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[♪♪♪]
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[John Lennon] I wanted
the Beatles thing to end.
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I felt as though
I couldn't breathe
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if it went on any longer.
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[telephone rings]
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We got this phone call
from Toronto
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on a Friday night...
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It's John Brower calling.
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[Lennon] ...that there was
a Rock & Roll Revival show
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with 100,000 audience,
or whatever it was...
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[crowd screaming]
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[♪♪♪]
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...and that Chuck
was gonna be there.
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Let me hear you say "peace!"
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[crowd screaming] Peace!
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[♪♪♪]
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[Lennon] ...and Jerry Lee
was gonna be there...
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[Jerry Lee Lewis]
It's a great pleasure to be here
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at the revival of rock 'n' roll,
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and I'll guarantee you,
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if it ain't revived today,
we'll never have it revived.
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[Lennon]
...and all the great rockers
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that were still living...
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[Bo Diddley] Right now,
we're gonna take you back
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to the year of 1955!
Have mercy.
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[Little Richard]
Ladies and gentlemen,
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you are listening to
the true rock 'n' roll!
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[Lennon] He added The Doors
were top of the bill.
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[Claudja Barry]
It was monumental.
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I did feel like I was
a part of a bigger moment.
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It was something
that I would not forget.
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[Kim Fowley]
The ninth wonder of the world,
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Alice Cooper!
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[Alice Cooper]
It was upsetting the system
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on every level.
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A lot of tension going on.
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[Shep Gordon]
It was a social phenomenon.
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For Toronto,
this was their Woodstock.
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[Geddy Lee] The combination
of people on the stage
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at that particular point in time
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is, without question, historic.
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You can't see
a seismic shift happening
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when you're a kid
in the middle of it.
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This was far too much
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ahead of its time.
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Okay, we're just gonna do
a number that we know, you know,
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'cause we've never played
together before.
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[crowd roaring]
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[♪♪♪]
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[John Brower]
The Rock & Roll Revival,
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did it really happen?
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Did John Lennon really--
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was he really here last night?
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It was so under the radar,
it was almost a non-event,
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until all of a sudden,
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it was the biggest thing
in the world.
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[crowd roaring]
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[♪♪♪]
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[heavy traffic, cars honking]
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[♪♪♪]
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This is the office
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of two of the most unlikely
show-business impresarios
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you're likely to meet.
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Ken Walker, 23,
Business Manager...
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[♪♪♪]
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[telephone ringing]
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[Ken Walker]
We are thinking right now
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of maybe doing something
in the fall.
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[reporter]
...and John Brower, 22,
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producer and talent scout.
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[John Brower]
They're now in Toronto,
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and they're just changing,
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and getting ready
for the concert tonight.
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Brower-Walker
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had been the principal
concert promoters in Toronto
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for about a year.
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A lot of people
coming and going.
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That office
was all about rock festivals.
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[reporter]
No wall-to-wall carpets,
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no mahogany desks,
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and for the visitor,
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instead of the big cigar
in the humidor,
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you can just reach
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into any number of
a group of crates around here,
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pick yourself an apple,
a pear, an orange...
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[Brower] There was
this excitement in the air
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that, like, we have an office.
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You know, we have a clubhouse.
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They said in the ads
for the festival,
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"If you want tickets,
send bread."
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Well, some people
did just that.
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White and sliced.
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The surprising thing is,
they got the tickets.
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What are you going to do
with the bread?
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Well, I can't bank it,
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so I guess
I'll have to eat it. [laughs]
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[Shep Gordon]
Promoters weren't corporate
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like they are today.
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They were kids
who had passion for music.
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They were looking to have
some fun,
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get some people in,
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and make a few bucks
and eat lunch.
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[typewriter clacks]
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[typewriter dings]
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[Brower] Back then,
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we started out
just for the music.
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This was so new.
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[Gordon] In the '60s,
it wasn't the music business,
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it was just music.
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It was really about
A) eating lunch,
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and B) not working
in a normal job.
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[Brower] This was
after penicillin
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and before AIDS.
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You know, free love
was free love.
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It was out there.
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Agents were talking about,
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"There's gonna be
big rock festivals
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for the summer of '69,"
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and we were putting on
the pop festival.
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You've seen the news footage.
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Well, it's the first
pop festival in Canada,
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and I think it's got
a talent lineup
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that hasn't been beaten.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Gordon]
John Brower had a spark.
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He could turn
a really difficult negotiation
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and conversation--
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he'd always have a little twist.
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We're bringing in 28 groups
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and over 200 performers.
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[crowd cheering]
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[Brower]
The Toronto Pop Festival
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was the first festival of 1969.
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There were probably 25 bands.
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Not a bad show.
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It was amazing that Chuck Berry,
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one of the greatest
rock 'n' rollers of all time,
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ended up the magic of the show.
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He brought just incredible joy
to the afternoon
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when he played.
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There was this excitement
in the air.
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We sold that show out,
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and made a ton of money
on that show.
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It created such
a phenomenal buzz
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in Toronto.
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[newscast] It's been called
the first real pop festival
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Canada has ever seen.
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[Brower]
I think we felt invincible.
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Kenny and I could've gone out
and played the ukulele,
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and we would have sold out
Varsity Stadium.
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We needed a show for the fall.
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My thought was,
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"If Chuck Berry can do this,
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what would it be like
to have Little Richard..."
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♪ Tutti frutti
oh, rootie, woo! ♪
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♪ Tutti frutti
oh, rootie ♪
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[Brower] ...Jerry Lee Lewis...
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Shake!
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Shake, honey, shake!
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[Brower] ...Gene Vincent...
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♪ All right
You get your gal... ♪
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[Brower] ...Bo Diddley...
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[♪♪♪]
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[Brower] All of them
on the same stage
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at the same time,
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and that was the seed
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of the Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival...
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[♪♪♪]
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...and in a meeting,
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the concept was created,
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"Let's put all of these guys
together on the same bill."
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We called around,
and lo and behold,
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Little Richard,
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Jerry Lee Lewis, Bo Diddley,
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Gene Vincent,
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all available
on the same day as Chuck,
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and that became September 13th.
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The definitive sound
of the '50s,
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and there probably isn't
a musician
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in the whole wide world
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that hasn't consciously
or unconsciously
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been influenced by his music.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Chuck Berry!
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[applause]
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Good evening,
ladies and gentlemen,
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and I shall do for you first
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a song that I first recorded...
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[Robert Christgau]
I was a rock critic.
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I respected and cared
for the artists of the '50s.
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The idea that Chuck Berry
was a great artist
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was one I started selling
to my editors in '64, '65.
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[♪♪♪]
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A great performer,
a great guitarist.
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The Beatles,
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they told everybody that
they came out of Chuck Berry.
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I like Chuck Berry, Elvis,
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and Little Richard,
Eddie Cochran. Many.
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Bo Diddley.
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[Christgau] Let me tell you,
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sitting across the table
from John Lennon,
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it's very impressive,
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and what we discussed there
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is that we talked about
many of the other artists
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of the '50s.
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He made "Hound Dog" real.
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And then there was
Gene Vincent.
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♪ Be-bop-a-lula
I don't mean maybe ♪
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♪ Be-bop-a-lula
She's my baby ♪
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[Lennon] Gene Vincent's
"Be-Bop-A-Lula",
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one of the first songs
I ever sang,
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and the first day I sang it
in public with a real band
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is the day I met Paul,
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and it's always been
one of my all-time favourites.
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[♪♪♪]
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[Brower] We needed
a back-up band
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for Gene Vincent.
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[Christgau]
The people who put on
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the Toronto Rock & Roll Revival
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did hedge their bets.
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Not only did they hire
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many of the other artists
of the '50s,
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they hire Alice Cooper,
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who at that time
was completely unknown.
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[Gordon] When I met John,
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they had this idea
of a big festival.
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In order to get the gig,
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John said, "You have to
back up some of the bands."
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[Alice Cooper]
When we got with Shep,
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it was always just,
"Get us on stage,
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and we will build
that audience."
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[Kim Fowley] Alice Cooper!
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[crowd cheering]
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[Gordon]
Alice was an unknown quantity.
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We couldn't get work anywhere.
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We had zero money.
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So Shep wanted to get
as much money as possible,
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so he got us to book them
on the show as Alice Cooper,
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and then to pay them again
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to be the backup band
for Gene Vincent.
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Totally unknown band,
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and they said, "Okay."
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So, off we went.
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[Brower]
We were full-tilt boogie
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on the Rock & Roll Revival.
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Everybody was talking about
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this was gonna be
earth-shattering,
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ground-breaking.
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A few weeks later,
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tickets were not selling.
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It was a terrible shock,
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and it was a personal blow
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because I was the one
that created this show.
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[♪♪♪]
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Truth be told,
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the kings of rock 'n' roll
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were playing hotels and motels
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along the Vegas strip.
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There was a sense
that many of these artists,
261
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while they may have been
living legends,
262
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were no longer
of contemporary relevance--
263
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what would today be called
a meme.
264
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The notion that rock was dead
265
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in the hippie
artistic community.
266
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Their artistic heyday was gone.
267
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[bus honking]
268
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[Brower] I looked at the show,
269
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and said, "That's what's wrong."
270
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We did not have superstars.
271
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"We need somebody big here,"
272
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and that's when we got
The Doors.
273
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[Robby Krieger]
♪ People are strange ♪
274
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♪ When you're a stranger ♪
275
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♪ Places look ugly ♪
276
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♪ When you're down ♪
277
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Take two.
278
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[Krieger] '69,
279
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"Hello, I Love You"
had just come out
280
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and made number one.
281
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♪ Hello, I love you
Won't you tell me your name? ♪
282
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♪ Hello, I love you ♪
283
00:11:03,262 --> 00:11:05,798
♪ Let me jump in your game ♪
284
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We were playing, like,
the big places.
285
00:11:08,367 --> 00:11:12,004
That was kind of the top
of our career at that point.
286
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[♪♪♪]
287
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[Brower] Kenny did not want
to spend any more money.
288
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"We don't need anybody else.
289
00:11:17,877 --> 00:11:18,911
Things will pick up."
290
00:11:19,011 --> 00:11:21,847
The Doors wanted $25,000.
291
00:11:21,947 --> 00:11:23,416
That was a lot of money,
292
00:11:23,516 --> 00:11:25,885
and the only person I knew
that had that kind of money
293
00:11:25,985 --> 00:11:27,119
was Edjo,
294
00:11:27,219 --> 00:11:29,989
the leader of the Vagabonds
Motorcycle Club.
295
00:11:30,089 --> 00:11:31,857
[motorcycle rumbling]
296
00:11:31,957 --> 00:11:33,325
[♪♪♪]
297
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I don't remember as much
as I should about that era.
298
00:11:37,129 --> 00:11:38,330
Gotta remember,
299
00:11:38,431 --> 00:11:39,899
there was a lot of marijuana
smoked in them days.
300
00:11:39,999 --> 00:11:41,467
[chuckles]
301
00:11:42,568 --> 00:11:45,938
At that time,
there was 105 Vagabonds,
302
00:11:46,038 --> 00:11:49,341
plus about 25 guys
that wanted to be in the club.
303
00:11:49,442 --> 00:11:51,677
[♪♪♪]
304
00:11:53,412 --> 00:11:54,380
[Brower]
Kenny said, "Go ahead,
305
00:11:54,480 --> 00:11:56,315
borrow the money
from whoever you want,
306
00:11:56,415 --> 00:11:57,883
but if it's a bomb,
it's on you."
307
00:11:57,983 --> 00:12:00,252
Your word's your bond
in my business.
308
00:12:00,352 --> 00:12:01,754
You say something, you mean it.
309
00:12:01,854 --> 00:12:04,490
You don't need a contract,
or you never did in them days.
310
00:12:05,624 --> 00:12:09,562
[Brower] There were no limit
to what Edjo would do.
311
00:12:09,662 --> 00:12:11,397
Nobody needs enemies.
312
00:12:11,497 --> 00:12:13,099
[♪♪♪]
313
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[Brower] I thought The Doors
would be huge,
314
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so I called New York...
315
00:12:20,039 --> 00:12:21,407
It's John Brower calling.
316
00:12:21,507 --> 00:12:23,309
...and got a contract
for The Doors.
317
00:12:23,409 --> 00:12:24,510
Everybody was very excited.
318
00:12:24,610 --> 00:12:26,345
The Doors
were coming to Toronto.
319
00:12:26,445 --> 00:12:29,415
[Christgau]
I don't know exactly how
320
00:12:29,515 --> 00:12:32,685
Brower got The Doors
on his bill,
321
00:12:32,785 --> 00:12:33,919
but it was a coup.
322
00:12:34,019 --> 00:12:35,387
The Doors were a real draw.
323
00:12:35,488 --> 00:12:37,723
They were legendary
at that moment.
324
00:12:38,991 --> 00:12:42,595
[Krieger] Right about
the time that Toronto happened,
325
00:12:42,695 --> 00:12:45,464
just before,
we had to play in Miami.
326
00:12:45,564 --> 00:12:47,700
It turned out to be
kind of a weird night.
327
00:12:47,800 --> 00:12:52,438
Jim got a little bit too drunk
before the show,
328
00:12:52,538 --> 00:12:53,405
which wasn't that unusual.
329
00:12:53,506 --> 00:12:54,940
As the show went on,
330
00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,777
he starts berating the audience.
331
00:12:57,877 --> 00:13:00,980
[Jim Morrison] You're all
a bunch of fucking idiots!
332
00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:02,648
[crowd shouting]
333
00:13:02,748 --> 00:13:06,252
Oh, you guys didn't come here
just to-- for music, did you?
334
00:13:06,352 --> 00:13:07,953
You just, you want
to see something, right?
335
00:13:08,053 --> 00:13:09,054
You want to see this?
336
00:13:09,155 --> 00:13:10,322
[crowd shouting and jeering]
337
00:13:10,422 --> 00:13:12,391
[Morrison] What do you want?
338
00:13:12,491 --> 00:13:14,126
[crowd booing]
339
00:13:14,226 --> 00:13:16,862
[Morrison] Huh?
340
00:13:16,962 --> 00:13:17,830
I can't hear you!
341
00:13:17,930 --> 00:13:19,265
[Krieger]
I didn't think he was serious,
342
00:13:19,365 --> 00:13:21,133
and he never did whip it out,
343
00:13:21,233 --> 00:13:22,368
but it was a crazy show.
344
00:13:22,468 --> 00:13:24,470
Three or four days later,
345
00:13:24,570 --> 00:13:26,205
they arrested Jim--
346
00:13:26,305 --> 00:13:29,141
indecent exposure,
347
00:13:29,241 --> 00:13:30,943
indecent language.
348
00:13:31,811 --> 00:13:34,380
That was the first night
of a tour,
349
00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:38,651
and we had at least 10
or 15 dates after that.
350
00:13:38,751 --> 00:13:41,821
Every one of them cancelled,
351
00:13:41,921 --> 00:13:43,055
but luckily,
352
00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:45,457
we got to do the Toronto show.
353
00:13:45,558 --> 00:13:47,993
The publicity
around The Doors in Miami
354
00:13:48,093 --> 00:13:49,161
and the felony charges,
355
00:13:49,261 --> 00:13:52,064
that did not translate
into ticket sales in Toronto.
356
00:13:53,365 --> 00:13:55,568
Of course, there were
some newspaper ads.
357
00:13:55,668 --> 00:13:58,871
There were flyers.
358
00:13:58,971 --> 00:14:02,341
There were posters.
359
00:14:02,441 --> 00:14:04,610
It was a very tough sell.
360
00:14:04,710 --> 00:14:07,079
Tickets just were not moving.
361
00:14:07,179 --> 00:14:09,915
Everything was just frozen.
362
00:14:10,015 --> 00:14:11,250
A week before the show,
363
00:14:11,350 --> 00:14:13,252
we had 2,000 tickets sold,
364
00:14:13,352 --> 00:14:16,322
and we needed almost nine
to break even.
365
00:14:16,422 --> 00:14:18,290
It was my brilliant idea,
366
00:14:18,390 --> 00:14:21,093
that turned out to be
not quite so brilliant.
367
00:14:21,193 --> 00:14:22,428
It needed a little help.
368
00:14:22,528 --> 00:14:23,896
[Ritchie Yorke]
I was a journalist
369
00:14:23,996 --> 00:14:25,831
working for The Globe and Mail
in Toronto,
370
00:14:25,931 --> 00:14:27,633
and John Brower
was trying to call
371
00:14:27,733 --> 00:14:30,970
about the Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival.
372
00:14:31,070 --> 00:14:34,506
[Brower] Ritchie Yorke was
the top rock writer in the city.
373
00:14:34,607 --> 00:14:36,408
He was one of our confidants.
374
00:14:36,508 --> 00:14:39,445
He said, "You've gotta
bring Rodney Bingenheimer,
375
00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:41,313
the Mayor of Sunset Strip.
376
00:14:41,413 --> 00:14:42,615
Rodney's famous."
377
00:14:42,715 --> 00:14:45,985
♪ Talking about the Mayor
of the Sunset Strip... ♪
378
00:14:46,085 --> 00:14:47,253
[Rodney Bingenheimer]
Got your radios on?
379
00:14:47,353 --> 00:14:48,220
It's time for
Rodney on the ROQ.
380
00:14:48,320 --> 00:14:50,389
[Brower] And Kim Fowley,
381
00:14:50,489 --> 00:14:53,092
who was a legendary madman.
382
00:14:53,192 --> 00:14:54,760
[Fowley] Ladies and gentlemen,
I hear some applause.
383
00:14:54,860 --> 00:14:57,396
Start applauding now!
Now! Now!
384
00:14:57,496 --> 00:14:58,931
[Brower] "You've gotta
bring them up here
385
00:14:59,031 --> 00:15:00,065
to be the MCs
386
00:15:00,165 --> 00:15:01,367
and let them do promotion.
387
00:15:01,467 --> 00:15:03,535
They do great interviews,"
388
00:15:03,636 --> 00:15:06,238
and so,
for a couple of plane tickets,
389
00:15:06,338 --> 00:15:10,542
we had two certifiable
Hollywood legends on the bill
390
00:15:10,643 --> 00:15:13,512
promoting the show.
391
00:15:13,612 --> 00:15:14,847
Even that didn't help.
392
00:15:14,947 --> 00:15:16,248
Didn't make
any difference at all.
393
00:15:16,348 --> 00:15:18,083
You notice I got
the Toronto shirt on?
394
00:15:18,183 --> 00:15:19,218
[♪♪♪]
395
00:15:19,318 --> 00:15:20,286
[Fowley]
Rodney Bingenheimer!
396
00:15:20,386 --> 00:15:23,455
[crowd cheering]
397
00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:24,690
I think the promotion
398
00:15:24,790 --> 00:15:26,558
wasn't as strong
as it should've been.
399
00:15:26,659 --> 00:15:29,395
Ticket sales
weren't doing that well.
400
00:15:29,495 --> 00:15:31,363
[Brower] Investors
were saying, "We're out.
401
00:15:31,463 --> 00:15:32,898
Cancel everything.
402
00:15:32,998 --> 00:15:34,667
The deal's off,"
403
00:15:34,767 --> 00:15:36,001
and it just
came out of nowhere.
404
00:15:36,101 --> 00:15:37,970
All of a sudden,
the show's gonna be cancelled.
405
00:15:38,070 --> 00:15:40,172
"This is a disaster.
406
00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:41,540
Stop it now."
407
00:15:41,640 --> 00:15:43,542
Who's gonna pay Edjo?
408
00:15:43,642 --> 00:15:46,211
Where's the money for Edjo
if the show's cancelled?
409
00:15:46,312 --> 00:15:49,581
The pressure that night
was intense.
410
00:15:49,682 --> 00:15:53,052
It was just beyond
anything I could imagine,
411
00:15:53,152 --> 00:15:54,987
and going to the hotel
412
00:15:55,087 --> 00:15:57,323
to tell Kim Fowley
and Rodney Bingenheimer
413
00:15:57,423 --> 00:15:58,857
that they may as well get packed
414
00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:02,428
because we're going to
fly them back tomorrow...
415
00:16:02,528 --> 00:16:04,697
Kim Fowley went into a tirade,
416
00:16:04,797 --> 00:16:07,132
storming around the hotel suite.
417
00:16:07,232 --> 00:16:08,434
"You can't cancel this show!
418
00:16:08,534 --> 00:16:10,135
This is a classic show!
419
00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:11,470
This is ridiculous!
420
00:16:11,570 --> 00:16:14,273
If it was in Dodgers Stadium,
it would sell out!
421
00:16:14,373 --> 00:16:15,607
Here's what you need to do.
422
00:16:15,708 --> 00:16:18,377
You need to call John Lennon
tomorrow at Apple
423
00:16:18,477 --> 00:16:20,546
and invite he and Yoko
to be the MC,
424
00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:23,983
because he loves Chuck Berry
and Little Richard,"
425
00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:26,852
and I mean, Kim Fowley
was walking around the room
426
00:16:26,952 --> 00:16:28,954
preaching to me,
427
00:16:29,054 --> 00:16:30,356
and he got me.
428
00:16:30,456 --> 00:16:32,091
There was so much tension
that night
429
00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:34,126
because I had to hold off
until the next morning
430
00:16:34,226 --> 00:16:37,863
and see if we could get
John Lennon on the phone.
431
00:16:42,034 --> 00:16:43,068
So, before we start,
432
00:16:43,168 --> 00:16:44,570
can I just get a tiny bit
more red wine?
433
00:16:44,670 --> 00:16:46,005
-Mm-hmm.
-If that's okay.
434
00:16:46,105 --> 00:16:47,306
Is that a cigarette? No.
435
00:16:47,406 --> 00:16:49,108
-Mm-hmm.
-No, it's not, no. [laughs]
436
00:16:49,208 --> 00:16:51,310
Toronto Rock & Roll...
437
00:16:51,410 --> 00:16:53,479
19...
Was it 1969 or '70?
438
00:16:53,579 --> 00:16:54,546
When was it?
439
00:16:54,646 --> 00:16:56,548
It was a long time ago.
440
00:16:56,648 --> 00:16:58,984
This is Anthony Fawcett
in Bag Productions.
441
00:16:59,084 --> 00:17:00,119
How can I help you?
442
00:17:00,219 --> 00:17:03,856
[♪♪♪]
443
00:17:03,956 --> 00:17:05,290
[Fawcett]
London in the mid-'60s
444
00:17:05,391 --> 00:17:06,425
was really colourful.
445
00:17:06,525 --> 00:17:07,926
We all mixed together.
446
00:17:08,027 --> 00:17:09,595
You know,
we'd go to the same clubs,
447
00:17:09,695 --> 00:17:10,863
we'd go to Tramp,
448
00:17:10,963 --> 00:17:13,465
and The Stones would be
in one table, and...
449
00:17:13,565 --> 00:17:15,100
Anyway, you need to edit me
450
00:17:15,200 --> 00:17:18,170
and get me back
to John and Yoko, so "cut."
451
00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:19,204
[distant crowds cheering]
452
00:17:19,304 --> 00:17:20,739
I grew up with The Beatles,
453
00:17:20,839 --> 00:17:23,242
never even imagining
that one day
454
00:17:23,342 --> 00:17:25,177
I would be one of the closest
people in the world
455
00:17:25,277 --> 00:17:27,346
to John Lennon,
456
00:17:27,446 --> 00:17:31,050
and actually living with him,
literally.
457
00:17:32,518 --> 00:17:34,353
They always used to say,
"Anthony is the only one
458
00:17:34,453 --> 00:17:35,754
that comes between
John and Yoko."
459
00:17:35,854 --> 00:17:36,755
Lucky me.
460
00:17:36,855 --> 00:17:38,891
You know,
20-year-old art critic.
461
00:17:38,991 --> 00:17:39,858
Can you imagine?
462
00:17:39,958 --> 00:17:43,162
Just tell us
what's going on today.
463
00:17:43,262 --> 00:17:44,730
It's all Japanese today.
464
00:17:44,830 --> 00:17:46,165
Yeah, and what about
the evening?
465
00:17:46,265 --> 00:17:47,166
When do we finish?
466
00:17:47,266 --> 00:17:49,001
Two more Japanese.
467
00:17:49,101 --> 00:17:51,103
[Fawcett]
John was in a really bad state.
468
00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:52,504
He was very depressed.
469
00:17:52,604 --> 00:17:53,972
I think he missed playing live.
470
00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:57,276
I mean, actually, for John,
playing live,
471
00:17:57,376 --> 00:17:58,811
probably in his whole life,
472
00:17:58,911 --> 00:18:01,547
that's what he loved best,
on the stage.
473
00:18:01,647 --> 00:18:04,817
He'd thrown off
the mantle of The Beatles.
474
00:18:06,018 --> 00:18:08,053
[Lennon] Ringo's left once.
475
00:18:08,153 --> 00:18:09,088
George had left once
476
00:18:09,188 --> 00:18:11,056
for a couple of days
or something. Yeah.
477
00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:12,825
Complete chaos.
478
00:18:14,059 --> 00:18:16,261
[Fawcett] You have to imagine
Bag Productions
479
00:18:16,361 --> 00:18:18,730
in the Apple building.
480
00:18:18,831 --> 00:18:20,566
There's a big
black leather desk.
481
00:18:20,666 --> 00:18:22,267
John and Yoko behind it.
482
00:18:22,367 --> 00:18:24,336
I'm sitting here on the side.
483
00:18:24,436 --> 00:18:26,205
We have a fire going
in the office,
484
00:18:26,305 --> 00:18:27,739
a burning log fire.
485
00:18:27,840 --> 00:18:30,709
So I'm screening everything
for John Lennon and Yoko.
486
00:18:30,809 --> 00:18:32,711
[telephones ringing]
487
00:18:32,811 --> 00:18:34,580
It was really weird
488
00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,349
for a 20-year old
to be the conduit
489
00:18:37,449 --> 00:18:39,084
to John Lennon and Yoko.
490
00:18:39,184 --> 00:18:41,820
So if I get a phone call
from the prime minister,
491
00:18:41,920 --> 00:18:44,156
if I get a phone call
from Salvador Dali,
492
00:18:44,256 --> 00:18:48,193
if I get a phone call
from John Brower in Toronto,
493
00:18:48,293 --> 00:18:49,528
I take the call.
494
00:18:49,628 --> 00:18:50,829
[Brower] The next morning,
495
00:18:50,929 --> 00:18:52,698
I've gotten Kenny and myself
496
00:18:52,798 --> 00:18:55,968
down at the office
at 6:00 in the morning.
497
00:18:56,068 --> 00:18:58,837
It's now 11:00
in the morning in London.
498
00:18:58,937 --> 00:19:00,139
[beeping]
499
00:19:00,239 --> 00:19:02,341
[telephone rings]
500
00:19:02,441 --> 00:19:03,809
Hello.
501
00:19:03,909 --> 00:19:05,144
"This is John Brower.
502
00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:06,278
I'm calling from Toronto.
503
00:19:06,378 --> 00:19:07,613
You need to tell John Lennon
504
00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:10,315
all these people are playing
on the same bill
505
00:19:10,415 --> 00:19:12,918
this Saturday in Toronto,
506
00:19:13,018 --> 00:19:15,220
and we would like to invite
John and Yoko
507
00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:17,256
to come and be the MCs."
508
00:19:17,356 --> 00:19:18,590
So I told John right away,
509
00:19:18,690 --> 00:19:20,993
"Hey, we just got a call in
from Toronto.
510
00:19:21,093 --> 00:19:23,128
They want you to play
in a rock 'n' roll festival.
511
00:19:23,228 --> 00:19:25,464
There's someone on the line
from Canada
512
00:19:25,564 --> 00:19:27,733
inviting you
to cur this weekend
513
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:29,334
at some big rock concert in--
514
00:19:29,434 --> 00:19:30,569
[Lennon] In Canada?
515
00:19:30,669 --> 00:19:32,471
[Fawcett] Yeah,
for a big rock concert.
516
00:19:32,571 --> 00:19:33,605
[Lennon] Well,
get a bit more detail.
517
00:19:33,705 --> 00:19:34,773
Find out who's on.
518
00:19:34,873 --> 00:19:36,475
He says,
"Well, find out more,"
519
00:19:36,575 --> 00:19:39,578
so I start getting calls
from Ritchie Yorke.
520
00:19:39,678 --> 00:19:41,580
Ritchie was a writer like me.
521
00:19:41,680 --> 00:19:42,948
[Yorke]
I happened to be at Apple
522
00:19:43,048 --> 00:19:44,716
because I had an interview
planned for the Monday morning
523
00:19:44,816 --> 00:19:47,052
with George.
524
00:19:47,152 --> 00:19:49,621
John was being hassled
by John Brower on the phone
525
00:19:49,721 --> 00:19:51,890
to come over and be at
this Rock & Roll Revival.
526
00:19:51,990 --> 00:19:54,560
Was that John Brower
that just phoned?
527
00:19:54,660 --> 00:19:57,162
-John Brower.
-Was it?
528
00:19:57,262 --> 00:19:57,863
John Brower, yes.
529
00:19:57,963 --> 00:19:59,097
It was John Brower?
530
00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:00,199
Yes.
531
00:20:00,299 --> 00:20:01,600
Okay, and he's the organizer,
isn't he?
532
00:20:01,700 --> 00:20:02,601
He's the producer of it, yes.
533
00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:03,902
The producer.
Great, okay.
534
00:20:04,002 --> 00:20:05,404
Basically, John wanted to know
535
00:20:05,504 --> 00:20:06,572
if they were good people
doing it.
536
00:20:06,672 --> 00:20:07,606
Could he trust them?
537
00:20:07,706 --> 00:20:09,308
Would it be okay to go?
538
00:20:09,408 --> 00:20:11,743
[Brower] Had Ritchie Yorke
not been at Apple,
539
00:20:11,843 --> 00:20:13,111
John Lennon might've thought
540
00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:15,180
that we were just
a couple of crazy kids
541
00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:16,715
calling him on the phone.
542
00:20:16,815 --> 00:20:17,849
[knock on door]
543
00:20:17,950 --> 00:20:19,952
[Fawcett] I've got
Ritchie Yorke outside.
544
00:20:20,052 --> 00:20:22,020
[Lennon] Maybe he knows a bit
about Canada, then.
545
00:20:22,120 --> 00:20:23,255
Hi, how are you?
546
00:20:23,355 --> 00:20:25,657
A-ha. There's a Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival
547
00:20:25,757 --> 00:20:26,925
on tomorrow,
548
00:20:27,025 --> 00:20:28,694
which has Jerry Lee Lewis
and Gene Vincent
549
00:20:28,794 --> 00:20:29,962
and Little Richard, and all--
550
00:20:30,062 --> 00:20:30,996
you know, they've got them
all together,
551
00:20:31,096 --> 00:20:32,664
and Kim Fowley and The Doors,
552
00:20:32,764 --> 00:20:34,933
and, you know,
it's a nice little scene.
553
00:20:35,033 --> 00:20:37,869
I know the two guys who are
running it. John Brower.
554
00:20:37,970 --> 00:20:38,870
[Lennon] Oh, he's the one
that was on the phone just now,
555
00:20:38,971 --> 00:20:40,138
John Brower.
-[Ritchie] Oh, really?
556
00:20:40,239 --> 00:20:41,607
[Lennon]
Find out how much, too.
557
00:20:41,707 --> 00:20:42,741
[call ringing]
558
00:20:42,841 --> 00:20:44,343
[Brower] And there's a pause.
559
00:20:44,443 --> 00:20:45,711
Now, this is on a speaker phone.
560
00:20:45,811 --> 00:20:46,712
We are looking at each other,
561
00:20:46,812 --> 00:20:48,113
like, "Are you hearing this?"
562
00:20:48,213 --> 00:20:50,916
Now Kenny
starts going like this...
563
00:20:51,016 --> 00:20:52,884
and I go, "You know,
we can't pay you,"
564
00:20:52,985 --> 00:20:54,987
and he says,
"Oh, no, no, that's okay,"
565
00:20:55,087 --> 00:20:56,888
and Kenny starts going
like this,
566
00:20:56,989 --> 00:20:58,790
and I go, "But we'll
get you plane tickets,
567
00:20:58,890 --> 00:20:59,758
first class,"
568
00:20:59,858 --> 00:21:01,860
and Kenny goes...
569
00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:04,596
[Lennon] They'll give us
a chartered plane of 30
570
00:21:04,696 --> 00:21:06,098
to go and play
at a rock concert.
571
00:21:06,198 --> 00:21:09,001
We could get a group together
to take over.
572
00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:10,969
[Yoko Ono]
George and Eric might go.
573
00:21:11,069 --> 00:21:12,004
[Lennon]
Could you ring George and ask,
574
00:21:12,104 --> 00:21:13,071
could he get me
a group together
575
00:21:13,171 --> 00:21:15,941
for tomorrow night
in... for Canada?
576
00:21:16,041 --> 00:21:17,709
It sounds about good,
this Canadian thing.
577
00:21:17,809 --> 00:21:19,678
[Ono] Yes, it does.
578
00:21:19,778 --> 00:21:21,813
To cut a very long story short,
579
00:21:21,913 --> 00:21:23,849
John said, "Yeah, we'll do it.
580
00:21:23,949 --> 00:21:25,417
[scanning through
radio stations]
581
00:21:25,517 --> 00:21:26,918
...on the CHUM News Watch
582
00:21:27,019 --> 00:21:28,754
for Sid Silver formal rentals.
583
00:21:28,854 --> 00:21:29,921
Apparently...
584
00:21:30,022 --> 00:21:32,190
[Brower] Of course,
where were we running?
585
00:21:32,291 --> 00:21:34,192
Right up to CHUM radio
with the news.
586
00:21:35,060 --> 00:21:39,164
♪ C-H-U-M 1050 Toronto ♪
587
00:21:39,264 --> 00:21:41,400
[Brower] The radio support
was CHUM radio.
588
00:21:41,500 --> 00:21:42,467
That was it.
589
00:21:42,567 --> 00:21:44,202
It was radio, radio, radio.
590
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:46,471
"I just got off the phone
a few hours ago
591
00:21:46,571 --> 00:21:47,439
with John Lennon.
592
00:21:47,539 --> 00:21:48,940
He's coming over on Saturday.
593
00:21:49,041 --> 00:21:49,875
They're gonna play,"
594
00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,143
and they're just, like,
595
00:21:51,243 --> 00:21:53,712
looking at us, like,
"Your show's bombing here,
596
00:21:53,812 --> 00:21:54,980
and John Lennon's coming,
597
00:21:55,080 --> 00:21:56,882
and you want us
to go on the air with that?"
598
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:58,250
[elevator dings]
599
00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:01,086
At which point, they threw us
out of the station.
600
00:22:01,186 --> 00:22:02,954
Now, Kenny's going,
"We're in trouble."
601
00:22:03,055 --> 00:22:05,557
I said, "Look,
John Lennon is gonna tell us
602
00:22:05,657 --> 00:22:07,159
who's in his band.
603
00:22:07,259 --> 00:22:09,261
We will tape that phone call.
604
00:22:09,361 --> 00:22:11,463
We'll come up here,
and we'll show these guys."
605
00:22:11,563 --> 00:22:12,497
Kenny goes, "Okay, good."
606
00:22:12,597 --> 00:22:14,399
So now we have to wait 24 hours.
607
00:22:26,478 --> 00:22:28,113
[Klaus Voormann]
The start of the whole story,
608
00:22:28,213 --> 00:22:31,016
I'm gonna start
right from the very start,
609
00:22:31,116 --> 00:22:33,151
which is John called me.
610
00:22:33,251 --> 00:22:36,088
"Klaus, we have a band
called the Plastic Ono Band.
611
00:22:36,188 --> 00:22:39,191
There's going to be
a rock 'n' roll festival,
612
00:22:39,291 --> 00:22:41,860
and the Plastic Ono Band's
gonna play there,"
613
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:44,296
and I thought, "Oh, shit.
Plastic Ono Band?"
614
00:22:44,396 --> 00:22:47,265
and I thought maybe you have to
get up on stage naked.
615
00:22:52,637 --> 00:22:53,872
So I was a little hesitant,
616
00:22:53,972 --> 00:22:55,474
then he started saying,
617
00:22:55,574 --> 00:22:56,775
"Eric already said yes.
618
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,076
He's gonna be in the band,"
619
00:22:58,176 --> 00:22:59,578
and then Yoko
was in the background
620
00:22:59,678 --> 00:23:02,514
saying, "Yeah, we're gonna
go there for peace,"
621
00:23:02,614 --> 00:23:03,582
and I said, "When's that?"
622
00:23:03,682 --> 00:23:04,916
"Well, tomorrow morning."
623
00:23:05,016 --> 00:23:06,385
[telephone ringing]
[Alan White] He called me up
624
00:23:06,485 --> 00:23:07,853
at my house in London.
625
00:23:07,953 --> 00:23:09,187
[Lennon] And I said, "Look,
626
00:23:09,287 --> 00:23:10,889
there's this thing on
in Toronto, you wanna come?"
627
00:23:10,989 --> 00:23:12,657
[White]
I didn't think it was him,
628
00:23:12,758 --> 00:23:15,260
so I kinda put the phone down,
629
00:23:15,360 --> 00:23:17,095
and then he called back
ten minutes later.
630
00:23:17,195 --> 00:23:18,630
He said, "No, no, no, really,
this is John Lennon."
631
00:23:24,002 --> 00:23:26,204
"I've gotta do a show
in Toronto.
632
00:23:26,304 --> 00:23:27,873
Can you be
at the airport tomorrow?"
633
00:23:27,973 --> 00:23:29,241
I said, "Sure."
634
00:23:29,341 --> 00:23:32,677
[Fawcett] John Lennon
was incredibly fast.
635
00:23:32,778 --> 00:23:34,146
Everything happened
in a split second.
636
00:23:34,246 --> 00:23:36,948
He just liked the idea that,
"I can play live again."
637
00:23:37,048 --> 00:23:38,383
We have to remember,
638
00:23:38,483 --> 00:23:41,853
John hasn't played live
for a long, long time,
639
00:23:41,953 --> 00:23:44,423
and he had to decide
who he would play with.
640
00:23:44,523 --> 00:23:47,793
John asked me to try and find
Eric Clapton
641
00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:48,860
to see if he'd come or not.
642
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:51,096
Literally, the day before.
643
00:23:51,196 --> 00:23:53,198
[Brower] Having Klaus,
644
00:23:53,298 --> 00:23:54,566
and Eric,
645
00:23:54,666 --> 00:23:56,668
and Alan White there,
646
00:23:56,768 --> 00:23:58,003
that was the first time
647
00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:02,774
that John really had
a Plastic Ono Band.
648
00:24:02,874 --> 00:24:05,377
[Lennon] The band
is our Plastic Ono Band,
649
00:24:05,477 --> 00:24:06,778
which Yoko and I formed.
650
00:24:06,878 --> 00:24:08,380
The band will expand
651
00:24:08,480 --> 00:24:10,549
depending on how many people
want to play with us,
652
00:24:10,649 --> 00:24:11,783
so the Plastic Ono Band
653
00:24:11,883 --> 00:24:13,752
could be four people
or 10 people.
654
00:24:13,852 --> 00:24:16,822
Only the Plastic Ono Band
will be constant.
655
00:24:16,922 --> 00:24:18,790
John and Yoko
are bigger than John Lennon.
656
00:24:18,890 --> 00:24:21,927
John and Yoko are bigger
than George Harrison.
657
00:24:22,027 --> 00:24:23,862
John and Yoko
are bigger than Paul McCartney.
658
00:24:23,962 --> 00:24:25,297
So that's our power now,
659
00:24:25,397 --> 00:24:27,232
and the power is for the people
660
00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:29,000
instead of for The Beatles,
661
00:24:29,100 --> 00:24:31,570
and we destroyed the myth.
662
00:24:33,004 --> 00:24:35,474
[Dan Richter] I was over
in the kitchen at Ascot.
663
00:24:35,574 --> 00:24:38,777
John came down the stairs
664
00:24:38,877 --> 00:24:39,878
and said, "They've just asked us
665
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:41,546
to go over to this
Rock & Roll Revival
666
00:24:41,646 --> 00:24:42,647
in Toronto,
667
00:24:42,747 --> 00:24:43,682
and it's tomorrow.
668
00:24:43,782 --> 00:24:45,016
You wanna come with us?"
669
00:24:50,355 --> 00:24:52,958
[Richter]
Yoko was one of the founders
670
00:24:53,058 --> 00:24:54,259
of the Fluxus Movement,
671
00:24:54,359 --> 00:24:57,395
which is pretty rarified air.
672
00:24:57,496 --> 00:24:59,197
The avant-garde
of the avant-garde.
673
00:24:59,297 --> 00:25:01,333
People like George Maciunas
674
00:25:01,433 --> 00:25:02,934
and Jonas Mekas.
675
00:25:03,034 --> 00:25:04,936
[Fawcett] She had worked
with Ornette Coleman.
676
00:25:05,036 --> 00:25:06,838
She'd worked with Andy Warhol.
677
00:25:06,938 --> 00:25:08,139
When she came to London,
678
00:25:08,240 --> 00:25:10,075
she was very well established
in the art scene,
679
00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:11,276
so we all knew her.
680
00:25:11,376 --> 00:25:14,279
[Richter] The '60s
opened all these doors,
681
00:25:14,379 --> 00:25:17,148
and behind one of the doors
was Yoko Ono.
682
00:25:17,249 --> 00:25:20,652
She believed in her art totally.
683
00:25:20,752 --> 00:25:23,054
[Ono]
I, myself, in my own way,
684
00:25:23,154 --> 00:25:26,057
was coming to a point
where I was feeling that
685
00:25:26,157 --> 00:25:27,826
I'd explored all the things
that I could explore
686
00:25:27,926 --> 00:25:29,461
in the avant-garde world,
687
00:25:29,561 --> 00:25:31,329
and I was looking
for something else.
688
00:25:31,429 --> 00:25:32,898
[Richter] Really,
689
00:25:32,998 --> 00:25:35,033
it wasn't until she did
her Film No. 4,
690
00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:36,768
which is also known
as "Bottoms."
691
00:25:36,868 --> 00:25:38,637
That film created
some notoriety.
692
00:25:38,737 --> 00:25:41,473
The world found out about her
at that point.
693
00:25:41,573 --> 00:25:42,774
[Ono] And every day,
694
00:25:42,874 --> 00:25:44,042
I was talked about
in the newspaper.
695
00:25:44,142 --> 00:25:46,144
In fact, in a way,
696
00:25:46,244 --> 00:25:48,446
I was ostracized
by the avant-garde world
697
00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:49,714
by then.
698
00:25:49,814 --> 00:25:51,082
At that time,
699
00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:54,019
Yoko really didn't get
much respect from anybody.
700
00:25:54,119 --> 00:25:56,488
[Ono] Because
I was getting too famous
701
00:25:56,588 --> 00:25:58,523
for a serious artist,
702
00:25:58,623 --> 00:26:00,125
but I wasn't famous enough
703
00:26:00,225 --> 00:26:03,428
for the Lennon league,
I suppose.
704
00:26:03,528 --> 00:26:05,530
[Richter] He wanted to be
around real artists,
705
00:26:05,630 --> 00:26:08,800
and Yoko was as real an artist
as you can get.
706
00:26:08,900 --> 00:26:10,235
Yoko said to John,
707
00:26:10,335 --> 00:26:12,637
"When you sing
I wanna hold your hand..."
708
00:26:12,737 --> 00:26:16,007
[Beatles sing]
♪ I want to hold your hand... ♪
709
00:26:16,107 --> 00:26:17,475
[Richter] "100 million people
around the world
710
00:26:17,576 --> 00:26:18,877
hear those words,
711
00:26:18,977 --> 00:26:22,380
so why don't you say
something important?"
712
00:26:22,480 --> 00:26:25,016
He said, "Yoko
can give me the words
713
00:26:25,116 --> 00:26:28,887
through conceptual techniques.
714
00:26:28,987 --> 00:26:31,389
We can do this together."
715
00:26:31,489 --> 00:26:34,359
John would do
his rock 'n' roll kind of thing
716
00:26:34,459 --> 00:26:35,493
in one,
717
00:26:35,594 --> 00:26:37,462
and Yoko would do
her conceptual thing as one.
718
00:26:37,562 --> 00:26:39,130
[♪♪♪]
719
00:26:39,230 --> 00:26:42,667
They just fell head over
heels, uh, for each other.
720
00:26:44,703 --> 00:26:46,938
It was like they'd been missing
a part of themselves,
721
00:26:47,038 --> 00:26:48,640
and they found it.
722
00:26:50,075 --> 00:26:52,043
[Brower] The next morning,
723
00:26:52,143 --> 00:26:53,612
we're back down at the office,
724
00:26:53,712 --> 00:26:55,146
the tape recorder ready.
725
00:26:55,246 --> 00:26:56,448
Call Apple Records.
726
00:26:56,548 --> 00:26:58,617
[call ringing]
727
00:26:58,717 --> 00:27:00,018
"Hello, this is John Brower.
728
00:27:00,118 --> 00:27:01,252
I'm calling for John Lennon.
729
00:27:01,353 --> 00:27:02,954
He's expecting my call."
730
00:27:03,054 --> 00:27:03,888
The phone is picked up.
731
00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:05,523
"Hello, it's Anthony Fawcett.
732
00:27:05,624 --> 00:27:06,758
I'm Yoko's assistant,
733
00:27:06,858 --> 00:27:08,226
and I've got the names for you."
734
00:27:08,326 --> 00:27:09,361
Okay, what am I gonna say?
735
00:27:09,461 --> 00:27:11,630
"Well, no, I need
John Lennon on the phone"?
736
00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:12,897
I mean, we're kinda stunned,
737
00:27:12,998 --> 00:27:14,099
but we got a guy on the phone,
738
00:27:14,199 --> 00:27:15,800
he's giving us the names.
739
00:27:15,900 --> 00:27:17,002
John Lennon.
740
00:27:17,102 --> 00:27:18,403
Yoko Ono Lennon.
741
00:27:18,503 --> 00:27:19,771
Eric Clapton.
742
00:27:19,871 --> 00:27:20,839
Klaus Voormann.
743
00:27:20,939 --> 00:27:22,173
Alan White,
744
00:27:22,273 --> 00:27:25,577
and this guy, Anthony Fawcett,
745
00:27:25,677 --> 00:27:29,114
and the next morning,
Kenny and I go up to CHUM.
746
00:27:29,214 --> 00:27:30,348
We're pretty smug now.
747
00:27:30,448 --> 00:27:32,317
Punch the button, tape plays.
748
00:27:33,518 --> 00:27:36,688
Hello, it's Anthony Fawcett
here in London.
749
00:27:36,788 --> 00:27:38,123
I've got the names now
750
00:27:38,223 --> 00:27:41,326
coming on the travel
to Toronto.
751
00:27:41,426 --> 00:27:43,762
[Brower] Now
the program director stands up.
752
00:27:43,862 --> 00:27:45,030
"You know something?
753
00:27:45,130 --> 00:27:47,165
We've been promoting shows
for you guys here,
754
00:27:47,265 --> 00:27:51,169
and you would come up here
with this bullshit on this tape,
755
00:27:51,269 --> 00:27:53,972
with a guy with a pretty good
English accent,
756
00:27:54,072 --> 00:27:56,041
and you want us to go
on the air with this?
757
00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:57,976
I don't even wanna look
at either one of you,"
758
00:27:58,076 --> 00:27:59,110
and they just walked out.
759
00:27:59,210 --> 00:28:01,279
Well, now Kenny
is about ready to faint,
760
00:28:01,379 --> 00:28:03,715
and I have one last thought--
761
00:28:03,815 --> 00:28:06,785
"I need to get Russ Gibb
in Detroit on the phone."
762
00:28:07,752 --> 00:28:08,987
[Russ Gibb]
Russ Gibb, jumping up and down,
763
00:28:09,087 --> 00:28:12,157
and we're inviting you
to hang in there.
764
00:28:12,257 --> 00:28:13,925
I dial him from the boardroom,
765
00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:15,527
and I play him the tape.
766
00:28:15,627 --> 00:28:16,628
[Fawcett on recording]
Do you have a pen?
767
00:28:16,728 --> 00:28:17,829
I've got the names now.
768
00:28:17,929 --> 00:28:19,330
John Lennon, Yoko Ono...
769
00:28:19,431 --> 00:28:20,932
[Brower]
Russ Gibb is promoting this
770
00:28:21,032 --> 00:28:22,367
as the Second Coming.
771
00:28:22,467 --> 00:28:25,503
This is the greatest thing
to happen in rock 'n' roll.
772
00:28:25,603 --> 00:28:27,839
The next day, all the tickets
in Detroit-Windsor are gone.
773
00:28:29,307 --> 00:28:31,876
[traffic, horns blare]
774
00:28:31,976 --> 00:28:33,812
In New York...
775
00:28:33,912 --> 00:28:36,581
[telephone rings]
776
00:28:36,681 --> 00:28:38,116
...D.A. Pennebaker,
777
00:28:38,216 --> 00:28:40,885
who had made two
brilliant documentaries...
778
00:28:43,054 --> 00:28:44,556
[♪♪♪]
779
00:28:46,458 --> 00:28:49,661
[Brower] Pennebaker
contacted our office and said,
780
00:28:49,761 --> 00:28:52,764
"I wanna come up and film
the Rock & Roll Revival."
781
00:28:52,864 --> 00:28:54,065
Well, this was amazing.
782
00:28:54,165 --> 00:28:55,967
Not only were we gonna
have John Lennon,
783
00:28:56,067 --> 00:28:57,235
now we're gonna have a movie.
784
00:28:58,336 --> 00:28:59,270
[D.A. Pennebaker]
I went up there
785
00:28:59,370 --> 00:29:00,939
because those four guys
were playing.
786
00:29:01,039 --> 00:29:02,707
I thought it was
a great film to do,
787
00:29:02,807 --> 00:29:03,641
and I was happy to do it,
788
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:04,743
because I think
789
00:29:04,843 --> 00:29:08,480
that's an extraordinary history
of rock 'n' roll.
790
00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:10,348
[♪♪♪]
791
00:29:10,448 --> 00:29:11,549
[Christgau]
A brand-new magazine
792
00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:12,584
called "Show"
793
00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:16,354
asked me to write a profile
of Pennebaker.
794
00:29:18,323 --> 00:29:20,592
Pennebaker gave me
the journalist's dream,
795
00:29:20,692 --> 00:29:22,127
total access.
796
00:29:22,227 --> 00:29:23,561
Nothing off the record?
797
00:29:23,661 --> 00:29:26,397
That's a very rare privilege
for any journalist to get,
798
00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:27,932
and I took advantage of it.
799
00:29:28,032 --> 00:29:30,168
The Show
agreed to pay my airfare.
800
00:29:30,268 --> 00:29:31,436
I was following the story.
801
00:29:31,536 --> 00:29:34,339
That was what I was
supposed to do, and I did.
802
00:29:34,439 --> 00:29:36,608
They didn't paste any limits
on what I could report.
803
00:29:37,742 --> 00:29:39,811
[Chris Dalrymple]
When Bob Christgau
804
00:29:39,911 --> 00:29:41,312
arrived in the office
805
00:29:41,412 --> 00:29:43,581
to do the profile of Penne,
806
00:29:43,681 --> 00:29:47,852
I had never met
a rock journalist before.
807
00:29:47,952 --> 00:29:50,455
My first
and only impression of him
808
00:29:50,555 --> 00:29:54,325
was him trying
to gain my confidence,
809
00:29:54,425 --> 00:29:58,196
and possibly give him
some inside dirt.
810
00:29:58,296 --> 00:29:59,831
You know, once he couldn't
get anything out of me,
811
00:29:59,931 --> 00:30:01,900
he was through,
and moved on to somebody else.
812
00:30:03,168 --> 00:30:04,302
[film set bell rings]
813
00:30:04,402 --> 00:30:06,237
[Molly Davis]
All right, quiet on the set!
814
00:30:06,337 --> 00:30:07,372
[cameraman] Camera speed.
815
00:30:10,341 --> 00:30:12,544
[Davis] Everybody somehow
met at the airport.
816
00:30:12,644 --> 00:30:14,646
There were a lot of people
that came.
817
00:30:14,746 --> 00:30:17,215
If there was a plane ticket
provided, you just went.
818
00:30:17,315 --> 00:30:19,284
I mean, it wasn't like
you were gonna get paid.
819
00:30:20,185 --> 00:30:21,152
Molly filming.
820
00:30:21,252 --> 00:30:24,422
Roll 4A, wild sound.
821
00:30:24,522 --> 00:30:26,991
[Dalrymple] Very quickly,
it was, "Pack everything up,
822
00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:28,860
and we're leaving."
823
00:30:28,960 --> 00:30:30,261
Penne would use his friends.
824
00:30:30,361 --> 00:30:32,831
If he called, they'd go.
825
00:30:32,931 --> 00:30:35,066
'Cause everybody wanted
to go everywhere with Penne.
826
00:30:35,166 --> 00:30:36,167
Why not?
827
00:30:36,267 --> 00:30:37,268
And Penne said,
"Take a Super-8 cam,
828
00:30:37,368 --> 00:30:39,370
and then maybe get
some backstage stuff,"
829
00:30:39,470 --> 00:30:42,307
and I'm going, "That's great,
I'll go," you know, so...
830
00:30:42,407 --> 00:30:43,741
Yeah, I just went.
831
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:48,813
[Dalrymple]
So off we flew to Toronto.
832
00:30:48,913 --> 00:30:50,248
Pennebaker was in town.
833
00:30:50,348 --> 00:30:51,850
They were
getting ready to roll.
834
00:30:51,950 --> 00:30:53,184
Pennebaker had been given
835
00:30:53,284 --> 00:30:54,652
these little movie cameras,
836
00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:57,689
and he'd given them out
to people.
837
00:30:58,690 --> 00:31:00,758
[Davis] Penne didn't
do anything on the fly.
838
00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:01,826
[claps]
839
00:31:01,926 --> 00:31:04,662
Penne had rented
practically an entire motel.
840
00:31:05,530 --> 00:31:07,365
[Davis]
Saturday morning, hotel.
841
00:31:07,465 --> 00:31:09,634
Outside hotel with Penne.
842
00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:12,036
[Dalrymple] Got to the hotel,
843
00:31:12,136 --> 00:31:13,238
just dropped everything,
844
00:31:13,338 --> 00:31:14,906
went right to the stadium.
845
00:31:16,507 --> 00:31:18,042
[Davis]
Entering stadium at gate.
846
00:31:18,142 --> 00:31:19,978
Stadium, Penne.
847
00:31:20,078 --> 00:31:23,481
[Dalrymple] It was just like
a weekend in the country.
848
00:31:23,581 --> 00:31:25,350
[Pennebaker]
One started at half.
849
00:31:25,450 --> 00:31:26,818
Okay, ask him to bring 'em up
to three-quarters.
850
00:31:26,918 --> 00:31:27,518
That's what I want to see.
851
00:31:27,619 --> 00:31:29,120
I just want to get 'em even.
852
00:31:29,220 --> 00:31:30,121
[Dalrymple]
We're just gonna set up,
853
00:31:30,221 --> 00:31:31,389
we'll have daylight,
854
00:31:31,489 --> 00:31:33,491
we'll have spots on the stage,
and we'll do it.
855
00:31:33,591 --> 00:31:34,826
What could be simpler?
856
00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:38,529
After that, it was just
a matter of waiting around
857
00:31:38,630 --> 00:31:39,831
till the sun went down.
858
00:31:43,067 --> 00:31:44,335
[Pennebaker]
We just raised it,
859
00:31:44,435 --> 00:31:45,837
just raised it.
860
00:31:45,937 --> 00:31:47,538
I know that, but just see
where the light's coming from.
861
00:31:47,639 --> 00:31:49,007
That's the end of your spots.
862
00:31:49,107 --> 00:31:50,675
You can't see the spotlight.
863
00:31:53,044 --> 00:31:54,245
[Brower] I called Edjo,
864
00:31:54,345 --> 00:31:56,147
and I said, "Ed,
I've got a great idea.
865
00:31:56,247 --> 00:31:57,448
John Lennon is coming.
866
00:31:57,548 --> 00:31:58,683
He's bringing a band.
867
00:31:58,783 --> 00:32:00,051
They're gonna play at the show.
868
00:32:00,151 --> 00:32:01,886
How about you get
some of the bikes
869
00:32:01,986 --> 00:32:03,221
and we escort him in?
870
00:32:03,321 --> 00:32:06,224
Bikes in front, bikes in back."
871
00:32:06,324 --> 00:32:07,692
Edjo loved it.
872
00:32:07,792 --> 00:32:11,129
So Edjo organized
80 motorcycles,
873
00:32:11,229 --> 00:32:12,697
but, of course, during the week,
874
00:32:12,797 --> 00:32:14,432
the talk all around Toronto
875
00:32:14,532 --> 00:32:16,701
is that John Lennon
is not coming.
876
00:32:16,801 --> 00:32:20,872
In fact, CHUM had called
Capitol Records,
877
00:32:20,972 --> 00:32:22,040
who called Allen Klein,
878
00:32:22,140 --> 00:32:22,974
The Beatles manager in New York,
879
00:32:23,074 --> 00:32:24,342
who told them,
880
00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:26,377
"John Lennon doesn't do anything
I don't know about.
881
00:32:26,477 --> 00:32:27,512
It's not true.
882
00:32:27,612 --> 00:32:29,080
He's not going to Toronto."
883
00:32:30,281 --> 00:32:31,950
Some of the Vagabonds sold pot
884
00:32:32,050 --> 00:32:33,384
to some of the people at CHUM,
885
00:32:33,484 --> 00:32:35,086
and they heard that story,
886
00:32:35,186 --> 00:32:36,888
and they go back and tell Edjo.
887
00:32:37,855 --> 00:32:38,656
[kissing]
888
00:32:38,756 --> 00:32:39,490
So Friday night,
889
00:32:39,590 --> 00:32:40,959
Edjo comes to my place,
890
00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:43,127
and he's had a few drinks,
and he's had some smoke,
891
00:32:43,227 --> 00:32:44,896
and he pounds on my door,
892
00:32:44,996 --> 00:32:46,331
and he just barges in,
893
00:32:46,431 --> 00:32:47,765
and I go, "Ed, what's up?"
894
00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:50,902
and he goes, "Look, man,
I'm really pissed off.
895
00:32:51,002 --> 00:32:52,670
How could you bullshit me?
896
00:32:52,770 --> 00:32:55,306
I've been backing you up
all week on this thing."
897
00:32:55,406 --> 00:32:57,041
"John Lennon is coming.
898
00:32:57,141 --> 00:32:58,676
We got him plane tickets."
899
00:32:58,776 --> 00:33:02,046
Ed goes, "Look, if I have
80 bikes out there tomorrow,
900
00:33:02,146 --> 00:33:03,314
and there's no John Lennon,
901
00:33:03,414 --> 00:33:05,783
there's guys
that are gonna come here,
902
00:33:05,883 --> 00:33:08,319
and they're gonna fucking
beat the shit out of you."
903
00:33:08,419 --> 00:33:10,088
[Fawcett] As always,
904
00:33:10,188 --> 00:33:11,422
I go up to the bedroom
905
00:33:11,522 --> 00:33:13,758
to see if they're ready
to come out to the airport,
906
00:33:13,858 --> 00:33:16,461
and they're
in a really bad mood.
907
00:33:16,561 --> 00:33:17,695
"We're not feeling so well.
908
00:33:17,795 --> 00:33:19,297
I don't think we can do it.
909
00:33:19,397 --> 00:33:20,999
I think you're gonna
have to cancel it.
910
00:33:21,099 --> 00:33:22,533
Send some flowers."
911
00:33:22,633 --> 00:33:24,769
[exhales]
Deep breath.
912
00:33:24,869 --> 00:33:27,538
Klaus, I think, had said yes,
was at the airport.
913
00:33:27,638 --> 00:33:29,774
Alan White was at the airport.
914
00:33:29,874 --> 00:33:31,109
We hadn't heard back from Eric,
915
00:33:31,209 --> 00:33:33,311
whether he even knew about it,
whether he could come,
916
00:33:33,411 --> 00:33:34,212
he hadn't replied.
917
00:33:34,312 --> 00:33:35,980
So at 4:00 in the morning,
918
00:33:36,080 --> 00:33:39,017
my phone rings,
919
00:33:39,117 --> 00:33:41,352
and it's Anthony Fawcett.
920
00:33:41,452 --> 00:33:43,488
He's trembling on the phone
right now,
921
00:33:43,588 --> 00:33:45,490
and he's just talked
to John Lennon
922
00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:47,558
at Tittenhurst Park,
where John lives,
923
00:33:47,658 --> 00:33:50,294
who has told him
that he and Yoko can't make it,
924
00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:52,296
and that he's to send flowers
to the festival,
925
00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:53,898
"Love John & Yoko."
926
00:33:53,998 --> 00:33:55,767
I don't know what to say
except, "No.
927
00:33:55,867 --> 00:33:57,435
If John Lennon doesn't show up,
928
00:33:57,535 --> 00:33:59,337
I have to leave my city.
929
00:33:59,437 --> 00:34:00,772
I have to leave my country.
930
00:34:00,872 --> 00:34:01,539
I am ruined."
931
00:34:01,639 --> 00:34:02,874
[church bell tolls]
932
00:34:04,575 --> 00:34:05,576
I said, "He has to come."
933
00:34:05,676 --> 00:34:07,412
After that first call,
934
00:34:07,512 --> 00:34:10,181
I went back downstairs
to the kitchen.
935
00:34:10,281 --> 00:34:11,883
I decided not to do anything.
936
00:34:11,983 --> 00:34:15,286
[Voormann] Terry Doran
went up to Eric Clapton's house.
937
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:16,821
They called
and tried everything.
938
00:34:16,921 --> 00:34:17,989
He didn't hear the telephone,
939
00:34:18,089 --> 00:34:18,923
and he banged on the door,
940
00:34:19,023 --> 00:34:20,825
and he got him.
941
00:34:20,925 --> 00:34:23,561
So he turned up at the airport
at the last minute.
942
00:34:23,661 --> 00:34:25,430
[Fawcett] And I said,
"John, you know what?
943
00:34:25,530 --> 00:34:28,299
Eric got the message,
and he wants to come,"
944
00:34:28,399 --> 00:34:30,902
and John, he suddenly,
"What? Eric said yes?"
945
00:34:31,002 --> 00:34:31,936
I said, "Yeah."
946
00:34:32,036 --> 00:34:34,105
I said, "He woke up.
He was sleeping late.
947
00:34:34,205 --> 00:34:35,940
Eric's on his way
to the airport,
948
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,508
so what shall I say?"
949
00:34:37,608 --> 00:34:39,610
and John suddenly got excited,
950
00:34:39,710 --> 00:34:41,913
and he looked at Yoko,
he says, "Okay, let's go.
951
00:34:42,013 --> 00:34:42,980
We're doing it."
952
00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:44,449
[call dialing]
953
00:34:44,549 --> 00:34:45,550
[call ringing]
954
00:34:45,650 --> 00:34:46,984
So I call the airport,
955
00:34:47,085 --> 00:34:47,785
and I say, "We're coming.
956
00:34:47,885 --> 00:34:49,353
Get us on the next flight."
957
00:34:49,454 --> 00:34:50,521
So suddenly, it's on.
958
00:34:50,621 --> 00:34:52,590
[Brower] So he and Yoko
get out of bed
959
00:34:52,690 --> 00:34:53,891
and get in the limo--
960
00:34:53,991 --> 00:34:54,859
[car honks]
961
00:34:54,959 --> 00:34:57,328
--and they arrive
at Heathrow Airport,
962
00:34:57,428 --> 00:34:59,130
and, of course, they're mobbed,
963
00:34:59,230 --> 00:35:01,299
and John, he gives
a little press conference.
964
00:35:01,399 --> 00:35:02,500
"Yes, we're going to Toronto.
965
00:35:02,600 --> 00:35:04,001
We're going to play
at a rock show.
966
00:35:04,102 --> 00:35:05,536
It's gonna be
the Plastic Ono Band's
967
00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:06,471
first show."
968
00:35:06,571 --> 00:35:07,405
[fanfare sounds]
969
00:35:07,505 --> 00:35:09,273
So this goes out immediately.
970
00:35:09,373 --> 00:35:10,741
"John Lennon.
Heathrow Airport.
971
00:35:10,842 --> 00:35:14,612
Announces on his way to Toronto
for a rock festival."
972
00:35:15,613 --> 00:35:16,647
[Fawcett] We get on the plane.
973
00:35:16,747 --> 00:35:19,350
We're with the band.
974
00:35:19,450 --> 00:35:20,618
[Voormann]
We're all sitting in the back.
975
00:35:20,718 --> 00:35:23,988
We got the last row.
976
00:35:26,023 --> 00:35:27,525
So this one's
the Toronto flight.
977
00:35:27,625 --> 00:35:29,127
So this is Eric,
978
00:35:29,227 --> 00:35:30,495
this is John,
979
00:35:30,595 --> 00:35:32,630
that's Alan White,
980
00:35:32,730 --> 00:35:36,534
and me trying to play bass
in an airplane.
981
00:35:36,634 --> 00:35:38,035
No amplifier.
982
00:35:38,136 --> 00:35:40,972
Very, very difficult.
983
00:35:41,072 --> 00:35:42,607
[Fawcett]
We're on the way to Canada
984
00:35:42,707 --> 00:35:44,142
to play at
a rock 'n' roll concert,
985
00:35:44,242 --> 00:35:46,844
and no one actually knows
what we're gonna play.
986
00:35:46,944 --> 00:35:50,515
They had to make the playlist
on the plane.
987
00:35:50,615 --> 00:35:51,916
[Lennon] Now,
we didn't know what to play,
988
00:35:52,016 --> 00:35:53,985
'cause we'd never
played together before.
989
00:35:54,085 --> 00:35:54,886
On the airplane,
990
00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:56,320
we're running through
these oldies
991
00:35:56,420 --> 00:35:58,589
with electric guitars.
992
00:35:58,689 --> 00:35:59,757
They just grabbed the guitars,
993
00:35:59,857 --> 00:36:01,192
and we went down
to the back of the plane,
994
00:36:01,292 --> 00:36:02,860
and I was playing on the seat.
995
00:36:03,995 --> 00:36:05,630
[Voormann] And Alan was
hitting on the headrest
996
00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:07,832
[imitates drum beats]
997
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,068
When you sit there,
and you play,
998
00:36:11,169 --> 00:36:11,969
and you hear John,
999
00:36:12,069 --> 00:36:15,540
he's a fantastic
rhythm guitar player,
1000
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:18,042
and then Yoko's gonna do
her thing,
1001
00:36:18,142 --> 00:36:20,444
and then she came down
the aisle of the plane,
1002
00:36:20,545 --> 00:36:22,513
and said,
"Can we do my song now?"
1003
00:36:22,613 --> 00:36:24,315
and John got up and said,
1004
00:36:24,415 --> 00:36:26,284
"Let's go and have
a cup of tea."
1005
00:36:26,384 --> 00:36:28,386
So no rehearsal with Yoko.
1006
00:36:28,486 --> 00:36:30,821
He kept it really away from us.
1007
00:36:30,922 --> 00:36:33,724
He just wanted us
to be surprised.
1008
00:36:33,824 --> 00:36:34,825
[Fawcett] I can't imagine
1009
00:36:34,926 --> 00:36:37,161
what the air hostesses
were thinking.
1010
00:36:37,261 --> 00:36:39,597
They must have thought
they were in heaven.
1011
00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:45,803
For the first time
in his life,
1012
00:36:45,903 --> 00:36:47,939
coming to play live
with a new band,
1013
00:36:48,039 --> 00:36:48,873
not The Beatles,
1014
00:36:48,973 --> 00:36:51,175
he was so excited about that.
1015
00:36:56,681 --> 00:36:58,416
[Geddy Lee] We were all
suburban kids still.
1016
00:36:58,516 --> 00:37:00,284
We didn't live downtown.
1017
00:37:00,384 --> 00:37:02,153
Even coming downtown
to see a band
1018
00:37:02,253 --> 00:37:03,654
was an adventure.
1019
00:37:05,289 --> 00:37:07,725
Especially when you would
normally drop acid,
1020
00:37:07,825 --> 00:37:12,263
as we would, quite often.
1021
00:37:12,363 --> 00:37:14,232
That was the vibe
of the times...
1022
00:37:14,332 --> 00:37:15,967
[♪♪♪]
1023
00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,874
...which is how I came to be
at the Rock & Roll Revival.
1024
00:37:25,176 --> 00:37:28,312
I got a call from John Rutsey,
our drummer,
1025
00:37:28,412 --> 00:37:31,449
and he said,
"Let's go to this show.
1026
00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:32,450
It should be great."
1027
00:37:32,550 --> 00:37:34,151
We literally got together,
1028
00:37:34,252 --> 00:37:35,319
dropped acid,
1029
00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:37,121
and went down to the show.
1030
00:37:38,389 --> 00:37:40,291
[crowd cheering]
1031
00:37:43,694 --> 00:37:45,830
[Claudja Barry] The Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival
1032
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:49,367
was something that you'd never
heard about before.
1033
00:37:49,467 --> 00:37:51,302
It was, like, "What?
1034
00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:53,271
I gotta go,
I gotta go, I gotta go."
1035
00:37:54,505 --> 00:37:57,241
[crowd cheering]
1036
00:37:57,341 --> 00:37:58,709
[♪♪♪]
1037
00:37:58,809 --> 00:37:59,810
And I heard about
Little Richard,
1038
00:37:59,910 --> 00:38:02,513
and I thought, "Oh god, yes,"
1039
00:38:02,613 --> 00:38:03,848
and I said to my brother,
1040
00:38:03,948 --> 00:38:05,650
"Oh, come on, we gotta go,"
1041
00:38:05,750 --> 00:38:07,752
so we both snuck out,
1042
00:38:07,852 --> 00:38:09,620
primarily to see the Black guys.
1043
00:38:09,720 --> 00:38:11,956
[crowd cheering]
1044
00:38:12,056 --> 00:38:14,825
The excitement was amazing.
1045
00:38:14,925 --> 00:38:17,495
I had not experienced
something like that before.
1046
00:38:17,595 --> 00:38:21,565
I don't remember ever being
in such a big crowd before.
1047
00:38:21,666 --> 00:38:23,934
We were just laughing
and having a grand time.
1048
00:38:24,035 --> 00:38:27,538
I was thinking, "My god,
this is very scary,"
1049
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:29,373
because there were
so many people.
1050
00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:31,008
I'm pretty sure
my brother and I
1051
00:38:31,108 --> 00:38:32,843
were the only two
Black people there.
1052
00:38:34,945 --> 00:38:36,781
[Lea Harper]
On the day of the festival,
1053
00:38:36,881 --> 00:38:39,717
we hopped on a bus
not far from where we lived.
1054
00:38:39,817 --> 00:38:41,285
We had our cigarettes
and our lighters,
1055
00:38:41,385 --> 00:38:42,787
and that was about it...
1056
00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:48,025
[♪♪♪]
1057
00:38:48,125 --> 00:38:50,761
...and the whole place
was on their feet.
1058
00:38:50,861 --> 00:38:52,596
We never sat down.
1059
00:38:52,697 --> 00:38:54,398
We were on our feet
for 12 hours.
1060
00:38:55,733 --> 00:38:57,735
These four guys
whose names we never learned,
1061
00:38:57,835 --> 00:38:59,470
we took turns sitting
on their shoulders
1062
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:01,472
and swaying to the music.
1063
00:39:03,174 --> 00:39:04,675
The show was on,
everything was going.
1064
00:39:04,775 --> 00:39:05,943
The stage is good.
1065
00:39:06,043 --> 00:39:07,645
Everything was set up.
We're all good there.
1066
00:39:07,745 --> 00:39:10,147
There were thousands of people
down there.
1067
00:39:10,247 --> 00:39:11,849
Edjo,
1068
00:39:11,949 --> 00:39:15,119
who had been given an entire
section in the stadium,
1069
00:39:15,219 --> 00:39:17,154
and it was now filled
with about 300 bikers
1070
00:39:17,254 --> 00:39:18,089
and their friends
1071
00:39:18,189 --> 00:39:21,759
who were partying
absolutely madly...
1072
00:39:25,296 --> 00:39:29,400
[Christgau] Then I spent
the entire day in the press pit,
1073
00:39:29,500 --> 00:39:30,434
right up front
1074
00:39:30,534 --> 00:39:32,703
on a very hot day in Toronto,
1075
00:39:32,803 --> 00:39:35,806
and I watched the whole thing.
1076
00:39:35,906 --> 00:39:37,675
It was a remarkable experience.
1077
00:39:37,775 --> 00:39:40,811
[crowd screaming and cheering]
1078
00:39:40,911 --> 00:39:44,215
[Lee]
Everyone was so nice that day.
1079
00:39:44,315 --> 00:39:48,686
It was one of the few
acid trips I ever did in my life
1080
00:39:48,786 --> 00:39:50,321
where I actually
had a good time.
1081
00:39:51,589 --> 00:39:53,624
We tripped the whole day.
1082
00:39:53,724 --> 00:39:55,860
Walked around,
and around, and around
1083
00:39:55,960 --> 00:39:57,795
listening to all these
amazing bands,
1084
00:39:57,895 --> 00:39:59,397
getting more and more high.
1085
00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:01,132
The music was incredible.
1086
00:40:01,932 --> 00:40:02,733
[Brower] We had a great show,
1087
00:40:02,833 --> 00:40:04,101
we had great bands.
1088
00:40:04,201 --> 00:40:07,905
Chicago had a hit record,
"25 or 6 to 4."
1089
00:40:12,910 --> 00:40:13,844
[Kim Fowley]
Ladies and gentlemen,
1090
00:40:13,944 --> 00:40:14,879
this group said
they wouldn't play
1091
00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:16,213
until they hear some applause,
1092
00:40:16,313 --> 00:40:17,348
so start applauding now.
1093
00:40:17,448 --> 00:40:18,449
Now! Now!
1094
00:40:18,549 --> 00:40:20,718
Chicago!
1095
00:40:20,818 --> 00:40:23,721
♪ Searching for
something to say ♪
1096
00:40:23,821 --> 00:40:26,590
[♪♪♪]
1097
00:40:26,690 --> 00:40:29,994
♪ Dancing lights
against the sky... ♪
1098
00:40:30,094 --> 00:40:31,662
[Danny Seraphine]
That original band
1099
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:33,297
was an amazing force.
1100
00:40:33,397 --> 00:40:35,166
We could do things
that nobody could do.
1101
00:40:36,467 --> 00:40:38,269
[crowd cheering]
1102
00:40:38,369 --> 00:40:40,604
[♪♪♪]
1103
00:40:40,704 --> 00:40:41,739
We released
a couple of singles,
1104
00:40:41,839 --> 00:40:45,476
"Questions 67 and 68."
1105
00:40:45,576 --> 00:40:47,645
[Chicago performing]
1106
00:40:47,745 --> 00:40:49,914
[♪♪♪]
1107
00:40:53,150 --> 00:40:55,019
It was just a great song.
I love it.
1108
00:40:55,119 --> 00:40:57,354
Yeah, I love the drum part.
I mean, it was high energy.
1109
00:40:57,455 --> 00:41:00,224
I still love playing it.
1110
00:41:00,324 --> 00:41:04,295
♪ Can this feeling
that we have together ♪
1111
00:41:04,395 --> 00:41:08,699
♪ Ooh, suddenly
exist between... ♪
1112
00:41:08,799 --> 00:41:10,401
[Seraphine]
"Questions 67 and 68"
1113
00:41:10,501 --> 00:41:12,670
to me, was an important song
for the band.
1114
00:41:12,770 --> 00:41:14,538
It's got an amazing
Peter Cetera vocal,
1115
00:41:14,638 --> 00:41:16,340
at the very top of his range.
1116
00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:19,009
♪ Appears in my mind ♪
1117
00:41:19,109 --> 00:41:23,647
♪ As a beautifully
mysterious thing ♪
1118
00:41:23,747 --> 00:41:25,182
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1119
00:41:25,282 --> 00:41:27,017
[♪♪♪]
1120
00:41:27,117 --> 00:41:29,587
[Lee]
Chicago Transit Authority,
1121
00:41:29,687 --> 00:41:31,755
they were a different sound
for an outdoor rock show,
1122
00:41:31,856 --> 00:41:33,257
'cause of all the horns.
1123
00:41:33,357 --> 00:41:37,628
[♪♪♪]
1124
00:41:41,298 --> 00:41:42,833
[Seraphine] I was
one of the architects
1125
00:41:42,933 --> 00:41:44,768
putting that band together.
1126
00:41:44,869 --> 00:41:45,970
We were really not
a revival band.
1127
00:41:46,070 --> 00:41:47,905
We were futuristic,
we were modern.
1128
00:41:48,005 --> 00:41:52,910
[♪♪♪]
1129
00:41:53,010 --> 00:41:56,380
[song winding down]
1130
00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:57,414
[song ends]
1131
00:41:57,515 --> 00:41:59,517
[Fowley] Well, let's hear it
for Chicago!
1132
00:41:59,617 --> 00:42:00,351
[crowd cheering]
1133
00:42:00,451 --> 00:42:01,986
Hey!
1134
00:42:02,086 --> 00:42:04,622
[crowd screaming and cheering]
1135
00:42:05,990 --> 00:42:06,957
[taps microphone]
1136
00:42:07,057 --> 00:42:08,225
[Bo Diddley] Right now,
1137
00:42:08,325 --> 00:42:11,161
we're gonna take you back
to the year of 1955!
1138
00:42:11,262 --> 00:42:12,396
Have mercy.
1139
00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:16,934
[starts playing guitar]
1140
00:42:17,034 --> 00:42:21,138
[♪♪♪]
1141
00:42:21,238 --> 00:42:23,007
[tambourine tapping rhythm]
1142
00:42:23,107 --> 00:42:25,809
[strumming same rhythm]
1143
00:42:25,910 --> 00:42:28,045
[tapping tambourine rhythm]
1144
00:42:28,145 --> 00:42:30,281
[backup singer] Let's get
those hands together out there.
1145
00:42:30,381 --> 00:42:32,883
[Diddley] Come on,
get it together now, come on.
1146
00:42:32,983 --> 00:42:35,953
[strumming in rhythm,
crowd clapping along]
1147
00:42:36,053 --> 00:42:37,988
[backup singer] Do anything
you feel like doing.
1148
00:42:38,088 --> 00:42:39,256
This is your day!
1149
00:42:39,356 --> 00:42:41,358
[Diddley] Getting good
as I go on, come on!
1150
00:42:41,458 --> 00:42:42,826
Tasting all right. Ha!
1151
00:42:42,927 --> 00:42:43,861
Come on!
1152
00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:47,932
[♪♪♪]
1153
00:42:51,936 --> 00:42:53,103
[Alice Cooper]
If you watch the old guys,
1154
00:42:53,203 --> 00:42:54,738
when they hit that stage,
1155
00:42:54,838 --> 00:42:56,073
they brought it
1156
00:42:56,173 --> 00:42:57,942
like it's the last show
you're ever gonna do.
1157
00:42:58,042 --> 00:43:00,344
♪ Hey!
Bo Diddley! ♪
1158
00:43:00,444 --> 00:43:02,046
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1159
00:43:02,146 --> 00:43:04,014
♪ Hey!
Bo Diddley! ♪
1160
00:43:04,114 --> 00:43:05,950
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1161
00:43:06,050 --> 00:43:07,785
♪ Hey,
Bo Diddley! ♪
1162
00:43:07,885 --> 00:43:09,753
[♪♪♪]
1163
00:43:09,853 --> 00:43:11,789
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1164
00:43:11,889 --> 00:43:13,991
[♪♪♪]
1165
00:43:14,091 --> 00:43:16,727
[Davis] I just couldn't believe
I had the good fortune
1166
00:43:16,827 --> 00:43:18,495
to see Bo Diddley...
1167
00:43:18,596 --> 00:43:20,898
of course, the guys that
originated everything
1168
00:43:20,998 --> 00:43:23,601
that anybody ever did.
1169
00:43:23,701 --> 00:43:25,069
The heroes, you know?
1170
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,338
Yeah!
1171
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:29,273
[strumming]
1172
00:43:29,373 --> 00:43:31,375
[♪♪♪]
1173
00:43:35,312 --> 00:43:37,648
♪ I called the other night
on the telephone ♪
1174
00:43:37,748 --> 00:43:39,249
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1175
00:43:39,350 --> 00:43:41,418
♪ Your mama said
you're not alone ♪
1176
00:43:41,518 --> 00:43:43,320
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1177
00:43:43,420 --> 00:43:44,622
♪ Yeah! ♪
1178
00:43:44,722 --> 00:43:46,924
♪ Hey, Bo Diddley! ♪
1179
00:43:47,024 --> 00:43:48,759
♪ Yeah! ♪
1180
00:43:48,859 --> 00:43:50,594
[Lee] The music was important.
1181
00:43:50,694 --> 00:43:54,431
Your ears pricked up
over artists like that.
1182
00:43:54,531 --> 00:43:56,333
You could see
they were digging it.
1183
00:43:56,433 --> 00:43:59,570
♪ Yeah! Yeah! ♪
1184
00:43:59,670 --> 00:44:02,706
[♪♪♪]
1185
00:44:05,409 --> 00:44:06,810
♪ Yeah, let's be together ♪
1186
00:44:06,910 --> 00:44:08,646
[♪♪♪]
1187
00:44:08,746 --> 00:44:10,314
♪ Let's get together ♪
1188
00:44:10,414 --> 00:44:11,749
♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
1189
00:44:11,849 --> 00:44:12,983
♪ Oh, let's be together! ♪
1190
00:44:13,083 --> 00:44:15,686
[crowd cheering]
♪ Yeah! ♪
1191
00:44:15,786 --> 00:44:18,555
[♪♪♪]
1192
00:44:18,656 --> 00:44:19,723
[song ends]
Peace!
1193
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:22,226
[crowd cheering and roaring]
1194
00:44:22,326 --> 00:44:22,993
Yeah!
1195
00:44:23,093 --> 00:44:25,596
Yeah! Yeah!
1196
00:44:25,696 --> 00:44:26,930
[crowd cheering]
1197
00:44:27,031 --> 00:44:29,500
Yeah! Yeah!
1198
00:44:29,600 --> 00:44:31,235
Have mercy.
1199
00:44:31,335 --> 00:44:32,503
All right.
1200
00:44:33,637 --> 00:44:35,673
[crowd cheering and screaming]
1201
00:44:37,708 --> 00:44:39,777
And the day just went on...
1202
00:44:39,877 --> 00:44:40,911
and on.
1203
00:44:41,011 --> 00:44:43,881
All these great bands
kept coming out.
1204
00:44:43,981 --> 00:44:46,784
[crowd screaming and cheering]
1205
00:44:47,885 --> 00:44:49,953
[microphone feeds back]
1206
00:44:50,054 --> 00:44:51,588
[crowd cheering]
1207
00:44:52,589 --> 00:44:53,323
[Jerry Lee Lewis] Whoo!
1208
00:44:53,424 --> 00:44:54,825
Thank you very much,
neighbours.
1209
00:44:54,925 --> 00:44:55,959
I'll guarantee you one thing.
1210
00:44:56,060 --> 00:44:57,327
It's a great pleasure to be here
1211
00:44:57,428 --> 00:44:59,463
at the revival
of rock 'n' roll,
1212
00:44:59,563 --> 00:45:00,698
and I'll guarantee you,
1213
00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:03,000
if it ain't revived today,
we'll never have it revived.
1214
00:45:03,100 --> 00:45:04,501
[crowd cheering]
1215
00:45:04,601 --> 00:45:05,602
Whoo!
1216
00:45:05,703 --> 00:45:07,137
Look out, child!
1217
00:45:09,440 --> 00:45:10,374
[rolling tongue]
1218
00:45:11,442 --> 00:45:13,043
Here's one
we done pretty good with.
1219
00:45:13,143 --> 00:45:15,145
[playing piano]
1220
00:45:16,980 --> 00:45:19,283
♪ Hmm... ♪
1221
00:45:19,383 --> 00:45:21,852
♪ I got a woman
mean as she can be ♪
1222
00:45:21,952 --> 00:45:23,921
[crowd cheering]
1223
00:45:24,021 --> 00:45:26,957
♪ Whoo! I got a woman
mean as she can be ♪
1224
00:45:27,057 --> 00:45:29,226
[playing piano]
1225
00:45:29,326 --> 00:45:32,429
♪ Oh, sometimes I think
she's almost mean as me ♪
1226
00:45:32,529 --> 00:45:35,065
[♪♪♪]
1227
00:45:35,165 --> 00:45:37,367
♪ I ain't braggin'
but it's understood ♪
1228
00:45:37,468 --> 00:45:39,903
♪ Everything I do
I sure do it good ♪
1229
00:45:40,003 --> 00:45:41,538
♪ I got a woman... ♪
1230
00:45:41,638 --> 00:45:44,308
[Christgau] Jerry Lewis
did some wonderful stuff.
1231
00:45:44,408 --> 00:45:46,777
Absolutely superb showman.
1232
00:45:46,877 --> 00:45:50,848
[♪♪♪]
1233
00:45:58,088 --> 00:46:00,557
♪ I drink coffee
I drink tea ♪
1234
00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:03,427
♪ Jerry, Jerry
You're the thing for me ♪
1235
00:46:03,527 --> 00:46:06,363
♪ I got a woman
mean as she can be ♪
1236
00:46:08,699 --> 00:46:10,834
♪ Now, my gal, I'm-a braggin ♪
She's almost mean as me... ♪
1237
00:46:10,934 --> 00:46:11,935
Jerry Lee Lewis made
his best record
1238
00:46:12,035 --> 00:46:13,303
performing his hits.
1239
00:46:13,403 --> 00:46:14,538
[starts to play
"Great Balls Of Fire"]
1240
00:46:14,638 --> 00:46:17,541
♪ You shake my nerves
and you rattle my brain ♪
1241
00:46:17,641 --> 00:46:20,511
♪ Too much love
drives ol' Jerry insane ♪
1242
00:46:20,611 --> 00:46:21,879
♪ You broke my will ♪
1243
00:46:21,979 --> 00:46:23,280
♪ What a thrill ♪
1244
00:46:23,380 --> 00:46:26,316
♪ Goodness gracious
great balls of fire... ♪
1245
00:46:26,416 --> 00:46:29,086
[Barry]
I wanted to see Jerry Lee Lewis.
1246
00:46:29,186 --> 00:46:30,020
I heard his music.
1247
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:32,656
I really liked Jerry Lee Lewis,
1248
00:46:32,756 --> 00:46:33,924
because he was different.
1249
00:46:34,024 --> 00:46:36,493
[♪♪♪]
1250
00:46:36,593 --> 00:46:38,028
[crowd cheering]
1251
00:46:38,128 --> 00:46:39,563
[Christgau] He was a hit man.
1252
00:46:39,663 --> 00:46:41,698
Magnificent.
1253
00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:44,301
Vital rock 'n' roll.
1254
00:46:44,401 --> 00:46:46,537
[Barry]
He was so commanding.
1255
00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:48,672
He was so in control.
1256
00:46:48,772 --> 00:46:50,641
[crowd cheering]
1257
00:46:50,741 --> 00:46:51,775
Whoo!
1258
00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:53,277
Look out, child!
1259
00:46:53,377 --> 00:46:56,814
I love you
like a hog loves slop,
1260
00:46:56,914 --> 00:46:58,949
and I need you.
1261
00:46:59,049 --> 00:47:00,417
I couldn't do it without you.
1262
00:47:00,517 --> 00:47:01,885
God bless you.
1263
00:47:01,985 --> 00:47:04,755
[crowd cheering]
1264
00:47:04,855 --> 00:47:07,958
[Fowley] Ladies and gentleman,
are you ready?
1265
00:47:08,058 --> 00:47:08,992
[crowd cheering]
1266
00:47:09,092 --> 00:47:10,327
[Christgau] Chuck Berry,
1267
00:47:10,427 --> 00:47:12,796
who was renowned
for going to the airport,
1268
00:47:12,896 --> 00:47:13,797
getting his Cadillac,
1269
00:47:13,897 --> 00:47:15,332
and playing
with a pickup band
1270
00:47:15,432 --> 00:47:16,600
that he'd never see again...
1271
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:19,069
a great performer,
a great guitarist.
1272
00:47:19,169 --> 00:47:21,305
[crowd cheering]
1273
00:47:21,405 --> 00:47:22,773
[Lee] Chuck Berry was awesome.
1274
00:47:22,873 --> 00:47:25,209
We were kind of glued to him.
1275
00:47:25,309 --> 00:47:26,777
I think it was Chuck Berry
1276
00:47:26,877 --> 00:47:31,448
who was backed up by
some of the guys from Nucleus.
1277
00:47:31,548 --> 00:47:35,118
I think maybe Hughie Leggat
played bass for him that day.
1278
00:47:40,023 --> 00:47:41,091
[Hugh Leggat] I had no idea
1279
00:47:41,191 --> 00:47:42,759
that I was gonna end up
playing the bass
1280
00:47:42,860 --> 00:47:43,760
for Chuck Berry.
1281
00:47:43,861 --> 00:47:44,928
I said, "Give me your bass
1282
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:46,296
and get out of my way,"
you know?
1283
00:47:46,396 --> 00:47:47,464
[laughs] That was it.
1284
00:47:47,564 --> 00:47:49,566
[♪♪♪]
1285
00:47:49,666 --> 00:47:51,435
[Danny Taylor] I didn't go
to the Rock & Roll Revival
1286
00:47:51,535 --> 00:47:55,472
with the notion that
I was gonna play with anyone.
1287
00:47:55,572 --> 00:47:57,474
Danny Taylor interview,
take one.
1288
00:47:57,574 --> 00:47:58,475
Common mark.
1289
00:48:00,277 --> 00:48:02,713
When we were
in the dressing room area,
1290
00:48:02,813 --> 00:48:03,914
our management said,
1291
00:48:04,014 --> 00:48:05,816
"You guys wanna play
with Chuck Berry?"
1292
00:48:07,751 --> 00:48:08,986
I was nervous,
1293
00:48:09,086 --> 00:48:11,255
and I said, "Hughie,
make sure you cue me.
1294
00:48:11,355 --> 00:48:12,756
I'm not sure
of the arrangements
1295
00:48:12,856 --> 00:48:13,824
of some of these songs,"
1296
00:48:13,924 --> 00:48:15,158
and he goes, "Well,
you know, don't worry."
1297
00:48:15,259 --> 00:48:16,226
He's like, "I'll cue you."
1298
00:48:16,326 --> 00:48:17,160
I go, "Okay, great."
1299
00:48:17,261 --> 00:48:18,495
[crowd cheering]
1300
00:48:18,595 --> 00:48:19,496
Are you ready
1301
00:48:19,596 --> 00:48:21,498
for the Guitar King
of Rock and Roll...
1302
00:48:21,598 --> 00:48:23,100
Chuck Berry!
1303
00:48:23,200 --> 00:48:24,568
[crowd cheering]
1304
00:48:24,668 --> 00:48:26,370
[Taylor] The first time
I saw him that whole day,
1305
00:48:26,470 --> 00:48:27,437
he came walking out
of the side of the stage
1306
00:48:27,537 --> 00:48:28,572
with his guitar.
1307
00:48:28,672 --> 00:48:30,507
I hadn't even talked to him
before that point,
1308
00:48:30,607 --> 00:48:32,109
and he walks up,
doesn't even look at the band,
1309
00:48:32,209 --> 00:48:33,043
and goes, "Olé!"
1310
00:48:33,143 --> 00:48:34,244
Olé!
1311
00:48:34,344 --> 00:48:35,312
[crowd cheering] Olé!
1312
00:48:35,412 --> 00:48:36,046
Olé!
1313
00:48:36,146 --> 00:48:37,247
[cheering] Olé!
1314
00:48:37,347 --> 00:48:38,882
-Olé!
-[crowd cheering] Olé!
1315
00:48:38,982 --> 00:48:40,717
Let me hear you say, "Peace."
1316
00:48:40,817 --> 00:48:42,019
Peace!
1317
00:48:42,119 --> 00:48:43,687
-[Chuck Berry] Peace!
-[crowd cheers] Peace!
1318
00:48:43,787 --> 00:48:45,522
-Peace!
-Peace!
1319
00:48:45,622 --> 00:48:48,225
Oh, that was beautiful,
that was beautiful.
1320
00:48:48,325 --> 00:48:49,426
Let's--
With no further ado,
1321
00:48:49,526 --> 00:48:52,796
let's go on
with a little of this stuff.
1322
00:48:52,896 --> 00:48:54,298
[strumming guitar]
1323
00:48:54,398 --> 00:48:57,501
He didn't tell us what key
he was in or anything, you know?
1324
00:48:57,601 --> 00:48:59,603
[chuckles]
One of my band members said,
1325
00:48:59,703 --> 00:49:01,238
"What key is it, baby?
What are we playing?"
1326
00:49:01,338 --> 00:49:02,506
I said, "I don't know yet."
1327
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:05,242
All you heard was
"Oh, give me some of that..."
1328
00:49:05,342 --> 00:49:07,945
♪ Rock 'n' roll music ♪
1329
00:49:08,045 --> 00:49:10,547
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
1330
00:49:10,647 --> 00:49:13,884
♪ It's got a backbeat
you can't lose it ♪
1331
00:49:13,984 --> 00:49:16,486
♪ Any old time you use it ♪
1332
00:49:16,586 --> 00:49:20,057
♪ It's gotta be
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1333
00:49:20,157 --> 00:49:22,993
♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
1334
00:49:23,093 --> 00:49:25,162
♪ If you wanna dance
with me ♪
1335
00:49:25,262 --> 00:49:26,964
♪ I have no kick
against modern jazz... ♪
1336
00:49:27,064 --> 00:49:28,465
[Taylor] All of a sudden,
we're on stage,
1337
00:49:28,565 --> 00:49:30,467
and I'm sitting behind
a kit of drums
1338
00:49:30,567 --> 00:49:32,703
that I had never played
before...
1339
00:49:32,803 --> 00:49:34,638
♪ ...and change
the beauty of the melody ♪
1340
00:49:34,738 --> 00:49:37,574
♪ And make it sound
like a symphony ♪
1341
00:49:37,674 --> 00:49:41,011
♪ That's why I go for this
rock 'n' roll music ♪
1342
00:49:41,111 --> 00:49:42,679
Man, it was like
the rollercoaster ride
1343
00:49:42,779 --> 00:49:44,047
was about ready to begin,
1344
00:49:44,147 --> 00:49:47,217
and we didn't know
what was coming next.
1345
00:49:47,317 --> 00:49:48,986
[laughing]
1346
00:49:49,086 --> 00:49:51,955
I just was hanging on,
like, petrified.
1347
00:49:52,055 --> 00:49:53,357
You know, "Wha...
1348
00:49:53,457 --> 00:49:54,925
What's gonna happen next?"
1349
00:49:55,025 --> 00:49:57,227
♪ ...hear 'em play a sambo ♪
1350
00:49:57,327 --> 00:50:00,697
♪ Way too late for the congo ♪
1351
00:50:00,797 --> 00:50:02,866
♪ You're too early
for the mambo... ♪
1352
00:50:02,966 --> 00:50:05,268
I'm looking around at Hughie
and the other guys, going...
1353
00:50:05,369 --> 00:50:06,436
and they're all looking at me
1354
00:50:06,536 --> 00:50:08,438
like I'm supposed to know
what's going on,
1355
00:50:08,538 --> 00:50:10,907
and then, all of a sudden,
I got it.
1356
00:50:11,008 --> 00:50:15,278
♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
1357
00:50:15,379 --> 00:50:17,481
♪ It's got a backbeat
you can't lose it, child ♪
1358
00:50:17,581 --> 00:50:20,083
He looks at me and he goes--
1359
00:50:22,285 --> 00:50:23,487
And at that point in time,
1360
00:50:23,587 --> 00:50:25,756
he realized that, "Hey, man,
these little kids--"
1361
00:50:25,856 --> 00:50:26,923
'cause we were 18--
1362
00:50:27,024 --> 00:50:28,225
"They can play."
1363
00:50:28,325 --> 00:50:33,196
♪ If you want to dance
with me ♪
1364
00:50:33,296 --> 00:50:35,065
[ends song]
1365
00:50:35,165 --> 00:50:38,101
[crowd cheering]
1366
00:50:38,201 --> 00:50:39,803
Thank you.
1367
00:50:39,903 --> 00:50:40,771
[crowd cheering]
1368
00:50:40,871 --> 00:50:42,105
Thank you.
1369
00:50:42,205 --> 00:50:44,775
I kinda think
we're tuned up now.
1370
00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:46,676
We'll open the show...
1371
00:50:46,777 --> 00:50:48,011
[crowd cheering]
1372
00:50:48,111 --> 00:50:52,416
we'll open the show
with a cool one.
1373
00:50:52,516 --> 00:50:54,751
Yeah, now, this is a cool one.
1374
00:50:54,851 --> 00:50:56,186
Dig it.
1375
00:50:56,286 --> 00:50:58,488
Modern rock 'n' roll
is based on Chuck Berry.
1376
00:50:58,588 --> 00:51:00,290
They were the architects.
1377
00:51:00,390 --> 00:51:02,859
Even then, we bowed to them.
1378
00:51:02,959 --> 00:51:03,927
That's royalty.
1379
00:51:04,027 --> 00:51:05,028
[crowd cheering]
1380
00:51:05,128 --> 00:51:07,664
Ah, have we shook a groove?
1381
00:51:07,764 --> 00:51:08,565
[crowd cheering]
1382
00:51:08,665 --> 00:51:10,667
Now, do we dig this groove?
1383
00:51:10,767 --> 00:51:11,435
[crowd cheering]
1384
00:51:11,535 --> 00:51:13,937
Shall we lay in this groove?
1385
00:51:14,037 --> 00:51:15,138
[crowd cheering]
1386
00:51:15,238 --> 00:51:18,675
Did I hear "Maybellene"?
1387
00:51:18,775 --> 00:51:21,845
[crowd cheering]
1388
00:51:21,945 --> 00:51:26,416
♪ Oh, Maybellene
why can't you be true? ♪
1389
00:51:26,516 --> 00:51:28,452
♪ Maybellene ♪
1390
00:51:28,552 --> 00:51:30,821
♪ Can't you be true? ♪
1391
00:51:30,921 --> 00:51:33,690
♪ You done started back doing
the things you used to do ♪
1392
00:51:33,790 --> 00:51:36,526
[♪♪♪]
1393
00:51:39,329 --> 00:51:41,364
It's John Brower calling.
1394
00:51:41,465 --> 00:51:43,033
The Doors have arrived.
1395
00:51:43,133 --> 00:51:44,434
They're now in Toronto,
1396
00:51:44,534 --> 00:51:45,569
and they're just changing
1397
00:51:45,669 --> 00:51:47,337
and getting ready
for the concert tonight.
1398
00:51:47,437 --> 00:51:51,007
♪ Oh, Maybellene
can't you be true? ♪
1399
00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:53,143
♪ Oh, Maybellene ♪
1400
00:51:53,243 --> 00:51:55,612
♪ Can't you be true? ♪
1401
00:51:55,712 --> 00:51:57,247
♪ You done started back
doing the... ♪
1402
00:51:57,347 --> 00:51:58,081
[Leggat]
While we're doing that groove,
1403
00:51:58,181 --> 00:51:59,749
you know, "doo-doo, doo-doo,"
1404
00:51:59,850 --> 00:52:02,185
I look to my right,
past Chuck Berry,
1405
00:52:02,285 --> 00:52:03,820
and right next to him
was Jim Morrison.
1406
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:04,821
Standing watching us.
1407
00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:06,890
[♪♪♪]
1408
00:52:06,990 --> 00:52:10,460
♪ You started back doing
the things you used to do ♪
1409
00:52:10,560 --> 00:52:14,498
[♪♪♪]
1410
00:52:37,287 --> 00:52:40,524
♪ Maybellene
why can't you be true? ♪
1411
00:52:40,624 --> 00:52:41,658
♪ Oh, Maybellene... ♪
1412
00:52:41,758 --> 00:52:44,094
Chuck Berry,
and he was just on fire, man.
1413
00:52:44,194 --> 00:52:45,529
That was, like, amazing.
1414
00:52:45,629 --> 00:52:48,265
[Christgau] His show was one of
the best live shows
1415
00:52:48,365 --> 00:52:50,400
he'd given in that era.
1416
00:52:50,500 --> 00:52:51,801
♪ The motor cooled down
The heat went down ♪
1417
00:52:51,902 --> 00:52:52,969
♪ That's when I heard
that highway sound ♪
1418
00:52:53,069 --> 00:52:56,473
Clearly, at that moment,
he was putting out.
1419
00:52:56,573 --> 00:52:58,542
It was a great performance.
1420
00:52:58,642 --> 00:52:59,910
A thrilling performance.
1421
00:53:00,010 --> 00:53:01,444
♪ ...sittin' still ♪
1422
00:53:01,545 --> 00:53:03,246
♪ Oh, Maybellene ♪
1423
00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:06,082
♪ Why can't you be true? ♪
1424
00:53:06,183 --> 00:53:07,517
[Krieger] Besides the fact
1425
00:53:07,617 --> 00:53:10,287
that he was duck-walking
all over the place,
1426
00:53:10,387 --> 00:53:14,090
he was just really on
that night.
1427
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:16,893
I'm so lucky to have seen
that show, I think, you know.
1428
00:53:16,993 --> 00:53:19,429
That was one of the best
rock shows I've ever seen.
1429
00:53:19,529 --> 00:53:21,865
[audience cheering]
1430
00:53:27,037 --> 00:53:30,574
[cheering]
1431
00:53:37,314 --> 00:53:41,918
[cheering]
1432
00:53:42,018 --> 00:53:44,421
[Lee] Throughout the day,
1433
00:53:44,521 --> 00:53:45,689
Kim Fowley,
1434
00:53:45,789 --> 00:53:48,959
who was making announcements
about a special guest...
1435
00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:53,863
"Well, the special guest
is boarding a plane,"
1436
00:53:53,964 --> 00:53:56,900
and "The special guest
is getting close to Toronto,"
1437
00:53:57,000 --> 00:53:59,569
and "The special guest
is landing."
1438
00:53:59,669 --> 00:54:01,571
[Davis]
Penne said I had to go out
1439
00:54:01,671 --> 00:54:04,241
to be with
the motorcycle people.
1440
00:54:04,341 --> 00:54:07,744
That took a large part
of the day.
1441
00:54:07,844 --> 00:54:12,816
It was kinda scary,
'cause I was 24.
1442
00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:14,551
Roll 3A.
1443
00:54:14,651 --> 00:54:15,685
Wild sound.
1444
00:54:15,785 --> 00:54:19,089
Motorcycles outside airport.
1445
00:54:19,189 --> 00:54:20,790
We were waiting and waiting
and waiting out there,
1446
00:54:20,890 --> 00:54:23,460
so more and more drugs
were being done.
1447
00:54:23,560 --> 00:54:25,762
[man] I'm getting a buzz.
1448
00:54:25,862 --> 00:54:27,264
Edjo?
1449
00:54:27,364 --> 00:54:29,466
[Davis] And that's when Edjo--
1450
00:54:29,566 --> 00:54:31,701
he's the kind of person
that's an innate gentleman.
1451
00:54:31,801 --> 00:54:33,703
He looked a little scary to me
at the time,
1452
00:54:33,803 --> 00:54:36,873
but he's a defender,
a gentleman by nature.
1453
00:54:39,509 --> 00:54:41,778
I sorta fell in love
with the camera girl.
1454
00:54:41,878 --> 00:54:43,246
[chuckling]
1455
00:54:43,346 --> 00:54:44,681
She says,
"I wanna go with him,"
1456
00:54:44,781 --> 00:54:46,616
so she jumped on my bike.
1457
00:54:46,716 --> 00:54:47,851
It was a pretty bike,
1458
00:54:47,951 --> 00:54:50,287
nice pink metal flake
and white.
1459
00:54:50,387 --> 00:54:53,089
Probably
the prettiest bike there.
1460
00:54:53,189 --> 00:54:55,325
She shot a lot of footage,
let's put it that way.
1461
00:54:55,425 --> 00:54:56,993
[Davis] It's kind of cool
1462
00:54:57,093 --> 00:55:01,164
to be riding in
with a motorcycle gang.
1463
00:55:01,264 --> 00:55:02,399
[Brower] Edjo and I meet,
1464
00:55:02,499 --> 00:55:05,302
and we have a little drawing
of the airport.
1465
00:55:05,402 --> 00:55:06,603
We're gonna meet
on the service road.
1466
00:55:06,703 --> 00:55:09,439
He's gonna have the bikes
laid out there.
1467
00:55:09,539 --> 00:55:10,540
My whole agenda
1468
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:14,577
was getting Edjo's bikes
to the airport,
1469
00:55:14,678 --> 00:55:16,313
but I was mostly focussed
1470
00:55:16,413 --> 00:55:18,548
on getting John Lennon
at the airport,
1471
00:55:18,648 --> 00:55:19,582
getting him to the stadium.
1472
00:55:26,556 --> 00:55:28,758
[Fawcett]
And then, of course, we land.
1473
00:55:33,596 --> 00:55:35,031
We get off the plane,
1474
00:55:35,131 --> 00:55:38,868
and immediately,
there's a huge crowd.
1475
00:55:38,968 --> 00:55:40,570
[Richter]
When we got to Toronto,
1476
00:55:40,670 --> 00:55:42,105
we got out at the airport,
1477
00:55:42,205 --> 00:55:43,640
and the driver said,
1478
00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:45,942
"We've arranged for you
to go into a special entrance.
1479
00:55:46,042 --> 00:55:48,978
Nobody knows about it.
We'll get you in."
1480
00:55:51,748 --> 00:55:54,117
[Brower] We get John and Yoko
in the limo.
1481
00:55:54,217 --> 00:55:56,619
Pulled up with our bikes
out in front of the airport.
1482
00:55:59,155 --> 00:56:01,491
[Brower] John looks up and
he sees all these motorcycles,
1483
00:56:01,591 --> 00:56:02,492
and he reaches over
1484
00:56:02,592 --> 00:56:04,828
and he pushes down
the two door locks,
1485
00:56:04,928 --> 00:56:06,363
and I said to him, "Well, John,
1486
00:56:06,463 --> 00:56:07,964
this is your escort
into Toronto,"
1487
00:56:08,064 --> 00:56:10,800
and he looked at me,
his eyes wide,
1488
00:56:10,900 --> 00:56:12,836
and Yoko looks at him,
1489
00:56:12,936 --> 00:56:15,004
and we pull slowly
into the centre,
1490
00:56:15,105 --> 00:56:17,774
where Edjo has left
a big space for the limo.
1491
00:56:20,610 --> 00:56:23,713
[Leslie]
Then John Lennon pulls up.
1492
00:56:23,813 --> 00:56:27,016
Made him roll down the window
and made sure it was him.
1493
00:56:27,117 --> 00:56:29,919
[Brower] The window goes down,
and Edjo looks in,
1494
00:56:30,019 --> 00:56:33,189
and sees the real John Lennon
and Yoko.
1495
00:56:35,759 --> 00:56:38,328
[Leslie] John Lennon would
roll down a window and wave.
1496
00:56:38,428 --> 00:56:39,629
It sorta confirmed it
in my own head
1497
00:56:39,729 --> 00:56:41,865
that it was for real.
1498
00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:43,400
[Brower] He gave me a look like,
1499
00:56:43,500 --> 00:56:45,402
"I don't know
how you did it, man,
1500
00:56:45,502 --> 00:56:46,836
but that's the real people."
1501
00:56:50,673 --> 00:56:53,443
And he just goes, "John, Yoko,
welcome to Toronto,"
1502
00:56:53,543 --> 00:56:54,511
and he puts his hand
up in the air,
1503
00:56:54,611 --> 00:56:56,246
and goes around like that,
1504
00:56:56,346 --> 00:56:58,882
and vroom, 80 bikes fire up,
1505
00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:00,083
and off we go into Toronto.
1506
00:57:09,359 --> 00:57:13,696
We come in high spirits,
airport, motorcade, fans.
1507
00:57:17,333 --> 00:57:19,636
[Leslie] Away we went
with the procession.
1508
00:57:24,207 --> 00:57:26,376
[Brower] So when the bikes
came into the city,
1509
00:57:26,476 --> 00:57:28,378
it was two by two by two,
1510
00:57:28,478 --> 00:57:30,213
so they could proceed safely...
1511
00:57:36,152 --> 00:57:39,222
'Cause now, you've got
John Lennon in this limo.
1512
00:57:45,862 --> 00:57:48,932
[Voormann] And they had
all those motorbikes coming up,
1513
00:57:49,032 --> 00:57:50,767
and you're sitting
in a big limousine,
1514
00:57:50,867 --> 00:57:53,036
and you're looking out of
the window, "Hello." You know?
1515
00:57:53,136 --> 00:57:55,338
[Davis] I do have
a camera in my hand,
1516
00:57:55,438 --> 00:57:57,674
shooting the guys
riding next to me,
1517
00:57:57,774 --> 00:57:59,209
my friend
on the back of a bike,
1518
00:57:59,309 --> 00:58:00,910
because she had striped pants,
1519
00:58:01,010 --> 00:58:03,313
so that looked good
against the silver.
1520
00:58:03,413 --> 00:58:05,181
[Leslie] I couldn't see
what she was doing,
1521
00:58:05,281 --> 00:58:07,817
'cause she was
on the back of the bike.
1522
00:58:07,917 --> 00:58:10,053
I just seen the lens
of the camera the odd time.
1523
00:58:14,457 --> 00:58:17,160
[Brower] It was complete
pandemonium on the highway
1524
00:58:17,260 --> 00:58:18,127
because these bikes
1525
00:58:18,228 --> 00:58:19,796
were just riding
right through red lights
1526
00:58:19,896 --> 00:58:21,297
and driving around cars...
1527
00:58:21,397 --> 00:58:24,734
snaking down through the city,
1528
00:58:24,834 --> 00:58:26,870
and the police
having traffic stopped
1529
00:58:26,970 --> 00:58:29,005
so they could proceed
safely through.
1530
00:58:29,105 --> 00:58:30,673
[siren wailing]
1531
00:58:30,773 --> 00:58:32,442
[Leslie] John arranged
1532
00:58:32,542 --> 00:58:36,112
a whole section
in Varsity for us,
1533
00:58:36,212 --> 00:58:38,681
a big long line
of bikes pulling up.
1534
00:58:41,851 --> 00:58:43,820
We escorted John Lennon in.
1535
00:58:49,692 --> 00:58:50,927
People went nuts.
1536
00:58:51,027 --> 00:58:53,229
They were all cheering and
everything when we rode in.
1537
00:58:53,329 --> 00:58:55,598
[Fawcett] When our car's
coming up into the stadium,
1538
00:58:55,698 --> 00:58:57,333
it's very hard
for the car to get in,
1539
00:58:57,433 --> 00:58:59,702
'cause there's all these
crowds of people and kids
1540
00:58:59,802 --> 00:59:00,904
and they're,
"Oh, it's John Lennon."
1541
00:59:01,004 --> 00:59:03,773
And a girl yells out,
"It's one of The Beatles!"
1542
00:59:03,873 --> 00:59:05,408
You always see
in those newsreels
1543
00:59:05,508 --> 00:59:10,780
people banging on the window,
people on top of the car, even.
1544
00:59:12,482 --> 00:59:15,218
People were going crazy.
1545
00:59:15,318 --> 00:59:16,753
I got to witness all that.
1546
00:59:18,488 --> 00:59:21,658
[Brower] When we pulled into
that northwest gate,
1547
00:59:21,758 --> 00:59:26,329
I felt a feeling I'd never
felt before in my life.
1548
00:59:26,429 --> 00:59:28,831
It was a thrill of a lifetime.
1549
00:59:31,501 --> 00:59:34,904
We actually have John Lennon
and Yoko Ono sitting here,
1550
00:59:35,004 --> 00:59:37,874
and I know Eric Clapton
and the band are down the hall.
1551
00:59:42,679 --> 00:59:46,883
[crowd screaming]
1552
00:59:52,021 --> 00:59:53,690
[Voormann] And we went into
one of those dressing rooms,
1553
00:59:53,790 --> 00:59:56,225
just a barren room.
1554
00:59:56,326 --> 00:59:58,795
You know, only took our
suitcase and the guitars
1555
00:59:58,895 --> 00:59:59,996
and went in,
1556
01:00:00,096 --> 01:00:03,066
and one amplifier
for all three of us.
1557
01:00:03,166 --> 01:00:07,904
In the middle of the room,
you had a half a drum kit,
1558
01:00:08,004 --> 01:00:11,774
which was a hi-hat, a snare,
that was the drum kit.
1559
01:00:11,874 --> 01:00:12,775
And a bass drum.
1560
01:00:12,875 --> 01:00:14,577
No, no bass drum.
1561
01:00:14,677 --> 01:00:15,812
Was there a bass drum?
1562
01:00:15,912 --> 01:00:17,880
So we had
to write down the lyrics
1563
01:00:17,981 --> 01:00:19,315
to put in front
of everyone, you know?
1564
01:00:19,415 --> 01:00:21,884
[Lennon] And that's what we did.
We just wrote this list.
1565
01:00:21,985 --> 01:00:24,687
I hadn't got the words
to any of the songs.
1566
01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:26,289
I said, "Once we get
onto Yoko's riff,
1567
01:00:26,389 --> 01:00:28,324
just keep hitting it."
1568
01:00:28,424 --> 01:00:30,760
John and Yoko
are sitting on the bench.
1569
01:00:30,860 --> 01:00:34,030
John was nervous,
and, you know, edgy,
1570
01:00:34,130 --> 01:00:37,200
just got off a flight
from England,
1571
01:00:37,300 --> 01:00:38,568
so I said, "John,
what can we get you guys?
1572
01:00:38,668 --> 01:00:39,702
What do you need?
1573
01:00:39,802 --> 01:00:41,404
Something to drink? Food?
What do you want?"
1574
01:00:41,504 --> 01:00:43,673
So John said to me,
"Can you get us some coke?"
1575
01:00:43,773 --> 01:00:45,508
and I turned to Dennis
and I said,
1576
01:00:45,608 --> 01:00:47,777
"Dennis, let's get some Cokes
in here for these guys,"
1577
01:00:47,877 --> 01:00:49,879
and John looks at me
1578
01:00:49,979 --> 01:00:52,882
with this unbelievably hopeless
look on his face,
1579
01:00:52,982 --> 01:00:54,951
and looks at Yoko,
1580
01:00:55,051 --> 01:00:56,586
and she looks at me,
1581
01:00:56,686 --> 01:00:59,689
and she goes,
"No, coke for the nose,"
1582
01:00:59,789 --> 01:01:01,157
and she puts her hand
up to her nose.
1583
01:01:01,257 --> 01:01:03,793
I just looked at them
and I said,
1584
01:01:03,893 --> 01:01:07,363
"I'll be back in a minute."
1585
01:01:07,463 --> 01:01:09,999
[Gordon] And came back
with this terrible dope,
1586
01:01:10,099 --> 01:01:12,001
which we all took...
1587
01:01:12,101 --> 01:01:15,705
[Brower] ...and they looked
at me like I was Jesus,
1588
01:01:15,805 --> 01:01:18,174
and John reached over and got it
1589
01:01:18,274 --> 01:01:21,811
and he goes, "Thanks, man.
Would you ask Eric to come in?"
1590
01:01:21,911 --> 01:01:24,881
[cheering]
1591
01:01:27,316 --> 01:01:28,985
[♪♪♪]
1592
01:01:29,085 --> 01:01:30,620
[Gordon] The band
had never met Gene Vincent,
1593
01:01:30,720 --> 01:01:32,989
but they were really big fans.
1594
01:01:33,089 --> 01:01:35,091
They were overwhelmed that they
were gonna back him up.
1595
01:01:35,191 --> 01:01:38,194
Traffic was backed up
coming into Varsity Stadium,
1596
01:01:38,294 --> 01:01:40,029
and I was getting
really nervous,
1597
01:01:40,129 --> 01:01:41,464
'cause they weren't there,
1598
01:01:41,564 --> 01:01:43,399
and they were supposed
to go on with Gene Vincent
1599
01:01:43,499 --> 01:01:44,834
in about 30 minutes,
1600
01:01:44,934 --> 01:01:46,736
so I remember running out
and running down the road,
1601
01:01:46,836 --> 01:01:48,137
and I found them.
1602
01:01:48,237 --> 01:01:50,707
They were dressed
in their really crazy stuff.
1603
01:01:50,807 --> 01:01:53,076
Our stage clothes
was our street clothes.
1604
01:01:54,410 --> 01:01:56,813
Our stage clothes
were like Barbarella.
1605
01:01:56,913 --> 01:01:58,581
It was all this
space kind of thing,
1606
01:01:58,681 --> 01:02:01,918
and at that time, that just
seemed very normal to us.
1607
01:02:02,018 --> 01:02:05,955
And we didn't really have
to get ready for the show.
1608
01:02:06,055 --> 01:02:07,490
We were dressed like that.
1609
01:02:07,590 --> 01:02:11,661
I got him out of the car
and we ran into Varsity Stadium,
1610
01:02:11,761 --> 01:02:13,796
and it was on that walk
1611
01:02:13,896 --> 01:02:16,032
when we were running
back to the stadium
1612
01:02:16,132 --> 01:02:17,266
that there were
feral chickens--
1613
01:02:17,366 --> 01:02:19,435
don't know why, don't know how--
1614
01:02:19,535 --> 01:02:21,504
and I went over
to the security guys.
1615
01:02:21,604 --> 01:02:24,974
I said, "Can any of you
throw one in a pillow case
1616
01:02:25,074 --> 01:02:27,443
and tie it up
and bring it back here?
1617
01:02:27,543 --> 01:02:30,246
And I just kept it in a room
that nobody was in.
1618
01:02:30,346 --> 01:02:34,817
I brought them
into the backstage area
1619
01:02:34,917 --> 01:02:36,185
to get together
with Gene Vincent,
1620
01:02:36,285 --> 01:02:37,453
'cause they were very late.
1621
01:02:39,422 --> 01:02:41,257
That was the first time
they ever backed anybody up.
1622
01:02:41,357 --> 01:02:43,960
[cheering]
1623
01:02:46,596 --> 01:02:47,663
[Fowley] You wanna hear more?
1624
01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:49,665
-[cheering]
-Okay!
1625
01:02:49,766 --> 01:02:52,435
[cheering]
1626
01:02:52,535 --> 01:02:55,138
Hey!
1627
01:02:55,238 --> 01:02:57,373
[Gene Vincent] Here we go.
1628
01:02:57,473 --> 01:03:00,176
[♪♪♪]
1629
01:03:00,610 --> 01:03:01,978
Thank you.
1630
01:03:02,078 --> 01:03:04,647
Thank you so very much.
1631
01:03:04,747 --> 01:03:06,482
Love...
1632
01:03:06,582 --> 01:03:07,350
Here we go.
1633
01:03:07,450 --> 01:03:08,718
[cheering]
1634
01:03:08,818 --> 01:03:10,553
Thank you.
1635
01:03:10,653 --> 01:03:12,655
Thank you so very much.
1636
01:03:12,755 --> 01:03:15,825
I was just talking
to ol' John Lennon backstage,
1637
01:03:15,925 --> 01:03:19,061
and I was kinda thinking
1638
01:03:19,162 --> 01:03:22,532
on these old songs
we used to do, you know.
1639
01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:25,234
First, I'd like to thank
1640
01:03:25,334 --> 01:03:28,371
some of the members
of the band here.
1641
01:03:28,471 --> 01:03:30,640
There's old Neal
back here on the drums.
1642
01:03:30,740 --> 01:03:34,677
Lead guitarist's name?
1643
01:03:34,777 --> 01:03:37,880
I'm reading it, love, you know.
1644
01:03:37,980 --> 01:03:40,750
And the bass guitar
is old Dennis.
1645
01:03:40,850 --> 01:03:42,118
And the last one,
but not the least,
1646
01:03:42,218 --> 01:03:43,419
he's been so very kind to me
1647
01:03:43,519 --> 01:03:45,555
since I've been here
rehearsing with you,
1648
01:03:45,655 --> 01:03:47,790
Mr. Alice Cooper.
1649
01:03:47,890 --> 01:03:51,294
-Thank you.
-Whoo, whoo, whoo!
1650
01:03:51,394 --> 01:03:53,529
[Cooper] Backing up Gene Vincent
was a very cool thing.
1651
01:03:53,629 --> 01:03:55,865
It was really kind of
a feather in our cap.
1652
01:03:55,965 --> 01:03:58,201
Nobody ever asked us
to back them up before.
1653
01:03:58,301 --> 01:04:00,536
It kind of made us
into a, "Wow."
1654
01:04:00,636 --> 01:04:02,605
And we were a pretty good
rock 'n' roll band,
1655
01:04:02,705 --> 01:04:04,140
so we went, "Sure."
1656
01:04:04,240 --> 01:04:06,108
You know, "Be-Bop-a-Lula,"
"Woman Love," all those songs,
1657
01:04:06,209 --> 01:04:07,376
that would be
a privilege for us.
1658
01:04:07,476 --> 01:04:10,780
♪ Be-bop-a-lula
I don't mean maybe ♪
1659
01:04:10,880 --> 01:04:14,183
♪ Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby ♪
1660
01:04:14,283 --> 01:04:16,552
♪ Be-bop-a-lula
I don't mean maybe ♪
1661
01:04:16,652 --> 01:04:18,221
[Cooper] I always
really dug Gene Vincent.
1662
01:04:18,321 --> 01:04:20,656
He was sort of
the dark side of the '50s.
1663
01:04:20,756 --> 01:04:22,391
Even then, he was
an older greaser.
1664
01:04:22,491 --> 01:04:23,593
The bad boy.
1665
01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:26,462
♪ She's the woman that I know ♪
1666
01:04:26,562 --> 01:04:29,232
♪ She's the woman
that could love me so ♪
1667
01:04:29,332 --> 01:04:33,002
♪ Be-bop-a-lula
she's my baby ♪
1668
01:04:33,102 --> 01:04:36,539
[♪♪♪]
1669
01:04:41,410 --> 01:04:43,045
[Davis] And then,
for some reason,
1670
01:04:43,145 --> 01:04:46,115
we were all
up on the stage dancing.
1671
01:04:46,215 --> 01:04:47,950
I'm not sure
when that happened.
1672
01:04:48,050 --> 01:04:49,852
That was probably
later at night.
1673
01:04:49,952 --> 01:04:52,588
It was a long day.
1674
01:04:52,688 --> 01:04:56,592
[Leslie] I think a lot of people
partied a little bit too much,
1675
01:04:56,692 --> 01:04:57,894
myself included.
1676
01:04:57,994 --> 01:04:59,295
[chuckles]
1677
01:05:01,530 --> 01:05:04,233
Time flies as long
as you're having fun.
1678
01:05:14,277 --> 01:05:17,179
Thank you, good night.
1679
01:05:17,280 --> 01:05:18,748
[Fowley] Gene Vincent
and Alice Cooper,
1680
01:05:18,848 --> 01:05:20,049
ladies and gentlemen.
1681
01:05:20,149 --> 01:05:21,117
And the Vagabonds!
1682
01:05:21,217 --> 01:05:25,154
And the Vagabonds from Toronto.
1683
01:05:25,254 --> 01:05:27,757
And the Vagabonds, Gene Vincent,
and Alice Cooper.
1684
01:05:27,857 --> 01:05:29,825
Thank you.
1685
01:05:29,926 --> 01:05:31,694
[cheering]
1686
01:05:33,462 --> 01:05:35,031
[Leslie]
And I started being backstage
1687
01:05:35,131 --> 01:05:39,201
when all my friends
were out in the crowd.
1688
01:05:39,302 --> 01:05:41,671
I got to meet Little Richard.
1689
01:05:47,109 --> 01:05:51,247
Chuck Berry and The Doors
were all sociable.
1690
01:05:51,347 --> 01:05:54,617
I sorta ran around backstage
and kept my eye on things.
1691
01:05:54,717 --> 01:05:58,554
[Cooper] When you're surrounded
by that many stars,
1692
01:05:58,654 --> 01:06:00,256
and you're just
the fly on the wall,
1693
01:06:00,356 --> 01:06:03,292
we just sat
and watched the big stars.
1694
01:06:03,392 --> 01:06:05,661
We'd never actually
been in a thing that big
1695
01:06:05,761 --> 01:06:07,730
where we were backstage.
1696
01:06:07,830 --> 01:06:10,399
We just were like little kids
sitting there waiting,
1697
01:06:10,499 --> 01:06:12,868
and the day just went on and on,
1698
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:14,670
and we just went,
"This is great,
1699
01:06:14,770 --> 01:06:18,140
just sitting here watching
how people work the backstage."
1700
01:06:18,240 --> 01:06:21,010
[Brower] Alice Cooper
was next to us.
1701
01:06:21,110 --> 01:06:23,846
He looked
very diminutive and shy
1702
01:06:23,946 --> 01:06:26,649
with these raccoon eyes
and stringy hair hanging down.
1703
01:06:26,749 --> 01:06:28,284
[clucking]
1704
01:06:31,420 --> 01:06:33,622
[cheering]
1705
01:06:34,690 --> 01:06:38,561
[Fowley] The ninth wonder
of the world, Alice Cooper!
1706
01:06:38,661 --> 01:06:40,629
[♪♪♪]
1707
01:06:47,169 --> 01:06:49,171
[Cooper] We were always
the underdog,
1708
01:06:49,271 --> 01:06:50,806
so when we get on the stage,
1709
01:06:50,906 --> 01:06:52,641
you're never gonna
forget this show,
1710
01:06:52,742 --> 01:06:55,978
musically and visually.
1711
01:06:56,078 --> 01:06:58,781
We were just sort of this thing
that existed
1712
01:06:58,881 --> 01:07:01,050
that nobody could define,
1713
01:07:01,150 --> 01:07:04,220
some sort of dark, hard rock
vaudeville.
1714
01:07:04,320 --> 01:07:07,223
We were an affront
to everybody.
1715
01:07:07,323 --> 01:07:08,724
We were the future.
1716
01:07:08,824 --> 01:07:10,893
[♪♪♪]
1717
01:07:19,869 --> 01:07:21,971
So much of Alice's stage show
1718
01:07:22,071 --> 01:07:24,340
comes from his love
of Salvador Dali.
1719
01:07:24,440 --> 01:07:27,510
For them, it was like
a Dali painting.
1720
01:07:27,610 --> 01:07:30,146
It was art.
1721
01:07:30,246 --> 01:07:32,515
It was abstract.
1722
01:07:32,615 --> 01:07:35,584
I think in their brains,
it was performance art.
1723
01:07:35,684 --> 01:07:37,286
We did this thing
1724
01:07:37,386 --> 01:07:40,022
where it revved up
into basically white noise.
1725
01:07:40,122 --> 01:07:43,592
It was mayhem up on stage.
1726
01:07:53,869 --> 01:07:56,105
I just remember he had a...
1727
01:07:56,205 --> 01:07:57,206
a half a watermelon,
1728
01:07:57,306 --> 01:07:59,875
and I just
didn't know why.
1729
01:08:03,879 --> 01:08:06,248
It was so chaotic.
1730
01:08:06,348 --> 01:08:09,018
It was energetic,
but so chaotic.
1731
01:08:09,118 --> 01:08:11,454
I thought,
"Somebody's gonna die."
1732
01:08:17,626 --> 01:08:20,162
They're fighting and hammering,
1733
01:08:20,262 --> 01:08:23,933
and it's like when you're in
a scary movie sometimes,
1734
01:08:24,033 --> 01:08:26,202
you don't wanna see the--
1735
01:08:26,302 --> 01:08:27,536
the axe murderer's coming,
1736
01:08:27,636 --> 01:08:29,371
so you had your eyes covered
most of the time.
1737
01:08:29,472 --> 01:08:32,007
[Gordon]
That show is very historic
1738
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:34,677
in Alice's career.
1739
01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:37,847
At the end of the show
was a feather pillow
1740
01:08:37,947 --> 01:08:39,648
that got sprayed
across the stage
1741
01:08:39,748 --> 01:08:40,983
and blew the feathers up,
1742
01:08:41,083 --> 01:08:42,485
'cause it gave
a beautiful effect
1743
01:08:42,585 --> 01:08:44,353
on the lights.
1744
01:08:44,453 --> 01:08:46,822
[Cooper] Feathers everywhere,
it looked like a snowstorm,
1745
01:08:46,922 --> 01:08:48,657
and then you hit it with CO2,
1746
01:08:48,757 --> 01:08:52,061
and it even becomes
more of a snowstorm.
1747
01:08:52,161 --> 01:08:54,930
So The Doors are over here,
and John and Yoko's over here,
1748
01:08:55,030 --> 01:08:56,365
and they're like, "Yeah!"
1749
01:08:56,465 --> 01:08:58,000
You know,
they're seeing this as art.
1750
01:08:59,802 --> 01:09:03,606
It was truly art.
1751
01:09:04,540 --> 01:09:06,475
The music was
[imitates playing guitar]
1752
01:09:06,575 --> 01:09:08,410
and the feathers are flying,
the CO2.
1753
01:09:11,046 --> 01:09:12,448
When I saw the chicken, I said,
1754
01:09:12,548 --> 01:09:15,484
"Let me just surprise Alice,
and we'll see what happens."
1755
01:09:15,584 --> 01:09:17,620
I just picked up
the pillowcase,
1756
01:09:17,720 --> 01:09:20,723
went up to the side of the stage
and let it loose.
1757
01:09:25,728 --> 01:09:27,096
[Cooper] And the next thing
you know,
1758
01:09:27,196 --> 01:09:28,764
there's a chicken on stage.
1759
01:09:28,864 --> 01:09:30,833
[makes sounds]
1760
01:09:30,933 --> 01:09:33,202
It seemed, in the mayhem,
1761
01:09:33,302 --> 01:09:35,738
that it had feathers and wings,
it should fly,
1762
01:09:35,838 --> 01:09:36,906
and I picked up the chicken.
1763
01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:38,240
I figured, "Well, I'll throw
this in the audience,
1764
01:09:38,340 --> 01:09:39,842
and somebody will catch it,
1765
01:09:39,942 --> 01:09:41,210
take it home,
1766
01:09:41,310 --> 01:09:42,711
and it'll be a pet
and they'll call it 'Alice.'"
1767
01:09:44,813 --> 01:09:47,082
Chickens don't fly
as much as they plummet.
1768
01:09:47,183 --> 01:09:48,984
Everybody knows
chickens don't fly,
1769
01:09:49,084 --> 01:09:51,153
but Alice is from Detroit.
1770
01:09:51,253 --> 01:09:52,655
He claims to not know anything
about chickens.
1771
01:09:52,755 --> 01:09:55,791
Somebody bit a chicken's
head off or something.
1772
01:09:55,891 --> 01:09:57,526
Of course, the next day
in the paper,
1773
01:09:57,626 --> 01:09:59,695
it said, "Alice Cooper
Kills Chicken."
1774
01:09:59,795 --> 01:10:03,265
[Brower] So of course, the story
went out around the world
1775
01:10:03,365 --> 01:10:05,935
that Alice had bitten
a head off a chicken,
1776
01:10:06,035 --> 01:10:08,837
and this created the myth
of the chicken incident.
1777
01:10:08,938 --> 01:10:10,439
[♪♪♪]
1778
01:10:13,209 --> 01:10:15,244
[Cooper]
Toronto Rock & Roll Revival,
1779
01:10:15,344 --> 01:10:19,448
that show, in particular,
was what launched us.
1780
01:10:19,548 --> 01:10:22,151
They gave us the Willy Wonka
Golden Ticket.
1781
01:10:22,251 --> 01:10:27,156
Now we had to back it up
with music,
1782
01:10:27,256 --> 01:10:29,091
and that's really
what started Alice
1783
01:10:29,191 --> 01:10:32,161
becoming this personified
villain.
1784
01:10:32,261 --> 01:10:33,862
There was no villain
in rock 'n' roll.
1785
01:10:33,963 --> 01:10:36,432
There was all these Peter Pans
and no Captain Hook,
1786
01:10:36,532 --> 01:10:38,968
and I went, "Well, I'll gladly
be Captain Hook.
1787
01:10:39,068 --> 01:10:40,002
I love the villain part."
1788
01:10:42,304 --> 01:10:44,240
[Fowley] Alice Cooper,
ladies and gentlemen.
1789
01:10:44,340 --> 01:10:45,975
Alice Cooper!
1790
01:10:46,075 --> 01:10:47,309
The group of the future!
1791
01:10:47,409 --> 01:10:49,111
Alice Cooper!
1792
01:10:49,211 --> 01:10:52,214
[cheering]
1793
01:10:52,314 --> 01:10:54,617
Thank you.
1794
01:10:56,352 --> 01:10:57,853
[Gordon]
That moment lighted the path
1795
01:10:57,953 --> 01:11:02,358
for the next 25 years
of the career...
1796
01:11:02,458 --> 01:11:04,193
which I get
a lot of credit for,
1797
01:11:04,293 --> 01:11:05,194
but it was very lucky.
1798
01:11:05,294 --> 01:11:07,096
[Cooper] He never copped to it.
1799
01:11:07,196 --> 01:11:12,401
He never ever said, "No,
I threw the chicken on stage."
1800
01:11:12,501 --> 01:11:15,337
For 53 years, he's never
copped to that to me.
1801
01:11:15,437 --> 01:11:17,006
I just said, "Where'd
the chicken come from?"
1802
01:11:18,707 --> 01:11:20,009
"I don't know."
[laughing]
1803
01:11:22,578 --> 01:11:24,713
[Davis] John and Yoko.
1804
01:11:24,813 --> 01:11:26,815
[Bingenheimer] Backstage,
everybody was hanging out.
1805
01:11:26,915 --> 01:11:28,851
I was hanging
with John and Yoko,
1806
01:11:28,951 --> 01:11:32,087
and John Lennon pulls out
a briefcase,
1807
01:11:32,187 --> 01:11:33,956
and he had some postcards,
1808
01:11:34,056 --> 01:11:35,457
and he autographed a postcard,
1809
01:11:35,557 --> 01:11:38,594
one for Gene Vincent
and one for me.
1810
01:11:38,694 --> 01:11:41,864
Gene Vincent
did the same thing.
1811
01:11:41,964 --> 01:11:44,066
He autographed
pictures of himself
1812
01:11:44,166 --> 01:11:46,535
to give to John Lennon,
1813
01:11:46,635 --> 01:11:48,704
'cause it was a classic show.
1814
01:11:52,875 --> 01:11:56,011
Everybody was hanging out in
a communal dressing room area.
1815
01:11:56,111 --> 01:11:57,780
Everybody was there,
1816
01:11:57,880 --> 01:12:00,382
and all of a sudden,
the doors burst open
1817
01:12:00,482 --> 01:12:03,686
and it's John Lennon
with Yoko Ono,
1818
01:12:03,786 --> 01:12:06,455
and all the police
and all the flashbulbs going.
1819
01:12:06,555 --> 01:12:08,190
It's the press, you know?
1820
01:12:08,290 --> 01:12:11,460
And Little Richard
yelled out...
1821
01:12:11,560 --> 01:12:13,028
Are you enjoying
Little Richard tonight?
1822
01:12:13,128 --> 01:12:14,763
[cheering]
1823
01:12:14,863 --> 01:12:17,399
When I'm finished,
I wanna hear you!
1824
01:12:17,499 --> 01:12:20,035
Let me know
by round of applause!
1825
01:12:20,135 --> 01:12:21,970
My, my, my, my. Are you ready...
1826
01:12:22,071 --> 01:12:24,940
[Davis] Little Richard
was getting ready to perform,
1827
01:12:25,040 --> 01:12:26,141
and he didn't wanna go out.
1828
01:12:26,241 --> 01:12:28,143
He said, "I can't go out
'cause I don't have my light."
1829
01:12:28,243 --> 01:12:30,746
He then puts on a mirrored vest,
1830
01:12:30,846 --> 01:12:31,947
and he said
he's not gonna go out
1831
01:12:32,047 --> 01:12:34,983
until he gets his light.
1832
01:12:35,084 --> 01:12:37,519
So there's quite a little bit
of interaction,
1833
01:12:37,619 --> 01:12:40,255
"You gotta go on.
You gotta go on."
1834
01:12:40,356 --> 01:12:42,191
Little Richard.
1835
01:12:42,291 --> 01:12:43,125
Live filming.
1836
01:12:43,225 --> 01:12:45,594
No beginning signal.
1837
01:12:45,694 --> 01:12:47,196
[Little Richard] See, my outfit
is not effective
1838
01:12:47,296 --> 01:12:48,831
without, you know,
1839
01:12:48,931 --> 01:12:52,167
with the lights on,
my outfit just does nothing.
1840
01:12:52,267 --> 01:12:53,302
[man] I just have the feeling
1841
01:12:53,402 --> 01:12:54,503
that the guy who knows
how to turn 'em off
1842
01:12:54,603 --> 01:12:56,605
isn't even listening.
He's probably asleep.
1843
01:12:56,705 --> 01:12:59,675
Could you turn out the lights
on the stage, please?
1844
01:12:59,775 --> 01:13:02,010
Could you turn the lights out
on the stage?
1845
01:13:02,111 --> 01:13:03,712
The lights on the stage,
would you turn them out?
1846
01:13:03,812 --> 01:13:05,381
No lights on the stage at all.
1847
01:13:05,481 --> 01:13:06,348
Just the spotlight.
1848
01:13:06,448 --> 01:13:07,449
All the lights out.
1849
01:13:07,549 --> 01:13:09,852
[cheering]
1850
01:13:09,952 --> 01:13:14,423
[Davis] And so then they finally
did get that organized.
1851
01:13:14,523 --> 01:13:16,458
Way up in the top
of the stadium,
1852
01:13:16,558 --> 01:13:18,994
a giant spot
came down and hit him.
1853
01:13:19,094 --> 01:13:20,529
[cheering]
1854
01:13:22,398 --> 01:13:26,869
[cheering continues]
1855
01:13:26,969 --> 01:13:28,103
Thank you.
1856
01:13:28,203 --> 01:13:30,939
Are you having a good time?
1857
01:13:31,039 --> 01:13:33,275
Let it all hang out!
1858
01:13:33,375 --> 01:13:34,309
My...
1859
01:13:34,410 --> 01:13:37,413
Let all the womenfolk
say, "Whoo!"
1860
01:13:37,513 --> 01:13:38,414
Whoo!
1861
01:13:38,514 --> 01:13:40,883
And all the men say, "Uh!"
1862
01:13:40,983 --> 01:13:41,784
Uh!
1863
01:13:41,884 --> 01:13:43,051
Oh, my soul.
1864
01:13:43,852 --> 01:13:46,755
♪ Good Golly, Miss Molly ♪
1865
01:13:46,855 --> 01:13:49,858
♪ Sure like to ball
Whoo ♪
1866
01:13:49,958 --> 01:13:55,697
♪ Ooh, golly, Miss Molly,
sure like to ball ♪
1867
01:13:55,798 --> 01:13:58,167
♪ You're rockin'
and a-rollin', yeah ♪
1868
01:13:58,267 --> 01:14:00,068
♪ Can't hear your mama call ♪
1869
01:14:00,169 --> 01:14:01,503
♪ Whoo! ♪
1870
01:14:01,603 --> 01:14:04,873
♪ Golly, Miss Molly
sure like to ball ♪
1871
01:14:04,973 --> 01:14:09,244
[Barry]
The excitement was amazing,
1872
01:14:09,344 --> 01:14:12,114
and I wanted to see
Little Richard.
1873
01:14:12,214 --> 01:14:14,683
I'd never seen a Black guy
with a pompadour.
1874
01:14:14,783 --> 01:14:16,118
I mean, he had
a big pompadour.
1875
01:14:16,218 --> 01:14:17,286
I looked at my brother
1876
01:14:17,386 --> 01:14:20,155
and I said, "You need
hair like that."
1877
01:14:24,960 --> 01:14:26,695
Ow!
1878
01:14:30,766 --> 01:14:33,202
[Barry] His presence
was so commanding.
1879
01:14:33,302 --> 01:14:34,870
"Ow!"
1880
01:14:36,438 --> 01:14:37,573
♪ Well, I'm going
to the corner ♪
1881
01:14:37,673 --> 01:14:39,408
♪ Gonna buy a diamond ring ♪
1882
01:14:39,508 --> 01:14:40,642
♪ Hug me, kiss me ♪
1883
01:14:40,742 --> 01:14:42,177
♪ Make me ting-a-ling-a-ling ♪
1884
01:14:42,277 --> 01:14:44,613
♪ Good golly, Miss Molly ♪
1885
01:14:44,713 --> 01:14:47,850
♪ Whoo, sure like to ball ♪
1886
01:14:47,950 --> 01:14:50,652
♪ When you're rockin'
and a-rollin' ♪
1887
01:14:50,752 --> 01:14:53,088
♪ Can't hear your mama call ♪
1888
01:14:53,188 --> 01:14:55,357
[horn solo]
1889
01:14:58,460 --> 01:14:59,895
[Barry] He was like a train
1890
01:14:59,995 --> 01:15:02,431
going at
a million miles an hour.
1891
01:15:02,531 --> 01:15:04,233
He really was a personality
1892
01:15:04,333 --> 01:15:07,936
that I'd never experienced
close up and personal.
1893
01:15:08,036 --> 01:15:09,738
[♪♪♪]
1894
01:15:19,581 --> 01:15:21,083
When I saw Little Richard,
1895
01:15:21,183 --> 01:15:23,719
I said, "Ah..."
1896
01:15:23,819 --> 01:15:25,320
You know, I sort of exhaled,
1897
01:15:25,420 --> 01:15:27,823
because I said,
"Yeah, I feel now.
1898
01:15:27,923 --> 01:15:29,424
I see where
I'm supposed to be."
1899
01:15:29,525 --> 01:15:34,730
[♪♪♪]
1900
01:15:34,830 --> 01:15:36,431
[Krieger] Little Richard
just tore it up.
1901
01:15:36,532 --> 01:15:38,400
I remember he did
the last couple of songs
1902
01:15:38,500 --> 01:15:39,535
standing on the piano.
1903
01:15:39,635 --> 01:15:52,581
[♪♪♪]
1904
01:15:52,681 --> 01:15:53,916
I was standing with Jim,
1905
01:15:54,016 --> 01:15:56,518
and he goes,
"Man, we gotta follow that?"
1906
01:15:56,618 --> 01:15:57,920
[chuckles]
1907
01:15:58,020 --> 01:16:04,326
[♪♪♪]
1908
01:16:04,426 --> 01:16:07,896
[song ends]
1909
01:16:07,996 --> 01:16:10,899
[cheering]
1910
01:16:18,540 --> 01:16:19,841
[Fawcett] I noticed very quickly
1911
01:16:19,942 --> 01:16:22,744
John has a very
nervous disposition.
1912
01:16:25,647 --> 01:16:27,249
[Voormann]
Here you have John Lennon,
1913
01:16:27,349 --> 01:16:30,686
a member of The Beatles,
1914
01:16:30,786 --> 01:16:32,654
going out there
for the first time
1915
01:16:32,754 --> 01:16:33,689
playing by himself.
1916
01:16:33,789 --> 01:16:36,925
He's the front man,
which he never was.
1917
01:16:37,025 --> 01:16:40,362
Through all his life,
he was not the front man.
1918
01:16:42,631 --> 01:16:44,666
There he was, suddenly
in that situation.
1919
01:16:44,766 --> 01:16:46,735
I was nervous too, I must admit,
1920
01:16:46,835 --> 01:16:48,670
and Eric was nervous too.
1921
01:16:48,770 --> 01:16:50,238
I could see it in his face.
1922
01:16:57,746 --> 01:16:59,081
[Davis] End of John and Yoko.
1923
01:17:00,716 --> 01:17:03,852
[Brower] Kim Fowley created
a moment at that show
1924
01:17:03,952 --> 01:17:07,289
that has become iconic
in rock 'n roll history.
1925
01:17:07,389 --> 01:17:09,691
So Kim goes out on stage
1926
01:17:09,791 --> 01:17:12,027
and says,
"When they come out here,
1927
01:17:12,127 --> 01:17:14,763
I want everybody to get
your matches and lighters out,
1928
01:17:14,863 --> 01:17:17,432
and let's give them
an incredible welcome."
1929
01:17:17,532 --> 01:17:23,105
[cheering]
1930
01:17:23,205 --> 01:17:28,310
Ladies and gentlemen,
the Plastic Ono Band.
1931
01:17:28,410 --> 01:17:29,945
Get your matches ready.
1932
01:17:31,680 --> 01:17:35,217
Toronto welcomes
the Plastic Ono Band.
1933
01:17:35,317 --> 01:17:36,351
Toronto,
1934
01:17:36,451 --> 01:17:39,721
Brower and Walker presents
the Plastic Ono Band.
1935
01:17:39,821 --> 01:17:42,090
Give peace a chance.
1936
01:17:42,190 --> 01:17:44,226
Give peace
a chance.
1937
01:17:44,326 --> 01:17:46,094
[cheering]
1938
01:17:51,600 --> 01:17:53,935
They all lit candles
or lights up,
1939
01:17:54,036 --> 01:17:55,604
and it was really beautiful,
1940
01:17:55,704 --> 01:17:58,173
you know, and the vibes
were fantastic.
1941
01:17:58,273 --> 01:18:00,909
Little tiny lights
going on, and on, and on.
1942
01:18:02,844 --> 01:18:05,414
He changed the history
of rock 'n' roll
1943
01:18:05,514 --> 01:18:07,382
that everybody's doing now.
1944
01:18:10,318 --> 01:18:12,654
And I ended up on stage
on the side,
1945
01:18:12,754 --> 01:18:16,692
and you can just hear the crowd.
1946
01:18:16,792 --> 01:18:19,394
John and Yoko were
getting ready to walk on stage.
1947
01:18:19,494 --> 01:18:21,863
If you notice Yoko,
1948
01:18:21,963 --> 01:18:26,835
that's the set list
she's holding.
1949
01:18:26,935 --> 01:18:29,671
[Voormann] We went up
to the stage and John went out.
1950
01:18:29,771 --> 01:18:31,406
"Just hang on a second, boys."
1951
01:18:31,506 --> 01:18:34,076
Went in a corner, and he puked,
1952
01:18:34,176 --> 01:18:36,211
and then we plugged
into the amplifiers.
1953
01:18:38,780 --> 01:18:40,148
Good evening!
1954
01:18:40,248 --> 01:18:41,817
[crowd cheering]
1955
01:18:51,993 --> 01:18:54,730
Okay, we're just gonna do
a number that we know, you know,
1956
01:18:54,830 --> 01:18:57,099
'cause we never
played together before.
1957
01:18:57,199 --> 01:18:58,734
[cheering]
1958
01:18:58,834 --> 01:19:00,068
[Christgau] I would say that,
historically speaking,
1959
01:19:00,168 --> 01:19:01,870
the John and Yoko performance
1960
01:19:01,970 --> 01:19:05,240
was the most important thing
that happened in Toronto.
1961
01:19:05,340 --> 01:19:06,408
John and Yoko decided
1962
01:19:06,508 --> 01:19:10,645
that that was where
they wanted to debut their band.
1963
01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:13,882
As a statement,
it was historic.
1964
01:19:13,982 --> 01:19:15,350
And the aura was there,
1965
01:19:15,450 --> 01:19:17,886
especially for somebody like me.
1966
01:19:17,986 --> 01:19:19,287
I was only 40 feet away.
1967
01:19:23,058 --> 01:19:25,827
♪ Well, it's
a-one for the money ♪
1968
01:19:25,927 --> 01:19:27,863
♪ Two for the show ♪
1969
01:19:27,963 --> 01:19:30,766
♪ Three to get ready
now go, cat, go ♪
1970
01:19:30,866 --> 01:19:36,505
♪ But don't you
step on my blue suede shoes ♪
1971
01:19:36,605 --> 01:19:37,839
♪ Well, you can do anything... ♪
1972
01:19:37,939 --> 01:19:39,274
[Lee] The perspective
of a stoned kid
1973
01:19:39,374 --> 01:19:40,675
standing in the audience,
1974
01:19:40,776 --> 01:19:44,246
being surprised by the presence
of John Lennon,
1975
01:19:44,346 --> 01:19:46,748
Eric Clapton,
1976
01:19:46,848 --> 01:19:49,518
Alan White,
1977
01:19:49,618 --> 01:19:51,052
Klaus Voormann,
1978
01:19:51,153 --> 01:19:52,654
and Yoko Ono
1979
01:19:52,754 --> 01:19:53,922
was a kind of awe.
1980
01:19:54,022 --> 01:19:57,192
The light shining
from John Lennon
1981
01:19:57,292 --> 01:19:59,728
left you kind of
with your jaw dropping.
1982
01:19:59,828 --> 01:20:01,329
He was a Beatle,
1983
01:20:01,429 --> 01:20:03,532
and that had an aura about it,
1984
01:20:03,632 --> 01:20:06,935
imbued everyone
with a kind of awe,
1985
01:20:07,035 --> 01:20:10,806
the fact that we were
in the same vicinity as him,
1986
01:20:10,906 --> 01:20:11,940
and he was playing for us.
1987
01:20:14,075 --> 01:20:16,411
At the time,
we didn't have any idea,
1988
01:20:16,511 --> 01:20:18,079
you know, what we were gonna do.
1989
01:20:18,180 --> 01:20:22,150
We just played
whatever came to our mind.
1990
01:20:22,250 --> 01:20:26,354
But then, John said,
"I've got this song.
1991
01:20:26,454 --> 01:20:28,123
It's called 'Cold Turkey.'"
1992
01:20:33,128 --> 01:20:36,364
[Ono] This is the newest song
that John wrote.
1993
01:20:36,464 --> 01:20:37,365
It's called "Cold Turkey."
1994
01:20:37,465 --> 01:20:38,466
[Lennon] We've never done
this song before,
1995
01:20:38,567 --> 01:20:40,869
so best of luck.
1996
01:20:40,969 --> 01:20:44,172
It's called "Cold Turkey."
1997
01:20:44,272 --> 01:20:49,678
[♪♪♪]
1998
01:20:49,778 --> 01:20:53,381
♪ The temperature's rising ♪
1999
01:20:53,481 --> 01:20:56,918
♪ Fever is high ♪
2000
01:20:57,018 --> 01:20:59,921
♪ Temperature's rising ♪
2001
01:21:00,021 --> 01:21:01,823
♪ Fever is high ♪
2002
01:21:01,923 --> 01:21:03,725
I said, "Whoa,
what a great song."
2003
01:21:03,825 --> 01:21:06,361
Ah...
2004
01:21:06,461 --> 01:21:08,563
-Ah...
-Aah!
2005
01:21:08,663 --> 01:21:09,764
And "Aah!"
2006
01:21:09,865 --> 01:21:11,032
This scream came.
2007
01:21:11,132 --> 01:21:13,568
"Shit, you must have stepped
on a nail or something."
2008
01:21:13,668 --> 01:21:19,741
-Ah... Ah...
-Aah!
2009
01:21:19,841 --> 01:21:21,810
And Eric looked at me,
"What's this?"
2010
01:21:21,910 --> 01:21:22,677
[laughs]
2011
01:21:22,777 --> 01:21:25,580
Aah!
2012
01:21:25,680 --> 01:21:27,883
And the audience
didn't applaud,
2013
01:21:27,983 --> 01:21:30,518
and then he said, "Wake up."
2014
01:21:30,619 --> 01:21:32,254
Come on, wake up.
2015
01:21:35,757 --> 01:21:37,592
And then Yoko came along.
2016
01:21:42,030 --> 01:21:43,198
[Krieger]
I really thought it was cool
2017
01:21:43,298 --> 01:21:45,867
that Yoko decided
to do the whole show
2018
01:21:45,967 --> 01:21:47,969
in a laundry bag.
2019
01:21:48,069 --> 01:21:50,338
I really
gained respect for her for that.
2020
01:21:53,942 --> 01:21:55,744
You know,
it sounded like shit, but...
2021
01:21:55,844 --> 01:21:56,945
[laughs]
2022
01:21:57,045 --> 01:21:58,446
First of all,
she got in a bag,
2023
01:21:58,546 --> 01:22:00,682
and I thought,
"Now, that's interesting.
2024
01:22:00,782 --> 01:22:02,751
She's in a bag."
2025
01:22:02,851 --> 01:22:05,520
[Fawcett] One of Yoko's
conceptual pieces
2026
01:22:05,620 --> 01:22:07,088
was called "Bagism."
2027
01:22:07,188 --> 01:22:09,024
It's a very conceptual art idea.
2028
01:22:09,124 --> 01:22:12,394
Getting in a bag,
you lose yourself.
2029
01:22:12,494 --> 01:22:15,096
When you're inside a bag,
are you John Lennon and Yoko?
2030
01:22:15,196 --> 01:22:17,465
But, anyway,
it's part of the whole event.
2031
01:22:19,267 --> 01:22:20,402
[White] All of a sudden,
I was on stage
2032
01:22:20,502 --> 01:22:23,605
on this drum kit
I'd never played before,
2033
01:22:23,705 --> 01:22:24,973
with all these people,
2034
01:22:25,073 --> 01:22:27,509
and Yoko lying in a bag
on stage in front of me,
2035
01:22:27,609 --> 01:22:30,779
and I'm going, "Whoa,
this is way over my head."
2036
01:22:30,879 --> 01:22:34,049
♪ Oh ♪
2037
01:22:34,149 --> 01:22:35,417
♪ That's what I want ♪
2038
01:22:36,051 --> 01:22:37,986
[song ends]
2039
01:22:39,487 --> 01:22:42,357
John and Yoko did
"Give Peace a Chance,"
2040
01:22:42,457 --> 01:22:46,027
and it was the first time
that he did it live on stage.
2041
01:22:46,127 --> 01:22:48,496
This is what
we came for, really.
2042
01:22:48,596 --> 01:22:52,500
And you too!
2043
01:22:52,600 --> 01:22:54,169
It's "Give Peace a Chance,"
2044
01:22:54,269 --> 01:22:56,204
so sing along with it.
2045
01:22:56,304 --> 01:22:57,472
[Ono] Yeah, let's sing together.
2046
01:22:57,572 --> 01:22:59,407
I've forgotten all those bits
in between, though.
2047
01:22:59,507 --> 01:23:00,642
I know the chorus, so...
2048
01:23:03,111 --> 01:23:04,446
Eins, zwei,
2049
01:23:04,546 --> 01:23:05,981
eins, zwei, drei, vier!
2050
01:23:06,081 --> 01:23:09,551
[♪♪♪]
2051
01:23:11,820 --> 01:23:13,188
♪ Everybody's talking 'bout ♪
2052
01:23:13,288 --> 01:23:16,191
♪ Bagism, bagism,
bagism, bagism ♪
2053
01:23:16,291 --> 01:23:18,393
♪ This-ism, that-ism
Ism, ism, ism ♪
2054
01:23:18,493 --> 01:23:21,363
People were jumping up and down
waving the peace sign
2055
01:23:21,463 --> 01:23:23,098
when they were singing
"Give Peace a Chance.
2056
01:23:23,198 --> 01:23:26,401
♪ All we are saying ♪
2057
01:23:28,737 --> 01:23:32,240
♪ Is give peace a chance ♪
2058
01:23:33,708 --> 01:23:35,844
Peace was
the most important thing
2059
01:23:35,944 --> 01:23:37,145
they wanted to promote.
2060
01:23:37,245 --> 01:23:40,615
The peace campaign
had already been in full swing
2061
01:23:40,715 --> 01:23:42,150
for many, many months.
2062
01:23:42,250 --> 01:23:44,519
John got to love Canada.
2063
01:23:44,619 --> 01:23:46,654
Canada became his mouthpiece
2064
01:23:46,755 --> 01:23:49,190
to spread the peace message
all over the world,
2065
01:23:49,290 --> 01:23:52,861
especially to America,
via Canada.
2066
01:23:52,961 --> 01:23:58,299
♪ All we are saying ♪
2067
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:01,469
♪ Is give peace a chance ♪
2068
01:24:02,370 --> 01:24:03,805
[Cooper] Everything
was revolutionary.
2069
01:24:03,905 --> 01:24:05,907
Everything about
that generation
2070
01:24:06,007 --> 01:24:08,176
was upsetting the system.
2071
01:24:08,276 --> 01:24:10,879
Toronto Rock & Roll Revival
just happened to be
2072
01:24:10,979 --> 01:24:13,314
right in the pivotal
crosshairs of that.
2073
01:24:13,415 --> 01:24:14,849
[cheering]
2074
01:24:18,686 --> 01:24:21,756
Now Yoko's gonna do her thing
all over you.
2075
01:24:23,591 --> 01:24:27,195
[Fawcett] Yoko used to sing
in this very primal voice.
2076
01:24:27,295 --> 01:24:28,329
She trained classically.
2077
01:24:28,430 --> 01:24:30,765
Yoko's voice
is like an instrument.
2078
01:24:30,865 --> 01:24:35,270
[vocalizing]
2079
01:24:45,080 --> 01:24:47,715
[Voormann] Funny thing is
that when I was up there,
2080
01:24:47,816 --> 01:24:49,517
I suddenly was behind Yoko,
2081
01:24:49,617 --> 01:24:52,854
and I felt suddenly
what she was doing.
2082
01:24:55,190 --> 01:24:59,327
She was actually
telling the people, in her way,
2083
01:24:59,427 --> 01:25:02,964
that all those people are dying.
2084
01:25:03,064 --> 01:25:06,234
Those tanks and bombs falling
2085
01:25:06,334 --> 01:25:08,636
and dead bodies lying about.
2086
01:25:16,010 --> 01:25:23,251
[vocalizing]
2087
01:25:26,888 --> 01:25:28,022
What she was doing was really,
2088
01:25:28,123 --> 01:25:30,425
really felt like a dying bird.
2089
01:25:30,525 --> 01:25:32,727
[weak caws]
2090
01:25:32,827 --> 01:25:34,229
[vocalizing]
2091
01:25:34,329 --> 01:25:35,563
She couldn't have stood there
2092
01:25:35,663 --> 01:25:36,865
and talked about it,
2093
01:25:36,965 --> 01:25:38,099
and said, "Yeah, peace.
2094
01:25:38,199 --> 01:25:40,401
Just think of Vietnam." No.
2095
01:25:40,502 --> 01:25:44,405
[vocalizing]
2096
01:25:44,506 --> 01:25:49,611
This was
far ahead of its time.
2097
01:25:49,711 --> 01:25:52,413
The audience didn't understand
a fucking thing.
2098
01:25:52,514 --> 01:25:55,750
A lot of the audience
walked out,
2099
01:25:55,850 --> 01:25:57,318
but the ones that stayed,
2100
01:25:57,418 --> 01:25:59,787
they were in a trance, man.
2101
01:25:59,888 --> 01:26:01,089
They just all
came to the front.
2102
01:26:01,189 --> 01:26:03,525
[cheering]
2103
01:26:03,625 --> 01:26:05,026
[Gordon] I don't know
if the audience got it at all.
2104
01:26:05,126 --> 01:26:08,496
Like, I think
they were just, like...
2105
01:26:08,596 --> 01:26:11,432
But they stayed with it,
and he supported her.
2106
01:26:11,533 --> 01:26:12,534
It was her show.
2107
01:26:12,634 --> 01:26:14,903
But I was very impressed
by his love for her
2108
01:26:15,003 --> 01:26:17,438
and his dedication to her.
2109
01:26:17,539 --> 01:26:20,742
[Voormann] The two twins
being together, John and Yoko,
2110
01:26:20,842 --> 01:26:22,310
so when she was doing her song,
2111
01:26:22,410 --> 01:26:25,713
John went up to her,
and he hugged her.
2112
01:26:28,416 --> 01:26:30,885
Yoko's thing at the end
was so ballsy,
2113
01:26:30,985 --> 01:26:31,920
and John is out there
2114
01:26:32,020 --> 01:26:35,089
daring anybody
to yell out and complain.
2115
01:26:35,190 --> 01:26:37,225
I mean, he's like a wild man.
2116
01:26:37,325 --> 01:26:39,327
He's like a warrior, you know?
2117
01:26:39,427 --> 01:26:41,462
The whole thing
was an amazing production.
2118
01:26:41,563 --> 01:26:44,265
[vocalizing]
2119
01:26:52,307 --> 01:26:54,642
When John said, "What we do
2120
01:26:54,742 --> 01:26:58,780
is we tune my guitar
on an open chord,
2121
01:26:58,880 --> 01:27:01,749
and we just put them
in front of our amplifiers
2122
01:27:01,849 --> 01:27:02,984
and let it feed it back."
2123
01:27:03,084 --> 01:27:07,322
[vocalizing]
2124
01:27:12,160 --> 01:27:13,895
I just said, "Look, at the end.
2125
01:27:13,995 --> 01:27:15,330
Lean your guitars on the amps
2126
01:27:15,430 --> 01:27:16,931
and let it keep howling,"
2127
01:27:17,031 --> 01:27:18,933
because you can't very well
go cha-ching like The Beatles
2128
01:27:19,033 --> 01:27:22,904
and bow at the end of screaming.
2129
01:27:23,004 --> 01:27:25,406
He left those amps full out,
2130
01:27:25,506 --> 01:27:30,111
so it sounded like a 707
about to take off.
2131
01:27:30,211 --> 01:27:34,148
It was such a fantastic ending.
2132
01:27:34,249 --> 01:27:36,985
It was like that was
the end of The Beatles.
2133
01:27:37,085 --> 01:27:40,955
[vocalizing]
2134
01:27:48,096 --> 01:27:49,697
The Toronto
rock 'n' roll festival
2135
01:27:49,797 --> 01:27:52,300
gave John Lennon
a completely new lease on life.
2136
01:27:52,400 --> 01:27:53,701
"This is my future.
2137
01:27:53,801 --> 01:27:54,902
The Beatles is yesterday."
2138
01:27:56,304 --> 01:27:58,439
He was a new man
with a new band,
2139
01:27:58,539 --> 01:28:01,276
and I think he loved Toronto
for that,
2140
01:28:01,376 --> 01:28:03,311
and I think Toronto loved John.
2141
01:28:03,411 --> 01:28:07,382
[guitar feedback]
2142
01:28:07,482 --> 01:28:09,484
I told Alan I was leaving.
2143
01:28:09,584 --> 01:28:12,453
I told Eric Clapton and Klaus
that I was leaving.
2144
01:28:12,553 --> 01:28:15,223
I announced it to myself
and to the people around me.
2145
01:28:15,323 --> 01:28:16,357
"It's over."
2146
01:28:16,457 --> 01:28:18,626
[guitars feeding back]
2147
01:28:34,208 --> 01:28:37,378
[guitars feeding back]
2148
01:28:48,289 --> 01:28:50,591
Having John Lennon there
was amazing.
2149
01:28:50,692 --> 01:28:53,561
We'd been signed up
as the headliners, so he said,
2150
01:28:53,661 --> 01:28:54,996
"No, you guys go last,"
you know.
2151
01:28:57,465 --> 01:29:02,236
I'm trying to find out
who decided not to film us.
2152
01:29:02,337 --> 01:29:06,507
It might've been Jim's idea.
2153
01:29:06,607 --> 01:29:09,777
He was pretty particular
about getting filmed.
2154
01:29:12,113 --> 01:29:15,483
We changed our setup a bit.
2155
01:29:15,583 --> 01:29:17,785
We actually did The End first,
2156
01:29:17,885 --> 01:29:20,288
as an opener,
2157
01:29:20,388 --> 01:29:23,391
because Jim wanted to talk
about the guys.
2158
01:29:23,491 --> 01:29:25,360
He was just trying
to tell people
2159
01:29:25,460 --> 01:29:28,496
about how he was affected
by those guys
2160
01:29:28,596 --> 01:29:30,565
when he was a kid in the '50s,
2161
01:29:30,665 --> 01:29:35,570
and that was
the perfect place to do it.
2162
01:29:35,670 --> 01:29:36,571
I can remember
2163
01:29:36,671 --> 01:29:40,408
when rock 'n' roll
first came on the scene,
2164
01:29:40,508 --> 01:29:48,082
and for me, it was
a very liberating experience
2165
01:29:48,182 --> 01:29:52,320
because it burst open
2166
01:29:52,420 --> 01:29:56,958
whole new
strange catacombs of wisdom
2167
01:29:57,058 --> 01:29:58,059
that I couldn't remember,
2168
01:29:58,159 --> 01:29:59,560
and I didn't know about,
2169
01:29:59,660 --> 01:30:01,329
and I couldn't see
any equivalent for
2170
01:30:01,429 --> 01:30:04,399
in my surroundings.
2171
01:30:04,499 --> 01:30:07,101
That was the whole reason
for the concert
2172
01:30:07,201 --> 01:30:10,071
was to give them their due.
2173
01:30:10,171 --> 01:30:12,840
They were the true beginners.
2174
01:30:12,940 --> 01:30:14,409
And that's why, for me,
2175
01:30:14,509 --> 01:30:23,084
this evening has been...
really a great honour
2176
01:30:23,184 --> 01:30:26,287
to perform on the same stage
2177
01:30:26,387 --> 01:30:30,925
with so many illustrious
musical geniuses.
2178
01:30:39,934 --> 01:30:40,768
[Fowley] Are you ready
2179
01:30:40,868 --> 01:30:42,270
for the guitar king
of rock 'n' roll,
2180
01:30:42,370 --> 01:30:43,971
Chuck Berry?!
2181
01:30:53,080 --> 01:30:57,151
Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
2182
01:30:58,252 --> 01:31:00,988
Yeah! Yeah!
2183
01:31:07,728 --> 01:31:08,563
[Lewis] It's a great pleasure
to be here
2184
01:31:08,663 --> 01:31:10,598
at the revival of rock 'n' roll,
2185
01:31:10,698 --> 01:31:11,933
and I'll guarantee you,
2186
01:31:12,033 --> 01:31:13,868
if it ain't revived today,
we'll never have it revived.
2187
01:31:23,177 --> 01:31:25,112
Here we go!
2188
01:31:37,492 --> 01:31:38,559
Ladies and gentlemen,
2189
01:31:38,659 --> 01:31:41,362
the legend to the rock 'n' roll.
2190
01:31:41,462 --> 01:31:45,566
The 1956 rock 'n' roll
with Little Richard.
2191
01:31:52,807 --> 01:31:54,375
[Brower] At the Toronto
Rock & Roll Revival,
2192
01:31:54,475 --> 01:31:56,043
The Beatles broke up,
2193
01:31:56,143 --> 01:31:59,847
and they broke up
in front of our eyes onstage,
2194
01:31:59,947 --> 01:32:05,253
and it was only by a set
of unforeseen circumstances
2195
01:32:05,353 --> 01:32:08,589
that it happened at all.
2196
01:32:08,689 --> 01:32:10,458
[Lennon] Sounds about good,
this Canadian thing.
2197
01:32:10,558 --> 01:32:11,626
[Ono] Yes, it does, you know.
2198
01:32:22,370 --> 01:32:23,404
It's just like,
2199
01:32:23,504 --> 01:32:24,872
it's a trip
that we went through.
2200
01:32:24,972 --> 01:32:26,040
We both suffered
2201
01:32:26,140 --> 01:32:28,476
because people didn't appreciate
what we were doing,
2202
01:32:28,576 --> 01:32:32,647
and we were always sort of
inspired by each other.
2203
01:32:43,658 --> 01:32:45,593
I wasn't gonna fold up
on that film
2204
01:32:45,693 --> 01:32:46,627
because I knew that film
2205
01:32:46,727 --> 01:32:48,863
was going to be
a hard film to sell.
2206
01:32:48,963 --> 01:32:50,765
I never made
any money on it at all.
2207
01:32:50,865 --> 01:32:52,633
I lost a lot of money on it.
2208
01:32:52,733 --> 01:32:54,669
I love that film,
so I don't care.
2209
01:33:05,646 --> 01:33:09,951
This was a moment that
transformed rock 'n' roll.
2210
01:33:10,051 --> 01:33:11,852
This was history.
2211
01:33:24,999 --> 01:33:26,934
[♪♪♪]
2212
01:34:18,486 --> 01:34:21,956
[♪♪♪]
2213
01:34:24,892 --> 01:34:29,363
The fact that I was
part of this band...
2214
01:34:29,463 --> 01:34:30,631
to this day,
2215
01:34:30,731 --> 01:34:32,933
I can't believe that
this happened to me, you know?
2216
01:34:36,570 --> 01:34:37,371
I've been listening
to The Beatles
2217
01:34:37,471 --> 01:34:40,374
since I was, like,
11, 12 years old.
2218
01:34:40,474 --> 01:34:42,343
It was all going by so quickly,
2219
01:34:42,443 --> 01:34:44,245
and I was only 20 years old,
2220
01:34:44,345 --> 01:34:45,780
so I was kinda, like, in awe.
2221
01:34:46,847 --> 01:34:49,083
I was just
so lucky to be there.
2222
01:34:49,183 --> 01:34:52,586
It's one of the most
memorable nights of our life.
2223
01:34:55,690 --> 01:34:56,624
That's the only time
2224
01:34:56,724 --> 01:34:58,693
I ever saw John Lennon
perform live.
2225
01:34:58,793 --> 01:35:00,761
This was a moment of history,
2226
01:35:00,861 --> 01:35:02,063
and that part was understood.
2227
01:35:03,964 --> 01:35:05,066
This was a last-minute thing,
2228
01:35:05,166 --> 01:35:08,302
and an opportunity
for John and Yoko
2229
01:35:08,402 --> 01:35:10,671
to show off
the Plastic Ono Band.
2230
01:35:12,840 --> 01:35:13,941
One day, Yoko came over
2231
01:35:14,041 --> 01:35:16,143
and said,
"John wants to meet you,"
2232
01:35:16,243 --> 01:35:18,979
and there's John and Yoko
with sort of, "Well,
2233
01:35:19,080 --> 01:35:20,681
I'm gonna introduce
my boyfriend," kind of thing,
2234
01:35:20,781 --> 01:35:22,416
and we're going, like,
"Oh, my god,
2235
01:35:22,516 --> 01:35:23,718
it's a fucking Beatle."
2236
01:35:26,287 --> 01:35:30,024
For me, Toronto was
a very significant moment.
2237
01:35:30,124 --> 01:35:31,992
I was thrilled to be
in the middle of it,
2238
01:35:32,093 --> 01:35:34,695
but not quite aware
of what I was in the middle of.
2239
01:35:37,264 --> 01:35:39,200
It brought Toronto into focus.
2240
01:35:39,300 --> 01:35:41,936
A lot of historic things
happened that night.
2241
01:35:43,170 --> 01:35:44,004
There's a few reasons
2242
01:35:44,105 --> 01:35:46,707
this concert stands out
in my mind.
2243
01:35:46,807 --> 01:35:48,809
One was, of course,
2244
01:35:48,909 --> 01:35:51,212
it was the last time
we were gonna see The Doors.
2245
01:35:51,312 --> 01:35:52,279
We didn't know that.
2246
01:35:54,815 --> 01:35:57,885
That really was
a memorable night.
2247
01:35:57,985 --> 01:36:00,554
Getting to play
with all those guys.
2248
01:36:00,654 --> 01:36:02,923
Having Lennon there
and Clapton, and...
2249
01:36:03,023 --> 01:36:06,026
and to be met
by a gang of motorcycles.
2250
01:36:08,262 --> 01:36:11,799
If I had not seen the madness
of Alice Cooper,
2251
01:36:11,899 --> 01:36:14,401
if I hadn't seen
Little Richard that day,
2252
01:36:14,502 --> 01:36:16,470
I might be, today, a...
a schoolteacher.
2253
01:36:18,873 --> 01:36:21,675
It was the golden years
of that era
2254
01:36:21,776 --> 01:36:23,844
in music and culture.
2255
01:36:23,944 --> 01:36:25,980
When you played, they listened,
2256
01:36:26,080 --> 01:36:28,449
and when you did something
that was really unique and cool,
2257
01:36:28,549 --> 01:36:29,383
they reacted.
2258
01:36:31,452 --> 01:36:32,520
It was just the fact
2259
01:36:32,620 --> 01:36:35,289
that I was lucky enough
to be there,
2260
01:36:35,389 --> 01:36:36,290
and I was honoured enough
2261
01:36:36,390 --> 01:36:40,127
to be able to play
with a legend,
2262
01:36:40,227 --> 01:36:41,996
even though he scared
the living daylights out of me.
2263
01:36:43,364 --> 01:36:44,265
[Leggat]
We were with Chuck Berry,
2264
01:36:44,365 --> 01:36:45,800
and Chuck said, "Come on,
I'm gonna take ya
2265
01:36:45,900 --> 01:36:48,269
and get ya a burger
and a Coke."
2266
01:36:48,369 --> 01:36:49,804
Chuck Berry took us,
2267
01:36:49,904 --> 01:36:52,273
and we went to Harvey's
directly across the street.
2268
01:36:54,441 --> 01:36:57,711
I remember after the show,
the stadium emptied out.
2269
01:36:57,812 --> 01:36:59,246
It was a great day.
2270
01:36:59,346 --> 01:37:00,114
We were all exhausted.
2271
01:37:00,214 --> 01:37:01,849
I'd never worked so hard
in my life.
2272
01:37:03,717 --> 01:37:05,052
[Davis] At the end of the set,
2273
01:37:05,152 --> 01:37:07,955
Yoko and John walked off
past where we were sitting,
2274
01:37:08,055 --> 01:37:13,194
and Chuck Berry said,
"Wow, that's John Lennon."
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My immediate response was,
2276
01:37:14,528 --> 01:37:15,930
"But you're Chuck Berry."
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01:37:18,132 --> 01:37:19,934
[Leslie] The camera girl,
she was wonderful.
2278
01:37:20,034 --> 01:37:20,835
[chuckles]
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01:37:20,935 --> 01:37:23,070
Say hi to her for me.
2280
01:37:23,170 --> 01:37:24,471
I think of her often.
2281
01:37:24,572 --> 01:37:26,040
[laughing]
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01:37:28,709 --> 01:37:31,445
I don't remember
how I got home that night.
2283
01:37:31,545 --> 01:37:34,281
I don't even remember
if we ate food.
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