39:04,000 --> 01:39:06,917
♪ It might be hard, yeah ♪
- ♪ You can take it ♪
2067
01:39:07,000 --> 01:39:09,417
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2068
01:39:09,500 --> 01:39:11,375
[piano trills]
2069
01:39:11,457 --> 01:39:14,917
♪ We can never give up ♪
- ♪ We can never give up ♪
2070
01:39:15,000 --> 01:39:17,917
- ♪ We were born to win ♪
- ♪ We were born to win ♪
2071
01:39:18,000 --> 01:39:20,082
♪ We can be there
when times get rough ♪
2072
01:39:20,166 --> 01:39:22,750
♪ Oh, yes, we can ♪
2073
01:39:22,833 --> 01:39:26,000
♪ We're the builders
of a nation ♪
2074
01:39:26,082 --> 01:39:29,082
♪ We're the source
of inspiration ♪
2075
01:39:29,166 --> 01:39:31,457
♪ We're not
backing down at all ♪
2076
01:39:31,542 --> 01:39:35,457
♪ We know ♪
2077
01:39:35,542 --> 01:39:40,082
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2078
01:39:40,166 --> 01:39:43,125
♪ We've come too far ♪
- ♪ We've come too far ♪
2079
01:39:43,207 --> 01:39:44,958
- ♪ Not to make it ♪
- ♪ Not to make it ♪
2080
01:39:45,041 --> 01:39:46,958
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2081
01:39:47,041 --> 01:39:53,125
- ♪ Don't ♪
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2082
01:39:53,207 --> 01:39:55,792
♪ It might be hard ♪
- ♪ It might be hard ♪
2083
01:39:55,875 --> 01:39:57,291
- ♪ But we can make it ♪
- ♪ But we can never give up ♪
2084
01:39:57,375 --> 01:39:58,792
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2085
01:39:58,875 --> 01:40:00,625
- ♪ For you will get there ♪
2086
01:40:00,708 --> 01:40:02,958
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2087
01:40:03,041 --> 01:40:05,332
- [scatting]
2088
01:40:05,417 --> 01:40:10,166
- ♪ We've come too far
not to make it ♪
2089
01:40:10,250 --> 01:40:12,207
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2090
01:40:12,291 --> 01:40:13,500
- ♪ Hold each other ♪
2091
01:40:13,582 --> 01:40:18,000
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
- ♪ Hold each other ♪
2092
01:40:18,082 --> 01:40:20,750
- ♪ It might be hard,
we can take it ♪
2093
01:40:20,833 --> 01:40:23,041
- ♪ It might be hard,
but don't give up ♪
2094
01:40:23,125 --> 01:40:26,625
- ♪ Don't turn back now ♪
- ♪ Never give up ♪
2095
01:40:26,708 --> 01:40:32,667
♪ Don't turn back now ♪
2096
01:40:32,750 --> 01:40:36,958
♪ We've come too far
not to make it ♪
2097
01:40:37,041 --> 01:40:40,625
♪ Oh, oh, yeah ♪
2098
01:40:40,708 --> 01:40:43,332
♪ ♪
2099
01:40:43,417 --> 01:40:49,082
[scatting]
2100
01:40:49,166 --> 01:40:51,250
♪ ♪
2101
01:40:51,332 --> 01:40:57,667
♪ Don't you turn,
don't you turn ♪
2102
01:40:57,750 --> 01:41:01,417
♪ Hold on ♪
2103
01:41:01,500 --> 01:41:08,417
♪ ♪
2104
01:41:08,500 --> 01:41:11,667
[scatting]
2105
01:41:11,750 --> 01:41:18,750
♪ ♪
2106
01:41:56,667 --> 01:41:58,666
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