27/04/2017 The One Show

Hello and welcome to One Show with Matt Baker. And Michelle Ackerley.

New York has given us some of the most incredible voices from

Frankston Jack Sammy Davis Junior to Bennett. Today we are in the

presence of one of the greatest, that this wouldn't be complete

without Barry from Brooklyn. # Can't Smile Without You...

# Mandy, UK minute gave without taking

# At the Copa, that Copacabana # Could It Be Magic, Could It Be

Magic... #. CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Look who's in our audience tonight, Barry Manilow!

Come on in, Barry. Barry, good to see you. As always. Lovely to see

you. What a great crowd. The fans I hear, the fans I hear! Now then, the

reason we're talking all about New York is because of your new album.

This Is My Town: Songs Of New York. As far as power town is concerned,

when you come to the UK, what you like to do? Usually I am working.

Very little time to get out. But what we've done over the years, when

I go from city to city, we go by car, so I do get to see the

outskirts of London. The landscape. When we went to Sheffield years ago,

we drove there and then we went through snake pass and we got

attacked by sheep! LAUGHTER You will do, very affectionate. Do

you know? Of course. It's not common to me. We had to stop the car. We

had to stop and generally get them off the road. I think they

recognised me! LAUGHTER Fans everywhere. I will give you

some shepherding tips. Stick with me and you'll be all right. As you've

heard, the fans are in! But of course there's only so much room

here in the studio. We would like to get some fans at home the chance,

Barry, to speak to you, live in the studio. We have some of your most

ardent admirers. They've been given a top secret number that will

connect them to us in the studio. But it's not time yet, hold your

horses, don't call just yet. Settle down. If you live in Cheltenham and

you've received a strange handwritten anonymous note recently,

you are not alone. Over the last month these messages have been

turning up in all sorts of random locations across town, send unknown,

until now. With texting, e-mail and messaging

apps these days it seems like we are never out of touch with each other,

but when was the last time you received a handwritten letter? Well,

here in Cheltenham two enterprising chaps have set up a delivery service

with a difference. It's anonymous. All you have to do is type the

content of your letter on their website and they will handwrite it

and deliver it free of charge. Well, as long as it's within a mile

of Cheltenham. This is you George and another George? Hello George. If

you are not making money from this, why do you do it? It is goodwill on

a very local level and it's nice to actually get something from someone

that's actually handwritten. Openly before someone else does. It just

says, you are beautiful! Can't believe you'd invite James Corden to

a dinner party, not cool dude, not cool. With love completely

anonymous. But you feel like the recipient of that would know.

Exactly. How many notes have you got waiting to drop? About a thousand

submissions around Cheltenham. We can't send them all at the moment

supply it sounds like you could do with a spare pair of hands. I'm not

George but I could be George for a day. This is your moment. Where is

it going? To a man running a coffee stand just over there. Hello sir,

this is for you. It says location, the man at the Green coffee machine.

That is you. Have you ever received an anonymous note before? I haven't.

Thank you for providing children with the world's press coffee, we're

lucky to have you. What a lovely thing. -- providing Cheltenham. How

does it feel to receive something like that out of the blue? Very

good, that somebody appreciates what you do. The anonymity obviously has

drawbacks as well. Do you think some people could find it a bit creepy?

Yes, we've had people e-mailing saying they have had a note and they

are a bit freaked out. We explain the situation. Getting to see all of

Cheltenham today. If I'm going to become a George, I have to know my

way around so we don't waste time. We can't have that!

I've got a no name note for somebody here. Let's see what it says. Open

me. Did Jason, your dog the Rock has escaped. Your dog has escaped? And

whenever there is a giver, there is a receiver. It's not a no name note

you have there? I had about a week ago, just try and make head tail of

it. I joke, a jacket I owned has been taken and lost by a certain

individual. It's a note apologising for taking my jacket and losing its.

Is it a nice way for someone to apologise or slightly creepy and

weird because you had an recognise the jacket had gone? Quite charming.

I could boil it down to two or three people. We will spare their blushes!

Thank you. With all this being spread around

Cheltenham I couldn't receive resist leaving a note of my own. After all,

it is the jazz festival. Laura, there is no one cooler, have a great

show. Lovely notes, isn't it? Barry, have

you ever received any strange fan mail? Surely, you must have done!

You must have over the years. Most of the fan mail is beautiful. A lot

of thank you for the music and stuff. Years ago, and I've told this

story before so you probably know it, in the mail I got a roll of

toilet paper. What? At first I didn't know what that meant. On

every sheet, she had written, you are my singer, you are my songs and

I love you, on every sheet of the entire role. Every sheet. You know

how long this must have taken? Exactly! It definitely got my

attention. Barry, she's into night! No, she's not, she's not. But we do

know you have to trying keep a bit of a low profile and it must be

difficult for you. It is, that profile. You used to check-in to

hotels anonymously under a different name. I did. I still do. Who I can

tell you about, when I did my first jazz album I went under Bill Bailey.

And then there was like a Judge Judy show in America, with a judge named

Judge walk,, so I went under that name. My mother called and said let

me speak to judge Walkner and they said, is calling question what she

said Judge Walkner's mother! LAUGHTER

Let's talk about your new album, This Is My Town: Songs Of New York.

It's basically a love letter to your hometown, New York. Interestingly

you have been living in California. I I've lived there longer than I did

in New York, but I come from New York. When you are born and raised

in New York, you are always a New Yorker. What does it mean? I took

for us, think fast, walk fast, and energetic. That's what you get in

New York. As you grow up there, you go out of New York at 100 miles an

hour and you're ready to live your life. You've got such a love affair

with the city, that there's actually a road named after in Manhattan.

When we played the St James Theatre, they put a street sign... There it

is. That was a thrill. I bet. It was a thrill, I can't believe they

actually did that. It was so important. Wouldn't you be thrilled,

your hometown? Yes! LAUGHTER Song and everything to do with it.

You've tried to capture so much with this album. I do. First of all it

was different styles. I was first going to make it into one style, a

little jazz album, but that didn't work. So I started to play around

with different styles. I thought, it's going to be confusing, but New

York is different styles, New York is a melting pot of different people

and different styles. So I thought, OK, this might work. It is different

styles, a little Broadway, a little pop, a little R, a little jazz. So

it felt good when I finally finished it. It took me over a year to finish

this album. Yeah... I would want these albums to be great. I don't

ever want to let go of it and I'm never done with it, but this took

longer than usual. There is a medley tribute is in New York classics in

fair, isn't there? When I looked up how many standards there are about

New York, these went forever. Many of them were great, written by great

songwriters. So I did the ones that I wanted to do and then I thought, I

want to do the rest of them, how do I do that? I put it in a medley. I

did like eight of them in a medley and it turned out to be great. Do

you ever stop writing, Barry? You know, I write on demand. I used to

do that. I used to just go to the piano and bright, but then they used

a end up in the trunk, I never got to use them because I didn't have

any place for them. So I stopped doing that. But when I have a

project, then I write and then I can't get the project out of my

head, can't get the songwriting out of my head, it wakes me up in the

middle of the night. I'm not sure if you know about that story... I woke

up in the middle of the night one night with a full song in my head,

lyrics and music. I tiptoed out of the bedroom, down the hall to the

cassette machine, remember cassette machines? I hit the record button

and whispered into the cassette machine. The next morning I woke up

and hit the play button and there it was. It was called One Voice.

Yanuyanutawa is kind of an uplifting song. I don't know how that kind of

thing happens. Well, Barry, we could chat to you forever. We will be

chatting to you a bit more later and perhaps one of your super fans as

well. First, the financial pressures on the NHS are sure to be fiercely

debated over the next few weeks, as we move closer to the election. That

includes the money spent on medication. Some pharmaceutical

companies have been accused of hiking their prices to a level that

is unaffordable for the health service. A medical journalist has

been to meet one of those patients affected.

It's a familiar story, patients denied access to life changing

medicine because it is too expensive to be available on prescription. I

have a pounding headache at the front of my head all the time. I

have ringing in my ears. My memory is really bad. It's like being

severely hungover. I've come to Northampton to meet 37-year-old

Louise Dunlop. Two years ago she had her thyroid removed, so her body no

longer makes hormones are central to the body's metabolism, one of which

is T3. They said take one pill a day and you will be fine. But that pill

that is designed to replace the hormone T3 has now become expensive.

That's partly why some local NHS clinical commissioning groups are

refusing to prescribe it. T3 is what's called on branded generic

drug and due to a lack of regulation, the pricing of these

drugs relies on competition in the market to keep prices down. The

problem is, a company called Concordia is the sole UK

manufacturer of T3, so they are free to charge what they want. Concordia

bought the company who make the drug T3 in October, 2015. Since then the

price has gone from around ?200 a month, to more than ?250 per month.

That is an increase of 25%. And T3 is currently listed as one of the

top ten generic drugs to have had their prices hiked, shooting up from

around ?11.60 a month in 2005. Some doctors are now prescribing a

cheaper alternative hormone, T4, but up to 15% of patients, including

Louise, they doesn't work for them. The higher dose I take, the more I

feel ill. Desperate to get back on T3, she went to a private

specialist. He gave me a private prescription. We took the

prescription to various pharmacies and they quoted me ?290 for a

month's supply. We got it if it would help, it did, but at ?200 290

per month, I can't afford to keep doing that. NHS England told us the

affordability on prescription as part of an ongoing review, due its

high cost and limited limited evidence of its effectiveness and

the vast amount of patients symptoms can be treated at a cheaper

alternative. Some doctors say there is no evidence T3 helps. The doctors

I've seen, my rheumatologist, have seen an improvement in me. Lynn

works at the looking into the issue at the rising cost of T3 for some

time and they Louise is just one of the growing number of concern

patients who have contacted them. In 2015 there were 4 million

prescriptions for T3. We think that's affecting about 300,000

patients. And what's even more frustrating for the patients is that

T3 is available much more cheaply abroad. In the UK it's now ?9 22 per

tablet. Whereas in 2015 in Turkey you could get it for 1p a tablet.

So, some patients are turning to the Internet to source the drugs. Look

at this, this is from Greece. Just over ?35 for one month's supply but

you don't know what you're getting. Louise has been getting a friend to

bring back supplies from Greece. This is the box of tablets, it is in

Greek. You take a risk. We contacted the company that makes T3. Concordia

said it hasn't been approached by the Department of Health with any

pricing concerns and through its product range it offers the NHS

significant savings on generic medicines. It says the drug is

difficult to make to conform with UK standards and it is continuing to

invest in T3 so that patients can access it. There is some hope on the

horizon, the Competition and Markets Authority is investigating the price

of generic drugs and a parliamentary bill is expected to pass this week

that will enable the government to intervene if the price of a number

of a generic drugs like T3 goes too high. But in the meantime, where

does this leave you? Trapped in a living hell with no hope of getting

better, desperate for something to change and for something to be done

to get the costs down and get people the drug they need to get their

lives back. Nick is here to talk about this. We heard about T3 but

this is a much wider problem, isn't it? Yeah, when a drug hits the

market it is known as a branded drug, made by one manufacturer and

if the NHS decides it would like to prescribe it it goes into a deal

with the manufacturer and there are strict price controls with the

pharmaceutical company to ensure that there isn't overcharging. When

a drug is 20 years old it becomes a generic drug like T3, paracetamol,

aspirin, and there are no controls because anyone can make them. The

idea is that the free market competition will bring down the

price. The problem is when a company purchases the manufacturing process

for a drug which gives it a monopoly on the process and it can increase

prices because no one else is making it, which can be profiteering.

Incredible examples in recent years. There is one called Doxipin which

once called to pound 36 a perception but now it is over ?200. ?200!

Hydrocortisone, a drug that we are all aware of which can treat skin

conditions has gone up by 12,500%. That's crazy. But there has been

some good news but at yes, this week the final legal process went through

Parliament to make law the government's ability to go to a

pharmaceutical company demand detailed information about the

manufacturing process of each drug they make and if they suspect that

price gouging, profiteering is taking place they can demand a

discount or rebate so the NHS doesn't lose out. Barry got a

piano... Mooy your back on! Probably all of the Fanilows know that Barry

got his first piano at 13 years old. I thought you were going to ask me

about bills! You can talk about it! -- about pills. He went on to write

songs that the whole world sings. Alistair McGowan is a fan of a

composer who wrote a song for 24 hours.

This is Gynopidie number one by the composer Satie who was ahead of his

time. He stunned and revolutionised the musical world in the late 19th

century life been fascinated by his character since I was a boy. I was

watching a BBC school's drama when I had my Satie awakening. I turned to

my brother and said, what is that music? I was nine years old and I

had heard nothing like it. It was the start of a 40 year love affair

with Satie's work and a tune that is very familiar. Over the years it has

been used in countless films, TV programmes and adverts. Anyone

remember this? Not bad, not bad at all, Mark Arit. They wanted to

create the finest plain chocolate of their age and they called it...

Bournville. It wasn't just his music that makes Satie stand outcome it is

fair to say he was a very unusual man. In order to become Satie I have

grown a beard and I'm going to dress up as him. Satie had seven identical

suits for each day of the week so he never had to worry about deciding

what to wear. At one stage he only eight white food in the hope that

their simplicity and purity would translate into his music. And I

think he happens to look like a certain someone. Gymnopedie number

one may be Satie's best-known work but he also wrote more unusual and

less easy on the ear music. I've come to Cheltenham where one of his

most challenging pieces called Vexations is being performed as part

of the annual music festival. This deceptively tricky piece consists of

just one page of music is repeated 840 times. Yes, it's a bizarre and

unique exercise in repetition that can drive even the most experienced

pianist mad. Although I only officially reached grade two on

piano I've been asked to play. The piece can last a full 24 hours and

is being performed by a relay of 60 pianists and it is a challenge for

us performers, spare a thought for the audience. I don't know if I

could cope with being present for the whole number of hours it is.

Would it do your head in totally? To help me prepare for this musical

marathon live then listed the help of world renowned pianist and love

it -- Anne Lovett. Why did he write Vexations? He was going through a

lot, his girlfriend left him. What are the challenges of the piece?

This section... The right-hand is playing the same thing but it is

completely different come and he uses double flats and double sharps.

Very rare. It makes it extra difficult and painful for the

performer. And I'm about to find out how painful it can be as high

channel the great man himself and deliver my own version of this most

unusual piece. OK, it's not the biggest gig of my career, the

audience may be half asleep but it is one of the most challenging,

rewarding and memorable. As a Satie fan, it's fantastic to see a new

generation of people discovering this timeless genius and I think and

hope and believe, I know that we'll be listening to his music for a long

time to come. Well, certainly until about 11am tomorrow morning. Barry,

you love that and you said you wish that happened in America. They don't

do this kind of thing. Satie, I'm crazy about him, every musician is.

He was known for three pieces of music, all the things he did and we

remember him for the three Gymnopedie pieces. He considered

himself a Gymnopedist. One of your biggest pieces was inspired by it

show Pan -- by Chopin. I don't consider myself a Chopinist! I based

could have been magic on a Chopin piece which I loved and I wrote a

melody and went from there. It may feel like most of you UK fan club is

in the studio but for those who missed out on coming to the show we

would like to give them a chance to speak to you live. We are calling

this Buzz Barry. We have six die-hard fans watching and we had

given them a secret number to the hotline and the first one to ring in

with a correct answer to a simple question will be serenaded with a

song from the man himself. Yes, standing by to call in, we have

got... We have Chris from Leicestershire who has been to every

single one of your London concerts. Sherry from Kent who fell in love

and married her very own Barry. Mark Arit from Cheshire joined Barry on

stage at the Royal Albert Hall in 1993 -- Margaret. Theresa has a

tattoo on her back. My God! Jamie Foster and just ran a ten kilometre

race and went straight to one of your concerts. Maxine from

Bournemouth celebrating her birthday today, she has been to see Barry in

Las Vegas three times. So, you have a question Matton on this card. I

do. -- you have a question written on this card. You are going to get

dialling as fast as you can come at the first one to give us the right

answer will speak to Barry. OK, in your own time. OK, ready? Mandy was

my first number one single but what was the original name of the song?

The audience knows! Don't give it away. This is a song, you change the

tempo and all sorts. It was a rock and roll song, it came from here by

two writers, a very nice song but it didn't fit me, so I slowed it down

and changed the courts and put a different ending in and it turned

out to be the first punk rock ballad ever. And it was called

originally...? PHONE RINGS WWE hello, I'm Maxine? If you get the

answer right, I will put you through? It is Brandy.

# Oh, Maxine # You came and you gave without

taking # CHEERING

How's that, Maxine? What would you like to say to Barry? I'd love to

say, thank you for your music and the great times we've all had and

for the friendships I've made through you. Thank you so much. Aww!

Gone to Vegas three times. Dedication. Oh, there you go!

Absolutely superb. All the very best. Wasn't that wonderful? Barry,

you are looking so fantastic. The energy you are feeding off, you

obviously in a very happy chapter. I am, yeah. You're talking about the

people magazine article? No, I'm just saying. You're going to be over

here. Yes, I am coming over here. I'm coming over here next year and

I'm told we are going to come in over -- come over next September. On

that note we'll say thank you and good night from all of us. Thank

you, Barry Manilow! Our crack team of experts

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