1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:01:46,240 --> 00:01:48,306 \h\h- 4 00:02:00,471 --> 00:02:02,735 Yeah. 5 00:02:29,504 --> 00:02:31,702 Day upon day, 6 00:02:31,702 --> 00:02:34,636 and year upon year, O city, 7 00:02:34,636 --> 00:02:36,999 walking your streets. 8 00:02:39,636 --> 00:02:41,999 Give me faces and streets! 9 00:02:41,999 --> 00:02:45,372 \h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades and lovers by the thousands! 10 00:02:45,372 --> 00:02:47,702 Let me see new ones every day! 11 00:02:47,702 --> 00:02:50,867 \hLet me hold new ones by the hand every day! 12 00:02:50,867 --> 00:02:51,669 Give me such shows! 13 00:02:51,669 --> 00:02:55,636 Give me the streets \h\h\hof Manhattan! 14 00:02:56,702 --> 00:03:02,702 People, endless, streaming, \h\h\h\hwith strong voices, \h\h\h\hpassions, pageants. 15 00:03:02,702 --> 00:03:05,966 \h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets, with their powerful throbs, 16 00:03:05,966 --> 00:03:08,900 with the beating drums, as now, 17 00:03:08,900 --> 00:03:11,768 the endless and noisy chorus. 18 00:03:14,735 --> 00:03:19,471 \h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with their turbulent musical chorus. 19 00:03:19,471 --> 00:03:25,570 Manhattan faces and eyes \h\h\h\hforever for me. 20 00:03:45,966 --> 00:03:48,075 Welcome to New York City. 21 00:03:58,405 --> 00:04:02,042 ♪ Sleeping in a van \h\hBetween A and B 22 00:04:03,834 --> 00:04:07,603 ♪ Sucking dick for ecstasy 23 00:04:08,537 --> 00:04:12,768 ♪ Paid a 70 year old hooker \h\h\h\hTo make out with me 24 00:04:14,108 --> 00:04:18,141 ♪ Now the get-high shack \h\h\h\his just a memory 25 00:04:20,141 --> 00:04:22,636 ♪ Downloading porn with Davo 26 00:04:22,636 --> 00:04:24,636 ♪ Downloading porn with Davo 27 00:04:24,636 --> 00:04:27,141 ♪ Put a latch on the door \h\h\h\hSo Mama don’t know 28 00:04:30,537 --> 00:04:32,438 -Perfect! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Perfect! 29 00:04:37,471 --> 00:04:40,141 You guys wanna be in a documentary? 30 00:04:40,141 --> 00:04:40,966 We’re making a documentary. 31 00:04:40,966 --> 00:04:43,471 -Documentary that’s-- All right. -Cool. 32 00:04:43,471 --> 00:04:44,966 It’s a documentary \h\hof the hallway. 33 00:04:44,966 --> 00:04:46,801 -Yeah. -Great. 34 00:04:46,801 --> 00:04:47,801 How you doing? 35 00:04:47,801 --> 00:04:49,141 Hello. I’m your new neighbor. 36 00:04:49,141 --> 00:04:52,141 You guys be our audience. \h\h\h\h\hWe’re singing songs. 37 00:04:52,141 --> 00:04:52,801 All right. Cool. 38 00:04:52,801 --> 00:04:53,933 -We’re singing songs. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Cool guys! 39 00:04:53,933 --> 00:04:57,966 \h\h\hWho left you people \h\h\h\h\halone tonight? That’s what I wanna know. 40 00:04:58,702 --> 00:05:01,702 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM: \hMy parents thought of us as a delusional experiment 41 00:05:01,702 --> 00:05:05,537 \h\h\h\hwhere we didn’t know how to play our instruments. 42 00:05:05,537 --> 00:05:10,735 We came to New York \h\hto try to prove we were a real band, 43 00:05:10,735 --> 00:05:12,537 The Moldy Peaches. 44 00:05:12,537 --> 00:05:14,834 Tonight, we’re going \hto a birthday party 45 00:05:14,834 --> 00:05:16,768 \h\h\hfor the Queen of fucking France. 46 00:05:16,768 --> 00:05:21,108 We just wanted to find \h\h\h\ha place to play music. 47 00:05:21,108 --> 00:05:22,537 Hi! 48 00:05:22,933 --> 00:05:24,174 Hi. 49 00:05:24,603 --> 00:05:27,042 -Hi. Hi. \h\h-Hi. 50 00:05:28,900 --> 00:05:31,702 The Lower East side \hwas more or less barren, 51 00:05:31,702 --> 00:05:33,603 delis and boarded up places. 52 00:05:33,603 --> 00:05:40,174 \h\h\hKIMYA: Most places \h\hwe found were sort of a more bougie club scene. 53 00:05:41,207 --> 00:05:45,603 We’d walk into these rooms \hand be like, "Oh, oops." 54 00:05:45,834 --> 00:05:48,768 \h\h\hIt felt like all of that wild, 55 00:05:48,768 --> 00:05:52,735 \hweird eclecticness had drained out of the city. 56 00:05:52,735 --> 00:05:56,108 \h\hADAM: I remember thinking maybe New York isn’t the kind \h\h\h\h\h\h\hof city anymore 57 00:05:56,108 --> 00:05:58,867 that produces iconic bands. 58 00:05:59,834 --> 00:06:04,768 \h\hEven MTV was filled with super dry pop-rock. 59 00:06:05,570 --> 00:06:09,735 \hAnd the winner for best rock is \hThe Offspring! 60 00:06:10,669 --> 00:06:13,108 \h\h\h-Blink 182. 61 00:06:13,108 --> 00:06:14,603 Limp Bizkit, Rollin. 62 00:06:16,669 --> 00:06:20,075 AUTOMATED VOICE: Friday, 2:12 p.m. 63 00:06:20,603 --> 00:06:21,603 Hey, Adam, what’s up? \h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s... 64 00:06:21,603 --> 00:06:26,570 \h\h\h\hADAM: Somebody told me, \h\h\h\h\h"You should check out the open mic at Sidewalk Cafe, 65 00:06:26,570 --> 00:06:28,801 and that’s where we found \h\h\hthe anti-folk scene. 66 00:06:28,801 --> 00:06:30,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah. 67 00:06:30,801 --> 00:06:32,603 This community \h\h\h\h\hof musicians 68 00:06:32,603 --> 00:06:35,174 that didn’t have a place to play. 69 00:06:35,174 --> 00:06:35,801 Oh, yeah. 70 00:06:35,801 --> 00:06:42,801 ♪ There’s a car traveling down a lone Texas highway 71 00:06:43,801 --> 00:06:46,504 ♪ Rams into a giant back 72 00:06:47,966 --> 00:06:53,570 ♪ Spirit of the bat fills your fragile eggshell mind 73 00:06:56,603 --> 00:06:59,504 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKIMYA: Maybe we could fit in here. 74 00:07:05,339 --> 00:07:07,999 ♪ When the worlds \h\h\hgot you down 75 00:07:07,999 --> 00:07:10,570 ♪ Rainy Sundays, sunny town 76 00:07:10,570 --> 00:07:13,141 ♪ Tropicana, canned foods 77 00:07:13,141 --> 00:07:15,966 ♪ Botulism, damaged goods 78 00:07:15,966 --> 00:07:17,999 ♪ See the hipsters in the park 79 00:07:17,999 --> 00:07:20,834 ♪ Hair so styled, \hclothes so dark 80 00:07:20,834 --> 00:07:23,042 ♪ Prefab molded hamburgers 81 00:07:23,042 --> 00:07:25,339 \h♪ I don’t want a bite of yours 82 00:07:25,339 --> 00:07:29,999 ♪ These burgers are crazy 83 00:07:34,306 --> 00:07:37,867 \h\h\h- \h\h\h\h-Let’s hear it for The Moldy Peaches! 84 00:07:37,867 --> 00:07:41,207 \h\h\hKIMYA: We were immediately embraced. 85 00:07:44,174 --> 00:07:46,075 ...send the tip jar around. 86 00:07:46,075 --> 00:07:48,570 It became our home. 87 00:07:50,174 --> 00:07:51,999 This shy girl \h\h\h\hcalled Karen 88 00:07:51,999 --> 00:07:54,669 lived across the street from the Sidewalk Cafe. 89 00:07:54,669 --> 00:07:59,240 \h\h\hShe’d come down \hto play these quiet acoustic guitar songs. 90 00:07:59,240 --> 00:08:03,273 I was grateful \h\hplaying at any venue \h\h\hin New York City, 91 00:08:03,273 --> 00:08:06,900 but it just wasn’t \h\h\hexciting me. 92 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:13,801 \h\h\h\h\h\hI was skulking around \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe music scene trying to sniff out some blood. 93 00:08:15,867 --> 00:08:20,801 \h\h\hThe last big wave \h\h\hof New York bands was a long time passed. 94 00:08:20,801 --> 00:08:22,933 \hI wanted something explosive to happen 95 00:08:22,933 --> 00:08:25,966 without understanding \h\h\h\hwhat that was. 96 00:08:30,900 --> 00:08:35,207 \h\h\hADAM: One day, \h\hme and Kimya were at our friend’s party. 97 00:08:36,636 --> 00:08:40,306 This drunk guy called Julian \h\h\h\h\h\h\hcomes over... 98 00:08:40,405 --> 00:08:44,636 and he’s in the bathroom doing drugs with this young lady, 99 00:08:44,636 --> 00:08:45,900 he breaks the shower. 100 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,075 Somebody said he was \ha singer in a band called The Strokes. 101 00:08:50,075 --> 00:08:53,240 \h\h\h\hThis guy’s crazy. I’ve gotta see this band. 102 00:09:36,372 --> 00:09:40,339 We’re sitting \hhere with The Strokes live \h\h\h\hin WF Music Studios. 103 00:09:40,339 --> 00:09:42,141 You guys were hot last night. 104 00:09:42,141 --> 00:09:44,306 -Scorching! \h\h- 105 00:09:45,834 --> 00:09:46,372 Yeah. 106 00:09:46,372 --> 00:09:48,834 \hRADIO JOCKEY: Hey, Jules, when did you guys start up? 107 00:09:48,834 --> 00:09:50,966 We started playing \h\h\h\hNew York a year ago. 108 00:09:50,966 --> 00:09:55,174 \h\h\h\hThe last few months we’ve been tearing stuff up. 109 00:09:56,966 --> 00:09:58,867 You’re looking \h\h\hpretty serious. 110 00:09:58,867 --> 00:10:02,174 I am serious, man, I’m always serious. 111 00:10:02,273 --> 00:10:05,108 \h\h\h-Am I ever not serious? -You’re more serious... 112 00:10:05,108 --> 00:10:06,702 I don’t know what’s fuck-- 113 00:10:07,999 --> 00:10:08,768 That felt good. 114 00:10:08,768 --> 00:10:11,141 \h\hNow it’s my turn to break the camera. 115 00:10:15,471 --> 00:10:17,108 \h\h\h\hALBERT HAMMOND: The way I met this band, 116 00:10:17,108 --> 00:10:19,372 \h\h\h\htoo many things happened exactly right, 117 00:10:19,372 --> 00:10:22,966 \hthat it seems so hard for it to be just luck. 118 00:10:22,966 --> 00:10:26,801 Four, three, two! Oh, shit. 119 00:10:26,801 --> 00:10:29,207 -Hey, Julian. \h\h\h\h\h-Oh, man. 120 00:10:31,438 --> 00:10:32,999 I ran into Julian \h\h\h\h\h\hon the street 121 00:10:32,999 --> 00:10:36,933 \h\h\h\hseven years \hafter I’d met him in boarding school. 122 00:10:39,372 --> 00:10:41,966 Then I met everyone. 123 00:10:42,207 --> 00:10:43,966 I just felt it. 124 00:10:44,306 --> 00:10:46,141 The closeness. 125 00:10:49,999 --> 00:10:52,141 We were like brothers. 126 00:10:54,306 --> 00:10:57,801 They were so tight \h\h\h\h\h\hand together, and are such good friends. 127 00:10:57,801 --> 00:11:02,339 \hIt just feels like \h\hthe five of them make up one person. 128 00:11:02,339 --> 00:11:05,372 Just one solid person on stage. 129 00:11:07,537 --> 00:11:09,438 By now, most people have heard of Y2K, 130 00:11:09,438 --> 00:11:13,867 the anagram shorthand \h\hfor the year 2000 \h\hcomputer problem. 131 00:11:13,867 --> 00:11:15,273 Americans have proven \h\h\hthey can handle 132 00:11:15,273 --> 00:11:18,174 even the most devastating \h\h\h\hnatural disaster. 133 00:11:18,174 --> 00:11:21,438 But can we survive a man-made \h\h\htechnological meltdown? 134 00:11:21,438 --> 00:11:26,207 It’s now time \h\h\h\h\h\hto begin stockpiling \h\h\hessential survival items. 135 00:11:26,207 --> 00:11:28,537 Military meals, \h\h\h\h\h\hgas masks to knives. 136 00:11:28,537 --> 00:11:30,438 When your kids are standing \h\h\hthere cold and hungry, \h\h\h\h\h\hand they come up 137 00:11:30,438 --> 00:11:34,207 to you and say, "Mommy, Daddy, \h\hwhy didn’t you get ready?" \hWhat are you gonna tell them? 138 00:11:34,207 --> 00:11:36,207 \h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER 2: \h\h\h\h\h\hWith every tick of the clock toward midnight 139 00:11:36,207 --> 00:11:41,867 \h\h\h\h\hin Times Square, \hemergency officials are watching for Y2K problems. 140 00:11:42,933 --> 00:11:48,834 The dawning of a new millennium now just minutes away. 141 00:11:49,108 --> 00:11:51,273 We celebrate the future. 142 00:11:51,273 --> 00:11:56,174 \h\hWhat will the story of the 21st century be? 143 00:11:56,768 --> 00:12:03,273 Ten, nine, eight, \h\h\h\hseven, six, five, 144 00:12:03,273 --> 00:12:07,273 four, three, two, one... 145 00:12:07,273 --> 00:12:11,273 \h\h- 146 00:12:18,603 --> 00:12:21,405 \h\h\h\h\hFEMALE REPORTER: From the City Command Center \hat the World Trade Center, 147 00:12:21,405 --> 00:12:26,504 the Deputy Mayor Joseph Lhota \h\h\h\hsaid computer systems \h\h\h\h\h\hhave been checked. 148 00:12:26,504 --> 00:12:29,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe city is functioning normally. 149 00:12:35,273 --> 00:12:39,240 A friend of mine \h\h\h\h\hhad a big crush \h\h\h\hon this guy Nick. 150 00:12:40,306 --> 00:12:44,933 \h\hShe dragged me \hto the Mars Bar where he hung out. 151 00:12:45,141 --> 00:12:49,273 I felt this very visceral \h\hreaction towards him. 152 00:12:49,273 --> 00:12:53,570 I needed to be connected \h\h\h\hto this person. 153 00:12:53,570 --> 00:12:55,405 She talked \h\h\hlike a valley girl 154 00:12:55,405 --> 00:12:57,504 \h\h\hbut said that she was from Jersey. 155 00:12:57,504 --> 00:13:00,240 Every other word was "dude". 156 00:13:01,141 --> 00:13:04,207 \h\hI’d never met anybody like that. 157 00:13:06,504 --> 00:13:07,999 When you’re young \hand in New York 158 00:13:07,999 --> 00:13:09,471 \h\h\h\hand you find like-minded people, 159 00:13:09,471 --> 00:13:13,900 \h\h\hyou just end up doing things together every night. 160 00:13:14,075 --> 00:13:17,999 Karen played me songs that she had written. 161 00:13:19,042 --> 00:13:22,900 I was just completely \h\h\h\h\hblown away. 162 00:13:22,900 --> 00:13:27,174 ♪ I may be dead, honey 163 00:13:27,174 --> 00:13:32,339 ♪ But I was left with my eyes 164 00:13:36,471 --> 00:13:38,669 ♪ And underneath, sugar 165 00:13:43,339 --> 00:13:44,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hNICK: One night, Karen said, 166 00:13:44,966 --> 00:13:48,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Trust me. We should start a rock band." 167 00:13:50,372 --> 00:13:53,999 We’re the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand, um... 168 00:13:53,999 --> 00:14:00,405 we’re from New York City, \h\hBrooklyn, and, um... 169 00:14:01,735 --> 00:14:03,240 We, uh... 170 00:14:05,735 --> 00:14:06,570 We’ve, um... 171 00:14:06,570 --> 00:14:09,075 -Do you wanna continue? \h\h\h\h- 172 00:14:09,075 --> 00:14:11,042 In one night, we wrote six songs. 173 00:14:11,042 --> 00:14:14,570 We were bragging about \hhow amazing we were \h\h\h\hto our friend 174 00:14:14,570 --> 00:14:17,075 who was The White Stripes \h\h\h\h\h\hbooking agent. 175 00:14:17,075 --> 00:14:21,735 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hHe called our bluff and offered us the opening slot 176 00:14:21,735 --> 00:14:25,537 for The White Stripes show \h\hin the Mercury Lounge. 177 00:14:26,240 --> 00:14:27,570 Karen was really insistent 178 00:14:27,570 --> 00:14:31,570 that we get her friend \hBrian to play drums. 179 00:14:34,042 --> 00:14:35,537 I was really nervous, 180 00:14:35,537 --> 00:14:37,702 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand I had four margaritas lined up. 181 00:14:37,702 --> 00:14:40,438 \h\h\h Knocking one back \hafter the other. 182 00:15:23,372 --> 00:15:26,306 Something was \hcompletely unleashed, 183 00:15:27,141 --> 00:15:28,669 I was shocked. 184 00:15:34,372 --> 00:15:38,603 I grew up in New Jersey, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hvery shy, 185 00:15:38,603 --> 00:15:40,504 half Korean, half white. 186 00:15:40,504 --> 00:15:42,801 \h\h\h\hAnd when you’re a halfie, you don’t feel like the whites, 187 00:15:42,801 --> 00:15:45,801 \hyou don’t fit in with the Koreans. \h\h\h 188 00:15:46,306 --> 00:15:49,636 \h\h\h\hI was just used to being on the outside. 189 00:15:51,306 --> 00:15:55,273 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut on stage, I was free of that feeling. 190 00:15:55,471 --> 00:16:01,273 Once I’d had tasted that, \h\h\h\h\h\hI just wanted \hto lose myself in that. 191 00:16:04,339 --> 00:16:07,372 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou guys should get a manager, you know. \h\hDo you guys have a manager? 192 00:16:07,372 --> 00:16:09,372 \h\h\h\h\h\hHe’s over there, you should point the camera-- \h\h\h\h\hIt’s Ryan Gentles. 193 00:16:09,372 --> 00:16:13,603 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER: \h\h\h\h\h\hThat’s not a manager, that’s, like, a cute little kid. 194 00:16:13,603 --> 00:16:16,273 \h\hRYAN GENTLES: \h\hThe first time I saw The Strokes, 195 00:16:16,273 --> 00:16:21,108 \h\hI was watching a band that just was born a band. 196 00:16:21,999 --> 00:16:24,372 \h\h\hI was the booker at the Mercury Lounge, 197 00:16:24,372 --> 00:16:28,240 the best club for local bands \h\h\h\h\h\hin New York City. 198 00:16:28,240 --> 00:16:30,438 I booked them immediately. 199 00:16:30,438 --> 00:16:32,834 We’re live here \h\h\hwith The Strokes. 200 00:16:32,834 --> 00:16:35,339 I know you guys are really hot. 201 00:16:35,339 --> 00:16:37,702 \hThey’ve been playing every Wednesday night 202 00:16:37,702 --> 00:16:39,372 \h\h\h\h\hin December at the Mercury Lounge. 203 00:16:39,372 --> 00:16:44,174 \h\h\h\hJULIAN: Hello, yeah, \h\h\h\h\h\hwe’re The Strokes and we’re from New York City. 204 00:16:45,570 --> 00:16:46,537 You just felt it. 205 00:16:46,537 --> 00:16:50,504 The audience was excited \h\h\h\hthat we existed. 206 00:16:51,867 --> 00:16:53,768 \h\hADAM: Me and Kimya opened for The Strokes. 207 00:16:53,768 --> 00:16:56,537 \h\hThe first week, we also played with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. 208 00:16:56,537 --> 00:17:01,834 So, it was The Moldy Peaches, \h\h\h\h\hthe Yeah Yeah Yeahs \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand The Strokes. 209 00:17:01,834 --> 00:17:05,768 \hKIMYA: More people crammed in each week. 210 00:17:05,768 --> 00:17:08,603 There was a hysteria \h\h\h\h\h\hin the audience. 211 00:17:08,603 --> 00:17:11,405 These guys were like sex gods. 212 00:17:11,405 --> 00:17:16,306 \h-MAN: Suddenly, there were bands everywhere in New York. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- 213 00:17:20,471 --> 00:17:23,273 \hADAM: The Strokes launched a fireball. 214 00:17:23,306 --> 00:17:27,768 \h\h♪ New York City is like a graveyard 215 00:17:27,768 --> 00:17:30,273 It all happened so fast. 216 00:17:30,273 --> 00:17:35,306 \h♪ All the corpses like the way I play my guitar 217 00:17:35,834 --> 00:17:37,438 Totally DIY. 218 00:17:37,438 --> 00:17:40,636 \h\h♪ You gotta be cute if you wanna get far... 219 00:17:40,636 --> 00:17:45,273 Zero interest \hfrom record labels \h\h\hor magazines. 220 00:17:45,273 --> 00:17:49,669 \h\h♪ New York City is like a graveyard 221 00:17:52,900 --> 00:17:57,174 ♪ All the tombstones \h\h\h\hsky scrapin’ 222 00:18:00,339 --> 00:18:04,537 ♪ All the rock stars \h\h\hdouble dating 223 00:18:25,339 --> 00:18:30,372 ♪ Blue eyes last forever 224 00:18:31,735 --> 00:18:36,834 ♪ Real light it never fades 225 00:18:38,636 --> 00:18:44,570 ♪ Real life is a gamble 226 00:18:45,669 --> 00:18:46,966 Pardon me? 227 00:18:50,504 --> 00:18:54,834 I desperately \h\hwanted to participate \h\h\h\h\hin the scene... 228 00:18:56,999 --> 00:18:59,570 \h\h\hBut I’m working at Yeshiva University 229 00:18:59,570 --> 00:19:02,933 in the admissions office \hstuffing envelopes... 230 00:19:02,933 --> 00:19:06,966 \hKnowing there’s five \h\h\hdudes out there that are cool as fuck, 231 00:19:06,966 --> 00:19:08,900 writing insanely awesome music 232 00:19:08,900 --> 00:19:12,702 \h\hand they are cooler and better than you are. 233 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:17,900 \h\hI was also the singer in a band called Interpol. 234 00:19:19,471 --> 00:19:25,075 \h\h\h\h\hWe sent our demos to every single record label \h\h\h\h\hI could think of. 235 00:19:25,075 --> 00:19:28,735 \h\h\h\h\h\hNo record label showed any interest at all. 236 00:19:29,405 --> 00:19:32,603 It was like all of those \h\hguidance counselor meetings 237 00:19:32,603 --> 00:19:34,537 \h\hwhere they’re, like, "What do you wanna do?" 238 00:19:34,537 --> 00:19:36,537 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd I said, "I wanna be a rock star," 239 00:19:36,537 --> 00:19:39,603 \h\h\h\hand they said, "Don’t be a jackass." 240 00:19:42,702 --> 00:19:46,735 \h\hI was experiencing very deep depression. 241 00:19:46,801 --> 00:19:50,735 \h\h\hI felt like \h\hI was slipping out of existence. 242 00:19:59,042 --> 00:20:04,075 ♪ Surprise sometime 243 00:20:04,405 --> 00:20:07,075 ♪ Will come around 244 00:20:10,075 --> 00:20:15,735 ♪ I will surprise you sometime 245 00:20:16,372 --> 00:20:19,075 ♪ I’ll come around 246 00:20:22,075 --> 00:20:27,966 ♪ I will surprise you sometime 247 00:20:28,306 --> 00:20:31,042 ♪ I’ll come around 248 00:20:56,405 --> 00:20:58,075 Get in the fucking van! 249 00:20:58,900 --> 00:21:01,108 Hello, The Strokes! 250 00:21:02,042 --> 00:21:03,372 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN: I sent The Strokes’ demo 251 00:21:03,372 --> 00:21:05,669 to everyone I could think of \h\hin the industry saying, 252 00:21:05,669 --> 00:21:08,702 "This is the best \h\hunsigned band in New York City." 253 00:21:08,702 --> 00:21:12,669 \h\h\h\hGeoff Travis at Rough Trade called the day he received it. 254 00:21:12,669 --> 00:21:17,669 He said, "I wanna sign this and fly the band to England \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor a tour." 255 00:21:17,669 --> 00:21:18,999 It was insane! 256 00:21:18,999 --> 00:21:24,471 It seems so weird. We’re going to England \h\h\h\hto play music. 257 00:21:24,471 --> 00:21:25,834 Let’s go to England! 258 00:21:25,834 --> 00:21:26,867 Oh... 259 00:21:26,867 --> 00:21:28,141 You don’t wanna get too carried away. 260 00:21:28,141 --> 00:21:31,768 \h\hI’m, like, I’m trying to like just hang with it. 261 00:21:44,141 --> 00:21:45,669 Pretty exciting. 262 00:22:01,537 --> 00:22:03,867 American tourist in England. 263 00:22:06,768 --> 00:22:08,042 Fuck. 264 00:22:08,108 --> 00:22:12,108 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hADAM: Me and Kimya went on tour \hopening for The Strokes. 265 00:22:12,108 --> 00:22:17,735 \h\h\hKIMYA: We would always \h\h\hjoke around and be like, "We’re The Strokes fluffers." 266 00:22:22,867 --> 00:22:25,438 ♪ Take your passion 267 00:22:26,438 --> 00:22:29,834 ♪ And make it happen 268 00:22:30,108 --> 00:22:34,702 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h 269 00:22:34,702 --> 00:22:36,999 \hKIMYA: I was quite a bit older and sober. 270 00:22:36,999 --> 00:22:41,042 I would say to those guys, \h\h\h\h\h\h"Are you sure \h\hyou wanna get wasted? 271 00:22:41,042 --> 00:22:45,834 "You don’t wanna remember \h\h\h\hhow cool this is?" 272 00:22:46,933 --> 00:22:48,867 We’re ready, right team? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hGo team. 273 00:22:48,867 --> 00:22:52,537 -Go team. All right. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yay. 274 00:22:52,537 --> 00:22:54,042 Strokes, hello. 275 00:22:54,042 --> 00:22:54,900 -Hello. \h-Hi. 276 00:22:54,900 --> 00:22:56,108 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hello. -I think, \h\h\h\h\h\hfirst off, 277 00:22:56,108 --> 00:23:01,174 \h\hbecause you’re unknown \h\h\h\h\h\h\hin the U.K., just introduce yourselves. 278 00:23:03,999 --> 00:23:06,900 \h\h\h-Julian. 279 00:23:07,174 --> 00:23:11,273 \hKIMYA: Julian was dealing with a lot of nervousness. 280 00:23:11,273 --> 00:23:15,933 \h\h\hI was, like, "How is he scared? \h\hHe’s so good." 281 00:23:15,933 --> 00:23:18,900 \h\h\hBut he wrote all of the songs. 282 00:23:18,900 --> 00:23:23,669 His nervousness came out \hof that perfectionism. 283 00:23:53,141 --> 00:23:59,999 \h\h\h♪ Last night she said Oh, baby, don’t feel so down 284 00:23:59,999 --> 00:24:05,735 ♪ Oh, it turns me off \hwhen I feel left out 285 00:24:05,735 --> 00:24:07,735 ♪ So I 286 00:24:07,735 --> 00:24:09,042 ♪ I turn around 287 00:24:09,042 --> 00:24:12,570 \h\h\h\h♪ Oh, baby gonna be all right 288 00:24:12,570 --> 00:24:14,570 ♪ It was a great big lie 289 00:24:14,570 --> 00:24:18,042 ♪ ’Cause I left that night, yeah 290 00:24:35,339 --> 00:24:39,339 \h\h\h\h\h♪ Oh, people They don’t understand 291 00:24:39,339 --> 00:24:44,174 \h\h\h 292 00:24:51,306 --> 00:24:53,867 Not before coming here. No. 293 00:24:53,867 --> 00:24:55,075 Oh, it’s just so weird. 294 00:24:55,075 --> 00:24:56,999 I don’t even know what’s going on right now, man. 295 00:24:56,999 --> 00:24:58,339 I’m just, you know, \h\h\h\hit’s all... 296 00:24:58,339 --> 00:25:04,405 \h\hIt’s all crazy and cool and bizarre and-- you know. 297 00:25:22,273 --> 00:25:25,108 -What’s going on? \h\h\h-MAN 2: You gotta \hget off here, please. 298 00:25:25,108 --> 00:25:27,306 Keep going. Keep going. 299 00:25:31,207 --> 00:25:33,042 Holy shit. 300 00:25:37,240 --> 00:25:38,900 Holy shit. 301 00:25:40,075 --> 00:25:41,702 Please, please. 302 00:25:47,207 --> 00:25:48,735 Holy shit! 303 00:25:48,735 --> 00:25:52,306 \h- 304 00:25:54,108 --> 00:25:56,966 \hMAN: Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! Get up! 305 00:25:56,966 --> 00:26:00,306 \h- 306 00:26:07,867 --> 00:26:11,108 -Oh, my God! Oh, my God! \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-WOMAN: What? 307 00:26:16,966 --> 00:26:19,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER: \h\h\h\h\hMayor Giuliani, I wonder if you could give us an update? 308 00:26:19,966 --> 00:26:21,372 \h\h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI: Well, the first thing I’d like to do 309 00:26:21,372 --> 00:26:25,768 \h\his take this opportunity \h\h\h\h\h\hto tell everyone to evacuate Lower Manhattan. 310 00:26:26,273 --> 00:26:28,867 Mayor Giuliani, \h\h\hdo you have any sense 311 00:26:28,867 --> 00:26:32,207 of the order of magnitude \hof injuries and deaths? 312 00:26:32,207 --> 00:26:36,108 \h\h\h\hMAYOR GIULIANI: I do not, except to say \hthat it’s horrendous. 313 00:27:09,768 --> 00:27:10,768 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL: When the buildings fell, 314 00:27:10,768 --> 00:27:17,174 my impression was clearly \h\hthere won’t have been \hpeople in that building. 315 00:27:18,207 --> 00:27:23,339 We walked in the ashy streets \h\h\h\h\h\hpicking up papers. 316 00:27:28,933 --> 00:27:31,075 \h\h\hOnce they said on the radio, "You should go to the hospitals 317 00:27:31,075 --> 00:27:35,042 "and try and give blood," it started to dawn on me. 318 00:27:35,042 --> 00:27:37,339 Thousands have lost their life. 319 00:27:37,438 --> 00:27:39,867 It’s 1-800-GIVE-LIFE. 320 00:27:40,867 --> 00:27:42,174 For blood. 321 00:27:43,537 --> 00:27:44,372 You can call up to give-- 322 00:27:44,372 --> 00:27:50,174 \h\hPAUL: I remember feeling how fragile life actually is. 323 00:27:54,075 --> 00:27:57,900 ♪ There’s anthrax \hin the envelope 324 00:27:57,900 --> 00:28:00,471 ♪ I opened in my dream 325 00:28:00,471 --> 00:28:02,471 ♪ Dream the sky is red 326 00:28:02,471 --> 00:28:07,405 ♪ And little kids are running \h\h\hscreaming in the street 327 00:28:07,405 --> 00:28:10,834 ♪ I try to run and save them 328 00:28:10,834 --> 00:28:13,603 ♪ But I have molasses feet 329 00:28:13,603 --> 00:28:19,438 \h\h♪ I keep having nightmares and I’m scared to go to sleep 330 00:28:19,438 --> 00:28:23,240 ♪ In Montreal I got so mad 331 00:28:23,240 --> 00:28:26,108 ♪ Someone broke into the van 332 00:28:26,108 --> 00:28:31,405 ♪ Stole my guitar \hand Aaron’s bag 333 00:28:32,174 --> 00:28:38,306 \h\h\h♪ Then we turned on CNN watched the towers fall again 334 00:28:38,306 --> 00:28:43,603 ♪ Realized that our lives \h\h\h\h\h\haren’t so bad 335 00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:51,108 \h\h\h♪ The air is filled with computers and carpets 336 00:28:51,108 --> 00:28:57,339 ♪ Skin and bones and telephones and file cabinets 337 00:28:57,339 --> 00:29:03,174 ♪ Coke machines, firemen Landing here and cement 338 00:29:03,174 --> 00:29:10,504 \h 339 00:29:17,042 --> 00:29:20,042 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: I was grieving for my city. 340 00:29:21,669 --> 00:29:23,999 I felt deep trauma. 341 00:29:24,339 --> 00:29:28,537 \h\h\hBut when I perform, I could be somewhere else. 342 00:29:28,537 --> 00:29:31,537 \h\h\h\hAlmost, you know, like a split personality. 343 00:29:31,537 --> 00:29:35,042 ♪ You’re pretty \hYou’re pretty 344 00:29:35,042 --> 00:29:38,339 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 345 00:29:38,339 --> 00:29:41,537 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 346 00:29:41,537 --> 00:29:44,999 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 347 00:29:44,999 --> 00:29:49,339 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 348 00:29:49,339 --> 00:29:51,207 ♪ Hey, hey 349 00:29:52,306 --> 00:29:56,339 Fear and anxiety \h\h\h\hhave become a very real \h\h\h\h\hpart of American life. 350 00:29:56,339 --> 00:30:01,669 This, of course is Halloween, \h\h\h\h\h\ha day when fright \h\h\his manufactured for fun. 351 00:30:01,669 --> 00:30:04,900 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 352 00:30:04,900 --> 00:30:08,669 \h\h♪ You make we wanna ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh 353 00:30:08,669 --> 00:30:10,471 ♪ You look like shit 354 00:30:11,405 --> 00:30:15,504 ♪ You take your time \hYou take your time 355 00:30:15,504 --> 00:30:17,669 ♪ You take it 356 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:20,669 ♪ T-T-T-Time 357 00:30:34,669 --> 00:30:38,339 ♪ You take your time \hYou take your time 358 00:30:40,537 --> 00:30:44,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h- 359 00:30:44,999 --> 00:30:46,471 \hMALE REPORTER: At Fort Campbell, \hKentucky, today, 360 00:30:46,471 --> 00:30:49,405 \h\hPresident Bush rallied the army’s 101st Airborne 361 00:30:49,405 --> 00:30:51,471 \h\h\hheading off to support the war \hin Afghanistan, 362 00:30:51,471 --> 00:30:57,669 and carved up a turkey, right \h\halong with Osama Bin Laden \h\h\hand his Al-Qaeda forces. 363 00:30:57,669 --> 00:31:02,075 \h\h\h\hWe will never tire, and we will hunt them down! 364 00:31:02,603 --> 00:31:06,240 A grim task of trying to find \h\h\hremains of those killed. 365 00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:07,141 Anxiety and fear-- 366 00:31:07,141 --> 00:31:08,438 \h\h\h\h\hMALE REPORTER: Terrorist training camp-- 367 00:31:08,438 --> 00:31:09,570 FEMALE REPORTER 2: \hCruise missiles-- 368 00:31:09,570 --> 00:31:10,966 -Holy war-- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Mass murder-- 369 00:31:10,966 --> 00:31:12,603 -Casualties- \h-MALE REPORTER 5: Taliban-- 370 00:31:12,603 --> 00:31:14,240 \h-MALE REPORTER 6: Airstrike-- -Terrorists-- 371 00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:15,240 Destroyed. 372 00:31:20,471 --> 00:31:24,405 \hMAN: New York felt really claustrophobic. 373 00:31:24,966 --> 00:31:27,141 So much paranoia. 374 00:31:27,372 --> 00:31:30,570 Everyone’s confused and scared. 375 00:31:38,603 --> 00:31:41,438 The artists and musicians \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hmoved in droves 376 00:31:41,438 --> 00:31:45,306 \h\h\h\hout of Manhattan across to Williamsburg. 377 00:31:46,570 --> 00:31:48,240 A lot of people \h\h\h\hquit their jobs, 378 00:31:48,240 --> 00:31:52,240 \hand just were like, \h"Fuck it, I’m gonna play music full-time." 379 00:31:52,240 --> 00:31:57,306 The rent was so cheap \h\h\hthat you could afford \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto take risks. 380 00:31:57,603 --> 00:32:00,801 \h\h\h\hYou could fail and it didn’t matter. 381 00:32:01,636 --> 00:32:06,141 \hBRIAN CHASE: There is a big difference between Brooklyn and Manhattan. 382 00:32:06,141 --> 00:32:10,306 \h\hBrooklyn was about potential and freedom. 383 00:32:11,207 --> 00:32:15,537 \h\hAbandoned buildings \h\h\h\h\hand warehouses became practice spaces. 384 00:32:15,537 --> 00:32:19,801 Outside of public attention \h\h\h\h\h\hand expectation. 385 00:32:20,768 --> 00:32:22,438 That’s what nurtured us. 386 00:32:22,438 --> 00:32:26,603 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h \hWe could all be weirdos in the best way possible. 387 00:32:27,108 --> 00:32:29,438 \h\h\h\hThe main bands were the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Onida, 388 00:32:29,438 --> 00:32:32,603 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hand Sightings, Liars, and TV On The Radio. 389 00:32:32,603 --> 00:32:36,504 \h\hThis is an excuse for us to hang out with our friends \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand... 390 00:32:36,504 --> 00:32:40,042 Blah, blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah. 391 00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:40,801 Yeah, this guy. 392 00:32:40,801 --> 00:32:43,108 \hCome and bust our balls during an interview, man. 393 00:32:43,108 --> 00:32:46,042 He said, "Can you play drums?" \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h"Yeah, maybe." 394 00:32:46,042 --> 00:32:47,141 Whatever drummer-- 395 00:32:47,141 --> 00:32:49,141 \hTUNDE ADIBIMPE: Whatever, drummer. 396 00:32:50,141 --> 00:32:52,141 What brought \hTV On The Radio together 397 00:32:52,141 --> 00:32:54,537 is the fact that we’re all nerds. 398 00:32:55,768 --> 00:33:00,339 I’m not a very social person, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI don’t go out. 399 00:33:00,372 --> 00:33:02,768 \h\h\hWhen I became friends with Tunde, \h\h\h\hhe was like, 400 00:33:02,768 --> 00:33:05,339 "You have no clothes \hand no furniture, 401 00:33:05,339 --> 00:33:06,768 \h"but you have pain and drum machines." 402 00:33:06,768 --> 00:33:09,867 \h\h\hI was, like, "Yeah, that’s kind of the vibe." 403 00:33:10,372 --> 00:33:13,108 \h\h\hTUNDE: I always wanted to make music. 404 00:33:13,108 --> 00:33:16,372 \hWhen you’re the offspring of immigrants, and you say, 405 00:33:16,372 --> 00:33:18,702 "I wanna be an artist," \hyou might as well say, 406 00:33:18,702 --> 00:33:23,603 "Thanks for all of this \h\hbut I’m gonna put on a pair of clown shoes." 407 00:33:24,702 --> 00:33:29,240 But I’ve gotta get whatever \h\henergy that’s in me out. 408 00:33:32,867 --> 00:33:36,867 \h\h\hWriting music felt like a prayer. 409 00:33:47,372 --> 00:33:51,834 ♪ Your ooh 410 00:33:52,570 --> 00:33:55,504 ♪ Slim frame 411 00:33:57,339 --> 00:34:02,504 ♪ Your eager eyes 412 00:34:02,603 --> 00:34:05,801 ♪ Your wild mane 413 00:34:07,933 --> 00:34:12,438 ♪ So they keep me 414 00:34:12,933 --> 00:34:15,801 ♪ Where I belong 415 00:34:21,768 --> 00:34:26,174 ♪ I’m strung out in song 416 00:34:28,339 --> 00:34:33,273 ♪ Oh, I will be your accident 417 00:34:33,273 --> 00:34:37,801 ♪ If you will be my ambulance 418 00:34:37,801 --> 00:34:43,273 \h\h\h\h♪ So I will be your screech and crash 419 00:34:43,273 --> 00:34:48,471 \h♪ If you will be my crutch and cast 420 00:34:48,471 --> 00:34:53,438 \h♪ And I will be your one more time 421 00:34:53,438 --> 00:34:58,834 \h♪ If you will be my one last chance 422 00:35:13,834 --> 00:35:14,834 \h\h\h\h\h\hNARDWUAR: Julian of The Strokes, 423 00:35:14,834 --> 00:35:17,669 \h\h\h\hthere is an element \h\h\h\h\hof make believe, isn’t there, in the band-- 424 00:35:17,669 --> 00:35:19,999 \h\h\hThere’s an element of make believe, isn’t there? 425 00:35:19,999 --> 00:35:23,999 \h\h\h\hSwiss schools, elite modeling agency? 426 00:35:24,537 --> 00:35:25,339 \h\h\h\h-Yes. -Lee? What-- 427 00:35:25,339 --> 00:35:28,372 There’s an element of make believe in the band. \h\h\h\h\hThat’s pretty cool. 428 00:35:28,372 --> 00:35:29,801 Meeting at Swiss schools, \h\h\h\h\h\hthat’s cool. 429 00:35:29,801 --> 00:35:32,471 That’s like realistic, it’s not make believe, 430 00:35:32,471 --> 00:35:34,834 it’s not pretend, it’s not fiction. 431 00:35:34,834 --> 00:35:36,504 It’s true to life. 432 00:35:36,504 --> 00:35:38,240 I think that’s really cool \h\h\h\hthough, like Swiss. 433 00:35:38,240 --> 00:35:40,834 I’ve never been to a place \h\h\h\h\hthey call Swiss, 434 00:35:40,834 --> 00:35:42,504 but you guys have, and you met there, 435 00:35:42,504 --> 00:35:43,900 and your dad is, like, \h\h\hJohn Casablancas. 436 00:35:43,900 --> 00:35:47,801 \h\h\hThat’s pretty cool and I think he’s in some \h\h\hhot water now, eh? 437 00:35:47,801 --> 00:35:50,669 I don’t know. I think... 438 00:35:50,669 --> 00:35:51,471 I don’t know, it’s weird. 439 00:35:51,471 --> 00:35:55,735 \h\hI live with my mom, you know, they divorced \hwhen I was young, so. 440 00:35:55,735 --> 00:35:58,504 I think just-- I think life felt a little more normal. 441 00:35:58,504 --> 00:36:01,570 That was the weirdest part. That was the weirdest stage \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hof my life. 442 00:36:01,570 --> 00:36:03,471 And it’s my great pleasure \h\h\h\hto introduce to you 443 00:36:03,471 --> 00:36:05,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe President of the Elite Modeling Agency, 444 00:36:05,867 --> 00:36:08,900 -Mr. John Casablancas. \h\h\h- 445 00:36:26,075 --> 00:36:29,372 Julian wasn’t really \hcomfortable with fame. 446 00:36:29,372 --> 00:36:34,702 He was always talking about \h\h\h\h\h\h\hhow he wanted \hto make underground music. 447 00:36:34,702 --> 00:36:37,603 \h\h\hBut he also wanted the music to be popular. 448 00:36:39,405 --> 00:36:42,603 He had this tension \h\h\hinside of him. 449 00:38:30,669 --> 00:38:35,438 So, we’re in the U.K. 450 00:38:36,867 --> 00:38:38,867 I have to say... 451 00:38:39,108 --> 00:38:44,042 It’s a party in the U.K., \h\h\h\h\h\hI have to say. 452 00:38:44,042 --> 00:38:45,735 You rock. 453 00:38:46,075 --> 00:38:50,834 What’s more important, Dave, a good sound or a good time? 454 00:38:53,207 --> 00:38:56,207 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-A good time. -Yeah, I agree, do you agree? 455 00:38:56,207 --> 00:38:58,537 \h\h\hSounding good having a good time. 456 00:38:58,537 --> 00:38:59,702 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: Every woman fronting a band 457 00:38:59,702 --> 00:39:06,768 \h\hin, like, the 30 years \hbefore me were pioneers and I felt like a pioneer. 458 00:39:06,768 --> 00:39:11,933 \h\h\h\h\h\hFor men in rock, \h\hthere’s a fucking code, there’s a way you do things. 459 00:39:11,933 --> 00:39:14,768 I just realized for me, \h\h\h\hthere’s no code. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h 460 00:39:14,768 --> 00:39:17,933 \h\hI could do whatever I wanted to do up there. 461 00:39:17,933 --> 00:39:20,075 I didn’t give a fuck. 462 00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:24,603 ♪ Oh, I’m rich 463 00:39:26,075 --> 00:39:28,570 ♪ Like a hot noise 464 00:39:29,141 --> 00:39:32,240 ♪ Rich, rich, rich 465 00:39:32,735 --> 00:39:35,636 ♪ I’ll take you out, boy 466 00:39:36,141 --> 00:39:38,273 ♪ So stuck up 467 00:39:39,768 --> 00:39:42,801 ♪ I wish you’d stick it to me 468 00:39:43,273 --> 00:39:46,141 ♪ Flesh ripped off 469 00:39:58,075 --> 00:39:59,570 ♪ Ha 470 00:40:04,141 --> 00:40:05,900 ♪ Ah 471 00:40:13,570 --> 00:40:16,570 ♪ Turn it beating no beat 472 00:40:16,570 --> 00:40:18,669 ♪ The walls are always speaking 473 00:40:18,669 --> 00:40:23,966 \h\h\h\h\h 474 00:40:26,636 --> 00:40:29,933 \h\h\hBRIAN: On the very first night in the U.K... 475 00:40:29,933 --> 00:40:32,075 it was pandemonium. 476 00:40:32,075 --> 00:40:35,504 \h\h\h\hEvery club that we would play would be sold out. 477 00:40:35,504 --> 00:40:38,735 \h\h\h\h\h\hPeople knew our songs word-for-word. 478 00:40:38,768 --> 00:40:40,240 It was super crazy. 479 00:40:40,240 --> 00:40:42,735 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-$5... -Which shirt \h\h\h\hdo you want? 480 00:40:42,735 --> 00:40:46,834 \h\hThis one is the last one. Let me, uh, sign it for you. 481 00:40:46,834 --> 00:40:49,768 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Hope you had \h\h\ha good time tonight? -It was fandabidozi. 482 00:40:49,768 --> 00:40:54,273 All the magazines \h\h\h\hare saying you are the best band ever. 483 00:40:57,768 --> 00:41:01,042 Right. You are fantastic. 484 00:41:01,042 --> 00:41:03,669 \h\h\hThose are, uh, those are big words. 485 00:41:03,669 --> 00:41:05,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hMAN: They’re fucking right though. 486 00:41:06,669 --> 00:41:07,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: It was extremely exciting, 487 00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:13,075 \h\hand we were all so drunk on that ravenous fanaticism. 488 00:41:13,999 --> 00:41:15,075 \h\h\h-MAN: ...funny. -What’s that? 489 00:41:15,075 --> 00:41:18,735 \h\h\h\h\h-Where’s Brian? We need Brian to sign it. \h\h\h\h-MAN: Oh, oh, oh. 490 00:41:18,834 --> 00:41:21,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: Brian, you wanna sign this? \h\h\hIs Brian back there? 491 00:41:21,966 --> 00:41:27,174 Write an essay on my shirt. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI am girl. 492 00:41:28,240 --> 00:41:32,240 I know this band’s the future. 493 00:41:40,834 --> 00:41:44,966 My name’s Carlos, uh, \h\h\hCarlos D. Uh... 494 00:41:44,966 --> 00:41:46,735 I play bass in Interpol. 495 00:41:56,834 --> 00:42:03,372 \h\hDANIEL KESSLER: So, we pooled \h\h\h\hall of our money together and forced this tour of the U.K. 496 00:42:06,636 --> 00:42:08,636 I’d never been to England. 497 00:42:08,636 --> 00:42:10,372 \h\h\hThis is where The Smiths are from. 498 00:42:10,372 --> 00:42:13,735 This is where New Order \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\his from. 499 00:42:14,240 --> 00:42:16,141 I was on fire. 500 00:42:22,075 --> 00:42:24,636 \h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Somehow, we got booked to play this, 501 00:42:24,636 --> 00:42:28,405 like, little festival \h\hcalled Crucifest. 502 00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:44,273 \h\h\h\h\h\hDANIEL: Next, we’re booked in Manchester \h\h\h\hon fucking Easter. 503 00:42:44,273 --> 00:42:48,240 You don’t play at Uni town \h\h\h\h\h\hon a holiday. 504 00:42:48,240 --> 00:42:51,405 \hThere was, like, five people there. 505 00:42:53,933 --> 00:42:57,900 Oh, you know what, \h\h\hit’s not on. 506 00:42:59,075 --> 00:43:02,141 \h\h\h\hMAN: Every person \h\h\h\hthat we met said, "Do you know The Strokes? 507 00:43:02,141 --> 00:43:04,306 \h"Are you friends with The Strokes?" 508 00:43:06,702 --> 00:43:13,801 ♪ She says it helps with the lights out 509 00:43:14,933 --> 00:43:22,108 \h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Her rabid glow is like braille to the night 510 00:43:23,801 --> 00:43:31,273 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ She swears I’m a slave to the details 511 00:43:31,471 --> 00:43:35,867 \h\h\h\h♪ But if your life is such a big fuckin’ joke 512 00:43:39,174 --> 00:43:43,174 \h\h\h\h\hCARLOS: No one knew \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho we were. We shouldn’t have been there. 513 00:43:48,174 --> 00:43:50,306 Where do we go from here? 514 00:44:41,900 --> 00:44:44,174 The year after 9/11, 515 00:44:44,174 --> 00:44:48,075 the Parking Lot Show was a manifestation \h\hof appreciation 516 00:44:48,075 --> 00:44:51,174 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand love for the Brooklyn Community. 517 00:44:51,174 --> 00:44:56,108 A real assembly \h\h\h\h\h\hof the best \hof the Brooklyn bands. 518 00:44:56,339 --> 00:44:58,867 Liars played just before us. 519 00:44:58,867 --> 00:45:02,306 \h\h- 520 00:45:04,405 --> 00:45:11,075 ♪ That child... 521 00:45:14,438 --> 00:45:17,933 ♪ Oh 522 00:45:17,933 --> 00:45:21,306 ♪ That child... 523 00:45:21,306 --> 00:45:24,108 ♪ That child throws... 524 00:45:24,108 --> 00:45:27,108 ♪ Just throw it out \hJust throw it out 525 00:45:41,438 --> 00:45:42,999 There he is! 526 00:45:43,504 --> 00:45:45,075 There he is! 527 00:45:45,075 --> 00:45:47,108 \h\h\h-And next! 528 00:45:50,438 --> 00:45:51,603 \h\h\hKAREN O: There have been times in my life 529 00:45:51,603 --> 00:45:54,900 \h\h\hwhere I really wanted to fit in and I just didn’t. 530 00:45:59,438 --> 00:46:05,207 \h\h\h\h\hBut you could feel the love from the community. 531 00:46:11,372 --> 00:46:14,999 \h\hKAREN O: It was just like a current flowing through me. 532 00:46:18,537 --> 00:46:23,306 \h♪ It’s our time Our time, our time 533 00:46:23,306 --> 00:46:27,372 \h\h\h\h♪ It’s our time Our time, it’s our time 534 00:46:27,372 --> 00:46:30,471 ♪ To be hated, all right 535 00:46:30,471 --> 00:46:34,999 ♪ Well, it’s the year to be hated, all right 536 00:46:34,999 --> 00:46:39,504 ♪ You know it’s the year \hto be hated, all right 537 00:46:39,504 --> 00:46:45,306 \h\h\h♪ It’s the year to be hated, all right 538 00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:07,075 \hJAMES MURPHY: All the stuff \h\h\h\hwe were hearing about what was going on in Brooklyn 539 00:47:07,075 --> 00:47:09,438 and we were in Manhattan. 540 00:47:09,603 --> 00:47:13,306 I was never really part of any scene. 541 00:47:13,306 --> 00:47:16,306 I’d been recording bands \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor years. 542 00:47:16,306 --> 00:47:20,273 \h\h\h\hI had engineered some perfectly engineered records, 543 00:47:20,471 --> 00:47:23,537 \h\h\h\h\h\hbut people didn’t really hire me. 544 00:47:33,042 --> 00:47:34,405 Loads of crap. 545 00:47:35,240 --> 00:47:38,141 Suddenly this big named \h\h\h\hIrish techno DJ 546 00:47:38,141 --> 00:47:41,735 \h\hshows up in New York \h\h\hto make a record. And that’s David Holmes. 547 00:47:46,471 --> 00:47:50,735 When I was DJ, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hI was Iggy Pop. 548 00:47:50,735 --> 00:47:52,735 Just living it. 549 00:47:54,075 --> 00:47:57,471 David didn’t seem \h\h\hto know how to play \hany musical instruments. 550 00:47:57,471 --> 00:48:00,768 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hDAVID: James didn’t understand \h\h\h\h\h\hdance music. 551 00:48:00,768 --> 00:48:03,669 And I’m super \huptight about this. 552 00:48:05,537 --> 00:48:12,603 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hTIM GOLDSWORTH: \h\h\hJames had been in a few second-tier Indie Rock bands. 553 00:48:13,339 --> 00:48:14,141 He lived in the office. 554 00:48:14,141 --> 00:48:19,042 He had a small stereo system and an inflatable mattress. 555 00:48:19,042 --> 00:48:22,636 That decade had defeated him. 556 00:48:24,141 --> 00:48:25,339 The first thing \h\h\h\h\hI wanted to do 557 00:48:25,339 --> 00:48:28,042 \h\hwas make a record that sounded like Can. 558 00:48:35,636 --> 00:48:36,636 Wait a second. 559 00:48:36,636 --> 00:48:40,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hCan were people that worked at the Mozartian. 560 00:48:40,141 --> 00:48:42,768 \h\hThe most prestigious classical music school. 561 00:48:42,768 --> 00:48:45,108 \h\h\h\h\h\hHerman Smidt won the young conductors award, 562 00:48:45,108 --> 00:48:49,042 \h\h\h\h\htraveled to New York, seized The Velvet Underground, 563 00:48:49,042 --> 00:48:49,636 blew his mind, 564 00:48:49,636 --> 00:48:54,174 went back and formed a band with the best free jazz drummer in Europe. 565 00:48:54,174 --> 00:48:55,801 \h\h\h\h\h\hThey live in a weird old castle. 566 00:48:55,801 --> 00:48:58,174 They played together \height hours a day. 567 00:48:59,768 --> 00:49:03,735 \h\h\h\hYou’re gonna sit there and sample your way into Can? 568 00:49:03,735 --> 00:49:07,108 \h\hAt this point, I’m going insane. 569 00:49:07,108 --> 00:49:09,504 \hBut the truth is, without David Holmes 570 00:49:09,504 --> 00:49:14,273 DFA, LCD, none of that \hhappens, none of it. \h\h\h\h\hNone of it. 571 00:49:18,702 --> 00:49:20,669 \h\h\hREPORTER: New York, how’s the scene happening. 572 00:49:20,669 --> 00:49:23,504 \h\hAre you conscious of being a part of something right now? 573 00:49:23,504 --> 00:49:26,702 \h\h\hWell, everyone says that there’s the scenes, \hso that’s kind of cool, 574 00:49:26,702 --> 00:49:33,405 you know, and I feel very proud to be put into the same sentence or whatever with those bands. 575 00:49:33,570 --> 00:49:37,504 \h\hPAUL: Out of the blue, we got given a record deal. 576 00:49:37,834 --> 00:49:39,405 I just couldn’t believe it. 577 00:49:39,405 --> 00:49:41,768 This was actually happening. 578 00:49:42,207 --> 00:49:44,405 Finally making a record. 579 00:49:46,372 --> 00:49:50,174 The only studio \h\h\hwe could afford \h\h\hwas in the attic 580 00:49:50,174 --> 00:49:53,372 of someone’s house \hin Connecticut. 581 00:49:54,405 --> 00:49:58,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt really was great \h\h\h\h\h\hto get out of the city and get away from distractions. 582 00:49:58,867 --> 00:50:03,504 Be it alcohol or cocaine \hor girls, or whatever 583 00:50:03,504 --> 00:50:06,405 and just focus on the music. 584 00:50:08,537 --> 00:50:12,108 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hBut social life was very important to Carlos. 585 00:50:12,108 --> 00:50:14,240 He didn’t wanna miss out. 586 00:50:14,240 --> 00:50:16,504 \h\h\h\h\hWhich is why I’m very, very obsessed 587 00:50:16,504 --> 00:50:19,273 \hwith the movie Leaving Las Vegas. 588 00:50:19,273 --> 00:50:23,405 \h\h\h\h\h\hBecause to me, Nicholas Cage in that movie 589 00:50:23,405 --> 00:50:25,273 almost embodies me. 590 00:50:25,273 --> 00:50:26,570 \h\h\h\hCARLOS: \hI wanted to be in New York City 591 00:50:26,570 --> 00:50:28,537 where, like, everything \h\h\h\h\hwas happening. 592 00:50:28,537 --> 00:50:30,339 Everybody’s name is on it? 593 00:50:30,339 --> 00:50:32,867 \h\h\h\h\hWOMAN: Don’t you have... 594 00:50:34,339 --> 00:50:36,570 \h\hPAUL: There was a lot of tension in the studio. 595 00:50:36,570 --> 00:50:39,405 We couldn’t have \h\h\h\h\h\ha conversation \hfor more than 10 minutes 596 00:50:39,405 --> 00:50:42,240 without telling each other \h\h\h\h\h\h\hto fuck off. 597 00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:45,339 \h\h\hPAUL: The fact that this was a collaboration, \h\hI really didn’t care. 598 00:50:45,339 --> 00:50:51,108 \h\hThe most important thing was the song writing dynamic \h\h\hbetween me and Daniel. 599 00:50:51,372 --> 00:50:55,768 The best moment \h\h\h\hreally were when \h\hwe just didn’t talk. 600 00:51:01,174 --> 00:51:07,438 \h\hPAUL: And when Carlos played, it just negated anything else. 601 00:51:23,801 --> 00:51:27,273 \h\h\hCARLOS: I remember being in the studio the last morning 602 00:51:27,273 --> 00:51:29,438 listening to what we had done. 603 00:51:29,834 --> 00:51:30,339 Wow. 604 00:51:30,339 --> 00:51:32,768 I just couldn’t believe \h\h\h\hhow good it was. 605 00:51:35,438 --> 00:51:38,636 \hPAUL: Driving home from Connecticut to Manhattan, 606 00:51:38,636 --> 00:51:41,306 \heverything felt totally different. 607 00:51:43,735 --> 00:51:48,834 ♪ When I was 17 608 00:51:49,768 --> 00:51:54,306 ♪ It was a very good year 609 00:51:55,603 --> 00:51:59,174 ♪ It was a very good year 610 00:51:59,174 --> 00:52:02,801 ♪ For small town girls 611 00:52:02,801 --> 00:52:06,801 ♪ And soft summer nights 612 00:52:08,537 --> 00:52:13,999 ♪ We’d hide from the lights 613 00:52:14,999 --> 00:52:19,900 ♪ On the village green 614 00:52:22,405 --> 00:52:25,999 ♪ When I was 17 615 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:42,471 \hMALE REPORTER: New York is bracing itself tonight for one massive blizzard. 616 00:52:42,471 --> 00:52:46,372 ♪ When I was 21 617 00:52:48,372 --> 00:52:52,537 ♪ It was a very good year... 618 00:52:54,537 --> 00:53:01,405 ♪ It was a very good year \h\h\h\h\h\hfor city girls 619 00:53:01,405 --> 00:53:06,405 ♪ Who lived up the stair 620 00:53:07,372 --> 00:53:13,438 ♪ With all that perfumed hair 621 00:53:14,075 --> 00:53:20,966 ♪ And it came undone 622 00:54:01,471 --> 00:54:03,504 -Whoo! -Yeah! 623 00:54:04,636 --> 00:54:07,504 -Hallelujah! \h-All right! 624 00:54:09,438 --> 00:54:11,504 Halle-fucking-lujah, man! 625 00:55:03,537 --> 00:55:04,933 \h\h\hJULIAN: The way we’ve been portrayed. 626 00:55:04,933 --> 00:55:07,207 \h\hNew York City good looking dude. 627 00:55:07,207 --> 00:55:11,933 -A bunch of rich kids... \h\h\h\h\h-JULIAN: Who think \h\h\h\h\hthey’re really cool. 628 00:55:12,438 --> 00:55:16,702 If I heard of a band like that, I’d think they were assholes. 629 00:55:18,669 --> 00:55:22,438 \h-Excuse me. Excuse me. 630 00:55:26,867 --> 00:55:30,537 \h\hDAVID: In New York, I was like a wild animal \h\h\h\hout of its cage. 631 00:55:30,537 --> 00:55:36,042 \h\h\h\hMy gang was just getting up to no good five nights a week. 632 00:55:54,702 --> 00:55:57,537 I don’t dance, \h\h\hI barely drink. 633 00:55:57,537 --> 00:56:00,273 \h\hI don’t wanna embarrass myself. 634 00:56:09,933 --> 00:56:11,801 \hDAVID: I remember talking him into it. 635 00:56:11,801 --> 00:56:15,966 \h"You gotta try it. This is gonna change \h\h\h\heverything." 636 00:56:48,273 --> 00:56:52,999 People were touching me, \h\h\h\h\h\h\hchanting my name. 637 00:56:54,603 --> 00:56:58,900 I’m experiencing this music \h\hin this totally new way. 638 00:57:01,867 --> 00:57:06,141 I really enjoyed dancing. 639 00:57:08,636 --> 00:57:10,999 It is not the drug. 640 00:57:11,174 --> 00:57:13,141 This is actually me... 641 00:57:13,966 --> 00:57:16,669 \h\h\h...and my life is forever changed. 642 00:57:24,174 --> 00:57:28,900 Tim was the producer \h\h\h\h\h\hand programmer. \h\h\h\h\hfor David Holmes. 643 00:57:28,900 --> 00:57:30,702 He and I would be the ones \h\h\h\hstuck in the room 644 00:57:30,702 --> 00:57:34,042 having to sort through the shit after everyone’s left. 645 00:57:34,042 --> 00:57:38,174 \h\hHe taught me how to use the computer to experiment. 646 00:57:53,339 --> 00:57:56,636 Working with him \h\h\h\h\h\hwas perfect. 647 00:58:00,405 --> 00:58:04,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: After watching what Holmes \h\h\hcould wind up doing, 648 00:58:04,867 --> 00:58:06,108 it just seemed obvious to us. 649 00:58:06,108 --> 00:58:08,933 What if we did something \h\h\h\h\h\hof our own? 650 00:58:08,933 --> 00:58:09,966 Something that \hmakes people 651 00:58:09,966 --> 00:58:13,273 who didn’t normally \h\h\hdance, dance? 652 00:58:19,042 --> 00:58:23,273 \h\h\hJAMES: But if we were going \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto be a label, we really needed to find a band. 653 00:58:23,273 --> 00:58:25,735 A band that we believed in. 654 00:58:26,735 --> 00:58:28,900 \h\h\h\h\hWOMAN: So, the name of our band \h\h\his The Rapture. 655 00:58:28,900 --> 00:58:30,900 The name of our band \h\h\his The Rapture. 656 00:58:30,900 --> 00:58:33,141 -What’s your name? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Matt. 657 00:58:33,141 --> 00:58:35,768 -And your name? \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Gabriel. 658 00:58:37,735 --> 00:58:39,966 \hVITO ROCCOFORTE: The band started on the west coast. 659 00:58:39,966 --> 00:58:42,075 We lived in this suburb \h\h\h\h\hof San Diego, 660 00:58:42,075 --> 00:58:45,042 where there’s nothing \h\hgoing on. 661 00:58:46,141 --> 00:58:48,867 \h\hWe just decided to pack up the band, 662 00:58:48,867 --> 00:58:51,933 \h\h\h\h\h\hbook a tour to get out to New York. 663 00:58:54,900 --> 00:58:58,900 \h\hMATTIE SAFER: I mean, I was legitimately, like, \h\h\h\h\h\h19 years old. 664 00:58:58,900 --> 00:59:00,966 Very green. 665 00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:05,273 \h\h\h\h\hWe were broke. We had no money at all. 666 00:59:07,966 --> 00:59:12,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE JENNER: \h\h\h\h\hI came to New York as a complete leap of faith. 667 00:59:13,834 --> 00:59:16,471 New York, it’s almost like this white chalk outline, 668 00:59:16,471 --> 00:59:17,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hit’s like, "Do whatever you want in here, 669 00:59:17,801 --> 00:59:21,801 \h\h"be as, like, as free and as angry as you want." 670 00:59:25,471 --> 00:59:28,207 I would go on Avenue A to this magazine store 671 00:59:28,207 --> 00:59:29,966 and buy copies of "NME" \h\h\h\hand I’d be like, 672 00:59:29,966 --> 00:59:31,702 "Dude, like, this is all \h\hhappening around me 673 00:59:31,702 --> 00:59:33,438 \h\h\h\h"and eventually they’re gonna find me." 674 00:59:33,438 --> 00:59:35,174 ♪ One, two, three, four 675 00:59:35,174 --> 00:59:36,471 ♪ Five, six, seven 676 00:59:54,372 --> 00:59:57,141 ♪ Come dance with me... 677 00:59:57,141 --> 01:00:02,372 \h\hJAMES: The first time \h\h\h\hI saw The Rapture, I was completely smitten. 678 01:00:04,768 --> 01:00:09,801 \h\hLuke looked insane and had this amazing, \h\h\h\h\hweird voice. 679 01:00:09,801 --> 01:00:11,966 He was super charismatic. 680 01:00:23,471 --> 01:00:27,108 James Murphy and Tim \hwere just fuckin’ nuts. 681 01:00:27,702 --> 01:00:29,801 And I loved that. 682 01:00:31,801 --> 01:00:36,966 \h\h\h\h\h\hMAN 2: We were a punk band that was trying \h\h\h\hto make dance music. 683 01:00:36,966 --> 01:00:38,933 We had similar goals, 684 01:00:38,933 --> 01:00:41,999 \h\hjust coming at it from different angles. 685 01:00:41,999 --> 01:00:44,933 \hMAN 3: James and Tim felt like the only other people 686 01:00:44,933 --> 01:00:49,273 \h\h\h\h\hon the planet who had the same ideas. 687 01:00:49,966 --> 01:00:52,768 And DFA was like \h\ha clubhouse. 688 01:00:52,768 --> 01:00:54,702 Euphoric party nights. 689 01:00:54,702 --> 01:00:59,801 \h\hWe’d listen to records, wrote songs, drank too much. 690 01:01:01,273 --> 01:01:05,042 We felt like we were \hgonna take over the world. 691 01:01:14,108 --> 01:01:17,372 MTV wanted The Strokes \h\h\h\h\hto play a concert. 692 01:01:17,372 --> 01:01:20,999 \hA 30-minute live broadcast special. 693 01:01:21,207 --> 01:01:22,768 It was a big deal. 694 01:01:22,768 --> 01:01:24,768 It was exposure. 695 01:01:24,768 --> 01:01:25,900 But a lot of those things \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hcome with, 696 01:01:25,900 --> 01:01:30,999 "Well, if you don’t do this, \h\h\hyou’re never gonna get \h\h\hplayed on here again." 697 01:01:44,537 --> 01:01:46,207 It’s not working. 698 01:01:47,537 --> 01:01:48,174 Just... 699 01:01:48,174 --> 01:01:50,438 I would just remember there will be people \h\h\h\h\hbehind you, 700 01:01:50,438 --> 01:01:54,438 \h\hso just don’t forget to address the back, too. 701 01:01:56,174 --> 01:01:59,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hWOMAN: Ten, nine, eight, seven, 702 01:01:59,867 --> 01:02:03,603 six, five, four, rolling. 703 01:02:03,603 --> 01:02:07,141 Ladies and gentlemen, \h\h\hhere they are. 704 01:02:07,570 --> 01:02:08,141 The Strokes. 705 01:02:08,141 --> 01:02:10,603 \h\h- 706 01:02:18,471 --> 01:02:25,471 ♪ No choice now \hIt’s too late 707 01:02:27,933 --> 01:02:33,603 ♪ Lisa said take time for me 708 01:02:34,603 --> 01:02:40,471 \h\h♪ Dropping him down to his knees 709 01:02:44,999 --> 01:02:48,174 ♪ He knows it’s justified \h\h\h\hto kill to survive 710 01:02:48,174 --> 01:02:52,174 \h\h\h♪ He then in dollars makes more dead than alive 711 01:02:52,174 --> 01:02:53,240 ♪ Let’s suck more blood 712 01:02:53,240 --> 01:02:55,141 ♪ Let’s run three hours a day 713 01:02:55,141 --> 01:02:59,603 \h\h♪ The world is over but I don’t care ’cause 714 01:03:01,504 --> 01:03:02,669 Take two. 715 01:03:02,669 --> 01:03:03,999 Rally forward! 716 01:03:03,999 --> 01:03:06,339 Guys, take three. \hRally forward. 717 01:03:06,339 --> 01:03:07,999 Rally forward. 718 01:03:10,339 --> 01:03:12,075 -Take five. -Four. Two. 719 01:03:12,075 --> 01:03:15,966 \h\h♪ The first time it happened too fast 720 01:03:15,966 --> 01:03:19,372 \h\h\h♪ The second time I thought it would last 721 01:03:19,372 --> 01:03:24,075 \h\h 722 01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:42,669 \h\hKAREN O: The first "NME" cover that we did, 723 01:03:42,669 --> 01:03:45,339 \h\hthe caption was "Cool! Sexy! Drunk!" 724 01:03:45,339 --> 01:03:50,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hThree words that don’t just make much \hsense together. 725 01:03:50,372 --> 01:03:52,405 \hAnd one of the things that started to surface 726 01:03:52,405 --> 01:03:56,999 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwith the press was a sort of predatory gaze. 727 01:03:56,999 --> 01:04:00,735 Photographers were boys \hbeing in the front row \h\h\h\h\hat our shows. 728 01:04:00,735 --> 01:04:04,372 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hArm outstretched, weird expression on their face, 729 01:04:04,372 --> 01:04:08,108 trying to get like \h\h\hcrotch shots \hunder my skirt. 730 01:04:08,438 --> 01:04:13,141 I just remember feeling \h\hvery protective about Karen. 731 01:04:16,438 --> 01:04:20,075 Being a woman \hfronting a rock band, 732 01:04:20,075 --> 01:04:22,240 I was sensationalized. 733 01:04:22,603 --> 01:04:27,735 But I was also struggling \h\hto be taken seriously \h\h\h\h\h\has an artist. 734 01:04:28,372 --> 01:04:29,636 That costume \hthat you were wearing, 735 01:04:29,636 --> 01:04:31,240 \h\h\hthe yellow, \hit’s almost like an Elvis jumpsuit. 736 01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:33,735 -That was sort of-- -Have you ever had the same sex experience-- 737 01:04:33,735 --> 01:04:36,735 \h-INTERVIEWER 3: Do you have \h\hany thoughts on chastity? -Chastity? 738 01:04:36,735 --> 01:04:38,636 \hINTERVIEWER 4: Karen, have you ever experienced Madonna syndrome? 739 01:04:38,636 --> 01:04:40,141 \h\hINTERVIEWER 5: Do you remember your first kiss? 740 01:04:40,141 --> 01:04:43,075 Is it a tough \hkind of thing to be so cool? 741 01:04:43,075 --> 01:04:44,537 \h\hINTERVIEWER 7: Have you received any death threats? 742 01:04:44,537 --> 01:04:47,471 \h\h\h\h\h\h-INTERVIEWER 8: \hWhat’s your favorite meal? -My favorite meal? 743 01:04:49,240 --> 01:04:53,273 So, let me, uh, let me hear all \hthe ladies out there tonight. 744 01:04:57,537 --> 01:05:01,438 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hAll right. Let me hear all the boys \h\h\hout there tonight. 745 01:05:05,108 --> 01:05:07,306 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hOkay, let me hear all the men out there tonight. 746 01:05:07,306 --> 01:05:09,141 \h- 747 01:05:09,141 --> 01:05:12,372 \h\h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: I’m here to represent \h\h\hfor the ladies. 748 01:05:13,141 --> 01:05:14,636 It’s all or nothing. 749 01:07:03,570 --> 01:07:05,669 \h\hLUKE: When we made House Of Jealous Lovers 750 01:07:05,669 --> 01:07:10,339 \hit wasn’t necessarily like fun in the studio. 751 01:07:27,636 --> 01:07:29,933 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: First, we recorded everything live. 752 01:07:29,933 --> 01:07:33,669 \h\h\h\hAnd then Tim and I started ripping it apart. 753 01:07:39,306 --> 01:07:44,273 \hI can get really anxious \h\h\h\h\h\hif I feel like I’m compromising my music. 754 01:07:44,405 --> 01:07:47,570 I feel compulsion to make the music 755 01:07:47,570 --> 01:07:50,306 \h\h\hexactly the way I think it should be. 756 01:07:50,306 --> 01:07:53,801 \h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: James was \h\h\hthe first person I met who was more alpha than me. 757 01:07:53,801 --> 01:07:58,570 \hI had all these ideas \h\h\h\h\hin the studio, he had all these ideas. 758 01:07:58,570 --> 01:08:00,669 I couldn’t bulldoze him. 759 01:08:03,636 --> 01:08:06,504 \h\h\h\hJAMES: I was never good at friends. 760 01:08:06,966 --> 01:08:11,537 \h\h\hI was so lonely and so self-conscious. 761 01:08:11,669 --> 01:08:14,669 I wanted connection \h\h\h\hand friends, 762 01:08:14,669 --> 01:08:17,471 \h\hbut I’d always end up in fights. 763 01:08:18,702 --> 01:08:21,537 \h\h\h\h\hThere was just something wrong with me 764 01:08:21,537 --> 01:08:24,537 that wasn’t wrong with other people. 765 01:08:25,339 --> 01:08:27,867 So, I made music \hfucking alone. 766 01:08:32,339 --> 01:08:36,900 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: He was really pushing me. \hI was in a lot of pain. 767 01:08:36,900 --> 01:08:42,537 Get rid of the drum, \h\h\h\h\h\hface the bass... 768 01:08:42,537 --> 01:08:45,405 \h\h\h\h\h\hGet rid of the guitar completely. 769 01:08:45,669 --> 01:08:46,834 \h\hLUKE: Me and Tim just kept telling him 770 01:08:46,834 --> 01:08:47,999 and everyone around him \h\h\h\h\hwas just like, 771 01:08:47,999 --> 01:08:52,669 \h\h\h"You’re domineering, \h\h\hand you need to make your own fucking record!" 772 01:08:54,372 --> 01:08:59,504 There was a part of James \hthat wanted to be in the band. 773 01:08:59,504 --> 01:09:01,801 Wanted it to be his band. 774 01:09:02,042 --> 01:09:04,735 He didn’t have his own outlet. 775 01:09:04,735 --> 01:09:06,933 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: They really freaked out \habout the production. 776 01:09:06,933 --> 01:09:09,636 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hThey thought \heveryone was gonna hate that it was a house song. 777 01:09:09,636 --> 01:09:15,075 He was really just like, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h"No. It’s perfect, \h\h\h\h\hwe’re not fixing it." 778 01:09:25,933 --> 01:09:29,075 ♪ House of jealous lovers 779 01:09:29,075 --> 01:09:30,735 ♪ House of jealous lovers 780 01:09:30,735 --> 01:09:33,735 \hJAMES: People went fucking crazy for it. 781 01:09:34,867 --> 01:09:37,570 People just called us \h\h\h\h\hthe disco Strokes. 782 01:09:44,636 --> 01:09:46,570 Goldsworthy \hand engineer James Murphy 783 01:09:46,570 --> 01:09:49,900 are the production team whose \hfusion of minimal electronic 784 01:09:49,900 --> 01:09:52,570 and post-punk rock continue to thrill 785 01:09:52,570 --> 01:09:54,900 critics and listeners \h\h\h\h\h\hworldwide. 786 01:09:54,900 --> 01:09:58,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hYou know, \h\h\hhalf the people, you know, someone told them it was cool. 787 01:09:58,867 --> 01:10:04,570 You know what I mean? "Cause theoretically, \h\h\hwe’re... cool. 788 01:10:11,405 --> 01:10:13,867 \h\hJAMES: Nobody else was playing the records \h\h\h\h\hI was playing. 789 01:10:13,867 --> 01:10:15,372 That was like my thing. 790 01:10:15,372 --> 01:10:18,735 ♪ One hand ties the other 791 01:10:20,603 --> 01:10:24,471 Pure idolism, \h\hridiculous mess. 792 01:10:25,405 --> 01:10:32,306 I had my first E, \h\hand lost my virginity \h\hat the same DFA party. 793 01:10:38,900 --> 01:10:42,438 We weren’t downtown \h\h\h\hNew York cool kids, 794 01:10:42,438 --> 01:10:46,372 and we weren’t Brooklyn Art School kids either, 795 01:10:46,372 --> 01:10:49,306 \h\hbut somehow, we had a scene. 796 01:10:51,900 --> 01:10:54,405 How do you guy \hsit down and write a song? 797 01:10:54,405 --> 01:10:56,801 because I know you write \hthe lyrics, but do you- 798 01:10:56,801 --> 01:10:58,306 No, Julian does the lyrics. 799 01:10:58,306 --> 01:10:59,702 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah. -He writes the song. 800 01:10:59,702 --> 01:11:00,801 -Oh, and the songs? \h\h\h\h-Oh, yeah. 801 01:11:00,801 --> 01:11:03,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Okay-- -And the guitar solos, \h\h\heverything, dude. 802 01:11:04,141 --> 01:11:07,141 \h\h-Really? -Sure. Yeah. 803 01:11:07,372 --> 01:11:08,801 That’s-- Yeah. 804 01:11:08,867 --> 01:11:12,141 \h\hALBERT: I always wanted to write songs. 805 01:11:14,372 --> 01:11:15,768 The most frustrated \h\h\h\hI ever got, 806 01:11:15,768 --> 01:11:20,801 \h\h\h\h\h\hI had a song \h\hand thought it could really work in the band. 807 01:11:20,801 --> 01:11:23,603 I was super-excited about it. 808 01:11:23,966 --> 01:11:27,603 \h\h\h\hBut Julian had a very precise vision. 809 01:11:31,438 --> 01:11:35,702 The only thing \h\h\hI have control on \his having good songs. 810 01:11:35,702 --> 01:11:40,801 Even if everyone loves it, I always go home thinking, \h\h\h"Is it good enough?" 811 01:11:41,603 --> 01:11:43,372 It’s a struggle. 812 01:11:43,966 --> 01:11:45,471 It was a lot of pressure on Julian 813 01:11:45,471 --> 01:11:48,999 \h\h\h\h\h\hto get another album out there as soon as possible. 814 01:11:48,999 --> 01:11:52,999 We had been praised as "Rock’s Saviors", 815 01:11:52,999 --> 01:11:56,966 but all we had ever recorded \h\hwas a half hour record. 816 01:11:59,438 --> 01:12:00,108 Ready? 817 01:12:00,108 --> 01:12:04,933 \h\h\hALBERT: We got back from touring and spent a month in our rehearsal space... 818 01:12:05,438 --> 01:12:07,075 and just worked. 819 01:12:07,867 --> 01:12:09,867 Why were we rushing? 820 01:13:07,933 --> 01:13:09,933 \h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: What is the ideal place 821 01:13:09,933 --> 01:13:14,174 for somebody to listen \h\hto your new record \hfor the first time? 822 01:13:14,174 --> 01:13:15,768 I hadn’t thought of that. 823 01:13:15,768 --> 01:13:17,273 Read their last rights. 824 01:13:17,273 --> 01:13:19,108 No, I don’t know. 825 01:13:20,933 --> 01:13:23,240 Nikolai, man, help me out. 826 01:13:23,240 --> 01:13:25,603 \h\h\h\hI don’t know, man, we just finished it today, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hyou know. 827 01:13:25,603 --> 01:13:27,933 How do you guys \h\h\h\h\h\h\hfeel about it? 828 01:13:29,174 --> 01:13:31,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h-I-- -Tense but confident. 829 01:13:31,801 --> 01:13:34,273 \h\h\hINTERVIEWER: You sound incredibly down on yourself. 830 01:13:34,273 --> 01:13:38,273 \h\h\h\h\hIt’s odd to hear you guys feel intimidated. 831 01:13:38,273 --> 01:13:41,966 \h\hFeel like you guys aren’t gonna end up sizing up and... 832 01:13:41,966 --> 01:13:45,669 think that you guys \h\hare ultimately gonna be forgotten. 833 01:13:45,834 --> 01:13:48,240 \h\hI don’t wanna let people down. 834 01:13:52,075 --> 01:13:53,141 \h-Karen rules-- -She’s very good. 835 01:13:53,141 --> 01:13:55,570 -She’s the coolest person \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hon earth- \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-And Nick. 836 01:13:55,570 --> 01:13:56,966 -And she’s a God. \h-Nicks amazing. 837 01:13:56,966 --> 01:13:57,933 \hShe just does what she wants, 838 01:13:57,933 --> 01:14:00,669 -and she doesn’t care \habout anyone else. \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-Yeah. 839 01:14:00,669 --> 01:14:01,174 She’s sexy! 840 01:14:01,174 --> 01:14:04,174 -Her hair, her face, everything. -Her voice. 841 01:14:04,174 --> 01:14:05,240 I’d do her. \h 842 01:14:05,240 --> 01:14:05,999 \h I’d do her. 843 01:14:05,999 --> 01:14:11,735 She seems shy, like, offstage, \h\h\h\h\hbut she puts on this \h\h\h\h\h\h\hcrazy character. 844 01:14:11,735 --> 01:14:16,636 \h\hMAN: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs are going on in five minutes. \h\h\hCan you please return? 845 01:14:18,801 --> 01:14:21,141 \h\h\h\h\hKAREN O: I had set myself up \has being a pretty 846 01:14:21,141 --> 01:14:25,042 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hspectacular self-destructive persona. 847 01:14:26,042 --> 01:14:27,636 \h\h\hI was needing to live up to that, 848 01:14:27,636 --> 01:14:32,042 and I was beating myself up out there night after night. 849 01:14:35,834 --> 01:14:40,966 \h\h\h\hNICK: I was seeing the fanaticism around Karen. 850 01:14:41,339 --> 01:14:44,207 The press, freaky fans. 851 01:14:44,207 --> 01:14:48,735 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hAnd just seeing how fragile she was off-stage... 852 01:14:49,075 --> 01:14:50,834 I was worried. 853 01:14:50,834 --> 01:14:53,900 Ah, this fuckin’ hurts. 854 01:14:54,570 --> 01:14:56,207 Do you know what I’m saying? 855 01:14:56,339 --> 01:14:57,999 It’s like fucking shit! 856 01:14:57,999 --> 01:15:00,405 \h\h\h\h\hWho the fuck cares? Do you know what I’m saying. 857 01:15:00,405 --> 01:15:02,372 Do not fucking tread on me! 858 01:15:02,372 --> 01:15:04,108 I really did want \h\h\h\hto speak to someone 859 01:15:04,108 --> 01:15:05,867 \h\h\hwho could relate to how I was feeling. 860 01:15:05,867 --> 01:15:10,075 \h\h\hBut my experience \h\h\h\hwas so different from the men around me. 861 01:15:10,141 --> 01:15:12,207 It was incredibly lonely. 862 01:15:16,966 --> 01:15:19,933 It’s just wearing me down, \h\h\h\h\h\hthe lifestyle, 863 01:15:19,933 --> 01:15:23,867 the physical aspect of it, \h\h\hthe repetition of it. 864 01:15:25,735 --> 01:15:28,867 \h\hThe business of it and the bullshit of it 865 01:15:28,867 --> 01:15:31,900 \h\h\hand the press and the attention. 866 01:15:36,867 --> 01:15:40,141 Can we have sound, speed? \h\h\h\h\hRoll cameras, please. 867 01:15:41,900 --> 01:15:44,240 Roll joints. \h\h\h\h\hDo speed. 868 01:15:45,075 --> 01:15:46,075 Ready. 869 01:15:46,075 --> 01:15:50,108 We’re still waiting \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hfor the... 870 01:15:50,768 --> 01:15:53,900 \h\h\h\h\hIt’s a rehearsal so let’s just do it, right? 871 01:15:53,900 --> 01:15:55,240 Do you need to play? 872 01:15:55,240 --> 01:15:58,075 It’s just a rehearsal. \h\hCan we just start? 873 01:16:00,801 --> 01:16:02,801 Okay, we are rolling. 874 01:16:03,042 --> 01:16:08,702 \hNICK: Julian had dreams that he just maybe assumed \h\hwe’d all just follow. 875 01:16:11,933 --> 01:16:14,141 \h\hFABRIZIO: Room on Fire sold, like, 650,000 records 876 01:16:14,141 --> 01:16:17,372 \h\h\hand everybody wants \h\h\h\h\h\hto write about what a big failure it was. 877 01:16:17,372 --> 01:16:22,306 By what it was built up to be, \hit was supposed to sell millions. 878 01:16:28,306 --> 01:16:33,273 \h\hNICK: That’s when friends, girlfriends, 879 01:16:33,273 --> 01:16:36,141 strangers started coming in. 880 01:16:36,141 --> 01:16:38,471 "Julian’s slowing \h\heveryone down. 881 01:16:38,471 --> 01:16:40,768 \h"You should be a bigger band." 882 01:16:43,966 --> 01:16:48,174 I felt that distance \h\h\h\hbetween me and Julian. 883 01:16:51,933 --> 01:16:54,306 -Well, its Ryan Adams. \h\h\h\h\hLook at you. \h\h\h\h\h\h-Hey, man. 884 01:16:54,306 --> 01:16:58,141 -The most difficult man \h\h\hin rock and roll. \h\h\h\h\h\h-Oh, geez. 885 01:16:58,141 --> 01:17:03,075 Ryan Adams was really, \hreally into The Strokes. 886 01:17:03,075 --> 01:17:03,867 Enamored by them. 887 01:17:03,867 --> 01:17:08,042 We’re gonna play a song \h\h\h\hby The Strokes \h\hcalled Last Night. 888 01:17:11,108 --> 01:17:12,867 Yeah, it’s our best song. 889 01:17:39,438 --> 01:17:42,867 \h\hALBERT: He’d always come \h\hand like wake me up at two in the morning to have drugs. 890 01:17:42,867 --> 01:17:47,108 \h\h\h\h\h\hSo, I would just kind of, like, do the drugs \h\h\hand kind of numb out. 891 01:17:47,108 --> 01:17:52,042 \h\h\h\hI remember Julian threatening to beat him up \hif he hung out with me. 892 01:17:53,174 --> 01:17:58,075 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hRYAN: I knew I would shoot up drugs \h\h\h\hfrom a very young age. 893 01:17:58,075 --> 01:18:00,603 When it came, it wasn’t, like, "What am I doing here? 894 01:18:00,603 --> 01:18:02,900 It was kind of like, \h\h\h\h"I made it." 895 01:18:03,900 --> 01:18:05,273 I was home. 896 01:18:11,306 --> 01:18:11,966 Number one. 897 01:18:11,966 --> 01:18:16,504 \h\h\h\h\h\hThe win immunity, we’re number one, watch this. 898 01:18:20,405 --> 01:18:23,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: After House Of Jealous Lovers \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hblew up, 899 01:18:23,966 --> 01:18:25,273 we had all this attention. 900 01:18:25,273 --> 01:18:28,438 \hBut we were touring the world on a single. 901 01:18:30,966 --> 01:18:32,966 It was so fun. 902 01:18:32,966 --> 01:18:36,603 \h\h\h\h\h\hThe Rapture, me and Tim were a gang. 903 01:18:36,603 --> 01:18:38,999 We felt invincible. 904 01:18:41,240 --> 01:18:46,603 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: \h\h\hWe had just finished Echoes, this album that we really loved. 905 01:18:46,603 --> 01:18:52,108 \h\h\hAnd then compound that \h\hwith the music industry feeding frenzy in New York, 906 01:18:52,108 --> 01:18:53,999 \h\hand it was just this perfect timing. 907 01:18:53,999 --> 01:18:57,339 \h\hBut in the beginning, DFA was more about concept 908 01:18:57,339 --> 01:19:00,174 \h\hthan an actual functioning label. 909 01:19:00,174 --> 01:19:04,669 \h\h\hMAN: DFA spent a year trying to find a distributor 910 01:19:04,669 --> 01:19:07,174 and failed to do so. 911 01:19:07,174 --> 01:19:09,405 The clock was ticking. 912 01:19:09,471 --> 01:19:13,174 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: I wish we had just put \hfucking Echoes out. 913 01:19:13,174 --> 01:19:15,207 That was a fucking mistake. 914 01:19:15,339 --> 01:19:16,405 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hThe songs that are on the record, 915 01:19:16,405 --> 01:19:19,999 we’ve been playing them \h\hout for like a year \h\hand a half, like... 916 01:19:19,999 --> 01:19:21,504 So, it’s just like... 917 01:19:21,504 --> 01:19:24,999 \h\h\h\h\h\hIt’s just time for it to come out, like... 918 01:19:26,669 --> 01:19:31,999 I was more scared \h\h\hthan I’d ever been \h\h\hin my entire life. 919 01:19:32,306 --> 01:19:35,966 It’s gonna fucking disappear, \h\h\h\h\hit’s gonna be over. 920 01:19:35,999 --> 01:19:41,141 I know they had to, \h\h\h\hbut when they left, \h\h\h\h\h\hthe crushed me. 921 01:19:41,999 --> 01:19:43,306 I cried. 922 01:19:43,900 --> 01:19:45,372 I just cried. 923 01:19:45,669 --> 01:19:47,999 We were Rapture Records. 924 01:19:48,207 --> 01:19:49,900 That’s what DFA was. 925 01:19:50,141 --> 01:19:51,504 But they left. 926 01:19:52,504 --> 01:19:55,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hLUKE: We didn’t want to leave DFA. 927 01:19:56,174 --> 01:19:59,999 \hThose were, like, our closest friends. 928 01:20:00,174 --> 01:20:03,075 \h\h\h\hBut we needed to get our record out. 929 01:20:12,537 --> 01:20:15,966 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hPAUL: We hit 40,000 records sold. 930 01:20:15,999 --> 01:20:19,240 Our record company was, like, "Whoa!" 931 01:20:19,240 --> 01:20:23,504 We had this incredible \h\h\h\h\h\h\henergy between us, \h\h\h\h\h\hthis kinetic energy. 932 01:20:23,504 --> 01:20:27,075 \hPAUL: We nailed the second record \h\hstraightaway. 933 01:20:27,075 --> 01:20:30,636 This is the record that we’ve been waiting for. 934 01:20:38,504 --> 01:20:41,636 \h\hThree months before \h\h\h\h\hrelease date, we were out at some bar. 935 01:20:41,636 --> 01:20:48,174 \h\h\hA complete stranger comes along singing lyrics \hfrom the second record. 936 01:20:49,471 --> 01:20:51,207 What the hell’s going on? 937 01:20:55,966 --> 01:20:57,504 The record had leaked. 938 01:20:57,504 --> 01:21:01,306 \h\hI couldn’t believe that this was actually happening. 939 01:21:14,273 --> 01:21:16,372 \h\h\h\h\hJAMES: I went to this club, Brownies, 940 01:21:16,372 --> 01:21:19,108 which I used to play at \h\h\h\h\hall the time. 941 01:21:19,108 --> 01:21:21,471 There was a kid DJ-ing, \h\h\h\h\h\hplaying ESG, 942 01:21:21,471 --> 01:21:24,438 \h\h\h\h\hand he plays a Liquid Liquid song. 943 01:21:24,966 --> 01:21:25,603 What the fuck? 944 01:21:25,603 --> 01:21:28,075 \h\h\h\hThese records took me years to find, 945 01:21:28,075 --> 01:21:31,306 \h\h\hand now some kid can just download it? 946 01:21:32,702 --> 01:21:33,372 Wait a second. 947 01:21:33,372 --> 01:21:35,537 You didn’t write them, \h\h\h\hyou just play them, \h\h\h\h\hyou just own them, 948 01:21:35,537 --> 01:21:37,735 \h\h\hyou can’t be proud of yourself \h\hfor owning it. 949 01:21:37,735 --> 01:21:39,405 But I know that kid \hwas at one of my parties. 950 01:21:39,405 --> 01:21:42,570 \hMAN: Even if this person went to one of our parties, \h\h\hI have no rights here. 951 01:21:42,570 --> 01:21:45,273 It’s the fucking \hclosest I’ve ever been \h\h\hto cool in my life 952 01:21:45,273 --> 01:21:46,372 and this fucking kid \h\h\h\hcan take it? 953 01:21:46,372 --> 01:21:47,570 I was playing \hthat six months ago. 954 01:21:47,570 --> 01:21:49,471 First of all, it’s not your record, \hyou didn’t make it. 955 01:21:49,471 --> 01:21:52,075 What’s worse \h\h\hthan that guy? 956 01:21:52,273 --> 01:21:53,405 I’m disappointed \h\h\h\h\h\hwith myself. 957 01:21:53,405 --> 01:21:55,273 \h\h\h\h-MAN 8: Its stupid \h\h\h\h\hand embarrassing. -I’m a total hipster 958 01:21:55,273 --> 01:21:58,372 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hjackass, I have been my entire life. 959 01:22:01,471 --> 01:22:05,372 I’d really wasted \h\h\h30 years of my life. 960 01:22:09,471 --> 01:22:11,768 \h\h\hAnd I would lock the studio... 961 01:22:13,042 --> 01:22:15,339 \h\h\h\h\hsing a song about losing my edge. 962 01:22:15,339 --> 01:22:16,603 ♪ I’m losing my edge... 963 01:22:16,603 --> 01:22:17,669 How humiliating it is to be me. 964 01:22:17,669 --> 01:22:23,207 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ To the kids From France and from London 965 01:22:23,207 --> 01:22:25,471 ♪ I’m losing my edge 966 01:22:25,471 --> 01:22:26,603 It was the first time \h\h\h\h\hI made music 967 01:22:26,603 --> 01:22:30,372 where I wasn’t trying \hto be another thing 968 01:22:30,372 --> 01:22:32,801 \h\h\hthat I thought I’m supposed to be. 969 01:22:41,306 --> 01:22:44,141 ♪ Yeah, I’m losing my edge 970 01:22:45,504 --> 01:22:48,471 ♪ I’m losing my edge 971 01:22:50,174 --> 01:22:51,603 ♪ To kids 972 01:22:53,141 --> 01:22:56,174 ♪ I’m coming up from behind 973 01:22:59,603 --> 01:23:01,570 ♪ But I was there 974 01:23:03,372 --> 01:23:06,240 ♪ I was there in 1968 975 01:23:07,174 --> 01:23:12,339 ♪ I was there at the first \h\h\hCan show in Cologne 976 01:23:16,438 --> 01:23:18,273 ♪ But I was there 977 01:23:21,207 --> 01:23:26,174 ♪ I was the first guy playing \h\hDaft Punk to the rock kids 978 01:23:26,174 --> 01:23:28,108 ♪ I played it at CBGB’s 979 01:23:28,108 --> 01:23:30,537 ♪ Everybody thought \h\h\h\hit was crazy 980 01:23:30,768 --> 01:23:32,174 ♪ We all know 981 01:23:32,174 --> 01:23:34,735 ♪ I hear everybody \h\hthat you know 982 01:23:34,735 --> 01:23:40,405 \h\h\h\h\h 983 01:23:41,537 --> 01:23:44,537 \h\h\hI came upstairs and played it for Tim. 984 01:23:54,702 --> 01:23:59,108 \h\hJAMES: He said, "You don’t wanna put \h\h\hthis out, man. 985 01:23:59,207 --> 01:24:02,570 "You really don’t want people \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hto hear this." 986 01:24:03,273 --> 01:24:06,405 But I’ve lived in fear \h\h\hmy whole life... 987 01:24:06,570 --> 01:24:08,834 and I had nothing to lose. 988 01:24:19,174 --> 01:24:22,438 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hALBERT: \h\hJulian always wanted the whole band together. 989 01:24:23,339 --> 01:24:25,735 I’d show up late \hin the studio. 990 01:24:25,735 --> 01:24:27,306 And smoke too much crack \h\h\h\hbefore coming in 991 01:24:27,306 --> 01:24:31,636 \hand had to take \ha bunch of pills just to calm down. 992 01:24:31,636 --> 01:24:34,174 I wasn’t playing that well. 993 01:24:34,174 --> 01:24:36,801 I’ve tried everything \h\h\h\hto get fired. 994 01:24:37,438 --> 01:24:39,306 \h\h\hCOURTNEY LOVE: \hRemember that girl that was downstairs, 995 01:24:39,306 --> 01:24:41,603 \h\h\h\hthat said she didn’t care about The Hives and The Strokes, 996 01:24:41,603 --> 01:24:44,801 \hand she just wanted like a big rock riff? 997 01:24:45,306 --> 01:24:47,438 I think that ought to do it. \h\h\hWe are, um, we’re back. 998 01:24:47,438 --> 01:24:52,471 \h\h\h\hWe had a little nap, and we are really staying up \h\h\h\h\hfor 24 hours and... 999 01:24:52,735 --> 01:24:54,900 \h\h\h\hnot many people in this room do drugs. 1000 01:24:54,900 --> 01:24:56,504 We’re in a corporate \h\h\h\henvironment. 1001 01:24:56,504 --> 01:24:57,273 Come here, come here. 1002 01:24:57,273 --> 01:25:00,339 Courtney Love was doing a take over \hof MTV for 24 hours. 1003 01:25:00,339 --> 01:25:02,339 -Show us your . -Come on! 1004 01:25:02,339 --> 01:25:03,801 \h\h\h\h\hCOURTNEY: Yes! I’ll do it if you do it! 1005 01:25:03,801 --> 01:25:08,669 She texted me, "Do any of The Strokes \h\h\h\hwanna pop up?" 1006 01:25:08,669 --> 01:25:09,867 I called Albert. 1007 01:25:09,867 --> 01:25:11,867 You’re fucked up \h\hand the idea’s funny. 1008 01:25:11,867 --> 01:25:16,504 \h\hOh, yeah, I’ll go up there and, like, see Courtney Love. 1009 01:25:18,966 --> 01:25:22,471 Wait, what are we doing? \h\h\h\h\h\hWhy are we? 1010 01:25:22,669 --> 01:25:24,735 I was so fucked. 1011 01:25:25,570 --> 01:25:29,702 \h\hFABRIZIO: Her and Ryan were just doing their thing \h\h\hwhat Ryan always does. 1012 01:25:43,471 --> 01:25:47,900 \h\hFABRIZIO: When things go bad, you just want it to get worse. 1013 01:25:48,801 --> 01:25:51,504 When the band catch you \h\h\h\h\h\h\hout of it. 1014 01:25:51,999 --> 01:25:57,306 I can be sitting here \h\hwith my eyes open \h\hand just... gone. 1015 01:25:57,306 --> 01:26:01,438 \h\h\hALBERT: There’s so many times where I was just so close to... 1016 01:26:01,603 --> 01:26:02,537 to dying. 1017 01:26:36,405 --> 01:26:39,735 \h\h- 1018 01:26:40,603 --> 01:26:42,075 It could be over. 1019 01:26:42,075 --> 01:26:44,405 We could be over, you know. 1020 01:27:01,768 --> 01:27:04,603 Out of nowhere \h\h\h\hI got an offer \h\hfrom Arthur Baker. 1021 01:27:04,603 --> 01:27:09,141 \hHe’d heard our record and he wanted us to come \hplay a show in London. 1022 01:27:09,636 --> 01:27:11,966 There’s no way I can do this. 1023 01:27:12,141 --> 01:27:13,471 I can’t do it. 1024 01:27:13,471 --> 01:27:17,801 I don’t have a band. \h\h\h\hIt’s just me and a toy boom box. 1025 01:27:19,537 --> 01:27:23,636 \h\h\h\hI did the only thing \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hI could do, call the people that I knew. 1026 01:27:23,636 --> 01:27:26,636 Tyler, the base player \h\h\h\h\hin Out Hud, 1027 01:27:26,636 --> 01:27:28,504 \hPat, the drummer in Les Savvy Fav, 1028 01:27:28,504 --> 01:27:32,042 Phil Mossman, guitar player, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hwho had done \hthe David Holmes’ record, 1029 01:27:32,042 --> 01:27:38,537 \h\h\h\h\hand Nancy, \hmy drinking buddy, took piano as a kid. 1030 01:27:39,372 --> 01:27:41,999 \h\h\h\h\hNANCY WHANG: Deciding to start a band 1031 01:27:41,999 --> 01:27:46,141 \hin your 30’s seemed absurd. 1032 01:27:47,933 --> 01:27:51,438 \h\h\h\hWe only had 10 days to rehearse. 1033 01:27:51,801 --> 01:27:57,801 \h\hThis was his first time \h\h\h\h\h\h\has a front man singing in front of people. 1034 01:28:08,174 --> 01:28:13,075 \h\h\hNothing terrified me like watching footage of John Lydon. 1035 01:28:13,075 --> 01:28:15,867 \hIt made me feel so uncomfortable. 1036 01:28:15,867 --> 01:28:18,999 \hI realized this would be \hmy problem. 1037 01:28:20,867 --> 01:28:23,438 The people that are dancing... 1038 01:28:23,438 --> 01:28:25,702 \h\h\h\h\h\hand he just doesn’t exude himself. 1039 01:28:29,933 --> 01:28:31,537 Oh, my God. 1040 01:28:39,537 --> 01:28:42,042 \h\h\h\h\hI don’t know what to do with myself. 1041 01:28:46,042 --> 01:28:51,603 \h\h\hNANCY: James wanted to set up very, very close \h\h\h\htogether on stage. 1042 01:28:52,207 --> 01:28:55,042 \h\h\h\h\hSo, he was totally surrounded. 1043 01:28:55,900 --> 01:28:56,933 Protected. 1044 01:29:01,240 --> 01:29:01,999 Go ahead-- 1045 01:29:20,768 --> 01:29:25,240 ♪ Well, Daft Punk is playing \h\h\hat my house, my house 1046 01:29:26,603 --> 01:29:31,933 ♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid, show you the ropes 1047 01:29:32,768 --> 01:29:38,108 ♪ I got a bus and a trailer \h\h\hat my house, my house 1048 01:29:39,174 --> 01:29:44,768 ♪ I’ll show you the ropes kid, show you the ropes 1049 01:29:44,999 --> 01:29:49,801 ♪ ’Cause Daft Punk is playing \h\h\h\hat my house, my house 1050 01:29:50,900 --> 01:29:56,273 ♪ You’ve got to set them up, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up 1051 01:29:57,735 --> 01:29:59,801 ♪ My house 1052 01:30:00,900 --> 01:30:02,966 ♪ My house 1053 01:30:03,273 --> 01:30:08,570 ♪ You’ve got to set them up, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hset them up 1054 01:30:32,108 --> 01:30:33,273 \h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: The song "This is it," 1055 01:30:33,273 --> 01:30:36,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h\his that a sarcastic reference \h\h\hto The Strokes? 1056 01:30:36,141 --> 01:30:37,141 No, no, no, no, no! 1057 01:30:37,141 --> 01:30:38,768 \hI’ve heard that from many people \hand it’s like, 1058 01:30:38,768 --> 01:30:40,834 "Damn, if I were gonna write \h\ha song about The Strokes, 1059 01:30:40,834 --> 01:30:43,834 "I would probably go \ha little further." 1060 01:30:43,834 --> 01:30:45,933 That’s just the name \h\h\h\hof the song. 1061 01:30:45,933 --> 01:30:47,141 \h\h\h\h\hBut I can see why people think that. 1062 01:30:47,141 --> 01:30:51,273 \hIt goes to show you \h\h\hhow influential The Strokes guys are. 1063 01:30:51,273 --> 01:30:55,075 That these guys are just great. 1064 01:30:57,141 --> 01:30:58,603 Hello. 1065 01:31:56,339 --> 01:32:00,735 \h\h\h\hI wanted to ask you about this before we left. 1066 01:32:00,735 --> 01:32:01,801 I think it’s awesome. 1067 01:32:01,801 --> 01:32:03,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h-What? -Yes... The holster. 1068 01:32:03,867 --> 01:32:04,735 Well, thanks, thanks a lot. 1069 01:32:04,735 --> 01:32:06,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER: And I don’t know if anyone’s \h\h\hever done that before. 1070 01:32:06,801 --> 01:32:08,768 Um, to my knowledge, \h\h\h\hthey haven’t. 1071 01:32:08,768 --> 01:32:11,768 \h\hBut it wasn’t, you know, me trying to be an innovator. 1072 01:32:12,768 --> 01:32:16,735 \h\hIt wasn’t me trying to be an innovator to-- \hto wear the holster. 1073 01:32:16,735 --> 01:32:17,603 If I get followers, so be it. 1074 01:32:17,603 --> 01:32:21,207 \h\h\hYeah, so be it, exactly. I’m not gonna, like, stop them. 1075 01:32:24,702 --> 01:32:27,108 \h\h\h\h\hWe’re Interpol, and you’re watching MTV2. 1076 01:32:27,108 --> 01:32:28,735 \hYou’ve had stuff’s thrown at you, like, 1077 01:32:28,735 --> 01:32:30,372 \hthere’s been panties thrown at you, Carlos? 1078 01:32:30,372 --> 01:32:34,042 Uh, there was an occasion \h\h\h\h\h\hwhere panties \hwere thrown at me, yes. 1079 01:32:34,042 --> 01:32:36,075 \h\h\hINTERVIEWER: It seems like you’ve been touring constantly. 1080 01:32:36,075 --> 01:32:37,735 it seems like you’ve hardly \h\h\h\hreally had a break. 1081 01:32:37,735 --> 01:32:39,867 \h\h\h\h\hINTERVIEWER 2: What’s fans reactions been \h\h\h\hto this new album? 1082 01:32:39,867 --> 01:32:42,108 Wherever we’ve gone, it’s been just kind of, like, 1083 01:32:42,108 --> 01:32:44,933 \h\h\h\ha similar sort of excitement and enthusiasm. 1084 01:32:45,801 --> 01:32:51,042 Before Napster, \h\hwe would have made a shit load of money. 1085 01:32:52,702 --> 01:32:54,273 But actually... 1086 01:32:54,273 --> 01:32:55,867 I didn’t really care. 1087 01:32:56,405 --> 01:33:02,174 \h\h\h\h\h\hBecause people from all around the world found out about our music. 1088 01:33:04,273 --> 01:33:09,867 \h\h\h\h\h\hI remember thinking \h\h\h\h\h\hback to all of those guidance counselor meetings... 1089 01:33:10,966 --> 01:33:13,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hwhen I said, "I wanna be a rock star." 1090 01:33:26,207 --> 01:33:30,207 ♪ Yeah, but nobody searches 1091 01:33:30,207 --> 01:33:32,999 ♪ And nobody cares somehow 1092 01:33:32,999 --> 01:33:36,306 ♪ When the loving that you’ve wasted 1093 01:33:36,306 --> 01:33:39,867 ♪ Comes raining from \h\ha hapless cloud 1094 01:33:39,867 --> 01:33:43,207 \h\h\h♪ And I might stop and look upon your face 1095 01:33:43,207 --> 01:33:46,339 \h\h\h\h\h\h♪ Disappear in the sweet, sweet gaze 1096 01:33:46,339 --> 01:33:49,966 \h♪ See the living that surrounds me 1097 01:33:49,966 --> 01:33:54,042 ♪ Dissipate in a violet place 1098 01:33:55,207 --> 01:34:02,207 \h\h♪ Can’t you see \h\hwhat you’ve done to my heart and soul 1099 01:34:02,537 --> 01:34:06,339 ♪ This is a wasteland now 1100 01:34:07,108 --> 01:34:10,174 ♪ We spies, we slow hands 1101 01:34:10,174 --> 01:34:13,537 ♪ Put the weights \haround yourself 1102 01:34:13,537 --> 01:34:17,537 ♪ We spies, oh, yeah \h\h\hWe slow hands 1103 01:34:17,537 --> 01:34:20,372 ♪ We retire like nobody else 1104 01:34:20,372 --> 01:34:23,240 \h\h\h\h\h♪ We spies intimate slow hands 1105 01:34:23,240 --> 01:34:27,537 \h\h\h 1106 01:34:32,504 --> 01:34:35,999 \h\h\h\h\h\hAfter falling from the stage in a show in Australia last month, 1107 01:34:35,999 --> 01:34:38,867 Karen O, the tough front woman \h\h\h\hof the Yeah Yeah Yeahs 1108 01:34:38,867 --> 01:34:43,174 \h\h\hstill managed to compose herself enough \h\h\hto perform Maps. 1109 01:35:37,504 --> 01:35:39,405 ♪ Pack up 1110 01:35:39,504 --> 01:35:41,603 ♪ I’m straight 1111 01:35:41,834 --> 01:35:43,438 ♪ Enough 1112 01:35:43,438 --> 01:35:45,438 ♪ Oh, say, say, say 1113 01:35:45,438 --> 01:35:47,471 ♪ Oh, say, say, say 1114 01:35:47,471 --> 01:35:49,504 ♪ Oh, say, say, say 1115 01:35:49,504 --> 01:35:51,504 ♪ Oh, say, say, say 1116 01:35:51,504 --> 01:35:53,339 ♪ Oh, say, say, say 1117 01:35:53,339 --> 01:35:57,339 ♪ Wait, they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1118 01:35:57,339 --> 01:36:01,999 ♪ Wait, they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1119 01:36:01,999 --> 01:36:06,240 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah 1120 01:36:06,240 --> 01:36:07,174 ♪ Just wait 1121 01:36:07,174 --> 01:36:10,669 ♪ They don’t love you \h\h\hlike I love you 1122 01:36:41,240 --> 01:36:45,372 ♪ Wait, they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1123 01:36:45,372 --> 01:36:49,900 ♪ Wait, they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1124 01:36:49,900 --> 01:36:54,075 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah 1125 01:36:54,075 --> 01:36:54,669 ♪ Just wait 1126 01:36:54,669 --> 01:36:57,405 ♪ For they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1127 01:36:57,405 --> 01:37:02,042 ♪ Wait, they don’t love you \h\h\h\h\h\hlike I love you 1128 01:37:02,042 --> 01:37:06,108 ♪ Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah 1129 01:37:06,108 --> 01:37:07,108 ♪ Just wait 1130 01:37:55,471 --> 01:37:58,306 \h\h-I’m so annoyed \h\hwith this dude. -What dude? 1131 01:37:58,306 --> 01:38:00,306 So, here it’s just things like, 1132 01:38:00,306 --> 01:38:03,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h"I’m sad because I had a show booked with LCD. 1133 01:38:03,141 --> 01:38:06,141 "The date, like, all U.S. dates \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hgot canceled." 1134 01:38:06,141 --> 01:38:07,801 There was no fucking U.S. tour. 1135 01:38:07,801 --> 01:38:09,306 We never had a U.S. tour. 1136 01:38:09,306 --> 01:38:10,471 Are you responding to it? 1137 01:38:10,471 --> 01:38:12,141 \h\h\h\h\h\h-JAMES: Yeah. -What are you gonna say? 1138 01:38:12,141 --> 01:38:16,702 \h\h\hJAMES: I have to say this shit sounds a lot like \h\h\ha fucking guilt trip. 1139 01:38:16,702 --> 01:38:18,372 What are you, my mother? 1140 01:38:18,372 --> 01:38:19,636 Eat it. 1141 01:38:20,306 --> 01:38:21,141 Fucking baby. 1142 01:38:21,141 --> 01:38:22,207 \h\h\hWhy are you getting so angry? \h\h\h\h 1143 01:38:22,207 --> 01:38:26,801 I-- Just the concept \h\h\hof emailing somebody \h\h\h\his so alien to me. 1144 01:38:45,141 --> 01:38:46,141 \h\h\hINTERVIEWER: So, you’re tied up? 1145 01:38:46,141 --> 01:38:48,702 Oh, I don’t wanna do this. \h\h\hI hate this so much. 1146 01:38:48,702 --> 01:38:52,768 James, I’m serious, lip sync to a different song. \h\h\hSing a different song. 1147 01:38:52,768 --> 01:38:56,339 \hI’m doing that now. It’s called talking. 1148 01:38:56,339 --> 01:38:58,306 I can talk all day. 1149 01:39:05,867 --> 01:39:10,735 \h\h\h\h\hJAMES: Those years were the big bang of my life. 1150 01:39:18,669 --> 01:39:21,669 I finally found my friends. 1151 01:39:24,240 --> 01:39:26,405 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: Can we do claps again? 1152 01:39:31,240 --> 01:39:32,273 Yes! 1153 01:39:35,273 --> 01:39:37,240 I felt safe. 1154 01:39:45,108 --> 01:39:48,438 The Brooklyn Waterfront will likely be getting \h\h\h\h\h\ha makeover. 1155 01:39:48,438 --> 01:39:51,405 \h\h\h\hMayor Bloomberg wants to rezone part of the area... 1156 01:39:51,405 --> 01:39:52,372 The neighborhood has had a rebirth 1157 01:39:52,372 --> 01:39:55,240 and now it’s a choice location \hfor commerce and for living. 1158 01:39:55,240 --> 01:39:57,339 \h\hMALE REPORTER: \h\hIt is no longer a well-kept secret. 1159 01:39:57,339 --> 01:40:00,702 What began with a trickle \h\h\h\h\hhas turned into \ha flood of Manhattanites 1160 01:40:00,702 --> 01:40:03,867 \hcrossing the East River \h\h\h\h\hinto Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood. 1161 01:40:03,867 --> 01:40:09,108 \h-Many of them drawn... \h\h-DAVE: Our rent had tripled in three years. 1162 01:40:09,207 --> 01:40:12,867 The landlords cleared out \hwhole fucking buildings. 1163 01:40:13,702 --> 01:40:15,867 Pushing families out. 1164 01:40:20,438 --> 01:40:25,273 \h\h\hKAREN O: I was grieving the dissipation of the scene. 1165 01:40:25,273 --> 01:40:29,669 I don’t want to stick around \hand just watch it go away. 1166 01:40:30,669 --> 01:40:32,702 I left New York City. 1167 01:40:33,867 --> 01:40:37,603 I felt too nostalgic for it \hwhen everything happened. 1168 01:40:38,240 --> 01:40:40,240 See now, everybody \hwas just playing music, you know what I’m saying. 1169 01:40:40,240 --> 01:40:44,669 \h\h\h\h-KAREN O: It’s nuts, yeah, good music. Everywhere. \h\h\h\h\h-NICK: Yeah, yeah. 1170 01:40:44,669 --> 01:40:46,537 \h-NICK: Yeah. -Yeah. 1171 01:40:46,537 --> 01:40:48,438 It was like a flash. 1172 01:41:33,504 --> 01:41:37,570 When we first met, that’s what we bonded over, \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hIt was... 1173 01:41:37,570 --> 01:41:42,339 \h\h\h\h\h\h\hthe belief that we could accomplish \hanything we wanted to. 1174 01:41:45,603 --> 01:41:47,339 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hJAMES: Everything was so innocent, 1175 01:41:47,339 --> 01:41:50,306 \h\h\h\h\h\hand somehow you lose it through time 1176 01:41:50,306 --> 01:41:53,900 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hand then \h\hyou spend a lot of time chasing that same innocence, 1177 01:41:53,900 --> 01:41:57,603 \hthat feeling of just being young. 1178 01:42:25,867 --> 01:42:28,504 Day upon day, 1179 01:42:28,504 --> 01:42:31,504 and year upon year, O city, 1180 01:42:31,570 --> 01:42:33,669 walking your streets, 1181 01:42:38,669 --> 01:42:41,867 Keep your splendid silent sun. 1182 01:42:42,636 --> 01:42:44,636 Keep your woods, O Nature, 1183 01:42:44,636 --> 01:42:47,801 and your corn-fields \h\h\hand orchards. 1184 01:42:52,471 --> 01:42:55,504 Give me faces and streets! 1185 01:42:56,669 --> 01:42:59,504 \h\h\h\h\h\hGive me comrades and lovers by the thousand! 1186 01:42:59,504 --> 01:43:01,636 \h\h\h\h\hLet me see new ones every day! 1187 01:43:01,636 --> 01:43:03,801 \hLet me hold new ones by the hand every day! 1188 01:43:03,801 --> 01:43:08,900 Give me such shows! Give me the streets \h\h\hof Manhattan! 1189 01:43:10,735 --> 01:43:15,867 People, endless, streaming, \h\h\h\hwith strong voices, \h\h\h\hpassions, pageants. 1190 01:43:15,867 --> 01:43:22,801 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan streets, \h\h\hwith their powerful throbs, with the beating drums, as now. 1191 01:43:22,900 --> 01:43:25,933 The endless and noisy chorus. 1192 01:43:29,405 --> 01:43:35,372 \h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan crowds with their turbulent musical chorus. 1193 01:43:35,471 --> 01:43:41,735 \h\h\h\h\h\hManhattan faces and the eyes forever for me. 1194 01:44:03,834 --> 01:44:07,372 ♪ Many years since I was here 1195 01:44:08,603 --> 01:44:13,702 \h\h\h\h\h♪ On the street I was passing my time away 1196 01:44:13,867 --> 01:44:16,669 \h♪ To the left and to the right 1197 01:44:16,669 --> 01:44:19,438 ♪ Towers tumble to the sky 1198 01:44:19,438 --> 01:44:21,471 ♪ It’s out of sight 1199 01:44:21,471 --> 01:44:23,999 ♪ In the dead of night 1200 01:44:25,042 --> 01:44:28,438 ♪ Here I am again in the city 1201 01:44:29,768 --> 01:44:31,504 ♪ With a fistful of dollars 1202 01:44:31,504 --> 01:44:35,867 \h\h\h\h\h\h\h\h♪ And, baby, you better believe I’m back 1203 01:44:35,867 --> 01:44:38,768 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1204 01:44:39,702 --> 01:44:40,933 ♪ I’m back 1205 01:44:40,933 --> 01:44:43,702 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1206 01:44:44,669 --> 01:44:45,867 ♪ I’m back 1207 01:44:45,867 --> 01:44:48,669 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1208 01:44:49,801 --> 01:44:51,108 ♪ I’m back 1209 01:44:51,108 --> 01:44:53,504 ♪ In the New York groove 1210 01:44:53,504 --> 01:44:55,768 ♪ In the New York groove 1211 01:44:59,834 --> 01:45:03,735 ♪ In the back of my Cadillac 1212 01:45:04,867 --> 01:45:07,537 \h♪ A wicked lady sittin’ by my side 1213 01:45:07,537 --> 01:45:09,735 ♪ Sayin’, "Where are we?" 1214 01:45:09,900 --> 01:45:12,834 ♪ Stopped at Third \hand Forty-three 1215 01:45:12,834 --> 01:45:14,438 ♪ Exit to the night 1216 01:45:14,438 --> 01:45:16,834 ♪ It’s gonna be ecstasy 1217 01:45:16,834 --> 01:45:19,867 ♪ This place was meant for me 1218 01:45:21,504 --> 01:45:25,933 ♪ I feel so good tonight 1219 01:45:25,933 --> 01:45:29,207 ♪ Who cares about tomorrow 1220 01:45:30,537 --> 01:45:31,735 ♪ I’m back 1221 01:45:31,735 --> 01:45:34,669 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1222 01:45:35,603 --> 01:45:36,768 ♪ I’m back 1223 01:45:36,768 --> 01:45:38,669 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1224 01:45:38,669 --> 01:45:40,570 ♪ New York groove 1225 01:45:40,570 --> 01:45:41,702 ♪ I’m back 1226 01:45:41,702 --> 01:45:43,669 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1227 01:45:43,669 --> 01:45:45,603 ♪ New York groove 1228 01:45:45,603 --> 01:45:46,669 ♪ I’m back 1229 01:45:46,669 --> 01:45:48,207 ♪ In the New York groove 1230 01:45:48,207 --> 01:45:50,669 ♪ New York groove 1231 01:45:50,669 --> 01:45:51,867 ♪ I’m back 1232 01:45:51,867 --> 01:45:53,537 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1233 01:45:53,537 --> 01:45:55,735 ♪ New York groove 1234 01:45:55,735 --> 01:45:56,900 ♪ I’m back 1235 01:45:56,900 --> 01:45:58,504 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1236 01:45:58,504 --> 01:46:00,834 ♪ New York groove 1237 01:46:00,834 --> 01:46:01,933 ♪ I’m back 1238 01:46:01,933 --> 01:46:03,504 ♪ Back in the New York groove 1239 01:46:03,504 --> 01:46:05,801 ♪ New York groove 1240 01:46:05,801 --> 01:46:06,768 ♪ I’m back 1241 01:46:06,768 --> 01:46:08,570 ♪ New York groove 1242 01:46:08,570 --> 01:46:10,141 ♪ New York groove 1243 01:46:10,141 --> 01:46:13,504 \h\h\h- New York groove 1244 01:46:13,504 --> 01:46:15,108 ♪ New York groove 1245 01:46:15,108 --> 01:46:18,504 \h\h\h- New York groove 1246 01:46:18,570 --> 01:46:20,075 ♪ New York groove 1247 01:46:20,075 --> 01:46:23,603 \h\h\h- New York groove 1248 01:46:23,603 --> 01:46:24,966 ♪ New York groove 1249 01:46:24,966 --> 01:46:26,926 \h\h\h-