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Suddenly one day, Neil or somebody
said "Ringo's gone on holiday"

I felt two things.
I felt I wasn't playing great

and the other three were really happy
and I was an outsider

So I decided, fuck it, I'm leaving

I went to see John, who was living in
my apartment in Montagu Square

I knocked on the door and said "Hi"

"I'm leaving the group because
I feel unloved and out of it

"I'm not playing well
and you three are really close"

And he said "I thought it was you three"

Then I went over to Paul's, knocked
on his door and said the same thing:

"I'm leaving the band. You three guys
are really close and I'm out of it"

And he said
"I thought it was you three"

So we had to reassure him
that we did think he was great

You know, that's what it's like in life

You never stop and say
"Hey, I think you're great"

I don't think we'd ever done
any of that with Ringo

and he felt insecure,
so we had to-and he left

So we had to say
"You're great, man, you're the best"

Then he said "Oh, thank you."
I think he was pleased to hear that

I knew we were just
in a messed up stage, all of us

It wasn't just me,
the whole thing was going down

I came back into the studio and George
had had it decked out with flowers

Flowers everywhere and John
had sent me telegrams saying:

"You're the best rock drummer,
come on home!"

I felt good about myself again
and we'd got through that little crisis

It was great, and then
the White Album really took off

Like Yer Blues was great

We all left the studio and went to a
little room, so there's no separation

There was lots of group activity
going down. I loved the White Album

There was a lot more individual stuff

For the first time I think people were
accepting that it was individual

I remember having three studios
operating at the same time

Paul was doing some overdubs in one,
John was doing something in another

I was doing horns on something else
in another studio

because maybe they'd set a release
date and time was running out

Hey, I'm getting cramp

If we do that again...
are we ready, we'll sing the song

I wanna hear that... I wanna hear that

OK, Robert?
- Take 29

Reach for this one.
Were any of them any good?

I'll just be singing to guide you...

Can you turn it down in my cans a bit?

The last mistake was entirely when I
just took my mind off it for a second

A lot of the recordings would have a
basic idea, then a jam session to end it

which sometimes
didn't sound too good

But this is a fairly small criticism

When they did the White Album

George Martin
Record Producer
I thought we should have made a very
good single album rather than a double

I agree, we should have put it out
as two separate albums

the White and the Whiter album

A lot of information
on a double album

What do you do when
you've got all them songs?

You want to get rid of them
so you can do more songs

There was a lot of ego in that band

and a lot of songs should have been
elbowed or made into B sides

I think it could have been made
a fantastically good album

if it had been condensed a bit

But a lot of people think it's still
the best album they made

It's not my view but...
horses for courses

You can always say that, you know.
'Perhaps' I'll go with, not 'definitely'

I think it's fine. The fact that it's got so
much is one of the things that's cool

It's varied stuff,
Rocky Raccoon, Piggies...

Happiness is a Warm Gun,
that kind of stuff

I think it's a fine album

I'm not a great one for
'maybe it was too many of that... '

It was great, it sold, it's the bloody
Beatles' White Album, shut up!

There was a little trauma
with a song called Revolution

I thought it was 'au courant'
as they say

It was about what was going on at
the time and I wanted it to be a single

I said "Put this out. We should say
something and this is what I want to say"

And they said "No, it's too slow"

Neil Aspinall
Head of Apple
The Apple boutique closed down

I think we just got to the point where
we didn't want it any more

We ended up selling
Marks and Spencer underwear

Not the image we started with of Simon
and Marijke, all these colourful clothes

Great sixties hippy gear

Then to make it pay
we ended up selling...

St Michael underwear...
and it wasn't the image we wanted

Apple Shop Giveaway
London 31st July 1968
We came up with the idea
to give it all away

and stop fucking about with
psychedelic clothes shops

We just gave it to the people
who showed up on the day

You could have one item each,
not take two, in the spirit of the thing

Well, they cleaned out the shop

Only one free dress
for each customer

But I think personally
it was a good way to do it

We weren't seriously in the rag trade.
It was "Look, it didn't work, so..."

"That's it!"

We went round the night before
we gave everything away

and took what we felt we wanted

I didn't go

Derek Taylor
Apple Press Officer
I saw a half-acquaintance outside Apple
and said "Where are you going?"

He said "I'm going to join the queue
to get some of those clothes"

I thought that was awful

I didn't want them to close the shop
and wrote an impassioned open letter:

"Dear boys, you know, if you do this..."
and a lot of other hoo-ha

because I dreaded to see
the thing falling apart

Frost On Sunday
8th September 1968

Beautiful... absolute poetry

Welcome back to Part III with the
greatest tea-room orchestra in the world

Are you in colour?
- No, black and white at the moment

But as you can see, making their first
audience appearance for over a year

Ladies and gentlemen, the Beatles!

I was driving out to John's house after
John and Cynthia had got divorced

I was just going out to say hello
to Cynthia and Julian

I came up with these words in my mind
as if talking to Julian...

Hey Jules, don't take it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better

So I got the first idea
on the way out there

with this 'Hey Jules' as I thought
it was going to be called

It seemed a bit of a mouthful
so I changed it to Jude

I liked the song a lot and I played it
to John and Yoko when I'd finished it

I actually had finished but I thought
there was a little more to go

with the words: The movement
you need is on your shoulder

I'm playing it and I say to John
"I'll fix that" - He said "What?"

I said "The movement you need
is on your shoulder...

"I've used the word 'shoulder' once
and anyway it's stupid, I'll change it"

He said "You won't,
that's the best line in the song"

He said "I know what it means.
It's great"

The great thing about John. I'd have
knocked it out, he'd say it's great

I'd see it through his eyes
and go "Oh, OK"

So that is the line now,
when I do that song

That's the line when I think of John
and sometimes get a little emotional

This was the period when everything
was going up and up and rosy

Then suddenly it started to go down
like everything goes in a cycle

Once it starts going down,
as anybody can tell you...

when you get knocked to the ground,
they start kicking you

The world was a problem
but we weren't

That was the best thing
about the Beatles

Until we started to break up
like White Album and stuff

then even the studio
got a bit tense

It was evident on the White Album

I think it was evident in India

when George and I stayed there and Paul
and Ringo left and it was a slow death

It was like the wind-down
to a divorce

A divorce usually doesn't just happen,
there's months and years of misery

They were going through a very
revolutionary period at that time

They were trying to think
of something new

They actually had a good idea which
I thought was well worth working on

They wanted to write an album
completely and rehearse it

then perform it in front of a large
audience, a live album of new material

We started rehearsing at Twickenham
Film Studio and I went with them

Twickenham Film Studios
London
I'm not sure whether everybody was
behind the idea of going to Twickenham

They decided to film whatever
they were doing

and they were going to start
making a new album

The original idea was
that you'd see the Beatles

rehearsing, jamming, making up stuff

getting their act together and then
finally we'd perform somewhere

as the big end of show concert

Michael Lindsay-Hogg
was going to direct it

This should be built
like a film set

so you can glide all over the place
on tracks with your cameras

Go places that TV cameras don't go

You can come down from that roof
on one long shot, down on a thing

Slowly like a chair-lift

Right down into Ringo's face
on the one shot from right back there

Have all sorts of cranes and lifts
for your cameras to float around us

Just all that flowing movement
and then the songs

Just stay with us and that will create your
sets, with cameras hanging all over

I thought, it's a new year
and we've got a new approach

but it soon became apparent
that it wasn't anything new

It was just going
to be painful again

The days were long
and they could get boring

Twickenham wasn't conducive to a great
atmosphere. We were just in a big barn

I'd just spent six months
producing a Jackie Lomax album

and hanging out with Bob Dylan and The
Band in Woodstock, having a great time

For me to come back
into the winter of discontent

with the Beatles in Twickenham

it was very unhealthy and unhappy

It was just a dreadful feeling,
and being filmed all the time like that

I just wanted them to go away... and
we'd be there at 8.00 in the morning

You couldn't make music at 8.00
in the morning in a strange place

with people filming you
and coloured lights

As everybody knows,
we never had much privacy

They were filming us rehearsing

There was a bit of a row going on
between Paul and I

You can see it where he's saying
"Well, don't play this", or something

I'm saying "You know I'll play what you
want, or I won't play if you don't want

"Just make up your mind."
That kind of stuff was going on

They were filming and recording us
having a row. It was terrible

But it's complicated in the bit...
- It's not complicated

I'll play the chords if you like

I'm trying to help you,
but I always hear myself annoying you

OK, look, look,
I'm not trying to say that

You're doing this as though
I'm trying to say...

And what we said the other day,
you know, I'm not trying to get you

I really am trying to just say...
Iook, lads, the band...

Shall we try it like this?

It's funny how it only occurs...

It's like, should we play guitar
all the way through Hey Jude...

I don't mind, I'll play whatever
you want me to play

or I won't play at all
if you don't want me to play

What it is that pleases you, I'll do it

I thought, I'm quite capable of being
relatively happy on my own

I'm not able to be happy in this situation,
I'm getting out of here

The whole pressure of it
finally got to us

So like people do when they're together,
they start picking on each other

It was "You got the tambourine wrong
so my life's a misery." It became petty

But the manifestations were on each
other as we were the only ones we had

It was wait a minute, George has
left and this isn't good enough

I'm not sure what happened. Maybe Neil
or one of the people looking after us

would probably ring George and say
"They're sorry, it was a mistake"

I remember being called
to a meeting in Elstead in Surrey

It was Ringo's house that he'd
bought from Peter Sellers

It was decided it would be better

if we got back together
and finished the record

Also, Twickenham Studio was very cold
and not a nice atmosphere

so we abandoned that and went to
the Savile Row recording studio

In the end we recorded in the
Apple studios in Savile Row

There was a guy called Magic Alex,
who was a great friend of John's

John thought he was the bee's knees
because he gave John electronic toys

He said EMI was no good and he could
build a better studio. Well, he didn't

Hello. I'm Alexis from
Apple Electronics

I would like to say hello to all
my brothers around the world

and to all the girls and all the
electronic people around the world

And that is Apple Electronics

When we finally got him
to do a recording studio...

We had a 16-track studio and we
walked in there, it was chaos

We had to rip it all out
and start again

He had 16 little speakers
all around the room

There wasn't anything he did-except
a toilet with a radio in it or something

So we just took the same portable
equipment in there

But the studio itself,
the actual room to play in there

was much cosier
and much more at home

Apple Recording Studio
Savile Row London

I think everyone was getting
a little tired of us by then

because we were taking a long time

and there were many
heated discussions

Billy Preston was a great help,
a very good keyboard guy

His work on Get Back alone
justified him being there

He was an amiable fellow, very nice

He was a kind of emollient, if you like

He helped to lubricate
the friction that had been there

It's interesting to see how people
behave nicely when you bring a guest in

They don't want everybody
to know they're so bitchy

This happened back
in the White Album

when I brought Eric Clapton in to play
on While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Suddenly everybody's
on their best behaviour

So I put a message out
to find if Billy was in town

and told him to come into Savile Row,
which he did

Straight away there was 100o/o
improvement in the vibe in the room

Everybody was happier also to have
somebody else playing in the band

Every number's got a piano part

Normally we overdub it...
but this time we want to do it live

We were working on a good track
and that always excited us

His part was also part of it

Suddenly, when we were working
on something good

the bullshit went out of the window

We got back down to doing
what we did really, really well

I think it works OK
with just the two verses...

Sweet Loretta Martin, the first verse
- Just have two for now

I'll sing it and shout where I think it
should go. If you disagree, I'll change it

Maybe if we had an intro,
a verse and a chorus...

To me the Beatles were always
a great little band

Nothing more, nothing less,
for all our success

When we sat down to play, we played
good from the very beginning

From when we first got Ringo
into the band, and before

But when we first got Ringo, the band
really gelled. We played good!

We've never had too many of those
times where it's just not working

We had them like any other band
but for a great little rock'n'roll band -

we could play any little blues or
rock'n'roll thing-and it seemed to work

The original idea to rehearse
all these new songs

and then make an album in a live show
never really happened

because the album became
us in the studio

As we rehearsed the songs,
they were recorded

They were talking about doing
a concert on a boat

or in an amphitheatre in Greece

or maybe at the Roundhouse
in London

There were lots of ideas about where
they should maybe do a concert

and nothing was ever really agreed

What do we want to do?
- I'll tell you what

We're still rehearsing
and we'll get it together

So then you must collect...

We'll all collect our thoughts
on what we want

You still expect us to be on the chimney
with a lot of people or something like that

Or even a stage at the Saville
or anything

We won't worry about that
so don't give us that one

'Expecting' is not a word we use
any more... 'thinking about'

'Praying'

What about the move tomorrow,
do you want to...

No, let's decide on that a bit later,
let's keep off that

We're getting into too diverse...
we'll do the numbers, we're the band

Whatever, I'll do it...
if we've got to go on the roof

But I mean... I don't want to go

I would like to

I'd like to go on the roof
- It diverts people

That's all right.
Anyway, we won't discuss it

I want to record them as tracks
and I want to do 14 numbers

Any time is paradise
when I'm with you

That was looking for
an end to the film

and it was "How are we going to finish,
there's not going to be a big concert"

By then it was looking like... can we
do this, finish in two weeks' time?

Then it was suggested
that we go up on the roof

and do a concert there,
then we could all go home

30th January 1969

And in the end it started to filter up
from our roadie, Mal

who crept in, trying to keep out
of the camera:

"Police are complaining. You've got to
stop." We said "We're not stopping"

He said "The police are
going to arrest you"

"Good end to the film.
Let 'em do it. Great!"

We thought that's an end:
"Beatles busted on rooftop gig"

The thing on the roof that always
I feel let down about were the police

Someone called the police and I was
playing away and I thought, oh great!

I wanted the cops to drag me off -
"Get off those drums!"

We were being filmed and it would
have been really great

Well, they didn't. They just bumbled in:
"You've got to turn that sound down"

It could have been fabulous

By the time we got to Let It Be
we couldn't play the game any more

It had come to the point where it
was no longer creating magic

and the camera in the room with us made
us aware that it was phoney situation

In fact what happened was
when we got in there

we showed how the break-up
of a group works

We didn't realise we were actually
breaking up as it was happening

Just the same as it was before

The year before when
we were last in the studio

There was a lot of... kind of trivia

and games that were being played

I think it shows as an absolute fact
that we were going different places

I've mentioned it before, the energy
for the Beatles was waning

We put in 1000o/o
but it was dwindling now

"Oh dear, do we have to turn up?"
"Do we have to do that thing again!"

"I want to do this
and John wants to do that"

And George was off and people
were... you know, we had families

I remember thinking
of it like army buddies

One of the songs we used to love
in the past was Wedding Bells

Those wedding bells are breaking
up that old gang of mine...

and this idea that you'd been
army buddies but one day...

you kiss the army goodbye and get
married and act like normal people

It was like that for the Beatles,
we always knew that day had to come

London, weepy time down south

The last bachelor Beatle
was no longer a bachelor

12th March 1969
Paul McCartney married
New Yorker Linda Eastman

at Marylebone Registrar's office

Paul's new step-daughter Heather

was one of the shrieking,
sobbing, devoted fans

who surged round the newly-weds
as they made for their car

London bobbies and photographers
tangled with tear-stained teenagers

bidding farewell to the bachelordom of
the Beatle who resisted marriage so long

At last the new threesome
found sanctuary in their car

But clearly Paul's plan for a quiet
wedding had gone drastically wrong

Exit the McCartneys,
a very popular group

And they chose Paul's
wedding day to bust me

George was in my office

Pattie rang, saying that Sgt Pilcher,
if that was his name...

was swarming all over
the house in Esher

George said to me "What should I do?
What should I tell Pattie?"

I said just tell them where the stuff is
because they'll find it anyway

Save yourself a lot of hassle

He said he had a bit of grass and maybe
some hash in a box on the mantelpiece

So he rang Pattie and told her
to tell them where it was

By which time they had found
a chunk this big

in a boot in his wardrobe

Sgt Pilcher was gaining great
notoriety by busting pop stars

such as George, Mick, Keith and John -
always was the same cop

Nobody realised,
nobody put two and two together

There was a kind of
social pecking order

that was in the pop world

The drug squad decided
to go round

and this fellow thought
he was Oliver Cromwell

He decided to go round
and clean up what was going on

They busted Donovan first

Anybody who was in England
at that time will remember

Then they bust the Rolling Stones
and they worked their way up

They they busted
John and Yoko and me

Sgt Pilcher's successful career
with the drug squad was short-lived

He was later sent
to prison for perjury

Sentencing Pilcher to 4 years in prison,
Mr Justice Melford Stevenson said:

But now my life has changed
in oh so many ways

We wanted to get married
on the cross-Channel ferry

That was the romantic part -
when we went to Southampton

She couldn't get on because she wasn't
English and couldn't get a day visa

Anyway you can't get married. The
Captain's not allowed to do it any more

We called Peter Brown from Paris. "We
want to get married, where can we go?"

He said "Gibraltar's the only place"

So "OK, let's go"
and it was beautiful

When John hooked up with Yoko
so intensely

it was obvious there could be
no looking back after that

I always felt he had to clear the decks
of us in order to give her enough attention

It takes a lot to live with four people
for years and years, which is what we did

We'd call each other every name
under the sun

We'd got to blows, we'd been
through the whole damn show

We knew where we were at,
we still do

We've been through the mill together
for more than ten years

We've been through our therapy
together many times, you know

On a lot of days, even with all the
craziness, it really worked still

Instead of working every day,
it worked two days a month

There were still good days

We were still really close friends

then it would split off again
into some madness

It was quite obvious
that the Beatles became...

The thing that it started out being...

gave us a vehicle
to be able to do so much

when we were younger,
and we grew right through that

But it got to a point where it was stifling
us, there was too much restriction

It had to self-destruct

It's easy for people to say about Apple
and the Beatles "Why didn't you...?"

You sit there with millions of dollars
and try and work it out

It's so easy afterwards
to say "Why didn't you?"

With Apple we were great creators
and we could do all of that

but nobody had half an idea
about a budget

So we were spending more
than we were earning

There was nobody managing Apple

It was wasting away all this money

Nobody had any ability
to be a business manager

So it was a question
of who was going to do it

I was doing it but only
on the basis

that I'll do it until you find somebody
you want to do it. Because I didn't

That's why somebody like Allen Klein

had the opportunity to say he could do
it, but so did a lot of other people

Klein had been managing
the Rolling Stones...

and I believe Donovan...
and John had met him

He came in one day and said:

"I'm going to get Klein to manage me,
and that's what's happening"

And Allen was... a human being

the same as Brian was a human being

It was the same thing with Brian
in the early days, it was assessment

I make a lot of mistakes character-wise
but now and then I make a good one

The alternative to Klein
was possibly Lee Eastman

but I'm not at all sure

that Paul wanted Lee Eastman
to be a manager

in the sense that Brian Epstein
had been a manager

or Allen Klein to be a manager like
Brian Epstein had been a manager

I put forward Lee Eastman,
Linda's dad

as a possible sort of lawyer
and possibly someone to do it

But they said no, he would be too
biased for you and against us

Oh yeah, we had great
arguments with Paul

We felt the three of us have gone
this way, why don't you?

So there it was, and it was
a three-to-one situation

In the Beatles, if any one
doesn't agree with the plan

it was always vetoed,
it was very democratic that way

So the three-to-one thing
was very awkward

Things would happen like...

at Olympic Studio one evening we were
supposed to be doing Abbey Road

and we all showed up at the studio
ready to record

and Allen Klein showed up as part of
the party with his henchman

They said "You've got to sign a contract
for Klein to take to his Board"

I said "It's Friday night,
he doesn't work on a Saturday

"Anyway, Allen Klein's a law unto
himself, he doesn't have to report

"We can easily do this on Monday.
Let's do our session now

"You're not going to push me into this."
They said "You're stalling"

They said "He wants 20o/o"

I said "Tell him he can have 15o/o."
They said "You're stalling"

I said "No, I'm working for us.
We're a big act"

My exact words: "We're a big act,
the Beatles. He'll take 15o/o"

I think they were so intoxicated
with him that they said:

"He must have 20o/o and he's got
to report to his Board tomorrow

"Sign now or never"

I said "Right, that's it.
I'm not signing now"

There was a big argument and they
all went, leaving me at the studio

What changed at Apple after
he arrived? Everything!

It was a completely different situation

First and foremost, Paul wasn't there

Let It Be was such an unhappy record,
even though it has some great songs

and I really thought
that was the end of the Beatles

I thought, what a shame
to go out like this

But Paul rang. "We're making another
record, would you produce it?"

My immediate answer was "Only if you
let me produce it the way we used to"

"We want to do that." "John included?"
He said "Yes, honestly"

So I said "If you really want that,
let's get together again"

And it was a very happy record -
everybody knew it was to be the last

I think the deal was that
through Let It Be

I left and we got back just
to finish it, to make it tidy

Then everybody decided we ought
to do one better album

I think it shows on the record

that when we were excited
the track's exciting

It really all comes together

It doesn't matter what we're going
through individually on the bullshit level

When it gets to the music

you can see that it's really cool,
we'd all put in 1000o/o

Nobody was sure it was going to be
the last one, but everybody felt it was

The Beatles had gone through so much,
and it was a long time

They'd been incarcerated together
for nearly a decade

It was a very happy album.
Everybody worked frightfully well

And that's why I'm very fond of it

There was always a possibility
that we could have carried on

We weren't sitting in the studio
saying "OK, this is it

"Last record, last track, last take"

But when we'd finished Abbey Road
the game was up, we all accepted that

It was magical

There were some really loving,
caring moments between four people

A hotel room here and there

A really amazing closeness, just...

four guys who really loved each other.
It was pretty sensational

They gave their money
and they gave their screams

but the Beatles
gave their nervous systems

which is a much more difficult
thing to give

I'm really glad that most
of the songs

dealt with love, peace,
understanding

Hardly any said "Go on kids, tell
them to sod off, leave your parents"

It's all very "all you need is love"
or John's "give peace a chance"

There was a very good
spirit behind it all

It's just natural.
It's not a great disaster

People talk as if it's the end of the earth.
It's only a rock group that split up

You have all the old records there
if you want to reminisce

22nd August 1969

That's what they ask you. On tours
round the world and press conferences:

"Getting the Beatles back together?"
You say "What are you talking about?"

They say "How about Julian?" I feel
sorry for him in the middle of all that

Or Sean or somebody

Well, let me ask you this way:
"Are you getting back together?" No!

And yet with Free as a Bird
we somehow did, yeah

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