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Ringo!
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Wait till we get on there
and it dies a death.
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Thank you.
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You all right, George?
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Something's going on
with these big boots.
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I'm going on in Dougie's pants,
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so when I bend down,
I hope they don't just split open.
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You need a light?
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Paul's all right,
he's got his jacket on.
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Anyone have a towel? Excuse me.
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- Don't be nervous, John.
- I'm not, Macca.
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Cases are still within the door.
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I get something in me head,
and all the walls of Rome couldn't stop me.
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All right, pickled onion.
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I remember so vividly
showing up at a show,
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and you'd be in your ordinary clothes,
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and then you'd take out
of your little suitcase
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your suit, and your shirt,
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and put 'em on,
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and then finally your Beatle boots.
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And you'd stand up.
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And you just looked at each other like,
"Yeah, there we are."
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One, two.
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I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
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I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I You think you've lost your love
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I Well, I saw her yesterday
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I It's you she's thinking of
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I And she told me what to say
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I She says she loves you
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I And you know that can't be bad.
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I She loves you
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I And you know you should be glad.
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I She said you hurt her so
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I She almost lost her mind
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I Now she says she knows
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I You're not the hurting kind
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I Because she loves you
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I And you know that can't be bad.
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I She loves you
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I And you know you should be glad.
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I Ooh...
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I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah... I.
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'Yeah, yeah, yeah,
those are The Beatles, those are,
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'and this is Beatleland,
formerly known as Britain,
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'where an epidemic called Beatlemania
has seized the teenage population.'
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'Such confusion here at London airport.
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'Hundreds and hundreds
of young Beatle fans.'
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The younger generation is going to hell!
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Just gorgeous.
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- They're what?
- They're gorgeous.
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It's their haircuts, and the clothes,
they're settin' a new fashion.
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The way they sing, their clothes,
their hair. They sound different.
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But they're confident,
they're natural.
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They sort of represent
the teenage people.
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I Be glad.
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I Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I.
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By the end,
it became quite complicated.
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But at the beginning,
things were really simple.
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Thank you very much everybody!
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- Thank you, yeah.
- Thank you very much.
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A lot of people thought
we were an overnight sensation.
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We weren't.
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People didn't realise
we'd had all this development.
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They just saw these four things
that looked alike with this haircut,
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and they knew how to play,
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and they were a bit of a laugh,
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you know, 'cause that's what we'd
been doing all those years previously.
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I had a group.
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I was the singer and the leader.
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I met Paul and said,
"Do you want to join me band", you know?
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And then George joined.
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We were great live performers then.
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I don't think anybody in the world
ever saw us outside of Liverpool
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and a few places
where we travelled to,
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because that's when we had to perform
live to a small audience in a dance hall,
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we had to hold them.
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We were just playing, all the time.
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Then we went out to Hamburg,
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and that was a real slog.
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We were playing,
sometimes eight hours a day.
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I was right in the middle
of the naughtiest city in the world,
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at 17 years old.
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It was kind of exciting.
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I was with Rory Storm.
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We were like the top band in Liverpool,
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and for some reason, this guy in Hamburg
decided to come to Liverpool
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and take all the bands
to Germany to play.
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We went to see these punks,
and that was it.
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I still remember that moment,
the first time Ringo played with us.
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Bang, he kicks in and it's like...
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And it was an oh, my God moment,
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we're like... I remember looking,
and we're all looking at each other, like,
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"Yeah, this is it."
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I'm getting very emotional.
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Once we got Ringo,
we started to do better
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and sort of do it professionally.
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You know, for me,
I'm an only child,
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I felt like I suddenly had three brothers.
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We just wanted to play.
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Playing was the most important thing.
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Hamburg was a bit messy,
you know,
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I mean, to sleep
all huddled together in one room.
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You know, no bathroom or anything,
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but then we'd had practice, because
we didn't have a bathroom at home.
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We used to have this saying that
I used to chant and they would answer,
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when they were depressed, you know,
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and thinking the group
was going nowhere,
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and this is a shitty deal,
and we're in a shitty dressing room.
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I say, "Where are we going, fellows?"
And they'd go:
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To the top, Johnny.
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And I'd say, where's that, fellows?
And they'd say:
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To the toppermost
of the poppermost, Johnny.
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And I'd say, "Right!"
And we'd all sort of cheer up.
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We were always kinda,
you know, a little nervous
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before each step
we went up the ladder.
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But we didn't realise what was to come.
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I Last night
I said these words to my girl... I.
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'The Beatles.
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'In one meteoric year,
they've led the way
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'from the centres of Liverpool
to the national limelight.'
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Do you have any fears
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that your public eventually
will move on to a new favourite?
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It's stupid
to worry about things like that.
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It's not worth missing your sleep for,
is it?
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- No.
- No.
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- What do you think?
- It could, it could happen tomorrow
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and we could have quite a run.
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I was living in Sweden,
and The Beatles came to Sweden.
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I remember I went day after day
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and stood outside the hotel
at the end of school.
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And I just remember
seeing their figures on the balcony.
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Once a day, The Beatles
would come out and wave.
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Hello, my name's Paul McCartney
and I play bass guitar.
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Hello, people there,
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I'm George Harrison
and I play solo guitar, yeah.
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This is Ringo Starr and I play drums.
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And this is John Lennon,
and I play better guitar.
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They were like a gang,
do you know what I mean?
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They each had their little characteristic.
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I mean,
John was surprisingly fearless.
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Paul was surprisingly cute.
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Ringo was cheeky and irresistible.
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And George was the one
that my sister was in love with.
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Now, you're tremendously lively
and full of zing on the stage,
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how difficult is it for you
to keep up this zest?
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Well, we do the zest we can.
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I've spent my whole career,
in a way,
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trying to recapture in things that I write,
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the hilarity of four friends,
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one drink down, age 19,
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laughing at their jokes and all the
new stuff that they find really funny.
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The Beatles were kind of the dream
of how you might be with your friends
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as you went through life.
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All screaming, screaming,
that's the man of the year,
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and you say, "Why do they scream?"
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- I don't know.
- No.
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I couldn't tell you.
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If somebody scores a goal,
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there's a louder cheer
from all the people,
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so if we shake our heads,
it's the equivalent of scoring a goal,
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and that's when the screams are loudest.
Do you see what I mean?
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Yes, yes I do understand.
You do that and they scream.
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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- I Well, shake it up, baby, now.
- I Shake it up, baby.
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- I Twist and shout.
- I Twist and shout
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I Come on, come on,
come on, come on, baby, now
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I Come on, baby
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I Come on and work it on out
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I Work it on out
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- I Well, you twisty little girl.
- I Twisty little girl
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- I You know you twist so fine.
- I Twist so fine
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- I Come on and twist a little closer now.
- I Twist a little closer
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- I And let me know that you're mine.
- I Let me know you're mine
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I Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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I Shake it up, baby
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I Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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I Shake it up, baby
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I Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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I Shake it up, baby... ooh!
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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I Ah...
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I Yeah I.
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'This is the BBC Home Service.
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'Here is the news read by Frank Phillips.
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'Thousands of teenagers who had been
waiting for more than 12 hours in Liverpool
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'to book for a Beatle show
were disappointed.
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'At one time,
the queue stretched for over a mile
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'and the police had to
seal off side streets to traffic.
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'Ambulance men dealt with
more than a hundred casualties,
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'most of them suffering
from exposure to the rain.
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'When the tickets ran out,
many young girls burst into tears.
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'More rain is forecast
for most of Scotland...'
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'Hello, London, this is Leonard Parkin
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'calling Radio News Reel from Washington.
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'President Kennedy
and Governor John Connally
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'were shot today from an ambush
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'as President Kennedy's motorcade
left the centre of Dallas
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'where the President
was on a speaking tour.'
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It was disturbing for us.
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It was a mixture of all these
sort of strange things.
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Where the world was at.
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It was scary.
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But in all truthfulness,
we were more in our own heads.
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You know, being in a band.
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You know, we were lads.
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It was like, this is our journey,
and things are being put in place.
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Outside of our consciousness.
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Even the first trip to America.
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There was no plan.
You could not plan it.
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I'd been very fussy about America.
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I'd said, "We can't go to America,
and come back having failed."
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"If we ever get a number one there,
then we can really go in,"
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"and you know, we'll be kings!"
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'So Marsha Albert
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'has the honour of introducing
something brand new,
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'an exclusive here at WWDC.
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'Marsha, the microphone here
on the Carroll James Show is yours.'
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'Ladies and gentlemen, for the
first time on the air in the United States,
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'here are The Beatles singing,
I Want to Hold Your Hana'. '
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I Oh, yeah, I
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I Tell you something
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I I think you'll understand
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I When I... I
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I remember, we were in Paris,
playing at the Olympia.
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I I want to hold your hand... I.
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A telegram came through and said,
"Congratulations, boys,
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"number one in America,
Hold Your Hana'." It was like, Ah!
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We just jumped on each other's backs,
ran around
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and just partied round and round
this little room for hours,
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just screaming.
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It was like visas, passports,
America, here we come!
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'The Beatles are on their way to America.
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'Come back, Ringo, come back all,
George and John, and come back, Paul.'
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I It's such a feeling that, my love... I.
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When we came,
I know this for myself,
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and I know because
we talked to each other,
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we were in America
before the plane landed.
247
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I could feel New York.
248
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It was an incredible sensation,
249
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it was like "Come on down, boys."
250
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'There they are! It's just wild here.
251
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'The four Beatles have left the airplane!
252
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'They're standing on the airway.
253
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'There's that fabulous hairdo.
254
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'And one of them is waving his fingers.
255
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'Oh, look at him wiggle!
Look at him wiggle!
256
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'Look at him wiggle!'
257
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We all knew America,
all of us, you know?
258
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I mean, through all those movies.
259
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Whether it was Disneyland or Doris Day
and Rock Hudson, or whatever,
260
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you know, James Dean, Marilyn.
Everything was American.
261
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'Apparently they're gonna make
a concerted effort
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'to get through into the building,
263
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'where, in just a few moments,
a scheduled press conference will begin.'
264
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America's always seen
as the mother lode
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for British performers,
maybe for any performer in the world.
266
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What about the reports
267
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that you guys are nothing but
a bunch of British Elvis Presleys?
268
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It's not true, it's not true.
269
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What that is,
is what any comedian would want to do.
270
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The trick of dealing with heckles
271
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is to say the first thing
that comes into your brain,
272
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and they'd already got to that place.
273
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And they could all do it.
274
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I got a question here.
You hope to get a haircut at all?
275
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- No.
- Nope, no thanks.
276
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I had one yesterday.
277
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And that's no lie, it's true.
278
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The Beatles were cheeky.
279
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It's kind of what every kid wants to be,
a lot of adults want to be,
280
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being able to talk back to people
who are telling you what to do.
281
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They were cheeky, and I think
people in the world liked that.
282
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It's not aggressive, it's not nasty.
283
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It's just brazen.
284
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Why does your music
excite them so much?
285
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We don't know really.
286
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If we knew, we'd form another group
and be managers.
287
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And now, here he is, Ed Sullivan!
288
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Thank you very much.
289
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Now, yesterday and today our theatre's
been jammed with newspapermen
290
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and hundreds of photographers
from all over the nation,
291
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and these veterans agree with me
that the city
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never has witnessed the excitement
stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool
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who call themselves The Beatles.
294
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Now tonight, you're gonna twice
be entertained by them.
295
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Right now, and again
in the second half of our show.
296
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!
297
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One, two, three, four!
298
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I Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
299
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I Tomorrow I'll miss you
300
00:16:16,601 --> 00:16:20,813
I Remember I'll always be true.
301
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I And then while I'm away
302
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I I'll write home every day
303
00:16:27,987 --> 00:16:31,574
I And I'll send all my loving to you... I.
304
00:16:33,743 --> 00:16:36,746
We watched
Ed Sullivan every Sunday night,
305
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my brother, my mum and I.
306
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It wasn't even a question,
it was just, that's what we'd do.
307
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And man, I had never seen anybody
that looked like them.
308
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I Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
309
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I Tomorrow I'll miss you
310
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I Remember I'll always be true... I.
311
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It was like a revelation.
312
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And when you're a little kid, you don't
know it's a revelation, but it was like...
313
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the whole world lit up.
314
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Suddenly I felt like
I could be friends with them.
315
00:17:08,069 --> 00:17:10,154
And I'm black, you know?
316
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I All my loving
317
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I Ooh, all my loving
318
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I I will send to you I.
319
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People would say to me,
320
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"You think you want to be white?
You like those guys?"
321
00:17:32,718 --> 00:17:36,472
It was like, I never thought of them
really as white guys.
322
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They were The Beatles.
323
00:17:38,683 --> 00:17:41,269
They were colourless, you know?
324
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And they were fucking amazing.
325
00:17:45,648 --> 00:17:48,901
The Beatles gave me this idea
326
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that everybody was welcome.
327
00:17:52,530 --> 00:17:55,283
If you weren't the hippest kid
in the neighbourhood,
328
00:17:55,908 --> 00:17:58,911
it didn't matter,
because you could be a Beatle fan,
329
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and I liked that.
330
00:18:00,580 --> 00:18:03,708
And that sort of carried me
into these older days
331
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where it's like, I am my own person.
332
00:18:07,044 --> 00:18:09,630
I can look the way I want,
I can be the way I want,
333
00:18:09,755 --> 00:18:12,133
and it's OK.
334
00:18:12,258 --> 00:18:16,387
And I got that specifically from them.
335
00:18:16,512 --> 00:18:19,515
'Fresh after their appearance
on the Ed Sullivan Show,
336
00:18:19,640 --> 00:18:21,601
'where over half the country
was watching,
337
00:18:21,726 --> 00:18:24,562
'the four English musical stars
with their pudding-bowl haircuts
338
00:18:24,687 --> 00:18:27,481
'were mobbed by about
4,000 shrieking teenagers
339
00:18:27,607 --> 00:18:29,775
'when they got to the Plaza Hotel.'
340
00:18:29,900 --> 00:18:32,028
We had the whole floor
in the Plaza.
341
00:18:32,153 --> 00:18:35,031
- It's been press, no press.
- No press, you fool.
342
00:18:35,156 --> 00:18:39,076
And the four of us
ended up in the bathroom,
343
00:18:39,201 --> 00:18:42,413
just to get a break
from the incredible pressure.
344
00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:44,832
No, let me on it. Let me on it.
345
00:18:44,957 --> 00:18:46,542
No! Me!
346
00:18:46,667 --> 00:18:48,878
No! Me! Me!
347
00:18:49,003 --> 00:18:51,047
- Television! Me!
- It's me!
348
00:18:51,172 --> 00:18:52,298
- You!
- It's me.
349
00:18:52,423 --> 00:18:53,466
- No, you.
- No, it's me.
350
00:18:53,591 --> 00:18:55,468
- After you, sir.
- Cut.
351
00:18:55,593 --> 00:18:57,178
But we loved it.
352
00:18:57,303 --> 00:19:01,641
To pick up a small transistor radio -
it was the first time in New York -
353
00:19:01,766 --> 00:19:03,476
and hear you coming out the radio...
354
00:19:03,601 --> 00:19:05,353
Ah! It was mind blowing.
355
00:19:05,478 --> 00:19:09,565
'This is John Lennon of The Beatles
on 1010 WIMS.'
356
00:19:09,690 --> 00:19:12,735
'Now we just want to tell
everybody this was The Beatles station!
357
00:19:12,860 --> 00:19:15,196
'They're takin' over,
they're telling us what to play.'
358
00:19:15,321 --> 00:19:16,322
Hello?
359
00:19:16,447 --> 00:19:18,908
'Yes, I'm just calling
for the manager of The Beatles.
360
00:19:19,033 --> 00:19:20,701
'May we have his name, please?'
361
00:19:20,826 --> 00:19:23,663
Their manager's name
is Mr Brian Epstein.
362
00:19:28,125 --> 00:19:30,836
Looking back now,
it was Brian Epstein.
363
00:19:30,961 --> 00:19:32,672
He was the guy
who got us famous, really.
364
00:19:40,262 --> 00:19:41,806
Brian was class.
365
00:19:42,390 --> 00:19:43,516
That was what Brian was.
366
00:19:43,641 --> 00:19:45,559
He was like Liverpool class.
367
00:19:48,562 --> 00:19:51,023
Well, Brian was 27.
368
00:19:51,148 --> 00:19:53,567
He was a grown-up. He had a car.
369
00:19:55,778 --> 00:19:58,197
The Beatles' parents were Liverpudlian,
370
00:19:58,322 --> 00:20:01,784
working-class people
that had been through a war.
371
00:20:02,702 --> 00:20:04,787
Our playgrounds were bomb sites.
372
00:20:06,789 --> 00:20:09,250
His parents ran a record shop.
373
00:20:09,375 --> 00:20:12,753
Well, it seems a funny sort of
world for a young man like you to be in.
374
00:20:12,878 --> 00:20:16,048
How did you get into it?
How did you start?
375
00:20:16,173 --> 00:20:17,591
I heard about them
376
00:20:17,717 --> 00:20:21,971
through a lad
who was asking for a record by them
377
00:20:22,096 --> 00:20:23,222
in one of my stores,
378
00:20:23,347 --> 00:20:27,560
or my family's stores, in October, 1961.
379
00:20:28,519 --> 00:20:32,481
Growin' up, my mum
always wanted me to talk proper.
380
00:20:32,606 --> 00:20:34,150
You know, all of us, really.
381
00:20:34,275 --> 00:20:36,444
You know, I could talk
like I'm from Liverpool.
382
00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:40,197
Fuck you, I'm tellin' you,
don't give me any hard time.
383
00:20:41,157 --> 00:20:44,994
Whereas Brian was very
well-mannered, very well-spoken,
384
00:20:45,119 --> 00:20:47,204
so we felt we could trust him.
385
00:20:47,329 --> 00:20:49,874
I went down to see them
in Liverpool at The Cavern Club.
386
00:20:49,999 --> 00:20:52,626
The Beatles sing Some Other Guy.
387
00:21:00,468 --> 00:21:02,845
They were fresh and they were honest.
388
00:21:02,970 --> 00:21:06,807
And they had what I thought
was a sort of presence.
389
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:10,644
And this is a terrible, vague term,
"star quality."
390
00:21:10,770 --> 00:21:12,605
Whatever that is, they had it.
391
00:21:15,608 --> 00:21:16,942
I Some other guy now
392
00:21:17,067 --> 00:21:20,529
I Has taken my love away from me,
oh now
393
00:21:20,654 --> 00:21:22,114
I Some other guy now
394
00:21:22,239 --> 00:21:24,784
I Has taken away my sweet desire... I.
395
00:21:26,035 --> 00:21:28,496
He was looking
at our stage presence.
396
00:21:29,330 --> 00:21:33,793
In the early days,
it was clear that he had a vision of us
397
00:21:33,918 --> 00:21:37,171
that was beyond the vision
we had of ourselves.
398
00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:47,097
At that stage, they were
playing around the clubs in Liverpool,
399
00:21:47,223 --> 00:21:49,058
rather scruffily dressed.
400
00:21:49,183 --> 00:21:51,101
Black leather jackets and jeans,
401
00:21:51,227 --> 00:21:54,104
and a rather untidy stage presentation.
402
00:21:54,230 --> 00:21:56,857
But having great fun.
403
00:21:56,982 --> 00:21:59,902
But I don't think that they would have
bothered to do anything about it,
404
00:22:00,027 --> 00:22:05,115
because young, inexperienced people
are not really very good
405
00:22:05,241 --> 00:22:09,453
at presenting themselves properly
in the right sort of quarters.
406
00:22:10,162 --> 00:22:13,666
He took us to a tailor, Beno Dorn,
407
00:22:13,791 --> 00:22:17,586
and we went to this guy,
and he made us up suits, you know.
408
00:22:20,506 --> 00:22:23,092
I'm not sure exactly what time
we'll be back from Washington.
409
00:22:23,217 --> 00:22:25,937
We're going to Washington tomorrow
and then coming back on Wednesday.
410
00:22:26,470 --> 00:22:27,721
Good night.
411
00:22:28,138 --> 00:22:30,808
Brian kept us together as a team.
412
00:22:35,855 --> 00:22:38,941
What place do you think
this story of The Beatles is gonna have
413
00:22:39,066 --> 00:22:41,026
in the history of Western culture?
414
00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:43,612
You must be kidding with that question.
415
00:22:43,737 --> 00:22:45,239
Culture? It's not culture.
416
00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:46,684
- What is it?
- It's a good laugh.
417
00:22:50,744 --> 00:22:51,954
This is Harold James.
418
00:22:52,079 --> 00:22:55,332
And now, from
the Washington D.C. Coliseum,
419
00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:58,419
the world's most exciting group,
420
00:22:58,544 --> 00:23:01,964
Capitol Recording stars, The Beatles.
421
00:23:05,050 --> 00:23:06,635
You know, the suits.
422
00:23:06,760 --> 00:23:08,804
It's the simplest of ideas.
423
00:23:08,929 --> 00:23:11,807
It suddenly made us one person.
424
00:23:12,892 --> 00:23:14,518
A four-headed monster.
425
00:23:20,608 --> 00:23:22,026
Hello.
426
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:44,131
Thank you.
427
00:23:46,425 --> 00:23:49,762
Thank you. Thank you very much,
everybody,
428
00:23:49,887 --> 00:23:53,515
and good evening, how do you do?
429
00:23:54,558 --> 00:23:57,061
We would like to sing a song
430
00:23:57,186 --> 00:24:00,773
which we recorded on an LP
that we made.
431
00:24:00,898 --> 00:24:03,859
That's English for "album".
An album that we made.
432
00:24:03,984 --> 00:24:05,986
And we'd like you, if you would,
433
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:08,572
to sort of join in and clap your hands,
you know,
434
00:24:08,697 --> 00:24:10,199
and stamp your feet.
435
00:24:13,869 --> 00:24:15,871
The song's called
I Saw Her Standing There.
436
00:24:15,996 --> 00:24:17,414
One, two, three, four.
437
00:24:22,211 --> 00:24:24,713
I Well, she was just seventeen.
438
00:24:25,506 --> 00:24:27,424
I You know what I mean.
439
00:24:28,384 --> 00:24:32,888
I And the way looked
was way beyond compare.
440
00:24:34,515 --> 00:24:38,519
I How could I dance with another
441
00:24:38,644 --> 00:24:43,023
I Whoo...
Since I saw her standing there.
442
00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:48,320
I Well, she looked at me
443
00:24:48,445 --> 00:24:51,115
I And I, I could see
444
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,992
I That before too long
445
00:24:53,117 --> 00:24:55,703
I I'd fall in love with her.
446
00:24:57,454 --> 00:25:01,583
I She wouldn't dance with another
447
00:25:01,709 --> 00:25:06,088
I Whoo...
When I saw her standing there.
448
00:25:08,549 --> 00:25:11,218
I Well, my heart went boom
449
00:25:11,343 --> 00:25:13,971
I When I crossed that room
450
00:25:14,096 --> 00:25:20,477
I And I held her hand in mine.
451
00:25:22,938 --> 00:25:26,025
I Whoa, we danced through the night
452
00:25:26,150 --> 00:25:29,153
I And we held each other tight
453
00:25:29,278 --> 00:25:34,283
I And before too long
I fell in love with her.
454
00:25:35,534 --> 00:25:39,079
I Now, I'll never dance with another.
455
00:25:39,913 --> 00:25:44,793
I Whoo...
Since I saw her standing there
456
00:25:44,918 --> 00:25:46,128
I Whoa.
457
00:26:09,943 --> 00:26:12,237
I We danced through the night.
458
00:26:12,946 --> 00:26:15,657
I And we held each other tight
459
00:26:15,783 --> 00:26:20,204
I And before too long
I fell in love with her.
460
00:26:21,705 --> 00:26:26,251
I Now, I'll never dance with another
461
00:26:26,376 --> 00:26:30,881
I Whoo...
Since I saw her standing there.
462
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:36,386
I Well, since I saw her standing there.
463
00:26:38,764 --> 00:26:43,102
I Well, since I saw her standing there I.
464
00:27:10,754 --> 00:27:11,964
Which one are you?
465
00:27:12,089 --> 00:27:13,674
- Eric.
- Eric?
466
00:27:15,425 --> 00:27:17,636
It's not for me, it's for Paul.
467
00:27:18,846 --> 00:27:20,347
I'm doing this...
468
00:27:21,515 --> 00:27:24,643
- Eric, here is the American public.
- I'm John.
469
00:27:24,768 --> 00:27:26,562
- You're John?
- It was only a joke.
470
00:27:26,687 --> 00:27:28,605
Yes, well, John,
here is the American public.
471
00:27:28,730 --> 00:27:30,357
40 million American viewers...
472
00:27:30,482 --> 00:27:32,752
- It only looks like one man to me.
- Staring you right in the face.
473
00:27:32,776 --> 00:27:33,777
Oh, it's the cameraman.
474
00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:35,779
What is your impression
of the American public?
475
00:27:35,904 --> 00:27:38,240
- You've been here for a while now.
- They're the wildest.
476
00:27:38,365 --> 00:27:39,783
- Why?
- I don't know.
477
00:27:39,908 --> 00:27:43,495
Tonight was, you know,
marvellous, ridiculous.
478
00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:45,664
All those 8,000 people
all shouting at once,
479
00:27:45,789 --> 00:27:47,809
and we were trying to shout louder
than them with microphones,
480
00:27:47,833 --> 00:27:49,102
and we still couldn't beat them.
481
00:27:49,126 --> 00:27:51,526
Was America something like
what you thought it would be like?
482
00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:53,398
No, nothing like it.
We thought it'd be much quieter.
483
00:27:53,422 --> 00:27:55,757
We thought it, you know,
we'd have to grow on everybody.
484
00:27:55,883 --> 00:27:58,302
But everybody seems to know us all,
you know,
485
00:27:58,427 --> 00:28:00,470
as if we've been here for years.
It's great.
486
00:28:00,596 --> 00:28:02,676
I love The Beatles for them
and I'll always love 'em,
487
00:28:02,764 --> 00:28:05,809
even when I'm 105
and an old grandmother, I'll love 'em.
488
00:28:05,934 --> 00:28:07,853
And Paul McCartney,
if you are listening,
489
00:28:07,978 --> 00:28:10,981
Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you
with all her heart.
490
00:28:12,316 --> 00:28:14,026
It was a romantic thing for us,
491
00:28:14,151 --> 00:28:17,404
being in America,
playing to our American fans.
492
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:20,324
- Ringo has a sexy nose.
- A sexy nose?
493
00:28:20,449 --> 00:28:22,284
George has got sexy eyelashes.
494
00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:24,453
- Who has?
- George. He's got sexy eyelashes.
495
00:28:24,578 --> 00:28:26,014
- Which one is George?
- Sexy eyelashes.
496
00:28:26,038 --> 00:28:28,081
- That one.
- That one, he's beautiful.
497
00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:30,125
He's got sexy eyelashes.
498
00:28:30,834 --> 00:28:35,422
The very earliest records
were all pleas to the fans.
499
00:28:35,547 --> 00:28:38,050
And it was all personal article.
500
00:28:38,175 --> 00:28:40,427
In the early clays,
we didn't count lyrics at all,
501
00:28:40,552 --> 00:28:44,181
you know, as long as it had
some vague theme.
502
00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:47,184
She loves you, and he loves him,
and they love each other.
503
00:28:47,809 --> 00:28:49,478
- I So, hold - I Hold
504
00:28:49,603 --> 00:28:51,146
- I Me tight - I Me tight
505
00:28:51,271 --> 00:28:52,981
- I Tonight - I Tonight
506
00:28:53,106 --> 00:28:54,858
- I Tonight - I Tonight
507
00:28:54,983 --> 00:28:57,778
I It's you
508
00:28:57,903 --> 00:29:00,572
I You, you, you... I.
509
00:29:01,990 --> 00:29:04,076
It's all direct.
It was kind of conscious.
510
00:29:04,201 --> 00:29:06,954
We were actually appealing to girls.
511
00:29:07,079 --> 00:29:09,319
We were young boys
who were appealing to girls, you know,
512
00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:10,540
to get our fan base.
513
00:29:11,124 --> 00:29:13,543
I You... I.
514
00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:15,921
In those days...
515
00:29:19,216 --> 00:29:20,801
- Go on.
- You yourselves,
516
00:29:20,926 --> 00:29:22,844
you know,
you write very good songs.
517
00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:25,055
- Don't you?
- Oh, thank you. Thank you.
518
00:29:25,180 --> 00:29:27,975
- How do you write songs?
- Well, you know...
519
00:29:28,100 --> 00:29:29,685
We... it just depends.
520
00:29:29,810 --> 00:29:32,970
Sometimes we write them on old pianos
and anything that's lying round, you know.
521
00:29:33,313 --> 00:29:37,025
Normally we sit down
and try and bash one out, sort of thing.
522
00:29:37,150 --> 00:29:38,735
But then again, there's no formula,
523
00:29:38,860 --> 00:29:42,197
because he can come up with one
one day, completely finished,
524
00:29:42,322 --> 00:29:43,865
we still say we both wrote it then.
525
00:29:46,201 --> 00:29:49,579
I I got every reason on earth to be mad.
526
00:29:51,456 --> 00:29:55,127
I Cos I just lost the only girl I had... I.
527
00:29:55,919 --> 00:29:57,838
There's been a single
every three months,
528
00:29:57,963 --> 00:30:01,675
and we'd have to be writing
literally in the hotel or in a van.
529
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:04,386
We wrote on the road.
Mainly me and John.
530
00:30:04,511 --> 00:30:08,432
George developed as a writer later
and became an unbelievable writer.
531
00:30:08,557 --> 00:30:10,437
But at the beginning,
it was mainly me and John.
532
00:30:10,809 --> 00:30:14,479
So we would be in a hotel room
with two twin beds,
533
00:30:14,604 --> 00:30:19,735
and he'd have his acoustic guitar,
I'd have mine, sit opposite each other,
534
00:30:19,860 --> 00:30:22,029
and because I was left-handed,
he was right-handed,
535
00:30:22,154 --> 00:30:23,434
it was like looking in a mirror.
536
00:30:24,156 --> 00:30:27,701
And we'd just start something
and ricochet off each other.
537
00:30:27,826 --> 00:30:30,996
He'd do a line, I'd do a line.
And we'd just write it down.
538
00:30:31,121 --> 00:30:33,281
And when we were finished,
we didn't have a manuscript,
539
00:30:33,373 --> 00:30:35,625
but we had a sheet of paper
with the words,
540
00:30:35,751 --> 00:30:37,294
and we remembered the chords.
541
00:30:41,298 --> 00:30:43,717
That's number one in Cashbox
and Billboard.
542
00:30:44,343 --> 00:30:47,429
Yeah. You know, in New York,
three records,
543
00:30:47,554 --> 00:30:49,954
Please Please Me, She Loves You,
and I Want to Hold Your Hand
544
00:30:50,057 --> 00:30:51,391
are all number one.
545
00:30:53,101 --> 00:30:54,728
All joined, yeah.
546
00:30:54,853 --> 00:30:58,565
Thanks. Well, we'll see you
in two weeks, I suppose.
547
00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:05,072
Yeah, in a minute.
548
00:31:05,197 --> 00:31:08,909
My relationship with John
was very close, musically,
549
00:31:09,034 --> 00:31:11,661
you know,
we looked after each other, really.
550
00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:14,623
He was like someone you kinda
looked up to a little bit, you know.
551
00:31:14,748 --> 00:31:18,377
When I first met him,
I talked to people in my life,
552
00:31:18,502 --> 00:31:20,897
and they said, "What do you like to do?
What are your hobbies and stuff?"
553
00:31:20,921 --> 00:31:24,591
And I sort of said, "| like songwriting.
I've written a couple of songs."
554
00:31:24,716 --> 00:31:26,635
And they'd all go,
"Oh, yeah? Great."
555
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:28,553
"What did you think about the football?"
556
00:31:28,678 --> 00:31:31,223
And I'd go,
"Oh, OK, nobody interested."
557
00:31:31,348 --> 00:31:34,309
When I said that to John,
he said, "Oh, so have I."
558
00:31:34,935 --> 00:31:37,813
I go, "Whoa, wait a minute.
Big connection here."
559
00:31:37,938 --> 00:31:40,524
I'd never met anyone
who'd written songs.
560
00:31:41,316 --> 00:31:42,818
So that's how we started.
561
00:31:43,610 --> 00:31:47,406
I think it's something like just short of
300 songs John and I wrote together.
562
00:31:47,531 --> 00:31:50,367
I I think it's only fair
563
00:31:50,492 --> 00:31:53,495
I Pride can hurt you too
564
00:31:53,620 --> 00:31:55,997
I Apologise to her
565
00:31:56,123 --> 00:31:57,707
I Because she loves you
566
00:31:57,833 --> 00:32:00,710
I And you know that can't be bad.
567
00:32:02,379 --> 00:32:03,839
I Yes, she loves you
568
00:32:03,964 --> 00:32:07,050
I And you know you should be glad
569
00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:08,385
I Ooh...
570
00:32:08,510 --> 00:32:11,555
I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
571
00:32:11,680 --> 00:32:14,683
I She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
572
00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:18,603
I And with a love like that
you know you should be glad I.
573
00:32:18,728 --> 00:32:21,106
My mother's father was from Liverpool.
574
00:32:21,982 --> 00:32:25,652
There was that pride thing
that they were from Liverpool, you know.
575
00:32:25,777 --> 00:32:27,195
I'm nine years old.
576
00:32:27,696 --> 00:32:29,865
When your favourite group
is The Beatles,
577
00:32:29,990 --> 00:32:31,968
you know, it is like supporting
the winning football team,
578
00:32:31,992 --> 00:32:34,035
because it's like
they just keep winning the cup.
579
00:32:34,953 --> 00:32:37,038
You'd wait all week
to hear the hit parade show
580
00:32:37,164 --> 00:32:39,458
so that you would hear,
for sure, The Beatles' songs,
581
00:32:39,583 --> 00:32:41,018
because they would get to number one.
582
00:32:41,042 --> 00:32:44,838
Top British vocal group,
top four records of the year,
583
00:32:44,963 --> 00:32:48,008
the world's leading vocal group,
The Beatles.
584
00:32:58,101 --> 00:33:01,521
I Can't buy me love
585
00:33:01,646 --> 00:33:03,190
I Love
586
00:33:03,315 --> 00:33:06,568
I Can't buy me love
587
00:33:06,693 --> 00:33:10,864
I I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend,
if it makes you feel all right.
588
00:33:11,823 --> 00:33:15,660
I I'll get you anything, my friend,
if it makes you feel all right.
589
00:33:16,495 --> 00:33:19,247
I Cos I don't care too much for money
590
00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:21,791
I Money can't buy me love... I.
591
00:33:21,917 --> 00:33:24,377
For some reason,
whatever we were putting out,
592
00:33:24,503 --> 00:33:27,172
they were loving, you know?
593
00:33:27,297 --> 00:33:31,134
And they loved us wherever we went.
I mean, it was a surprise to us, too.
594
00:33:31,259 --> 00:33:33,136
John, Paul, George, or Ringo?
595
00:33:33,261 --> 00:33:34,346
The Beatles!
596
00:33:42,229 --> 00:33:43,730
It was a different kind of fame,
597
00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:47,192
because we didn't have social media,
we didn't have satellite television,
598
00:33:47,317 --> 00:33:50,111
and yet the word would spread
that this group were coming.
599
00:33:50,237 --> 00:33:52,531
Once it was big in one country,
it got bigger in the next.
600
00:33:56,326 --> 00:33:57,327
Australia,
601
00:33:57,452 --> 00:34:00,288
there was more people
came to see us there than anywhere.
602
00:34:00,413 --> 00:34:03,250
I mean, it looked like,
I think the whole of Australia was there.
603
00:34:03,833 --> 00:34:06,920
'Along the nine-mile route
from Adelaide Airport to the city,
604
00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:10,257
'almost a quarter of a million people
lined the streets.'
605
00:34:11,007 --> 00:34:12,968
My picture of it now is...
606
00:34:13,093 --> 00:34:16,388
There was a ship, going to discover
the new world, you know?
607
00:34:16,513 --> 00:34:18,765
And The Beatles were in the crow's nest,
608
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:21,142
and we just said, "Land ho!"
609
00:34:22,018 --> 00:34:25,605
I It's the second time
I've caught you talking to him
610
00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:28,984
I Do I have to tell you one more time,
I think it's a sin
611
00:34:29,109 --> 00:34:32,904
- I I'm gonna let you down.
- I Let you down
612
00:34:33,029 --> 00:34:36,658
- I Leave you flat.
- I Gonna let you down and leave you flat
613
00:34:36,783 --> 00:34:39,160
I Because I've told you before
614
00:34:39,286 --> 00:34:42,038
I Oh, you can't do that I.
615
00:34:42,163 --> 00:34:43,883
And so we were all
on this ship in the '60s,
616
00:34:43,999 --> 00:34:47,669
not just Beatles but our movement,
our generation,
617
00:34:47,794 --> 00:34:50,005
and we went somewhere.
618
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:54,968
And of course
the next most extraordinary thing
619
00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:58,805
is the fantasy version
of The Beatles from '64.
620
00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:00,557
You know, A Hard Day's Night.
621
00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:06,396
I It's been a hard day's night
622
00:35:06,521 --> 00:35:09,733
I And I've been working like a dog
623
00:35:09,858 --> 00:35:13,194
I It's been a hard day's night
624
00:35:13,320 --> 00:35:16,114
I I should be sleeping like a log... I.
625
00:35:16,239 --> 00:35:18,450
You fancy yourselves
as actors then, do you?
626
00:35:18,575 --> 00:35:19,993
No, definitely not.
627
00:35:20,118 --> 00:35:21,870
But we enjoyed making the film,
628
00:35:21,995 --> 00:35:24,122
and especially with the director.
629
00:35:24,247 --> 00:35:27,292
The director was great, you see,
and it made it much easier for us.
630
00:35:28,293 --> 00:35:29,919
United Artists said,
631
00:35:30,045 --> 00:35:34,674
"You ought to be able to make a good,
quick, low-budget film with them,"
632
00:35:34,799 --> 00:35:37,719
"as long as it's in the cinemas by July,"
633
00:35:37,844 --> 00:35:42,057
"because we think they'll be probably
a spent force by the end of the summer."
634
00:35:42,724 --> 00:35:44,309
Give us a kiss.
635
00:35:44,434 --> 00:35:47,145
- I shall call the guard.
- Ah, but what?
636
00:35:47,270 --> 00:35:49,147
They don't take kindly to insults,
you know.
637
00:35:50,565 --> 00:35:54,402
The only thing that was apparent,
through the seven weeks of the shoot,
638
00:35:54,527 --> 00:35:56,696
is that sense of protection.
639
00:35:57,447 --> 00:35:59,658
Being protective when they had to be,
640
00:35:59,783 --> 00:36:02,827
supporting one another in a family way.
641
00:36:02,952 --> 00:36:05,914
I It's been a hard day's night... I.
642
00:36:06,039 --> 00:36:08,833
One of the things about
A Hard Day's Night
643
00:36:08,958 --> 00:36:10,627
and everything you heard
about The Beatles
644
00:36:10,752 --> 00:36:12,128
is the lack of self-pity,
645
00:36:12,253 --> 00:36:15,548
that we had a feeling they were adoring
what was happening to them,
646
00:36:15,674 --> 00:36:18,927
and therefore that made it like
a completely virtuous circle.
647
00:36:19,052 --> 00:36:22,931
Fans, Beatles, fun, excitement, music.
648
00:36:23,932 --> 00:36:28,061
And of course, everybody in the world
could buy tickets to see them.
649
00:36:34,067 --> 00:36:35,694
What you're seeing is
650
00:36:35,819 --> 00:36:38,780
the emergence
of this international teen culture.
651
00:36:39,406 --> 00:36:41,825
If you're 14 in 1964,
652
00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:44,577
who are you looking to for cues?
653
00:36:44,703 --> 00:36:46,871
Not your parents.
654
00:36:48,665 --> 00:36:54,045
Beatles hysteria is kind of a muscle
flexing of that generation, the Baby Boom.
655
00:36:54,170 --> 00:36:57,330
It's no accident you see all this kind of
youth culture coming out of that time,
656
00:36:57,382 --> 00:37:01,511
because quite literally the society
is dominated by teenagers.
657
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:04,681
I You know I feel all right I.
658
00:37:27,370 --> 00:37:30,957
I Gonna write a little letter,
mail it to my local DJ.
659
00:37:32,834 --> 00:37:36,546
I It's a rockin' rhythm record
I want my jockey to play.
660
00:37:38,339 --> 00:37:41,926
I Roll over Beethoven,
gotta hear it again today.
661
00:37:43,720 --> 00:37:47,682
I You know my temperature's rising,
the jukebox blows a fuse.
662
00:37:49,434 --> 00:37:52,562
I My heart beating rhythm
and my soul is a-singing the blues.
663
00:37:54,647 --> 00:37:57,692
I Roll over Beethoven,
dig these rhythm and blues... I.
664
00:38:15,293 --> 00:38:17,837
I Roll over Beethoven
665
00:38:17,962 --> 00:38:20,590
I Yeah, roll over Beethoven... I.
666
00:38:21,382 --> 00:38:25,970
The first time we went to America,
it was just 10 days,
667
00:38:26,095 --> 00:38:28,640
so when we came back,
we knew they were waiting for us.
668
00:38:33,061 --> 00:38:36,940
Tell me, several people
on these radio programmes want to know,
669
00:38:37,065 --> 00:38:39,359
what do you plan to do
when the bubble bursts?
670
00:38:39,484 --> 00:38:41,194
Not sure, Fred.
671
00:38:41,694 --> 00:38:42,862
But we really want to know.
672
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,406
We're gonna have a laugh.
673
00:38:45,532 --> 00:38:47,909
The biggest question in 1964 was,
674
00:38:48,034 --> 00:38:50,620
"When is the bubble gonna burst?"
675
00:38:50,745 --> 00:38:53,957
'WFUN South Miami.'
676
00:38:54,791 --> 00:38:56,125
I was 21 years old,
677
00:38:56,251 --> 00:39:00,964
news director of a station in Miami,
WFUN, Fun in the Sun Radio.
678
00:39:01,089 --> 00:39:02,924
'WFUN.'
679
00:39:04,384 --> 00:39:06,970
We got word that The Beatles
were gonna come to America,
680
00:39:07,095 --> 00:39:09,931
and I wrote a letter
asking for an interview with them,
681
00:39:10,056 --> 00:39:12,851
and I sent it to Brian Epstein,
their manager.
682
00:39:12,976 --> 00:39:16,437
I got this letter back
inviting me on the tour.
683
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:21,520
And I said, "I'm not going."
684
00:39:24,153 --> 00:39:26,753
"We've got the war in Vietnam escalating,
the president just died,
685
00:39:26,823 --> 00:39:30,076
"Muhammad Ali is training
three blocks from our studio,
686
00:39:30,201 --> 00:39:32,078
"the Ford Mustang
has been released,"
687
00:39:32,203 --> 00:39:35,498
"it's one of the biggest news years
in the history of the world."
688
00:39:35,623 --> 00:39:39,669
"Why would I, a news guy,
want to travel with a band"
689
00:39:39,794 --> 00:39:43,089
"that will be here in October
and gone in November?"
690
00:39:43,214 --> 00:39:45,216
Seconds out, round one.
691
00:39:45,967 --> 00:39:47,760
My bosses said, "You gotta go."
692
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:52,390
My father pulled me aside
before I went on tour,
693
00:39:52,515 --> 00:39:54,058
and he said, "Watch your back."
694
00:39:54,183 --> 00:39:56,853
"These men are a menace to society."
695
00:39:59,397 --> 00:40:02,191
I It's been a hard day's night.
696
00:40:03,151 --> 00:40:05,695
I And I've been working like a dog... I.
697
00:40:06,446 --> 00:40:08,948
'This is Larry Kane,
on tour with The Beatles.
698
00:40:09,073 --> 00:40:12,493
'Let me give you a little description of
the dangers of being with The Beatles.
699
00:40:12,619 --> 00:40:14,621
'When we drove up to the stage door,
700
00:40:14,746 --> 00:40:17,457
'The Beatles
were almost crushed completely
701
00:40:17,582 --> 00:40:20,793
'by youngsters who amassed themselves
against the wall,
702
00:40:20,919 --> 00:40:22,879
'broke about 50 windows,
703
00:40:23,004 --> 00:40:27,634
'throwed rocks, jelly beans,
undershirts, sandals.
704
00:40:27,759 --> 00:40:29,510
'The situation was one of sheer havoc,
705
00:40:29,636 --> 00:40:32,180
'even though the police
did their best to stop it.'
706
00:40:33,932 --> 00:40:37,393
The first couple days,
there was a bewilderment.
707
00:40:37,518 --> 00:40:39,187
There was a wondrousness.
708
00:40:39,312 --> 00:40:40,647
"Is this really happening to us?"
709
00:40:40,772 --> 00:40:44,067
'One girl stuck her hand through
the window and grabbed at my face.
710
00:40:44,192 --> 00:40:46,569
'I'm OK, don't worry, people,
I'm all right.'
711
00:40:47,528 --> 00:40:50,198
Four cities later, in Vancouver,
British Columbia,
712
00:40:50,323 --> 00:40:53,993
7,000 kids rushed the stage.
713
00:41:10,927 --> 00:41:13,888
Thank you, folks.
Before we do the next song...
714
00:41:15,139 --> 00:41:17,392
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
715
00:41:17,517 --> 00:41:20,019
The Beatles have come
a long way to do this show,
716
00:41:20,144 --> 00:41:22,689
and we'll have to cut it short
unless you move back,
717
00:41:22,814 --> 00:41:24,959
cos they're very worried
about the situation in the front.
718
00:41:24,983 --> 00:41:26,359
Back.
719
00:41:26,484 --> 00:41:27,944
Back.
720
00:41:28,069 --> 00:41:31,531
240 kids wound up in the hospital.
721
00:41:31,656 --> 00:41:36,244
None of the police in any of these cities
were prepared for this.
722
00:41:36,369 --> 00:41:37,578
Nobody was prepared for this.
723
00:41:37,704 --> 00:41:39,455
Wouldn't you say, Derek,
724
00:41:39,580 --> 00:41:43,042
that police departments
don't realise how bad it is?
725
00:41:43,167 --> 00:41:44,419
I think that's true.
726
00:41:44,544 --> 00:41:46,838
They've all seen crowds before.
I mean, they all say,
727
00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:49,799
"We know our own people.
We know the police potential,"
728
00:41:49,924 --> 00:41:51,568
"and we're going to be able to handle it."
729
00:41:51,592 --> 00:41:53,392
But what they've never seen
is a Beatle crowd.
730
00:41:53,428 --> 00:41:55,930
This is the biggest thing
that's ever happened.
731
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:58,599
There's no question about it.
It's like nothing before.
732
00:41:58,725 --> 00:42:02,478
It's not like Presley, it's not like Sinatra,
it's not like the late President Kennedy.
733
00:42:02,603 --> 00:42:05,398
It's The Beatles,
and they are without precedent.
734
00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:07,984
Thank you.
735
00:42:08,651 --> 00:42:10,611
Thank you very much, everybody. Ta.
736
00:42:10,737 --> 00:42:11,904
It's wonderful, thank you.
737
00:42:13,156 --> 00:42:15,366
Um, singing a song
738
00:42:15,491 --> 00:42:18,453
from the first album
that we ever made.
739
00:42:18,578 --> 00:42:23,124
A song which was originally recorded
by a group called The Shirelles.
740
00:42:23,249 --> 00:42:25,752
- Just a minute, checking.
- Yeah.
741
00:42:25,877 --> 00:42:26,919
Yeah.
742
00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:29,297
Singing a song called Boys.
Ringo!
743
00:42:36,179 --> 00:42:39,557
I I been told when a boy kiss a girl
744
00:42:39,682 --> 00:42:42,351
I Take a trip around the world,
hey, hey
745
00:42:42,477 --> 00:42:44,604
I Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop
746
00:42:44,729 --> 00:42:47,523
- I Hey, now.
- I Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop
747
00:42:47,648 --> 00:42:49,484
- I Hey, hey - I Bop shuop
748
00:42:49,609 --> 00:42:51,527
I Whoa, she say you do
749
00:42:51,652 --> 00:42:53,279
I Bop shuop, yeah... I.
750
00:42:54,655 --> 00:42:57,116
I was way in the back, way at the top,
751
00:42:57,241 --> 00:43:00,286
surrounded by lots of girls
752
00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:04,791
really crying real tears
and so beside themselves.
753
00:43:06,000 --> 00:43:08,836
I felt as much as a girl can feel.
754
00:43:08,961 --> 00:43:10,421
I was in love with John.
755
00:43:11,130 --> 00:43:14,592
I remember spending all day
putting my hair in beer cans
756
00:43:14,717 --> 00:43:17,011
to make sure it was straight,
cos I had curly hair.
757
00:43:17,136 --> 00:43:18,262
Picking out the dress.
758
00:43:18,387 --> 00:43:23,351
Because of course they would see me,
along with 15,000 girls.
759
00:43:23,476 --> 00:43:25,978
It was this sense of world music
760
00:43:26,104 --> 00:43:28,272
that we were all loving them,
all over the world.
761
00:43:30,108 --> 00:43:32,735
I My girl says when I kiss her lips... I.
762
00:43:32,860 --> 00:43:35,488
This is Larry Kane on-board
the Beatle Bird, as I call it.
763
00:43:35,613 --> 00:43:37,508
I have with me George Harrison.
How ya doin', George?
764
00:43:37,532 --> 00:43:39,367
I'm very well, Larry.
And how are you?
765
00:43:39,492 --> 00:43:41,637
- Fine, are you glad to be back in America?
- Yeah, it's great.
766
00:43:41,661 --> 00:43:44,872
This is Larry Kane with The Beatles,
flying across America.
767
00:43:44,997 --> 00:43:46,332
With me I have Ringo Starr.
768
00:43:46,457 --> 00:43:50,002
Right over Kansas, 23,000 feet in the air,
on our way to Cincinnati.
769
00:43:50,128 --> 00:43:51,879
They had a wild one yesterday.
770
00:43:52,004 --> 00:43:54,507
On this exciting 25-city,
coast-to-coast tour.
771
00:43:54,632 --> 00:43:56,134
Atlantic City, Philadelphia.
772
00:43:56,259 --> 00:43:58,445
Well, let's talk a little bit
about the crowds at Indianapolis.
773
00:43:58,469 --> 00:44:01,055
Back and forth, again.
The stage set for Milwaukee tonight.
774
00:44:01,180 --> 00:44:03,659
You can hear the buzz and excitement
here in the Chicago Amphitheater.
775
00:44:03,683 --> 00:44:04,767
Now Detroit, Michigan.
776
00:44:04,892 --> 00:44:07,186
The Beatles really shook up
the crowds in Toronto.
777
00:44:07,311 --> 00:44:08,563
In Montreal, Canada.
778
00:44:08,688 --> 00:44:11,149
Hi, this is Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.
779
00:44:11,274 --> 00:44:16,487
Let me explain to you the type of feeling
that you get after 15 performances,
780
00:44:16,612 --> 00:44:19,824
watching The Beatles in action
and watching the crowds.
781
00:44:20,783 --> 00:44:22,410
It's a chilling feeling inside,
782
00:44:22,535 --> 00:44:25,997
because you know you are experiencing
a phenomenon
783
00:44:26,122 --> 00:44:29,750
that is the only one of its kind
in the century thus far
784
00:44:29,876 --> 00:44:31,711
and that probably will go down in history
785
00:44:31,836 --> 00:44:37,091
as the greatest show business example
of music and admiration
786
00:44:37,216 --> 00:44:40,011
in many, many hundreds of years.
787
00:44:40,136 --> 00:44:41,929
I Ah... boys
788
00:44:42,054 --> 00:44:43,556
I Yeah, yeah, boys
789
00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:46,601
- I Don't you know I mean boys.
- I Yeah, yeah, boys
790
00:44:46,726 --> 00:44:49,395
- I Talking about boys now.
- I Yeah, yeah, boys
791
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:52,523
- I Aah, ah!
- I Yeah, yeah, boys
792
00:44:52,648 --> 00:44:55,401
- I Talking about boys now.
- I Yeah, yeah, boys
793
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:57,778
I What a bundle of joy I.
794
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:02,867
Thank you!
795
00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:10,041
Remember, too, that in 1964
there were riots throughout the South
796
00:45:10,166 --> 00:45:12,293
because of the Civil Rights Movement.
797
00:45:13,878 --> 00:45:16,839
And you started to feel
a social change happening.
798
00:45:18,591 --> 00:45:21,385
'This is Larry Kane, and the big
question mark still is Jacksonville,
799
00:45:21,510 --> 00:45:24,013
'not knowing whether
they will be able to perform.'
800
00:45:24,138 --> 00:45:26,015
I'd received a report from my station
801
00:45:26,140 --> 00:45:29,101
that the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville
was gonna be segregated,
802
00:45:29,227 --> 00:45:31,771
so I mentioned it to them
in the interview.
803
00:45:31,896 --> 00:45:36,317
'What about this comment that I heard
about, uh... concerning racial integration
804
00:45:36,442 --> 00:45:38,527
'at the various performances?'
805
00:45:38,653 --> 00:45:40,893
'We don't like it if there's
any segregation or anything,
806
00:45:40,988 --> 00:45:42,740
'because it just seems mad to me.'
807
00:45:42,865 --> 00:45:45,868
And I could see Brian in the corner
of the room going like, "Oh, my God."
808
00:45:45,993 --> 00:45:47,833
'Well, you're gonna play
Jacksonville, Florida.
809
00:45:47,870 --> 00:45:50,190
'Do you anticipate any kind of difference
of that opinion?'
810
00:45:50,289 --> 00:45:53,542
'I don't know, really. You know,
it'd be a bit silly to segregate people,
811
00:45:53,668 --> 00:45:56,212
'cos, you know, I mean,
obviously it's stupid, you know.
812
00:45:56,337 --> 00:45:58,464
'You can't treat other human beings
like animals.'
813
00:45:58,589 --> 00:46:00,859
'That's the way we all feel.'
'That's the way we all feel,
814
00:46:00,883 --> 00:46:02,653
'and a lot of people in England
feel that way, you know.
815
00:46:02,677 --> 00:46:05,304
'Cos there's never any segregation
in concerts in England,
816
00:46:05,429 --> 00:46:08,015
'and in fact if there was,
we wouldn't play 'em, you know.'
817
00:46:10,476 --> 00:46:12,228
During that same summer,
818
00:46:12,353 --> 00:46:16,065
we had the three civil rights workers
in the South who were missing,
819
00:46:18,025 --> 00:46:19,235
and then found dead.
820
00:46:22,113 --> 00:46:26,409
I was 15, living in segregation.
821
00:46:27,702 --> 00:46:33,249
It was an apartheid that's probably difficult
for a lot of people to even picture.
822
00:46:33,374 --> 00:46:37,712
The only white person
I would even have contact with
823
00:46:37,837 --> 00:46:41,674
was a salesman who would come
into the community.
824
00:46:42,591 --> 00:46:45,428
I was ripe for something different,
I think,
825
00:46:45,553 --> 00:46:49,307
by the time I heard that
The Beatles were coming to town.
826
00:46:51,851 --> 00:46:55,229
All of them, by the way, were
very emphatic about Jacksonville.
827
00:46:55,354 --> 00:46:59,775
They said if there was going to be
segregation of any kind, we're not going.
828
00:47:00,318 --> 00:47:02,194
We played to people,
that's what we did.
829
00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:07,074
We didn't play to, like, those people,
or that people, you know what I mean?
830
00:47:07,199 --> 00:47:08,659
We just played to people.
831
00:47:10,286 --> 00:47:14,665
It was amazing that the four
of them, young men, seeing the world,
832
00:47:14,790 --> 00:47:20,338
started to act up and blow back
on this very, very hot and sensitive issue,
833
00:47:20,463 --> 00:47:23,382
knowing that it would really irritate
a lot of Americans.
834
00:47:24,633 --> 00:47:29,680
We had to all decide that
we agreed on a thing before we'd do it.
835
00:47:29,805 --> 00:47:32,558
That is, like, one of the classic things
about The Beatles.
836
00:47:32,683 --> 00:47:38,439
Four votes had to be carried
for any idea to go through.
837
00:47:39,273 --> 00:47:40,941
Instead of going for an individual thing,
838
00:47:41,067 --> 00:47:44,862
we went for the strongest format
and for equals.
839
00:47:44,987 --> 00:47:47,198
That was one thing
to be said about us.
840
00:47:47,323 --> 00:47:50,284
We were very, very close to each other.
841
00:47:50,409 --> 00:47:52,036
We'd always stick together.
842
00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:55,664
We all had to agree,
so it was a strong decision.
843
00:47:55,790 --> 00:47:58,459
You know, the proof's
in the pudding. It worked really well.
844
00:48:02,129 --> 00:48:05,925
It was my first concert,
and I went by myself.
845
00:48:06,050 --> 00:48:11,305
The only catch in my breath that I got
was when I went to my seat
846
00:48:11,430 --> 00:48:13,891
and there were
all those other people around me.
847
00:48:14,016 --> 00:48:16,977
And I still can feel that, to this day,
848
00:48:17,103 --> 00:48:19,271
that there were
all these white people around,
849
00:48:19,397 --> 00:48:21,732
but everyone standing up with everybody,
850
00:48:21,857 --> 00:48:26,529
and then just yelling as loud as I could
and singing along.
851
00:48:28,781 --> 00:48:31,283
I Me, I'm just the lucky kind.
852
00:48:31,992 --> 00:48:33,953
I Love to hear you say
853
00:48:34,078 --> 00:48:36,956
I That love is luck,
and though we may... I.
854
00:48:37,081 --> 00:48:40,584
That was the first experience I had
855
00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:43,712
where it was possible to be around
people who were different,
856
00:48:43,838 --> 00:48:47,716
and at least for a while
those differences could disappear.
857
00:48:47,842 --> 00:48:50,010
I If I fell in love with you
858
00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:52,304
I Would you promise to be true
859
00:48:52,430 --> 00:48:56,934
I And help me understand... I.
860
00:48:57,560 --> 00:49:01,480
The people who ran the Gator Bowl
integrated for the first time ever,
861
00:49:01,605 --> 00:49:04,024
which, from my historical perspective
and study,
862
00:49:04,150 --> 00:49:07,153
ended all that in most
of the big stadiums in the South.
863
00:49:08,195 --> 00:49:11,824
'And the next eight clays are probably
the most gruelling of the tour.
864
00:49:11,949 --> 00:49:13,826
'Looks like The Beatles
are holding up strong.'
865
00:49:14,535 --> 00:49:18,414
Every night on the airplane, they
would walk up to the front of the plane
866
00:49:18,539 --> 00:49:20,624
where the opening acts were
867
00:49:21,208 --> 00:49:23,169
and kneel down and talk to them.
868
00:49:23,294 --> 00:49:26,881
Every single night,
they would ask them if they were OK.
869
00:49:27,006 --> 00:49:28,766
Because they were being ignored
by the crowd.
870
00:49:29,341 --> 00:49:31,844
'This is Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.
871
00:49:31,969 --> 00:49:33,780
'And they're looking forward
to going back to England,
872
00:49:33,804 --> 00:49:37,391
'because they'll be there for two weeks,
where they'll record records of new music,
873
00:49:37,516 --> 00:49:40,186
'and then believe it or not,
another month-long tour,
874
00:49:40,311 --> 00:49:41,937
'this time of their own country,
875
00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,648
'sometimes just by bus,
and that's pretty hard.'
876
00:49:46,317 --> 00:49:49,403
My mother died in the summer of 1964,
877
00:49:49,528 --> 00:49:52,948
and somehow or other it got to them
that she had passed away,
878
00:49:53,073 --> 00:49:56,410
and Paul and John both consoled me.
879
00:49:57,328 --> 00:50:00,039
John and I,
we'd both lost our mothers.
880
00:50:00,164 --> 00:50:01,749
Mine had died of cancer
881
00:50:01,874 --> 00:50:05,169
and his had died
in a terrible road accident.
882
00:50:05,836 --> 00:50:07,880
So that kind of pulled us together a lot.
883
00:50:08,005 --> 00:50:10,591
You know, being teenagers,
we just needed to do something
884
00:50:10,716 --> 00:50:12,843
that would get us away from this tragedy,
885
00:50:12,968 --> 00:50:15,262
and so songwriting was it, really.
886
00:50:16,096 --> 00:50:19,558
I Cos I couldn't stand the pain... I.
887
00:50:20,518 --> 00:50:23,479
They were very, very sensitive
to other people's feelings.
888
00:50:23,604 --> 00:50:24,897
All four of them.
889
00:50:25,397 --> 00:50:28,025
They were intelligent people
who cared about other people,
890
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:30,194
who had a sense of themselves.
891
00:50:30,945 --> 00:50:32,738
They also liked making fun of me.
892
00:50:32,863 --> 00:50:35,616
'John, last night, you were very kind
and Derek was very kind
893
00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:38,285
'to invite us up to see the movie,
which I have seen twice.'
894
00:50:38,410 --> 00:50:39,787
'I never invited him at all.
895
00:50:39,912 --> 00:50:41,872
'I just saw him sitting there,
listening to us.'
896
00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:45,292
'Well, anyway, uh...'
'Only kidding, Larry.'
897
00:50:45,417 --> 00:50:47,962
'This has been Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.'
898
00:50:59,181 --> 00:51:01,767
It's extraordinary,
when you think about it,
899
00:51:01,892 --> 00:51:05,062
that they were touring
in this kind of circus of life.
900
00:51:05,187 --> 00:51:08,399
The sort of madness
of all that jamboree, of excitement,
901
00:51:08,524 --> 00:51:10,025
and hysteria.
902
00:51:10,150 --> 00:51:13,612
And yet, they were able to express
the way they were feeling,
903
00:51:13,737 --> 00:51:15,155
the weirdness of it,
904
00:51:15,281 --> 00:51:20,911
because inside those Beatle suits
were composers. They were writers.
905
00:51:22,830 --> 00:51:24,510
- Now I told you.
- It was you, too George.
906
00:51:24,540 --> 00:51:26,166
I said we'd miss out
on the middle eight.
907
00:51:26,292 --> 00:51:29,545
Ah, you're coming in the wrong...
Halfway through the solo.
908
00:51:29,670 --> 00:51:33,132
- What was it, 12 bar?
- Yeah...
909
00:51:34,174 --> 00:51:36,260
The studio was like our little haven.
910
00:51:36,385 --> 00:51:39,972
Once we got back there,
we knew we could experiment.
911
00:51:45,185 --> 00:51:46,186
We could hear ourselves.
912
00:51:46,312 --> 00:51:50,566
And we would write songs
that would be a progression
913
00:51:50,691 --> 00:51:52,318
and that would be fun to record.
914
00:51:57,573 --> 00:51:59,408
Brian Epstein and I
915
00:51:59,533 --> 00:52:02,703
worked together very closely
planning their future.
916
00:52:02,828 --> 00:52:06,665
We agreed that we should
put out a single every three months
917
00:52:06,790 --> 00:52:09,084
and an album every six months.
918
00:52:09,209 --> 00:52:10,919
I Baby's good to me, you know
919
00:52:11,045 --> 00:52:14,757
I She's happy as can be, you know,
she said so.
920
00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:20,971
I I'm in love with
her and I feel fine... I.
921
00:52:21,889 --> 00:52:25,851
I was under pressure
because I'd got such little time with them.
922
00:52:25,976 --> 00:52:28,896
I would say to Brian, you know,
"| need more time in the studio."
923
00:52:29,021 --> 00:52:32,900
And he would dole out time
like giving scraps to a mouse.
924
00:52:33,025 --> 00:52:36,904
One of the great things
about our recording was the schedule.
925
00:52:37,029 --> 00:52:38,947
You'd go in a 10 o'clock in the morning,
926
00:52:39,073 --> 00:52:41,575
tune up, have a ciggy,
have a cup of tea or something,
927
00:52:41,700 --> 00:52:47,706
and then John and I mainly would present
the song that we'd written to everyone.
928
00:52:48,499 --> 00:52:50,042
It goes...
929
00:52:57,383 --> 00:52:59,218
Just go through it anyway,
if it makes...
930
00:52:59,343 --> 00:53:01,303
Make mistakes...
just to practice it.
931
00:53:01,428 --> 00:53:02,513
Try to remember, John,
932
00:53:02,638 --> 00:53:05,683
and if I don't, well,
it's just too bad, isn't it? OK?
933
00:53:06,266 --> 00:53:07,851
Is it just me and you?
934
00:53:07,976 --> 00:53:09,728
One, two, three, four.
935
00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:12,731
I Ooh... I.
936
00:53:14,525 --> 00:53:16,985
- Oh, no, that's too much.
- You daft git!
937
00:53:17,111 --> 00:53:19,780
- Take two!
- One, two, three, four.
938
00:53:19,905 --> 00:53:23,450
I Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
939
00:53:23,575 --> 00:53:26,495
I Ooh, ooh.
940
00:53:27,121 --> 00:53:30,582
I Ooh, I need your love, babe
941
00:53:30,708 --> 00:53:33,210
I Guess you know it's true
942
00:53:33,335 --> 00:53:34,878
Ringo would tap along,
943
00:53:35,003 --> 00:53:38,298
George would just suss the chords,
and then George Martin would go,
944
00:53:38,424 --> 00:53:40,592
"Oh, yeah, that's half nice,
it was marvellous,"
945
00:53:40,718 --> 00:53:42,696
and then it would take about
20 minutes to do that.
946
00:53:42,720 --> 00:53:44,179
I Love me... I.
947
00:53:44,304 --> 00:53:45,472
What are you doing?
948
00:53:45,597 --> 00:53:47,784
George, what did it sound like
with the bass doing a funny thing?
949
00:53:47,808 --> 00:53:49,577
Did it sound good
or did it sound just utterly crap?
950
00:53:49,601 --> 00:53:52,104
Thank you,
I think it's a good idea.
951
00:53:52,229 --> 00:53:54,273
No, no...
952
00:53:54,773 --> 00:53:57,651
- Take three.
- One, two, three, four.
953
00:53:57,776 --> 00:53:59,611
I Ooh... I.
954
00:54:01,530 --> 00:54:02,823
At the very beginning,
955
00:54:02,948 --> 00:54:06,827
George Martin was the only man
who could press the button to record.
956
00:54:06,952 --> 00:54:09,788
We'd just play it and do it.
"Ah, did you get that, George?"
957
00:54:11,540 --> 00:54:12,875
I'm getting that, yes.
958
00:54:13,000 --> 00:54:15,043
- Wonderful.
- That's lovely.
959
00:54:15,169 --> 00:54:17,963
Keep that one. Mark it "fab".
960
00:54:18,088 --> 00:54:20,507
You wanna have a listen
before we go onto the next one?
961
00:54:21,341 --> 00:54:23,719
George had recorded the Goons.
962
00:54:23,844 --> 00:54:26,680
That was like a cult thing
that we all loved and we all knew it.
963
00:54:27,556 --> 00:54:29,975
At that time,
I was a comedy producer,
964
00:54:30,100 --> 00:54:32,227
recording Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers
965
00:54:32,352 --> 00:54:34,605
and a lot of English comedy actors.
966
00:54:34,730 --> 00:54:36,356
So he picked up our humour,
967
00:54:36,482 --> 00:54:39,735
he picked up our camaraderie,
you know.
968
00:54:39,860 --> 00:54:42,321
We thought,
"Well, he's mad. We love him."
969
00:54:42,446 --> 00:54:43,572
Ready yet in there?
970
00:54:43,697 --> 00:54:45,491
Oh, we'll just have to
have a go of it.
971
00:54:45,616 --> 00:54:47,951
- Oh, you're right...
- I know.
972
00:54:48,994 --> 00:54:51,997
On the early records,
George Martin was a god.
973
00:54:52,122 --> 00:54:54,291
To begin with,
I was very much in charge,
974
00:54:54,416 --> 00:54:57,127
because I was a kind of schoolmaster
teaching them everything.
975
00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:58,962
And they had to do what I told them.
976
00:54:59,087 --> 00:55:03,383
You had one and a half hours
from 10:30 to finish that song.
977
00:55:03,509 --> 00:55:05,969
Boom. So that focused you.
978
00:55:06,094 --> 00:55:07,679
That was a great discipline.
979
00:55:10,599 --> 00:55:13,227
- We'll do it again.
- So, we'll try and get it good, too.
980
00:55:13,352 --> 00:55:14,853
I'm just gonna start
recording you.
981
00:55:14,978 --> 00:55:16,980
Red light's on.
982
00:55:17,105 --> 00:55:18,690
Every minute of the day,
983
00:55:19,483 --> 00:55:21,401
someone wanted something, you know?
984
00:55:21,527 --> 00:55:23,695
Drive to EMI to do a record,
985
00:55:23,821 --> 00:55:27,157
down here to Soho to do a photo shoot.
986
00:55:29,993 --> 00:55:32,496
Drive back to do some TV show.
987
00:55:32,621 --> 00:55:36,416
I I'm a loser
988
00:55:36,542 --> 00:55:39,878
I And I'm not what I appear to be
989
00:55:40,003 --> 00:55:41,463
I Of all... I
990
00:55:41,588 --> 00:55:43,882
I was singing the wrong words there.
991
00:55:44,007 --> 00:55:46,176
Drive to Birmingham to do a gig.
992
00:55:47,261 --> 00:55:48,929
End up in a nightclub.
993
00:55:49,054 --> 00:55:52,683
We were just doing
four or five things a day, you know,
994
00:55:52,808 --> 00:55:56,270
but we had each other.
And we brought that to the music.
995
00:55:57,479 --> 00:56:00,274
I Ooh, I need your love, babe.
996
00:56:00,816 --> 00:56:03,151
I Guess you know it's true.
997
00:56:04,319 --> 00:56:07,364
I Hope you need my love, babe
998
00:56:07,489 --> 00:56:10,158
I Just like I need you... I.
999
00:56:11,994 --> 00:56:13,912
The thing about the scale is
1000
00:56:14,037 --> 00:56:16,498
that writing lots of songs
is not particularly difficult.
1001
00:56:16,623 --> 00:56:18,292
Volume is not the thing.
1002
00:56:18,417 --> 00:56:21,461
The extraordinary thing about The Beatles
is the amount of great songs.
1003
00:56:21,587 --> 00:56:23,213
Schubert wrote about 800 songs,
1004
00:56:23,338 --> 00:56:26,091
of which probably 100
are absolutely beautiful melodies.
1005
00:56:26,216 --> 00:56:27,843
The other 700, pretty good.
1006
00:56:27,968 --> 00:56:31,972
The only comparison with that kind of level
of melody, maybe Mozart?
1007
00:56:32,472 --> 00:56:35,142
Very, very high volume
and very good melodies.
1008
00:56:35,267 --> 00:56:36,852
You have to wait a long time, then,
1009
00:56:36,977 --> 00:56:39,271
till you get someone
who's up in the hundreds,
1010
00:56:39,396 --> 00:56:41,106
and that's when you get The Beatles.
1011
00:56:41,231 --> 00:56:43,334
Which is why I think
you can compare them in some ways,
1012
00:56:43,358 --> 00:56:45,068
because the sheer volume
of the invention.
1013
00:56:45,611 --> 00:56:49,114
I I ain't got nothing but love, girl.
1014
00:56:49,573 --> 00:56:51,199
I Eight days a week.
1015
00:56:53,076 --> 00:56:55,495
I Eight days a week... I.
1016
00:57:09,801 --> 00:57:12,137
Hello again
from Hullabaloo, London.
1017
00:57:12,262 --> 00:57:14,932
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Richard Lester.
1018
00:57:19,853 --> 00:57:23,065
Richard, what do you think we could
tell them about the new Beatles flick?
1019
00:57:23,190 --> 00:57:25,710
Well, first of all, it's going to be
different from the last one.
1020
00:57:25,734 --> 00:57:27,027
It'll be in colour.
1021
00:57:27,152 --> 00:57:30,697
It'll be a film that has a lot of plot,
a lot of entertainment about it,
1022
00:57:30,822 --> 00:57:32,407
and Ringo's in trouble again.
1023
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:35,827
We need protection,
we've got a record to do tomorrow.
1024
00:57:35,953 --> 00:57:37,037
I need protection.
1025
00:57:37,162 --> 00:57:39,456
And you shall have it.
Get me protection.
1026
00:57:43,043 --> 00:57:47,464
I You don't realise
how much I need you.
1027
00:57:50,050 --> 00:57:54,429
I Love you all the time
and never leave you.
1028
00:57:56,556 --> 00:57:59,851
I Please come on back to me
1029
00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:03,146
I I'm lonely as can be
1030
00:58:03,271 --> 00:58:04,690
I I need you... I.
1031
00:58:07,109 --> 00:58:10,195
We'd enjoyed very much doing
A Hard Day's Night.
1032
00:58:10,320 --> 00:58:12,614
We had kinda taken it seriously,
1033
00:58:12,739 --> 00:58:17,119
but with the film Help!
We were kinda pretty disinterested.
1034
00:58:17,619 --> 00:58:19,579
You know,
we were now doing it again,
1035
00:58:20,414 --> 00:58:23,875
and so it couldn't be quite as exciting
as the first time. Nothing is.
1036
00:58:27,879 --> 00:58:32,718
The main thing I remember is,
we all had meetings about tax structure
1037
00:58:32,843 --> 00:58:34,469
and they would sorta say,
1038
00:58:34,594 --> 00:58:38,056
oh you've gotta put your money
in the Bahamas or somewhere.
1039
00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:40,684
So when we were asked about the film,
1040
00:58:40,809 --> 00:58:42,519
we would say,
"Can we go to The Bahamas?"
1041
00:58:42,644 --> 00:58:46,148
We were told, you're gonna film
in the Bahamas. Write a scene.
1042
00:58:54,614 --> 00:58:59,578
I I get high when I see you go by.
1043
00:59:01,705 --> 00:59:02,873
I My oh my... I.
1044
00:59:02,998 --> 00:59:07,836
In 1965, they invited me to Nassau
to watch them film the movie Help!
1045
00:59:07,961 --> 00:59:10,922
I walked into the house
and I saw something very unusual.
1046
00:59:11,048 --> 00:59:13,759
They were all high on marijuana.
1047
00:59:14,593 --> 00:59:16,303
And I'd never seen this before.
1048
00:59:16,428 --> 00:59:18,805
- Hey Paul, how you doin'?
- Hello, Larry.
1049
00:59:18,930 --> 00:59:21,224
- Good to see you again.
- Lovely to see you, yes.
1050
00:59:21,349 --> 00:59:23,560
Hey, John. How are you doin'?
1051
00:59:28,940 --> 00:59:31,140
What is this everything...
anything can happen business?
1052
00:59:37,532 --> 00:59:39,409
- Thanks a lot.
- Anything. Larry?
1053
00:59:39,534 --> 00:59:42,162
We'll be talking to you.
1054
00:59:42,871 --> 00:59:48,460
In all truthfulness, we spent a
lot of that film slightly stoned.
1055
01:00:01,181 --> 01:00:04,059
Things were spiralling
like crazy during Help!
1056
01:00:04,643 --> 01:00:09,106
There were people coming in
with contracts for bubblegum royalties
1057
01:00:09,231 --> 01:00:10,649
and being condescending,
1058
01:00:10,774 --> 01:00:12,609
and then the press
were getting aggressive.
1059
01:00:13,360 --> 01:00:14,903
They owned all of us.
1060
01:00:15,028 --> 01:00:16,446
There's no switching off.
1061
01:00:16,571 --> 01:00:19,491
The elevator man wants a little piece
of you on the way back to your room.
1062
01:00:19,616 --> 01:00:22,619
The maid wants a little piece of you
back at the hotel.
1063
01:00:22,744 --> 01:00:25,544
And I don't mean sexually, I mean
a piece of your time and your energy,
1064
01:00:25,664 --> 01:00:28,667
and it's like a politician,
you're on 24 hours a day.
1065
01:00:29,584 --> 01:00:31,628
I think that John got fed up first.
1066
01:00:31,753 --> 01:00:35,382
He became agitated or frustrated
about what was being written,
1067
01:00:35,507 --> 01:00:38,093
particularly from 1965 onward.
1068
01:00:39,386 --> 01:00:41,888
Richard Lester
had said we need a song,
1069
01:00:42,639 --> 01:00:44,474
and John started it,
1070
01:00:44,599 --> 01:00:48,145
so by the time I came to see him,
he had a lot of it,
1071
01:00:48,270 --> 01:00:52,023
and he said to me, you know,
this is kind of autobiographical.
1072
01:00:52,566 --> 01:00:54,794
You know, "When I was younger,
so much younger than today..."
1073
01:00:54,818 --> 01:00:56,236
I knew what he meant,
1074
01:00:56,361 --> 01:00:59,156
you know, and I knew now
he was more insecure
1075
01:00:59,281 --> 01:01:02,742
cos we were all a bit more insecure
than we'd been when we were 17.
1076
01:01:03,618 --> 01:01:04,870
One, two, three, four!
1077
01:01:04,995 --> 01:01:06,037
I Help!
1078
01:01:06,163 --> 01:01:08,206
- I I need somebody - I Help!
1079
01:01:08,331 --> 01:01:10,750
- I Not just anybody - I Help!
1080
01:01:10,876 --> 01:01:12,460
I You know I need someone
1081
01:01:12,586 --> 01:01:14,045
I Help!
1082
01:01:15,422 --> 01:01:19,759
I When I was younger,
so much younger than today.
1083
01:01:20,302 --> 01:01:24,097
I I never needed
anybody's help in any way.
1084
01:01:25,640 --> 01:01:30,145
I But now these days are gone,
I'm not so self-assured
1085
01:01:30,270 --> 01:01:32,564
I Now I find I've changed my mind
1086
01:01:32,689 --> 01:01:35,025
I And opened up the doors
1087
01:01:35,150 --> 01:01:38,862
I Help me if you can, I'm feeling down.
1088
01:01:39,571 --> 01:01:43,909
I And I do appreciate you being round.
1089
01:01:45,368 --> 01:01:49,706
I Help me get my feet back on the ground
1090
01:01:49,831 --> 01:01:53,418
I Won't you please, please help me.
1091
01:01:55,962 --> 01:01:59,925
I And now my life has changed
in oh so many ways.
1092
01:02:01,092 --> 01:02:04,554
I My independence
seems to vanish in the haze.
1093
01:02:06,264 --> 01:02:09,726
I But now these days are gone
I'm not so self-assured.
1094
01:02:11,061 --> 01:02:15,106
I I know that I just need you like
I've never done before.
1095
01:02:15,774 --> 01:02:19,653
I Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down... I.
1096
01:02:20,195 --> 01:02:23,865
I always liked Help,
because I meant it, it's real.
1097
01:02:23,990 --> 01:02:27,786
The lyric is as good now as it was then,
there's no difference to it.
1098
01:02:27,911 --> 01:02:30,121
It was just me singing "Help,"
and I meant it.
1099
01:02:30,247 --> 01:02:33,708
I Won't you please, please help me
1100
01:02:33,833 --> 01:02:38,713
I Help me, help me, ooh I.
1101
01:02:45,345 --> 01:02:48,390
We were not getting
a lot of money from records.
1102
01:02:48,515 --> 01:02:50,100
We had the worst deal in the world,
1103
01:02:50,225 --> 01:02:53,061
but we had a deal and we were on vinyl,
and that's all that mattered.
1104
01:02:54,020 --> 01:02:57,315
You've gotta remember,
we made our money playing live.
1105
01:02:57,440 --> 01:02:59,567
I Well, they took some honey.
1106
01:03:00,110 --> 01:03:01,111
I From a tree.
1107
01:03:02,404 --> 01:03:04,864
I Dressed it up and they called it me
1108
01:03:04,990 --> 01:03:07,367
I Everybody's
trying to be my baby
1109
01:03:07,492 --> 01:03:09,995
I Everybody's trying to be my baby
1110
01:03:10,120 --> 01:03:12,998
I Everybody's trying
to be my baby, now... I
1111
01:03:13,123 --> 01:03:15,125
it just got bigger
and bigger and bigger.
1112
01:03:15,250 --> 01:03:17,836
I Well half past nine, half past four
1113
01:03:17,961 --> 01:03:20,255
I Fifty women knocking on my door.
1114
01:03:20,922 --> 01:03:22,924
I Everybody's trying to be my baby.
1115
01:03:23,550 --> 01:03:25,927
I Everybody's trying to be my baby
1116
01:03:26,052 --> 01:03:29,139
I Everybody's trying
to be my baby, now, yeah... I.
1117
01:03:29,764 --> 01:03:31,016
And then it got crazy.
1118
01:03:35,186 --> 01:03:38,273
They went back to America
and started playing stadiums,
1119
01:03:38,398 --> 01:03:41,318
places like Portland, San Francisco,
1120
01:03:41,443 --> 01:03:44,362
the Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis,
1121
01:03:44,487 --> 01:03:46,906
the Chicago White Sox's Kaminski Park.
1122
01:03:47,407 --> 01:03:50,285
I Went out last night, I didn't stay late
1123
01:03:50,410 --> 01:03:52,746
I 'Fore I got home I had nineteen dates...
I.
1124
01:03:52,871 --> 01:03:55,165
There were lots of other groups
touring at this point,
1125
01:03:55,290 --> 01:03:56,666
but nothing like this.
1126
01:03:56,791 --> 01:03:58,877
The money they were making
night after night
1127
01:03:59,002 --> 01:04:01,963
compared to other acts
was unprecedented.
1128
01:04:04,257 --> 01:04:06,676
The fact is, they had to play stadiums.
1129
01:04:06,801 --> 01:04:09,929
Promoters and local police
had to be begging Brian Epstein,
1130
01:04:10,055 --> 01:04:13,391
telling him, you know, you can't go
and play a 5,000-seat theatre
1131
01:04:13,516 --> 01:04:17,270
and have 50,000 teenagers
going crazy outside.
1132
01:04:17,395 --> 01:04:19,356
It will be impossible to control.
1133
01:04:23,693 --> 01:04:24,903
This was massive.
1134
01:04:25,028 --> 01:04:28,114
The first big stadium tour in history,
1135
01:04:28,239 --> 01:04:31,701
and the biggest show of them all
was New York.
1136
01:04:35,830 --> 01:04:38,166
There was
the announcement of this concert
1137
01:04:38,291 --> 01:04:39,667
and I was like, "Can we go?"
1138
01:04:39,793 --> 01:04:43,088
And my mum was like,
"We don't have the money for this."
1139
01:04:43,880 --> 01:04:48,259
And then, something...
I don't know how she did it.
1140
01:04:49,135 --> 01:04:50,887
I don't know...
1141
01:04:51,012 --> 01:04:54,599
I don't know how she did it,
but she got two tickets.
1142
01:04:55,892 --> 01:04:57,477
And she didn't tell me.
1143
01:04:58,311 --> 01:05:00,647
So, this is what happened.
1144
01:05:00,772 --> 01:05:02,833
She said, "We need to go,"
and I said, "Where are we going?
1145
01:05:02,857 --> 01:05:04,818
She said, "I'll let you know
when we get there."
1146
01:05:04,943 --> 01:05:07,987
OK, so we're on the train
and I'm not paying any attention.
1147
01:05:09,030 --> 01:05:10,949
And we get up and I ask,
"Where are we?"
1148
01:05:11,074 --> 01:05:13,660
And she says,
"We're at Shea Stadium."
1149
01:05:13,785 --> 01:05:15,328
And I said, "Why?"
1150
01:05:16,246 --> 01:05:20,250
And she held up two tickets,
and all I remember is my head going poof.
1151
01:05:28,967 --> 01:05:30,927
It's just amazing, it's unbelievable.
1152
01:05:31,052 --> 01:05:36,182
- The biggest thing ever.
- 56,500 someone said. It's fantastic.
1153
01:05:36,307 --> 01:05:38,059
It just knocks you out, you know?
1154
01:05:39,602 --> 01:05:41,688
Shea Stadium is an enormous place.
1155
01:05:41,813 --> 01:05:46,109
I mean, that was the first time
it was used for a rock concert.
1156
01:05:46,234 --> 01:05:50,864
Vox made us special big amplifiers
for that tour
1157
01:05:50,989 --> 01:05:53,366
and they were like a hundred watts...
1158
01:05:54,742 --> 01:05:56,911
And it just obviously,
you know, wasn't enough.
1159
01:05:59,956 --> 01:06:01,958
Now ladies and gentlemen,
1160
01:06:02,876 --> 01:06:04,711
here are The Beatles.
1161
01:06:13,094 --> 01:06:14,512
Here they come.
1162
01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:29,569
- Hello.
- Oh, oh!
1163
01:06:29,694 --> 01:06:31,279
- Hello!
- Hey!
1164
01:06:31,404 --> 01:06:33,114
- Hello!
- Hey, hey, hey!
1165
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:34,657
Hello!
1166
01:06:35,742 --> 01:06:37,327
- Hello, Paul.
- Hello, John.
1167
01:06:40,872 --> 01:06:43,958
We'd like to do a song from...
What LP is it on?
1168
01:06:44,083 --> 01:06:48,213
Off our LP album, Beatles Ill,
I think.
1169
01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:50,423
Can you hear me?
1170
01:06:51,341 --> 01:06:52,884
Hello?
1171
01:06:54,844 --> 01:06:56,846
And it's called, Dizzy Miss Lizzy.
1172
01:07:16,658 --> 01:07:19,118
I You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy.
1173
01:07:19,953 --> 01:07:22,288
I The way you rock and roll.
1174
01:07:23,289 --> 01:07:25,708
I You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy.
1175
01:07:26,834 --> 01:07:29,295
I When we do the stroll.
1176
01:07:30,088 --> 01:07:32,465
I Come on, come on, come on,
come on, Lizzy.
1177
01:07:33,174 --> 01:07:35,134
I Love me before I grow too old.
1178
01:07:36,844 --> 01:07:39,889
I Run and tell your mama
1179
01:07:40,014 --> 01:07:41,474
I I want you to be my bride... I.
1180
01:07:41,599 --> 01:07:44,352
One of the most remarkable
things about The Beatles playing live is
1181
01:07:44,477 --> 01:07:46,020
how in tune they are,
1182
01:07:46,145 --> 01:07:48,523
because they can't possibly
hear themselves.
1183
01:07:48,648 --> 01:07:50,233
I don't think they had monitors.
1184
01:07:50,358 --> 01:07:51,568
Amps aren't very big.
1185
01:07:51,693 --> 01:07:54,487
Even if they were cranked to the max
they're not that loud.
1186
01:07:55,572 --> 01:07:57,612
I mean, Shea Stadium
being the most extraordinary...
1187
01:07:57,699 --> 01:07:59,760
because I don't even think
there's a P.A. at Shea Stadium.
1188
01:07:59,784 --> 01:08:01,369
They're going through the Tannoy,
1189
01:08:01,494 --> 01:08:04,956
which must have sounded like a thousand
transistor radios to each ear.
1190
01:08:05,081 --> 01:08:06,499
I Miss Lizzy.
1191
01:08:07,333 --> 01:08:09,544
I Girl, you look so fine.
1192
01:08:11,045 --> 01:08:13,965
I Just a-rocking and a-rolling
1193
01:08:14,090 --> 01:08:17,135
I Girl I said I wish you were mine... I.
1194
01:08:19,429 --> 01:08:21,431
We did the house P.A., you know,
1195
01:08:21,556 --> 01:08:25,351
and on first base is Willy Wonka,
or whatever they said.
1196
01:08:25,476 --> 01:08:27,478
That's the equipment we had.
1197
01:08:28,313 --> 01:08:30,398
I When you rock and roll... I
1198
01:08:30,523 --> 01:08:32,233
I could not hear anything.
1199
01:08:32,358 --> 01:08:35,361
I'd be watchin' John's arse,
Paul's arse,
1200
01:08:35,486 --> 01:08:37,864
his foot's tappin',
his head's noddin',
1201
01:08:37,989 --> 01:08:39,574
to see where we were in the song.
1202
01:08:39,699 --> 01:08:41,284
I Come on, come on, Lizzy
1203
01:08:41,409 --> 01:08:44,370
I I wanna be your lover man I.
1204
01:08:52,045 --> 01:08:54,881
Playing to 56,000 people
at Shea Stadium,
1205
01:08:55,006 --> 01:08:59,010
after that, you just sort of think to
yourself, what more can you do?
1206
01:09:01,054 --> 01:09:03,473
I remember
George bringing up the subject with Brian,
1207
01:09:03,598 --> 01:09:07,477
"Hey, is this touring
gonna be an annual event?"
1208
01:09:08,394 --> 01:09:11,522
And I think he was the first one
that brought up the idea of,
1209
01:09:11,648 --> 01:09:13,816
"Hey, I've had enough of this."
1210
01:09:15,860 --> 01:09:18,237
That was the good thing
about being four together.
1211
01:09:18,363 --> 01:09:19,947
You're not like Elvis, you know?
1212
01:09:20,073 --> 01:09:22,158
I always felt sorry for Elvis
cos he was on his own.
1213
01:09:22,283 --> 01:09:25,036
He had his guys with him,
but there's only one Elvis.
1214
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:27,372
Nobody else knew what he felt like.
1215
01:09:28,081 --> 01:09:30,792
But, for us,
we all shared the experience.
1216
01:09:35,421 --> 01:09:37,757
They came back to England
late summer '65.
1217
01:09:41,177 --> 01:09:44,222
The last time The Beatles
played in Britain was that winter,
1218
01:09:44,347 --> 01:09:46,474
you know, seven or eight dates.
1219
01:09:46,599 --> 01:09:48,643
My grandparents
bought me tickets to see them,
1220
01:09:48,768 --> 01:09:50,978
and my parents
refused to let me go.
1221
01:09:52,105 --> 01:09:54,190
I Got a good reason.
1222
01:09:55,441 --> 01:09:57,985
I For taking the easy way out... I.
1223
01:09:58,111 --> 01:10:01,864
The Beatles captured my imagination
like no other group at that point.
1224
01:10:01,989 --> 01:10:04,325
It was the way that I began
to interpret the world.
1225
01:10:05,410 --> 01:10:08,162
Each new record
was built on the record before.
1226
01:10:08,287 --> 01:10:12,375
You had this wonderful storyline
advancing through with The Beatles.
1227
01:10:12,500 --> 01:10:16,129
By the end of the year we were being told
there would be more records forthcoming.
1228
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:21,342
And they went back in the studio.
1229
01:10:30,601 --> 01:10:32,895
See if we're all in tune
when we play, George.
1230
01:10:33,020 --> 01:10:34,188
Girl, take one.
1231
01:10:36,524 --> 01:10:42,071
I ls there anybody
going to listen to my story
1232
01:10:42,196 --> 01:10:45,616
I All about the girl who came to stay... I.
1233
01:10:45,742 --> 01:10:48,995
The first reaction to the new,
innovative sound of Rubber Soul was,
1234
01:10:49,120 --> 01:10:51,664
I don't like this.
I think they've lost their minds.
1235
01:10:52,206 --> 01:10:54,333
I Girl, girl... I.
1236
01:10:54,459 --> 01:10:56,627
What are they thinking,
you know, what's this?
1237
01:10:57,128 --> 01:11:01,090
I She's the kind of girl
who puts you down When friends are there
1238
01:11:01,215 --> 01:11:03,217
I You feel a fool... I
1239
01:11:03,342 --> 01:11:06,262
I kinda went from being a kid
to being a teenager, so...
1240
01:11:06,387 --> 01:11:08,598
some of those things
felt like the right thing,
1241
01:11:08,723 --> 01:11:11,934
but it was still surprising,
this group I like kinda change so much.
1242
01:11:12,059 --> 01:11:14,353
I Girl... I.
1243
01:11:16,022 --> 01:11:18,483
There's a big jump from
I Want 7'0 Hold Your Hand to.
1244
01:11:18,608 --> 01:11:21,248
"Was she told when she was young
that pain would lead to pleasure."
1245
01:11:21,444 --> 01:11:26,199
I Was she told when she was young
that pain would lead to pleasure.
1246
01:11:26,783 --> 01:11:30,369
I Did she understand it when the said... I.
1247
01:11:31,496 --> 01:11:33,891
I didn't understand it at all when I
heard it. I didn't think it was any good.
1248
01:11:33,915 --> 01:11:36,501
And then six weeks later,
you couldn't live without the record.
1249
01:11:37,084 --> 01:11:39,670
And that's good. That's when you trust
the people who make music
1250
01:11:39,796 --> 01:11:41,756
to take you somewhere
that you hadn't been before.
1251
01:11:44,634 --> 01:11:47,887
'Formal occasion at Buckingham
Palace on a foggy October morning.
1252
01:11:48,721 --> 01:11:50,681
'The ceremony is bestowing
awards of honour,
1253
01:11:50,807 --> 01:11:54,852
'a ceremony hallowed by tradition
going back over the centuries.
1254
01:11:56,562 --> 01:11:59,982
'Members of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire.'
1255
01:12:01,692 --> 01:12:04,004
'Do you think The Beatles
should have been awarded the M.B.E.?'
1256
01:12:04,028 --> 01:12:07,049
'Well, I... I think The Beatles have
probably clone as much for popular music
1257
01:12:07,073 --> 01:12:09,700
'as people like Rodgers and Hammerstein
and Gershwin did,
1258
01:12:09,826 --> 01:12:11,804
'the only difference being
that The Beatles have done it
1259
01:12:11,828 --> 01:12:13,096
'in a matter of two or three years,
1260
01:12:13,120 --> 01:12:14,960
'whereas it took most other people
a lifetime.'
1261
01:12:16,666 --> 01:12:20,253
'What's the M.B.E.
going to do to your teenage rebel image?'
1262
01:12:20,378 --> 01:12:22,418
- Who's got a teenage rebel image?
- Well, you have.
1263
01:12:22,463 --> 01:12:23,506
- Have we?
- No.
1264
01:12:23,631 --> 01:12:25,466
Have any of you any ambitions left at all?
1265
01:12:25,591 --> 01:12:27,343
- John?
- I'd like to be a duke.
1266
01:12:28,761 --> 01:12:31,597
I Have you heard the word is love... I.
1267
01:12:31,722 --> 01:12:34,934
They had achieved the summit,
and they were, if you like, emperors,
1268
01:12:35,059 --> 01:12:37,603
but at the same time
they were prisoners of their fame,
1269
01:12:37,728 --> 01:12:41,023
and I think they were beginning to chafe
at people's expectations.
1270
01:12:51,826 --> 01:12:54,370
The first three months had been lopped off
1271
01:12:54,495 --> 01:12:58,207
to do whatever The Beatles' third film
was going to be, and then it didn't happen.
1272
01:12:58,332 --> 01:13:02,587
And so for the first time since
they'd become successful and famous,
1273
01:13:02,712 --> 01:13:04,338
they had three months off.
1274
01:13:10,636 --> 01:13:16,058
It had been four years for us
of legging around in this mania,
1275
01:13:17,018 --> 01:13:19,270
and we were tired.
We needed a rest.
1276
01:13:19,395 --> 01:13:22,106
I I once had a girl
1277
01:13:22,231 --> 01:13:24,066
I Or should I say
1278
01:13:24,191 --> 01:13:26,110
I She once had me... I.
1279
01:13:27,069 --> 01:13:29,614
The thing is that we were all
interested in other things
1280
01:13:29,739 --> 01:13:30,990
before The Beatles.
1281
01:13:31,657 --> 01:13:35,036
And we didn't really have time,
but we were always lookin' around.
1282
01:13:35,161 --> 01:13:37,038
I got involved with a gallery owner
1283
01:13:37,163 --> 01:13:40,666
and when we'd go to Paris
and buy paintings.
1284
01:13:40,791 --> 01:13:43,127
We'd go to the dealer.
So it was very exciting.
1285
01:13:45,379 --> 01:13:48,174
And of course, George had developed
an interest in Indian music.
1286
01:13:55,681 --> 01:13:58,768
I just wanna carry on
progressing with music,
1287
01:13:58,893 --> 01:14:02,146
you know, writing more
and just learning more about it.
1288
01:14:03,064 --> 01:14:06,734
I've written so many songs that I've just
thrown away as I've been writing them
1289
01:14:06,859 --> 01:14:10,863
because I've wanted,
when I finally recorded one of mine,
1290
01:14:10,988 --> 01:14:15,576
I wanted it to be, you know, worth puttin'
on the LP alongside Paul and John's.
1291
01:14:16,160 --> 01:14:19,622
I feel now I've got more idea
about how to write songs.
1292
01:14:23,042 --> 01:14:25,878
We bought this house
in the country on this estate,
1293
01:14:26,003 --> 01:14:29,131
Maureen and Zak, my son,
and John was up the road.
1294
01:14:30,174 --> 01:14:32,593
We started to grow up,
1295
01:14:32,718 --> 01:14:34,679
and we started to have families,
1296
01:14:34,804 --> 01:14:38,933
and we started to put less energy
into The Beatle bag.
1297
01:14:39,725 --> 01:14:41,519
We all kind of were very aware
1298
01:14:41,644 --> 01:14:44,397
that we didn't live
in each other's pockets anymore.
1299
01:14:44,522 --> 01:14:46,941
We all had separate existences.
1300
01:14:48,192 --> 01:14:51,278
There's an interview that
John Lennon gives to Maureen Cleave
1301
01:14:51,404 --> 01:14:54,824
which is published in March '66
where he talks about his reading,
1302
01:14:54,949 --> 01:14:58,202
he sorta says, "I'm not sure what I'm
going to do next, this isn't everything,"
1303
01:14:58,327 --> 01:15:00,496
which is not what a pop star
is supposed to say.
1304
01:15:02,039 --> 01:15:05,584
That same month, March,
they were doing a photo shoot.
1305
01:15:06,127 --> 01:15:08,379
By then we were really sort of
beginning to hate it.
1306
01:15:08,504 --> 01:15:10,464
This photo session was a big ordeal
1307
01:15:10,589 --> 01:15:13,634
and you had to try to look normal,
you know, and you didn't feel it.
1308
01:15:14,427 --> 01:15:17,638
Bob Whitaker was one of the
photographers who took our pictures
1309
01:15:17,763 --> 01:15:20,391
and he came up with,
we'd all put on white lab coats
1310
01:15:20,516 --> 01:15:23,394
and we'd pretend
to be mad professors.
1311
01:15:23,519 --> 01:15:26,105
The photographer's
a bit of a surrealist, you know?
1312
01:15:30,359 --> 01:15:33,612
We really got into it,
and that's how we felt, like, "Yeah."
1313
01:15:34,196 --> 01:15:38,617
I To say about the things that you do... I.
1314
01:15:38,743 --> 01:15:40,911
To us, you know,
this wasn't a big deal, really,
1315
01:15:41,037 --> 01:15:44,582
because these kind of shocking things
were part of the art scene.
1316
01:15:45,374 --> 01:15:51,547
I About the good things
that we can have if we close our eyes... I
1317
01:15:51,672 --> 01:15:54,884
I expressly pushed for it
to be an album cover, you know?
1318
01:15:55,009 --> 01:15:56,802
It'd gone out in America,
1319
01:15:56,927 --> 01:15:58,637
and there was some kind of fuss.
1320
01:15:59,555 --> 01:16:02,099
It was like, "What?
My beloved Beatles?"
1321
01:16:02,224 --> 01:16:04,060
"No! This must stop!"
1322
01:16:05,895 --> 01:16:06,896
Sorry.
1323
01:16:07,021 --> 01:16:08,898
Well, are you gonna
keep that one, please?
1324
01:16:09,023 --> 01:16:11,543
- Why don't you leave that one on?
- Yeah, just leave it out again.
1325
01:16:11,567 --> 01:16:12,902
OK.
1326
01:16:13,027 --> 01:16:15,071
I'll just have to vamp it up a bit.
1327
01:16:16,197 --> 01:16:18,115
Now he tells me.
1328
01:16:18,240 --> 01:16:20,451
We're having more fun
in the studio.
1329
01:16:20,576 --> 01:16:22,036
It's getting more experimental.
1330
01:16:22,161 --> 01:16:25,122
The songs were gettin' better,
more interesting.
1331
01:16:25,247 --> 01:16:28,751
I When I wake up early in the morning.
1332
01:16:29,585 --> 01:16:31,128
I Lift my...
1333
01:16:31,670 --> 01:16:33,339
I And I'm still... I.
1334
01:16:33,464 --> 01:16:35,633
There weren't, like, big plans.
1335
01:16:35,758 --> 01:16:38,886
You know,
sometimes it just unfolded.
1336
01:16:39,011 --> 01:16:40,429
Complete fluke.
1337
01:16:42,807 --> 01:16:44,016
OK, ready?
1338
01:16:46,310 --> 01:16:48,312
John was not mechanically minded,
1339
01:16:48,437 --> 01:16:50,356
and he took a tape on,
1340
01:16:50,481 --> 01:16:53,692
and the tape had run off to the other reel,
1341
01:16:53,818 --> 01:16:56,612
and he put it on like it was the start,
1342
01:16:56,737 --> 01:16:59,615
but it was the end of the song
and that's when the guitar came.
1343
01:17:02,284 --> 01:17:05,037
And he brings it in,
"Ah, you've gotta hear this."
1344
01:17:05,162 --> 01:17:08,290
And we said, great,
we've gotta do that, so...
1345
01:17:08,415 --> 01:17:09,959
Call in the boffins.
1346
01:17:12,044 --> 01:17:17,800
I Lay down all thoughts,
surrender to the void.
1347
01:17:19,468 --> 01:17:22,847
I It is shining I.
1348
01:17:22,972 --> 01:17:25,891
And I always remember
being in Brian Epstein's house
1349
01:17:26,016 --> 01:17:29,728
and John playing it to Brian
and to George Martin,
1350
01:17:29,854 --> 01:17:31,748
and saying, "What do you think of this?"
you know.
1351
01:17:31,772 --> 01:17:36,026
But you could see this puzzlement
going across their faces,
1352
01:17:36,152 --> 01:17:37,778
but instead of saying,
1353
01:17:37,903 --> 01:17:40,865
"Ah, come on, guys, I think
you really oughta put another chord in,"
1354
01:17:40,990 --> 01:17:44,118
he knew to leave us alone by then.
1355
01:17:44,243 --> 01:17:47,204
I It is shining... I.
1356
01:17:48,455 --> 01:17:50,249
You can slow down or speed up the tape.
1357
01:17:50,374 --> 01:17:53,085
You can put it in backwards time.
You can put in electronic sounds.
1358
01:17:53,210 --> 01:17:55,105
And this is the kind of thing
you can do on a recording,
1359
01:17:55,129 --> 01:17:57,214
but you obviously
couldn't possibly play it live
1360
01:17:57,339 --> 01:17:59,539
because it is, in fact,
making up music as you go along.
1361
01:18:07,391 --> 01:18:09,894
Tomorrow Never Knows
breaks so many barriers,
1362
01:18:10,019 --> 01:18:13,063
musically speaking, and does so many
things that no one had done before.
1363
01:18:13,564 --> 01:18:16,668
It's got a drone all the way through, which
is something that happens in Indian music,
1364
01:18:16,692 --> 01:18:19,653
and used to exist in Western music
in the 12th century.
1365
01:18:19,778 --> 01:18:21,947
So, it sort of triggered
a whole movement
1366
01:18:22,072 --> 01:18:25,242
that popular music would start to bring in
these influences from the avant-garde
1367
01:18:25,367 --> 01:18:27,203
and put them into mainstream songs,
1368
01:18:27,328 --> 01:18:29,248
into an album
that millions of people would hear.
1369
01:18:30,080 --> 01:18:35,294
I That love is all and love is everyone.
1370
01:18:37,004 --> 01:18:40,132
I It is knowing... I.
1371
01:18:40,257 --> 01:18:42,885
You know, when we first started,
we were the nice, clean mop tops,
1372
01:18:43,010 --> 01:18:45,638
and every mother's son
and everyone loved us.
1373
01:18:45,763 --> 01:18:50,059
And then suddenly, you know, there's
a few things that they don't understand.
1374
01:18:50,184 --> 01:18:51,602
It's just, we're men now, you know?
1375
01:18:51,727 --> 01:18:54,271
We're a bit older than those lads
that started out.
1376
01:18:55,314 --> 01:18:57,900
You can't live all your life
by what they want.
1377
01:18:58,025 --> 01:19:02,154
You know, we can't go on forever
as four clean little mop tops
1378
01:19:02,279 --> 01:19:03,280
playing, She Loves You.
1379
01:19:03,822 --> 01:19:07,409
I Of the beginning
1380
01:19:07,534 --> 01:19:11,288
I Of the beginning
1381
01:19:11,413 --> 01:19:13,874
I Of the beginning... I.
1382
01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:16,377
Then we were back on the road.
1383
01:19:17,002 --> 01:19:20,756
We got on a train
and went up to Hamburg.
1384
01:19:20,881 --> 01:19:23,217
By then I don't think
we wanted to be anywhere.
1385
01:19:23,342 --> 01:19:25,636
It was like automatic pilot, you know?
1386
01:19:25,761 --> 01:19:30,140
There was so much more pressure
from the press trying to get at you,
1387
01:19:30,266 --> 01:19:31,892
you know, for whatever reason.
1388
01:19:34,937 --> 01:19:37,314
- We're not horrid snobby.
- Yes, you are.
1389
01:19:37,439 --> 01:19:39,084
- No, we seem like...
- That's your version.
1390
01:19:39,108 --> 01:19:40,985
Maybe it's only in your mind that we are.
1391
01:19:41,110 --> 01:19:43,112
Because we're not flattering you.
1392
01:19:44,488 --> 01:19:47,616
You know, you expect sort of
nice answers to all the questions,
1393
01:19:48,242 --> 01:19:51,829
but if the questions aren't nice questions,
they don't have to have nice answers.
1394
01:19:51,954 --> 01:19:54,707
And if we don't give nice answers,
it doesn't mean we're snobby.
1395
01:19:54,832 --> 01:19:56,542
It just means we're natural.
1396
01:20:00,170 --> 01:20:02,298
Everything
was hit-and-run in those days,
1397
01:20:02,423 --> 01:20:04,633
and I think the next day
after the Hamburg concert,
1398
01:20:04,758 --> 01:20:06,260
we had a flight to Tokyo.
1399
01:20:11,849 --> 01:20:13,309
It's amazing security.
1400
01:20:13,434 --> 01:20:15,644
I've never seen so many people
guarding us.
1401
01:20:15,769 --> 01:20:18,272
So we don't want you
to be hurt or anything,
1402
01:20:18,397 --> 01:20:20,274
so we're trying our best.
1403
01:20:22,026 --> 01:20:25,279
Everywhere we were going,
it was a demonstration
1404
01:20:25,404 --> 01:20:27,197
of one thing or another.
1405
01:20:27,323 --> 01:20:29,116
In Japan,
the people were demonstrating
1406
01:20:29,241 --> 01:20:33,037
because the Budokan was supposed to be
a special, spiritual hall
1407
01:20:33,162 --> 01:20:35,748
and only reserved for martial arts,
1408
01:20:35,873 --> 01:20:37,499
not pop music.
1409
01:20:39,043 --> 01:20:40,836
Ladies and gentlemen,
1410
01:20:40,961 --> 01:20:43,547
we welcome... The Beatles.
1411
01:21:00,856 --> 01:21:02,066
It was very strange.
1412
01:21:02,191 --> 01:21:04,151
The audience were very reserved,
1413
01:21:04,276 --> 01:21:06,153
respectful,
1414
01:21:06,278 --> 01:21:09,406
very quiet to what we had
become accustomed to.
1415
01:21:09,531 --> 01:21:10,532
Very quiet.
1416
01:21:16,580 --> 01:21:18,415
One, two, three, four!
1417
01:21:18,540 --> 01:21:22,086
I He's a real nowhere man
1418
01:21:22,211 --> 01:21:25,964
I Sitting in his nowhere land
1419
01:21:26,090 --> 01:21:31,095
I Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody I.
1420
01:21:31,887 --> 01:21:33,889
We were playing crap.
1421
01:21:34,890 --> 01:21:36,475
We were just sort of surviving.
1422
01:21:37,726 --> 01:21:41,230
I Knows not where he's going to
1423
01:21:41,355 --> 01:21:45,734
I Isn't he a bit like you and me... I.
1424
01:21:48,070 --> 01:21:51,156
We had a day off
in the Philippines, in Manila,
1425
01:21:51,281 --> 01:21:55,411
and then somebody said,
you're supposed to be visiting the palace.
1426
01:21:56,412 --> 01:21:59,998
Madam Marcos
had invited us to dinner,
1427
01:22:00,124 --> 01:22:01,959
and Brian had told her no.
1428
01:22:02,084 --> 01:22:04,586
Then the next morning
someone brought the newspapers,
1429
01:22:04,711 --> 01:22:07,756
"Beatles Snub President."
1430
01:22:09,466 --> 01:22:12,594
By '66,
it felt dangerous, you know?
1431
01:22:12,719 --> 01:22:15,305
Because everybody was out of hand,
1432
01:22:15,431 --> 01:22:17,724
and even the cops were out of line.
1433
01:22:17,850 --> 01:22:19,977
You know, they were all just caught up
in the mania.
1434
01:22:21,478 --> 01:22:23,689
It's a build-up of tension,
1435
01:22:23,814 --> 01:22:27,025
and also,
dissatisfaction and frustration.
1436
01:22:27,151 --> 01:22:29,319
And now they went straight
into a complete nightmare.
1437
01:22:29,445 --> 01:22:31,029
Now, this religious controversy,
1438
01:22:31,155 --> 01:22:32,757
I know you don't want to say
too much about it,
1439
01:22:32,781 --> 01:22:35,135
but does it worry you that it's going to
boil up when you get to the States?
1440
01:22:35,159 --> 01:22:37,453
Well, it worries me, yes, but I...
1441
01:22:37,578 --> 01:22:39,806
I hope everything will be all right
in the end, as they say.
1442
01:22:39,830 --> 01:22:41,950
Do you think this is going to be
a controversial tour,
1443
01:22:42,040 --> 01:22:43,167
like the Philippines was?
1444
01:22:43,292 --> 01:22:44,710
Oh, no, no.
1445
01:22:44,835 --> 01:22:46,545
No, it's gonna be fine.
1446
01:22:46,670 --> 01:22:48,606
- What makes you say that, Paul?
- Oh, it will be fine.
1447
01:22:48,630 --> 01:22:50,340
You watch, yeah, great.
1448
01:22:58,515 --> 01:23:00,893
I Goo day sunshine... I.
1449
01:23:01,018 --> 01:23:05,063
It was all because of that interview
John had given while on vacation.
1450
01:23:05,189 --> 01:23:08,150
It was reprinted in America months later.
1451
01:23:08,275 --> 01:23:11,236
"Lennon says The Beatles
are bigger than Christ."
1452
01:23:13,322 --> 01:23:17,618
At that time, churches
were losing their congregations,
1453
01:23:17,743 --> 01:23:20,078
people were going to church
less and less and less.
1454
01:23:24,750 --> 01:23:28,670
John was saying, "We're so famous!
You wouldn't believe the fame."
1455
01:23:28,795 --> 01:23:31,715
"| mean, like, we're bigger than Jesus."
1456
01:23:32,508 --> 01:23:35,177
It was a harmless remark
in the middle of an article,
1457
01:23:35,302 --> 01:23:38,430
and it never made the front page
in England.
1458
01:23:38,555 --> 01:23:42,100
That unleashed a firestorm
in the United States.
1459
01:23:42,226 --> 01:23:45,437
It was almost like
the plot of Help! had become real,
1460
01:23:45,562 --> 01:23:49,399
and they actually had a lot of people
who suddenly wanted to dismember them.
1461
01:23:49,525 --> 01:23:51,610
This is the Layton and Charles show
on WAQY radio,
1462
01:23:51,735 --> 01:23:55,531
broadcasting at 1220 on your dial,
until about nine o'clock this morning,
1463
01:23:55,656 --> 01:23:58,867
and we'd like to urge you to take
your Beatle records and your Beatlemania
1464
01:23:58,992 --> 01:24:02,913
to any one of our 14 pickup points
anywhere in Birmingham, Alabama.
1465
01:24:03,038 --> 01:24:04,498
And don't forget, the destruction...
1466
01:24:04,623 --> 01:24:07,310
the destruction of those Beatle records
will take place just a few clays,
1467
01:24:07,334 --> 01:24:09,628
and we'll keep you informed on all of that.
1468
01:24:10,462 --> 01:24:12,923
They were just stunned.
1469
01:24:13,048 --> 01:24:14,688
You have to really put it in perspective,
1470
01:24:14,800 --> 01:24:17,344
I mean the whole scandal
was very serious,
1471
01:24:17,469 --> 01:24:20,264
partly because of the violence
that was in America at the time.
1472
01:24:24,226 --> 01:24:26,353
You just had the Texas Sniper,
Charles Whitman,
1473
01:24:26,478 --> 01:24:28,272
who just shot dead 20 people.
1474
01:24:30,107 --> 01:24:33,610
This was the same country
only three years before
1475
01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:36,613
where the President
had been assassinated.
1476
01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:40,492
It had got dangerous,
and we were threatened.
1477
01:24:41,785 --> 01:24:44,871
We knew
we weren't being blasphemous,
1478
01:24:44,997 --> 01:24:47,583
we weren't anti-Jesus.
1479
01:24:47,708 --> 01:24:50,877
In fact, we all had
pretty religious upbringings, really,
1480
01:24:51,003 --> 01:24:54,006
but you do see John
as sort of a broken man,
1481
01:24:54,548 --> 01:24:56,592
cos he realised,
he had to apologise.
1482
01:24:56,717 --> 01:24:59,386
It was gonna be
the only thing that would stop this.
1483
01:24:59,511 --> 01:25:03,181
I was pointing out that fact,
in reference to England,
1484
01:25:03,307 --> 01:25:06,310
that we meant more to kids
than Jesus did,
1485
01:25:06,435 --> 01:25:08,478
or religion, at that time.
1486
01:25:08,604 --> 01:25:12,941
I wasn't knocking it or putting it down,
I was just saying it, as a fact.
1487
01:25:13,066 --> 01:25:17,404
And it sort of... it is true,
especially more for England than here.
1488
01:25:17,529 --> 01:25:20,365
But I'm not saying
that we're better or greater,
1489
01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:23,410
or comparing us
with Jesus Christ as a person,
1490
01:25:23,535 --> 01:25:25,704
or God as a thing, or whatever it is.
1491
01:25:25,829 --> 01:25:28,415
You know, I just said what I said,
and it was wrong,
1492
01:25:28,540 --> 01:25:30,417
or was taken wrong,
and now it's all this.
1493
01:25:31,293 --> 01:25:34,963
He's longing to break out of it,
and do a joke,
1494
01:25:35,088 --> 01:25:36,590
but he knows he can't.
1495
01:25:36,715 --> 01:25:39,885
If I had said television
is more popular than Jesus,
1496
01:25:40,010 --> 01:25:41,845
I might have got away with it.
1497
01:25:42,846 --> 01:25:45,166
You know, but as I just happened
to be talking to a friend,
1498
01:25:45,223 --> 01:25:47,392
I used the word Beatles,
1499
01:25:47,517 --> 01:25:49,353
as a remote thing, not as what I think,
1500
01:25:49,478 --> 01:25:53,231
because Beatles, as those other Beatles,
like other people see us.
1501
01:25:53,357 --> 01:25:54,691
I just said they are...
1502
01:25:54,816 --> 01:25:58,278
are having more influence
on kids and things
1503
01:25:58,403 --> 01:26:00,072
than anything else, including Jesus,
1504
01:26:00,197 --> 01:26:02,616
but I said it in that way,
1505
01:26:02,741 --> 01:26:04,534
which is the wrong way, yep, yep.
1506
01:26:04,660 --> 01:26:05,827
He was scared.
1507
01:26:05,952 --> 01:26:07,871
We were all pretty scared.
1508
01:26:07,996 --> 01:26:10,874
Most of the people in the room
understood it.
1509
01:26:10,999 --> 01:26:13,335
It's like one of those lines.
1510
01:26:13,460 --> 01:26:15,295
But it...
it didn't hold us back at all.
1511
01:26:16,129 --> 01:26:19,383
Concert tomorrow night is far
below a sell-out, how do you feel about...
1512
01:26:19,508 --> 01:26:21,134
Very rich.
1513
01:26:26,473 --> 01:26:28,558
I My love don't give me presents.
1514
01:26:31,520 --> 01:26:34,356
I I know that she's no peasant... I.
1515
01:26:35,565 --> 01:26:38,527
There were three
road managers, roadies,
1516
01:26:38,652 --> 01:26:41,655
on the tour, period, in '66, that was it.
1517
01:26:41,780 --> 01:26:45,075
I was friends with the opening act.
They said, "You want to do it?"
1518
01:26:45,200 --> 01:26:47,786
And I didn't even know
how to set up a drum kit at the time.
1519
01:26:47,911 --> 01:26:48,954
I had no idea.
1520
01:26:49,079 --> 01:26:51,957
I was a musician in Boston,
I was a folk singer.
1521
01:26:52,082 --> 01:26:54,376
I had no qualifications at all.
1522
01:26:54,960 --> 01:26:56,837
We only ever had
a couple of roadies.
1523
01:26:56,962 --> 01:26:58,672
Didn't matter where we were,
1524
01:26:58,797 --> 01:27:01,299
biggest band in the land,
that's all we had.
1525
01:27:02,718 --> 01:27:06,430
In Cleveland, the sound was so bad
that everybody rushed the stage.
1526
01:27:06,555 --> 01:27:09,224
'Cleveland Stadium
has been absolutely riots,
1527
01:27:09,349 --> 01:27:11,309
'the whole place went wild here,
1528
01:27:11,435 --> 01:27:14,271
'broke the barriers,
came through the police cordon.
1529
01:27:14,396 --> 01:27:16,398
'We managed to get The Beatles
off the stage.
1530
01:27:16,523 --> 01:27:18,525
'They were even all over the stage.'
1531
01:27:18,650 --> 01:27:20,652
I really thought
I was gonna get hurt.
1532
01:27:22,404 --> 01:27:25,157
We get to Memphis,
and there's been a bomb scare,
1533
01:27:25,282 --> 01:27:27,284
and we had to delay the show
1534
01:27:27,409 --> 01:27:30,245
while they put bomb-sniffing dogs
throughout the whole theatre.
1535
01:27:31,288 --> 01:27:34,374
That kind of stuff was happening
all the time. It was terrifying.
1536
01:27:34,499 --> 01:27:37,461
Some people would set off firecrackers
in the hall,
1537
01:27:37,586 --> 01:27:40,130
and you'd think someone of the others
got shot or something.
1538
01:27:42,674 --> 01:27:46,511
Then we flew off to St. Louis,
and it was pouring rain.
1539
01:27:46,636 --> 01:27:49,264
I She was a day tripper.
1540
01:27:50,390 --> 01:27:53,059
I One way ticket, yeah... I.
1541
01:27:53,185 --> 01:27:57,397
My job was to sit backstage
with my hand on the plug,
1542
01:27:57,522 --> 01:27:58,774
and the instructions were
1543
01:27:58,899 --> 01:28:02,319
if one of them fell down,
like knocked out by the shock,
1544
01:28:02,444 --> 01:28:05,155
then you should pull the plug,
and that would stop the show.
1545
01:28:05,989 --> 01:28:07,657
It was a joke.
1546
01:28:13,246 --> 01:28:15,791
This was three weeks that they
just took a deep breath and said,
1547
01:28:15,916 --> 01:28:18,376
"OK, well, let's just do this,
and we'll make a lot of money."
1548
01:28:23,423 --> 01:28:26,009
A lot of the time we were going
through the motions,
1549
01:28:26,134 --> 01:28:30,013
and we all started to get pretty fed up.
1550
01:28:30,138 --> 01:28:33,308
George particularly was quite
sort of vocal about that.
1551
01:28:35,519 --> 01:28:39,356
I was saying, "| don't want to
do this anymore. I don't like this."
1552
01:28:39,481 --> 01:28:41,858
I certainly felt that that was it,
1553
01:28:41,983 --> 01:28:45,153
you know, that we weren't gonna
tour again like that.
1554
01:29:10,804 --> 01:29:12,597
There was
no enjoyment in it, you know.
1555
01:29:12,722 --> 01:29:14,724
The music wasn't being heard.
1556
01:29:14,850 --> 01:29:18,228
It wasn't doing anything,
it was just a sort of freak show.
1557
01:29:21,022 --> 01:29:24,109
The Beatles were the show,
and the music had nothing to do with it.
1558
01:29:27,737 --> 01:29:29,239
As we were musicians,
1559
01:29:29,364 --> 01:29:31,199
we felt, if we're gonna be Beatles,
1560
01:29:31,324 --> 01:29:33,535
the only reason to be Beatles
is to make music,
1561
01:29:33,660 --> 01:29:35,787
and not be in a circus.
1562
01:29:42,544 --> 01:29:44,170
And when we were finished,
1563
01:29:44,296 --> 01:29:48,049
I remember just being piled
in the back of this meat wagon,
1564
01:29:48,174 --> 01:29:51,177
which was steel,
and nothing else inside.
1565
01:29:52,804 --> 01:29:57,517
We were all in there, sorta sliding around
as it went around the corners.
1566
01:29:57,642 --> 01:30:00,520
And we're all like really mad
at the whole bloody thing.
1567
01:30:00,645 --> 01:30:03,231
John started like,
you know, George...
1568
01:30:03,356 --> 01:30:05,066
"That's it, I've had enough, you know."
1569
01:30:06,234 --> 01:30:07,861
And we all agreed.
1570
01:30:09,571 --> 01:30:13,408
You know, we're just in the band,
saying, "That's enough of that."
1571
01:30:29,257 --> 01:30:32,052
We all knew, I mean,
to, like, survive,
1572
01:30:32,177 --> 01:30:37,057
we had to get back in the studio
and get to know each other and play again.
1573
01:30:37,724 --> 01:30:39,893
Well, I'm not holding back, George.
1574
01:30:40,018 --> 01:30:42,228
I'm giving my all.
1575
01:30:42,354 --> 01:30:45,273
It used to make us laugh
when we'd read people saying,
1576
01:30:45,398 --> 01:30:46,816
"The problem with The Beatles is"
1577
01:30:46,942 --> 01:30:49,653
"that when we were all growing up,
they were all on tour,"
1578
01:30:49,778 --> 01:30:52,030
"and so they missed
the growing up period."
1579
01:30:52,155 --> 01:30:55,575
But the truth to it was
that we were snatched out of our youth.
1580
01:30:55,700 --> 01:30:57,077
We were forced grown,
1581
01:30:57,202 --> 01:31:00,372
like rhubarb when you grow it
under hothouse conditions,
1582
01:31:00,497 --> 01:31:02,749
you make it grow much quicker
than it would naturally.
1583
01:31:03,249 --> 01:31:04,918
Oh, God. Mal!
1584
01:31:05,043 --> 01:31:06,378
Broken another string?
1585
01:31:06,503 --> 01:31:08,797
I think it will probably be
another day, singing it.
1586
01:31:08,922 --> 01:31:11,508
And what you could do,
with the bits where you can't get it
1587
01:31:11,633 --> 01:31:14,177
- cos you haven't got enough breath...
- Take over, yeah.
1588
01:31:14,302 --> 01:31:16,179
All right, let's go.
1589
01:31:16,304 --> 01:31:19,474
In one way it was good,
because we went into the recording scene,
1590
01:31:19,599 --> 01:31:22,560
and really sort of expressed ourselves
through the records then,
1591
01:31:22,686 --> 01:31:24,437
because we could no longer do it outside.
1592
01:31:25,105 --> 01:31:29,192
I Living is easy with eyes closed.
1593
01:31:30,568 --> 01:31:33,363
I Misunderstanding all you see.
1594
01:31:35,490 --> 01:31:39,494
I It's getting hard to be someone,
but it all works out... I.
1595
01:31:40,245 --> 01:31:44,165
I'd got this idea for us
to all be someone else.
1596
01:31:44,290 --> 01:31:47,210
Because we were so fed up
with being what we were.
1597
01:31:47,335 --> 01:31:49,629
We had to get out of it,
one way or another.
1598
01:31:49,754 --> 01:31:52,132
- Righty-o!
- How fast, John?
1599
01:31:52,257 --> 01:31:54,801
However you like, you know.
Feel it.
1600
01:31:54,926 --> 01:31:56,678
Here we go, stand by.
1601
01:31:56,803 --> 01:31:59,305
One, two, three, four.
1602
01:32:08,398 --> 01:32:10,358
I just said to everyone,
we're not The Beatles.
1603
01:32:11,067 --> 01:32:12,527
It was to liberate us.
1604
01:32:13,153 --> 01:32:15,447
We're gonna think up
a new name for ourselves,
1605
01:32:15,572 --> 01:32:18,467
gonna think up a new way of being,
a new way of recording, a new everything.
1606
01:32:18,491 --> 01:32:19,868
Just to be fresh.
1607
01:32:19,993 --> 01:32:21,786
I So may I introduce to you.
1608
01:32:22,287 --> 01:32:24,748
I The act you've known
for all these years
1609
01:32:24,873 --> 01:32:28,418
I Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band... I.
1610
01:32:31,588 --> 01:32:32,828
I'll be overpowering this time.
1611
01:32:32,922 --> 01:32:35,633
Oh, good.
I like it when you're brutal.
1612
01:32:35,759 --> 01:32:37,719
Quiet in the studio, please.
1613
01:32:44,392 --> 01:32:47,937
I Picture yourself in a boat on a... I.
1614
01:32:48,063 --> 01:32:50,106
Just come right in with it now.
1615
01:32:50,231 --> 01:32:51,524
I think that was quicker.
1616
01:32:51,649 --> 01:32:54,527
I Cellophane flowers
of yellow and green
1617
01:32:54,652 --> 01:32:55,904
I Yellow and green... I.
1618
01:32:56,029 --> 01:32:57,197
OK_ Anyway...
1619
01:32:57,322 --> 01:33:02,452
I Cellophane flowers
of yellow and green
1620
01:33:02,577 --> 01:33:06,372
I Towering over your head.
1621
01:33:07,624 --> 01:33:12,587
I Look for the girl with the
sun in her eyes and she's gone.
1622
01:33:15,381 --> 01:33:18,593
I Lucy in the sky with diamonds.
1623
01:33:20,678 --> 01:33:22,555
I Lucy in the sky... I.
1624
01:33:22,680 --> 01:33:25,433
It was the music that was
interesting, that was important.
1625
01:33:25,558 --> 01:33:29,395
As long as we were going forward,
and going somewhere, it didn't matter.
1626
01:33:42,408 --> 01:33:46,621
I I read the news today, oh boy.
1627
01:33:48,498 --> 01:33:52,961
I About a lucky man
who made the grade... I.
1628
01:33:53,920 --> 01:33:56,589
There was a lot of faith involved
in everything we did.
1629
01:33:57,632 --> 01:34:01,344
And the people around us
had to share that faith
1630
01:34:01,469 --> 01:34:02,554
or it wouldn't have worked.
1631
01:34:03,138 --> 01:34:07,100
I Now they know how many holes it takes
to fill the Albert Hall... I
1632
01:34:08,518 --> 01:34:10,395
Brian had to have faith in us.
1633
01:34:10,520 --> 01:34:13,148
George Martin had to have faith in us.
1634
01:34:14,065 --> 01:34:16,067
This is how it was for The Beatles.
1635
01:34:16,192 --> 01:34:18,361
You had to have faith.
1636
01:34:18,486 --> 01:34:21,197
We had to have faith in each other.
1637
01:35:47,367 --> 01:35:50,078
I Don't let me down.
1638
01:35:53,248 --> 01:35:55,750
I Don't let me down.
1639
01:35:59,212 --> 01:36:02,048
I Don't let me down.
1640
01:36:05,009 --> 01:36:07,470
I Don't let me down.
1641
01:36:09,889 --> 01:36:14,394
I Nobody ever loved me like she does.
1642
01:36:15,603 --> 01:36:17,355
I Ooh, she does.
1643
01:36:18,481 --> 01:36:20,900
I Yes, she does.
1644
01:36:22,860 --> 01:36:27,115
I And if somebody loved me
like she does.
1645
01:36:28,199 --> 01:36:29,659
I Ooh, she does.
1646
01:36:31,244 --> 01:36:33,079
I Yes, she does.
1647
01:36:36,374 --> 01:36:38,751
I Don't let me down.
1648
01:36:42,297 --> 01:36:44,716
I Don't let me down.
1649
01:36:48,261 --> 01:36:51,055
I Don't let me down.
1650
01:36:53,975 --> 01:36:56,728
I Don't let me down.
1651
01:36:58,938 --> 01:37:02,191
I I'm in love for the first time.
1652
01:37:05,361 --> 01:37:08,406
I Don't you know it's gonna last.
1653
01:37:11,284 --> 01:37:14,120
I It's a love that lasts forever.
1654
01:37:17,123 --> 01:37:20,501
I It's a love that has no past.
1655
01:37:28,634 --> 01:37:29,761
I I've got a feeling.
1656
01:37:30,762 --> 01:37:34,223
I That keeps me on my toes,
oh yeah.
1657
01:37:36,017 --> 01:37:37,226
- I Oh, yeah - I Oh, yeah.
1658
01:37:40,021 --> 01:37:42,065
I I've got a feeling
1659
01:37:42,190 --> 01:37:45,526
I I think that everybody knows,
oh yeah.
1660
01:37:47,653 --> 01:37:49,864
- I Oh, yeah - I Oh, yeah.
1661
01:37:50,698 --> 01:37:52,283
I Oh, yeah
1662
01:37:52,408 --> 01:37:55,370
I Yeah, yeah.
1663
01:37:56,037 --> 01:37:58,498
I I've got a feeling, yeah.
1664
01:38:03,002 --> 01:38:05,463
I Everybody had a hard year.
1665
01:38:06,130 --> 01:38:07,799
I Everybody had a good time.
1666
01:38:08,925 --> 01:38:11,511
I Everybody had a wet dream.
1667
01:38:12,053 --> 01:38:13,596
I Everybody saw the sunshine
1668
01:38:13,721 --> 01:38:15,181
- I Oh, yeah - I Oh, yeah
1669
01:38:15,306 --> 01:38:17,850
I Oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
1670
01:38:19,519 --> 01:38:22,397
- I Well...
- I Everybody had a good year.
1671
01:38:23,398 --> 01:38:25,650
I Everybody let their hair down.
1672
01:38:26,317 --> 01:38:29,070
- I Everybody pulled their socks up.
- I Yeah
1673
01:38:29,195 --> 01:38:31,697
I Everybody put their foot down,
oh, yeah.
1674
01:38:37,370 --> 01:38:39,372
I Yeah.
1675
01:38:41,707 --> 01:38:43,167
I Woo-hoe.
1676
01:38:43,626 --> 01:38:46,003
- I I've got a feeling.
- I Everybody had a good year
1677
01:38:46,129 --> 01:38:49,298
- I A feeling deep inside, oh, yeah.
- I Everybody had a hard time
1678
01:38:49,424 --> 01:38:52,301
- I Everybody had a wet dream.
- I Oh, yeah
1679
01:38:52,427 --> 01:38:54,345
I Everybody saw the sunshine.
1680
01:38:55,304 --> 01:38:57,515
- I I've got a feeling.
- I Everybody had a good year
1681
01:38:57,640 --> 01:39:00,935
- I A feeling I can't hide, oh, no.
- I Everybody let their hair down
1682
01:39:01,060 --> 01:39:03,896
- I Everybody pulled their socks up.
- I Oh, no, no
1683
01:39:04,021 --> 01:39:06,566
- I Everybody put their foot down.
- I Yeah
1684
01:39:06,691 --> 01:39:08,651
I Yeah...
1685
01:39:09,902 --> 01:39:11,904
I I've got a feeling.
1686
01:39:14,198 --> 01:39:17,201
- I I've got a feeling.
- I Oh, yeah.
1687
01:39:19,787 --> 01:39:22,039
I I've got a feeling
1688
01:39:22,165 --> 01:39:24,709
I Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I.
1689
01:39:34,260 --> 01:39:36,179
What a suitable ending, I think.
1690
01:39:43,311 --> 01:39:46,731
I Ooh, I need your love, babe
1691
01:39:46,856 --> 01:39:49,025
I Guess you know it's true.
1692
01:39:50,359 --> 01:39:53,696
I Hope you need my love, babe
1693
01:39:53,821 --> 01:39:55,948
I Just like I need you.
1694
01:39:57,283 --> 01:39:58,784
I Hold me
1695
01:39:58,910 --> 01:40:00,536
I Love me
1696
01:40:00,661 --> 01:40:02,330
I Hold me
1697
01:40:02,455 --> 01:40:03,915
I Love me
1698
01:40:04,040 --> 01:40:07,168
I I ain't got nothing but love, babe.
1699
01:40:08,002 --> 01:40:09,795
I Eight days a week.
1700
01:40:11,088 --> 01:40:14,091
I Love you every day, girl.
1701
01:40:14,550 --> 01:40:16,677
I Always on my mind.
1702
01:40:17,887 --> 01:40:20,973
I One thing I can say, girl.
1703
01:40:21,432 --> 01:40:23,601
I Love you all the time.
1704
01:40:24,894 --> 01:40:26,479
I Hold me
1705
01:40:26,604 --> 01:40:28,147
I Love me
1706
01:40:28,272 --> 01:40:29,899
I Hold me
1707
01:40:30,024 --> 01:40:31,442
I Love me
1708
01:40:31,567 --> 01:40:34,654
I I ain't got nothing but love, girl.
1709
01:40:35,613 --> 01:40:37,365
I Eight days a week.
1710
01:40:38,616 --> 01:40:41,160
I Eight days a week.
1711
01:40:41,953 --> 01:40:44,747
I I love you.
1712
01:40:45,665 --> 01:40:48,167
I Eight days a week.
1713
01:40:49,001 --> 01:40:52,255
I ls not enough to show I care
1714
01:40:52,380 --> 01:40:55,550
I Ooh, I need your love, babe.
1715
01:40:56,050 --> 01:40:58,135
I Guess you know it's true.
1716
01:40:59,512 --> 01:41:02,348
I Hope you need my love, babe.
1717
01:41:02,974 --> 01:41:05,226
I Just like I need you
1718
01:41:05,351 --> 01:41:07,979
I Oh, hold me
1719
01:41:08,104 --> 01:41:09,772
I Love me
1720
01:41:09,897 --> 01:41:11,399
I Hold me
1721
01:41:11,524 --> 01:41:13,025
I Love me
1722
01:41:13,150 --> 01:41:16,237
I I ain't got nothing but love, babe.
1723
01:41:17,154 --> 01:41:18,906
I Eight days a week.
1724
01:41:20,241 --> 01:41:22,910
I Eight days a week.
1725
01:41:23,578 --> 01:41:26,330
I I love you.
1726
01:41:27,248 --> 01:41:29,709
I Eight days a week.
1727
01:41:30,585 --> 01:41:33,921
I ls not enough to show I care
1728
01:41:34,046 --> 01:41:37,049
I Love you every day, girl.
1729
01:41:37,675 --> 01:41:39,802
I Always on my mind.
1730
01:41:41,220 --> 01:41:44,098
I One thing I can say, girl.
1731
01:41:44,682 --> 01:41:46,851
I Love you all the time.
1732
01:41:48,144 --> 01:41:49,687
I Hold me
1733
01:41:49,812 --> 01:41:51,480
I Love me
1734
01:41:51,606 --> 01:41:53,190
I Hold me
1735
01:41:53,316 --> 01:41:54,734
I Love me
1736
01:41:54,859 --> 01:41:57,987
I I ain't got nothing but love, babe.
1737
01:41:58,904 --> 01:42:00,656
I Eight days a week.
1738
01:42:02,325 --> 01:42:04,076
I Eight days a week.
1739
01:42:05,745 --> 01:42:07,538
I Eight days a week I.
1740
01:42:16,380 --> 01:42:19,216
Hello, this is John speaking
with his voice.
1741
01:42:19,342 --> 01:42:23,262
We're all very happy to be able to talk to
you like this on this little bit of plastic.
1742
01:42:23,387 --> 01:42:26,390
This record reaches you
at the end of a really gear year for us,
1743
01:42:26,515 --> 01:42:27,975
and it's all due to you.
1744
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:31,854
When we made our first record
on Parlophone towards the end of 1962,
1745
01:42:31,979 --> 01:42:34,625
we hoped everybody would like
what had already been our type of music
1746
01:42:34,649 --> 01:42:36,484
for several years already.
1747
01:42:36,609 --> 01:42:39,236
But we had no idea of all the gear things
in store for us.
1748
01:42:39,362 --> 01:42:42,239
It all happened really when Please
Please Me became a number one hit,
1749
01:42:42,365 --> 01:42:44,992
and after that, well,
'cor the blimeys, heave the mo'.
1750
01:42:45,117 --> 01:42:46,470
Our biggest thrill of the year, well,
1751
01:42:46,494 --> 01:42:48,597
I suppose it must have been
topping the bill at the London Palladium
1752
01:42:48,621 --> 01:42:50,140
and then, only a couple of days later,
1753
01:42:50,164 --> 01:42:52,375
being invited to take part
in the Royal Variety Show.
1754
01:42:52,500 --> 01:42:54,260
This time last year,
we were all dead chuffed
1755
01:42:54,293 --> 01:42:56,212
because Love Me Do
got into the Top Twenty,
1756
01:42:56,337 --> 01:43:00,341
and we can't believe, really, that so many
things have happened in between already.
1757
01:43:00,466 --> 01:43:02,968
Just before I pass you over to Paul,
1758
01:43:03,094 --> 01:43:05,054
I'd like to say thank you
to all the Beatle people
1759
01:43:05,137 --> 01:43:06,697
who have written to me during the year,
1760
01:43:06,722 --> 01:43:09,016
and everyone who sent me
gifts and cards for my birthday,
1761
01:43:09,141 --> 01:43:11,227
which I'm trying to forget, in October.
1762
01:43:11,352 --> 01:43:14,438
I'd love to reply personally to everyone,
but I just haven't enough pens.
1763
01:43:14,563 --> 01:43:16,816
- In the meantime...
- This is Paul here.
1764
01:43:16,941 --> 01:43:18,859
Everything that John said
goes for me too,
1765
01:43:18,984 --> 01:43:21,278
especially the bit about birthday cards
and the parcels,
1766
01:43:21,404 --> 01:43:23,989
cos all our homes and offices
got stacks of mail last June...
1767
01:43:24,115 --> 01:43:25,324
Ow!
1768
01:43:26,117 --> 01:43:27,451
When it was my birthday.
1769
01:43:27,576 --> 01:43:32,039
Anyway, we're all dead pleased
by the way you've treated us in 1963,
1770
01:43:32,164 --> 01:43:34,166
and we try to do everything we can
to please you
1771
01:43:34,291 --> 01:43:36,544
with the type of songs
we write and record next year.
1772
01:43:36,669 --> 01:43:40,756
Oh, yeah, lots of people asked us
what we enjoy best, you see,
1773
01:43:40,881 --> 01:43:42,591
concerts and television or recording?
1774
01:43:42,717 --> 01:43:44,403
We like doing stage shows
cos it's, you know,
1775
01:43:44,427 --> 01:43:46,554
it's great to hear an audience
enjoying themselves.
1776
01:43:46,679 --> 01:43:48,973
But the thing we like best,
I think so, anyway,
1777
01:43:49,098 --> 01:43:50,766
is going into the recording studio...
1778
01:43:50,891 --> 01:43:53,602
- Yes, we enjoy that very kindly!
- To make new records,
1779
01:43:53,728 --> 01:43:55,205
which is what we've been doing all day
1780
01:43:55,229 --> 01:43:56,869
before we started
on this special message.
1781
01:43:56,897 --> 01:43:59,292
Well, what we like to hear most
is one of our songs, you know,
1782
01:43:59,316 --> 01:44:01,026
taking shape in a recording studio,
1783
01:44:01,152 --> 01:44:03,028
one of the ones that John and I
have written,
1784
01:44:03,154 --> 01:44:07,116
and then listening to the tapes afterwards
to hear how it all worked out, you see.
1785
01:44:07,241 --> 01:44:08,993
- Ja, Ringo!
- Hello, Ringo here.
1786
01:44:09,118 --> 01:44:11,370
As you know, I was the last member
to join The Beatles.
1787
01:44:11,495 --> 01:44:14,373
I started to play drums in the group 1962.
1788
01:44:14,498 --> 01:44:16,876
I've been in a couple of other groups...
1789
01:44:17,001 --> 01:44:22,006
Oh, just wish the people a merry,
happy, go on, for Christmas, Christmas.
1790
01:44:22,131 --> 01:44:23,674
Merry, happy New Year,
1791
01:44:23,799 --> 01:44:26,177
and folks, happy Christmas,
and may...
1792
01:44:26,302 --> 01:44:27,928
may everything you wish be granted.
1793
01:44:28,053 --> 01:44:30,097
Sing, sing us Wences/as,
King Wences/as.
1794
01:44:30,222 --> 01:44:31,223
King Wenceslas.
1795
01:44:31,348 --> 01:44:33,392
- Well...!
- Hurray, Paul!
1796
01:44:33,517 --> 01:44:35,728
Thank you, Ringo!
Thank you, Ringo!
1797
01:44:35,853 --> 01:44:37,438
We'll phone you!
1798
01:44:38,189 --> 01:44:39,690
I'm George Harrison.
1799
01:44:39,815 --> 01:44:42,252
Nobody else has said anything yet
about our fan club secretaries,
1800
01:44:42,276 --> 01:44:44,695
Ann Collingham and Bettina Rose,
1801
01:44:44,820 --> 01:44:47,114
not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool.
1802
01:44:47,239 --> 01:44:48,324
Good old Freda!
1803
01:44:48,449 --> 01:44:49,992
So on behalf of us all,
1804
01:44:50,117 --> 01:44:52,244
I'd just like to say a great, big thank you
1805
01:44:52,369 --> 01:44:54,872
to Ann, Bettina and Freda
for all the hard work they've done,
1806
01:44:54,997 --> 01:44:57,792
and we just hope you can go on
pleasing you for a long time,
1807
01:44:57,917 --> 01:45:01,504
cos it's gonna cause it to your reaction
to our records that really matters,
1808
01:45:01,629 --> 01:45:03,798
and I'd just like to say...
1809
01:45:03,923 --> 01:45:06,133
I Brightly was the schon at night
1810
01:45:06,258 --> 01:45:08,177
I Though the winter cruel
1811
01:45:08,302 --> 01:45:10,304
I When a pork pie came inside
1812
01:45:10,429 --> 01:45:14,266
I Gathering winter cruel I.
1813
01:45:14,391 --> 01:45:17,144
Merry Christmas, everybody!
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