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One, two,
one, two, three, four.
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Did you know there's
actually only one groove
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on a record?
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It's true.
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Yeah. It looks like all these
individual circles,
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but no, it's just one.
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One single line,
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1,500 feet of it, to be exact,
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a third of a mile carving
its way round and round
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in circles until...
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it finally just ends.
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To make a record it
takes 100 tons of pressure
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applied under 1,000 degrees
of heat,
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all to create
this perfect vinyl platter.
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Now, what music
goes on the record,
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well, that's where I come in.
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I... am a record man.
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♪ He taught me how ♪
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♪ To watch ♪
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♪ Fight and pray ♪
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Hey!
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-Whoo!
-♪ Fight and pray ♪
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Sing it!
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♪ And in rejoicing ♪
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♪ Every day ♪
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♪ Every day ♪
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That, right there,
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ah, that is why I'm here,
Mr. Hawkins.
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You got call-in requests
breaking records,
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lightning in a bottle,
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yet no one east of here
has ever heard it.
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You heard it,
as did six other labels,
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-all making offers right now.
-Five other labels, Mr. Hawkins,
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and you've only spoken
to the head of one of them.
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Now, give me this song
and I promise you,
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we will own radio.
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I mean,
a gospel-pop crossover?
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No one's ever done
that before!
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This is why I'm here.
This is what I do,
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and I promise you
right here in this church
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before God,
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there is just no one better.
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No, no. You called me
Mr. Hawkins, not Reverend.
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I'm not pretending there's not
a line.
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I am just respecting when
to cross it.
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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Now, do we want to talk
in height or weight?
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Because that right there
is about four inches.
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Mm.
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Yes?
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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Yes? Yes?
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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Oh, come on!
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Yes?
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-Yes, yes.
-Yes!
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We will do an awful lot
of God's work.
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Oh, happy day.
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Happy day.
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Whoo!
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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♪ Singing oh happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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♪ Whoo ♪
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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♪ Oh happy day ♪
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Who told you that?
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Buck? Cecil?
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You talk
to Hawkins himself?
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"Oh, Happy Day" sold
over seven million records.
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It even won us a Grammy.
Hmm.
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Alright. The choir
wasn't actually there
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when I got arrived.
I didn't get up the stage
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and perform the song,
but you know what?
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I could have.
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Hell of a lot more fun
to tell it that way, though.
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You realize that that's
gonna be the problem
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with all these stories, right?
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Listen. I'm not... I'm not sayig
that people are gonna be lying.
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It's just... Okay.
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Well, some of them might be.
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It's just that memories,
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memories are complicated,
you know.
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We remember
what we wanna remember.
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And we forget
what we need to forget.
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To be at the heart of something
as impossibly successful
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as what we had...
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Gladys Knight,
the Isley Brothers,
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Bill Withers, Parliament,
the Village People, Kiss,
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and Donna...
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it's... How do you expect me to
tell you
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how all that really happened?
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Couple guys broke as we were
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to making
over $100 million a year.
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I mean, first, you'd have
to understand our crew,
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because there was just no one
else ever like them.
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Cecil was my best friend.
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He was also a record executive
who loved the artists
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and the music
even more than the business,
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and the artists themselves...
Oh, my God.
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They sure loved him...
and trusted him,
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more than they ever trusted me.
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Larry was a music fan
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long before he ever became
an executive.
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It was why he was so effective
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staying out on the road
with the bands.
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He was also my cousin,
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and all great business
is family.
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Buck had been a short-order
cook before he married Nancy.
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Our PR man,
he was the connection guy
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who could convince
just about anyone
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to do just about anything.
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And Nancy.
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God. Every DJ
and radio program director
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just loved Nance.
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She was our secret weapon,
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getting our music on the air
and into your lives.
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She was also my wife's sister.
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Beth was, um...
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Well, she was the first person
who ever believed
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my dreams could be
more than just dreams.
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She was the first one
to ever truly believe in me.
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And Joyce...
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You know, I may have met her
as Kiss's manager, but...
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well, we'll get to Joyce.
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Just... give me a little time.
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Look. I know that we've been
blamed for a lot of bad things
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that happened,
and I'm not saying
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it's not sex, drugs, and rock
and roll, because it was.
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It's just, it was sex before
it was deadly, you know?
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And finding out who wasn't
doing drugs would be
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a hell of a lot harder story
for you to tell.
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But if what you're after
is the truth
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of not just what happened
but how it happened,
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then, you know, you're
just gonna have to believe
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all of it, because every
single bit of it
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was true.
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Even the parts that weren't.
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♪ Everybody everywhere ♪
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Los Angeles,
February 18, 1974.
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There's a hell of a lot
that comes before that night,
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but the story you want
to hear,
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well, this is
where it all really begins.
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Having moved out to California
only two months before,
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we were throwing
the biggest party Los Angeles
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had ever thrown,
to launch Casablanca Records,
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the biggest
independent record label
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anyone had ever launched.
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Absolutely I am. hit me.
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And we only had one
band to do it with,
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and they were... well,
they were, uh, different.
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I think this was a mistake.
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We should not let them go
on tonight.
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-Bill, it's gonna be great.
-Yeah? For who? Him or us?
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Are you really gonna
put those guys up there
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wearing those stupid costumes
and that stupid makeup?
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It's who they are, Joe.
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Nobody knows who they are yet.
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You know, I got friends
at Warner Brothers,
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and people are talking.
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And they're not talking
the way you want to hear.
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You know what they're
not talking about, Joey? Huh?
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Shit that doesn't scare them.
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-Nelly, we're ready.
-Yeah. Or excite them!
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Or make 'em want to dance
or laugh or fuck or cry
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or fucking matter at all.
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Thank you, because the fact
that people are talking,
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that's music to my ears.
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And you really spent all
the three million dollars
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Warners gave you as
an advance?
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Actually,
I spent four million.
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Show time, Neil.
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Ooh, sounds like they're
playing my song.
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Yeah, well, just remember,
the house always wins,
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even against you.
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-You wanna bet?
-I bet they suck.
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Uh-huh.
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Mwah.
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Hello. So, I had a thought...
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on my way
over here tonight.
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I thought to myself,
"What the hell am I doing
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in Humphrey Bogart's
actual suit?"
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Poor kid
from the Brooklyn projects,
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son of a postman.
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Oh, stand up, Pops. Pops.
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-There he is.
-Thank you. Thank you.
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-Oh, sure. Take a bow. Why not?
-Learned everything from me.
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Bad stuff from his mother.
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Hell of a long trip
from Brooklyn, huh?
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Not so far, kid.
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Dreams...
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only come true for those who
believe in them.
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So, tonight,
to celebrate the launch
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of the biggest independent
record label in history,
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we thought we'd share
some of our dreams with you.
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So, you may have heard them
on the radio,
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but after what you're
about to experience tonight,
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you're never gonna forget
these guys.
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So, put your two lips together
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for the hottest band
in the world, KISS!
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Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that way.
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- Hello, Los Angeles!
- Ah!
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- How we feeling tonight?
- Yeah, good. More.
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♪ Well the night's begun ♪
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♪ And you want some fun ♪
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♪ Do you think
you're gonna find it? ♪
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♪ Think you're gonna find it ♪
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♪ You got to treat yourself
like number one ♪
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♪ Do you need to be reminded? ♪
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♪ Need to be reminded? ♪
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♪ It doesn't matter
what you do or say ♪
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♪ Just forget the things
that you've been told ♪
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♪ We can't do it
any other way ♪
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♪ Everybody's got
to rock and roll ♪
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♪ Whoa, whoa ♪
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♪ Shout it, shout it ♪
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♪ Shout it out loud ♪
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Yeah!
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♪ Shout it, shout it ♪
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♪ Shout it out loud ♪
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You know, Kiss
may have been
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unlike anything anyone
had ever seen,
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but I could see them.
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I could see it all.
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Performance was great.
I just, um...
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you know,
forgot about the smoke.
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And the fire alarm.
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And the sprinklers.
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♪ Shout it, shout it ♪
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♪ Shout it out loud ♪
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Oh, shit!
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♪ Shout it, shout it ♪
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Guys, don't stop
playing.
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♪ Shout it out loud ♪
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♪ Shout it, shout it ♪
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♪ Shout it out loud ♪
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You fucking kidding me?
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Alright. Guys. Guys. Guys.
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I knew they were gonna suck.
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Kiss my ass.
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It's not your fault, guys.
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They don't understand art.
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Just be careful around
the water.
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-I fucking warned you!
-Don't touch anything.
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-Neil!
-Don't touch...
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Don't electrocute...
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- Paul, please.
- Paul. Paul, come on.
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Just like that...
the night it all began...
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we were finished.
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You okay?
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You made it rain
inside, Daddy.
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Do another trick.
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I'm working on it, honey.
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I'll get Jill home
to Beth and the boys.
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Just tell her
I'll be home soon.
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But you promised
we'd dance, Daddy!
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00:13:07,689 --> 00:13:09,424
You bet I did.
262
00:13:09,458 --> 00:13:11,493
Prettiest girl
in all the world.
263
00:13:57,739 --> 00:14:00,843
I had worked my whole life
leading up to that night,
264
00:14:00,876 --> 00:14:03,879
but KISS was dead the moment
they took that stage.
265
00:14:03,912 --> 00:14:04,947
The town just hated them.
266
00:14:15,024 --> 00:14:16,658
About the time
I got home to Beth,
267
00:14:16,692 --> 00:14:19,628
even she had heard
what a disaster it had been.
268
00:14:19,661 --> 00:14:20,562
From the day I married her,
269
00:14:20,596 --> 00:14:23,498
she always knew
the truth I was hiding.
270
00:14:23,532 --> 00:14:26,835
She just...
didn't always admit it.
271
00:14:26,869 --> 00:14:28,137
Hey, you okay?
272
00:14:28,171 --> 00:14:30,505
Your sister tell you
what happened tonight?
273
00:14:31,107 --> 00:14:33,142
Yeah.
274
00:14:33,176 --> 00:14:35,178
Even with everything
that had happened
275
00:14:35,211 --> 00:14:37,146
along the way,
276
00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:39,481
we'd still always been
better together.
277
00:15:05,674 --> 00:15:07,743
They, uh, say the biggest sin
of a record man
278
00:15:07,776 --> 00:15:09,912
is believing in something
because you have to,
279
00:15:09,945 --> 00:15:12,115
not because you do.
280
00:15:12,148 --> 00:15:14,083
But I had believed in Kiss,
281
00:15:14,117 --> 00:15:16,551
and I knew
what Casablanca could be.
282
00:15:16,585 --> 00:15:18,054
♪ Get yourself together ♪
283
00:15:18,087 --> 00:15:20,555
But after the party, the town
was already celebrating
284
00:15:20,589 --> 00:15:22,591
the death of Casablanca.
285
00:15:23,759 --> 00:15:25,560
Hello, Casablanca.
286
00:15:25,594 --> 00:15:26,662
Not that that was gonna
stop us.
287
00:15:26,695 --> 00:15:29,065
Mark Parenteau, WABX!
Kiss just got added
288
00:15:29,098 --> 00:15:30,532
to regular rotation
in Detroit.
289
00:15:30,565 --> 00:15:32,668
Nance, you paid off Mark
to do that, didn't you?
290
00:15:32,701 --> 00:15:34,003
Of course I did.
291
00:15:34,037 --> 00:15:35,604
Mwah! Love this woman.
292
00:15:35,637 --> 00:15:37,639
Mo Ostin at Warners
needs you to call him back.
293
00:15:37,673 --> 00:15:39,474
-Of course he does.
-He called six times.
294
00:15:39,508 --> 00:15:41,944
Of course he did.
295
00:15:41,977 --> 00:15:43,046
Hey, Cec!
296
00:15:43,079 --> 00:15:45,081
Hey. Bill called.
297
00:15:45,114 --> 00:15:46,848
Gene and Paul
are demanding a meeting.
298
00:15:46,882 --> 00:15:48,951
Oh. Just tell them
to get ready for the tour.
299
00:15:48,984 --> 00:15:51,154
-You got KISS a tour?
-No, but you're gonna do it.
300
00:15:51,187 --> 00:15:52,388
Just find 'em a headliner
301
00:15:52,422 --> 00:15:54,623
that's not gonna be intimidated
by them as an opening act.
302
00:15:54,656 --> 00:15:56,792
New artist from Giorgio.
He'll be expecting a yes.
303
00:15:56,825 --> 00:15:58,961
- Scotty! You listen to this yet?
- Ah, yeah,
304
00:15:58,994 --> 00:16:01,697
but they're Giorgio, you know?
They're different.
305
00:16:01,730 --> 00:16:03,699
-How different?
-After last night,
306
00:16:03,732 --> 00:16:04,733
too different.
307
00:16:04,766 --> 00:16:06,735
Last night went exactly
as we expected,
308
00:16:06,768 --> 00:16:08,171
and that includes
the sprinklers.
309
00:16:08,204 --> 00:16:10,839
- All set.
- Like hell it did.
310
00:16:23,019 --> 00:16:28,157
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
311
00:16:28,191 --> 00:16:32,627
Her voice just...
cut right through me.
312
00:16:32,661 --> 00:16:34,730
♪ You layin' so close to me ♪
313
00:16:34,763 --> 00:16:37,133
♪ There's no place
I'd rather you be ♪
314
00:16:37,166 --> 00:16:39,735
♪ Then with me here ♪
315
00:16:39,768 --> 00:16:42,138
♪ Ooh I ♪
316
00:16:42,171 --> 00:16:44,240
♪ Love to love you baby ♪
317
00:16:44,273 --> 00:16:45,741
Play that again.
318
00:16:45,774 --> 00:16:50,213
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
319
00:16:50,246 --> 00:16:55,051
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
320
00:16:55,084 --> 00:16:57,886
♪ Do it to me again and again ♪
321
00:16:57,919 --> 00:17:00,156
Yeah. Get me Giorgio.
322
00:17:02,191 --> 00:17:04,693
He's ready for you,
Mr. Moroder.
323
00:17:04,726 --> 00:17:07,562
Sorry I missed it, your party.
324
00:17:07,596 --> 00:17:08,764
I spoke to Cess-ull.
325
00:17:08,797 --> 00:17:10,632
-Cee-sull.
-You have no money.
326
00:17:10,665 --> 00:17:12,335
Ha-ha. Well,
there's always money, Giorgio,
327
00:17:12,368 --> 00:17:13,802
if you know where to find it.
328
00:17:13,835 --> 00:17:16,072
Listen. Those new songs of yours
were different.
329
00:17:16,105 --> 00:17:17,773
The eighth
and the sixteenth notes,
330
00:17:17,806 --> 00:17:19,941
that open hi-hat
on the down-beat.
331
00:17:22,078 --> 00:17:23,179
That's new. It makes you move.
332
00:17:23,212 --> 00:17:24,613
Mm-hmm.
333
00:17:24,646 --> 00:17:26,948
Where did you find that voice?
334
00:17:26,982 --> 00:17:28,784
An American girl.
335
00:17:28,817 --> 00:17:31,354
She does the musicals in Munich.
336
00:17:31,387 --> 00:17:33,256
LaDonna Gaines.
337
00:17:33,289 --> 00:17:35,224
Gaines. Gaines.
338
00:17:35,258 --> 00:17:37,692
Her first husband's name was
Sommer.
339
00:17:37,726 --> 00:17:39,362
Everything is hotter
in summer.
340
00:17:39,395 --> 00:17:41,897
An Italian from Germany
writing in English.
341
00:17:41,930 --> 00:17:43,865
You know what?
Maybe we pretend she's German.
342
00:17:43,899 --> 00:17:45,334
I never could figure out
his accent.
343
00:17:45,368 --> 00:17:47,869
What? Neil, you can't afford
to buy my music.
344
00:17:47,903 --> 00:17:49,305
I may not have been
at your party,
345
00:17:49,338 --> 00:17:51,007
but I could read. Even English.
346
00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:53,342
The party was to announce
that we're open for business,
347
00:17:53,376 --> 00:17:55,278
and now, we're on the cover
of everything.
348
00:17:55,311 --> 00:17:56,446
Because they say
you're finished.
349
00:17:56,479 --> 00:17:59,082
That's 'cause they don't know
what starting looks like,
350
00:17:59,115 --> 00:18:03,852
Giorgio. Now, I don't want
your music for our label, okay?
351
00:18:03,885 --> 00:18:09,058
I want it for yours.
Oasis through Casablanca.
352
00:18:10,393 --> 00:18:12,994
You let them write about that.
353
00:18:13,029 --> 00:18:15,831
Giorgio, why don't we take
a look at some artwork?
354
00:18:17,899 --> 00:18:20,635
Good old flash paper
trick, huh?
355
00:18:20,669 --> 00:18:23,972
Oh! Nelly, Warners wants
to bleed us to death.
356
00:18:24,006 --> 00:18:26,775
I snuck a tape recorder into
their little sales meeting.
357
00:18:26,808 --> 00:18:28,844
They wanna kill KISS
to kill us.
358
00:18:29,811 --> 00:18:31,380
Hello, Casablanca.
359
00:18:31,414 --> 00:18:33,049
Neil, I think
you're overreacting.
360
00:18:33,082 --> 00:18:35,051
Oh, really? So you're telling me
that Bruce here
361
00:18:35,084 --> 00:18:37,220
did not tell your teams
not to push our records?
362
00:18:37,253 --> 00:18:39,021
Bruce, the boys have concerns
363
00:18:39,055 --> 00:18:41,124
about how we're
handling Casablanca.
364
00:18:41,157 --> 00:18:43,792
Actually, Brucie,
the boys here are concerned
365
00:18:43,825 --> 00:18:45,794
that you might be a spineless
little cocksucker.
366
00:18:45,827 --> 00:18:47,863
-Oh, yeah. That's also true.
-Well, we don't have
367
00:18:47,896 --> 00:18:49,731
any actual proof
about the cock-sucking.
368
00:18:49,764 --> 00:18:52,000
But we all know, and no one
here's gonna judge you, Bruce.
369
00:18:52,034 --> 00:18:54,303
-Fuck you, and fuck you!
-You see that, Mo?
370
00:18:54,337 --> 00:18:56,405
He's trying to fuck me.
I don't blame him.
371
00:18:56,439 --> 00:18:58,107
Nobody gives a shit
about KISS.
372
00:18:58,141 --> 00:19:00,309
-Were you not at the party?
-This ain't got a damn thing
373
00:19:00,343 --> 00:19:01,843
to do about the party, and you
know it.
374
00:19:01,877 --> 00:19:02,978
Oh, you're right about that.
375
00:19:03,012 --> 00:19:05,047
It's about the fact that they
can't cut a radio hit.
376
00:19:05,081 --> 00:19:07,416
Their bullshit stage tricks
make them a fucking joke,
377
00:19:07,450 --> 00:19:09,751
not an act. That's why
their record's not selling.
378
00:19:09,784 --> 00:19:11,454
I wanna play you
a little something
379
00:19:11,487 --> 00:19:13,022
from our newest record.
380
00:19:13,055 --> 00:19:14,756
You're an asshole, Bruce.
381
00:19:14,789 --> 00:19:17,193
Mo, just take a listen.
It's got a hell of a hook.
382
00:19:18,860 --> 00:19:20,762
We don't promote KISS
383
00:19:20,795 --> 00:19:21,963
or any Casablanca records.
384
00:19:21,997 --> 00:19:24,167
We don't push 'em,
they can't sell 'em,
385
00:19:24,200 --> 00:19:25,268
and that's how we end 'em.
386
00:19:25,301 --> 00:19:27,836
Fuckin' bleed 'em to death.
387
00:19:27,869 --> 00:19:31,773
- You fucking recorded me?
- Don't touch me.
388
00:19:31,806 --> 00:19:34,110
-My wife got me that table.
-He fucking touched me, man.
389
00:19:34,143 --> 00:19:36,778
What the fuck?
This is fucking Warner Brothers,
390
00:19:36,811 --> 00:19:38,713
not some fucking
New York back alley
391
00:19:38,747 --> 00:19:39,781
you just crawled out of,
assholes!
392
00:19:39,814 --> 00:19:41,950
You messed with our business,
Bruce, and nobody,
393
00:19:41,983 --> 00:19:44,753
fucking nobody,
messes with our business,
394
00:19:44,786 --> 00:19:46,322
-not even you, Mo.
-What the hell
395
00:19:46,355 --> 00:19:47,989
do you really want?
396
00:19:48,024 --> 00:19:50,493
Huh? You didn't come
all the way over here
397
00:19:50,526 --> 00:19:52,361
just to beat up Bruce.
398
00:19:52,395 --> 00:19:53,728
-I did.
-No.
399
00:19:56,165 --> 00:19:58,100
We want out.
400
00:19:58,134 --> 00:20:01,304
-From our distribution?
-Fucking everything, all of it.
401
00:20:01,337 --> 00:20:05,941
You're broke.
402
00:20:05,974 --> 00:20:08,743
The whole town knows it.
What are you gonna do?
403
00:20:08,777 --> 00:20:10,213
Go door to door
across the country,
404
00:20:10,246 --> 00:20:12,481
selling your records yourselves?
405
00:20:12,515 --> 00:20:13,949
You'll never survive without us.
406
00:20:13,982 --> 00:20:16,952
No. We'll never survive
with you.
407
00:20:16,985 --> 00:20:18,887
You're gonna remember
this fucking meeting.
408
00:20:18,920 --> 00:20:21,957
No, and... and not
with a fucking smile.
409
00:20:21,990 --> 00:20:24,859
So, bill me for your table
and have a nice fucking day.
410
00:20:26,128 --> 00:20:29,498
Hey. You do know
no one's ever done this before?
411
00:20:29,532 --> 00:20:31,234
Because no one's
ever tried before.
412
00:20:34,203 --> 00:20:36,272
Launching
our own distribution, we weren't
413
00:20:36,305 --> 00:20:38,974
just going up against Warners.
We were waging an all-out war
414
00:20:39,008 --> 00:20:41,143
against all the majors at once.
415
00:20:42,278 --> 00:20:43,912
But if we were gonna survive,
416
00:20:43,945 --> 00:20:45,514
we absolutely needed a hit,
417
00:20:45,548 --> 00:20:50,019
which meant we absolutely
needed something new.
418
00:20:52,021 --> 00:20:54,956
LaDonna Adrian Gaines
may have been born in Boston,
419
00:20:54,990 --> 00:20:56,858
but her dreams had landed her
in Germany,
420
00:20:56,891 --> 00:20:58,860
which is where her story with us
really begins.
421
00:20:58,893 --> 00:21:00,962
-You're late.
-I'm as early as I could be.
422
00:21:00,996 --> 00:21:02,465
He's releasing the song
in America,
423
00:21:02,498 --> 00:21:04,133
and I mean right away.
424
00:21:04,166 --> 00:21:06,202
What? We haven't even recorded
the real song yet.
425
00:21:06,235 --> 00:21:08,337
-It's just a demo.
-When I'm done with the mix,
426
00:21:08,371 --> 00:21:10,339
no one will care.
427
00:21:10,373 --> 00:21:12,341
I'll care.
428
00:21:15,177 --> 00:21:17,846
Uh, you gave him control
over how I look?
429
00:21:17,879 --> 00:21:20,182
He creates an image, a story.
It's what he does.
430
00:21:20,216 --> 00:21:22,418
Well, don't you think he should
at least meet the real me
431
00:21:22,451 --> 00:21:25,887
before he decides there needs
to be a fake one created?
432
00:21:25,920 --> 00:21:29,558
LaDonna, your daughter
is asleep in the hallway
433
00:21:29,592 --> 00:21:32,028
instead of a bedroom
all her own, dreaming
434
00:21:32,061 --> 00:21:35,197
a sweeter dream than you
could ever provide her alone.
435
00:21:35,231 --> 00:21:38,167
You will never get
another chance like this.
436
00:21:38,200 --> 00:21:39,168
Sign it.
437
00:21:43,606 --> 00:21:47,209
They... they legally changed
my name?
438
00:21:47,243 --> 00:21:49,045
He changed his, too.
439
00:21:49,078 --> 00:21:50,313
He was right. I had.
440
00:21:50,346 --> 00:21:53,215
And not just once.
441
00:21:54,883 --> 00:21:56,985
I was actually
born Neil Bogatz,
442
00:21:57,019 --> 00:21:58,920
growing up
in the Glenwood projects
443
00:21:58,953 --> 00:22:00,589
of Brooklyn, New York.
444
00:22:00,623 --> 00:22:03,492
Alright, Neil.
What else do you want?
445
00:22:06,629 --> 00:22:07,962
All of it.
446
00:22:09,165 --> 00:22:10,932
By the time
I was eight years old,
447
00:22:10,965 --> 00:22:12,601
I already knew
that the life that I wanted
448
00:22:12,635 --> 00:22:15,037
was far, far away from here.
449
00:22:29,552 --> 00:22:32,021
Please. I swear!
450
00:22:32,054 --> 00:22:33,155
You hear that, kid?
451
00:22:33,189 --> 00:22:35,990
Your pops says
he swears this time!
452
00:22:48,070 --> 00:22:49,372
You dropped your egg cream.
453
00:22:50,706 --> 00:22:52,441
We'll get you a refill.
454
00:23:02,184 --> 00:23:03,319
Are we poor, Pop?
455
00:23:03,352 --> 00:23:04,320
What?
456
00:23:06,622 --> 00:23:08,923
What you worried about? Huh?
457
00:23:09,658 --> 00:23:12,294
Hey, money's easy.
458
00:23:12,328 --> 00:23:13,662
You can always find money.
459
00:23:13,696 --> 00:23:15,464
A person's got to know
what to do with it.
460
00:23:15,498 --> 00:23:16,998
That's what counts.
461
00:23:17,633 --> 00:23:20,002
Do you know what to do with it?
462
00:23:20,035 --> 00:23:22,605
Because it's not here.
463
00:23:24,740 --> 00:23:26,609
Do me a favor, boychik.
464
00:23:26,642 --> 00:23:30,012
Look at all these people, huh?
465
00:23:30,045 --> 00:23:32,415
Now, you got a choice. You can
live in a four-color world
466
00:23:32,448 --> 00:23:34,583
or one in black and white
like all these schmucks
467
00:23:34,617 --> 00:23:36,185
too terrified
to dream of a world
468
00:23:36,218 --> 00:23:38,888
outside
of our four shitty blocks.
469
00:23:40,389 --> 00:23:41,923
Eh, not me.
470
00:23:42,691 --> 00:23:44,560
I know what to do with it.
471
00:23:44,593 --> 00:23:46,462
I'm gonna get us
the hell out of here.
472
00:23:47,630 --> 00:23:49,931
Hey. I promise you.
473
00:23:51,200 --> 00:23:54,270
Just... need a little more tim.
474
00:23:54,303 --> 00:23:55,704
That's all.
475
00:24:03,145 --> 00:24:05,047
Neil, you got
all the machines going.
476
00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:07,283
It saves my time,
Mrs. Finkelstein.
477
00:24:07,316 --> 00:24:09,318
If I leave these with you,
you'll put them in
478
00:24:09,351 --> 00:24:10,653
when you're done?
479
00:24:10,686 --> 00:24:12,354
I'll give you five cents.
480
00:24:13,355 --> 00:24:15,057
Ten cents.
481
00:24:15,090 --> 00:24:16,258
Saves your time.
482
00:24:18,661 --> 00:24:19,994
You better fold them.
483
00:24:20,029 --> 00:24:21,597
- Let's go!
- Within a month,
484
00:24:21,630 --> 00:24:23,399
I had 40 kids
working the neighborhood.
485
00:24:23,432 --> 00:24:25,501
Here's how it's gonna go.
I'm gonna assign...
486
00:24:25,534 --> 00:24:29,071
Within two, I was
bringing in more than my dad.
487
00:24:29,104 --> 00:24:30,172
You know how it feels
488
00:24:30,206 --> 00:24:31,740
making more money
than your father?
489
00:24:31,774 --> 00:24:34,510
Exactly how you think it does.
490
00:24:37,413 --> 00:24:41,083
By 1961, I had changed
my name again to Neil Scott.
491
00:24:41,116 --> 00:24:44,053
I tried acting, playing
the piano, even the sax,
492
00:24:44,086 --> 00:24:46,255
and while I always wanted
to be a singer,
493
00:24:46,288 --> 00:24:49,592
it was as a dancer that
I finally found the beat.
494
00:24:52,661 --> 00:24:55,564
My fiancée,
Erminie McNulty, everybody.
495
00:24:58,567 --> 00:25:01,203
I am Neil Scott, your singer,
your dance instructor,
496
00:25:01,237 --> 00:25:03,372
and anything else
you need me to be tonight.
497
00:25:04,507 --> 00:25:07,409
But, uh, that's not
why I'm telling you this part.
498
00:25:15,184 --> 00:25:16,185
Dance.
499
00:25:18,354 --> 00:25:20,689
Is that a statement
or a question
500
00:25:20,723 --> 00:25:23,592
without the inflection
at the end?
501
00:25:23,626 --> 00:25:24,727
Dance with me.
502
00:25:24,760 --> 00:25:27,730
We don't dance with the staff.
503
00:25:27,763 --> 00:25:29,231
Our parents own the hotel.
504
00:25:30,699 --> 00:25:33,269
Well, okay.
Well, then I work for you.
505
00:25:33,302 --> 00:25:36,772
♪ From within
a dim light cast ♪
506
00:25:36,805 --> 00:25:39,275
♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪
507
00:25:39,308 --> 00:25:42,678
♪ Oh what a lovely couple ♪
508
00:25:42,711 --> 00:25:45,314
♪ They made ♪
509
00:25:45,347 --> 00:25:49,151
♪ Put his arms
around your waist ♪
510
00:25:49,184 --> 00:25:51,320
♪ Held you tight ♪
511
00:25:51,353 --> 00:25:55,357
♪ Kisses I could almost taste ♪
512
00:25:55,391 --> 00:25:57,293
♪ In the night ♪
513
00:25:57,326 --> 00:26:00,296
♪ Wondered why I'm not the guy ♪
514
00:26:00,329 --> 00:26:03,566
Where did you learn to dance
like this?
515
00:26:03,599 --> 00:26:04,600
♪ I couldn't hide ♪
516
00:26:04,633 --> 00:26:05,367
My father.
517
00:26:05,401 --> 00:26:08,470
♪ The tears in my eyes ♪
518
00:26:08,504 --> 00:26:11,240
♪ Silhouettes silhouettes
silhouettes silhouettes ♪
519
00:26:11,273 --> 00:26:13,409
So, you met your lawyer yet?
520
00:26:13,442 --> 00:26:15,444
Your doctor?
521
00:26:15,477 --> 00:26:17,780
Whoever your parents
have already set up for you?
522
00:26:17,813 --> 00:26:19,315
♪ Silhouettes silhouettes ♪
523
00:26:19,348 --> 00:26:20,783
They'll never be able
to compete.
524
00:26:20,816 --> 00:26:22,585
With you?
525
00:26:24,653 --> 00:26:25,621
With you.
526
00:26:29,358 --> 00:26:31,760
All this really the life
that you want?
527
00:26:31,794 --> 00:26:33,862
When you're all alone
and nobody's watching...
528
00:26:33,896 --> 00:26:35,564
♪ Lost control
and rang your bell ♪
529
00:26:35,598 --> 00:26:37,399
...lights are out...
530
00:26:37,433 --> 00:26:38,801
♪ I was sore ♪
531
00:26:38,834 --> 00:26:40,269
...just about to fall asleep..
532
00:26:40,302 --> 00:26:43,205
♪ Let me in or else I'll beat ♪
533
00:26:43,238 --> 00:26:44,206
♪ Down your door ♪
534
00:26:44,239 --> 00:26:45,741
...what do you dream?
535
00:26:45,774 --> 00:26:48,777
♪ When two strangers
who had been ♪
536
00:26:48,811 --> 00:26:50,212
Dreams are for children.
537
00:26:50,245 --> 00:26:52,348
♪ ...silhouettes
on the shade ♪
538
00:26:52,381 --> 00:26:53,749
You don't really believe that.
539
00:26:53,782 --> 00:26:55,384
♪ You're on the wrong block ♪
540
00:26:55,417 --> 00:26:57,419
Someone just told you you did.
541
00:26:57,453 --> 00:26:59,655
♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah
bah bah bah bah bah bah ♪
542
00:26:59,688 --> 00:27:03,759
♪ Bah bah bah bah bah bah
bah bah bah bah bah bah bah ♪
543
00:27:03,792 --> 00:27:05,861
What do you dream of, Neil?
544
00:27:05,894 --> 00:27:08,664
Tonight... I'm gonna dream
545
00:27:08,697 --> 00:27:10,766
about how it feels
dancing with you right now.
546
00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:13,168
♪ Loved you
like I never loved ♪
547
00:27:13,202 --> 00:27:15,504
♪ You my sweet ♪
548
00:27:15,537 --> 00:27:19,174
♪ Vowed that you and I
would be ♪
549
00:27:19,208 --> 00:27:21,844
♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪
550
00:27:21,877 --> 00:27:23,779
♪ All of our days ♪
551
00:27:23,812 --> 00:27:26,782
♪ Two silhouettes on the shade ♪
552
00:27:26,815 --> 00:27:29,885
♪ Silhouettes silhouettes
silhouettes silhouettes ♪
553
00:27:29,918 --> 00:27:33,956
♪ Silhouettes silhouettes
ah oh ♪
554
00:27:33,989 --> 00:27:37,326
♪ Two silhouettes ♪
555
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:39,595
With Beth, I finally felt
everything was possible.
556
00:27:39,628 --> 00:27:42,931
All we had to decide
was which dream came next.
557
00:27:46,502 --> 00:27:48,737
Yeah. No. The second verse
still needs be pop-ier,
558
00:27:48,771 --> 00:27:49,772
right up into the break.
559
00:27:49,805 --> 00:27:51,373
♪ Licorice ♪
560
00:27:51,407 --> 00:27:53,409
And then boom! That,
that is when they will swoon.
561
00:27:53,442 --> 00:27:55,744
-Who's gonna swoon?
-The girls, Mr. Darnell,
562
00:27:55,778 --> 00:27:57,379
the ones actually buying
the records.
563
00:27:57,413 --> 00:27:59,448
The girls buy records
after the first take, Neil.
564
00:27:59,481 --> 00:28:00,916
-Trust me.
-Let's just do it again.
565
00:28:00,949 --> 00:28:02,584
-I know I'm right about this.
-How?
566
00:28:02,618 --> 00:28:04,286
Because I can hear it!
567
00:28:04,319 --> 00:28:05,854
Can't you? Come on!
568
00:28:09,425 --> 00:28:13,228
So, Murray-The-K
does a monthly competition.
569
00:28:13,262 --> 00:28:14,963
He pits one new single
against another.
570
00:28:14,997 --> 00:28:16,832
The one that comes out on top,
571
00:28:16,865 --> 00:28:19,301
he spins it
'til the grooves wear out.
572
00:28:19,334 --> 00:28:20,636
Well, okay.
So, when do we start?
573
00:28:20,669 --> 00:28:24,339
Next month.
This month, it's against Elvis.
574
00:28:24,373 --> 00:28:26,508
-Neil.
-What? Bill, I know the contest.
575
00:28:26,542 --> 00:28:29,411
The... the call-in votes
can only be local, right?
576
00:28:29,445 --> 00:28:30,979
-We can beat him!
-No, you can't.
577
00:28:31,014 --> 00:28:32,581
Yes, we can!
578
00:28:32,614 --> 00:28:33,782
It's against Elvis!
579
00:28:34,917 --> 00:28:36,552
Presley, Neil.
580
00:28:40,689 --> 00:28:42,791
The votes are in!
The game is won,
581
00:28:42,825 --> 00:28:44,593
and the hot new kid
from Brooklyn
582
00:28:44,626 --> 00:28:45,994
just beat Elvis Presley!
583
00:28:46,029 --> 00:28:48,831
-We beat Elvis.
-We beat Elvis!
584
00:28:48,864 --> 00:28:51,633
Oh, my God! Neil!
585
00:28:51,667 --> 00:28:56,572
♪ My baby's kisses
taste like candy ♪
586
00:28:58,373 --> 00:29:00,642
♪ Every time
that her lips touch mine ♪
587
00:29:00,676 --> 00:29:03,378
♪ I don't want to stop ♪
588
00:29:05,748 --> 00:29:07,750
♪ Oh we can dream ♪
589
00:29:07,783 --> 00:29:11,987
♪ About our someday ♪
590
00:29:12,021 --> 00:29:14,057
♪ When I see my sugar ♪
591
00:29:14,090 --> 00:29:18,494
♪ Down at the candy shop ♪
592
00:29:18,527 --> 00:29:19,962
♪ She's the cherry on top ♪
593
00:29:19,995 --> 00:29:22,765
♪ My life was bittersweet ♪
594
00:29:22,798 --> 00:29:25,068
♪ Before her ♪
595
00:29:25,101 --> 00:29:26,969
♪ She's the cherry on top ♪
596
00:29:27,003 --> 00:29:28,871
♪ She floats my ice cream ♪
597
00:29:28,904 --> 00:29:32,508
♪ When she smiles ♪
598
00:29:32,541 --> 00:29:33,976
♪ She's the cherry on top ♪
599
00:29:34,010 --> 00:29:37,513
♪ I'm crazy for her lips ♪
600
00:29:37,546 --> 00:29:42,417
♪ Bright red like licorice ♪
601
00:29:47,056 --> 00:29:50,592
Okay. So, where do we dream
from here?
602
00:29:50,626 --> 00:29:51,794
This is Murray-The-K,
WINS,
603
00:29:51,827 --> 00:29:55,031
where Neil Scott is the name
you're gonna wanna remember!
604
00:29:55,064 --> 00:29:56,899
♪ Uno, dos, one, two ♪
605
00:29:56,932 --> 00:29:58,101
Yeah...
606
00:29:58,134 --> 00:30:00,103
As Neil Scott, I'd recorded
two more songs
607
00:30:00,136 --> 00:30:01,537
for Portrait Records,
608
00:30:01,570 --> 00:30:03,772
but we'd made "Cherry On Top"
a hit.
609
00:30:03,806 --> 00:30:05,574
It never made me one.
610
00:30:05,607 --> 00:30:06,809
One-hit wonder.
611
00:30:06,842 --> 00:30:08,844
Well, you know that story.
612
00:30:08,877 --> 00:30:10,046
Anyway, after a short stint
613
00:30:10,079 --> 00:30:12,614
as soft porn actor
Wayne Stewart,
614
00:30:12,648 --> 00:30:15,118
which there's really no need
to get into now,
615
00:30:15,151 --> 00:30:16,552
I'd become Wayne Roberts,
616
00:30:16,585 --> 00:30:18,887
freelancing
for Fortune Employment,
617
00:30:18,921 --> 00:30:21,124
you know,
getting other people jobs,
618
00:30:21,157 --> 00:30:22,658
when MGM Records called
619
00:30:22,691 --> 00:30:24,693
looking for someone
to run record promotions.
620
00:30:24,726 --> 00:30:28,064
And well, fuck me
if I didn't know just the guy.
621
00:30:29,531 --> 00:30:30,933
His name?
622
00:30:30,966 --> 00:30:33,102
You changed our names?
623
00:30:33,136 --> 00:30:34,736
After Humphrey Bogart?
624
00:30:34,770 --> 00:30:36,072
Here's lookin' at us, kid.
625
00:30:36,105 --> 00:30:39,108
Us? Does that mean
I get a say in this?
626
00:30:39,142 --> 00:30:41,077
Yeah, of course.
You get a say in everything.
627
00:30:41,110 --> 00:30:42,945
We'll take a vote.
628
00:30:42,978 --> 00:30:44,513
Did you really change our names?
629
00:30:44,546 --> 00:30:46,548
Well, you got to write down
your vote. You know,
630
00:30:46,582 --> 00:30:47,983
who do you...
who do you wanna be?
631
00:30:48,017 --> 00:30:49,785
I want to be me.
632
00:30:49,818 --> 00:30:52,855
Okay. Well, you got to...
You gonna vote or not?
633
00:30:52,888 --> 00:30:55,490
You got to do the vote.
You got to do the vote.
634
00:30:56,425 --> 00:30:57,693
-Ready?
-Mm-hmm.
635
00:30:57,726 --> 00:31:00,596
Come on. Come on.
Ooh. Bogatz. Bogart. Bogart!
636
00:31:00,629 --> 00:31:02,531
-I win! I get two votes!
-Why?
637
00:31:02,564 --> 00:31:04,766
I get two votes,
because I voted on that, too!
638
00:31:05,868 --> 00:31:07,536
Come on. Come on.
639
00:31:07,569 --> 00:31:10,039
It's finally
the record business again,
640
00:31:10,073 --> 00:31:11,174
for real this time.
641
00:31:11,207 --> 00:31:12,741
For real this time?
642
00:31:12,774 --> 00:31:14,077
Yeah. For real.
643
00:31:14,110 --> 00:31:16,912
And what do we change
after our names, huh?
644
00:31:16,945 --> 00:31:18,147
Huh?
645
00:31:18,181 --> 00:31:19,982
Everything.
646
00:31:20,016 --> 00:31:20,983
-Listen.
-Neil.
647
00:31:21,017 --> 00:31:22,118
-You put this on the side.
-Neil, how many...
648
00:31:22,151 --> 00:31:24,153
Put it down here. You put it up
here. You got a big,
649
00:31:24,187 --> 00:31:26,155
-big, yellow sign...
-I put what I want in my window,
650
00:31:26,189 --> 00:31:27,056
-Neil!
-saying, "Come look
651
00:31:27,090 --> 00:31:28,191
-at my merchandise!"
-How many times
652
00:31:28,224 --> 00:31:30,759
do I gotta tell you?
I put what I want in my window!
653
00:31:30,792 --> 00:31:33,129
-Come on. It's a great song.
-Neil, you just keep trying,
654
00:31:33,162 --> 00:31:34,696
-okay, buddy?
-It's a great song. Okay.
655
00:31:34,730 --> 00:31:36,698
One week. One week.
I take it down after one week.
656
00:31:36,732 --> 00:31:38,901
-Then we put a new one up.
-What are you gonna do for me?
657
00:31:38,934 --> 00:31:41,470
You're asking him
to advertise your records.
658
00:31:41,503 --> 00:31:43,139
No. I'm asking him to put
a couple posters up
659
00:31:43,172 --> 00:31:44,806
in the window.
It's not the same thing.
660
00:31:44,840 --> 00:31:47,509
It's exactly the same thing,
except you're asking him
661
00:31:47,542 --> 00:31:49,511
-to do it for free.
-Well, you know, MGM won't pay
662
00:31:49,544 --> 00:31:50,679
for local advertising.
663
00:31:50,712 --> 00:31:52,581
Who says you have to call it
advertising?
664
00:31:52,614 --> 00:31:53,949
MGM won't pay for anything.
665
00:31:57,753 --> 00:31:59,888
Who says
it has to come from them, huh?
666
00:31:59,922 --> 00:32:03,059
♪ Wooly bully ♪
667
00:32:03,092 --> 00:32:04,893
♪ Wooly bully ♪
668
00:32:06,695 --> 00:32:08,530
♪ Wooly bully, wooly bully ♪
669
00:32:08,563 --> 00:32:10,465
-No.
-I already voted.
670
00:32:10,499 --> 00:32:11,700
♪ Wooly bully ♪
671
00:32:11,733 --> 00:32:13,069
♪ Watch it now, watch it ♪
672
00:32:13,102 --> 00:32:15,704
And this is what comes next.
673
00:32:15,737 --> 00:32:17,706
♪ You got it, you got it ♪
674
00:32:17,739 --> 00:32:20,442
♪ Yeah ♪
675
00:32:21,110 --> 00:32:22,444
♪ Yeah ♪
676
00:32:24,147 --> 00:32:25,714
You're moving up
in the world, Neil.
677
00:32:29,018 --> 00:32:31,087
I wasn't running
promotions for a year
678
00:32:31,120 --> 00:32:32,587
before I was running it all.
679
00:32:33,655 --> 00:32:34,424
No. I...
680
00:32:36,758 --> 00:32:38,560
I'm running
MGM Records,
681
00:32:38,593 --> 00:32:40,063
and I didn't even finish
high school.
682
00:32:40,096 --> 00:32:41,397
♪ Matty told Hatty ♪
683
00:32:41,431 --> 00:32:44,599
And there's not a single person
who ever did finish high school
684
00:32:44,633 --> 00:32:46,969
that could possibly be better
at running MGM Records.
685
00:32:47,003 --> 00:32:49,604
♪ Get you someone really ♪
686
00:32:49,638 --> 00:32:51,840
♪ To pull the wool with you ♪
687
00:32:51,873 --> 00:32:52,874
I'll teach you.
688
00:32:52,908 --> 00:32:54,609
♪ Wooly bully ♪
689
00:32:55,244 --> 00:32:56,745
♪ Wooly bully ♪
690
00:32:59,015 --> 00:33:00,016
♪ Wooly bully ♪
691
00:33:01,317 --> 00:33:02,851
I know what comes next.
692
00:33:02,884 --> 00:33:03,986
♪ Wooly bully ♪
693
00:33:04,020 --> 00:33:05,787
♪ Watch it now, watch it ♪
694
00:33:05,821 --> 00:33:07,090
♪ Here it come ♪
695
00:33:07,123 --> 00:33:09,491
♪ You got it, you got it ♪
696
00:33:12,128 --> 00:33:13,795
This is what I dreamt of.
697
00:33:14,796 --> 00:33:17,499
The night you asked me
when we first met?
698
00:33:19,935 --> 00:33:21,603
This was my dream.
699
00:33:26,042 --> 00:33:29,012
♪ Yummy yummy yummy
I got love in my tummy ♪
700
00:33:29,045 --> 00:33:32,748
Buddah Records,
1650 Broadway in the Brill.
701
00:33:34,750 --> 00:33:36,952
Other than what we'd create
later at Casablanca,
702
00:33:36,985 --> 00:33:39,888
no more infamous address
in the music business
703
00:33:39,921 --> 00:33:40,655
ever existed.
704
00:33:40,689 --> 00:33:42,557
♪ Ooh love to hold you ♪
705
00:33:42,591 --> 00:33:45,028
♪ Ooh love to kiss you ♪
706
00:33:45,061 --> 00:33:47,296
We'd built the kind
of independent record company
707
00:33:47,330 --> 00:33:48,797
that no one
had ever seen before.
708
00:33:48,830 --> 00:33:51,100
The artists worked with us,
not for us.
709
00:33:51,134 --> 00:33:52,201
They were family,
710
00:33:52,235 --> 00:33:53,902
and that made
all the difference.
711
00:33:53,935 --> 00:33:55,304
Neil.
712
00:33:55,338 --> 00:33:56,772
He'll see us.
713
00:33:56,805 --> 00:33:58,540
Still holding. Buck.
714
00:34:05,814 --> 00:34:07,749
Hey, man.
What the fuck you doing?
715
00:34:07,783 --> 00:34:09,718
What the fuck
it look like, black?
716
00:34:09,751 --> 00:34:12,355
Trying to open the...
fucking window.
717
00:34:12,388 --> 00:34:14,956
You're the ones making
a lot of noise downstairs,
718
00:34:14,990 --> 00:34:16,591
that Buddah Records. Yeah.
719
00:34:16,625 --> 00:34:18,827
Big music
needs big speakers, Ron.
720
00:34:18,860 --> 00:34:22,231
Big music needs big dollars,
Neil. Black dollars.
721
00:34:22,265 --> 00:34:23,266
Green dollars, my man.
722
00:34:23,299 --> 00:34:24,933
It's the only color that
matters.
723
00:34:24,966 --> 00:34:26,235
Maybe to you.
724
00:34:26,269 --> 00:34:29,671
So, Cec tells me
you recorded something new.
725
00:34:29,704 --> 00:34:31,940
-I want it.
-You ain't even heard it yet.
726
00:34:31,973 --> 00:34:33,842
Well, you're
the fucking Isley Brothers.
727
00:34:33,875 --> 00:34:36,345
So, if Motown is too busy
to make you a priority,
728
00:34:36,379 --> 00:34:38,114
then Berry Gordy
can go to the record stores
729
00:34:38,147 --> 00:34:40,383
and buy your fucking music
like everybody else.
730
00:34:40,416 --> 00:34:42,951
Plus, you know that we
move product better than anyone.
731
00:34:42,984 --> 00:34:45,321
We know y'all be paying
motherfuckin' DJs
732
00:34:45,354 --> 00:34:47,823
to play the records
you tell them to.
733
00:34:47,856 --> 00:34:50,725
We don't get pimped out.
You dig?
734
00:34:50,759 --> 00:34:53,062
Because we are
the motherfuckin' Isleys.
735
00:34:53,096 --> 00:34:54,063
God damn right.
736
00:34:56,232 --> 00:34:58,101
But you got to be out your mind.
737
00:34:58,134 --> 00:35:01,837
You going head to head
with Berry Gordy himself.
738
00:35:03,039 --> 00:35:05,241
Well, it is called
show business.
739
00:35:05,274 --> 00:35:08,643
So, why don't you play me
the song that we're releasing
740
00:35:08,677 --> 00:35:11,646
off of your own new label?
741
00:35:11,680 --> 00:35:13,615
- Our own new label?
- Mm-hmm.
742
00:35:14,883 --> 00:35:17,019
That's what you're offering us?
743
00:35:17,053 --> 00:35:18,920
Well, that's your thing, right?
744
00:35:18,954 --> 00:35:21,290
It's a black thing.
A black label.
745
00:35:21,324 --> 00:35:23,292
Careful, motherfucker.
746
00:35:23,326 --> 00:35:25,128
You talk a good talk,
but there's a line.
747
00:35:25,161 --> 00:35:28,797
I'm sorry. I thought
you didn't believe in lines.
748
00:35:28,830 --> 00:35:30,732
You played him
the motherfucking record,
749
00:35:30,765 --> 00:35:33,035
didn't you? Because he wouldn't
even be acting like this
750
00:35:33,069 --> 00:35:35,004
if he ain't heard the shit.
751
00:35:35,037 --> 00:35:37,206
-I sang it for him.
-Don't be lying to me, man.
752
00:35:37,240 --> 00:35:40,942
It's a hot fucking song, Ron.
The man had to hear it.
753
00:35:40,976 --> 00:35:43,045
Do me a favor. Why don't you
scoot on over, Ronnie?
754
00:35:43,079 --> 00:35:45,014
Who the fuck you calling...
This motherfucker
755
00:35:45,047 --> 00:35:47,350
-just called me Ronnie.
-You don't know him like that.
756
00:35:47,383 --> 00:35:48,817
Don't be callin' the man Ronnie.
757
00:35:48,850 --> 00:35:50,752
Um, just a term
of endearment, alright?
758
00:35:50,785 --> 00:35:52,954
Do I look like
a motherfucking Ronnie to you?
759
00:35:55,057 --> 00:35:57,260
Do I look
like a motherfucking Ronnie
760
00:35:57,293 --> 00:35:58,860
to you?
761
00:35:59,995 --> 00:36:01,464
As a matter of fact,
yeah, you look
762
00:36:01,497 --> 00:36:03,665
exactly like a fuckin' Ronnie.
763
00:36:12,475 --> 00:36:14,976
You're a crazy motherfucker.
You got some balls, man.
764
00:36:15,011 --> 00:36:17,480
Let me show you a few ideas
I've been hearing in your music.
765
00:36:17,513 --> 00:36:19,915
Oh, now, you got ideas
to my fucking music.
766
00:36:19,948 --> 00:36:21,083
Yeah.
767
00:36:23,818 --> 00:36:25,288
Show me what you got, Neil.
768
00:36:33,229 --> 00:36:34,696
That dirty guitar?
769
00:36:35,997 --> 00:36:37,466
No, no.
You got to turn that shit up.
770
00:36:37,500 --> 00:36:40,102
That nasty brass. Oh.
771
00:36:40,136 --> 00:36:42,505
You tell me that each punch
isn't meant to cut Berry Gordy
772
00:36:42,538 --> 00:36:44,906
right through the fucking gut.
773
00:36:44,940 --> 00:36:46,975
You're a dangerous man,
ain't you?
774
00:36:47,009 --> 00:36:48,977
No, man. I'm just the guy
who knows that you are,
775
00:36:49,011 --> 00:36:51,013
and you fucking should be.
But knockout punches,
776
00:36:51,047 --> 00:36:52,847
they gotta come clean,
be relentless,
777
00:36:52,881 --> 00:36:55,817
and never stop until the body
hits the fucking floor!
778
00:37:07,063 --> 00:37:08,331
Now, that's a hit.
779
00:37:13,001 --> 00:37:14,136
Motherfucker.
780
00:37:20,142 --> 00:37:21,177
-Hey.
-What's up?
781
00:37:31,287 --> 00:37:32,321
What's going on, brother?
782
00:37:32,355 --> 00:37:34,323
Whoo!
783
00:37:34,357 --> 00:37:35,924
Ron Isley!
784
00:37:42,298 --> 00:37:44,533
♪ It's your thing ♪
785
00:37:44,567 --> 00:37:46,768
♪ Do what you want to do ♪
786
00:37:48,037 --> 00:37:52,275
♪ I can't tell you
who to sock it to ♪
787
00:37:52,308 --> 00:37:54,477
♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪
788
00:37:54,510 --> 00:37:57,580
♪ Do what you want to do ♪
789
00:37:57,613 --> 00:38:00,915
♪ Said I can't tell you ♪
790
00:38:00,949 --> 00:38:03,019
♪ Who to sock it to ♪
791
00:38:03,052 --> 00:38:04,353
♪ Oh ♪
792
00:38:04,387 --> 00:38:05,987
Ron wasn't completely wrong
793
00:38:06,022 --> 00:38:08,424
about us and the DJs.
Now, you may have heard of this
794
00:38:08,457 --> 00:38:11,560
as something called payola,
but to us...
795
00:38:11,594 --> 00:38:13,562
Mm. It was just another day
at the office.
796
00:38:13,596 --> 00:38:18,434
♪ You need love now
just as bad as I do ♪
797
00:38:18,467 --> 00:38:21,037
♪ Oh makes no difference now ♪
798
00:38:21,070 --> 00:38:23,439
♪ Who you give your thing to ♪
799
00:38:23,472 --> 00:38:24,573
♪ Oh it's your thing ♪
800
00:38:24,607 --> 00:38:27,209
Frankie Crocker was
one of the most influential DJs
801
00:38:27,243 --> 00:38:29,111
in the business,
which is saying a lot,
802
00:38:29,145 --> 00:38:31,047
since he was
one of the only black DJs
803
00:38:31,080 --> 00:38:33,549
white audiences ever accepted.
804
00:38:33,582 --> 00:38:37,353
♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪
805
00:38:37,386 --> 00:38:39,455
♪ Oh ♪
806
00:38:39,488 --> 00:38:42,525
♪ Said it's your thing girl ♪
807
00:38:42,558 --> 00:38:44,126
♪ Oh baby ♪
808
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,262
The thing no one ever really got
about payola
809
00:38:46,295 --> 00:38:47,596
is that we never paid anyone
810
00:38:47,630 --> 00:38:50,533
to play records
they didn't wanna play.
811
00:38:50,566 --> 00:38:51,567
-Whoo!
-Ron, you got
812
00:38:51,600 --> 00:38:53,935
my damn table pregnant.
813
00:38:53,968 --> 00:38:56,105
But did we spread
a little love to get our records
814
00:38:56,138 --> 00:38:58,541
a little more attention?
What do you think?
815
00:38:58,574 --> 00:39:00,509
The records were spinning
as fast as we were.
816
00:39:00,543 --> 00:39:02,478
The hits just kept coming.
There was nothing
817
00:39:02,511 --> 00:39:04,113
that could stop us.
818
00:39:06,682 --> 00:39:10,119
They bought the company?
These fucking guys?
819
00:39:10,152 --> 00:39:12,355
Viewlex. They make
film projector lenses.
820
00:39:12,388 --> 00:39:14,657
Which means they know
absolutely fucking nothing
821
00:39:14,690 --> 00:39:16,625
about the music business.
822
00:39:16,659 --> 00:39:19,362
♪ One toke over the line
sweet Jesus ♪
823
00:39:19,395 --> 00:39:22,531
♪ One toke over the line ♪
824
00:39:22,565 --> 00:39:24,899
Singing about Jesus again.
Really?
825
00:39:24,933 --> 00:39:26,235
I think
you're missing the subtext.
826
00:39:26,268 --> 00:39:27,969
You wanna sell this
as gospel?
827
00:39:28,003 --> 00:39:29,038
It says "sweet Mary".
828
00:39:29,071 --> 00:39:31,173
What the hell do you think
they're singing about?
829
00:39:31,207 --> 00:39:32,974
I know exactly what they're
singing about,
830
00:39:33,008 --> 00:39:34,110
-and so do you.
-Sweet Mary.
831
00:39:34,143 --> 00:39:35,544
Cash and airplanes again?
832
00:39:35,578 --> 00:39:37,179
Ooh! Hello, boys!
833
00:39:37,213 --> 00:39:39,448
Where do you think you're
going with all that cash?
834
00:39:39,482 --> 00:39:42,218
-Uh, to make more of it, Darren.
-I'm Darren. He's Damon.
835
00:39:42,251 --> 00:39:44,253
- Oh, shit.
- Sorry. Did I do that?
836
00:39:44,286 --> 00:39:46,389
I'm just excited
about Jesus and Mary.
837
00:39:46,422 --> 00:39:48,290
It's... it's a druggie song!
838
00:39:48,324 --> 00:39:49,958
Did he just call it
a druggie song?
839
00:39:49,991 --> 00:39:52,094
You cannot buy this record!
840
00:39:52,128 --> 00:39:55,331
I made over a million dollars
for your bosses last month.
841
00:39:55,364 --> 00:39:56,998
How much did you make them?
842
00:39:57,032 --> 00:39:58,367
♪ That my mama said ♪
843
00:39:59,602 --> 00:40:02,971
♪ If I should choose
to make a part of me ♪
844
00:40:03,005 --> 00:40:04,607
♪ Would surely strike me dead ♪
845
00:40:04,640 --> 00:40:07,042
♪ And now I'm
one toke over the line ♪
846
00:40:07,076 --> 00:40:09,478
Buddah Records became
one of the most successful
847
00:40:09,512 --> 00:40:11,680
independent labels
there ever was.
848
00:40:11,714 --> 00:40:13,582
Every single bet we'd made,
849
00:40:13,616 --> 00:40:15,684
we'd been right.
850
00:40:15,718 --> 00:40:18,687
But every gambler knows
you don't cash your ticket
851
00:40:18,721 --> 00:40:21,657
until your horse
actually crosses the line.
852
00:40:21,690 --> 00:40:24,093
- Hey, hey.
- There he is.
853
00:40:24,126 --> 00:40:26,495
Why we meeting here?
You want a tip or something?
854
00:40:28,197 --> 00:40:29,298
Look at that.
855
00:40:29,331 --> 00:40:32,034
You see the one
called, uh, Ghost Train?
856
00:40:32,067 --> 00:40:34,570
Yeah. Don't know him.
857
00:40:34,603 --> 00:40:37,072
She's mine, Pop.
I just bought her.
858
00:40:39,308 --> 00:40:40,509
No.
859
00:40:40,543 --> 00:40:42,011
Yeah. You know,
people bet on her.
860
00:40:42,044 --> 00:40:44,013
That means
they're betting on me.
861
00:40:44,046 --> 00:40:47,116
Wow. Well,
you're always in a rush.
862
00:40:47,149 --> 00:40:49,185
Now, you got a horse
to prove it.
863
00:40:50,352 --> 00:40:53,055
Why don't you
come in with me, hmm?
864
00:40:53,088 --> 00:40:54,223
We can be partners.
865
00:40:55,624 --> 00:40:57,193
Partners on a horse?
866
00:40:57,226 --> 00:40:58,194
Yeah, sure.
867
00:41:02,364 --> 00:41:05,134
No. I... I don't know
about feeding and training
868
00:41:05,167 --> 00:41:07,001
and all that bullshit
at my age.
869
00:41:07,036 --> 00:41:08,737
Nah. You go ahead.
870
00:41:08,771 --> 00:41:10,306
I, uh, I got my own things
going on.
871
00:41:10,339 --> 00:41:12,741
-It's going great.
-You sure? 'Cause when you
872
00:41:12,775 --> 00:41:14,677
-called, it was...
-No, I mean, I got...
873
00:41:14,710 --> 00:41:16,078
-a cash flow situation.
-Oh.
874
00:41:16,111 --> 00:41:18,180
Temporary. You know,
it's nothing.
875
00:41:18,214 --> 00:41:21,183
The bookies I got, they're
saying it's, like five.
876
00:41:21,217 --> 00:41:23,652
Closer to ten, you know,
but it's...
877
00:41:23,686 --> 00:41:25,287
They're talking
out of their asses.
878
00:41:25,321 --> 00:41:27,056
I... I'll clear it up.
It's nothing.
879
00:41:27,089 --> 00:41:28,657
I'll get it back to you,
all of it.
880
00:41:28,691 --> 00:41:30,759
-I just need a little time.
-I know, Pop.
881
00:41:30,793 --> 00:41:32,161
Hey, I'm not worried.
882
00:41:33,395 --> 00:41:34,296
Why would you?
883
00:41:34,330 --> 00:41:36,031
Swinging for the trees,
right, boychik?
884
00:41:36,065 --> 00:41:37,700
You got the...
you got the horse
885
00:41:37,733 --> 00:41:41,270
and your singers
and... and the big time life.
886
00:41:41,303 --> 00:41:43,305
Look at you.
What you got to worry about?
887
00:41:45,307 --> 00:41:48,177
Hey, I got to go to work,
so, um...
888
00:41:48,210 --> 00:41:51,080
Sonny, some nuts on the house,
this guy.
889
00:41:51,113 --> 00:41:53,382
- Yeah. It...
- Don't spend it all.
890
00:42:28,817 --> 00:42:31,554
Cookie told me
about Cecil's raise.
891
00:42:31,587 --> 00:42:34,423
Must be a hell of a thing,
changing someone's whole life
892
00:42:34,456 --> 00:42:35,257
-like that.
-Mm.
893
00:42:35,291 --> 00:42:37,159
Your mother says
you must have helped
894
00:42:37,192 --> 00:42:41,163
your father again.
He bought all new clothes.
895
00:42:41,196 --> 00:42:42,398
Everybody's counting
on you, Neil,
896
00:42:42,431 --> 00:42:45,167
but you still keep going up
against those guys at Viewlex,
897
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:46,602
but you do work for them.
898
00:42:48,470 --> 00:42:50,105
What do you see?
899
00:42:50,139 --> 00:42:50,873
I'm being serious.
900
00:42:50,906 --> 00:42:53,709
No, no. This, this is
901
00:42:53,742 --> 00:42:56,211
our daughter's view
of the world.
902
00:42:57,413 --> 00:43:00,482
She sees the ceiling,
not the sky.
903
00:43:00,516 --> 00:43:02,284
Most people grow up
in the same four blocks
904
00:43:02,318 --> 00:43:04,520
that they were born into
because they can't even dare
905
00:43:04,553 --> 00:43:07,456
-to dream what's beyond them.
-You're quoting your father now.
906
00:43:07,489 --> 00:43:08,591
That's dangerous.
907
00:43:08,624 --> 00:43:11,527
No. No. What's dangerous is...
908
00:43:11,560 --> 00:43:15,497
is the day we stop dreaming
these walls away.
909
00:43:15,531 --> 00:43:18,334
And if what's beyond them
still isn't enough for you?
910
00:43:21,503 --> 00:43:27,276
♪ Ooh child,
things are gonna get easier ♪
911
00:43:27,309 --> 00:43:31,246
♪ Ooh child
things'll get brighter ♪
912
00:43:32,648 --> 00:43:36,885
♪ Ooh child
things are gonna get easier ♪
913
00:43:36,919 --> 00:43:38,787
Beth wasn't wrong.
914
00:43:38,821 --> 00:43:40,189
Beth.
915
00:43:40,222 --> 00:43:43,726
She just didn't realize
how right she was.
916
00:43:43,759 --> 00:43:45,227
♪ Someday ♪
917
00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:47,162
Truth is, neither did I.
918
00:43:47,196 --> 00:43:49,898
♪ And we'll get it undone ♪
919
00:43:49,932 --> 00:43:51,533
I just never saw her coming.
920
00:43:51,567 --> 00:43:53,535
♪ Much lighter ♪
921
00:43:54,937 --> 00:43:58,474
♪ Someday yeah
we'll walk in the rays ♪
922
00:43:58,507 --> 00:44:00,643
Neil, no one told me
you were here yet.
923
00:44:00,676 --> 00:44:02,511
Uh, this is my partner, Bill.
924
00:44:02,544 --> 00:44:05,247
Oh, uh, why don't we
talk business first?
925
00:44:05,280 --> 00:44:07,449
Well, this is business first.
926
00:44:07,483 --> 00:44:09,151
I'm Joyce Biawitz.
927
00:44:09,818 --> 00:44:11,887
Direction Plus. Nice name.
928
00:44:11,920 --> 00:44:13,389
Yeah. I'm the plus,
and Bill directs.
929
00:44:13,422 --> 00:44:15,257
Oh and Joyce does pretty much
everything else.
930
00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:16,358
She writes, produces.
931
00:44:16,392 --> 00:44:18,961
Commercials, mostly,
but only up until now.
932
00:44:18,994 --> 00:44:21,530
That's not what we invited you
down here to talk about.
933
00:44:21,563 --> 00:44:25,167
Right.
Your... variety show.
934
00:44:25,968 --> 00:44:27,169
No, it's not a variety show.
935
00:44:27,202 --> 00:44:30,873
No. It will be unlike anything
anyone's ever tried before.
936
00:44:30,906 --> 00:44:32,274
Really?
937
00:44:32,307 --> 00:44:34,209
I'm sorry. What am I missing?
938
00:44:35,778 --> 00:44:37,179
Everything.
939
00:44:40,382 --> 00:44:41,817
We're ready for you,
Mr. Aucoin.
940
00:44:41,850 --> 00:44:42,851
Uh, yeah. One sec.
941
00:44:42,885 --> 00:44:43,952
So, we're here in a...
942
00:44:43,986 --> 00:44:46,455
You're gonna shoot your show
in a recording studio?
943
00:44:46,488 --> 00:44:48,390
-That's right.
-Somebody's finally gonna
944
00:44:48,424 --> 00:44:51,460
make a music show that actually
sounds like music.
945
00:44:51,493 --> 00:44:53,328
She practice that line for me?
946
00:44:53,962 --> 00:44:54,997
Yes.
947
00:44:56,465 --> 00:44:58,701
I'm gonna, uh... I'm going
to go check on the crew.
948
00:44:58,734 --> 00:45:00,335
-Here. Give this to them.
-Yep.
949
00:45:02,571 --> 00:45:05,008
So, now that he's gone,
you're gonna close me?
950
00:45:05,041 --> 00:45:06,308
I'm not here to close you.
951
00:45:06,341 --> 00:45:07,643
I'm here to convince you.
952
00:45:09,045 --> 00:45:10,913
You didn't become who you are
without seeing
953
00:45:10,946 --> 00:45:12,448
what most people don't.
954
00:45:12,481 --> 00:45:13,482
Hmm.
955
00:45:14,717 --> 00:45:17,986
People love their music.
956
00:45:18,021 --> 00:45:20,023
It's not just
what they listen to.
957
00:45:20,056 --> 00:45:21,523
It's who they are.
958
00:45:23,026 --> 00:45:24,560
It's personal.
959
00:45:25,627 --> 00:45:27,629
We don't wanna
just play music on TV.
960
00:45:27,663 --> 00:45:30,532
We wanna show
where it really comes from,
961
00:45:30,566 --> 00:45:33,302
why the hell
it matters so much to us.
962
00:45:34,636 --> 00:45:36,739
Even if just for a song.
963
00:45:36,772 --> 00:45:39,508
Well, shit. You're gonna do
all that in a show?
964
00:45:40,876 --> 00:45:42,478
I am sure as hell gonna try.
965
00:45:45,781 --> 00:45:47,349
And who the hell are you?
966
00:45:49,685 --> 00:45:51,553
-I need to, um...
-Mm-hmm.
967
00:45:51,587 --> 00:45:53,589
I need to get back to this,
but I really do hope
968
00:45:53,622 --> 00:45:55,691
you will consider it.
It would mean a lot.
969
00:45:57,559 --> 00:45:58,694
To you?
970
00:45:59,962 --> 00:46:02,498
To everyone who watches.
971
00:46:02,531 --> 00:46:04,366
Every great artist has someone
972
00:46:04,399 --> 00:46:05,400
who believes in them,
973
00:46:05,434 --> 00:46:09,072
but every once in a while,
974
00:46:09,105 --> 00:46:10,939
it's the believer
975
00:46:10,973 --> 00:46:14,343
who's the most gifted artist
of all.
976
00:46:14,376 --> 00:46:15,911
I had never met anyone like her.
977
00:46:15,944 --> 00:46:18,647
♪ You just wait and see
how things are gonna be ♪
978
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,682
You know how you know
when you're about to do
979
00:46:20,716 --> 00:46:22,651
something really reckless?
980
00:46:22,684 --> 00:46:25,487
When you can't think
about doing anything else.
981
00:46:41,370 --> 00:46:43,672
Come and work for me.
982
00:46:43,705 --> 00:46:44,706
What?
983
00:46:45,974 --> 00:46:49,545
Come work for me!
984
00:46:49,578 --> 00:46:52,015
I'm not gonna work for you!
I work for me, with Bill.
985
00:46:52,048 --> 00:46:53,882
Okay.
Well, then come work with me.
986
00:46:55,818 --> 00:46:57,319
I'm... I'm...
987
00:47:01,757 --> 00:47:04,127
Listen. Here's the deal.
I can't stop thinking about you.
988
00:47:04,160 --> 00:47:06,962
Well, try harder.
989
00:47:06,995 --> 00:47:08,463
You don't even know me, Neil.
990
00:47:08,497 --> 00:47:10,766
I'm just some broke chick
from Queens.
991
00:47:10,799 --> 00:47:13,335
Well, that's just about
the last thing you are.
992
00:47:25,781 --> 00:47:27,716
It's small. I know.
993
00:47:28,750 --> 00:47:30,119
I grew up in smaller.
994
00:47:30,153 --> 00:47:32,454
Yeah, but you got out.
995
00:47:32,487 --> 00:47:33,589
Yeah. I still am getting out.
996
00:47:33,622 --> 00:47:36,625
♪ And when I looked at you ♪
997
00:47:36,658 --> 00:47:38,894
Give me one of your artists
for my show.
998
00:47:38,927 --> 00:47:40,495
I am offering you
more than that.
999
00:47:40,529 --> 00:47:42,131
And I'm not buying.
1000
00:47:42,165 --> 00:47:43,465
What I'm selling is the show.
1001
00:47:43,498 --> 00:47:46,069
♪ I don't know who he is ♪
1002
00:47:46,102 --> 00:47:49,605
♪ But I think that you do ♪
1003
00:47:49,638 --> 00:47:52,075
I've done my research, Neil.
1004
00:47:52,108 --> 00:47:54,743
You clearly like to gamble.
1005
00:47:54,776 --> 00:47:55,777
I like to win.
1006
00:47:57,180 --> 00:47:59,015
What happens when you don't?
1007
00:47:59,048 --> 00:48:01,017
Then I just keep gambling
until I do.
1008
00:48:01,050 --> 00:48:02,517
♪ Something in my heart ♪
1009
00:48:02,551 --> 00:48:04,419
You have a family, Neil.
1010
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:07,389
Yeah. I know it's complicated.
1011
00:48:08,523 --> 00:48:12,095
But hey, my life
outside that door is my problem.
1012
00:48:12,128 --> 00:48:13,096
It's not yours.
1013
00:48:13,129 --> 00:48:15,564
♪ Just passing by ♪
1014
00:48:15,597 --> 00:48:17,666
We both know that's not true.
1015
00:48:17,699 --> 00:48:22,771
♪ Who is he
and what is he to you? ♪
1016
00:48:25,674 --> 00:48:27,210
♪ Ah now when I add up ♪
1017
00:48:27,243 --> 00:48:30,479
- You're married.
- Yeah.
1018
00:48:30,512 --> 00:48:32,814
It doesn't change
the way I'm feeling right now.
1019
00:48:34,017 --> 00:48:35,550
It's just...
1020
00:48:37,220 --> 00:48:38,787
Different.
1021
00:48:38,820 --> 00:48:40,789
Is there anything
I should know, um,
1022
00:48:40,822 --> 00:48:44,626
about something going on
between you and Bill?
1023
00:48:44,660 --> 00:48:46,862
Bill's gay.
He plays straight to protect me.
1024
00:48:46,895 --> 00:48:48,897
♪ What is he to you? ♪
1025
00:48:48,931 --> 00:48:50,532
From people like me.
1026
00:48:52,968 --> 00:48:54,670
From people exactly like you.
1027
00:48:54,703 --> 00:48:56,772
♪ Well you tell me
men don't have much intuition ♪
1028
00:48:56,805 --> 00:48:59,675
It's like you remind me
of someone.
1029
00:48:59,708 --> 00:49:00,542
Who?
1030
00:49:02,111 --> 00:49:04,980
♪ Before you wreck your home ♪
1031
00:49:05,014 --> 00:49:06,615
Me.
1032
00:49:06,648 --> 00:49:10,852
♪ Who is he
and what is he to you? ♪
1033
00:49:12,621 --> 00:49:14,223
You don't wanna bet
on the show? Fine.
1034
00:49:14,257 --> 00:49:17,026
♪ Well, you tell me
men don't have ♪
1035
00:49:17,060 --> 00:49:18,027
Place a bet on me.
1036
00:49:18,061 --> 00:49:21,197
♪ Much intuition ♪
1037
00:49:21,230 --> 00:49:23,932
♪ But before you wreck ♪
1038
00:49:23,966 --> 00:49:26,635
♪ Your old home ♪
1039
00:49:26,668 --> 00:49:30,939
♪ Be certain of the new ♪
1040
00:49:30,973 --> 00:49:32,874
♪ Dadgummit girl ♪
1041
00:49:32,908 --> 00:49:34,609
♪ Who is he? ♪
1042
00:49:34,643 --> 00:49:35,411
Kiss.
1043
00:49:35,445 --> 00:49:38,747
♪ And what is he to you? ♪
1044
00:49:38,780 --> 00:49:41,084
The demo.
That demo tape over there.
1045
00:49:41,117 --> 00:49:42,118
Kiss, it's a good name.
1046
00:49:42,151 --> 00:49:43,552
♪ Who is he? ♪
1047
00:49:43,585 --> 00:49:45,721
You really wanna talk business
right now?
1048
00:49:47,756 --> 00:49:50,625
You really expect me
to climb up there?
1049
00:49:50,659 --> 00:49:52,694
If you want to sleep with me,
you are.
1050
00:49:56,165 --> 00:49:59,068
I know what you're
thinking, but I'd never met
1051
00:49:59,102 --> 00:50:00,535
anyone like her.
1052
00:50:00,569 --> 00:50:02,537
And I know I said that
about Beth, too,
1053
00:50:02,571 --> 00:50:04,873
but it...
it's only because it's true.
1054
00:50:04,906 --> 00:50:06,675
♪ Dadgummit girl ♪
1055
00:50:06,708 --> 00:50:10,679
♪ Who is he
and what is he to you? ♪
1056
00:50:10,712 --> 00:50:14,283
I was honestly in love
with both of them.
1057
00:50:14,317 --> 00:50:18,287
♪ Well you tell me
men don't have ♪
1058
00:50:18,321 --> 00:50:21,757
♪ Much intuition ♪
1059
00:50:21,790 --> 00:50:23,292
♪ My God ♪
1060
00:50:23,326 --> 00:50:25,560
Falling in love with Joyce,
1061
00:50:25,594 --> 00:50:28,864
for the first time in my life,
I finally felt like me.
1062
00:50:28,897 --> 00:50:32,634
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1063
00:50:34,836 --> 00:50:38,540
♪ It's not warm
when she's away ♪
1064
00:50:40,909 --> 00:50:44,280
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1065
00:50:44,313 --> 00:50:47,316
♪ She's always gone too long ♪
1066
00:50:47,350 --> 00:50:50,886
♪ Any time she goes away ♪
1067
00:50:53,289 --> 00:50:57,160
♪ I wonder this time
where she's gone ♪
1068
00:50:59,628 --> 00:51:02,798
♪ Wonder if she's gone to stay ♪
1069
00:51:02,831 --> 00:51:05,368
Kid works at in airplane factory
installing toilet seats,
1070
00:51:05,401 --> 00:51:07,370
and yet he could dig deep enough
to write this.
1071
00:51:07,403 --> 00:51:09,072
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1072
00:51:09,105 --> 00:51:11,840
♪ She's always gone too long ♪
1073
00:51:11,873 --> 00:51:15,144
♪ Any time she goes away ♪
1074
00:51:15,178 --> 00:51:16,279
What are you thinking?
1075
00:51:16,312 --> 00:51:17,913
That we can make him matter.
1076
00:51:17,946 --> 00:51:21,883
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1077
00:51:24,253 --> 00:51:26,322
♪ Only darkness every day ♪
1078
00:51:26,355 --> 00:51:27,923
Mr. Bill Withers.
1079
00:51:27,956 --> 00:51:28,857
Shit, Neil.
1080
00:51:28,890 --> 00:51:30,959
I see why you're bringing
the hit, huh?
1081
00:51:30,992 --> 00:51:32,061
Thank you, Mr. Crocker.
1082
00:51:32,095 --> 00:51:33,728
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1083
00:51:33,762 --> 00:51:36,099
♪ She's always gone too long ♪
1084
00:51:36,132 --> 00:51:40,203
You know, I can remember
watching my dad as a kid,
1085
00:51:40,236 --> 00:51:41,837
thinking, "Here's a guy
1086
00:51:41,870 --> 00:51:44,706
who's taking risks
with all our lives,
1087
00:51:44,739 --> 00:51:48,844
just never ones big enough
to actually change our lives."
1088
00:51:48,877 --> 00:51:51,947
♪ And I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know ♪
1089
00:51:51,980 --> 00:51:55,717
♪ I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know ♪
1090
00:51:55,750 --> 00:51:59,721
♪ I know, I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know ♪
1091
00:51:59,754 --> 00:52:02,724
♪ I ought to leave
those young things alone ♪
1092
00:52:02,757 --> 00:52:06,195
♪ Ain't no sunshine
when she's gone ♪
1093
00:52:07,929 --> 00:52:10,999
I am gonna win...
1094
00:52:11,033 --> 00:52:14,636
bigger than anyone
has ever done before.
1095
00:52:16,372 --> 00:52:18,241
Or else I'm gonna fail.
1096
00:52:21,444 --> 00:52:25,881
It's ending up
lost somewhere in the middle
1097
00:52:25,914 --> 00:52:27,350
that I just...
I can't live with.
1098
00:52:27,383 --> 00:52:32,654
♪ Any time she goes away ♪
1099
00:52:34,223 --> 00:52:36,758
Bill Withers was born
in the small coal-mining town
1100
00:52:36,791 --> 00:52:38,361
of Slab Fork, West Virginia,
1101
00:52:38,394 --> 00:52:40,463
with a stutter.
1102
00:52:40,496 --> 00:52:41,897
Did not stop him from becoming
1103
00:52:41,930 --> 00:52:43,698
the Bill Withers
that we all remember.
1104
00:52:43,732 --> 00:52:46,369
Signing him
before, uh, Motown could,
1105
00:52:46,402 --> 00:52:48,204
changed everything for Buddah.
1106
00:52:49,472 --> 00:52:51,040
Shit.
Changed everything for me.
1107
00:53:03,119 --> 00:53:05,488
♪ Lean on me ♪
1108
00:53:05,521 --> 00:53:08,924
♪ When you're not strong ♪
1109
00:53:08,957 --> 00:53:11,927
♪ And I'll be your friend ♪
1110
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:17,099
♪ I'll help you carry on ♪
1111
00:53:17,133 --> 00:53:21,870
♪ For it won't be long ♪
1112
00:53:21,903 --> 00:53:23,372
♪ 'Til I'm going to need ♪
1113
00:53:23,406 --> 00:53:24,773
There he is.
1114
00:53:25,807 --> 00:53:27,276
With money in your pocket,
1115
00:53:27,310 --> 00:53:28,444
you're fucking wise,
1116
00:53:28,477 --> 00:53:29,811
you're fucking handsome,
1117
00:53:29,844 --> 00:53:31,280
and you sing better, too.
1118
00:53:31,314 --> 00:53:32,281
Old Jewish proverb?
1119
00:53:32,315 --> 00:53:33,949
It's a new one for me.
1120
00:53:33,982 --> 00:53:34,617
Be careful, kid.
1121
00:53:34,650 --> 00:53:36,785
Oh, not in this life, Joey.
1122
00:53:38,254 --> 00:53:42,358
♪ That you won't let show ♪
1123
00:53:42,391 --> 00:53:46,128
♪ You just call on me brother ♪
1124
00:53:46,162 --> 00:53:48,830
♪ When you need a hand ♪
1125
00:53:48,863 --> 00:53:53,202
♪ We all need
somebody to lean on ♪
1126
00:53:53,236 --> 00:53:54,270
Big fuckin' problem.
1127
00:53:56,205 --> 00:53:57,340
Oh, shit.
1128
00:53:57,373 --> 00:53:59,308
Manny, what the hell? Really?
1129
00:53:59,342 --> 00:54:01,776
Your boy's on trial,
motherfucker!
1130
00:54:01,810 --> 00:54:03,379
Hey, you're really gonna
cross this line
1131
00:54:03,412 --> 00:54:04,913
over us signing Bill Withers?
1132
00:54:04,946 --> 00:54:08,251
Withers, Hawkins,
fucking Isley Brothers!
1133
00:54:08,284 --> 00:54:10,386
And you got the nerve
to come to our convention
1134
00:54:10,419 --> 00:54:11,786
and try to steal our music?
1135
00:54:11,820 --> 00:54:14,457
Manny, is this a black thing?
1136
00:54:14,490 --> 00:54:17,326
Buck. I'm-a kill you last, Buck,
1137
00:54:17,360 --> 00:54:19,262
so you got time
to think about it.
1138
00:54:19,295 --> 00:54:21,130
Andre.
1139
00:54:21,163 --> 00:54:23,132
Manny, just put the gun away,
man! Come on!
1140
00:54:23,165 --> 00:54:25,401
-Easy, easy. Easy, easy!
-Sorry, Cec!
1141
00:54:25,434 --> 00:54:28,137
You backed
the wrong colored horse.
1142
00:54:28,170 --> 00:54:29,272
I got my orders.
1143
00:54:29,305 --> 00:54:30,273
Orders?
1144
00:54:30,306 --> 00:54:32,941
Somebody actually put out
a fucking hit on us?
1145
00:54:32,974 --> 00:54:35,444
Manny, who did this?
Was it Gordy?
1146
00:54:35,478 --> 00:54:37,413
Let's just say you crossed
1147
00:54:37,446 --> 00:54:39,148
one too many fucking lines.
1148
00:54:39,181 --> 00:54:40,182
Manny!
1149
00:54:43,885 --> 00:54:45,854
You are gonna need to make
a phone call.
1150
00:54:46,455 --> 00:54:48,357
True story.
1151
00:54:48,391 --> 00:54:49,924
Ask Big Joey.
1152
00:54:49,958 --> 00:54:52,028
You just called the Italian mob
1153
00:54:52,061 --> 00:54:53,895
to tell the black mob
not to kill us?
1154
00:54:53,928 --> 00:54:55,964
You had a better idea?
1155
00:54:55,997 --> 00:54:58,800
Nance, you know
you can't tell Beth about this.
1156
00:55:02,438 --> 00:55:04,473
Not about any of it.
1157
00:55:04,507 --> 00:55:05,541
I know, Nelly.
1158
00:55:05,574 --> 00:55:06,609
♪ If you need a friend ♪
1159
00:55:06,642 --> 00:55:08,344
♪ Call me ♪
1160
00:55:08,377 --> 00:55:09,578
Thank you.
1161
00:55:09,612 --> 00:55:10,613
Y'all need Jesus.
1162
00:55:10,646 --> 00:55:12,214
♪ Call me ♪
1163
00:55:12,248 --> 00:55:13,416
♪ If you need a friend ♪
1164
00:55:13,449 --> 00:55:15,418
♪ Call me ♪
1165
00:55:15,451 --> 00:55:16,519
♪ Oh just call me ♪
1166
00:55:16,552 --> 00:55:20,356
♪ Call me ♪
1167
00:55:22,091 --> 00:55:23,092
You okay?
1168
00:55:24,527 --> 00:55:25,827
How was Miami?
1169
00:55:26,629 --> 00:55:28,230
Uh, it's complicated.
1170
00:55:31,634 --> 00:55:33,968
Not sure which question
you just answered.
1171
00:55:34,637 --> 00:55:36,439
Coffee's in the kitchen.
1172
00:55:36,472 --> 00:55:38,407
Uh, Beth!
1173
00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:46,948
You can't go after Gordy
yourself, man.
1174
00:55:46,981 --> 00:55:48,883
The man fight dirty.
1175
00:55:48,917 --> 00:55:51,487
He gonna come after your life.
1176
00:55:51,520 --> 00:55:54,590
Now, you know 110 percent
I got your back.
1177
00:55:54,623 --> 00:55:55,990
Mm-hmm.
1178
00:55:58,260 --> 00:56:00,162
But we don't have to fight
this war.
1179
00:56:01,130 --> 00:56:02,331
There's no need.
1180
00:56:02,365 --> 00:56:03,965
We good.
1181
00:56:03,998 --> 00:56:05,634
Are you fucking kidding me?
1182
00:56:05,668 --> 00:56:07,503
You're talking
about not starting a war,
1183
00:56:07,536 --> 00:56:09,238
the man who just showed
his black chest
1184
00:56:09,271 --> 00:56:11,240
to fucking white America?
1185
00:56:14,076 --> 00:56:15,644
It's almost like
they don't realize
1186
00:56:15,678 --> 00:56:19,382
that the black voice
is coming from a black man.
1187
00:56:20,683 --> 00:56:21,517
Say, could you imagine
1188
00:56:21,550 --> 00:56:23,519
dreaming of something
your whole life,
1189
00:56:23,552 --> 00:56:26,988
finally getting on that stage,
1190
00:56:27,022 --> 00:56:31,060
thousands of screaming fans...
1191
00:56:31,093 --> 00:56:35,364
singing every single lyric
to every single song,
1192
00:56:35,398 --> 00:56:37,066
loving the music
1193
00:56:37,099 --> 00:56:40,536
but hating
the color of my skin?
1194
00:56:40,569 --> 00:56:42,304
What kind of dream is that, man?
1195
00:56:45,241 --> 00:56:46,542
I don't know, man.
1196
00:56:46,575 --> 00:56:48,277
I know where I come from.
1197
00:56:48,310 --> 00:56:50,045
Shit. I can't forget it.
1198
00:56:51,447 --> 00:56:54,417
I'm just trying to figure out..
1199
00:56:54,450 --> 00:56:56,452
how to change where we're going.
1200
00:56:58,621 --> 00:57:02,024
Shit. We still talking
about music?
1201
00:57:02,057 --> 00:57:04,026
You're always talking
about music.
1202
00:57:05,361 --> 00:57:06,362
That's the weapon.
1203
00:57:08,631 --> 00:57:10,533
Oh, man.
1204
00:57:20,075 --> 00:57:21,710
You got lucky, kid.
1205
00:57:21,744 --> 00:57:23,212
I could've been
on the other line
1206
00:57:23,245 --> 00:57:25,014
when your friend
from Miami called.
1207
00:57:25,047 --> 00:57:27,149
-Played the odds.
-Yeah, well, Motown was gonna
1208
00:57:27,183 --> 00:57:28,717
sign the Withers kid,
and you knew it.
1209
00:57:28,751 --> 00:57:31,320
-It's just business.
-Not with Berry Gordy.
1210
00:57:31,353 --> 00:57:34,457
-Yeah.
-Look. A gambler's a gambler.
1211
00:57:34,490 --> 00:57:36,058
And you're a gambler, kid,
1212
00:57:36,091 --> 00:57:39,061
but you're risking everything
with those fuckin' suits
1213
00:57:39,094 --> 00:57:40,463
who're just waiting
for any excuse
1214
00:57:40,496 --> 00:57:41,730
to bring you down.
1215
00:57:41,764 --> 00:57:45,167
If you're gonna bet this big,
bet on yourself,
1216
00:57:45,201 --> 00:57:47,136
or keep away
from the fucking table
1217
00:57:47,169 --> 00:57:49,238
before too many people get hurt.
1218
00:57:50,372 --> 00:57:51,774
Alright. Alright.
1219
00:57:53,642 --> 00:57:55,144
Big Joey was right.
1220
00:57:55,177 --> 00:57:57,580
We'd taken Buddah Records
as far as we could go.
1221
00:58:01,116 --> 00:58:03,085
If we were ever gonna
really matter, we were gonna
1222
00:58:03,118 --> 00:58:04,653
have to raise the stakes,
1223
00:58:04,687 --> 00:58:06,155
higher than ever before.
1224
00:58:39,722 --> 00:58:41,290
Whoo!
1225
00:58:43,492 --> 00:58:45,761
-What have you told her?
-That you've gone insane.
1226
00:58:45,794 --> 00:58:47,429
We're really gonna steal
1227
00:58:47,463 --> 00:58:49,665
-Gladys Knight from Motown, too?
-Hey, you're the one
1228
00:58:49,698 --> 00:58:52,167
that told me she's pissed off
that Berry Gordy is giving
1229
00:58:52,201 --> 00:58:54,670
all their best stuff to Diana
and Marvin and the Temptations.
1230
00:58:54,703 --> 00:58:56,238
-Yeah, she is. She is.
-Alright.
1231
00:58:56,272 --> 00:58:58,774
So let's swing
for the fences, Cec.
1232
00:58:58,807 --> 00:59:00,309
One last big hit.
1233
00:59:00,342 --> 00:59:01,744
What do you mean,
one last big hit?
1234
00:59:01,777 --> 00:59:03,646
Well, you know,
I've always kind of dreamed
1235
00:59:03,679 --> 00:59:05,548
of owning my own record company.
1236
00:59:05,581 --> 00:59:07,650
Didn't you?
1237
00:59:07,683 --> 00:59:09,051
Neil.
1238
00:59:10,185 --> 00:59:13,822
"Midnight Plane to Houston"?
My people from Georgia.
1239
00:59:13,856 --> 00:59:15,691
They would never take
a plane to Houston.
1240
00:59:15,724 --> 00:59:17,359
I'm-a have to change that.
1241
00:59:17,393 --> 00:59:20,829
I'll... I'll let him know.
1242
00:59:20,863 --> 00:59:22,698
Mrs. Gladys Knight,
this is Mr. Neil...
1243
00:59:22,731 --> 00:59:24,567
Neil Bogart.
1244
00:59:24,600 --> 00:59:26,168
I have definitely heard of you.
1245
00:59:26,201 --> 00:59:28,704
Well, only good things, I hope.
1246
00:59:28,737 --> 00:59:30,272
I heard you got
something special.
1247
00:59:30,306 --> 00:59:32,441
Listen, Neil. If Berry finds
out about this, he...
1248
00:59:32,474 --> 00:59:34,743
Hey, if Motown
was treating you properly,
1249
00:59:34,777 --> 00:59:36,612
you wouldn't be here.
1250
00:59:36,645 --> 00:59:39,315
No. Y wouldn't be here.
1251
00:59:40,916 --> 00:59:43,252
Hmm. Do you mind?
1252
00:59:43,886 --> 00:59:45,254
Go ahead.
1253
00:59:46,422 --> 00:59:49,458
Let's see.
"Midnight Plane to Houston."
1254
00:59:49,491 --> 00:59:51,327
Alright. Here we go.
1255
00:59:58,367 --> 00:59:59,401
♪ LA ♪
1256
01:00:00,502 --> 01:00:01,537
Okay.
1257
01:00:02,771 --> 01:00:06,442
♪ Proved too much
for the man ♪
1258
01:00:11,747 --> 01:00:13,215
♪ So he's leaving the life ♪
1259
01:00:13,248 --> 01:00:14,383
Mm-hmm.
1260
01:00:16,552 --> 01:00:20,556
♪ He's come to know ♪
1261
01:00:20,589 --> 01:00:24,226
♪ Mm ♪
1262
01:00:24,259 --> 01:00:26,729
Oh, you love your tracks lush,
don't you?
1263
01:00:26,762 --> 01:00:28,897
All the time.
1264
01:00:28,931 --> 01:00:31,734
Ah. Well, we'll add
a full horn section,
1265
01:00:31,767 --> 01:00:33,702
keyboards, a Wurlitzer.
1266
01:00:34,803 --> 01:00:37,172
Has anyone ever told you no?
1267
01:00:37,206 --> 01:00:38,774
Always been a bigger fan
of yes.
1268
01:00:41,543 --> 01:00:44,246
I can't believe I'm singing
with Gladys Knight.
1269
01:00:44,279 --> 01:00:45,881
Let's keep going. Yeah?
1270
01:00:45,914 --> 01:00:47,416
- Yeah.
- ♪ World ♪
1271
01:00:47,449 --> 01:00:48,951
Ooh, I like that.
Wait, wait, wait.
1272
01:00:48,984 --> 01:00:50,653
♪ My world ♪
1273
01:00:50,686 --> 01:00:52,287
♪ His world ♪
1274
01:00:52,321 --> 01:00:54,857
♪ Our world
mine and his alone ♪
1275
01:00:54,890 --> 01:00:56,592
-♪ I've got to go ♪
-♪ His world ♪
1276
01:00:56,625 --> 01:00:58,427
-♪ I've got to go ♪
-♪ Her world ♪
1277
01:00:58,460 --> 01:00:59,662
-♪ I've got to go ♪
-♪ World ♪
1278
01:00:59,695 --> 01:01:01,397
♪ His and hers alone ♪
1279
01:01:01,430 --> 01:01:03,532
-♪ I've got to go ♪
-♪ Our world ♪
1280
01:01:03,565 --> 01:01:05,801
-That works!
-♪ I've got to go ♪
1281
01:01:05,834 --> 01:01:07,403
Let's sing the chorus.
What do you think?
1282
01:01:07,436 --> 01:01:09,204
Yeah, but I have to change
that line.
1283
01:01:09,238 --> 01:01:11,407
-It has to say Georgia because..
-Georgia.
1284
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:12,474
Houston is not working for me.
1285
01:01:12,508 --> 01:01:14,943
Who wants to go to Houston?
Let's go to Georgia.
1286
01:01:14,977 --> 01:01:17,579
-Give me some peaches.
-Here we go.
1287
01:01:18,781 --> 01:01:20,416
How you feeling tonight?
1288
01:01:28,457 --> 01:01:30,693
♪ Mm, LA ♪
1289
01:01:32,861 --> 01:01:35,464
♪ Proved too much for the man ♪
1290
01:01:35,497 --> 01:01:37,900
Hey, guys.
She's making me play you.
1291
01:01:37,933 --> 01:01:39,702
Hey, do that A.
1292
01:01:39,735 --> 01:01:42,404
♪ So he's leaving a life, mm ♪
1293
01:01:43,972 --> 01:01:47,443
♪ He's come to know ♪
1294
01:01:47,476 --> 01:01:49,611
♪ Ooh mm ♪
1295
01:01:49,645 --> 01:01:51,346
♪ He said he's going ♪
1296
01:01:51,380 --> 01:01:53,449
♪ Say he's going back ♪
1297
01:01:54,416 --> 01:01:55,851
♪ Going back to find ♪
1298
01:01:55,884 --> 01:02:00,989
♪ Ooh what's left of his world ♪
1299
01:02:01,024 --> 01:02:04,359
♪ On that midnight train
to Georgia ♪
1300
01:02:04,393 --> 01:02:05,260
Ooh, I love that.
1301
01:02:05,294 --> 01:02:07,596
As long as it says "Georgia,"
I'm good.
1302
01:02:07,629 --> 01:02:09,264
- Oh, my God.
- This is good.
1303
01:02:09,298 --> 01:02:11,734
That's beautiful.
That's just the best.
1304
01:02:11,767 --> 01:02:13,736
♪ He's leaving ♪
1305
01:02:13,769 --> 01:02:15,304
♪ Leaving ♪
1306
01:02:15,337 --> 01:02:17,873
♪ On that midnight train
to Georgia ♪
1307
01:02:17,906 --> 01:02:21,276
♪ Leaving on a midnight train ♪
1308
01:02:21,310 --> 01:02:22,878
♪ Ooh Lord ♪
1309
01:02:22,911 --> 01:02:24,480
♪ Say he's going back ♪
1310
01:02:24,513 --> 01:02:27,349
♪ I've got to go,
I've got to go ♪
1311
01:02:27,382 --> 01:02:29,985
♪ A simpler place and time ♪
1312
01:02:30,019 --> 01:02:31,754
♪ Oh yes he is ♪
1313
01:02:31,787 --> 01:02:33,889
What does a train sound like?
1314
01:02:33,922 --> 01:02:36,759
-Whoo, whoo!
-Okay. The Pips can do that
1315
01:02:36,792 --> 01:02:38,694
- in harmony.
- Oh, yeah.
1316
01:02:38,727 --> 01:02:39,595
Whoo-whoo!
1317
01:02:39,628 --> 01:02:41,630
♪ I'd rather live in his world ♪
1318
01:02:41,663 --> 01:02:43,032
♪ Live in his world ♪
1319
01:02:43,066 --> 01:02:44,967
♪ Than live without him
in mine ♪
1320
01:02:45,000 --> 01:02:48,971
♪ Her world is his ♪
1321
01:02:49,005 --> 01:02:51,507
♪ His and hers alone ♪
1322
01:02:59,115 --> 01:03:00,716
You resigned from Buddah?
1323
01:03:03,119 --> 01:03:06,522
If we're ever gonna do
something that truly matters,
1324
01:03:06,555 --> 01:03:08,757
it's gonna have to be our own.
1325
01:03:08,791 --> 01:03:10,759
In California?
1326
01:03:10,793 --> 01:03:12,795
Cecil just called.
1327
01:03:12,828 --> 01:03:15,664
- Everyone's going?
- Okay. Not everyone.
1328
01:03:15,697 --> 01:03:19,701
Larry's never leaving New York,
but Cecil, yeah, Buck, Nancy.
1329
01:03:20,903 --> 01:03:21,904
And Beth?
1330
01:03:25,041 --> 01:03:26,408
And Beth.
1331
01:03:29,578 --> 01:03:30,779
Don't look away.
1332
01:03:33,749 --> 01:03:34,817
Hey.
1333
01:03:39,721 --> 01:03:40,989
Don't turn away.
1334
01:03:45,661 --> 01:03:47,863
How long
have you been planning this?
1335
01:03:51,767 --> 01:03:53,335
Since I was eight.
1336
01:03:55,470 --> 01:03:58,707
Okay. So this comes next.
1337
01:04:07,616 --> 01:04:10,786
You're not even gonna
look back?
1338
01:04:10,819 --> 01:04:13,488
Ooh, I have already seen it.
1339
01:04:13,522 --> 01:04:17,126
♪ I know he's leaving, yeah ♪
1340
01:04:17,160 --> 01:04:19,461
♪ On that midnight train
to Georgia ♪
1341
01:04:19,494 --> 01:04:20,863
♪ Leaving
on the midnight train ♪
1342
01:04:20,896 --> 01:04:23,365
♪ Hey, ooh, yah ♪
1343
01:04:24,133 --> 01:04:26,902
♪ Said he's going back to find ♪
1344
01:04:26,935 --> 01:04:28,104
♪ Going back to find ♪
1345
01:04:28,137 --> 01:04:31,840
♪ Ooh a simpler place and time ♪
1346
01:04:31,874 --> 01:04:34,143
♪ Oh yes he is ♪
1347
01:04:34,177 --> 01:04:37,146
♪ And I'm gonna be with him ♪
1348
01:04:37,180 --> 01:04:38,647
♪ I know you will ♪
1349
01:04:38,680 --> 01:04:41,150
♪ On that midnight train
to Georgia ♪
1350
01:04:41,184 --> 01:04:43,019
♪ Leaving on a midnight train ♪
1351
01:04:43,052 --> 01:04:46,421
-♪ Oh yeah yeah ♪
-♪ Whoo-whoo ♪
1352
01:04:46,455 --> 01:04:49,125
♪ I'd rather live
in his world ♪
1353
01:04:49,158 --> 01:04:50,059
♪ Live in his world ♪
1354
01:04:50,093 --> 01:04:52,895
♪ Than be without him in mine ♪
1355
01:04:52,928 --> 01:04:56,032
♪ Her world is his ♪
1356
01:04:56,065 --> 01:04:57,766
♪ His and hers alone ♪
1357
01:04:57,799 --> 01:04:59,968
Come on!
1358
01:05:00,002 --> 01:05:01,170
-Ah!
-A pool?
1359
01:05:01,204 --> 01:05:03,672
It's a pool!
1360
01:05:11,180 --> 01:05:12,948
You couldn't find
a bigger house?
1361
01:05:12,981 --> 01:05:14,917
Just close your eyes and jump.
1362
01:05:14,950 --> 01:05:17,086
And dream all these walls away?
1363
01:05:17,120 --> 01:05:18,187
Hey, can't you see?
1364
01:05:18,221 --> 01:05:20,522
There are no walls here.
1365
01:05:20,555 --> 01:05:21,823
-Come on, Mom!
-Ah!
1366
01:05:25,228 --> 01:05:27,163
And we all lived
happily ever after, right?
1367
01:05:28,563 --> 01:05:32,168
Well... it's complicated.
1368
01:05:32,201 --> 01:05:33,902
I'd been betting
on what I believed in
1369
01:05:33,936 --> 01:05:35,804
my whole life.
1370
01:05:35,837 --> 01:05:36,672
I promise you.
1371
01:05:36,705 --> 01:05:39,108
So, where do we
dream from here?
1372
01:05:42,611 --> 01:05:43,712
KISS!
1373
01:05:47,582 --> 01:05:49,818
And every bet we'd
made back at Buddah
1374
01:05:49,851 --> 01:05:51,087
had paid off,
1375
01:05:51,120 --> 01:05:54,823
but Casablanca, KISS,
and now Donna...
1376
01:05:54,856 --> 01:05:57,960
Mm. So far,
we'd lost every hand.
1377
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:07,203
No, no, it's dance music, right?
1378
01:06:07,236 --> 01:06:10,239
There is no other voice
like her.
1379
01:06:10,273 --> 01:06:11,707
It's worse than we thought.
1380
01:06:11,740 --> 01:06:13,076
What?
1381
01:06:13,109 --> 01:06:14,643
Donna's not selling anywhere?
1382
01:06:14,676 --> 01:06:15,911
No one knows
what to make of her.
1383
01:06:15,944 --> 01:06:18,081
R and B doesn't want her.
Pop doesn't get her.
1384
01:06:18,114 --> 01:06:19,848
-She's just...
-Different.
1385
01:06:19,881 --> 01:06:21,616
The song's dead, man.
1386
01:06:21,650 --> 01:06:23,119
You were wrong
about the Gaines girl.
1387
01:06:23,152 --> 01:06:25,121
It's Summer, okay?
It's Donna Summer.
1388
01:06:25,154 --> 01:06:26,989
Well, you were wrong about her,
too, man.
1389
01:06:27,023 --> 01:06:28,690
Hello.
1390
01:06:28,724 --> 01:06:31,027
By 1975, we'd done
everything we could think of
1391
01:06:31,060 --> 01:06:32,228
to introduce Donna to the world.
1392
01:06:32,261 --> 01:06:33,628
Right in my heart.
1393
01:06:33,662 --> 01:06:37,200
The world just... didn't care.
1394
01:06:37,233 --> 01:06:38,900
You said that he loved the song,
1395
01:06:38,934 --> 01:06:41,770
that he was so sure that it
would change everything.
1396
01:06:43,572 --> 01:06:45,507
The song is over, LaDonna.
1397
01:06:46,175 --> 01:06:47,143
I was wrong.
1398
01:06:56,918 --> 01:06:59,022
Just because the audience
doesn't hear it
1399
01:06:59,055 --> 01:07:01,124
does not mean it isn't there.
1400
01:07:02,258 --> 01:07:05,660
Sometimes, it just takes time.
1401
01:07:07,263 --> 01:07:10,599
But we were out of that, too.
1402
01:07:10,632 --> 01:07:12,634
-Neil, don't do this.
-Hey, you called me, Bill.
1403
01:07:12,667 --> 01:07:14,237
To talk about it, not so that
you could do
1404
01:07:14,270 --> 01:07:15,304
whatever you're gonna do.
1405
01:07:15,338 --> 01:07:16,538
This came from Steven Tyler
himself.
1406
01:07:16,571 --> 01:07:18,940
Called and said if we don't cut
the pyro and get a smaller
1407
01:07:18,974 --> 01:07:21,077
sound and lighting rig, we
gotta pack it up and go home.
1408
01:07:21,110 --> 01:07:23,812
-Well, he is the headliner, so.
-Bill, you have to trust us.
1409
01:07:23,845 --> 01:07:25,614
Well, I thought
we were the us.
1410
01:07:25,647 --> 01:07:27,050
We're their managers, Joyce,
you and me.
1411
01:07:27,083 --> 01:07:30,119
Neil, I'm begging you,
please don't gamble on this.
1412
01:07:31,187 --> 01:07:33,156
We should have parked closer.
1413
01:07:33,189 --> 01:07:35,657
And sometimes...
1414
01:07:35,690 --> 01:07:37,626
they hear it
even when they don't know it.
1415
01:07:47,969 --> 01:07:49,738
Hey, Mr. Aerosmith!
1416
01:07:49,771 --> 01:07:53,009
What kind of rock and roll pussy
are you?
1417
01:07:53,042 --> 01:07:56,079
♪ You show us
everything you've got ♪
1418
01:07:56,112 --> 01:07:59,981
♪ You keep on dancing
and the room gets hot ♪
1419
01:08:00,016 --> 01:08:01,284
♪ You drive us wild ♪
1420
01:08:01,317 --> 01:08:04,619
♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪
1421
01:08:04,653 --> 01:08:06,655
Ah!
1422
01:08:06,688 --> 01:08:09,392
♪ You say you want to go
for a spin ♪
1423
01:08:09,425 --> 01:08:10,692
♪ The party's just begun ♪
1424
01:08:10,725 --> 01:08:13,229
♪ We'll let you in ♪
1425
01:08:13,262 --> 01:08:15,031
♪ You drive us wild ♪
1426
01:08:15,064 --> 01:08:18,201
♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪
1427
01:08:18,234 --> 01:08:19,901
Come on!
1428
01:08:19,935 --> 01:08:22,838
♪ You keep on shouting,
you keep on shouting ♪
1429
01:08:24,107 --> 01:08:25,841
Come on!
1430
01:08:25,874 --> 01:08:28,910
♪ I want to rock and roll ♪
1431
01:08:28,944 --> 01:08:31,214
♪ All night ♪
1432
01:08:31,247 --> 01:08:32,848
♪ And party every day ♪
1433
01:08:32,881 --> 01:08:35,318
♪ I want to rock and roll ♪
1434
01:08:35,351 --> 01:08:37,853
♪ All night ♪
1435
01:08:37,886 --> 01:08:39,688
♪ And party every day ♪
1436
01:08:39,721 --> 01:08:44,393
♪ I want to rock and roll
all night ♪
1437
01:08:44,427 --> 01:08:46,262
♪ And party every day ♪
1438
01:08:46,295 --> 01:08:51,134
♪ I want to rock and roll
all night ♪
1439
01:08:51,167 --> 01:08:53,302
♪ And party every day ♪
1440
01:08:57,240 --> 01:08:58,974
They love them
when they see them.
1441
01:09:00,143 --> 01:09:02,777
So why the hell can't we
get them to buy their records?
1442
01:09:02,811 --> 01:09:04,713
♪ You drive us wild ♪
1443
01:09:04,746 --> 01:09:07,749
♪ We'll drive you crazy ♪
1444
01:09:08,817 --> 01:09:09,985
♪ You keep on shouting ♪
1445
01:09:10,019 --> 01:09:11,053
I just...
1446
01:09:11,087 --> 01:09:12,821
♪ You keep on shouting ♪
1447
01:09:12,854 --> 01:09:15,358
I need... I need more time.
1448
01:09:15,391 --> 01:09:18,161
♪ I want to rock and roll ♪
1449
01:09:18,194 --> 01:09:20,829
♪ All night ♪
1450
01:09:20,862 --> 01:09:22,764
♪ And party every day ♪
1451
01:09:22,797 --> 01:09:27,470
♪ I want to rock and roll
all night ♪
1452
01:09:27,503 --> 01:09:29,338
♪ And party every day ♪
1453
01:09:49,258 --> 01:09:51,793
You lost us an Aerosmith tour.
1454
01:09:53,362 --> 01:09:54,930
The tour was already lost, Gene.
1455
01:09:54,963 --> 01:09:57,366
Aerosmith doesn't want you
anywhere near them, alright?
1456
01:09:57,400 --> 01:09:59,068
No headliner does.
Your...
1457
01:09:59,101 --> 01:10:00,936
Your show
scares the hell out of everyone.
1458
01:10:00,969 --> 01:10:02,938
So you want us
to scale everything down,
1459
01:10:02,971 --> 01:10:06,008
- cut the pyro and the lights?
- No. No. No. No.
1460
01:10:06,042 --> 01:10:08,344
If you're gonna be a headliner,
we're gonna need to make
1461
01:10:08,377 --> 01:10:10,079
everything all that much bigger,
alright?
1462
01:10:10,112 --> 01:10:13,115
That means more explosions
and so much, so much louder.
1463
01:10:13,149 --> 01:10:15,917
I have this guy, alright?
He's got these risers that...
1464
01:10:15,951 --> 01:10:19,422
You really think that more fire
and some forklifts
1465
01:10:19,455 --> 01:10:22,458
are gonna be
what finally breaks us through?
1466
01:10:22,491 --> 01:10:23,825
No.
1467
01:10:23,858 --> 01:10:25,228
No. It is gonna be
the music,
1468
01:10:25,261 --> 01:10:27,496
and it was always gonna be
the music, but we might
1469
01:10:27,530 --> 01:10:30,533
just make enough noise
to... to get enough people
1470
01:10:30,566 --> 01:10:32,834
to actually listen to it,
1471
01:10:32,867 --> 01:10:34,470
to pay attention.
1472
01:10:34,503 --> 01:10:36,771
Why did you sign us?
1473
01:10:36,805 --> 01:10:39,975
Our demo was good, not great.
Even I can admit that.
1474
01:10:40,009 --> 01:10:41,843
You had to know
how hard this was gonna be.
1475
01:10:41,876 --> 01:10:43,045
Why take the risk?
1476
01:10:47,816 --> 01:10:51,287
Because your real name
is Chaim Witz,
1477
01:10:51,320 --> 01:10:54,023
and you moved here from Israel
when you were eight years old,
1478
01:10:54,056 --> 01:10:56,392
speaking nothing but Yiddish.
1479
01:10:56,425 --> 01:10:59,262
Because Paul's real name
is Stanley Eisen.
1480
01:11:00,329 --> 01:11:02,998
Because two kids from Queens
1481
01:11:03,032 --> 01:11:05,534
had dreams about being
the next gods of rock.
1482
01:11:08,070 --> 01:11:10,872
And little Neil Bogatz
from the Brooklyn projects
1483
01:11:10,905 --> 01:11:13,908
thinks he can make
everybody's dreams come true...
1484
01:11:16,445 --> 01:11:19,115
if he's just given
a little more time.
1485
01:11:21,017 --> 01:11:23,386
You know, your demo
really was that great, Gene.
1486
01:11:25,054 --> 01:11:29,225
Yeah. Raw and honest
rock and roll,
1487
01:11:29,258 --> 01:11:31,893
even without all the costumes.
But I tell you
1488
01:11:31,926 --> 01:11:33,995
what your real brilliance is,
and I don't even think
1489
01:11:34,030 --> 01:11:37,033
you know this.
It's that you write
1490
01:11:37,066 --> 01:11:38,867
every single one of your songs
1491
01:11:38,900 --> 01:11:42,204
with the same four
God damn chords.
1492
01:11:42,238 --> 01:11:44,540
That means that any...
any 14-year-old kid
1493
01:11:44,573 --> 01:11:46,175
can go out there
and buy a guitar,
1494
01:11:46,208 --> 01:11:47,276
and within 20 minutes,
1495
01:11:47,310 --> 01:11:48,910
they can be you!
1496
01:11:49,645 --> 01:11:52,214
And that matters, Gene.
1497
01:11:52,248 --> 01:11:53,982
That is who you are.
1498
01:11:54,983 --> 01:11:56,951
Now, why did you sign
with me, huh?
1499
01:11:58,020 --> 01:12:01,490
Brand-new label
with you as our only act.
1500
01:12:01,524 --> 01:12:04,293
You had to know you were taking
as much of a risk as we were.
1501
01:12:06,228 --> 01:12:07,929
Because you
never should have gotten
1502
01:12:07,962 --> 01:12:09,931
out of the Brooklyn projects.
1503
01:12:13,968 --> 01:12:15,371
And yet, here you are.
1504
01:12:17,640 --> 01:12:19,008
Here we are.
1505
01:12:20,242 --> 01:12:21,876
Two imposters.
1506
01:12:24,647 --> 01:12:26,182
Only if we're wrong.
1507
01:13:04,720 --> 01:13:06,955
I get that you like to gamble,
1508
01:13:06,988 --> 01:13:09,258
but what if Joey was right?
1509
01:13:09,291 --> 01:13:11,360
In the end, what if the house
does always win?
1510
01:13:16,232 --> 01:13:17,700
Well, then we raise the stakes
so high
1511
01:13:17,733 --> 01:13:19,201
that we become the house.
1512
01:13:33,649 --> 01:13:35,184
Two hundred grand more.
1513
01:13:35,217 --> 01:13:37,353
You're still upside down
the last hundred.
1514
01:13:37,386 --> 01:13:39,988
Why don't you make it
a personal loan, then?
1515
01:13:40,022 --> 01:13:42,324
Don't do this.
You go upside down this big,
1516
01:13:42,358 --> 01:13:44,160
it don't matter
how much I fucking love you.
1517
01:13:44,193 --> 01:13:46,028
Hey, you ever gambled
yourself, Joey?
1518
01:13:46,061 --> 01:13:48,197
That thumping in your chest
right before that dealer
1519
01:13:48,230 --> 01:13:50,633
turns over your next card?
Anything is possible
1520
01:13:50,666 --> 01:13:52,535
right before that moment.
1521
01:13:52,568 --> 01:13:54,403
Neil, I'm telling you,
1522
01:13:54,437 --> 01:13:57,306
I'm not gonna be here for you
this time if you don't pay off.
1523
01:13:57,339 --> 01:13:59,275
Are you gonna give me
the money or not?
1524
01:13:59,308 --> 01:14:00,342
No.
1525
01:14:03,679 --> 01:14:06,282
-Two hundred?
-Two hundred.
1526
01:14:19,662 --> 01:14:21,096
I know it's bad.
1527
01:14:22,231 --> 01:14:25,501
I just wish you would be honest
and tell me how bad.
1528
01:14:25,534 --> 01:14:27,136
It's... it's... it's fine.
1529
01:14:27,169 --> 01:14:29,003
No. It's not fine
We're not fine.
1530
01:14:29,038 --> 01:14:31,307
None of this is fine, Neil.
1531
01:14:31,340 --> 01:14:33,342
We were fine when we were
on the floor of our home
1532
01:14:33,375 --> 01:14:35,611
in New Jersey, when I was
teaching you even how to read
1533
01:14:35,644 --> 01:14:38,080
those books.
And now, we are broke,
1534
01:14:38,113 --> 01:14:39,682
and you are giving
the guys bonuses!
1535
01:14:39,715 --> 01:14:41,250
Hey. No. Did you sister tell you
1536
01:14:41,283 --> 01:14:43,052
that Buck was the only one
that took it?
1537
01:14:43,085 --> 01:14:45,421
Maybe he was the only one
smart enough to.
1538
01:14:47,790 --> 01:14:50,392
Hey. Hey.
1539
01:14:52,795 --> 01:14:54,129
Come on.
1540
01:14:54,797 --> 01:14:56,298
Just dance with me.
1541
01:15:02,137 --> 01:15:03,405
Oh.
1542
01:15:06,475 --> 01:15:08,277
You stopped dreaming again.
1543
01:15:09,411 --> 01:15:11,514
You did.
1544
01:15:11,547 --> 01:15:13,516
You know what I dream of?
1545
01:15:13,549 --> 01:15:17,152
It's that you're actually here
with us, Neil,
1546
01:15:17,186 --> 01:15:18,821
and not in New York or Las Vegas
1547
01:15:18,854 --> 01:15:21,423
or wherever else
you disappear to
1548
01:15:21,457 --> 01:15:24,026
when you're too afraid
I'll see the truth.
1549
01:15:25,094 --> 01:15:28,097
What do you think the truth is?
1550
01:15:28,130 --> 01:15:31,600
Beth, I love you. Come on.
I'm always with you.
1551
01:15:31,634 --> 01:15:35,404
I'm always with you.
You, the kids,
1552
01:15:35,437 --> 01:15:37,106
you're all I think about.
1553
01:15:39,375 --> 01:15:44,280
You have to know she's going
to end up just as hurt as me.
1554
01:15:47,182 --> 01:15:49,418
I convinced myself for so long
that it was okay
1555
01:15:49,451 --> 01:15:51,854
when I knew that you were
sharing your bed, Neil,
1556
01:15:51,887 --> 01:15:54,290
but you are sharing your heart.
1557
01:15:56,859 --> 01:15:58,294
Tell me I'm wrong.
1558
01:16:08,470 --> 01:16:10,372
It's complicated.
1559
01:16:10,406 --> 01:16:11,407
No.
1560
01:16:12,675 --> 01:16:13,676
It's not.
1561
01:16:15,778 --> 01:16:17,313
It's really simple.
1562
01:16:23,218 --> 01:16:26,589
♪ You've got a real type
of thing going down ♪
1563
01:16:26,622 --> 01:16:28,324
♪ Getting down ♪
1564
01:16:28,357 --> 01:16:32,595
♪ There's a whole lot of rhythm
going round ♪
1565
01:16:32,628 --> 01:16:34,730
You want
a little bit more or you good?
1566
01:16:34,763 --> 01:16:35,864
What?
1567
01:16:35,898 --> 01:16:37,866
Yeah, yeah. You good?
1568
01:16:37,900 --> 01:16:39,702
I'm great.
1569
01:16:39,735 --> 01:16:41,337
Oh, there he is. There he is.
1570
01:16:41,370 --> 01:16:44,206
-Is that what you gave me?
-That's it right there. Uh-uh.
1571
01:16:44,239 --> 01:16:46,375
Hey, what up, Neil?
Look at the space in here...
1572
01:16:46,408 --> 01:16:48,510
I can't even feel
my lungs anymore.
1573
01:16:48,544 --> 01:16:49,678
Now it's a party.
1574
01:16:49,712 --> 01:16:52,381
George, George, George, George,
if we're gonna sign you,
1575
01:16:52,414 --> 01:16:54,416
you cannot be
your own opening act, alright?
1576
01:16:54,450 --> 01:16:58,187
You are Parliament and
Funkadelic. It's confusing.
1577
01:16:58,220 --> 01:16:59,888
Only on some planets, man.
1578
01:16:59,922 --> 01:17:02,625
See, that's why I need
a motherfucking spaceship,
1579
01:17:02,658 --> 01:17:04,226
so we can leave this Earth.
1580
01:17:04,259 --> 01:17:06,228
When the mothership gets built,
1581
01:17:06,261 --> 01:17:08,664
the connection
between Earth and the galaxy
1582
01:17:08,697 --> 01:17:10,699
is gonna be made,
and everything will be clear.
1583
01:17:10,733 --> 01:17:13,202
I'm trying to tell you,
it'll make sense. You'll see.
1584
01:17:13,235 --> 01:17:15,237
How quickly can you cut us
this new record?
1585
01:17:15,270 --> 01:17:18,807
How quick can you build me
a motherfucking spaceship?
1586
01:17:18,841 --> 01:17:20,342
How much?
1587
01:17:21,810 --> 01:17:23,746
A million
motherfucking dollars.
1588
01:17:23,779 --> 01:17:25,648
Would those be Earth dollars?
1589
01:17:25,681 --> 01:17:28,384
I can't even feel
my bones anymore.
1590
01:17:28,417 --> 01:17:29,918
He's giving me space...
1591
01:17:29,952 --> 01:17:32,287
I know
what you need to do, Neil.
1592
01:17:32,321 --> 01:17:33,789
- It's party time.
- Yeah?
1593
01:17:33,822 --> 01:17:37,192
It's time to fly. I'm gonna need
you to hop on this ride with me.
1594
01:17:37,226 --> 01:17:39,461
If Buck can handle it, so can I.
1595
01:17:39,495 --> 01:17:41,196
You in or you out?
1596
01:17:41,230 --> 01:17:42,665
I didn't start
the heavier drugs
1597
01:17:42,698 --> 01:17:45,534
because of what was going on
between Beth and Joyce.
1598
01:17:45,567 --> 01:17:48,303
Didn't start them
because of what was going wrong
1599
01:17:48,337 --> 01:17:49,938
with KISS and Donna
and Casablanca.
1600
01:17:49,972 --> 01:17:51,306
I just...
1601
01:17:53,375 --> 01:17:55,611
I did them because I like...
1602
01:17:55,644 --> 01:17:58,380
I liked how it made me feel.
1603
01:17:58,414 --> 01:18:00,582
Why don't you take
a ride with me, Neil?
1604
01:18:01,984 --> 01:18:03,752
Alright. Let's go, Neil.
It's on you.
1605
01:18:03,786 --> 01:18:04,987
Okay.
1606
01:18:05,021 --> 01:18:06,689
- You ready to go?
- Do it.
1607
01:18:06,722 --> 01:18:09,458
You ready to build us
a spaceship, Neil?
1608
01:18:11,460 --> 01:18:12,428
Fuck it.
1609
01:18:14,430 --> 01:18:16,699
You look like you
like it. I think he likes it.
1610
01:18:21,904 --> 01:18:23,872
Let's build you
a motherfucking spaceship.
1611
01:18:25,607 --> 01:18:27,576
That's what I'm talkin' about.
1612
01:18:27,609 --> 01:18:28,911
Liftoff. Let's go.
1613
01:18:28,944 --> 01:18:30,946
♪ We need the funk ♪
1614
01:18:30,979 --> 01:18:32,748
♪ We got to have that funk ♪
1615
01:18:32,781 --> 01:18:35,818
♪ Oh we want the funk ♪
1616
01:18:35,851 --> 01:18:37,352
♪ Give up the funk ♪
1617
01:18:37,386 --> 01:18:40,023
♪ Oh we need the funk ♪
1618
01:18:40,056 --> 01:18:41,857
♪ We got to have that funk ♪
1619
01:18:41,890 --> 01:18:42,825
♪ Oh we want the funk ♪
1620
01:18:42,858 --> 01:18:44,827
♪ Please, mother ♪
1621
01:18:44,860 --> 01:18:46,662
♪ Give up the funk ♪
1622
01:18:46,695 --> 01:18:47,730
♪ Oh we need the funk ♪
1623
01:18:47,763 --> 01:18:49,032
♪ Please mother ah ♪
1624
01:18:49,065 --> 01:18:50,866
♪ We got to have that funk ♪
1625
01:18:50,899 --> 01:18:51,900
♪ Oh we want the funk ♪
1626
01:18:51,934 --> 01:18:53,936
♪ Please mother ♪
1627
01:18:53,969 --> 01:18:55,471
♪ Give up the funk ♪
1628
01:19:12,055 --> 01:19:13,622
Well, alright.
1629
01:19:17,526 --> 01:19:19,062
Partying on the mothership.
1630
01:19:19,095 --> 01:19:21,396
I am the mothership connection.
1631
01:19:22,998 --> 01:19:25,901
♪ If you hear any noise ♪
1632
01:19:25,934 --> 01:19:28,737
♪ It's just me and the boys ♪
1633
01:19:28,771 --> 01:19:31,074
♪ Hit me ♪
1634
01:19:31,107 --> 01:19:32,741
Hit it, fellas.
1635
01:19:34,476 --> 01:19:36,912
♪ Swing down
sweet chariot ♪
1636
01:19:36,945 --> 01:19:39,782
♪ Stop and let me ride ♪
1637
01:19:39,815 --> 01:19:42,351
♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪
1638
01:19:42,384 --> 01:19:45,088
♪ Stop and let me ride ♪
1639
01:19:45,121 --> 01:19:47,723
♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪
1640
01:19:47,756 --> 01:19:50,526
♪ Stop and let me ride ♪
1641
01:19:50,559 --> 01:19:53,029
♪ Swing down sweet chariot ♪
1642
01:19:53,062 --> 01:19:56,099
♪ Stop and let me ride ♪
1643
01:19:56,132 --> 01:19:58,534
That million dollars
actually went a long way,
1644
01:19:58,567 --> 01:20:01,070
and not just for the mothership.
George bought two new tour buses
1645
01:20:01,104 --> 01:20:02,805
and new cars for everyone
in the band.
1646
01:20:02,838 --> 01:20:04,740
Everyone, 28 of them.
1647
01:20:04,773 --> 01:20:07,110
We had Rolls Royces,
Mercedes Benz,
1648
01:20:07,143 --> 01:20:09,411
Jaguars, six Sevilles.
1649
01:20:09,444 --> 01:20:12,414
Everybody got a car,
except for me, motherfucker.
1650
01:20:12,447 --> 01:20:14,983
I needed a spaceship,
because I don't drive.
1651
01:20:15,018 --> 01:20:17,352
♪ Let me ride ♪
1652
01:20:17,386 --> 01:20:19,855
♪ Swing down
sweet chariot ♪
1653
01:20:19,888 --> 01:20:21,690
They pioneered
almost every genre
1654
01:20:21,723 --> 01:20:23,425
that came after them.
1655
01:20:23,458 --> 01:20:27,563
They just spent more money
than they ever made,
1656
01:20:27,596 --> 01:20:31,633
and the money just...
kept bleeding.
1657
01:20:44,047 --> 01:20:46,082
That's really beautiful.
I love that.
1658
01:20:46,115 --> 01:20:48,984
Thanks.
They've been making fun of me.
1659
01:20:49,018 --> 01:20:50,586
They don't think
it sounds like KISS.
1660
01:20:50,619 --> 01:20:52,088
Oh, no. Hey.
Hey. Not those.
1661
01:20:52,121 --> 01:20:53,289
Those are the empty shells,
right?
1662
01:20:53,323 --> 01:20:56,059
- Hide them somewhere the back.
- Wait, wait. Empty?
1663
01:20:56,092 --> 01:20:57,227
-Yeah.
-Those are empty?
1664
01:20:57,260 --> 01:20:59,728
Yeah. They might just make you
look as big as you sound.
1665
01:20:59,761 --> 01:21:03,498
You know, now you're beginning
to sound just like him.
1666
01:21:03,532 --> 01:21:05,534
Bill, is he...
is he serious?
1667
01:21:05,567 --> 01:21:07,936
Guys, uh, give us five.
1668
01:21:12,041 --> 01:21:14,043
-It's a bullshit trick.
-Bill.
1669
01:21:14,077 --> 01:21:16,478
Okay? It's a mirage.
1670
01:21:16,511 --> 01:21:19,615
And it sure as hell
isn't rock and roll, and...
1671
01:21:19,648 --> 01:21:20,649
and...
1672
01:21:21,617 --> 01:21:25,021
and I wish any of that
mattered right now,
1673
01:21:25,054 --> 01:21:26,622
but it just doesn't.
1674
01:21:27,890 --> 01:21:32,628
Nobody's buying our records.
No one's coming to see us play.
1675
01:21:32,661 --> 01:21:35,664
And if an empty speaker cabinet
tricks people into thinking
1676
01:21:35,697 --> 01:21:39,202
that we sound better
because we sound louder...
1677
01:21:39,235 --> 01:21:41,204
If this is what it finally takes
1678
01:21:41,237 --> 01:21:44,506
so that everybody else
feels the way we do...
1679
01:21:45,108 --> 01:21:47,076
what I think is,
1680
01:21:47,110 --> 01:21:48,810
we do what we have to
to survive.
1681
01:21:48,844 --> 01:21:50,679
It's just another part
of the show,
1682
01:21:50,712 --> 01:21:53,116
like the costumes,
the... the make-up.
1683
01:21:53,149 --> 01:21:54,483
No.
1684
01:21:55,684 --> 01:21:56,685
It's not.
1685
01:21:58,987 --> 01:22:00,522
It's a lie.
1686
01:22:02,025 --> 01:22:03,558
About the music.
1687
01:22:12,567 --> 01:22:15,837
We've never lied
about the music.
1688
01:22:15,871 --> 01:22:17,539
Hey, uh,
why don't you, uh...
1689
01:22:17,572 --> 01:22:19,641
why don't you sing that song?
1690
01:22:19,675 --> 01:22:21,677
The one that you said
you liked it.
1691
01:22:21,710 --> 01:22:24,713
You said you liked it, right?
Sing it. Sing it for him.
1692
01:22:24,746 --> 01:22:26,682
He thinks he's got
our next single.
1693
01:22:34,290 --> 01:22:37,859
♪ Beth I hear you calling ♪
1694
01:22:37,893 --> 01:22:42,531
♪ But I can't come home
right now ♪
1695
01:22:42,564 --> 01:22:46,069
♪ Me and the boys are playing ♪
1696
01:22:46,102 --> 01:22:48,204
♪ And we just can't find ♪
1697
01:22:48,237 --> 01:22:51,240
♪ The sound ♪
1698
01:22:51,274 --> 01:22:54,543
♪ Just a few more hours ♪
1699
01:22:54,576 --> 01:22:58,747
♪ And I'll be right home
to you ♪
1700
01:22:58,780 --> 01:23:02,718
♪ I think I hear them calling ♪
1701
01:23:02,751 --> 01:23:07,522
♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪
1702
01:23:07,556 --> 01:23:09,691
♪ Beth what can I do? ♪
1703
01:23:09,725 --> 01:23:11,260
What's... what's the matter?
1704
01:23:11,294 --> 01:23:13,862
It's not... not the radio hit
you were hoping for?
1705
01:23:13,895 --> 01:23:15,031
Paul!
1706
01:23:15,064 --> 01:23:18,867
I will drop you right off
on that fucking street corner
1707
01:23:18,900 --> 01:23:19,868
in Queens.
1708
01:23:19,901 --> 01:23:21,536
You can't.
1709
01:23:22,938 --> 01:23:24,273
We're all you got.
1710
01:23:24,307 --> 01:23:26,275
The song was not supposed
to be Beth, okay?
1711
01:23:26,309 --> 01:23:28,643
Peter wrote it for his wife.
He'll change it back.
1712
01:23:28,677 --> 01:23:31,114
- We'll change it, Neil.
- Mm...
1713
01:23:31,147 --> 01:23:33,316
-Mm... no, we won't.
-No. No.
1714
01:23:33,349 --> 01:23:36,618
"Beth" just has a better...
I don't know.
1715
01:23:36,651 --> 01:23:38,754
It's just got
a better ring to it.
1716
01:23:38,787 --> 01:23:39,888
-Don't you think?
-Okay.
1717
01:23:39,921 --> 01:23:42,724
I think I finally got the
lights the way you want 'em.
1718
01:23:46,329 --> 01:23:47,796
What'd I miss?
1719
01:23:52,000 --> 01:23:53,036
You know...
1720
01:23:55,338 --> 01:23:57,806
you guys are just a couple
of fucking children
1721
01:23:57,839 --> 01:23:58,874
playing dress-up.
1722
01:24:01,810 --> 01:24:04,347
Aw, where you going? Come on.
1723
01:24:04,380 --> 01:24:05,881
He bet everything on you!
1724
01:24:05,914 --> 01:24:08,850
No, no, no, no.
He bet everything on him!
1725
01:24:08,884 --> 01:24:11,087
We just happen to be
the cards he was dealt!
1726
01:24:12,321 --> 01:24:15,624
♪ You say you feel so empty ♪
1727
01:24:15,657 --> 01:24:20,296
♪ That our house
just ain't a home ♪
1728
01:24:20,329 --> 01:24:24,200
♪ I'm always somewhere else ♪
1729
01:24:24,233 --> 01:24:29,105
♪ And you're always
there alone ♪
1730
01:24:29,138 --> 01:24:32,341
♪ Just a few more hours ♪
1731
01:24:32,375 --> 01:24:36,645
♪ And I'll be right home
to you ♪
1732
01:24:36,678 --> 01:24:40,749
♪ I think I hear them calling ♪
1733
01:24:40,782 --> 01:24:44,820
♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪
1734
01:24:44,853 --> 01:24:47,789
♪ Beth what can I do? ♪
1735
01:24:49,125 --> 01:24:52,861
♪ Beth I know you're lonely ♪
1736
01:24:52,894 --> 01:24:57,100
♪ I know I'll be alright ♪
1737
01:24:57,133 --> 01:25:02,003
♪ 'Cause me and the boys
will be playing ♪
1738
01:25:02,038 --> 01:25:03,106
♪ All night ♪
1739
01:25:43,312 --> 01:25:45,448
- Hey.
- Hey.
1740
01:25:45,481 --> 01:25:47,350
You look like shit.
1741
01:25:47,383 --> 01:25:49,252
You get in okay?
1742
01:25:49,285 --> 01:25:50,353
Limo was waiting?
1743
01:25:50,386 --> 01:25:51,753
Yeah, yeah. Like movie stars.
1744
01:25:51,786 --> 01:25:52,954
Your mother loved it.
1745
01:25:54,890 --> 01:25:56,425
Okay. How much you need
this time?
1746
01:25:56,459 --> 01:25:58,693
You got to talk to me
like that? I'm your father.
1747
01:25:58,727 --> 01:26:00,329
You think that's why we
1748
01:26:00,363 --> 01:26:02,231
flew in? I wanted to see
how my son's doing,
1749
01:26:02,265 --> 01:26:03,765
if he's okay.
1750
01:26:03,798 --> 01:26:05,800
What do you need, Pop?
1751
01:26:05,834 --> 01:26:08,171
It's for your mother, okay?
For the foster home.
1752
01:26:08,204 --> 01:26:09,771
She's going nuts.
I don't know.
1753
01:26:09,804 --> 01:26:11,307
Like, ten or something.
1754
01:26:11,340 --> 01:26:13,775
You make it harder than getting
money from loan sharks.
1755
01:26:13,808 --> 01:26:16,412
It's just fucking money.
1756
01:26:16,445 --> 01:26:17,812
What is it you always say?
1757
01:26:17,846 --> 01:26:19,948
Uh, you just got to know
where to find it.
1758
01:26:19,981 --> 01:26:22,151
Like at the card tables?
1759
01:26:22,185 --> 01:26:23,718
I heard things, Neil.
1760
01:26:24,387 --> 01:26:26,355
What are you doing, huh?
1761
01:26:26,389 --> 01:26:29,025
Oh, you know,
just still trying to escape
1762
01:26:29,058 --> 01:26:31,260
-those four God damn blocks!
-What the fuck's
1763
01:26:31,294 --> 01:26:32,761
-the matter with you?
-Hey! Fuck!
1764
01:26:32,794 --> 01:26:34,263
Huh? I raised you to be smart!
1765
01:26:34,297 --> 01:26:36,932
How you gonna be smart
shoving that shit up your nose?
1766
01:26:36,965 --> 01:26:39,235
Come on! I'm talking to you!
1767
01:26:39,268 --> 01:26:40,503
How you gonna know
when you're hot,
1768
01:26:40,536 --> 01:26:42,271
when to bet big, when to fold?
1769
01:26:42,305 --> 01:26:45,174
You can't even decide who you
want in your fucking bed!
1770
01:26:46,275 --> 01:26:47,876
I have everything under control.
1771
01:26:47,909 --> 01:26:49,878
Doesn't look that way.
1772
01:26:49,911 --> 01:26:52,747
You've lost the music, kiddo.
1773
01:26:52,781 --> 01:26:55,784
Hey. You understand?
1774
01:26:58,354 --> 01:26:59,921
Is there anything else you need?
1775
01:27:08,531 --> 01:27:10,499
Hey, you don't think
you could have made it
1776
01:27:10,533 --> 01:27:11,967
using your real name?
1777
01:27:15,137 --> 01:27:16,239
Bogart is my real name.
1778
01:27:22,011 --> 01:27:22,978
Sure.
1779
01:27:46,402 --> 01:27:48,003
Tell me what I'm supposed to do.
1780
01:27:49,904 --> 01:27:52,008
Just keep dancing, Neil.
1781
01:27:53,075 --> 01:27:55,944
Always was the one thing
you were best at.
1782
01:27:59,081 --> 01:28:00,882
I did always love
the way you moved.
1783
01:28:00,915 --> 01:28:03,152
No. Just... I'm...
I'm asking you.
1784
01:28:03,185 --> 01:28:04,886
Just tell me
what I'm supposed to do.
1785
01:28:04,919 --> 01:28:06,888
Go and say goodbye to your kids.
1786
01:28:09,924 --> 01:28:11,460
That's what you're
supposed to do.
1787
01:28:17,433 --> 01:28:19,135
You're breaking my heart.
1788
01:28:21,604 --> 01:28:23,439
Hurts like hell, doesn't it?
1789
01:28:37,886 --> 01:28:40,089
She won't even put them
on the phone.
1790
01:28:41,090 --> 01:28:42,024
My kids.
1791
01:28:47,296 --> 01:28:48,464
My kids.
1792
01:28:56,105 --> 01:28:58,541
I don't know how to stand up.
1793
01:28:58,574 --> 01:29:00,609
I'm just... I'm sitting here,
1794
01:29:00,643 --> 01:29:04,080
and I don't...
I don't know how to get up.
1795
01:29:15,990 --> 01:29:18,461
Hey, you can almost see
Brooklyn from here.
1796
01:29:31,207 --> 01:29:32,241
This is bullshit.
1797
01:29:32,274 --> 01:29:34,477
There isn't a thing that you
have ever asked for
1798
01:29:34,510 --> 01:29:35,944
that I haven't given you,
1799
01:29:35,977 --> 01:29:37,613
and you know
exactly how expensive it is
1800
01:29:37,646 --> 01:29:39,281
to keep you on tour
and in the studio!
1801
01:29:39,315 --> 01:29:41,384
Let's seriously talk about
releasing "Beth," okay...
1802
01:29:41,417 --> 01:29:43,519
No. No, no, no! We're not
releasing that shit. No.
1803
01:29:43,552 --> 01:29:45,121
...cross us over
into mainstream radio.
1804
01:29:45,154 --> 01:29:47,089
-It's not who we are.
-Nobody knows who you are,
1805
01:29:47,123 --> 01:29:49,024
which is why you're not making
any fucking money!
1806
01:29:49,058 --> 01:29:51,394
Isn't that your job? Huh?
To get them to know? And yours?
1807
01:29:51,427 --> 01:29:54,130
Or is that not the kinda pillow
talk you two like to talk?
1808
01:29:54,163 --> 01:29:55,297
- Jesus, Paul.
- What?
1809
01:29:55,331 --> 01:29:57,400
I'm just saying what everyone's
fucking thinking, man.
1810
01:29:57,433 --> 01:30:00,536
- No. Let him say it.
- It's just the truth.
1811
01:30:00,569 --> 01:30:01,670
You're our manager,
1812
01:30:01,704 --> 01:30:04,273
and you are fucking
the president
1813
01:30:04,306 --> 01:30:05,441
of our record company.
1814
01:30:07,443 --> 01:30:09,211
You're right. That is the truth,
1815
01:30:09,245 --> 01:30:11,147
which you didn't seem to mind
when you asked me
1816
01:30:11,180 --> 01:30:14,083
to give him your demo.
You didn't mind either, Bill,
1817
01:30:14,116 --> 01:30:16,218
when you begged me
to convince Neil to sign us
1818
01:30:16,252 --> 01:30:19,221
even though Warner Brothers
begged him not to.
1819
01:30:19,255 --> 01:30:21,390
Or when you asked me
to get us on tour, Paul,
1820
01:30:21,424 --> 01:30:23,492
and keep us on tour.
1821
01:30:23,526 --> 01:30:26,462
You were all just fine asking me
to roll over on my pillow
1822
01:30:26,495 --> 01:30:29,231
and talk to the president
of your record company then.
1823
01:30:30,299 --> 01:30:31,300
Yes.
1824
01:30:31,333 --> 01:30:34,437
I am your manager,
1825
01:30:34,470 --> 01:30:37,239
and you know just how lucky
you are that I am,
1826
01:30:37,273 --> 01:30:39,341
because if I wasn't, you'd
still be trying to figure out
1827
01:30:39,375 --> 01:30:41,410
how to wear your mom's makeup,
'cause I taught you
1828
01:30:41,444 --> 01:30:42,511
how to do that, too.
1829
01:30:43,479 --> 01:30:46,081
Who I love is my business.
1830
01:30:46,115 --> 01:30:47,683
Your business is to make
the damn music.
1831
01:30:47,716 --> 01:30:49,051
-That's your job!
-No, no, no.
1832
01:30:49,084 --> 01:30:50,119
-Start doing it.
-No.
1833
01:30:50,152 --> 01:30:52,188
It doesn't matter how we got
here. This is real.
1834
01:30:52,221 --> 01:30:54,223
This is happening. This is
happening right fucking now.
1835
01:30:54,256 --> 01:30:57,193
-Tell them, Bill.
-You really want us to be
1836
01:30:57,226 --> 01:30:59,161
the hottest band in the world?
1837
01:31:00,429 --> 01:31:02,731
He better start paying us
like we already are.
1838
01:31:02,765 --> 01:31:04,133
There he is.
1839
01:31:05,100 --> 01:31:06,735
There he is, folks,
1840
01:31:06,769 --> 01:31:08,002
Chaim Witz,
1841
01:31:08,037 --> 01:31:10,206
the demon
of rock and roll. Oh!
1842
01:31:10,239 --> 01:31:12,741
You want some
real money, Gene?
1843
01:31:12,775 --> 01:31:15,177
You want some real money?
1844
01:31:15,211 --> 01:31:17,112
Well, then you go out there
1845
01:31:17,146 --> 01:31:19,515
and you write
us a fucking song
1846
01:31:19,548 --> 01:31:22,585
that will actually
make us some!
1847
01:31:22,618 --> 01:31:23,719
- No, no, no.
- Wow!
1848
01:31:23,752 --> 01:31:26,088
-No, no, no, no, no.
-Fuck you.
1849
01:31:26,121 --> 01:31:27,756
You don't make it about them.
Not this time.
1850
01:31:27,790 --> 01:31:30,259
- Bill.
- Uh-uh. I am sorry.
1851
01:31:30,292 --> 01:31:34,263
We are renegotiating right
now, or we're leaving.
1852
01:31:38,400 --> 01:31:39,768
Bill.
1853
01:31:39,802 --> 01:31:42,538
Okay. Okay.
1854
01:31:45,741 --> 01:31:48,711
How much?
1855
01:31:48,744 --> 01:31:50,346
A million dollars an album.
1856
01:31:53,716 --> 01:31:55,584
And another million
in tour support.
1857
01:31:56,819 --> 01:31:59,188
You want
two million dollars an album
1858
01:31:59,221 --> 01:32:02,091
for a band that can't sell
a... a fucking single?
1859
01:32:04,393 --> 01:32:08,597
I want two million dollars an
album for KISS.
1860
01:32:08,631 --> 01:32:09,632
Bill.
1861
01:32:18,874 --> 01:32:20,576
Okay. Fucking fine. Deal.
1862
01:32:23,312 --> 01:32:24,313
We finished?
1863
01:32:29,785 --> 01:32:31,520
It's just business.
1864
01:32:31,554 --> 01:32:32,788
It's nothing personal.
1865
01:32:32,821 --> 01:32:35,291
Of course it is,
and you fucking know it.
1866
01:32:37,893 --> 01:32:39,261
It's okay.
1867
01:33:10,526 --> 01:33:12,861
And now, ladies
and gentlemen,
1868
01:33:12,895 --> 01:33:16,398
here's Johnny!
1869
01:33:16,432 --> 01:33:19,768
Here he is, Lenny Bruce!
1870
01:33:19,802 --> 01:33:21,337
Maybe you should slow down
a little.
1871
01:33:21,370 --> 01:33:22,771
Maybe you should speed up
a lot.
1872
01:33:25,908 --> 01:33:28,777
Hey! I love Lenny Bruce.
1873
01:33:28,811 --> 01:33:31,747
Did you know that he was 40
when he died?
1874
01:33:31,780 --> 01:33:33,649
You think it was worth it,
dying so young
1875
01:33:33,682 --> 01:33:36,218
but then having
all that success?
1876
01:33:36,251 --> 01:33:39,755
No. I think dying old
and having all that success
1877
01:33:39,788 --> 01:33:41,824
would be worth it.
1878
01:33:41,857 --> 01:33:43,559
You promised our distributors
a sure thing
1879
01:33:43,592 --> 01:33:46,629
so they'll keep letting us ride
on everything else.
1880
01:33:46,662 --> 01:33:47,863
Well, it's Johnny Carson.
1881
01:33:47,896 --> 01:33:50,332
It is a sure thing.
1882
01:33:50,366 --> 01:33:54,703
Besides, a bet is only a bet
if it matters.
1883
01:34:02,344 --> 01:34:04,179
It's a wedding night,
1884
01:34:04,213 --> 01:34:06,649
and you're both virgins.
It's disgusting.
1885
01:34:06,682 --> 01:34:08,150
Abe, Abe...
1886
01:34:09,385 --> 01:34:12,388
You don't mean that.
No, because it's me, Abe,
1887
01:34:12,421 --> 01:34:14,323
because you've always trusted..
1888
01:34:17,393 --> 01:34:19,328
-Talk to me.
-They're not waiting for Carson.
1889
01:34:19,361 --> 01:34:20,663
-What?
-They're returning
1890
01:34:20,696 --> 01:34:23,265
all the unsold KISS albums
and Donna and Parliament.
1891
01:34:23,298 --> 01:34:24,333
-Everything.
-That's
1892
01:34:24,366 --> 01:34:26,535
-too many fucking records, man.
-No shit, Buck.
1893
01:34:26,568 --> 01:34:28,570
-What do we do?
-We take 'em back,
1894
01:34:28,604 --> 01:34:30,539
but you tell
every single fucking one of them
1895
01:34:30,572 --> 01:34:32,708
if they do,
they don't get Carson!
1896
01:34:32,741 --> 01:34:34,543
Neil. Neil!
1897
01:34:34,576 --> 01:34:35,344
What?
1898
01:34:37,312 --> 01:34:39,481
What if we're wrong
about Carson?
1899
01:34:39,515 --> 01:34:42,418
I mean,
we're shipping gold. More.
1900
01:34:42,451 --> 01:34:45,354
Over 750,000 copies already.
1901
01:34:45,387 --> 01:34:46,622
And with the money
we're spending
1902
01:34:46,655 --> 01:34:48,524
on... on commercials
and... and print ads...
1903
01:34:48,557 --> 01:34:51,827
-It's Johnny fucking Carson!
-And nobody understands
1904
01:34:51,860 --> 01:34:53,696
why the hell
we're even doing it!
1905
01:34:53,729 --> 01:34:55,364
Then ship more!
1906
01:34:55,397 --> 01:34:57,566
Spend more! Do you job
and make them understand!
1907
01:34:57,599 --> 01:34:59,568
This is gonna be
the biggest fucking album
1908
01:34:59,601 --> 01:35:01,303
of the year, okay, folks?
1909
01:35:01,336 --> 01:35:02,604
You've lost your mind.
1910
01:35:02,638 --> 01:35:04,907
Did you not hear
what they said on the phone?
1911
01:35:04,940 --> 01:35:06,809
And they're on our fucking side!
1912
01:35:06,842 --> 01:35:09,578
-Nobody is on our fucking side.
-Because nobody understands
1913
01:35:09,611 --> 01:35:12,581
what the fuck
you're doing anymore!
1914
01:35:12,614 --> 01:35:14,349
Not even me!
1915
01:35:16,285 --> 01:35:18,721
We were wrong
about KISS, Neil,
1916
01:35:18,754 --> 01:35:20,989
and we were wrong about Donna.
1917
01:35:21,024 --> 01:35:23,592
Even George
and his fucking spaceship.
1918
01:35:24,626 --> 01:35:27,329
We were just wrong!
1919
01:35:27,362 --> 01:35:30,866
And here we are, still betting
money we don't even have
1920
01:35:30,899 --> 01:35:32,601
on them!
1921
01:35:32,634 --> 01:35:34,236
I can't even pay my...
1922
01:35:35,771 --> 01:35:37,272
If we're wrong about Carson...
1923
01:35:37,306 --> 01:35:39,908
We are not fucking wrong, Cec,
1924
01:35:39,942 --> 01:35:41,643
not about any of them.
1925
01:35:42,511 --> 01:35:44,747
We just haven't figured out
1926
01:35:44,780 --> 01:35:47,583
a way to finally be right!
1927
01:35:49,085 --> 01:35:50,753
-What the hell's happening?
1928
01:35:50,786 --> 01:35:53,522
I dared question the postman's
son from Brooklyn,
1929
01:35:53,555 --> 01:35:54,957
and he didn't like
what he heard.
1930
01:35:54,990 --> 01:35:56,092
Oh, is that right, Cec?
1931
01:35:56,126 --> 01:35:58,560
Is that the same postman's son
been carrying your ass
1932
01:35:58,594 --> 01:36:00,963
from nowhere to somewhere
your whole fucking career?
1933
01:36:00,996 --> 01:36:01,930
-Excuse me?
-Tell me this.
1934
01:36:01,964 --> 01:36:03,699
Did you believe
we would make it this far?
1935
01:36:03,732 --> 01:36:05,634
Now, be honest.
Do you believe that we could
1936
01:36:05,667 --> 01:36:08,470
actually go further?
So, you do your fucking job,
1937
01:36:08,504 --> 01:36:10,939
and I will go get
the fucking money!
1938
01:36:10,973 --> 01:36:12,407
Uh...
1939
01:36:16,445 --> 01:36:18,647
He didn't mean that.
1940
01:36:18,680 --> 01:36:20,682
Cec. Shit.
1941
01:36:20,716 --> 01:36:23,385
And now, ladies and gentlemen,
1942
01:36:23,418 --> 01:36:27,289
here's Johnny!
1943
01:36:29,992 --> 01:36:31,994
The Carson album's
still considered
1944
01:36:32,028 --> 01:36:33,896
one of the biggest disasters
ever conceived
1945
01:36:33,929 --> 01:36:35,165
in the record business.
1946
01:36:35,198 --> 01:36:38,067
The joke was that we'd shipped
gold but returned platinum.
1947
01:36:38,101 --> 01:36:40,069
Just... wasn't a joke.
1948
01:36:40,103 --> 01:36:41,603
We'd given away
so many promo copies
1949
01:36:41,637 --> 01:36:43,705
that when the stores started
returning them to get
1950
01:36:43,739 --> 01:36:46,675
their money back, we were
on the line for every last one,
1951
01:36:46,708 --> 01:36:48,811
and it was killing us,
1952
01:36:48,844 --> 01:36:51,480
killing us, because I was wrong.
1953
01:36:52,514 --> 01:36:55,018
Biggest sin of a record man...
1954
01:36:55,051 --> 01:36:57,452
believing in something
because you have to...
1955
01:36:59,122 --> 01:37:00,689
not because you do.
1956
01:37:07,563 --> 01:37:10,465
I fucking begged you
to pay back that money, Neil.
1957
01:37:10,499 --> 01:37:12,568
You kept sayin',
"Waiting for Carson."
1958
01:37:12,601 --> 01:37:14,503
And I convinced them to wait,
1959
01:37:14,536 --> 01:37:16,705
because this is me and you,
1960
01:37:16,738 --> 01:37:18,574
but they're done waiting.
1961
01:37:18,607 --> 01:37:19,842
I'm sorry.
1962
01:37:19,875 --> 01:37:23,112
It's okay, Joe. Just tell them
1963
01:37:23,146 --> 01:37:25,480
not the arm
I sign contracts with.
1964
01:37:29,518 --> 01:37:31,820
I remembered my dad,
1965
01:37:31,854 --> 01:37:33,022
remembered my promise
1966
01:37:33,056 --> 01:37:35,124
to never become
anything like him.
1967
01:37:35,158 --> 01:37:38,827
I just... can't remember
the exact moment when I did.
1968
01:37:40,762 --> 01:37:42,497
Egg cream?
1969
01:37:46,169 --> 01:37:49,105
Just get us
the fucking money, Neil.
1970
01:37:49,138 --> 01:37:50,606
I fucking hate LA.
1971
01:37:57,146 --> 01:37:58,847
- Jesus.
- Neil!
1972
01:37:58,881 --> 01:37:59,882
Jesus.
1973
01:38:01,117 --> 01:38:04,887
It's not that he was a postman.
It's just...
1974
01:38:04,920 --> 01:38:07,090
I knew that he knew
that's all he was ever gonna be.
1975
01:38:11,526 --> 01:38:12,928
-Here.
-I'm scared.
1976
01:38:12,961 --> 01:38:14,963
-Come on. Shh.
-I'm scared.
1977
01:38:14,997 --> 01:38:18,500
Shh. Just our little secret,
brother.
1978
01:38:25,108 --> 01:38:26,875
Can we get something
to clean him up?
1979
01:38:28,477 --> 01:38:30,179
-You want a cigarette?
-You're alright.
1980
01:38:30,213 --> 01:38:32,081
It's okay.
1981
01:38:32,115 --> 01:38:33,515
Okay. Come on.
1982
01:38:33,548 --> 01:38:35,184
Get him up. Walk it off.
Walk it off.
1983
01:38:35,218 --> 01:38:36,585
Oh, fuck.
1984
01:38:37,753 --> 01:38:38,921
-Come on.
-Fuck.
1985
01:38:57,206 --> 01:38:59,574
If we can't sell enough KISS
records on our own,
1986
01:38:59,608 --> 01:39:01,777
then folks,
we are gonna need an army.
1987
01:39:01,810 --> 01:39:05,480
-It's merchandise, Nelly.
-It's a movement, Nance.
1988
01:39:05,514 --> 01:39:07,482
I love KISS, but how the fuck
are we gonna get people
1989
01:39:07,516 --> 01:39:09,952
to buy shit about the album
and we can't even get them
1990
01:39:09,985 --> 01:39:11,054
to buy the fucking album?
1991
01:39:11,087 --> 01:39:13,222
Because KISS has always been
about the experience,
1992
01:39:13,256 --> 01:39:15,091
Buck, and that is where
we have failed.
1993
01:39:15,124 --> 01:39:16,692
If you're not in
the KISS Army, oh,
1994
01:39:16,725 --> 01:39:18,127
then you are not
in the KISS Army!
1995
01:39:18,161 --> 01:39:20,029
You don't get
the limited edition posters,
1996
01:39:20,063 --> 01:39:21,230
the signed T-shirts,
the comic books!
1997
01:39:21,264 --> 01:39:25,767
-So we have comic books now?
-Yes, created specifically
1998
01:39:25,801 --> 01:39:26,802
for the KISS Army,
1999
01:39:26,835 --> 01:39:29,238
and the only way to get
into the KISS Army...
2000
01:39:29,272 --> 01:39:30,939
- Is to buy their albums.
- Thank you.
2001
01:39:30,973 --> 01:39:33,109
Now, we have one very important
question to answer:
2002
01:39:33,142 --> 01:39:35,278
What color do we paint
the building?
2003
01:39:35,311 --> 01:39:37,579
Hundred bucks to whoever gets
the... the best color.
2004
01:39:37,612 --> 01:39:40,983
Okay. Can we just, um...
Can we just get a minute?
2005
01:39:41,017 --> 01:39:42,651
Thank you. Thank you so much.
2006
01:39:42,684 --> 01:39:44,686
What about black?
Can you imagine
2007
01:39:44,720 --> 01:39:47,990
the whole fucking block
was painted fucking black?
2008
01:39:49,292 --> 01:39:50,592
-No, I can't.
-Oh.
2009
01:39:50,625 --> 01:39:52,728
Neil, you are my brother,
2010
01:39:52,761 --> 01:39:54,629
and if you want me to go
off this cliff with you,
2011
01:39:54,663 --> 01:39:55,931
I'll even be the first to jump,
2012
01:39:55,964 --> 01:39:59,768
but you have got to help me
understand why.
2013
01:39:59,801 --> 01:40:03,139
-We are broke.
-Yes. Yes. That is exactly
2014
01:40:03,172 --> 01:40:04,873
what all of these fuckers
are saying.
2015
01:40:04,906 --> 01:40:07,676
So, by tomorrow,
I want an entire crew...
2016
01:40:07,709 --> 01:40:10,612
no, two crews outside,
painting the entire block,
2017
01:40:10,645 --> 01:40:12,581
and I want you to pay them extra
to do it slowly.
2018
01:40:12,614 --> 01:40:14,549
The longer
they're out there working, oh,
2019
01:40:14,583 --> 01:40:17,886
the longer people are just
gonna drive by and see 'em.
2020
01:40:17,919 --> 01:40:20,056
-See 'em doing what?
-Painting the building.
2021
01:40:21,623 --> 01:40:23,226
We're gonna place one
final bet.
2022
01:40:23,259 --> 01:40:24,593
On who?
2023
01:40:25,228 --> 01:40:26,628
On us.
2024
01:40:28,630 --> 01:40:30,599
It started with a makeover
of the building,
2025
01:40:30,632 --> 01:40:33,036
but to the town, we were
building our own makeover.
2026
01:40:33,069 --> 01:40:35,038
I mean, every day,
we'd announce a new promotion,
2027
01:40:35,071 --> 01:40:37,572
but in real life, we were
just swapping titles around
2028
01:40:37,606 --> 01:40:39,941
like the paint colors
of the building.
2029
01:40:39,975 --> 01:40:42,677
We called everyone we owed,
hyped every plan we had,
2030
01:40:42,711 --> 01:40:44,646
making most of it up
as we went along.
2031
01:40:44,679 --> 01:40:46,149
-We made them root for us...
-Mo.
2032
01:40:46,182 --> 01:40:47,716
...not against us.
2033
01:40:47,749 --> 01:40:49,785
Where the fuck
is all the money coming from?
2034
01:40:49,818 --> 01:40:52,321
Nowhere. There was none.
We... we just made everyone
2035
01:40:52,355 --> 01:40:54,956
believe there was.
We bet everything we had
2036
01:40:54,990 --> 01:40:57,793
on everyone
we already believed in.
2037
01:40:57,826 --> 01:41:00,762
♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪
2038
01:41:00,796 --> 01:41:03,665
We'd gone as far as we could go
as fast as we could go.
2039
01:41:03,698 --> 01:41:07,370
It's just we were now
seven million dollars in debt.
2040
01:41:07,403 --> 01:41:10,705
Well... until that night.
2041
01:41:10,739 --> 01:41:13,076
♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪
2042
01:41:13,109 --> 01:41:14,343
♪ With a body too ♪
2043
01:41:14,377 --> 01:41:17,213
♪ So watch out ♪
2044
01:41:17,246 --> 01:41:18,613
♪ Huh! ♪
2045
01:41:18,647 --> 01:41:22,818
♪ She's a stone-cold stunner ♪
2046
01:41:29,392 --> 01:41:31,793
Hey, come here.
2047
01:41:31,827 --> 01:41:34,963
Do you wanna dance with me?
2048
01:41:36,132 --> 01:41:40,602
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2049
01:41:41,237 --> 01:41:43,972
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2050
01:41:45,274 --> 01:41:47,243
Hey, play that song again.
2051
01:41:47,276 --> 01:41:48,710
Play that again.
2052
01:41:48,743 --> 01:41:50,113
Yeah. Play that again.
2053
01:42:06,295 --> 01:42:08,797
♪ When you're laying
so close to me ♪
2054
01:42:08,830 --> 01:42:11,033
♪ There's no place
I'd rather you be ♪
2055
01:42:11,067 --> 01:42:13,001
♪ Than with me, here ♪
2056
01:42:14,270 --> 01:42:18,640
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2057
01:42:19,275 --> 01:42:23,879
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2058
01:42:23,912 --> 01:42:26,282
♪ Lay your head down
real close to me ♪
2059
01:42:26,315 --> 01:42:28,284
♪ Ease my mind
and set me free ♪
2060
01:42:28,317 --> 01:42:30,752
♪ Set me free ♪
2061
01:42:32,188 --> 01:42:36,058
♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪
2062
01:42:36,925 --> 01:42:40,929
♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪
2063
01:42:42,298 --> 01:42:44,433
♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪
2064
01:42:46,035 --> 01:42:47,903
- Put it back on.
- Play it again.
2065
01:42:47,936 --> 01:42:49,472
Somebody
put the music back.
2066
01:42:49,505 --> 01:42:50,373
Don't stop now.
2067
01:42:50,406 --> 01:42:52,308
The song is too short to have
sex to.
2068
01:42:52,341 --> 01:42:53,875
Do you wanna dance
with me?
2069
01:42:53,909 --> 01:42:55,777
Play it again.
We're dancing.
2070
01:42:55,810 --> 01:42:57,913
-Hey! Play it again!
2071
01:42:59,981 --> 01:43:03,785
The answer had been
there all along.
2072
01:43:03,818 --> 01:43:06,855
I just never imagined she'd be
hiding 7,000 miles away.
2073
01:43:06,888 --> 01:43:10,059
♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪
2074
01:43:14,497 --> 01:43:16,399
Not that she was happy
to see me.
2075
01:43:16,432 --> 01:43:18,267
LaDonna, please wait.
2076
01:43:18,301 --> 01:43:19,901
Giorgio said
you'd be coming through.
2077
01:43:19,935 --> 01:43:22,171
So, I hope that you enjoyed
the show.
2078
01:43:22,205 --> 01:43:24,340
Have a nice flight back.
2079
01:43:24,373 --> 01:43:26,975
My real name's not Bogart.
2080
01:43:27,009 --> 01:43:29,878
I changed it, actually,
a couple times.
2081
01:43:29,911 --> 01:43:31,880
Was, uh, Neil Scott
when I was a singer,
2082
01:43:31,913 --> 01:43:34,816
Neil Stewart when I worked
for a modeling agency,
2083
01:43:34,849 --> 01:43:39,021
uh, Wayne Roberts
when I did a soft porn film.
2084
01:43:40,122 --> 01:43:41,057
You made pornography?
2085
01:43:41,090 --> 01:43:44,227
Well, to afford
my wife's engagement ring.
2086
01:43:44,260 --> 01:43:45,827
Okay.
So, you did a dirty film
2087
01:43:45,860 --> 01:43:47,530
so that you could ask
your wife to marry you?
2088
01:43:47,563 --> 01:43:50,899
The point of the... Yes.
The point of the story
2089
01:43:50,932 --> 01:43:54,036
is that we can be
whoever we want to be.
2090
01:43:54,070 --> 01:43:56,972
Hmm. Well, that may be the point
of your story, but not mine.
2091
01:43:57,005 --> 01:44:00,409
It's the point
of everyone's story, LaDonna,
2092
01:44:00,443 --> 01:44:02,011
especially yours.
2093
01:44:04,046 --> 01:44:05,914
Why didn't people like the song?
2094
01:44:07,516 --> 01:44:09,884
-I liked it.
-No. I mean, why didn't...
2095
01:44:09,918 --> 01:44:12,054
No. I... I know
what you meant. I...
2096
01:44:14,557 --> 01:44:16,858
And the answer
is that they didn't get it,
2097
01:44:16,891 --> 01:44:18,927
because I failed to get them to.
2098
01:44:20,996 --> 01:44:23,065
So, then why are you here?
Giorgio told me
2099
01:44:23,099 --> 01:44:25,534
that he wanted me to cut
the same song again.
2100
01:44:25,568 --> 01:44:27,936
-I don't understand.
-You don't have to, okay?
2101
01:44:27,969 --> 01:44:30,139
You just have to trust
that I do.
2102
01:44:30,172 --> 01:44:31,474
I don't even know you.
2103
01:44:31,507 --> 01:44:33,509
But I know you,
2104
01:44:33,542 --> 01:44:37,546
LaDonna... Adrian... Gaines.
2105
01:44:37,580 --> 01:44:39,382
Grew up singing in a choir.
2106
01:44:39,415 --> 01:44:42,018
Raised by your mom in Boston.
2107
01:44:43,918 --> 01:44:46,888
You heard your voice
raising all the way up
2108
01:44:46,921 --> 01:44:48,557
to the top
of those stained glass windows,
2109
01:44:48,591 --> 01:44:52,028
and you let yourself believe
that you could be more
2110
01:44:52,061 --> 01:44:55,164
than just that girl in a church.
2111
01:44:55,197 --> 01:44:56,365
And now, here you are,
2112
01:44:56,399 --> 01:44:58,034
performing
halfway across the world,
2113
01:44:58,067 --> 01:45:02,238
getting further and further away
from that stained glass.
2114
01:45:04,573 --> 01:45:06,108
And every night...
2115
01:45:07,942 --> 01:45:10,879
you close your eyes,
2116
01:45:10,912 --> 01:45:15,318
dreaming that maybe someone
will come along...
2117
01:45:16,652 --> 01:45:18,953
and give you one last chance.
2118
01:45:21,923 --> 01:45:24,460
Now, you tell me I'm wrong,
2119
01:45:24,493 --> 01:45:26,128
and I'm on the next plane.
2120
01:45:31,567 --> 01:45:32,901
Why me?
2121
01:45:34,936 --> 01:45:37,406
Because I have never heard
2122
01:45:37,440 --> 01:45:40,942
a voice like yours.
2123
01:45:45,481 --> 01:45:47,183
I will make you a star.
2124
01:45:48,117 --> 01:45:53,089
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2125
01:45:53,122 --> 01:45:57,293
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2126
01:45:57,326 --> 01:45:59,362
You... you know what?
I wanna do this again.
2127
01:45:59,395 --> 01:46:01,364
I just...
Go back from the top.
2128
01:46:01,397 --> 01:46:02,964
It's impossible!
2129
01:46:02,997 --> 01:46:06,502
Repeat the same eight measures
over and over again?
2130
01:46:06,535 --> 01:46:08,037
It's just one lyric, Neil!
2131
01:46:08,070 --> 01:46:09,971
Yeah, which is going sound
like something new
2132
01:46:10,004 --> 01:46:11,440
each time she sings it,
2133
01:46:11,474 --> 01:46:13,376
when she sings it right.
2134
01:46:13,409 --> 01:46:15,544
This music is about the music,
2135
01:46:15,578 --> 01:46:17,179
not the fucking vocal!
2136
01:46:17,213 --> 01:46:19,315
Her fucking vocal
is the music, Giorgio!
2137
01:46:19,348 --> 01:46:21,450
Her voice is the thing that's
gonna make people wanna dance,
2138
01:46:21,484 --> 01:46:23,519
and nobody wants to dance for
three minutes, alright?
2139
01:46:23,552 --> 01:46:26,255
People wanna to dance forever!
And when they're making love,
2140
01:46:26,288 --> 01:46:27,356
they wanna love forever!
2141
01:46:27,390 --> 01:46:30,226
Nobody could make a fucking
half-hour song, Neil!
2142
01:46:31,293 --> 01:46:32,294
Not even you!
2143
01:46:33,696 --> 01:46:35,531
Neil could make
a half-hour song.
2144
01:46:39,435 --> 01:46:41,570
-Hey, you okay?
-I don't know. You just got
2145
01:46:41,604 --> 01:46:44,640
Giorgio to leave his own studio.
You tell me.
2146
01:46:44,673 --> 01:46:46,442
Let's, uh, just try it
one more time.
2147
01:46:51,046 --> 01:46:56,018
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2148
01:46:56,051 --> 01:47:01,157
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2149
01:47:01,190 --> 01:47:02,425
♪ I ♪
2150
01:47:04,560 --> 01:47:06,195
What? What's wrong?
2151
01:47:08,464 --> 01:47:11,734
You're just singing...
You're just singing the lyrics.
2152
01:47:11,767 --> 01:47:13,169
I'm a singer. That's what I do.
2153
01:47:13,202 --> 01:47:15,371
No. I just... Give me one secon.
2154
01:47:15,404 --> 01:47:17,206
One.
2155
01:47:25,481 --> 01:47:27,550
I... I don't understand
what you want from me.
2156
01:47:30,486 --> 01:47:34,156
To escape, Donna. That is
what everyone wants, alright?
2157
01:47:34,190 --> 01:47:36,192
In the discos,
on the dance floors,
2158
01:47:36,225 --> 01:47:38,127
they want
to fucking escape, alright?
2159
01:47:38,160 --> 01:47:40,663
And you, you will be
the one to take them there.
2160
01:47:40,696 --> 01:47:43,998
You have to be their fantasy!
2161
01:47:44,033 --> 01:47:45,568
Do you know
what my mother will think?
2162
01:47:48,637 --> 01:47:51,140
Yeah. I do.
2163
01:47:53,509 --> 01:47:58,080
♪ Mm love to love you baby ♪
2164
01:47:58,113 --> 01:48:02,051
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2165
01:48:02,084 --> 01:48:08,057
-More.
-♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2166
01:48:08,090 --> 01:48:09,625
♪ When you're laying
so close to me ♪
2167
01:48:09,658 --> 01:48:11,060
-Feel it.
-♪ There's no place ♪
2168
01:48:11,093 --> 01:48:14,096
♪ I'd rather you be
than with me ♪
2169
01:48:14,697 --> 01:48:17,266
That's it.
2170
01:48:17,299 --> 01:48:20,369
-♪ Love to love you baby ♪
-Even sexier.
2171
01:48:20,402 --> 01:48:24,773
-♪ I love to love you baby ♪
-Louder!
2172
01:48:24,807 --> 01:48:30,279
-Harder!
-♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2173
01:48:30,312 --> 01:48:32,715
♪ When you're laying
so close to me ♪
2174
01:48:32,748 --> 01:48:35,317
♪ There's no place
I'd rather you be ♪
2175
01:48:35,351 --> 01:48:37,286
♪ Than with me ♪
2176
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:42,825
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2177
01:48:42,858 --> 01:48:47,496
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2178
01:48:47,530 --> 01:48:48,764
Just you.
2179
01:48:48,797 --> 01:48:53,168
-No one else is here.
-♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2180
01:48:53,202 --> 01:48:58,107
♪ Oh I love to love you baby ♪
2181
01:48:58,140 --> 01:49:00,142
You and the music.
2182
01:49:00,175 --> 01:49:03,145
♪ I love to love you baby ♪
2183
01:49:03,178 --> 01:49:06,282
♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪
2184
01:49:06,315 --> 01:49:07,816
It's just you.
2185
01:49:07,850 --> 01:49:13,155
♪ Oh I love to
love you, baby ♪
2186
01:49:13,188 --> 01:49:16,659
♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪
2187
01:49:16,692 --> 01:49:17,726
Use your whole body, Donna.
2188
01:49:17,760 --> 01:49:20,229
♪ When you're laying
so close to me ♪
2189
01:49:20,262 --> 01:49:23,766
♪ There's no place
I'd rather you be ♪
2190
01:49:25,901 --> 01:49:27,269
Arch your back.
2191
01:49:41,617 --> 01:49:42,818
It's impossible, Neil.
2192
01:49:42,851 --> 01:49:44,386
It's absolutely impossible.
2193
01:49:44,420 --> 01:49:47,156
When... when am I supposed
to play the commercials?
2194
01:49:47,189 --> 01:49:50,192
Frankie Crocker,
you cranky fucker.
2195
01:49:50,225 --> 01:49:51,627
Fuck the commercials!
2196
01:49:51,660 --> 01:49:54,163
Fuck the commercials, man.
It's a test. It's science.
2197
01:49:54,196 --> 01:49:56,198
Let's test it out on the... Whas
your name again?
2198
01:49:56,231 --> 01:49:57,466
-Shari.
-Shari. That's my mother's name.
2199
01:49:57,499 --> 01:50:00,469
Come on. Come on. This is
something new, Frankie, right?
2200
01:50:00,502 --> 01:50:02,871
She's explosive.
She's... she's dangerous,
2201
01:50:02,905 --> 01:50:05,240
and you, my friend, can be
the one to introduce her
2202
01:50:05,274 --> 01:50:07,176
-to the world.
-We already introduced
2203
01:50:07,209 --> 01:50:09,278
this fucking single,
and it didn't move shit.
2204
01:50:09,311 --> 01:50:10,879
No, we did not introduce her
to the world.
2205
01:50:10,913 --> 01:50:12,448
That was
a different fucking record.
2206
01:50:12,481 --> 01:50:14,617
That was not this record.
This is different.
2207
01:50:14,650 --> 01:50:16,352
This is... this is new.
2208
01:50:16,385 --> 01:50:18,354
I mean, we were right
about this girl.
2209
01:50:18,387 --> 01:50:20,589
-She's amazing.
-You listen to the man, Frank.
2210
01:50:20,623 --> 01:50:23,492
And what does that mean?
I'm right about a lot of shit
2211
01:50:23,525 --> 01:50:25,127
I don't put on the radio.
2212
01:50:26,662 --> 01:50:29,732
This may be Casablanca's
last fucking chance, Frankie.
2213
01:50:32,368 --> 01:50:36,505
Neil, it's 17 minutes long,
alright? I can't...
2214
01:50:36,538 --> 01:50:37,673
How do I explain that?
2215
01:50:40,709 --> 01:50:42,277
Handcuffs.
2216
01:50:43,312 --> 01:50:46,382
Frankie.... I brought mine.
2217
01:50:46,415 --> 01:50:48,183
Now, you ain't had those
last night.
2218
01:50:48,217 --> 01:50:51,253
-I didn't need them last night.
-Hey, how about you take
2219
01:50:51,286 --> 01:50:53,656
a bathroom break, Frankie?
We'll take over from here.
2220
01:50:53,689 --> 01:50:54,723
-Come on.
-Whoo!
2221
01:50:54,757 --> 01:50:56,225
I gotta be
out of my fucking mind.
2222
01:50:56,258 --> 01:50:57,860
-You're in your mind.
-You're about to be
2223
01:50:57,893 --> 01:51:00,462
out your pants.
2224
01:51:00,496 --> 01:51:02,431
You motherfuckers
gonna owe me one.
2225
01:51:02,464 --> 01:51:04,400
Looks like you got two,
motherfucker.
2226
01:51:28,357 --> 01:51:30,459
Sixteen minutes and 50 seconds.
2227
01:51:30,492 --> 01:51:32,261
With the record
glued to the turntable,
2228
01:51:32,294 --> 01:51:34,363
it played all night long
with Frankie still locked
2229
01:51:34,396 --> 01:51:36,498
in the bathroom.
Lawyers were calling
2230
01:51:36,532 --> 01:51:38,000
even before we landed
back in LA,
2231
01:51:38,034 --> 01:51:40,836
swearing they'd never play
a Casablanca record again,
2232
01:51:40,869 --> 01:51:44,740
except... something happened,
2233
01:51:44,773 --> 01:51:46,642
something that never had before.
2234
01:51:46,675 --> 01:51:49,311
Not just in New York.
Stations all across the country
2235
01:51:49,344 --> 01:51:51,580
are calling. Everybody's trying
to find a way to play her.
2236
01:51:51,613 --> 01:51:53,482
-Tell them I'll buy them all.
-Buy what all?
2237
01:51:53,515 --> 01:51:55,818
-The whole half-hour block.
-On every station.
2238
01:51:55,851 --> 01:51:57,519
-Every city.
-The ad campaign:
2239
01:51:57,553 --> 01:51:59,922
Tune in at midnight
for a half-hour of love,
2240
01:51:59,955 --> 01:52:01,657
brought to you by Casablanca.
2241
01:52:01,690 --> 01:52:02,958
-Call Giorgio.
-And then?
2242
01:52:02,991 --> 01:52:04,293
Call everybody else!
2243
01:52:04,326 --> 01:52:06,495
♪ Love to love you baby ♪
2244
01:52:06,528 --> 01:52:08,597
♪ Do it to me again and again ♪
2245
01:52:08,630 --> 01:52:11,600
We released our version of
"Love To Love You" in 1976,
2246
01:52:11,633 --> 01:52:12,501
and when we did,
2247
01:52:12,534 --> 01:52:15,537
it was like nothing else
there ever was.
2248
01:52:15,571 --> 01:52:17,539
Branded too graphic
by some critics,
2249
01:52:17,573 --> 01:52:19,441
it was even banned
by some stations,
2250
01:52:19,475 --> 01:52:21,276
which only helps us
to sell more records.
2251
01:52:21,310 --> 01:52:23,412
♪ Oh love to love you baby ♪
2252
01:52:23,445 --> 01:52:26,749
Time magazine reported
22 simulated orgasms
2253
01:52:26,782 --> 01:52:28,751
in the song, and the more people
talked about it,
2254
01:52:28,784 --> 01:52:30,953
the more they wanted more.
I mean, we were riding
2255
01:52:30,986 --> 01:52:32,888
the biggest single we ever had
2256
01:52:32,921 --> 01:52:34,456
with the biggest artist
we ever had,
2257
01:52:34,490 --> 01:52:39,361
and we were literally making her
up as we went along.
2258
01:52:39,394 --> 01:52:43,732
♪ Oh love to love you babe ♪
2259
01:52:45,367 --> 01:52:47,369
Is this make-believe, Mama?
2260
01:52:48,104 --> 01:52:50,039
No, sweetheart. This is real.
2261
01:52:51,874 --> 01:52:53,709
I need makeup in here.
2262
01:52:53,742 --> 01:52:54,877
We brought in everything...
2263
01:52:54,910 --> 01:52:57,579
designers, hair, make-up.
2264
01:52:58,580 --> 01:53:00,315
In the end, we went with wigs,
2265
01:53:00,349 --> 01:53:02,651
in every picture
you've ever seen.
2266
01:53:02,684 --> 01:53:05,988
We invented every detail.
2267
01:53:06,022 --> 01:53:08,457
But the truth
was that the First Lady Of Love,
2268
01:53:08,490 --> 01:53:10,959
the superstar
we were selling her as,
2269
01:53:10,993 --> 01:53:12,861
was as far
from who Donna really was
2270
01:53:12,895 --> 01:53:13,929
as she could be.
2271
01:53:13,962 --> 01:53:15,430
I want to know this woman.
2272
01:53:19,601 --> 01:53:21,037
You raised my vocal
in the song.
2273
01:53:21,070 --> 01:53:22,871
Your vocal is the song.
2274
01:53:22,905 --> 01:53:25,941
♪ Bad girls ♪
2275
01:53:25,974 --> 01:53:28,877
♪ Talking about the sad girls ♪
2276
01:53:30,913 --> 01:53:33,816
♪ Sad girls ♪
2277
01:53:33,849 --> 01:53:36,952
♪ Talking about bad girls ♪
2278
01:53:36,985 --> 01:53:39,022
♪ Yeah ♪
2279
01:53:39,055 --> 01:53:43,092
♪ See them out on the street
at night ♪
2280
01:53:43,126 --> 01:53:45,561
♪ Picking up
all kinds of strangers ♪
2281
01:53:45,594 --> 01:53:47,429
♪ If the price is right ♪
2282
01:53:47,462 --> 01:53:51,366
♪ And you can score
if your pocket's tight ♪
2283
01:53:51,400 --> 01:53:55,571
♪ Plus you want a good time ♪
2284
01:53:57,073 --> 01:54:00,976
♪ You ask yourself ♪
2285
01:54:01,010 --> 01:54:05,081
♪ Who they are ♪
2286
01:54:05,114 --> 01:54:07,883
♪ Like everybody else ♪
2287
01:54:07,916 --> 01:54:14,823
♪ They come from near and far ♪
2288
01:54:16,192 --> 01:54:18,527
She's gonna be great. I know it.
2289
01:54:23,032 --> 01:54:26,501
I love you.
2290
01:54:26,535 --> 01:54:29,504
You got it, Donna. Nailed it.
2291
01:54:29,538 --> 01:54:30,139
LaDonna?
2292
01:54:35,878 --> 01:54:38,680
So, what happens next?
2293
01:54:42,118 --> 01:54:43,086
You do.
2294
01:55:11,080 --> 01:55:13,548
♪ Dim all the lights
sweet darling ♪
2295
01:55:13,582 --> 01:55:18,921
♪ 'Cause tonight
it's all the way ♪
2296
01:55:18,954 --> 01:55:21,556
♪ Turn up the old Victrola ♪
2297
01:55:21,590 --> 01:55:24,927
♪ Gonna dance the night away ♪
2298
01:55:26,962 --> 01:55:30,866
♪ Love just don't come easy ♪
2299
01:55:30,899 --> 01:55:34,803
♪ No it seldom does ♪
2300
01:55:34,836 --> 01:55:39,075
♪ When you find
the perfect love ♪
2301
01:55:39,108 --> 01:55:45,847
♪ Let it fill you up ♪
2302
01:55:57,126 --> 01:55:59,494
♪ Dim all the lights
sweet darling ♪
2303
01:55:59,528 --> 01:56:03,266
♪ 'Cause tonight
it's all the way ♪
2304
01:56:03,299 --> 01:56:05,068
♪ Hey baby ♪
2305
01:56:05,101 --> 01:56:07,669
♪ Turn up the old Victrola ♪
2306
01:56:07,703 --> 01:56:10,239
♪ Gonna dance the night away ♪
2307
01:56:10,273 --> 01:56:11,740
Donna was
every one of our dreams
2308
01:56:11,773 --> 01:56:13,709
wrapped up
in a once-in-a-lifetime voice
2309
01:56:13,742 --> 01:56:16,112
that didn't just rise up
to those stained glass windows.
2310
01:56:16,145 --> 01:56:18,847
She smashed right through them.
2311
01:56:18,880 --> 01:56:21,117
Now, when people
who remember Casablanca
2312
01:56:21,150 --> 01:56:24,020
actually remember Casablanca,
2313
01:56:24,053 --> 01:56:26,289
this is what they remember,
2314
01:56:26,322 --> 01:56:28,790
Donna on top of the world,
2315
01:56:28,824 --> 01:56:31,760
as if this was the moment
that began it all.
2316
01:56:31,793 --> 01:56:33,296
♪ Up ♪
2317
01:56:33,329 --> 01:56:35,131
♪ Hey baby ♪
2318
01:56:35,164 --> 01:56:37,566
♪ Dim all the lights
sweet honey ♪
2319
01:56:37,599 --> 01:56:40,902
Having spent my entire life
inventing my life,
2320
01:56:40,936 --> 01:56:42,038
I'd now invented hers.
2321
01:56:42,071 --> 01:56:44,706
That voice, the way Donna
would just flow inside you,
2322
01:56:44,740 --> 01:56:47,943
that came from something
far more inventive than me,
2323
01:56:47,976 --> 01:56:49,978
but the First Lady Of Love?
2324
01:56:50,013 --> 01:56:51,613
The Queen of Disco?
2325
01:56:51,646 --> 01:56:53,782
That was as much of a fairy tale
as I was.
2326
01:56:53,815 --> 01:56:55,284
Let's replace Gladys with Donna.
2327
01:56:55,318 --> 01:56:56,985
And suddenly,
for the first time,
2328
01:56:57,020 --> 01:57:00,289
it wasn't just breaking one hit,
because once Donna broke,
2329
01:57:00,323 --> 01:57:02,724
the hits
just never stopped coming.
2330
01:57:03,759 --> 01:57:05,294
I knew what else
we'd did wrong, too.
2331
01:57:08,697 --> 01:57:10,665
Recording a live album
of greatest hits
2332
01:57:10,699 --> 01:57:12,201
from a band
who doesn't even have one?
2333
01:57:12,235 --> 01:57:15,304
-That's new, Neil, even for us.
-Hey, they've always had hits.
2334
01:57:15,338 --> 01:57:17,106
We just failed to record them
in the way
2335
01:57:17,140 --> 01:57:19,342
they needed to be heard.
2336
01:57:19,375 --> 01:57:20,942
By recording KISS live,
2337
01:57:20,976 --> 01:57:25,881
we finally captured
the experience of KISS live...
2338
01:57:25,914 --> 01:57:28,750
which is what we'd really been
chasing from the very beginning.
2339
01:57:28,784 --> 01:57:31,620
Turned out, we'd been right
about them, too.
2340
01:57:33,855 --> 01:57:36,125
We sold
over nine million records.
2341
01:57:36,159 --> 01:57:37,659
Every bet we'd made,
2342
01:57:37,692 --> 01:57:39,628
we were right about all of them.
2343
01:57:39,661 --> 01:57:42,331
We just... needed enough time
2344
01:57:42,365 --> 01:57:45,234
for all of you
to catch up to us.
2345
01:57:47,370 --> 01:57:49,205
What is this?
What are you doing?
2346
01:57:51,274 --> 01:57:53,309
Oh, my God. Al.
2347
01:57:53,342 --> 01:57:54,676
Welcome home, Ma.
2348
01:57:54,709 --> 01:57:56,245
Nelly, I already have a house.
2349
01:57:56,279 --> 01:57:57,946
-Yeah, well, this one's bigger.
-Love you!
2350
01:57:57,979 --> 01:57:59,815
Are you nuts?
What are you doing here?
2351
01:57:59,848 --> 01:58:01,750
Al, look.
2352
01:58:01,783 --> 01:58:03,852
We don't need this. Come on.
2353
01:58:05,854 --> 01:58:06,855
What?
2354
01:58:12,228 --> 01:58:15,398
No. No. That is too much.
2355
01:58:15,431 --> 01:58:18,367
I can only do all this
because you taught me.
2356
01:58:18,401 --> 01:58:20,403
Who taught you?
I taught you nothing.
2357
01:58:20,436 --> 01:58:23,339
-Taught you how to lose.
-No, you taught me how to win.
2358
01:58:23,372 --> 01:58:25,341
You taught me
to swing for the trees,
2359
01:58:25,374 --> 01:58:27,976
to bet big to win big.
You remember?
2360
01:58:29,078 --> 01:58:30,146
You taught me how to dream!
2361
01:58:33,416 --> 01:58:34,983
Maybe a little bit.
2362
01:58:35,017 --> 01:58:38,254
No. Maybe a lot.
2363
01:58:43,159 --> 01:58:45,694
And you know, maybe you were
just a little unlucky.
2364
01:58:46,728 --> 01:58:48,897
Right? Well, I got your luck.
2365
01:58:51,300 --> 01:58:54,137
Ah. Nah.
2366
01:58:54,170 --> 01:58:56,139
You made your own luck.
2367
01:58:56,172 --> 01:58:58,341
You're a genius.
You're a fucking Jewish genius.
2368
01:58:58,374 --> 01:58:59,941
Ah, come on.
2369
01:58:59,975 --> 01:59:01,110
Hey.
2370
01:59:02,811 --> 01:59:04,180
You're a good son, bubbeleh.
2371
01:59:11,154 --> 01:59:12,321
Four-color world, Pop.
2372
01:59:24,933 --> 01:59:26,001
I'm in heaven.
2373
01:59:27,869 --> 01:59:29,905
Jesus Christ.
You know what? If you can't
2374
01:59:29,938 --> 01:59:32,375
keep the beat,
let's just fucking spell, okay?
2375
01:59:32,408 --> 01:59:35,444
That's right. We created
the Village People, too.
2376
01:59:35,478 --> 01:59:36,912
"YMCA" became
2377
01:59:36,945 --> 01:59:39,182
one of the all-time
biggest selling singles,
2378
01:59:39,215 --> 01:59:40,916
more than ten million copies,
2379
01:59:40,949 --> 01:59:42,451
though other than the cop,
2380
01:59:42,485 --> 01:59:44,487
none of the others even sang,
not on the records,
2381
01:59:44,520 --> 01:59:46,322
not at the concerts, not ever.
2382
01:59:46,355 --> 01:59:47,490
Again. Let's go again.
2383
01:59:47,523 --> 01:59:49,791
You don't trust me? Look it up!
2384
01:59:49,824 --> 01:59:51,793
We went from living
on the brink of bankruptcy
2385
01:59:51,826 --> 01:59:53,929
to earning five million dollars
in one month,
2386
01:59:53,962 --> 01:59:55,298
six the next.
2387
01:59:55,331 --> 01:59:58,067
♪ Beth I hear you calling ♪
2388
01:59:58,100 --> 02:00:00,436
I finally even let Kiss
release "Beth"
2389
02:00:00,469 --> 02:00:01,937
on the Destroyer album.
2390
02:00:01,970 --> 02:00:03,805
It would hurt
every single time I heard it,
2391
02:00:03,838 --> 02:00:06,209
but it was the smash
we'd been chasing
2392
02:00:06,242 --> 02:00:07,742
since it all began.
2393
02:00:07,776 --> 02:00:10,012
Now, this is a love story.
2394
02:00:10,046 --> 02:00:12,781
You're the best fake boyfriend
I ever had.
2395
02:00:12,814 --> 02:00:15,850
♪ Just a few more hours ♪
2396
02:00:15,884 --> 02:00:20,256
♪ And I'll be right home
to you ♪
2397
02:00:20,289 --> 02:00:24,360
♪ I think I hear them calling ♪
2398
02:00:24,393 --> 02:00:28,797
♪ Oh Beth what can I do? ♪
2399
02:00:28,830 --> 02:00:31,766
♪ Beth what can I do? ♪
2400
02:00:33,001 --> 02:00:36,905
♪ Beth I know you're lonely ♪
2401
02:00:36,938 --> 02:00:41,010
♪ And I hope
you'll be alright ♪
2402
02:00:41,043 --> 02:00:45,314
♪ 'Cause me and the boys
will be playing ♪
2403
02:00:45,348 --> 02:00:48,317
♪ All night ♪
2404
02:00:48,351 --> 02:00:49,485
As for Donna,
2405
02:00:49,518 --> 02:00:52,088
even with all her success,
2406
02:00:52,121 --> 02:00:54,390
I don't really believe
LaDonna Adrian Gaines
2407
02:00:54,423 --> 02:00:56,825
ever really became Donna Summer.
2408
02:00:56,858 --> 02:00:59,128
We just made you all think
that she had.
2409
02:00:59,161 --> 02:01:01,130
So, truth is, none of us
2410
02:01:01,163 --> 02:01:03,399
were still who we'd been
when it all began.
2411
02:01:03,432 --> 02:01:05,934
Casablanca had become
something else.
2412
02:01:05,967 --> 02:01:08,837
I had become something else.
2413
02:01:08,870 --> 02:01:11,540
Okay, Neil.
What's this all about?
2414
02:01:11,574 --> 02:01:13,975
We sold half the company
to Polygram.
2415
02:01:14,010 --> 02:01:17,246
Forty-nine percent.
We still keep control.
2416
02:01:17,280 --> 02:01:20,949
We've lived an awful lotta
years pretending to be rich.
2417
02:01:20,982 --> 02:01:22,385
You wanna see
what it feels like
2418
02:01:22,418 --> 02:01:25,421
when we finally actually are?
2419
02:01:25,454 --> 02:01:26,821
Nelly!
2420
02:01:28,190 --> 02:01:30,259
Jesus Christ.
2421
02:01:30,293 --> 02:01:32,595
Um, I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I never use the Lord's name
2422
02:01:32,628 --> 02:01:34,263
in vain, but...
2423
02:01:34,297 --> 02:01:38,267
Fifty million dollars
for just half the company,
2424
02:01:38,301 --> 02:01:41,903
made out to Neil Bogart,
2425
02:01:41,936 --> 02:01:45,107
a name and a life
I'd made up along the way.
2426
02:01:47,942 --> 02:01:50,912
Even paid Mo back every penny.
2427
02:01:50,945 --> 02:01:53,982
Not because I had to,
but because I could.
2428
02:02:29,352 --> 02:02:31,554
My dad had been right.
2429
02:02:31,587 --> 02:02:33,022
Most were all still there
2430
02:02:33,055 --> 02:02:35,491
on the same four blocks
of their lives.
2431
02:02:51,407 --> 02:02:53,209
For those of you who don't know,
2432
02:02:53,242 --> 02:02:57,946
I left Casablanca finally
on February 8, 1980.
2433
02:02:57,979 --> 02:03:00,015
It was a Friday.
2434
02:03:00,049 --> 02:03:02,551
It was five days
after my 37th birthday.
2435
02:03:02,585 --> 02:03:05,321
Now, disco had officially died
the year before when a local DJ
2436
02:03:05,354 --> 02:03:07,922
set a bunch of records on fire
to the roar of a crowd
2437
02:03:07,956 --> 02:03:11,660
as if that was
a fucking concert.
2438
02:03:11,694 --> 02:03:14,029
Yeah. It was a good bet
most of those were ours.
2439
02:03:16,965 --> 02:03:19,034
Now, all of you remember,
I'm sure,
2440
02:03:19,068 --> 02:03:22,505
Donna and KISS and George,
2441
02:03:22,538 --> 02:03:24,507
Village People, Gladys,
2442
02:03:24,540 --> 02:03:26,175
the Isleys, Bill Withers,
2443
02:03:26,208 --> 02:03:27,243
all the others.
2444
02:03:29,044 --> 02:03:30,979
But I bet each of you $100...
2445
02:03:32,181 --> 02:03:35,451
that not one of you
has ever even heard of my name.
2446
02:03:35,484 --> 02:03:38,154
And that's okay. It's not like
I had the talent that they did,
2447
02:03:38,187 --> 02:03:40,723
because I didn't, you know,
2448
02:03:40,756 --> 02:03:44,527
or that I... or that I mattered
like they did,
2449
02:03:44,560 --> 02:03:48,431
because, uh... I... I couldn'.
2450
02:03:51,634 --> 02:03:53,502
But I sure as hell
made you dance.
2451
02:03:55,337 --> 02:03:57,206
I sold over
200 million records,
2452
02:03:57,239 --> 02:04:00,342
and all that music
that I helped made possible...
2453
02:04:03,112 --> 02:04:06,215
became the soundtrack
of your lives.
2454
02:04:10,119 --> 02:04:14,356
And we... we were in the
business of making dreams come
true.s
2455
02:04:16,725 --> 02:04:18,093
Didn't we do that?
2456
02:04:19,795 --> 02:04:22,498
And if we did,
didn't... didn't that matter?
2457
02:04:25,468 --> 02:04:26,502
Didn't I?
2458
02:04:29,505 --> 02:04:34,343
Even if... even if only a song?
2459
02:04:43,285 --> 02:04:44,286
I died...
2460
02:04:46,388 --> 02:04:49,558
May eighth, just two years
later, from cancer.
2461
02:04:51,627 --> 02:04:53,295
I was only 39 years old.
2462
02:04:59,101 --> 02:05:04,473
I... I wouldn't change
a fucking thing.
2463
02:05:08,677 --> 02:05:11,514
I just wish I had more time.
2464
02:05:20,523 --> 02:05:22,358
♪ I need you ♪
2465
02:05:24,727 --> 02:05:26,228
♪ By me ♪
2466
02:05:28,097 --> 02:05:31,500
♪ Beside me ♪
2467
02:05:31,534 --> 02:05:34,570
♪ To guide me ♪
2468
02:05:35,838 --> 02:05:38,073
♪ To hold me ♪
2469
02:05:39,708 --> 02:05:41,810
♪ To scold me ♪
2470
02:05:41,844 --> 02:05:45,080
♪ 'Cause when I'm bad ♪
2471
02:05:45,114 --> 02:05:50,286
♪ I'm so so bad ♪
2472
02:05:54,557 --> 02:05:56,825
♪ So let's dance ♪
2473
02:05:56,859 --> 02:05:59,094
♪ The last dance ♪
2474
02:05:59,128 --> 02:06:00,663
♪ Let's dance ♪
2475
02:06:00,696 --> 02:06:02,798
♪ The last dance ♪
2476
02:06:02,831 --> 02:06:04,533
♪ Let's dance ♪
2477
02:06:04,567 --> 02:06:06,335
♪ The last dance ♪
2478
02:06:06,368 --> 02:06:10,472
♪ Tonight ♪
2479
02:06:10,506 --> 02:06:12,207
♪ Last dance ♪
2480
02:06:12,241 --> 02:06:17,179
♪ Last chance for love ♪
2481
02:06:17,212 --> 02:06:19,815
♪ Yes it's my last chance ♪
2482
02:06:19,848 --> 02:06:24,186
♪ For romance tonight ♪
2483
02:06:24,219 --> 02:06:27,423
♪ Oh I need you ♪
2484
02:06:27,456 --> 02:06:29,124
♪ By me ♪
2485
02:06:29,158 --> 02:06:30,859
♪ Beside me ♪
2486
02:06:30,893 --> 02:06:32,194
♪ To guide me ♪
2487
02:06:32,227 --> 02:06:34,763
♪ Oh to hold me ♪
2488
02:06:34,797 --> 02:06:36,265
♪ To scold me ♪
2489
02:06:36,298 --> 02:06:37,666
♪ 'Cause when I'm bad ♪
2490
02:06:37,700 --> 02:06:40,502
♪ I'm so so bad ♪
2491
02:06:40,536 --> 02:06:42,771
♪ So let's dance ♪
2492
02:06:42,805 --> 02:06:44,740
♪ The last dance ♪
2493
02:06:44,773 --> 02:06:46,475
♪ Let's dance ♪
2494
02:06:46,508 --> 02:06:48,243
♪ The last dance ♪
2495
02:06:48,277 --> 02:06:50,212
♪ Let's dance ♪
2496
02:06:50,245 --> 02:06:51,814
♪ The last dance ♪
2497
02:06:51,847 --> 02:06:57,920
♪ Tonight ♪
2498
02:06:57,953 --> 02:06:59,455
♪ Oh oh oh ♪
2499
02:06:59,488 --> 02:07:00,723
♪ Yeah ♪
2500
02:07:00,756 --> 02:07:04,393
♪ Hey hey ♪
2501
02:07:04,426 --> 02:07:06,629
♪ Mm ♪
2502
02:07:06,662 --> 02:07:09,565
♪ Whoa I need you ♪
2503
02:07:09,598 --> 02:07:11,166
♪ By me ♪
2504
02:07:11,200 --> 02:07:12,868
♪ Beside me ♪
2505
02:07:12,901 --> 02:07:15,170
♪ To guide me ♪
2506
02:07:15,204 --> 02:07:16,705
♪ To hold me ♪
2507
02:07:16,739 --> 02:07:17,940
♪ To scold me ♪
2508
02:07:17,973 --> 02:07:19,642
♪ Because when I'm bad ♪
2509
02:07:19,675 --> 02:07:22,645
♪ I'm so so bad ♪
2510
02:07:22,678 --> 02:07:24,947
♪ So come on baby ♪
2511
02:07:24,980 --> 02:07:26,715
♪ Dance that dance ♪
2512
02:07:26,749 --> 02:07:28,851
♪ Come on baby ♪
2513
02:07:28,884 --> 02:07:30,786
♪ Dance that dance ♪
2514
02:07:30,819 --> 02:07:32,788
♪ Come on baby ♪
2515
02:07:32,821 --> 02:07:38,560
♪ Let's dance tonight ♪
2516
02:08:36,485 --> 02:08:39,321
♪ It was the greatest time ♪
2517
02:08:39,354 --> 02:08:41,857
♪ Of my life ♪
2518
02:08:41,890 --> 02:08:44,626
♪ Yeah the greatest time ♪
2519
02:08:44,660 --> 02:08:47,362
♪ Of my entire life ♪
2520
02:08:47,396 --> 02:08:50,299
♪ Always made sure
I took a road ♪
2521
02:08:50,332 --> 02:08:53,502
♪ Less traveled
'til the curtain closed ♪
2522
02:08:53,535 --> 02:08:56,705
♪ Living for my story
to be told ♪
2523
02:08:58,440 --> 02:09:03,345
♪ 'Cause we all have a story
to be told ♪
2524
02:09:03,378 --> 02:09:07,382
♪ It was the greatest time
of our lives ♪
2525
02:09:07,416 --> 02:09:12,021
♪ It was the way we felt the
love on hot summer nights ♪
2526
02:09:12,055 --> 02:09:14,623
♪ We never thought
about getting old ♪
2527
02:09:14,656 --> 02:09:17,426
♪ And every day
was rock and roll ♪
2528
02:09:17,459 --> 02:09:19,828
♪ Living for our stories
to be told ♪
2529
02:09:21,330 --> 02:09:23,298
♪ So we dreamed so big ♪
2530
02:09:23,332 --> 02:09:25,467
♪ They were destined
to explode ♪
2531
02:09:25,501 --> 02:09:29,671
♪ We knew one day
that we'd be spinning gold ♪
2532
02:09:29,705 --> 02:09:32,007
♪ We bet it all
to never fall ♪
2533
02:09:32,041 --> 02:09:34,543
♪ We'd rather die than fold ♪
2534
02:09:34,576 --> 02:09:37,813
♪ We just want our story
to be told ♪
2535
02:09:37,846 --> 02:09:42,317
♪ It was the greatest time
of our lives ♪
2536
02:09:42,351 --> 02:09:44,520
♪ When it was over
all we know ♪
2537
02:09:44,553 --> 02:09:46,789
♪ Is that we got it right ♪
2538
02:09:46,822 --> 02:09:49,358
♪ With every heartbeat
and every note ♪
2539
02:09:49,391 --> 02:09:51,693
♪ Let's dim the lights
and start the show ♪
2540
02:09:51,727 --> 02:09:55,697
♪ Ready for our stories
to be told ♪
2541
02:09:55,731 --> 02:09:57,733
♪ Call on me brother
when you need a hand ♪
2542
02:09:57,766 --> 02:10:00,402
♪ So we dreamed so big they
were destined to explode ♪
2543
02:10:00,435 --> 02:10:02,071
♪ We all need
somebody to lean on ♪
2544
02:10:02,105 --> 02:10:04,606
♪ We knew one day
that we'd be spinning gold ♪
2545
02:10:04,640 --> 02:10:06,942
-♪ We bet it all to never fall ♪
-♪ Ooh child ♪
2546
02:10:06,975 --> 02:10:09,411
♪ Things are gonna get easier ♪
2547
02:10:09,444 --> 02:10:13,082
♪ I've got to go,
I've got to go ♪
2548
02:10:13,116 --> 02:10:16,785
♪ No matter how high or fast
we went ♪
2549
02:10:16,819 --> 02:10:21,090
♪ We never looked back
or lived life no regrets ♪
2550
02:10:21,124 --> 02:10:23,826
♪ Wanted to leave this world
a better place ♪
2551
02:10:23,859 --> 02:10:26,962
♪ Whenever I left
and give you something ♪
2552
02:10:26,995 --> 02:10:29,431
♪ That you'd never forget ♪
2553
02:10:29,464 --> 02:10:32,801
♪ Oh let's dance ♪
2554
02:10:32,835 --> 02:10:35,003
♪ The last dance ♪
2555
02:10:35,038 --> 02:10:37,005
♪ Let's dance ♪
2556
02:10:37,040 --> 02:10:39,108
♪ The last dance ♪
2557
02:10:39,142 --> 02:10:41,443
♪ Let's dance ♪
2558
02:10:41,476 --> 02:10:43,112
♪ The last dance ♪
2559
02:10:43,146 --> 02:10:47,883
♪ Tonight ♪
2560
02:10:47,916 --> 02:10:52,121
♪ Dreams so big they were
destined to explode ♪
2561
02:10:52,155 --> 02:10:56,491
♪ We knew one day
that we'd be spinning gold ♪
2562
02:10:56,525 --> 02:10:58,594
♪ We bet it all to never fall ♪
2563
02:10:58,627 --> 02:11:01,430
♪ We'd rather die than fold ♪
2564
02:11:01,463 --> 02:11:04,600
♪ We just want our story
to be told ♪
2565
02:11:04,633 --> 02:11:09,504
♪ And so we dreamed so big they
were destined to explode ♪
2566
02:11:09,538 --> 02:11:11,107
Well, alright. Star child.
2567
02:11:11,140 --> 02:11:14,776
♪ That we'd be spinning gold ♪
2568
02:11:14,810 --> 02:11:19,015
♪ ...Taste like candy ♪
2569
02:11:19,048 --> 02:11:20,649
♪ I'd rather live
in his world ♪
2570
02:11:20,682 --> 02:11:24,153
♪ Than live without him
in mine ♪
2571
02:11:24,187 --> 02:11:26,889
♪ Want to rock and roll
all night ♪
2572
02:11:26,922 --> 02:11:29,825
-♪ We knew one day that ♪
-♪ And party every day ♪
2573
02:11:29,858 --> 02:11:32,028
♪ We'd be spinning gold ♪
2574
02:11:32,061 --> 02:11:34,997
♪ I want to rock and roll ♪
2575
02:11:35,031 --> 02:11:37,432
♪ All night ♪
2576
02:11:37,466 --> 02:11:40,402
♪ And party every day ♪
2577
02:11:41,137 --> 02:11:45,574
♪ Oh we were destined
to explode ♪
2578
02:11:45,607 --> 02:11:49,711
♪ 'Cause we knew
that we'd be spinning gold ♪
2579
02:11:49,745 --> 02:11:53,182
♪ And we said
we'd rather die than fold ♪
2580
02:11:53,216 --> 02:11:56,852
♪ We want our stories
to be told ♪
2581
02:11:56,885 --> 02:12:01,190
-♪ Nah nah nah nah nah nah nah ♪
-♪ Just a few more hours ♪
2582
02:12:01,224 --> 02:12:03,192
♪ And I'll be right home
to you ♪
2583
02:12:03,226 --> 02:12:06,062
♪ Nah nah nah nah
nah nah nah ♪
2584
02:12:06,095 --> 02:12:09,198
♪ Let's dance the last dance ♪
2585
02:12:09,232 --> 02:12:11,934
-♪ Tonight ♪
-♪ We just want our story ♪
2586
02:12:11,967 --> 02:12:15,804
♪ To be told ♪
2587
02:12:31,220 --> 02:12:32,422
You had a lot of resilience.
2588
02:12:32,454 --> 02:12:35,624
You have been up and down,
and you've made a lot of money.
2589
02:12:35,657 --> 02:12:38,127
And you've been
flat on your bum.
2590
02:12:38,161 --> 02:12:41,097
- It's nicer being up.
- Yes.
2591
02:12:41,130 --> 02:12:44,666
If that was the question.
2592
02:12:44,700 --> 02:12:47,002
Why your resiliency?
Where does it come from?
2593
02:12:47,036 --> 02:12:48,904
Where's that drive come from?
2594
02:12:48,937 --> 02:12:50,839
Probably, it originally comes
from Brooklyn.
2595
02:12:50,872 --> 02:12:52,874
- Brooklyn.
- You know, all people
2596
02:12:52,908 --> 02:12:56,578
that are born in Brooklyn seem
to be able to bounce back,
2597
02:12:56,611 --> 02:12:58,780
because you have to
if you come from there.
2598
02:12:58,814 --> 02:13:03,152
You have to have the desire
to succeed and be a gambler,
2599
02:13:03,186 --> 02:13:06,621
and I both have the desire
and am a gambler.
2600
02:13:06,655 --> 02:13:07,889
So, you were poor?
2601
02:13:07,923 --> 02:13:09,025
- Yes.
- Mm-hmm
2602
02:13:10,326 --> 02:13:11,927
I came from Brooklyn,
2603
02:13:11,960 --> 02:13:15,697
and I used to sing on
the street corners and stuff.
2604
02:13:15,731 --> 02:13:18,800
Do you think... I mean, what
does it take to be a greaser?
2605
02:13:18,834 --> 02:13:20,635
-I mean...
-You got what it takes.
2606
02:13:20,669 --> 02:13:22,138
You probably got what it takes.
2607
02:13:22,171 --> 02:13:24,973
What do you think is
the biggest misunderstanding
2608
02:13:25,007 --> 02:13:25,974
about Neil Bogart?
2609
02:13:34,583 --> 02:13:36,285
There are quite a few
misunderstandings
2610
02:13:36,319 --> 02:13:38,087
about Neil Bogart.
2611
02:13:39,821 --> 02:13:42,591
If you feel like rocking
the Hollywood Bowl,
2612
02:13:42,624 --> 02:13:44,793
it feels like being rocked.
2613
02:13:54,870 --> 02:13:57,173
How'd you get
so down and out, Neil?
2614
02:13:57,206 --> 02:13:58,774
I came out to California
2615
02:13:58,807 --> 02:14:01,344
after having a company
called Buddah Records
2616
02:14:01,377 --> 02:14:03,046
in New York City,
2617
02:14:03,079 --> 02:14:05,781
which was very successful,
and I went into partnership
2618
02:14:05,814 --> 02:14:08,151
with Warners Brothers Records.
2619
02:14:08,184 --> 02:14:09,718
Inside of eight months,
2620
02:14:09,751 --> 02:14:12,321
the partnership
had just about dissolved,
2621
02:14:12,355 --> 02:14:15,590
and I lost the quickest
three million dollars
2622
02:14:15,624 --> 02:14:17,793
anybody ever put up
for anybody else.
2623
02:14:17,826 --> 02:14:19,328
What does it feel like
to lose
2624
02:14:19,362 --> 02:14:20,729
a couple of million dollars?
2625
02:14:20,762 --> 02:14:22,697
Well, the strange thing is,
2626
02:14:22,731 --> 02:14:24,800
I really didn't have it,
you know?
2627
02:14:24,833 --> 02:14:26,701
Of course.
2628
02:14:26,735 --> 02:14:29,938
I don't think if I had it,
I could have taken the risk.
2629
02:14:29,971 --> 02:14:33,209
You know,
it was a kind of situation
2630
02:14:33,242 --> 02:14:37,346
where I just kept going and
really didn't stop to think
2631
02:14:37,380 --> 02:14:39,681
of how I was going
to pay it back.
2632
02:14:39,714 --> 02:14:42,684
And fortunately, success
was around the corner,
2633
02:14:42,717 --> 02:14:45,388
and I was able to pay it back
and come from behind.
2634
02:14:45,421 --> 02:14:47,090
You did it by giving,
first of all,
2635
02:14:47,123 --> 02:14:49,392
one of the largest parties
ever given in this town,
2636
02:14:49,425 --> 02:14:51,693
-didn't you?
-Yes, it was.
2637
02:14:51,726 --> 02:14:53,695
He laughs about it.
2638
02:14:53,728 --> 02:14:56,665
And you couldn't leave
a tip, right?
2639
02:14:56,698 --> 02:14:58,733
At the end, I couldn't.
2640
02:14:59,435 --> 02:15:00,769
The party was fabulous.
2641
02:15:00,802 --> 02:15:02,737
The reception was fabulous.
2642
02:15:02,771 --> 02:15:04,973
The welcome to California
was exciting,
2643
02:15:05,006 --> 02:15:08,311
and from there,
everything went downhill.
2644
02:15:08,344 --> 02:15:09,345
About eight months later,
2645
02:15:09,378 --> 02:15:14,083
I realized that um,
it wasn't going to happen.
2646
02:15:14,117 --> 02:15:15,318
I had just finished
2647
02:15:15,351 --> 02:15:18,254
probably the most expensive
album ever done
2648
02:15:18,287 --> 02:15:20,022
in the record industry,
which was
2649
02:15:20,056 --> 02:15:23,025
Here's Johnny: Magic Moments
From The Tonight Show,
2650
02:15:23,059 --> 02:15:24,893
- and we opened...
- Oh, you did that.
2651
02:15:24,926 --> 02:15:27,796
Yeah. That was our record.
2652
02:15:27,829 --> 02:15:29,265
You all bought that,
didn't you?
2653
02:15:29,298 --> 02:15:30,899
Yeah.
2654
02:15:30,932 --> 02:15:33,735
We over-advertised,
and we over-promoted.
2655
02:15:33,768 --> 02:15:37,340
And we did everything
you could possibly do wrong.
2656
02:15:37,373 --> 02:15:39,408
And I went to Acapulco,
2657
02:15:39,442 --> 02:15:41,410
and while I was there,
scuba diving,
2658
02:15:41,444 --> 02:15:45,281
I thought that, "You owe
three million dollars.
2659
02:15:45,314 --> 02:15:47,016
You don't have any money
left in the bank."
2660
02:15:47,049 --> 02:15:48,850
- Yeah.
- "You might have payroll
2661
02:15:48,884 --> 02:15:51,753
for about two
or three weeks left."
2662
02:15:51,786 --> 02:15:54,756
And I was down there,
and I took the mouthpiece out
2663
02:15:54,789 --> 02:15:56,758
and said, "It could be over."
2664
02:15:56,791 --> 02:15:58,960
I mean, that could be it.
You don't have to come back
2665
02:15:58,994 --> 02:16:01,030
to the problems.
You don't have to come back
2666
02:16:01,063 --> 02:16:03,099
to face the failure.
2667
02:16:03,132 --> 02:16:06,768
And, um... the last record
I released at Buddah Records
2668
02:16:06,801 --> 02:16:09,138
was a thing
by Gladys Knight and the Pips,
2669
02:16:09,172 --> 02:16:10,972
that when LA seemed
too much for the man,
2670
02:16:11,006 --> 02:16:12,475
he couldn't make it,
so he's leaving
2671
02:16:12,508 --> 02:16:13,442
the life he's come to know.
2672
02:16:13,476 --> 02:16:15,911
He's leaving on a midnight
train to Georgia.
2673
02:16:15,944 --> 02:16:18,481
And I just realized
that wasn't me.
2674
02:16:18,514 --> 02:16:22,051
I had to win, or I had to fail.
2675
02:16:22,084 --> 02:16:23,319
I couldn't cop out,
2676
02:16:23,352 --> 02:16:25,787
and I put
the mouthpiece back in.
2677
02:16:25,820 --> 02:16:28,457
I swam and found Joyce.
2678
02:16:28,491 --> 02:16:30,926
I said, "Come on back.
We're going upstairs.
2679
02:16:30,959 --> 02:16:32,794
We're gonna go back,
and we're gonna do it.
2680
02:16:32,827 --> 02:16:34,463
We're going to win,
or we're gonna fail."
2681
02:16:34,497 --> 02:16:36,499
And in the back of my head,
I always had the thought
2682
02:16:36,532 --> 02:16:38,800
that I can always go
back to Brooklyn and open
2683
02:16:38,833 --> 02:16:39,935
- a candy store.
- Yeah,
2684
02:16:39,968 --> 02:16:42,405
except there are a lot of those
there, aren't there?
2685
02:16:42,438 --> 02:16:44,906
Yeah, but you know,
growing up there, I mean,
2686
02:16:44,940 --> 02:16:47,742
that was always
a kind of comforting thing
2687
02:16:47,776 --> 02:16:49,312
that I could always go
back to that,
2688
02:16:49,345 --> 02:16:50,946
and that was a great life.
2689
02:16:54,183 --> 02:16:55,218
Hi.
2690
02:16:55,251 --> 02:16:56,985
What does a tiger say?
2691
02:16:58,954 --> 02:17:02,358
That was the Bogarts,
the fabulous Bogarts!
2692
02:17:02,391 --> 02:17:03,992
Well, I want to thank you all.
2693
02:17:04,026 --> 02:17:08,164
Jill, Timothy, Bradley,
come on. Come on.
2694
02:17:08,197 --> 02:17:10,099
Say goodbye to the audience.
2695
02:17:10,132 --> 02:17:11,334
We'll see you again!
2696
02:17:11,367 --> 02:17:13,402
-Bye!
-Bye, everybody!
2697
02:17:13,436 --> 02:17:15,037
- Bye!
- Bye!
2698
02:17:15,071 --> 02:17:17,806
Do you have one more word you'd
like to say to everybody?
2699
02:17:17,839 --> 02:17:20,509
Goodbye. Cheerio.
2700
02:17:20,543 --> 02:17:21,843
What was that?
2701
02:17:23,379 --> 02:17:26,315
...from the fabulous Bogarts!
2702
02:17:26,349 --> 02:17:27,782
See you next week!
2703
02:17:27,816 --> 02:17:28,950
Yeah!