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(Birds chirping)
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You know,
just go ahead, George, go on and...
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And fly away babe.
Just be free and...And go.
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And we 'll... We 'II see you down the line.
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Um, just leave.
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Go to someplace nice.
We Te gonna be all right here.
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And then...
And he went on out That was it
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(Man) Is there anything you'd say to George
if he was around today?
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(Laughs)
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Fancy a cup of tea?
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Where've you been?
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I had a dream that I saw him,
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and that was where...
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That was what I said to him in the dream
so I guess that's what would be
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the question, wouldn't it?
Where've you been...
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since I last saw you?
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And he answered it,
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so I can tell you
the answer as well, which is,
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"Here the whole time."
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Which doesn't really help me
in any way, but, you know...
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There's George with cancer,
and he knows his life is limited.
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And what he does is buys a...
a house in Switzerland
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so he can avoid paying the taxman here.
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(Chuckles) The man who
wrote the song Taxman,
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even to his final hours,
was determined to cheat the taxman
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And then I thought, "There's George."
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Grace and...and humor.
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And a weird kind of angry bitterness
about certain things in life.
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(Chuckles)
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it's still difficult to try and talk
about him in a kind of...
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anecdotal frivolous way. lt's...
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it's still too painful.
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(Exhales)
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(J' George Harrison:
All Things Must Pass)
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..Filii, Spiritus Sancti.
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J” Sunrise doesn't last all morning
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A cloudburst doesn't last all day
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Seems my love is up
and has left you with no warning
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It's not always gonna be this grey
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(Air raid sirens)
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(Radio static)
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(Man) People in their gayest colours.
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Red, white and blue rosettes.
Red, white and blue hats.
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(Cheering)
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That in accordance with arrangements
between the three great powers...
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(J' George Formby:
Count Your Blessings and Smile)
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Make the world rejoice
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While you're playing your part
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Keep a song in your heart
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Tra-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia
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Count your blessings and smile
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J” Sing low, sing high
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isn't it grand,
beating the band?
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Who wants to die
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(Chuckles)
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Oh, what a happy land
Hi! J'
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(J' George Harrison:
All Things Must Pass)
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All things must pass
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.P All things must pass away
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Sunset doesn't last all evening
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OK. Do you want me to start?
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(Woman) OK, and then Pete can go.
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Right. We lived in 12 Arnold Grove.
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It was a two up and two down.
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The only heating was a coal fire,
so there was no electricity.
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Small backyard.
Toilet down the bottom of the yard.
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It was a very cold place.
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(Man) What kind of kid was George?
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He was cocky.
A cocky little guy.
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He...He had a good sense of himself.
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You know, he wasn't cowed by anything.
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He had a great haircut.
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He had this long hair
that he quiff ed back.
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We had a...had a friend, Arthur.
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And he used to describe it as
(Scouse) "a fucking turban.
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"Like a fucking turban.'
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And it did.
It looked like a great big...
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Was... Marvelous thing.
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Looking back now, you know,
it was pre-fame.
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So you were just an ordinary kid
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who couldn't get in places
cos you weren't famous.
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Teachers didn't like you.
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You know, rock and roll
hadn't arrived yet.
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I always think of it
as kind of Dickensian
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And the school that I went to
with George, incidentally, was...
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was a very Dickensian old place.
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In fact, Dickens had taught there.
That's how Dickensian it was.
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You grew up kind of
wanting to go somewhere else.
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It made you hungry.
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So art was a great golden vision.
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You know, so for us that...
We wouldn't have called it art then.
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It'd be rock and roll.
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(J' The Beatles: Raunchy)
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We needed a good guitar player.
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Both John and I
played a bit of guitar,
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but we couldn't really solo.
We weren't that good.
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And I said, "I know this guy.
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"He's a bit young, but he's good."
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John said, "Well, you know,
let's meet him, come on."
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So I said to George,
"You wanna go meet these guys
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"I'm in a group with, you know?"
He said "Yeah"
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So he brought his guitar,
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and we were all on the top deck
of a double-decker bus in Liverpool,
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round where John lived,
a place called Woolton_
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And nobody was on the bus,
late at night and, uh...
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John said, "Well, go on then.
Let's see you play." To George.
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I said, "Go on, go on,
get your guitar out."
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So George unpacked his guitar,
got it out,
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and he played the thing
called Raunchy, which is...
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(J' The Beatles: Raunchy)
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George, only a brief
document or two left.
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For the record, I'd just like to say
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these are more papers that I don't know
what they say that I'm signing.
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- (Man) Any of these?
- Yes, all those.
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John Winston Ono Lennon.
No, no. No, no, no.
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Richard Starkey,
or John Lennon, or George Harrison.
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Krishna, Krishna, Krishna.
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May the Lord
help this to become final.
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(Man) The small gathering
on Savile Row
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is only the beginning.
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The event is so momentous
that historians may one day view it
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as a landmark in the decline
of the British Empire.
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The Beatles are breaking up.
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(J' George Harrison: The Light
That Has Lighted The World)
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It's funny how people
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Just won't accept change
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As if nature itself
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They prefer rearranged
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(George) When I was still at school
and I was really small
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I know John was really embarrassed
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cos I was so tiny
I only looked about ten years old.
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When I met John,
he had four strings on this guitar.
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I mean, John didn't even know
guitars had six strings.
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And I said, "What are you doing?
What's that?"
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And he was saying,
you know, "What'?"
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You know, he thought that's what it was.
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So we showed John the guitar chords.
E and A and all those.
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My mother was a real big fan of music,
and she was really happy about
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having the...the guys around.
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You know, and John was always keen
to get out of his house because of, um...
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His Aunt Mimi was
kind of very stern and strict and...
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she embarrassed him.
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I remember going to John's house once
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when I first had met him.
I was still at the Institute.
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And we were trying to
look like Teddy Boys,
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which was like,
that style in those days.
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And I must've looked pretty good,
cos she was like...
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She didn't like me at all.
She was really shocked.
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She said, "Look at him!"
You know, "Who is this?
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"Bringing this boy around to this house.
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"Look at him.
He looks dreadful, like a Teddy Boy."
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And he'd just say,
"Shut up, Mary, shut up!"
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(J' George Harrison: Wildcat)
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Don't you try
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To tame a Wildcat
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You just don't understand
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Wildcat's what they name me
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Don't let no kitten tame me, oh no
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J" Not me .P
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(Harry Harrison) Our wedding
was just one of those occasions
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where they thought they would practice
on people and see what happened.
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They were not exactly...
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what the majority of people there expected.
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They had a tea break,
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an elderly lady who was
one of the guests came along
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to play the piano,
who was a real pub player.
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She could really hammer out tunes
that everybody wanted to sing to.
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The three lads reappeared
from the bar, pints in hand,
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and John just poured a pint
over this lady's head.
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Just straight over the head, saying,
"I anoint thee, David."
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And just walked away.
And this lady surprised me because...
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there was absolutely nothing.
There was no reaction.
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She just smiled
and got up and went away
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and got dry again, you know.
It was just...
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And I thought it was funny
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because like in those days,
people used to say,
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"Oh, yeah, so you had
a wedding in Liverpool.
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"How many fights were there?"
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But, like, there wasn't even a fight.
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You know, the nearly fight was
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John Lennon pouring a pint
on her head,
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(George) When I met John,
he had a lot of power, really.
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Sometimes, you know,
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they'd pick somebody to march behind
on the way to war.
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Well, he was certainly out front
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(Jools Holland) When you thought
you wanted to be a musician,
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where did you think you'd end up?
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(George) There's no justification for it.
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We kinda had a feeling that
that's what we were gonna do,
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and that, you know, we just felt that
something good was gonna happen.
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But, then, in those days,
something good would just be,
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you Know, getting to do
a tour of Mecca ballrooms
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- Yeah.
- That was like a big deal.
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(J' The Beatles: Nothing Shaking
But the Leaves on the Trees)
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She's got a way
that makes me act like a fool
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Spends my money
then she plays me cruel
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I'm begging for her kisses
on my bended knee
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Won't you give me some loving, baby?
Please, please, please
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(J' George Harrison: Beware of Darkness)
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Watch out now, take care
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Beware of falling swingers
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Dropping all around you
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The pain that often mingles
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(Klaus Voormann) After wartime,
you still had lots of bombed houses.
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Not poverty.
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I mean, the Germans were rich
quite quick, you know.
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It didn't take them long
to pick up on that one.
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That particular day,
I had an argument with Astrid.
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I was really angry,
and I wanted to let steam off.
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And I quite often went
that direction to the harbor.
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(J' The Beatles: Shimmy Shake)
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(Glass shattering)
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The Reeperbahn is really
for the sailors,
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for the people getting drunk,
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for people going to see naked women,
or having sex, or whatever.
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That's what this place is known for.
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(J' The Beatles: Shimmy Shake)
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Klaus was always very laid back.
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You know, you couldn't quite
impress him by things.
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He always said,
"Yeah, great. Fantastic."
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But, when he came home
seeing the Beatles for the first time,
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I've never seen him like that before.
He just went crazy.
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When I came down
to the Kaiserkeller with Klaus,
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then, after he had to
persuade me for three days,
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I just freaked out.
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Seeing them onstage,
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faces I always dreamt of
taking pictures of.
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Because they had so much personality
and were still young, like I...I was.
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(J' The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)
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I 'm gonna write a little letter
Gonna mail it to my local DJ
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It's a rocking little record
I want my jockey to play
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Roll over Beethoven
I gotta hear it again today
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(George) We didn't really have
that much money.
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We only just really had enough
to feed ourselves.
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So there was nothing really
to show for it.
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But everything else was such a buzz.
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You know, being right in the middle
of the naughtiest city in the world.
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At 17 years old,
it was kind of exciting.
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And learning, you know, about,
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well, there's all the gangsters
and there's the transvestites
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And there's the... You know,
it was like that. There's the hookers...
243
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(Klaus) They looked real strange,
Teddy Boy-like.
244
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They didn't have the leather gear yet.
245
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The leather thing came
when they met Astrid and me
246
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and the way we were walking around.
247
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(J' The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)
248
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We loved this band.
We were knocked out.
249
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And we didn't realise how they lived.
250
00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:08,441
The Bambi Kino was a porno cinema.
251
00:16:08,520 --> 00:16:11,922
The room they stayed in first
was a sort of place
252
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where you'd normally
put brooms and things.
253
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There was no window,
254
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there was just a light bulb
on the ceiling.
255
00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:22,606
And they were sort of living
in these little cupboards, so to speak,
256
00:16:22,680 --> 00:16:25,445
right behind the screen of that cinema.
257
00:16:25,520 --> 00:16:28,967
And it was terrible,
because they were smelly, stinky.
258
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They couldn't wash
their clothes properly.
259
00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:33,327
(Astrid) Klaus introduced me to them
260
00:16:33,400 --> 00:16:37,530
and John did his, you know,
"I'm a man, I'm a man" thing.
261
00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:40,805
And Paul was doing his,
262
00:16:40,880 --> 00:16:44,407
"I'm a good boy, good education" bit,
you know.
263
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Said hello and gave... Shook my hand.
264
00:16:48,480 --> 00:16:51,290
And George was just...
Looked at me and said,
265
00:16:53,320 --> 00:16:57,291
"Oh, hello.
And you are Klaus's girlfriend?"
266
00:16:57,360 --> 00:17:00,011
But he was ever so sweet.
267
00:17:00,080 --> 00:17:03,641
I came to know George then.
268
00:17:04,040 --> 00:17:06,725
And he was interested in so many things,
269
00:17:06,800 --> 00:17:10,168
but, let's say on the quiet,
270
00:17:10,240 --> 00:17:13,722
because Paul was the one who said,
"Oh, who is that?"
271
00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,849
and, "Who wrote this book?"
and, "Who is that on that picture?"
272
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George was just sitting there
looking at my room,
273
00:17:20,480 --> 00:17:23,006
which must have been
very strange to them,
274
00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,923
because it was completely black
275
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with leaves and branches
hanging from the ceiling.
276
00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:32,571
I think at first George thought
I was a bit mad.
277
00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,491
But that became,
278
00:17:35,560 --> 00:17:39,804
very shortly, a very lovely
and nice friendship.
279
00:17:39,880 --> 00:17:45,250
Astrid took them to her house.
And she cooked for them.
280
00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:48,051
Astrid's mother was cooking
their favourite meals for them.
281
00:17:48,120 --> 00:17:51,044
So they had their little home
suddenly, which ....
282
00:17:51,120 --> 00:17:53,168
Astrid really took care of them really well.
283
00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,890
(George) Yeah, it was really good
for us to meet them too.
284
00:17:56,960 --> 00:17:59,770
They in themselves, were very artistic.
285
00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,889
I mean, for us, we started
hanging out with them
286
00:18:02,960 --> 00:18:05,440
and Astrid was so loving.
287
00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:08,126
She really helped us a lot
288
00:18:12,000 --> 00:18:14,207
(Astrid) You may think it was sexually.
289
00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:17,682
Of course, in a way,
they all fancied me,
290
00:18:17,760 --> 00:18:20,809
because I was quite
good-looking and charming
291
00:18:20,880 --> 00:18:24,202
in my own little way,
with my funny English.
292
00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,247
When I started
falling in love with Stuart,
293
00:18:28,320 --> 00:18:31,005
it was great that I was a photographer,
294
00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:36,246
so I could just go up easily to him
and ask him,
295
00:18:36,320 --> 00:18:38,971
"Do you mind if I take pictures of you?"
296
00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:41,771
Because I felt so attracted to him.
297
00:18:41,840 --> 00:18:43,171
(J' Paul McCartney A Taste of Honey)
298
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A taste of honey
299
00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:49,645
Tasting much sweeter than wine
300
00:18:49,720 --> 00:18:51,722
Doo-doo-doo-doo
301
00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:54,882
Doo-doo-doo-doo
302
00:18:54,960 --> 00:18:58,851
I dream of your first kiss
303
00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,729
And then
304
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:06,648
I feel upon my lips again
305
00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,404
A taste of honey
306
00:19:08,480 --> 00:19:10,323
Taste of honey
307
00:19:10,400 --> 00:19:14,166
Tasting much sweeter than wine
308
00:19:19,120 --> 00:19:21,248
(Astrid) I always had a vision
309
00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:26,008
that I want to take pictures
of outstanding faces,
310
00:19:26,080 --> 00:19:30,722
who can tell a story behind the mask.
311
00:19:31,160 --> 00:19:36,564
Imagine what is behind this
rough young man John Lennon.
312
00:19:37,440 --> 00:19:41,286
And what is behind
the funny, joking Paul.
313
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:45,680
Or the lovely, sweet little George.
314
00:19:46,080 --> 00:19:49,163
(Klaus) George was only
17 years of age.
315
00:19:49,240 --> 00:19:51,368
But he was calm.
316
00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:55,684
He looked you straight in the face.
He was funny.
317
00:19:55,760 --> 00:19:59,242
And he was a catalyst in the band.
318
00:19:59,320 --> 00:20:01,926
You see, Paul and John
were so different.
319
00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:08,005
And George was bringing
a certain peace into this setup.
320
00:20:08,080 --> 00:20:09,764
I mean,
Ringo wasn't with them at the time,
321
00:20:09,840 --> 00:20:11,729
because Pete Best was playing the drums.
322
00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:14,644
And Stuart was more on the side.
323
00:20:14,720 --> 00:20:19,282
But George was right in the middle
between those two characters.
324
00:20:20,520 --> 00:20:24,969
After Stuarts death,
John and George really cared about me.
325
00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,329
You know, they used to
come and see me in my home.
326
00:20:31,640 --> 00:20:35,770
And so it was actually
John's suggestion.
327
00:20:37,200 --> 00:20:40,522
John said, "Can I see
where he used to paint?"
328
00:20:41,040 --> 00:20:42,769
So I said, "Of course you can."
329
00:20:42,840 --> 00:20:46,481
In that moment,
I had to take a picture of them
330
00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:50,121
And I just grabbed this old chair
and put it there.
331
00:20:50,800 --> 00:20:53,963
And John was so full of emotion
332
00:20:54,040 --> 00:20:59,171
being in the same room
where his friend was just painting,
333
00:21:00,520 --> 00:21:03,763
that he nearly burst out in tears.
334
00:21:04,640 --> 00:21:08,008
And George was a bit worried.
335
00:21:08,080 --> 00:21:11,846
So I just said to George,
"Well, stand behind him."
336
00:21:12,880 --> 00:21:17,761
You could see how quickly
337
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:21,731
George understood what it was all about.
338
00:21:21,800 --> 00:21:25,122
Death and being alive.
339
00:21:25,200 --> 00:21:27,885
He was only just turned 18.
340
00:21:27,960 --> 00:21:31,726
And when you look at the picture
and see his eyes,
341
00:21:32,120 --> 00:21:35,681
they're so full of protection for John.
342
00:21:35,760 --> 00:21:38,889
And John was just
falling to bits sitting there.
343
00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:41,008
And you could see that in his face.
344
00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:44,087
(J' The Beatles: This Boy)
345
00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:45,491
(George) Aw!
346
00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:50,722
I gave that guitar away.
Ah, that's the one.
347
00:21:50,800 --> 00:21:53,087
That boy
348
00:21:54,840 --> 00:21:59,402
Took my love away
349
00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,644
He'll regret it some day
350
00:22:06,760 --> 00:22:08,728
- Doo da doo
- This boy
351
00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,646
Wants you back again
352
00:22:15,680 --> 00:22:17,091
(Laughing)
353
00:22:17,160 --> 00:22:20,004
That boy
354
00:22:21,160 --> 00:22:25,768
Isn't good for you
355
00:22:27,440 --> 00:22:32,002
Though he may want you too
356
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,208
Good song, though. Not a bad song.
357
00:22:34,280 --> 00:22:37,204
This boy wants you back again
358
00:22:37,280 --> 00:22:41,444
(George) John was as blind as a bat
and he'd never wear his glasses,
359
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:43,284
so he couldn't see a thing.
360
00:22:43,360 --> 00:22:47,922
Oh, and this boy
would be happy
361
00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:50,888
Just to love you
362
00:22:50,960 --> 00:22:52,246
Double track.
363
00:22:52,320 --> 00:22:56,370
J' Oh my-y-y-y-y
364
00:22:56,440 --> 00:23:00,764
J” That boy won? be happy
365
00:23:02,840 --> 00:23:05,923
Till he's seen you
366
00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:09,049
Cry-y-y-y
367
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:11,089
(Screaming)
368
00:23:24,440 --> 00:23:27,410
(George) It was almost like
we were waiting to get going.
369
00:23:27,480 --> 00:23:31,724
And we couldn't go until
all the Beatles were in the frame.
370
00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,280
Ringo was the member of the band.
371
00:23:34,360 --> 00:23:40,242
It's just that he didn't enter the film
until that particular scene, you know?
372
00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:45,924
We were always kinda,
you know, a little nervous before
373
00:23:46,000 --> 00:23:48,241
each step we went up the ladder.
374
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,721
And that was a good thing
about being four together.
375
00:23:50,800 --> 00:23:53,406
We all shared the experience.
376
00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:57,371
How many Beatles does it take
to change a light bulb?
377
00:23:58,240 --> 00:23:59,446
(Laughs)
378
00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:01,686
Four
379
00:24:02,360 --> 00:24:03,521
(J' The Beatles:
I Saw Her Standing There)
380
00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,682
Well, she was just 17
381
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,730
You know what I mean
382
00:24:08,800 --> 00:24:10,529
And the way she looked
383
00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,604
Was way beyond compare
384
00:24:15,120 --> 00:24:18,647
How could I dance with another?
385
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,491
Oh, since I saw her standing there
386
00:24:27,280 --> 00:24:29,886
Well, you know, we just went in,
we were punks, really.
387
00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:31,644
You know what I mean?
We were like just these punks.
388
00:24:31,720 --> 00:24:35,645
We went in, we're all
incredibly grateful to be on vinyl.
389
00:24:35,720 --> 00:24:37,961
You know,
the idea of getting a record.
390
00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:40,042
And then, when it was
going up the charts in England,
391
00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,646
we'd stop the car
cos you'd know when it was coming on.
392
00:24:42,720 --> 00:24:45,371
BBC at 4219.
393
00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:49,486
"Stop the car!"
And then we'd listen to the record.
394
00:24:49,560 --> 00:24:51,369
And then drive on up to the gig.
395
00:24:51,480 --> 00:24:52,606
(J' The Beatles: I Saw Her
Standing There)
396
00:24:52,680 --> 00:24:55,843
Now I'll never dance with another
397
00:24:56,280 --> 00:25:01,207
Ooh, since I saw her standing there
398
00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:02,931
Whoa!
399
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:04,411
(Girls screaming)
400
00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,483
Does the continuous
living and working together
401
00:25:25,560 --> 00:25:27,801
impose any temperamental
stress upon you?
402
00:25:27,880 --> 00:25:31,043
No, actually, it's quite...
It's quite lucky cos we've been...
403
00:25:31,120 --> 00:25:32,770
We've been together now
404
00:25:32,840 --> 00:25:34,888
(All) For 40 years
405
00:25:35,960 --> 00:25:38,884
You know, we've all been mates
for quite a long time,
406
00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:42,328
so we don't get on each other's nerves
as much as we could.
407
00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,324
I think I saw you being greeted
by somebody outside.
408
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,528
- No, no, that was George.
- That was me. That was me.
409
00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,761
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah.
410
00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:53,571
Well, actually, it was, um, my mother.
411
00:25:53,640 --> 00:25:54,801
(Laughter)
412
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,245
Your mother has to come
to Ireland to see you?
413
00:25:56,320 --> 00:25:57,401
Yeah. (Laughs)
414
00:25:57,520 --> 00:25:59,761
(J' The Beatles: I Saw Her
Standing There)
415
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,010
Well, we danced through the night
416
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:13,890
And we held each other tight
417
00:26:14,360 --> 00:26:18,922
And before too long
I fell in love with her
418
00:26:20,400 --> 00:26:24,644
Now, I'll never dance with another
419
00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:29,489
(Man) Do you find any difficulty
in Keeping up your public image, just...
420
00:26:29,560 --> 00:26:31,085
- No.
- What image?
421
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:35,286
Our image is just us.
You know, as we were.
422
00:26:35,360 --> 00:26:38,364
We didn't try and make an image.
423
00:26:38,440 --> 00:26:41,603
It just happened.
And so we don't have to keep it up.
424
00:26:41,680 --> 00:26:44,729
We just remain ourselves.
Don't we, Ringo?
425
00:26:44,800 --> 00:26:46,802
- Well, I... We do. We do.
- Don't know about those other two.
426
00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:48,962
I mean, it's the other two
we're worried about
427
00:26:50,440 --> 00:26:52,442
(Ringo) The general atmosphere,
we all loved it.
428
00:26:52,520 --> 00:26:54,443
We all dug it, but, you know,
429
00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,525
still in the band, we all had
personalities and attitudes.
430
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:03,451
We stopped at a motorway café,
you know.
431
00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,129
Eat some grease.
432
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:11,206
No, Paul had the keys,
and George was sitting' behind the wheel,
433
00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:12,930
as we came up.
434
00:27:13,840 --> 00:27:17,606
And so, an argument went on
for at least an hour and a half.
435
00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:21,170
"I've got the keys."
"Well, I'm sitting' behind the wheel."
436
00:27:21,240 --> 00:27:24,642
And it was like, we had to sit there
and go through this
437
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:27,246
cos one of...
No one was gonna give up.
438
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,482
You know, "I got the keys."
"I've got the wheel."
439
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:30,806
(J' The Beatles: You Can't Do That)
440
00:27:30,880 --> 00:27:32,689
So, please listen to me
if you wanna stay mine
441
00:27:32,760 --> 00:27:35,809
I can't help my feelings
I go out of my mind
442
00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,008
I'm gonna let you down
443
00:27:38,080 --> 00:27:39,161
Let you down
444
00:27:39,240 --> 00:27:40,321
And leave you flat
445
00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,607
Gonna let you down and leave you flat
446
00:27:42,680 --> 00:27:44,648
Because I told you before
447
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,166
Oh, you can't do that
448
00:27:48,120 --> 00:27:49,406
Ahh!
449
00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,444
You can't do that
450
00:28:03,840 --> 00:28:05,410
(Dhani reads)
"Dear Mum and Dad,
451
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:08,404
"the shows have been going great
with everybody going potty
452
00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:12,166
"And everywhere we go, we have about
20 police on motorbikes escorting us.
453
00:28:12,640 --> 00:28:14,483
"We have had two Cadillacs every place.
454
00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:16,403
"But tonight
when we finished the show and ran out
455
00:28:16,480 --> 00:28:19,290
"the cars weren't there
and had gone to another door
456
00:28:19,360 --> 00:28:22,170
"So we went back inside
until we could get out
457
00:28:22,240 --> 00:28:25,130
"All the kids came out of the show
and saw the two cars around the side
458
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:27,202
"and stormed them
and jumped all over them.
459
00:28:27,280 --> 00:28:30,443
"And the drivers had to get out
and both cars were completely wrecked.
460
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:33,126
"And the roofs were right down
on the seats inside.
461
00:28:34,120 --> 00:28:37,010
"Some girl fell through
a skylight from the roof of a building,
462
00:28:37,080 --> 00:28:39,287
"and 45 more were put in hospital.
463
00:28:39,720 --> 00:28:41,848
"In the end, we escaped in an ambulance.
464
00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:43,729
"But don't worry
because no one can get near us
465
00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:45,325
"for all the police and security "
466
00:28:45,560 --> 00:28:49,201
I got something to say
That might cause you pain
467
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,329
If I catch you talking
to that boy again
468
00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,085
I'm gonna let you down
469
00:28:55,480 --> 00:28:57,482
And leave you flat
470
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:01,322
Because I told you before
471
00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:04,563
Oh, you can't do that
472
00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:07,089
(Man) What actors would you
like to meet in Hollywood?
473
00:29:07,160 --> 00:29:08,366
(Paul) Paul Newman.
474
00:29:08,440 --> 00:29:09,930
(Man) What actresses?
475
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:11,411
(George) Jayne Mansfield.
476
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:16,361
(Ringo) We were all in our early 20s,
so we were just going with it.
477
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:20,322
The good side of it was that
you could really go shopping.
478
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,845
(Laughs)
479
00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:26,727
You know, there's the great line
that the Beatles were...
480
00:29:26,800 --> 00:29:28,529
They had one day off a month
481
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,126
and on the day off
Paul would judge a beauty pageant.
482
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,002
Everybody's green
483
00:29:36,080 --> 00:29:38,560
Cos I'm the one who won your love
484
00:29:38,640 --> 00:29:41,883
But if they'd seen
485
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:46,122
You talking that way
They'd laugh in my face
486
00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:49,761
So, please listen to me
if you wanna stay mine
487
00:29:49,840 --> 00:29:52,764
I can't help my feelings
I go out of my mind
488
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:55,127
I'm gonna let you down
489
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:56,361
Let you down
490
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:57,601
And leave you flat
491
00:29:57,680 --> 00:29:59,523
Gonna let you down
and leave you flat
492
00:29:59,920 --> 00:30:01,888
You know,
the Beatles only ever had one car,
493
00:30:01,960 --> 00:30:04,167
and two rooms in any hotel between 'em.
494
00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:08,964
We got closer together.
The bigger it got, the closer we became.
495
00:30:09,800 --> 00:30:14,886
Because from the minute you sort of
left the security of your apartment,
496
00:30:14,960 --> 00:30:16,121
the heat was on.
497
00:30:16,200 --> 00:30:19,807
People wanted a piece, wanted to talk,
wanted a photo, wanted to do.
498
00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:23,885
And so we sort of, you know,
kept each other company.
499
00:30:24,240 --> 00:30:25,446
(Screaming)
500
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,010
- Paul!
- George!
501
00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:33,729
(Ringo) When we first came to New York
is a great story because
502
00:30:33,800 --> 00:30:36,485
we had the whole floor in the Plaza
503
00:30:36,560 --> 00:30:40,724
and the four of us
ended up in the bathroom.
504
00:30:40,800 --> 00:30:43,724
We were just sitting in there, like,
"Hey, how you doin'? What's goin' on?"
505
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:47,930
Just to get a break from,
you know, the incredible pressure.
506
00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,161
(Screaming)
507
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:50,401
(J' The Beatles: Money)
508
00:30:50,480 --> 00:30:52,482
Money don't get everything it's true
509
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:55,131
What it don't get I can't use
510
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,571
That's what I want
511
00:30:58,640 --> 00:30:59,801
That's what I want
512
00:30:59,880 --> 00:31:02,201
That's what I want
513
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:04,009
(John) The next song
we'd like to sing...
514
00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:06,125
- (Fans screaming)
- (Girl) John!
515
00:31:06,200 --> 00:31:08,407
Shut up. I'll kill you.
516
00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:12,565
...is our latest record.
517
00:31:12,640 --> 00:31:14,005
(Screaming)
518
00:31:14,080 --> 00:31:15,445
Nah-ya-ho!
519
00:31:16,920 --> 00:31:19,890
Or our latest electronic noise
depending on whose side you're on.
520
00:31:19,960 --> 00:31:22,486
That's what I want
521
00:31:22,560 --> 00:31:26,610
That's what I wa-a-a-a-ant
That's what I want
522
00:31:27,280 --> 00:31:29,521
That's all I want
523
00:31:31,160 --> 00:31:32,924
(Man) Are you individually millionaires yet?
524
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:35,048
(John) No, that's another
lousy rumor, I wish we were.
525
00:31:35,120 --> 00:31:38,442
- (Laughter)
- All right, then. Where does all the money go?
526
00:31:38,520 --> 00:31:40,682
Well, a lot of it goes to Her Majesty.
527
00:31:40,760 --> 00:31:41,966
(Man laughs)
528
00:31:42,040 --> 00:31:43,690
She's a millionaire.
529
00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,041
(Screaming)
530
00:31:46,120 --> 00:31:48,487
That's what I want
531
00:31:49,520 --> 00:31:52,285
That's what I want
532
00:31:53,080 --> 00:31:55,970
That's what I want
533
00:31:56,840 --> 00:31:59,241
That's what I want
534
00:32:01,280 --> 00:32:02,645
(Girl) I love the Beatles!
535
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,286
(Dhani reads)
"This morning we Te off to Wellington.
536
00:32:06,360 --> 00:32:10,046
”We've been and played here in Sydney
and it was the biggest drag of all time.
537
00:32:10,120 --> 00:32:11,645
"The stage revolves every three minutes,
538
00:32:11,720 --> 00:32:13,882
"and we have to walk
right down the aisles like boxers
539
00:32:13,960 --> 00:32:15,610
"to get to the stage.
540
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,330
"At the first house,
I punched a policeman
541
00:32:17,400 --> 00:32:19,084
"because he was shoving me like mad.
542
00:32:19,160 --> 00:32:20,730
"And some kids
had a hold of me all at once
543
00:32:20,800 --> 00:32:22,882
"and I was trying to get off the stage.
544
00:32:22,960 --> 00:32:26,043
"I was swearing my head off
at one policeman. Sorry
545
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:28,487
"And later, the chief came
and apologized to me.
546
00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,528
"After the show, there was a party
in the hotel for Paul's birthday "
547
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:34,090
it's great at the beginning.
548
00:32:34,160 --> 00:32:36,561
You know, where, you know,
you're recognised,
549
00:32:36,640 --> 00:32:38,927
you get a great seat in a restaurant,
550
00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:43,961
and, you know, things are bigger
and things come to you faster.
551
00:32:44,320 --> 00:32:50,168
Um, you know, all that is great.
And then, you really want that to end.
552
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:53,131
- (Screaming)
- (Paul) Thank you very much, ta. Erm...
553
00:32:55,040 --> 00:32:56,451
This...This number...
554
00:32:56,520 --> 00:32:58,921
(Laughs) Shush! Shush!
555
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:01,924
This number we'd like to sing now...
556
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:04,287
(Ringo) You fight for it,
and then when you get it,
557
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:06,442
you want it to end, but it never ends.
558
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:07,851
That's...That's the deal.
559
00:33:07,920 --> 00:33:12,881
We do like the fans, and enjoy
reading the publicity about us.
560
00:33:12,960 --> 00:33:15,531
But, from time to time,
you don't realise
561
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:18,365
that it's actually about yourself.
562
00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:22,240
You see your pictures
and read articles about, you know,
563
00:33:22,320 --> 00:33:25,608
George Harrison, Ringo Starr,
Paul and John,
564
00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,091
but you don't actually think,
565
00:33:27,160 --> 00:33:30,289
"Oh, that's me.
There I am in the paper."
566
00:33:30,360 --> 00:33:33,489
lt's...lt's funny. It just as though
it's a different person.
567
00:33:33,560 --> 00:33:34,686
(J' The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)
568
00:33:34,760 --> 00:33:38,048
I'm gonna write a little letter
Gonna mail it to my local DJ
569
00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:44,363
it's a rocking little record
I want my jockey to play
570
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:50,164
Roll over, Beethoven
Gotta hear it again today
571
00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:55,964
You know my temperature's rising
And the jukebox's blown a fuse
572
00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:58,242
(Woman) Do you know
where you were this time last week?
573
00:33:58,320 --> 00:33:59,845
No. Haven't a clue.
574
00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:01,649
(George) I don't even know
what day it is.
575
00:34:01,720 --> 00:34:03,085
You don't know what day it is?
576
00:34:03,160 --> 00:34:04,127
What is it?
577
00:34:04,200 --> 00:34:05,929
(J' Rock and roll)
578
00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:07,889
(Audience screaming)
579
00:34:17,240 --> 00:34:19,083
(Actor as young George)
”We've been to the Hollywood Bowl
580
00:34:19,160 --> 00:34:20,571
"and done the show, which was great
581
00:34:20,640 --> 00:34:22,290
"And the place was marvellous
582
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,601
"The seats go right up
the side of big hills.
583
00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,771
"Colonel Tom Parker,
Elvis's manager, came to see us,
584
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,491
"and gave us all real leather belts
and holster sets.
585
00:34:30,960 --> 00:34:34,726
"Cowboy things. And little covered
wagons which are television lamps.
586
00:34:35,320 --> 00:34:37,891
"He was good, too
and said that Elvis wants to meet us,
587
00:34:37,960 --> 00:34:40,884
"and has invited us to his house
in Memphis, Tennessee.
588
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,368
"Tonight we were invited
to Burt Lancaster's house
589
00:34:43,440 --> 00:34:45,329
"and he made us very welcome.
590
00:34:45,400 --> 00:34:47,971
"His house was a knockout
and cost him a million dollars.
591
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,088
"I had a swim in his pool,
which was great
592
00:34:50,160 --> 00:34:51,730
"and as hot as a bath almost
593
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:54,084
"After that
the men from General Artists
594
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,446
"who were organizing the tour
595
00:34:55,520 --> 00:34:59,206
"wanted us to go to this piece
called Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Strip.
596
00:34:59,280 --> 00:35:01,328
"And they said it would be great
and we wouldn't be bothered.
597
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,247
"We got there and went in
and fought our way
598
00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:07,927
"with Mal and a few big hard men
to a table where John and Derek were.
599
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:09,411
"And Jayne Mansfield.
600
00:35:09,840 --> 00:35:11,569
"By this time,
after fighting through the crowd,
601
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:14,211
"I was annoyed
and I threw some Coke on a cameraman.
602
00:35:14,280 --> 00:35:17,409
"We all fought our way back out
and jumped in the car and went home.
603
00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:21,007
"It was a drag. And we were there
for about ten minutes altogether
604
00:35:21,080 --> 00:35:23,686
"You see why we don't usually
bother going out now. "
605
00:35:24,160 --> 00:35:26,322
(Man) How did George deal with it?
606
00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:30,769
Well, George, you know, George had
two incredible separate personalities.
607
00:35:31,120 --> 00:35:37,127
He had the love, bag of beads personality
and the bag of anger.
608
00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,931
He was very black and white.
609
00:35:40,480 --> 00:35:43,484
...Whether you will go along
with any change in taste?
610
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:44,881
Uh, no.
611
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,566
Well, you never know because we have...
612
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,769
- Well, we change anyway, don't we?
- Yeah.
613
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,241
We hope you've enjoyed the snow tonight.
Have you enjoyed it?
614
00:35:53,320 --> 00:35:55,084
(Screaming)
615
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:57,811
(J' The Beatles: Blue Jay Way)
616
00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:02,201
There's a fog upon LA
617
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:08,610
And my friends have lost their way
618
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:15,005
We 'II be over soon they said
619
00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:21,843
Now they've lost themselves instead
620
00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:29,529
J” Please don? be long J"
621
00:36:29,680 --> 00:36:31,364
I was boss of Parlophone Records
622
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:34,762
and I'd made it my business
over the previous years
623
00:36:34,840 --> 00:36:37,889
to develop Parlophone as a comedy label.
624
00:36:37,960 --> 00:36:41,806
And in fact, when Brian Epstein
desperately took us on,
625
00:36:41,880 --> 00:36:44,724
or hoped we would take him on,
626
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:48,122
he felt he'd hit rock bottom,
cos he'd been everywhere else
627
00:36:48,200 --> 00:36:49,884
and now he was ending up
on a comedy label.
628
00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:53,409
I first met the Beatles in 1962.
629
00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:56,686
I wasn't terribly impressed
with the first stuff they did.
630
00:36:56,760 --> 00:36:58,410
I couldn't make out the sound.
631
00:36:58,480 --> 00:37:00,721
You know, it was something
I hadn't heard before.
632
00:37:01,160 --> 00:37:04,289
So I looked at these four guys,
and thought,
633
00:37:04,360 --> 00:37:07,489
"Well, none of them shines
as being above all the others."
634
00:37:07,560 --> 00:37:10,882
And I had to make up my mind,
in my silly mind,
635
00:37:10,960 --> 00:37:12,610
who the lead singer was gonna be.
636
00:37:13,000 --> 00:37:16,925
Suddenly I realised I would take them
as they were, as a group.
637
00:37:17,000 --> 00:37:20,322
The hell with a lead singer.
They would be singing together.
638
00:37:20,400 --> 00:37:23,051
So we were struggling
with the sound a bit.
639
00:37:23,120 --> 00:37:25,441
And I said to the boys
640
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:29,764
after we'd done a few takes
of rather nondescript songs,
641
00:37:29,840 --> 00:37:32,446
I said, "Come into the control room
and have a listen
642
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:34,921
"and see what we've been doing.
643
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:38,561
"And if there's anything
you don't like, tell us."
644
00:37:39,560 --> 00:37:41,961
And George was the one
who took the leap.
645
00:37:42,040 --> 00:37:45,442
And he said,
"Well, I don't like your tie for a start."
646
00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:50,605
And the others were horrified.
They thought, "God, he's blown it."
647
00:37:51,200 --> 00:37:53,806
But of course, I fell around laughing.
I thought it was...
648
00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:58,090
It was so cheeky, and so funny that I...
649
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:00,845
You know, he endeared himself to me
on that point.
650
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,287
(J' The Beatles: And I Love Her)
651
00:38:09,920 --> 00:38:13,367
I give her all my love
652
00:38:14,040 --> 00:38:17,601
That's all I do
653
00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,767
And if you saw my love
654
00:38:22,320 --> 00:38:25,164
You'd love her too
655
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,322
I love her'
656
00:38:30,040 --> 00:38:33,408
John and I would write the songs
the week before the studio.
657
00:38:33,480 --> 00:38:35,448
Brian would ring us up...
Brian Epstein, and say,
658
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:37,522
"You're in the studio next week.
You've got a week off."
659
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:38,726
We'd go, “Yes!"
660
00:38:38,800 --> 00:38:40,529
He'd say, "But you've got to
write the album."
661
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:41,886
We'd go, “Yes!"
662
00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,770
So we'd just, you know,
each day we'd write a song
663
00:38:44,840 --> 00:38:48,083
so we can have seven or so songs
to go in with,
664
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,606
which was, you know,
enough to...to start with.
665
00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:54,601
And we'd go in the studio,
10:00 in the morning,
666
00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:59,842
and this was the first time George
and Ringo had heard any of the songs.
667
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:02,004
So this is how good they were.
668
00:39:02,080 --> 00:39:03,650
John and I would go,
"It goes like this."
669
00:39:03,720 --> 00:39:05,643
You know,
She loves you, yeah...
670
00:39:05,720 --> 00:39:06,767
Or whatever it was.
671
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:08,410
And they'd go, "Mm-hm."
672
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,245
George would cop the chords.
He'd go, "Uh-huh, uh-huh",
673
00:39:11,320 --> 00:39:13,322
not writing 'em down,
it was just like, "Yeah, go on,
674
00:39:13,400 --> 00:39:15,562
"cos, you know,
I can see what you're doing.
675
00:39:15,640 --> 00:39:17,165
"Cos I'm one of you.
676
00:39:17,240 --> 00:39:19,971
"You know, I didn't write it,
but I see what you did."
677
00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:23,840
Ringo would just stand around with his sticks...
(imitates rhythm) and do his little thing.
678
00:39:23,920 --> 00:39:26,446
(J' The Beatles: And I Love Her)
679
00:39:40,160 --> 00:39:43,130
And I was just thinking actually
about my song And I Love Her.
680
00:39:43,200 --> 00:39:44,850
J” I give her all my love J”
681
00:39:44,920 --> 00:39:47,321
I had that,
but then George comes in with...
682
00:39:47,400 --> 00:39:49,209
(Hums riff from And I Love Her)
683
00:39:49,280 --> 00:39:51,408
Now you think about that.
That's the song.
684
00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:53,802
You know, but he made that up
on the session.
685
00:39:53,880 --> 00:39:55,325
Cos he knew the chords,
and he just said,
686
00:39:55,400 --> 00:39:57,482
"Well, you know", we said,
"it needs a riff."
687
00:39:57,560 --> 00:39:58,641
I didn't write that.
688
00:39:59,400 --> 00:40:00,890
When we got together in the studio,
689
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,442
whoever had written the song,
would be the kind of boss,
690
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:06,443
in leading the other guys through it.
691
00:40:06,520 --> 00:40:09,763
Paul and John, being the songwriters.
692
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:14,331
And at that stage, George wasn't
showing himself to be a songwriter.
693
00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:15,686
They were the dominant forces.
694
00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:20,161
George and Ringo were
slightly behind Paul and John
695
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:23,608
because Paul and John were
the writers and the lead singers.
696
00:40:24,160 --> 00:40:27,642
I guess George was
a kind of a loner, really,
697
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:34,244
and because he was outside the team
that were providing the hits.
698
00:40:35,000 --> 00:40:38,288
John and Paul had each other
to play against.
699
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:42,001
And their collaboration
was much more of a competition
700
00:40:42,080 --> 00:40:43,809
than a collaboration, really.
701
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,962
One would do something,
and the other one would say,
702
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,931
"Gosh, I think I can do better than that."
And try and make something better.
703
00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:53,130
George was the sole guy.
He had no one to work with.
704
00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:57,571
(George strums electric guitar and scats)
705
00:41:00,200 --> 00:41:03,807
(George) The funny position I was in
was that in many ways,
706
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:07,646
you know, this whole focus of attention
was on the Beatles.
707
00:41:07,720 --> 00:41:10,485
So in that respect I was part of it
708
00:41:10,560 --> 00:41:12,927
But from being in them
709
00:41:14,600 --> 00:41:18,889
an attitude came oven
which was John and Paul.
710
00:41:19,480 --> 00:41:24,646
"OK you know, we Te the grooves
and you two, you know, just watch it "
711
00:41:24,720 --> 00:41:28,042
I mean, don't forget I spent ten years
in the back of the limousine with them.
712
00:41:28,520 --> 00:41:30,170
- (George strums)
- About that speed.
713
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:35,121
(Man) Don't Bother Me.
This is remake recording, take 10.
714
00:41:35,200 --> 00:41:37,646
(George) Don't Bother Me
was the first song again.
715
00:41:37,720 --> 00:41:42,442
It was written basically as an exercise
to see if I could write a song
716
00:41:42,520 --> 00:41:45,410
cos I thought
"Well, if John and Paul can write,
717
00:41:45,480 --> 00:41:47,482
- "everybody must be able to. "
- (Man laughs)
718
00:41:47,560 --> 00:41:49,642
(Harrison) One, two, three, four
719
00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,087
(J' The Beatles: Don't Bother Me)
720
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,281
Since she's been gone
I want no one to talk to me
721
00:42:00,600 --> 00:42:02,329
- (George) It's just going too fast
- (Music stops)
722
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:04,448
- (Clapper) Take 12.
- (George) One, two...
723
00:42:04,520 --> 00:42:07,251
(George) I wrote that
in the hotel in Bournemouth.
724
00:42:07,320 --> 00:42:10,483
We were doing the summer season,
and I was sick in bed.
725
00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:12,449
Maybe that's why it turned out
Don? Bother Me.
726
00:42:12,520 --> 00:42:13,567
(Man) Yeah.
727
00:42:13,640 --> 00:42:15,449
(George) But it's not
a particularly good song,
728
00:42:15,520 --> 00:42:17,443
but it at least showed me that
729
00:42:17,760 --> 00:42:21,082
you know, all I needed to do
was keep on writing
730
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:23,527
and maybe some day I'd...
731
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:26,324
write something good.
732
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,767
Which I still feel, right at this point
733
00:42:28,840 --> 00:42:31,525
I still keep thinking
I wish I could write something good.
734
00:42:31,600 --> 00:42:36,367
Since she's been gone
I don't want no one to talk to me
735
00:42:37,240 --> 00:42:42,041
It's not the same
But I'm to blame, it's plain to see
736
00:42:42,920 --> 00:42:47,403
So go away leave me alone
Don't bother me
737
00:42:48,600 --> 00:42:53,686
I can't believe
that she would leave me on my own
738
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:58,763
It's just not right
when every night I'm all alone
739
00:42:59,880 --> 00:43:04,283
I've got no time for you right now
Don't bother me
740
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:10,287
I know I 'II never be the same
741
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:15,808
J” if! don? get her back again
742
00:43:16,640 --> 00:43:21,851
Because I know she 'II always be
743
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,409
The only girl for me
744
00:43:28,280 --> 00:43:32,080
When I saw George and Pattie together,
745
00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:37,487
the way they fit into the Beatles thing,
of all of their domesticity
746
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:40,291
seemed to be like Camelot, you know.
747
00:43:40,360 --> 00:43:41,885
It was like, uh...
748
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:44,249
And I was the Lancelot in a way.
749
00:43:44,320 --> 00:43:48,962
I was kind of this lone wolf
without really any, uh...
750
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:51,766
direction.
751
00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:53,683
(J' The Yardbirds)
752
00:44:05,640 --> 00:44:08,689
I saw the Beatles play
at the Hammersmith Odeon
753
00:44:08,760 --> 00:44:11,445
when I was bottom of the bill
in the Yardbirds
754
00:44:11,720 --> 00:44:15,042
This band was like...
They were like a single person.
755
00:44:15,120 --> 00:44:17,248
It was an odd phenomena, in fact,
756
00:44:17,320 --> 00:44:20,164
that they seemed to move together
and think together.
757
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,641
It was almost like a little family unit.
758
00:44:23,000 --> 00:44:26,243
I was very, very suspicious
about what they were up to.
759
00:44:26,320 --> 00:44:30,086
But when I saw them play, I mean,
I was overwhelmed by their gift,
760
00:44:30,160 --> 00:44:31,571
You know, each one of them seemed to be,
761
00:44:31,640 --> 00:44:36,168
very well endowed
with their own musical capacity.
762
00:44:36,240 --> 00:44:41,531
But the sad part was that no one
listened to 'em. (Chuckles)
763
00:44:41,600 --> 00:44:44,729
And that their audience,
which they had cultivated, I suppose,
764
00:44:44,800 --> 00:44:47,849
they were, you know, 12-year-old girls.
765
00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,371
He was clearly an innovator.
766
00:44:51,440 --> 00:44:55,161
George, to me,
was taking certain elements
767
00:44:55,240 --> 00:44:59,768
of R&B and rock and rockabilly
768
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,681
and creating something unique.
769
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:05,163
They were very generous to everybody.
770
00:45:05,240 --> 00:45:07,925
I mean, they took time
to come and talk to everybody,
771
00:45:08,000 --> 00:45:09,843
I didn't feel threatened at all
772
00:45:09,920 --> 00:45:12,287
because I had
quite a lot of self-confidence
773
00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:15,091
going in my concept of myself as being,
774
00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:18,403
you know, this sort of
blues missionary, as it were.
775
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:20,084
And...And I...
776
00:45:20,160 --> 00:45:23,084
You know, I wasn't looking
for any favors from anybody.
777
00:45:23,440 --> 00:45:27,650
And George recognised me as an equal
because I had a level of proficiency
778
00:45:27,720 --> 00:45:32,760
even then that he saw
as being fairly unique too, you know.
779
00:45:33,040 --> 00:45:35,691
George chose to move
into a house in Esher.
780
00:45:35,760 --> 00:45:40,163
Now, Esher is maybe eight miles
north of where I was born.
781
00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:43,161
We became friends
and I would go and visit them there.
782
00:45:43,240 --> 00:45:47,370
And something grew out of the music
and the kind of people we were.
783
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:51,047
I think we shared a lot of tastes too.
784
00:45:51,120 --> 00:45:54,886
In other...you know,
superficial things, cars or clothes, but...
785
00:45:55,440 --> 00:45:58,842
And women, obviously. But, um...
786
00:45:59,880 --> 00:46:01,962
I think what George
might have liked about me
787
00:46:02,040 --> 00:46:04,566
was the fact that I was
a kind of free agent.
788
00:46:05,120 --> 00:46:09,444
And I think, if anything, he may have
already been wondering about whether
789
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:12,562
he was in the right place
being in a group, you know,
790
00:46:12,640 --> 00:46:15,849
cos the group...the group politic
is a...is a tricky one.
791
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,720
You know, there was a lot about
what he had going which I envied,
792
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:22,929
and there was a lot about
what I had going that he envied.
793
00:46:23,000 --> 00:46:25,890
(Man) What did he have going
that you envied?
794
00:46:25,960 --> 00:46:29,965
Well, I suppose, money, status.
795
00:46:30,040 --> 00:46:32,202
You know, the classic things.
796
00:46:32,840 --> 00:46:34,842
The Beatles. Man, come on.
797
00:46:35,680 --> 00:46:37,489
(Laughing)
798
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:40,283
In the beginning, in the early days,
799
00:46:40,360 --> 00:46:43,523
what was good about
being George's friend
800
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:49,410
was that it was kind of like basking in
the sunshine of this immense creativity.
801
00:46:49,760 --> 00:46:52,161
We'd like to carry on with a song
802
00:46:52,240 --> 00:46:56,006
which is off our last LP.
803
00:46:57,200 --> 00:46:59,680
The LP's called Rubber Soul
804
00:46:59,760 --> 00:47:02,843
and the song, which is sung
by our guitarist George
805
00:47:02,920 --> 00:47:05,651
is called If I Needed Someone,
806
00:47:06,960 --> 00:47:09,691
(J' The Beatles: If I Needed Someone)
807
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,441
If I needed someone to love
808
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:22,965
You're the one that I'd be thinking of
809
00:47:24,600 --> 00:47:27,843
If I needed someone
810
00:47:30,440 --> 00:47:34,570
If I had some more time to spend
811
00:47:34,640 --> 00:47:38,884
I guess I'd be with you, my friend
812
00:47:40,280 --> 00:47:43,409
If I needed someone
813
00:47:46,040 --> 00:47:50,409
This is largely an appeal to the,
the feminine heart.
814
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,927
The heart of a young girl
who worships love
815
00:47:54,000 --> 00:47:58,289
and the goddess of love
and the heroes of love.
816
00:47:58,880 --> 00:48:02,123
And this plays
the dominant part in her life.
817
00:48:02,200 --> 00:48:05,602
So the vast majority of the fans
818
00:48:05,680 --> 00:48:10,447
are girls who come there to worship
at the shrine of the goddess
819
00:48:10,520 --> 00:48:14,047
or the young god hero
as they did in the ancient past.
820
00:48:14,120 --> 00:48:16,964
I've seen this
with the most dramatic intensity
821
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:22,001
with the Beatles playing to two or three
thousand young girls in Manchester.
822
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:25,766
Apart from another journalist,
I was the only male in the audience.
823
00:48:26,240 --> 00:48:29,403
And I've never experienced
anything like it myself.
824
00:48:29,480 --> 00:48:33,724
If I were confronted
with 10,000 Loch Ness monsters
825
00:48:33,800 --> 00:48:35,564
I wouldn't be so impressed
826
00:48:35,640 --> 00:48:39,201
by this whistling and wailing
and possession
827
00:48:39,280 --> 00:48:41,328
of the soul of these young girls.
828
00:48:41,680 --> 00:48:44,843
(Man) Would you say it's true
that the devotion your group attracts
829
00:48:44,920 --> 00:48:46,809
is essentially religious in nature?
830
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:48,006
(Lennon) No.
831
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,805
In what way is it not?
832
00:48:50,880 --> 00:48:53,087
Well, in what ways do you think it is?
833
00:48:53,160 --> 00:48:55,481
The fervor, the excitement that it...
834
00:48:55,560 --> 00:48:58,325
Well, would you say the football crowds
are any more religious,
835
00:48:58,400 --> 00:49:01,529
or football fanatics
have any more religion in them
836
00:49:01,600 --> 00:49:03,682
than the Beatle fanatics?
I don't think so.
837
00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:08,362
(Newsreader) One value
divides the generations
838
00:49:08,440 --> 00:49:11,171
more sharply than any other Religion.
839
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:15,408
The gap is greatest between
college students and their parents.
840
00:49:15,480 --> 00:49:19,166
The question was whether belonging
to some organized religion
841
00:49:19,240 --> 00:49:21,607
is important in a person's life.
842
00:49:22,000 --> 00:49:24,970
9 out of 10 parents say it is.
843
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:28,886
Only 4 out of 10 college students
say religion is important
844
00:49:29,920 --> 00:49:32,127
And the more radical
the youth politically
845
00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:37,491
the more likely he is to reject
the religious values of adult society
846
00:49:37,560 --> 00:49:40,962
Still, the gap is there
whatever the politics.
847
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:43,568
(Man) Well, some of the remarks
attributed to you
848
00:49:43,640 --> 00:49:46,007
in some of the newspapers,
the press here,
849
00:49:46,080 --> 00:49:47,684
concerning the remark that you made
850
00:49:47,760 --> 00:49:51,003
comparing the relative popularity
of the Beatles with Jesus Christ
851
00:49:51,080 --> 00:49:52,969
and that the Beatles were more popular.
852
00:49:53,040 --> 00:49:56,442
This created quite a controversy
and a furore in this country.
853
00:49:56,520 --> 00:49:59,046
Would you clarify the remark?
854
00:49:59,120 --> 00:50:01,487
I've clarified it about eight 800 times,
you know.
855
00:50:01,560 --> 00:50:04,643
I could've said TV
or something else, you know.
856
00:50:04,720 --> 00:50:06,848
And that's as clear as it can be.
857
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:11,160
There were other evidences that
that ol' time religion was under attack.
858
00:50:11,240 --> 00:50:13,288
Evangelist Billy Graham went to London
859
00:50:13,360 --> 00:50:15,601
hoping he could stop
England from swinging.
860
00:50:16,040 --> 00:50:19,726
In the process, he was almost engulfed
by sin on a Soho street
861
00:50:20,200 --> 00:50:23,568
I think a great deal of what we see
among young people today
862
00:50:23,640 --> 00:50:25,290
is actually a spiritual search.
863
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:27,840
These young people are searching
for a creed to believe in,
864
00:50:27,920 --> 00:50:30,400
a song to sing and a cause to follow.
865
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:31,527
(.L" The Beatles: If I Needed Someone)
866
00:50:31,600 --> 00:50:33,364
.P Carve your number on my wall
867
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:38,241
And maybe you will get a call from me
868
00:50:39,800 --> 00:50:42,610
If I needed someone
869
00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:47,926
J' Ahh
870
00:50:49,160 --> 00:50:51,367
J' Ahh
871
00:50:52,880 --> 00:50:55,406
J' Ahh
872
00:50:56,680 --> 00:50:59,206
Ahh'
873
00:51:00,520 --> 00:51:03,000
Before we sort of “made it",
as they say,
874
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:08,849
money was partly the goal,
but it still wasn't, "Let's get some money."
875
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:13,642
But we sort of got... Suddenly had money,
and then it wasn't all that good.
876
00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:17,247
By having the money we found
that money wasn't the answer
877
00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:21,450
because we had lots of material things
878
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:25,650
that people, sort of,
spend their whole life to try and get.
879
00:51:25,720 --> 00:51:28,610
And we managed to get them
at quite an early age.
880
00:51:29,120 --> 00:51:32,169
And it was good really,
because we learn that that wasn't it.
881
00:51:32,240 --> 00:51:35,244
We still lacked something.
And that "something" is the thing
882
00:51:35,320 --> 00:51:37,800
that religion is trying
to give to people.
883
00:51:37,880 --> 00:51:40,804
(Interviewer) Have they changed
because of all this?
884
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:44,009
Altered, developed, perhaps,
but not..
885
00:51:45,320 --> 00:51:46,446
Not changed too much.
886
00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,329
They're not in anyway
contaminated by it.
887
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,210
Not nearly as seriously contaminated
as many of the people
888
00:51:51,280 --> 00:51:55,808
who occasionally surround us.
889
00:51:56,840 --> 00:52:01,448
They remain very calm
and bland and simple.
890
00:52:01,520 --> 00:52:03,682
And they don't know what it's all about.
891
00:52:03,760 --> 00:52:07,367
They simply want to play their music
and write it.
892
00:52:07,440 --> 00:52:10,410
They're...They're very normal.
Thank goodness.
893
00:52:11,400 --> 00:52:15,007
I came home one day
with the kids and Derek said,
894
00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:18,129
"Brian's just phoned." Brian Epstein.
895
00:52:18,200 --> 00:52:20,885
"And he's having
a housewarming in Sussex,
896
00:52:20,960 --> 00:52:24,646
"and he wants us to go.
He wants all his friends to be there."
897
00:52:25,240 --> 00:52:28,403
So we rallied
all our babysitters together,
898
00:52:28,680 --> 00:52:31,160
and we found ourselves on a plane.
899
00:52:31,960 --> 00:52:36,841
And we arrived at Heathrow,
and waiting for us was John,
900
00:52:38,080 --> 00:52:39,730
and George.
901
00:52:39,800 --> 00:52:42,804
And they were dressed
in this exotic way.
902
00:52:42,880 --> 00:52:47,204
They had silk shirts,
and they were this incredible color.
903
00:52:47,280 --> 00:52:50,648
And they hugged us
and they kissed us and they...
904
00:52:50,720 --> 00:52:54,964
All of a sudden it's like there are
no barriers, no handshakes lt's...
905
00:52:56,000 --> 00:52:57,206
And what's happening?
906
00:52:57,280 --> 00:53:00,807
And we were swept out to this...
907
00:53:00,880 --> 00:53:05,568
To outside Heathrow Airport
where John's Rolls-Royce,
908
00:53:06,480 --> 00:53:09,450
like a Romany caravan,
was waiting for us.
909
00:53:09,520 --> 00:53:13,570
George, in his Mini
and us in the Rolls-Royce
910
00:53:13,640 --> 00:53:16,803
with Procol Harum playing
Whiter Shade of Pale,
911
00:53:16,880 --> 00:53:20,282
driving along the English country roads
from Surrey to Sussex.
912
00:53:21,640 --> 00:53:23,210
And Brian was waiting for us.
913
00:53:23,920 --> 00:53:28,369
And there were all sorts of his friends,
famous and not so famous.
914
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:33,484
And George gave Derek acid
and John gave me acid.
915
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:38,284
And then John gave Derek acid.
So Derek had a double dose.
916
00:53:39,440 --> 00:53:44,002
And we spent the whole night with them,
917
00:53:45,160 --> 00:53:47,447
on this mind adventure
918
00:53:48,240 --> 00:53:52,450
which Paul had described to us
as "controlled weirdness."
919
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:56,889
(Laughs) I'm not quite sure
how controlled it was, but it was weird.
920
00:53:56,960 --> 00:54:01,329
But it was wonderful, and it bonded us,
because they were so kind to us.
921
00:54:01,400 --> 00:54:08,010
And we came through it and we walked out
into this English country garden
922
00:54:08,080 --> 00:54:12,051
with the night receding
and the sun coming.
923
00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,329
Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun, well...
924
00:54:15,640 --> 00:54:18,450
That...That was what happened,
literally what happened.
925
00:54:19,920 --> 00:54:23,686
When we took
the notorious wonder drug LSD...
926
00:54:23,760 --> 00:54:24,886
(Man) Yes.
927
00:54:24,960 --> 00:54:27,122
...It was... We didn't know
we were having it.
928
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:31,285
John and I had the...
had this drug and it was given...
929
00:54:31,360 --> 00:54:34,011
We were at...
Having dinner with our dentist.
930
00:54:34,080 --> 00:54:35,764
(Audience laughs)
931
00:54:35,840 --> 00:54:38,446
And he put it in our coffee
and never told us.
932
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:40,045
And we'd never...
We never heard of it.
933
00:54:40,120 --> 00:54:41,645
I mean,
it's a good job we hadn't heard of it,
934
00:54:41,720 --> 00:54:46,521
because there’s been so much paranoia
created around the drug
935
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:50,650
that people now if they take it they're
already on a bad trip before they start.
936
00:54:51,040 --> 00:54:54,328
Whereas for us we didn't know anything.
We were so naive.
937
00:54:54,400 --> 00:54:57,449
And so we had it
and we went out to a club
938
00:54:57,520 --> 00:55:00,649
and it was incredible.
It was really incredible.
939
00:55:04,560 --> 00:55:07,803
Something like
a very concentrated version
940
00:55:07,880 --> 00:55:11,202
of the best feeling
I'd ever had in my life.
941
00:55:11,640 --> 00:55:14,689
It was just, like, fantastic.
942
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:17,923
I just felt like in love.
943
00:55:18,920 --> 00:55:23,482
But not with anything in particular,
or anybody, just with everything.
944
00:55:23,560 --> 00:55:25,130
Just everything was perfect.
945
00:55:25,480 --> 00:55:30,850
And we walked and things weren't
the same that night as they'd been.
946
00:55:31,120 --> 00:55:34,442
It was... All this Alice in Wonderland
stuff was going on.
947
00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:36,443
But strange things.
948
00:55:37,520 --> 00:55:41,127
I remember Pattie was,
you know, half playfully,
949
00:55:41,200 --> 00:55:44,204
but half kind of like crazy,
950
00:55:44,280 --> 00:55:47,489
was trying to smash a shop window.
951
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,921
And I was kind of being like,
you know, "Come on now, don't be silly.
952
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:54,401
You know. "This way." (Chuckles)
953
00:55:54,480 --> 00:55:57,006
And we got around this corner and...
954
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:00,524
It was all these lights and taxis.
955
00:56:00,600 --> 00:56:02,807
It looked like there was
a big film premiere going on.
956
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,248
It was probably just
the doorway to the nightclub.
957
00:56:06,720 --> 00:56:08,643
It seemed like, you know, very bright.
958
00:56:08,720 --> 00:56:14,284
And all these people with make-up
that was like this thick on their faces.
959
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,003
You know, like masks.
960
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:19,761
I had this lingering thought
961
00:56:20,240 --> 00:56:24,848
that just stayed with me after that.
962
00:56:24,920 --> 00:56:28,641
And this thought was
Yogis of the Himalayas.
963
00:56:28,720 --> 00:56:29,881
I don't know why. It just ...
964
00:56:29,960 --> 00:56:32,281
I never thought about them
for the rest of my life.
965
00:56:32,360 --> 00:56:37,571
But suddenly this thought was
in the back of my consciousness.
966
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:41,803
It was like somebody
was whispering to me, you know.
967
00:56:42,360 --> 00:56:43,441
The Yogis of the Himalayas.
968
00:56:48,480 --> 00:56:51,563
Prabhujee
969
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:55,568
Dayaa karo
970
00:56:57,120 --> 00:57:00,283
Prabhujee
971
00:57:00,960 --> 00:57:04,169
Dayaa karo
972
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:12,290
J” Maname aana base
973
00:57:13,920 --> 00:57:20,610
J” Maname aana base
974
00:57:22,240 --> 00:57:24,447
Prabhujee
975
00:57:24,520 --> 00:57:28,241
Interview de Monsieur George Harrison
et Ravi Shankar par Michel Vial.
976
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:31,250
(Laughs)
977
00:57:32,800 --> 00:57:34,211
Sound is God.
978
00:57:34,280 --> 00:57:38,126
And through sound,
or that is through good music,
979
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:42,683
there can be also music
which can be devil.
980
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:45,687
- I don't want to name which music.
- (George laughs)
981
00:57:45,760 --> 00:57:50,448
But... (Laughs) ...music can excite you
and make you...go mad.
982
00:57:50,520 --> 00:57:53,649
People go, you know, crazy.
That is also music.
983
00:57:53,720 --> 00:57:59,489
But it didn't... Doesn't lead you,
spiritually towards God.
984
00:57:59,560 --> 00:58:02,291
But music has this power.
985
00:58:02,360 --> 00:58:04,567
Whether it is through
the Gregorian chants
986
00:58:04,640 --> 00:58:09,202
or beautiful Baroque music,
or Indian music, or even folk songs,
987
00:58:09,280 --> 00:58:13,126
beautifully sung by people
with beautiful voices.
988
00:58:13,200 --> 00:58:17,285
Our music has been handed down
from person to person.
989
00:58:17,360 --> 00:58:20,603
It's an oral tradition.
It's not a written down music.
990
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:23,286
And the guru passes
not just a technique,
991
00:58:23,360 --> 00:58:26,489
but the whole spiritual aspect.
992
00:58:27,160 --> 00:58:29,731
All the meaning of life, philosophy,
993
00:58:29,800 --> 00:58:32,406
everything is passed
along with the music.
994
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,768
(George) The fact that! met so many people,
995
00:59:11,840 --> 00:59:13,251
I can meet anybody you know.
996
00:59:13,320 --> 00:59:17,370
You could go in all the film stars'
houses and Elvis and everybody
997
00:59:17,440 --> 00:59:19,408
And we meta lot of really good people.
998
00:59:19,480 --> 00:59:23,087
But we didn't... I never met one person
who really impressed me.
999
00:59:23,160 --> 00:59:26,209
The first person who ever impressed me
in my life was Ravi Shankar.
1000
00:59:26,280 --> 00:59:28,886
And he was the only person
who didn't try to impress me.
1001
00:59:28,960 --> 00:59:30,325
(Man) Why did he impress you?
1002
00:59:30,400 --> 00:59:32,767
(George) Because it was by his being.
1003
00:59:32,840 --> 00:59:36,401
He taught me so much
without actually saying a word.
1004
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:38,005
It's by example.
1005
00:59:38,320 --> 00:59:42,166
(Ravi Shankar)
Now try to count Five, five and six.
1006
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:44,604
- Five, five makes 10.
- (George) Yeah.
1007
00:59:44,680 --> 00:59:46,330
(Ravi) And 6 makes 16.
1008
00:59:46,400 --> 00:59:48,528
9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
1009
00:59:48,600 --> 00:59:49,931
- One, two, three, four, Eve.
- (Tabla)
1010
00:59:50,000 --> 00:59:51,650
One, two, three, four, Eve. One...
1011
00:59:51,720 --> 00:59:53,529
(George) Two, three, four, Eve. One, two.
1012
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:55,649
(Ravi) Five. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.
1013
00:59:55,720 --> 00:59:57,529
(George) One, two, three, four, Eve.
1014
00:59:57,600 --> 01:00:00,410
(Ravi) Three, four, Eve.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.
1015
01:00:00,840 --> 01:00:03,810
What you can do, or if
if it is difficult for you to get...
1016
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:05,484
One, two, three, four Just..
1017
01:00:05,560 --> 01:00:06,891
- (George) One, two...
- (Ravi) Three, four
1018
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:09,361
(Ravi laughs) It's quite difficult
1019
01:00:10,120 --> 01:00:13,010
(George) One, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four.
1020
01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:14,161
- One, two, three, four..
- No. One.
1021
01:00:14,240 --> 01:00:15,765
(George) One, two, three, four
1022
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:17,888
If you're trying
to find something,
1023
01:00:17,960 --> 01:00:22,522
to find the source of that thing
is very difficult
1024
01:00:22,600 --> 01:00:25,410
but my blessing was to be able
1025
01:00:25,480 --> 01:00:30,122
to have Ravi as my patch cord.
1026
01:00:30,200 --> 01:00:32,931
And he could plug me in
to the real thing,
1027
01:00:33,000 --> 01:00:37,244
so my experience of it
was always the best quality.
1028
01:00:37,320 --> 01:00:40,005
(J' The Beatles: Love to You)
1029
01:01:16,160 --> 01:01:19,323
Each day just goes so fast
1030
01:01:20,000 --> 01:01:23,368
I tum around, it's past
1031
01:01:23,720 --> 01:01:29,011
You don't get time
to hang a sign on me
1032
01:01:35,240 --> 01:01:37,891
Love me while you can
1033
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:42,163
Before I'm a dead old man
1034
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,842
(George) Ravi and the sitar
was kind of like an excuse
1035
01:01:48,920 --> 01:01:52,129
to try and find
this spiritual connection.
1036
01:01:52,200 --> 01:01:56,808
I read stuff by various holy men
and Swamis and mystics
1037
01:01:56,880 --> 01:01:59,804
and I went around and looked for them.
1038
01:01:59,880 --> 01:02:05,091
Ravi and his brother gave me
a lot of books by some wise men.
1039
01:02:05,760 --> 01:02:09,890
One of the books which was
by a Swami Vivekananda who said,
1040
01:02:09,960 --> 01:02:14,249
"lf there's a God, you must see Him
and if there's a soul we must perceive it.
1041
01:02:14,320 --> 01:02:16,800
"Otherwise it's better not to believe.
1042
01:02:16,880 --> 01:02:20,123
"It's better to be an outspoken atheist
than a hypocrite."
1043
01:02:20,200 --> 01:02:22,601
And after all my life,
I've been brought up...
1044
01:02:22,680 --> 01:02:25,411
Well, they tried to bring me up
as a Catholic.
1045
01:02:26,040 --> 01:02:29,362
They had told you to just
believe what they're telling you
1046
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:33,443
and, you know,
not to have the direct experience.
1047
01:02:33,520 --> 01:02:38,606
And this for me going to India
and hearing somebody saying, you know,
1048
01:02:38,680 --> 01:02:43,891
"No, you can't believe anything
until you have direct perception of it,"
1049
01:02:43,960 --> 01:02:46,531
And I thought,
"Wow, you know, fantastic!
1050
01:02:46,600 --> 01:02:51,606
"At last, you know, find somebody who...
who makes some sense."
1051
01:02:51,680 --> 01:02:55,082
And so I wanted to go deeper
and deeper into that.
1052
01:02:55,160 --> 01:02:58,209
I think that George's experiences
1053
01:02:58,280 --> 01:03:01,045
of expanding his mind with acid
1054
01:03:02,320 --> 01:03:07,770
led him to looking for something
that didn't need chemicals.
1055
01:03:09,000 --> 01:03:13,369
He knew that there was a point
where you couldn't keep on doing that.
1056
01:03:13,440 --> 01:03:18,241
And it wouldn't be good for you
if you did keep on using chemicals.
1057
01:03:18,320 --> 01:03:22,041
So he was looking for...
1058
01:03:23,640 --> 01:03:25,961
He was always looking for the truth
1059
01:03:26,040 --> 01:03:28,361
and he was also
looking for peace of mind.
1060
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:33,770
Because it was...
It was pretty crazy.
1061
01:03:34,920 --> 01:03:37,605
(George) John'd pick us up
in this big Rolls-Royce
1062
01:03:37,680 --> 01:03:39,091
with blacked-out windows,
1063
01:03:39,160 --> 01:03:42,642
and Ringo, John and I
all moved out of town to Surrey.
1064
01:03:43,240 --> 01:03:45,242
And then he'd pick up Ringo
and then pick me up
1065
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:48,483
and then we'd head into town
and by the time we got to Hammersmith,
1066
01:03:48,560 --> 01:03:52,087
we were just loaded, and...
And feeling ill cos, you know,
1067
01:03:52,160 --> 01:03:54,481
a Rolls-Royce doesn't have
the proper springs.
1068
01:03:54,560 --> 01:03:56,767
They just roll around.
1069
01:03:56,840 --> 01:03:59,320
And the black windows,
you couldn't see anything out,
1070
01:03:59,400 --> 01:04:01,607
and the windows would be shut
1071
01:04:01,680 --> 01:04:05,401
and so you'd just be getting
double doses of these reef ere,
1072
01:04:05,480 --> 01:04:09,121
And then, we'd pull up
at Abbey Road Studio
1073
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:11,487
and just be like...
fall out of the car.
1074
01:04:12,160 --> 01:04:14,811
(Ringo) We have to thank Paul
that we made as many records as we did
1075
01:04:14,880 --> 01:04:18,407
because you know, John and I,
cos we lived in the same area,
1076
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,209
would be hanging out, you know.
It's like a...
1077
01:04:21,120 --> 01:04:23,122
A beautiful day
in the garden in England
1078
01:04:23,200 --> 01:04:25,806
and the phoned ring
and we'd always Know it was him.
1079
01:04:26,400 --> 01:04:27,890
He wants us to work!
1080
01:04:28,640 --> 01:04:31,723
(George) I mean, everywhere we went,
people were smiling
1081
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,202
and you know,
sitting on lawns, drinking tea.
1082
01:04:35,960 --> 01:04:40,522
When I went to Haight-Ashbury,
expecting it to be this brilliant place,
1083
01:04:40,600 --> 01:04:45,970
I thought it was gonna be all these
groovy kinda gypsy kinda people
1084
01:04:46,040 --> 01:04:51,126
with little shops making works of art
and paintings and carvings.
1085
01:04:51,200 --> 01:04:55,046
But instead, it turned out
to be just a lot of bums.
1086
01:04:55,560 --> 01:04:57,961
And many of them,
they were just very young kids
1087
01:04:58,040 --> 01:05:00,930
who'd come from all over America
and dropped acid
1088
01:05:01,000 --> 01:05:04,607
and gone to this Mecca of LSD.
1089
01:05:04,760 --> 01:05:06,922
We'd walk down the street
and I was like,
1090
01:05:07,000 --> 01:05:10,163
being treated like
the Messiah or something.
1091
01:05:10,240 --> 01:05:15,849
I was really afraid because
I could see all these spotty youths
1092
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:21,290
and they were still undercurrents
of Beatlemania, but...
1093
01:05:21,360 --> 01:05:25,160
from a kind of twisted angle.
1094
01:05:25,240 --> 01:05:28,403
And they were...
People were handing me things
1095
01:05:28,480 --> 01:05:31,086
like this big pipe,
1096
01:05:31,160 --> 01:05:34,289
like a big Indian pipe
with feathers on it
1097
01:05:34,360 --> 01:05:38,684
and books and incense
and, you know, all kinds of stuff,
1098
01:05:39,000 --> 01:05:40,843
and trying to give me drugs
1099
01:05:40,920 --> 01:05:43,571
and, you know, I'd say,
"No, thanks, I don't want it."
1100
01:05:43,640 --> 01:05:46,849
We were walking quicker and quicker.
We went through the park
1101
01:05:46,920 --> 01:05:50,402
and back out of the park, and in the end
we just said, "Let's get outta here."
1102
01:05:50,480 --> 01:05:52,608
And we drove back to the airport,
1103
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:55,286
got on the jet, and as it took off,
1104
01:05:55,360 --> 01:05:59,160
the plane went into a stall,
and the whole dashboard lit up,
1105
01:05:59,240 --> 01:06:01,368
saying "unsafe" right across.
1106
01:06:01,640 --> 01:06:06,009
It certainly snowed me what was
really happening in the drug cult.
1107
01:06:06,080 --> 01:06:09,482
It wasn't what I thought
of all these groovy people getting...
1108
01:06:09,560 --> 01:06:13,485
Having spiritual awakenings
and being artistic.
1109
01:06:13,840 --> 01:06:16,764
It was like any addiction.
1110
01:06:16,840 --> 01:06:22,882
So, at that point, I stopped taking it,
actually, the dreaded Lysergic
1111
01:06:23,400 --> 01:06:26,449
That's where I really went
for the meditation.
1112
01:06:55,560 --> 01:06:58,245
(J' The Beatles: Strawberry Fields)
1113
01:07:05,880 --> 01:07:08,247
Let me take you down
1114
01:07:08,320 --> 01:07:10,687
Cos I'm going to
1115
01:07:11,480 --> 01:07:14,086
Strawberry Fields
1116
01:07:16,760 --> 01:07:19,206
Nothing is real
1117
01:07:20,360 --> 01:07:23,330
And nothing to get hung about
1118
01:07:24,640 --> 01:07:28,008
Strawberry Fields forever
1119
01:07:29,440 --> 01:07:33,889
Living is easy with eyes closed
1120
01:07:35,040 --> 01:07:38,522
Misunderstanding all you see
1121
01:07:40,800 --> 01:07:45,647
We'd stopped touring.
We were now into the mid-sixties.
1122
01:07:45,720 --> 01:07:47,484
We were partying.
1123
01:07:47,560 --> 01:07:52,964
And I think we kind of lost
sort of our spiritual direction.
1124
01:07:53,400 --> 01:07:56,244
Not that we ever had one
but we lost it.
1125
01:07:56,760 --> 01:08:00,810
So we were kind of
experimenting in anything.
1126
01:08:00,880 --> 01:08:03,042
It was the time of Sgt. Pepper.
1127
01:08:03,120 --> 01:08:06,567
And I'd written the song,
the title song.
1128
01:08:06,640 --> 01:08:09,962
And I put it to the guys
that what we should do,
1129
01:08:10,040 --> 01:08:14,090
we could make this record now
under another persona.
1130
01:08:14,160 --> 01:08:17,323
We'll be this other band.
And it will free us.
1131
01:08:18,080 --> 01:08:20,731
The idea was we could bring
anything we wanted.
1132
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,885
Cos now, you know, there was
no lid on what we could do.
1133
01:08:25,320 --> 01:08:27,926
(George Martin)
When we were doing Sgt. Pepper,
1134
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:32,324
he presented us with a song
which I thought was boring.
1135
01:08:33,600 --> 01:08:35,602
And I had to tell him so. And I said,
1136
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:37,808
"George, honestly,
I think we could do...
1137
01:08:37,880 --> 01:08:39,564
"You could do
something better for this record
1138
01:08:39,640 --> 01:08:41,802
"cos it's gonna be an astonishing record
1139
01:08:41,880 --> 01:08:45,407
"there are so many great moments in it.
1140
01:08:45,840 --> 01:08:48,446
"And do you mind going away
and thinking about it
1141
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:50,443
"and coming up with something else?"
1142
01:08:50,560 --> 01:08:53,723
(J' The Beatles: Within You Without You)
1143
01:08:58,840 --> 01:09:02,447
We were talking
1144
01:09:03,400 --> 01:09:05,528
About the
1145
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:10,845
Space between us all
1146
01:09:10,920 --> 01:09:14,402
And the people
1147
01:09:15,360 --> 01:09:18,842
Who hide themselves
1148
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:22,811
Behind a wall
1149
01:09:22,880 --> 01:09:26,043
Of illusion
1150
01:09:26,760 --> 01:09:30,560
Never glimpse the truth
1151
01:09:30,640 --> 01:09:33,962
Then it's far too late
1152
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:38,329
When they pass away
1153
01:09:42,560 --> 01:09:45,166
He came up with
Within You Without You.
1154
01:09:45,240 --> 01:09:50,167
Now Within You Without You was not
a commercial song by any means.
1155
01:09:50,240 --> 01:09:52,129
But it was very interesting.
1156
01:09:52,200 --> 01:09:56,489
He had the way of communicating music
by the Indian system
1157
01:09:57,080 --> 01:10:00,926
of kind of a separate language like...
1158
01:10:01,000 --> 01:10:03,651
(imitates tabla percussion)
1159
01:10:04,040 --> 01:10:09,570
The kind of things that would be the
rhythms suggested by the tabla player.
1160
01:10:09,640 --> 01:10:13,440
And you had to get inside that
and find out what it was about.
1161
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:16,285
So it was like
working out a puzzle with George.
1162
01:10:16,360 --> 01:10:19,807
He had Ravi play at his house once.
And we all went.
1163
01:10:20,480 --> 01:10:22,608
And we're sitting around the floor.
1164
01:10:22,680 --> 01:10:26,969
And Ravi made the announcement,
"Please don't smoke while I'm playing."
1165
01:10:27,040 --> 01:10:29,520
And, er, anyway,
there was a crowd of us
1166
01:10:29,600 --> 01:10:32,080
and a crowd of Ravi's friends
sitting around.
1167
01:10:32,160 --> 01:10:33,571
Ravi's playing away,
1168
01:10:33,640 --> 01:10:37,167
and this is how little we understood
at the time that...
1169
01:10:38,320 --> 01:10:40,721
Ravi's pals are all like going.,
1170
01:10:41,480 --> 01:10:44,802
Aww! Aghh!
1171
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:49,531
Which it sounded like to us
they were saying, "Aw, God, crap!"
1172
01:10:49,840 --> 01:10:52,810
But they were really going...
(Sighs contentedly)
1173
01:10:54,040 --> 01:10:56,646
We were like, "Keep the noise down."
1174
01:10:56,720 --> 01:10:59,041
(Laughs) You know.
1175
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:02,569
When you've seen beyond yourself
1176
01:11:02,640 --> 01:11:04,449
Then you may find
1177
01:11:04,520 --> 01:11:08,605
Peace of mind is waiting there
1178
01:11:10,840 --> 01:11:13,047
And the time will come
1179
01:11:13,120 --> 01:11:15,964
J" When you see we're all one
1180
01:11:16,040 --> 01:11:21,410
And life flows on within you
And without you
1181
01:11:23,400 --> 01:11:26,643
- What, when you get a sort of typical...
- Yeah.
1182
01:11:26,720 --> 01:11:29,200
- ..westernised Englishman coming to you.
- Yeah.
1183
01:11:29,280 --> 01:11:32,602
What is the most important thing
you have to teach? Is it concentration?
1184
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:38,881
No. Just allowing the mind to take
its natural course. Just that.
1185
01:11:40,080 --> 01:11:43,687
Say, it was surprising someone one day
has started to meditate,
1186
01:11:43,760 --> 01:11:45,569
next day he came for checking.
1187
01:11:45,640 --> 01:11:49,167
And he said, "I feel wonderful.
I slept very deep,
1188
01:11:49,240 --> 01:11:50,765
"and the whole thing is good.
1189
01:11:50,840 --> 01:11:53,764
"But tell me what you have taught me."
(Chuckles)
1190
01:11:53,840 --> 01:11:55,524
(Both laugh)
1191
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:57,523
I said, "Nothing"
1192
01:11:57,600 --> 01:11:59,568
(Laughter)
1193
01:11:59,640 --> 01:12:04,043
Because the process of thinking
has not to be learned.
1194
01:12:04,520 --> 01:12:07,091
We are used to think.
We know how to think from birth.
1195
01:12:07,400 --> 01:12:09,289
(Screaming)
1196
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:15,406
I got a message from John
and a message from Joe, saying,
1197
01:12:15,480 --> 01:12:17,926
"We're going to Wales.
We've met this guy.
1198
01:12:18,000 --> 01:12:20,446
"We listened to him. He's great.
Come to Wales."
1199
01:12:21,040 --> 01:12:24,249
(Paul) We'd seen this giggly
little Indian guy with a beard
1200
01:12:24,320 --> 01:12:26,209
coming on TV and we liked him.
1201
01:12:26,280 --> 01:12:27,850
You know, he was
a funny little character
1202
01:12:27,920 --> 01:12:29,763
who was gonna save the world.
1203
01:12:29,840 --> 01:12:33,561
So he came round
and we were ripe for saving.
1204
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:36,645
(George) You know,
I wanted to get into meditation.
1205
01:12:36,720 --> 01:12:40,361
But it's one thing reading about it
and the other thing of how do you do it.
1206
01:12:40,440 --> 01:12:43,523
So I got myself to the point where,
OK, I need a mantra.
1207
01:12:43,600 --> 01:12:44,806
You know, where do you go?
1208
01:12:44,880 --> 01:12:47,247
You know, you go to Harrods
and get a mantra.
1209
01:12:47,320 --> 01:12:50,130
But then David Wynn showed me
this picture and he said,
1210
01:12:50,200 --> 01:12:53,283
"Oh, he's coming to do
a lecture at the Hilton.
1211
01:12:54,040 --> 01:12:55,485
"He's called Maharishi."
1212
01:12:55,880 --> 01:12:58,406
(David Frost) You give each person
a sound, don't you?
1213
01:12:58,480 --> 01:13:01,324
Is that the same sound
that you give to each person?
1214
01:13:01,400 --> 01:13:04,131
(Maharishi) No.
Each person gets different.
1215
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:06,123
(Frost) How many sounds are there?
1216
01:13:06,280 --> 01:13:08,089
Oh, there are lots of them
1217
01:13:08,160 --> 01:13:10,288
I mean, hundreds or thousands, or...
1218
01:13:10,360 --> 01:13:11,964
We could say thousands.
1219
01:13:12,160 --> 01:13:15,562
And when a person has been given
their own particular sound,
1220
01:13:15,640 --> 01:13:16,846
how do they use it?
1221
01:13:16,920 --> 01:13:18,365
I mean, when they're meditating,
1222
01:13:18,440 --> 01:13:20,807
how do they use the sound
you've given them?
1223
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:23,167
Why is that sound useful to them?
1224
01:13:23,480 --> 01:13:30,090
Ah! See, every man has his own impulse
of individuality, yes?
1225
01:13:31,240 --> 01:13:34,323
Some man goes by
and you feel attracted towards him.
1226
01:13:34,400 --> 01:13:36,721
Other man goes and you feel repulsed.
1227
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:40,486
Something exchanged
in the rhythm of the individual.
1228
01:13:40,560 --> 01:13:42,085
Like, everyone has his own rhythm.
1229
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:45,850
Now, the rhythm of a sound
1230
01:13:45,920 --> 01:13:49,970
which will resonate to the existing
rhythm of the individual.
1231
01:13:50,480 --> 01:13:53,689
And that will be the sound
suitable to him.
1232
01:13:53,760 --> 01:13:56,081
Got it. So that you try to find the...
1233
01:13:56,160 --> 01:13:57,605
Give the person the sound
1234
01:13:57,680 --> 01:14:01,321
that fits in with the rhythm
of their own lives and being.
1235
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:04,767
(Paul) We were at
Maharishi's meditation camp
1236
01:14:04,840 --> 01:14:07,161
when the news came through
about Brian.
1237
01:14:07,560 --> 01:14:11,531
And it was horrifying
because we'd experienced loss,
1238
01:14:11,600 --> 01:14:15,207
but with Brian dying,
it was like one of us dying.
1239
01:14:16,000 --> 01:14:19,083
And you can kind of come to terms
with your parent dying because
1240
01:14:19,160 --> 01:14:21,561
you know they'll probably die before you.
1241
01:14:21,640 --> 01:14:23,768
But Brian, it was, whoa!
1242
01:14:23,840 --> 01:14:25,444
And it was such a big part
of the equation.
1243
01:14:25,520 --> 01:14:27,522
People used to call him
the fifth Beatle, you know.
1244
01:14:27,600 --> 01:14:31,730
So it was like, "Oh, my God,
now we're on our own,"
1245
01:14:32,160 --> 01:14:35,960
(George) It was very strange for it
to happen at that precise moment.
1246
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:39,931
We'd just got involved
with this meditation.
1247
01:14:40,600 --> 01:14:44,400
You know, I mean, that may not sound
like a big deal, but it actually was.
1248
01:14:44,480 --> 01:14:47,643
It's a big change in your life when,
1249
01:14:48,840 --> 01:14:53,164
you know, when you start
making the journey inward.
1250
01:14:53,840 --> 01:14:57,731
And for Brian to like kick the bucket
that particular day,
1251
01:14:57,800 --> 01:14:59,404
it was pretty far out.
1252
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:02,925
(Frost) Is the mantra
something you use
1253
01:15:03,000 --> 01:15:05,844
to get back to the subject
1254
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:09,527
if you find earthly
or irrelevant thoughts intruding?
1255
01:15:09,600 --> 01:15:12,206
- Yeah, something like that.
- Or is it more than that?
1256
01:15:12,280 --> 01:15:15,045
You know, you just sort of sit there
and you let your mind go,
1257
01:15:15,120 --> 01:15:17,600
whatever it's going, doesn't matter
what you're thinking about
1258
01:15:17,680 --> 01:15:18,727
Just let it go.
1259
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:22,521
And then you just introduce
the mantra or the vibration.
1260
01:15:23,080 --> 01:15:24,491
Just to take over from the thought.
1261
01:15:24,560 --> 01:15:26,767
You don't will it
or use your will power.
1262
01:15:26,840 --> 01:15:28,922
If you find yourself thinking then
1263
01:15:29,840 --> 01:15:32,605
the moment you realise you've been
thinking about things again
1264
01:15:32,680 --> 01:15:36,651
then you replace that thought
with the mantra again.
1265
01:15:37,160 --> 01:15:39,401
Sometimes you can go on
1266
01:15:39,480 --> 01:15:42,404
and you find that you haven’t even
had the mantra in your mind.
1267
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:44,528
You've just been a complete blank.
1268
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:49,208
But when you reach that point,
because it's beyond all experience,
1269
01:15:49,280 --> 01:15:53,729
then it's down there in that...
That level is timeless, spaceless
1270
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,406
So you can be there for five minutes
and come out.
1271
01:15:56,480 --> 01:15:58,687
You don't actually know
how long you've been there.
1272
01:15:58,760 --> 01:16:02,731
Then the aim, as opposed to
sitting and thinking, or anything
1273
01:16:02,800 --> 01:16:05,326
is to reach a point
where you have no thoughts, is it?
1274
01:16:05,400 --> 01:16:06,731
(George) Mm.
1275
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:08,848
(Chants mock mantra)
1276
01:16:08,920 --> 01:16:10,649
(Audience laugh)
1277
01:16:10,720 --> 01:16:11,801
(J' The Beatles: The Inner Light)
1278
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,963
Without going out of my door
1279
01:16:15,480 --> 01:16:20,008
I can know all things on earth
1280
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:25,362
Without looking out of my window
1281
01:16:25,440 --> 01:16:30,207
I could know the ways of heaven
1282
01:16:30,840 --> 01:16:34,890
The farther one travels
1283
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,527
The less one knows
1284
01:16:40,960 --> 01:16:46,000
The less one really knows
1285
01:16:54,400 --> 01:16:57,404
The word, for instance, the word "God,"
I mean has ...
1286
01:16:57,840 --> 01:17:01,242
Does it mean something different to you
now than it did before the Maharishi?
1287
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:02,560
(John) It could be.
1288
01:17:02,640 --> 01:17:05,450
It means all sorts of things to me.
It means...
1289
01:17:05,520 --> 01:17:09,161
I mean, the first concept
of a man in the sky,
1290
01:17:09,240 --> 01:17:12,210
well, I kicked that one a few years ago.
But I've got back to that now
1291
01:17:12,280 --> 01:17:15,124
because it's a man in the sky
as well, if you like
1292
01:17:15,200 --> 01:17:16,929
it's just everything.
1293
01:17:17,000 --> 01:17:19,207
The whole thing that...
it's just everything.
1294
01:17:19,280 --> 01:17:23,922
Every aspect of creation
is part of God.
1295
01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,641
I think that perhaps we should try
and get it a little clearer,
1296
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:29,411
what we're talking about.
1297
01:17:29,480 --> 01:17:32,848
If we're talking about
a mystical religious belief,
1298
01:17:32,920 --> 01:17:34,922
which I think that George Harrison is...
1299
01:17:35,400 --> 01:17:37,084
But are we really talking
about mysticism
1300
01:17:37,160 --> 01:17:40,323
or are we talking about
a technique of improving yourself
1301
01:17:40,400 --> 01:17:41,970
which is totally scientific and rational?
1302
01:17:42,040 --> 01:17:44,327
You can take it either way.
You can take it either way.
1303
01:17:44,400 --> 01:17:45,845
Well, that's easy.
1304
01:17:45,920 --> 01:17:48,526
This is because
it is a perceptual method.
1305
01:17:48,600 --> 01:17:52,525
If a man has got a great conceptual
apparatus and he meditates,
1306
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:55,490
he will begin to understand the nature
of a conceptual apparatus,
1307
01:17:55,560 --> 01:17:57,608
and if he's wrong about it
he'll begin to understand
1308
01:17:57,680 --> 01:17:59,205
where he's wrong about it.
1309
01:17:59,280 --> 01:18:01,044
If he's got no conceptual apparatus,
1310
01:18:01,120 --> 01:18:05,011
he simply perceives
an abstract experience.
1311
01:18:05,720 --> 01:18:07,848
Now, when he's had
an abstract experience,
1312
01:18:07,920 --> 01:18:10,764
he may wish then to give
himself explanations of it.
1313
01:18:11,280 --> 01:18:13,886
But it's primarily a perceptual method.
1314
01:18:13,960 --> 01:18:15,883
And so what this offers
is an experience.
1315
01:18:15,960 --> 01:18:17,041
(John) Yeah.
(George) Yeah.
1316
01:18:17,120 --> 01:18:18,724
Why should this abstract experience
1317
01:18:18,800 --> 01:18:20,689
be any more valuable
than any other experiences?
1318
01:18:20,760 --> 01:18:23,604
You see, George Harrison talked
about a bliss experience.
1319
01:18:23,680 --> 01:18:26,331
Well, you can have a bliss experience
by drinking a bottle of whisky.
1320
01:18:26,400 --> 01:18:28,209
- (Several talk)
- You get a ha...
1321
01:18:28,280 --> 01:18:31,409
Now why...Why is a...
Why is his bliss experience...
1322
01:18:31,480 --> 01:18:34,086
(Frost) You'd have a hell of
a non-bliss experience the next morning.
1323
01:18:34,160 --> 01:18:36,686
...His abstract bliss experience
in anyway more valuable
1324
01:18:36,760 --> 01:18:38,250
than anybody else's bliss experience?
1325
01:18:38,320 --> 01:18:42,848
Or are we talking about a universe
which has some hidden laws
1326
01:18:42,920 --> 01:18:45,969
and a hidden creator
who manifests himself
1327
01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:48,407
only to people like
Mister Harrison and the Maharishi
1328
01:18:48,480 --> 01:18:51,006
when they get into a state of trance?
That's what I want to know.
1329
01:18:51,080 --> 01:18:54,402
Well, let's face it.
These laws that you say, hidden laws,
1330
01:18:54,480 --> 01:18:55,606
they are hidden.
1331
01:18:55,680 --> 01:18:58,160
But they're only hidden
by our own ignorance,
1332
01:18:58,240 --> 01:19:00,971
And the word mysticism is just
1333
01:19:01,040 --> 01:19:03,407
being arrived at through
people's ignorance.
1334
01:19:03,480 --> 01:19:04,925
There's nothing mystical about it,
1335
01:19:05,000 --> 01:19:07,924
only that you're ignorant
of what that entails.
1336
01:19:08,000 --> 01:19:10,082
(J' The Beatles: The Inner Light)
1337
01:19:10,160 --> 01:19:12,891
Arrive without traveling
1338
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:19,321
See all without looking
1339
01:19:19,400 --> 01:19:22,210
Do all without doing
1340
01:19:28,800 --> 01:19:32,486
He wanted to be a spiritual being
more than anything.
1341
01:19:32,560 --> 01:19:36,087
But he couldn't, because
he had to deal with this life.
1342
01:19:37,040 --> 01:19:41,329
So he could be loving because
that was really his true nature
1343
01:19:41,400 --> 01:19:43,801
and sweet and kind and gentle.
1344
01:19:44,280 --> 01:19:47,284
But then the anger came from
the frustration of...
1345
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:49,610
that he had.
1346
01:19:50,360 --> 01:19:53,409
When you glimpse something
that you understand
1347
01:19:54,360 --> 01:19:59,446
but you can't be there because there's
something earthly holding you back.
1348
01:20:00,000 --> 01:20:02,241
And he was very aware of that
1349
01:20:02,320 --> 01:20:05,483
(Man) What were the earthly things
1350
01:20:05,560 --> 01:20:07,562
that pulled on him the most?
1351
01:20:10,200 --> 01:20:12,487
Well, the three...
The other three Beatles.
1352
01:20:12,960 --> 01:20:17,522
And what they were creating
and were continuing to create.
1353
01:20:17,600 --> 01:20:21,161
This huge empire, Apple.
1354
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:24,691
I think he felt that he'd found
1355
01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:29,131
something that he totally understood
and wanted to just be there.
1356
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:30,531
Be in it.
1357
01:20:30,600 --> 01:20:35,731
He became totally absorbed
with meditation.
1358
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:38,406
(Dhani reads) "Dear Mum,
thanks for your letter last week.
1359
01:20:38,480 --> 01:20:40,528
"And if it's any comfort to you,
don't worry about me
1360
01:20:40,600 --> 01:20:43,649
"or don't think
anything negative about Maharishi.
1361
01:20:43,720 --> 01:20:45,006
"Because he's not phoney
1362
01:20:45,080 --> 01:20:47,811
”lt's only the bullshit that's written
about him that's phoney
1363
01:20:47,880 --> 01:20:49,689
”He's not taking any of our money
1364
01:20:49,760 --> 01:20:52,411
"All he's doing is teaching us
how to Contact God.
1365
01:20:52,480 --> 01:20:54,369
"And as God isn't divided
into different sects
1366
01:20:54,440 --> 01:20:57,364
"as the religious leaders here
make out by their prejudices,
1367
01:20:57,440 --> 01:21:00,364
"then it doesn't affect my dedication
to Sacred Heart in any way
1368
01:21:00,440 --> 01:21:01,930
"It only strengthens it
1369
01:21:02,960 --> 01:21:04,530
"But we will help
to spread this teaching
1370
01:21:04,600 --> 01:21:06,568
"so that everybody can attain this.
1371
01:21:06,640 --> 01:21:09,530
"And new generations will grow up
and have this right from the start
1372
01:21:09,600 --> 01:21:11,728
"instead of going through the ignorance
that seems to dominate
1373
01:21:11,800 --> 01:21:13,564
"everything and everyone at the moment
1374
01:21:13,640 --> 01:21:16,530
"causing them to feel that
it's mysticism or something strange,
1375
01:21:16,600 --> 01:21:18,284
"or black magic.
1376
01:21:19,160 --> 01:21:21,845
”Don't think that I've gone off
my rocker because I haven’t
1377
01:21:22,280 --> 01:21:25,363
"Burl now love you and everybody else
much more than ever
1378
01:21:25,440 --> 01:21:27,044
"So it's not that bad, is it?"
1379
01:21:28,560 --> 01:21:30,483
(J' The Beatles: Savoy Truffle)
1380
01:21:32,320 --> 01:21:34,766
Creme tangerine
1381
01:21:34,840 --> 01:21:36,126
And Montelimar
1382
01:21:40,560 --> 01:21:44,007
A ginger sling with a pineapple heart
1383
01:21:48,800 --> 01:21:50,290
Coffee dessert
1384
01:21:50,360 --> 01:21:52,727
Yes, you know it's good news
1385
01:21:55,360 --> 01:21:57,966
But you'll have to have them
all pulled out
1386
01:21:58,040 --> 01:22:01,726
After the Savoy truffle
1387
01:22:03,040 --> 01:22:05,520
Whenever we were together
1388
01:22:05,600 --> 01:22:08,649
in the public, say, for instance,
1389
01:22:09,040 --> 01:22:12,647
l would turn... I mean,
for all of the amount of, uh,
1390
01:22:12,720 --> 01:22:15,929
weight that I thought I carried,
would turn to nobody.
1391
01:22:16,200 --> 01:22:18,965
If we were going
into a restaurant or a club,
1392
01:22:19,040 --> 01:22:22,362
the way people would behave around
1393
01:22:22,440 --> 01:22:24,602
their aura, you know.
1394
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:28,726
And by "their", I mean the Beatles,
was beyond belief.
1395
01:22:29,480 --> 01:22:31,084
George had two sides to his character.
1396
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:34,482
I mean, you know, I'm his mate,
so I can't tell too much.
1397
01:22:35,040 --> 01:22:36,166
But he was a guy.
1398
01:22:36,840 --> 01:22:40,322
You know. And you know
what I'm talking about.
1399
01:22:40,400 --> 01:22:44,121
He was like...
He was a red-blooded man, you know.
1400
01:22:44,200 --> 01:22:47,329
So he would like, you know,
the things guys like
1401
01:22:47,560 --> 01:22:49,927
(J' The Beatles: Savoy Truffle)
1402
01:23:10,600 --> 01:23:13,251
But you'll have to
have them all pulled out
1403
01:23:13,320 --> 01:23:17,006
After the Savoy truffle
1404
01:23:18,360 --> 01:23:21,204
I distinctly remember
putting the saxes on.
1405
01:23:22,880 --> 01:23:28,683
And I got what I considered to be
a good sax sound, they...
1406
01:23:30,000 --> 01:23:32,128
blended well, it was very nice,
1407
01:23:32,200 --> 01:23:35,090
and George comes up
after teaching him the parts
1408
01:23:35,160 --> 01:23:38,642
and says, "Yeah, they sound great.
Now distort them."
1409
01:23:39,320 --> 01:23:40,606
"What'?"
1410
01:23:40,680 --> 01:23:43,604
"Yeah, they're too clean,
they're too nice. Distort them."
1411
01:23:44,080 --> 01:23:47,846
"OK" So I had to one way
or another mess them up.
1412
01:23:47,920 --> 01:23:49,649
When we were mixing it,
1413
01:23:49,720 --> 01:23:52,485
George Martin walks
into the control room. He says,
1414
01:23:53,400 --> 01:23:56,609
"isn't it a bit bright?
Isn't it a bit toppy'?"
1415
01:23:56,680 --> 01:23:58,330
And George just turned around
to him and said,
1416
01:23:58,400 --> 01:24:00,004
"Yeah And I like it."
1417
01:24:00,080 --> 01:24:02,367
And he just turns around
and we carry on working.
1418
01:24:02,440 --> 01:24:05,967
George just upped and...
George Martin just walked out.
1419
01:24:06,040 --> 01:24:08,281
Went to one of the other studios
where they were doing other work.
1420
01:24:08,360 --> 01:24:11,523
They were like the kids
that've just left home,
1421
01:24:11,600 --> 01:24:14,285
and parents aren't
looking after them any more.
1422
01:24:14,360 --> 01:24:16,124
(J' Psychedelic rock)
1423
01:24:27,560 --> 01:24:29,722
(Clapton) A guy called
Joe Massot was making this film
1424
01:24:29,800 --> 01:24:31,882
and he'd asked George
to do the soundtrack.
1425
01:24:31,960 --> 01:24:33,121
And it was really just...
1426
01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:35,089
I showed up, you know.
George told me
1427
01:24:35,160 --> 01:24:37,686
he'd like me to play on something
1428
01:24:37,760 --> 01:24:39,285
or we'd write something
as we went along.
1429
01:24:39,440 --> 01:24:41,488
We put down this thing and...
1430
01:24:41,560 --> 01:24:43,801
George then put
backwards guitar on top of it.
1431
01:24:43,880 --> 01:24:47,362
It was very experimental
and it was good fun.
1432
01:25:02,000 --> 01:25:05,083
I think that in England
there was a sort of cultural revolution
1433
01:25:05,160 --> 01:25:09,006
in the sixties,
which touched on every branch of life.
1434
01:25:09,120 --> 01:25:10,451
Wake up!
1435
01:25:11,920 --> 01:25:13,046
(Shutter clicking)
1436
01:25:13,120 --> 01:25:15,930
You can thank your lucky stars
you're working for me, can't you?
1437
01:25:17,280 --> 01:25:19,044
And a smile now. Come on.
1438
01:25:20,400 --> 01:25:21,526
Smile.
1439
01:25:22,560 --> 01:25:23,686
Smile!
1440
01:25:24,720 --> 01:25:27,724
(Continues clicking)
1441
01:25:29,320 --> 01:25:30,731
God.
1442
01:25:30,800 --> 01:25:34,691
That's why Antonioni decided
to do Blow-Up in England
1443
01:25:34,760 --> 01:25:36,728
because of it being the...
1444
01:25:36,800 --> 01:25:38,643
the spot where everything
was going on.
1445
01:25:39,440 --> 01:25:40,566
What do they call you in bed?
1446
01:25:40,640 --> 01:25:41,926
(Sniggers)
1447
01:25:43,080 --> 01:25:45,082
I only go to bed to sleep.
1448
01:25:54,560 --> 01:25:57,609
I remember the mystery
that was around George Harrison.
1449
01:25:57,680 --> 01:26:00,923
I wouldn't have asked him a question.
1450
01:26:01,720 --> 01:26:06,044
I wouldn't have dared,
because of, um, feeling he...
1451
01:26:06,680 --> 01:26:09,650
he was onto something else.
1452
01:26:10,120 --> 01:26:11,770
There was a lot of energy around.
1453
01:26:11,840 --> 01:26:14,047
Everybody was inspiring everybody else.
1454
01:26:14,120 --> 01:26:17,727
We'd go to David Hockney's studio
and watch him paint.
1455
01:26:18,040 --> 01:26:19,326
And, um...
1456
01:26:20,160 --> 01:26:22,242
"Oh, David, can I just have that little sketch?"
1457
01:26:22,320 --> 01:26:24,084
And he'd say, "No, you can't,"
1458
01:26:24,160 --> 01:26:25,446
(Laughs)
1459
01:26:25,840 --> 01:26:29,287
And then we'd go off and he'd say,
"Oh, let's go and see the Stones.
1460
01:26:29,360 --> 01:26:32,011
"They're recording at so and so,"
Then off we'd go there.
1461
01:26:32,520 --> 01:26:34,443
So we could just do anything.
Nobody minded.
1462
01:26:34,520 --> 01:26:36,761
Everybody was flying around like that.
1463
01:26:36,840 --> 01:26:39,411
It was, um, all so possible and so easy
1464
01:26:39,480 --> 01:26:41,084
and we didn't think twice about it.
1465
01:26:41,200 --> 01:26:43,202
(J' The Beatles: Revolution 9)
1466
01:26:56,920 --> 01:27:00,527
I was in New York
and some people came and said,
1467
01:27:00,600 --> 01:27:01,886
"Aren't you gonna come to London?
1468
01:27:01,960 --> 01:27:04,201
"London is swinging.
London is great!"
1469
01:27:04,280 --> 01:27:07,090
And I think, "Well, I don't know."
You know.
1470
01:27:07,160 --> 01:27:10,642
I was so New York, you know,
I didn't want to sort of leave New York.
1471
01:27:10,720 --> 01:27:14,167
But then things happened and I went
to London and it was really great.
1472
01:27:14,240 --> 01:27:17,449
There was a kind of feeling of freedom
1473
01:27:17,520 --> 01:27:20,251
and I felt that it's almost like the...
1474
01:27:20,560 --> 01:27:22,528
the air was kind of a...
1475
01:27:22,600 --> 01:27:26,810
had an intelligent smell about it. Yeah?
1476
01:27:27,880 --> 01:27:33,091
George and John and I
made Number Nine.
1477
01:27:34,280 --> 01:27:37,170
And that was actually George
who sort of instigated it.
1478
01:27:37,240 --> 01:27:39,402
He said, "Let's do it,
let's do it." You know.
1479
01:27:39,480 --> 01:27:41,926
And he didn't have that feeling of...
1480
01:27:42,000 --> 01:27:46,403
Well, Yoko is a separate thing
and, you know, we shouldn't, sort of,
1481
01:27:48,080 --> 01:27:50,651
be nice to her or anything like that.
He was just very nice.
1482
01:27:51,120 --> 01:27:56,650
I thought it's very interesting
to know about what the Beatles do.
1483
01:27:57,160 --> 01:28:01,290
Because, you know, I come from
an avant-garde background and all that.
1484
01:28:01,360 --> 01:28:05,445
And here they were
making music in a way that
1485
01:28:05,520 --> 01:28:07,761
was very different
from what we used to do.
1486
01:28:08,080 --> 01:28:10,003
It had power of its own.
1487
01:28:10,400 --> 01:28:12,084
And I thought,
"Well, this is what you can do."
1488
01:28:12,160 --> 01:28:14,242
(12-bar instrumental)
1489
01:28:28,440 --> 01:28:31,205
George had two sides,
like we all do, you know.
1490
01:28:31,280 --> 01:28:35,365
Sometimes he was very nice
and sometimes he was, um...
1491
01:28:36,040 --> 01:28:38,281
just being too honest or something.
(Chuckles)
1492
01:28:38,360 --> 01:28:39,885
Frank about things, you know.
1493
01:28:40,200 --> 01:28:43,443
He would say something right away,
before he's thinking.
1494
01:28:43,840 --> 01:28:46,684
So he didn't mince words.
1495
01:28:47,440 --> 01:28:50,967
And sometimes it's, you know, "Oh, dear.
Do you think that?" or something.
1496
01:28:51,040 --> 01:28:53,042
He'd just hurt me maybe.
1497
01:28:53,120 --> 01:28:56,681
But, he... John said,
"Oh, that's George, you know."
1498
01:28:56,760 --> 01:28:58,922
And I got used to that, too.
It was very nice.
1499
01:28:59,680 --> 01:29:01,967
I remember a particular occasion when
1500
01:29:02,040 --> 01:29:04,771
I'd written Hey Jude
and I brought it in.
1501
01:29:04,840 --> 01:29:07,650
And I go...
Hey, Jude, don't make it bad
1502
01:29:07,720 --> 01:29:08,846
And George was playing...
1503
01:29:08,920 --> 01:29:10,604
- Hey, Jude
- (imitates riffing)
1504
01:29:10,680 --> 01:29:13,286
- Don't make it bad
- (imitates riffing)
1505
01:29:13,360 --> 01:29:15,806
And I had to sort of say,
"No, George, look,
1506
01:29:15,880 --> 01:29:19,680
"I really don't think
you can put a guitar riff
1507
01:29:19,760 --> 01:29:21,444
"after every line, you know."
1508
01:29:21,520 --> 01:29:24,490
And it was like a real,
"Oh, OK then."
1509
01:29:25,240 --> 01:29:29,768
But, you know, I knew he couldn't do it.
Maybe he knew he couldn't do it.
1510
01:29:29,840 --> 01:29:32,491
But it created tension, you know.
And it was like...
1511
01:29:33,880 --> 01:29:37,248
Then this feeling that
I was just dictating things
1512
01:29:37,320 --> 01:29:38,560
started to grow, you know.
1513
01:29:38,640 --> 01:29:41,849
And I was dictating things
cos I knew how I wanted my song to go.
1514
01:29:41,920 --> 01:29:45,322
Similarly, John would say
how he wanted his song to go,
1515
01:29:45,400 --> 01:29:47,528
or George would say
how he wanted his to go.
1516
01:29:47,600 --> 01:29:50,922
The intensity that they had together
1517
01:29:51,000 --> 01:29:54,561
must have had its limits
and it had to explode at some point.
1518
01:29:55,160 --> 01:29:59,370
Now they were out in London,
traveling a lot
1519
01:29:59,440 --> 01:30:03,001
and getting...and having
different people influence them.
1520
01:30:03,080 --> 01:30:06,402
So coming back together,
it didn't work as well.
1521
01:30:06,720 --> 01:30:11,282
I quit the band in '67,
on the White Album, because, uh...
1522
01:30:14,360 --> 01:30:18,285
I was just in, I don't know,
in some emotional state
1523
01:30:18,360 --> 01:30:21,728
where I honestly felt
that I wasn't playing well.
1524
01:30:21,800 --> 01:30:25,646
For some reason I felt
I just wasn't playing good.
1525
01:30:25,720 --> 01:30:28,530
And those three were really close.
1526
01:30:30,520 --> 01:30:32,841
And I thought,
"Well, I gotta deal with this anyway."
1527
01:30:32,920 --> 01:30:34,763
So, you Know, I went over to John's...,,
1528
01:30:34,840 --> 01:30:37,730
He was staying with Yoko in my apartment
1529
01:30:37,800 --> 01:30:39,768
and I said, "Look, man,
1530
01:30:39,840 --> 01:30:43,890
"you know, I've gotta say, look,
I feel I'm not playing really good.
1531
01:30:43,960 --> 01:30:45,883
"And you three are really close."
1532
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:48,531
He goes, "I thought it was you three."
1533
01:30:49,600 --> 01:30:53,491
And I went to Paul's and knocked
on his door and I said the same thing.
1534
01:30:53,560 --> 01:30:56,928
I said, "You Know,
and you three are really close."
1535
01:30:57,000 --> 01:30:58,923
"I thought it was you three!"
1536
01:30:59,000 --> 01:31:02,163
And I thought, "Oh, shit,
I'm goin' on holiday. I'm off."
1537
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:03,651
And I went to Sardinia.
1538
01:31:03,720 --> 01:31:04,926
When I got back,
1539
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:07,810
when they said, "Oh, come on back.
We love you." Blah, blah, blah.
1540
01:31:07,880 --> 01:31:12,681
George had decorated the whole studio
with flowers, you know.
1541
01:31:13,320 --> 01:31:16,688
And, you know, that was
a beautiful moment for me.
1542
01:31:16,760 --> 01:31:19,764
(J' The Beatles:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps)
1543
01:31:33,200 --> 01:31:36,761
I look at you all
1544
01:31:36,840 --> 01:31:41,448
See the love there that's sleeping
1545
01:31:42,760 --> 01:31:47,448
J" While my guitar gently weeps
1546
01:31:50,320 --> 01:31:53,688
I look at the floor
1547
01:31:53,760 --> 01:31:58,209
And I see it needs sweeping
1548
01:31:59,480 --> 01:32:05,089
J” Still my guitar gently weeps
1549
01:32:08,200 --> 01:32:11,727
I don't know why
1550
01:32:12,480 --> 01:32:15,370
Nobody told you
1551
01:32:16,720 --> 01:32:21,203
J” How to unfold your love J”
1552
01:32:24,520 --> 01:32:28,491
It was crap, you know. We were trying to
do the song and it wasn't happening.
1553
01:32:28,560 --> 01:32:30,927
You know, they weren't
taking it serious.
1554
01:32:31,000 --> 01:32:34,163
And I don't think they were
even all playing on it.
1555
01:32:34,240 --> 01:32:37,403
And so, I went home that night
and I just thought,
1556
01:32:37,480 --> 01:32:40,927
"Well, that's a shame cos I Know
this song is pretty good."
1557
01:32:41,000 --> 01:32:44,686
And then the next day
I was driving into London with Eric,
1558
01:32:45,200 --> 01:32:47,089
and I said, "Hey, what are you doing?
1559
01:32:47,160 --> 01:32:52,326
"Why don't you come to the studio and,
you know, play on this song for me."
1560
01:32:52,400 --> 01:32:54,448
And he says, "Oh, no, I can't do that.
1561
01:32:55,160 --> 01:32:57,527
"You know, nobody's ever played
on a Beatles' record.
1562
01:32:57,600 --> 01:32:59,568
"And, you know,
the others wouldn't like that."
1563
01:32:59,640 --> 01:33:02,644
And I said, "Well, you know,
hard luck, it's my song,
1564
01:33:02,720 --> 01:33:04,609
"and I'd like you to play on it."
1565
01:33:04,680 --> 01:33:07,206
We'd all learned to grow together
1566
01:33:07,280 --> 01:33:10,762
and, you know, some days
one'd grow a little taller,
1567
01:33:10,840 --> 01:33:12,490
and the next day
someone else'd grow tall,
1568
01:33:12,560 --> 01:33:15,006
you know what I mean?
It's how we were.
1569
01:33:15,520 --> 01:33:18,490
(Clapton) lt'd been a few years
since I'd seen them,
1570
01:33:18,560 --> 01:33:20,289
and they had changed.
1571
01:33:20,360 --> 01:33:24,126
And this particular song
was a strong view of...
1572
01:33:24,880 --> 01:33:28,362
And it was coming very much from
where George had found himself
1573
01:33:28,440 --> 01:33:32,411
as a result of becoming involved
with mysticism.
1574
01:33:32,920 --> 01:33:36,970
And seeing John and George and Paul
sing together, when they were doing
1575
01:33:37,680 --> 01:33:41,651
harmonies and things, and Paul playing,
I mean it was fantastic.
1576
01:33:42,160 --> 01:33:45,164
I look at you all
1577
01:33:50,720 --> 01:33:56,682
Still my guitar gently weeps
1578
01:34:22,960 --> 01:34:25,960
1578
01:34:26,305 --> 01:34:32,871
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