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We don't know, it may be next week,
it may be two or three years
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but I think we'll be in the business
for at least another four years
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You can be big-headed and say
yeah, we're going to last 10 years
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but when you've said it, you think
we're lucky if we last three months
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Probably the thing that John and I will do
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will be write songs, as we've been doing,
as a sort of sideline
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We'll hope to develop that a bit more
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When we go home early in the morning,
when we've finished the job
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The kids don't know you at home
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but if they find out-well, where I live,
they'll get the drums out!
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It was getting really big -
we noticed as we moved around town
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and started being noticed in the street
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I was grateful that we had
a kind of staircase to climb
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First it was making it big in Liverpool,
then being the best in the county
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then the best in England, then we'd
go to Scotland and break them in
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Then it was well, what's left?
Er... radio
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We wanted to be on Brian Matthews'
Saturday Morning Club, a huge show
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The thing I loved would be to wake
after a week of school or whatever...
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I had a radio by my bed and would
lie in until about 11
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The most delicious lie in of your life,
those teenage lie-ins, Saturday
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Lie in, feeling great,
turn the radio on
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and this programme would be on
for another hour
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We really wanted to be on that.
We knew there was a huge audience
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Many tracks for Saturday Club
were never put on record
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Some good stuff we'd done at the
Cavern or Hamburg, well recorded
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We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile
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Isn't that nice -
thank you, dear Beatles
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Your goal is always just a few yards
ahead rather than right up there
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Neil Aspinall
Road Manager
When we used to tour-do those...
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Arthur Howe touring shows with
quite a number of people on the bill
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Roy Orbison, Tommy Roe,
Gerry and the Pacemakers
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Helen Shapiro... there'd be
a number of people on the bill
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and everybody got 12 minutes,
15, 20 minutes, whatever
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In that time all anybody could do
was plug their hit records
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The ones the audience knew
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With Helen Shapiro
it was really embarrassing
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We were happy just to be on the
first nationwide tour of the theatres
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She was established, she'd been
around and had a bunch of hits
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We were happy just to be on the tour,
but it was embarrassing
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because Please Please Me got to
number 1 while we were on the road
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and all the people coming to the show
were waiting for the Beatles
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It was embarrassing,
because she was very nice
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I think it was the tour after that
when it was Tommy Roe
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and Chris Montez and the Beatles
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They moved us to being... actually
closing the first half of the show
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George Martin
Record Producer
Let's go back a bit. The first record
we issued was Love Me Do
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The second was Please Please Me
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which was only arrived at
after much doubt on my part
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that they could ever write a hit song
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From that moment they blossomed,
they became wonderful songwriters
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But before they showed evidence of that,
I still had to have an album out
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I'd been to the Cavern
and seen what they could do
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I knew their repertoire,
what they were able to perform
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I said, let's record every song you've got
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We'll whistle through them in a day
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We knew those songs, that was the act
we did all over the country
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Basically this album was just
what we did in the clubs
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We just kept running through songs:
"What about this... or this?"
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We'd play and he'd say,
"What else have you got?"
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And 10.30 that evening,
John sang Twist and Shout
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His voice was going all day
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He knew he could only give it
one or two goes and it would just rip it
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Which it did -
you can hear it on the record
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I couldn't sing the damn thing,
I was just screaming
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I heard they were coming
to the Manchester Odeon
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Derek Taylor
Beatles' Press Officer
We theatre critics, so-called
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didn't cover one-night stands of
pop stars as there was no continuity
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Anyway, I bought tickets
at �1 each, I think
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Gerry and the Pacemakers and Roy Orbison
preceded the Beatles
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It was hard to keep up with that man,
he really put on a show
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They all did, but Orbison
had that fantastic voice
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We'd be on the tour bus
and Roy would be at the back
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He wrote something like Pretty Woman
and played it to us-great song
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So a bit of competition came in -
we had to write one as good
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So we were just trying to improve
all the time
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We listened to other songs
and tried to beat them
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By the time we got to From Me To You...
it was nice
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I was very pleased with the chord
in the middle, which was different...
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That minor chord was something
we hadn't done before
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We'd always know when we were
going to be on the radio
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Brian would say "Hello boys,
it's going to be on at 7.20"
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We'd all be in the car and we'd stop
so we could listen to it
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The Beatles and From Me to You, their third single release
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which is this week sittingat the top of the hit parade
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Every time it moved in the charts,
we'd have a celebratory dinner
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If you look at the Beatles, from
their first 18 months, they went...
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because we were eating all this food
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That's where I discovered
smoked salmon
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I'd only ever had tinned salmon
until I was 22!
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We never stopped anywhere
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If we were in Elgin on a Thursday
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and we needed to be in Portsmouth
on Friday, we'd just drive
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We didn't know how to stop this van
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Neil would drive and there'd be
the passenger seat
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and three of us would sit on the
bench seat-whichever three
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We'd sit on this bench seat,
which was pretty miserable
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We'd go everywhere in the van.
We'd kip on the amps
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Some nights were so foggy,
you'd be doing one mile an hour
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and you'd still just keep going
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We were like homing pigeons.
You have to keep getting home
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We got Mal when Neil couldn't come
because he was sick
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We had to go down
to do a radio show in London
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We knew this guy Mal.
He worked for the GPO
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and he used to be a part-time
bouncer at the Cavern
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We got to know him and somebody
suggested he drive for us
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He drove us a couple of times
when Neil couldn't make it
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Then there was so much happening,
we employed him full-time
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Once, on the motorway
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the windscreen got knocked
out by a pebble
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Mal Evans
Beatles' Roadie
So Mal put his hat on backwards,
punched the windscreen out and drove
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This was winter in Britain
and it was freezing and foggy
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We had to look for the kerb
all the way to Liverpool, 200 miles
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We were very, very cold
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I remember we lay on each other
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With a bottle of whisky
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When the one on top was so cold,
hypothermia was setting in
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it was his turn to get on the bottom
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We would warm each other up that way
and keep swigging the whisky
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It was quite an image
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People think stardom,
and it's glamorous
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and there's us freezing,
lying literally on top of each other
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Oh yeah, we were tight
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That was one thing to be said about us,
we were really tight as friends
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We could argue a lot amongst ourselves
but we were very close
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In the early days, we'd make
a record in about 12 hours
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A single every 3 months meant we'd
have to write in the hotel or in a van
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The demand on us was tremendous
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I remember sitting on a pair
of twin beds in a hotel bedroom
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We had a day off so we were
going to write a song
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Our early songs, Please Please ME, From ME to YOU, P.S. I Love YOU
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They were always
very personal - Thank YOU girl
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And we hit on the idea of doing
a kind of reported conversation
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"I saw her yesterday, she told me
what to say, she said SHE loves YOU"
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It gave us another little dimension,
just meant that the song
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was something different from what
we and others had written before
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Half a million advance orders
have been made
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for the Beatles' latest single,
She Loves You
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It looks likely to be three number ones
in a row for the Liverpool boys
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We were the first
working class singers
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that stayed working class
and pronounced it
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Didn't try and change our accents which
in England were looked down upon
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Cathy - A Fan
from the Cavern Club
The Beatles are Liverpudlians.
They belong to us and to the Cavern
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Yes, let the rest of the country
have them and enjoy them
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but please let them come back
to us, at least once
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just to be the same
as they used to be
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It would be fantastic
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It was impossible to go home
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If you're in our business,
you go to London
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The recordings are there,
the places to be seen are there
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Where it's happening is there,
it's just a natural move
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George and I shared an apartment off
Park Lane, �45 a week, a fortune
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We'd go to the Saddle Rooms.
It used to be a club
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They used to have this horse
and coach outside
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Two little drunken Beatles in the back
were being taken home
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This is two shit kickers from Liverpool
and this is far out news
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"Oh, let's take the carriage"
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It was great, we were kings
and were all just at the prime
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We used to go round London
in our cars and meet each other
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and talk about music
with The Animals and Eric
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and we were very close
to The Stones
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This song we're going to play,
I Wanna Be Your Man
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We virtually finished it in front of them
because they needed a record
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They'd put out Come On by Chuck Berry
and needed a quick follow-up
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They did it first -
we did it with Ringo after
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We were always nervous before
each step we went up the ladder
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but we always had that comfort
of being four together
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Not like Elvis, you know
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I always felt sorry later for Elvis
because he was on his own
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There was only one Elvis -
nobody else knew what he felt like
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But for us, we all shared
the experience
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The Beatles, The Beatles...
no, it couldn't catch on
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Big Night Out TV Show
Hey, Bern! Is the tea ready yet?
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Good evening and welcome
to Big Night Out
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The Morecambe And Wise Show
It's the Kay Sisters! Fabulous!
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The Kay Sisters?
This is the Beatles!
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Hello, Beatle... where is he?
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There he is. Hello, Bongo!
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That's Ringo!
- Is he there as well? Oh great!
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As you can gather, this is Eric.
Say hello to Eric
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I remember you, you're the one
with short, fat, hairy legs
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No, he's the one
with short, fat, hairy legs
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We're the ones
with the big, fat, hairy heads
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Get out of that!
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What's it like, being famous?
- It's not like in your day, you know
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That's an insult, that is.
What do you mean, not like in my day?
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My dad used to tell me about you
- In the old days
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You've only got a little dad, have you?
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All right, Bonzo?!
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It's Ringo!
- Yeah, him as well
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Get 'em off, they've done enough.
I'm getting insulted
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Let's do a number with the boys
- One their dad will remember
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You go and get changed
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What should we do, boys?
Something suitable for Eric's age?
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Moonlight Bay.
OK, you go and get changed
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On television for the first time,
Morecambe and Wise and the Beatles
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presenting that wonderful old fashioned
number, Moonlight Bay
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OK fellas, that's great,
you look marvellous. Are you ready?
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Right, we'll take it from the top
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Have the Beatles gone?
- No, they're here
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What are you doing?
- It's murder... I can't keep up
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I haven't got one...
- Take 4!
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I can't breathe after all that mouth organ.
Can we skip it?
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I couldn't hear what chords
they were going...
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A bit less of George
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I feel like I'm singing in a sock...
a one, two, three, four...
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You've done it again
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You made a mistake
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Do it slower
- No!
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Ready
- Ringo... keep your bit dead
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Ringo!
- We're taping
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No, the first one a loud attack,
the second one not quite so loud
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Rhythm and Blues, part nine
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Paul forgot to sing
- God, I'm sorry
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I was just watching George...
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What happened?
- It's every time you jump like that
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Don't slow down for christ sakes...
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or I'm giving you no more drugs
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Been for a shit I see, Megan?
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Take 1- No reply
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Stop
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I just can't get anywhere near light
so he'll have to do it
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I'll try to remember, John,
and if I don't it's just too bad, in't it?
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You daft get!
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George, what did the bass sound like?
Good? Or utterly crap?
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Did it? Well let's see how you like it
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Take 13
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When I was playing in the living room
with Eddie Clayton
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my mother's friend
Annie McGuire would say:
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"See you on the Palladium, son!
See your name in lights"
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That was the place to get to,
the London Palladium!
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Nothing bigger in the world
than making it to the Palladium
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And I said "Yeah, sure, Annie,
that's where we're going to go"
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So it was one of my things too:
"To the Palladium!"
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That was as far as I was looking
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And I was sick
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"Here they are..." -
and I spewed up and went on
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I was just nervous, craziness,
you know, tension
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We played the gig and we got on
that roundabout and it was dynamite
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This was it, you know what I mean
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Anyone who knew you was so...
fucking hell... hey, look at this!
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It was just pretty far out,
the Palladium
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We like the fans and enjoy
reading the publicity about us
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but from time to time you don't realise
it's actually about yourself
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You see your pictures
and read articles
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about George Harrison, Ringo Starr
and Paul and John
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but you don't actually think,
"Oh, that's me in the paper"
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It's funny, it's just as though
it's a different person
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It all sounds complaining but we're not,
we're just putting the point
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It affects your home
more than it does yourself
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You know what to expect
but your parents and family don't
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We were treated differently
and we had to get used to that
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Then you found yourself
in a weird land
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All these people you've grown up
with and lived with -
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suddenly it was the one place
you didn't want to change
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It all changed after that
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You were never sure who your friends
were unless you had them before
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People are so in awe of fame
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All you have to do is go on
the radio or television once
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and people see you in the street
and act differently
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But the Beatles were in the papers
every day for a year or so
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Everybody changes,
they're so impressed by it
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People forget how to act normal
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The one absolute, clear vision:
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I was at my aunty's, where I'd been
a thousand times before
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We were having a cup of tea one night
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It may have been after
one of those shows
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Somebody knocked the table
and my tea went in my saucer
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Suddenly it was "He can't have that,
we have to tidy it up"
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That would never have
happened before
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I thought, things are changing.
It was like an arrow to the brain
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Drop In TV Show
Sweden 3rd November 1963
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London Airport
31st October 1963
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The Beatles return from Sweden
to what the press call 'Beatlemania'
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We'll see what the Queen Mother
thinks of Beatlemania
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when the Beatles perform at the
Royal Variety Show on November 4th
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I was sent to pursue them...
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to harass them in September '63
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by the News Editor of the Daily Express,
who said they'd had it
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They'd betray their young fans by
appearing on the Royal Variety Show
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Go and get them. Get a quote
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Get them to condemn themselves
by saying:
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"We shouldn't be doing it,
we're betraying our fans"
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We all turned up: the Daily Mail,
the Express, the Mirror
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They were very defiant.
Ringo did the perfect quote:
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"I want to play my drums
for the Queen Mum"
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John, in this Royal Variety Show,
you're appearing before royalty
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Your language has to be good
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and this thing with Ted Heath
saying he couldn't understand you
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I can't understand Teddy
saying that at all really
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I'm not going to vote for Ted
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Paul, any changes in the act
or will it be the usual routine?
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No, we'll have to change it.
Hey, stop hitting me
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We can't do the same thing
all the time
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We haven't thought about it
- Suits with collars, parted hair?
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You never know. We may not
wear suits. We've no idea
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Prince of Wales Theatre
4th November 1963
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Thank you very much indeed
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The next song we'd like to sing
is a bit slower
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This is from the show The Music Man
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It's also been recorded
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by our favourite American group,
Sophie Tucker
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For our last number,
I'd like to ask your help
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Would the people in the cheaper seats
clap your hands
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and the rest of you,
if you'd just rattle your jewellery
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00:51:51,487 --> 00:51:55,480
Thank you. We'd like to sing a song
called Twist and Shout
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We wanted to give people their
money's worth with our records
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Our policy was to put 14 tracks
a side-it was brand new
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and never put singles on the albums
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Everybody else who had a hit single
made an album around it
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With the Beatles
was a sort of 'first songbook'
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They gave me a list of their songs
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They were all thinking
in terms of singles still
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We weren't thinking of an album
being an entity by itself
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It was a collection of songs
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All we did was to record singles
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and the ones that weren't too good
we'd put on an album
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which is what With the Beatles was
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Robert Freeman,
who took this picture
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copied, on request actually,
Astrid Kirchherr's photographs
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We showed him the pictures Astrid took
and said do it like this
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With the Beatles has broken the record
for advance sales of an LP
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It has an advance
of a quarter of a million
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The previous record
was held by Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii
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Brian Epstein could well be right
in his prediction
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that the Beatles one day will be bigger
than Elvis Presley
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One of the cheekiest things we ever did
was say to Brian Epstein:
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"We're not going to America
till we've got a number 1 "
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We'd seen a lot of people,
like Adam Faith, Cliff Richard -
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quite big stars in Britain -
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go to America and be 3rd or 4th
on the bill after Frankie Avalon
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or Fabian and people like that
who were one hit wonders to us
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So we thought, that's the kiss of death
to go over to America
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Take a downward step in your career.
We didn't want to do that
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So we told Brian we wouldn't go
until we have a number 1 record
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We were trying to get into America
all the time
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01:00:40,807 --> 01:00:45,517
I really thought She Loves You would
have broken the American market
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01:00:45,767 --> 01:00:49,077
but if you think of
our frustration here
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we were being turned down by the
company, which EMI actually owned
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I was so frustrated, I said
if they're not going to put it out -
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From Me To You was the first one
we offered them -
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they can't deny us other people
putting them out
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I would take the record back and try
and get it out with another label
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I did negotiations
with Swan and with VJ
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each of whom, tiny labels in the States,
took one or other title
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They put those records out in America
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01:01:24,447 --> 01:01:29,475
Of course, being small labels,
they didn't make a great deal of success
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01:01:30,087 --> 01:01:34,126
That was the way it worked out.
We released Please Please Me - Flop
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From Me to You - Flop. Changed labels,
released She Loves You
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In England they'd all been number 1.
All of them flops-nothing
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By this time the news from England
and Europe was overwhelming
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that they were a hit group and they
had to take them more seriously
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01:01:53,207 --> 01:01:58,201
Also the Swan and VJ labels
were selling by this time
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01:01:58,847 --> 01:02:01,919
So Capitol were forced to release
I Want To Hold Your Hand
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01:02:02,167 --> 01:02:07,605
It wasn't made for the American
market but it was a great record
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01:04:33,607 --> 01:04:38,806
Le Bourget Airport, Paris
14th January 1964
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01:04:39,967 --> 01:04:42,879
The funny thing about France
was it was boys screaming
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01:04:43,127 --> 01:04:47,359
I think the girls were heavily chaperoned
because it was boys
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Yeah oui, OK, you know.
Dear me, a funny crowd
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01:04:57,727 --> 01:05:02,596
We went down kind of medium.
We were on the bill with Trini Lopez:
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If he had a hammer -
if you remember
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01:05:05,287 --> 01:05:09,360
I didn't know Trini was on that show.
I thought it was Sylvie Vartan
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01:05:09,887 --> 01:05:13,084
It was very strange
because suddenly...
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we had all these boys
chasing us all over Paris
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01:05:19,687 --> 01:05:24,283
We had visions of all these French girls,
ooh la la, and all that
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01:05:24,527 --> 01:05:30,921
But the opening night audience
were tuxedoed elderly French people
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Hanging round the stage door,
all seemed to be a bunch
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of slightly gay looking boys,
shouting "Ringo, Ringo"
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01:05:39,807 --> 01:05:44,801
We didn't go down that well
but we built it up over a few days
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01:05:45,327 --> 01:05:47,636
Eventually it was a bit of a success
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01:05:48,167 --> 01:05:53,366
But we were used to a little bit
more instant success than that
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We got a telegram at the hotel
after one of the shows
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It came from Capitol Records
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Congratulations, lads, number 1
in US charts or something
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We all hit the roof. I remember
riding around on Mal Evans's back
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01:06:24,607 --> 01:06:30,557
He was happy to bear me.
It was just very high hysterics
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01:06:31,367 --> 01:06:34,518
Brian rang me about
half past one in the morning:
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"I know you won't mind being woken."
I said I wasn't asleep anyway
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He said "I've just heard from America.
We're number 1!"
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Fantastic! He said "Do you want
to come round?" Not half!
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So we went round and had a great
drink up. No bed that night!
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It was a great feeling because
we were booked to go there
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directly after Paris,
so it was handy to have a number 1
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01:07:03,487 --> 01:07:09,039
British pop stars haven't made much
impact on the US. How will you fare?
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Well, I can't really say, can I?
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01:07:12,527 --> 01:07:15,997
Is it up to me? No.
I just hope we go all right
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01:07:18,767 --> 01:07:23,238
London Airport
7th February 1964
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I know on the plane over I was
thinking "Oh, we won't make it"
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01:07:39,647 --> 01:07:42,605
We knew we would wipe them out
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It was like flying into the unknown,
we didn't know what to expect
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We were going to America
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It was the first time for everyone,
except George
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I remember before landing,
it was so exciting
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01:08:24,207 --> 01:08:29,725
As the plane flew over New York
It felt like some sci-fi movie
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01:08:29,967 --> 01:08:34,404
and a big octopus grabbed the plane
and was dragging us down to New York
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and it was all so exciting.
This was America
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01:08:37,727 --> 01:08:41,925
Things we'd dreamt about and all
the music we'd loved came from here
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01:08:42,927 --> 01:08:47,717
All the music we'd loved came from
there so just to be there was exciting
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01:08:48,247 --> 01:08:52,160
but because we'd made this condition
of being number 1 before we went
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01:08:52,407 --> 01:08:54,363
it was like going as princes
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01:08:54,607 --> 01:08:58,646
Millions of kids at the airport,
which nobody expected
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01:08:58,887 --> 01:09:01,640
We heard about it mid-air as I recall
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01:09:02,167 --> 01:09:07,195
There were journalists on the plane
and the pilot radioed ahead
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01:09:07,727 --> 01:09:12,517
He said tell the boys there's
a big crowd waiting for them
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01:09:18,967 --> 01:09:21,322
We never expected anybody
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We didn't expect to sell records here
so we were just amazed
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