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{\an8}- [crowd cheering]
- [♪ "Help!" playing]
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♪ Now I find
I've changed my mind ♪
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♪ I've opened up the doors ♪
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♪ Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down ♪
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♪ And I do appreciate you
being 'round... ♪
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[♪ Music concludes]
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[♪ "Things We Said Today"
plays over radio]
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♪ Me, I'm just
the lucky kind... ♪
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[Brian Matthew over radio]
I should think that last year
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you visited more countries
than ever, isn't that right?
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[The Beatles over radio]
That's correct. Yes.
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[John] Oh yes, been away.
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[Brian Matthew] Which has been your...
your favorite one
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- that you've visited?
- [John] America, I think, 'cause...
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{\an8}[Ringo] Yes, I'll agree with that.
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{\an8}[John] Ringo agrees with that.
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{\an8}[Brian Matthew] Hmm. Why, in particular?
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[John] 'Cause you make a lot of m... No!
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- [The Beatles laugh]
- [John] Oh, 'cause...
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[John] ...it's good, you know.
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It's... it's like Britain,
only with buttons.
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- [Brian Matthew] I see, yes.
- [Paul] Pardon?
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[John] That's a sort
of abstract statement, Paul.
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[Paul] It's a sort of... Yeah.
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Well, there's more people,
you know, in America,
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{\an8}so... so we get big audiences,
and it's all wild and happy.
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{\an8}[George] I remember once
when we...
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{\an8}we were going to go back
for the second tour of America,
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and they were saying, "Oh, yeah",
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we're gonna start
in San Francisco
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- "with a ticker-tape parade."
- [♪ music concludes]
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And that was once
when I actually did say,
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you know, "I'm not going."
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"I'm not... I'm not having
a ticker-tape parade."
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You know, I mean, it was only...
seemed like a year, uh,
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since they just
assassinated Kennedy.
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And, um...
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I could just imagine,
you know, this...
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how mad it is in America.
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- [crowd screaming, cheering]
- [♪ "Rock And Roll Music" playing]
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♪ Just let me hear some of that
rock and roll music ♪
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♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
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♪ It's got a black beat,
you can't lose it ♪
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{\an8}♪ Any old time you use it ♪
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♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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You know, [chuckling]
it was just so much fun.
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♪ I've got no kick
against modern jazz ♪
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♪ Unless they try to play it
too darn fast ♪
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♪ And lose the beauty
of the melody ♪
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♪ Until they sound
just like a symphony ♪
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♪ That's why I go
for that rock and roll music ♪
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♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
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♪ It's got a black beat,
you can't lose it ♪
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♪ Any old time you use it ♪
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♪ It's gotta be
rock and roll music ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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You know,
everybody got into the mania.
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♪ I took my loved one over
'cross the tracks ♪
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♪ And she could hear
my man a-wailin' sax ♪
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♪ I must admit
they had a rockin' band ♪
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♪ Man, they were blowin'
like a hurricane ♪
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♪ That's why I go
for that rock and roll music ♪
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♪ Any old way you choose it ♪
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♪ It's got a black beat,
you can't lose it ♪
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♪ Any old time you use it ♪
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♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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It was... We were getting
a little crazy with it all.
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♪ Way down South
they had a jubilee ♪
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{\an8}♪ Them Georgia folks,
they had a jamboree ♪
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{\an8}♪ They're drinking home brew
from a wooden cup ♪
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♪ The folks are dancing,
they got all shook up ♪
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♪ And started playing
that rock and roll music ♪
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♪ Any old time you use it ♪
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♪ It's got a black beat,
you can't lose it ♪
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♪ Any old time you use it ♪
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♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
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It was like being in the eye
of a hurricane,
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and so, we never...
there was never a time
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when you thought... [gasps]
You thought, "What's going on?"
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And that was about
as deep as it got.
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"What is happening?"
Or "What..." [gasps]
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You know, you'd suddenly
wake up in the middle of one,
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a concert or a happening,
and think, "What?"
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"Wha... How did I get here?"
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{\an8}- ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪
- [♪ music concludes]
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On this tour,
we don't get much time,
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you know, to do anything.
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You know, we wrote 'em,
we recorded 'em,
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we play 'em every day.
What do you rehearse?
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- [crowd screaming, cheering]
- [car horns honking]
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It was just
one giant three-ring circus
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from which there was no let-up.
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Even when we got away
from the screaming fans,
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there was
all the screaming policemen.
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- [officers yelling indistinctly]
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{\an8}The only peace they got
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{\an8}was when they were alone
in their hotel rooms,
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{\an8}hearing the screams outside.
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[fans screaming, cheering]
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The only place
we ever got any peace
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was when we got in the suite
and went to the bathroom.
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You know, that's...
that was about the only place
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where you could have
a bit of peace.
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Altogether,
I think it's 30 days.
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There's just
m... more people here
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'cause they're bigger stadiums.
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We normally play in theaters
in England.
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We'd like to carry on
with a song
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{\an8}which was
on our first Capitol album.
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{\an8}And we hope...
we hope you enjoy the song.
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The song's called "All My Loving".
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- [crowd cheering]
- [♪ "All My Loving" playing]
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♪ Close your eyes
and I'll kiss you ♪
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♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you ♪
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♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪
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♪ And then while I'm away ♪
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♪ I'll write home every day ♪
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♪ And I'll send
all my loving to you ♪
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♪ I'll pretend
that I'm kissing ♪
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♪ The lips I am missing ♪
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♪ And hope that my dreams
will come true ♪
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♪ And then while I'm away ♪
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♪ I'll write home every day ♪
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♪ And I'll send
all my loving to you ♪
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[♪ music fades]
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Because of the size
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and the volume of the noise,
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there was nothing else
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through the numbers,
bar play the offbeat,
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and as a musician
you know what that is, you know.
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No matter what it was,
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I mean, I could only, "crack..."
[mutters rhythmically]
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You know, and trying to lip-read
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where they were up to
in the songs
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and try and read
by their movements,
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you know, from the back of,
uh, John, Paul and George,
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sometimes, where the hell
we were up to in the song.
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- [♪ Music continues]
- ♪ All my loving ♪
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- ♪ Ooh ♪
- ♪ I will send to you ♪
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- ♪ All my loving ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪
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♪ Darling, I'll be true ♪
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- Yeah!
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[Paul] People would say,
"Don't...
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Doesn't it drive you mad,
all these girls screaming?"
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We didn't mind it,
you know, 'cause sometimes it...
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it covered, uh,
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you know, a multitude of sins.
We... We were out of tune.
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It wasn't... Didn't matter.
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We couldn't hear it,
nor could they, so...
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it was handy some nights.
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We never realized
how fast we played
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when we were live,
'cause the adrenaline, uh,
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sometimes would just make you,
you know, instead of...
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♪ All my loving ♪ [imitates beat]
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It'd be, ♪ All my loving ♪
[imitates sped-up beat]
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Very fast, you know.
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Oooh! Very hyper, and all the adrenaline,
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and we were talking fast, and...
[speaks gibberish] "Thank you!"
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[speaks gibberish]
On to the next song, you know.
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And we were playing
the repetition of all our s...
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our singles, mainly,
you know, just doing our hits.
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- [♪ Music continues]
- ♪ All my loving ♪
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- ♪ Ooh ♪
- ♪ All my loving ♪
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♪ Ooh, ooh, all my loving ♪
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- ♪ Ooh ♪
- ♪ I will send to you ♪
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- [♪ music concludes]
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
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[John over mic] Thank you, folks.
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[John] The Hollywood Bowl
was pretty tatty, you know.
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It's nice, when... to hear.
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It'll probably go out one day, I suppose.
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But we were so nervous,
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It was like going on the Palladium.
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[♪ "She Loves You" playing]
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I arranged with Capitol
to provide their engineers,
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and we... we recorded
at Hollywood Bowl,
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but the techniques we had then
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was three-track half inch,
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and the separation
wasn't too great. To begin with,
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you know, you had your voices
in the center,
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but you had a mixture
of drums, and bass,
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and guitars on your...
your separate side tracks.
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But pervading the whole lot
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was the enormous welter
of screams from the audience.
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I mean, it was like...
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putting a microphone
by the sound of a...
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by the end of a 747 jet.
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It was just one
continual screaming sound.
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And it was very difficult to get
a good recording out of it
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with the techniques
we had there.
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Hollywood Bowl tapes
weren't issued.
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They didn't think
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We listened to that back
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and we wouldn't let them
release it.
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Uh... Uh, years later,
George and Geoff Emerick...
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uh, George Martin
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did a lot of work on it.
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And refurbished them
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and we did actually
issue a record.
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{\an8}- [♪ Music concludes]
- [crowd screaming, cheering]
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My idols were Elvis.
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Uh, pre-army Elvis.
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You know, I still think
that was, like,
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the most exciting thing going.
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Um... Little Richard.
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I was a big fan of Richard.
But we'd met him in Hamburg,
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so we... we didn't have to go
to America to meet Richard,
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but he was still a big idol.
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Chuck Berry,
Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino.
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We met Fats in New Orleans.
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He had a very big diamond watch,
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shape of a big, big star,
you know,
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which was very impressive.
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Yeah, we started
to meet... meet these...
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these... these people who'd
really just been in newspapers
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and on film, you know,
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we actually were rubbing
shoulders with 'em.
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[♪ "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall" playing]
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{\an8}♪ And it's a hard ♪
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{\an8}♪ And it's a hard ♪
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{\an8}♪ And it's a hard rain's
a-gonna fall... ♪
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He was one of them.
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He was our idol.
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Not, uh, an idol,
but we just heard his record.
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As I said,
we listened to his album
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and it really gave us a buzz
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and we played it constantly
over and over and over again.
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I think it was Freewheelin'.
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[John]
And when I first met Dylan,
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I was pretty dumbfounded, you know.
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That was back in New York.
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He thought
"I Want To Hold Your Hand"
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was when it goes,
"I... I can't hide",
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he thought we were singing,
"I get high", you see.
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We had the biggest laugh
all night, forever.
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It was fantastic, you know.
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- So, when we met him...
- [♪ music concludes]
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...yeah, well, you know,
by that time,
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we'd heard much more of him
and knew much more about him.
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It was a great honor
to meet him.
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We had a crazy party
the night we met.
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That was the first time for me
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that I'd really
smoked marijuana.
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And, uh, I laughed
and I laughed and I laughed.
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It was fabulous.
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I thought I'd got
the meaning to life that night.
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And I went around
trying to find our roadie.
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"Mal, Mal, Mal,
get a pencil and a paper!"
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"I've got it! I've got it!"
And Mal, who was a bit out of it,
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he couldn't find a pencil
and paper anywhere.
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But eventually, in the end...
in the end of the evening,
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he found it,
and I wrote down my...
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my message for the Universe,
you know.
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I said, "Now keep that."
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"Keep that in your pocket."
[whispers] "Really."
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And Mal did.
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The next morning,
he said, "'Ere, Paul."
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[chuckles] He said,
"Do you wanna see that?"
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I said, "What?"
He said, "That bit of paper."
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"Oh, yeah!"
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And I'd written,
"There are seven levels."
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[gulps]
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[♪ "The Times They Are A-Changin'"
playing]
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♪ For the times
they are a-changin' ♪
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[♪ melodic harmonica playing]
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[♪ Music concludes]
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One trip or another,
we met Elvis.
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It was... it was, um,
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one of the highlights
of... [laughs] ...our visit.
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- [♪ "Mohair Sam" playing]
- ♪ Who is the hippie ♪
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♪ That's happenin'
all over our town? ♪
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♪ Tearin' up the chicks ♪
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♪ With the message
that he lays down... ♪
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[George] We were
in this Cadillac limousine,
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and we had a couple of cups
of tea in the back of the car,
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and by the time
we got to Elvis's house,
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we forgot where we were going.
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It didn't really matter
where we were going.
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[Ringo] Bel Air, actually.
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And, uh, you know,
this meet was arranged.
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We were gonna go and see him.
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I was pretty excited
about it all, and we arrived.
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[George] We pulled up
and there was these big gates,
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and somebody says, "Oh yeah,
we're gonna see Elvis!"
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And then we all fell out,
just like in a Beatle cartoon.
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We all fell out the car,
all "hee-hee" in hysterics,
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trying to pretend
we weren't silly.
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And then we went in the house,
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and there's Elvis
sitting on a couch,
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playing a Fender bass
plugged in an amplifier,
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watching the TV.
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I said, "Oh, it's Elvis."
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I mean, it was Elvis.
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He just...
just looked like Elvis.
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He was the king, wasn't he?
It was Elvis.
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[chuckles]
This is Mr. Hips, you know?
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Hip-swiveling man!
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[chuckles] Wow!
You know, that's Elvis.
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And he was playing, um,
"Mohair Sam" all evening.
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He had it on jukebox.
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He just played it,
like, endlessly.
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That was, like, the record
of the moment for him.
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So, it was great to see,
"Oh, he's a music fan."
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You know, he's not just...
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'Cause that was
one of our big records
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- of the moment too.
- [♪ music concludes]
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[John] He had his...
a TV going all the time,
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which is what I do anyway.
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And in front of the TV,
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he had a massive
big bass amplifier,
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Fender bass amplifier,
or just a Fender amplifier.
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And... Oh, yeah, there was a bass,
was a bass plugged in it.
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And he was playing bass
all the time
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with the, uh...
the picture up on the TV.
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[chuckles] So we just got in there
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and, uh, played with him,
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you know. We all plugged in
what was around,
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and we all played and sang.
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[George] I never jammed
with Elvis at all.
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- [Paul] No.
- [George] Now he...
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[Paul] John said he'd...
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- John jammed with Elvis.
- [George] Yeah.
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It must have been
when we went out of the room.
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He used to go over
secretly at night.
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I think it was
'cause he had a bass there,
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- you know, so I thought...
- In the basement.
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Right, well,
you know, bass, hey,
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he's... he's interested in bass.
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Ringo was playing football
with him, though.
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Yeah, I played football
with Elvis.
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And around about 10:00 or 10:30,
um, Priscilla was brought in.
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{\an8}So I think she had a long thing on,
and a tiara.
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I've got this picture of her,
like, as a sort of Barbie doll
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with, like, gingham...
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kind of, purple gingham,
and a bow,
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a gingham bow
in her very beehive hair.
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I don't remember.
I spent most of the party
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trying to suss out from his gang
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if anybody had
any reefer. [Laughs]
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Well, I think, uh,
it wouldn't have mattered to me
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if she was there, uh...
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just, you know, because it was him
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I came to see, and...
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and I don't remember the boys
he had with him.
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You know, all his gang,
the Memphis Mafia,
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whatever they call them,
all those guys.
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You know, he just was surrounded
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by these sycophants.
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[imitates Elvis] "Oh, I'm going
to go to the loo now."
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"Okay, El, we'll all go
to the loo with you."
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You know, it was just so... strange.
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And I was just so angry
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because he wasn't making
any music.
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He was not doing
what he should have been doing.
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[John] We were asking him about this,
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just making movies
and, you know,
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not doing any
personal appearances or TV.
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And he seems to enjoy it.
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You know, I think he enjoys
making movies so much.
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'Cause we couldn't stand
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not doing personal appearances,
you know.
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We'd get bored.
We get bored quickly.
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He says he misses it a bit,
you know.
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He's just... No, he was great, you know.
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He was just how I expected him.
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And it just sort of faded out.
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You know, it's...
you couldn't get close.
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You know,
it's not like we could have
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become good friends.
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It was impossible.
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It was... It was great.
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It was great. Yeah, you know,
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it was really one of the great
meetings in my life.
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I mean, the saddest part is
now, years and years later,
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we found out that he tried
to have us banished from America
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'cause he was very big
with the CIA
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and everything, and...
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that's, uh...
that's very sad to me,
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that he f...
he felt so threatened,
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00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,160
you know, that he thought,
like a lot of people,
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that we were bad
for the American youth. [Laughs]
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[♪ "Hound Dog" playing]
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♪ Well, you ain't never
caught a rabbit ♪
393
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♪ You ain't no friend of mine ♪
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♪ You ain't nothin'
but a hound dog ♪
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- [♪ music concludes]
- [crowd screaming, cheering]
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{\an8}- [♪ "Slow Down" playing]
- ♪ You better slow down ♪
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♪ Baby, now you're moving
way too fast... ♪
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{\an8}[Brian Matthew] Today, The Beatles
returned from America,
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{\an8}where they played 32 shows
in 34 days
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in 24 different cities.
401
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,480
But there's no rest
for the boys.
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In two weeks, they'll be back
out on the road here in the U.K.
403
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[crowd screaming, cheering]
404
00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,560
If you look at any of those,
uh, books that...
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that say where the Beatles
were working,
406
00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,440
you find we... we hardly
ever had a day off, you know,
407
00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,040
and we'd have to complain
to Brian.
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00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,360
He'd have all the pressure
of people saying,
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"Yeah, we wanna book the Beatles...
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00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:28,920
Wanna book...
I've got to have them, gonna..."
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Making him offers
he couldn't refuse.
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But we were having to say,
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"We've gotta
have a day off, man!"
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We didn't get any time off.
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00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,360
You know, we seemed to get
five minutes off here and there.
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It might have been longer
than that,
417
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but it felt like five minutes.
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But that was okay.
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{\an8}[♪ "I Feel Fine" feedback note]
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{\an8}[George Martin] John had
mucked around with feedback
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{\an8}for a while,
and, yes, it was intentional.
422
00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:50,960
{\an8}He found it quite difficult
to get the right...
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the right amount of feedback,
you know.
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00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,920
And I think it was
the first time, was it not,
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that feedback
was used on a record?
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He loved things like that.
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00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,760
He loved, uh,
weird kind of, um, effects.
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00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,000
And it was his idea.
It was great.
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00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,400
[John] That's me completely,
including the guitar lick.
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I had this electric
acoustic guitar,
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and it would feed back.
432
00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,280
[Paul] John and George
had Everly Brothers Gibsons.
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[George] Yeah, the...
Well, we had these big Gibson,
434
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- round sound hole electric ones.
- [Paul] We called them Everly Brothers.
435
00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,840
[Paul] They looked
like the Everlys had used.
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00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,560
And John leaned his
against the amp...
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00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,640
The amplifier, yeah.
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And then we were
just going to go on
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00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:30,880
and talk about the song,
and suddenly, the...
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the A string started
feeding back.
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It just went...
[imitates feedback droning]
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00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,840
We were just, "WHAT!!?
Can we... Can you do that?"
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You know, he said,
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[imitates George Martin] "Well, yes,
if you add it on the front or something."
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- So I'm sure that's...
- But he figured out
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00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,240
- how to do it, you know...
- Hmm.
447
00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,440
...'cause we used to do it
on stage then, live.
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00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:48,680
So John figured out, you know,
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00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,200
you just had to hit the A,
and then get it by the...
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- [imitates feedback droning]
- ...buzzing by the amp.
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00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,520
So that was the start
of all that Hendrix feedback.
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00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,160
Yes, he invented
Jimi Hendrix, and...
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It probably was,
actually, you know.
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[John]
And the little intro, which goes...
455
00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,240
[imitates feedback droning,
guitar riff]
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...is the first feedback.
I claim it for the Beatles.
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00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,960
[feedback droning]
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[♪ "I Feel Fine" playing]
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♪ Baby's good to me, you know ♪
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00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,960
♪ She's happy as can be, you know ♪
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00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,400
♪ She said so ♪
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00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,720
♪ I'm in love with her ♪
463
00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,000
♪ And I feel fine ♪
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00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:39,480
♪ Baby says she's mine, you know ♪
465
00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,120
♪ She tells me all the time, you know ♪
466
00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:43,600
♪ She said so ♪
467
00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:46,880
♪ I'm in love with her ♪
468
00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,320
♪ And I feel fine ♪
469
00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,000
♪ I'm so glad ♪
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- ♪ That she's my little girl ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪
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♪ She's so glad ♪
472
00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,880
- ♪ She's telling all the world ♪
- ♪ Ooh ♪
473
00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,040
♪ That her baby buys her things,
you know ♪
474
00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,480
♪ He buys her diamond rings, you know ♪
475
00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,960
♪ She said so ♪
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00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,080
♪ She's in love with me ♪
477
00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,840
♪ And I feel fine ♪
478
00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,040
♪ She's in love with me
and I feel fine ♪
479
00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,400
♪ Mm ♪
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{\an8}- [♪ music concludes]
- Funny chaps. Who are they?
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{\an8}Well, maybe I'll find out
as the show goes on.
482
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,760
{\an8}[Brian Matthew over radio] And most
of the boys' songs today
483
00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,720
{\an8}are taken from their latest LP,
which is called what, Paul?
484
00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,200
{\an8}[Paul] Called Beatles For Sale.
485
00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:34,360
{\an8}[Ringo] Paul'll tell you.
486
00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,480
{\an8}[Paul] And...[chuckles] And, uh...
487
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,160
- it's got eight of our songs...
- [Brian Matthew] Of your own.
488
00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,080
{\an8}...and the rest are...
the rest are... eight from fourteen?
489
00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,200
{\an8}What's that? Nine, please.
490
00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,520
{\an8}[George] No, six...
491
00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,960
[Paul chuckles]
I'm not very good at counting.
492
00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,440
- [Brian Matthew] So I see.
- [Paul] Six, of course.
493
00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,680
[Paul] Six. Yes. Eight and six is...
494
00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,760
[John] How many GCEs?
495
00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,360
[Paul clears throat]
Well, I didn't get that one...
496
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:52,720
...counting. Didn't get counting.
497
00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,320
[Brian Matthew] Who are the other numbers,
can you remember?
498
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,400
[Paul] "Kansas City" is one.
499
00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,240
{\an8}[John] Two Carl Perkins,
one Little Richard,
500
00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,000
{\an8}one Chuck Berry,
and one Dr. Feelgood,
501
00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,400
{\an8}and that's the...
that's the rest.
502
00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:02,680
{\an8}[Brian Matthew]
What's the Chuck Berry number?
503
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,800
{\an8}[John] Uh, "Rock And Roll Music",
504
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,280
{\an8}which goes on for about an hour.
505
00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:06,440
{\an8}[Paul] We like the old numbers.
506
00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,880
[♪ "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby"
plays over radio]
507
00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,760
♪ Everybody's trying
to be my baby ♪
508
00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,520
♪ Everybody's trying
to be my baby now... ♪
509
00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,680
[George Martin] It was only
after the first year
510
00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:18,760
that they started getting
511
00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,840
really interested
in studio techniques.
512
00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,000
They always wanted
to get the thing right,
513
00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,760
so it wasn't
a one-take operation.
514
00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,960
They would listen to it
and they'd do two or three takes
515
00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,320
until they got it
pretty well right.
516
00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,400
[George Martin] Ringo,
can you give us any more?
517
00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,880
[Ringo] Yeah, as loud as you want.
518
00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,440
[Paul] Let's hope this one turns out
pretty darn good, huh?
519
00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:35,840
[♪ "Honey Don't" playing]
520
00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,040
♪ Well, how come you say
you will when you won't? ♪
521
00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,320
♪ Say you do, baby,
when you don't ♪
522
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,200
♪ Let me know, honey,
how you feel ♪
523
00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,520
♪ Tell the truth now,
is love real? ♪
524
00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,960
♪ But, ah, ah... ♪
525
00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,800
[George] Things like
"Honey Don't"
526
00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,200
and "Everybody's Trying
To Be My Baby",
527
00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,120
we'd played live so much,
528
00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,880
we just had to get the sound
on that and just do it.
529
00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,480
But things like
"Baby's In Black",
530
00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,720
well, that was like
531
00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,320
learn the songs
and rehearse them,
532
00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,040
and I think
we were beginning to do
533
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,520
a little bit of overdubbing
in those days.
534
00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:07,880
It's probably a four-track.
535
00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,440
- [engineer] Take 7.
- [John] We goofed, man.
536
00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,520
[Paul] Goes...
537
00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,200
♪ I think of her
but she thinks only of him ♪
538
00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,880
♪ And though it's only a whim,
she thinks of him ♪
539
00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,480
- [John] ♪ Her name is Jim ♪
- [Paul] ♪ Oh, how long will… ♪
540
00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:16,680
- [John] That bit? [Chuckles]
- [Paul] Okay.
541
00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,120
[John] Soon as you hear "Jim", you're in.
542
00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,640
[Paul clears throat] One, two, three.
543
00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,840
One, two, three.
544
00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,040
[♪ "Baby's In Black" playing]
545
00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,720
♪ Oh dear, what can I do? ♪
546
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,720
♪ Baby's in black
and I'm feeling blue ♪
547
00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,280
♪ Tell me, oh, what can I do? ♪
548
00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,960
[Paul] I used to go out
to John's house in Weybridge,
549
00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,640
uh, to write songs.
550
00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,760
And at that particular time,
551
00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,840
I had been,
uh, busted for speeding,
552
00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,600
so I had to have a driver
to take me out there.
553
00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,560
And we were chatting on the way.
554
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,760
I remember saying to the guy,
555
00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,840
"Well, how have you been?"
you know. "Have you been busy?"
556
00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,320
And he said, "Oh yeah, mate."
557
00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,120
He said, "I've been working
eight days a week."
558
00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,800
And I went into John's house
and said,
559
00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,520
"Right, I've got the title...
'Eight Days A Week'."
560
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,760
And we wrote it there and then.
561
00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,920
[♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing]
562
00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,640
♪ I ain't got nothin' but love, babe ♪
563
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,280
♪ Eight days a week... ♪
564
00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,320
[Ringo] The rehearsal
would go on in the studio,
565
00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,320
because, uh, from very early on,
566
00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,200
a lot of the songs weren't finished.
567
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,840
The ideas were there for the songs,
568
00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,320
or the first verse, or a chorus,
569
00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,680
but it... it could be changed
by the writers
570
00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,160
- as we were doing it.
- [♪ music concludes]
571
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,440
[engineer] Take 1, "No Reply".
572
00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,520
[John] Sing it?
573
00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,840
What was that
about not singing it with me?
574
00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,080
[Paul] Well, okay, I'll just sing it...
575
00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,240
[John] 'Cause my voice is killing me.
576
00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,600
[Paul] ♪ This happened once before ♪
577
00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,280
[Paul] I'll sing, okay. One...
578
00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,800
One, two, three.
579
00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,080
[♪ "No Reply" playing]
580
00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720
♪ This happened once before
when I came to your door... ♪
581
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,840
[Paul] That is a rather nice cover.
582
00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,880
That's Robert Freeman. Nice photos.
583
00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,120
We showed up in Hyde Park
near the Albert Memorial.
584
00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,400
And we were just quite impressed
by George's hair there.
585
00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,560
It was a marvellous little turnip top
he managed to create.
586
00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,440
♪ I saw the light ♪
587
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:57,840
[♪ music concludes]
588
00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,960
[♪ "Help!" playing]
589
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,400
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ I need somebody ♪
590
00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,080
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ Not just anybody ♪
591
00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,320
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ You know I need someone ♪
592
00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,960
- ♪ Help! ♪
- [♪ music concludes]
593
00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,280
We'd done
the Hard Day's Night, uh, film,
594
00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,040
which was great, and, uh...
595
00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,800
Dick Lester had done this
kind of slightly artsy
596
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,080
black and white thing
that I think we'd all loved.
597
00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,640
So the next thing was,
"Okay, well, what do we do now?"
598
00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,360
"Well, maybe a color film."
599
00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,080
In color, yeah, wow.
600
00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,080
They... See, they had
more money for that one.
601
00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,400
So then things went
a little bit, uh, awry, I think,
602
00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,200
because what happened
then was...
603
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,320
um, we started saying,
604
00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,080
"Well, we've never been
to the Bahamas.
605
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,200
- Could you write that in?"
- [♪ "Another Girl" playing]
606
00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,360
- ♪ For I have got ♪
- ♪ Another girl ♪
607
00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,040
♪ Another girl ♪
608
00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,200
♪ You're making me say
that I've got nobody but you ♪
609
00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,560
♪ But as from today ♪
610
00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,440
♪ Well, I've got somebody
that's new ♪
611
00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,880
♪ I ain't no fool ♪
612
00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,600
♪ And I don't take
what I don't want ♪
613
00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,000
♪ For I have got... ♪
614
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,640
It was fabulous.
615
00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,600
But the... the problem,
we went to the Bahamas,
616
00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,040
of course,
to do all the hot scenes,
617
00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,240
and it was freezing.
618
00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,560
And, of course, we had to
ride around and run round
619
00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,280
in, uh, just shirts
620
00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,120
and little thin trousers,
and that.
621
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,240
- But it was absolutely bloody cold.
- [♪ music concludes]
622
00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,520
"I've never been skiing.
I wonder if you could
623
00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,280
"write a scene in
with skiing," you know.
624
00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,200
- [♪ "The Night Before" playing]
- ♪ We said our goodbyes ♪
625
00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,960
♪ Ah! The night before ♪
626
00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,720
♪ Love was in your eyes ♪
627
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,480
♪ Ah! The night before ♪
628
00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:37,280
♪ Now today I find
you have changed your mind ♪
629
00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:41,080
♪ Treat me like you did
the night before... ♪
630
00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,080
First time I'd been on skis.
631
00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,120
I loved that.
632
00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,760
Not that any of us could ski.
633
00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,080
I mean, Dick Lester
just put us on skis
634
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,840
and edged us down a mountain.
635
00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,320
[♪ Music concludes]
636
00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,320
Well, uh, I think, you know,
this was beginning
637
00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,440
to get into that period
when, um...
638
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,600
people were, sort of,
giving up the drink,
639
00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,840
which had been the sort of
stimulant of the times,
640
00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,720
and were getting
into the herbal jazz cigarettes.
641
00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,000
I was 14 years older
than they were. They knew,
642
00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,240
I guess, I was straight,
643
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,680
and they knew I disapproved
very strongly of drugs.
644
00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,560
I'm afraid
I used to smoke cigarettes,
645
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,200
and that's pretty well as bad.
646
00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,240
Um... So they never smoked pot
in front of me.
647
00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,160
They used to just nip down
to the canteen below
648
00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,440
and have a little drag,
you know,
649
00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,040
and come out giggling a bit.
650
00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,080
I knew what...
what they were doing,
651
00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,920
but, um,
it didn't make any difference.
652
00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,480
[George] One, two, three.
653
00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,840
[♪ "You're Going To Lose That Girl"
playing]
654
00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,280
♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪
655
00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:44,560
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
656
00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,320
♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪
657
00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760
♪ If you don't take her out tonight ♪
658
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,520
♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪
659
00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,120
♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪
660
00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,240
♪ And I will take her out tonight ♪
661
00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,840
♪ And I will treat her kind ♪
662
00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,920
♪ I'm gonna treat her kind ♪
663
00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,480
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
664
00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,600
♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪
665
00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,440
- ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
666
00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,480
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
667
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,960
♪ I'll make a point
of taking her away from you ♪
668
00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,800
- ♪ Watch what you do ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
669
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:23,080
♪ The way you treat her,
what else can I do? ♪
670
00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,400
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
671
00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,800
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
672
00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,600
- ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
673
00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,600
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
674
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,240
- ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
675
00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,760
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
676
00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,960
- ♪ You're gonna lose ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
677
00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,280
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
678
00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,160
♪ I'll make a point
of taking her away from you ♪
679
00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,480
- ♪ Watch what you do ♪
- ♪ Yeah ♪
680
00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,200
♪ The way you treat her,
what else can I do? ♪
681
00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,200
♪ If you don't take her out tonight ♪
682
00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,880
♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪
683
00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,440
♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪
684
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,680
♪ And I will take her out tonight ♪
685
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,240
- ♪ And I will treat her kind ♪
- ♪ I'm gonna treat her kind ♪
686
00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,240
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
687
00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,840
♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪
688
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,920
- ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
689
00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,720
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
690
00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,720
- ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
- ♪ Yes, yes ♪
691
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,280
♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪
692
00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,440
[♪ music concludes]
693
00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,440
- [indistinct chatter]
- [engineer] Yeah, I've heard it.
694
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,560
Boys, are you buzzing?
695
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,040
[John] By then,
we were smoking marijuana
696
00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,160
for breakfast at that period,
and we were well into marijuana,
697
00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,800
and nobody could
communicate with us
698
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,400
'cause it was just
four glazed eyes
699
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,880
giggling all the time, you know,
in their own world.
700
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,040
We had fun in those days.
701
00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,360
I think that was
one of the reasons
702
00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,920
for not learning the script.
703
00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,080
We just sort of showed up
a bit stoned, you know,
704
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,080
and sort of smiled a lot,
and hoped we'd get through it.
705
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,040
It appears I need one card...
706
00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,720
[George] It's difficult
when four people
707
00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,680
all have to say, um, lines,
you know, one behind the other.
708
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,160
And, uh, you know,
if one person forgets it,
709
00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,400
you've gotta start again,
710
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,200
and then the next person
would forget his lines.
711
00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,840
And we did some scenes...
712
00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,080
The scenes that were
in Buckingham Palace in Help!
713
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,120
We... [chuckling] ...we were
doing that scene for days.
714
00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:20,880
You know, where they put some...
715
00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,880
There was some pipe
716
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,000
with some red smoke
comes through, you know,
717
00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,480
and we shove it out the window,
and all the guards fall over.
718
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,760
[royal guard] Eyes front!
719
00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,680
Must be their tea break.
720
00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,320
That scene, it just went on forever,
you know.
721
00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,400
And we were just in stitches,
just in hysterics, laughing.
722
00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,920
And we pushed Dick Lester,
I think,
723
00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,280
to the limit of his, uh...
724
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,480
'Cause he was
very, very easy-going.
725
00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,960
He was a very... a good...
you know, pleasure to work with.
726
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,000
[Ringo] There's one scene
in the film
727
00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,840
where, um, Victor Spinetti,
728
00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,200
and, uh, whoever else
is in the scene,
729
00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,520
and they're doing that curling.
730
00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,000
You know, those big stones
they... they do. [Chuckles]
731
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,680
And one of them, of course,
has a bomb in it.
732
00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,840
We find out about this,
so it's gonna blow up,
733
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,880
and we have to run.
We have to run away.
734
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,880
- [George] Run, Ringo!
- [crowd clamoring]
735
00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,040
Paul and I ran
about seven miles. [Laughs]
736
00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,080
We... we just ran and ran
so we could stop
737
00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,320
and have a joint... [chuckles]
and... and come back...
738
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,480
We were just off.
739
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,720
You know,
we'd run to Switzerland.
740
00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,040
[crowd screaming]
741
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,760
[John] I enjoyed filming it.
742
00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,440
You know, I'm sort of satisfied,
but not smug about it.
743
00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,160
You know, it'll do.
744
00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,880
We couldn't do it
any better than that
745
00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,280
because we're not
capable enough actors
746
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,800
to make it any better than that.
747
00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480
[George] I had these two guys
who used to write songs
748
00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:51,840
whenever we needed some.
749
00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,640
I think we just called them up and said,
750
00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,680
"Look, we'll be doing a movie now, lads.
751
00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,400
Will you come up with a couple
of catchy hits?"
752
00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,720
[Paul] I would go out
to Weybridge,
753
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:00,840
where John was.
754
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,200
I'd drive out myself, um...
755
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,040
Wake him up, mainly.
You know, he'd be...
756
00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,400
he'd sort of wait
till I got there
757
00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,360
and we'd have a cup of coffee
or something.
758
00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,240
And then
we'd just spend the afternoon,
759
00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,440
just two or three hours,
sit up...
760
00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,680
and he had a little room
up at the top of the house,
761
00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,280
a little music... music room,
and we'd just go
762
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,160
and lock ourselves away in there,
763
00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,080
and just say,
"Okay, what have we got?" you know.
764
00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,120
[engineer] "Ticket to Ride". Take 1.
765
00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,600
- [Paul] That one?
- [engineer] Okay.
766
00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,920
[Paul, high-pitched]
♪ The girl that's driving me mad ♪
767
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000
[John] Come on.
768
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,120
[Paul] ♪ She's going away ♪
769
00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,320
[John] Right, George.
770
00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,720
[Paul] ♪ Oh, she's got a ticket to ride ♪
771
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,200
[♪ "Ticket To Ride" playing]
772
00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,520
♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪
773
00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,800
♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪
774
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,040
♪ She's got a ticket to ride
and she don't care ♪
775
00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,440
♪ She said that living with me
was bringing her down, yeah ♪
776
00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:03,360
♪ She would never be free
when I was around ♪
777
00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,520
♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪
778
00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,120
♪ She's got a ticket to ride... ♪
779
00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,040
[Paul] I think it was largely John's,
780
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,120
the actual "Ticket To Ride" bit.
781
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,400
We wrote it together.
782
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,080
[John] I liked it 'cause it was
783
00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,920
slightly a new sound
at the time.
784
00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,840
I used to like guitars,
you know? [Chuckles]
785
00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,680
I don't want anything else
on the album
786
00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,240
with guitars and... jangling piano
or whatever.
787
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,320
And it's all happening,
and that's a...
788
00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,960
it's a heavy record, you know.
789
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:44,960
♪ I think I'm gonna be sad,
I think it's today, yeah ♪
790
00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:52,800
♪ The girl that's driving me mad
is going away, yeah... ♪
791
00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:54,960
[Paul] You see, with John and I,
792
00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,120
certain songs would nearly always be
793
00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,040
the idea of one of us.
794
00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,560
One of us had actually said,
795
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,080
"'Ticket to Ride' would be good."
796
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,160
The other one would say,
797
00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,520
"Okay, that's what we'll write today."
798
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:07,800
[♪ "Help!" playing]
799
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,120
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ I need somebody ♪
800
00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,560
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ Not just anybody ♪
801
00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,160
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ You know I need someone ♪
802
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,760
♪ Help! ♪
803
00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,720
John got the idea, I think,
for the title "Help!",
804
00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,920
and I think from things
he said later,
805
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,600
I think it was a bit his state of mind.
806
00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,280
You know, he was feeling
a bit constricted
807
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,400
by the whole Beatle thing.
808
00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,120
He never said that
when he wrote it.
809
00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,920
He said it retrospectively,
that was how he was feeling...
810
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,920
- [♪ music concludes]
- ...and that's why he wrote that, um...
811
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,600
But he was kind of plump and, um...
812
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,720
and, you know,
he had his... he...
813
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400
I think that he just didn't
feel right, you know.
814
00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,120
He got a bit podgy, or something,
in his own eyes, you know,
815
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,080
and that was depressing him
a bit, you know.
816
00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,440
But I think John has, uh...
817
00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,840
he's done interviews
and articles about that.
818
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,120
I mean, I'd go into
these troughs every few years.
819
00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,640
It was less noticeable in the Beatles
820
00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,080
because the Beatles' image
821
00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,800
and thing would carry you
through it, you know.
822
00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,000
I mean, I... I was in the middle
of a trough in "Help!" you know,
823
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,600
but, uh, you can't see it really.
I mean, I'm sing...
824
00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,920
I'm singing "Help!"
for a kick-off, you know.
825
00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,000
And, uh... but it was less noticeable
826
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,960
because you're...
you're protected by the...
827
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,120
the image of the power of the Beatles.
828
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,080
- [crowd cheering]
- "Help!" One, two, three, four.
829
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,520
- [♪ "Help!" playing]
- ♪ Help! ♪
830
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,080
♪ I need somebody ♪
831
00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,680
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ Not just anybody ♪
832
00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,240
- ♪ Help! ♪
- ♪ You know I need someone ♪
833
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,600
♪ Help! ♪
834
00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,080
Hey!
835
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,840
♪ When I was younger,
so much younger than today ♪
836
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,040
♪ I never needed ♪
837
00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,880
♪ I never needed
anybody's help in any way ♪
838
00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,080
♪ But now these days are gone
I'm not so self-assured ♪
839
00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,160
♪ And now I find ♪
840
00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,040
♪ Now I find
I've changed my mind ♪
841
00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,240
♪ And opened up the doors ♪
842
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,320
Hey!
843
00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,960
♪ Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down ♪
844
00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,800
♪ And I do appreciate you
being 'round ♪
845
00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,960
♪ Help me get my feet
back on the ground ♪
846
00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,280
♪ Won't you
please, please help me? ♪
847
00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,280
♪ And now my life has changed
in oh so many ways ♪
848
00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,080
♪ My independence ♪
849
00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,720
♪ My independence
seems to vanish in the haze ♪
850
00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,360
♪ But now and then ♪
851
00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,360
♪ And in these clever days
I'm not so self-assured ♪
852
00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:24,640
♪ I know that I ♪
853
00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:28,560
♪ I know that I just need you
like I've never done before ♪
854
00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:29,640
Hey!
855
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:33,520
♪ Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down ♪
856
00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,560
♪ And I do appreciate you
being 'round ♪
857
00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,920
♪ Help me get my feet
back on the ground ♪
858
00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,960
♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪
859
00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:55,040
♪ When I was younger,
so much younger than today ♪
860
00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,360
♪ Never needed anybody's help in any way ♪
861
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,320
♪ But now these days have gone
I'm not so self-assured ♪
862
00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:05,600
♪ And now I find ♪
863
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,480
♪ Now I find
I've changed my mind ♪
864
00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,640
♪ And opened up the doors ♪
865
00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:10,800
Hey!
866
00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,520
♪ Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down ♪
867
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,240
♪ And I do appreciate you
being 'round ♪
868
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,480
♪ Help me get my feet
back on the ground ♪
869
00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:28,640
♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪
870
00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:33,920
- ♪ Help me ♪
- ♪ Help me, ooh ♪
871
00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,840
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
- [♪ music concludes]
872
00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,920
I used to live
in this, uh, little flat
873
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,160
up at the top of a house,
uh, in a little room I had.
874
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,200
And I had a piano by the bed.
875
00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,040
And I just woke up one morning
with this tune in my head.
876
00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,080
Um, and I thought,
877
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,480
"I don't know this tune, or do I?
878
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,400
"It's like an old jazz tune
or something," and I've...
879
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,800
'Cause my dad used to know
a lot of old jazz stuff.
880
00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,960
"And maybe
I've just remembered it
881
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,160
off somewhere."
882
00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:07,840
[quickly hums tune of "Yesterday"]
883
00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,160
So I got...
went to the piano, found...
884
00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,480
found the chords to it, you know.
885
00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,760
It was like in G, F sharp minor 7th,
sort of B, and that.
886
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,080
And, um...
887
00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,520
I kind of re...
just remembered it...
888
00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,000
made sure I remembered it.
And then I just hawked it round
889
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,920
all my friends and stuff,
and said, "What's this?"
890
00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,480
You know, it's gotta be something.
891
00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,880
It's like a good little tune, you know,
892
00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,960
and I couldn't have written it
893
00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,320
'cause I just dreamed it, you know.
894
00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,680
"You don't get that lucky."
895
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,800
And it wasn't until he got
the lyric together that we...
896
00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,320
he de... decided to record it
and said,
897
00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,600
"How should we do it?"
898
00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,200
I said, "Well, it's a lovely song",
899
00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,800
super song. I can't really see
what Ringo can do on it.
900
00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,080
I can't really see
what heavy electric guitars
901
00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,200
are gonna do on it.
902
00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,200
Why don't you just go down there,
903
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,080
and sing it to me with a guitar,
904
00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,040
"and we'll decide what to do with it then?"
905
00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,000
And it was good, actually,
'cause all the others, the...
906
00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,760
the guys, I looked at them,
I went, "Oops...
907
00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,880
I mean, you know, solo record?"
908
00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:01,600
And they said, "Yeah, you know,
it doesn't matter.
909
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,800
There's no... nothing
we could add to it, so do it."
910
00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,000
And I remember
John listening to it.
911
00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,440
And there's a particular bit
912
00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,480
where the cello moves
into a kind of bluesy note,
913
00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,800
and John thought that was terrific.
914
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,120
So it was... it was applauded,
915
00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,720
but it wasn't really a Beatle record.
916
00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,160
And I discussed this with Brian.
917
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,200
I said, "You know, this is Paul's song.
918
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,360
Shall we call it Paul McCartney?"
He said, "No."
919
00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,880
And I can't actually remember
him making that suggestion,
920
00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,160
but I... I wouldn't have done that.
921
00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,880
You know, we...
we never entertained those...
922
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,080
It was sometimes tempting.
923
00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,080
You know, people would
flatter you and say,
924
00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,400
"Ooh, you know, you should get
out front on the band there,"
925
00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,120
or "You should put
this solo record out."
926
00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,400
But we always said, "Nah."
927
00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,720
In fact, we didn't even ever
put it out as a single,
928
00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,120
um, in England,
'cause we were kind of
929
00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,360
a little bit embarrassed
about it.
930
00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,680
We were a rock and roll band,
you know,
931
00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,440
we thought
we were like a little RandB combo.
932
00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,080
And so, for Paul McCartney
of Liverpool,
933
00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:53,520
- Opportunity Knocks!
- [crowd cheering]
934
00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,200
- [♪ "Yesterday" playing]
- [Paul] Thank you, George.
935
00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,320
♪ Yesterday ♪
936
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:05,200
♪ All my troubles
seemed so far away ♪
937
00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,640
♪ Now it looks as though
they're here to stay ♪
938
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,880
♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪
939
00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,080
♪ Suddenly ♪
940
00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,320
♪ I'm not half the man
I used to be ♪
941
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,160
♪ There's a shadow
hanging over me ♪
942
00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:32,400
♪ Oh, yesterday came suddenly ♪
943
00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,280
♪ Why she had to go ♪
944
00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,800
♪ I don't know, she wouldn't say ♪
945
00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,440
♪ I said something wrong ♪
946
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,240
♪ Now I long for yesterday ♪
947
00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,320
♪ Yesterday ♪
948
00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,880
♪ Love was such
an easy game to play ♪
949
00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,800
♪ Now I need a place
to hide away ♪
950
00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:11,320
♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪
951
00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,840
♪ Why she had to go ♪
952
00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,400
♪ I don't know, she wouldn't say ♪
953
00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,160
♪ I said something wrong ♪
954
00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:31,920
♪ Now I long for yesterday ♪
955
00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,960
♪ Yesterday ♪
956
00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,440
♪ Love was such
an easy game to play ♪
957
00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,400
♪ Now I need a place
to hide away ♪
958
00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,880
♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪
959
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:56,280
♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm-mm ♪
960
00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,360
- [♪ music concludes]
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
961
00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,960
Thank you, Ringo.
That was wonderful.
962
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,000
Well, we got into the way now
of every album we made,
963
00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,160
then we expected George
to have a song,
964
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,040
and we expected Ringo
to sing a song.
965
00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,960
Um, it was a kind of...
966
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,920
You know, we'd try
and include the boys
967
00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,680
as a... in the... in the group.
968
00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,000
And George's songwriting
was painful for him
969
00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,560
because he had no...
no one to collaborate with.
970
00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,320
And John and Paul were such a...
971
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,760
a, uh...
a sort of collaborative duo
972
00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,960
that they would...
973
00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:39,920
throw out a... a word of advice
to George and so on,
974
00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,440
but they didn't really work
with him.
975
00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,640
'Cause it was an option,
you know, to include George
976
00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,120
in the songwriting team,
977
00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,440
but without wanting to be
too sort of mean to him,
978
00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,600
we had decided...
979
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,720
I remember walking up
through Woolton,
980
00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,760
past Woolton Church
with John, just one sort of...
981
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,240
one morning, and...
982
00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,040
and, uh, you know,
going over this question,
983
00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,960
should we... should three of us write,
984
00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,320
or would it be better just
to keep it simple, you know?
985
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,440
And we decided, no, we'd...
986
00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,840
we'd just keep the two of us,
you know, at it.
987
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,720
So George used
to write his own songs.
988
00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:08,800
[♪ "I Need You" playing]
989
00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,160
♪ Love you all the time ♪
990
00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,400
♪ And never leave you ♪
991
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,400
♪ Please come on back to me ♪
992
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,200
♪ I'm lonely as can be ♪
993
00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,920
♪ I need you... ♪
994
00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,320
[John] Paul and I
really carved up the empire
995
00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:28,880
between us, you know.
996
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,280
George didn't even use to sing
when we brought him into the group.
997
00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,920
He was a guitarist, you know?
998
00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,800
He just wasn't in
the same league for a long time.
999
00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,920
That's not putting him down.
1000
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,200
He just hadn't had the practice
at writing that we had.
1001
00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,200
[George] They'd had a lot of practice,
put it that way.
1002
00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,320
They'd been writing
since we were at school.
1003
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,680
♪ You told me ♪
1004
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,760
And so they'd written all their...
1005
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520
Most of their bad songs they'd written
1006
00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,760
before we got into the recording studio.
1007
00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,640
For me, I had to come
from nowhere and start writing,
1008
00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,200
and to have something at least
quality enough to be able to,
1009
00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,200
you know, put it in the record
with all their wondrous hits.
1010
00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,360
♪ So come on back and see ♪
1011
00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,200
♪ Just what you mean to me ♪
1012
00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,920
♪ I need you ♪
1013
00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,560
♪ I need you ♪
1014
00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,440
♪ I need you... ♪
1015
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,600
[Paul] He wrote "Don't Bother Me",
1016
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,160
I remember was kind of
one of the first ones.
1017
00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:28,920
And then he started
to improve from that...
1018
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,080
- [♪ music concludes]
- ...and eventually, uh, became very good,
1019
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,040
um, you know, get... getting,
like, a classic with, like,
1020
00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,720
"Something In The Way She Moves",
1021
00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,880
you know, which is...
I think, uh...
1022
00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,760
Frank Sinatra, I think,
still refers to it
1023
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,920
as his favorite
Lennon-McCartney song.
1024
00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,600
Thanks, Frank.
1025
00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,800
And now we'd like
to do something, um,
1026
00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,080
we don't often do.
1027
00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,440
Give someone a chance to sing
who doesn't often sing,
1028
00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,120
and here he is,
all out of key and nervous,
1029
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,800
singing "Act Naturally"... Ringo.
1030
00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,640
- [♪ "Act Naturally" playing]
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
1031
00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,920
♪ They're gonna put me
in the movies ♪
1032
00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,920
♪ They're gonna make
a big star out of me ♪
1033
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,640
♪ We'll make a film about a man
that's sad and lonely ♪
1034
00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,080
♪ And all I gotta do
is act naturally ♪
1035
00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,680
♪ Well, I'll bet you ♪
1036
00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,360
♪ I'm gonna be a big star ♪
1037
00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,120
♪ Might win an Oscar,
you can never tell ♪
1038
00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,600
♪ The movies gonna make me a big star ♪
1039
00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,320
♪ 'Cause I can play the part so well ♪
1040
00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:47,040
♪ Well, I hope you'll come
and see me in the movies ♪
1041
00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,880
♪ Then I'll know
that you will plainly see ♪
1042
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,160
♪ The biggest fool
that ever hit the big time ♪
1043
00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,480
♪ And all I gotta do is act naturally ♪
1044
00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,200
♪ Hey! ♪
1045
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,480
- [♪ Music concludes]
- [crowd cheering, applauding]
1046
00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,600
Thank you.
1047
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,120
Well, I find myself
in distinguished company.
1048
00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,200
[chuckles]
1049
00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,160
And may I, without more ado,
introduce…
1050
00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:18,680
- George Harrison, MBE?
- Hello. Hello.
1051
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,040
Hello. Oh, thank you.
1052
00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,120
- John Lennon, MBE.
- Oh, ta, yeah.
1053
00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,440
- Ringo Starr, MBE.
- [The Beatles laugh]
1054
00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,840
- And Paul McCartney, MBE.
- How do you do?
1055
00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,280
[Paul] We were at
Twickenham Film Studios
1056
00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,720
when Brian showed up one afternoon,
1057
00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,720
and took us to the dressing room
all rather secretively,
1058
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,440
and we thought, "Oh, what's this about?"
1059
00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,520
[Ringo] Brian came and said, uh...
1060
00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,480
"You know, they wanna give you
these MBEs, so...
1061
00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,760
we're going to accept." [chuckles]
1062
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,520
"Uh, what do you think, boys?"
1063
00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,560
And I think at first, you know,
we were very impressed.
1064
00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,960
We said, "Well, what does it mean?"
1065
00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,080
You know, they said,
1066
00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,560
"Well, you become a Member
of the British Empire."
1067
00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:58,800
We said, "Well, okay, it's a great honor."
1068
00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,880
And we were... we were honored,
genuinely.
1069
00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:02,520
{\an8}In days gone by,
1070
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,600
{\an8}they used to storm
the royal palace gates
1071
00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,480
{\an8}demanding bread or the right to vote
1072
00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,120
{\an8}or some other civil right.
1073
00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,880
These days, it's all for the Beatles.
1074
00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,360
The mop-haired quartet
1075
00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,280
receive their MBEs
from the Queen today...
1076
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,240
their Members of the British Empire.
1077
00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,600
- [♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing]
- ♪ Ooh, I need your love, babe ♪
1078
00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,880
♪ Guess you know it's true ♪
1079
00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,240
♪ Hope you need my love, babe ♪
1080
00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,000
♪ Just like I need you ♪
1081
00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,240
♪ Hold me, love me ♪
1082
00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,760
♪ Hold me, love me ♪
1083
00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,360
♪ I ain't got nothing
but love, babe ♪
1084
00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,760
♪ Eight days a week… ♪
1085
00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,040
[crowd cheering]
1086
00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,760
[Ringo] I thought it was
really thrilling that, uh...
1087
00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,320
you know,
"We're gonna meet the Queen,
1088
00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,960
they're gonna give us a badge."
1089
00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,760
I thought, "Yeah, this is cool."
1090
00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,560
[Paul] It was good fun.
1091
00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,720
We ended up at the palace,
it was quite strange.
1092
00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,520
And some sort of equerry
to the Queen,
1093
00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,720
a guardsman, you know,
1094
00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,680
took us to one side
in this little side room
1095
00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,160
and sort of showed us how...
what we had to do.
1096
00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:10,480
You know, you have to approach
Her Majesty like this,
1097
00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,480
- and never turn your back on her.
- [♪ music concludes]
1098
00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:18,320
The other part I remember was,
um, Paul and I went up together.
1099
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,960
And first of all, she said...
she felt I'd started the band.
1100
00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,520
[chuckles] I said,
"No, I was the last to join."
1101
00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,600
And, um...
1102
00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,880
and she said, "Well, how long
have you been together?"
1103
00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,640
And without a blink,
both Paul and I said...
1104
00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,920
♪ We've been together now... ♪
♪ ...for 40 years ♪ [laughs]
1105
00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,320
And she just sort of...
1106
00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,960
She had this, like,
strange look on her face.
1107
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,960
Like... [chuckles]
...she wanted to, like,
1108
00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,200
I don't know, laugh,
or what do they...
1109
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,520
or, "Off with their heads!"
1110
00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:53,640
[interviewer] John, had you met
the Queen before?
1111
00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:54,960
Uh, no, first time.
1112
00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,600
[interviewer] What did she
think of you in the flesh?
1113
00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:57,720
Did she tell you?
1114
00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,560
No, she's not gonna say
either way, you know,
1115
00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,080
but she seemed pleasant enough
to us, you know...
1116
00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:03,560
- [interviewer] Mm-hmm.
- ...made us relaxed.
1117
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,040
We were standing in the line,
waiting to go through.
1118
00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,680
It was an enormous line,
you know, hundreds of people,
1119
00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,840
and we'd been grilled
by the guardsman saying,
1120
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,280
"This is what you do
when you get up there."
1121
00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:19,480
And then we were so nervous
that we went to the toilet.
1122
00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,320
And in the toilet,
we smoked a cigarette,
1123
00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,760
'cause we were all smokers
in those days.
1124
00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,920
But years later...
1125
00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,280
I'm sure, John,
thinking back and remembering,
1126
00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,520
"Oh, yes, we went
in the toilet and smoked,"
1127
00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,800
and it turned into a reefer,
because, you know,
1128
00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,000
what could be the worst thing
you could do
1129
00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,720
before you meet the Queen,
is smoke a reefer.
1130
00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,000
But we never.
1131
00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,280
I was too stoned to remember.
1132
00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,440
I don't know.
1133
00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,600
- [♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing]
- ♪ Eight days a week ♪
1134
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,160
♪ I love you ♪
1135
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,560
♪ Eight days a week ♪
1136
00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,640
- ♪ Is not enough to show I care ♪
- [♪ music concludes]
1137
00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:05,240
I can't really remember any
sort of Daily Mirror reaction,
1138
00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,840
"How dare they!"
A lot of... [hesitates]
1139
00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:07,920
...a lot of the army,
1140
00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,440
that... that was
the only other reaction,
1141
00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,640
was, uh,
soldiers sent theirs back.
1142
00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,200
This is a form of protest
to the Queen
1143
00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,680
because this Order
is being debased by everybody...
1144
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,520
in giving this to, um, uh,
1145
00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,160
people who are
not deserving of it.
1146
00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:24,880
Well, I... I think the Beatles
1147
00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,360
have been adequately
rewarded already.
1148
00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,240
I think they've got a tremendous amount
of money for what they've done.
1149
00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,360
If I had the MBE,
1150
00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,520
I think I should be
slightly put out at being placed
1151
00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,520
on the same level
as a pop singer.
1152
00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,920
I'm glad everyone's delighted.
1153
00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,320
And I think the MBE, anyway,
is a bit of a joke.
1154
00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,240
Hundreds of people
have got it in the past,
1155
00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,560
and I cannot see any reason
why the Beatles shouldn't have it.
1156
00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,400
To me, they're young, vital,
and they give this country
1157
00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,560
a kick and a lift,
and, my God, we need it.
1158
00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,720
How do you feel, John,
about having the MBE?
1159
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,080
I feel great, you know.
1160
00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,840
[hesitates]
We're honored. [Chuckles]
1161
00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:58,920
[interviewer]
What did your wife say
1162
00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,720
- when she knew you had it?
- [John] She said, "Oh!"
1163
00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,200
'Cause she didn't
have a clue what...
1164
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,560
really what it was either,
but she's pleased, you know.
1165
00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,680
I tried to get her one,
but she couldn't...
1166
00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,160
[everyone chuckles]
1167
00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,040
After all we did
for Great Britain,
1168
00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,680
selling all that corduroy
and making it swing,
1169
00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,040
and they just gave us
that bloody old leather medal
1170
00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,360
with wooden string through it.
1171
00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,680
[chuckles]
1172
00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,080
- [♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing]
- ♪ Hold me, love me ♪
1173
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,720
♪ I ain't got nothing
but love, babe ♪
1174
00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,360
♪ Eight days a week ♪
1175
00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,880
♪ Eight days a week ♪
1176
00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,760
[♪ music concludes]
1177
00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,240
{\an8}- [heartbeats]
- [siren wailing]
1178
00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,560
[Neil Aspinall] It was like
this whole momentum was going,
1179
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,480
you know,
that had been going for years,
1180
00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,080
and it just kept rolling.
1181
00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,080
[crowd cheering]
1182
00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,480
[George] You know,
that was in the days
1183
00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,880
when people were still playing
the Finsbury Park Astoria.
1184
00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,040
[Ringo] Now we were
playing stadiums.
1185
00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,120
[crowd cheering]
1186
00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,560
[George] ...um, to play
at Shea Stadium.
1187
00:50:11,720 --> 00:50:13,000
[Paul] Shea Stadium.
1188
00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:14,960
[Ringo] Shea Stadium.
1189
00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:16,800
[Neil Aspinall] Shea Stadium.
1190
00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:19,080
[John] Shea Stadium.
1191
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,040
Now, ladies and gentlemen...
1192
00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:28,680
honored by their country,
decorated by their Queen,
1193
00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,840
and loved here in America,
here are The Beatles!
1194
00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,520
[crowd cheering]
1195
00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,120
[♪ "If You've Got Trouble" playing]
1196
00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,680
♪ If you've got trouble ♪
1197
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,480
♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪
1198
00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,240
♪ You say you're worried ♪
1199
00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,880
♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪
1200
00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,720
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1201
00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,720
♪ You're quite content
to be bad ♪
1202
00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,640
♪ With all the advantage
you had over me ♪
1203
00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,120
♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪
1204
00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,760
♪ Then don't bring
your troubles to me ♪
1205
00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,640
♪ I don't think it's funny ♪
1206
00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:16,520
♪ When you ask
for money for things ♪
1207
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,560
♪ Especially when you're standing there ♪
1208
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,960
♪ Wearing diamonds and rings ♪
1209
00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,480
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1210
00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,680
♪ You think I'm soft
in the head ♪
1211
00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,640
♪ Well, try someone softer
instead, pretty thing ♪
1212
00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:33,240
♪ It's not so funny ♪
1213
00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,880
♪ When you know
what money can bring ♪
1214
00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,840
♪ You better leave me alone ♪
1215
00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,800
♪ I don't need a thing from you ♪
1216
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,320
♪ You better take yourself home ♪
1217
00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,400
♪ Go and count a ring or two ♪
1218
00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:52,960
♪ If you've got trouble ♪
1219
00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,560
♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪
1220
00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,520
♪ You say you're worried ♪
1221
00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,160
♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪
1222
00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:07,200
♪ You're quite content to be bad ♪
1223
00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,320
♪ With all the advantage
you had over me ♪
1224
00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:12,800
♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪
1225
00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,520
♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪
1226
00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,040
♪ Ah, rock on! Anybody! ♪
1227
00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,240
♪ You better leave me alone ♪
1228
00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,280
♪ I don't need a thing
from you ♪
1229
00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:46,760
♪ You better
take yourself home ♪
1230
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,040
♪ Go and count a ring or two ♪
1231
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,520
♪ If you've got trouble ♪
1232
00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,280
♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪
1233
00:52:57,720 --> 00:52:59,320
♪ You say you're worried ♪
1234
00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,040
♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪
1235
00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,800
♪ Oh, oh ♪
1236
00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,000
♪ You're quite content to be bad ♪
1237
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,960
♪ With all the advantage
you had over me ♪
1238
00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:12,680
♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪
1239
00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,480
♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪
1240
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,320
{\an8}♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪
1241
00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,160
{\an8}♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪
1242
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,840
{\an8}[♪ music concludes]