20 Feet from Stardom

505 00:31:05,906 --> 00:31:09,661 <i>♪ We're just learning to live together</i> 506 00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:12,921 <i>♪ Learning to live together</i> 507 00:31:13,080 --> 00:31:18,553 <i>♪ Learning to live together till we die</i> 508 00:31:18,710 --> 00:31:21,179 <i>But what I loved about working with Joe</i> 509 00:31:21,338 --> 00:31:24,433 is that he let us be ourselves. 510 00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:28,220 In England, they were like, "Go for it. 511 00:31:28,387 --> 00:31:30,515 Give us all you have." 512 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,900 <i>That... it was the reason for the innovation of rock and roll.</i> 513 00:31:34,059 --> 00:31:36,983 <i>♪ Oooh</i> 514 00:31:37,145 --> 00:31:40,615 <i>♪ Ooh-hoo</i> 515 00:31:40,774 --> 00:31:44,074 <i>- ♪ Ooh - ♪ Whoo!</i> 516 00:31:45,278 --> 00:31:46,825 <i>He gave us free rein,</i> 517 00:31:46,988 --> 00:31:49,537 and everybody's face would light up, you know. 518 00:31:49,699 --> 00:31:51,622 <i>♪ Whoo!</i> 519 00:31:51,785 --> 00:31:53,833 <i>♪ Ooh</i> 520 00:31:53,995 --> 00:31:55,997 And somebody would start singing something, 521 00:31:56,164 --> 00:31:58,132 or someone would start playing something 522 00:31:58,291 --> 00:32:00,134 and everybody just... 523 00:32:00,293 --> 00:32:07,142 <i>♪ Until we die</i> 524 00:32:07,300 --> 00:32:10,019 <i>♪ Well, we're learning to live together</i> 525 00:32:10,178 --> 00:32:14,433 And then when I got to A&M, I was coming down the stairs from Lou's office. 526 00:32:14,599 --> 00:32:17,978 <i>Joe was coming on the lot from that front gate and he said,</i> 527 00:32:18,145 --> 00:32:19,863 "There she bloody is." 528 00:32:20,021 --> 00:32:22,399 He said, "I want you to work on all of my records." 529 00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:26,403 <i>♪ Learning to live together</i> 530 00:32:26,570 --> 00:32:28,072 At any moment, you would see 531 00:32:28,238 --> 00:32:30,332 James Taylor coming down the hallway, 532 00:32:30,490 --> 00:32:33,915 or you'd see Carole coming out, saying, "Come sing with me." 533 00:32:34,077 --> 00:32:37,126 <i>♪ Till we die ♪</i> 534 00:32:41,001 --> 00:32:43,254 Let me in, honey, to my other home. 535 00:32:44,754 --> 00:32:46,756 Whoo! 536 00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,809 What a great studio. 537 00:32:56,975 --> 00:33:00,024 Boy, did we have some times in this studio. 538 00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:09,989 So it was like very late at night and I was very, 539 00:33:10,155 --> 00:33:11,623 you know, a little pregnant. 540 00:33:11,781 --> 00:33:13,829 <i>Had curlers and the whole thing in my hair,</i> 541 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:15,869 <i>getting ready to go to bed. And we got a call</i> 542 00:33:16,036 --> 00:33:20,633 "Merry, there's a group of guys in town called Rolling... 543 00:33:20,790 --> 00:33:23,589 The Rolling somebodies and they're from England, 544 00:33:23,752 --> 00:33:27,507 <i>and they need somebody that will sing with them."</i> 545 00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:31,017 They picked me up with silk pajamas on, 546 00:33:31,176 --> 00:33:34,806 a mink coat, and a Chanel scarf on my head. 547 00:33:34,971 --> 00:33:38,441 <i>We said, "It'd be wonderful if a woman sang this part about,</i> 548 00:33:38,600 --> 00:33:41,069 <i>that I'd written about rape, murder and all this.</i> 549 00:33:41,228 --> 00:33:43,731 It was in the middle of the night and we thought, 550 00:33:43,897 --> 00:33:45,615 "Well, we would love to have a woman sing this part." 551 00:33:45,774 --> 00:33:47,902 <i>I didn't know her from Adam.</i> 552 00:33:48,068 --> 00:33:49,490 <i>Then she turned up in her curlers.</i> 553 00:33:49,653 --> 00:33:51,246 She was in bed and she got outta bed. 554 00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:53,907 And, you know, it was a kind of raunchy part to sing. 555 00:33:54,074 --> 00:33:55,917 I said, "What? 556 00:33:57,953 --> 00:34:01,048 Rape, murder? It's just a shot away?" 557 00:34:01,206 --> 00:34:06,178 <i>I started to sing: "it's just a shot away, just a shot away" with Mick.</i> 558 00:34:06,336 --> 00:34:09,465 She sings the lyrics right along me, and with a lot of personality, 559 00:34:09,631 --> 00:34:10,848 which is what was needed. 560 00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:13,305 <i>♪ Don't you worry</i> 561 00:34:13,468 --> 00:34:17,223 <i>♪ War, children</i> 562 00:34:17,389 --> 00:34:21,019 <i>♪ It's just a shot away It's just a shot away</i> 563 00:34:21,184 --> 00:34:27,237 What I liked was that she could sing. She was able to be Merry. 564 00:34:27,399 --> 00:34:29,367 She didn't have to bring it down. 565 00:34:29,526 --> 00:34:32,200 He said, "You wanna do another one?" I said, "Sure, I'll do another one." 566 00:34:32,362 --> 00:34:34,785 I mean, she just did it, like, couple of times, you know. 567 00:34:34,948 --> 00:34:38,168 So I said to myself, "Mm-hmm, I'm gonna do another 568 00: