All language subtitles for The Beatles - 1967 A Year In Pepperland 1

The thing is, you see, to do things
together, the four of us, it's going to

the old things all over again, you know.

You don't want to do that. No, we don't
want to do, you know, what we've done

already. So the thing is, because of the
film, you know, we can't get a decent

script, but we're still trying for one.

If we don't do that, we'll most probably
all do something else different, you

know, for next year.

I think the Beatles as a pop group are
finished.

I don't think they're finished as a
group of fellas who can probably get

together from time to time for all sorts
of activities which can be both

entertaining as far as the public is
concerned and lucrative as far as

concerned. But as a pop group, I really
can't see where they can go.

The Beatles are certainly at a
crossroad.

That's true. And the Beatles themselves
know this. You see, the Beatles started

off three or four years ago by being
very unconventional and being ahead of

their time and being something new.

Now they are outrageously out of date.

And the Beatles themselves are worried
about this. They've been very worried

about this for some time. And they just
don't know what to do next.

They don't want to be just another pop
music group.

There are plenty of those touring the
country now and doing very well. They

to advance, but the question facing each
of them is how.

Paul McCartney himself, I think, said
he'd hate to be a 30 -year -old Beatle,

which gives him four or five years now.

Last in terms of people who come
together and make records over the next

years, I think certainly, as people who
come together perhaps once a year and

make a film, that's possible.

As a group that goes around doing one
-night stands and tours and does

continuous concert work and personal
appearances, I would say probably not.

I'm unhappy about the way the Beatles
are treating the fans, actually, because

think they took them to the top, you
know. The fans took the Beatles to the

and the Beatles just aren't doing
anything to pay them back, you know.

just hanging around, not doing anything.

Well, I think, you know, the fans will
keep it up, you know, liking them for a

little while, and then after that, just
forget about them and forget what they

even look like if they're not going to
see them.

Well, I think they might split up in
1967, because they're doing different

things now.

But, um...

I hope they don't.

I don't see any reason why you can't
even pull off the dialogue over that

shot. We could not have that shot at
all. I like it.

Now John on his own playing the part of
someone else, someone who is similar in

character to himself, someone who he
understands, but in fact a fictional

a man who has nothing to do with the
60s, a man who was 20 years old in 1940,

with none of the pop elements, none of
the fans, none of the

persona of a 1966 man.

I think that's a good step forward,
because he can then, if that works, and

not one to predict, as for the audience
to say whether they consider that

successful, it's a fairly reasonable
transition for all of them to play the

parts of other people.

You've been working with him over the
past two or three years. Now the

of the great pop explosion is gone, is
there a certain sense of dying away of

enthusiasm and sort of running down to
good?

a dying away of their own enthusiasm?

I don't think so. I think their
enthusiasms are now being channeled into

areas, like composing for films, like
writing, like appearing from time to

as actors, like searching for what they
want to do.

Well, I'll get the transparencies to
you, Hawthorne Studio.

Tomorrow afternoon.

All right, fine.

I suppose they can get together every so
often, make an LP for the sake of

nostalgia or something, but I think
Lennon and McCartney could very well

the Rodgers and Hammerstein writing team
for films and for musicals and for

songs generally.

There's any doubt about that. I think
they're not stuck in a rush of the

Liverpool sound or beat or anything like
that, and some of their recent records

or recent songs have shown that.

I think they're capable of great things
in the writing field.

Ringo, I think... He could... With the
right

film part, I think he could probably be
quite a good comedy performer.

And George?

He enjoys it, anyway.

George?

I don't know.

I mean... I don't know.

He'd probably open a string of Indian
restaurants.

Can I have a word?

Are other people going to go their own
ways in 1967?

They could be, you know, on our own or
together. We're always involved with

other, whatever we're doing.

Could you ever see a time when, in fact,
you weren't working together?

I could see us working not together for
a period, but we'd always get together

for one reason or another.

I mean, you need other people for ideas
as well, you know, and we all get along

fine. Will you be doing films on your
own next year?

No, I don't want to make a career of it.
I did it just because I felt like doing

it. And Dick Lester asked me, and I said
yes.

And I wouldn't have done it if the
others hadn't liked it.

They said fine, because we were on
holiday anyway.

Do the others have film ambitions on
their own?

No, nobody's particularly interested in
it. I'm not all that mad on it. What do

you really want to do?

I don't know, I just want to do a few
things.

You haven't really decided exactly
what... No, I'll try a few things, but I

just... found out a bit more about films
doing that what's this the songwriting

team thing will keep going on whatever
happens would it yeah we'll probably

carry on writing music forever you know
whatever else we're doing because you

just can't stop you know you find
yourself doing it whether you want to or

but you think the tours like the
american tours and the english one you

know there must be a point where they
don't work anymore because they're not

do with what we're doing record wise or
film wise

Paul?

Good evening.

Hello. John Edwards, right here. How are
you? Can I just have a brief word with

you? Yeah. If you never taught again,
would it worry you?

I don't know.

No, I don't think so. Wouldn't worry
you. Because the only thing about that,

see, is that performance for us... See,
it's gone downhill, performance, because

we can't develop when no one can hear
us, you know what I mean? So for us to

perform, it's difficult. It gets
difficult each time. You mean they don't

to you, and therefore you don't want to
do that?

Oh, yeah, we want to do it, but if we're
not listened to, and we can't even hear

ourselves, then we can't improve in
that. We can't get any better.

So we're trying to get better with
things like recording.

How are you? Can I stop you?

Well, have a brief word with you.

I just want to ask you, do you think
that in the new year that you're going

be going your own ways instead of being
in a group?

No. No? No, definitely not. What about
another word?

How are you? Merry Christmas.

How are you?

Fine, fine. Can I ask you a few
questions?

Yes, yes. Then I'll turn you around this
way. Which way? This way.

You're looking very smart anyway.

Yes, well, I had a bath. What's all this
about the Beatles are going to do less

together in the new year?

Yeah, we won't be.

The thing is, you see, to do things
together, the four of us, it's going to

the old things all over again, you know.

You don't want to do that? No, we don't
want to do, you know, what we've done

already. So the thing is... Because of
the film, you know, we can't get a

script, but we're still trying for one.

If we don't do that, we'll most probably
all do something else different, you

know, for next year. On your own? Yes,
but, I mean, it's not like breaking up.

We'll still be coming back together at
the end of it.

Do you foresee a time when, in fact, the
Beatles won't be together and that

you'll all be on your own?

No.

Have you got tired of each other?

No. Have you got anything lined up on
your own? No. Film parts, for example?

Well, there may be one if... we don't do
one together early next year.

To say, see, I'm sort of out of it there
because with John and Paul, they can

still write even though we're sort of
not working together.

And George can, you know, learn his
sitar and do things like that. And I've

been sitting around.

Getting bored?

No, getting fat.

But have you fed up of being sort of
people? The thing is, we can't do a tour

like we've been doing all these years
because our music's progressed. We've

more instruments.

It'd be softer going on stage, the four
of us.

and trying to do the records we've made
with orchestras and, you know, bands and

things. So if we went on stage, we'd
have to have a whole line up of men

us. Are you getting bored of being with
the Beatles after all this time?

No. I'm having a great time.

Merry Christmas to you.

Long time since I've seen you. Thank you
very much.

That's all right, thank you. Are you
going to work now?

Well, I'll see what they're up to.

I think it may be tea time with them,
you know.

Bye.

I really wish the people that look sort
of with anger

at the weirdos, at the happenings, at
the psychedelic freakout, would instead

just looking with anger, just look with
nothing, with no feeling, you know, be

unbiased about it. Because they really
don't realize that what these people are

talking about is something that they
really want themselves.

It's something that everyone wants.

You know, it's personal freedom to be
able to talk and be able to say things.

And it's dead straight. It's a real sort
of basic pleasure for everyone.

But it looks weird from the outside.

Even though everyone is sort of getting
on very well in this society we've got,

it's a bit too controlled, you know,
because you suddenly, you want to go and

something and somebody says, oh, no,
subsection B, clause A, you can't do

you know.

And you say, well, why not? Because, you
know, I'm...

human being and that and haven't i got
my rights i said well yes but you're not

allowed to do that they say well you
know if it doesn't interfere with anyone

must be okay and they said sorry still
isn't you know so people have suddenly i

think a lot of people have twigged that
this uh they've shut themselves in a bit

you know they've got all these rules for
everything rules of how to live how to

paint how to make music and it's just
not true anymore you know they don't

don't work all those rules because you
can't apply them because it means then

that you're assuming that you know it
all you know and primitive man us and

something else you know and we don't
know it all yet and so all that all of

gang of people from international times
indica and the whole scene you know is

trying to do is trying to see where we
are now and see what we've got around us

see any mistakes we've made straighten
them out

You know, it's just a straightforward
endeavor, kind of thing, just to do

something other than what's been done
before, because what's been done before

isn't necessarily the answer. There
could be another answer. What they're

and what they're doing is sort of
nothing strange about it. It's just dead

straight. But it's that they're talking
about things that are a bit new, and

they're talking about things which
people don't really know too much about

And so they tend to get, you know,
people sort of put them down a bit and

well, you know, weirdo, psychedelic and
things.

But it's really just what's going on
around and they're just trying to look

it a bit. So next time you see the word,
you know, like sort of any word, any

new strange word like psychedelic, you
know, drugs, the whole bit, you know,

freak out music and all of that, don't
immediately take it.

as that you know because your first
reaction has got to be one of fear you

if you don't know anything about it you
can sort of trust that it's probably

going to be all right it's probably not
that bad because like it's human beings

doing it and you know vaguely what human
beings do and you know they're probably

going to think of it nearly the same way
you would in that situation and that's

true you know you can trust to the fact
that things are generally not as bad as

you make them out to be it's

So far out, it's

straight down.

Penny Lane, there is a barber showing
photographs of every head he's had the

pleasure to know.

And all the people that come and go stop
and say hello.

On the corner is a banker with a
motorcar. The little children have an

behind his back.

And the banker never wears a mask.

In the pouring rain, very strange, Penny
Lane is in my

ears and in my eyes.

There beneath the blue suburban skies I
did and seen

while back in Penny Lane there is a
fireman with an hourglass and in his

is a portrait of the Queen.

We like to keep this fire engine clean.

It's a clean machine.

and finger pies in summer meanwhile back
behind the shelter in the

middle of the roundabout where the
pretty nurse is telling puppies from a

and though she feels as if she's in a
play she is anyway

Penny Lane the barber shaves another
customer

We see the bank of the way to Gloucester
and then the fire of the house is

in. From the pouring rain, very strange,
Penny Lane

is in my ears and in my eyes.

There beneath the blue, superb blue sky.

Let us take you now to England, if I
may, in a very, very interesting and

different looking Beatles with
Strawberry Fields Forever.

We'll just keep looking at this for a
second.

Then I want to get your impression of
what you've just seen.

As they slowly fade away.

What did you think of that?

That was great.

What did you think? I don't like their
hair.

Their mustache.

They didn't dig the mustaches, huh?

What was your comment?

I don't know. They look older and it
ruins their image, really.

How did you feel?

That was funny.

And you?

I liked it.

They're ugly.

Their mustaches were weird.

Come on back here.

They went out with a twist.

They look like grandfathers or
something.

What's up, ma 'am? They look like
somebody's grandfather.

But they looked okay.

Looked good.

Interesting.

All righty.

Let's go on now. Back once again to
England. A different look again.

The Beatles.

Penny Lane, there is a bar showing
photographs of every head he's had the

pleasure to know.

And all the people that come and go stop
and say hello.

Pardon? It was different.

And you?

It was a little brighter on the brighter
side.

Uh -huh.

Sir? They smiled, at least.

I thought it was weird.

Weird.

They're okay.

Reminded me of Hollywood about a hundred
years ago.

What was your comment?

It was all right.

All right. They're as bad as the
monkeys.

They just look different than they used
to.

Yeah, that's pretty safe to say.

Did I speak to you?

No. What was your impression?

I thought they looked good.

It was a change.

Change? They have a right to look any
way they want.

Yeah. Mick Jagger.

All right. How about the... Let's take
our camera down in this row. I'm going

have to reach real long. The young lady
here with the short hair.

They just look entirely different.

What do you think of it?

Oh, he's all right.

Not much of a change.

Sergeant Pemberton!

I read the news today, oh boy, about a

lucky man who made the grade.

He blew his mind out in a car.

He didn't notice that the life had
changed.

A crowd of people stood and stared.

They'd seen his face before.

Nobody was really sure if he was from
the house.

I just won the war The crowd of people
turned away

But I just had to look

Woke up, fell out of bed, dragged a comb
across my head.

Found my way downstairs and drank a cup.

Looking up, I noticed I was late.

Found my coat and grabbed my hat.

Made the bus and second flight.

Found my way upstairs and had a smoke.

Somebody spoke and I went into a dream.

I read the news today, oh boy.

4 ,000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire.

Though the holes were rather small, they
had

to count them all.

Now they know how many holes it takes to
fill them.

Let them use the day, oh boy.