00:00Around 2005, he called me, saying,
00:04you're not gonna believe this, but all the money's gone.
00:07You know, money has a way of disappearing
00:09if you don't watch it very, very closely.
00:11I wasn't absolutely certain of this, but now I am.
00:16He then found himself at 74,
00:22feeling like, you know, he had to recover
00:24and earn a living again.
00:26There was a matter of financial survival,
00:28so I didn't sit around thinking
00:30it's important to build an essay.
00:32It's important to produce some income.
00:38So I got busy.
00:40He wasn't at all confident
00:42that he had an audience when we first started.
00:45We played a couple of venues
00:46that were just a little bit bigger than school auditoriums,
00:49you know, and it just grew from there.
00:54It just mushroomed.
00:55Suddenly he's going from playing, you know,
00:572,000, 3,000 seaters.
00:59He's going to playing 20,000 seaters.
01:02Not many people get to experience their own heyday.
01:05People realize they really missed him.
01:12When he reemerged after a period of being away,
01:16captured not just the audience that he had begun with,
01:19but a much, much younger audience,
01:21far younger than, say, the audience that comes to my concerts.
01:26Then we take Berlin.
01:31He turned his act into this tremendous road act
01:36where he could get up and play three-hour shows.
01:39If you want a lover, hold him in.
01:43That was really something to do
01:44with not only three-hour shows,
01:46but these epic performances.
01:49And if you want a partner, take my hand or...
01:54It was the most perfectly balanced use of his songbook.
01:58It was the single greatest show I've ever seen by anybody.
02:04I'm your man.
02:11When he takes off his hat
02:13and he looks out into the audience,
02:15he is in disbelief.
02:17And in some way it forces him
02:19to have to reconsult that sense of defeat
02:22and disappointment that he had had with his career.
02:25It was actually much more rewarding
02:27and robust than he'd ever known.
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