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Let's go! 15 00:01:00,041 --> 00:01:01,542 - Okay. 16 00:01:01,583 --> 00:01:03,709 [Michael Bublé "Feeling Good" plays] 17 00:01:03,750 --> 00:01:09,834 ♪♪♪ 18 00:01:09,875 --> 00:01:12,625 Michael: There is no subject that makes me happier 19 00:01:12,667 --> 00:01:15,375 to be able to talk about, than David Foster. 20 00:01:15,417 --> 00:01:17,375 There are so many parts of him 21 00:01:17,417 --> 00:01:19,250 that I wish the whole world knew, 22 00:01:19,291 --> 00:01:21,125 because if they knew what I know, 23 00:01:21,166 --> 00:01:23,542 they would have even greater reverie for him. 24 00:01:23,583 --> 00:01:25,834 ♪♪♪ 25 00:01:27,208 --> 00:01:28,583 - Go! 26 00:01:28,625 --> 00:01:29,875 Céline: David is one of the greatest 27 00:01:29,917 --> 00:01:31,917 producer/songwriter of all time. 28 00:01:31,959 --> 00:01:33,792 You've probably heard of Barbra Streisand, 29 00:01:33,834 --> 00:01:37,083 um, Michael Jackson, maybe. 30 00:01:38,375 --> 00:01:41,542 Josh: David Foster was my first believer in me. 31 00:01:41,583 --> 00:01:44,041 My confidence when I didn't have it, 32 00:01:44,083 --> 00:01:45,625 but the truth is, 33 00:01:45,667 --> 00:01:47,417 you get vocals that you never dreamed of. 34 00:01:47,458 --> 00:01:49,166 [Cell phone rings] 35 00:01:49,208 --> 00:01:50,875 - Guess I'll answer that. 36 00:01:50,917 --> 00:01:53,000 Hey, what's up, Steve? What you doin', man? 37 00:01:55,166 --> 00:01:57,458 Lionel: He's a comedian, he's an entertainer. 38 00:01:57,500 --> 00:02:00,959 A very talented musician, songwriter. 39 00:02:01,000 --> 00:02:03,625 When he walks in the room, he is Mr. Show Biz. 40 00:02:05,458 --> 00:02:07,500 Diane: He makes it looks so easy, and it's so hard. 41 00:02:07,542 --> 00:02:09,375 Within the historical music business, 42 00:02:09,417 --> 00:02:11,041 there's him and Quincy Jones. 43 00:02:11,083 --> 00:02:13,792 Quincy: That's when you're dealin' with God, man. 44 00:02:13,834 --> 00:02:18,291 You have to know what that artists capacity is. 45 00:02:18,542 --> 00:02:21,083 You just keep diggin' 'til you get it. 46 00:02:21,125 --> 00:02:23,208 Barbara: I'm very funny and extremely easy 47 00:02:23,250 --> 00:02:25,291 to work with in a studio. 48 00:02:25,333 --> 00:02:27,458 He's not. 49 00:02:27,500 --> 00:02:29,417 Kristin: When he writes for someone, 50 00:02:29,458 --> 00:02:31,375 he speaks their language. 51 00:02:32,750 --> 00:02:35,375 - How many people are behind as many hits as him? 52 00:02:35,417 --> 00:02:36,959 I don't know, the list is quite short. 53 00:02:39,291 --> 00:02:40,834 Katharine: David Foster, the life, the legend, 54 00:02:40,875 --> 00:02:42,375 the mystery. 55 00:02:42,417 --> 00:02:43,959 I am one of the fortunate people 56 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:45,792 that gets to have a really intimate, 57 00:02:45,834 --> 00:02:47,625 deep relationship with him. 58 00:02:47,667 --> 00:02:49,417 I guess I'm like that person in his life 59 00:02:49,458 --> 00:02:52,166 that's just sort of, going like [clicks] knock, knock. 60 00:02:52,208 --> 00:02:55,208 ♪ Feelin' good ♪ 61 00:02:56,458 --> 00:03:02,000 ♪♪♪ 62 00:03:13,917 --> 00:03:16,166 [Cars honking] 63 00:03:16,208 --> 00:03:19,333 David: This is probably maybe the first time 64 00:03:19,375 --> 00:03:21,208 that I've landed in New York, 65 00:03:21,250 --> 00:03:23,041 where I haven't said to myself, 66 00:03:23,083 --> 00:03:25,291 "Oh fuck, it's New York, I don't wanna be here." 67 00:03:25,333 --> 00:03:27,750 [Jazz music plays] 68 00:03:27,792 --> 00:03:34,208 ♪♪♪ 69 00:03:34,250 --> 00:03:36,291 New York, it outpaces Los Angeles 70 00:03:36,333 --> 00:03:38,834 by a multiple of ten, and I don't like that. 71 00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:42,417 It has to do with the claustrophobia, 72 00:03:42,458 --> 00:03:43,917 and the tall buildings. 73 00:03:46,125 --> 00:03:47,959 New York crushes me, and um, 74 00:03:48,000 --> 00:03:49,583 I don't like the energy, 75 00:03:49,625 --> 00:03:52,208 and I don't like all that weight on me 76 00:03:52,250 --> 00:03:53,625 when I'm walking around. 77 00:03:55,166 --> 00:03:57,667 And I'm way, way, way out of my comfort zone 78 00:03:57,709 --> 00:04:00,000 about the unknown of getting to Broadway. 79 00:04:00,041 --> 00:04:03,083 I think you have more luck of getting killed by lightning 80 00:04:03,125 --> 00:04:04,709 than you do of having a hit Broadway show. 81 00:04:06,208 --> 00:04:08,000 Man: You have room on the piano for a Tony Award? 82 00:04:08,041 --> 00:04:09,625 I mean, I look back there. 83 00:04:09,667 --> 00:04:11,041 - I sure do. 84 00:04:11,083 --> 00:04:12,667 Nobody wants the EGOT more than me - 85 00:04:12,709 --> 00:04:15,083 Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony. 86 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:18,625 And then I have the Golden Globe, 87 00:04:18,667 --> 00:04:20,125 and I have the Emmy, and I have the Grammy, 88 00:04:20,166 --> 00:04:21,500 so I'm-I'm a little light. 89 00:04:21,542 --> 00:04:22,792 Man: [Laughs] 90 00:04:24,333 --> 00:04:26,792 Kristin: Broadway as a tendency to be like, prove it. 91 00:04:26,834 --> 00:04:30,000 So there's a feeling that David needs to pay his dues, 92 00:04:30,041 --> 00:04:32,625 but I would also add, David, we are so ready. 93 00:04:32,667 --> 00:04:34,667 We are so ready for you. 94 00:04:34,709 --> 00:04:36,250 Give us that gift, 95 00:04:36,291 --> 00:04:38,208 and then tell your story. 96 00:04:39,709 --> 00:04:41,041 Todd: New York is its own creature, 97 00:04:41,083 --> 00:04:42,542 like LA is its own creature. 98 00:04:43,917 --> 00:04:46,125 He has crossed over, he's pop, he's radio, 99 00:04:46,166 --> 00:04:48,500 he's done film, he's done television. 100 00:04:48,542 --> 00:04:50,125 Kelly: I think the difference between Broadway is, 101 00:04:50,166 --> 00:04:51,792 you work with a bunch of other people, 102 00:04:51,834 --> 00:04:53,375 as opposed to just going into the studio 103 00:04:53,417 --> 00:04:55,792 and creating something on your own. 104 00:04:55,834 --> 00:04:57,834 You have the director, you got the choreographer. 105 00:04:57,875 --> 00:04:59,500 A lot of people jump into the party, 106 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:02,750 and that's probably new for him. 107 00:05:04,250 --> 00:05:06,917 - The notion of David coming to Broadway is, 108 00:05:06,959 --> 00:05:09,333 what has taken you so long, David? 109 00:05:10,458 --> 00:05:12,583 Come on, now. Come on. 110 00:05:13,750 --> 00:05:15,375 It's time. 111 00:05:16,875 --> 00:05:19,834 ♪♪♪ 112 00:05:22,125 --> 00:05:25,500 [Film reel rattles] 113 00:05:25,542 --> 00:05:27,083 David: I have more runway behind me 114 00:05:27,125 --> 00:05:29,250 than I do ahead of me. 115 00:05:29,291 --> 00:05:31,417 [Playing the piano] 116 00:05:35,041 --> 00:05:37,542 3915 Ascot Drive is, is where I grew up. 117 00:05:40,834 --> 00:05:44,917 ♪♪♪ 118 00:05:44,959 --> 00:05:46,458 A suburb of Victoria, British Columbia. 119 00:05:46,500 --> 00:05:48,500 The smell of grass being cut, 120 00:05:48,542 --> 00:05:50,041 everybody ran the streets, 121 00:05:50,083 --> 00:05:52,583 everybody stayed out in the summer. 122 00:05:52,625 --> 00:05:54,709 Nothing but great memories. 123 00:05:59,375 --> 00:06:05,417 ♪♪♪ 124 00:06:05,458 --> 00:06:08,250 I have six sisters; unfortunately, one passed away, 125 00:06:08,291 --> 00:06:11,000 so I only have five sisters now. 126 00:06:11,041 --> 00:06:12,875 - We're all very close. 127 00:06:12,917 --> 00:06:15,166 There's just a respect and appreciation. 128 00:06:15,208 --> 00:06:17,583 He loves his sisters; we love him. 129 00:06:20,417 --> 00:06:22,000 David: My father was an office worker, 130 00:06:22,041 --> 00:06:24,125 my mother was a homemaker. 131 00:06:25,458 --> 00:06:27,375 We had no money, but we weren't poor. 132 00:06:29,041 --> 00:06:31,667 My childhood is like an almost-perfect childhood. 133 00:06:33,125 --> 00:06:40,250 ♪♪♪ 134 00:06:40,291 --> 00:06:42,291 My mother would make my sisters a piece of toast 135 00:06:42,333 --> 00:06:44,083 in the morning before they went to school, 136 00:06:45,417 --> 00:06:47,166 and she'd cook me bacon and eggs. 137 00:06:47,208 --> 00:06:48,792 If you were one of my sisters, 138 00:06:48,834 --> 00:06:50,917 would you not be pissed off? 139 00:06:54,500 --> 00:06:56,667 - Anybody you interview that knows David, 140 00:06:56,709 --> 00:06:58,083 knew our mom, 141 00:06:58,125 --> 00:06:59,959 because he took her everywhere, 142 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,834 and he loved having her with him. 143 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,166 David: Apparently when my mother was dusting the piano, 144 00:07:06,208 --> 00:07:08,792 I was three, four, five years old, or whatever, 145 00:07:08,834 --> 00:07:10,458 and I yelled out, "That's an E!" 146 00:07:10,500 --> 00:07:11,917 And she was going, what are you talking about? 147 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:13,458 I said "That's an E you just hit." 148 00:07:13,500 --> 00:07:15,291 Eleanor: And I thought, 149 00:07:15,333 --> 00:07:16,834 "Oh, there's something wrong with this child." 150 00:07:16,875 --> 00:07:18,959 So I phoned his dad at work and told him, 151 00:07:19,000 --> 00:07:22,959 and he got so excited, that he came home from work. 152 00:07:24,875 --> 00:07:27,959 And, his dad was just totally beside himself. 153 00:07:29,208 --> 00:07:31,458 He was so excited. 154 00:07:31,500 --> 00:07:33,250 David: And he came home and he said, 155 00:07:33,291 --> 00:07:34,959 "The kid's got perfect pitch." 156 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:39,917 ♪♪♪ 157 00:07:39,959 --> 00:07:41,583 That would probably be some indication 158 00:07:41,625 --> 00:07:43,500 that you should do music. 159 00:07:47,625 --> 00:07:49,875 In '63, I would've been 13 or 14, 160 00:07:49,917 --> 00:07:52,041 there was a program to go learn music 161 00:07:52,083 --> 00:07:53,667 at University of Washington, 162 00:07:53,709 --> 00:07:55,583 and I did it two years in a row. 163 00:07:55,625 --> 00:07:57,750 And I'd play every instrument: 164 00:07:57,792 --> 00:07:59,792 clarinet, flute, baritone, 165 00:07:59,834 --> 00:08:01,500 trumpet, trombone, bassoon. 166 00:08:03,458 --> 00:08:06,625 Which helped me later on in writing for orchestra, 167 00:08:06,667 --> 00:08:10,000 because I understood the workings of every instrument. 168 00:08:11,667 --> 00:08:13,125 But then a magical thing happened. 169 00:08:13,166 --> 00:08:15,458 On my little transistor radio, 170 00:08:15,500 --> 00:08:17,166 and I heard this song. 171 00:08:17,208 --> 00:08:21,583 ["She Loves You" by Beatles playing on piano] 172 00:08:21,625 --> 00:08:23,166 The Beatles. 173 00:08:23,208 --> 00:08:25,959 I was 13-years-old, and I could not believe 174 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:27,959 this sound that I was hearing. 175 00:08:28,000 --> 00:08:30,000 It literally changed my life, 176 00:08:30,041 --> 00:08:33,667 and I said, "That's what I want to do. That!" 177 00:08:35,750 --> 00:08:39,083 Bill: David once as a teenager played Ronnie Hawkins' band. 178 00:08:40,625 --> 00:08:42,625 He fired David because he knew David loved 179 00:08:42,667 --> 00:08:44,500 the rock 'n' roll life. 180 00:08:45,709 --> 00:08:48,875 And he said, David you're a genius, 181 00:08:48,917 --> 00:08:50,792 and I'm a three cord rock 'n' roll man. 182 00:08:50,834 --> 00:08:52,208 And if I fire you 183 00:08:52,250 --> 00:08:54,000 there is a chance you'll find your genius. 184 00:08:55,583 --> 00:08:58,000 David: My mother and father, when I was 16, 185 00:08:58,041 --> 00:08:59,542 they took their life savings. 186 00:09:02,125 --> 00:09:04,291 Life savings. 187 00:09:05,375 --> 00:09:07,250 $1700. 188 00:09:07,291 --> 00:09:10,625 And bought a piano and amplifier for me. 189 00:09:10,667 --> 00:09:12,750 But to wipe out your savings for your child, 190 00:09:12,792 --> 00:09:14,333 is pretty crazy. 191 00:09:16,959 --> 00:09:21,709 ♪♪♪ 192 00:09:21,750 --> 00:09:23,166 I really thought that I was gonna make it 193 00:09:23,208 --> 00:09:24,792 in the music business. 194 00:09:26,375 --> 00:09:27,959 Well, we put this band together 195 00:09:28,000 --> 00:09:29,667 and moved to England. 196 00:09:32,750 --> 00:09:34,959 We had illusions of grandeur 197 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,458 that we were gonna fit in and be stars. 198 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:44,208 ♪♪♪ 199 00:09:44,250 --> 00:09:46,458 The world scene at that time was Pink Floyd, 200 00:09:46,500 --> 00:09:49,125 and The Doors, and Deep Purple, 201 00:09:49,166 --> 00:09:50,875 [Record scratches] 202 00:09:50,917 --> 00:09:52,583 and were like this clean cut, 203 00:09:52,625 --> 00:09:55,041 horrible dance band kinda thing. 204 00:09:55,083 --> 00:09:57,959 We just had no clue about what we were doing. 205 00:09:59,500 --> 00:10:01,208 We ended up, through an agent, just getting this gig 206 00:10:01,250 --> 00:10:03,083 to be Chuck Berry's back-up band. 207 00:10:03,125 --> 00:10:07,166 ♪♪♪ 208 00:10:07,208 --> 00:10:09,500 [Audience applauds] 209 00:10:09,542 --> 00:10:11,333 [Electric guitar riff plays] 210 00:10:11,375 --> 00:10:13,500 ♪♪♪ 211 00:10:13,542 --> 00:10:15,250 I was classically trained, 212 00:10:15,291 --> 00:10:17,375 and I didn't really know much about rock 'n' roll, 213 00:10:17,417 --> 00:10:20,792 so I didn't play his music very well, at all. 214 00:10:20,834 --> 00:10:23,583 ♪♪♪ 215 00:10:23,625 --> 00:10:25,417 Chuck was just an asshole, 216 00:10:25,458 --> 00:10:26,792 there's no other way of putting it. 217 00:10:26,834 --> 00:10:28,166 He would just get out there with his guitar, 218 00:10:28,208 --> 00:10:30,083 out of tune, and just crank away, 219 00:10:30,125 --> 00:10:31,959 and he didn't really care what was going on behind him. 220 00:10:33,458 --> 00:10:35,500 I didn't play his song properly, 221 00:10:35,542 --> 00:10:37,917 which is not a good fit, and ended up in a disaster. 222 00:10:39,125 --> 00:10:41,166 Most of the band quit. 223 00:10:41,208 --> 00:10:43,208 They got disillusioned, they wanted to go home. 224 00:10:43,250 --> 00:10:45,458 And I said, "Well, I'm not goin' home, 225 00:10:45,500 --> 00:10:47,125 I'm stayin'. I'm here to make it." 226 00:10:51,041 --> 00:10:52,834 I stayed for about a year 227 00:10:54,083 --> 00:10:56,750 and it was, without a doubt, 228 00:10:56,792 --> 00:10:58,500 the loneliest time of my life. 229 00:10:59,959 --> 00:11:02,291 I auditioned for everything. 230 00:11:02,333 --> 00:11:04,125 London was so cruel to me, 231 00:11:04,166 --> 00:11:06,083 nothing short of a tragic life. 232 00:11:06,125 --> 00:11:07,750 After a year of doing that, 233 00:11:07,792 --> 00:11:10,125 I gave in and my parents sent me sixty dollars, 234 00:11:10,166 --> 00:11:12,250 and that was a air ticket home. 235 00:11:13,792 --> 00:11:15,875 [Plane engine roars] 236 00:11:18,875 --> 00:11:21,917 By age 13, I was making more money than my father, 237 00:11:21,959 --> 00:11:23,792 and I was on this music train. 238 00:11:23,834 --> 00:11:25,458 I knew there was a world out there 239 00:11:25,500 --> 00:11:27,125 and I knew that I could be part of it. 240 00:11:27,166 --> 00:11:28,959 This one night, I came home 241 00:11:29,041 --> 00:11:31,417 at 5:30 in the morning. 242 00:11:31,458 --> 00:11:33,333 My father was up. 243 00:11:33,375 --> 00:11:35,500 He sat me down and he said, 244 00:11:35,542 --> 00:11:37,583 "So, this music business, 245 00:11:37,625 --> 00:11:39,667 you really like this, huh?" 246 00:11:39,709 --> 00:11:41,750 I said, "Yeah, I do." 247 00:11:41,792 --> 00:11:43,500 He said, "You think you have a chance at making it 248 00:11:43,542 --> 00:11:45,458 in the music business?" 249 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:48,250 I said, "Yeah, I really do." 250 00:11:48,291 --> 00:11:52,208 And then he just said, "Okay then, good night." 251 00:11:52,250 --> 00:11:54,875 And that was the only time 252 00:11:54,917 --> 00:11:59,375 that I had a man-to-man conversation with him, 253 00:11:59,417 --> 00:12:01,333 and then he died a couple of months later. 254 00:12:03,625 --> 00:12:06,417 I woke up to go to school and the car was gone, 255 00:12:06,458 --> 00:12:08,417 and my mom said that, he'd had a heart attack. 256 00:12:09,875 --> 00:12:11,375 He was in the hospital for 11 days 257 00:12:11,417 --> 00:12:13,458 before he had another heart attack and died. 258 00:12:13,500 --> 00:12:15,625 I only visited him once. 259 00:12:15,667 --> 00:12:17,291 I should have been up there everyday. 260 00:12:17,333 --> 00:12:19,041 Big mistake. 261 00:12:19,083 --> 00:12:21,083 Imagine if I could have like broke through that barrier, 262 00:12:21,125 --> 00:12:23,041 and like, talk to him like man-to-man 263 00:12:23,083 --> 00:12:25,208 for 10 days, it would have been amazing. 264 00:12:26,959 --> 00:12:29,208 Jaymes: I think Dad's dying truly affected David. 265 00:12:29,250 --> 00:12:31,041 He was only 18, 266 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:33,417 and our dad was only 54. 267 00:12:33,458 --> 00:12:35,125 And at the same time, he was conflicted 268 00:12:35,166 --> 00:12:38,500 because he was starting his own musical career. 269 00:12:39,709 --> 00:12:41,333 David: When my father died, 270 00:12:41,375 --> 00:12:44,417 there was three girls left at home plus myself. 271 00:12:45,709 --> 00:12:47,959 It was kind of chaos at home; 272 00:12:48,000 --> 00:12:50,125 my mother, 47-years-old, 273 00:12:50,166 --> 00:12:51,959 three young girls. 274 00:12:52,041 --> 00:12:54,083 She didn't know how to deal with it. 275 00:12:54,125 --> 00:12:57,083 I should have stepped in 276 00:12:57,125 --> 00:12:58,750 and taken care of it. 277 00:12:58,792 --> 00:13:01,750 You know, brought order to the house, but I don't. 278 00:13:01,792 --> 00:13:04,250 Instead I made a selfish decision to leave, 279 00:13:04,291 --> 00:13:06,417 and not deal with the chaos. 280 00:13:08,500 --> 00:13:11,000 I chose my career over helping my mother 281 00:13:11,041 --> 00:13:12,667 and my three sisters. 282 00:13:13,959 --> 00:13:15,792 By the time I was 25, 283 00:13:15,834 --> 00:13:18,250 I was making enough money that I can send her money 284 00:13:18,291 --> 00:13:20,667 and buy her cars, and pay off her house, 285 00:13:20,709 --> 00:13:22,834 and stuff like that. 286 00:13:22,875 --> 00:13:31,583 ♪♪♪ 287 00:13:31,625 --> 00:13:33,750 Me and my soon-to-be wife, B.J., 288 00:13:33,792 --> 00:13:35,375 moved to Los Angeles. 289 00:13:37,041 --> 00:13:39,125 That was 1972. 290 00:13:39,166 --> 00:13:41,166 That's when we put "Skylark" together. 291 00:13:41,208 --> 00:13:45,083 ♪ She's faced the hardest times you could imagine ♪ 292 00:13:47,125 --> 00:13:49,041 ♪ And many times... ♪ 293 00:13:49,083 --> 00:13:51,542 I'd lived in London, I'd lived in Toronto by then, 294 00:13:51,583 --> 00:13:53,667 I'd lived in Vancouver, I'd lived in Edmonton, 295 00:13:53,709 --> 00:13:56,291 I'd lived in Victoria. None of it felt right. 296 00:13:56,333 --> 00:13:59,250 The second that I got to Los Angeles, 297 00:13:59,291 --> 00:14:01,125 it felt right. 298 00:14:01,166 --> 00:14:04,291 ♪ Each time her slender shoulders ♪ 299 00:14:04,333 --> 00:14:06,041 ♪ Wore the weight of all her fears ♪ 300 00:14:06,083 --> 00:14:08,417 I wanted to be studio musician so badly. 301 00:14:08,458 --> 00:14:11,291 ♪ And a sorrow no one hears ♪ 302 00:14:11,333 --> 00:14:13,291 This is where I knew I belonged. 303 00:14:13,333 --> 00:14:15,750 ♪ Still rings in midnight silence ♪ 304 00:14:15,792 --> 00:14:18,500 Our friend, Barry De Vorzon, had discovered us, 305 00:14:18,542 --> 00:14:20,208 and he brought us here specifically, 306 00:14:20,250 --> 00:14:22,083 to get us a recording contract 307 00:14:22,125 --> 00:14:24,417 and record an album, and that's exactly what we did. 308 00:14:26,834 --> 00:14:28,959 And amongst that album was the song, "Wildflower". 309 00:14:31,125 --> 00:14:32,667 ♪ For she's a child ♪ 310 00:14:32,709 --> 00:14:34,959 That song started getting airplay, 311 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:36,792 then it just started spreading throughout the country 312 00:14:36,834 --> 00:14:38,542 and became a huge hit. 313 00:14:38,583 --> 00:14:40,792 That was the first taste. 314 00:14:40,834 --> 00:14:44,417 It just really wet my appetite; I wanted more. 315 00:14:44,458 --> 00:14:47,375 ♪ Free and gentle flower growing wild ♪ 316 00:14:52,208 --> 00:14:53,834 I started playing rehearsal piano. 317 00:14:55,500 --> 00:14:58,125 I eventually got a job playing for "The Rocky Horror Show". 318 00:14:58,166 --> 00:15:03,041 ♪♪♪ 319 00:15:03,083 --> 00:15:05,333 Every night, you would look out into the audience, 320 00:15:05,375 --> 00:15:07,125 and you would see all these movie stars. 321 00:15:09,959 --> 00:15:11,542 They all came to see Tim Curry 322 00:15:11,583 --> 00:15:13,500 in "The Rocky Horror Show." 323 00:15:13,542 --> 00:15:15,417 I was in the band, I later became the musical director. 324 00:15:17,500 --> 00:15:19,500 Through the musicians in that band, 325 00:15:19,542 --> 00:15:21,667 I got to meet other musicians 326 00:15:21,709 --> 00:15:25,792 who actually were in the throes of the session work. 327 00:15:25,834 --> 00:15:32,500 ♪♪♪ 328 00:15:32,542 --> 00:15:34,875 And I met a drummer named Jim Keltner. 329 00:15:34,917 --> 00:15:37,834 He was the drummer that was closest to The Beatles. 330 00:15:39,166 --> 00:15:41,250 The musicians would come and jam. 331 00:15:41,291 --> 00:15:43,583 Piano faced the wall, 332 00:15:43,625 --> 00:15:45,917 so I couldn't see the other musicians. 333 00:15:45,959 --> 00:15:47,792 I would just be playing along, just like, 334 00:15:47,834 --> 00:15:50,208 just grooving on a Sunday night at three in the morning, 335 00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:52,709 and John Lennon would pop in, and Joe Cocker. 336 00:15:52,750 --> 00:15:54,834 And drums would drop out 337 00:15:54,875 --> 00:15:56,667 and then eventually I was just playing solo piano, 338 00:15:56,709 --> 00:15:58,333 and I just kept goin', kept goin'. 339 00:15:58,375 --> 00:16:00,208 And then, the bass would come in again, 340 00:16:00,250 --> 00:16:01,792 the drums would come in again. 341 00:16:01,834 --> 00:16:03,333 And I just thought they were letting me play, 342 00:16:03,375 --> 00:16:05,333 but they were actually going and doing drugs. 343 00:16:05,375 --> 00:16:07,291 The other guys in the band were like, 344 00:16:07,333 --> 00:16:09,166 how can this kid stay up all night and play music, 345 00:16:09,208 --> 00:16:10,625 and not do drugs? 346 00:16:10,667 --> 00:16:12,583 I didn't know, I just wanted to play music. 347 00:16:14,834 --> 00:16:17,000 - I first met David at a recording session 348 00:16:17,041 --> 00:16:19,625 in the uh, 70's. 349 00:16:19,667 --> 00:16:21,917 David: I was barely a studio musician. 350 00:16:21,959 --> 00:16:24,125 I was one of two or three piano players. 351 00:16:24,166 --> 00:16:26,125 I remember walking in the studio. 352 00:16:28,041 --> 00:16:31,083 She had diamonds by the yard wrapped around her arm. 353 00:16:31,125 --> 00:16:33,375 She has the most beautiful hands. 354 00:16:33,417 --> 00:16:35,542 She's a very elegant, beautiful woman. 355 00:16:37,208 --> 00:16:39,208 I just remember her kind of floating in the studio. 356 00:16:42,083 --> 00:16:43,917 We were playing along, and in the middle of it she goes, 357 00:16:43,959 --> 00:16:45,792 "Stop! It's not right! 358 00:16:45,834 --> 00:16:47,583 It's not working for me. Stop." 359 00:16:47,625 --> 00:16:49,333 - And I was singing a song, 360 00:16:49,375 --> 00:16:51,083 but it didn't have the right opening, 361 00:16:51,125 --> 00:16:53,291 something was wrong about it. 362 00:16:53,333 --> 00:16:55,208 - She said, "Let's take a lunch break." 363 00:16:55,250 --> 00:16:57,208 Me, being the opportunist that I am, 364 00:16:57,250 --> 00:16:59,125 I was in the corner on my electric piano, 365 00:16:59,166 --> 00:17:00,834 way in the corner, 366 00:17:00,875 --> 00:17:03,333 hoping that the mic was on 367 00:17:03,375 --> 00:17:05,333 because she was having her lunch in the control room. 368 00:17:05,375 --> 00:17:08,583 - And then I heard someone playing a figure on a piano. 369 00:17:08,625 --> 00:17:10,917 - And literally, like out of the movies, 370 00:17:12,417 --> 00:17:15,542 she walks through the door, and she goes, 371 00:17:15,583 --> 00:17:18,125 "Marty," to her manager, "Listen to this!" 372 00:17:18,166 --> 00:17:20,000 - And I said, "Was that you playing that on the piano? 373 00:17:20,041 --> 00:17:21,458 I like that. I like that." 374 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:23,542 - It worked. 375 00:17:23,583 --> 00:17:25,291 - Let's do it the way this guy was playing it. 376 00:17:25,333 --> 00:17:27,000 - We're gonna do it like that. 377 00:17:27,041 --> 00:17:29,000 - That happened to be David Foster. 378 00:17:29,041 --> 00:17:30,625 - And if you listen to the record today, 379 00:17:30,667 --> 00:17:32,417 it's her and I. 380 00:17:33,875 --> 00:17:35,709 So then, 10 years later, 381 00:17:35,750 --> 00:17:38,041 Barbra's doing a Broadway album, 382 00:17:38,083 --> 00:17:40,208 and there's a song called, "Somewhere" 383 00:17:40,250 --> 00:17:41,709 and she'd like you to produce it. 384 00:17:41,750 --> 00:17:43,625 And I went, "Dude, I'm in." 385 00:17:43,667 --> 00:17:45,542 Barbra said to me, 386 00:17:45,583 --> 00:17:48,625 "David, I want this record to sound 387 00:17:48,667 --> 00:17:50,750 like it was not created on this planet, 388 00:17:52,000 --> 00:17:54,375 but I don't want you to use any orchestra, 389 00:17:54,417 --> 00:17:57,166 I only want you to use synthesizers." 390 00:17:57,208 --> 00:17:59,166 ♪ Somewhere ♪ 391 00:18:00,417 --> 00:18:03,917 ♪ We'll find a new way of living ♪ 392 00:18:06,375 --> 00:18:08,959 - David and I have been through a lot together. 393 00:18:10,250 --> 00:18:12,417 We're on the same wavelength. 394 00:18:12,458 --> 00:18:14,750 Now, we agree far more than we disagree. 395 00:18:17,125 --> 00:18:19,583 David: So it took one month. 396 00:18:21,041 --> 00:18:23,041 We finished the mix. 397 00:18:23,959 --> 00:18:26,291 In all modesty, I killed it. 398 00:18:28,333 --> 00:18:30,125 So I called her up, I said, "It's finished." 399 00:18:30,166 --> 00:18:31,792 She said, "I wanna hear it tonight." 400 00:18:31,834 --> 00:18:34,041 I said, "Okay, well I'll drive out and play it for you." 401 00:18:34,083 --> 00:18:36,083 Drove out to her Malibu place. 402 00:18:36,125 --> 00:18:37,834 She was having a party. 403 00:18:37,875 --> 00:18:39,834 I knock on the door, 404 00:18:39,875 --> 00:18:42,375 and the door opened, 405 00:18:42,417 --> 00:18:44,792 it was Elizabeth Taylor and Clint Eastwood. 406 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:48,792 And Elizabeth said to me, "Hello, can I help you?" 407 00:18:48,834 --> 00:18:51,333 I was like, "You're Elizabeth Taylor." 408 00:18:51,375 --> 00:18:53,041 She said, "Well yes, that's quite right." 409 00:18:53,083 --> 00:18:54,834 You know, I don't know what the hell I said, 410 00:18:54,875 --> 00:18:56,542 but it was, it was a Hollywood party. 411 00:18:56,583 --> 00:18:58,083 It was like, everywhere you turned, 412 00:18:58,125 --> 00:18:59,667 there was Dustin Hoffman, and this one, and that one. 413 00:18:59,709 --> 00:19:01,250 And then Barbra comes down, she says, 414 00:19:01,291 --> 00:19:03,583 "Oh, you're here to play me the mix. Oh, this is great." 415 00:19:05,083 --> 00:19:07,083 And she leaned back like this, in her evening gown... 416 00:19:08,709 --> 00:19:11,041 ♪ Somehow ♪ 417 00:19:13,583 --> 00:19:15,250 ♪ Someday ♪ 418 00:19:18,417 --> 00:19:21,291 ♪ Somewhere ♪ 419 00:19:28,542 --> 00:19:31,709 ...and she went, "I love it. I love it." 420 00:19:33,166 --> 00:19:34,875 And she loved it. 421 00:19:37,792 --> 00:19:41,083 Quincy: We've all had the identical same notes 422 00:19:41,125 --> 00:19:43,750 for 700 years. 423 00:19:45,458 --> 00:19:47,208 Through harmony and rhythm, 424 00:19:48,750 --> 00:19:52,083 the choice is yours that represent who you are. 425 00:19:54,166 --> 00:19:56,959 You have to be a babysitter, you have to be a shrink, 426 00:19:57,000 --> 00:19:58,667 you have to be a mama, 427 00:19:58,709 --> 00:20:00,792 a nanny, everything. 428 00:20:00,834 --> 00:20:02,375 You have to get the studio, to get backgrounds, 429 00:20:02,417 --> 00:20:04,333 you have to find the songs, man. 430 00:20:04,375 --> 00:20:07,083 That's the power right there, the songs. 431 00:20:08,458 --> 00:20:11,083 Carole: He's been responsible for doing hit figures 432 00:20:11,125 --> 00:20:13,125 on songs of mine that he didn't even write. 433 00:20:13,166 --> 00:20:15,125 On "That's What Friends are For", 434 00:20:15,166 --> 00:20:17,000 he came into the studio to play keyboards, 435 00:20:17,041 --> 00:20:19,959 and came up with the da, da, da. 436 00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,875 [Playing the harmonica] 437 00:20:21,917 --> 00:20:31,333 ♪♪♪ 438 00:20:31,375 --> 00:20:33,875 ♪ That's that friends are for ♪ 439 00:20:33,917 --> 00:20:37,458 ♪♪♪ 440 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:38,917 David: Is, it's going just a little bit flat. 441 00:20:38,959 --> 00:20:40,750 ♪ Star ♪ And you're dropping on 'star' 442 00:20:40,792 --> 00:20:42,625 so if you'll hold that up we'll have it. 443 00:20:42,667 --> 00:20:45,959 Barbara: David has a way of coaxing what he wants 444 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,875 out of an artist. 445 00:20:47,917 --> 00:20:49,625 - That sounded good. 446 00:20:49,667 --> 00:20:51,291 - And it's very clever. 447 00:20:51,333 --> 00:20:54,375 He uses a sort of um, carrot and stick approach, 448 00:20:54,417 --> 00:20:56,375 you know. He flatters the singer, 449 00:20:56,417 --> 00:20:58,041 and then he says, let's do it again. 450 00:21:00,667 --> 00:21:02,709 Paul: The way David will drive these artists 451 00:21:02,750 --> 00:21:04,166 and abuse the shit of 'em, 452 00:21:04,208 --> 00:21:06,291 You got it in take three! 453 00:21:06,333 --> 00:21:08,208 Do you know how many takes Sinatra did with "My Way"? 454 00:21:09,458 --> 00:21:10,291 One. 455 00:21:14,000 --> 00:21:16,333 Céline: David is very perfectionist. 456 00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:18,125 So am I. 457 00:21:18,166 --> 00:21:20,750 If you're not willing to have a relationship 458 00:21:20,792 --> 00:21:23,959 and accept the over, and one more, 459 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:26,000 and one more time, and you've got it you, 460 00:21:26,041 --> 00:21:28,542 and you've got it in you. And you're saying to yourself, 461 00:21:28,583 --> 00:21:32,000 "Do you think that after 29 takes I have given it to you?" 462 00:21:32,041 --> 00:21:34,000 But, you know what? 463 00:21:34,041 --> 00:21:36,166 The 30th time that you sang, 464 00:21:36,208 --> 00:21:39,208 he went, "Bingo!" 465 00:21:39,250 --> 00:21:41,458 David: I produced the original "Dreamgirls" in 1981, 466 00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:43,792 I think it was. 467 00:21:43,834 --> 00:21:45,166 It was Jennifer Holliday. 468 00:21:45,208 --> 00:21:47,250 She came into the studio, 469 00:21:47,291 --> 00:21:49,542 she walked in with a fur coat and a dog under each arm, 470 00:21:51,208 --> 00:21:54,458 and she walked up to the mic, and I said, 471 00:21:54,500 --> 00:21:56,667 "Okay, Jennifer, let's see what it sounds like?" 472 00:21:56,709 --> 00:22:00,625 ♪ Ever, ever go no, no, no, no way ♪ 473 00:22:00,667 --> 00:22:02,917 ♪ No, no, no, no way ♪ 474 00:22:02,959 --> 00:22:05,291 ♪ I'm livin' without you ♪ 475 00:22:05,333 --> 00:22:07,375 - She sang her ass off, 476 00:22:07,417 --> 00:22:09,709 just like the show. 477 00:22:09,750 --> 00:22:11,583 But we were scrambling in the control room. 478 00:22:11,625 --> 00:22:13,500 We weren't ready. We wanted just a run through 479 00:22:13,542 --> 00:22:15,125 so that we could get the levels. 480 00:22:15,166 --> 00:22:16,583 ♪ I'm stayin' ♪ 481 00:22:16,625 --> 00:22:18,792 ♪ I'm stayin' ♪ 482 00:22:18,834 --> 00:22:21,375 ♪ And you, and you, and you ♪ 483 00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:24,709 ♪ You're gonna love me ♪ 484 00:22:25,875 --> 00:22:27,834 ♪ Yeah ♪ 485 00:22:30,750 --> 00:22:32,417 So at the end of it, I went, 486 00:22:32,458 --> 00:22:34,000 "Great Jennifer, that was fantastic. 487 00:22:34,041 --> 00:22:36,291 We're ready, we got our levels, let's do one." 488 00:22:36,333 --> 00:22:38,166 She put her coat on, 489 00:22:38,208 --> 00:22:40,500 grabbed her two dogs and she said, 490 00:22:40,542 --> 00:22:43,792 "I only sing the song once," and walked out. 491 00:22:43,834 --> 00:22:48,834 ♪♪♪ 492 00:22:54,542 --> 00:22:56,834 I would say the next big, explosive moment in my life 493 00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,709 was Earth, Wind & Fire. 494 00:23:01,750 --> 00:23:04,041 I had been a studio musician for three years, 495 00:23:05,417 --> 00:23:07,417 so I had played on The 5th Dimension records, 496 00:23:07,458 --> 00:23:09,291 and on Dolly Parton. 497 00:23:09,333 --> 00:23:11,917 As a piano player, I watched very carefully, 498 00:23:11,959 --> 00:23:13,542 the producers on the other side of the glass, 499 00:23:13,583 --> 00:23:15,458 because I wanted that job. 500 00:23:15,500 --> 00:23:17,458 I wanted the producer job. 501 00:23:17,500 --> 00:23:19,750 I managed to get an audience with Berry Gordy, 502 00:23:19,792 --> 00:23:21,375 the founder of Motown Records. 503 00:23:21,417 --> 00:23:23,208 Now I'm panicked. 504 00:23:23,250 --> 00:23:26,792 And I walked from his sofa to his piano in his office, 505 00:23:26,834 --> 00:23:29,834 and in those 10 steps, I faked it, 506 00:23:29,875 --> 00:23:32,750 and I sat down at the piano, and this is what fell out. 507 00:23:32,792 --> 00:23:34,834 ♪♪♪ 508 00:23:34,875 --> 00:23:37,000 ♪ After the love is gone ♪ 509 00:23:38,208 --> 00:23:40,709 ♪ How could you lead me on ♪ 510 00:23:40,750 --> 00:23:42,250 That's when I met Earth, Wind & Fire, 511 00:23:42,291 --> 00:23:43,875 and I played it for Maurice White, 512 00:23:43,917 --> 00:23:45,875 and he said, "I wanna record it." 513 00:23:45,917 --> 00:23:48,583 I said, "When?" He said, "Tonight." 514 00:23:48,625 --> 00:23:51,041 Went on this three-album rampage with them, 515 00:23:51,083 --> 00:23:52,792 and that propelled me into the 80's. 516 00:23:52,834 --> 00:23:54,667 ♪ What used to be right in wrong ♪ 517 00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,458 ♪ Something happened along the way ♪ 518 00:23:58,500 --> 00:24:00,917 Paul: There's a definite vibe that David gets into, 519 00:24:00,959 --> 00:24:03,083 that is very majestic, 520 00:24:03,125 --> 00:24:05,750 that's very well-produced, 521 00:24:05,792 --> 00:24:08,291 that gives you that big richness. 522 00:24:08,333 --> 00:24:10,458 ♪ After the love is gone ♪ 523 00:24:10,500 --> 00:24:13,208 ♪ How could you lead me on ♪ 524 00:24:13,250 --> 00:24:16,458 JR: He has literally changed the face of music. 525 00:24:16,500 --> 00:24:18,583 The best piano player I've ever played with, 526 00:24:18,625 --> 00:24:20,750 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 ♪♪♪ 161451

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