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[Light footsteps thud]
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David: You think that you're just gonna put this
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film together,
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and it's gonna be exactly the way you want it.
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But it's not,
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because I'm gonna be over your shoulder the whole fucking way.
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And, you're gonna have to deal with me, unfortunately.
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[Light footsteps thud]
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[Sighs]
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Can't wait for this.
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[Man chuckles] - Light it up! Let's go!
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- Okay.
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[Michael Bublé "Feeling Good" plays]
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Michael: There is no subject that makes me happier
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to be able to talk about, than David Foster.
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There are so many parts of him
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that I wish the whole world knew,
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because if they knew what I know,
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they would have even greater reverie for him.
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- Go!
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Céline: David is one of the greatest
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producer/songwriter of all time.
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You've probably heard of Barbra Streisand,
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um, Michael Jackson, maybe.
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Josh: David Foster was my first believer in me.
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My confidence when I didn't have it,
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but the truth is,
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you get vocals that you never dreamed of.
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[Cell phone rings]
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- Guess I'll answer that.
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Hey, what's up, Steve? What you doin', man?
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Lionel: He's a comedian, he's an entertainer.
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A very talented musician, songwriter.
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When he walks in the room, he is Mr. Show Biz.
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Diane: He makes it looks so easy, and it's so hard.
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Within the historical music business,
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there's him and Quincy Jones.
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Quincy: That's when you're dealin' with God, man.
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You have to know what that artists capacity is.
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You just keep diggin' 'til you get it.
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Barbara: I'm very funny and extremely easy
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to work with in a studio.
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He's not.
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Kristin: When he writes for someone,
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he speaks their language.
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- How many people are behind as many hits as him?
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I don't know, the list is quite short.
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Katharine: David Foster, the life, the legend,
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the mystery.
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I am one of the fortunate people
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that gets to have a really intimate,
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deep relationship with him.
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I guess I'm like that person in his life
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that's just sort of, going like [clicks] knock, knock.
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♪ Feelin' good ♪
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[Cars honking]
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David: This is probably maybe the first time
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that I've landed in New York,
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where I haven't said to myself,
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"Oh fuck, it's New York, I don't wanna be here."
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[Jazz music plays]
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New York, it outpaces Los Angeles
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by a multiple of ten, and I don't like that.
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It has to do with the claustrophobia,
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and the tall buildings.
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New York crushes me, and um,
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I don't like the energy,
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and I don't like all that weight on me
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when I'm walking around.
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And I'm way, way, way out of my comfort zone
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about the unknown of getting to Broadway.
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I think you have more luck of getting killed by lightning
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than you do of having a hit Broadway show.
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Man: You have room on the piano for a Tony Award?
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I mean, I look back there.
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- I sure do.
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Nobody wants the EGOT more than me -
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Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony.
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And then I have the Golden Globe,
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and I have the Emmy, and I have the Grammy,
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so I'm-I'm a little light.
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Man: [Laughs]
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Kristin: Broadway as a tendency to be like, prove it.
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So there's a feeling that David needs to pay his dues,
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but I would also add, David, we are so ready.
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We are so ready for you.
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Give us that gift,
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and then tell your story.
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Todd: New York is its own creature,
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like LA is its own creature.
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He has crossed over, he's pop, he's radio,
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he's done film, he's done television.
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Kelly: I think the difference between Broadway is,
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you work with a bunch of other people,
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as opposed to just going into the studio
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and creating something on your own.
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You have the director, you got the choreographer.
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A lot of people jump into the party,
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and that's probably new for him.
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- The notion of David coming to Broadway is,
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what has taken you so long, David?
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Come on, now. Come on.
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It's time.
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[Film reel rattles]
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David: I have more runway behind me
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than I do ahead of me.
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[Playing the piano]
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3915 Ascot Drive is, is where I grew up.
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A suburb of Victoria, British Columbia.
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The smell of grass being cut,
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everybody ran the streets,
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everybody stayed out in the summer.
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Nothing but great memories.
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I have six sisters; unfortunately, one passed away,
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so I only have five sisters now.
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- We're all very close.
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There's just a respect and appreciation.
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He loves his sisters; we love him.
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David: My father was an office worker,
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my mother was a homemaker.
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We had no money, but we weren't poor.
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My childhood is like an almost-perfect childhood.
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My mother would make my sisters a piece of toast
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in the morning before they went to school,
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and she'd cook me bacon and eggs.
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If you were one of my sisters,
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would you not be pissed off?
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- Anybody you interview that knows David,
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knew our mom,
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because he took her everywhere,
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and he loved having her with him.
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David: Apparently when my mother was dusting the piano,
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I was three, four, five years old, or whatever,
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and I yelled out, "That's an E!"
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And she was going, what are you talking about?
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I said "That's an E you just hit."
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Eleanor: And I thought,
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"Oh, there's something wrong with this child."
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So I phoned his dad at work and told him,
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and he got so excited, that he came home from work.
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And, his dad was just totally beside himself.
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He was so excited.
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David: And he came home and he said,
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"The kid's got perfect pitch."
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That would probably be some indication
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that you should do music.
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In '63, I would've been 13 or 14,
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there was a program to go learn music
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at University of Washington,
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and I did it two years in a row.
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And I'd play every instrument:
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clarinet, flute, baritone,
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trumpet, trombone, bassoon.
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Which helped me later on in writing for orchestra,
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because I understood the workings of every instrument.
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But then a magical thing happened.
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On my little transistor radio,
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and I heard this song.
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["She Loves You" by Beatles playing on piano]
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The Beatles.
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I was 13-years-old, and I could not believe
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this sound that I was hearing.
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It literally changed my life,
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and I said, "That's what I want to do. That!"
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Bill: David once as a teenager played Ronnie Hawkins' band.
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He fired David because he knew David loved
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the rock 'n' roll life.
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And he said, David you're a genius,
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and I'm a three cord rock 'n' roll man.
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And if I fire you
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there is a chance you'll find your genius.
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David: My mother and father, when I was 16,
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they took their life savings.
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Life savings.
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$1700.
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And bought a piano and amplifier for me.
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But to wipe out your savings for your child,
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is pretty crazy.
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♪♪♪
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I really thought that I was gonna make it
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in the music business.
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Well, we put this band together
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and moved to England.
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We had illusions of grandeur
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that we were gonna fit in and be stars.
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The world scene at that time was Pink Floyd,
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and The Doors, and Deep Purple,
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[Record scratches]
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and were like this clean cut,
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horrible dance band kinda thing.
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We just had no clue about what we were doing.
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We ended up, through an agent, just getting this gig
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to be Chuck Berry's back-up band.
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♪♪♪
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[Audience applauds]
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[Electric guitar riff plays]
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♪♪♪
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I was classically trained,
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and I didn't really know much about rock 'n' roll,
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so I didn't play his music very well, at all.
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Chuck was just an asshole,
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there's no other way of putting it.
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He would just get out there with his guitar,
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out of tune, and just crank away,
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and he didn't really care what was going on behind him.
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I didn't play his song properly,
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which is not a good fit, and ended up in a disaster.
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Most of the band quit.
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They got disillusioned, they wanted to go home.
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And I said, "Well, I'm not goin' home,
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I'm stayin'. I'm here to make it."
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I stayed for about a year
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and it was, without a doubt,
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the loneliest time of my life.
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I auditioned for everything.
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London was so cruel to me,
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nothing short of a tragic life.
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After a year of doing that,
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I gave in and my parents sent me sixty dollars,
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and that was a air ticket home.
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[Plane engine roars]
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By age 13, I was making more money than my father,
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and I was on this music train.
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I knew there was a world out there
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and I knew that I could be part of it.
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This one night, I came home
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at 5:30 in the morning.
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My father was up.
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He sat me down and he said,
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"So, this music business,
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you really like this, huh?"
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I said, "Yeah, I do."
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He said, "You think you have a chance at making it
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in the music business?"
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I said, "Yeah, I really do."
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And then he just said, "Okay then, good night."
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And that was the only time
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that I had a man-to-man conversation with him,
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and then he died a couple of months later.
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I woke up to go to school and the car was gone,
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and my mom said that, he'd had a heart attack.
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He was in the hospital for 11 days
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before he had another heart attack and died.
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I only visited him once.
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I should have been up there everyday.
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Big mistake.
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Imagine if I could have like broke through that barrier,
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and like, talk to him like man-to-man
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for 10 days, it would have been amazing.
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Jaymes: I think Dad's dying truly affected David.
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He was only 18,
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and our dad was only 54.
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And at the same time, he was conflicted
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because he was starting his own musical career.
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David: When my father died,
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there was three girls left at home plus myself.
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It was kind of chaos at home;
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my mother, 47-years-old,
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three young girls.
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She didn't know how to deal with it.
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I should have stepped in
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and taken care of it.
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You know, brought order to the house, but I don't.
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Instead I made a selfish decision to leave,
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and not deal with the chaos.
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I chose my career over helping my mother
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and my three sisters.
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By the time I was 25,
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I was making enough money that I can send her money
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and buy her cars, and pay off her house,
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and stuff like that.
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♪♪♪
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Me and my soon-to-be wife, B.J.,
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moved to Los Angeles.
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That was 1972.
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That's when we put "Skylark" together.
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♪ She's faced the hardest times you could imagine ♪
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♪ And many times... ♪
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I'd lived in London, I'd lived in Toronto by then,
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I'd lived in Vancouver, I'd lived in Edmonton,
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I'd lived in Victoria. None of it felt right.
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The second that I got to Los Angeles,
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it felt right.
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♪ Each time her slender shoulders ♪
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♪ Wore the weight of all her fears ♪
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I wanted to be studio musician so badly.
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♪ And a sorrow no one hears ♪
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This is where I knew I belonged.
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♪ Still rings in midnight silence ♪
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Our friend, Barry De Vorzon, had discovered us,
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and he brought us here specifically,
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to get us a recording contract
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and record an album, and that's exactly what we did.
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And amongst that album was the song, "Wildflower".
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♪ For she's a child ♪
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That song started getting airplay,
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then it just started spreading throughout the country
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and became a huge hit.
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That was the first taste.
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It just really wet my appetite; I wanted more.
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♪ Free and gentle flower growing wild ♪
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I started playing rehearsal piano.
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I eventually got a job playing for "The Rocky Horror Show".
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♪♪♪
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Every night, you would look out into the audience,
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and you would see all these movie stars.
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They all came to see Tim Curry
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in "The Rocky Horror Show."
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I was in the band, I later became the musical director.
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Through the musicians in that band,
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I got to meet other musicians
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who actually were in the throes of the session work.
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♪♪♪
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And I met a drummer named Jim Keltner.
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He was the drummer that was closest to The Beatles.
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The musicians would come and jam.
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Piano faced the wall,
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so I couldn't see the other musicians.
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I would just be playing along, just like,
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just grooving on a Sunday night at three in the morning,
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and John Lennon would pop in, and Joe Cocker.
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And drums would drop out
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and then eventually I was just playing solo piano,
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and I just kept goin', kept goin'.
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And then, the bass would come in again,
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the drums would come in again.
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And I just thought they were letting me play,
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but they were actually going and doing drugs.
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The other guys in the band were like,
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how can this kid stay up all night and play music,
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and not do drugs?
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I didn't know, I just wanted to play music.
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- I first met David at a recording session
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in the uh, 70's.
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David: I was barely a studio musician.
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I was one of two or three piano players.
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I remember walking in the studio.
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She had diamonds by the yard wrapped around her arm.
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She has the most beautiful hands.
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She's a very elegant, beautiful woman.
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I just remember her kind of floating in the studio.
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We were playing along, and in the middle of it she goes,
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"Stop! It's not right!
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It's not working for me. Stop."
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- And I was singing a song,
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but it didn't have the right opening,
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something was wrong about it.
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- She said, "Let's take a lunch break."
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Me, being the opportunist that I am,
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I was in the corner on my electric piano,
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way in the corner,
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hoping that the mic was on
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because she was having her lunch in the control room.
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- And then I heard someone playing a figure on a piano.
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- And literally, like out of the movies,
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she walks through the door, and she goes,
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"Marty," to her manager, "Listen to this!"
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- And I said, "Was that you playing that on the piano?
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I like that. I like that."
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- It worked.
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- Let's do it the way this guy was playing it.
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- We're gonna do it like that.
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- That happened to be David Foster.
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- And if you listen to the record today,
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it's her and I.
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So then, 10 years later,
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Barbra's doing a Broadway album,
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and there's a song called, "Somewhere"
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and she'd like you to produce it.
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And I went, "Dude, I'm in."
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Barbra said to me,
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"David, I want this record to sound
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like it was not created on this planet,
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but I don't want you to use any orchestra,
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I only want you to use synthesizers."
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♪ Somewhere ♪
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♪ We'll find a new way of living ♪
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- David and I have been through a lot together.
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We're on the same wavelength.
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Now, we agree far more than we disagree.
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David: So it took one month.
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We finished the mix.
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In all modesty, I killed it.
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So I called her up, I said, "It's finished."
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She said, "I wanna hear it tonight."
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I said, "Okay, well I'll drive out and play it for you."
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Drove out to her Malibu place.
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She was having a party.
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I knock on the door,
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and the door opened,
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it was Elizabeth Taylor and Clint Eastwood.
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And Elizabeth said to me, "Hello, can I help you?"
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I was like, "You're Elizabeth Taylor."
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She said, "Well yes, that's quite right."
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You know, I don't know what the hell I said,
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but it was, it was a Hollywood party.
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It was like, everywhere you turned,
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there was Dustin Hoffman, and this one, and that one.
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And then Barbra comes down, she says,
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"Oh, you're here to play me the mix. Oh, this is great."
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And she leaned back like this, in her evening gown...
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♪ Somehow ♪
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♪ Someday ♪
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♪ Somewhere ♪
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...and she went, "I love it. I love it."
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And she loved it.
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Quincy: We've all had the identical same notes
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for 700 years.
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Through harmony and rhythm,
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the choice is yours that represent who you are.
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You have to be a babysitter, you have to be a shrink,
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you have to be a mama,
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a nanny, everything.
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You have to get the studio, to get backgrounds,
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you have to find the songs, man.
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That's the power right there, the songs.
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Carole: He's been responsible for doing hit figures
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on songs of mine that he didn't even write.
433
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On "That's What Friends are For",
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he came into the studio to play keyboards,
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and came up with the da, da, da.
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[Playing the harmonica]
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♪♪♪
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♪ That's that friends are for ♪
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♪♪♪
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David: Is, it's going just a little bit flat.
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♪ Star ♪ And you're dropping on 'star'
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so if you'll hold that up we'll have it.
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Barbara: David has a way of coaxing what he wants
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out of an artist.
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- That sounded good.
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- And it's very clever.
447
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He uses a sort of um, carrot and stick approach,
448
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you know. He flatters the singer,
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and then he says, let's do it again.
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Paul: The way David will drive these artists
451
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and abuse the shit of 'em,
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You got it in take three!
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Do you know how many takes Sinatra did with "My Way"?
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One.
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Céline: David is very perfectionist.
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So am I.
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If you're not willing to have a relationship
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and accept the over, and one more,
459
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and one more time, and you've got it you,
460
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and you've got it in you. And you're saying to yourself,
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"Do you think that after 29 takes I have given it to you?"
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But, you know what?
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The 30th time that you sang,
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he went, "Bingo!"
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David: I produced the original "Dreamgirls" in 1981,
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I think it was.
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It was Jennifer Holliday.
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She came into the studio,
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she walked in with a fur coat and a dog under each arm,
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and she walked up to the mic, and I said,
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"Okay, Jennifer, let's see what it sounds like?"
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♪ Ever, ever go no, no, no, no way ♪
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♪ No, no, no, no way ♪
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♪ I'm livin' without you ♪
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- She sang her ass off,
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just like the show.
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But we were scrambling in the control room.
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We weren't ready. We wanted just a run through
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so that we could get the levels.
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♪ I'm stayin' ♪
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♪ I'm stayin' ♪
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♪ And you, and you, and you ♪
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♪ You're gonna love me ♪
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♪ Yeah ♪
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So at the end of it, I went,
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"Great Jennifer, that was fantastic.
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We're ready, we got our levels, let's do one."
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She put her coat on,
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grabbed her two dogs and she said,
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"I only sing the song once," and walked out.
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♪♪♪
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I would say the next big, explosive moment in my life
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was Earth, Wind & Fire.
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I had been a studio musician for three years,
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so I had played on The 5th Dimension records,
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and on Dolly Parton.
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As a piano player, I watched very carefully,
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the producers on the other side of the glass,
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because I wanted that job.
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I wanted the producer job.
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I managed to get an audience with Berry Gordy,
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the founder of Motown Records.
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Now I'm panicked.
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And I walked from his sofa to his piano in his office,
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and in those 10 steps, I faked it,
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and I sat down at the piano, and this is what fell out.
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♪♪♪
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♪ After the love is gone ♪
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♪ How could you lead me on ♪
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That's when I met Earth, Wind & Fire,
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and I played it for Maurice White,
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and he said, "I wanna record it."
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I said, "When?" He said, "Tonight."
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Went on this three-album rampage with them,
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and that propelled me into the 80's.
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♪ What used to be right in wrong ♪
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♪ Something happened along the way ♪
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Paul: There's a definite vibe that David gets into,
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that is very majestic,
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that's very well-produced,
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that gives you that big richness.
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♪ After the love is gone ♪
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♪ How could you lead me on ♪
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JR: He has literally changed the face of music.
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The best piano player I've ever played with,
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and I've played with Herbie.
527
00:24:20,792 --> 00:24:22,875
The way he attacks a key
528
00:24:22,917 --> 00:24:24,834
is like no other.
529
00:24:24,875 --> 00:24:27,709
When it gets big, it's big.
530
00:24:29,875 --> 00:24:31,542
David: When Quincy Jones produced
531
00:24:31,583 --> 00:24:33,166
"We are the World," in 1985
532
00:24:33,208 --> 00:24:35,083
to help famine relief in Africa.
533
00:24:35,125 --> 00:24:36,959
Well, he called me and he said,
534
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,291
"Hey David, you should do the same thing in Canada
535
00:24:39,333 --> 00:24:41,125
with all the Canadian stars."
536
00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:44,750
So, I called Bryan Adams,
537
00:24:44,792 --> 00:24:48,041
and together we wrote "Tears are not Enough".
538
00:24:48,083 --> 00:24:51,875
♪ We can change the world forever ♪
539
00:24:51,917 --> 00:24:55,458
♪ Heaven knows that tears are not enough ♪
540
00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:57,917
David: We got together a super group of Canadian artists
541
00:24:57,959 --> 00:25:00,208
for a one-day epic session.
542
00:25:00,250 --> 00:25:02,458
Joni Mitchell, Neil Young,
543
00:25:02,500 --> 00:25:05,291
Gordon Lightfoot, Loverboy, Bryan himself.
544
00:25:05,333 --> 00:25:07,667
The song became a number one hit
545
00:25:07,709 --> 00:25:11,083
and it raised millions for an amazing cause.
546
00:25:11,125 --> 00:25:12,542
[Applause]
547
00:25:15,208 --> 00:25:17,333
- Come on, Neil, give it to me, baby.
548
00:25:17,375 --> 00:25:20,834
♪ Somehow our innocence is lost ♪
549
00:25:25,583 --> 00:25:27,500
- Little flat on innocence, but other than that,
550
00:25:27,542 --> 00:25:30,166
it was great. We'll go again. One more time.
551
00:25:30,208 --> 00:25:32,375
- That's my sound, man. - [Laughing]
552
00:25:37,333 --> 00:25:39,250
I don't think I particularly would have liked
553
00:25:39,291 --> 00:25:41,041
the younger David Foster,
554
00:25:41,083 --> 00:25:44,125
because I was cocky, and I was brash,
555
00:25:44,166 --> 00:25:46,500
maybe a little know-it all.
556
00:25:46,542 --> 00:25:48,083
I'm thinking, in particular,
557
00:25:48,125 --> 00:25:49,667
of when I produced the group, Chicago.
558
00:25:49,709 --> 00:25:51,291
Take that out of the shot because you guys
559
00:25:51,333 --> 00:25:53,000
are always late on the shot, on the walk-down things.
560
00:25:53,041 --> 00:25:55,500
You're not with the clique, so I pulled it out.
561
00:25:55,542 --> 00:26:01,333
♪♪♪
562
00:26:01,375 --> 00:26:04,291
- Robert. - Jimmy.
563
00:26:01,375 --> 00:26:04,291
- Lee.
564
00:26:06,458 --> 00:26:09,458
- Wait a minute, wait a minute, I just need to ask this,
565
00:26:09,500 --> 00:26:11,041
are we doing an interview about Chicago,
566
00:26:11,083 --> 00:26:13,291
or an interview about David Foster?
567
00:26:13,333 --> 00:26:15,041
- Well, why don't we let him do the interview?
568
00:26:15,083 --> 00:26:16,750
- Yeah. Do your thing. Do your thing.
569
00:26:16,792 --> 00:26:18,667
- Man: Thank you. - We're with you.
570
00:26:18,709 --> 00:26:21,417
Lee: We were at a stepping-off point in our career.
571
00:26:22,959 --> 00:26:25,458
We were coming away from Columbia Records,
572
00:26:25,500 --> 00:26:27,166
and they were putting out the word
573
00:26:27,208 --> 00:26:29,917
that these guys aren't worth your salt anymore.
574
00:26:29,959 --> 00:26:33,542
- And we had been very, very, very successful.
575
00:26:35,083 --> 00:26:37,917
Lee: Irving Azoff came and asked us if we would mind
576
00:26:37,959 --> 00:26:40,417
if David Foster produced us?
577
00:26:40,458 --> 00:26:43,041
- By then, we were ready to work with anybody
578
00:26:43,083 --> 00:26:45,333
to try to get something going again.
579
00:26:47,291 --> 00:26:49,375
Peter: David Foster came in right when Chicago needed
580
00:26:49,417 --> 00:26:51,125
something like him.
581
00:26:51,166 --> 00:26:53,000
There was chaos in the group.
582
00:26:53,041 --> 00:26:55,083
Nobody was talking at that point. [Chuckles]
583
00:26:56,291 --> 00:26:58,125
David: They had lost their way,
584
00:26:58,166 --> 00:27:00,333
and I was a huge Chicago fan
585
00:27:00,375 --> 00:27:02,542
before I even got a chance to work with them.
586
00:27:02,583 --> 00:27:04,083
I knew every lick.
587
00:27:05,250 --> 00:27:07,166
Lee: First time we met him,
588
00:27:07,208 --> 00:27:09,125
we had a bunch of songs that we wanted to play for him,
589
00:27:09,166 --> 00:27:10,917
that we thought were gonna be on our next album
590
00:27:10,959 --> 00:27:13,000
that he was gonna record.
591
00:27:13,041 --> 00:27:15,875
He came in, he listened to all of the songs
592
00:27:15,917 --> 00:27:18,083
and said, "It's all mediocre."
593
00:27:18,125 --> 00:27:19,917
- I can put it together, sure I could.
594
00:27:19,959 --> 00:27:21,709
I had to have the job of telling Chicago
595
00:27:21,750 --> 00:27:23,709
that the songs they had written for Chicago 16,
596
00:27:23,750 --> 00:27:26,166
were terrible, and they had to start all over again.
597
00:27:26,208 --> 00:27:27,709
But it's a little overwhelming to concentrate
598
00:27:27,750 --> 00:27:30,417
on all four songs at once.
599
00:27:30,458 --> 00:27:33,667
- He was very young; he was turning our world upside down.
600
00:27:33,709 --> 00:27:36,166
- Why don't you give me just a minute to listen
601
00:27:36,208 --> 00:27:38,041
because sorry, I was on the phone.
602
00:27:38,083 --> 00:27:40,709
Peter: He's intimidating, and when he came in the studio,
603
00:27:40,750 --> 00:27:43,667
we were all intimidated. I was intimidated.
604
00:27:45,792 --> 00:27:47,959
Jimmy: All of a sudden our songs aren't good enough?
605
00:27:48,000 --> 00:27:49,583
You know, you're thinkin',
606
00:27:49,625 --> 00:27:51,000
"Man, did I lose it?"
607
00:27:51,041 --> 00:27:53,500
- When I got in the room and they played me their song,
608
00:27:53,542 --> 00:27:55,500
I was going like, these are nothing like
609
00:27:55,542 --> 00:27:57,792
what I remember you guys, these are terrible.
610
00:27:57,834 --> 00:27:59,417
Like, what happened to you guys?
611
00:27:59,458 --> 00:28:01,375
- He made a little comment about it,
612
00:28:01,417 --> 00:28:04,083
over the loudspeaker after a take,
613
00:28:04,125 --> 00:28:06,208
"You know, that's not right, that bass part's not right."
614
00:28:08,041 --> 00:28:11,083
So I put my bass down, I went inside the booth
615
00:28:11,125 --> 00:28:14,208
and I said, "Don't ever talk to me like that, again."
616
00:28:16,458 --> 00:28:18,458
- Switch to 6 there for that line, okay?
617
00:28:18,500 --> 00:28:20,291
Please?
618
00:28:20,333 --> 00:28:23,166
- Every producer we had worked with up to that point,
619
00:28:23,208 --> 00:28:24,959
they let us be Chicago.
620
00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:26,542
David made a record
621
00:28:28,125 --> 00:28:30,458
that was his impression
622
00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:32,667
of what Chicago should be.
623
00:28:32,709 --> 00:28:34,917
- We needed somebody to command the ship,
624
00:28:34,959 --> 00:28:36,750
and he did.
625
00:28:36,792 --> 00:28:39,375
Some people liked it, and some people didn't.
626
00:28:39,417 --> 00:28:41,542
["You're my Inspiration" plays]
627
00:28:41,583 --> 00:28:43,792
- David controlled every aspect.
628
00:28:43,834 --> 00:28:45,417
We were not used to that either.
629
00:28:45,458 --> 00:28:47,959
♪ You know our love was meant to be ♪
630
00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,208
- He wanted to participate in the writing and the playing.
631
00:28:51,250 --> 00:28:54,208
♪ The kind of love that lasts forever ♪
632
00:28:58,291 --> 00:29:00,875
♪ And I want you here with me ♪
633
00:29:02,667 --> 00:29:05,000
Jimmy: We understood that we have to trust this guy.
634
00:29:05,041 --> 00:29:06,792
We needed this.
635
00:29:06,834 --> 00:29:09,500
And he was fast. He was quick.
636
00:29:10,834 --> 00:29:12,417
Song needs a bridge. [Sound effects]
637
00:29:13,917 --> 00:29:17,125
Okay, done. I'd sit there and I'd go, "Holy shit, man."
638
00:29:17,166 --> 00:29:19,166
♪ You're the meaning in my life ♪
639
00:29:19,208 --> 00:29:20,625
♪ You're the inspiration ♪
640
00:29:20,667 --> 00:29:23,417
- I went in there with all eight cylinders goin',
641
00:29:23,458 --> 00:29:25,667
and all guns blazing. It was a dictatorship -
642
00:29:25,709 --> 00:29:27,750
you do this, you do that, I'm gonna be the bass player,
643
00:29:27,792 --> 00:29:30,041
I'm the piano player, I'm gonna co-write all the songs.
644
00:29:30,083 --> 00:29:31,959
This is what we're gonna do, you're gonna record this song.
645
00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:34,917
And of course, we had huge success.
646
00:29:34,959 --> 00:29:37,000
♪ I guess I thought ♪
647
00:29:37,041 --> 00:29:39,917
♪ You'd be here forever ♪
648
00:29:39,959 --> 00:29:41,792
JR: The Chicago days,
649
00:29:41,834 --> 00:29:45,375
I was just a hired gun coming in to fix a problem.
650
00:29:45,417 --> 00:29:48,667
I saw an ugly side, just a very aggressive
651
00:29:48,709 --> 00:29:51,208
production techniques from David.
652
00:29:51,250 --> 00:29:52,959
- I was trying to imagine
653
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,875
what a great Chicago record sounded like.
654
00:29:54,917 --> 00:29:57,458
Unfortunately for them, it didn't include a lot of horns.
655
00:29:57,500 --> 00:29:59,625
- There was nothin' to do.
656
00:29:59,667 --> 00:30:03,000
On videos, I'd be on a keyboard,
657
00:30:03,041 --> 00:30:05,291
Lee would be on a guitar,
658
00:30:05,333 --> 00:30:07,291
and you know, what the hell's goin' on here,
659
00:30:07,333 --> 00:30:09,083
because there ain't no horns to play.
660
00:30:09,125 --> 00:30:10,834
So next thing you know we're relegated
661
00:30:10,875 --> 00:30:13,959
to playing synth parts on videos, and on stage.
662
00:30:15,792 --> 00:30:18,083
I was pretty upset for a while.
663
00:30:18,125 --> 00:30:20,417
You put your ego in a bag, bury it in the yard,
664
00:30:20,458 --> 00:30:22,667
and you make a record.
665
00:30:22,709 --> 00:30:24,917
Robert: I wasn't ready to do that.
666
00:30:24,959 --> 00:30:27,083
My reaction was immature. I'm a keyboard player,
667
00:30:27,125 --> 00:30:29,875
what do you mean I can't play the keyboards on these songs?
668
00:30:29,917 --> 00:30:31,583
We thought we knew better.
669
00:30:31,625 --> 00:30:33,709
Jimmy: Another problem arose,
670
00:30:33,750 --> 00:30:37,166
which was the relationship with Peter and David.
671
00:30:39,291 --> 00:30:41,375
David: I immediately connected with Peter Cetera.
672
00:30:41,417 --> 00:30:44,208
We formed a great writing bond and a great kinship,
673
00:30:44,250 --> 00:30:46,792
and Peter and I became the songwriters of the group.
674
00:30:46,834 --> 00:30:48,500
Peter: I would listen to him,
675
00:30:48,542 --> 00:30:50,000
and he would actually listen to me.
676
00:30:50,041 --> 00:30:52,041
I think that was unique for him.
677
00:30:52,083 --> 00:30:54,542
He lets me actually talk through his hands.
678
00:30:54,583 --> 00:30:57,709
He'll playing, now what was that, that was great, you know.
679
00:30:57,750 --> 00:31:01,000
♪ Everybody needs a little time away ♪
680
00:31:02,542 --> 00:31:05,834
♪ I heard her say ♪
681
00:31:05,875 --> 00:31:08,333
♪ From each other ♪
682
00:31:11,542 --> 00:31:14,333
♪ Even lovers need a holiday ♪
683
00:31:17,750 --> 00:31:20,750
We ended up writing a bunch of fantastic songs.
684
00:31:20,792 --> 00:31:22,542
We had a string of number one hits.
685
00:31:23,667 --> 00:31:26,667
♪ Hold me now ♪
686
00:31:26,709 --> 00:31:29,375
People say, on you turned them into a ballad group.
687
00:31:29,417 --> 00:31:32,375
Just that people picked the ballads to be the hits.
688
00:31:32,417 --> 00:31:34,875
And it just so happens that I sang them,
689
00:31:34,917 --> 00:31:36,875
and of course, when you do a video, the guy that sings,
690
00:31:36,917 --> 00:31:38,875
all those things played into it.
691
00:31:40,333 --> 00:31:42,875
Robert: I realized that something good was happening
692
00:31:42,917 --> 00:31:45,041
when Warners took us out to dinner
693
00:31:45,083 --> 00:31:47,041
with all their top executives,
694
00:31:47,083 --> 00:31:49,834
picking up the first of many gold discs
695
00:31:49,875 --> 00:31:51,917
from songs from that album.
696
00:31:51,959 --> 00:31:54,083
But in the back of my mind, I was thinking,
697
00:31:54,125 --> 00:31:56,125
yes, but it's not Chicago.
698
00:31:56,166 --> 00:31:57,917
- Nine times but we did it.
699
00:31:57,959 --> 00:32:00,291
Now, we just gotta decide whether we want we-wa.
700
00:32:00,333 --> 00:32:02,125
David: I can understand, in reflection,
701
00:32:02,166 --> 00:32:04,083
how the group was pissed off at that.
702
00:32:04,125 --> 00:32:06,500
Meanwhile, they went from 50,000 albums
703
00:32:06,542 --> 00:32:08,542
to 7,000,000 albums.
704
00:32:08,583 --> 00:32:10,458
- We knew that the songs were good.
705
00:32:10,500 --> 00:32:12,333
I mean, we got ears.
706
00:32:12,375 --> 00:32:14,417
Robert: David was gonna get us back on the charts,
707
00:32:14,458 --> 00:32:16,250
and that's what he aimed for.
708
00:32:16,291 --> 00:32:18,041
Everything he did was exactly right.
709
00:32:18,083 --> 00:32:19,667
I didn't wanna walk away.
710
00:32:19,709 --> 00:32:21,834
Peter: It was tense.
711
00:32:21,875 --> 00:32:24,291
David and I took over writing at that point.
712
00:32:26,291 --> 00:32:28,875
It was a really low point for everybody.
713
00:32:28,917 --> 00:32:31,250
Jimmy: We wanted to have fun. We wanted to be a band.
714
00:32:31,291 --> 00:32:33,250
We've always been a band,
715
00:32:33,291 --> 00:32:35,792
and we didn't have any use for somebody
716
00:32:35,834 --> 00:32:37,458
that didn't wanna be a team player.
717
00:32:38,625 --> 00:32:40,417
He started to listen
718
00:32:40,458 --> 00:32:42,834
to a different drummer, if you will,
719
00:32:42,875 --> 00:32:46,500
and David was the straw that broke the camel's back
720
00:32:46,542 --> 00:32:49,000
and convinced him yeah, I'm a solo guy.
721
00:32:50,208 --> 00:32:51,458
So...
722
00:32:51,500 --> 00:32:54,041
♪ I am a man ♪
723
00:32:54,083 --> 00:32:56,041
- We had a string of number one hits that continued
724
00:32:56,083 --> 00:32:59,458
into my solo career with "Glory of Love."
725
00:32:59,500 --> 00:33:01,291
That was in "The Karate Kid"
726
00:33:01,333 --> 00:33:02,959
we got an Academy Award nomination.
727
00:33:05,208 --> 00:33:07,542
- If Peter hadn't wanted to just go off on his own
728
00:33:07,583 --> 00:33:09,709
and still be in the band, it would've been great,
729
00:33:09,750 --> 00:33:12,291
but it just didn't work out that way.
730
00:33:12,333 --> 00:33:15,458
♪ Hold me now ♪
731
00:33:15,500 --> 00:33:18,125
♪ I really wanna tell you I'm sorry ♪
732
00:33:18,166 --> 00:33:20,542
- We had this great run.
733
00:33:22,208 --> 00:33:24,458
David: Yes, I came in hot, yes, I came in arrogant,
734
00:33:24,500 --> 00:33:26,083
yes, I came in cocky.
735
00:33:26,125 --> 00:33:27,834
I understand completely
736
00:33:27,875 --> 00:33:29,667
why they don't like what went down,
737
00:33:29,709 --> 00:33:31,625
and I get it, and I understand it.
738
00:33:31,667 --> 00:33:33,542
♪ I will make it up to you ♪
739
00:33:33,583 --> 00:33:34,959
But they're still pissed off about it.
740
00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:36,834
They're still working on the backs
741
00:33:36,875 --> 00:33:38,500
of those albums right now.
742
00:33:40,333 --> 00:33:43,041
♪ And after all that's been said ♪
743
00:33:45,125 --> 00:33:47,792
Natalie Cole, her voice like silk.
744
00:33:48,959 --> 00:33:51,333
Beautiful human being.
745
00:33:51,375 --> 00:33:53,083
I was the lucky one that got to put her
746
00:33:53,125 --> 00:33:55,166
and her father together for "Unforgettable".
747
00:33:55,208 --> 00:33:58,041
♪ Unforgettable ♪
748
00:33:58,083 --> 00:34:00,166
Gave me the opportunity of a lifetime.
749
00:34:00,208 --> 00:34:01,667
♪ That's what you are ♪
750
00:34:01,709 --> 00:34:04,667
Could've been anybody. She chose me.
751
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:07,709
The Unforgettable album was done for the love of music.
752
00:34:07,750 --> 00:34:10,041
♪ Unforgettable ♪
753
00:34:10,083 --> 00:34:12,542
It was as pure as I've ever been.
754
00:34:14,041 --> 00:34:17,083
It was an album made from the heart.
755
00:34:17,125 --> 00:34:19,291
We applied a little bit of math and a little bit of wizardry.
756
00:34:19,333 --> 00:34:21,625
We retried the vocal from the vaults,
757
00:34:21,667 --> 00:34:23,500
we recorded a new track.
758
00:34:23,542 --> 00:34:26,000
Natalie sings, Nat sings.
759
00:34:26,041 --> 00:34:29,458
♪ That's why darling ♪
760
00:34:29,500 --> 00:34:31,625
♪ It's incredible ♪
761
00:34:33,834 --> 00:34:36,709
♪ That someone so unforgettable ♪
762
00:34:38,583 --> 00:34:41,208
♪ Thinks that I am ♪
763
00:34:41,250 --> 00:34:43,959
♪ Unforgettable too ♪
764
00:34:45,709 --> 00:34:47,417
When she heard that, she just came apart.
765
00:34:47,458 --> 00:34:49,291
She said, "Sounds like my father's singing
766
00:34:49,333 --> 00:34:50,792
right over my shoulder."
767
00:34:50,834 --> 00:34:54,583
♪ Unforgettable too ♪
768
00:35:01,041 --> 00:35:03,500
["Un-break My Heart" plays]
769
00:35:03,542 --> 00:35:10,375
♪♪♪
770
00:35:10,417 --> 00:35:12,375
David: I was with Toni Braxton last night actually,
771
00:35:12,417 --> 00:35:14,875
and we were reminiscing about our times together.
772
00:35:14,917 --> 00:35:17,333
I think we made one of the greatest records ever,
773
00:35:17,375 --> 00:35:18,834
"Un-break My Heart".
774
00:35:18,875 --> 00:35:20,667
Written by Diane Warren, produced by me.
775
00:35:20,709 --> 00:35:24,542
♪ Un-break my heart ♪
776
00:35:24,583 --> 00:35:27,542
♪ Say you love me again ♪
777
00:35:27,583 --> 00:35:29,792
- That key change,
778
00:35:29,834 --> 00:35:32,792
there's nothing better than that in pop music.
779
00:35:32,834 --> 00:35:35,166
The whole arrangement, and the whole vocal.
780
00:35:35,208 --> 00:35:37,834
It's just pure perfection.
781
00:35:37,875 --> 00:35:41,583
♪ Un-cry these tears ♪
782
00:35:41,625 --> 00:35:43,750
♪ I've cried so many nights ♪
783
00:35:43,792 --> 00:35:45,583
Every time David touches something,
784
00:35:45,625 --> 00:35:47,625
it goes to a whole other level.
785
00:35:49,709 --> 00:35:51,959
David: My life would've been a lot simpler,
786
00:35:52,000 --> 00:35:54,000
and my children's life would've been a lot simpler and easier,
787
00:35:54,041 --> 00:35:56,250
if I had of not been married so many times.
788
00:35:58,083 --> 00:36:00,375
- No one's more afraid of his track record than himself.
789
00:36:00,417 --> 00:36:02,417
- Women have always been his weakness.
790
00:36:02,458 --> 00:36:04,417
- There's so many women.
791
00:36:04,458 --> 00:36:07,250
- It's funny that he was given daughters and sisters um,
792
00:36:07,291 --> 00:36:09,083
and he was very close with his mother too,
793
00:36:09,125 --> 00:36:11,458
and he's always been close with every woman in his family.
794
00:36:11,500 --> 00:36:13,709
- Three older sisters to dote on him,
795
00:36:13,750 --> 00:36:16,000
three younger sisters to look up to him.
796
00:36:16,041 --> 00:36:18,125
- I don't think that he planned on being married
797
00:36:18,166 --> 00:36:19,709
five times in his life.
798
00:36:19,750 --> 00:36:22,208
- So obviously, yes, women.
799
00:36:22,250 --> 00:36:24,041
- If I was sitting in front of a psychologist,
800
00:36:24,083 --> 00:36:26,041
or a psychiatrist, he would call me a runner.
801
00:36:26,083 --> 00:36:28,875
When things get rough, or bad, I run.
802
00:36:31,125 --> 00:36:34,834
Erin: Having mixed families is really challenging.
803
00:36:37,417 --> 00:36:39,041
- There're never any pictures of Grandpa Maury,
804
00:36:39,083 --> 00:36:40,583
- Why?
805
00:36:40,625 --> 00:36:42,166
- ...because he was always holding the camera.
806
00:36:42,208 --> 00:36:44,125
- I was three when they broke up,
807
00:36:44,166 --> 00:36:47,250
and he immediately was living with the person
808
00:36:47,291 --> 00:36:50,208
he had left our mom for.
809
00:36:50,250 --> 00:36:52,834
And living in a house with her and her kids.
810
00:36:52,875 --> 00:36:55,500
♪ Happy birthday dear, Brody ♪
811
00:36:55,542 --> 00:36:56,709
David: Nice key.
812
00:36:56,750 --> 00:36:58,542
You're gonna sense scar tissue
813
00:36:58,583 --> 00:37:00,750
with every child of mine that you talk to.
814
00:37:00,792 --> 00:37:03,000
Most of them would tell the story
815
00:37:03,041 --> 00:37:04,792
that I was divorced from their mother
816
00:37:04,834 --> 00:37:06,458
by the time they were five or six years old.
817
00:37:06,500 --> 00:37:09,625
I was working all the time, literally all the time.
818
00:37:09,667 --> 00:37:11,792
Sleeping at the studio for two or three days at a time.
819
00:37:11,834 --> 00:37:13,959
So, you're gonna see a lot of scar tissue.
820
00:37:15,959 --> 00:37:19,208
Amy: My father and I look for exit strategies
821
00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:21,750
the same way that other people make dinner plans.
822
00:37:23,083 --> 00:37:25,041
When conflict arises,
823
00:37:25,083 --> 00:37:28,834
my dad's first instinct is to avoid,
824
00:37:28,875 --> 00:37:30,875
and evade, and deflect.
825
00:37:32,500 --> 00:37:34,500
My father stayed in LA.
826
00:37:34,542 --> 00:37:36,875
We were poor as shit.
827
00:37:36,917 --> 00:37:38,750
I mean, we were poor.
828
00:37:38,792 --> 00:37:40,875
My father sent child support,
829
00:37:40,917 --> 00:37:43,125
but that's all we had.
830
00:37:43,166 --> 00:37:46,500
And then, I would go during the summer to see my dad,
831
00:37:46,542 --> 00:37:48,166
and he was living in Malibu in like a palace.
832
00:37:51,041 --> 00:37:53,166
And I was like, wait.
833
00:37:53,208 --> 00:37:54,542
David: It's more like,
834
00:37:54,583 --> 00:37:56,417
hey, there is a shiny, new thing over there.
835
00:37:56,458 --> 00:37:58,041
In my mind, it's like,
836
00:37:58,083 --> 00:38:00,041
the grass is always greener on the other side.
837
00:38:00,083 --> 00:38:01,917
It's a lot of that.
838
00:38:01,959 --> 00:38:04,166
This is not working so...
839
00:38:04,208 --> 00:38:05,875
that looks a lot better to me over there.
840
00:38:08,041 --> 00:38:10,208
- He lived like a king.
841
00:38:14,709 --> 00:38:17,834
The mansions in Malibu that I didn't live in,
842
00:38:17,875 --> 00:38:20,834
to the neighbourhood that I lived in, in Toronto,
843
00:38:20,875 --> 00:38:23,834
to the very unconventional family that I had.
844
00:38:26,375 --> 00:38:29,291
I have 10 siblings, and I'm an only child.
845
00:38:29,333 --> 00:38:31,792
Wait. That's really fucked up.
846
00:38:31,834 --> 00:38:33,709
David: You can just imagine with children
847
00:38:33,750 --> 00:38:35,500
from three different women,
848
00:38:35,542 --> 00:38:37,083
and how tough it's been for all the players.
849
00:38:41,625 --> 00:38:44,000
When I run, it's a knee-jerk reaction,
850
00:38:44,041 --> 00:38:46,291
I just go.
851
00:38:46,333 --> 00:38:47,917
I just move on.
852
00:38:50,542 --> 00:38:53,583
And there are always consequences.
853
00:38:55,583 --> 00:38:56,875
The biggest mistake I ever made
854
00:38:56,917 --> 00:38:59,000
was leaving Rebecca.
855
00:38:59,041 --> 00:39:02,166
Imagine leaving and we have three children;
856
00:39:02,208 --> 00:39:05,959
age 5, 4... and Jordan was 7 months.
857
00:39:08,542 --> 00:39:10,667
What a fucking stupid thing to do.
858
00:39:12,291 --> 00:39:14,083
I would just say I'm sorry.
859
00:39:14,125 --> 00:39:16,583
You know, I'm sorry that I really fucked it up.
860
00:39:19,125 --> 00:39:21,291
Jordan: I do remember having crying sessions,
861
00:39:21,333 --> 00:39:24,125
just feeling like, oh God, my dad doesn't love me.
862
00:39:24,166 --> 00:39:25,875
And that's a horrible feeling.
863
00:39:27,834 --> 00:39:29,959
Erin: There was a situation he'd created
864
00:39:30,000 --> 00:39:31,667
where he didn't live with his own children.
865
00:39:33,250 --> 00:39:35,041
He lived with someone else's kids.
866
00:39:35,083 --> 00:39:37,250
There was a lot of tension there.
867
00:39:37,291 --> 00:39:39,000
- You grow up a little bit faster
868
00:39:39,041 --> 00:39:40,834
than you would necessarily,
869
00:39:40,875 --> 00:39:42,458
if you didn't have that relationship with a parent.
870
00:39:44,291 --> 00:39:48,583
Amy: I believed that I was a casualty of his ambition.
871
00:39:52,417 --> 00:39:54,125
- From my earliest memory,
872
00:39:54,166 --> 00:39:56,166
I was in the studio with him.
873
00:39:57,917 --> 00:40:00,125
While I did see the back of his head for many years,
874
00:40:00,166 --> 00:40:02,792
in the studio, I never felt like he wasn't there.
875
00:40:04,500 --> 00:40:06,750
I just always had so much respect for him
876
00:40:06,792 --> 00:40:08,208
and what he did.
877
00:40:10,000 --> 00:40:13,458
Amy: I never felt angry, I just accepted it.
878
00:40:15,709 --> 00:40:18,583
If I wanted to see my dad, I had to do it at the studio.
879
00:40:20,166 --> 00:40:22,625
[Children laughing]
880
00:40:22,667 --> 00:40:25,542
I love my father. I adore my dad.
881
00:40:27,625 --> 00:40:29,333
You know, when he shines his light on you,
882
00:40:29,375 --> 00:40:31,792
it is fantastic.
883
00:40:35,625 --> 00:40:37,375
Sara: It wasn't always easy.
884
00:40:37,417 --> 00:40:38,959
It wasn't easy as a kid.
885
00:40:41,083 --> 00:40:43,250
I don't know, if I had to choose to be
886
00:40:43,291 --> 00:40:45,542
really close with my parent as a kid, or as an adult,
887
00:40:45,583 --> 00:40:47,333
I would pick an adult.
888
00:40:47,375 --> 00:40:49,834
He's such a sounding board, and such um,
889
00:40:49,875 --> 00:40:52,375
almost like a friend in a lot of ways.
890
00:40:52,417 --> 00:40:54,291
[Cheering and applause]
891
00:40:55,875 --> 00:40:57,959
- I would like to point out at this moment,
892
00:40:58,000 --> 00:41:00,291
that all five of my daughters are here,
893
00:41:00,333 --> 00:41:02,333
all the way from Florida, Zurich, Edmonton,
894
00:41:02,375 --> 00:41:04,500
Nashville, and LA.
895
00:41:04,542 --> 00:41:06,291
Thank you, girls.
896
00:41:06,333 --> 00:41:08,458
I have five amazing daughters,
897
00:41:08,500 --> 00:41:10,375
all strong-willed, all successful.
898
00:41:10,417 --> 00:41:12,041
I think I did something right.
899
00:41:12,083 --> 00:41:13,917
- There was never a time he didn't pick up the phone
900
00:41:13,959 --> 00:41:15,625
when you called. - No.
901
00:41:15,667 --> 00:41:17,792
- Anytime he was in the studio, no matter what hour, what day--
902
00:41:17,834 --> 00:41:19,709
- Or if he was working with Madonna or something,
903
00:41:19,750 --> 00:41:21,583
he'd be like, hold Madonna. - There was never a time
904
00:41:21,625 --> 00:41:23,208
that they came back to the phone
905
00:41:23,250 --> 00:41:25,083
and said he's not available. - Never.
906
00:41:25,125 --> 00:41:27,125
- I think that sometimes he thinks he wasn't a good dad,
907
00:41:27,166 --> 00:41:29,417
and that hurts my feelings, because he was a good dad.
908
00:41:30,917 --> 00:41:33,166
David: My message to them is, you know, I did my best,
909
00:41:33,208 --> 00:41:35,083
I could have done a lot better.
910
00:41:35,125 --> 00:41:37,000
I'm trying to do my best now.
911
00:41:37,041 --> 00:41:39,041
Pull up your bootstraps and get on with it.
912
00:41:41,750 --> 00:41:44,208
It would be hard for me to sit with any of my children
913
00:41:44,250 --> 00:41:46,667
and go, you know, I really love you.
914
00:41:46,709 --> 00:41:49,709
I really do. And I really care about you.
915
00:41:49,750 --> 00:41:52,542
That's probably never come out of my mouth with my kids.
916
00:41:53,583 --> 00:41:56,083
It's not hard for me to say "I love you" at all.
917
00:41:56,125 --> 00:41:57,458
It's a little bit rogued,
918
00:41:57,500 --> 00:41:58,917
you know at the end of a conversation with your kids,
919
00:41:58,959 --> 00:42:00,625
love you. Love you too.
920
00:42:00,667 --> 00:42:02,125
There is a big difference between "love you"
921
00:42:02,166 --> 00:42:03,291
and "I love you".
922
00:42:03,333 --> 00:42:04,333
- And what do you say?
923
00:42:04,375 --> 00:42:05,917
- Love you.
924
00:42:08,625 --> 00:42:11,208
Amy: I know that he loves me in the only way that he can.
925
00:42:12,625 --> 00:42:15,542
The first time a song of mine went number one,
926
00:42:15,583 --> 00:42:17,834
he said, "Mhmm,
927
00:42:17,875 --> 00:42:19,458
well, you know, Amy,
928
00:42:19,500 --> 00:42:21,709
there's only one thing harder
929
00:42:21,750 --> 00:42:23,917
than getting a number one hit song."
930
00:42:23,959 --> 00:42:26,166
And I went, "What?" He's like, "Getting two.
931
00:42:26,208 --> 00:42:28,333
And when you get two, call me then."
932
00:42:30,125 --> 00:42:32,375
Katharine: I hope Erin doesn't mind.
933
00:42:32,417 --> 00:42:35,417
She called me one day, not too many months ago.
934
00:42:35,458 --> 00:42:37,834
And was hysterical and was really upset about her dad.
935
00:42:40,667 --> 00:42:43,083
And it was to do with a conversation that they had,
936
00:42:43,125 --> 00:42:45,667
around a big, personal event happening in her life.
937
00:42:45,709 --> 00:42:48,667
Really not honouring her feelings.
938
00:42:51,792 --> 00:42:53,959
He was so upset, but he couldn't say,
939
00:42:54,000 --> 00:42:55,667
you know what, it was just awful,
940
00:42:55,709 --> 00:42:57,875
I feel horrible, I'm so upset.
941
00:42:57,917 --> 00:42:59,792
He couldn't say any of that stuff.
942
00:42:59,834 --> 00:43:03,125
I said, you know, you really don't wanna go weeks now
943
00:43:03,166 --> 00:43:05,291
not talking to her, you need to fix this tonight.
944
00:43:05,333 --> 00:43:07,667
And he looked at me so,
945
00:43:07,709 --> 00:43:09,917
so defiantly and just said,
946
00:43:09,959 --> 00:43:11,625
you know then, maybe she should just go and do that.
947
00:43:11,667 --> 00:43:15,709
And I was like, wow, this is your own daughter,
948
00:43:15,750 --> 00:43:18,458
like, you don't mean that.
949
00:43:18,500 --> 00:43:20,959
I got him on the phone with Erin that night,
950
00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:22,792
and they're working through it.
951
00:43:22,834 --> 00:43:24,625
They have years and years of stuff to work out.
952
00:43:27,125 --> 00:43:29,083
I know how much he loves his children.
953
00:43:30,583 --> 00:43:33,375
I'm trying to get him to be more intentional
954
00:43:33,417 --> 00:43:35,875
with everything he does.
955
00:43:35,917 --> 00:43:38,875
Whether that's having relationships with his kids
956
00:43:38,917 --> 00:43:41,917
because he know it's the right thing to do,
957
00:43:41,959 --> 00:43:44,667
but also because he genuinely, genuinely cares.
958
00:43:44,709 --> 00:43:47,917
And genuinely is interested in wanting to know
959
00:43:47,959 --> 00:43:51,417
who Sara is and Erin is, and Jordan, and Amy
960
00:43:51,458 --> 00:43:54,041
and Allison for that matter.
961
00:43:54,083 --> 00:43:56,333
David: Allison is a daughter that I had
962
00:43:56,375 --> 00:43:58,458
when I was 19 or 20 with a girlfriend.
963
00:44:00,000 --> 00:44:02,542
We gave the baby up for adoption.
964
00:44:02,583 --> 00:44:04,959
I knew that some day she would come looking for me
965
00:44:05,000 --> 00:44:06,834
and she did.
966
00:44:06,875 --> 00:44:09,542
She was maybe 30, when she found me on the internet.
967
00:44:11,458 --> 00:44:13,083
She's really smart,
968
00:44:13,125 --> 00:44:14,792
but it's a different feeling
969
00:44:14,834 --> 00:44:16,458
than when you raise somebody.
970
00:44:20,458 --> 00:44:22,208
And I think honestly
971
00:44:22,250 --> 00:44:24,208
she probably would like more from me,
972
00:44:24,250 --> 00:44:26,000
it's just I can't, I'm just spread too thin.
973
00:44:30,125 --> 00:44:31,500
[Reel rattles]
974
00:44:32,875 --> 00:44:34,458
I had met Kevin Costner in Vancouver.
975
00:44:34,500 --> 00:44:36,709
He said, I'm about to do this film called "The Bodyguard,"
976
00:44:36,750 --> 00:44:38,542
would you be interested in doing the music?
977
00:44:40,959 --> 00:44:42,959
Quincy did tell me,
978
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,750
you are about to do the most important project of your life.
979
00:44:47,583 --> 00:44:49,333
He was absolutely right.
980
00:44:52,125 --> 00:44:54,000
Clive: You start with "The Bodyguard" itself,
981
00:44:54,041 --> 00:44:56,417
the film.
982
00:44:56,458 --> 00:44:59,792
When I first saw the rushes at Christmastime,
983
00:44:59,834 --> 00:45:02,417
I thought it was weak.
984
00:45:02,458 --> 00:45:06,166
I thought that Warner Bros. were much too dependent
985
00:45:06,208 --> 00:45:09,083
on making this a gripping thriller,
986
00:45:09,125 --> 00:45:11,542
and there was very little, if any,
987
00:45:11,583 --> 00:45:15,083
demonstration of the stardom of Whitney.
988
00:45:17,625 --> 00:45:19,333
- All right, I'm up.
989
00:45:19,375 --> 00:45:21,417
- It was Whitney's first film.
990
00:45:21,458 --> 00:45:24,834
She was feeling her way as an actress.
991
00:45:24,875 --> 00:45:27,083
The chemistry between
992
00:45:27,125 --> 00:45:29,667
Kevin Costner and Whitney must be felt.
993
00:45:31,375 --> 00:45:33,500
- Well, you don't look like a bodyguard.
994
00:45:33,542 --> 00:45:35,500
- What'd you expect?
995
00:45:35,542 --> 00:45:37,875
Clive: Typically, the head of any record company
996
00:45:37,917 --> 00:45:40,542
is gonna want more music in the film,
997
00:45:40,583 --> 00:45:44,166
but unless you establish Whitney's stardom,
998
00:45:44,208 --> 00:45:46,208
the script didn't provide that.
999
00:45:47,834 --> 00:45:51,709
So, I wrote a letter to the director and Kevin,
1000
00:45:51,750 --> 00:45:53,750
saying just that -
1001
00:45:53,792 --> 00:45:56,125
if you don't get more music,
1002
00:45:56,166 --> 00:45:59,417
if you don't get more performance from Whitney,
1003
00:45:59,458 --> 00:46:02,417
you do not have a great film here.
1004
00:46:05,083 --> 00:46:08,625
Kevin Costner literally took this letter to heart.
1005
00:46:10,208 --> 00:46:13,208
He assumed a very vital role
1006
00:46:13,250 --> 00:46:16,166
working with David Foster on this.
1007
00:46:16,208 --> 00:46:22,709
♪♪♪
1008
00:46:22,750 --> 00:46:26,291
The number of songs were dramatically expanded.
1009
00:46:28,667 --> 00:46:31,583
David and his then wife, Linda Thompson,
1010
00:46:31,625 --> 00:46:33,667
wrote "I Have Nothing."
1011
00:46:33,709 --> 00:46:37,166
♪ But don't make me close one more door ♪
1012
00:46:38,834 --> 00:46:41,625
♪ I don't wanna hurt anymore ♪
1013
00:46:43,083 --> 00:46:45,291
♪ Stay in my arms ♪
1014
00:46:45,333 --> 00:46:47,000
Clive: But the big object,
1015
00:46:47,041 --> 00:46:49,417
what kind of song,
1016
00:46:49,458 --> 00:46:53,000
can really capture the essence of the film,
1017
00:46:53,041 --> 00:46:54,875
the chemistry of the leads,
1018
00:46:54,917 --> 00:46:56,834
affect the emotion,
1019
00:46:56,875 --> 00:47:00,625
make it more than just a thriller?
1020
00:47:00,667 --> 00:47:02,333
- Originally they were gonna do
1021
00:47:02,375 --> 00:47:03,750
"What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted".
1022
00:47:03,792 --> 00:47:05,583
♪ What becomes of the bro--♪
1023
00:47:05,625 --> 00:47:07,333
It's really a good hook,
1024
00:47:07,375 --> 00:47:09,709
but past that, there's not a lot going on with it.
1025
00:47:09,750 --> 00:47:13,208
♪ What becomes of the broken-hearted ♪
1026
00:47:13,250 --> 00:47:16,583
♪ Who had a sweet love that's now departed ♪
1027
00:47:16,625 --> 00:47:19,125
♪ I know I've got to find ♪
1028
00:47:19,166 --> 00:47:21,375
♪ Some kind of peace of mind ♪
1029
00:47:21,417 --> 00:47:23,959
David: I did a demo for it. Whitney didn't like the demo,
1030
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:25,500
I didn't like the demo.
1031
00:47:25,542 --> 00:47:27,583
And Whitney was like, "Really, David?
1032
00:47:27,625 --> 00:47:29,291
I don't, I'm not gettin' this."
1033
00:47:29,333 --> 00:47:31,291
And then, luckily,
1034
00:47:31,333 --> 00:47:34,125
the song hit the charts with Paul Young,
1035
00:47:34,166 --> 00:47:35,917
so I ran to Kevin Costner and said,
1036
00:47:35,959 --> 00:47:38,166
"Ah, we can't do this song,"
1037
00:47:38,208 --> 00:47:40,875
feigning like, that I'm disappointed.
1038
00:47:40,917 --> 00:47:42,709
So he said, "Okay, let me come up with another song."
1039
00:47:42,750 --> 00:47:44,583
[Applause] Dolly: Thank you.
1040
00:47:44,625 --> 00:47:50,750
♪♪♪
1041
00:47:50,792 --> 00:47:55,208
♪ If I should stay ♪
1042
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:00,667
♪ I would only be ♪
1043
00:48:00,709 --> 00:48:03,375
♪ In your way ♪
1044
00:48:05,208 --> 00:48:07,250
♪ So I'll go ♪
1045
00:48:07,291 --> 00:48:09,041
David: I sent somebody to the record store.
1046
00:48:09,083 --> 00:48:10,959
I said, "Get me a copy of 'I Will Always Love You'
1047
00:48:11,000 --> 00:48:13,333
by Dolly Parton." They came back and they said,
1048
00:48:13,375 --> 00:48:15,417
they didn't have Dolly Parton's version,
1049
00:48:15,458 --> 00:48:17,041
but they have Linda Ronstadt's version.
1050
00:48:17,083 --> 00:48:19,709
♪ And I... I... ♪
1051
00:48:21,208 --> 00:48:24,250
♪ Will always ♪
1052
00:48:24,291 --> 00:48:26,125
- I knew Dolly Parton, so I called her
1053
00:48:26,166 --> 00:48:27,625
and I was excited. I said,
1054
00:48:27,667 --> 00:48:29,667
"Guess what, Dolly, we're doing your song,
1055
00:48:29,709 --> 00:48:31,291
'I Will Always Love You.'"
1056
00:48:31,333 --> 00:48:33,083
And she said, "Oh, that's great!"
1057
00:48:33,125 --> 00:48:35,208
She said, "I could just hear Whitney singing..."
1058
00:48:35,250 --> 00:48:38,041
♪ And I wish you joy and happiness ♪
1059
00:48:38,083 --> 00:48:40,750
And I'm going, what lyric is that?
1060
00:48:40,792 --> 00:48:43,250
That's, that's not part of our record.
1061
00:48:43,291 --> 00:48:45,917
The Linda Ronstadt version is only two verses.
1062
00:48:45,959 --> 00:48:48,041
She said, "What are you talking about?
1063
00:48:48,083 --> 00:48:49,542
The third verse is the most important verse,
1064
00:48:49,583 --> 00:48:52,125
it sums up the whole song,
1065
00:48:52,166 --> 00:48:54,083
and the whole feeling that I was trying to go for."
1066
00:48:55,375 --> 00:48:57,291
And I hope life
1067
00:48:57,333 --> 00:48:58,834
Treats you kind
1068
00:49:01,250 --> 00:49:02,834
And I hope that
1069
00:49:02,875 --> 00:49:04,917
You have all
1070
00:49:04,959 --> 00:49:06,542
That you ever dreamed of
1071
00:49:08,667 --> 00:49:10,291
And I wish you joy
1072
00:49:11,542 --> 00:49:14,000
And happiness...
1073
00:49:16,041 --> 00:49:19,583
David: I immediately knew how to make this a great song
1074
00:49:19,625 --> 00:49:21,291
for Whitney Houston.
1075
00:49:22,959 --> 00:49:26,667
I would imagine that if Whitney's performing it live,
1076
00:49:26,709 --> 00:49:28,959
that they would get a standing ovation,
1077
00:49:29,000 --> 00:49:31,333
where the people jumped to their feet.
1078
00:49:31,375 --> 00:49:33,250
Man: Scene 86. Breaker take one.
1079
00:49:33,291 --> 00:49:34,959
A cam rolling. Marks.
1080
00:49:35,000 --> 00:49:36,667
Clive: Kevin who said, "Look,
1081
00:49:36,709 --> 00:49:40,375
I want the record to begin with an a cappella."
1082
00:49:40,417 --> 00:49:42,500
- I didn't want to do the first part a cappella,
1083
00:49:42,542 --> 00:49:44,583
and Kevin was like, "No, I want it to be
1084
00:49:44,625 --> 00:49:47,208
no music for the first part." I was like, "Come on, Kevin.
1085
00:49:47,250 --> 00:49:49,208
I mean, okay, for your movie maybe,
1086
00:49:49,250 --> 00:49:50,750
but when I get it back in the studio,
1087
00:49:50,792 --> 00:49:52,500
I'm gonna put music on it."
1088
00:49:52,542 --> 00:49:54,250
- Right after the first run-through,
1089
00:49:54,291 --> 00:49:56,250
David sent it to me,
1090
00:49:56,291 --> 00:49:58,166
and it gave me chills.
1091
00:49:58,208 --> 00:50:00,000
- He loved my rough mix of it.
1092
00:50:00,041 --> 00:50:01,625
I said, you can't use the rough mix.
1093
00:50:01,667 --> 00:50:03,667
- And in this particular case,
1094
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:06,583
we did not see eye-to-eye.
1095
00:50:06,625 --> 00:50:08,500
- I know Whitney, I know what she wants, blah, blah, blah.
1096
00:50:08,542 --> 00:50:10,917
Of course, nobody knew Whitney better than Clive.
1097
00:50:10,959 --> 00:50:14,792
- And he repeated more obscenities
1098
00:50:14,834 --> 00:50:17,041
in this conversation,
1099
00:50:17,083 --> 00:50:18,875
than I had ever heard.
1100
00:50:18,917 --> 00:50:21,709
- And he said, "David," very calmly,
1101
00:50:23,166 --> 00:50:25,250
"I think we should hang up
1102
00:50:25,291 --> 00:50:27,333
before one of us says something that we will regret."
1103
00:50:27,375 --> 00:50:29,667
- All of Warners was calling me.
1104
00:50:29,709 --> 00:50:32,166
I had to make a decision,
1105
00:50:32,208 --> 00:50:36,125
and I went with that first version.
1106
00:50:38,959 --> 00:50:41,208
♪ If I ♪
1107
00:50:43,709 --> 00:50:45,667
♪ Should stay ♪
1108
00:50:48,291 --> 00:50:49,792
♪ I would only ♪
1109
00:50:51,333 --> 00:50:54,834
♪ Be in your way ♪
1110
00:50:58,542 --> 00:51:00,834
♪ So I'll go ♪
1111
00:51:02,458 --> 00:51:04,000
♪ But I know ♪
1112
00:51:06,375 --> 00:51:08,792
♪ I'll think of you ♪
1113
00:51:08,834 --> 00:51:12,709
♪ Every step of the way ♪
1114
00:51:16,750 --> 00:51:18,625
- Whoever thought a radio would play this?
1115
00:51:20,083 --> 00:51:22,166
I was standing in the ballroom beside her mother,
1116
00:51:22,208 --> 00:51:24,166
and Whitney gets up on stage in her beautiful dress,
1117
00:51:24,208 --> 00:51:25,709
and she goes,
1118
00:51:25,750 --> 00:51:27,917
"If I..."
1119
00:51:27,959 --> 00:51:29,583
and the mother turned to me and she goes,
1120
00:51:31,166 --> 00:51:33,041
"You know you're witnessing greatness right now."
1121
00:51:33,083 --> 00:51:35,083
And then the strings come in.
1122
00:51:35,125 --> 00:51:37,667
♪ And I... ♪
1123
00:51:41,583 --> 00:51:45,000
♪ Will always love you ♪
1124
00:51:47,166 --> 00:51:50,333
Clive: It was David who came up with the arrangement.
1125
00:51:51,667 --> 00:51:53,709
Each of the three of us loved it.
1126
00:51:56,625 --> 00:51:59,750
I literally had chills
1127
00:51:59,792 --> 00:52:02,875
and goosebumps. I was ecstatic.
1128
00:52:02,917 --> 00:52:04,375
- Wait.
1129
00:52:05,959 --> 00:52:09,709
[Full crescendo] ♪ And I... ♪
1130
00:52:11,291 --> 00:52:13,166
♪ Will always love you ♪
1131
00:52:13,208 --> 00:52:15,208
Announcer: The Bodyguard, original soundtrack album;
1132
00:52:15,250 --> 00:52:17,000
Whitney Houston.
1133
00:52:17,041 --> 00:52:18,709
Announce: The number one album of the year
1134
00:52:18,750 --> 00:52:20,625
for "I Will Always Love You."
1135
00:52:20,667 --> 00:52:22,542
- The record of the year, this is the one.
1136
00:52:22,583 --> 00:52:23,959
This is the one, you know.
1137
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,834
It's very special. It really is.
1138
00:52:25,875 --> 00:52:29,583
- Within hours, he called me up to apologize.
1139
00:52:29,625 --> 00:52:31,875
He said, "Everybody's calling,
1140
00:52:31,917 --> 00:52:34,083
that it's the greatest record they've ever heard
1141
00:52:34,125 --> 00:52:35,750
in their life."
1142
00:52:35,792 --> 00:52:38,208
Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen, Whitney Houston.
1143
00:52:38,250 --> 00:52:39,917
[Audience cheers]
1144
00:52:39,959 --> 00:52:43,542
Clive: It only cemented the bond between David and myself.
1145
00:52:43,583 --> 00:52:46,083
- Welcome back to the Whitney Houston show.
1146
00:52:46,125 --> 00:52:49,083
- Guess I should just stay up here, huh. Hoo!
1147
00:52:49,125 --> 00:52:51,333
- It became the most important project of my life.
1148
00:52:51,375 --> 00:52:53,417
The album sold 45 million copies.
1149
00:52:53,458 --> 00:52:55,625
Bodyguard producers, David Foster.
1150
00:52:55,667 --> 00:52:58,208
Clive, again, I love you, and I thank you.
1151
00:52:58,250 --> 00:53:01,667
- It's carried me over these last 20 years, a lot.
1152
00:53:02,834 --> 00:53:06,417
♪ I'll always love you ♪
1153
00:53:12,959 --> 00:53:16,125
For the most part my life has been going 100/mph,
1154
00:53:16,166 --> 00:53:18,709
but then there is those things that happen to you,
1155
00:53:18,750 --> 00:53:20,166
the unexpected -
1156
00:53:20,208 --> 00:53:22,417
that just bring you to your knees
1157
00:53:22,458 --> 00:53:25,458
and bring you to a full stop halt.
1158
00:53:27,834 --> 00:53:30,125
I was in the studio in Hollywood with Michael Bolton.
1159
00:53:30,166 --> 00:53:32,333
He kept pushing, he said, let's stay later, later, later.
1160
00:53:34,250 --> 00:53:35,500
I really wanted to leave at midnight,
1161
00:53:35,542 --> 00:53:37,041
but I embed up staying until 2:00 o'clock.
1162
00:53:37,083 --> 00:53:39,417
[Engine rumbles]
1163
00:53:39,458 --> 00:53:42,000
I was living in Malibu, I'm driving home.
1164
00:53:42,041 --> 00:53:43,625
It's a beautiful summer night.
1165
00:53:46,125 --> 00:53:48,166
I'm coming up on the top of this hill.
1166
00:53:48,208 --> 00:53:50,041
Now, it's 2:30 in the morning.
1167
00:53:52,083 --> 00:53:54,750
And there is this thing in the middle of the road.
1168
00:53:56,208 --> 00:53:59,083
[Engine roars] Arms up like this.
1169
00:54:00,750 --> 00:54:03,542
It takes a second to process
1170
00:54:03,583 --> 00:54:05,166
that it's somebody in the middle of the road.
1171
00:54:06,583 --> 00:54:08,291
It takes another second to think I've gotta brake,
1172
00:54:09,959 --> 00:54:11,709
and by the third second BAM!
1173
00:54:11,750 --> 00:54:12,959
[Tires screeching, crash]
1174
00:54:19,375 --> 00:54:21,583
Then it was just... dead silence.
1175
00:54:23,375 --> 00:54:25,041
I dialled 911.
1176
00:54:25,083 --> 00:54:26,792
Operator: 911, what's your emergency?
1177
00:54:26,834 --> 00:54:28,542
- I've just killed somebody, I've just-I think I've just--
1178
00:54:28,583 --> 00:54:30,500
I just killed somebody. You gotta get here right away.
1179
00:54:30,542 --> 00:54:32,000
[Recording] Yeah, I'm driving on PCA section
1180
00:54:32,041 --> 00:54:33,875
I just hit a person, I think I just killed a person.
1181
00:54:33,917 --> 00:54:35,500
Operator: All right. I'm gonna help you, sir. Okay?
1182
00:54:35,542 --> 00:54:37,333
Where are you? - It's right near Sycamore.
1183
00:54:37,375 --> 00:54:39,166
You gotta come. Please. - Stay with me, okay?
1184
00:54:39,208 --> 00:54:41,166
I'm gonna stay on the phone with you, all right?
1185
00:54:41,208 --> 00:54:43,000
- Okay, but you gotta get here, you gotta get here fast.
1186
00:54:43,041 --> 00:54:44,875
Please hurry!
1187
00:54:44,917 --> 00:54:47,500
- I ran down the road, this body was in a fetal position,
1188
00:54:48,792 --> 00:54:50,500
and there was blood everywhere.
1189
00:54:50,542 --> 00:54:52,375
Out of the ears, out of the nose, out of the mouth.
1190
00:54:53,917 --> 00:54:56,041
[Sighs] I mean, I-I just destroyed his body.
1191
00:54:56,083 --> 00:54:58,041
All of a sudden I saw like
1192
00:54:58,083 --> 00:55:00,583
his hand just move slightly
1193
00:55:00,625 --> 00:55:03,458
and I thought, oh my God, he's still alive.
1194
00:55:03,500 --> 00:55:05,792
[Rotors beat, siren wails]
1195
00:55:07,000 --> 00:55:09,083
Ambulance is on the way...
1196
00:55:10,917 --> 00:55:12,959
the helicopter lands. All hell is breaking loose.
1197
00:55:15,792 --> 00:55:17,709
They get out the body bag
1198
00:55:17,750 --> 00:55:19,375
because they think the guy is dead.
1199
00:55:19,417 --> 00:55:21,250
[Police radio chatter]
1200
00:55:23,041 --> 00:55:25,375
- Now it's 5 o'clock in the morning.
1201
00:55:25,417 --> 00:55:27,291
He must have had some ID on him. And then they said,
1202
00:55:27,333 --> 00:55:29,542
do you know who that was that you hit, right?
1203
00:55:29,583 --> 00:55:31,291
That was Ben Vereen.
1204
00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:34,250
Newsreel: Ben Vereen-- - Master of the musical
1205
00:55:31,333 --> 00:55:34,250
theatre...
1206
00:55:34,291 --> 00:55:36,166
- Who won a Tony award on Broadway for "Pippin".
1207
00:55:36,208 --> 00:55:38,208
Who was in "Jesus Christ Superstar",
1208
00:55:38,250 --> 00:55:40,709
and "Hair" and "Jelly's Last Jam"
1209
00:55:40,750 --> 00:55:42,583
and starred in "Grind",
1210
00:55:42,625 --> 00:55:44,917
and was so brilliant in that wonderful Bob Fosse movie
1211
00:55:44,959 --> 00:55:47,583
"All That Jazz". Ben Vereen--
1212
00:55:49,625 --> 00:55:51,125
David: Every 60 seconds I would see the impact.
1213
00:55:51,166 --> 00:55:52,959
Like that. Like every minute.
1214
00:55:55,500 --> 00:55:57,250
Ben: I was pretty broken up.
1215
00:55:57,291 --> 00:55:59,709
I got to the hospital and they said it was-
1216
00:55:59,750 --> 00:56:02,083
I was pretty much over. I had a trech.
1217
00:56:02,125 --> 00:56:04,542
This right side was completely stroked.
1218
00:56:04,583 --> 00:56:06,917
My left femur was broken.
1219
00:56:06,959 --> 00:56:09,667
My spleen was taken. I was really a mess.
1220
00:56:09,709 --> 00:56:12,792
- I thought, I'm gonna go to jail.
1221
00:56:12,834 --> 00:56:14,333
I've killed somebody.
1222
00:56:14,375 --> 00:56:16,250
I'm going to jail.
1223
00:56:16,291 --> 00:56:18,375
Three months to the day,
1224
00:56:18,417 --> 00:56:20,041
He rings me up on the phone
1225
00:56:20,083 --> 00:56:23,500
he didn't identify himself. Hello?
1226
00:56:23,542 --> 00:56:26,583
Man that must have been one of your greatest hits ever.
1227
00:56:26,625 --> 00:56:28,375
It was Ben.
1228
00:56:28,417 --> 00:56:31,458
And I knew that, that he was gonna live.
1229
00:56:33,208 --> 00:56:36,125
When he was flown to UCLA they scanned his whole body
1230
00:56:36,166 --> 00:56:38,959
and they saw this subdural hematoma.
1231
00:56:40,917 --> 00:56:42,291
And he was bleeding to death in the brain
1232
00:56:42,333 --> 00:56:44,834
which is why he was acting so crazy,
1233
00:56:44,875 --> 00:56:46,500
standing in the middle of the road.
1234
00:56:46,542 --> 00:56:48,709
The Doctor said that he would have been dead by 7:00 a.m.
1235
00:56:48,750 --> 00:56:50,250
from that aneurysm.
1236
00:56:51,458 --> 00:56:53,667
So the worst moment of my life
1237
00:56:53,709 --> 00:56:56,542
ended up being something
1238
00:56:56,583 --> 00:56:59,041
that weirdly saved his life.
1239
00:57:05,000 --> 00:57:07,083
[Cheering and applause]
1240
00:57:08,542 --> 00:57:11,166
- My goal when I go in the studio with a singer is,
1241
00:57:11,875 --> 00:57:13,959
I believe in my head
1242
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:17,041
that I'm gonna get a better vocal out of this singer,
1243
00:57:17,083 --> 00:57:19,333
than he or she has ever done before,
1244
00:57:19,375 --> 00:57:21,625
or ever will do again.
1245
00:57:24,125 --> 00:57:26,542
I got a tip that this young singer was up in Canada.
1246
00:57:27,917 --> 00:57:29,500
She was already famous in Quebec,
1247
00:57:29,542 --> 00:57:31,959
so I'm not taking any credit for discovering her.
1248
00:57:33,250 --> 00:57:34,917
I flew to Montreal,
1249
00:57:34,959 --> 00:57:37,083
I drove 100 miles in the rain.
1250
00:57:37,125 --> 00:57:39,709
Céline: I was performing in a tent.
1251
00:57:39,750 --> 00:57:41,500
The weather was awful,
1252
00:57:41,542 --> 00:57:43,291
but I could not believe that David Foster
1253
00:57:43,333 --> 00:57:46,041
was going to come and hear me sing that night.
1254
00:57:47,667 --> 00:57:50,250
I'm about to meet one of the greatest producers of all time.
1255
00:57:52,834 --> 00:57:54,750
Tonight?
1256
00:57:54,792 --> 00:57:57,375
He came and he watched the show,
1257
00:57:57,417 --> 00:57:59,375
and then we met after.
1258
00:57:59,417 --> 00:58:01,166
- When I heard her sing,
1259
00:58:04,917 --> 00:58:07,250
it was like that, when you watch a movie,
1260
00:58:07,291 --> 00:58:09,125
and everything just goes...
1261
00:58:10,250 --> 00:58:12,041
[whooshing sound]
1262
00:58:12,083 --> 00:58:14,917
[Singing in French]
1263
00:58:18,500 --> 00:58:21,250
It was her. And her singing.
1264
00:58:21,291 --> 00:58:23,375
And it was just this phenomenal thing, and I went,
1265
00:58:23,417 --> 00:58:25,458
"My God!
1266
00:58:25,500 --> 00:58:28,792
Millions and millions of people are gonna love this woman."
1267
00:58:30,834 --> 00:58:32,792
And they did.
1268
00:58:32,834 --> 00:58:35,291
You are truly remarkable.
1269
00:58:35,333 --> 00:58:37,959
Céline: He said that he would be interested to produce
1270
00:58:38,000 --> 00:58:41,166
a few songs for my first English album.
1271
00:58:41,208 --> 00:58:44,583
I said to myself, "No way, Jose. Na-uh.
1272
00:58:44,625 --> 00:58:47,166
I'm gonna believe this thing when it happens."
1273
00:58:48,750 --> 00:58:50,125
♪ The voice ♪
1274
00:58:50,166 --> 00:58:52,792
♪ You are the life ♪
1275
00:58:59,875 --> 00:59:01,625
David: Oh God, you sing great.
1276
00:59:01,667 --> 00:59:03,417
- Really?
1277
00:59:03,458 --> 00:59:05,583
I couldn't believe that David was like,
1278
00:59:05,625 --> 00:59:07,959
about to produce with an unknown singer,
1279
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:09,667
first English album. I couldn't believe it.
1280
00:59:11,625 --> 00:59:14,041
♪ Those days are gone ♪
1281
00:59:14,083 --> 00:59:17,792
♪♪♪
1282
00:59:17,834 --> 00:59:19,417
♪ Livin' alone ♪
1283
00:59:21,333 --> 00:59:24,667
♪ I think of all the friends I've known ♪
1284
00:59:27,750 --> 00:59:30,792
♪ But when I dial the telephone ♪
1285
00:59:33,250 --> 00:59:35,875
♪ Nobody's home ♪
1286
00:59:35,917 --> 00:59:44,291
♪♪♪
1287
00:59:44,333 --> 00:59:48,166
♪ All by myself ♪
1288
00:59:48,208 --> 00:59:50,000
Céline: It was hard.
1289
00:59:50,041 --> 00:59:51,166
I was very shy.
1290
00:59:52,792 --> 00:59:54,625
I wanted to impress David.
1291
00:59:56,667 --> 00:59:59,375
To show him that the chance that he was giving me,
1292
00:59:59,417 --> 01:00:01,750
that I was not gonna blow it away.
1293
01:00:01,792 --> 01:00:03,750
That I was not going to disappoint him.
1294
01:00:05,166 --> 01:00:07,709
David: So, I came up with this impossible note
1295
01:00:07,750 --> 01:00:09,041
for Céline to sing.
1296
01:00:09,083 --> 01:00:11,583
So loud, so high,
1297
01:00:11,625 --> 01:00:14,000
so long, so ridiculous.
1298
01:00:14,041 --> 01:00:16,959
♪ All by myself ♪
1299
01:00:18,583 --> 01:00:21,583
♪ Anymore ♪
1300
01:00:21,625 --> 01:00:29,792
♪♪♪
1301
01:00:29,834 --> 01:00:32,125
The horrible story is, that she did it once,
1302
01:00:32,166 --> 01:00:34,250
and it was pretty much perfect.
1303
01:00:35,500 --> 01:00:37,917
Then I made her to do it seven more times.
1304
01:00:37,959 --> 01:00:40,083
- Well, his name is David Foster,
1305
01:00:40,125 --> 01:00:42,125
and he was very right,
1306
01:00:42,166 --> 01:00:43,583
and that's why he's one of the greatest.
1307
01:00:43,625 --> 01:00:47,166
And it's true, it was great.
1308
01:00:47,208 --> 01:00:49,750
- As I recall, what I said to her was jokingly,
1309
01:00:49,792 --> 01:00:51,875
"If you can't hold the note
1310
01:00:51,917 --> 01:00:53,875
as long as I need you to hold it,
1311
01:00:53,917 --> 01:00:55,792
Whitney Houston is down in Studio C,
1312
01:00:55,834 --> 01:00:58,000
I'll get her to come in and hold the note for you."
1313
01:00:58,041 --> 01:00:59,750
As a joke.
1314
01:00:59,792 --> 01:01:01,417
It was one of the days that she really hated me.
1315
01:01:01,458 --> 01:01:03,208
I know that.
1316
01:01:03,250 --> 01:01:04,792
Céline: When you start to work with him,
1317
01:01:04,834 --> 01:01:06,667
you never sit down.
1318
01:01:06,709 --> 01:01:09,959
David knows exactly what he's looking for.
1319
01:01:11,333 --> 01:01:13,208
He knows what he wants,
1320
01:01:13,250 --> 01:01:15,125
and he's gonna push you.
1321
01:01:17,667 --> 01:01:19,667
He brings the best out of you.
1322
01:01:21,333 --> 01:01:24,208
We just have to jump in the train with him and trust him.
1323
01:01:25,458 --> 01:01:27,917
You trust, or you leave.
1324
01:01:27,959 --> 01:01:30,250
♪ All by myself ♪
1325
01:01:32,166 --> 01:01:35,125
♪ Anymore ♪
1326
01:01:35,166 --> 01:01:41,125
♪♪♪
1327
01:01:41,166 --> 01:01:44,625
♪♪♪
1328
01:01:44,667 --> 01:01:46,959
[Crowd cheering]
1329
01:01:47,000 --> 01:01:53,000
♪♪♪
1330
01:01:53,041 --> 01:01:56,500
♪ All by myself ♪
1331
01:01:56,542 --> 01:01:58,542
- Many of my songs
1332
01:01:58,583 --> 01:02:01,166
were all produced or written
1333
01:02:01,208 --> 01:02:03,125
by a good friend of mine.
1334
01:02:03,166 --> 01:02:04,834
[Cheering]
1335
01:02:04,875 --> 01:02:07,792
Ladies and gentlemen, David Foster.
1336
01:02:07,834 --> 01:02:09,834
[Cheering]
1337
01:02:09,875 --> 01:02:13,083
♪ For all those times you stood by me ♪
1338
01:02:13,125 --> 01:02:16,959
♪ For all the truth that you made me see ♪
1339
01:02:17,000 --> 01:02:21,083
♪ For all the joy you brought to my life ♪
1340
01:02:21,125 --> 01:02:23,333
I wanted to take this opportunity tonight,
1341
01:02:23,375 --> 01:02:25,750
to thank you for everything that you've done for me.
1342
01:02:25,792 --> 01:02:28,542
♪ For every dream you made come true ♪
1343
01:02:28,583 --> 01:02:30,667
For my life, my career,
1344
01:02:30,709 --> 01:02:32,500
you've been the first one helping me out.
1345
01:02:32,542 --> 01:02:34,375
You were there for me,
1346
01:02:34,417 --> 01:02:37,625
and for me to have you on this stage tonight,
1347
01:02:37,667 --> 01:02:39,250
is more than a thrill.
1348
01:02:39,291 --> 01:02:40,959
[Cheering]
1349
01:02:41,000 --> 01:02:42,959
♪ Ohhhhh... ♪
1350
01:02:43,000 --> 01:02:44,667
♪ You were my strength when I was weak ♪
1351
01:02:46,083 --> 01:02:47,583
♪ You were my voice ♪
1352
01:02:47,625 --> 01:02:50,125
- David is a classy act. He does classy songs.
1353
01:02:52,917 --> 01:02:55,834
You might have a big, big, big song
1354
01:02:55,875 --> 01:02:58,000
that will give you a life for the rest of your life.
1355
01:02:59,458 --> 01:03:01,250
You might have a career.
1356
01:03:04,041 --> 01:03:07,208
David wants songs that live forever.
1357
01:03:07,250 --> 01:03:10,625
♪ I'm everything I am ♪
1358
01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:18,750
♪ Because you loved me ♪
1359
01:03:22,959 --> 01:03:25,625
[Cheering and applause]
1360
01:03:27,875 --> 01:03:29,792
- For a guy that said two years ago
1361
01:03:29,834 --> 01:03:31,792
that I wasn't gonna make records anymore, which I did,
1362
01:03:31,834 --> 01:03:33,542
and other than the Michael Bublé record,
1363
01:03:33,583 --> 01:03:35,041
I have stuck to my guns,
1364
01:03:35,083 --> 01:03:36,792
that's the only record I've made in two years.
1365
01:03:36,834 --> 01:03:39,333
- He doesn't know about holidays.
1366
01:03:39,375 --> 01:03:40,500
"Oh David, it's Easter." He's like, "What?
1367
01:03:40,542 --> 01:03:41,917
I don't care, we're working today."
1368
01:03:41,959 --> 01:03:43,875
- For a guy that doesn't wanna make records anymore,
1369
01:03:43,917 --> 01:03:46,375
I still seem to be pretty damn busy. It's crazy.
1370
01:03:46,417 --> 01:03:47,959
- You're very busy.
1371
01:03:48,000 --> 01:03:49,834
[Cheering and applause]
1372
01:03:49,875 --> 01:03:52,667
[Rhythmic finger snapping, music plays]
1373
01:03:52,709 --> 01:03:55,542
- I believe that music is full of slots that are available.
1374
01:03:55,583 --> 01:03:58,542
The Michael Bublé slot was wide open.
1375
01:03:58,583 --> 01:04:00,542
Everybody else that made that kind of music was dead.
1376
01:04:02,333 --> 01:04:03,959
Michael: I had been told
1377
01:04:04,000 --> 01:04:05,375
that the Prime Minister's daughter was getting married,
1378
01:04:05,417 --> 01:04:07,333
and that they were friends with David Foster,
1379
01:04:07,375 --> 01:04:10,291
and that the great David would be at the wedding.
1380
01:04:10,333 --> 01:04:13,125
David: Brian Mulroney, the ex-Prime Minister of Canada,
1381
01:04:13,166 --> 01:04:15,000
was having a wedding for his daughter.
1382
01:04:15,041 --> 01:04:16,542
He's saying, you've gotta hear this guy
1383
01:04:16,583 --> 01:04:19,041
that's about to sing at our wedding. He's amazing.
1384
01:04:19,083 --> 01:04:22,000
Brian: When we arrived at the wedding, I said to David,
1385
01:04:22,041 --> 01:04:24,041
"David, I want you to listen to this guy
1386
01:04:24,083 --> 01:04:26,041
who's gonna come up and sing now."
1387
01:04:26,083 --> 01:04:27,583
- I said, "Oh great, great."
1388
01:04:27,625 --> 01:04:29,917
And he says, "Come on up to the front, he's about to sing."
1389
01:04:29,959 --> 01:04:31,500
- Foster says to me,
1390
01:04:31,542 --> 01:04:33,959
"Prime Minister, look it, this is what I do for a living.
1391
01:04:34,000 --> 01:04:36,083
I'm fed up with this."
1392
01:04:36,125 --> 01:04:38,333
- This guy walks out, good-looking guy, right,
1393
01:04:38,375 --> 01:04:39,542
and he goes, [rhythmic snaps]
1394
01:04:41,500 --> 01:04:43,959
["Fever" plays]
1395
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:46,166
Everything closes in on him.
1396
01:04:50,083 --> 01:04:51,834
It's like in the movies, you know,
1397
01:04:51,875 --> 01:04:54,125
everything goes away. All the noise of the wedding,
1398
01:04:54,166 --> 01:04:56,709
the dishes, the clanging,
1399
01:04:56,750 --> 01:04:58,709
the conversation,
1400
01:04:58,750 --> 01:05:01,375
and all I could see was Michael Bublé.
1401
01:05:02,667 --> 01:05:04,583
♪ Never know how much I love you ♪
1402
01:05:06,041 --> 01:05:08,041
- I looked over,
1403
01:05:08,083 --> 01:05:10,041
I could see the Honourable Brian Mulroney,
1404
01:05:10,083 --> 01:05:12,542
and he kind of had David under his arm,
1405
01:05:12,583 --> 01:05:15,083
kind of saying, "Look at this kid, David."
1406
01:05:15,125 --> 01:05:16,959
Brian: And I said no, "I'm about to do you
1407
01:05:17,000 --> 01:05:18,875
the biggest favour of your life."
1408
01:05:18,917 --> 01:05:21,917
He sounded like a cross between
1409
01:05:21,959 --> 01:05:24,041
Frank Sinatra and Bobby Darin.
1410
01:05:24,083 --> 01:05:25,667
- He was a crooner.
1411
01:05:25,709 --> 01:05:28,041
He could do the-the fast tempos.
1412
01:05:28,083 --> 01:05:29,834
He was quite-- - Yeah, really.
1413
01:05:29,875 --> 01:05:31,333
- He was quite somebody.
1414
01:05:33,333 --> 01:05:35,875
Brian: I knew right away, this guy was something special.
1415
01:05:35,917 --> 01:05:37,542
David: And I told him that night,
1416
01:05:37,583 --> 01:05:39,709
"I'm bringing you to Los Angeles,
1417
01:05:39,750 --> 01:05:41,750
here's $5,000 to pay off your bills,
1418
01:05:41,792 --> 01:05:44,125
you're moving into my guest house,
1419
01:05:44,166 --> 01:05:46,000
and you're not leaving until we make a record."
1420
01:05:46,041 --> 01:05:47,917
Michael: David came up to me, he said,
1421
01:05:47,959 --> 01:05:50,458
"Hey, Mike man, you got your own lane.
1422
01:05:50,500 --> 01:05:52,500
You wanna come down to LA?
1423
01:05:52,542 --> 01:05:54,166
Maybe we could work on some stuff?"
1424
01:05:54,208 --> 01:05:55,917
I remember going home that night,
1425
01:05:55,959 --> 01:05:58,083
calling my Grandpa,
1426
01:05:58,125 --> 01:05:59,917
jumping up and down in the hallway,
1427
01:05:59,959 --> 01:06:02,834
because I had met, honestly, one of the greatest ever,
1428
01:06:02,875 --> 01:06:04,750
and uh, he liked me.
1429
01:06:04,792 --> 01:06:07,125
- Very exciting day today, because we're doing strings,
1430
01:06:07,166 --> 01:06:08,917
which actually Michael has nothing to do with and...
1431
01:06:08,959 --> 01:06:11,125
gotta go to work.
1432
01:06:11,166 --> 01:06:13,041
- The first time that we worked together,
1433
01:06:13,083 --> 01:06:14,875
I was just a kid who couldn't believe that he was there.
1434
01:06:14,917 --> 01:06:17,041
I was a massive fan.
1435
01:06:18,458 --> 01:06:20,834
Musically, it was huge for me.
1436
01:06:20,875 --> 01:06:23,917
Every day that I went home with rough demos,
1437
01:06:23,959 --> 01:06:25,667
they were so much better
1438
01:06:25,709 --> 01:06:28,208
than I had ever heard before.
1439
01:06:28,250 --> 01:06:29,750
♪ Well, it's a new dawn ♪
1440
01:06:29,792 --> 01:06:31,250
[Orchestra sting]
1441
01:06:31,291 --> 01:06:32,792
♪ It's a new day ♪
1442
01:06:32,834 --> 01:06:34,625
[Orchestra sting]
1443
01:06:34,667 --> 01:06:37,000
♪ It's a new life ♪
1444
01:06:37,041 --> 01:06:38,417
[Orchestra sting]
1445
01:06:38,458 --> 01:06:40,667
♪ For me ♪
1446
01:06:45,834 --> 01:06:49,875
♪ And I'm feeling good ♪
1447
01:06:49,917 --> 01:06:54,959
♪♪♪
1448
01:06:55,000 --> 01:06:57,208
There was no business here.
1449
01:06:57,250 --> 01:06:59,417
Business did not come into this relationship.
1450
01:06:59,458 --> 01:07:01,041
This was all personal.
1451
01:07:04,083 --> 01:07:05,750
♪ Fish in the sea ♪
1452
01:07:07,417 --> 01:07:09,875
I had cornered him, and I said, "Listen,
1453
01:07:09,917 --> 01:07:12,333
I think we're doing something special here.
1454
01:07:12,375 --> 01:07:14,083
Take me to Warner Bros.,
1455
01:07:14,125 --> 01:07:15,792
let me play my case.
1456
01:07:15,834 --> 01:07:17,917
If they don't sign me, I will never bother you again."
1457
01:07:17,959 --> 01:07:20,208
And four days later,
1458
01:07:20,250 --> 01:07:23,417
he called me and he said, quote,
1459
01:07:25,542 --> 01:07:27,375
"Let's see what a 25-year-old fuck
1460
01:07:27,417 --> 01:07:29,000
knows about the record business."
1461
01:07:29,041 --> 01:07:32,375
♪♪♪
1462
01:07:32,417 --> 01:07:34,542
The president of Warner Bros., Tom Whalley,
1463
01:07:34,583 --> 01:07:35,875
looked at me and he said,
1464
01:07:35,917 --> 01:07:37,500
"Hello, Michael, why should we sign you?
1465
01:07:37,542 --> 01:07:39,375
We have Sinatra on Reprise."
1466
01:07:39,417 --> 01:07:41,959
And I said, "With all due respect, Mr. Whalley,
1467
01:07:42,000 --> 01:07:43,458
Sinatra's dead."
1468
01:07:43,500 --> 01:07:45,917
♪♪♪
1469
01:07:45,959 --> 01:07:48,291
I said, "Give me a chance. I'll work my ass off for you.
1470
01:07:48,333 --> 01:07:50,041
I love this music,
1471
01:07:50,083 --> 01:07:52,166
and there's no reason why it shouldn't be kept alive."
1472
01:07:54,166 --> 01:07:56,166
Who the fuck was I? I was 25-years-old.
1473
01:07:57,500 --> 01:08:00,208
David literally put his future on the line.
1474
01:08:01,625 --> 01:08:03,625
A few days after that, I got a phone call.
1475
01:08:03,667 --> 01:08:06,458
David Foster said, "Hey, Mike man."
1476
01:08:06,500 --> 01:08:07,917
I said, "Hi, David."
1477
01:08:07,959 --> 01:08:10,208
He said, "I wanna welcome you
1478
01:08:10,250 --> 01:08:12,333
to the family of Warner Bros. You're gonna be okay."
1479
01:08:12,750 --> 01:08:15,333
♪ Stars when you shine ♪
1480
01:08:15,375 --> 01:08:17,875
Announcer: And the award goes to Michael Bublé.
1481
01:08:17,917 --> 01:08:19,959
[Cheering and applause]
1482
01:08:20,000 --> 01:08:22,709
Announcer: Juno goes to Michael Bublé.
1483
01:08:22,750 --> 01:08:24,834
Announcer: It is Michael Bublé. Michael, come on up.
1484
01:08:24,875 --> 01:08:26,875
Announcer: Michael Bublé.
1485
01:08:26,917 --> 01:08:29,083
- And please welcome, Michael Bublé.
1486
01:08:29,125 --> 01:08:30,875
[Cheering and applause]
1487
01:08:30,917 --> 01:08:32,667
♪ Well, it's a new dawn ♪
1488
01:08:32,709 --> 01:08:34,458
♪ It's a new day ♪
1489
01:08:34,500 --> 01:08:36,000
♪ It's new life ♪
1490
01:08:36,041 --> 01:08:38,083
♪♪♪
1491
01:08:38,125 --> 01:08:40,583
♪ It's a new dawn It's a new day ♪
1492
01:08:40,625 --> 01:08:42,291
♪ It's a new life ♪
1493
01:08:43,458 --> 01:08:45,458
David: The bottom line is,
1494
01:08:45,500 --> 01:08:47,291
he's a national treasure for Canada.
1495
01:08:47,333 --> 01:08:50,583
He knows what he wants, he knows who he is,
1496
01:08:50,625 --> 01:08:53,375
and I think we're a great working combination.
1497
01:08:54,583 --> 01:08:56,000
I see no end in sight.
1498
01:08:58,458 --> 01:09:00,875
To have spent the last 17, 18 years with him,
1499
01:09:00,917 --> 01:09:03,417
has been amazing.
1500
01:09:04,542 --> 01:09:06,458
- We have become...
1501
01:09:06,500 --> 01:09:08,417
I mean, brothers.
1502
01:09:09,792 --> 01:09:11,917
There's a deep emotional attachment and loyalty
1503
01:09:13,458 --> 01:09:16,125
because I love him, you know.
1504
01:09:16,166 --> 01:09:17,875
[Jazz music plays]
1505
01:09:17,917 --> 01:09:23,458
♪♪♪
1506
01:09:23,500 --> 01:09:25,792
- David fuckin' Foster! - All right.
1507
01:09:27,291 --> 01:09:29,667
Tommy: It is the street of broken dreams.
1508
01:09:29,709 --> 01:09:32,834
I say to everybody, making music, for us,
1509
01:09:32,875 --> 01:09:35,625
is kindergarten compared to the challenges
1510
01:09:35,667 --> 01:09:37,208
you have to overcome on Broadway.
1511
01:09:37,250 --> 01:09:39,291
David: On Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays,
1512
01:09:39,333 --> 01:09:42,834
I wake up and I think that I am the greatest thing ever.
1513
01:09:42,875 --> 01:09:45,458
On Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays,
1514
01:09:45,500 --> 01:09:47,917
I think I suck and that I haven't accomplished anything,
1515
01:09:47,959 --> 01:09:49,500
and that I'd better get to it,
1516
01:09:49,542 --> 01:09:51,792
and that I'm a fake, and I'm a fraud.
1517
01:09:51,834 --> 01:09:53,959
And on Sundays, I don't think about it at all.
1518
01:09:54,000 --> 01:09:56,083
And that is the truth.
1519
01:09:56,125 --> 01:09:58,291
- The first idea was the opening.
1520
01:09:58,333 --> 01:10:01,500
And maybe it starts with a scene. And then the two kids--
1521
01:10:01,542 --> 01:10:04,083
- Not having complete control was very difficult for me.
1522
01:10:04,125 --> 01:10:06,875
My most success has come
1523
01:10:06,917 --> 01:10:09,417
when I'm completely in charge and left alone.
1524
01:10:09,458 --> 01:10:11,125
So of course, I went into Broadway
1525
01:10:11,166 --> 01:10:12,834
with that same attitude, going like,
1526
01:10:12,875 --> 01:10:14,750
leave me alone, let me do my thing.
1527
01:10:14,792 --> 01:10:18,000
But Broadway's a very different collaborative process.
1528
01:10:18,041 --> 01:10:19,750
Kelly: It's an adventure.
1529
01:10:19,792 --> 01:10:21,291
You just start from the beginning,
1530
01:10:21,333 --> 01:10:23,709
and you just start laying bricks, and go from there.
1531
01:10:23,750 --> 01:10:25,041
David: Write a song, get it thrown out.
1532
01:10:25,083 --> 01:10:26,709
Write another song, get it thrown out.
1533
01:10:26,750 --> 01:10:27,959
Write 30 songs, get them all thrown out.
1534
01:10:28,000 --> 01:10:29,625
Start again. New script.
1535
01:10:29,667 --> 01:10:31,709
- You know what David Foster's never done?
1536
01:10:31,750 --> 01:10:33,875
He's never put himself in a box.
1537
01:10:33,917 --> 01:10:36,792
If he hears a Broadway singer, he goes for it.
1538
01:10:36,834 --> 01:10:38,625
Dare I say,
1539
01:10:38,667 --> 01:10:41,250
that people would see a new side of David Foster.
1540
01:10:41,291 --> 01:10:43,458
- Write 10 more songs, third new script,
1541
01:10:43,500 --> 01:10:44,792
fourth new script, new story here.
1542
01:10:44,834 --> 01:10:46,375
Now she goes to Hollywood.
1543
01:10:46,417 --> 01:10:49,041
And it was just... it was just insanity.
1544
01:10:49,083 --> 01:10:52,083
I always like to say, how many summers do you have left?
1545
01:10:52,125 --> 01:10:54,792
At age 68, if I get really lucky,
1546
01:10:54,834 --> 01:10:58,166
I have maybe 15 summers left, and that's not a lot.
1547
01:10:58,208 --> 01:10:59,834
That's a very finite number.
1548
01:11:01,875 --> 01:11:04,667
But I'm not leaving until I get something on Broadway.
1549
01:11:04,709 --> 01:11:08,000
♪♪♪
1550
01:11:10,125 --> 01:11:14,542
♪♪♪
1551
01:11:14,583 --> 01:11:17,375
Carole: We were just writing for this little girl
1552
01:11:17,417 --> 01:11:20,542
that was going forth into the big forest,
1553
01:11:20,583 --> 01:11:23,000
so I said, well, let's write a little prayer.
1554
01:11:24,500 --> 01:11:27,291
We wanted Céline to be the mother's voice in the film,
1555
01:11:30,125 --> 01:11:31,959
and she said yes.
1556
01:11:32,000 --> 01:11:33,792
David: So it was called "A Mother's Prayer."
1557
01:11:33,834 --> 01:11:35,500
It was a beautiful piece of music,
1558
01:11:35,542 --> 01:11:37,291
and the music supervisor on the movie said,
1559
01:11:37,333 --> 01:11:39,291
you know, "You should turn that into a bigger song."
1560
01:11:39,333 --> 01:11:41,792
- I said, "David we have to find something
1561
01:11:41,834 --> 01:11:43,792
for the song to be heard."
1562
01:11:43,834 --> 01:11:46,291
I don't even know how we got to Bocelli,
1563
01:11:46,333 --> 01:11:48,667
but I do remember being in New York with David,
1564
01:11:48,709 --> 01:11:50,917
and Bocelli was singing,
1565
01:11:50,959 --> 01:11:52,959
and I thought, "Wow."
1566
01:11:53,000 --> 01:11:58,750
♪♪♪
1567
01:11:58,792 --> 01:12:01,041
- No chorus yet. Nothing.
1568
01:12:01,083 --> 01:12:03,125
Andrea and I have made records for the last
1569
01:12:03,166 --> 01:12:04,917
20 plus years together.
1570
01:12:04,959 --> 01:12:07,375
- Andrea Bocelli!
1571
01:12:07,417 --> 01:12:09,458
[Cheering and applause]
1572
01:12:11,792 --> 01:12:16,250
[Singing in Italian]
1573
01:12:17,458 --> 01:12:22,458
♪♪♪
1574
01:12:27,875 --> 01:12:31,041
- Andrea Bocelli is one of the most spectacular voice
1575
01:12:31,083 --> 01:12:33,083
of all time.
1576
01:12:33,125 --> 01:12:35,500
What an amazing artist.
1577
01:12:35,542 --> 01:12:37,500
What a greatest honour for me,
1578
01:12:37,542 --> 01:12:39,333
that they considered me to sing
1579
01:12:39,375 --> 01:12:41,625
one of the most beautiful songs.
1580
01:12:43,458 --> 01:12:45,291
David: So I wrote the B section,
1581
01:12:45,333 --> 01:12:47,333
and then the extended verse.
1582
01:12:47,375 --> 01:12:49,291
Finished Céline's vocal,
1583
01:12:49,333 --> 01:12:51,792
then I brought Bocelli in into to New York,
1584
01:12:51,834 --> 01:12:53,875
put him on Céline's vocal,
1585
01:12:53,917 --> 01:12:56,291
and I think we made magic.
1586
01:12:56,333 --> 01:12:59,417
♪ I pray you'll be all right ♪
1587
01:13:02,875 --> 01:13:05,625
♪ And watch us where we go ♪
1588
01:13:09,208 --> 01:13:11,250
Céline: This is not a hit song,
1589
01:13:11,291 --> 01:13:13,333
this is a moment.
1590
01:13:13,375 --> 01:13:16,875
This is a song that will live forever,
1591
01:13:16,917 --> 01:13:18,959
and that's what David does.
1592
01:13:19,000 --> 01:13:20,709
That's his forte.
1593
01:13:22,667 --> 01:13:27,166
[Speaking Italian] I did not imagine it would
1594
01:13:22,667 --> 01:13:27,166
become what it has become
1595
01:13:27,208 --> 01:13:32,083
with David's arrangement and Celine's great performance.
1596
01:13:33,291 --> 01:13:35,125
It is without a doubt a great song
1597
01:13:35,166 --> 01:13:38,166
but every great song also needs all the ingredients to be
1598
01:13:35,166 --> 01:13:38,166
included.
1599
01:13:38,208 --> 01:13:41,208
It needs a great arranger and great singers.
1600
01:13:42,208 --> 01:13:46,208
For the song to become a masterpiece, nothing can be left
1601
01:13:42,208 --> 01:13:46,208
out.
1602
01:13:46,250 --> 01:13:50,375
♪ To a place where we'll be safe ♪
1603
01:13:54,709 --> 01:13:58,083
♪ La luce che tu hai ♪
1604
01:13:58,125 --> 01:14:00,959
♪ I pray we'll find your light ♪
1605
01:14:01,000 --> 01:14:04,041
♪ Nel cuore resterà ♪
1606
01:14:04,083 --> 01:14:07,333
♪ And hold it in our hearts ♪
1607
01:14:07,375 --> 01:14:10,125
♪ A ricordarci che ♪
1608
01:14:10,166 --> 01:14:13,375
♪ When stars go out each night ♪
1609
01:14:13,417 --> 01:14:16,333
♪ Eterna stella sei ♪
1610
01:14:17,667 --> 01:14:20,125
♪ Ohhhh... ♪
1611
01:14:20,166 --> 01:14:22,750
- From this movie that embarrassed Warner Bros.
1612
01:14:22,792 --> 01:14:24,625
and cost them a lot of money,
1613
01:14:24,667 --> 01:14:27,000
came this song that has its own life
1614
01:14:27,041 --> 01:14:29,125
and is heard today.
1615
01:14:29,166 --> 01:14:32,792
It just found its way into our popular culture.
1616
01:14:36,583 --> 01:14:38,125
David: It was the Grammys,
1617
01:14:38,166 --> 01:14:40,250
and Bocelli was not able to make the rehearsal,
1618
01:14:40,291 --> 01:14:42,333
so I needed to find somebody to do his part
1619
01:14:42,375 --> 01:14:44,750
on "The Prayer" with Céline, for rehearsal.
1620
01:14:46,834 --> 01:14:48,166
So I called my friend, Seth Riggs,
1621
01:14:48,208 --> 01:14:50,125
who's a great vocal coach.
1622
01:14:50,166 --> 01:14:52,291
- Middle, middle, chest, chest,
1623
01:14:52,333 --> 01:14:54,208
middle, middle. Head voice.
1624
01:14:54,250 --> 01:14:56,083
David: I said, "Seth, do you have anybody
1625
01:14:56,125 --> 01:14:58,542
that happens to sound like Andrea Bocelli?"
1626
01:14:58,583 --> 01:15:00,750
He said, "Oh yeah, I got like 5 or 10 guys
1627
01:15:00,792 --> 01:15:02,208
that sound like him."
1628
01:15:02,250 --> 01:15:04,041
He sends me a cassette tape.
1629
01:15:04,083 --> 01:15:07,083
The first three, they're just miserable,
1630
01:15:07,125 --> 01:15:09,291
like just so awful.
1631
01:15:09,333 --> 01:15:11,125
Gets to the fourth one,
1632
01:15:11,166 --> 01:15:13,250
and it's a 17-year-old Josh Groban.
1633
01:15:13,291 --> 01:15:15,125
See, what's been happening is,
1634
01:15:15,166 --> 01:15:17,417
that's been a lot of people that have been so nice.
1635
01:15:17,458 --> 01:15:18,917
- [Laughs]
1636
01:15:18,959 --> 01:15:20,750
- And I think that the thing for you to do,
1637
01:15:20,792 --> 01:15:23,125
would be to not be nice. - Oh, got it. [Laughs]
1638
01:15:24,834 --> 01:15:26,166
I was a Sondheim fanatic,
1639
01:15:26,208 --> 01:15:28,125
I was an Andrew Lloyd Weber fanatic,
1640
01:15:28,166 --> 01:15:29,709
I was singing along at the top of my lungs
1641
01:15:29,750 --> 01:15:31,667
to "Les Misérables" in my bedroom, and closing the door.
1642
01:15:33,000 --> 01:15:34,125
David: I call Seth and I say,
1643
01:15:34,166 --> 01:15:36,041
"I gotta have his phone number."
1644
01:15:36,083 --> 01:15:37,750
Josh: The first call I ever got from David,
1645
01:15:37,792 --> 01:15:40,542
"What are you doing such and such date, 3:00 p.m.?"
1646
01:15:40,583 --> 01:15:43,208
I said, "Uh, school, you know."
1647
01:15:43,250 --> 01:15:45,083
"I need you to leave a little early,
1648
01:15:45,125 --> 01:15:46,834
because I need you to be at the Shrine Auditorium.
1649
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:48,959
I've written a song, it's called "The Prayer".
1650
01:15:49,000 --> 01:15:50,709
It's nominated for a Grammy.
1651
01:15:50,750 --> 01:15:52,500
Andrea missed a flight, he's in Germany,
1652
01:15:52,542 --> 01:15:54,792
he can't get on a plane, and I need you to come
1653
01:15:54,834 --> 01:15:56,250
and sing it with Céline until he gets here.
1654
01:15:56,291 --> 01:15:58,250
- And he goes, "Oh I can't, I can't do that."
1655
01:15:58,291 --> 01:16:02,083
- This is where the naiveté bit me in the ass.
1656
01:16:02,125 --> 01:16:03,792
- I said, "Why not?" He said, "Oh, I'm a baritone,
1657
01:16:03,834 --> 01:16:05,750
I can't hit those high notes."
1658
01:16:05,792 --> 01:16:07,750
- When he says I want you to sing this song, "The Prayer"
1659
01:16:07,792 --> 01:16:10,041
I'm listening to it, I've got the CD of it,
1660
01:16:10,083 --> 01:16:11,500
and I'm going, I can't. This is...
1661
01:16:11,542 --> 01:16:13,792
this is, how tight of pants do I have to wear
1662
01:16:13,834 --> 01:16:16,291
to actually accomplish this song for you?
1663
01:16:16,333 --> 01:16:18,750
- Not only can you, but you're going to,
1664
01:16:18,792 --> 01:16:20,917
because I have no other choice,
1665
01:16:20,959 --> 01:16:23,250
because there's nobody else but you,
1666
01:16:23,291 --> 01:16:25,041
and we're down to the 11th hour.
1667
01:16:25,083 --> 01:16:26,959
- Thank you, but I've got homework to finish.
1668
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:28,792
Thank you so much, I love you, thank you so much.
1669
01:16:28,834 --> 01:16:30,291
And I hung up the phone.
1670
01:16:30,333 --> 01:16:32,500
And I'm telling my parents, "Oh, who was that?"
1671
01:16:32,542 --> 01:16:35,375
"Oh, that was David Foster." "Oh! Oh, he called you?"
1672
01:16:35,417 --> 01:16:37,375
"Yes, yeah, he called me.
1673
01:16:37,417 --> 01:16:39,291
Crazy thing, you're not gonna believe this,
1674
01:16:39,333 --> 01:16:41,208
he asked me to sing 'The Prayer'.
1675
01:16:41,250 --> 01:16:42,750
You've heard 'The Prayer' right? I mean, it's so high.
1676
01:16:42,792 --> 01:16:44,917
So I didn't wanna embarrass myself. There's no way.
1677
01:16:44,959 --> 01:16:46,750
I-I just, right guys? Right? Right?"
1678
01:16:46,792 --> 01:16:49,083
And my parents are just looking at me blankly,
1679
01:16:49,125 --> 01:16:51,333
and just blinking, and they're just going, "Mhmm, yeah,
1680
01:16:51,375 --> 01:16:53,333
but you told him no?" "Yeah, yeah, yeah,
1681
01:16:53,375 --> 01:16:55,125
I told him no." Thankfully he called back.
1682
01:16:55,166 --> 01:16:56,917
"I-I don't think you heard me very clearly,
1683
01:16:56,959 --> 01:16:58,500
like I'm not asking you, I'm telling you.
1684
01:16:58,542 --> 01:17:00,750
Get your ass to the Shrine Auditorium, 3:00 p.m.
1685
01:17:00,792 --> 01:17:02,125
You'll do great! You'll do great!"
1686
01:17:04,542 --> 01:17:06,250
David: He shows up the next morning, nervous as heck.
1687
01:17:06,291 --> 01:17:08,166
His parents drove him.
1688
01:17:08,208 --> 01:17:10,083
David: And I'm there with my dad,
1689
01:17:10,125 --> 01:17:11,917
I'm walking around the stage, I'm looking around,
1690
01:17:11,959 --> 01:17:14,333
there is Aerosmith, there is Madonna.
1691
01:17:14,375 --> 01:17:16,125
[Sings note]
1692
01:17:16,166 --> 01:17:18,166
I'm walking around, Céline comes in.
1693
01:17:18,208 --> 01:17:20,208
"Oh, this is, this is Josh, he'll be singing it with you."
1694
01:17:20,250 --> 01:17:22,375
I'm going, "Hello." And she's going,
1695
01:17:23,875 --> 01:17:25,875
"Oh. Oh okay. [kiss sounds]
1696
01:17:25,917 --> 01:17:27,458
Okay. Yeah. Oh, Okay. Great."
1697
01:17:27,500 --> 01:17:29,208
And like [snap] she got it, she instantly got it.
1698
01:17:29,250 --> 01:17:31,542
Oh! Oh, David. Oh. Oh.
1699
01:17:31,583 --> 01:17:33,500
David's giving this kid an opportunity.
1700
01:17:33,542 --> 01:17:35,000
Got it.
1701
01:17:36,667 --> 01:17:38,208
David: You could see it on YouTube.
1702
01:17:38,250 --> 01:17:40,458
His father, Jack, took a video tape,
1703
01:17:40,500 --> 01:17:42,834
and to Céline's great credit,
1704
01:17:42,875 --> 01:17:44,834
she took such good care of him.
1705
01:17:47,000 --> 01:17:49,250
- She immediately understood, without missing a beat,
1706
01:17:49,291 --> 01:17:51,792
this is special for him.
1707
01:17:51,834 --> 01:17:54,041
David: So, she's now the pro.
1708
01:17:54,083 --> 01:17:56,583
She wasn't the 19-year-old that I had seen up in Quebec.
1709
01:17:56,625 --> 01:17:58,625
And he was so nervous.
1710
01:17:58,667 --> 01:18:00,125
- I'm holding this thing in my hand...
1711
01:18:00,166 --> 01:18:02,792
♪ La luce, la luce che tu hai ♪
1712
01:18:02,834 --> 01:18:05,000
and she's going, and she takes my hand,
1713
01:18:05,041 --> 01:18:07,417
and we move up to the front,
1714
01:18:07,458 --> 01:18:09,792
and she's just holding that hand.
1715
01:18:09,834 --> 01:18:12,875
♪ La luce che tu hai ♪
1716
01:18:12,917 --> 01:18:15,667
♪ Nel cuore resterà ♪
1717
01:18:15,709 --> 01:18:18,458
♪ And hold it in our hearts ♪
1718
01:18:18,500 --> 01:18:20,333
♪ A ricordarci che ♪
1719
01:18:21,542 --> 01:18:24,458
♪ When stars go out each night ♪
1720
01:18:24,500 --> 01:18:27,041
♪ Eterna stella sei ♪
1721
01:18:28,834 --> 01:18:31,208
♪ Yeah... ♪
1722
01:18:31,250 --> 01:18:32,792
David: Everybody's loving him.
1723
01:18:32,834 --> 01:18:34,750
Rosie O'Donnell was hosting.
1724
01:18:34,792 --> 01:18:36,834
She's sitting there watching, and she's going,
1725
01:18:36,875 --> 01:18:38,333
"hey opera boy, get over here!"
1726
01:18:40,250 --> 01:18:42,333
I mean, he's in high school.
1727
01:18:42,375 --> 01:18:44,166
He walks over, she says, "I like your voice,
1728
01:18:44,208 --> 01:18:46,291
I want you on my show."
1729
01:18:46,333 --> 01:18:48,375
Go sit down. Audience: [Cheering]
1730
01:18:50,083 --> 01:18:52,750
- David was basically finding these moments for me
1731
01:18:52,792 --> 01:18:54,458
to be myself.
1732
01:18:54,500 --> 01:18:56,542
[Cheering]
1733
01:18:56,583 --> 01:19:01,458
♪♪♪
1734
01:19:01,500 --> 01:19:03,250
♪ When I am down ♪
1735
01:19:04,542 --> 01:19:08,875
♪ And oh, my soul's so weary ♪
1736
01:19:08,917 --> 01:19:12,208
Cut to many hundreds of hours in the studio together.
1737
01:19:12,250 --> 01:19:14,000
That dance, that marriage,
1738
01:19:14,041 --> 01:19:16,667
is one that all great artist producer collaborations have.
1739
01:19:16,709 --> 01:19:19,667
♪ You raise my up ♪
1740
01:19:19,709 --> 01:19:23,583
♪ So I can stand on mountains ♪
1741
01:19:25,542 --> 01:19:28,250
♪ You raise me up ♪
1742
01:19:28,291 --> 01:19:31,458
♪ To walk on stormy seas ♪
1743
01:19:34,333 --> 01:19:37,000
♪ I am strong ♪
1744
01:19:37,041 --> 01:19:39,000
- I've looked for the new Josh Groban,
1745
01:19:39,041 --> 01:19:40,917
and I tell Josh that to his face.
1746
01:19:40,959 --> 01:19:43,208
I wanna find another 17-year-old Josh Groban,
1747
01:19:43,250 --> 01:19:44,875
they just don't exist.
1748
01:19:44,917 --> 01:19:47,709
♪ You raise me up ♪
1749
01:19:47,750 --> 01:19:51,000
♪ So I can stand on mountains ♪
1750
01:19:52,917 --> 01:19:55,959
♪ You raise me up ♪
1751
01:19:56,000 --> 01:19:59,291
♪ To walk on stormy seas ♪
1752
01:20:00,709 --> 01:20:02,709
David: I was trying to convince Warner Bros.
1753
01:20:02,750 --> 01:20:06,000
because they were unsure about an opera quote, unquote kid.
1754
01:20:06,041 --> 01:20:08,166
I said, "You put this album out now,
1755
01:20:08,208 --> 01:20:11,250
people are gonna want to hear more music from Josh Groban,
1756
01:20:11,291 --> 01:20:12,709
this 18-year-old kid."
1757
01:20:14,834 --> 01:20:17,083
It's gonna sell 50,000 in the first week
1758
01:20:17,125 --> 01:20:19,208
if you put it out and time it right.
1759
01:20:19,250 --> 01:20:21,792
They did, and it did sell, in fact, 50,000 the first week.
1760
01:20:21,834 --> 01:20:24,166
And, a star was born.
1761
01:20:24,208 --> 01:20:26,625
Crowd: [Cheering]
1762
01:20:26,667 --> 01:20:28,333
- Good night, everybody!
1763
01:20:28,375 --> 01:20:30,166
Thank you, guys! Thank you, David!
1764
01:20:34,834 --> 01:20:36,333
Crew: A and C marker.
1765
01:20:37,667 --> 01:20:40,375
Probably more people know me from reality TV
1766
01:20:40,417 --> 01:20:42,208
and from being married a lot of times,
1767
01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:44,083
than from my actual music.
1768
01:20:44,125 --> 01:20:47,250
Well, let's analyze because I was married to Linda,
1769
01:20:47,291 --> 01:20:49,041
who was married to Bruce Jenner,
1770
01:20:49,083 --> 01:20:50,625
who then married Kris Kardashian,
1771
01:20:50,667 --> 01:20:52,625
and had the Jenner kids,
1772
01:20:52,667 --> 01:20:54,542
and the Kardashian kids.
1773
01:20:54,583 --> 01:20:56,125
And then I was married to Yolanda Hadid,
1774
01:20:56,166 --> 01:20:58,000
who had Gigi and Bella.
1775
01:20:58,041 --> 01:20:59,875
And then I was married to Rebecca and B.J.,
1776
01:20:59,917 --> 01:21:01,667
where we had our own daughters,
1777
01:21:01,709 --> 01:21:04,291
so it's very, very complicated.
1778
01:21:04,333 --> 01:21:05,458
[Bubbles popping]
1779
01:21:05,500 --> 01:21:08,083
["Free Ride" plays]
1780
01:21:10,583 --> 01:21:14,208
♪♪♪
1781
01:21:14,250 --> 01:21:16,542
Well, here's the thing about me and reality TV.
1782
01:21:16,583 --> 01:21:19,333
My first shot at it was "The Princes of Malibu."
1783
01:21:19,375 --> 01:21:21,709
These are my stepsons, Brody and Brandon Jenner,
1784
01:21:21,750 --> 01:21:23,875
and they're the kids that just won't leave.
1785
01:21:26,417 --> 01:21:28,291
Brandon and Brody, my stepsons,
1786
01:21:28,333 --> 01:21:30,291
and Spencer Pratt,
1787
01:21:30,333 --> 01:21:32,208
started following us around with a camera,
1788
01:21:32,250 --> 01:21:34,250
wherever we went, whenever I was in the studio.
1789
01:21:34,291 --> 01:21:35,959
And I said, "What are you doing?"
1790
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:37,583
"We're making a reality show."
1791
01:21:37,625 --> 01:21:39,583
I said, "If you guys can ever get that show
1792
01:21:39,625 --> 01:21:42,125
on a network television, I'll get a tattoo."
1793
01:21:42,166 --> 01:21:44,291
And sure enough, they sold it to Fox.
1794
01:21:44,333 --> 01:21:46,041
I had to get this tattoo.
1795
01:21:46,083 --> 01:21:47,750
Brandon! This has got to come to an end.
1796
01:21:47,792 --> 01:21:49,250
Spencer!
1797
01:21:49,291 --> 01:21:50,875
Brody and Spencer.
1798
01:21:50,917 --> 01:21:53,333
Bro-dy! What are you doing?
1799
01:21:53,375 --> 01:21:54,792
What is this?
1800
01:21:54,834 --> 01:21:56,333
This, you have to put a stop to.
1801
01:21:56,375 --> 01:21:57,792
This has gone too far.
1802
01:21:59,417 --> 01:22:01,291
Erin: When you put a camera in your home,
1803
01:22:01,333 --> 01:22:03,291
you think I'm gonna come across this way.
1804
01:22:03,333 --> 01:22:06,125
You don't even know who you are, right?
1805
01:22:06,166 --> 01:22:07,583
You don't know how they're gonna view you,
1806
01:22:07,625 --> 01:22:08,959
you don't know how they're gonna spin it.
1807
01:22:09,000 --> 01:22:10,917
- Me being on "The Princes of Malibu" was silly.
1808
01:22:10,959 --> 01:22:12,458
It was stupid.
1809
01:22:12,500 --> 01:22:15,458
But I thought my career is so cemented
1810
01:22:15,500 --> 01:22:18,000
in quality and success,
1811
01:22:18,041 --> 01:22:20,667
that I was impervious to anything hurting me.
1812
01:22:22,083 --> 01:22:24,667
Gimme that. Don't touch my [bleep].
1813
01:22:24,709 --> 01:22:26,625
Is Stevie Wonder not gonna work with me
1814
01:22:26,667 --> 01:22:29,041
because he saw me on "The Princes of Malibu?"
1815
01:22:29,083 --> 01:22:31,583
No, so all is good there,
1816
01:22:31,625 --> 01:22:33,417
even though it was a wacky show.
1817
01:22:33,458 --> 01:22:35,125
We were ahead of our time, by the way.
1818
01:22:35,166 --> 01:22:36,667
It was before the Kardashians, it was,
1819
01:22:36,709 --> 01:22:38,834
you know, we were ahead of the curve.
1820
01:22:38,875 --> 01:22:41,792
- At the end of the day, my dad has the personality
1821
01:22:41,834 --> 01:22:44,333
of a person who's the star -
1822
01:22:44,375 --> 01:22:46,125
he's funny, he's handsome,
1823
01:22:46,166 --> 01:22:47,625
he's comfortable in front of a crowd,
1824
01:22:47,667 --> 01:22:49,458
he owns any room he walks in.
1825
01:22:49,500 --> 01:22:51,959
- The new season of "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"
1826
01:22:52,000 --> 01:22:54,083
premieres, and on last nights--
1827
01:22:54,125 --> 01:22:56,667
Jordan: We did beg him to not do "The Real Housewives" show.
1828
01:22:56,709 --> 01:22:59,417
He wanted Yolanda to have a job.
1829
01:22:59,458 --> 01:23:01,458
- "The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills"
1830
01:23:01,500 --> 01:23:03,583
that was a different story.
1831
01:23:03,625 --> 01:23:05,917
My wife at the time, Yolanda, wanted to do the show.
1832
01:23:05,959 --> 01:23:07,917
I didn't want to be the guy to say no.
1833
01:23:07,959 --> 01:23:10,125
- He needed to be part of it a little bit,
1834
01:23:10,166 --> 01:23:12,417
for her to have this spot.
1835
01:23:12,458 --> 01:23:14,500
I think he felt like,
1836
01:23:14,542 --> 01:23:17,208
he was just gonna be a very small piece of it.
1837
01:23:17,250 --> 01:23:19,625
He did it after he had done "Princes of Malibu" as well,
1838
01:23:19,667 --> 01:23:21,542
so it wasn't exactly his first rodeo.
1839
01:23:21,583 --> 01:23:23,125
I mean, he knew what could happen
1840
01:23:23,166 --> 01:23:24,917
when you do a reality TV show.
1841
01:23:24,959 --> 01:23:27,375
- We move to the latest Hollywood heartbreak.
1842
01:23:27,417 --> 01:23:30,083
David Foster and his reality star wife, Yolanda,
1843
01:23:30,125 --> 01:23:31,834
call it quits.
1844
01:23:31,875 --> 01:23:33,750
Yolanda, who has been fighting Lyme disease
1845
01:23:33,792 --> 01:23:35,542
for the last three years--
1846
01:23:35,583 --> 01:23:37,375
David: How could I leave a sick woman?
1847
01:23:37,417 --> 01:23:39,000
The fact of the matter is,
1848
01:23:39,041 --> 01:23:41,125
that is not the reason why I left,
1849
01:23:41,166 --> 01:23:43,166
it was for a different reason, which I will never disclose,
1850
01:23:43,208 --> 01:23:45,125
but it had nothing to do with her being sick.
1851
01:23:45,166 --> 01:23:46,500
[Cameras click rapidly]
1852
01:23:47,834 --> 01:23:49,959
I would get, and still get, [snaps],
1853
01:23:50,000 --> 01:23:52,166
"I know you.
1854
01:23:52,208 --> 01:23:54,166
You're, you were on 'The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.'"
1855
01:23:55,500 --> 01:23:57,083
And what I wanna say is,
1856
01:23:57,125 --> 01:23:59,875
"Hey, I got 16 fucking Grammys, okay?
1857
01:23:59,917 --> 01:24:02,250
I've sold half a billion records. Fuck that show."
1858
01:24:02,291 --> 01:24:05,875
[Plays a slow tune on the piano]
1859
01:24:05,917 --> 01:24:12,542
♪♪♪
1860
01:24:19,583 --> 01:24:21,291
Oh. Somebody just walked into the room.
1861
01:24:21,333 --> 01:24:23,000
[Small chuckles]
1862
01:24:23,041 --> 01:24:25,542
I can guarantee you one thing,
1863
01:24:25,583 --> 01:24:27,417
Katharine McPhee and David Foster,
1864
01:24:27,458 --> 01:24:30,834
will never do a reality show. That is for sure.
1865
01:24:30,875 --> 01:24:33,083
- Katharine McPhee and David Foster are in love,
1866
01:24:33,125 --> 01:24:34,917
and they don't care who knows it.
1867
01:24:34,959 --> 01:24:36,834
The couple have been happily celebrating--
1868
01:24:36,875 --> 01:24:38,625
Erin: I wouldn't be great at lying about their relationship,
1869
01:24:38,667 --> 01:24:40,542
if I didn't like it.
1870
01:24:40,583 --> 01:24:42,875
The truth is, I really like them together.
1871
01:24:42,917 --> 01:24:44,709
Reporter: Their 34-year age gap
1872
01:24:44,750 --> 01:24:46,709
has been a hot topic of conversation,
1873
01:24:46,750 --> 01:24:49,083
but the two are much more focused on their future.
1874
01:24:49,125 --> 01:24:53,125
♪♪♪
1875
01:24:53,166 --> 01:24:55,750
Amy: Katharine McPhee does not need David Foster.
1876
01:24:57,083 --> 01:24:59,291
Very talented, very successful,
1877
01:24:59,333 --> 01:25:01,041
has her own money.
1878
01:25:01,083 --> 01:25:03,250
Does not need him.
1879
01:25:03,291 --> 01:25:05,917
Is with him purely because she loves him.
1880
01:25:07,250 --> 01:25:09,417
They're a very good match.
1881
01:25:11,583 --> 01:25:15,625
- As strange as it might seem to support your dad
1882
01:25:15,667 --> 01:25:17,792
being with someone who's younger than you,
1883
01:25:17,834 --> 01:25:19,667
because she is two years younger than me.
1884
01:25:19,709 --> 01:25:22,000
David: They could be really pissed off at me for this.
1885
01:25:22,041 --> 01:25:24,375
Really, what are you doing, she's our age, come on.
1886
01:25:24,417 --> 01:25:27,041
And, there's no drama with her and my kids.
1887
01:25:27,083 --> 01:25:28,834
Jordan: That stuff doesn't matter to us.
1888
01:25:28,875 --> 01:25:31,083
We just want our dad to be happy.
1889
01:25:31,125 --> 01:25:33,000
They're staying with me right now,
1890
01:25:33,041 --> 01:25:34,834
and like I can hear them from across the apartment,
1891
01:25:34,875 --> 01:25:36,709
just like giggling at, you know, 11:30 at night
1892
01:25:36,750 --> 01:25:38,500
while they're in bed.
1893
01:25:38,542 --> 01:25:40,792
Katharine: We have the choice to make
1894
01:25:40,834 --> 01:25:43,208
an amazing life together, and you don't just like,
1895
01:25:43,250 --> 01:25:45,667
snap your fingers and go,
1896
01:25:45,709 --> 01:25:47,166
yay, we're gonna live happily ever after.
1897
01:25:47,208 --> 01:25:49,625
My generation is more open to communicating
1898
01:25:49,667 --> 01:25:52,542
and understanding why you do the things you do.
1899
01:25:52,583 --> 01:25:54,375
You stick with the things that don't work
1900
01:25:54,417 --> 01:25:56,375
and you figure out how to make them work.
1901
01:25:56,417 --> 01:25:58,417
And I think it's a challenge for him.
1902
01:25:59,834 --> 01:26:01,542
- And sometimes it's annoying,
1903
01:26:01,583 --> 01:26:02,917
like when you have to sit all afternoon
1904
01:26:02,959 --> 01:26:05,041
and talk about your feelings,
1905
01:26:05,083 --> 01:26:06,709
something I'm better doing at the piano.
1906
01:26:08,291 --> 01:26:10,083
Katharine: What we work on together is empathy.
1907
01:26:11,875 --> 01:26:14,834
Having long conversations that he doesn't wanna have.
1908
01:26:17,000 --> 01:26:18,959
David: I've always said, I never wanna dig too deep
1909
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:21,166
for the fear of what I might find.
1910
01:26:21,208 --> 01:26:23,417
Which is why I've never really been to therapy
1911
01:26:23,458 --> 01:26:25,041
because I don't wanna know what's done there.
1912
01:26:25,083 --> 01:26:27,000
- Since I've known him I've heard him say things like--
1913
01:26:27,041 --> 01:26:29,417
I call them like "David slogans".
1914
01:26:29,458 --> 01:26:31,333
Like, "Oh yeah, I don't go to therapy because I'm afraid
1915
01:26:31,375 --> 01:26:33,750
of what I'm gonna find out." I'm like, you don't even--
1916
01:26:33,792 --> 01:26:35,500
You're just saying that. That's just like a slogan
1917
01:26:35,542 --> 01:26:37,417
It's like a dinner topic. Right?
1918
01:26:37,458 --> 01:26:39,417
Like, he just doesn't wanna talk about it.
1919
01:26:39,458 --> 01:26:43,458
It's hard for him to take a moment and just feel.
1920
01:26:43,500 --> 01:26:45,000
He doesn't want to.
1921
01:26:47,125 --> 01:26:48,667
There have been moments where you feel like,
1922
01:26:48,709 --> 01:26:50,291
God, does this guy have any feelings?
1923
01:26:50,333 --> 01:26:52,083
Does he have empathy at all?
1924
01:26:52,125 --> 01:26:54,875
He's so good at disguising what he feels.
1925
01:26:56,625 --> 01:26:59,291
He just wants everything to be okay at all times.
1926
01:26:59,333 --> 01:27:01,083
And if it's not...
1927
01:27:03,792 --> 01:27:06,208
he's gone.
1928
01:27:06,250 --> 01:27:08,792
- I think I hit it on the head when I said I'm a runner.
1929
01:27:09,750 --> 01:27:11,000
- Are you tired of running?
1930
01:27:11,041 --> 01:27:13,083
Uh, I'm not tired of running. No.
1931
01:27:14,291 --> 01:27:16,667
No. But I'm very happy were I am.
1932
01:27:16,709 --> 01:27:19,333
I'm really fortune now
1933
01:27:19,375 --> 01:27:22,166
because Kat is so evolved
1934
01:27:22,208 --> 01:27:25,583
that we will continue to drill down when we have a problem,
1935
01:27:26,875 --> 01:27:29,542
and that I won't run.
1936
01:27:29,583 --> 01:27:31,208
Katharine: I basically said to him,
1937
01:27:31,250 --> 01:27:33,750
I go, if we don't work on these things this isn't gonna work.
1938
01:27:35,458 --> 01:27:37,792
I need you to,
1939
01:27:37,834 --> 01:27:40,041
at least to try to understand how I feel.
1940
01:27:40,083 --> 01:27:41,959
And he was like,
1941
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:43,792
well then, you should just maybe leave then.
1942
01:27:46,041 --> 01:27:47,709
And I was like, no-no-no.
1943
01:27:47,750 --> 01:27:49,208
I know that this is what you do.
1944
01:27:49,250 --> 01:27:50,792
So don't play that game with me.
1945
01:27:52,291 --> 01:27:54,083
David: I'd say that anybody that calls me an asshole
1946
01:27:54,125 --> 01:27:56,000
for the things that I've done,
1947
01:27:56,041 --> 01:27:57,834
I think they're right.
1948
01:27:59,959 --> 01:28:02,333
I think I have been an asshole a lot.
1949
01:28:02,375 --> 01:28:04,875
But I'm not a cold-hearted mother fucker either.
1950
01:28:04,917 --> 01:28:06,750
Katharine: The guys that all of his friends
1951
01:28:06,792 --> 01:28:09,667
and family know and love is
1952
01:28:09,709 --> 01:28:12,166
a very, very generous guy.
1953
01:28:12,208 --> 01:28:14,291
It's great that we go on these amazing trips
1954
01:28:14,333 --> 01:28:16,375
with your really wealthy friends and all that stuff.
1955
01:28:16,417 --> 01:28:18,875
But I, I say to him, I go, they don't know who you are,
1956
01:28:18,917 --> 01:28:21,333
and he doesn't like that.
1957
01:28:22,959 --> 01:28:25,709
I think we both have to be vulnerable.
1958
01:28:25,750 --> 01:28:28,083
You know we both have to ask for what we want
1959
01:28:29,917 --> 01:28:32,208
♪ Lean on me ♪
1960
01:28:32,250 --> 01:28:33,834
[David plays piano] [Camera crashes]
1961
01:28:33,875 --> 01:28:35,417
[Gasp]
1962
01:28:36,500 --> 01:28:37,750
[Laughs]
1963
01:28:37,792 --> 01:28:39,834
♪ Lean on me ♪
1964
01:28:41,125 --> 01:28:43,750
♪ When you're not strong ♪
1965
01:28:45,583 --> 01:28:47,417
♪ I'll be your... ♪
1966
01:28:47,458 --> 01:28:49,625
- She's an old soul. And you see that piano behind us,
1967
01:28:49,667 --> 01:28:51,792
some of our greatest moments together
1968
01:28:51,834 --> 01:28:54,709
are when she's just sitting behind me,
1969
01:28:54,750 --> 01:28:56,500
and I'm playing, and she's singing.
1970
01:28:56,542 --> 01:29:03,709
♪♪♪
1971
01:29:03,750 --> 01:29:05,500
I mean, she's amazing in 1,000 ways:
1972
01:29:06,875 --> 01:29:09,667
she's beautiful, she's smart, and she's focused,
1973
01:29:09,709 --> 01:29:11,917
and she's well beyond her years.
1974
01:29:11,959 --> 01:29:13,834
That's quite a package.
1975
01:29:18,542 --> 01:29:21,709
Katharine: You decided to marry a young woman,
1976
01:29:21,750 --> 01:29:24,083
I wanna be genuinely happy with you and I wanna know,
1977
01:29:24,125 --> 01:29:27,041
I'm-I'm-I'm obsessed with knowing who he is.
1978
01:29:30,542 --> 01:29:32,250
It's not conventional,
1979
01:29:32,291 --> 01:29:34,583
but it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
1980
01:29:34,625 --> 01:29:38,041
It'll be the deepest relationship we've ever had,
1981
01:29:39,542 --> 01:29:42,834
were you don't run away from the things that don't work.
1982
01:29:42,875 --> 01:29:44,250
[Applause and cheering]
1983
01:29:44,291 --> 01:29:46,041
I know we've made the right decision
1984
01:29:46,083 --> 01:29:49,333
since we had our nuptials. I knew who he really is.
1985
01:29:50,917 --> 01:29:53,500
I've been deconstructing him for a while now.
1986
01:29:53,542 --> 01:29:55,750
We'll see, I'm gonna...
1987
01:29:55,792 --> 01:29:57,125
keep working on it.
1988
01:29:59,083 --> 01:30:00,917
David: It's a strange pairing,
1989
01:30:00,959 --> 01:30:03,291
but we are in love, and it works for us.
1990
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:11,083
["Got to be Real" by Cheryl Lynn plays]
1991
01:30:11,125 --> 01:30:12,917
♪♪♪
1992
01:30:12,959 --> 01:30:14,917
David: So, we're gonna fly on the 25th to Lanai,
1993
01:30:14,959 --> 01:30:16,959
but I don't know if we fly to Maui
1994
01:30:17,000 --> 01:30:19,583
or if we fly to Honolulu. Kathy: He just goes-goes-goes.
1995
01:30:19,625 --> 01:30:21,041
He's already on to the next thing.
1996
01:30:21,083 --> 01:30:23,709
Interviews, touring, meetings with people.
1997
01:30:23,750 --> 01:30:26,166
He could be in Asia at some point.
1998
01:30:27,792 --> 01:30:29,417
Marc: He's the number one entertainer in Southeast Asia.
1999
01:30:29,458 --> 01:30:31,875
- My name's David Foster. - [Cheering]
2000
01:30:31,917 --> 01:30:34,333
- And uh, it's great to see you all.
2001
01:30:34,375 --> 01:30:36,542
- You mention the name David Foster, they go crazy.
2002
01:30:36,583 --> 01:30:38,458
Everybody's singing his music.
2003
01:30:38,500 --> 01:30:40,166
- Yes! That's what I'm talking about!
2004
01:30:41,917 --> 01:30:43,667
Kathy: "Asia's Got Talent",
2005
01:30:43,709 --> 01:30:45,583
you have to be in Singapore on the 4th.
2006
01:30:45,625 --> 01:30:47,125
- Of? December. - December.
2007
01:30:47,166 --> 01:30:48,917
- Yeah, and when does it finish?
2008
01:30:48,959 --> 01:30:50,709
- And then returning on the 15th to LA.
2009
01:30:50,750 --> 01:30:53,000
David: I started going to Asia in the late 80's,
2010
01:30:53,041 --> 01:30:54,709
and I started getting this following.
2011
01:30:56,834 --> 01:30:58,500
Being an egomaniac, who wouldn't go for that?
2012
01:30:59,959 --> 01:31:01,709
Man: Here we go, David. - He's making his entrance.
2013
01:31:01,750 --> 01:31:04,875
Announcers: The hit man himself, David Foster.
2014
01:31:04,917 --> 01:31:06,417
[Cheering and applause]
2015
01:31:06,458 --> 01:31:08,083
- Good evening, everyone,
2016
01:31:08,125 --> 01:31:10,250
and welcome back to Mandalay Bay!
2017
01:31:10,291 --> 01:31:12,458
- He's claimed that he has retired,
2018
01:31:12,500 --> 01:31:14,125
and then a few months later will say,
2019
01:31:14,166 --> 01:31:16,709
"I have to work, I have to work, I have to work.
2020
01:31:16,750 --> 01:31:18,208
I-I just have to."
2021
01:31:19,542 --> 01:31:21,500
David: I always planned on leaving the music business
2022
01:31:21,542 --> 01:31:23,667
before it left me.
2023
01:31:23,709 --> 01:31:25,792
I know where I belong and where I don't belong.
2024
01:31:27,000 --> 01:31:28,834
Look at where we are, okay?
2025
01:31:28,875 --> 01:31:31,208
For the majority of those 45 years
2026
01:31:31,250 --> 01:31:33,959
I was in a room like this; a submarine.
2027
01:31:34,000 --> 01:31:36,417
No windows, no light.
2028
01:31:36,458 --> 01:31:38,166
No vitamin D.
2029
01:31:38,208 --> 01:31:40,792
A submarine. That's where I spent my life.
2030
01:31:40,834 --> 01:31:42,250
I don't wanna do that anymore.
2031
01:31:42,291 --> 01:31:44,000
I've always said about myself
2032
01:31:44,041 --> 01:31:46,083
I know where I belong and where I don't belong,
2033
01:31:46,125 --> 01:31:48,208
and I don't belong in a room with Lady Gaga.
2034
01:31:48,250 --> 01:31:50,875
- Bullshit!
2035
01:31:50,917 --> 01:31:55,000
I listen to "Shallow"... here's what David Foster would do with
2036
01:31:50,917 --> 01:31:55,000
"Shallow". Of course you could be in that room.
2037
01:31:55,041 --> 01:31:56,709
Yes, I would have said yes to that.
2038
01:31:56,750 --> 01:31:58,792
If I have heard that song, Bradley Cooper and Gaga,
2039
01:31:58,834 --> 01:32:00,834
"A Star is Born" I would have done it.
2040
01:32:02,000 --> 01:32:03,458
50% I don't wanna be there,
2041
01:32:03,500 --> 01:32:05,667
50% I have nothing to say and add.
2042
01:32:05,709 --> 01:32:07,709
If you could have another 50%
2043
01:32:07,750 --> 01:32:09,250
I'd say I'm bored with myself.
2044
01:32:10,792 --> 01:32:12,834
I am truly bored
2045
01:32:12,875 --> 01:32:14,959
with myself and what I can do here.
2046
01:32:15,000 --> 01:32:16,458
I don't love this.
2047
01:32:16,500 --> 01:32:18,750
I love being out there.
2048
01:32:20,250 --> 01:32:22,166
Playing live has been great for me and I'll tell you why.
2049
01:32:22,208 --> 01:32:23,959
I'm making the music,
2050
01:32:24,000 --> 01:32:25,583
and then the artist has the luxury to go out
2051
01:32:25,625 --> 01:32:27,709
and enjoy what we've created together
2052
01:32:27,750 --> 01:32:30,500
and-and watch the peoples faces as they sing it.
2053
01:32:30,542 --> 01:32:32,500
I've never had that thrill.
2054
01:32:32,542 --> 01:32:34,834
So now when I go out and play live
2055
01:32:34,875 --> 01:32:37,625
I get to watch their faces with the music that I've created.
2056
01:32:37,667 --> 01:32:40,000
Even though, I didn't sing it. I still created it.
2057
01:32:41,834 --> 01:32:43,917
I try to be great every day,
2058
01:32:43,959 --> 01:32:45,667
and I learned that from Quincy Jones,
2059
01:32:45,709 --> 01:32:47,875
from many, many years ago, when I handed him an album,
2060
01:32:47,917 --> 01:32:49,875
"Have a listen, but don't listen to track 5
2061
01:32:49,917 --> 01:32:52,000
'cause it's outta tune, and don't listen to track 2
2062
01:32:52,041 --> 01:32:53,500
because the song's not that good,
2063
01:32:53,542 --> 01:32:55,458
and track 7, just skip over that.
2064
01:32:55,500 --> 01:32:57,000
But there's like, track 4 is really good."
2065
01:32:57,041 --> 01:32:58,917
And he said, "Gimme that thing!" And he goes...
2066
01:33:00,208 --> 01:33:02,291
"What does it say right there?"
2067
01:33:02,333 --> 01:33:04,083
"Produced by David Fos--."
2068
01:33:04,125 --> 01:33:06,083
"Yeah, produced by David Foster."
2069
01:33:06,125 --> 01:33:07,917
He said, "You give me something with your name on it
2070
01:33:07,959 --> 01:33:09,667
and you make excuses for it?"
2071
01:33:09,709 --> 01:33:12,583
And since that day, I have never, ever
2072
01:33:12,625 --> 01:33:14,583
not tried to be great every day,
2073
01:33:14,625 --> 01:33:16,709
because good is the enemy of great.
2074
01:33:17,917 --> 01:33:19,875
Quincy: Love, trust, and respect.
2075
01:33:19,917 --> 01:33:22,041
Your music can never be more or less
2076
01:33:22,083 --> 01:33:23,709
than you are as a human being.
2077
01:33:23,750 --> 01:33:25,417
That's the bottom line.
2078
01:33:26,959 --> 01:33:29,500
So you work on being a good human being first,
2079
01:33:29,542 --> 01:33:31,375
but even before a good musician.
2080
01:33:33,458 --> 01:33:35,917
Jeffery: Success, hits,
2081
01:33:38,125 --> 01:33:40,750
fame, money, power,
2082
01:33:42,583 --> 01:33:44,959
all seemed like the things that were driving him.
2083
01:33:45,000 --> 01:33:46,917
Then, when I got to know him better,
2084
01:33:46,959 --> 01:33:48,959
I saw a totally different person.
2085
01:33:50,750 --> 01:33:53,375
I always thought, this is a man with a huge ego,
2086
01:33:53,417 --> 01:33:55,417
and yet, the amount of people
2087
01:33:55,458 --> 01:33:58,583
he's helped is extraordinary.
2088
01:33:58,625 --> 01:34:01,333
- I got a call from my mother,
2089
01:34:01,375 --> 01:34:03,500
30 years ago,
2090
01:34:03,542 --> 01:34:06,458
and she said, "There's a young girl at UCLA,
2091
01:34:06,500 --> 01:34:08,041
go visit her."
2092
01:34:08,083 --> 01:34:10,250
She was all hooked up with wires, she was five years old.
2093
01:34:10,291 --> 01:34:12,583
She needed a liver transplant.
2094
01:34:12,625 --> 01:34:14,417
I just asked her you know,
2095
01:34:14,458 --> 01:34:16,625
what would she like more than anything in the world,
2096
01:34:16,667 --> 01:34:18,458
thinking she would say she wants to go to Disneyland,
2097
01:34:18,500 --> 01:34:20,291
or that she wants to meet
2098
01:34:20,333 --> 01:34:22,375
whoever the star was at the time.
2099
01:34:22,417 --> 01:34:24,959
And what she said was, "I wanna see my sister."
2100
01:34:25,000 --> 01:34:27,083
For the price of an airline ticket, flew the sister down.
2101
01:34:28,542 --> 01:34:32,291
And that moment, when the two sisters' eyes met,
2102
01:34:32,333 --> 01:34:34,333
it's etched in my brain,
2103
01:34:34,375 --> 01:34:36,625
and that is the moment when I went,
2104
01:34:36,667 --> 01:34:38,458
this is what I gotta do.
2105
01:34:38,500 --> 01:34:40,917
We help the families of children
2106
01:34:40,959 --> 01:34:42,792
that need organ transplants,
2107
01:34:42,834 --> 01:34:44,583
and we take care of all the costs,
2108
01:34:44,625 --> 01:34:46,792
and we are the one bright light
2109
01:34:46,834 --> 01:34:48,583
in the worst day of a family's life.
2110
01:34:50,875 --> 01:34:53,000
Even a family that's doing well,
2111
01:34:53,041 --> 01:34:55,875
can't absorb the costs that are involved
2112
01:34:55,917 --> 01:34:58,291
in trying to keep two households going for weeks,
2113
01:34:58,333 --> 01:35:00,291
months, or even years sometimes,
2114
01:35:00,333 --> 01:35:02,041
and we pay all that.
2115
01:35:02,083 --> 01:35:04,125
It's hard work.
2116
01:35:04,166 --> 01:35:06,000
Oprah: I'm here tonight
2117
01:35:06,041 --> 01:35:08,333
to pay tribute, to give honour,
2118
01:35:09,709 --> 01:35:12,792
and celebrate tonight's honouree
2119
01:35:12,834 --> 01:35:15,208
of the David Foster Foundation.
2120
01:35:15,250 --> 01:35:18,375
- Tonight, we have raised...
2121
01:35:18,417 --> 01:35:21,750
$10.2 million!
2122
01:35:23,917 --> 01:35:26,417
Michael: There's definitely a heart behind this man.
2123
01:35:26,458 --> 01:35:29,000
He feels deeply about making a difference,
2124
01:35:29,041 --> 01:35:30,750
bringing together and keeping together,
2125
01:35:30,792 --> 01:35:32,500
families of these children
2126
01:35:32,542 --> 01:35:34,125
who are fighting for their lives.
2127
01:35:34,166 --> 01:35:35,875
Marc: Everybody's calling him,
2128
01:35:35,917 --> 01:35:37,834
and do my charity, do my charity.
2129
01:35:37,875 --> 01:35:40,709
Not just David's charity, everybody else's charity.
2130
01:35:40,750 --> 01:35:43,625
The first thing that comes out of his mouth is, "Yes."
2131
01:35:43,667 --> 01:35:46,959
He's not afraid to pull on his celebrity friends.
2132
01:35:47,000 --> 01:35:48,792
[Applause]
2133
01:35:51,291 --> 01:35:53,750
He would do everybody's charities, and he has.
2134
01:35:53,792 --> 01:35:59,625
♪♪♪
2135
01:35:59,667 --> 01:36:01,500
David: You know I had a friend tell me recently,
2136
01:36:01,542 --> 01:36:04,750
he said, you've made some very poor real estate decisions
2137
01:36:04,792 --> 01:36:06,625
based on the fact that you haven't been on an elevator
2138
01:36:06,667 --> 01:36:09,208
for 30 some-odd years.
2139
01:36:10,875 --> 01:36:13,500
For a guy that likes to be in control it must be annoying.
2140
01:36:15,917 --> 01:36:18,542
And people think that it's like just some kind of a joke.
2141
01:36:18,583 --> 01:36:20,625
How do you push the button to get it here?
2142
01:36:20,667 --> 01:36:22,125
I run into people and they go, "Oh yeah,
2143
01:36:22,166 --> 01:36:23,709
I don't like elevators either, you know".
2144
01:36:23,750 --> 01:36:26,041
Yeah, but you take them. Oh my God.
2145
01:36:26,083 --> 01:36:27,709
It controls my life.
2146
01:36:27,750 --> 01:36:30,625
It's something that I,
2147
01:36:30,667 --> 01:36:34,000
I've tried to deal with and never fixed,
2148
01:36:34,041 --> 01:36:36,083
and I probably never will.
2149
01:36:37,542 --> 01:36:39,333
[Elevator screeches open]
2150
01:36:39,375 --> 01:36:42,792
Oh my God.
2151
01:36:42,834 --> 01:36:44,500
[Doors screech]
2152
01:36:47,250 --> 01:36:50,750
♪♪♪
2153
01:36:50,792 --> 01:36:54,458
I calculated once, how many stairs I've done.
2154
01:36:54,500 --> 01:36:56,542
Man: 10 seconds. - No. No I can't do it.
2155
01:36:56,583 --> 01:36:59,709
Turns out, that I've done more than 3 million stairs.
2156
01:37:00,750 --> 01:37:04,250
[Exhales] 10 floors, man.
2157
01:37:04,291 --> 01:37:05,959
Does it get any easier.
2158
01:37:09,917 --> 01:37:13,333
I have had health scares recently,
2159
01:37:13,375 --> 01:37:15,250
and my reaction is not I don't give a shit.
2160
01:37:15,291 --> 01:37:18,208
My reaction is "crap".
2161
01:37:21,417 --> 01:37:23,709
Recently I have had a tumour on my lung.
2162
01:37:23,750 --> 01:37:25,583
Thank God it was benign,
2163
01:37:25,625 --> 01:37:28,125
but I've had three surgeries.
2164
01:37:28,166 --> 01:37:31,208
♪♪♪
2165
01:37:31,250 --> 01:37:33,458
I also have a bicuspid aortic valve,
2166
01:37:33,500 --> 01:37:35,125
which needs to be swapped out.
2167
01:37:35,166 --> 01:37:37,166
Which is a big five hour surgery.
2168
01:37:40,250 --> 01:37:42,667
I think everybody is afraid of death, aren't they?
2169
01:37:42,709 --> 01:37:46,041
It's the only one unavoidable thing.
2170
01:37:46,083 --> 01:37:48,917
And it's the thing that everybody is least prepared for.
2171
01:37:48,959 --> 01:37:50,583
[Plays final notes]
2172
01:37:51,959 --> 01:37:54,125
Don't wanna leave the party. Plain and simple.
2173
01:37:54,166 --> 01:37:55,500
It's exactly what it is.
2174
01:37:56,750 --> 01:37:58,792
- My dad always said, if I'm a vegetable,
2175
01:37:58,834 --> 01:38:00,583
never pull the plug. - Never.
2176
01:38:00,625 --> 01:38:02,041
He's like promise me you'll never pull it,
2177
01:38:02,083 --> 01:38:03,792
let me just lie there. We're like--
2178
01:38:03,834 --> 01:38:05,542
- He's the person-- - He's gonna wanna be frozen.
2179
01:38:05,583 --> 01:38:07,500
- He's the person who'll get frozen, for sure,
2180
01:38:07,542 --> 01:38:09,542
so he would come back. He loves living.
2181
01:38:10,959 --> 01:38:13,041
[Cell phone rings]
2182
01:38:14,458 --> 01:38:17,291
- Hi, baby. - Hi.
2183
01:38:17,333 --> 01:38:19,375
- So, welcome to my reality show.
2184
01:38:19,417 --> 01:38:20,959
- Were you just talking about how
2185
01:38:21,000 --> 01:38:22,834
we have a FaceTime relationship?
2186
01:38:22,875 --> 01:38:24,625
- I was not talking about that,
2187
01:38:24,667 --> 01:38:26,417
although we do have a FaceTime relationship.
2188
01:38:26,458 --> 01:38:28,000
- I'll get better, I promise.
2189
01:38:28,041 --> 01:38:29,500
- I'll call you from the hotel? All right.
2190
01:38:29,542 --> 01:38:31,250
- Okay. - Love you.
2191
01:38:31,291 --> 01:38:32,417
- Bye. I love you.
2192
01:38:34,458 --> 01:38:36,500
David: Well, I certainly don't wanna drop dead in the studio,
2193
01:38:36,542 --> 01:38:39,208
because that would just be too ironic.
2194
01:38:39,250 --> 01:38:41,041
I don't wanna be working the day I die.
2195
01:38:41,083 --> 01:38:43,125
I wanna be like, on a boat somewhere,
2196
01:38:43,166 --> 01:38:45,417
laying in the sun,
2197
01:38:45,458 --> 01:38:48,709
have a nice little glass of wine beside me.
2198
01:38:48,750 --> 01:38:50,959
Go to sleep and not wake up.
2199
01:38:53,250 --> 01:38:55,166
Katharine: I've never met anyone
2200
01:38:55,208 --> 01:38:57,166
who is more focused
2201
01:38:58,917 --> 01:39:01,291
on the idea of longevity.
2202
01:39:03,417 --> 01:39:05,834
He is, more than anyone,
2203
01:39:05,875 --> 01:39:08,333
obsessed with staying on this earth.
2204
01:39:10,792 --> 01:39:12,792
Amy: He can't sit still.
2205
01:39:12,834 --> 01:39:15,959
He's not capable of staying out of the game.
2206
01:39:16,000 --> 01:39:19,542
Amy: And I think he is in search of
2207
01:39:19,583 --> 01:39:21,625
that perfect something
2208
01:39:23,166 --> 01:39:26,041
that will make him finally stop feeling the need
2209
01:39:26,083 --> 01:39:28,291
to move all the time.
2210
01:39:29,458 --> 01:39:31,083
- He's got a real sense of
2211
01:39:31,125 --> 01:39:32,959
how things should be presented
2212
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:35,083
to have real impact on people.
2213
01:39:35,125 --> 01:39:37,959
He's no embarrassed to be big and flashy and brassy -
2214
01:39:38,000 --> 01:39:40,333
he's lived life to the fullest.
2215
01:39:40,375 --> 01:39:42,500
- His legacy will keep going
2216
01:39:42,542 --> 01:39:45,583
even though he might not think so 'cause he's still great.
2217
01:39:45,625 --> 01:39:48,375
Carole: And he hasn't learned how to say 'no' yet.
2218
01:39:48,417 --> 01:39:51,000
It's probably the good news.
2219
01:39:51,041 --> 01:39:53,750
Maybe not for him, but for all of us.
2220
01:39:53,792 --> 01:39:56,917
- He deserve that honour, this legacy.
2221
01:39:56,959 --> 01:39:58,959
I feel very privileged as an artist
2222
01:39:59,000 --> 01:40:02,083
that has the chance to work with him.
2223
01:40:02,125 --> 01:40:05,959
Those big songs will never disappear. Never.
2224
01:40:06,000 --> 01:40:09,583
Andrea: David said that I am the best singer of the planet.
2225
01:40:09,625 --> 01:40:12,625
I can say the same thing for him.
2226
01:40:12,667 --> 01:40:14,959
He's the best producer of the planet.
2227
01:40:16,583 --> 01:40:18,750
Peter: If you look at the number of people
2228
01:40:18,792 --> 01:40:20,583
that he's had success with,
2229
01:40:20,625 --> 01:40:22,625
I think that's a legacy enough.
2230
01:40:22,667 --> 01:40:25,500
The stable of artists that he's worked with,
2231
01:40:25,542 --> 01:40:28,250
recorded with, and had enormous success with,
2232
01:40:28,291 --> 01:40:30,834
and I'm just lucky enough to be a small part of it.
2233
01:40:32,500 --> 01:40:34,875
[Chuckles]
2234
01:40:34,917 --> 01:40:37,667
Michael: He's a complex, distinct,
2235
01:40:37,709 --> 01:40:40,166
and amazing human being.
2236
01:40:40,208 --> 01:40:43,375
There are so many parts of him that I'll never know,
2237
01:40:44,792 --> 01:40:47,041
and there are so many parts of him
2238
01:40:47,083 --> 01:40:49,250
that I wish the whole world knew.
2239
01:40:49,291 --> 01:40:52,166
Clive: David Foster is one of the greatest producers
2240
01:40:52,208 --> 01:40:55,083
of all time, without question.
2241
01:40:56,208 --> 01:40:58,458
David has received
2242
01:40:58,500 --> 01:41:01,333
47 Grammy nominations.
2243
01:41:03,583 --> 01:41:06,500
You've gotta be careful with somebody
2244
01:41:06,542 --> 01:41:09,250
who's had a great deal of success,
2245
01:41:10,959 --> 01:41:13,750
to typecast that, to stereotype that,
2246
01:41:13,792 --> 01:41:17,041
to say oh, that is what he can do.
2247
01:41:19,208 --> 01:41:21,417
- We're very funny together, I would say.
2248
01:41:21,458 --> 01:41:23,250
But I put up with him because,
2249
01:41:23,291 --> 01:41:26,291
as he frequently reminds me, he's so brilliant.
2250
01:41:26,333 --> 01:41:28,458
And you know what? He is.
2251
01:41:30,083 --> 01:41:33,458
Quincy: All I can say is, David, is YOLO KOKO -
2252
01:41:33,500 --> 01:41:37,291
you only live once, so keep on, keepin' on, man.
2253
01:41:37,333 --> 01:41:39,875
Keep on struggling with this, and learning this,
2254
01:41:39,917 --> 01:41:41,709
and learning this, and growing.
2255
01:41:43,417 --> 01:41:45,125
David: If Mozart actually did in fact say
2256
01:41:45,166 --> 01:41:48,000
that he never thought he completed a perfect work,
2257
01:41:48,041 --> 01:41:50,834
then what chance do the rest of us stand?
2258
01:41:50,875 --> 01:41:54,583
I'm driven by the need to succeed.
2259
01:41:56,166 --> 01:41:58,834
I will drive myself into the ground
2260
01:41:58,875 --> 01:42:00,875
trying to have a hit Broadway musical,
2261
01:42:00,917 --> 01:42:03,000
and it may or may not happen,
2262
01:42:03,041 --> 01:42:04,875
but it won't be for lack of trying.
2263
01:42:07,500 --> 01:42:11,750
["Love Theme from St. Elmo's Fire" plays]
2264
01:42:15,709 --> 01:42:20,333
♪♪♪
2265
01:42:25,667 --> 01:42:28,709
Look, you've come into my life, you've dug so deep,
2266
01:42:28,750 --> 01:42:30,834
I don't like it. I think it's time for this to be done.
2267
01:42:32,250 --> 01:42:39,542
♪♪♪
2268
01:42:39,583 --> 01:42:46,458
♪♪♪
2269
01:42:46,500 --> 01:42:52,875
♪♪♪
2270
01:42:52,917 --> 01:42:59,834
♪♪♪
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