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It's The Beatles!

Thank you.

Those guys are nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys.

It's not true, it's not true.

When The Beatles arrived, from then on,

a thousand different things arose.

- It's sort of sexy. - Yes, it's sexual, completely.

♪ I burn you up. ♪

There is a desire to get power in order to use it for good.

♪ How does it feel? ♪

Pop musicians in today's generation... They could rule the world.

♪ She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah. ♪

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This is Beatle Land, formerly known as Britain,

where an epidemic called Beatlemania has seized the teenage population,

especially female.

CBS, they do a story on what they probably think

is a goofy band from England that's doing quite well.

These 4 boys from Liverpool, with their dish-mop hairstyles,

are Britain's latest musical and, in fact, sociological phenomenon.

They symbolize the 20th century non-hero,

as they make non-music, wear not haircuts, give non-mercy.

Meanwhile, yeah, yeah, yeah.

This is Alexander Kendrick in Beatle Land.

Some little girl heard just a hint of what The Beatles were about

and starts calling her local deejay.

The local deejay asks his friend to bring over a Beatles record from England.

And has the vision to put it on and hear that there's something happening.

So Marsha Albert of Dublin Drive, Silver Spring

has the honor of introducing something brand new,

an exclusive here at WWDC.

Marsha, the microphone here on The Carroll James Show is yours.

Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the United States,

here are The Beatles singing "I Want to Hold Your Hand."

♪ Oh, yeah, I'll tell you something I think you'll understand. ♪

That song really started to take off.

It was impossible to anticipate how much that momentum would continue.

♪ I want to hold your hand. ♪

Hi, everybody all over America. This is the WABC Party Go Go. Whew!

♪ I want to hold your hand. ♪

That song is absolutely contagious.

And I think the teenager found a voice.

Here's what's happening, baby, The Beatles!

♪ I get high. Yeah, you... ♪

There was a moment where you just heard, this is our music now.

It was like hearing the future.

♪ I want to hold your hand. ♪

I have to ask how you first found out about them.

Well, Sylvia and I first found out about The Beatles at London Airport.

There was an enormous crowd of kids gathered around.

When Sylvia and I asked them what was going on,

they said, The Beatles were here.

We didn't even know who The Beatles were. We'd never heard of them.

And that night, I booked Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney,

George Harrison, and John Lennon for 3 shows for $10,000.

You know, for 4 white guys who were British,

to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was quite unbelievable.

The Beatles are a bunch of guys from Liverpool.

I mean, people in London would have looked down at Liverpool back then.

But Liverpool was a port town,

and these port towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged.

And one of them, at that point, was great music.

A lot of the sailors and people that were coming back to America

were bringing back these records. And some were pop records.

Some were called race records because they were by black artists.

♪ Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true? Oh Maybellene, why can't you be true? ♪

The level of influence that American rock 'n' roll,

blues, country and western, Motown had on those kids growing up in England

was really amazing.

♪ All of my love, all of my kisses. ♪

♪ You don't know what you've been missing. Oh boy, when you're with me, oh boy. ♪

So I would listen to Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, and Jerry Lee Lewis,

Fats Domino, all the great rock 'n' rollers.

♪ Oh, Blueberry Hill... ♪

It was like a new language for us.

The power of the jukebox... There's nothing quite like it.

♪ My dream came true. ♪

The Beatles took a bunch of those strains.

The Everly Brothers from the '50s was a big influence for them with the harmonies.

♪ Wake up, little Suzy, wake up. Wake up, little Suzy, wake up. ♪

So The Beatles of Liverpool are taking this pop sound,

but putting their own spin on it.

♪ Some other guy now, has taken my love away from me. ♪

♪ Oh, now... ♪

What is the sound? How does it differ from other rock 'n' roll?

It just happened that, all of a sudden,

hundreds of rock groups all from Liverpool made records.

And it was a bit more like the original rock 'n' roll

than the stuff they've had over the last few months.

Initially, there was no tradition of great British bands conquering America.

That had not happened. But it's that moment where everything turns.

There's no single moment that more embodies the moment

when rock 'n' roll became the province of teenagers.

That was something that you would not just love,

but that you would go crazy for.

There's The Beatles!

♪ Can't buy me love, love. Can't buy me love. ♪

The Beatles have come to this country and taken all our women away,

and everybody's going crazy about them.

It was like aliens landed.

Look at how they look and how they act and they... Wow!

♪ I don't care too much for money. Money can't buy me love. ♪

We came here at 6:00 in the morning, 5:30 to see them.

And all they do is push you farther and farther away.

And then they don't even let you see them.

I got every Beatle record at home. And we didn't get to see them.

What kind of police protection? I'd like to get a piece of The Beatles!

I don't know why they got them out of here!

Paul, Ringo, George, John.

The reporters had the same attitude that most adults in America had,

which was no one took musicians seriously.

They didn't understand anything about youth culture.

Would you cut that crap out?

Cut that crap out!

The press had gone into this with the idea

that this was a youthful novelty that could be dismissed

and maybe even deflated in a press conference.

- No, no, no. - I had one yesterday.

You guys are nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys.

It's not true, it's not true.

- Will you sing something? - No, sorry.

No, we need money first.

When you saw them sparring with the press,

it was just another aspect of them that made them even more unique.

Tomorrow night at 7:00, The Beatles read their own poetry

on a documentary, Meet The Beatles.

- Oh, really? - I don't get that.

If Elvis was the first wave of mega-fandom,

then The Beatles sort of blew that out the water,

to the point where even Elvis was losing sleep.

The city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!

Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!

♪ Well, she was just 17. ♪

♪ You know what I mean. And the way she looked... ♪

The Beatles showed up with their great sense of humor,

their completely infectious pop songs,

with their, whew! Their everything.

It was just impossible not to fall in love with them.

As soon as they started playing on The Ed Sullivan Show,

we all knew they're playing live, because that doesn't sound like the record.

The idea of driving, swinging, R&B

mixed with imaginative wordplay and lyrics and harmonies

and the perfect 3-minute record... They defined it.

The Beatles took this dream of what America represented,

the freedom that was in American music. And they brought it back to us

with an excitement and a ferocity that we didn't have.

And with longer hair.

73 million people watched that night.

♪ Since I saw her standing there. ♪

When The Beatles did the Sullivan Show, everything at the radio station changed.

There were no more requests other than The Beatles.

Looking back, I believe without Ed Sullivan,

there wouldn't have been a British Invasion.

Gerry and the Pacemakers!

It wasn't just The Beatles. The British Invasion had legs

because there was more great music to back it up.

A big hello. I'm Mike.

- Rick Huxley. - I'm Lenny.

- I'm Denis. - I'm Dave.

For the first 6 months they were singing, they sold over a million records a month.

And in the words of one of their biggest hit songs,

we're mighty glad all over to have them with us tonight.

Ladies and gentlemen, The Dave Clark Five.

♪ You say that you love me. ♪ ♪ Say you love me... ♪

♪ All of the time. ♪ ♪ All of the time... ♪

♪ You say that you need me. ♪ ♪ Say you need me... ♪

♪ You'll always be mine. ♪ ♪ Always be mine... ♪

♪ I'm feeling glad all over. ♪

♪ Yes, I'm-a glad all over. ♪

♪ Baby, I'm glad all over. So glad you're mine. ♪

You guys are rivaling The Beatles now as the top singing group in Britain.

- How do you feel about that? - Boy, very pleased.

But I don't think you'd say we'll be rivals.

We've got a completely different sound.

We were the first band to tour America. We did, I think it was 46 cities.

Then you realized you had made it.

And suddenly, it's like the gates of hell are opened.

♪ Something tells me I'm into something good. ♪

Every transatlantic ocean liner

seems to have another British band on it

that rockets up to the top of the American charts.

♪ So ferry 'cross the Mersey, and always take me there. ♪

There was this powder keg of energy from the young people in England

and touch the flame to the fuse, and boom!

♪ Moving on their way. ♪ ♪ Walking down the highways and by-ways. ♪

♪ Moving on their way. ♪ ♪ People with their shy ways and sly ways. ♪

Maybe she's not there, but they're here and they're The Zombies.

♪ But it's too late to say you're sorry. ♪

♪ How would I know? Why should I care? ♪

♪ Please don't bother trying to find her, she's not there. ♪

♪ Well let me tell you about the way she looked, ♪

♪ the way she acted, and the color of her hair. ♪

♪ Her voice was soft and cool. Her eyes were clear and bright. ♪

♪ But she's not there. ♪

I love The Zombies because they were keyboard-oriented.

Rod Argent, the first guy to really develop the idea of

rock 'n' roll soloing on a keyboard.

It's a first-time welcome now, for the top 4 with their top hit,

"You Really Got Me Going," The Kinks.

♪ Girl, you really got me going. You got me so I don't know what I'm doing. ♪

The Kinks were already, you know, a very big band in the U.K.,

but if you break in America you break big and you sell a lot of records.

♪ Yeah, you really got me now. You got me so I don't know what I'm doing. ♪

♪ Oh, yeah. You really got me now. ♪

♪ You got me so I can't sleep at night. You really got me. ♪

♪ You really got me. You really got me. ♪

Before you were called The Animals, you had another name.

What made you change it to The Animals?

Well, because we were a bunch of animals.

The Animals were a grittier R&B-based band

with Eric Burdon, who wasn't cute like a Beatle.

He was a little more dangerous.

- Now, you're going to do the new record first? - Yeah.

- And it's called...? - The House of the Rising Sun.

That song was the song that Bob Dylan had already recorded

a year or two earlier like a folk, traditional song.

Bob came along with his album, House of the Rising Sun.

It was crying out to be rocked.

♪ My mother was a tailor. ♪

♪ She sewed my new blue jeans. ♪

♪ My father was a gambling man down in New Orleans. ♪

The English group music thing that also arose were groups

not only who were performing their own stuff

compact on the stage. They didn't need anyone else.

They just had the four blokes with their amplifiers, guitars.

They could do the lot.

The Who are just sort of like in that catalytic converter of rock 'n' roll.

They were maybe the most explosive musical unit.

♪ I'm a daddy. ♪ ♪ Daddy rolling stone. ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm a daddy. ♪ ♪ Daddy rolling stone. ♪

♪ I'm a daddy. ♪

Yeah. It was interesting. The Beatles all lock in

and play together and help each other.

♪ I'm daddy rolling stone! ♪

The Who is like four different creatures who aren't even like noticing each other.

Everyone in The Who was like the lead player in The Who.

All these great bands created this thirst in music.

But the ones that really had the true, true talent

have really stood the test of time.

Five singing boys from England who've sold a lot of albums.

They're called The Rolling Stones. I've been rolled while I was stoned myself.

I don't know what they're singing about, but here they are.

♪ I don't want to be no slave. ♪

♪ I don't want to work all day. ♪

♪ I don't want you to be true. ♪

♪ I just want to make love to you, baby. ♪

Here come the Stones We're the bad boys of this British Invasion.

And the girls went crazy.

♪ Love you, baby, till the night train. ♪

- It's sort of sexy. - Yes, it's sexual, completely.

♪ Love to you, love to you. ♪

- You've been doing this now for how many years? - 2 years.

2 years. How much longer do you give yourself doing this thing?

Going around being a sort of...?

I don't know. I never thought we'd be doing it for 2 years, even.

I think we're sort of pretty well set up for at least another year.

Well, when we first started playing together,

we started playing because we wanted to play rhythm and blues.

And Howlin' Wolf is one of our greatest idols.

It's a great pleasure to find he's been booked on this show tonight.

- It really is a pleasure. - Thanks for having us.

So I think it's about time you shut up and we have Howlin' Wolf on stage.

Howlin' Wolf!

♪ How many more years? Oh, I got to let you dog me around. ♪

The Rolling Stones invite Howlin' Wolf,

who is a 60-year-old black man from the south side of Chicago

who never in a million years would have been on Shindig,

and there he is.

♪ You couldn't believe a word I say. ♪

The Stones clearly wore their heart on their sleeves

for blues and R&B.

You can hear traces of Delta blues inside of Keith's guitar.

They tried to be as authentic to the core as possible.

Even so much that, you know, their first few American recordings

were done in Chess, in Chicago.

♪ The dogs begin to bark. ♪

♪ The hounds begin to howl. ♪

We've got to get the Chicago kids used to rhythm and blues.

That's where it started.

You know, the white people over there know nothing about rhythm and blues at all.

Because it's Negro music, isn't it?

In America, even in the black community, to some degree,

had abandoned certain aspects of black culture

even by the mid 60s.

The blues in particular had been sort of pushed aside by soul music

and R&B, which were considered more modern.

♪ All you pretty women, stand in line. ♪

♪ Make love to you, babe, one at a time. ♪

The Stones, The Animals, The Yardbirds. British groups picked up the American blues

where the Americans had kind of let it go.

And in a strange way, we were taking back to America

what America had given us, which is American music.

♪ I'm gonna tell Aunt Mary about Uncle John. ♪

♪ He claims he has the misery, but he has a lot of fun. ♪

♪ Oh baby, yes, baby. Woo! ♪

You and Chuck have kind of taken England by storm.

How do you feel about other people borrowing your material?

I'm very grateful to know that my material

is the type of material that the entertainers today would like to use.

♪ Well Long Tall Sally's built pretty sweet. ♪

♪ She got everything that Uncle John need. ♪

♪ Oh, baby. Yeah now, baby. Woo! ♪

The British Invasion played a huge role

in not just introducing themselves to America

but reintroducing a lot of black music to mainstream America.

♪ It's gonna be all right, all right, all right. ♪

♪ It's gonna be all right. ♪

♪ The day you came my way, I knew that I would stay ♪

♪ close by your side, to keep you satisfied. ♪

♪ It's gonna be all right, all right, all right. ♪

The same year that The Beatles play on Ed Sullivan for the first time

is the first year The T.A.M.I. Show comes out as a movie.

You know, and T.A.M.I. Show has got everybody.

The T.A.M.I Show was really the first rock 'n' roll concert movie.

Stones headlining, and the first time that

us white kids got to see James Brown.

And nobody, you know, will ever get over it.

♪ You got your high-heeled sneakers on. ♪

♪ Slip-in mules. ♪

Everyone remembers James Brown's performance.

He gave them what black audiences had been seeing for years.

But it'd not really been seen outside of the black community.

And people were electrified by it.

James Brown just kills the show.

Just like, what's the phrase they have in gospel music?

He wrecks house.

♪ I just wanna hear you say I, ♪

♪ I, I, I, I... ♪

And it really began his journey into becoming a mainstream figure.

♪ Please, please, please, please, please! ♪

♪ Don't go! ♪

The Stones then close and they were afraid

it was the biggest mistake they ever made,

following James Brown.

♪ Yeah, reeling and a-rocking. What a crazy sound. ♪

♪ And they never stopped rocking till the moon went down. ♪

We see, you know, Jagger coming alive, you know.

Doing things that he hadn't done before.

It was great because you're seeing a seasoned professional with James Brown,

and a young performer and band

figuring out who the hell they are.

When I stay put, I mean stay put.

Don't cane me, sir. I was led astray.

Oh shut up, John. They're waiting for you in the studio.

Good, I'm dying to do a bit of work.

- Oh, it's the teacher's pet. - Crawler.

- Betrayed the class? - Oh, lay off.

You get a move on. They're waiting for you.

♪ It's been a hard day's night. ♪

"A Hard Day's Night" just sort of perfectly encapsulated Beatlemania.

It is the most perfect representation of 1964 Beatles.

Brian Epstein said, "If The Beatles were going to go, they were going to go big."

And they went big.

The fact that the The Beatles are exposed

as writers of hit songs exposed them to the public even more

than perhaps just a pop singing idol would.

They made the announcement that they were going to tour America.

The Beatles wanted $25,000.

Well, I didn't have $25,000.

So I borrowed $25,000 on the house.

There were no computers, but we sold out in 3 and a half hours.

17,000 screaming youngsters

have jammed the way into the huge amphitheater.

But they are the lucky ones.

Outside, thousands of others were not so fortunate.

Here they are. The Beatles.

♪ I'm gonna let you down. ♪ ♪ Let you down. ♪

♪ And leave you flat. ♪ ♪ Let you down and leave you flat. ♪

♪ Because I told you before, oh, you can't do that. ♪

The Beatles output was phenomenal.

They seemed to always be either touring, making a movie, or making a record.

♪ No, you can't do that. ♪

Hello. You see these little fellas? They're The Beatles.

Inflatable Beatles. They're yours for just $2.

They had posters, and magazines,

and stickers, and dolls, and cartoons.

Like this is the start of where the teenager becomes

the most desirable target for the dollar.

I live in the projects in Brooklyn, you know, in a black community

and The Beatles were everywhere.

So, it wasn't like this was a white phenomenon.

They were everywhere.

The Beatles created a rock industry.

They were selling in ways that no one had ever sold before

and they were playing venues that were bigger than anyone had ever played before.

Ladies and gentlemen.

Honored by their country,

decorated by their Queen,

and loved here in America, here are The Beatles.

♪ Help me if you can, I'm feeling down. ♪

♪ And I do appreciate you being 'round. ♪

♪ Help me get my feet back on the ground. ♪

♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪

♪ Help me, help me. ♪

Have you got time to actually spend this money?

- What money? - Doesn't he give any to you?

No, no.

The Beatles taught every other band that writing your own music

made you more powerful.

It's got more energy. That last line's got wrong.

I think it was really funny about a band like The Stones is

they did tons of covers in their first couple of albums.

It wasn't until they really figured out how to write their own songs

that they really became a real band.

They really had to find their own voice.

♪ I can't get no satisfaction. ♪

♪ I can't get no satisfaction. ♪

♪ I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried, and I've tried. ♪

♪ I can't get no, I can't get no. ♪

♪ When I'm driving in my car and the man comes on the radio. ♪

♪ He's telling me more and more about some useless information, ♪

♪ supposed to fire my imagination. ♪

♪ I can't get no, oh, no, no. ♪

There was a dialogue that was going on between

soul music and the British Invasion.

A, because there's a way for me to make a nod to the mainstream.

And B, because the songs, you know, were good.

♪ I can't get no, oh, no. I can't get no, oh, no. ♪

His "Satisfaction" is fantastic. He doesn't know all the words, even.

And he doesn't care. He's just kind of singing the song.

♪ To try to find somebody to love me. ♪

♪ And give me some reaction. And I can find nobody. ♪

At the time, Motown and the British Invasion,

they're going hand-in-hand, sort of redefining what

America dances and listens and socializes too.

Motown, it evolved with the rest of the world,

but we did have to compete

with the British Invasion for places on the charts.

♪ You really got a hold on me. ♪ ♪ You really got a hold on me. ♪

♪ I say, you really got a hold on me. You really got a hold on me. ♪

The first time I heard "You Really Got a Hold on Me" by The Beatles,

I was very, very, very happy.

♪ I don't like you, but I love you. ♪

The Beatles chose one of my songs, and they wrote great songs.

♪ Oh, I did something wrong. ♪

♪ Now I long for yesterday. ♪

This is called "Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man."

I'm going to play a song for you today.

A lot of the stuff that Dylan wrote in 63, 64, and 65 was very political.

It wasn't really what The Beatles were doing, and it wasn't what The Stones were doing,

or the Kinks were doing, or any of those rock 'n' roll bands.

And for a period of time, there was this distinction

between the folk culture and the rock 'n' roll culture.

♪ Hey, Mr. Tambourine man, play a song for me. ♪

♪ I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going... ♪

In 1964, during that first tour,

The Beatles had the opportunity to meet Bob Dylan.

He understood what they were doing, musically, and they were awakened

and they were awakened by the more personal perspective of his songs.

Dylan was a huge influence on John Lennon.

I think it inspired him to write more serious songs, deeper songs,

and be more experimental lyrically.

♪ I once once had had a girl, or should I say she once had me. ♪

Bob Dylan going electric is another one of those big, seismic changes

in the pop music era in the 60s.

He was bold enough to leave his comfort zone.

♪ I ain't going to work on Maggie's farm no more. ♪

It's not just about Dylan going electric,

but it's also about the fusion of

an emerging tradition in popular music that was really political,

with rock 'n' roll, which had largely not been overtly political.

- Boo! - Boo!

There's nothing like the feeling of your audience

not being with you and walking out on you.

People took it personally.

You know, who needs him anymore? He's a part of your establishment, and forget him.

- Where are all my friends? - Right here.

They felt betrayed. Like you're supposed to be our Woody Guthrie.

You sold out.

♪ How does it feel? ♪

♪ How does it feel to be on your own? ♪

♪ With no direction home? ♪

Not only did he take it, but he managed to just choke-hold them all

and make them see his vision.

♪ Like a rolling stone. ♪

Other musicians started bringing poetry, and politics,

and soul-searching to popular music.

♪ Men shall know and men shall see that we all are brothers and we all are free. ♪

It was obvious to me and The Hollies that we had

a responsibility as artists to reflect our world around us

and we utilized our music to be able to reach people.

Pop musicians in today's generation, I mean, they're fantastic.

- They could rule the world, man. - Well I don't agree.

Why don't we do more of it? We could stop world wars before they're ever started.

I disagree. I don't believe that.

You know who start world wars? People that are over 40.

Really?

That conversation was unstoppable. You couldn't shut it down.

♪ And he's oh, so good. And he's oh, so fine. ♪

♪ And he's oh, so healthy in his body and his mind. ♪

♪ He's a well-respected man about town. ♪

♪ Doing the best things so conservatively. ♪

I think Ray Davies from The Kinks and Pete Townshend from The Who

were the 2 social commentators.

♪ People try to put us down. ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ Just because we get around. ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ Things they do look awful cold. ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ I hope I die before I get old. Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ This is my generation. This is my generation, baby. ♪

♪ Why don't you all fade away? ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ Don't try to dig what we all say. ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

♪ Just talking about my generation. ♪ ♪ Talkin' about my generation. ♪

Every political move, nation to nation,

is really to try and break down these barriers between people.

♪ This is my generation. ♪

All of them were obsessively listening to one another.

And what became the game was

who can take rock 'n' roll someplace more interesting?

♪ If I needed someone to love, you're the one that I'd be thinking of. ♪

♪ If I needed someone. ♪

You know, records had been 2 or 3 or your singles,

some covers of some other artists' songs,

and just a bunch of filler.

Rubber Soul basically started the idea of the record as a complete statement.

That's really a game-changer.

♪ In my life, I love you more. ♪

I think that Brian and The Beach Boys felt that he didn't fit in

to this new British Invasion thing that was happening.

♪ Round, round, get around, I get around. ♪

♪ Round, round, get around, I get around. ♪

♪ Round, round, get around, I get around. ♪

When The Beach Boys heard Rubber Soul,

Brian Wilson was inspired to try to create something

as pure and beautiful as in this album,

and everything was great.

I remember going over to Brian's house

and I looked into the living room and I saw that

everything had been taken out, except the piano.

And the living room was completely filled with sand.

He said, "I'm going to write the greatest album ever recorded."

Let's go. It's getting late.

Nice. Nice one.

In the mid 60s, you see Brian Wilson retreating into the studio.

And he is concentrating on writing and producing these amazing songs.

♪ I may not always love you, ♪

♪ But 'long as there are stars above you... ♪

The recording studio had been a rigid place

where there were engineers literally in like suits, and ties, and lab coats,

when all of a sudden, there were these crazy young geniuses

who reinvented the studio as an instrument to be played with.

♪ God only knows what I'd be without you. ♪

Technology is evolving for how to record,

and Brian Wilson was absolutely on the cutting edge of that.

♪ Wouldn't it be nice if we were older, then we wouldn't have to wait so long. ♪

Music in the 60s was like any great art movement.

The greatest practitioners of it pushed one another to be better.

Love the mic on the piano. Quite low tone.

In the studio, The Beatles' natural creativity

was sort of brimming over

and George Martin was a brilliant collaborator

and champion of that.

Run back the tape, please, would you?

You can slow down or speed up in the tape.

You can put in backward stuff. You can put in electronic sounds

which you couldn't possibly produce live.

Something happens on the air. I couldn't tell you what,

'cause we have a special man who sits here and goes like this.

And the guitar turns into a piano or something like that.

And then you may say, "Why don't you use the piano?"

Because the piano sounds like a guitar.

♪ We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. ♪

There were FM radio stations that did nothing but play Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

over and over for the first 3 or 4 days when it came out.

because that's was all anybody wanted to listen to.

♪ Lucy in the sky with diamonds. ♪

Sgt. Pepper's became the thing.

You'd drop the needle on it and you'd hear a little crackle,

and then you'd be taken away on this journey.

♪ I read the news today. Oh, boy. ♪

Sgt. Pepper was our opera.

It sounded unlike anything we were used to.

In the 60s, lyrics are generally infantile

and its noise, not music.

but the Sgt. Pepper album was brilliant album

signifying a break from the old ways of being entertained.

It really caught the moment.

Pop music is crucial to today's art,

and it's crucial that it should remain art,

and it is crucial that it should progress as art.

♪ Pleased to meet you all now. Hope you guess my name. ♪

The British Invasion changed pretty much everything.

It was not just a sound, or a band, or a phenomenon,

but it was the beginning of the most powerful decades in popular music.

in popular music.

♪ Children danced night and day. ♪

♪ Religion was being born down in Monterey. ♪

Rock 'n' roll music was very important in the growth of the society.

We were able to speak our minds. We did shake up the world.

There's no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world, you know.

There is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good.

♪ Love, love, love. ♪

How many people that you started loving in 1964 do you still love?

The Beatles and the British Invasion may be the greatest love story,

in a cultural sense, that's ever been.

♪ All you need is love. ♪

♪ All you need is love. ♪

♪ All you need is love, love. ♪

♪ Love is all you need. Love is all you need. ♪