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Ladies and gentlemen
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Honoured by their country
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decorated by their Queen
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and loved here in America...
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Here are the Beatles!
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Shea Stadium
New York 15th August 1965
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Thank you very much.
We'd like to carry on now
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with a song which was one of
our records a few months ago
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This song is called I Feel Fine
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I never felt people came
to hear our show
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I felt they came to see us
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Because from the count-in
on the first number
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the volume of screams
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would just drown everything out
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Vox made us special big amplifiers
for that tour
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They were 100 watts
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We went up from the 30 watt amp
to the 100 watt amp
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Neil Aspinall
Tour Manager
That was miked up, I think, to the
big speakers round Shea Stadium
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so the audience weren't necessarily
listening to the sound from the stage
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They were listening to what
was coming from the PA system
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We were just working off the normal
columns, which were...
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So it can't have sounded too good
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Can you hear me?
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We'd like to do a slow song now
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It's also off 'Beatles VI' or something.
I don't know what it's off
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I haven't got it
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It's a waltz, this one. Remember that
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Anyway, the song's called,
hopefully enough... aah, look at her!
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It's called Baby's in Black
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The next song we'd like to sing...
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John was having a good time.
He was into his comedy, which was great
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The great thing about John,
if there was ever a tense show -
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which that undoubtedly was -
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you can't play to that many people
for the first time and not be tense -
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his comedy would come in
and he'd start the faces
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The shoulders would start going
and it was very encouraging
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because at least
we're not taking it seriously
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If you look at that footage
and see how we are acting
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or reacting to the place
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it's very big, it's very strange
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I feel that on that show
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John cracked up, just went mad
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Not mentally ill, just got crazy
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If you see him, he's playing
the electric piano with his elbows
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It was a really strange thing
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We did I'm Down
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I did the organ on the record and decided
to play it on stage for the first time
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I felt naked without a guitar
and George couldn't play for laughing
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I was doing it for a laugh
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It was marvellous, the biggest crowd
we'd ever played to
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The biggest live show
that I think anybody's ever done
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and it was fantastic
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That was a good experience,
the first really big open air...
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"Wow, look at this!" you know
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I didn't think about it like that
at the time
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I personally didn't realise that it
was the first really big open air...
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You know, 55000 people
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Even now it's a big crowd, 56000
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But then-it's like old money -
it seemed like millions of people
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60000 people
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They told me it was 70
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On one or another trip, we met Elvis
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It was one of the highlights
of our visit
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but by the time we'd got near his house
we'd forgotten where we were going
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We were in this Cadillac limousine
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You know, in LA, everything goes
round and round and round
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Then I think we were going
along Mulholland...
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We had a couple of cups of tea
in the back of the car
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By the time we got to Elvis's house
we forgot where we were going
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It didn't really matter
where we were going
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Bel Air, actually. The meet was arranged
and we were going to see him
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I was pretty excited about it all
and then we arrived
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We pulled up at these big gates -
we're going to see Elvis!
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We all fell out of the car,
just like in a Beatles cartoon
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All in hysterics...
trying to pretend we weren't... silly
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In the house, Elvis was sitting
on a couch, playing a Fender bass -
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plugged in an amplifier -
watching the TV
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And it was "Oh, there's Elvis"
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It was Elvis.
He just looked like Elvis
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He was the King, wasn't he?
It was Elvis
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This is Mr Hips, you know.
Hip-swivelling man!
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Wow, you know, that's Elvis!
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He was playing Mohair Sam
all evening
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He played it endlessly on a jukebox.
It was the record of the moment for him
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So it was great to see
he's a music fan, he's not just...
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because that was one of
our big records of the moment too
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He had a TV going all the time,
which is what I do anyway
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In front of the TV, he had a massive
Fender bass amplifier
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with a big bass plugged in it
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He was playing bass all the time
with the picture up on the TV
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so we just got in there
and played with him
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We plugged in whatever was around
and we all played and sang
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I never jammed with Elvis at all
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John said he'd...
- John jammed with Elvis
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It must have been
when we went out of the room
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I think it was because he had
a bass there, so I thought...
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So I thought you know... bass,
hey, this is interesting
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Ringo played football with him
- Yeah, I played football with Elvis
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Round about 10 or 10.30...
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Priscilla was brought in
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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 kind of purple gingham and a
gingham bow in her very beehive hair
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I spent most of the party trying to
suss out if anybody had any reefer
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I think it wouldn't have mattered
to me if she was there
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Because it was him I came to see
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I don't remember the boys
he had with him
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All his gang-the Memphis Mafia
or whatever they call them
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He was surrounded
by these sycophants
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"I'm going to the loo now."
"OK, Elv, we'll go with you." Strange
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I was so angry that he wasn't making
any music, as he should have been
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We were asking about this,
just making movies
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and not doing any personal
appearances or TV
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I think he enjoys making
movies so much
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If we don't do personal appearances,
we get bored quickly
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He says he misses it a bit
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He was great, just how I expected him
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It just sort of faded out,
you couldn't get close
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It's not like we could have become
good friends, it was impossible
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We weren't buddies or anything,
but he was really nice
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He was a nice guy,
he was very slim, you know
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He was really good.
I'm glad I met him
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It was one of the great
meetings in my life
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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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because he was very big with
the C.I.A. and everything
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It's very sad to me that
he felt so threatened
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That he thought, like a lot of people,
that we were bad for American youth
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In '62 we were touring in a van
and people were laughing at us
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That's how our careers started.
They were laughing at us in Scotland
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Then they got interested
and got to really listen and like us
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Then this screaming thing started
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They used us as an excuse to go mad
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The world did, then blamed it on us
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We were just in the middle, in a car
or hotel room. We couldn't do much
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We couldn't go out,
we couldn't do anything
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For us it was a drag -
we knew they wouldn't hear anything
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because it's just like a riot,
not like a show
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It felt dangerous because
everybody was out of hand
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Even the cops were
just caught up in the mania
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It was like they were this big movie
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We felt trapped in the middle
while everybody else was going mad
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We were actually the sanest people
in the whole thing
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The realisation was kicking in
that nobody was listening
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That was OK in the beginning
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but even worse than that
is that we were playing so bad
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We were now a big band. When we
went 'Whooahh' and shook our heads
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everyone went mad
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I don't really think it was that bad
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I was playing just shit
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all I could do was...
hold down the off-beat
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I couldn't come off that, really
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because if you went to do anything
on the toms, it was just nothing
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There was no noise
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I just felt that we were
playing really bad
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I'd joined the Beatles because
they were the best band in Liverpool
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I wanted to play with good players
and that's what it was all about
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First and foremost,
we were musicians
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George Martin
Record Producer
Their musical creativity
showed no signs of flagging
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On the contrary, they were becoming
more and more productive
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The work they were giving me
was much more interesting
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They were finding new frontiers
all the time
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Our whole attitude was changing
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We'd grown up a little
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I think grass was really influential
in a lot of our changes
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Especially with the writers
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Because they were writing different
stuff, we were playing differently
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We were all expanding
in all areas of our life
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opening up to a lot
of different attitudes
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The direction was changing away
from the Thank You Girl poppy stuff
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the early stuff -
From Me to You, She Loves You
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All the early stuff was directly
relating to your fans
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kind of saying,
please buy this record
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Thank You Girl, PS I Love You,
it was all very that
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There came a point where we'd done
enough of that and branched out
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into songs that are a bit more surreal,
more entertaining
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Other people were arriving on the scene
who were a little bit influential
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I don't really know whether
we'd been influenced
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Dylan was starting to influence us
quite heavily at that point
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When it got sort of contemporary
as it were, a contemporary influence
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I think Rubber Soul was about
when it started happening
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It was just around that period
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when we were all getting into
different kinds of music
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George's became Indian
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We were all listening to classical music
and various types of music
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other than our own
and our rock'n'roll roots
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and George moved into the Indian thing
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He'd give you a better explanation
of just when it was
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During the filming of Help!
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there were some Indian musicians
in a restaurant scene
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and I kind of messed around
with the sitar then
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During that year,
towards the end of the year
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I kept hearing the name Ravi Shankar.
I heard it about three times
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About the third time I heard it,
a friend of mine said:
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"Have you heard Ravi Shankar?"
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So I went out and bought the record
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and that was it, I just felt...
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It felt very familiar to me
to listen to that music
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It was around that time I bought a sitar
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I bought a cheap sitar in a shop
called India Craft in London
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It was lying around. I hadn't
figured out what to do with it
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When we were working on NorwegianWood it just needed something
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and it was quite spontaneous,
from what I remember
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I just picked up the sitar,
found the notes and just played it
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We miked it up and put it on
and it just seemed to hit the spot
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They were getting more and more
interested in unusual sounds
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They were trying out new instruments
and saying to me:
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"What ideas have you got for this?"
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Yesterday had been the first time we
used other instrumentalists on records
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The only person who'd played
with them before was me
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Now we had a group of other musicians
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so we weren't averse to using
other people or other sounds
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Rubber Soul was an indication of the
way things were going. A great album
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That's my favourite-at the time
I think it was the best we'd made
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We certainly knew we were
making a good album
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You know the cover, the photo
where we looked stretched
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That was the kind of thing
that we were all very into
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That kind of random little exciting
thing that would happen
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The photographer, Bob Freeman,
had taken pictures at John's house
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We just had our new gear on,
the polo necks
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We were doing straight mug shots,
four of us all posing
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Back in London,
he was in someone's flat
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He was showing us
a little carousel of slides
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and he had a piece of cardboard
that was album cover size
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He was projecting the photographs
on to it, planning an album cover
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We'd just chosen the photo.
We said "That one looks good"
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We all liked ourselves
in one particular shot
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and he was just winding up when
the card it was on fell back a bit
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It elongated the photo and we went
"Can you do it like that?"
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He said "Yeah, I could print it like that"
so we thought, that's it... Rubber Soul!
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So there's no great mysterious
meaning behind all of this
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It was just four boys working out
what to call their new album
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I don't see too much difference
in Rubber Soul and Revolver
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To me, they could be
volume one and two
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Maybe I'm wrong, I haven't
played them right back to back
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but they were both very pleasant
and enjoyable records for me
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It has that quality
because it's the follow on
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and we were just starting to really
find ourselves in the studio
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You know, what we could do,
which was...
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over just being four of us playing
our instruments and the vocals
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Their ideas were beginning to become
much more potent in the studio
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They started to tell me what they
wanted and would press me for ideas
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More ways of translating
those ideas into reality
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We'd be well into the album and we
knew I'd be doing a number somewhere
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We'd say "Have you got a song?"
or "We've got this for you"
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I thought it might not
be a bad idea...
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rather than giving him
a very serious song
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because he wasn't
that keen on singing
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I remember the idea coming up
just before going to sleep
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That little twilight moment when
silly ideas come into your head
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I just thought of
Yellow Submarine
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By then, I'd started writing myself
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but it was hard to bring your songs in
when you had Lennon and McCartney
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It was a bit of a joke because
I'd bring these songs I'd written
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and they'd laugh because
I'd re-written an old standard again
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I was great at re-writing
Jerry Lee Lewis songs
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I didn't have many songs. They were
more or less the ones I had written
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I've always had a couple
I was working on or thinking about
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and in the later years
I did have a huge backlog
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but in the mid-60s
I didn't have too many
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George went through the same problem
as I did with his first songs
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but that didn't last long
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Then we started coming up with great
songs. Which one of us was on Revolver?
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That was the point where you discover
you're not actually...
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you're paying more money
to the taxman...
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You're so happy that you're finally
earning money, then you find out...
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In those days we paid 19s.6d.
out of every �1
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There were 20 shillings in �1
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That was with super-tax,
surtax and tax-tax and stuff
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It was ridiculous
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A heavy penalty to pay
for making money
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It was on Revolverthat we have
the track Tomorrow Never Knows
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which was a great innovation
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That's me in my
Tibetan Book of the Dead period
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and the expression Tomorrow NeverKnows was another of Ringo's
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I was self-conscious about the lyrics
of Tomorrow Never Knows
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so I took one of Ringo's malapropisms
like Hard Day's Night
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to take the edge off the heavy
philosophical lyrics
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John had a song
which was all on the chord of C
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which we thought a perfectly good idea,
like Indian music is all on one chord
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I wondered how George Martin would
take it-it was a radical departure
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At least we'd had three chords and
maybe a change for the middle eight
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Suddenly this was just John
strumming on C rather earnestly
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In those days there was no technology
like there is now
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There were two guitars,
bass and drums, and that was it
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If we did stuff in the studio
with the aid of recording tricks
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then we couldn't just
reproduce them on stage
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Nowadays you could do Tomorrow NeverKnows, have all the loops on a keyboard
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You could have as many pianists,
drummers and orchestras as you wanted
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00:37:07,167 --> 00:37:11,160
But in those days we were
just a little dancehall band
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00:37:11,287 --> 00:37:14,996
and we never thought
of augmenting ourselves
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The hard stuff was the complicated
harmonies, hard to do live on stage
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Like for instance Nowhere Man
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Nowhere Man was OK, wasn't it?
- It was OK, but it was hard
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Circus Krone
Munich
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Somewhere between albums and tours...
I had a dentist, anyway...
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One night, John and his wife Cynthia
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and Patti and myself were having dinner
at this guy's house
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This fellow, for some reason or other,
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had obtained lysergic acid
diethylamide 25
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which at that time was not illegal
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00:40:03,367 --> 00:40:08,361
It was a legally obtained medication
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00:40:09,567 --> 00:40:11,922
But we didn't really know about it
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I seemed to recall that
I'd heard vaguely about it
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00:40:15,367 --> 00:40:18,484
but I didn't really know what it was
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He just put it in our coffee
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00:40:23,247 --> 00:40:28,116
He didn't know what it was, just...
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It's the thing with middle class London
swingers who'd heard about it
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They didn't know it was different
from pot or pills and they gave us it
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He advised us to stay. We thought it was
for an orgy and we didn't want to know
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It became a bit seedy to me
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As if he was trying to get something
happening in his house
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There was some reason
he didn't want us to go
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00:40:56,127 --> 00:41:00,120
Then he said "Leave your car here,
I'll drive and you can come back later"
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I said "No, we'll go in my car," and we
drove. This guy came as well, in his car
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We got to the nightclub
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We were just insane. We all thought
there was a fire in the lift
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Just a little red light and we were
all screaming, all hysterical
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We went up to the floor
where the discotheque was
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The door opens and we all go aaaaaah!!
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00:41:24,967 --> 00:41:29,438
We felt lke the elevator was on fire or
we were going into hell or something
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We were all in hysterics, crazy
323
00:41:33,647 --> 00:41:38,004
Then we got out at the top
and everything was OK
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00:41:38,127 --> 00:41:42,996
We sat there, probably for hours, and
I ended up driving everybody home
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00:41:43,127 --> 00:41:48,963
It was daylight and I was driving
a Mini with John, Cynthia and Patti
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00:41:49,087 --> 00:41:54,559
I seem to remember we were
doing 18 miles an hour
327
00:41:54,767 --> 00:41:57,361
And I was really concentrating
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00:41:57,487 --> 00:42:01,719
Some of the time it just felt normal
329
00:42:01,847 --> 00:42:06,602
then suddenly it was all crazy
330
00:42:06,767 --> 00:42:10,806
I really was frightened
of that kind of stuff
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00:42:10,927 --> 00:42:15,921
When you're young, you're taught...
watch out for them devil drugs
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00:42:16,127 --> 00:42:22,475
So when acid came round, we'd heard
that you're never the same
333
00:42:22,607 --> 00:42:25,599
It alters your life and you never
think the same again
334
00:42:25,727 --> 00:42:30,039
I think John was rather excited by
that prospect. I was rather frightened
335
00:42:30,167 --> 00:42:36,117
I thought this could mean that
I'd never get back home
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00:42:36,247 --> 00:42:39,717
Oh geez, you know.
It may not be the greatest move
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00:42:39,847 --> 00:42:44,079
So I delayed and was seen
to stall a bit within the group -
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00:42:44,207 --> 00:42:48,598
because there was a lot
of peer pressure
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00:44:47,247 --> 00:44:52,879
Day Tripper- That was a drug song,
I just liked the word
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00:45:13,647 --> 00:45:18,084
The last Saturday Club show...
- We'll ever do...
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00:45:18,207 --> 00:45:21,244
The last Saturday Clubbefore Christmas, we'd like...
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00:45:21,367 --> 00:45:25,280
to wish everybody a very happyCrimble from all of us
343
00:45:25,407 --> 00:45:29,844
and thank everyone who sent cardsthis week and all the other weeks
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00:45:29,967 --> 00:45:35,360
I hope you all have a happy Christmasand a very happy New Year
345
00:46:05,447 --> 00:46:10,362
Nice of you to drop in today, lads
- Oh, we weren't doing anything
346
00:46:10,487 --> 00:46:14,719
Not at all, Brian. Like you said, Merry Christmas to you
347
00:46:15,607 --> 00:46:20,203
We can't ask you to work today
- No, it's not allowed
348
00:46:20,327 --> 00:46:24,479
We'll play your record. Does it matter which side we play?
349
00:46:24,607 --> 00:46:26,916
We Can Work It Out
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00:46:28,247 --> 00:46:30,477
Well, sort it out amongstyourselves then
351
00:46:30,607 --> 00:46:34,680
Have you got it?
- Yeah, I'm putting it on now
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00:46:34,807 --> 00:46:37,685
Here goes the needle on the record
353
00:48:51,847 --> 00:48:54,805
Well, the mania was...
354
00:48:54,927 --> 00:48:58,920
As we've said, it was pretty
difficult to get around
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00:48:59,247 --> 00:49:03,718
Out of convenience, we decided
we were not going to go in
356
00:49:03,847 --> 00:49:08,602
Going to the TV studios to promote
our records was too much of a hassle
357
00:49:08,727 --> 00:49:13,323
We'll just make our own little films
and we'll put them out
358
00:49:13,687 --> 00:49:16,440
What was happening...
359
00:49:16,927 --> 00:49:22,240
We really couldn't fit in
all the live television shows
360
00:49:22,367 --> 00:49:27,919
that people wanted us to do round
the world: Shindig, Ed Sullivan Show
361
00:49:28,047 --> 00:49:33,838
Top of the Pops, Thank Your LuckyStars and stuff in France, Germany, etc.
362
00:49:33,967 --> 00:49:37,721
So to accommodate those people
363
00:49:37,847 --> 00:49:41,840
we decided that if we just made -
we call them promo films -
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00:49:41,967 --> 00:49:47,439
a promo film of the individual songs
365
00:49:47,567 --> 00:49:51,640
and sent that to TV stations
around the world
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00:49:51,767 --> 00:49:57,125
That would fulfil their obligation,
or that would do the job
367
00:49:59,167 --> 00:50:02,204
The idea was that
we didn't have to go out
368
00:50:02,327 --> 00:50:07,606
We thought this was a great idea,
to send the movies, the film
369
00:50:07,727 --> 00:50:13,120
We didn't call them videos,
they were just going on TV
370
00:50:13,247 --> 00:50:17,126
We thought this was a great ruse
371
00:50:17,607 --> 00:50:21,077
Let's do these and we can stay home
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00:50:27,647 --> 00:50:30,559
Ladies and gentlemen,
here's a feature taped for us in England
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by Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney,
John Lennon and George Harrison
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00:50:38,407 --> 00:50:40,875
Hello, Ed, how are you?
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00:50:41,327 --> 00:50:44,285
I'm sorry we can't be there
in person to do the show
376
00:50:44,407 --> 00:50:48,878
but everybody's busy these days,
with the washing and the cooking...
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00:50:49,007 --> 00:50:53,046
We hope you like it. One's called Rain
and one's called Paperback Writer
378
00:52:59,247 --> 00:53:04,844
The idea was to send them to America
because we can't go everywhere
379
00:53:04,967 --> 00:53:09,483
We'll send these things out
to promote the record
380
00:53:09,607 --> 00:53:13,725
These days, everybody does that
381
00:53:13,847 --> 00:53:17,442
It's just part of your promotion
for a single
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00:53:17,767 --> 00:53:21,157
so I suppose in a way
we invented MTV
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00:55:47,247 --> 00:55:50,239
That's the first record
with backwards music on it
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00:56:29,807 --> 00:56:34,244
Haneda Airport
Tokyo 30th June 1966
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00:57:02,967 --> 00:57:06,004
This is a thing we never
really talked about
386
00:57:06,127 --> 00:57:11,201
Everywhere we were going in those days,
it was a demonstration of something
387
00:57:11,327 --> 00:57:13,397
Riots were happening
388
00:57:16,087 --> 00:57:19,443
Plus people were demonstrating
because the Budokan
389
00:57:19,607 --> 00:57:23,805
was supposed to be a spiritual hall
reserved for martial arts
390
00:57:24,087 --> 00:57:28,877
Some Japanese say that your
performances will violate the Budokan
391
00:57:29,007 --> 00:57:32,761
which is devoted to traditional
Japanese martial arts
392
00:57:32,887 --> 00:57:35,879
and you set a bad example
to Japanese youth
393
00:57:36,007 --> 00:57:40,205
by leading them astray from traditional
Japanese values. What do you think?
394
00:57:40,327 --> 00:57:46,846
If a dancing troupe from Japan
goes to Britain
395
00:57:46,967 --> 00:57:51,404
nobody tries to say they're
violating traditional laws
396
00:57:51,527 --> 00:57:53,916
or that they are trying to spoil anything
397
00:57:54,047 --> 00:57:57,517
We're singing here because
we've been asked to
398
00:57:57,647 --> 00:58:00,445
I'd rather watch singing
than wrestling anyway
399
00:58:01,167 --> 00:58:04,125
We're not trying to violate anything
400
00:58:04,967 --> 00:58:07,959
and we're just as traditional anyway
401
00:58:09,167 --> 00:58:13,445
In any town we went to,
someone always had a grievance
402
00:58:13,807 --> 00:58:15,604
Something was wrong
403
00:58:15,927 --> 00:58:20,398
We were locked up in the hotel for a
long time with merchants coming round
404
00:58:20,527 --> 00:58:24,600
and showing us ivory and stuff like this
405
00:58:24,727 --> 00:58:29,562
People go to Tokyo and do shopping.
We couldn't get out of the hotel
406
00:58:29,687 --> 00:58:35,364
I once tried to get out but a policeman
ran after me. I did actually do it...
407
00:58:35,647 --> 00:58:40,926
Paul and maybe Ringo got out one day
and got in a taxi
408
00:58:41,247 --> 00:58:46,037
The police caught them
and made them go back to the hotel
409
00:58:46,647 --> 00:58:50,640
But John and I actually got out
410
00:58:50,767 --> 00:58:55,761
We made it down to the local market
and it was great
411
00:58:55,887 --> 00:58:59,197
We were looking at things
and buying things
412
00:58:59,327 --> 00:59:03,445
Then the police came and got us
and said "Naughty boys!"
413
00:59:03,927 --> 00:59:07,761
We were only allowed out
at the time for the concert
414
00:59:07,927 --> 00:59:11,681
when it was worked out
like a military manoeuvre
415
00:59:12,647 --> 00:59:16,356
"At 5.30 precisely
we will knock on your door"
416
00:59:17,047 --> 00:59:21,996
Exactly as scheduled. Then they said
"You will line up outside the room"
417
00:59:22,367 --> 00:59:25,086
"At 5.32 we will leave the door"
418
00:59:25,807 --> 00:59:27,798
"We will now walk to the lift"
419
00:59:28,207 --> 00:59:30,596
"At 5.33 we will be at the elevator"
420
00:59:31,087 --> 00:59:34,796
"The elevator takes one minute
and eight to get down"
421
00:59:35,047 --> 00:59:37,686
"At 5.35 we'll be down in the car park"
422
00:59:37,807 --> 00:59:41,482
Then they said "You will get
in car with Mr Evans"
423
00:59:41,607 --> 00:59:43,677
Then they had the seating
arranged in all the cars
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00:59:43,807 --> 00:59:46,799
Amazing efficiency we'd never seen
the like of in Britain
425
00:59:47,967 --> 00:59:52,757
Just to be... how we were
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00:59:53,167 --> 00:59:56,398
They'd knock on the door
and we'd never come out
427
00:59:56,527 --> 00:59:58,916
It would just totally wreck their timing
428
00:59:59,047 --> 01:00:01,436
You'd see all these guys
going absolutely barmy
429
01:00:01,567 --> 01:00:07,039
because we hadn't walked down
the corridor at 7.14 and a third
430
01:00:07,167 --> 01:00:09,203
We knew we were doing that to them
431
01:00:09,527 --> 01:00:13,725
As we went to the gig,
they had the fans organised
432
01:00:13,887 --> 01:00:17,323
with police patrols on each corner
433
01:00:17,727 --> 01:00:20,958
so there weren't fans haphazardly
waving along the streets
434
01:00:21,087 --> 01:00:26,605
They'd been herded on to corners
and were allowed to wave from there
435
01:00:26,727 --> 01:00:30,242
So you'd go along the street and
there would be a little 'eeekk'
436
01:00:30,367 --> 01:00:33,359
You would go a few more
hundred yards and 'eeekk'
437
01:00:33,647 --> 01:00:36,445
It was very strange.
The audience were very nice
438
01:00:36,567 --> 01:00:41,595
They're reserved but they were up
on their feet, or they tried to be
439
01:00:41,727 --> 01:00:47,404
but the police had telephoto lenses
all around and anybody who stood up
440
01:00:47,527 --> 01:00:51,679
and looked like they might run towards
the stage or something
441
01:00:51,807 --> 01:00:54,879
had their photograph taken
442
01:00:55,007 --> 01:01:00,365
So the people were very restricted
in how they could respond to us
443
01:01:00,487 --> 01:01:03,479
But it was a warm reception
444
01:01:03,607 --> 01:01:07,839
It was very nice but a bit clinical
445
01:01:12,167 --> 01:01:16,285
Nippon Budokan Hall
446
01:01:23,847 --> 01:01:28,921
Ladies and gentlemen,
let's welcome the Beatles!
447
01:03:34,527 --> 01:03:39,396
The close harmonies on things
like Paperback Writerand Nowhere Man
448
01:03:39,527 --> 01:03:43,520
were very hard to do on stage
because it was just empty
449
01:03:43,647 --> 01:03:47,003
There were no guitar notes
to take it from
450
01:03:47,127 --> 01:03:51,723
We had an eight-track by then,
that was the problem
451
01:03:51,847 --> 01:03:54,839
So we had the luxury
of double tracking
452
01:03:54,967 --> 01:03:58,801
Also, we were competing with the
Beach Boys' Pet Sounds and all that
453
01:03:58,927 --> 01:04:01,646
I think it was around that time
454
01:04:03,807 --> 01:04:07,800
All the voices were really
like double tracked...
455
01:04:12,527 --> 01:04:16,122
There was no way
of doing it on stage really
456
01:04:17,607 --> 01:04:22,203
Evening Performance
30th June 1966
457
01:05:10,167 --> 01:05:13,284
You'd get to the point
where it was particularly bad
458
01:05:13,407 --> 01:05:16,399
Then we'd do our Elvis legs
and wave to the crowd
459
01:05:16,527 --> 01:05:19,803
and they'd all scream
and it would cover it up
460
01:05:19,927 --> 01:05:22,919
I think Paul already
said that the screaming
461
01:05:23,047 --> 01:05:27,245
covered a lot of worrying moments
462
01:05:27,567 --> 01:05:30,718
The screams did cover a lot of of sins...
463
01:05:30,847 --> 01:05:34,726
and those shows, it wasn't there
464
01:05:34,847 --> 01:05:40,205
The second show was pretty good,
but the first one was a bit of a shock
465
01:05:40,727 --> 01:05:43,878
You mean we actually played better
in the thirty minutes we had?
466
01:05:44,327 --> 01:05:46,602
Yeah, I guess so
467
01:05:46,767 --> 01:05:48,280
Well, that's probably true
468
01:05:54,767 --> 01:05:59,397
Afternoon Performance
1st July 1966
469
01:07:53,167 --> 01:07:57,080
I think it just started to hit everybody.
I remember we had one meeting...
470
01:07:57,207 --> 01:08:01,803
We were mainly talking about
the musicianship going downhill
471
01:08:01,927 --> 01:08:04,919
Never mind the boredom of doing it
472
01:08:05,047 --> 01:08:10,679
There was always so much pressure,
from the minute you opened your eyes
473
01:08:10,807 --> 01:08:13,879
People trying to get at you
for whatever reason
474
01:08:14,007 --> 01:08:18,922
To be friends or to get an interview
or to do a radio
475
01:08:19,047 --> 01:08:21,880
The pressure was on
from the minute you started
476
01:08:49,167 --> 01:08:53,126
The Philippines was almost like
a mistake from the very beginning
477
01:08:53,367 --> 01:08:58,885
As soon as we got there,
it was bad, bad news
478
01:08:59,447 --> 01:09:01,324
I hated the Philippines
479
01:09:01,607 --> 01:09:06,158
It was one of those places where
you knew they were waiting for a fight
480
01:09:06,287 --> 01:09:10,439
They were pushing you and, if you'd
done anything, they would have...
481
01:11:16,087 --> 01:11:18,681
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482
01:11:19,681 --> 01:11:29,681
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