It's All Gone Pete Tong

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

You are my god.

My inspiration, my everything.

He's on a different level now,

how he listens...

...how he plays records.

I think he's very special...

...because no other DJ can do that.

I don't know what he was doing,

whether he was...

...honing his talents

in another direction.

He just disappeared

from the scene completely.

It was really depressing.

I mean he's probably down in

South America, still hanging out.

Probably trying to snort up

one of the countries, or...

I don't know, he's just...

I like to think he's still out there.

Frankie, I'm curious. Can you tell me

about your flip-flop collection?

I'm a bit of the lmelda Marcos

of the flip-flop world.

Flip-flop, for me, is perfection.

And sometimes if I'm stuck

and I can't mix, I can't...

You know, I'm a creative person.

I'm an artist.

So sometimes I just stare

at a flip-flop for hours.

I'm not joking.

I'm being serious, yeah.

- Really?

- Yes, I do.

Recently, you've been married...

...so how is it now

being a husband?

- An "ass band"?

- Husband.

- Oh, husband.

- Husband.

A husband. Yeah, it's very nice.

It's what I've...

Say hello!

Hello, lbiza!

DJ! DJ! DJ! DJ!

This is Pete Tong, you're listening

to The Essential Selection.

I'm sitting across from Frankie Wilde.

How are you, Frankie?

I feel like a star, man.

Eleven years.

Eleven years in Ibiza...

...playing some of the best clubs

in the world.

- How do you feel about it this year?

- What, mate?

It's your 11 th year, Frankie,

playing in Ibiza. You must be thrilled.

It's been f***ing hot, ain't it, here,

the last week?

God.

I mean...

...think about...

You're old, like me.

You're an old geezer.

You remember that martini

campaign in the '70s?

"Martini is"

Dot, dot, dot, dot.

Remember that?

When I was a kid,

that wow-ed me out, man, bigtime.

It's like, "is" what?

What the f*** is it?

What the f*** is martini?

But I was young,

and I didn't really understand.

And now I'm mature...

...and I've lived 38 years,

and I can confidently say:

"Lbiza is"

Dot, dot, dot, dot. You know

what I mean? And that's really nice.

It's really nice

to be able to feel that.

There's spunk everywhere

on this island.

Everyone's done it,

and they've been free with it.

They haven't done it

to make babies.

They've f***ing swung out

and spun a bit out...

...and it's hit a plant,

and that's grown.

Wall, and there's vines

and ivy and sh*t.

It's all spunk. Look at this lot out here.

Look at them.

They all love it.

They f***ing love it.

- Who out there likes to f***ing party?

- Yeah!

I can't hear you! Who out there

likes to f***ing party?

- Who likes to f***ing party?

- Yeah!

Frankie was definitely

one of the best.

He had his very, sort of,

own style...

...his very own momentum

with the crowd.

No one else did it his way.

He's a showman

as much as he is a musician.

He controlled the crowd

musically and physically.

He was a born natural

behind the turntable.

There's no doubt.

I was jealous of that.

I always had to try a bit harder.

Super, super, super, loco.

Frankie was cruising along,

doing his thing...

...getting all the attention that

he needed. And then he met Max.

No. Hey, tell him it's like a wasp

just stung my clit, yeah.

I don't give a f*** if he's religious.

Tell him anyway.

F*** him. Bye. Anyway...

A bit of a tosser.

Not my sort of person...

...but absolutely took him

to the next level.

I love you, Max!

Max first brought Frankie

to my attention.

I knew he had what it took

behind the decks...

...but it turned out that Frankie really

understood the music production side.

You know,

knew his way around a studio.

Do you think

we're making a jazz album?

I'm just right in the middle

of going all the f***ing way.

Should we swap them over

for some brushes?

You know:

Start f***ing hitting those drums.

Start banging those drums like

you bang your f***ing sister!

Clear, Siegfried?

That's the first one.

So I signed him straightaway.

And Frankie delivered.

It was massive.

Come out of car windows, in the

supermarket. Even my grandmother...

...would whistle that tune when I went

to see her in the nursing home.

Frankie met Sonya when they were

on the video shoot to "Rise Again."

Oh, man. I mean, everybody knew

that she'd been about.

But he seemed to like that.

I mean, that was his thing.

You know, I mean,

even I'd had a go at her.

15-love.

I was thinking, you know how

Paul Newman's got...

...his salad dressings and that?

So why not Frankie Wilde hummus?

- That's a good idea.

- People come and see the gigs...

...they say,

"F***, that was a great set, Frankie."

I'll say, "Cheers, mate.

You want some hummus?"

- You know, just as a thing.

- Yeah.

Quite a good name for an album.

How's that?

Frankie Wilde, Hummus.

What, call my album Hummus?

- Yeah.

- I don't think so.

I've got good ideas, Frankie.

You should listen to me.

If I've got my own hummus brand

and my album's called Hummus...

...it's getting a bit much.

- I think it's a good name.

Why don't I change my name

to "Frankie Hummus"?

No, it sounds good. Yeah.

I think a lot of people tolerated her

because she was Frankie's wife.

At the end of the day, I think

she was partying with everyone else.

I didn't like her. I didn't think

she was good for him.

- I f***ing hate you.

- I f***ing hate you.

- And did I f*** her?

- Yeah.

Yeah, I f***ed her.

Legend has it that Frank's problems

started undramatically.

It was the simplest thing

that kicked it off.

It was years and years of noise

was the basis of the problem.

But the very beginnings of it,

in his life, started very plainly.

Frankie's problem was quite

a common problem amongst DJ's...

...an occupational hazard.

They work in the clubs.

The noise just takes its toll.

Someone like Frankie,

having a problem like that, I thought:

"This geezer's gonna go.

He's gonna lose it."

And he did lose it.

I watched him lose it,

slowly but surely.

F***ing come on, then!

I think we could have the Spanish

look, I like this color for the water.

Perhaps maybe that one, Japanese.

Frankie. Morning, honey.

Oh, Frankie!

Come here.

I want to ask you something.

- Morning.

- Morning, sweet...

You all right?

If we go for the Spanish look...

It's for the garden.

- A bit of both.

- Okay. Little bit of both.

- We can do that, can't we?

- Yeah.

F***! F***ing hell!

You all right?

His hearing was f***ed.

But he tried to keep working

and plow through.

You know,

put the horse blinkers on.

Ignore the problem, and it'll go away.

You know, always works for me.

Can you tell us what's happening

with the new album?

Have I got a spot? Have I...?

- No.

- It's fine.

You're perfect. You're perfect.

Your fans are curious about

the new album. They have to know.

It's good. It's going really well.

It's going really well.

Been bending the sound, sort of.

I've been forging it.

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