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Next up on the couch is
music industry guru, kingpin,
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and former head
of Creation Records.
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He's political,
occasionally controversial,
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and he's a great friend.
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He is, of course,
Mr. Alan McGee.
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♪ Dealers keep a-dealin'
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♪ Thieves keep a-thievin'
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♪ Whores keep a-whorin'
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♪ Junkies keep scorin'
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♪ Trade is on the meat rack
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♪ Strip joints
full of hunchbacks
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♪ Bitches keep a-bitchin'
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♪ Clap just keeps a-itchin'
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♪ Ain't no use in prayin'
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♪ That's the way
it's stayin', baby
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♪ Johnny ain't so crazy
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♪ He's always got a line
for the ladies
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♪ Yeah-yeah-yeah
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♪ Get yer rocks off
Get yer rocks off, honey
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♪ Shake 'em now-now
Get 'em off downtown
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♪ Get yer rocks off
Get yer rocks off, honey
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♪ Shake 'em now-now
Get 'em off downtown
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♪ Creeps keep a-crawlin'
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♪ Drunks keep a-fallin'
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♪ Teasers keep a-teasin'
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♪ Holy joes are preachin'
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♪ Cops keep a-bustin'
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♪ Hustlers keep a-hustlin'
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♪ Death keeps a-knockin'
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♪ Souls are up for auction
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♪ Ain't no use in prayin'
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♪ That's the way
it's stayin', baby
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♪ Johnny ain't so crazy
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♪ He's always got
a line for the... ♪
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Drowning in money.
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Don't need to be a shrink
to work that one out.
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A wee ginger cunt from Glasgow
in the land of the beautiful.
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You're wondering
how I got away with it, eh?
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Well, I'm assuming you are.
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Since you're
watching this film.
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Good
afternoon, ladies and gentlemen,
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this is your Captain.
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We're about to
start our descent
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into Los Angeles LAX airport,
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where the local time
is 2:34 p.m,
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and the weather is a clear
and sunny 72 degrees.
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The rest of you will be
travelling to '70s Glasgow,
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where it is a constant
bleak and frosty,
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and the, uh,
outlook is grim...
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♪ I really love
your tiger light
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♪ That's neat that's neat,
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♪ That's neat, that's neat
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♪ I really love
your tiger feet
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♪ I really love
your tiger feet
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♪ Your tiger feet ♪
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Glasgow wasn't all bad.
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We lived in a decent house.
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I had two sisters,
so I had my own bedroom.
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This is me
doing a closing encore
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at the Barrowlands,
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with a tennis racket.
What a tool.
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Thank you, Glasgow!
Goodnight!
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Jesus Christ, have you got
your sister's make-up on?
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I'm not a pooftie, Dad.
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Well, why are you
poncing about like one?
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You're a bloody disgrace.
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I'm just pissing about, Dad.
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You should be on the street
with your football.
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Go and wash that shite off,
go on.
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You should be on the street
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playing football, you wee cunt!
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♪ There was a soldier
A Scottish soldier
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It's a cliche,
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but I never felt
I fitted in with my family.
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I just don't get it.
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Ah, but your mates
don't spend it on make-up
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and posters of men
dressed up as tarts.
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I loved my ma
and my sisters.
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You're not a kid.
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But Dad hated
everything I did.
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You get nothing in this life
if you're not prepared to work.
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And Grandma
just hated me.
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You wee
ginger bastard.
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I had
two obsessions back then,
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serious now,
music and money.
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I've got an Advertiser.
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Do you want an Advertiser, sir?
Put your money in the box.
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There you go, thank you.
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Oh, wee man,
are you into your music?
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Yeah.
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You like T-Rex?
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Aye, so what?
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Nothing, they're fucking cool.
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Do you like Thin Lizzy?
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Do you know
they're playing the Barras?
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Fuck off, are they
playing the Barras?
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Aye.
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Next week.
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Cockney Rebel supporting.
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You mean in the Barras, aye?
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Bobby.
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"Rebel, rebel".
Fucking ace, man.
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Go get the other copy, Bobby.
I'll buy it you.
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- Aye?
- Aye.
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So, where the fuck do you make
that kind of money?
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See, so I get 4p
for every newspaper I sell,
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but they cost 15p.
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Now if I turn up
an hour early though,
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five instead of 6:00,
there's no one around.
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So, I take a load of extras,
sell them on top.
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They don't count 'em?
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No.
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Guess how much
I made last week.
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- Don't know.
- Guess.
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A fiver.
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Twenty.
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I'm gonna be a millionaire
one day.
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What, selling
fucking papers?
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Fuck off, Bobby,
I'm just a rebel.
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Rebel!
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♪ Rebel, Rebel
you've torn your dress.
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♪ Rebel, Rebel
your face is a mess ♪
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Dad was
a talentless bastard,
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but he had one skill.
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He could smell money,
like a pig with truffles.
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I earned it.
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He's not lying, Dad.
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Mom, I earned it.
I swear I did.
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I'd just sell a few extras,
I take.
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You mean steal.
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Dad, I actually
increased circulation.
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Oh, it's okay
to steal from the people
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paying your wages,
he's doing them a favor.
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Dad, it's not fucking stealing.
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- No, no!
- Don't you dare!
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You think
you're clever, Alan,
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but you're not clever,
you know nothing.
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Oh, John, John!
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Darling, let me see you.
Oh, you're bleeding.
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Jesus.
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It's no good, Ma,
I can't make it stick.
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You'll have to go to A&E.
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All right. Well then,
you take him, Laura.
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and if anyone asks, Al,
you fell when you were out.
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Okay?
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That's my good boy.
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It was shameful
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if Social Services
paid you a visit back then.
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Like most families,
we sorted out our own mess.
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Hear the band
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the whole world
is talking about.
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Oasis, live
at the Hollywood Bowl,
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only on KPWR.
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Mate, slow down a minute.
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- Where rock rocks.
- Mate.
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Wow, that gig is sold out.
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These guys, they are
like the new Beatles...
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The 1960s,
they basically buried Jesus,
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and Bowie was
the new messiah.
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I wanted to walk
where he walked,
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and do all the things he did.
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But, I didn't have any talent,
which limited my options some.
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Okay, son, you're
gonna be Murray's apprentice.
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- This is a big opportunity.
- Right.
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Hey, hey, hey,
don't embarrass me, all right?
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Good boy.
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I tried
not to embarrass my dad,
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but that didn't stop his mates
from ripping my pants off
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and spraying my balls red.
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You fucking wee tube.
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As an initiation.
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Fucking bastards.
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- Fucking...
- You dirty wee ginger bastard.
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I'm not... Oh, no.
I can explain.
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President Kennedy...
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People talk about telly
in reference to history.
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You remember watching
the news about Kennedy,
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or the moon landing.
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Queen's Coronation.
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Fuck.
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That.
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There was only one historical
televised event in our house.
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They're a group
called the Sex Pistols.
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And that
changed everything.
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♪ I am an anti-Christ
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♪ I am an anarchist
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♪ Don't know what I want
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♪ But I know how to get it
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♪ I wanna destroy
the passer-by ♪
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The new craze, they tell me.
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♪ Cause I wanna be anarchy
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♪ No dogs body
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♪ Anarchy for the UK
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♪ It's coming sometime
and maybe
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What a fucking rotter.
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You dirty fucker.
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♪ Your future dream
is a shopping scheme
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♪ 'Cause I
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♪ I wanna be anarchy
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♪ In the city
and I wanna be anarchy ♪
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Musicians
are such boring people.
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Why should talent have anything
to do with rock and roll?
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Why should music be
in the possession of people
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so (BLEEP) dull?
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I'll say
nothing else about him.
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We'll be back tomorrow,
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I'll be seeing you soon, I hope,
I'm not seeing you again,
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from me though, goodnight.
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Now there
were new rules.
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There were no rules.
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I didn't need talent,
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I just needed a guitar
and some mates.
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We have Andrew Innes
on lead guitar.
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And on the bass guitar,
the wee ginger bastard himself,
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Alan McGee.
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Look at this, son. Is this
this new punk rock thing?
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Aye.
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What's the name of this outfit?
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- The Drains.
- The Drains.
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Well, I don't want you
blocking the drains, Bobby.
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Just keep it down
a wee bit, eh?
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Aye, see you, Dad.
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The fucking Drains, eh?
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Your dad's cool, Bobby.
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What's that thing
he was wearing?
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Ah, he's into his politics.
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He'll run for Parliament
one day.
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Aye, he's a socialist.
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My dad talks about socialists.
Fucking hates 'em.
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Oh, what's your old man into?
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Just boring stuff.
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What's all this Grandma Barr
tells us, painting your pubes.
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Oh no, Dad. That was
just fucking some...
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Are you fucking mental?
What's gotten into you?
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This is all that punk rock shite
they've been talking about, aye.
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- Hey, this is a decent house.
- On, aye.
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Hey, if I so much as hear you
mention those sexy pistols,
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you'll wish you were never born.
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Now get that shit off.
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You look ridiculous.
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And what have we got up here?
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Lena Zavaroni,
The fucking Bay City Rollers.
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Ah, let's go to London,
let's just fucking go.
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My Dad'll never let me
go to London, Innes.
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Doesn't matter,
you're nearly 18.
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Do you know
what punk means?
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It's American slang
for homosexuals in prison.
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♪ I got a feeling
inside of me
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♪ It's kinda strange
like a stormy sea
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♪ I don't know why
I don't know why ♪
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Have you ever even
been to London?
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Do you know anyone there?
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No, I can be whatever
I wanna be in London.
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My dad'll skin me alive,
you daft cunt.
256
00:12:20,604 --> 00:12:21,806
Fucking do you for kidnapping.
257
00:12:21,839 --> 00:12:23,208
And you
for kiddie fiddling, Alan.
258
00:12:23,241 --> 00:12:25,243
You come and join us when
you've got some pubes, eh, Bob.
259
00:12:28,714 --> 00:12:30,616
We've only just started
going out with each other.
260
00:12:31,749 --> 00:12:33,050
You're a ginger prick, Alan.
261
00:12:33,084 --> 00:12:35,521
You've got a chance to become
a qualified electrician.
262
00:12:35,554 --> 00:12:36,788
You cannae just leave.
263
00:12:36,820 --> 00:12:38,255
Innes, it's in here, man.
264
00:12:38,290 --> 00:12:40,291
Can you hold that for us, pal?
Right, here we go.
265
00:12:41,959 --> 00:12:43,961
It feels like
you're running away from me.
266
00:12:43,994 --> 00:12:45,028
♪ I can't stop ♪
267
00:12:45,063 --> 00:12:48,099
Wanker.
268
00:12:48,132 --> 00:12:51,002
Oh, fuck off.
269
00:12:51,036 --> 00:12:52,436
You two, out.
270
00:12:52,470 --> 00:12:53,671
Fucking hell, right.
271
00:12:53,704 --> 00:12:56,773
I'll get you in the Freemasons,
we look after one another.
272
00:12:56,807 --> 00:12:59,444
Fucking hell!
Piss off.
273
00:12:59,478 --> 00:13:00,911
I'll write to you
every day, Yvonne.
274
00:13:00,945 --> 00:13:02,513
Fucking pen pal.
275
00:13:05,983 --> 00:13:07,118
No!
276
00:13:07,151 --> 00:13:08,586
All right.
277
00:13:11,955 --> 00:13:14,392
Think about the future,
son, eh?
278
00:13:14,425 --> 00:13:16,428
I'm always thinking
about the future, Dad.
279
00:13:17,028 --> 00:13:18,496
It's you that's not.
280
00:13:24,735 --> 00:13:26,137
Los Angeles,
281
00:13:26,171 --> 00:13:29,974
land of the back stabbers,
the vacuous, and the soulless.
282
00:13:30,007 --> 00:13:32,243
They say in London,
you're never more than
283
00:13:32,276 --> 00:13:34,411
six feet away
from a sewer rat.
284
00:13:34,445 --> 00:13:38,548
Well, in LA, it's the same,
except here, it's dealers...
285
00:13:38,583 --> 00:13:40,752
... whores, pimps,
286
00:13:40,785 --> 00:13:42,788
and fucking agents.
287
00:13:51,363 --> 00:13:53,231
- Sup, man, how you doing?
- Good to see you, Rich.
288
00:13:53,263 --> 00:13:55,666
Don't mind if I do, huh?
289
00:13:57,002 --> 00:13:59,405
You Brits
are fucking crazy, man.
290
00:13:59,438 --> 00:14:02,374
You come to LA, you hang out
in a fucking hotel room.
291
00:14:02,406 --> 00:14:03,907
That's why you guys
are all pale.
292
00:14:03,941 --> 00:14:06,411
So, we got the, uh...
293
00:14:06,445 --> 00:14:07,478
Got the what?
294
00:14:07,512 --> 00:14:08,647
The gear.
295
00:14:15,421 --> 00:14:18,956
I'm fucking with you, man.
Got the fucking gear.
296
00:14:18,989 --> 00:14:20,291
It's strong though, man.
297
00:14:20,325 --> 00:14:22,926
Okay, that shit's like
some new shit that's come in.
298
00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,595
People are going crazy
over that shit.
299
00:14:30,767 --> 00:14:33,238
That is all there.
300
00:14:34,372 --> 00:14:36,107
Forget everything
in that last voice-over,
301
00:14:36,141 --> 00:14:38,844
I fucking love LA.
302
00:14:38,877 --> 00:14:40,044
Later, bro.
303
00:14:40,078 --> 00:14:42,081
I've got it, I've got it.
Yeah, I'll call you.
304
00:14:42,547 --> 00:14:43,648
Cheers, Rich.
305
00:14:49,521 --> 00:14:51,522
Hey, Felipe, yeah.
306
00:14:51,555 --> 00:14:54,292
Oh, yeah, that's right,
yeah, Gemma, it's the magazine.
307
00:14:54,325 --> 00:14:57,061
Yeah, some interview, yeah,
show them my poolside table,
308
00:14:57,094 --> 00:14:58,863
take in a couple of smudges.
309
00:14:59,730 --> 00:15:01,700
Yeah, lovely, love you.
310
00:15:05,469 --> 00:15:07,473
Oh, this is fucking great.
311
00:15:10,208 --> 00:15:12,344
Well, what do you think?
312
00:15:13,978 --> 00:15:15,346
It's a shithole, Innes.
313
00:15:15,379 --> 00:15:17,648
That may very well be the case,
but it's fucking free.
314
00:15:18,215 --> 00:15:19,517
Where do we sleep?
315
00:15:19,550 --> 00:15:20,685
Anywhere you like.
316
00:15:24,690 --> 00:15:26,089
What the fuck, man?
317
00:15:26,123 --> 00:15:28,526
It's London,
what did you expect?
318
00:15:34,632 --> 00:15:38,536
I'm a nihilist, man,
there's nothing to it.
319
00:15:44,743 --> 00:15:46,844
So anyway,
I'd left a decent job,
320
00:15:46,877 --> 00:15:48,613
decent home, decent birds,
321
00:15:48,647 --> 00:15:51,148
to move into some London
shithole with my best mates
322
00:15:51,181 --> 00:15:53,183
and some random smackheads.
323
00:15:53,218 --> 00:15:55,152
Thought I got scurvy once.
324
00:15:55,185 --> 00:15:56,320
Scurvy?
325
00:15:56,353 --> 00:15:59,056
- Yeah, scurvy.
- Can you spell that for me?
326
00:15:59,089 --> 00:16:05,228
Yeah, S-C-U-R-V-E, no, Y,
327
00:16:05,262 --> 00:16:06,564
fucking one of them.
328
00:16:06,598 --> 00:16:07,866
Scurvy is like
a medieval disease
329
00:16:07,898 --> 00:16:10,535
that pirates would get
from not eating properly.
330
00:16:13,238 --> 00:16:15,640
We settled down,
despite the squalor.
331
00:16:15,672 --> 00:16:18,041
By the time we got to London,
punk was over.
332
00:16:18,075 --> 00:16:20,912
It had left all these various
counter-cultures in its wake,
333
00:16:20,945 --> 00:16:22,980
all wanting to be seen
and heard.
334
00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,583
We spent our dole money
making a demo.
335
00:16:25,616 --> 00:16:27,318
Bobby's learning bass
with Caesar McNulty.
336
00:16:27,350 --> 00:16:28,585
- Altered Images?
- Aye.
337
00:16:28,619 --> 00:16:31,455
Throb's learning guitar.
It's in the demo.
338
00:16:33,892 --> 00:16:36,561
Just smell that, Alan.
Do you know what it is?
339
00:16:37,061 --> 00:16:38,228
B-O? Fish?
340
00:16:38,262 --> 00:16:39,731
It's the smell of possibilities.
341
00:16:39,763 --> 00:16:40,831
Laughing Apple.
342
00:16:41,398 --> 00:16:42,934
Hopeless this morning.
343
00:16:43,935 --> 00:16:45,170
- No.
- Laughing Apple.
344
00:16:45,203 --> 00:16:47,171
I heard this job's
going at British Rail.
345
00:16:47,204 --> 00:16:48,439
British Rail?
346
00:16:48,473 --> 00:16:50,876
I could go London to Glasgow
line to see Yvonne.
347
00:16:50,908 --> 00:16:51,875
Fuck Yvonne.
348
00:16:51,910 --> 00:16:54,245
No, no, let's face it,
one of us needs a job.
349
00:16:54,278 --> 00:16:56,180
You can't run a venue
and press records
350
00:16:56,214 --> 00:16:58,650
and promote a band
on 13 a week, can we?
351
00:16:58,682 --> 00:17:01,852
Laughing Apple. Greatest band
to come out of Scotland!
352
00:17:01,887 --> 00:17:02,988
Laughing Apple, Laughing Apple.
353
00:17:03,021 --> 00:17:06,391
Laughing Apple! Greatest band
to come out of Scotland!
354
00:17:06,423 --> 00:17:08,926
Fuck off home,
you scroungers.
355
00:17:08,959 --> 00:17:10,094
Cunt!
356
00:17:20,939 --> 00:17:22,007
We sorted out our line up
357
00:17:22,039 --> 00:17:25,075
with that nihilist
and skaghead flatmate on drums.
358
00:17:25,109 --> 00:17:26,377
Are you sure about him?
359
00:17:26,411 --> 00:17:28,880
I didn't say he could play,
I said he had a kit.
360
00:17:36,188 --> 00:17:37,522
It'll be fine.
361
00:17:37,555 --> 00:17:41,959
Hello, we're the Laughing Apple
and nobody knows why.
362
00:18:07,751 --> 00:18:13,190
♪ I would never leave
my trust to her
363
00:18:13,225 --> 00:18:16,360
♪ I would deny my love
364
00:18:16,393 --> 00:18:19,896
♪ I leave my all to her
365
00:18:19,930 --> 00:18:27,204
♪ I leave my clothes maybe
I'll leave my memory
366
00:18:27,238 --> 00:18:30,142
♪ I live for passion
367
00:18:30,174 --> 00:18:35,245
♪ I love to go away go away
Go away go away go away
368
00:18:35,279 --> 00:18:36,614
♪ Goodbye
369
00:18:38,382 --> 00:18:43,822
♪ I love you
precious feeling ♪
370
00:19:12,382 --> 00:19:13,751
You alright?
371
00:19:14,184 --> 00:19:15,286
You good?
372
00:19:15,319 --> 00:19:16,987
Yeah.
373
00:19:17,020 --> 00:19:19,357
Thank you, cheers.
374
00:19:21,124 --> 00:19:23,227
So now I had a proper job
375
00:19:23,259 --> 00:19:25,363
that I proper fucking hated.
376
00:19:25,395 --> 00:19:27,130
Come on, lads and lasses.
377
00:19:27,164 --> 00:19:29,800
But even though
we weren't selling out gigs,
378
00:19:29,834 --> 00:19:32,938
I was still spending every penny
pressing our records.
379
00:19:33,703 --> 00:19:34,538
Ah, good.
380
00:19:34,572 --> 00:19:35,606
Surprisingly.
381
00:19:35,639 --> 00:19:37,241
We sold all the other copies.
382
00:19:37,274 --> 00:19:39,344
You have?
383
00:19:39,376 --> 00:19:41,278
Oh, yeah, yeah,
I thought you would.
384
00:19:41,312 --> 00:19:43,582
Do you have any more bands
on your label?
385
00:19:43,614 --> 00:19:44,716
Label?
386
00:19:45,682 --> 00:19:48,118
Get your tickets out, come on!
387
00:19:48,151 --> 00:19:50,087
This year's
Christmas number one
388
00:19:50,121 --> 00:19:51,921
is from Renee and Renato,
389
00:19:51,956 --> 00:19:54,325
and here they are
with Save Your Love.
390
00:20:01,833 --> 00:20:07,104
♪ Save your love, my darling
Save your love
391
00:20:13,510 --> 00:20:16,012
♪ A serenade
I long to sing you
392
00:20:16,046 --> 00:20:19,116
So, how's it
working out in London, eh?
393
00:20:20,316 --> 00:20:22,319
Couldn't be better.
394
00:20:22,353 --> 00:20:24,889
Tell that to your pal, Innes.
395
00:20:24,921 --> 00:20:26,957
Had a kidney pack up
and moved back.
396
00:20:26,990 --> 00:20:30,996
Drugs, no doubt,
that and living in a shithole.
397
00:20:32,396 --> 00:20:34,432
Innes
was more into the scene
398
00:20:34,466 --> 00:20:36,467
than just the music,
and he did lose a kidney.
399
00:20:36,500 --> 00:20:37,734
No, mam, he's on the mend,
400
00:20:37,768 --> 00:20:39,303
and his dad says
he can move back
401
00:20:39,336 --> 00:20:40,838
only if he gets a place
at Uni though.
402
00:20:40,872 --> 00:20:42,373
But we've got
a new guitarist now,
403
00:20:42,405 --> 00:20:44,107
and he's more sensible.
404
00:20:47,010 --> 00:20:48,846
So, you were
shooting for the moon,
405
00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:50,614
but you still had
a boring job, huh?
406
00:20:50,648 --> 00:20:52,850
Come on, all jobs are boring,
when you think about it.
407
00:20:52,883 --> 00:20:55,920
Even being a millionaire
is bloody monotonous, you know.
408
00:20:55,953 --> 00:20:57,321
As soon as someone
makes a million,
409
00:20:57,354 --> 00:20:59,123
all they can think about doing
is making another million,
410
00:20:59,157 --> 00:21:00,291
another million,
another million.
411
00:21:00,324 --> 00:21:01,825
Well, hence drowning in money.
412
00:21:01,860 --> 00:21:02,727
I told you that?
413
00:21:02,759 --> 00:21:05,229
Your dream,
your recurring nightmare.
414
00:21:05,263 --> 00:21:06,797
Have it on a sandwich,
you'll be great.
415
00:21:06,831 --> 00:21:07,865
Thank you.
416
00:21:07,898 --> 00:21:10,068
The Christmas number one 1983,
417
00:21:10,101 --> 00:21:12,303
The Flying Pickets.
418
00:21:12,335 --> 00:21:13,637
We've started
focusing on
419
00:21:13,671 --> 00:21:17,409
promoting the bands now,
managing.
420
00:21:17,441 --> 00:21:19,410
Brian Epstein, eh?
421
00:21:19,442 --> 00:21:21,345
Well, he was a Jessie, you know.
422
00:21:21,379 --> 00:21:23,514
Yvonne, every Christmas
423
00:21:23,547 --> 00:21:25,248
she turns up here with you
424
00:21:25,283 --> 00:21:27,485
I breathe
a sigh of relief.
425
00:21:32,256 --> 00:21:34,159
Yvonne moved down to London,
426
00:21:34,191 --> 00:21:35,392
we got married,
427
00:21:35,426 --> 00:21:37,495
she started working in the
office with me at British Rail,
428
00:21:37,528 --> 00:21:39,430
We tried to be
a normal couple but...
429
00:21:41,266 --> 00:21:42,633
Could we start a new club?
430
00:22:16,433 --> 00:22:17,635
Oi!
431
00:22:19,003 --> 00:22:20,071
You Alan McGee?
432
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,175
You owe me 15 quid cab fare.
433
00:22:27,778 --> 00:22:29,279
What?
434
00:22:29,313 --> 00:22:30,547
You talking to me?
435
00:22:30,581 --> 00:22:32,083
Where's the PA?
436
00:22:32,116 --> 00:22:33,216
Every now and then,
437
00:22:33,250 --> 00:22:35,652
a band comes along
that changes your life.
438
00:22:35,686 --> 00:22:38,890
Television Personalities
changed mine.
439
00:22:43,361 --> 00:22:44,829
Who the fuck are you?
440
00:22:47,597 --> 00:22:49,200
Part cabaret.
441
00:22:49,534 --> 00:22:50,568
Go faster.
442
00:22:50,601 --> 00:22:51,835
Part chaos.
443
00:22:51,869 --> 00:22:52,904
Musician.
444
00:22:54,037 --> 00:22:55,238
Engineer.
445
00:22:55,271 --> 00:22:56,373
Piss take punks.
446
00:22:56,407 --> 00:22:58,142
♪ Walkin' down the Kings Road
447
00:22:58,174 --> 00:22:59,209
Organized Anarchy.
448
00:22:59,244 --> 00:23:01,279
♪ I see so many faces
449
00:23:02,712 --> 00:23:04,414
♪ Many places
450
00:23:04,448 --> 00:23:05,882
♪ They come down for the day
451
00:23:05,917 --> 00:23:08,920
Fuck me! This thing run on gas?
452
00:23:10,421 --> 00:23:12,123
♪ And try and look trendy
453
00:23:13,257 --> 00:23:15,660
- ♪ I think it's a shame
- I'll need that an' all.
454
00:23:15,692 --> 00:23:17,362
♪ That they all look the same
455
00:23:18,563 --> 00:23:20,065
♪ Here they come
456
00:23:21,431 --> 00:23:24,367
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
457
00:23:24,401 --> 00:23:27,204
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
458
00:23:27,238 --> 00:23:28,907
♪ The part time punks
459
00:23:30,540 --> 00:23:31,809
♪ Here they come
460
00:23:32,676 --> 00:23:35,246
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
461
00:23:36,313 --> 00:23:38,748
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
462
00:23:38,783 --> 00:23:40,551
♪ The part time punks
463
00:23:40,584 --> 00:23:41,786
♪ The part time punks
464
00:23:41,818 --> 00:23:44,521
♪ Then they go to Rough Trade
465
00:23:44,555 --> 00:23:47,624
♪ To buy Siouxsie
And the Banshees
466
00:23:47,658 --> 00:23:49,828
♪ They heard John Peel
Play it
467
00:23:50,728 --> 00:23:52,296
♪ Just the other night
468
00:23:52,330 --> 00:23:53,665
♪ Just the other night
469
00:23:53,698 --> 00:23:56,633
♪ They'd like to buy
the O Level single
470
00:23:56,668 --> 00:23:59,437
♪ Or read about Seymour
471
00:23:59,469 --> 00:24:01,538
♪ But they're not
pressed in red
472
00:24:01,572 --> 00:24:04,241
♪ So they buy
The Lurkers instead
473
00:24:04,275 --> 00:24:05,509
♪ The Lurkers instead
474
00:24:05,543 --> 00:24:07,078
♪ Here they come
475
00:24:08,511 --> 00:24:11,414
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
476
00:24:11,448 --> 00:24:14,384
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
477
00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:17,488
♪ The part time punks! ♪
478
00:24:17,521 --> 00:24:19,590
Thank you, thank you.
479
00:24:19,623 --> 00:24:21,291
We are the
Television Personalities,
480
00:24:21,325 --> 00:24:24,261
this next song is the same
as the last one...
481
00:24:24,295 --> 00:24:26,296
Only louder!
482
00:24:27,730 --> 00:24:29,633
♪ They play their records
very loud
483
00:24:29,667 --> 00:24:32,703
♪ And pogo in the bedroom
484
00:24:32,736 --> 00:24:34,505
♪ In front of the mirror
485
00:24:35,739 --> 00:24:37,607
♪ But only when
their mum's gone out ♪
486
00:24:38,976 --> 00:24:40,512
They never made it though.
487
00:24:40,545 --> 00:24:43,279
Sexton Ming and Jowe Head
were performance artists,
488
00:24:43,314 --> 00:24:45,115
and the band was just
an extension of that.
489
00:24:45,149 --> 00:24:47,584
Dan Treacy
was a brilliant front man.
490
00:24:47,617 --> 00:24:49,119
Sofa surfer
got locked out one night
491
00:24:49,152 --> 00:24:50,654
and kicked half to death
by some cunts,
492
00:24:50,688 --> 00:24:51,922
he never really recovered.
493
00:24:51,956 --> 00:24:53,390
The Slaughterhouse
Joe Foster,
494
00:24:53,423 --> 00:24:56,193
the anarchist with multiple
personalities, all of them mad,
495
00:24:56,227 --> 00:24:58,329
Ed Ball, the coolest fucker
you've ever seen,
496
00:24:58,362 --> 00:24:59,964
even when he lost his hair.
497
00:24:59,997 --> 00:25:04,068
And Dick Green, the dullest man
to ever tune up a guitar.
498
00:25:04,835 --> 00:25:06,603
With these three liabilities,
499
00:25:06,638 --> 00:25:08,472
I knew we could
take over the world.
500
00:25:08,506 --> 00:25:09,841
♪ The part time punks
501
00:25:11,942 --> 00:25:13,276
♪ The part time punks
502
00:25:13,311 --> 00:25:15,313
♪ The part time punks
503
00:25:17,146 --> 00:25:19,282
The 1985 Christmas number one,
504
00:25:19,315 --> 00:25:21,419
it's Shaky.
Merry Christmas Everyone.
505
00:25:21,451 --> 00:25:23,320
I mean, we were still
working for the railways,
506
00:25:23,353 --> 00:25:27,792
but my next thing I'm trying
to get this fanzine together.
507
00:25:27,825 --> 00:25:29,861
Like, it's a magazine,
to sell to fans at the gigs.
508
00:25:29,893 --> 00:25:31,362
Trying to get into
publishing really.
509
00:25:31,395 --> 00:25:32,262
Come on.
510
00:25:32,296 --> 00:25:34,731
Well,
I am proud of you, son.
511
00:25:34,766 --> 00:25:36,534
It's good to have a dream.
512
00:25:36,567 --> 00:25:38,268
Come on.
513
00:25:38,303 --> 00:25:41,671
We need more dreamers
in this family.
514
00:25:41,705 --> 00:25:44,375
Your dad's never really
had a dream.
515
00:25:44,409 --> 00:25:45,676
Did you, John?
516
00:25:45,709 --> 00:25:48,578
No, maybe it's a good job
I didn't.
517
00:25:48,612 --> 00:25:49,979
Who'd have put a roof
over our head
518
00:25:50,014 --> 00:25:51,516
and food on the table, eh?
519
00:25:56,019 --> 00:25:57,821
It must have been
hard though.
520
00:25:57,854 --> 00:26:00,525
It's ten to 4:00.
You're in work at 7:00.
521
00:26:00,557 --> 00:26:02,926
I dunno, I got a real buzz
out of being the outsider.
522
00:26:02,959 --> 00:26:04,394
I was answering
to no one.
523
00:26:05,796 --> 00:26:07,364
Except the rail company.
524
00:26:07,398 --> 00:26:08,699
True, what a bunch of cunts.
525
00:26:11,401 --> 00:26:14,037
So, would you say that
managing Jesus and Mary Chain
526
00:26:14,071 --> 00:26:16,741
was your first big break?
527
00:26:16,775 --> 00:26:19,309
Uh, I didn't really see it
as a break at the time
528
00:26:19,343 --> 00:26:21,813
because you're too busy
getting on with it,
529
00:26:21,845 --> 00:26:24,882
but, yeah, I knew I'd found
something special.
530
00:26:26,484 --> 00:26:27,518
Jesus and Mary Chain.
531
00:26:27,551 --> 00:26:28,586
The Jesus and Mary Chain.
532
00:26:28,619 --> 00:26:30,321
Jesus and Mary Chain.
533
00:26:30,354 --> 00:26:31,389
- Jesus...
- And...
534
00:26:31,421 --> 00:26:32,489
- Mary...
- Chain.
535
00:26:32,523 --> 00:26:34,158
Jesus and Mary Chain.
536
00:26:34,191 --> 00:26:36,459
The Jesus and Mary Chain...
537
00:26:42,165 --> 00:26:43,000
Hi, guys.
538
00:26:43,034 --> 00:26:44,302
Let's rewind.
539
00:26:45,536 --> 00:26:47,305
So, I'm in London getting
a decent turnout for the club,
540
00:26:47,337 --> 00:26:49,472
recording demos for the bands
that ask, signing,
541
00:26:49,506 --> 00:26:50,841
pressing and selling records
542
00:26:50,874 --> 00:26:52,742
for the ones
that we fucking love.
543
00:26:52,776 --> 00:26:54,411
In Glasgow, word is that
544
00:26:54,444 --> 00:26:56,246
we're big-time Charlies
down in London,
545
00:26:56,279 --> 00:26:59,017
and Bobby is putting Primal
Scream together with Innes,
546
00:26:59,049 --> 00:27:00,884
who's getting over
losing his kidney.
547
00:27:00,918 --> 00:27:02,853
He gets given a demo
to give to me,
548
00:27:02,886 --> 00:27:06,423
interesting racket,
Velvets meets The Stooges.
549
00:27:06,457 --> 00:27:08,392
We come down to do a gig,
Joe does the sound,
550
00:27:08,424 --> 00:27:10,927
but Joe had worked his way
through a bag of pink speed
551
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:12,029
and hadn't slept in days.
552
00:27:13,998 --> 00:27:16,267
Chaos, straight off.
553
00:27:19,703 --> 00:27:20,904
But I loved it.
554
00:27:25,742 --> 00:27:26,910
I signed them.
555
00:27:35,052 --> 00:27:38,055
The drummer, trappy cunt,
complained about the money,
556
00:27:38,088 --> 00:27:40,657
so we sack him off,
we put Bobby in.
557
00:27:40,690 --> 00:27:43,392
It's two drums on stands,
any fucker can do it.
558
00:27:43,427 --> 00:27:46,531
Abraca-fucking-dabra,
now they're sexy.
559
00:27:47,730 --> 00:27:49,166
Joe does the recordings
560
00:27:49,200 --> 00:27:52,036
with that same mental,
evil, fucking racket.
561
00:27:54,305 --> 00:27:56,841
John Peel plays the record,
it goes bananas.
562
00:27:56,873 --> 00:27:58,508
I sign them to a bigger label.
563
00:27:58,542 --> 00:27:59,810
I stay on as manager.
564
00:27:59,844 --> 00:28:01,478
They record Psychocandy, bang!
565
00:28:01,511 --> 00:28:03,813
The album goes gold,
we're in the charts.
566
00:28:03,847 --> 00:28:05,081
Proper charts.
567
00:28:05,115 --> 00:28:07,050
- Jesus and Mary Chain.
- Jesus and Mary Chain.
568
00:28:07,084 --> 00:28:09,254
Jesus and Mary Chain.
569
00:28:11,455 --> 00:28:14,192
The recent concert has been
completely dogged by riots.
570
00:28:14,225 --> 00:28:17,661
People say that it was you
who organized the riots
571
00:28:17,694 --> 00:28:19,662
at the Jesus and Mary Chain
concerts.
572
00:28:19,696 --> 00:28:21,665
People can say what they want.
573
00:28:22,933 --> 00:28:24,067
That happened tonight
574
00:28:24,101 --> 00:28:25,936
accompanied by,
no doubt, rioting.
575
00:28:25,969 --> 00:28:28,738
It's Jesus and Mary Chain.
576
00:28:28,771 --> 00:28:32,341
You see, magic isn't about
pulling rabbits out of hats,
577
00:28:32,375 --> 00:28:36,580
but it is about making
something materialize.
578
00:28:40,217 --> 00:28:41,953
Hailed as the most
controversial band
579
00:28:41,986 --> 00:28:44,155
since the Sex Pistols.
580
00:28:44,188 --> 00:28:45,855
We're not remotely
like the Sex Pistols.
581
00:28:45,889 --> 00:28:46,924
The comparison's silly.
582
00:28:46,958 --> 00:28:49,993
Don't particularly
like them, so...
583
00:28:50,026 --> 00:28:53,863
We're a very commercial group,
you know.
584
00:28:53,896 --> 00:28:57,133
Some say that
the Jesus and Mary Chain
585
00:28:57,167 --> 00:28:59,637
is all about aggression,
violence.
586
00:28:59,670 --> 00:29:01,005
You know what The Beatles did
587
00:29:01,037 --> 00:29:03,106
when they were doing it
in the '80s?
588
00:29:03,140 --> 00:29:05,376
We've got our eyes
on the pop charts, you know,
589
00:29:05,409 --> 00:29:10,014
direct competition is, like,
Culture Club and Duran Duran.
590
00:29:10,046 --> 00:29:11,582
The New Musical Express
591
00:29:11,615 --> 00:29:14,884
compared it with Joy Division
for its intensity.
592
00:29:14,918 --> 00:29:16,888
Joy Division were fucking shite.
593
00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:18,189
We don't even
like being mentioned
594
00:29:18,221 --> 00:29:19,824
in the same breath as them.
595
00:29:19,856 --> 00:29:20,958
Joy Division were boring.
596
00:29:24,862 --> 00:29:27,131
Conjuring
success and victory,
597
00:29:27,163 --> 00:29:30,968
but these days, that's in film,
and TV and music.
598
00:29:33,304 --> 00:29:36,040
See, if you possess
a certain understanding,
599
00:29:36,073 --> 00:29:37,874
you can make it work
in your favor.
600
00:29:42,912 --> 00:29:44,681
Gonna be bigger than U2.
601
00:29:44,715 --> 00:29:46,450
We were being magicians
with Creation Records,
602
00:29:46,482 --> 00:29:48,485
we were like
accidental alchemists.
603
00:29:48,518 --> 00:29:52,457
Sometimes we seemed
to turn shit into gold.
604
00:29:52,489 --> 00:29:53,891
Alan, bank statements.
605
00:29:53,924 --> 00:29:57,894
And sometimes,
much as we loved it
606
00:29:57,928 --> 00:30:00,031
it just stayed shit.
607
00:30:00,064 --> 00:30:01,298
Fuck!
608
00:30:03,100 --> 00:30:05,036
♪ So young
609
00:30:05,068 --> 00:30:08,604
Look, is it just the cash flow,
because if it is...
610
00:30:08,639 --> 00:30:12,743
I'm afraid it's the maintenance
of your overdraft and loans.
611
00:30:12,776 --> 00:30:14,010
I'm about to do a deal
612
00:30:14,044 --> 00:30:17,015
that is gonna turn
everything around.
613
00:30:19,816 --> 00:30:21,250
What's that?
614
00:30:21,285 --> 00:30:24,921
Demos of future releases,
chart material, pure pop.
615
00:30:24,955 --> 00:30:26,224
Hits!
616
00:30:28,926 --> 00:30:34,431
Alan, the money you earn from
managing the, uh, Mary and...
617
00:30:34,465 --> 00:30:37,101
- Jesus and Mary Chain.
- Jesus and Mary Chain,
618
00:30:37,133 --> 00:30:39,170
you can't keep funding a label
619
00:30:39,202 --> 00:30:41,238
out of your own pocket.
620
00:30:41,271 --> 00:30:42,439
Why not?
621
00:30:42,472 --> 00:30:45,041
Some of these acts I've got
are gonna be bigger than U2.
622
00:30:45,075 --> 00:30:46,544
I've done the research,
623
00:30:46,576 --> 00:30:49,279
and the fact is, the record
industry in this country
624
00:30:49,313 --> 00:30:50,848
ain't what it used to be.
625
00:30:50,881 --> 00:30:52,882
Comedy is the new
rock and roll, Alan,
626
00:30:52,917 --> 00:30:55,419
Newman and Baddiel, they just
sold out Wembley Arena.
627
00:30:55,452 --> 00:30:57,620
"That's your Mom that is!"
628
00:30:57,654 --> 00:31:00,825
They're very good, but do you
have an act that can do that?
629
00:31:00,857 --> 00:31:02,291
Will any of they?
630
00:31:02,325 --> 00:31:03,727
No.
631
00:31:03,760 --> 00:31:08,965
What you have is a very small,
potentially healthy, business
632
00:31:08,998 --> 00:31:12,435
with a thick
and lowering glass ceiling.
633
00:31:12,469 --> 00:31:14,838
What we have to do
is minimize the venture,
634
00:31:14,872 --> 00:31:16,206
try and increase the profits
635
00:31:16,239 --> 00:31:19,142
and then use them to address
the charges on your debts,
636
00:31:19,176 --> 00:31:21,345
just run a small tight ship.
637
00:31:22,845 --> 00:31:24,248
It's not the '60s anymore, Alan.
638
00:31:26,284 --> 00:31:27,851
Or?
639
00:31:27,883 --> 00:31:29,286
Or you lose everything.
640
00:31:31,188 --> 00:31:32,790
Thanks a bunch, Nostradamus.
641
00:31:34,892 --> 00:31:36,094
Catch you later, eh?
642
00:31:39,697 --> 00:31:42,200
Joe, I've just been meeting
the biggest cunt of my life,
643
00:31:42,232 --> 00:31:43,566
I mean, everyone,
644
00:31:43,601 --> 00:31:46,703
every fucker in the office
10:00 a.m. tomorrow morning.
645
00:31:46,737 --> 00:31:47,638
Whilst we appreciate
646
00:31:47,671 --> 00:31:49,306
everything that's going on
at the moment.
647
00:31:53,276 --> 00:31:57,081
Shut up, Ed!
It's the fucking bailiffs.
648
00:31:57,113 --> 00:31:58,915
- Who? The bailiffs?
- Oh, man!
649
00:31:58,949 --> 00:32:01,818
No, no, no, no, we've got
a band called The Bailiffs.
650
00:32:01,852 --> 00:32:02,853
No, no, no, no.
651
00:32:03,886 --> 00:32:05,488
Demos, promos, white labels,
652
00:32:05,521 --> 00:32:08,157
anything you can find
in this box, any value.
653
00:32:08,191 --> 00:32:09,559
TV piece.
654
00:32:10,126 --> 00:32:11,494
Hey!
655
00:32:11,527 --> 00:32:12,596
Later.
656
00:32:18,901 --> 00:32:21,138
Uh, you're Alan McGee?
657
00:32:21,171 --> 00:32:23,708
As I live and breathe.
658
00:32:25,042 --> 00:32:27,545
Demos, promos, white labels.
659
00:32:28,645 --> 00:32:30,713
Worth a fortune.
660
00:32:30,747 --> 00:32:33,851
Sorry, boys, just on the phone
to New York closing a deal.
661
00:32:33,883 --> 00:32:37,253
Got a band that are gonna be
bigger than U2, unbelievable!
662
00:32:37,286 --> 00:32:41,158
- How much was it again?
- £400.
663
00:32:41,191 --> 00:32:42,392
Nae sweat.
664
00:32:44,894 --> 00:32:45,930
Uno.
665
00:32:45,962 --> 00:32:47,297
Dos. Tres.
666
00:32:47,331 --> 00:32:49,933
Go on, Dick.
At this rate, how long?
667
00:32:49,967 --> 00:32:52,201
How long can we survive?
668
00:32:52,236 --> 00:32:53,337
At this rate?
669
00:32:53,370 --> 00:32:55,573
Alan, we're already dead.
670
00:32:55,605 --> 00:32:57,507
You know,
on a long enough timeline,
671
00:32:57,540 --> 00:32:59,943
the survival rate
of most things is zero.
672
00:32:59,977 --> 00:33:02,345
Shut up, Ed. How long?
673
00:33:02,379 --> 00:33:06,049
If we can somehow maintain
this line of credit
674
00:33:06,083 --> 00:33:07,884
- we've got about a month.
- Month?
675
00:33:08,818 --> 00:33:10,786
It's not bad, we can fix it.
676
00:33:10,821 --> 00:33:13,157
Rome was built in a month.
677
00:33:13,190 --> 00:33:14,825
That's not exactly the same.
678
00:33:14,857 --> 00:33:16,425
Shut up, Ed.
679
00:33:16,459 --> 00:33:19,162
We'll have to postpone
the next release, just fuck it.
680
00:33:19,196 --> 00:33:21,265
We do that, we're not
a record label anymore.
681
00:33:21,297 --> 00:33:24,367
Well, I mean,
how could things get any worse?
682
00:33:24,401 --> 00:33:26,203
I'm pregnant, Alan.
683
00:33:27,371 --> 00:33:29,806
You see, by then, me and Yvonne
had already split up.
684
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:31,875
But we hooked up one night
on the rebound
685
00:33:31,908 --> 00:33:34,111
and she got knocked up,
686
00:33:34,144 --> 00:33:35,746
so, we're separated.
687
00:33:35,779 --> 00:33:38,782
It doesn't look like we're gonna
get back together, does it, so...
688
00:33:42,719 --> 00:33:45,488
Get a fucking grip,
you stupid ginger gargoyle.
689
00:33:45,521 --> 00:33:47,157
See, Yvonne had had enough
690
00:33:47,190 --> 00:33:48,357
of the all-nighters
691
00:33:48,392 --> 00:33:50,927
and the bands crashing over,
and poverty.
692
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:53,163
She was having a baby
and all of that was gonna stop,
693
00:33:53,197 --> 00:33:54,799
whether I liked it or not.
694
00:33:54,832 --> 00:33:56,266
And pretty rude about it.
695
00:33:56,299 --> 00:33:57,633
You horrible goblin.
696
00:33:57,667 --> 00:34:00,237
So, you just weren't ready
to be a father?
697
00:34:00,270 --> 00:34:01,771
I had no say.
698
00:34:01,805 --> 00:34:02,940
I'm keeping it.
699
00:34:02,972 --> 00:34:04,307
You have no fucking option.
700
00:34:04,341 --> 00:34:07,644
The truth is we'd drifted apart.
701
00:34:07,678 --> 00:34:09,714
You can't afford to divorce me.
702
00:34:10,314 --> 00:34:11,882
You've got no choice, pal.
703
00:34:12,649 --> 00:34:14,851
But see if she'd said something,
704
00:34:14,884 --> 00:34:16,053
anything at all,
705
00:34:16,085 --> 00:34:18,589
begged me to stay, I would have.
706
00:34:20,390 --> 00:34:22,691
But when someone tells me
I don't have a fucking option,
707
00:34:22,725 --> 00:34:25,094
that's when I'm
at my absolute worst.
708
00:34:25,127 --> 00:34:27,363
I've got to prove them wrong.
709
00:34:27,397 --> 00:34:31,402
So, you guys split, divorced?
710
00:34:31,435 --> 00:34:34,538
Yeah, she kept the poxy semi,
gave birth to Daniel.
711
00:34:34,571 --> 00:34:38,241
Met someone else,
you know, good man.
712
00:34:38,274 --> 00:34:39,743
Bit of a boring cunt, mind.
713
00:34:40,109 --> 00:34:42,145
Waiter!
714
00:34:42,178 --> 00:34:43,881
So now,
I was officially single.
715
00:34:43,913 --> 00:34:45,882
- Thatcher's a Nazi.
- Yeah.
716
00:34:49,152 --> 00:34:51,254
- Disgrace to feminism.
- Yes!
717
00:34:51,288 --> 00:34:53,123
Free to make
an absolute twat out of myself
718
00:34:53,156 --> 00:34:54,457
at any opportunity.
719
00:34:54,491 --> 00:34:57,962
Turns out I went
to the doctors and it was piles.
720
00:34:57,995 --> 00:34:59,261
Yes!
721
00:35:00,596 --> 00:35:01,865
Bobby!
722
00:35:03,334 --> 00:35:05,268
Oh, fuck off.
723
00:35:05,301 --> 00:35:07,238
Ah! We, we played a fundraiser
724
00:35:07,270 --> 00:35:09,305
for the striking miners
last week.
725
00:35:09,339 --> 00:35:11,374
A fundraiser?
726
00:35:11,408 --> 00:35:12,843
Yeah, we raised a few quid,
didn't we, Ed?
727
00:35:12,875 --> 00:35:16,312
Fundraising isn't gonna help
the oppressed of this country.
728
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,716
You have to be
out there, rioting.
729
00:35:19,748 --> 00:35:21,685
Yeah, but that's never
gonna happen, is it?
730
00:35:21,718 --> 00:35:22,719
Oh.
731
00:35:22,752 --> 00:35:24,254
What do you mean?
Of course, it's gonna happen.
732
00:35:24,288 --> 00:35:26,022
Look at the Sandinistas
and Nicaragua.
733
00:35:26,056 --> 00:35:27,390
Yes!
734
00:35:27,424 --> 00:35:29,292
I'm right behind
the Sandinistas,
735
00:35:29,326 --> 00:35:31,361
but there's kids
going without food
736
00:35:31,393 --> 00:35:33,263
in those mining villages
in Yorkshire.
737
00:35:33,296 --> 00:35:36,200
What a bourgeois thing to say.
738
00:35:36,232 --> 00:35:39,068
Stick to making
your little records.
739
00:35:39,102 --> 00:35:41,272
Yeah, fuck off, go on.
740
00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:43,473
Stay away from politics.
741
00:35:44,975 --> 00:35:46,377
Thanks a fucking bunch, boys.
742
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:48,011
Man! She's right.
743
00:35:50,948 --> 00:35:55,319
♪ Up and away
in the cold light of day
744
00:35:55,352 --> 00:35:57,488
♪ Up and away
745
00:35:59,455 --> 00:36:00,856
♪ Up and away
746
00:36:00,890 --> 00:36:02,392
- ♪ In the cold light of day
- You alright, Mary?
747
00:36:02,424 --> 00:36:04,227
Aye, I'm good, and you?
748
00:36:04,261 --> 00:36:05,495
Still teaching?
749
00:36:05,529 --> 00:36:07,565
Aye, primary school.
750
00:36:08,464 --> 00:36:10,033
I can handle
the little school kids.
751
00:36:11,268 --> 00:36:12,436
Keep up the good work, eh?
752
00:36:12,468 --> 00:36:14,403
Children are our future.
753
00:36:51,642 --> 00:36:52,942
Alright?
754
00:36:52,977 --> 00:36:55,879
Please allow me
to introduce myself.
755
00:36:55,913 --> 00:37:00,484
The name is Aleister,
but you can call me Al.
756
00:37:00,517 --> 00:37:04,020
That's a song title
if I ever heard one.
757
00:37:04,053 --> 00:37:07,390
Ideas are everywhere.
758
00:37:07,424 --> 00:37:11,829
You have only to reach out
and grab them.
759
00:37:26,475 --> 00:37:30,546
Who is Aleister Crowley?
760
00:37:30,580 --> 00:37:32,748
Aleister Crowley,
author of The Book of Thelema
761
00:37:32,781 --> 00:37:36,452
do what thou wilt, the cultist
and prophet. My hero!
762
00:37:36,486 --> 00:37:39,957
Famous poet, magician, artist.
763
00:37:39,989 --> 00:37:44,495
Your father
has a particular mind.
764
00:37:44,527 --> 00:37:49,165
He only wants what
he believes is best for you.
765
00:37:49,498 --> 00:37:50,567
Oh, yeah!
766
00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,002
The Stones
wrote that song about him.
767
00:37:53,036 --> 00:37:53,969
That's right.
768
00:37:54,002 --> 00:37:57,207
I once slept with faith
and found a corpse
769
00:37:57,239 --> 00:37:59,176
in my arms when I awoke.
770
00:38:00,643 --> 00:38:05,982
And yet another night,
I drank and danced with doubt
771
00:38:06,015 --> 00:38:09,852
and found her a virgin
in the morning.
772
00:38:09,886 --> 00:38:12,722
They called him
the wickedest man in the world.
773
00:38:16,493 --> 00:38:18,395
He was into child sacrifice.
774
00:38:18,428 --> 00:38:20,263
No, that's a myth.
775
00:38:20,296 --> 00:38:21,431
He was really talking about...
776
00:38:22,832 --> 00:38:23,968
You know...
777
00:38:26,303 --> 00:38:27,437
Wanking.
778
00:38:27,469 --> 00:38:31,509
I was wrong
and handled the narcotics.
779
00:38:32,509 --> 00:38:34,178
Get to fuck.
780
00:38:37,413 --> 00:38:38,614
Calm down.
781
00:38:41,317 --> 00:38:42,453
Who's he talking to?
782
00:38:42,486 --> 00:38:43,687
Anyone that'll listen.
783
00:38:43,719 --> 00:38:47,357
Anyone of an independent mind
784
00:38:47,390 --> 00:38:50,861
must be one
who resists authority.
785
00:38:53,462 --> 00:38:55,899
A rebel, rebel, rebel, rebel.
786
00:38:57,634 --> 00:39:03,607
Take my advice, young man,
let go of your past.
787
00:39:06,609 --> 00:39:09,445
Well, let's round it up
to a nice even number then.
788
00:39:09,478 --> 00:39:11,013
I'll pay you for five next time.
789
00:39:11,047 --> 00:39:13,650
Stay on the path
you have chosen.
790
00:39:13,683 --> 00:39:15,686
♪ Rise you make me ♪
791
00:39:15,718 --> 00:39:20,022
If enough people
agree with and follow the rebel,
792
00:39:20,056 --> 00:39:25,429
then we finally
achieve greatness.
793
00:39:27,029 --> 00:39:29,899
Crowley was right,
we were rebels.
794
00:39:29,933 --> 00:39:32,435
So what if you are
going out of business.
795
00:39:32,468 --> 00:39:34,605
We keep doing what we did best,
796
00:39:34,638 --> 00:39:35,739
signing bands
797
00:39:35,772 --> 00:39:37,340
that were fucking genius.
798
00:39:57,192 --> 00:40:00,797
We keep running till the wheels
fall off the fucking bus.
799
00:40:02,332 --> 00:40:03,500
Here's to excess!
800
00:40:03,533 --> 00:40:05,468
Apparently it leads to
the Palace of Wisdom.
801
00:40:05,502 --> 00:40:06,902
William Blake?
802
00:40:06,935 --> 00:40:08,404
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
803
00:40:08,437 --> 00:40:11,107
He might have been describing
the entertainment industry.
804
00:40:11,808 --> 00:40:13,676
How do you keep the label going?
805
00:40:13,710 --> 00:40:16,413
I have a dream,
we can do this, boys.
806
00:40:16,446 --> 00:40:19,482
Well, I gave that speech
about tightening belts,
807
00:40:19,515 --> 00:40:21,117
squeezing money
out of every angle.
808
00:40:21,151 --> 00:40:24,388
Facing the record pluggers,
stepping up fly posting.
809
00:40:24,421 --> 00:40:27,658
Fight of our lives,
all that fanny, and then Ed.
810
00:40:27,690 --> 00:40:29,959
Of all people, Ed pipes up.
811
00:40:31,460 --> 00:40:32,830
Or...
812
00:40:32,863 --> 00:40:35,565
Margaret Thatcher had
introduced this thing called
813
00:40:35,598 --> 00:40:37,066
The Enterprise Allowance Scheme
814
00:40:37,100 --> 00:40:38,435
under
the Conservative Government
815
00:40:38,468 --> 00:40:42,071
allows you to have £40
a week extra, it's free money.
816
00:40:42,105 --> 00:40:43,574
Whoever thought I'd be grateful
817
00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:44,641
to this fucking witch.
818
00:40:44,674 --> 00:40:47,044
Only joking,
this bit never happened.
819
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:51,381
You were running
Creation Records
820
00:40:51,413 --> 00:40:53,716
on £40 a week each?
821
00:40:54,585 --> 00:40:56,787
We were the coolest label
on the planet
822
00:40:56,819 --> 00:40:58,821
and running on empty.
823
00:41:01,658 --> 00:41:03,826
Why has he got
such a way with women?
824
00:41:04,761 --> 00:41:06,563
- You know why?
- Go on.
825
00:41:06,596 --> 00:41:09,266
'Cause he listens,
or rather he pretends to.
826
00:41:09,299 --> 00:41:10,734
It's a bad example, yeah.
827
00:41:10,767 --> 00:41:12,602
Where the fuck have you been?
828
00:41:12,634 --> 00:41:14,069
But what's the point in that?
829
00:41:14,103 --> 00:41:16,272
I mean, look at her, she's not
gonna have sex with him, is she?
830
00:41:16,306 --> 00:41:18,575
Got more chance than you have
talking to Male Silly Bollocks
831
00:41:18,607 --> 00:41:19,676
dancing with himself.
832
00:41:19,710 --> 00:41:22,079
That's what's brilliant
about it.
833
00:41:22,111 --> 00:41:24,580
Lovely talking to you, darling,
sorry your boyfriend's a tosser.
834
00:41:24,614 --> 00:41:27,751
Hey, big day tomorrow. Yeah?
835
00:41:27,783 --> 00:41:29,819
It's fine, I know
what I'm doing, piece of piss.
836
00:41:29,852 --> 00:41:31,788
Are you sure you don't
want me to come with you?
837
00:41:36,794 --> 00:41:38,627
Uh, excuse me?
838
00:41:38,661 --> 00:41:40,696
Alan fucking McGee.
839
00:41:40,730 --> 00:41:42,565
I'm not gonna
bullshit you, man,
840
00:41:42,598 --> 00:41:43,700
there's no need.
841
00:41:43,732 --> 00:41:45,167
You know what we do,
842
00:41:45,201 --> 00:41:47,705
and you know
we're fucking good at it.
843
00:41:49,538 --> 00:41:51,107
Let's face it, Al,
844
00:41:51,140 --> 00:41:55,344
you have got a very,
very cool record label.
845
00:41:55,377 --> 00:41:57,513
And with us behind you,
846
00:41:57,547 --> 00:41:59,717
you could become
a very wealthy man.
847
00:42:01,884 --> 00:42:06,221
So, we are owned
by a corporation,
848
00:42:06,254 --> 00:42:09,658
but they let us do
what we like, you know?
849
00:42:09,692 --> 00:42:11,160
The bean counters
just leave us alone
850
00:42:11,194 --> 00:42:13,596
to get on and make great
rock and roll records.
851
00:42:13,629 --> 00:42:16,565
- Great!
- Good, yeah, fuck!
852
00:42:16,598 --> 00:42:18,234
Yeah, bottom line.
853
00:42:18,268 --> 00:42:22,172
I'm just like you, Al,
a maverick.
854
00:42:22,205 --> 00:42:25,942
Difference is,
I do my thing on the inside,
855
00:42:25,975 --> 00:42:27,911
that's the only way
to get results.
856
00:42:30,480 --> 00:42:31,782
Are you sure? Okay.
857
00:42:31,814 --> 00:42:34,784
People say to me, "Hey, Mitch,
you used to have that
858
00:42:34,817 --> 00:42:36,819
real cool record label,
what happened?"
859
00:42:36,852 --> 00:42:39,489
And I say to them,
"Well, really cool is great,
860
00:42:39,522 --> 00:42:42,392
but it didn't get me
that Chateau in the Ardennes."
861
00:42:43,893 --> 00:42:47,196
Or that Primrose Hill postcode,
you know what I mean?
862
00:42:47,230 --> 00:42:48,931
I've got
a vivid imagination.
863
00:42:48,964 --> 00:42:51,901
Everyone wants to get rich, Al.
864
00:42:51,933 --> 00:42:53,935
And if that means
getting fucked in the arse
865
00:42:53,969 --> 00:42:57,839
every once in a while, so what?
866
00:42:57,873 --> 00:43:00,042
It hurts, initially!
867
00:43:01,743 --> 00:43:03,412
But it's the kind of pain
you forget.
868
00:43:05,616 --> 00:43:06,917
Like childbirth.
869
00:43:07,551 --> 00:43:08,951
You alright, Al?
870
00:43:09,618 --> 00:43:10,754
Sorry? Yes.
871
00:43:10,786 --> 00:43:13,223
Uh, what were you saying?
872
00:43:13,256 --> 00:43:17,259
I was saying,
have we got a deal?
873
00:43:17,292 --> 00:43:22,230
Corporate
always fucks what's cool.
874
00:43:22,265 --> 00:43:24,301
Wait a minute,
you turned down a deal
875
00:43:24,334 --> 00:43:27,303
from a major record company
and went to a loan shark?
876
00:43:27,337 --> 00:43:30,340
Yeah! See, corporations
want to own you forever.
877
00:43:30,372 --> 00:43:32,241
The loan shark
just wants his money back.
878
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,710
It's a more honest transaction.
You don't pay them...
879
00:43:34,743 --> 00:43:37,314
We break your fucking legs.
880
00:43:37,346 --> 00:43:40,683
But eventually, you did
sign with a corporation.
881
00:43:40,716 --> 00:43:43,586
Eventually,
but on our own terms.
882
00:43:43,620 --> 00:43:44,821
We weren't doing it
for ourselves,
883
00:43:44,855 --> 00:43:46,156
we were doing it for the bands.
884
00:43:46,189 --> 00:43:47,957
We had a couple of
indie hits in the charts,
885
00:43:47,991 --> 00:43:50,193
I paid them back
and we were flying again.
886
00:43:50,225 --> 00:43:52,161
See, fuck that mullet cunt!
887
00:43:52,194 --> 00:43:54,730
I didn't need a chateau
in the Ardennes,
888
00:43:54,763 --> 00:43:56,532
whatever the fuck that is.
889
00:43:56,565 --> 00:43:58,968
All I needed was
some mothers' little helpers,
890
00:43:59,002 --> 00:44:01,705
Dixies, Damies,
891
00:44:01,738 --> 00:44:03,739
Bobbys, Bennys,
892
00:44:03,774 --> 00:44:05,709
Charlies, Farlies,
893
00:44:05,741 --> 00:44:07,042
Jellys, Fannys,
894
00:44:07,076 --> 00:44:09,245
Red Devils, Black Bombers,
Purple Hearts,
895
00:44:09,277 --> 00:44:11,314
Special Teas,
a wee bit of Les.
896
00:44:12,013 --> 00:44:15,785
Everything was absolutely fine.
897
00:44:20,457 --> 00:44:23,359
Exactly how long has he been
in the fucking studio?
898
00:44:23,393 --> 00:44:25,595
Which studio?
This is their fifth.
899
00:44:25,629 --> 00:44:27,497
Kevin Shields is a genius.
900
00:44:27,529 --> 00:44:28,732
Shut up, Ed!
901
00:44:28,765 --> 00:44:30,065
He's absolutely killing us!
902
00:44:30,098 --> 00:44:33,035
You know we're already up to
£250,000 in a recording.
903
00:44:33,069 --> 00:44:34,837
He'll fucking ruin us.
904
00:44:34,870 --> 00:44:36,906
There's no fucking end in sight.
905
00:44:37,940 --> 00:44:41,276
Hey Joe,
you get yourself down there,
906
00:44:41,310 --> 00:44:43,013
get on the desk,
you're a brilliant engineer.
907
00:44:43,046 --> 00:44:44,948
You can get this fucking
mixed by the end of the week.
908
00:44:44,980 --> 00:44:46,049
He won't let me near him.
909
00:44:46,082 --> 00:44:47,683
He's not even
returning our calls.
910
00:44:47,716 --> 00:44:49,285
He's got this sonic vision.
911
00:44:49,319 --> 00:44:50,387
Shut up, Ed.
912
00:44:50,419 --> 00:44:51,687
He'll have a fucking hole
in his head when I'm done.
913
00:44:51,721 --> 00:44:54,556
I've had to re-mortgage
my own house.
914
00:44:54,589 --> 00:44:56,392
- Jesus.
- I know.
915
00:44:56,426 --> 00:44:57,995
You own a house?
916
00:44:58,794 --> 00:45:00,363
I don't need this shit!
917
00:45:00,397 --> 00:45:03,065
My mother's sick
and I've got a money-spunking
918
00:45:03,098 --> 00:45:05,167
mad, fucking genius
who won't return calls.
919
00:45:05,201 --> 00:45:06,602
Fuck this!
920
00:45:17,814 --> 00:45:19,382
Excuse me, Sir, can I help?
921
00:45:19,915 --> 00:45:21,651
I'm here to see my band.
922
00:45:21,683 --> 00:45:22,952
Which band?
923
00:45:23,687 --> 00:45:25,721
My Bloody Valentine.
924
00:45:25,756 --> 00:45:28,058
Oh, right, yeah.
Uh, are you Alan McGee?
925
00:45:28,091 --> 00:45:29,960
Yeah, can you let me in, pal?
926
00:45:29,993 --> 00:45:32,027
Well, I've been instructed
not to.
927
00:45:32,060 --> 00:45:35,966
Instructed not to
instructed by whom?
928
00:45:35,998 --> 00:45:37,567
The band, Mr. Shields.
929
00:45:38,902 --> 00:45:40,871
Fuck off, jobsworth!
930
00:45:40,904 --> 00:45:42,872
Who do you think's paying
for this fucking studio?
931
00:45:42,906 --> 00:45:45,007
Who do you think's paying
your fucking wages?
932
00:45:45,040 --> 00:45:46,975
Now get in there
and drag that slippery cunt
933
00:45:47,009 --> 00:45:49,678
out here now, Kevin!
934
00:45:49,712 --> 00:45:51,714
If you don't calm down, Sir,
I will have to call the police.
935
00:45:51,747 --> 00:45:55,051
Aye, good idea, call them.
I want to report a robbery.
936
00:45:55,085 --> 00:45:58,421
That's my fucking name,
you've had everything I've got.
937
00:45:58,453 --> 00:46:01,356
Of course, he's a genius,
but two years?
938
00:46:01,390 --> 00:46:02,792
It's not the money
but I suppose it is.
939
00:46:02,826 --> 00:46:04,093
It's gonna cost us
half a million.
940
00:46:04,127 --> 00:46:07,297
But what really hurts
is that we believed in him
941
00:46:07,330 --> 00:46:08,864
and he treats us like this.
942
00:46:08,897 --> 00:46:10,432
I know the man's
a sonic pioneer.
943
00:46:10,466 --> 00:46:12,167
I know
he's pushing the envelope.
944
00:46:12,201 --> 00:46:14,770
I know he's making
futuristic music
945
00:46:14,805 --> 00:46:17,306
but the problem is, by the time
we get to release it,
946
00:46:17,339 --> 00:46:19,608
the future will be
a distant fucking memory.
947
00:46:19,642 --> 00:46:21,977
We'll all be long dead,
I'm not a philistine,
948
00:46:22,011 --> 00:46:23,546
I know art takes time,
but come on, man,
949
00:46:23,580 --> 00:46:26,716
two weeks to master one track,
two fucking weeks.
950
00:46:26,748 --> 00:46:28,884
Oh, cheers, pal, if you can
just drop me here, that's great.
951
00:46:28,917 --> 00:46:29,986
We're not a taxi service.
952
00:46:30,018 --> 00:46:31,154
That's perfect, thanks.
953
00:46:33,857 --> 00:46:35,424
Not for me,
a load of fucking shit.
954
00:46:35,457 --> 00:46:38,527
But from every negative
comes a positive.
955
00:46:39,194 --> 00:46:41,430
What the fuck is this place?
956
00:46:41,464 --> 00:46:43,100
It's where
the young blokes hang.
957
00:46:44,132 --> 00:46:46,002
This is my scene, man.
958
00:46:46,035 --> 00:46:48,305
- Ooh, nice.
- Thanks.
959
00:46:49,672 --> 00:46:51,174
This is Alan, Alan, Bez.
960
00:46:56,111 --> 00:46:58,980
They called it acid house
961
00:46:59,015 --> 00:47:01,017
and I appreciated the energy.
962
00:47:03,118 --> 00:47:04,520
What are you...
What are you drinking?
963
00:47:05,355 --> 00:47:06,690
What's that?
964
00:47:11,093 --> 00:47:12,561
What is it?
965
00:47:13,029 --> 00:47:14,163
Ecstasy.
966
00:47:14,196 --> 00:47:16,466
No one
was drinking, just water.
967
00:47:16,832 --> 00:47:18,033
Hydration.
968
00:47:18,067 --> 00:47:19,736
I fucking hate water.
969
00:47:21,937 --> 00:47:23,839
Give it 20 minutes.
970
00:47:23,873 --> 00:47:26,042
But it was
when ecstasy kicked in
971
00:47:26,076 --> 00:47:28,445
that I really fucking got it.
972
00:47:28,477 --> 00:47:34,216
See, in the old days, it was
cheap speed made in bathtubs.
973
00:47:34,250 --> 00:47:38,187
Or prescription uppers,
Dixies, Bombers,
974
00:47:38,219 --> 00:47:40,622
both of which are
pretty anti-social.
975
00:47:40,656 --> 00:47:43,960
And nobody could afford cocaine,
that was far too chic.
976
00:47:43,993 --> 00:47:48,731
But this stuff, E's,
cheap and friendly.
977
00:47:48,765 --> 00:47:50,967
A revelation and a revolution.
978
00:48:01,044 --> 00:48:03,580
It all became clear
in that instant,
979
00:48:03,613 --> 00:48:06,482
pop culture never dies.
980
00:48:06,982 --> 00:48:09,084
It reincarnates.
981
00:48:09,118 --> 00:48:12,154
Everything was
going to be alright.
982
00:49:36,138 --> 00:49:38,173
The future has arrived, Ed,
983
00:49:38,207 --> 00:49:40,810
we gotta get Bobby
into this, Gillespie,
984
00:49:40,843 --> 00:49:42,344
he'll fucking love it, man!
985
00:49:42,377 --> 00:49:44,580
And then, Ed, again
of all people, Ed pipes up.
986
00:49:44,614 --> 00:49:46,716
We should put acid records out.
987
00:49:46,748 --> 00:49:49,250
Ed, you're a genius, man,
yeah, definitely.
988
00:49:49,285 --> 00:49:51,254
I'm telling you, man,
I've got it all planned.
989
00:49:51,286 --> 00:49:52,422
Definitely.
990
00:49:52,455 --> 00:49:54,857
We can start sampling
bits of film, Alan,
991
00:49:54,890 --> 00:49:57,661
and I know all the DJs.
992
00:50:05,067 --> 00:50:06,803
What's this beat
you're spinning, mate?
993
00:50:06,835 --> 00:50:07,904
It's great.
994
00:50:07,937 --> 00:50:09,339
It's a dishwasher.
995
00:50:10,939 --> 00:50:13,775
All these records that
we're gonna be putting out, eh?
996
00:50:13,810 --> 00:50:16,413
Where the fuck are we
gonna find the acts, eh?
997
00:50:17,946 --> 00:50:19,215
Manchester.
998
00:50:20,149 --> 00:50:22,218
- Manchester?
- Yeah.
999
00:50:25,855 --> 00:50:28,757
If I ordered a chicken
sandwich and an egg sandwich,
1000
00:50:28,792 --> 00:50:30,593
which one do you reckon
will come first?
1001
00:50:30,625 --> 00:50:31,727
What?
1002
00:50:53,750 --> 00:50:55,851
Alan!
Is he in here, where's Alan?
1003
00:50:55,884 --> 00:50:57,285
Is he alone?
1004
00:50:57,319 --> 00:50:58,555
You know what?
1005
00:51:00,189 --> 00:51:01,223
He's gone.
1006
00:51:01,256 --> 00:51:02,925
He's gone where?
1007
00:51:04,294 --> 00:51:06,029
Alan, he's gone.
1008
00:51:07,196 --> 00:51:08,698
What do you mean, gone?
1009
00:51:09,198 --> 00:51:10,767
Gone to Manchester.
1010
00:51:11,468 --> 00:51:13,036
What, for a meeting?
1011
00:51:14,870 --> 00:51:17,305
Alan feels like
he needs to be submerged
1012
00:51:17,339 --> 00:51:19,009
in the waters of acid house.
1013
00:51:20,375 --> 00:51:22,078
I wonder where he got that from.
1014
00:51:22,111 --> 00:51:23,411
It's him and his fucking
silly bollocks.
1015
00:51:23,446 --> 00:51:25,681
Alan doesn't need to be
in Manchester.
1016
00:51:25,714 --> 00:51:27,182
He needs to be
in London with us.
1017
00:51:27,216 --> 00:51:29,419
Running this
record label, remember?
1018
00:51:29,451 --> 00:51:31,921
Good luck trying to
get him back, Dick.
1019
00:51:31,953 --> 00:51:33,989
Much better drugs up there.
1020
00:51:34,022 --> 00:51:36,526
Yeah, how is it little fishes
can swim with the big sharks
1021
00:51:36,558 --> 00:51:38,194
and not get eaten, huh?
1022
00:51:38,227 --> 00:51:39,928
Faster, more nimble.
1023
00:51:39,962 --> 00:51:42,798
I could be like BMG,
they're a great white.
1024
00:51:43,732 --> 00:51:45,834
You notice a scene
rising up an A&R,
1025
00:51:45,868 --> 00:51:48,904
arsehole has to take it
to an executive arsehole,
1026
00:51:48,937 --> 00:51:51,039
who's got to take it
to the chairman arsehole,
1027
00:51:51,073 --> 00:51:53,509
and if they agree, they take it
to the lawyer arseholes.
1028
00:51:53,542 --> 00:51:54,677
And when that's done,
1029
00:51:54,710 --> 00:51:55,845
they all go to
their marketing arseholes
1030
00:51:55,877 --> 00:51:57,379
and, when everyone's
got their fingers
1031
00:51:57,413 --> 00:51:58,748
out of each other's arseholes,
they might sign a band.
1032
00:51:58,781 --> 00:52:01,049
And by then, everyone's
missed the fucking boat.
1033
00:52:01,082 --> 00:52:04,586
With Creation, it was just me,
and I'm at the scene.
1034
00:52:04,620 --> 00:52:07,589
I had first choice.
I had the artist signed,
1035
00:52:07,623 --> 00:52:10,024
recorded, pressed,
and spinning in clubs
1036
00:52:10,058 --> 00:52:14,930
before the corporates could
open a bottle of chardonnay.
1037
00:52:28,176 --> 00:52:29,778
You left your business,
1038
00:52:29,812 --> 00:52:32,314
all your stuff,
without any warning.
1039
00:52:32,348 --> 00:52:34,017
Yeah, well,
that's rock and roll.
1040
00:52:34,049 --> 00:52:35,951
It was just like grab a bag
1041
00:52:35,984 --> 00:52:38,421
and fuck off someplace,
no planning, no packing.
1042
00:52:38,453 --> 00:52:39,488
Shite like that
1043
00:52:39,522 --> 00:52:41,090
- just vanish.
- No, not when you have
1044
00:52:41,122 --> 00:52:42,124
a business.
1045
00:52:43,392 --> 00:52:44,727
The boys all had it
under control.
1046
00:52:44,761 --> 00:52:50,100
Besides, when I got back,
I was totally rejuvenated.
1047
00:52:50,132 --> 00:52:52,368
I need that Polygram
contract now!
1048
00:52:52,401 --> 00:52:53,703
We were a solvent business,
1049
00:52:53,736 --> 00:52:55,504
flying by the seat
of our leather pants, maybe.
1050
00:52:55,538 --> 00:52:56,972
But getting away with it.
1051
00:52:57,006 --> 00:52:59,709
These guys are gonna be
bigger than U2, ya cunt.
1052
00:53:00,643 --> 00:53:01,711
No,
1053
00:53:01,743 --> 00:53:04,012
but I've got it in front of me
in black and white.
1054
00:53:04,046 --> 00:53:05,381
Creation Records?
1055
00:53:05,413 --> 00:53:07,182
- What?
- Alan McGee?
1056
00:53:07,216 --> 00:53:08,283
McGee?
1057
00:53:08,317 --> 00:53:09,385
That's me.
1058
00:53:15,390 --> 00:53:18,760
Ed! Ed! Help me out here!
1059
00:53:18,794 --> 00:53:20,161
Girls.
1060
00:53:20,194 --> 00:53:22,463
Teenage Fanclub are now my band.
1061
00:53:22,497 --> 00:53:24,332
I will ring him
the fuck again, then.
1062
00:53:33,042 --> 00:53:34,177
Hello?
1063
00:53:34,210 --> 00:53:37,079
♪ I know I can't believe ♪
1064
00:53:37,111 --> 00:53:39,014
Yeah, I'll be right up.
1065
00:53:39,047 --> 00:53:41,383
Get me a flight to Glasgow!
1066
00:53:41,417 --> 00:53:43,953
No, no, a flight tomorrow's
no good.
1067
00:53:43,986 --> 00:53:45,922
Hey, pal,
can you drive me to Glasgow?
1068
00:53:45,955 --> 00:53:47,123
Glasgow?
1069
00:53:48,390 --> 00:53:49,925
Mate, mate! Hold the train.
1070
00:53:49,959 --> 00:53:50,826
Calm down, son,
1071
00:53:50,859 --> 00:53:52,493
there's another one
in half an hour.
1072
00:53:52,527 --> 00:53:53,930
Thank fuck for that.
1073
00:53:53,962 --> 00:53:56,498
It's the sleeper, mind,
but you'll still get there.
1074
00:53:56,531 --> 00:53:57,565
The sleeper?
1075
00:54:02,370 --> 00:54:03,672
Fuck!
1076
00:54:05,306 --> 00:54:06,609
Fuck!
1077
00:54:20,089 --> 00:54:21,090
Susie!
1078
00:54:21,890 --> 00:54:23,058
Laura!
1079
00:54:27,363 --> 00:54:28,797
She's gone.
1080
00:54:30,533 --> 00:54:32,401
I tried,
I couldn't get a flight.
1081
00:54:32,435 --> 00:54:34,170
- It's alright, Alan.
- I tried.
1082
00:54:34,203 --> 00:54:35,605
I couldn't get a flight.
1083
00:54:38,473 --> 00:54:41,076
It's okay, darling,
you're here now.
1084
00:54:41,109 --> 00:54:42,477
You're here for the funeral.
1085
00:54:45,314 --> 00:54:46,616
Come on.
1086
00:55:02,797 --> 00:55:05,801
- What song was that?
- I just... I just made it up.
1087
00:55:05,835 --> 00:55:08,570
You just made it up?
Do you know anything I know?
1088
00:55:08,603 --> 00:55:10,839
I don't...
I don't think so.
1089
00:55:10,872 --> 00:55:12,774
I'm sure you get this
1090
00:55:12,808 --> 00:55:13,843
from my side
of the family though.
1091
00:55:13,875 --> 00:55:15,343
I'm sure it's not your dad's.
1092
00:55:15,377 --> 00:55:16,545
Oh, God no.
1093
00:55:16,578 --> 00:55:18,946
You keep practicing, son,
you keep practicing.
1094
00:55:18,980 --> 00:55:20,582
Aye.
1095
00:55:20,616 --> 00:55:22,485
You're gonna be
a big star one day.
1096
00:55:22,518 --> 00:55:23,920
I hope.
1097
00:55:40,636 --> 00:55:42,904
Alan, I've been saving up,
1098
00:55:42,939 --> 00:55:45,174
just wee bits here and there.
It's not much,
1099
00:55:45,207 --> 00:55:47,009
- but I want you to take it.
- Mom, you don't have to do that.
1100
00:55:47,042 --> 00:55:48,643
I know I don't have to do it,
but I want to do it,
1101
00:55:48,678 --> 00:55:51,580
I want to give you this
so you can go to London
1102
00:55:51,614 --> 00:55:54,684
and get started.
1103
00:55:54,716 --> 00:55:59,854
You follow your dream,
come back a big pop star.
1104
00:55:59,888 --> 00:56:03,158
Show your dad, show everybody.
1105
00:56:03,192 --> 00:56:05,027
That's my boy.
1106
00:56:10,700 --> 00:56:12,734
Oh, you can hammer away
1107
00:56:12,768 --> 00:56:14,070
- all you like.
- Let me in!
1108
00:56:14,102 --> 00:56:17,205
- Let me in!
- No, I will not, John McGee.
1109
00:56:17,239 --> 00:56:19,876
You have got my heart roasted.
1110
00:56:19,908 --> 00:56:22,911
You've laid a hand on
our Alan for the last time!
1111
00:56:22,944 --> 00:56:25,747
You would cause a fight
in an empty fucking house,
1112
00:56:25,781 --> 00:56:28,317
and now you've got me swearing!
1113
00:56:28,350 --> 00:56:30,585
You're just jealous!
1114
00:56:30,620 --> 00:56:33,288
You're just jealous
because Alan's different!
1115
00:56:33,323 --> 00:56:34,489
He's artistic!
1116
00:56:34,522 --> 00:56:39,062
He's got imagination,
and you've got none!
1117
00:56:45,134 --> 00:56:46,402
Yeah.
1118
00:56:51,839 --> 00:56:53,843
Such a shock, you know?
1119
00:56:54,910 --> 00:56:56,745
Thank you so much
for coming over.
1120
00:56:56,777 --> 00:56:57,946
I really appreciate that.
1121
00:57:09,125 --> 00:57:10,092
How are you doing, Alan?
1122
00:57:10,125 --> 00:57:12,794
All right, yeah.
I've got a splitting headache.
1123
00:57:14,395 --> 00:57:15,864
I'll get you some water, okay?
1124
00:57:24,439 --> 00:57:26,207
There you go.
1125
00:57:26,241 --> 00:57:28,844
Taking drugs
at your mother's funeral, eh?
1126
00:57:28,877 --> 00:57:31,314
It's paracetamol,
he's been having headaches.
1127
00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:35,350
Dad, please. Dad. Da.
1128
00:57:40,689 --> 00:57:43,792
They say,
other than losing a child,
1129
00:57:43,826 --> 00:57:46,929
losing your mother
is the worst bereavement,
1130
00:57:46,962 --> 00:57:49,866
and it happens to
nearly all of us.
1131
00:57:49,899 --> 00:57:53,435
I wish it had been that
sour-faced, old coffin dodger
1132
00:57:53,468 --> 00:57:54,869
I was burying.
1133
00:57:54,904 --> 00:57:57,873
Wee ginger bastard.
1134
00:58:20,828 --> 00:58:22,097
How you feeling, mate?
1135
00:58:25,901 --> 00:58:26,935
Sorry about all this.
1136
00:58:26,968 --> 00:58:29,004
I mean,
they insisted on staying.
1137
00:58:29,038 --> 00:58:32,007
I can get rid of them
if you want.
1138
00:58:33,542 --> 00:58:34,877
Let them sleep.
1139
00:58:38,814 --> 00:58:39,982
We were living
the rock and roll
1140
00:58:40,015 --> 00:58:41,650
even more than the bands were.
1141
00:58:41,683 --> 00:58:44,019
Surely that made things
harder to get done?
1142
00:58:44,053 --> 00:58:46,788
No, not really, because
we only did something
1143
00:58:46,821 --> 00:58:49,524
if we really believed in it.
1144
00:58:49,558 --> 00:58:52,794
And somehow,
an album would just,
1145
00:58:52,828 --> 00:58:56,864
like, appear, materialize,
1146
00:58:56,899 --> 00:59:00,069
and suddenly, everything
would just make sense.
1147
00:59:01,803 --> 00:59:04,739
♪ Together as one
1148
00:59:04,772 --> 00:59:06,007
You've fucking done it!
1149
00:59:06,040 --> 00:59:07,843
This is gonna
go down as one of
1150
00:59:07,877 --> 00:59:09,777
the greatest albums
1151
00:59:09,812 --> 00:59:11,013
in rock history!
1152
00:59:11,046 --> 00:59:12,881
And it's my mates from school!
1153
00:59:12,915 --> 00:59:16,119
-
- ♪ Together as one
1154
00:59:17,185 --> 00:59:18,853
Bloody man.
1155
00:59:18,886 --> 00:59:20,823
You're the fucking dude, man!
1156
00:59:20,857 --> 00:59:23,559
Oh! You guys
are gonna be bigger
1157
00:59:23,591 --> 00:59:24,893
than U2!
1158
00:59:24,926 --> 00:59:26,794
Wished that you would have
come to join us here,
1159
00:59:26,828 --> 00:59:28,830
be part of Creation and...
1160
00:59:28,864 --> 00:59:30,766
Oh, fuck that.
1161
00:59:30,799 --> 00:59:31,867
I'm down to one kidney.
1162
00:59:31,901 --> 00:59:33,770
You cunts would have
fucking killed me.
1163
00:59:34,569 --> 00:59:36,138
You off your head?
1164
00:59:37,004 --> 00:59:38,807
I suppose
we were a victim
1165
00:59:38,841 --> 00:59:40,542
of our own success.
1166
00:59:40,575 --> 00:59:42,710
Three international hit albums.
1167
00:59:42,743 --> 00:59:44,512
We'd done amazing by ourselves.
1168
00:59:44,547 --> 00:59:45,948
♪ Come together as one
1169
00:59:45,980 --> 00:59:47,816
But we had
to move forward.
1170
00:59:47,850 --> 00:59:49,852
♪ We are together
1171
00:59:49,884 --> 00:59:51,219
Not for us.
1172
00:59:51,252 --> 00:59:53,555
We owed it to the bands
that stuck with us.
1173
00:59:53,587 --> 00:59:56,993
Acts that would never leave,
but deserved to be heard,
1174
00:59:57,026 --> 00:59:58,060
by the whole world.
1175
00:59:58,093 --> 00:59:59,761
♪ Because together
1176
00:59:59,794 --> 01:00:01,662
♪ We got power
1177
01:00:01,696 --> 01:00:03,564
♪ Apart we got power
1178
01:00:03,598 --> 01:00:07,001
♪ Come together as one
1179
01:00:07,035 --> 01:00:09,004
We had no choice
but to take Sony's money.
1180
01:00:09,038 --> 01:00:10,539
♪ We are together
1181
01:00:13,075 --> 01:00:14,942
♪ Together as one
1182
01:00:14,975 --> 01:00:17,378
It's time
to stop fucking about
1183
01:00:17,413 --> 01:00:18,881
and grow up.
1184
01:00:18,913 --> 01:00:21,783
♪ Today on this program
you will hear
1185
01:00:21,817 --> 01:00:23,051
♪ Gospel
1186
01:00:23,085 --> 01:00:25,353
♪ And rhythm and blues ♪
1187
01:00:25,388 --> 01:00:27,957
So what if we're owned
by a corporation?
1188
01:00:27,989 --> 01:00:29,357
They let us do
pretty much what we liked,
1189
01:00:29,390 --> 01:00:32,560
the bean counters leave us
to get on with making records.
1190
01:00:32,593 --> 01:00:35,897
Yeah, but I'm a maverick.
I'm doing my thing inside...
1191
01:00:35,931 --> 01:00:39,001
No matter how much smoke
they blew up our asses,
1192
01:00:39,033 --> 01:00:41,602
Sony didn't care that we were
the coolest record label
1193
01:00:41,636 --> 01:00:42,970
on the planet.
1194
01:00:43,004 --> 01:00:44,839
And all the critical acclaim
meant fuck all to them.
1195
01:00:44,873 --> 01:00:46,073
We had to deliver a band
1196
01:00:46,107 --> 01:00:47,875
that were gonna sell
multi-millions.
1197
01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:50,779
A band that could
justify their investment.
1198
01:00:50,812 --> 01:00:54,817
♪ I was blind
Now I can see ♪
1199
01:00:54,850 --> 01:00:56,085
See,
I'm a tight bastard.
1200
01:00:56,118 --> 01:00:58,487
That Sunday was
Mom's anniversary,
1201
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:00,589
and I'd gone to visit
my dad and my sisters
1202
01:01:00,622 --> 01:01:01,991
on a cheap, away day return.
1203
01:01:02,024 --> 01:01:04,893
I hadn't packed a bag,
didn't even have a toothbrush.
1204
01:01:07,161 --> 01:01:08,730
What time's the next train?
1205
01:01:08,763 --> 01:01:09,997
Oh, that's it for tonight.
1206
01:01:10,031 --> 01:01:11,767
Next one's 6:00 a.m.
1207
01:01:11,799 --> 01:01:12,935
I'll get this one then.
1208
01:01:12,968 --> 01:01:14,870
- Hold on!
- No! Sorry!
1209
01:01:14,902 --> 01:01:17,138
Oh! You again,
you jobsworth cunt.
1210
01:01:17,172 --> 01:01:18,107
Cunt!
1211
01:01:18,140 --> 01:01:20,009
See, this jobsworth prick.
1212
01:01:20,042 --> 01:01:24,246
This prick didn't know it,
he changed history.
1213
01:01:24,279 --> 01:01:25,881
Fuck!
1214
01:01:25,913 --> 01:01:27,616
Fuck you!
1215
01:01:27,649 --> 01:01:29,050
All right, Susan.
1216
01:01:29,084 --> 01:01:30,852
Yeah, I missed the bloody train.
1217
01:01:30,886 --> 01:01:34,523
I know. Got any plans?
1218
01:01:34,556 --> 01:01:36,158
Well, if you're not sick of
the sight of me,
1219
01:01:36,192 --> 01:01:38,059
I've got 18 Wheeler
playing down at King Tut's.
1220
01:01:38,093 --> 01:01:40,062
Get there early,
check out the support, maybe.
1221
01:01:40,096 --> 01:01:42,664
Oh, come on, Alan.
Dad's never exactly been good
1222
01:01:42,696 --> 01:01:43,931
at showing affection, has he?
1223
01:01:43,964 --> 01:01:45,734
Too late for affection,
1224
01:01:45,768 --> 01:01:47,870
just appreciate
a wee bit of recognition.
1225
01:01:47,902 --> 01:01:49,471
He still thinks
I'm a deluded wee punk.
1226
01:01:49,504 --> 01:01:52,807
He does not. He recognizes
you're doing well.
1227
01:01:52,841 --> 01:01:54,609
He's just torn.
1228
01:01:54,643 --> 01:01:56,012
Torn?
1229
01:01:56,044 --> 01:01:57,912
Aye, he doesn't understand
all this music business stuff.
1230
01:01:57,946 --> 01:01:59,747
He's frightened you're
gonna fall on your arse.
1231
01:01:59,781 --> 01:02:01,049
Ah, see,
he wants me to fall down
1232
01:02:01,082 --> 01:02:02,884
and just stay the fuck down,
1233
01:02:02,917 --> 01:02:04,318
but I keep getting back up.
1234
01:02:04,352 --> 01:02:07,455
He does not. He just wants you
to have a job with security.
1235
01:02:07,489 --> 01:02:10,091
Security?
Talk about delusional.
1236
01:02:10,125 --> 01:02:12,628
I've got a company with Sony,
for fuck's sake.
1237
01:02:12,660 --> 01:02:13,863
Oh, I know.
1238
01:02:13,895 --> 01:02:15,830
You're Thatcher's little
wet dream you, ain't you?
1239
01:02:15,864 --> 01:02:18,134
You're an entrepreneur.
1240
01:02:18,167 --> 01:02:19,968
I don't care
who you're friends with.
1241
01:02:20,002 --> 01:02:21,902
You're not booked.
So you're not playing tonight.
1242
01:02:23,071 --> 01:02:24,239
What, you want a slot?
1243
01:02:24,272 --> 01:02:25,640
I'll give you a fucking slot
in your throat.
1244
01:02:28,977 --> 01:02:30,112
What are you drinking?
1245
01:02:30,145 --> 01:02:32,748
Vodka tonic, please.
I'll get us a seat.
1246
01:02:32,781 --> 01:02:33,982
Fucking cunts.
1247
01:02:36,017 --> 01:02:37,085
Double vodka and tonic,
1248
01:02:37,118 --> 01:02:38,653
double Jack Daniel's
and Coke, please.
1249
01:02:38,687 --> 01:02:39,988
Hey, hey.
1250
01:02:40,020 --> 01:02:41,089
You're Alan McGee.
1251
01:02:41,122 --> 01:02:42,723
Local boy done good.
1252
01:02:42,757 --> 01:02:43,993
What brings you home, pal?
1253
01:02:44,026 --> 01:02:46,161
Oh, just a bit
of family business.
1254
01:02:46,194 --> 01:02:47,796
Any of this lot yours?
1255
01:02:47,830 --> 01:02:49,864
Aye, 18 Wheeler.
1256
01:02:49,897 --> 01:02:51,700
And then my pal, Debbie,
is on support.
1257
01:02:51,734 --> 01:02:53,069
What was that back at the door?
1258
01:02:53,102 --> 01:02:55,971
It's just some Manchester band
giving me some fanny
1259
01:02:56,004 --> 01:02:57,939
about saying they were booked
to play tonight,
1260
01:02:57,973 --> 01:02:59,108
but it's the first
I've heard of it.
1261
01:02:59,140 --> 01:03:01,175
Looked like
it was going to kick off.
1262
01:03:01,210 --> 01:03:02,311
Aye.
1263
01:03:02,343 --> 01:03:04,011
Hope not tonight though,
because I've got no bouncers.
1264
01:03:04,044 --> 01:03:05,146
But don't tell them that.
1265
01:03:05,180 --> 01:03:06,982
Better squeeze them
in somewhere.
1266
01:03:07,015 --> 01:03:08,783
You don't want a bunch of
Manc scallies kicking off.
1267
01:03:08,817 --> 01:03:10,319
Trust me. I lived there.
1268
01:03:10,352 --> 01:03:11,187
I will, Al.
1269
01:03:11,219 --> 01:03:12,754
Gave them 20 minutes.
1270
01:03:12,788 --> 01:03:14,457
Give the DJ time
to go for a shite.
1271
01:03:14,489 --> 01:03:15,924
What they called?
1272
01:03:15,957 --> 01:03:17,325
Oh, it's a crap name, man.
1273
01:03:18,993 --> 01:03:20,261
Oasis.
1274
01:03:26,968 --> 01:03:30,138
Malcolm, Malcolm.
1275
01:03:30,172 --> 01:03:31,774
Go and have a fag.
1276
01:03:32,774 --> 01:03:35,243
It's 20 minutes,
you understand?
1277
01:03:35,277 --> 01:03:40,182
We start proceedings with
a band who should be called
1278
01:03:40,214 --> 01:03:42,852
Fucking Cheeky Bastards.
1279
01:03:42,884 --> 01:03:45,254
I'd like to welcome
to the stage,
1280
01:03:45,286 --> 01:03:46,187
Oasis.
1281
01:03:50,959 --> 01:03:52,361
Get on with it.
1282
01:03:52,393 --> 01:03:54,161
I mean, there's you talking
about the recognition you need
1283
01:03:54,196 --> 01:03:55,864
with your own dad, and you're
not even paying attention
1284
01:03:55,897 --> 01:03:57,298
to your own wain.
1285
01:03:58,067 --> 01:03:59,268
He's just a kid,
1286
01:03:59,301 --> 01:04:01,303
and that's your family.
1287
01:04:01,335 --> 01:04:03,906
Dad's got a grandson
he doesn't even see.
1288
01:04:03,939 --> 01:04:05,873
Do you think that doesn't
disappoint him?
1289
01:04:24,692 --> 01:04:28,196
♪ People say
it's just a waste of time
1290
01:04:28,230 --> 01:04:31,700
♪ Then they said
I should feed my head
1291
01:04:31,732 --> 01:04:35,236
♪ That to me
was just a day in bed
1292
01:04:35,270 --> 01:04:38,640
♪ I'll take my car
and drive real far
1293
01:04:38,674 --> 01:04:42,143
♪ They're not concerned
about the way we are
1294
01:04:42,176 --> 01:04:45,747
♪ In my mind
my dreams are real
1295
01:04:45,781 --> 01:04:49,017
♪ Now we're concerned
about the way I feel
1296
01:04:49,051 --> 01:04:51,819
♪ Tonight
1297
01:04:51,853 --> 01:04:54,189
♪ I'm a rock 'n' roll star
1298
01:04:56,058 --> 01:04:58,826
♪ Tonight
1299
01:04:58,861 --> 01:05:01,363
♪ I'm a rock 'n' roll star
1300
01:05:04,031 --> 01:05:05,600
In just under three years,
1301
01:05:05,634 --> 01:05:08,069
Oasis will have gone
from being a new signing
1302
01:05:08,102 --> 01:05:09,738
to one of rock's true giants.
1303
01:05:09,770 --> 01:05:11,940
The live gig of the decade.
1304
01:05:11,973 --> 01:05:13,140
Oasis gears up to rock
1305
01:05:13,174 --> 01:05:14,743
a quarter of a million fans.
1306
01:05:14,777 --> 01:05:16,444
Oasis is gonna
play to more than
1307
01:05:16,477 --> 01:05:19,246
a third of a million people
in just over one day.
1308
01:05:21,183 --> 01:05:22,650
♪ Today was just a blur
1309
01:05:22,683 --> 01:05:25,286
♪ You've got a head
like a ghost train
1310
01:05:25,319 --> 01:05:27,288
I don't know
any teenage lad
1311
01:05:27,321 --> 01:05:28,890
who wouldn't wanna be like them.
1312
01:05:31,259 --> 01:05:32,761
I don't know any teenage girl
that would say
1313
01:05:32,794 --> 01:05:35,062
that they didn't actually want
to go out with Liam Gallagher.
1314
01:05:41,169 --> 01:05:44,305
♪ But you don't care
1315
01:05:44,339 --> 01:05:46,308
Noel! I love your eyebrows.
They're sexy.
1316
01:05:46,341 --> 01:05:48,442
The most
honest band on the planet.
1317
01:05:48,475 --> 01:05:50,277
We're not pop stars,
we're lads.
1318
01:05:50,312 --> 01:05:52,180
♪ That the devil sends
1319
01:05:52,214 --> 01:05:53,348
♪ You think they're
talking about you
1320
01:05:53,381 --> 01:05:54,449
♪ But you don't know who
1321
01:05:54,482 --> 01:05:55,682
♪ I'll be scraping
their lives
1322
01:05:55,716 --> 01:05:58,353
♪ From the sole
of my shoe tonight ♪
1323
01:06:19,040 --> 01:06:20,476
Nice one.
1324
01:06:23,178 --> 01:06:24,246
Did you hear that?
1325
01:06:24,279 --> 01:06:26,915
Yeah. Good band.
1326
01:06:26,948 --> 01:06:29,216
Good?
They're fucking amazing.
1327
01:06:29,250 --> 01:06:30,618
Hey, man, come here.
1328
01:06:31,486 --> 01:06:33,320
- Who do I talk to?
- What, in the band?
1329
01:06:33,355 --> 01:06:36,091
- Aye, who's the leader?
- Joan of Arc.
1330
01:06:36,123 --> 01:06:39,060
He's the only sensible cunt
amongst them.
1331
01:06:39,093 --> 01:06:40,561
- Do you want a record deal?
- You what?
1332
01:06:40,594 --> 01:06:42,497
Do you want a record deal?
I'm Alan McGee...
1333
01:06:42,531 --> 01:06:44,200
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, cool.
1334
01:06:47,002 --> 01:06:48,404
I know who you are.
1335
01:06:50,038 --> 01:06:51,439
You're not already signed,
are you?
1336
01:06:51,473 --> 01:06:52,306
No.
1337
01:06:52,339 --> 01:06:53,374
- Have you got a manager?
- No.
1338
01:06:53,408 --> 01:06:55,209
Do you want a tape?
1339
01:06:55,243 --> 01:06:57,912
I don't need a tape,
I've heard and seen enough.
1340
01:06:59,114 --> 01:07:00,415
Mate, calm down.
1341
01:07:00,448 --> 01:07:02,084
You've had a drink,
and you're a bit excited.
1342
01:07:02,116 --> 01:07:03,218
Take a tape.
1343
01:07:03,250 --> 01:07:05,319
That tape had most of
1344
01:07:05,352 --> 01:07:06,788
Definitely Maybe on it.
1345
01:07:06,821 --> 01:07:08,957
The fastest-selling album ever.
1346
01:07:08,991 --> 01:07:10,492
Twenty-five weeks
in the charts,
1347
01:07:10,524 --> 01:07:13,160
- with singles like...
- Live Forever!
1348
01:07:13,194 --> 01:07:15,263
Rock 'N' Roll Star!
1349
01:07:15,297 --> 01:07:16,631
See,
1350
01:07:16,665 --> 01:07:18,967
Noel had been writing songs
since he was 16,
1351
01:07:19,000 --> 01:07:20,167
and Liam...
1352
01:07:20,201 --> 01:07:23,105
Liam was just a born rock star.
1353
01:07:23,138 --> 01:07:24,471
Give it up for Oasis,
1354
01:07:24,506 --> 01:07:27,274
making their TV debut
with Supersonic.
1355
01:07:30,978 --> 01:07:32,779
Put this on it.
1356
01:07:32,814 --> 01:07:34,315
My bouncer has nicked
the headliner's rider,
1357
01:07:34,348 --> 01:07:35,750
so we're gonna do one.
1358
01:07:36,317 --> 01:07:38,020
Big fan of your label.
1359
01:07:38,053 --> 01:07:39,286
Hey, hey.
1360
01:07:39,321 --> 01:07:40,654
It was a case
of right place,
1361
01:07:40,689 --> 01:07:42,022
right time.
1362
01:07:42,056 --> 01:07:43,459
Synchronicity.
1363
01:07:45,527 --> 01:07:46,428
Fuck you!
1364
01:07:46,460 --> 01:07:48,363
From the moment I was born,
1365
01:07:48,395 --> 01:07:49,964
I was meant to miss that train.
1366
01:07:49,997 --> 01:07:52,266
Some people's destiny
was to meet particular people,
1367
01:07:52,299 --> 01:07:53,667
or go to foreign lands.
1368
01:07:53,701 --> 01:07:57,138
But my whole life
had been leading up to me
1369
01:07:57,171 --> 01:07:59,440
missing that fucking train.
1370
01:08:00,975 --> 01:08:04,011
Now you had one of
the biggest bands in the world.
1371
01:08:04,044 --> 01:08:06,714
Finally, bigger than U2.
1372
01:08:08,015 --> 01:08:09,417
Where does it go from here?
1373
01:08:09,451 --> 01:08:12,219
Well, for me, it's a party
in a club on Sunset.
1374
01:08:12,252 --> 01:08:13,287
You coming?
1375
01:08:13,321 --> 01:08:14,957
I'd love to,
but I have a deadline.
1376
01:08:14,989 --> 01:08:18,126
Hey, can we meet up again
when I'm back in London?
1377
01:08:18,158 --> 01:08:19,294
I can do an update piece.
1378
01:08:19,327 --> 01:08:21,830
Absolutely.
1379
01:08:21,862 --> 01:08:24,431
Oh, if there's one thing I love
more than being talked about,
1380
01:08:24,465 --> 01:08:26,201
it's being written about.
1381
01:08:26,233 --> 01:08:27,401
I just wish I could write it.
1382
01:08:27,435 --> 01:08:28,469
What're you talking about?
1383
01:08:28,504 --> 01:08:31,171
It's a puff piece,
mainly photos.
1384
01:08:31,206 --> 01:08:32,241
Oh!
1385
01:08:32,273 --> 01:08:33,474
Tell them to get the fuck...
1386
01:08:33,507 --> 01:08:35,042
Go and sell it to Rolling Stone
or someone.
1387
01:08:35,076 --> 01:08:38,380
Tell them Alan McGee
is up there with Brian Epstein,
1388
01:08:38,412 --> 01:08:39,614
Peter Grant, Malcolm McLaren,
1389
01:08:39,648 --> 01:08:43,285
as one of the greatest
rock managers in history.
1390
01:08:43,318 --> 01:08:45,187
That's what
I'd tell them anyway.
1391
01:08:45,220 --> 01:08:46,387
You're so modest.
1392
01:08:46,420 --> 01:08:49,457
Modesty gets you
nowhere. Listen.
1393
01:08:49,491 --> 01:08:52,160
I know
that every fucker out there
1394
01:08:52,193 --> 01:08:54,362
knows that I'm talentless.
1395
01:08:54,395 --> 01:08:56,397
But I'm a situationist, huh?
1396
01:08:56,430 --> 01:09:00,835
- Yeah.
- I make things happen.
1397
01:09:00,868 --> 01:09:03,538
Sheer determination,
I... I get it.
1398
01:09:04,639 --> 01:09:05,541
You do.
1399
01:09:05,573 --> 01:09:07,174
Well, let's definitely
meet up in London.
1400
01:09:07,207 --> 01:09:08,442
I... I might be in a position
1401
01:09:08,475 --> 01:09:10,277
where I can write a piece
that matches your ego.
1402
01:09:10,310 --> 01:09:11,545
That's a very noble ambition.
1403
01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:13,214
Good luck with that.
1404
01:09:13,247 --> 01:09:15,017
Hey, oh, can I have my glasses?
1405
01:09:17,352 --> 01:09:19,354
Thanks.
Have fun at your party.
1406
01:09:24,459 --> 01:09:27,528
Like I said, LA,
1407
01:09:27,562 --> 01:09:28,831
land of the soulless...
1408
01:09:29,464 --> 01:09:30,564
Cheers.
1409
01:09:30,599 --> 01:09:32,568
...the vacuous,
1410
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:34,402
the back stabbers,
and, of course...
1411
01:09:34,435 --> 01:09:35,636
Oh, hey, man.
1412
01:09:35,670 --> 01:09:37,272
...the wannabes.
1413
01:09:37,304 --> 01:09:38,539
So Noel and Liam,
1414
01:09:38,572 --> 01:09:40,274
is it true they just
beat up each other?
1415
01:09:40,308 --> 01:09:41,910
- What?
- The brothers,
1416
01:09:41,943 --> 01:09:43,579
do they beat the shit
out of each other on stage.
1417
01:09:43,612 --> 01:09:44,680
Right.
1418
01:09:52,252 --> 01:09:53,621
Nice shoes.
1419
01:09:57,358 --> 01:09:59,394
Oh, you like them?
1420
01:09:59,426 --> 01:10:00,594
Got them in Japan.
1421
01:10:00,629 --> 01:10:03,797
By some miracle,
they've survived Glastonbury.
1422
01:10:03,831 --> 01:10:05,566
Are you English?
1423
01:10:06,233 --> 01:10:07,334
Scottish.
1424
01:10:07,368 --> 01:10:08,702
Ah.
1425
01:10:08,737 --> 01:10:11,206
And this Glastonbury, is it...
Is it close to Liverpool?
1426
01:10:11,239 --> 01:10:13,241
I love The Beatles.
1427
01:10:13,274 --> 01:10:14,541
It's a festival.
1428
01:10:14,576 --> 01:10:16,411
Like Burning Man,
but with rain and mud,
1429
01:10:16,444 --> 01:10:18,246
and fucking awful toilets.
1430
01:10:18,278 --> 01:10:19,313
Cool!
1431
01:10:19,348 --> 01:10:22,382
So, what brings you to LA?
1432
01:10:22,416 --> 01:10:23,550
Bit of business.
1433
01:10:23,585 --> 01:10:25,888
Huh, yeah,
what is it you do?
1434
01:10:25,920 --> 01:10:27,555
I own a record label.
1435
01:10:27,589 --> 01:10:29,157
- Really?
- Hmm.
1436
01:10:29,189 --> 01:10:30,825
Wow, that is so interesting
1437
01:10:30,858 --> 01:10:35,897
because, um,
I'm a singer-songwriter, um...
1438
01:10:35,929 --> 01:10:37,531
Della.
1439
01:10:37,564 --> 01:10:41,335
Will you...
Will you take a listen?
1440
01:10:41,368 --> 01:10:42,603
I mean, it needs work,
1441
01:10:42,638 --> 01:10:45,607
but it has my number
on it on the back.
1442
01:10:45,639 --> 01:10:47,541
Now,
one of three things
1443
01:10:47,575 --> 01:10:49,376
can happen here.
1444
01:10:49,411 --> 01:10:50,679
She gets what she wants.
1445
01:10:52,546 --> 01:10:53,881
I get what I want.
1446
01:10:53,915 --> 01:10:56,484
I'm like a cross
between Joni Mitchell
1447
01:10:56,518 --> 01:10:58,754
and Patti Smith.
1448
01:11:01,523 --> 01:11:04,159
Creation would be
the perfect label for me.
1449
01:11:06,260 --> 01:11:08,263
How do you know
I own Creation?
1450
01:11:08,296 --> 01:11:12,233
Or, we both get
fuck all and jog on.
1451
01:11:12,267 --> 01:11:13,734
Don't try and hustle
a hustler.
1452
01:11:13,768 --> 01:11:17,305
I've got people listening
to demos all day long.
1453
01:11:17,339 --> 01:11:18,674
Thank you.
1454
01:11:19,608 --> 01:11:20,843
Fucking asshole.
1455
01:11:23,912 --> 01:11:24,813
Alan!
1456
01:11:24,845 --> 01:11:26,147
You see this, Charlie?
1457
01:11:26,180 --> 01:11:28,515
He's someone else
that's gonna change my life,
1458
01:11:28,549 --> 01:11:29,584
and not for the better.
1459
01:11:29,617 --> 01:11:31,586
Yo! Cheeky fucking...
1460
01:11:31,618 --> 01:11:33,121
I couldn't
remember his name
1461
01:11:33,153 --> 01:11:35,255
for the life of me.
But when you've done enough drugs...
1462
01:11:35,290 --> 01:11:36,323
Rambo, I'm with him.
1463
01:11:36,357 --> 01:11:37,693
...you just open your mouth,
1464
01:11:37,725 --> 01:11:39,560
and say the first name
that comes into your head.
1465
01:11:39,594 --> 01:11:40,863
All right, Ralph?
1466
01:11:40,895 --> 01:11:43,563
I was just talking about you
the other day to, um,
1467
01:11:43,598 --> 01:11:44,631
oh, what's his name,
1468
01:11:44,665 --> 01:11:46,502
tall fucker with the piggy eyes.
1469
01:11:46,535 --> 01:11:49,104
Who gives a fuck?
How are you, darling.
1470
01:11:49,136 --> 01:11:50,671
I'm good, Ralph. You?
1471
01:11:50,705 --> 01:11:53,341
Yeah, really great.
Actually, really smashing.
1472
01:11:53,375 --> 01:11:54,408
How was rehab?
1473
01:11:54,442 --> 01:11:56,245
Fantastic. Best ever.
1474
01:11:58,279 --> 01:11:59,313
I'm producing again.
1475
01:11:59,346 --> 01:12:00,581
- No way!
- Yeah, I know.
1476
01:12:00,614 --> 01:12:01,715
- Back in the zone.
- I'm being totally
1477
01:12:01,748 --> 01:12:03,652
different this time,
I swear to God.
1478
01:12:03,684 --> 01:12:04,852
A little bird told me
1479
01:12:04,885 --> 01:12:07,621
you are fucking killing
the music business.
1480
01:12:07,654 --> 01:12:09,892
World domination time.
1481
01:12:09,925 --> 01:12:11,993
Too modest. Um...
1482
01:12:12,027 --> 01:12:13,729
Fancy a cheeky toot?
1483
01:12:14,696 --> 01:12:16,531
I shall live and die in LA.
1484
01:12:16,563 --> 01:12:20,701
There are
a million Ralphs in LA.
1485
01:12:20,734 --> 01:12:23,270
Rastafarians who left
the public schools of England
1486
01:12:23,304 --> 01:12:24,538
to be Hollywood producers.
1487
01:12:24,572 --> 01:12:26,507
Of course, they conned me
out of the inheritance.
1488
01:12:26,541 --> 01:12:28,543
But who needs a fucking castle.
Chin-chin.
1489
01:12:28,577 --> 01:12:29,978
Never seen
a frame of anything
1490
01:12:30,011 --> 01:12:32,147
he's produced, and I don't think
anyone else had.
1491
01:12:32,179 --> 01:12:35,116
Just met at some forgotten
Hollywood bash somewhere.
1492
01:12:35,149 --> 01:12:37,551
- That's the thing about cocaine.
- Shall we?
1493
01:12:37,585 --> 01:12:39,587
You end up
sniffing it off toilet seats
1494
01:12:39,621 --> 01:12:41,790
with total strangers
who become your best friend
1495
01:12:41,822 --> 01:12:43,890
for the next few hours.
1496
01:12:43,925 --> 01:12:44,993
Ah!
1497
01:12:48,328 --> 01:12:49,563
What's your new movie about?
1498
01:12:49,598 --> 01:12:52,634
Oh, I met this amazing,
really charming young man
1499
01:12:52,666 --> 01:12:56,336
from Compton,
called Hercules the Reaper.
1500
01:12:57,639 --> 01:13:00,542
Actually, oh, this place
is absolutely moribund.
1501
01:13:00,575 --> 01:13:02,277
Let's go to his club.
1502
01:13:02,309 --> 01:13:03,477
- Club?
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
1503
01:13:03,511 --> 01:13:04,845
It's right up your Straza.
1504
01:13:04,879 --> 01:13:07,381
- Let's go.
- Come. Tidy up.
1505
01:13:07,415 --> 01:13:08,750
Here we go.
1506
01:13:14,621 --> 01:13:15,957
Oh, Christ.
1507
01:13:18,158 --> 01:13:20,328
Give us
a couple of beers, will you?
1508
01:13:21,830 --> 01:13:24,299
This is the life.
Love this town.
1509
01:13:24,332 --> 01:13:26,167
Ah.
1510
01:13:26,201 --> 01:13:29,738
So, what is this film?
Is it like some kind of, uh,
1511
01:13:29,770 --> 01:13:32,541
- documentary or a...
- No, it's a biopic.
1512
01:13:32,573 --> 01:13:33,841
The story of a man's
incredible life.
1513
01:13:33,875 --> 01:13:35,210
Well, it looks like
a vanity project
1514
01:13:35,242 --> 01:13:36,577
because he's paying for it all,
but it's not.
1515
01:13:36,611 --> 01:13:38,412
Forrest Gump meets
Boyz in the Hood.
1516
01:13:38,446 --> 01:13:39,814
- Forrest Gump?
- Yeah.
1517
01:13:39,848 --> 01:13:41,448
- What's that about, then?
- More like a black Forrest Gump
1518
01:13:41,483 --> 01:13:43,651
with good music,
you know.
1519
01:13:43,684 --> 01:13:45,753
We're lucky,
we'll have them singing songs
1520
01:13:45,786 --> 01:13:48,023
and shooting each other
in the playground.
1521
01:13:48,055 --> 01:13:49,156
I hate biopics.
1522
01:13:49,189 --> 01:13:50,959
Yeah, let's hope nobody else
sings like you, you cunt.
1523
01:13:51,893 --> 01:13:54,363
We'll see.
Do you need some music for it?
1524
01:13:54,395 --> 01:13:55,796
I don't, what,
your kind of music?
1525
01:13:55,830 --> 01:13:57,698
I don't think so,
unless you're gonna black up.
1526
01:14:02,504 --> 01:14:03,872
Hey.
1527
01:14:04,773 --> 01:14:06,408
Herc, my brother.
1528
01:14:08,843 --> 01:14:10,377
This is my very
good friend, Alan.
1529
01:14:10,412 --> 01:14:11,479
Where are you?
1530
01:14:11,511 --> 01:14:13,348
He's a major player
in the music biz.
1531
01:14:14,948 --> 01:14:15,782
Major.
1532
01:14:15,817 --> 01:14:17,451
Pull up.
1533
01:14:17,484 --> 01:14:18,585
Thank you.
1534
01:14:18,620 --> 01:14:20,689
Hello, how are you?
1535
01:14:20,721 --> 01:14:23,825
Ralph tell you?
They're making a movie about me.
1536
01:14:23,858 --> 01:14:25,827
- What?
- A movie, yes.
1537
01:14:25,861 --> 01:14:29,863
Some real shit.
Rags to riches.
1538
01:14:29,897 --> 01:14:31,832
But Alan's
just like you, Herc.
1539
01:14:31,867 --> 01:14:33,902
He's from the hood.
1540
01:14:33,934 --> 01:14:34,968
What?
1541
01:14:35,002 --> 01:14:36,904
Well, in the UK,
we call them council estates,
1542
01:14:36,938 --> 01:14:38,372
but they're really
the same thing.
1543
01:14:38,406 --> 01:14:42,876
It's just lots of poor people
crammed into suffering together.
1544
01:14:42,911 --> 01:14:46,747
Hmm, I'd like to visit
the UK one day.
1545
01:14:46,781 --> 01:14:48,550
Not at the moment, though.
1546
01:14:48,582 --> 01:14:50,684
Feds won't let me
leave the country.
1547
01:14:50,718 --> 01:14:52,487
Oh, the Feds
are persecuting Herc, Alan.
1548
01:14:52,519 --> 01:14:53,787
They're all up in his shit.
1549
01:14:53,821 --> 01:14:56,390
They won't give
a brother a break, right?
1550
01:14:56,425 --> 01:14:57,659
Right, well...
1551
01:14:57,692 --> 01:15:00,028
Brother, take it to the VIP.
1552
01:15:01,595 --> 01:15:02,863
Laters, homes.
1553
01:15:02,898 --> 01:15:03,931
You.
1554
01:15:05,666 --> 01:15:06,767
In here.
1555
01:15:06,800 --> 01:15:07,901
What's happening?
1556
01:15:07,934 --> 01:15:09,870
Whatever you like, my friend.
1557
01:15:09,904 --> 01:15:13,073
What happens in Compton,
stays in Compton.
1558
01:15:14,541 --> 01:15:16,343
Hello, ladies.
This is my friend, Alan.
1559
01:15:16,376 --> 01:15:18,379
He's terribly shy.
1560
01:15:33,627 --> 01:15:36,430
♪ If you hear any noise ♪
1561
01:15:37,831 --> 01:15:39,800
Oh, Sleeping Beauty.
1562
01:15:39,834 --> 01:15:41,803
Welcome back.
1563
01:15:41,836 --> 01:15:43,470
This is Maurice.
1564
01:15:43,504 --> 01:15:44,772
Fucking fantastic.
1565
01:15:46,875 --> 01:15:48,576
I said... I said you might
give him...
1566
01:15:48,608 --> 01:15:49,977
Give him a record deal.
1567
01:15:50,010 --> 01:15:52,813
Maurice, you haven't already
got a record deal, have you?
1568
01:15:52,846 --> 01:15:54,381
Shit. I didn't...
I didn't think of that.
1569
01:15:54,416 --> 01:15:56,284
He might... He might already
have a record deal. I don't know.
1570
01:15:56,317 --> 01:15:58,687
Ricky ticky tick.
Ricky ticky ticky ticky
1571
01:15:58,720 --> 01:16:00,788
ticky ticky tick tick.
1572
01:16:00,821 --> 01:16:03,190
- Ralph.
- This is...
1573
01:16:03,224 --> 01:16:04,892
Ralph.
1574
01:16:04,925 --> 01:16:07,495
Ricky ticky tick.
1575
01:16:07,528 --> 01:16:10,697
- Ralph, can I have a wee word?
- Yeah, yeah, sure.
1576
01:16:10,732 --> 01:16:13,901
As I say, you're on
my soundtrack, I swear.
1577
01:16:22,309 --> 01:16:27,514
How did we end up
in a fucking crack den?
1578
01:16:27,547 --> 01:16:28,950
I know.
1579
01:16:28,983 --> 01:16:30,485
It's awesome, isn't it?
1580
01:16:32,420 --> 01:16:34,355
Alan, no-one's going to jack you.
1581
01:16:34,389 --> 01:16:36,558
They all know
I'm down with Herc's crew.
1582
01:16:38,559 --> 01:16:39,960
Looking at that lovely
lolly there, it reminds me,
1583
01:16:39,993 --> 01:16:41,795
there's a fabulous
whore house over there
1584
01:16:41,830 --> 01:16:43,163
I used to frequent.
1585
01:16:43,197 --> 01:16:45,799
Let's pop in for some breakfast
and a happy ending, hmm?
1586
01:16:45,832 --> 01:16:47,701
Take...
Take me to the hotel.
1587
01:16:47,736 --> 01:16:49,069
All right, Grandpa.
1588
01:16:49,871 --> 01:16:51,473
There we go.
1589
01:16:52,506 --> 01:16:55,910
Ah, I'm afraid
I can't take you up the hill.
1590
01:16:55,943 --> 01:16:58,280
The reverse is a little
unpredictable on this thing.
1591
01:16:58,313 --> 01:16:59,514
It's all right.
1592
01:17:04,018 --> 01:17:08,890
Oh, well, better out than in,
as Mummy used to say.
1593
01:17:08,922 --> 01:17:11,459
Oh, now listen, tonight,
there's a fabulous bash
1594
01:17:11,492 --> 01:17:13,861
in Topanga.
Porn producer friend of mine.
1595
01:17:13,894 --> 01:17:15,562
Wall to wall totty.
1596
01:17:15,595 --> 01:17:17,364
- Fancy it?
- I'd better not.
1597
01:17:17,398 --> 01:17:18,867
Fine, well,
I'll give you a tinkle later,
1598
01:17:18,899 --> 01:17:20,734
in case you grow
your cock back.
1599
01:17:20,768 --> 01:17:22,037
One for the road?
1600
01:17:24,371 --> 01:17:25,973
We begin
with that breaking news.
1601
01:17:26,006 --> 01:17:28,076
A state of emergency
in California.
1602
01:17:28,108 --> 01:17:29,910
Here's what we know right now.
1603
01:17:32,313 --> 01:17:34,416
Homes have been
destroyed there...
1604
01:17:39,053 --> 01:17:40,688
...mandatory evacuations...
1605
01:17:40,720 --> 01:17:44,992
♪ Remember when you ran away
and I got on my knees
1606
01:17:45,026 --> 01:17:49,028
♪ And begged you not to leave
because I'd go berserk?
1607
01:17:49,063 --> 01:17:51,800
♪ Well, you left me anyhow
1608
01:17:51,832 --> 01:17:54,201
♪ And then the days
got worse and worse
1609
01:17:56,104 --> 01:17:58,439
♪ They're coming
to take me away, ha-ha
1610
01:17:58,471 --> 01:18:01,876
♪ They're coming to take me away
Ho-ho, hee-hee, ha-ha
1611
01:18:01,908 --> 01:18:03,376
♪ To the funny farm where
1612
01:18:03,411 --> 01:18:05,011
♪ Life is beautiful
all the time
1613
01:18:05,045 --> 01:18:07,814
♪ And I'll be happy to see
those nice young men
1614
01:18:07,848 --> 01:18:09,117
♪ In their clean white coats
1615
01:18:09,149 --> 01:18:12,086
♪ And they're coming
to take me away, ha-ha!
1616
01:18:16,424 --> 01:18:18,024
...southern
California this morning.
1617
01:18:18,059 --> 01:18:20,428
I want you to take
a quick look at this town,
1618
01:18:20,461 --> 01:18:22,997
that's actually
the main part of the...
1619
01:18:23,029 --> 01:18:25,332
♪ You know you laughed
I heard you laugh
1620
01:18:25,366 --> 01:18:26,500
♪ You laughed
1621
01:18:26,533 --> 01:18:28,335
♪ You laughed and laughed
1622
01:18:28,368 --> 01:18:30,604
♪ And then you left, but now
you know I'm utterly mad
1623
01:18:32,038 --> 01:18:33,974
♪ And they're coming
to take me away
1624
01:18:34,009 --> 01:18:36,810
♪ Ha-ha, they're coming
to take me away, ho-ho
1625
01:18:36,844 --> 01:18:39,147
♪ To the happy home
1626
01:19:19,987 --> 01:19:21,288
I don't believe
1627
01:19:21,322 --> 01:19:26,661
that anybody feels
the way I do about you.
1628
01:19:26,693 --> 01:19:30,997
Exhaustion, panic attacks.
It's a breakdown, Ed.
1629
01:19:31,031 --> 01:19:32,233
Looks like the rock and roll
1630
01:19:32,267 --> 01:19:34,468
has finally caught up
with me, eh?
1631
01:19:34,501 --> 01:19:36,971
I'm gonna stay with you
as long as it takes.
1632
01:19:41,075 --> 01:19:43,477
I need you to get me
the fuck home.
1633
01:19:43,510 --> 01:19:45,980
I can't stay here.
This place is evil.
1634
01:19:49,917 --> 01:19:52,853
Hey, how you doing?
1635
01:19:52,886 --> 01:19:55,724
Nice and cozy.
You're all right, mate.
1636
01:19:55,756 --> 01:19:57,090
Just some Valium.
1637
01:19:57,125 --> 01:19:58,693
You don't need that.
1638
01:20:01,162 --> 01:20:02,764
You know, a fear of flying
comes from
1639
01:20:02,796 --> 01:20:05,065
the fear of
not being in control,
1640
01:20:05,099 --> 01:20:07,868
and that's caused by
the fear of
1641
01:20:07,902 --> 01:20:10,203
not feeling worthy
of your position.
1642
01:20:10,237 --> 01:20:11,939
And that leads to
all sorts of things,
1643
01:20:11,973 --> 01:20:16,611
like excessive drink,
excessive drug-taking.
1644
01:20:16,644 --> 01:20:20,181
For fear of actually
engaging in reality,
1645
01:20:20,214 --> 01:20:24,352
because in reality,
we're not in control.
1646
01:20:26,086 --> 01:20:30,223
That's why God gave
everyone an ego.
1647
01:20:30,256 --> 01:20:33,794
To feel like
we're important enough,
1648
01:20:33,827 --> 01:20:37,765
to feel like we're in control.
1649
01:20:45,939 --> 01:20:47,408
That's pretty deep, Ed.
1650
01:20:50,245 --> 01:20:54,248
You've got so many people
that love you, so many.
1651
01:20:59,586 --> 01:21:02,056
You're gonna get
all the help you need.
1652
01:21:11,232 --> 01:21:13,635
I just want you
to get better, Alan.
1653
01:21:29,315 --> 01:21:31,618
Heck,
this joint took some finding.
1654
01:21:31,652 --> 01:21:33,087
Avoid
central London these days.
1655
01:21:33,120 --> 01:21:34,154
How long are you in town?
1656
01:21:34,188 --> 01:21:35,523
Uh, four days.
1657
01:21:35,555 --> 01:21:37,223
I'm doing a piece on
Bono with Rolling Stone.
1658
01:21:37,257 --> 01:21:39,193
- Ouch!
- It's been years.
1659
01:21:39,227 --> 01:21:40,560
Tell me about it.
1660
01:21:40,594 --> 01:21:43,163
You're doing really well.
I read a lot of your stuff.
1661
01:21:43,197 --> 01:21:44,966
That Lou Reed piece.
1662
01:21:44,998 --> 01:21:47,001
The memories
of Michael Ronson piece.
1663
01:21:47,035 --> 01:21:48,368
You read that?
1664
01:21:49,370 --> 01:21:51,337
Hey, I heard that you had
Bill Clinton
1665
01:21:51,371 --> 01:21:53,107
come and crash at your house.
1666
01:21:53,139 --> 01:21:55,075
He was looking for
somewhere free to crash.
1667
01:21:55,108 --> 01:21:56,442
He's a tight cunt like me.
1668
01:21:56,477 --> 01:21:59,246
So I think someone from
the Labour Party hooked it up.
1669
01:21:59,278 --> 01:22:01,247
Oh, yeah, I wanted to
ask you about that.
1670
01:22:01,282 --> 01:22:03,117
You'd taken some time off.
1671
01:22:03,149 --> 01:22:05,185
Now,
call it what it was.
1672
01:22:05,219 --> 01:22:06,254
It was a breakdown.
1673
01:22:06,287 --> 01:22:08,889
♪ She said maybe
1674
01:22:08,922 --> 01:22:10,757
Agoraphobia.
1675
01:22:10,791 --> 01:22:14,596
Or agoraphobia
as the Americans call it,
1676
01:22:14,629 --> 01:22:17,799
which makes it sound like
some kind of luxury wool.
1677
01:22:19,166 --> 01:22:23,403
No, it ain't woolly.
It's fear and dread.
1678
01:22:24,438 --> 01:22:27,274
It's all around you,
and it's far away.
1679
01:22:27,306 --> 01:22:29,410
It's just fucking terrible.
1680
01:22:29,443 --> 01:22:31,545
I went to therapy,
all that jazz.
1681
01:22:35,183 --> 01:22:36,250
Just get better.
1682
01:22:36,283 --> 01:22:37,617
Yeah, all right.
1683
01:22:37,652 --> 01:22:39,386
See you soon.
1684
01:22:48,162 --> 01:22:49,397
Fuck.
1685
01:22:50,331 --> 01:22:51,599
Come in, come in.
1686
01:22:57,004 --> 01:23:00,608
Oh, no. No, no, no.
No, here.
1687
01:23:01,541 --> 01:23:03,644
Oh, sorry.
1688
01:23:03,978 --> 01:23:05,413
It's okay.
1689
01:23:10,785 --> 01:23:12,953
Talk about predictable, eh?
1690
01:23:12,987 --> 01:23:16,390
I suppose I was
feeling extremely pressured.
1691
01:23:16,424 --> 01:23:18,893
I mean, my parents
are high-flyers, you know?
1692
01:23:18,926 --> 01:23:22,130
And I wanted them to be
proud of my achievements.
1693
01:23:22,162 --> 01:23:24,799
All of the time, though.
1694
01:23:24,831 --> 01:23:27,968
Did you read the info
on the Alcoholics Anonymous?
1695
01:23:28,001 --> 01:23:29,636
I'm with Groucho Marx.
1696
01:23:29,670 --> 01:23:32,573
I wouldn't want to join a cult
that would have me as a member.
1697
01:23:34,841 --> 01:23:35,908
They're not a cult.
1698
01:23:35,943 --> 01:23:37,378
I started self-medicating.
1699
01:23:37,411 --> 01:23:40,781
Prozac, Valium, beta-blockers.
1700
01:23:40,814 --> 01:23:44,419
Me too, but I was writing
myself prescriptions
1701
01:23:44,452 --> 01:23:49,123
for ecstasy, speed,
coke, acid, whiskey,
1702
01:23:49,157 --> 01:23:50,892
almost every day.
1703
01:23:52,827 --> 01:23:55,029
I've been trying to
contact you. Where you been?
1704
01:23:55,062 --> 01:23:59,267
I've got something here
that'll liven you right up.
1705
01:23:59,300 --> 01:24:00,435
If there's
one thing dealers hate more
1706
01:24:00,468 --> 01:24:02,303
than not being paid,
it's being paid.
1707
01:24:02,336 --> 01:24:03,605
You owe them,
they've got the upper hand.
1708
01:24:03,638 --> 01:24:06,306
Pay off the debt,
and they lose interest charges.
1709
01:24:06,340 --> 01:24:08,041
You don't have to
settle the tab yet.
1710
01:24:08,075 --> 01:24:10,711
How much is the tab?
How much?
1711
01:24:10,743 --> 01:24:12,179
They're
no different to bankers.
1712
01:24:12,212 --> 01:24:13,746
It's exactly
the same transaction.
1713
01:24:13,781 --> 01:24:15,181
Thank you.
1714
01:24:15,215 --> 01:24:18,252
But Alan,
you're my best customer.
1715
01:24:18,285 --> 01:24:20,955
There we go.
There we go, all right?
1716
01:24:20,987 --> 01:24:22,288
All right, well, look,
1717
01:24:22,322 --> 01:24:24,325
give me the money
for that next time.
1718
01:24:24,358 --> 01:24:26,660
They just
have a better product.
1719
01:24:26,693 --> 01:24:28,062
Oh, shit.
1720
01:24:29,863 --> 01:24:30,964
That's Alan's dealer.
1721
01:24:30,997 --> 01:24:33,968
He's not in the kitchen, is he?
1722
01:24:34,001 --> 01:24:35,003
Where is he?
1723
01:24:39,072 --> 01:24:40,941
That was my dealer
just round, eh?
1724
01:24:42,475 --> 01:24:44,411
Flushed it down the pan.
1725
01:24:44,444 --> 01:24:46,279
At least your ones
were over the counter.
1726
01:24:47,447 --> 01:24:50,218
Well,
it's not important
1727
01:24:50,251 --> 01:24:54,255
what type of crutches
we all use.
1728
01:24:54,287 --> 01:24:56,322
See, what's important
is getting to the root of
1729
01:24:56,357 --> 01:24:59,460
why we needed those crutches
in the first place.
1730
01:24:59,492 --> 01:25:01,861
Education,
education and education.
1731
01:25:01,895 --> 01:25:06,166
Susan's gone to meet a doctor.
He's got a clinic.
1732
01:25:06,200 --> 01:25:07,501
Crutches?
1733
01:25:07,533 --> 01:25:10,136
Oasis were becoming
the biggest band on the planet,
1734
01:25:10,170 --> 01:25:13,674
and here I was,
a shivering mess.
1735
01:25:13,706 --> 01:25:15,408
It's like I was throwing
the best party in the world,
1736
01:25:15,442 --> 01:25:16,777
but got shit-faced
the night before,
1737
01:25:16,809 --> 01:25:18,478
and was too
hungover to join in.
1738
01:25:19,479 --> 01:25:21,247
Was I the ghost at the feast,
1739
01:25:21,281 --> 01:25:22,783
the mythical creator
of this world,
1740
01:25:22,817 --> 01:25:26,053
hosting this party
in my absence?
1741
01:25:26,086 --> 01:25:28,555
Truth is, no one gave a fuck.
1742
01:25:28,589 --> 01:25:31,459
The party just rolled on,
whether I was there or not.
1743
01:25:33,126 --> 01:25:35,362
What the fuck?
1744
01:25:35,395 --> 01:25:37,764
I replaced it with cold tea.
1745
01:25:37,799 --> 01:25:39,433
You're a man.
1746
01:25:39,465 --> 01:25:41,736
It's up to you what you do
with your life, son.
1747
01:25:44,470 --> 01:25:48,007
I don't want this to come
across the wrong way, but...
1748
01:25:48,041 --> 01:25:49,408
Oh, go on.
1749
01:25:49,443 --> 01:25:54,614
Bottom line is,
it was fun.
1750
01:25:58,352 --> 01:26:00,220
I was having a good time.
1751
01:26:00,254 --> 01:26:01,455
I could afford it.
1752
01:26:01,487 --> 01:26:03,456
The only person
I was putting at risk was me.
1753
01:26:03,491 --> 01:26:04,859
If someone had said to me,
1754
01:26:04,892 --> 01:26:08,327
"Hey, Alan, all that shite
is gonna fuck you up one day,"
1755
01:26:08,362 --> 01:26:13,334
well, truth is,
I still would have done it.
1756
01:26:13,367 --> 01:26:14,835
And you know something?
1757
01:26:14,867 --> 01:26:16,504
If I wasn't
such a fucking lightweight,
1758
01:26:16,537 --> 01:26:18,872
I wouldn't be sitting here
right now,
1759
01:26:18,906 --> 01:26:22,510
in this circle of whatever.
I'd be out there,
1760
01:26:22,542 --> 01:26:25,845
be out there
with my mates, right now.
1761
01:26:25,880 --> 01:26:27,447
If I had the constitution
of some of the rock stars
1762
01:26:27,480 --> 01:26:28,782
I was looking after,
1763
01:26:28,815 --> 01:26:31,419
I'd still be out there,
taking everything in sight.
1764
01:26:32,586 --> 01:26:33,587
Hey?
1765
01:26:38,524 --> 01:26:42,395
It was exceedingly dull.
1766
01:26:42,429 --> 01:26:44,864
It's just noise.
Put it back.
1767
01:26:44,898 --> 01:26:49,368
Music does not exist in science.
1768
01:26:49,403 --> 01:26:55,709
Why is it, some noise...
1769
01:26:55,742 --> 01:26:57,278
See, what you call something
1770
01:26:57,310 --> 01:26:59,212
completely changes
perceptions of it.
1771
01:26:59,246 --> 01:27:02,416
You say "nervous breakdown,"
people think "funny farm",
1772
01:27:02,450 --> 01:27:04,451
but you say rehab,
now you're cool.
1773
01:27:04,483 --> 01:27:08,254
I've got millions riding
on a bunch of noises
1774
01:27:08,287 --> 01:27:10,123
that it's impossible
to even quantify.
1775
01:27:10,157 --> 01:27:13,093
It's enough to make anybody
absolutely crackers.
1776
01:27:16,496 --> 01:27:18,498
You're an industry casualty.
1777
01:27:18,532 --> 01:27:22,269
It's like membership
to the "Terminal Fame Club
1778
01:27:22,301 --> 01:27:24,171
"of Rock and Roll Fatality."
1779
01:27:27,006 --> 01:27:28,675
I can come back tomorrow,
if you like?
1780
01:27:28,709 --> 01:27:30,510
No, I'm good, I'm good.
1781
01:27:31,478 --> 01:27:33,480
Everyone's asking about you.
1782
01:27:33,514 --> 01:27:36,517
Oh, yeah?
What did you tell them?
1783
01:27:37,417 --> 01:27:38,685
That you're ill.
1784
01:27:40,121 --> 01:27:42,489
Just tell them the truth, Dick.
1785
01:27:42,522 --> 01:27:44,291
It's nothing to be ashamed of.
1786
01:27:44,323 --> 01:27:46,693
What, that you're in rehab?
1787
01:27:46,727 --> 01:27:48,162
Yeah.
1788
01:27:48,194 --> 01:27:49,764
It's pure rock and roll,
isn't it?
1789
01:27:50,997 --> 01:27:52,332
Thank God for that.
1790
01:27:52,366 --> 01:27:55,135
I was running out of illnesses.
You know, I told The Guardian
1791
01:27:55,169 --> 01:27:57,705
that you was having an operation
to remove piles.
1792
01:27:57,737 --> 01:28:00,573
Fuck off, what did you
tell them that for?
1793
01:28:00,608 --> 01:28:02,576
Well, I had it done.
1794
01:28:02,609 --> 01:28:03,777
Could you not
think of something
1795
01:28:03,810 --> 01:28:07,547
a bit more sexy than piles?
1796
01:28:09,684 --> 01:28:10,918
Well, maybe
we should tell them
1797
01:28:10,952 --> 01:28:13,721
that you're having
plastic surgery on your penis.
1798
01:28:13,754 --> 01:28:16,390
Okay, tell the world
I've got a tiny cock.
1799
01:28:16,422 --> 01:28:18,559
- How's that sexy?
- No, no, no, no, no.
1800
01:28:18,591 --> 01:28:20,493
You're gonna have
a penis reduction.
1801
01:28:20,527 --> 01:28:24,698
Christ, Dick, just
stick to the rehab story.
1802
01:28:24,732 --> 01:28:27,835
Keep my cock
out of the press.
1803
01:28:27,867 --> 01:28:28,935
Okay.
1804
01:28:32,206 --> 01:28:33,172
This came for you as well,
1805
01:28:33,206 --> 01:28:35,776
It's, um... It's addressed
to you personally.
1806
01:28:39,212 --> 01:28:40,247
New Labour?
1807
01:28:43,050 --> 01:28:46,620
But, it did get me off
the rollercoaster for a while.
1808
01:28:46,653 --> 01:28:48,488
As soon as I got out though,
1809
01:28:48,522 --> 01:28:50,291
I knew I needed to reconnect.
1810
01:28:51,724 --> 01:28:53,560
I started
going to see my bands again.
1811
01:28:53,594 --> 01:28:55,529
It felt strange
watching them straight.
1812
01:28:58,631 --> 01:28:59,799
I was still the same Alan.
1813
01:28:59,832 --> 01:29:01,434
Only now I was seeing things
1814
01:29:01,468 --> 01:29:03,603
that I would remember
the next day,
1815
01:29:03,636 --> 01:29:04,670
and most of it...
1816
01:29:04,703 --> 01:29:06,572
Till the day
you fucking die.
1817
01:29:06,605 --> 01:29:08,474
...wasn't worth remembering.
1818
01:29:08,509 --> 01:29:09,676
Just gotta get
in your own world, man,
1819
01:29:09,710 --> 01:29:11,011
you know what I mean,
like, sort it out.
1820
01:29:11,044 --> 01:29:12,380
Everyone gets told
they're worthless,
1821
01:29:12,412 --> 01:29:13,479
you know what I mean,
1822
01:29:13,514 --> 01:29:14,614
like, you've gotta prove it,
ain't you?
1823
01:29:14,648 --> 01:29:16,382
Maybe one day
they'll sit up and listen.
1824
01:29:16,416 --> 01:29:17,618
As you were, Alan.
1825
01:29:18,586 --> 01:29:20,687
What's he like, eh?
1826
01:29:20,720 --> 01:29:21,821
And I'd lost Joe.
1827
01:29:21,854 --> 01:29:23,689
Creation was becoming
too corporate
1828
01:29:23,723 --> 01:29:25,792
for our in-house anarchist.
1829
01:29:26,493 --> 01:29:27,594
I think this is as much as
1830
01:29:27,627 --> 01:29:29,362
Dick could squeeze out,
you know.
1831
01:29:29,395 --> 01:29:30,831
I'm sure it's a fortune.
1832
01:29:31,998 --> 01:29:33,466
Please stay.
1833
01:29:33,501 --> 01:29:35,703
Nah, not for me.
1834
01:29:37,337 --> 01:29:42,108
Bloody rock and roll.
All them corporate tosspots.
1835
01:29:45,612 --> 01:29:46,846
Been a blast, though.
1836
01:29:46,880 --> 01:29:47,882
Yeah.
1837
01:29:51,484 --> 01:29:52,920
♪ Here they come
1838
01:29:54,587 --> 01:29:55,956
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
1839
01:29:55,988 --> 01:29:57,558
Come on!
1840
01:29:57,590 --> 01:30:01,727
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
The part time punks
1841
01:30:01,760 --> 01:30:04,931
♪ The part time punks
Here they come!
1842
01:30:06,433 --> 01:30:09,069
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
1843
01:30:09,103 --> 01:30:13,474
♪ La-la-la-la-la-la
The part time punks ♪
1844
01:30:13,506 --> 01:30:14,640
And there he went,
1845
01:30:14,675 --> 01:30:16,576
the world's
wealthiest anarchist.
1846
01:30:16,609 --> 01:30:19,412
And in true
unconventional style,
1847
01:30:19,446 --> 01:30:21,015
went on to marry a midget.
1848
01:30:21,047 --> 01:30:22,248
You know what, Ed?
1849
01:30:23,617 --> 01:30:29,322
I just realized I don't know
any of these people.
1850
01:30:31,625 --> 01:30:32,993
You resented Sony.
1851
01:30:33,894 --> 01:30:36,196
No, it wasn't resentment,
it was more
1852
01:30:36,229 --> 01:30:39,332
I'd given my favorite toy
to the big boys.
1853
01:30:40,533 --> 01:30:42,737
Now I had nothing left
to play with.
1854
01:30:42,769 --> 01:30:45,872
So, is that when you started
getting into politics?
1855
01:30:45,906 --> 01:30:50,176
Well, they do say politics
is rock and roll for the ugly.
1856
01:30:50,210 --> 01:30:52,712
I started hooking up
with Malcolm McLaren.
1857
01:30:52,746 --> 01:30:54,681
Sex Pistols
were my favorite band,
1858
01:30:54,715 --> 01:30:56,283
and I was in awe of him.
1859
01:30:56,315 --> 01:31:00,687
Ennui's a killer, Alan.
Everything I've done,
1860
01:31:00,720 --> 01:31:03,857
the shop, the clothes,
the Sex Pistols,
1861
01:31:03,889 --> 01:31:06,625
the opera, the hip-hop,
the art,
1862
01:31:06,660 --> 01:31:10,697
was all a reaction
against boredom.
1863
01:31:10,730 --> 01:31:12,898
Since man learned to
harness fire,
1864
01:31:12,933 --> 01:31:15,669
and build shelter
and clothe and feed himself,
1865
01:31:15,702 --> 01:31:18,338
boredom reared its ugly head.
1866
01:31:18,371 --> 01:31:24,979
All creativity, all culture
is a reaction against boredom.
1867
01:31:26,679 --> 01:31:30,383
You've done hedonism,
1868
01:31:30,416 --> 01:31:32,718
and you need to find something
to stop you from falling
1869
01:31:32,752 --> 01:31:35,422
into that
claustrophobic comfort.
1870
01:31:36,956 --> 01:31:43,729
We are alchemists
of magical stuff.
1871
01:31:43,764 --> 01:31:49,769
We take boredom, and we weave it
into a spectrum.
1872
01:31:49,803 --> 01:31:53,741
A gift that often bestows.
1873
01:31:53,773 --> 01:31:58,478
We are masters
of other people's destiny.
1874
01:32:04,751 --> 01:32:06,854
You've always
voted Labour, right?
1875
01:32:06,886 --> 01:32:08,354
Mom always voted Labour.
1876
01:32:08,389 --> 01:32:10,090
What do you think
about this Tony Blair dude?
1877
01:32:10,122 --> 01:32:13,560
I think he's giving them a real
chance of winning the election.
1878
01:32:13,594 --> 01:32:14,995
Did Noel agree with you?
1879
01:32:15,028 --> 01:32:17,663
Noel's like me.
1880
01:32:17,697 --> 01:32:18,864
Good on him.
1881
01:32:18,898 --> 01:32:22,469
Listen, we can help.
They fucking love us.
1882
01:32:22,501 --> 01:32:23,769
They want us to get involved.
1883
01:32:23,803 --> 01:32:25,005
You can't tell him what to do.
1884
01:32:25,037 --> 01:32:27,540
British music brought
£8 billion into the...
1885
01:32:27,573 --> 01:32:28,975
But you can
lay out the facts
1886
01:32:29,009 --> 01:32:31,745
and trust that he'll do exactly
what you want him to do.
1887
01:32:31,778 --> 01:32:33,913
We represent all this
cool Britannia bollocks.
1888
01:32:33,947 --> 01:32:35,681
They still didn't
win the election.
1889
01:32:35,715 --> 01:32:36,850
But they will, this time.
1890
01:32:36,882 --> 01:32:38,618
It's fucking obvious
it's the right idea.
1891
01:32:38,652 --> 01:32:40,854
And the winner is Oasis!
1892
01:32:49,595 --> 01:32:52,933
Politics isn't that much
different from entertainment.
1893
01:32:52,965 --> 01:32:55,870
Seven people
in this room tonight
1894
01:32:55,903 --> 01:32:58,271
will give a little bit of hope
to young in this country.
1895
01:32:58,304 --> 01:33:02,810
That's me, our kid,
Bonehead, Guigsy,
1896
01:33:02,843 --> 01:33:06,013
Alan White, Alan McGee,
and Tony Blair.
1897
01:33:06,045 --> 01:33:07,647
And if you've all got
anything about you,
1898
01:33:07,680 --> 01:33:09,915
you'll get up there and shake
Tony Blair's hand, man.
1899
01:33:09,948 --> 01:33:11,750
Why, because it's like, uh...
1900
01:33:11,785 --> 01:33:14,054
It's like selling
an idea, right?
1901
01:33:14,086 --> 01:33:15,589
Correct.
1902
01:33:15,621 --> 01:33:18,057
Packaging and selling.
1903
01:33:26,899 --> 01:33:29,435
Ah, Alastair Campbell,
Communications Director.
1904
01:33:29,469 --> 01:33:33,474
We spoke on the phone.
And you are Alan McGee.
1905
01:33:34,675 --> 01:33:35,809
Where's Tony?
1906
01:33:35,843 --> 01:33:37,577
Oh, Tony can't be with us,
I'm afraid.
1907
01:33:37,609 --> 01:33:38,644
Have you met Peter Mandelson?
1908
01:33:38,679 --> 01:33:40,380
- Mandy!
- Mmm-hmm.
1909
01:33:40,413 --> 01:33:42,248
We've got Peter to thank
for the modernization
1910
01:33:42,282 --> 01:33:43,582
of the Labour Party.
1911
01:33:43,616 --> 01:33:46,020
The man is a political genius.
1912
01:33:46,819 --> 01:33:47,888
Peter, Alan McGee.
1913
01:33:47,920 --> 01:33:50,523
Oh, super.
Man of the hour.
1914
01:33:50,556 --> 01:33:52,059
Ah! Dying to meet you, Alan.
1915
01:33:52,091 --> 01:33:54,960
Can't tell you how much
we appreciate your help.
1916
01:33:57,496 --> 01:33:58,831
Do you really think
that it's a good idea
1917
01:33:58,864 --> 01:34:01,533
for pop stars
to get involved in politics?
1918
01:34:01,568 --> 01:34:04,571
Do you think you can influence
the future Labour government?
1919
01:34:04,604 --> 01:34:06,607
What's in it for you, McGee?
1920
01:34:06,639 --> 01:34:10,810
Well, we're all big fans
of The Oasis, and The Blur.
1921
01:34:10,844 --> 01:34:12,679
Blur aren't one of my bands.
1922
01:34:12,711 --> 01:34:14,214
It's all Britpop, isn't it?
1923
01:34:15,648 --> 01:34:17,116
Spice Girls?
1924
01:34:17,151 --> 01:34:18,586
No.
1925
01:34:18,618 --> 01:34:20,152
- Silly.
- Thank you.
1926
01:34:20,187 --> 01:34:21,054
Sweet boy,
1927
01:34:21,086 --> 01:34:23,756
saving me once again
from humiliation.
1928
01:34:23,790 --> 01:34:25,091
Nothing in it for me.
1929
01:34:25,125 --> 01:34:26,926
I pay something called
income tax on my earnings.
1930
01:34:26,960 --> 01:34:28,028
They're supposed to be spent
1931
01:34:28,062 --> 01:34:29,962
helping people
less fortunate than me.
1932
01:34:29,996 --> 01:34:31,931
I just want to see others
given a chance.
1933
01:34:31,965 --> 01:34:33,967
Not what I was expecting at all.
1934
01:34:34,000 --> 01:34:35,903
- I'm sure.
- I can't imagine any of this lot
1935
01:34:35,935 --> 01:34:38,272
on a picket line
or a demonstration.
1936
01:34:40,806 --> 01:34:42,975
New Labour.
1937
01:34:43,010 --> 01:34:44,211
Modernization.
1938
01:34:44,243 --> 01:34:45,711
Can you understand
why some people might think
1939
01:34:45,746 --> 01:34:47,814
that this is a publicity stunt?
1940
01:34:47,846 --> 01:34:49,049
Some sort of hype?
1941
01:34:49,081 --> 01:34:51,084
Creation Records
doesn't need any hype.
1942
01:34:51,117 --> 01:34:53,786
We look after the biggest band
on the planet.
1943
01:34:53,819 --> 01:34:55,956
Alastair is going to
want to talk to you
1944
01:34:55,988 --> 01:34:58,123
about the campaign song.
1945
01:34:58,157 --> 01:35:00,360
We're expecting great things.
1946
01:35:00,393 --> 01:35:01,928
Does this mean
that you might possibly stand
1947
01:35:01,961 --> 01:35:03,597
for election yourself one day?
1948
01:35:03,630 --> 01:35:04,931
- Me?
- I think Alan...
1949
01:35:04,965 --> 01:35:06,366
Are you taking
the fucking piss?
1950
01:35:07,968 --> 01:35:09,803
That's all the questions
we're going to answer right now.
1951
01:35:09,836 --> 01:35:10,938
Alan's a very busy man.
1952
01:35:14,041 --> 01:35:16,944
I genuinely believed
in Tony Blair.
1953
01:35:16,977 --> 01:35:19,412
He was a man that
wanted to progress the party
1954
01:35:19,446 --> 01:35:21,915
without scaring away
the working classes.
1955
01:35:21,948 --> 01:35:23,517
♪ In a different life
1956
01:35:23,550 --> 01:35:25,819
♪ In a different light
than I did before
1957
01:35:25,853 --> 01:35:28,121
♪ And I've found the cause ♪
1958
01:35:28,153 --> 01:35:30,189
That's the campaign song
he chose.
1959
01:35:30,223 --> 01:35:31,292
Mmm-hmm.
1960
01:35:31,325 --> 01:35:33,326
It's house music for people
who hate house music.
1961
01:35:33,359 --> 01:35:35,862
Well, somebody
in Peter's team suggested
1962
01:35:35,894 --> 01:35:39,598
that maybe Oasis
could do a cover of it
1963
01:35:39,631 --> 01:35:41,033
for the campaign theme.
1964
01:35:41,067 --> 01:35:42,903
♪ Things can only get better
1965
01:35:42,935 --> 01:35:44,904
Let's face it, that's shite.
1966
01:35:44,938 --> 01:35:48,942
♪ Can only get better
now I found you
1967
01:35:48,974 --> 01:35:52,278
♪ Can only get better ♪
1968
01:35:54,047 --> 01:35:59,819
Under a Labour government,
things can only get better.
1969
01:35:59,853 --> 01:36:04,090
♪ Things can only get better
1970
01:36:04,122 --> 01:36:10,029
♪ Can only get better
now I found you
1971
01:36:10,063 --> 01:36:13,065
♪ Things can only get
Can only get
1972
01:36:14,800 --> 01:36:16,669
We helped them win.
1973
01:36:16,702 --> 01:36:20,973
We were invited to the podium.
Everybody saw us on TV.
1974
01:36:21,006 --> 01:36:22,675
It was all part of the circus.
1975
01:36:25,979 --> 01:36:29,783
But then came the invite
to Chequers.
1976
01:36:29,817 --> 01:36:31,318
The very private
country residence
1977
01:36:31,350 --> 01:36:33,652
of the incumbent
prime minister.
1978
01:36:33,687 --> 01:36:35,688
Hello, hello.
1979
01:36:35,721 --> 01:36:37,056
To walk in the footsteps
1980
01:36:37,090 --> 01:36:38,925
of leaders and kings
1981
01:36:38,959 --> 01:36:41,528
like Churchill,
Eisenhower, Gorbachev.
1982
01:36:41,562 --> 01:36:43,997
Did you know
Tony used to be in a band?
1983
01:36:44,029 --> 01:36:45,465
Yes, I heard about that.
1984
01:36:45,498 --> 01:36:47,768
Great thinkers
and world leaders discussed
1985
01:36:47,800 --> 01:36:51,404
means of peace and laws
for the betterment of mankind.
1986
01:36:52,206 --> 01:36:54,675
Now, Kate,
come and let me show you
1987
01:36:54,707 --> 01:36:56,376
around our little pad.
1988
01:36:56,410 --> 01:36:58,077
You'll love it.
1989
01:36:58,111 --> 01:36:59,246
See you boys later.
1990
01:36:59,278 --> 01:37:01,013
A wee ginger tool
from Glasgow...
1991
01:37:01,046 --> 01:37:02,248
What a place
you've got here, Tony.
1992
01:37:02,282 --> 01:37:04,017
Oh, it's a bit ostentatious
for my taste,
1993
01:37:04,050 --> 01:37:05,352
but, yes, I suppose
it is magnificent.
1994
01:37:05,385 --> 01:37:06,887
...in the court of kings.
1995
01:37:06,920 --> 01:37:08,489
We need to get started
on this new deal
1996
01:37:08,522 --> 01:37:11,658
for unemployed musicians
as soon as possible, please.
1997
01:37:11,690 --> 01:37:14,461
Right, yes, uh, Chris Smith's
your man. He's not here.
1998
01:37:14,493 --> 01:37:16,295
Now then,
now then, now then!
1999
01:37:16,328 --> 01:37:17,429
Ha-ha-ha.
2000
01:37:17,464 --> 01:37:18,430
Sir Jimmy.
2001
01:37:18,465 --> 01:37:20,767
Anthony, Anthony,
Anthony, my dear boy.
2002
01:37:20,800 --> 01:37:21,835
Ah!
2003
01:37:21,867 --> 01:37:23,803
Oh!
2004
01:37:24,837 --> 01:37:26,139
Oh, have you met Alan McGee?
2005
01:37:26,171 --> 01:37:28,174
I do not believe
he has had the pleasure.
2006
01:37:28,207 --> 01:37:30,176
Jimmy Saville.
2007
01:37:30,943 --> 01:37:32,044
All right?
2008
01:37:32,077 --> 01:37:35,313
Um, Mr. Britpop, I presume.
2009
01:37:35,348 --> 01:37:36,917
Everyone in music knew.
2010
01:37:36,950 --> 01:37:38,385
Malcolm told me.
2011
01:37:38,417 --> 01:37:40,118
Johnny Rotten even said it
on the BBC in the '70s.
2012
01:37:40,153 --> 01:37:41,888
Sir James...
2013
01:37:41,920 --> 01:37:43,155
It's hard to believe
2014
01:37:43,189 --> 01:37:45,991
all these royals
and politicians didn't know.
2015
01:37:47,093 --> 01:37:48,294
- Excuse me.
- Eh?
2016
01:37:48,327 --> 01:37:49,962
Oh, yes, the little girl's room
2017
01:37:49,996 --> 01:37:52,065
is just across the hall,
young lady.
2018
01:37:52,098 --> 01:37:53,433
You'll get used
to the lie of the land,
2019
01:37:53,466 --> 01:37:55,768
over the course of the weekend.
2020
01:37:55,803 --> 01:37:59,104
Tony's band
was called Ugly Rumour.
2021
01:37:59,138 --> 01:38:00,541
That's right.
2022
01:38:01,107 --> 01:38:02,542
Jimmy Savile,
2023
01:38:02,576 --> 01:38:06,746
one of the most prolific
child rapists in history.
2024
01:38:06,779 --> 01:38:08,849
Did you see the way
Blair was sucking up to him?
2025
01:38:08,881 --> 01:38:10,817
Oh, he makes my skin crawl.
2026
01:38:10,849 --> 01:38:12,084
You don't understand,
2027
01:38:12,117 --> 01:38:14,787
that beast is the sickest cunt
in show business.
2028
01:38:15,921 --> 01:38:17,491
What have we done?
2029
01:38:20,126 --> 01:38:22,462
Try the chamomile tea.
It's out of this world.
2030
01:38:22,496 --> 01:38:25,331
See, this decade,
it started with a bang,
2031
01:38:25,363 --> 01:38:29,201
and ended with an explosion.
2032
01:38:29,234 --> 01:38:31,002
What we wrestled
out of the hands
2033
01:38:31,037 --> 01:38:33,607
of the dullest cunts on earth
2034
01:38:33,639 --> 01:38:36,809
got taken back, and they
weren't losing it again.
2035
01:38:39,245 --> 01:38:43,849
Corporate disguised itself
as hipster,
2036
01:38:43,882 --> 01:38:46,886
and indie just disappeared.
2037
01:38:48,321 --> 01:38:51,056
They were gonna do
whatever they wanted,
2038
01:38:51,090 --> 01:38:54,227
no matter
what the people thought.
2039
01:38:54,260 --> 01:38:55,629
My next guest on the couch
2040
01:38:55,662 --> 01:38:58,331
is music industry guru,
kingpin,
2041
01:38:58,364 --> 01:39:00,634
and former head
of Creation Records,
2042
01:39:00,666 --> 01:39:02,736
who brought us the likes
of Primal Scream,
2043
01:39:02,769 --> 01:39:06,806
Jesus and Mary Chain,
and, of course, Oasis.
2044
01:39:06,840 --> 01:39:08,742
He's political,
2045
01:39:08,774 --> 01:39:12,612
occasionally controversial,
and he's a great friend.
2046
01:39:12,644 --> 01:39:16,182
He is, of course,
Mr. Alan McGee.
2047
01:39:16,215 --> 01:39:18,151
And roll VT.
2048
01:39:18,184 --> 01:39:19,419
Beaming lights.
2049
01:39:19,452 --> 01:39:21,353
Alan McGee,
the man with a masterplan,
2050
01:39:21,388 --> 01:39:24,291
whose Creation Records
went supersonic
2051
01:39:24,323 --> 01:39:28,960
by taking him from Brit Rail
employee to Britpop president.
2052
01:39:28,995 --> 01:39:30,196
But some might say he went from
2053
01:39:30,229 --> 01:39:32,397
rolling with it
to rolling in it,
2054
01:39:32,431 --> 01:39:36,036
by selling his shares
little by little to Sony
2055
01:39:36,068 --> 01:39:37,669
before collapsing the label.
2056
01:39:37,703 --> 01:39:40,105
- Did he slide away?
- Whoa, wait a minute, whoa.
2057
01:39:40,139 --> 01:39:41,206
Is this a stitch-up?
2058
01:39:41,241 --> 01:39:42,408
Leaving
the bands all around
2059
01:39:42,442 --> 01:39:43,676
- the world without contracts.
- What is that?
2060
01:39:43,710 --> 01:39:45,310
- No.
- What is your first question?
2061
01:39:45,345 --> 01:39:47,247
One thing's for sure.
2062
01:39:47,281 --> 01:39:50,317
Creation Records didn't live
forever, know what I mean?
2063
01:39:50,349 --> 01:39:52,785
Stop that racket.
2064
01:39:52,818 --> 01:39:56,022
You can edit it in afterwards.
What's your first question?
2065
01:39:56,054 --> 01:39:58,924
Uh, what
happened with Creation?
2066
01:39:58,957 --> 01:40:00,359
Why did you shut it down?
2067
01:40:05,598 --> 01:40:07,100
It was mine.
2068
01:40:07,132 --> 01:40:09,102
I made it. I folded it.
2069
01:40:09,135 --> 01:40:10,236
No one got hurt.
2070
01:40:10,269 --> 01:40:12,871
Most of the bands
got re-signed to Sony.
2071
01:40:12,904 --> 01:40:14,741
We didn't need Creation anymore.
2072
01:40:14,773 --> 01:40:16,975
Yeah, but why kill it?
2073
01:40:17,010 --> 01:40:18,812
It doesn't make any sense.
2074
01:40:18,845 --> 01:40:19,913
Why not?
2075
01:40:19,946 --> 01:40:23,116
Look, I built the biggest
independent record company
2076
01:40:23,148 --> 01:40:24,783
out of nothing.
2077
01:40:24,817 --> 01:40:28,020
I discovered and signed
the world's biggest act,
2078
01:40:28,054 --> 01:40:31,190
and reignited a record industry
I was told was dying.
2079
01:40:31,224 --> 01:40:35,362
CD sales went up 800%
between '89 and '99
2080
01:40:35,394 --> 01:40:36,495
with me on the charts.
2081
01:40:36,528 --> 01:40:38,931
And overseas sales
made the UK more money
2082
01:40:38,965 --> 01:40:40,033
than the motor industry.
2083
01:40:40,065 --> 01:40:42,602
My bands did that,
and everyone else,
2084
01:40:42,635 --> 01:40:45,705
Pulp, Blur, Radiohead,
benefitted.
2085
01:40:45,737 --> 01:40:49,875
I got a whole country
into E's and dance music.
2086
01:40:49,910 --> 01:40:52,745
And then I got them
into coke and rock and roll.
2087
01:40:52,778 --> 01:40:55,247
And once I'd done that,
I got political,
2088
01:40:55,282 --> 01:40:57,217
and went and put
some of the biggest cunts
2089
01:40:57,250 --> 01:40:59,185
on God's green earth
into government.
2090
01:40:59,218 --> 01:41:01,321
Mandy Mandelson, what a tool.
2091
01:41:01,354 --> 01:41:02,689
He said cunt.
2092
01:41:02,723 --> 01:41:04,857
Tony Blair, they made out
they cared about social justice,
2093
01:41:04,890 --> 01:41:08,126
when all they cared about
was keeping hold of power
2094
01:41:08,160 --> 01:41:10,296
and lining their own pockets.
2095
01:41:10,330 --> 01:41:12,732
Who got them to make
a new deal for the musicians?
2096
01:41:12,764 --> 01:41:13,665
I did.
2097
01:41:13,698 --> 01:41:15,568
Despite George Martin's
objections.
2098
01:41:15,602 --> 01:41:18,237
That's government policy.
I changed that.
2099
01:41:18,270 --> 01:41:21,108
Anyway, Blair
had me ex-communicated,
2100
01:41:21,140 --> 01:41:23,910
because I tried to turn
Malcolm McLaren
2101
01:41:23,943 --> 01:41:25,345
into Mayor of London.
2102
01:41:25,379 --> 01:41:26,746
Ex-communicated!
2103
01:41:26,779 --> 01:41:28,547
Who does he think he is,
the bastard Pope?
2104
01:41:28,581 --> 01:41:30,450
See, you give them
a little bit of power,
2105
01:41:30,483 --> 01:41:32,819
they lose all touch
with reality.
2106
01:41:32,853 --> 01:41:34,319
Christ, look at me!
2107
01:41:34,354 --> 01:41:36,422
I lost it
when I got a bit of power
2108
01:41:36,455 --> 01:41:37,991
running a record label.
2109
01:41:40,160 --> 01:41:43,663
I know how those fuckers think.
2110
01:41:44,296 --> 01:41:45,498
Look, Gemma,
2111
01:41:48,068 --> 01:41:53,707
there is magic
in this world.
2112
01:41:55,442 --> 01:42:00,913
- ♪ Hold on
- Some people are alchemists.
2113
01:42:02,247 --> 01:42:03,982
- ♪ Hold on
- It chooses you.
2114
01:42:04,017 --> 01:42:07,854
You become able to make
things happen because of it.
2115
01:42:07,886 --> 01:42:13,259
- Able to manifest destiny.
- ♪ Don't be scared
2116
01:42:13,292 --> 01:42:16,228
- ♪ You'll never change...
- You see, if I'd fallen off
2117
01:42:16,261 --> 01:42:18,464
of that ladder
when I was a kid,
2118
01:42:18,497 --> 01:42:22,000
this world
wouldn't be the same.
2119
01:42:22,035 --> 01:42:24,871
Everyone I touched,
2120
01:42:24,903 --> 01:42:27,473
- everyone I worked with...
- ♪ May your smile
2121
01:42:27,506 --> 01:42:29,308
♪ Shine on
2122
01:42:29,341 --> 01:42:31,310
...gone on, been a success.
2123
01:42:31,344 --> 01:42:33,379
♪ Shine on
2124
01:42:33,412 --> 01:42:34,513
Even you, Gem.
2125
01:42:34,546 --> 01:42:36,148
♪ Don't be scared
2126
01:42:36,183 --> 01:42:37,250
Made millions.
2127
01:42:37,282 --> 01:42:38,384
♪ Don't be scared
2128
01:42:38,417 --> 01:42:40,487
- It's a Midas touch.
- ♪ Your destiny
2129
01:42:40,519 --> 01:42:44,323
♪ May keep you warm ♪
- Excuse me if I'm wary
2130
01:42:44,357 --> 01:42:46,760
of what I apply
my skills to next.
2131
01:42:59,438 --> 01:43:00,605
That's a lot to take on board
2132
01:43:00,639 --> 01:43:02,642
for someone
that hasn't been in your shoes.
2133
01:43:05,444 --> 01:43:07,346
But why don't you
try and change
2134
01:43:07,380 --> 01:43:09,315
the way that you fit
into your environment,
2135
01:43:09,348 --> 01:43:12,519
rather than try and change
your environment?
2136
01:43:15,255 --> 01:43:19,592
I mean, friends, family.
Build a bridge.
2137
01:43:19,625 --> 01:43:22,696
Don't try and change
the course of the river.
2138
01:43:27,466 --> 01:43:29,402
Hmm.
2139
01:43:30,871 --> 01:43:34,207
Yeah, you're right.
2140
01:43:34,239 --> 01:43:36,509
Listen, everybody,
sorry about that.
2141
01:43:36,542 --> 01:43:38,944
I'm a tool.
2142
01:43:38,978 --> 01:43:40,614
Scrap that shite.
2143
01:43:41,980 --> 01:43:44,416
Let's... Let's go again
from the beginning.
2144
01:43:44,450 --> 01:43:46,352
- Huh?
- Really?
2145
01:43:46,385 --> 01:43:48,319
Roll VT.
Did I say that right?
2146
01:43:48,354 --> 01:43:49,956
- Roll VT.
- Right.
2147
01:43:49,988 --> 01:43:55,026
My guest on the couch
is music industry guru,
2148
01:43:55,060 --> 01:43:58,430
kingpin, and former head
of Creation Records...
2149
01:43:58,464 --> 01:44:00,399
See,
I don't really believe
2150
01:44:00,433 --> 01:44:03,336
it's about bridges or rivers.
2151
01:44:03,368 --> 01:44:05,938
It took me a long time
to realize.
2152
01:44:05,971 --> 01:44:08,174
I see that thing
you push against...
2153
01:44:08,207 --> 01:44:11,044
Dad! Dad! Dad!
2154
01:44:11,077 --> 01:44:15,614
...that's the same thing
that's pushing you forward.
2155
01:44:15,648 --> 01:44:21,520
And it can sometimes be the
wall that's propping you up.
2156
01:44:21,554 --> 01:44:23,590
♪ There are many things that
2157
01:44:23,622 --> 01:44:26,558
♪ I would like to say to you
2158
01:44:26,593 --> 01:44:29,729
♪ But I don't know how
2159
01:44:31,596 --> 01:44:35,100
♪ I said maybe
2160
01:44:35,134 --> 01:44:40,573
♪ You're gonna be the one
that saves me
2161
01:44:40,605 --> 01:44:46,411
♪ And after all
2162
01:44:46,446 --> 01:44:51,151
♪ You're my wonderwall
2163
01:44:53,519 --> 01:44:57,556
♪ I said maybe
2164
01:44:57,590 --> 01:44:58,925
♪ You're gonna be the one
that saves me
2165
01:44:58,957 --> 01:45:01,059
So be a punk,
be a poet,
2166
01:45:01,093 --> 01:45:07,567
be political, be posh,
be proud, or be poor.
2167
01:45:07,599 --> 01:45:10,803
But be a rebel always.
2168
01:45:12,537 --> 01:45:15,540
Because there's always
something to rebel for.
2169
01:45:15,573 --> 01:45:19,545
♪ I said maybe
2170
01:45:19,578 --> 01:45:24,683
♪ You're gonna be the one
that saves me
2171
01:45:24,716 --> 01:45:30,121
♪ You're gonna be the one
that saves me
2172
01:45:30,156 --> 01:45:32,024
- ♪ You're gonna be the one
- ALAN: Thank you, Glasgow.
2173
01:45:32,058 --> 01:45:33,059
Goodnight.
2174
01:45:33,091 --> 01:45:35,895
♪ You're gonna be the one
that saves me
2175
01:45:55,380 --> 01:45:56,615
♪ Start
2176
01:45:56,649 --> 01:45:57,950
♪ Breathe
2177
01:45:57,983 --> 01:45:59,317
♪ Hitch
2178
01:45:59,352 --> 01:46:00,586
♪ Begin
2179
01:46:00,620 --> 01:46:02,421
♪ See
2180
01:46:02,455 --> 01:46:03,823
♪ Dream
2181
01:46:03,857 --> 01:46:05,524
♪ Come
2182
01:46:05,558 --> 01:46:06,591
♪ Go
2183
01:46:06,626 --> 01:46:08,528
♪ Appear
2184
01:46:08,560 --> 01:46:10,229
♪ Disappear
2185
01:46:10,263 --> 01:46:11,596
♪ Reappear
2186
01:46:11,630 --> 01:46:13,298
♪ Remember the future
2187
01:46:13,332 --> 01:46:14,533
♪ Predict the present
2188
01:46:14,567 --> 01:46:16,336
♪ Guess when
2189
01:46:16,368 --> 01:46:17,636
♪ Guess less
2190
01:46:17,670 --> 01:46:19,404
♪ Guess more
2191
01:46:19,438 --> 01:46:20,806
♪ Guest list
2192
01:46:20,839 --> 01:46:22,908
♪ Rev, rev, rev, say yes
2193
01:46:22,943 --> 01:46:24,310
♪ Observe
2194
01:46:24,343 --> 01:46:25,544
♪ Understand
2195
01:46:25,577 --> 01:46:26,978
♪ Look
2196
01:46:27,013 --> 01:46:28,681
♪ Look
2197
01:46:28,715 --> 01:46:30,349
♪ Lock snap
2198
01:46:30,381 --> 01:46:31,884
♪ Hang photographs
2199
01:46:31,917 --> 01:46:33,318
♪ Crawl
2200
01:46:33,353 --> 01:46:34,920
♪ Crawl
2201
01:46:34,953 --> 01:46:36,522
♪ Crawl
2202
01:46:36,555 --> 01:46:37,622
♪ Rise
2203
01:46:37,657 --> 01:46:39,458
♪ Cry
2204
01:46:39,492 --> 01:46:40,626
♪ Stand
2205
01:46:40,660 --> 01:46:42,495
♪ Step
2206
01:46:42,528 --> 01:46:43,996
♪ Step fall
2207
01:46:44,029 --> 01:46:45,598
♪ Cry
2208
01:46:45,631 --> 01:46:47,332
♪ Laugh
2209
01:46:47,366 --> 01:46:48,701
♪ Cry with laughter
2210
01:46:48,733 --> 01:46:50,435
♪ Stand alone
2211
01:46:50,470 --> 01:46:51,904
♪ Run
2212
01:46:51,938 --> 01:46:53,404
♪ Speed
2213
01:46:53,438 --> 01:46:54,973
♪ Race
2214
01:46:55,007 --> 01:46:56,509
♪ Fall
2215
01:46:56,542 --> 01:46:58,277
♪ Forget
2216
01:46:58,310 --> 01:46:59,577
♪ Bleed
2217
01:46:59,612 --> 01:47:01,013
♪ Read
2218
01:47:01,046 --> 01:47:02,580
♪ Heal
2219
01:47:02,614 --> 01:47:04,349
♪ Need
2220
01:47:04,384 --> 01:47:05,584
♪ Imagine
2221
01:47:05,617 --> 01:47:07,452
♪ Help
2222
01:47:07,486 --> 01:47:09,889
♪ Go tweezers
under your scalp
2223
01:47:11,523 --> 01:47:12,959
♪ Travel
2224
01:47:12,992 --> 01:47:14,692
♪ Unravel
2225
01:47:14,727 --> 01:47:16,528
♪ Eclipse your world
2226
01:47:16,563 --> 01:47:18,596
♪ Collect
2227
01:47:18,630 --> 01:47:20,031
♪ Reflect
2228
01:47:20,065 --> 01:47:21,701
♪ Expect
2229
01:47:21,734 --> 01:47:23,301
♪ Release
2230
01:47:23,335 --> 01:47:24,670
♪ Disconnect
2231
01:47:24,703 --> 01:47:26,371
♪ Perfect
2232
01:47:26,406 --> 01:47:27,640
♪ Play
2233
01:47:27,674 --> 01:47:29,375
♪ Speak
2234
01:47:29,408 --> 01:47:30,942
♪ Sting
2235
01:47:30,977 --> 01:47:32,310
♪ Bleed
2236
01:47:32,345 --> 01:47:33,646
♪ Tell
2237
01:47:33,679 --> 01:47:35,513
♪ Smash
2238
01:47:35,547 --> 01:47:36,715
♪ Break
2239
01:47:36,750 --> 01:47:38,517
♪ Admire
2240
01:47:38,550 --> 01:47:40,085
♪ Regret
2241
01:47:40,118 --> 01:47:41,787
♪ Romanticize
2242
01:47:41,821 --> 01:47:43,390
♪ Criticize
2243
01:47:43,422 --> 01:47:44,690
♪ Fantasize
2244
01:47:44,724 --> 01:47:46,559
♪ Proofify
2245
01:47:46,591 --> 01:47:47,826
♪ Watch pigs fly by
2246
01:47:47,859 --> 01:47:49,496
♪ Wonder why
2247
01:47:49,528 --> 01:47:51,330
♪ Ha-ha, they try
2248
01:47:51,362 --> 01:47:52,563
♪ Propel high
2249
01:47:52,598 --> 01:47:53,666
♪ Plane
2250
01:47:53,698 --> 01:47:55,701
♪ Enlighten
2251
01:47:55,734 --> 01:47:57,368
♪ Feel threatened
2252
01:47:57,403 --> 01:47:58,704
♪ Dance
2253
01:47:58,737 --> 01:47:59,938
♪ Doubt
2254
01:48:02,041 --> 01:48:03,743
♪ Dance
2255
01:48:03,777 --> 01:48:05,078
♪ Enchant
2256
01:48:05,111 --> 01:48:06,746
♪ Spread love
2257
01:48:06,778 --> 01:48:08,447
♪ Speak above
2258
01:48:08,480 --> 01:48:09,748
♪ Stand on a wave
2259
01:48:09,782 --> 01:48:11,951
♪ Calculate quantum mechanics
2260
01:48:11,984 --> 01:48:13,117
♪ Surf
2261
01:48:13,152 --> 01:48:14,487
♪ Dance
2262
01:48:14,519 --> 01:48:16,022
♪ Believe in trance
2263
01:48:16,055 --> 01:48:17,456
♪ Escape
2264
01:48:17,489 --> 01:48:18,724
♪ Make love
2265
01:48:18,757 --> 01:48:20,792
♪ Not war
2266
01:48:20,826 --> 01:48:22,495
♪ Stand up for
2267
01:48:22,528 --> 01:48:23,729
♪ Fly a kite
2268
01:48:23,763 --> 01:48:25,497
♪ And speak the light
2269
01:48:25,531 --> 01:48:26,799
♪ Hold on tight
2270
01:48:26,831 --> 01:48:28,633
♪ Never give up the fight
2271
01:48:28,667 --> 01:48:29,768
♪ Trip
2272
01:48:29,801 --> 01:48:31,504
♪ Be inappropriate
2273
01:48:31,537 --> 01:48:32,672
♪ Stay there
2274
01:48:32,705 --> 01:48:34,540
♪ Transmit
2275
01:48:34,573 --> 01:48:35,841
♪ Commit
2276
01:48:35,875 --> 01:48:37,977
♪ Be fully wrong
2277
01:48:38,010 --> 01:48:39,077
♪ Rise
2278
01:48:39,112 --> 01:48:40,747
♪ Brave
2279
01:48:40,779 --> 01:48:42,581
♪ Keep the faith
2280
01:48:42,614 --> 01:48:43,849
♪ Explain
2281
01:48:43,882 --> 01:48:45,684
♪ Remain the same
2282
01:48:45,718 --> 01:48:47,153
♪ Evolve again
2283
01:48:47,185 --> 01:48:48,822
♪ Philosophize
2284
01:48:48,854 --> 01:48:50,455
♪ Surprise
2285
01:48:50,488 --> 01:48:51,857
♪ Teach me how
2286
01:48:51,890 --> 01:48:53,491
♪ Know this
2287
01:48:53,526 --> 01:48:54,727
♪ Radiate
2288
01:48:54,760 --> 01:48:56,262
♪ Investigate
2289
01:48:56,295 --> 01:48:58,897
♪ Single-handedly
with God's help
2290
01:49:00,733 --> 01:49:01,801
♪ Help her
2291
01:49:01,834 --> 01:49:03,702
♪ Her help
2292
01:49:03,736 --> 01:49:04,871
♪ Her trip
2293
01:49:04,903 --> 01:49:07,005
♪ Her love
2294
01:49:07,040 --> 01:49:08,541
♪ Hurt
2295
01:49:08,575 --> 01:49:09,774
♪ Disturb
2296
01:49:09,809 --> 01:49:11,411
♪ Operate
2297
01:49:11,443 --> 01:49:13,011
♪ Don't do
2298
01:49:13,045 --> 01:49:14,445
♪ Do
2299
01:49:14,479 --> 01:49:15,781
♪ Don't
2300
01:49:15,814 --> 01:49:17,716
♪ Accept
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01:49:17,750 --> 01:49:18,818
♪ Struggle
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01:49:18,852 --> 01:49:20,653
♪ Produce
2303
01:49:20,685 --> 01:49:22,520
♪ Experiment
2304
01:49:22,554 --> 01:49:23,756
♪ Break on through
2305
01:49:23,790 --> 01:49:25,190
♪ All one
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01:49:25,224 --> 01:49:29,095
♪ Give of love
2307
01:49:29,180 --> 01:49:34,180
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