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That s all it is? it has nothing to do with the ego. all i know is it sells. what do you do? security. we don t need security here. let s go outside. we have people outside. auletta: leona helmsley was the wife of harry helmsley, one of the major much bigger than trump real estate developers in new york. i asked for something. i did not get it from you. i want it. you have nothing to do? connelly: leona helmsley, the queen of mean. the idea was that she was so mean because she wanted you to have a great experience in one of her hotels. really? seemed like she was just mean. oh, my. it s paradise. he stands here and he says i m taking inventory, i own this, i own this, i own this, and that one and that one and that one. he plays monopoly, but with real buildings. with real buildings. wallace: they bought this connecticut estate a year ago 26 acres, 28 rooms for just the two of them. and this building structure is just what? ....
What can we do? and that created the first major superstar benefit concert ever done. hanks: the concert for bangladesh was the granddaddy of all issue-themed concerts. and not only did you get george harrison, man, you got eric clapton. connelly: it got dylan out of hiding. it put two beatles back on the stage again. it was unparalleled at the time and it may still be unparalleled. [ cheers and applause ] a great deal of music of the 70s was people who had succeeded in the 60s finding new ways to express themselves in the 70s. man: have you got any idea why your group particularly has lasted as long as it has? because we stay together, i suppose. wolcott: you know, for a few years, the rolling stones had taken a lot of casualties. richards: even brian felt that he wasn t gonna be around that long. not everybody makes it, you know? wolcott: they were fighting for like, where do we secure our foothold now? ....
Ringo, who, to this day, people dismiss way too much, has tremendous success in the 70s. and george harrison, who had been stockpiling these amazing songs, explodes like a supernova on an album called all things must pass, maybe the greatest beatles solo album of all. you don t need no passport and you don t need no visa over the years, you know, i had such a lot of songs mounting up that i really wanted to do, but i only got my quota of one or two tunes per album. were you held down by the other fellas? uh. well, very subtly, yes. by chanting the name of the lord and you ll be free the lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see i d just like to thank you all for coming here. as you all know, it s a special benefit concert. the lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see connelly: ravi shankar went to george harrison and said, this terrible thing is happening in bangladesh, ....
The stuff from the 60s was like, oh, that s way too hippie, now we have to up it a notch. anderson: the audiences have come to expect a better standard of performance, better quality of lighting and sound and staging. they ve come to expect a show. if we still have time, we might still get by every time i think about it, i wanna cry naftali: in the 70s, the groups started to become more theatrical. they realized that just giving them the music isn t enough. we ve got to give them something to look at. connelly: more naked people, more misbehavior, more over-the-top stuff going on. just just more. oh no time wilson: playing stadiums was too unreal. it would just be a sea of faces into infinity. ....
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