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♪♪

[crowd cheering]

[speaking foreign language]

[crowd cheering]

♪ You took me by surprise

♪ Just like a rainbow in the night ♪

♪ When I looked in your eyes

♪ I could see diamonds shining bright ♪

[man] If you grew up outside of Europe,

kind of watch this being like, "Wait, who's this guy?

Why am I supposed to care like 25 years later?"

But if you were from Italy,

Den Harrow was the equivalent of Duran Duran.

[man] In Germany, he was our superstar.

The Rolling Stones coming at that time, I don't care.

It was Den Harrow.

[man] Soviet Union didn't let you purchase Western artists,

but CDs like Den Harrow came through.

Every nightclub, that's what you hear.

[man] In Spain, Greece, and on the French market,

it was like Madonna.

♪ We're getting serious

-The music is great. -It feels a bit more...

-lyrically different. -Dystopian.

♪ So nice

[man] "Future Brain" is very Clockwork Orange-y.

Den Harrow already hada precursor in what the internet

was gonna do to us today.

[Gutkin] "Don't Break my Heart."

Goosebumps when I listen to that song to this day.

♪ Don't break my heart Don't let me down ♪

[man] Blonde hair, charismatic onstage,

he was the face of Italo disco.

♪ Don't break my heart

[man] He was Bravo Otto winner number one.

Michael Jackson was number two.

[music stops]

But there was rumors if it was his words or not.

[speaking Italian]

Nobody talks about Tom Hooker.

He's forgotten. Okay?

[Fascina]

-[man] Also, yes. -Yes? We need this?

-[man] In the documentary? -Sure, yes.

[man] Well, without him, it's only the face.

Yeah, but Hooker was... only the voice. [laughs]

♪♪

[electronic music plays]

[speaking Italian]

Tom Hooker was a musician in Italy in the early '80s,

but he was afforded an opportunity to be in a film

called Jocks,a 1984 film directed by Riccardo Sesani.

[Palomo] It's like the Italian Saturday Night Fever.

Epic anamorphic widescreen,

looks exactly like Boogie Nights.

So it kind of foreshadowed the fact

that Tom would eventually become very involved

with DJs and music in Italy. at that time.

[film reel running]

[music plays]

[man] Life is a journey.

I hardly remember because it was so long ago.

In fact, it must have been centuries ago.

[man] I grew up in Switzerland. As a teenager,

I would ski in the afternoon

and play in a band at nighttime.

But in Switzerland, you're either a banker,

an attorney, not a musician. So I moved to Italy.

♪♪

I got a recording contract with a record company called asalve .

I did the San Remo Festival.

It was like 21 million people watching.

That's like half the country.

So I did a lot of shows from 1980 to '85.

♪ Summer, winter passing us all the time ♪

♪ Goodbye

[Hooker] 1985, I met Miki Chieregato.

He asked me if I wanted to sing for his Den Harrow project.

They went in the club and found this guy

who was dancing and a weird outfit.

He had makeup on. And that was really big in the '80s.

They took him out and said,

"Hey, do you want to be a pop star? You look like pop star."

You dress like one." So they called him Den Harrow

because in Italian "denaro" means money.

So every time you'd hear the word money,

you think of Den Harrow.

Baby Records picked up the project.

And Freddy, the record company executive, says,

"Look, for Germany, Holland, Sweden, all those countries,

I want a guy who can sing in good English."

♪♪

I said, "I'll sing in this project,

as long as I co-write the song." He goes, "Yeah.

That's no problem. We need a guy to write the lyrics."

[speaking Italian]

I sign a contract.

I got three percent of the royalties.

The image got two percent.

I went to the studio, we did "Future Brain."

"Future Brain" ended up being a huge hit in 1985.

And Freddy said, "God, we need an album."

♪ Back to Atlantis

And I remember working till five in the morning.

Every night we were in the studio, for weeks on end.

He was jet-setting around the world.

[crowd cheering]

Den Harrow did the Festivalbar,

which was a big TV show, in 1985.

And that's when my mother saw him.

And she says, "Oh, that's my son's voice.

Why is he doing it?"

♪ Younger, older Growing... ♪

The year after that, I did the Festivalbar as Tom Hooker.

[crowd cheering]

♪ Waving their tails at me

A song called "Looking For Love."

It was a super massive hit all summer long.

Girls were fainting.

I could rip my shirt off, but there was no album.

There never was an album.

[speaking Italian]

[cell door slams]

[continues in Italian]

[Chieregato] It was a strange situation.

I remember that it was a big fight.

[crowd cheering]

Thirty years ago, he give the voice for Den Harrow

and the artistic career of Tom suffer a lot.

And now Tom, he's not the real Tom,

probably that could be.

[shutter clicks]

A lot of people are technically skilled photographers,

but they don't have the creativity.

Socrates and Plato,

they've said the only explanation of ideas

is they come through God, God gives you the ideas.

Like ding!

I can't jump high. I can't play basketball.

There's a lot of things I can't do.

I can't play the violin.

But ideas just come flowing.

They just pop up all the time.

[thunder crashes]

I do surreal photography where I combine multiple images.

And so it's kind of conceptual.

I have a picture of the Tower of Pisa that I took

and I combined it with the rockets taking off

and I called it "Pisa'd Off."

[thunder crashes]

So it's the Tower of Pisa taking off as a rocket.

[Tom] I'm completely out of the scene.

In Italy, they go... [speaks Italian]

[laughter]

In 1994, I disappeared. Nobody knew where I was.

There's our Strip view.

And when I tell people I live in Las Vegas,

they think I live in a casino or I'm a gambler,

or maybe I shoot porn, or I don't know, I'm a pimp.

-No, that's not what I am. -[man laughs]

I guess I collect jackets.

You know, some people collect stamps.

I collect jackets.

I thought this is kind of cool because it changes color.

Look at this.

I had to reinvent myself,

and I sell all over the world in galleries.

I've been really lucky that, uh,first of all,

people would buy the music and buy my art.

[crowd cheering]

The crazy thing is...

there's so many talented singers

that are singing in piano bars.

And then you got this guy who can't even sing.

He had a contract.

I remember the attorney comingup to me, he says, "What is he?

He's... he's a mime."

So he's... he gets a royalty to be the mime of the songs.

[thumping electronic music plays muffled]

-Den Harrow! -[cheering]

[Tom] Stefano Zandri. For 30 years,

he's been doing shows lip-syncing using my voice.

He still can't speak English.

I mean, the least he could havedone is take English lessons.

I mean, he's had 30 years to learn how to speak English

and his English is still terrible.

And here he is supposed to be an English singer,

a singer in English.

♪ You took me by surprise

Now since 1988,

where I stopped receiving my three percent royalties

on record sales,

I have not made a dollar on his live shows.

Now, if it was America,

I could get a cease and desist letter immediately

with an attorney, a judge, you can't use my voice.

You know, I could do that. But you know, in Italy...

The least he could have done is thank me

or be nice instead of threatening me.

Some fan says, "Is it true?

You were the singer for Den Harrow?"

[speaking Italian]

[choral music plays]

[Tom] Stefano's reaction was really nasty.

He started saying I was a liar.

So I got really upset.

And that's where I did my press conference on YouTube.

I'm here today to tell you that I am the singer

of all Den Harrow's greatest hits.

"Bad Boy," "Charleston," "Don't Break my Heart."

And the list goes on.

And I can prove it to you right now by singing acapella.

♪ Stocking away all the details you want to know ♪

[Fascina]

♪ Day after day All your memories get to grow ♪

[man]

There's two parts. Okay?

Den fans and followers...

♪♪

...and Tom Hooker...

I think he don't have fans.

Why?

[choral music plays]

[Tom] The fans have to justify that they were his fan.

Boy, I got a lot of hate from these people.

"You evil monkey."

Apparently, that's what they say in Russia.

[Fascina] Tom and Chieregato, they live in Vegas.

Miki Chieregato...

Den Harrow should have thanked him

for all these years of silence that have enabled him to work.

[Tom] It would be nice if he was grateful.

I'm going, "Maybe the day will come

when Stefano Zandri will thank...

publicly thank Tom Hooker,"

me, "for lending my voice to him

and co-writing his hits."

That's all I'm asking.

[man speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[continues in Italian]

[smacks kiss]

[music plays]

[speaking Italian]

[music plays]

[continues in Italian]

[speaking Italian]

♪ When I see a foxy lady

♪ Every time I lose my mind

[continues in Italian]

♪ Every girl in town's in danger ♪

♪ I come up from behind

[continues in Italian]

[upbeat music plays]

♪ Hurry up, don't give up

♪ Till you can't stand...

[continues in Italian]

George Michael, Prince, Duran Duran,

Spandau Ballet, Den Harrow.

[continues in Italian]

[Tom] You know, the world isn't fair.

In the movies, Tom Cruise gets all the credit

if the film is good.

How's that, Lieutenant?

[Tom] What he says is so cool

because the guy who wrote the script worked a whole month

to write that script.

Maybe six months, they rewrite it.

It takes a year to write what Tom Cruise

is eventually gonna say on screen.

It's classified.

I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.

[Tom] And he sounds so damn cool.

[airplane engine roaring]

And in pop music, people see the image

and they think that's the guy.

They don't realize that Miki

did all the music behind Den Harrow.

And they don't say, "Wow, Miki, your songs were great."

They'll go to Den Harrow.

Eddy Huntingtondidn't say, "You like that song?

That was not my song. I just sang it.

But, uh, Miki and Tom wrote it."

"Boom, boom, let's go back to my room"

came out under Paul LeKakis.

There will always someone in the front of us,

someone that can't sing.

However, when the time goes by,

finally, uh, is possible to hear the truth.

Through Facebook, somebody asked me,

"Hey, you want to do some shows?"

And I usually say no, no, no.

[classical music plays]

The fans don't really know thatI was the singer for Den Harrow.

So for the first time ever,

I'm gonna sing and we're gonna tell them.

Here we go.

[opera plays]

[opera continues]

[opera continues]

-This looks like a nice one. -Yeah.

Okay.

♪ Stocking away all the details you want to know ♪

♪ Day after day All your memories get to grow ♪

-[phone rings] -Phone ringing.

♪ Putting all that you've stolen ♪

♪ In a prison that you've locked forever ♪

♪ Taking the place of our imagination ♪

♪ But you won't erase my heart ♪

♪ There is no way you can understand what I feel ♪

Keyboards come in now.

♪ You never pray 'cause your soul isn't even real ♪

Tom, you are a studio singer.

♪ You might know lots of things now ♪

♪ But you can never be a lover ♪

And you are only a studio singer.

♪ Winning the race with your information ♪

♪ You won't erase my soul

When you leave the studio, you are nobody.

♪ Future brain You make me wonder ♪

♪ Is it safe to make a sample of my love ♪

♪ Future brain...

[Tom] I don't like to travel without my wife.

So they're going to do backing vocals.

We're gonna have fun because it's all in the family.

[laughing]

I was born Tom Hooker and changed my name

because my wife didn't want to become Mrs. Hooker.

And in case we had children, you know,

and I had to have all these little hookers.

♪ Living today but tomorrow will be the same ♪

-[vocalizing] -[laughing]

We need disco lights in here.

-You remember? -[Miki] My past.

I know, it flies fast. You're not bored, are you?

-No. -Okay, good.

-[electronic music plays] -[elevator dings]

[Tom] Okay. So this is the situation.

We're doing the opening act

for Boney M and for Thomas Anders, a German pop star.

We're gonna hit the nostalgia crowd.

My guess is there'll be a lot of immigrants from Europe.

"Bad Boy," "Charleston," and "Future Brain."

You have three Den Harrow in a row.

You want to start with "Future Brain?"

[Suzanne] The first song is "Looking For Love."

-Yeah, you don't do anything. -You don't do anything. Okay.

"Future Brain." Okay, I got it.I got it.

[indistinct, laughter]

[Miki] After 30 years, to the stage again.

♪ Future brain you make me wonder ♪

♪ Is it safe to make a sample of my love ♪

♪ Future brain You're getting stronger ♪

♪ It's a shame you'll never know how to find love ♪

[vocalizing]

[thunder crashes]

[speaking Italian]

[bell chimes]

[continues in Italian]

[Arena] It's very interesting that Tom Hooker went on tour

with Boney M and Thomas Anders of Modern Talking.

Boney M had their issues with vocal discrepancies,

if you will.

Bobby Farrell was the lead malesinger of the group

and he wasn't the vocalist.

Modern Talking,

Thomas Andrews was the main vocalist of it.

But there were background singers

who were handling the choruses.

It just didn't seem to cause a commotion

until Milli Vanilli.

And the best new artist is... Milli Vanilli.

[Arena] And I think that was largely worsened

by the reaction in America.

On the front page,it was revealed that the pop duo

Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their hit album.

Reporters were out for blood.

When Rob Pilatus and Fab Morvan

tried to explain a two and a half year deception.

You get something, but for that you make a pact

with the devil.

Sources tell us Milli Vanilli

are not the only imposters in town.

[man] Are you singing with Thomas Anders?

No, I'm the little guy on the right corner. See that?

-Oh! -The guy with his arms folded.

-Yeah. -Keyboard player.

-We... '88, '86? -Yeah.

-'86 with... -In Chicago?

Oh, Billy Ocean. Oh, yeah. "Caribbean Queen."

That was cool.

So you don't live in Chicago, you live in Vegas.

I live in Vegas, but I was in Milano

and I was doing Italo disco.

Okay.

-In Italy. -Yeah.

He's the bass player from Boney M.

Doo-doo.

[man] Second vocal. Lead, yeah?

Boney M.

[man speaking over PA]

Miki.

[speaking Italian]

Fantastic. I'm very excited about that.

Hello.

Oh. This is exciting.

[man] Are you ready for this?

We're just here to have a good time.

Okay, let's go. Let's go. Let's get it rolling. Okay?

[Tom] In 1985, I met Miki Chieregato.

And we wrote this song for a Milli Vanilli-type project

called Den Harrow.

-You guys know Den Harrow? -[cheering]

He's been singing these songs,

lip-syncing them to my voice for over 30 years now.

And this is the first time I'm singing this song

in front of a live audience.

-Thank you. -[cheering]

♪♪

[Arena] If something is a lie,

I don't think it's a question of fairness.

I think it's a question of what is the truth.

It's important to know who did what for historical purposes.

When they perform today,

people just want to hear the voice

that sang these songs and enjoy this music

because it really was spectacular pop music.

I imagine with Tom,

perhaps he wants to just establish the fact

that, you know, "Hey, I contributed."

It's great that they can all go out

and put all the negativity aside.

-[cheering] -Everybody's waving.

-♪ You took me-- -[static]

[electrical fizzling]

We're having a technical issue right now.

We'll have a five minute intermission right now.

After that we're gonna have Boney M.

Fix the speakers!

We're having the sound checked, okay?

-Fix the speakers!-We're having the sound checked.

Okay?

This is sabotage!

-You want to document this? -Yeah.

Okay. So, uh...

Our first show, the promoter, uh,

cut the show in the middle of a song.

And, uh, just didn't let us finish the show.

The audience looked like they were having a good time.

We found out that someone switched the cable.

Someone switched the cable? Okay.

But that's between us, you know?

Yeah. Well...

Interesting.

[elevator dings]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

What's happening in Las Vegas

rests in Las Vegas, no?

Is the same when we make a business.

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

It was a little disco,but very popular in that period.

Full of people every day, incredible people.

[speaking Italian]

The address.

[speaking Italian]

I'm the first DJ for American Disaster.

Turatti helped me to turn on and off the lights.

Then Turatti convinced me to putmy hands over the keyboard.

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

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[speaking Italian]

[Tom] I definitely think he hasa lot of psychological issues.

You have people, "I love you. I love you.

You're fantastic. I love your voice."

And you know that it's not your voice.

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[beeping]

[Stefano] Hello?

[speaking Italian]

[Tom] I'm disenchanted right nowbecause I read

that the documentary was all about him...

without even mentioning Miki and me.

So that's to tell you the extent

of his megalomania.

What the hell?

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[man] All right. Acoustic guitar, please?

[guitar strumming]

Five minutes.

-Can I try one song? -I have two hours.

-Two hours? Oh! -Two hours.

[speaking Italian]

[drum sticks clicking]

[man] Okay, move on.

[speaking Italian]

[indistinct chatter]

[man] Mute, mute!

Mute.

Mute.

That was Miki having a spazz attack.

[Tom laughs]

I don't know, the people think that I'm a newby.

-Newby. "You are a newby." -Newbie.

-Newbie. -Newbie, yeah.

Newbie, not "newby," sorry.

[Gutkin] There are people that don't care to know anything

about the artist.

They don't care to know who sings this song.

They download music.

They listen to it for a month, download something else.

And then there's type of people like me.

I periodically look online

for new music from my favorite artists.

And I was looking for Den Harrow.

It linked me to "Bad Boy,"

single by Tom Hooker.

So I was thinking, "Oh, wow, somebody did a cover."

I don't have a perfect ear,

but right away, I drew the similarity between the voices.

My God. It sounds exactly like Den Harrow.

The voice is the same.

So I went to Google and I start searching.

That's where I found out that Stefano

was just lip-syncing to Tom's voice.

I couldn't understand why they needed Stefano

because Tom Hooker is a good-looking guy.

He's tall. He's handsome.

[Giannestras] A lot of people ask me why Den Harrow?

And he was very popular in the '80s

for young girls and for me as well. [laughs]

Well, I think something was wrong.

After the album release of Lies,

the voice was too high.

Then he released Holiday Nights

and the voice became higher and higher.

[speaking Italian]

I just care for whoever actually sang it.

And I think that person deserves the credit.

It's not, "Oh, I remember this song from the '80s."

Do you remember the moving, the show, the outfits?

The charisma and the passion he had on stage,

it was overwhelming.

That's why people loved him.

[man] Come on. Let's give a Burbank welcome

to Mr. Tom Hooker! Come on!

[Tom] I have to tell you a story

that's not really very pleasant.

When we did "Don't Break My Heart,"

I asked if it could be a Tom Hooker song.

And they tell me, "Wait a minute.

We've got money invested in Den Harrow."

[speaking Italian]

[Tom] And I remember going to see Miki and Roberto.

And they had to convince me.

And I said, "Well, yeah, sure. Of course. I understand."

You know, it's business. And...

So...

[speaking Italian]

[crowd cheering]

♪♪

I love you. I want to stay with you all night.

Don't break my heart.

♪♪

♪ You took me by surprise

♪ Just like the rainbow in the night ♪

♪ When I looked in your eyes

♪ I could see diamonds shining bright ♪

[crowd cheering]

♪ I never realized

♪ You'd be the one to make it right ♪

♪ You got me hypnotized

♪ Before my life was black and white ♪

♪ You and me make a team

♪ I want you near me every day ♪

♪ Last night I had a dream

♪ You went away

♪ Don't break my heart

♪ Don't let me down

♪ Don't break my heart

♪ Don't make me frown

Yeah, the beat.

You gotta feel it in your guts and stomach!

You feel it in your feet!

Can't keep still! Come on! Come on!

Feel it!

Do you feel it?

Miki Chieregato has the rhythms!

The whipping of the snare.

[crowd cheering]

-We made it. -Way to go.

-Yeah! -I'm all sweat!

-That was fun, huh? -[all] Whoo!

-You did great. -Thanks.

-I hope people had fun. -I think they did.

Okay.

[camera shutter clicks]

[camera shutter clicks]

Come on, Miki, you're just as important.

Okay. Thank you.

[Gutkin] He was very down to earth guy.

Just your regular guy that you would meet every day.

You would never know he's a celebrity.

It was kind of surreal.

Thank you for the concert.

Thank you for letting me you perform at least once.

Because when you meet someone

you wanted to meet your whole life and it finally happens,

uh, you feel like you're in the clouds.

I'm signing a Den Harrow cover.

Find out that you're the voice, great.

Yeah. We wrote the song.He didn't do anything. Nothing.

[music plays on phone]

[speaking Italian]

-[indistinct] -Dancing it.

-The way you did... -You need to have, you know,

-this kind of movement. -Yeah.

What the hell?

[speaking Italian]

Uh...

[speaking Italian]

[singing in Italian]

♪ The situation I will never change ♪

♪ Infatuation out of range

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

Welcome, American friend.

I speak very bad English.

But I sell 20 millions of record. [laughs]

[speaking Italian]

One day, Stefano was very angrywith Freddy.

Always for the story that he

couldn't sing with his own voice.

[speaking Italian]

And he went to Freddy's office very, very angry.

[speaking Italian]

"I'm fed up! If you don't make me sing with my voice,

I don't want to be Den Harrow any longer."

And Freddy called.

"Now I give you a big present."

[speaking Italian]

Freddy said to Stefano, "Calm down, calm down.

And, um, he took from a box...

[speaking Italian]

-He signed a check... -Thank you.

...with the amount to buy a Porsche.

[Stefano] And I say, okay, I come tomorrow maybe.

[laughter]

The white Cabriolet in the 85.

-[speaking Italian] -Ferrari?

I don't like Ferrari.

But when I buy the Porsche,

he buy the same Porsche like mine

and say the Ferrari... [indistinct]

When I take Harley-Davidson,

he take the more bigger...

[Tom] Honestly, I had no idea he ever had a Porsche.

I didn't know what car he drove.

I didn't know he had a Harley.

Uh, I had five cars at the time.

And Harley was the coolest thingin Milan at that time to have.

Always the same... okay.

[speaking Italian]

Wow!

[speaking Italian]

[Tom] I'm not envious of a mime.

I am envious of, uh, maybe George Michael's career

or Prince, Prince, incredibly talented guys.

Certainly not Stefano Zandri.

I mean, it's absurd. It's ridiculous.

[speaking Italian]

Here's my Steadicam.

So it doesn't look like The Blair Witch Project.

-[laughs] -The screen is bad.

Like cinema.

♪♪

[Tom] "Denaro"means money,

but "Tam Harrow" is a hillbilly.

-Listen this. -[music plays]

[Tom] We pour our heart and soul in writing the songs

and Miki really works hard in the sound.

Very, very good. Okay.

-[Tom] You're sure? -Absolutely. Absolutely.

♪♪

Den Harrow moves off rhythm.

So we got the blonde wig and I move off rhythm,

like he used to do in the '80s.

He says, "I don't know how to move on stage.

I don't know how to sell myself."

So I do all these movements toshow that I could move on stage,

you know, and do... huh!

Huh! I'm Tam Harrow!

Because I could move on stage and sell the music.

♪ Why can I believe you when you lie ♪

♪ Another day, another try

♪ You think that I am so idiot ♪

[man] Are you doing this just for revenge?

[Tom] No, no, no, no.

What is a parody? Apparently, something funny.

♪ Idiot

[Miki] There are a lot of fan of Tom that, "Oh, my God!

This is Tom? This is Tom too!"

It's incredible.

So we have "Vodka Kaboom," and we have "Swiss Cows."

-♪ Idiot -The videos are pretty hammy.

Although I will say that like, as far as Italo disco goes,

like they definitely sound like tunes of the era.

[Gutkin] He had a little fun with it, but that's his style.

I think it's great that somebody

is still making Italo disco music these days.

I admire every artist for doing that

because I know they make no money on this.

Okay. I have a friend, she has an agency.

I say, "I need a Latina girl." And she books girls, like,

not even 16 years old.

[dog barking]

I mean, I could be her grandfather.

The mother happens to come alongand the mother looks better

for the video than the daughter.

So what do I do, put the mother in the video.

You know, we're just trying to do the video the right way.

And then putting a little 16 year old girl

is a little over the top.

♪♪

♪ Mexico, Mexico

[Tom] We were initially gonna do one regular CD,

but we had so many songs.

We made a double CD.

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[Tom] So we just found out from the DJ,

he posted a video of me singing a Den Harrow song.

And it was blocked in Germany.

-[man] Not only in Germany,. -Not only Germany?

-No. -What?

For all the world.

Oh, it wasn't only Germany?

Click on the link.

We are in Houston, right?

[Tom] This video contains content from SME

who has blocked it in your country

due to copyright infringement.

[Miki] If it's blocked here, it's blocked...

All over the world. I mean, it's conspiracy.

How many Beyoncé or Rihanna songs are on YouTube?

You know of girls singing the songs

and they don't get blocked. Right?

We-- I'm singing songs that we wrote.

Every single song we sang

Miki and I wrote, and they're blocking it?

So in other words, we're not allowed

to sing our own songs that we wrote?

Maybe it could be Stefano Zandri's manager,

his agent, they know we're going on tour.

And every little video, they're checking it out.

They probably do a Google search:

"Tom Hooker, Houston," and it pops up.

There's a war going on.

[man] So what now?

I don't know.

[crowd cheering]

♪♪

You like the beat?

[indistinct singing]

[singing continues]

♪ Because I love you so I can't lie ♪

♪ I love you so I can't hide ♪

♪ It doesn't really matter 'cause I love you so ♪

♪ Love you so I love you so ♪

♪ I love you so I love you so ♪

♪ I love you so

♪ I love you so

Oh, I love you, baby.

[crowd cheering]

[Tom] I never took myself that seriously.

Of course you have to take yourself seriously,

because if you do people follow along.

I am definitely the opening act.

They'll forget the opening act.

They'll forget it even existed.

Probably I'll never do a show again.

I might never, never do a show again.

Have a glass of wine with me. Miki.

-Yeah, that's okay. -I love you.

♪♪

[man] 19th of November, 1981, we started Galaxis.

We bought a land, make a new building on it.

All constructed for discotheque.

Then in 1982,

we get award as the best discotheque in Germany.

Galaxis was famous for some very good stars.

We have Divine, we have Donna Summer.

Den Harrow was the best act

we had in our history in the discotheque.

The power, that motion.

We closed the discotheque Galaxis 1989.

We are now here at nearly original location of Galaxis,

which is only like 200 yards away from here.

I guess it's like a little time travel back to the '80s.

We have laser, perfect light show.

We have a special sound system made for this room.

I spend the money onlyfor the Galaxis party, you know?

It didn't make any advertisement again.

No advertisement.

People asking me, why don't youput out any posters

-or something... -Or make...

I don't need it. We don't need it.

It was paid for or something.

People know when Den Harrow is coming to Galaxis,

they will come.

[woman] From Florence to Munich.From Munich to Stuttgart.

[speaking Italian]

Uh, uh, uh.

The voice is okay?

They just told me it was kind of playback,

you just talk, so we're not really prepared.

You start from beginning?

-And adjust the compression. -Just show...

We try it. Uh, uh, uh.

♪ When I see a foxy lady

♪ You take me by surprise

♪ You take me by surprise

♪ You take me by surprise

♪ Ah, stole...

♪ Stocking away all the details you want to know ♪

[man cheers]

♪ Day after day All your memories get to grow ♪

♪ Putting all that you've stolen ♪

♪ In a prison that you've locked forever ♪

♪ Taking the place of our imagination ♪

♪ But you won't erase my heart ♪

♪ There is no way you can understand what I feel ♪

♪ You never pray 'cause your soul isn't even real ♪

♪ You might know lots of things now ♪

♪ But you can never be a lover ♪

♪ Winning the race with your information ♪

♪ But you can't replace my soul ♪

♪ Future brain You make me wonder ♪

♪ Is it safe to make a sample of my love ♪

♪ Future brain You're getting stronger ♪

♪ It's a shame you'll never know how to find love ♪

[speaking Italian]

Just one? Okay.

-More. -You think.

-I will bring tomorrow. -All right.

-All right. -It's okay for you?

-Yeah, yeah. -I'll be a pleasure for me.

-Pleasure for me too. -Thank you so much.

Thank you.

And you will see, the people will get crazy.

Everybody's really excited.

-"Future Brain" two times. -"Future Brain" two times.

Want to make signing before the show?

Like for meet and greet?

I prefer I make autograph...

-After. I would say after. -I think after is better.

After is better.

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

"Future Brain!"

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

You know what? Branding is so important.

And I really screwed up on the branding department

all my life because, um...

Tam Harrow, Den Harrow, you know,

all these different names of people,

it's quite confusing.

Now, if you take a group like Depeche Mode,

they've been Depeche Mode forever.

And they've got this 40-year-long career.

And, uh, it's very effective.

But you know what? Artists are a little crazy.

You don't want an artist to be completely normal.

[man] Do you think there's the potential

for any kind of reconciliation?

If you're asking me if this documentary

can make me chummy chummy with this guy-- like him,

my opinion will always be the same.

I'm sorry. Do you think we'd all be happy

and we'd have a Hollywood, uh, Walt Disney happy ending?

It's... it's done.

♪♪

[speaking Italian]

[speaking Italian]

I found out Den Harrow would come to Germany,

and I thought it was a bad joke.

For me, it was a shock.

So part of my life, I grow up with this music.

I'm very happy.

[crowd cheering]

[indistinct singing]

♪ Now I'm a pretender in a special kind of way ♪

♪ I've been living like James Bond ♪

And I still hear the music from the past.

♪ The situation now will never change ♪

♪ Infatuation has gone out of range ♪

♪ This is my life and I don't want to see it die ♪

Everybody!

♪ Bad boy

♪ I want to be a bad boy

♪ If it means I will enjoy

♪ Every day now

This is Den. This is Den.

Tonight is a very important night.

Perhaps it's a little comeback.

I think that Tam Harrow is done.

I think. I'm not sure, but probably.

♪♪

[Tom] I don't know if the ego is the most important thing.

My ego has been... uh...

It's been fed enough.

And the Buddhists say

happiness is wanting what you already have.

I have a wife who loves me,

and that's... most... nobody, nobody ever talks

about success in marriage.

That is the most important thingin life.

If you could be married for 30,40 years,

nobody says that's great.

It's all about how much money you make,

how successful you are. That's all people care about.

The most important thing in lifeis a good family.

People you love around you.

I didn't do music to become famous.

I did music because I loved doing music.

You gotta be passionate about what you're doing,

because at least if you don't become famous,

that passion is... it was worthwhile.

You know, it wasn't like...

-Are you mic'ed? -Yes, I'm mic'ed.

I don't want to sing for Tam Harrow anymore.

-Really? -I decided I'm Tom Hooker.

I'm not a...

[man] This is the official comeback of Tom Hooker.

Well, I don't know if it's a comeback.

Tam Harrow is such a jerk.

Tom Hooker is a little more serious.

♪♪

[speaking Italian]

♪ Sometimes I wonder why

♪ I'm living

♪ And sometimes wonder what

♪ I'm doing

♪ Maybe there's an answer in my heart ♪

♪ To tell me what to do

♪ All I know is something is to start ♪

[music plays softly]

[speaking Italian]

♪♪

♪ Born to love and to live

♪ Life is a movie

♪ You could be the star

♪ Born to love and to give

♪ Life is a passage Find out who you are ♪

♪ I know there's something strong ♪

♪ In feelings

♪ You never can go wrong

♪ With loving

♪ Even if your pleasure turns to pain ♪

♪ It can happen to you too

♪ Don't forget the sun shines after rain ♪

♪ I'm waiting here for you

♪ Born to love and to live

♪ Life is a movie

♪ You could be the star

♪ Born to love and to give

♪ Life is a passage Find out who you are ♪

♪ Born to love and to live

♪ Life is a movie

♪ You could be the star

♪ Born to love and to give

♪ Life is a passage Find out who you are ♪

♪ Maybe there's an answer in my heart ♪

♪ To tell me what to do

♪ All I know is something needs to start ♪

♪ When living next to you