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The thrill of adultery

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is that it exists in the shadow.

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We can lose
ourselves sometimes.

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But it doesn't undo who we are.

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People conceal
the ugly truths...

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...to protect themselves.

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I will fix this.

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I'll fix this.

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The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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It's not just a place,
it's an idea.

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It holds the stories,
the images,

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the sights, and the sounds
of decades and decades of music.

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The story of rock and roll
is really many stories.

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It's the story of pain
and beauty,

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the story
of rebellion and unity.

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The story of noise and harmony,
of resistance and community.

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Every year since 1986,
some of the greatest artists

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that music has produced
get inducted

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into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

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This rock and roll family
of ours,

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like so many others,

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unfortunately can't gather
together in person

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to induct
the Hall of Fame class of 2020.

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Still, we honor
this year's inductees

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by telling
their inspiring stories

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and showing how powerfully
they've affected us all.

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The lives and music
of this year's class

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is the story
of contemporary R&B,

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and the story of hip hop.

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The story of rock and soul,

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and the story of glam rock.

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The story of electronic music,

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and the story
of brutal industrial rock.

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The artists
are all very different,

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but they share
one crucial virtue in common:

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the undying spirit
of rock and roll.

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Tonight, we celebrate
this new class of the Rock Hall

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as we've never done before.

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And as we tell their stories,

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we tell ours, too.

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Welcome to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame 2020 Inductions.

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Is there anybody
who doesn't have

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a favorite Doobie Brothers song?

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The Doobies are one of those
iconic American bands

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that seem to have been
with us forever,

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making incredible music

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always streaming
out of the radio,

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and always playing
spectacular live shows.

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The Doobie Brothers would be
the first to tell you

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that their band's name
is the very definition

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of, "It seemed like a good idea
at the time."

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But when you're young
and having a great time

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playing biker bars,
there's no way to know

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that the music you're making
will still be loved

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half a century later.

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The band has been passed down
from generation

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to generation of fans,
because their music

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has never stopped
sounding fresh.

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It seems like
there isn't any style of music

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this band can't master
and incorporate

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into a sound
that is immediately identifiable

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as the Doobie Brothers.

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I've loved the Doobie Brothers
from the first time

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I heard them as a kid.

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I've had the privilege
of playing with them onstage,

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and I can honestly say
that they're great guys

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as well as great musicians.

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This year marks their
50th anniversary as a band,

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an amazing achievement
in itself.

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They've paid their dues,

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and they've worked
their asses off.

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But the Doobies always found
a way to evolve and progress,

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and their fans were always
out there waiting for them,

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because their songs
are built to last.

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You know, in my opinion,
this induction is...

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It's long overdue, boys.

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But I'm thrilled to be the guy
who gets to say,

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the Doobie Brothers
have made it.

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Welcome to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

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We're what
you'd call an American band,

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I always think of the Doobies
as being an American band.

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We were a hard-rockin' band,

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a hardworking band.

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The Doobie Brothers!

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We just played
whatever tickled our fancy.

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There wasn't anything this band
could not play.

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It was the best group of people

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I'd ever worked with
in the music business.

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We do seem to make
people really have a great time.

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They were just
the band that had

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the greatest hits album
where every song was

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the greatest song
you ever heard.

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San Jose is where the
Doobie Brothers came together.

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That's how it all started.

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We got together
with a guy named Tom Johnston

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and played a lotta clubs
around San Jose

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for five dollars a night.
We worked once a week.

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Well, we played
the Chateau a lot,

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where the Hells Angels
would come up.

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Somehow, we connected.

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I think because we were
bikers ourselves.

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We got a break
with a production company

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in San Mateo who put us
on our first album.

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We were playing live.
We were playing a lot

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of this heavy electric blues
and all this kinda stuff,

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but that's not what we played
on the album.

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The better part of the album
didn't fit the biker image

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by a long shot.

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The pressure increased
to produce a good song.

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Like most songs,
I was sitting in my bedroom

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and I had the acoustic.

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I came up with
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I call Teddy up,

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and usually about 3:00
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I'd usually wake him up.

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I said,
"This is a single, Teddy."

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It's the only time
I ever said that.

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Tommy had "Listen to the Music"

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already completely finished.

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We didn't have to do anything
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except just lay it down,
and then Pat had all these ideas

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to put layer upon layer
of guitars.

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It's so infectious.

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That's truly the recipe
for a big pop hit.

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When you establish your sound

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with something like
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the sky's the limit.

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We had the three-part
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which was a big part
of what we've always done.

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And then I was doing
the chaka-chaka rhythm thing

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that I sort of invented,
trying to play drums

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on the guitar
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The drums will be coming in
like this.

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Probably my favorite
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is "Jesus Is Just Alright."

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Why? I don't know. I'm
a Jewish kid from Long Island.

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Between '72 and '73,

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we went from the Winnebago stage
to the public airline stage.

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And by '74,
we had the Doobieliner.

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Party on the plane
every day.

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The playing was better.

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The singing was better.
The whole concept was better.

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JEFF "SKUNK" BAXTER: The depth
of guitar playing was profound.

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Three guitar players

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all playing different styles,
but playing their parts.

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John was a big proponent
of two drummers.

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The advantage of
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that you have
the mass of acoustic viability.

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Now, the disadvantages
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if he goes "eh",
you better go "eh" with him.

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If he goes "oom",
you better go "oom" with him!

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Because if not, you're gonna
get "eh, oom, uh,"

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all at the same time.
And that's no good.

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You know, every guitarist
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That's what
America feels like. That song.

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It just brought
so many good elements together

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that people
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I mean, how many people
have ever written chord changes

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that are iconic?

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Pat Simmons' acoustic on that
is phenomenal.

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Roanoke started
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on their own.
Nobody asked them to.

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All of a sudden,
out of this little station

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somewhere in the South,
"Black Water"

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was in their top-ten rotation.

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Next thing we know, it's our
first number-one record.

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And also, a real departure
in style from anything we'd done

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up to that point.

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It really featured
Pat's finger-pickin'.

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You had to dance.
You had to dance to that song.

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Everybody had to go...

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The crowds got
way larger.

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Crowds got more animated.
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we were on the road
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Being on the road's
a tough thing.

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And after a while,
it gets so crazy

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that you start
just going inward.

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The Doobie
Brothers played everywhere

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where there was
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Sometimes, it's just too much.

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Well, Tommy became
very ill.

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We were out
promoting Stampede

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and Tommy didn't show up
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So, we didn't know what to do.

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I finally ended up in a hospital
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yeah, about a dime-sized hole
in your stomach.

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And they just barely pulled me
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I was basically dead and I said,
"You know what?

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I'm burnt out on this.

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I gotta get away from it
for a while." And I did.

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It looked like we would have
to cancel the tour.

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And Jeffrey Baxter said,
"I know this guy.

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He's a side man with Steely Dan.
His name is Michael McDonald."

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He's a really good piano player
and a wonderful singer.

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I think you'll like him.

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So we brought Michael
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in early 1975.

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Heard him sing three notes
and we went,

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"That's the guy!"

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This was just like

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a dream come true.
You know, I got to play with

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a really great band,
record my own material.

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I thought I'd died
and went to Heaven.

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It all happened so fast.

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I think I was expecting
at any time to be laid off.

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You know, and yet it just kept
going further and further.

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Michael McDonald is kinda
like adding a spice to a dish.

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And it's not a subtle spice.

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He's a sort
of wasabi-infused garlic.

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Immediately,
it changes everything.

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And he did.

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Wow! The Doobie Brothers!

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One of the key moments
of my television history

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was the What's Happening!!
episode

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where they went to see
the Doobie Brothers

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and they bootlegged the show.

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You got to see
the Doobie Brothers act.

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I thought you guys
were our friends.

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How could you guys
do this to us?

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And I can't say it was strong!

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Will you welcome
some really good friends
of all of ours,

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who helped us get
this whole thing started
from the beginning.

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Put it together
for the Doobie Brothers!

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Here was the biggest band
in the United States saying,

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"Yeah, we'll give you two nights
at Madison Square Garden."

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It let us go on sale
and say that our first nights

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were with the Doobie Brothers.

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The Minute by Minute
album was probably the most

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fraught recording experience
of our career.

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"What a Fool Believes,"
fifty-something takes.

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Michael had something
in his head,

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but he couldn't communicate it
to the rest of us.

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The quest for excellence
was out of control.

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We were all
sick of one another.

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Jeff and I butted
heads during that period

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more than anyone else
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He was now in a lot
of ways driving

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the direction of the band.

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I don't think the album
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good enough,
you know, for any of us.

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And I think even a lot of people
at the label were going,

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"It's over. It's the band's,
you know, kiss of death."

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The Doobie Brothers!

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So imagine our surprise
when the first single came out

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and the thing sold like
three million copies.

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No one expected it.

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Much less did we ever expect
to win a Grammy, you know.

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The Doobie Brothers!

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We want to thank our fans
who made it all possible,

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stickin' with us
for all these years.

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Thanks. We appreciate it.

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It might have been me
that kinda was always pushing

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to kinda keep the band working.

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And I just kinda felt,
at that point,

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that maybe it was time
to give people a break.

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Goddammit, man.
The Doobie Brothers broke up.

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Shit! When did that happen?

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Yo! Everybody knows
my friend, your good friend,

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-Mr. Tommy Johnston.

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Because of the way
that we did things,

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it would enable us to come back
and play together again.

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They're such a seminal
treasure of a rock band,

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and they belong in the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Because they invented that shit.

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Now they've been together
50 years!

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I can't imagine rock and roll
without the Doobie Brothers.

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We were a band.

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And we're still that way.

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I mean,
this band is a live band.

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You know, for me,
it was the greatest time

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in my career,
was being a Doobie Brother.

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As long as people
want to hear us,

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we'll be out there playing.

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Wow, it's been
a long time coming,

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but we are so grateful
and excited to be inducted

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into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame.

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A lot of our musical influences
are enshrined in the Hall,

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so we couldn't ask
for better company.

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It's been quite a ride
from playing clubs in San Jose

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to recording music
that we loved,

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then playing for people
in venues all over the world.

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It seems unreal,
but it's been quite a trip,

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and we aren't done yet.

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My deepest thanks
to the Doobie Brothers family

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and all the members
over the years

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who have been part
of this journey.

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It's always been about our love
of music,

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and because
of the band's success,

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we now celebrate this induction.

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I want to thank my family
for their support.

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My wife, Diane. My son,
Christopher, and his family.

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And my daughter, Lara.
You guys mean the world to me.

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And I'd like to thank
Irving Azoff and Karim Karmi

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for getting us to this level
in our career.

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You've been amazing.

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I'd also like to thank Rob Light
and the CAA team.

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And thanks to Ted Templeman
for his musical direction

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in the studio.

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And to all our fans
who have stood by the band

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through the years,
you are the best.

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Thank you all.

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I wish to thank first of all
the guys

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who I accept
this award with tonight,

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for their years of friendship
and the privilege

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of allowing me to be a member
of the Doobie Brothers.

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I'd also like to thank
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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for this great honor.

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I'd like to thank the fans
for their continuous support

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over the years.
And I'd also like to thank

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all the managers,
record executives, producers,

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all the men and women
who worked hard along with us

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on the way to this moment.

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It's a great honor.

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On a personal note,

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I'd like to thank my lovely wife
Amy, and my two great kids,

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Dylan and Scarlett.

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Thank you
for always being there.

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Being a Doobie Brother
represents some of the best

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years of my life,

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so being inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame tonight

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with these guys makes it all
the more special for me.

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Thank you.

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First of all, I want to thank
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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for our induction.

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It's certainly a great honor
for us to be included

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among this
distinguished membership.

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I want to thank all
the Doobie Brothers

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past and present,
especially Tom Johnston,

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Michael McDonald, John McFee,

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Mike Hossack, John Hartman,

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Keith Knudsen, Tiran Porter,

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Bobby LaKind and Jeff Baxter.

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And it's truly an honor
to have been part

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of this great band
of amazingly talented musicians

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and wonderful friends.

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We have the greatest road crew
in rock 'n' roll:

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Joe, Tyler, Hoodie, Vid, Jeremy,
John, Coop, Keith and Steve.

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Thanks, guys.
And our incredible fans

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who got us here and stuck
with us for over 50 years,

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we owe you so much.

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I want to thank
my wonderful wife, Cris,

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forever patient,
wise and supportive.

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I love you so much.

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My children, Lindsey,
Josh and Pat Jr.,

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you have made all the work, long
hours and sacrifice worth it.

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My life has been a blessing
and I'm so lucky to be able

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to share it with you all.

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I want to wish all of you
watching the very best.

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Someday, we'll all be together
again, sharing the music

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and the love.
Thank you. Aloha.

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When I first heard
about Nine Inch Nails

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and heard a little
of their music, I thought,

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"Well, who is this guy?"
So I took a look.

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And I saw a face straight
out of 15th-century Spain.

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I think Trent
could have played Zorro.

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If he'd been alive
at the right time,

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I think he could
have been painted

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by Velázquez or El Greco.

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And his portrait
would probably be hanging

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in the Prado today.

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Listening to Nine Inch Nails'
music, which is so often

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called industrial,
I actually hear a lot of funk.

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Just listen to "Closer",
and the foundation

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could be Stevie Wonder
or George Clinton.

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But on top of that is a focused
and relentless process

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of emotional destruction
which paints a portrait of pain,

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pressure and dissatisfaction.

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It's the soundtrack to the dark
and lonely party

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that was beginning to play out
in America at that period.

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So I would call it
not industrial,

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but the sound
of industrial, digital ambition.

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I went
to the Nine Inch Nails show

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in the Forum in Los Angeles,

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the one together
with David Bowie.

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And Trent held the center
of that room

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just by being
a kind of dark spot

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hunched behind the mic.

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I'd seen the same thing
accomplished in different ways

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by T. Rex at Wembley,
Nirvana at the Pyramid Club,

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and Bob Dylan in '65.

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This is the mark
of the master artist.

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Simply to connect.

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The controversial
and brilliant French novelist

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Michel Houellebecq,
when asked the secret

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of his success,
said, "It's easy.

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Just tell the truth."

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Listening to Nine Inch Nails
feels like hearing the truth.

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So it gets you a little bit
closer to God.

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It is my honor to assist
in inducting Trent Reznor

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and Nine Inch Nails into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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Hello?

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Hey, Trent.

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Yeah?

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Thanks for doing this.

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I'll jump in.

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How do you explain
what Nine Inch Nails is?

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That's a good question.
And it's one of those ones

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where, when asked,
my mind immediately goes blank,

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you know?

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Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome

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Nine Inch Nails.

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Nine Inch Nails
was always outsider music.

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The rest of culture is moving
and changing in a certain way.

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And they were always
outside of it.

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MILEY CYRUS They're a testament
that you can make

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infectious music
that you can't get enough of.

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Trent has
an enormous impact culturally.

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His psyche is the lead
instrument of that band.

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"Head Like a Hole"
has two fucking choruses.

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If you're trying to think
of that song,

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it's the song that's like...

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Oh wait, no. Then it's...

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Oh, wait.

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Both of those
are great choruses,

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and they're in the same song.

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There's...

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There's that similarity

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with an artist like Prince,
where you know

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that a lot of those songs came
from late-night solo ventures

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into the self.

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Trent brings in collaborators
and other players,

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but it is a singular vision,
and that vision is his.

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What I always thought
rock should be is something

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that should be rebellious,

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and should have something
about it that your parents

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shouldn't like. You know,
it should be anti-establishment.

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It should have some sense
of danger.

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There should be some sense
of chaos.

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Nine Inch Nails is a pure,
raw-nerve emotion.

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It appeals to you and freaks you
out at the same time.

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There are a lot of people
who can write a good lick,

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or produce something
that's eminently hummable.

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But it's when somebody drops
something into your lap...

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that has to be dealt with,
that's the difference.

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I spent a lot of time
growing up in Pennsylvania.

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You know, like a lot of time
by myself.

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And just time in my room,
listening to music.

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You know, worn-out records...

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helped me feel less alone.

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Helped me feel connected
to the world

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in an environment
where I felt far away

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from everything exciting.

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When I started
to express myself,

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there seemed to be a lot of
angst and anger and loneliness

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in journal entries.

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I realized
these could be the lyrics.

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Nine Inch Nails
came out of the industrial scene

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of the '80s,
and made heavy, corrosive,

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industrial goth music
massively popular,

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and made it something
that suburban kids

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were wearing t-shirts of.

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It's a huge influence
on a generation of kids

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that needed direction.

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I mean, I could be funny
about it and say, "Yeah,

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he helped a lotta suburban
white kids make sense

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of their lives," you know?

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And, um...
But in a great way though.

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In a great fuckin' way.

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I was at that age, 14,
I was angsty as fuck,

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and I wanted
rebellion music too.

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It was really like one of those
records that you just hear,

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you go, "Oh, that's what
I like now."

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Heading to a town
you've never been to,

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opening for a band
and seeing somebody in the back

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00:26:08.066 --> 00:26:10.567
yelling your words
back at you...

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Like, I can't tell you how much
that really made me

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feel connected
to the world for once.

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You feel a sense of,
"I'm not alone,

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'cause someone else
has felt this way."

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Their music kind of
erases loneliness in a way.

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To me, "Closer"
was a next jump for him.

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"Here's a visual
in my head."

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00:26:46.467 --> 00:26:49.033
"Let's get that sounding
like that place."

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The biggest noise
this year was made by

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a musical hermit
named Trent Reznor

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and the band he sometimes
surrounds himself with,

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Nine Inch Nails.

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Reznor was everywhere this year,
debuting at number two

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on the Billboard chart
with The Downward Spiral album,

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and taking many a luckless
keyboard to task on stage.

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I saw the video of that new band
and I thought,

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"That's really good.
That's a great video."

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Because of that,
I then really had gone in

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to what he was doing.

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And then Downward Spiral
was really

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just an exceptional album.
Really excellent.

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The performance
at Woodstock in the mud,

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that's gonna be
in my brain forever.

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They just created this world
that was tumbling towards hell

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in the best possible way.

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00:27:45.734 --> 00:27:49.233
And at one point,
the one Nine Inch Nail, Trent...

494
00:27:50.734 --> 00:27:54.133
He's just-- He's very disturbed.
He's emotio--

495
00:27:54.200 --> 00:27:56.300
This kid
is emotionally disturbed.

496
00:27:58.266 --> 00:28:02.433
Touring became
life-changing for good and bad.

497
00:28:03.600 --> 00:28:06.867
Surreal experience,
that I, as a human being,

498
00:28:06.934 --> 00:28:08.266
wasn't prepared for.

499
00:28:09.100 --> 00:28:11.800
To see your whole life
kinda change,

500
00:28:11.867 --> 00:28:14.767
fame brings
its weirdness to you.

501
00:28:15.533 --> 00:28:18.500
It was a strange, strange time.

502
00:28:18.567 --> 00:28:21.433
You know, I came out
the other end lost.

503
00:28:44.600 --> 00:28:46.734
The whole Johnny Cash
thing came up at a time

504
00:28:46.800 --> 00:28:48.333
right when what was going
through my head

505
00:28:48.400 --> 00:28:50.667
was really questioning
my own relevance.

506
00:28:50.734 --> 00:28:54.467
And I was wondering
if I had anything to say,

507
00:28:54.533 --> 00:28:56.333
or if I was any good.

508
00:29:02.667 --> 00:29:04.633
At the time,
it felt really comforting,

509
00:29:04.700 --> 00:29:08.400
and like a pat on the back
in the way of, like, you know,

510
00:29:08.467 --> 00:29:10.300
"You can do this. Get out there
and write an album."

511
00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:16.300
How do you feel
when things you've done

512
00:29:16.367 --> 00:29:17.900
come back to you
from the culture?

513
00:29:17.967 --> 00:29:20.767
Like Miley Cyrus
covering one of your songs?

514
00:29:20.834 --> 00:29:23.367
Or Lil Nas X sampling
Nine Inch Nails?

515
00:29:25.467 --> 00:29:30.066
It's surprising
and it's flattering to hear

516
00:29:30.133 --> 00:29:31.600
when influence pops up.

517
00:29:31.667 --> 00:29:33.200
But I don't--
I don't spend much time

518
00:29:33.266 --> 00:29:34.533
thinking about it.

519
00:29:34.600 --> 00:29:36.767
I don't think it's healthy
to be caught up in that.

520
00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:41.033
You really start to have
this deep appreciation

521
00:29:41.100 --> 00:29:42.166
for the melodies.

522
00:29:42.233 --> 00:29:43.800
And when you have
a great melody,

523
00:29:43.867 --> 00:29:46.000
it can lend itself to any genre.

524
00:29:46.066 --> 00:29:48.200
I think that's how a song
becomes classic.

525
00:29:50.500 --> 00:29:53.500
Mr. Zuckerberg,
do I have your full attention?

526
00:29:54.667 --> 00:29:56.333
No.

527
00:29:56.400 --> 00:30:00.867
Ghosts was a collection
that I returned to often.

528
00:30:00.934 --> 00:30:03.900
And on Social Network,
we just kept temping it

529
00:30:03.967 --> 00:30:05.200
with stuff from Ghosts.

530
00:30:06.333 --> 00:30:08.834
Social Network,
the first film I'd ever scored.

531
00:30:08.900 --> 00:30:12.433
You know, the first few days
was, "I don't have any idea..."

532
00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:14.266
"How do you even start?"

533
00:30:15.767 --> 00:30:18.734
Once I started thinking
about the character,

534
00:30:18.800 --> 00:30:21.200
the sense of betrayal
and the sense of,

535
00:30:21.266 --> 00:30:23.066
here's somebody that believes
in something so much

536
00:30:23.133 --> 00:30:25.200
that they'll fuck over anybody
to do it,

537
00:30:25.266 --> 00:30:28.500
thinking it's gonna fix them,
and I know that story.

538
00:30:29.400 --> 00:30:30.867
I know what that feels like.

539
00:30:33.533 --> 00:30:35.533
When I'm sitting in the studio
with Atticus now,

540
00:30:35.600 --> 00:30:38.700
for the first time in my life,
I felt like

541
00:30:38.767 --> 00:30:43.333
it really is much better
than if I were by myself.

542
00:30:44.533 --> 00:30:46.834
I've now seen
all their movies.

543
00:30:46.900 --> 00:30:48.934
And music that they do
for those movies

544
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:52.734
is as interesting and as
powerful as Nine Inch Nails.

545
00:31:04.200 --> 00:31:07.467
A good way to look
at music is to look on the past.

546
00:31:08.367 --> 00:31:12.166
NWA, The Clash, Patti Smith.

547
00:31:12.233 --> 00:31:17.133
We've have had those moments
where complete anarchy of music

548
00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:19.433
and the culture collide,

549
00:31:19.500 --> 00:31:22.133
and you get people
that are ahead of their time.

550
00:31:22.200 --> 00:31:24.867
That's where Nine Inch Nails,
to me, fits.

551
00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:41.133
There are best hits,

552
00:31:41.200 --> 00:31:44.066
you know,
and then there's a body of work.

553
00:31:44.133 --> 00:31:48.367
It's a sense of a progression
through the not knowing,

554
00:31:48.433 --> 00:31:51.967
and the finding
the vulnerability of that,

555
00:31:52.033 --> 00:31:53.967
and the triumph of it.

556
00:31:54.367 --> 00:31:57.834
And it's rare.

557
00:32:01.233 --> 00:32:04.000
The best part of touring
for me now

558
00:32:04.066 --> 00:32:10.000
is the sense of pride of "Man,
I cannot wait to show this crowd

559
00:32:10.066 --> 00:32:11.200
this band."

560
00:32:12.734 --> 00:32:14.500
A lot of times I look
in the front row

561
00:32:14.567 --> 00:32:17.800
and it largely looks the same
as it did 25 years ago.

562
00:32:18.500 --> 00:32:19.900
It's not the same people.

563
00:32:19.967 --> 00:32:22.767
But it still looks like...
There's the same goth kid

564
00:32:22.834 --> 00:32:25.600
in the front row
who might be his son now.

565
00:32:29.467 --> 00:32:31.934
And I still feel like
there's so much I haven't done

566
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:36.633
or so much I don't know
about music alone.

567
00:32:36.700 --> 00:32:39.400
I gotta get my shit together
and get going on this.

568
00:32:41.266 --> 00:32:42.467
That's great.

569
00:32:43.567 --> 00:32:46.266
Well, thanks.
We'll leave it there.

570
00:32:46.333 --> 00:32:48.533
All right, man.
Take care. Bye.

571
00:32:50.667 --> 00:32:53.800
We're sorry. Your call cannot
be completed as dialed.

572
00:32:53.867 --> 00:32:55.400
-Please check the number and--
-(BEEP)

573
00:32:59.233 --> 00:33:00.700
Thank you so much, Iggy.

574
00:33:02.467 --> 00:33:04.000
Hello, everyone.

575
00:33:04.066 --> 00:33:07.433
What a disorienting, strange
year we find ourselves in.

576
00:33:08.867 --> 00:33:10.900
As I've been wrapping
my head around Nine Inch Nails

577
00:33:10.967 --> 00:33:13.433
being welcomed into the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

578
00:33:13.500 --> 00:33:17.066
I think I was most looking
forward to the ceremony itself,

579
00:33:17.133 --> 00:33:20.567
where hopefully the whole camp,
past and present,

580
00:33:20.633 --> 00:33:23.133
was going to get together
and have a moment.

581
00:33:23.200 --> 00:33:25.967
And we're all stuck
in our little boxes

582
00:33:26.033 --> 00:33:27.867
staring at our screens.

583
00:33:27.934 --> 00:33:31.033
Even now, music's always been
the thing that keeps me going,

584
00:33:31.100 --> 00:33:34.333
and as an artist, I think the
most significant accomplishment

585
00:33:34.400 --> 00:33:37.100
or feeling is realizing
something you've created

586
00:33:37.166 --> 00:33:40.367
from a fragile
and intimate place

587
00:33:40.433 --> 00:33:43.700
has reached out, resonated
and affected someone else,

588
00:33:43.767 --> 00:33:46.567
possibly changing how
they see the world.

589
00:33:46.633 --> 00:33:49.700
So, as to whatever being
in a Hall of Fame means,

590
00:33:49.767 --> 00:33:51.734
thank you for the recognition.

591
00:33:52.600 --> 00:33:54.567
With that said,
this has been far

592
00:33:54.633 --> 00:33:57.433
from a singular endeavor,
and I first want to introduce

593
00:33:57.500 --> 00:33:58.800
my fellow inductees.

594
00:33:59.967 --> 00:34:01.266
Atticus Ross.

595
00:34:01.734 --> 00:34:02.934
Robin Finck.

596
00:34:03.467 --> 00:34:05.133
Alessandro Cortini.

597
00:34:05.600 --> 00:34:06.767
Ilan Rubin.

598
00:34:07.233 --> 00:34:08.633
Danny Lohner.

599
00:34:08.700 --> 00:34:10.567
And Chris Vrenna.

600
00:34:10.633 --> 00:34:13.166
I love these guys,
and they've all been an integral

601
00:34:13.233 --> 00:34:15.467
and essential part
of why we're here.

602
00:34:15.533 --> 00:34:17.867
Additionally, there's been
a number of other key players

603
00:34:17.934 --> 00:34:20.367
involved over the years
I'd like to recognize and thank,

604
00:34:20.433 --> 00:34:23.500
including Charlie Clouser,
James Woolley,

605
00:34:23.567 --> 00:34:27.033
Rich Patrick, Josh Freese,
Justin Medal-Johnsen,

606
00:34:27.100 --> 00:34:31.300
Jerome Dillon, Aaron North,
Jeff Ward and Jeordie White.

607
00:34:31.367 --> 00:34:33.266
Throughout the years,
I've benefitted from a strong

608
00:34:33.333 --> 00:34:34.734
collection of people around me

609
00:34:34.800 --> 00:34:38.200
that have offered everything
from encouragement to guidance,

610
00:34:38.266 --> 00:34:40.867
to a kick in the ass
when needed.

611
00:34:40.934 --> 00:34:44.000
These include Jimmy Iovine,
John Silva,

612
00:34:44.066 --> 00:34:47.734
Marc Geiger, Ross Rossin,
Alan Moulder,

613
00:34:47.800 --> 00:34:52.533
Rick Rubin, Zia Modabber,
Bill Harper, David Fincher,

614
00:34:52.600 --> 00:34:57.600
Jerome Crooks, Steve Barnett,
Jim Guerinot, and John Malm.

615
00:34:57.667 --> 00:35:00.367
You're all appreciated
and this is for you, too.

616
00:35:00.433 --> 00:35:03.000
A special thank you to my wife,
Mariqueen, and my kids,

617
00:35:03.066 --> 00:35:05.700
who keep me humble
and make everything worthwhile.

618
00:35:05.767 --> 00:35:08.166
And for the Nine Inch Nails
fans out there,

619
00:35:08.233 --> 00:35:09.734
you guys are the best.

620
00:35:09.800 --> 00:35:12.033
We've wound up
in some weird places together,

621
00:35:12.100 --> 00:35:15.133
and you're an intense bunch that
can drive me out of my mind,

622
00:35:15.200 --> 00:35:17.767
but you're the best.

623
00:35:17.834 --> 00:35:20.233
This journey is far from over
if I have any say in it.

624
00:35:20.300 --> 00:35:22.066
So let's stop fucking around
and patting ourselves

625
00:35:22.133 --> 00:35:24.233
on the back and get to it.

626
00:35:24.300 --> 00:35:26.233
Hope to see you all
in the flesh soon.

627
00:35:26.300 --> 00:35:27.300
Thank you.

628
00:35:32.066 --> 00:35:33.266
Quiet please.

629
00:35:33.333 --> 00:35:36.467
Irving Azoff
induction, take one.

630
00:35:38.333 --> 00:35:41.200
Irving Azoff in the
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

631
00:35:43.834 --> 00:35:45.100
Why not?

632
00:35:45.166 --> 00:35:47.100
It wouldn't be the first time
they've inducted somebody

633
00:35:47.166 --> 00:35:49.266
who can't sing
or play an instrument.

634
00:35:56.133 --> 00:35:57.333
I've been an agent,

635
00:35:57.400 --> 00:35:59.900
a personal manager
and a movie producer.

636
00:36:00.266 --> 00:36:01.600
You dick!

637
00:36:01.667 --> 00:36:03.834
You sound like a corporate
fucking dick!

638
00:36:03.900 --> 00:36:06.533
A music publisher
and a record company CEO.

639
00:36:06.934 --> 00:36:08.100
I love music.,

640
00:36:08.166 --> 00:36:10.767
And I like to protect
the people who make it.

641
00:36:10.834 --> 00:36:12.967
I love Irving's sense of play.

642
00:36:14.233 --> 00:36:17.467
I love his sense of mischief.
I love his enthusiasm.

643
00:36:17.533 --> 00:36:18.834
I love his optimism.

644
00:36:19.567 --> 00:36:20.867
His perseverance.

645
00:36:20.934 --> 00:36:24.233
And I love his loyalty to his
clients and to his friends.

646
00:36:24.300 --> 00:36:25.734
He makes you feel good

647
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.166
about being a fan,
because he's a fan.

648
00:36:28.233 --> 00:36:29.967
You're important,
because he's important!

649
00:36:30.033 --> 00:36:31.300
He loves the shit out of music.

650
00:36:31.367 --> 00:36:34.000
The consummate professional,
and a big dealer.

651
00:36:35.433 --> 00:36:37.767
His overall love
of what he does...

652
00:36:37.834 --> 00:36:40.166
I just am in awe
of it every day.

653
00:36:41.700 --> 00:36:43.934
As a kid growing up
in Danville, Illinois,

654
00:36:44.000 --> 00:36:47.667
my first concert was the Beatles
in Chicago's old Comiskey Park.

655
00:36:47.734 --> 00:36:51.333
I was bitten by the music bug,
but I was not a musician.

656
00:36:51.400 --> 00:36:54.467
My instrument was, and still is,
the telephone.

657
00:36:54.533 --> 00:36:57.033
I put myself through college
at the University of Illinois,

658
00:36:57.100 --> 00:36:58.300
booking bar bands.

659
00:36:58.367 --> 00:37:01.367
Together with my friend
singer/songwriter Dan Fogelberg,

660
00:37:01.433 --> 00:37:04.700
we quit school and headed west
to pursue our careers in music.

661
00:37:04.767 --> 00:37:07.600
One day, he came to me and said,

662
00:37:07.667 --> 00:37:11.667
"Hey, I really want to manage
somebody. Could I manage you?"

663
00:37:11.734 --> 00:37:14.567
And I said, "Sure.
Everybody else does."

664
00:37:14.633 --> 00:37:17.967
"No, no, no. they're all dumb.
I know what I'm doing."

665
00:37:18.033 --> 00:37:20.600
When David Geffen
and Elliott recruit me,

666
00:37:20.667 --> 00:37:24.133
I take Joe Walsh and Barnstorm,
REO Speedwagon and Dan Fogelberg

667
00:37:24.200 --> 00:37:26.233
with me to GR Management.

668
00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:29.533
Irving is the only manager
that I ever knew

669
00:37:29.600 --> 00:37:32.734
that said to David Geffen,
"Hey, David..."

670
00:37:33.967 --> 00:37:35.834
Things at Geffen/
Roberts Management

671
00:37:35.900 --> 00:37:38.433
were coming apart, and Elliott
suddenly dissolved the company.

672
00:37:38.500 --> 00:37:40.934
So Irving called us up one day
and he said, "Are you leaving?"

673
00:37:41.000 --> 00:37:42.300
And we said,
"Yeah, we're leaving."

674
00:37:42.367 --> 00:37:43.967
He said,
"Well, I'm going with you."

675
00:37:44.033 --> 00:37:46.967
He wanted to start
a new kind of management

676
00:37:47.033 --> 00:37:48.867
and level the playing field
for artists

677
00:37:48.934 --> 00:37:50.133
in the record business.

678
00:37:55.533 --> 00:37:58.133
I grew up with a real
appreciation for a song

679
00:37:58.200 --> 00:38:01.333
in a distinct vocal.
And I loved vocal harmonies.

680
00:38:01.400 --> 00:38:03.600
That's what attracted me
to the Beatles,

681
00:38:03.667 --> 00:38:05.500
and it's what attracted me
to The Eagles.

682
00:38:05.567 --> 00:38:08.166
Perfection is not an accident.

683
00:38:08.233 --> 00:38:11.500
And then Irving
took a bunch of young men

684
00:38:11.567 --> 00:38:13.266
called The Eagles,
and turned them

685
00:38:13.333 --> 00:38:15.834
into a bunch of old men
called The Eagles.

686
00:38:15.900 --> 00:38:17.333
That was a good thing.

687
00:38:17.400 --> 00:38:21.033
And I see a guy
who is kind of in the band.

688
00:38:21.100 --> 00:38:24.033
What I loved and what I learned
from Irving is...

689
00:38:24.100 --> 00:38:27.100
get down with them.
Be with your people.

690
00:38:27.166 --> 00:38:29.834
Tonight, the promoter
gave us chopsticks.

691
00:38:29.900 --> 00:38:31.233
He was this kind of...

692
00:38:32.333 --> 00:38:33.467
rocket.

693
00:38:34.333 --> 00:38:36.033
Not the tallest rocket.

694
00:38:36.867 --> 00:38:38.300
But a compact rocket.

695
00:38:38.367 --> 00:38:40.300
More powerful
than the taller rocket.

696
00:38:40.934 --> 00:38:42.066
Irving Azoff.

697
00:38:43.233 --> 00:38:45.600
He's short, and he's a story.

698
00:38:45.667 --> 00:38:47.367
I wrote about him
for Rolling Stone

699
00:38:47.433 --> 00:38:49.567
and tried to like capture
what that was like.

700
00:38:49.633 --> 00:38:51.133
What Irving did
was basically genius.

701
00:38:51.200 --> 00:38:54.400
He turned a longstanding
animosity between the Eagles

702
00:38:54.467 --> 00:38:56.033
and Rolling Stone magazine

703
00:38:56.100 --> 00:38:58.867
into a big feature piece
about himself.

704
00:39:05.533 --> 00:39:06.934
Then the Eagles broke up.

705
00:39:08.667 --> 00:39:10.467
Then we got back together...

706
00:39:12.000 --> 00:39:13.033
Then we broke up.

707
00:39:18.066 --> 00:39:19.700
His reputation as a success

708
00:39:19.767 --> 00:39:23.467
recently led to his appointment
as head of MCA Records,

709
00:39:23.533 --> 00:39:25.800
forcing him to give up
his management company.

710
00:39:25.867 --> 00:39:28.433
This evening is really
a celebration of chutzpah,

711
00:39:28.500 --> 00:39:32.500
that spirit which has allowed
Irving Azoff to spend 16 years

712
00:39:32.567 --> 00:39:36.000
in a ruthless business and land
near the top of the heap.

713
00:39:36.066 --> 00:39:38.633
Fourteen years later,
back together.

714
00:39:41.767 --> 00:39:44.900
A lot of my job was trying to
keep the band from breaking up.

715
00:39:44.967 --> 00:39:47.567
Or putting the band back
together after it broke up

716
00:39:47.633 --> 00:39:48.967
ten or 20 times.

717
00:39:49.033 --> 00:39:50.533
I want to thank Irving Azoff,

718
00:39:50.600 --> 00:39:52.900
without whom
we wouldn't be here today.

719
00:39:54.133 --> 00:39:56.433
We might still be here,
we wouldn't have made

720
00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:58.233
-as much money.
-Right.

721
00:39:58.300 --> 00:39:59.867
-As I've said before,

722
00:39:59.934 --> 00:40:02.200
he may be Satan,
but he's our Satan.

723
00:40:02.266 --> 00:40:04.800
The whole Satan comment
has been widely misunderstood.

724
00:40:04.867 --> 00:40:06.033
What I meant was,

725
00:40:06.100 --> 00:40:07.834
if you mistreat one
of Irving's clients,

726
00:40:07.900 --> 00:40:09.967
then there will be consequences.

727
00:40:10.033 --> 00:40:11.734
Everything I learned
about the business

728
00:40:11.800 --> 00:40:13.533
I learned managing them.

729
00:40:13.600 --> 00:40:17.400
I think we taught him
about the dynamic in a band.

730
00:40:17.467 --> 00:40:21.033
He'd managed solo artists
like Fogelberg and Walsh,

731
00:40:21.100 --> 00:40:23.867
but not a band like
the Eagles, where there were

732
00:40:23.934 --> 00:40:26.100
a lot of chiefs and no Indians.

733
00:40:26.166 --> 00:40:29.433
It's been an incredible learning
experience to then apply

734
00:40:29.500 --> 00:40:32.333
to the other things that I've
done throughout my career.

735
00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:35.333
If you make a big list
of all the artists you know,

736
00:40:35.400 --> 00:40:37.767
Irving manages their managers.

737
00:40:39.834 --> 00:40:42.633
Irving is so
disarmingly honest.

738
00:40:42.700 --> 00:40:43.967
Since we started
working together,

739
00:40:44.033 --> 00:40:46.166
the one thing he did
very differently was

740
00:40:46.233 --> 00:40:47.834
told me the truth, man.

741
00:40:47.900 --> 00:40:49.934
And the truth
isn't always awesome.

742
00:40:50.000 --> 00:40:54.567
Irving came into my life
at the most crucial moment.

743
00:40:54.633 --> 00:40:56.367
I needed him so bad.

744
00:40:58.700 --> 00:41:01.233
It's just so great to be able
to have somebody in your life

745
00:41:01.300 --> 00:41:03.200
when you have so much coming
at you.

746
00:41:03.266 --> 00:41:04.800
I just trust him.

747
00:41:04.867 --> 00:41:07.300
He's so supportive.
He gives you great advice.

748
00:41:07.367 --> 00:41:09.100
And you always know
you're growing with Irving.

749
00:41:09.166 --> 00:41:10.467
That's what I love about Irving.

750
00:41:10.533 --> 00:41:13.533
Most people know Irving
as a powerful manager

751
00:41:13.600 --> 00:41:15.300
or a major executive.

752
00:41:15.367 --> 00:41:17.233
I know him as a friend.

753
00:41:17.300 --> 00:41:20.200
I've seen him go to any length
for his artists.

754
00:41:20.266 --> 00:41:23.100
And I've seen him be a warm
and compassionate

755
00:41:23.166 --> 00:41:25.834
father to his children.
And to me!

756
00:41:25.900 --> 00:41:28.467
I called my dad and he said,
"How's it going?"

757
00:41:28.533 --> 00:41:30.633
And I said,
"I gotta be honest with you,

758
00:41:30.700 --> 00:41:32.467
I don't know if I'm meant
for the music business."

759
00:41:32.533 --> 00:41:33.834
And he said,
"Listen to me carefully

760
00:41:33.900 --> 00:41:35.600
'cause I'm only gonna tell you
this once.

761
00:41:35.667 --> 00:41:37.767
You have my last name.
You have a phone.

762
00:41:37.834 --> 00:41:40.700
If you can't figure it out,
you're not my son." Click.

763
00:41:40.767 --> 00:41:42.700
And I never forgot that.

764
00:41:42.767 --> 00:41:44.900
One more thing.
What I do know is,

765
00:41:44.967 --> 00:41:49.233
if somebody in the entertainment
business does something good...

766
00:41:50.266 --> 00:41:54.033
Irving has always made
it possible for them, uh,

767
00:41:54.100 --> 00:41:57.133
to be able to do it better.

768
00:41:57.200 --> 00:41:58.834
I don't think there's anybody
in the music business

769
00:41:58.900 --> 00:42:00.734
who has made more
of a difference

770
00:42:00.800 --> 00:42:04.266
over as long a span of time
as Irving Azoff.

771
00:42:04.333 --> 00:42:05.900
Every place I've worked
in the business,

772
00:42:05.967 --> 00:42:09.033
whether it's been a label,
a publisher, a promoter,

773
00:42:09.100 --> 00:42:13.000
a manager, if you do what's
right for the creative person,

774
00:42:13.066 --> 00:42:16.467
the songwriter, the artist,
it will eventually be right

775
00:42:16.533 --> 00:42:18.600
for your company
and your career also.

776
00:42:18.667 --> 00:42:22.600
He has been instrumental
in bringing about a new order...

777
00:42:24.133 --> 00:42:25.500
about how things work.

778
00:42:25.567 --> 00:42:28.533
In terms of recording contracts.
In terms of management.

779
00:42:28.600 --> 00:42:31.600
In terms of touring.
In terms of copyright.

780
00:42:31.667 --> 00:42:33.567
In terms of artist rights.

781
00:42:33.633 --> 00:42:36.333
The economics in the business
have been so hurt,

782
00:42:36.400 --> 00:42:39.800
that for the first time, you've
got a united music industry

783
00:42:39.867 --> 00:42:43.834
of record companies, publishers,
writers, artists,

784
00:42:43.900 --> 00:42:45.467
you know, standing together.

785
00:42:45.533 --> 00:42:47.700
You know,
streaming is the future.

786
00:42:47.767 --> 00:42:49.433
So, larger than life,

787
00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:51.934
loving music the way
we love music.

788
00:42:52.000 --> 00:42:54.133
Come on, you gotta put him
in the Hall of Fame.

789
00:42:54.200 --> 00:42:56.567
He is one of the greatest
of all time

790
00:42:56.633 --> 00:42:58.033
when it comes to managers.

791
00:42:58.100 --> 00:43:02.500
There is truly no one
more deserving than Irving.

792
00:43:02.567 --> 00:43:07.033
And his impact on the industry
is literally profound.

793
00:43:07.100 --> 00:43:09.333
I've been really lucky
to have a front-row seat

794
00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:11.200
to this show my entire life.

795
00:43:11.266 --> 00:43:13.300
We love him. All the guys
in The Eagles love him.

796
00:43:13.367 --> 00:43:15.567
He has a beautiful house
that we bought him

797
00:43:15.633 --> 00:43:18.133
and a beautiful car
that we bought him.

798
00:43:18.200 --> 00:43:19.433
He has a wonderful life

799
00:43:19.500 --> 00:43:22.166
that we made possible
for him.

800
00:43:22.233 --> 00:43:24.834
Irving, my friend, we're coming
up on 47 years together.

801
00:43:24.900 --> 00:43:26.533
It's been a hell of a ride.

802
00:43:26.600 --> 00:43:28.867
I love ya.
I appreciate you,

803
00:43:28.934 --> 00:43:30.734
and congratulations
on your induction

804
00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:33.000
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

805
00:43:33.066 --> 00:43:34.367
Well deserved.

806
00:43:36.900 --> 00:43:41.934
Hi, everyone, Irving here,
AKA Don Henley's Satan.

807
00:43:42.000 --> 00:43:44.934
I actually prefer Glenn Frey's
nickname for me better,

808
00:43:45.500 --> 00:43:46.600
"Big Shorty."

809
00:43:47.533 --> 00:43:49.667
We're all here
because we're fans.

810
00:43:49.734 --> 00:43:52.000
We hear a song or a melody
and think,

811
00:43:52.066 --> 00:43:54.233
this is where I belong.

812
00:43:54.300 --> 00:43:55.934
When I was growing up
in Illinois,

813
00:43:56.033 --> 00:43:59.333
my parents thought I was headed
for a career in medicine.

814
00:43:59.400 --> 00:44:01.900
As useful as that
would be right now,

815
00:44:01.967 --> 00:44:05.867
the moment music got
ahold of me, it never let go.

816
00:44:05.934 --> 00:44:08.867
I'm so lucky
to have had a front-row seat

817
00:44:08.934 --> 00:44:11.400
to watch my favorite artists
on and off the stage

818
00:44:11.467 --> 00:44:13.433
for nearly five decades now.

819
00:44:13.500 --> 00:44:15.867
These icons became a part
of my family

820
00:44:15.934 --> 00:44:17.667
and my very best friends.

821
00:44:17.734 --> 00:44:20.867
Don Henley, Glenn Frey,
Joe Walsh,

822
00:44:20.934 --> 00:44:23.133
Dan Fogelberg, Stevie Nicks,

823
00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:25.433
Donald Fagan and Walter Becker,

824
00:44:25.500 --> 00:44:27.300
you started it all.

825
00:44:27.367 --> 00:44:29.700
Three of you are no longer
with us in person,

826
00:44:29.767 --> 00:44:32.333
but you're always with me
in spirit.

827
00:44:32.400 --> 00:44:34.934
My mantra since day one
has been,

828
00:44:35.000 --> 00:44:36.333
"Do what's right for the artist,

829
00:44:36.400 --> 00:44:39.200
and in turn, that decision
will be right for you."

830
00:44:39.266 --> 00:44:43.367
I can honestly say that
strategy hasn't failed me once.

831
00:44:43.433 --> 00:44:45.567
No one has taught me more
about the importance

832
00:44:45.633 --> 00:44:48.467
of protecting artists' rights
than Don Henley.

833
00:44:48.533 --> 00:44:51.800
We've reached a crossroads
in the music business today.

834
00:44:51.867 --> 00:44:54.266
It's time for rules
to be broken,

835
00:44:54.333 --> 00:44:56.567
but they won't break themselves.

836
00:44:56.633 --> 00:44:59.033
If you are a young artist
or executive

837
00:44:59.100 --> 00:45:00.467
watching this today,

838
00:45:00.533 --> 00:45:04.133
and I can give you any advice,
it's be brave.

839
00:45:04.200 --> 00:45:06.033
Own as much as you can.

840
00:45:06.100 --> 00:45:08.467
Depend on no one but yourselves.

841
00:45:08.533 --> 00:45:11.533
Protect intellectual property
at all costs.

842
00:45:11.600 --> 00:45:14.834
Take the long road.
Fear nothing and no one.

843
00:45:14.900 --> 00:45:16.867
I promise you, it will pay off.

844
00:45:17.600 --> 00:45:20.734
To my family, my wife Shelli.

845
00:45:20.800 --> 00:45:22.700
You're my partner in crime.

846
00:45:22.767 --> 00:45:24.400
I love you more than anything.

847
00:45:24.467 --> 00:45:27.967
Plain and simple,
none of this exists without you.

848
00:45:28.033 --> 00:45:31.900
To my kids and grandkids,
Jay, Allison, Jeffrey,

849
00:45:31.967 --> 00:45:34.500
Cameron, Rich, Sydney,
Riley and Dylan,

850
00:45:34.567 --> 00:45:36.400
I'm so proud of you all.

851
00:45:36.467 --> 00:45:38.266
Thank you
for not being the fuckups

852
00:45:38.333 --> 00:45:40.834
your mother and I
worried you could be.

853
00:45:40.900 --> 00:45:43.033
Since partnering
with my son Jeffrey,

854
00:45:43.100 --> 00:45:45.066
working with him
breaking new artists

855
00:45:45.133 --> 00:45:48.133
has offered some of the most
exciting moments of my career.

856
00:45:48.200 --> 00:45:51.467
Look at it this way,
we could have had real jobs.

857
00:45:51.533 --> 00:45:53.533
To the Hall of Fame,
thank you.

858
00:45:53.600 --> 00:45:55.800
This organization
has come so far

859
00:45:55.867 --> 00:45:58.667
and found such an important
and needed place in the world,

860
00:45:58.734 --> 00:46:01.000
a place where we can all
celebrate the artists

861
00:46:01.066 --> 00:46:02.567
and the music we love.

862
00:46:03.266 --> 00:46:06.100
I hereby induct myself

863
00:46:06.166 --> 00:46:08.433
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

864
00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:10.967
I will cherish
this moment forever.

865
00:46:20.400 --> 00:46:22.500
"It was all a dream"

866
00:46:22.567 --> 00:46:24.333
These are the most famous words

867
00:46:24.400 --> 00:46:27.233
from the greatest rapper
of all time,

868
00:46:27.300 --> 00:46:29.033
the Notorious B.I.G.

869
00:46:30.166 --> 00:46:33.233
And tonight, that dream
is turning into a reality.

870
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:36.367
Big just wanted
to be the biggest.

871
00:46:36.433 --> 00:46:38.033
He wanted to be the best.

872
00:46:38.100 --> 00:46:40.533
He wanted to have influence
and impact people

873
00:46:40.600 --> 00:46:42.200
in a positive way.

874
00:46:42.266 --> 00:46:44.934
And that clearly has been done
all over the world.

875
00:46:45.000 --> 00:46:48.533
Nobody has come close
to the way Biggie sounds.

876
00:46:48.600 --> 00:46:52.533
To the way he raps.
To the frequency that he hits.

877
00:46:52.600 --> 00:46:56.967
Tonight, we are inducting
the greatest rapper of all time

878
00:46:57.033 --> 00:46:59.600
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame,

879
00:46:59.667 --> 00:47:01.433
the Notorious B.I.G.

880
00:47:01.500 --> 00:47:05.033
Representin' Brooklyn, New York.
We up in here.

881
00:47:05.100 --> 00:47:08.300
Big, every day I wake up
I hear your voice

882
00:47:08.367 --> 00:47:10.000
motivating me, pushing me,

883
00:47:10.066 --> 00:47:12.734
pushing all of us
to be the greatest.

884
00:47:12.800 --> 00:47:15.567
The sky's the limit.
You did it, king.

885
00:47:15.633 --> 00:47:17.367
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

886
00:47:17.433 --> 00:47:20.667
Notorious B.I.G.,
the greatest of all time!

887
00:47:25.367 --> 00:47:27.266
Who is the Notorious B.I.G.?

888
00:47:28.166 --> 00:47:29.600
Some nigga
that's been stressed out

889
00:47:29.667 --> 00:47:33.100
all his motherfuckin' life.
Single parent never home.

890
00:47:33.166 --> 00:47:35.633
Fucked up in the game.
Got introduced to the drugs.

891
00:47:35.700 --> 00:47:36.800
Jumped on the drugs.

892
00:47:36.867 --> 00:47:39.433
Got paid off the drugs.
Fucked up off of drugs.

893
00:47:39.500 --> 00:47:41.467
Now I got a record deal.

894
00:47:46.533 --> 00:47:49.500
Biggie represents Bed-Stuy,
Brooklyn, New York City,

895
00:47:49.567 --> 00:47:51.133
America, the world.

896
00:47:51.200 --> 00:47:54.166
And he represents
the Black experience

897
00:47:54.233 --> 00:47:55.667
where they tell him, "No,

898
00:47:55.734 --> 00:47:58.100
your hair doesn't work,
you can't dress like that,

899
00:47:58.166 --> 00:47:59.734
you can't talk like that."

900
00:47:59.800 --> 00:48:01.233
"You can't be."

901
00:48:01.300 --> 00:48:03.633
He said, "Fuck that.
Not only am I gonna be,

902
00:48:03.700 --> 00:48:05.066
I'm gonna be the best."

903
00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:10.734
-Biggie!

904
00:48:19.767 --> 00:48:22.934
My son was the most
beautiful baby

905
00:48:23.033 --> 00:48:24.967
you've ever seen in your life.

906
00:48:26.100 --> 00:48:27.767
Catholic school
since he was six.

907
00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:32.033
Christopher
was a gentle human being.

908
00:48:32.700 --> 00:48:36.200
The street is not gentle.

909
00:48:36.266 --> 00:48:39.400
I know they weren't sitting here
learning their ABCs.

910
00:48:46.567 --> 00:48:48.900
I've been
in the streets since I was
12 years old, man.

911
00:48:48.967 --> 00:48:50.667
Beaten up by police,
everything, man.

912
00:48:50.734 --> 00:48:53.367
Everything a motherfucker
imagine or see,

913
00:48:53.433 --> 00:48:54.633
I done been through it.

914
00:49:34.367 --> 00:49:37.367
I heard him making noise
in his room,

915
00:49:37.433 --> 00:49:40.233
and I would tell him,
"Please stop the noise."

916
00:49:40.300 --> 00:49:43.333
He said, "I'm not making noise.
I'm rapping."

917
00:49:43.400 --> 00:49:45.233
He said
it was gonna make him rich,

918
00:49:45.300 --> 00:49:46.467
make him famous.

919
00:49:51.467 --> 00:49:53.900
Making tapes in
the basement with my nigga 50.

920
00:49:53.967 --> 00:49:56.200
It just happened to get to Puffy
and Puffy heard it.

921
00:49:56.266 --> 00:49:57.467
He signed me.

922
00:49:57.533 --> 00:50:00.000
This is my new artist,
the Notorious B.I.G.

923
00:50:01.700 --> 00:50:03.166
His voice, first and foremost,

924
00:50:03.233 --> 00:50:05.033
was something
that was so unique.

925
00:50:05.100 --> 00:50:08.700
And also his style.
His mental approach.

926
00:50:08.767 --> 00:50:12.300
I was like, "Oh, my God."
I found something rare.

927
00:50:15.600 --> 00:50:17.834
It was the undisputed sound

928
00:50:17.900 --> 00:50:21.266
of New York. It was this voice

929
00:50:21.333 --> 00:50:24.433
with such authority and bravado.

930
00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:37.467
The way he
approached things,

931
00:50:37.533 --> 00:50:39.000
it's like a mental game
of chess,

932
00:50:39.066 --> 00:50:41.033
and every lyric
is a certain movement

933
00:50:41.100 --> 00:50:43.633
to bring you in visually
and captivate you.

934
00:50:43.700 --> 00:50:47.367
I'm just trying to rip
the hardest, hardest rhymes.

935
00:50:55.867 --> 00:50:57.867
Me and Puff was
real tight. That's my boy.

936
00:50:57.934 --> 00:50:59.500
He took me out
of a dangerous game,

937
00:50:59.567 --> 00:51:00.633
you know what I'm sayin'?

938
00:51:00.700 --> 00:51:02.800
I mean, I was selling drugs
real hard, you know.

939
00:51:02.867 --> 00:51:04.800
When I got the record deal,
all that got cut short.

940
00:51:14.500 --> 00:51:18.000
Two young men
that really had a chemistry,

941
00:51:18.066 --> 00:51:20.266
and this dream that we had.

942
00:51:20.333 --> 00:51:22.033
And it was a dream
that we had together

943
00:51:22.100 --> 00:51:23.200
and we made happen together.

944
00:51:23.266 --> 00:51:25.233
So it made our bond
extremely close.

945
00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:39.266
You could tell, like,

946
00:51:39.333 --> 00:51:41.000
"Oh, this guy's about to be
a superstar."

947
00:51:52.100 --> 00:51:53.900
With "Juicy," my gold chart.

948
00:51:55.066 --> 00:51:57.900
Straight out the hood,
a nigga did good.

949
00:52:03.500 --> 00:52:04.834
The first record's a hit.

950
00:52:04.900 --> 00:52:07.367
And everything
is happening so fast.

951
00:52:08.433 --> 00:52:10.000
When I first met Big

952
00:52:10.066 --> 00:52:12.133
at this Bad Boy photoshoot,

953
00:52:12.200 --> 00:52:15.934
immediately, there was something
that I felt that was

954
00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:17.633
really cool about him.

955
00:52:17.700 --> 00:52:18.767
This is my woman.

956
00:52:18.834 --> 00:52:20.867
It may have been
about six weeks,

957
00:52:20.934 --> 00:52:22.433
and he was like,
"I'm gonna marry you."

958
00:52:22.500 --> 00:52:23.934
I'm like, "Are you serious?"

959
00:52:24.000 --> 00:52:26.533
Less than a week,
we got married!

960
00:52:33.166 --> 00:52:34.300
Some people might say,

961
00:52:34.367 --> 00:52:35.567
"Damn, this nigga's married,

962
00:52:35.633 --> 00:52:37.600
and he's saying this stuff
about women."

963
00:52:37.667 --> 00:52:39.834
Faith helped me--
She helped me write that.

964
00:52:39.900 --> 00:52:41.934
When we was in the studio
listening to the beats,

965
00:52:42.000 --> 00:52:44.200
I was like, "I don't know
what I wanna write about."

966
00:52:44.266 --> 00:52:46.400
She was like,
"Write about your honeys."

967
00:52:46.467 --> 00:52:48.533
So I just wrote about my honeys.

968
00:53:08.066 --> 00:53:10.133
Everybody's showing
me love and bought the record,

969
00:53:10.200 --> 00:53:12.100
and it's stayed on the charts
for a long time.

970
00:53:12.166 --> 00:53:15.033
And I got love for them,
so I'mma keep doing it.

971
00:53:22.967 --> 00:53:24.533
Big was
a brilliant songwriter.

972
00:53:24.600 --> 00:53:27.033
He just made movies
almost like Hitchcock.

973
00:53:27.100 --> 00:53:29.333
You know, they was these tales
that were disturbing.

974
00:53:31.367 --> 00:53:33.166
But they had all a purpose.

975
00:53:38.700 --> 00:53:41.233
He had this incredible,
deep bass voice,

976
00:53:41.300 --> 00:53:44.533
but he wielded it
like a virtuoso.

977
00:53:44.600 --> 00:53:48.834
And he could paint a picture
with as few words as possible,

978
00:53:48.900 --> 00:53:50.700
and set the entire scene.

979
00:53:53.133 --> 00:53:55.533
When we went into
makin' the next album,

980
00:53:55.600 --> 00:53:57.633
the whole concept
was more positive.

981
00:53:57.700 --> 00:53:59.266
And when I started doing
Ready to Die,

982
00:53:59.333 --> 00:54:01.066
there was a lot of anger,
you know what I'm saying?

983
00:54:01.133 --> 00:54:03.100
I was just-- A lotta hatred
coming out.

984
00:54:03.166 --> 00:54:04.367
You know?
It was real, though.

985
00:54:04.433 --> 00:54:07.300
Life After Death
is the flip side of things.

986
00:54:07.367 --> 00:54:09.467
I can't rhyme about
being broke no more.

987
00:54:09.533 --> 00:54:10.967
I ain't broke!

988
00:54:16.367 --> 00:54:18.667
Rap music is all about
who's gonna be the king.

989
00:54:18.734 --> 00:54:20.467
Nobody get in this game

990
00:54:20.533 --> 00:54:22.333
to just be an average
motherfucker.

991
00:54:22.400 --> 00:54:24.900
The West Coast, they were
selling millions of records.

992
00:54:24.967 --> 00:54:26.100
Before Biggie,

993
00:54:26.166 --> 00:54:28.200
I feel like there was
only so far New York rap

994
00:54:28.266 --> 00:54:29.767
could go as far as sales.

995
00:54:29.834 --> 00:54:31.400
Biggie changed all of that.

996
00:54:35.967 --> 00:54:37.934
Everybody that starts this shit,

997
00:54:38.000 --> 00:54:40.066
they wanna be the largest rapper
in the world

998
00:54:40.133 --> 00:54:41.633
That's they dream.
You get into this shit

999
00:54:41.700 --> 00:54:42.767
to be a celebrity.

1000
00:54:42.834 --> 00:54:45.300
You wanna be in the magazines,
you wanna be famous.

1001
00:54:45.367 --> 00:54:46.567
You wanna be rich.

1002
00:54:49.934 --> 00:54:52.000
The undisputed king of New York.

1003
00:54:52.066 --> 00:54:54.200
The first rap artist
with a number one hit

1004
00:54:54.266 --> 00:54:56.066
the first week his single
was released,

1005
00:54:56.133 --> 00:54:58.767
Notorious B.I.G.!

1006
00:54:58.834 --> 00:55:00.200
My responsibility in rap

1007
00:55:00.266 --> 00:55:04.000
is just to-- to me, in my eyes,
just to keep making hits.

1008
00:55:04.066 --> 00:55:07.467
Keep selling records
so my family can be straight.

1009
00:55:07.533 --> 00:55:09.266
While at the same time,
make music

1010
00:55:09.333 --> 00:55:11.033
for the people who can
feel that shit.

1011
00:55:23.200 --> 00:55:25.200
I remember when
he was doing Life After Death.

1012
00:55:25.266 --> 00:55:26.734
And he sent me the demo.

1013
00:55:27.533 --> 00:55:28.867
It was incredible.

1014
00:55:33.667 --> 00:55:34.667
Oh, my...

1015
00:55:35.333 --> 00:55:36.734
Oh, we got a problem.

1016
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.300
I was a little worried
for myself, as an artist.

1017
00:55:42.300 --> 00:55:45.000
It's just really unfortunate,
what happened after that.

1018
00:55:46.734 --> 00:55:48.867
I just wanna give
a shoutout to my whole family.

1019
00:55:48.934 --> 00:55:51.667
T'yanna, and little CJ,
and my mom.

1020
00:55:51.734 --> 00:55:54.133
It feel good to just
have her at ease,

1021
00:55:54.200 --> 00:55:56.467
knowing her son
is doing no wrong.

1022
00:55:56.533 --> 00:55:59.100
-I'm staying out of trouble.

1023
00:55:59.166 --> 00:56:00.633
-Y'all get down.
-Someone got shot.

1024
00:56:00.700 --> 00:56:01.667
It's Big in there.

1025
00:56:05.133 --> 00:56:07.600
The death of rapper
Notorious B.I.G.

1026
00:56:07.667 --> 00:56:09.600
is the second time
in six months

1027
00:56:09.667 --> 00:56:11.667
that a rap star
has been shot to death.

1028
00:56:11.734 --> 00:56:14.533
And he was only 24 years old.

1029
00:56:14.600 --> 00:56:16.867
This news
just went through our body.

1030
00:56:16.934 --> 00:56:18.834
It gave us chills.

1031
00:56:18.900 --> 00:56:21.066
It's one of
the most tragic what-ifs

1032
00:56:21.133 --> 00:56:22.567
in the history of hip hop.

1033
00:56:22.633 --> 00:56:24.700
You never thought that
hip hop could take it this far.

1034
00:56:24.767 --> 00:56:26.500
How much farther
could he have taken it?

1035
00:56:30.467 --> 00:56:31.967
He was my son.

1036
00:56:33.600 --> 00:56:34.767
My friend.

1037
00:56:35.734 --> 00:56:39.834
And there is not a day
that goes by...

1038
00:56:42.033 --> 00:56:43.734
that I don't think of him.

1039
00:56:46.300 --> 00:56:49.467
They say, like,
time heals all wounds.

1040
00:56:49.533 --> 00:56:51.667
You know,
I kinda wait for that day.

1041
00:56:52.500 --> 00:56:53.767
But I also think that,

1042
00:56:53.834 --> 00:56:56.734
you know,
time doesn't heal some wounds.

1043
00:56:56.800 --> 00:56:58.667
Some things
you have to live with.

1044
00:57:01.233 --> 00:57:03.834
The human side of him
came through his music,

1045
00:57:03.900 --> 00:57:06.734
and I think it moved
the molecules in the world.

1046
00:57:06.800 --> 00:57:09.600
I know for a fact it pointed me
in a direction,

1047
00:57:09.667 --> 00:57:11.533
and I'm sure this happened
to millions

1048
00:57:11.600 --> 00:57:13.633
and millions of people
worldwide.

1049
00:57:13.700 --> 00:57:15.900
Notorious B.I.G.

1050
00:57:15.967 --> 00:57:20.200
We know he went from negative
to positive.

1051
00:57:20.266 --> 00:57:21.400
And emerged

1052
00:57:21.467 --> 00:57:26.633
as one of the world's
most important hip hop stars.

1053
00:57:29.900 --> 00:57:32.266
All my people's
gotta stay on a positive vibe.

1054
00:57:34.233 --> 00:57:36.367
Negativity just
brings failure, you know?

1055
00:57:38.066 --> 00:57:39.600
We ain't trying
to fail in this thing.

1056
00:57:39.667 --> 00:57:40.800
We trying to succeed.

1057
00:57:42.567 --> 00:57:44.300
Keepin' it real forever.

1058
00:57:48.166 --> 00:57:51.066
When my dad passed away,
I was only three years old.

1059
00:57:51.133 --> 00:57:53.633
Even though I didn't get to
know him as well as I wanted,

1060
00:57:53.700 --> 00:57:55.333
through his fans and our family,

1061
00:57:55.400 --> 00:57:57.333
I was able to see
with my own eyes

1062
00:57:57.400 --> 00:58:00.000
that his music transcended
the hip hop industry.

1063
00:58:00.066 --> 00:58:01.734
And he was able to not
just become

1064
00:58:01.800 --> 00:58:04.233
the king of New York,
but the king of the culture.

1065
00:58:04.300 --> 00:58:05.533
I know if my dad was here,

1066
00:58:05.600 --> 00:58:07.400
he would want to thank his mom,
my grandma,

1067
00:58:07.467 --> 00:58:08.934
Voletta "Mema" Wallace,

1068
00:58:09.000 --> 00:58:11.934
Gigi, Uncle Dave, my mom Jan,

1069
00:58:12.000 --> 00:58:14.400
Faith, Todd, Puffy,

1070
00:58:14.467 --> 00:58:17.233
Wayne, Mark,
the Junior Mafia family,

1071
00:58:17.300 --> 00:58:19.066
everyone that helped bring
his music to life.

1072
00:58:19.133 --> 00:58:20.834
And of course,
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

1073
00:58:20.900 --> 00:58:22.133
for this tremendous honor.

1074
00:58:22.200 --> 00:58:23.633
CJ?

1075
00:58:23.700 --> 00:58:26.433
Christopher George
Latore Wallace.

1076
00:58:26.967 --> 00:58:29.266
AKA the Notorious B.I.G.

1077
00:58:29.333 --> 00:58:31.000
AKA Biggie Smalls.

1078
00:58:31.066 --> 00:58:33.133
AKA Frank Wyatt.

1079
00:58:33.200 --> 00:58:35.700
AKA the King of New York.

1080
00:58:35.767 --> 00:58:37.266
Our father was one
of the founding

1081
00:58:37.333 --> 00:58:38.934
fathers of hip hop.

1082
00:58:39.000 --> 00:58:41.166
He helped revolutionize
what was a young artform

1083
00:58:41.233 --> 00:58:43.567
for the Black community
and the world.

1084
00:58:43.633 --> 00:58:44.967
I'm honored to share his name

1085
00:58:45.033 --> 00:58:47.967
and his dedication
to Black music, creativity,

1086
00:58:48.033 --> 00:58:50.467
self-expression,
and Black freedom.

1087
00:58:50.934 --> 00:58:52.400
I love you, Mema.

1088
00:58:52.467 --> 00:58:54.734
Thanks for teaching us
who Christopher Wallace was,

1089
00:58:54.800 --> 00:58:58.867
as a son, friend,
poet, artist, and father.

1090
00:58:58.934 --> 00:59:01.967
We love you, Mema.
We love you, Dad.

1091
00:59:02.033 --> 00:59:03.533
Brooklyn, we did it!

1092
00:59:15.200 --> 00:59:18.233
Depeche Mode is the soundtrack
of my adolescence.

1093
00:59:18.300 --> 00:59:19.500
I'm not kidding.

1094
00:59:19.567 --> 00:59:22.700
There was literally a song
for every occasion of my life.

1095
00:59:22.767 --> 00:59:26.266
My first date, my first time
leaving South Africa,

1096
00:59:26.333 --> 00:59:29.000
and, of course, the first time
I got my heart broken.

1097
00:59:29.066 --> 00:59:31.967
So when I finally got to see
them live a couple of years ago,

1098
00:59:32.033 --> 00:59:36.133
it was like this epic slap
in the face of nostalgia.

1099
00:59:36.200 --> 00:59:37.166
But more than that,

1100
00:59:37.233 --> 00:59:39.266
when I was at the show,
I realized what else

1101
00:59:39.333 --> 00:59:41.533
I loved about their music.

1102
00:59:41.600 --> 00:59:43.800
They celebrate the outsider.

1103
00:59:43.867 --> 00:59:45.600
Their music brings
people together

1104
00:59:45.667 --> 00:59:47.633
from all different
walks of life.

1105
00:59:47.700 --> 00:59:51.233
It makes them feel like
it's okay to be different.

1106
00:59:51.300 --> 00:59:54.100
That really hit me watching
the videos at the concert.

1107
00:59:54.166 --> 00:59:55.400
I was moved to tears.

1108
00:59:55.467 --> 00:59:57.667
I came home.
I told my daughters about it.

1109
00:59:57.734 --> 01:00:00.300
And I was also
really fucking pissed,

1110
01:00:00.367 --> 01:00:02.900
because I don't usually go
to rock concerts

1111
01:00:02.967 --> 01:00:04.400
to bawl my eyes out.

1112
01:00:05.200 --> 01:00:06.600
But truthfully though,

1113
01:00:06.667 --> 01:00:09.533
it just speaks
to the immense power

1114
01:00:09.600 --> 01:00:11.834
Depeche Mode has had
over the years.

1115
01:00:11.900 --> 01:00:15.066
It is also why, when I got
the chance to pick some songs

1116
01:00:15.133 --> 01:00:16.934
for the Atomic Blonde
soundtrack,

1117
01:00:17.000 --> 01:00:18.934
they were the first on my list.

1118
01:00:19.000 --> 01:00:21.333
It's no surprise
that they're joining the ranks

1119
01:00:21.400 --> 01:00:23.166
of the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

1120
01:00:23.233 --> 01:00:25.133
I mean, they should have been
there 20 years ago

1121
01:00:25.200 --> 01:00:27.166
if it was up to me.

1122
01:00:27.233 --> 01:00:29.667
But what an incredibly
well-deserved honor.

1123
01:00:30.934 --> 01:00:33.533
Thank you, guys, for being
the soundtrack to my life.

1124
01:00:53.066 --> 01:00:55.567
Depeche Mode!
Depeche Mode!

1125
01:00:55.633 --> 01:00:56.834
Depeche Mode!

1126
01:01:08.934 --> 01:01:10.400
-We love this!
-Brilliant!

1127
01:01:50.934 --> 01:01:53.433
The original band
was called Composition of Sound,

1128
01:01:53.500 --> 01:01:56.166
which was a bit of a mouthful.
When we decided that we wanted

1129
01:01:56.233 --> 01:01:58.500
to take it a bit seriously,
it was just something that I

1130
01:01:58.567 --> 01:02:01.200
picked up in college. It was
just the name of a magazine.

1131
01:02:05.800 --> 01:02:07.433
We just figured out that

1132
01:02:07.500 --> 01:02:09.100
for something
like a synthesizer,

1133
01:02:09.166 --> 01:02:10.533
you only needed
two fingers to play it.

1134
01:02:10.600 --> 01:02:13.500
We felt that music
had to move on and, yeah,

1135
01:02:13.567 --> 01:02:15.900
the punk explosion
had been really exciting

1136
01:02:15.967 --> 01:02:18.533
and it had to be taken on
a step from there.

1137
01:02:18.600 --> 01:02:21.000
Electronic music
and sequences

1138
01:02:21.066 --> 01:02:23.066
just seemed like
a natural progression.

1139
01:02:23.133 --> 01:02:25.500
You could sit
and program something

1140
01:02:25.567 --> 01:02:28.934
and it was more about ideas
than actual,

1141
01:02:29.000 --> 01:02:31.700
you know, being a technically
good musician.

1142
01:03:02.500 --> 01:03:05.166
I think,
sonically, Depeche Mode were

1143
01:03:05.233 --> 01:03:08.000
and are really
on the forefront of...

1144
01:03:08.934 --> 01:03:10.967
throwing away all rule books.

1145
01:03:11.033 --> 01:03:14.600
That freedom of sonics
I think is what defines them.

1146
01:03:14.667 --> 01:03:16.834
The idea is to roll the pebble

1147
01:03:16.900 --> 01:03:18.700
on this piece
of metal over here.

1148
01:03:19.667 --> 01:03:23.300
And the idea is
to take that sequence...

1149
01:03:23.367 --> 01:03:26.166
and to make
an interesting rhythm out of it.

1150
01:03:28.734 --> 01:03:30.066
Early '80s,

1151
01:03:30.133 --> 01:03:32.900
there was this experimental
kind of exploration

1152
01:03:32.967 --> 01:03:36.900
of these new forms of ways
to make loud noise.

1153
01:03:39.200 --> 01:03:42.600
Depeche Mode was charging ahead
at the forefront.

1154
01:03:50.934 --> 01:03:52.967
We play the same synths
that they play.

1155
01:03:53.033 --> 01:03:55.200
The reason we started
looking at those synths

1156
01:03:55.266 --> 01:03:56.233
when we were younger

1157
01:03:56.300 --> 01:03:57.800
is because we were like,
"What is that sound?"

1158
01:03:57.867 --> 01:04:00.333
"How do you get that sound?"

1159
01:04:00.400 --> 01:04:03.066
We deliberately,
between albums, try to

1160
01:04:03.133 --> 01:04:04.967
make it different
to the previous one.

1161
01:04:05.033 --> 01:04:07.633
We were determined not to
just repeat the same album

1162
01:04:07.700 --> 01:04:08.867
over and over again.

1163
01:04:08.934 --> 01:04:11.767
So we were constantly trying
to change our approach.

1164
01:04:17.767 --> 01:04:20.000
Martin Gore
is a gifted writer,

1165
01:04:20.066 --> 01:04:21.200
a gifted composer.

1166
01:04:21.266 --> 01:04:24.600
He said, "Let's not make always
a happy song."

1167
01:04:24.667 --> 01:04:28.000
Let's talk realistically
about the human condition.

1168
01:04:39.767 --> 01:04:41.066
We soon found that,

1169
01:04:41.133 --> 01:04:43.066
when we were playing
to people, they all came back

1170
01:04:43.133 --> 01:04:45.867
the next time, plus more.
You know, the word spread.

1171
01:04:45.934 --> 01:04:48.100
No one had sold out
the Rose Bowl.

1172
01:04:48.166 --> 01:04:50.300
A new wave band selling out
the Rose Bowl?

1173
01:04:50.367 --> 01:04:51.600
It wasn't gonna happen.

1174
01:05:01.300 --> 01:05:04.100
Dave Gahan is just
a prototypical front man.

1175
01:05:04.166 --> 01:05:06.200
You can't really
take your eyes off him.

1176
01:05:06.266 --> 01:05:10.900
And whether he wrote the song
or not, he's delivering the song

1177
01:05:10.967 --> 01:05:13.000
and sort of inviting
the audience to meet him.

1178
01:05:19.233 --> 01:05:20.734
It was one of those moments,

1179
01:05:20.800 --> 01:05:23.066
spiritual moments
when it's just like

1180
01:05:23.133 --> 01:05:24.800
50,000 people at that moment

1181
01:05:24.867 --> 01:05:26.867
just together doing something.

1182
01:05:26.934 --> 01:05:29.000
And that created a power
that was greater

1183
01:05:29.066 --> 01:05:31.200
than anything
that was going on onstage.

1184
01:05:42.600 --> 01:05:43.600
Thank you!

1185
01:05:46.133 --> 01:05:48.800
A Southland record store
turns into a mob scene tonight

1186
01:05:48.867 --> 01:05:51.467
when a popular rock band
shows up to sign autographs.

1187
01:05:51.533 --> 01:05:53.400
The band is called Depeche Mode,

1188
01:05:53.467 --> 01:05:55.700
the latest postmodern group
to retake the United States

1189
01:05:55.767 --> 01:05:58.166
-by storm.
-Over 15,000 people--

1190
01:05:58.233 --> 01:06:00.066
Riot police, we are told,

1191
01:06:00.133 --> 01:06:02.000
have gathered
at the Beverly Center.

1192
01:06:02.066 --> 01:06:03.900
If you are in the wider

1193
01:06:03.967 --> 01:06:06.166
Depeche Mode community,
you're part of something.

1194
01:06:06.233 --> 01:06:08.533
And I think people want to feel
that they belong somewhere.

1195
01:06:08.600 --> 01:06:10.567
They want to feel...

1196
01:06:10.633 --> 01:06:14.533
understood for five minutes,
an hour-and-a-half, two hours

1197
01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:16.867
when they're listening to a song
or they're seeing a show.

1198
01:06:16.934 --> 01:06:19.633
And I think that's something
that we are very...

1199
01:06:20.033 --> 01:06:21.066
in awe of.

1200
01:06:45.633 --> 01:06:47.600
It's the soundtrack of my life.

1201
01:06:47.667 --> 01:06:50.967
Going to a Depeche Mode
concert is like going to,

1202
01:06:51.033 --> 01:06:53.333
like, the best church
you've ever been to.

1203
01:06:54.667 --> 01:06:56.066
Never leaves my neck.

1204
01:06:56.133 --> 01:06:57.834
My boy.

1205
01:06:57.900 --> 01:07:01.934
I think some bands
exist, on a universal level,

1206
01:07:02.000 --> 01:07:04.667
solely to bring people together,

1207
01:07:04.734 --> 01:07:07.567
to make people that might feel
more outsidery

1208
01:07:07.633 --> 01:07:10.767
realize that they're part
of a bigger family.

1209
01:07:10.834 --> 01:07:14.400
Depeche Mode can make lost souls
feel a bit more found.

1210
01:07:17.633 --> 01:07:18.800
The music.

1211
01:07:19.900 --> 01:07:20.900
The notes.

1212
01:07:21.467 --> 01:07:22.500
The voice.

1213
01:07:23.166 --> 01:07:25.000
It touched us all.

1214
01:07:25.066 --> 01:07:29.467
That's why they have a fan
like 22-year-old girl like me.

1215
01:07:32.266 --> 01:07:33.633
I feel like...

1216
01:07:33.700 --> 01:07:36.166
Depeche Mode just sort of
talked about real shit.

1217
01:07:36.233 --> 01:07:38.567
I think most of us
have had times of depression

1218
01:07:38.633 --> 01:07:41.233
or times of not, you know,

1219
01:07:41.300 --> 01:07:43.333
not feeling the way society
tells you

1220
01:07:43.400 --> 01:07:45.100
you're supposed to feel
all the time.

1221
01:07:45.166 --> 01:07:48.033
Depeche Mode, in a way,
was just saying,

1222
01:07:48.100 --> 01:07:49.967
"It's okay wherever you're at.

1223
01:07:50.033 --> 01:07:52.900
If you feel different
from everyone around you,

1224
01:07:52.967 --> 01:07:55.066
you're kinda-- There's other
people that feel that way."

1225
01:07:55.133 --> 01:07:57.500
Which is sort of, I think,
a powerful thing.

1226
01:08:18.834 --> 01:08:20.433
Sing it!

1227
01:08:20.500 --> 01:08:23.767
Yeah, we started off being
total electronic purists.

1228
01:08:23.834 --> 01:08:26.133
And we gradually sort of
came around to being open

1229
01:08:26.200 --> 01:08:29.500
to using any instrument
that suits a part.

1230
01:08:40.500 --> 01:08:43.100
Literally, you could say
they were just a pop band,

1231
01:08:43.166 --> 01:08:44.266
but they're not.

1232
01:08:44.333 --> 01:08:46.467
Their songs have far more depth.

1233
01:08:46.533 --> 01:08:50.000
The way that they're perceived
live is almost rock.

1234
01:08:50.066 --> 01:08:52.633
So there's all these strange
combinations

1235
01:08:52.700 --> 01:08:56.033
that I think just give them
a very unique standpoint.

1236
01:08:56.100 --> 01:08:59.333
There's nobody else I can think
of who's anywhere near

1237
01:08:59.400 --> 01:09:00.734
to what they're trying to do.

1238
01:09:24.066 --> 01:09:26.533
With Martin
and with Fletch and with Dave,

1239
01:09:26.600 --> 01:09:28.633
you see these people
that have been together

1240
01:09:28.700 --> 01:09:31.667
for whatever it is,
30 or 40 years,

1241
01:09:32.567 --> 01:09:34.166
and have just stuck together.

1242
01:09:49.433 --> 01:09:51.867
They're not talking about the
same things over and over again.

1243
01:09:51.934 --> 01:09:53.367
When you actually write
down a list

1244
01:09:53.433 --> 01:09:54.800
of, "What are Depeche Mode
songs about,"

1245
01:09:54.867 --> 01:09:58.100
it's such a vast
array of things.

1246
01:09:58.166 --> 01:10:00.633
And I think people appreciate
that honesty

1247
01:10:00.700 --> 01:10:03.100
at all the different points
in their life

1248
01:10:03.166 --> 01:10:04.467
and in the writers' lives.

1249
01:10:04.533 --> 01:10:06.767
It's like you go
on the journey with them.

1250
01:10:09.767 --> 01:10:11.767
I've always been
very passionate about music,

1251
01:10:11.834 --> 01:10:13.834
and it's the only thing that's
ever really interested me,

1252
01:10:13.900 --> 01:10:16.233
so I can't imagine
doing anything else.

1253
01:10:16.300 --> 01:10:17.834
We're lucky,
as a band,

1254
01:10:17.900 --> 01:10:19.367
our fans give us our freedom.

1255
01:10:19.433 --> 01:10:22.567
They give us the ability
to release what we like.

1256
01:10:22.633 --> 01:10:24.333
I'm very grateful
that we get to do this

1257
01:10:24.400 --> 01:10:26.567
and we still got fans
that want to come and see us.

1258
01:10:26.633 --> 01:10:27.934
We must be doing
something right.

1259
01:10:31.433 --> 01:10:33.166
I feel like
their music still sounds

1260
01:10:33.233 --> 01:10:35.400
like it could come out
20 years from now.

1261
01:10:35.467 --> 01:10:39.467
Depeche were able to take that
spirit and spread it,

1262
01:10:39.533 --> 01:10:42.033
which is really kind
of a sacred responsibility.

1263
01:10:42.100 --> 01:10:43.967
That mystique
and that majesty

1264
01:10:44.033 --> 01:10:46.900
that they created together

1265
01:10:46.967 --> 01:10:50.800
is extremely influential
on most bands, I think.

1266
01:10:50.867 --> 01:10:53.233
For a band like us,
that makes music that we make,

1267
01:10:53.300 --> 01:10:55.000
they are like the godfathers.

1268
01:10:55.066 --> 01:10:58.166
Honestly, when we play in Europe
still to this day,

1269
01:10:58.233 --> 01:11:00.767
the front row is 90 percent
Depeche Mode shirts

1270
01:11:00.834 --> 01:11:04.333
because... they, like,
gave us their blessing.

1271
01:11:04.400 --> 01:11:07.200
All you have to do is
put the needle in the groove

1272
01:11:07.266 --> 01:11:09.800
and let the music
speak for itself.

1273
01:11:09.867 --> 01:11:11.333
They've done a wonderful job

1274
01:11:11.400 --> 01:11:14.667
seeing things that we may not
have seen before

1275
01:11:14.734 --> 01:11:18.734
and listening to things
that we had yet to hear.

1276
01:11:38.567 --> 01:11:40.166
Yeah, that's right!

1277
01:11:56.600 --> 01:11:58.967
All right.
Congratulations, boys.

1278
01:11:59.033 --> 01:12:01.200
We finally found a way

1279
01:12:01.266 --> 01:12:04.600
to accept our induction
into the Rock and Roll

1280
01:12:04.667 --> 01:12:06.400
-Hall of Fame.
-Yes!

1281
01:12:06.467 --> 01:12:07.967
-Yeah.
-Congratulations.

1282
01:12:08.033 --> 01:12:09.166
Congratulations.

1283
01:12:09.233 --> 01:12:11.166
It's a shame
not doing the concert.

1284
01:12:11.233 --> 01:12:13.000
Aren't we doing the concert now?

1285
01:12:18.233 --> 01:12:20.834
-Yeah!

1286
01:12:20.900 --> 01:12:24.200
Reach out and touch...
Yeah. No we're not doing that.

1287
01:12:24.266 --> 01:12:27.767
Um... But still, it's an honor,
of course, to be inducted

1288
01:12:27.834 --> 01:12:30.567
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

1289
01:12:30.633 --> 01:12:33.233
Um... I am reading notes here,
by the way.

1290
01:12:33.300 --> 01:12:37.066
Congratulations to all
our fellow inductees.

1291
01:12:37.133 --> 01:12:39.834
It's incredible now
to be in this club.

1292
01:12:39.900 --> 01:12:42.033
There's so many other musicians

1293
01:12:42.100 --> 01:12:44.600
and artists
that are part of this

1294
01:12:44.667 --> 01:12:47.633
that we have grown up
listening to.

1295
01:12:47.700 --> 01:12:50.700
David Bowie,
Iggy Pop and the Stooges,

1296
01:12:50.767 --> 01:12:54.000
-The Clash, just to name a few.
-The Eagles.

1297
01:12:54.066 --> 01:12:57.700
Yeah, don't forget the--
Everybody loves the Eagles!

1298
01:12:57.767 --> 01:13:00.533
-The Eagles.

1299
01:13:00.600 --> 01:13:03.066
Let's not forget,
we got a big congratulations,

1300
01:13:03.133 --> 01:13:05.333
of course,
to Vince Clark

1301
01:13:05.400 --> 01:13:07.300
and of course, to Alan Wilder,

1302
01:13:07.367 --> 01:13:09.233
who are part of the DM family

1303
01:13:09.300 --> 01:13:10.533
-and DM history.
-Thanks, Vince!

1304
01:13:10.600 --> 01:13:12.066
And of course,
the success of this band.

1305
01:13:12.133 --> 01:13:13.800
Thanks, Alan.

1306
01:13:13.867 --> 01:13:16.800
We've been doing this
most of our adult lives,

1307
01:13:17.367 --> 01:13:18.633
pretty much.

1308
01:13:18.700 --> 01:13:21.600
I guess we were 18, 19
when we started doing this.

1309
01:13:21.667 --> 01:13:23.200
And, of course,
I want to thank

1310
01:13:23.266 --> 01:13:25.967
Martin and Fletch
while I've got the opportunity.

1311
01:13:26.033 --> 01:13:27.333
-Thanks, Dave.
-'Cause I don't know

1312
01:13:27.400 --> 01:13:28.900
what the hell
I would have been doing

1313
01:13:28.967 --> 01:13:31.500
if I didn't find music,
to be quite honest.

1314
01:13:31.567 --> 01:13:34.633
You'd have been still
stealing cars, Dave.

1315
01:13:34.700 --> 01:13:37.000
Well, yeah,
maybe I would have moved on

1316
01:13:37.066 --> 01:13:38.967
a bit from there.
Let's hope I would've been--

1317
01:13:39.033 --> 01:13:40.934
Stealing larger things
than cars.

1318
01:13:41.000 --> 01:13:42.967
-Let's hope so.

1319
01:13:43.033 --> 01:13:44.967
Definitely something dodgy.

1320
01:13:45.033 --> 01:13:46.767
I mean, music saved us,
you know,

1321
01:13:46.834 --> 01:13:48.667
-in more ways than one.
-Absolutely. Yeah.

1322
01:13:48.734 --> 01:13:50.367
Thanks to you, as well.

1323
01:13:50.433 --> 01:13:51.967
You know,
we wouldn't be here either.

1324
01:13:52.033 --> 01:13:54.133
-Yeah.
-Thanks, Mart.

1325
01:13:54.200 --> 01:13:57.266
You know, we were growing up
listening to music on the radio

1326
01:13:57.333 --> 01:13:59.900
and having music to--
It really kind of

1327
01:13:59.967 --> 01:14:03.066
helped us to feel normal,
and feel part of something.

1328
01:14:03.133 --> 01:14:04.734
You know, and that's what music
does with people

1329
01:14:04.800 --> 01:14:06.967
and I think that's what
Depeche Mode has done

1330
01:14:07.033 --> 01:14:08.367
for many people.

1331
01:14:08.433 --> 01:14:11.000
I think it-- Music really brings
people together

1332
01:14:11.066 --> 01:14:14.300
and God knows,
we need that more today

1333
01:14:14.367 --> 01:14:16.433
than it seems any other time.

1334
01:14:16.500 --> 01:14:19.233
Unfortunately we're not gonna be
able to perform for you tonight,

1335
01:14:19.300 --> 01:14:21.667
of course,
because of this situation

1336
01:14:21.734 --> 01:14:23.333
we find all of ourselves in.

1337
01:14:23.400 --> 01:14:26.333
But I want to thank
some special people here

1338
01:14:26.400 --> 01:14:28.967
who have supported us
and believed in us.

1339
01:14:29.033 --> 01:14:32.100
Of course, Daniel Miller
and Mute Records,

1340
01:14:32.166 --> 01:14:34.033
who found us and believed in us.

1341
01:14:34.100 --> 01:14:38.934
And he continues to be
a sort of guidance to this day.

1342
01:14:39.000 --> 01:14:40.200
And Tom Corbin,

1343
01:14:40.266 --> 01:14:43.467
who, thank God, came in
at the right time

1344
01:14:43.533 --> 01:14:45.467
and actually made us look cool.

1345
01:14:45.533 --> 01:14:48.333
-Jonathan Kessler, our manager,

1346
01:14:48.400 --> 01:14:50.033
of course,
and spiritual advisor.

1347
01:14:50.100 --> 01:14:52.300
All of the promoters
across the world

1348
01:14:52.367 --> 01:14:55.000
that took a chance on
a bunch of outsider,

1349
01:14:55.066 --> 01:14:57.934
eyeliner-wearing weirdos
from Essex.

1350
01:14:58.834 --> 01:15:01.567
And all of the wankers
that didn't.

1351
01:15:05.233 --> 01:15:08.266
Um... I also want to thank
Peter Gordeno

1352
01:15:08.333 --> 01:15:11.967
and Christian Eigner,
who have been such a huge part

1353
01:15:12.033 --> 01:15:15.033
of this band
for the last 20 years.

1354
01:15:15.100 --> 01:15:18.767
And we're still calling them
"the new blokes."

1355
01:15:18.834 --> 01:15:21.333
Let's not forget, as well,
all our road crew,

1356
01:15:21.400 --> 01:15:24.233
tour managers, all of them
that have worked

1357
01:15:24.300 --> 01:15:28.300
tirelessly to bring
the Depeche Mode show

1358
01:15:28.367 --> 01:15:29.867
to life every night.

1359
01:15:29.934 --> 01:15:31.500
Rob Stringer at Sony,

1360
01:15:31.567 --> 01:15:34.800
who continues to support
our artistic vision.

1361
01:15:34.867 --> 01:15:37.300
And of course, all of the fans,

1362
01:15:37.367 --> 01:15:40.633
a lot of which that have been
with us from day one.

1363
01:15:40.700 --> 01:15:42.500
And of course,
last but not least,

1364
01:15:42.567 --> 01:15:45.967
a big thank you to our families,
our wives, our kids,

1365
01:15:46.033 --> 01:15:48.700
our parents, you know,
who put up with us

1366
01:15:48.767 --> 01:15:51.433
and have been with us
throughout this journey.

1367
01:15:51.500 --> 01:15:53.200
And I think I speak
for all of us

1368
01:15:53.266 --> 01:15:54.433
when I say, we love you

1369
01:15:54.500 --> 01:15:56.367
and we couldn't do it
without you.

1370
01:15:56.433 --> 01:15:58.734
Yes, absolutely.
Thank you. Well done.

1371
01:16:02.433 --> 01:16:03.467
It's a lot.

1372
01:16:03.533 --> 01:16:06.266
You better get back to your kids
and the studio.

1373
01:16:06.333 --> 01:16:09.700
Fletch, it's opening time!

1374
01:16:09.767 --> 01:16:11.800
-And you better--
-Off to the pub!

1375
01:16:11.867 --> 01:16:14.266
Talk to you guys soon.
Love you.

1376
01:16:14.333 --> 01:16:15.800
-All right.
-See ya.

1377
01:16:15.867 --> 01:16:16.867
Cheers

1378
01:16:45.700 --> 01:16:49.433
Eddie Van Halen was
a tremendously gifted musician.

1379
01:16:49.500 --> 01:16:54.333
His style and his sound
were completely unique to him.

1380
01:16:57.667 --> 01:17:01.266
He had a massive impact
on guitar playing,

1381
01:17:01.333 --> 01:17:03.967
and I don't there's anybody
that's picked up the guitar

1382
01:17:04.033 --> 01:17:07.033
since 1978 that hasn't
been touched in some way

1383
01:17:07.100 --> 01:17:09.000
by Eddie Van Halen's influence.

1384
01:17:09.066 --> 01:17:10.233
I'm gonna miss his playing

1385
01:17:10.300 --> 01:17:13.100
and I'm gonna miss him
as a friend.

1386
01:17:33.200 --> 01:17:36.533
Eddie Van Halen was amazing.
Not since Jimi Hendrix

1387
01:17:36.600 --> 01:17:38.367
had there been a guitar player

1388
01:17:38.433 --> 01:17:42.367
that had so much impact
and was so inspiring to me.

1389
01:17:42.433 --> 01:17:45.300
He just explored
the most simplest thing,

1390
01:17:45.367 --> 01:17:47.333
a harmonic on a string,

1391
01:17:47.400 --> 01:17:50.266
and brought it into this
realm of technique

1392
01:17:50.333 --> 01:17:53.300
that no one even thought
was possible.

1393
01:17:53.367 --> 01:17:55.900
He was just like
from a different planet.

1394
01:18:12.934 --> 01:18:16.400
Eddie Van Halen was
the Mozart of our generation.

1395
01:18:16.467 --> 01:18:17.700
He had the kind of talent

1396
01:18:17.767 --> 01:18:20.166
that maybe comes around
once a century.

1397
01:18:20.233 --> 01:18:23.567
Eddie Van Halen inspired me
to practice 20,000 hours

1398
01:18:23.633 --> 01:18:26.000
to try to get within 100 miles

1399
01:18:26.066 --> 01:18:28.767
of his inspired mastery
of the electric guitar.

1400
01:18:33.200 --> 01:18:35.900
You know, if I hit 80,
if I make it that far,

1401
01:18:35.967 --> 01:18:37.433
I'll still be doing
the same thing.

1402
01:18:37.500 --> 01:18:38.800
I might not be jumping,

1403
01:18:38.867 --> 01:18:41.900
I might be sitting on a stool,
but I'll still be making music.

1404
01:18:44.967 --> 01:18:47.367
Ladies and gentlemen!

1405
01:18:47.433 --> 01:18:51.367
Edward Van Halen!

1406
01:21:57.066 --> 01:21:58.967
I am the originator.

1407
01:21:59.033 --> 01:22:01.233
I am the creator.

1408
01:22:01.300 --> 01:22:03.734
I'm the architect
of rock 'n roll.

1409
01:22:10.567 --> 01:22:12.233
I was
really inventing something.

1410
01:22:12.300 --> 01:22:13.500
Something was happening.

1411
01:22:13.567 --> 01:22:16.467
It was a music of freedom.
A music of deliverance.

1412
01:22:16.533 --> 01:22:18.633
It was so full of power
and rhythm.

1413
01:22:18.700 --> 01:22:20.266
It was so intense!

1414
01:22:27.000 --> 01:22:29.367
I was singing
from the top of my voice. Woo!

1415
01:22:29.433 --> 01:22:30.767
Just screamin'!

1416
01:22:38.400 --> 01:22:40.266
I was
a natural-born entertainer.

1417
01:22:40.333 --> 01:22:41.900
Born to be a star!

1418
01:22:50.633 --> 01:22:52.000
Let me tell you something.

1419
01:22:52.066 --> 01:22:55.000
This is, without any doubt, what
you're lookin' and watchin'.

1420
01:22:55.066 --> 01:22:56.533
This is the real thing.

1421
01:23:27.500 --> 01:23:30.767
Listening to my father's
records when I was four

1422
01:23:30.834 --> 01:23:34.066
was the greatest
early experience of my life.

1423
01:23:34.133 --> 01:23:36.100
The music just seemed magical.

1424
01:23:36.166 --> 01:23:38.900
And I wound up dedicating
the rest of my life

1425
01:23:38.967 --> 01:23:42.066
to finding those moments
in music.

1426
01:23:49.834 --> 01:23:52.266
Before I started Rolling Stones
when I was 21 years old,

1427
01:23:52.333 --> 01:23:54.867
I used to read
a magazine called Crawdaddy!

1428
01:23:56.233 --> 01:23:57.600
There was one writer in there,

1429
01:23:57.667 --> 01:24:00.633
this Jon Landau,
who could write about the music

1430
01:24:00.700 --> 01:24:02.900
as if he understood musicians.

1431
01:24:02.967 --> 01:24:05.166
One of my first recollections

1432
01:24:05.233 --> 01:24:09.700
of Jon Landau was his trashing
of The Blues Project

1433
01:24:09.767 --> 01:24:14.300
in Crawdaddy!, which held the
very first of rock criticism.

1434
01:24:14.367 --> 01:24:15.567
And I was going like,

1435
01:24:16.500 --> 01:24:19.967
who does this guy think he is?

1436
01:24:20.033 --> 01:24:22.400
Who's Jon Landau?

1437
01:24:27.567 --> 01:24:29.200
When I started Rolling Stone,

1438
01:24:29.266 --> 01:24:30.567
I wrote him a letter,

1439
01:24:30.633 --> 01:24:32.333
and he wrote me right back
and said,

1440
01:24:32.400 --> 01:24:34.567
"This sounds
what I'd like to kinda do."

1441
01:24:35.400 --> 01:24:37.400
We went out
to a concert together

1442
01:24:37.467 --> 01:24:39.200
and I sat next to Jon,
just watched him.

1443
01:24:39.266 --> 01:24:41.300
Seeing him tapping away
on his legs

1444
01:24:41.367 --> 01:24:43.066
and bouncing, playing drums,

1445
01:24:43.133 --> 01:24:45.233
so full of excitement
about the music.

1446
01:24:45.300 --> 01:24:48.000
It was like
it was going through him.

1447
01:24:48.066 --> 01:24:51.567
From then on,
Jon controlled music coverage.

1448
01:24:51.633 --> 01:24:53.200
Writing about rock and roll

1449
01:24:53.266 --> 01:24:55.233
in an intelligent
and passionate way.

1450
01:24:57.734 --> 01:25:01.800
As a critic he was measured,
very thoughtful

1451
01:25:01.867 --> 01:25:05.233
but he could
take you down.

1452
01:25:05.300 --> 01:25:08.166
Jon Landau is very
definitive in his pronouncements

1453
01:25:08.233 --> 01:25:12.800
and sometimes, he gets it right,
and sometimes, he gets it wrong.

1454
01:25:15.967 --> 01:25:18.800
We'd run into people
that he had savaged in print.

1455
01:25:18.867 --> 01:25:21.967
Their eyes would narrow
and say, "You're Jon Landau?"

1456
01:25:22.033 --> 01:25:24.433
Look, I was born to be a critic.

1457
01:25:24.500 --> 01:25:28.166
I got attention.
It was some sort of success.

1458
01:25:28.233 --> 01:25:31.133
But I was completely swept up
in rock music.

1459
01:25:31.200 --> 01:25:32.800
And then R&B.

1460
01:25:36.066 --> 01:25:37.533
At the beginning
of Rolling Stone,

1461
01:25:37.600 --> 01:25:40.567
Jon was writing extraordinarily
penetrating analyses

1462
01:25:40.633 --> 01:25:42.967
of things like Aretha Franklin,

1463
01:25:43.033 --> 01:25:45.633
Otis Redding, Sam and Dave.

1464
01:25:45.700 --> 01:25:48.900
My feeling was, well,
the audience was all white,

1465
01:25:48.967 --> 01:25:50.567
so I used my space

1466
01:25:50.633 --> 01:25:53.100
to highlight
great American Black music.

1467
01:25:54.333 --> 01:25:56.166
But I really wanted
to cross over

1468
01:25:56.233 --> 01:26:00.000
from writing about the music
to producing music.

1469
01:26:00.066 --> 01:26:02.800
The first chance
was the great MC5,

1470
01:26:02.867 --> 01:26:05.734
and then with Livingston Taylor.

1471
01:26:05.800 --> 01:26:09.734
Of course, then I met Bruce,
and everything changed.

1472
01:26:12.033 --> 01:26:14.033
Went to see him
in this little club.

1473
01:26:14.967 --> 01:26:16.834
Maybe 15 people there.

1474
01:26:17.700 --> 01:26:19.867
It was just the greatest.

1475
01:26:19.934 --> 01:26:23.233
Then, I saw him a second time.
It was even better.

1476
01:26:24.000 --> 01:26:25.600
Afterwards, I wrote an article

1477
01:26:25.667 --> 01:26:28.500
that I'm still proud of
to this day.

1478
01:26:28.567 --> 01:26:31.367
Jon Landau said,
"I saw rock and roll future

1479
01:26:31.433 --> 01:26:33.800
and its name
is Bruce Springsteen."

1480
01:26:33.867 --> 01:26:35.467
First of all, when he said it,

1481
01:26:35.533 --> 01:26:38.500
we didn't think it was going
to turn into some iconic

1482
01:26:38.567 --> 01:26:40.734
quote that people
will still bring up

1483
01:26:40.800 --> 01:26:42.600
forty years later, you know.

1484
01:26:42.667 --> 01:26:44.633
He just saw a future in us.

1485
01:26:44.700 --> 01:26:47.767
He was looking
to do something different

1486
01:26:47.834 --> 01:26:49.600
with his new album.

1487
01:26:49.667 --> 01:26:51.000
He needed a collaborator.

1488
01:26:54.967 --> 01:26:56.400
Before Born to Run came out,

1489
01:26:56.467 --> 01:26:59.967
Bruce's records
were always complicated.

1490
01:27:00.033 --> 01:27:02.433
He hadn't really figured out
the studio yet.

1491
01:27:02.500 --> 01:27:05.700
I'd seen him on the stage,
and it was astounding!

1492
01:27:05.767 --> 01:27:08.533
It was so dynamic
and so theatrical,

1493
01:27:08.600 --> 01:27:12.467
but how do you focus this
into two speakers?

1494
01:27:12.533 --> 01:27:14.300
That was the challenge
with Bruce.

1495
01:27:17.467 --> 01:27:20.500
Jon had the
initial idea of doing something

1496
01:27:20.567 --> 01:27:22.934
I had never even heard of.

1497
01:27:23.000 --> 01:27:25.934
And it was something
he called "editing".

1498
01:27:28.700 --> 01:27:31.233
You mean, take something out?

1499
01:27:31.300 --> 01:27:32.867
"No, no, no, no!"

1500
01:27:32.934 --> 01:27:35.533
"We're the guys
that put everything in!

1501
01:27:35.600 --> 01:27:37.300
"I don't take anything out!"

1502
01:27:37.934 --> 01:27:40.100
"Jungleland" needed space.

1503
01:27:42.433 --> 01:27:46.367
Bruce wanted a very big,
Spector-ish sound.

1504
01:27:46.433 --> 01:27:48.633
And when you're playing
a lot of notes,

1505
01:27:48.700 --> 01:27:50.333
you can't get that sound.

1506
01:27:50.400 --> 01:27:53.066
So Jon kept pushing,
simplifying,

1507
01:27:53.133 --> 01:27:55.000
give the space for breadth.

1508
01:27:55.066 --> 01:27:57.066
And as they're doing this,

1509
01:27:57.133 --> 01:27:59.433
the song is actually
getting better.

1510
01:27:59.500 --> 01:28:03.633
It was a fascinating moment.
That epic song came to life.

1511
01:28:11.066 --> 01:28:13.266
That editor is so important.

1512
01:28:13.333 --> 01:28:17.066
That person on the receiving end
of a manuscript.

1513
01:28:17.133 --> 01:28:19.300
I don't know whether
it was my prior experience

1514
01:28:19.367 --> 01:28:23.233
being in writer/editor
relationship with Rolling Stone,

1515
01:28:23.300 --> 01:28:25.667
but my way of relating
to artistic people

1516
01:28:25.734 --> 01:28:27.200
just felt natural.

1517
01:28:27.266 --> 01:28:29.266
To this day,
I think that's my favorite

1518
01:28:29.333 --> 01:28:31.300
of Jon's production efforts,

1519
01:28:31.367 --> 01:28:33.900
is the work we did together
on Born to Run.

1520
01:28:39.033 --> 01:28:42.633
I was really inspired
by Born to Run.

1521
01:28:42.700 --> 01:28:45.767
The Pretender is
much more a classic rock record

1522
01:28:45.834 --> 01:28:48.467
than Jackson ever did.

1523
01:28:48.533 --> 01:28:52.100
The piano, Spector sound.
It's one of his best records.

1524
01:28:54.200 --> 01:28:55.600
Jon made it
a point to work

1525
01:28:55.667 --> 01:28:58.834
with all the best musicians
he could find in L.A.

1526
01:28:58.900 --> 01:29:01.867
He'd be looking at the speakers
and demanding

1527
01:29:01.934 --> 01:29:05.800
this sound to become something
he needed it to be.

1528
01:29:05.867 --> 01:29:09.066
He would say, "You mind if I go
talk to the piano player?"

1529
01:29:09.133 --> 01:29:11.300
And he'd go out there for a few
minutes and come back,

1530
01:29:11.367 --> 01:29:14.567
and suddenly, these grand chords
would be coming out.

1531
01:29:14.633 --> 01:29:17.533
And that kind of tinkering
with the mechanics of the music

1532
01:29:17.600 --> 01:29:20.500
had a power that was undeniable.

1533
01:29:20.567 --> 01:29:24.433
Working with him brought me
to a complete other level

1534
01:29:24.500 --> 01:29:25.500
of what I could do.

1535
01:29:31.100 --> 01:29:34.734
After Born to Run,
we started Darkness.

1536
01:29:34.800 --> 01:29:38.567
Pressure on that album
was monumental.

1537
01:29:38.633 --> 01:29:41.133
So they brought someone
in to help me a little bit.

1538
01:29:41.200 --> 01:29:43.633
But I was like, "Jon Landau,
this can't happen!"

1539
01:29:43.700 --> 01:29:46.467
He said, "Hey, Jim, stop!"

1540
01:29:47.100 --> 01:29:49.600
"This is not about you."

1541
01:29:49.667 --> 01:29:54.000
"This is about you helping Bruce
make the best album he can."

1542
01:29:54.066 --> 01:29:56.533
"It's called 'the big picture.'"

1543
01:29:56.600 --> 01:29:58.967
That moment changed my life.

1544
01:30:02.100 --> 01:30:03.300
Whatever I do,

1545
01:30:03.367 --> 01:30:06.133
I recognize
who the other person is

1546
01:30:06.200 --> 01:30:09.266
and what is gonna be helpful
to them.

1547
01:30:09.333 --> 01:30:11.567
Jon has
a luminous knowledge.

1548
01:30:11.633 --> 01:30:14.834
It's enabled he
and Bruce to navigate

1549
01:30:14.900 --> 01:30:17.600
waters that artists
haven't done before.

1550
01:30:20.066 --> 01:30:23.100
There was an
innate sort of intellectualism

1551
01:30:23.166 --> 01:30:25.900
that was always part
of the music we were working on.

1552
01:30:25.967 --> 01:30:29.000
Thinking about
what rock and roll meant,

1553
01:30:29.066 --> 01:30:34.266
its place in society,
its place in our own maturing.

1554
01:30:34.333 --> 01:30:37.500
Jon is a seminal figure
in rock and roll.

1555
01:30:37.567 --> 01:30:39.600
All of us
are enormously grateful.

1556
01:30:40.433 --> 01:30:41.600
Thank you, Jon.

1557
01:30:43.000 --> 01:30:45.266
As a writer,
Jon was in the forefront.

1558
01:30:46.500 --> 01:30:49.066
As a producer, critical.

1559
01:30:49.133 --> 01:30:51.333
And he created
a management style

1560
01:30:51.400 --> 01:30:53.367
based around not just
the business,

1561
01:30:53.433 --> 01:30:57.000
but nurturing the highest
artistic goals,

1562
01:30:57.066 --> 01:30:59.300
along with the personal growth.

1563
01:30:59.367 --> 01:31:02.066
No one did that
before Jon Landau

1564
01:31:02.133 --> 01:31:05.767
and I don't think anyone's
done it as well since.

1565
01:31:07.133 --> 01:31:09.934
And he's always been
an incredible friend.

1566
01:31:12.200 --> 01:31:14.934
I welcome you, good friend,

1567
01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:18.100
to the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

1568
01:31:24.367 --> 01:31:27.834
To begin at the beginning,
I love my Mom and Dad

1569
01:31:27.900 --> 01:31:29.867
for gifting me
with their humanity.

1570
01:31:29.934 --> 01:31:32.000
But tonight I particularly
want to thank them

1571
01:31:32.066 --> 01:31:33.667
for taking me
to a Pete Seger concert

1572
01:31:33.734 --> 01:31:36.200
when I was four years old.

1573
01:31:36.266 --> 01:31:38.700
Right then and there,
while Pete was singing

1574
01:31:38.767 --> 01:31:41.000
and playing his loud,
shiny banjo,

1575
01:31:41.066 --> 01:31:45.100
I suddenly felt my entire
mini-consciousness exploding.

1576
01:31:45.166 --> 01:31:46.266
And that's when I knew

1577
01:31:46.333 --> 01:31:48.500
that I would spend my life
in music.

1578
01:31:48.567 --> 01:31:51.700
So, thanks to my childhood hero,
Pete Seger.

1579
01:31:51.767 --> 01:31:53.200
I thank my wife, Barbara,

1580
01:31:53.266 --> 01:31:55.400
who I've loved
for the last 43 years,

1581
01:31:55.467 --> 01:31:58.400
our children, Kate and Charlie,
and my brother David.

1582
01:31:58.467 --> 01:31:59.967
I love you all.

1583
01:32:00.033 --> 01:32:03.700
Thanks to my most dedicated
and loyal partner, JLM,

1584
01:32:03.767 --> 01:32:06.033
Barbara Carr, and George Travis.

1585
01:32:06.100 --> 01:32:07.867
Allison Oscar, Jan Stapino,

1586
01:32:07.934 --> 01:32:10.066
and my dear friend
Chuck Plotkin.

1587
01:32:10.133 --> 01:32:12.133
I love you all as well.

1588
01:32:12.200 --> 01:32:15.200
Now I started writing
about music in 1962

1589
01:32:15.266 --> 01:32:18.000
while a junior
at Lexington High School.

1590
01:32:18.066 --> 01:32:21.700
And from there, I met
the late Paul Williams in 1966,

1591
01:32:21.767 --> 01:32:23.734
who I thank so much
for having published me

1592
01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:26.967
in his pioneering
Crawdaddy! magazine.

1593
01:32:27.033 --> 01:32:29.033
And that in turn led
to ten years of writing

1594
01:32:29.100 --> 01:32:33.400
about music at Rolling Stone,
where I earned my Ph.D. in life.

1595
01:32:33.467 --> 01:32:35.600
So, love and thanks
to my friend of a lifetime,

1596
01:32:35.667 --> 01:32:37.367
Jann Wenner.

1597
01:32:37.433 --> 01:32:40.200
On May 9th, 1974,
I went to a concert

1598
01:32:40.266 --> 01:32:41.800
at the Harvard Square Theater,

1599
01:32:41.867 --> 01:32:44.066
and I was so overwhelmed
by the performance

1600
01:32:44.133 --> 01:32:48.166
that I went home after the show
and wrote those famous words

1601
01:32:48.233 --> 01:32:49.967
that I'm still so proud of.

1602
01:32:50.033 --> 01:32:51.533
"I've seen rock and roll future,

1603
01:32:51.600 --> 01:32:54.166
and its name
is Bruce Springsteen."

1604
01:32:54.233 --> 01:32:57.000
That night, I decided
that I would somehow find a way

1605
01:32:57.066 --> 01:33:00.300
to work with Bruce
on his music and career.

1606
01:33:00.367 --> 01:33:02.834
And so I did.
For the next 45 years

1607
01:33:02.900 --> 01:33:06.600
as his co-producer, manager,
and most importantly,

1608
01:33:06.667 --> 01:33:10.066
as a partner and friend
who loves him deeply.

1609
01:33:10.133 --> 01:33:12.433
So as I offer my thanks
to the Hall of Fame

1610
01:33:12.500 --> 01:33:14.633
for this extraordinary
recognition,

1611
01:33:14.700 --> 01:33:16.934
I also want to thank some
of the other artists

1612
01:33:17.000 --> 01:33:19.900
with whom I've worked,
among them, Wayne Kramer,

1613
01:33:19.967 --> 01:33:25.100
Rob Tyner, Fred "Sonic" Smith,
and the extraordinary MC5.

1614
01:33:25.166 --> 01:33:28.233
Livingston Taylor,
my long-time friend Peter Wolf

1615
01:33:28.300 --> 01:33:29.967
and the J. Geils Band.

1616
01:33:30.033 --> 01:33:32.266
Natalie Merchant, Shania Twain,

1617
01:33:32.333 --> 01:33:35.033
Train, and Alejandro Escovedo.

1618
01:33:35.100 --> 01:33:37.033
I offer my special thanks
and love

1619
01:33:37.100 --> 01:33:39.533
to the extraordinary
Jackson Browne,

1620
01:33:39.600 --> 01:33:42.333
whose faith in me back in 1976

1621
01:33:42.400 --> 01:33:45.233
gave me the confidence
to reach for the sky.

1622
01:33:45.300 --> 01:33:48.500
And of course, I reserve
my most heartfelt thanks

1623
01:33:48.567 --> 01:33:51.333
for Bruce,
who gave me the chance,

1624
01:33:51.400 --> 01:33:54.300
the encouragement,
and the love that I needed

1625
01:33:54.367 --> 01:33:58.533
to fully realize who I am
and what I have to contribute.

1626
01:33:58.600 --> 01:34:01.800
And without whom this moment
could never have happened.

1627
01:34:11.533 --> 01:34:15.533
From T. Rex,
my good friend, Marc Bolan.

1628
01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:17.834
People knew him
as a great musician,

1629
01:34:17.900 --> 01:34:20.066
a songwriter, a guitarist,

1630
01:34:20.133 --> 01:34:23.266
but he was also a poet,
and he was very proud of that.

1631
01:34:23.333 --> 01:34:25.367
He was always telling me that.

1632
01:34:25.433 --> 01:34:28.700
He was the number-one selling
poet in Britain.

1633
01:34:28.767 --> 01:34:30.900
In fact, his poetry
was as important to him

1634
01:34:30.967 --> 01:34:32.233
as his music.

1635
01:34:32.767 --> 01:34:34.000
He had great style

1636
01:34:34.066 --> 01:34:37.367
and was really unlike
anyone else I have ever met.

1637
01:34:37.433 --> 01:34:39.934
He was a great performer,
just incredible.

1638
01:34:40.000 --> 01:34:42.834
And that's why I call the film
we did together

1639
01:34:42.900 --> 01:34:45.834
Born to Boogie,
because he really was.

1640
01:34:45.900 --> 01:34:49.367
I told Marc, "I'll bring
the camera and everything else."

1641
01:34:49.433 --> 01:34:52.433
"You just bring yourself."
We had a lotta fun together.

1642
01:34:52.500 --> 01:34:55.133
I remember lots of laughter.

1643
01:34:55.200 --> 01:34:58.000
We lost him way too young,
but in his short life,

1644
01:34:58.066 --> 01:35:01.066
he made over 12 albums
that are as far-out

1645
01:35:01.133 --> 01:35:03.567
and ahead of their time
as he was.

1646
01:35:03.633 --> 01:35:07.233
With the help of Tony Visconti
and his band T. Rex,

1647
01:35:07.300 --> 01:35:10.333
Marc's style started
a lot of trends.

1648
01:35:10.400 --> 01:35:12.133
They called it "glam rock,"

1649
01:35:12.200 --> 01:35:13.967
with singles such as
"Get It On",

1650
01:35:14.033 --> 01:35:17.233
"Children of the Revolution",
and of course, "Born to Boogie".

1651
01:35:17.300 --> 01:35:19.734
But it was always
just great music to me.

1652
01:35:19.800 --> 01:35:23.834
And that's why people are still
listening to T. Rex today.

1653
01:35:23.900 --> 01:35:25.700
There's no doubt they belong

1654
01:35:25.767 --> 01:35:29.166
in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame, finally!

1655
01:35:29.233 --> 01:35:32.233
And I'm very proud
to welcome them in right now.

1656
01:35:32.300 --> 01:35:35.467
Peace and love to Marc,
Mickey, Steve, and Bill.

1657
01:35:35.533 --> 01:35:38.200
And peace and love
to all the fans,

1658
01:35:38.266 --> 01:35:41.333
from me and T. Rex.
Peace and love.

1659
01:35:43.000 --> 01:35:44.667
Some people like to rock!

1660
01:35:45.867 --> 01:35:47.400
Some people like to roll.

1661
01:35:54.433 --> 01:35:56.300
I consider myself an artist,
you know.

1662
01:35:56.367 --> 01:35:58.734
And a writer, a poet,
guitar player.

1663
01:35:58.800 --> 01:36:01.333
So if that's what a star is,
then I must be a star.

1664
01:36:09.633 --> 01:36:11.867
He lived in his own
madcap world, Marc.

1665
01:36:11.934 --> 01:36:14.000
One of the most innovative
musicians in the '70s.

1666
01:36:14.066 --> 01:36:15.166
He was multi-talented.

1667
01:36:15.233 --> 01:36:16.600
He was capable of a lot.

1668
01:36:16.667 --> 01:36:18.667
He just brought all these
different elements

1669
01:36:18.734 --> 01:36:20.133
into his music.

1670
01:36:26.800 --> 01:36:28.767
When I was about
nine, I wanted to be Elvis.

1671
01:36:28.834 --> 01:36:30.266
And then it was Marlon Brando.

1672
01:36:33.467 --> 01:36:36.900
It was around 1964,
and this bloke, Marc Feld,

1673
01:36:36.967 --> 01:36:39.367
turned up
in my manager's office.

1674
01:36:39.433 --> 01:36:41.934
And I known it,
I'd seen his face around.

1675
01:36:42.000 --> 01:36:43.667
He'd been in, like, King Mud

1676
01:36:43.734 --> 01:36:46.133
He'd been in all the magazines.
He was it.

1677
01:36:46.200 --> 01:36:47.700
Within that year, probably,

1678
01:36:47.767 --> 01:36:50.800
Marc Feld changed his name
to Marc Bolan.

1679
01:36:53.700 --> 01:36:55.333
Never thought
about success at all.

1680
01:36:55.400 --> 01:36:57.734
I thought about getting my songs
heard by people.

1681
01:37:01.834 --> 01:37:04.100
I started out, actually,
with John's Children,

1682
01:37:04.166 --> 01:37:06.166
another so-called underground
group at the time.

1683
01:37:10.066 --> 01:37:12.400
I decided to write my own songs

1684
01:37:12.467 --> 01:37:14.033
after hearing Dylan,
I think it was.

1685
01:37:14.100 --> 01:37:15.600
In that summer
of peace and love,

1686
01:37:15.667 --> 01:37:18.000
there was a definite change
around that happened.

1687
01:37:25.900 --> 01:37:27.300
I think the reason
Tyrannosaurus Rex

1688
01:37:27.367 --> 01:37:28.800
initially became successful,

1689
01:37:28.867 --> 01:37:30.700
it was just the right time,
that's all,

1690
01:37:30.767 --> 01:37:32.300
for whatever
that new feeling was.

1691
01:37:32.367 --> 01:37:34.367
You know, people would come down
and ask to record us,

1692
01:37:34.433 --> 01:37:35.567
and I turned most of them down.

1693
01:37:35.633 --> 01:37:37.066
And one day Tony Visconti
came down.

1694
01:37:37.133 --> 01:37:38.400
The first contact

1695
01:37:38.467 --> 01:37:41.100
with Tyrannosaurus Rex
was the voice

1696
01:37:41.166 --> 01:37:44.266
just came up the stairwell,
and the audience was mesmerized.

1697
01:37:44.333 --> 01:37:46.967
These kids were just transfixed
on Marc.

1698
01:37:47.033 --> 01:37:50.000
And I realized I was
in the presence of a great star.

1699
01:37:50.066 --> 01:37:52.867
Hi, there! In radio land.

1700
01:37:55.300 --> 01:37:57.500
For three years,
we weren't really getting

1701
01:37:57.567 --> 01:37:58.700
through to any medium.

1702
01:37:58.767 --> 01:38:01.633
After I split with Steve Took,
I got Mickey.

1703
01:38:01.700 --> 01:38:03.967
Mickey is a very different
sort of percussionist.

1704
01:38:04.033 --> 01:38:06.033
And it almost sounded like
a rock 'n roll band suddenly.

1705
01:38:18.800 --> 01:38:21.100
In October 1970,
the BBC were told

1706
01:38:21.166 --> 01:38:24.066
that Tyrannosaurus Rex now
wished to be known as T. Rex.

1707
01:38:24.133 --> 01:38:26.100
The second I got back
into volume,

1708
01:38:26.166 --> 01:38:28.166
it was too exciting not to do.

1709
01:38:28.233 --> 01:38:29.767
Bought a Marshall hundred-watt.

1710
01:38:29.834 --> 01:38:31.500
Got me fuzz box
and me wah-wah,

1711
01:38:31.567 --> 01:38:33.100
plugged in and played loud.

1712
01:38:39.633 --> 01:38:41.500
There's four of us now on stage.

1713
01:38:41.567 --> 01:38:43.734
And I just needed
more people than Mickey

1714
01:38:43.800 --> 01:38:45.166
to get across the sound.

1715
01:39:00.567 --> 01:39:03.033
I do think that we are good
at what we do.

1716
01:39:03.100 --> 01:39:05.867
But also as I say,
the timing was very relevant.

1717
01:39:15.266 --> 01:39:17.800
I incorporated a lot
of Hendrix things into it.

1718
01:39:17.867 --> 01:39:19.834
And also a bit
of Pete Townsend and that.

1719
01:39:19.900 --> 01:39:22.934
And Elvis' wiggle, you see.
I put it all together.

1720
01:39:23.000 --> 01:39:25.633
And it came out
quite interesting, really.

1721
01:39:25.700 --> 01:39:27.867
The almighty T. Rex!

1722
01:39:33.834 --> 01:39:36.934
Marc and I both knew
we were gonna do great things.

1723
01:39:37.000 --> 01:39:39.800
And he brought glitter
to the masses.

1724
01:39:39.867 --> 01:39:41.867
And I thought,
"No! He's done it."

1725
01:39:41.934 --> 01:39:43.367
He's done it first.

1726
01:39:43.433 --> 01:39:45.533
Be outrageous.
If you've got it, show it.

1727
01:39:46.700 --> 01:39:48.800
And then suddenly,
it just exploded.

1728
01:40:04.266 --> 01:40:05.967
I've got a very good nose

1729
01:40:06.033 --> 01:40:07.734
for what's happening
at the time.

1730
01:40:07.800 --> 01:40:09.500
I'm commercially-geared.

1731
01:40:17.934 --> 01:40:19.800
I'd always been very good
at writing hooks, you see,

1732
01:40:19.867 --> 01:40:20.867
which is very fortunate.

1733
01:40:26.900 --> 01:40:28.433
-Get it on!

1734
01:40:42.166 --> 01:40:43.367
Yeah!

1735
01:40:43.433 --> 01:40:46.066
I've always been into
a visual thing,

1736
01:40:46.133 --> 01:40:48.033
'cause I enjoy it.
Even that glitter thing.

1737
01:40:48.100 --> 01:40:50.400
I mean, what happened is,
my wife had some glitter,

1738
01:40:50.467 --> 01:40:52.600
and I think I just
spit on me fingers

1739
01:40:52.667 --> 01:40:53.800
and stuck it under me eyes.

1740
01:40:53.867 --> 01:40:56.100
And look what happened
to the world after that.

1741
01:41:11.367 --> 01:41:14.000
Certainly, there's been
a change in England,

1742
01:41:14.066 --> 01:41:15.433
and we are part of the change.

1743
01:41:15.500 --> 01:41:17.266
I mean, guys now
can wear make-up.

1744
01:41:17.333 --> 01:41:19.934
Not effeminate, but not
necessarily super-masculine.

1745
01:41:20.000 --> 01:41:22.166
You could enhance
the showmanship of the thing.

1746
01:41:25.266 --> 01:41:28.100
We play for the kids
that never saw the Beatles.

1747
01:41:28.166 --> 01:41:29.467
Never saw Jimi Hendrix.

1748
01:41:29.533 --> 01:41:31.600
The average age
of the audience is 15.

1749
01:41:37.633 --> 01:41:41.600
There's an amazing sexuality
to Marc.

1750
01:41:41.667 --> 01:41:43.500
I had a major crush on him.

1751
01:41:43.567 --> 01:41:45.300
He's so good-looking
and his music

1752
01:41:45.367 --> 01:41:47.900
and the way he dresses,
the way he acts, everything.

1753
01:41:47.967 --> 01:41:49.266
They liked
the way I looked,

1754
01:41:49.333 --> 01:41:51.300
there was something about me.
They like the way I wiggled,

1755
01:41:51.367 --> 01:41:53.600
or the cut of my jib,
whatever they call it.

1756
01:41:54.734 --> 01:41:55.934
Ow!

1757
01:41:56.934 --> 01:41:58.233
Ah!

1758
01:42:05.667 --> 01:42:07.033
I don't want to be
the boy next door.

1759
01:42:07.100 --> 01:42:08.533
And they don't want me to be
the boy next door.

1760
01:42:08.600 --> 01:42:10.433
So on that stage,
I'm at liberty.

1761
01:42:10.500 --> 01:42:13.667
I'm in a realm of fantasy.
I can do whatever I want to do.

1762
01:42:13.734 --> 01:42:14.934
And get away with it.

1763
01:42:16.800 --> 01:42:18.333
The illusion is what, in fact,

1764
01:42:18.400 --> 01:42:20.133
makes people buy your records
and listen to you

1765
01:42:20.200 --> 01:42:21.767
and scream at you
and shout at you.

1766
01:42:21.834 --> 01:42:23.467
It's a carefully
constructed illusion.

1767
01:42:23.533 --> 01:42:25.333
It's not something that
you would throw away lightly.

1768
01:42:25.400 --> 01:42:27.533
I want-- No, no.
It's not carefully constructed.

1769
01:42:27.600 --> 01:42:28.667
It's artistic.

1770
01:42:36.266 --> 01:42:38.800
I hope that anyone
who seriously is into music

1771
01:42:38.867 --> 01:42:40.066
takes what I do seriously.

1772
01:42:40.133 --> 01:42:42.500
I mean, certainly other
musicians do that I know of.

1773
01:42:55.000 --> 01:42:57.400
Marc and I were very,
very close friends.

1774
01:42:57.467 --> 01:42:59.200
And he was the biggest thing

1775
01:42:59.266 --> 01:43:00.734
since sliced bread up here
at the time.

1776
01:43:00.800 --> 01:43:02.233
Every record he made
went into number one.

1777
01:43:02.300 --> 01:43:04.166
That era of T. Rex,
when it first came in,

1778
01:43:04.233 --> 01:43:05.567
I really love all that.

1779
01:43:05.633 --> 01:43:08.033
And he wrote
some really excellent songs.

1780
01:43:08.100 --> 01:43:10.233
He was just full of energy,
and it rubbed off on me.

1781
01:43:10.300 --> 01:43:11.834
And I liked his attitude a lot.

1782
01:43:25.233 --> 01:43:27.100
The funny thing
about success, though,

1783
01:43:27.166 --> 01:43:29.133
is that they never tell you
what's going to happen

1784
01:43:29.200 --> 01:43:30.300
when you get there.

1785
01:43:30.367 --> 01:43:32.200
And the hardest thing
about being successful

1786
01:43:32.266 --> 01:43:33.767
is remaining successful.

1787
01:43:41.066 --> 01:43:43.667
I feel I do what I do
to people that want to listen.

1788
01:43:43.734 --> 01:43:45.600
If they don't want to listen,
crap 'em!

1789
01:43:45.667 --> 01:43:48.633
I don't care. Right?
I do it because I believe in it.

1790
01:43:51.033 --> 01:43:53.600
If you look at a picture
of me in John's Children,

1791
01:43:53.667 --> 01:43:55.433
it looks exactly like Johnny
Rotten does now, you know.

1792
01:43:55.500 --> 01:43:58.600
Marc Bolan's guitar
is still, to this day,

1793
01:43:58.667 --> 01:44:00.700
astoundingly sweet.

1794
01:44:00.767 --> 01:44:03.834
Nobody can play
those very simple little notes

1795
01:44:03.900 --> 01:44:05.834
quite so perfectly.

1796
01:44:05.900 --> 01:44:08.033
He always had
a brilliant sense of timing.

1797
01:44:19.266 --> 01:44:21.967
Marc, I think,
supplied the punk era with art.

1798
01:44:22.033 --> 01:44:24.433
It otherwise would have been
total chaos.

1799
01:44:24.500 --> 01:44:25.567
One, two, three!

1800
01:44:25.633 --> 01:44:26.633
Yeah!

1801
01:44:28.033 --> 01:44:29.800
Marc had this TV show
he was doing.

1802
01:44:29.867 --> 01:44:31.667
What was great was
he was having,

1803
01:44:31.734 --> 01:44:33.934
like, different punk groups on,

1804
01:44:34.000 --> 01:44:36.266
and he was breaking
down certain walls.

1805
01:44:36.333 --> 01:44:39.533
Not really caring
and having this F-you attitude.

1806
01:44:39.600 --> 01:44:42.400
All of that, it just sort of
like spoke to us.

1807
01:44:42.467 --> 01:44:44.667
This is a new group called
Generation X.

1808
01:44:44.734 --> 01:44:47.266
They have a lead singer
called Billy Idol

1809
01:44:47.333 --> 01:44:50.100
who's supposed to be
as pretty as me.

1810
01:44:52.867 --> 01:44:55.166
He championed us
and he stood up for us,

1811
01:44:55.233 --> 01:44:57.100
and I've always thanked Marc
ever since.

1812
01:44:57.166 --> 01:45:00.633
I also wanted to show
that we could rock alongside

1813
01:45:00.700 --> 01:45:02.266
the best new groups
in England.

1814
01:45:02.333 --> 01:45:05.133
So it shows
that I have not lost my touch.

1815
01:45:09.333 --> 01:45:11.400
When that kind of success
hits you,

1816
01:45:11.467 --> 01:45:12.834
you don't think
that much about it.

1817
01:45:12.900 --> 01:45:14.500
So much to do, so little time.

1818
01:45:14.567 --> 01:45:15.767
So that's all that
happens to you.

1819
01:45:15.834 --> 01:45:16.934
I actually never get a chance

1820
01:45:17.000 --> 01:45:18.633
to really lay back
and think about it.

1821
01:45:18.700 --> 01:45:19.934
And when you do, it's too late.

1822
01:45:20.000 --> 01:45:22.200
Do you ever wake up
in the middle of the night

1823
01:45:22.266 --> 01:45:24.033
and think,
in another 20 or 30 years

1824
01:45:24.100 --> 01:45:27.033
I'm going to be 50 or 60?
What shall I be doing?

1825
01:45:29.433 --> 01:45:30.433
You don't?

1826
01:45:30.500 --> 01:45:31.767
I don't think
I'll live that long.

1827
01:45:31.834 --> 01:45:33.533
-You don't?
-No.

1828
01:45:41.000 --> 01:45:42.867
Well, that's the end
of another show.

1829
01:45:42.934 --> 01:45:44.667
Hope you enjoyed it.
We'll be back soon.

1830
01:45:44.734 --> 01:45:46.333
Remember,
keep a little Marc in your heart

1831
01:45:46.400 --> 01:45:48.166
and be back
the same Marc time.

1832
01:45:48.233 --> 01:45:49.500
Same Marc channel.

1833
01:46:02.133 --> 01:46:04.900
I feel very honored
to accept this award

1834
01:46:04.967 --> 01:46:08.900
on behalf of my father
Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex.

1835
01:46:08.967 --> 01:46:11.033
I really think my dad
was put on this earth

1836
01:46:11.100 --> 01:46:12.867
not only to play music

1837
01:46:12.934 --> 01:46:15.166
but to show off
his unique magnetism

1838
01:46:15.233 --> 01:46:16.467
and charisma.

1839
01:46:16.533 --> 01:46:18.767
He took inspiration
from American music,

1840
01:46:18.834 --> 01:46:22.834
but formulated his own persona
and his own sound.

1841
01:46:22.900 --> 01:46:25.033
The T. Rex sound kept evolving

1842
01:46:25.100 --> 01:46:27.100
up to when my mother
joined the group,

1843
01:46:27.166 --> 01:46:28.734
creating a cosmic soul

1844
01:46:28.800 --> 01:46:30.900
which still tests
musical boundaries

1845
01:46:30.967 --> 01:46:33.166
as well as racial ones.

1846
01:46:33.233 --> 01:46:36.500
As I reflect on this incredible
honor of my dad and his band

1847
01:46:36.567 --> 01:46:39.367
being inducted into
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,

1848
01:46:39.433 --> 01:46:41.400
I think about how
I really didn't have a chance

1849
01:46:41.467 --> 01:46:43.200
to know him very well.

1850
01:46:43.266 --> 01:46:47.033
He was taken away from all of us
so early in his life.

1851
01:46:47.100 --> 01:46:48.533
I discovered his music

1852
01:46:48.600 --> 01:46:50.834
pretty much the same way
you have,

1853
01:46:50.900 --> 01:46:53.000
through my eyes and ears.

1854
01:46:53.066 --> 01:46:55.033
When I was a kid watching MTV,

1855
01:46:55.100 --> 01:46:56.934
Def Leppard's "Rocket" video
came on,

1856
01:46:57.000 --> 01:47:00.800
and it had clips of T. Rex's
performance of "Get It On".

1857
01:47:00.867 --> 01:47:03.166
That was my daily "hello"
to my father.

1858
01:47:03.233 --> 01:47:07.033
When I saw GNR, and Slash
was wearing his Slider t-shirt

1859
01:47:07.100 --> 01:47:08.600
and looking just like my dad,

1860
01:47:08.667 --> 01:47:10.400
I had to check out
the Slider album

1861
01:47:10.467 --> 01:47:13.700
and discover the T. Rex sound
for myself.

1862
01:47:13.767 --> 01:47:17.900
I know my dad would be
very proud to receive this.

1863
01:47:17.967 --> 01:47:21.200
He always aimed for the top,
and here he is now.

1864
01:47:21.266 --> 01:47:25.066
To my mother, Gloria Jones,
my uncle, Harry Feld,

1865
01:47:25.133 --> 01:47:27.734
friends and fans
all across the world,

1866
01:47:27.800 --> 01:47:30.934
keep a little Marc in your heart
and long live T. Rex.

1867
01:47:43.567 --> 01:47:47.000
The power
of rock and roll allows one

1868
01:47:47.066 --> 01:47:51.300
to be completely free,
without judgment.

1869
01:47:51.367 --> 01:47:54.433
Music, for me,
is like me taking my vitamins.

1870
01:47:56.900 --> 01:47:58.567
Playing music
and getting in the zone,

1871
01:47:58.633 --> 01:47:59.767
time around you stops,

1872
01:47:59.834 --> 01:48:01.667
and all that matters
is what you're playing

1873
01:48:01.734 --> 01:48:02.734
in that moment.

1874
01:48:02.800 --> 01:48:05.333
It's just like
a sixth sense almost.

1875
01:48:12.200 --> 01:48:14.367
I have a deep passion for music.

1876
01:48:14.433 --> 01:48:17.000
It charges me up.

1877
01:48:18.934 --> 01:48:22.567
Coming into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame is inspiring.

1878
01:48:22.633 --> 01:48:24.567
Marvin Gaye.
Like this right here,

1879
01:48:24.633 --> 01:48:26.300
I'm-- this is what
you strive to do.

1880
01:48:26.367 --> 01:48:29.166
You want to leave
a legacy like this.

1881
01:48:29.233 --> 01:48:32.033
You can feel these vibrations
of what happened

1882
01:48:32.100 --> 01:48:33.767
and why it happened.

1883
01:48:38.600 --> 01:48:42.033
These musicians definitely feel
more real to me

1884
01:48:42.100 --> 01:48:43.200
when I see their guitars

1885
01:48:43.266 --> 01:48:44.900
or see the clothes
that they've worn.

1886
01:48:44.967 --> 01:48:46.700
These artists have
gotten their blood,

1887
01:48:46.767 --> 01:48:49.600
sweat and tears
on these instruments,

1888
01:48:49.667 --> 01:48:52.100
while creating the music
that I listen to.

1889
01:48:52.166 --> 01:48:53.934
There's not a feeling like it.

1890
01:48:54.000 --> 01:48:55.934
When I look
around at all the stuff here,

1891
01:48:56.000 --> 01:48:58.633
I see these instruments
that are just so beaten

1892
01:48:58.700 --> 01:48:59.767
and worn down.

1893
01:48:59.834 --> 01:49:00.967
And it's because
all these artists

1894
01:49:01.033 --> 01:49:03.000
put so much time and effort

1895
01:49:03.066 --> 01:49:04.600
and fervor
into their performances.

1896
01:49:04.667 --> 01:49:07.700
There's a piece of them
in that instrument.

1897
01:49:07.767 --> 01:49:10.367
This place
really is just this mecca.

1898
01:49:10.433 --> 01:49:13.433
This place I'm so fortunate
to have in my backyard.

1899
01:49:13.500 --> 01:49:15.266
I can just come here
and look at, you know,

1900
01:49:15.333 --> 01:49:17.800
John Lennon's guitar.
Like, right up close.

1901
01:49:17.867 --> 01:49:20.934
It's like, dude, he played this
on The Ed Sullivan Show!

1902
01:49:21.000 --> 01:49:24.400
That single day
changed music history.

1903
01:49:24.467 --> 01:49:27.400
I get this feeling,
like, they're here.

1904
01:49:27.467 --> 01:49:28.967
It's so trippy.

1905
01:49:29.033 --> 01:49:31.433
The guitar that
Jimi Hendrix was holding

1906
01:49:31.500 --> 01:49:33.800
decades before I was even born,

1907
01:49:33.867 --> 01:49:35.633
that's the closest
I'm ever gonna get,

1908
01:49:35.700 --> 01:49:38.300
is a little piece
of him inside that instrument.

1909
01:49:38.367 --> 01:49:41.500
This drum kit is from the man.

1910
01:49:41.567 --> 01:49:42.734
Keith Moon.

1911
01:49:42.800 --> 01:49:44.767
You can't
but get inspired and say,

1912
01:49:44.834 --> 01:49:46.233
"Hey, I want to do that!"

1913
01:49:46.300 --> 01:49:49.333
Breaking guitars
and blowing up kick drums

1914
01:49:49.400 --> 01:49:50.867
and just-- It's just great.

1915
01:49:50.934 --> 01:49:53.633
Oh, they were real!
Oh, it happened!

1916
01:49:53.700 --> 01:49:57.867
Seeing their songs on paper
is inspiring.

1917
01:49:57.934 --> 01:50:00.200
They made magic
when they made music.

1918
01:50:00.266 --> 01:50:01.867
I feel like
I'm right next to it.

1919
01:50:01.934 --> 01:50:03.900
It was almost like
going to an art museum.

1920
01:50:03.967 --> 01:50:08.533
To be able to keep the legacy
of these great artists alive

1921
01:50:08.600 --> 01:50:11.500
so that younger generations
can come in

1922
01:50:11.567 --> 01:50:12.900
and say, "Wow!"

1923
01:50:12.967 --> 01:50:14.700
There's always that
hope in the back of your mind

1924
01:50:14.767 --> 01:50:16.166
as a musician that, like,

1925
01:50:16.233 --> 01:50:18.100
"Maybe mine might end up
in here one day."

1926
01:50:18.166 --> 01:50:19.533
Sometimes I think about

1927
01:50:19.600 --> 01:50:21.967
if somebody is gonna go
through my notebooks

1928
01:50:22.033 --> 01:50:23.967
as I'm, like,
furiously crossing things out.

1929
01:50:24.033 --> 01:50:25.066
"Is this gonna end up

1930
01:50:25.133 --> 01:50:26.600
in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame?"

1931
01:50:26.667 --> 01:50:28.066
Yeah, they gonna be hanging

1932
01:50:28.133 --> 01:50:29.934
this dang motherfucker
right here!

1933
01:50:30.000 --> 01:50:31.600
Yeah. With that one right there.

1934
01:50:31.667 --> 01:50:33.600
Got a couple of hats
that they can put in there too.

1935
01:50:33.667 --> 01:50:34.800
And shoes.

1936
01:50:34.867 --> 01:50:37.834
That's why I'm here,
'cause I'm supposed to be here!

1937
01:50:51.500 --> 01:50:55.000
Whitney Houston
is one of one.

1938
01:50:55.066 --> 01:50:58.166
There is no one like her
and there never will be.

1939
01:50:58.233 --> 01:51:00.133
I remember growing up,
listening to her music,

1940
01:51:00.200 --> 01:51:03.166
and dancing around the house
and jumping on my bed,

1941
01:51:03.233 --> 01:51:06.033
singing her songs
into my hairbrush.

1942
01:51:06.100 --> 01:51:10.800
This golden voice with range
and runs and power, like none,

1943
01:51:10.867 --> 01:51:15.066
with a face and a presence
like royalty

1944
01:51:15.133 --> 01:51:17.934
She was every little girl's
admiration.

1945
01:51:18.000 --> 01:51:20.367
When I first met her,
she sought me out

1946
01:51:20.433 --> 01:51:23.000
at one of Clive Davis'
pre-Grammy parties.

1947
01:51:23.066 --> 01:51:25.166
I was still in awe
of this crazy world

1948
01:51:25.233 --> 01:51:26.633
I was newly welcomed into.

1949
01:51:26.700 --> 01:51:28.900
And she marched right up to me
and she said,

1950
01:51:28.967 --> 01:51:32.433
"You... are gonna write
a song for me."

1951
01:51:32.500 --> 01:51:34.633
I couldn't believe it!

1952
01:51:34.700 --> 01:51:36.633
Had the greatest voice
of all time

1953
01:51:36.700 --> 01:51:39.233
just demanded that
of little old me?

1954
01:51:40.066 --> 01:51:42.533
I was shocked
and completely overjoyed

1955
01:51:42.600 --> 01:51:43.734
and slightly scared.

1956
01:51:43.800 --> 01:51:46.066
And thus began
a beautiful friendship

1957
01:51:46.133 --> 01:51:48.633
that was so genuine
and sincere.

1958
01:51:48.700 --> 01:51:51.900
We were kindred spirits
and instant sisters.

1959
01:51:51.967 --> 01:51:54.567
We did work together
on "Million Dollar Bill,"

1960
01:51:54.633 --> 01:51:57.300
a song I wrote for her album
I Look to You.

1961
01:51:57.367 --> 01:51:58.667
We laughed so much

1962
01:51:58.734 --> 01:52:01.633
that I thought we'd never be
able to finish the song.

1963
01:52:02.233 --> 01:52:04.233
We called each other Mema.

1964
01:52:04.300 --> 01:52:07.800
And I cherish every moment
that I got to talk to her,

1965
01:52:07.867 --> 01:52:10.734
be in her beautiful company,
and love her.

1966
01:52:11.834 --> 01:52:14.667
I still can't believe
that was Whitney's last album

1967
01:52:14.734 --> 01:52:16.934
and that she's no longer
with us.

1968
01:52:17.000 --> 01:52:20.266
We all know what a miraculous
singer Whitney was.

1969
01:52:20.333 --> 01:52:22.800
Perhaps the greatest voice
of our time.

1970
01:52:22.867 --> 01:52:25.967
We all know
how her unprecedented success

1971
01:52:26.033 --> 01:52:28.133
brought Black women
into the absolute

1972
01:52:28.200 --> 01:52:29.767
highest reaches

1973
01:52:29.834 --> 01:52:33.100
of the music industry's
pantheon.

1974
01:52:33.166 --> 01:52:36.467
We all know that her music
will live forever.

1975
01:52:36.533 --> 01:52:39.333
That music,
that everlasting voice,

1976
01:52:39.400 --> 01:52:41.900
is her final,
generous gift to us.

1977
01:52:43.233 --> 01:52:46.166
And she will now
be one of the brightest lights

1978
01:52:46.233 --> 01:52:48.133
ever to shine

1979
01:52:48.200 --> 01:52:50.200
in the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

1980
01:52:51.500 --> 01:52:53.133
Congratulations, Mema.

1981
01:52:53.934 --> 01:52:55.266
We miss you.

1982
01:52:57.500 --> 01:53:00.133
The first song I sang in church
was a song called...

1983
01:53:13.033 --> 01:53:16.967
-Yeah.

1984
01:53:17.033 --> 01:53:19.000
Well, I had been to the hospital

1985
01:53:19.066 --> 01:53:21.633
the day before with false labor.

1986
01:53:21.700 --> 01:53:25.667
She was fresh even
in my stomach. She...

1987
01:53:25.734 --> 01:53:28.000
Then the next day, she was born.

1988
01:53:28.066 --> 01:53:31.033
She was the most delightful
little girl.

1989
01:53:32.367 --> 01:53:34.100
I grew up in the ghetto.

1990
01:53:34.166 --> 01:53:35.667
I mean,
that's where I grew up.

1991
01:53:35.734 --> 01:53:37.367
We lived in Newark

1992
01:53:37.433 --> 01:53:39.967
and then the riots took place
of the '60s.

1993
01:53:40.033 --> 01:53:42.867
I remember lying on the floor
and eating off the floor.

1994
01:53:42.934 --> 01:53:45.033
Where the bullets, you know,
the bullets were flying.

1995
01:53:45.100 --> 01:53:47.467
I was scared to death.

1996
01:53:47.533 --> 01:53:49.300
She didn't have
a lot of girlfriends,

1997
01:53:49.367 --> 01:53:50.967
you know,
'cause they picked on her.

1998
01:53:51.033 --> 01:53:52.867
I think most of them
didn't like her

1999
01:53:52.934 --> 01:53:55.033
because I dressed her
like a little angel.

2000
01:53:55.100 --> 01:53:57.567
She had pigtails
with bows and bangs.

2001
01:53:57.633 --> 01:53:59.867
Like I thought a girl should be.

2002
01:53:59.934 --> 01:54:02.166
We belonged
to the New Hope Baptist Church.

2003
01:54:02.233 --> 01:54:03.667
Whitney grew up there.

2004
01:54:03.734 --> 01:54:04.800
In my church,

2005
01:54:04.867 --> 01:54:06.467
you went to church
to hear the singing.

2006
01:54:06.533 --> 01:54:08.066
You cannot sing gospel
without feeling it

2007
01:54:08.133 --> 01:54:10.000
and what I learned from that

2008
01:54:10.066 --> 01:54:11.900
is that not only is it gospel,
but it's pop

2009
01:54:11.967 --> 01:54:13.500
and it's R&B
and it's, you know,

2010
01:54:13.567 --> 01:54:15.266
anything that she was singing.

2011
01:54:22.000 --> 01:54:24.667
I grew up in
a family that was dominated

2012
01:54:24.734 --> 01:54:27.033
by singers.
My cousin, my mother,

2013
01:54:27.100 --> 01:54:28.834
my mother's sisters
all sang.

2014
01:54:28.900 --> 01:54:31.133
They were a gospel group
called the Drinkard Singers.

2015
01:54:31.200 --> 01:54:33.433
Years later, my mother formed
the Sweet Inspirations.

2016
01:54:33.500 --> 01:54:34.767
Sang with Elvis.

2017
01:54:34.834 --> 01:54:37.734
My mother
is my greatest inspiration.

2018
01:54:37.800 --> 01:54:39.633
Beside my mom would be Aretha.

2019
01:54:39.700 --> 01:54:41.700
Whitney's mother, Cissy Houston,

2020
01:54:41.767 --> 01:54:43.767
she has done a lot
of background work with me.

2021
01:54:45.667 --> 01:54:47.000
She used to bring Whitney

2022
01:54:47.066 --> 01:54:48.433
to my recording sessions.

2023
01:54:48.500 --> 01:54:50.166
Aretha is something special.

2024
01:54:50.233 --> 01:54:52.700
Her voice could do anything
that it wanted to do

2025
01:54:52.767 --> 01:54:55.934
and that's the kind
of singing that I liked.

2026
01:54:56.000 --> 01:54:58.100
When she was like 17,

2027
01:54:58.166 --> 01:55:00.467
she started singing
background with me.

2028
01:55:00.533 --> 01:55:02.834
The first time
I heard Whitney sing

2029
01:55:02.900 --> 01:55:05.467
was at a club
called Sweetwater.

2030
01:55:05.533 --> 01:55:08.100
And she did the song
"The Greatest Love of All."

2031
01:55:14.967 --> 01:55:17.100
I knew really
right then and there

2032
01:55:17.166 --> 01:55:19.734
that this was
a very special talent.

2033
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:21.567
And so I signed her.

2034
01:55:21.633 --> 01:55:23.500
And I brought her
on The Merv Griffin Show.

2035
01:55:33.834 --> 01:55:37.500
And began the challenge
of finding the right material.

2036
01:55:37.567 --> 01:55:40.200
I decided that
I would have a showcase.

2037
01:55:45.967 --> 01:55:47.433
Gradually, word spread,

2038
01:55:47.500 --> 01:55:49.533
and I started attracting
the kind of material

2039
01:55:49.600 --> 01:55:52.667
that both she and I felt
would be right.

2040
01:55:52.734 --> 01:55:54.433
I did not go into the studio

2041
01:55:54.500 --> 01:55:56.100
wanting to make a pop album.

2042
01:55:56.166 --> 01:55:58.934
I went into the studio
wanting to make good music.

2043
01:56:09.133 --> 01:56:11.166
It was about
six o'clock in the morning,

2044
01:56:11.233 --> 01:56:12.800
Robin, she comes running
in my room.

2045
01:56:12.867 --> 01:56:14.767
"Wake up! You gotta hear it,
it's on!"

2046
01:56:14.834 --> 01:56:17.200
She turned the music up,
and it was "You Give Good Love".

2047
01:56:17.266 --> 01:56:18.467
And I'll never forget
that feeling.

2048
01:56:18.533 --> 01:56:22.233
You know, it's like "Wow.
I got a record out. How cool."

2049
01:56:32.133 --> 01:56:34.500
I thought we had
a great album,

2050
01:56:34.567 --> 01:56:35.767
but until it's out there

2051
01:56:35.834 --> 01:56:37.200
there's always
that moment of doubt.

2052
01:56:40.900 --> 01:56:42.900
Next, a singer
who seemed to be

2053
01:56:42.967 --> 01:56:44.400
everywhere this past year,

2054
01:56:44.467 --> 01:56:47.000
especially on top of the video
and record charts.

2055
01:56:47.066 --> 01:56:49.000
She's responsible
for the biggest-selling

2056
01:56:49.066 --> 01:56:50.467
debut album ever,

2057
01:56:50.533 --> 01:56:53.233
who else but Whitney Houston!

2058
01:56:58.567 --> 01:57:00.567
And the winner
for Best Female Video is...

2059
01:57:00.633 --> 01:57:02.100
-Whitney Houston.
-Thank you!

2060
01:57:02.166 --> 01:57:03.333
I'm not an overnight success.

2061
01:57:03.400 --> 01:57:05.066
I've been in the business
for ten years.

2062
01:57:05.133 --> 01:57:06.500
I made my decision
a long time ago

2063
01:57:06.567 --> 01:57:07.967
that this is what
I was going to do.

2064
01:57:08.033 --> 01:57:09.433
Being that my mom
was in the business

2065
01:57:09.500 --> 01:57:12.633
I was prepared for all
the things that might come.

2066
01:57:12.700 --> 01:57:14.734
You know. There were a lot
of things I wasn't prepared for,

2067
01:57:14.800 --> 01:57:17.033
but I dealt with anyway.

2068
01:57:17.100 --> 01:57:19.333
Okay, ready?
And action.

2069
01:57:20.934 --> 01:57:22.767
The eruption
of that debut album

2070
01:57:22.834 --> 01:57:25.166
really took us
by more than surprise.

2071
01:57:25.233 --> 01:57:26.633
It was a shock.

2072
01:57:33.667 --> 01:57:36.433
Being a little girl,
seeing this goddess

2073
01:57:36.500 --> 01:57:39.467
command the stage
with her presence,

2074
01:57:39.533 --> 01:57:41.367
and then her voice,
and thinking like,

2075
01:57:41.433 --> 01:57:42.467
"Who is this?"

2076
01:57:42.533 --> 01:57:44.200
"I want to be like that
one day."

2077
01:58:22.166 --> 01:58:23.734
Each year,
it gets kind of bigger,

2078
01:58:23.800 --> 01:58:25.066
because you get bigger.

2079
01:58:25.133 --> 01:58:26.567
People want to see
bigger things,

2080
01:58:26.633 --> 01:58:27.867
you know what I mean?

2081
01:58:27.934 --> 01:58:29.633
So you give the people
what they want.

2082
01:58:40.233 --> 01:58:42.400
Clive called me
and said, "This is your seventh

2083
01:58:42.467 --> 01:58:43.700
consecutive number one song,"

2084
01:58:43.767 --> 01:58:45.800
that I had actually
surpassed Elvis and The Beatles.

2085
01:58:45.867 --> 01:58:48.266
Ah, that's history.

2086
01:58:55.533 --> 01:58:58.433
What is the deal
when you've had the friction

2087
01:58:58.500 --> 01:59:00.300
at the Soul Train Awards?

2088
01:59:00.367 --> 01:59:02.200
They booed me
at the Soul Train Awards.

2089
01:59:02.266 --> 01:59:04.567
The nominees are,
"Where do Broken Hearts Go",

2090
01:59:04.633 --> 01:59:06.934
Whitney Houston.

2091
01:59:07.000 --> 01:59:09.767
-What was that about?
-I've got a lot of flak,

2092
01:59:09.834 --> 01:59:12.967
you know, about I sing
too white, or I sing--

2093
01:59:13.033 --> 01:59:14.667
-I don't know, maybe it's--
-I don't think there is

2094
01:59:14.734 --> 01:59:16.467
more soul to be offered
than what you give!

2095
01:59:16.533 --> 01:59:18.233
Maybe it's...

2096
01:59:18.300 --> 01:59:19.767
-Yeah!
-I don't know.

2097
01:59:19.834 --> 01:59:20.900
-I don't get it.
-I don't either.

2098
01:59:20.967 --> 01:59:22.834
But I do sing the way
God intended for me to sing.

2099
01:59:22.900 --> 01:59:24.166
And I'm using what he gave me

2100
01:59:24.233 --> 01:59:26.300
and I'm using it to the best
of my ability.

2101
01:59:32.200 --> 01:59:33.767
I had my own distinct sound.

2102
01:59:33.834 --> 01:59:35.867
It is not the music
that people know me by.

2103
01:59:35.934 --> 01:59:37.767
It is by my voice
that people know me.

2104
01:59:50.033 --> 01:59:52.467
She could stand
flat-foot and sing.

2105
01:59:52.533 --> 01:59:54.066
No running from the notes,

2106
01:59:54.133 --> 01:59:56.867
but completely
executing them, purely.

2107
01:59:56.934 --> 02:00:00.934
From the softest tone
to the ultimate power.

2108
02:00:06.166 --> 02:00:09.600
I used to stand
at the top of that staircase

2109
02:00:09.667 --> 02:00:12.133
and sing
"The Star-Spangled Banner."

2110
02:00:12.200 --> 02:00:13.800
Her version
of "The Star-Spangled Banner"?

2111
02:00:13.867 --> 02:00:15.800
Her version.
But I thanked her at Grammys

2112
02:00:15.867 --> 02:00:19.033
when I won that award,
because she, for me,

2113
02:00:19.100 --> 02:00:20.667
is the greatest of all time.

2114
02:00:29.467 --> 02:00:31.367
It wasn't that
I wasn't thinking about music,

2115
02:00:31.433 --> 02:00:33.700
I was just thinking
about other things beside music.

2116
02:00:33.767 --> 02:00:34.900
You know, life.

2117
02:00:34.967 --> 02:00:37.467
Do you take this woman
to be your wedded wife?

2118
02:00:37.533 --> 02:00:38.800
I do.

2119
02:00:38.867 --> 02:00:40.934
This is Bobbie Christina Brown.

2120
02:00:41.967 --> 02:00:45.033
And... "Hi, Mommy. Hi."

2121
02:00:45.100 --> 02:00:47.200
I don't think I will ever do
anything greater

2122
02:00:47.266 --> 02:00:50.834
than have a baby. I mean,
it is the most incredible thing

2123
02:00:50.900 --> 02:00:52.734
I have ever experienced
in my life.

2124
02:00:56.500 --> 02:00:59.467
I was pretty
tired of touring and traveling

2125
02:00:59.533 --> 02:01:03.100
and hopping off and on planes,
and all that kind of stuff.

2126
02:01:04.467 --> 02:01:06.600
-Can you shoop?
-Mm.

2127
02:01:08.200 --> 02:01:09.900
And it was time,
you know,

2128
02:01:09.967 --> 02:01:12.033
just to break for a minute
and then come back at it.

2129
02:01:27.233 --> 02:01:28.867
After the second album,

2130
02:01:28.934 --> 02:01:30.300
I started thinking,

2131
02:01:30.367 --> 02:01:32.800
"Maybe I'll do a movie,"
you know, that kind of thing.

2132
02:01:32.867 --> 02:01:34.700
But it was never something
that I said,

2133
02:01:34.767 --> 02:01:38.300
"Yeah, I'm gonna do a movie,
because I wanna act."

2134
02:01:38.367 --> 02:01:40.500
I had done basically
all the rest of the music

2135
02:01:40.567 --> 02:01:43.166
for the movie
except for that one song.

2136
02:01:43.233 --> 02:01:45.066
So one day Kevin came to me
and he said,

2137
02:01:45.133 --> 02:01:47.200
"Whitney, I got this song
called I Will Always Love You".

2138
02:01:47.266 --> 02:01:48.533
Dolly Parton wrote it.

2139
02:01:48.600 --> 02:01:49.667
It's a country and western song,

2140
02:01:49.734 --> 02:01:50.934
but I think
you're gonna love it."

2141
02:01:51.000 --> 02:01:52.633
And I said,
"He's absolutely right."

2142
02:01:52.700 --> 02:01:53.700
"This is the song."

2143
02:02:26.166 --> 02:02:30.100
And the Grammy goes to...
Whitney Houston!

2144
02:02:30.166 --> 02:02:31.467
Thank you
Lord Jesus for this.

2145
02:02:31.533 --> 02:02:33.100
Thank you, Mommy and Daddy.
I love you.

2146
02:02:33.166 --> 02:02:34.166
I just thank everybody!

2147
02:02:34.233 --> 02:02:35.667
Bobbie Christina,
I love you baby.

2148
02:02:35.734 --> 02:02:38.333
It's time to go to bed.
Thank you, Clive!

2149
02:02:45.033 --> 02:02:47.467
When did it start to go wrong?

2150
02:02:47.533 --> 02:02:50.000
After The Bodyguard.
I was on a whirlwind

2151
02:02:50.066 --> 02:02:51.200
by that point in time.

2152
02:02:51.266 --> 02:02:53.467
-There you go.
-I was going everywhere

2153
02:02:53.533 --> 02:02:55.100
but that record was so huge.

2154
02:02:55.166 --> 02:02:58.800
I think somewhere inside,
something happened.

2155
02:02:58.867 --> 02:02:59.967
It was too much.

2156
02:03:00.033 --> 02:03:02.934
Too much to try to live up to,
to try to be.

2157
02:03:04.867 --> 02:03:08.333
You realize that the applause
are over,

2158
02:03:08.400 --> 02:03:10.800
people aren't there anymore,
and it's just you.

2159
02:03:11.767 --> 02:03:12.834
It was Grammy week

2160
02:03:12.900 --> 02:03:15.100
and a lot of parties
going on in Hollywood.

2161
02:03:15.166 --> 02:03:17.800
I had a pre-Grammy party
at True Hollywood,

2162
02:03:17.867 --> 02:03:19.066
it's a nightclub.

2163
02:03:19.133 --> 02:03:20.333
And Whitney came to celebrate.

2164
02:03:20.400 --> 02:03:22.800
She gave me a big hug
and she started to sing

2165
02:03:22.867 --> 02:03:24.533
"Yes, Jesus Love Me,"
which by now

2166
02:03:24.600 --> 02:03:26.834
if anybody doesn't know,
it was her favorite song.

2167
02:03:32.500 --> 02:03:34.166
None of us
could have ever known

2168
02:03:34.233 --> 02:03:36.900
that it would be the last time
that we would see her.

2169
02:03:38.667 --> 02:03:41.700
I remember
that shattering phone call.

2170
02:03:41.767 --> 02:03:46.333
The not-to-believed phone call
that she had passed away.

2171
02:03:46.400 --> 02:03:48.567
I said,
"I'll talk to you later."

2172
02:03:48.633 --> 02:03:50.367
She says, "All right, Mama.

2173
02:03:50.433 --> 02:03:52.333
I promise you I'm coming down."

2174
02:03:53.200 --> 02:03:54.700
She never did make it.

2175
02:04:24.166 --> 02:04:28.033
I feel so blessed
to be able to just use

2176
02:04:28.100 --> 02:04:30.000
what God has given me.

2177
02:04:30.066 --> 02:04:32.600
It's an indescribable feeling.

2178
02:04:32.667 --> 02:04:34.533
You know,
it's like a surge of energy.

2179
02:04:34.600 --> 02:04:37.166
It's like just taking off
and just flying.

2180
02:04:52.867 --> 02:04:57.867
I'm so very, very proud
that Whitney's being inducted

2181
02:04:57.934 --> 02:05:01.700
into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame.

2182
02:05:01.767 --> 02:05:04.900
She wanted to be something,
not anything.

2183
02:05:04.967 --> 02:05:07.033
She worked hard at it, too.

2184
02:05:07.100 --> 02:05:09.266
This is something
that Whitney always wanted.

2185
02:05:09.333 --> 02:05:13.266
I remember in 2009,
we were in London,

2186
02:05:13.333 --> 02:05:15.533
and Whitney looked at me
and she said,

2187
02:05:15.600 --> 02:05:17.166
"This is really special,

2188
02:05:17.233 --> 02:05:19.100
but there's only
one thing missing.

2189
02:05:19.166 --> 02:05:22.100
I've got to get
the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame."

2190
02:05:22.166 --> 02:05:24.367
Yeah. She did it.

2191
02:05:24.433 --> 02:05:27.000
This moment
right now proves it all,

2192
02:05:27.066 --> 02:05:31.266
that there's only one
matchless Whitney Houston,

2193
02:05:31.333 --> 02:05:34.233
and tonight, she would be
very proud and honored

2194
02:05:34.300 --> 02:05:35.767
to receive this award.

2195
02:05:35.834 --> 02:05:38.100
I'm proud of who she was.

2196
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I'm proud that she took it in

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and did
what she was supposed to do.

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What can I say now?

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If I talk too long, I'll cry.

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I don't want to cry.

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So thank you.