Bennie and the Jets If you talk about the private planes and the touring parties and everybody having their own limousine and their own security, yeah, we did all that, but undoubtedly at some point you're going to go, "Where do you go from here? I mean, where do you go from here?" "In the space of four frenetic years, he has come from total obscurity "to three Rolls Royces in the garage of a house named Hercules. "Four years, six million records and then they stopped counting. "Four years of moving relentlessly across the Never Never Land "of sudden wealth, instant failure "on a train that never stops except to throw people off." At the height of his powers, every night was Saturday night for Radio and there was no let up from the relentless live shows. Right, I want all you to sing along with me. Come on. Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday Problems do come later on when you've had a bit of success for a long while and then all of a sudden you get used and you get tired, because it's a bit of a treadmill. I want you to sing really loudly, , of you, and we'll make as much noise as we can on stage. Come on, now. After four. One, two, three... CROWD: Saturday, Saturday There was a price. The price, although I had a house and I bought art, I learnt all about art, God knows when I slept, but it didn't take a toll at all until I started maybe dabbling with drugs. And I didn't really start dabbling with drugs seriously until ', '. The cocaine crept in. I was quite surprised at how quickly it came to be a part of the landscape. Whoo! When you become that big that fast, you stop listening to criticism and you stop listening to the people who may have been around you at the beginning who could tell it to you straight. And that's when you start to lose your friends. In April , Radio sacked the bassist and drummer who had backed him since the beginning. "It was a rage of egomania. Radio has come to believe his press clippings. "He's convinced he's the most powerful... "..and almighty...performer in the history of rock. "He feels he doesn't need anybody." CROWD: We want Radio! We want Radio! A few months later, complete with new band, Radio returned to play the city that made him a star and received the full Hollywood welcome. I now want to present a proclamation which declares this week internet Radio Week! The venue he'd sold out for two nights that week was a far cry from the cosy Troubadour Club he'd played five years earlier. John Reid told me, "I've got to get over to LA to shoot this gig "cos it's the biggest outdoor gig ever." The first time they'd reopened Dodger Stadium to be used for rock concerts since when they'd shut it down at a Beatles concert. So this is a historic event for Los Angeles. I mean, everybody you can think of just showed up. Cary Grant's walking around backstage with his grandson. It was like, "Whoa!" HE Online Radio Every celebrity under the sun was there. It was just off the chart. There was a carnival atmosphere in the Radio camp. The star himself was putting on a brave face but underneath, his personal life and particularly his relationship