0:00:13 > 0:00:17One, two. One, two, three, four!
0:00:17 > 0:00:22If you enjoy James Brown music, you're going to have a good time tonight.
0:00:22 > 0:00:29We're tonight celebrating Black Velvet James Brown Junior's 62nd birthday! Whoo, 62!
0:00:29 > 0:00:32So round about now put your hands together
0:00:32 > 0:00:35because we've got a young man coming to the stage.
0:00:35 > 0:00:39He's been on The David Letterman Show. Put your hands together
0:00:39 > 0:00:44and meet and greet Black Velvet James Brown Junior!
0:00:44 > 0:00:47CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:00:47 > 0:00:50# This is a man's world
0:00:53 > 0:00:55# But it wouldn't be nothing
0:00:55 > 0:00:57# Nothing... #
0:01:00 > 0:01:03'I've been playing James Brown since I was 14 years old.'
0:01:03 > 0:01:07# Yea-ea-eah!
0:01:07 > 0:01:10# Yea-ea-eah! #
0:01:10 > 0:01:13CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:01:19 > 0:01:22'But now I want to do Charles Bradley.'
0:01:52 > 0:01:57I've been struggling for over 42 years trying to make it in the industry
0:01:57 > 0:02:01and at the age of 62, I'm just beginning to find my way through.
0:02:03 > 0:02:08I never made enough money to support myself in music,
0:02:08 > 0:02:12but I'm hoping that this album will make a turning point for me,
0:02:12 > 0:02:14that I can support myself in music.
0:02:19 > 0:02:23Hey, man. I'm going to give you water, OK? Hey, man.
0:02:23 > 0:02:26That's my bird. He make me mad.
0:02:26 > 0:02:31I get mad, I go in the back room and close the door and let him scream all he want to.
0:02:31 > 0:02:36I have my little place. It's not what I want, but thank God I got a roof over my head!
0:02:37 > 0:02:41When I go in my little apartment and lock my door,
0:02:41 > 0:02:43I'm in peace,
0:02:43 > 0:02:45but going into the projects,
0:02:45 > 0:02:47going into the elevator,
0:02:47 > 0:02:50getting in there, that's when the trouble starts.
0:02:50 > 0:02:53You never know what's going to happen.
0:02:53 > 0:02:59There's a guy downstairs. His name is Alfred. Very good guy. Don't bother nobody. Church guy.
0:02:59 > 0:03:03They shoot up his place. He showed me all the holes.
0:03:03 > 0:03:07I said, "Wow, man! I couldn't live on the first floor."
0:03:07 > 0:03:14When it get too crazy at the projects, I go to my mom's house and I sleep in her basement.
0:03:19 > 0:03:23So I come here and this is where I crash.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27Until the next day, I go take care of the errands,
0:03:27 > 0:03:31take care of everything to keep a roof over both our heads.
0:03:32 > 0:03:34I like to get a little of this...
0:03:34 > 0:03:37a little ball.
0:03:39 > 0:03:41Just put these in.
0:03:42 > 0:03:45How's that rice?
0:03:45 > 0:03:47Let me see.
0:03:47 > 0:03:50Just a little bit more.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53I came from a family of eight.
0:03:53 > 0:03:57My main goal is watching over... is my mom.
0:03:57 > 0:03:59And I do the best I can.
0:03:59 > 0:04:01It's my baby boy.
0:04:01 > 0:04:04And I love him.
0:04:14 > 0:04:17'I'm just making her life peaceful,
0:04:17 > 0:04:21'so she can not worry about the bills and everything.'
0:04:21 > 0:04:23I took that upon my shoulder.
0:04:23 > 0:04:28I really didn't know what I was getting myself into, but now I'm in it, I won't change it.
0:04:28 > 0:04:33All I can do is try to make something work where I can make a decent income,
0:04:33 > 0:04:38where I can live and let live. That's all I can ask from life now.
0:04:44 > 0:04:47# Round and round the road we go again
0:04:47 > 0:04:50# Where it stop
0:04:50 > 0:04:53# Nobody knows
0:04:53 > 0:04:56# It's a cold, cold world
0:04:56 > 0:04:59# It's a cold, cold world...
0:05:01 > 0:05:07# How can we stop the changes going on in America today...?
0:05:19 > 0:05:23# Oh, oh-oh-oh
0:05:28 > 0:05:31# Go back
0:05:31 > 0:05:34# Go back to the golden rule
0:05:36 > 0:05:38# Go back
0:05:39 > 0:05:42# Go back to the golden rule
0:05:42 > 0:05:45# Bring it all down! #
0:06:00 > 0:06:06That's a song from the new record No Time For Dreaming, Charles Bradley and The Menahan Street Band.
0:06:06 > 0:06:10I can't believe you came out of nowhere as a virtual unknown to us.
0:06:10 > 0:06:12Have you recorded before?
0:06:12 > 0:06:16No. It's my first time, really, coming out.
0:06:16 > 0:06:19I know you've been performing.
0:06:19 > 0:06:21- Yes.- As Black Velvet.- Yes.
0:06:21 > 0:06:26- So, now you're performing as Charles Bradley?- Yeah, yeah.
0:06:26 > 0:06:29You certainly have a great band backing you here
0:06:29 > 0:06:34and with the folks over at Daptone, you know, what a great crew they are!
0:06:34 > 0:06:37And you've seen what's happened with Sharon Jones
0:06:37 > 0:06:41who, you know, just like you, went from complete obscurity to...
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Who knows what kind of heights you could scale?
0:06:44 > 0:06:47So, that's got to be an exciting moment for you.
0:06:47 > 0:06:49I think God just answered my prayer.
0:06:49 > 0:06:51You know, it's just like...
0:06:51 > 0:06:57I asked myself why it took so long, but you can't question God when he wants to do things.
0:06:57 > 0:07:01So, at my late age, it just started coming.
0:07:01 > 0:07:05- What's next? Are you thinking big? - I'm thinking the sky's the limit.
0:07:05 > 0:07:11Congratulations on this great record. No matter what happens with it, it's a fine piece of work.
0:07:11 > 0:07:13Charles Bradley on WFUV.
0:07:16 > 0:07:18# This world
0:07:18 > 0:07:20# Going up in flames
0:07:20 > 0:07:23# And nobody
0:07:23 > 0:07:26# Wanna take the blame
0:07:27 > 0:07:30# Don't tell me how to live... #
0:07:30 > 0:07:34I don't know how many artists have ever been 62 years old
0:07:34 > 0:07:37and released their debut record. He may be the first.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42The guy is just getting it going as far as I'm concerned.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46He's worked very hard for a long time.
0:07:46 > 0:07:49I hope that enough people can hear him sing,
0:07:49 > 0:07:53so he can make the kind of life he wants and take care of his family.
0:07:53 > 0:07:55# Huh!
0:07:55 > 0:07:56# Yeah!
0:07:56 > 0:07:58# I'm talkin' to you, girl
0:07:58 > 0:08:00# Yeah!
0:08:00 > 0:08:02# Only you... #
0:08:14 > 0:08:19If you're into funk and soul music or Afrobeat and you live in New York,
0:08:19 > 0:08:24Gabe Roth is the guy you want behind the board. You want these guys pushing you in the direction
0:08:24 > 0:08:27because their records were phenomenal.
0:08:27 > 0:08:30I just started making the kind of records I like listening to.
0:08:30 > 0:08:35I think a lot of those soul records have a certain sincerity that I always like.
0:08:36 > 0:08:42One morning, pretty early, nine or ten in the morning, I got a knock on my door and it was Charles.
0:08:42 > 0:08:47He said, "I heard you were looking for singers. I heard you were looking for me."
0:08:47 > 0:08:51I had no idea what he was talking about, so he shows me a videotape
0:08:51 > 0:08:54of him singing James Brown songs. Sounds great.
0:08:54 > 0:08:59Gabe Roth from Daptone Records brought him down to a rehearsal in Staten Island.
0:08:59 > 0:09:04Gabe wanted us to record with a singer. Charles was a singer they hadn't found a band with on Daptone.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Charles had captured their attention.
0:09:06 > 0:09:10I just figured, see how Charles works with them.
0:09:10 > 0:09:11# Stop
0:09:13 > 0:09:14# Stop it, baby
0:09:17 > 0:09:19# Ooh
0:09:21 > 0:09:24# I'm feelin' awful, baby
0:09:24 > 0:09:27# And I'm locked up in a cage... #
0:09:27 > 0:09:33I played with Tommy's band that he had over at Staten Island.
0:09:33 > 0:09:37I just went over there one day and they was rehearsing, jamming.
0:09:37 > 0:09:40They said, "Hey, man, sing on this, sing on this."
0:09:40 > 0:09:43And I'm liking the music.
0:09:43 > 0:09:46The lyrics were just popping in my head.
0:09:46 > 0:09:51So, that all worked out well and we recorded those songs with Bradley at Daptone.
0:09:51 > 0:09:57They were good songs, but they just didn't take off. Then we kind of went in different directions.
0:09:57 > 0:09:59Two years went by
0:09:59 > 0:10:04and I was doing James Brown in small clubs.
0:10:04 > 0:10:09And then I got a call to come round and do a show with Sharon Jones.
0:10:10 > 0:10:16We rehearse, we play the show, great. Me and Charles see each other for the first time in a couple of years.
0:10:16 > 0:10:20We catch up a little bit. I say, "Charles, I'm working on some music.
0:10:20 > 0:10:25"How about you come over one night and we give it a shot?" He said, "Yeah, Tommy, of course."
0:10:25 > 0:10:32We magically recorded two songs in one night - The World Is Going Up In Flames and In You I Found A Love.
0:10:32 > 0:10:36Charles was right here and I was right here pressing "record".
0:10:36 > 0:10:39You know, we wrote it together and that was it.
0:10:39 > 0:10:44The music was laid down, but he was just coming out with lyrics off the cuff.
0:10:44 > 0:10:47And I was just putting it in the right place.
0:10:55 > 0:11:00We haven't played so many shows with Charles up to this point.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02We played a couple.
0:11:02 > 0:11:06Charles wants to reach every single person in the audience.
0:11:06 > 0:11:11What we rehearse and what goes down on stage is two different things. The band's going to be tight.
0:11:11 > 0:11:16The only thing we tried to rehearse with Charles is to let Charles lead the band.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23- # Bam, bam, bam, bam - Bam, ba-a-am... #
0:11:23 > 0:11:25Three, four.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31THEY PLAY GENTLE INTRO
0:11:44 > 0:11:46# In you
0:11:46 > 0:11:48# I found love
0:11:49 > 0:11:53# That makes me feel so real
0:11:54 > 0:11:56# Oh, baby
0:11:56 > 0:11:58# Sometimes
0:12:00 > 0:12:02# When I'm sleeping at night
0:12:03 > 0:12:05# I wake up
0:12:06 > 0:12:08# And you're nowhere to be found
0:12:12 > 0:12:14# You said you love me
0:12:15 > 0:12:18# And you'll always be around
0:12:19 > 0:12:21# In you... #
0:12:23 > 0:12:26The new music, for once, it's me.
0:12:26 > 0:12:31It's things that I have experienced, that I went through, heartaches and pains.
0:12:32 > 0:12:35# I don't want to be a fool no more... #
0:12:42 > 0:12:47- Yeah, Bradley, you waited twice for the horns.- You told me that.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Yeah, that's perfect.
0:12:58 > 0:13:03- Nine and a half...- Mother, come on. You said nine, you said eight.
0:13:03 > 0:13:07I get eight. Now you want nine, you want nine and a half.
0:13:07 > 0:13:10What's wrong with those shoes right here?
0:13:10 > 0:13:12INAUDIBLE REPLY
0:13:13 > 0:13:15You're going to drive me crazy.
0:13:19 > 0:13:21Oh, Jesus...
0:13:22 > 0:13:29It's hard sometimes. It's very hard because everything now is really depending on me.
0:13:29 > 0:13:33But if I put her in a home, she would die and I know that.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50And when...when my husband...
0:13:51 > 0:13:53..died.
0:13:55 > 0:13:59She said, "Son, let me spend my last days in the house."
0:13:59 > 0:14:02I said, "OK, Mom. I'll do that."
0:14:02 > 0:14:05But she don't know...
0:14:05 > 0:14:07I have no life.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09My life is her.
0:14:09 > 0:14:12For me to be with someone,
0:14:12 > 0:14:15I don't even know how to do it.
0:14:24 > 0:14:29When Charles' mother first left Florida to go to new York,
0:14:29 > 0:14:32Charles was only eight months of age.
0:14:33 > 0:14:35Eight months old.
0:14:36 > 0:14:41And she stayed away so long that when she came back for the first time,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45he didn't recognise her, he didn't know she was his mother.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48He thought that his grandmother really was his mother.
0:15:03 > 0:15:07She abandoned, actually, in a way, her children
0:15:07 > 0:15:09to follow...
0:15:12 > 0:15:15..a man who had a wife
0:15:15 > 0:15:17that she was very crazy about.
0:15:19 > 0:15:23Otherwise, she probably would never have gone to New York.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26I was about the age of seven or eight years old.
0:15:26 > 0:15:30My mother told my grandmother, "I want him to come back to New York with me."
0:15:30 > 0:15:37My grandmother said, "No, let them stay here. They'll get a better education if they stay with me."
0:15:37 > 0:15:39So my mother says, "No."
0:15:39 > 0:15:43My grandmother says, "You're not taking them," so my mother stole us.
0:15:55 > 0:15:57That's what I did.
0:15:57 > 0:16:01I really hate to say this, but I think at that time,
0:16:01 > 0:16:03it was hard to find jobs,
0:16:03 > 0:16:07so there was only one way if you had some kind of dependents
0:16:07 > 0:16:10that you can get some welfare.
0:16:10 > 0:16:14And I feel like that's what she was doing to get the welfare
0:16:14 > 0:16:17by having those kids there.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20During his infancy,
0:16:20 > 0:16:23now, he was the favourite child.
0:16:23 > 0:16:28He received all the love and care from his older brothers and sisters and his grandmother
0:16:28 > 0:16:33and his uncles and all of us because he was the baby.
0:16:33 > 0:16:36When Charles went to New York, that's when he lost all of that.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46I was living with my mom and I was afraid she would hurt me, so I left.
0:16:46 > 0:16:51We couldn't see eye to eye. I was getting blamed for everything.
0:16:51 > 0:16:56I was very bitter. It seemed like everything was rationed to us.
0:16:56 > 0:16:59I was in a basement worse than this one.
0:16:59 > 0:17:03You know, it was this sand basement. It was no concrete basement.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06A 15-watt bulb of light and I said, "No, I can't take this."
0:17:06 > 0:17:10I said, "I don't want it, I'm going." So I left.
0:17:16 > 0:17:18I was 14 years old.
0:17:19 > 0:17:22My home was the subway train. That's where I'd keep warm.
0:17:24 > 0:17:31I'd get on the subway train some nights, winter nights, cold, riding the A-Train back up and down.
0:17:31 > 0:17:36The police would hit the darn thing real hard and say, "Kids, you got to get off."
0:17:36 > 0:17:41I'd go across the platform and get another train going back.
0:17:41 > 0:17:44I'd sleep, get me a little corner.
0:17:44 > 0:17:48I'd get the stick real hard and it'd penetrate through my head.
0:17:48 > 0:17:51He'd say, "Get up. You can't sleep here."
0:17:51 > 0:17:54So, I'd just keep going different routes
0:17:54 > 0:17:58to get a night's sleep before daylight come.
0:17:59 > 0:18:02And I'd see myself what's going down
0:18:02 > 0:18:07because everybody in those days was getting high using hard drugs.
0:18:07 > 0:18:12I'd be watching while they're shooting up and they'd try to give it to me.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16I got scared and I was afraid of needles. I'd say, "No, no, no."
0:18:16 > 0:18:21That's when I went to Job Corps. I tried to get my mother to sign me to go to Job Corps.
0:18:21 > 0:18:27She was mad with me, she wouldn't sign, so I got my sister to forge her name.
0:18:27 > 0:18:32I learned to cook. For two years, I was a cook trainee up in Bar Harbor, Maine.
0:18:32 > 0:18:36That's when I started doing James Brown on the Job Corps.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39They'd say, "Man, you see that new guy that came in?
0:18:39 > 0:18:42"He looked just like that guy they call James Brown."
0:18:42 > 0:18:47And then they got me fired up one day. They gave me some gin.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49In the Job Corps, you were sneaky.
0:18:49 > 0:18:55They gave me some gin, they got me really high and they gave me the microphone and said, "Sing!"
0:18:55 > 0:18:57And I went crazy.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01They told me they'd take me to a girls' Job Corps centre to perform.
0:19:01 > 0:19:07I said, "How many people is there going to be?" They said, "20 or 30 people." I said, "OK."
0:19:07 > 0:19:10And they called me on stage.
0:19:10 > 0:19:14And I looked out from that stage and I saw all those people.
0:19:14 > 0:19:18I froze. I said, "Uh-uh, I ain't going out there! Not me, not me."
0:19:18 > 0:19:24So, this guy named Moody came behind me and gave me a push.
0:19:24 > 0:19:27I see all the people just happy, they love me.
0:19:27 > 0:19:29They love me giving them my heart.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33And I said, "Wow, this is where I want to be at!"
0:19:33 > 0:19:35And I never stopped.
0:20:03 > 0:20:06I want to taste it when you open that...
0:20:06 > 0:20:09- The one that's pumpkin?- Oh, yeah.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13- I got to taste that.- We can open it now.- I never heard of pumpkin beer.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16- We can drink some of that. - I sure want to taste that.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Oh, my God, this is delicious!
0:20:21 > 0:20:26- Seriously. This is unbelievable. - That's the pumpkin?
0:20:26 > 0:20:30- Yeah.- That's the pumpkin?- It is like uncarbonated. It tastes unbelievable.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33You like it? No? You don't like it?
0:20:33 > 0:20:38- I don't like it. - I think it's delicious.- I'm going to taste the pumpkin in there.
0:20:38 > 0:20:42Working with Charles Bradley as opposed to working with Sharon Lee
0:20:42 > 0:20:48or the other singers from New York that I so often work with, Charles has got the craziest stories.
0:20:48 > 0:20:49Craziest stories.
0:20:49 > 0:20:55So, you know, as a songwriter, I just sit around and I hear Charles tell these stories
0:20:55 > 0:20:59and you're like, "We've got to write a song about that."
0:20:59 > 0:21:04So usually before we do the vocals on the track, I'll play Charles' song
0:21:04 > 0:21:07and just ask him if he likes it first of all.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11I'll sing him my ideas and say, "This is how I think it should go."
0:21:11 > 0:21:17Not that he disregards my ideas, but he's got his own ideas and he instantly starts expressing them.
0:21:17 > 0:21:22He'll just start singing and then we'll stop and get away from it for a second and just talk.
0:21:22 > 0:21:27If you talk with Charles long enough, a story comes out about something.
0:21:27 > 0:21:31Without me asking him, he'll start singing about what we spoke about.
0:21:31 > 0:21:37Then I'll just grab a pencil and paper and let him freestyle over the track over and over again.
0:21:37 > 0:21:42Then we'll go back and that'll become a song slowly, over the course of a couple of hours,
0:21:42 > 0:21:45but it's his stories I'm always trying to translate into a song.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00I was bouncing into different bands like that.
0:22:00 > 0:22:04They'd say, "Man, we'll pay you 40 to do this show tonight."
0:22:04 > 0:22:08This guy paid me to do this tonight. That's how I was doing out there.
0:22:08 > 0:22:12And at that time, I don't know why...I got sick.
0:22:12 > 0:22:18I called my mom and she said, "Son, come on back home."
0:22:20 > 0:22:22Mom is getting old
0:22:22 > 0:22:24and she's been through a lot.
0:22:24 > 0:22:27It's not for me to crucify her for what she did in her life.
0:22:53 > 0:23:00Then my brother Joseph, he came to hospital to see me
0:23:00 > 0:23:03and he reached over and he kissed me.
0:23:03 > 0:23:06He said, "Charles, no, no."
0:23:06 > 0:23:13He whispered in my ear. He said, "Bro, if you don't want to live for yourself, please live for me."
0:23:13 > 0:23:16He said, "Charles, I love you. You're my heart."
0:23:16 > 0:23:20I said... I said, "Joe, I'll fight. I'll fight."
0:23:25 > 0:23:27My brother just told me.
0:23:27 > 0:23:33He said, "Charles, do something that you want to do. Follow your dreams. You love music. Do it."
0:23:33 > 0:23:39I said, "Joe, I'd like to be someone like you." He said, "You don't want to be me. Be you."
0:23:58 > 0:24:01He said, "Cos I can't do it like you do it."
0:24:01 > 0:24:06I remember when I was a kid, when I was in Florida, Joseph was going to piano school,
0:24:06 > 0:24:11and how I learned these little things I'm playing on the piano by watching him.
0:24:11 > 0:24:13I was trying little tunes myself.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16He said, "Follow your dreams and your music."
0:24:16 > 0:24:20And he said, "Take one of these rooms in this house and fix it up."
0:24:20 > 0:24:25He gave me this room. "People can come here for a rehearsal." And that's what I did.
0:24:25 > 0:24:30Joe was like a father and a brother. He was a beautiful brother.
0:24:36 > 0:24:39Yeah, sit down, Charles, and eat.
0:24:39 > 0:24:41You know, I'm not hungry,
0:24:41 > 0:24:45but you eat and then we'll start slowly talking about what you did.
0:24:45 > 0:24:47- OK, I'll leave this here for you. - That's fine.
0:24:47 > 0:24:50'I'm tutoring Charles.'
0:24:50 > 0:24:53He's at kindergarten or first grade reading level
0:24:53 > 0:24:55and reading comprehension level.
0:24:55 > 0:25:01"Other writers interested in my story."
0:25:01 > 0:25:05OK, you sounded it out. Did you understand everything that you read?
0:25:07 > 0:25:08Um...
0:25:08 > 0:25:11- Yes and no.- Yes and no.
0:25:11 > 0:25:17I think his number one goal is for him to be able to write his lyrics down fast
0:25:17 > 0:25:23when they're coming into his head because he's got a lot of words up there he wants to get out on paper,
0:25:23 > 0:25:25but he doesn't know how to do it.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27You didn't spell "an" right.
0:25:27 > 0:25:30- Oh. Two N's?- Just one N, no D.
0:25:30 > 0:25:35- Oh, "an"...- "And" is like when you put two things together like... - Right, OK.
0:25:35 > 0:25:37Fish AND chips.
0:25:37 > 0:25:42- Thank you.- Bye, Charles. I'll see you next week. Thank you.
0:26:02 > 0:26:05You got it? You can read it later.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08- Wrap it up. Get started. - Get outta here.
0:26:09 > 0:26:11You know I own you. You know I'm the boss.
0:26:11 > 0:26:15- I bet you wish you were. - Thank you, Mr Brown.
0:26:18 > 0:26:21'Charles used to wear his James Brown wig all the time.'
0:26:21 > 0:26:23Right? All the time.
0:26:23 > 0:26:30'As the record draws near, it's like, "You've got to present yourself as Charles Bradley." He had a hard time.
0:26:30 > 0:26:33'He wanted to come out with the cape and the James Brown thing.'
0:26:33 > 0:26:38That's what he's used to getting up on stage and doing and we did not want that.
0:26:38 > 0:26:42We wanted Charles to be Charles and it took a lot of convincing.
0:26:48 > 0:26:51Charles has a record coming out January 25th,
0:26:51 > 0:26:55so now starts the promotion leading up to the record coming out.
0:26:55 > 0:26:59I'm going on tour with Sharon Jones to open up for her.
0:27:00 > 0:27:05Sharon Jones is giving me a chance to expose some of my music,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08to let the world know who Charles Bradley is.
0:27:08 > 0:27:14It's real exciting for us as a label to be able to present these kind of packages
0:27:14 > 0:27:18and Charles is the perfect guy to add to any of the shows
0:27:18 > 0:27:23and get his name out on the heels of some of the other bands that have had success up to now.
0:27:23 > 0:27:27If we go some place and we have 1,000 people come to see Sharon,
0:27:27 > 0:27:31to be able to put him in front of that audience is a huge head start.
0:27:31 > 0:27:38Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings has been our most prolific artist and our most successful artist,
0:27:38 > 0:27:44the artist that's been around the longest, toured the most and sold ten times as many records.
0:27:51 > 0:27:54He hadn't had a proper show in about a year or so.
0:27:54 > 0:28:00You know, to also put that in context, he hasn't played a lot of gigs as Charles Bradley.
0:28:10 > 0:28:15Working with Bradley live is a little stressful because he can go off in a song at any time.
0:28:15 > 0:28:18CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:28:21 > 0:28:24America!
0:28:24 > 0:28:27We've got to make this world a better place.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30Come on, Tommy, bring it all in!
0:28:30 > 0:28:33# No time for dreaming
0:28:33 > 0:28:35# Dreaming, dreaming
0:28:35 > 0:28:39# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
0:28:40 > 0:28:42# No time for dreaming
0:28:42 > 0:28:44# Dreaming, dreaming
0:28:44 > 0:28:48# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
0:28:48 > 0:28:50# Hey!
0:28:55 > 0:28:57# Hey!
0:28:59 > 0:29:01# And get...
0:29:02 > 0:29:05# Why don't ya? Yeah!
0:29:06 > 0:29:09# No time for dreaming
0:29:09 > 0:29:11# Dreaming, dreaming
0:29:11 > 0:29:14# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
0:29:15 > 0:29:17# No time for dreaming
0:29:17 > 0:29:20# Dreaming, dreaming
0:29:20 > 0:29:23# Gotta get on up, gotta do your thing
0:29:23 > 0:29:25# Do your thing...
0:29:25 > 0:29:29# No time for dreaming
0:29:30 > 0:29:32# You gotta get on up
0:29:33 > 0:29:35# And do your thing... #
0:29:38 > 0:29:41CHEERING Love you!
0:29:41 > 0:29:43I love you too.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46- I love you too.- I love you, Charles.
0:29:46 > 0:29:49I love you too!
0:29:49 > 0:29:52CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
0:29:52 > 0:29:55Put your hands together and give it up for Charles Bradley!
0:29:57 > 0:30:00Show some love for Mr Charles Bradley!
0:30:01 > 0:30:03OK, you're smarter.
0:30:03 > 0:30:08- That was better than last night. - Yes, it was.- Killed it, Charles.
0:30:08 > 0:30:10It was.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14I know I made a few mistakes tonight, but I'm getting better.
0:30:14 > 0:30:19The audience didn't see it, but I know it and Tom knows about it.
0:30:19 > 0:30:21So the last one I was good on.
0:30:21 > 0:30:27'Then there was one I made a mistake on, but I'll get better on it. I promise you that.'
0:30:27 > 0:30:35We can't believe they didn't put you on more! Why didn't you come back on at the end?
0:30:35 > 0:30:40- Tell her.- That's the space they gave me.- I don't care. We want more!
0:30:40 > 0:30:42More of Chucky.
0:30:42 > 0:30:47Thank you, my man. Thank you. You got the juices flowing for all of us.
0:30:47 > 0:30:52You just blew the roof off the place. Unbelievable. You're going to be huge, man.
0:30:52 > 0:30:57I don't understand what people mean about diva. That diva word sometimes can be wrong.
0:30:57 > 0:31:01- No, but it's right for you. - Diva means...- It all depends.
0:31:01 > 0:31:06Yeah, when it's coming from love you gotta consider the source.
0:31:06 > 0:31:11- Which one was yours? - You didn't say "To Charles".
0:31:11 > 0:31:15To Charles... How do you spell Bradley?
0:31:15 > 0:31:17- B-R-A-D-L-E-Y.- ..L-E-Y.
0:31:17 > 0:31:19- Cool.- You're a star.
0:31:22 > 0:31:25- I love you.- I love you, too.
0:31:28 > 0:31:32- I wish the best for you. - I wish the best for US.
0:31:32 > 0:31:38- 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.
0:31:38 > 0:31:44- You'll see me down here, too. - I love you, Sharon. - Love you, too, Charles!
0:32:02 > 0:32:04Poughkeepsie.
0:32:05 > 0:32:09'I'm gonna stop by and visit some old friends
0:32:09 > 0:32:11'I haven't seen in years.'
0:32:11 > 0:32:14Hey, hey, hey!
0:32:16 > 0:32:18How are you doing?
0:32:18 > 0:32:24- I said, "God, I hope they're still there." - Yeah. We're still here, bro.
0:32:24 > 0:32:26Man, this smells good!
0:32:26 > 0:32:33- What's going on, buddy? How you feelin'?- It's been years! - You look well, man.- You look good.
0:32:33 > 0:32:35Is that Jackie coming?
0:32:35 > 0:32:38Ah! Look at Jackie!
0:32:38 > 0:32:40How you been?!
0:32:40 > 0:32:42My God!
0:32:42 > 0:32:47I knew this guy, I know Ernest Washington, since 1968.
0:32:53 > 0:32:55And you'd throw that cape off
0:32:55 > 0:33:01and I don't know if one of us went and picked the cape up and laid it back on your shoulder...
0:33:01 > 0:33:04- Yes, I remember that! I remember that.- That's right.
0:33:04 > 0:33:07You'd never know you went that far.
0:33:07 > 0:33:11- God, I thank God I didn't give up. - Thank God.
0:33:11 > 0:33:17Let me speak to Tom. Tell Tom to put Mr and Mrs Washington on the guest list.
0:33:17 > 0:33:19I found my friends.
0:33:19 > 0:33:24They are totally my family. We maybe go away for so long,
0:33:24 > 0:33:30- but eventually I'm going to find you. You know that, Jackie. - We've been friends for a long time.
0:33:30 > 0:33:33I get goosebumps thinking about that.
0:33:33 > 0:33:40- I'll see you guys. I'll see you tonight.- Take care. I'll see you tonight.- Right, bud.
0:33:40 > 0:33:42Oh, my God...
0:33:42 > 0:33:44That's memory lane.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08- #- I...I...
0:34:09 > 0:34:12- #- I'm just loving you, baby
0:34:15 > 0:34:19- #- Oh, I can't get enough of you, baby
0:34:21 > 0:34:23- #- Can't get enough of you
0:34:25 > 0:34:29- #- I was crying
0:34:30 > 0:34:32- #- When I felt your love
0:34:34 > 0:34:38- #- This time I know it's for real, baby
0:34:38 > 0:34:40- #- I...
0:34:51 > 0:34:54Bring it down a little, fellas.
0:34:55 > 0:34:57Ladies and gentlemen,
0:34:57 > 0:35:00may ever who you are...
0:35:02 > 0:35:07I lived here. I came here, about Poughkeepsie,
0:35:08 > 0:35:11about 1968.
0:35:12 > 0:35:16And I lived here for nine years.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19You know,
0:35:19 > 0:35:23this is like home to me, so I'm giving you my love.
0:35:24 > 0:35:29You know... Bring it down a little softer, fellas.
0:35:29 > 0:35:33And I worked in a little town they called Wassaic.
0:35:33 > 0:35:39I worked at a little centre. I was cooking for 3,500 people a day.
0:35:39 > 0:35:44There's a friend in here, two friends, I knew when I came here.
0:35:44 > 0:35:46They was with me.
0:35:46 > 0:35:50And their names are Mr and Mrs Ernest Washington.
0:35:50 > 0:35:54Ernest Washington, I can't see you. Where are you at?
0:35:54 > 0:35:58But thank you, brother, for the ride.
0:35:58 > 0:36:00Thank you, Jackie.
0:36:00 > 0:36:04Thank you for being my friends through the years.
0:36:04 > 0:36:06And ALL of you out there.
0:36:06 > 0:36:09- #- I LOVE you
0:36:10 > 0:36:13- #- Aaaaaah, hey
0:36:14 > 0:36:17- #- I love you
0:36:17 > 0:36:20- #- Forgive me
0:36:20 > 0:36:22- #- Aaaaaah
0:36:22 > 0:36:24- #- Ooooh...- #
0:36:24 > 0:36:27Thank you. I love you.
0:36:27 > 0:36:29CROWD CHEERS
0:36:30 > 0:36:32We love you!
0:36:42 > 0:36:45I got a touching moment
0:36:45 > 0:36:49when I got down and started talking to people. It got touching.
0:36:49 > 0:36:55So I said, "Leave it alone, Charles. Getting too deep now. Get off it." Cos it started getting touching.
0:36:55 > 0:37:01But that was the beautiful thing about Ernest Washington and Jackie. Oh, man.
0:37:01 > 0:37:06This is the first time they saw me in many years.
0:37:17 > 0:37:21This is the house my brother was killed in.
0:37:22 > 0:37:26That's why I don't like to come in this block no more.
0:37:47 > 0:37:51I looked out the window and I saw all these policemen and fire trucks
0:37:51 > 0:37:56so I came outside and I thought I've got to go see this for myself.
0:37:56 > 0:38:00I saw this thing says Morgue. And when it says Morgue
0:38:00 > 0:38:07what I did, I just saw... I came out to go in my brother's house and the detective let me in there,
0:38:07 > 0:38:12but I told him, "That's my brother and you can't stop me." So I pushed my way in.
0:38:12 > 0:38:15But I wish to God that I never did.
0:38:58 > 0:39:01Yes, I will, son.
0:39:02 > 0:39:07I think Charles depended on Joseph like his mother depended on him.
0:39:08 > 0:39:12Charles went out of his mind when Joseph got killed.
0:39:13 > 0:39:15I mean, he...
0:39:15 > 0:39:20For a while, he thought he was going to go crazy about him.
0:39:21 > 0:39:25'I'd really like to find the truth of why he got killed.
0:39:25 > 0:39:27'He was too young.
0:39:27 > 0:39:30'He was 48 years old.'
0:39:38 > 0:39:40There's a mic for you right here.
0:39:40 > 0:39:45You want to try that one or you want to play something else?
0:39:45 > 0:39:50We can come back to that. He always goes...like that.
0:39:50 > 0:39:54- Oh, you want to do Heartaches and Pain?- Yeah.
0:39:54 > 0:39:57All right.
0:40:03 > 0:40:05BAND PLAYS INTRO
0:40:11 > 0:40:15'Heartaches and Pain is by far the deepest song'
0:40:15 > 0:40:21on the Charles Bradley record. It was probably the third song that we had written together.
0:40:21 > 0:40:25Charles tells me this story about his brother and says to me,
0:40:25 > 0:40:29"I want to write a song about my brother Joseph."
0:40:29 > 0:40:33I said, "OK, I will help you do it." As a friend.
0:40:33 > 0:40:39And I said, "That song on the piano you've been playing your whole life? That's the music to the song."
0:40:39 > 0:40:45Brought Charles in, added a couple of things to his piano. "This is the song for your brother."
0:40:45 > 0:40:51And he did his thing then. He started screaming, running around, "This is beautiful. Oh, my God!"
0:40:51 > 0:40:56And then we started working on it and it was hard, man.
0:40:56 > 0:41:04It was really hard. That is a really personal, deep, deep, dark, haunting story
0:41:04 > 0:41:09about Charles's older brother, that he admired and loved, that he needed to tell.
0:41:09 > 0:41:13- #- Life's full of sorrow
0:41:14 > 0:41:17- #- So I have to tell you this
0:41:21 > 0:41:24- #- Your brother is gone
0:41:24 > 0:41:27- #- Yeaaaah
0:41:30 > 0:41:32- #- Heartaches
0:41:33 > 0:41:36- #- Heartaches and pain...- #
0:41:37 > 0:41:43So the mortgage is hard on me and I don't think it's fair to me.
0:41:43 > 0:41:48I never missed a payment. They told me if I did, they'd go up 18% on my interest rate.
0:41:48 > 0:41:53I tried to get it remortgaged. They tell me I don't make enough money.
0:41:53 > 0:42:00I said, "Well, how don't I make enough money and I'm paying all this high mortgage out?"
0:42:00 > 0:42:06I'm going out to get every little penny I can get to keep this going.
0:42:06 > 0:42:13When Joseph got killed Charles went on and took on the full duty of taking on what Mother needs.
0:42:13 > 0:42:16Cos none of them would do it. Charles is doing it,
0:42:16 > 0:42:22a lot of his personal money he puts into the house to help her to stay there.
0:42:22 > 0:42:29He's in the process, I would say, almost of buying this damn house for his mother.
0:42:29 > 0:42:36And his older siblings that live there in the house don't want him there.
0:42:36 > 0:42:41And so he is largely responsible for
0:42:41 > 0:42:44taking care of all of my sister's...
0:42:46 > 0:42:48..affairs.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57RINGTONE PLAYS
0:42:57 > 0:42:59Hello?
0:42:59 > 0:43:01Yes?
0:43:02 > 0:43:04Oh, hi. How you doing, Paul?
0:43:05 > 0:43:11She says if she won't be able to do the remortgaging... the refinancing of the house,
0:43:11 > 0:43:17I'll have to wait for two months until the income tax come.
0:43:17 > 0:43:22She'd like me to give up my apartment, but I don't want to.
0:43:22 > 0:43:26I'd have to move over to my mom's house.
0:43:26 > 0:43:31Yeah, cos this apartment is the only place I have to run to when I get depressed.
0:43:31 > 0:43:34And there's pieces only of me here.
0:43:34 > 0:43:40Whatever you decide, cos I know that you're trying to help me and I appreciate that.
0:43:40 > 0:43:42All right, Paul. Thank you, Paul.
0:43:44 > 0:43:49What's left for me to do is my life, take my life away.
0:43:49 > 0:43:53Sometimes I do, I say, "God, just call me home."
0:43:53 > 0:43:57Because every day I get out and I fight and fight to keep the honesty,
0:43:57 > 0:44:04the decency of a human being walking the planet. And loving everybody as God asked you to love.
0:44:04 > 0:44:08But today they look at it as a weakness, I think.
0:44:08 > 0:44:14How much more can one give before they find love on the planet?
0:44:14 > 0:44:17How much more can you give?
0:44:17 > 0:44:22I say, "Father, whatever time and hour you want me, I'm ready to go."
0:44:23 > 0:44:26That's the way I feel about life.
0:44:31 > 0:44:37And before I leave this world I said I'd let the world know. They can't change me.
0:44:37 > 0:44:41I don't give a damn what you give me, there's no money on this Earth
0:44:41 > 0:44:47can take the love that I've got for God in my heart. I love everybody.
0:44:47 > 0:44:50I never do nobody no harm.
0:44:50 > 0:44:54All I try to do is just walk my straight line.
0:44:58 > 0:45:02- #- Why is it so hard
0:45:03 > 0:45:06- #- To make it in America
0:45:13 > 0:45:15- #- So I said to myself
0:45:16 > 0:45:20- #- I... I gotta move away from here...- #
0:45:20 > 0:45:26Me and Homer were travelling around Europe with Sharon Jones and we had hung out one night
0:45:26 > 0:45:32and met some girls in Paris. They were like, "Is Sharon Jones as big in America
0:45:32 > 0:45:39"as she is in France?" And we were like, "Nobody knows about Sharon." This was years ago.
0:45:39 > 0:45:46We played around Brooklyn and small clubs, but at the time we were playing theatres in Paris
0:45:46 > 0:45:49and it was a bigger thing in Europe.
0:45:49 > 0:45:53So that led to us writing this little tune that night called
0:45:53 > 0:45:56# Why is it so hard to make it in America? #
0:45:56 > 0:46:01The second that Charles sang, "Why is it so hard to make it in America?"
0:46:01 > 0:46:06the song's meaning completely changed.
0:46:07 > 0:46:10- #- Why-y-y
0:46:11 > 0:46:13- #- Is it so hard
0:46:14 > 0:46:17- #- To make it in America?
0:46:20 > 0:46:23- #- I try-y-y
0:46:23 > 0:46:25- #- So hard now
0:46:26 > 0:46:30- #- To make it in America...- #
0:46:42 > 0:46:44Beautiful, Bradley.
0:46:47 > 0:46:49RINGTONE PLAYS
0:46:50 > 0:46:52Oh, Tommy.
0:46:53 > 0:46:57OK, I'm definitely... I'm definitely going to get it?
0:46:57 > 0:46:59All right, Tommy.
0:46:59 > 0:47:02Page six? OK, Tommy.
0:47:04 > 0:47:06OK, Tommy.
0:47:06 > 0:47:11I owe so much to you guys. You just... Oh, Tommy!
0:47:11 > 0:47:13I'll see you.
0:47:13 > 0:47:15Your bad self.
0:47:15 > 0:47:17All right, Tommy.
0:47:17 > 0:47:22Tommy said they got me in the Post on page six.
0:47:23 > 0:47:24Ohhh...
0:47:26 > 0:47:28Lord have mercy.
0:47:28 > 0:47:30What can you say?
0:47:46 > 0:47:49You got the Post? You got the Post?
0:47:49 > 0:47:51Ohhh...
0:47:51 > 0:47:54They don't have the Post.
0:47:54 > 0:48:00- How's everybody doing? - Hey, Charles! How you doing? - I'm holding up.
0:48:16 > 0:48:17Aaaah!
0:48:20 > 0:48:22Shoot!
0:48:23 > 0:48:26Oh...my...God.
0:48:29 > 0:48:30Yes!
0:48:32 > 0:48:34Oh, my God. Look at this!
0:48:34 > 0:48:40- Ah, shit. They got me in the paper. - They got you in the paper? Oh, my goodness!
0:48:40 > 0:48:44- Oh, man. What you doing? - That's me right there.
0:48:44 > 0:48:48Jesus... I thank God for this.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52Oh, my God.
0:48:52 > 0:48:57This guy's been... He's been doing a lot of struggling within himself,
0:48:57 > 0:49:01but it's gonna be OK today. It's gonna be OK.
0:49:01 > 0:49:05We were talking for years and I look at him and I say to myself,
0:49:05 > 0:49:09- "He's gonna be there..." Is he in the paper?- Yeah.
0:49:09 > 0:49:11- He's in the paper?!- Yeah!
0:49:11 > 0:49:15- I'm talking and you're in the paper?! - Right there.
0:49:15 > 0:49:17My Lord.
0:49:17 > 0:49:22- You couldn't have knocked on my door and told me that?- I just found out!
0:49:22 > 0:49:25I told you, honey! I told you, baby!
0:49:25 > 0:49:28- Right.- You know, I love you.
0:49:28 > 0:49:31- What?- You told me.- I told you.
0:49:31 > 0:49:33It's happening!
0:49:33 > 0:49:40I told you. Keep the faith and never stop believing and you're already there! What you worried about?
0:49:40 > 0:49:46- You've been there and it's already done.- Congratulations. - God has been good. And if you cry,
0:49:46 > 0:49:50it's a good cry. When you do, hold your head up cos He has you still.
0:49:50 > 0:49:53I love you, brother. I won't forget.
0:49:58 > 0:50:00'Tonight is my first night.
0:50:00 > 0:50:03'Me only on stage. Charles Bradley.
0:50:03 > 0:50:11'My chance has finally come and I'm hoping everybody out there will come out
0:50:11 > 0:50:13'to show me their support.'
0:50:15 > 0:50:17You all right?
0:50:17 > 0:50:22Are you coming tonight? You always tell me you're gonna come.
0:50:22 > 0:50:27This is the place where, before they fixed it up,
0:50:27 > 0:50:30I lived in here for about... God, about 2½ years.
0:50:30 > 0:50:37It was abandoned. And now it's a church. The guy that owned it sold it and they fixed it up.
0:50:37 > 0:50:42But that... This was home one time and this guy, Jose,
0:50:42 > 0:50:48he is the one that really gave me electricity from his place. It kept me going.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50That's why we're such close friends today.
0:51:07 > 0:51:10Most people could have given up and not done anything.
0:51:10 > 0:51:14Just settle into a job. He's been plugging away.
0:51:14 > 0:51:21It's hard enough for people in their 30s to launch a career. For someone in their 60s, it's almost insane.
0:51:21 > 0:51:26- You like rhythm and blues? - We're going.- We've got our tickets. - Ah, come on!
0:51:31 > 0:51:34'I just hope it's a decent night,
0:51:34 > 0:51:40'some people turn out and he's got a room to perform to and feels good about the record. Cos we do.'
0:51:49 > 0:51:51Wow!
0:51:52 > 0:51:53Wow!
0:51:53 > 0:51:55Sold out!
0:51:57 > 0:52:01- My God. - 'No Time For Dreaming.
0:52:01 > 0:52:05'Please welcome to the stage, Mr Charles Bradley!'
0:52:07 > 0:52:14I was on the guest list and working for the label and had friends in the band and I had to wait outside
0:52:14 > 0:52:19like, I don't know, 25 minutes before I could get in the door. It was sold out.
0:52:42 > 0:52:46Ladies and gentlemen, I got a special lady in the house.
0:52:46 > 0:52:49My mama's in the house some place.
0:52:52 > 0:52:53Mama!
0:52:54 > 0:52:56Mama!
0:52:56 > 0:53:00Look around you. In the red over there is my mama.
0:53:00 > 0:53:05But ladies and gentlemen, she gave me the start.
0:53:13 > 0:53:16- #- O-o-oh
0:53:24 > 0:53:28- #- Go back Go back to the golden rule
0:53:28 > 0:53:33- # Golden rule - Ay-ay, go back
0:53:34 > 0:53:37- #- Go back to the golden rule
0:53:37 > 0:53:39# Golden rule... #
0:53:40 > 0:53:43You know...
0:53:43 > 0:53:46Let me say a few words right now.
0:53:48 > 0:53:51You...you...you...
0:53:51 > 0:53:56- made me to be the person I am. - Love you, Charles!- Thank you.
0:53:56 > 0:53:58Thank you.
0:53:58 > 0:54:03I thank you and I hope to God that I can keep giving you love,
0:54:03 > 0:54:06decency and honesty.
0:54:20 > 0:54:22- #- Aaaah
0:54:22 > 0:54:25- #- Aaaah
0:54:25 > 0:54:29- #- What am I gonna do?
0:54:30 > 0:54:33- #- What am I gonna say?
0:54:33 > 0:54:35- #- Yaaaah!- #
0:54:40 > 0:54:42AUDIENCE ROARS
0:54:53 > 0:54:58What love can I ask for around me right now? Tell me God ain't real.
0:54:58 > 0:55:02This love I feel around me will make me reach into my heart
0:55:02 > 0:55:06and give everybody a little piece to say I love you.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08It was one of my special shows.
0:55:08 > 0:55:12He changed my life. Changed my life.
0:55:12 > 0:55:19It's infectious, you know? He's in love with what he's doing and in love with his audience.
0:55:19 > 0:55:22When he says, "I love you, guys," you feel it.
0:55:22 > 0:55:27Amazing. I brought my friend from Italy and...what do you think?
0:55:27 > 0:55:29Amazing.
0:55:29 > 0:55:36'I think it was too small a place for the people that came there cos a lot of people were turned down.
0:55:36 > 0:55:43'It hurt me to see that, but for the joy, the love the people gave me that was there, oh, my God.'
0:55:43 > 0:55:49They wanted more from me and I looked in the traces of their faces. Oh, my God.
0:55:49 > 0:55:52It was a tear dropper.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01Oh, man!
0:56:02 > 0:56:04- #- Ay-yi-yi
0:56:06 > 0:56:09- #- Oh, baby
0:56:12 > 0:56:14- #- This world...- #
0:56:15 > 0:56:18Lord have mercy!
0:56:18 > 0:56:24- #- And nobody wanna take the blame
0:56:24 > 0:56:28- #- Don't tell me how to live my life...- #
0:56:28 > 0:56:35'I knew the record was going to do real well, but I didn't know how quickly. People don't know him well'
0:56:35 > 0:56:40and the sales for a guy just putting out his first LP, I mean, it's unbelievable.
0:56:40 > 0:56:43- #- Ooooh
0:56:44 > 0:56:46- #- Come on, baby...- #
0:56:46 > 0:56:53'It's really against the odds to think that a 62-year-old black man from Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn,
0:56:53 > 0:56:59'is going to have his first record and within the first couple of weeks'
0:56:59 > 0:57:03sell more than most records are selling in a year at this point.
0:57:03 > 0:57:07- #- So what am I gonna do?- #
0:57:07 > 0:57:11I don't think it's a done deal and I don't think it's easy.
0:57:11 > 0:57:17A lot more people have got to buy his record, he's got to sing a lot more shows, make a lot more records.
0:57:17 > 0:57:21It's a long path, you know, and he's a late starter.
0:57:21 > 0:57:24- #- I can't turn my head away...- #
0:57:24 > 0:57:30'It's above any of our expectations already and I think the record's got wheels. It's not stopping now.
0:57:30 > 0:57:32'We haven't seen the biggest sales.'
0:57:32 > 0:57:35- #- It's burning up in flames...- #
0:57:35 > 0:57:38Aaaaah!
0:57:40 > 0:57:42Lord have mercy!
0:57:42 > 0:57:44- Yeah!- Oh, my God!
0:57:47 > 0:57:51We're leaving to go to Europe to do some touring
0:57:51 > 0:57:55and I hope Europe will love what I'm doing, what I'm giving to them.
0:57:56 > 0:58:01And now it's clean as a baby's...tail.
0:58:02 > 0:58:08- How long will you be gone, baby? - About three weeks.- Three weeks, baby? I'm gonna miss you.
0:58:08 > 0:58:10Uh-uh, you live right here.
0:58:10 > 0:58:14- Every three days, I'm gonna call you.- OK, darling.
0:58:19 > 0:58:24I'm a bad boy. You ain't got no water to throw on me now.
0:58:27 > 0:58:31You ain't got no water. I can tickle you.
0:58:31 > 0:58:33I can tickle you now.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46And like my mom said today,
0:58:46 > 0:58:51she never believed I would get to this level.
0:58:51 > 0:58:57I want to see how far I can make myself go in life.
0:58:58 > 0:59:04See can I go further than any of my family members have ever been
0:59:04 > 0:59:06and say, "I took me there."
0:59:06 > 0:59:09Young peoples out there, watch out.
0:59:09 > 0:59:15The old man's coming up for you. Do your job better. If you don't, I'll do it for you.
0:59:15 > 0:59:20# I'll take the long road Yeah, yeah
0:59:20 > 0:59:22# The long road
0:59:22 > 0:59:26# But I am sure that I will get there
0:59:29 > 0:59:31# Yes, I will
0:59:33 > 0:59:36# You can take that short cut
0:59:37 > 0:59:42- #- I'll take the long road
0:59:42 > 0:59:46# I don't mind You can take that short cut
0:59:46 > 0:59:51- #- I'll take the long road
0:59:52 > 0:59:57# You take that short cut Yeah, yeah
0:59:59 > 1:00:04# But surely, surely Surely I will get there... #
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