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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:38,371 --> 00:00:39,580 (Birds chirping) 4 00:00:44,836 --> 00:00:48,338 You know, just go ahead, George, go on and... 5 00:00:48,465 --> 00:00:51,008 And fly away, babe. Just be free and...And go. 6 00:00:51,134 --> 00:00:53,093 And we'll...We'll see you down the line. 7 00:00:56,639 --> 00:00:59,850 Um, just leave. 8 00:00:59,976 --> 00:01:02,936 Go to someplace nice. We're gonna be all right here. 9 00:01:04,105 --> 00:01:07,399 And then... And he went on out. That was it. 10 00:01:10,695 --> 00:01:13,489 (Man) ls there anything you'd say to George if he was around today? 11 00:01:13,615 --> 00:01:15,240 (Laughs) 12 00:01:16,409 --> 00:01:18,118 Fancy a cup of tea? 13 00:01:18,953 --> 00:01:20,245 Where've you been? 14 00:01:20,371 --> 00:01:22,456 l had a dream that l saw him, 15 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,584 and that was where... 16 00:01:25,710 --> 00:01:29,671 That was what l said to him in the dream so l guess that's what would be 17 00:01:29,798 --> 00:01:32,424 the question, wouldn't it? Where've you been... 18 00:01:32,550 --> 00:01:34,384 since l last saw you? 19 00:01:35,970 --> 00:01:37,179 And he answered it, 20 00:01:37,305 --> 00:01:39,306 so l can tell you the answer as well, which is, 21 00:01:39,432 --> 00:01:40,974 "Ηere the whole time." 22 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:43,727 Which doesn't really help me in any way, but, you know... 23 00:01:43,853 --> 00:01:47,189 There's George with cancer, and he knows his life is limited. 24 00:01:47,315 --> 00:01:49,733 And what he does is buys a... a house in Switzerland 25 00:01:49,859 --> 00:01:51,985 so he can avoid paying the taxman here. 26 00:01:52,112 --> 00:01:54,822 (Chuckles) The man who wrote the song Taxman, 27 00:01:54,948 --> 00:01:59,660 even to his final hours, was determined to cheat the taxman. 28 00:01:59,786 --> 00:02:01,954 And then l thought, "There's George." 29 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:04,039 Grace and...and humour. 30 00:02:04,165 --> 00:02:07,876 And a weird kind of angry bitterness about certain things in life. 31 00:02:08,002 --> 00:02:09,294 (Chuckles) 32 00:02:13,466 --> 00:02:17,052 lt's still difficult to try and talk about him in a kind of... 33 00:02:19,806 --> 00:02:22,933 anecdotal frivolous way. lt's... 34 00:02:24,102 --> 00:02:25,853 lt's still too painful. 35 00:02:31,526 --> 00:02:33,068 (Exhales) 36 00:02:35,363 --> 00:02:38,031 ( ♪ George Harrison: All Τhings Must Pass) 37 00:02:44,706 --> 00:02:46,874 ..Filii, Spiritus Sancti. 38 00:02:50,670 --> 00:02:56,216 ♪ Sunrise doesn't last all morning 39 00:03:00,013 --> 00:03:05,434 ♪ A cloudburst doesn't last all day 40 00:03:07,270 --> 00:03:13,775 ♪ Seems my love is up and has left you with no warning 41 00:03:15,361 --> 00:03:20,407 ♪ lt's not always gonna be this grey ♪ 42 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:22,284 (Air raid sirens) 43 00:03:24,287 --> 00:03:25,454 (Radio static) 44 00:03:25,580 --> 00:03:27,539 (Man) People in their gayest colours. 45 00:03:27,665 --> 00:03:30,125 Red, white and blue rosettes. Red, white and blue hats. 46 00:03:30,251 --> 00:03:31,376 (Cheering) 47 00:03:31,502 --> 00:03:34,922 Τhat in accordance with arrangements between the three great powers... 48 00:03:35,757 --> 00:03:37,007 ( ♪ George Formby: Count Your Blessings and Smile) 49 00:03:37,133 --> 00:03:38,967 ♪ Make the world rejoice 50 00:03:39,093 --> 00:03:41,470 ♪ While you're playing your part 51 00:03:41,596 --> 00:03:43,639 ♪ Κeep a song in your heart 52 00:03:43,765 --> 00:03:46,099 ♪ Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la 53 00:03:46,392 --> 00:03:48,685 ♪ Count your blessings and smile 54 00:03:48,811 --> 00:03:51,063 ♪ Sing low, sing high 55 00:03:51,189 --> 00:03:53,857 ♪ lsn't it grand, beating the band? 56 00:03:53,983 --> 00:03:55,484 ♪ Who wants to die 57 00:03:55,610 --> 00:03:56,568 (Chuckles) 58 00:03:56,694 --> 00:03:58,904 ♪ Oh, what a happy land Ηi! ♪ 59 00:03:59,197 --> 00:04:00,322 ( ♪ George Harrison: All Τhings Must Pass) 60 00:04:00,448 --> 00:04:04,326 ♪ All things must pass 61 00:04:07,288 --> 00:04:11,667 ♪ All things must pass away 62 00:04:18,466 --> 00:04:24,346 ♪ Sunset doesn't last all evening ♪ 63 00:04:28,559 --> 00:04:30,894 OΚ. Do you want me to start? 64 00:04:31,020 --> 00:04:32,437 (Woman) OΚ, and then Pete can go. 65 00:04:32,855 --> 00:04:35,482 Right. We lived in 12 Arnold Grove. 66 00:04:35,608 --> 00:04:37,567 lt was a two up and two down. 67 00:04:38,027 --> 00:04:41,571 The only heating was a coal fire, so there was no electricity. 68 00:04:41,698 --> 00:04:45,617 Small backyard. Toilet down the bottom of the yard. 69 00:04:47,036 --> 00:04:48,620 lt was a very cold place. 70 00:04:48,746 --> 00:04:50,580 (Man) What kind of kid was George? 71 00:04:50,707 --> 00:04:53,625 Ηe was cocky. A cocky little guy. 72 00:04:54,335 --> 00:04:58,797 Ηe...Ηe had a good sense of himself. 73 00:04:58,923 --> 00:05:01,300 You know, he wasn't cowed by anything. 74 00:05:01,426 --> 00:05:02,843 Ηe had a great haircut. 75 00:05:02,969 --> 00:05:05,971 Ηe had this long hair that he quiffed back. 76 00:05:07,015 --> 00:05:10,309 We had a...had a friend, Arthur. 77 00:05:10,435 --> 00:05:13,186 And he used to describe it as (Scouse) "a fucking turban. 78 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:14,730 "Like a fucking turban." 79 00:05:14,856 --> 00:05:17,232 And it did. lt looked like a great big... 80 00:05:17,358 --> 00:05:18,734 Was... Marvellous thing. 81 00:05:19,027 --> 00:05:21,737 Looking back now, you know, it was pre-fame. 82 00:05:21,863 --> 00:05:24,197 So you were just an ordinary kid 83 00:05:24,324 --> 00:05:28,118 who couldn't get in places cos you weren't famous. 84 00:05:28,786 --> 00:05:30,746 Teachers didn't like you. 85 00:05:30,872 --> 00:05:33,457 You know, rock and roll hadn't arrived yet. 86 00:05:33,875 --> 00:05:36,168 l always think of it as kind of Dickensian. 87 00:05:36,294 --> 00:05:39,963 And the school that l went to with George, incidentally, was... 88 00:05:40,089 --> 00:05:42,799 was a very Dickensian old place. 89 00:05:42,925 --> 00:05:46,887 ln fact, Dickens had taught there. Τhat's how Dickensian it was. 90 00:05:47,513 --> 00:05:51,016 You grew up kind of wanting to go somewhere else. 91 00:05:51,142 --> 00:05:52,642 lt made you hungry. 92 00:05:52,769 --> 00:05:57,147 So art was a great golden vision. 93 00:05:57,607 --> 00:06:00,067 You know, so for us that... We wouldn't have called it art then. 94 00:06:00,193 --> 00:06:01,276 lt'd be rock and roll. 95 00:06:01,402 --> 00:06:03,403 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Raunchy) 96 00:06:14,624 --> 00:06:16,833 We needed a good guitar player. 97 00:06:16,959 --> 00:06:20,295 Both John and l played a bit of guitar, 98 00:06:20,421 --> 00:06:23,715 but we couldn't really solo. We weren't that good. 99 00:06:24,050 --> 00:06:25,926 And l said, "l know this guy. 100 00:06:26,052 --> 00:06:29,388 "Ηe's a bit young, but he's good." 101 00:06:29,972 --> 00:06:32,182 John said, "Well, you know, let's meet him, come on." 102 00:06:32,308 --> 00:06:34,059 So l said to George, "You wanna go meet these guys 103 00:06:34,185 --> 00:06:36,686 "l'm in a group with, you know?" Ηe said "Yeah." 104 00:06:36,813 --> 00:06:38,313 So he brought his guitar, 105 00:06:38,439 --> 00:06:42,192 and we were all on the top deck of a double-decker bus in Liverpool, 106 00:06:42,735 --> 00:06:45,320 round where John lived, a place called Woolton. 107 00:06:45,446 --> 00:06:48,198 And nobody was on the bus, late at night and, uh... 108 00:06:50,368 --> 00:06:53,412 John said, "Well, go on then. Let's see you play." To George. 109 00:06:53,538 --> 00:06:55,455 l said, "Go on, go on, get your guitar out." 110 00:06:55,581 --> 00:06:57,791 So George unpacked his guitar, got it out, 111 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,627 and he played the thing called Raunchy, which is... 112 00:07:00,753 --> 00:07:02,754 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Raunchy) 113 00:07:29,449 --> 00:07:33,368 George, only a brief document or two left. 114 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:35,412 For the record, l'd just like to say 115 00:07:35,538 --> 00:07:38,457 these are more papers that l don't know what they say that l'm signing. 116 00:07:38,583 --> 00:07:40,125 - (Man) Any of these? - Yes, all those. 117 00:07:40,251 --> 00:07:43,211 John Winston Ono Lennon. No, no. No, no, no. 118 00:07:43,337 --> 00:07:47,174 Richard Starkey, or John Lennon, or George Ηarrison. 119 00:07:47,800 --> 00:07:50,302 Κrishna, Κrishna, Κrishna. 120 00:07:52,138 --> 00:07:56,850 May the Lord help this to become final. 121 00:07:57,602 --> 00:07:59,769 (Man) The small gathering on Savile Row 122 00:07:59,896 --> 00:08:01,438 is only the beginning. 123 00:08:01,564 --> 00:08:05,775 Τhe event is so momentous that historians may one day view it 124 00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:08,987 as a landmark in the decline of the British Empire. 125 00:08:09,489 --> 00:08:11,031 The Beatles are breaking up. 126 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,866 ( ♪ George Harrison: Τhe Light Τhat Has Lighted Τhe World) 127 00:08:12,992 --> 00:08:14,951 ♪ lt's funny how people 128 00:08:15,077 --> 00:08:18,705 ♪ Just won't accept change 129 00:08:18,831 --> 00:08:22,834 ♪ As if nature itself 130 00:08:22,960 --> 00:08:27,547 ♪ Τhey prefer rearranged ♪ 131 00:08:28,716 --> 00:08:31,593 (George) When l was still at school and l was really small 132 00:08:31,719 --> 00:08:33,720 l know John was really embarrassed 133 00:08:33,846 --> 00:08:37,641 cos l was so tiny, l only looked about ten years old. 134 00:08:45,733 --> 00:08:49,361 When l met John, he had four strings on this guitar. 135 00:08:49,487 --> 00:08:52,531 l mean, John didn't even know guitars had six strings. 136 00:08:52,657 --> 00:08:55,158 And l said, "What are you doing? What's that?" 137 00:08:55,284 --> 00:08:56,993 And he was saying, you know, "What?" 138 00:08:57,119 --> 00:08:59,037 You know, he thought that's what it was. 139 00:08:59,372 --> 00:09:04,084 So we showed John the guitar chords. E and A and all those. 140 00:09:04,210 --> 00:09:09,589 My mother was a real big fan of music, and she was really happy about 141 00:09:09,715 --> 00:09:12,300 having the...the guys around. 142 00:09:12,426 --> 00:09:17,597 You know, and John was always keen to get out of his house because of, um... 143 00:09:17,723 --> 00:09:21,935 Ηis Aunt Mimi was kind of very stern and strict and... 144 00:09:22,061 --> 00:09:23,270 she embarrassed him. 145 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:26,022 l remember going to John's house once 146 00:09:26,148 --> 00:09:28,817 when l first had met him. l was still at the lnstitute. 147 00:09:28,943 --> 00:09:30,777 And we were trying to look like Teddy Boys, 148 00:09:30,903 --> 00:09:33,697 which was like, that style in those days. 149 00:09:34,365 --> 00:09:36,783 And l must've looked pretty good, cos she was like... 150 00:09:36,909 --> 00:09:39,035 She didn't like me at all. She was really shocked. 151 00:09:39,161 --> 00:09:40,912 She said, "Look at him!" You know, "Who is this? 152 00:09:41,038 --> 00:09:42,664 "Bringing this boy around to this house. 153 00:09:42,790 --> 00:09:44,624 "Look at him. Ηe looks dreadful, like a Teddy Boy." 154 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:47,669 And he'd just say, "Shut up, Mary, shut up!" 155 00:09:47,795 --> 00:09:49,963 ( ♪ George Harrison: Wildcat) 156 00:09:55,845 --> 00:09:57,554 ♪ Don't you try 157 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,681 ♪ To tame a wildcat 158 00:10:00,182 --> 00:10:03,268 ♪ You just don't understand 159 00:10:04,395 --> 00:10:05,895 ♪ Wildcat's what they name me 160 00:10:06,022 --> 00:10:09,190 ♪ Don't let no kitten tame me, oh no 161 00:10:09,942 --> 00:10:11,735 ♪ Not me ♪ 162 00:10:12,194 --> 00:10:14,654 (Ηarry Ηarrison) Our wedding was just one of those occasions 163 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:18,908 where they thought they would practise on people and see what happened. 164 00:10:19,619 --> 00:10:21,828 They were not exactly... 165 00:10:23,331 --> 00:10:26,750 what the majority of people there expected. 166 00:10:27,251 --> 00:10:29,836 They had a tea break, 167 00:10:29,962 --> 00:10:33,590 an elderly lady who was one of the guests came along 168 00:10:33,716 --> 00:10:37,802 to play the piano, who was a real pub player. 169 00:10:37,928 --> 00:10:42,682 She could really hammer out tunes that everybody wanted to sing to. 170 00:10:42,808 --> 00:10:46,394 The three lads reappeared from the bar, pints in hand, 171 00:10:46,520 --> 00:10:48,980 and John just poured a pint over this lady's head. 172 00:10:49,106 --> 00:10:52,817 Just straight over the head, saying, "l anoint thee, David." 173 00:10:53,194 --> 00:10:57,405 And just walked away. And this lady surprised me because... 174 00:10:58,741 --> 00:11:00,784 there was absolutely nothing. There was no reaction. 175 00:11:00,910 --> 00:11:03,244 She just smiled and got up and went away 176 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:05,872 and got dry again, you know. lt was just... 177 00:11:05,998 --> 00:11:06,956 And l thought it was funny 178 00:11:07,083 --> 00:11:08,625 because like in those days, people used to say, 179 00:11:08,751 --> 00:11:10,794 "Oh, yeah, so you had a wedding in Liverpool. 180 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:12,045 "Ηow many fights were there?" 181 00:11:12,171 --> 00:11:14,005 But, like, there wasn't even a fight. 182 00:11:14,131 --> 00:11:15,757 You know, the nearly fight was 183 00:11:15,883 --> 00:11:18,385 John Lennon pouring a pint on her head. 184 00:11:19,887 --> 00:11:24,641 (George) When l met John, he had a lot of power, really. 185 00:11:24,767 --> 00:11:26,226 Sometimes, you know, 186 00:11:26,352 --> 00:11:29,145 they'd pick somebody to march behind on the way to war. 187 00:11:29,271 --> 00:11:33,149 Well, he was certainly out front. 188 00:11:34,193 --> 00:11:36,111 (Jools Ηolland) When you thought you wanted to be a musician, 189 00:11:36,237 --> 00:11:37,487 where did you think you'd end up? 190 00:11:37,613 --> 00:11:39,531 (George) There's no justification for it. 191 00:11:39,824 --> 00:11:43,868 We kinda had a feeling that that's what we were gonna do, 192 00:11:43,994 --> 00:11:47,664 and that, you know, we just felt that something good was gonna happen. 193 00:11:47,790 --> 00:11:50,834 But, then, in those days, something good would just be, 194 00:11:50,960 --> 00:11:54,963 you know, getting to do a tour of Mecca ballrooms. 195 00:11:55,089 --> 00:11:57,298 - Yeah. - That was like a big deal. 196 00:11:57,591 --> 00:11:59,843 ( ♪ The Beatles: Nothing Shaking But the Leaves on the Τrees) 197 00:12:00,720 --> 00:12:04,055 ♪ She's got a way that makes me act like a fool 198 00:12:04,849 --> 00:12:08,268 ♪ Spends my money then she plays me cruel 199 00:12:08,394 --> 00:12:11,438 ♪ l'm begging for her kisses on my bended knee 200 00:12:11,564 --> 00:12:15,150 ♪ Won't you give me some loving, baby? Please, please, please ♪ 201 00:12:15,609 --> 00:12:17,861 ( ♪ George Harrison: Beware of Darkness) 202 00:12:18,946 --> 00:12:21,823 ♪ Watch out now, take care 203 00:12:21,949 --> 00:12:26,202 ♪ Beware of falling swingers 204 00:12:31,125 --> 00:12:34,419 ♪ Dropping all around you 205 00:12:38,507 --> 00:12:42,302 ♪ Τhe pain that often mingles ♪ 206 00:12:42,762 --> 00:12:46,639 (Κlaus Voormann) After wartime, you still had lots of bombed houses. 207 00:12:46,766 --> 00:12:48,016 Not poverty. 208 00:12:48,142 --> 00:12:52,437 l mean, the Germans were rich quite quick, you know. 209 00:12:52,563 --> 00:12:54,898 lt didn't take them long to pick up on that one. 210 00:12:55,024 --> 00:12:58,318 That particular day, l had an argument with Astrid. 211 00:12:58,444 --> 00:13:01,905 l was really angry, and l wanted to let steam off. 212 00:13:02,406 --> 00:13:06,618 And l quite often went that direction to the harbour. 213 00:13:07,578 --> 00:13:09,537 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Shimmy Shake) 214 00:13:11,248 --> 00:13:12,540 (Glass shattering) 215 00:13:19,840 --> 00:13:22,967 The Reeperbahn is really for the sailors, 216 00:13:23,093 --> 00:13:25,053 for the people getting drunk, 217 00:13:25,179 --> 00:13:29,641 for people going to see naked women, or having sex, or whatever. 218 00:13:29,767 --> 00:13:31,684 That's what this place is known for. 219 00:13:32,144 --> 00:13:34,354 ( ♪ The Beatles: Shimmy Shake) 220 00:13:55,251 --> 00:13:59,254 Κlaus was always very laid back. 221 00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:04,467 You know, you couldn't quite impress him by things. 222 00:14:05,010 --> 00:14:08,096 Ηe always said, "Yeah, great. Fantastic." 223 00:14:08,222 --> 00:14:12,225 But, when he came home seeing the Beatles for the first time, 224 00:14:12,351 --> 00:14:17,605 l've never seen him like that before. Ηe just went crazy. 225 00:14:23,362 --> 00:14:26,948 When l came down to the Κaiserkeller with Κlaus, 226 00:14:27,074 --> 00:14:31,828 then, after he had to persuade me for three days, 227 00:14:32,705 --> 00:14:34,330 l just freaked out. 228 00:14:34,456 --> 00:14:36,624 Seeing them onstage, 229 00:14:36,750 --> 00:14:40,670 faces l always dreamt of taking pictures of. 230 00:14:40,796 --> 00:14:47,385 Because they had so much personality and were still young, like l...l was. 231 00:14:47,511 --> 00:14:48,678 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven) 232 00:14:48,804 --> 00:14:51,806 ♪ l'm gonna write a little letter Gonna mail it to my local DJ 233 00:14:53,267 --> 00:14:57,228 ♪ lt's a rocking little record l want my jockey to play 234 00:14:58,063 --> 00:15:01,941 ♪ Roll over Beethoven l gotta hear it again today ♪ 235 00:15:02,776 --> 00:15:04,569 (George) We didn't really have that much money. 236 00:15:04,695 --> 00:15:07,864 We only just really had enough to feed ourselves. 237 00:15:07,990 --> 00:15:10,283 So there was nothing really to show for it. 238 00:15:10,409 --> 00:15:12,952 But everything else was such a buzz. 239 00:15:13,078 --> 00:15:17,206 You know, being right in the middle of the naughtiest city in the world. 240 00:15:17,583 --> 00:15:20,877 At 1 7 years old, it was kind of exciting. 241 00:15:21,629 --> 00:15:23,171 And learning, you know, about, 242 00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:26,341 well, there's all the gangsters and there's the transvestites. 243 00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:30,011 And there's the... You know, it was like that. There's the hookers... 244 00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:33,514 (Κlaus) They looked real strange, Teddy Boy-like. 245 00:15:33,641 --> 00:15:35,642 They didn't have the leather gear yet. 246 00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:38,686 The leather thing came when they met Astrid and me 247 00:15:38,812 --> 00:15:40,146 and the way we were walking around. 248 00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:42,815 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven) 249 00:15:56,246 --> 00:15:59,332 We loved this band. We were knocked out. 250 00:15:59,458 --> 00:16:02,335 And we didn't realise how they lived. 251 00:16:03,712 --> 00:16:07,382 The Bambi Κino was a porno cinema. 252 00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:10,885 The room they stayed in first was a sort of place 253 00:16:11,011 --> 00:16:13,304 where you'd normally put brooms and things. 254 00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:15,181 There was no window, 255 00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:17,725 there was just a light bulb on the ceiling. 256 00:16:17,851 --> 00:16:21,562 And they were sort of living in these little cupboards, so to speak, 257 00:16:21,689 --> 00:16:24,357 right behind the screen of that cinema. 258 00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:27,902 And it was terrible, because they were smelly, stinky. 259 00:16:28,028 --> 00:16:29,988 They couldn't wash their clothes properly. 260 00:16:30,114 --> 00:16:32,240 (Astrid) Κlaus introduced me to them 261 00:16:32,366 --> 00:16:36,494 and John did his, you know, "l'm a man, l'm a man" thing. 262 00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,747 And Paul was doing his, 263 00:16:39,873 --> 00:16:43,334 "l'm a good boy, good education" bit, you know. 264 00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:47,338 Said hello and gave... Shook my hand. 265 00:16:47,464 --> 00:16:50,299 And George was just... Looked at me and said, 266 00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:56,222 "Oh, hello. And you are Κlaus's girlfriend?" 267 00:16:56,348 --> 00:16:58,975 But he was ever so sweet. 268 00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:02,603 l came to know George then. 269 00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:05,648 And he was interested in so many things, 270 00:17:05,774 --> 00:17:09,110 but, let's say on the quiet, 271 00:17:09,236 --> 00:17:12,655 because Paul was the one who said, "Oh, who is that?" 272 00:17:12,781 --> 00:17:15,783 and, "Who wrote this book?" and, "Who is that on that picture?" 273 00:17:15,909 --> 00:17:19,328 George was just sitting there looking at my room, 274 00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:21,956 which must have been very strange to them, 275 00:17:22,082 --> 00:17:23,875 because it was completely black 276 00:17:24,001 --> 00:17:27,462 with leaves and branches hanging from the ceiling. 277 00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:31,549 l think at first George thought l was a bit mad. 278 00:17:31,925 --> 00:17:34,427 But that became, 279 00:17:34,553 --> 00:17:38,765 very shortly, a very lovely and nice friendship. 280 00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:44,187 Astrid took them to her house. And she cooked for them. 281 00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:46,981 Astrid's mother was cooking their favourite meals for them. 282 00:17:47,107 --> 00:17:49,984 So they had their little home suddenly, which.... 283 00:17:50,110 --> 00:17:52,153 Astrid really took care of them really well. 284 00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:55,823 (George) Yeah, it was really good for us to meet them too. 285 00:17:55,949 --> 00:17:58,701 Τhey, in themselves, were very artistic. 286 00:17:58,827 --> 00:18:01,829 l mean, for us, we started hanging out with them 287 00:18:01,955 --> 00:18:04,373 and Astrid was so loving. 288 00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,126 She really helped us a lot. 289 00:18:11,006 --> 00:18:13,174 (Astrid) You may think it was sexually. 290 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:16,636 Of course, in a way, they all fancied me, 291 00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,764 because l was quite good-looking and charming 292 00:18:19,890 --> 00:18:23,184 in my own little way, with my funny English. 293 00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:27,188 When l started falling in love with Stuart, 294 00:18:27,314 --> 00:18:29,941 it was great that l was a photographer, 295 00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:35,196 so l could just go up easily to him and ask him, 296 00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,907 "Do you mind if l take pictures of you?" 297 00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:40,701 Because l felt so attracted to him. 298 00:18:40,828 --> 00:18:42,120 ( ♪ Paul McCartney: A Τaste of Honey) 299 00:18:42,246 --> 00:18:44,413 ♪ A taste of honey 300 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:48,584 ♪ Τasting much sweeter than wine 301 00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:53,840 ♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo 302 00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:57,802 ♪ l dream of your first kiss 303 00:18:57,928 --> 00:18:59,679 ♪ And then 304 00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:05,560 ♪ l feel upon my lips again 305 00:19:05,686 --> 00:19:07,353 ♪ A taste of honey 306 00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,272 ♪ Τaste of honey 307 00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:13,151 ♪ Τasting much sweeter than wine ♪ 308 00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:20,199 (Astrid) l always had a vision 309 00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:24,954 that l want to take pictures of outstanding faces, 310 00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,709 who can tell a story behind the mask. 311 00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:35,548 lmagine what is behind this rough young man John Lennon. 312 00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:40,303 And what is behind the funny, joking Paul. 313 00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:44,640 Or the lovely, sweet little George. 314 00:19:45,058 --> 00:19:48,102 (Κlaus) George was only 1 7 years of age. 315 00:19:48,228 --> 00:19:50,313 But he was calm. 316 00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:54,609 Ηe looked you straight in the face. Ηe was funny. 317 00:19:54,735 --> 00:19:58,196 And he was a catalyst in the band. 318 00:19:58,322 --> 00:20:00,907 You see, Paul and John were so different. 319 00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:06,954 And George was bringing a certain peace into this setup. 320 00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,706 l mean, Ringo wasn't with them at the time, 321 00:20:08,832 --> 00:20:10,666 because Pete Best was playing the drums. 322 00:20:10,792 --> 00:20:13,586 And Stuart was more on the side. 323 00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:18,299 But George was right in the middle between those two characters. 324 00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:23,888 After Stuart's death, John and George really cared about me. 325 00:20:24,014 --> 00:20:28,309 You know, they used to come and see me in my home. 326 00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:34,732 And so it was actually John's suggestion. 327 00:20:36,193 --> 00:20:39,528 John said, "Can l see where he used to paint?" 328 00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,697 So l said, "Of course you can." 329 00:20:41,823 --> 00:20:45,451 ln that moment, l had to take a picture of them. 330 00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:49,121 And l just grabbed this old chair and put it there. 331 00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:52,917 And John was so full of emotion 332 00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:58,172 being in the same room where his friend was just painting, 333 00:20:59,549 --> 00:21:02,718 that he nearly burst out in tears. 334 00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:06,931 And George was a bit worried. 335 00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:10,810 So l just said to George, "Well, stand behind him." 336 00:21:11,853 --> 00:21:16,691 You could see how quickly 337 00:21:16,817 --> 00:21:20,653 George understood what it was all about. 338 00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:24,073 Death and being alive. 339 00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:26,826 Ηe was only just turned 1 8. 340 00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:30,705 And when you look at the picture and see his eyes, 341 00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:34,625 they're so full of protection for John. 342 00:21:34,751 --> 00:21:37,837 And John was just falling to bits sitting there. 343 00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:40,006 And you could see that in his face. 344 00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:43,009 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhis Boy) 345 00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:44,468 (George) Aw! 346 00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:49,640 l gave that guitar away. Ah, that's the one. 347 00:21:49,766 --> 00:21:52,059 ♪ Τhat boy 348 00:21:53,812 --> 00:21:58,399 ♪ Τook my love away 349 00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:04,655 ♪ He'll regret it some day 350 00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,658 - ♪ Doo da doo - ♪ Τhis boy 351 00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:11,662 ♪ Wants you back again 352 00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,042 (Laughing) 353 00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:19,003 ♪ Τhat boy 354 00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:24,717 ♪ lsn't good for you 355 00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:30,931 ♪ Τhough he may want you too 356 00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,142 Good song, though. Not a bad song. 357 00:22:33,268 --> 00:22:36,145 ♪ Τhis boy wants you back again 358 00:22:36,271 --> 00:22:40,399 (George) John was as blind as a bat and he'd never wear his glasses, 359 00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:42,234 so he couldn't see a thing. 360 00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:46,906 ♪ Oh, and this boy would be happy 361 00:22:47,908 --> 00:22:49,825 ♪ Just to love you 362 00:22:49,951 --> 00:22:51,202 Double track. 363 00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:55,331 ♪ Oh my-y-y-y-y 364 00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:59,752 ♪ Τhat boy won't be happy 365 00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:04,840 ♪ Τill he's seen you 366 00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:08,010 ♪ Cry-y-y-y ♪ 367 00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:10,054 (Screaming) 368 00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:26,362 (George) lt was almost like we were waiting to get going. 369 00:23:26,488 --> 00:23:30,658 And we couldn't go until all the Beatles were in the frame. 370 00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:33,244 Ringo was the member of the band. 371 00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:39,250 lt's just that he didn't enter the film until that particular scene, you know? 372 00:23:40,752 --> 00:23:44,839 We were always kinda, you know, a little nervous before 373 00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:47,174 each step we went up the ladder. 374 00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:49,635 And that was a good thing about being four together. 375 00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:52,346 We all shared the experience. 376 00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:56,350 Ηow many Beatles does it take to change a light bulb? 377 00:23:57,227 --> 00:23:58,436 (Laughs) 378 00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:00,688 Four. 379 00:24:01,356 --> 00:24:02,481 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: l Saw Ηer Standing There) 380 00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:04,650 ♪ Well, she was just 1 7 381 00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,653 ♪ You know what l mean 382 00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,488 ♪ And the way she looked 383 00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:12,616 ♪ Was way beyond compare 384 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,663 ♪ Ηow could l dance with another? 385 00:24:18,206 --> 00:24:23,461 ♪ Oh, since l saw her standing there ♪ 386 00:24:26,256 --> 00:24:28,799 Well, you know, we just went in, we were punks, really. 387 00:24:28,925 --> 00:24:30,593 You know what l mean? We were like just these punks. 388 00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:34,597 We went in, we're all incredibly grateful to be on vinyl. 389 00:24:34,723 --> 00:24:36,891 You know, the idea of getting a record. 390 00:24:37,017 --> 00:24:38,976 And then, when it was going up the charts in England, 391 00:24:39,102 --> 00:24:41,604 we'd stop the car cos you'd know when it was coming on. 392 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,356 BBC at 4: 1 9. 393 00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:48,444 "Stop the car!" And then we'd listen to the record. 394 00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:50,362 And then drive on up to the gig. 395 00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:51,572 ( ♪ The Beatles: l Saw Ηer Standing Τhere) 396 00:24:51,698 --> 00:24:54,825 ♪ Now l'll never dance with another 397 00:24:55,285 --> 00:25:00,164 ♪ Ooh, since l saw her standing there ♪ 398 00:25:00,582 --> 00:25:01,832 Whoa! 399 00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:03,375 (Girls screaming) 400 00:25:22,562 --> 00:25:24,438 Does the continuous living and working together 401 00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:26,732 impose any temperamental stress upon you? 402 00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:29,985 No, actually, it's quite... lt's quite lucky cos we've been... 403 00:25:30,111 --> 00:25:31,737 ♪ We've been together now 404 00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:33,864 (All) ♪ For 40 years 405 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,826 You know, we've all been mates for quite a long time, 406 00:25:37,953 --> 00:25:41,288 so we don't get on each other's nerves as much as we could. 407 00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:46,252 l think l saw you being greeted by somebody outside. 408 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:48,462 - No, no, that was George. - That was me. That was me. 409 00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:49,713 - Uh-huh. - Yeah. 410 00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,508 Well, actually, it was, um, my mother. 411 00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,759 (Laughter) 412 00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:55,177 Your mother has to come to lreland to see you? 413 00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:56,387 Yeah. (Laughs) 414 00:25:56,513 --> 00:25:58,764 ( ♪ The Beatles: l Saw Ηer Standing Τhere) 415 00:26:07,107 --> 00:26:09,942 ♪ Well, we danced through the night 416 00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,903 ♪ And we held each other tight 417 00:26:13,363 --> 00:26:17,908 ♪ And before too long l fell in love with her 418 00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:23,622 ♪ Now, l'll never dance with another ♪ 419 00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:28,419 (Man) Do you find any difficulty in keeping up your public image, just... 420 00:26:28,545 --> 00:26:30,045 - No. - What image? 421 00:26:30,505 --> 00:26:34,216 Our image is just us. You know, as we were. 422 00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:37,303 We didn't try and make an image. 423 00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:40,556 lt just happened. And so we don't have to keep it up. 424 00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:43,684 We just remain ourselves. Don't we, Ringo? 425 00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,769 - Well, l... We do. We do. - Don't know about those other two. 426 00:26:45,895 --> 00:26:47,938 l mean, it's the other two we're worried about. 427 00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,400 (Ringo) The general atmosphere, we all loved it. 428 00:26:51,526 --> 00:26:53,402 We all dug it, but, you know, 429 00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:57,531 still in the band, we all had personalities and attitudes. 430 00:26:58,491 --> 00:27:02,411 We stopped at a motorway café, you know. 431 00:27:03,204 --> 00:27:05,039 Eat some grease. 432 00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:10,127 No, Paul had the keys, and George was sittin' behind the wheel, 433 00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:11,920 as we came up. 434 00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,592 And so, an argument went on for at least an hour and a half. 435 00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:20,095 "l've got the keys." "Well, l'm sittin' behind the wheel." 436 00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:23,599 And it was like, we had to sit there and go through this 437 00:27:23,725 --> 00:27:26,185 cos one of... No one was gonna give up. 438 00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:28,479 You know, "l got the keys." "l've got the wheel." 439 00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:29,772 ( ♪ The Beatles: You Can't Do That) 440 00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:31,649 ♪ So, please listen to me if you wanna stay mine 441 00:27:31,775 --> 00:27:34,777 ♪ l can't help my feelings l go out of my mind 442 00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:36,945 ♪ l'm gonna let you down 443 00:27:37,072 --> 00:27:38,113 ♪ Let you down 444 00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:39,281 ♪ And leave you flat 445 00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:41,533 ♪ Gonna let you down and leave you flat 446 00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,577 ♪ Because l told you before 447 00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:46,121 ♪ Oh, you can't do that 448 00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:48,374 Ahh! 449 00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,419 ♪ You can't do that ♪ 450 00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:04,348 (Dhani reads) "Dear Mum and Dad, 451 00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,351 "the shows have been going great with everybody going potty. 452 00:28:07,477 --> 00:28:11,146 "And everywhere we go, we have about 20 police on motorbikes escorting us. 453 00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:13,440 "We have had two Cadillacs every place. 454 00:28:13,566 --> 00:28:15,359 "But, tonight, when we finished the show and ran out, 455 00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:18,237 "the cars weren't there and had gone to another door. 456 00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:21,073 "So we went back inside until we could get out. 457 00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:24,034 "All the kids came out of the show and saw the two cars around the side 458 00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,120 "and stormed them and jumped all over them. 459 00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:29,373 "And the drivers had to get out and both cars were completely wrecked. 460 00:28:29,499 --> 00:28:32,084 "And the roofs were right down on the seats inside. 461 00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:35,921 "Some girl fell through a skylight from the roof of a building, 462 00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:38,257 "and 45 more were put in hospital. 463 00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:40,801 "ln the end, we escaped in an ambulance. 464 00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:42,678 "But, don't worry, because no one can get near us 465 00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:44,304 "for all the police and security." 466 00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:48,142 ♪ l got something to say That might cause you pain 467 00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:51,270 ♪ lf l catch you talking to that boy again 468 00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:54,064 ♪ l'm gonna let you down 469 00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,483 ♪ And leave you flat 470 00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:00,237 ♪ Because l told you before 471 00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:03,532 ♪ Oh, you can't do that ♪ 472 00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:05,993 (Man) What actors would you like to meet in Ηollywood? 473 00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:07,286 (Paul) Paul Newman. 474 00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,871 (Man) What actresses? 475 00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:10,372 (George) Jayne Mansfield. 476 00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:15,335 (Ringo) We were all in our early 20s, so we were just going with it. 477 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,256 The good side of it was that you could really go shopping. 478 00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:20,841 (Laughs) 479 00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:25,679 You know, there's the great line that the Beatles were... 480 00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:27,473 They had one day off a month 481 00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,100 and on the day off Paul would judge a beauty pageant. 482 00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:34,021 ♪ Everybody's green 483 00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,524 ♪ Cos l'm the one who won your love 484 00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:40,861 ♪ But if they'd seen 485 00:29:41,696 --> 00:29:45,032 ♪ You talking that way They'd laugh in my face 486 00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:48,702 ♪ So, please listen to me if you wanna stay mine 487 00:29:48,828 --> 00:29:51,705 ♪ l can't help my feelings l go out of my mind 488 00:29:51,831 --> 00:29:54,041 ♪ l'm gonna let you down 489 00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:55,292 ♪ Let you down 490 00:29:55,418 --> 00:29:56,543 ♪ And leave you flat 491 00:29:56,669 --> 00:29:58,504 ♪ Gonna let you down and leave you flat ♪ 492 00:29:58,922 --> 00:30:00,839 You know, the Beatles only ever had one car, 493 00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:03,133 and two rooms in any hotel between 'em. 494 00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:07,971 We got closer together. The bigger it got, the closer we became. 495 00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:13,852 Because from the minute you sort of left the security of your apartment, 496 00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:15,062 the heat was on. 497 00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:18,774 People wanted a piece, wanted to talk, wanted a photo, wanted to do. 498 00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:22,861 And so we sort of, you know, kept each other company. 499 00:30:23,196 --> 00:30:24,363 (Screaming) 500 00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:25,989 - Paul! - George! 501 00:30:29,577 --> 00:30:32,663 (Ringo) When we first came to New York is a great story because 502 00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:35,415 we had the whole floor in the Plaza 503 00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:39,670 and the four of us ended up in the bathroom. 504 00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:42,673 We were just sitting in there, like, "Ηey, how you doin'? What's goin' on?" 505 00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,885 Just to get a break from, you know, the incredible pressure. 506 00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:48,095 (Screaming) 507 00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,346 ( ♪ The Beatles: Money) 508 00:30:49,472 --> 00:30:51,431 ♪ Money don't get everything it's true 509 00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,142 ♪ What it don't get l can't use 510 00:30:54,936 --> 00:30:58,772 ♪ That's what l want 511 00:30:58,898 --> 00:31:01,108 ♪ That's what l want ♪ 512 00:31:01,234 --> 00:31:02,985 (John) The next song we'd like to sing... 513 00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:05,070 - (Fans screaming) - (Girl) John! 514 00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:07,364 Shut up. l'll kill you. 515 00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:11,493 ..is our latest record. 516 00:31:11,619 --> 00:31:12,953 (Screaming) 517 00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:14,413 Nah-ya-ho! 518 00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:18,834 Or our latest electronic noise depending on whose side you're on. 519 00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,420 ♪ That's what l want 520 00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:25,591 ♪ That's what l wa-a-a-a-ant ♪ That's what l want 521 00:31:26,259 --> 00:31:28,510 ♪ That's all l want ♪ 522 00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:31,889 (Man) Are you individually millionaires yet? 523 00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:34,016 (John) No, that's another lousy rumour, l wish we were. 524 00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:37,394 - (Laughter) - All right, then. Where does all the money go? 525 00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,605 Well, a lot of it goes to Ηer Majesty. 526 00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:40,898 (Man laughs) 527 00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,649 She's a millionaire. 528 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:44,985 (Screaming) 529 00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:54,953 ♪ That's what l want 530 00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:58,248 ♪ That's what l want ♪ 531 00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:01,627 (Girl) l love the Beatles! 532 00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:05,213 (Dhani reads) "Τhis morning we're off to Wellington. 533 00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:09,009 "We've been and played here in Sydney, and it was the biggest drag of all time. 534 00:32:09,135 --> 00:32:10,594 "Τhe stage revolves every three minutes, 535 00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,846 "and we have to walk right down the aisles like boxers 536 00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:14,556 "to get to the stage. 537 00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:16,266 "At the first house, l punched a policeman 538 00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:18,060 "because he was shoving me like mad. 539 00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:19,645 "And some kids had a hold of me all at once 540 00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:21,813 "and l was trying to get off the stage. 541 00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,983 "l was swearing my head off at one policeman. Sorry. 542 00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:27,444 "And later, the chief came and apologised to me. 543 00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:31,448 "After the show, there was a party in the hotel for Paul's birthday." 544 00:32:31,574 --> 00:32:33,033 lt's great at the beginning. 545 00:32:33,159 --> 00:32:35,494 You know, where, you know, you're recognised, 546 00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:37,871 you get a great seat in a restaurant, 547 00:32:37,997 --> 00:32:42,960 and, you know, things are bigger and things come to you faster. 548 00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:49,174 Um, you know, all that is great. And then, you really want that to end. 549 00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:52,135 - (Screaming) - (Paul) Thank you very much, ta. Erm... 550 00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:55,389 This...This number... 551 00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:57,933 (Laughs) Shush! Shush! 552 00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:00,852 This number we'd like to sing now... 553 00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,188 (Ringo) You fight for it, and then when you get it, 554 00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:05,357 you want it to end, but it never ends. 555 00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:06,775 That's...That's the deal. 556 00:33:06,901 --> 00:33:11,822 We do like the fans, and enjoy reading the publicity about us. 557 00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:14,449 But, from time to time, you don't realise 558 00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:17,285 that it's actually about yourself. 559 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:21,206 You see your pictures and read articles about, you know, 560 00:33:21,332 --> 00:33:24,543 George Ηarrison, Ringo Starr, Paul and John, 561 00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,044 but you don't actually think, 562 00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:29,214 "Oh, that's me. There l am in the paper." 563 00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,426 lt's...lt's funny. lt just as though it's a different person. 564 00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:33,635 ( ♪ The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven) 565 00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:37,055 ♪ l'm gonna write a little letter Gonna mail it to my local DJ 566 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:43,353 ♪ lt's a rocking little record l want my jockey to play 567 00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:49,151 ♪ Roll over, Beethoven Gotta hear it again today 568 00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,948 ♪ You know my temperature's rising And the jukebox's blown a fuse ♪ 569 00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:57,200 (Woman) Do you know where you were this time last week? 570 00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:58,785 No. Ηaven't a clue. 571 00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:00,579 (George) l don't even know what day it is. 572 00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,039 You don't know what day it is? 573 00:34:02,165 --> 00:34:03,081 What is it? 574 00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,875 ( ♪ Rock and roll) 575 00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:06,877 (Audience screaming) 576 00:34:16,262 --> 00:34:18,055 (Actor as young George) "We've been to the Hollywood Bowl 577 00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:19,473 "and done the show, which was great. 578 00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,224 "And the place was marvellous. 579 00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:23,560 "Τhe seats go right up the side of big hills. 580 00:34:24,187 --> 00:34:26,688 "Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis's manager, came to see us, 581 00:34:26,814 --> 00:34:29,441 "and gave us all real leather belts and holster sets. 582 00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:33,695 "Cowboy things. And little covered wagons which are television lamps. 583 00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,823 "He was good, too and said that Elvis wants to meet us, 584 00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:39,868 "and has invited us to his house in Memphis, Τennessee. 585 00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,287 "Τonight we were invited to Burt Lancaster's house 586 00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:44,289 "and he made us very welcome. 587 00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:46,917 "His house was a knockout and cost him a million dollars. 588 00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:49,044 "l had a swim in his pool, which was great, 589 00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:50,712 "and as hot as a bath almost. 590 00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,048 "After that, the men from General Artists 591 00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:54,382 "who were organising the tour 592 00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:58,136 "wanted us to go to this place called Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Strip. 593 00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,305 "And they said it would be great and we wouldn't be bothered. 594 00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:03,183 "We got there and went in and fought our way 595 00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:06,853 "with Mal and a few big hard men to a table where John and Derek were. 596 00:35:06,979 --> 00:35:08,396 "And Jayne Mansfield. 597 00:35:08,815 --> 00:35:10,482 "By this time, after fighting through the crowd, 598 00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:13,151 "l was annoyed and l threw some Coke on a cameraman. 599 00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:16,321 "We all fought our way back out and jumped in the car and went home. 600 00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:19,950 "lt was a drag. And we were there for about ten minutes altogether. 601 00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:22,661 "You see why we don't usually bother going out now." 602 00:35:23,162 --> 00:35:25,288 (Man) Ηow did George deal with it? 603 00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:29,751 Well, George, you know, George had two incredible separate personalities. 604 00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:36,091 Ηe had the love, bag of beads personality and the bag of anger. 605 00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:38,844 Ηe was very black and white. 606 00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:42,264 ..Whether you will go along with any change in taste? 607 00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:43,807 Uh, no. 608 00:35:43,933 --> 00:35:46,476 Well, you never know because we have... 609 00:35:46,602 --> 00:35:49,688 - Well, we change anyway, don't we? - Yeah. 610 00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,190 We hope you've enjoyed the show tonight. Ηave you enjoyed it? 611 00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:54,025 (Screaming) 612 00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:56,778 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Blue Jay Way) 613 00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:01,199 ♪ Τhere's a fog upon LA 614 00:36:03,536 --> 00:36:07,581 ♪ And my friends have lost their way 615 00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:14,004 ♪ We'll be over soon they said 616 00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:20,802 ♪ Now they've lost themselves instead 617 00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:28,518 ♪ Please don't be long ♪ 618 00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:30,312 l was boss of Parlophone Records 619 00:36:30,438 --> 00:36:33,690 and l'd made it my business over the previous years 620 00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:36,818 to develop Parlophone as a comedy label. 621 00:36:36,944 --> 00:36:40,739 And in fact, when Brian Epstein desperately took us on, 622 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:43,658 or hoped we would take him on, 623 00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:47,078 he felt he'd hit rock bottom, cos he'd been everywhere else 624 00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:48,872 and now he was ending up on a comedy label. 625 00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:52,417 l first met the Beatles in 1 962. 626 00:36:53,169 --> 00:36:55,629 l wasn't terribly impressed with the first stuff they did. 627 00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:57,380 l couldn't make out the sound. 628 00:36:57,506 --> 00:36:59,674 You know, it was something l hadn't heard before. 629 00:37:00,134 --> 00:37:03,220 So l looked at these four guys, and thought, 630 00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:06,431 "Well, none of them shines as being above all the others." 631 00:37:06,557 --> 00:37:09,809 And l had to make up my mind, in my silly mind, 632 00:37:09,936 --> 00:37:11,561 who the lead singer was gonna be. 633 00:37:11,979 --> 00:37:15,857 Suddenly l realised l would take them as they were, as a group. 634 00:37:15,983 --> 00:37:19,277 Τhe hell with a lead singer. They would be singing together. 635 00:37:19,403 --> 00:37:21,988 So we were struggling with the sound a bit. 636 00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,407 And l said to the boys 637 00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:28,703 after we'd done a few takes of rather nondescript songs, 638 00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:31,414 l said, "Come into the control room and have a listen 639 00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:33,875 "and see what we've been doing. 640 00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:37,545 "And if there's anything you don't like, tell us." 641 00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:40,882 And George was the one who took the leap. 642 00:37:41,008 --> 00:37:44,427 And he said, "Well, l don't like your tie for a start." 643 00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:49,599 And the others were horrified. They thought, "God, he's blown it." 644 00:37:50,184 --> 00:37:52,727 But of course, l fell around laughing. l thought it was... 645 00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:57,023 lt was so cheeky, and so funny that l... 646 00:37:57,149 --> 00:37:59,776 You know, he endeared himself to me on that point. 647 00:37:59,902 --> 00:38:02,279 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: And l Love Her) 648 00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:12,372 ♪ l give her all my love 649 00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,626 ♪ That's all l do 650 00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:20,714 ♪ And if you saw my love 651 00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:24,092 ♪ You'd love her too 652 00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:26,303 ♪ l love her ♪ 653 00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,350 John and l would write the songs the week before the studio. 654 00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:34,394 Brian would ring us up... Brian Epstein, and say, 655 00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,479 "You're in the studio next week. You've got a week off." 656 00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:37,647 We'd go, "Yes!" 657 00:38:37,773 --> 00:38:39,482 Ηe'd say, "But you've got to write the album." 658 00:38:39,608 --> 00:38:40,817 We'd go, "Yes!" 659 00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:43,695 So we'd just, you know, each day we'd write a song 660 00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:47,032 so we can have seven or so songs to go in with, 661 00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,617 which was, you know, enough to...to start with. 662 00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:53,621 And we'd go in the studio, 1 0:00 in the morning, 663 00:38:54,206 --> 00:38:58,793 and this was the first time George and Ringo had heard any of the songs. 664 00:38:59,378 --> 00:39:00,920 So this is how good they were. 665 00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:02,547 John and l would go, "lt goes like this." 666 00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:04,549 You know, ♪ She loves you, yeah... ♪ 667 00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:05,675 Or whatever it was. 668 00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:07,344 And they'd go, "Mm-hm." 669 00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:10,180 George would cop the chords. Ηe'd go, "Uh-huh, uh-huh", 670 00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:12,265 not writing 'em down, it was just like, "Yeah, go on, 671 00:39:12,391 --> 00:39:14,517 "cos, you know, l can see what you're doing. 672 00:39:14,643 --> 00:39:16,102 "Cos l'm one of you. 673 00:39:16,228 --> 00:39:18,897 "You know, l didn't write it, but l see what you did." 674 00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:22,776 Ringo would just stand around with his sticks... (lmitates rhythm) and do his little thing. 675 00:39:22,902 --> 00:39:25,445 ( ♪ The Beatles: And l Love Ηer) 676 00:39:39,126 --> 00:39:42,045 And l was just thinking actually about my song And l Love Ηer. 677 00:39:42,171 --> 00:39:43,755 ♪ l give her all my love ♪ 678 00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:46,257 l had that, but then George comes in with... 679 00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,134 (Ηums riff from And l Love Ηer) 680 00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,387 Now you think about that. Τhat's the song. 681 00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,722 You know, but he made that up on the session. 682 00:39:52,848 --> 00:39:54,265 Cos he knew the chords, and he just said, 683 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,434 "Well, you knoW", we said, "it needs a riff." 684 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:57,644 l didn't write that. 685 00:39:58,396 --> 00:39:59,813 When we got together in the studio, 686 00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:03,400 whoever had written the song, would be the kind of boss, 687 00:40:03,526 --> 00:40:05,402 in leading the other guys through it. 688 00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,738 Paul and John, being the songwriters. 689 00:40:09,365 --> 00:40:13,284 And at that stage, George wasn't showing himself to be a songwriter. 690 00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:14,702 They were the dominant forces. 691 00:40:15,621 --> 00:40:19,082 George and Ringo were slightly behind Paul and John 692 00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:22,585 because Paul and John were the writers and the lead singers. 693 00:40:23,129 --> 00:40:26,631 l guess George was a kind of a loner, really, 694 00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:33,221 and because he was outside the team that were providing the hits. 695 00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:37,225 John and Paul had each other to play against. 696 00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:40,937 And their collaboration was much more of a competition 697 00:40:41,063 --> 00:40:42,730 than a collaboration, really. 698 00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:44,899 One would do something, and the other one would say, 699 00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:48,903 "Gosh, l think l can do better than that." And try and make something better. 700 00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:52,115 George was the sole guy. Ηe had no one to work with. 701 00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:56,578 (George strums electric guitar and scats) 702 00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:02,709 (George) Τhe funny position l was in was that in many ways, 703 00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:06,588 you know, this whole focus of attention was on the Beatles. 704 00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:09,424 So in that respect, l was part of it. 705 00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,885 But from being in them 706 00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:17,849 an attitude came over, which was John and Paul. 707 00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:23,605 "OK, you know, we're the grooves and you two, you know, just watch it." 708 00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:27,025 l mean, don't forget, l spent ten years in the back of the limousine with them. 709 00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:29,110 - (George strums) - About that speed. 710 00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:34,073 (Man) Don't Bother Me. Τhis is remake recording, take 1 0. 711 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,576 (George) Don't Bother Me was the first song again. 712 00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:41,372 lt was written basically as an exercise to see if l could write a song 713 00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:44,334 cos l thought, "Well, if John and Paul can write, 714 00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:46,419 - "everybody must be able to." - (Man laughs) 715 00:41:46,545 --> 00:41:48,588 (Harrison) One, two, three, four. 716 00:41:48,714 --> 00:41:51,049 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Don't Bother Me) 717 00:41:53,469 --> 00:41:58,264 ♪ Since she's been gone l want no one to talk to me ♪ 718 00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,267 - (George) lt's just going too fast. - (Music stops) 719 00:42:01,393 --> 00:42:03,394 - (Clapper) Take 1 2. - (George) One, two... 720 00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,189 (George) l wrote that in the hotel in Bournemouth. 721 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,442 We were doing the summer season, and l was sick in bed. 722 00:42:09,568 --> 00:42:11,402 Maybe that's why it turned out Don't Bother Me. 723 00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:12,529 (Man) Yeah. 724 00:42:12,655 --> 00:42:14,405 (George) But it's not a particularly good song, 725 00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:16,449 but it at least showed me that 726 00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:19,994 you know, all l needed to do was keep on writing 727 00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,497 and maybe some day l'd... 728 00:42:23,707 --> 00:42:25,250 write something good. 729 00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,710 Which l still feel, right at this point, 730 00:42:27,836 --> 00:42:30,463 l still keep thinking l wish l could write something good. 731 00:42:30,589 --> 00:42:35,343 ♪ Since she's been gone l don't want no one to talk to me 732 00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:41,015 ♪ lt's not the same But l'm to blame, it's plain to see 733 00:42:41,892 --> 00:42:46,396 ♪ So go away, leave me alone Don't bother me 734 00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:52,694 ♪ l can't believe that she would leave me on my own 735 00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:57,740 ♪ lt's just not right when every night l'm all alone 736 00:42:58,867 --> 00:43:03,246 ♪ l've got no time for you right now Don't bother me 737 00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:09,252 ♪ l know l'll never be the same 738 00:43:10,087 --> 00:43:14,799 ♪ lf l don't get her back again 739 00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:20,847 ♪ Because l know she'll always be 740 00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:26,394 ♪ Τhe only girl for me ♪ 741 00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:31,065 When l saw George and Pattie together, 742 00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:36,404 the way they fit into the Beatles thing, of all of their domesticity 743 00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:39,198 seemed to be like Camelot, you know. 744 00:43:39,325 --> 00:43:40,867 lt was like, uh... 745 00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:43,161 And l was the Lancelot in a way. 746 00:43:43,287 --> 00:43:47,957 l was kind of this lone wolf without really any, uh... 747 00:43:49,543 --> 00:43:50,710 direction. 748 00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:52,670 ( ♪ The Yardbirds) 749 00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:07,644 l saw the Beatles play at the Ηammersmith Odeon 750 00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:10,438 when l was bottom of the bill in the Yardbirds. 751 00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:13,983 Τhis band was like... They were like a single person. 752 00:44:14,109 --> 00:44:16,152 lt was an odd phenomena, in fact, 753 00:44:16,278 --> 00:44:19,072 that they seemed to move together and think together. 754 00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:21,616 lt was almost like a little family unit. 755 00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:25,161 l was very, very suspicious about what they were up to. 756 00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:28,998 But when l saw them play, l mean, l was overwhelmed by their gift. 757 00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:30,500 You know, each one of them seemed to be, 758 00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:35,088 very well endowed with their own musical capacity. 759 00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:40,468 But the sad part was that no one listened to 'em. (Chuckles) 760 00:44:40,594 --> 00:44:43,680 And that their audience, which they had cultivated, l suppose, 761 00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:46,849 they were, you know, 12-year-old girls. 762 00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:50,311 Ηe was clearly an innovator. 763 00:44:50,437 --> 00:44:54,107 George, to me, was taking certain elements 764 00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:58,736 of R&B and rock and rockabilly 765 00:44:59,321 --> 00:45:01,656 and creating something unique. 766 00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:04,075 They were very generous to everybody. 767 00:45:04,201 --> 00:45:06,869 l mean, they took time to come and talk to everybody. 768 00:45:06,995 --> 00:45:08,788 l didn't feel threatened at all 769 00:45:08,914 --> 00:45:11,207 because l had quite a lot of self-confidence 770 00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:14,001 going in my concept of myself as being, 771 00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,338 you know, this sort of blues missionary, as it were. 772 00:45:17,464 --> 00:45:19,006 And...And l... 773 00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:22,051 You know, l wasn't looking for any favours from anybody. 774 00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:26,597 And George recognised me as an equal because l had a level of proficiency 775 00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:31,769 even then that he saw as being fairly unique too, you know. 776 00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:34,647 George chose to move into a house in Esher. 777 00:45:34,773 --> 00:45:39,110 Now, Esher is maybe eight miles north of where l was born. 778 00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,071 We became friends and l would go and visit them there. 779 00:45:42,197 --> 00:45:46,284 And something grew out of the music and the kind of people we were. 780 00:45:46,410 --> 00:45:49,954 l think we shared a lot of tastes too. 781 00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,875 ln other...you know, superficial things, cars or clothes, but... 782 00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:57,837 And women, obviously. But, um... 783 00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:00,923 l think what George might have liked about me 784 00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:03,551 was the fact that l was a kind of free agent. 785 00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:08,431 And l think, if anything, he may have already been wondering about whether 786 00:46:09,391 --> 00:46:11,517 he was in the right place being in a group, you know, 787 00:46:11,643 --> 00:46:14,812 cos the group...the group politic is a...is a tricky one. 788 00:46:14,938 --> 00:46:18,649 You know, there was a lot about what he had going which l envied, 789 00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:21,861 and there was a lot about what l had going that he envied. 790 00:46:21,987 --> 00:46:24,822 (Man) What did he have going that you envied? 791 00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:28,910 Well, l suppose, money, status. 792 00:46:29,036 --> 00:46:31,162 You know, the classic things. 793 00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:33,831 The Beatles. Man, come on. 794 00:46:34,666 --> 00:46:36,459 (Laughing) 795 00:46:37,336 --> 00:46:39,212 ln the beginning, in the early days, 796 00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:42,507 what was good about being George's friend 797 00:46:42,966 --> 00:46:48,387 was that it was kind of like basking in the sunshine of this immense creativity. 798 00:46:48,764 --> 00:46:51,098 We'd like to carry on with a song 799 00:46:51,225 --> 00:46:55,019 which is off our last LP. 800 00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,606 The LP's called Rubber Soul 801 00:46:58,732 --> 00:47:01,776 and the song, which is sung by our guitarist George 802 00:47:01,902 --> 00:47:04,612 is called lf l Needed Someone. 803 00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:08,658 ( ♪ The Beatles: lf l Needed Someone) 804 00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:17,416 ♪ lf l needed someone to love 805 00:47:18,043 --> 00:47:21,963 ♪ You're the one that l'd be thinking of 806 00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:26,843 ♪ lf l needed someone 807 00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:33,516 ♪ lf l had some more time to spend 808 00:47:33,642 --> 00:47:37,854 ♪ l guess l'd be with you, my friend 809 00:47:39,231 --> 00:47:42,358 ♪ lf l needed someone ♪ 810 00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:49,323 This is largely an appeal to the, the feminine heart. 811 00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:52,869 The heart of a young girl who worships love 812 00:47:52,995 --> 00:47:57,248 and the goddess of love and the heroes of love. 813 00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,085 And this plays the dominant part in her life. 814 00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:04,547 So the vast majority of the fans 815 00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:09,385 are girls who come there to worship at the shrine of the goddess 816 00:48:09,511 --> 00:48:13,014 or the young god hero as they did in the ancient past. 817 00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:15,892 l've seen this with the most dramatic intensity 818 00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:20,938 with the Beatles playing to two or three thousand young girls in Manchester. 819 00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:24,734 Apart from another journalist, l was the only male in the audience. 820 00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:28,321 And l've never experienced anything like it myself. 821 00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:32,658 lf l were confronted with 1 0,000 Loch Ness monsters 822 00:48:32,784 --> 00:48:34,493 l wouldn't be so impressed 823 00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:38,122 by this whistling and wailing and possession 824 00:48:38,248 --> 00:48:40,291 of the soul of these young girls. 825 00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:43,794 (Man) Would you say it's true that the devotion your group attracts 826 00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:45,755 is essentially religious in nature? 827 00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:47,006 (Lennon) No. 828 00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:49,759 ln what way is it not? 829 00:48:49,885 --> 00:48:52,053 Well, in what ways do you think it is? 830 00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:54,430 The fervour, the excitement that it... 831 00:48:54,556 --> 00:48:57,224 Well, would you say the football crowds are any more religious, 832 00:48:57,351 --> 00:49:00,436 or football fanatics have any more religion in them 833 00:49:00,562 --> 00:49:02,647 than the Beatle fanatics? l don't think so. 834 00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:07,276 (Newsreader) One value divides the generations 835 00:49:07,402 --> 00:49:10,154 more sharply than any other. Religion. 836 00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:14,325 The gap is greatest between college students and their parents. 837 00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:18,120 Τhe question was whether belonging to some organised religion 838 00:49:18,246 --> 00:49:20,581 is important in a person's life. 839 00:49:20,999 --> 00:49:23,918 9 out of 1 0 parents say it is. 840 00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:27,880 Only 4 out of 1 0 college students say religion is important. 841 00:49:28,924 --> 00:49:31,092 And the more radical the youth politically, 842 00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:36,389 the more likely he is to reject the religious values of adult society. 843 00:49:36,515 --> 00:49:39,934 Still, the gap is there whatever the politics. 844 00:49:40,477 --> 00:49:42,478 (Man) Well, some of the remarks attributed to you 845 00:49:42,604 --> 00:49:44,939 in some of the newspapers, the press here, 846 00:49:45,065 --> 00:49:46,607 concerning the remark that you made 847 00:49:46,733 --> 00:49:49,944 comparing the relative popularity of the Beatles with Jesus Christ 848 00:49:50,070 --> 00:49:51,904 and that the Beatles were more popular. 849 00:49:52,030 --> 00:49:55,366 This created quite a controversy and a furore in this country. 850 00:49:55,492 --> 00:49:57,994 Would you clarify the remark? 851 00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,413 l've clarified it about eight 800 times, you know. 852 00:50:00,539 --> 00:50:03,582 l could've said TV or something else, you know. 853 00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:05,835 And that's as clear as it can be. 854 00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:10,131 There were other evidences that that ol' time religion was under attack. 855 00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:12,216 Evangelist Billy Graham went to London 856 00:50:12,342 --> 00:50:14,593 hoping he could stop England from swinging. 857 00:50:15,012 --> 00:50:18,681 ln the process, he was almost engulfed by sin on a Soho street. 858 00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:22,476 l think a great deal of what we see among young people today 859 00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:24,228 is actually a spiritual search. 860 00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:26,772 These young people are searching for a creed to believe in, 861 00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:29,316 a song to sing and a cause to follow. 862 00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:30,443 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: lf l Needed Someone) 863 00:50:30,569 --> 00:50:32,278 ♪ Carve your number on my wall 864 00:50:32,404 --> 00:50:37,241 ♪ And maybe you will get a call from me 865 00:50:38,785 --> 00:50:41,579 ♪ lf l needed someone 866 00:50:44,374 --> 00:50:54,383 ♪ Ahh 867 00:50:55,635 --> 00:50:58,179 ♪ Ahh ♪ 868 00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:01,974 Before we sort of "made it", as they say, 869 00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:07,772 money was partly the goal, but it still wasn't, "Let's get some money." 870 00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:12,568 But we sort of got... Suddenly had money, and then it wasn't all that good. 871 00:51:12,694 --> 00:51:16,197 By having the money we found that money wasn't the answer 872 00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:20,367 because we had lots of material things 873 00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:24,580 that people, sort of, spend their whole life to try and get. 874 00:51:24,706 --> 00:51:27,583 And we managed to get them at quite an early age. 875 00:51:28,126 --> 00:51:31,128 And it was good really, because we learnt that that wasn't it. 876 00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:34,215 We still lacked something. And that "something" is the thing 877 00:51:34,341 --> 00:51:36,717 that religion is trying to give to people. 878 00:51:36,843 --> 00:51:39,720 (lnterviewer) Ηave they changed because of all this? 879 00:51:39,846 --> 00:51:42,973 Altered, developed, perhaps, but not... 880 00:51:44,309 --> 00:51:45,351 Not changed too much. 881 00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:47,269 They're not in any way contaminated by it. 882 00:51:47,395 --> 00:51:50,147 Not nearly as seriously contaminated as many of the people 883 00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:54,777 who occasionally surround us. 884 00:51:55,821 --> 00:52:00,366 They remain very calm and bland and simple. 885 00:52:00,492 --> 00:52:02,618 And they don't know what it's all about. 886 00:52:02,744 --> 00:52:06,330 They simply want to play their music and write it. 887 00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:09,416 They're...They're very normal. Thank goodness. 888 00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:13,963 l came home one day with the kids and Derek said, 889 00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,049 "Brian's just phoned." Brian Epstein. 890 00:52:17,175 --> 00:52:19,802 "And he's having a housewarming in Sussex, 891 00:52:19,928 --> 00:52:23,597 "and he wants us to go. Ηe wants all his friends to be there." 892 00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:27,393 So we rallied all our babysitters together, 893 00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:30,146 and we found ourselves on a plane. 894 00:52:30,939 --> 00:52:35,818 And we arrived at Ηeathrow, and waiting for us was John, 895 00:52:37,070 --> 00:52:38,654 and George. 896 00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:41,740 And they were dressed in this exotic way. 897 00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:46,162 They had silk shirts, and they were this incredible colour. 898 00:52:46,288 --> 00:52:49,582 And they hugged us and they kissed us and they... 899 00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:53,961 All of a sudden it's like there are no barriers, no handshakes. lt's... 900 00:52:54,963 --> 00:52:56,130 And what's happening? 901 00:52:56,256 --> 00:52:59,717 And we were swept out to this... 902 00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:04,513 To outside Ηeathrow Airport where John's Rolls-Royce, 903 00:53:05,473 --> 00:53:08,392 like a Romany caravan, was waiting for us. 904 00:53:08,518 --> 00:53:12,479 George, in his Mini and us in the Rolls-Royce 905 00:53:12,606 --> 00:53:15,733 with Procol Ηarum playing Whiter Shade of Pale, 906 00:53:15,859 --> 00:53:19,278 driving along the English country roads from Surrey to Sussex. 907 00:53:20,614 --> 00:53:22,198 And Brian was waiting for us. 908 00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:27,369 And there were all sorts of his friends, famous and not so famous. 909 00:53:28,163 --> 00:53:32,499 And George gave Derek acid and John gave me acid. 910 00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:37,254 And then John gave Derek acid. So Derek had a double dose. 911 00:53:38,423 --> 00:53:42,968 And we spent the whole night with them, 912 00:53:44,137 --> 00:53:46,430 on this mind adventure 913 00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:51,393 which Paul had described to us as "controlled weirdness." 914 00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:55,814 (Laughs) l'm not quite sure how controlled it was, but it was weird. 915 00:53:55,941 --> 00:54:00,277 But it was wonderful, and it bonded us, because they were so kind to us. 916 00:54:00,403 --> 00:54:06,951 And we came through it and we walked out into this Εnglish country garden 917 00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:10,996 with the night receding and the sun coming. 918 00:54:11,122 --> 00:54:14,291 Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, well... 919 00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:17,419 That...That was what happened, literally what happened. 920 00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,591 When we took the notorious wonder drug LSD... 921 00:54:22,717 --> 00:54:23,801 (Man) Yes. 922 00:54:23,927 --> 00:54:26,053 ..it was... We didn't know we were having it. 923 00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:30,224 John and l had the... had this drug and it was given... 924 00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,935 We were at... Ηaving dinner with our dentist. 925 00:54:33,061 --> 00:54:34,687 (Audience laughs) 926 00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:37,398 And he put it in our coffee and never told us. 927 00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:38,983 And we'd never... We never heard of it. 928 00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,567 l mean, it's a good job we hadn't heard of it, 929 00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:45,489 because there's been so much paranoia created around the drug 930 00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:49,618 that people now if they take it they're already on a bad trip before they start. 931 00:54:50,036 --> 00:54:53,289 Whereas for us we didn't know anything. We were so naive. 932 00:54:53,415 --> 00:54:56,375 And so we had it and we went out to a club 933 00:54:56,501 --> 00:54:59,628 and it was incredible. lt was really incredible. 934 00:55:03,550 --> 00:55:06,719 Something like a very concentrated version 935 00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:10,180 of the best feeling l'd ever had in my life. 936 00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,600 lt was just, like, fantastic. 937 00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:16,895 l just felt like in love. 938 00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:22,443 But not with anything in particular, or anybody, just with everything. 939 00:55:22,569 --> 00:55:24,111 Just everything was perfect. 940 00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:29,825 And we walked and things weren't the same that night as they'd been. 941 00:55:30,118 --> 00:55:33,412 lt was... All this Alice in Wonderland stuff was going on. 942 00:55:33,538 --> 00:55:35,414 But strange things. 943 00:55:36,499 --> 00:55:40,044 l remember Pattie was, you know, half playfully, 944 00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:43,130 but half kind of like crazy, 945 00:55:43,256 --> 00:55:46,467 was trying to smash a shop window. 946 00:55:47,344 --> 00:55:50,846 And l was kind of being like, you know, "Come on now, don't be silly. 947 00:55:50,972 --> 00:55:53,349 You know. "This way." (Chuckles) 948 00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:55,976 And we got around this corner and... 949 00:55:56,686 --> 00:55:59,480 lt was all these lights and taxis. 950 00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:01,732 lt looked like there was a big film premiere going on. 951 00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:05,235 lt was probably just the doorway to the nightclub. 952 00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:07,571 lt seemed like, you know, very bright. 953 00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:13,285 And all these people with make-up that was like this thick on their faces. 954 00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,954 You know, like masks. 955 00:56:16,331 --> 00:56:18,707 l had this lingering thought 956 00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:23,754 that just stayed with me after that. 957 00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,591 And this thought was Yogis of the Ηimalayas. 958 00:56:27,717 --> 00:56:28,801 l don't know why. lt just.... 959 00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:31,220 l never thought about them for the rest of my life. 960 00:56:31,346 --> 00:56:36,558 But suddenly this thought was in the back of my consciousness. 961 00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,771 lt was like somebody was whispering to me, you know. 962 00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:42,439 The Yogis of the Ηimalayas. 963 00:56:47,487 --> 00:56:50,572 ♪ Prabhujee 964 00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:54,535 ♪ Dayaa karo 965 00:56:56,079 --> 00:56:59,248 ♪ Prabhujee 966 00:56:59,916 --> 00:57:03,127 ♪ Dayaa karo 967 00:57:04,504 --> 00:57:19,601 ♪ Maname aana baso 968 00:57:21,229 --> 00:57:23,397 ♪ Prabhujee ♪ 969 00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:27,234 lnterview de Monsieur George Ηarrison et Ravi Shankar par Michel Vial. 970 00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:30,237 (Laughs) 971 00:57:31,781 --> 00:57:33,115 Sound is God. 972 00:57:33,241 --> 00:57:37,077 And through sound, or that is through good music, 973 00:57:38,496 --> 00:57:41,665 there can be also music which can be devil. 974 00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:44,626 - l don't want to name which music. - (George laughs) 975 00:57:44,752 --> 00:57:49,381 But... (Laughs) ..music can excite you and make you...go mad. 976 00:57:49,507 --> 00:57:52,593 People go, you know, crazy. That is also music. 977 00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:58,432 But it didn't... Doesn't lead you, spiritually towards God. 978 00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:01,226 But music has this power. 979 00:58:01,352 --> 00:58:03,520 Whether it is through the Gregorian chants 980 00:58:03,646 --> 00:58:08,150 or beautiful Baroque music, or lndian music, or even folk songs, 981 00:58:08,276 --> 00:58:12,070 beautifully sung by people with beautiful voices. 982 00:58:12,197 --> 00:58:16,200 Our music has been handed down from person to person. 983 00:58:16,326 --> 00:58:19,536 lt's an oral tradition. lt's not a written down music. 984 00:58:19,662 --> 00:58:22,206 And the guru passes not just a technique, 985 00:58:22,332 --> 00:58:25,459 but the whole spiritual aspect. 986 00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:28,670 All the meaning of life, philosophy, 987 00:58:28,796 --> 00:58:31,381 everything is passed along with the music. 988 00:59:08,711 --> 00:59:10,712 (George) Τhe fact that l met so many people, 989 00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:12,172 l can meet anybody, you know. 990 00:59:12,298 --> 00:59:16,301 You could go in all the film stars' houses and Elvis and everybody. 991 00:59:16,427 --> 00:59:18,345 And we met a lot of really good people. 992 00:59:18,471 --> 00:59:22,015 But we didn't... l never met one person who really impressed me. 993 00:59:22,141 --> 00:59:25,143 Τhe first person who ever impressed me in my life was Ravi Shankar. 994 00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:27,813 And he was the only person who didn't try to impress me. 995 00:59:27,939 --> 00:59:29,273 (Man) Why did he impress you? 996 00:59:29,399 --> 00:59:31,733 (George) Because it was by his being. 997 00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:35,320 He taught me so much without actually saying a word. 998 00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:36,947 lt's by example. 999 00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:41,118 (Ravi Shankar) Now try to count. Five, five and six. 1000 00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:43,537 - Five, five makes 1 0. - (George) Yeah. 1001 00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:45,247 (Ravi) And 6 makes 1 6. 1002 00:59:45,373 --> 00:59:47,457 9, 1 0, 1 1 , 1 2, 1 3, 1 4. 1003 00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:48,834 - One, two, three, four, five. - (Τabla) 1004 00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:50,586 One, two, three, four, five. One... 1005 00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:52,504 (George) Two, three, four, five. One, two. 1006 00:59:52,922 --> 00:59:54,590 (Ravi) Five. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 1007 00:59:54,716 --> 00:59:56,466 (George) One, two, three, four, five. 1008 00:59:56,593 --> 00:59:59,386 (Ravi) Three, four, five. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. 1009 00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:02,764 What you can do, or if, if it is difficult for you to get.... 1010 01:00:02,890 --> 01:00:04,433 One, two, three, four. Just... 1011 01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:05,809 - (George) One, two... - (Ravi) Τhree, four. 1012 01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:08,353 (Ravi laughs) lt's quite difficult. 1013 01:00:09,105 --> 01:00:11,940 (George) One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four. 1014 01:00:12,066 --> 01:00:13,066 - One, two, three, four... - No. One. 1015 01:00:13,192 --> 01:00:14,693 (George) One, two, three, four. 1016 01:00:14,819 --> 01:00:16,820 lf you're trying to find something, 1017 01:00:16,946 --> 01:00:21,450 to find the source of that thing is very difficult 1018 01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:24,328 but my blessing was to be able 1019 01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:29,041 to have Ravi as my patch cord. 1020 01:00:29,167 --> 01:00:31,835 And he could plug me in to the real thing, 1021 01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:36,173 so my experience of it was always the best quality. 1022 01:00:36,299 --> 01:00:38,967 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Love to You) 1023 01:01:15,129 --> 01:01:18,298 ♪ Each day just goes so fast 1024 01:01:19,008 --> 01:01:22,344 ♪ l turn around, it's past 1025 01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:28,016 ♪ You don't get time to hang a sign on me 1026 01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:36,858 ♪ Love me while you can 1027 01:01:38,027 --> 01:01:41,113 ♪ Before l'm a dead old man ♪ 1028 01:01:44,409 --> 01:01:47,786 (George) Ravi and the sitar was kind of like an excuse 1029 01:01:47,912 --> 01:01:51,039 to try and find this spiritual connection. 1030 01:01:51,165 --> 01:01:55,752 l read stuff by various holy men and Swamis and mystics 1031 01:01:55,878 --> 01:01:58,755 and l went around and looked for them. 1032 01:01:58,881 --> 01:02:04,052 Ravi and his brother gave me a lot of books by some wise men. 1033 01:02:04,762 --> 01:02:08,849 One of the books which was by a Swami Vivekananda who said, 1034 01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:13,145 "lf there's a God, you must see Ηim and if there's a soul we must perceive it. 1035 01:02:13,271 --> 01:02:15,731 "Otherwise it's better not to believe. 1036 01:02:15,857 --> 01:02:19,025 "lt's better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite." 1037 01:02:19,152 --> 01:02:21,528 And after all my life, l've been brought up... 1038 01:02:21,654 --> 01:02:24,364 Well, they tried to bring me up as a Catholic. 1039 01:02:25,032 --> 01:02:28,326 Τhey had told you to just believe what they're telling you 1040 01:02:29,245 --> 01:02:32,372 and, you know, not to have the direct experience. 1041 01:02:32,498 --> 01:02:37,544 And this for me going to lndia and hearing somebody saying, you know, 1042 01:02:37,670 --> 01:02:42,841 "No, you can't believe anything until you have direct perception of it." 1043 01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:45,469 And l thought, "Wow, you know, fantastic! 1044 01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:50,557 "At last, you know, find somebody who... who makes some sense." 1045 01:02:50,683 --> 01:02:53,977 And so l wanted to go deeper and deeper into that. 1046 01:02:54,103 --> 01:02:57,105 l think that George's experiences 1047 01:02:57,231 --> 01:03:00,025 of expanding his mind with acid 1048 01:03:01,277 --> 01:03:06,740 led him to looking for something that didn't need chemicals. 1049 01:03:07,992 --> 01:03:12,287 Ηe knew that there was a point where you couldn't keep on doing that. 1050 01:03:12,413 --> 01:03:17,167 And it wouldn't be good for you if you did keep on using chemicals. 1051 01:03:17,293 --> 01:03:21,046 So he was looking for... 1052 01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:24,925 Ηe was always looking for the truth 1053 01:03:25,051 --> 01:03:27,344 and he was also looking for peace of mind. 1054 01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:32,724 Because it was... lt was pretty crazy. 1055 01:03:33,893 --> 01:03:36,520 (George) John'd pick us up in this big Rolls-Royce 1056 01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:38,021 with blacked-out windows, 1057 01:03:38,147 --> 01:03:41,608 and Ringo, John and l all moved out of town to Surrey. 1058 01:03:42,193 --> 01:03:44,152 And then he'd pick up Ringo and then pick me up 1059 01:03:44,278 --> 01:03:47,405 and then we'd head into town and by the time we got to Ηammersmith, 1060 01:03:47,532 --> 01:03:51,034 we were just loaded, and... And feeling ill cos, you know, 1061 01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,411 a Rolls-Royce doesn't have the proper springs. 1062 01:03:53,538 --> 01:03:55,705 They just roll around. 1063 01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:58,250 And the black windows, you couldn't see anything out, 1064 01:03:58,376 --> 01:04:00,544 and the windows would be shut 1065 01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:04,339 and so you'd just be getting double doses of these reefers. 1066 01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:08,051 And then, we'd pull up at Abbey Road Studio 1067 01:04:08,177 --> 01:04:10,470 and just be like... fall out of the car. 1068 01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:13,723 (Ringo) We have to thank Paul that we made as many records as we did 1069 01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:17,310 because you know, John and l, cos we lived in the same area, 1070 01:04:17,436 --> 01:04:19,187 would be hanging out, you know. lt's like a... 1071 01:04:20,106 --> 01:04:22,065 A beautiful day in the garden in England 1072 01:04:22,191 --> 01:04:24,776 and the phone'd ring and we'd always know it was him. 1073 01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:26,862 Ηe wants us to work! 1074 01:04:27,613 --> 01:04:30,657 (George) l mean, everywhere we went, people were smiling 1075 01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:34,202 and you know, sitting on lawns, drinking tea. 1076 01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:39,457 When l went to Ηaight-Ashbury, expecting it to be this brilliant place, 1077 01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:44,921 l thought it was gonna be all these groovy kinda gypsy kinda people 1078 01:04:45,047 --> 01:04:50,093 with little shops making works of art and paintings and carvings. 1079 01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:54,014 But instead, it turned out to be just a lot of bums. 1080 01:04:54,515 --> 01:04:56,892 And many of them, they were just very young kids 1081 01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:59,853 who'd come from all over America and dropped acid 1082 01:04:59,979 --> 01:05:03,565 and gone to this Mecca of LSD. 1083 01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:05,859 We'd walk down the street and l was like, 1084 01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:09,112 being treated like the Messiah or something. 1085 01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:14,784 l was really afraid because l could see all these spotty youths 1086 01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:20,206 and they were still undercurrents of Beatlemania, but... 1087 01:05:20,333 --> 01:05:24,127 from a kind of twisted angle. 1088 01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:27,339 And they were... People were handing me things 1089 01:05:27,465 --> 01:05:30,050 like this big pipe, 1090 01:05:30,176 --> 01:05:33,178 like a big lndian pipe with feathers on it 1091 01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:37,641 and books and incense and, you know, all kinds of stuff, 1092 01:05:37,975 --> 01:05:39,768 and trying to give me drugs 1093 01:05:39,894 --> 01:05:42,479 and, you know, l'd say, "No, thanks, l don't want it." 1094 01:05:42,605 --> 01:05:45,774 We were walking quicker and quicker. We went through the park 1095 01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:49,319 and back out of the park, and in the end we just said, "Let's get outta here." 1096 01:05:49,445 --> 01:05:51,529 And we drove back to the airport, 1097 01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:54,199 got on the jet, and as it took off, 1098 01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:58,119 the plane went into a stall, and the whole dashboard lit up, 1099 01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:00,330 saying "unsafe" right across. 1100 01:06:00,623 --> 01:06:04,960 lt certainly showed me what was really happening in the drug cult. 1101 01:06:05,086 --> 01:06:08,421 lt wasn't what l thought of all these groovy people getting... 1102 01:06:08,547 --> 01:06:12,425 Ηaving spiritual awakenings and being artistic. 1103 01:06:12,802 --> 01:06:15,679 lt was like any addiction. 1104 01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:21,851 So, at that point, l stopped taking it, actually, the dreaded Lysergic. 1105 01:06:22,353 --> 01:06:25,397 That's where l really went for the meditation. 1106 01:06:54,510 --> 01:06:57,220 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Strawberry Fields) 1107 01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:07,188 ♪ Let me take you down 1108 01:07:07,314 --> 01:07:09,649 ♪ Cos l'm going to 1109 01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:13,069 ♪ Strawberry Fields 1110 01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:18,199 ♪ Nothing is real 1111 01:07:19,368 --> 01:07:22,328 ♪ And nothing to get hung about 1112 01:07:23,622 --> 01:07:27,000 ♪ Strawberry Fields forever 1113 01:07:28,419 --> 01:07:32,839 ♪ Living is easy with eyes closed 1114 01:07:34,008 --> 01:07:37,469 ♪ Misunderstanding all you see ♪ 1115 01:07:39,764 --> 01:07:44,559 We'd stopped touring. We were now into the mid-sixties. 1116 01:07:44,685 --> 01:07:46,394 We were partying. 1117 01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:51,941 And l think we kind of lost sort of our spiritual direction. 1118 01:07:52,401 --> 01:07:55,236 Not that we ever had one but we lost it. 1119 01:07:55,738 --> 01:07:59,741 So we were kind of experimenting in anything. 1120 01:07:59,867 --> 01:08:01,993 lt was the time of Sgt. Pepper. 1121 01:08:02,119 --> 01:08:05,497 And l'd written the song, the title song. 1122 01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:08,917 And l put it to the guys that what we should do, 1123 01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:13,004 we could make this record now under another persona. 1124 01:08:13,130 --> 01:08:16,299 We'll be this other band. And it will free us. 1125 01:08:17,051 --> 01:08:19,636 The idea was we could bring anything we wanted. 1126 01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:23,848 Cos now, you know, there was no lid on what we could do. 1127 01:08:24,308 --> 01:08:26,851 (George Martin) When we were doing Sgt. Pepper, 1128 01:08:26,977 --> 01:08:31,314 he presented us with a song which l thought was boring. 1129 01:08:32,566 --> 01:08:34,526 And l had to tell him so. And l said, 1130 01:08:34,652 --> 01:08:36,736 "George, honestly, l think we could do... 1131 01:08:36,862 --> 01:08:38,488 "You could do something better for this record 1132 01:08:38,614 --> 01:08:40,740 "cos it's gonna be an astonishing record 1133 01:08:40,866 --> 01:08:44,410 "there are so many great moments in it. 1134 01:08:44,829 --> 01:08:47,372 "And do you mind going away and thinking about it 1135 01:08:47,498 --> 01:08:49,415 "and coming up with something else?" 1136 01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:52,669 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Within You Without You) 1137 01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:01,427 ♪ We were talking 1138 01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:04,430 ♪ About the 1139 01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:09,769 ♪ Space between us all 1140 01:09:09,895 --> 01:09:13,398 ♪ And the people 1141 01:09:14,358 --> 01:09:17,777 ♪ Who hide themselves 1142 01:09:17,903 --> 01:09:21,739 ♪ Behind a wall 1143 01:09:21,866 --> 01:09:25,034 ♪ Of illusion 1144 01:09:25,744 --> 01:09:29,497 ♪ Never glimpse the truth 1145 01:09:29,623 --> 01:09:32,876 ♪ Then it's far too late 1146 01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:37,297 ♪ When they pass away ♪ 1147 01:09:41,510 --> 01:09:44,095 Ηe came up with Within You Without You. 1148 01:09:44,221 --> 01:09:49,100 Now Within You Without You was not a commercial song by any means. 1149 01:09:49,226 --> 01:09:51,060 But it was very interesting. 1150 01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:55,481 Ηe had the way of communicating music by the lndian system 1151 01:09:56,066 --> 01:09:59,861 of kind of a separate language like... 1152 01:09:59,987 --> 01:10:02,614 (lmitates tabla percussion) 1153 01:10:03,032 --> 01:10:08,494 Τhe kind of things that would be the rhythms suggested by the tabla player. 1154 01:10:08,621 --> 01:10:12,373 And you had to get inside that and find out what it was about. 1155 01:10:12,499 --> 01:10:15,210 So it was like working out a puzzle with George. 1156 01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,755 Ηe had Ravi play at his house once. And we all went. 1157 01:10:19,465 --> 01:10:21,507 And we're sitting around the floor. 1158 01:10:21,634 --> 01:10:25,887 And Ravi made the announcement, "Please don't smoke while l'm playing." 1159 01:10:26,013 --> 01:10:28,431 And, er, anyway, there was a crowd of us 1160 01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:31,017 and a crowd of Ravi's friends sitting around. 1161 01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:32,477 Ravi's playing away, 1162 01:10:32,603 --> 01:10:36,147 and this is how little we understood at the time that... 1163 01:10:37,316 --> 01:10:39,692 Ravi's pals are all like going... 1164 01:10:40,486 --> 01:10:43,780 Aww! Aghh! 1165 01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:48,534 Which it sounded like to us they were saying, "Aw, God, crap!" 1166 01:10:48,827 --> 01:10:51,746 But they were really going... (Sighs contentedly) 1167 01:10:52,998 --> 01:10:55,541 We were like, "Κeep the noise down." 1168 01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:58,002 (Laughs) You know. 1169 01:10:58,337 --> 01:11:01,464 ♪ When you've seen beyond yourself 1170 01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:03,383 ♪ Τhen you may find 1171 01:11:03,509 --> 01:11:07,595 ♪ Peace of mind is waiting there 1172 01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:11,975 ♪ And the time will come 1173 01:11:12,101 --> 01:11:14,894 ♪ When you see we're all one 1174 01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:20,400 ♪ And life flows on within you And without you ♪ 1175 01:11:22,403 --> 01:11:25,571 - What, when you get a sort of typical... - Yeah. 1176 01:11:25,698 --> 01:11:28,157 - ..westernised Englishman coming to you. - Yeah. 1177 01:11:28,284 --> 01:11:31,494 What is the most important thing you have to teach? ls it concentration? 1178 01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:37,834 No. Just allowing the mind to take its natural course. Just that. 1179 01:11:39,044 --> 01:11:42,588 Say, it was surprising someone one day has started to meditate, 1180 01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:44,507 next day he came for checking. 1181 01:11:44,633 --> 01:11:48,094 And he said, "l feel wonderful. l slept very deep, 1182 01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:49,679 "and the whole thing is good. 1183 01:11:49,805 --> 01:11:52,682 "But tell me what you have taught me." (Chuckles) 1184 01:11:52,808 --> 01:11:54,475 (Both laugh) 1185 01:11:54,601 --> 01:11:56,477 l said, "Nothing." 1186 01:11:56,603 --> 01:11:58,521 (Laughter) 1187 01:11:58,647 --> 01:12:03,026 Because the process of thinking has not to be learned. 1188 01:12:03,527 --> 01:12:06,070 We are used to think. We know how to think from birth. 1189 01:12:06,405 --> 01:12:08,281 (Screaming) 1190 01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:14,329 l got a message from John and a message from Joe, saying, 1191 01:12:14,455 --> 01:12:16,831 "We're going to Wales. We've met this guy. 1192 01:12:16,957 --> 01:12:19,417 "We listened to him. Ηe's great. Come to Wales." 1193 01:12:20,002 --> 01:12:23,171 (Paul) We'd seen this giggly little lndian guy with a beard 1194 01:12:23,297 --> 01:12:25,131 coming on TV and we liked him. 1195 01:12:25,257 --> 01:12:26,758 You know, he was a funny little character 1196 01:12:26,884 --> 01:12:28,676 who was gonna save the world. 1197 01:12:28,802 --> 01:12:32,555 So he came round and we were ripe for saving. 1198 01:12:32,848 --> 01:12:35,558 (George) You know, l wanted to get into meditation. 1199 01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:39,312 But it's one thing reading about it and the other thing of how do you do it. 1200 01:12:39,438 --> 01:12:42,482 So l got myself to the point where, OΚ, l need a mantra. 1201 01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:43,733 You know, where do you go? 1202 01:12:43,859 --> 01:12:46,194 You know, you go to Ηarrods and get a mantra. 1203 01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,072 But then David Wynn showed me this picture and he said, 1204 01:12:49,198 --> 01:12:52,241 "Oh, he's coming to do a lecture at the Ηilton. 1205 01:12:52,993 --> 01:12:54,452 "Ηe's called Maharishi." 1206 01:12:54,828 --> 01:12:57,330 (David Frost) You give each person a sound, don't you? 1207 01:12:57,456 --> 01:13:00,249 ls that the same sound that you give to each person? 1208 01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:03,044 (Maharishi) No. Each person gets different. 1209 01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:05,088 (Frost) Ηow many sounds are there? 1210 01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:07,006 Oh, there are lots of them. 1211 01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:09,217 l mean, hundreds or thousands, or... 1212 01:13:09,343 --> 01:13:10,927 We could say thousands. 1213 01:13:11,136 --> 01:13:14,514 And when a person has been given their own particular sound, 1214 01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:15,765 how do they use it? 1215 01:13:15,891 --> 01:13:17,308 l mean, when they're meditating, 1216 01:13:17,434 --> 01:13:19,727 how do they use the sound you've given them? 1217 01:13:19,853 --> 01:13:22,146 Why is that sound useful to them? 1218 01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:29,070 Ah! See, every man has his own impulse of individuality, yes? 1219 01:13:30,197 --> 01:13:33,241 Some man goes by and you feel attracted towards him. 1220 01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:35,618 Other man goes and you feel repulsed. 1221 01:13:35,744 --> 01:13:39,414 Something exchanged in the rhythm of the individual. 1222 01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:41,040 Like, everyone has his own rhythm. 1223 01:13:41,917 --> 01:13:44,752 Now, the rhythm of a sound 1224 01:13:44,878 --> 01:13:48,923 which will resonate to the existing rhythm of the individual. 1225 01:13:49,466 --> 01:13:52,635 And that will be the sound suitable to him. 1226 01:13:52,761 --> 01:13:55,012 Got it. So that you try to find the... 1227 01:13:55,139 --> 01:13:56,556 Give the person the sound 1228 01:13:56,682 --> 01:14:00,309 that fits in with the rhythm of their own lives and being. 1229 01:14:01,395 --> 01:14:03,688 (Paul) We were at Maharishi's meditation camp 1230 01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:06,149 when the news came through about Brian. 1231 01:14:06,567 --> 01:14:10,445 And it was horrifying because we'd experienced loss, 1232 01:14:10,571 --> 01:14:14,157 but with Brian dying, it was like one of us dying. 1233 01:14:14,950 --> 01:14:17,994 And you can kind of come to terms with your parent dying because 1234 01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,496 you know they'll probably die before you. 1235 01:14:20,622 --> 01:14:22,665 But Brian, it was, whoa! 1236 01:14:22,791 --> 01:14:24,375 And it was such a big part of the equation. 1237 01:14:24,501 --> 01:14:26,461 People used to call him the fifth Beatle, you know. 1238 01:14:26,587 --> 01:14:30,715 So it was like, "Oh, my God, now we're on our own." 1239 01:14:31,133 --> 01:14:34,886 (George) lt was very strange for it to happen at that precise moment. 1240 01:14:35,012 --> 01:14:38,890 We'd just got involved with this meditation. 1241 01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,352 You know, l mean, that may not sound like a big deal, but it actually was. 1242 01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,647 lt's a big change in your life when, 1243 01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:52,111 you know, when you start making the journey inward. 1244 01:14:52,821 --> 01:14:56,657 And for Brian to like kick the bucket that particular day, 1245 01:14:56,783 --> 01:14:58,367 it was pretty far out. 1246 01:14:59,203 --> 01:15:01,829 (Frost) ls the mantra something you use 1247 01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,749 to get back to the subject 1248 01:15:04,875 --> 01:15:08,461 if you find earthly or irrelevant thoughts intruding? 1249 01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:11,130 - Yeah, something like that. - Or is it more than that? 1250 01:15:11,256 --> 01:15:13,966 You know, you just sort of sit there and you let your mind go, 1251 01:15:14,092 --> 01:15:16,552 whatever it's going, doesn't matter what you're thinking about. 1252 01:15:16,678 --> 01:15:17,678 Just let it go. 1253 01:15:17,804 --> 01:15:21,516 And then you just introduce the mantra or the vibration. 1254 01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:23,434 Just to take over from the thought. 1255 01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,728 You don't will it or use your will power. 1256 01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:27,897 lf you find yourself thinking then 1257 01:15:28,857 --> 01:15:31,526 the moment you realise you've been thinking about things again 1258 01:15:31,652 --> 01:15:35,613 then you replace that thought with the mantra again. 1259 01:15:36,114 --> 01:15:38,324 Sometimes you can go on 1260 01:15:38,450 --> 01:15:41,327 and you find that you haven't even had the mantra in your mind. 1261 01:15:41,453 --> 01:15:43,454 You've just been a complete blank. 1262 01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:48,125 But when you reach that point, because it's beyond all experience, 1263 01:15:48,252 --> 01:15:52,672 then it's down there in that... That level is timeless, spaceless. 1264 01:15:52,798 --> 01:15:55,341 So you can be there for five minutes and come out. 1265 01:15:55,467 --> 01:15:57,635 You don't actually know how long you've been there. 1266 01:15:57,761 --> 01:16:01,681 Then the aim, as opposed to sitting and thinking, or anything 1267 01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:04,267 is to reach a point where you have no thoughts, is it? 1268 01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:05,685 (George) Mm. 1269 01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:07,770 (Chants mock mantra) 1270 01:16:07,896 --> 01:16:09,564 (Audience laugh) 1271 01:16:09,690 --> 01:16:10,731 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhe lnner Light) 1272 01:16:10,857 --> 01:16:13,901 ♪ Without going out of my door 1273 01:16:14,444 --> 01:16:18,948 ♪ l can know all things on earth 1274 01:16:19,783 --> 01:16:24,287 ♪ Without looking out of my window 1275 01:16:24,413 --> 01:16:29,166 ♪ l could know the ways of heaven 1276 01:16:29,835 --> 01:16:33,879 ♪ The farther one travels 1277 01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:38,509 ♪ The less one knows 1278 01:16:39,928 --> 01:16:44,974 ♪ Τhe less one really knows ♪ 1279 01:16:53,358 --> 01:16:56,360 The word, for instance, the word "God," l mean has.... 1280 01:16:56,820 --> 01:17:00,156 Does it mean something different to you now than it did before the Maharishi? 1281 01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:01,490 (John) lt could be. 1282 01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:04,368 lt means all sorts of things to me. lt means... 1283 01:17:04,494 --> 01:17:08,080 l mean, the first concept of a man in the sky, 1284 01:17:08,206 --> 01:17:11,125 well, l kicked that one a few years ago. But l've got back to that now 1285 01:17:11,251 --> 01:17:14,045 because it's a man in the sky as well, if you like. 1286 01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:15,838 lt's just everything. 1287 01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:18,132 The whole thing that... lt's just everything. 1288 01:17:18,258 --> 01:17:22,845 Every aspect of creation is part of God. 1289 01:17:22,971 --> 01:17:26,641 l think that perhaps we should try and get it a little clearer, 1290 01:17:26,975 --> 01:17:28,351 what we're talking about. 1291 01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,771 lf we're talking about a mystical religious belief, 1292 01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:33,898 which l think that George Ηarrison is... 1293 01:17:34,358 --> 01:17:35,983 But are we really talking about mysticism 1294 01:17:36,109 --> 01:17:39,236 or are we talking about a technique of improving yourself 1295 01:17:39,363 --> 01:17:40,863 which is totally scientific and rational? 1296 01:17:40,989 --> 01:17:43,240 You can take it either way. You can take it either way. 1297 01:17:43,367 --> 01:17:44,784 Well, that's easy. 1298 01:17:44,910 --> 01:17:47,453 Τhis is because it is a perceptual method. 1299 01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:51,457 lf a man has got a great conceptual apparatus and he meditates, 1300 01:17:51,583 --> 01:17:54,418 he will begin to understand the nature of a conceptual apparatus, 1301 01:17:54,544 --> 01:17:56,545 and if he's wrong about it he'll begin to understand 1302 01:17:56,672 --> 01:17:58,130 where he's wrong about it. 1303 01:17:58,256 --> 01:17:59,965 lf he's got no conceptual apparatus, 1304 01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:04,011 he simply perceives an abstract experience. 1305 01:18:04,721 --> 01:18:06,806 Now, when he's had an abstract experience, 1306 01:18:06,932 --> 01:18:09,725 he may wish then to give himself explanations of it. 1307 01:18:10,227 --> 01:18:12,812 But it's primarily a perceptual method. 1308 01:18:12,938 --> 01:18:14,814 And so what this offers is an experience. 1309 01:18:14,940 --> 01:18:15,940 (John) Yeah. (George) Yeah. 1310 01:18:16,066 --> 01:18:17,650 Why should this abstract experience 1311 01:18:17,776 --> 01:18:19,610 be any more valuable than any other experiences? 1312 01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:22,530 You see, George Ηarrison talked about a bliss experience. 1313 01:18:22,656 --> 01:18:25,241 Well, you can have a bliss experience by drinking a bottle of whisky. 1314 01:18:25,367 --> 01:18:27,118 - (Several talk) - You get a ha... 1315 01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:30,329 Now why...Why is a... Why is his bliss experience... 1316 01:18:30,455 --> 01:18:32,998 (Frost) You'd have a hell of a non-bliss experience the next morning. 1317 01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:35,626 ..his abstract bliss experience in any way more valuable 1318 01:18:35,752 --> 01:18:37,169 than anybody else's bliss experience? 1319 01:18:37,295 --> 01:18:41,799 Or are we talking about a universe which has some hidden laws 1320 01:18:41,925 --> 01:18:44,927 and a hidden creator who manifests himself 1321 01:18:45,053 --> 01:18:47,346 only to people like Mister Ηarrison and the Maharishi 1322 01:18:47,472 --> 01:18:49,932 when they get into a state of trance? Τhat's what l want to know. 1323 01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:53,310 Well, let's face it. These laws that you say, hidden laws, 1324 01:18:53,437 --> 01:18:54,520 they are hidden. 1325 01:18:54,646 --> 01:18:57,064 But they're only hidden by our own ignorance. 1326 01:18:57,190 --> 01:18:59,900 And the word mysticism is just 1327 01:19:00,026 --> 01:19:02,319 being arrived at through people's ignorance. 1328 01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:03,863 There's nothing mystical about it, 1329 01:19:03,989 --> 01:19:06,866 only that you're ignorant of what that entails. 1330 01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:08,993 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhe lnner Light) 1331 01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:11,871 ♪ Arrive without travelling 1332 01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,252 ♪ See all without looking 1333 01:19:18,378 --> 01:19:21,172 ♪ Do all without doing ♪ 1334 01:19:27,804 --> 01:19:31,390 Ηe wanted to be a spiritual being more than anything. 1335 01:19:31,516 --> 01:19:35,060 But he couldn't, because he had to deal with this life. 1336 01:19:36,021 --> 01:19:40,232 So he could be loving because that was really his true nature 1337 01:19:40,358 --> 01:19:42,777 and sweet and kind and gentle. 1338 01:19:43,236 --> 01:19:46,238 But then the anger came from the frustration of... 1339 01:19:47,115 --> 01:19:48,574 that he had. 1340 01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:52,369 When you glimpse something that you understand 1341 01:19:53,330 --> 01:19:58,417 but you can't be there because there's something earthly holding you back. 1342 01:19:59,002 --> 01:20:01,170 And he was very aware of that. 1343 01:20:01,296 --> 01:20:04,423 (Man) What were the earthly things 1344 01:20:04,549 --> 01:20:06,550 that pulled on him the most? 1345 01:20:09,137 --> 01:20:11,430 Well, the three... The other three Beatles. 1346 01:20:11,932 --> 01:20:16,435 And what they were creating and were continuing to create. 1347 01:20:16,561 --> 01:20:20,147 This huge empire, Apple. 1348 01:20:20,941 --> 01:20:23,651 l think he felt that he'd found 1349 01:20:24,152 --> 01:20:28,030 something that he totally understood and wanted to just be there. 1350 01:20:28,156 --> 01:20:29,448 Be in it. 1351 01:20:29,574 --> 01:20:34,662 Ηe became totally absorbed with meditation. 1352 01:20:34,788 --> 01:20:37,331 (Dhani reads) "Dear Mum, thanks for your letter last week. 1353 01:20:37,457 --> 01:20:39,458 "And if it's any comfort to you, don't worry about me 1354 01:20:39,584 --> 01:20:42,586 "or don't think anything negative about Maharishi. 1355 01:20:42,712 --> 01:20:43,963 "Because he's not phoney. 1356 01:20:44,089 --> 01:20:46,757 "lt's only the bullshit that's written about him that's phoney. 1357 01:20:46,883 --> 01:20:48,592 "He's not taking any of our money. 1358 01:20:48,718 --> 01:20:51,303 "All he's doing is teaching us how to contact God. 1359 01:20:51,429 --> 01:20:53,264 "And as God isn't divided into different sects 1360 01:20:53,390 --> 01:20:56,267 "as the religious leaders here make out by their prejudices, 1361 01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:59,270 "then it doesn't affect my dedication to Sacred Heart in any way. 1362 01:20:59,396 --> 01:21:00,896 "lt only strengthens it. 1363 01:21:01,940 --> 01:21:03,440 "But we will help to spread this teaching 1364 01:21:03,567 --> 01:21:05,484 "so that everybody can attain this. 1365 01:21:05,610 --> 01:21:08,445 "And new generations will grow up and have this right from the start 1366 01:21:08,572 --> 01:21:10,656 "instead of going through the ignorance that seems to dominate 1367 01:21:10,782 --> 01:21:12,491 "everything and everyone at the moment, 1368 01:21:12,617 --> 01:21:15,452 "causing them to feel that it's mysticism or something strange, 1369 01:21:15,579 --> 01:21:17,246 "or black magic. 1370 01:21:18,164 --> 01:21:20,833 "Don't think that l've gone off my rocker, because l haven't. 1371 01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:24,295 "But l now love you and everybody else much more than ever. 1372 01:21:24,421 --> 01:21:26,046 "So it's not that bad, is it?" 1373 01:21:27,549 --> 01:21:29,425 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Savoy Τruffle) 1374 01:21:31,261 --> 01:21:33,679 ♪ Creme tangerine 1375 01:21:33,805 --> 01:21:35,097 ♪ And Montelimar 1376 01:21:39,519 --> 01:21:42,980 ♪ A ginger sling with a pineapple heart 1377 01:21:47,777 --> 01:21:49,194 ♪ Coffee dessert 1378 01:21:49,321 --> 01:21:51,697 ♪ Yes, you know it's good news 1379 01:21:54,326 --> 01:21:56,911 ♪ But you'll have to have them all pulled out 1380 01:21:57,037 --> 01:22:00,706 ♪ After the Savoy truffle ♪ 1381 01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:04,460 Whenever we were together 1382 01:22:04,586 --> 01:22:07,630 in the public, say, for instance, 1383 01:22:08,006 --> 01:22:11,550 l would turn... l mean, for all of the amount of, uh, 1384 01:22:11,676 --> 01:22:14,887 weight that l thought l carried, would turn to nobody. 1385 01:22:15,180 --> 01:22:17,890 lf we were going into a restaurant or a club, 1386 01:22:18,016 --> 01:22:21,268 the way people would behave around 1387 01:22:21,394 --> 01:22:23,562 their aura, you know. 1388 01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:27,691 And by "their", l mean the Beatles, was beyond belief. 1389 01:22:28,443 --> 01:22:30,027 George had two sides to his character. 1390 01:22:30,153 --> 01:22:33,447 l mean, you know, l'm his mate, so l can't tell too much. 1391 01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:35,157 But he was a guy. 1392 01:22:35,825 --> 01:22:39,244 You know. And you know what l'm talking about. 1393 01:22:39,371 --> 01:22:43,082 Ηe was like... Ηe was a red-blooded man, you know. 1394 01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:46,293 So he would like, you know, the things guys like. 1395 01:22:46,544 --> 01:22:48,879 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Savoy Τruffle) 1396 01:23:09,567 --> 01:23:12,194 ♪ But you'll have to have them all pulled out 1397 01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,990 ♪ After the Savoy truffle ♪ 1398 01:23:17,325 --> 01:23:20,202 l distinctly remember putting the saxes on. 1399 01:23:21,871 --> 01:23:27,668 And l got what l considered to be a good sax sound, they... 1400 01:23:28,962 --> 01:23:31,046 blended well, it was very nice, 1401 01:23:31,172 --> 01:23:34,008 and George comes up after teaching him the parts 1402 01:23:34,134 --> 01:23:37,594 and says, "Yeah, they sound great. Now distort them." 1403 01:23:38,304 --> 01:23:39,513 "What?" 1404 01:23:39,639 --> 01:23:42,558 "Yeah, they're too clean, they're too nice. Distort them." 1405 01:23:43,059 --> 01:23:46,770 "OΚ." So l had to one way or another mess them up. 1406 01:23:46,896 --> 01:23:48,564 When we were mixing it, 1407 01:23:48,690 --> 01:23:51,442 George Martin walks into the control room. Ηe says, 1408 01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,529 "lsn't it a bit bright? lsn't it a bit toppy?" 1409 01:23:55,655 --> 01:23:57,239 And George just turned around to him and said, 1410 01:23:57,365 --> 01:23:58,949 "Yeah. And l like it." 1411 01:23:59,075 --> 01:24:01,285 And he just turns around and we carry on working. 1412 01:24:01,411 --> 01:24:04,913 George just upped and... George Martin just walked out. 1413 01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,249 Went to one of the other studios where they were doing other work. 1414 01:24:07,375 --> 01:24:10,419 They were like the kids that've just left home, 1415 01:24:10,545 --> 01:24:13,213 and parents aren't looking after them any more. 1416 01:24:13,339 --> 01:24:15,090 ( ♪ Psychedelic rock) 1417 01:24:26,519 --> 01:24:28,645 (Clapton) A guy called Joe Massot was making this film 1418 01:24:28,772 --> 01:24:30,814 and he'd asked George to do the soundtrack. 1419 01:24:30,940 --> 01:24:32,066 And it was really just... 1420 01:24:32,192 --> 01:24:34,026 l showed up, you know. George told me 1421 01:24:34,152 --> 01:24:36,612 he'd like me to play on something 1422 01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:38,280 or we'd write something as we went along. 1423 01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:40,407 We put down this thing and... 1424 01:24:40,533 --> 01:24:42,743 George then put backwards guitar on top of it. 1425 01:24:42,869 --> 01:24:46,371 lt was very experimental and it was good fun. 1426 01:25:00,970 --> 01:25:04,014 l think that in England there was a sort of cultural revolution 1427 01:25:04,140 --> 01:25:07,935 in the sixties, which touched on every branch of life. 1428 01:25:08,061 --> 01:25:09,394 Wake up! 1429 01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:11,980 (Shutter clicking) 1430 01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:14,900 You can thank your lucky stars you're working for me, can't you? 1431 01:25:16,277 --> 01:25:18,028 And a smile now. Come on. 1432 01:25:19,405 --> 01:25:20,489 Smile. 1433 01:25:21,533 --> 01:25:22,658 Smile! 1434 01:25:23,701 --> 01:25:26,703 (Continues clicking) 1435 01:25:28,289 --> 01:25:29,623 God. 1436 01:25:29,749 --> 01:25:33,585 That's why Antonioni decided to do Blow-Up in England 1437 01:25:33,711 --> 01:25:35,629 because of it being the... 1438 01:25:35,755 --> 01:25:37,589 the spot where everything was going on. 1439 01:25:38,424 --> 01:25:39,466 What do they call you in bed? 1440 01:25:39,592 --> 01:25:40,884 (Sniggers) 1441 01:25:42,053 --> 01:25:44,054 l only go to bed to sleep. 1442 01:25:53,523 --> 01:25:56,525 l remember the mystery that was around George Ηarrison. 1443 01:25:56,651 --> 01:25:59,903 l wouldn't have asked him a question. 1444 01:26:00,697 --> 01:26:05,033 l wouldn't have dared, because of, um, feeling he... 1445 01:26:05,660 --> 01:26:08,579 he was onto something else. 1446 01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,664 There was a lot of energy around. 1447 01:26:10,790 --> 01:26:12,958 Everybody was inspiring everybody else. 1448 01:26:13,084 --> 01:26:16,670 We'd go to David Ηockney's studio and watch him paint. 1449 01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:18,297 And, um... 1450 01:26:19,132 --> 01:26:21,175 "Oh, David, can l just have that little sketch?" 1451 01:26:21,301 --> 01:26:23,010 And he'd say, "No, you can't." 1452 01:26:23,136 --> 01:26:24,428 (Laughs) 1453 01:26:24,804 --> 01:26:28,223 And then we'd go off and he'd say, "Oh, let's go and see the Stones. 1454 01:26:28,349 --> 01:26:30,976 "They're recording at so and so." Then off we'd go there. 1455 01:26:31,519 --> 01:26:33,395 So we could just do anything. Nobody minded. 1456 01:26:33,521 --> 01:26:35,689 Everybody was flying around like that. 1457 01:26:35,815 --> 01:26:38,358 lt was, um, all so possible and so easy 1458 01:26:38,484 --> 01:26:40,068 and we didn't think twice about it. 1459 01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:42,196 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Revolution 9) 1460 01:26:55,877 --> 01:26:59,421 l was in New York and some people came and said, 1461 01:26:59,547 --> 01:27:00,797 "Aren't you gonna come to London? 1462 01:27:00,924 --> 01:27:03,133 "London is swinging. London is great!" 1463 01:27:03,259 --> 01:27:06,011 And l think, "Well, l don't know." You know. 1464 01:27:06,137 --> 01:27:09,556 l was so New York, you know, l didn't want to sort of leave New York. 1465 01:27:09,682 --> 01:27:13,101 But then things happened and l went to London and it was really great. 1466 01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:16,396 There was a kind of feeling of freedom 1467 01:27:16,522 --> 01:27:19,233 and l felt that it's almost like the... 1468 01:27:19,567 --> 01:27:21,443 the air was kind of a... 1469 01:27:21,569 --> 01:27:25,781 had an intelligent smell about it. Yeah? 1470 01:27:26,824 --> 01:27:32,037 George and John and l made Number Nine. 1471 01:27:33,248 --> 01:27:36,083 And that was actually George who sort of instigated it. 1472 01:27:36,209 --> 01:27:38,335 Ηe said, "Let's do it, let's do it." You know. 1473 01:27:38,461 --> 01:27:40,837 And he didn't have that feeling of... 1474 01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:45,384 Well, Yoko is a separate thing and, you know, we shouldn't, sort of, 1475 01:27:47,053 --> 01:27:49,596 be nice to her or anything like that. Ηe was just very nice. 1476 01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:55,602 l thought it's very interesting to know about what the Beatles do. 1477 01:27:56,145 --> 01:28:00,232 Because, you know, l come from an avant-garde background and all that. 1478 01:28:00,358 --> 01:28:04,403 And here they were making music in a way that 1479 01:28:04,529 --> 01:28:06,697 was very different from what we used to do. 1480 01:28:07,031 --> 01:28:08,949 lt had power of its own. 1481 01:28:09,367 --> 01:28:10,993 And l thought, "Well, this is what you can do." 1482 01:28:11,119 --> 01:28:13,203 ( ♪ 12-bar instrumental) 1483 01:28:27,427 --> 01:28:30,137 George had two sides, like we all do, you know. 1484 01:28:30,263 --> 01:28:34,349 Sometimes he was very nice and sometimes he was, um... 1485 01:28:35,018 --> 01:28:37,227 just being too honest or something. (Chuckles) 1486 01:28:37,353 --> 01:28:38,854 Frank about things, you know. 1487 01:28:39,188 --> 01:28:42,441 Ηe would say something right away, before he's thinking. 1488 01:28:42,817 --> 01:28:45,652 So he didn't mince words. 1489 01:28:46,446 --> 01:28:49,865 And sometimes it's, you know, "Oh, dear. Do you think that?" or something. 1490 01:28:49,991 --> 01:28:51,950 Ηe'd just hurt me maybe. 1491 01:28:52,076 --> 01:28:55,579 But, he... John said, "Oh, that's George, you know." 1492 01:28:55,705 --> 01:28:57,873 And l got used to that, too. lt was very nice. 1493 01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:00,876 l remember a particular occasion when 1494 01:29:01,002 --> 01:29:03,670 l'd written Ηey Jude and l brought it in. 1495 01:29:03,796 --> 01:29:06,548 And l go... ♪ Ηey, Jude, don't make it bad ♪ 1496 01:29:06,674 --> 01:29:07,758 And George was playing... 1497 01:29:07,884 --> 01:29:09,551 - ♪ Ηey, Jude - (lmitates riffing) 1498 01:29:09,677 --> 01:29:12,220 - ♪ Don't make it bad ♪ - (lmitates riffing) 1499 01:29:12,347 --> 01:29:14,723 And l had to sort of say, "No, George, look, 1500 01:29:14,849 --> 01:29:18,602 "l really don't think you can put a guitar riff 1501 01:29:18,728 --> 01:29:20,395 "after every line, you know." 1502 01:29:20,521 --> 01:29:23,482 And it was like a real, "Oh, OK then." 1503 01:29:24,233 --> 01:29:28,653 But, you know, l knew he couldn't do it. Maybe he knew he couldn't do it. 1504 01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:31,448 But it created tension, you know. And it was like... 1505 01:29:32,825 --> 01:29:36,161 Τhen this feeling that l was just dictating things 1506 01:29:36,287 --> 01:29:37,496 started to grow, you know. 1507 01:29:37,622 --> 01:29:40,749 And l was dictating things cos l knew how l wanted my song to go. 1508 01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:44,252 Similarly, John would say how he wanted his song to go, 1509 01:29:44,379 --> 01:29:46,463 or George would say how he wanted his to go. 1510 01:29:46,589 --> 01:29:49,841 The intensity that they had together 1511 01:29:49,967 --> 01:29:53,553 must have had its limits and it had to explode at some point. 1512 01:29:54,138 --> 01:29:58,308 Now they were out in London, travelling a lot 1513 01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:01,937 and getting...and having different people influence them. 1514 01:30:02,063 --> 01:30:05,399 So coming back together, it didn't work as well. 1515 01:30:05,733 --> 01:30:10,237 l quit the band in '67, on the White Album, because, uh... 1516 01:30:13,324 --> 01:30:17,202 l was just in, l don't know, in some emotional state 1517 01:30:17,328 --> 01:30:20,622 where l honestly felt that l wasn't playing well. 1518 01:30:20,748 --> 01:30:24,584 For some reason l felt l just wasn't playing good. 1519 01:30:24,710 --> 01:30:27,504 And those three were really close. 1520 01:30:29,507 --> 01:30:31,758 And l thought, "Well, l gotta deal with this anyway." 1521 01:30:31,884 --> 01:30:33,677 So, you know, l went over to John's... 1522 01:30:33,803 --> 01:30:36,638 Ηe was staying with Yoko in my apartment 1523 01:30:36,764 --> 01:30:38,682 and l said, "Look, man, 1524 01:30:38,808 --> 01:30:42,811 "you know, l've gotta say, look, l feel l'm not playing really good. 1525 01:30:42,937 --> 01:30:44,813 "And you three are really close." 1526 01:30:44,939 --> 01:30:47,482 Ηe goes, "l thought it was you three." 1527 01:30:48,568 --> 01:30:52,404 And l went to Paul's and knocked on his door and l said the same thing. 1528 01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:55,824 l said, "You know, and you three are really close." 1529 01:30:55,950 --> 01:30:57,826 "l thought it was you three!" 1530 01:30:57,952 --> 01:31:01,079 And l thought, "Oh, shit, l'm goin' on holiday. l'm off." 1531 01:31:01,205 --> 01:31:02,581 And l went to Sardinia. 1532 01:31:02,707 --> 01:31:03,832 When l got back, 1533 01:31:03,958 --> 01:31:06,710 when they said, "Oh, come on back. We love you." Blah, blah, blah. 1534 01:31:06,836 --> 01:31:11,673 George had decorated the whole studio with flowers, you know. 1535 01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:15,635 And, you know, that was a beautiful moment for me. 1536 01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:18,763 ( ♪ Τhe Beatles: While My Guitar Gently Weeps) 1537 01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:35,697 ♪ l look at you all 1538 01:31:35,823 --> 01:31:40,410 ♪ See the love there that's sleeping 1539 01:31:41,746 --> 01:31:46,416 ♪ While my guitar gently weeps 1540 01:31:49,295 --> 01:31:52,631 ♪ l look at the floor 1541 01:31:52,757 --> 01:31:57,177 ♪ And l see it needs sweeping 1542 01:31:58,471 --> 01:32:04,059 ♪ Still my guitar gently weeps 1543 01:32:07,146 --> 01:32:10,690 ♪ l don't know why 1544 01:32:11,442 --> 01:32:14,319 ♪ Nobody told you 1545 01:32:15,696 --> 01:32:20,158 ♪ How to unfold your love ♪ 1546 01:32:23,496 --> 01:32:27,415 lt was crap, you know. We were trying to do the song and it wasn't happening. 1547 01:32:27,542 --> 01:32:29,834 You know, they weren't taking it serious. 1548 01:32:29,961 --> 01:32:33,088 And l don't think they were even all playing on it. 1549 01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:36,341 And so, l went home that night and l just thought, 1550 01:32:36,467 --> 01:32:39,844 "Well, that's a shame cos l know this song is pretty good." 1551 01:32:39,971 --> 01:32:43,682 And then the next day l was driving into London with Eric, 1552 01:32:44,183 --> 01:32:45,976 and l said, "Ηey, what are you doing? 1553 01:32:46,102 --> 01:32:51,231 "Why don't you come to the studio and, you know, play on this song for me." 1554 01:32:51,357 --> 01:32:53,400 And he says, "Oh, no, l can't do that. 1555 01:32:54,110 --> 01:32:56,444 "You know, nobody's ever played on a Beatles' record. 1556 01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,488 "And, you know, the others wouldn't like that." 1557 01:32:58,614 --> 01:33:01,575 And l said, "Well, you know, hard luck, it's my song, 1558 01:33:01,701 --> 01:33:03,535 "and l'd like you to play on it." 1559 01:33:03,661 --> 01:33:06,121 We'd all learned to grow together 1560 01:33:06,247 --> 01:33:09,708 and, you know, some days one'd grow a little taller, 1561 01:33:09,834 --> 01:33:11,418 and the next day someone else'd grow tall, 1562 01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:13,962 you know what l mean? lt's how we were. 1563 01:33:14,505 --> 01:33:17,424 (Clapton) lt'd been a few years since l'd seen them, 1564 01:33:17,550 --> 01:33:19,217 and they had changed. 1565 01:33:19,343 --> 01:33:23,096 And this particular song was a strong view of... 1566 01:33:23,889 --> 01:33:27,267 And it was coming very much from where George had found himself 1567 01:33:27,393 --> 01:33:31,354 as a result of becoming involved with mysticism. 1568 01:33:31,897 --> 01:33:35,942 And seeing John and George and Paul sing together, when they were doing 1569 01:33:36,652 --> 01:33:40,614 harmonies and things, and Paul playing, l mean it was fantastic. 1570 01:33:41,115 --> 01:33:44,117 ♪ l look at you all 1571 01:33:49,707 --> 01:33:55,670 ♪ Still my guitar gently weeps ♪ 123425

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