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I'm going to show you Forbes magazine UK David Bowie joins Elvis Presley.
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This is the headline Forbes magazine online.
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Why I'm showing it to you because a photograph they used for their article was
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is when I met David Bowie, when he came into my life and I came into his life, when we were going to take this album that this photograph was for, Black Tie, White Noise, and this photograph is for the music video Jump.
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When we were going to take that album and we were going to launch it through our own record label with 20th Century Fox,
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if you watch the seven years journey, David Bowie, the seven years journey, about Shel Tommy's recordings, then you will know that's part of the whole journey we went through.
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Look, Bowie really believed in what we wanted to do.
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And when I said...
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you be the creative head, and he then started bringing me CDs, listen to this band, it was like we were already on a journey.
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When Bowie, at that time, when he was doing Black Tie, White Noise, ended up coming to my party and meeting Shel Tomey, Shel Tomey didn't even know that he had the 1965 recordings of David Jones.
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And David told me, as you saw in the previous episodes, that Shell taught him new riffs.
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But someone gave this guy a signature contract and signed him up and paid for those recordings.
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That was Shell taught me.
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Everybody gets their start somewhere.
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Whether you're an athlete, whether you're a singer, songwriter, an actor, someone took you and put you on that on-ramp to the freeway to where you're headed.
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You don't know exactly where you're going yet, but you do know that someone gave you that push, that start that got you there.
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Shel Tommy gave Bowie his shot.
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When Shell told me about the recordings, I believed in Shell.
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I really believed in him, and I really believed in that recording.
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And he sent me the entire full track of I Do Believe, all the rest of the tracks that you're listening to now in the world that are number three on the UK chart in vinyl album sales and everything else.
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And according to this Forbes article,
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David Bowie reaches 100, charting title on the official album charts as the Shell Tommy recordings debut, joining Elvis Presley.
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You know, all I must say, I mean, I always knew what those recordings were.
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Now let me give you an example of I Do Believe.
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The I Do Believe track that Shel Tommy sent me in its entirety.
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I first listened to it in my listening room of my house, sitting, lounging with surround sound.
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When I heard certain things in Bobby's voice,
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attached to my heart, you know, because I can hear him talking to me.
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I then left it alone for a while and then I put on my headsets and one day I'll show you this deck that I sit on which I built next to the golf course.
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I sat there with my headsets on listening to I do believe
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fully engulfed with nature all around me and golfers walking by.
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Many of them, because the kind of fees they pay to go to this golf course, I know, have listened to David Bowie at some point in their life or another.
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And I was listening to it,
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I wonder if they know that I'm listening to Bowie right now when he was 18 years old, just starting his journey, starting his journey.
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Shel and David are no longer around.
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We know that.
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And we miss them.
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I miss both of them and I miss Shel as well because I can't pick up the phone and say, Shel, I told you.
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Because Shell believed in the NFT concept when we entered the deal with authentic brands.
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He believed that collectibles would be it.
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People didn't stream these Bowie tracks.
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You see, I believe in physical ownership.
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The NFTs, even if the market was dying and nobody had faith, because everybody was apprehensive now, including Shell.
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But the Warner Music opportunity presented itself.
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But let me tell you, you know who could have revived that NFT market for just a short window of time?
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David Bowie.
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No one else.
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And what magic that would have been.
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Oh, we had all kinds of crazy ideas.
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You're not just going to own, you can't own the original because we all know the original is an acetate tape.
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That's a conference Sheltami and I were having with the attorney.
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But we could give you a piece of the acetate tape, the actual physical acetate tape with the NFT.
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That was one discussion.
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But here we are.
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at this juncture of our life, because I believed in that, and I took Shell's stuff, and I just pushed it and put it on a road.
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I put it on that on-ramp,
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and gave it that push and said, let's see where this goes.
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And when the Warner Music opportunity came up, let's push it even further.
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Now the albums are out.
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Now it's Shel Tommy, David Bowie's recordings with Shel Tommy, number three on the charts in the UK.
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And according to this article, various different categories, you know,
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But the most important thing that this article was saying is that people didn't stream it, they bought it.
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Look, guys, you just go through it yourself.
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You just Google David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Forbes, and it'll show up.
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And there it is.
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And there's Elvis.
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And... To think you had the...
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The opportunity and good fortune to be part of this journey.
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For me, it's just incredible.
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It's very emotional because
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You got Elvis Presley, the king.
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David Bowie, the avant-garde artist.
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And Shel Tommy, the not politically correct, say it as he sees it, producer, who believed in talent, who could recognize talent.
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And myself, the dreamer.
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I don't give up.
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And I would never have thought in my wildest dreams that one day I'll be part of a journey that would include Shel Tommy, David Bowie, and Elvis Presley.
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I mean, never.
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I'm going to show you Forbes magazine UK David Bowie joins Elvis Presley.
2
00:00:13.721 --> 00:00:16.503
This is the headline Forbes magazine online.
3
00:00:18.444 --> 00:00:25.349
Why I'm showing it to you because a photograph they used for their article was
4
00:00:26.729 --> 00:00:41.536
is when I met David Bowie, when he came into my life and I came into his life, when we were going to take this album that this photograph was for, Black Tie, White Noise, and this photograph is for the music video Jump.
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00:00:43.817 --> 00:00:52.822
When we were going to take that album and we were going to launch it through our own record label with 20th Century Fox,
6
00:00:54.668 --> 00:01:10.079
if you watch the seven years journey, David Bowie, the seven years journey, about Shel Tommy's recordings, then you will know that's part of the whole journey we went through.
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Look, Bowie really believed in what we wanted to do.
8
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And when I said...
9
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you be the creative head, and he then started bringing me CDs, listen to this band, it was like we were already on a journey.
10
00:01:34.510 --> 00:01:50.455
When Bowie, at that time, when he was doing Black Tie, White Noise, ended up coming to my party and meeting Shel Tomey, Shel Tomey didn't even know that he had the 1965 recordings of David Jones.
11
00:01:51.351 --> 00:01:57.853
And David told me, as you saw in the previous episodes, that Shell taught him new riffs.
12
00:01:58.974 --> 00:02:10.538
But someone gave this guy a signature contract and signed him up and paid for those recordings.
13
00:02:11.478 --> 00:02:12.398
That was Shell taught me.
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00:02:15.819 --> 00:02:17.400
Everybody gets their start somewhere.
15
00:02:18.770 --> 00:02:29.379
Whether you're an athlete, whether you're a singer, songwriter, an actor, someone took you and put you on that on-ramp to the freeway to where you're headed.
16
00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:40.008
You don't know exactly where you're going yet, but you do know that someone gave you that push, that start that got you there.
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Shel Tommy gave Bowie his shot.
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When Shell told me about the recordings, I believed in Shell.
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I really believed in him, and I really believed in that recording.
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And he sent me the entire full track of I Do Believe, all the rest of the tracks that you're listening to now in the world that are number three on the UK chart in vinyl album sales and everything else.
21
00:03:17.386 --> 00:03:19.207
And according to this Forbes article,
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00:03:20.708 --> 00:03:31.858
David Bowie reaches 100, charting title on the official album charts as the Shell Tommy recordings debut, joining Elvis Presley.
23
00:03:37.804 --> 00:03:45.731
You know, all I must say, I mean, I always knew what those recordings were.
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00:03:47.273 --> 00:03:50.254
Now let me give you an example of I Do Believe.
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The I Do Believe track that Shel Tommy sent me in its entirety.
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00:03:56.055 --> 00:04:05.777
I first listened to it in my listening room of my house, sitting, lounging with surround sound.
27
00:04:10.338 --> 00:04:16.039
When I heard certain things in Bobby's voice,
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attached to my heart, you know, because I can hear him talking to me.
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00:04:27.772 --> 00:04:40.696
I then left it alone for a while and then I put on my headsets and one day I'll show you this deck that I sit on which I built next to the golf course.
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I sat there with my headsets on listening to I do believe
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fully engulfed with nature all around me and golfers walking by.
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Many of them, because the kind of fees they pay to go to this golf course, I know, have listened to David Bowie at some point in their life or another.
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And I was listening to it,
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I wonder if they know that I'm listening to Bowie right now when he was 18 years old, just starting his journey, starting his journey.
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Shel and David are no longer around.
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We know that.
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And we miss them.
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I miss both of them and I miss Shel as well because I can't pick up the phone and say, Shel, I told you.
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Because Shell believed in the NFT concept when we entered the deal with authentic brands.
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00:05:48.394 --> 00:05:51.435
He believed that collectibles would be it.
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00:05:51.795 --> 00:05:54.176
People didn't stream these Bowie tracks.
42
00:05:56.337 --> 00:06:00.378
You see, I believe in physical ownership.
43
00:06:02.867 --> 00:06:12.370
The NFTs, even if the market was dying and nobody had faith, because everybody was apprehensive now, including Shell.
44
00:06:15.551 --> 00:06:17.831
But the Warner Music opportunity presented itself.
45
00:06:17.991 --> 00:06:23.893
But let me tell you, you know who could have revived that NFT market for just a short window of time?
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00:06:24.873 --> 00:06:26.394
David Bowie.
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No one else.
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And what magic that would have been.
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Oh, we had all kinds of crazy ideas.
50
00:06:35.645 --> 00:06:42.149
You're not just going to own, you can't own the original because we all know the original is an acetate tape.
51
00:06:43.350 --> 00:06:46.312
That's a conference Sheltami and I were having with the attorney.
52
00:06:48.253 --> 00:06:56.498
But we could give you a piece of the acetate tape, the actual physical acetate tape with the NFT.
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00:06:58.599 --> 00:06:59.680
That was one discussion.
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But here we are.
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at this juncture of our life, because I believed in that, and I took Shell's stuff, and I just pushed it and put it on a road.
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I put it on that on-ramp,
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and gave it that push and said, let's see where this goes.
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00:07:21.775 --> 00:07:26.117
And when the Warner Music opportunity came up, let's push it even further.
59
00:07:26.638 --> 00:07:27.918
Now the albums are out.
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00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:35.123
Now it's Shel Tommy, David Bowie's recordings with Shel Tommy, number three on the charts in the UK.
61
00:07:36.864 --> 00:07:44.448
And according to this article, various different categories, you know,
62
00:07:46.122 --> 00:08:00.989
But the most important thing that this article was saying is that people didn't stream it, they bought it.
63
00:08:04.750 --> 00:08:08.612
Look, guys, you just go through it yourself.
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00:08:08.672 --> 00:08:14.795
You just Google David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Forbes, and it'll show up.
65
00:08:16.207 --> 00:08:17.367
And there it is.
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And there's Elvis.
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And... To think you had the...
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The opportunity and good fortune to be part of this journey.
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For me, it's just incredible.
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00:08:43.572 --> 00:08:45.172
It's very emotional because
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You got Elvis Presley, the king.
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David Bowie, the avant-garde artist.
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00:08:55.813 --> 00:09:08.817
And Shel Tommy, the not politically correct, say it as he sees it, producer, who believed in talent, who could recognize talent.
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00:09:10.557 --> 00:09:13.098
And myself, the dreamer.
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00:09:16.942 --> 00:09:17.622
I don't give up.
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00:09:20.744 --> 00:09:35.111
And I would never have thought in my wildest dreams that one day I'll be part of a journey that would include Shel Tommy, David Bowie, and Elvis Presley.
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I mean, never.
