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"Congratulations, lads. Number one in US charts" or something

It was a great feeling

because we were booked to go there directly after the Paris trip

so it was handy to have a number one

British pop stars haven't made much impact on the US, how will you fare?

Well, I can't really say, can I?

Is it up to me? No. I just hope we go all right

But at that time I didn't realise that Capitol Records had been told...

John F Kennedy Airport New York 7th February 1964 They wanted the Beatles, you see

Brian Epstein said "OK, you can have them...

"on condition that you spend $70000," which sounded enormous

So they had to promote us, but I think there was more to it than that

They had a catchy single that took off

plus Ed Sullivan had seen us in England

and Time, Life and Newsweek

had all put covers of the Beatles on their magazines prior to us arriving

It was a surprise, though

because we thought we'd have to work a little bit for this notoriety

If there was a turning point in their career

Voice of Beatles' Manager Brian Epstein a specific date on which the scope of their future was to be altered

it was the day they touched down at Kennedy International in New York

to a welcome seldom equalled anywhere in history

Would you please sing something? - No!

Is there something you CAN sing? - No, we need money first!

How many of you are bald if you have to wear those wigs? - All of us

Oh, we're all bald... and deaf and dumb, too

Are you for real? - Come and have a feel

Are you going to get a haircut? - No, no, no... no thanks

I had one yesterday

That's no lie - It's true

What is it that your music does to these people?

Pleases them, I think. It must because they're buying it

Why does it excite them so much? - We don't know, really

We're going to form another group and be managers

I remember the great moment of going into the limo

and there we were on American radio

And tomorrow an exciting morning as Brad Phillips has the Beatles...

Tomorrow night the Beatles read their own poetry on 'Meet The Beatles... '

Oh, really?

I don't understand this

We ain't writ no poetry

Lock your door

We were so over-awed by American radio - Epstein had to stop us -

we phoned every radio in town, asking them to play the Ronettes

We didn't ask for our own records, but other people's

This is John Lennon of the Beatles on 1010 WINS

This is the Beatles station. They're taking over, telling us what to play

One more week of this and I'll become the fifth Beatle

I liked Murray, he was a good guy. There was him and cousin Bruce

He became the so-called 'fifth Beatle' - he was really big on our record

He helped make it a hit

Paul, suppose you tell them what we got next

We were very impressed with him, so we'd ring his show

He'd say "The Beatles are on and I've got an exclusive interview"

We'd ring up "Hello, excuse me, Murray." "Oh, it's George. Hi, George..."

We'd give him all the exclusives because we loved him

This is Paul McCartney from WINS

and it's Marvin Gaye singing Pride and Joy

It's me-you know me-yes

We're waiting for a call from London and you're blocking the line

Hello, John - Hello, Brian

What are your first impressions of arrival in America?

I don't know. They're sort of wild, you know... all wild

Wilder than they are in England? - Maybe it was the first impression

They seemed out of their minds

Did you get home betweeen leaving Paris and going to the States?

We were in London for two days - You didn't go to Liverpool?

No. George went but he's regretting it. He still hasn't slept

Is George there now? - Do you want to speak to him?

In a moment, but do you want to say anything to the fans here at home?

Tell them not to forget, we're only away for ten days

We're thinking of them

Let's have a word with Ringo

What was the first thing you did when you got to your hotel, Ringo?

We had a big press interview with about 100 people

We got out of that, then we had a Cadillac each, marvellous cars

What sort of things do they want to know at the press reception?

Are we bald, and what do we do with our money-the usual things

You proved you don't wear wigs? - Yeah, we took them off

Well, cheerio Ringo, and the best of luck to you

Give my regards to everyone. Here's George now

Hello, George - How are you, Brian?

The first thing you'll be doing is the Ed Sullivan Show, isn't it?

We rehearse that tomorrow and do the show on Sunday

What will you be doing on the show?

I Want to Hold your Hand, She Loves You, Please Please Me

The usual ones

How many of your records are in the American hit parade?

We've got six in the top hundred

I Want to Hold Your Hand, She Loves You, Please Please Me, From Me to You

My Bonnie, which is a laugh, and I Saw Her Standing There

You know in New York three records are number one:

Please Please Me, She Loves You, I Want to Hold Your Hand

That's marvellous! We're all very proud of you

Good luck, and we look forward to seeing you back home soon

We'll see you in two weeks, I suppose

I'd this throat thing because when you see the photographs -

they did publicity shots in Central Park -

There's pictures of the three of them with the New York skyline behind them

Our theatre's jammed with newsmen and photographers from all over

The city has never witnessed such excitement as stirred by the Beatles

Tonight you will twice be entertained by them

Right now, and again in the second half of our show. The Beatles!

The Ed Sullivan Show New York 9th February 1964

It's still supposed to be the largest viewing audience ever in the States

and the States being the biggest show biz town ever

People still talk about it like "Where were you when Kennedy was shot?"

Something very nice happened and the Beatles got a kick out of it

They've just received a wire from Elvis Presley and Colonel Tom Parker

wishing them a tremendous success in our country

Later they said there was the least reported, or no reported crime

Even criminals had a rest for ten minutes while we were on

Then we did the train ride to Washington

That's where we got to know quite a few of the press guys

They started to get friendly and let us know they were actually there to kill us

Beause we shouted at them, they loved us

God knows what would have happened if we hadn't shouted

It's great being here in New York - Washington

Oh, is that the place? Washington? I'm just moving so fast

Voice of Neil Aspinall Tour Manager That Washington show was like a boxing ring, with people all round

Every song, you'd go to a different side of the stage

so you had to move the mikes all the time

Ringo was sitting on this round thing in the middle of the stage

He had to turn that round to face the band and it got stuck

All this chaos was going on. But it was a good show

Washington Coliseum 11th February 1964

Thank you very much, everybody, and good evening

We'd like to thank everybody here in America, Washington

We'd like to thank everybody for buying this particular record -

for starting us off in America

and giving us the chance to come here and see you all in Washington

The song we'd like to carry on with now

is one which we recorded on an LP that we made

That's English for album, an album we made

We'd like you to join in - clap your hands and stamp your feet

Everybody join in all together

The song's called I Saw Her Standing There

Thank you very much

We would like to sing a song now

which was a record for us and it was our first hit in England

This song was released in America. It didn't do anything

It was released later again and, well, it's doing something, you know

We'd like to play for you now Please Please Me

British Embassy Washington 11th February 1964 The British Embassy it was - there was a party

This was starting to happen because we were now conquering America

and the British Ambassador could play a role in this

It would be good publicity for him, you know

There were a lot of 'Hooray Henrys' which we'd never met before

We hadn't played many Arts Balls or Cambridge May Balls

We'd heard about these guys who got a bit stroppy after a few drinks

"Oh, I say... play Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto, ha ha ha"

We were standing around, saying "Hi" and having a drink

One of them came up behind me and snipped a piece of my hair off

I was so angry "What the hell do you think you're doing?"

"Oh, it's OK, old chap"

Some bloody animal cut Ringo's hair in the middle of...

I walked out, swearing at all of them. I just left in the middle of it

We eventually got down to Miami

which was just like Paradise

We'd never been to anywhere where there were palm trees

We took a lot of photos. We were like tourists with our Pentax cameras

We had a great time, looking down at the sand from our hotel

The kids would write "I love John" on the sand

so you could read it from your hotel room

Who are you?

What's your name?

Which one are you?

This was just the most brilliant place I'd ever been to

People were lending us yachts or anything we wanted

This family lent us their boat and they let me drive

a 60 foot yacht, a speed boat

which I proceeded to bring in to port head on

Not really knowing much about driving speed boats

and so they have those pretty rails on the front hanging over

I bent the bugger all over the place but they didn't seem to mind

The Ed Sullivan Show Rehearsals Miami 16th February 1964

For the next song, we'd like to sing... OK, hang on...

Shut up while he's talking

And now from the stage of the Deauville Hotel - Ed Sullivan!

Thank you very much

It's so nice to be here, thank you

It's happened again. Last Sunday on our show in New York

the Beatles played to the greatest audience ever on American TV

Tonight, here in Miami Beach

again the Beatles face a record busting audience

Ladies and gentlemen

Here are four of the nicest kids we've ever had on our stage

Excuse the mess, won't you... packing

These youngsters from Liverpool, England...

Their conduct over here, not only as fine professional singers

but as a group of fine youngsters

will leave an imprint with everyone over here who has met them

Nobody ever made it in America - we were dying to be the first

A lot of people had tried and failed in America

We were very confident, our confidence was at an all-time high

I felt we'd conquered America - it was an attitude we had

We'd conquered Sweden and France so America was ours now

London Airport 22nd February 1964

What do you most like about the trip, Ringo?

I loved it all, especially Miami

I didn't know what 'sun' meant before I went there

Don't you get it in Liverpool? - No, they've finished up there

Did you have a chance to get away without anybody recognising you?

We borrowed a couple of millionaires' houses, you know

You could afford to buy a couple - We'd sooner borrow, it's cheaper

We did a bit of water skiing

Did your wife enjoy it over there? - She loved it, who... who?

Don't tell them he's married - I'm sorry, I didn't mean to

What about the taste of the fans over there, did you find the same stuff?

Yeah, we expected them to be very different but they weren't at all

The accent was the only difference

Did they reckon you sang in an English accent or an American one?

Some fella said, how come you're from Britain

and you sing with an American accent?

We tried to explain that it's a Liverpool accent

I hear that the four of you will be millionaires by the end of the year

That's nice

Have you time to spend this money? - What money?

You went to see those movies with Elvis or somebody in them in Liverpool

Everybody was waiting to see him. I'd be waiting there too

They'd all scream when he came on the screen

So we thought, that's a good job

We'd always... I'm talking about this progression with the Beatles

From the Stevedores' and Dockers' Union, the Cavern, better clubs

So films was one that we'd always thought of

We loved The Girl Can't Help It and knew rock'n'roll could lead to films

How do you reckon that one out?

I loved the pictures as a kid

I used to go a hell of a lot in Liverpool

Great memories from the Saturday morning pictures

If it was a pirate movie, I would be a pirate

If it was a western, I'd come home as a cowboy

It was a great fantasy land for me as a kid

We were interested in films and what happened was...

Brian started talking to people, knowing of our interest

He came up with Dick Lester's name

He did the Running Jumping Standing Still film with Spike Milligan

A classic comedy short, about five minutes long

I don't know if it's funny now, but it was very funny then

So they got hold of Dick Lester and we were really pleased

Dick came round. He was a bit of a musician, played jazz piano

so he was even more interesting

He was American but he'd worked in Britain with the Goons

He got hold of Alun Owen, a Welsh playwright

who'd written Last Tram to Lime Street

Something like that, it was a long time ago now

It was a very good play with Billie Whitelaw

that Alun was known for

He was a very likeable Welsh bloke and he hung out with us for a few days

He picked up little quotes like "He's very clean, isn't he?"

He picked up the jokes and sarcasm, the Beatle humour

John's wit and each one of us, Ringo's laconic humour

He picked up our characters, which was good

Normally in pictures you do things back to front, maybe the end on one day...

and the beginning the next day, but this one we almost did it in sequence

It was very exciting. We got on a train at Marylebone station

and the next minute we're in a film

There were little girls in gymslips who were actually models

We were fascinated with them and George married one

Pattie Boyd was one of the girls on the train

The whole of the train bit - we were just going to pieces...

It was all so romantic with the lights and coming to work in the limo

Getting up early wasn't the best thing we could do

The scene in Hard Day's Night, the one I got a good credit for -

walking on the beach... by the canal

with the camera and that - the lonely guy scene

That came about because I came directly to work -

very unprofessional - straight from a night club

I was a little hung over, to say the least

I was just so out of it, so they said "Let's do anything"

My version of it was - I said "Just film me walking around"

I looked so cold and dejected because I felt like shit

There was no acting going on, I just felt so bad

I was less embarrassed than the others

but I think John got into the movie too

Hello

Wait a minute, you're... - No, I'm not

Oh, you are. I know you are - I'm not, no

You look just like him - You're the first ever to say that

Yes you do, look

No, my eyes are lighter. My nose...

Oh yes, your nose is very... - Is it?

I would have said so - You know him better though

I do not. He's a casual acquaintance - That's what you say

What have you heard?

It's all over the place - Is it really?

But I stuck up for you - I knew I could rely on you

You don't look like him at all

She looks more like him than I do

Alun Owen tried to write a scene of us being harassed by the press

which was part of our daily duty really

They were saying things like "How did you find America?"

Turn left at Greenland

What do you call that hairstyle?

Arthur

Has success changed your life?

I think it did, because Alun hung around with us and was careful...

to put words into our mouths that he'd heard us speak

so I think he did a very good script

Leave those drums alone! - Oh, just a little touch

If you even breathe on them... - Aren't you being rather arbitrary?

There you go, hiding behind a smokescreen of bourgeois clich�s

I don't mess around with your earphones - Spoilsport

He's very fussy about his drums. They loom large in his legend

What's up? - Oh, he's sulking again

I'll show him

Pardon, 'scuse, pardon... I'd like more drums, there

No, I think it's on that...

On the third bit... more bang...

The next few minutes are in the lap of the gods and the hands of the Beatles

We're going to hear versions of songs from their films

Gather round, famous film stars, gather round

In my young days, they used to have actors in films

It's all changed now - They're not doing that

Did you find that the best bits were left on the cutting room floor?

The good bits are in the film. He said those were the best. Rubbish!

Was it really? Who was worst? - Oh, Paul!

No, I think John was about the worst - No, it was you

Ringo was very good. He's a good lad

They're saying he's the new Charlie Chaplin

He's an old one

We liked the bit in the field where we all jump about like lunatics

because that's pure film, as the director told us

We could have been anybody but we enjoyed it

NME Poll Winners' Concert London

Well John, I believe you've written a book

This book's called John Lennon - In His Own Write, folks

W R I T E, you see-it's a laugh a minute with John Lennon

Some of you might find it a bit difficult to understand

because it's in a sort of funny lingo

Well, we get it. It's full of laughs

I don't really know how you can describe it, but...

I've never read anything like it. The stories are so funny

Many little drawings to make you laugh. It also had the wrestling dog

Once upon a time, in a far off, distant land

far across the sea, miles away from anyway, over the hills as the crow barks

39 people lived miles from anywhere on a little island on a distant land

At harvest time, the people celebrated with a feast and dancing

It was Perry's - For Perry was the loud mirth

Job to provide - At Perry's great pleasure, I might add

A new and exciting... - And usually it was

thrill and spectacular performer - Sometimes a dwarf was used

This year Perry had surpassed himself by getting a wrestling dog

But who would fight this wondrous beast? Not me, Dudley

Mr John Lennon...

Mr John Lennon will be back with the answers later in the programme

From an early age, John had a fancy for that kind of thing

At school he did "The Daily Howl" which was like a comic

He used to draw all the things and it would be little jokes

Today would be Muggy, followed by Tuggy, Weggy, and Thurggy

Little teenage jokes. He used to do a lot of that

Long distance calling for the manager of the Beatles? His name, please?

The manager's name is Mr Brian Epstein

The manager's name is Brian Epstein

I went to Torquay with Brian to write "A Cellarful of Noise"

On the third day he said "I've got a lovely idea. I want you to join us"

I thought this is incredible, this is the idea

Derek Taylor Beatles' Press Officer I'd given up on the idea of joining them, thinking, if it happens, it happens

So after about 15 years on newspapers

I just dropped out and joined the Beatles

I was Brian's personal assistant, then eventually their press officer

I remember we played in Amsterdam...

was when Derek first came on tour with us

We nearly didn't do that tour

I was desperately ill, I was having my tonsils out

George is a very loyal person and he said:

George Martin Record Producer "If Ringo's not part of the group, it's not the Beatles. I won't go"

I despised the way we couldn't ever make a decision for ourselves

It was always like "No, sorry." "But Ringo must go with us"

"Sorry, we'll get a new drummer"

Jimmy Nicol was a good drummer who learnt Ringo's parts very well

He rehearsed with them and got to know the songs very well

It was very strange

They'd taken Jimmy Nicol and I thought they didn't love me any more

All that stuff went through my head

Holland 5th June 1964

Jimmy, will you find it difficult to take over the role of Ringo?

Not really, no

I can never make up for what Ringo is

How long will you be doing this? - Until next Thursday

You're a sort of understudy. Do you think it a great break?

Oh yes, excellent

Treating you good? - Marvellous

How is Ringo, by the way?

His throat is so sore - you're living on jelly and ice-cream

I was a smoker in those days and I was smoking the next day

That was pretty rough

Always good for a gag is John, you know

What do you expect to do in Hong Kong?

I don't know, just see what's happening

It's very different from what I've seen before, I imagine

Will you do any sightseeing? - I hope so

Kaitak Airport Hong Kong 8th June 1964

Hong Kong was different. It was all army personnel

It was very funny. We'd expected Asians but it was the British Army

It was all these British people, there weren't any Chinese there

It was a slightly flat show, in a smallish place

They all behaved themselves and all looked like...

They looked like a khaki audience. It was slightly strange

We just played. I don't think we enjoyed the show too much

Mascot Airport Sydney 11th June 1964

We had these capes and they were disasters in Australia

The rain hit them and the dye came out

They put the Beatles on the back of a truck

They had umbrellas and were wearing these capes

I was OK, I was in the cab

The driver wouldn't go any faster, even though it was pouring

He said "These kids have waited 24 hours to see these guys"

We got to the hotel and everybody was blue

because the dye had soaked off these coats from Hong Kong

They played Amsterdam, Hong Kong, and I met them in Australia

The flight was just horrendous to Australia, it still is

It may be two hours less now but it's still a hell of a long way

I remember getting off the plane and feeling like a disaster area

But Australia was fabulous, being back with the boys and in the band

They'd bought me presents in Hong Kong

That was a really nice moment

It's very nice for all of us to have back with us now... Ringo!

Festival Hall Melbourne 17th June 1964

We'd like to carry on now with a song we recorded not long ago

All My Loving

When the Beatles arrived in Adelaide, they were greeted by 300000 fans

Not surprising as they occupy the top 6 placings on the Australian chart

Australia is truly in the grip of Beatlemania

That was like a hero's welcome

You'd go to the town hall and they'd all be in the centre

I think we enjoyed all that stuff

It could be wearing but, with that many people, we were flabbergasted

Yes, shocked and stunned, just happy

Everybody saying "There's more people than came to see the Queen"

I should think so - she didn't have any hit records

More people came to see us there than anywhere

I think the whole of Australia was there

We were on the roof of some hotel

I don't know if it was Sydney or Adelaide, or where

There were thousands and thousands of kids

One of the things that stuck in my mind

was some guy on crutches - I don't know why I focused on him

He was shouting, getting all excited

I saw him throw his crutches away, like he was healed

and he fell right on his face. He just fell over

Before we go, we'd like to say to all of you here tonight

and to everybody who's come to see us on this tour...

We'd like to say, thank you all very much for coming along

World Premiere - A Hard Day's Night London 6th July 1964

I think Hard Day's Night had a lot of comedy in it. People said:

"They're young Marx Brothers"

There had never been four people doing comedy besides them

Yeah, we were called Britain's answer to the Marx Brothers

It was very well received and it did very well

That was part of the Beatles, they were very funny

I mean, they actually were funny

I found it exciting. I loved it

When you first see yourself on the big screen, you watch yourself

Look at that ear, that nose, my hair sticking out-each of us did that

They're very supportive, the Liverpool people-they loved us getting on

They felt we were traitors when we left, but the whole town was behind us

We heard that we were finished in Liverpool

After a bit we began to believe it. We thought, we don't want to go home

We'll just sneak home to our houses

They said "I've been to the Cavern. They don't like you any more"

Of course, they were talking to people who didn't know us anyway

We went back and it was one of the best ever

Liverpool Airport 10th July 1964

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