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The first impression in the office,
the bicycle clips and a beret.
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- And my naval greatcoat.
- Yes.
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- With the epaulettes removed.
- Yeah. Well, that was all right.
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But the bicycle clips
and the beret were definitely...
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I'm sorry I didn't conform
to your standards, love.
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What was it like meeting Mum for
the first time at Abbey Road?
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Because she was working there
when you started.
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Yeah.
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She'd gone straight there
from secretarial college.
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She greeted my arrival
in a very cold manner.
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In fact, she told me later
that she thought I was very square.
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Definitely uncool.
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Lovely now.
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I'll put my suntan cream on.
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But eventually, I fell for her.
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And, seemingly, she seemed to care for me.
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- Don't knock in the black.
- Put the black in.
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He missed it.
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You are very competitive, as a person,
and ambitious,
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and it's not a criticism at all,
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and it's interesting
to hear that you had a band,
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and you went to record
your own piece of music.
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- Yeah. Yeah.
- And titled it.
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In case it was played.
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I actually wanted to be
a classical composer,
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and I wanted to be Rachmaninoff II.
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Richard Addinsell's Warsaw Concerto
became a pet piece of mine,
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I used to play it a lot.
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And I thought, "Well,
that's the way to go."
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You know what it is, that music?
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It's Warsaw Concerto. I got the records.
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Perhaps that music will
bring back a lot of things.
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I hope so.
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I'd like to know
what he's thinking about now.
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- Would you like some tea?
- I'd love some.
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- I'll be mother.
- Yes, milk.
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I like afternoon tea,
it's a very civilised thing.
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And where is your oboe?
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I had to sell it, I needed the money,
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to buy a house, in fact.
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My first house was
the money from the oboe.
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You've still got yours?
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Oh, yes, of course.
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- You treasure it, do you?
- Yes.
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- You don't play it, though, do you?
- Yes, I do.
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- Do you really?
- Well, you never forget.
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No, you never forget, but...
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Gosh, I don't think I could play one now.
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I'll give you one lesson...
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- Would you really?
- ...for nothing.
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Do you know, I might take you up on that?
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Yes, why not.
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You spent three years at the Guildhall.
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You must've been surrounded by people
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from a completely different background
to you.
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There can't have been many ex-servicemen
joining the Guildhall at that stage,
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or were there?
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I felt a little bit out of place,
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- because I was older than most of them.
- Yeah.
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You'd had no real
music education until then?
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No.
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Did you find that the late arrival
into the classical musical scene
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meant you weren't completely
institutionalised by the rules, as it were?
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It's possible that I hadn't been,
kind of, over-educated in music,
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so I had a kind of naiveté as well.
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If you look at that Yesterday score,
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it's pretty naive, but it does work.
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It's very, very simple writing.
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But it couldn't be anything else.
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If it were, it would destroy
what the point of the song is,
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which is utter simplicity.
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I did this in an afternoon.
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I had in my mind what I had to do,
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and it was just straightforward.
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The Guildhall wasn't
just a school of music,
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it was a school for music and drama,
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and I think that that in itself was
tremendous help to me in later years,
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because I was comfortable with actors as
well as being comfortable with musicians.
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And when it came to working with Sellers
or the Beyond the Fringe crowd, or whoever,
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it was okay, we were partners.
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I suddenly got this
letter, out of the blue,
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saying would I be interested
in coming to an interview
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at EMI Studios,
Abbey Road, St John's Wood.
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Never heard of the
place, never heard of EMI.
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And I got the job
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at seven pounds, four shillings
and threepence a week.
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Going back to the fact that you're
competitive and ambitious, did you think...
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- I wish you wouldn't keep saying that.
- I know.
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I'm sure that's the case.
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Did you think at that stage,
"Right, now I'm finally getting somewhere?"
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No.
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Then what did you want at that stage?
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- I still wanted to be Rachmaninoff II.
- Right.
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You hadn't moved on then.
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Gradually I got hooked,
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gradually I didn't want to leave it.
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It enabled me to be creative.
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I could manipulate things,
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and I could do things,
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and that I found very enjoyable.
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Roberto Inglez.
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He played at the Savoy.
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Roberto Inglez,
everybody thought was Spanish,
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or South American,
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in fact, his name was Bob Inglis,
from Scotland,
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but he specialised in South American music.
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Bob Harvey.
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Yeah, Bob Harvey
used to play in a nightclub.
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Fairey Aviation Brass Band.
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Sidney Torch And His Orchestra.
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The Five Smith Brothers.
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Oh, yeah, they were Geordies.
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And Jimmy Shand.
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This wonderful man Karl Haas,
of the London Baroque Ensemble...
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He was always completely broke.
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He had no money at all.
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He was a sweet man, really.
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The Archers.
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That's the recording I made
with Sidney Torch And His Orchestra.
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I can't remember who wrote it.
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It was part and parcel
of what we used to do with Sidney,
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I mean, I remember recording
Coronation Scot,
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which became the theme tune
of the Paul Temple series.
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Those were the days
when orchestral records sold well.
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When the session started,
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I walked through the orchestra
to Sidney Torch,
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and I said, "Good morning, Mr Torch.
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"My name is George Martin
and I'm Oscar's assistant,
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"and he's asked me to take
the session this morning."
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I said, "Nice to see you."
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He said, "Oh, all right.
Don't get in the way, will you?"
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Did any part of you think,
"I'm going to be in line for this job?"
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No, because I was young,
I was still in my 20s.
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All the people who ran the labels
were older, the youngest was about 50.
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Did you think George would get the job?
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No, I didn't really,
I didn't know what was going to happen.
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I supposed I did think
he might get the job,
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but it wasn't sure.
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Oh, dear.
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They said, "We've been wondering
what to do with Parlophone,
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"now that Oscar is gone,
and eventually we've decided
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"that we should give the stewardship
of Parlophone to George Martin."
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You could've knocked me down
with a feather. Blimey.
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Suddenly, I was head of Parlophone,
and I had to make it work.
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- This meant choosing the artists...
- Yeah, everything.
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...and repertoire? Right. From the start.
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I wasn't paid much,
but I was given a free run.
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Do you have any preference
for whom you hit?
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Well, no, sir, I'm not a snob,
rich or poor alike,
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I think I'll hit any of them.
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But, wait a minute,
don't you ever get hit back?
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Well, no, sir, it's
against the rules, that.
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Good evening.
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I have a picture of Queen Victoria.
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No, thanks, I'm trying to give them up.
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I don't think you'll ever do it,
I've tried and failed.
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- May I come in?
- But I'm outside.
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Well, you come in, then.
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That was the comedy soundtrack
of my youth.
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And I was going to ask you
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how it was that you,
best known for your music,
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became a comedy producer
in the first place?
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Desperation, really.
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How desperate were you, then?
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Confess.
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At EMI that time, there were four labels,
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only three active ones,
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HMV, Columbia and Parlophone,
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and Parlophone was the poor relation,
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HMV and Columbia were the big boys.
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They had people like Elvis Presley,
Columbia had Doris Day,
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and all sorts of great American artists.
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Little Parlophone had Humphrey Lyttelton,
when he was a young man,
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John Dankworth, when he was a young man.
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And the Scottish Country Dance Association.
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There's a quote here by Degas,
where he says,
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"Drawing is not what one sees,
but what one must make others see."
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And, in a way, that's what we do in sound.
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The recording is not what one hears
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but what one must make others hear.
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They were designed to not be a photograph,
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but to be an impression
of what life was really about.
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So that actually would give
more depth in that painting
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than a photograph could ever do.
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And when I came to working as a producer,
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up to that time people had been
making records as faithfully as they could,
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reproducing the original sound,
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and what they were doing
was making photographs.
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And I said, "You don't need to do that.
Let's paint instead of having photographs."
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Hello.
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I've been watching you. I say
I've been watching you feeding the birds.
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I think you're marvellous.
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- Aren't they sweet?
- Yes.
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I don't know how anyone can be cruel
to dumb animals, do you?
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Irene Handl is absolutely wonderful,
I mean, perfect with Sellers.
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- It was her idea.
- Oh, really?
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She said, "Well, I've got something
I might suggest to Peter."
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I said, "Have you written it?"
She said, "No, it's all here."
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I'd quite forgotten,
it's virtually a monologue on her part.
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I was gonna say, Sellers' very
unselfish performance, really.
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- It still holds up.
- It holds up very well, I think.
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You come here often, do you?
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Well, I come here quite often, as I said,
to feed these birds,
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because I love the open air.
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Well, it's very nice, isn't it?
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I mean, it's private without being
insulated, if you know what I mean.
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I can see you're like me.
I will not go into a public park
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and mingle with the hoi polloi.
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I quite agree, I like to
keep myself to myself.
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It's such a different time,
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I mean, it was a time before television.
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- You only had radio and you had records.
- Sure.
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So you dealt purely with the ears.
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So you had to build
up little town pictures,
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and make people imagine
that they were there.
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- Do you know Dalston at all?
- No, no, I don't.
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Oh, well, they call it
the Frinton of East Eight,
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so that will give you some idea.
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I was just gonna ask you
back to din-dins with me.
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Well, I'd love to come, please ask me...
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They keep a smashing table
at the Royalton, you know.
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We nearly always have a second vegetable,
and always croutons with the soup.
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And if you ever feel like having
half a bottle of Beaujolais,
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they practically fall over themselves
backwards bringing it in for you.
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I loved doing that kind of work,
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because you can lose yourself in it,
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you don't follow any rules,
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except your own hunch
that you think is right.
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An album that I remember very well
was Milligan Preserved,
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I remember playing that at Oxford,
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and about a year later,
I started doing cabaret,
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it was the first time I'd ever done
any comic performing of any kind.
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That was an inspirational album,
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because it was so free and different.
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I don't know what it felt like to make it,
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whether it was a complicated business
with Spike's good or bad days,
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but it had some wonderful things in,
very different from Sellers.
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Well, it was really your kind of stuff.
241
00:17:59,012 --> 00:18:00,580
Oh, a song divine,
242
00:18:00,647 --> 00:18:05,118
sung by a beautiful, tall, willowy creature
called Miss Patricia Ridgeway.
243
00:18:05,652 --> 00:18:09,022
Despite her fair face, fair figure
and fair voice,
244
00:18:09,089 --> 00:18:11,925
she only had one small piece of toast
for breakfast,
245
00:18:11,991 --> 00:18:15,361
but when you consider what this
young girl has eaten in her lifetime,
246
00:18:16,196 --> 00:18:17,997
43 whole bullocks,
247
00:18:18,198 --> 00:18:20,567
81 prime Hereford cows,
248
00:18:20,834 --> 00:18:23,036
1,000 acres of potatoes,
249
00:18:23,470 --> 00:18:26,473
207 sacks of Spanish onions,
250
00:18:26,606 --> 00:18:28,975
eight warehouses of brown bread...
251
00:18:29,042 --> 00:18:31,544
I don't know if you ever looked
at the back of that LP.
252
00:18:31,711 --> 00:18:33,613
All of the sleeve notes were in Arabic.
253
00:18:34,380 --> 00:18:36,349
I don't remember that. That's very...
254
00:18:36,416 --> 00:18:38,427
- You couldn't get it away with it now.
- Very Python. Very Python.
255
00:18:38,451 --> 00:18:41,821
Let me put the microphone
to her tumtum so you can hear...
256
00:19:17,323 --> 00:19:19,025
I didn't realise it then,
257
00:19:19,092 --> 00:19:23,696
but George Martin was
the chap they sent all the weirdies to.
258
00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:40,180
He was very tall.
259
00:19:40,747 --> 00:19:42,549
Yes, I thought he was a very tall person.
260
00:19:42,815 --> 00:19:46,152
He had a great air of serenity
and authority about him.
261
00:19:47,587 --> 00:19:50,156
Excuse me, it's not
emotion, it's hay fever.
262
00:19:57,363 --> 00:19:59,432
An extraordinary man, Rolf.
263
00:19:59,666 --> 00:20:02,068
I loved him from the very moment I saw him.
264
00:20:02,235 --> 00:20:06,439
I made him work a bit harder though,
I got him to write a bit more,
265
00:20:06,539 --> 00:20:08,007
'cause it was a bit boring.
266
00:20:08,274 --> 00:20:11,010
He said, "It's boring."
267
00:20:13,112 --> 00:20:16,849
And I said,
"That's the way the aboriginal music is,
268
00:20:16,916 --> 00:20:19,152
"it repeats and repeats,
it becomes mesmerising."
269
00:20:19,385 --> 00:20:21,425
He said, "That's right,
that's what I said, boring."
270
00:20:33,166 --> 00:20:35,335
It was almost a music-hall
record, you know.
271
00:20:35,468 --> 00:20:37,270
It's a sketch with music, isn't it?
272
00:20:37,337 --> 00:20:40,039
You just imagine all this going on.
273
00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,203
- You were sort of born a Cockney.
- Yeah.
274
00:21:10,436 --> 00:21:12,338
All right, guv'ner.
275
00:21:12,605 --> 00:21:14,407
And you're now...
276
00:21:14,774 --> 00:21:16,409
True, true.
277
00:21:16,509 --> 00:21:17,686
I don't think I spoke quite like that.
278
00:21:17,710 --> 00:21:19,679
All right, cor blimey. Apple and pears.
279
00:21:19,912 --> 00:21:23,883
And you went from that to being
the gentleman of the music industry.
280
00:21:25,351 --> 00:21:26,753
That's a bit of an exaggeration.
281
00:21:26,853 --> 00:21:28,187
But your voice changed.
282
00:21:28,288 --> 00:21:30,823
Actually, I was very conscious
of the voice change,
283
00:21:31,591 --> 00:21:35,695
because when I was about 16,
I decided that I spoke appallingly,
284
00:21:35,895 --> 00:21:38,798
and because I was in the dramatic society,
285
00:21:38,865 --> 00:21:43,069
I consciously tried to speak
like the BBC people did.
286
00:21:43,336 --> 00:21:45,638
- And I think I pulled it off.
- I think you have done.
287
00:21:54,847 --> 00:21:56,816
This is Drayton Park.
288
00:21:57,083 --> 00:22:00,687
And my house was actually over there,
289
00:22:00,787 --> 00:22:03,356
but it's long since been demolished,
290
00:22:03,656 --> 00:22:05,458
and these are new buildings.
291
00:22:05,525 --> 00:22:08,728
But my house looked very similar to these.
292
00:22:09,529 --> 00:22:12,598
They look pretty good now,
293
00:22:13,333 --> 00:22:17,470
but I can assure you that when we lived
in them, they were very rundown.
294
00:22:18,104 --> 00:22:20,239
You can see there are four floors,
295
00:22:20,940 --> 00:22:23,142
and there was a family on each floor.
296
00:22:24,243 --> 00:22:26,512
I remember standing up,
being dressed, and looking down,
297
00:22:26,579 --> 00:22:29,215
and a little ice cream van came past,
298
00:22:29,615 --> 00:22:32,018
and I said, "Mummy, I'd love an ice cream."
299
00:22:32,218 --> 00:22:34,420
I turned round and she was crying.
300
00:22:35,021 --> 00:22:36,756
I said, "What's the matter?"
301
00:22:36,823 --> 00:22:40,226
She said, "Darling, I haven't got
tuppence for an ice cream."
302
00:22:41,361 --> 00:22:44,864
And then I gathered
that we weren't very well off.
303
00:22:55,408 --> 00:22:59,412
I also have a vivid memory
of a very, very cold winter,
304
00:23:00,213 --> 00:23:01,781
and my feet were freezing,
305
00:23:02,014 --> 00:23:03,349
and he knew this,
306
00:23:03,416 --> 00:23:06,119
and we didn't have a hot water bottle,
307
00:23:06,185 --> 00:23:10,957
so he got an old can,
which used to hold petrol or oil,
308
00:23:11,591 --> 00:23:14,627
and cleaned it out and
filled it with hot water,
309
00:23:14,794 --> 00:23:18,965
wrapped it in towels and put it
by my feet at the bottom of my bed
310
00:23:19,031 --> 00:23:20,733
to give me warm feet.
311
00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:23,102
That's one of the
memories I have of my dad.
312
00:23:31,244 --> 00:23:33,813
Were you driven to get away
from that background?
313
00:23:34,013 --> 00:23:35,314
I don't think so,
314
00:23:35,481 --> 00:23:39,519
I mean, I didn't say to myself, "My God,
I've got to get out of this hell hole,"
315
00:23:39,819 --> 00:23:44,357
because it was a very loving family,
my mother and father were super people.
316
00:23:44,824 --> 00:23:47,293
It was just that my father
couldn't earn very much money,
317
00:23:47,360 --> 00:23:52,432
and there was a big depression on
when I was a small child, the 1930s.
318
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,302
I say, you down there.
319
00:23:56,669 --> 00:23:57,837
Hello?
320
00:23:57,937 --> 00:23:59,672
Do you want some old iron?
321
00:24:00,273 --> 00:24:01,574
Yeah.
322
00:24:04,343 --> 00:24:06,312
Oh, my...
323
00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:10,016
We moved to Muswell Hill,
324
00:24:10,249 --> 00:24:12,552
a great improvement
over what we had before.
325
00:24:12,652 --> 00:24:16,189
We were, obviously,
not too badly off by this time.
326
00:24:16,355 --> 00:24:18,758
I liked the idea of moving here,
327
00:24:18,858 --> 00:24:21,894
'cause the house looked much better
than we'd lived in before,
328
00:24:22,195 --> 00:24:24,063
but when you're 11 or 12,
329
00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:28,534
you don't think too much
about status and things.
330
00:24:28,601 --> 00:24:31,671
I never thought we were
moving up in the world.
331
00:25:02,502 --> 00:25:06,873
I had a grandstand view
of the dogfights that went on overhead
332
00:25:06,939 --> 00:25:09,408
and it was quite exciting
for a 14-year-old boy.
333
00:25:12,211 --> 00:25:15,715
We heard that a Dornier had been downed
quite near us,
334
00:25:15,915 --> 00:25:19,051
so being blood-thirsty boys,
we went and raided the place,
335
00:25:19,318 --> 00:25:23,422
and I got a bit of a German
officer's uniform, blood stained.
336
00:25:23,656 --> 00:25:26,559
Really charming stuff.
337
00:25:32,798 --> 00:25:37,036
As a kid, we would leave our house
after the bombings,
338
00:25:37,370 --> 00:25:40,406
and a big portion of the street had gone.
339
00:25:41,407 --> 00:25:42,484
- Just flat.
- That's right.
340
00:25:42,508 --> 00:25:44,610
We were kids then,
another playground for us.
341
00:25:45,278 --> 00:25:48,381
We didn't really think, "Oh, somebody's
dead," or whatever. We were kids.
342
00:25:48,447 --> 00:25:51,183
We lived in Bromley in Kent,
which was on the path in.
343
00:25:51,884 --> 00:25:55,821
And, I remember, one day
a house about five doors down
344
00:25:56,923 --> 00:25:58,524
- wasn't there any more.
- Yeah.
345
00:25:59,091 --> 00:26:03,963
And the house next door to it, on the
first floor, the bathroom was exposed,
346
00:26:04,230 --> 00:26:09,068
and the bath was dangling,
holding on from its pipes,
347
00:26:09,902 --> 00:26:13,706
and I thought,
"Oh, gosh, that could've been us."
348
00:26:14,574 --> 00:26:16,642
But you accepted it.
349
00:26:16,709 --> 00:26:18,177
You did, it was part of life.
350
00:26:18,244 --> 00:26:21,914
And also, it must've been a very posh area,
it had a bath.
351
00:26:22,748 --> 00:26:23,816
Well, I was posh.
352
00:26:23,883 --> 00:26:25,618
We never had a bath, you see.
353
00:26:26,152 --> 00:26:27,553
No, we never did.
354
00:26:28,087 --> 00:26:29,422
Never did.
355
00:26:30,289 --> 00:26:31,691
You must've been filthy then.
356
00:26:31,757 --> 00:26:34,460
No, we used to go to Steble Street
just to take a bath.
357
00:26:36,095 --> 00:26:38,564
- I want you to lay down your life, Perkins.
- Yes, sir.
358
00:26:38,631 --> 00:26:41,767
We need a futile gesture at this stage.
359
00:26:43,235 --> 00:26:46,339
It will raise the whole tone of the war.
360
00:26:46,405 --> 00:26:49,241
Get up in a crate, Perkins,
pop over to Bremen,
361
00:26:49,342 --> 00:26:51,711
take a shufti and come back.
362
00:26:55,348 --> 00:26:56,649
Goodbye, Perkins.
363
00:26:57,483 --> 00:26:59,485
God, I wish I was going, too.
364
00:27:00,519 --> 00:27:02,054
Goodbye, sir.
365
00:27:02,154 --> 00:27:04,423
Or, is it au revoir?
366
00:27:06,325 --> 00:27:07,326
No, Perkins.
367
00:27:13,532 --> 00:27:15,434
Britain has dealt the Italian fleet a blow
368
00:27:15,501 --> 00:27:18,604
which its remains will remember
for a long, long time.
369
00:27:18,738 --> 00:27:20,573
At one fell swoop, three battleships,
370
00:27:20,640 --> 00:27:22,908
two cruises and auxiliaries,
were put out of action.
371
00:27:23,809 --> 00:27:25,911
Thus, Mussolini was forced to realise
372
00:27:25,978 --> 00:27:29,248
that his much-vaunted navy
isn't safe even in port.
373
00:27:29,315 --> 00:27:32,852
The splendid job was executed,
executed is the right word,
374
00:27:32,985 --> 00:27:34,520
by the Fleet Air Arm.
375
00:27:34,587 --> 00:27:38,858
Such men as these went right in, or
rather over, the heel of Italy to Taranto,
376
00:27:38,958 --> 00:27:41,427
and kicked the pants of the wop
good and hard.
377
00:27:45,965 --> 00:27:50,069
When you heard the news on the radio
about the success of the Fleet Air Arm
378
00:27:50,136 --> 00:27:51,570
at the Battle of Taranto,
379
00:27:51,637 --> 00:27:55,141
was that instrumental in your decision
to want to join the Fleet Air Arm?
380
00:27:55,207 --> 00:27:56,208
Absolutely.
381
00:27:56,575 --> 00:28:00,312
I said, I don't want to go into the army,
I want to go into the Fleet Air Arm.
382
00:28:01,080 --> 00:28:05,651
So, one day I walked into a recruiting
office and said I want to be a pilot,
383
00:28:05,718 --> 00:28:08,220
I want to have flying duties
in the Fleet Air Arm.
384
00:28:08,287 --> 00:28:09,455
So, I signed on.
385
00:28:09,889 --> 00:28:13,426
And my mother broke down in tears
and said, "You stupid boy.
386
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:15,428
"You'll get yourself killed."
387
00:28:15,561 --> 00:28:18,397
And the stupid boy
replied, equally stupidly,
388
00:28:18,531 --> 00:28:22,301
"Mother, I promise you, I won't get killed.
I promise you that."
389
00:28:23,202 --> 00:28:24,770
Well, you look about 30,
390
00:28:24,837 --> 00:28:27,173
but, mind you, war
time might do that to you.
391
00:28:27,239 --> 00:28:28,808
It was tough business.
392
00:28:29,141 --> 00:28:31,811
Where we you during the war, Daddy?
393
00:28:34,780 --> 00:28:37,683
- You're rotten.
- Come on, I won it. I know. Come on.
394
00:28:37,750 --> 00:28:39,185
- You better come on.
- Go on.
395
00:28:39,285 --> 00:28:41,487
- I'm not going to talk about it at my expense.
- Okay.
396
00:28:41,554 --> 00:28:45,558
Well, all right. Okay. I'll tell you
what then interests me about this.
397
00:28:45,624 --> 00:28:49,695
You would tell us stories, 'cause we'd ask,
"What did you do?"
398
00:28:49,762 --> 00:28:54,266
It came out that you were in the
Fleet Air Arm and you were an observer.
399
00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:59,839
Well, this is where the observer would be,
which is where I would have been.
400
00:29:00,139 --> 00:29:02,108
That's the observer's position.
401
00:29:02,174 --> 00:29:05,010
And you can see there's a wire
at the bottom, there,
402
00:29:05,077 --> 00:29:07,780
which you could attach to yourself
in case you went inverted
403
00:29:07,847 --> 00:29:10,483
and you wouldn't get thrown out
of the aircraft.
404
00:29:10,549 --> 00:29:13,886
And we have instruments, here,
which he could see,
405
00:29:14,086 --> 00:29:18,591
and he would communicate with the pilot,
who is in a separate cockpit,
406
00:29:19,024 --> 00:29:22,428
purely and simply through a Gosport tube
407
00:29:22,595 --> 00:29:25,364
which was the kind of tube that you,
408
00:29:25,464 --> 00:29:28,567
you know, you'd say,
"Hello there," and you'd listen.
409
00:29:28,634 --> 00:29:30,636
There was no electronics involved.
410
00:29:30,836 --> 00:29:34,240
We'd say, "Well, what do you do?"
You said, "Well, sort of observe."
411
00:29:34,306 --> 00:29:36,008
But you were in charge.
412
00:29:36,475 --> 00:29:40,045
So it was a very important role, in fact,
even above the pilot
413
00:29:40,112 --> 00:29:41,247
which kind of amazed us.
414
00:29:41,347 --> 00:29:44,049
But years later I thought,
"That's the producer."
415
00:29:44,216 --> 00:29:45,536
- Yes, it is.
- It's the same job.
416
00:29:45,851 --> 00:29:47,987
I went up in this.
I don't know if it was this plane.
417
00:29:48,053 --> 00:29:50,122
I think it might have been another one.
418
00:29:50,389 --> 00:29:53,459
When I was 70 years old,
as a kind of anniversary,
419
00:29:53,526 --> 00:29:56,395
50 years after I'd flown before,
420
00:29:56,529 --> 00:29:58,864
and I'm now much older than that.
421
00:29:58,931 --> 00:30:00,633
I still would like to go up in one,
422
00:30:00,699 --> 00:30:03,235
but can't do it
because the engine's not working.
423
00:30:03,302 --> 00:30:05,938
But one day I will come back again.
424
00:30:29,795 --> 00:30:33,265
It's very disappointing,
because I don't hear music as I used to.
425
00:30:33,632 --> 00:30:36,335
And I don't enjoy music, now, much.
426
00:30:36,836 --> 00:30:41,006
I mean, if you take a piece like
Vaughan William's Lark Ascending
427
00:30:41,073 --> 00:30:42,107
I might as well go home,
428
00:30:42,174 --> 00:30:43,843
because the violin...
429
00:30:43,943 --> 00:30:45,620
- Very high tones.
- ...going in the upper reaches.
430
00:30:45,644 --> 00:30:48,414
And I see this fellow doing all this
and I'm not hearing it.
431
00:31:14,473 --> 00:31:15,574
Thank you very much.
432
00:31:17,042 --> 00:31:19,678
I'm not used to microphones, you know?
433
00:31:22,147 --> 00:31:27,152
I first became aware of something wrong
in the '70s.
434
00:31:27,953 --> 00:31:31,323
And I was approaching my 50s
435
00:31:31,824 --> 00:31:34,760
and I was in my control room
at my studio in London
436
00:31:34,927 --> 00:31:37,396
and one of the engineers came in and said,
437
00:31:37,463 --> 00:31:40,165
"Do you mind
if I just check these tape machines?"
438
00:31:40,232 --> 00:31:44,203
I said, "Do that."
They would put in different tones
439
00:31:44,336 --> 00:31:45,871
of different frequencies
440
00:31:45,938 --> 00:31:49,408
and adjust them
so the machines were really accurate.
441
00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:53,545
I heard all the tones going through
and I took no notice
442
00:31:54,046 --> 00:31:59,051
and then I looked up and I saw
that all the needles are going...
443
00:32:00,953 --> 00:32:05,190
I said, "Bill, what's that frequency
you're putting through?"
444
00:32:07,226 --> 00:32:09,662
He said, "Twelve kilohertz."
445
00:32:10,229 --> 00:32:12,197
And I said, "Oh, shit."
446
00:32:14,433 --> 00:32:19,171
Every time you speak to someone,
particularly in a cocktail environment,
447
00:32:19,805 --> 00:32:23,742
you are doing mental calculations,
rather like filling in a crossword,
448
00:32:23,976 --> 00:32:25,577
you're getting only the vowels
449
00:32:25,644 --> 00:32:28,480
and you're putting in all the consonants
as quickly as you can
450
00:32:28,580 --> 00:32:29,648
so as not to be stupid.
451
00:32:29,748 --> 00:32:32,117
- And hoping you get them right.
- And get them right.
452
00:32:32,184 --> 00:32:33,419
- Exactly.
- Yeah.
453
00:32:33,485 --> 00:32:36,188
Well that's one of the issues
with hearing loss
454
00:32:36,255 --> 00:32:38,691
is the respect of social isolation.
455
00:32:38,791 --> 00:32:41,393
People feel socially isolated
when they start losing hearing
456
00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:44,630
because the cocktail party hearing
that you had
457
00:32:44,697 --> 00:32:46,131
starts to degrade.
458
00:32:46,198 --> 00:32:47,509
Is that something that's impacted on you?
459
00:32:47,533 --> 00:32:49,468
Yeah, that's quite true because
460
00:32:49,535 --> 00:32:53,906
if you can't join in the conversation
of everybody going round,
461
00:32:54,373 --> 00:32:55,541
you get isolated.
462
00:32:55,607 --> 00:32:58,911
You become invisible. They talk past you.
463
00:32:59,078 --> 00:33:03,882
You get to the point, as I have now,
where age has taken over, as well.
464
00:33:04,783 --> 00:33:07,720
And when that happens,
465
00:33:07,786 --> 00:33:11,557
my hearing has taken a nosedive
in the past few years.
466
00:33:11,657 --> 00:33:16,261
Now, I think what she's doing,
what this lady is doing here, is fantastic!
467
00:33:17,663 --> 00:33:20,599
And I think she's so
accurate and so good...
468
00:33:22,034 --> 00:33:24,203
Will you come home with me?
469
00:33:33,479 --> 00:33:36,248
There's been so many stories
about Major Ralph,
470
00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:39,218
the colourful horse-dealer
who'd gone into the business
471
00:33:39,284 --> 00:33:41,587
of managing rock-and-roll stars.
472
00:33:41,653 --> 00:33:45,958
I mean, he personally discovered
such disc names as Lennie Bronze,
473
00:33:46,025 --> 00:33:48,394
Clint Thigh, Matt Lust.
474
00:33:48,460 --> 00:33:50,729
Have you ever seen a rock-and-roll singer,
Miss Lisbon?
475
00:33:50,796 --> 00:33:52,798
I mean, have you ever seen one up close?
476
00:33:52,865 --> 00:33:55,601
Well, no. I'm mostly on book reviewing.
477
00:33:55,667 --> 00:33:59,104
Well, a good specimen.
He's about 17 or 18 years old,
478
00:34:00,205 --> 00:34:05,077
about 5'10", fully extended, sagging
to about 5'4" in the singing position.
479
00:34:06,145 --> 00:34:08,614
Would you like to see one?
I'll get one for you.
480
00:34:11,884 --> 00:34:13,285
Major?
481
00:34:13,385 --> 00:34:16,855
Some rotten hound's pinched the strings
off my guitar! Look.
482
00:34:17,790 --> 00:34:19,858
You've got the guitar on back to front.
483
00:34:19,925 --> 00:34:24,830
How many times must I tell you,
the hole points away from you!
484
00:34:26,331 --> 00:34:29,301
So much to learn, so little time.
485
00:34:51,390 --> 00:34:54,093
I did envy Norrie Paramor enormously
486
00:34:54,626 --> 00:34:58,363
because he had a young man who
was originally called Harry Webb, I think,
487
00:34:58,464 --> 00:34:59,932
Cliff Richard this is.
488
00:34:59,998 --> 00:35:02,868
It didn't matter what he recorded
it could have been God Save the Queen,
489
00:35:02,968 --> 00:35:06,305
became number one. It was just automatic.
And I envied that.
490
00:35:06,371 --> 00:35:10,075
And I wanted to have something
that would be easy to make
491
00:35:10,142 --> 00:35:13,779
instead of the difficulty
of making comedy records.
492
00:35:13,846 --> 00:35:15,881
Because comedy records are hard work.
493
00:35:16,482 --> 00:35:19,718
You had to get the right material,
right script,
494
00:35:19,785 --> 00:35:22,488
right artist, and so on.
495
00:35:22,554 --> 00:35:25,491
- Did you want to beat Norrie Paramor?
- Yes.
496
00:35:25,557 --> 00:35:27,459
You've said it now.
497
00:35:28,160 --> 00:35:31,930
- Well, he drove a E-Type Jag.
- See, there we are.
498
00:35:34,766 --> 00:35:36,068
I think a Paul McCartney record
499
00:35:36,135 --> 00:35:38,537
made you the most
successful producer of all time,
500
00:35:38,604 --> 00:35:40,105
with 36 number ones.
501
00:35:40,172 --> 00:35:41,583
It was in the papers and you said to me,
502
00:35:41,607 --> 00:35:43,351
"I've had more number ones
than anyone else."
503
00:35:43,375 --> 00:35:46,078
I said, "That's amazing, Dad.
Who did you beat?"
504
00:35:46,145 --> 00:35:48,514
"Norrie Paramor," is what you said.
505
00:35:49,047 --> 00:35:53,619
That's true because he did have
the largest amount of number ones
506
00:35:53,685 --> 00:35:55,787
in Britain at that time,
507
00:35:55,854 --> 00:35:57,956
and I managed to get in front of him.
508
00:35:58,023 --> 00:36:02,427
I remember you saying to me,
"I don't think he's going to beat me now."
509
00:36:03,061 --> 00:36:05,197
Because I think he'd been dead
a couple of years.
510
00:36:05,264 --> 00:36:07,332
- Exactly.
- By that stage. Anyway.
511
00:36:16,008 --> 00:36:19,211
Yes, it was the 21st
that I met Brian Epstein.
512
00:36:19,278 --> 00:36:22,681
Yes. And I put down "Bernard."
513
00:36:22,948 --> 00:36:24,883
- I know, you silly girl.
- Yes.
514
00:36:24,950 --> 00:36:26,185
I didn't know him at all.
515
00:36:34,159 --> 00:36:38,964
What I said to Brian was, "If you want me
to judge them on what you're playing me,
516
00:36:39,031 --> 00:36:41,533
"I'm sorry. I have to turn you down."
517
00:36:41,600 --> 00:36:44,236
And he was so disappointed.
I felt really sorry for him, actually.
518
00:36:44,303 --> 00:36:45,771
'Cause he was an earnest young man.
519
00:36:45,837 --> 00:36:49,174
- And you must've liked him then?
- I did like him.
520
00:36:49,241 --> 00:36:51,310
And I said, "But I'll tell you what."
521
00:36:51,743 --> 00:36:53,045
I gave him a life line, I said,
522
00:36:53,111 --> 00:36:55,714
"If you want to bring them
down from Liverpool
523
00:36:55,814 --> 00:36:58,183
"I'll give them an hour
in the studio. Okay?"
524
00:37:02,087 --> 00:37:04,356
Begin as soon as you like,
please, would you?
525
00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:06,058
I beg your pardon?
526
00:37:06,158 --> 00:37:07,702
Would you start as soon as you can, please?
527
00:37:07,726 --> 00:37:09,537
We're in a hurry.
We have a lot of people to see.
528
00:37:09,561 --> 00:37:13,532
Right. I've prepared... Can you hear me?
529
00:37:13,599 --> 00:37:15,968
- Yes.
- I've prepared a short...
530
00:37:16,768 --> 00:37:17,936
A short...
531
00:37:35,287 --> 00:37:40,459
They had this wonderful charisma.
They made you feel good to be with them.
532
00:37:40,726 --> 00:37:43,662
And I thought their music was rubbish.
533
00:38:07,286 --> 00:38:11,323
That first occasion with him
was all really Brian's fault.
534
00:38:11,890 --> 00:38:15,994
'Cause nobody told me
that when he walked in,
535
00:38:16,328 --> 00:38:20,132
this fellow came in, this little chap,
and said, "Here, our drummer?"
536
00:38:21,133 --> 00:38:24,936
I said, "No, he's not. That's your drummer.
We're paying good money for that fellow."
537
00:38:25,037 --> 00:38:27,839
And we had the best drummer you get in...
538
00:38:27,906 --> 00:38:29,007
- Andy White.
- Yeah.
539
00:38:29,074 --> 00:38:30,509
Who will never live it down.
540
00:38:30,575 --> 00:38:35,113
I didn't realise until quite later on
how much I hurt him by that.
541
00:38:35,180 --> 00:38:36,300
- I know.
- I didn't mean to.
542
00:38:36,348 --> 00:38:38,317
Well, he's a sensitive soul, Ringo.
543
00:38:38,383 --> 00:38:40,218
He is a sensitive kind of guy, you know?
544
00:38:40,319 --> 00:38:44,022
And I don't think we realised
how much that hurt him.
545
00:38:44,623 --> 00:38:46,892
But he got over it.
546
00:38:47,993 --> 00:38:50,562
No, no. He was not precise.
547
00:38:50,629 --> 00:38:54,599
And so you, I think, you were used to
working with session drummers
548
00:38:54,700 --> 00:38:56,468
who were on the ball.
549
00:38:56,535 --> 00:39:00,005
And what happened in The Beatles,
when we played live
550
00:39:00,238 --> 00:39:04,476
if Ringo sped up a tiny bit,
we all just went with him.
551
00:39:04,543 --> 00:39:06,478
So nobody really noticed it.
552
00:39:06,745 --> 00:39:11,516
One thing about your drumming is that
it cannot be mistaken for anybody else.
553
00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:12,617
Yeah.
554
00:39:12,684 --> 00:39:16,722
You have a signature
and as soon as you hear it, that's Ringo.
555
00:39:17,255 --> 00:39:18,757
No doubt about it at all.
556
00:39:18,824 --> 00:39:23,662
I think it's an emotional thing
where I actually put, you know...
557
00:39:23,729 --> 00:39:28,066
We only have that much room to hit.
And I hit on the back of that.
558
00:39:28,734 --> 00:39:30,378
Where a lot of other drummers
hit on the front,
559
00:39:30,402 --> 00:39:33,705
but we still only have that.
It's where you put it.
560
00:40:19,050 --> 00:40:21,887
We took the harmonica
that we'd used on Love Me Do,
561
00:40:21,953 --> 00:40:26,224
put that down as well,
and I was thrilled to bits with it.
562
00:40:31,229 --> 00:40:32,631
I thought it was wonderful.
563
00:40:32,697 --> 00:40:35,967
And I told them, I said,
"I think you might have a number one."
564
00:40:36,034 --> 00:40:39,504
In fact, I think I actually said,
"Gentlemen, you have your first number one."
565
00:40:39,871 --> 00:40:41,940
Which was bravado, really.
566
00:40:54,419 --> 00:40:58,924
It's amazing, really, how creative
we could be in those circumstances.
567
00:40:58,990 --> 00:41:03,295
I say to people now,
"10:30 till 1:30, two songs."
568
00:41:04,229 --> 00:41:07,432
And you would just remind us
about half way through
569
00:41:07,499 --> 00:41:09,468
the three-hour period,
570
00:41:09,601 --> 00:41:12,571
"Well, it's just about enough
on that one, chaps. Let's wrap it up."
571
00:41:12,637 --> 00:41:15,273
We go, "Five minutes. Yeah. Okay."
572
00:41:15,340 --> 00:41:18,743
And so you learned to be brilliant,
573
00:41:18,844 --> 00:41:22,147
he said modestly, in one and a half hours.
574
00:41:22,414 --> 00:41:27,919
But I was under pressure
because I got such little time with you.
575
00:41:28,553 --> 00:41:31,356
And you were so,
running all over the world,
576
00:41:31,423 --> 00:41:35,126
and I would say to Brian,
"I need more time in the studio."
577
00:41:35,694 --> 00:41:40,198
And he said,
"Well, I can give you Friday afternoon.
578
00:41:40,265 --> 00:41:42,968
"Or Saturday evening." Whatever it is.
579
00:41:43,435 --> 00:41:48,139
And he would dole out time to me
like giving scraps to a mouse.
580
00:41:57,816 --> 00:42:02,721
When we did Can't Buy Me Love,
Paul started off the whole record by...
581
00:42:07,192 --> 00:42:10,028
And that was the beginning of the record.
582
00:42:10,529 --> 00:42:16,935
And I said, "Paul, we need to
have a hit tag to start this, kick it off."
583
00:42:17,836 --> 00:42:20,636
He said, "What do you think, then?"
I said, "Take a bit of the chorus."
584
00:42:24,042 --> 00:42:27,379
So that was the contributions
I made in those days.
585
00:42:27,445 --> 00:42:30,649
As I say, kind of streamlining their work.
586
00:42:30,749 --> 00:42:34,019
But it was their genius
that made the songs work.
587
00:43:09,154 --> 00:43:10,989
You had to wait for a studio.
588
00:43:11,056 --> 00:43:15,660
I mean, it was like one of the top restaurants,
"We can see you in a month," type of thing.
589
00:43:15,727 --> 00:43:20,665
And I lived right next door in Abbey Road,
right next door to the studio
590
00:43:21,333 --> 00:43:25,070
and it was like the red-carpet people
going in and out
591
00:43:25,136 --> 00:43:26,237
which was fun.
592
00:43:27,138 --> 00:43:30,475
Every now and then, you would hear
his voice very calmly say,
593
00:43:30,542 --> 00:43:33,345
"That was nice. I'd like to,
maybe, change the tempo a little.
594
00:43:33,445 --> 00:43:35,623
"I thought it was a little rushed,"
or, "Could you do this?"
595
00:43:35,647 --> 00:43:38,450
I think he got the best out of people
because he didn't frighten them.
596
00:44:05,543 --> 00:44:08,279
Of course, Brian,
flush with all their success,
597
00:44:08,346 --> 00:44:10,181
kept bringing me more artists.
598
00:44:10,248 --> 00:44:14,586
This was the year in which I had
37 weeks at number one
599
00:44:14,819 --> 00:44:17,055
which has never been done.
Not even by Norrie Paramor.
600
00:44:17,155 --> 00:44:20,825
So would you say
you were the Simon Cowell of the '60s?
601
00:44:21,426 --> 00:44:23,094
I do hope not.
602
00:44:34,572 --> 00:44:37,976
Gerry & the Pacemakers, Billy J. Kramer.
603
00:44:39,110 --> 00:44:41,146
- And Cilla.
- And Cilla.
604
00:44:42,080 --> 00:44:43,415
It's a busy day, wasn't it?
605
00:44:54,993 --> 00:44:58,897
Just remember him being
so suave and sophisticated.
606
00:44:59,864 --> 00:45:03,068
Little did I know he turned out
to be a Cockney
607
00:45:03,134 --> 00:45:04,769
that talked dead posh.
608
00:45:09,240 --> 00:45:13,411
The way he dressed, you know,
he wore a tie and a shirt.
609
00:45:13,478 --> 00:45:19,384
The only concession to relaxation
was that he took his suit jacket off,
610
00:45:19,617 --> 00:45:22,253
but the tie stayed on.
611
00:45:22,320 --> 00:45:24,355
The tie was always there.
612
00:45:30,995 --> 00:45:33,331
My work load was enormous,
613
00:45:33,398 --> 00:45:37,569
so I was spending more time in the studio
than I was anywhere else,
614
00:45:37,635 --> 00:45:42,107
and I found myself completely and utterly
wrapped up in my work.
615
00:45:46,478 --> 00:45:49,948
Patience and being
really very honest, as well,
616
00:45:50,048 --> 00:45:51,649
but in a nice way.
617
00:45:51,716 --> 00:45:54,119
He could be really honest in a nice way.
618
00:46:36,094 --> 00:46:40,465
I used to say to him, "I'm a little
bit flat there at the end, George."
619
00:46:40,565 --> 00:46:43,168
And he would say, "It's soul."
620
00:46:47,238 --> 00:46:49,641
- I remember that. Yeah.
- It says Brian.
621
00:46:49,707 --> 00:46:51,752
- We were just talking about that.
- Chamberpot on his head.
622
00:46:51,776 --> 00:46:53,478
- Yeah.
- Judy's there.
623
00:46:54,279 --> 00:46:56,815
And if you remember,
and it was very naughty...
624
00:46:57,215 --> 00:47:00,285
All the food was in phallic, or...
625
00:47:00,385 --> 00:47:03,121
Yeah, the rolls were a particular shape.
626
00:47:04,055 --> 00:47:06,291
It was a hoot. It was great, you know.
627
00:47:06,457 --> 00:47:09,160
We'd never seen anything like that.
628
00:47:09,227 --> 00:47:10,929
I suspect Brian might have.
629
00:47:10,995 --> 00:47:13,932
- Yes. Well, he chose it, all right.
- Yeah, that's what I mean.
630
00:47:13,998 --> 00:47:19,537
But they also got Judy standing on
the table putting a garter round her leg.
631
00:47:19,604 --> 00:47:20,839
- You remember that?
- Yeah.
632
00:47:20,939 --> 00:47:23,441
She didn't need much persuading.
633
00:47:23,741 --> 00:47:25,810
The Beatles loved her.
634
00:47:27,312 --> 00:47:31,816
Even though she was dead posh,
she had an incredible sense of humour.
635
00:47:31,883 --> 00:47:36,988
And so, I think a few of The Beatles
fancied her, as well, on the quiet.
636
00:47:37,155 --> 00:47:40,091
We don't really want to hang out with him.
637
00:47:40,625 --> 00:47:42,961
It's Mrs Martin we all love.
638
00:47:46,564 --> 00:47:48,366
The great Judy,
639
00:47:48,833 --> 00:47:51,803
who we thought, when we started,
was the Queen.
640
00:47:51,903 --> 00:47:53,304
She was so posh.
641
00:47:53,371 --> 00:47:54,539
Hello.
642
00:47:54,939 --> 00:47:57,709
He was a bit posh, but
she was over the top.
643
00:47:57,775 --> 00:48:01,346
Do you remember Judy
reciting John's poem?
644
00:48:01,412 --> 00:48:03,715
Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and Me).
645
00:48:04,582 --> 00:48:07,318
Deaf Ted, Danoota, (and Me).
646
00:48:08,887 --> 00:48:12,891
"With faithful frog beside us,
Big mighty club are we"
647
00:48:13,258 --> 00:48:17,161
"The battle scab and frisky dyke
Deaf Ted, Danoota, and me.
648
00:48:17,896 --> 00:48:21,532
"We fight the baddy baddies,
for colour, race and Cree
649
00:48:21,666 --> 00:48:25,837
"For Negro, Jew and Bernie
Deaf Ted, Danoota, and me.
650
00:48:26,604 --> 00:48:30,808
"Thorg Billy grows and Burnley ten,
And Aston Villa three
651
00:48:31,109 --> 00:48:34,646
"We clobber ever gallop
Deaf Ted, Danoota, and me.
652
00:48:35,446 --> 00:48:39,651
"So if you hear a wondrous sight,
Am blutter or at sea,
653
00:48:39,751 --> 00:48:44,389
"Remember whom the mighty say
Deaf Ted, Danoota, and me."
654
00:48:45,523 --> 00:48:48,927
You see, she didn't have to work
on her accent like I did.
655
00:48:49,427 --> 00:48:52,497
I didn't think I had a different accent
to anybody else.
656
00:48:52,864 --> 00:48:55,266
But the boys accepted you
as part of the team.
657
00:48:55,333 --> 00:48:57,535
You were their first major groupie.
658
00:48:57,602 --> 00:48:58,970
Yes, quite.
659
00:49:01,572 --> 00:49:05,710
Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to now have
a few words from our recording manager,
660
00:49:05,777 --> 00:49:07,879
Mr George Martin.
661
00:49:08,279 --> 00:49:11,182
- Martin.
- George Motherson Martin.
662
00:49:11,282 --> 00:49:13,551
Here he is. George... Come here, George.
663
00:49:13,618 --> 00:49:16,921
Say a few swinging new fab words
for the Christmas market.
664
00:49:17,488 --> 00:49:20,725
It's been a switched on year for
George, too, fab Beatle people,
665
00:49:20,792 --> 00:49:23,628
and we all hope you
appreciate it. Here he is.
666
00:49:25,964 --> 00:49:27,999
He won't talk, Beatle people.
667
00:49:28,933 --> 00:49:31,402
- He won't.
- Gone independent.
668
00:49:42,413 --> 00:49:45,883
- Where on earth did that come from?
- Load of lunatics, if you ask me.
669
00:49:46,117 --> 00:49:49,721
That's The Beatles fan club record.
That's got to be.
670
00:49:50,521 --> 00:49:52,957
- You remember the fan club record?
- Right. Well done you.
671
00:49:53,024 --> 00:49:58,629
Every year, we'd take 10 minutes of
the session time and do nonsense like this.
672
00:49:59,063 --> 00:50:01,432
Well, I'm glad. I'd quite
forgotten about that.
673
00:50:01,499 --> 00:50:03,901
But we couldn't get you to speak.
674
00:50:04,135 --> 00:50:06,170
So professional.
675
00:50:06,671 --> 00:50:09,907
EMI was such a funny place
in those days.
676
00:50:09,974 --> 00:50:12,677
We thought of it
in the same terms as the BBC.
677
00:50:12,977 --> 00:50:17,815
Sort of huge monolithic corporation
but groovy with it, kind of thing.
678
00:50:18,216 --> 00:50:21,586
And I always remember
when we went to the toilets
679
00:50:21,652 --> 00:50:24,355
there was this old-fashioned bog roll
680
00:50:24,422 --> 00:50:28,493
and on every sheet it
had, "Property of EMI."
681
00:50:28,626 --> 00:50:30,361
Limited, Hayes...
682
00:50:31,662 --> 00:50:34,432
What, they think
someone is going to nick it?
683
00:50:34,966 --> 00:50:37,644
I mean, it was worth nicking, actually.
I wish I had one of those rolls now.
684
00:50:37,668 --> 00:50:41,272
You got to remember when you're in there
using the thing
685
00:50:41,339 --> 00:50:43,041
who it belongs to.
686
00:50:45,443 --> 00:50:48,212
It was a treadmill, but
it was a very nice one.
687
00:50:48,312 --> 00:50:50,048
A golden treadmill, they might say.
688
00:50:50,148 --> 00:50:53,351
- Ten number ones in a row.
- Which is extraordinary.
689
00:50:53,418 --> 00:50:56,687
And you weren't getting
any extra money for this from EMI?
690
00:50:56,754 --> 00:50:58,556
- No.
- Did that make you feel bitter?
691
00:50:58,623 --> 00:50:59,624
Yes.
692
00:50:59,791 --> 00:51:01,602
- It's the right answer.
- It didn't make me feel better.
693
00:51:01,626 --> 00:51:03,594
- It made me feel bitter.
- Bitter or better?
694
00:51:03,661 --> 00:51:07,865
The appalling thing was that in 1963,
695
00:51:08,566 --> 00:51:11,769
after working my butt off all year,
696
00:51:11,969 --> 00:51:17,008
and I was on a very, quite a low salary,
2,000 a year at the most, I should think,
697
00:51:18,209 --> 00:51:22,213
and I didn't get my Christmas bonus,
if you remember.
698
00:51:22,280 --> 00:51:23,481
You got yours.
699
00:51:23,581 --> 00:51:25,983
Well, I was on £10 a week, yes.
700
00:51:26,084 --> 00:51:28,553
And I rang through and I asked why
701
00:51:28,619 --> 00:51:32,123
and they said, "But, you're now an
executive getting over 2,000 a year..."
702
00:51:32,190 --> 00:51:33,191
That's extreme.
703
00:51:33,291 --> 00:51:36,494
"...and we don't give bonuses
to people like that."
704
00:51:37,295 --> 00:51:39,597
So I got nothing
for the work I had done in that year.
705
00:51:39,664 --> 00:51:44,869
And yet all the sales staff got huge
bonuses for the amounts of records
706
00:51:44,936 --> 00:51:47,538
they sold to the dealers.
707
00:51:47,605 --> 00:51:50,508
So I naturally had a chip on my shoulder
708
00:51:50,675 --> 00:51:53,277
which hasn't fallen off even now.
709
00:51:54,745 --> 00:51:57,081
- What's all this, John?
- It's Peter Sellers.
710
00:52:14,532 --> 00:52:18,736
It has been a hard day's night.
711
00:52:20,338 --> 00:52:22,874
And I have been working like a dog.
712
00:52:23,007 --> 00:52:27,478
It's been a hard day's night.
I should be sleeping like a log.
713
00:52:27,979 --> 00:52:32,683
But when I get home to you,
I find the things that you do
714
00:52:32,984 --> 00:52:36,487
will make feel all right.
715
00:52:38,055 --> 00:52:43,694
The thing about this record for me is we
had this in Liverpool before we knew you.
716
00:52:43,828 --> 00:52:46,364
And I wore this record out.
717
00:52:46,430 --> 00:52:48,199
- Did you really?
- Yeah.
718
00:52:48,266 --> 00:52:50,067
We played this forever.
719
00:52:50,168 --> 00:52:54,505
When Brian told you
you'd got a deal with George Martin
720
00:52:54,572 --> 00:52:56,874
who made all the comedy records,
721
00:52:56,941 --> 00:52:59,977
didn't you feel you were scraping
the bottom of the barrel?
722
00:53:00,044 --> 00:53:01,279
No. Not really.
723
00:53:01,345 --> 00:53:06,584
I think we probably wondered why we'd got
the comedy guy and not the music guy.
724
00:53:07,151 --> 00:53:09,153
But I think we loved this so much.
725
00:53:09,220 --> 00:53:12,690
And the other thing about this
is it wasn't just comedy.
726
00:53:13,357 --> 00:53:15,960
There was quite...
There was good music in it.
727
00:53:16,027 --> 00:53:19,897
And things like Right Said Fred,
Goodness Gracious Me,
728
00:53:19,997 --> 00:53:24,569
it was a groovy... You know,
you did good music at those times.
729
00:53:25,903 --> 00:53:30,841
Those recordings with Peter,
and Spike and Irene Handl
730
00:53:31,342 --> 00:53:32,944
helped me in two ways with The Beatles.
731
00:53:33,144 --> 00:53:36,113
First of all, I didn't know them from Adam
732
00:53:36,214 --> 00:53:37,648
but they knew me.
733
00:53:37,748 --> 00:53:39,483
Because they were Goon fans.
734
00:53:39,550 --> 00:53:43,321
They knew all the stuff I had made,
Peter Sellers' stuff and so on.
735
00:53:43,387 --> 00:53:44,455
That was the first help.
736
00:53:45,356 --> 00:53:49,393
Once the boys decided
they would not perform any more,
737
00:53:49,760 --> 00:53:51,696
they wanted just to work in the studio,
738
00:53:51,762 --> 00:53:56,834
building up Sgt Pepper became a bit
like working on a Peter Sellers record,
739
00:53:56,901 --> 00:54:00,304
because you were building
a picture in sound.
740
00:54:43,414 --> 00:54:47,718
Were you to some extent tickled by the fact
that they were playing with music
741
00:54:47,785 --> 00:54:51,222
in a way that perhaps
other rock-and-roll bands didn't dare do?
742
00:54:51,289 --> 00:54:54,692
Yeah. They were becoming quite original.
743
00:54:54,759 --> 00:54:57,061
The thing is that they
were eternally curious.
744
00:54:57,828 --> 00:55:01,465
They wanted to find new ways
of doing what they were doing,
745
00:55:02,033 --> 00:55:06,203
and new harmonies, new endings to songs
and that kind of thing.
746
00:55:06,270 --> 00:55:09,907
They would always want to look beyond
the horizon and not just at it.
747
00:55:17,048 --> 00:55:21,652
There was one time on Rain
where I decided to play around with tapes
748
00:55:23,187 --> 00:55:27,158
and I took John's voice
off as a separate item
749
00:55:27,758 --> 00:55:32,229
and put it on a quarter-inch tape
and turned it back to front
750
00:55:32,330 --> 00:55:34,265
and slid it around a bit
751
00:55:34,365 --> 00:55:36,167
and then put it in on the end of the song.
752
00:55:44,008 --> 00:55:46,177
And I played it to John when he came back.
753
00:55:46,243 --> 00:55:47,912
And he said, "That's gear.
754
00:55:49,914 --> 00:55:51,349
"What is it?"
755
00:55:51,415 --> 00:55:54,719
And I said, "It's you."
And I explained to him what I'd done.
756
00:55:55,353 --> 00:55:57,888
And from that moment,
he wanted everything backwards.
757
00:55:57,955 --> 00:55:59,690
- Yes.
- They all did.
758
00:56:15,106 --> 00:56:19,643
This place, Abbey Road Studios,
was a wonderful musical toy shop.
759
00:56:20,611 --> 00:56:22,513
I'd never got much money,
760
00:56:22,580 --> 00:56:25,950
but I did get the ability
to play in that toy shop.
761
00:56:26,016 --> 00:56:29,587
And so I was able to experiment,
I treated pianos,
762
00:56:29,653 --> 00:56:33,224
putting newspapers through the strings,
that kind of thing.
763
00:56:33,290 --> 00:56:37,728
And backwards music I was doing,
and different speed music.
764
00:56:38,362 --> 00:56:40,664
And I found it interesting.
765
00:56:46,070 --> 00:56:47,138
Shoulder.
766
00:56:54,412 --> 00:56:56,514
- We've got these tape loops.
- Great. Yeah.
767
00:56:56,580 --> 00:57:00,551
We've got the sitar and tamboura.
768
00:57:00,618 --> 00:57:02,186
- And the cymbal.
- Yeah.
769
00:57:02,253 --> 00:57:04,955
It's just... All the way through.
770
00:57:05,022 --> 00:57:07,057
- That was far out then.
- Yeah.
771
00:57:07,124 --> 00:57:11,028
'Cause everything was so pulled back
and a bit neat.
772
00:57:11,095 --> 00:57:14,965
This is when we started to...
This is good reason we stopped touring
773
00:57:15,032 --> 00:57:17,001
and came into the studio.
774
00:57:19,470 --> 00:57:21,272
It was funny, actually.
You know that time...
775
00:57:21,338 --> 00:57:26,243
If you remember, we all came in
rose-coloured or funny-coloured specs.
776
00:57:26,310 --> 00:57:30,381
And where I was living, there
was a little optician round the corner.
777
00:57:30,448 --> 00:57:34,418
And I sort of popped in and said, "Do you do
different-coloured lenses and everything?"
778
00:57:34,485 --> 00:57:35,786
He said, "Yeah, I do anything."
779
00:57:35,853 --> 00:57:41,525
So I ordered up half a dozen
different colours, rose, green, blue
780
00:57:42,193 --> 00:57:43,527
and took them to the sessions.
781
00:57:43,594 --> 00:57:45,705
That was to give you
a bit of an atmosphere in the studio.
782
00:57:45,729 --> 00:57:47,998
I remember all of you saying,
783
00:57:48,065 --> 00:57:52,036
"This is a sterile place, just
white walls and... Bloody awful.
784
00:57:52,102 --> 00:57:54,371
"Can't you do something to liven it up?"
785
00:57:54,939 --> 00:57:59,343
And so then put in three fluorescent stands
786
00:57:59,410 --> 00:58:02,046
with red, blue, and white.
787
00:58:02,513 --> 00:58:04,982
No, it's red and green.
788
00:58:05,583 --> 00:58:07,818
- Was it green?
- I know 'cause I've got them.
789
00:58:07,885 --> 00:58:09,553
- All right.
- They're in my studio.
790
00:58:09,620 --> 00:58:11,531
- Fluorescent pods.
- That was to give you inspiration.
791
00:58:11,555 --> 00:58:13,491
And boy, did it ever.
792
00:58:14,124 --> 00:58:16,193
We grooved after that.
793
00:58:29,473 --> 00:58:34,845
One of the reasons that I'm deaf is that
I used to sit in front of the desk,
794
00:58:34,912 --> 00:58:38,516
because I would then
get right inside the triangle
795
00:58:38,582 --> 00:58:40,451
and I could hear in stereo.
796
00:58:40,518 --> 00:58:42,086
I used to shut my eyes
797
00:58:42,152 --> 00:58:43,921
and hear this arc of sound,
798
00:58:43,988 --> 00:58:46,657
I could hear everything from right to left.
799
00:58:46,724 --> 00:58:49,960
And it seemed to go up, as well,
not just straight in front of me.
800
00:58:50,027 --> 00:58:52,263
That's 'cause you were on drugs.
801
00:58:53,097 --> 00:58:55,499
- Well, it was, in a way, wasn't it?
- Yeah.
802
00:58:55,566 --> 00:58:56,901
It was a kind of drug.
803
00:59:02,039 --> 00:59:04,675
You do an experiment in the studio
and take an oscillator,
804
00:59:04,742 --> 00:59:08,112
so you go... "Can you hear it?"
805
00:59:08,178 --> 00:59:11,649
And us, with young ears at the time,
we'd go, "Yeah.
806
00:59:11,715 --> 00:59:12,850
"Yeah, I can still hear it."
807
00:59:12,917 --> 00:59:15,437
And you'd take it up and up and up
and we go, "We just lost it."
808
00:59:15,486 --> 00:59:19,790
And you said, "Pretty good hearing.
You just went up to... Decibels."
809
00:59:19,857 --> 00:59:22,426
And you said "Now let's do it
the other way." And you go...
810
00:59:22,993 --> 00:59:25,362
You take it down and we go
"Yeah, can hear it.
811
00:59:25,429 --> 00:59:27,498
"Whoa, got the funniest feeling, though."
812
00:59:27,565 --> 00:59:28,975
'Cause you'd really taken it down low.
813
00:59:28,999 --> 00:59:31,635
And you told the story that Hitler...
814
00:59:32,102 --> 00:59:36,173
Hitler's people,
his media people, knew this effect,
815
00:59:36,273 --> 00:59:40,444
and before a rally they would play
a low frequency that nobody could hear.
816
00:59:40,511 --> 00:59:42,980
They'd put that out
and everybody'd be sitting there
817
00:59:43,047 --> 00:59:44,648
going, "I'm not feeling too great."
818
00:59:44,715 --> 00:59:47,694
And the minute before Hitler got there
they'd switch it off and everybody's go,
819
00:59:47,718 --> 00:59:49,620
"Yeah. Hitler."
820
00:59:51,655 --> 00:59:54,024
I loved those little stories
821
00:59:54,091 --> 00:59:56,727
that would be mixed in
with our recording career.
822
01:00:07,638 --> 01:00:10,841
You must have known,
given your background
823
01:00:10,908 --> 01:00:12,977
and the context that you knew of music,
824
01:00:13,043 --> 01:00:17,548
you must have known what an extraordinarily
different song it was from a pop song.
825
01:00:17,615 --> 01:00:19,483
Oh, yeah. Terrific.
826
01:00:19,550 --> 01:00:21,151
Wonderful.
827
01:00:21,752 --> 01:00:24,822
The syncopation in it
was marvellous. The...
828
01:00:31,895 --> 01:00:35,866
That was Paul's work.
All I had to do was just do the strings.
829
01:00:35,933 --> 01:00:38,502
You're being very modest
830
01:00:38,569 --> 01:00:42,573
because, guitar and vocals,
that song is a pretty remarkable song.
831
01:00:42,640 --> 01:00:47,044
It's unusual modally.
It has an English folk song feel to it.
832
01:00:47,111 --> 01:00:50,147
Its lyrics are unusual,
everything about it is unusual.
833
01:00:50,447 --> 01:00:55,119
But the decision to use strings
in that particular way
834
01:00:55,185 --> 01:00:58,589
and with the rhythmic energy of
those strings is what turned it, I think,
835
01:00:58,656 --> 01:01:01,425
from a singer-songwriter song
into something quite extraordinary.
836
01:01:02,059 --> 01:01:05,129
Paul did want to use strings by this time.
837
01:01:05,195 --> 01:01:09,299
And when I heard the song
I thought of Bernard Herrmann
838
01:01:09,366 --> 01:01:11,835
and all the stuff that he did
from the Hitchcock films.
839
01:01:14,338 --> 01:01:19,510
And I thought of the strings being very
short, plain, and very spiky and very...
840
01:01:21,679 --> 01:01:23,947
Hitting. Hitting like a piano.
841
01:01:25,115 --> 01:01:30,587
Which would emphasise
the syncopated nature of the song.
842
01:01:31,055 --> 01:01:34,692
So it's half Paul McCartney,
half Bernard Herrmann.
843
01:01:35,893 --> 01:01:38,328
Nil score to George Martin.
844
01:01:42,332 --> 01:01:46,370
Paul was always
much more interested in music, per se,
845
01:01:47,037 --> 01:01:50,774
whereas John was
always more interested in words, per se.
846
01:01:52,876 --> 01:01:59,583
And, I think this relationship benefited
from the ping pong of those things.
847
01:02:00,451 --> 01:02:05,155
I think Paul always wanted to be
able to write lyrics like John could do.
848
01:02:05,222 --> 01:02:09,093
And John really envied
Paul's gift for melody.
849
01:02:09,426 --> 01:02:14,498
John once said to me, "Let's face it, George,
I don't expect to walk into a bar in Spain
850
01:02:14,832 --> 01:02:17,534
"and hear people
whistling I Am the Walrus."
851
01:02:24,808 --> 01:02:26,310
And I knew what he meant.
852
01:02:26,376 --> 01:02:31,348
But it was that difference between them
which also spurred each other on.
853
01:02:31,415 --> 01:02:33,650
Did they both trust you equally?
854
01:02:33,717 --> 01:02:35,452
I think they trusted me, yes.
855
01:02:35,519 --> 01:02:41,358
I think Paul probably wanted me more
because of the ideas that he would have
856
01:02:41,425 --> 01:02:44,228
to use orchestras or orchestra instruments.
857
01:02:44,928 --> 01:02:47,931
John would not need me as much.
858
01:02:48,932 --> 01:02:51,335
But he did need me sometimes.
859
01:02:56,173 --> 01:02:58,976
It must have been very daunting for George
in the beginning,
860
01:02:59,042 --> 01:03:01,411
because he wanted to be a songwriter.
861
01:03:01,478 --> 01:03:05,415
And the other two, because they worked
so closely together,
862
01:03:06,216 --> 01:03:08,318
they wrote better songs.
863
01:03:08,385 --> 01:03:09,520
But I was encouraging,
864
01:03:09,586 --> 01:03:13,457
'cause I always insisted that
we had one of his songs on the album.
865
01:03:13,891 --> 01:03:17,561
So he came through
by writing some fantastic stuff.
866
01:03:24,501 --> 01:03:25,812
"Something in the way she moves."
867
01:03:25,836 --> 01:03:29,773
Something is one of the best
love songs ever.
868
01:03:53,263 --> 01:03:54,965
There's you doing your mixing.
869
01:03:55,032 --> 01:03:58,435
Here's me producing all the Beatle records,
as I did.
870
01:03:58,502 --> 01:04:00,804
- Not really, just kidding.
- Wry smile on your face.
871
01:04:00,871 --> 01:04:03,774
Wry smile as he sees me
do it completely wrong.
872
01:04:04,942 --> 01:04:08,045
You're saying, "I'll leave him.
He's screwing it up. I'll leave him."
873
01:04:08,111 --> 01:04:11,481
But this is interesting,
because in the very first sessions,
874
01:04:11,548 --> 01:04:15,085
I always say, "We came in the
tradesmen's entrance," if you'd remember.
875
01:04:15,152 --> 01:04:17,621
- We didn't come in through the control room.
- That's right.
876
01:04:17,688 --> 01:04:21,458
But by this time,
we'd got in that control room
877
01:04:21,525 --> 01:04:23,303
- and we're getting up there.
- I know I didn't like it.
878
01:04:23,327 --> 01:04:26,730
Never mind taking over the asylum,
look at us
879
01:04:26,797 --> 01:04:28,932
working it.
880
01:04:35,172 --> 01:04:37,107
Oh, you fool.
881
01:04:37,174 --> 01:04:40,377
- Easy shot.
- You had it all.
882
01:04:40,444 --> 01:04:42,279
I hate you.
883
01:04:42,613 --> 01:04:44,248
Do you mean that?
884
01:04:45,048 --> 01:04:47,284
During the Let It Be stuff,
885
01:04:47,351 --> 01:04:51,855
John came to me and said,
"We don't want your crap on this record."
886
01:04:52,623 --> 01:04:54,958
I said, "What do you mean?" He said,
887
01:04:55,025 --> 01:05:00,230
"We don't want all this production crap
where you overdub voices and you edit
888
01:05:00,697 --> 01:05:02,933
"and you manipulate."
889
01:05:03,867 --> 01:05:06,470
I said, "Okay, what do you want to do?"
890
01:05:06,536 --> 01:05:08,438
"We're gonna make an honest record of this.
891
01:05:08,505 --> 01:05:12,242
"We're gonna perform and you record us.
That's what it's gonna be."
892
01:05:12,709 --> 01:05:15,212
So Let It Be became torture,
893
01:05:15,712 --> 01:05:19,750
because John's premise was to take a song,
894
01:05:20,651 --> 01:05:23,153
rehearse it, get it right and record it.
895
01:05:23,954 --> 01:05:25,789
But they never got it right.
896
01:05:25,856 --> 01:05:32,462
And when I heard that John and George
had taken the tapes out of Abbey Road
897
01:05:33,030 --> 01:05:36,166
and given them to Phil Spector
to make them work
898
01:05:36,867 --> 01:05:38,936
I felt a betrayal, really.
899
01:05:41,171 --> 01:05:43,774
When the record came to be issued,
900
01:05:43,840 --> 01:05:47,210
EMI rang me up and said,
"They don't want your name on the record.
901
01:05:47,277 --> 01:05:49,146
"It will be produced by Phil Spector."
902
01:05:49,646 --> 01:05:53,784
I said, "But I produced all the
original stuff that they worked on."
903
01:05:53,917 --> 01:05:54,952
"Yes, well that..."
904
01:05:55,018 --> 01:05:57,054
I said, "I'm not having that.
905
01:05:57,120 --> 01:06:00,891
"Why don't you put on it
'Produced by George Martin'
906
01:06:00,958 --> 01:06:03,560
"over 'Produced by Phil Spector'?"
907
01:06:03,627 --> 01:06:05,562
But they didn't seem to go for that.
908
01:06:13,236 --> 01:06:17,841
I didn't think we'd work again after
Let It Be. And I didn't really want to.
909
01:06:18,942 --> 01:06:20,444
And when Paul rang me up and said,
910
01:06:20,510 --> 01:06:22,980
"We want you to come in
and produce another record."
911
01:06:23,347 --> 01:06:28,518
I said, "I've been there, Paul. I don't
like it. I don't think I want to do this."
912
01:06:28,585 --> 01:06:33,256
And he said, "Yes, you do.
We all want to get together."
913
01:06:33,323 --> 01:06:35,092
And I said, "What about John?"
914
01:06:35,158 --> 01:06:36,793
"John wants to, too."
915
01:06:37,594 --> 01:06:42,666
And we all got back into the studio again
and John was Honey Pie.
916
01:06:53,076 --> 01:06:55,579
I knew it was the end
and they knew it was the end.
917
01:06:55,645 --> 01:06:58,682
They were coming back for one final stab
918
01:06:58,749 --> 01:07:01,651
at doing something
really worthwhile together
919
01:07:01,718 --> 01:07:03,553
before they went off into the sunset
920
01:07:04,488 --> 01:07:06,656
and their own particular ways.
921
01:07:13,797 --> 01:07:16,400
As people, we weren't that close.
922
01:07:17,434 --> 01:07:19,903
But musically we were still very close.
923
01:07:19,970 --> 01:07:22,105
We just have our argy-bargy, you know.
924
01:07:36,887 --> 01:07:39,723
It was like an eight-year gig for me,
and I still feel that
925
01:07:39,790 --> 01:07:41,925
any band, eight years it's got to end.
926
01:07:46,963 --> 01:07:49,933
It was tough, I think, for everyone
when you parted.
927
01:07:50,000 --> 01:07:51,802
You'd been together for so long.
928
01:07:51,868 --> 01:07:54,371
- Everybody had to find their own thing to do.
- Yeah.
929
01:07:54,438 --> 01:07:57,507
I, on the other hand,
was kind of liberated.
930
01:07:58,508 --> 01:08:00,177
"Thank God that's over."
931
01:08:32,242 --> 01:08:35,011
For the first time in my life,
well, in eight years anyway,
932
01:08:35,078 --> 01:08:36,580
I was a free man.
933
01:08:36,646 --> 01:08:41,651
I wasn't bound by worrying whether the
next record will be in the charts or not.
934
01:08:41,718 --> 01:08:43,553
And I was in demand.
935
01:08:43,887 --> 01:08:46,456
And for the first time,
I got paid well on it, too.
936
01:08:46,523 --> 01:08:48,825
'Cause I never got paid
well on a Beatle song.
937
01:08:48,892 --> 01:08:50,093
So I was quite happy.
938
01:08:50,160 --> 01:08:52,762
- We weren't looking for number ones.
- Right.
939
01:08:52,829 --> 01:08:55,298
- I didn't need number ones.
- Yeah.
940
01:08:55,365 --> 01:08:57,267
- 'Cause I'd had them.
- Right.
941
01:08:58,301 --> 01:09:01,605
I just wanted to do
stuff that I enjoyed doing.
942
01:09:15,218 --> 01:09:21,224
I wanted to try to get George in on this
because it was clear to me
943
01:09:21,691 --> 01:09:25,061
that the experience and work
that he'd done with The Beatles
944
01:09:25,128 --> 01:09:29,032
with symphonic musicians,
classical musicians.
945
01:09:29,099 --> 01:09:32,569
He was really the clear
leader in this world.
946
01:09:32,636 --> 01:09:34,137
And I wanted the leader.
947
01:09:34,604 --> 01:09:38,008
Oh, gosh. One of my
favourite tracks of all.
948
01:09:38,074 --> 01:09:42,212
Smile of the Beyond from Apocalypse
949
01:09:42,279 --> 01:09:44,514
with the Mahavishnu Orchestra.
950
01:09:45,482 --> 01:09:48,418
And every time I hear it, it still sends...
951
01:09:48,852 --> 01:09:52,222
My hairs stand up at the back of my neck.
I think it's fantastic.
952
01:10:07,337 --> 01:10:11,808
It always was comfortable with George.
He didn't just sit behind the glass,
953
01:10:11,875 --> 01:10:15,111
he was down there in the studio with us,
playing piano...
954
01:10:15,178 --> 01:10:18,548
He plays piano on Tin Man.
That's actually George playing...
955
01:10:47,210 --> 01:10:49,379
You had this infallible
956
01:10:49,446 --> 01:10:54,818
choosing of the right instruments
for the right song.
957
01:10:55,418 --> 01:10:58,488
And I knew that my songs were very musical.
958
01:10:59,456 --> 01:11:02,492
And I thought that
there would be good chemistry there.
959
01:11:02,559 --> 01:11:04,194
Great songwriter.
960
01:11:05,729 --> 01:11:10,133
And this is the reason I worked with him,
because I'd always admired what he'd done
961
01:11:10,200 --> 01:11:13,536
ever since he became well-known
for Up, Up and Away.
962
01:11:13,870 --> 01:11:18,441
It's almost pervasive.
It's hard to get away from the idea
963
01:11:18,541 --> 01:11:21,845
that George's arranging and producing
964
01:11:21,911 --> 01:11:25,115
affected almost everything
that came afterwards.
965
01:11:37,294 --> 01:11:42,265
He's letting me make stuff up on the hoof.
And that's where I saw him get excited.
966
01:11:42,332 --> 01:11:43,943
And he goes,
"Okay, we've burnt that one out,
967
01:11:43,967 --> 01:11:46,303
"let's start and do something else."
968
01:11:46,369 --> 01:11:48,948
And we go, "No, George, we really love
where you're going with this."
969
01:11:48,972 --> 01:11:52,742
He said, "No. I know you're gonna
overdo it. You're gonna get sick of it.
970
01:11:52,809 --> 01:11:54,044
"We're gonna move on now."
971
01:11:56,246 --> 01:12:00,750
I gave it the title Blow By Blow because
when you're doing an extempore bit,
972
01:12:00,817 --> 01:12:02,485
you are giving it a blow.
973
01:12:02,552 --> 01:12:05,522
Combine that with the effect of punching,
you know...
974
01:12:06,523 --> 01:12:09,259
Everybody sees this thing, "Great title."
975
01:12:09,326 --> 01:12:11,761
And I'm sure it had
something to do with the success,
976
01:12:11,828 --> 01:12:15,131
because, of course,
it also meant something else.
977
01:12:15,632 --> 01:12:19,469
He could have been
a very suave actor, I think. A fantastic...
978
01:12:22,138 --> 01:12:23,506
Almost a James Bond.
979
01:12:49,499 --> 01:12:54,304
I suppose most people think of a Martini
when they see a Bond film.
980
01:12:59,476 --> 01:13:04,280
But, in fact, the Martini was the most
elegant cocktail ever devised, I reckon.
981
01:13:04,781 --> 01:13:10,854
And it was the favourite drink of the
Algonquin set in New York in the '30s.
982
01:13:10,920 --> 01:13:13,289
So what we need is a decent bottle of gin.
983
01:13:13,356 --> 01:13:15,658
I happen to like this particular one,
984
01:13:15,725 --> 01:13:18,395
which is a Tanqueray drink, gin.
985
01:13:18,461 --> 01:13:22,031
Plenty of ice.
And a little bit dry Martini vermouth.
986
01:13:22,932 --> 01:13:25,034
And that's it, really.
987
01:13:25,101 --> 01:13:28,972
The purist will say you shouldn't shake it
because it bruises the gin.
988
01:13:29,038 --> 01:13:31,441
Nonsense. It makes it colder.
989
01:13:37,714 --> 01:13:40,383
And voilà, your Martini is made.
990
01:13:44,954 --> 01:13:46,890
And there we are.
991
01:13:46,956 --> 01:13:48,057
Couldn't be simpler.
992
01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:51,227
Of course, it's a pretty strong drink.
993
01:13:51,728 --> 01:13:55,498
Like Dorothy Parker said.
"I like to have a Martini.
994
01:13:56,533 --> 01:13:58,835
"Two at the very most.
995
01:13:58,902 --> 01:14:02,272
"After three, I'm under the table.
996
01:14:02,338 --> 01:14:05,175
"After four, I'll be under my host."
997
01:14:06,342 --> 01:14:07,710
Cheers.
998
01:14:19,989 --> 01:14:22,859
Do you remember where that was taken
and who took it?
999
01:14:22,926 --> 01:14:25,161
- I could be Linda taking it.
- It is Linda.
1000
01:14:25,228 --> 01:14:27,630
- Is it? 'Cause it looks like her work.
- Yeah.
1001
01:14:29,399 --> 01:14:31,501
- It could be Montserrat.
- It is Montserrat.
1002
01:14:31,568 --> 01:14:33,303
- It is Montserrat. Yeah.
- Well done.
1003
01:14:33,369 --> 01:14:36,506
- Montserrat is still alive...
- Gorgeous, that's a beautiful picture.
1004
01:14:36,573 --> 01:14:38,608
My favourite shot that is.
1005
01:14:50,620 --> 01:14:53,590
I saw an in-flight magazine
1006
01:14:53,656 --> 01:14:57,293
which talked about the emerald isle
of the Caribbean,
1007
01:14:57,360 --> 01:14:59,596
an island called Montserrat.
1008
01:15:01,331 --> 01:15:05,468
The thing that struck me about Montserrat
was that everybody was so friendly
1009
01:15:05,935 --> 01:15:07,937
and it's still like that.
1010
01:15:08,505 --> 01:15:12,842
I think that was the chief reason
why I decided to buy that property
1011
01:15:12,909 --> 01:15:16,412
and start a high-tech studio
on a remote island.
1012
01:15:18,615 --> 01:15:22,051
I went back to England
and everyone said how crazy I was.
1013
01:15:22,118 --> 01:15:23,920
And, of course, I was crazy.
1014
01:15:36,733 --> 01:15:38,434
It's painful because
1015
01:15:39,168 --> 01:15:43,573
it used to be such a fantastic place,
so full of activity.
1016
01:15:43,640 --> 01:15:45,041
With great people.
1017
01:15:46,009 --> 01:15:48,211
We used to work in the studio.
1018
01:15:48,478 --> 01:15:50,713
In the evening, we
would sit down to dinner,
1019
01:15:50,780 --> 01:15:56,185
and as many as 24 people would be
sitting down and having a nice meal.
1020
01:15:58,621 --> 01:16:01,457
And we worked hard and we played hard,
1021
01:16:01,524 --> 01:16:03,726
made some great records here.
1022
01:17:08,591 --> 01:17:14,364
I wasn't able to get to Montserrat after
the hurricane until after about six weeks.
1023
01:17:15,131 --> 01:17:19,736
So I got a flashlamp and I went into
the studio to see how that had fared,
1024
01:17:19,802 --> 01:17:22,505
whether there'd been any leaks or not.
1025
01:17:22,572 --> 01:17:26,376
I went over to the piano
and opened the keyboard.
1026
01:17:26,442 --> 01:17:31,547
All the ivory keys were
covered in green mould.
1027
01:17:31,614 --> 01:17:34,450
It looked like the baize
of a snooker table.
1028
01:17:35,685 --> 01:17:37,754
I realised then we were done.
1029
01:17:37,820 --> 01:17:41,024
Because I knew if the piano's like that,
1030
01:17:41,758 --> 01:17:44,694
what's the inside of
all our electronics like?
1031
01:17:47,797 --> 01:17:53,136
It's like seeing something you've created
falling into disrepair.
1032
01:17:53,903 --> 01:17:57,940
But it's like everything in life, isn't it?
Everything has a period.
1033
01:17:59,275 --> 01:18:01,711
You bring something out of nothing
1034
01:18:01,778 --> 01:18:05,148
but it always goes back to nothing again.
Whatever.
1035
01:18:27,537 --> 01:18:30,006
The old place hasn't changed a bit.
1036
01:18:30,073 --> 01:18:31,874
Looks very good.
1037
01:18:32,775 --> 01:18:35,478
They've got the names on the seats now.
1038
01:18:38,247 --> 01:18:39,849
- Here?
- Yeah.
1039
01:18:39,916 --> 01:18:42,018
It all looks in pretty good nick, really.
1040
01:18:43,953 --> 01:18:46,556
And how long has it been running now?
1041
01:18:47,190 --> 01:18:49,726
- Two years? Maybe more?
- Yeah. Three years.
1042
01:18:49,792 --> 01:18:51,094
- Three years.
- Must be. Yeah.
1043
01:18:51,994 --> 01:18:55,298
It's been a godsend, really and truly.
1044
01:18:55,364 --> 01:18:56,699
Where would we have gone?
1045
01:18:56,766 --> 01:19:00,803
All those weddings, the plays,
the performances...
1046
01:19:00,870 --> 01:19:05,942
It has been used for church services.
It's been used for funerals.
1047
01:19:06,008 --> 01:19:07,577
It's used for dinners.
1048
01:19:07,643 --> 01:19:11,514
In fact, I heard one person refer to it
as the national dining room.
1049
01:19:12,915 --> 01:19:16,419
Cultural Centre is very important
to the Montserrat community.
1050
01:19:16,486 --> 01:19:18,788
It's used practically for everything.
1051
01:19:18,855 --> 01:19:22,792
All in all, it becomes a central focus
for cultural life in Montserrat.
1052
01:19:23,359 --> 01:19:24,761
Are you very proud of it?
1053
01:19:24,827 --> 01:19:27,597
- I am proud of it. Aren't you?
- Yeah, very proud of it.
1054
01:19:28,131 --> 01:19:29,465
We did it.
1055
01:19:30,533 --> 01:19:34,504
- Yeah. It's been successful.
- And they've kept it very well.
1056
01:19:34,570 --> 01:19:36,672
- Yeah.
- It looks really nice.
1057
01:21:01,958 --> 01:21:03,392
Very nice.
1058
01:21:03,459 --> 01:21:05,561
I've worked with so many great people.
1059
01:21:05,628 --> 01:21:09,165
I've been given
all sorts of awards and accolades.
1060
01:21:09,232 --> 01:21:12,835
And I say,
"Well, is this really me that's getting it?
1061
01:21:13,569 --> 01:21:15,271
"Who are you to get all this stuff?"
1062
01:21:41,197 --> 01:21:43,799
I was worried about working with Giles.
1063
01:21:43,866 --> 01:21:48,671
He'd been working as my assistant,
on and off on various projects I'd done.
1064
01:21:48,738 --> 01:21:53,242
But when it came to the Cirque du Soleil
show, I knew that I needed him.
1065
01:21:53,309 --> 01:21:57,980
Mainly because of my hearing, but also
because of the magnitude of the task.
1066
01:21:59,115 --> 01:22:02,251
And so I said, "Look, do you want to
work with me on this?"
1067
01:22:02,318 --> 01:22:04,287
He said, "Yes, I'd love to, Dad."
1068
01:22:04,353 --> 01:22:06,822
I said, "If you do,
we'll do it as partners.
1069
01:22:06,889 --> 01:22:10,693
"You won't be my assistant.
We'll be equal 50-50."
1070
01:22:11,894 --> 01:22:14,830
How did you settle any differences you had?
1071
01:22:15,298 --> 01:22:18,601
Oh, I generally hit him over the head
with a hammer.
1072
01:22:59,375 --> 01:23:04,013
As we speak, it's just a few months away
from the fifth anniversary
1073
01:23:04,480 --> 01:23:06,148
of the Cirque du Soleil show.
1074
01:23:06,549 --> 01:23:10,386
And I promised I'd go along
and join in the celebrations.
1075
01:23:10,453 --> 01:23:15,157
And with a great air of bravado, I said,
"I'll come to the 10th one, as well."
1076
01:23:16,092 --> 01:23:19,295
Whether the show will last for 10 years,
1077
01:23:19,362 --> 01:23:22,498
whether I will last
for 10 years, let's see.
1078
01:23:28,871 --> 01:23:31,107
- Thank you.
- Okay.
1079
01:23:32,108 --> 01:23:34,076
I'm just counting my money.
1080
01:23:36,612 --> 01:23:40,816
I've led a wonderful life. Can't complain.
I've got a fantastic family.
1081
01:23:41,484 --> 01:23:44,353
And I've had a great
deal of love in my life.
1082
01:23:44,420 --> 01:23:46,022
...that many mulberries?
1083
01:23:46,088 --> 01:23:49,025
That's not a mulberry, that's a catalpa.
1084
01:23:49,091 --> 01:23:51,694
- Catalpa?
- Catalpa, yes.
1085
01:23:51,761 --> 01:23:54,797
Getting old is not
fun. It's not for sissies.
1086
01:23:54,864 --> 01:23:57,767
Dylan Thomas raged against the dying light.
1087
01:23:58,367 --> 01:24:02,371
The truth of the matter is,
you can do damn all about it.
1088
01:24:02,438 --> 01:24:04,974
If you're lucky, you get to be old.
1089
01:24:05,841 --> 01:24:09,612
I do live each day
as though I won't see tomorrow.
1090
01:24:09,678 --> 01:24:13,315
Because that's the way to look at it.
1091
01:24:13,382 --> 01:24:17,153
So what the hell am I doing
wasting time talking to you now.
1092
01:24:23,726 --> 01:24:30,066
I'll give you anything, my friend,
if it makes you feel all right.
1093
01:24:30,132 --> 01:24:35,504
But I don't care too much for money,
money can't buy me love.
1094
01:24:36,605 --> 01:24:40,776
I'll give you all I've got to give,
1095
01:24:40,843 --> 01:24:44,814
if you say you love me, too.
1096
01:24:44,880 --> 01:24:49,185
I may not have a lot to give,
1097
01:24:49,251 --> 01:24:53,789
but what I've got I'll give to you.
1098
01:24:53,856 --> 01:24:59,528
But I don't care too much for money,
money cannot buy me love.
1099
01:24:59,595 --> 01:25:02,832
- "Can't buy me love"?
- No.
1100
01:25:02,898 --> 01:25:06,135
- Everybody tells me so.
- Naughty.
1101
01:25:06,202 --> 01:25:08,437
- "Can't buy me love"?
- No.
1102
01:25:08,504 --> 01:25:10,573
No, no, no.
1103
01:25:11,674 --> 01:25:14,243
- Oh, stop it.
- Well, then.
1104
01:25:14,343 --> 01:25:20,549
Say you don't need no diamond ring
and I'll be satisfied.
1105
01:25:20,616 --> 01:25:26,689
Tell me that you want the kind of things
that money just can't buy.
1106
01:25:26,755 --> 01:25:29,825
But, you see,
I just don't care too much for money,
1107
01:25:29,892 --> 01:25:32,561
money cannot buy me love.
1108
01:25:32,628 --> 01:25:33,829
I see.
1109
01:25:35,764 --> 01:25:37,833
- Well, good night.
- Balls.
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