- 00:00:00 Montage of news clips and stage footage of Manilow
- 00:04:00 Interview footage about when music came into his life, and grandparents / parents encouraging musicality
- 00:07:30 Interview with Parkinson; modesty about whether people in UK would want him to tour here, in advance of gigs at the London Palladium in 1978. Pleasures of anonimity in the UK.
- 00:12:40 With Parkinson, meeting Bette Midler when playing piano in ‘Turkish’ (for which, read ‘gay’) bathhouse. “I guess if you put ‘crazy’ and ‘talented’ together, you get ‘superstar’.”
- 00:17:30 Parkinson on criticisms of music as “marshmallow music” and other bad reviews; “they used to affect me …”, “the audience gives me my reviews every night”, “I’m making good marshmallow music”
- 00:23:30 Obs doc: “well, it’s unanimous, they hate me!” … “they seem to be preoccupied by my nose, don’t they?”. Interview with a Fleet Street journalist who has given him bad reviews: “he’s just a very very average performer … I dislike mediocrity very strongly”
- 00:24:25 John Humphreys BBC news from 1983 “hundreds of his mans, most of them married women … even the singer himself doesn’t understand it”. Reporter interviews women at Heathrow Airport: “aren’t you past this sort of thing?”
- 00:28:30 Manilow on his fans: “I have an idea of what I’d like them to be, what I think they are … intelligent … warm … I think they have good stereo systems … I don’t think they’re crazy or hysterical … the love comes straight from me to them, too”
- 00:32:00 Fleet Street journalist again, comparing selling records to selling soap powders. Refs Spandau Ballet, Dire Straits, “there’s this massive middle-of-the-road market which record companies tend to neglect, and Barry Manilow has cashed in on that”
- 00:35:30 Sixty Minutes Link to Johns Hemsworth report with fan club members, and husband of a fan
- 00:37:30 Wogan, on whether he has a male fan-base “they seem to get lucky to my music, you know what I mean?”
- 00:41:00 Parkinson on relationship with estranged father
- 00:44:15 Parkinson on behaving like a brat early in career
- 00:49:15 Parkinson interview from 1992 “Doowop and Elvis … didn’t really do that much for me” but when his stepfather Willie Murphy comes into his life; Chet Baker, Ella Fitzgerald, Gerry Mulligan, Broadway show music from ‘The Most Happy Fella’ to ‘Kismet’, classical music from Chopin to Debussy; “this was a stack of gold with a little stereo system that I just never left”
- 00:52:10 “wouldn’t die” if he had to give it up tomorrow
Contents
- music by Parker McGee
- words by Parker McGee
- music by Layng Martine Jr
- words by Layng Martine Jr
- music by Barry Manilow
- words by Barry Manilow
- music by Barry Manilow, Martin Panzer
- words by Barry Manilow, Martin Panzer
- music by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Drey Shepperd, Gerard Kenny, Jack Feldman
- words by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Drey Shepperd, Gerard Kenny, Jack Feldman
- music by Buddy Kaye, David Pomeranz
- words by Buddy Kaye, David Pomeranz
- music by Christian Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow
- words by Christian Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow
- music by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman
- words by Barry Manilow, Bruce Sussman, Jack Feldman
- music by Bruce Johnston
- words by Bruce Johnston
- music by David Pomeranz
- words by David Pomeranz
- music by Barry Manilow
- words by Adrienne Anderson
- music by Richard Kerr, Scott English
- words by Richard Kerr, Scott English
- music by Richard Kerr, Will Jennings
- words by Richard Kerr, Will Jennings
- music by Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer
- words by Barry Manilow, Marty Panzer
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