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# MUSIC: "Love Me Do" by The Beatles
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50 years ago, something remarkable happened.
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Four young men from Liverpool released a record that changed everything.
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# Love, love me do
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# You know I love you... #
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I was immediately struck by their music.
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Their beat and their sense of humour onstage.
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We never knew that music was going to change
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the world's idea on what kids could do.
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It's similar to when you hear the first and the great songs by anybody.
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It's like hearing Heartbreak Hotel. Elvis's Heartbreak Hotel.
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I mean, it's a moment you know is great.
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1962 was definitely great for some
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and a brush with fame for others.
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It was John, Paul, George and Andy.
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Me. Not Ringo.
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This is the story of that momentous year.
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The year where America and Russia played a game of global poker with nuclear weapons
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and the world seemed minutes away from World War III.
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We all stood looking towards the west
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to see if there was going to be
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some kind of major orange explosion in the sky or something.
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A year when a new generation had something to say
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and Liverpool hummed to the beat of 300 pop groups
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as the city became the centre of the pop universe.
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# Love me do. #
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1962 changed my life completely.
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One minute, I'm working as a secretary
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in a general office just around the corner,
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next minute, I'm in the hub of Beatlemania.
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If you went abroad and spoke with a Liverpool accent,
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you were treated like God.
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That was how '62 was a momentous year in Liverpool
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and elevated and changed so many people's lives.
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It was absolutely incredible.
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For the Beatles, it was a year of keeping secrets.
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A year of intrigue, tragedy,
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betrayal and ruthless ambition.
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Tonight, we'll be finding out what happened, why it happened
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and why we should all be thankful for 1962.
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# Love me do
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# Oh, oh, love me do. #
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HARMONICA RECITAL
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It's The Beatles!
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MUSIC: "Some Other Guy" by The Beatles
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# Some other guy, now
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# Is taking my love away from me Oh, now
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# Some other guy, now
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# Is taking away my sweet desire Oh, now
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# Some other guy, now
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# I just don't wanna hold my hand Oh, now
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# I'm the lonely one... #
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This is the only surviving film of The Beatles in the Cavern.
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It's August 1962 and one of Ringo's earliest appearances
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with John, Paul and George.
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The kings are in their castle and they're going down a storm.
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In a few weeks, life for The Beatles will change forever.
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But for the moment, the future is uncertain.
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# Oh, now I'm the lonely one As lonely as I can feel, all right. #
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To keep spirits up, they have their own catchphrase.
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John Lennon will ask, "Where are we going, boys?"
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And the band will reply, "To the toppermost of the poppermost, Johnnie."
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The toppermost is still some way off.
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So for the moment, The Cavern will have to do.
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# Some other guy is making me very, very mad, oh, now
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# Some other guy, now
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# Is taking apart all of my past Oh, now
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# Some other guy, now
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# She was the first girl I ever had
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# Oh, now, I'm the lonely one
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# As lonely as I can feel
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# Oh-ho-ho-ho
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# I'm a-talking to you right now. #
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HORN SOUNDS
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# Moon river
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# Wider than a mile
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# I'm crossing you in style some day. #
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Moon River was the number one song as 1962 dawned
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and the New Year brought hope for many in Liverpool.
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The days of the frugal '50s seemed at last to be long gone.
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Beer was ten pence a pint, bread five pence a loaf.
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The average wage was �800 a year.
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There was much to look forward to.
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None more so than The Beatles, who found themselves in London on New Year's Day,
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auditioning for a recording contract with Decca Records.
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# Hello, little girl
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# Hello, little girl. #
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The Beatles had high hopes,
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but a hard day's night drinking in the new year had taken its toll.
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The session did not go well.
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It was a hangover to remember for drummer Pete Best,
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who's just been voted the fans' favourite Beatle.
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Brian Epstein read the riot act to us before we went down.
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"Be good little boys. You mustn't be out after 10 o'clock."
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And there we were in the middle of Trafalgar Square,
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drunk as skunks enjoying New Year's Day.
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Or the advent of New Year's Day.
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And, of course, when we actually got to the Decca studios the next day,
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we were late. Seems to be our history being late.
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Brian, of course, was there before us and he was absolutely livid.
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He tore a strip off us left, right and centre.
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John just basically turned around and said,
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"Brian, shut up. We're here for the audition."
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All the bright hopes for the new year were overshadowed
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as America and Russia went head-to-head in nuclear bomb testing.
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The Cold War was entering an ice age.
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It would become a global crisis later in the year.
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On the dance floors, nobody seemed to care.
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A new dance craze had everyone in a twist.
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RECORDING: 'From Mayfair to Marseille, from Missouri to Manchester,
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'the Twist has set the world's feet a-tapping.
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'Everyone everywhere has danced to the beat that's topped the pops
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'and inspired twist skirts, twist shirts and even twist haircuts.
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'North London barber Tom Ahmed
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'has translated this ding-dong dance into hair.
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'A hairstyle which soon became a share style
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'when the girls liked the look of their boyfriends' sleek locks.
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'Once a male preserve, togetherness is now the order of the day.'
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# Sweet dream, baby... #
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In Liverpool, the place to buy records was at NEMS.
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North End Music Stores, owned by the Epstein family
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and run by Brian Epstein.
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The store boasted they'd find any record you asked for.
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One request for a German single, My Bonnie by Tony Sheridan,
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backed by a group called The Beatles,
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led Epstein to go and see them at the nearby Cavern Club.
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He was so impressed, he offered to manage them.
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They agreed a deal that gave him
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25% of their earnings for the next five years.
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In return, he vowed to get them a record deal in 1962
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and tells everyone he meets they'll be bigger than Elvis.
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The Beatles were then just four lads on that rather dimly-lit stage,
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somewhat ill clad
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and the presentation left a little to be desired,
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as far as I was concerned
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because I've been interested in the theatre and acting for a long time.
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But amongst all that,
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something tremendous came over.
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And I was immediately struck by their music,
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their beat and their sense of humour, actually, onstage.
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And even afterwards when I met them,
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I was struck again by their personal charm.
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And it was there that really, it all started.
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But Epstein was a troubled man.
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Outwardly, he was the genial new manager of The Beatles.
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But he shared with them a secret.
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He was homosexual and ran the risk of being arrested
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and facing a jail sentence.
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For in 1962, it was against the law to have sex with another man.
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Epstein risked everything.
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The more he worked with The Beatles,
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the more his secret life came under the spotlight.
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He had already been badly beaten up and blackmailed.
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There was one particular night that he'd spent in my company.
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And we'd been out to dinner and we had a very nice night.
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And I had a very nice apartment on Princes Road at the time.
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But then he decides to go his own...
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"Good night. See you."
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And he went out
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and er...met somebody who...
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He was quite, um...I would say quite vulnerable, really.
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If somebody said they liked him or made a fuss of him,
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he'd be pleased with that.
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But he would open himself up to the wrong type of people.
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Anyway, eventually, he came back to me that same night.
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When he left me he had a beautiful, white Peter England,
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that was his favourite shirt. He came back to me and it was red.
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As red as could be. He had been knocked about.
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He would enjoy people who are rough. He liked their company.
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Epstein tried to keep his secret life away from The Beatles
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but there was one occasion
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when he made his feelings known to Pete Best on a trip to Blackpool.
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John and Cyndi were in the back seat, I was in the front.
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We'd had a couple of pints and we could see the tower of Blackpool in the distance
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and Brian turned over and very casually turned round
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and said, "How would you enjoy spending the night with me in Blackpool?"
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And it was said in such a tone
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it wasn't just a case of having a couple of drinks
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and I basically turned round and said,
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"You're picking on the wrong kid, Brian. I'm not that way inclined."
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He apologised. John and Cyndi were in the car.
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They just sort of looked when we got out and they turned round and said,
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"Did we hear what we thought we heard?" and I went, "Yeah."
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And John just sort of went...
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And nothing more was said.
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I didn't go around with a great big placard
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saying "Brian's propositioned me!" It was like,
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it's happened, let's push it under the carpet
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and that's the way we were treating it.
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- # Do you love me
- I can really move
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- # Do you love me?
- I'm in the groove
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- # Now, do you love me?
- Do you love me? #
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This is one of the most famous streets
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in the history of popular music.
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People come from all over the world to look
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and to listen to get their photograph taken.
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50 years ago though
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only a select few in Liverpool knew that this was the place to be.
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- # I can mash-potato
- I can mash-potato
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- # And I can do the twist
- I can do the twist... #
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Not much to look at upstairs but downstairs
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what Brian Epstein called a Cellarful Of Noise -
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dark, dingy, hot, sweaty -
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everything a rock'n'roll club should be.
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MUSIC: "Do You Love Me?" by The Contours
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I think the Cavern was extremely important
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to the groups in Liverpool.
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One of the reasons was they had somewhere to practise
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after the lunchtime sessions,
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plus they could play as loud as they could cos it's a cellar,
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and where it was associated it didn't affect anybody, the noise.
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But there was also the atmosphere in the Cavern itself
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and I suppose you know about the Cavern smell?
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People said it was a horrible smell but I actually liked it.
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It was a mixture of, as I say, body sweat, cleaning fluids...
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But also we had the fruit market opposite
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so you got the smell of fruit mixed in.
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'Once more, Colonel John Glenn was all set to journey into space.
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'He showed no signs of tension despite previous frustrations and delays.'
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While Liverpool had its underground heroes, over in America
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new, cleaner-cut versions were making the dream of space exploration a reality.
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'This time, conditions were perfect. The launching itself without fault.
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'All went well with the giant Atlas Rocket
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'and at 17,545 mph Colonel Glenn went into orbit.
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THEY CHANT: We want work! We want work!
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But back in Liverpool,
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the city was in the grip of one of its worst unemployment crises.
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30,000 men were out of work on Merseyside.
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That's 33 men for every job vacancy.
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More than double the national average.
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It was this lack of jobs, especially for young people,
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that helped create so many groups in the city.
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If you were young in 1962,
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music was the best escape route even if you were still at school.
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I saw the Beatles
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halfway through January that year
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and I left school a couple of days later
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because I knew what I wanted to do.
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I started as a 15-year-old schoolboy,
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only just 15 by the way,
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and ended it playing in one of the biggest groups in Liverpool.
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Also playing on the same bill two or three times week as The Beatles
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at the Cavern and various gigs around Liverpool.
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In Liverpool around that time, we had lots of clubs,
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youth clubs, and in the youth clubs they had boxing, table tennis
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and whatever, football and music.
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So you either boxed or you played music
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and we all had sense and we played music.
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I boxed for a few years and that was enough for me.
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So we thought, right, let's stick to the guitars,
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leave the boxing to the big boys.
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So we'd just form bands,
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and there was hundreds of bands in Liverpool. Great rivalry.
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We were great rivals with the Beatles onstage.
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Offstage, best of mates.
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John was my best pal but onstage - "Let's be better than them!"
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There must be about 300 or so rock'n'roll groups in Liverpool.
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You've only got to mention Liverpool
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and all the fans start screaming and going wild. It's glamour!
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But when you weigh it up it's rather ironic to think
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that there's about twice as many people on the dole here as anywhere else in the country.
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It is a good thing, the fact that they are on the dole,
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as far as they can spend all day practising,
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whereas, if they had a normal job, they wouldn't be able to do that at all.
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Oh, in fact one chap used to play with us -
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he was on and off the dole for about five years in all.
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But, seriously, there's loads of vitality
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and talent ready to break out of Liverpool at any time at all.
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MUSIC: "He's A Rebel" by The Crystals
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The Beatles exploded with energy.
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Trips to Hamburg where they were playing eight hours a night non-stop
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had turned them into savage young Beatles,
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rampant, ready to rock and shock, dressed from head to toe in leather.
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# Cos he's not just one of the crowd... #
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We bought leather pants and we looked like four Gene Vincents,
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only a bit younger, I think.
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And that was it - we just kept those,
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the leather gear, till Brian came along.
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It was the first thing that Epstein changed.
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He put them in suits.
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It was a bit sort of old hat anyway, all wearing leather gear,
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and we decided we didn't want to look ridiculous,
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just going on because, more often than not,
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too many people would laugh. It was just stupid.
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We didn't want to appear as a gang of idiots
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and Brian suggested we just sort of wore ordinary suits.
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So we just got what we thought were quite good suits
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and just got rid of the leather gear.
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- Can I talk to you about Brian Epstein?
- Oh, certainly, yes.
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- What does he mean to you as a manager?
- Brian? Oh, money!
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No, seriously though, he has done a lot for us.
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He tells us all kinds what to do.
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He made us that were suits and look better and everything.
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But even in our private lives he plays a hell of a lot.
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When we met Brian,
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Brian would say to us, "Slow down when you're talking.
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"I don't know what you're saying." Cos we were Scouse.
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HE SPEAKS IN IMPENETRABLE SCOUSE ACCENT
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"Whoa," he'd say, "If you become famous,
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"how can you go and talk like that on the radio or television?
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"Slow down, take it easy." And we thought, "All right."
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And he said, "If you go out, wear a suit.
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"Don't wear your jeans and an old t-shirt, wear a suit."
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Decca Records weren't impressed by The Beatles in suits or leather.
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They turned down the chance to sign the group.
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The lines of rejection are recorded forever in infamy.
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They told Epstein...
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The news threw Epstein into the depths of despair.
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He was the one who felt the rejection more than anyone else
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because he was the new kid on the block, in a way, if we could put it that way.
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He was the new manager, big hopes, major record company, Decca,
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and more or less thinking to his own sweet self, this one's in the bag.
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We turned round and told Brian,
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"We lost that one. It doesn't change the way we perform.
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"In fact, it makes us a little bit more determined.
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"But it is also going to make YOU more determined as well.
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"YOU'VE got to get over the rejection."
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I think that was the message that we put out.
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Still reeling from the Decca rejection,
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The Beatles were shocked to discover their friend and former Beatle, Stuart Sutcliffe,
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had died from a brain haemorrhage in Hamburg.
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Sutcliffe was the king of cool.
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The boy with the James Dean looks, who dressed in black,
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and who John Lennon said gave The Beatles their style.
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He was also a talented young artist
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and John Lennon's closest friend at art school.
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He'd left the group the previous year
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and gone back to studying art while they were in Hamburg.
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That's all he ever wanted to be.
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He never ever had an ambition to be anything else.
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When parents ask children,
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"What are you going to be when you grow up?"
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He'd always say, "I want to paint." And he did.
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For Stuart, leaving The Beatles was a difficult choice.
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It was over the months that he realised
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that he really couldn't manage both.
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There weren't enough hours in the day.
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I think he was terribly upset and worried about telling John.
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Rightly.
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John felt the loss of Stuart more than the other Beatles.
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I think he felt quite betrayed.
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And, in some ways, he had a right to feel,
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you know, he'd done a lot to ensure that Stuart was with him,
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and part of his passion and what a passion he had.
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So he was generous with his passion
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and Stuart was generous with his with John and I do believe
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he felt that Stuart took that away from him.
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Which to some extent he did.
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Sir Peter Blake, the leading light behind British pop art,
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was a close friend of The Beatles for many years.
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He designed the front cover of the Sgt Pepper album and would later
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paint this portrait of The Beatles from photographs taken in 1962.
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Sir Peter has close links with Liverpool.
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In 1961, he won the prestigious John Moores Young Artist Of The Year award.
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He believes Sutcliffe was a rare talent.
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It was something John Lennon would always champion.
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Oddly enough, the very first thing
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that John Lennon said to me when we first met,
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for some reason the John Moores came up
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and the fact that I'd won the junior prize, and he said,
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"You should never have got that, Stuart should have got that."
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And he meant it. So his first... He was always kind of abrasive
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but his very first statement was that -
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"Stuart Sutcliffe should have won that junior prize, not you."
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In a grumpy way.
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You don't get as many ferries across the Mersey anymore.
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You don't get much craft of any kind really.
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But back in 1962
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Liverpool was one of the world's major seaports.
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The docks would've stretched for miles along here
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and craft of every kind would pour in from all over the globe bringing cargo of every kind
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including one that made Liverpool pop capital of the world.
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Many of the ships were coming from New York.
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For those in Liverpool, America was the land of milk and honey.
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And records. Chunks of vinyl you couldn't get anywhere else.
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And the boys on the boats were bringing them home.
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They'd come from the States with records
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and there was always one person from every family who was in the merchant navy going back and forward
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and they'd bring the records in with them.
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The first one I heard which changed my life was Elvis Presley
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singing Hound Dog and Heartbreak Hotel.
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And I had a skiffle band,
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and when I heard it and heard the piano in it,
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I thought, I want a piano in the band.
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So we got a piano in our band
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and we were the first band in Liverpool with a piano.
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Thanks to Elvis and thanks to all the people bringing the records in
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and that was very important.
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MUSIC: "Good Golly Miss Molly" by Little Richard
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They used to bring furniture back, kitchen furniture in particular,
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because we were refurbishing our homes
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and the American kitchen table and four chairs was Formica
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which we didn't have up to then.
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They were bringing those home.
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And various other things. Boxes of nylons.
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But my brother preferred to bring me in particular
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the records that I wanted.
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# Good golly, Miss Molly
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# Sure like to ball
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# When you're rocking and a'rolling... #
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These records were coming in on the boats
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so then they'd get circulated around the music community in Liverpool,
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kids at home would be learning the lyrics.
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You'd put the needle on the edge of the record
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and you'd play it through, somebody would be jotting down the lyrics
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and get as far as you could
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and then wind the single back on the turntable again,
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let it go, jot down the next set of lyrics.
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That's how a lot of the lyrics were learned,
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cos kids couldn't buy sheet music necessarily.
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It perpetuated, it was fascinating because it perpetuated.
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If you were listening to, I don't know, an old Bobby Darin single or something
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and he mispronounced one of the words
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as everybody was writing it down,
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that missed lyric would then perpetuate into the English version.
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- So, it was, you know...
- HE LAUGHS
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All of this demonstrates the innocence of the time really.
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MUSIC: "Town Without Pity" by Gene Pitney
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Liverpool still wore the proud face of Victorian prosperity
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but its body was broken.
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It had the worst housing problems in Britain.
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80,000 homes were regarded as not fit to live in -
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that's slums to you and me,
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and it brought with it its own problems.
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About 15% of the children live in small houses shortly due for demolition.
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Not so long ago, a little boy came to school in great distress
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because his pet dog had been killed
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by a rat at the bottom of his bed that morning.
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Also, they have very little background knowledge.
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We try to take them out to parks and farms.
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This week, some of them
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saw the cow for the very first time in their lives.
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There'd been ambitious plans since the war to rehouse people
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from the city centre in new suburban housing estates.
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Most houses, though, still had an outside toilet,
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no fridges, no central heating.
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# Many problems... #
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We still had the dolly peg in the tub and she'd do the washing
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and she'd say, "Right, Gerry, your turn." Never called me Gerry.
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"Right, Gerard, dolly." "All right, Mam, dolly."
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So I'd get there...for an hour.
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After an hour you've got muscles...
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That's why Liverpool women were hard cases.
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They had big muscles with dollying, going down the wash house.
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But that was life, you didn't think of it being wrong.
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The houses where we lived were slums? They weren't slums at all.
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The steps were spotless, the brasses were clean, the house was great.
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And they'd say, "Where we live, we can leave our doors open."
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And we said, "Yeah, because there's nothing to steal."
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This is the kitchen of a fairly typical Liverpudlian council house,
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built just after the Second World War.
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So there's no microwave or dishwasher obviously
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but there's a twin tub - very smart - Belfast sink.
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It's a good example of the social housing of the day.
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But that's not the only reason the National Trust bought it.
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They bought it because this is the house Paul McCartney grew up in.
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Paul lived here with brother Mike in 1962.
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Paul would write songs while Mike would take photographs.
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So this is where, in some ways, you could say the Beatles story really begins.
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In the garden of Forthlin Road where, it's said during 1958, Paul McCartney,
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playing truant from school wrote the bulk of what would become
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Love Me Do with a little addition of a middle eight by one John Lennon.
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But neither he, nor John,
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nor anyone could have known what that little song would lead to.
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For years, legend has had it that Love Me Do was written about Iris Fenton.
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Iris was the envy of all her friends in 1962.
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She was 17 and a dancer.
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Better still, she was dating Paul McCartney.
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It wasn't until the end of '61
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that I think I started to notice him as a fella, sort of thing.
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Then we went out for quite a long time, until '63.
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But, in saying we went out, I wasn't always in Liverpool,
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he was often in Hamburg.
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There were letters he used to write all the time and everything
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and it was really good fun.
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Initially, we would go out on a Tuesday to the pictures
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and sometimes he would pay and sometimes I would pay.
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It was all so very different. We would get the bus then.
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But I was with him when he got his first car.
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So it all sort of grew from there.
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Some people have asked me about Love Me Do
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and whether it was written about me. It wasn't.
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It was written before I was going out with him
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and it might have been written about his girlfriend before
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but it was definitely not written about me.
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Iris was sister of Rory Storm.
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Rory and his group The Hurricanes were one of The Beatles' closest rivals.
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They had a drummer called Richard Starkey - Ringo to you and me.
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And the bands would meet up after sessions at the Cavern.
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Of a night, whatever groups had been on at the Cavern,
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they all used to come back to our house.
492
00:30:10,720 --> 00:30:12,320
It was called Stormsville.
493
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:15,160
They called me mum and dad Ma and Pa Storm.
494
00:30:15,160 --> 00:30:18,000
Well, the Beatles used to call me dad the Crusher
495
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,040
and they called me mum Violent Vi.
496
00:30:20,040 --> 00:30:25,240
I've got no idea why! But everybody used to come back to our house.
497
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,400
It was...
498
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:30,480
Mum used to make chip butties or cheese barm cakes
499
00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,960
and pots and pots of tea.
500
00:30:31,960 --> 00:30:35,320
And we just used to laugh all night and people would be strumming guitars
501
00:30:35,320 --> 00:30:39,680
and me dad would be in bed shouting, "Who's using my electricity?"
502
00:30:39,680 --> 00:30:43,480
And next door would bang on the wall, but it was absolutely fantastic.
503
00:30:43,480 --> 00:30:46,280
Anyone who went to Stormsville, ask them
504
00:30:46,280 --> 00:30:48,720
and they'll say there wasn't a house like it.
505
00:30:59,760 --> 00:31:02,400
A crime show based at Kirkby, near Liverpool,
506
00:31:02,400 --> 00:31:06,760
had the nation enthralled, and a new catchphrase was born.
507
00:31:06,760 --> 00:31:11,520
- Z-Victor 1 to BD.
- Go ahead, Z-Victor 1.
508
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:14,760
The crime series reflected the key change in police policy
509
00:31:14,760 --> 00:31:17,560
that many now regret - moving away from bobbies on the beat
510
00:31:17,560 --> 00:31:20,400
into what became known as panda cars.
511
00:31:20,400 --> 00:31:22,560
It was recorded live each week and offered
512
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,000
young actors like Brian Blessed and Judi Dench their TV debuts.
513
00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,200
- What's your name?
- Judy Garland.
- Oh, aye?
514
00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:32,160
- Shall I sing a song, like, prove it?
- Look, stop messing about, just...
515
00:31:32,160 --> 00:31:36,080
- Hey!
- # Ever since this world began... #
- Hey, shut it.
516
00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:39,920
- Well, you're not long on manners, are you?
- What's your name?
517
00:31:39,920 --> 00:31:43,040
- Marlon Brando.
- Oh, come on.
- Hey, no!
518
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,640
- We haven't got time to waste playing games with the likes of you.
- Oh.
519
00:31:46,640 --> 00:31:50,040
# Oh, yes, wait a minute, Mr Postman... #
520
00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,480
The month of May brought the best of news in a telegram for the Beatles.
521
00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,560
Epstein's hard work had paid off.
522
00:31:56,560 --> 00:32:00,080
EMI Records offered a recording deal on their small Parlophone label,
523
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:03,120
working with a young producer called George Martin.
524
00:32:03,120 --> 00:32:05,800
He asked them to record a demo session of their songs
525
00:32:05,800 --> 00:32:08,960
to help choose the debut single.
526
00:32:08,960 --> 00:32:10,600
We had the recording session.
527
00:32:10,600 --> 00:32:13,960
These were basically to let... as it turned out,
528
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:18,880
George Martin, Ron Richards and Norm Smith, that was the crew.
529
00:32:18,880 --> 00:32:21,600
Er, let them know, you know,
530
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:24,560
these were the songs we were possibly considering.
531
00:32:24,560 --> 00:32:29,920
Let them hear. And in a way it was, er, George Martin's decision.
532
00:32:29,920 --> 00:32:36,120
I mean, he opted for Love Me Do, with the B-side being PS I Love You.
533
00:32:36,120 --> 00:32:39,400
And that was the first release, the A and the B-side.
534
00:32:40,440 --> 00:32:43,120
As August began, there was sad news from America.
535
00:32:43,120 --> 00:32:46,480
Marilyn Monroe, the golden girl of Hollywood,
536
00:32:46,480 --> 00:32:49,480
leaves behind a glittering and tragic legend.
537
00:32:49,480 --> 00:32:52,600
Presentation to the Queen of England was but one climax
538
00:32:52,600 --> 00:32:55,400
in a life that began drearily as an unwanted child
539
00:32:55,400 --> 00:32:59,080
and ended in a lonely self-inflicted death 36 years later.
540
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:03,360
50 years on, the circumstances of Marilyn's death are still shrouded in controversy.
541
00:33:03,360 --> 00:33:05,320
The Beatles share a similar mystery,
542
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:11,440
a whodunnit that still has no real answer - the sacking of Pete Best.
543
00:33:11,440 --> 00:33:14,800
The plot thickens because we now know that George Martin
544
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:17,960
was unhappy with Best's style of drumming on the demo session.
545
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,320
He told Epstein he would probably use a session drummer
546
00:33:21,320 --> 00:33:23,560
when they came to record.
547
00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,280
But nobody was telling Best.
548
00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:29,440
Lennon and McCartney shared a ruthless ambition to succeed.
549
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:33,040
If there was a doubt about Pete's drumming ability, then he was out.
550
00:33:33,040 --> 00:33:34,800
And out he went.
551
00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:38,040
Brian Epstein reveals in his book A Cellarful Of Noise,
552
00:33:38,040 --> 00:33:41,920
"One night the three of them approached me and said, 'We want Pete out and Ringo in.'
553
00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,040
"I decided that if the group were to remain happy Pete Best must go."
554
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:49,520
Epstein summoned Best to a meeting.
555
00:33:49,520 --> 00:33:52,840
And I went in happy as Larry. You know.
556
00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:54,400
The last thing in me mind
557
00:33:54,400 --> 00:33:57,560
was that I was going to get kicked out the Beatles.
558
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:00,440
And when I walked in...erm...
559
00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,040
Brian was very agitated, flustered,
560
00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:06,280
he wasn't his normal cool, calm, placid self.
561
00:34:07,560 --> 00:34:09,720
And he...mumbled
562
00:34:09,720 --> 00:34:14,000
and basically talked round the subject for a couple of minutes.
563
00:34:14,000 --> 00:34:15,840
And then he turned round and said,
564
00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:19,240
"Pete, I really don't know how to turn round and tell you this.
565
00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:21,120
"The boys want you out."
566
00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:24,800
And I think the key word was, "It's already been arranged that
567
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:29,400
"Ringo will join the band... erm...on Saturday."
568
00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:32,960
And that was the bombshell. To me it was like disbelief.
569
00:34:32,960 --> 00:34:36,640
It was like, "Hang on a moment, I'll wake up in a minute
570
00:34:36,640 --> 00:34:38,720
"and this is all gone."
571
00:34:38,720 --> 00:34:41,000
Stuck for words, the bombshell had happened,
572
00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:44,880
I turned round and told Brian, "What's the reason for it?"
573
00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:49,920
You know, and he turned round and said, "They feel that Ringo's a better drummer."
574
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,640
Which at that stage didn't make sense, because I had
575
00:34:52,640 --> 00:34:56,240
the reputation of being one of the best drummers in Liverpool.
576
00:34:56,240 --> 00:35:01,560
It's fine if people think about me as, you know, the poor guy. That's their impression.
577
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:05,160
You know, poor emotions, I can see where it's coming from.
578
00:35:05,160 --> 00:35:09,240
You know, "You should have been part of the biggest thing in showbusiness."
579
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,520
What they fail to forget is that, yeah, I mean,
580
00:35:11,520 --> 00:35:14,520
I have a lot of pride and, you know, hold my head up high,
581
00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:17,840
the fact that, yes, I did a lot for that band initially.
582
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,320
You know, I had two years with them. Maybe I would have had more.
583
00:35:21,320 --> 00:35:24,120
Karma turned round and said it wasn't meant to be.
584
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:26,440
You know, but whatever I achieved
585
00:35:26,440 --> 00:35:29,880
and whatever I achieved afterwards and since then
586
00:35:29,880 --> 00:35:32,280
I've always been proud of the fact.
587
00:35:32,280 --> 00:35:37,160
And it's always nice to have been associated with the number-one band in the world.
588
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:42,520
You know. Regardless of how people feel, they can't take that honour away from me.
589
00:35:46,720 --> 00:35:49,520
The drama of the Best sacking was overshadowed by world events.
590
00:35:49,520 --> 00:35:53,320
In August, Russia places nuclear missiles on Cuba.
591
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,920
They're pointing one way - at the USA.
592
00:35:55,920 --> 00:36:00,360
For a few weeks, it seemed the world was on the brink of a nuclear war between the superpowers.
593
00:36:00,360 --> 00:36:05,240
- NEWSREEL:
- At the White House, making the announcement to the waiting world,
594
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:09,120
Mr Kennedy said that only a few days before Foreign Minister Gromyko
595
00:36:09,120 --> 00:36:13,120
falsely assured him that Russia had put no rockets on Cuba.
596
00:36:13,120 --> 00:36:16,960
Photographic proof to the contrary was soon in the President's hands.
597
00:36:16,960 --> 00:36:20,240
It was going to happen at three o'clock one afternoon,
598
00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,520
they were going to drop the bomb or...there was going to be
599
00:36:23,520 --> 00:36:28,760
some kind of, you know, major global event, and I remember...
600
00:36:28,760 --> 00:36:31,840
we had a rugger match... HE LAUGHS
601
00:36:31,840 --> 00:36:33,400
..that day...
602
00:36:33,400 --> 00:36:37,440
and the teams, we ran out onto the pitch
603
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:40,480
and we all stood looking towards the west
604
00:36:40,480 --> 00:36:47,480
to see if there was going to be some kind of major sort of orange explosion in the sky or something.
605
00:36:47,480 --> 00:36:50,240
So we were very aware of it, cos CND,
606
00:36:50,240 --> 00:36:55,160
the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, were so active in those days,
607
00:36:55,160 --> 00:36:59,360
and in Northampton, where I lived, there were a lot of demonstrations
608
00:36:59,360 --> 00:37:02,720
in the centre of town, so, yeah, we were very aware of it.
609
00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,800
I was in Hamburg when that happened.
610
00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:08,760
I remember that very strongly, cos we all had a bit...do-do...
611
00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,640
World War Three here we come. And we were there with our band.
612
00:37:12,640 --> 00:37:15,680
And Kingsize Taylor had just left.
613
00:37:15,680 --> 00:37:21,280
But his roadie, John Fanning, had stayed to work in the Star Club
614
00:37:21,280 --> 00:37:25,840
and he had his bags packed ready to come home!
615
00:37:25,840 --> 00:37:29,400
He said, "Oh, no, I'm going." We said, "Nah, stay."
616
00:37:29,400 --> 00:37:33,600
We said, "Well, by 12 o'clock tonight we'll know, one way or the other."
617
00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:37,400
We said, "Right. Two more bottles of whisky, please,"
618
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,720
and we just carried on drinking!
619
00:37:39,720 --> 00:37:43,960
So, if World War Three would have happened, we wouldn't have known!
620
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:48,920
- NEWSREEL:
- American warships blockaded Cuba and Russia took the missiles away.
621
00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:50,440
The Kremlin bluff was called
622
00:37:50,440 --> 00:37:55,040
and, for that, 1962 hailed President Kennedy as Man of the Year.
623
00:38:01,960 --> 00:38:08,040
Now, some people say you can trace the moment when the '60s began to swing back to August '62.
624
00:38:08,040 --> 00:38:12,040
Birth-control pills are finally available for widespread use in Britain.
625
00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:16,960
It will be the start of a sexual revolution that empowered women for the first time.
626
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:21,240
Ironically, John Lennon's girlfriend Cynthia Powell was pregnant.
627
00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:24,400
They secretly marry in what John called his shotgun wedding.
628
00:38:24,400 --> 00:38:27,720
There must have been something in the water in 1962
629
00:38:27,720 --> 00:38:31,440
because it was a record-breaking year for pregnancies.
630
00:38:31,440 --> 00:38:34,320
484,000 births were recorded.
631
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,600
It was the biggest baby boom since the war.
632
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,320
A third of all births were delivered at home.
633
00:38:40,320 --> 00:38:43,440
In 1962, to have an illegitimate child was socially
634
00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:46,960
one of the worst things that could happen to a young woman.
635
00:38:46,960 --> 00:38:50,920
Well, in those days, you know, if you look at the records, I think,
636
00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,800
there was...quite a few girls who were having babies out of wedlock,
637
00:38:54,800 --> 00:38:58,480
as it was called in...well, it's still called that, obviously.
638
00:38:58,480 --> 00:39:04,960
But, erm... And it was all kept quiet and a lot of those babies, erm...
639
00:39:04,960 --> 00:39:09,440
you know, er, they...they didn't keep, you know.
640
00:39:09,440 --> 00:39:15,800
Er...I know personally of three of four...babies,
641
00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:20,160
and roughly that period as well, actually, '62, '63.
642
00:39:20,160 --> 00:39:23,080
Erm, so obviously it was sinful,
643
00:39:23,080 --> 00:39:26,280
looked upon as sinful to have a baby out of wedlock.
644
00:39:26,280 --> 00:39:29,960
And, as John says, he did the right thing marrying Cynthia.
645
00:39:29,960 --> 00:39:34,600
When...John and Cynthia married it was a bit of a shotgun wedding,
646
00:39:34,600 --> 00:39:36,400
which...
647
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:40,400
Yeah, some people were surprised, but...I suppose at the time
648
00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,320
in Liverpool there was quite a few shotgun weddings then.
649
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:49,640
And...I think everybody just wished them luck and love
650
00:39:49,640 --> 00:39:53,120
and everything else, and it...wasn't a big deal.
651
00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:55,800
We were far more progressive in Liverpool
652
00:39:55,800 --> 00:39:58,080
than the rest of the world, you see.
653
00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:13,320
Epstein brought the Beatles' communication shutters down in a bid to keep John's marriage secret.
654
00:40:13,320 --> 00:40:16,440
Elsewhere, it was good to talk,
655
00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:19,920
as a new television satellite brought the world a little closer.
656
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,600
MUSIC: "Telstar" by the Tornados
657
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:34,080
- NEWSREEL:
- At the controls, the Post Office engineers directed the aerial
658
00:40:34,080 --> 00:40:36,240
in line with a signal from Telstar
659
00:40:36,240 --> 00:40:39,120
more than 2,000 miles out over the Atlantic.
660
00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,880
Captain Booth and his team were happy men.
661
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:52,200
A few more Telstars in orbit
662
00:40:52,200 --> 00:40:56,200
and we could have all-round-the-clock world TV.
663
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:05,600
I still remember now the old sort of hazy black-and-white pictures of...
664
00:41:05,600 --> 00:41:09,840
with Raymond Baxter, erm.... standing by the screen
665
00:41:09,840 --> 00:41:14,120
hoping to get some kind of signal from the satellite,
666
00:41:14,120 --> 00:41:18,400
which hazily, eventually, did come through.
667
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:21,920
You know, so this was an absolutely massive event, you know,
668
00:41:21,920 --> 00:41:25,840
a satellite arcing round the Earth sending pictures back.
669
00:41:25,840 --> 00:41:28,480
You know, this was revolutionary stuff.
670
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:33,200
And of course...Telstar provided a massive hit.
671
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:34,880
You know, the Tornados, Joe Meek.
672
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:38,560
It was a brilliant record and it was the first single by a British band
673
00:41:38,560 --> 00:41:41,320
ever to top the American charts.
674
00:41:41,320 --> 00:41:43,080
That was in '62.
675
00:41:54,880 --> 00:41:58,000
Just three weeks after Pete Best's sacking, the Beatles,
676
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:01,840
with new drummer Ringo, went into Abbey Road Studios on September 4th
677
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,520
to record with George Martin.
678
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:08,600
It should have been their moment of triumph. It wasn't.
679
00:42:08,600 --> 00:42:12,680
To find out why, we travelled to a small town near New York.
680
00:42:20,360 --> 00:42:22,200
Andy White lives here now.
681
00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:25,600
He's 82, and was one of the world's top session drummers
682
00:42:25,600 --> 00:42:26,800
back in the 1960s.
683
00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,080
Ironically, George Martin wasn't happy with Ringo's drumming either,
684
00:42:31,080 --> 00:42:33,280
so a week later, on September 11th,
685
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:37,320
the call went out to Andy to bring his drums to Abbey Road.
686
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:41,760
Well, the strange thing was that...
687
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:44,960
it wasn't George Martin who booked me.
688
00:42:46,440 --> 00:42:50,880
It was a guy called Ron Richards. And, er...
689
00:42:53,280 --> 00:42:57,400
..what happened was that George couldn't make this session,
690
00:42:57,400 --> 00:42:58,960
George Martin.
691
00:42:58,960 --> 00:43:04,600
He couldn't get there till the end, so he had Ron Richards...handle it.
692
00:43:04,600 --> 00:43:05,720
See?
693
00:43:05,720 --> 00:43:10,120
And meanwhile they'd had, er...Pete Best do...
694
00:43:10,120 --> 00:43:12,960
you know, have a go at the songs,
695
00:43:12,960 --> 00:43:16,160
and then Ringo, and they didn't...
696
00:43:17,880 --> 00:43:22,480
..exactly know what was wrong, you know, but it just didn't feel right.
697
00:43:22,480 --> 00:43:27,080
When he walked in, he says Ringo was standing there like a spare part.
698
00:43:27,080 --> 00:43:31,400
Someone gave him a tambourine to play while Andy took over on drums.
699
00:43:31,400 --> 00:43:35,040
It was OK. He didn't really say anything. You know.
700
00:43:36,040 --> 00:43:38,120
In fact, I hardly spoke to him.
701
00:43:38,120 --> 00:43:42,160
I said hello when we were introduced and that was about it.
702
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:45,840
First of all, they weren't working from music.
703
00:43:47,800 --> 00:43:52,920
The stuff had been done, the music had been done by Paul and John.
704
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:58,040
So they were the main characters in the recording studio, for me.
705
00:43:58,040 --> 00:44:00,120
Because they knew what they wanted.
706
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,880
You know, what sort of beat they wanted.
707
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:08,920
And, er...what I was trying to do with the bass drum
708
00:44:08,920 --> 00:44:11,200
was follow Paul's pattern,
709
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:15,840
the same pattern on the bass drum, you know, to enhance it.
710
00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:19,960
The technology of the recording process
711
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:21,960
was so different in those days.
712
00:44:21,960 --> 00:44:25,920
I mean, you were basically going from floor to tape, mixed,
713
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:27,720
that was it.
714
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:32,360
You know, through perhaps a maximum of a four-track recording desk.
715
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:36,520
So you were basically recording a live performance in the studio. That was it.
716
00:44:36,520 --> 00:44:41,040
And maybe you could put a bit of overdubbing on one of the channels
717
00:44:41,040 --> 00:44:43,680
for an extra vocal or whatever it was,
718
00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:46,680
but basically, therefore, the band is coming in, they're setting up,
719
00:44:46,680 --> 00:44:50,120
they're playing live and you're recording that moment.
720
00:44:50,120 --> 00:44:53,760
And, OK, so that take didn't...quite work,
721
00:44:53,760 --> 00:44:56,960
so the band just played the song through again and you'd record that.
722
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,840
And then that didn't quite, so they'd play it through again.
723
00:44:59,840 --> 00:45:02,760
So you've got a whole number of different takes,
724
00:45:02,760 --> 00:45:06,400
but they're complete, and then you choose which is the best one,
725
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,400
so, er, you know, you could do a single...
726
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:13,600
You'd expect to do three or four sides in three or four hours,
727
00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:15,760
because that was it, you know.
728
00:45:15,760 --> 00:45:17,520
You'd set up, the band would play,
729
00:45:17,520 --> 00:45:20,760
the song lasted two-and-a-half minutes, you'd record it.
730
00:45:20,760 --> 00:45:22,840
If the tape was great, "Right, do the B side,
731
00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:25,800
"PS I Love You," "OK, here we go, one, two, three, four, boomph!"
732
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,240
You do that and that's how recordings were made in those days.
733
00:45:29,240 --> 00:45:33,160
The first one we did was, er... Love Me Do.
734
00:45:35,240 --> 00:45:42,440
And then we did PS I Love You and we did a version of, erm,
735
00:45:42,440 --> 00:45:44,440
Please Please Me.
736
00:45:47,240 --> 00:45:48,960
So I did three titles that day...
737
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,840
..in three hours.
738
00:45:54,640 --> 00:45:57,280
Andy's brief brush with fame was rewarded
739
00:45:57,280 --> 00:45:59,480
with a payment of five pounds for the session
740
00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:02,600
and ten shillings to cover bringing his drums in.
741
00:46:02,600 --> 00:46:05,880
The difference between the early Pete Best demo version
742
00:46:05,880 --> 00:46:08,840
and Andy's Love Me Do is quite distinct.
743
00:46:08,840 --> 00:46:11,680
It's amazing when you compare the two versions of Love Me Do
744
00:46:11,680 --> 00:46:14,960
because the single that was actually released is pretty meaty.
745
00:46:14,960 --> 00:46:16,280
It's got a lot of punch to it,
746
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:20,320
but the original version doesn't really have that if you listen to this for a second.
747
00:46:20,320 --> 00:46:22,720
SLOW INTRO TO "Love Me Do"
748
00:46:22,720 --> 00:46:25,320
OK, this was the way that it was originally done...
749
00:46:27,880 --> 00:46:30,320
..and it sounds OK, you know, it's, er...
750
00:46:30,320 --> 00:46:34,720
but it doesn't sound special, I don't think, in any way.
751
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:37,440
# Love, love me do... #
752
00:46:37,440 --> 00:46:40,600
It's all pretty flat and OK...
753
00:46:40,600 --> 00:46:42,480
if I just stop that for a second
754
00:46:42,480 --> 00:46:45,560
and now listen to the version that was actually released as a single.
755
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,240
JAUNTY INTRO TO "Love Me Do"
756
00:46:47,240 --> 00:46:49,560
Instantly, you know, it's got more punch,
757
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:52,720
it's got more bottom ends, it's got more drive,
758
00:46:52,720 --> 00:46:58,600
and then when the lyrics... when the vocals come in, it's more conviction..
759
00:46:58,600 --> 00:47:00,640
# Love, love me do... #
760
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:02,040
See, they mean it now.
761
00:47:02,040 --> 00:47:04,640
# You know I love you... #
762
00:47:04,640 --> 00:47:06,680
So...you wouldn't think, would you,
763
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:12,640
that there'd be that huge difference, but there is?
764
00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:17,680
# Love me do... Whoa-oa, love me do... #
765
00:47:17,680 --> 00:47:20,760
I heard them playing it and I thought it was crap.
766
00:47:20,760 --> 00:47:22,960
I said, "I don't like that song."
767
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:26,400
And then they said, "Well, it's going to be our first record."
768
00:47:26,400 --> 00:47:28,960
I said, "Oh, you can do better than that.
769
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:33,280
For me, at the time, it just didn't stand out as a great song and...
770
00:47:33,280 --> 00:47:38,560
I don't know, to this day, I still don't particularly like the song.
771
00:47:38,560 --> 00:47:39,840
I remember buying it.
772
00:47:40,960 --> 00:47:43,560
I didn't have a record player
773
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,800
but I wanted it to get in the charts.
774
00:47:45,800 --> 00:47:48,520
I think the whole of Liverpool bought Love Me Do,
775
00:47:48,520 --> 00:47:50,760
but I actually preferred the B side,
776
00:47:50,760 --> 00:47:53,000
because I used to like them playing...
777
00:47:53,000 --> 00:47:55,800
I remember them playing that a lot,
778
00:47:55,800 --> 00:47:58,520
PS I Love You, and I liked that and I couldn't understand
779
00:47:58,520 --> 00:48:00,920
why that wasn't on the A side.
780
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:03,160
It got into the charts, I think, at 17,
781
00:48:03,160 --> 00:48:06,000
and we were all very pleased about that.
782
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,120
And they were offered How Do You Do It?
783
00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:13,840
They didn't want it, so we took it and it got to Number One,
784
00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,480
so they weren't too happy about that,
785
00:48:16,480 --> 00:48:19,480
and the next record, Please Please Me,
786
00:48:19,480 --> 00:48:21,760
was the best one I think they've ever made.
787
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:25,920
Great song, which, of course, went to Number One. Fabulous song.
788
00:48:25,920 --> 00:48:29,400
George Martin ended up with three versions of Love Me Do -
789
00:48:29,400 --> 00:48:31,200
Pete's, Ringo's and Andy's.
790
00:48:31,200 --> 00:48:32,880
The Ringo version made the charts here
791
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:34,600
but Martin preferred Andy's track
792
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:39,200
and it was later released abroad and went to Number One in America.
793
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,720
Andy also plays on the B side, PS I Love You,
794
00:48:42,720 --> 00:48:45,160
and he now claims he was actually the drummer on one
795
00:48:45,160 --> 00:48:48,160
of the Beatles' biggest hits, Please Please me.
796
00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:53,200
From the drum sound, I can tell that it's...that I was on it, you know...
797
00:48:55,840 --> 00:49:01,960
..because it was a vastly different sound to Ringo's drum set at that time.
798
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,080
This is before he got the Ludwig kit.
799
00:49:06,520 --> 00:49:12,240
Each drummer gets an individual sound, er...first of all
800
00:49:12,240 --> 00:49:16,760
by the way they tune the drums and then by the way they play the drums.
801
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:21,120
So that's what I recognise, the sound of the drums
802
00:49:21,120 --> 00:49:23,840
and the way that it was played.
803
00:49:23,840 --> 00:49:27,640
It's one of the more intriguing Beatle mysteries - for Ringo,
804
00:49:27,640 --> 00:49:32,440
there would be a lifetime of fame, for Andy, years of obscurity.
805
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:36,200
But for a moment in 1962, he can look back and say...
806
00:49:36,200 --> 00:49:40,880
It was John, Paul, George and Andy - me -
807
00:49:40,880 --> 00:49:42,440
not Ringo.
808
00:49:42,440 --> 00:49:45,840
The irony is not lost on Pete Best.
809
00:49:45,840 --> 00:49:48,400
It was a little bit like I was imagining to myself
810
00:49:48,400 --> 00:49:50,840
and I had a bright grin on my face when I heard about it.
811
00:49:50,840 --> 00:49:53,680
I can imagine Ritchie going down there and Ringo,
812
00:49:53,680 --> 00:49:56,920
sort of like, "I'm the new drummer, right, listen to me.
813
00:49:56,920 --> 00:50:00,920
"I'm going to knock Pete into a cocked hat." Same thing happened to him.
814
00:50:00,920 --> 00:50:03,600
Right? It was very much a case of
815
00:50:03,600 --> 00:50:06,360
"Hear you, don't like what I'm hearing,
816
00:50:06,360 --> 00:50:09,040
"so I'm going to get Andy White anyway."
817
00:50:09,040 --> 00:50:11,960
And, of course, when it came back
818
00:50:11,960 --> 00:50:16,640
and it became public knowledge that Andy had actually recorded on Love Me Do and PS I Love You
819
00:50:16,640 --> 00:50:19,040
and on quite a few other little bits and pieces
820
00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:23,280
it was a little bit like, "Well, as far as I'm concerned, serves you right."
821
00:50:23,280 --> 00:50:25,400
You know. Er...
822
00:50:25,400 --> 00:50:30,000
It was a little bit like, well, thank you for small mercies.
823
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,480
This is the living room where Paul would have listened to
824
00:50:47,480 --> 00:50:49,520
his dad Jim McCartney's collection of records
825
00:50:49,520 --> 00:50:53,920
by the likes of David Whitfield and Mario Lanza and Mantovani.
826
00:50:53,920 --> 00:50:58,440
And in 1962 he added proudly to that collection with one of his own.
827
00:50:58,440 --> 00:51:02,440
Love Me Do by the Beatles, Parlophone Records, R4949.
828
00:51:02,440 --> 00:51:07,000
And after all the tears and heartache and intrigue,
829
00:51:07,000 --> 00:51:11,120
Brian Epstein was not going to let this not be a hit.
830
00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:15,800
# Love, love me do
831
00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,400
# You know I love you
832
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:22,840
# I'll always be true
833
00:51:22,840 --> 00:51:27,200
# So please
834
00:51:27,200 --> 00:51:30,560
# Love me do
835
00:51:30,560 --> 00:51:34,600
# Whoa, love me do... #
836
00:51:34,600 --> 00:51:38,080
Rumours have always circulated that Brian Epstein rigged the charts
837
00:51:38,080 --> 00:51:40,640
to ensure the Beatles had a hit record.
838
00:51:40,640 --> 00:51:43,120
The best thing was, it came to the charts in two days.
839
00:51:43,120 --> 00:51:45,600
And everybody thought it was a fiddle
840
00:51:45,600 --> 00:51:50,000
because our manager's stores send in...these, what is it, record things?
841
00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:52,400
- Returns.
- Returns.
842
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:58,080
And everybody down south thought, "Oh, he's buying them himself or he's just fiddling the charts," you know.
843
00:51:58,080 --> 00:51:59,560
But he wasn't.
844
00:51:59,560 --> 00:52:04,040
You could buy a certain amount of records
845
00:52:04,040 --> 00:52:08,440
and know that that's the chance it got to get in the charts.
846
00:52:08,440 --> 00:52:11,680
Well, Brian had a golden opportunity because he had friends
847
00:52:11,680 --> 00:52:17,240
in the business who was buying and selling records at the same time.
848
00:52:17,240 --> 00:52:19,640
And he knew the shops to put them in.
849
00:52:19,640 --> 00:52:26,040
And he went and he bought ten thousand copies of, er, Love Me Do.
850
00:52:26,040 --> 00:52:30,040
And that was in his storeroom in, er, Whitechapel,
851
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:33,080
because I've seen them, they were there, ten thousand copies.
852
00:52:33,080 --> 00:52:37,920
I said, "My God, Brian, what are you going to do with those?" He said, "Don't worry, they'll sell.
853
00:52:37,920 --> 00:52:41,080
"When we get them in the charts they'll be in demand."
854
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,480
And, er... He was very...
855
00:52:43,480 --> 00:52:46,360
He was so enthusiastic about the Beatles that,
856
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:52,400
you know...he knew in his head that, er, they were going to be big.
857
00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:54,160
I remember Brian Epstein,
858
00:52:54,160 --> 00:52:58,240
because he was more or less managing us at the same time, er...
859
00:52:58,240 --> 00:53:02,240
and he found out that we were, you know, on tour, he'd look at our gigs.
860
00:53:02,240 --> 00:53:05,600
Oh, we're playing Sheffield or we're playing Manchester.
861
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:06,960
Erm...
862
00:53:06,960 --> 00:53:10,040
"Well, OK, will you just go into this record shop and buy a few copies?
863
00:53:10,040 --> 00:53:13,600
"Don't all go in at the same time, you know." Which we did.
864
00:53:13,600 --> 00:53:18,720
So I like to think that we did help the Beatles, er, get to number 17.
865
00:53:18,720 --> 00:53:21,800
If he did that with all his bands, the Dakotas,
866
00:53:21,800 --> 00:53:26,280
Gerry and the Pacemakers, the Big Three, the Fourmost, Cilla...
867
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:28,640
You know, they must have been buying 'em.
868
00:53:28,640 --> 00:53:33,760
Brian was very shrewd and he... he helped by being such a gentleman.
869
00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:36,720
Everybody loved Brian, the style he had,
870
00:53:36,720 --> 00:53:40,000
so if he spent ten grand, God bless him, it worked.
871
00:53:40,000 --> 00:53:42,480
I don't know how much he spent on me but I got three number ones.
872
00:53:42,480 --> 00:53:44,960
Thank you, Brian! God bless you, son.
873
00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,000
For Brian, the means certainly justified the end result.
874
00:53:48,000 --> 00:53:50,560
Love Me Do made a brief appearance at number 17 in the charts.
875
00:53:50,560 --> 00:53:53,160
It dropped out after a couple of weeks
876
00:53:53,160 --> 00:53:54,960
but it was a crucial breakthrough.
877
00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:58,440
It gave the Beatles the credibility they needed.
878
00:53:58,440 --> 00:54:02,520
I think, you know, to put into context its importance, if you like,
879
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:06,480
you have to kind of then wind the clock forward by 16 months or so,
880
00:54:06,480 --> 00:54:12,320
to February 1964, when the Beatles appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show.
881
00:54:12,320 --> 00:54:15,240
Now, bearing in mind that prior to that America hadn't really
882
00:54:15,240 --> 00:54:17,200
been that aware of the Beatles.
883
00:54:17,200 --> 00:54:21,640
And then suddenly they exploded into the States in that way.
884
00:54:21,640 --> 00:54:26,560
And all the records they'd put out so far then burst into the charts together.
885
00:54:26,560 --> 00:54:31,680
So the Beatles had the whole of the top five of the Billboard charts by about May that year,
886
00:54:31,680 --> 00:54:35,000
they had 14 singles in the Billboard Hot 100,
887
00:54:35,000 --> 00:54:39,880
and among those records Love Me Do went to number one.
888
00:54:39,880 --> 00:54:43,400
MUSIC: "Please Please Me" by the Beatles
889
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:52,000
# Last night I said these words to my girl
890
00:54:53,960 --> 00:54:58,160
# I know you never even tried, girl... #
891
00:54:58,160 --> 00:55:00,520
So how should we remember 1962?
892
00:55:00,520 --> 00:55:03,040
Perhaps it's best to hear from those who were there.
893
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:07,120
'62 was a year of highs and lows. You know.
894
00:55:07,120 --> 00:55:10,720
Erm...but a year which still sticks in my memory. You know.
895
00:55:10,720 --> 00:55:13,400
It's 50 years ago, even though it doesn't seem it.
896
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:16,000
It never does.
897
00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:19,760
But, yeah, it was a year full of high aspirations, dreams,
898
00:55:19,760 --> 00:55:22,880
dreams were shattered and you rebuilt new dreams.
899
00:55:22,880 --> 00:55:27,640
I'm just so glad I was a teenager in the '60s, in 1962,
900
00:55:27,640 --> 00:55:29,800
the start of everything.
901
00:55:29,800 --> 00:55:32,320
I think that was the best era to be a teenager.
902
00:55:32,320 --> 00:55:36,280
I wouldn't like to be a teenager now, or any other decade.
903
00:55:36,280 --> 00:55:39,680
I mean, it was just so exciting, the '60s. It opened everything.
904
00:55:39,680 --> 00:55:41,560
Especially for girls.
905
00:55:41,560 --> 00:55:44,680
My thoughts on '62. It was certainly a year that changed my life.
906
00:55:44,680 --> 00:55:47,040
It changed a lot of people's lives in Liverpool,
907
00:55:47,040 --> 00:55:50,440
and indeed the world, because of what happened in Liverpool in 1962.
908
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:55,920
People say, "Ah, do you remember the '60s? Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll."
909
00:55:55,920 --> 00:56:00,160
Well, cos Rory was me brother I only remember the rock'n'roll, sadly.
910
00:56:00,160 --> 00:56:03,000
Cos he went everywhere with me!
911
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:06,760
But it was a great time, and we didn't know that we were
912
00:56:06,760 --> 00:56:10,200
going to be such a big part of history. Nobody knew.
913
00:56:10,200 --> 00:56:15,800
We...we were all just people just growing and...and starting to find
914
00:56:15,800 --> 00:56:20,360
a freedom that youth hadn't had for...for ever.
915
00:56:20,360 --> 00:56:23,320
It's all a bit of history now, an ordinary year that became
916
00:56:23,320 --> 00:56:26,880
a little bit extraordinary and started a wonderful legacy.
917
00:56:26,880 --> 00:56:29,480
Beatlemania was here to stay.
918
00:56:29,480 --> 00:56:33,440
Will we still be talking about them in another 50 years? I think so.
919
00:56:33,440 --> 00:56:37,280
But even the Beatles can't have known what they were starting
920
00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:41,440
back in Liverpool in 1962 or how long it would last,
921
00:56:41,440 --> 00:56:45,960
as they took us all on a journey to the toppermost of the poppermost.
922
00:56:47,880 --> 00:56:51,600
The people demand that you think, how long are you going to last?
923
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:53,240
Well, you can't say.
924
00:56:53,240 --> 00:56:56,640
You can be big-headed and say, "Yeah, we're going to last ten years,"
925
00:56:56,640 --> 00:57:00,760
but as soon as you've said that you think, we're lucky if we last three months.
926
00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:06,120
Well, obviously we can't keep playing the same sort of music until we're about 40
927
00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:11,080
Old men playing From Me To You, nobody's going to want to know, about that sort of thing.
928
00:57:11,080 --> 00:57:14,600
So, you know, we've thought about it
929
00:57:14,600 --> 00:57:19,640
and probably the thing that John and I will do will be write songs,
930
00:57:19,640 --> 00:57:22,640
as we have been doing as a sort of sideline now.
931
00:57:22,640 --> 00:57:25,640
We'll probably develop that a bit more...we hope.
932
00:57:25,640 --> 00:57:29,240
Who knows, at 40 we may not know how to write songs any more.
933
00:57:29,240 --> 00:57:33,920
I hope to have enough money to go into a business of my own
934
00:57:33,920 --> 00:57:36,480
by the time we...erm...
935
00:57:37,480 --> 00:57:39,400
..do flop. LAUGHTER
936
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:42,520
And, erm... I mean, we don't know, it may be next week,
937
00:57:42,520 --> 00:57:47,040
it may be two or three years, but I think we'll be in the business,
938
00:57:47,040 --> 00:57:51,400
either up there or down there, for at least another four years.
939
00:57:51,400 --> 00:57:55,280
I've always fancied having a ladies' hairdressing salon, you know,
940
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:57,320
a string of them in fact.
941
00:57:57,320 --> 00:58:01,840
And trot round in me stripes and me tails, you know, "Would you like a cup of tea, madam?"
942
00:58:01,840 --> 00:58:05,920
MUSIC: "Love Me Do" by the Beatles
943
00:58:11,880 --> 00:58:14,640
# Love, love me do
944
00:58:14,640 --> 00:58:17,360
# You know I love you
945
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:21,160
# I'll always be true
946
00:58:21,160 --> 00:58:25,600
# So please
947
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,600
# Love me do
948
00:58:28,600 --> 00:58:31,520
# Whoa, love me do
949
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,480
# Yeah, love me do
950
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,840
# Whoa, love me do... #
951
00:58:40,120 --> 00:58:43,000
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