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I'm wearing red for Ferrari.
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Lewis Hamilton's going on the podium to get an award.
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He's just set another record.
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208th.
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208th podium for Lewis Hamilton.
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Breaking an all-time record.
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Yes, breaking an all-time record of 207 set by...
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Lewis Hamilton.
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I'm gonna share with you, my brain analytically is going into, it plays inside it.
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You know, I live in my brain and my brain is like thinking about all the things that transpired that I can talk about, Sepang and Lewis Hamilton.
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Because Sepang circuit is one of my favorites and I get really excited about it.
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And the wonderful thing is that at times, if I was nine years old or 10 years old,
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I've been pretty mesmerized by all the things that have really happened to me.
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You know, and it's not egotistical or anything.
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It's just simply so exciting to get excited all the time, even at a certain age, because you just go like, boom, wow.
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I remember...
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Bowie and the conversations with him about Formula One and how Formula One could be a break, a journey that we could break through with new artists and new music with.
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And how I had met Lewis Hamilton with Nicole, who was in a band called Pussycat Dolls.
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And I was talking to Bowie about AR Ramen, Pussycat Dolls, Lewis Hamilton, music, and him telling me about the creative process and how many great people of color
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have so much talent in the UK and how they're not getting their fair breaks.
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And I said, no, David, you don't understand Formula One.
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Formula One is white people.
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There's no person of color involved.
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It's just white people.
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And for Lewis Hamilton to be coming up in Formula One is in itself a miracle.
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It's a struggle.
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It's not the music industry where you have black artists, you have Asian artists and all that kind of stuff.
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No, this is everybody's white.
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And, you know, Bo, he related to that because he was always been fighting for this with MTV, you know, talking about why are you not giving...
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colored people, an opportunity to have music, black artists to have music on prime time, why do they have to be at 3 a.m.?
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So that was a real pet peeve for Bowie.
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So he really admired Lewis Hamilton for having come up in this journey.
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And Bowie, you know, he, you may not see him, he may not surface, he may not be out there doing shows, but he was still watching the world.
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He still knew what was going on.
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All times.
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So when the guitars were gifted, he said it was somehow a miraculous way that it was turned around in a U-turn and said, I want them gifted to Lewis Hamilton.
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And for me, it was just like, this is so crazy.
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It's so crazy because I started with Formula One a long time ago.
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My business partner told me, Anand Khashoggi, you'll see a photograph of him and me.
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I'm carrying all the files.
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So I'm carrying these files.
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And that was in 1984.
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In 1985, I said to Anand Khashoggi, I said, Anand, you know, I have this friend of mine, Bernie Ecclestone,
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and he's in this Formula One business and car racing, and you know that that's my passion.
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Because Adnan's own daughter, Nabila, had raced to Paris-Ducar, and Adnan knew about my passion for car racing.
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And so I said, Bernie Eggleston's looking for a building to set up a place for Formula One, and Adnan goes, well, go sell him my building.
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So I go sit down with Bernie in a pub, and I said, Bernie, you can have the Prince's Gate building.
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This is a dollar amount we want.
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And Bernie came, because I'm a kid, so I go like, Bernie, here's what I want out of this.
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And he goes,
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Well, then I said, when I call you, please, always set me up with a pass.
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I was such a child.
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And I go like, set me up with a pass or like, you know, take a meeting with me so that I can show you new things because I'm going to bring you opportunities as things develop.
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I don't have time right now, but in the future, you never know what's going to happen.
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So when Bowie said the guitars are going to go to Lewis Hamilton,
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I naturally call Bernie Egglestone.
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I go, Bernie, this is the situation.
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So he turns it over to Pasquale and you'll see the emails from Pasquale.
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And it's like, bring the guitars to the hotel where Bernie is staying and Louis is staying.
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Meanwhile, I have the guitars and I'm gonna show you the video of the scene of what's happening in Montreal.
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This is the scene.
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So we just got into a great party with Tim Hollywood-Kahn.
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So we thought, actually it was the wrong party we got into, but we managed to BS our way into it, because we were simply with Lewis Hamilton's guitars, which we weren't.
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And they let us in because they thought Lewis Hamilton was at the party.
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And there we are.
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So we got in there, we phoned up Tim.
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Where are you?
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We're on the fifth floor.
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And we're only on the first floor.
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There is no fifth floor.
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So we came upstairs, decided to order a little lunch.
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And what came across?
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What a bowing guitar.
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Oh my God.
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Wow.
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Nice guitar.
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I wish I could.
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Now that you've seen the scene, my friends went to the wrong party.
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They ended up going to Guy Liberté's party.
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And if you're thinking, who is Guy Liberté?
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Well, guess what?
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He just created a huge show that goes all over the world called Cirque du Soleil.
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That's Guy Liberté.
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And he owns several properties and it's like Bono, you know, owning several things in Dublin.
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Guy owns several things in Montreal.
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So, it's the Canadian Grand Prix.
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My friends ended up going to the wrong party.
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They end up on the roof where I was.
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But there's a scene going on because everybody wants their pictures taken with Lewis Hamilton's guitars.
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Nobody cares.
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David Bowie sent them.
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Nobody cares.
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Everybody wanted to know, Lewis Hamilton.
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It's Lewis Hamilton.
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You'll see those photographs.
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I have this bench set up.
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I have this stool set up and everybody's taking pictures there.
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And then...
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There's this McLaren, you see this McLaren?
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And in that McLaren, Union Jack, and I take the guitars in the McLaren, because two guys from the UK, Bowie, Hamilton.
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And I'm taking them over to the hotel where I leave them.
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Now, in the previous clip you saw, there's a Union Jack jacket Bowie's wearing, and it's a card.
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On the flip side, which I wouldn't show anyone,
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It is a note handwritten by Bowie for Lewis Hamilton.
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It was in the guitar case.
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It was delivered to Bernie Ecclestone.
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You'll see this letter from Bernie Ecclestone to me.
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He got the guitars, they were given to Lewis Hamilton.
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When they were given, seven months later, David Bowie passed away.
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That's when Lewis Hamilton discovered them.
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Mysteriously that note had disappeared somewhere, so we don't know what happened to it.
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But I'll leave you with this message of Lewis Hamilton talking about it.
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Beautiful gift of these two guitars and I had no idea who they were from, where they came from or why they were in my apartment.
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And it wasn't until like a year, about a year later that I discovered that David Bowie had sent me these guitars and this was before his death.
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Um, it's so sad that he's passing and I'm so sad that I never even knew there was no letter or message with it.
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Um, but I...
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Later on we found out from someone that he, they said that he was a fan, which I find it so hard to believe.
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But my dad would always tell me about a story that he had met him in London somewhere on the street and just managed to say hi to him, this was years before we even got to Formula One and said that he was one of the nicest people ever.
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But of course a huge fan of his.
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And I just wanted to share with you this beautiful guitar that he had sent.
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The next episode, Benetton Racing, Flavio Bertore, and him telling me, I got to ride with Michael in the car.
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You go in the car with his wife.
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That's next.
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And I'll leave you with Savannah singing along with Lewis Hamilton.
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Oh, the handwriting note loss won't matter because the guitar you got will last forever.
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It matters not how you play it.
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Just play it, put on a show, and it