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I hated the Philippines

As soon as we got there, it was bad, bad news

It was one of those places where you knew they were waiting for a fight

It was a very negative vibe the moment we got off the plane

So we were a bit frightened

We got in this car, not even with Neil

The guy just drove off with us four. Our bags were on the runway

Neil Aspinall Tour Manager Those little briefcases had the marijuana in them

so I had to...

While the confusion was going on

I put them in the boot of the limo I was going to be in

I just said "Take me to where you've taken the Beatles"

I thought, God, this is it, we're going to get busted

They took us away and drove us to Manila harbour and put us on a boat

and took us out to this yacht anchored in the harbour

I never really understood why they got put on this boat

I just remember Brian Epstein really flustered

He must have been with, maybe...

the Philippine promoter, agent or somebody

He was yelling and shouting and he appeared on the scene

They were all yelling and then they took us back off the boat

and drove us in the car to a hotel suite

Then we did a concert which again had a big problem

because Brian Epstein had made a contract for a stadium

Rizal Memorial Football Stadium Manila 4th July 1966 or a situation for I don't know how many thousands of people

Maybe 2000-5000 people, something like that

When we got there, it was like the Monterey Pop Festival

Just millions - 200000 people on that site

We did the show and I didn't know personally...

that Madame Marcos had invited us to dinner

Normally we only get invited by silly Ambassadors wanting to see us

So somebody set it up and we didn't know about it

"It is indeed a great honour, but it's our day off so we can't go"

We were very firm. We don't get many days off to stuff in a royal reception

John and I were sharing a room after the gig and in the morning...

we phoned for breakfast and newspapers as we like to read about ourselves

Can we have egg and bacon and all the newspapers?

Yes

We were just in our beds, chatting

doing whatever we were doing

Time went by so we called again "Excuse me, can we have our breakfast?"

Still nothing happened so we put the TV on

There was this horrific TV show

of Madame Marcos screaming "They've let me down"

All these shots of the cameramen... tip the camera on to empty plates

and up to the faces of little kids crying because the Beatles hadn't come

And the TV commentator saying "And they're still not here yet"

"The Beatles are supposed to be here"

We were amazed, couldn't believe it

We just watched ourselves not arriving at the Presidential Palace

I don't recall much of what happened until the newspapers arrived

and the TV news, it was: "Beatles snub First Family"

Then things started to get really weird

Come on, get out of bed, get packed, we're getting out of here

As we started to get to the car, we really had no help

We got downstairs and there was one motor bike

After this huge motorcade had brought us in, there was just one guy

At the airport there's chanting, people hating us, all the way

We were put into the transit lounge

Then we got pushed from one corner to another

"You treated like ordinary pasenger!"

They were saying "Ordinary passenger!" He doesn't get kicked, does he?

They started knocking over our road managers

That worried you? - Yeah, I swear there were 30 of them

What do you say they were? - I saw five in sort of outfits

that were kicking and booing and shouting

Did you get kicked? - No, I moved when they touched me

I was petrified. I could have been kicked and not known it

There's the famous story of John and I hiding behind these nuns

We thought, it's a Catholic country, they won't beat up nuns

We got on the British Airways plane, all kissing the seats

You know, this is a little piece of Britain

It was feeling you were in a foreign country and all the rules had changed

They did carry guns after all so you weren't too gung-ho

Then an announcement:

"Will Mr Epstein, Mr Evans and Mr Barrow..."

That was Tony Barrow, our press agent at the time

"...will they get off the plane"

And Mal, who was the nicest, gentlest person -

a big guy, but really sweet -

he went past me down the aisle of the plane, breaking out in tears

He said "Tell Lil I love her." That's his wife

Because he thought the plane would go and he'd be stuck in Manila

We sat there for what seemed a couple of hours

It was probably 30 minutes, maybe an hour

and they got back on the plane and it was allowed to leave

They took the money off Brian Epstein that we'd earned at the concert

And that was it, we got out of there and it was such a relief

but I felt such resentment for those people

It's probably the most frightening... I've never been back

We'll never go to any nut-houses again

But the nice thing about it was that in the end...

when we found out that it was Marcos and what he'd been doing to his people

and what lmelda had been doing

and the rip-off it all allegedly was

We were glad to have done it

We must have been the only people who ever dared to snub Marcos

Do any of you have plans to record on your own?

We do at home

In fact we have done. Eleanor Rigby was Paul on his own and...

We were just drinking tea

Brian Epstein New York 6th August 1966 I have prepared a statement which I will read

which has had John Lennon's absolute approval by telephone

This is as follows:

"The quote which John Lennon made to a London columnist three months ago

"has been quoted and represented entirely out of context"

George Martin Record Producer Early in 1966, John was interviewed in the Evening Standard

and he remarked that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ

Was it a mistake? In the short term, yeah. Maybe not in the long term

But he said "I don't know what's wrong with the church

"At the moment the Beatles are bigger than Jesus Christ"

Like they're not building Jesus enough. That was taken out of context in America

There was all this big palaver going on

Anyway, we got to America. I think we did a press conference

where John, under the pressure of the cameras and the Press...

You know, just the stress

of having to deal with this thing that he in effect had caused

If I'd said television is more popular, I might have got away with it

Chicago 11th August 1966 I was talking to a friend. I said Beatles as a remote thing, not what I think

but as the Beatles like other people see us

I just said they are having more influence on kids and things

than anything, including Jesus, but I said it in the wrong way

Some teenagers have repeated your statements, saying:

"I like the Beatles more than Jesus Christ." What about that?

Originally I pointed out that fact in reference to England

That we meant more to kids than Jesus did, or religion at that time

I wasn't knocking it but just saying it as a fact

And it's true, more for England than here

I'm not saying we're better or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person

or God as a thing, or whatever it is

I just said what I said and it was taken wrong, and now it's all this

The repercussions were big

Particularly what they call the Bible belt

Down the south there, they were having a field day

We've got footage of a disc jockey saying:

"Come and bring your Beatle trash and deposit it here"

"...to one of our 14 pickup points in Birmingham, Alabama..."

The photos showed middle-aged DJs and 12-year-olds burning LP covers

Millions of kids were burning their Beatle records

There were bonfires of them, which was OK 'cos then they re-bought them

The Beatles said in the newspapers that they're getting better than Jesus

The Ku-Klux-Klan, being a religious order,

will come out here the night that they appear here

We're going to demonstrate with different ways and tactics

to stop this performance

The Klan is going to come out here and make a stop to these accusations

This is nothing but blasphemy and we'll stop it any terror way we can

We're known as a terror organisation... - Terror organisation?

We have ways and means to stop this - What ways and means?

There will be a lot of surprises when they get here

My image as anti-Christ or anti-religious was wrong. I'm a most religious fella

Well, it looks like the bloom is off the Beatles

Last year, not an empty seat in Shea stadium - this year, thousands

Perhaps 15000 or 20000 empty seats in an arena that holds 56000

Oh dear, what a failure, we only sold 50000?

Miserable... we were dying on our feet there!

Yeah, there was big news about that, you know

They've only sold 50000 seats!

"It's all over for the Beatles" says Roger Whittaker of the Dallas Times

OK - I don't ever remember going there twice

Are you a Beatles fan, or are you here because it's the right thing to do?

I love the Beatles

I bet there's a group you prefer now - No group's better than the Beatles

Aren't they on their way out? - No, they're still strong

Are the Beatles out of style? - They'll never go out of style

Which group is better than the Beatles? - The Beatles, I love them

Don't you think this craze is silly and strictly for girls?

No, they are very talented musicians and songwriters, excellent showmen

You like them? - Yeah

How long do you think they'll last? - As long as they keep playing

You know the Beatles bring joy into the world

We forget our cares when we hear Beatle records. They're fun

How long do you think the Beatles can last?

I wish they'd last for ever, they could bring happiness to everybody

They're less popular than they were months ago

Is there another group you like better? - There is

Which one? - Herman and the Hermits

It doesn't matter if people don't like our records, our looks or what we say

They're entitled to not like us

and we're entitled not to have anything to do with them

We've all got our rights, you know... Harold

There was this other thing of this woman...

A famous psychic she was supposed to be

She'd predicted Kennedy's assassination and other things

She was saying in the papers the Beatles would die in a plane crash

All this time, they were getting death threats

It wasn't long since President Kennedy had been assassinated

I remember going to one of their concerts at the Red Rock Stadium

I climbed up on a gantry overlooking the stage with Brian

and looked down at the boys during the performance

The amphitheatre at Red Rocks is such that a sniper on the hill

could pick off any of those fellows at any time, no problem

I was very aware of this. So was Brian, and so were the boys

How much of a good thing can you have? How long can you sustain things?

Every tour we'd done had just gone great

But we were getting fed up because we'd been at it so long

It gets gruelling, one Holiday Inn after another

Just the general Beatlemania, you know... it took its toll

We were seeing it then no longer as like...

a naive kind of... just on the buzz of our fame and success

By this time, the dental experience

had made us see it from a different light

It was no longer fun any more

I don't think anyone didn't want to stop touring

Paul would have gone on longer than George and I

But you'll have to ask Paul about that

"Touring's good, it keeps us sharp"

"I'd keep music live." I'd been sort of a bit that attitude

But finally I agreed with them

I think it was George and John who were particularly fed up

We might have been waxworks for the good we did there

Nobody heard anything, not even a basic beat

because they were too busy tearing each other up

We were just tired, you know

It had been four years of legging around screaming in this mania

We were tired, we needed the rest

By the time we got to Candlestick Park, we knew it wasn't fun any more

I think that was the main point

We'd always try to keep... you've got to keep some fun in it for yourself

In anything you do, you know

We'd been pretty good at that. We'd enjoyed touring and TV

We'd enjoyed Europe, we'd enjoyed America

Candlestick Park San Francisco 29th August 1966 But now, even America was beginning to pale

So by then it was: Don't tell anyone, but this is probably our last gig

There was big talk at Candlestick Park

That very period of "This has got to end. This is it"

But my... we went further than that

We got back to England before we finally said "That's it"

I certainly felt that we weren't going to tour again like that

I never really projected into the future

I was thinking this is going to be such a relief

to not have to go through that madness

I don't remember feeling negative about the band, but about touring

But you always forget the bad bits. I remember the band as being quite good

I'm sorry for the people who can't see us live

Sometimes you haven't missed anything because you wouldn't have heard us

but sometimes I think you might have enjoyed it

The Beatles were then just four lads on that rather dimly lit stage

We were getting worse as a band while all those people were screaming

It was lovely that they liked us but we couldn't hear to play

The only place we could develop was in the studio, where we could hear ourselves

The most important thing was the safety aspect

Soon after that, it became terrorism

When we were going, it was only us and two people

All those things happened, like people threatening Ringo

or saying the plane was... - Snipping bits of hair off and stuff

The plane would crash, hurricanes, race riots, student riots

There was always some big thing going on when we pulled into town

We'd come in the middle with this mania and it would be chaos

It was just becoming too difficult on the nervous system

When we'd all decided it was "What are we going to do? Announce it?"

We said no, just don't say anything

But I was too scared to walk away. I was thinking it was the end

I was dead nervous, so I said yes to Dick Lester that I'd make a movie

I went to Spain for six weeks because I didn't know what to do

What do you do when you don't tour? There's no life

Our officer calls me up and says "Musketeer Gripweed"

He was a tall chap, some would call him weedy. I did

Remember, we were some few hundred miles behind enemy lines

He said "Green, green, green." So I did

Some bastard's been prior, has he, Jock?

One bastard down the road stinks to high heaven

Are you a duration bloke? - You wouldn't chuck her, would you?

Well, pack it in then. I'm a regular. It's my sodding career, liberating, all right?

Ringo came to Spain, right

to Almeria when John and I were down there

Yeah, I went and hung out because he was lonely

We really supported each other a lot

He was out there being this actor

John was doing How I Won the War so I went to India for six weeks

It was a fantastic time

I would go out and look at temples and go shopping

I travelled all over, went to various places

and eventually went up to Kashmir

I stayed on a houseboat in the middle of the Himalayas

It was incredible. I'd wake up in the morning

A little Kashmiri fellow would bring us tea and biscuits

I could hear Ravi in the next room doing his practice

That was incredible times for me

George was doing the Indian stuff. I don't know what Paul was doing

To me, if you are blessed with the ability to write music...

film scores are kind of an interesting diversion

George Martin, being able to write and to orchestrate

got an offer through the Boulting Brothers

for him and me to do some film music for The Family Way

I looked at the film and thought it was a great film. I still do

A very powerful, emotional, soppy but good film for its time

We even got an lvor Novello award for the best film song that year

for Love in the Open Air

Can I have a word?

Are the Beatles going to go their own ways in 1967?

On our own or together, we're always involved with each other

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

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

You need other people for ideas and we all get along fine

Will you be doing films on your own next year?

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

Dick Lester asked me and I said yes

I wouldn't have done it if the others hadn't liked it, but they were on holiday

Do you foresee a time when the Beatles won't be together?

No, no

Have you got tired of each other?

No

Have you got anything lined up on your own, film parts for example?

There may be one if we don't do one together early next year

I'm sort of out of it - John and Paul can still write

even though we're not working together

And George can learn his sitar. I've just been sitting around

Getting bored? - No, getting fat!

Do you think that in the New Year you will be going your own ways?

No, no definitely not

Can I have a brief word? If you never toured again, would it worry you?

I don't know. No, I don't think so

But the only thing about that is, performance for us...

It's gone downhill because we can't develop when no one can hear us

so for us to perform, it gets more difficult each time

Do you mean they don't listen to you so you don't want to do that?

We want to do it, but if we're not listened to

and we can't even hear ourselves, we can't get any better

But in the studio we could do Strawberry Fields, Penny Lane and then Pepper

Were they the first ones out?

That was what happened once we got full-time into the studio

And saying at the time "Now our performance is that record"

That new record started with Strawberry Fields

That was going to be what became Pepper. But no one had heard of Pepperyet

But it was going to be a record made in the studio

with songs they had written which couldn't be performed live

They were designed to be studio productions and that was the difference

Strawberry Fields is John's song

He used to live next door to Strawberry Fields, a Salvation Army place for kids

He used to bunk over and it was his little magic garden to play in

When I visited him, he'd tell me about Strawberry Fields

Strawberry Fields I wrote when I was making How I Won the Warin Spain

It's a Salvation Army home

near the house I lived in with my aunty in the suburbs

Although I took the name as an image

We had this thing called the mellotron for the intro of Strawberry Fields

This is one. We had flutes, and this was the intro

Then the nice thing is that our stuff started to get a bit more surreal

Penny Lane was a bit surreal too, although a sort of cleaner thing

I remember saying to George Martin, a very clean recording

I was into clean sounds. Mainly Beach Boy kind of things at that point

But the Fireman with his hour-glass and all that

was us trying to get into a bit of art, of surrealism, all based on real things

There was a barber called Bioletti

I think he's still there, actually, in Penny Lane

He had the pictures all barbers have of the haircut you can have

only instead of saying "The barber with pictures of haircuts in his windows"

you'd change it round to...

Every head he's had the pleasure to know

A barber showing photographs like it's an exhibition

It was like twisting it to a slightly more artsy angle

Penny Lane is not only a street, it's a district

I lived in Penny Lane in a street called Newcastle Road

so I was the only actual person that lived in Penny Lane

Right now, we're going to say hello to John Lennon and Paul McCartney

Penny Lane having failed to make No. 1 in Britain, were you at all put out?

No, the main thing is it's fine to be kept from being number one

by a record like Release Me

because they're not both trying to do the same kind of thing

So that's a completely different scene altogether

But you have in the past been reported as saying

that if a record didn't go to No. 1 you'd think of packing it all in

It was a relief

Everything we did went straight to No. 1, so there was that pressure

I believe we had six or seven in a row

It was out, in, out, you know

So within the group it took the pressure off

You obviously don't have to write any more songs except you like doing it

But it's always been like that - that's the good thing

It has been a hobby and it still is

Can you tell us anything about the numbers you're now engaged on?

Paul had been on a train or plane journey with Mal Evans

He came up with the idea of Sgt Pepperand he was kind of...

To me, we were in the studio to make the next record

and he was going on about this idea of some fictitious band

Sgt Pepperis Paul after a trip to America

The whole West Coast long-named group thing was coming in

People are no longer the Beatles or the Crickets, but suddenly

'Fred and his Incredible Sheep Shrinking Grateful Aeroplanes'

There were many such bands: Laughing Joe and his Medicine Band

Thank you wam bam mam kind of group names, you know

Colonel Tucker's Medicinal Brew and Compound

So I thought, if there was a band, what would be a mad name for it?

It was basically Paul's idea

He had this song, Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

He was identifying it with the Beatles themselves

I think we recorded the song first

and then the idea came to make it into an album

It was also triggered by Neil Aspinall, who said at that time:

Why don't we have Sgt Pepper as the compere?

At the beginning of the show, he introduces the band

At the end of every Beatles show, Paul always used to say:

"It's time to go, we've got to go to bed and this is our last number"

Do the last number and go

I suggested Sgt Pepper should come on at the end of the album:

"Well, that's it, we've got to go. Here's our last number"

and send the album on tour instead of the band

We liked that idea

We'd read a report somewhere that said:

Elvis Presley has sent his gold-plated Cadillac out on tour

We thought that was a great idea - because we'd been sending ourselves out

We thought that's a really good idea. You stay at home and send your car

It did go on tour and people had come and they'd pay money

They wandered around it as if it was an exhibit and he didn't have to be there

Then, in the 60s when we thought of doing Sgt Pepper, we didn't want to tour

The idea suddenly sounded very nifty, you know

We said we haven't gold-plated Cadillacs, we don't do that stuff

but we could send a record out on tour

It was Sgt Pepper and his Lonely Hearts Club Band and all these other acts

It was going to run like a rock opera

and we got as far as Sgt Pepper and Billy Shears

A Little Help From My Friends, then everyone said sod it, let's just do tracks

So from the start it was going to be something totally different

but it still kept the title

and the feel that it's all connected

It's called the first concept album, it doesn't go anywhere

Mr Kite - all my contributions -

had nothing to do with this idea of Sgt Pepper and his band

But it works because we said it worked and that's how it appeared

Apart from Sgt Pepper, Billy Shears, and the so-called Reprise... that's it

Every other song could have been on any other album

A Day in the Life, Mr Kite - they could have gone anywhere

We were spending a long time in the studio

and still doing the same basic tracks

and then it would take weeks for the overdubs

The great thing about this band was whoever had the idea, that was OK

Whoever had the best idea, that's the one we'd use

For instance, in A Day in the Life, John had this opening verse

I think he'd got the idea from the Daily Mirroror something

It had two stories - the Guinness child had killed himself in a car

That was the main headline story

The next page was about 4000 holes in Blackburn, Lancashire

So Blackburn, Lancashire... the holes... Albert Hall

all got mixed, just a little poetic jumble that sounded nice

The momentous song, A Day in the Life began in a very simple way

And we've got the rehearsal take, take one, very first time we'd heard it

with John giving instructions as usual just before he starts it

Have the mike on the piano, quite low to keep with my maracas

John was singing and playing his acoustic guitar, Paul was on piano

George was playing maracas, I think, and certainly Ringo was on bongos

John counts in by saying "Sugar Plum Fairy"

Sugar Plum Fairy, Sugar Plum Fairy

Even in this early take

he has a voice which sends shivers down the spine

That was mainly a John song

I read the news today, oh boy... He'd taken a lot of it from a newspaper

Then I had another bit...

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

That was a little bit I had, it wasn't doing anything

and we got the concept of building it like a mini-operetta

John said let's shove it in the middle and see if we can't connect them

We connected them with a series of empty bars either side of Paul's section

before we came back into John's as a reprise

and we knew we had to fill those bars with something sensational

To keep the 24 bars so everybody knew when to come back in

dear old Mal Evans stood by the piano counting the bars

Also, he set off an alarm clock at the end to trigger everybody back into it

They wanted an orchestral climax to fill these empty bars

A giant orgasm of sound rising from nothing at all to a most incredible noise

And this is what we came up with

With that we joined up the two parts of the song

The moment I remember best outside of him bringing the song...

It was obviously a gorgeous song when he brought it

I was a big fan of John's, you've got to remember that

It wouldn't just be: Oh yes, professional person will write this

It would be: I can't wait to get my hands on this

We'd learned the chords off him and we'd develop it

But the moment I remember...

We got to a little bit that he didn't have where we said:

I'd love to turn you on

We looked at each other and thought, we know what we're doing here, don't we?

We're actually saying, for the first time ever, words like 'turn you on'

which was in the culture anyway but no one had actually said it on record

There was a look of recognition between us

Do it, do it, get it down!

So the sleeve came and we wanted to dress up

To be those people, the Peppers

We had to get suits and it was flower-power coming into its fullest

That's what it was

Mal and I went to all the different libraries and got prints

Peter Blake blew them up and tinted them and made the colour

I remember the weekend it was released

getting a telegram from people like James Fox: "Long live Sgt Pepper"

People had come round and said "Great album, man"

So it got very noticed - as if "You're making it for us," our crowd

I think it did represent what the young people were on about

It seemed to coincide with a revolution in young people's thinking

It was, I suppose, the epitome of the swinging '60s

It linked up with Mary Quant and mini skirts and that kind of thing

And dope to a certain extent

The freedom of sex, and of soft drugs like marijuana

It was all a bit exciting and I thihk it did reflect this time

I thought it was great

I thought it was a huge advance

I was very pleased as the music papers had been saying:

"What are the Beatles up to? Drying up, I suppose?"

It was nice making an album lke Pepper, thinking, yeah, drying up, that's right

So it was lovely to have that on them

When it came out, I loved it

I had a party to celebrate. That weekend was a bit of a party as I recall

I remember getting lots of telegrams from people

The biggest single tribute was that it was released on the Friday

On Sunday we went to the Saville Theatre

which Brian Epstein rented and ran some rock shows

because nothing ever happened on a Sunday

Jimi Hendrix opened with Sgt Pepper and he'd had since Friday to learn it

Sgt Pepperfor me - it was great - it's a fine album

but I did learn to play chess on it

Because I'd have so much spare time, you know

We'd do the basic track and then we'd put other stuff on, then...

but the percussion would be overdubbed later and later

For me it was a bit tiring, a bit boring

A few moments I enjoyed but generally I didn't like that album much

My heart was still in India

That was the big thing for me when that happened in '66

After that, everything else seemed like hard work

It was a job. It was doing something I didn't really want to do

I was losing interest in being fab at that point

It wasn't that spectacular when you look back on it

People just had this dream about Pepper. It was good for then, you know

I was very cross that the BBC decided to ban some of the tracks

They wouldn't play A Day in the Life. Why? I don't know

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was banned for a rumoured drug connection

and Lucy in the Sky actually stood for LSD, which wasn't true

and that it was an album promoting the use of drugs among the young

I was aware of them smoking pot but not that they did anything very serious

In fact I was so innocent that I actually took John up to the roof

when he was having an LSD trip and not knowing what it was

I never took it in the studio. Once I did by accident, thinking it was uppers

I was not in a state of handling it but I took it

and I was just so scared on the mike

I said "What was it? I feel ill"

I thought I was going to crack and I said I must get some air

They took me up on the roof and George Martin was looking at me funny

Then it dawned on me I must have taken acid

The only place I could take him for fresh air was the roof

We went up and it was a wonderful starry night

He looked up and went to the edge of the parapet

He looked up at the stars and said "Aren't they fantastic?"

To him, they would have been especially fantastic

They just looked like stars to me

Paul, how often have you taken LSD?

About four times

The newscaster said "Is it true you've had drugs?"

I made a lightning decision, thinking:

I'm either going to try and bluff this... They're at my door... No, go away!

Or I'm just going to tell him and I thought, sod it...

I told him, you know what's going to happen

I'm going to be blamed for telling everyone I take drugs

But you are the people who'll distribute this thing

I'll tell you but, if you are worried about it affecting kids, don't show it

Do you think you've encouraged your fans to take drugs?

No, I don't think my fans will take drugs just because I did

That's not the point. I was asked whether I had or not

then the whole bit about how far it's going, how many it will encourage

It is up to the newspapers and up to you on television

You're spreading this

It's going into all the homes in Britain and I'd rather it didn't

But you're asking me the question. You want me to be honest

It seemed strange - we'd been trying to get him to take it for 18 months

It seemed funny that one day he's on television talking about it

It gave the press a field day, to be on all our cases

I didn't think it was their business

but once he said it...

Whoever said anything in the Beatles, the other three had to deal with it

Which we did with all love because we loved each other

But I could have done without it myself

The point about the whole drug scene was that the press asked Paul:

"Have you taken LSD?" Otherwise we didn't say a word about it

It was just a personal thing

I feel to this day that we did take certain substances

but never to a great extent at the sessions

We took a little...

but whenever we overdid our intake

the music we made was absolutely shit

And we'd go home real happy with the tape

We'd play it when we got home and play it the next day

Every time, we'd come back to record again

we'd all say "We have to do that again"

Because it didn't work

It didn't work for the Beatles to be too deranged when making music

Somebody said we should invest some money so we thought let's buy an island

We'll just go there and drop out

We rented a boat

and went up and down the coast from Athens, looking at islands

We came to one we'd arranged to see

It came to nothing. We didn't buy an island, we came home

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