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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:01:13,874 --> 00:01:17,545 One, two, one, two, three, four. 2 00:01:21,915 --> 00:01:24,352 Did you know there's actually only one groove 3 00:01:24,386 --> 00:01:26,221 on a record? 4 00:01:26,254 --> 00:01:27,322 It's true. 5 00:01:27,355 --> 00:01:29,557 Yeah. It looks like all these individual circles, 6 00:01:29,591 --> 00:01:31,559 but no, it's just one. 7 00:01:31,593 --> 00:01:33,495 One single line, 8 00:01:33,528 --> 00:01:35,162 1,500 feet of it, to be exact, 9 00:01:35,195 --> 00:01:38,165 a third of a mile carving its way round and round 10 00:01:38,198 --> 00:01:39,267 in circles until... 11 00:01:41,236 --> 00:01:43,170 it finally just ends. 12 00:01:43,204 --> 00:01:47,107 To make a record it takes 100 tons of pressure 13 00:01:47,141 --> 00:01:49,577 applied under 1,000 degrees of heat, 14 00:01:49,611 --> 00:01:53,047 all to create this perfect vinyl platter. 15 00:01:55,082 --> 00:01:57,319 Now, what music goes on the record, 16 00:01:57,352 --> 00:01:59,387 well, that's where I come in. 17 00:02:00,954 --> 00:02:03,291 I... am a record man. 18 00:02:04,359 --> 00:02:09,431 ♪ He taught me how ♪ 19 00:02:09,464 --> 00:02:13,201 ♪ To watch ♪ 20 00:02:13,234 --> 00:02:14,935 ♪ Fight and pray ♪ 21 00:02:14,968 --> 00:02:16,571 Hey! 22 00:02:16,604 --> 00:02:19,441 -Whoo! -♪ Fight and pray ♪ 23 00:02:19,474 --> 00:02:20,941 Sing it! 24 00:02:20,974 --> 00:02:26,581 ♪ And in rejoicing ♪ 25 00:02:26,614 --> 00:02:33,254 ♪ Every day ♪ 26 00:02:34,289 --> 00:02:36,023 ♪ Every day ♪ 27 00:02:39,627 --> 00:02:40,994 That, right there, 28 00:02:41,028 --> 00:02:42,630 ah, that is why I'm here, Mr. Hawkins. 29 00:02:42,664 --> 00:02:44,965 You got call-in requests breaking records, 30 00:02:44,998 --> 00:02:46,166 lightning in a bottle, 31 00:02:46,201 --> 00:02:48,001 yet no one east of here has ever heard it. 32 00:02:48,035 --> 00:02:49,270 You heard it, as did six other labels, 33 00:02:49,304 --> 00:02:52,273 -all making offers right now. -Five other labels, Mr. Hawkins, 34 00:02:52,307 --> 00:02:54,642 and you've only spoken to the head of one of them. 35 00:02:54,676 --> 00:02:58,279 Now, give me this song and I promise you, 36 00:02:58,313 --> 00:03:00,415 we will own radio. 37 00:03:00,448 --> 00:03:02,384 I mean, a gospel-pop crossover? 38 00:03:02,417 --> 00:03:03,951 No one's ever done that before! 39 00:03:03,984 --> 00:03:06,254 This is why I'm here. This is what I do, 40 00:03:06,287 --> 00:03:09,224 and I promise you right here in this church 41 00:03:09,257 --> 00:03:10,425 before God, 42 00:03:10,458 --> 00:03:11,493 there is just no one better. 43 00:03:11,526 --> 00:03:14,128 No, no. You called me Mr. Hawkins, not Reverend. 44 00:03:14,161 --> 00:03:16,264 I'm not pretending there's not a line. 45 00:03:16,297 --> 00:03:18,633 I am just respecting when to cross it. 46 00:03:18,666 --> 00:03:21,603 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 47 00:03:21,636 --> 00:03:24,406 Now, do we want to talk in height or weight? 48 00:03:24,439 --> 00:03:27,040 Because that right there is about four inches. 49 00:03:27,675 --> 00:03:29,344 Mm. 50 00:03:29,377 --> 00:03:30,278 Yes? 51 00:03:30,311 --> 00:03:32,547 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 52 00:03:32,580 --> 00:03:34,649 Yes? Yes? 53 00:03:34,682 --> 00:03:36,150 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 54 00:03:36,183 --> 00:03:37,452 Oh, come on! 55 00:03:37,485 --> 00:03:38,486 Yes? 56 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:40,053 -Yes, yes. -Yes! 57 00:03:40,087 --> 00:03:42,156 We will do an awful lot of God's work. 58 00:03:42,189 --> 00:03:43,491 Oh, happy day. 59 00:03:43,525 --> 00:03:44,692 Happy day. 60 00:03:44,726 --> 00:03:46,661 Whoo! 61 00:03:46,694 --> 00:03:49,062 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 62 00:03:49,096 --> 00:03:51,232 ♪ Singing oh happy day ♪ 63 00:03:51,266 --> 00:03:52,367 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 64 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:54,702 ♪ Oh happy happy day ♪ 65 00:03:54,736 --> 00:03:56,671 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 66 00:03:56,704 --> 00:03:59,340 ♪ Oh happy happy day ♪ 67 00:03:59,374 --> 00:04:00,642 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 68 00:04:02,210 --> 00:04:03,445 ♪ Whoo ♪ 69 00:04:03,478 --> 00:04:07,682 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 70 00:04:07,715 --> 00:04:13,053 ♪ Oh happy day ♪ 71 00:04:13,086 --> 00:04:14,522 Who told you that? 72 00:04:14,556 --> 00:04:16,224 Buck? Cecil? 73 00:04:16,257 --> 00:04:18,726 You talk to Hawkins himself? 74 00:04:18,760 --> 00:04:21,563 "Oh, Happy Day" sold over seven million records. 75 00:04:21,596 --> 00:04:24,466 It even won us a Grammy. Hmm. 76 00:04:26,367 --> 00:04:28,303 Alright. The choir wasn't actually there 77 00:04:28,336 --> 00:04:30,605 when I got arrived. I didn't get up the stage 78 00:04:30,638 --> 00:04:32,640 and perform the song, but you know what? 79 00:04:32,674 --> 00:04:34,174 I could have. 80 00:04:34,209 --> 00:04:37,378 Hell of a lot more fun to tell it that way, though. 81 00:04:37,412 --> 00:04:39,781 You realize that that's gonna be the problem 82 00:04:39,814 --> 00:04:41,549 with all these stories, right? 83 00:04:41,583 --> 00:04:44,486 Listen. I'm not... I'm not sayig that people are gonna be lying. 84 00:04:44,519 --> 00:04:46,053 It's just... Okay. 85 00:04:46,086 --> 00:04:48,356 Well, some of them might be. 86 00:04:48,389 --> 00:04:49,757 It's just that memories, 87 00:04:49,791 --> 00:04:51,726 memories are complicated, you know. 88 00:04:51,759 --> 00:04:53,528 We remember what we wanna remember. 89 00:04:54,662 --> 00:04:56,664 And we forget what we need to forget. 90 00:05:02,237 --> 00:05:04,572 To be at the heart of something as impossibly successful 91 00:05:04,606 --> 00:05:05,673 as what we had... 92 00:05:05,707 --> 00:05:07,775 Gladys Knight, the Isley Brothers, 93 00:05:07,809 --> 00:05:11,379 Bill Withers, Parliament, the Village People, Kiss, 94 00:05:11,412 --> 00:05:12,280 and Donna... 95 00:05:12,313 --> 00:05:14,516 it's... How do you expect me to tell you 96 00:05:14,549 --> 00:05:16,417 how all that really happened? 97 00:05:18,118 --> 00:05:20,087 Couple guys broke as we were 98 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,590 to making over $100 million a year. 99 00:05:23,825 --> 00:05:25,793 I mean, first, you'd have to understand our crew, 100 00:05:25,827 --> 00:05:28,429 because there was just no one else ever like them. 101 00:05:29,430 --> 00:05:30,832 Cecil was my best friend. 102 00:05:30,865 --> 00:05:33,133 He was also a record executive who loved the artists 103 00:05:33,166 --> 00:05:34,802 and the music even more than the business, 104 00:05:34,836 --> 00:05:36,471 and the artists themselves... Oh, my God. 105 00:05:36,504 --> 00:05:38,740 They sure loved him... and trusted him, 106 00:05:38,773 --> 00:05:40,708 more than they ever trusted me. 107 00:05:40,742 --> 00:05:41,643 Larry was a music fan 108 00:05:41,676 --> 00:05:43,678 long before he ever became an executive. 109 00:05:43,711 --> 00:05:45,112 It was why he was so effective 110 00:05:45,145 --> 00:05:46,714 staying out on the road with the bands. 111 00:05:46,748 --> 00:05:48,216 He was also my cousin, 112 00:05:48,249 --> 00:05:52,152 and all great business is family. 113 00:05:52,185 --> 00:05:55,690 Buck had been a short-order cook before he married Nancy. 114 00:05:55,723 --> 00:05:57,425 Our PR man, he was the connection guy 115 00:05:57,458 --> 00:05:59,327 who could convince just about anyone 116 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,429 to do just about anything. 117 00:06:02,430 --> 00:06:03,331 And Nancy. 118 00:06:03,364 --> 00:06:06,434 God. Every DJ and radio program director 119 00:06:06,467 --> 00:06:08,469 just loved Nance. 120 00:06:08,503 --> 00:06:09,537 She was our secret weapon, 121 00:06:09,571 --> 00:06:12,340 getting our music on the air and into your lives. 122 00:06:12,373 --> 00:06:15,209 She was also my wife's sister. 123 00:06:16,611 --> 00:06:18,880 Beth was, um... 124 00:06:18,913 --> 00:06:21,148 Well, she was the first person who ever believed 125 00:06:21,181 --> 00:06:23,384 my dreams could be more than just dreams. 126 00:06:23,418 --> 00:06:26,153 She was the first one to ever truly believe in me. 127 00:06:27,488 --> 00:06:29,324 And Joyce... 128 00:06:29,357 --> 00:06:32,460 You know, I may have met her as Kiss's manager, but... 129 00:06:32,493 --> 00:06:34,729 well, we'll get to Joyce. 130 00:06:34,762 --> 00:06:37,632 Just... give me a little time. 131 00:06:39,367 --> 00:06:42,169 Look. I know that we've been blamed for a lot of bad things 132 00:06:42,203 --> 00:06:43,338 that happened, and I'm not saying 133 00:06:43,371 --> 00:06:46,207 it's not sex, drugs, and rock and roll, because it was. 134 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:48,376 It's just, it was sex before it was deadly, you know? 135 00:06:48,409 --> 00:06:50,411 And finding out who wasn't doing drugs would be 136 00:06:50,445 --> 00:06:53,681 a hell of a lot harder story for you to tell. 137 00:06:53,715 --> 00:06:56,384 But if what you're after is the truth 138 00:06:56,417 --> 00:06:58,653 of not just what happened but how it happened, 139 00:06:58,686 --> 00:07:00,888 then, you know, you're just gonna have to believe 140 00:07:00,922 --> 00:07:04,726 all of it, because every single bit of it 141 00:07:04,759 --> 00:07:06,294 was true. 142 00:07:07,929 --> 00:07:10,163 Even the parts that weren't. 143 00:07:10,197 --> 00:07:13,768 ♪ Everybody everywhere ♪ 144 00:07:13,801 --> 00:07:17,372 Los Angeles, February 18, 1974. 145 00:07:17,405 --> 00:07:19,674 There's a hell of a lot that comes before that night, 146 00:07:19,707 --> 00:07:20,908 but the story you want to hear, 147 00:07:20,942 --> 00:07:23,378 well, this is where it all really begins. 148 00:07:23,411 --> 00:07:26,247 Having moved out to California only two months before, 149 00:07:26,280 --> 00:07:28,249 we were throwing the biggest party Los Angeles 150 00:07:28,282 --> 00:07:30,518 had ever thrown, to launch Casablanca Records, 151 00:07:30,551 --> 00:07:32,520 the biggest independent record label 152 00:07:32,553 --> 00:07:33,955 anyone had ever launched. 153 00:07:33,988 --> 00:07:35,657 Absolutely I am. hit me. 154 00:07:35,690 --> 00:07:37,525 And we only had one band to do it with, 155 00:07:37,558 --> 00:07:41,329 and they were... well, they were, uh, different. 156 00:07:41,362 --> 00:07:42,195 I think this was a mistake. 157 00:07:42,230 --> 00:07:44,265 We should not let them go on tonight. 158 00:07:44,298 --> 00:07:46,567 -Bill, it's gonna be great. -Yeah? For who? Him or us? 159 00:07:46,601 --> 00:07:48,736 Are you really gonna put those guys up there 160 00:07:48,770 --> 00:07:51,539 wearing those stupid costumes and that stupid makeup? 161 00:07:51,572 --> 00:07:52,874 It's who they are, Joe. 162 00:07:52,907 --> 00:07:54,509 Nobody knows who they are yet. 163 00:07:54,542 --> 00:07:56,678 You know, I got friends at Warner Brothers, 164 00:07:56,711 --> 00:07:57,745 and people are talking. 165 00:07:57,779 --> 00:08:00,214 And they're not talking the way you want to hear. 166 00:08:00,248 --> 00:08:02,884 You know what they're not talking about, Joey? Huh? 167 00:08:02,917 --> 00:08:05,486 Shit that doesn't scare them. 168 00:08:05,520 --> 00:08:08,256 -Nelly, we're ready. -Yeah. Or excite them! 169 00:08:08,289 --> 00:08:11,693 Or make 'em want to dance or laugh or fuck or cry 170 00:08:11,726 --> 00:08:13,494 or fucking matter at all. 171 00:08:13,528 --> 00:08:15,797 Thank you, because the fact that people are talking, 172 00:08:15,830 --> 00:08:17,265 that's music to my ears. 173 00:08:17,298 --> 00:08:19,734 And you really spent all the three million dollars 174 00:08:19,767 --> 00:08:21,936 Warners gave you as an advance? 175 00:08:21,969 --> 00:08:23,671 Actually, I spent four million. 176 00:08:23,705 --> 00:08:24,539 Show time, Neil. 177 00:08:24,572 --> 00:08:26,441 Ooh, sounds like they're playing my song. 178 00:08:26,474 --> 00:08:28,710 Yeah, well, just remember, the house always wins, 179 00:08:28,743 --> 00:08:30,378 even against you. 180 00:08:30,411 --> 00:08:32,513 -You wanna bet? -I bet they suck. 181 00:08:32,547 --> 00:08:33,514 Uh-huh. 182 00:08:38,486 --> 00:08:39,454 Mwah. 183 00:08:44,892 --> 00:08:48,329 Hello. So, I had a thought... 184 00:08:48,362 --> 00:08:50,531 on my way over here tonight. 185 00:08:50,565 --> 00:08:53,468 I thought to myself, "What the hell am I doing 186 00:08:53,501 --> 00:08:55,603 in Humphrey Bogart's actual suit?" 187 00:08:57,505 --> 00:08:59,941 Poor kid from the Brooklyn projects, 188 00:08:59,974 --> 00:09:01,342 son of a postman. 189 00:09:01,375 --> 00:09:03,277 Oh, stand up, Pops. Pops. 190 00:09:03,311 --> 00:09:04,545 -There he is. -Thank you. Thank you. 191 00:09:04,579 --> 00:09:07,749 -Oh, sure. Take a bow. Why not? -Learned everything from me. 192 00:09:07,782 --> 00:09:08,816 Bad stuff from his mother. 193 00:09:10,051 --> 00:09:11,853 Hell of a long trip from Brooklyn, huh? 194 00:09:11,886 --> 00:09:13,354 Not so far, kid. 195 00:09:14,055 --> 00:09:15,923 Dreams... 196 00:09:15,957 --> 00:09:18,893 only come true for those who believe in them. 197 00:09:18,926 --> 00:09:21,329 So, tonight, to celebrate the launch 198 00:09:21,362 --> 00:09:24,665 of the biggest independent record label in history, 199 00:09:24,699 --> 00:09:28,569 we thought we'd share some of our dreams with you. 200 00:09:28,603 --> 00:09:31,038 So, you may have heard them on the radio, 201 00:09:31,072 --> 00:09:33,508 but after what you're about to experience tonight, 202 00:09:33,541 --> 00:09:35,543 you're never gonna forget these guys. 203 00:09:35,576 --> 00:09:37,044 So, put your two lips together 204 00:09:37,078 --> 00:09:40,581 for the hottest band in the world, KISS! 205 00:09:45,520 --> 00:09:47,054 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that way. 206 00:09:47,088 --> 00:09:49,690 - Hello, Los Angeles! - Ah! 207 00:09:49,724 --> 00:09:52,527 - How we feeling tonight? - Yeah, good. More. 208 00:09:54,128 --> 00:09:55,930 ♪ Well the night's begun ♪ 209 00:09:55,963 --> 00:09:57,598 ♪ And you want some fun ♪ 210 00:09:57,632 --> 00:09:59,801 ♪ Do you think you're gonna find it? ♪ 211 00:09:59,834 --> 00:10:01,669 ♪ Think you're gonna find it ♪ 212 00:10:01,702 --> 00:10:04,539 ♪ You got to treat yourself like number one ♪ 213 00:10:04,572 --> 00:10:06,474 ♪ Do you need to be reminded? ♪ 214 00:10:06,507 --> 00:10:08,476 ♪ Need to be reminded? ♪ 215 00:10:08,509 --> 00:10:11,512 ♪ It doesn't matter what you do or say ♪ 216 00:10:11,546 --> 00:10:14,682 ♪ Just forget the things that you've been told ♪ 217 00:10:15,917 --> 00:10:18,486 ♪ We can't do it any other way ♪ 218 00:10:18,519 --> 00:10:22,056 ♪ Everybody's got to rock and roll ♪ 219 00:10:22,089 --> 00:10:24,725 ♪ Whoa, whoa ♪ 220 00:10:24,759 --> 00:10:26,961 ♪ Shout it, shout it ♪ 221 00:10:26,994 --> 00:10:30,464 ♪ Shout it out loud ♪ 222 00:10:30,498 --> 00:10:31,233 Yeah! 223 00:10:31,266 --> 00:10:33,968 ♪ Shout it, shout it ♪ 224 00:10:34,001 --> 00:10:35,002 ♪ Shout it out loud ♪ 225 00:10:37,038 --> 00:10:38,573 You know, Kiss may have been 226 00:10:38,606 --> 00:10:40,474 unlike anything anyone had ever seen, 227 00:10:40,508 --> 00:10:41,642 but I could see them. 228 00:10:43,744 --> 00:10:44,679 I could see it all. 229 00:11:27,555 --> 00:11:29,557 Performance was great. I just, um... 230 00:11:29,590 --> 00:11:31,525 you know, forgot about the smoke. 231 00:11:35,563 --> 00:11:36,797 And the fire alarm. 232 00:11:38,833 --> 00:11:40,534 And the sprinklers. 233 00:11:40,568 --> 00:11:42,904 ♪ Shout it, shout it ♪ 234 00:11:42,937 --> 00:11:44,572 ♪ Shout it out loud ♪ 235 00:11:44,605 --> 00:11:45,907 Oh, shit! 236 00:11:47,174 --> 00:11:48,142 ♪ Shout it, shout it ♪ 237 00:11:48,175 --> 00:11:50,044 Guys, don't stop playing. 238 00:11:50,077 --> 00:11:51,812 ♪ Shout it out loud ♪ 239 00:11:55,016 --> 00:11:57,051 ♪ Shout it, shout it ♪ 240 00:11:57,084 --> 00:11:58,619 ♪ Shout it out loud ♪ 241 00:12:05,192 --> 00:12:07,461 You fucking kidding me? 242 00:12:08,230 --> 00:12:12,967 Alright. Guys. Guys. Guys. 243 00:12:13,000 --> 00:12:14,969 I knew they were gonna suck. 244 00:12:15,002 --> 00:12:16,837 Kiss my ass. 245 00:12:19,507 --> 00:12:21,575 It's not your fault, guys. 246 00:12:21,609 --> 00:12:22,710 They don't understand art. 247 00:12:22,743 --> 00:12:24,145 Just be careful around the water. 248 00:12:24,178 --> 00:12:26,080 -I fucking warned you! -Don't touch anything. 249 00:12:26,113 --> 00:12:27,114 -Neil! -Don't touch... 250 00:12:27,148 --> 00:12:28,115 Don't electrocute... 251 00:12:28,149 --> 00:12:30,518 - Paul, please. - Paul. Paul, come on. 252 00:12:30,551 --> 00:12:35,257 Just like that... the night it all began... 253 00:12:35,290 --> 00:12:36,757 we were finished. 254 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,568 You okay? 255 00:12:53,741 --> 00:12:56,110 You made it rain inside, Daddy. 256 00:12:56,143 --> 00:12:58,079 Do another trick. 257 00:12:58,112 --> 00:12:59,747 I'm working on it, honey. 258 00:12:59,780 --> 00:13:02,116 I'll get Jill home to Beth and the boys. 259 00:13:02,149 --> 00:13:04,118 Just tell her I'll be home soon. 260 00:13:04,151 --> 00:13:06,554 But you promised we'd dance, Daddy! 261 00:13:08,889 --> 00:13:10,624 You bet I did. 262 00:13:10,658 --> 00:13:12,693 Prettiest girl in all the world. 263 00:13:58,939 --> 00:14:02,043 I had worked my whole life leading up to that night, 264 00:14:02,076 --> 00:14:05,079 but KISS was dead the moment they took that stage. 265 00:14:05,112 --> 00:14:06,147 The town just hated them. 266 00:14:16,224 --> 00:14:17,858 About the time I got home to Beth, 267 00:14:17,892 --> 00:14:20,828 even she had heard what a disaster it had been. 268 00:14:20,861 --> 00:14:21,762 From the day I married her, 269 00:14:21,796 --> 00:14:24,698 she always knew the truth I was hiding. 270 00:14:24,732 --> 00:14:28,035 She just... didn't always admit it. 271 00:14:28,069 --> 00:14:29,337 Hey, you okay? 272 00:14:29,371 --> 00:14:31,705 Your sister tell you what happened tonight? 273 00:14:32,307 --> 00:14:34,342 Yeah. 274 00:14:34,376 --> 00:14:36,378 Even with everything that had happened 275 00:14:36,411 --> 00:14:38,346 along the way, 276 00:14:38,380 --> 00:14:40,681 we'd still always been better together. 277 00:15:06,874 --> 00:15:08,943 They, uh, say the biggest sin of a record man 278 00:15:08,976 --> 00:15:11,112 is believing in something because you have to, 279 00:15:11,145 --> 00:15:13,315 not because you do. 280 00:15:13,348 --> 00:15:15,283 But I had believed in Kiss, 281 00:15:15,317 --> 00:15:17,751 and I knew what Casablanca could be. 282 00:15:17,785 --> 00:15:19,254 ♪ Get yourself together ♪ 283 00:15:19,287 --> 00:15:21,755 But after the party, the town was already celebrating 284 00:15:21,789 --> 00:15:23,791 the death of Casablanca. 285 00:15:24,959 --> 00:15:26,760 Hello, Casablanca. 286 00:15:26,794 --> 00:15:27,862 Not that that was gonna stop us. 287 00:15:27,895 --> 00:15:30,265 Mark Parenteau, WABX! Kiss just got added 288 00:15:30,298 --> 00:15:31,732 to regular rotation in Detroit. 289 00:15:31,765 --> 00:15:33,868 Nance, you paid off Mark to do that, didn't you? 290 00:15:33,901 --> 00:15:35,203 Of course I did. 291 00:15:35,237 --> 00:15:36,804 Mwah! Love this woman. 292 00:15:36,837 --> 00:15:38,839 Mo Ostin at Warners needs you to call him back. 293 00:15:38,873 --> 00:15:40,674 -Of course he does. -He called six times. 294 00:15:40,708 --> 00:15:43,144 Of course he did. 295 00:15:43,177 --> 00:15:44,246 Hey, Cec! 296 00:15:44,279 --> 00:15:46,281 Hey. Bill called. 297 00:15:46,314 --> 00:15:48,048 Gene and Paul are demanding a meeting. 298 00:15:48,082 --> 00:15:50,151 Oh. Just tell them to get ready for the tour. 299 00:15:50,184 --> 00:15:52,354 -You got KISS a tour? -No, but you're gonna do it. 300 00:15:52,387 --> 00:15:53,588 Just find 'em a headliner 301 00:15:53,622 --> 00:15:55,823 that's not gonna be intimidated by them as an opening act. 302 00:15:55,856 --> 00:15:57,992 New artist from Giorgio. He'll be expecting a yes. 303 00:15:58,025 --> 00:16:00,161 - Scotty! You listen to this yet? - Ah, yeah, 304 00:16:00,194 --> 00:16:02,897 but they're Giorgio, you know? They're different. 305 00:16:02,930 --> 00:16:04,899 -How different? -After last night, 306 00:16:04,932 --> 00:16:05,933 too different. 307 00:16:05,966 --> 00:16:07,935 Last night went exactly as we expected, 308 00:16:07,968 --> 00:16:09,371 and that includes the sprinklers. 309 00:16:09,404 --> 00:16:12,039 - All set. - Like hell it did. 310 00:16:24,219 --> 00:16:29,357 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 311 00:16:29,391 --> 00:16:33,827 Her voice just... cut right through me. 312 00:16:33,861 --> 00:16:35,930 ♪ You layin' so close to me ♪ 313 00:16:35,963 --> 00:16:38,333 ♪ There's no place I'd rather you be ♪ 314 00:16:38,366 --> 00:16:40,935 ♪ Then with me here ♪ 315 00:16:40,968 --> 00:16:43,338 ♪ Ooh I ♪ 316 00:16:43,371 --> 00:16:45,440 ♪ Love to love you baby ♪ 317 00:16:45,473 --> 00:16:46,941 Play that again. 318 00:16:46,974 --> 00:16:51,413 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 319 00:16:51,446 --> 00:16:56,251 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 320 00:16:56,284 --> 00:16:59,086 ♪ Do it to me again and again ♪ 321 00:16:59,119 --> 00:17:01,356 Yeah. Get me Giorgio. 322 00:17:03,391 --> 00:17:05,893 He's ready for you, Mr. Moroder. 323 00:17:05,926 --> 00:17:08,762 Sorry I missed it, your party. 324 00:17:08,796 --> 00:17:09,964 I spoke to Cess-ull. 325 00:17:09,997 --> 00:17:11,832 -Cee-sull. -You have no money. 326 00:17:11,865 --> 00:17:13,535 Ha-ha. Well, there's always money, Giorgio, 327 00:17:13,568 --> 00:17:15,002 if you know where to find it. 328 00:17:15,035 --> 00:17:17,272 Listen. Those new songs of yours were different. 329 00:17:17,305 --> 00:17:18,973 The eighth and the sixteenth notes, 330 00:17:19,006 --> 00:17:21,141 that open hi-hat on the down-beat. 331 00:17:23,278 --> 00:17:24,379 That's new. It makes you move. 332 00:17:24,412 --> 00:17:25,813 Mm-hmm. 333 00:17:25,846 --> 00:17:28,148 Where did you find that voice? 334 00:17:28,182 --> 00:17:29,984 An American girl. 335 00:17:30,017 --> 00:17:32,554 She does the musicals in Munich. 336 00:17:32,587 --> 00:17:34,456 LaDonna Gaines. 337 00:17:34,489 --> 00:17:36,424 Gaines. Gaines. 338 00:17:36,458 --> 00:17:38,892 Her first husband's name was Sommer. 339 00:17:38,926 --> 00:17:40,562 Everything is hotter in summer. 340 00:17:40,595 --> 00:17:43,097 An Italian from Germany writing in English. 341 00:17:43,130 --> 00:17:45,065 You know what? Maybe we pretend she's German. 342 00:17:45,099 --> 00:17:46,534 I never could figure out his accent. 343 00:17:46,568 --> 00:17:49,069 What? Neil, you can't afford to buy my music. 344 00:17:49,103 --> 00:17:50,505 I may not have been at your party, 345 00:17:50,538 --> 00:17:52,207 but I could read. Even English. 346 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:54,542 The party was to announce that we're open for business, 347 00:17:54,576 --> 00:17:56,478 and now, we're on the cover of everything. 348 00:17:56,511 --> 00:17:57,646 Because they say you're finished. 349 00:17:57,679 --> 00:18:00,282 That's 'cause they don't know what starting looks like, 350 00:18:00,315 --> 00:18:05,052 Giorgio. Now, I don't want your music for our label, okay? 351 00:18:05,085 --> 00:18:10,258 I want it for yours. Oasis through Casablanca. 352 00:18:11,593 --> 00:18:14,194 You let them write about that. 353 00:18:14,229 --> 00:18:17,031 Giorgio, why don't we take a look at some artwork? 354 00:18:19,099 --> 00:18:21,835 Good old flash paper trick, huh? 355 00:18:21,869 --> 00:18:25,172 Oh! Nelly, Warners wants to bleed us to death. 356 00:18:25,206 --> 00:18:27,975 I snuck a tape recorder into their little sales meeting. 357 00:18:28,008 --> 00:18:30,044 They wanna kill KISS to kill us. 358 00:18:31,011 --> 00:18:32,580 Hello, Casablanca. 359 00:18:32,614 --> 00:18:34,249 Neil, I think you're overreacting. 360 00:18:34,282 --> 00:18:36,251 Oh, really? So you're telling me that Bruce here 361 00:18:36,284 --> 00:18:38,420 did not tell your teams not to push our records? 362 00:18:38,453 --> 00:18:40,221 Bruce, the boys have concerns 363 00:18:40,255 --> 00:18:42,324 about how we're handling Casablanca. 364 00:18:42,357 --> 00:18:44,992 Actually, Brucie, the boys here are concerned 365 00:18:45,025 --> 00:18:46,994 that you might be a spineless little cocksucker. 366 00:18:47,027 --> 00:18:49,063 -Oh, yeah. That's also true. -Well, we don't have 367 00:18:49,096 --> 00:18:50,931 any actual proof about the cock-sucking. 368 00:18:50,964 --> 00:18:53,200 But we all know, and no one here's gonna judge you, Bruce. 369 00:18:53,234 --> 00:18:55,503 -Fuck you, and fuck you! -You see that, Mo? 370 00:18:55,537 --> 00:18:57,605 He's trying to fuck me. I don't blame him. 371 00:18:57,639 --> 00:18:59,307 Nobody gives a shit about KISS. 372 00:18:59,341 --> 00:19:01,509 -Were you not at the party? -This ain't got a damn thing 373 00:19:01,543 --> 00:19:03,043 to do about the party, and you know it. 374 00:19:03,077 --> 00:19:04,178 Oh, you're right about that. 375 00:19:04,212 --> 00:19:06,247 It's about the fact that they can't cut a radio hit. 376 00:19:06,281 --> 00:19:08,616 Their bullshit stage tricks make them a fucking joke, 377 00:19:08,650 --> 00:19:10,951 not an act. That's why their record's not selling. 378 00:19:10,984 --> 00:19:12,654 I wanna play you a little something 379 00:19:12,687 --> 00:19:14,222 from our newest record. 380 00:19:14,255 --> 00:19:15,956 You're an asshole, Bruce. 381 00:19:15,989 --> 00:19:18,393 Mo, just take a listen. It's got a hell of a hook. 382 00:19:20,060 --> 00:19:21,962 We don't promote KISS 383 00:19:21,995 --> 00:19:23,163 or any Casablanca records. 384 00:19:23,197 --> 00:19:25,367 We don't push 'em, they can't sell 'em, 385 00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:26,468 and that's how we end 'em. 386 00:19:26,501 --> 00:19:29,036 Fuckin' bleed 'em to death. 387 00:19:29,069 --> 00:19:32,973 - You fucking recorded me? - Don't touch me. 388 00:19:33,006 --> 00:19:35,310 -My wife got me that table. -He fucking touched me, man. 389 00:19:35,343 --> 00:19:37,978 What the fuck? This is fucking Warner Brothers, 390 00:19:38,011 --> 00:19:39,913 not some fucking New York back alley 391 00:19:39,947 --> 00:19:40,981 you just crawled out of, assholes! 392 00:19:41,014 --> 00:19:43,150 You messed with our business, Bruce, and nobody, 393 00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:45,953 fucking nobody, messes with our business, 394 00:19:45,986 --> 00:19:47,522 -not even you, Mo. -What the hell 395 00:19:47,555 --> 00:19:49,189 do you really want? 396 00:19:49,224 --> 00:19:51,693 Huh? You didn't come all the way over here 397 00:19:51,726 --> 00:19:53,561 just to beat up Bruce. 398 00:19:53,595 --> 00:19:54,928 -I did. -No. 399 00:19:57,365 --> 00:19:59,300 We want out. 400 00:19:59,334 --> 00:20:02,504 -From our distribution? -Fucking everything, all of it. 401 00:20:02,537 --> 00:20:07,141 You're broke. 402 00:20:07,174 --> 00:20:09,943 The whole town knows it. What are you gonna do? 403 00:20:09,977 --> 00:20:11,413 Go door to door across the country, 404 00:20:11,446 --> 00:20:13,681 selling your records yourselves? 405 00:20:13,715 --> 00:20:15,149 You'll never survive without us. 406 00:20:15,182 --> 00:20:18,152 No. We'll never survive with you. 407 00:20:18,185 --> 00:20:20,087 You're gonna remember this fucking meeting. 408 00:20:20,120 --> 00:20:23,157 No, and... and not with a fucking smile. 409 00:20:23,190 --> 00:20:26,059 So, bill me for your table and have a nice fucking day. 410 00:20:27,328 --> 00:20:30,698 Hey. You do know no one's ever done this before? 411 00:20:30,732 --> 00:20:32,434 Because no one's ever tried before. 412 00:20:35,403 --> 00:20:37,472 Launching our own distribution, we weren't 413 00:20:37,505 --> 00:20:40,174 just going up against Warners. We were waging an all-out war 414 00:20:40,208 --> 00:20:42,343 against all the majors at once. 415 00:20:43,478 --> 00:20:45,112 But if we were gonna survive, 416 00:20:45,145 --> 00:20:46,714 we absolutely needed a hit, 417 00:20:46,748 --> 00:20:51,219 which meant we absolutely needed something new. 418 00:20:53,221 --> 00:20:56,156 LaDonna Adrian Gaines may have been born in Boston, 419 00:20:56,190 --> 00:20:58,058 but her dreams had landed her in Germany, 420 00:20:58,091 --> 00:21:00,060 which is where her story with us really begins. 421 00:21:00,093 --> 00:21:02,162 -You're late. -I'm as early as I could be. 422 00:21:02,196 --> 00:21:03,665 He's releasing the song in America, 423 00:21:03,698 --> 00:21:05,333 and I mean right away. 424 00:21:05,366 --> 00:21:07,402 What? We haven't even recorded the real song yet. 425 00:21:07,435 --> 00:21:09,537 -It's just a demo. -When I'm done with the mix, 426 00:21:09,571 --> 00:21:11,539 no one will care. 427 00:21:11,573 --> 00:21:13,541 I'll care. 428 00:21:16,377 --> 00:21:19,046 Uh, you gave him control over how I look? 429 00:21:19,079 --> 00:21:21,382 He creates an image, a story. It's what he does. 430 00:21:21,416 --> 00:21:23,618 Well, don't you think he should at least meet the real me 431 00:21:23,651 --> 00:21:27,087 before he decides there needs to be a fake one created? 432 00:21:27,120 --> 00:21:30,758 LaDonna, your daughter is asleep in the hallway 433 00:21:30,792 --> 00:21:33,228 instead of a bedroom all her own, dreaming 434 00:21:33,261 --> 00:21:36,397 a sweeter dream than you could ever provide her alone. 435 00:21:36,431 --> 00:21:39,367 You will never get another chance like this. 436 00:21:39,400 --> 00:21:40,368 Sign it. 437 00:21:44,806 --> 00:21:48,409 They... they legally changed my name? 438 00:21:48,443 --> 00:21:50,245 He changed his, too. 439 00:21:50,278 --> 00:21:51,513 He was right. I had. 440 00:21:51,546 --> 00:21:54,415 And not just once. 441 00:21:56,083 --> 00:21:58,185 I was actually born Neil Bogatz, 442 00:21:58,219 --> 00:22:00,120 growing up in the Glenwood projects 443 00:22:00,153 --> 00:22:01,789 of Brooklyn, New York. 444 00:22:01,823 --> 00:22:04,692 Alright, Neil. What else do you want? 445 00:22:07,829 --> 00:22:09,162 All of it. 446 00:22:10,365 --> 00:22:12,132 By the time I was eight years old, 447 00:22:12,165 --> 00:22:13,801 I already knew that the life that I wanted 448 00:22:13,835 --> 00:22:16,237 was far, far away from here. 449 00:22:30,752 --> 00:22:33,221 Please. I swear! 450 00:22:33,254 --> 00:22:34,355 You hear that, kid? 451 00:22:34,389 --> 00:22:37,190 Your pops says he swears this time! 452 00:22:49,270 --> 00:22:50,572 You dropped your egg cream. 453 00:22:51,906 --> 00:22:53,641 We'll get you a refill. 454 00:23:03,384 --> 00:23:04,519 Are we poor, Pop? 455 00:23:04,552 --> 00:23:05,520 What? 456 00:23:07,822 --> 00:23:10,123 What you worried about? Huh? 457 00:23:10,858 --> 00:23:13,494 Hey, money's easy. 458 00:23:13,528 --> 00:23:14,862 You can always find money. 459 00:23:14,896 --> 00:23:16,664 A person's got to know what to do with it. 460 00:23:16,698 --> 00:23:18,198 That's what counts. 461 00:23:18,833 --> 00:23:21,202 Do you know what to do with it? 462 00:23:21,235 --> 00:23:23,805 Because it's not here. 463 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:27,809 Do me a favor, boychik. 464 00:23:27,842 --> 00:23:31,212 Look at all these people, huh? 465 00:23:31,245 --> 00:23:33,615 Now, you got a choice. You can live in a four-color world 466 00:23:33,648 --> 00:23:35,783 or one in black and white like all these schmucks 467 00:23:35,817 --> 00:23:37,385 too terrified to dream of a world 468 00:23:37,418 --> 00:23:40,088 outside of our four shitty blocks. 469 00:23:41,589 --> 00:23:43,123 Eh, not me. 470 00:23:43,891 --> 00:23:45,760 I know what to do with it. 471 00:23:45,793 --> 00:23:47,662 I'm gonna get us the hell out of here. 472 00:23:48,830 --> 00:23:51,131 Hey. I promise you. 473 00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:55,470 Just... need a little more tim. 474 00:23:55,503 --> 00:23:56,904 That's all. 475 00:24:04,345 --> 00:24:06,247 Neil, you got all the machines going. 476 00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:08,483 It saves my time, Mrs. Finkelstein. 477 00:24:08,516 --> 00:24:10,518 If I leave these with you, you'll put them in 478 00:24:10,551 --> 00:24:11,853 when you're done? 479 00:24:11,886 --> 00:24:13,554 I'll give you five cents. 480 00:24:14,555 --> 00:24:16,257 Ten cents. 481 00:24:16,290 --> 00:24:17,458 Saves your time. 482 00:24:19,861 --> 00:24:21,194 You better fold them. 483 00:24:21,229 --> 00:24:22,797 - Let's go! - Within a month, 484 00:24:22,830 --> 00:24:24,599 I had 40 kids working the neighborhood. 485 00:24:24,632 --> 00:24:26,701 Here's how it's gonna go. I'm gonna assign... 486 00:24:26,734 --> 00:24:30,271 Within two, I was bringing in more than my dad. 487 00:24:30,304 --> 00:24:31,372 You know how it feels 488 00:24:31,406 --> 00:24:32,940 making more money than your father? 489 00:24:32,974 --> 00:24:35,710 Exactly how you think it does. 490 00:24:38,613 --> 00:24:42,283 By 1961, I had changed my name again to Neil Scott. 491 00:24:42,316 --> 00:24:45,253 I tried acting, playing the piano, even the sax, 492 00:24:45,286 --> 00:24:47,455 and while I always wanted to be a singer, 493 00:24:47,488 --> 00:24:50,792 it was as a dancer that I finally found the beat. 494 00:24:53,861 --> 00:24:56,764 My fiancée, Erminie McNulty, everybody. 495 00:24:59,767 --> 00:25:02,403 I am Neil Scott, your singer, your dance instructor, 496 00:25:02,437 --> 00:25:04,572 and anything else you need me to be tonight. 497 00:25:05,707 --> 00:25:08,609 But, uh, that's not why I'm telling you this part. 498 00:25:16,384 --> 00:25:17,385 Dance. 499 00:25:19,554 --> 00:25:21,889 Is that a statement or a question 500 00:25:21,923 --> 00:25:24,792 without the inflection at the end? 501 00:25:24,826 --> 00:25:25,927 Dance with me. 502 00:25:25,960 --> 00:25:28,930 We don't dance with the staff. 503 00:25:28,963 --> 00:25:30,431 Our parents own the hotel. 504 00:25:31,899 --> 00:25:34,469 Well, okay. Well, then I work for you. 505 00:25:34,502 --> 00:25:37,972 ♪ From within a dim light cast ♪ 506 00:25:38,005 --> 00:25:40,475 ♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪ 507 00:25:40,508 --> 00:25:43,878 ♪ Oh what a lovely couple ♪ 508 00:25:43,911 --> 00:25:46,514 ♪ They made ♪ 509 00:25:46,547 --> 00:25:50,351 ♪ Put his arms around your waist ♪ 510 00:25:50,384 --> 00:25:52,520 ♪ Held you tight ♪ 511 00:25:52,553 --> 00:25:56,557 ♪ Kisses I could almost taste ♪ 512 00:25:56,591 --> 00:25:58,493 ♪ In the night ♪ 513 00:25:58,526 --> 00:26:01,496 ♪ Wondered why I'm not the guy ♪ 514 00:26:01,529 --> 00:26:04,766 Where did you learn to dance like this? 515 00:26:04,799 --> 00:26:05,800 ♪ I couldn't hide ♪ 516 00:26:05,833 --> 00:26:06,567 My father. 517 00:26:06,601 --> 00:26:09,670 ♪ The tears in my eyes ♪ 518 00:26:09,704 --> 00:26:12,440 ♪ Silhouettes silhouettes silhouettes silhouettes ♪ 519 00:26:12,473 --> 00:26:14,609 So, you met your lawyer yet? 520 00:26:14,642 --> 00:26:16,644 Your doctor? 521 00:26:16,677 --> 00:26:18,980 Whoever your parents have already set up for you? 522 00:26:19,013 --> 00:26:20,515 ♪ Silhouettes silhouettes ♪ 523 00:26:20,548 --> 00:26:21,983 They'll never be able to compete. 524 00:26:22,016 --> 00:26:23,785 With you? 525 00:26:25,853 --> 00:26:26,821 With you. 526 00:26:30,558 --> 00:26:32,960 All this really the life that you want? 527 00:26:32,994 --> 00:26:35,062 When you're all alone and nobody's watching... 528 00:26:35,096 --> 00:26:36,764 ♪ Lost control and rang your bell ♪ 529 00:26:36,798 --> 00:26:38,599 ...lights are out... 530 00:26:38,633 --> 00:26:40,001 ♪ I was sore ♪ 531 00:26:40,034 --> 00:26:41,469 ...just about to fall asleep.. 532 00:26:41,502 --> 00:26:44,405 ♪ Let me in or else I'll beat ♪ 533 00:26:44,438 --> 00:26:45,406 ♪ Down your door ♪ 534 00:26:45,439 --> 00:26:46,941 ...what do you dream? 535 00:26:46,974 --> 00:26:49,977 ♪ When two strangers who had been ♪ 536 00:26:50,011 --> 00:26:51,412 Dreams are for children. 537 00:26:51,445 --> 00:26:53,548 ♪ ...silhouettes on the shade ♪ 538 00:26:53,581 --> 00:26:54,949 You don't really believe that. 539 00:26:54,982 --> 00:26:56,584 ♪ You're on the wrong block ♪ 540 00:26:56,617 --> 00:26:58,619 Someone just told you you did. 541 00:26:58,653 --> 00:27:00,855 ♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah ♪ 542 00:27:00,888 --> 00:27:04,959 ♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah bah ♪ 543 00:27:04,992 --> 00:27:07,061 What do you dream of, Neil? 544 00:27:07,094 --> 00:27:09,864 Tonight... I'm gonna dream 545 00:27:09,897 --> 00:27:11,966 about how it feels dancing with you right now. 546 00:27:11,999 --> 00:27:14,368 ♪ Loved you like I never loved ♪ 547 00:27:14,402 --> 00:27:16,704 ♪ You my sweet ♪ 548 00:27:16,737 --> 00:27:20,374 ♪ Vowed that you and I would be ♪ 549 00:27:20,408 --> 00:27:23,044 ♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪ 550 00:27:23,077 --> 00:27:24,979 ♪ All of our days ♪ 551 00:27:25,012 --> 00:27:27,982 ♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪ 552 00:27:28,015 --> 00:27:31,085 ♪ Silhouettes silhouettes silhouettes silhouettes ♪ 553 00:27:31,118 --> 00:27:35,156 ♪ Silhouettes silhouettes ah oh ♪ 554 00:27:35,189 --> 00:27:38,526 ♪ Two silhouettes ♪ 555 00:27:38,559 --> 00:27:40,795 With Beth, I finally felt everything was possible. 556 00:27:40,828 --> 00:27:44,131 All we had to decide was which dream came next. 557 00:27:47,702 --> 00:27:49,937 Yeah. No. The second verse still needs be pop-ier, 558 00:27:49,971 --> 00:27:50,972 right up into the break. 559 00:27:51,005 --> 00:27:52,573 ♪ Licorice ♪ 560 00:27:52,607 --> 00:27:54,609 And then boom! That, that is when they will swoon. 561 00:27:54,642 --> 00:27:56,944 -Who's gonna swoon? -The girls, Mr. Darnell, 562 00:27:56,978 --> 00:27:58,579 the ones actually buying the records. 563 00:27:58,613 --> 00:28:00,648 The girls buy records after the first take, Neil. 564 00:28:00,681 --> 00:28:02,116 -Trust me. -Let's just do it again. 565 00:28:02,149 --> 00:28:03,784 -I know I'm right about this. -How? 566 00:28:03,818 --> 00:28:05,486 Because I can hear it! 567 00:28:05,519 --> 00:28:07,054 Can't you? Come on! 568 00:28:10,625 --> 00:28:14,428 So, Murray-The-K does a monthly competition. 569 00:28:14,462 --> 00:28:16,163 He pits one new single against another. 570 00:28:16,197 --> 00:28:18,032 The one that comes out on top, 571 00:28:18,065 --> 00:28:20,501 he spins it 'til the grooves wear out. 572 00:28:20,534 --> 00:28:21,836 Well, okay. So, when do we start? 573 00:28:21,869 --> 00:28:25,539 Next month. This month, it's against Elvis. 574 00:28:25,573 --> 00:28:27,708 -Neil. -What? Bill, I know the contest. 575 00:28:27,742 --> 00:28:30,611 The... the call-in votes can only be local, right? 576 00:28:30,645 --> 00:28:32,179 -We can beat him! -No, you can't. 577 00:28:32,214 --> 00:28:33,781 Yes, we can! 578 00:28:33,814 --> 00:28:34,982 It's against Elvis! 579 00:28:36,117 --> 00:28:37,752 Presley, Neil. 580 00:28:41,889 --> 00:28:43,991 The votes are in! The game is won, 581 00:28:44,025 --> 00:28:45,793 and the hot new kid from Brooklyn 582 00:28:45,826 --> 00:28:47,194 just beat Elvis Presley! 583 00:28:47,229 --> 00:28:50,031 -We beat Elvis. -We beat Elvis! 584 00:28:50,064 --> 00:28:52,833 Oh, my God! Neil! 585 00:28:52,867 --> 00:28:57,772 ♪ My baby's kisses taste like candy ♪ 586 00:28:59,573 --> 00:29:01,842 ♪ Every time that her lips touch mine ♪ 587 00:29:01,876 --> 00:29:04,578 ♪ I don't want to stop ♪ 588 00:29:06,948 --> 00:29:08,950 ♪ Oh we can dream ♪ 589 00:29:08,983 --> 00:29:13,187 ♪ About our someday ♪ 590 00:29:13,221 --> 00:29:15,257 ♪ When I see my sugar ♪ 591 00:29:15,290 --> 00:29:19,694 ♪ Down at the candy shop ♪ 592 00:29:19,727 --> 00:29:21,162 ♪ She's the cherry on top ♪ 593 00:29:21,195 --> 00:29:23,965 ♪ My life was bittersweet ♪ 594 00:29:23,998 --> 00:29:26,268 ♪ Before her ♪ 595 00:29:26,301 --> 00:29:28,169 ♪ She's the cherry on top ♪ 596 00:29:28,203 --> 00:29:30,071 ♪ She floats my ice cream ♪ 597 00:29:30,104 --> 00:29:33,708 ♪ When she smiles ♪ 598 00:29:33,741 --> 00:29:35,176 ♪ She's the cherry on top ♪ 599 00:29:35,210 --> 00:29:38,713 ♪ I'm crazy for her lips ♪ 600 00:29:38,746 --> 00:29:43,617 ♪ Bright red like licorice ♪ 601 00:29:48,256 --> 00:29:51,792 Okay. So, where do we dream from here? 602 00:29:51,826 --> 00:29:52,994 This is Murray-The-K, WINS, 603 00:29:53,027 --> 00:29:56,231 where Neil Scott is the name you're gonna wanna remember! 604 00:29:56,264 --> 00:29:58,099 ♪ Uno, dos, one, two ♪ 605 00:29:58,132 --> 00:29:59,301 Yeah... 606 00:29:59,334 --> 00:30:01,303 As Neil Scott, I'd recorded two more songs 607 00:30:01,336 --> 00:30:02,737 for Portrait Records, 608 00:30:02,770 --> 00:30:04,972 but we'd made "Cherry On Top" a hit. 609 00:30:05,006 --> 00:30:06,774 It never made me one. 610 00:30:06,807 --> 00:30:08,009 One-hit wonder. 611 00:30:08,042 --> 00:30:10,044 Well, you know that story. 612 00:30:10,077 --> 00:30:11,246 Anyway, after a short stint 613 00:30:11,279 --> 00:30:13,814 as soft porn actor Wayne Stewart, 614 00:30:13,848 --> 00:30:16,318 which there's really no need to get into now, 615 00:30:16,351 --> 00:30:17,752 I'd become Wayne Roberts, 616 00:30:17,785 --> 00:30:20,087 freelancing for Fortune Employment, 617 00:30:20,121 --> 00:30:22,324 you know, getting other people jobs, 618 00:30:22,357 --> 00:30:23,858 when MGM Records called 619 00:30:23,891 --> 00:30:25,893 looking for someone to run record promotions. 620 00:30:25,926 --> 00:30:29,264 And well, fuck me if I didn't know just the guy. 621 00:30:30,731 --> 00:30:32,133 His name? 622 00:30:32,166 --> 00:30:34,302 You changed our names? 623 00:30:34,336 --> 00:30:35,936 After Humphrey Bogart? 624 00:30:35,970 --> 00:30:37,272 Here's lookin' at us, kid. 625 00:30:37,305 --> 00:30:40,308 Us? Does that mean I get a say in this? 626 00:30:40,342 --> 00:30:42,277 Yeah, of course. You get a say in everything. 627 00:30:42,310 --> 00:30:44,145 We'll take a vote. 628 00:30:44,178 --> 00:30:45,713 Did you really change our names? 629 00:30:45,746 --> 00:30:47,748 Well, you got to write down your vote. You know, 630 00:30:47,782 --> 00:30:49,183 who do you... who do you wanna be? 631 00:30:49,217 --> 00:30:50,985 I want to be me. 632 00:30:51,018 --> 00:30:54,055 Okay. Well, you got to... You gonna vote or not? 633 00:30:54,088 --> 00:30:56,690 You got to do the vote. You got to do the vote. 634 00:30:57,625 --> 00:30:58,893 -Ready? -Mm-hmm. 635 00:30:58,926 --> 00:31:01,796 Come on. Come on. Ooh. Bogatz. Bogart. Bogart! 636 00:31:01,829 --> 00:31:03,731 -I win! I get two votes! -Why? 637 00:31:03,764 --> 00:31:05,966 I get two votes, because I voted on that, too! 638 00:31:07,068 --> 00:31:08,736 Come on. Come on. 639 00:31:08,769 --> 00:31:11,239 It's finally the record business again, 640 00:31:11,273 --> 00:31:12,374 for real this time. 641 00:31:12,407 --> 00:31:13,941 For real this time? 642 00:31:13,974 --> 00:31:15,277 Yeah. For real. 643 00:31:15,310 --> 00:31:18,112 And what do we change after our names, huh? 644 00:31:18,145 --> 00:31:19,347 Huh? 645 00:31:19,381 --> 00:31:21,182 Everything. 646 00:31:21,216 --> 00:31:22,183 -Listen. -Neil. 647 00:31:22,217 --> 00:31:23,318 -You put this on the side. -Neil, how many... 648 00:31:23,351 --> 00:31:25,353 Put it down here. You put it up here. You got a big, 649 00:31:25,387 --> 00:31:27,355 -big, yellow sign... -I put what I want in my window, 650 00:31:27,389 --> 00:31:28,256 -Neil! -saying, "Come look 651 00:31:28,290 --> 00:31:29,391 -at my merchandise!" -How many times 652 00:31:29,424 --> 00:31:31,959 do I gotta tell you? I put what I want in my window! 653 00:31:31,992 --> 00:31:34,329 -Come on. It's a great song. -Neil, you just keep trying, 654 00:31:34,362 --> 00:31:35,896 -okay, buddy? -It's a great song. Okay. 655 00:31:35,930 --> 00:31:37,898 One week. One week. I take it down after one week. 656 00:31:37,932 --> 00:31:40,101 -Then we put a new one up. -What are you gonna do for me? 657 00:31:40,134 --> 00:31:42,670 You're asking him to advertise your records. 658 00:31:42,703 --> 00:31:44,339 No. I'm asking him to put a couple posters up 659 00:31:44,372 --> 00:31:46,006 in the window. It's not the same thing. 660 00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,709 It's exactly the same thing, except you're asking him 661 00:31:48,742 --> 00:31:50,711 -to do it for free. -Well, you know, MGM won't pay 662 00:31:50,744 --> 00:31:51,879 for local advertising. 663 00:31:51,912 --> 00:31:53,781 Who says you have to call it advertising? 664 00:31:53,814 --> 00:31:55,149 MGM won't pay for anything. 665 00:31:58,953 --> 00:32:01,088 Who says it has to come from them, huh? 666 00:32:01,122 --> 00:32:04,259 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 667 00:32:04,292 --> 00:32:06,093 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 668 00:32:07,895 --> 00:32:09,730 ♪ Wooly bully, wooly bully ♪ 669 00:32:09,763 --> 00:32:11,665 -No. -I already voted. 670 00:32:11,699 --> 00:32:12,900 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 671 00:32:12,933 --> 00:32:14,269 ♪ Watch it now, watch it ♪ 672 00:32:14,302 --> 00:32:16,904 And this is what comes next. 673 00:32:16,937 --> 00:32:18,906 ♪ You got it, you got it ♪ 674 00:32:18,939 --> 00:32:21,642 ♪ Yeah ♪ 675 00:32:22,310 --> 00:32:23,644 ♪ Yeah ♪ 676 00:32:25,347 --> 00:32:26,914 You're moving up in the world, Neil. 677 00:32:30,218 --> 00:32:32,287 I wasn't running promotions for a year 678 00:32:32,320 --> 00:32:33,787 before I was running it all. 679 00:32:34,855 --> 00:32:35,624 No. I... 680 00:32:37,958 --> 00:32:39,760 I'm running MGM Records, 681 00:32:39,793 --> 00:32:41,263 and I didn't even finish high school. 682 00:32:41,296 --> 00:32:42,597 ♪ Matty told Hatty ♪ 683 00:32:42,631 --> 00:32:45,799 And there's not a single person who ever did finish high school 684 00:32:45,833 --> 00:32:48,169 that could possibly be better at running MGM Records. 685 00:32:48,203 --> 00:32:50,804 ♪ Get you someone really ♪ 686 00:32:50,838 --> 00:32:53,040 ♪ To pull the wool with you ♪ 687 00:32:53,073 --> 00:32:54,074 I'll teach you. 688 00:32:54,108 --> 00:32:55,809 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 689 00:32:56,444 --> 00:32:57,945 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 690 00:33:00,215 --> 00:33:01,216 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 691 00:33:02,517 --> 00:33:04,051 I know what comes next. 692 00:33:04,084 --> 00:33:05,186 ♪ Wooly bully ♪ 693 00:33:05,220 --> 00:33:06,987 ♪ Watch it now, watch it ♪ 694 00:33:07,021 --> 00:33:08,290 ♪ Here it come ♪ 695 00:33:08,323 --> 00:33:10,691 ♪ You got it, you got it ♪ 696 00:33:13,328 --> 00:33:14,995 This is what I dreamt of. 697 00:33:15,996 --> 00:33:18,699 The night you asked me when we first met? 698 00:33:21,135 --> 00:33:22,803 This was my dream. 699 00:33:27,242 --> 00:33:30,212 ♪ Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy ♪ 700 00:33:30,245 --> 00:33:33,948 Buddah Records, 1650 Broadway in the Brill. 701 00:33:35,950 --> 00:33:38,152 Other than what we'd create later at Casablanca, 702 00:33:38,185 --> 00:33:41,088 no more infamous address in the music business 703 00:33:41,121 --> 00:33:41,855 ever existed. 704 00:33:41,889 --> 00:33:43,757 ♪ Ooh love to hold you ♪ 705 00:33:43,791 --> 00:33:46,228 ♪ Ooh love to kiss you ♪ 706 00:33:46,261 --> 00:33:48,496 We'd built the kind of independent record company 707 00:33:48,530 --> 00:33:49,997 that no one had ever seen before. 708 00:33:50,030 --> 00:33:52,300 The artists worked with us, not for us. 709 00:33:52,334 --> 00:33:53,401 They were family, 710 00:33:53,435 --> 00:33:55,102 and that made all the difference. 711 00:33:55,135 --> 00:33:56,504 Neil. 712 00:33:56,538 --> 00:33:57,972 He'll see us. 713 00:33:58,005 --> 00:33:59,740 Still holding. Buck. 714 00:34:07,014 --> 00:34:08,949 Hey, man. What the fuck you doing? 715 00:34:08,983 --> 00:34:10,918 What the fuck it look like, black? 716 00:34:10,951 --> 00:34:13,555 Trying to open the... fucking window. 717 00:34:13,588 --> 00:34:16,156 You're the ones making a lot of noise downstairs, 718 00:34:16,190 --> 00:34:17,791 that Buddah Records. Yeah. 719 00:34:17,825 --> 00:34:20,027 Big music needs big speakers, Ron. 720 00:34:20,060 --> 00:34:23,431 Big music needs big dollars, Neil. Black dollars. 721 00:34:23,465 --> 00:34:24,466 Green dollars, my man. 722 00:34:24,499 --> 00:34:26,133 It's the only color that matters. 723 00:34:26,166 --> 00:34:27,435 Maybe to you. 724 00:34:27,469 --> 00:34:30,871 So, Cec tells me you recorded something new. 725 00:34:30,904 --> 00:34:33,140 -I want it. -You ain't even heard it yet. 726 00:34:33,173 --> 00:34:35,042 Well, you're the fucking Isley Brothers. 727 00:34:35,075 --> 00:34:37,545 So, if Motown is too busy to make you a priority, 728 00:34:37,579 --> 00:34:39,314 then Berry Gordy can go to the record stores 729 00:34:39,347 --> 00:34:41,583 and buy your fucking music like everybody else. 730 00:34:41,616 --> 00:34:44,151 Plus, you know that we move product better than anyone. 731 00:34:44,184 --> 00:34:46,521 We know y'all be paying motherfuckin' DJs 732 00:34:46,554 --> 00:34:49,023 to play the records you tell them to. 733 00:34:49,056 --> 00:34:51,925 We don't get pimped out. You dig? 734 00:34:51,959 --> 00:34:54,262 Because we are the motherfuckin' Isleys. 735 00:34:54,296 --> 00:34:55,263 God damn right. 736 00:34:57,432 --> 00:34:59,301 But you got to be out your mind. 737 00:34:59,334 --> 00:35:03,037 You going head to head with Berry Gordy himself. 738 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:06,441 Well, it is called show business. 739 00:35:06,474 --> 00:35:09,843 So, why don't you play me the song that we're releasing 740 00:35:09,877 --> 00:35:12,846 off of your own new label? 741 00:35:12,880 --> 00:35:14,815 - Our own new label? - Mm-hmm. 742 00:35:16,083 --> 00:35:18,219 That's what you're offering us? 743 00:35:18,253 --> 00:35:20,120 Well, that's your thing, right? 744 00:35:20,154 --> 00:35:22,490 It's a black thing. A black label. 745 00:35:22,524 --> 00:35:24,492 Careful, motherfucker. 746 00:35:24,526 --> 00:35:26,328 You talk a good talk, but there's a line. 747 00:35:26,361 --> 00:35:29,997 I'm sorry. I thought you didn't believe in lines. 748 00:35:30,030 --> 00:35:31,932 You played him the motherfucking record, 749 00:35:31,965 --> 00:35:34,235 didn't you? Because he wouldn't even be acting like this 750 00:35:34,269 --> 00:35:36,204 if he ain't heard the shit. 751 00:35:36,237 --> 00:35:38,406 -I sang it for him. -Don't be lying to me, man. 752 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:42,142 It's a hot fucking song, Ron. The man had to hear it. 753 00:35:42,176 --> 00:35:44,245 Do me a favor. Why don't you scoot on over, Ronnie? 754 00:35:44,279 --> 00:35:46,214 Who the fuck you calling... This motherfucker 755 00:35:46,247 --> 00:35:48,550 -just called me Ronnie. -You don't know him like that. 756 00:35:48,583 --> 00:35:50,017 Don't be callin' the man Ronnie. 757 00:35:50,050 --> 00:35:51,952 Um, just a term of endearment, alright? 758 00:35:51,985 --> 00:35:54,154 Do I look like a motherfucking Ronnie to you? 759 00:35:56,257 --> 00:35:58,460 Do I look like a motherfucking Ronnie 760 00:35:58,493 --> 00:36:00,060 to you? 761 00:36:01,195 --> 00:36:02,664 As a matter of fact, yeah, you look 762 00:36:02,697 --> 00:36:04,865 exactly like a fuckin' Ronnie. 763 00:36:13,675 --> 00:36:16,176 You're a crazy motherfucker. You got some balls, man. 764 00:36:16,211 --> 00:36:18,680 Let me show you a few ideas I've been hearing in your music. 765 00:36:18,713 --> 00:36:21,115 Oh, now, you got ideas to my fucking music. 766 00:36:21,148 --> 00:36:22,283 Yeah. 767 00:36:25,018 --> 00:36:26,488 Show me what you got, Neil. 768 00:36:34,429 --> 00:36:35,896 That dirty guitar? 769 00:36:37,197 --> 00:36:38,666 No, no. You got to turn that shit up. 770 00:36:38,700 --> 00:36:41,302 That nasty brass. Oh. 771 00:36:41,336 --> 00:36:43,705 You tell me that each punch isn't meant to cut Berry Gordy 772 00:36:43,738 --> 00:36:46,106 right through the fucking gut. 773 00:36:46,140 --> 00:36:48,175 You're a dangerous man, ain't you? 774 00:36:48,209 --> 00:36:50,177 No, man. I'm just the guy who knows that you are, 775 00:36:50,211 --> 00:36:52,213 and you fucking should be. But knockout punches, 776 00:36:52,247 --> 00:36:54,047 they gotta come clean, be relentless, 777 00:36:54,081 --> 00:36:57,017 and never stop until the body hits the fucking floor! 778 00:37:08,263 --> 00:37:09,531 Now, that's a hit. 779 00:37:14,201 --> 00:37:15,336 Motherfucker. 780 00:37:21,342 --> 00:37:22,377 -Hey. -What's up? 781 00:37:32,487 --> 00:37:33,521 What's going on, brother? 782 00:37:33,555 --> 00:37:35,523 Whoo! 783 00:37:35,557 --> 00:37:37,124 Ron Isley! 784 00:37:43,498 --> 00:37:45,733 ♪ It's your thing ♪ 785 00:37:45,767 --> 00:37:47,968 ♪ Do what you want to do ♪ 786 00:37:49,237 --> 00:37:53,475 ♪ I can't tell you who to sock it to ♪ 787 00:37:53,508 --> 00:37:55,677 ♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪ 788 00:37:55,710 --> 00:37:58,780 ♪ Do what you want to do ♪ 789 00:37:58,813 --> 00:38:02,115 ♪ Said I can't tell you ♪ 790 00:38:02,149 --> 00:38:04,219 ♪ Who to sock it to ♪ 791 00:38:04,252 --> 00:38:05,553 ♪ Oh ♪ 792 00:38:05,587 --> 00:38:07,187 Ron wasn't completely wrong 793 00:38:07,222 --> 00:38:09,624 about us and the DJs. Now, you may have heard of this 794 00:38:09,657 --> 00:38:12,760 as something called payola, but to us... 795 00:38:12,794 --> 00:38:14,762 Mm. It was just another day at the office. 796 00:38:14,796 --> 00:38:19,634 ♪ You need love now just as bad as I do ♪ 797 00:38:19,667 --> 00:38:22,237 ♪ Oh makes no difference now ♪ 798 00:38:22,270 --> 00:38:24,639 ♪ Who you give your thing to ♪ 799 00:38:24,672 --> 00:38:25,773 ♪ Oh it's your thing ♪ 800 00:38:25,807 --> 00:38:28,409 Frankie Crocker was one of the most influential DJs 801 00:38:28,443 --> 00:38:30,311 in the business, which is saying a lot, 802 00:38:30,345 --> 00:38:32,247 since he was one of the only black DJs 803 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,749 white audiences ever accepted. 804 00:38:34,782 --> 00:38:38,553 ♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪ 805 00:38:38,586 --> 00:38:40,655 ♪ Oh ♪ 806 00:38:40,688 --> 00:38:43,725 ♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪ 807 00:38:43,758 --> 00:38:45,326 ♪ Oh baby ♪ 808 00:38:45,360 --> 00:38:47,462 The thing no one ever really got about payola 809 00:38:47,495 --> 00:38:48,796 is that we never paid anyone 810 00:38:48,830 --> 00:38:51,733 to play records they didn't wanna play. 811 00:38:51,766 --> 00:38:52,767 -Whoo! -Ron, you got 812 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:55,135 my damn table pregnant. 813 00:38:55,168 --> 00:38:57,305 But did we spread a little love to get our records 814 00:38:57,338 --> 00:38:59,741 a little more attention? What do you think? 815 00:38:59,774 --> 00:39:01,709 The records were spinning as fast as we were. 816 00:39:01,743 --> 00:39:03,678 The hits just kept coming. There was nothing 817 00:39:03,711 --> 00:39:05,313 that could stop us. 818 00:39:07,882 --> 00:39:11,319 They bought the company? These fucking guys? 819 00:39:11,352 --> 00:39:13,555 Viewlex. They make film projector lenses. 820 00:39:13,588 --> 00:39:15,857 Which means they know absolutely fucking nothing 821 00:39:15,890 --> 00:39:17,825 about the music business. 822 00:39:17,859 --> 00:39:20,562 ♪ One toke over the line sweet Jesus ♪ 823 00:39:20,595 --> 00:39:23,731 ♪ One toke over the line ♪ 824 00:39:23,765 --> 00:39:26,099 Singing about Jesus again. Really? 825 00:39:26,133 --> 00:39:27,435 I think you're missing the subtext. 826 00:39:27,468 --> 00:39:29,169 You wanna sell this as gospel? 827 00:39:29,203 --> 00:39:30,238 It says "sweet Mary". 828 00:39:30,271 --> 00:39:32,373 What the hell do you think they're singing about? 829 00:39:32,407 --> 00:39:34,174 I know exactly what they're singing about, 830 00:39:34,208 --> 00:39:35,310 -and so do you. -Sweet Mary. 831 00:39:35,343 --> 00:39:36,744 Cash and airplanes again? 832 00:39:36,778 --> 00:39:38,379 Ooh! Hello, boys! 833 00:39:38,413 --> 00:39:40,648 Where do you think you're going with all that cash? 834 00:39:40,682 --> 00:39:43,418 -Uh, to make more of it, Darren. -I'm Darren. He's Damon. 835 00:39:43,451 --> 00:39:45,453 - Oh, shit. - Sorry. Did I do that? 836 00:39:45,486 --> 00:39:47,589 I'm just excited about Jesus and Mary. 837 00:39:47,622 --> 00:39:49,490 It's... it's a druggie song! 838 00:39:49,524 --> 00:39:51,158 Did he just call it a druggie song? 839 00:39:51,191 --> 00:39:53,294 You cannot buy this record! 840 00:39:53,328 --> 00:39:56,531 I made over a million dollars for your bosses last month. 841 00:39:56,564 --> 00:39:58,198 How much did you make them? 842 00:39:58,232 --> 00:39:59,567 ♪ That my mama said ♪ 843 00:40:00,802 --> 00:40:04,171 ♪ If I should choose to make a part of me ♪ 844 00:40:04,205 --> 00:40:05,807 ♪ Would surely strike me dead ♪ 845 00:40:05,840 --> 00:40:08,242 ♪ And now I'm one toke over the line ♪ 846 00:40:08,276 --> 00:40:10,678 Buddah Records became one of the most successful 847 00:40:10,712 --> 00:40:12,880 independent labels there ever was. 848 00:40:12,914 --> 00:40:14,782 Every single bet we'd made, 849 00:40:14,816 --> 00:40:16,884 we'd been right. 850 00:40:16,918 --> 00:40:19,887 But every gambler knows you don't cash your ticket 851 00:40:19,921 --> 00:40:22,857 until your horse actually crosses the line. 852 00:40:22,890 --> 00:40:25,293 - Hey, hey. - There he is. 853 00:40:25,326 --> 00:40:27,695 Why we meeting here? You want a tip or something? 854 00:40:29,397 --> 00:40:30,498 Look at that. 855 00:40:30,531 --> 00:40:33,234 You see the one called, uh, Ghost Train? 856 00:40:33,267 --> 00:40:35,770 Yeah. Don't know him. 857 00:40:35,803 --> 00:40:38,272 She's mine, Pop. I just bought her. 858 00:40:40,508 --> 00:40:41,709 No. 859 00:40:41,743 --> 00:40:43,211 Yeah. You know, people bet on her. 860 00:40:43,244 --> 00:40:45,213 That means they're betting on me. 861 00:40:45,246 --> 00:40:48,316 Wow. Well, you're always in a rush. 862 00:40:48,349 --> 00:40:50,385 Now, you got a horse to prove it. 863 00:40:51,552 --> 00:40:54,255 Why don't you come in with me, hmm? 864 00:40:54,288 --> 00:40:55,423 We can be partners. 865 00:40:56,824 --> 00:40:58,393 Partners on a horse? 866 00:40:58,426 --> 00:40:59,394 Yeah, sure. 867 00:41:03,564 --> 00:41:06,334 No. I... I don't know about feeding and training 868 00:41:06,367 --> 00:41:08,201 and all that bullshit at my age. 869 00:41:08,236 --> 00:41:09,937 Nah. You go ahead. 870 00:41:09,971 --> 00:41:11,506 I, uh, I got my own things going on. 871 00:41:11,539 --> 00:41:13,941 -It's going great. -You sure? 'Cause when you 872 00:41:13,975 --> 00:41:15,877 -called, it was... -No, I mean, I got... 873 00:41:15,910 --> 00:41:17,278 -a cash flow situation. -Oh. 874 00:41:17,311 --> 00:41:19,380 Temporary. You know, it's nothing. 875 00:41:19,414 --> 00:41:22,383 The bookies I got, they're saying it's, like five. 876 00:41:22,417 --> 00:41:24,852 Closer to ten, you know, but it's... 877 00:41:24,886 --> 00:41:26,487 They're talking out of their asses. 878 00:41:26,521 --> 00:41:28,256 I... I'll clear it up. It's nothing. 879 00:41:28,289 --> 00:41:29,857 I'll get it back to you, all of it. 880 00:41:29,891 --> 00:41:31,959 -I just need a little time. -I know, Pop. 881 00:41:31,993 --> 00:41:33,361 Hey, I'm not worried. 882 00:41:34,595 --> 00:41:35,496 Why would you? 883 00:41:35,530 --> 00:41:37,231 Swinging for the trees, right, boychik? 884 00:41:37,265 --> 00:41:38,900 You got the... you got the horse 885 00:41:38,933 --> 00:41:42,470 and your singers and... and the big time life. 886 00:41:42,503 --> 00:41:44,505 Look at you. What you got to worry about? 887 00:41:46,507 --> 00:41:49,377 Hey, I got to go to work, so, um... 888 00:41:49,410 --> 00:41:52,280 Sonny, some nuts on the house, this guy. 889 00:41:52,313 --> 00:41:54,582 - Yeah. It... - Don't spend it all. 890 00:42:30,017 --> 00:42:32,754 Cookie told me about Cecil's raise. 891 00:42:32,787 --> 00:42:35,623 Must be a hell of a thing, changing someone's whole life 892 00:42:35,656 --> 00:42:36,457 -like that. -Mm. 893 00:42:36,491 --> 00:42:38,359 Your mother says you must have helped 894 00:42:38,392 --> 00:42:42,363 your father again. He bought all new clothes. 895 00:42:42,396 --> 00:42:43,598 Everybody's counting on you, Neil, 896 00:42:43,631 --> 00:42:46,367 but you still keep going up against those guys at Viewlex, 897 00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:47,802 but you do work for them. 898 00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:51,305 What do you see? 899 00:42:51,339 --> 00:42:52,073 I'm being serious. 900 00:42:52,106 --> 00:42:54,909 No, no. This, this is 901 00:42:54,942 --> 00:42:57,411 our daughter's view of the world. 902 00:42:58,613 --> 00:43:01,682 She sees the ceiling, not the sky. 903 00:43:01,716 --> 00:43:03,484 Most people grow up in the same four blocks 904 00:43:03,518 --> 00:43:05,720 that they were born into because they can't even dare 905 00:43:05,753 --> 00:43:08,656 -to dream what's beyond them. -You're quoting your father now. 906 00:43:08,689 --> 00:43:09,791 That's dangerous. 907 00:43:09,824 --> 00:43:12,727 No. No. What's dangerous is... 908 00:43:12,760 --> 00:43:16,697 is the day we stop dreaming these walls away. 909 00:43:16,731 --> 00:43:19,534 And if what's beyond them still isn't enough for you? 910 00:43:22,703 --> 00:43:28,476 ♪ Ooh child, things are gonna get easier ♪ 911 00:43:28,509 --> 00:43:32,446 ♪ Ooh child things'll get brighter ♪ 912 00:43:33,848 --> 00:43:38,085 ♪ Ooh child things are gonna get easier ♪ 913 00:43:38,119 --> 00:43:39,987 Beth wasn't wrong. 914 00:43:40,021 --> 00:43:41,389 Beth. 915 00:43:41,422 --> 00:43:44,926 She just didn't realize how right she was. 916 00:43:44,959 --> 00:43:46,427 ♪ Someday ♪ 917 00:43:46,460 --> 00:43:48,362 Truth is, neither did I. 918 00:43:48,396 --> 00:43:51,098 ♪ And we'll get it undone ♪ 919 00:43:51,132 --> 00:43:52,733 I just never saw her coming. 920 00:43:52,767 --> 00:43:54,735 ♪ Much lighter ♪ 921 00:43:56,137 --> 00:43:59,674 ♪ Someday yeah we'll walk in the rays ♪ 922 00:43:59,707 --> 00:44:01,843 Neil, no one told me you were here yet. 923 00:44:01,876 --> 00:44:03,711 Uh, this is my partner, Bill. 924 00:44:03,744 --> 00:44:06,447 Oh, uh, why don't we talk business first? 925 00:44:06,480 --> 00:44:08,649 Well, this is business first. 926 00:44:08,683 --> 00:44:10,351 I'm Joyce Biawitz. 927 00:44:11,018 --> 00:44:13,087 Direction Plus. Nice name. 928 00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,589 Yeah. I'm the plus, and Bill directs. 929 00:44:14,622 --> 00:44:16,457 Oh and Joyce does pretty much everything else. 930 00:44:16,490 --> 00:44:17,558 She writes, produces. 931 00:44:17,592 --> 00:44:20,161 Commercials, mostly, but only up until now. 932 00:44:20,194 --> 00:44:22,730 That's not what we invited you down here to talk about. 933 00:44:22,763 --> 00:44:26,367 Right. Your... variety show. 934 00:44:27,168 --> 00:44:28,369 No, it's not a variety show. 935 00:44:28,402 --> 00:44:32,073 No. It will be unlike anything anyone's ever tried before. 936 00:44:32,106 --> 00:44:33,474 Really? 937 00:44:33,507 --> 00:44:35,409 I'm sorry. What am I missing? 938 00:44:36,978 --> 00:44:38,379 Everything. 939 00:44:41,582 --> 00:44:43,017 We're ready for you, Mr. Aucoin. 940 00:44:43,050 --> 00:44:44,051 Uh, yeah. One sec. 941 00:44:44,085 --> 00:44:45,152 So, we're here in a... 942 00:44:45,186 --> 00:44:47,655 You're gonna shoot your show in a recording studio? 943 00:44:47,688 --> 00:44:49,590 -That's right. -Somebody's finally gonna 944 00:44:49,624 --> 00:44:52,660 make a music show that actually sounds like music. 945 00:44:52,693 --> 00:44:54,528 She practice that line for me? 946 00:44:55,162 --> 00:44:56,197 Yes. 947 00:44:57,665 --> 00:44:59,901 I'm gonna, uh... I'm going to go check on the crew. 948 00:44:59,934 --> 00:45:01,535 -Here. Give this to them. -Yep. 949 00:45:03,771 --> 00:45:06,208 So, now that he's gone, you're gonna close me? 950 00:45:06,241 --> 00:45:07,508 I'm not here to close you. 951 00:45:07,541 --> 00:45:08,843 I'm here to convince you. 952 00:45:10,245 --> 00:45:12,113 You didn't become who you are without seeing 953 00:45:12,146 --> 00:45:13,648 what most people don't. 954 00:45:13,681 --> 00:45:14,682 Hmm. 955 00:45:15,917 --> 00:45:19,186 People love their music. 956 00:45:19,221 --> 00:45:21,223 It's not just what they listen to. 957 00:45:21,256 --> 00:45:22,723 It's who they are. 958 00:45:24,226 --> 00:45:25,760 It's personal. 959 00:45:26,827 --> 00:45:28,829 We don't wanna just play music on TV. 960 00:45:28,863 --> 00:45:31,732 We wanna show where it really comes from, 961 00:45:31,766 --> 00:45:34,502 why the hell it matters so much to us. 962 00:45:35,836 --> 00:45:37,939 Even if just for a song. 963 00:45:37,972 --> 00:45:40,708 Well, shit. You're gonna do all that in a show? 964 00:45:42,076 --> 00:45:43,678 I am sure as hell gonna try. 965 00:45:46,981 --> 00:45:48,549 And who the hell are you? 966 00:45:50,885 --> 00:45:52,753 -I need to, um... -Mm-hmm. 967 00:45:52,787 --> 00:45:54,789 I need to get back to this, but I really do hope 968 00:45:54,822 --> 00:45:56,891 you will consider it. It would mean a lot. 969 00:45:58,759 --> 00:45:59,894 To you? 970 00:46:01,162 --> 00:46:03,698 To everyone who watches. 971 00:46:03,731 --> 00:46:05,566 Every great artist has someone 972 00:46:05,599 --> 00:46:06,600 who believes in them, 973 00:46:06,634 --> 00:46:10,272 but every once in a while, 974 00:46:10,305 --> 00:46:12,139 it's the believer 975 00:46:12,173 --> 00:46:15,543 who's the most gifted artist of all. 976 00:46:15,576 --> 00:46:17,111 I had never met anyone like her. 977 00:46:17,144 --> 00:46:19,847 ♪ You just wait and see how things are gonna be ♪ 978 00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:21,882 You know how you know when you're about to do 979 00:46:21,916 --> 00:46:23,851 something really reckless? 980 00:46:23,884 --> 00:46:26,687 When you can't think about doing anything else. 981 00:46:42,570 --> 00:46:44,872 Come and work for me. 982 00:46:44,905 --> 00:46:45,906 What? 983 00:46:47,174 --> 00:46:50,745 Come work for me! 984 00:46:50,778 --> 00:46:53,215 I'm not gonna work for you! I work for me, with Bill. 985 00:46:53,248 --> 00:46:55,082 Okay. Well, then come work with me. 986 00:46:57,018 --> 00:46:58,519 I'm... I'm... 987 00:47:02,957 --> 00:47:05,327 Listen. Here's the deal. I can't stop thinking about you. 988 00:47:05,360 --> 00:47:08,162 Well, try harder. 989 00:47:08,195 --> 00:47:09,663 You don't even know me, Neil. 990 00:47:09,697 --> 00:47:11,966 I'm just some broke chick from Queens. 991 00:47:11,999 --> 00:47:14,535 Well, that's just about the last thing you are. 992 00:47:26,981 --> 00:47:28,916 It's small. I know. 993 00:47:29,950 --> 00:47:31,319 I grew up in smaller. 994 00:47:31,353 --> 00:47:33,654 Yeah, but you got out. 995 00:47:33,687 --> 00:47:34,789 Yeah. I still am getting out. 996 00:47:34,822 --> 00:47:37,825 ♪ And when I looked at you ♪ 997 00:47:37,858 --> 00:47:40,094 Give me one of your artists for my show. 998 00:47:40,127 --> 00:47:41,695 I am offering you more than that. 999 00:47:41,729 --> 00:47:43,331 And I'm not buying. 1000 00:47:43,365 --> 00:47:44,665 What I'm selling is the show. 1001 00:47:44,698 --> 00:47:47,269 ♪ I don't know who he is ♪ 1002 00:47:47,302 --> 00:47:50,805 ♪ But I think that you do ♪ 1003 00:47:50,838 --> 00:47:53,275 I've done my research, Neil. 1004 00:47:53,308 --> 00:47:55,943 You clearly like to gamble. 1005 00:47:55,976 --> 00:47:56,977 I like to win. 1006 00:47:58,380 --> 00:48:00,215 What happens when you don't? 1007 00:48:00,248 --> 00:48:02,217 Then I just keep gambling until I do. 1008 00:48:02,250 --> 00:48:03,717 ♪ Something in my heart ♪ 1009 00:48:03,751 --> 00:48:05,619 You have a family, Neil. 1010 00:48:06,720 --> 00:48:08,589 Yeah. I know it's complicated. 1011 00:48:09,723 --> 00:48:13,295 But hey, my life outside that door is my problem. 1012 00:48:13,328 --> 00:48:14,296 It's not yours. 1013 00:48:14,329 --> 00:48:16,764 ♪ Just passing by ♪ 1014 00:48:16,797 --> 00:48:18,866 We both know that's not true. 1015 00:48:18,899 --> 00:48:23,971 ♪ Who is he and what is he to you? ♪ 1016 00:48:26,874 --> 00:48:28,410 ♪ Ah now when I add up ♪ 1017 00:48:28,443 --> 00:48:31,679 - You're married. - Yeah. 1018 00:48:31,712 --> 00:48:34,014 It doesn't change the way I'm feeling right now. 1019 00:48:35,217 --> 00:48:36,750 It's just... 1020 00:48:38,420 --> 00:48:39,987 Different. 1021 00:48:40,020 --> 00:48:41,989 Is there anything I should know, um, 1022 00:48:42,022 --> 00:48:45,826 about something going on between you and Bill? 1023 00:48:45,860 --> 00:48:48,062 Bill's gay. He plays straight to protect me. 1024 00:48:48,095 --> 00:48:50,097 ♪ What is he to you? ♪ 1025 00:48:50,131 --> 00:48:51,732 From people like me. 1026 00:48:54,168 --> 00:48:55,870 From people exactly like you. 1027 00:48:55,903 --> 00:48:57,972 ♪ Well you tell me men don't have much intuition ♪ 1028 00:48:58,005 --> 00:49:00,875 It's like you remind me of someone. 1029 00:49:00,908 --> 00:49:01,742 Who? 1030 00:49:03,311 --> 00:49:06,180 ♪ Before you wreck your home ♪ 1031 00:49:06,214 --> 00:49:07,815 Me. 1032 00:49:07,848 --> 00:49:12,052 ♪ Who is he and what is he to you? ♪ 1033 00:49:13,821 --> 00:49:15,423 You don't wanna bet on the show? Fine. 1034 00:49:15,457 --> 00:49:18,226 ♪ Well, you tell me men don't have ♪ 1035 00:49:18,260 --> 00:49:19,227 Place a bet on me. 1036 00:49:19,261 --> 00:49:22,397 ♪ Much intuition ♪ 1037 00:49:22,430 --> 00:49:25,132 ♪ But before you wreck ♪ 1038 00:49:25,166 --> 00:49:27,835 ♪ Your old home ♪ 1039 00:49:27,868 --> 00:49:32,139 ♪ Be certain of the new ♪ 1040 00:49:32,173 --> 00:49:34,074 ♪ Dadgummit girl ♪ 1041 00:49:34,108 --> 00:49:35,809 ♪ Who is he? ♪ 1042 00:49:35,843 --> 00:49:36,611 Kiss. 1043 00:49:36,645 --> 00:49:39,947 ♪ And what is he to you? ♪ 1044 00:49:39,980 --> 00:49:42,284 The demo. That demo tape over there. 1045 00:49:42,317 --> 00:49:43,318 Kiss, it's a good name. 1046 00:49:43,351 --> 00:49:44,752 ♪ Who is he? ♪ 1047 00:49:44,785 --> 00:49:46,921 You really wanna talk business right now? 1048 00:49:48,956 --> 00:49:51,825 You really expect me to climb up there? 1049 00:49:51,859 --> 00:49:53,894 If you want to sleep with me, you are. 1050 00:49:57,365 --> 00:50:00,268 I know what you're thinking, but I'd never met 1051 00:50:00,302 --> 00:50:01,735 anyone like her. 1052 00:50:01,769 --> 00:50:03,737 And I know I said that about Beth, too, 1053 00:50:03,771 --> 00:50:06,073 but it... it's only because it's true. 1054 00:50:06,106 --> 00:50:07,875 ♪ Dadgummit girl ♪ 1055 00:50:07,908 --> 00:50:11,879 ♪ Who is he and what is he to you? ♪ 1056 00:50:11,912 --> 00:50:15,483 I was honestly in love with both of them. 1057 00:50:15,517 --> 00:50:19,487 ♪ Well you tell me men don't have ♪ 1058 00:50:19,521 --> 00:50:22,957 ♪ Much intuition ♪ 1059 00:50:22,990 --> 00:50:24,492 ♪ My God ♪ 1060 00:50:24,526 --> 00:50:26,760 Falling in love with Joyce, 1061 00:50:26,794 --> 00:50:30,064 for the first time in my life, I finally felt like me. 1062 00:50:30,097 --> 00:50:33,834 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1063 00:50:36,036 --> 00:50:39,740 ♪ It's not warm when she's away ♪ 1064 00:50:42,109 --> 00:50:45,480 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1065 00:50:45,513 --> 00:50:48,516 ♪ She's always gone too long ♪ 1066 00:50:48,550 --> 00:50:52,086 ♪ Any time she goes away ♪ 1067 00:50:54,489 --> 00:50:58,360 ♪ I wonder this time where she's gone ♪ 1068 00:51:00,828 --> 00:51:03,998 ♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪ 1069 00:51:04,031 --> 00:51:06,568 Kid works at in airplane factory installing toilet seats, 1070 00:51:06,601 --> 00:51:08,570 and yet he could dig deep enough to write this. 1071 00:51:08,603 --> 00:51:10,272 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1072 00:51:10,305 --> 00:51:13,040 ♪ She's always gone too long ♪ 1073 00:51:13,073 --> 00:51:16,344 ♪ Any time she goes away ♪ 1074 00:51:16,378 --> 00:51:17,479 What are you thinking? 1075 00:51:17,512 --> 00:51:19,113 That we can make him matter. 1076 00:51:19,146 --> 00:51:23,083 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1077 00:51:25,453 --> 00:51:27,522 ♪ Only darkness every day ♪ 1078 00:51:27,555 --> 00:51:29,123 Mr. Bill Withers. 1079 00:51:29,156 --> 00:51:30,057 Shit, Neil. 1080 00:51:30,090 --> 00:51:32,159 I see why you're bringing the hit, huh? 1081 00:51:32,192 --> 00:51:33,261 Thank you, Mr. Crocker. 1082 00:51:33,295 --> 00:51:34,928 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1083 00:51:34,962 --> 00:51:37,299 ♪ She's always gone too long ♪ 1084 00:51:37,332 --> 00:51:41,403 You know, I can remember watching my dad as a kid, 1085 00:51:41,436 --> 00:51:43,037 thinking, "Here's a guy 1086 00:51:43,070 --> 00:51:45,906 who's taking risks with all our lives, 1087 00:51:45,939 --> 00:51:50,044 just never ones big enough to actually change our lives." 1088 00:51:50,077 --> 00:51:53,147 ♪ And I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪ 1089 00:51:53,180 --> 00:51:56,917 ♪ I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪ 1090 00:51:56,950 --> 00:52:00,921 ♪ I know, I know, I know, I know, I know, I know ♪ 1091 00:52:00,954 --> 00:52:03,924 ♪ I ought to leave those young things alone ♪ 1092 00:52:03,957 --> 00:52:07,395 ♪ Ain't no sunshine when she's gone ♪ 1093 00:52:09,129 --> 00:52:12,199 I am gonna win... 1094 00:52:12,233 --> 00:52:15,836 bigger than anyone has ever done before. 1095 00:52:17,572 --> 00:52:19,441 Or else I'm gonna fail. 1096 00:52:22,644 --> 00:52:27,081 It's ending up lost somewhere in the middle 1097 00:52:27,114 --> 00:52:28,550 that I just... I can't live with. 1098 00:52:28,583 --> 00:52:33,854 ♪ Any time she goes away ♪ 1099 00:52:35,423 --> 00:52:37,958 Bill Withers was born in the small coal-mining town 1100 00:52:37,991 --> 00:52:39,561 of Slab Fork, West Virginia, 1101 00:52:39,594 --> 00:52:41,663 with a stutter. 1102 00:52:41,696 --> 00:52:43,097 Did not stop him from becoming 1103 00:52:43,130 --> 00:52:44,898 the Bill Withers that we all remember. 1104 00:52:44,932 --> 00:52:47,569 Signing him before, uh, Motown could, 1105 00:52:47,602 --> 00:52:49,404 changed everything for Buddah. 1106 00:52:50,672 --> 00:52:52,240 Shit. Changed everything for me. 1107 00:53:04,319 --> 00:53:06,688 ♪ Lean on me ♪ 1108 00:53:06,721 --> 00:53:10,124 ♪ When you're not strong ♪ 1109 00:53:10,157 --> 00:53:13,127 ♪ And I'll be your friend ♪ 1110 00:53:13,160 --> 00:53:18,299 ♪ I'll help you carry on ♪ 1111 00:53:18,333 --> 00:53:23,070 ♪ For it won't be long ♪ 1112 00:53:23,103 --> 00:53:24,572 ♪ 'Til I'm going to need ♪ 1113 00:53:24,606 --> 00:53:25,973 There he is. 1114 00:53:27,007 --> 00:53:28,476 With money in your pocket, 1115 00:53:28,510 --> 00:53:29,644 you're fucking wise, 1116 00:53:29,677 --> 00:53:31,011 you're fucking handsome, 1117 00:53:31,044 --> 00:53:32,480 and you sing better, too. 1118 00:53:32,514 --> 00:53:33,481 Old Jewish proverb? 1119 00:53:33,515 --> 00:53:35,149 It's a new one for me. 1120 00:53:35,182 --> 00:53:35,817 Be careful, kid. 1121 00:53:35,850 --> 00:53:37,985 Oh, not in this life, Joey. 1122 00:53:39,454 --> 00:53:43,558 ♪ That you won't let show ♪ 1123 00:53:43,591 --> 00:53:47,328 ♪ You just call on me brother ♪ 1124 00:53:47,362 --> 00:53:50,030 ♪ When you need a hand ♪ 1125 00:53:50,063 --> 00:53:54,402 ♪ We all need somebody to lean on ♪ 1126 00:53:54,436 --> 00:53:55,470 Big fuckin' problem. 1127 00:53:57,405 --> 00:53:58,540 Oh, shit. 1128 00:53:58,573 --> 00:54:00,508 Manny, what the hell? Really? 1129 00:54:00,542 --> 00:54:02,976 Your boy's on trial, motherfucker! 1130 00:54:03,010 --> 00:54:04,579 Hey, you're really gonna cross this line 1131 00:54:04,612 --> 00:54:06,113 over us signing Bill Withers? 1132 00:54:06,146 --> 00:54:09,451 Withers, Hawkins, fucking Isley Brothers! 1133 00:54:09,484 --> 00:54:11,586 And you got the nerve to come to our convention 1134 00:54:11,619 --> 00:54:12,986 and try to steal our music? 1135 00:54:13,020 --> 00:54:15,657 Manny, is this a black thing? 1136 00:54:15,690 --> 00:54:18,526 Buck. I'm-a kill you last, Buck, 1137 00:54:18,560 --> 00:54:20,462 so you got time to think about it. 1138 00:54:20,495 --> 00:54:22,330 Andre. 1139 00:54:22,363 --> 00:54:24,332 Manny, just put the gun away, man! Come on! 1140 00:54:24,365 --> 00:54:26,601 -Easy, easy. Easy, easy! -Sorry, Cec! 1141 00:54:26,634 --> 00:54:29,337 You backed the wrong colored horse. 1142 00:54:29,370 --> 00:54:30,472 I got my orders. 1143 00:54:30,505 --> 00:54:31,473 Orders? 1144 00:54:31,506 --> 00:54:34,141 Somebody actually put out a fucking hit on us? 1145 00:54:34,174 --> 00:54:36,644 Manny, who did this? Was it Gordy? 1146 00:54:36,678 --> 00:54:38,613 Let's just say you crossed 1147 00:54:38,646 --> 00:54:40,348 one too many fucking lines. 1148 00:54:40,381 --> 00:54:41,382 Manny! 1149 00:54:45,085 --> 00:54:47,054 You are gonna need to make a phone call. 1150 00:54:47,655 --> 00:54:49,557 True story. 1151 00:54:49,591 --> 00:54:51,124 Ask Big Joey. 1152 00:54:51,158 --> 00:54:53,228 You just called the Italian mob 1153 00:54:53,261 --> 00:54:55,095 to tell the black mob not to kill us? 1154 00:54:55,128 --> 00:54:57,164 You had a better idea? 1155 00:54:57,197 --> 00:55:00,000 Nance, you know you can't tell Beth about this. 1156 00:55:03,638 --> 00:55:05,673 Not about any of it. 1157 00:55:05,707 --> 00:55:06,741 I know, Nelly. 1158 00:55:06,774 --> 00:55:07,809 ♪ If you need a friend ♪ 1159 00:55:07,842 --> 00:55:09,544 ♪ Call me ♪ 1160 00:55:09,577 --> 00:55:10,778 Thank you. 1161 00:55:10,812 --> 00:55:11,813 Y'all need Jesus. 1162 00:55:11,846 --> 00:55:13,414 ♪ Call me ♪ 1163 00:55:13,448 --> 00:55:14,616 ♪ If you need a friend ♪ 1164 00:55:14,649 --> 00:55:16,618 ♪ Call me ♪ 1165 00:55:16,651 --> 00:55:17,719 ♪ Oh just call me ♪ 1166 00:55:17,752 --> 00:55:21,556 ♪ Call me ♪ 1167 00:55:23,291 --> 00:55:24,292 You okay? 1168 00:55:25,727 --> 00:55:27,027 How was Miami? 1169 00:55:27,829 --> 00:55:29,430 Uh, it's complicated. 1170 00:55:32,834 --> 00:55:35,168 Not sure which question you just answered. 1171 00:55:35,837 --> 00:55:37,639 Coffee's in the kitchen. 1172 00:55:37,672 --> 00:55:39,607 Uh, Beth! 1173 00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:48,148 You can't go after Gordy yourself, man. 1174 00:55:48,181 --> 00:55:50,083 The man fight dirty. 1175 00:55:50,117 --> 00:55:52,687 He gonna come after your life. 1176 00:55:52,720 --> 00:55:55,790 Now, you know 110 percent I got your back. 1177 00:55:55,823 --> 00:55:57,190 Mm-hmm. 1178 00:55:59,460 --> 00:56:01,362 But we don't have to fight this war. 1179 00:56:02,330 --> 00:56:03,531 There's no need. 1180 00:56:03,565 --> 00:56:05,165 We good. 1181 00:56:05,198 --> 00:56:06,834 Are you fucking kidding me? 1182 00:56:06,868 --> 00:56:08,703 You're talking about not starting a war, 1183 00:56:08,736 --> 00:56:10,438 the man who just showed his black chest 1184 00:56:10,471 --> 00:56:12,440 to fucking white America? 1185 00:56:15,276 --> 00:56:16,844 It's almost like they don't realize 1186 00:56:16,878 --> 00:56:20,582 that the black voice is coming from a black man. 1187 00:56:21,883 --> 00:56:22,717 Say, could you imagine 1188 00:56:22,750 --> 00:56:24,719 dreaming of something your whole life, 1189 00:56:24,752 --> 00:56:28,188 finally getting on that stage, 1190 00:56:28,222 --> 00:56:32,260 thousands of screaming fans... 1191 00:56:32,293 --> 00:56:36,564 singing every single lyric to every single song, 1192 00:56:36,598 --> 00:56:38,266 loving the music 1193 00:56:38,299 --> 00:56:41,736 but hating the color of my skin? 1194 00:56:41,769 --> 00:56:43,504 What kind of dream is that, man? 1195 00:56:46,441 --> 00:56:47,742 I don't know, man. 1196 00:56:47,775 --> 00:56:49,477 I know where I come from. 1197 00:56:49,510 --> 00:56:51,245 Shit. I can't forget it. 1198 00:56:52,647 --> 00:56:55,617 I'm just trying to figure out.. 1199 00:56:55,650 --> 00:56:57,652 how to change where we're going. 1200 00:56:59,821 --> 00:57:03,224 Shit. We still talking about music? 1201 00:57:03,257 --> 00:57:05,226 You're always talking about music. 1202 00:57:06,561 --> 00:57:07,562 That's the weapon. 1203 00:57:09,831 --> 00:57:11,733 Oh, man. 1204 00:57:21,275 --> 00:57:22,910 You got lucky, kid. 1205 00:57:22,944 --> 00:57:24,412 I could've been on the other line 1206 00:57:24,445 --> 00:57:26,214 when your friend from Miami called. 1207 00:57:26,247 --> 00:57:28,349 -Played the odds. -Yeah, well, Motown was gonna 1208 00:57:28,383 --> 00:57:29,917 sign the Withers kid, and you knew it. 1209 00:57:29,951 --> 00:57:32,520 -It's just business. -Not with Berry Gordy. 1210 00:57:32,553 --> 00:57:35,657 -Yeah. -Look. A gambler's a gambler. 1211 00:57:35,690 --> 00:57:37,258 And you're a gambler, kid, 1212 00:57:37,291 --> 00:57:40,261 but you're risking everything with those fuckin' suits 1213 00:57:40,294 --> 00:57:41,663 who're just waiting for any excuse 1214 00:57:41,696 --> 00:57:42,930 to bring you down. 1215 00:57:42,964 --> 00:57:46,367 If you're gonna bet this big, bet on yourself, 1216 00:57:46,401 --> 00:57:48,336 or keep away from the fucking table 1217 00:57:48,369 --> 00:57:50,438 before too many people get hurt. 1218 00:57:51,572 --> 00:57:52,974 Alright. Alright. 1219 00:57:54,842 --> 00:57:56,344 Big Joey was right. 1220 00:57:56,377 --> 00:57:58,780 We'd taken Buddah Records as far as we could go. 1221 00:58:02,316 --> 00:58:04,285 If we were ever gonna really matter, we were gonna 1222 00:58:04,318 --> 00:58:05,853 have to raise the stakes, 1223 00:58:05,887 --> 00:58:07,355 higher than ever before. 1224 00:58:40,922 --> 00:58:42,490 Whoo! 1225 00:58:44,692 --> 00:58:46,961 -What have you told her? -That you've gone insane. 1226 00:58:46,994 --> 00:58:48,629 We're really gonna steal 1227 00:58:48,663 --> 00:58:50,865 -Gladys Knight from Motown, too? -Hey, you're the one 1228 00:58:50,898 --> 00:58:53,367 that told me she's pissed off that Berry Gordy is giving 1229 00:58:53,401 --> 00:58:55,870 all their best stuff to Diana and Marvin and the Temptations. 1230 00:58:55,903 --> 00:58:57,438 -Yeah, she is. She is. -Alright. 1231 00:58:57,472 --> 00:58:59,974 So let's swing for the fences, Cec. 1232 00:59:00,007 --> 00:59:01,509 One last big hit. 1233 00:59:01,542 --> 00:59:02,944 What do you mean, one last big hit? 1234 00:59:02,977 --> 00:59:04,846 Well, you know, I've always kind of dreamed 1235 00:59:04,879 --> 00:59:06,748 of owning my own record company. 1236 00:59:06,781 --> 00:59:08,850 Didn't you? 1237 00:59:08,883 --> 00:59:10,251 Neil. 1238 00:59:11,385 --> 00:59:15,022 "Midnight Plane to Houston"? My people from Georgia. 1239 00:59:15,056 --> 00:59:16,891 They would never take a plane to Houston. 1240 00:59:16,924 --> 00:59:18,559 I'm-a have to change that. 1241 00:59:18,593 --> 00:59:22,029 I'll... I'll let him know. 1242 00:59:22,063 --> 00:59:23,898 Mrs. Gladys Knight, this is Mr. Neil... 1243 00:59:23,931 --> 00:59:25,767 Neil Bogart. 1244 00:59:25,800 --> 00:59:27,368 I have definitely heard of you. 1245 00:59:27,401 --> 00:59:29,904 Well, only good things, I hope. 1246 00:59:29,937 --> 00:59:31,472 I heard you got something special. 1247 00:59:31,506 --> 00:59:33,641 Listen, Neil. If Berry finds out about this, he... 1248 00:59:33,674 --> 00:59:35,943 Hey, if Motown was treating you properly, 1249 00:59:35,977 --> 00:59:37,812 you wouldn't be here. 1250 00:59:37,845 --> 00:59:40,515 No. Y wouldn't be here. 1251 00:59:42,116 --> 00:59:44,452 Hmm. Do you mind? 1252 00:59:45,086 --> 00:59:46,454 Go ahead. 1253 00:59:47,622 --> 00:59:50,658 Let's see. "Midnight Plane to Houston." 1254 00:59:50,691 --> 00:59:52,527 Alright. Here we go. 1255 00:59:59,567 --> 01:00:00,601 ♪ LA ♪ 1256 01:00:01,702 --> 01:00:02,737 Okay. 1257 01:00:03,971 --> 01:00:07,642 ♪ Proved too much for the man ♪ 1258 01:00:12,947 --> 01:00:14,415 ♪ So he's leaving the life ♪ 1259 01:00:14,448 --> 01:00:15,583 Mm-hmm. 1260 01:00:17,752 --> 01:00:21,756 ♪ He's come to know ♪ 1261 01:00:21,789 --> 01:00:25,426 ♪ Mm ♪ 1262 01:00:25,459 --> 01:00:27,929 Oh, you love your tracks lush, don't you? 1263 01:00:27,962 --> 01:00:30,097 All the time. 1264 01:00:30,131 --> 01:00:32,934 Ah. Well, we'll add a full horn section, 1265 01:00:32,967 --> 01:00:34,902 keyboards, a Wurlitzer. 1266 01:00:36,003 --> 01:00:38,372 Has anyone ever told you no? 1267 01:00:38,406 --> 01:00:39,974 Always been a bigger fan of yes. 1268 01:00:42,743 --> 01:00:45,446 I can't believe I'm singing with Gladys Knight. 1269 01:00:45,479 --> 01:00:47,081 Let's keep going. Yeah? 1270 01:00:47,114 --> 01:00:48,616 - Yeah. - ♪ World ♪ 1271 01:00:48,649 --> 01:00:50,151 Ooh, I like that. Wait, wait, wait. 1272 01:00:50,184 --> 01:00:51,853 ♪ My world ♪ 1273 01:00:51,886 --> 01:00:53,487 ♪ His world ♪ 1274 01:00:53,521 --> 01:00:56,057 ♪ Our world mine and his alone ♪ 1275 01:00:56,090 --> 01:00:57,792 -♪ I've got to go ♪ -♪ His world ♪ 1276 01:00:57,825 --> 01:00:59,627 -♪ I've got to go ♪ -♪ Her world ♪ 1277 01:00:59,660 --> 01:01:00,862 -♪ I've got to go ♪ -♪ World ♪ 1278 01:01:00,895 --> 01:01:02,597 ♪ His and hers alone ♪ 1279 01:01:02,630 --> 01:01:04,732 -♪ I've got to go ♪ -♪ Our world ♪ 1280 01:01:04,765 --> 01:01:07,001 -That works! -♪ I've got to go ♪ 1281 01:01:07,034 --> 01:01:08,603 Let's sing the chorus. What do you think? 1282 01:01:08,636 --> 01:01:10,404 Yeah, but I have to change that line. 1283 01:01:10,438 --> 01:01:12,607 -It has to say Georgia because.. -Georgia. 1284 01:01:12,640 --> 01:01:13,674 Houston is not working for me. 1285 01:01:13,708 --> 01:01:16,143 Who wants to go to Houston? Let's go to Georgia. 1286 01:01:16,177 --> 01:01:18,779 -Give me some peaches. -Here we go. 1287 01:01:19,981 --> 01:01:21,616 How you feeling tonight? 1288 01:01:29,657 --> 01:01:31,893 ♪ Mm, LA ♪ 1289 01:01:34,061 --> 01:01:36,664 ♪ Proved too much for the man ♪ 1290 01:01:36,697 --> 01:01:39,100 Hey, guys. She's making me play you. 1291 01:01:39,133 --> 01:01:40,902 Hey, do that A. 1292 01:01:40,935 --> 01:01:43,604 ♪ So he's leaving a life, mm ♪ 1293 01:01:45,172 --> 01:01:48,643 ♪ He's come to know ♪ 1294 01:01:48,676 --> 01:01:50,811 ♪ Ooh mm ♪ 1295 01:01:50,845 --> 01:01:52,546 ♪ He said he's going ♪ 1296 01:01:52,580 --> 01:01:54,649 ♪ Say he's going back ♪ 1297 01:01:55,616 --> 01:01:57,051 ♪ Going back to find ♪ 1298 01:01:57,084 --> 01:02:02,189 ♪ Ooh what's left of his world ♪ 1299 01:02:02,224 --> 01:02:05,559 ♪ On that midnight train to Georgia ♪ 1300 01:02:05,593 --> 01:02:06,460 Ooh, I love that. 1301 01:02:06,494 --> 01:02:08,796 As long as it says "Georgia," I'm good. 1302 01:02:08,829 --> 01:02:10,464 - Oh, my God. - This is good. 1303 01:02:10,498 --> 01:02:12,934 That's beautiful. That's just the best. 1304 01:02:12,967 --> 01:02:14,936 ♪ He's leaving ♪ 1305 01:02:14,969 --> 01:02:16,504 ♪ Leaving ♪ 1306 01:02:16,537 --> 01:02:19,073 ♪ On that midnight train to Georgia ♪ 1307 01:02:19,106 --> 01:02:22,476 ♪ Leaving on a midnight train ♪ 1308 01:02:22,510 --> 01:02:24,078 ♪ Ooh Lord ♪ 1309 01:02:24,111 --> 01:02:25,680 ♪ Say he's going back ♪ 1310 01:02:25,713 --> 01:02:28,549 ♪ I've got to go, I've got to go ♪ 1311 01:02:28,582 --> 01:02:31,185 ♪ A simpler place and time ♪ 1312 01:02:31,219 --> 01:02:32,954 ♪ Oh yes he is ♪ 1313 01:02:32,987 --> 01:02:35,089 What does a train sound like? 1314 01:02:35,122 --> 01:02:37,959 -Whoo, whoo! -Okay. The Pips can do that 1315 01:02:37,992 --> 01:02:39,894 - in harmony. - Oh, yeah. 1316 01:02:39,927 --> 01:02:40,795 Whoo-whoo! 1317 01:02:40,828 --> 01:02:42,830 ♪ I'd rather live in his world ♪ 1318 01:02:42,863 --> 01:02:44,232 ♪ Live in his world ♪ 1319 01:02:44,266 --> 01:02:46,167 ♪ Than live without him in mine ♪ 1320 01:02:46,200 --> 01:02:50,171 ♪ Her world is his ♪ 1321 01:02:50,205 --> 01:02:52,707 ♪ His and hers alone ♪ 1322 01:03:00,315 --> 01:03:01,916 You resigned from Buddah? 1323 01:03:04,319 --> 01:03:07,722 If we're ever gonna do something that truly matters, 1324 01:03:07,755 --> 01:03:09,957 it's gonna have to be our own. 1325 01:03:09,991 --> 01:03:11,959 In California? 1326 01:03:11,993 --> 01:03:13,995 Cecil just called. 1327 01:03:14,028 --> 01:03:16,864 - Everyone's going? - Okay. Not everyone. 1328 01:03:16,897 --> 01:03:20,901 Larry's never leaving New York, but Cecil, yeah, Buck, Nancy. 1329 01:03:22,103 --> 01:03:23,104 And Beth? 1330 01:03:26,241 --> 01:03:27,608 And Beth. 1331 01:03:30,778 --> 01:03:31,979 Don't look away. 1332 01:03:34,949 --> 01:03:36,017 Hey. 1333 01:03:40,921 --> 01:03:42,189 Don't turn away. 1334 01:03:46,861 --> 01:03:49,063 How long have you been planning this? 1335 01:03:52,967 --> 01:03:54,535 Since I was eight. 1336 01:03:56,670 --> 01:03:59,907 Okay. So this comes next. 1337 01:04:08,816 --> 01:04:11,986 You're not even gonna look back? 1338 01:04:12,019 --> 01:04:14,688 Ooh, I have already seen it. 1339 01:04:14,722 --> 01:04:18,326 ♪ I know he's leaving, yeah ♪ 1340 01:04:18,360 --> 01:04:20,661 ♪ On that midnight train to Georgia ♪ 1341 01:04:20,694 --> 01:04:22,063 ♪ Leaving on the midnight train ♪ 1342 01:04:22,096 --> 01:04:24,565 ♪ Hey, ooh, yah ♪ 1343 01:04:25,333 --> 01:04:28,102 ♪ Said he's going back to find ♪ 1344 01:04:28,135 --> 01:04:29,304 ♪ Going back to find ♪ 1345 01:04:29,337 --> 01:04:33,040 ♪ Ooh a simpler place and time ♪ 1346 01:04:33,074 --> 01:04:35,343 ♪ Oh yes he is ♪ 1347 01:04:35,377 --> 01:04:38,346 ♪ And I'm gonna be with him ♪ 1348 01:04:38,380 --> 01:04:39,847 ♪ I know you will ♪ 1349 01:04:39,880 --> 01:04:42,350 ♪ On that midnight train to Georgia ♪ 1350 01:04:42,384 --> 01:04:44,219 ♪ Leaving on a midnight train ♪ 1351 01:04:44,252 --> 01:04:47,621 -♪ Oh yeah yeah ♪ -♪ Whoo-whoo ♪ 1352 01:04:47,655 --> 01:04:50,325 ♪ I'd rather live in his world ♪ 1353 01:04:50,358 --> 01:04:51,259 ♪ Live in his world ♪ 1354 01:04:51,293 --> 01:04:54,095 ♪ Than be without him in mine ♪ 1355 01:04:54,128 --> 01:04:57,232 ♪ Her world is his ♪ 1356 01:04:57,265 --> 01:04:58,966 ♪ His and hers alone ♪ 1357 01:04:58,999 --> 01:05:01,168 Come on! 1358 01:05:01,202 --> 01:05:02,370 -Ah! -A pool? 1359 01:05:02,404 --> 01:05:04,872 It's a pool! 1360 01:05:12,380 --> 01:05:14,148 You couldn't find a bigger house? 1361 01:05:14,181 --> 01:05:16,117 Just close your eyes and jump. 1362 01:05:16,150 --> 01:05:18,286 And dream all these walls away? 1363 01:05:18,320 --> 01:05:19,387 Hey, can't you see? 1364 01:05:19,421 --> 01:05:21,722 There are no walls here. 1365 01:05:21,755 --> 01:05:23,023 -Come on, Mom! -Ah! 1366 01:05:26,428 --> 01:05:28,363 And we all lived happily ever after, right? 1367 01:05:29,763 --> 01:05:33,368 Well... it's complicated. 1368 01:05:33,401 --> 01:05:35,102 I'd been betting on what I believed in 1369 01:05:35,136 --> 01:05:37,004 my whole life. 1370 01:05:37,037 --> 01:05:37,872 I promise you. 1371 01:05:37,905 --> 01:05:40,308 So, where do we dream from here? 1372 01:05:43,811 --> 01:05:44,912 KISS! 1373 01:05:48,782 --> 01:05:51,018 And every bet we'd made back at Buddah 1374 01:05:51,051 --> 01:05:52,287 had paid off, 1375 01:05:52,320 --> 01:05:56,023 but Casablanca, KISS, and now Donna... 1376 01:05:56,056 --> 01:05:59,160 Mm. So far, we'd lost every hand. 1377 01:06:06,200 --> 01:06:08,403 No, no, it's dance music, right? 1378 01:06:08,436 --> 01:06:11,439 There is no other voice like her. 1379 01:06:11,473 --> 01:06:12,907 It's worse than we thought. 1380 01:06:12,940 --> 01:06:14,276 What? 1381 01:06:14,309 --> 01:06:15,843 Donna's not selling anywhere? 1382 01:06:15,876 --> 01:06:17,111 No one knows what to make of her. 1383 01:06:17,144 --> 01:06:19,281 R and B doesn't want her. Pop doesn't get her. 1384 01:06:19,314 --> 01:06:21,048 -She's just... -Different. 1385 01:06:21,081 --> 01:06:22,816 The song's dead, man. 1386 01:06:22,850 --> 01:06:24,319 You were wrong about the Gaines girl. 1387 01:06:24,352 --> 01:06:26,321 It's Summer, okay? It's Donna Summer. 1388 01:06:26,354 --> 01:06:28,189 Well, you were wrong about her, too, man. 1389 01:06:28,223 --> 01:06:29,890 Hello. 1390 01:06:29,924 --> 01:06:32,227 By 1975, we'd done everything we could think of 1391 01:06:32,260 --> 01:06:33,428 to introduce Donna to the world. 1392 01:06:33,461 --> 01:06:34,828 Right in my heart. 1393 01:06:34,862 --> 01:06:38,400 The world just... didn't care. 1394 01:06:38,433 --> 01:06:40,100 You said that he loved the song, 1395 01:06:40,134 --> 01:06:42,970 that he was so sure that it would change everything. 1396 01:06:44,772 --> 01:06:46,707 The song is over, LaDonna. 1397 01:06:47,375 --> 01:06:48,343 I was wrong. 1398 01:06:58,118 --> 01:07:00,222 Just because the audience doesn't hear it 1399 01:07:00,255 --> 01:07:02,324 does not mean it isn't there. 1400 01:07:03,458 --> 01:07:06,860 Sometimes, it just takes time. 1401 01:07:08,463 --> 01:07:11,799 But we were out of that, too. 1402 01:07:11,832 --> 01:07:13,834 -Neil, don't do this. -Hey, you called me, Bill. 1403 01:07:13,867 --> 01:07:15,437 To talk about it, not so that you could do 1404 01:07:15,470 --> 01:07:16,504 whatever you're gonna do. 1405 01:07:16,538 --> 01:07:17,738 This came from Steven Tyler himself. 1406 01:07:17,771 --> 01:07:20,140 Called and said if we don't cut the pyro and get a smaller 1407 01:07:20,174 --> 01:07:22,277 sound and lighting rig, we gotta pack it up and go home. 1408 01:07:22,310 --> 01:07:25,012 -Well, he is the headliner, so. -Bill, you have to trust us. 1409 01:07:25,045 --> 01:07:26,814 Well, I thought we were the us. 1410 01:07:26,847 --> 01:07:28,250 We're their managers, Joyce, you and me. 1411 01:07:28,283 --> 01:07:31,319 Neil, I'm begging you, please don't gamble on this. 1412 01:07:32,387 --> 01:07:34,356 We should have parked closer. 1413 01:07:34,389 --> 01:07:36,857 And sometimes... 1414 01:07:36,890 --> 01:07:38,826 they hear it even when they don't know it. 1415 01:07:49,169 --> 01:07:50,938 Hey, Mr. Aerosmith! 1416 01:07:50,971 --> 01:07:54,209 What kind of rock and roll pussy are you? 1417 01:07:54,242 --> 01:07:57,279 ♪ You show us everything you've got ♪ 1418 01:07:57,312 --> 01:08:01,181 ♪ You keep on dancing and the room gets hot ♪ 1419 01:08:01,216 --> 01:08:02,484 ♪ You drive us wild ♪ 1420 01:08:02,517 --> 01:08:05,819 ♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪ 1421 01:08:05,853 --> 01:08:07,855 Ah! 1422 01:08:07,888 --> 01:08:10,592 ♪ You say you want to go for a spin ♪ 1423 01:08:10,625 --> 01:08:11,892 ♪ The party's just begun ♪ 1424 01:08:11,925 --> 01:08:14,429 ♪ We'll let you in ♪ 1425 01:08:14,462 --> 01:08:16,231 ♪ You drive us wild ♪ 1426 01:08:16,264 --> 01:08:19,401 ♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪ 1427 01:08:19,434 --> 01:08:21,101 Come on! 1428 01:08:21,135 --> 01:08:24,038 ♪ You keep on shouting, you keep on shouting ♪ 1429 01:08:25,307 --> 01:08:27,041 Come on! 1430 01:08:27,074 --> 01:08:30,110 ♪ I want to rock and roll ♪ 1431 01:08:30,144 --> 01:08:32,414 ♪ All night ♪ 1432 01:08:32,447 --> 01:08:34,048 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1433 01:08:34,081 --> 01:08:36,518 ♪ I want to rock and roll ♪ 1434 01:08:36,551 --> 01:08:39,053 ♪ All night ♪ 1435 01:08:39,086 --> 01:08:40,888 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1436 01:08:40,921 --> 01:08:45,593 ♪ I want to rock and roll all night ♪ 1437 01:08:45,627 --> 01:08:47,462 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1438 01:08:47,495 --> 01:08:52,334 ♪ I want to rock and roll all night ♪ 1439 01:08:52,367 --> 01:08:54,502 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1440 01:08:58,440 --> 01:09:00,174 They love them when they see them. 1441 01:09:01,343 --> 01:09:03,977 So why the hell can't we get them to buy their records? 1442 01:09:04,011 --> 01:09:05,913 ♪ You drive us wild ♪ 1443 01:09:05,946 --> 01:09:08,949 ♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪ 1444 01:09:10,017 --> 01:09:11,185 ♪ You keep on shouting ♪ 1445 01:09:11,219 --> 01:09:12,253 I just... 1446 01:09:12,287 --> 01:09:14,021 ♪ You keep on shouting ♪ 1447 01:09:14,054 --> 01:09:16,558 I need... I need more time. 1448 01:09:16,591 --> 01:09:19,361 ♪ I want to rock and roll ♪ 1449 01:09:19,394 --> 01:09:22,029 ♪ All night ♪ 1450 01:09:22,062 --> 01:09:23,964 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1451 01:09:23,997 --> 01:09:28,670 ♪ I want to rock and roll all night ♪ 1452 01:09:28,703 --> 01:09:30,538 ♪ And party every day ♪ 1453 01:09:50,458 --> 01:09:52,993 You lost us an Aerosmith tour. 1454 01:09:54,562 --> 01:09:56,130 The tour was already lost, Gene. 1455 01:09:56,163 --> 01:09:58,566 Aerosmith doesn't want you anywhere near them, alright? 1456 01:09:58,600 --> 01:10:00,268 No headliner does. Your... 1457 01:10:00,301 --> 01:10:02,136 Your show scares the hell out of everyone. 1458 01:10:02,169 --> 01:10:04,138 So you want us to scale everything down, 1459 01:10:04,171 --> 01:10:07,208 - cut the pyro and the lights? - No. No. No. No. 1460 01:10:07,242 --> 01:10:09,544 If you're gonna be a headliner, we're gonna need to make 1461 01:10:09,577 --> 01:10:11,279 everything all that much bigger, alright? 1462 01:10:11,312 --> 01:10:14,315 That means more explosions and so much, so much louder. 1463 01:10:14,349 --> 01:10:17,117 I have this guy, alright? He's got these risers that... 1464 01:10:17,151 --> 01:10:20,622 You really think that more fire and some forklifts 1465 01:10:20,655 --> 01:10:23,658 are gonna be what finally breaks us through? 1466 01:10:23,691 --> 01:10:25,025 No. 1467 01:10:25,058 --> 01:10:26,428 No. It is gonna be the music, 1468 01:10:26,461 --> 01:10:28,696 and it was always gonna be the music, but we might 1469 01:10:28,730 --> 01:10:31,733 just make enough noise to... to get enough people 1470 01:10:31,766 --> 01:10:34,034 to actually listen to it, 1471 01:10:34,067 --> 01:10:35,670 to pay attention. 1472 01:10:35,703 --> 01:10:37,971 Why did you sign us? 1473 01:10:38,005 --> 01:10:41,175 Our demo was good, not great. Even I can admit that. 1474 01:10:41,209 --> 01:10:43,043 You had to know how hard this was gonna be. 1475 01:10:43,076 --> 01:10:44,245 Why take the risk? 1476 01:10:49,016 --> 01:10:52,487 Because your real name is Chaim Witz, 1477 01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:55,223 and you moved here from Israel when you were eight years old, 1478 01:10:55,256 --> 01:10:57,592 speaking nothing but Yiddish. 1479 01:10:57,625 --> 01:11:00,462 Because Paul's real name is Stanley Eisen. 1480 01:11:01,529 --> 01:11:04,198 Because two kids from Queens 1481 01:11:04,232 --> 01:11:06,734 had dreams about being the next gods of rock. 1482 01:11:09,270 --> 01:11:12,072 And little Neil Bogatz from the Brooklyn projects 1483 01:11:12,105 --> 01:11:15,108 thinks he can make everybody's dreams come true... 1484 01:11:17,645 --> 01:11:20,315 if he's just given a little more time. 1485 01:11:22,217 --> 01:11:24,586 You know, your demo really was that great, Gene. 1486 01:11:26,254 --> 01:11:30,425 Yeah. Raw and honest rock and roll, 1487 01:11:30,458 --> 01:11:33,093 even without all the costumes. But I tell you 1488 01:11:33,126 --> 01:11:35,195 what your real brilliance is, and I don't even think 1489 01:11:35,230 --> 01:11:38,233 you know this. It's that you write 1490 01:11:38,266 --> 01:11:40,067 every single one of your songs 1491 01:11:40,100 --> 01:11:43,404 with the same four God damn chords. 1492 01:11:43,438 --> 01:11:45,740 That means that any... any 14-year-old kid 1493 01:11:45,773 --> 01:11:47,375 can go out there and buy a guitar, 1494 01:11:47,408 --> 01:11:48,476 and within 20 minutes, 1495 01:11:48,510 --> 01:11:50,110 they can be you! 1496 01:11:50,845 --> 01:11:53,414 And that matters, Gene. 1497 01:11:53,448 --> 01:11:55,182 That is who you are. 1498 01:11:56,183 --> 01:11:58,151 Now, why did you sign with me, huh? 1499 01:11:59,220 --> 01:12:02,690 Brand-new label with you as our only act. 1500 01:12:02,724 --> 01:12:05,493 You had to know you were taking as much of a risk as we were. 1501 01:12:07,428 --> 01:12:09,129 Because you never should have gotten 1502 01:12:09,162 --> 01:12:11,131 out of the Brooklyn projects. 1503 01:12:15,168 --> 01:12:16,571 And yet, here you are. 1504 01:12:18,840 --> 01:12:20,208 Here we are. 1505 01:12:21,442 --> 01:12:23,076 Two imposters. 1506 01:12:25,847 --> 01:12:27,382 Only if we're wrong. 1507 01:13:05,920 --> 01:13:08,155 I get that you like to gamble, 1508 01:13:08,188 --> 01:13:10,458 but what if Joey was right? 1509 01:13:10,491 --> 01:13:12,560 In the end, what if the house does always win? 1510 01:13:17,432 --> 01:13:18,900 Well, then we raise the stakes so high 1511 01:13:18,933 --> 01:13:20,401 that we become the house. 1512 01:13:34,849 --> 01:13:36,384 Two hundred grand more. 1513 01:13:36,417 --> 01:13:38,553 You're still upside down the last hundred. 1514 01:13:38,586 --> 01:13:41,188 Why don't you make it a personal loan, then? 1515 01:13:41,222 --> 01:13:43,524 Don't do this. You go upside down this big, 1516 01:13:43,558 --> 01:13:45,360 it don't matter how much I fucking love you. 1517 01:13:45,393 --> 01:13:47,228 Hey, you ever gambled yourself, Joey? 1518 01:13:47,261 --> 01:13:49,397 That thumping in your chest right before that dealer 1519 01:13:49,430 --> 01:13:51,833 turns over your next card? Anything is possible 1520 01:13:51,866 --> 01:13:53,735 right before that moment. 1521 01:13:53,768 --> 01:13:55,603 Neil, I'm telling you, 1522 01:13:55,637 --> 01:13:58,506 I'm not gonna be here for you this time if you don't pay off. 1523 01:13:58,539 --> 01:14:00,475 Are you gonna give me the money or not? 1524 01:14:00,508 --> 01:14:01,542 No. 1525 01:14:04,879 --> 01:14:07,482 -Two hundred? -Two hundred. 1526 01:14:20,862 --> 01:14:22,296 I know it's bad. 1527 01:14:23,431 --> 01:14:26,701 I just wish you would be honest and tell me how bad. 1528 01:14:26,734 --> 01:14:28,336 It's... it's... it's fine. 1529 01:14:28,369 --> 01:14:30,203 No. It's not fine We're not fine. 1530 01:14:30,238 --> 01:14:32,507 None of this is fine, Neil. 1531 01:14:32,540 --> 01:14:34,542 We were fine when we were on the floor of our home 1532 01:14:34,575 --> 01:14:36,811 in New Jersey, when I was teaching you even how to read 1533 01:14:36,844 --> 01:14:39,280 those books. And now, we are broke, 1534 01:14:39,313 --> 01:14:40,882 and you are giving the guys bonuses! 1535 01:14:40,915 --> 01:14:42,450 Hey. No. Did you sister tell you 1536 01:14:42,483 --> 01:14:44,252 that Buck was the only one that took it? 1537 01:14:44,285 --> 01:14:46,621 Maybe he was the only one smart enough to. 1538 01:14:48,990 --> 01:14:51,592 Hey. Hey. 1539 01:14:53,995 --> 01:14:55,329 Come on. 1540 01:14:55,997 --> 01:14:57,498 Just dance with me. 1541 01:15:03,337 --> 01:15:04,605 Oh. 1542 01:15:07,675 --> 01:15:09,477 You stopped dreaming again. 1543 01:15:10,611 --> 01:15:12,714 You did. 1544 01:15:12,747 --> 01:15:14,716 You know what I dream of? 1545 01:15:14,749 --> 01:15:18,352 It's that you're actually here with us, Neil, 1546 01:15:18,386 --> 01:15:20,021 and not in New York or Las Vegas 1547 01:15:20,054 --> 01:15:22,623 or wherever else you disappear to 1548 01:15:22,657 --> 01:15:25,226 when you're too afraid I'll see the truth. 1549 01:15:26,294 --> 01:15:29,297 What do you think the truth is? 1550 01:15:29,330 --> 01:15:32,800 Beth, I love you. Come on. I'm always with you. 1551 01:15:32,834 --> 01:15:36,604 I'm always with you. You, the kids, 1552 01:15:36,637 --> 01:15:38,306 you're all I think about. 1553 01:15:40,575 --> 01:15:45,480 You have to know she's going to end up just as hurt as me. 1554 01:15:48,382 --> 01:15:50,618 I convinced myself for so long that it was okay 1555 01:15:50,651 --> 01:15:53,054 when I knew that you were sharing your bed, Neil, 1556 01:15:53,087 --> 01:15:55,490 but you are sharing your heart. 1557 01:15:58,059 --> 01:15:59,494 Tell me I'm wrong. 1558 01:16:09,670 --> 01:16:11,572 It's complicated. 1559 01:16:11,606 --> 01:16:12,607 No. 1560 01:16:13,875 --> 01:16:14,876 It's not. 1561 01:16:16,978 --> 01:16:18,513 It's really simple. 1562 01:16:24,418 --> 01:16:27,789 ♪ You've got a real type of thing going down ♪ 1563 01:16:27,822 --> 01:16:29,524 ♪ Getting down ♪ 1564 01:16:29,557 --> 01:16:33,795 ♪ There's a whole lot of rhythm going round ♪ 1565 01:16:33,828 --> 01:16:35,930 You want a little bit more or you good? 1566 01:16:35,963 --> 01:16:37,064 What? 1567 01:16:37,098 --> 01:16:39,066 Yeah, yeah. You good? 1568 01:16:39,100 --> 01:16:40,902 I'm great. 1569 01:16:40,935 --> 01:16:42,537 Oh, there he is. There he is. 1570 01:16:42,570 --> 01:16:45,406 -Is that what you gave me? -That's it right there. Uh-uh. 1571 01:16:45,439 --> 01:16:47,575 Hey, what up, Neil? Look at the space in here... 1572 01:16:47,608 --> 01:16:49,710 I can't even feel my lungs anymore. 1573 01:16:49,744 --> 01:16:50,878 Now it's a party. 1574 01:16:50,912 --> 01:16:53,581 George, George, George, George, if we're gonna sign you, 1575 01:16:53,614 --> 01:16:55,616 you cannot be your own opening act, alright? 1576 01:16:55,650 --> 01:16:59,387 You are Parliament and Funkadelic. It's confusing. 1577 01:16:59,420 --> 01:17:01,088 Only on some planets, man. 1578 01:17:01,122 --> 01:17:03,825 See, that's why I need a motherfucking spaceship, 1579 01:17:03,858 --> 01:17:05,426 so we can leave this Earth. 1580 01:17:05,459 --> 01:17:07,428 When the mothership gets built, 1581 01:17:07,461 --> 01:17:09,864 the connection between Earth and the galaxy 1582 01:17:09,897 --> 01:17:11,899 is gonna be made, and everything will be clear. 1583 01:17:11,933 --> 01:17:14,402 I'm trying to tell you, it'll make sense. You'll see. 1584 01:17:14,435 --> 01:17:16,437 How quickly can you cut us this new record? 1585 01:17:16,470 --> 01:17:20,007 How quick can you build me a motherfucking spaceship? 1586 01:17:20,041 --> 01:17:21,542 How much? 1587 01:17:23,010 --> 01:17:24,946 A million motherfucking dollars. 1588 01:17:24,979 --> 01:17:26,848 Would those be Earth dollars? 1589 01:17:26,881 --> 01:17:29,584 I can't even feel my bones anymore. 1590 01:17:29,617 --> 01:17:31,118 He's giving me space... 1591 01:17:31,152 --> 01:17:33,487 I know what you need to do, Neil. 1592 01:17:33,521 --> 01:17:34,989 - It's party time. - Yeah? 1593 01:17:35,022 --> 01:17:38,392 It's time to fly. I'm gonna need you to hop on this ride with me. 1594 01:17:38,426 --> 01:17:40,661 If Buck can handle it, so can I. 1595 01:17:40,695 --> 01:17:42,396 You in or you out? 1596 01:17:42,430 --> 01:17:43,865 I didn't start the heavier drugs 1597 01:17:43,898 --> 01:17:46,734 because of what was going on between Beth and Joyce. 1598 01:17:46,767 --> 01:17:49,503 Didn't start them because of what was going wrong 1599 01:17:49,537 --> 01:17:51,138 with KISS and Donna and Casablanca. 1600 01:17:51,172 --> 01:17:52,506 I just... 1601 01:17:54,575 --> 01:17:56,811 I did them because I like... 1602 01:17:56,844 --> 01:17:59,580 I liked how it made me feel. 1603 01:17:59,614 --> 01:18:01,782 Why don't you take a ride with me, Neil? 1604 01:18:03,184 --> 01:18:04,952 Alright. Let's go, Neil. It's on you. 1605 01:18:04,986 --> 01:18:06,187 Okay. 1606 01:18:06,221 --> 01:18:07,889 - You ready to go? - Do it. 1607 01:18:07,922 --> 01:18:10,658 You ready to build us a spaceship, Neil? 1608 01:18:12,660 --> 01:18:13,628 Fuck it. 1609 01:18:15,630 --> 01:18:17,899 You look like you like it. I think he likes it. 1610 01:18:23,104 --> 01:18:25,072 Let's build you a motherfucking spaceship. 1611 01:18:26,807 --> 01:18:28,776 That's what I'm talkin' about. 1612 01:18:28,809 --> 01:18:30,111 Liftoff. Let's go. 1613 01:18:30,144 --> 01:18:32,146 ♪ We need the funk ♪ 1614 01:18:32,179 --> 01:18:33,948 ♪ We got to have that funk ♪ 1615 01:18:33,981 --> 01:18:37,018 ♪ Oh we want the funk ♪ 1616 01:18:37,051 --> 01:18:38,552 ♪ Give up the funk ♪ 1617 01:18:38,586 --> 01:18:41,223 ♪ Oh we need the funk ♪ 1618 01:18:41,256 --> 01:18:43,057 ♪ We got to have that funk ♪ 1619 01:18:43,090 --> 01:18:44,025 ♪ Oh we want the funk ♪ 1620 01:18:44,058 --> 01:18:46,027 ♪ Please, mother ♪ 1621 01:18:46,060 --> 01:18:47,862 ♪ Give up the funk ♪ 1622 01:18:47,895 --> 01:18:48,930 ♪ Oh we need the funk ♪ 1623 01:18:48,963 --> 01:18:50,232 ♪ Please mother ah ♪ 1624 01:18:50,265 --> 01:18:52,066 ♪ We got to have that funk ♪ 1625 01:18:52,099 --> 01:18:53,100 ♪ Oh we want the funk ♪ 1626 01:18:53,134 --> 01:18:55,136 ♪ Please mother ♪ 1627 01:18:55,169 --> 01:18:56,671 ♪ Give up the funk ♪ 1628 01:19:13,255 --> 01:19:14,822 Well, alright. 1629 01:19:18,726 --> 01:19:20,262 Partying on the mothership. 1630 01:19:20,295 --> 01:19:22,596 I am the mothership connection. 1631 01:19:24,198 --> 01:19:27,101 ♪ If you hear any noise ♪ 1632 01:19:27,134 --> 01:19:29,937 ♪ It's just me and the boys ♪ 1633 01:19:29,971 --> 01:19:32,274 ♪ Hit me ♪ 1634 01:19:32,307 --> 01:19:33,941 Hit it, fellas. 1635 01:19:35,676 --> 01:19:38,112 ♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪ 1636 01:19:38,145 --> 01:19:40,982 ♪ Stop and let me ride ♪ 1637 01:19:41,015 --> 01:19:43,551 ♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪ 1638 01:19:43,584 --> 01:19:46,288 ♪ Stop and let me ride ♪ 1639 01:19:46,321 --> 01:19:48,923 ♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪ 1640 01:19:48,956 --> 01:19:51,726 ♪ Stop and let me ride ♪ 1641 01:19:51,759 --> 01:19:54,229 ♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪ 1642 01:19:54,262 --> 01:19:57,299 ♪ Stop and let me ride ♪ 1643 01:19:57,332 --> 01:19:59,734 That million dollars actually went a long way, 1644 01:19:59,767 --> 01:20:02,270 and not just for the mothership. George bought two new tour buses 1645 01:20:02,304 --> 01:20:04,005 and new cars for everyone in the band. 1646 01:20:04,038 --> 01:20:05,940 Everyone, 28 of them. 1647 01:20:05,973 --> 01:20:08,310 We had Rolls Royces, Mercedes Benz, 1648 01:20:08,343 --> 01:20:10,611 Jaguars, six Sevilles. 1649 01:20:10,644 --> 01:20:13,614 Everybody got a car, except for me, motherfucker. 1650 01:20:13,647 --> 01:20:16,183 I needed a spaceship, because I don't drive. 1651 01:20:16,218 --> 01:20:18,552 ♪ Let me ride ♪ 1652 01:20:18,586 --> 01:20:21,055 ♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪ 1653 01:20:21,088 --> 01:20:22,890 They pioneered almost every genre 1654 01:20:22,923 --> 01:20:24,625 that came after them. 1655 01:20:24,658 --> 01:20:28,763 They just spent more money than they ever made, 1656 01:20:28,796 --> 01:20:32,833 and the money just... kept bleeding. 1657 01:20:45,247 --> 01:20:47,282 That's really beautiful. I love that. 1658 01:20:47,315 --> 01:20:50,184 Thanks. They've been making fun of me. 1659 01:20:50,218 --> 01:20:51,786 They don't think it sounds like KISS. 1660 01:20:51,819 --> 01:20:53,288 Oh, no. Hey. Hey. Not those. 1661 01:20:53,321 --> 01:20:54,489 Those are the empty shells, right? 1662 01:20:54,523 --> 01:20:57,259 - Hide them somewhere the back. - Wait, wait. Empty? 1663 01:20:57,292 --> 01:20:58,427 -Yeah. -Those are empty? 1664 01:20:58,460 --> 01:21:00,928 Yeah. They might just make you look as big as you sound. 1665 01:21:00,961 --> 01:21:04,698 You know, now you're beginning to sound just like him. 1666 01:21:04,732 --> 01:21:06,734 Bill, is he... is he serious? 1667 01:21:06,767 --> 01:21:09,136 Guys, uh, give us five. 1668 01:21:13,241 --> 01:21:15,243 -It's a bullshit trick. -Bill. 1669 01:21:15,277 --> 01:21:17,678 Okay? It's a mirage. 1670 01:21:17,711 --> 01:21:20,815 And it sure as hell isn't rock and roll, and... 1671 01:21:20,848 --> 01:21:21,849 and... 1672 01:21:22,817 --> 01:21:26,221 and I wish any of that mattered right now, 1673 01:21:26,254 --> 01:21:27,822 but it just doesn't. 1674 01:21:29,090 --> 01:21:33,828 Nobody's buying our records. No one's coming to see us play. 1675 01:21:33,861 --> 01:21:36,864 And if an empty speaker cabinet tricks people into thinking 1676 01:21:36,897 --> 01:21:40,402 that we sound better because we sound louder... 1677 01:21:40,435 --> 01:21:42,404 If this is what it finally takes 1678 01:21:42,437 --> 01:21:45,706 so that everybody else feels the way we do... 1679 01:21:46,308 --> 01:21:48,276 what I think is, 1680 01:21:48,310 --> 01:21:50,010 we do what we have to to survive. 1681 01:21:50,044 --> 01:21:51,879 It's just another part of the show, 1682 01:21:51,912 --> 01:21:54,316 like the costumes, the... the make-up. 1683 01:21:54,349 --> 01:21:55,683 No. 1684 01:21:56,884 --> 01:21:57,885 It's not. 1685 01:22:00,187 --> 01:22:01,722 It's a lie. 1686 01:22:03,225 --> 01:22:04,758 About the music. 1687 01:22:13,767 --> 01:22:17,037 We've never lied about the music. 1688 01:22:17,071 --> 01:22:18,739 Hey, uh, why don't you, uh... 1689 01:22:18,772 --> 01:22:20,841 why don't you sing that song? 1690 01:22:20,875 --> 01:22:22,877 The one that you said you liked it. 1691 01:22:22,910 --> 01:22:25,913 You said you liked it, right? Sing it. Sing it for him. 1692 01:22:25,946 --> 01:22:27,882 He thinks he's got our next single. 1693 01:22:35,490 --> 01:22:39,059 ♪ Beth I hear you calling ♪ 1694 01:22:39,093 --> 01:22:43,731 ♪ But I can't come home right now ♪ 1695 01:22:43,764 --> 01:22:47,269 ♪ Me and the boys are playing ♪ 1696 01:22:47,302 --> 01:22:49,404 ♪ And we just can't find ♪ 1697 01:22:49,437 --> 01:22:52,440 ♪ The sound ♪ 1698 01:22:52,474 --> 01:22:55,743 ♪ Just a few more hours ♪ 1699 01:22:55,776 --> 01:22:59,947 ♪ And I'll be right home to you ♪ 1700 01:22:59,980 --> 01:23:03,918 ♪ I think I hear them calling ♪ 1701 01:23:03,951 --> 01:23:08,722 ♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪ 1702 01:23:08,756 --> 01:23:10,891 ♪ Beth what can I do? ♪ 1703 01:23:10,925 --> 01:23:12,460 What's... what's the matter? 1704 01:23:12,494 --> 01:23:15,062 It's not... not the radio hit you were hoping for? 1705 01:23:15,095 --> 01:23:16,231 Paul! 1706 01:23:16,264 --> 01:23:20,067 I will drop you right off on that fucking street corner 1707 01:23:20,100 --> 01:23:21,068 in Queens. 1708 01:23:21,101 --> 01:23:22,736 You can't. 1709 01:23:24,138 --> 01:23:25,473 We're all you got. 1710 01:23:25,507 --> 01:23:27,475 The song was not supposed to be Beth, okay? 1711 01:23:27,509 --> 01:23:29,843 Peter wrote it for his wife. He'll change it back. 1712 01:23:29,877 --> 01:23:32,314 - We'll change it, Neil. - Mm... 1713 01:23:32,347 --> 01:23:34,516 -Mm... no, we won't. -No. No. 1714 01:23:34,549 --> 01:23:37,818 "Beth" just has a better... I don't know. 1715 01:23:37,851 --> 01:23:39,954 It's just got a better ring to it. 1716 01:23:39,987 --> 01:23:41,088 -Don't you think? -Okay. 1717 01:23:41,121 --> 01:23:43,924 I think I finally got the lights the way you want 'em. 1718 01:23:47,529 --> 01:23:48,996 What'd I miss? 1719 01:23:53,200 --> 01:23:54,236 You know... 1720 01:23:56,538 --> 01:23:59,006 you guys are just a couple of fucking children 1721 01:23:59,039 --> 01:24:00,074 playing dress-up. 1722 01:24:03,010 --> 01:24:05,547 Aw, where you going? Come on. 1723 01:24:05,580 --> 01:24:07,081 He bet everything on you! 1724 01:24:07,114 --> 01:24:10,050 No, no, no, no. He bet everything on him! 1725 01:24:10,084 --> 01:24:12,287 We just happen to be the cards he was dealt! 1726 01:24:13,521 --> 01:24:16,824 ♪ You say you feel so empty ♪ 1727 01:24:16,857 --> 01:24:21,496 ♪ That our house just ain't a home ♪ 1728 01:24:21,529 --> 01:24:25,400 ♪ I'm always somewhere else ♪ 1729 01:24:25,433 --> 01:24:30,305 ♪ And you're always there alone ♪ 1730 01:24:30,338 --> 01:24:33,541 ♪ Just a few more hours ♪ 1731 01:24:33,575 --> 01:24:37,845 ♪ And I'll be right home to you ♪ 1732 01:24:37,878 --> 01:24:41,949 ♪ I think I hear them calling ♪ 1733 01:24:41,982 --> 01:24:46,020 ♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪ 1734 01:24:46,053 --> 01:24:48,989 ♪ Beth what can I do? ♪ 1735 01:24:50,325 --> 01:24:54,061 ♪ Beth I know you're lonely ♪ 1736 01:24:54,094 --> 01:24:58,300 ♪ I know I'll be alright ♪ 1737 01:24:58,333 --> 01:25:03,203 ♪ 'Cause me and the boys will be playing ♪ 1738 01:25:03,238 --> 01:25:04,306 ♪ All night ♪ 1739 01:25:44,512 --> 01:25:46,648 - Hey. - Hey. 1740 01:25:46,681 --> 01:25:48,550 You look like shit. 1741 01:25:48,583 --> 01:25:50,452 You get in okay? 1742 01:25:50,485 --> 01:25:51,553 Limo was waiting? 1743 01:25:51,586 --> 01:25:52,953 Yeah, yeah. Like movie stars. 1744 01:25:52,986 --> 01:25:54,154 Your mother loved it. 1745 01:25:56,090 --> 01:25:57,625 Okay. How much you need this time? 1746 01:25:57,659 --> 01:25:59,893 You got to talk to me like that? I'm your father. 1747 01:25:59,927 --> 01:26:01,529 You think that's why we 1748 01:26:01,563 --> 01:26:03,431 flew in? I wanted to see how my son's doing, 1749 01:26:03,465 --> 01:26:04,965 if he's okay. 1750 01:26:04,998 --> 01:26:07,000 What do you need, Pop? 1751 01:26:07,034 --> 01:26:09,371 It's for your mother, okay? For the foster home. 1752 01:26:09,404 --> 01:26:10,971 She's going nuts. I don't know. 1753 01:26:11,004 --> 01:26:12,507 Like, ten or something. 1754 01:26:12,540 --> 01:26:14,975 You make it harder than getting money from loan sharks. 1755 01:26:15,008 --> 01:26:17,612 It's just fucking money. 1756 01:26:17,645 --> 01:26:19,012 What is it you always say? 1757 01:26:19,046 --> 01:26:21,148 Uh, you just got to know where to find it. 1758 01:26:21,181 --> 01:26:23,351 Like at the card tables? 1759 01:26:23,385 --> 01:26:24,918 I heard things, Neil. 1760 01:26:25,587 --> 01:26:27,555 What are you doing, huh? 1761 01:26:27,589 --> 01:26:30,225 Oh, you know, just still trying to escape 1762 01:26:30,258 --> 01:26:32,460 -those four God damn blocks! -What the fuck's 1763 01:26:32,494 --> 01:26:33,961 -the matter with you? -Hey! Fuck! 1764 01:26:33,994 --> 01:26:35,463 Huh? I raised you to be smart! 1765 01:26:35,497 --> 01:26:38,132 How you gonna be smart shoving that shit up your nose? 1766 01:26:38,165 --> 01:26:40,435 Come on! I'm talking to you! 1767 01:26:40,468 --> 01:26:41,703 How you gonna know when you're hot, 1768 01:26:41,736 --> 01:26:43,471 when to bet big, when to fold? 1769 01:26:43,505 --> 01:26:46,374 You can't even decide who you want in your fucking bed! 1770 01:26:47,475 --> 01:26:49,076 I have everything under control. 1771 01:26:49,109 --> 01:26:51,078 Doesn't look that way. 1772 01:26:51,111 --> 01:26:53,947 You've lost the music, kiddo. 1773 01:26:53,981 --> 01:26:56,984 Hey. You understand? 1774 01:26:59,554 --> 01:27:01,121 Is there anything else you need? 1775 01:27:09,731 --> 01:27:11,699 Hey, you don't think you could have made it 1776 01:27:11,733 --> 01:27:13,167 using your real name? 1777 01:27:16,337 --> 01:27:17,439 Bogart is my real name. 1778 01:27:23,211 --> 01:27:24,178 Sure. 1779 01:27:47,602 --> 01:27:49,203 Tell me what I'm supposed to do. 1780 01:27:51,104 --> 01:27:53,208 Just keep dancing, Neil. 1781 01:27:54,275 --> 01:27:57,144 Always was the one thing you were best at. 1782 01:28:00,281 --> 01:28:02,082 I did always love the way you moved. 1783 01:28:02,115 --> 01:28:04,352 No. Just... I'm... I'm asking you. 1784 01:28:04,385 --> 01:28:06,086 Just tell me what I'm supposed to do. 1785 01:28:06,119 --> 01:28:08,088 Go and say goodbye to your kids. 1786 01:28:11,124 --> 01:28:12,660 That's what you're supposed to do. 1787 01:28:18,633 --> 01:28:20,335 You're breaking my heart. 1788 01:28:22,804 --> 01:28:24,639 Hurts like hell, doesn't it? 1789 01:28:39,086 --> 01:28:41,289 She won't even put them on the phone. 1790 01:28:42,290 --> 01:28:43,224 My kids. 1791 01:28:48,496 --> 01:28:49,664 My kids. 1792 01:28:57,305 --> 01:28:59,741 I don't know how to stand up. 1793 01:28:59,774 --> 01:29:01,809 I'm just... I'm sitting here, 1794 01:29:01,843 --> 01:29:05,280 and I don't... I don't know how to get up. 1795 01:29:17,190 --> 01:29:19,661 Hey, you can almost see Brooklyn from here. 1796 01:29:32,407 --> 01:29:33,441 This is bullshit. 1797 01:29:33,474 --> 01:29:35,677 There isn't a thing that you have ever asked for 1798 01:29:35,710 --> 01:29:37,144 that I haven't given you, 1799 01:29:37,177 --> 01:29:38,813 and you know exactly how expensive it is 1800 01:29:38,846 --> 01:29:40,481 to keep you on tour and in the studio! 1801 01:29:40,515 --> 01:29:42,584 Let's seriously talk about releasing "Beth," okay... 1802 01:29:42,617 --> 01:29:44,719 No. No, no, no! We're not releasing that shit. No. 1803 01:29:44,752 --> 01:29:46,321 ...cross us over into mainstream radio. 1804 01:29:46,354 --> 01:29:48,289 -It's not who we are. -Nobody knows who you are, 1805 01:29:48,323 --> 01:29:50,224 which is why you're not making any fucking money! 1806 01:29:50,258 --> 01:29:52,594 Isn't that your job? Huh? To get them to know? And yours? 1807 01:29:52,627 --> 01:29:55,330 Or is that not the kinda pillow talk you two like to talk? 1808 01:29:55,363 --> 01:29:56,497 - Jesus, Paul. - What? 1809 01:29:56,531 --> 01:29:58,600 I'm just saying what everyone's fucking thinking, man. 1810 01:29:58,633 --> 01:30:01,736 - No. Let him say it. - It's just the truth. 1811 01:30:01,769 --> 01:30:02,870 You're our manager, 1812 01:30:02,904 --> 01:30:05,473 and you are fucking the president 1813 01:30:05,506 --> 01:30:06,641 of our record company. 1814 01:30:08,643 --> 01:30:10,411 You're right. That is the truth, 1815 01:30:10,445 --> 01:30:12,347 which you didn't seem to mind when you asked me 1816 01:30:12,380 --> 01:30:15,283 to give him your demo. You didn't mind either, Bill, 1817 01:30:15,316 --> 01:30:17,418 when you begged me to convince Neil to sign us 1818 01:30:17,452 --> 01:30:20,421 even though Warner Brothers begged him not to. 1819 01:30:20,455 --> 01:30:22,590 Or when you asked me to get us on tour, Paul, 1820 01:30:22,624 --> 01:30:24,692 and keep us on tour. 1821 01:30:24,726 --> 01:30:27,662 You were all just fine asking me to roll over on my pillow 1822 01:30:27,695 --> 01:30:30,431 and talk to the president of your record company then. 1823 01:30:31,499 --> 01:30:32,500 Yes. 1824 01:30:32,533 --> 01:30:35,637 I am your manager, 1825 01:30:35,670 --> 01:30:38,439 and you know just how lucky you are that I am, 1826 01:30:38,473 --> 01:30:40,541 because if I wasn't, you'd still be trying to figure out 1827 01:30:40,575 --> 01:30:42,610 how to wear your mom's makeup, 'cause I taught you 1828 01:30:42,644 --> 01:30:43,711 how to do that, too. 1829 01:30:44,679 --> 01:30:47,281 Who I love is my business. 1830 01:30:47,315 --> 01:30:48,883 Your business is to make the damn music. 1831 01:30:48,916 --> 01:30:50,251 -That's your job! -No, no, no. 1832 01:30:50,284 --> 01:30:51,319 -Start doing it. -No. 1833 01:30:51,352 --> 01:30:53,388 It doesn't matter how we got here. This is real. 1834 01:30:53,421 --> 01:30:55,423 This is happening. This is happening right fucking now. 1835 01:30:55,456 --> 01:30:58,393 -Tell them, Bill. -You really want us to be 1836 01:30:58,426 --> 01:31:00,361 the hottest band in the world? 1837 01:31:01,629 --> 01:31:03,931 He better start paying us like we already are. 1838 01:31:03,965 --> 01:31:05,333 There he is. 1839 01:31:06,300 --> 01:31:07,935 There he is, folks, 1840 01:31:07,969 --> 01:31:09,202 Chaim Witz, 1841 01:31:09,237 --> 01:31:11,406 the demon of rock and roll. Oh! 1842 01:31:11,439 --> 01:31:13,941 You want some real money, Gene? 1843 01:31:13,975 --> 01:31:16,377 You want some real money? 1844 01:31:16,411 --> 01:31:18,312 Well, then you go out there 1845 01:31:18,346 --> 01:31:20,715 and you write us a fucking song 1846 01:31:20,748 --> 01:31:23,785 that will actually make us some! 1847 01:31:23,818 --> 01:31:24,919 - No, no, no. - Wow! 1848 01:31:24,952 --> 01:31:27,288 -No, no, no, no, no. -Fuck you. 1849 01:31:27,321 --> 01:31:28,956 You don't make it about them. Not this time. 1850 01:31:28,990 --> 01:31:31,459 - Bill. - Uh-uh. I am sorry. 1851 01:31:31,492 --> 01:31:35,463 We are renegotiating right now, or we're leaving. 1852 01:31:39,600 --> 01:31:40,968 Bill. 1853 01:31:41,002 --> 01:31:43,738 Okay. Okay. 1854 01:31:46,941 --> 01:31:49,911 How much? 1855 01:31:49,944 --> 01:31:51,546 A million dollars an album. 1856 01:31:54,916 --> 01:31:56,784 And another million in tour support. 1857 01:31:58,019 --> 01:32:00,388 You want two million dollars an album 1858 01:32:00,421 --> 01:32:03,291 for a band that can't sell a... a fucking single? 1859 01:32:05,593 --> 01:32:09,797 I want two million dollars an album for KISS. 1860 01:32:09,831 --> 01:32:10,832 Bill. 1861 01:32:20,074 --> 01:32:21,776 Okay. Fucking fine. Deal. 1862 01:32:24,512 --> 01:32:25,513 We finished? 1863 01:32:30,985 --> 01:32:32,720 It's just business. 1864 01:32:32,754 --> 01:32:33,988 It's nothing personal. 1865 01:32:34,021 --> 01:32:36,491 Of course it is, and you fucking know it. 1866 01:32:39,093 --> 01:32:40,461 It's okay. 1867 01:33:11,726 --> 01:33:14,061 And now, ladies and gentlemen, 1868 01:33:14,095 --> 01:33:17,598 here's Johnny! 1869 01:33:17,632 --> 01:33:20,968 Here he is, Lenny Bruce! 1870 01:33:21,002 --> 01:33:22,537 Maybe you should slow down a little. 1871 01:33:22,570 --> 01:33:23,971 Maybe you should speed up a lot. 1872 01:33:27,108 --> 01:33:29,977 Hey! I love Lenny Bruce. 1873 01:33:30,011 --> 01:33:32,947 Did you know that he was 40 when he died? 1874 01:33:32,980 --> 01:33:34,849 You think it was worth it, dying so young 1875 01:33:34,882 --> 01:33:37,418 but then having all that success? 1876 01:33:37,451 --> 01:33:40,955 No. I think dying old and having all that success 1877 01:33:40,988 --> 01:33:43,024 would be worth it. 1878 01:33:43,057 --> 01:33:44,759 You promised our distributors a sure thing 1879 01:33:44,792 --> 01:33:47,829 so they'll keep letting us ride on everything else. 1880 01:33:47,862 --> 01:33:49,063 Well, it's Johnny Carson. 1881 01:33:49,096 --> 01:33:51,532 It is a sure thing. 1882 01:33:51,566 --> 01:33:55,903 Besides, a bet is only a bet if it matters. 1883 01:34:03,544 --> 01:34:05,379 It's a wedding night, 1884 01:34:05,413 --> 01:34:07,849 and you're both virgins. It's disgusting. 1885 01:34:07,882 --> 01:34:09,350 Abe, Abe... 1886 01:34:10,585 --> 01:34:13,588 You don't mean that. No, because it's me, Abe, 1887 01:34:13,621 --> 01:34:15,523 because you've always trusted.. 1888 01:34:18,593 --> 01:34:20,528 -Talk to me. -They're not waiting for Carson. 1889 01:34:20,561 --> 01:34:21,863 -What? -They're returning 1890 01:34:21,896 --> 01:34:24,465 all the unsold KISS albums and Donna and Parliament. 1891 01:34:24,498 --> 01:34:25,533 -Everything. -That's 1892 01:34:25,566 --> 01:34:27,735 -too many fucking records, man. -No shit, Buck. 1893 01:34:27,768 --> 01:34:29,770 -What do we do? -We take 'em back, 1894 01:34:29,804 --> 01:34:31,739 but you tell every single fucking one of them 1895 01:34:31,772 --> 01:34:33,908 if they do, they don't get Carson! 1896 01:34:33,941 --> 01:34:35,743 Neil. Neil! 1897 01:34:35,776 --> 01:34:36,544 What? 1898 01:34:38,512 --> 01:34:40,681 What if we're wrong about Carson? 1899 01:34:40,715 --> 01:34:43,618 I mean, we're shipping gold. More. 1900 01:34:43,651 --> 01:34:46,554 Over 750,000 copies already. 1901 01:34:46,587 --> 01:34:47,822 And with the money we're spending 1902 01:34:47,855 --> 01:34:49,724 on... on commercials and... and print ads... 1903 01:34:49,757 --> 01:34:53,027 -It's Johnny fucking Carson! -And nobody understands 1904 01:34:53,060 --> 01:34:54,896 why the hell we're even doing it! 1905 01:34:54,929 --> 01:34:56,564 Then ship more! 1906 01:34:56,597 --> 01:34:58,766 Spend more! Do you job and make them understand! 1907 01:34:58,799 --> 01:35:00,768 This is gonna be the biggest fucking album 1908 01:35:00,801 --> 01:35:02,503 of the year, okay, folks? 1909 01:35:02,536 --> 01:35:03,804 You've lost your mind. 1910 01:35:03,838 --> 01:35:06,107 Did you not hear what they said on the phone? 1911 01:35:06,140 --> 01:35:08,009 And they're on our fucking side! 1912 01:35:08,042 --> 01:35:10,778 -Nobody is on our fucking side. -Because nobody understands 1913 01:35:10,811 --> 01:35:13,781 what the fuck you're doing anymore! 1914 01:35:13,814 --> 01:35:15,549 Not even me! 1915 01:35:17,485 --> 01:35:19,921 We were wrong about KISS, Neil, 1916 01:35:19,954 --> 01:35:22,189 and we were wrong about Donna. 1917 01:35:22,224 --> 01:35:24,792 Even George and his fucking spaceship. 1918 01:35:25,826 --> 01:35:28,529 We were just wrong! 1919 01:35:28,562 --> 01:35:32,066 And here we are, still betting money we don't even have 1920 01:35:32,099 --> 01:35:33,801 on them! 1921 01:35:33,834 --> 01:35:35,436 I can't even pay my... 1922 01:35:36,971 --> 01:35:38,472 If we're wrong about Carson... 1923 01:35:38,506 --> 01:35:41,108 We are not fucking wrong, Cec, 1924 01:35:41,142 --> 01:35:42,843 not about any of them. 1925 01:35:43,711 --> 01:35:45,947 We just haven't figured out 1926 01:35:45,980 --> 01:35:48,783 a way to finally be right! 1927 01:35:50,285 --> 01:35:51,953 -What the hell's happening? 1928 01:35:51,986 --> 01:35:54,722 I dared question the postman's son from Brooklyn, 1929 01:35:54,755 --> 01:35:56,157 and he didn't like what he heard. 1930 01:35:56,190 --> 01:35:57,292 Oh, is that right, Cec? 1931 01:35:57,326 --> 01:35:59,760 Is that the same postman's son been carrying your ass 1932 01:35:59,794 --> 01:36:02,163 from nowhere to somewhere your whole fucking career? 1933 01:36:02,196 --> 01:36:03,130 -Excuse me? -Tell me this. 1934 01:36:03,164 --> 01:36:04,899 Did you believe we would make it this far? 1935 01:36:04,932 --> 01:36:06,834 Now, be honest. Do you believe that we could 1936 01:36:06,867 --> 01:36:09,670 actually go further? So, you do your fucking job, 1937 01:36:09,704 --> 01:36:12,139 and I will go get the fucking money! 1938 01:36:12,173 --> 01:36:13,607 Uh... 1939 01:36:17,645 --> 01:36:19,847 He didn't mean that. 1940 01:36:19,880 --> 01:36:21,882 Cec. Shit. 1941 01:36:21,916 --> 01:36:24,585 And now, ladies and gentlemen, 1942 01:36:24,618 --> 01:36:28,489 here's Johnny! 1943 01:36:31,192 --> 01:36:33,194 The Carson album's still considered 1944 01:36:33,228 --> 01:36:35,096 one of the biggest disasters ever conceived 1945 01:36:35,129 --> 01:36:36,365 in the record business. 1946 01:36:36,398 --> 01:36:39,267 The joke was that we'd shipped gold but returned platinum. 1947 01:36:39,301 --> 01:36:41,269 Just... wasn't a joke. 1948 01:36:41,303 --> 01:36:42,803 We'd given away so many promo copies 1949 01:36:42,837 --> 01:36:44,905 that when the stores started returning them to get 1950 01:36:44,939 --> 01:36:47,875 their money back, we were on the line for every last one, 1951 01:36:47,908 --> 01:36:50,011 and it was killing us, 1952 01:36:50,044 --> 01:36:52,680 killing us, because I was wrong. 1953 01:36:53,714 --> 01:36:56,218 Biggest sin of a record man... 1954 01:36:56,251 --> 01:36:58,652 believing in something because you have to... 1955 01:37:00,322 --> 01:37:01,889 not because you do. 1956 01:37:08,763 --> 01:37:11,665 I fucking begged you to pay back that money, Neil. 1957 01:37:11,699 --> 01:37:13,768 You kept sayin', "Waiting for Carson." 1958 01:37:13,801 --> 01:37:15,703 And I convinced them to wait, 1959 01:37:15,736 --> 01:37:17,905 because this is me and you, 1960 01:37:17,938 --> 01:37:19,774 but they're done waiting. 1961 01:37:19,807 --> 01:37:21,042 I'm sorry. 1962 01:37:21,075 --> 01:37:24,312 It's okay, Joe. Just tell them 1963 01:37:24,346 --> 01:37:26,680 not the arm I sign contracts with. 1964 01:37:30,718 --> 01:37:33,020 I remembered my dad, 1965 01:37:33,054 --> 01:37:34,222 remembered my promise 1966 01:37:34,256 --> 01:37:36,324 to never become anything like him. 1967 01:37:36,358 --> 01:37:40,027 I just... can't remember the exact moment when I did. 1968 01:37:41,962 --> 01:37:43,697 Egg cream? 1969 01:37:47,369 --> 01:37:50,305 Just get us the fucking money, Neil. 1970 01:37:50,338 --> 01:37:51,806 I fucking hate LA. 1971 01:37:58,346 --> 01:38:00,047 - Jesus. - Neil! 1972 01:38:00,081 --> 01:38:01,082 Jesus. 1973 01:38:02,317 --> 01:38:06,087 It's not that he was a postman. It's just... 1974 01:38:06,120 --> 01:38:08,290 I knew that he knew that's all he was ever gonna be. 1975 01:38:12,726 --> 01:38:14,128 -Here. -I'm scared. 1976 01:38:14,161 --> 01:38:16,163 -Come on. Shh. -I'm scared. 1977 01:38:16,197 --> 01:38:19,700 Shh. Just our little secret, brother. 1978 01:38:26,308 --> 01:38:28,075 Can we get something to clean him up? 1979 01:38:29,677 --> 01:38:31,379 -You want a cigarette? -You're alright. 1980 01:38:31,413 --> 01:38:33,281 It's okay. 1981 01:38:33,315 --> 01:38:34,715 Okay. Come on. 1982 01:38:34,748 --> 01:38:36,384 Get him up. Walk it off. Walk it off. 1983 01:38:36,418 --> 01:38:37,785 Oh, fuck. 1984 01:38:38,953 --> 01:38:40,121 -Come on. -Fuck. 1985 01:38:58,406 --> 01:39:00,774 If we can't sell enough KISS records on our own, 1986 01:39:00,808 --> 01:39:02,977 then folks, we are gonna need an army. 1987 01:39:03,010 --> 01:39:06,680 -It's merchandise, Nelly. -It's a movement, Nance. 1988 01:39:06,714 --> 01:39:08,682 I love KISS, but how the fuck are we gonna get people 1989 01:39:08,716 --> 01:39:11,152 to buy shit about the album and we can't even get them 1990 01:39:11,185 --> 01:39:12,254 to buy the fucking album? 1991 01:39:12,287 --> 01:39:14,422 Because KISS has always been about the experience, 1992 01:39:14,456 --> 01:39:16,291 Buck, and that is where we have failed. 1993 01:39:16,324 --> 01:39:17,892 If you're not in the KISS Army, oh, 1994 01:39:17,925 --> 01:39:19,327 then you are not in the KISS Army! 1995 01:39:19,361 --> 01:39:21,229 You don't get the limited edition posters, 1996 01:39:21,263 --> 01:39:22,430 the signed T-shirts, the comic books! 1997 01:39:22,464 --> 01:39:26,967 -So we have comic books now? -Yes, created specifically 1998 01:39:27,001 --> 01:39:28,002 for the KISS Army, 1999 01:39:28,035 --> 01:39:30,438 and the only way to get into the KISS Army... 2000 01:39:30,472 --> 01:39:32,139 - Is to buy their albums. - Thank you. 2001 01:39:32,173 --> 01:39:34,309 Now, we have one very important question to answer: 2002 01:39:34,342 --> 01:39:36,478 What color do we paint the building? 2003 01:39:36,511 --> 01:39:38,779 Hundred bucks to whoever gets the... the best color. 2004 01:39:38,812 --> 01:39:42,183 Okay. Can we just, um... Can we just get a minute? 2005 01:39:42,217 --> 01:39:43,851 Thank you. Thank you so much. 2006 01:39:43,884 --> 01:39:45,886 What about black? Can you imagine 2007 01:39:45,920 --> 01:39:49,190 the whole fucking block was painted fucking black? 2008 01:39:50,492 --> 01:39:51,792 -No, I can't. -Oh. 2009 01:39:51,825 --> 01:39:53,928 Neil, you are my brother, 2010 01:39:53,961 --> 01:39:55,829 and if you want me to go off this cliff with you, 2011 01:39:55,863 --> 01:39:57,131 I'll even be the first to jump, 2012 01:39:57,164 --> 01:40:00,968 but you have got to help me understand why. 2013 01:40:01,001 --> 01:40:04,339 -We are broke. -Yes. Yes. That is exactly 2014 01:40:04,372 --> 01:40:06,073 what all of these fuckers are saying. 2015 01:40:06,106 --> 01:40:08,876 So, by tomorrow, I want an entire crew... 2016 01:40:08,909 --> 01:40:11,812 no, two crews outside, painting the entire block, 2017 01:40:11,845 --> 01:40:13,781 and I want you to pay them extra to do it slowly. 2018 01:40:13,814 --> 01:40:15,749 The longer they're out there working, oh, 2019 01:40:15,783 --> 01:40:19,086 the longer people are just gonna drive by and see 'em. 2020 01:40:19,119 --> 01:40:21,256 -See 'em doing what? -Painting the building. 2021 01:40:22,823 --> 01:40:24,426 We're gonna place one final bet. 2022 01:40:24,459 --> 01:40:25,793 On who? 2023 01:40:26,428 --> 01:40:27,828 On us. 2024 01:40:29,830 --> 01:40:31,799 It started with a makeover of the building, 2025 01:40:31,832 --> 01:40:34,236 but to the town, we were building our own makeover. 2026 01:40:34,269 --> 01:40:36,238 I mean, every day, we'd announce a new promotion, 2027 01:40:36,271 --> 01:40:38,772 but in real life, we were just swapping titles around 2028 01:40:38,806 --> 01:40:41,141 like the paint colors of the building. 2029 01:40:41,175 --> 01:40:43,877 We called everyone we owed, hyped every plan we had, 2030 01:40:43,911 --> 01:40:45,846 making most of it up as we went along. 2031 01:40:45,879 --> 01:40:47,349 -We made them root for us... -Mo. 2032 01:40:47,382 --> 01:40:48,916 ...not against us. 2033 01:40:48,949 --> 01:40:50,985 Where the fuck is all the money coming from? 2034 01:40:51,018 --> 01:40:53,521 Nowhere. There was none. We... we just made everyone 2035 01:40:53,555 --> 01:40:56,156 believe there was. We bet everything we had 2036 01:40:56,190 --> 01:40:58,993 on everyone we already believed in. 2037 01:40:59,026 --> 01:41:01,962 ♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪ 2038 01:41:01,996 --> 01:41:04,865 We'd gone as far as we could go as fast as we could go. 2039 01:41:04,898 --> 01:41:08,570 It's just we were now seven million dollars in debt. 2040 01:41:08,603 --> 01:41:11,905 Well... until that night. 2041 01:41:11,939 --> 01:41:14,276 ♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪ 2042 01:41:14,309 --> 01:41:15,543 ♪ With a body too ♪ 2043 01:41:15,577 --> 01:41:18,413 ♪ So watch out ♪ 2044 01:41:18,446 --> 01:41:19,813 ♪ Huh! ♪ 2045 01:41:19,847 --> 01:41:24,018 ♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪ 2046 01:41:30,592 --> 01:41:32,993 Hey, come here. 2047 01:41:33,027 --> 01:41:36,163 Do you wanna dance with me? 2048 01:41:37,332 --> 01:41:41,802 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2049 01:41:42,437 --> 01:41:45,172 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2050 01:41:46,474 --> 01:41:48,443 Hey, play that song again. 2051 01:41:48,476 --> 01:41:49,910 Play that again. 2052 01:41:49,943 --> 01:41:51,313 Yeah. Play that again. 2053 01:42:07,495 --> 01:42:09,997 ♪ When you're laying so close to me ♪ 2054 01:42:10,030 --> 01:42:12,233 ♪ There's no place I'd rather you be ♪ 2055 01:42:12,267 --> 01:42:14,201 ♪ Than with me, here ♪ 2056 01:42:15,470 --> 01:42:19,840 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2057 01:42:20,475 --> 01:42:25,079 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2058 01:42:25,112 --> 01:42:27,482 ♪ Lay your head down real close to me ♪ 2059 01:42:27,515 --> 01:42:29,484 ♪ Ease my mind and set me free ♪ 2060 01:42:29,517 --> 01:42:31,952 ♪ Set me free ♪ 2061 01:42:33,388 --> 01:42:37,258 ♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪ 2062 01:42:38,125 --> 01:42:42,129 ♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪ 2063 01:42:43,498 --> 01:42:45,633 ♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪ 2064 01:42:47,235 --> 01:42:49,103 - Put it back on. - Play it again. 2065 01:42:49,136 --> 01:42:50,672 Somebody put the music back. 2066 01:42:50,705 --> 01:42:51,573 Don't stop now. 2067 01:42:51,606 --> 01:42:53,508 The song is too short to have sex to. 2068 01:42:53,541 --> 01:42:55,075 Do you wanna dance with me? 2069 01:42:55,109 --> 01:42:56,977 Play it again. We're dancing. 2070 01:42:57,010 --> 01:42:59,113 -Hey! Play it again! 2071 01:43:01,181 --> 01:43:04,985 The answer had been there all along. 2072 01:43:05,018 --> 01:43:08,055 I just never imagined she'd be hiding 7,000 miles away. 2073 01:43:08,088 --> 01:43:11,259 ♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪ 2074 01:43:15,697 --> 01:43:17,599 Not that she was happy to see me. 2075 01:43:17,632 --> 01:43:19,467 LaDonna, please wait. 2076 01:43:19,501 --> 01:43:21,101 Giorgio said you'd be coming through. 2077 01:43:21,135 --> 01:43:23,371 So, I hope that you enjoyed the show. 2078 01:43:23,405 --> 01:43:25,540 Have a nice flight back. 2079 01:43:25,573 --> 01:43:28,175 My real name's not Bogart. 2080 01:43:28,209 --> 01:43:31,078 I changed it, actually, a couple times. 2081 01:43:31,111 --> 01:43:33,080 Was, uh, Neil Scott when I was a singer, 2082 01:43:33,113 --> 01:43:36,016 Neil Stewart when I worked for a modeling agency, 2083 01:43:36,049 --> 01:43:40,221 uh, Wayne Roberts when I did a soft porn film. 2084 01:43:41,322 --> 01:43:42,257 You made pornography? 2085 01:43:42,290 --> 01:43:45,427 Well, to afford my wife's engagement ring. 2086 01:43:45,460 --> 01:43:47,027 Okay. So, you did a dirty film 2087 01:43:47,060 --> 01:43:48,730 so that you could ask your wife to marry you? 2088 01:43:48,763 --> 01:43:52,099 The point of the... Yes. The point of the story 2089 01:43:52,132 --> 01:43:55,236 is that we can be whoever we want to be. 2090 01:43:55,270 --> 01:43:58,172 Hmm. Well, that may be the point of your story, but not mine. 2091 01:43:58,205 --> 01:44:01,609 It's the point of everyone's story, LaDonna, 2092 01:44:01,643 --> 01:44:03,211 especially yours. 2093 01:44:05,246 --> 01:44:07,114 Why didn't people like the song? 2094 01:44:08,716 --> 01:44:11,084 -I liked it. -No. I mean, why didn't... 2095 01:44:11,118 --> 01:44:13,254 No. I... I know what you meant. I... 2096 01:44:15,757 --> 01:44:18,058 And the answer is that they didn't get it, 2097 01:44:18,091 --> 01:44:20,127 because I failed to get them to. 2098 01:44:22,196 --> 01:44:24,265 So, then why are you here? Giorgio told me 2099 01:44:24,299 --> 01:44:26,734 that he wanted me to cut the same song again. 2100 01:44:26,768 --> 01:44:29,136 -I don't understand. -You don't have to, okay? 2101 01:44:29,169 --> 01:44:31,339 You just have to trust that I do. 2102 01:44:31,372 --> 01:44:32,674 I don't even know you. 2103 01:44:32,707 --> 01:44:34,709 But I know you, 2104 01:44:34,742 --> 01:44:38,746 LaDonna... Adrian... Gaines. 2105 01:44:38,780 --> 01:44:40,582 Grew up singing in a choir. 2106 01:44:40,615 --> 01:44:43,218 Raised by your mom in Boston. 2107 01:44:45,118 --> 01:44:48,088 You heard your voice raising all the way up 2108 01:44:48,121 --> 01:44:49,757 to the top of those stained glass windows, 2109 01:44:49,791 --> 01:44:53,228 and you let yourself believe that you could be more 2110 01:44:53,261 --> 01:44:56,364 than just that girl in a church. 2111 01:44:56,397 --> 01:44:57,565 And now, here you are, 2112 01:44:57,599 --> 01:44:59,234 performing halfway across the world, 2113 01:44:59,267 --> 01:45:03,438 getting further and further away from that stained glass. 2114 01:45:05,773 --> 01:45:07,308 And every night... 2115 01:45:09,142 --> 01:45:12,079 you close your eyes, 2116 01:45:12,112 --> 01:45:16,518 dreaming that maybe someone will come along... 2117 01:45:17,852 --> 01:45:20,153 and give you one last chance. 2118 01:45:23,123 --> 01:45:25,660 Now, you tell me I'm wrong, 2119 01:45:25,693 --> 01:45:27,328 and I'm on the next plane. 2120 01:45:32,767 --> 01:45:34,101 Why me? 2121 01:45:36,136 --> 01:45:38,606 Because I have never heard 2122 01:45:38,640 --> 01:45:42,142 a voice like yours. 2123 01:45:46,681 --> 01:45:48,383 I will make you a star. 2124 01:45:49,317 --> 01:45:54,289 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2125 01:45:54,322 --> 01:45:58,493 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2126 01:45:58,526 --> 01:46:00,562 You... you know what? I wanna do this again. 2127 01:46:00,595 --> 01:46:02,564 I just... Go back from the top. 2128 01:46:02,597 --> 01:46:04,164 It's impossible! 2129 01:46:04,197 --> 01:46:07,702 Repeat the same eight measures over and over again? 2130 01:46:07,735 --> 01:46:09,237 It's just one lyric, Neil! 2131 01:46:09,270 --> 01:46:11,171 Yeah, which is going sound like something new 2132 01:46:11,204 --> 01:46:12,640 each time she sings it, 2133 01:46:12,674 --> 01:46:14,576 when she sings it right. 2134 01:46:14,609 --> 01:46:16,744 This music is about the music, 2135 01:46:16,778 --> 01:46:18,379 not the fucking vocal! 2136 01:46:18,413 --> 01:46:20,515 Her fucking vocal is the music, Giorgio! 2137 01:46:20,548 --> 01:46:22,650 Her voice is the thing that's gonna make people wanna dance, 2138 01:46:22,684 --> 01:46:24,719 and nobody wants to dance for three minutes, alright? 2139 01:46:24,752 --> 01:46:27,455 People wanna to dance forever! And when they're making love, 2140 01:46:27,488 --> 01:46:28,556 they wanna love forever! 2141 01:46:28,590 --> 01:46:31,426 Nobody could make a fucking half-hour song, Neil! 2142 01:46:32,493 --> 01:46:33,494 Not even you! 2143 01:46:34,896 --> 01:46:36,731 Neil could make a half-hour song. 2144 01:46:40,635 --> 01:46:42,770 -Hey, you okay? -I don't know. You just got 2145 01:46:42,804 --> 01:46:45,840 Giorgio to leave his own studio. You tell me. 2146 01:46:45,873 --> 01:46:47,642 Let's, uh, just try it one more time. 2147 01:46:52,246 --> 01:46:57,218 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2148 01:46:57,251 --> 01:47:02,357 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2149 01:47:02,390 --> 01:47:03,625 ♪ I ♪ 2150 01:47:05,760 --> 01:47:07,395 What? What's wrong? 2151 01:47:09,664 --> 01:47:12,934 You're just singing... You're just singing the lyrics. 2152 01:47:12,967 --> 01:47:14,369 I'm a singer. That's what I do. 2153 01:47:14,402 --> 01:47:16,571 No. I just... Give me one secon. 2154 01:47:16,604 --> 01:47:18,406 One. 2155 01:47:26,681 --> 01:47:28,750 I... I don't understand what you want from me. 2156 01:47:31,686 --> 01:47:35,356 To escape, Donna. That is what everyone wants, alright? 2157 01:47:35,390 --> 01:47:37,392 In the discos, on the dance floors, 2158 01:47:37,425 --> 01:47:39,327 they want to fucking escape, alright? 2159 01:47:39,360 --> 01:47:41,863 And you, you will be the one to take them there. 2160 01:47:41,896 --> 01:47:45,198 You have to be their fantasy! 2161 01:47:45,233 --> 01:47:46,768 Do you know what my mother will think? 2162 01:47:49,837 --> 01:47:52,340 Yeah. I do. 2163 01:47:54,709 --> 01:47:59,280 ♪ Mm love to love you baby ♪ 2164 01:47:59,313 --> 01:48:03,251 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2165 01:48:03,284 --> 01:48:09,257 -More. -♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2166 01:48:09,290 --> 01:48:10,825 ♪ When you're laying so close to me ♪ 2167 01:48:10,858 --> 01:48:12,260 -Feel it. -♪ There's no place ♪ 2168 01:48:12,293 --> 01:48:15,296 ♪ I'd rather you be than with me ♪ 2169 01:48:15,897 --> 01:48:18,466 That's it. 2170 01:48:18,499 --> 01:48:21,569 -♪ Love to love you baby ♪ -Even sexier. 2171 01:48:21,602 --> 01:48:25,973 -♪ I love to love you baby ♪ -Louder! 2172 01:48:26,007 --> 01:48:31,479 -Harder! -♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2173 01:48:31,512 --> 01:48:33,915 ♪ When you're laying so close to me ♪ 2174 01:48:33,948 --> 01:48:36,517 ♪ There's no place I'd rather you be ♪ 2175 01:48:36,551 --> 01:48:38,486 ♪ Than with me ♪ 2176 01:48:39,320 --> 01:48:44,025 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2177 01:48:44,058 --> 01:48:48,696 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2178 01:48:48,730 --> 01:48:49,964 Just you. 2179 01:48:49,997 --> 01:48:54,368 -No one else is here. -♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2180 01:48:54,402 --> 01:48:59,307 ♪ Oh I love to love you baby ♪ 2181 01:48:59,340 --> 01:49:01,342 You and the music. 2182 01:49:01,375 --> 01:49:04,345 ♪ I love to love you baby ♪ 2183 01:49:04,378 --> 01:49:07,482 ♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪ 2184 01:49:07,515 --> 01:49:09,016 It's just you. 2185 01:49:09,050 --> 01:49:14,355 ♪ Oh I love to love you, baby ♪ 2186 01:49:14,388 --> 01:49:17,859 ♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪ 2187 01:49:17,892 --> 01:49:18,926 Use your whole body, Donna. 2188 01:49:18,960 --> 01:49:21,429 ♪ When you're laying so close to me ♪ 2189 01:49:21,462 --> 01:49:24,966 ♪ There's no place I'd rather you be ♪ 2190 01:49:27,101 --> 01:49:28,469 Arch your back. 2191 01:49:42,817 --> 01:49:44,018 It's impossible, Neil. 2192 01:49:44,051 --> 01:49:45,586 It's absolutely impossible. 2193 01:49:45,620 --> 01:49:48,356 When... when am I supposed to play the commercials? 2194 01:49:48,389 --> 01:49:51,392 Frankie Crocker, you cranky fucker. 2195 01:49:51,425 --> 01:49:52,827 Fuck the commercials! 2196 01:49:52,860 --> 01:49:55,363 Fuck the commercials, man. It's a test. It's science. 2197 01:49:55,396 --> 01:49:57,398 Let's test it out on the... Whas your name again? 2198 01:49:57,431 --> 01:49:58,666 -Shari. -Shari. That's my mother's name. 2199 01:49:58,699 --> 01:50:01,669 Come on. Come on. This is something new, Frankie, right? 2200 01:50:01,702 --> 01:50:04,071 She's explosive. She's... she's dangerous, 2201 01:50:04,105 --> 01:50:06,440 and you, my friend, can be the one to introduce her 2202 01:50:06,474 --> 01:50:08,376 -to the world. -We already introduced 2203 01:50:08,409 --> 01:50:10,478 this fucking single, and it didn't move shit. 2204 01:50:10,511 --> 01:50:12,079 No, we did not introduce her to the world. 2205 01:50:12,113 --> 01:50:13,648 That was a different fucking record. 2206 01:50:13,681 --> 01:50:15,817 That was not this record. This is different. 2207 01:50:15,850 --> 01:50:17,552 This is... this is new. 2208 01:50:17,585 --> 01:50:19,554 I mean, we were right about this girl. 2209 01:50:19,587 --> 01:50:21,789 -She's amazing. -You listen to the man, Frank. 2210 01:50:21,823 --> 01:50:24,692 And what does that mean? I'm right about a lot of shit 2211 01:50:24,725 --> 01:50:26,327 I don't put on the radio. 2212 01:50:27,862 --> 01:50:30,932 This may be Casablanca's last fucking chance, Frankie. 2213 01:50:33,568 --> 01:50:37,705 Neil, it's 17 minutes long, alright? I can't... 2214 01:50:37,738 --> 01:50:38,873 How do I explain that? 2215 01:50:41,909 --> 01:50:43,477 Handcuffs. 2216 01:50:44,512 --> 01:50:47,582 Frankie.... I brought mine. 2217 01:50:47,615 --> 01:50:49,383 Now, you ain't had those last night. 2218 01:50:49,417 --> 01:50:52,453 -I didn't need them last night. -Hey, how about you take 2219 01:50:52,486 --> 01:50:54,856 a bathroom break, Frankie? We'll take over from here. 2220 01:50:54,889 --> 01:50:55,923 -Come on. -Whoo! 2221 01:50:55,957 --> 01:50:57,425 I gotta be out of my fucking mind. 2222 01:50:57,458 --> 01:50:59,060 -You're in your mind. -You're about to be 2223 01:50:59,093 --> 01:51:01,662 out your pants. 2224 01:51:01,696 --> 01:51:03,631 You motherfuckers gonna owe me one. 2225 01:51:03,664 --> 01:51:05,600 Looks like you got two, motherfucker. 2226 01:51:29,557 --> 01:51:31,659 Sixteen minutes and 50 seconds. 2227 01:51:31,692 --> 01:51:33,461 With the record glued to the turntable, 2228 01:51:33,494 --> 01:51:35,563 it played all night long with Frankie still locked 2229 01:51:35,596 --> 01:51:37,698 in the bathroom. Lawyers were calling 2230 01:51:37,732 --> 01:51:39,200 even before we landed back in LA, 2231 01:51:39,234 --> 01:51:42,036 swearing they'd never play a Casablanca record again, 2232 01:51:42,069 --> 01:51:45,940 except... something happened, 2233 01:51:45,973 --> 01:51:47,842 something that never had before. 2234 01:51:47,875 --> 01:51:50,511 Not just in New York. Stations all across the country 2235 01:51:50,544 --> 01:51:52,780 are calling. Everybody's trying to find a way to play her. 2236 01:51:52,813 --> 01:51:54,682 -Tell them I'll buy them all. -Buy what all? 2237 01:51:54,715 --> 01:51:57,018 -The whole half-hour block. -On every station. 2238 01:51:57,051 --> 01:51:58,719 -Every city. -The ad campaign: 2239 01:51:58,753 --> 01:52:01,122 Tune in at midnight for a half-hour of love, 2240 01:52:01,155 --> 01:52:02,857 brought to you by Casablanca. 2241 01:52:02,890 --> 01:52:04,158 -Call Giorgio. -And then? 2242 01:52:04,191 --> 01:52:05,493 Call everybody else! 2243 01:52:05,526 --> 01:52:07,695 ♪ Love to love you baby ♪ 2244 01:52:07,728 --> 01:52:09,797 ♪ Do it to me again and again ♪ 2245 01:52:09,830 --> 01:52:12,800 We released our version of "Love To Love You" in 1976, 2246 01:52:12,833 --> 01:52:13,701 and when we did, 2247 01:52:13,734 --> 01:52:16,737 it was like nothing else there ever was. 2248 01:52:16,771 --> 01:52:18,739 Branded too graphic by some critics, 2249 01:52:18,773 --> 01:52:20,641 it was even banned by some stations, 2250 01:52:20,675 --> 01:52:22,476 which only helps us to sell more records. 2251 01:52:22,510 --> 01:52:24,612 ♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪ 2252 01:52:24,645 --> 01:52:27,949 Time magazine reported 22 simulated orgasms 2253 01:52:27,982 --> 01:52:29,951 in the song, and the more people talked about it, 2254 01:52:29,984 --> 01:52:32,153 the more they wanted more. I mean, we were riding 2255 01:52:32,186 --> 01:52:34,088 the biggest single we ever had 2256 01:52:34,121 --> 01:52:35,656 with the biggest artist we ever had, 2257 01:52:35,690 --> 01:52:40,561 and we were literally making her up as we went along. 2258 01:52:40,594 --> 01:52:44,932 ♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪ 2259 01:52:46,567 --> 01:52:48,569 Is this make-believe, Mama? 2260 01:52:49,304 --> 01:52:51,239 No, sweetheart. This is real. 2261 01:52:53,074 --> 01:52:54,909 I need makeup in here. 2262 01:52:54,942 --> 01:52:56,077 We brought in everything... 2263 01:52:56,110 --> 01:52:58,779 designers, hair, make-up. 2264 01:52:59,780 --> 01:53:01,515 In the end, we went with wigs, 2265 01:53:01,549 --> 01:53:03,851 in every picture you've ever seen. 2266 01:53:03,884 --> 01:53:07,188 We invented every detail. 2267 01:53:07,222 --> 01:53:09,657 But the truth was that the First Lady Of Love, 2268 01:53:09,690 --> 01:53:12,159 the superstar we were selling her as, 2269 01:53:12,193 --> 01:53:14,061 was as far from who Donna really was 2270 01:53:14,095 --> 01:53:15,129 as she could be. 2271 01:53:15,162 --> 01:53:16,630 I want to know this woman. 2272 01:53:20,801 --> 01:53:22,237 You raised my vocal in the song. 2273 01:53:22,270 --> 01:53:24,071 Your vocal is the song. 2274 01:53:24,105 --> 01:53:27,141 ♪ Bad girls ♪ 2275 01:53:27,174 --> 01:53:30,077 ♪ Talking about the sad girls ♪ 2276 01:53:32,113 --> 01:53:35,016 ♪ Sad girls ♪ 2277 01:53:35,049 --> 01:53:38,152 ♪ Talking about bad girls ♪ 2278 01:53:38,185 --> 01:53:40,222 ♪ Yeah ♪ 2279 01:53:40,255 --> 01:53:44,292 ♪ See them out on the street at night ♪ 2280 01:53:44,326 --> 01:53:46,761 ♪ Picking up all kinds of strangers ♪ 2281 01:53:46,794 --> 01:53:48,629 ♪ If the price is right ♪ 2282 01:53:48,662 --> 01:53:52,566 ♪ And you can score if your pocket's tight ♪ 2283 01:53:52,600 --> 01:53:56,771 ♪ Plus you want a good time ♪ 2284 01:53:58,273 --> 01:54:02,176 ♪ You ask yourself ♪ 2285 01:54:02,210 --> 01:54:06,281 ♪ Who they are ♪ 2286 01:54:06,314 --> 01:54:09,083 ♪ Like everybody else ♪ 2287 01:54:09,116 --> 01:54:16,023 ♪ They come from near and far ♪ 2288 01:54:17,392 --> 01:54:19,727 She's gonna be great. I know it. 2289 01:54:24,232 --> 01:54:27,701 I love you. 2290 01:54:27,735 --> 01:54:30,704 You got it, Donna. Nailed it. 2291 01:54:30,738 --> 01:54:31,339 LaDonna? 2292 01:54:37,078 --> 01:54:39,880 So, what happens next? 2293 01:54:43,318 --> 01:54:44,286 You do. 2294 01:55:12,280 --> 01:55:14,748 ♪ Dim all the lights sweet darling ♪ 2295 01:55:14,782 --> 01:55:20,121 ♪ 'Cause tonight it's all the way ♪ 2296 01:55:20,154 --> 01:55:22,756 ♪ Turn up the old Victrola ♪ 2297 01:55:22,790 --> 01:55:26,127 ♪ Gonna dance the night away ♪ 2298 01:55:28,162 --> 01:55:32,066 ♪ Love just don't come easy ♪ 2299 01:55:32,099 --> 01:55:36,003 ♪ No it seldom does ♪ 2300 01:55:36,036 --> 01:55:40,275 ♪ When you find the perfect love ♪ 2301 01:55:40,308 --> 01:55:47,047 ♪ Let it fill you up ♪ 2302 01:55:58,326 --> 01:56:00,694 ♪ Dim all the lights sweet darling ♪ 2303 01:56:00,728 --> 01:56:04,466 ♪ 'Cause tonight it's all the way ♪ 2304 01:56:04,499 --> 01:56:06,268 ♪ Hey baby ♪ 2305 01:56:06,301 --> 01:56:08,869 ♪ Turn up the old Victrola ♪ 2306 01:56:08,903 --> 01:56:11,439 ♪ Gonna dance the night away ♪ 2307 01:56:11,473 --> 01:56:12,940 Donna was every one of our dreams 2308 01:56:12,973 --> 01:56:14,909 wrapped up in a once-in-a-lifetime voice 2309 01:56:14,942 --> 01:56:17,312 that didn't just rise up to those stained glass windows. 2310 01:56:17,345 --> 01:56:20,047 She smashed right through them. 2311 01:56:20,080 --> 01:56:22,317 Now, when people who remember Casablanca 2312 01:56:22,350 --> 01:56:25,220 actually remember Casablanca, 2313 01:56:25,253 --> 01:56:27,489 this is what they remember, 2314 01:56:27,522 --> 01:56:29,990 Donna on top of the world, 2315 01:56:30,024 --> 01:56:32,960 as if this was the moment that began it all. 2316 01:56:32,993 --> 01:56:34,496 ♪ Up ♪ 2317 01:56:34,529 --> 01:56:36,331 ♪ Hey baby ♪ 2318 01:56:36,364 --> 01:56:38,766 ♪ Dim all the lights sweet honey ♪ 2319 01:56:38,799 --> 01:56:42,102 Having spent my entire life inventing my life, 2320 01:56:42,136 --> 01:56:43,238 I'd now invented hers. 2321 01:56:43,271 --> 01:56:45,906 That voice, the way Donna would just flow inside you, 2322 01:56:45,940 --> 01:56:49,143 that came from something far more inventive than me, 2323 01:56:49,176 --> 01:56:51,178 but the First Lady Of Love? 2324 01:56:51,213 --> 01:56:52,813 The Queen of Disco? 2325 01:56:52,846 --> 01:56:54,982 That was as much of a fairy tale as I was. 2326 01:56:55,015 --> 01:56:56,484 Let's replace Gladys with Donna. 2327 01:56:56,518 --> 01:56:58,185 And suddenly, for the first time, 2328 01:56:58,220 --> 01:57:01,489 it wasn't just breaking one hit, because once Donna broke, 2329 01:57:01,523 --> 01:57:03,924 the hits just never stopped coming. 2330 01:57:04,959 --> 01:57:06,494 I knew what else we'd did wrong, too. 2331 01:57:09,897 --> 01:57:11,865 Recording a live album of greatest hits 2332 01:57:11,899 --> 01:57:13,401 from a band who doesn't even have one? 2333 01:57:13,435 --> 01:57:16,504 -That's new, Neil, even for us. -Hey, they've always had hits. 2334 01:57:16,538 --> 01:57:18,306 We just failed to record them in the way 2335 01:57:18,340 --> 01:57:20,542 they needed to be heard. 2336 01:57:20,575 --> 01:57:22,142 By recording KISS live, 2337 01:57:22,176 --> 01:57:27,081 we finally captured the experience of KISS live... 2338 01:57:27,114 --> 01:57:29,950 which is what we'd really been chasing from the very beginning. 2339 01:57:29,984 --> 01:57:32,820 Turned out, we'd been right about them, too. 2340 01:57:35,055 --> 01:57:37,325 We sold over nine million records. 2341 01:57:37,359 --> 01:57:38,859 Every bet we'd made, 2342 01:57:38,892 --> 01:57:40,828 we were right about all of them. 2343 01:57:40,861 --> 01:57:43,531 We just... needed enough time 2344 01:57:43,565 --> 01:57:46,434 for all of you to catch up to us. 2345 01:57:48,570 --> 01:57:50,405 What is this? What are you doing? 2346 01:57:52,474 --> 01:57:54,509 Oh, my God. Al. 2347 01:57:54,542 --> 01:57:55,876 Welcome home, Ma. 2348 01:57:55,909 --> 01:57:57,445 Nelly, I already have a house. 2349 01:57:57,479 --> 01:57:59,146 -Yeah, well, this one's bigger. -Love you! 2350 01:57:59,179 --> 01:58:01,015 Are you nuts? What are you doing here? 2351 01:58:01,048 --> 01:58:02,950 Al, look. 2352 01:58:02,983 --> 01:58:05,052 We don't need this. Come on. 2353 01:58:07,054 --> 01:58:08,055 What? 2354 01:58:13,428 --> 01:58:16,598 No. No. That is too much. 2355 01:58:16,631 --> 01:58:19,567 I can only do all this because you taught me. 2356 01:58:19,601 --> 01:58:21,603 Who taught you? I taught you nothing. 2357 01:58:21,636 --> 01:58:24,539 -Taught you how to lose. -No, you taught me how to win. 2358 01:58:24,572 --> 01:58:26,541 You taught me to swing for the trees, 2359 01:58:26,574 --> 01:58:29,176 to bet big to win big. You remember? 2360 01:58:30,278 --> 01:58:31,346 You taught me how to dream! 2361 01:58:34,616 --> 01:58:36,183 Maybe a little bit. 2362 01:58:36,217 --> 01:58:39,454 No. Maybe a lot. 2363 01:58:44,359 --> 01:58:46,894 And you know, maybe you were just a little unlucky. 2364 01:58:47,928 --> 01:58:50,097 Right? Well, I got your luck. 2365 01:58:52,500 --> 01:58:55,337 Ah. Nah. 2366 01:58:55,370 --> 01:58:57,339 You made your own luck. 2367 01:58:57,372 --> 01:58:59,541 You're a genius. You're a fucking Jewish genius. 2368 01:58:59,574 --> 01:59:01,141 Ah, come on. 2369 01:59:01,175 --> 01:59:02,310 Hey. 2370 01:59:04,011 --> 01:59:05,380 You're a good son, bubbeleh. 2371 01:59:12,354 --> 01:59:13,521 Four-color world, Pop. 2372 01:59:26,133 --> 01:59:27,201 I'm in heaven. 2373 01:59:29,069 --> 01:59:31,105 Jesus Christ. You know what? If you can't 2374 01:59:31,138 --> 01:59:33,575 keep the beat, let's just fucking spell, okay? 2375 01:59:33,608 --> 01:59:36,644 That's right. We created the Village People, too. 2376 01:59:36,678 --> 01:59:38,112 "YMCA" became 2377 01:59:38,145 --> 01:59:40,382 one of the all-time biggest selling singles, 2378 01:59:40,415 --> 01:59:42,116 more than ten million copies, 2379 01:59:42,149 --> 01:59:43,651 though other than the cop, 2380 01:59:43,685 --> 01:59:45,687 none of the others even sang, not on the records, 2381 01:59:45,720 --> 01:59:47,522 not at the concerts, not ever. 2382 01:59:47,555 --> 01:59:48,690 Again. Let's go again. 2383 01:59:48,723 --> 01:59:50,991 You don't trust me? Look it up! 2384 01:59:51,024 --> 01:59:52,993 We went from living on the brink of bankruptcy 2385 01:59:53,026 --> 01:59:55,129 to earning five million dollars in one month, 2386 01:59:55,162 --> 01:59:56,498 six the next. 2387 01:59:56,531 --> 01:59:59,267 ♪ Beth I hear you calling ♪ 2388 01:59:59,300 --> 02:00:01,636 I finally even let Kiss release "Beth" 2389 02:00:01,669 --> 02:00:03,137 on the Destroyer album. 2390 02:00:03,170 --> 02:00:05,005 It would hurt every single time I heard it, 2391 02:00:05,038 --> 02:00:07,409 but it was the smash we'd been chasing 2392 02:00:07,442 --> 02:00:08,942 since it all began. 2393 02:00:08,976 --> 02:00:11,212 Now, this is a love story. 2394 02:00:11,246 --> 02:00:13,981 You're the best fake boyfriend I ever had. 2395 02:00:14,014 --> 02:00:17,050 ♪ Just a few more hours ♪ 2396 02:00:17,084 --> 02:00:21,456 ♪ And I'll be right home to you ♪ 2397 02:00:21,489 --> 02:00:25,560 ♪ I think I hear them calling ♪ 2398 02:00:25,593 --> 02:00:29,997 ♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪ 2399 02:00:30,030 --> 02:00:32,966 ♪ Beth what can I do? ♪ 2400 02:00:34,201 --> 02:00:38,105 ♪ Beth I know you're lonely ♪ 2401 02:00:38,138 --> 02:00:42,210 ♪ And I hope you'll be alright ♪ 2402 02:00:42,243 --> 02:00:46,514 ♪ 'Cause me and the boys will be playing ♪ 2403 02:00:46,548 --> 02:00:49,517 ♪ All night ♪ 2404 02:00:49,551 --> 02:00:50,685 As for Donna, 2405 02:00:50,718 --> 02:00:53,288 even with all her success, 2406 02:00:53,321 --> 02:00:55,590 I don't really believe LaDonna Adrian Gaines 2407 02:00:55,623 --> 02:00:58,025 ever really became Donna Summer. 2408 02:00:58,058 --> 02:01:00,328 We just made you all think that she had. 2409 02:01:00,361 --> 02:01:02,330 So, truth is, none of us 2410 02:01:02,363 --> 02:01:04,599 were still who we'd been when it all began. 2411 02:01:04,632 --> 02:01:07,134 Casablanca had become something else. 2412 02:01:07,167 --> 02:01:10,037 I had become something else. 2413 02:01:10,070 --> 02:01:12,740 Okay, Neil. What's this all about? 2414 02:01:12,774 --> 02:01:15,175 We sold half the company to Polygram. 2415 02:01:15,210 --> 02:01:18,446 Forty-nine percent. We still keep control. 2416 02:01:18,480 --> 02:01:22,149 We've lived an awful lotta years pretending to be rich. 2417 02:01:22,182 --> 02:01:23,585 You wanna see what it feels like 2418 02:01:23,618 --> 02:01:26,621 when we finally actually are? 2419 02:01:26,654 --> 02:01:28,021 Nelly! 2420 02:01:29,390 --> 02:01:31,459 Jesus Christ. 2421 02:01:31,493 --> 02:01:33,795 Um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I never use the Lord's name 2422 02:01:33,828 --> 02:01:35,463 in vain, but... 2423 02:01:35,497 --> 02:01:39,467 Fifty million dollars for just half the company, 2424 02:01:39,501 --> 02:01:43,103 made out to Neil Bogart, 2425 02:01:43,136 --> 02:01:46,307 a name and a life I'd made up along the way. 2426 02:01:49,142 --> 02:01:52,112 Even paid Mo back every penny. 2427 02:01:52,145 --> 02:01:55,182 Not because I had to, but because I could. 2428 02:02:30,552 --> 02:02:32,754 My dad had been right. 2429 02:02:32,787 --> 02:02:34,222 Most were all still there 2430 02:02:34,255 --> 02:02:36,691 on the same four blocks of their lives. 2431 02:02:52,607 --> 02:02:54,409 For those of you who don't know, 2432 02:02:54,442 --> 02:02:59,146 I left Casablanca finally on February 8, 1980. 2433 02:02:59,179 --> 02:03:01,215 It was a Friday. 2434 02:03:01,249 --> 02:03:03,751 It was five days after my 37th birthday. 2435 02:03:03,785 --> 02:03:06,521 Now, disco had officially died the year before when a local DJ 2436 02:03:06,554 --> 02:03:09,122 set a bunch of records on fire to the roar of a crowd 2437 02:03:09,156 --> 02:03:12,860 as if that was a fucking concert. 2438 02:03:12,894 --> 02:03:15,229 Yeah. It was a good bet most of those were ours. 2439 02:03:18,165 --> 02:03:20,234 Now, all of you remember, I'm sure, 2440 02:03:20,268 --> 02:03:23,705 Donna and KISS and George, 2441 02:03:23,738 --> 02:03:25,707 Village People, Gladys, 2442 02:03:25,740 --> 02:03:27,375 the Isleys, Bill Withers, 2443 02:03:27,408 --> 02:03:28,443 all the others. 2444 02:03:30,244 --> 02:03:32,179 But I bet each of you $100... 2445 02:03:33,381 --> 02:03:36,651 that not one of you has ever even heard of my name. 2446 02:03:36,684 --> 02:03:39,354 And that's okay. It's not like I had the talent that they did, 2447 02:03:39,387 --> 02:03:41,923 because I didn't, you know, 2448 02:03:41,956 --> 02:03:45,727 or that I... or that I mattered like they did, 2449 02:03:45,760 --> 02:03:49,631 because, uh... I... I couldn'. 2450 02:03:52,834 --> 02:03:54,702 But I sure as hell made you dance. 2451 02:03:56,537 --> 02:03:58,406 I sold over 200 million records, 2452 02:03:58,439 --> 02:04:01,542 and all that music that I helped made possible... 2453 02:04:04,312 --> 02:04:07,415 became the soundtrack of your lives. 2454 02:04:11,319 --> 02:04:15,556 And we... we were in the business of making dreams come true.s 2455 02:04:17,925 --> 02:04:19,293 Didn't we do that? 2456 02:04:20,995 --> 02:04:23,698 And if we did, didn't... didn't that matter? 2457 02:04:26,668 --> 02:04:27,702 Didn't I? 2458 02:04:30,705 --> 02:04:35,543 Even if... even if only a song? 2459 02:04:44,485 --> 02:04:45,486 I died... 2460 02:04:47,588 --> 02:04:50,758 May eighth, just two years later, from cancer. 2461 02:04:52,827 --> 02:04:54,495 I was only 39 years old. 2462 02:05:00,301 --> 02:05:05,673 I... I wouldn't change a fucking thing. 2463 02:05:09,877 --> 02:05:12,714 I just wish I had more time. 2464 02:05:21,723 --> 02:05:23,558 ♪ I need you ♪ 2465 02:05:25,927 --> 02:05:27,428 ♪ By me ♪ 2466 02:05:29,297 --> 02:05:32,700 ♪ Beside me ♪ 2467 02:05:32,734 --> 02:05:35,770 ♪ To guide me ♪ 2468 02:05:37,038 --> 02:05:39,273 ♪ To hold me ♪ 2469 02:05:40,908 --> 02:05:43,010 ♪ To scold me ♪ 2470 02:05:43,044 --> 02:05:46,280 ♪ 'Cause when I'm bad ♪ 2471 02:05:46,314 --> 02:05:51,486 ♪ I'm so so bad ♪ 2472 02:05:55,757 --> 02:05:58,025 ♪ So let's dance ♪ 2473 02:05:58,059 --> 02:06:00,294 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2474 02:06:00,328 --> 02:06:01,863 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2475 02:06:01,896 --> 02:06:03,998 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2476 02:06:04,031 --> 02:06:05,733 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2477 02:06:05,767 --> 02:06:07,535 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2478 02:06:07,568 --> 02:06:11,672 ♪ Tonight ♪ 2479 02:06:11,706 --> 02:06:13,407 ♪ Last dance ♪ 2480 02:06:13,441 --> 02:06:18,379 ♪ Last chance for love ♪ 2481 02:06:18,412 --> 02:06:21,015 ♪ Yes it's my last chance ♪ 2482 02:06:21,048 --> 02:06:25,386 ♪ For romance tonight ♪ 2483 02:06:25,419 --> 02:06:28,623 ♪ Oh I need you ♪ 2484 02:06:28,656 --> 02:06:30,324 ♪ By me ♪ 2485 02:06:30,358 --> 02:06:32,059 ♪ Beside me ♪ 2486 02:06:32,093 --> 02:06:33,394 ♪ To guide me ♪ 2487 02:06:33,427 --> 02:06:35,963 ♪ Oh to hold me ♪ 2488 02:06:35,997 --> 02:06:37,465 ♪ To scold me ♪ 2489 02:06:37,498 --> 02:06:38,866 ♪ 'Cause when I'm bad ♪ 2490 02:06:38,900 --> 02:06:41,702 ♪ I'm so so bad ♪ 2491 02:06:41,736 --> 02:06:43,971 ♪ So let's dance ♪ 2492 02:06:44,005 --> 02:06:45,940 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2493 02:06:45,973 --> 02:06:47,675 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2494 02:06:47,708 --> 02:06:49,443 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2495 02:06:49,477 --> 02:06:51,412 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2496 02:06:51,445 --> 02:06:53,014 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2497 02:06:53,047 --> 02:06:59,120 ♪ Tonight ♪ 2498 02:06:59,153 --> 02:07:00,655 ♪ Oh oh oh ♪ 2499 02:07:00,688 --> 02:07:01,923 ♪ Yeah ♪ 2500 02:07:01,956 --> 02:07:05,593 ♪ Hey hey ♪ 2501 02:07:05,626 --> 02:07:07,829 ♪ Mm ♪ 2502 02:07:07,862 --> 02:07:10,765 ♪ Whoa I need you ♪ 2503 02:07:10,798 --> 02:07:12,366 ♪ By me ♪ 2504 02:07:12,400 --> 02:07:14,068 ♪ Beside me ♪ 2505 02:07:14,101 --> 02:07:16,370 ♪ To guide me ♪ 2506 02:07:16,404 --> 02:07:17,905 ♪ To hold me ♪ 2507 02:07:17,939 --> 02:07:19,140 ♪ To scold me ♪ 2508 02:07:19,173 --> 02:07:20,842 ♪ Because when I'm bad ♪ 2509 02:07:20,875 --> 02:07:23,845 ♪ I'm so so bad ♪ 2510 02:07:23,878 --> 02:07:26,147 ♪ So come on baby ♪ 2511 02:07:26,180 --> 02:07:27,915 ♪ Dance that dance ♪ 2512 02:07:27,949 --> 02:07:30,051 ♪ Come on baby ♪ 2513 02:07:30,084 --> 02:07:31,986 ♪ Dance that dance ♪ 2514 02:07:32,019 --> 02:07:33,988 ♪ Come on baby ♪ 2515 02:07:34,021 --> 02:07:39,760 ♪ Let's dance tonight ♪ 2516 02:08:37,685 --> 02:08:40,521 ♪ It was the greatest time ♪ 2517 02:08:40,554 --> 02:08:43,057 ♪ Of my life ♪ 2518 02:08:43,090 --> 02:08:45,826 ♪ Yeah the greatest time ♪ 2519 02:08:45,860 --> 02:08:48,562 ♪ Of my entire life ♪ 2520 02:08:48,596 --> 02:08:51,499 ♪ Always made sure I took a road ♪ 2521 02:08:51,532 --> 02:08:54,702 ♪ Less traveled 'til the curtain closed ♪ 2522 02:08:54,735 --> 02:08:57,905 ♪ Living for my story to be told ♪ 2523 02:08:59,640 --> 02:09:04,545 ♪ 'Cause we all have a story to be told ♪ 2524 02:09:04,578 --> 02:09:08,582 ♪ It was the greatest time of our lives ♪ 2525 02:09:08,616 --> 02:09:13,221 ♪ It was the way we felt the love on hot summer nights ♪ 2526 02:09:13,255 --> 02:09:15,823 ♪ We never thought about getting old ♪ 2527 02:09:15,856 --> 02:09:18,626 ♪ And every day was rock and roll ♪ 2528 02:09:18,659 --> 02:09:21,028 ♪ Living for our stories to be told ♪ 2529 02:09:22,530 --> 02:09:24,498 ♪ So we dreamed so big ♪ 2530 02:09:24,532 --> 02:09:26,667 ♪ They were destined to explode ♪ 2531 02:09:26,701 --> 02:09:30,871 ♪ We knew one day that we'd be spinning gold ♪ 2532 02:09:30,905 --> 02:09:33,207 ♪ We bet it all to never fall ♪ 2533 02:09:33,241 --> 02:09:35,743 ♪ We'd rather die than fold ♪ 2534 02:09:35,776 --> 02:09:39,013 ♪ We just want our story to be told ♪ 2535 02:09:39,046 --> 02:09:43,517 ♪ It was the greatest time of our lives ♪ 2536 02:09:43,551 --> 02:09:45,720 ♪ When it was over all we know ♪ 2537 02:09:45,753 --> 02:09:47,989 ♪ Is that we got it right ♪ 2538 02:09:48,022 --> 02:09:50,558 ♪ With every heartbeat and every note ♪ 2539 02:09:50,591 --> 02:09:52,893 ♪ Let's dim the lights and start the show ♪ 2540 02:09:52,927 --> 02:09:56,897 ♪ Ready for our stories to be told ♪ 2541 02:09:56,931 --> 02:09:58,933 ♪ Call on me brother when you need a hand ♪ 2542 02:09:58,966 --> 02:10:01,602 ♪ So we dreamed so big they were destined to explode ♪ 2543 02:10:01,635 --> 02:10:03,271 ♪ We all need somebody to lean on ♪ 2544 02:10:03,305 --> 02:10:05,806 ♪ We knew one day that we'd be spinning gold ♪ 2545 02:10:05,840 --> 02:10:08,142 -♪ We bet it all to never fall ♪ -♪ Ooh child ♪ 2546 02:10:08,175 --> 02:10:10,611 ♪ Things are gonna get easier ♪ 2547 02:10:10,644 --> 02:10:14,282 ♪ I've got to go, I've got to go ♪ 2548 02:10:14,316 --> 02:10:17,985 ♪ No matter how high or fast we went ♪ 2549 02:10:18,019 --> 02:10:22,290 ♪ We never looked back or lived life no regrets ♪ 2550 02:10:22,324 --> 02:10:25,026 ♪ Wanted to leave this world a better place ♪ 2551 02:10:25,059 --> 02:10:28,162 ♪ Whenever I left and give you something ♪ 2552 02:10:28,195 --> 02:10:30,631 ♪ That you'd never forget ♪ 2553 02:10:30,664 --> 02:10:34,001 ♪ Oh let's dance ♪ 2554 02:10:34,035 --> 02:10:36,203 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2555 02:10:36,238 --> 02:10:38,205 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2556 02:10:38,240 --> 02:10:40,308 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2557 02:10:40,342 --> 02:10:42,643 ♪ Let's dance ♪ 2558 02:10:42,676 --> 02:10:44,312 ♪ The last dance ♪ 2559 02:10:44,346 --> 02:10:49,083 ♪ Tonight ♪ 2560 02:10:49,116 --> 02:10:53,321 ♪ Dreams so big they were destined to explode ♪ 2561 02:10:53,355 --> 02:10:57,691 ♪ We knew one day that we'd be spinning gold ♪ 2562 02:10:57,725 --> 02:10:59,794 ♪ We bet it all to never fall ♪ 2563 02:10:59,827 --> 02:11:02,630 ♪ We'd rather die than fold ♪ 2564 02:11:02,663 --> 02:11:05,800 ♪ We just want our story to be told ♪ 2565 02:11:05,833 --> 02:11:10,704 ♪ And so we dreamed so big they were destined to explode ♪ 2566 02:11:10,738 --> 02:11:12,307 Well, alright. Star child. 2567 02:11:12,340 --> 02:11:15,976 ♪ That we'd be spinning gold ♪ 2568 02:11:16,010 --> 02:11:20,215 ♪ ...Taste like candy ♪ 2569 02:11:20,248 --> 02:11:21,849 ♪ I'd rather live in his world ♪ 2570 02:11:21,882 --> 02:11:25,353 ♪ Than live without him in mine ♪ 2571 02:11:25,387 --> 02:11:28,089 ♪ Want to rock and roll all night ♪ 2572 02:11:28,122 --> 02:11:31,025 -♪ We knew one day that ♪ -♪ And party every day ♪ 2573 02:11:31,058 --> 02:11:33,228 ♪ We'd be spinning gold ♪ 2574 02:11:33,261 --> 02:11:36,197 ♪ I want to rock and roll ♪ 2575 02:11:36,231 --> 02:11:38,632 ♪ All night ♪ 2576 02:11:38,666 --> 02:11:41,602 ♪ And party every day ♪ 2577 02:11:42,337 --> 02:11:46,774 ♪ Oh we were destined to explode ♪ 2578 02:11:46,807 --> 02:11:50,911 ♪ 'Cause we knew that we'd be spinning gold ♪ 2579 02:11:50,945 --> 02:11:54,382 ♪ And we said we'd rather die than fold ♪ 2580 02:11:54,416 --> 02:11:58,052 ♪ We want our stories to be told ♪ 2581 02:11:58,085 --> 02:12:02,390 -♪ Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah ♪ -♪ Just a few more hours ♪ 2582 02:12:02,424 --> 02:12:04,392 ♪ And I'll be right home to you ♪ 2583 02:12:04,426 --> 02:12:07,262 ♪ Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah ♪ 2584 02:12:07,295 --> 02:12:10,398 ♪ Let's dance the last dance ♪ 2585 02:12:10,432 --> 02:12:13,134 -♪ Tonight ♪ -♪ We just want our story ♪ 2586 02:12:13,167 --> 02:12:17,004 ♪ To be told ♪ 2587 02:12:32,420 --> 02:12:33,622 You had a lot of resilience. 2588 02:12:33,654 --> 02:12:36,824 You have been up and down, and you've made a lot of money. 2589 02:12:36,857 --> 02:12:39,327 And you've been flat on your bum. 2590 02:12:39,361 --> 02:12:42,297 - It's nicer being up. - Yes. 2591 02:12:42,330 --> 02:12:45,866 If that was the question. 2592 02:12:45,900 --> 02:12:48,202 Why your resiliency? Where does it come from? 2593 02:12:48,236 --> 02:12:50,104 Where's that drive come from? 2594 02:12:50,137 --> 02:12:52,039 Probably, it originally comes from Brooklyn. 2595 02:12:52,072 --> 02:12:54,074 - Brooklyn. - You know, all people 2596 02:12:54,108 --> 02:12:57,778 that are born in Brooklyn seem to be able to bounce back, 2597 02:12:57,811 --> 02:12:59,980 because you have to if you come from there. 2598 02:13:00,014 --> 02:13:04,352 You have to have the desire to succeed and be a gambler, 2599 02:13:04,386 --> 02:13:07,821 and I both have the desire and am a gambler. 2600 02:13:07,855 --> 02:13:09,089 So, you were poor? 2601 02:13:09,123 --> 02:13:10,225 - Yes. - Mm-hmm 2602 02:13:11,526 --> 02:13:13,127 I came from Brooklyn, 2603 02:13:13,160 --> 02:13:16,897 and I used to sing on the street corners and stuff. 2604 02:13:16,931 --> 02:13:20,000 Do you think... I mean, what does it take to be a greaser? 2605 02:13:20,034 --> 02:13:21,835 -I mean... -You got what it takes. 2606 02:13:21,869 --> 02:13:23,338 You probably got what it takes. 2607 02:13:23,371 --> 02:13:26,173 What do you think is the biggest misunderstanding 2608 02:13:26,207 --> 02:13:27,174 about Neil Bogart? 2609 02:13:35,783 --> 02:13:37,485 There are quite a few misunderstandings 2610 02:13:37,519 --> 02:13:39,287 about Neil Bogart. 2611 02:13:41,021 --> 02:13:43,791 If you feel like rocking the Hollywood Bowl, 2612 02:13:43,824 --> 02:13:45,993 it feels like being rocked. 2613 02:13:56,070 --> 02:13:58,373 How'd you get so down and out, Neil? 2614 02:13:58,406 --> 02:13:59,974 I came out to California 2615 02:14:00,007 --> 02:14:02,544 after having a company called Buddah Records 2616 02:14:02,577 --> 02:14:04,246 in New York City, 2617 02:14:04,279 --> 02:14:06,981 which was very successful, and I went into partnership 2618 02:14:07,014 --> 02:14:09,351 with Warners Brothers Records. 2619 02:14:09,384 --> 02:14:10,918 Inside of eight months, 2620 02:14:10,951 --> 02:14:13,521 the partnership had just about dissolved, 2621 02:14:13,555 --> 02:14:16,790 and I lost the quickest three million dollars 2622 02:14:16,824 --> 02:14:18,993 anybody ever put up for anybody else. 2623 02:14:19,026 --> 02:14:20,528 What does it feel like to lose 2624 02:14:20,562 --> 02:14:21,929 a couple of million dollars? 2625 02:14:21,962 --> 02:14:23,897 Well, the strange thing is, 2626 02:14:23,931 --> 02:14:26,000 I really didn't have it, you know? 2627 02:14:26,033 --> 02:14:27,901 Of course. 2628 02:14:27,935 --> 02:14:31,138 I don't think if I had it, I could have taken the risk. 2629 02:14:31,171 --> 02:14:34,409 You know, it was a kind of situation 2630 02:14:34,442 --> 02:14:38,546 where I just kept going and really didn't stop to think 2631 02:14:38,580 --> 02:14:40,881 of how I was going to pay it back. 2632 02:14:40,914 --> 02:14:43,884 And fortunately, success was around the corner, 2633 02:14:43,917 --> 02:14:46,588 and I was able to pay it back and come from behind. 2634 02:14:46,621 --> 02:14:48,290 You did it by giving, first of all, 2635 02:14:48,323 --> 02:14:50,592 one of the largest parties ever given in this town, 2636 02:14:50,625 --> 02:14:52,893 -didn't you? -Yes, it was. 2637 02:14:52,926 --> 02:14:54,895 He laughs about it. 2638 02:14:54,928 --> 02:14:57,865 And you couldn't leave a tip, right? 2639 02:14:57,898 --> 02:14:59,933 At the end, I couldn't. 2640 02:15:00,635 --> 02:15:01,969 The party was fabulous. 2641 02:15:02,002 --> 02:15:03,937 The reception was fabulous. 2642 02:15:03,971 --> 02:15:06,173 The welcome to California was exciting, 2643 02:15:06,206 --> 02:15:09,511 and from there, everything went downhill. 2644 02:15:09,544 --> 02:15:10,545 About eight months later, 2645 02:15:10,578 --> 02:15:15,283 I realized that um, it wasn't going to happen. 2646 02:15:15,317 --> 02:15:16,518 I had just finished 2647 02:15:16,551 --> 02:15:19,454 probably the most expensive album ever done 2648 02:15:19,487 --> 02:15:21,222 in the record industry, which was 2649 02:15:21,256 --> 02:15:24,225 Here's Johnny: Magic Moments From The Tonight Show, 2650 02:15:24,259 --> 02:15:26,093 - and we opened... - Oh, you did that. 2651 02:15:26,126 --> 02:15:28,996 Yeah. That was our record. 2652 02:15:29,029 --> 02:15:30,465 You all bought that, didn't you? 2653 02:15:30,498 --> 02:15:32,099 Yeah. 2654 02:15:32,132 --> 02:15:34,935 We over-advertised, and we over-promoted. 2655 02:15:34,968 --> 02:15:38,540 And we did everything you could possibly do wrong. 2656 02:15:38,573 --> 02:15:40,608 And I went to Acapulco, 2657 02:15:40,642 --> 02:15:42,610 and while I was there, scuba diving, 2658 02:15:42,644 --> 02:15:46,481 I thought that, "You owe three million dollars. 2659 02:15:46,514 --> 02:15:48,216 You don't have any money left in the bank." 2660 02:15:48,249 --> 02:15:50,050 - Yeah. - "You might have payroll 2661 02:15:50,084 --> 02:15:52,953 for about two or three weeks left." 2662 02:15:52,986 --> 02:15:55,956 And I was down there, and I took the mouthpiece out 2663 02:15:55,989 --> 02:15:57,958 and said, "It could be over." 2664 02:15:57,991 --> 02:16:00,160 I mean, that could be it. You don't have to come back 2665 02:16:00,194 --> 02:16:02,230 to the problems. You don't have to come back 2666 02:16:02,263 --> 02:16:04,299 to face the failure. 2667 02:16:04,332 --> 02:16:07,968 And, um... the last record I released at Buddah Records 2668 02:16:08,001 --> 02:16:10,338 was a thing by Gladys Knight and the Pips, 2669 02:16:10,372 --> 02:16:12,172 that when LA seemed too much for the man, 2670 02:16:12,206 --> 02:16:13,675 he couldn't make it, so he's leaving 2671 02:16:13,708 --> 02:16:14,642 the life he's come to know. 2672 02:16:14,676 --> 02:16:17,111 He's leaving on a midnight train to Georgia. 2673 02:16:17,144 --> 02:16:19,681 And I just realized that wasn't me. 2674 02:16:19,714 --> 02:16:23,251 I had to win, or I had to fail. 2675 02:16:23,284 --> 02:16:24,519 I couldn't cop out, 2676 02:16:24,552 --> 02:16:26,987 and I put the mouthpiece back in. 2677 02:16:27,020 --> 02:16:29,657 I swam and found Joyce. 2678 02:16:29,691 --> 02:16:32,126 I said, "Come on back. We're going upstairs. 2679 02:16:32,159 --> 02:16:33,994 We're gonna go back, and we're gonna do it. 2680 02:16:34,027 --> 02:16:35,663 We're going to win, or we're gonna fail." 2681 02:16:35,697 --> 02:16:37,699 And in the back of my head, I always had the thought 2682 02:16:37,732 --> 02:16:40,000 that I can always go back to Brooklyn and open 2683 02:16:40,033 --> 02:16:41,135 - a candy store. - Yeah, 2684 02:16:41,168 --> 02:16:43,605 except there are a lot of those there, aren't there? 2685 02:16:43,638 --> 02:16:46,106 Yeah, but you know, growing up there, I mean, 2686 02:16:46,140 --> 02:16:48,942 that was always a kind of comforting thing 2687 02:16:48,976 --> 02:16:50,512 that I could always go back to that, 2688 02:16:50,545 --> 02:16:52,146 and that was a great life. 2689 02:16:55,383 --> 02:16:56,418 Hi. 2690 02:16:56,451 --> 02:16:58,185 What does a tiger say? 2691 02:17:00,154 --> 02:17:03,558 That was the Bogarts, the fabulous Bogarts! 2692 02:17:03,591 --> 02:17:05,192 Well, I want to thank you all. 2693 02:17:05,226 --> 02:17:09,364 Jill, Timothy, Bradley, come on. Come on. 2694 02:17:09,397 --> 02:17:11,299 Say goodbye to the audience. 2695 02:17:11,332 --> 02:17:12,534 We'll see you again! 2696 02:17:12,567 --> 02:17:14,602 -Bye! -Bye, everybody! 2697 02:17:14,636 --> 02:17:16,237 - Bye! - Bye! 2698 02:17:16,271 --> 02:17:19,006 Do you have one more word you'd like to say to everybody? 2699 02:17:19,039 --> 02:17:21,709 Goodbye. Cheerio. 2700 02:17:21,743 --> 02:17:23,043 What was that? 2701 02:17:24,579 --> 02:17:27,515 ...from the fabulous Bogarts! 2702 02:17:27,549 --> 02:17:28,982 See you next week! 2703 02:17:29,016 --> 02:17:30,150 Yeah! 203802