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serenade the world as you sing to my piano playing. in the immortal ways, take it away tony bennett. tony's tonight duets with today's top stars. ♪ that's why the lady is a tramp ♪ >> i love lady gaga. when i first met her on this record date and i was very impressed. all of the singers that i've ever heard, amy was the best one. ♪ i'm >> as good as billie holly day, as good as ella fitzgerald even. >> his career highs and lows. >> i realized i thought i was doing well with the drugs and i really wasn't. >> tony benity in his own words and music, this is "piers morgan tonight." tony, welcome. >> thank you very much. >> how are you? >> just fine, thank you. >> life good? >> couldn't be better. >> you could say that again. what an extraordinary life you've had. >> i know. >> do you ever stop to actually look back and think good god. >> at my age you do that. if you go right back to the beginning, early family, with the wonderful italian-american family that i grew up with. >> what do you think when you think back to those days? >> i love what happened because i had all my uncles and aunts and nieces and nephews, they were all good people, hard-working people, and they were all very human and very helpful to me, personally. they gave me a passion for my whole life. at a very early age they loved the way i sang and painted and that became my extreme passion, and it's been that way throughout my whole life. >> what values did they instill in you about the community you had, family and friends. >> they just liked -- well aside from the great food, my mom was a great cook, but she had a tough time because my father died when i was 10 and she had to raise my brother and my sister and myself, it was during the depression, to put food, with he had very humble start, and she was just beautiful, and all my relatives would come over every sunday, and make a circle around my brother, sister and myself, and we would entertain them. >> really? >> yeah, and -- >> you would sing for your supper, would you? >> well, that's what happened actually. i mean they would say, look at how he makes us laugh and -- >> is that when you got that excitement, that you thought this is for me? >> i remember very clearly saying, this is who i am. my family is telling me, who i love, the family i love, the family, and they're telling me that i sing well and that i paint well, and that created a very strong passion in my life. >> because i always -- i've got three sons now and all i say to them is you've got to find a passion and then chase that passion. if you end up doing a job you love, as you know, you're never going to be bored. you're never going to wake up and think i've got to go to work today. you wake up and you're tony bennett. you're going to go and sing or paint or whatever it may be, but everything you do, you love doing. don't you? >> it's he never a bother for me. i don't need a vacation. i'm on vacation, because i'm doing the two things i love. so you're right. >> the new album, they say you can always judge a man by the company of the people that he keeps, tony. on this album "duets two" it's an extraordinary roll call, lady gaga, john mayer, amy winehouse, we'll talk about later, michael buble, sheryl crow, norah jones, mariah carey and so on. an extraordinary collection of amazing singers. do any of the ones on this album match up in quality of voice to the greats like sinatra or is it different these days? >> well, you know, i started with a duets one, that was so successful that sony columbia said please do another one like that. and the new artists, the names that you just mentioned, what i love about was the first time they all came out of schools and they're all taught unlike when rosemary clooney and i started, the late rosemary clooney, we were just amateurs hoping for a break, and she came in first, she won an amateur contest like "american idol" you know she came in first, i came in second and rightfully so because she was a beautiful singer and a lovely human being, and we were told by the old masters like george burns and jack benny, they said, son, you're off to a good start but it's going to take you seven years before you become a competent performer, performing in front of an audience, but now these new schools, they're teaching them what to expect and how to be prepared. >> and in your experience, are they as prepared and ready and able to nurture their talent in the same way you could after years of treading those boards? is it as good? >> they were all very professional. they were all prepared. they came in. i loved lady gaga. when i first met her on this record date, and she was -- she went to the whole staff after it was finished, the recording that we did, thanking them for believing in her. she was so sweet to everybody, to every stagehand and everybody, "thank you for being so nice to me" and all that and i was very impressed with that. >> the great thing with you, you've had this as i said extraordinary career where you are absolutely huge to the 50s and 60s, one of the great stars of the world and then you hit the wall a bit. >> what's fascinating about my life, my family became is b bennebe benedetto and translated into english it's the blessed one. funny it's worked out because from 1950 until this very moment, 99% of the time i've been sold out all over the world. >> is that right? >> especially in your great country, britain. >> they love to you britain. >> i know, i love it. >> how long would you say the period of you know, the timing of your career when it wasn't firing on all cylinders, how long was that period when you were slightly feeling maybe it's over? >> i tell you, it was about six months, and that was in las vegas, it was when the underworld, who invented las vegas, gave it over to the big corporations, because it made so much plun. las vegas made so much money, they bought caesar's palace, they bought the hilton hotel, they bought everything, and that's when that change came about, and it wasn't just my career but everybody in vegas had to take a step down before they got re-evaluated. >> how did all that success, period make you feel? >> i don't feel like ever retiring. i'm only as good as my next show. the other one is gone you see. >> in your autobiography published in 1998, you shed light on a darker time you had in hollywood mainly in the '70s and you said this about drugs. "cocaine flowed as freely as champagne and it seemed like the hip thing to do but as time went on it got harder to refuse it. i overindill unlged and quickly realized i was in trouble." you were going through what almost every hollywood star goes through at some stage when you see the younger stars these days or younger entertainers, not called necessarily stars but when you see how much more available drugs now are, even than they were in their day, does it concern you? >> i learned, jack rollins, woody allen's manager, he said that he managed lenny bruce years ago, who is a brilliant man and he made one sentence that changed my life. he said, "he sinned against his talent." somehow at any given moment you can learn, you know, and that sentence did it for me. i realized that i thought i was doing well with the drugs, and i really wasn't. and i realized that i'm sinning against the gift that was given to me by nature, and by my influence of my great family, and it really stopped me cold. i did not withdraw. i had no recovery period. the minute i stopped it, i felt relieved. i felt normal. i didn't have to hide to smoke or, do those other naughty things. all of a sudden i was just honest. >> do you feel fortunate that you were able to do that? >> it was a blessing. it changed my life. >> did you have friends, colleagues and so on who were not fortunate, who ended up being ruined by drugs? >> that's right, especially amy winehouse, that's the one thing i regretted that when i recorded with her, i into you about her reputation and so did everybody else, especially in britain, who everybody in britain loved her work and rightfully so, she was a great singer, better than any of the young people i've ever heard, and i was never able to stop on the side and tell her, slow down, because you're going to destroy yourself if you don't. >> let's have a break and come back and talk more about amy winehouse. >> sure. >> because it was a fascinating relationship, a short one between the two of you. >> surely, thank you. ♪ it's up to you, body and soul ♪ ale announcer ] if you're giving an amazing gift, shouldn't it be given in an amazing way? ♪ the lexus december to remember sales event is here, but only for a limited time. see your lexus dealer. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! 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♪ body and soul >> the first time i met tone was -- i called him tone, the first time i met tone, should you ask him first really before you start, okay. first time i met tone i would say was, i took my dad, my stepmother, and my boyfriend to see him, and we went both. ♪ i'm over you >> amy winehouse talking about her duet with tony bennett. when she called you tone. >> that's nice. >> cheeky. she was an extraordinary character, amy winehouse and i interviewed her father a few weeks ago and he was very moving about it. he said she was a fun-loving, very amusing girl, incredibly talented, came from no real background of this at all. when you got together with her, you said before the break how gifted she was. put that in perspective, because to me she was one of the best singer/song writers to have emerged in a very, very long time, wasn't she? >> um-hum, dwryeah. it was a big major change in my life when it came to the fashions of music. i grew up with ten years older than the great frank sinatra and he was my master, you know, and i just loved him, but then there was also nat king cole and joe stafford and peggy lee and all of these wonderful singers and the whole premise in those days were to singers to do such good performances, like judy garland with "somewhere over the rainbow" or sinatra with "the wee small hours of the morning" to actually own a song by the performance that they gave, that kind of stopped when elvis presley became famous, and then on to the rolling stones and then the beatles and all this, and they were all very competent singers, as big as they were, they went into stadiums. before that everybody sang in intimate little cabarets, and that's how they became famous. >> where did amy rank from all of the -- >> of all the singers i ever heard amy was the best one. >> seriously? >> she was a true great pop jazz singer. she heard everything. she sang, she was influenced just by the right music. she had the ears to know just what to leave out and what to put in, and more than anything else, one of the secrets of a good performing singer is this, the heart. and she never sang a line that she didn't mean. everything she said, it was as good as billy holiday, as good as el will fitzgerald. she was as good as that level. she was a great singer. >> where were you, tony, when you heard that she died? >> i was athe who em. it was a month after i recorded with her, and the first thing i got, i teared up and was so emotional about it because i didn't -- >> how did you hear about it in. >> my son called me up and told me she just died, and i couldn't believe it, because i wanted to really tell her, to invite her to the palladium where i'm going to perform there, and i wanted to talk to her about slowing down because you could get very hurt if you don't. and i wanted to try and stop her, like the way someone was nice enough to stop me, and i didn't do it. i felt very regretful that i didn't have the chance to talk to her >> becaucould you see the way t were going with her? could you snell. >> yes. >> you feared she was heading down the wrong road? >> yes, it would have been disastrous. >> it's very sad. >> it is really sad. >> a sad loss. >> but you know everybody is sad about it except one person that i met, and that's her original mother. i met her in new york, she came and visited me at my home, my apartment, and she said something beautiful that i couldn't -- i was very, very impressed with her mom. because she said "you know, it's funny, everybody really feels regretful about my daughter but i knew what she really wanted to do and what her dream was, and she actually won. she died making it happen." she says, "she did what she wanted to do really happened," and seen though she had a short life she brian what her dream was. touching. >> incredibly touching. and possibly true. >> um-hum. >> in a strange way. >> i can understand that and really, i understood her mother feeling that way. it's different. >> it's very different. i get how she feels as well, the mother. >> um-hum. >> she did have a remarkable achievement, amy, for such a short life. >> and it worked. >> if she's watching this wherever she is, i think hearing you say that she was one of the greatest singers you ever worked with, that would be an amazing thing for her to say. >> i sent her mom a letter explaining that i thought that was a wonderful way of looking at it. >> you've been, as i said before, you've had moments in your life where it's not been happy. it's not been great. there was an anecdote in your book about a time when, you know, you took some kind of overdose. you ended up possibly being in a position where you may even have died. when you remember how you felt then, how did you come through that kind of this ing? when people are huge entertainers, it brings with it particular pressures, doesn't it? >> at any given moment you can learn. it's the greatest line i've ever read or heard anybody ever say, at any given moment you can learn, and that's what happened to me. it was that moment, when i just realized if i keep going, this is not going to work. and i had two strong a passion to actually sing as good as i can, and to really respect the audience and never compromise, and only sing very well-written songs. don't try to just make a cheap hit to make money. i wasn't interested in that. i didn't want a hit record. i wanted a hit catalogue, and it was a difficult thing to do, but it worked. >> would you have any vices these days? >> none. >> you're as squeaky clean as i imagine you must be. >> absolutely. >> do you drink at all? >> i have a glass of wine at night. >> and you can enjoy it? >> yes, completely. >> you don't smoke? >> ably the cocaine days are behind you now tony. >> completely. i have no bad habits now. >> is it important for any -- can any singers who are watching this, because they all get temptation thrown their way, how important is self-discipline for a singer? >> it's something you can't teach. pearl bailey started me out, from this amateur show that i was on and put me, it was the first job i got in greenwich village and she said, "son, you have a good talent but look out for the helium in the brain," that's what the line was and it was very clear, even when she said that but nevertheless, when you are hit with a lot of success at first, you really get confused about -- you feel invincible, you know, and that's not natural. what's happening to me right now is, i have a new album. i'm not just plugging this. i'm telling you my son, danny, has been managing me for 45 years. it's a fantastic reaction to an album, and all the years, i've always had every decade, six decades i've had hit records right aening llong but not like. this album is so big that if it happened to me when i was 25, i would probably end up, like what happened to elvis presley, where toward the end of his life it became bloated or marilyn monroe, where she ended up with a tragic life. this is happening just at the right time for me. that's what i meant about being a blessed person. because -- >> how much of your ability to be successful for so long do you think is down to having strong people like your mother in your early life to see you? >> it meant everything. it meant everything. it meant everything. it gave me the proper, natural human love, and it worked. >> let's take another break. i want to come back and talk to you about politics, about when you marched back in the '60s, the civil rights marches, martin luther king, the kennedys and indeed president obama today. we'll see where your thoughts over all that is. ♪ san francisco ♪ its golden sun will shine for me ♪ . really? 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>> i think it's the greatest accomplishment that the united states ever came up with. i hope it's magnificent, because he's not only an african-american, but he's not -- you know, i've always respected intellectual people, and he's an intellect. >> he's intelligent. >> no, he's more than intelligent. he's very bright, highly bright, and i love the fact that this great country, it's a great step for humanity, for the world, to learn that even though i love this country more than anything that could ever happen, it's kind of ahead of all the countries because instead of one philosophy, it has many, it has a great palette to choose from, from every society and every religion, that only happens in the united states. >> it's very courageous of you, to do what you did personally, in the '60s, to go on those marches. it was a contentious thing to do. what was driving you at the time? >> it's a dream of mine that someday the world will pick themselves up by their boot straps and better themselves, walk toward humanity, realize what a gift it is to be alive and to be on this planet, what a gift it is that we're alive. >> how important for you in forming your character was fighting in the war? because you saw some pretty heavy action. i mean, you were involved in the famous battle of the bulge, moved across france into germany, in the u.s. army november, 1944. when i talk to people from that era, they always say that when you go to war, the stuff you experience, it shapes your character forever, and it gives you a sense of interspective on life that nothing else can. was that how you snelt. >> well, yes, it taught me, personally it taught me that fighting, killing someone, is the lowest form of human behavior. >> do you feel that war is ever justified? >> well, wh -- >> when hitler and the nazis and was trying to take over the world, an evil man, is it not imperative to defend yourselves against someone like him with all the collateral damage that comes? >> that's a very difficult question, because i think we should have a society of highly educated, intelligent people that will think realistically about how to do things. when i said to you earlier that the lowest form of nature is to kill someone, it's the lowest form of humanity, it's the bottom of the line, so we're actually intellectual cavemen at this point, no matter how much technical things we work out, we're still fighting and it's my dream that someday we'll find out, everybody will learn that what a gift it is to be alive, and how we should cherish one another, and appreciate one another. >> you ran into trouble with howard stern, and you're not the first to do that by the way. >> on a daily basis. >> you made comments on the face of it seemed quite inflammatory about 9/11 and so son. w on. was that the point you were making? >> yes. >> you have to value life. all governments appear to be involved in some kind of conflict, war or whatever. >> oh, gosh. understand that we're all on this planet, and we only have one quick life. it's only 100 years, if we're lucky, we live 100 years. we should realize what a gift that is to be alive. >> what does it mean to you, to be an american? >> well, america, to be an american is you're ahead of everybody on the planet. it's the first country where it's not one philosophy but many, many philosophies, and it's one of the things that we should celebrate, the fact that they're all different religions, every different nationality, and we should cherish the best of every religion and every nationality. we should cherish it, and it's much more creative to live that way than to have one philosophy and this is how we do it, with all the other countries, that's the way it is. >> it's strange to think there are lots of people out there that would actually directly oppose that kind of ambition. >> i understand that. >> and they do. >> it's a matter of education. >> i think you're right. i think you're right. i think if the money was put into warfare was put into education around the world it would be a very different world, right? >> oh, boy, absolutely. let's take another break. i want to bring in somebody very important in your life, someone who for 45 years has been your manager but more than that, he's your son, daniel. danny, welcome. >> hi. >> pleasure to see you. >> great to see you. >> we'll get you a chair. you're staying, tony. you're not going anywhere. ♪ the side of the street [♪...] >> announcer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thief is able to use your information to open a bank account... in order to make your money his money. 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[ male announcer ] and there you go, business pro. there you go. go national. go like a pro. ♪ in other words, i love you that was tony bennett on mtv unplugged in 1994, a pivotal moment of your success. danny, welcome, you are credited i think in making the old man cool here. >> well he's always been cool. >> he's always been cool but hip i guess for the time. what was the game? was there a game plan? how did you go about this? >> you know, i started working with tony -- dad, my dad. >> you got to call him dad. >> i can't -- >> you're not going to call him tony. you're not his manager now, you're his son. >> it's tough to negotiate when you're saying dad once, yeah, since 1979 and you know, growing up in the business and growing around such great artists was phenomenal and tony's performance in his art transcends, and i just said, you know, it's a matter of putting this in front of the people, and tony's faith in his audience is something that i always wleebeld in and it was just a matter of -- >> you were quite smart, taring tony, up with katie lang, and the red hot chili peppers. >> at a time when rock 'n' roll people stopped taking chances, tony was not. >> tony what is it like having your son run your business, having someone you completely trust must be something you can't really buy. >> right from a very early age, i knew that he was something special. he's highly intelligent, highly creative, has a humanistic attitude about things, and is brilliant about how he goes about his work. >> i'm very protective, i imagine you feel protective towards your father? >> yeah, but i don't have to be. tony, you know, his art speaks for itself. tony told the story about the time rock 'n' roll came into the '60s, and there was a lot of changes, and duke ellington was recording on columbia records and he went into at one point went in to the president of the company, and told him, i have bad news for you. it seems we're going to have to drop you from the label, duke ellington and duke looked at him and said what's the problem? he said i'm sorry, duke, you're not selling enough records and duke said oh, i thought, i guess i was mistaken. i thought i was supposed to make them and you were supposed to sell them. wh >> when you've got lady gaga and tony bennett together, a mix of talent, it just works. tony for you, it must be i guess constantly reinvigorating. >> it is. >> to play with the great performers of the day. >> there's no condensation -- condensation? he does not look down on the artist. whether it's lady gaga, norah jones or john mayer they're not equal level so he's not condescending on that. so i think the artist comes in, very kind of nervous and has a lot of trepidation. in two minutes he's making them relaxed, because they feel equal, and he treats the artist, he has such a respect for the artistry. >> one thing that always strikes me about you, tony, you have effortless style and you're very chivalrous and polite, courteous, old-fashioned values. do you look at young people and say i wish you were more respectful and polite? >> yeah, but i'm shocked about what you're saying. it's humorous to me that the empire room on the top of rockefeller center, year ago the empire room was glorious, when it first opened, and it was so civilized that fred astaire and his sister, adelle, opened the empire room and those days and this is before my time, could you not get in that room from monday to sunday without a tuxedo. >> really? >> you could not get in the room and now to see these great halls and people seeing symphonies and operas, and they have, you know, sneakers and blue jeans and all that, with their knees are cut open and -- >> it's not the same really. >> you just wonder where are we going. >> i think it's a shame. >> it is. >> i'd like it to go back to those days. my mother always said dress as if you might meet the queen at all times. >> it's wonderful. see that's great. >> because you never know when you might. let's have another break and come back and talk about painting, because that's the other great passion and love of your life. ♪ it's cold and it's damp ♪ that's why the lady is a tramp ♪ ♪ that's why this lady is a tramp ♪ lease! 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>> yeah, he is. >> that was a great one "entourage." did you enjoy that? >> yes, a lot of fun. >> if i was to pin you down, what has been the greatest moment of your life, what would you say it's been? >> when it comes to entertainment or just -- >> could be anything. it can't be the birth of your children. >> wow. rightly i knew you were going to say that. it can't be that. >> as an entertainer it happened to me two or three nights ago at the met poll tar opera. i took a big chance, i said i'd like to sing in the metropolitan opera. i was very apprehensive about what's going to happen because it's the real thing. the opera is the real art. >> the ultimate test. >> very high level. >> yes. >> and here i am singing jazz songs and doing a little comedy here and there, and it was so well-received that it just to me it was just an accomplishment that i'll never forget. it was so well-received and got beautiful reviews in the public, more than anyone else, just loved it, and wanted me to go on for another hour and a half. >> put the mike down and sang acapella. >> really? >> yes. >> let's talk about art for a moment because the art is almost as great a passion as singing. >> yes. >> if i said you could only paint or sing for the rest of your life, which option would you take? you couldn't do both. >> i would have to do both because they're both very passionate for me but if my voice, because of my age, let's say, starts wavering, i don't want anybody to hear that. so then i would just retire to painting for the rest of my life. >> can you imagine not singing again? could you imagine the day coming where you retire? >> no. >> you don't think you'll ever give up? >> oh, no. i have to keep learning. >> danny, what do you think has been the secret of your father's success? if you were to try and crystallize it, what would you say? >> i mean, i think, again, it's, i'm doing a documentary called "the zen of tony bennett" and it is that focus and he's tremendously focused and calm. there's no entourage around him. he stays fit, stays healthy. he plays tennis, works out every day. >> you work out every day? >> yeah. >> do you really? you work out ? >> yes. >> you go to the airports, you travel, he will not take elevators or kaes laters, he walks those stairs. we have to grab his bags out of his hands, it's amazing. >> is that half the battle? is it just -- because you do something you love, just working as hard as you can to keep the passion burn something. >> i believe that's absolutely correct. what you described is the way i feel 37. >> there's almost a torch, and you have to keep it alive. >> yes. >> you're singing against your talent. when you realize that's what you're doing, you go the other way, you you nurture that talent as best you can, you allow yourself to perform to the best of your ability. >> one time i was so upset with the company that said, you're not doing enough commercial records and this and that. when he came in, he said something to me 45 years ago, he said, dad, i know the businessmen, that's what i do. what you should do is paint whatever you want and sing whatever you want. and i'll take care of the rest. and maybe during the holidays you say hello and thank everybody. stay away from that. it was a freedom, a reward that i received. to be able to have the freedom to express myself without somebody saying, we don't want that, and all that. >> good luck. >> it was gone. i mean -- >> well, i figure it comes from having the foresight to choose your son as your business manager. when they put you first rather than the business side. thank you very much. i want to end this, i have the opportunity to take you to a darkened room and have tony bennett sing exclusively for me and my viewers "the way you you look tonight." i think we should do this. >> okay. >> let's go. after you, tony. >> case, thanks. 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