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Histories, like ancient ruins,
are the fictions of empires.
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While everything forgotten
hangs in dark dreams of the past,
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ever threatening to return.
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Lord'n heaven!
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Madame Wilde! Richard! Come quickly!
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I want to be a farmer.
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I want to be a barrister.
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I want to be a truck-driver.
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I want to be... a pop-idol.
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Get him, get him!
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Leave him!
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Childhood, adults always say,
is the happiest time in life.
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But as long as he could
remember, Jack Fairy knew better.
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Until one mysterious day, when Jack would
discover that somewhere there were others...
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...quite like him.
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Singled out for a great gift.
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And one day...
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...the whole stinking world...
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...would be theirs.
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Hey!
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Look! It's Jack Fairy.
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Who's Jack Fairy?
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"The streets of London are ablaze in
sparkle make-up and glittering frocks..."
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"... as the boys and girls of the current glam-rock
craze pay tribute to their patron saint..."
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"pop-star Brian Slade"
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"... and his space-age rock
persona - Maxwell Demon."
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"Yeah, Brian Slade, he's just so different. I
mean, I've never seen anyone quite like him."
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"And 'Lipstick Traces', his last album
was just... it was just something special."
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"It's an album that's like, appealing
to so many people like that."
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"A palpable whirl of anticipation can be
felt outside London's Lyceum Theatre..."
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"... as fans await the final show
on Slade's smash world tour."
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"Security around the performer is tightened
following a recent BBC interview..."
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"... in which he admitted to premonitions
of being assassinated on stage."
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Turn it off!
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"... any of his enthusiastic
and colorful followers..."
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"... some of whom have been queuing
here since late last night."
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Brian, the time!
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Ladies and Gentlemen!
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The Lyceum Theatre.
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In cooperation with "Bijou Music"...
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...is proud to present
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straight back from their fantastically
successful European tour...
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Maxwell Demon and The Venus in Furs!
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Put out the torches! Hide
the moon! Hide the stars!
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For once, there was an unknown land...
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full of strange flowers
and subtle perfumes.
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A land of which it is joy
of all the joys to dream.
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A land where all things are perfect.
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And poisonous.
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"It appears today's youngsters
have fashioned a whole new bent..."
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"... on the so-called sexual
liberation of the flower-power set."
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"The long hair and the love-beads
have given way to glitter make-up..."
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"... platform shoes..."
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"... and a whole new taste for glamour,
nostalgia and just plain outrageousness."
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"Is London not shocked?"
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"London is improving."
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"Well, I think it's a disgrace."
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"Parading around all ponced-up
like a pack of bleeding woofters."
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"Bloody hell! What will
they think of next?"
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"And heading up this flash stampede is
none other that pop-giant Brian Slade..."
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"whose stylish escapades have paved the way
for a whole new breed of performing artists..."
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"... from Curt Wild and The Flaming
Creatures to Jack Fairy and Polly Small."
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"Thanks to Slade, today's youngsters
are singing a whole new tune."
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"So, you're saying you're bisexual?"
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"Yeah. I like boys, I like girls."
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"They are all great. No
difference, is there?"
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"Mr. BBC"
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"Rock music has always been a
reaction to accepted standards."
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"And homosexuality has been
going on for centuries, yeah."
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"At the moment, having
a gay image is 'in'."
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"You know, just like a few years
ago it was trendy to wear a..."
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"... a long grey coat with a Led
Zeppelin record under your arm."
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"Everyone is into this scene, because it
is supposedly the thing to do right now."
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"But you just can't fake being gay, you know.
If you're gonna claim that you're gay..."
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"... you're gonna have to
make love in gay-style and..."
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"... most of these kids
just aren't gonna make it."
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"That line - 'Everyone's bisexual' - it's
a very popular thing to say right now."
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"But personally I
think it's meaningless."
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"I knew I should create a
sensation", gasped the Rocket.
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And he went out.
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Ok, Lionel. That's it. Thanks.
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I don't get it.
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What don't you get? It was a
stunt. The guy faked his own murder.
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- Yeah, but why?
- Publicity.
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Arthur, any recollection?
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Of what?
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Of this Slade fellow.
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Well, he's an early
70s glam-rock singer.
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Told you we could count on
"Mr. Old Time Rock'n'Roll".
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Yeah.
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Count on me for what?
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I thought I was on the Reynolds trip.
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Well you are.
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But the president
isn't due until the 8th.
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And I need a piece
for the Weekender now.
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Great.
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Next week is the 10th year anniversary
of the whole shooting stunt incident.
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I'd like you to find out what
happened, where he is today.
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"What ever happened to Brian Slade?" Ok?
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Yeah, and naturally you want me for this,
because I'm the resident Brit. Right?
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Nah. No, no, no. I want
you, because you remember.
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"President Reynolds is urging
young people everywhere..."
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"to sign up in their local government
offices and join the committee..."
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Because I remember.
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Suddenly I was being paid to remember all the
things that money, the future and the serious life...
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had made so certain I'd forget.
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And for what?
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Some meaningless prank, a decade old.
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Why was is suddenly up
to me to figure it out?
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Clearly there was something.
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Something from the
past, spooking me back.
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I didn't realise at
the time... It was you.
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"Thank you 'Trans-Electric' and 'CRA'."
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"'Micro Atlanta' and 'Dupree'
for their generous support."
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"Thanks to president Reynold's
'Committee for Cultural Renewal'...
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"... for making this brodcast
possible. And thanks to you."
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"Three billion viewers tuning in
right now on global satellite".
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"Yesterday upon the stair, I
saw a man who wasn't there."
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"He wasn't there again today.
How I wish he'd go away."
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Ten years.
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Ten years and the world had
changed so completely that...
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that the life I'd led in England
seemed like someone else's life.
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Someone else's story. Anyone's but mine.
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"There were times, when it
appeared to Dorian Gray..."
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"... that the whole of history was
merely a record of his own life."
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"Not as he had lived it
in act and circumstance..."
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"... but as his imagination
had created it for him..."
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"... as it had been in his
brain and in his passions."
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"He felt that he had known them all...
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"those strange terrible figures that
had passed along the stage of life..."
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"and made sin so marvelous
and evil, so full of subtlety."
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"It seemed that in some mysterious
way their lives had been his own."
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Can you lend us a couple of
quid? I've got money at home.
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You must be mental.
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- Oh please, I swear I've got it.
- Piss off!
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Thanks!
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- What's it for?
- Nothing.
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Give it here then. Let's have a look.
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Bloody nora! Our kid's
one of them pansy rockers.
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- He's a fucking puff, that one.
- No, he's not.
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That's naff.
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You're disgusting. You know that?
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I'm just going out for a bit.
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"Today in London officials
confirmed that the shooting
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on the 5th of February
of singer Brian Slade..."
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"... at London's Lyceum Theatre
was a publicity stunt..."
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"mounted by the singer's
company Bijou Music Limited."
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"Manager Jerry Divine announced today that
his company meant no harm in their escapades."
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"That it was intended
solely as entertainment."
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"Very unfortunate, very sad and
unfortunate that in this day and age...
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"... an artist's quest for artistic
freedom should cost him his career."
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- Warum, denken Sie?
- Why do you think?
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"I dunno."
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"I dunno. It got too big, I guess.
Too... got too schizoid, you know."
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"I mean... he thought he fucking was
Maxwell Demon in the end, you know?"
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"And Maxwell Demon...
he thought he was God."
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Brian Slade? Oh yes.
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Quite well.
Once upon a time.
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So...?
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So, what was he... what was he... like?
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Who's that? Brian?
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Yeah.
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Like nothing I'd ever seen before.
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And in the end... like
nothing he appeared.
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He was... elegance, walking
arm in arm with lie.
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His real name, in fact, was Thomas.
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And his father owned a small tiling
business in suburban Birmingham.
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But Brian never cared
much for the suburbs.
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As a young boy, he had the rare fortune of
spending a summer in London with his aunt.
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A figure of some ill repute in the Slade
family, after she married a cockney...
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in the entertainment field and
followed him off to Deptford.
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Brian's tender introduction
to the theatrical underworld...
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would leave a dramatic impression.
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So what are you? A mod or a rocker?
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Six of one, half a dozen
of the other, really.
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Taking their cue from Little Richard, the
swank London mods � short for modernists �
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were the first to wear
mascara and lacquer their hair.
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The first true Dandies of pop...
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and known to just about any indiscretion,
where a good suit was involved.
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All right, lads?
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Style... always wins out in the end.
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Cheers!
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For Brian, the mods were
a glamorous call to arms.
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Or at least to London,
where three years later...
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at the Sombrero Club in Kensington, I
would hear him sing for the very first time.
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Everything, it seemed,
started at the Sombrero.
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No club in London had
more notorious sway.
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And there, at the centre of it
was Brian's American wife, Mandy...
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who's dramatic transformation to London party
girl was a constant source of amusement to us all.
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You all know me. Subtlety
is my middle name.
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It's as subtle as the piece of skin
between my vagina and my anus � ooh la! la!
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Now what's is that called, does
anyone remember what that's called?
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No man's land! Oh
gosh, my geesh, darling!
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Now, ladies of and
gentlemen, boys and girls.
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And whomever else who may
be in the house this evening.
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It is my supreme pleasure...
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to introduce all you lovely
little minxes here tonight...
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to the Sombrero Club's prettiest star...
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and my most shimmering hubby!
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I give you Brian Slade!
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Say, have a look at Miss Beautiful"!
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- Have a look at the homosexual!
- A slut, mates, a slut in fancy clothes!
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- Who is he?
- Some scrubber my dear, I do assure you.
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- But not that scruffy, as I last recall.
- Ooh, you're wicked.
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He won't be home tonight.
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So, I introduced myself.
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Told him I was developing my own management
company and on the look-out for new talent.
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He introduced me to his wife,
asked me what sign I was...
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and before the week was out,
we were signing contracts.
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You see, Brian believed in the future.
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He despised the hypocrisy of the
"peace and love" generation...
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and felt his music spoke far more
to its orphans and its outcasts.
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His revolution, he used to
say, will be a sexual one.
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But in 1970, rock audiences bred on...
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Credence Clearwater and the Beatles...
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were not entirely sure what to make
of this particular brand of revolt.
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Somehow he got it into his head
that he had to perform in a frock.
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Don't ask me why. I mean, I thought it was
a bit naughty, a bit of a giggle, but...
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- Who's this geezer, then? -Some
shirt-lifter from Birmingham.
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Get the fuck off! Cut the shite!
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- Bugger off, you woofter!
- Fuck off!
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Darling? Darling, you were fabulous!
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Every bit! I was beaming,
truly, like someone's mum.
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And they adored you! The whole lot
- transported!
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Transported!? We went down
like a fucking knackered lift!
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Brian, I tell you, I think it's
simply a matter of presentation.
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- And with the proper
back-up... -Back-up?
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What happened to Judy Garland!? What happened
to all your bloody torch song rubbish!?
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I know, I know, in a cabaret, but in the context of a rock
show, I can see now, it's just a little bit more dodgy.
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The act was there, wasn't it?
The act was there. Just a...
231
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Brian!
232
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Lead singer and founder of the
greatest garage band know to mankind...
233
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CURT WILD!
234
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Curt Wild, founder of the
influential garage band The Rats...
235
00:34:15,386 --> 00:34:18,684
came from the aluminium
trailer parks of Michigan...
236
00:34:18,984 --> 00:34:23,484
where rock folklore claims
far more primitive origins.
237
00:35:04,274 --> 00:35:09,874
According to legend, when Curt was 13, he was
discovered by his mother in the family loo...
238
00:35:10,174 --> 00:35:13,274
"servicing" his older brother...
239
00:35:13,872 --> 00:35:17,771
and promptly shipped off for
18 months of schock treatment.
240
00:35:57,363 --> 00:36:03,562
The doctors guaranteed the treatment
would fry the fairy clean out of him.
241
00:36:05,961 --> 00:36:10,860
But all it did was make him bonkers...
every time he heard electric guitar.
242
00:36:59,450 --> 00:37:01,148
They despised him.
243
00:37:05,249 --> 00:37:06,549
Yeah.
244
00:37:08,646 --> 00:37:14,445
But when you're abused like that...
you know you've touched the stars.
245
00:37:14,946 --> 00:37:20,144
I know. I just... I
just wish it'd been me.
246
00:37:24,843 --> 00:37:26,343
Wish I'd thought of it.
247
00:37:33,944 --> 00:37:38,742
You will, luv. You will.
248
00:40:21,805 --> 00:40:23,405
- Nice stuff.
- Thanks.
249
00:40:23,605 --> 00:40:27,702
Devine. Jerry Devine. Personal
management. I'm interested.
250
00:40:28,502 --> 00:40:32,000
Oh, well, thank you, but I
already have management. He's...
251
00:40:32,702 --> 00:40:33,901
Not in my opinion.
252
00:40:35,901 --> 00:40:39,600
The truth is you have
talent. That's obvious.
253
00:40:40,301 --> 00:40:42,999
But it doesn't really matter
much what a man does in his life.
254
00:40:44,099 --> 00:40:47,098
What matters... is the legend
that grows up around him.
255
00:40:48,098 --> 00:40:51,596
Today, you're a talented
singer. That's all right.
256
00:40:55,796 --> 00:41:00,196
- I can make you a star.
- And just how do you propose to do that?
257
00:41:02,596 --> 00:41:03,593
I will tell you, sir...
258
00:41:09,494 --> 00:41:10,894
When you pin me.
259
00:41:18,991 --> 00:41:20,592
I've never in all my life...
260
00:41:20,993 --> 00:41:22,793
May the best man win.
261
00:41:52,484 --> 00:41:56,783
Earlier tonight, on the popular chart show
'Top of the Pops', newcomer Brian Slade...
262
00:41:56,983 --> 00:41:59,646
performed his hit single
'The Whole Shebang'...
263
00:41:59,681 --> 00:42:02,782
dressed in platform boots and
wearing glitter eye make-up.
264
00:42:02,982 --> 00:42:06,380
A spokesman for the show, known for
showcasing pop's brightest stars...
265
00:42:06,780 --> 00:42:09,379
says they've been deluged
with calls all evening.
266
00:42:09,780 --> 00:42:13,880
The next day every schoolgirl in
London was wearing glitter eye make-up.
267
00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:16,078
And I was out of a bleeding job.
268
00:42:17,979 --> 00:42:22,277
And that, as they say, was that.
269
00:42:23,277 --> 00:42:25,975
I would not hear
another word from Brian -
270
00:42:26,975 --> 00:42:30,373
or any of them for that matter
- ever again.
271
00:42:31,575 --> 00:42:38,272
Have you got any idea what ultimately
happened to him? I mean, where is he today?
272
00:42:38,373 --> 00:42:41,773
Last I heard he'd returned
to Birmingham, but...
273
00:42:41,973 --> 00:42:45,471
this was three years ago? Four?
274
00:42:46,170 --> 00:42:50,270
No, I'm sorry, I'm afraid
I can't help you there.
275
00:42:51,370 --> 00:42:55,369
- Looks as though it may be unavoidable.
- What's that.
276
00:42:55,868 --> 00:42:58,669
The ex, I'm afraid.
277
00:42:59,468 --> 00:43:01,868
But then ever story needs
a contrary opinion...
278
00:43:02,367 --> 00:43:08,265
and with Mandy you're
guaranteed excesses of both.
279
00:43:15,871 --> 00:43:21,269
- Miss Slade?
- Yeah?
280
00:43:21,563 --> 00:43:26,363
I'm Arthur Stuart, from the
Herald. We spoke on the phone.
281
00:43:33,061 --> 00:43:36,060
Anyway, I've just got a few questions I
wanted to ask. It shouldn't take too long.
282
00:43:38,259 --> 00:43:39,558
Do you mind if I sit down?
283
00:43:39,659 --> 00:43:42,059
It's a free country. Sort of.
284
00:43:45,857 --> 00:43:46,755
So, what are you having?
285
00:43:48,556 --> 00:43:52,256
Scotch. Rocks.
286
00:43:54,455 --> 00:43:55,856
Yeah, make that two.
287
00:43:57,155 --> 00:44:00,353
Gee. You must be after
some damn exclusive copy.
288
00:44:00,854 --> 00:44:03,552
Well, it's a piece on Brian Slade.
289
00:44:04,653 --> 00:44:08,551
- What, sort of a memory jog kind of thing?
- Yeah.
290
00:44:09,951 --> 00:44:15,451
Well it's been, ten years since
the whole... fake shooting incident.
291
00:44:15,649 --> 00:44:21,049
Oh, and what a fake it was. Tricking us all
in the end with such an authentic demise.
292
00:44:22,449 --> 00:44:25,047
His career, you mean?
293
00:44:26,747 --> 00:44:31,446
I mean, have you got any idea what
happened to him or where he is today?
294
00:44:31,746 --> 00:44:36,245
Can't you just, run him through
the files? Punch in the name?
295
00:44:36,446 --> 00:44:37,243
No, not exactly.
296
00:44:39,644 --> 00:44:40,844
Because, honestly darling...
297
00:44:41,843 --> 00:44:45,343
I haven't spoken with Mr Slade in...
298
00:44:47,044 --> 00:44:51,442
seven years. At least.
- Seven years? Wow.
299
00:44:51,741 --> 00:44:57,940
- Wow. Yeah. At least. Smoke?
- No thanks.
300
00:44:58,840 --> 00:45:03,741
No, right after everything
crashed, we.. we split.
301
00:45:04,539 --> 00:45:08,739
And Brian, he just...
302
00:45:12,538 --> 00:45:15,635
became someone else.
303
00:45:18,336 --> 00:45:20,436
But again, he always was.
304
00:45:42,430 --> 00:45:43,730
That's 10 bob to you, mate.
305
00:45:57,627 --> 00:46:01,427
It was New Year's Eve 1969,
the start of a new decade...
306
00:46:02,025 --> 00:46:05,025
and everywhere you went there
was this sense of the future,
307
00:46:05,525 --> 00:46:08,223
the feeling in the air
that anything was possible.
308
00:47:08,810 --> 00:47:13,508
See, Jack Fairy had also come to
London in the swinging sixties.
309
00:47:17,108 --> 00:47:25,307
And in crowded clubs or hotel bars,
this shipwreck of the streets...
310
00:47:25,806 --> 00:47:29,005
rehearsed his future glory.
311
00:47:30,605 --> 00:47:35,501
A cigarette tracing
a ladder to the stars.
312
00:48:02,198 --> 00:48:06,397
"Maricon, �pic�ne, sexe douteux"
313
00:48:07,602 --> 00:48:10,101
"Le Vice Anglais"
314
00:48:14,795 --> 00:48:18,593
I needn't mention how
essential dreaming is...
315
00:48:18,794 --> 00:48:21,493
to the character of the rock star.
316
00:48:23,693 --> 00:48:25,492
Jack, darling!
317
00:48:27,992 --> 00:48:35,089
Jack was truly the first of his kind. A
true original. Everybody stole from Jack.
318
00:48:39,990 --> 00:48:49,487
But from the moment Brian Slade stepped into
our lives, nothing would ever be the same.
319
00:48:53,586 --> 00:48:55,684
It was his nature.
320
00:49:43,273 --> 00:49:44,673
Do you jive?
321
00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:35,462
So... I married him.
322
00:52:08,940 --> 00:52:15,040
Times, places, people...
323
00:52:19,440 --> 00:52:21,738
They're all speeding up.
324
00:52:25,837 --> 00:52:30,536
So to cope with this
evolutionary paranoia...
325
00:52:34,237 --> 00:52:37,534
strange people are chosen...
326
00:52:39,533 --> 00:52:46,533
who, through their art, can
move progress more quickly.
327
00:52:48,733 --> 00:52:55,830
It was the most stimulating and
reflective period of our marriage.
328
00:53:10,327 --> 00:53:14,126
"Thank you and welcome, pop
pickers, to 'Pick of the Pops'."
329
00:53:14,825 --> 00:53:17,023
"I'm Davy Rocket and we have a
very special show for you today..."
330
00:53:17,122 --> 00:53:20,988
"dedicated to one of pop's
blazing new talents..."
331
00:53:21,023 --> 00:53:28,123
"and one who's been holding a virtual reign over the British
charts for a startling record breaking 18-month span."
332
00:53:28,622 --> 00:53:31,622
"Ladies and gentlemen, I give
you the incomparable Brian Slade."
333
00:53:31,921 --> 00:53:36,120
"Or should I say... Maxwell Demon."
334
00:53:38,519 --> 00:53:40,319
The bloke at the front.
335
00:53:40,620 --> 00:53:42,717
Brian, why the make-up?
336
00:53:43,719 --> 00:53:48,217
Why? Because rock and roll's a prostitute!
It should be tarted up! Performed!
337
00:53:49,018 --> 00:53:55,117
The music is the mask, while I, in my
chiffon and taff, well, varda the message.
338
00:53:55,152 --> 00:53:55,152
Brian, Brian!
339
00:54:00,116 --> 00:54:01,115
Bloke in the suit there.
340
00:54:01,314 --> 00:54:04,314
What about your fans? Aren't they
likely to get the... wrong impression?
341
00:54:04,515 --> 00:54:08,813
- And which wrong impression is that?
- Well, that you're a blinking fruit!
342
00:54:10,213 --> 00:54:13,612
Well thank you, sir, and no, it
doesn't concern me in the least.
343
00:54:14,610 --> 00:54:16,911
I should think that if people were
to get that impression of me...
344
00:54:17,411 --> 00:54:20,110
the one to which you
so eloquently refer...
345
00:54:21,009 --> 00:54:26,409
it would not be a wrong impression in the
slightest. -That is me, that's me dad, that's me!
346
00:54:26,510 --> 00:54:29,709
I mean, everybody knows
most people are bisexual.
347
00:54:29,710 --> 00:54:30,710
Any more questions?
348
00:54:32,507 --> 00:54:33,806
Yeah, woman with the beret.
349
00:54:33,807 --> 00:54:36,507
I was under the impression that you
were married and living North London...
350
00:54:37,407 --> 00:54:39,207
I am married. Quite happily, in fact.
351
00:54:40,307 --> 00:54:42,306
I just happen to like boys
as much as I like girls.
352
00:54:42,505 --> 00:54:45,405
And seeing as my wife feels pretty
much the same about such things...
353
00:54:46,206 --> 00:54:49,606
I should think we've been able to
make a fairly decent go of it so far.
354
00:54:52,504 --> 00:54:57,003
Alright, any more questions?
Okay, thank you very much.
355
00:54:57,202 --> 00:55:01,001
For the first time in Brian's life,
he was simply telling it like it was.
356
00:55:01,903 --> 00:55:04,800
Did he realize what he'd actually done?
357
00:55:05,101 --> 00:55:09,401
How could he have? I mean today,
there'd be fighting in the streets.
358
00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:14,099
But in 1972... it was more like dancing.
359
00:55:37,593 --> 00:55:40,494
That man, sitting over
there in the white suit...
360
00:55:40,694 --> 00:55:45,593
is the biggest thing to come out of
this country since sliced Beatles.
361
00:55:45,791 --> 00:55:49,791
Outside this country, no
one knows who the hell he is.
362
00:55:51,990 --> 00:55:54,990
You people, you're
gonna change all that.
363
00:55:55,189 --> 00:55:58,489
You guys, you're the
actors. It's up to you...
364
00:55:58,690 --> 00:56:04,186
to change Brian Slade, pop singer, into
Maxwell Demon, space-age fucking superstar!
365
00:56:05,489 --> 00:56:09,587
Nothing fantastic about it. Why?
366
00:56:09,785 --> 00:56:12,786
Because the secret of becoming a star...
367
00:56:12,985 --> 00:56:15,184
is knowing how to behave like one.
368
00:56:15,385 --> 00:56:19,284
- Hey kids, let's put on a show!
- Precisely.
369
00:56:20,460 --> 00:56:21,559
Action!
370
00:56:43,478 --> 00:56:49,776
Cut! Cut! Cut! Cut! Sort him out!
371
00:56:53,777 --> 00:56:56,975
I know it's unprecedented, I
know it's unorthodox, but sir...
372
00:56:57,174 --> 00:57:00,475
if you want Brian Slade,
those are the terms.
373
00:57:00,675 --> 00:57:02,574
You may take them or leave them.
374
00:57:03,571 --> 00:57:08,168
- Yes? -I'm Shannon Hazelbourne. -Who?
- I rang up about the position. -The what?
375
00:57:08,370 --> 00:57:12,169
- Assistant Clerical Aid?
- Oh, the position. Fine. Brilliant. Follow me!
376
00:57:12,568 --> 00:57:16,269
- Hurray! Zounds!
- Now, Shannon, I realize of course...
377
00:57:16,469 --> 00:57:19,667
your talents lie within
the clerical art...
378
00:57:19,868 --> 00:57:25,266
but I was wondering, by chance if
you had any experience with wardrobe?
379
00:57:25,466 --> 00:57:27,266
No, never.
380
00:57:27,465 --> 00:57:31,964
- Fantastic. I think that's everything.
- No, I said I didn't.
381
00:57:32,165 --> 00:57:34,665
Everybody! I'd like to introduce...
382
00:57:34,863 --> 00:57:39,462
you to our lovely new Wardrobe Mistress.
383
00:57:41,862 --> 00:57:45,861
- Shannon.
- Shannon. Welcome Shannon!
384
00:57:46,862 --> 00:57:50,560
Excellent! Yes, Mr Weinberg!
385
00:57:52,158 --> 00:57:56,158
Thank you very much indeed, sir. Cheers!
386
00:57:58,160 --> 00:58:02,458
- Extraordinary!
- What Jerry? What?
387
00:58:03,057 --> 00:58:08,756
So tell me, Master Demon... Who
would you most fancy meeting...
388
00:58:09,758 --> 00:58:10,455
in America?
389
00:58:10,956 --> 00:58:17,554
- Ah, bravo! Jerry! Garbo, Brian,
please! -Brando for me. -Einstein.
390
00:58:18,254 --> 00:58:21,054
- Very sorry chickee. He's dead.
- Jerry said anyone.
391
00:58:21,460 --> 00:58:24,860
Brian? Who?
392
00:58:25,552 --> 00:58:30,250
Curt Wild. I want to meet Curt Wild.
393
00:58:31,753 --> 00:58:35,150
And meet Curt Wild we did.
394
00:59:34,435 --> 00:59:39,435
- Mr Wild? -Yeah? -I'm Rodney from
Electra. I have Brian Slade here...
395
00:59:39,634 --> 00:59:42,633
from England who just wanted to pop
over, say hello. -I just wanted to say...
396
00:59:43,332 --> 00:59:48,731
I think your music is tops.
Really, smashing. Best of the lot.
397
00:59:49,233 --> 00:59:57,528
Smashing... top of... jolly... shit.
398
01:00:03,629 --> 01:00:06,927
Sorry, darling.
399
01:00:10,027 --> 01:00:14,026
Now at that time, Curt Wild was
between management and Brian knew this..
400
01:00:14,225 --> 01:00:17,425
of course, and urged Devine
to pursue the situation.
401
01:00:17,624 --> 01:00:21,224
And so if, in that probability,
an interest arose...
402
01:00:21,425 --> 01:00:27,122
in which Brian would serve on some
projects, possibly, though not exclusively...
403
01:00:27,424 --> 01:00:30,121
as... we're taking our
lead from you here, Curt...
404
01:00:31,122 --> 01:00:33,621
possibly as producer on that project.
405
01:00:34,021 --> 01:00:37,520
How might that scenario,
purely hypothetically...
406
01:00:37,720 --> 01:00:43,019
how might that scenario
appeal to you at this juncture?
407
01:00:45,517 --> 01:00:48,417
What Jerry's trying to say is do you
want to come to London to cut a record?
408
01:00:49,418 --> 01:00:50,618
Oh, yeah. Cool.
409
01:00:51,916 --> 01:00:55,717
- Very good!
- But how can we help you?
410
01:00:56,216 --> 01:00:59,915
You must tell us. What do you need?
411
01:01:02,216 --> 01:01:03,416
Everything.
412
01:01:04,514 --> 01:01:11,313
See, heroin was my mainman. But now I'm on
the methadone and I'm getting my act together.
413
01:01:12,713 --> 01:01:17,311
You come here and say you wanna
help and I say, hey, far out.
414
01:01:21,310 --> 01:01:23,111
You could be my mainman.
415
01:01:25,409 --> 01:01:29,210
It was pretty clear what was
happening. It happens every day.
416
01:01:29,409 --> 01:01:32,208
But for the world to think
it was happening, well...
417
01:01:32,409 --> 01:01:35,308
That was Jerry's particular genius.
418
01:01:39,308 --> 01:01:45,006
Right away he started promoting the two of
them like a pair of 40s starlets on the swoon.
419
01:01:45,906 --> 01:01:50,105
A Tracy and Hepburn for the 70s.
420
01:03:27,583 --> 01:03:29,783
My career was on the skids, mate.
421
01:03:29,983 --> 01:03:34,781
And you fished me out of the muck.
You got me back on my feet, you did.
422
01:03:34,981 --> 01:03:37,480
It was nothing, chum.
I wanted to help you...
423
01:03:37,679 --> 01:03:43,879
make more of that far out sound. I
love your music, my son, and I love...
424
01:03:49,679 --> 01:03:52,775
You don't have to say it, mate.
425
01:04:38,967 --> 01:04:44,265
Every great century that produces art
is, so far, an artificial century...
426
01:04:44,865 --> 01:04:47,965
and the work that seems the most
natural and simple of its time...
427
01:04:48,564 --> 01:04:52,663
is always the result of the
most self-conscious effort.
428
01:04:53,264 --> 01:04:59,061
I am not really myself except
in the midst of elegant crowds...
429
01:04:59,461 --> 01:05:01,361
at the heart of rich districts...
430
01:05:01,660 --> 01:05:05,860
or amid the sumptuous
ornamentation of palace hotels...
431
01:05:06,061 --> 01:05:10,259
an army of servants and
a plush carpet underfoot...
432
01:05:11,359 --> 01:05:16,858
What is true about music is true about
life: that beauty reveals everything...
433
01:05:17,058 --> 01:05:19,659
because it expresses nothing.
434
01:05:19,858 --> 01:05:23,057
The first duty in life
is to assume a post.
435
01:05:23,555 --> 01:05:28,856
What the second duty is
no one has yet found out.
436
01:05:40,053 --> 01:05:43,453
The Aesthete Gives
Characteristically Cynical Evidence...
437
01:05:44,053 --> 01:05:47,851
Replete with Pointed Epigram
and Startling Paradox...
438
01:05:48,050 --> 01:05:52,050
while Explaining His
Views on Morality in Art.
439
01:05:52,925 --> 01:05:54,425
Brian, Brian!
440
01:05:55,650 --> 01:05:59,349
Maxwell Demon is the story of a space
creature, who becomes a rock and roll messiah...
441
01:05:59,648 --> 01:06:02,548
only to be destroyed by his own success.
442
01:06:02,848 --> 01:06:06,847
Are you saying this is your
destiny? Are you Maxwell Demon?
443
01:06:07,647 --> 01:06:10,547
Man is least himself, when
he talks in his own person!
444
01:06:11,446 --> 01:06:16,444
- Give him a mask and he'll tell you the truth!
- Brian! Brian!
445
01:06:16,945 --> 01:06:20,245
Is it your belief that
all dandies are homosexual?
446
01:06:21,244 --> 01:06:24,843
Ha! Nothing makes one so vain
as being told one is a sinner!
447
01:06:32,142 --> 01:06:38,439
Hey! Coming through! Coming through!
Hey guys. Watch out! Excuse me!
448
01:06:38,741 --> 01:06:41,840
- Coming through. Careful now! There you go.
- Tell us Brian!
449
01:06:42,239 --> 01:06:46,937
Are the rumours true that say you and Curt
Wild have some sort of plans up your sleeve?
450
01:06:47,137 --> 01:06:51,337
Oh, yes! Quite soon we actually
plan to take over the world.
451
01:07:03,235 --> 01:07:08,533
Excuse me, fellas, while I raise a
glass to the loveliest man in Europe!
452
01:07:11,033 --> 01:07:14,533
And they tell you it's not natural!
453
01:07:29,829 --> 01:07:32,728
The world is changed because
you are made of ivory and gold.
454
01:07:33,528 --> 01:07:37,926
The curves of your lips rewrite history.
455
01:10:56,282 --> 01:10:57,282
This is too much!
456
01:10:58,182 --> 01:11:01,581
Jim! What are you gonna do? Jim!
457
01:11:45,466 --> 01:11:51,567
Could you conceivably turn down that
blasted... Arthur! Arthur, open this door!
458
01:11:55,766 --> 01:12:01,764
You bring shame to this house. You
bring shame to your mother and me.
459
01:12:03,264 --> 01:12:07,363
It's a shameful, filthy
thing you're doing...
460
01:12:07,663 --> 01:12:12,063
Do you hear me? Stand up!
461
01:12:51,553 --> 01:12:56,152
It's funny how beautiful people look
when they're walking out the door.
462
01:13:18,446 --> 01:13:21,346
Really Shannon, it's
no problem, honestly.
463
01:13:21,946 --> 01:13:26,645
I'm not fussed about it, I'm quite open about it.
I was having a fabulous time last night myself.
464
01:13:31,245 --> 01:13:33,442
Really luv.
465
01:13:35,244 --> 01:13:39,142
You shouldn't let it upset you
so. Brian is a grown man and...
466
01:13:39,941 --> 01:13:42,742
fully capable of shagging
whatever he fancies and...
467
01:13:42,941 --> 01:13:46,741
exceedingly partial to the practice.
468
01:13:47,940 --> 01:13:50,140
Now, just because
someone sees, you know...
469
01:13:50,340 --> 01:13:53,140
...two naked people
asleep in bed together...
470
01:13:53,339 --> 01:13:57,238
...it doesn't necessarily
prove sex was involved.
471
01:14:08,036 --> 01:14:11,936
It does, however, make
for a very strong case.
472
01:14:12,535 --> 01:14:17,933
But you're a sweet, sensitive
darling to be so broken up about it.
473
01:14:18,133 --> 01:14:19,932
Brian would be absolutely
chuffed to know that you...
474
01:14:20,734 --> 01:14:24,233
Don't you ever dare tell Brian!
475
01:14:24,432 --> 01:14:29,331
Swear to me you'll
never say a word. Ever.
476
01:14:32,930 --> 01:14:34,527
I swear.
477
01:14:40,428 --> 01:14:41,428
Jesus!
478
01:15:15,820 --> 01:15:21,517
Sudden change in plans.
Brief holiday, much needed.
479
01:15:21,718 --> 01:15:23,119
Back by Hammersmith.
480
01:15:25,820 --> 01:15:26,820
B.
481
01:15:30,117 --> 01:15:32,615
That was it.
482
01:15:35,517 --> 01:15:40,413
Look I'm sorry. I wish I could help you
more. You seem like a nice guy. I just...
483
01:15:45,213 --> 01:15:47,813
...don't think I have
what you're looking for.
484
01:15:51,212 --> 01:15:53,910
See... I think you do actually.
485
01:15:55,208 --> 01:16:00,106
Oh yeah? And what makes you think so?
486
01:16:02,507 --> 01:16:05,207
Well that smile, for one thing.
487
01:16:07,007 --> 01:16:10,305
Well, smiles lie.
488
01:16:12,506 --> 01:16:13,506
Exactly.
489
01:16:19,804 --> 01:16:26,600
Listen. Once, of course, it
was a gorgeous gorgeous time.
490
01:16:26,701 --> 01:16:31,201
We were all... living our dreams.
491
01:16:34,699 --> 01:16:36,898
But you see all that went away.
492
01:16:39,498 --> 01:16:40,596
All of it.
493
01:16:43,497 --> 01:16:45,097
With Curt.
494
01:16:45,895 --> 01:16:51,197
And not even the real Curt. I mean, it was
this... idea of Curt more than anything, this...
495
01:16:54,195 --> 01:16:58,593
...image. Which, of course, nobody
could ever possibly live up to.
496
01:16:58,694 --> 01:17:02,894
I mean Maxwell Demon, Curt
Wild. They were fictions!
497
01:17:06,691 --> 01:17:12,891
Somewhere along the way, Brian
seemed to get lost in the lie.
498
01:17:41,183 --> 01:17:42,483
- Shit!
- Cut it.
499
01:17:43,084 --> 01:17:43,984
Should I stop it?
500
01:17:57,479 --> 01:18:00,677
- He's gonna hit the bridge a half-verse
early. -Now you're simply wasting tape.
501
01:18:00,853 --> 01:18:02,352
Alright. Cut it.
502
01:18:07,076 --> 01:18:11,374
What? What? Is there a problem?
503
01:18:13,275 --> 01:18:15,473
- Again.
- What? What?
504
01:18:15,974 --> 01:18:17,874
- Sorry, Curt, but it appears...
- What?
505
01:18:18,573 --> 01:18:21,672
Curt, we only ask that when
you decide to make a change...
506
01:18:22,273 --> 01:18:25,671
...you simply inform us in advance, so
Eton here is properly prepared, otherwise...
507
01:18:25,772 --> 01:18:26,772
What the fuck are you talking about man?
508
01:18:29,470 --> 01:18:30,970
I didn't make any fucking changes!
509
01:18:39,245 --> 01:18:41,745
Brian?
510
01:18:44,767 --> 01:18:52,166
Fucking mother fucker! Mother fucker, you're a mother
fucker! Fuck you! Fuck you, mother fucker! Fuck you!!
511
01:18:53,566 --> 01:18:57,266
Eton! Eton, please!
512
01:18:58,966 --> 01:19:02,565
Brian, I'm sorry to be the one to have to tell you this,
but what started off as an interesting experiment...
513
01:19:02,864 --> 01:19:06,563
has quite frankly descended into a
demeaning waste of your time and mine.
514
01:19:07,163 --> 01:19:09,962
- I mean, you've already spent forty
hours studio time... -Thirty-six.
515
01:19:10,061 --> 01:19:14,261
Whatever! Thirty-six hours studio
time on two, three bloody cuts!
516
01:19:15,460 --> 01:19:19,860
Brian, you seem to forget, you're a very big star now and
I think your time is worth a great deal more than this -
517
01:19:20,460 --> 01:19:27,458
Fucking space-queen on your fucking high horse!
And all your fucking henchmen! Fuck you, fuck you!
518
01:19:31,157 --> 01:19:33,456
Perhaps it's time for another
little break. Hey fellas?
519
01:19:36,756 --> 01:19:37,756
Give us a stretch.
520
01:19:46,854 --> 01:19:49,249
Jerry?
521
01:19:53,850 --> 01:19:55,850
I can't risk extending
his contract, Brian.
522
01:19:57,750 --> 01:20:02,149
I think it's quite clear why.
I'll talk to you tomorrow.
523
01:20:15,445 --> 01:20:19,843
Piss off! Go on then! Back to
your wolves! Your junkie twerps!
524
01:20:20,144 --> 01:20:24,342
Your bloody shock
treatment! And fuck you too!
525
01:21:35,827 --> 01:21:37,426
Out!
O-U-T.
526
01:21:37,727 --> 01:21:40,827
Well, Brian. I'm afraid that is
completely out of the question.
527
01:21:41,524 --> 01:21:46,724
You are contractually bound to finish
the Maxwell Demon tour as Maxwell Demon.
528
01:21:46,824 --> 01:21:49,024
Jerry, I'm telling you, it's just
getting far too out of hand...
529
01:21:49,325 --> 01:21:55,521
Brian! I realize you're under tremendous strain, but you've
just gotta hang on in there and finish the bloody tour.
530
01:21:56,522 --> 01:21:58,922
You hang on in there.
I'll hang on here. Right?
531
01:21:58,923 --> 01:22:02,121
And then you can do what you want. OK?
532
01:23:21,702 --> 01:23:26,301
Down with Slade!
533
01:24:43,985 --> 01:24:47,085
I don't believe that there is
much of a future to speak of.
534
01:24:47,285 --> 01:24:52,884
- We're in a bit of a decadent spiral, aren't we?
- Sinking fast.
535
01:24:53,183 --> 01:24:57,682
- Big Brother, baby. All the way.
- Which is why we prefer impressions to ideas.
536
01:24:57,881 --> 01:25:02,381
- Situations to subjects.
- Brief flights to sustained ones.
537
01:25:02,680 --> 01:25:07,179
- Exceptions to types.
- And yourself?
538
01:25:10,679 --> 01:25:14,976
Well I'm... I'm just looking
for a room at the moment.
539
01:25:59,966 --> 01:26:03,667
So for one entire day, I
actually think Brian's been shot.
540
01:26:05,566 --> 01:26:08,566
That the whole thing is real.
541
01:26:09,665 --> 01:26:13,264
All his paranoias proven horribly true.
542
01:26:14,065 --> 01:26:17,765
- You mean, no one told you?
- Nope.
543
01:26:20,862 --> 01:26:22,161
Why?
544
01:26:23,262 --> 01:26:24,262
Forgot.
545
01:26:28,761 --> 01:26:29,558
Jesus!
546
01:26:30,159 --> 01:26:34,159
I mean... I knew it was over. I just...
547
01:26:37,059 --> 01:26:40,858
...didn't know it was
up to me to make it stop.
548
01:27:02,549 --> 01:27:06,148
- Mandy.
- Hello, Brian.
549
01:27:11,449 --> 01:27:12,848
No, thanks.
550
01:27:22,944 --> 01:27:24,647
These are the papers.
551
01:27:25,744 --> 01:27:30,543
I believe they're in order.
All you need to do is sign.
552
01:27:43,541 --> 01:27:44,640
So you won't forget.
553
01:27:46,539 --> 01:27:49,739
- I already have.
- Evidently!
554
01:27:54,538 --> 01:28:02,937
Fuck you, Brian! Did you ever, for one bloody
second in your life, want anything more... than this?
555
01:28:04,037 --> 01:28:05,635
No.
556
01:28:10,533 --> 01:28:13,732
Your problem is...
557
01:28:13,733 --> 01:28:17,833
...you get what you want
and do what you will.
558
01:28:18,632 --> 01:28:21,034
Worlds, Mandy, are
built out of suffering.
559
01:28:21,933 --> 01:28:25,431
There is suffering at the birth of
a child as at the birth of a star.
560
01:28:25,732 --> 01:28:29,230
You live in terror of
not being misunderstood.
561
01:28:29,231 --> 01:28:35,128
Women defend themselves by attacking, just as
they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.
562
01:28:36,929 --> 01:28:45,627
I lost my girlhood,
true. But it was for you.
563
01:28:48,826 --> 01:28:52,525
What in God's name is going on up
here? How the fuck did you get up here?
564
01:28:53,325 --> 01:28:55,726
- Brian, I'm really sorry about...
- It's alright, Shannon.
565
01:28:56,224 --> 01:28:58,024
Mandy was just leaving.
566
01:29:01,725 --> 01:29:03,825
Mandy, if you'd be so
kind as to follow me...
567
01:29:03,923 --> 01:29:07,721
Let go of me. I'm perfectly
capable of making my own...
568
01:29:11,721 --> 01:29:13,620
I really don't want to
have to call someone.
569
01:29:17,821 --> 01:29:19,821
Call someone?
570
01:29:23,419 --> 01:29:26,416
I am his wife, for fuck's sake!
571
01:29:30,918 --> 01:29:34,516
Fuck the lot of you!
572
01:29:38,116 --> 01:29:40,515
Was that the last time you saw him?
573
01:29:40,714 --> 01:29:41,613
No.
574
01:29:47,412 --> 01:29:51,509
I saw him again. Briefly, a
few weeks later, at a concert.
575
01:29:51,710 --> 01:29:52,710
He was performing?
576
01:29:55,810 --> 01:29:59,709
No. Curt was actually performing.
577
01:30:00,509 --> 01:30:02,807
He and Jack Fairy had just
finished their Berlin record...
578
01:30:03,008 --> 01:30:04,709
...and Curt was in
London playing some gigs.
579
01:30:05,508 --> 01:30:10,107
And Brian was there, for a second.
I don't think anyone even saw him.
580
01:30:13,506 --> 01:30:15,606
Which concert?
581
01:30:22,304 --> 01:30:27,402
It was like a tribute. Sort of
a farewell concert to glam rock.
582
01:30:27,902 --> 01:30:33,001
To save your wild, wild lives.
To ne'er your fans embitter.
583
01:30:33,702 --> 01:30:39,100
To cease your sad
demise. Tonight, we toast!
584
01:31:41,985 --> 01:31:44,586
Is this working? Cos I want it blue-er.
585
01:31:48,185 --> 01:31:51,784
I don't think you should bother. I think I
should go on stage tonight, instead of you.
586
01:31:52,785 --> 01:31:54,085
Arthur, come on, give
us a hand with this.
587
01:32:00,783 --> 01:32:03,282
Stop moving about,
I'm doing me eyeliner.
588
01:33:49,937 --> 01:33:55,334
"... and due to the overwhelming demand, there will be
additional shows added whenever and wherever possible."
589
01:33:55,935 --> 01:34:01,235
"Regrettably, Mr Stone only has time for a few brief
questions this morning as he has a plane catch to Zurich."
590
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:32,420
Lou! Lou!
591
01:34:36,419 --> 01:34:38,717
- I'm sorry, Arthur. I'm late. -Lou!
I think I'm on to something. -What?
592
01:34:39,018 --> 01:34:41,717
- Something quite big. I think I know who Brian Slade is.
- Ah, that story's been dropped.
593
01:34:43,618 --> 01:34:45,717
- What? Why?
- I need you on the Stone show.
594
01:34:46,518 --> 01:34:47,518
But that's it!
595
01:34:49,416 --> 01:34:53,316
What did they say to you? Lou!
596
01:34:57,817 --> 01:35:00,617
Hi, yeah. My name is Arthur
Stuart, from the Herald.
597
01:35:02,118 --> 01:35:06,918
I was given this number and told
I could reach Curt Wild here.
598
01:35:08,519 --> 01:35:14,119
- Listen...
- Yeah. Hello? Hello!?
599
01:35:14,320 --> 01:35:16,520
Listen, I don't know who the
hell gave you this number...
600
01:35:16,921 --> 01:35:19,421
...but Curt Wild is not available
and not interested in granting you...
601
01:35:19,522 --> 01:35:22,122
...or anyone else an interview
on this subject. You got it?
602
01:35:23,823 --> 01:35:25,823
I'm sorry. I was told...
603
01:39:56,851 --> 01:40:03,449
- That was really beautiful.
- Yeah? Thanks.
604
01:40:06,249 --> 01:40:09,548
- Did you see him?
- No, I didn't see him.
605
01:40:31,744 --> 01:40:32,841
It's only now, looking back...
606
01:40:34,643 --> 01:40:39,641
...that I see how you patched through
my walls and entered my life...
607
01:40:41,442 --> 01:40:42,442
...in waves.
608
01:40:46,341 --> 01:40:47,238
Come closer.
609
01:40:53,039 --> 01:40:54,039
Don't be frightened.
610
01:40:55,837 --> 01:41:01,437
What's your name? Your
favourite colour? Song? Movie?
611
01:41:03,835 --> 01:41:08,636
- Don't be nervous. Are you high?
- I'm on a button.
612
01:41:14,434 --> 01:41:19,732
He was waiting for me.
I'd followed his signals...
613
01:41:19,767 --> 01:41:25,333
...and slipped away and now, suddenly...
614
01:41:32,830 --> 01:41:34,228
Hey!
615
01:41:38,994 --> 01:41:40,194
Make a wish!
616
01:42:18,995 --> 01:42:19,995
Hey!
617
01:42:35,715 --> 01:42:44,013
Make a wish! And see
yourself, on-stage, inside-out.
618
01:42:45,114 --> 01:42:51,011
A tangle of garlands in your hair. Of
course you were pleasantly surprised.
619
01:42:52,312 --> 01:42:55,810
Softly, he said:
620
01:42:55,911 --> 01:42:58,311
I will mangle your mind.
621
01:45:52,067 --> 01:45:55,566
Tommy! Tommy! Where did you get the
idea for such a spectacular stadium show?
622
01:45:55,767 --> 01:45:58,965
To tell you the truth � it's
a bloody pain in the ass!
623
01:45:59,966 --> 01:46:03,866
The whole thing takes six full size rigs
or three chartered planes to transport.
624
01:46:04,166 --> 01:46:06,065
What can I say? I think big!
625
01:46:06,965 --> 01:46:11,464
Tommy! What's your opinion on the work
that President Reynolds has been doing?
626
01:46:11,664 --> 01:46:13,764
Excellent. Excellent. I think
he's doing brilliant work.
627
01:46:13,964 --> 01:46:17,927
He's a tremendous leader, a tremendous
spokesperson for the needs of the nation today.
628
01:46:17,962 --> 01:46:24,461
Tommy! What's your response to the recent allegations
connecting you with bisexual pop-singer Brian Slade...
629
01:46:24,560 --> 01:46:27,757
...who staged his own assassination
ten years ago this week in London?
630
01:46:27,758 --> 01:46:30,358
...that Mr Stone has time for
this evening. Thank you very much!
631
01:46:33,559 --> 01:46:37,359
Out! Get out!
632
01:46:38,356 --> 01:46:43,754
"... Stone is promoting his Grammy-winning release,
"People Rockin' People", to sold-out arenas worldwide..."
633
01:47:05,856 --> 01:47:07,455
Beer, please.
634
01:47:16,846 --> 01:47:21,945
Excuse me? Sir? Are you
with the Tommy Stone Tour?
635
01:47:26,643 --> 01:47:30,643
No. I'm just a journalist.
636
01:47:32,144 --> 01:47:38,540
Perhaps you'd like my...
press pass? As a souvenir?
637
01:47:39,841 --> 01:47:40,941
Thanks sir.
638
01:48:14,135 --> 01:48:15,231
You're Curt Wild.
639
01:48:17,832 --> 01:48:20,232
Yeah. Who the hell are you?
640
01:48:23,232 --> 01:48:26,630
I'm a journalist. From the Herald.
641
01:48:29,830 --> 01:48:31,630
You were at the concert?
642
01:48:34,830 --> 01:48:39,227
It's just funny, cause... I was
trying to contact you, actually.
643
01:48:40,728 --> 01:48:44,028
About a story I was doing,
about an old friend of yours.
644
01:48:46,525 --> 01:48:48,325
Brian Slade?
645
01:48:51,426 --> 01:48:52,723
I was trying to find out
what actually happened to him.
646
01:48:52,924 --> 01:48:55,224
- Look...
- I mean, before he became...
647
01:48:57,523 --> 01:48:59,123
...such a mystery.
648
01:49:01,723 --> 01:49:05,020
Look, man, I don't know who you've been
talking to or what you're after here.
649
01:49:05,121 --> 01:49:06,121
What?
650
01:49:09,621 --> 01:49:10,621
What?!
651
01:49:13,121 --> 01:49:17,920
Listen! A real artist creates beautiful things
and puts nothing of his won life into them. Okay?
652
01:49:18,919 --> 01:49:21,418
- Is that what you did?
- No.
653
01:49:23,619 --> 01:49:25,319
We set out to change the world.
654
01:49:27,617 --> 01:49:29,616
Ended up just changing ourselves.
655
01:49:31,517 --> 01:49:32,617
What's wrong with that?
656
01:49:35,616 --> 01:49:36,914
Nothing.
657
01:49:38,815 --> 01:49:40,615
If you don't look at the world.
658
01:49:52,212 --> 01:49:54,212
Well, I guess in the end
he got what he wanted.
659
01:50:04,010 --> 01:50:08,008
- That's quite a pin you got there.
- Oh yeah.
660
01:50:08,709 --> 01:50:09,709
Is it old?
661
01:50:10,406 --> 01:50:14,506
Possibly. It belonged to Oscar Wilde.
662
01:50:15,306 --> 01:50:17,406
Or so I was told by the
person who gave it to me.
663
01:50:19,406 --> 01:50:24,606
A friend of mine. Kinda
disappeared some years back.
664
01:50:28,204 --> 01:50:31,203
I forget where we
were. We were on a trip.
665
01:50:31,402 --> 01:50:32,902
But he said to me, "Curt...
666
01:50:35,103 --> 01:50:36,903
"... a man's life is his image."
667
01:50:49,600 --> 01:50:52,698
- Here. Why don't you hang on to it?
- Me?
668
01:50:53,599 --> 01:50:54,699
Sure. Why not?
669
01:50:55,898 --> 01:50:59,695
I've had it too long anyway. Go ahead.
670
01:51:02,596 --> 01:51:03,896
For your image.
671
01:51:09,594 --> 01:51:18,291
Really. I couldn't. But thanks.
672
01:51:25,492 --> 01:51:27,691
God, I love this song.
673
01:51:30,689 --> 01:51:33,690
- Anyway.
- Yeah.
674
01:51:36,289 --> 01:51:39,187
- See ya around.
- Cheers!
675
01:52:09,181 --> 01:52:12,646
He called it a freedom.
676
01:52:14,447 --> 01:52:17,847
A freedom you can allow yourself.
677
01:52:20,448 --> 01:52:22,348
Or not.
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