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THIS MOVIE IS BASED ON HUNDREDS OF HOURS
OF PRIVATE FOOTAGE OF TIM'S LIFE,

FROM THE FIRST TO THE LAST PHOTO TAKEN,

COMBINING NEW RECORDINGS
WITH YOUR FRIENDS, COLLEAGUES AND FAMILY.

Can you tell us your name?

A round of applause for Avicii!

Timeless music, that's what I want to do.

That's what I try to do.

- So far, it's been perfect.
- It's madness.

Yes.

I've always liked melodies. Always.

When you are wiser and...

These are melodies that go back
hundreds of years ago.

In different shapes or forms.

Hello.

I feel like I'm filled with music.

If someone asked you:

"What's your story? Who are you?"

What would be the answer?

The shortest.

I'm... Tim.

AVICII - I'M TIM

Look... that.

It's a hand, isn't it?

- I've seen sex.
- No, see? Seriously?

It's been exciting...

I can't hold the camera straight.

Hello. Yes...

Hello...

- My God.
- My God! Little...

Hello, little Tim.

I had a fantastic education, without a doubt.
I have the best parents in the world.

They always supported me in everything I did.

I never had to ask for anything.

Without a doubt, I have been very lucky indeed.

And I was protected in a way

that I never had to be afraid of anything.

- There!
- Mom is filming while we dance.

- Look!
- Yes.

Rewind!

You do it, Tim.

You know how to do this.

I grew up in Stockholm.

Basically, my entire childhood
up to 19 years of age,

it was between five blocks.

All the schools I went to
they were in the same area of Stockholm.

I was,

I would say that from the first to the sixth year,
when I was a kid...

I didn't have many friends.

It was just unsafe.

I started making fun of people
and to be made fun of from a young age.

He was the class clown.

Making jokes at other people's expense.

- Listen... Tim?
- What?

What it was?

And then I moved for a summer.

Because I realized that many people
They didn't like me in my class.

Why I heard from other teachers

that people weren't afraid of me,
but I was afraid that I would say

something about them
or do something like that. And...

I didn't think it would be like that
because he didn't say anything to hurt anyone.

It was just unsafe.

It forced me to change
completely as a child.

After the summer, I started to be
very friendly for everyone.

At first, no one believed in me.

And, gradually,
I tried to be nice to everyone.

I've always been interested in music.

I've always loved music.
And I always listened to music,

all kinds of music.

I tried to learn to play the guitar.

I don't think I had any resistance
to be good enough.

Did you know that regardless
than I wanted to do later in life,

it would have to be something creative.
That's all I knew.

Ready.

- It's time to...
- Stop filming me.

Stop filming me.

So a friend of mine told me about FL Studio.

I've never seen music software.

And I remember downloading it
and it was fantastic.

It wasn't like playing the guitar or playing the piano

because I could drag the notes.

I just had to learn...

"What sounds good and what doesn't sound good?"

It was the most important thing for me.

We walked in �stra Real.

It's not a private school,

but it's probably
one of the snobbiest schools in Stockholm.

FILIP "PHILGOOD" �KESSON
TIM'S FRIEND

Status is important.
It matters how you dress, who you get along with.

Tim looked
the typical computer guy.

A gamer, I would say.

A nerd, honestly.

A mutual friend introduced us.

I really liked house music
and Tim knew how to produce music.

We took a whole weekend,
to be alone at home.

I brought my computer
and that's where it all started.

Then I think I was with Tim
every day for a few years.

Tim was shy, very anxious.

We were more or less opposites.

I was the life of the party.
The center of attention. A little wild.

I always tried
challenge the limits a little.

But we got along really well.

- Our! Look at this!
- Yes.

It went well.

Before Tim moved into his house,

We stayed in his tiny room.

And I can assure you
that the smell of sweat and farts...

We stayed there for about nine hours,
eating pizza and drinking Cola Light.

And when Klas or Anki came home,

we lied about having the afternoon free
or that a teacher was sick.

We missed classes a lot.

They waited until we left the house.

They leave to go to school,
but they went to a cafe and waited.

TIM'S FATHER

And as soon as we left,

they would come back and make music
instead of going to school.

We talked about everything.

Even about things that would be
embarrassing to tell other friends.

Everything was very sincere and open.

If more people showed up,
We went to relax on the terrace.

It was the only daylight Tim got.

I've always been nocturnal.

Always.

At night, no one bothers you.

I was just working.

And then I would send my scenes
to various house blogs.

And I never thought,
at that time, that music was

one real thing you could do.

Because I didn't know how to sing.
It wasn't a real opportunity.

And then it was more or less
around the time I met Ash.

There is no Avicii story without Ash.

I had some projects of mine,
in nightclubs and so on.

I felt like I knew a lot
about the music scene.

PARTNER, CO-PRODUCER, CO-AUTHOR

Hi, it's Ash.

Blogs were very important.

There you could listen without buying,

find what's popular and so on.

And I had my eye on some producers.

A name on my list
It was someone called "Avicii Philgood".

He sent a message on Facebook saying:

"I'm a prosecutor in Stockholm.
I think I can help."

The two of them sat at home
producing things together,

Just for fun and without any more ambitions.

Tim even told me:
"I'm happy to release some tracks

and learn to be a DJ
for parties with my friends."

Something like that.

He was very direct:
"If you let me help you,

I'll make you one of the greatest DJs
of the world next year."

We gave him a year

to focus on your music
and see what could happen.

TIM'S MOTHER

But he doesn't...

I had to survive
of pasta and spaghetti,

spaghetti, meatballs and pasta.

I said:
"Let's make it happen."

I was 18 and I was impressed.

From that moment on,
he started being my agent.

- Listen to this melody.
- You already showed me.

No, this is new.

We started making remixes
for different artists

at the same time
that we made our own music.

It was growing, remix after remix.

Adds beats to the melody
and makes the rest of the song rock.

For us, it was the coolest thing ever.

Damn!

When we thought about something,
In an idea, we sent it to Ash.

I received four or five emails from us
every day, asking for an opinion.

The first step was
he responds by email,

and when we try
defending our choices, called us.

It's funny to remember
every time we argued with him:

"No. You're wrong, man!"

But he was right, obviously.
He knew the formula.

He complied, strangely enough.
A year later he...

Everything went as he said it would.

Hi, I'm Avicii.

I'm going to play at the Techno Parade
on September 19th.

See you there.

I went from being a young man,

a school kid,

straight into a tour.

- What's your name?
- Avicii.

Avicii. Okay.

I should have spent more time with him
in adolescence, after school

than anyone.

I went on tour with him every day.

Welcome to France, welcome to Paris.

He taught me how to DJ.

Not the technical part. That's the easy part.

Bon soir, Toulouse!

Are you ready for Avicii?

He taught me the mentality,
which is so important in a DJ,

the importance of understanding the room.

For me, being a DJ is like
take the audience on a journey.

They can't be jumping
five hours straight.

They need breaks.

You have to play with emotions and energy
and be careful with all this.

Many people who go to the nightclub
they may have heard a song

and they don't know much about you.
You have to find out what they want,

because people in different places
they like different things.

Ash wants to include everything, apparently.

- Your slogan?
- My slogan?

- Call him...
- "Call it whatever you want." Yes.

I wasn't an alcoholic at the time,
but I really liked parties.

And that's where the inspiration came from
for "Alcoholic".

We celebrate all week
and was drinking on the flight home.

And Tim puts on his headphones

and four hours later
I had finished half a song.

"Call it what you want..."

I'm the damn alcoholic

At the time, Tim was
completely anti-drugs. Even grass.

He hated the fact that I smoked weed.

I had to hide...

I never met anyone
with so much talent for making melodies.

Could be piano, guitar, anything
that we were working with.

It was right at the time when
the house started to explode.

It was perfect.

Everything started to advance for him.

I didn't want to be in anyone's shadow,
so I tried to avenge it alone.

I'm not an envious person.

I was really happy for him.

I...

... also consumed a lot of drugs
and that cost me a lot of time and money.

AND...

Only when I hit bottom
That's when I realized I was in trouble.

Things only got worse after that.

And then, strangely enough, Tim and I
we connect in a downward spiral,

a few years later,
when we met in Stockholm.

We ended up in the same mess.

- What are you doing?
- I want to get the tone right.

Is it the right tone?

You have to give more energy.

You need interesting dynamics,
so people don't lose interest.

- I'm going to use a chord progression.
- Yes, with variations.

Something like that.

Kind of like that, except... Wait.

Like this,
but with more chords to give emphasis.

Yes.

Ash's office looked like a kitchen.

With red panels, a bit kitsch.

And Ash had a crush on...

... Chesterfield furniture.
Oxblood red.

Ash was the typical manager,
very foul-mouthed:

"We will dominate the world,
Let's make it happen."

"We know how to do this."

"Tim... no, Avicii, it will be
the greatest artist in the world."

Not a DJ. An "artist", that's what he said.

- "Did you understand?"
- "Of course."

Tim was the genius.

No one ever questioned that
and neither does Ash.

But Ash was the dream maker.

Due to your lack of experience,
He never realized how difficult it would be.

This made it easier
dive head first.

Guys, this is Avicii speaking.

I can't wait
for my debut in Hungary.

See you there.

We used a flight tracking app

when he went to the USA, for example,
which we thought was really cool.

We followed his plane.

"Now it's crossing the Atlantic.
Now it has landed."

Now... I was moved...

Yes.

The EDM music scene at that time seemed...

...which had unlimited resources.

You could feel it growing.

And you could see
the size of crowds at festivals.

It seemed like every young person in America
they were gravitating towards her.

The Ultra Music Festival in Miami

It is the main global destination
in the world of dance music.

Not just for fans,
but for dance music artists.

I wanted Tim to play at Ultra.

Everyone from the industry would be there.
It was the perfect place to be seen.

But no one did anything different.

That first year, I booked
four double-decker buses.

I pasted Tim's face on them
and this year's big hit, "Bromance."

This place is awesome!

Ultra was a milestone.
The media went crazy over Avicii.

It's the New York Post! Do you understand?

Nobody in Sweden notices
the importance of this!

A piece of news doesn't just have an impact in the USA.

Everyone in the industry will read this.

Yes.

- Have you taken many stylish photos?
- It will be very cinematic.

I think the most fun thing is,
obviously, the reaction of the fans.

Especially when there are so many people
who come here just for you.

It's incredible. It doesn't feel real.

A name appeared, "Avicii"...

I remember saying
to one of my assistants:

CEO OF GEFFEN RECORDS

"Who is Avicii?
And why does it have such high revenue?"

And he said:

"I don't know, but I heard
out of seven people he is the one."

And then I heard "Levels".

And I thought, "Holy crap. Here we go."

It's going to be fantastic.

Everything is different
when that energy comes in.

I wanted to sign the next global hit.

DJs tested their songs
before they are released.

It was amazing to see how the public
from all over the world reacted...

So I told Ash I had to have it.

He called me and said:
"The issue is that Virgin...

... is willing to pay
R$500,000 for the song."

"What? R$500 thousand?"

I paid 5 thousand for "Bromance".

Yes, but we work on it.
It was a serious plan, you know?

"Okay." I hung up the phone.
And then...

I had already talked about Avicii
It's my network at Universal.

I had to tell my bosses
that was impossible.

- "Why?"
- "He wants a lot of money."

They said, “You have to hire him.
We can't lose a success like that."

I called Ash a few days later:
"Can we make a deal?"

"Yes, if you pay R$500,000."
That's what I did.

Thank you all very much
and we spoke bye-mail.

- Right. Thanks. Goodbye.
- Thank you. Goodbye.

Thank you. Goodbye. Goodbye, goodbye.

Let's not make a big deal out of it. Calm.

I'm the greatest!

He didn't even have an offer.

We went to the same gym and I asked him:

"Why did you do that? You had no offers."

"The price had to go up!"

And I said, "That's unfair.
I was the only bidder."

"But it was the price we wanted.
And it didn't hurt your career, did it?"

And he was right.
We recovered everything in six weeks.

What happened?

2.1 million downloads.

7.1 million builds.

This is for you.

I believe that "Levels"
it was the first time I heard Avicii.

And I had that feeling
when I really like something

which is to become extremely jealous.

For about ten minutes.

Something in my body is like:
"Why... How... What?"

And that makes me angry.

And that changes quickly
to start loving.

I couldn't believe the combination
of sounds he used and the chorus.

And then that: "Oh, sometimes..."

This sample. So fresh.

In such a short time, he killed everything.

With "Levels" everything has advanced
in an incredible way.

Could afford a tour director.

No need to fly economy.

I was young, I was hungry.

Everything was new and it was a big party.

Did you catch it?

I went from small nightclubs
for large,

theaters, amphitheatres.

It was all step by step,
But the steps were small.

These songs are prolific.
How the hell do you do it?

At least two.

COME TO THE PARTY SOON. YES?

Avicii headlines
on the main stage.

He is coming,
will share the stage with Madonna.

- Are you ready?
- I'm very nervous.

I noticed how stiff it was
when I didn't drink.

So I found it...

... the magical cure of having a few drinks
before starting,

something that would relax me

and I would make it another experience.

After the show,
Let's jet to Dallas

and, soon after, we go to the hotel.

So you'll be in bed
in nine hours.

- Yes.
- Eight, nine o'clock.

- There is no crisis.
- No problem.

I made all the commitments I could.

I didn't even know it was possible to play

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

But when this happened,

I could tour for a whole year.

It's a little spoiled. About that...

I was producing while traveling
and Ash was killing it.

Knocking it up and tearing it up.
Just like I was crushing myself.

Revenues were rising.

We had opportunities
who had never introduced themselves to us.

Everything went so quickly from then on.

Tisto was my close friend
and that's how I ended up meeting Tim.

I had an apartment in Hollywood.

TIM'S FRIEND

And... I don't know if this is a part
that shouldn't count,

but Tisto was with me at home

and asked to receive people
and the next day, when I got home,

I found Tim in my bed
with a few girls,

and a mess of drinks
and things like that, and we...

I asked him to leave my room.

And then I went to Miami,
a few weeks later, with Ti�sto

and saw him playing in a basement disco.

And his face turned white
and apologized profusely

and we ended up being friends from then on.

I perceived
that he was just a different person.

It was very fragile and insecure.

It was obviously a question
of great anxiety.

I sat next to him on a bench,

as he played that night,
for him to be comfortable.

And he ended up becoming
into a younger brother for me.

He wore my clothes,
I welcomed him under my protection,

made sure he was always fine
and we became very close.

Last night was the best ending
that a digression can have.

It was a birthday party
to my great friend,

almost a brother to me, Jesse.

If things didn't go the way he wanted
and he wanted to be a baby,

I told him I was being a baby.

When I met Jesse,
He almost looked like my son.

He is warm,
which works well with Tim.

The people you meet in nightlife...
There are many intentions,

what can we do for someone,
what can they gain from it.

And you don't know who your friends are.

When I saw someone like Tim
which was authentic and genuine,

It was like a magnet for me.

I appreciated who he was, basically.

As an artist, you have to start seeing yourself
like a character

which is totally different
of who you truly are.

And the border between Tim
and Avicii was faded.

I had pancreatitis,

what happens by drinking,
due to excessive drinking.

I was drinking excessively
a few years ago.

After that, the doctors said:
"You can't drink so much anymore.

You have to calm down."

I remember he lost a lot of weight.

It was crazy. It was very worrying.

The confusion of problems and challenges

and health problems
it started to become more visible.

I knew this would end
for harming me

if I didn't do anything about it.

Tim?

- Hello, how are you?
- Good.

Our time on this earth is brief...

- With a big Christmas tree
- ... and cheerful

I was much happier

before he was famous

than after being famous.

I started to feel very empty and unhappy.

I was in autopilot mode.

I started to wonder
because I felt that way.

I wasn't being honest with myself
and with what I was feeling.

I only acted a certain way because I thought:

"� this is how you should act
and that's what you must do."

And my rhythm didn't give me either
Plenty of time to explore.

He was going through so much.
with the fame and all that.

He didn't... I think he got lost in it.

Don't underestimate
stay true to yourself.

And keep your feet firmly on the ground.

- He has a lot of strength.
- Yes.

That's when I realized that, that's it...
Something has to change.

My assistant Shelly contacted me
and said:

"Would you be interested
in making an EDM song

with an artist called Avicii?"

COUNTRY SINGER AND ARTIST

And I have to be honest.
Not only was I unaware of the artist,

But, forgive me, but even EDM...

I had to ask him what EDM was
and she explained:

"It's electronic dance music,
those songs that make..."

And I thought...

I was surprised that it was an offer,
why not...

It wasn't even similar
with what I had done before and...

My first response was:

"Thanks, but no thanks."

She said, "Do you want to hear the song

before you give an official no?”

And I said:
"Yes, of course. Send me the song."

As she sent the song,
I spoke to my daughter,

who was 19 years old at the time
and heard everything.

And I said, "Have you heard
from a guy called Avicii?"

She responded immediately and said:

"Swedish DJ, fantastic,
one of my favorites. He's a genius."

And she didn't stop talking. He reacted quickly.

And he asked why. And I said:

"I think he wants me to come in
on one of his records."

And she responded immediately
with one word:

"Bullshit."

Yes, I think we did it.

Tim was...
He was trying to relearn

to be himself.

Out of nowhere, like...

I want to be in the room and I want to write
a song with this artist.

I want to make a song from scratch.

All good? What's going on? Very good.

I met Nile in New York.

I didn't really know what he was like
and I didn't know his face,

because he is just
a behind-the-scenes composer,

one of the greatest composers in the world.

You had a finger in...

... David Bowie, Diana Ross,
Madonna, "Like a Virgin",

Duran Duran, Daft Punk, right?
All these superstars.

I remember calling him and saying:
"I'm going to the studio."

"I just want to hear
that you are working on."

That's another one.

And I listened and thought:

"That's awesome!"

That made me feel good.

I'm very melodic
in the sense that I will hear...

I'll know exactly what kind of notes,
especially with singers and such.

Right.

I don't know anything about lyrics and stuff, but...

I know exactly how I want them to sing.
What kind of melodies and such.

- Right.
- And the same with the riffs and the piano.

It was one of the most natural
composers of melodies I met.

I would play a riff...

In seconds, he would...

And then, instinctively,
did the bass line.

Lower it an octave.

You know, like...

When you tried
create music with others

and evolve musically
while interacting with other people...

...it opened a door to heaven.

He looked like a kid in a candy store.
He was so excited.

He wanted to do more and more.

This makes sense.

Let's try as you thought,
without making reference to it.

So we can try
with more references to the original.

It sounded really good.

ARTIST

The house will always be my origin.

But now I've gone to a place
where all music is possible.

I realized what you can do
practically anything

and maintain your own sound.

I went much further than that
because of everyone I work with.

He seemed excited to work
with someone like me who...

I play in a rock band.

He had a lot of questions, like:

"When they write songs,
do this or that?"

I was curious about my world.

I think it was
One of his strong points is his curiosity.

I asked a lot of questions and wanted to know.

I started listening
all these types of traditional music,

and I realized that the melody is in your core.

Melodies that go back hundreds of years

in different shapes or forms.

Timeless music.

That's what I try to do.

He came here and we immediately started

playing
with some chord progressions

and quickly emerged

what became the chord progression
from "Wake Me Up".

He had a very good sense of melody.
Like, photographic.

It was a dance song inspired
in bluegrass.

They seem like things that don't go together, but...

When we were getting to the point
where we needed...

Someone has to sing
and there must be letters.

Wake me up when it's all over

When it makes more sense

I remember talking to Aloe on the phone.

Tim spoke to him
for a few seconds and said:

"I'm at Mike's. Can you come over?

We are working
into something very exciting.

It's very good
and your voice would be bright."

An hour later he appeared

and brought with him
the lyrics he had written.

When I joined, we went straight to work.

Tim didn't know very well

how far could I use my voice
as an instrument,

but in this session he started testing
how to use my instrument.

- Is it like that?
- Yes.

Yes, let's try from
from measure 124.

I think it will look very chaotic.
Let's try this one first, Mike.

Go.

Try to be the craziest
whatever you get in the end.

Let's go.

That's right, I really like...

We can improve this, but I love it.

"All this time I've been searching..."

The energy that comes from:
"All this time I've been searching..."

I like it best when you do:

"All this time I've been searching..."

Type...

I like that a lot.

- Higher.
- And I...

- Lower.
- Lower.

- Let's do this.
- Yes.

- If it's perfect, it's done.
- How long do you have until you have to go?

They left. It must have been, I don't know...

...it's midnight or something.
And then I remember

at two in the morning, he sends me,

basically a rough version of the song,

with all production
that he had added

and it was fantastic, like...

Even today I wouldn't wait
that this had happened.

This is so good.

This song embodied everything
what he was imagining.

But I had no idea
of what would come next.

He came to my house
and showed me the album.

My God!

I thought: "It's over. You're going to dominate the world."

I was shocked.

The album wasn't even finished yet.
"This is a global success, without a doubt."

Tim was not an arrogant person.

He always doubted himself.

But when he played it, he knew.

I saw it in his eyes

and I think when he saw my face,
he knew even more,

because I was like...

Miami Ultra Music Week is coming.

It's a great experience.
It's absolutely exciting.

it's one of those EDM things
that reach all of our senses.

And Tim said:

"I'm going to be the headliner for this.

I'm going to premiere the album,

all the singers will perform with me

and we're going to have a live band.
It's going to be awesome."

A little like:

"It's going to look a little strange,
But it should be interesting."

Yes, let's go. We have to go.

Avicii, I love you!

Tim seemed nervous.

It's his new album. It's his new song.

How about you cut a song
and you play "Levels" as an introduction?

- Does that make sense? Before you play?
- Why?

To give them something, so as not to say:
"He didn't even play 'Levels'."

- At the beginning of the song...
- Yes.

- Don't play anything until the "doo-doo".
- It's fine.

It became a situation where it was almost

a live performance for Tim on stage.

Very risky, very different.

And I remember getting to Ultra,
see other performances.

Pyrotechnics, fire, lasers, confetti,

bikini girls
dancing on turntables.

When they told me, "Do you want
play at Ultra Fest next week?"

I had no idea what I was getting myself into.

Make some noise for Avicii!

Tim played the first 30 minutes
as everyone expected.

Then he turned everything off.

I walked around.
I went into the crowd.

I wanted to see what it would be like there,

see what the sound was like,
What was people's reaction?

It's noisy!

Music is haunting you everywhere.

And then he lowers it.

And it becomes silent.

And people say, "What the hell is going on?"

This is how I want to make music,
from now on.

I'm coming down to the stage,

I'm waiting, on my monitor,
to listen to the cue of when I should...

When the music should start.

And then I'm listening
of the music starting,

that's my cue
for when I have to sing.

But in this case, there is a click.

Tick, tick, tick.

And I felt that...

There is something wrong here. It's just my voice.

I know how it must sound
in my ears and what my body

should feel,

when listening to him
and feeling the vibration of the large columns.

Big boos!

People booed.

And the guys I'm with...
I'm in the middle of the public

and they are astonished.

That's the strangest thing I've ever heard.

The public was so confused.

It was a disaster.

As I sing, I think, "Should I stop?"

It was very strange.

We invite 20 to 25 people
from all over the world.

And people booed. It was horrible.

It was... It was a terrible feeling.

"Damn, I spent
five million dollars on that?"

Then I got worried.
I was so confident before.

"This is going to be great,
Let's take over the world."

But now it wasn't working.
Are we wrong?

I got scared. What are we doing?

Am I tripping?

Maybe I was mistaken. I love the records
and I know how magical they are,

but, shit, these people hate it.

It was chaos.

This is out of our comfort zone.

It was all a mess.

This is the end of Avicii's career.

Why would he do that?

What kind of music is this?
And no one could understand.

The first part
from the show at Ultra was Avicii

and the second half of Ultra
it was Tim putting his heart on stage

sharing this song live
and this new direction.

He was very devastated.

I didn't even leave the room. He was shattered.

I saw all the negative responses.

Many people were confused
and they didn't understand anything.

- That was the most important thing.
- It was crazy.

Give me my head.

He was always on Twitter
after the show.

"Dude, drop it.

Stop looking at it.
You'll go crazy."

And he was very stressed about it.

The next day, I was on the plane with Ash.

And Ash was being very "Ash".

He was super calm about everything.

He just said, "Wait and see."

We received so much criticism from everyone,

from the Ultra owners, the Ultra team,

the promoters, the publisher, the editors...

Everyone panicked.

I knew that would provoke people,
that was the goal,

but not to this point.

But we had prepared...

They put it on SoundCloud
what they had just performed.

"We are receiving messages
contradictory statements about the new album."

I collected the worst comments online
that I found and put them together.

And I posted them with the SoundCloud link
that he was prepared.

And I wrote:

"Look what happened."

And day after day, the comments were

getting better, better and better.

KILLING LBUM

Within a week, the tide changed.

THE MOST WANTED

It was growing more every day
and we couldn't believe it.

It was like... were we dreaming?

And then we launched
"Wake Me Up" in the UK

and the music pumped and exploded.

It became the best-selling single
in the history of the United Kingdom at the time,

one of the best first weeks.
And it became crazy.

That song made him
went into the stratosphere.

First of all, I want to thank you
to Clear Channel and iHeartRadio

for going through this. Screw this.

From that moment on, it began.

"Wake Me Up", Avicii!

Some of us dance and sing
to the sound of Abba and Avicii.

It took me some time to realize the magnitude
of what I got involved in.

Go! Go! Go.

As an ignoramus, I thought: "What hypotheses
Does anyone I know hear that?"

It is, by far, the greatest song
which I was part of. It was crazy.

It was number one in 16 countries at the same time.

I gained new street credibility
with the kids I never thought of.

I remember going to my son's school,
pick you up for lunch

and someone says, "Mr. Tyminski!"

And another: "Hello, man."

And the three began to sing:

And suddenly,
everyone who was having lunch...

They were eating,
having a picnic outside,

but it was like, a whole courtyard
of school boys... singing.

I would like to thank all my fans
for being with me throughout this year.

Also thanks to my agent, Ash,
who has been with me since day one.

I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him.

Thank you very much everyone
and have a good night.

The workload was overwhelming.

It was impossible to relax and enjoy.
At least, I couldn't.

There were hundreds of thousands
of things happening.

It was that side of the world,
but we have other markets...

Let's plan ahead,
create campaigns, create social networks,

take care of our people, the publisher...
We couldn't stop.

It was impossible.

I was already on tour again.

My life was the dream of so many people,
including me.

It was a dream. And I wanted to work so much.

Paul Simon is coming.
Tracy Chapman, if you feel like it.

We contacted John Fogerty.

Earth, Wind and Fire really want to come
when you're ready.

There was a song... it had been sent
for me, wherever they come from...

... called "A Sky Full Of Stars".

And the song
It arrived very quickly, on the piano.

And immediately, it was like,
we have to ask Avicii to produce it.

- Have you met Tim yet?
- Mine, then.

We've already done six...

- We've already written six songs together.
- Great.

Tim � Tim, though
had 50 thousand projects that day,

I still found time.

- Yes, that's right...
- I like.

In half an hour, he did everything.

It was fantastic.

Almost a panic at work:

"I have to do this,
because something else calls

and you can never do it all.”

- Hello, friend.
- Are you okay? How do you feel?

- I'm fine. How are you?
- Great.

Yes, I feel fine.
A little thin, but I'm getting there.

I like that.

ARTIST

"But the dawn will find a day..."

We had done "True".
He was now a superstar.

He had also become very rich.

I remember he started building
the house on Blue Jay Way

and showing me how it would look.
It looked like a spaceship.

Money was never
the motivating factor for me, never.

The only real monetary goal I had
it was the freedom that money gives.

But I felt this freedom after
being able to take a taxi wherever you want,

go out, eat and pay the rent.

Buying cars doesn't give me...
I take no pleasure in it.

I knew the tour
it was really hurting him.

I knew he hated it.

I knew he got involved
in appointments

which I couldn't get out of.

Ash!

There were discussions about
how long he would tour.

Wouldn't it be better to concentrate
What did you want and make a new album?

Yes. I like that, yes.

"You're a rich girl..."

It must have the same syllables.

ARTIST

Nowadays, I rarely write
my choruses or melodies and stuff.

I usually play on the piano.

I wouldn't feel comfortable
when playing the piano live.

But I wanted to reach a level
where I could play the piano.

Because a lot of what I do
nowadays it's with acoustic instruments.

ARTIST

Tim always had difficulties
with the idea of being a musician.

Era was very aware of the fact

of musicians traditionally
to play a musical instrument

and its main instrument
be his notebook.

It would have been easy for him to do so,
but I was afraid that people

didn't accept him playing
a musical instrument.

I would say Stories is a bigger album

and I feel like it has evolved a lot since True.

We had a launch party
for Stories in July 2014.

We invite people
from all over the world to Ushuaia.

But there was no album in 2014.

Yes.

Yes, but do the r� here.

We had a set of songs and everything,
but he didn't like it.

He wanted to add
or change things or redo them.

"The song is not good enough,
the top line is out."

"There's something missing in the beat."

"The drop is either too long or too short."

- Sorry to bother you, but...
- I'm very stressed.

Everyone is waiting. I have to finish.

The publisher told me the following:

"When you start a song, you have to
capture attention in five seconds."

But... it's okay.

They're telling me that
for me to take this into consideration? They say...

They say I have to adapt my music

to capture people's attention
in the first five seconds.

And if someone says, "Otherwise,
It won't get their attention."

Then you become:
"Well, I guess it has to be!"

Actually, it's stupid.

Perfect.

I always focused on making a song
as efficient as possible.

They should love it soon
and touch her again so that...

When I hear myself say that, it seems...

It's not about art. It's about...

It's about reaching the top of the charts.
What does it look like...

I'm a cynical person.
Tim wanted to make art.

I have to admit it looks like shit.

Artists are people, we are creators.
These people who create shit.

And then they are played
for an environment and an industry

where it comes to chasing
how many views do you have,

so many comments.

it sucks...

It was something that became
almost impossible to avoid.

You can't have a single meeting

with someone in the industry without talking
60 times of different statistics

and why this is better than that.

Business is difficult.
It's not that the industry is evil.

Or that someone wants to screw Tim.

It takes a lot of work to be
the CEO of a superstar.

Tim, are you okay?

We have one minute until show time.

It was hard not to notice
the size of your team,

in his mentality,
in the stress he was suffering,

in frustration,
becoming increasingly frustrated.

I ran after...
an idea of happiness that wasn't mine.

I didn't like being a character.

I wouldn't like to have a character.

I wouldn't want to have to be Avicii
and it has to be Tim.

I wanted to be the person
who was on that stage enjoying it.

It was, that's right...

It's still very confusing.
I still don't understand.

I didn't even like making music anymore
because it was too much.

I don't know how to solve this.

It took us a while to realize
everything that was going on.

It may seem like we were stupid,
but it was like that.

When someone is consistently productive,
It's hard to understand

how bad this person is inside.

STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN

I remember telling him once...

We had dinner. It was in Sweden, in Stockholm.

"Tim, how do you feel about this?
You make more money at a concert

what do people earn in five years?
You should be happy with your life."

Again, I didn't know
the deepest problems, some of them,

but overall I thought:
"Why is this a problem for you?"

No one would guess that he had
these problems or why, because:

"You have the best life ever.
Your father is so supportive of you.

Your mother is so supportive of you.
Your family loves you."

It was difficult to see from the outside
what was the problem.

And at the time, I realized
that he took painkillers.

I think it pushed him
into an even deeper hole.

I grew up with a family
who used drugs and so on.

And I saw, when you consume opiates,

their eyes change,
they remain a "dot", basically.

The pupils of the eyes become points.

And I saw his eyes wide open,
like a zombie, you know?

And he looked like... he wasn't there.

We were having dinner and the whole behavior changed

and his attitude.
And the eyes widened, dilated.

I thought, right,
It's obvious that he's taking drugs.

And that changes everything, you know? The pills...

They change the way you act and how you think.

You wake up feeling bad
and you need another to feel good.

It's a constant flow of...

For him, he was justified
for suppressing your anxiety.

But it would only create more anxiety later.

I think it was... It was at that dinner
that I realized there was a bigger problem.

Who knew an addict,
You know they hide their problems well.

It's a madness that takes over the mind.

We pulled the handbrake. Instantly.

They asked me if we should have had
another approach. But we did a lot.

Interventions, canceled shows...

On average, he played less than 40 shows
in the last three years.

I felt anxious.

I didn't know where the anxiety was coming from.

I felt it physically in my gut.

It was like a stone in my gut.
That's what I felt.

And it was constant.

A constant emotion.

Grandfather! Get out of the way.

Me and Arash organized
an intervention with Tim.

With all your friends,
the brothers, the direction of the tour...

He could see all of us sitting there...

It was terribly painful
see the look in his eyes.

No. It was... It really was...

Then everyone told him
how worried they were and Tim...

... sometimes he was furious, sometimes he wasn't.

And this lasted for hours.

He refused to give in.

But something ended up making him say:
"Okay, I'll do it."

Everyone applauded. We were radiant.

Finally understood, I think,
that I had to do something about it.

I went to psychiatrists, I went to doctors.

I've tried so many different diets.

I tried to start training,
I changed the way I toured.

Maybe there were many decisions per day,
Maybe that was the problem?

Dealing with all kinds of stupid shit,
That was never the problem.

Fuck, it's hard.
Very difficult. I don't really know.

I just know that it has reached a point
where I no longer liked it.

That's not me.
It's trying to be something I'm not.

But my dream would be to be completely,
completely free

and completely happy with what I already have

and not have any aspirations
to do a thousand million other things.

Fuck it, I just want to be free
of all the ideas of a life.

What stopped me from living life
It's been exactly that:

have an idea of what life should be
and what should make me happy.

Make better music
it will make me happier

or this and that... None of that was true.

But I want to learn to be satisfied.

That would be a life for me. Satisfied.

- Look here.
- Yes.

Listen, all of you
who are watching this great video...

This tent should last for years. Isn't it, dad?

- I think so.
- That's good.

I allowed myself space to explore.

Be the center of attention
It was never something I wanted.

I began to realize that, yes,
life as it was, was not for me.

It was time for a change.

Tim was struggling.
The situation was different.

That's why we separated.

AND...

We didn't speak for a year.

It took two years before we saw each other again.

In mid-May 2016,

Tim called me
and said he wanted to cancel everything.

And that implied
the latest shows scheduled.

I'm trying to find balance.

Balance in life,
with my friends and family.

That's how it should be!

Who is this guy?

It was tiring.

Tim was controlling his future.

While we were talking about this,
I made this diagram.

His plans were optimistic and realistic.

He would do almost anything
to try to improve your own life.

I went on crazy trips
to all parts of the world

to try new things
and brought his friends with him.

"Avicii retires, aged just 26,
after winning 50 million dollars."

It's such an American point of view.

- Exactly.
- Like: "Okay! Fantastic!"

"Go in, get the money out."

Who are you?

I'm Tim.

I feel like I did when I was 18.

I have the same...
spirit I had at the time.

Being free makes me very happy.

For not feeling trapped.

Don't feel pressured
in all directions.

When I achieve it, I will be very happy.

When I make music

without any expectations
and without any preconceived ideas

of what I want to do,
or a goal for what I want.

When it's freedom,
When it's just music, I love it.

I love when you do that.

Tim had many dreams.
They weren't just musical dreams,

they were dreams of love.

Dreams of finding a family.

"Let's form a band together!"

We discussed it,

we made lists of songs with references

and possible band names.

We met at his house
in fall 2017.

He was excited
for going back to the studio and writing music.

They called around 7:30 p.m.
Tim said, "Come over here, man."

He wanted to make his next record, Tim.

And we started making records again.

ARTIST

We said the album was a trip
who would reach Nirvana.

His whole project was very spiritual.

Welcome to the other side

The other side...

At the time, he was seeing a therapist.
He was a holistic doctor

and he called him a wizard.
And he had the appointments

and underwent several treatments.
And I had learned to do

transcendental meditation,
and he was very excited.

He talked about how the mind is something
which is not attached to the body.

The body is like a receptacle.

It was a spiritual thing.

He was fine,
One of the best places I've seen it.

He was being an adult,

more adult than I've seen in a long time.

And he was giving me advice
of "older brother".

Right. There was growth, obviously.

When we started the album Tim,

let's fix it quickly
that the lyrics had more depth.

And he took the lyrics further.

The first song was "Fades Away".

And I think I sang the...

COMPOSER

the chorus, the lyrics and the melody,

maybe in the first 20 minutes
of work.

Nothing outside the bedroom mattered.

Nothing was calculated.

It really was...
You played something. And he said.

"That's good. I think it's really cool. I like it."

It was never to please anyone,
except himself.

Tim sent me a message that night:

"It was the first time in five years
that I liked making music."

But there was also a darkness present.

"I can't work today.
I have to meditate."

And then he meditated
who knows how long.

He also canceled a few days.
"Today I can't make music."

There was a counterweight
How much is your passion for music?

on a personal level.

He was fragile, in a way.

One afternoon, I called him to make an appointment
a session with Ang�lique Kidjo.

He said, "Fine. I'll do it
when I return from the Middle East.

Like this? Where are you going?"

He said, "I'm going to Oman."

And I: "No way. What the fuck is in Oman?"

"It's great. It's supposed to be fantastic."
It's typical Tim's way.

And he said, "Cool. Will you be back next week?"

“Yes, I should be back at the end of this week.
Prepare everything. It's going to be fantastic."

I should go buy shoes.

He left the next day.

We sit down. We had a barbecue.

He had packed his bags
and he was going to make his journey.

He said, "I'm going to bug you like hell,

because I'm going to call you every week.
I hope there's no problem."

Yes, it was...

I think one of the biggest...

One of the biggest crazy things is that it seemed

just the beginning of something very good.

We hung up and he went to Om�
and I didn't think about it anymore.

I thought it was a normal Tuesday.

It was the last time I spoke to him.

Sometimes I think about what prompted him to write
the lyrics of "SOS".

What was your state of mind?
what were you thinking

And how did you feel when...

...you were writing the first few verses?

Can you hear me? SOS

Helps me rest my mind

It almost seemed like a cry for help.

and I'm getting this...

... this letter from Tim...

...too late.

We follow sad news
from the world of music.

EDM star Avicii has died.

He was found dead
in the city of Muscat, Om.

Avicii, born Tim Bergling in Sweden,
was considered a pioneer of EDM...

I was in the office
and someone tried to contact me.

They called to speak to me.
When I received the message

I called Klas directly.

And he told me it was true.
Then I was devastated.

I don't think anyone knows why
or what happened.

But...

Nobody knows what was happening
in his head. In truth.

Everyone can speculate.

He looked good to everyone
who was close to him.

He was fine.

It's difficult to accept.

It was an absolute shock.

I couldn't understand.

It was difficult to realize that Tim

He felt so bad that he didn't want to live.
It's still very difficult to accept.

He was a fantastic guy. It's not fair.

I miss you every day.
What can I say?

I felt like I could have...

I know this is,
something like this is inevitable.

But... If you were there,
I could have solved it.

Whatever happened to you, I would say:
"Shut the fuck up already!"

"Put your shoes on and let's go for a walk."

Everyone feels the same.

If they were there, they could have changed something.

Above all, his family.

Nobody here had any idea
that things would end like this.

When you hear "Ain't A Thing" after that,

where Tim actually...
Here are the verses he wrote:

"When the record..." Sorry.

"When the record is on the last song
and the party is long over,

the pretenders and the parasites
You can go find another one."

It... hurts.

What Tim shared with the world
it was his heart.

And that's what people gravitated towards.

Tonight, we celebrate his memory.

I think it's this difficult contradiction
which resides in creation.

To be honest,
you have to be vulnerable,

because that's how you
you really make a difference.

When you channel emotions like this,
you have the ability

to make the world happy and sad.

And for you the risks are much greater.

The thing I learned most
when working with Tim

was not disdain

of the different things that someone does.

Together, all of you here
made this concert possible.

They made Tim's dreams come true,

your music will be played live,
with a big band.

Tim had a genius mind. He realized
how to extract emotion from music.

His music was more
than the sum of its parts.

Timeless music, that's what I want to do.

That's what I try to do.

Tim...

We believe your music will live on

and will continue to make people happy.

Can I have some peace of mind?

And a little silence to relax

Relief, do you need relief?
Do you need relief?

Do you need a release?
Do you want to be free?

Do you want to be free?
Do you want to be free?

Do you want to be free?

Can I have some peace of mind?

Fix.

You said we would always be together

Without you I'm adrift at sea

Through the darkness, you hid with me

Like the wind, we would be wild and free

You would follow me anywhere

But your eyes

They tell me you're not there

I have to learn to love without you

I have to carry my cross without you

Stuck in a riddle and I'm about to

Discovering what it's like without you

And I'm tired of staying home without you

Fuck you, I'm leaving without you

I'm going to destroy this city

Without you

I'll be Bonnie and Clyde without you

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