Garth Brooks: The Country King (FULL MOVIE)

I'm proud to say that uh I am country music they've made a home for me there I am NOT the country music but I belong to it and as long as they'll let me be there it's Robbie [Music] [Applause] [Music] Garth Brooks is one of the most remarkable success stories of the early nineties contemporary country music his charismatic grounded voice filled with genuine solid feeling is what turns his States performance into a captivating immersive show for the people about the people Garth Brooks has one of the most distinctive voices in country music it is widely recognizable it is powerful and it's a voice that any fan of country music can instantly place as his own you can't really emphasize enough what gaff did for country music country needs something to kick it and get it going again and then Garth Brooks came along and was bringing electronic influences and I'm bringing a loudest show and suddenly country was really energizing and started to go places having sold more than 100 million albums since 1989 he quickly became the best-selling solo artists in history and by 1992 Brooks was a household name inspiring a new breed of straight talking country music heroes it's got a lot more of appeal than I thought it did not Garth Brooks music is much of a country music and as long as we don't pigeonhole it you know and just make it real music that speaks from the heart and I think you're gonna cross a lot of boundaries with it join us as we look back on how one man changed the entire landscape of country music [Music] through a commercially savvy fusion of honky-tonk post folk rock sensibility and seventies arena rock antics Brooks brought country music to a new audience in the 90s when his second album no fences began its chart domination in 1991 selling a record shattering 13 million copies and its follow-up rope in the wind became the first country album to debut at the top of the charts he was one of the first country artists ago multi-platinum Brooks carved a permanent place for country music on the pop charts abandoning the traditional ISM that has always been its hallmark Troy Garth Brooks was born February 7th 1962 in Tulsa Oklahoma his mother Colleen was a country singer herself before marrying his father a working-class draftsman she recorded a handful of records for capital in the mid 1950s but never quite reached any chart success greatest inspiration always has been my mom and dad even though I do not act this way without God nothing is possible so those are the things for me and then just growing up in Oklahoma I think was big points for me because what country-music sees about he live every day you know just about real life and real life things as a child although Garth was interested in music and frequently sang at family gatherings he focused on athletics instead Garth Brooks was very athletic in high school he played baseball he played football and even did javelin in track and field he received a scholarship at Oklahoma State University as a javelin tosser but he dropped the sport during his collegiate career Brooks began singing in local Oklahoma clubs often with lead guitarist ty England so while Garth was in college he would go out to some of the Oklahoma bars and he would play his guitar and sing and then in 1985 an entertainment attorney came by and listened to him sing some music and took his demo tapes around and at that point Garth realized that he didn't want to pursue music as a career and he eventually made his way to Nashville in 1985 he went to Nashville hoping to be discovered by a record label he quickly returned to Oklahoma frustrated with the industry his prospects and naive dreams but found comfort to perform in Oklahoma clubs in 1986 Garth Brooks married his college girlfriend Sandi Mahl Garth Brooks married his childhood sweetheart sandy they had three daughters in quick succession and they lived in Oklahoma together raising their kids on the country there's a lot of stories about heart guards met his wife sandy he was a bouncer at the time in a bar and you know legend has it that he broke up a fight and somebody was gonna hit sandy and he protected her but the real story is that he was actually called to the woman's bathroom because sandy had put her fist in a wall during some kind of bust up and he had to help her and that's how they met so clearly he married a very feisty young woman at the time sandy is is not much of a part in the business life she's because I can't put that on her I can't expect her so she listens and I just talk and she gives me what she thinks but it's unfair for me too to put that pressure on her so she's more of just someone that I can vent to yell at and and scream with and stuff and she'll scream back and and she knows it's she knows it's not her that I'm screaming at so that's gig I wouldn't want it and she does it very well the couple moved to Nashville in 1987 this time with a better idea of how the music industry operated Brooks began making connections with songwriters and producers and he sang on a lot of songwriters demo tapes anybody that wants to be a country singer it has to come through Nashville don't you don't have to always live in Nashville once you've become a successful country singer but it's almost impossible to do it without living here at something I get asked all the time by aspiring artists should I move to Nashville and some people will George Strait never moved to Nashville you know it can happen it does happen outside of Nashville but my personal philosophy is if you want to hunt Tigers you go to the jungle and this is the jungle and I think in particular that's true if you're a writer because if you want to learn the craft of country songwriting this is the business of school right here at this is a University this is the graduate level learning program as far as what Nashville does for an artist you know this is Nashville is where the talent is centralized so you've got work especially if you're into country you've got more songwriters here than you've got anywhere else so record labels are here the producers are here the other singers are here the whole industry is here then so if you want to start meeting the people that you need to know to put together a successful team to make you the kind of star that you want to be you got to be in Nashville although he had made several connections within the industry and had a powerful management team every label in town was refusing to sign him in 1988 six weeks after Capitol Records passed on his demo one of the labels executives saw Brooks sing at a local club impressed with the performance the executive convinced the label to sign Garth he then recorded his first album with the producer Allan Reynolds at the end of 1988 the album was an instant success with its first single much too young to feel this damn old climbing into the country top ten Garth's debut was a success crossing over into the pop album charts and within a year Brooks towered above the best-selling artists such as Travis Tritt and Alan Jackson with his blowin widespread success it was followed by his first country number-one if tomorrow never comes if tomorrow never comes is such a sentimental song and the video matches that move perfectly lots of vintage video in there old clips along with gas singing as well it's a beautiful song and the video fits the mood ideally if tomorrow never comes it's a very personal video for Garth Brooks not the least of which because you see his beautiful wife sandy in a wedding dress at one stage during the video I think that the song really kind of represents the video and the song really represent what Garth Brooks is all about which is about family Family Values and good old-fashioned country songs and I think this video really kind of puts that message across you see Garth sitting by himself strumming on his guitar and it's very much a solitary Garth but he's clearly thinking about the people he loves the most [Music] she must face [Music] here's a love I gave in the past gonna be enough to learn if tomorrow never come the song found a new life when Ronan Keating from the UK released as a solo track with a similarly slow video actually there was this very long period of him falling in front of a car that seems to take like two verses or something very strange I hope Garth liked it not counting you reaching number two and then the dance put him at number one again this song's theme of people dying while doing something they believe in resonated strongly together with a popular music video directed by John Lloyd Miller gave Brooks his first push towards a broader audience in the video for the dance Garth Brooks really highlights the beauty of the lyrics by showing individuals who died in pursuit of a dream and you see like the astronauts from the spaceship the Challenger who ended up dying when it went into space and exploded or you see Martin Luther King holding one of his children or walking somewhere and it's again you know a man who was martyred for his dream and I think they the images in this video beautifully convey the meaning of the lyrics which is that all the difficult painful things including the you know tragic outcomes are part of the experience of life and Garth does a beautiful job singing the song two days I could admit the pain without a head to me the then [Music] holding the dancers a very poignant video because as well having gar finish it's got lots of historical Clips you see Martin Luther King in there JFK and it's all about the conversation you have and the roots you take and if you were able to look back and do things differently how would it be and he sent us it all around the dance and this beautiful setting was brilliantly written song it's a really special one and he calls it his most important song if you see one the number one rule in music is if you're worried about people not gonna like something don't stick your heart out there and let him tear it ups but these are things that you got to do so that this song means a lot to me his first album was a success establishing several signature songs but it was his second album no fences that turned him into a superstar so in 1990 his second album came out no fences huge hit spent 23 weeks at number one on the country music chart no fences was released in the fall of 1990 spent 23 weeks as number 1 on the Billboard Country Music Chart the album also reached number 3 on the pop chart and eventually became Brooks's highest selling album with domestic shipments of 17 million it contained what would become Brooks's blue-collar anthem friends in low places as well as two other Brooks classic the dramatic and much debated the thunder rolls and the philosophically ironic unanswered prayer the video for friends and low places was not very sympathetically received by country music television and the Nashville Network because of its graphic depiction of domestic violence but vh1 supported Brooks heightening his crossover appeal to top audiences Garth Brooks represents kind of the working man in country music you know his very famous song friends and low places is all about the fact that his friends are not you know presidents corporate CEOs his friends are you know the people out there who aren't doing those kinds jobs and it was kind of a celebration of what we call the blue-collar worker and it's a fantastic song and it really resonates with a lot of people and I think that's part of who Garth Brooks is [Music] every town Eddie you [Music] and the beer James's Babloo there's a brilliant moment in Nashville where Justin Timberlake of all people is doing the world tour is on stage with a guitar and starts playing the opening notes of friends in low places and you hear those notes just for notes and immediately everyone knew what song it was and Justin sang the first verse of friends and low places and stopped and basically said you got to sing that song in Nashville there's only one way to do it right and who should come onstage but only Garth Brooks himself in this massive coat it looks like he's been just doing the garden or something like that and he's popped in to sing the song and he and Justin Timberlake sing all three verses of friends in low places which is a really rare thing because you don't often get to hear the third verse and you've got Justin who's a bit of a musical legend in his own way you've got Garth Brooks you're in Nashville the home of country music the crowd just can't believe it and Justin is just grinning from ear to ear the whole way through it's a beautiful moment [Applause] [Music] [Music] no fences became the biggest selling country music album of all time it spent 23 weeks at the top of the country charts and sold 700,000 copies within the first 10 days of its release throughout 1990 and 1991 Brooks had a string of number-one country hits from the album including unanswered prayers 2 of a kind working on a full house and the thunder rolls Gotham so many songs are known around the globe to pina coladas sedans if tomorrow never comes as a whole list of them but one really interesting one was thunder rolls which talks about to lose to domestic abuse and revenge and things like that and when it was released it actually got banned the video got banned from certain TV channels in different places and Garth spoke to a lot of victim support groups and the feedback generally was we're really glad you're talking about this stuff we're really glad you're bringing out to to the floor and even if it might not be relaxing entertaining to watch on TV Garth is really can be spoken about by 1993 no fences would sell over 10 million copies his concerts peaked with the album sales and by the end of 1990 Brooks was selling out and putting on stadium-sized shows that resembled 70s rock extravaganzas well for a year and a half we've been in preparation on building the stage building the light rig to dust to adjust and adapt to the big arenas in the North America and then go to the smaller places throughout Europe that some places you don't play there that are arenas some of them are bicycle tracks some of them are you know little theaters so it's it's a different configuration each night so just a lot of planning on trying to make everything very adaptable and very flexible that's the keyword to go out there for 3 years and not kill each other Brooks was influenced by the 1970s arrowrock of Billy Joel Bruce Springsteen and by the operatic shows of classic bands like Queen and kiss if you saw the clips of Billy Joel and you ever saw our show you'd see the ripoff from 20 years ago I mean the water throwing is throwing the stuff and just getting into it and doing what Billy does all our stages have been built after his live in Long Island concert the one that played to the back of the people even had a piano coming out the back of it which our current tour had that as well so he's he's a big influence for us when you look at Garth Brooks as in influences it explains quite a lot about his music because a lot of the guys that he kind of listened to and wanted to sound like and was been inspired by weren't actually country artists when you got people like James Taylor and Billy Joel and so on you can see this kind of singer-songwriter rock thing going on in there which explains the sound of his music my favorite performer that's a great question I got a list them but I know if I could pick one a very favorite one the one that just glues me to the television for me was Freddie Mercury when I see all the old footage of him he just killed me that that's probably if I had to pick but then you got groups like kiss that to me realized that visual was what people were actually showing up for more than sound even so that was that was a big influence on our show as well his concerts reflected his musical influences when he would often captivate his fans using a cordless headset microphone so he could run his large stage Brooks is the greatest showman that country music has ever seen if not perhaps one of the greatest showman in music history he was the first country music singer to take elements of rock shows and incorporate them into country music so for example laser lights flying above the stage massive production elements he brought those into the country music scene and he was the first guy to do it people I know who've seen him in concert says that his energy is unbelievable he's running back and forth across the stage very famously at one point he jumps on a rope and swings out over the audience he's climbing up equipment I mean this man knows no limits when he gets out in front of an audience Garth has set himself at his goal during a concert is to make eye contact with every single person there or as many as he can in order to thank them for giving me the best job in the world you more than anybody being a country person probably have an appreciation for your form such thick country music probably understands that even better than the most other discipline country music fans are by far the most loyal they'll stay on the rain this is a decent guy who's passionate and loves what he does and I think that comes across in his music and certainly if you've seen him on tour the gentleman asked what goals we have for the remainder of for the starting of the year like always to be the best father and husband I can be trying to represent our family name and country music the best we can and also for these people that put the faith in this you kind of want them not to sometime this year going god I wish I'd never voted for him so you just you try and make it worth what they put into Garth Brooks third album rope in the wind was released in September of 1991 and became the first country record to debut at the top of the pop charts it had advanced orders of four million copies and entered the pop album charts at number one a first for a country act the album's musical style was a fusion of pop country and honky-tonk hits including Billy Joel's shameless what she's doing now and the river all told it became his second best-selling album after no fences the success of this album further propelled the sales of his first two albums enabling Brooks to become the first country artist with three albums listed in the pop top twenty in one week during the 1992 riots in Los Angeles Brooks co-wrote two gospel country rock hybrid we shall be free a clear indicator of his liberal morality and belief in equality in the lyrics of the song Brooks sings when we're free to love anyone we choose which has been interpreted as a reference to gay relationships he's also spoken about same-sex marriage and gay rights he's quite willing to broach controversial subjects which is really good because he's got to a stage in his career where he can do that and he knows it's not gonna harm him because he's got a big fan base and he's using that to speak about subjects that other people might shy away from good on him what I learned here is that a cool thing I like so far is nobody has said they everything is us and that's true it's an us thing it's an us fight and so I'm inspired now and a lot more educated on what we're fighting for Brooks won a 1993 GLAAD Media Award for the song in a 1990 interview with George Brooke said but if you're in love you've got to follow your heart and trust that God will explain to us why we sometimes fall in love with people of the same sex in 2000 Brooks appeared at the Equality rocks benefit concert for gay rights where he sang a duet with George Michael Brooks his half sister Betsy Smith who died in 2013 was a well-known musician and part of Brooks's band for some years she also worked with the late country star Gus Hardin and other musicians from Tulsa Smith was also a lesbian and Brooks has credited her with some of the inspirations for his support for equality I get can't tell you yet when we're expecting new music but yeah we're in the studio Friday will fly to take the red-eye tonight to be back in the studio in the morning so we're right in the middle of it hoping to deliver something as no later than fall of this year we shall be free became the first single off his fourth album the chase it only reached number 12 on the country chart his first song in three years to fail to make the top 10 still the song was often received with standing ovation when he performed in concert and went to number 22 in the Christian charts following a marketing deal with Rick Hendricks company and earned Brooks a 1993 GLAAD Media Award following we shall be free the next single released would be somewhere other than the night which peaked at number one in late 1992 learning to live again a number two hit in 1993 the final single off the chase would be 1993 that summer which would go on to be the most successful single from the album reaching number one in July 1993 it is also one of Brooks's most recognizable songs by the end of 1991 Brooks had become a genuine popular music phenomenon even his 1992 Christmas album beyond the season went multi-platinum and there were no signs of his momentum slowing down can competition be healthy oh man if we don't have competition nothing as healthy I mean that's anytime there's a monopoly on something it's not as bit as good as it could be so no competition is what it's all about and and we sit there and we Duke it out and we fight but we do it for the music sake and then on nights like this we drop the gloves come in and hug each other and respect each other for what they've done in the fall of 1992 a backlash occurred beginning with the release of we shall be free the first single from his fourth album featuring a strong gospel underpinning the single stalled at number 12 and many radio stations refused to play it it was indicative of the eclectic nature of his forthcoming album the chase which pushed the boundaries of contemporary country the chase debuted at number 1 upon its October 1992 release and by the end of the year it sold over 5 million copies still that number was half the size of the figures for his two previous albums and there was speculation in the media that Brooks's career had already peak sensing that he was in danger of losing his core audience Brooks returned to straight country with 1993's in pieces in 1993 he had his fifth studio album in pieces but this met with a lot of controversy because first was criticizing music stores that also sold used CDs the used CDs didn't give him as many royalty payments so he persuaded Capitol Records to not ship his CD to stores that sold used CDs well this resulted in a lot of lawsuits antitrust lawsuits and eventually Capitol Records of course had to ship in pieces to all stores all over the globe the CD was a very big success it sold 10 million copies worldwide but some fans were upset because there was a delay with all of those lawsuits and they couldn't get their hands on the CD despite the delay in shipping the album to certain stores in pieces was another instant number-one success selling a total of about 10 million copies worldwide [Music] well they all mean something for sure never take one of them for granted and I don't know why each one of them feels as good as the other one goes oh it's they're all spent some of his fans were upset however that the album was not released simultaneously around the world in the United Kingdom one of Brooks's most committed fan bases outside of the United States country music disc jockeys such as martin campbell and john wellington noted that many fans were buying the album unimportant this made it the first album to debut in the top ten of the UK country album charts before it's official release date once officially released there in 1994 the album reached the top spot on the UK country chart and number 2 on the UK pop albums chart that same year the red strokes became Brooks's first single to make the pop top 40 in the UK to support the album Brooks embarked on a 1994 UK tour selling out venues such as birmingham's National Exhibition Centre and London's Wembley Arena he opened the London radio station country 103 5 and made a number of general television and radio appearances where he was often mocked by the presenters on ITV's regional news show London tonight Brooks was described as a top selling rootin tootin ooh cotton pickin country in western star yeehaw the nationwide big breakfast shows presenters Chris Evans and Paula Yates commented that he's selling more records than anyone in the world but none of us have ever heard of him Yates then told Brooks that country singers always seem to be weeping over the dead dog of things and also remarked I thought you'd come here and twiddle your pistol around to be impressed although Brooks remain polite he did observe that Yates was obviously unfamiliar with modern country music scores of Brooks fans later wrote to complain about his treatment on the show sometime after this Dwight Yoakam appeared on the same show and after Yates told them you seemed different from other country singers we've had on the show Yocum replied what all two of us first certainly didn't have it easy in the UK he was mocked by a lot of DJ's they were telling him you know fans are just buying your album on import and everything else you know country music isn't the biggest thing in the UK music industry his fans were very very supportive and they started writing into the show saying why are you treating him like this even fellow country music star Dwight Yoakam supported him and you know walked off one of the shows when people are using up you know you don't have to love country music but you do have to respect people that are in the country music industry I was a British radio presenter it's a little embarrassing to look back on gas time over here in the UK he came over to do a promotional tour quite a few years ago now and it didn't go well we didn't treat him particularly well country was kind of still a bit of novelty in the UK at the time and Garth to be found to him was extremely polite dealt with every entry very well despite the disdain of the British media Brooks's overall popularity in the country was evident with a top disc jockey Nick bearclaw referring to Brooks as Garth Vader for his invasion of the charts and his success in the country genre unlike alan jackson who refused to return to the UK after being treated in a similar manner by the press Brooks returned in 1996 for more sold-out concerts although this time his media appearances were mostly restricted to country radio and interviews with magazines in 1994 Brooks paid homage to one of his musical influences when he appeared on the tribute compilation kissed my ass classic kisra grooved a collection of kiss songs performed by popular artists from various genres as the only country performer to participate there was a concern that Brooks would turn his cover of the song originally sung by drummer Pete Criss hard luck woman into a country song Brooks instead insisted on remaining true to the song and requested that the members of KISS performed the music in the track making it the only song on the album to bear a musical contribution from kiss the unlikely collaboration performed the song live on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno in a promotion of kiss-my-ass classic history grooved and despite it's hard rock appeal Brooks's version did appear on the country charts in november 1995 brooks released fresh horses his first album of new material in two years so in 1995 Garth Brooks had a new album fresh horses it didn't do as well as his prior album it sold three million but it plateaued right at about a quadruple platinum so for him this was not as good as his prior two albums well I mean we're in the middle of it it's by far the toughest that's ever been in making an album we've been working on the album now for six months and have two things it's too many you know the statement isn't too many artists there's just too many artists out there for songwriters that are out there so songs are harder and harder to come by so everything's a lot hurt the album's lead single sees every woman peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Country chart however its follow-up single the fever a cover of an Aerosmith song only peaked at number 23 becoming Brooks's first released country single not to chart on the top ten I think you can never fool yourself and say just because Garth Brooks is singing it and it's gonna sell I think when you do that you're in trouble so you got to do everything for the song sake it's still number one you know way ahead of the lights way or the smoke way ahead of these things the song is the root you know from which we grow from so that's supposed to be Brooks had three additional top-ten hits from the album following the second single including beaches of Cheyenne that also hit number one seven Swiss Brooks his seventh studio album which he released in 1997 originally it was scheduled to be released in August 1997 when he would promote it with a concert in Central Park plans went awry when Capitol Records experienced a huge management shakeup leaving many of his contracts at the label out in the cold so in 1997 Garth Brooks was releasing his seventh album called seven and he was super excited because was supposed to come out in August and he was gonna promote it with a big huge concert in Central Park in New York City well there was a management shakeup in Capitol Records so many things were happening everyone was shuffling around the jobs and the album just kind of got left to the side so it wasn't released until November 1997 but the good news is it was a great success and sold ten million the album was then released in November 1997 and debuted at number one on both the top country albums and Billboard 200 album charts in the United States and later became his fourth album to reach a sale of ten million copies the same thing I did for 96 and 95 it's you know I saw an article in Nashville paper blaming country radio for what's going on in country music right now but it tell you truth it all starts with the industry it all starts with the music and we got a dig we got to find we got to bring it inside ourselves to write that stuff it's got to be sincere and if it's honest we're gonna take care of ourselves if it's out there just to make money watch for a huge decline if that's the only reason why we're in it although the album included the recording of the duet in another's eyes which reached number 2 on the country charts with friend and popular country singer Trisha Yearwood the first single from the album was long necked bottle performed with special guest and songwriter Steve Werner which reached number one on the country charts the song became the second number-one country song to include where nurse signatures scatting Wagner previously reached number one with I got dreams which was the first every number one country song to include scatting we're very fortunate that this is our seventh year for this and the album sevens is out it's it was just a big coincidence so it was uh it's very nice and I never could have planned it and that's sometimes how the best things are thinking anybody's life is how that is when you can't plan it and it happens so this is very very fortunate the album spawned two additional number-one hits between 1997 and 1998 two pina coladas and to make you feel my love which also was a top 10 hit on the hot adult contemporary Tracks chart and was released on the soundtrack to the movie hope floats gentlemen ask what goals we have for the remainder of for the starting of the year like always to be the best father and husband I can be try and represent our family name in country music the best we can and also for these people that put the faith in this you kind of want them not to sometime this year going GAD I wish I'd never voted for him so you just you try and make it worth what they put into 1998 saw the release of the first installment of the limited series 1998 album a six disc box set containing reissues of the first six studio releases in the Garth Brooks catalog each of the reissued compact discs included the bonus track not available on the original release we you know we established the multi-cut with the hits with sixteen tracks there's a chance for a possibly 20 to 24 track five out to hit within about eight months it's coming but there's something coming in between here and there that's really big for us we're extremely excited Brooks's first live album double live was also released in 1998 recorded at various shows over the course of his 1998 world tour as opposed to being a document of one show the album contained material release to a limited series box set as well as new material not previously released elsewhere tearing it up and burning it down and wild as the wind featuring Trisha Yearwood next single would probably be the Trisha Yearwood duet while is the win off the off the album and then after that probably in the summer while we're waiting for whatever's next in our line I would love to go back to sevens I think there's two or three songs still left on sevens in fact we've shot videos for two songs on sevens that haven't been singles yet one of them one of them is coal I don't have to wonder so I don't know if that will be a single but the other obvious choices are do what you got to do and cowboy Cadillac and along with my favorite song on the album other than Bela wood which is a weird thing called how you ever going to know which I just I love how it jumps again [Music] the rumor that the next project of ours is a live album I don't think it's gonna happen the live album we recorded every night of the live show we've got 120 shows in the can so far so the live album is turning out it's very nicer quality than I thought it would be as far as the the recording of it so I think we're gonna do an entire live album but it won't be the next piece of ours good Laurel and if we can get the songs then we'll have a new album out sometime around the rumored time of the HBO live Central Park thanks on six parallel to his music success Garth Brooks is charitable inclination strengthened his fans appreciation of him he fundraised for a wide variety of charities including kids foundations and family it's a it's a wonderful charity I'm very lucky to be part of it in two years they've raised over 12 million dollars for the kids which all that money goes to the kids so to not play baseball the spring would seriously injure the thing but I do music I do a father for I do father first then I do music and then anything after that so it's gonna be a tough call we'll see Cincinnati has been very gracious to me they've been very sweet with their offers and it's in that third league that I haven't been to yet so we can recruit more players for the charity so we'll see it would be a dream for me to get to play with Lucy [Music] are you talking about the charity it's called touch Amal foundation and simply this it's a take any baseball player for example one of the guys we got signed up for a Tony Gwynn or Walker or Ken Griffey junior those guys hit a home run they'll pay a thousand bucks to the foundation we'll get a corporate sponsor to pay a thousand bucks then we're going to go for touch them all teammates which is all the celebrities movies music and other sports to also go a thousand bucks and then that's three thousand bucks per homerun now these guys hit and the coolest thing about this charity is 100% of the money 100% of it goes to kids we'll find some of the way to fund the actual accounting Merrill Lynch and author Andersen have been very sweet to us to come in and help us with the investment planning in the accounting hopefully we'll launch something that is going to start everything course the pitchers got mad when they were out of it so they came in give us a hundred bucks a strikeout in the first three pitchers we signed we're Roger Clemens I'm Kevin Brown and Andy Ashby so we're off to real constructor as well on the 25th of January 2008 Garth announced he would perform a charity concert at the Staples Center for the victims of the California wildfires on December 1st tickets went on sale and sold out within minutes prompting them to announce three more shows all five la shows sold out in less than 59 minutes CBS aired the first of these concerts live given viewers a chance to donate to the firefighters relief efforts we were here about three months ago with six truckloads of food and clothing during your time of distress dr. Eva Hill who pastors a large Church in South Central said to President Reagan a few years ago as President Reagan was telling him all the great things he was going to do he said we're going to have a job for everybody and food for everybody and dr. Hill said that's wonderful but what are we gonna do in the meantime and so this is the meantime still because 46 percent of the white mothers 67 percent of the black mothers and 70 percent of the Latino mothers who single all live below the poverty level and with a lot of deadbeat dads that means one thing we've got hungry children in the United States of America we have hungry children here in Los Angeles so what do you need you need general Schwartzkopf who declares war on children's hunger Garth Brooks I don't know I really don't know where Garth Brooks came up with one of the greatest ideas in the world you see hunger never takes a vacation children are hungry every day of the year so Garth Brooks said we're not gonna let Christmas take a vacation and only celebrate it one day a year we're gonna have the Christmas spirit every day of the year and with what he's doing with beyond the season we're gonna see Christmas every day of the year which says we're going to feed America's hungry children so while the government is talking about doing it next year general Garth Brooks is doing it right now we thank him and we love Him in 2005 Brooks was involved in a widely publicized lawsuit after making a five hundred thousand dollar donation to Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon Oklahoma according to Brooks the hospital promised to name a new women's health center after his mother Colleen Brooks who died of cancer in 1999 the hospital later decided not to build the new facility took the position that its naming commitment was non-binding and refused to return the donation On January 24th 2012 an Oklahoma State Court jury in Claremont found in favor of Brooks ordering the hospital to pay five hundred thousand dollars for the original donation and an additional five hundred thousand in punitive damages Brooks later became fascinated with film specifically starring in the lam a thriller about a conflicted tortured rock star called Chris Gaines he was determined to win the role and he did after extensive lobbying well I'm not gonna do movies I never was a plan to do movies it was a plan to make them so I can stay at home with the kids while the people that I love and trust do the amount of the work like Lisa does must work our announcement comes in about 10 days of our first movie it is not the lamb the lamb it's not prepared yet and the lamb is still Paramount's baby and if Paramount says we're going forward with this and the script is now greenlit and if they're crazy enough to let me do the soundtrack I'll go back in and do it even though it was the hardest thing I've ever done was the Chris Gaines project but it was a lot of fun but I would be proud to do that again and finish what I started with that during pre-production Brooks decided the best way to prep for the role was to become Chris Gaines he invented a brooding leather clad image and filled in holes in Games's backstory by inventing biographies into musical history the most important piece in the puzzle was a collection of Gaines's greatest hits since it would prime audiences with a big-budget spectacular of the Lamb scheduled for late 2000 so Brooks jumped the gun recorded a set of 13 songs as Chris Gaines I can talk about a no album projects at this point the lamb will be probably the earliest but since that's gonna be such a screwy thing with me playing another character on CD it's gonna be very it's gonna have to be handled extremely delicately so we can get the right information out we don't want to mislead anybody but it is gonna be a pop effort that is totally acting I am NOT going pop Garth Brooks had already broken all kinds of barriers and boundaries and country music by integrating rock elements and concert elements into his concerts but went way beyond anything that anyone had ever done actually relaunching themselves as a different singer with a different name in a different genre absolutely insane at the time though Garth Brooks was such a big seller for the record label that they would have done nearly anything he asked for including such an insane ridiculous thing now as a pop singer he wasn't that bad in fact some of the songs did okay the problem was nobody could understand what it was he was doing I mean this wasn't Michael Jordan deciding wanted to be a baseball player this was a guy who was one of the most beloved figures in country music not only trying to cross over to pop but changing his name and changing the way he looked it was crazy you know Chris Gaines had eyeliner he had this hair kind of combed over it looked nothing like Garth Brooks it sounded crazy and nobody bought it Brooks's new persona was revealed to the public just as the Chris Gaines's album was about to hit stores since the story behind the lamb was only known to music insiders and fans who religiously followed the trades Brooks his sudden re-emergence as a thin down soul patch shaggy-haired soulful pop crooner was bizarre to almost every observer he became Chris Gaines this kind of alter ego and there was a Chris Gaines album and a vh1 TV show kind of all about Chris Gaines I can't see what Garth was trying to do take a different angle maybe do some things he couldn't do as goth thing is he's got that when he found that just loved Garth Brooks he doesn't need to be anyone else and not surprisingly it wasn't massively successful there was a massive PR campaign to shed light on Chris Gaines complete with a TV special but the details were so complex that it couldn't be explained easily the release of in the life of Chris Gaines at the end of September 1999 was a major commercial disappointment with stores offering heavy discounts on the record you know clearing out unsold stock in time for Christmas fam bewilderment over the Gaines project also affected sales of Brooks's second holiday record Garth Brooks and the magic of Christmas a traditional pop style doubting that appeared just two months later it was such an unmitigated disaster that we didn't really hear from Garth Brooks until nearly a decade later he seemed to need some time to go back and spend time with his family but also lick his wounds because he's had such a very public failure Brooks kept a low profile through most of 2000 when the disastrous marketplace showing of the Chris Gaines album scuttled plans for the lamp which was shelved his personal life was also in turmoil as he and his wife announced their divorce in October 2000 by the time the divorce was finalized the following year Brooks was on his way to retirement choosing to retreat from music and concentrate on fatherhood he announced that his next album scarecrow would be his last and it was released to appropriate fanfare that November debuting at number 1 on the Billboard pop and country charts but failing to generate a single hit bigger than wrapped up in you which peaked at number 5 Garth Brooks career was huge he was traveling he was touring around the world he was missing his family so he was having this great success but he has three daughters at home when he's thinking about a minute I'm missing their entire life so in October 2000 he said he was gonna retire from the road and retire from the music industry until his last daughter graduated from high school Brooks eased into retirement after releasing scarecrow spending the next few years quietly and not resurfacing in the public eye until a busy 2006 towards the end of that year he married country singer Trisha Yearwood on December 10th but prior to that he struck a deal with Walmart to become the exclusive retailer for his back catalogue the first release under this deal was a new box set called the limited series that collected all the albums he released after his first box set called the limited series this second limited series was released in 2005 and included a new disc of outtakes called the lost sessions which featured a duet with Yearwood called love will always win the song Clark 2:23 on the country charts in 2006 a modest placing that was nevertheless his biggest hit since wrapped up in you Garth Brooks marriage to Trisha Yearwood is a very solid one he did a sit-down with Ellen DeGeneres not long after they were married where he said I never knew it could be like this they are happy together and as she has her own career has flourished she has several cookbooks she has all kinds of projects going on he has managed to adapt into that with her they're very solid they're very happy and they're very powerful combination for the next eight years that followed Brooks continued to perform sporadically including a run of weekends on the Las Vegas Strip but did not record any new material so Garth Brooks stayed in retirement until about 2005 he came out of retirement to do some charity performances but then in 2009 he decided to do a residency in Las Vegas at the Wynn Hotel which continued all the way through 2012 so he was semi-retired I announced my retirement six weeks or eight weeks ago I have one year left because of the merger with my label pushed everything back one year so I have one out and left to deliver at the end of year I'm gonna have something for the people to tell them thank you for that will complete our circle and I'm excited about that in 2013 he began to ease into his comeback first releasing a box set of covers called blame it all on my roots for that year's holiday season this was exciting in July 2014 Garth Brooks held a press conference and said I'm back he signed with Sony Music Nashville and I think what was great is that the fans hadn't seen him on a world tour in over a decade so his tickets sold out in a matter of minutes in just a couple days later because fans were so eager to see him back as he was promoting the set brooks revealed that he would be going on a world tour the following year so Garth been doing his weekends in Vegas for some time and we hear there's gonna be a big announcement a big press conference and it's the news everyone was waiting for there's a new album coming as a new tour coming there's gonna be a a back catalog released digitally everything the Garf fans wanted to hear the album was man against machine which I mean it was a big success you know looking at the sales numbers are so low not as big as some of Garth stuff from the past but still a big success and then this tour was announced and the tickets just sold out in seconds and Garth kept adding more and more dates like in Dallas it was like 10 dates in the end of something crazy like that and everyone kept selling out and then news of international dates as well and Ireland was on the menu now Ireland loves country music Garth loves Ireland the UK he's had a bit of a bad experience with in the past of the UK was left off the list and never thinks three dates announced at Croke Park in Dublin but that wasn't enough because they sold out 160 tickets sold out straight away so he announced more days the trouble was these hadn't all been signed off by the council and there's a deal with the local residence where his croke park is in the middle disliked housing area they're only allowed a certain number of gigs each year and this one over the number of and already one direction have been allowed to do some gigs and that was using up the allocated numbers so there was tuning and throwing and umming and ahhing and the council were looking into it and so on and the news came back to gar you can do two gigs but you can't do all five and go through its toys out the pram and said it's all or nothing my word came back okay well you can do five gigs but only over three days so you have to do some matinee ones in the afternoon and then the evening ones and Garth was like nope it's not happening and it didn't happen and this is after four hundred thousand people had bought tickets and people have booked hotels and they booked flights from different parts of Europe and the whole thing stopped a lot of very unhappy hands prior to the tourist summer launch Brooks announced that he had signed to Sony Music Nashville and would be releasing his ninth studio album in November with another to follow in 2015 man against machine was preceded by the single people loving people which peaked at 25 on Billboard's country charts and coincided with the first ever digital release of Brooks's back catalogue governed by an unfaltering motivation yet heartfelt modesty Garth Brooks has not only become a country music legend but he is currently one of the biggest names in music entertainment in terms of Garth Brooks his legacy he's actually not done yet you know not that long ago he decided to kind of get out there and start singing again in his fans who by the way are some of the most loyal and passionate fans in the world have immediately immediately started buying out all tickets in all performances that he announced in his record shattering career Garth Brooks has sold over 150 million albums and dominated the charts with numerous number-one singles thank god we've been invited to play it at a number of cities that would take that long to get there so as long as the people showing up and getting the tickets then we're gonna keep showing up and playing our music as long as I can Garth Brooks fans are never gonna desert him he has an incredibly passionate group of people who will support whatever he tries to do and the fact that he's come out singing again he's kind of resurrecting his career a little bit has brought nothing but rapturous joy from the people that love him and love his music with the release of man against machine his tenth studio album Garth Brooks is stretching his achievements even further he endeavours to remain a pivotal figure in the country arena and aims to continue gratifying his loyal fans with country hits that will be played for years to come it's well any of this stuff it's hard not to take for granted but truly if you ever start complaining just look in the mirror and see what God the people have granted it's kind of stupid to complain I mean what can you complain about you know it's you know you've got it made when you're bitching about the good things you know so it's yeah it's it's hard to take it goods you do take it for granted a lot of times deserve this and I take it for granted but the people for some reason you still give it to us Garth Brooks is the best-selling country music artist of all time even with his retirement he still holds that title he's incredible he's known worldwide and now that he's got a new tour coming up this year you know the sky's the limit we're gonna see him selling albums we're gonna see him selling out stadiums and fans are gonna rediscover his music again [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

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Length: 58min 23sec (3503 seconds)

Published: Fri Jul 14 2017