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One, two. One, two, three, four!
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If you enjoy James Brown music, you're going to have a good time tonight.
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We're tonight celebrating Black Velvet James Brown Junior's 62nd birthday! Whoo, 62!
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So round about now put your hands together
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because we've got a young man coming to the stage.
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He's been on The David Letterman Show. Put your hands together
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and meet and greet Black Velvet James Brown Junior!
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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# This is a man's world
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# But it wouldn't be nothing
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# Nothing... #
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'I've been playing James Brown since I was 14 years old.'
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# Yea-ea-eah!
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# Yea-ea-eah! #
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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'But now I want to do Charles Bradley.'
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I've been struggling for over 42 years trying to make it in the industry
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and at the age of 62, I'm just beginning to find my way through.
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I never made enough money to support myself in music,
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but I'm hoping that this album will make a turning point for me,
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that I can support myself in music.
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Hey, man. I'm going to give you water, OK? Hey, man.
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That's my bird. He make me mad.
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I get mad, I go in the back room and close the door and let him scream all he want to.
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I have my little place. It's not what I want, but thank God I got a roof over my head!
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When I go in my little apartment and lock my door,
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I'm in peace,
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but going into the projects,
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going into the elevator,
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getting in there, that's when the trouble starts.
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You never know what's going to happen.
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There's a guy downstairs. His name is Alfred. Very good guy. Don't bother nobody. Church guy.
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They shoot up his place. He showed me all the holes.
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I said, "Wow, man! I couldn't live on the first floor."
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When it get too crazy at the projects, I go to my mom's house and I sleep in her basement.
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So I come here and this is where I crash.
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Until the next day, I go take care of the errands,
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take care of everything to keep a roof over both our heads.
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I like to get a little of this...
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a little ball.
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Just put these in.
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How's that rice?
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Let me see.
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Just a little bit more.
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I came from a family of eight.
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My main goal is watching over... is my mom.
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And I do the best I can.
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It's my baby boy.
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And I love him.
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'I'm just making her life peaceful,
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'so she can not worry about the bills and everything.'
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I took that upon my shoulder.
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I really didn't know what I was getting myself into, but now I'm in it, I won't change it.
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All I can do is try to make something work where I can make a decent income,
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where I can live and let live. That's all I can ask from life now.
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# Round and round the road we go again
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# Where it stop
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# Nobody knows
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# It's a cold, cold world
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# It's a cold, cold world...
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# How can we stop the changes going on in America today...?
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# Oh, oh-oh-oh
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# Go back
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# Go back to the golden rule
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# Go back
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# Go back to the golden rule
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# Bring it all down! #
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That's a song from the new record No Time For Dreaming, Charles Bradley and The Menahan Street Band.
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I can't believe you came out of nowhere as a virtual unknown to us.
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Have you recorded before?
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No. It's my first time, really, coming out.
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I know you've been performing.
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- Yes.
- As Black Velvet.
- Yes.
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- So, now you're performing as Charles Bradley?
- Yeah, yeah.
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You certainly have a great band backing you here
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and with the folks over at Daptone, you know, what a great crew they are!
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And you've seen what's happened with Sharon Jones
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who, you know, just like you, went from complete obscurity to...
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Who knows what kind of heights you could scale?
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So, that's got to be an exciting moment for you.
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I think God just answered my prayer.
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You know, it's just like...
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I asked myself why it took so long, but you can't question God when he wants to do things.
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So, at my late age, it just started coming.
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- What's next? Are you thinking big?
- I'm thinking the sky's the limit.
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Congratulations on this great record. No matter what happens with it, it's a fine piece of work.
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Charles Bradley on WFUV.
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# This world
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# Going up in flames
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# And nobody
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# Wanna take the blame
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# Don't tell me how to live... #
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I don't know how many artists have ever been 62 years old
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and released their debut record. He may be the first.
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The guy is just getting it going as far as I'm concerned.
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He's worked very hard for a long time.
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I hope that enough people can hear him sing,
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so he can make the kind of life he wants and take care of his family.
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# Huh!
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# Yeah!
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# I'm talkin' to you, girl
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# Yeah!
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# Only you... #
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If you're into funk and soul music or Afrobeat and you live in New York,
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Gabe Roth is the guy you want behind the board. You want these guys pushing you in the direction
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because their records were phenomenal.
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I just started making the kind of records I like listening to.
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I think a lot of those soul records have a certain sincerity that I always like.
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One morning, pretty early, nine or ten in the morning, I got a knock on my door and it was Charles.
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He said, "I heard you were looking for singers. I heard you were looking for me."
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I had no idea what he was talking about, so he shows me a videotape
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of him singing James Brown songs. Sounds great.
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Gabe Roth from Daptone Records brought him down to a rehearsal in Staten Island.
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Gabe wanted us to record with a singer. Charles was a singer they hadn't found a band with on Daptone.
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Charles had captured their attention.
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I just figured, see how Charles works with them.
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# Stop
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# Stop it, baby
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# Ooh
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# I'm feelin' awful, baby
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# And I'm locked up in a cage... #
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I played with Tommy's band that he had over at Staten Island.
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I just went over there one day and they was rehearsing, jamming.
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They said, "Hey, man, sing on this, sing on this."
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And I'm liking the music.
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The lyrics were just popping in my head.
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So, that all worked out well and we recorded those songs with Bradley at Daptone.
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They were good songs, but they just didn't take off. Then we kind of went in different directions.
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Two years went by
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and I was doing James Brown in small clubs.
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And then I got a call to come round and do a show with Sharon Jones.
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We rehearse, we play the show, great. Me and Charles see each other for the first time in a couple of years.
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We catch up a little bit. I say, "Charles, I'm working on some music.
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"How about you come over one night and we give it a shot?" He said, "Yeah, Tommy, of course."
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We magically recorded two songs in one night - The World Is Going Up In Flames and In You I Found A Love.
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Charles was right here and I was right here pressing "record".
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You know, we wrote it together and that was it.
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The music was laid down, but he was just coming out with lyrics off the cuff.
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And I was just putting it in the right place.
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We haven't played so many shows with Charles up to this point.
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We played a couple.
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Charles wants to reach every single person in the audience.
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What we rehearse and what goes down on stage is two different things. The band's going to be tight.
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The only thing we tried to rehearse with Charles is to let Charles lead the band.
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- # Bam, bam, bam, bam
- Bam, ba-a-am... #
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Three, four.
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THEY PLAY GENTLE INTRO
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# In you
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# I found love
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# That makes me feel so real
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# Oh, baby
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# Sometimes
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# When I'm sleeping at night
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# I wake up
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# And you're nowhere to be found
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# You said you love me
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# And you'll always be around
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# In you... #
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The new music, for once, it's me.
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It's things that I have experienced, that I went through, heartaches and pains.
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# I don't want to be a fool no more... #
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- Yeah, Bradley, you waited twice for the horns.
- You told me that.
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Yeah, that's perfect.
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- Nine and a half...
- Mother, come on. You said nine, you said eight.
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I get eight. Now you want nine, you want nine and a half.
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What's wrong with those shoes right here?
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INAUDIBLE REPLY
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You're going to drive me crazy.
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Oh, Jesus...
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It's hard sometimes. It's very hard because everything now is really depending on me.
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But if I put her in a home, she would die and I know that.
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And when...when my husband...
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..died.
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She said, "Son, let me spend my last days in the house."
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I said, "OK, Mom. I'll do that."
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But she don't know...
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I have no life.
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My life is her.
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For me to be with someone,
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I don't even know how to do it.
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When Charles' mother first left Florida to go to new York,
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Charles was only eight months of age.
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Eight months old.
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And she stayed away so long that when she came back for the first time,
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he didn't recognise her, he didn't know she was his mother.
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He thought that his grandmother really was his mother.
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She abandoned, actually, in a way, her children
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to follow...
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..a man who had a wife
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that she was very crazy about.
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Otherwise, she probably would never have gone to New York.
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I was about the age of seven or eight years old.
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My mother told my grandmother, "I want him to come back to New York with me."
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My grandmother said, "No, let them stay here. They'll get a better education if they stay with me."
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So my mother says, "No."
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My grandmother says, "You're not taking them," so my mother stole us.
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That's what I did.
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I really hate to say this, but I think at that time,
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it was hard to find jobs,
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so there was only one way if you had some kind of dependents
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that you can get some welfare.
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And I feel like that's what she was doing to get the welfare
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by having those kids there.
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During his infancy,
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now, he was the favourite child.
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He received all the love and care from his older brothers and sisters and his grandmother
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and his uncles and all of us because he was the baby.
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When Charles went to New York, that's when he lost all of that.
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I was living with my mom and I was afraid she would hurt me, so I left.
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We couldn't see eye to eye. I was getting blamed for everything.
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I was very bitter. It seemed like everything was rationed to us.
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I was in a basement worse than this one.
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You know, it was this sand basement. It was no concrete basement.
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A 15-watt bulb of light and I said, "No, I can't take this."
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I said, "I don't want it, I'm going." So I left.
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I was 14 years old.
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My home was the subway train. That's where I'd keep warm.
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I'd get on the subway train some nights, winter nights, cold, riding the A-Train back up and down.
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The police would hit the darn thing real hard and say, "Kids, you got to get off."
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I'd go across the platform and get another train going back.
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I'd sleep, get me a little corner.
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I'd get the stick real hard and it'd penetrate through my head.
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He'd say, "Get up. You can't sleep here."
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So, I'd just keep going different routes
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to get a night's sleep before daylight come.
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And I'd see myself what's going down
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because everybody in those days was getting high using hard drugs.
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I'd be watching while they're shooting up and they'd try to give it to me.
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I got scared and I was afraid of needles. I'd say, "No, no, no."
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That's when I went to Job Corps. I tried to get my mother to sign me to go to Job Corps.
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She was mad with me, she wouldn't sign, so I got my sister to forge her name.
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I learned to cook. For two years, I was a cook trainee up in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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That's when I started doing James Brown on the Job Corps.
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They'd say, "Man, you see that new guy that came in?
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"He looked just like that guy they call James Brown."
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And then they got me fired up one day. They gave me some gin.
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In the Job Corps, you were sneaky.
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They gave me some gin, they got me really high and they gave me the microphone and said, "Sing!"
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And I went crazy.
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They told me they'd take me to a girls' Job Corps centre to perform.
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I said, "How many people is there going to be?" They said, "20 or 30 people." I said, "OK."
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And they called me on stage.
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And I looked out from that stage and I saw all those people.
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I froze. I said, "Uh-uh, I ain't going out there! Not me, not me."
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So, this guy named Moody came behind me and gave me a push.
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I see all the people just happy, they love me.
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They love me giving them my heart.
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And I said, "Wow, this is where I want to be at!"
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And I never stopped.
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I want to taste it when you open that...
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- The one that's pumpkin?
- Oh, yeah.
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- I got to taste that.
- We can open it now.
- I never heard of pumpkin beer.
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- We can drink some of that.
- I sure want to taste that.
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Oh, my God, this is delicious!
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- Seriously. This is unbelievable.
- That's the pumpkin?
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- Yeah.
- That's the pumpkin?
- It is like uncarbonated. It tastes unbelievable.
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You like it? No? You don't like it?
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- I don't like it.
- I think it's delicious.
- I'm going to taste the pumpkin in there.
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Working with Charles Bradley as opposed to working with Sharon Lee
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or the other singers from New York that I so often work with, Charles has got the craziest stories.
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Craziest stories.
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So, you know, as a songwriter, I just sit around and I hear Charles tell these stories
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and you're like, "We've got to write a song about that."
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So usually before we do the vocals on the track, I'll play Charles' song
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and just ask him if he likes it first of all.
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I'll sing him my ideas and say, "This is how I think it should go."
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Not that he disregards my ideas, but he's got his own ideas and he instantly starts expressing them.
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He'll just start singing and then we'll stop and get away from it for a second and just talk.
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If you talk with Charles long enough, a story comes out about something.
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Without me asking him, he'll start singing about what we spoke about.
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Then I'll just grab a pencil and paper and let him freestyle over the track over and over again.
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Then we'll go back and that'll become a song slowly, over the course of a couple of hours,
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but it's his stories I'm always trying to translate into a song.
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I was bouncing into different bands like that.
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They'd say, "Man, we'll pay you 40 to do this show tonight."
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This guy paid me to do this tonight. That's how I was doing out there.
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And at that time, I don't know why...I got sick.
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I called my mom and she said, "Son, come on back home."
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Mom is getting old
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and she's been through a lot.
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It's not for me to crucify her for what she did in her life.
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Then my brother Joseph, he came to hospital to see me
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and he reached over and he kissed me.
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He said, "Charles, no, no."
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He whispered in my ear. He said, "Bro, if you don't want to live for yourself, please live for me."
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He said, "Charles, I love you. You're my heart."
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I said... I said, "Joe, I'll fight. I'll fight."
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My brother just told me.
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He said, "Charles, do something that you want to do. Follow your dreams. You love music. Do it."
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I said, "Joe, I'd like to be someone like you." He said, "You don't want to be me. Be you."
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He said, "Cos I can't do it like you do it."
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I remember when I was a kid, when I was in Florida, Joseph was going to piano school,
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and how I learned these little things I'm playing on the piano by watching him.
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I was trying little tunes myself.
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He said, "Follow your dreams and your music."
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And he said, "Take one of these rooms in this house and fix it up."
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He gave me this room. "People can come here for a rehearsal." And that's what I did.
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Joe was like a father and a brother. He was a beautiful brother.
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Yeah, sit down, Charles, and eat.
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You know, I'm not hungry,
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but you eat and then we'll start slowly talking about what you did.
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- OK, I'll leave this here for you.
- That's fine.
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'I'm tutoring Charles.'
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He's at kindergarten or first grade reading level
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and reading comprehension level.
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"Other writers interested in my story."
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OK, you sounded it out. Did you understand everything that you read?
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Um...
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- Yes and no.
- Yes and no.
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I think his number one goal is for him to be able to write his lyrics down fast
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when they're coming into his head because he's got a lot of words up there he wants to get out on paper,
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but he doesn't know how to do it.
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You didn't spell "an" right.
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- Oh. Two N's?
- Just one N, no D.
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- Oh, "an"...
- "And" is like when you put two things together like...
- Right, OK.
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Fish AND chips.
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- Thank you.
- Bye, Charles. I'll see you next week. Thank you.
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You got it? You can read it later.
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- Wrap it up. Get started.
- Get outta here.
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You know I own you. You know I'm the boss.
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- I bet you wish you were.
- Thank you, Mr Brown.
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'Charles used to wear his James Brown wig all the time.'
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Right? All the time.
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'As the record draws near, it's like, "You've got to present yourself as Charles Bradley." He had a hard time.
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'He wanted to come out with the cape and the James Brown thing.'
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That's what he's used to getting up on stage and doing and we did not want that.
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We wanted Charles to be Charles and it took a lot of convincing.
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Charles has a record coming out January 25th,
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so now starts the promotion leading up to the record coming out.
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I'm going on tour with Sharon Jones to open up for her.
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Sharon Jones is giving me a chance to expose some of my music,
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to let the world know who Charles Bradley is.
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It's real exciting for us as a label to be able to present these kind of packages
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and Charles is the perfect guy to add to any of the shows
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and get his name out on the heels of some of the other bands that have had success up to now.
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If we go some place and we have 1,000 people come to see Sharon,
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to be able to put him in front of that audience is a huge head start.
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Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings has been our most prolific artist and our most successful artist,
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the artist that's been around the longest, toured the most and sold ten times as many records.
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He hadn't had a proper show in about a year or so.
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You know, to also put that in context, he hasn't played a lot of gigs as Charles Bradley.
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Working with Bradley live is a little stressful because he can go off in a song at any time.
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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America!
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We've got to make this world a better place.
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Come on, Tommy, bring it all in!
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# No time for dreaming
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# Dreaming, dreaming
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# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
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# No time for dreaming
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# Dreaming, dreaming
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# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
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# Hey!
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# Hey!
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# And get...
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# Why don't ya? Yeah!
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# No time for dreaming
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# Dreaming, dreaming
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# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
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# No time for dreaming
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# Dreaming, dreaming
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# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
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# Do your thing...
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# No time for dreaming
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# You gotta get on up
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# And do your thing... #
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CHEERING Love you!
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I love you too.
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- I love you too.
- I love you, Charles.
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I love you too!
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CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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Put your hands together and give it up for Charles Bradley!
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Show some love for Mr Charles Bradley!
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OK, you're smarter.
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- That was better than last night.
- Yes, it was.
- Killed it, Charles.
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It was.
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I know I made a few mistakes tonight, but I'm getting better.
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The audience didn't see it, but I know it and Tom knows about it.
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So the last one I was good on.
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'Then there was one I made a mistake on, but I'll get better on it. I promise you that.'
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We can't believe they didn't put you on more! Why didn't you come back on at the end?
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- Tell her.
- That's the space they gave me.
- I don't care. We want more!
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More of Chucky.
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Thank you, my man. Thank you. You got the juices flowing for all of us.
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You just blew the roof off the place. Unbelievable. You're going to be huge, man.
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I don't understand what people mean about diva. That diva word sometimes can be wrong.
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- No, but it's right for you.
- Diva means...
- It all depends.
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Yeah, when it's coming from love you gotta consider the source.
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- Which one was yours?
- You didn't say "To Charles".
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To Charles... How do you spell Bradley?
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- B-R-A-D-L-E-Y.
- ..L-E-Y.
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- Cool.
- You're a star.
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- I love you.
- I love you, too.
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- I wish the best for you.
- I wish the best for US.
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- If I don't see you on the top, I will see you in heaven.
- You'll see me on the top AND in heaven.
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- You'll see me down here, too.
- I love you, Sharon.
- Love you, too, Charles!
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Poughkeepsie.
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'I'm gonna stop by and visit some old friends
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'I haven't seen in years.'
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Hey, hey, hey!
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How are you doing?
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- I said, "God, I hope they're still there."
- Yeah. We're still here, bro.
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Man, this smells good!
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- What's going on, buddy? How you feelin'?
- It's been years!
- You look well, man.
- You look good.
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Is that Jackie coming?
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Ah! Look at Jackie!
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How you been?!
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My God!
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I knew this guy, I know Ernest Washington, since 1968.
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And you'd throw that cape off
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and I don't know if one of us went and picked the cape up and laid it back on your shoulder...
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- Yes, I remember that! I remember that.
- That's right.
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You'd never know you went that far.
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- God, I thank God I didn't give up.
- Thank God.
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Let me speak to Tom. Tell Tom to put Mr and Mrs Washington on the guest list.
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I found my friends.
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They are totally my family. We maybe go away for so long,
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- but eventually I'm going to find you. You know that, Jackie.
- We've been friends for a long time.
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I get goosebumps thinking about that.
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- I'll see you guys. I'll see you tonight.
- Take care. I'll see you tonight.
- Right, bud.
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Oh, my God...
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That's memory lane.
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- #
- I...I...
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- #
- I'm just loving you, baby
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- #
- Oh, I can't get enough of you, baby
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- #
- Can't get enough of you
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- #
- I was crying
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- #
- When I felt your love
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- #
- This time I know it's for real, baby
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- #
- I...
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Bring it down a little, fellas.
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Ladies and gentlemen,
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may ever who you are...
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I lived here. I came here, about Poughkeepsie,
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about 1968.
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And I lived here for nine years.
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You know,
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this is like home to me, so I'm giving you my love.
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You know... Bring it down a little softer, fellas.
441
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And I worked in a little town they called Wassaic.
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I worked at a little centre. I was cooking for 3,500 people a day.
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There's a friend in here, two friends, I knew when I came here.
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They was with me.
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And their names are Mr and Mrs Ernest Washington.
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Ernest Washington, I can't see you. Where are you at?
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But thank you, brother, for the ride.
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Thank you, Jackie.
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Thank you for being my friends through the years.
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And ALL of you out there.
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- #
- I LOVE you
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- #
- Aaaaaah, hey
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- #
- I love you
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- #
- Forgive me
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- #
- Aaaaaah
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- #
- Ooooh...
- #
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Thank you. I love you.
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CROWD CHEERS
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We love you!
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I got a touching moment
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when I got down and started talking to people. It got touching.
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So I said, "Leave it alone, Charles. Getting too deep now. Get off it." Cos it started getting touching.
463
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But that was the beautiful thing about Ernest Washington and Jackie. Oh, man.
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This is the first time they saw me in many years.
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This is the house my brother was killed in.
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That's why I don't like to come in this block no more.
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I looked out the window and I saw all these policemen and fire trucks
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so I came outside and I thought I've got to go see this for myself.
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I saw this thing says Morgue. And when it says Morgue
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what I did, I just saw... I came out to go in my brother's house and the detective let me in there,
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but I told him, "That's my brother and you can't stop me." So I pushed my way in.
472
00:38:12,920 --> 00:38:15,400
But I wish to God that I never did.
473
00:38:58,840 --> 00:39:01,080
Yes, I will, son.
474
00:39:02,160 --> 00:39:07,000
I think Charles depended on Joseph like his mother depended on him.
475
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:12,680
Charles went out of his mind when Joseph got killed.
476
00:39:13,680 --> 00:39:15,720
I mean, he...
477
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:20,160
For a while, he thought he was going to go crazy about him.
478
00:39:21,120 --> 00:39:25,360
'I'd really like to find the truth of why he got killed.
479
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,400
'He was too young.
480
00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,280
'He was 48 years old.'
481
00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:40,640
There's a mic for you right here.
482
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:45,120
You want to try that one or you want to play something else?
483
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:50,760
We can come back to that. He always goes...like that.
484
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:54,960
- Oh, you want to do Heartaches and Pain?
- Yeah.
485
00:39:54,960 --> 00:39:57,000
All right.
486
00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:05,680
BAND PLAYS INTRO
487
00:40:11,600 --> 00:40:15,240
'Heartaches and Pain is by far the deepest song'
488
00:40:15,240 --> 00:40:21,040
on the Charles Bradley record. It was probably the third song that we had written together.
489
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,680
Charles tells me this story about his brother and says to me,
490
00:40:25,680 --> 00:40:29,600
"I want to write a song about my brother Joseph."
491
00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:33,800
I said, "OK, I will help you do it." As a friend.
492
00:40:33,800 --> 00:40:39,840
And I said, "That song on the piano you've been playing your whole life? That's the music to the song."
493
00:40:39,840 --> 00:40:45,920
Brought Charles in, added a couple of things to his piano. "This is the song for your brother."
494
00:40:45,920 --> 00:40:51,960
And he did his thing then. He started screaming, running around, "This is beautiful. Oh, my God!"
495
00:40:51,960 --> 00:40:56,800
And then we started working on it and it was hard, man.
496
00:40:56,800 --> 00:41:04,160
It was really hard. That is a really personal, deep, deep, dark, haunting story
497
00:41:04,160 --> 00:41:09,560
about Charles's older brother, that he admired and loved, that he needed to tell.
498
00:41:09,560 --> 00:41:13,440
- #
- Life's full of sorrow
499
00:41:14,400 --> 00:41:17,480
- #
- So I have to tell you this
500
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:24,480
- #
- Your brother is gone
501
00:41:24,480 --> 00:41:27,560
- #
- Yeaaaah
502
00:41:30,200 --> 00:41:32,760
- #
- Heartaches
503
00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:36,560
- #
- Heartaches and pain...
- #
504
00:41:37,800 --> 00:41:43,040
So the mortgage is hard on me and I don't think it's fair to me.
505
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:48,480
I never missed a payment. They told me if I did, they'd go up 18% on my interest rate.
506
00:41:48,480 --> 00:41:53,200
I tried to get it remortgaged. They tell me I don't make enough money.
507
00:41:53,200 --> 00:42:00,240
I said, "Well, how don't I make enough money and I'm paying all this high mortgage out?"
508
00:42:00,240 --> 00:42:06,000
I'm going out to get every little penny I can get to keep this going.
509
00:42:06,000 --> 00:42:13,080
When Joseph got killed Charles went on and took on the full duty of taking on what Mother needs.
510
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:16,680
Cos none of them would do it. Charles is doing it,
511
00:42:16,680 --> 00:42:22,760
a lot of his personal money he puts into the house to help her to stay there.
512
00:42:22,760 --> 00:42:29,360
He's in the process, I would say, almost of buying this damn house for his mother.
513
00:42:29,360 --> 00:42:36,480
And his older siblings that live there in the house don't want him there.
514
00:42:36,480 --> 00:42:41,200
And so he is largely responsible for
515
00:42:41,200 --> 00:42:44,200
taking care of all of my sister's...
516
00:42:46,560 --> 00:42:48,600
..affairs.
517
00:42:54,920 --> 00:42:57,760
RINGTONE PLAYS
518
00:42:57,760 --> 00:42:59,680
Hello?
519
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,120
Yes?
520
00:43:02,080 --> 00:43:04,920
Oh, hi. How you doing, Paul?
521
00:43:05,840 --> 00:43:11,680
She says if she won't be able to do the remortgaging... the refinancing of the house,
522
00:43:11,680 --> 00:43:17,120
I'll have to wait for two months until the income tax come.
523
00:43:17,120 --> 00:43:22,360
She'd like me to give up my apartment, but I don't want to.
524
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:26,000
I'd have to move over to my mom's house.
525
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:31,640
Yeah, cos this apartment is the only place I have to run to when I get depressed.
526
00:43:31,640 --> 00:43:34,080
And there's pieces only of me here.
527
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:40,200
Whatever you decide, cos I know that you're trying to help me and I appreciate that.
528
00:43:40,200 --> 00:43:42,840
All right, Paul. Thank you, Paul.
529
00:43:44,520 --> 00:43:49,320
What's left for me to do is my life, take my life away.
530
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:53,160
Sometimes I do, I say, "God, just call me home."
531
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:57,400
Because every day I get out and I fight and fight to keep the honesty,
532
00:43:57,400 --> 00:44:04,200
the decency of a human being walking the planet. And loving everybody as God asked you to love.
533
00:44:04,200 --> 00:44:08,840
But today they look at it as a weakness, I think.
534
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:14,160
How much more can one give before they find love on the planet?
535
00:44:14,160 --> 00:44:17,280
How much more can you give?
536
00:44:17,280 --> 00:44:22,480
I say, "Father, whatever time and hour you want me, I'm ready to go."
537
00:44:23,440 --> 00:44:26,080
That's the way I feel about life.
538
00:44:31,600 --> 00:44:37,200
And before I leave this world I said I'd let the world know. They can't change me.
539
00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:41,840
I don't give a damn what you give me, there's no money on this Earth
540
00:44:41,840 --> 00:44:47,480
can take the love that I've got for God in my heart. I love everybody.
541
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:50,080
I never do nobody no harm.
542
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:54,080
All I try to do is just walk my straight line.
543
00:44:58,800 --> 00:45:02,200
- #
- Why is it so hard
544
00:45:03,200 --> 00:45:06,760
- #
- To make it in America
545
00:45:13,080 --> 00:45:15,520
- #
- So I said to myself
546
00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:20,320
- #
- I... I gotta move away from here...
- #
547
00:45:20,320 --> 00:45:26,560
Me and Homer were travelling around Europe with Sharon Jones and we had hung out one night
548
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:32,840
and met some girls in Paris. They were like, "Is Sharon Jones as big in America
549
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:39,760
"as she is in France?" And we were like, "Nobody knows about Sharon." This was years ago.
550
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:46,480
We played around Brooklyn and small clubs, but at the time we were playing theatres in Paris
551
00:45:46,480 --> 00:45:49,320
and it was a bigger thing in Europe.
552
00:45:49,320 --> 00:45:53,360
So that led to us writing this little tune that night called
553
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:56,680
# Why is it so hard to make it in America? #
554
00:45:56,680 --> 00:46:01,840
The second that Charles sang, "Why is it so hard to make it in America?"
555
00:46:01,840 --> 00:46:06,520
the song's meaning completely changed.
556
00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,160
- #
- Why-y-y
557
00:46:11,120 --> 00:46:13,480
- #
- Is it so hard
558
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:17,560
- #
- To make it in America?
559
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:23,200
- #
- I try-y-y
560
00:46:23,200 --> 00:46:25,440
- #
- So hard now
561
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:30,480
- #
- To make it in America...
- #
562
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:44,520
Beautiful, Bradley.
563
00:46:47,000 --> 00:46:49,520
RINGTONE PLAYS
564
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:52,720
Oh, Tommy.
565
00:46:53,680 --> 00:46:57,760
OK, I'm definitely... I'm definitely going to get it?
566
00:46:57,760 --> 00:46:59,800
All right, Tommy.
567
00:46:59,800 --> 00:47:02,640
Page six? OK, Tommy.
568
00:47:04,800 --> 00:47:06,640
OK, Tommy.
569
00:47:06,640 --> 00:47:11,480
I owe so much to you guys. You just... Oh, Tommy!
570
00:47:11,480 --> 00:47:13,520
I'll see you.
571
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:15,560
Your bad self.
572
00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:17,600
All right, Tommy.
573
00:47:17,600 --> 00:47:22,200
Tommy said they got me in the Post on page six.
574
00:47:23,160 --> 00:47:24,920
Ohhh...
575
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:28,040
Lord have mercy.
576
00:47:28,040 --> 00:47:30,280
What can you say?
577
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:49,760
You got the Post? You got the Post?
578
00:47:49,760 --> 00:47:51,400
Ohhh...
579
00:47:51,400 --> 00:47:54,040
They don't have the Post.
580
00:47:54,040 --> 00:48:00,400
- How's everybody doing?
- Hey, Charles! How you doing?
- I'm holding up.
581
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:17,920
Aaaah!
582
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:22,040
Shoot!
583
00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:26,320
Oh...my...God.
584
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:30,440
Yes!
585
00:48:32,400 --> 00:48:34,960
Oh, my God. Look at this!
586
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:40,800
- Ah, shit. They got me in the paper.
- They got you in the paper? Oh, my goodness!
587
00:48:40,800 --> 00:48:44,800
- Oh, man. What you doing?
- That's me right there.
588
00:48:44,800 --> 00:48:48,040
Jesus... I thank God for this.
589
00:48:50,160 --> 00:48:52,760
Oh, my God.
590
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:57,400
This guy's been... He's been doing a lot of struggling within himself,
591
00:48:57,400 --> 00:49:01,040
but it's gonna be OK today. It's gonna be OK.
592
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:05,480
We were talking for years and I look at him and I say to myself,
593
00:49:05,480 --> 00:49:09,520
- "He's gonna be there..." Is he in the paper?
- Yeah.
594
00:49:09,520 --> 00:49:11,760
- He's in the paper?!
- Yeah!
595
00:49:11,760 --> 00:49:15,400
- I'm talking and you're in the paper?!
- Right there.
596
00:49:15,400 --> 00:49:17,440
My Lord.
597
00:49:17,440 --> 00:49:22,760
- You couldn't have knocked on my door and told me that?
- I just found out!
598
00:49:22,760 --> 00:49:25,600
I told you, honey! I told you, baby!
599
00:49:25,600 --> 00:49:28,520
- Right.
- You know, I love you.
600
00:49:28,520 --> 00:49:31,520
- What?
- You told me.
- I told you.
601
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:33,960
It's happening!
602
00:49:33,960 --> 00:49:40,400
I told you. Keep the faith and never stop believing and you're already there! What you worried about?
603
00:49:40,400 --> 00:49:46,240
- You've been there and it's already done.
- Congratulations.
- God has been good. And if you cry,
604
00:49:46,240 --> 00:49:50,480
it's a good cry. When you do, hold your head up cos He has you still.
605
00:49:50,480 --> 00:49:53,160
I love you, brother. I won't forget.
606
00:49:58,200 --> 00:50:00,680
'Tonight is my first night.
607
00:50:00,680 --> 00:50:03,960
'Me only on stage. Charles Bradley.
608
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:11,280
'My chance has finally come and I'm hoping everybody out there will come out
609
00:50:11,280 --> 00:50:13,720
'to show me their support.'
610
00:50:15,680 --> 00:50:17,720
You all right?
611
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:22,040
Are you coming tonight? You always tell me you're gonna come.
612
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:27,040
This is the place where, before they fixed it up,
613
00:50:27,040 --> 00:50:30,880
I lived in here for about... God, about 2� years.
614
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:37,440
It was abandoned. And now it's a church. The guy that owned it sold it and they fixed it up.
615
00:50:37,440 --> 00:50:42,280
But that... This was home one time and this guy, Jose,
616
00:50:42,280 --> 00:50:48,240
he is the one that really gave me electricity from his place. It kept me going.
617
00:50:48,240 --> 00:50:50,920
That's why we're such close friends today.
618
00:51:07,360 --> 00:51:10,920
Most people could have given up and not done anything.
619
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:14,320
Just settle into a job. He's been plugging away.
620
00:51:14,320 --> 00:51:21,200
It's hard enough for people in their 30s to launch a career. For someone in their 60s, it's almost insane.
621
00:51:21,200 --> 00:51:26,640
- You like rhythm and blues?
- We're going.
- We've got our tickets.
- Ah, come on!
622
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:34,480
'I just hope it's a decent night,
623
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:40,360
'some people turn out and he's got a room to perform to and feels good about the record. Cos we do.'
624
00:51:49,600 --> 00:51:51,280
Wow!
625
00:51:52,240 --> 00:51:53,280
Wow!
626
00:51:53,280 --> 00:51:55,840
Sold out!
627
00:51:57,280 --> 00:52:01,680
- My God.
- 'No Time For Dreaming.
628
00:52:01,680 --> 00:52:05,920
'Please welcome to the stage, Mr Charles Bradley!'
629
00:52:07,760 --> 00:52:14,360
I was on the guest list and working for the label and had friends in the band and I had to wait outside
630
00:52:14,360 --> 00:52:19,440
like, I don't know, 25 minutes before I could get in the door. It was sold out.
631
00:52:42,480 --> 00:52:46,520
Ladies and gentlemen, I got a special lady in the house.
632
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:49,000
My mama's in the house some place.
633
00:52:52,320 --> 00:52:53,960
Mama!
634
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,840
Mama!
635
00:52:56,840 --> 00:53:00,960
Look around you. In the red over there is my mama.
636
00:53:00,960 --> 00:53:05,280
But ladies and gentlemen, she gave me the start.
637
00:53:13,400 --> 00:53:16,440
- #
- O-o-oh
638
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:28,920
- #
- Go back Go back to the golden rule
639
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:33,600
- # Golden rule
- Ay-ay, go back
640
00:53:34,600 --> 00:53:37,640
- #
- Go back to the golden rule
641
00:53:37,640 --> 00:53:39,760
# Golden rule... #
642
00:53:40,800 --> 00:53:43,480
You know...
643
00:53:43,480 --> 00:53:46,320
Let me say a few words right now.
644
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:51,520
You...you...you...
645
00:53:51,520 --> 00:53:56,080
- made me to be the person I am.
- Love you, Charles!
- Thank you.
646
00:53:56,080 --> 00:53:58,400
Thank you.
647
00:53:58,400 --> 00:54:03,840
I thank you and I hope to God that I can keep giving you love,
648
00:54:03,840 --> 00:54:06,640
decency and honesty.
649
00:54:20,400 --> 00:54:22,960
- #
- Aaaah
650
00:54:22,960 --> 00:54:25,200
- #
- Aaaah
651
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:29,400
- #
- What am I gonna do?
652
00:54:30,360 --> 00:54:33,320
- #
- What am I gonna say?
653
00:54:33,320 --> 00:54:35,760
- #
- Yaaaah!
- #
654
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:42,120
AUDIENCE ROARS
655
00:54:53,480 --> 00:54:58,280
What love can I ask for around me right now? Tell me God ain't real.
656
00:54:58,280 --> 00:55:02,840
This love I feel around me will make me reach into my heart
657
00:55:02,840 --> 00:55:06,200
and give everybody a little piece to say I love you.
658
00:55:06,200 --> 00:55:08,360
It was one of my special shows.
659
00:55:08,360 --> 00:55:12,280
He changed my life. Changed my life.
660
00:55:12,280 --> 00:55:19,320
It's infectious, you know? He's in love with what he's doing and in love with his audience.
661
00:55:19,320 --> 00:55:22,520
When he says, "I love you, guys," you feel it.
662
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:27,760
Amazing. I brought my friend from Italy and...what do you think?
663
00:55:27,760 --> 00:55:29,480
Amazing.
664
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:36,440
'I think it was too small a place for the people that came there cos a lot of people were turned down.
665
00:55:36,440 --> 00:55:43,880
'It hurt me to see that, but for the joy, the love the people gave me that was there, oh, my God.'
666
00:55:43,880 --> 00:55:49,520
They wanted more from me and I looked in the traces of their faces. Oh, my God.
667
00:55:49,520 --> 00:55:52,200
It was a tear dropper.
668
00:55:58,520 --> 00:56:01,440
Oh, man!
669
00:56:02,560 --> 00:56:04,600
- #
- Ay-yi-yi
670
00:56:06,000 --> 00:56:09,000
- #
- Oh, baby
671
00:56:12,240 --> 00:56:14,280
- #
- This world...
- #
672
00:56:15,640 --> 00:56:18,040
Lord have mercy!
673
00:56:18,040 --> 00:56:24,200
- #
- And nobody wanna take the blame
674
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:28,680
- #
- Don't tell me how to live my life...
- #
675
00:56:28,680 --> 00:56:35,040
'I knew the record was going to do real well, but I didn't know how quickly. People don't know him well'
676
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:40,600
and the sales for a guy just putting out his first LP, I mean, it's unbelievable.
677
00:56:40,600 --> 00:56:43,040
- #
- Ooooh
678
00:56:44,000 --> 00:56:46,000
- #
- Come on, baby...
- #
679
00:56:46,000 --> 00:56:53,640
'It's really against the odds to think that a 62-year-old black man from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,
680
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:59,040
'is going to have his first record and within the first couple of weeks'
681
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:03,760
sell more than most records are selling in a year at this point.
682
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:07,600
- #
- So what am I gonna do?
- #
683
00:57:07,600 --> 00:57:11,880
I don't think it's a done deal and I don't think it's easy.
684
00:57:11,880 --> 00:57:17,920
A lot more people have got to buy his record, he's got to sing a lot more shows, make a lot more records.
685
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:21,680
It's a long path, you know, and he's a late starter.
686
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:24,440
- #
- I can't turn my head away...
- #
687
00:57:24,440 --> 00:57:30,480
'It's above any of our expectations already and I think the record's got wheels. It's not stopping now.
688
00:57:30,480 --> 00:57:32,920
'We haven't seen the biggest sales.'
689
00:57:32,920 --> 00:57:35,640
- #
- It's burning up in flames...
- #
690
00:57:35,640 --> 00:57:38,000
Aaaaah!
691
00:57:40,040 --> 00:57:42,080
Lord have mercy!
692
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,720
- Yeah!
- Oh, my God!
693
00:57:47,760 --> 00:57:51,640
We're leaving to go to Europe to do some touring
694
00:57:51,640 --> 00:57:55,520
and I hope Europe will love what I'm doing, what I'm giving to them.
695
00:57:56,640 --> 00:58:01,280
And now it's clean as a baby's...tail.
696
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:08,400
- How long will you be gone, baby?
- About three weeks.
- Three weeks, baby? I'm gonna miss you.
697
00:58:08,400 --> 00:58:10,440
Uh-uh, you live right here.
698
00:58:10,440 --> 00:58:14,480
- Every three days, I'm gonna call you.
- OK, darling.
699
00:58:19,440 --> 00:58:24,280
I'm a bad boy. You ain't got no water to throw on me now.
700
00:58:27,000 --> 00:58:31,680
You ain't got no water. I can tickle you.
701
00:58:31,680 --> 00:58:33,880
I can tickle you now.
702
00:58:44,320 --> 00:58:46,760
And like my mom said today,
703
00:58:46,760 --> 00:58:51,400
she never believed I would get to this level.
704
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:57,240
I want to see how far I can make myself go in life.
705
00:58:58,400 --> 00:59:04,160
See can I go further than any of my family members have ever been
706
00:59:04,160 --> 00:59:06,720
and say, "I took me there."
707
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,440
Young peoples out there, watch out.
708
00:59:09,440 --> 00:59:15,600
The old man's coming up for you. Do your job better. If you don't, I'll do it for you.
709
00:59:15,600 --> 00:59:20,560
# I'll take the long road Yeah, yeah
710
00:59:20,560 --> 00:59:22,600
# The long road
711
00:59:22,600 --> 00:59:26,720
# But I am sure that I will get there
712
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:31,520
# Yes, I will
713
00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,400
# You can take that short cut
714
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:42,240
- #
- I'll take the long road
715
00:59:42,240 --> 00:59:46,160
# I don't mind You can take that short cut
716
00:59:46,160 --> 00:59:51,920
- #
- I'll take the long road
717
00:59:52,880 --> 00:59:57,600
# You take that short cut Yeah, yeah
718
00:59:59,200 --> 01:00:04,160
# But surely, surely Surely I will get there... #
719
01:00:05,320 --> 01:00:07,760
720
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:11,096
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