1 00:00:28,480 --> 00:00:31,200 [announcer] Give it up for Avicii! 2 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:33,280 [crowd cheering] 3 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:38,200 [serene electronic music] 4 00:00:53,280 --> 00:00:57,040 [Avicii] The first four or five years, everything was awesome... 5 00:00:58,080 --> 00:01:00,960 because you get a kick out of it, the same thing you're... 6 00:01:01,680 --> 00:01:04,879 If you're jumping out of a plane, you get a kick, too. 7 00:01:04,959 --> 00:01:09,160 Because you're playing with the feeling of almost dying. 8 00:01:10,080 --> 00:01:12,440 And when you're up on stage, 9 00:01:12,520 --> 00:01:16,760 I have been playing with the feeling of being... 10 00:01:19,400 --> 00:01:24,040 special, and finding a connection with people in the sense of being accepted. 11 00:01:29,600 --> 00:01:33,200 The way I went into DJing was I'm-- I'm gonna give it 100 percent, 12 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:34,520 no matter what happens. 13 00:01:34,600 --> 00:01:36,880 And I kept giving 100 percent all the time. 14 00:01:39,000 --> 00:01:43,240 It was all around, in general, that sense of more and more and more. 15 00:01:44,400 --> 00:01:47,480 I didn't give myself enough time to really figure out 16 00:01:47,560 --> 00:01:49,920 what about the touring didn't I like. 17 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,480 The only time I had was... a few-- a few weeks here and there, 18 00:01:58,560 --> 00:02:01,240 and-- and then I was out on the road again. 19 00:02:01,320 --> 00:02:02,480 And the few weeks I had, 20 00:02:02,560 --> 00:02:07,280 I never really got to get home anywhere, and I was out for eight years. 21 00:02:07,360 --> 00:02:10,400 So that meant, after four years, when I started to come home, 22 00:02:10,479 --> 00:02:12,520 it didn't even feel like home anymore. 23 00:02:12,600 --> 00:02:16,240 I just know that it got to a point where I didn't like it anymore. 24 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:18,040 And it got to a point where it's too much. 25 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,320 After that, I just decided: "Fuck, I'm gonna quit." 26 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:34,320 [man singing in Swedish] 27 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,120 I grew up in Stockholm. 28 00:02:36,200 --> 00:02:40,640 My whole childhood up till I was, like, 19 years old 29 00:02:40,720 --> 00:02:43,520 was in between, like, five blocks. 30 00:02:43,600 --> 00:02:48,000 Like, all my schools that I went to were all in the same-- same area of Stockholm. 31 00:02:48,800 --> 00:02:51,480 I knew that whatever I wanted to do later in life, 32 00:02:51,560 --> 00:02:53,760 I knew that I wanted to do something creative. 33 00:02:53,840 --> 00:02:57,200 A friend of mine told me about FL Studio. 34 00:02:58,200 --> 00:03:01,720 And I remember I downloaded it, so I started playing around with it. 35 00:03:01,800 --> 00:03:07,120 It was very easy because-- 'cause you could, like, draw out the notes. 36 00:03:07,200 --> 00:03:11,320 [Otto] He had his studio in his bedroom, which was his apartment. 37 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:12,240 It was only one room. 38 00:03:12,320 --> 00:03:16,320 And it was like a bed, I remember, that was supposed to be folded, 39 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:18,680 so you got more space, but it was always down. 40 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:22,760 [Lucas] It was, like, covered in plates with, like, old spaghetti and pesto. 41 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:24,280 That's all we could afford. 42 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,720 [Otto] We always met, you know, around noon, 43 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,880 then when I looked at the clock, one o'clock in the night, 44 00:03:29,960 --> 00:03:34,240 I would say: "Yeah, maybe we should see each other again tomorrow and continue", 45 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,640 and he was like: "Ah, we need to finish now. 46 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:40,520 It's better to finish now, then-- then we can do a new song tomorrow." 47 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:44,360 He worked during the night, basically, and then when he had sleep, 48 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:49,520 he often walked up to his roof and slept in the sun. 49 00:03:49,960 --> 00:03:53,320 And he was like: "Yeah, it's so smart, because then I get a tan, 50 00:03:53,400 --> 00:03:57,000 I get sleep, and then I can go back to-- to work." 51 00:03:57,080 --> 00:04:00,320 ["Hang With Me - Avicii Mix" playing on stereo] 52 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:07,400 [Avicii] The first half year was me just trying to rip off other people's sounds. 53 00:04:14,280 --> 00:04:19,360 And once you've done that a thousand times, you start improvising. 54 00:04:19,440 --> 00:04:23,720 Maybe I can do these two chords first but then go to that chord and that, you know. 55 00:04:23,800 --> 00:04:26,840 That's when I started coming up with... unique stuff. 56 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,120 And then I just sent my music out to blogs. 57 00:04:30,200 --> 00:04:34,280 I remember I went to Laidback Luke and I went to his forum 58 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:38,040 and I contacted him, sent him a bunch of my demos. 59 00:04:38,120 --> 00:04:41,000 I could already tell his melodies were awesome 60 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:45,120 and the way he combined bass lines, chords, and-- and leads, 61 00:04:45,200 --> 00:04:46,920 it was alre-- already in there. 62 00:04:47,000 --> 00:04:50,320 He really liked 'em, and he started feedbacking me on them. 63 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:53,640 And from that moment on, I sent every new track I did, 64 00:04:53,720 --> 00:04:55,160 I sent to Luke. 65 00:04:55,240 --> 00:04:59,880 I remember not getting one demo a week but at least five every week. 66 00:04:59,960 --> 00:05:02,760 And every track, and I got better and better and better 67 00:05:02,840 --> 00:05:05,120 until they started playing some of the tracks. 68 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:06,920 That was the biggest thing for me ever. 69 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:09,640 He was one of the reasons I got into house music. 70 00:05:09,720 --> 00:05:10,920 Hi, this is Tim Berg. 71 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,280 Uh, I'm just doing some, uh, final, uh, touches 72 00:05:14,360 --> 00:05:17,200 on my, uh, upcoming single on Joia Records... 73 00:05:17,280 --> 00:05:19,520 [Lucas] When he made his first few tracks, 74 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,280 we were a bunch of people at his place. We must have been around 18. 75 00:05:23,360 --> 00:05:26,000 We were dreaming about, like, what would happen if we made it big? 76 00:05:26,080 --> 00:05:28,040 We were super into Entourage back then. 77 00:05:28,120 --> 00:05:32,320 We forced him to, like, sign this really shitty, like, contract 78 00:05:32,400 --> 00:05:34,880 we-- we hand painted with crayons or something. 79 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,480 "Hereby, I, Tim, solemnly swear that if I ever make it big, 80 00:05:38,560 --> 00:05:41,200 I'm gonna bring all my friends to L.A. 81 00:05:41,280 --> 00:05:44,000 and we're gonna live in a huge mansion, and it's gonna be awesome." 82 00:05:47,160 --> 00:05:51,240 [Avicii] That's-- That's kind of around that time when I met Ash, initially. 83 00:05:51,320 --> 00:05:53,520 I followed some blogs, that was part of my job, 84 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:57,760 and there was this kid that was not really that hyped on any blogs or anything, 85 00:05:57,840 --> 00:05:59,640 but I-I fell for something. 86 00:06:00,280 --> 00:06:04,440 [Avicii] He sent me, like, um, like, a message on Facebook, 87 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:09,680 saying: "Hey," uh, "my name is Ash Pournouri, 88 00:06:09,760 --> 00:06:12,120 and I have some friends in the industry. 89 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:15,200 I'm a promoter in Stockholm. Think I can help." 90 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,800 So I kind of went to the meeting, you know. 91 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:20,600 I-I didn't know what to expect. 92 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:25,520 It was this, you know, like, 26-year-old Persian guy 93 00:06:25,600 --> 00:06:29,280 and I'm-- I'm, like, a 17-year-old, you know, kid. 94 00:06:29,360 --> 00:06:31,520 I think he had Coca-Cola or something, 95 00:06:31,600 --> 00:06:35,360 um, and he brought his friend 'cause he was too scared to meet me alone. 96 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:39,360 He said, like: "Name one Swedish D.J. that you think is big right now." 97 00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:40,840 I remember naming someone. 98 00:06:40,920 --> 00:06:43,720 He said: "I'll make you bigger than him in one year." 99 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:48,040 Um, and my ambition level was-- was to make him not a D.J., 100 00:06:48,120 --> 00:06:50,160 not a producer, but a-- but an artist. 101 00:06:50,240 --> 00:06:53,160 From that moment on, he kind of started, you know... 102 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:56,120 he kind of started being my manager. 103 00:06:56,200 --> 00:06:59,360 And soon I found a project for us, I-I found a remix. 104 00:06:59,440 --> 00:07:02,320 The first big remix I got was from, uh... 105 00:07:03,400 --> 00:07:06,480 uh... Roger Sanchez. 106 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,280 It was the first big remix I got to do from a-- for a big artist. 107 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:13,480 And then we did another remix, and that went even better. 108 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:17,720 He made a remix for a Bob Sinclar record, and I heard it, 109 00:07:17,800 --> 00:07:20,400 I was like: "Oh, my God. This is so amazing!" 110 00:07:21,360 --> 00:07:24,880 Uh, but he wasn't-- he wasn't, like, a big producer yet, 111 00:07:24,960 --> 00:07:30,280 you know, and I was shocked, and I, uh, I got in contact with him 112 00:07:30,920 --> 00:07:33,480 and I think I've asked him for a remix, too. 113 00:07:33,560 --> 00:07:35,280 He was making amazing mash-ups. 114 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:39,640 Like, every week, he would send me a new mash-up, and I really liked his style. 115 00:07:39,720 --> 00:07:43,800 I really loved all his tracks. I started playing them every week in my show. 116 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:46,640 [Avicii] My first Avicii show was in Miami 117 00:07:47,320 --> 00:07:49,960 for, uh, Laidback Luke's "Super You and Me" party. 118 00:07:50,040 --> 00:07:53,480 It was then and there I, uh, I met a-- a very shy 119 00:07:53,560 --> 00:07:56,600 and-- and just a held-back type of a kid. 120 00:07:57,400 --> 00:07:59,440 [Avicii] It's, like, a 200-people, 200-capacity club. 121 00:07:59,520 --> 00:08:02,920 He was just so nervous. He had prepped his set and everything, 122 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:07,640 and, um, in the end, he ended up opening the night for three people. 123 00:08:07,720 --> 00:08:09,800 [Avicii] Then, towards the end, people started coming. 124 00:08:09,880 --> 00:08:13,480 I didn't mess up, I-I survived. Everything went okay. 125 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:17,760 I started doing small shows here and there. It was single clubs. 126 00:08:17,840 --> 00:08:21,880 It was, you know, whatever Ash had been able to bring in. 127 00:08:21,960 --> 00:08:26,320 At this time, it wasn't many, so he was coming with me to most of the shows. 128 00:08:26,400 --> 00:08:28,480 -Are you ready for Avicii? -[cheering and whistling] 129 00:08:28,560 --> 00:08:30,520 He's never managed anyone before. 130 00:08:31,120 --> 00:08:35,240 He'd been a promoter, he loved the music. He-- He had a wife and kids. 131 00:08:35,320 --> 00:08:36,960 You know, like, he knew that 132 00:08:37,039 --> 00:08:39,919 he didn't really have the time to pursue being a D.J. 133 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:42,840 I was doing one or two shows a month at this point. 134 00:08:42,919 --> 00:08:45,160 I was mainly still focusing on the music. 135 00:08:45,400 --> 00:08:47,400 We spent a summer together in Ibiza. 136 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:51,160 He was staying in my house, he was playing before me every week. 137 00:08:51,240 --> 00:08:55,960 And, um, yeah, he was very into-- into, uh, to music and producing. 138 00:08:56,040 --> 00:08:58,680 [Guetta] He really developed his own sound, 139 00:08:58,760 --> 00:09:04,320 and, uh, and then, a little later, when we'd been to the studio together, 140 00:09:05,160 --> 00:09:09,320 I was like: "Wow, okay, this guy is very serious. 141 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:11,640 Like, he's really, really special." 142 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:15,880 [Avicii] My first track that really started getting buzz was "Alcoholic", 143 00:09:15,960 --> 00:09:17,360 and then "Bromance" came, 144 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:20,960 which was the first song that I think got, like, commercial attention. 145 00:09:21,040 --> 00:09:23,040 [blows] 146 00:09:23,680 --> 00:09:27,240 ["Something's Got a Hold on Me" sample playing on laptop] 147 00:09:28,760 --> 00:09:29,760 [speaking Swedish] 148 00:09:29,840 --> 00:09:33,440 We'd found a clip, um, of Etta James singing the hook... 149 00:09:42,600 --> 00:09:46,320 And Tim tried to place it over different, um, songs, and we couldn't really find 150 00:09:46,400 --> 00:09:51,000 anything that sounded quite right, and then Tim had this, um, loop. 151 00:09:51,080 --> 00:09:53,080 ["Levels" playing on stereo] 152 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,040 [Avicii laughing] 153 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,120 It had the right energy, the right uplifting melody, 154 00:10:05,200 --> 00:10:07,320 um, that-- that we were looking for. 155 00:10:13,560 --> 00:10:16,840 All of a sudden, it just made sense for that vocal to be there. 156 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,120 [Avicii] That's kind of when things really started kind of taking off. 157 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,240 Seeing that people come to your show to hear your songs, 158 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:29,120 like, when they knew the songs. 159 00:10:29,200 --> 00:10:32,520 And I remember the first time I ever heard that 160 00:10:32,600 --> 00:10:35,720 was when I played Governors Island in New York. 161 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:38,280 [announcer] Give it up for Avicii! 162 00:10:38,360 --> 00:10:40,160 [cheering] 163 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:45,400 And I remember that they were singing along to every single one of my songs. 164 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,720 ["Drowning - Avicii Remix" playing, crowd singing] 165 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:54,480 I was just blown away 'cause this, like, never happened before. 166 00:10:54,960 --> 00:10:58,320 And "Levels" just started spreading. 167 00:10:58,400 --> 00:11:00,120 ["Levels" playing] 168 00:11:05,160 --> 00:11:07,160 [chanting to song] 169 00:11:21,080 --> 00:11:23,200 [crowd cheering and whistling] 170 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,400 [chanting] Avicii! Avicii! 171 00:12:09,960 --> 00:12:11,720 [laughs] 172 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,000 [laughing] 173 00:13:22,000 --> 00:13:25,120 Eventually, you know, uh, it was discussion with Ash, 174 00:13:25,200 --> 00:13:27,800 who has-- has been my main challenge 175 00:13:27,880 --> 00:13:31,840 when it comes to discussing the deals for "Levels" and Avicii. 176 00:13:33,240 --> 00:13:36,320 I'll send you the big, you know, the big rough outline of 177 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:38,000 whatever it is I'm looking for 178 00:13:38,080 --> 00:13:40,720 and what I have on the table, and then we can take it from there. 179 00:13:40,800 --> 00:13:45,120 [Per] There is no person like Ash. His obsessiveness of taking Tim 180 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,200 to the next level, or to three, four, five levels up. 181 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:52,120 Uh, I think he will continue to be very successful 182 00:13:52,200 --> 00:13:55,720 because he is obsessed of having success. 183 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:59,160 I'm not sending-- I'm not sending the vocal to anyone. 184 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:01,240 [exhales heavily] 185 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:08,120 [man laughing] 186 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,240 "Just tell him we will match EMI's offer." 187 00:14:46,320 --> 00:14:48,320 [man exclaims] 188 00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,200 Every day I'm hustling! 189 00:14:50,280 --> 00:14:51,640 -Fuck you! -[man laughs] 190 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:55,240 And but the-- the impact of the song, as just an instrumental song, 191 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:58,960 was so huge at the club scenes, at YouTube. 192 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:01,840 So we just felt this is gonna be huge. 193 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:09,240 -Hey, it's Ash. -[man] Hello. 194 00:15:10,600 --> 00:15:13,480 Advance has been put in at 500,000 euros. 195 00:15:14,880 --> 00:15:15,720 Um... 196 00:15:16,920 --> 00:15:20,720 Okay, thank you very much, everyone. And, uh, speak on e-mail. 197 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:22,800 -Listen, thank you. -Thank you, bye. 198 00:15:22,880 --> 00:15:24,360 -Bye-bye. -Thank you. Goodbye. 199 00:15:30,280 --> 00:15:32,280 ["Hustlin'" by Rick Ross playing] 200 00:15:44,120 --> 00:15:45,360 I'm the fuckin' boss. 201 00:15:46,000 --> 00:15:50,920 He is a-- He is a warm family man, hardworking, 202 00:15:51,000 --> 00:15:54,880 and, um, I mean, uh, I call him a friend, yeah. 203 00:15:55,800 --> 00:15:58,400 [Avicii] Like, everything has gone in steps. 204 00:15:58,480 --> 00:16:02,120 With "Levels", everything just kind of, [imitates rocket] really took off. 205 00:16:02,200 --> 00:16:06,480 We got these opportunities that we'd never been presented with before. 206 00:16:06,560 --> 00:16:11,920 Like, headlining Ultra was one of the first dreams that really come true. 207 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:13,240 [helicopter whirring] 208 00:16:13,320 --> 00:16:14,560 [dramatic string music] 209 00:16:14,640 --> 00:16:18,320 Avicii is the headliner on the main stage. He's coming up right now, 210 00:16:18,400 --> 00:16:21,920 and, as you can see, there's a lot of hype around him. There he is! 211 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:23,160 [people exclaiming] 212 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:24,320 [man] Tim, Tim! 213 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:28,480 [siren blaring] 214 00:16:28,560 --> 00:16:31,280 There is a major surprise appearance... [echoes] 215 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:34,200 [Avicii] For her to come to Ultra Music Festival 216 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,120 just kind of shows how far dance music has come. 217 00:16:37,200 --> 00:16:39,000 -Hi. -Hi, I'm Tim. Nice to meet you. 218 00:16:39,080 --> 00:16:40,400 -Nice to meet you, too. -An honour. 219 00:16:40,480 --> 00:16:44,040 It's a big honour, obviously, to share the same stage as Madonna. 220 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:45,520 [cameras clicking] 221 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:47,080 She's the queen of pop. 222 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:49,320 -Are you ready? [chuckles] -I am ready. 223 00:16:49,400 --> 00:16:52,360 This is the first time I'm headlining, so I'm nervous. 224 00:16:52,440 --> 00:16:53,960 -Your first headline? -Good? 225 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:55,560 -Yeah, the first one. -Cool. 226 00:16:59,960 --> 00:17:03,400 Are you ready for Avicii? 227 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:04,839 [cheering] 228 00:17:06,520 --> 00:17:09,960 And then, after that, I-I could afford a tour manager. 229 00:17:10,040 --> 00:17:12,760 We're doing a lobby call at 2:00 a.m. in the lobby. 230 00:17:12,839 --> 00:17:15,800 -2:30 in the lobby and then...? -2:00 a.m. in the lobby. 231 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:16,920 [both laugh] 232 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,119 I didn't have to fly coach everywhere by myself. 233 00:17:20,200 --> 00:17:24,680 The only thing that makes sense is just making the flying and the travelling 234 00:17:25,240 --> 00:17:27,040 as comfortable as possible. 235 00:17:27,599 --> 00:17:32,400 I was young, I was single, I was partying. Every show was a big party, you know. 236 00:17:32,480 --> 00:17:34,080 It was really a big party. 237 00:17:34,760 --> 00:17:39,720 It was amazing. I didn't even realise before that you could actually do Monday, 238 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:43,120 Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, you know? 239 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:48,680 But then, once that opened up, like, you could tour a whole year, 240 00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:51,160 and that's kind of what we did. 241 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:53,760 [upbeat electronic music] 242 00:18:05,320 --> 00:18:06,320 Avicii! 243 00:18:23,800 --> 00:18:25,360 Yes! Yeah. 244 00:18:28,280 --> 00:18:30,720 [announcer] Make some noise for Avicii! 245 00:18:30,800 --> 00:18:31,960 [cheering] 246 00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:37,640 [exclaims] 247 00:18:48,720 --> 00:18:51,720 [crowd chanting] Avicii! Avicii! Avicii! 248 00:18:51,800 --> 00:18:54,800 Avicii! Avicii! Avicii... 249 00:19:00,720 --> 00:19:02,520 [Jesse] At the time, Tiësto was staying with me. 250 00:19:02,600 --> 00:19:03,880 So I walked into my bedroom, 251 00:19:03,960 --> 00:19:07,280 there's, like, cigarette butts on my counters and beer cans. 252 00:19:07,360 --> 00:19:12,440 I'm, like, shaking off little spit, like, chew tobacco, the snus bags. 253 00:19:12,520 --> 00:19:15,800 And there was this guy in bed with these two girls 254 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,840 and I was like: "You know, who the fuck are these guys?" 255 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,360 I'm like: "Show 'em the door, get 'em out." 256 00:19:22,440 --> 00:19:26,280 Another month goes by, I-I walk up with Tiësto to the D.J. booth 257 00:19:26,360 --> 00:19:30,600 and I see this guy playing and he looks over at me and, like, stops DJing 258 00:19:30,680 --> 00:19:33,800 and starts apologising to me, that was the guy in my bed. 259 00:19:33,880 --> 00:19:37,560 And then since then, we, um, we just became, you know, best friends. 260 00:19:37,640 --> 00:19:39,000 In my eyes, best friends. 261 00:19:39,080 --> 00:19:44,440 And with somebody like Tim, he was very innocent and naïve 262 00:19:44,520 --> 00:19:46,520 and really genuine. 263 00:19:46,600 --> 00:19:47,960 [Nile] I love Tim. 264 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:55,040 He is the most natural, melodic music writer that I've ever met. 265 00:19:55,120 --> 00:19:59,520 Electronic music has gotten to the point where you don't have to sample it anymore. 266 00:19:59,600 --> 00:20:01,520 You can just make it new. Do you know what I mean? 267 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,000 -[both] Yeah. -[Nile] Okay. 268 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:06,480 Such a different experience to be a part of the whole process. 269 00:20:06,560 --> 00:20:10,080 I've worked with Tim. We walk into the studio, we have nothing. 270 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:12,040 We walk in, it's like: "Yo, man, what do we do?" 271 00:20:12,120 --> 00:20:15,120 [Nile] You can go like... [playing guitar] 272 00:20:17,720 --> 00:20:21,720 And I play a little idea, and he'll go: "What are the notes in that chord?" 273 00:20:23,880 --> 00:20:26,120 It's-- It's adding an octave along with it, 274 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:27,520 -so it's not taking away... -Okay. 275 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:34,120 This creative process, this ebb and flow, as we call it, is what we live for. 276 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:36,080 That's the exciting moment. 277 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:41,040 I mean, I could play you-- I could play you a bunch of the shit I've done so far. 278 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:43,480 Yeah, let me hear where you're coming from. 279 00:20:43,560 --> 00:20:47,400 This is one I did with Al. This is like, I don't know, country folk. 280 00:20:47,480 --> 00:20:49,360 ["Wake Me Up" instrumental playing] 281 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:52,440 This has a lot of, like, acoustic elements throughout. 282 00:20:58,400 --> 00:21:00,400 Yeah, I like it a lot. It's great. 283 00:21:01,520 --> 00:21:05,520 A mixture of the acoustic element, then going into, like, kind of blending 284 00:21:05,600 --> 00:21:08,120 -into the electronic vibe. -Nice, it's cool. 285 00:21:08,200 --> 00:21:12,960 [Mike] It's obvious to nobody that Tim and I would mesh together like that. 286 00:21:13,040 --> 00:21:16,920 I don't think anybody would have said, like: "Oh, you're gonna get, 287 00:21:17,000 --> 00:21:19,520 you know, like, this guitarist from a rock band 288 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:23,320 and then this, like, electronic music producer/D.J. together 289 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:26,040 and then, like, this cool stuff is gonna happen." 290 00:21:26,120 --> 00:21:28,240 We're very different musically 291 00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:32,800 but we have a similar philosophy in, like, sort of putting songs together 292 00:21:33,200 --> 00:21:37,360 and taking elements from different places and seeing how they can fit together. 293 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,320 He probably got here at about four o'clock in the afternoon, 294 00:21:41,400 --> 00:21:46,280 and by about like seven or eight o'clock at night, we had "Wake Me Up". [chuckles] 295 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,720 That was the first thing that we did, was we wrote "Wake Me Up". 296 00:21:49,800 --> 00:21:51,080 [beats playing] 297 00:21:51,160 --> 00:21:55,400 [Avicii] I think every artist of any kind, like, the ultimate goal, 298 00:21:55,480 --> 00:21:58,320 is to find your own mark, 299 00:21:58,400 --> 00:22:01,320 something that makes you stand out from all the rest. 300 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,080 ♪ Not afraid to close my eyes ♪ 301 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,280 [piano playing] 302 00:22:06,360 --> 00:22:07,920 Or-- Yeah, those ones, yeah. 303 00:22:08,000 --> 00:22:09,080 [Aloe vocalising] 304 00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:12,440 Yeah. ♪ Not afraid to close my eyes ♪ 305 00:22:12,520 --> 00:22:15,520 I wanna be there and be a part of writing the vocal. 306 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:19,960 I wanna make a song from the ground up, basically. 307 00:22:20,040 --> 00:22:22,000 It's more like you don't expect it. 308 00:22:22,080 --> 00:22:24,520 -That's the one you want? -♪ Eyes... ♪ 309 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:29,000 [Mike] He's so specific about what he likes and what he doesn't like. 310 00:22:29,080 --> 00:22:33,840 -♪ All this time I was finding myself... ♪ -When you find somebody like Tim, 311 00:22:33,920 --> 00:22:37,200 who absolutely knows what he wants, things get done. 312 00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:40,920 Don't jump straight to, like... ♪ All this time, I was finding... ♪ 313 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:43,000 [Aloe] ♪ All this time, I was... ♪ 314 00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,640 ♪ All this time I was finding myself and I... ♪ 315 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,120 Yeah, something like that. 316 00:22:49,200 --> 00:22:50,240 ♪ I was lost ♪ 317 00:22:50,320 --> 00:22:52,120 There you go. I really like it. 318 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:54,680 Well, we can perfect this, but I love that. 319 00:22:54,760 --> 00:22:55,840 At like 4:00 a.m., 320 00:22:56,520 --> 00:23:00,440 I got an e-mail from him saying: "It's-- It's all together, check it out." 321 00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:04,760 I remember opening it up, listening, and being like: "Fuck me, this is awesome." 322 00:23:04,840 --> 00:23:07,200 ["Wake Me Up" playing] 323 00:23:07,280 --> 00:23:08,320 This is so good. 324 00:23:08,400 --> 00:23:09,840 -This is hot, man. -Yeah. 325 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:20,120 [Avicii] We did so well with the musical side 326 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,800 and everything went so fast from that point on. 327 00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:27,480 [Guetta] I love him as a person. He's really humble, super nice person. 328 00:23:27,560 --> 00:23:29,920 I'm also, like, super shy in reality. 329 00:23:30,000 --> 00:23:32,440 So I have this kind of balanced personality. 330 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:34,520 He also has this, I think, you know. 331 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:39,160 Like, getting a little nervous and things like this, you know, I'm also like this. 332 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,520 In the beginning, I was too afraid to drink 'cause I didn't wanna screw up. 333 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:48,320 But then I realised how stiff I was when I wasn't drinking, 334 00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,920 so then I-I found... the-- the magical cure 335 00:23:53,000 --> 00:23:56,520 of just having, like, a couple of drinks before going on. 336 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,120 It's very easy to go that road, 337 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:05,880 especially if, like him or me, you're a little bit of an anxious person. 338 00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,920 But I think, to a part, that-- that's what kind of 339 00:24:09,000 --> 00:24:14,640 helped me be able to do all those shows without feeling completely exhausted. 340 00:24:14,720 --> 00:24:17,520 For an artist, it's very easy, 341 00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:23,400 uh, to be tempted to use something to get away from the pressure a little bit. 342 00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,160 I saw how other D.J.s drank 343 00:24:26,240 --> 00:24:32,040 and I saw people like D.J.s who's been in this industry for-- for ten years, 344 00:24:32,120 --> 00:24:36,240 and they're still drinking, like, you know, every show that they're doing. 345 00:24:38,680 --> 00:24:42,600 I started getting stomach pains on my way into Australia, 346 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:47,200 and I had about three or four more hours to go until we landed. 347 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:51,520 [radio host] Touring around Australia with Future Music Festival, 348 00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:55,600 he had to pull out of Brisbane and Perth last weekend, 349 00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:57,600 uh, 'cause he was taken to hospital. 350 00:25:00,440 --> 00:25:04,000 [Robb] There's no sense in sending you if we're not doing the show. 351 00:25:04,080 --> 00:25:08,120 Yeah, we'll make a final call, and then tomorrow morning, if we're not going, 352 00:25:08,200 --> 00:25:10,840 we will just reroute your flight back to Sydney. 353 00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:15,720 Um, he's-- Yeah, I mean, he's all right, but he's at the hospital right now. 354 00:25:15,800 --> 00:25:19,240 Yeah, tonight's not gonna happen, and we'll see about tomorrow. 355 00:25:19,320 --> 00:25:21,520 [loud beep] 356 00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:25,280 Um, all right, I spoke with some of the nurses in charge of the area. 357 00:25:25,360 --> 00:25:27,800 They don't think you're well enough to do the shows. 358 00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:29,840 -Yeah. -But if you wanted to do them, 359 00:25:29,920 --> 00:25:33,000 they would discharge you and give you pain medication. 360 00:25:33,800 --> 00:25:37,720 Pancreatitis, notoriously, is very painful. 361 00:25:37,800 --> 00:25:40,360 When the pancreas becomes inflamed like this, 362 00:25:40,440 --> 00:25:44,160 some of these enzymes can leak out of where they're supposed to be 363 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:48,200 and start digesting the body, essentially, from the inside. Uh-- 364 00:25:48,280 --> 00:25:53,720 If-- If I'm able to do the show without worsening the pancreatitis... 365 00:25:53,800 --> 00:25:57,160 The show won't worsen it. It's whether you can physically do it, 366 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,640 -whether the pain will limit you. -Yeah. 367 00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,240 [Avicii] It's the worst stomach cramp you can imagine, pretty much. 368 00:26:03,320 --> 00:26:06,280 It feels like someone's stabbing you in-- in the stomach 369 00:26:06,360 --> 00:26:10,680 and the back simultaneously, at the same time as it's escalating. 370 00:26:10,760 --> 00:26:13,880 For me, definitely, the-- the most pain I've been in. 371 00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,640 You can't do anything about it. You just need to not drink water and not eat. 372 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:22,720 And to be able to survive the pain, they give you pain medicine. 373 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,600 -[door opens] -What's up? 374 00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:29,520 This is ketamine, just to... Want me to change any syringes? 375 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:33,680 You know, I've took on a mentor role with him that doesn't stop anywhere, 376 00:26:33,760 --> 00:26:37,200 whether it's his personal life or if it's his-- his career. 377 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,600 I felt that I had to guide him, 378 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,400 so that he wouldn't even have to think about anything but the music. 379 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:49,040 [Robb] Now, the reason Ash rates Australia higher than Ultra... 380 00:26:49,560 --> 00:26:51,600 We're missing both Ultras, though? 381 00:26:53,240 --> 00:26:54,120 [Robb stutters] 382 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:58,760 Then there's no way he would rate-- The second Ultra is main stage. 383 00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,160 The reason they're saying to you now... 384 00:27:01,240 --> 00:27:03,960 The first Ultra doesn't really matter the same way. 385 00:27:04,040 --> 00:27:05,960 He wouldn't have to think about anything else. 386 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:10,000 That's a freedom I think a lot of people would appreciate, myself included. 387 00:27:10,560 --> 00:27:14,840 If they also said, based on how I've been feeling today, 388 00:27:14,920 --> 00:27:17,360 and the pain levels I've been at t-today, 389 00:27:18,080 --> 00:27:21,960 they don't think I'm gonna be fit for... 390 00:27:22,040 --> 00:27:24,760 -The shows that-- -The shows this weekend, anyways. 391 00:27:25,200 --> 00:27:26,760 That's what they were saying. 392 00:27:26,840 --> 00:27:30,840 So they were-- they were saying, if you're gonna miss these shows anyways, 393 00:27:30,920 --> 00:27:34,760 we might as well take your gall bladder out now and have you ready for... 394 00:27:34,840 --> 00:27:37,480 I guess that's what I'm for, to guide him into 395 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,040 making the right decisions and... doing the right things. 396 00:27:41,680 --> 00:27:45,040 A conventional teaching and professional wisdom, worldwide, 397 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:48,640 is to take the gall bladder out before you go home, on admission, 398 00:27:48,720 --> 00:27:52,160 the reason being that you don't get an attack in the meantime. 399 00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:53,080 Yeah. 400 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,480 But I understand your situation, that you're in the middle of a world tour, 401 00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,680 and there are things you need to do. 402 00:27:59,760 --> 00:28:03,440 We, um, think at some stage you need your gall bladder out. 403 00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:07,680 Whether that be, you know, while you're here or on tour or when you're home 404 00:28:07,760 --> 00:28:09,640 is up to you, is what we're saying. 405 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:13,680 I would be there for him to tell him, this is the way you have to do it 406 00:28:13,760 --> 00:28:15,360 and then you'll be successful. 407 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:20,880 How long have the crew been here for? Two days? 408 00:28:20,960 --> 00:28:24,120 No, the crew's been here since Monday. It's Thursday now. 409 00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,080 -They flew in Monday morning. -Oh. 410 00:28:33,800 --> 00:28:34,960 [Robb coughs] 411 00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,880 -The show is tomorrow? -Tomorrow. 412 00:28:36,960 --> 00:28:38,840 -What time? -Your set's 9:30. 413 00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:40,120 Suits. 414 00:28:40,600 --> 00:28:43,760 So, we'll be picked up for like 8:00, 8:30. 415 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:48,840 Future is asking if there's any chance you could do a, like... 416 00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,640 phone interview... with... 417 00:28:55,160 --> 00:28:58,240 What they're asking for is a 30-minute, for one o'clock, 418 00:28:58,320 --> 00:29:01,640 for a couple of different radio stations just to call you, 419 00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,400 to show that you're back on track, coming out. 420 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,040 Yeah, sure. 421 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:11,640 But... would you be up for them in like two hours, 12:30? 422 00:29:15,600 --> 00:29:17,520 [sombre music] 423 00:29:25,200 --> 00:29:26,800 [crowd cheering] 424 00:29:26,880 --> 00:29:30,000 When we on stage, man, it's like a fantasy. 425 00:29:33,320 --> 00:29:34,720 We are gods. 426 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,480 In a strange way, that feels like our reward. 427 00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:44,360 [Wyclef] We feel no pain. 428 00:29:48,480 --> 00:29:50,480 Tim is a hard worker, man. 429 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,360 I can't eat anything. 430 00:30:14,080 --> 00:30:18,400 [Wyclef] 'Cause as an artist, they just want us on the beat like a machine. 431 00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:20,440 Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh... 432 00:30:21,120 --> 00:30:22,840 And then you burn out. 433 00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:34,160 [Avicii] The hospital visit has stuck in my mind as 434 00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,160 an extremely terrible experience, 435 00:30:36,240 --> 00:30:41,560 but it didn't bother me as much as the pain afterwards did, 436 00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,120 which was much less, but it's every day when you wake up. 437 00:30:45,200 --> 00:30:47,560 The second you open your eyes, you're like... [imitates click] 438 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:48,920 Your stomach is hurting. 439 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,880 When you're moving, you're hurting. The pain medicine made me feel shitty. 440 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:57,320 To me, it felt like I was constantly in, like, a haze. 441 00:30:57,400 --> 00:31:01,960 And you don't know how long that's gonna-- it's gonna be like that for, 442 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,640 and the doctors don't know how long it's gonna be. 443 00:31:05,440 --> 00:31:08,120 [Ash] All of a sudden, "Wake Me Up" becomes huge. 444 00:31:08,200 --> 00:31:10,360 [Per] Everything took off in summer 2013. 445 00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:11,320 Here we go! 446 00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,920 ["Wake Me Up" playing] 447 00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:16,560 [cheering] 448 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,080 [Avicii] My life was a dream to so many people. 449 00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:34,440 I am including myself. It was a dream. 450 00:31:34,520 --> 00:31:36,520 House music and-- and dance music 451 00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:40,800 really had such a-- such a rise at the same time I had my rise. 452 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,600 [chanting] Avicii! Avicii! Avicii! 453 00:31:44,120 --> 00:31:46,800 Avicii! Avicii! Avicii... 454 00:31:46,880 --> 00:31:48,880 [cheering] 455 00:31:50,320 --> 00:31:53,720 You know, it was a lot of work, a lot of heavy tours, 456 00:31:54,800 --> 00:31:58,560 and I just kind of went with all the punches that came along, 457 00:31:59,160 --> 00:32:03,160 because I was so extremely lucky to be able to do what I am doing. 458 00:32:05,200 --> 00:32:08,800 But I didn't take the time to really figure out what I wanted to do, 459 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:10,520 and how I wanted to do it. 460 00:32:12,400 --> 00:32:15,000 I just kind of went along with the flow. 461 00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,520 But I only focused on music and the touring, really, 462 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:22,480 and then I just watched everything kind of happen. 463 00:32:23,800 --> 00:32:28,640 And I had to obviously do whatever I said I was gonna do. 464 00:32:28,720 --> 00:32:31,080 If it's, you know, promotion, this or that, 465 00:32:31,160 --> 00:32:33,280 but it was never really my plan. 466 00:32:35,200 --> 00:32:37,520 I think I was-- I was running after some-- 467 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,160 like, another-- like, an idea of happiness that wasn't my own. 468 00:32:46,000 --> 00:32:49,000 ["Carry On" demo playing on stereo] 469 00:32:54,480 --> 00:32:58,040 -Oh, so this vocal isn't part of... -Yeah. This is the vocal... 470 00:32:58,120 --> 00:33:03,000 What I learned from Michael Jackson was the orchestra lives in his head. 471 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:08,360 His neuro fully understands every dot, and how everything should go, 472 00:33:08,440 --> 00:33:10,280 so it's like an inside symphony. 473 00:33:10,360 --> 00:33:16,800 So you have those that are like me, that have to physically touch the piano. 474 00:33:18,600 --> 00:33:22,480 Then you have Tim, similar to Michael Jackson. 475 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,400 This is so important that the world understands this. 476 00:33:25,480 --> 00:33:28,520 The actual symphony now lives in his entire head. 477 00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:34,560 He's doing this like as Bach did what he did. 478 00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,800 So I do think that there's something we might be missing, 479 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:41,760 the fact that we're making a separation from D.J.s and musicians. 480 00:33:41,840 --> 00:33:45,920 Tim, to me, he's a hardcore music theorist, 481 00:33:46,000 --> 00:33:48,080 and that's what makes a great composer. 482 00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,320 -Let's try one more, just for sure. -Mm-hmm. 483 00:33:50,400 --> 00:33:51,920 [track playing] 484 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,480 ♪ Carry on, carry on, carry on, he said ♪ 485 00:33:56,120 --> 00:33:58,960 ♪ Carry on, carry on, carry on ♪ 486 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:04,040 ♪ Won't be long, won't be long Won't be long, he said ♪ 487 00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:07,000 ♪ Carry on, carry on, carry on ♪ 488 00:34:08,040 --> 00:34:11,400 ♪ When the day will be mine Will be mine... ♪ 489 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:15,760 [Tiësto] What I think is unique about him is how he approaches the songs. 490 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:18,040 He's very innovative in his melodies. 491 00:34:18,120 --> 00:34:20,239 You know, he did "Levels", "Wake Me Up". 492 00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:24,280 And those two songs were not with, like, famous singers, or collabs, or... 493 00:34:24,360 --> 00:34:27,199 It was just him putting something special together, 494 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:29,880 and I think he was the first D.J. 495 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:36,600 that broke into the mainstream, like that big, in an authentic kind of way. 496 00:34:36,679 --> 00:34:38,719 ["Wake Me Up" playing] 497 00:34:38,800 --> 00:34:40,920 And the American Music Award goes to... 498 00:34:41,320 --> 00:34:42,719 [both] Avicii! 499 00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:45,360 [cheering and applause] 500 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,840 Um, I just wanna say thank you to everyone who voted for me, 501 00:34:56,920 --> 00:35:00,280 um, and thank you to my manager, my label. 502 00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:02,160 Um, thank you so much. 503 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,040 [people chattering indistinctly] 504 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:13,440 I recovered from my first kind of pancreatitis. 505 00:35:13,520 --> 00:35:15,640 I was off the pain medication. 506 00:35:15,720 --> 00:35:19,560 Everything was fine, I w-wasn't on any medication. 507 00:35:21,280 --> 00:35:23,960 -Then I got back to... -See you tomorrow, man. 508 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:26,840 ...uh, Miami for the Ultra show. 509 00:35:31,520 --> 00:35:35,200 My appendix ruptured and my, uh, gall bladder ruptured as well. 510 00:35:35,960 --> 00:35:37,960 [clears throat] 511 00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,000 I need to get some sleep. 512 00:35:41,680 --> 00:35:46,800 I was feeling like shit, and then the only solution that I got was... 513 00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,720 Uh, when-- when does my next pain medication come? 514 00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:52,840 I have here... 515 00:35:52,920 --> 00:35:56,480 ...to take, like, a medicine for it or to battle through it. 516 00:35:57,040 --> 00:35:59,960 Every time I went into the hospital, it was like that. 517 00:36:00,040 --> 00:36:02,480 Take this and you'll kind of feel better. 518 00:36:02,560 --> 00:36:05,240 Maybe you're just used to taking the Percocet? 519 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,000 You've built up a tolerance. 520 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:10,600 But I've never used-- I've never taken Percocet before. 521 00:36:10,680 --> 00:36:13,720 Percocet is fucking heroin! 522 00:36:13,800 --> 00:36:17,440 -You're getting Percocets? -Yes, we are, but they're not helping. 523 00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:19,320 Well, yeah, they will... 524 00:36:19,400 --> 00:36:22,240 It didn't help my pain, that was the weird thing. 525 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:25,720 So he gave me something that didn't really help with my pain, 526 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:28,600 but if the doctor says so, I guess this is hospital, 527 00:36:28,680 --> 00:36:32,800 I guess he still knows what he's doing and, you know, kind of like that. 528 00:36:32,880 --> 00:36:35,600 What happened was, uh, your blood pressure started dropping. 529 00:36:35,680 --> 00:36:40,400 But it started dropping when I started to add the-- all the other things into it, 530 00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:45,520 when I started adding the, uh, the anti-anxiety thing for headache, 531 00:36:46,280 --> 00:36:48,200 and the other headache things, 532 00:36:48,720 --> 00:36:52,040 which I would be fine to try to take everything else off, 533 00:36:52,480 --> 00:36:55,080 but don't take the only things that are working... 534 00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:56,360 -All right. -...for me. 535 00:36:56,440 --> 00:36:58,120 This doesn't feel right. 536 00:36:58,200 --> 00:37:02,560 These pains could last for a very long time, that was the fucked-up part of it. 537 00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:07,560 I understood when I was in-- when I had my pancreatitis, that it... 538 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:10,480 I had to be on the medications... 539 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:15,040 during that, when I was in the hospital, when I was hospitalised. 540 00:37:15,520 --> 00:37:17,640 That wasn't really the big problem. 541 00:37:18,160 --> 00:37:22,120 The big problem is... that the pain... 542 00:37:23,480 --> 00:37:25,360 the-- the pain stays with you. 543 00:37:27,360 --> 00:37:29,240 For me, it was different each time. 544 00:37:29,320 --> 00:37:32,880 The first time, [stammers] it stuck with me for a month. 545 00:37:32,960 --> 00:37:36,280 The second time, I think it stuck with me for like four months. 546 00:37:36,360 --> 00:37:38,840 It-- It kept not-- It didn't stop. 547 00:37:38,920 --> 00:37:41,520 I di-- I didn't see the alternatives to this. 548 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:44,520 You might feel pain free with high doses, 549 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:47,840 but your body starts-- your blood pressure starts going down. 550 00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:51,360 But we'll see, we'll try. If not Dilaudid, something else-- 551 00:37:51,440 --> 00:37:54,440 I wasn't even alerted that my blood pressure was... 552 00:37:54,520 --> 00:37:58,800 There was no communication. No one said: "Your blood pressure has gone high." 553 00:37:58,880 --> 00:38:01,640 -No, it just-- -It's just being moved and then... 554 00:38:01,720 --> 00:38:03,000 Okay, we'll contact you. 555 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:04,880 -It's a code blue, okay? -Okay. 556 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,400 [rock music] 557 00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,400 [Avicii] I was on all these kind of medications. 558 00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,320 So they were saying: "You can take this, this is fine. 559 00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:21,760 This is not addictive, this is not addictive." 560 00:38:21,840 --> 00:38:27,480 And then I was, like, taking 20 pills of some fucking gabapentin here. 561 00:38:27,560 --> 00:38:31,640 All these different medications that weren't supposed to be addictive. 562 00:38:32,320 --> 00:38:35,240 And it made me feel more anxious. 563 00:38:36,560 --> 00:38:39,400 This kept going and I started touring again. 564 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:44,040 Hey, guys, this is Avicii back on Capital. 565 00:38:44,120 --> 00:38:47,880 I think this year is possibly gonna be bigger than last year. 566 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:49,280 [string music] 567 00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:51,720 So I'm really excited, um, now we're starting 568 00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:56,000 to kind of come into the summer months, and kind of get back to touring. 569 00:39:03,040 --> 00:39:04,120 [jarring music] 570 00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,880 One of the hottest acts in music 571 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,840 is coming to New York this weekend with troubles following on tour. 572 00:39:12,920 --> 00:39:15,560 At the Avicii concert in Boston last night, 573 00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:18,640 three dozen young people had to be taken to the hospital, 574 00:39:18,720 --> 00:39:23,320 and many more were treated at the scene for problems related to drugs and alcohol. 575 00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,040 -The thing is, I don't-- -CNN, Fox, CBS releasing reports saying 576 00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:31,080 there's a theme on Avicii concerts with kids being sent to hospital. 577 00:39:32,080 --> 00:39:34,320 [man] And there was a theme at Led Zeppelin concerts, too. 578 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,760 Yeah. Yeah, and they brought EDC up. 579 00:39:36,840 --> 00:39:41,200 They're like: "800 people were also sent to the hospital in EDC, 580 00:39:41,280 --> 00:39:43,280 where Avicii was also performing." 581 00:39:43,360 --> 00:39:47,800 [chuckles] Like I had anything to do... It was, like, a three-day festival. 582 00:39:47,880 --> 00:39:50,600 -I was one out of 40 people. -No, no. Here's Tim... 583 00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:57,920 [woman] Avicii! Avicii, get a picture with us. Can we get a picture? 584 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,760 [radio host] How is it to be you? [laughs] How is it to be Avicii? 585 00:40:01,840 --> 00:40:05,440 [on phone] It's weird. It's weird. I mean, obviously, I am Avicii, 586 00:40:05,520 --> 00:40:07,360 but then at the same time, 587 00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:13,000 people's perception of who Avicii is isn't who Tim is. 588 00:40:13,080 --> 00:40:16,760 -[stammering] I'm a little bit shy. -Yeah. 589 00:40:16,840 --> 00:40:20,280 I don't really like being the centre of attention. [laughs] 590 00:40:20,360 --> 00:40:22,560 But you are. [chuckling] You are, Tim. 591 00:40:22,640 --> 00:40:25,320 Exactly! But I am. That's-- That's the thing. 592 00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:28,280 That-- That's what makes it so, so weird. 593 00:40:28,360 --> 00:40:30,360 [chuckles] 594 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:33,920 I didn't believe I could actually slow down. 595 00:40:34,360 --> 00:40:37,920 I didn't believe that I could tour any differently than this. 596 00:40:39,800 --> 00:40:44,920 I also looked around and I saw everyone else doing what I was doing, 597 00:40:45,000 --> 00:40:48,040 and they were doing fine, you know, seemingly. 598 00:40:48,120 --> 00:40:52,360 I know I-I can't read minds, but they looked like they were doing fine. 599 00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:56,680 Then I started to feel... I mean, I started to feel crazy, in a sense. 600 00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,920 Everything on the checklist is there, so I should be happy. 601 00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,000 [pensive music] 602 00:41:04,480 --> 00:41:09,200 I didn't have time to give myself to properly stop. 603 00:41:09,640 --> 00:41:13,040 What I should have done, obviously, is to fucking stop, 604 00:41:13,120 --> 00:41:16,320 take four months, five months, half a year, 605 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:19,160 recover from... 606 00:41:21,160 --> 00:41:24,440 recover from not just the pain medicine, 607 00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:26,360 but from the fucking illnesses, 608 00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:31,200 recover from all the years of touring, all the stress. 609 00:41:33,160 --> 00:41:34,680 But I kept going. 610 00:41:34,760 --> 00:41:36,840 [dramatic string music] 611 00:42:14,440 --> 00:42:17,160 [Avicii] After that summer, that wasn't good. 612 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,720 I felt... I felt like shit. 613 00:42:26,920 --> 00:42:28,920 [playing notes] 614 00:42:29,960 --> 00:42:33,160 I did a concert the other day in this tiny bar... 615 00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,240 uh, with no crew, 616 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:40,800 and when I tried to tune my own guitar on stage, I couldn't do it. 617 00:42:40,880 --> 00:42:42,240 It was so embarrassing. 618 00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:44,520 [laughter] 619 00:42:44,600 --> 00:42:46,960 -It was really embarrassing. -That's perfect. 620 00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,400 It brought it right back to the beginning. 621 00:42:50,480 --> 00:42:51,320 That's great. 622 00:42:51,400 --> 00:42:54,960 My passion for music was always there, so I loved making music. 623 00:42:55,040 --> 00:42:57,360 That was the one thing I could come back to. 624 00:42:57,440 --> 00:43:00,120 -[Chris] The one above that. -Yeah, I'm gonna do... 625 00:43:01,480 --> 00:43:03,800 I'd say-- I'd say, maybe one, maybe... 626 00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:07,840 It just does it like a transition thing. 627 00:43:08,240 --> 00:43:11,240 ["A Sky Full of Stars" playing on stereo] 628 00:43:31,880 --> 00:43:32,880 [exhales] 629 00:43:32,960 --> 00:43:34,720 -Do you like it more when it gets...? -Huh? 630 00:43:34,800 --> 00:43:37,520 Do you like it better when it's, like, more with the higher...? 631 00:43:37,600 --> 00:43:39,360 You're so talented, man. 632 00:43:39,840 --> 00:43:41,640 -Do you like the synths? -What? 633 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:43,760 -Do you like the new synth? -I love it. 634 00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:45,840 [track playing faintly] 635 00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,880 Hoo-hoo-hoo! 636 00:43:47,960 --> 00:43:51,120 ♪ Here you come to raise me up ♪ 637 00:43:51,200 --> 00:43:54,760 ♪ When I'm beaten and broken up ♪ 638 00:43:55,360 --> 00:43:59,520 ♪ And now I'm back in the arms I love ♪ 639 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,440 -[exhales] -[Avicii] Really good. 640 00:44:03,520 --> 00:44:05,520 Really good. I've got everything. 641 00:44:08,640 --> 00:44:12,000 [Avicii] Time went on, and I didn't feel better. 642 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,520 And it kept happening, even though when I went into-- 643 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,280 to periods of just purely taking care of myself, 644 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:20,760 it kept happening, I kept feeling bad. 645 00:44:20,840 --> 00:44:23,720 And my body kept feeling bad. 646 00:44:23,800 --> 00:44:25,960 [Magnus speaking Swedish] 647 00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,040 There was never an end of shows. 648 00:44:34,680 --> 00:44:38,160 Even when I really felt like I was gonna hit a wall or something, 649 00:44:38,240 --> 00:44:43,440 I gave myself a couple of months just to kind of relax and-- and not do anything. 650 00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:48,000 And even in those months, I couldn't get myself to relax, 651 00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:52,600 because my mind was still focused on when I was gonna start up touring again. 652 00:45:27,960 --> 00:45:29,000 Mm. 653 00:45:31,440 --> 00:45:33,440 Mm. 654 00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,840 In the beginning of the year, 655 00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,000 I get presented with all the shows of the upcoming year, 656 00:45:52,360 --> 00:45:55,400 and I have to say which I want to do and which I don't. 657 00:45:55,480 --> 00:45:58,680 And then, along the lines of the year, stuff pumps up. 658 00:45:58,760 --> 00:46:01,680 You know, my manager might want to push something in, 659 00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:03,640 someone else might want to push something in, 660 00:46:03,720 --> 00:46:08,200 then is pushing my manager to push it in. I might want to push something in. 661 00:46:08,280 --> 00:46:13,480 You know, all these things kind of come in and they cause a shit ton of stress. 662 00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,800 [serene music] 663 00:46:18,600 --> 00:46:21,200 [Tiësto] Tim decides to rent a big, giant villa. 664 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:25,640 He's, like, using this as his base, flying out all over Europe doing shows. 665 00:46:27,800 --> 00:46:32,160 [Ash] He was touring, I think it was three or four times per week. 666 00:46:34,840 --> 00:46:38,720 And, uh, he was working on, uh, his second album as well. 667 00:46:57,640 --> 00:47:01,760 [Avicii] Even though the shows got harder to do, the touring got harder to do, 668 00:47:01,840 --> 00:47:03,600 there were always moments, 669 00:47:03,680 --> 00:47:06,080 during the touring moments, during the shows, 670 00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:09,040 when I could find a genuine happiness from music. 671 00:47:16,240 --> 00:47:20,320 [Fredrik] To be able to do the music or, uh, to be able to go out for the touring, 672 00:47:20,400 --> 00:47:22,080 he was taking medication. 673 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:23,680 [Ash] By this time, Tim was-- 674 00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:27,720 he was supposed to, like, be over all, uh, the medicines and stuff. 675 00:47:28,880 --> 00:47:31,920 [Avicii] I went to psychiatrists, I went to doctors. 676 00:47:32,280 --> 00:47:35,280 I tried so many different diets. 677 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,800 You know, we-- I even changed-- I changed the way I toured, 678 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,320 not enough at all, [chuckles] but I changed it, 679 00:47:44,400 --> 00:47:46,720 and I-I thought I did enough, you know. 680 00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:55,680 But by my standards, that was a chilled schedule. 681 00:47:56,120 --> 00:47:59,360 But then the other five days was working on the album. 682 00:48:07,360 --> 00:48:13,240 When you start, you just wanna make... cool beats and have fun, you know? 683 00:48:13,320 --> 00:48:16,680 You're not thinking like: "Oh, I need to have a hit record." 684 00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:20,800 You make those cool beats, you have fun, you wanna play those-- those beats, 685 00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:25,160 and then, it's just positivity, it's just fun, it's just entertainment, 686 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:27,440 and sharing your love. 687 00:48:28,160 --> 00:48:33,880 But then, after, when you had, like, let's say, three massive global hits, 688 00:48:34,520 --> 00:48:38,280 everybody expects you to come every time with a global hit, 689 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:40,080 and this is really hard. 690 00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:44,280 [Avicii] I've been working on Stories for forever. 691 00:48:44,360 --> 00:48:48,600 In-- In my time schedule, it was forever, because it had taken two years, 692 00:48:48,680 --> 00:48:53,360 and, I mean, the first album took me three months to make the majority of it, 693 00:48:53,440 --> 00:48:55,800 and this was a completely different thing. 694 00:49:13,560 --> 00:49:16,560 ["Sunset Jesus" by Avicii playing] 695 00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,880 [speaking Swedish] 696 00:49:23,960 --> 00:49:26,040 -[man yelling on stereo] -[man 2] Yeah! Yeah! 697 00:49:26,120 --> 00:49:27,840 [children cheering] 698 00:49:43,920 --> 00:49:45,920 [sombre music] 699 00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:55,680 [Fredrik] He's just like a shell of what he used to be. 700 00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:59,800 The guy I used to know wasn't really there anymore. 701 00:50:04,160 --> 00:50:08,360 [Avicii] It was so over the top, 'cause I wasn't drinking when I woke up. 702 00:50:08,440 --> 00:50:10,920 I wasn't-- Y-- I didn't... 703 00:50:12,160 --> 00:50:16,320 I know all my ideas of a problem wasn't there. 704 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:21,840 So it didn't-- I couldn't connect my problem with my lifestyle. [chuckles] 705 00:50:24,120 --> 00:50:30,920 Finally, when the album was done, he, uh, he had to do this, uh, promotion tour. 706 00:50:31,320 --> 00:50:33,000 Hey, guys, this is Avicii. 707 00:50:33,080 --> 00:50:36,800 Follow my profile to get updates from my latest album, Stories. 708 00:50:37,360 --> 00:50:38,440 Hey, everybody... 709 00:50:39,640 --> 00:50:43,360 Hey, everybody, it's Avicii. Check out my new single... 710 00:50:52,200 --> 00:50:53,040 [man] Mm? 711 00:50:55,080 --> 00:50:56,960 "Insert artist's name." 712 00:51:00,760 --> 00:51:02,760 [door slams shut] 713 00:51:20,240 --> 00:51:23,800 [Wyclef] The best thing about falling is getting up. 714 00:51:24,680 --> 00:51:27,040 A-And the fact is, Tim is up. 715 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:31,480 [Carl] When we were finished with the therapy, Tim wanted to go to the U.S. 716 00:51:31,880 --> 00:51:33,880 [pensive music] 717 00:51:36,240 --> 00:51:40,000 Early morning, like four o'clock in the morning, we got on the plane. 718 00:51:40,080 --> 00:51:41,640 [seatbelt sign beeping] 719 00:51:47,560 --> 00:51:49,880 We start flying over Los Angeles. 720 00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:52,320 Wow, this is awesome. 721 00:51:54,760 --> 00:51:58,920 We get in the cars and we drive towards Malibu. 722 00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:11,080 And we kind of arrive at this insane house. 723 00:52:14,440 --> 00:52:16,960 Right by the beach, green grass. 724 00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,800 We come down and we see the sunset, 725 00:52:21,880 --> 00:52:26,560 this beautiful Malibu sunset, and we're like: "Wow!" 726 00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,880 [Magnus] We met up in Malibu again. 727 00:52:38,960 --> 00:52:41,480 [chattering in Swedish] 728 00:52:41,560 --> 00:52:45,720 You could tell that he-- he had been working on-- on himself a lot. 729 00:52:47,160 --> 00:52:48,400 [grunts] 730 00:52:48,480 --> 00:52:49,960 He was a lot different. 731 00:52:51,560 --> 00:52:53,640 He was determined to change his life. 732 00:52:53,720 --> 00:52:55,920 [dramatic string music] 733 00:52:56,920 --> 00:53:00,680 [Carl] We built a studio with the most amazing view ever. 734 00:53:01,440 --> 00:53:03,800 We really took out the best in each other. 735 00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:08,320 [Avicii] We started kind of figuring out how we were gonna plan this and that. 736 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:11,440 [Carl] We shut off Tim's e-mail, we shut off his phone. 737 00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,720 That was a really good time for him. 738 00:53:16,440 --> 00:53:19,160 [Carl] It was a very, very, very nice period. 739 00:53:33,600 --> 00:53:37,000 [laughing] 740 00:53:37,960 --> 00:53:39,680 [squealing] 741 00:53:41,520 --> 00:53:43,520 [speaking Swedish] 742 00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:55,560 [laughter] 743 00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,880 [clapping] 744 00:54:06,960 --> 00:54:08,960 [cheering] 745 00:54:09,720 --> 00:54:11,080 [laughter continues] 746 00:54:11,160 --> 00:54:15,600 I felt a lot more collected and I thought: "I've taken my time now, gone to therapy. 747 00:54:15,680 --> 00:54:18,800 I've been through this and this. I feel a shit ton better." 748 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,280 And I wanted to get started on my new album, 749 00:54:21,360 --> 00:54:23,960 so I got a bunch of my songwriting friends. 750 00:54:24,040 --> 00:54:28,360 We decided to go from L.A. to Miami on a bus and stop on different places 751 00:54:28,440 --> 00:54:33,840 and kind of do some sort of outdoor awesomeness studio 752 00:54:33,920 --> 00:54:36,720 in the most kind of epic settings you could think of. 753 00:54:41,040 --> 00:54:42,640 ["Lord" by Avicii playing] 754 00:55:05,000 --> 00:55:07,000 [whirring] 755 00:55:09,880 --> 00:55:12,400 ["Lord" continues] 756 00:55:22,960 --> 00:55:24,960 [music stops abruptly] 757 00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:36,080 [camera clicks] 758 00:56:16,080 --> 00:56:16,920 Mm. 759 00:56:44,280 --> 00:56:46,280 [Ash laughs] 760 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:00,400 [Ash continues laughing] 761 00:57:12,920 --> 00:57:13,880 [both laugh] 762 00:57:13,960 --> 00:57:16,960 ["Without You" track playing on stereo] 763 00:57:20,400 --> 00:57:21,480 [Avicii hums] 764 00:57:21,560 --> 00:57:22,560 [guitar playing] 765 00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:24,360 [imitating chords] 766 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:29,840 [playing] 767 00:57:36,240 --> 00:57:37,120 [laughing] 768 00:57:39,880 --> 00:57:43,920 My heart is beating. I can't see clear. 769 00:57:44,000 --> 00:57:47,160 [on stereo] ♪ My heart is beating, I can't see clear ♪ 770 00:57:47,240 --> 00:57:48,080 [mimics chords] 771 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:51,120 [Sandro] Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. 772 00:57:51,200 --> 00:57:53,160 [all humming] 773 00:57:54,480 --> 00:57:57,360 [Sandro singing "Without You"] 774 00:57:57,440 --> 00:58:00,480 [both singing] 775 00:58:02,200 --> 00:58:05,240 -[Sandro continues singing] -[cheering] 776 00:58:16,120 --> 00:58:18,120 ["Without You" continues] 777 00:58:42,200 --> 00:58:43,040 Nice. 778 00:59:00,200 --> 00:59:03,200 [Carl] I was like: "Wow, this is gonna be so great." 779 00:59:04,120 --> 00:59:08,440 And then... the road trip ends in Miami. 780 00:59:11,560 --> 00:59:16,280 And the Ultra gig is... is happening. 781 00:59:16,360 --> 00:59:18,400 [horns beeping] 782 00:59:18,480 --> 00:59:20,480 [indistinct chatter] 783 00:59:22,240 --> 00:59:25,960 [Avicii] There was something wrong with the computer before the show. 784 00:59:28,440 --> 00:59:29,960 [fan speaking indistinctly] 785 00:59:30,040 --> 00:59:32,400 -Can I have a picture with him? -Not now. 786 00:59:32,480 --> 00:59:34,280 -No? -No way. Sorry. No, no way. 787 00:59:36,880 --> 00:59:37,800 Yeah, I'm here. 788 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:41,840 Yeah, sure. 789 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:43,800 [slow-motion speech] 790 00:59:43,880 --> 00:59:46,480 [Avicii] I'll start getting more and more nervous. 791 00:59:47,960 --> 00:59:50,600 Things are becoming closer to the show. 792 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:56,040 Someone comes and tells me: "Okay, now it's time. It's like five minutes to." 793 00:59:56,120 --> 00:59:57,920 So I'm like: "All right, fuck it." 794 00:59:58,000 --> 00:59:59,720 [dramatic music] 795 01:00:10,000 --> 01:00:12,000 [all speaking Swedish] 796 01:00:23,760 --> 01:00:24,600 [man] Okay. 797 01:00:33,040 --> 01:00:37,320 -Sorry. Can I take a picture? -No, no, no, not now. Not now. 798 01:00:46,280 --> 01:00:47,120 [heartbeat] 799 01:00:47,200 --> 01:00:50,560 [man] Like, he was pushing himself for, like, every single day 800 01:00:50,640 --> 01:00:52,680 for whatever how long this was, 801 01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:58,200 and it felt like it was a ticking bomb and it just exploded at a show. 802 01:00:59,560 --> 01:01:00,880 [jarring music] 803 01:01:03,880 --> 01:01:06,440 [chattering indistinctly] 804 01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:12,960 [crowd cheering] 805 01:01:20,960 --> 01:01:24,520 I thought the other one was great. There were two tracks... 806 01:01:26,360 --> 01:01:28,160 [tense music builds] 807 01:01:32,040 --> 01:01:35,040 [music stops abruptly, high-pitched ringing] 808 01:01:36,160 --> 01:01:38,520 [announcer] I see you. I see you out there... 809 01:01:38,600 --> 01:01:40,880 [continues speaking indistinctly] 810 01:01:40,960 --> 01:01:42,960 [serene music] 811 01:01:49,960 --> 01:01:53,240 You good? Okay, I'll be stage right if you need anything. 812 01:01:53,320 --> 01:01:54,760 [crowd cheering] 813 01:02:03,080 --> 01:02:05,080 [low rumbling] 814 01:02:11,680 --> 01:02:15,080 [Avicii] I'd been away for-- for-- it's eight months, six months. 815 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:18,240 Now, I've-- I've literally done everything I can. 816 01:02:23,040 --> 01:02:28,920 And straight away, I still... I still get stressed out. 817 01:02:29,000 --> 01:02:32,000 I still don't like this. 818 01:02:34,840 --> 01:02:36,520 [tense music builds] 819 01:02:43,160 --> 01:02:45,200 [music stops abruptly, high-pitched ringing] 820 01:02:45,280 --> 01:02:47,280 [heartbeat, light switch clicks] 821 01:02:48,680 --> 01:02:49,920 [typing] 822 01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,080 Thank you to all artists 823 01:02:57,520 --> 01:03:03,640 who've helped me develop musically and personally. 824 01:03:06,560 --> 01:03:10,000 Thank you, Semi Badreddine, for all your personal support, talks, 825 01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:11,320 and helping me growing up. 826 01:03:11,400 --> 01:03:15,200 I have a feeling I'd be dead if not for you, and I will always love you. 827 01:03:38,360 --> 01:03:41,240 [laughter] 828 01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:50,280 And last but not least, a thank you to every fan who's ever bought a ticket, 829 01:03:50,360 --> 01:03:51,600 or snuck in... 830 01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:52,640 [friend chuckles] 831 01:03:53,360 --> 01:03:56,320 ...bought a song or downloaded it, loved... 832 01:04:00,000 --> 01:04:04,640 It's your thoughts and ideas about the music that helped me evolve, 833 01:04:04,720 --> 01:04:08,240 -and I do owe everything I have to you. -[friend speaks Swedish] 834 01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:11,280 Special thanks to everyone who's... 835 01:04:12,640 --> 01:04:17,520 been a part of the team since day one. 836 01:04:20,720 --> 01:04:23,160 Our journey is far from finished. 837 01:04:28,880 --> 01:04:29,720 [sighs] 838 01:04:29,800 --> 01:04:31,560 [friend speaks Swedish] 839 01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:35,000 [continues sighing] 840 01:04:48,920 --> 01:04:50,560 [gasps] 841 01:05:34,200 --> 01:05:36,840 [friends chattering indistinctly] 842 01:05:36,920 --> 01:05:38,920 [plate clinks] 843 01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:41,000 [inhales] 844 01:06:01,480 --> 01:06:03,240 [Avicii] I felt shitty, I felt terrible, 845 01:06:03,320 --> 01:06:07,360 because I saw how-- how happy all the fans are, and I don't fucking like it. 846 01:06:07,440 --> 01:06:11,600 I'm standing up there, pretending I like something that I don't like doing. 847 01:06:11,680 --> 01:06:15,200 That-- That was just it for me, because I just knew that there's-- 848 01:06:15,280 --> 01:06:18,920 I can't see a way for me to do this and be happy about it. 849 01:06:19,280 --> 01:06:21,600 After that, I just decided: "Fuck, I'm gonna quit." 850 01:06:21,680 --> 01:06:23,680 [dramatic music] 851 01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,520 -[fan] I think I'm gonna cry. -[fan 2] We are very sad. 852 01:06:28,600 --> 01:06:30,640 [fan 3] It's unfair, Avicii. Unfair. 853 01:06:30,720 --> 01:06:34,440 [reporter] Dance music D.J. Avicii officially retires from touring. 854 01:06:42,760 --> 01:06:43,760 Very sad. 855 01:06:44,480 --> 01:06:48,760 He stands out above anyone else, and that's why it's so sad to see him go. 856 01:06:48,840 --> 01:06:54,840 It's been a great five years, good music, and, you know, jam after jam, nice tracks. 857 01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:57,320 If this is what he has to do, then so be it. 858 01:06:57,400 --> 01:06:59,200 [reporter] In a letter posted on his website, 859 01:06:59,280 --> 01:07:01,080 Avicii told followers he would: 860 01:07:01,160 --> 01:07:03,320 "Continue to speak to fans in his music." 861 01:07:03,400 --> 01:07:04,480 ♪ Doo-doo-doo... ♪ 862 01:07:11,840 --> 01:07:13,840 [laughing] 863 01:07:52,800 --> 01:07:54,520 [laughter continues] 864 01:08:03,360 --> 01:08:06,800 [Nile] Tim's life almost revolves around him 865 01:08:06,880 --> 01:08:10,520 being able to create his own music. 866 01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:14,880 Was he doing that part to get to the concert, 867 01:08:14,960 --> 01:08:18,960 or was he doing it because he actually just loved making the music? 868 01:08:19,439 --> 01:08:21,240 I think he loved making the music. 869 01:08:31,240 --> 01:08:33,240 [pensive acoustic guitar music] 870 01:09:32,840 --> 01:09:34,840 [music continues] 871 01:09:47,240 --> 01:09:50,040 [dance music playing on stereo] 872 01:10:09,760 --> 01:10:11,280 [laughter] 873 01:10:12,800 --> 01:10:13,640 [groans] 874 01:10:14,480 --> 01:10:15,440 [Carl] Yup. 875 01:10:16,040 --> 01:10:17,440 [speaks Swedish] 876 01:10:17,520 --> 01:10:21,240 [Obama on laptop] ...Legos. Our homes and lives are infused with 877 01:10:21,880 --> 01:10:24,400 Scandinavian furniture and design. 878 01:10:25,120 --> 01:10:27,480 Um, some of us dance and sing 879 01:10:27,560 --> 01:10:29,400 -to Abba and Avicii. -[laughter] 880 01:10:35,920 --> 01:10:38,120 [piano music playing on stereo] 881 01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,200 [growling] 882 01:10:43,480 --> 01:10:44,360 Hee-hee! 883 01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:52,000 [laughing] 884 01:10:52,640 --> 01:10:54,640 [wind whistling] 885 01:10:56,000 --> 01:10:58,920 [Fredrik] Even though he decided to quit with the touring, 886 01:10:59,000 --> 01:11:00,840 he still had a lot of shows to do, 887 01:11:00,920 --> 01:11:03,960 so he had the whole summer that he had to tour still. 888 01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:05,640 He had to do Ibiza. 889 01:11:05,720 --> 01:11:11,920 He had to do all these places in-- around Europe and he started with-- with Vegas. 890 01:11:12,000 --> 01:11:13,360 ["Levels" playing] 891 01:11:13,440 --> 01:11:14,880 [crowd cheering] 892 01:11:26,840 --> 01:11:29,720 [jarring music] 893 01:11:29,800 --> 01:11:31,840 [low rumbling] 894 01:11:31,920 --> 01:11:34,200 [high-pitched ringing] 895 01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:26,200 Mm. 896 01:14:02,000 --> 01:14:04,000 [breathes heavily] 897 01:14:38,880 --> 01:14:42,840 [Fredrik] He, uh, he went to speak with [bleep] who is the owner of the hotel, 898 01:14:42,920 --> 01:14:44,400 together with Steve Wynn. 899 01:14:45,240 --> 01:14:46,680 Mr. President. 900 01:14:46,760 --> 01:14:48,840 [laughter] 901 01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:13,800 [man] Mm-hmm. 902 01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:26,680 [Fredrik] They had a great talk and [bleep] understood completely, 903 01:15:26,760 --> 01:15:29,480 and, uh, that was, uh, it with the Vegas shows. 904 01:15:29,560 --> 01:15:31,560 [dramatic string music] 905 01:15:39,720 --> 01:15:41,720 [Avicii] When I decided to stop... 906 01:15:43,000 --> 01:15:45,600 I was expecting a completely different... 907 01:15:46,280 --> 01:15:49,240 I was expecting support in stopping. 908 01:15:49,320 --> 01:15:52,360 I was expecting to, especially with what I'd been through. 909 01:15:52,440 --> 01:15:53,440 And I'd been very open 910 01:15:53,520 --> 01:15:56,920 with every-- everyone I worked with and everyone who knows me. 911 01:15:57,000 --> 01:16:00,720 I've been very open with what I've been through, what I've felt, and... 912 01:16:00,800 --> 01:16:01,840 what I've done. 913 01:16:01,920 --> 01:16:03,480 You know, everyone knows, 914 01:16:04,000 --> 01:16:08,520 uh, that I've been anxious and, you know, everything, and that I've been trying. 915 01:16:08,600 --> 01:16:12,640 So I-I... I didn't expect people to try 916 01:16:12,720 --> 01:16:15,920 to push me to-- to do more shows, 917 01:16:17,040 --> 01:16:18,360 when it really... 918 01:16:22,440 --> 01:16:26,360 When they'd seen how shitty I felt... doing it. 919 01:16:26,440 --> 01:16:31,240 So-- So I did get a lot of resistance when I wanted to stop doing the shows. 920 01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:37,800 [Avicii] Yeah! 921 01:16:40,240 --> 01:16:41,320 [exclaims] 922 01:16:41,400 --> 01:16:43,000 [laughter] 923 01:16:43,080 --> 01:16:43,920 Liam! 924 01:17:31,640 --> 01:17:36,000 [Ash] Anyone that-- that goes from-- from being in school 925 01:17:36,840 --> 01:17:40,720 to all-- to having a career and being successful 926 01:17:40,800 --> 01:17:43,040 misses a big part of growing up. 927 01:18:14,480 --> 01:18:17,840 Obviously that comes with challenges. He doesn't-- You know, there's a... 928 01:19:17,280 --> 01:19:19,760 [people chattering in Swedish] 929 01:19:42,000 --> 01:19:42,960 What's your name? 930 01:19:43,040 --> 01:19:45,120 [speaking Japanese] 931 01:19:45,200 --> 01:19:47,160 -Tim. [laughs] -[both] Nice to meet you. 932 01:19:47,240 --> 01:19:49,800 -[man] One, two, three. -[camera beeps and clicks] 933 01:20:09,200 --> 01:20:11,920 [laughter] 934 01:20:12,160 --> 01:20:13,040 [crowd cheering] 935 01:20:13,120 --> 01:20:16,120 -[announcer speaks Japanese] -[cheering intensifies] 936 01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,400 I'm so happy I'm finally here. 937 01:20:21,920 --> 01:20:24,480 [cheering continues] 938 01:20:24,560 --> 01:20:27,800 I've had the best five days in Japan ever. 939 01:20:28,960 --> 01:20:31,920 You guys have the most beautiful country ever. 940 01:21:31,960 --> 01:21:35,080 [bleep] 941 01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,760 [bleep] 942 01:21:53,040 --> 01:21:55,040 [bleep] 943 01:23:11,280 --> 01:23:13,280 [acoustic guitar music] 944 01:23:17,320 --> 01:23:20,680 ["Ten More Days" by Avicii playing] 945 01:23:30,040 --> 01:23:32,040 [indistinct chatter] 946 01:23:34,080 --> 01:23:36,080 [both chuckle] 947 01:25:12,440 --> 01:25:14,440 [plane roaring] 948 01:25:55,320 --> 01:25:58,040 [laughing] 949 01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:00,280 [crowd whistling and murmuring] 950 01:26:01,680 --> 01:26:03,320 [plane roaring] 951 01:26:30,680 --> 01:26:33,400 [cheering and murmuring] 952 01:26:37,880 --> 01:26:39,120 Hm? Yeah, sure. 953 01:26:40,680 --> 01:26:41,520 [camera clicks] 954 01:27:01,560 --> 01:27:05,600 -[murmuring and whistling] -[dance music playing on stereo] 955 01:27:12,040 --> 01:27:13,720 [whistles] 956 01:27:16,920 --> 01:27:20,200 [high-pitched whistling] 957 01:27:50,920 --> 01:27:53,600 [chuckles] 958 01:28:15,600 --> 01:28:16,880 [clock ticking] 959 01:28:21,840 --> 01:28:22,680 [friend] Move. 960 01:28:25,800 --> 01:28:28,160 [ticking continues] 961 01:28:30,520 --> 01:28:33,240 [chattering in Swedish] 962 01:28:39,160 --> 01:28:40,920 [laughter] 963 01:28:48,480 --> 01:28:50,800 [heartbeat] 964 01:28:53,200 --> 01:28:55,200 [crowd cheering and whistling] 965 01:28:55,880 --> 01:28:58,160 [cameras clicking] 966 01:28:58,240 --> 01:29:00,320 [indistinct chatter] 967 01:29:00,400 --> 01:29:02,400 [dramatic string music] 968 01:29:10,120 --> 01:29:12,480 [cheering] 969 01:29:17,400 --> 01:29:22,000 [crowd chanting] Avicii! Avicii! Avicii! 970 01:29:22,400 --> 01:29:25,720 Avicii! Avicii... 971 01:29:35,760 --> 01:29:37,760 [screaming and cheering] 972 01:29:38,920 --> 01:29:41,240 [string music intensifies] 973 01:30:17,920 --> 01:30:18,760 Ushuaia. 974 01:30:19,200 --> 01:30:20,680 [cheering and whistling] 975 01:30:20,760 --> 01:30:23,400 Thank you so much for tonight. [chuckles] 976 01:30:23,480 --> 01:30:25,640 [chanting] Avicii! Avicii... 977 01:30:26,360 --> 01:30:29,240 I couldn't have asked for a-- a better last show. 978 01:30:31,200 --> 01:30:33,720 Thank you so much for tonight, you were awesome. 979 01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:38,600 [string music continues] 980 01:31:14,920 --> 01:31:16,920 [music fading out] 981 01:31:27,280 --> 01:31:29,280 [waves crashing softly] 982 01:31:55,760 --> 01:31:58,440 [Nile] The-- The performance part of it 983 01:31:58,840 --> 01:32:03,200 is one part of the artistic arc. 984 01:32:03,680 --> 01:32:05,520 And if you cut that out of it, 985 01:32:06,440 --> 01:32:09,280 you still have the life of the creative composer, 986 01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:11,640 the person who puts it all together. 987 01:32:11,720 --> 01:32:16,960 That is a beautiful, wonderful, rewarding life. 988 01:32:17,040 --> 01:32:19,200 ["Feeling Good" by Avicii playing] 989 01:32:19,280 --> 01:32:23,040 [Wyclef] I watched his ups and I watched his downs, 990 01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,520 and I can understand that because... 991 01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:31,040 you know, I too had success at a very, very young age. 992 01:32:31,120 --> 01:32:34,640 So, it's hard for people who don't have success 993 01:32:35,000 --> 01:32:40,000 in their twenties to understand what comes with, 994 01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:44,920 you know, anything you want to buy in your twenties, anything you want to have. 995 01:32:45,000 --> 01:32:48,680 And then you're gonna have, like, a gang of leeches, you know what I'm saying? 996 01:32:48,760 --> 01:32:53,960 Then you got people who just gonna just try to suck you up, you know what I mean? 997 01:32:54,040 --> 01:32:56,200 And now, you know, it's almost like sometimes 998 01:32:56,280 --> 01:32:59,000 you feel like you in a world all by yourself. 999 01:32:59,360 --> 01:33:05,800 So, for you to find a way out of that and to still say: "You know what? 1000 01:33:07,240 --> 01:33:13,360 I'm Tim, I love music, but you know what, right now, I just need to find myself." 1001 01:33:22,840 --> 01:33:26,560 [Avicii] But now it's only been a month since I did my last show 1002 01:33:26,640 --> 01:33:27,480 and I feel... 1003 01:33:29,960 --> 01:33:35,640 [stutters] I mean, like, I feel like I did when I was like 18, maybe. 1004 01:33:36,200 --> 01:33:41,160 I feel I'm in the same kind of spirit as I was then. 1005 01:33:42,240 --> 01:33:44,240 ["Feeling Good" continues] 1006 01:34:01,480 --> 01:34:04,640 I started making music and I started DJing. 1007 01:34:04,720 --> 01:34:08,560 I just quit my job and I don't really have a plan yet. 1008 01:34:09,160 --> 01:34:11,480 [revving] 1009 01:35:21,680 --> 01:35:23,680 ["Feeling Good" continues]