Jobriath A.D.

1 00:00:10,344 --> 00:00:13,013 (rain, thunder) 2 00:00:17,051 --> 00:00:19,653 (neon buzzing) 3 00:00:21,000 --> 00:00:27,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 4 00:00:38,038 --> 00:00:40,874 (dissonant piano) 5 00:00:45,613 --> 00:00:48,549 (TV movie droning) 6 00:00:54,122 --> 00:00:56,441 - He was gonna be the most sensational thing. 7 00:00:56,524 --> 00:00:58,076 - Jobriath was a virtuoso on the piano. 8 00:00:58,159 --> 00:00:59,577 - Jobriath was gifted. 9 00:00:59,660 --> 00:01:00,878 - Jobriath was the real deal. 10 00:01:00,961 --> 00:01:03,281 - He was presented to the world 11 00:01:03,364 --> 00:01:05,250 like a full formed rock star. 12 00:01:05,333 --> 00:01:06,817 - They had a gigantic billboard 13 00:01:06,900 --> 00:01:07,885 on Times Square. 14 00:01:07,968 --> 00:01:09,387 - Let's go, take it over the top. 15 00:01:09,470 --> 00:01:10,455 - He was playing a role. 16 00:01:10,538 --> 00:01:11,422 - The new David Bowie. 17 00:01:11,505 --> 00:01:12,957 - Lots of tons of money. 18 00:01:13,040 --> 00:01:14,492 - True fairy of rock and roll. 19 00:01:14,575 --> 00:01:15,826 - I'm the real faggot. 20 00:01:15,909 --> 00:01:17,028 - Fairies don't sell. 21 00:01:17,111 --> 00:01:18,863 - Everyone hated him and was gunning for him. 22 00:01:18,946 --> 00:01:20,065 - The rocket, the crash. 23 00:01:20,148 --> 00:01:21,666 - Every time he put on the costumes, 24 00:01:21,749 --> 00:01:22,900 his personality would change. 25 00:01:22,983 --> 00:01:24,899 - He was definitely ahead of his time. 26 00:01:26,787 --> 00:01:29,623 ('60s rock music) 27 00:01:39,533 --> 00:01:41,018 - [Voiceover] 1968. 28 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:44,366 The most explosive year in an already turbulent decade. 29 00:01:45,072 --> 00:01:46,657 Assassinations, 30 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:48,259 serial killer, 31 00:01:48,342 --> 00:01:49,927 civil unrest, 32 00:01:50,010 --> 00:01:51,562 rioting in the streets, 33 00:01:51,645 --> 00:01:53,231 and the daily body count brought to you 34 00:01:53,314 --> 00:01:55,333 by the 6:00 news. 35 00:01:55,416 --> 00:01:56,867 The youth counterculture was looking for 36 00:01:56,950 --> 00:01:58,469 something that expressed their views 37 00:01:58,552 --> 00:02:02,207 on racial, political and sexual freedoms. 38 00:02:02,290 --> 00:02:04,225 What they got was Hair. 39 00:02:05,293 --> 00:02:08,362 (thumping bass rock) 40 00:02:12,099 --> 00:02:13,918 Hair's provocative cult of freedom 41 00:02:14,001 --> 00:02:15,986 lured a new generation from all corners 42 00:02:16,069 --> 00:02:17,322 of the globe. 43 00:02:17,405 --> 00:02:19,157 Among them was a young musician 44 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:20,508 named Jobriath. 45 00:02:21,742 --> 00:02:24,362 - He was the epitome of that kind of person 46 00:02:24,445 --> 00:02:26,197 that they were trying to portray. 47 00:02:26,280 --> 00:02:30,101 - Because he really believed in those words. 48 00:02:30,184 --> 00:02:32,370 - Jobriath played a gay character 49 00:02:32,453 --> 00:02:33,804 who was in love with Mick Jagger. 50 00:02:33,887 --> 00:02:36,073 - He was very wolf-like, 51 00:02:36,156 --> 00:02:37,675 which was, the character was kind of 52 00:02:37,758 --> 00:02:39,660 a love child gone wild. 53 00:02:41,300 --> 00:02:43,402 * Sodomy 54 00:02:45,666 --> 00:02:47,901 * Fellatio 55 00:02:49,557 --> 00:02:52,059 * Cunnilingus 56 00:02:53,274 --> 00:02:56,561 * Pederasty 57 00:02:56,644 --> 00:02:59,330 - Jobriath, the minute he stepped on stage, he was, 58 00:02:59,966 --> 00:03:03,225 he embraced the audience and the audience embraced him. 59 00:03:05,486 --> 00:03:09,240 - He did have that kind of sexual presence about him. 60 00:03:09,323 --> 00:03:12,743 You could see him loving a man and a woman at the same time. 61 00:03:12,826 --> 00:03:14,645 You could see in him, 62 00:03:14,728 --> 00:03:16,846 kind of a man and a woman at the same time. 63 00:03:16,930 --> 00:03:19,993 * Aquarius 64 00:03:20,501 --> 00:03:24,455 - He used every gimmick that was there, 65 00:03:24,538 --> 00:03:26,940 that you remembered Jobriath. 66 00:03:28,376 --> 00:03:29,727 - I don't think he was acting. 67 00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:31,538 I think he was just himself. 68 00:03:31,839 --> 00:03:33,887 - Oh God, he fascinated me immediately. 69 00:03:34,714 --> 00:03:36,333 He was very angelic. 70 00:03:36,523 --> 00:03:37,974 Very impish. 71 00:03:38,218 --> 00:03:40,104 And yet, when you started to talk to him, 72 00:03:40,187 --> 00:03:41,739 he wasn't just 73 00:03:41,822 --> 00:03:43,241 your average dumb blonde, you know, 74 00:03:43,324 --> 00:03:45,610 he had something to say and something to talk about. 75 00:03:45,693 --> 00:03:48,112 - Jobriath also was a virtuoso on the piano. 76 00:03:48,195 --> 00:03:49,847 - On all our breaks at rehearsals, 77 00:03:49,930 --> 00:03:51,882 he would, everybody else would go to 78 00:03:51,965 --> 00:03:54,352 the bathroom or they'd go get something to drink, 79 00:03:54,435 --> 00:03:56,521 there was Jobriath just sitting at the piano 80 00:03:56,604 --> 00:03:58,423 and just playing and composing. 81 00:03:58,506 --> 00:04:00,325 Hey, I just wrote this, I want you to hear this 82 00:04:00,408 --> 00:04:02,443 and he floored everybody. 83 00:04:05,819 --> 00:04:08,639 - Otis and I met Jobriath and we instantly 84 00:04:08,723 --> 00:04:10,575 attached ourselves to each other. 85 00:04:10,659 --> 00:04:12,978 He was living in a house all by himself 86 00:04:13,062 --> 00:04:15,918 and Otis and I kind of moved in there with him. 87 00:04:16,297 --> 00:04:17,548 And it was almost like he became 88 00:04:17,632 --> 00:04:19,752 our adopted child. 89 00:04:20,087 --> 00:04:21,445 And then Mercy came to live with us, 90 00:04:21,529 --> 00:04:23,158 Miss Mercy of the GTOs. 91 00:04:23,678 --> 00:04:24,694 - I went to see Hair 92 00:04:25,533 --> 00:04:26,918 and I was with Miss Christine and 93 00:04:27,001 --> 00:04:30,021 I think Bianca Jagger was there that night. 94 00:04:30,104 --> 00:04:32,690 And at the end of Hair, 95 00:04:32,773 --> 00:04:33,825 they would come out and they would drag 96 00:04:33,908 --> 00:04:35,693 people on stage. 97 00:04:35,776 --> 00:04:37,829 And I saw this pretty blonde coming at me 98 00:04:37,912 --> 00:04:39,064 and it was Jobriath and he dragged 99 00:04:39,147 --> 00:04:41,032 me up on stage. 100 00:04:42,378 --> 00:04:43,601 And I went home with him. 101 00:04:43,684 --> 00:04:45,136 I just loved him. 102 00:04:45,219 --> 00:04:46,671 But he was gay. 103 00:04:46,754 --> 00:04:47,806 But, what can you say? 104 00:04:47,889 --> 00:04:49,407 It was still a platonic love affair. 105 00:04:49,490 --> 00:04:51,909 - Jobriath, to me, 106 00:04:52,861 --> 00:04:55,914 I would observe his relationship with women 107 00:04:55,997 --> 00:04:57,899 was reference material. 108 00:04:58,923 --> 00:05:01,176 - He never talked to me about how 109 00:05:01,259 --> 00:05:03,136 he became gay or why he was gay 110 00:05:03,219 --> 00:05:05,390 or, we never really talked about that. 111 00:05:05,473 --> 00:05:10,085 - He was very quiet about his personal 112 00:05:10,169 --> 00:05:12,063 life and his sexual life, particularly. 113 00:05:12,146 --> 00:05:13,698 As flamboyant as he tried to be and 114 00:05:13,781 --> 00:05:16,401 as flirtatious as he was, that his 115 00:05:16,484 --> 00:05:20,588 sexuality was not a major importance in his life. 116 00:05:21,789 --> 00:05:23,141 Or something that he was maybe even 117 00:05:23,224 --> 00:05:25,393 entirely comfortable with. 118 00:05:26,594 --> 00:05:30,481 - He was in the L.A. Hair for a long time 119 00:05:30,565 --> 00:05:32,838 and he was doing Pidgeon at the time, too. 120 00:05:34,201 --> 00:05:37,204 (bluesy rock music) 121 00:05:43,111 --> 00:05:47,098 * I want to stay 122 00:05:47,181 --> 00:05:48,967 - I had been producing a rock and roll 123 00:05:49,050 --> 00:05:51,669 group when somebody brought Pidgeon 124 00:05:51,752 --> 00:05:54,591 or Jobriath, I think it was Pidgeon, 125 00:05:54,684 --> 00:05:55,509 to me. 126 00:05:56,490 --> 00:05:59,560 Jobriath was a wonderful, flashy pianist. 127 00:06:00,694 --> 00:06:03,748 I had been in rock and roll a long time, but this was something different. 128 00:06:03,831 --> 00:06:05,783 * See the brightly colored lights 129 00:06:05,866 --> 00:06:08,053 * Hanging on a string 130 00:06:08,136 --> 00:06:11,789 * You can almost hear them say 131 00:06:11,872 --> 00:06:14,559 - I don't remember hearing demos, but it's the kind of thing if Stan said he's got 132 00:06:14,642 --> 00:06:17,262 somebody that's good, you know, Stan was the best guy in town, 133 00:06:17,345 --> 00:06:18,997 so we wouldn't question something like that. 134 00:06:19,080 --> 00:06:21,933 But then I do remember the first day or so they came in, I think Jobriath sat down 135 00:06:22,016 --> 00:06:23,969 and started playing and Rich and I both 136 00:06:24,052 --> 00:06:26,838 looked at each other and said okay, fine. This guy's different. 137 00:06:26,921 --> 00:06:28,606 * The wind blows cold 138 00:06:28,689 --> 00:06:32,077 * It'll bend the body of a wild 139 00:06:32,160 --> 00:06:34,745 * Soft, brainless buzz 140 00:06:34,828 --> 00:06:38,083 - His classical piano style created 141 00:06:38,166 --> 00:06:41,002 these melodies around this poetry. 142 00:06:43,071 --> 00:06:45,572 - Jobriath incorporated all the very 143 00:06:45,655 --> 00:06:51,272 legitimate classical underneath all his singing and you'd hear a little Mozart 144 00:06:52,480 --> 00:06:54,332 and Beethoven, a lot of Chopin. 145 00:06:54,415 --> 00:06:57,202 Literally underneath all this somewhat 146 00:06:57,285 --> 00:06:58,953 rock and roll music. 147 00:07:04,692 --> 00:07:08,462 - He had a delivery, vocally, that was very pure and innocent. 148 00:07:09,964 --> 00:07:12,884 * When I was younger 149 00:07:12,967 --> 00:07:15,921 * And my needs were small 150 00:07:16,004 --> 00:07:17,889 - He could really sing, too. 151 00:07:17,972 --> 00:07:19,690 And the Pidgeon album was really beautiful. 152 00:07:19,773 --> 00:07:21,826 - By saying he was a band, I guess technically 153 00:07:21,909 --> 00:07:23,794 it was a band, but it was the kind of band 154 00:07:23,877 --> 00:07:25,964 that okay, it's really 155 00:07:26,047 --> 00:07:28,099 I mean, this is 90% of it right here, 156 00:07:28,182 --> 00:07:30,401 it's built around Jobriath. 157 00:07:30,484 --> 00:07:33,038 He was just head and shoulders above any of the other guys. 158 00:07:33,121 --> 00:07:34,906 It was apparent, there was no fighting 159 00:07:34,989 --> 00:07:38,343 to see who the top dog is, it was apparent. 160 00:07:38,426 --> 00:07:40,811 - Jobriath had a lot of potential. 161 00:07:40,894 --> 00:07:43,122 But he was almost too complicated 162 00:07:43,206 --> 00:07:45,449 in many ways. 163 00:07:45,533 --> 00:07:47,518 - It was kind of rock opera. 164 00:07:47,601 --> 00:07:51,772 * No one has the time 165 00:07:54,642 --> 00:07:56,561 - When the album was finished, 166 00:07:56,644 --> 00:07:58,029 somebody over there at Decca Records 167 00:07:58,112 --> 00:08:00,365 got this idea of doing this album cover 168 00:08:00,448 --> 00:08:02,767 for Pidgeon in a submarine sandwich 169 00:08:02,850 --> 00:08:04,936 with lettuce and tomatoes hanging out 170 00:08:05,019 --> 00:08:06,871 the pieces of bread 171 00:08:06,954 --> 00:08:08,689 in a double fold-out. 172 00:08:10,558 --> 00:08:11,977 It got kind of both negative and 173 00:08:12,060 --> 00:08:14,679 positive reviews in Billboard and Cashbox 174 00:08:14,762 --> 00:08:18,532 saying this is an interesting kind of folk rock-classical act. 175 00:08:22,298 --> 00:08:23,688 The band was not tight enough or 176 00:08:23,771 --> 00:08:25,254 musical enough or good enough together to 177 00:08:25,337 --> 00:08:26,798 continue, they just 178 00:08:26,881 --> 00:08:28,588 kind of drifted apart. 179 00:08:36,850 --> 00:08:42,439 * Aquarius 180 00:08:42,523 --> 00:08:43,941 - Michael Butler, at the closure of 181 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:46,377 the L.A. show, said that everybody could 182 00:08:46,460 --> 00:08:49,514 just come to New York and be in that show. 183 00:08:49,597 --> 00:08:51,832 And that included Jobriath. 184 00:08:53,167 --> 00:08:55,620 There was a lot of playing music after shows 185 00:08:55,703 --> 00:08:58,556 and there was a lot of recording going on. 186 00:08:58,639 --> 00:09:00,725 And Jobriath kind of jumped into that. 187 00:09:00,808 --> 00:09:03,561 He had this demo he was trying to put together. 188 00:09:03,644 --> 00:09:04,996 - He had written, sort of taking a whole 189 00:09:05,079 --> 00:09:07,265 new direction, and written new songs 190 00:09:07,348 --> 00:09:09,267 and so he came by the studio and sat down 191 00:09:09,350 --> 00:09:11,569 and played five things, and two of them 192 00:09:11,652 --> 00:09:13,604 just jumped out, where Rich and I both said 193 00:09:13,687 --> 00:09:15,340 okay, this is different. 194 00:09:15,423 --> 00:09:17,075 And that was the original, when he had 195 00:09:17,158 --> 00:09:19,677 just written Inside and I'maman. 196 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,096 * I'm a man 197 00:09:24,519 --> 00:09:27,052 * Yeah, I'm an elegant man 198 00:09:27,135 --> 00:09:29,820 * I'm a man 199 00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:33,724 * Satin bows and open toes 200 00:09:33,807 --> 00:09:36,461 * Are what I am 201 00:09:36,544 --> 00:09:38,163 - Right after having just done 202 00:09:38,246 --> 00:09:40,298 Steppenwolf and especially Three Dog Night, 203 00:09:40,381 --> 00:09:41,899 we were in the business of making 204 00:09:41,982 --> 00:09:44,502 radio-friendly records, that's what we're looking for. 205 00:09:44,585 --> 00:09:46,071 It was so apparent that this is really 206 00:09:46,154 --> 00:09:47,372 a unique talent. 207 00:09:47,455 --> 00:09:49,107 But yet, in our line of business, 208 00:09:49,190 --> 00:09:51,709 we couldn't do anything with it. 209 00:09:51,792 --> 00:09:53,444 - My impression of him first off 210 00:09:53,527 --> 00:09:56,147 was that he was tremendously talented. 211 00:09:56,230 --> 00:10:00,051 And slightly disturbed about things in his life. 212 00:10:00,134 --> 00:10:02,253 - Any genius or these wonderful people 213 00:10:02,336 --> 00:10:04,489 have these other flip sides to them. 214 00:10:04,572 --> 00:10:06,157 - I think there were times when he was 215 00:10:06,240 --> 00:10:09,194 so driven that it was almost a manic thing. 216 00:10:09,277 --> 00:10:11,229 - I came over there one day and he was 217 00:10:11,312 --> 00:10:13,598 chopping up a grand piano, 218 00:10:13,681 --> 00:10:16,967 saying the devil had possession of his soul. 219 00:10:17,050 --> 00:10:20,171 So he was really going loony tunes. 220 00:10:20,254 --> 00:10:22,081 - Jobriath was fired from the show. 221 00:10:24,278 --> 00:10:27,648 And it may have felt inevitable at some point. 222 00:10:30,855 --> 00:10:33,318 But that was probably the best thing for him. 223 00:10:33,401 --> 00:10:36,404 Because he was able to do his music. 224 00:10:41,074 --> 00:10:45,130 - I didn't sense any drive from Jobriath 225 00:10:45,213 --> 00:10:49,278 in trying to grasp the brass ring 226 00:10:49,766 --> 00:10:50,934 or the Grammy. 227 00:10:51,018 --> 00:10:54,639 I think Jobriath was playing for the love of music. 228 00:10:54,722 --> 00:10:55,806 I don't know if he had a manager when 229 00:10:55,889 --> 00:10:58,326 he first arrived in New York. 230 00:10:59,993 --> 00:11:02,996 (thumping bass rock) 231 00:11:10,037 --> 00:11:13,207 - Jerry Brandt was a serious operator. 232 00:11:14,141 --> 00:11:15,760 - I'm a huckster. 233 00:11:15,843 --> 00:11:16,894 I'm a promoter. 234 00:11:16,977 --> 00:11:18,529 - Very driven, very obsessed. 235 00:11:18,612 --> 00:11:20,030 Very smooth. 236 00:11:20,113 --> 00:11:22,567 - Sexy and slimy all at once. 237 00:11:22,650 --> 00:11:25,039 He was very powerful. 238 00:11:26,754 --> 00:11:28,339 - I'm booking Fabian, 239 00:11:28,422 --> 00:11:29,774 I took over Sam Cooke, 240 00:11:29,857 --> 00:11:31,376 bought the Rolling Stones. 241 00:11:31,459 --> 00:11:34,279 - Jerry Brandt was exceptionally 242 00:11:34,362 --> 00:11:37,615 handsome in a reptilian sort of way. 243 00:11:37,698 --> 00:11:40,100 - Coif such like Mick Jagger. 244 00:11:40,968 --> 00:11:43,053 All rock and roll image. 245 00:11:43,136 --> 00:11:47,024 - Jerry was the man who discovered Carly Simon. 246 00:11:47,107 --> 00:11:49,794 He just kind of reeked of money and power. 247 00:11:49,877 --> 00:11:51,829 - Jerry Brandt opened the club called 248 00:11:51,912 --> 00:11:54,165 The Electric Circus. 249 00:11:54,248 --> 00:11:56,984 - It was a theater of the absurd. 250 00:11:59,152 --> 00:12:01,772 It was a traveling road show 251 00:12:01,855 --> 00:12:04,358 on the West Coast of New York. 252 00:12:05,326 --> 00:12:06,444 Sly played there, 253 00:12:06,527 --> 00:12:07,812 Doors played there, 254 00:12:07,895 --> 00:12:09,814 Grateful Dead played there. 255 00:12:09,897 --> 00:12:11,565 I knew this was big. 256 00:12:15,536 --> 00:12:17,121 - He loved to promote. 257 00:12:17,204 --> 00:12:19,490 And he was very good at it. 258 00:12:19,573 --> 00:12:21,926 - Jerry Brandt was seen as a hype master. 259 00:12:22,009 --> 00:12:24,708 - Jerry was Svengali. 260 00:12:27,715 --> 00:12:30,499 - Jerry had a really 261 00:12:30,582 --> 00:12:32,650 infamous reputation. 262 00:12:35,356 --> 00:12:37,024 - Jerry was a prick. 263 00:12:42,630 --> 00:12:45,683 - There was a young, beautiful German boy 264 00:12:45,766 --> 00:12:48,286 who worked at CBS who adored Jobriath, 265 00:12:48,369 --> 00:12:49,820 loved his music. 266 00:12:49,903 --> 00:12:52,390 And he says you gotta listen to this tape. 267 00:12:52,473 --> 00:12:55,192 And I listened to it and I said, 268 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:57,595 something incredible here. 269 00:12:57,678 --> 00:12:59,980 I don't know what it is, but 270 00:13:01,148 --> 00:13:01,982 very hot. 271 00:13:02,983 --> 00:13:04,635 * Amazing 272 00:13:04,718 --> 00:13:07,338 * Amazing dope tales 273 00:13:07,421 --> 00:13:09,006 * Amazing dope tales 274 00:13:09,089 --> 00:13:10,708 * Amazing dope tales 275 00:13:10,791 --> 00:13:12,743 - I thought he was very smart 276 00:13:12,826 --> 00:13:14,545 and very sexy. 277 00:13:14,628 --> 00:13:18,516 Now, what more could a manager want from a guy? 278 00:13:18,599 --> 00:13:21,068 He could write, he could sing, he could dance. 279 00:13:22,970 --> 00:13:24,455 I bought it. 280 00:13:24,538 --> 00:13:25,723 - He realized that Jobriath had 281 00:13:25,806 --> 00:13:27,325 a lot of talent. 282 00:13:27,408 --> 00:13:30,395 And he saw a lot of money, but he also 283 00:13:30,478 --> 00:13:33,598 had a genuine affection for him. 284 00:13:33,681 --> 00:13:36,267 And Jobriath knew it, too. Jobriath knew how to work 285 00:13:36,350 --> 00:13:37,902 his way around. 286 00:13:37,985 --> 00:13:40,738 - I mean, he seduced me, period. 287 00:13:40,821 --> 00:13:43,757 And he was a charming little prick. 288 00:13:44,992 --> 00:13:49,013 Jobriath said I would like a deal with you 289 00:13:49,096 --> 00:13:51,932 the same as the Colonel and Elvis. 290 00:13:53,552 --> 00:13:58,385 Which indicated to me of his grandiose ideas. 291 00:13:58,866 --> 00:14:03,465 And their deal was 50/50 on everything down the line. 292 00:14:05,012 --> 00:14:08,299 So we drew up a partnership agreement. 293 00:14:08,382 --> 00:14:11,602 - When Jobriath hooked up with Jerry Brandt, 294 00:14:11,685 --> 00:14:13,738 right away Jobriath knew what he 295 00:14:13,821 --> 00:14:15,806 was looking for. 296 00:14:15,889 --> 00:14:17,842 And the next thing I knew, 297 00:14:18,178 --> 00:14:19,724 Jerry Brandt changed his life. 298 00:14:23,664 --> 00:14:25,416 - We were hearing about Jobriath's 299 00:14:25,499 --> 00:14:28,419 album that he was doing at Electric Lady 300 00:14:28,502 --> 00:14:30,838 with Eddie Kramer producing. 301 00:14:33,373 --> 00:14:36,276 (upbeat '70s rock) 302 00:14:41,415 --> 00:14:43,434 * Harmony is deafening 303 00:14:43,517 --> 00:14:45,336 * And lovers don't amuse 304 00:14:45,419 --> 00:14:47,572 * Oh, love 305 00:14:47,655 --> 00:14:49,874 * I'm bored 306 00:14:49,957 --> 00:14:52,209 * I could cry 307 00:14:52,292 --> 00:14:54,512 - Eddie Kramer is a tremendously 308 00:14:54,595 --> 00:14:56,647 talented engineer. 309 00:14:56,730 --> 00:14:58,215 He was the main engineer for 310 00:14:58,298 --> 00:15:00,217 Jimi Hendrix's recordings. 311 00:15:00,300 --> 00:15:01,852 He had worked with Led Zeppelin, 312 00:15:01,935 --> 00:15:04,555 The Beatles and Peter Frampton. 313 00:15:04,638 --> 00:15:06,323 - I was introduced to Jobriath 314 00:15:06,406 --> 00:15:08,292 by Jerry Brandt. 315 00:15:08,388 --> 00:15:12,296 I'd done an album with him with Carly Simon, another one for the 316 00:15:12,379 --> 00:15:13,798 Voices of East Harlem, he was 317 00:15:13,881 --> 00:15:15,433 well-connected with Elektra. 318 00:15:15,516 --> 00:15:17,635 He gave me a demo for me to listen to 319 00:15:17,718 --> 00:15:18,803 and said what do you think and I thought 320 00:15:18,886 --> 00:15:20,705 it was incredible. 321 00:15:21,288 --> 00:15:22,806 (jazzy piano) 322 00:15:22,389 --> 00:15:23,474 - Wait a second. 323 00:15:23,557 --> 00:15:24,391 Jo. 324 00:15:25,759 --> 00:15:26,594 Jobriath. 325 00:15:27,695 --> 00:15:29,246 - He wanted everybody to come and sing 326 00:15:29,329 --> 00:15:30,715 with him, so a whole group of people 327 00:15:30,798 --> 00:15:32,517 that he knew from Hair and other places. 328 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:34,051 - It wasn't the full cast, but it was 329 00:15:34,134 --> 00:15:38,121 Vicki Sue Robinson and Heather, and myself. 330 00:15:38,205 --> 00:15:39,890 - To discover Richard Gere in that session, 331 00:15:39,973 --> 00:15:41,892 it was like who invited him? 332 00:15:41,975 --> 00:15:42,760 What's he doing there? 333 00:15:42,843 --> 00:15:43,994 He's not a singer. 334 00:15:44,077 --> 00:15:45,396 He was a friend of Vicki Sue Robinson. 335 00:15:45,479 --> 00:15:48,566 - With the melody (singing example). 336 00:15:48,649 --> 00:15:50,435 - When we recorded with Jobriath, 337 00:15:50,518 --> 00:15:52,503 he had everything mapped out. 338 00:15:52,586 --> 00:15:54,605 - He seemed quite technically competent 339 00:15:54,688 --> 00:15:55,806 in the studio. 340 00:15:55,889 --> 00:15:57,107 Multi-tracking, special effects 341 00:15:57,190 --> 00:15:59,009 and so forth, he understood 342 00:15:59,092 --> 00:16:00,878 the recording process. 343 00:16:00,961 --> 00:16:04,064 - Jobriath would dictate how it goes. 344 00:16:07,167 --> 00:16:09,420 - Jobriath writes all his own material, 345 00:16:09,503 --> 00:16:11,605 he writes all the lyrics, 346 00:16:13,173 --> 00:16:15,893 plays all the keyboards on the album, 347 00:16:15,976 --> 00:16:18,496 plays Moog, plays organ, 348 00:16:18,579 --> 00:16:20,848 plays some acoustic guitar, 349 00:16:21,982 --> 00:16:24,435 sings obviously all the lead parts. 350 00:16:24,518 --> 00:16:26,996 Jobriath has a distinctive style of writing. 351 00:16:31,592 --> 00:16:32,943 - Okay, let's go ahead and do it. 352 00:16:33,026 --> 00:16:33,778 - All right. 353 00:16:33,861 --> 00:16:35,262 - Let's go do it. 354 00:16:38,298 --> 00:16:41,868 ('70s drumming and guitar) 355 00:17:07,494 --> 00:17:09,313 - His ability to play classical music 356 00:17:09,396 --> 00:17:12,216 and rock and pop and Broadway 357 00:17:12,299 --> 00:17:15,736 and all the rest of that and sort of make it into his own thing. 358 00:17:23,110 --> 00:17:27,031 * Now rest your guilty bones 359 00:17:27,114 --> 00:17:30,034 * No need to suffer anymore 360 00:17:30,117 --> 00:17:32,302 - The music was complicated, 361 00:17:32,385 --> 00:17:33,553 sophisticated. 362 00:17:34,421 --> 00:17:36,507 - His vocal tics were eccentric. 363 00:17:36,590 --> 00:17:39,993 It did have a Jagger-esque swagger to it. 364 00:17:41,762 --> 00:17:44,932 - His lyrics are really fantasmagoric. 365 00:17:52,439 --> 00:17:55,192 - When he comes out and sings the song I'maman, you know, he's clearly 366 00:17:55,275 --> 00:17:57,194 giving you a different idea of what a man is. 367 00:17:57,277 --> 00:17:59,613 * I'm a man 368 00:18:02,182 --> 00:18:05,636 * So, I'm an elegant man 369 00:18:05,719 --> 00:18:06,871 * I'm a man 370 00:18:06,954 --> 00:18:09,990 - Everything you want to know about Jobriath is in his lyrics. 371 00:18:13,861 --> 00:18:16,630 - I believed him being who he was 372 00:18:17,530 --> 00:18:18,849 was more important than making 373 00:18:18,932 --> 00:18:20,934 a statement, "I am gay." 374 00:18:22,035 --> 00:18:23,387 - Had it never been brought up, 375 00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:25,823 you know, I wouldn't have cared less. 376 00:18:25,906 --> 00:18:29,359 You care about the music and you care about the performance. 377 00:18:29,442 --> 00:18:31,295 - Just because you're gay and you're out 378 00:18:31,378 --> 00:18:33,998 and you're a musician does not mean that you're going to be good. 379 00:18:34,081 --> 00:18:35,766 But you know, you find these rare people 380 00:18:35,849 --> 00:18:38,986 and their talent transcends their sexual orientation. 381 00:18:51,999 --> 00:18:53,651 - It was an amazing, 382 00:18:53,734 --> 00:18:55,586 amazing session. 383 00:18:55,669 --> 00:18:57,054 - He was his own person 384 00:18:57,137 --> 00:19:00,524 and he had developed this very unique style. 385 00:19:00,607 --> 00:19:04,094 Flamboyance to the point of craziness. 386 00:19:04,177 --> 00:19:05,946 He out-queened Queen. 387 00:19:09,616 --> 00:19:11,201 - He was different than anybody 388 00:19:11,284 --> 00:19:12,686 I have ever seen. 389 00:19:13,887 --> 00:19:16,957 His combinations of things said to me 390 00:19:18,058 --> 00:19:19,559 this could be big. 391 00:19:28,268 --> 00:19:30,587 - I don't think Jerry Brandt's 392 00:19:30,670 --> 00:19:32,256 forte was in the studio. 393 00:19:32,339 --> 00:19:34,992 Jerry Brandt was a business guy. 394 00:19:35,075 --> 00:19:37,394 - The first thing you do is make a record deal. 395 00:19:37,477 --> 00:19:38,896 - Jerry Brandt approached me with Jobriath 396 00:19:38,979 --> 00:19:40,814 very matter-of-factly. 397 00:19:43,050 --> 00:19:45,385 He brought me some material. 398 00:19:47,120 --> 00:19:48,673 He talked more about the marketing 399 00:19:48,756 --> 00:19:53,310 than he did about the music, which should have been something that had alerted me. 400 00:19:53,393 --> 00:19:54,895 - I think, to him, 401 00:19:56,396 --> 00:19:57,965 the music was okay. 402 00:19:58,966 --> 00:20:00,918 I mean, it was secondary to 403 00:20:01,001 --> 00:20:02,787 I gotta do this for Jerry Brandt. 404 00:20:02,870 --> 00:20:04,938 - Jerry seemed, you know, 405 00:20:06,073 --> 00:20:08,058 impossibly energized at the prospect 406 00:20:08,141 --> 00:20:11,662 of sort of being the Svengali figure. 407 00:20:11,745 --> 00:20:14,164 - When Jobriath started getting discovered 408 00:20:14,247 --> 00:20:16,834 and everything, he started to seem curious 409 00:20:16,917 --> 00:20:19,469 about changing his image and stuff. 410 00:20:19,552 --> 00:20:22,740 - I know he had sort of a flirtation 411 00:20:22,823 --> 00:20:25,375 with become a famous person, but 412 00:20:25,458 --> 00:20:27,511 I don't know if necessarily it was 413 00:20:27,594 --> 00:20:29,513 the fame he was after as much as 414 00:20:29,596 --> 00:20:30,781 the personae. 415 00:20:30,864 --> 00:20:33,718 - He was really, really exuding, you know, 416 00:20:33,801 --> 00:20:37,370 the rock and roll sensibility of that time. 417 00:20:39,038 --> 00:20:42,759 (David Bowie "Suffragette City") 418 00:20:42,342 --> 00:20:45,195 - Glam really began as a very early 419 00:20:45,278 --> 00:20:47,664 '70s reaction to what was by then 420 00:20:47,747 --> 00:20:50,935 seeing the drabness of hippiedom. 421 00:20:51,018 --> 00:20:53,303 Glam people had had enough of that after five years and said 422 00:20:53,386 --> 00:20:54,604 we want to do something more exciting, 423 00:20:54,687 --> 00:20:56,573 we want to do something more theatrical. 424 00:20:56,656 --> 00:20:58,992 We want to do something new. 425 00:21:01,795 --> 00:21:04,081 - Glam and glitter were all kind of 426 00:21:04,164 --> 00:21:05,883 rolled into one. 427 00:21:05,966 --> 00:21:08,085 Kind of a fascination with movies 428 00:21:08,168 --> 00:21:09,353 and movie stars. 429 00:21:09,436 --> 00:21:13,157 And then the rock and rollers kind of picked it up from there. 430 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:15,726 And different artists approached it in different ways. 431 00:21:15,809 --> 00:21:19,379 But dressing up was one way to make a show. 432 00:21:20,513 --> 00:21:23,700 - I saw Marc Bolan wearing women's shoes, 433 00:21:23,783 --> 00:21:26,470 feather boas, glitter stuck on his cheeks, 434 00:21:26,553 --> 00:21:28,605 pouting away, lipstick on. 435 00:21:28,688 --> 00:21:30,507 There was something that was okay 436 00:21:30,590 --> 00:21:32,910 about a guy dressing a bit feminine. 437 00:21:32,993 --> 00:21:34,711 Because, for a start, he had all 438 00:21:34,794 --> 00:21:36,646 the women chasing him. 439 00:21:36,729 --> 00:21:37,915 Don't you get it? 440 00:21:37,998 --> 00:21:40,217 You know, you can be ugly like Slade. 441 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:42,753 God bless 'em, they were the ugliest band in the world. 442 00:21:42,836 --> 00:21:46,156 Or you could be Bowie or Bolan, who were the most beautiful men 443 00:21:46,239 --> 00:21:47,324 you'd ever see. 444 00:21:47,407 --> 00:21:48,425 I wanted to be them. 445 00:21:48,508 --> 00:21:49,960 I didn't want to shag 'em. 446 00:21:50,043 --> 00:21:52,963 I just wanted to be in their space. 447 00:21:53,046 --> 00:21:54,932 - There was a more kind of comfortable 448 00:21:55,015 --> 00:21:56,600 sense of humor to it. 449 00:21:56,683 --> 00:21:58,235 Bowie's the perfect example, where he began 450 00:21:58,318 --> 00:21:59,636 with a personae. 451 00:21:59,719 --> 00:22:01,271 It was clearly a made-up character 452 00:22:01,354 --> 00:22:03,440 of Ziggy Stardust. 453 00:22:03,523 --> 00:22:06,811 - Ziggy Stardust was and indelible icon 454 00:22:06,894 --> 00:22:09,814 that he could almost get away with anything. 455 00:22:09,897 --> 00:22:11,916 - Bowie was beautiful. 456 00:22:11,999 --> 00:22:14,651 He was strange, but beautiful. 457 00:22:14,734 --> 00:22:16,020 The image was very feminine, but there 458 00:22:16,103 --> 00:22:18,388 was something very masculine about him, 459 00:22:18,471 --> 00:22:21,091 which made it even more appealing. 460 00:22:21,174 --> 00:22:23,093 It was true androgyny. 461 00:22:23,176 --> 00:22:24,761 - I don't think anyone ever debated 462 00:22:24,844 --> 00:22:27,564 whether David Bowie was bisexual. 463 00:22:27,647 --> 00:22:29,399 Whether it was right, you know, 464 00:22:29,482 --> 00:22:30,801 or disgusting. 465 00:22:30,884 --> 00:22:33,337 It was just part of the general outrageousness. 466 00:22:33,420 --> 00:22:35,272 - You know, I don't think David's gay. 467 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:37,092 He says, oh I might 468 00:22:37,176 --> 00:22:39,276 have poked a couple of guys, you know, when he was high. 469 00:22:39,359 --> 00:22:41,145 But no, he was basically heterosexual 470 00:22:41,228 --> 00:22:46,516 and his wife maneuvered a lot of that image around and she was always 471 00:22:46,599 --> 00:22:49,286 very much visible around the androgyny 472 00:22:49,369 --> 00:22:50,620 of David Bowie. 473 00:22:50,703 --> 00:22:52,886 So it gave permission, in a way. 474 00:22:55,542 --> 00:22:56,726 - [Voiceover] Assuming that the public 475 00:22:56,809 --> 00:22:59,029 was ready to take that next step beyond Bowie, 476 00:22:59,112 --> 00:23:01,098 Jobriath was thrust into the spotlight 477 00:23:01,181 --> 00:23:03,500 without the safety net of hyper-masculinity 478 00:23:03,583 --> 00:23:05,102 or bisexuality. 479 00:23:05,185 --> 00:23:07,637 Jerry Brandt's mantra being there's no such thing 480 00:23:07,720 --> 00:23:09,539 as bad publicity. 481 00:23:09,622 --> 00:23:11,275 And Brandt spread enough money around 482 00:23:11,358 --> 00:23:12,977 to make sure that the name Jobriath 483 00:23:13,060 --> 00:23:15,045 was on everyone's lips, even before 484 00:23:15,128 --> 00:23:17,364 they heard a note of music. 485 00:23:18,175 --> 00:23:22,286 - Jerry, tell me some of the business particulars behind Jobriath. 486 00:23:22,369 --> 00:23:23,954 How you're promoting the act, 487 00:23:24,037 --> 00:23:25,455 what you've sunk into it as far 488 00:23:25,538 --> 00:23:27,224 as money is concerned. 489 00:23:27,307 --> 00:23:30,360 What you have riding on it and so on. 490 00:23:30,443 --> 00:23:32,129 - I have my ass riding on it. 491 00:23:32,712 --> 00:23:34,947 (laughing) 492 00:23:35,648 --> 00:23:38,035 An enormous amount of money. 493 00:23:38,118 --> 00:23:40,887 A lot of thrills and a good time. 494 00:23:42,022 --> 00:23:45,742 - At the time that Elektra came into the picture, it was presented as 495 00:23:45,825 --> 00:23:48,512 my God, he's got this great deal 496 00:23:48,595 --> 00:23:50,247 and this huge amount of money up front 497 00:23:50,330 --> 00:23:51,949 and they're gonna go all the way with this. 498 00:23:52,032 --> 00:23:54,885 - We had heard anywhere from, you know, 499 00:23:54,968 --> 00:23:57,154 $500,000 to a million. 500 00:23:57,237 --> 00:23:59,256 - And we, of course, were delighted. 501 00:23:59,339 --> 00:24:00,920 I mean, what do you need in America? 502 00:24:01,004 --> 00:24:02,859 You need promotion more than almost anything else. 503 00:24:02,942 --> 00:24:05,562 - I tried to break Jobriath in New York 504 00:24:05,645 --> 00:24:08,032 because I was accepted in New York. 505 00:24:08,115 --> 00:24:10,667 Jerry Brandt is New York. 506 00:24:10,750 --> 00:24:12,602 If New York buys it, 507 00:24:12,685 --> 00:24:13,870 we're in. 508 00:24:13,953 --> 00:24:15,239 Which would then spread. 509 00:24:15,322 --> 00:24:18,658 - The launch for Jobriath was spectacular. 510 00:24:20,426 --> 00:24:24,096 (T. Rex "20th Century Boy") 511 00:24:25,565 --> 00:24:27,117 - When he first came out and the press 512 00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:29,119 got a hold of him, he was gonna be 513 00:24:29,202 --> 00:24:31,438 the most sensational thing. 514 00:24:35,042 --> 00:24:37,727 - They hype was "the new David Bowie." 515 00:24:37,810 --> 00:24:40,164 Even more Glam than Bowie. 516 00:24:40,247 --> 00:24:41,831 - It was really hard to ignore. 517 00:24:41,914 --> 00:24:43,900 It was everywhere in your face. 518 00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:46,536 - Take it over the top, let's go. 519 00:24:46,619 --> 00:24:47,671 Take it over the top. 520 00:24:47,754 --> 00:24:48,921 That's my job. 521 00:25:01,301 --> 00:25:03,253 - So what you've really done is created 522 00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:05,289 a whole aura around Jobriath before 523 00:25:05,372 --> 00:25:07,474 he even appears anywhere. 524 00:25:09,809 --> 00:25:14,064 - They had a gigantic billboard on Times Square. 525 00:25:14,147 --> 00:25:16,766 - I remember seeing that fucking billboard. 526 00:25:16,849 --> 00:25:18,668 It was too big. 527 00:25:18,751 --> 00:25:21,471 - His face was everywhere and he was on buses. 528 00:25:21,554 --> 00:25:23,940 - When I saw the cover of that particular album 529 00:25:24,023 --> 00:25:26,310 on the side of the buses in New York, 530 00:25:26,393 --> 00:25:28,345 it's like oh my goodness. 531 00:25:28,428 --> 00:25:30,347 And the makeup the had on him. 532 00:25:30,430 --> 00:25:33,217 - Jobriath is morphing into this creature. 533 00:25:33,300 --> 00:25:35,568 I thought it was fantastic. 534 00:25:41,015 --> 00:25:47,789 {\an8} 535 00:25:47,873 --> 00:25:51,221 {\an8} 536 00:25:51,418 --> 00:25:54,421 - It seemed to me that this was more 537 00:25:55,888 --> 00:25:57,407 of a marketing effort than it was 538 00:25:57,490 --> 00:25:58,758 a music effort. 539 00:25:59,344 --> 00:26:02,411 {\an8} 540 00:26:02,495 --> 00:26:03,780 - True Fairy of Rock and Roll, 541 00:26:03,863 --> 00:26:04,964 in headlines. 542 00:26:07,334 --> 00:26:10,020 - It was like in your face fag rock. 543 00:26:10,103 --> 00:26:11,488 I'm the real faggot. 544 00:26:11,571 --> 00:26:13,123 And people are like (gasps). 545 00:26:13,206 --> 00:26:15,059 Because even Bowie and them didn't do that. 546 00:26:15,142 --> 00:26:18,245 They just suggested it and hinted it. 547 00:26:18,650 --> 00:26:22,590 548 00:26:23,208 --> 00:26:25,042 {\an8} 549 00:26:25,185 --> 00:26:28,505 - Whatever advice or prodding I got from him, 550 00:26:28,588 --> 00:26:29,822 I exploited it. 551 00:26:33,025 --> 00:26:35,245 - There was a big push to make this happen 552 00:26:35,328 --> 00:26:36,480 and to make this happen big, 553 00:26:36,563 --> 00:26:40,417 so he was everywhere in a very, very big way. 554 00:26:40,500 --> 00:26:43,553 - More than any other artist in the history 555 00:26:43,636 --> 00:26:45,329 of the business 556 00:26:45,412 --> 00:26:47,156 ever, ever, 557 00:26:47,240 --> 00:26:50,076 got as much attention as Jobriath. 558 00:26:58,885 --> 00:27:00,604 - When he was starting to get famous 559 00:27:00,687 --> 00:27:02,622 and he was subjected to 560 00:27:03,690 --> 00:27:07,146 the aspect of becoming this person, 561 00:27:08,060 --> 00:27:11,481 I think that rocked his cradle a little bit. 562 00:27:11,564 --> 00:27:15,235 - He seemed to me to be a really good actor. 563 00:27:16,403 --> 00:27:17,787 And it seemed to me that this was 564 00:27:17,870 --> 00:27:19,356 the role of his life. 565 00:27:19,439 --> 00:27:20,990 - Jobriath was basically quite 566 00:27:21,073 --> 00:27:22,826 an elegant person. 567 00:27:22,909 --> 00:27:24,828 More than this off-the-wall image 568 00:27:24,911 --> 00:27:27,097 that he was trying to portray. 569 00:27:27,180 --> 00:27:29,199 - I didn't know if that was Jobriath 570 00:27:29,282 --> 00:27:30,783 honoring his heart 571 00:27:32,752 --> 00:27:35,322 or Jobriath going with a trend. 572 00:27:37,424 --> 00:27:39,909 - He was very much of an enigma. 573 00:27:39,992 --> 00:27:43,647 He said his name was Jobriath Salisbury. 574 00:27:43,730 --> 00:27:45,081 And then one of his friends said no, 575 00:27:45,164 --> 00:27:47,484 his name's Bruce Campbell. 576 00:27:47,567 --> 00:27:49,986 And then he said no, it's Bruce Salisbury. 577 00:27:50,069 --> 00:27:53,240 - Jobriath compartmentalized his life. 578 00:27:54,274 --> 00:27:57,344 So he started inventing these people. 579 00:27:58,511 --> 00:27:59,729 - I never knew what name he was going 580 00:27:59,812 --> 00:28:01,565 to have every time I saw him. 581 00:28:01,648 --> 00:28:02,766 - He always referred to himself 582 00:28:02,849 --> 00:28:04,501 as Jobriath. 583 00:28:04,584 --> 00:28:06,803 There was never any mention of Bruce. 584 00:28:06,886 --> 00:28:08,335 I guess as far as he was concerned, 585 00:28:08,419 --> 00:28:09,959 Bruce was dead. 586 00:28:10,490 --> 00:28:12,542 - He had a lot of contradictions 587 00:28:12,625 --> 00:28:14,544 and I suspect he didn't want to be 588 00:28:14,627 --> 00:28:16,713 who he really was. 589 00:28:16,796 --> 00:28:19,683 - So who was he before he was Jobriath? 590 00:28:19,766 --> 00:28:21,668 In that transformation. 591 00:28:23,470 --> 00:28:24,621 - There was always this underlying 592 00:28:24,704 --> 00:28:26,205 sadness about him. 593 00:28:27,374 --> 00:28:29,526 I felt it came from his family situation, 594 00:28:29,609 --> 00:28:30,927 even though I didn't understand 595 00:28:31,010 --> 00:28:31,995 what it was because he was not very 596 00:28:32,078 --> 00:28:33,297 honest about it. 597 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:35,565 - I never met anybody in his family. 598 00:28:35,648 --> 00:28:39,102 - I don't think he had any close relationships with his family. 599 00:28:39,185 --> 00:28:42,172 - He was very closed about, he didn't want to talk about it much. 600 00:28:42,255 --> 00:28:43,889 - He was trying to 601 00:28:44,511 --> 00:28:45,703 put his old life 602 00:28:46,812 --> 00:28:49,846 to bed and just become a new person, 603 00:28:49,929 --> 00:28:51,047 a different person. 604 00:28:51,130 --> 00:28:53,983 He actually believed in this whole 605 00:28:54,066 --> 00:28:57,086 incarnation of himself as somebody else 606 00:28:57,169 --> 00:28:58,771 and something else. 607 00:29:01,073 --> 00:29:04,410 (slow, sad piano music) 608 00:30:02,335 --> 00:30:03,920 - My earliest, clear memory of Bruce 609 00:30:04,003 --> 00:30:05,412 is him saving my life. 610 00:30:05,872 --> 00:30:08,992 Jumping in the car seat in front of me, and jacking the steering wheel 611 00:30:09,075 --> 00:30:12,244 so that I wouldn't roll down the steep driveway. 612 00:30:13,946 --> 00:30:15,031 I can tell you just by looking at 613 00:30:15,114 --> 00:30:17,066 the photographs that I own that 614 00:30:17,149 --> 00:30:19,235 Bruce adored me as a baby. 615 00:30:19,318 --> 00:30:20,537 Every opportunity he had to get 616 00:30:20,620 --> 00:30:23,239 his hands on me, he took. 617 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:24,608 I always would tell people that 618 00:30:24,691 --> 00:30:26,976 he was kind of like an Auntie Mame. 619 00:30:27,059 --> 00:30:28,478 He would just come into a room 620 00:30:28,561 --> 00:30:30,963 and bring the world with him. 621 00:30:32,865 --> 00:30:34,284 - [Voiceover] Jobriath was born 622 00:30:34,367 --> 00:30:37,487 Bruce Wayne Campbell on December 14, 1946 623 00:30:37,570 --> 00:30:38,905 in Philadelphia. 624 00:30:39,806 --> 00:30:41,425 The second of three sons born to 625 00:30:41,508 --> 00:30:44,343 Jim Campbell and Marion Salisbury. 626 00:30:45,845 --> 00:30:47,597 - They married very young. 627 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,566 My mother had her first child in 628 00:30:49,649 --> 00:30:51,901 less than nine months. 629 00:30:51,984 --> 00:30:53,720 She was 16 years old. 630 00:30:54,954 --> 00:30:57,541 My mother loved to have a good time, she was a fun-loving person. 631 00:30:57,624 --> 00:30:59,142 Very beautiful woman. 632 00:30:59,225 --> 00:31:01,578 When she walked into a room, it became a party because she was 633 00:31:01,661 --> 00:31:04,981 so attractive and so fun-loving. 634 00:31:05,064 --> 00:31:07,250 After 10 years of marriage to a man 635 00:31:07,333 --> 00:31:09,252 who worked hard and who wanted his family 636 00:31:09,335 --> 00:31:11,275 to be traditional in many of those ways. 637 00:31:12,789 --> 00:31:16,909 And my mother really less and less as time went on did not fit into that picture. 638 00:31:18,110 --> 00:31:19,629 She needed certain types of attention 639 00:31:19,712 --> 00:31:21,346 in order to feel good about herself. 640 00:31:22,649 --> 00:31:26,035 Bruce was 12 years old when the family broke up. 641 00:31:26,118 --> 00:31:27,437 I have a feeling that whatever happened, 642 00:31:27,520 --> 00:31:28,905 it happened in 1958 and it happened 643 00:31:28,988 --> 00:31:31,675 quickly because she was pregnant. 644 00:31:31,758 --> 00:31:33,209 - [Voiceover] Marion was pregnant 645 00:31:33,292 --> 00:31:35,111 with another man's child. 646 00:31:35,194 --> 00:31:36,480 She had been having an affair with 647 00:31:36,563 --> 00:31:38,114 a man named Bill Fogle. 648 00:31:38,197 --> 00:31:40,049 Soon after, she left her husband 649 00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:42,419 and three sons to marry him. 650 00:31:42,502 --> 00:31:46,122 Within two years, Fogle committed suicide. 651 00:31:46,205 --> 00:31:47,657 Marion was now a widow raising 652 00:31:47,740 --> 00:31:49,676 a young boy on her own. 653 00:31:52,064 --> 00:31:53,294 - After my father died, my mother 654 00:31:53,378 --> 00:31:55,571 and I lived in a couple of different places. 655 00:31:55,948 --> 00:31:57,634 And eventually we came back to the town 656 00:31:57,717 --> 00:32:00,408 where the Campbells had lived as a family. 657 00:32:01,608 --> 00:32:06,042 I also have a number of memories of my mother putting me in the car 658 00:32:06,125 --> 00:32:08,044 and we'd go to the Campbell's. 659 00:32:08,127 --> 00:32:10,396 But what was odd about that 660 00:32:13,969 --> 00:32:16,686 was that my mother didn't feel comfortable having me go in the house. 661 00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:19,188 She would leave me in the car. 662 00:32:19,271 --> 00:32:21,558 It was unseemly for 663 00:32:21,641 --> 00:32:24,977 me to see the other family that she had. 664 00:32:28,681 --> 00:32:30,534 Almost all the photos of my mother 665 00:32:30,617 --> 00:32:32,268 and Bruce, it's very evident that 666 00:32:32,351 --> 00:32:35,771 they really did have a very special 667 00:32:35,855 --> 00:32:38,374 She absolutely loved him and there's no doubt about the fact that he was 668 00:32:38,457 --> 00:32:40,276 definitely her favorite son. 669 00:32:40,359 --> 00:32:41,411 Partly because of his talent, 670 00:32:41,494 --> 00:32:42,746 partly because of his beauty 671 00:32:42,829 --> 00:32:45,114 and his ebullience and excitement. 672 00:32:45,197 --> 00:32:46,816 Bruce was just her angel. 673 00:32:46,899 --> 00:32:48,284 The son that she could just sit down 674 00:32:48,367 --> 00:32:49,953 and have a cigarette with and 675 00:32:50,036 --> 00:32:51,821 have a drink with. 676 00:32:51,904 --> 00:32:53,156 They were being Glam Queens together, 677 00:32:53,239 --> 00:32:54,558 they were being glamorous together. 678 00:32:54,641 --> 00:32:57,326 They were being girlfriends, in short. 679 00:32:57,409 --> 00:32:58,728 I knew I was never going to be like that 680 00:32:58,811 --> 00:33:00,196 with Mom and I tried, and I think 681 00:33:00,279 --> 00:33:02,682 in some ways I benefited from 682 00:33:03,816 --> 00:33:07,003 Bruce's relationship with my mother. 683 00:33:07,086 --> 00:33:08,505 I benefited from that relationship, 684 00:33:08,588 --> 00:33:09,573 but at the same time I stood in 685 00:33:09,656 --> 00:33:11,090 the shadow of it. 686 00:33:17,029 --> 00:33:18,314 - [Voiceover] Jobriath turned to art 687 00:33:18,397 --> 00:33:20,416 at an early age, 688 00:33:20,499 --> 00:33:22,351 often painting striking, exaggerated 689 00:33:22,434 --> 00:33:25,171 images of himself and his mother. 690 00:33:27,707 --> 00:33:30,209 But his true escape was music. 691 00:33:31,544 --> 00:33:33,162 - Playing music and learning music 692 00:33:33,245 --> 00:33:34,898 was his haven. 693 00:33:34,981 --> 00:33:36,833 That's where he could go and develop 694 00:33:36,916 --> 00:33:41,414 himself and be away from the drama of his family 695 00:33:42,021 --> 00:33:45,575 or even having to deal with his family. 696 00:33:45,658 --> 00:33:48,277 - I first met Bruce Campbell early 697 00:33:48,360 --> 00:33:51,447 spring of 1964, where we were both 698 00:33:51,530 --> 00:33:53,116 auditioning to be accepted as 699 00:33:53,199 --> 00:33:55,719 a piano major at Temple University. 700 00:33:55,802 --> 00:33:57,286 When I got to know him 701 00:33:57,369 --> 00:34:00,256 later in the semester, I realized that 702 00:34:00,339 --> 00:34:02,992 this was a talent like a Mozart 703 00:34:03,075 --> 00:34:04,694 or Prokofiev. 704 00:34:04,777 --> 00:34:07,731 - He was an amazing sight reader. 705 00:34:07,814 --> 00:34:09,065 Because I put before him things that 706 00:34:09,148 --> 00:34:10,834 he had never seen before. 707 00:34:10,917 --> 00:34:12,902 But I remember Beethoven, especially 708 00:34:12,985 --> 00:34:15,171 the Waldstein Sonata. 709 00:34:15,254 --> 00:34:18,542 He definitely had played that a lot. 710 00:34:18,625 --> 00:34:19,976 So I would venture to say that 711 00:34:20,059 --> 00:34:23,479 Beethoven was one of his influences. 712 00:34:23,562 --> 00:34:24,781 - And from stories I had heard 713 00:34:24,864 --> 00:34:26,482 had even been paraded before Eugene Ormandy 714 00:34:26,565 --> 00:34:28,117 of the Philadelphia Orchestra 715 00:34:28,200 --> 00:34:30,453 as this wunderkind. 716 00:34:30,536 --> 00:34:32,656 - He showed me manuscripts of chamber music 717 00:34:32,739 --> 00:34:34,924 and he could play it on the piano for me. 718 00:34:35,007 --> 00:34:36,359 He had pretty much the first movement 719 00:34:36,442 --> 00:34:37,927 of a symphony 720 00:34:38,010 --> 00:34:40,163 composed and orchestrated 721 00:34:40,246 --> 00:34:42,148 at the age of 15 or 16. 722 00:34:44,050 --> 00:34:47,377 The psychological reason why he wouldn't 723 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:49,272 promote himself or fear of rejection. 724 00:34:49,355 --> 00:34:50,774 - Jobriath came from a background 725 00:34:50,857 --> 00:34:54,210 that was not in harmony with who he was as a human being. 726 00:34:54,293 --> 00:34:57,180 I think that he didn't get the support that he needed. 727 00:34:57,263 --> 00:34:58,481 - I got the impression his mother 728 00:34:58,564 --> 00:34:59,749 was dead-set against it. 729 00:34:59,832 --> 00:35:01,254 - When you were in my mother's world, 730 00:35:01,338 --> 00:35:03,356 it was a little bit sterile, a little bit 731 00:35:05,905 --> 00:35:07,957 there just wasn't as much 732 00:35:08,040 --> 00:35:10,594 warmth and things going on because 733 00:35:10,677 --> 00:35:13,062 my mother, you got on my mother's nerves too easily to do that. 734 00:35:13,145 --> 00:35:14,279 - She looked at him as said you 735 00:35:14,362 --> 00:35:17,650 can't just take off like a great big bird. 736 00:35:18,787 --> 00:35:19,974 And I remember thinking, 737 00:35:22,575 --> 00:35:24,373 Mrs. Fogle, he's already taken off. 738 00:35:24,456 --> 00:35:26,155 You don't even know who your son is. 739 00:35:26,979 --> 00:35:29,613 She had no idea of the talent this person 740 00:35:29,696 --> 00:35:32,115 had any more than Mr. And Mrs. Gershwin 741 00:35:32,198 --> 00:35:34,984 had any idea what they had on their hands. 742 00:35:35,067 --> 00:35:37,053 Towards the end of the semester, 743 00:35:37,136 --> 00:35:38,655 he was cutting so many classes I was 744 00:35:38,738 --> 00:35:40,223 worried he was going to flunk. 745 00:35:40,306 --> 00:35:41,457 He said that he wasn't coming back 746 00:35:41,540 --> 00:35:43,262 the next semester, what difference 747 00:35:43,346 --> 00:35:45,361 did it make and he just couldn't stand it anymore. 748 00:35:45,444 --> 00:35:48,231 - Bruce was anxious to please his father, like any kid. 749 00:35:48,314 --> 00:35:50,834 Including he was in officer training. 750 00:35:50,917 --> 00:35:52,969 His musical studies had gotten off track 751 00:35:53,052 --> 00:35:55,320 and so I'm sure his dad was like well what are you going to do now? 752 00:35:56,288 --> 00:35:58,742 His father was a strong and organized 753 00:35:58,825 --> 00:36:01,510 and intelligent man who had 754 00:36:01,593 --> 00:36:05,462 his own very strong ideas 755 00:36:05,546 --> 00:36:09,491 and he was by no means a passive, or easy-going personality. 756 00:36:11,127 --> 00:36:12,922 He enlisted and sort of over a period 757 00:36:13,005 --> 00:36:15,625 of time had a meltdown about the whole thing. 758 00:36:15,708 --> 00:36:17,198 I guess it was just a lot worse than he expected. 759 00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:21,064 - He knew from the second he was in 760 00:36:21,147 --> 00:36:22,666 that he was going to get himself out. 761 00:36:22,749 --> 00:36:24,033 - At that point, we were all getting calls 762 00:36:24,116 --> 00:36:26,235 from the FBI wanting to know where he was. 763 00:36:26,318 --> 00:36:28,705 - The rumor was he had changed his name 764 00:36:28,788 --> 00:36:32,241 to Jobriath Salisbury for that very reason. 765 00:36:32,324 --> 00:36:36,079 - When you're AWOL, you go into hiding. 766 00:36:36,162 --> 00:36:37,847 You change your name, 767 00:36:37,930 --> 00:36:40,583 but you don't appear on a stage 768 00:36:40,666 --> 00:36:42,251 singing every night. 769 00:36:42,334 --> 00:36:44,520 Why would you be so visible 770 00:36:44,603 --> 00:36:46,756 while being AWOL? 771 00:36:46,839 --> 00:36:49,498 Then they found out and arrested him. 772 00:36:50,804 --> 00:36:52,428 - One time I was with Miss Lucy and 773 00:36:52,511 --> 00:36:55,514 she sent Jobriath a can of root beer 774 00:36:57,236 --> 00:36:58,237 in the mail. 775 00:36:59,118 --> 00:37:00,837 She said oh, he's over in the nuthouse 776 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:02,538 over in Philadelphia or something 777 00:37:02,621 --> 00:37:04,407 and he has to stay there for three weeks. 778 00:37:04,490 --> 00:37:05,842 But instead of serving time, he made 779 00:37:05,925 --> 00:37:08,244 them think he was nuts. 780 00:37:08,327 --> 00:37:09,512 - He was an actor. 781 00:37:09,595 --> 00:37:11,014 He knew how to act crazy, he knew how 782 00:37:11,097 --> 00:37:14,851 to push the buttons, he know what the rules were. 783 00:37:14,934 --> 00:37:17,687 He knew how to get around them and through them 784 00:37:17,770 --> 00:37:18,888 and out. 785 00:37:18,971 --> 00:37:20,423 - I think if Jobriath had come out 786 00:37:20,506 --> 00:37:23,226 and said I'm gay to not be enlisted, 787 00:37:23,309 --> 00:37:25,194 it might have caused more trouble for him. 788 00:37:25,277 --> 00:37:28,097 - I don't think my mother was capable 789 00:37:28,180 --> 00:37:30,934 of really talking to Bruce about okay, 790 00:37:31,017 --> 00:37:33,469 what's really going on with you? 791 00:37:33,552 --> 00:37:35,338 But my mother never allowed herself 792 00:37:35,421 --> 00:37:37,073 to consciously think of her son 793 00:37:37,156 --> 00:37:38,490 as a homosexual. 794 00:37:40,759 --> 00:37:42,846 He still wanted his mother to think that 795 00:37:42,929 --> 00:37:44,380 yeah, he was messing around with girls 796 00:37:44,463 --> 00:37:46,515 and he brought one home and slept with her. 797 00:37:46,598 --> 00:37:47,583 And you know, the understanding was that 798 00:37:47,666 --> 00:37:49,068 they were lovers. 799 00:37:52,404 --> 00:37:54,557 My mother's best friend sat down with her 800 00:37:54,640 --> 00:37:57,024 one day and said Marion, you know that Bruce is gay? 801 00:37:58,010 --> 00:37:59,687 My mother didn't speak to the woman again 802 00:37:59,771 --> 00:38:01,664 for nearly two years. 803 00:38:01,747 --> 00:38:04,000 And it's sad because I'm sure my mother 804 00:38:04,083 --> 00:38:07,573 acknowledged that her son was extraordinary, 805 00:38:07,656 --> 00:38:12,842 and out of the ordinary, but she discovered Bruce in bed with another boy. 806 00:38:12,925 --> 00:38:15,862 Even that wasn't enough to help her 807 00:38:18,164 --> 00:38:21,584 consciously deal with his sexuality. 808 00:38:21,667 --> 00:38:24,336 Even that wasn't enough for her. 809 00:38:25,571 --> 00:38:28,191 - We would speak about that. 810 00:38:28,274 --> 00:38:30,326 About him being gay. 811 00:38:30,409 --> 00:38:35,459 But he said it was a part of him. 812 00:38:37,016 --> 00:38:40,686 It was his life and he didn't see what was the problem. 813 00:38:42,154 --> 00:38:44,991 And that's really the way he felt. 814 00:38:47,059 --> 00:38:49,745 - When he got to New York, things did change. 815 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,347 He was still Jobriath in many ways. 816 00:38:51,430 --> 00:38:53,116 He had a new kind of freedom. 817 00:38:53,199 --> 00:38:55,484 He was never, you know, really closeted 818 00:38:55,567 --> 00:38:57,086 in L.A., but he was, 819 00:38:57,169 --> 00:39:00,656 he seemed to me to be more flamboyant. 820 00:39:00,739 --> 00:39:02,258 He was very comfortable with sort of 821 00:39:02,341 --> 00:39:06,276 exploring a more feminine side to his personality. 822 00:39:06,845 --> 00:39:11,759 - I want to someday be the person who looks more gay than anybody else. 823 00:39:12,919 --> 00:39:14,370 So somebody could point to me and say 824 00:39:14,453 --> 00:39:17,240 that's what somebody who is gay looks like. 825 00:39:17,323 --> 00:39:20,443 - [Voiceover] Jobriath's debut album, having been hyped in the press since 826 00:39:20,526 --> 00:39:22,278 mid-summer, was finally released in 827 00:39:22,361 --> 00:39:23,429 October 1973. 828 00:39:24,830 --> 00:39:26,649 At long last, there was now a sound 829 00:39:26,732 --> 00:39:28,567 to put with the image. 830 00:39:37,009 --> 00:39:40,324 - The whole world is waiting for 831 00:39:40,408 --> 00:39:42,298 this big star and the first, very first sound they hear is like 832 00:39:42,381 --> 00:39:43,799 a gay S&M song. 833 00:39:43,882 --> 00:39:46,769 * I'd do anything for you or to you 834 00:39:46,852 --> 00:39:50,039 * I'm a fool for you, dear, fantasy * 835 00:39:50,122 --> 00:39:52,308 - I think it had a very gay sensibility 836 00:39:52,391 --> 00:39:54,477 to it because of the kind of respect 837 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,013 for chords, respect for lyric, 838 00:39:57,096 --> 00:39:59,082 respect for storytelling. 839 00:39:59,165 --> 00:40:01,017 And yet it was rock and roll. 840 00:40:01,100 --> 00:40:03,486 * Take me, I'm yours 841 00:40:03,569 --> 00:40:05,588 * Take me, I'm yours 842 00:40:05,671 --> 00:40:06,856 - We loved it. 843 00:40:06,939 --> 00:40:10,159 It was exciting in rock and we loved the outsiderness of it. 844 00:40:10,242 --> 00:40:12,228 And even Space Clown, which of course, 845 00:40:12,311 --> 00:40:13,963 was ridiculous and made us cringe 846 00:40:14,046 --> 00:40:15,598 with embarrassment, at the same time 847 00:40:15,681 --> 00:40:17,533 we adored it because it was like, 848 00:40:17,616 --> 00:40:20,336 ♪ the chorus, oh ♪ ♪ you're a space clown, ♪ 849 00:40:20,419 --> 00:40:23,873 it was just, the poetry was so horrendous. 850 00:40:23,956 --> 00:40:25,608 But it was beautiful. 851 00:40:25,691 --> 00:40:29,861 * Oh, you're a space clown 852 00:40:31,630 --> 00:40:33,849 - Wow, this is really weird stuff 853 00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:35,051 and it's creepy and I don't know 854 00:40:35,134 --> 00:40:36,452 what the hell he's singing about, 855 00:40:36,535 --> 00:40:37,586 but I like it. 856 00:40:37,669 --> 00:40:39,255 - There voice inflection with the music 857 00:40:39,338 --> 00:40:40,689 and everything, at times, 858 00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:41,958 it was just so perfect 859 00:40:42,041 --> 00:40:43,259 you couldn't tell the difference 860 00:40:43,342 --> 00:40:44,693 between his voice and the instruments. 861 00:40:44,776 --> 00:40:45,929 - When people say oh, it's like 862 00:40:46,012 --> 00:40:47,396 a Bowie rip-off, because I hear a lot 863 00:40:47,479 --> 00:40:49,198 of influences on it that don't have 864 00:40:49,281 --> 00:40:50,466 to do with Bowie. 865 00:40:50,549 --> 00:40:52,936 I don't think he's a very particularly Bowie sounding singer. 866 00:40:53,019 --> 00:40:55,138 - His piano chords 867 00:40:55,221 --> 00:40:57,040 in his songs were radically different 868 00:40:57,123 --> 00:40:59,175 from the kind of chords David Bowie would use. 869 00:40:59,258 --> 00:41:02,912 - It isn't traditional song forms at all. 870 00:41:02,995 --> 00:41:06,882 Which is what I think makes him so brilliant. 871 00:41:06,965 --> 00:41:09,318 - It's a very, very lush, beautiful 872 00:41:09,401 --> 00:41:10,486 sounding recording. 873 00:41:10,569 --> 00:41:12,155 It's also extremely creative. 874 00:41:12,238 --> 00:41:14,457 - There's something too perfect about the record. 875 00:41:14,540 --> 00:41:17,103 I mean, it's nice that Peter Frampton 876 00:41:17,187 --> 00:41:19,662 drops by, people from Led Zeppelin are dropping by and playing bass. 877 00:41:19,745 --> 00:41:21,364 The record seemed kind of ersatz to me, 878 00:41:21,447 --> 00:41:25,268 it didn't seem like a band that he'd been playing with for a long time. 879 00:41:25,351 --> 00:41:27,870 - What Eddie Kramer had done in the mixes 880 00:41:27,953 --> 00:41:29,238 they're a little too trebly, 881 00:41:29,321 --> 00:41:30,473 they don't have that resonance. 882 00:41:30,556 --> 00:41:31,707 - They're overproduced. 883 00:41:31,790 --> 00:41:33,042 Where was his voice? 884 00:41:33,125 --> 00:41:35,411 - He was clearly in the room when they mixed them. 885 00:41:35,494 --> 00:41:38,281 And he wanted to hear the piano more than he wanted to hear his voice. 886 00:41:38,364 --> 00:41:42,851 - Sometimes you capture the explosive energy, you know, of an original artist 887 00:41:42,934 --> 00:41:48,259 and sometimes it has to sort of be crafted for the masses like a Christmas present. 888 00:41:54,413 --> 00:41:56,299 - [Voiceover] Despite the push from Elektra, 889 00:41:56,382 --> 00:41:58,101 bewildered critics and music buyers 890 00:41:58,184 --> 00:42:01,804 had no idea what to make of the baroque theatrical pop. 891 00:42:01,887 --> 00:42:05,508 Record stores at the time were filled with Carpenters and ex-Beatles, 892 00:42:05,591 --> 00:42:07,076 while Tony Orlando and Dawn were 893 00:42:07,159 --> 00:42:09,178 clogging up the AM dial. 894 00:42:09,261 --> 00:42:11,847 The album never even charted. 895 00:42:11,930 --> 00:42:13,649 - With that much hype 896 00:42:13,732 --> 00:42:16,552 and how much money goes into that kind of advertising, you would expect 897 00:42:16,635 --> 00:42:18,954 the earth to move, a volcanic eruption. 898 00:42:19,037 --> 00:42:20,489 - The record came out, might have been 899 00:42:20,572 --> 00:42:22,558 a couple moderately good reviews, 900 00:42:22,641 --> 00:42:24,427 and then everyone hated him 901 00:42:24,510 --> 00:42:26,001 and was gunning for him. 902 00:42:27,913 --> 00:42:29,132 - [Voiceover] Having failed to be 903 00:42:29,215 --> 00:42:31,200 impressed by the music, those in the media 904 00:42:31,283 --> 00:42:33,336 who had previously restrained themselves 905 00:42:33,419 --> 00:42:35,504 with thinly veiled cynicism now took aim 906 00:42:35,587 --> 00:42:38,924 and declared it open season on Jobriath. 907 00:42:39,991 --> 00:42:41,377 - People were not prepared to be 908 00:42:41,460 --> 00:42:43,028 on Jobriath's side. 909 00:42:44,230 --> 00:42:46,615 Amongst the New York cognizente 910 00:42:46,698 --> 00:42:48,517 it was like well, who's she? 911 00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:51,820 - He was presented to the world 912 00:42:51,903 --> 00:42:53,922 like Athena born from Zeus's head, 913 00:42:54,005 --> 00:42:56,959 you know, a full formed rock star. 914 00:42:57,042 --> 00:42:59,395 - You're supposed to come up from 915 00:42:59,478 --> 00:43:02,031 humble circumstances and pay your dues 916 00:43:02,114 --> 00:43:03,699 and he came up from humble circumstances, 917 00:43:03,782 --> 00:43:05,768 but he was plucked by fate to play a role 918 00:43:05,851 --> 00:43:08,804 in a movie that nobody ended up wanting to see. 919 00:43:08,887 --> 00:43:11,974 - He's copying the Bowie stance of behaving 920 00:43:12,057 --> 00:43:14,759 as if he's a huge megastar and having money spread 921 00:43:14,842 --> 00:43:17,880 around as if he is without him having earned it 922 00:43:17,963 --> 00:43:21,050 and it really eclipsed the quality of the music. 923 00:43:21,133 --> 00:43:23,619 - He did not have the hip media, 924 00:43:23,702 --> 00:43:25,554 the cool media on his side 925 00:43:25,637 --> 00:43:27,590 mainly because of Brandt. 926 00:43:27,673 --> 00:43:29,825 - The big picture was to make us, 927 00:43:29,908 --> 00:43:32,395 Jobriath and Jerry Brandt the biggest thing 928 00:43:32,478 --> 00:43:34,813 since the Colonel and Elvis. 929 00:43:35,881 --> 00:43:38,467 Or Main Man and Bowie. 930 00:43:38,550 --> 00:43:40,803 - Jerry pitched him so high. 931 00:43:40,886 --> 00:43:43,239 When it's jammed down your throat, 932 00:43:43,322 --> 00:43:44,707 most people walk away from it, 933 00:43:44,790 --> 00:43:46,109 don't even want to hear it. 934 00:43:46,192 --> 00:43:47,943 Most people never even heard his music. 935 00:43:48,026 --> 00:43:50,413 - There were no gigs and Jerry Brandt 936 00:43:50,496 --> 00:43:51,914 spent too much money on promotion, 937 00:43:51,997 --> 00:43:54,817 but didn't back it up with anything. 938 00:43:54,900 --> 00:43:59,122 - I believed what I was doing for Jobriath. 939 00:43:59,205 --> 00:44:02,391 Jobriath believed what I was doing. 940 00:44:02,474 --> 00:44:05,761 Jobriath loved what I was doing. 941 00:44:05,844 --> 00:44:07,930 - There had been this goal to talk about 942 00:44:08,013 --> 00:44:09,398 this huge advance, that he'd gotten 943 00:44:09,481 --> 00:44:10,833 so much money up front. 944 00:44:10,916 --> 00:44:12,301 - When you're extolling how much somebody 945 00:44:12,384 --> 00:44:14,324 got for their record contract and stuff, 946 00:44:14,408 --> 00:44:15,771 it just immediately makes people suspicious. 947 00:44:15,854 --> 00:44:18,507 - The deal, I have read, 948 00:44:18,590 --> 00:44:20,943 was a half a million dollars with I don't know 949 00:44:21,026 --> 00:44:22,411 how many hundreds of thousands of dollars 950 00:44:22,494 --> 00:44:23,912 worth of promotion. 951 00:44:23,995 --> 00:44:25,681 - That was part of the hype. 952 00:44:25,764 --> 00:44:27,816 - I would never risk anything like that 953 00:44:27,899 --> 00:44:28,984 on any single artist. 954 00:44:29,067 --> 00:44:30,886 You'd have to be nuts. 955 00:44:30,969 --> 00:44:34,740 The deal with Jobriath was between 35 and 50, 956 00:44:36,041 --> 00:44:39,495 with Jerry having some money in a budget 957 00:44:39,578 --> 00:44:41,797 that he was able to spend, it was in 958 00:44:41,880 --> 00:44:44,133 the $20,000 to $25,000 region. 959 00:44:44,216 --> 00:44:45,384 - That was it. 960 00:44:46,485 --> 00:44:47,803 No half a million dollars. 961 00:44:47,886 --> 00:44:50,873 - The media wasn't standing up for him 962 00:44:50,956 --> 00:44:52,375 perhaps because the first album, 963 00:44:52,458 --> 00:44:54,810 as good as it was, didn't suddenly 964 00:44:54,893 --> 00:44:57,380 transcend the critical predisposition 965 00:44:57,463 --> 00:44:59,415 to dismiss him. 966 00:44:59,498 --> 00:45:01,517 - I believe there were some pretty good reviews, 967 00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,586 but in general it was scathing. 968 00:45:03,669 --> 00:45:06,222 In general, he was treated as a complete joke. 969 00:45:06,305 --> 00:45:09,825 - The world of rock journalism was 970 00:45:09,908 --> 00:45:13,462 straight men who were extremely homophobic. 971 00:45:13,545 --> 00:45:16,865 - Bruce stuck his head in the mouth of the wolf 972 00:45:16,948 --> 00:45:20,569 and said I am the true fairy of rock and roll. 973 00:45:20,652 --> 00:45:23,306 And you could hear glass break everywhere. 974 00:45:23,389 --> 00:45:25,674 - No one had ever really outed himself 975 00:45:25,757 --> 00:45:27,743 in any form of entertainment 976 00:45:27,826 --> 00:45:30,161 as brazenly as Jobriath did. 977 00:45:31,363 --> 00:45:32,748 It was career suicide. 978 00:45:32,831 --> 00:45:36,402 - I thought that Jobriath would be embraced 979 00:45:37,603 --> 00:45:40,872 by the public because gay, in the '70s, 980 00:45:41,707 --> 00:45:42,974 was a big deal. 981 00:45:44,109 --> 00:45:46,529 The whole gay community was rising, 982 00:45:46,612 --> 00:45:48,614 I could feel the levity. 983 00:45:49,748 --> 00:45:53,602 I said well, if we could surf this one in, 984 00:45:53,685 --> 00:45:55,438 we're in the big time. 985 00:45:55,521 --> 00:45:57,273 - Jerry Brandt named Jobriath 986 00:45:57,356 --> 00:45:58,707 the Fairy of Rock and Roll. 987 00:45:58,790 --> 00:46:01,043 I think the straight William Morris agent 988 00:46:01,126 --> 00:46:02,778 saw Bowie happening and was going to take 989 00:46:02,861 --> 00:46:04,713 that and blow it up more. 990 00:46:04,796 --> 00:46:06,849 Well, fairies don't sell. 991 00:46:06,932 --> 00:46:08,116 They don't sell to fairies and they 992 00:46:08,199 --> 00:46:10,152 certainly don't sell to straight people. 993 00:46:10,235 --> 00:46:11,754 - I saw it was what it was, 994 00:46:11,837 --> 00:46:13,422 let's sell the album. 995 00:46:13,505 --> 00:46:16,459 How do we get people to look up? 996 00:46:16,542 --> 00:46:18,394 - But when you announce that you're, 997 00:46:18,477 --> 00:46:21,930 you know, you're exclusively sexually with men, 998 00:46:22,013 --> 00:46:24,166 that was something that went a bridge too far. 999 00:46:24,249 --> 00:46:26,485 - People were rejecting him because they were afraid of him. 1000 00:46:27,519 --> 00:46:30,373 He turned being gay into a gimmick. 1001 00:46:30,456 --> 00:46:31,840 And there, I think he was 1002 00:46:31,923 --> 00:46:33,342 in collusion with Brandt. 1003 00:46:33,425 --> 00:46:35,110 - Him, it's all him. 1004 00:46:35,193 --> 00:46:37,028 The true fairy is him. 1005 00:46:38,129 --> 00:46:39,398 I'm a purveyor. 1006 00:46:41,667 --> 00:46:43,786 I can't create a true fairy. 1007 00:46:43,869 --> 00:46:48,521 - It could not have backfired more perfectly if you had set it up. 1008 00:46:50,108 --> 00:46:53,278 He basically shot himself in the foot. 1009 00:46:58,850 --> 00:47:02,954 (people chattering, street noise) 1010 00:47:05,390 --> 00:47:07,893 (jazzy music) 1011 00:47:17,869 --> 00:47:20,872 (shutters clicking) 1012 00:47:46,664 --> 00:47:49,400 (metal pounding) 1013 00:48:09,427 --> 00:48:12,247 - Jobriath was one of these new gay men 1014 00:48:12,470 --> 00:48:14,458 who believed that the music industry 1015 00:48:16,549 --> 00:48:17,645 would stand with him. 1016 00:48:17,729 --> 00:48:19,014 - The press did nothing. 1017 00:48:19,097 --> 00:48:20,716 The gay press, I mean. 1018 00:48:20,799 --> 00:48:22,084 They should have marched in, 1019 00:48:22,167 --> 00:48:24,687 they should have done something, they didn't. 1020 00:48:24,770 --> 00:48:26,755 - You had the gay community moving towards 1021 00:48:26,838 --> 00:48:29,157 trying to reclaim masculinity. 1022 00:48:29,240 --> 00:48:31,026 The development of the clone, 1023 00:48:31,109 --> 00:48:34,563 the leather guy, the mustache, the facial hair. 1024 00:48:34,646 --> 00:48:36,198 - You saw a lot of tight t-shirts 1025 00:48:36,281 --> 00:48:38,033 and guys driving Jeeps. 1026 00:48:38,116 --> 00:48:40,869 - They were rushing towards this hyper-masculinity, I mean they were right 1027 00:48:40,957 --> 00:48:42,337 rushing to the leather bars. 1028 00:48:42,420 --> 00:48:43,606 But even in the discotheques, there was 1029 00:48:43,689 --> 00:48:44,973 a certain kind of flamboyance, 1030 00:48:45,056 --> 00:48:47,543 but effeminancy was really on the way out. 1031 00:48:47,626 --> 00:48:49,545 - There was a harder political side 1032 00:48:49,628 --> 00:48:52,047 of gay culture who reacted very, very 1033 00:48:52,130 --> 00:48:53,549 negatively against the whole 1034 00:48:53,632 --> 00:48:58,587 androgynous gender, glitter movement of the '70s. 1035 00:48:58,670 --> 00:49:00,222 And they resented the fact that anyone 1036 00:49:00,305 --> 00:49:01,990 would think because they were gay 1037 00:49:02,073 --> 00:49:03,559 that they wore glitter on their eyes 1038 00:49:03,642 --> 00:49:06,795 and platform shoes and black nail polish. 1039 00:49:06,878 --> 00:49:08,831 - Gay audiences at the time don't feel 1040 00:49:08,914 --> 00:49:11,667 comfortable identifying with rock and roll. 1041 00:49:11,750 --> 00:49:13,836 - Gay culture didn't like rock. 1042 00:49:13,919 --> 00:49:15,738 When you stand in line to see Iggy and 1043 00:49:15,821 --> 00:49:17,740 the Stooges at the Whiskey, you're not 1044 00:49:17,823 --> 00:49:19,475 standing around with a bunch of fags. 1045 00:49:19,558 --> 00:49:20,743 You were standing around with a bunch 1046 00:49:20,826 --> 00:49:22,878 of people that might want to kill fags. 1047 00:49:22,961 --> 00:49:24,046 - You can be as gay as you want, 1048 00:49:24,129 --> 00:49:26,549 but you can't say it. 1049 00:49:26,632 --> 00:49:28,350 You can walk around like Liberace 1050 00:49:28,433 --> 00:49:29,918 and talk about charm, 1051 00:49:30,001 --> 00:49:31,487 but if Liberace got up there and go 1052 00:49:31,570 --> 00:49:33,789 I'm gay, I love to suck cock, that would 1053 00:49:33,872 --> 00:49:36,158 have been the end of his career. 1054 00:49:36,241 --> 00:49:37,693 - Jobriath was not a straight man 1055 00:49:37,776 --> 00:49:39,428 pretending he was gay. 1056 00:49:39,511 --> 00:49:41,079 He was a sissy fag. 1057 00:49:42,347 --> 00:49:44,366 I'm sure a lot of gay men are very 1058 00:49:44,449 --> 00:49:46,502 upset about Jobriath, you know, 1059 00:49:46,585 --> 00:49:47,970 about this big sissy. 1060 00:49:48,053 --> 00:49:49,271 - He didn't make any pretense to 1061 00:49:49,354 --> 00:49:50,773 cover it up, ever. 1062 00:49:50,856 --> 00:49:52,608 - The interesting thing to me about Jobriath 1063 00:49:52,691 --> 00:49:54,743 and being this gay icon is that I never 1064 00:49:54,826 --> 00:49:56,411 saw him in a relationship. 1065 00:49:56,494 --> 00:49:59,915 I never saw him pick anyone up in a bar. 1066 00:49:59,998 --> 00:50:02,050 I had no idea that he'd ever had 1067 00:50:02,133 --> 00:50:03,986 sexual relationships with anyone, 1068 00:50:04,069 --> 00:50:05,921 male or female. 1069 00:50:06,004 --> 00:50:07,289 - He never had a problem talking about 1070 00:50:07,372 --> 00:50:09,024 his sexuality. 1071 00:50:09,107 --> 00:50:11,760 He just never talked about relationships. 1072 00:50:11,843 --> 00:50:15,430 - He kept his private life to himself. 1073 00:50:15,513 --> 00:50:18,601 Everybody else was an audience. 1074 00:50:18,684 --> 00:50:19,968 - My feeling about Bruce is that, 1075 00:50:20,051 --> 00:50:21,269 and I think this is something he shares 1076 00:50:21,352 --> 00:50:23,238 in common with his mom, 1077 00:50:23,321 --> 00:50:24,773 is that it wasn't part of the game 1078 00:50:24,856 --> 00:50:27,009 to settle down and buy curtains together 1079 00:50:27,092 --> 00:50:28,677 and settle in for the tough times together. 1080 00:50:28,760 --> 00:50:29,778 That wasn't part of the game, 1081 00:50:29,861 --> 00:50:31,196 that wasn't fun. 1082 00:50:34,499 --> 00:50:35,918 - [Voiceover] Jobriath had done his best 1083 00:50:36,001 --> 00:50:38,420 to move past the failure of the first album. 1084 00:50:38,503 --> 00:50:40,689 For months, he and Jerry had been planning 1085 00:50:40,772 --> 00:50:43,058 an extravagant stage show that would combine 1086 00:50:43,141 --> 00:50:46,428 rock and roll, theater, opera and illusion 1087 00:50:46,511 --> 00:50:48,831 and provide Jobriath with a live debut 1088 00:50:48,914 --> 00:50:50,398 that would make everyone stand up 1089 00:50:50,481 --> 00:50:51,800 and take notice. 1090 00:50:51,883 --> 00:50:53,135 Their choice of venue, 1091 00:50:53,218 --> 00:50:54,837 the Paris Opera House. 1092 00:50:55,420 --> 00:50:58,189 (operatic music) 1093 00:51:12,437 --> 00:51:15,057 - One of the few barriers that rock and roll 1094 00:51:15,140 --> 00:51:18,393 hasn't conquered totally yet and that's theater. 1095 00:51:18,476 --> 00:51:20,696 - The stage show was supposed to be 1096 00:51:20,779 --> 00:51:22,798 a big, big spectacle. 1097 00:51:22,881 --> 00:51:25,100 So like a rock musical with sets. 1098 00:51:25,183 --> 00:51:26,969 - He wanted to bring the concept of 1099 00:51:27,052 --> 00:51:31,257 Broadway and opera to rock and roll. 1100 00:51:32,023 --> 00:51:34,943 And Jerry was making that happen. 1101 00:51:35,026 --> 00:51:37,546 They were going for it. 1102 00:51:37,629 --> 00:51:40,382 And the records just weren't selling. 1103 00:51:40,465 --> 00:51:42,785 - The idea was, we were going to work the record. 1104 00:51:42,868 --> 00:51:44,019 We were going to go out and tour, 1105 00:51:44,102 --> 00:51:45,153 we were going to put a unit together 1106 00:51:45,236 --> 00:51:46,755 that could play this music live. 1107 00:51:46,838 --> 00:51:49,024 - We were a bunch of serious wannabes 1108 00:51:49,107 --> 00:51:51,627 and this represented something quite serious. 1109 00:51:51,710 --> 00:51:54,062 - Jerry said okay, go ahead, 1110 00:51:54,145 --> 00:51:55,564 here's where you go. 1111 00:51:55,647 --> 00:51:57,365 You know, go to this address 1112 00:51:57,448 --> 00:51:59,467 in Lambertville. 1113 00:51:59,550 --> 00:52:01,503 You know, it was like an old farm house, 1114 00:52:01,586 --> 00:52:04,506 but it had been converted into a full stage. 1115 00:52:04,589 --> 00:52:06,775 - It was a huge barn-like room with 1116 00:52:06,858 --> 00:52:09,745 very thick velvet curtains to block out 1117 00:52:09,828 --> 00:52:10,879 all the sun. 1118 00:52:10,962 --> 00:52:12,547 We had lights on the second floor 1119 00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:14,349 of the mezzanine. 1120 00:52:14,432 --> 00:52:15,651 There was a great deal of control 1121 00:52:15,734 --> 00:52:16,885 of the environment. 1122 00:52:16,968 --> 00:52:18,136 It felt right. 1123 00:52:20,338 --> 00:52:23,025 * You're a space clown 1124 00:52:23,108 --> 00:52:25,728 - Probably stayed there over a month. 1125 00:52:25,811 --> 00:52:27,029 two months, maybe three months, 1126 00:52:27,112 --> 00:52:30,153 I'm really not sure, rehearsing. 1127 00:52:32,116 --> 00:52:34,952 (funky '70s rock) 1128 00:52:48,633 --> 00:52:51,703 - I saw Jobriath's sketches of Paris. 1129 00:52:52,771 --> 00:52:55,390 It was exceptionally gorgeous. 1130 00:52:55,473 --> 00:52:57,776 It looked like something out of the Wizard of Oz. 1131 00:52:58,944 --> 00:53:02,164 - I actually saw the set being built. 1132 00:53:02,247 --> 00:53:04,199 The cap of the Empire State Building 1133 00:53:04,282 --> 00:53:06,234 opening up into this huge phallus, 1134 00:53:06,317 --> 00:53:08,236 Jobriath as King Kong 1135 00:53:08,319 --> 00:53:10,072 or slash Marlene Dietrich, 1136 00:53:10,155 --> 00:53:12,474 ripping off the head and there he was. 1137 00:53:12,557 --> 00:53:15,477 So I got very excited about it. 1138 00:53:15,560 --> 00:53:16,979 - We're starting to relax and Bruce 1139 00:53:17,062 --> 00:53:19,081 is starting to, yeah this sounding good, 1140 00:53:19,164 --> 00:53:20,999 and the band was good. 1141 00:53:22,633 --> 00:53:24,920 - Jerry would come with his really 1142 00:53:25,003 --> 00:53:27,555 hoity-toity people and he'd sit up there 1143 00:53:27,638 --> 00:53:30,641 and it was like a royal performance. 1144 00:53:34,712 --> 00:53:37,132 Jerry Brandt would go he wants that, 1145 00:53:37,215 --> 00:53:38,049 make it. 1146 00:53:39,517 --> 00:53:41,837 So he was, he was like 1147 00:53:41,920 --> 00:53:43,538 the fairy godmother. 1148 00:53:43,621 --> 00:53:45,674 - You don't put together a show 1149 00:53:45,757 --> 00:53:47,140 and build the sets 1150 00:53:48,196 --> 00:53:49,137 unless you have a hit 1151 00:53:50,381 --> 00:53:51,252 to back it up. 1152 00:53:51,662 --> 00:53:53,765 Who's gonna come see you? 1153 00:53:55,733 --> 00:53:57,886 When I realized this, I said 1154 00:53:57,969 --> 00:53:59,822 now I'm investing money and money 1155 00:53:59,905 --> 00:54:02,057 coming from here, from there, from investors, 1156 00:54:02,140 --> 00:54:05,210 from friends, I mean just crazy shit. 1157 00:54:06,344 --> 00:54:08,797 The pressure I was under was just 1158 00:54:08,880 --> 00:54:09,714 to die. 1159 00:54:11,049 --> 00:54:13,736 I justified it by saying 1160 00:54:13,819 --> 00:54:15,419 I committed to this, 1161 00:54:16,201 --> 00:54:17,806 I'm obligated to him, 1162 00:54:17,889 --> 00:54:19,474 I must see this through. 1163 00:54:19,557 --> 00:54:21,409 - Jerry, as his manager, with really good 1164 00:54:21,492 --> 00:54:23,746 contacts that he had, was perfectly capable 1165 00:54:23,829 --> 00:54:26,481 of getting The Midnight Special in Los Angeles lined up for Jobriath 1166 00:54:26,564 --> 00:54:27,632 and the band. 1167 00:54:29,067 --> 00:54:31,286 - We'll do the Midnight Special. 1168 00:54:31,369 --> 00:54:33,088 We're talking about a national tour. 1169 00:54:33,171 --> 00:54:34,890 - The world was waiting. 1170 00:54:34,973 --> 00:54:39,261 Okay, let's see what this Jobriath thing is. 1171 00:54:39,844 --> 00:54:42,680 ('70s rock music) 1172 00:54:52,257 --> 00:54:54,576 - Every Saturday night, it was 1173 00:54:54,659 --> 00:54:58,313 1174 00:54:58,396 --> 00:55:00,615 And you gathered with your friends 1175 00:55:00,698 --> 00:55:02,284 it was like (holding breath). 1176 00:55:02,367 --> 00:55:04,286 * The midnight special 1177 00:55:04,369 --> 00:55:05,921 * Shine a light on me 1178 00:55:06,004 --> 00:55:08,090 - The Midnight Special was a big show. 1179 00:55:08,486 --> 00:55:10,584 It was nationwide. 1180 00:55:10,808 --> 00:55:12,928 The album had been released to less than 1181 00:55:13,011 --> 00:55:16,098 enthusiastic reviews and we figured that 1182 00:55:16,181 --> 00:55:17,933 if we could do The Midnight Special 1183 00:55:18,016 --> 00:55:19,634 and present something that was attractive 1184 00:55:19,717 --> 00:55:21,403 to the American public, then we would 1185 00:55:21,486 --> 00:55:23,405 maybe have a shot. 1186 00:55:23,488 --> 00:55:24,672 - [Wolfman Jack] Welcome to The Midnight Special, 1187 00:55:24,755 --> 00:55:27,910 with Fresh Flavor, Richie Havens, Jobriath. 1188 00:55:27,993 --> 00:55:30,913 - We got to the studios at NBC, 1189 00:55:30,996 --> 00:55:33,048 I looked out at the audience and 1190 00:55:33,131 --> 00:55:34,549 they were teenage kids 1191 00:55:34,632 --> 00:55:37,886 with, you know, they wanted to see The Eagles. 1192 00:55:37,969 --> 00:55:39,254 - We're on the set now 1193 00:55:39,337 --> 00:55:41,924 and he's doing things, the director says that's it, I can't. 1194 00:55:42,007 --> 00:55:43,691 The censors guys are there, 1195 00:55:43,774 --> 00:55:45,627 they thought it was too lewd. 1196 00:55:45,710 --> 00:55:47,695 I says not lewd, where, when. 1197 00:55:47,778 --> 00:55:48,613 What? 1198 00:55:49,780 --> 00:55:52,801 He doesn't even have a bulge in his pants. 1199 00:55:52,884 --> 00:55:55,403 What's so lewd about this? 1200 00:55:55,486 --> 00:55:58,073 Finally, time was running out and they had to do it. 1201 00:55:58,156 --> 00:56:00,175 - So what you're about to see 1202 00:56:00,501 --> 00:56:06,148 and hear is an unusual and exciting theatrical event. 1203 00:56:06,297 --> 00:56:08,250 - He didn't know who the hell he was. 1204 00:56:08,333 --> 00:56:10,185 - This young man you're about to see 1205 00:56:10,268 --> 00:56:13,555 this morning is the act of tomorrow. 1206 00:56:13,638 --> 00:56:15,590 - And how to say his name. 1207 00:56:15,673 --> 00:56:17,159 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1208 00:56:17,461 --> 00:56:18,280 Jobran. 1209 00:56:19,009 --> 00:56:20,194 (applause) 1210 00:56:19,777 --> 00:56:22,948 - I was watching it and saying oh God. 1211 00:56:24,582 --> 00:56:27,652 (mystical '70s rock) 1212 00:56:32,823 --> 00:56:34,276 - I'm starting with the synthesis 1213 00:56:34,359 --> 00:56:36,511 and, you know, the harpsichord 1214 00:56:36,594 --> 00:56:37,812 and then you look at Jobriath coming out 1215 00:56:37,895 --> 00:56:42,217 in this springy space garb singing I'maman. 1216 00:56:42,300 --> 00:56:44,907 And you go like, hello? 1217 00:56:46,604 --> 00:56:48,940 ♪ * I'm a man ♪ 1218 00:56:50,541 --> 00:56:53,328 ♪ * So, I'm an elegant man ♪ 1219 00:56:53,411 --> 00:56:55,763 ♪ * I'm a man ♪ 1220 00:56:55,846 --> 00:56:59,334 ♪ * Clara Bows and open toes ♪ 1221 00:56:59,417 --> 00:57:02,020 ♪ * Are what I am ♪ 1222 00:57:03,121 --> 00:57:05,890 ♪ * Yes, I'm a man ♪ 1223 00:57:08,093 --> 00:57:09,744 ♪ * Ma'am ♪ 1224 00:57:09,827 --> 00:57:11,113 ♪ * I'm a fragile man ♪ 1225 00:57:11,196 --> 00:57:13,115 ♪ * I'm a man ♪ 1226 00:57:13,198 --> 00:57:16,751 ♪ * Light of step ♪ ♪ and soft of touch ♪ 1227 00:57:16,834 --> 00:57:19,404 ♪ * A gentle man ♪ 1228 00:57:21,939 --> 00:57:25,827 ♪ * You know I could love you ♪ 1229 00:57:25,910 --> 00:57:29,514 ♪ * But if I should love you ♪ 1230 00:57:30,481 --> 00:57:32,867 ♪ * Then I would love you ♪ 1231 00:57:32,950 --> 00:57:34,402 ♪ * The way a man loves a woman ♪ 1232 00:57:34,485 --> 00:57:36,338 ♪ * And live my life like ♪ ♪ I've been livin' it ♪ 1233 00:57:36,421 --> 00:57:37,805 ♪ * My body claims my mind ♪ 1234 00:57:37,888 --> 00:57:40,075 ♪ * And soul so let me be ♪ 1235 00:57:40,158 --> 00:57:42,377 ♪ * What I am ♪ 1236 00:57:42,460 --> 00:57:44,512 ♪ * An elegant man ♪ 1237 00:57:44,595 --> 00:57:46,248 - When I saw it, I was just gobmacked. 1238 00:57:46,331 --> 00:57:48,383 I think my mouth dropped open. 1239 00:57:48,466 --> 00:57:50,485 I just couldn't believe it. 1240 00:57:50,568 --> 00:57:51,920 - I was shocked, not shocked, 1241 00:57:52,003 --> 00:57:53,956 but I was gleefully giggling. 1242 00:57:54,039 --> 00:57:55,790 - I think I was with my neighbors 1243 00:57:55,873 --> 00:57:58,260 and I made them stay up late to watch it with me and they're like 1244 00:57:58,343 --> 00:57:59,527 who is this freak? 1245 00:57:59,610 --> 00:58:01,763 - I can see how wrong it looked 1246 00:58:01,846 --> 00:58:04,699 to people from that period of time. 1247 00:58:04,782 --> 00:58:06,501 - It was odd, but it was a role, you see. 1248 00:58:06,584 --> 00:58:07,835 He was playing a role. 1249 00:58:07,918 --> 00:58:09,837 - It was something of a Walt Disney cartoon. 1250 00:58:09,920 --> 00:58:11,339 It wasn't dangerous. 1251 00:58:11,422 --> 00:58:13,641 To me, it wasn't like I was looking at 1252 00:58:13,724 --> 00:58:16,378 an alien, I was looking at a fairy. 1253 00:58:16,461 --> 00:58:17,745 I didn't mean fairy like fairy, 1254 00:58:17,828 --> 00:58:21,432 but I meant a fairy from a fairy tale line. 1255 00:58:23,801 --> 00:58:27,755 ♪ * You know I could love you ♪ 1256 00:58:27,838 --> 00:58:31,409 ♪ * But if I should love you ♪ 1257 00:58:32,243 --> 00:58:34,729 ♪ * Then I would love you ♪ 1258 00:58:34,812 --> 00:58:36,098 ♪ * The way a man loves a woman ♪ 1259 00:58:36,181 --> 00:58:38,266 ♪ * And live my life like ♪ ♪ I've been livin' it ♪ 1260 00:58:38,349 --> 00:58:40,002 ♪ * My body claims ♪ ♪ my mind and soul ♪ 1261 00:58:40,085 --> 00:58:41,803 ♪ * So let me be ♪ 1262 00:58:41,886 --> 00:58:43,938 ♪ * What I am ♪ 1263 00:58:44,021 --> 00:58:46,757 ♪ * An elegant man ♪ 1264 00:58:48,859 --> 00:58:50,745 ♪ * 'Cause I'm a man ♪ 1265 00:58:50,828 --> 00:58:52,880 ♪ * And I could love you ♪ 1266 00:58:52,963 --> 00:58:54,416 ♪ * 'Cause I'm a man ♪ 1267 00:58:54,499 --> 00:58:57,152 ♪ * And I could love you ♪ 1268 00:58:57,235 --> 00:58:59,321 ♪ * 'Cause I'm a man ♪ 1269 00:58:59,404 --> 00:59:01,156 ♪ * And I could love ♪ 1270 00:59:01,239 --> 00:59:05,410 ♪ * Love, love, love, ♪ ♪ love, love, love ♪ 1271 00:59:06,544 --> 00:59:07,462 ♪ * Love ♪ 1272 00:59:24,629 --> 00:59:28,533 ♪ * I'm a man ♪ 1273 00:59:33,403 --> 00:59:36,958 (applause and cheers) 1274 00:59:36,541 --> 00:59:38,493 - We had just finished I'maman 1275 00:59:38,576 --> 00:59:41,329 and you have to present the second tune. 1276 00:59:41,412 --> 00:59:43,298 - The people who were running the show 1277 00:59:43,381 --> 00:59:45,067 wanted us to change the lyrics 1278 00:59:45,150 --> 00:59:46,701 of Take Me I'm Yours. 1279 00:59:46,784 --> 00:59:47,802 - Take me I'm yours, 1280 00:59:47,885 --> 00:59:49,137 diffuse me, abuse me, I'm yours, 1281 00:59:49,220 --> 00:59:50,372 I'm your fantasy. 1282 00:59:50,455 --> 00:59:51,639 And Stan Harris looking at us 1283 00:59:51,722 --> 00:59:53,775 he says you can't do that on television. 1284 00:59:53,858 --> 00:59:55,043 - Anybody could have figured that one out 1285 00:59:55,126 --> 00:59:57,445 in 1974 in America. 1286 00:59:57,528 --> 01:00:00,030 We'll do Rock of Ages instead. 1287 01:00:02,667 --> 01:00:05,087 - I don't think I will ever forget the expression on my mother's face 1288 01:00:05,170 --> 01:00:06,621 when he walked out with that inverted 1289 01:00:06,704 --> 01:00:07,889 fishbowl on his head. 1290 01:00:07,972 --> 01:00:09,191 - This bubble that he had, 1291 01:00:09,274 --> 01:00:10,658 every fingerprint on it showed. 1292 01:00:10,741 --> 01:00:13,800 - Is that a Stephen Sprouse thing, it would 1293 01:00:13,883 --> 01:00:16,398 have been nice if it worked a little better. 1294 01:00:16,481 --> 01:00:19,167 * So what if a-wop-bop-a loo-bam boom 1295 01:00:19,250 --> 01:00:22,404 * Didn't rhyme 1296 01:00:22,487 --> 01:00:24,406 * Bill Haley and the Comets 1297 01:00:24,489 --> 01:00:28,393 * Drove me to the prom in time 1298 01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:33,047 * A Little Richard goes a long long way 1299 01:00:33,130 --> 01:00:35,550 * More than 20 long years to this day 1300 01:00:35,633 --> 01:00:39,804 * Rock of ages roll away rock away roll away * 1301 01:00:41,105 --> 01:00:43,758 - You could even see by the way the whole show was put together, 1302 01:00:43,841 --> 01:00:45,260 it was kind of like let's put something 1303 01:00:45,343 --> 01:00:48,763 together and get them the hell out of here. 1304 01:00:48,846 --> 01:00:50,031 - You could feel the hostility from 1305 01:00:50,114 --> 01:00:52,134 the audience when we went on stage 1306 01:00:52,217 --> 01:00:55,286 and certainly when we went off stage. 1307 01:00:56,521 --> 01:00:58,440 - They didn't want him on that show. 1308 01:00:58,523 --> 01:01:00,575 They didn't want Jobriath on that show. 1309 01:01:00,658 --> 01:01:04,011 There was a lady that I was sleeping with 1310 01:01:04,094 --> 01:01:06,414 and she said, you know, I book the acts 1311 01:01:06,497 --> 01:01:08,950 so I could put him on. 1312 01:01:09,033 --> 01:01:10,535 Nobody wanted him. 1313 01:01:12,437 --> 01:01:13,688 - After The Midnight Special there's 1314 01:01:13,771 --> 01:01:15,923 a surprise party for Jerry 1315 01:01:16,006 --> 01:01:17,225 and here's this whole spread, 1316 01:01:17,308 --> 01:01:19,227 there's a whole bunch of people around 1317 01:01:19,310 --> 01:01:22,164 and out of nowhere, Bruce picks up 1318 01:01:22,247 --> 01:01:24,199 the chocolate cake and smashes it 1319 01:01:24,282 --> 01:01:25,616 in Jerry's face. 1320 01:01:27,785 --> 01:01:29,904 - I'm not entirely sure where the relationship 1321 01:01:29,987 --> 01:01:32,207 between Jerry and Jobriath was at that time. 1322 01:01:32,290 --> 01:01:34,476 I mean, there must have been some sort of tension. 1323 01:01:34,559 --> 01:01:36,444 And Jobriath was pretty nervous. 1324 01:01:36,527 --> 01:01:37,679 This was his shot. 1325 01:01:37,762 --> 01:01:39,381 - I felt bad for Jobriath, too 1326 01:01:39,464 --> 01:01:42,350 because Jobriath was losing a grip. 1327 01:01:42,433 --> 01:01:43,934 He was humiliated. 1328 01:01:48,205 --> 01:01:51,226 - The Midnight Special made it seem cheap. 1329 01:01:51,309 --> 01:01:55,963 It made it seem that we were performing monkeys. 1330 01:01:56,046 --> 01:01:58,400 Suddenly all of the glamour and magic 1331 01:01:58,483 --> 01:02:00,635 that he was trying so hard to create, 1332 01:02:00,718 --> 01:02:02,870 it evaporated under those lights. 1333 01:02:02,953 --> 01:02:04,955 Under television lights. 1334 01:02:19,404 --> 01:02:21,088 - [Voiceover] After The Midnight Special, 1335 01:02:21,171 --> 01:02:22,724 the band returned to Lambertville 1336 01:02:22,807 --> 01:02:24,226 to find that the plans for the Paris 1337 01:02:24,309 --> 01:02:27,592 Opera House show were now crumbling out from under them. 1338 01:02:28,479 --> 01:02:29,764 - At that point, there was no discussion 1339 01:02:29,847 --> 01:02:32,334 of the Paris Opera House project, 1340 01:02:32,417 --> 01:02:33,868 which I personally believed was 1341 01:02:33,951 --> 01:02:35,737 a total fantasy. 1342 01:02:35,820 --> 01:02:37,305 I think that was just something 1343 01:02:37,388 --> 01:02:39,207 that Jerry concocted to get people 1344 01:02:39,290 --> 01:02:41,676 to think it was bigger than it was. 1345 01:02:41,759 --> 01:02:44,479 I think I left immediately after we did The Midnight Special. 1346 01:02:44,562 --> 01:02:46,013 I just got fed up. 1347 01:02:46,096 --> 01:02:47,682 - Then they actually put a tour together 1348 01:02:47,765 --> 01:02:50,252 and said we'd go warm up, 1349 01:02:50,335 --> 01:02:52,837 you know, do some shows first. 1350 01:02:54,545 --> 01:02:57,511 - [Voiceover] Among the venues 1351 01:02:57,595 --> 01:03:00,151 chosen, for the first leg of the tour, Manhattan's Bottom Line and West 1352 01:02:59,409 --> 01:03:00,878 Troubadour, were the hottest clubs 1353 01:03:00,234 --> 01:03:02,430 Hollywood's on the east and west coasts. 1354 01:03:02,513 --> 01:03:04,499 But their intimate size was a far cry 1355 01:03:04,582 --> 01:03:07,869 from the grandeur of the Paris Opera House. 1356 01:03:07,952 --> 01:03:09,471 - Tickets were sold out, couldn't get in 1357 01:03:09,554 --> 01:03:11,038 for free, the Bottom Line wasn't like 1358 01:03:11,121 --> 01:03:12,574 going to a club on the corner, it was 1359 01:03:12,657 --> 01:03:14,091 very established. 1360 01:03:15,426 --> 01:03:18,980 - The crowds at the Troubadour were marvelous all night. 1361 01:03:19,063 --> 01:03:21,599 The first night, opening night, was just 1362 01:03:22,667 --> 01:03:24,018 chaotic. 1363 01:03:24,101 --> 01:03:26,354 Local television, NBC, 1364 01:03:26,437 --> 01:03:28,089 they filmed it. 1365 01:03:28,172 --> 01:03:30,592 - I think everybody was mystified 1366 01:03:30,675 --> 01:03:32,560 as to what they were going to see 1367 01:03:32,643 --> 01:03:33,828 because they had been told about 1368 01:03:33,911 --> 01:03:35,430 this Paris show. 1369 01:03:35,513 --> 01:03:37,465 He was going to be like Marlene Dietrich 1370 01:03:37,548 --> 01:03:40,001 and pop out of this thing. 1371 01:03:40,084 --> 01:03:42,537 - The lights all went down 1372 01:03:42,620 --> 01:03:45,206 and the band walked out on stage. 1373 01:03:45,289 --> 01:03:48,209 To our horror, they were all dressed 1374 01:03:48,292 --> 01:03:50,412 in jeans and t-shirts. 1375 01:03:50,495 --> 01:03:52,414 - Ladies and gentlemen, 1376 01:03:52,497 --> 01:03:55,216 I am Jobriath Boone. 1377 01:03:55,500 --> 01:03:57,001 - We were shocked. 1378 01:03:58,403 --> 01:03:59,987 - When you're expecting all this hype 1379 01:04:00,070 --> 01:04:01,823 and this razzle dazzle, all of a sudden 1380 01:04:01,906 --> 01:04:03,525 you get a basic pencil sketch, 1381 01:04:03,608 --> 01:04:05,376 people were insulted. 1382 01:04:07,445 --> 01:04:10,765 - We were really ready to see something special 1383 01:04:10,848 --> 01:04:13,234 and it was a sad moment. 1384 01:04:13,317 --> 01:04:15,269 - The Bottom Line show was all right, 1385 01:04:15,352 --> 01:04:19,674 if no one had been told about the Paris show. 1386 01:04:19,757 --> 01:04:23,761 Brandt screwed everything up with his super-hype crapola. 1387 01:04:25,763 --> 01:04:27,148 - Now you have to understand, 1388 01:04:27,231 --> 01:04:29,984 for me to do what I did for him, 1389 01:04:30,067 --> 01:04:32,487 you have to be in love with someone. 1390 01:04:32,570 --> 01:04:34,522 Understand that. 1391 01:04:34,605 --> 01:04:37,442 You can't make these kind of stews 1392 01:04:39,143 --> 01:04:41,529 if you're not in love with it. 1393 01:04:41,612 --> 01:04:42,764 - Whenever there was any press, 1394 01:04:42,847 --> 01:04:45,199 it was Brandt who did the talking. 1395 01:04:45,282 --> 01:04:47,735 Jobriath was kept away from the press. 1396 01:04:47,818 --> 01:04:49,637 - He didn't want to talk. 1397 01:04:49,720 --> 01:04:52,707 He thought he had a great mouthpiece in me 1398 01:04:52,790 --> 01:04:54,642 and I was doing my job. 1399 01:04:54,725 --> 01:04:57,078 That is exactly how he 1400 01:04:57,161 --> 01:05:00,247 didn't sell records, but his name 1401 01:05:00,330 --> 01:05:02,384 kept flowing out there. 1402 01:05:02,467 --> 01:05:04,352 - Jerry Brandt's ego was as big as 1403 01:05:04,435 --> 01:05:05,836 all the universe. 1404 01:05:06,937 --> 01:05:09,323 Jerry Brandt presents. 1405 01:05:09,406 --> 01:05:11,359 - I learned early there's no name 1406 01:05:11,442 --> 01:05:12,860 better than your own. 1407 01:05:12,943 --> 01:05:14,496 - Jerry Brandt presents is everywhere 1408 01:05:14,579 --> 01:05:16,130 to the point of what seems to be 1409 01:05:16,213 --> 01:05:17,799 such egocentricity 1410 01:05:17,882 --> 01:05:19,266 because that's all that Jerry had. 1411 01:05:19,349 --> 01:05:22,504 - We're talking about a certain type of animal. 1412 01:05:22,587 --> 01:05:25,206 And I was one of those animals. 1413 01:05:25,289 --> 01:05:28,042 And Jobriath, obviously knew about it 1414 01:05:28,125 --> 01:05:31,679 because I had a history and he loved it. 1415 01:05:31,762 --> 01:05:35,082 - Jerry's a manager, Bruce is the talent, 1416 01:05:35,165 --> 01:05:37,351 the entity is Jobriath. 1417 01:05:37,434 --> 01:05:39,020 But to hear Jerry tell it, and maybe 1418 01:05:39,103 --> 01:05:41,756 rightfully so, I'm Jobriath. 1419 01:05:41,839 --> 01:05:43,024 Because he created it. 1420 01:05:43,107 --> 01:05:44,291 - Right. 1421 01:05:44,374 --> 01:05:45,827 He didn't perform, I had to go out there 1422 01:05:45,910 --> 01:05:47,578 and make him famous. 1423 01:05:49,113 --> 01:05:51,050 I think he got more press than I did. 1424 01:05:52,293 --> 01:05:54,143 - [Interviewer] But you were in all the press that he got. 1425 01:05:54,671 --> 01:05:55,450 - Not really. 1426 01:05:56,537 --> 01:05:57,137 Was I? 1427 01:05:57,596 --> 01:05:58,030 - [Interviewer] Yeah. 1428 01:05:58,170 --> 01:05:58,573 - Okay. 1429 01:05:58,656 --> 01:06:00,875 Well, it was a team, and it was a partnership 1430 01:06:00,958 --> 01:06:04,111 and the Colonel had as much press as Elvis, too. 1431 01:06:04,194 --> 01:06:05,980 - All of this was about him. 1432 01:06:06,063 --> 01:06:07,649 This was going to be his way 1433 01:06:07,732 --> 01:06:09,951 of becoming a star again. 1434 01:06:10,034 --> 01:06:12,353 - I wanted to be famous 1435 01:06:12,436 --> 01:06:14,104 and he was a vehicle 1436 01:06:15,139 --> 01:06:16,458 as well. 1437 01:06:16,541 --> 01:06:18,793 We both wanted the same thing. 1438 01:06:18,876 --> 01:06:20,928 - Well, what do I want to be? 1439 01:06:21,011 --> 01:06:21,763 I don't know. 1440 01:06:21,846 --> 01:06:22,680 Rich. 1441 01:06:24,314 --> 01:06:25,833 Glamorous, famous. 1442 01:06:25,916 --> 01:06:27,134 The old thing. 1443 01:06:27,217 --> 01:06:29,203 - I gave him what he wanted. 1444 01:06:29,286 --> 01:06:31,272 I got the money. 1445 01:06:31,355 --> 01:06:34,408 - Jerry Brandt was holding up this big image. 1446 01:06:34,491 --> 01:06:36,277 I mean there was no Holiday Inns or 1447 01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:37,712 nothing like that. 1448 01:06:37,795 --> 01:06:40,915 We stayed in the best hotels in every major city. 1449 01:06:40,998 --> 01:06:42,617 And everything was carte blanche. 1450 01:06:42,700 --> 01:06:44,486 - We went where we were limoed. 1451 01:06:44,569 --> 01:06:46,721 We played where we were limoed. 1452 01:06:46,804 --> 01:06:48,923 We didn't pay for anything 1453 01:06:49,006 --> 01:06:51,058 because we weren't paid. 1454 01:06:51,141 --> 01:06:52,359 - It was difficult for the band to get 1455 01:06:52,442 --> 01:06:55,096 any kind of money or anything from anybody. 1456 01:06:55,179 --> 01:06:57,031 - I don't remember, but something must have, 1457 01:06:57,114 --> 01:06:57,965 maybe food. 1458 01:06:58,048 --> 01:06:59,100 I don't remember. 1459 01:06:59,183 --> 01:07:01,903 I had a bigger picture in mind. 1460 01:07:01,986 --> 01:07:03,905 - Jobriath expected us to be playing 1461 01:07:03,988 --> 01:07:06,824 in big places and stuff like that. 1462 01:07:07,992 --> 01:07:09,477 I told him you don't start like that, 1463 01:07:09,560 --> 01:07:13,114 you have to cut your teeth, so to speak. 1464 01:07:13,197 --> 01:07:15,750 - When we had a concert at the Nassau Coliseum 1465 01:07:15,833 --> 01:07:18,419 and people started yelling faggot 1466 01:07:18,502 --> 01:07:20,622 and started throwing things 1467 01:07:20,705 --> 01:07:22,957 and we all had to run for our lives. 1468 01:07:23,040 --> 01:07:26,060 - And we're rushed off the stage. 1469 01:07:26,143 --> 01:07:28,996 Jobriath is sitting downstairs now 1470 01:07:29,079 --> 01:07:31,265 and he looks at himself and he starts 1471 01:07:31,348 --> 01:07:33,701 to heave and he picks up his makeup kit 1472 01:07:33,784 --> 01:07:36,621 and he smashes it into the mirror. 1473 01:07:38,723 --> 01:07:40,942 And you could see tears just pouring 1474 01:07:41,025 --> 01:07:42,744 down his face. 1475 01:07:42,827 --> 01:07:45,880 He was so completely humiliated by this. 1476 01:07:45,963 --> 01:07:47,715 This was where the overt 1477 01:07:47,798 --> 01:07:49,867 self-destruction started. 1478 01:07:51,335 --> 01:07:53,120 - Things changed and Jobriath used to 1479 01:07:53,203 --> 01:07:55,706 disappear for lengths of time. 1480 01:07:56,974 --> 01:07:59,226 - He would shut down. 1481 01:07:59,309 --> 01:08:01,495 Where he was, nobody knew. 1482 01:08:01,578 --> 01:08:03,097 So everything had to stop. 1483 01:08:03,180 --> 01:08:04,599 - I was more concerned with, 1484 01:08:04,682 --> 01:08:06,784 you know, his welfare and 1485 01:08:07,985 --> 01:08:09,571 things like that, you know. 1486 01:08:09,654 --> 01:08:13,074 That he didn't get hurt or hurt himself. 1487 01:08:13,157 --> 01:08:15,342 - With everything that had been spiraling 1488 01:08:15,425 --> 01:08:18,095 down from all the built up hopes 1489 01:08:19,263 --> 01:08:22,249 and hype of the grand show to 1490 01:08:22,332 --> 01:08:24,552 it just being a small club tour, 1491 01:08:24,635 --> 01:08:26,704 Jobriath felt embarrassed 1492 01:08:28,005 --> 01:08:30,407 to have been reduced to this. 1493 01:08:31,976 --> 01:08:34,228 - He was self-destructive at a point 1494 01:08:34,311 --> 01:08:36,964 in his life when it seemed that 1495 01:08:37,047 --> 01:08:39,601 everything that he'd worked for had, 1496 01:08:39,684 --> 01:08:42,236 the rug had been pulled out from under him. 1497 01:08:42,319 --> 01:08:45,640 And he really was in a free-fall. 1498 01:08:45,723 --> 01:08:47,642 He had sort of giving up caring 1499 01:08:47,725 --> 01:08:49,559 about a lot of things. 1500 01:08:50,961 --> 01:08:53,380 - He was an attractive guy when he was, 1501 01:08:53,463 --> 01:08:54,799 you know, level, 1502 01:08:55,733 --> 01:08:58,168 not being consumed by demons. 1503 01:09:00,570 --> 01:09:04,241 I would say he was borderline schizophrenic. 1504 01:09:05,409 --> 01:09:06,794 - Every time he put on a different 1505 01:09:06,877 --> 01:09:10,047 costume, his personality would change. 1506 01:09:11,982 --> 01:09:14,135 - One night he literally ripped 1507 01:09:14,218 --> 01:09:16,671 a banister out of the wall and was 1508 01:09:16,754 --> 01:09:18,439 swinging it at people 1509 01:09:18,522 --> 01:09:22,026 and was attacking anyone who got near him. 1510 01:09:26,797 --> 01:09:29,717 - These are all distractions. 1511 01:09:29,800 --> 01:09:33,137 This doesn't help you write great music. 1512 01:09:38,275 --> 01:09:41,929 - He always thought everybody was conspiring against him. 1513 01:09:42,012 --> 01:09:45,099 You know, how come they're not doing this 1514 01:09:45,182 --> 01:09:46,634 or how come they're not doing that, 1515 01:09:46,717 --> 01:09:49,570 why aren't they promoting the album? 1516 01:09:49,653 --> 01:09:51,773 - The second Jobriath album was released 1517 01:09:51,856 --> 01:09:54,424 in 1974, long after I had gone. 1518 01:09:55,592 --> 01:09:58,829 - And David Geffen took over the label. 1519 01:09:59,997 --> 01:10:02,049 - [Interviewer] Why was there no marketing, for the second album? 1520 01:10:02,132 --> 01:10:04,118 - I did it all already. 1521 01:10:04,201 --> 01:10:08,089 I'm not gonna say the first time bombed, but wait til you get to this one. 1522 01:10:08,672 --> 01:10:10,691 (laughing) 1523 01:10:10,274 --> 01:10:12,877 - The finances started dropping 1524 01:10:14,178 --> 01:10:16,130 and things started, 1525 01:10:16,213 --> 01:10:20,134 the fluidity of it all was starting to. 1526 01:10:20,217 --> 01:10:22,436 - Now in those days and in my youth, 1527 01:10:22,519 --> 01:10:24,839 I didn't count money. 1528 01:10:24,922 --> 01:10:26,490 I didn't even care. 1529 01:10:27,858 --> 01:10:29,376 As long as I was sleeping and the limousine 1530 01:10:29,459 --> 01:10:31,012 took me to the studio. 1531 01:10:31,595 --> 01:10:32,746 (chuckling) 1532 01:10:31,555 --> 01:10:33,263 Then I was easy, you know what I mean? 1533 01:10:35,933 --> 01:10:38,352 And then I realized we're broke. 1534 01:10:38,435 --> 01:10:40,487 So I called David. 1535 01:10:40,570 --> 01:10:41,956 Jerry, no more money. 1536 01:10:42,039 --> 01:10:43,868 I said, David, 1537 01:10:44,809 --> 01:10:47,328 I'm on the high diving board, 1538 01:10:47,411 --> 01:10:49,263 there's no staircase down 1539 01:10:49,346 --> 01:10:51,065 and the pool is empty. 1540 01:10:51,148 --> 01:10:52,767 You got the water 1541 01:10:52,850 --> 01:10:54,401 and I gotta jump. 1542 01:10:54,484 --> 01:10:56,537 He says okay, Jerry. 1543 01:10:56,620 --> 01:10:58,388 I'll give you $50,000 1544 01:10:59,756 --> 01:11:01,809 if you sign the letter that you 1545 01:11:01,892 --> 01:11:04,561 won't ask me for any more money. 1546 01:11:05,996 --> 01:11:07,148 Okay. 1547 01:11:07,231 --> 01:11:09,383 - The Paris Opera House debacle became 1548 01:11:09,466 --> 01:11:11,518 self evident, that when the tour 1549 01:11:11,601 --> 01:11:14,121 ground down we ended up in Tuscaloosa. 1550 01:11:14,204 --> 01:11:15,222 - Yeah, that was a good show, 1551 01:11:15,305 --> 01:11:16,490 there was a lot of people there, 1552 01:11:16,573 --> 01:11:18,125 they all loved him. 1553 01:11:18,208 --> 01:11:19,460 - There was people waiting and people 1554 01:11:19,543 --> 01:11:20,762 wanted autographs and all that 1555 01:11:20,845 --> 01:11:22,463 kind of stuff, it was really fun. 1556 01:11:22,546 --> 01:11:25,066 They treated us like real rock stars. 1557 01:11:25,149 --> 01:11:26,750 - They freaked out. 1558 01:11:28,418 --> 01:11:29,636 It just kept going. 1559 01:11:29,719 --> 01:11:31,839 Encores, encores, encores. 1560 01:11:31,922 --> 01:11:33,474 And we started having to repeat material. 1561 01:11:33,557 --> 01:11:35,542 They wouldn't let us go. 1562 01:11:35,625 --> 01:11:38,179 - The music was really, really good. 1563 01:11:38,262 --> 01:11:40,915 And I think that's what won people over. 1564 01:11:40,998 --> 01:11:43,250 - To be at the University of Tuscaloosa, 1565 01:11:43,333 --> 01:11:45,086 of all places, 1566 01:11:45,169 --> 01:11:49,349 you know, and he got such a big, warm welcome. 1567 01:11:50,040 --> 01:11:53,127 Then I knew we could go anywhere. 1568 01:11:53,210 --> 01:11:54,328 I didn't think there was any place 1569 01:11:54,411 --> 01:11:56,580 we couldn't go after that. 1570 01:11:58,648 --> 01:12:01,836 - By that time, it was too late. 1571 01:12:01,919 --> 01:12:04,254 - That was the end of Jobriath's contract with Elektra. 1572 01:12:06,857 --> 01:12:10,644 And everything just started setting in. 1573 01:12:10,727 --> 01:12:12,279 He was shocked. 1574 01:12:12,362 --> 01:12:14,381 - Jobriath told us, he just said 1575 01:12:14,464 --> 01:12:17,084 Elektra dropped us, that's all. 1576 01:12:17,167 --> 01:12:19,320 - He didn't sell any records. 1577 01:12:19,403 --> 01:12:22,223 And that was the name of the game. 1578 01:12:22,306 --> 01:12:24,358 What gets a record company going 1579 01:12:24,441 --> 01:12:26,276 is the smell of money. 1580 01:12:27,111 --> 01:12:29,046 And there was no money. 1581 01:12:30,114 --> 01:12:32,699 He didn't generate 50 cents. 1582 01:12:32,782 --> 01:12:34,001 - He was a performer. 1583 01:12:34,084 --> 01:12:35,937 He wanted to work. 1584 01:12:36,020 --> 01:12:38,873 And Brandt came along like a tornado 1585 01:12:38,956 --> 01:12:40,808 and threw him way off track. 1586 01:12:40,891 --> 01:12:42,944 Promised him the Emerald City 1587 01:12:43,027 --> 01:12:44,411 and Jobriath just couldn't, 1588 01:12:44,494 --> 01:12:47,014 he crumbled under it, that pressure. 1589 01:12:47,097 --> 01:12:48,582 - I couldn't wait for this show 1590 01:12:48,665 --> 01:12:51,452 to be in the sky and Jobriath's coming out 1591 01:12:51,535 --> 01:12:53,487 in the auditorium and the costumes 1592 01:12:53,570 --> 01:12:55,322 and the sets. 1593 01:12:55,405 --> 01:12:56,240 Please. 1594 01:12:57,274 --> 01:12:59,326 It was glory days. 1595 01:12:59,409 --> 01:13:02,129 For me, if I could pull it off. 1596 01:13:02,212 --> 01:13:06,021 And I tried my damnedest. 1597 01:13:06,650 --> 01:13:08,402 I get back to New York and it just 1598 01:13:08,485 --> 01:13:11,372 kept getting crazier and crazier 1599 01:13:11,455 --> 01:13:13,507 and I said to him that's it. 1600 01:13:13,590 --> 01:13:15,242 I can't do it anymore. 1601 01:13:15,325 --> 01:13:16,777 Do what you want. 1602 01:13:16,860 --> 01:13:18,295 I'm closing down. 1603 01:13:20,464 --> 01:13:23,817 And that was the end of me and Jobriath. 1604 01:13:23,900 --> 01:13:27,637 That fast it started, and that fast it ended. 1605 01:13:28,605 --> 01:13:29,940 It was damaging. 1606 01:13:31,775 --> 01:13:34,044 And to be so publicly wrong 1607 01:13:36,180 --> 01:13:37,847 is not a nice thing. 1608 01:13:46,823 --> 01:13:48,575 (soft piano music) 1609 01:13:48,158 --> 01:13:49,476 - [Voiceover] Emotionally damaged, 1610 01:13:49,559 --> 01:13:51,345 flat broke and with Jerry Brandt 1611 01:13:51,428 --> 01:13:52,947 no longer in his corner, 1612 01:13:53,030 --> 01:13:54,815 Jobriath reluctantly headed back 1613 01:13:54,898 --> 01:13:57,401 to more familiar surroundings. 1614 01:13:58,526 --> 01:14:01,178 - Bruce came to stay with us when I was in high school for a while 1615 01:14:01,262 --> 01:14:02,413 and it was an extended stay. 1616 01:14:02,497 --> 01:14:04,332 - I think he was there 1617 01:14:05,175 --> 01:14:07,494 because he didn't have anyplace else to go. 1618 01:14:07,577 --> 01:14:09,696 - My mother was a little bit discouraged 1619 01:14:09,779 --> 01:14:11,432 about his life. 1620 01:14:11,515 --> 01:14:14,135 I think he was a source of worry to her. 1621 01:14:14,218 --> 01:14:15,736 She gave Bruce as much support as 1622 01:14:15,819 --> 01:14:19,907 her personality was capable of giving him. 1623 01:14:19,990 --> 01:14:23,010 He said you never gave a fuck about my talent 1624 01:14:23,093 --> 01:14:24,946 and her response was don't use 1625 01:14:25,029 --> 01:14:27,748 that word around me. Don't ever use that word around me. 1626 01:14:27,831 --> 01:14:29,250 And she was really angry. 1627 01:14:29,333 --> 01:14:30,985 But, of course, that's sad because 1628 01:14:31,068 --> 01:14:32,219 her response was don't use that word 1629 01:14:32,302 --> 01:14:34,455 around me instead of I'm sorry 1630 01:14:34,538 --> 01:14:37,274 I wasn't able to do more for you. 1631 01:14:39,276 --> 01:14:40,794 - He was looking not so much for 1632 01:14:40,877 --> 01:14:43,264 encouragement, I think, but just recognition. 1633 01:14:43,347 --> 01:14:45,732 - Eventually my mother had to ask Bruce to leave. 1634 01:14:45,815 --> 01:14:48,970 She just was like Bruce, you know, get a job and chip in or 1635 01:14:49,053 --> 01:14:49,886 move on. 1636 01:14:51,021 --> 01:14:52,073 - [Voiceover] On his own once again, 1637 01:14:52,156 --> 01:14:53,440 Jobriath returned to New York 1638 01:14:53,523 --> 01:14:55,242 in search of his next personae 1639 01:14:55,325 --> 01:14:59,346 while trying to avoid the lingering specter of the true fairy. 1640 01:14:59,429 --> 01:15:00,581 - He felt powerless about it and 1641 01:15:00,664 --> 01:15:02,783 he spent many years trying to 1642 01:15:02,866 --> 01:15:04,201 not be Jobriath. 1643 01:15:07,132 --> 01:15:09,290 - I was just concerned for his well-being and whether he would 1644 01:15:09,373 --> 01:15:11,725 be able to do what he wanted to do. 1645 01:15:11,808 --> 01:15:13,594 - Michael and Jobriath were very close 1646 01:15:13,677 --> 01:15:15,997 because Michael really cared about his actors. 1647 01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:19,086 And I think it's a very endearing relationship that they had. 1648 01:15:19,170 --> 01:15:21,823 - There was some kind of relationship there. 1649 01:15:22,519 --> 01:15:23,971 Especially in terms of support. 1650 01:15:24,054 --> 01:15:25,672 - And that's how he ended up 1651 01:15:25,755 --> 01:15:29,193 in New York, living in the Chelsea Hotel. 1652 01:15:30,394 --> 01:15:32,746 - I sort of envied him living in the Chelsea 1653 01:15:32,829 --> 01:15:36,783 because it was a fascinating place to live. 1654 01:15:37,366 --> 01:15:39,953 (bouncy piano music) 1655 01:15:39,536 --> 01:15:41,222 - He lived in the coolest apartment 1656 01:15:41,305 --> 01:15:42,789 in the city of New York, 1657 01:15:42,872 --> 01:15:46,376 which was the pyramid on top of the hotel. 1658 01:15:47,244 --> 01:15:48,729 When you were in the apartment, 1659 01:15:48,812 --> 01:15:50,297 the main focal point, of course, 1660 01:15:50,380 --> 01:15:52,433 is the Empire State Building, 1661 01:15:52,516 --> 01:15:54,618 which is front and center inside the apartment. 1662 01:15:55,952 --> 01:15:58,005 It was just one open space 1663 01:15:58,088 --> 01:15:59,606 and there was a piano in the upper 1664 01:15:59,689 --> 01:16:00,974 part of the pyramid. 1665 01:16:01,057 --> 01:16:02,843 That was where he slept. 1666 01:16:02,926 --> 01:16:04,645 - My writer, Chuck Herschberg, 1667 01:16:04,728 --> 01:16:06,747 recognized him as Jobriath. 1668 01:16:06,830 --> 01:16:08,415 He mentioned my name and said that 1669 01:16:08,498 --> 01:16:10,751 John would probably like to interview you 1670 01:16:10,834 --> 01:16:13,237 and Jobriath said absolutely. 1671 01:16:14,338 --> 01:16:17,391 He was just ranting about Brandt. 1672 01:16:17,474 --> 01:16:20,094 His reputation had been smeared, 1673 01:16:20,177 --> 01:16:22,329 how he had been screwed over because 1674 01:16:22,412 --> 01:16:26,300 Jerry opened the club called The Erotic Circus. 1675 01:16:26,383 --> 01:16:29,903 There's been a lot of rumors about that. 1676 01:16:29,986 --> 01:16:31,605 Something may have been washed, 1677 01:16:31,688 --> 01:16:33,507 we don't want to say what it was. 1678 01:16:33,590 --> 01:16:36,777 Jobriath said that Brandt took our money, 1679 01:16:36,860 --> 01:16:38,045 we've never gotten a penny out of 1680 01:16:38,128 --> 01:16:39,646 any of this. 1681 01:16:39,729 --> 01:16:43,016 He used all of the money to open this club 1682 01:16:43,099 --> 01:16:45,419 without our permission 1683 01:16:45,502 --> 01:16:47,521 and they were furious. 1684 01:16:47,604 --> 01:16:49,190 And then he was talking about the fact 1685 01:16:49,273 --> 01:16:51,325 that he had an alternate personality 1686 01:16:51,408 --> 01:16:52,409 called Joby. 1687 01:16:53,810 --> 01:16:55,596 That was the personae for when 1688 01:16:55,679 --> 01:16:57,598 had to hustle and he only hustled 1689 01:16:57,681 --> 01:17:00,784 when he had no other source of income. 1690 01:17:01,785 --> 01:17:04,071 But he compartmentalized it by making 1691 01:17:04,154 --> 01:17:06,640 a fictional character called Joby. 1692 01:17:06,723 --> 01:17:09,443 Joby hustled, Jobriath didn't. 1693 01:17:09,526 --> 01:17:11,044 - I don't know how much Jobriath 1694 01:17:11,127 --> 01:17:14,130 knew when he got involved with Jerry 1695 01:17:15,365 --> 01:17:18,119 that what happened was going to happen to him. 1696 01:17:18,202 --> 01:17:20,554 - He still wanted to create, but there 1697 01:17:20,637 --> 01:17:24,425 wasn't anything that he could do without Jerry. 1698 01:17:24,508 --> 01:17:26,827 - We were partners in a company 1699 01:17:26,910 --> 01:17:28,678 called Pierrot Music. 1700 01:17:29,513 --> 01:17:31,398 We were 50/50. 1701 01:17:31,481 --> 01:17:33,900 - He was bound by contract to Jerry 1702 01:17:33,983 --> 01:17:35,485 for, I don't know, 1703 01:17:37,787 --> 01:17:38,939 eternity. 1704 01:17:39,022 --> 01:17:40,141 - It's crazy. 1705 01:17:40,224 --> 01:17:41,408 You can't stop anybody from going 1706 01:17:41,491 --> 01:17:44,345 in the studio and making music. 1707 01:17:44,428 --> 01:17:47,248 Selling it maybe is another story. 1708 01:17:47,331 --> 01:17:49,783 - Nobody wanted to even touch it 1709 01:17:49,866 --> 01:17:52,586 because nobody wanted to deal with Jerry. 1710 01:17:52,669 --> 01:17:55,189 I saw Dee Anthony, who was managing 1711 01:17:55,272 --> 01:17:58,058 Peter Frampton and Peter Allen. 1712 01:17:58,141 --> 01:18:00,026 I said why don't you take Jobriath 1713 01:18:00,109 --> 01:18:01,728 over from Jerry Brandt? 1714 01:18:01,811 --> 01:18:04,531 And he said not a chance. 1715 01:18:04,614 --> 01:18:07,384 He said I wouldn't go near Jerry. 1716 01:18:08,918 --> 01:18:11,421 - I quit, so I'm not entitled. 1717 01:18:13,156 --> 01:18:16,159 And I never gave him the impression. 1718 01:18:17,427 --> 01:18:18,579 Never. 1719 01:18:18,662 --> 01:18:19,946 It's not my style. 1720 01:18:20,029 --> 01:18:22,183 I mean, I walked away from a lot things. 1721 01:18:22,266 --> 01:18:25,786 - Jerry gave Carly back her music. 1722 01:18:25,869 --> 01:18:28,222 Jerry could be very well vested today, 1723 01:18:28,305 --> 01:18:30,557 and rightfully so, as being her manager, 1724 01:18:30,640 --> 01:18:32,159 holding on to her music and he was 1725 01:18:32,242 --> 01:18:34,060 just a human being then. 1726 01:18:34,143 --> 01:18:35,662 And he chose never to do that again. 1727 01:18:35,745 --> 01:18:38,299 - I was not into holding him back. 1728 01:18:38,382 --> 01:18:40,901 I was into enough already. 1729 01:18:40,984 --> 01:18:43,387 - He was just bitter 1730 01:18:43,820 --> 01:18:46,207 against the whole rock and roll scene 1731 01:18:46,290 --> 01:18:48,475 and his only choice was to leave 1732 01:18:48,558 --> 01:18:50,394 the business as it was 1733 01:18:51,561 --> 01:18:54,498 and recreate himself as something else. 1734 01:18:55,932 --> 01:18:59,168 (tinkling piano music) 1735 01:19:13,483 --> 01:19:16,570 ♪ * Join us for the feast ♪ 1736 01:19:16,653 --> 01:19:20,824 ♪ * New York is a Sunday brunch ♪ 1737 01:19:21,958 --> 01:19:23,444 - Jobriath always knew all these 1738 01:19:23,527 --> 01:19:26,213 old songs from the '20s and the '30s 1739 01:19:26,296 --> 01:19:28,982 and would play them just for fun. 1740 01:19:29,065 --> 01:19:32,052 He could be every bit as good as Cole Porter. 1741 01:19:32,135 --> 01:19:33,754 So I said just do that. 1742 01:19:33,837 --> 01:19:36,657 Do that and make some money. 1743 01:19:36,740 --> 01:19:40,261 He had made up the name Cole Berlin. 1744 01:19:40,344 --> 01:19:41,795 - Okay, you know, Cole Porter, 1745 01:19:41,878 --> 01:19:43,046 Irving Berlin. 1746 01:19:44,581 --> 01:19:46,850 He also was Bryce Campbell. 1747 01:19:48,652 --> 01:19:50,304 - When he became Cole Berlin 1748 01:19:50,387 --> 01:19:52,172 and I went and I saw him and it was 1749 01:19:52,255 --> 01:19:55,542 just magic when he played piano. 1750 01:19:55,625 --> 01:19:57,344 - This was the music that he really loved. 1751 01:19:57,427 --> 01:19:59,079 This is the stuff that inspired him. 1752 01:19:59,162 --> 01:20:01,181 - Cole Berlin really cleaned up well 1753 01:20:01,264 --> 01:20:02,916 and he looked very presentable 1754 01:20:02,999 --> 01:20:05,652 and I think he had reinvented himself 1755 01:20:05,735 --> 01:20:07,621 for that era, where people wanted 1756 01:20:07,704 --> 01:20:08,922 their gay people to be a little more 1757 01:20:09,005 --> 01:20:10,891 presentable and classy. 1758 01:20:10,974 --> 01:20:13,193 - You hear a name like Cole Berlin 1759 01:20:13,276 --> 01:20:15,562 and you think yah, sure. 1760 01:20:16,145 --> 01:20:17,864 (laughing) 1761 01:20:17,447 --> 01:20:19,733 He would get up there 1762 01:20:19,816 --> 01:20:22,869 and he'd play Cole Porter and Irving Berlin 1763 01:20:22,952 --> 01:20:25,439 exquisitely, easily with no effort, 1764 01:20:25,522 --> 01:20:27,974 just like they wrote it to be done. 1765 01:20:28,057 --> 01:20:30,877 And he would inject his own personality into it. 1766 01:20:30,960 --> 01:20:32,379 After you heard him for the first time, 1767 01:20:32,462 --> 01:20:35,131 you said yeah, he's Cole Berlin. 1768 01:20:36,733 --> 01:20:39,953 - Berlin Cole or Cole Porter or something. 1769 01:20:40,036 --> 01:20:42,088 And he was working piano bars. 1770 01:20:42,171 --> 01:20:43,357 I said how great, making a living, 1771 01:20:43,440 --> 01:20:45,158 how nice, great. 1772 01:20:45,241 --> 01:20:46,393 - Lance and I both sort of kicked 1773 01:20:46,476 --> 01:20:49,129 ourselves and thought we gotta go down there and see him. 1774 01:20:49,212 --> 01:20:50,464 There was a bowl that you could put 1775 01:20:50,547 --> 01:20:53,166 requests into and then Lance went up 1776 01:20:53,249 --> 01:20:55,569 and put in the request for Gone Tomorrow, 1777 01:20:55,652 --> 01:20:56,870 one of those songs. 1778 01:20:56,953 --> 01:20:58,204 And Jobriath opened it up and he said 1779 01:20:58,287 --> 01:21:00,790 oh, I don't do my own material. 1780 01:21:04,360 --> 01:21:05,912 In our minds, he had written some 1781 01:21:05,995 --> 01:21:07,448 of the great songs of the '70s, 1782 01:21:07,531 --> 01:21:09,799 if not of all musical time. 1783 01:21:11,801 --> 01:21:13,754 For him to say that and not even 1784 01:21:13,837 --> 01:21:15,589 entertain the idea of just doing 1785 01:21:15,672 --> 01:21:17,157 it on a lark because he knew a fan 1786 01:21:17,240 --> 01:21:18,908 was in the audience. 1787 01:21:20,877 --> 01:21:24,498 He had drifted so far from his muse 1788 01:21:24,581 --> 01:21:27,501 being able to give him spiritual sustenance 1789 01:21:27,584 --> 01:21:29,803 that he couldn't reach back and 1790 01:21:29,886 --> 01:21:33,222 access his own greatest accomplishments. 1791 01:21:35,459 --> 01:21:37,961 - The Cole Berlin personae was 1792 01:21:39,095 --> 01:21:40,381 appropriate for him when it was just 1793 01:21:40,464 --> 01:21:42,449 him and his piano, and that was what 1794 01:21:42,532 --> 01:21:43,933 he was left with. 1795 01:21:45,268 --> 01:21:48,254 He wanted to become that character 1796 01:21:48,337 --> 01:21:49,956 in the way that he kept exchanging 1797 01:21:50,039 --> 01:21:51,658 one identity for another, 1798 01:21:51,741 --> 01:21:53,827 trying to find one that worked. 1799 01:21:53,910 --> 01:21:55,829 - Cole Berlin was his ability to 1800 01:21:55,912 --> 01:21:57,964 keep on going on. 1801 01:21:58,047 --> 01:22:00,867 For him, that what was his answer 1802 01:22:00,950 --> 01:22:03,937 to, you know, what is the next move for me. 1803 01:22:04,020 --> 01:22:05,606 - He ultimately had thought that 1804 01:22:05,689 --> 01:22:08,024 the next step would be as a, 1805 01:22:09,225 --> 01:22:11,111 as a playwrighter and getting these 1806 01:22:11,194 --> 01:22:13,179 shows launched. 1807 01:22:13,262 --> 01:22:15,264 There was Sunday Brunch. 1808 01:22:16,432 --> 01:22:17,784 - Sunday Brunch is the theme song 1809 01:22:17,867 --> 01:22:19,352 from my latest play. 1810 01:22:19,435 --> 01:22:20,587 It's about a tourist who comes 1811 01:22:20,670 --> 01:22:23,490 to New York and he meets all these outrageous people. 1812 01:22:23,573 --> 01:22:25,842 And it's semi-cannibalistic 1813 01:22:27,410 --> 01:22:28,595 because he becomes eaten alive 1814 01:22:28,678 --> 01:22:30,196 in the streets of New York. 1815 01:22:30,279 --> 01:22:31,632 - [Interviewer] Is that your own experience? 1816 01:22:31,715 --> 01:22:33,066 - What? 1817 01:22:33,149 --> 01:22:34,501 My own experience? 1818 01:22:34,584 --> 01:22:35,936 Oh, every day. 1819 01:22:36,019 --> 01:22:39,072 * Ease into New York 1820 01:22:39,155 --> 01:22:41,074 * And join us for 1821 01:22:41,157 --> 01:22:43,977 * Sunday Brunch 1822 01:22:44,060 --> 01:22:47,347 - I think he was magnificently gifted 1823 01:22:47,430 --> 01:22:50,083 and could easily have been in the discipline 1824 01:22:50,166 --> 01:22:52,285 of the Broadway musical. 1825 01:22:52,368 --> 01:22:53,487 * Drop in anytime 1826 01:22:53,570 --> 01:22:56,990 * We just love having you for 1827 01:22:57,073 --> 01:22:59,526 * Sunday Brunch 1828 01:22:59,609 --> 01:23:01,294 - It happened that a pet project 1829 01:23:01,377 --> 01:23:03,329 of Joe Pabst, which was a musical 1830 01:23:03,412 --> 01:23:07,067 adaptation of Moliere's The Misanthrope. 1831 01:23:07,150 --> 01:23:08,869 Joe had decided to have the entire 1832 01:23:08,952 --> 01:23:10,704 score thrown out. 1833 01:23:10,787 --> 01:23:13,406 I suggested Jobriath because I knew 1834 01:23:13,489 --> 01:23:14,841 he was fast. 1835 01:23:14,924 --> 01:23:16,376 I knew he was really fast and I knew 1836 01:23:16,459 --> 01:23:18,645 he wrote lyrics as well. 1837 01:23:18,728 --> 01:23:21,181 I think he did a couple of songs overnight 1838 01:23:21,264 --> 01:23:23,383 and Joe loved them. 1839 01:23:23,466 --> 01:23:26,820 So Jobriath delivered the entire score 1840 01:23:26,903 --> 01:23:30,473 in a time that just seems superhuman to me. 1841 01:23:33,874 --> 01:23:36,329 - [Voiceover] In the meantime, Cole Berlin had been quietly building 1842 01:23:36,412 --> 01:23:39,332 a following on the Manhattan cabaret scene. 1843 01:23:39,415 --> 01:23:41,401 What had begun as a means to an end 1844 01:23:41,484 --> 01:23:43,136 was now looking like Jobriath's 1845 01:23:43,219 --> 01:23:45,722 first real success since Hair. 1846 01:23:47,023 --> 01:23:49,109 - It was very much like Casablanca 1847 01:23:49,192 --> 01:23:51,011 in a way, you know? 1848 01:23:51,094 --> 01:23:54,014 Sophisticated, sort of secret bar 1849 01:23:54,097 --> 01:23:55,682 where only people who knew each other 1850 01:23:55,765 --> 01:23:57,718 had told each other we should go see Cole. 1851 01:23:57,801 --> 01:24:01,187 You know, Cole's playing tonight. 1852 01:24:01,270 --> 01:24:03,790 - He seemed to be creating a much 1853 01:24:03,873 --> 01:24:06,527 bigger audience for what he was doing. 1854 01:24:06,610 --> 01:24:07,994 Everybody just worshiped him at 1855 01:24:08,077 --> 01:24:09,579 the Covent Garden. 1856 01:24:10,847 --> 01:24:12,866 - He did it extremely well and, of course, 1857 01:24:12,949 --> 01:24:15,669 they loved anything he did. 1858 01:24:15,752 --> 01:24:17,403 - Cole was playing private parties. 1859 01:24:17,486 --> 01:24:20,106 He was branding himself, he was making all the right moves. 1860 01:24:20,189 --> 01:24:22,042 He was working the room. 1861 01:24:22,125 --> 01:24:24,010 He definitely needed to get out 1862 01:24:24,093 --> 01:24:26,346 of the piano room and really become 1863 01:24:26,429 --> 01:24:29,215 more of a hotel room performer. 1864 01:24:29,298 --> 01:24:31,017 He could certainly have stepped 1865 01:24:31,100 --> 01:24:33,419 into the Bobby Short role 1866 01:24:33,502 --> 01:24:35,188 and he was building just that kind 1867 01:24:35,271 --> 01:24:36,539 of a following. 1868 01:24:38,241 --> 01:24:39,225 ('30s style music) 1869 01:24:38,808 --> 01:24:42,195 ♪ * We'll take Manhattan ♪ 1870 01:24:42,278 --> 01:24:46,449 ♪ * The Bronx and ♪ ♪ Staten Island, too ♪ 1871 01:24:49,919 --> 01:24:53,589 ♪ * It's lovely going through ♪ 1872 01:24:56,893 --> 01:24:59,062 ♪ * The zoo ♪ 1873 01:25:05,468 --> 01:25:08,805 ♪ * Well, it's very fancy ♪ 1874 01:25:10,406 --> 01:25:14,577 ♪ * On old Delancey ♪ ♪ Street, you know ♪ 1875 01:25:17,747 --> 01:25:21,467 ♪ * The subway charms are so ♪ 1876 01:25:22,050 --> 01:25:24,720 (music warping) 1877 01:25:25,221 --> 01:25:28,725 ♪ * When balmy breezes blow ♪ 1878 01:25:30,593 --> 01:25:33,029 ♪ * To and fro ♪ 1879 01:25:34,363 --> 01:25:38,318 ♪ * And tell me what street ♪ 1880 01:25:38,401 --> 01:25:42,605 ♪ * Compares with ♪ ♪ Mark Street in July ♪ 1881 01:25:45,608 --> 01:25:48,544 ♪ * Sweet push carts ♪ 1882 01:25:49,645 --> 01:25:53,817 ♪ * Gently gliding by ♪ 1883 01:25:55,218 --> 01:25:58,654 (music groans to a halt) 1884 01:26:03,159 --> 01:26:04,277 - I think he first found out 1885 01:26:04,360 --> 01:26:06,529 probably maybe around '82. 1886 01:26:08,197 --> 01:26:11,885 He called me up and he said I have band-aids. 1887 01:26:12,468 --> 01:26:13,853 (chuckling) 1888 01:26:13,436 --> 01:26:15,989 That's what he decided to call AIDS, 1889 01:26:16,072 --> 01:26:16,906 band-aids. 1890 01:26:19,242 --> 01:26:21,895 He was still playing at Covent Garden. 1891 01:26:21,978 --> 01:26:24,665 One place had found out that he was sick 1892 01:26:24,748 --> 01:26:28,234 and they cancelled his appearance there. 1893 01:26:28,317 --> 01:26:30,436 - And you could tell 1894 01:26:30,519 --> 01:26:32,138 that he was ill. 1895 01:26:32,221 --> 01:26:33,774 You know, you could tell he had 1896 01:26:33,857 --> 01:26:35,709 the pallor, he just had that pre-death 1897 01:26:35,792 --> 01:26:37,060 look, in a way. 1898 01:26:38,261 --> 01:26:40,714 - It was 1983 and at that time I had 1899 01:26:40,797 --> 01:26:44,917 volunteered for Gay Men's Health Crisis, GMHC. 1900 01:26:45,001 --> 01:26:48,117 I became what was called a Crisis Intervention Worker. 1901 01:26:48,838 --> 01:26:50,323 And finally I was given a client 1902 01:26:50,406 --> 01:26:53,480 and my client was this man named 1903 01:26:53,682 --> 01:26:54,683 Cole Berlin. 1904 01:26:56,212 --> 01:27:00,000 He was going through a lot at that time. 1905 01:27:00,083 --> 01:27:01,902 And there was something sort of 1906 01:27:01,985 --> 01:27:05,822 ethereal about him as he was going through it. 1907 01:27:07,423 --> 01:27:08,608 He never really told me anything 1908 01:27:08,691 --> 01:27:10,476 about his past at all. 1909 01:27:10,559 --> 01:27:12,145 In a sense, I think that for him 1910 01:27:12,228 --> 01:27:14,480 to have done that would have been painful. 1911 01:27:14,563 --> 01:27:15,648 He said one day to me, I need to 1912 01:27:15,731 --> 01:27:17,317 play the piano for you so that 1913 01:27:17,400 --> 01:27:19,335 you will know who I am. 1914 01:27:20,503 --> 01:27:22,355 I really did have the feeling that 1915 01:27:22,438 --> 01:27:25,274 it was a person who was tormented. 1916 01:27:27,143 --> 01:27:29,963 - I didn't see him that much, 1917 01:27:30,046 --> 01:27:31,464 you know, maybe that last 1918 01:27:31,547 --> 01:27:32,548 half a year. 1919 01:27:33,883 --> 01:27:36,970 - He had basically disassociated himself 1920 01:27:37,053 --> 01:27:38,221 with everyone. 1921 01:27:39,488 --> 01:27:41,891 He wasn't going out anywhere. 1922 01:27:43,492 --> 01:27:45,578 - I think that he was very in touch 1923 01:27:45,661 --> 01:27:46,947 with the fact that he was in the last 1924 01:27:47,030 --> 01:27:49,182 month of his life. 1925 01:27:49,265 --> 01:27:51,417 To say it in a sort of maudlin way, 1926 01:27:51,500 --> 01:27:53,386 I saw death in his eyes. 1927 01:27:53,469 --> 01:27:56,973 And I think that he saw death in his eyes. 1928 01:27:58,507 --> 01:27:59,960 - My mother loved Bruce, I have 1929 01:28:00,043 --> 01:28:01,777 no doubts about that. 1930 01:28:02,778 --> 01:28:04,564 Nobody could ever tell me that 1931 01:28:04,647 --> 01:28:05,832 she didn't love him and that 1932 01:28:05,915 --> 01:28:07,667 he didn't love her. 1933 01:28:07,750 --> 01:28:09,369 They loved each other. 1934 01:28:09,452 --> 01:28:10,971 But, 1935 01:28:11,054 --> 01:28:13,163 was my mother the type of person who was strong 1936 01:28:13,246 --> 01:28:16,009 enough to visit him when he was emaciated and dying? 1937 01:28:16,092 --> 01:28:17,360 No, she wasn't. 1938 01:28:18,928 --> 01:28:21,197 - The night before he died, 1939 01:28:22,365 --> 01:28:24,417 he called me on the phone 1940 01:28:24,500 --> 01:28:28,088 just to sing a revised version of lyrics 1941 01:28:28,171 --> 01:28:30,006 of one of these songs. 1942 01:28:33,209 --> 01:28:34,360 I only wish I would have had 1943 01:28:34,443 --> 01:28:37,280 a tape recorder going at the time. 1944 01:28:38,747 --> 01:28:41,084 Because I didn't know until, 1945 01:28:42,418 --> 01:28:44,487 I don't know, days later. 1946 01:28:47,290 --> 01:28:49,125 - He died at the piano 1947 01:28:50,226 --> 01:28:52,112 doing what every performer wants to do, 1948 01:28:52,195 --> 01:28:54,781 he wants to die in his work. 1949 01:28:54,864 --> 01:28:57,717 - Nobody knew he had died for four days. 1950 01:28:57,800 --> 01:28:59,986 Nobody should have to go like that 1951 01:29:00,069 --> 01:29:01,704 and not have anybody 1952 01:29:03,339 --> 01:29:05,792 to be there with him. 1953 01:29:05,875 --> 01:29:09,395 - I was quite surprised when he passed away. 1954 01:29:09,478 --> 01:29:12,933 He was very fragile in many ways. 1955 01:29:13,016 --> 01:29:16,685 I think the disaster in his life was Brandt. 1956 01:29:17,586 --> 01:29:19,472 - He died, what, '83? 1957 01:29:19,555 --> 01:29:23,076 So I was a big deal in New York in the '80s. 1958 01:29:23,159 --> 01:29:24,994 He never came to mind. 1959 01:29:26,395 --> 01:29:30,366 Jobriath just disappeared from my consciousness. 1960 01:29:31,734 --> 01:29:34,454 - I remember going down to the Chelsea, 1961 01:29:34,537 --> 01:29:36,923 the family was there. 1962 01:29:37,006 --> 01:29:38,959 I just kind of like, got cut out of everything. 1963 01:29:39,042 --> 01:29:40,660 Got cut out as far as information 1964 01:29:40,743 --> 01:29:43,163 and being told where there was 1965 01:29:43,246 --> 01:29:44,898 going to be a memorial or anything, 1966 01:29:44,981 --> 01:29:47,133 I didn't know anything. 1967 01:29:47,216 --> 01:29:50,336 - His father had come to New York. 1968 01:29:50,419 --> 01:29:52,005 Jobriath was gone 1969 01:29:52,088 --> 01:29:53,673 out of the apartment. 1970 01:29:53,756 --> 01:29:56,676 He had come to New York and he had hired two punks 1971 01:29:56,759 --> 01:29:59,612 off the street to come in and destroy 1972 01:29:59,695 --> 01:30:02,182 everything in the apartment. 1973 01:30:02,265 --> 01:30:04,050 - Mr. Campbell did send Jobriath 1974 01:30:04,133 --> 01:30:06,452 money and did come and visit him. 1975 01:30:06,535 --> 01:30:08,288 But in the end, it comes down to 1976 01:30:08,371 --> 01:30:11,474 the fact that he just wanted him out. 1977 01:30:12,575 --> 01:30:15,311 He wanted no one to remember him. 1978 01:30:16,312 --> 01:30:17,898 - We had a slew of songs, 1979 01:30:17,981 --> 01:30:19,799 maybe 20 or 30 songs, 1980 01:30:19,882 --> 01:30:21,801 we had made demo tapes of and 1981 01:30:21,884 --> 01:30:24,905 I spoke to his father about it. 1982 01:30:24,988 --> 01:30:26,672 He didn't want to give us permission 1983 01:30:26,755 --> 01:30:28,241 to move with anything. 1984 01:30:28,324 --> 01:30:29,876 I said, you know, his music is 1985 01:30:29,959 --> 01:30:31,794 out there to be heard. 1986 01:30:32,695 --> 01:30:33,846 - He told me that all the papers 1987 01:30:33,929 --> 01:30:36,182 were gone, all the costumes were gone, 1988 01:30:36,265 --> 01:30:38,151 that anything that had anything to do 1989 01:30:38,234 --> 01:30:40,403 with his son was destroyed 1990 01:30:41,971 --> 01:30:43,924 and that the only thing he kept 1991 01:30:44,007 --> 01:30:45,758 was the journal. 1992 01:30:45,841 --> 01:30:47,593 And from reading the journal, 1993 01:30:47,676 --> 01:30:49,762 he understood more who he was. 1994 01:30:49,845 --> 01:30:52,265 So I spent two hours on the phone with him 1995 01:30:52,348 --> 01:30:55,201 and he cried, and I let him know 1996 01:30:55,284 --> 01:30:56,619 who his son was. 1997 01:30:59,822 --> 01:31:01,474 In my heart, I think that that was 1998 01:31:01,557 --> 01:31:03,726 a huge regret of his life. 1999 01:31:05,028 --> 01:31:07,147 That he had this son who was a really 2000 01:31:07,230 --> 01:31:09,249 wonderful person, who contributed 2001 01:31:09,332 --> 01:31:11,717 a lot to the world, was never recognized 2002 01:31:11,800 --> 01:31:15,238 for it, and that he didn't even know him. 2003 01:31:17,373 --> 01:31:20,060 - I guess that it was inevitable. 2004 01:31:20,143 --> 01:31:22,728 In a way, he was too good to be around 2005 01:31:22,811 --> 01:31:24,530 trying to do what he was doing. 2006 01:31:24,613 --> 01:31:27,100 He wasn't living the life he should be. 2007 01:31:27,183 --> 01:31:29,835 It wasn't just an AIDS thing, it was just 2008 01:31:29,918 --> 01:31:32,621 that he had never received the recognition he should have. 2009 01:32:04,019 --> 01:32:06,006 - I used to say I'm waiting for God 2010 01:32:06,089 --> 01:32:07,256 to talk to me. 2011 01:32:08,957 --> 01:32:10,625 Meaning inspiration. 2012 01:32:14,578 --> 01:32:15,905 I don't have any inspiration. 2013 01:32:17,259 --> 01:32:18,026 It's a terrible thing. 2014 01:32:19,168 --> 01:32:20,586 Hey, beautiful baby. 2015 01:32:20,669 --> 01:32:21,421 - Hi. 2016 01:32:21,504 --> 01:32:22,288 - How are you? 2017 01:32:22,371 --> 01:32:23,523 - Good, and you? 2018 01:32:23,606 --> 01:32:24,724 - Good to see you. 2019 01:32:24,807 --> 01:32:25,958 - Good to see you, too. 2020 01:32:26,041 --> 01:32:28,428 - It's not coming to me. So there's nothing I can do. 2021 01:32:28,511 --> 01:32:29,262 Get a job? 2022 01:32:29,345 --> 01:32:30,596 I don't think so. 2023 01:32:30,679 --> 01:32:31,913 Work for Bloomingdale's? 2024 01:32:31,997 --> 01:32:33,399 I don't think so. 2025 01:32:33,482 --> 01:32:34,900 So I'm just 2026 01:32:34,983 --> 01:32:36,002 having a good time. 2027 01:32:36,085 --> 01:32:37,653 I like the scooter. 2028 01:32:42,225 --> 01:32:45,545 I wanted to be famous, I still do. 2029 01:32:45,628 --> 01:32:48,297 And I still hope to do it again. 2030 01:32:50,199 --> 01:32:53,369 But God's not talking to me right now. 2031 01:32:55,857 --> 01:32:56,691 Failure. 2032 01:32:58,246 --> 01:32:59,881 Failure can kill ya. 2033 01:33:01,210 --> 01:33:03,696 I just resented him to the max 2034 01:33:03,779 --> 01:33:05,731 at a certain point in life 2035 01:33:05,814 --> 01:33:08,917 and then he just disappeared from my, 2036 01:33:10,186 --> 01:33:12,588 I think for survival reasons. 2037 01:33:16,192 --> 01:33:18,544 I don't think I've ever reached 2038 01:33:18,627 --> 01:33:22,891 my height that I was destined to be. 2039 01:33:24,600 --> 01:33:28,321 Not that I wanted to be Darryl Zanuck, 2040 01:33:28,404 --> 01:33:31,957 nor did I think I had the talent to do that. 2041 01:33:32,040 --> 01:33:33,041 We are home. 2042 01:33:35,077 --> 01:33:37,813 But at least, Mike Todd or Barnum 2043 01:33:38,714 --> 01:33:40,983 or any of those characters. 2044 01:33:42,084 --> 01:33:44,187 Maybe it's still to come. 2045 01:33:45,572 --> 01:33:47,690 My attitude, philosophy, 2046 01:33:48,479 --> 01:33:51,644 and opinion and musicianship of Jobriath 2047 01:33:51,727 --> 01:33:54,563 has changed tremendously recently. 2048 01:33:55,931 --> 01:33:58,584 The door is cracked open this much, 2049 01:33:58,667 --> 01:34:01,587 but once the foot gets through, 2050 01:34:01,670 --> 01:34:03,223 it's going to be a flood 2051 01:34:03,306 --> 01:34:05,291 And a flood will come. 2052 01:34:05,374 --> 01:34:07,293 And a film will come, 2053 01:34:07,376 --> 01:34:09,061 and a play will come, 2054 01:34:09,144 --> 01:34:10,496 and a musical will come. 2055 01:34:10,579 --> 01:34:12,432 It'll all come. 2056 01:34:12,515 --> 01:34:14,167 And it's a nice feeling, 2057 01:34:14,250 --> 01:34:16,151 to feel Jobriath again. 2058 01:34:17,653 --> 01:34:18,971 - [Interviewer] Do you miss him at all? 2059 01:34:19,054 --> 01:34:20,373 - A lot. 2060 01:34:20,456 --> 01:34:22,275 Don't make me do this. 2061 01:34:22,358 --> 01:34:23,526 I'm gonna cry. 2062 01:34:24,993 --> 01:34:26,646 - [Interviewer] So what do you miss about him the most? 2063 01:34:26,729 --> 01:34:28,514 - Just his being. 2064 01:34:28,597 --> 01:34:29,432 He hit me. 2065 01:34:30,799 --> 01:34:32,552 I wish he could be sitting here now 2066 01:34:32,635 --> 01:34:35,555 having this conversation with me. 2067 01:34:35,638 --> 01:34:37,072 It would be nice. 2068 01:34:42,431 --> 01:34:45,338 - Jobriath lost his career 2069 01:34:45,700 --> 01:34:47,134 very immediately. 2070 01:34:47,950 --> 01:34:49,335 He had so much to give. 2071 01:34:49,418 --> 01:34:51,537 You still haven't seen anybody do 2072 01:34:51,620 --> 01:34:53,573 what he was capable of doing, 2073 01:34:53,656 --> 01:34:55,375 what he was aspiring to do. 2074 01:34:55,458 --> 01:34:58,863 He was such an exquisite writer. 2075 01:35:07,403 --> 01:35:10,323 ♪ * Couldn't make it that way ♪ 2076 01:35:10,406 --> 01:35:13,559 ♪ * I just can't ♪ ♪ believe I'm here today ♪ 2077 01:35:13,642 --> 01:35:16,312 ♪ * Gone tomorrow ♪ 2078 01:35:18,046 --> 01:35:19,865 ♪ * And I must confess ♪ 2079 01:35:19,948 --> 01:35:24,304 ♪ * I really love your loneliness ♪ 2080 01:35:24,387 --> 01:35:27,373 ♪ * And nonetheless ♪ 2081 01:35:27,456 --> 01:35:31,211 ♪ * I couldn't make it that way ♪ 2082 01:35:31,294 --> 01:35:34,714 ♪ * Just believe I'm here today ♪ 2083 01:35:34,797 --> 01:35:38,351 ♪ * Gone tomorrow ♪ 2084 01:35:38,434 --> 01:35:41,654 ♪ * But in my heart ♪ ♪ I must confess * ♪ 2085 01:35:41,737 --> 01:35:44,056 - When people start researching him, 2086 01:35:44,139 --> 01:35:46,559 they can't believe that this person was there. 2087 01:35:46,642 --> 01:35:50,095 The character died too young, and then he died too young. 2088 01:35:50,178 --> 01:35:51,764 - His femininity was genuine 2089 01:35:51,847 --> 01:35:53,933 and that was who he was. 2090 01:35:54,016 --> 01:35:56,202 - Jobriath's openness about his sexuality 2091 01:35:56,285 --> 01:35:58,704 has got a patina, a charm that I'm sure 2092 01:35:58,787 --> 01:36:01,441 it didn't have at all when it was threatening. 2093 01:36:01,524 --> 01:36:04,043 - Jobriath is a hero to me. 2094 01:36:04,126 --> 01:36:06,546 This is a valuable artist whose value 2095 01:36:06,629 --> 01:36:11,183 does not change because of what the world at large says about them. 2096 01:36:11,266 --> 01:36:12,985 - Sometimes the groundbreakers, 2097 01:36:13,068 --> 01:36:14,587 that's really all they get to do, 2098 01:36:14,670 --> 01:36:15,855 is break the ground. 2099 01:36:15,938 --> 01:36:17,523 And maybe that's all he was. 2100 01:36:17,606 --> 01:36:20,660 Maybe he was the dynamite to get it going. 2101 01:36:20,743 --> 01:36:23,963 - He was very important as the first openly gay rock star. 2102 01:36:24,046 --> 01:36:25,931 You've got to kind of make him a hero 2103 01:36:26,014 --> 01:36:28,584 for that in a way, for putting himself out there. 2104 01:36:29,785 --> 01:36:31,871 - Maybe that's the reason why he died, 2105 01:36:31,954 --> 01:36:33,839 artistically and physically. 2106 01:36:33,933 --> 01:36:35,775 So people like me could go on and 2107 01:36:35,858 --> 01:36:37,677 be happy being an artist. 2108 01:36:37,760 --> 01:36:40,546 - He got to be the megastar, 2109 01:36:40,629 --> 01:36:42,248 then he got to be the joke, 2110 01:36:42,331 --> 01:36:44,049 then he got to be the nobody. 2111 01:36:44,132 --> 01:36:45,751 But now he gets to be a beacon 2112 01:36:45,834 --> 01:36:47,753 for so many great artists out there 2113 01:36:47,836 --> 01:36:50,155 who didn't get their due. 2114 01:36:50,238 --> 01:36:52,091 - The Def Leppard covers project, 2115 01:36:52,174 --> 01:36:54,159 I actually did my own version of Heartbeat. 2116 01:36:54,242 --> 01:36:55,995 We were wanting to show the world 2117 01:36:56,078 --> 01:36:58,398 where we came from musically. 2118 01:36:58,481 --> 01:36:59,965 I wanted the world to know who 2119 01:37:00,048 --> 01:37:01,083 Jobriath was. 2120 01:37:02,485 --> 01:37:04,604 - I have had thrown back in my face 2121 01:37:04,687 --> 01:37:07,239 that I felt I had made 2122 01:37:07,322 --> 01:37:09,975 two big mistakes in signing artists. 2123 01:37:10,058 --> 01:37:11,677 One was Jobriath. 2124 01:37:11,760 --> 01:37:13,713 Now that I've heard the music again, 2125 01:37:13,796 --> 01:37:14,914 it may not have been such a dumb 2126 01:37:14,997 --> 01:37:16,599 decision after all. 2127 01:37:17,409 --> 01:37:18,918 - He just put his heart on his sleeve 2128 01:37:19,001 --> 01:37:20,731 or took his heart and drew it on his face, 2129 01:37:20,815 --> 01:37:22,755 you know, and just went out there. 2130 01:37:22,838 --> 01:37:24,023 - The thing about Jobriath is that, 2131 01:37:24,106 --> 01:37:25,941 you know, he lives on. 2132 01:37:40,788 --> 01:37:43,959 (applause and cheers) 2133 01:37:53,201 --> 01:37:55,437 (applause) 2134 01:37:59,007 --> 01:38:03,111 (music box tinkling Pop Goes the Weasel) 2135 01:38:13,989 --> 01:38:16,758 (operatic music) 2136 01:38:35,810 --> 01:38:38,080 (applause) 2137 01:38:50,692 --> 01:38:53,795 (screams and cheers) 2138 01:38:59,534 --> 01:39:02,204 (planes roaring) 2139 01:39:05,440 --> 01:39:08,110 (guns rattling) 2140 01:39:20,822 --> 01:39:23,091 (applause) 2141 01:39:28,430 --> 01:39:31,599 (fireworks whistling) 2142 01:39:44,179 --> 01:39:46,448 (drumroll) 2143 01:40:00,195 --> 01:40:03,365 (applause and cheers) 2144 01:40:26,188 --> 01:40:28,007 (Cabaret style music) 2145 01:40:27,590 --> 01:40:30,743 ♪ * I've always ♪ ♪ wanted a movie queen ♪ 2146 01:40:30,826 --> 01:40:34,146 ♪ * To call my very own ♪ 2147 01:40:34,229 --> 01:40:37,550 ♪ * That bright and shining star ♪ 2148 01:40:37,633 --> 01:40:40,452 ♪ * I've worshiped from afar ♪ 2149 01:40:40,535 --> 01:40:42,555 ♪ * Came down to earth ♪ 2150 01:40:42,638 --> 01:40:45,974 ♪ * To be with me tonight ♪ 2151 01:40:48,644 --> 01:40:52,064 ♪ * I've always wanted a superstar ♪ 2152 01:40:52,147 --> 01:40:55,367 ♪ * To cherish as my own ♪ 2153 01:40:55,450 --> 01:40:59,304 ♪ * But so high in the sky ♪ 2154 01:40:59,387 --> 01:41:01,907 ♪ * I never dared to try ♪ 2155 01:41:01,990 --> 01:41:03,843 ♪ * To take the steps ♪ 2156 01:41:03,926 --> 01:41:08,096 ♪ * That I can take ♪ ♪ with you tonight ♪ 2157 01:41:09,832 --> 01:41:12,952 ♪ * With you at my side ♪ 2158 01:41:13,035 --> 01:41:16,589 ♪ * Ginger Rogers up and cried ♪ 2159 01:41:16,672 --> 01:41:20,192 ♪ * Busby Berkeley ♪ ♪ ate his heart out ♪ 2160 01:41:20,275 --> 01:41:22,544 ♪ * Over you ♪ 2161 01:41:25,047 --> 01:41:27,967 ♪ * You on my arm ♪ 2162 01:41:28,050 --> 01:41:31,470 ♪ * Betty Grable lost her charm ♪ 2163 01:41:31,553 --> 01:41:33,973 ♪ * And Florence ♪ ♪ Ziegfield's Follies ♪ 2164 01:41:34,056 --> 01:41:37,626 ♪ * Looked like Brooklyn Zoo ♪ 2165 01:41:39,161 --> 01:41:42,748 ♪ * I've always ♪ ♪ wanted a movie queen ♪ 2166 01:41:42,831 --> 01:41:46,001 ♪ * To call my very own ♪ 2167 01:41:49,772 --> 01:41:52,224 ♪ * And here I am ♪ 2168 01:41:52,307 --> 01:41:55,060 ♪ * So sorry I'm with you ♪ 2169 01:41:55,143 --> 01:41:58,914 ♪ * Tonight ♪ 2169 01:41:59,305 --> 01:42:59,773 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm