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Would you like to inspect the original subtitles? These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,760 --> 00:00:10,160 -[crowd cheering] -[♪ "Help!" playing] 2 00:00:10,280 --> 00:00:12,400 ♪ Now I find I've changed my mind ♪ 3 00:00:12,480 --> 00:00:14,760 ♪ I've opened up the doors ♪ 4 00:00:14,840 --> 00:00:19,160 ♪ Help me if you can, I'm feeling down ♪ 5 00:00:19,480 --> 00:00:24,320 ♪ And I do appreciate you being 'round... ♪ 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:27,280 [♪ music concludes] 7 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:35,560 [♪ "Things We Said Today" plays over radio] 8 00:00:35,640 --> 00:00:38,160 ♪ Me, I'm just the lucky kind... ♪ 9 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,000 [Brian Matthew over radio] I should think that last year 10 00:00:40,080 --> 00:00:41,840 you visited more countries than ever, isn't that right? 11 00:00:41,920 --> 00:00:43,040 [The Beatles over radio] That's correct. Yes. 12 00:00:43,120 --> 00:00:44,240 [John] Oh yes, been away. 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:45,800 [Brian Matthew] Which has been your... your favorite one 14 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:47,200 -that you've visited? -[John] America, I think, 'cause... 15 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:48,640 [Ringo] Yes, I'll agree with that. 16 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:49,800 [John] Ringo agrees with that. 17 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,120 [Brian Matthew] Hmm. Why, in particular? 18 00:00:51,200 --> 00:00:52,640 [John] 'Cause you make a lot of m-- No! 19 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:54,160 -[The Beatles laugh] -[John] Oh, 'cause... 20 00:00:54,240 --> 00:00:55,360 [John] ...it's good, you know. 21 00:00:55,440 --> 00:00:57,040 It's... it's like Britain, only with buttons. 22 00:00:57,120 --> 00:00:58,320 -[Brian Matthew] I see, yes. -[Paul] Pardon? 23 00:00:58,400 --> 00:00:59,640 [John] That's a sort of abstract statement, Paul. 24 00:00:59,720 --> 00:01:01,040 [Paul] It's a sort of-- Yeah. 25 00:01:01,120 --> 00:01:02,400 Well, there's more people, you know, in America, 26 00:01:02,480 --> 00:01:05,680 so... so we get big audiences, and it's all wild and happy. 27 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:07,080 [George] I remember once when we... 28 00:01:07,160 --> 00:01:10,440 we were going to go back for the second tour of America, 29 00:01:10,520 --> 00:01:11,520 and they were saying, "Oh, yeah, 30 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:13,560 we're gonna start in San Francisco 31 00:01:13,640 --> 00:01:14,880 -with a ticker-tape parade." -[♪ music concludes] 32 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:18,120 And that was once when I actually did say, 33 00:01:18,200 --> 00:01:19,720 you know, "I'm not going." 34 00:01:20,120 --> 00:01:22,520 "I'm not... I'm not having a ticker-tape parade." 35 00:01:22,600 --> 00:01:25,360 You know, I mean, it was only... seemed like a year, uh, 36 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:27,840 since they just assassinated Kennedy. 37 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:29,320 And, um... 38 00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:31,520 I could just imagine, you know, this... 39 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:33,720 how mad it is in America. 40 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:35,560 -[crowd screaming, cheering] -[♪ "Rock And Roll Music" playing] 41 00:01:35,640 --> 00:01:38,120 ♪ Just let me hear some of that rock and roll music ♪ 42 00:01:38,240 --> 00:01:40,240 ♪ Any old way you choose it ♪ 43 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:43,360 ♪ It's got a black beat, you can't lose it ♪ 44 00:01:43,920 --> 00:01:46,320 ♪ Any old time you use it ♪ 45 00:01:46,920 --> 00:01:49,240 ♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪ 46 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:51,800 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 47 00:01:52,440 --> 00:01:54,280 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 48 00:01:54,360 --> 00:01:57,120 You know, [chuckling] it was just so much fun. 49 00:01:57,200 --> 00:01:59,880 ♪ I've got no kick against modern jazz ♪ 50 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:02,760 ♪ Unless they try to play it too darn fast ♪ 51 00:02:02,880 --> 00:02:05,280 ♪ And lose the beauty of the melody ♪ 52 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:08,480 ♪ Until they sound just like a symphony ♪ 53 00:02:08,680 --> 00:02:11,720 ♪ That's why I go for that rock and roll music ♪ 54 00:02:12,680 --> 00:02:14,680 ♪ Any old way you choose it ♪ 55 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:17,560 ♪ It's got a black beat, you can't lose it ♪ 56 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:20,920 ♪ Any old time you use it ♪ 57 00:02:21,640 --> 00:02:23,400 ♪ It's gotta be rock and roll music ♪ 58 00:02:24,440 --> 00:02:26,680 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 59 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:28,800 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 60 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,200 You know, everybody got into the mania. 61 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:33,880 ♪ I took my loved one over 'cross the tracks ♪ 62 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:36,680 ♪ And she could hear my man a-wailin' sax ♪ 63 00:02:36,840 --> 00:02:39,520 ♪ I must admit they had a rockin' band ♪ 64 00:02:39,600 --> 00:02:42,400 ♪ Man, they were blowin' like a hurricane ♪ 65 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:46,080 ♪ That's why I go for that rock and roll music ♪ 66 00:02:46,400 --> 00:02:48,480 ♪ Any old way you choose it ♪ 67 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:51,720 ♪ It's got a black beat, you can't lose it ♪ 68 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,240 ♪ Any old time you use it ♪ 69 00:02:55,200 --> 00:02:57,440 ♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪ 70 00:02:58,080 --> 00:02:59,880 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 71 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,560 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 72 00:03:02,640 --> 00:03:04,560 It was... We were getting a little crazy with it all. 73 00:03:04,640 --> 00:03:07,000 ♪ Way down South they had a jubilee ♪ 74 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:10,000 ♪ Them Georgia folks, they had a jamboree ♪ 75 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:12,680 ♪ They're drinking home brew from a wooden cup ♪ 76 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,480 ♪ The folks are dancing, they got all shook up ♪ 77 00:03:15,840 --> 00:03:19,160 ♪ And started playing that rock and roll music ♪ 78 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:22,200 ♪ Any old time you use it ♪ 79 00:03:22,280 --> 00:03:24,720 ♪ It's got a black beat, you can't lose it ♪ 80 00:03:25,400 --> 00:03:27,760 ♪ Any old time you use it ♪ 81 00:03:28,440 --> 00:03:30,400 ♪ Gotta be rock and roll music ♪ 82 00:03:31,280 --> 00:03:33,480 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 83 00:03:34,120 --> 00:03:36,000 ♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ 84 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:37,720 It was like being in the eye of a hurricane, 85 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:39,040 and so, we never... there was never a time 86 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,480 when you thought... [gasps] You thought, "What's going on?" 87 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:43,560 And that was about as deep as it got. 88 00:03:43,640 --> 00:03:45,360 "What is happening?" Or "What..." [gasps] 89 00:03:45,440 --> 00:03:47,840 You know, you'd suddenly wake up in the middle of one, 90 00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:49,520 a concert or a happening, and think, "What? 91 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,040 "Wha-- How did I get here?" 92 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:54,880 -♪ If you wanna dance with me ♪ -[♪ music concludes] 93 00:03:54,960 --> 00:03:56,760 On this tour, we don't get much time, 94 00:03:56,840 --> 00:03:58,000 you know, to do anything. 95 00:03:58,080 --> 00:03:59,720 You know, we wrote 'em, we recorded 'em, 96 00:03:59,800 --> 00:04:02,040 we play 'em every day. What do you rehearse? 97 00:04:02,200 --> 00:04:03,800 Smiling, that's all we rehearse. 98 00:04:03,880 --> 00:04:08,160 -[crowd screaming, cheering] -[car horns honking] 99 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:10,320 It was just one giant three-ring circus 100 00:04:10,400 --> 00:04:11,400 from which there was no let-up. 101 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:14,840 Even when we got away from the screaming fans, 102 00:04:14,920 --> 00:04:16,840 there was all the screaming policemen. 103 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,280 -[officers yelling indistinctly] -[crowd cheering] 104 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:21,680 The only peace they got 105 00:04:21,880 --> 00:04:24,160 was when they were alone in their hotel rooms, 106 00:04:24,240 --> 00:04:25,920 hearing the screams outside. 107 00:04:26,000 --> 00:04:27,640 [fans screaming, cheering] 108 00:04:27,720 --> 00:04:29,560 The only place we ever got any peace 109 00:04:29,640 --> 00:04:34,560 was when we got in the suite and went to the bathroom. 110 00:04:34,640 --> 00:04:36,680 You know, that's... that was about the only place 111 00:04:36,760 --> 00:04:38,520 where you could have a bit of peace. 112 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,600 Altogether, I think it's 30 days. 113 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:43,080 There's just m... more people here 114 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:44,200 'cause they're bigger stadiums. 115 00:04:44,280 --> 00:04:45,960 We normally play in theaters in England. 116 00:04:46,360 --> 00:04:47,720 We'd like to carry on with a song 117 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,600 which was on our first Capitol album. 118 00:04:49,800 --> 00:04:53,720 And we hope... we hope you enjoy the song. 119 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:55,800 The song's called "All My Loving". 120 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,320 -[crowd cheering] -[♪ "All My Loving" playing] 121 00:04:59,400 --> 00:05:02,640 ♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you ♪ 122 00:05:02,720 --> 00:05:05,440 ♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you ♪ 123 00:05:05,520 --> 00:05:09,720 ♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪ 124 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,440 ♪ And then while I'm away ♪ 125 00:05:13,520 --> 00:05:16,480 ♪ I'll write home every day ♪ 126 00:05:16,680 --> 00:05:20,360 ♪ And I'll send all my loving to you ♪ 127 00:05:22,040 --> 00:05:25,040 ♪ I'll pretend that I'm kissing ♪ 128 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,880 ♪ The lips I am missing ♪ 129 00:05:27,960 --> 00:05:32,640 ♪ And hope that my dreams will come true ♪ 130 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:36,120 ♪ And then while I'm away ♪ 131 00:05:36,200 --> 00:05:39,080 ♪ I'll write home every day ♪ 132 00:05:39,160 --> 00:05:42,960 ♪ And I'll send all my loving to you ♪ 133 00:05:43,040 --> 00:05:44,320 [♪ music fades] 134 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:46,200 Because of the size of the audience 135 00:05:46,280 --> 00:05:48,120 and the volume of the noise, 136 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:50,760 there was nothing else I could do 137 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:53,080 through the numbers, bar play the offbeat, 138 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,440 and as a musician you know what that is, you know. 139 00:05:55,520 --> 00:05:56,520 No matter what it was, 140 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,360 I mean, I could only, "crack..." [mutters rhythmically] 141 00:05:58,440 --> 00:06:00,280 You know, and trying to lip-read 142 00:06:00,360 --> 00:06:01,840 where they were up to in the songs 143 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,320 and try and read by their movements, 144 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:08,720 you know, from the back of, uh, John, Paul and George, 145 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,680 sometimes, where the hell we were up to in the song. 146 00:06:11,760 --> 00:06:13,280 -[♪ music continues] -♪ All my loving ♪ 147 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,920 -♪ Ooh ♪ -♪ I will send to you ♪ 148 00:06:17,320 --> 00:06:19,360 -♪ All my loving ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 149 00:06:19,440 --> 00:06:21,800 ♪ Darling, I'll be true ♪ 150 00:06:22,400 --> 00:06:24,840 -Yeah! -[crowd cheering] 151 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:26,320 [Paul] People would say, "Don't... 152 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:28,640 Doesn't it drive you mad, all these girls screaming?" 153 00:06:28,720 --> 00:06:30,640 We didn't mind it, you know, 'cause sometimes it... 154 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:31,840 it covered, uh, 155 00:06:32,520 --> 00:06:35,600 you know, a multitude of sins. We... We were out of tune. 156 00:06:36,240 --> 00:06:37,360 It wasn't-- Didn't matter. 157 00:06:37,440 --> 00:06:39,520 We couldn't hear it, nor could they, so... 158 00:06:40,080 --> 00:06:41,560 it was handy some nights. 159 00:06:42,040 --> 00:06:44,120 We never realized how fast we played 160 00:06:44,520 --> 00:06:47,680 when we were live, 'cause the adrenaline, uh, 161 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,080 sometimes would just make you, you know, instead of... 162 00:06:50,160 --> 00:06:51,840 ♪ All my loving ♪ [imitates beat] 163 00:06:51,920 --> 00:06:53,640 it'd be, ♪ All my loving ♪ [imitates sped-up beat] 164 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:54,840 Very fast, you know. 165 00:06:54,920 --> 00:06:57,160 Oooh! Very hyper, and all the adrenaline, 166 00:06:57,240 --> 00:06:59,080 and we were talking fast, and... [speaks gibberish] "Thank you!" 167 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,520 [speaks gibberish] On to the next song, you know. 168 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:04,080 And we were playing the repetition of all our s... 169 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:07,120 our singles, mainly, you know, just doing our hits. 170 00:07:07,200 --> 00:07:09,640 -[♪ music continues] -♪ All my loving ♪ 171 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:12,760 -♪ Ooh ♪ -♪ All my loving ♪ 172 00:07:12,840 --> 00:07:15,320 ♪ Ooh, ooh, all my loving ♪ 173 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:18,680 -♪ Ooh ♪ -♪ I will send to you ♪ 174 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:23,480 -[♪ music concludes] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 175 00:07:25,240 --> 00:07:26,680 [John over mic] Thank you, folks. 176 00:07:26,760 --> 00:07:28,840 [John] The Hollywood Bowl was pretty tatty, you know. 177 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:30,760 It's nice, when... to hear. 178 00:07:30,840 --> 00:07:32,840 It'll probably go out one day, I suppose. 179 00:07:32,920 --> 00:07:34,600 But we were so nervous, you know. 180 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,440 It was like going on the Palladium. 181 00:07:36,520 --> 00:07:37,520 [♪ "She Loves You" playing] 182 00:07:37,600 --> 00:07:39,440 I arranged with Capitol to provide their engineers, 183 00:07:39,520 --> 00:07:42,000 and we... we recorded at Hollywood Bowl, 184 00:07:42,080 --> 00:07:44,880 but the techniques we had then in America 185 00:07:44,960 --> 00:07:46,640 was three-track half inch, 186 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:52,040 and the separation wasn't too great. To begin with, 187 00:07:52,440 --> 00:07:53,920 you know, you had your voices in the center, 188 00:07:54,000 --> 00:07:56,320 but you had a mixture of drums, and bass, 189 00:07:56,400 --> 00:07:59,080 and guitars on your... your separate side tracks. 190 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:01,400 But pervading the whole lot 191 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,520 was the enormous welter of screams from the audience. 192 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:05,640 I mean, it was like... 193 00:08:06,160 --> 00:08:07,960 putting a microphone by the sound of a... 194 00:08:08,040 --> 00:08:09,760 by the end of a 747 jet. 195 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:13,160 It was just one continual screaming sound. 196 00:08:13,520 --> 00:08:16,800 And it was very difficult to get a good recording out of it 197 00:08:16,880 --> 00:08:18,600 with the techniques we had there. 198 00:08:18,680 --> 00:08:19,680 And, in fact, 199 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:21,440 Hollywood Bowl tapes weren't issued. 200 00:08:21,520 --> 00:08:23,280 They didn't think it was right to do so. 201 00:08:23,360 --> 00:08:24,360 We listened to that back 202 00:08:24,440 --> 00:08:25,640 and we wouldn't let them release it. 203 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:28,640 Uh-- Uh, years later, George and Geoff Emerick... 204 00:08:28,720 --> 00:08:29,920 uh, George Martin and Geoff Emerick 205 00:08:30,000 --> 00:08:31,200 did a lot of work on it. 206 00:08:31,320 --> 00:08:32,800 And refurbished them and worked on them, 207 00:08:32,880 --> 00:08:34,920 and we did actually issue a record. 208 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:38,920 -[♪ music concludes] -[crowd screaming, cheering] 209 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:47,800 My idols were Elvis. 210 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,520 Uh, pre-army Elvis. 211 00:08:50,600 --> 00:08:52,480 You know, I still think that was, like, 212 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,560 the most exciting thing going. 213 00:08:55,640 --> 00:08:58,040 Um... Little Richard. 214 00:08:58,440 --> 00:09:01,400 I was a big fan of Richard. But we'd met him in Hamburg, 215 00:09:02,280 --> 00:09:04,320 so we... we didn't have to go to America to meet Richard, 216 00:09:04,400 --> 00:09:05,880 but he was still a big idol. 217 00:09:06,200 --> 00:09:08,480 Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino. 218 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:10,360 We met Fats in New Orleans. 219 00:09:10,440 --> 00:09:12,600 He had a very big diamond watch, 220 00:09:12,680 --> 00:09:14,760 shape of a big, big star, you know, 221 00:09:15,360 --> 00:09:16,920 which was very impressive. 222 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:18,320 Um... 223 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,000 Yeah, we started to meet... meet these... 224 00:09:21,080 --> 00:09:24,120 these... these people who'd really just been in newspapers 225 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:25,200 and on film, you know, 226 00:09:25,280 --> 00:09:27,600 we actually were rubbing shoulders with 'em. 227 00:09:27,680 --> 00:09:29,400 [♪ "A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall" playing] 228 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,160 ♪ And it's a hard ♪ 229 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:33,240 ♪ And it's a hard ♪ 230 00:09:33,320 --> 00:09:36,520 ♪ And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall... ♪ 231 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:38,000 He was one of them. 232 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:39,160 He was our idol. 233 00:09:39,560 --> 00:09:42,600 Not, uh, an idol, but we just heard his record. 234 00:09:42,680 --> 00:09:45,160 As I said, we listened to his album 235 00:09:45,240 --> 00:09:47,640 and it really gave us a buzz 236 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:50,800 and we played it constantly over and over and over again. 237 00:09:51,360 --> 00:09:53,240 I think it was Freewheelin'. 238 00:09:53,680 --> 00:09:54,720 [John] And when I first met Dylan, 239 00:09:54,800 --> 00:09:56,280 I was pretty dumbfounded, you know. 240 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:57,600 That was back in New York. 241 00:09:57,680 --> 00:09:59,080 He thought "I Want To Hold Your Hand" 242 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:01,320 was when it goes, "I... I can't hide", 243 00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,600 he thought we were singing, "I get high", you see. 244 00:10:03,680 --> 00:10:07,080 We had the biggest laugh all night, forever. 245 00:10:07,720 --> 00:10:09,040 It was fantastic, you know. 246 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:10,400 -So, when we met him... -[♪ music concludes] 247 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:11,840 ...yeah, well, you know, by that time, 248 00:10:11,920 --> 00:10:15,240 we'd heard much more of him and knew much more about him. 249 00:10:15,320 --> 00:10:17,200 It was a great honor to meet him. 250 00:10:17,280 --> 00:10:19,400 We had a crazy party the night we met. 251 00:10:20,080 --> 00:10:21,680 That was the first time for me 252 00:10:21,760 --> 00:10:24,560 that I'd really smoked marijuana. 253 00:10:25,520 --> 00:10:29,120 And, uh, I laughed and I laughed and I laughed. 254 00:10:30,320 --> 00:10:31,480 It was fabulous. 255 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,360 I thought I'd got the meaning to life that night. 256 00:10:35,440 --> 00:10:37,440 And I went around trying to find our roadie. 257 00:10:37,520 --> 00:10:39,640 "Mal, Mal, Mal, get a pencil and a paper!" 258 00:10:39,720 --> 00:10:42,640 "I've got it! I've got it!" And Mal, who was a bit out of it, 259 00:10:42,720 --> 00:10:44,760 he couldn't find a pencil and paper anywhere. 260 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:46,840 But eventually, in the end... in the end of the evening, 261 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:48,200 he found it, and I wrote down my... 262 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:49,920 my message for the Universe, you know. 263 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,400 I said, "Now keep that." 264 00:10:51,800 --> 00:10:54,400 "Keep that in your pocket." [whispers] "Really." 265 00:10:54,720 --> 00:10:55,720 And Mal did. 266 00:10:55,800 --> 00:10:57,200 The next morning, he said, "'Ere, Paul." 267 00:10:57,280 --> 00:10:58,720 [chuckles] He said, "Do you wanna see that?" 268 00:10:58,800 --> 00:11:00,200 I said, "What?" He said, "That bit of paper." 269 00:11:00,280 --> 00:11:01,320 "Oh, yeah!" 270 00:11:01,520 --> 00:11:03,680 And I'd written, "There are seven levels." 271 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:04,760 [gulps] 272 00:11:04,920 --> 00:11:06,600 [♪ "The Times They Are A-Changin'" playing] 273 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:08,920 ♪ For the times they are a-changin' ♪ 274 00:11:09,040 --> 00:11:12,760 [♪ melodic harmonica playing] 275 00:11:18,320 --> 00:11:19,440 [♪ music concludes] 276 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:21,560 One trip or another, we met Elvis. 277 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:23,560 It was... it was, um, 278 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,120 one of the highlights of... [laughs] ...our visit. 279 00:11:27,640 --> 00:11:29,440 -[♪ "Mohair Sam" playing] -♪ Who is the hippie ♪ 280 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:32,240 ♪ That's happenin' all over our town? ♪ 281 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:37,080 ♪ Tearin' up the chicks ♪ 282 00:11:37,160 --> 00:11:40,000 ♪ With the message that he lays down... ♪ 283 00:11:40,080 --> 00:11:42,560 [George] We were in this Cadillac limousine, 284 00:11:42,640 --> 00:11:45,720 and we had a couple of cups of tea in the back of the car, 285 00:11:45,800 --> 00:11:48,080 and by the time we got to Elvis's house, 286 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:49,600 we forgot where we were going. 287 00:11:49,680 --> 00:11:51,680 It didn't really matter where we were going. 288 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:53,120 [Ringo] Bel Air, actually. 289 00:11:53,200 --> 00:11:55,680 And, uh, you know, this meet was arranged. 290 00:11:55,760 --> 00:11:57,320 We were gonna go and see him. 291 00:11:58,040 --> 00:12:02,080 I was pretty excited about it all, and we arrived. 292 00:12:02,680 --> 00:12:04,240 [George] We pulled up and there was these big gates, 293 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:07,000 and somebody says, "Oh yeah, we're gonna see Elvis!" 294 00:12:07,080 --> 00:12:10,040 And then we all fell out, just like in a Beatle cartoon. 295 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,840 We all fell out the car, all "hee-hee" in hysterics, 296 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:17,160 trying to pretend we weren't silly. 297 00:12:17,360 --> 00:12:18,960 And then we went in the house, 298 00:12:19,040 --> 00:12:20,920 and there's Elvis sitting on a couch, 299 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:24,200 playing a Fender bass plugged in an amplifier, 300 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:25,440 watching the TV. 301 00:12:26,320 --> 00:12:28,000 I said, "Oh, it's Elvis." 302 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:29,360 I mean, it was Elvis. 303 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:31,160 He just... just looked like Elvis. 304 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,080 He was the king, wasn't he? It was Elvis. 305 00:12:34,160 --> 00:12:36,200 [chuckles] This is Mr. Hips, you know? 306 00:12:36,320 --> 00:12:38,240 Hip-swiveling man! 307 00:12:38,320 --> 00:12:41,000 [chuckles] Wow! You know, that's Elvis. 308 00:12:41,400 --> 00:12:45,440 And he was playing, um, "Mohair Sam" all evening. 309 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,720 He had it on jukebox. 310 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:48,280 He just played it, like, endlessly. 311 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,760 That was, like, the record of the moment for him. 312 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:53,240 So, it was great to see, "Oh, he's a music fan." 313 00:12:53,320 --> 00:12:54,720 You know, he's not just... 314 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:55,960 'Cause that was one of our big records 315 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,160 -of the moment too. -[♪ music concludes] 316 00:12:57,640 --> 00:12:59,600 [John] He had his... a TV going all the time, 317 00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:01,480 which is what I do anyway. 318 00:13:01,560 --> 00:13:02,880 And in front of the TV, 319 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:05,600 he had a massive big bass amplifier, 320 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:08,560 Fender bass amplifier, or just a Fender amplifier. 321 00:13:08,640 --> 00:13:11,440 And-- Oh, yeah, there was a bass, was a bass plugged in it. 322 00:13:11,520 --> 00:13:13,240 And he was playing bass all the time 323 00:13:13,320 --> 00:13:16,000 with the, uh... the picture up on the TV. 324 00:13:16,080 --> 00:13:18,120 [chuckles] So we just got in there 325 00:13:18,200 --> 00:13:19,720 and, uh, played with him, 326 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:21,520 you know. We all plugged in what was around, 327 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:23,040 and we all played and sang. 328 00:13:23,440 --> 00:13:25,560 [George] I never jammed with Elvis at all. 329 00:13:25,640 --> 00:13:26,800 -[Paul] No. -[George] Now he... 330 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,080 [Paul] John said he'd-- 331 00:13:28,160 --> 00:13:29,320 -John jammed with Elvis. -[George] Yeah. 332 00:13:29,400 --> 00:13:31,200 It must have been when we went out of the room. 333 00:13:31,280 --> 00:13:32,920 He used to go over secretly at night. 334 00:13:33,000 --> 00:13:35,040 I think it was 'cause he had a bass there, 335 00:13:35,120 --> 00:13:36,560 -you know, so I thought... -In the basement. 336 00:13:36,640 --> 00:13:38,360 Right, well, you know, bass, hey, 337 00:13:38,440 --> 00:13:39,640 he's... he's interested in bass. 338 00:13:39,720 --> 00:13:41,040 Ringo was playing football with him, though. 339 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:42,560 Yeah, I played football with Elvis. 340 00:13:43,120 --> 00:13:49,640 And around about 10:00 or 10:30, um, Priscilla was brought in. 341 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:53,880 So I think she had a long thing on, and a tiara. 342 00:13:54,240 --> 00:13:57,520 I've got this picture of her, like, as a sort of Barbie doll 343 00:13:57,720 --> 00:13:58,880 with, like, gingham... 344 00:13:58,960 --> 00:14:00,400 kind of, purple gingham, and a bow, 345 00:14:00,480 --> 00:14:03,400 a gingham bow in her very beehive hair. 346 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:05,320 I don't remember. I spent most of the party 347 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:06,840 trying to suss out from his gang 348 00:14:06,920 --> 00:14:09,160 if anybody had any reefer. [laughs] 349 00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:12,360 Well, I think, uh, it wouldn't have mattered to me 350 00:14:12,440 --> 00:14:14,000 if she was there, uh... 351 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:15,880 just, you know, because it was him 352 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:17,360 I came to see, and... 353 00:14:17,520 --> 00:14:20,560 and I don't remember the boys he had with him. 354 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:23,240 You know, all his gang, the Memphis Mafia, 355 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,560 whatever they call them, all those guys. 356 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:27,360 You know, he just was surrounded 357 00:14:27,440 --> 00:14:28,800 by these sycophants. 358 00:14:29,520 --> 00:14:31,200 [imitates Elvis] "Oh, I'm going to go to the loo now." 359 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:33,080 "Okay, El, we'll all go to the loo with you." 360 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,080 You know, it was just so... strange. 361 00:14:36,160 --> 00:14:37,240 And I was just so angry 362 00:14:37,320 --> 00:14:39,280 because he wasn't making any music. 363 00:14:39,360 --> 00:14:42,400 He was not doing what he should have been doing. 364 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:43,920 [John] We were asking him about this, 365 00:14:44,000 --> 00:14:46,080 just making movies and, you know, 366 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:49,760 not doing any personal appearances or TV. 367 00:14:50,360 --> 00:14:51,640 And he seems to enjoy it. 368 00:14:51,720 --> 00:14:54,160 You know, I think he enjoys making movies so much. 369 00:14:54,240 --> 00:14:55,240 'Cause we couldn't stand 370 00:14:55,320 --> 00:14:57,400 not doing personal appearances, you know. 371 00:14:57,480 --> 00:14:59,360 We'd get bored. We get bored quickly. 372 00:14:59,440 --> 00:15:00,960 He says he misses it a bit, you know. 373 00:15:01,040 --> 00:15:02,920 He's just-- No, he was great, you know. 374 00:15:03,000 --> 00:15:04,560 He was just how I expected him. 375 00:15:05,280 --> 00:15:07,160 And it just sort of faded out. 376 00:15:07,240 --> 00:15:09,520 You know, it's... you couldn't get close. 377 00:15:10,160 --> 00:15:11,720 You know, it's not like we could have 378 00:15:11,800 --> 00:15:13,280 become good friends. 379 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:14,560 It was impossible. 380 00:15:15,240 --> 00:15:16,400 It was... It was great. 381 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,560 It was great. Yeah, you know, 382 00:15:17,640 --> 00:15:19,560 it was really one of the great meetings in my life. 383 00:15:20,000 --> 00:15:23,320 I mean, the saddest part is now, years and years later, 384 00:15:23,400 --> 00:15:27,000 we found out that he tried to have us banished from America 385 00:15:27,760 --> 00:15:29,480 'cause he was very big with the CIA 386 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:30,760 and everything, and... 387 00:15:31,960 --> 00:15:34,240 that's, uh... that's very sad to me, 388 00:15:34,320 --> 00:15:36,760 that he f... he felt so threatened, 389 00:15:37,040 --> 00:15:40,160 you know, that he thought, like a lot of people, 390 00:15:40,240 --> 00:15:43,440 that we were bad for the American youth. [laughs] 391 00:15:43,520 --> 00:15:44,600 [♪ "Hound Dog" playing] 392 00:15:44,680 --> 00:15:46,080 ♪ Well, you ain't never caught a rabbit ♪ 393 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:47,880 ♪ You ain't no friend of mine ♪ 394 00:15:47,960 --> 00:15:50,080 ♪ You ain’t nothin’ but a hound dog ♪ 395 00:15:50,400 --> 00:15:52,400 -[♪ music concludes] -[crowd screaming, cheering] 396 00:15:52,480 --> 00:15:54,960 -[♪ "Slow Down" playing] -♪ You better slow down ♪ 397 00:15:56,480 --> 00:15:59,960 ♪ Baby, now you're moving way too fast... ♪ 398 00:16:00,400 --> 00:16:02,600 [Brian Matthew] Today, The Beatles returned from America, 399 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:05,720 where they played 32 shows in 34 days 400 00:16:05,800 --> 00:16:07,720 in 24 different cities. 401 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,480 But there's no rest for the boys. 402 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:12,880 In two weeks, they'll be back out on the road here in the U.K. 403 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,120 [crowd screaming, cheering] 404 00:16:16,200 --> 00:16:18,560 If you look at any of those, uh, books that... 405 00:16:18,640 --> 00:16:21,040 that say where the Beatles were working, 406 00:16:21,120 --> 00:16:23,440 you find we... we hardly ever had a day off, you know, 407 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:25,040 and we'd have to complain to Brian. 408 00:16:25,120 --> 00:16:26,360 He'd have all the pressure of people saying, 409 00:16:26,440 --> 00:16:27,600 "Yeah, we wanna book the Beatles-- 410 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:28,920 Wanna book-- I've got to have them, gonna--" 411 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:30,760 making him offers he couldn't refuse. 412 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:31,840 But we were having to say, 413 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:33,520 "We've gotta have a day off, man!" 414 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:35,440 We didn't get any time off. 415 00:16:35,920 --> 00:16:38,360 You know, we seemed to get five minutes off here and there. 416 00:16:38,440 --> 00:16:39,560 It might have been longer than that, 417 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:41,120 but it felt like five minutes. 418 00:16:41,560 --> 00:16:43,400 But that was okay. 419 00:16:43,480 --> 00:16:44,920 [♪ "I Feel Fine" feedback note] 420 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:46,920 [George Martin] John had mucked around with feedback 421 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:49,280 for a while, and, yes, it was intentional. 422 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:50,960 He found it quite difficult to get the right... 423 00:16:51,040 --> 00:16:52,920 the right amount of feedback, you know. 424 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:55,920 And I think it was the first time, was it not, 425 00:16:56,000 --> 00:16:57,840 that feedback was used on a record? 426 00:16:57,920 --> 00:16:59,160 He loved things like that. 427 00:16:59,240 --> 00:17:02,760 He loved, uh, weird kind of, um, effects. 428 00:17:03,240 --> 00:17:05,000 And it was his idea. It was great. 429 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:09,400 [John] That's me completely, including the guitar lick. 430 00:17:09,880 --> 00:17:13,000 I had this electric acoustic guitar, 431 00:17:13,080 --> 00:17:14,240 and it would feed back. 432 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:17,280 [Paul] John and George had Everly Brothers Gibsons. 433 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:19,840 [George] Yeah, the-- Well, we had these big Gibson, 434 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:21,880 -round soundhole electric ones. -[Paul] We called them Everly Brothers. 435 00:17:21,960 --> 00:17:23,840 [Paul] They looked like the Everlys had used. 436 00:17:23,920 --> 00:17:26,560 And John leaned his against the amp-- 437 00:17:26,640 --> 00:17:27,640 The amplifier, yeah. 438 00:17:27,720 --> 00:17:29,040 And then we were just going to go on 439 00:17:29,120 --> 00:17:30,880 and talk about the song, and suddenly, the... 440 00:17:30,960 --> 00:17:32,520 the A string started feeding back. 441 00:17:32,600 --> 00:17:35,800 It just went... [imitates feedback droning] 442 00:17:35,880 --> 00:17:38,840 We were just, "WHAT!!? Can we-- Can you do that?" 443 00:17:38,920 --> 00:17:39,920 You know, he said, 444 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:42,200 [imitates George Martin] "Well, yes, if you add it on the front or something." 445 00:17:42,760 --> 00:17:44,080 -So I'm sure that's-- -But he figured out 446 00:17:44,160 --> 00:17:45,240 -how to do it, you know... -Hmm. 447 00:17:45,320 --> 00:17:47,440 ...'cause we used to do it on stage then, live. 448 00:17:47,520 --> 00:17:48,680 So John figured out, you know, 449 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,200 you just had to hit the A, and then get it by the... 450 00:17:51,280 --> 00:17:52,800 -[imitates feedback droning] -...buzzing by the amp. 451 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,520 So that was the start of all that Hendrix feedback. 452 00:17:55,600 --> 00:17:57,160 Yes, he invented Jimi Hendrix, and... 453 00:17:57,240 --> 00:17:58,880 It probably was, actually, you know. 454 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:00,760 [John] And the little intro, which goes... 455 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:04,240 [imitates feedback droning, guitar riff] 456 00:18:04,360 --> 00:18:07,840 ...is the first feedback. I claim it for the Beatles. 457 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:10,960 [feedback droning] 458 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:17,120 [♪ "I Feel Fine" playing] 459 00:18:24,120 --> 00:18:26,200 ♪ Baby's good to me, you know ♪ 460 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:28,960 ♪ She's happy as can be, you know ♪ 461 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:30,400 ♪ She said so ♪ 462 00:18:32,000 --> 00:18:33,720 ♪ I'm in love with her ♪ 463 00:18:33,800 --> 00:18:36,000 ♪ And I feel fine ♪ 464 00:18:37,360 --> 00:18:39,480 ♪ Baby says she's mine, you know ♪ 465 00:18:39,600 --> 00:18:42,120 ♪ She tells me all the time, you know ♪ 466 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:43,600 ♪ She said so ♪ 467 00:18:45,240 --> 00:18:46,880 ♪ I'm in love with her ♪ 468 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:49,320 ♪ And I feel fine ♪ 469 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:53,000 ♪ I'm so glad ♪ 470 00:18:53,080 --> 00:18:56,000 -♪ That she's my little girl ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 471 00:18:56,080 --> 00:18:58,400 ♪ She's so glad ♪ 472 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:00,880 -♪ She's telling all the world ♪ -♪ Ooh ♪ 473 00:19:01,160 --> 00:19:04,040 ♪ That her baby buys her things, you know ♪ 474 00:19:04,160 --> 00:19:06,480 ♪ He buys her diamond rings, you know ♪ 475 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:07,960 ♪ She said so ♪ 476 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,080 ♪ She's in love with me ♪ 477 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:13,840 ♪ And I feel fine ♪ 478 00:19:14,920 --> 00:19:19,040 ♪ She's in love with me and I feel fine ♪ 479 00:19:20,120 --> 00:19:21,400 ♪ Mm ♪ 480 00:19:21,920 --> 00:19:24,160 -[♪ music concludes] -Funny chaps. Who are they? 481 00:19:24,280 --> 00:19:26,240 Well, maybe I'll find out as the show goes on. 482 00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:28,760 [Brian Matthew over radio] And most of the boys' songs today 483 00:19:28,840 --> 00:19:31,720 are taken from their latest LP, which is called what, Paul? 484 00:19:31,840 --> 00:19:33,200 [Paul] Called Beatles For Sale. 485 00:19:33,280 --> 00:19:34,360 [Ringo] Paul'll tell you. 486 00:19:34,440 --> 00:19:36,480 [Paul] And-- [chuckles] And, uh... 487 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,160 -it's got eight of our songs... -[Brian Matthew] Of your own. 488 00:19:39,240 --> 00:19:42,080 ...and the rest are... the rest are... eight from fourteen? 489 00:19:42,160 --> 00:19:43,200 What's that? Nine, please. 490 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:44,520 [George] No, six... 491 00:19:44,600 --> 00:19:45,960 [Paul chuckles] I'm not very good at counting. 492 00:19:46,040 --> 00:19:47,440 -[Brian Matthew] So I see. -[Paul] Six, of course. 493 00:19:47,520 --> 00:19:48,680 [Paul] Six. Yes. Eight and six is-- 494 00:19:48,760 --> 00:19:49,760 [John] How many GCEs? 495 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:51,360 [Paul clears throat] Well, I didn't get that one... 496 00:19:51,440 --> 00:19:52,720 ...counting. Didn't get counting. 497 00:19:52,800 --> 00:19:54,320 [Brian Matthew] Who are the other numbers, can you remember? 498 00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:55,400 [Paul] "Kansas City" is one. 499 00:19:55,480 --> 00:19:57,240 [John] Two Carl Perkins, one Little Richard, 500 00:19:57,320 --> 00:20:00,000 one Chuck Berry, and one Dr. Feelgood, 501 00:20:00,080 --> 00:20:01,400 and that's the... that's the rest. 502 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:02,680 [Brian Matthew] What's the Chuck Berry number? 503 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,800 [John] Uh, "Rock And Roll Music", 504 00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:05,280 which goes on for about an hour. 505 00:20:05,360 --> 00:20:06,440 [Paul] We like the old numbers. 506 00:20:06,520 --> 00:20:08,880 [♪ "Everybody’s Trying To Be My Baby" plays over radio] 507 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:11,760 ♪ Everybody's trying to be my baby ♪ 508 00:20:11,840 --> 00:20:15,520 ♪ Everybody's trying to be my baby now... ♪ 509 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,680 [George Martin] It was only after the first year 510 00:20:17,760 --> 00:20:18,760 that they started getting 511 00:20:18,840 --> 00:20:20,840 really interested in studio techniques. 512 00:20:21,200 --> 00:20:23,000 They always wanted to get the thing right, 513 00:20:23,080 --> 00:20:24,760 so it wasn't a one-take operation. 514 00:20:24,840 --> 00:20:26,960 They would listen to it and they'd do two or three takes 515 00:20:27,040 --> 00:20:28,320 until they got it pretty well right. 516 00:20:28,880 --> 00:20:30,400 [George Martin] Ringo, can you give us any more? 517 00:20:30,480 --> 00:20:31,880 [Ringo] Yeah, as loud as you want. 518 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,440 [Paul] Let's hope this one turns out pretty darn good, huh? 519 00:20:34,520 --> 00:20:35,840 [♪ "Honey Don’t" playing] 520 00:20:35,960 --> 00:20:39,040 ♪ Well, how come you say you will when you won't? ♪ 521 00:20:39,520 --> 00:20:42,320 ♪ Say you do, baby, when you don't ♪ 522 00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,200 ♪ Let me know, honey, how you feel ♪ 523 00:20:45,440 --> 00:20:47,520 ♪ Tell the truth now, is love real? ♪ 524 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:48,960 ♪ But, ah, ah... ♪ 525 00:20:50,280 --> 00:20:51,800 [George] Things like "Honey Don't" 526 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:53,200 and "Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby", 527 00:20:53,280 --> 00:20:55,120 we'd played live so much, 528 00:20:55,200 --> 00:20:57,880 we just had to get the sound on that and just do it. 529 00:20:57,960 --> 00:20:59,480 But things like "Baby's In Black", 530 00:20:59,560 --> 00:21:00,720 well, that was like 531 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:02,320 learn the songs and rehearse them, 532 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:04,040 and I think we were beginning to do 533 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,520 a little bit of overdubbing in those days. 534 00:21:06,600 --> 00:21:07,880 It's probably a four-track. 535 00:21:07,960 --> 00:21:09,440 -[engineer] Take 7. -[John] We goofed, man. 536 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:10,520 [Paul] Goes... 537 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:12,200 ♪ I think of her but she thinks only of him ♪ 538 00:21:12,280 --> 00:21:13,880 ♪ And though it's only a whim, she thinks of him ♪ 539 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:15,480 -[John] ♪ Her name is Jim ♪ -[Paul] ♪ Oh, how long will… ♪ 540 00:21:15,600 --> 00:21:16,680 -[John] That bit? [chuckles] -[Paul] Okay. 541 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:18,120 [John] Soon as you hear "Jim", you're in. 542 00:21:18,200 --> 00:21:19,640 [Paul clears throat] One, two, three. 543 00:21:19,720 --> 00:21:20,840 One, two, three. 544 00:21:20,920 --> 00:21:24,040 [♪ "Baby's In Black" playing] 545 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:27,720 ♪ Oh dear, what can I do? ♪ 546 00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:30,720 ♪ Baby's in black and I'm feeling blue ♪ 547 00:21:30,800 --> 00:21:34,280 ♪ Tell me, oh, what can I do?... ♪ 548 00:21:34,360 --> 00:21:36,960 [Paul] I used to go out to John's house in Weybridge, 549 00:21:37,040 --> 00:21:38,640 uh, to write songs. 550 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:40,760 And at that particular time, 551 00:21:40,840 --> 00:21:43,840 I had been, uh, busted for speeding, 552 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:47,600 so I had to have a driver to take me out there. 553 00:21:47,760 --> 00:21:49,560 And we were chatting on the way. 554 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,760 I remember saying to the guy, 555 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:52,840 "Well, how have you been?" you know. "Have you been busy?" 556 00:21:52,920 --> 00:21:54,320 And he said, "Oh yeah, mate." 557 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:56,120 He said, "I've been working eight days a week." 558 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:57,800 And I went into John's house and said, 559 00:21:57,880 --> 00:22:00,520 "Right, I've got the title... 'Eight Days A Week'." 560 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:01,760 And we wrote it there and then. 561 00:22:01,840 --> 00:22:02,920 [♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing] 562 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:05,640 ♪ I ain't got nothin' but love, babe ♪ 563 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,280 ♪ Eight days a week... ♪ 564 00:22:09,080 --> 00:22:11,320 [Ringo] The rehearsal would go on in the studio, 565 00:22:11,400 --> 00:22:13,320 because, uh, from very early on, 566 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:15,200 a lot of the songs weren't finished. 567 00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:16,840 The ideas were there for the songs, 568 00:22:16,920 --> 00:22:19,320 or the first verse, or a chorus, 569 00:22:19,400 --> 00:22:21,680 but it... it could be changed by the writers 570 00:22:21,760 --> 00:22:23,160 -as we were doing it. -[♪ music concludes] 571 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:24,440 [engineer] Take 1, "No Reply". 572 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:25,520 [John] Sing it? 573 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:26,840 What was that about not singing it with me? 574 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,080 [Paul] Well, okay, I'll just sing it.... 575 00:22:28,160 --> 00:22:29,240 [John] 'Cause my voice is killing me. 576 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:30,600 [Paul] ♪ This happened once before ♪ 577 00:22:30,680 --> 00:22:32,280 [Paul] I'll sing, okay. One... 578 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:34,800 One, two, three. 579 00:22:34,920 --> 00:22:36,080 [♪ "No Reply" playing] 580 00:22:36,160 --> 00:22:38,720 ♪ This happened once before when I came to your door... ♪ 581 00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,840 [Paul] That is a rather nice cover. 582 00:22:39,920 --> 00:22:41,880 That's Robert Freeman. Nice photos. 583 00:22:41,960 --> 00:22:45,120 We showed up in Hyde Park near the Albert Memorial. 584 00:22:45,640 --> 00:22:48,400 And we were just quite impressed by George's hair there. 585 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:52,560 It was a marvellous little turnip top he managed to create. 586 00:22:54,200 --> 00:22:56,440 ♪ I saw the light ♪ 587 00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:57,840 [♪ music concludes] 588 00:22:57,920 --> 00:22:58,960 [♪ "Help!" playing] 589 00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:00,400 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ I need somebody ♪ 590 00:23:00,480 --> 00:23:03,080 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ Not just anybody ♪ 591 00:23:03,160 --> 00:23:05,320 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ You know I need someone ♪ 592 00:23:05,400 --> 00:23:07,960 -♪ Help! ♪ -[♪ music concludes] 593 00:23:08,040 --> 00:23:11,280 We'd done the Hard Day's Night, uh, film, 594 00:23:11,360 --> 00:23:13,040 which was great, and, uh... 595 00:23:13,600 --> 00:23:15,800 Dick Lester had done this kind of slightly artsy 596 00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:18,080 black and white thing that I think we'd all loved. 597 00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:20,640 So the next thing was, "Okay, well, what do we do now?" 598 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:22,360 "Well, maybe a color film." 599 00:23:22,720 --> 00:23:24,080 In color, yeah, wow. 600 00:23:24,160 --> 00:23:26,080 They-- See, they had more money for that one. 601 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:30,400 So then things went a little bit, uh, awry, I think, 602 00:23:30,480 --> 00:23:32,200 because what happened then was... 603 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:35,320 um, we started saying, 604 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:37,080 "Well, we've never been to the Bahamas. 605 00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:39,200 -Could you write that in?" -[♪ "Another Girl" playing] 606 00:23:39,280 --> 00:23:42,360 -♪ For I have got ♪ -♪ Another girl ♪ 607 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:45,040 ♪ Another girl ♪ 608 00:23:45,120 --> 00:23:49,200 ♪ You're making me say that I've got nobody but you ♪ 609 00:23:50,320 --> 00:23:51,560 ♪ But as from today ♪ 610 00:23:51,640 --> 00:23:54,440 ♪ Well, I've got somebody that's new ♪ 611 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:56,880 ♪ I ain't no fool ♪ 612 00:23:56,960 --> 00:23:59,600 ♪ And I don't take what I don't want ♪ 613 00:23:59,680 --> 00:24:01,000 ♪ For I have got... ♪ 614 00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:02,640 It was fabulous. 615 00:24:02,720 --> 00:24:04,600 But the... the problem, we went to the Bahamas, 616 00:24:04,680 --> 00:24:06,040 of course, to do all the hot scenes, 617 00:24:06,120 --> 00:24:07,240 and it was freezing. 618 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,560 And, of course, we had to ride around and run round 619 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,280 in, uh, just shirts 620 00:24:12,360 --> 00:24:14,120 and little thin trousers, and that. 621 00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,240 -But it was absolutely bloody cold. -[♪ music concludes] 622 00:24:16,320 --> 00:24:18,520 "I've never been skiing. I wonder if you could 623 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:20,280 write a scene in with skiing," you know. 624 00:24:20,360 --> 00:24:23,200 -[♪ "The Night Before" playing] -♪ We said our goodbyes ♪ 625 00:24:23,280 --> 00:24:25,960 ♪ Ah! The night before ♪ 626 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,720 ♪ Love was in your eyes ♪ 627 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:31,480 ♪ Ah! The night before ♪ 628 00:24:31,560 --> 00:24:37,280 ♪ Now today I find you have changed your mind ♪ 629 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:41,080 ♪ Treat me like you did the night before... ♪ 630 00:24:41,160 --> 00:24:43,080 First time I'd been on skis. 631 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:45,120 I loved that. 632 00:24:45,400 --> 00:24:46,760 Not that any of us could ski. 633 00:24:46,840 --> 00:24:49,080 I mean, Dick Lester just put us on skis 634 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,840 and edged us down a mountain. 635 00:25:02,120 --> 00:25:03,320 [♪ music concludes] 636 00:25:03,400 --> 00:25:05,320 Well, uh, I think, you know, this was beginning 637 00:25:05,400 --> 00:25:08,440 to get into that period when, um... 638 00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:10,600 people were, sort of, giving up the drink, 639 00:25:10,680 --> 00:25:13,840 which had been the sort of stimulant of the times, 640 00:25:13,920 --> 00:25:16,720 and were getting into the herbal jazz cigarettes. 641 00:25:16,800 --> 00:25:19,000 I was 14 years older than they were. They knew, 642 00:25:19,080 --> 00:25:20,240 I guess, I was straight, 643 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:22,680 and they knew I disapproved very strongly of drugs. 644 00:25:23,080 --> 00:25:24,560 I'm afraid I used to smoke cigarettes, 645 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:26,200 and that's pretty well as bad. 646 00:25:26,560 --> 00:25:29,240 Um... So they never smoked pot in front of me. 647 00:25:29,520 --> 00:25:31,160 They used to just nip down to the canteen below 648 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:32,440 and have a little drag, you know, 649 00:25:32,520 --> 00:25:34,040 and come out giggling a bit. 650 00:25:34,760 --> 00:25:36,080 I knew what... what they were doing, 651 00:25:36,160 --> 00:25:37,920 but, um, it didn't make any difference. 652 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:39,480 [George] One, two, three. 653 00:25:39,560 --> 00:25:40,840 [♪ "You’re Going To Lose That Girl" playing] 654 00:25:40,920 --> 00:25:43,280 ♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪ 655 00:25:43,360 --> 00:25:44,560 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 656 00:25:44,640 --> 00:25:47,320 ♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪ 657 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:50,760 ♪ If you don't take her out tonight ♪ 658 00:25:50,840 --> 00:25:52,520 ♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪ 659 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:55,120 ♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪ 660 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:58,240 ♪ And I will take her out tonight ♪ 661 00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,840 ♪ And I will treat her kind ♪ 662 00:25:59,920 --> 00:26:01,920 ♪ I'm gonna treat her kind ♪ 663 00:26:02,000 --> 00:26:03,480 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 664 00:26:03,560 --> 00:26:05,600 ♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪ 665 00:26:05,680 --> 00:26:07,440 -♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 666 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,480 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 667 00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,960 ♪ I'll make a point of taking her away from you ♪ 668 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:15,800 -♪ Watch what you do ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪ 669 00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:23,080 ♪ The way you treat her, what else can I do? ♪ 670 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,400 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 671 00:26:34,080 --> 00:26:36,800 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 672 00:26:36,880 --> 00:26:38,600 -♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 673 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:40,600 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 674 00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:42,240 -♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 675 00:26:42,320 --> 00:26:43,760 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 676 00:26:44,040 --> 00:26:45,960 -♪ You're gonna lose ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 677 00:26:46,040 --> 00:26:48,280 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 678 00:26:48,680 --> 00:26:52,160 ♪ I'll make a point of taking her away from you ♪ 679 00:26:52,480 --> 00:26:54,480 -♪ Watch what you do ♪ -♪ Yeah ♪ 680 00:26:55,960 --> 00:27:01,200 ♪ The way you treat her, what else can I do? ♪ 681 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,200 ♪ If you don't take her out tonight ♪ 682 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:05,880 ♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪ 683 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:08,440 ♪ She's gonna change her mind ♪ 684 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,680 ♪ And I will take her out tonight ♪ 685 00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:15,240 -♪ And I will treat her kind ♪ -♪ I'm gonna treat her kind ♪ 686 00:27:15,320 --> 00:27:17,240 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 687 00:27:17,320 --> 00:27:18,840 ♪ Yes, yes, you're gonna lose that girl ♪ 688 00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:20,920 -♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 689 00:27:21,000 --> 00:27:22,720 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 690 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:24,720 -♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ -♪ Yes, yes ♪ 691 00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:27,280 ♪ You're gonna lose that girl ♪ 692 00:27:27,400 --> 00:27:28,440 [♪ music concludes] 693 00:27:28,520 --> 00:27:31,440 -[indistinct chatter] -[engineer] Yeah, I've heard it. 694 00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:34,560 Boys, are you buzzing? 695 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:36,040 [John] By then, we were smoking marijuana 696 00:27:36,120 --> 00:27:39,160 for breakfast at that period, and we were well into marijuana, 697 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,800 and nobody could communicate with us 698 00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:42,400 'cause it was just four glazed eyes 699 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,880 giggling all the time, you know, in their own world. 700 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:47,040 We had fun in those days. 701 00:27:47,120 --> 00:27:48,360 I think that was one of the reasons 702 00:27:48,440 --> 00:27:49,920 for not learning the script. 703 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:52,080 We just sort of showed up a bit stoned, you know, 704 00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,080 and sort of smiled a lot, and hoped we'd get through it. 705 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,040 It appears I need one card... 706 00:27:57,120 --> 00:27:59,720 [George] It's difficult when four people 707 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,680 all have to say, um, lines, you know, one behind the other. 708 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,160 And, uh, you know, if one person forgets it, 709 00:28:07,240 --> 00:28:08,400 you've gotta start again, 710 00:28:08,480 --> 00:28:10,200 and then the next person would forget his lines. 711 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:11,840 And we did some scenes... 712 00:28:11,920 --> 00:28:15,080 The scenes that were in Buckingham Palace in Help! 713 00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:19,120 We... [chuckling] ...we were doing that scene for days. 714 00:28:19,440 --> 00:28:20,880 You know, where they put some... 715 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:22,880 There was some pipe 716 00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,000 with some red smoke comes through, you know, 717 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:28,480 and we shove it out the window, and all the guards fall over. 718 00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:30,760 [royal guard] Eyes front! 719 00:28:35,440 --> 00:28:36,680 Must be their tea break. 720 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:39,320 That scene, it just went on forever, you know. 721 00:28:39,400 --> 00:28:42,400 And we were just in stitches, just in hysterics, laughing. 722 00:28:42,480 --> 00:28:44,920 And we pushed Dick Lester, I think, 723 00:28:45,000 --> 00:28:47,280 to the limit of his, uh... 724 00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,480 'Cause he was very, very easy-going. 725 00:28:50,960 --> 00:28:53,960 He was a very... a good... you know, pleasure to work with. 726 00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:56,000 [Ringo] There's one scene in the film 727 00:28:56,080 --> 00:28:58,840 where, um, Victor Spinetti, 728 00:28:58,920 --> 00:29:01,200 and, uh, whoever else is in the scene, 729 00:29:01,280 --> 00:29:03,520 and they're doing that curling. 730 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:06,000 You know, those big stones they... they do. [chuckles] 731 00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:08,680 And one of them, of course, has a bomb in it. 732 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,840 We find out about this, so it's gonna blow up, 733 00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:12,880 and we have to run. We have to run away. 734 00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:15,880 -[George] Run, Ringo! -[crowd clamoring] 735 00:29:15,960 --> 00:29:21,040 Paul and I ran about seven miles. [laughs] 736 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,080 We... we just ran and ran so we could stop 737 00:29:24,160 --> 00:29:27,320 and have a joint... [chuckles] and... and come back... 738 00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:30,480 We were just off. 739 00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:32,720 You know, we'd run to Switzerland. 740 00:29:33,560 --> 00:29:35,040 [crowd screaming] 741 00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:36,760 [John] I enjoyed filming it. 742 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:40,440 You know, I'm sort of satisfied, but not smug about it. 743 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,160 You know, it'll do. 744 00:29:42,240 --> 00:29:43,880 We couldn't do it any better than that 745 00:29:43,960 --> 00:29:46,280 because we're not capable enough actors 746 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:47,800 to make it any better than that. 747 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:50,480 [George] I had these two guys who used to write songs 748 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:51,840 whenever we needed some. 749 00:29:51,920 --> 00:29:53,640 I think we just called them up and said, 750 00:29:53,720 --> 00:29:55,680 "Look, we'll be doing a movie now, lads. 751 00:29:55,760 --> 00:29:58,400 Will you come up with a couple of catchy hits?" 752 00:29:58,480 --> 00:29:59,720 [Paul] I would go out to Weybridge, 753 00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:00,840 where John was. 754 00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:04,200 I'd drive out myself, um... 755 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,040 Wake him up, mainly. You know, he'd be... 756 00:30:07,120 --> 00:30:08,400 he'd sort of wait till I got there 757 00:30:08,480 --> 00:30:10,360 and we'd have a cup of coffee or something. 758 00:30:10,480 --> 00:30:12,240 And then we'd just spend the afternoon, 759 00:30:12,320 --> 00:30:14,440 just two or three hours, sit up... 760 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,680 and he had a little room up at the top of the house, 761 00:30:16,760 --> 00:30:19,280 a little music... music room, and we'd just go 762 00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:21,160 and lock ourselves away in there, 763 00:30:21,280 --> 00:30:23,080 and just say, "Okay, what have we got?" you know. 764 00:30:23,160 --> 00:30:25,120 [engineer] "Ticket to Ride". Take 1. 765 00:30:25,200 --> 00:30:26,600 -[Paul] That one? -[engineer] Okay. 766 00:30:26,680 --> 00:30:28,920 [Paul, high-pitched] ♪ The girl that's driving me mad ♪ 767 00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:30,000 [John] Come on. 768 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:31,120 [Paul] ♪ She's going away ♪ 769 00:30:31,200 --> 00:30:32,320 [John] Right, George. 770 00:30:32,400 --> 00:30:34,720 [Paul] ♪ Oh, she's got a ticket to ride ♪ 771 00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,200 [♪ "Ticket To Ride" playing] 772 00:30:36,280 --> 00:30:38,520 ♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪ 773 00:30:38,600 --> 00:30:41,800 ♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪ 774 00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:47,040 ♪ She's got a ticket to ride and she don't care ♪ 775 00:30:50,000 --> 00:30:56,440 ♪ She said that living with me was bringing her down, yeah ♪ 776 00:30:57,560 --> 00:31:03,360 ♪ She would never be free when I was around ♪ 777 00:31:05,520 --> 00:31:08,520 ♪ She's got a ticket to ride ♪ 778 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:13,120 ♪ She's got a ticket to ride... ♪ 779 00:31:13,600 --> 00:31:15,040 [Paul] I think it was largely John's, 780 00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,120 the actual "Ticket To Ride" bit. 781 00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:18,400 We wrote it together. 782 00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,080 [John] I liked it 'cause it was 783 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:22,920 slightly a new sound at the time. 784 00:31:23,440 --> 00:31:25,840 I used to like guitars, you know? [chuckles] 785 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:27,680 I don't want anything else on the album 786 00:31:27,760 --> 00:31:31,240 with guitars and... jangling piano or whatever. 787 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,320 And it's all happening, and that's a... 788 00:31:33,400 --> 00:31:34,960 it's a heavy record, you know. 789 00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:44,960 ♪ I think I'm gonna be sad, I think it's today, yeah ♪ 790 00:31:46,080 --> 00:31:52,800 ♪ The girl that's driving me mad is going away, yeah... ♪ 791 00:31:53,880 --> 00:31:54,960 [Paul] You see, with John and I, 792 00:31:55,040 --> 00:31:58,120 certain songs would nearly always be 793 00:31:58,200 --> 00:32:00,040 the idea of one of us. 794 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:01,560 One of us had actually said, 795 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,080 "'Ticket to Ride' would be good." 796 00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:04,160 The other one would say, 797 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:05,520 "Okay, that's what we'll write today." 798 00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:07,800 [♪ "Help!" playing] 799 00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:09,120 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ I need somebody ♪ 800 00:32:09,200 --> 00:32:11,560 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ Not just anybody ♪ 801 00:32:11,640 --> 00:32:14,160 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ You know I need someone ♪ 802 00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,760 ♪ Help! ♪ 803 00:32:15,840 --> 00:32:18,720 John got the idea, I think, for the title "Help!", 804 00:32:18,800 --> 00:32:20,920 and I think from things he said later, 805 00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:22,600 I think it was a bit his state of mind. 806 00:32:22,680 --> 00:32:24,280 You know, he was feeling a bit constricted 807 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:26,400 by the whole Beatle thing. 808 00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:28,120 He never said that when he wrote it. 809 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:31,920 He said it retrospectively, that was how he was feeling... 810 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:33,920 -[♪ music concludes] -...and that's why he wrote that, um... 811 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,600 But he was kind of plump and, um... 812 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:40,720 and, you know, he had his... he... 813 00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,400 I think that he just didn't feel right, you know. 814 00:32:43,960 --> 00:32:47,120 He got a bit podgy, or something, in his own eyes, you know, 815 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:50,080 and that was depressing him a bit, you know. 816 00:32:50,960 --> 00:32:52,440 But I think John has, uh-- 817 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:54,840 he's done interviews and articles about that. 818 00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,120 I mean, I'd go into these troughs every few years. 819 00:32:57,200 --> 00:32:58,640 It was less noticeable in the Beatles 820 00:32:58,720 --> 00:33:00,080 because the Beatles' image 821 00:33:00,160 --> 00:33:01,800 and thing would carry you through it, you know. 822 00:33:01,880 --> 00:33:05,000 I mean, I... I was in the middle of a trough in "Help!" you know, 823 00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:07,600 but, uh, you can't see it really. I mean, I'm sing... 824 00:33:07,680 --> 00:33:09,920 I'm singing "Help!" for a kick-off, you know. 825 00:33:10,320 --> 00:33:12,000 And, uh... but it was less noticeable 826 00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:13,960 because you're... you're protected by the... 827 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,120 the image of the power of the Beatles. 828 00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,080 -[crowd cheering] -"Help!" One, two, three, four. 829 00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:19,520 -[♪ "Help!" playing] -♪ Help! ♪ 830 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,080 ♪ I need somebody ♪ 831 00:33:21,160 --> 00:33:23,680 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ Not just anybody ♪ 832 00:33:23,760 --> 00:33:26,240 -♪ Help! ♪ -♪ You know I need someone ♪ 833 00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,600 ♪ Help! ♪ 834 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:29,080 Hey! 835 00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:32,840 ♪ When I was younger, so much younger than today ♪ 836 00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:34,040 ♪ I never needed ♪ 837 00:33:34,120 --> 00:33:37,880 ♪ I never needed anybody's help in any way ♪ 838 00:33:38,960 --> 00:33:43,080 ♪ But now these days are gone I'm not so self-assured ♪ 839 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:44,160 ♪ And now I find ♪ 840 00:33:44,240 --> 00:33:46,040 ♪ Now I find I've changed my mind ♪ 841 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:48,240 ♪ And opened up the doors ♪ 842 00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:49,320 Hey! 843 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:52,960 ♪ Help me if you can, I'm feeling down ♪ 844 00:33:53,240 --> 00:33:57,800 ♪ And I do appreciate you being 'round ♪ 845 00:33:58,880 --> 00:34:02,960 ♪ Help me get my feet back on the ground ♪ 846 00:34:03,360 --> 00:34:07,280 ♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪ 847 00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:13,280 ♪ And now my life has changed in oh so many ways ♪ 848 00:34:13,360 --> 00:34:15,080 ♪ My independence ♪ 849 00:34:15,160 --> 00:34:18,720 ♪ My independence seems to vanish in the haze ♪ 850 00:34:19,280 --> 00:34:20,360 ♪ But now and then ♪ 851 00:34:20,440 --> 00:34:23,360 ♪ And in these clever days I'm not so self-assured ♪ 852 00:34:23,440 --> 00:34:24,640 ♪ I know that I ♪ 853 00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:28,560 ♪ I know that I just need you like I've never done before ♪ 854 00:34:28,640 --> 00:34:29,640 Hey! 855 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:33,520 ♪ Help me if you can, I'm feeling down ♪ 856 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:38,560 ♪ And I do appreciate you being 'round ♪ 857 00:34:39,440 --> 00:34:43,920 ♪ Help me get my feet back on the ground ♪ 858 00:34:44,120 --> 00:34:47,960 ♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪ 859 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:55,040 ♪ When I was younger, so much younger than today ♪ 860 00:34:55,120 --> 00:34:59,360 ♪ Never needed anybody's help in any way ♪ 861 00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,320 ♪ But now these days have gone I'm not so self-assured ♪ 862 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:05,600 ♪ And now I find ♪ 863 00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:07,480 ♪ Now I find I've changed my mind ♪ 864 00:35:07,600 --> 00:35:09,640 ♪ And opened up the doors ♪ 865 00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:10,800 Hey! 866 00:35:10,880 --> 00:35:14,520 ♪ Help me if you can, I'm feeling down ♪ 867 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:19,240 ♪ And I do appreciate you being 'round ♪ 868 00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:24,480 ♪ Help me get my feet back on the ground ♪ 869 00:35:24,720 --> 00:35:28,640 ♪ Won't you please, please help me? ♪ 870 00:35:28,720 --> 00:35:33,920 -♪ Help me ♪ -♪ Help me, ooh ♪ 871 00:35:34,000 --> 00:35:38,840 -[crowd cheering, applauding] -[♪ music concludes] 872 00:35:42,800 --> 00:35:45,920 I used to live in this, uh, little flat 873 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:49,160 up at the top of a house, uh, in a little room I had. 874 00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:51,200 And I had a piano by the bed. 875 00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:54,040 And I just woke up one morning with this tune in my head. 876 00:35:54,480 --> 00:35:57,080 Um, and I thought, 877 00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:58,480 "I don't know this tune, or do I? 878 00:35:58,560 --> 00:36:00,400 It's like an old jazz tune or something," and I've-- 879 00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:02,800 'Cause my dad used to know a lot of old jazz stuff. 880 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:03,960 "And maybe I've just remembered it 881 00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,160 off somewhere." 882 00:36:05,240 --> 00:36:07,840 [quickly hums tune of "Yesterday"] 883 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,160 So I got... went to the piano, found... 884 00:36:09,240 --> 00:36:10,480 found the chords to it, you know. 885 00:36:10,560 --> 00:36:14,760 It was like in G, F sharp minor 7th, sort of B, and that. 886 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,080 And, um... 887 00:36:19,160 --> 00:36:20,520 I kind of re... just remembered it... 888 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:23,000 made sure I remembered it. And then I just hawked it round 889 00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:24,920 all my friends and stuff, and said, "What's this? 890 00:36:25,000 --> 00:36:26,480 You know, it's gotta be something. 891 00:36:26,600 --> 00:36:27,880 It's like a good little tune, you know, 892 00:36:27,960 --> 00:36:28,960 and I couldn't have written it 893 00:36:29,040 --> 00:36:30,320 'cause I just dreamed it, you know. 894 00:36:30,400 --> 00:36:31,680 You don't get that lucky." 895 00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,800 And it wasn't until he got the lyric together that we... 896 00:36:34,880 --> 00:36:36,320 he de... decided to record it and said, 897 00:36:36,400 --> 00:36:37,600 "How should we do it?" 898 00:36:37,680 --> 00:36:39,200 I said, "Well, it's a lovely song, 899 00:36:39,280 --> 00:36:42,800 super song. I can't really see what Ringo can do on it. 900 00:36:43,000 --> 00:36:46,080 I can't really see what heavy electric guitars 901 00:36:46,160 --> 00:36:47,200 are gonna do on it. 902 00:36:47,280 --> 00:36:49,200 Why don't you just go down there, 903 00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,080 and sing it to me with a guitar, 904 00:36:51,160 --> 00:36:53,040 and we'll decide what to do with it then?" 905 00:36:53,120 --> 00:36:55,000 And it was good, actually, 'cause all the others, the... 906 00:36:55,080 --> 00:36:57,760 the guys, I looked at them, I went, "Oops... 907 00:36:57,840 --> 00:36:59,880 I mean, you know, solo record?" 908 00:36:59,960 --> 00:37:01,600 And they said, "Yeah, you know, it doesn't matter. 909 00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,800 There's no... nothing we could add to it, so do it." 910 00:37:03,880 --> 00:37:06,000 And I remember John listening to it. 911 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:07,440 And there's a particular bit 912 00:37:07,520 --> 00:37:10,480 where the cello moves into a kind of bluesy note, 913 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,800 and John thought that was terrific. 914 00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,120 So it was... it was applauded, 915 00:37:15,280 --> 00:37:16,720 but it wasn't really a Beatle record. 916 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:18,160 And I discussed this with Brian. 917 00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:20,200 I said, "You know, this is Paul's song. 918 00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,360 Shall we call it Paul McCartney?" He said, "No." 919 00:37:22,520 --> 00:37:24,880 And I can't actually remember him making that suggestion, 920 00:37:24,960 --> 00:37:26,160 but I... I wouldn't have done that. 921 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:28,880 You know, we... we never entertained those-- 922 00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:30,080 It was sometimes tempting. 923 00:37:30,160 --> 00:37:32,080 You know, people would flatter you and say, 924 00:37:32,160 --> 00:37:34,400 "Ooh, you know, you should get out front on the band there," 925 00:37:34,480 --> 00:37:36,120 or "You should put this solo record out." 926 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:37,400 But we always said, "Nah." 927 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:39,720 In fact, we didn't even ever put it out as a single, 928 00:37:40,000 --> 00:37:42,120 um, in England, 'cause we were kind of 929 00:37:42,200 --> 00:37:43,360 a little bit embarrassed about it. 930 00:37:43,440 --> 00:37:44,680 We were a rock and roll band, you know, 931 00:37:44,760 --> 00:37:46,440 we thought we were like a little R&B combo. 932 00:37:47,120 --> 00:37:50,080 And so, for Paul McCartney of Liverpool, 933 00:37:50,240 --> 00:37:53,520 -Opportunity Knocks! -[crowd cheering] 934 00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,200 -[♪ "Yesterday" playing] -[Paul] Thank you, George. 935 00:37:57,640 --> 00:37:59,320 ♪ Yesterday ♪ 936 00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:05,200 ♪ All my troubles seemed so far away ♪ 937 00:38:05,760 --> 00:38:09,640 ♪ Now it looks as though they're here to stay ♪ 938 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:14,880 ♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪ 939 00:38:15,040 --> 00:38:17,080 ♪ Suddenly ♪ 940 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,320 ♪ I'm not half the man I used to be ♪ 941 00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:27,160 ♪ There's a shadow hanging over me ♪ 942 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:32,400 ♪ Oh, yesterday came suddenly ♪ 943 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:37,280 ♪ Why she had to go ♪ 944 00:38:37,360 --> 00:38:41,800 ♪ I don't know, she wouldn't say ♪ 945 00:38:43,080 --> 00:38:47,440 ♪ I said something wrong ♪ 946 00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:52,240 ♪ Now I long for yesterday ♪ 947 00:38:53,320 --> 00:38:55,320 ♪ Yesterday ♪ 948 00:38:56,680 --> 00:39:00,880 ♪ Love was such an easy game to play ♪ 949 00:39:01,960 --> 00:39:05,800 ♪ Now I need a place to hide away ♪ 950 00:39:06,080 --> 00:39:11,320 ♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪ 951 00:39:11,440 --> 00:39:15,840 ♪ Why she had to go ♪ 952 00:39:15,920 --> 00:39:20,400 ♪ I don't know, she wouldn't say ♪ 953 00:39:21,800 --> 00:39:26,160 ♪ I said something wrong ♪ 954 00:39:26,240 --> 00:39:31,920 ♪ Now I long for yesterday ♪ 955 00:39:32,000 --> 00:39:33,960 ♪ Yesterday ♪ 956 00:39:35,360 --> 00:39:39,440 ♪ Love was such an easy game to play ♪ 957 00:39:40,520 --> 00:39:44,400 ♪ Now I need a place to hide away ♪ 958 00:39:44,640 --> 00:39:49,880 ♪ Oh, I believe in yesterday ♪ 959 00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:56,280 ♪ Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm-mm ♪ 960 00:39:56,360 --> 00:40:00,360 -[♪ music concludes] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 961 00:40:10,120 --> 00:40:11,960 Thank you, Ringo. That was wonderful. 962 00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:15,000 Well, we got into the way now of every album we made, 963 00:40:15,080 --> 00:40:17,160 then we expected George to have a song, 964 00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:19,040 and we expected Ringo to sing a song. 965 00:40:19,800 --> 00:40:20,960 Um, it was a kind of-- 966 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:22,920 You know, we'd try and include the boys 967 00:40:23,000 --> 00:40:24,680 as a... in the... in the group. 968 00:40:24,920 --> 00:40:28,000 And George's songwriting was painful for him 969 00:40:28,080 --> 00:40:30,560 because he had no... no one to collaborate with. 970 00:40:30,640 --> 00:40:33,320 And John and Paul were such a... 971 00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:35,760 a, uh... a sort of collaborative duo 972 00:40:35,880 --> 00:40:36,960 that they would... 973 00:40:37,720 --> 00:40:39,920 throw out a... a word of advice to George and so on, 974 00:40:40,000 --> 00:40:41,440 but they didn't really work with him. 975 00:40:41,520 --> 00:40:43,640 'Cause it was an option, you know, to include George 976 00:40:43,720 --> 00:40:45,120 in the songwriting team, 977 00:40:45,200 --> 00:40:48,440 but without wanting to be too sort of mean to him, 978 00:40:48,520 --> 00:40:49,600 we had decided-- 979 00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:51,720 I remember walking up through Woolton, 980 00:40:51,800 --> 00:40:54,760 past Woolton Church with John, just one sort of... 981 00:40:54,840 --> 00:40:56,240 one morning, and... 982 00:40:56,320 --> 00:40:58,040 and, uh, you know, going over this question, 983 00:40:58,120 --> 00:40:59,960 should we... should three of us write, 984 00:41:00,040 --> 00:41:02,320 or would it be better just to keep it simple, you know? 985 00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,440 And we decided, no, we'd... 986 00:41:03,520 --> 00:41:05,840 we'd just keep the two of us, you know, at it. 987 00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,720 So George used to write his own songs. 988 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:08,800 [♪ "I Need You" playing] 989 00:41:08,880 --> 00:41:10,160 ♪ Love you all the time ♪ 990 00:41:10,240 --> 00:41:12,400 ♪ And never leave you ♪ 991 00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:17,400 ♪ Please come on back to me ♪ 992 00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:21,200 ♪ I'm lonely as can be ♪ 993 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:22,920 ♪ I need you... ♪ 994 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:27,320 [John] Paul and I really carved up the empire 995 00:41:27,400 --> 00:41:28,880 between us, you know. 996 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,280 George didn't even use to sing when we brought him into the group. 997 00:41:31,400 --> 00:41:32,920 He was a guitarist, you know? 998 00:41:33,440 --> 00:41:35,800 He just wasn't in the same league for a long time. 999 00:41:35,880 --> 00:41:36,920 That's not putting him down. 1000 00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,200 He just hadn't had the practice at writing that we had. 1001 00:41:42,080 --> 00:41:44,200 [George] They'd had a lot of practice, put it that way. 1002 00:41:44,280 --> 00:41:46,320 They'd been writing since we were at school. 1003 00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:47,680 ♪ You told me ♪ 1004 00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,760 And so they'd written all their-- 1005 00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:52,520 Most of their bad songs they'd written 1006 00:41:52,840 --> 00:41:54,760 before we got into the recording studio. 1007 00:41:54,840 --> 00:41:57,640 For me, I had to come from nowhere and start writing, 1008 00:41:57,720 --> 00:42:01,200 and to have something at least quality enough to be able to, 1009 00:42:01,280 --> 00:42:06,200 you know, put it in the record with all their wondrous hits. 1010 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,360 ♪ So come on back and see ♪ 1011 00:42:10,040 --> 00:42:13,200 ♪ Just what you mean to me ♪ 1012 00:42:13,560 --> 00:42:14,920 ♪ I need you ♪ 1013 00:42:17,080 --> 00:42:18,560 ♪ I need you ♪ 1014 00:42:20,800 --> 00:42:22,440 ♪ I need you... ♪ 1015 00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,600 [Paul] He wrote "Don't Bother Me", 1016 00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:27,160 I remember was kind of one of the first ones. 1017 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:28,920 And then he started to improve from that... 1018 00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:32,080 -[♪ music concludes] -...and eventually, uh, became very good, 1019 00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:35,040 um, you know, get... getting, like, a classic with, like, 1020 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:36,720 "Something In The Way She Moves", 1021 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,880 you know, which is... I think, uh-- 1022 00:42:39,960 --> 00:42:41,760 Frank Sinatra, I think, still refers to it 1023 00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,920 as his favorite Lennon-McCartney song. 1024 00:42:44,560 --> 00:42:45,600 Thanks, Frank. 1025 00:42:46,280 --> 00:42:47,800 And now we'd like to do something, um, 1026 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,080 we don't often do. 1027 00:42:49,480 --> 00:42:52,440 Give someone a chance to sing who doesn't often sing, 1028 00:42:52,520 --> 00:42:55,120 and here he is, all out of key and nervous, 1029 00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:56,800 singing "Act Naturally"... Ringo. 1030 00:42:56,880 --> 00:42:59,640 -[♪ "Act Naturally" playing] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 1031 00:43:02,800 --> 00:43:06,920 ♪ They're gonna put me in the movies ♪ 1032 00:43:07,720 --> 00:43:10,920 ♪ They're gonna make a big star out of me ♪ 1033 00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:16,640 ♪ We'll make a film about a man that's sad and lonely ♪ 1034 00:43:17,760 --> 00:43:21,080 ♪ And all I gotta do is act naturally ♪ 1035 00:43:22,360 --> 00:43:23,680 ♪ Well, I'll bet you ♪ 1036 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:26,360 ♪ I'm gonna be a big star ♪ 1037 00:43:27,440 --> 00:43:31,120 ♪ Might win an Oscar, you can never tell ♪ 1038 00:43:32,840 --> 00:43:36,600 ♪ The movies gonna make me a big star ♪ 1039 00:43:37,920 --> 00:43:42,320 ♪ 'Cause I can play the part so well ♪ 1040 00:43:42,720 --> 00:43:47,040 ♪ Well, I hope you'll come and see me in the movies ♪ 1041 00:43:48,320 --> 00:43:51,880 ♪ Then I'll know that you will plainly see ♪ 1042 00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:57,160 ♪ The biggest fool that ever hit the big time ♪ 1043 00:43:58,480 --> 00:44:02,480 ♪ And all I gotta do is act naturally ♪ 1044 00:44:03,200 --> 00:44:04,200 ♪ Hey! ♪ 1045 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:09,480 -[♪ music concludes] -[crowd cheering, applauding] 1046 00:44:09,560 --> 00:44:10,600 Thank you. 1047 00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:13,120 Well, I find myself in distinguished company. 1048 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:14,200 [chuckles] 1049 00:44:14,280 --> 00:44:16,160 And may I, without more ado, introduce… 1050 00:44:16,960 --> 00:44:18,680 -George Harrison, MBE? -Hello. Hello. 1051 00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:20,040 Hello. Oh, thank you. 1052 00:44:20,120 --> 00:44:23,120 -John Lennon, MBE. -Oh, ta, yeah. 1053 00:44:23,720 --> 00:44:27,440 -Ringo Starr, MBE. -[The Beatles laugh] 1054 00:44:27,520 --> 00:44:29,840 -And Paul McCartney, MBE. -How do you do? 1055 00:44:30,360 --> 00:44:32,280 [Paul] We were at Twickenham Film Studios 1056 00:44:32,360 --> 00:44:34,720 when Brian showed up one afternoon, 1057 00:44:35,160 --> 00:44:37,720 and took us to the dressing room all rather secretively, 1058 00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,440 and we thought, "Oh, what's this about?" 1059 00:44:39,520 --> 00:44:41,520 [Ringo] Brian came and said, uh... 1060 00:44:42,920 --> 00:44:45,480 "You know, they wanna give you these MBEs, so... 1061 00:44:46,640 --> 00:44:48,760 we're going to accept." [chuckles] 1062 00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:50,520 "Uh, what do you think, boys?" 1063 00:44:50,880 --> 00:44:53,560 And I think at first, you know, we were very impressed. 1064 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:54,960 We said, "Well, what does it mean?" 1065 00:44:55,040 --> 00:44:56,080 You know, they said, 1066 00:44:56,160 --> 00:44:57,560 "Well, you become a Member of the British Empire." 1067 00:44:57,640 --> 00:44:58,800 We said, "Well, okay, it's a great honor." 1068 00:44:58,880 --> 00:45:00,880 And we were... we were honored, genuinely. 1069 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:02,520 In days gone by, 1070 00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:04,600 they used to storm the royal palace gates 1071 00:45:04,680 --> 00:45:06,480 demanding bread or the right to vote 1072 00:45:06,560 --> 00:45:08,120 or some other civil right. 1073 00:45:08,200 --> 00:45:10,880 These days, it's all for the Beatles. 1074 00:45:10,960 --> 00:45:12,360 The mop-haired quartet 1075 00:45:12,440 --> 00:45:15,280 receive their MBEs from the Queen today... 1076 00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:17,240 their Members of the British Empire. 1077 00:45:17,320 --> 00:45:20,600 -[♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing] -♪ Ooh, I need your love, babe ♪ 1078 00:45:20,680 --> 00:45:22,880 ♪ Guess you know it's true ♪ 1079 00:45:24,320 --> 00:45:27,240 ♪ Hope you need my love, babe ♪ 1080 00:45:27,560 --> 00:45:30,000 ♪ Just like I need you ♪ 1081 00:45:31,040 --> 00:45:34,240 ♪ Hold me, love me ♪ 1082 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:37,760 ♪ Hold me, love me ♪ 1083 00:45:37,840 --> 00:45:41,360 ♪ I ain't got nothing but love, babe ♪ 1084 00:45:41,840 --> 00:45:43,760 ♪ Eight days a week… ♪ 1085 00:45:43,840 --> 00:45:45,040 [crowd cheering] 1086 00:45:45,120 --> 00:45:47,760 [Ringo] I thought it was really thrilling that, uh... 1087 00:45:48,720 --> 00:45:50,320 you know, "We're gonna meet the Queen, 1088 00:45:50,400 --> 00:45:51,960 they're gonna give us a badge." 1089 00:45:52,040 --> 00:45:53,760 I thought, "Yeah, this is cool." 1090 00:45:54,520 --> 00:45:55,560 [Paul] It was good fun. 1091 00:45:55,640 --> 00:45:58,720 We ended up at the palace, it was quite strange. 1092 00:45:58,800 --> 00:46:01,520 And some sort of equerry to the Queen, 1093 00:46:01,600 --> 00:46:02,720 a guardsman, you know, 1094 00:46:02,800 --> 00:46:05,680 took us to one side in this little side room 1095 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,160 and sort of showed us how... what we had to do. 1096 00:46:08,240 --> 00:46:10,480 You know, you have to approach Her Majesty like this, 1097 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:12,480 -and never turn your back on her. -[♪ music concludes] 1098 00:46:12,960 --> 00:46:18,320 The other part I remember was, um, Paul and I went up together. 1099 00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:23,960 And first of all, she said... she felt I'd started the band. 1100 00:46:24,040 --> 00:46:26,520 [chuckles] I said, "No, I was the last to join." 1101 00:46:27,280 --> 00:46:28,600 And, um... 1102 00:46:30,360 --> 00:46:32,880 and she said, "Well, how long have you been together?" 1103 00:46:32,960 --> 00:46:35,640 And without a blink, both Paul and I said... 1104 00:46:35,960 --> 00:46:40,920 ♪ We've been together now... ♪ ♪ ...for 40 years ♪ [laughs] 1105 00:46:41,000 --> 00:46:42,320 And she just sort of... 1106 00:46:42,960 --> 00:46:44,960 She had this, like, strange look on her face. 1107 00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:46,960 Like... [chuckles] ...she wanted to, like, 1108 00:46:47,040 --> 00:46:50,200 I don't know, laugh, or what do they... 1109 00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,520 or, "Off with their heads!" 1110 00:46:52,200 --> 00:46:53,640 [interviewer] John, had you met the Queen before? 1111 00:46:53,720 --> 00:46:54,960 Uh, no, first time. 1112 00:46:55,040 --> 00:46:56,600 [interviewer] What did she think of you in the flesh? 1113 00:46:56,680 --> 00:46:57,720 Did she tell you? 1114 00:46:57,800 --> 00:46:59,560 No, she's not gonna say either way, you know, 1115 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,080 but she seemed pleasant enough to us, you know... 1116 00:47:02,160 --> 00:47:03,560 -[interviewer] Mm-hmm. -...made us relaxed. 1117 00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:07,040 We were standing in the line, waiting to go through. 1118 00:47:07,120 --> 00:47:09,680 It was an enormous line, you know, hundreds of people, 1119 00:47:09,760 --> 00:47:11,840 and we'd been grilled by the guardsman saying, 1120 00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,280 "This is what you do when you get up there." 1121 00:47:14,360 --> 00:47:19,480 And then we were so nervous that we went to the toilet. 1122 00:47:19,880 --> 00:47:22,320 And in the toilet, we smoked a cigarette, 1123 00:47:22,600 --> 00:47:24,760 'cause we were all smokers in those days. 1124 00:47:25,440 --> 00:47:26,920 But years later... 1125 00:47:28,160 --> 00:47:31,280 I'm sure, John, thinking back and remembering, 1126 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:33,520 "Oh, yes, we went in the toilet and smoked," 1127 00:47:33,960 --> 00:47:36,800 and it turned into a reefer, because, you know, 1128 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,000 what could be the worst thing you could do 1129 00:47:39,080 --> 00:47:41,720 before you meet the Queen, is smoke a reefer. 1130 00:47:41,800 --> 00:47:43,000 But we never. 1131 00:47:43,560 --> 00:47:45,280 I was too stoned to remember. 1132 00:47:46,400 --> 00:47:47,440 I don't know. 1133 00:47:47,800 --> 00:47:50,600 -[♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing] -♪ Eight days a week ♪ 1134 00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,160 ♪ I love you ♪ 1135 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,560 ♪ Eight days a week ♪ 1136 00:47:58,080 --> 00:48:01,640 -♪ Is not enough to show I care ♪ -[♪ music concludes] 1137 00:48:01,720 --> 00:48:05,240 I can't really remember any sort of Daily Mirror reaction, 1138 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:06,840 "How dare they!" A lot of... [hesitates] 1139 00:48:06,920 --> 00:48:07,920 ...a lot of the army, 1140 00:48:08,000 --> 00:48:10,440 that... that was the only other reaction, 1141 00:48:10,560 --> 00:48:13,640 was, uh, soldiers sent theirs back. 1142 00:48:13,960 --> 00:48:16,200 This is a form of protest to the Queen 1143 00:48:16,320 --> 00:48:19,680 because this Order is being debased by everybody... 1144 00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,520 in giving this to, um, uh, 1145 00:48:21,600 --> 00:48:23,160 people who are not deserving of it. 1146 00:48:23,720 --> 00:48:24,880 Well, I... I think the Beatles 1147 00:48:24,960 --> 00:48:26,360 have been adequately rewarded already. 1148 00:48:26,440 --> 00:48:28,240 I think they've got a tremendous amount of money for what they've done. 1149 00:48:28,680 --> 00:48:31,360 If I had the MBE, 1150 00:48:31,880 --> 00:48:34,520 I think I should be slightly put out at being placed 1151 00:48:34,600 --> 00:48:36,520 on the same level as a pop singer. 1152 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:38,920 I'm glad everyone's delighted. 1153 00:48:39,040 --> 00:48:41,320 And I think the MBE, anyway, is a bit of a joke. 1154 00:48:41,480 --> 00:48:43,240 Hundreds of people have got it in the past, 1155 00:48:43,320 --> 00:48:45,560 and I cannot see any reason why the Beatles shouldn't have it. 1156 00:48:45,640 --> 00:48:49,400 To me, they're young, vital, and they give this country 1157 00:48:49,480 --> 00:48:52,560 a kick and a lift, and, my God, we need it. 1158 00:48:52,800 --> 00:48:54,720 How do you feel, John, about having the MBE? 1159 00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:56,080 I feel great, you know. 1160 00:48:56,160 --> 00:48:57,840 [hesitates] We're honored. [chuckles] 1161 00:48:57,920 --> 00:48:58,920 [interviewer] What did your wife say 1162 00:48:59,000 --> 00:49:00,720 -when she knew you had it? -[John] She said, "Oh!" 1163 00:49:00,800 --> 00:49:02,200 'Cause she didn't have a clue what... 1164 00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:04,560 really what it was either, but she's pleased, you know. 1165 00:49:04,640 --> 00:49:06,680 I tried to get her one, but she couldn't... 1166 00:49:06,800 --> 00:49:08,160 [everyone chuckles] 1167 00:49:08,680 --> 00:49:11,040 After all we did for Great Britain, 1168 00:49:11,640 --> 00:49:16,680 selling all that corduroy and making it swing, 1169 00:49:17,160 --> 00:49:20,040 and they just gave us that bloody old leather medal 1170 00:49:20,120 --> 00:49:22,360 with wooden string through it. 1171 00:49:22,440 --> 00:49:24,680 [chuckles] 1172 00:49:24,760 --> 00:49:28,080 -[♪ "Eight Days A Week" playing] -♪ Hold me, love me ♪ 1173 00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:31,720 ♪ I ain't got nothing but love, babe ♪ 1174 00:49:32,080 --> 00:49:34,360 ♪ Eight days a week ♪ 1175 00:49:35,560 --> 00:49:37,880 ♪ Eight days a week ♪ 1176 00:49:37,960 --> 00:49:39,760 [♪ music concludes] 1177 00:49:40,080 --> 00:49:44,240 -[heartbeats] -[siren wailing] 1178 00:49:49,120 --> 00:49:51,560 [Neil Aspinall] It was like this whole momentum was going, 1179 00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,480 you know, that had been going for years, 1180 00:49:53,560 --> 00:49:55,080 and it just kept rolling. 1181 00:49:55,160 --> 00:49:57,080 [crowd cheering] 1182 00:49:57,160 --> 00:49:58,480 [George] You know, that was in the days 1183 00:49:58,560 --> 00:50:02,880 when people were still playing the Finsbury Park Astoria. 1184 00:50:04,080 --> 00:50:06,040 [Ringo] Now we were playing stadiums. 1185 00:50:06,120 --> 00:50:08,120 [crowd cheering] 1186 00:50:08,200 --> 00:50:10,560 [George] ...um, to play at Shea Stadium. 1187 00:50:11,720 --> 00:50:13,000 [Paul] Shea Stadium. 1188 00:50:13,600 --> 00:50:14,960 [Ringo] Shea Stadium. 1189 00:50:15,600 --> 00:50:16,800 [Neil Aspinall] Shea Stadium. 1190 00:50:17,720 --> 00:50:19,080 [John] Shea Stadium. 1191 00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:21,040 Now, ladies and gentlemen... 1192 00:50:22,520 --> 00:50:28,680 honored by their country, decorated by their Queen, 1193 00:50:29,400 --> 00:50:33,840 and loved here in America, here are The Beatles! 1194 00:50:33,920 --> 00:50:37,520 [crowd cheering] 1195 00:50:40,320 --> 00:50:43,120 [♪ "If You’ve Got Trouble" playing] 1196 00:50:46,360 --> 00:50:47,680 ♪ If you've got trouble ♪ 1197 00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:50,480 ♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪ 1198 00:50:52,960 --> 00:50:54,240 ♪ You say you're worried ♪ 1199 00:50:54,320 --> 00:50:56,880 ♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪ 1200 00:50:57,320 --> 00:50:58,720 ♪ Oh, oh ♪ 1201 00:50:59,360 --> 00:51:01,720 ♪ You're quite content to be bad ♪ 1202 00:51:02,360 --> 00:51:05,640 ♪ With all the advantage you had over me ♪ 1203 00:51:05,800 --> 00:51:07,120 ♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪ 1204 00:51:07,200 --> 00:51:09,760 ♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪ 1205 00:51:11,960 --> 00:51:13,640 ♪ I don't think it's funny ♪ 1206 00:51:13,720 --> 00:51:16,520 ♪ When you ask for money for things ♪ 1207 00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:20,560 ♪ Especially when you're standing there ♪ 1208 00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:22,960 ♪ Wearing diamonds and rings ♪ 1209 00:51:23,040 --> 00:51:24,480 ♪ Oh, oh ♪ 1210 00:51:25,280 --> 00:51:27,680 ♪ You think I'm soft in the head ♪ 1211 00:51:28,200 --> 00:51:31,640 ♪ Well, try someone softer instead, pretty thing ♪ 1212 00:51:31,720 --> 00:51:33,240 ♪ It's not so funny ♪ 1213 00:51:33,320 --> 00:51:35,880 ♪ When you know what money can bring ♪ 1214 00:51:38,440 --> 00:51:40,840 ♪ You better leave me alone ♪ 1215 00:51:41,680 --> 00:51:44,800 ♪ I don't need a thing from you ♪ 1216 00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:47,320 ♪ You better take yourself home ♪ 1217 00:51:48,280 --> 00:51:51,400 ♪ Go and count a ring or two ♪ 1218 00:51:51,520 --> 00:51:52,960 ♪ If you've got trouble ♪ 1219 00:51:53,040 --> 00:51:55,560 ♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪ 1220 00:51:58,040 --> 00:51:59,520 ♪ You say you're worried ♪ 1221 00:51:59,600 --> 00:52:02,160 ♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪ 1222 00:52:04,720 --> 00:52:07,200 ♪ You're quite content to be bad ♪ 1223 00:52:07,960 --> 00:52:11,320 ♪ With all the advantage you had over me ♪ 1224 00:52:11,440 --> 00:52:12,800 ♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪ 1225 00:52:12,880 --> 00:52:15,520 ♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪ 1226 00:52:15,800 --> 00:52:18,040 ♪ Ah, rock on! Anybody! ♪ 1227 00:52:37,840 --> 00:52:40,240 ♪ You better leave me alone ♪ 1228 00:52:41,160 --> 00:52:44,280 ♪ I don't need a thing from you ♪ 1229 00:52:44,720 --> 00:52:46,760 ♪ You better take yourself home ♪ 1230 00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,040 ♪ Go and count a ring or two ♪ 1231 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:52,520 ♪ If you've got trouble ♪ 1232 00:52:52,600 --> 00:52:55,280 ♪ Then you've got less trouble than me ♪ 1233 00:52:57,720 --> 00:52:59,320 ♪ You say you're worried ♪ 1234 00:52:59,400 --> 00:53:02,040 ♪ You can't be as worried as me ♪ 1235 00:53:02,280 --> 00:53:03,800 ♪ Oh, oh ♪ 1236 00:53:04,400 --> 00:53:07,000 ♪ You're quite content to be bad ♪ 1237 00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:10,960 ♪ With all the advantage you had over me ♪ 1238 00:53:11,040 --> 00:53:12,680 ♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪ 1239 00:53:12,800 --> 00:53:15,480 ♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪ 1240 00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:19,320 ♪ Just 'cause you're troubled ♪ 1241 00:53:19,400 --> 00:53:22,160 ♪ Then don't bring your troubles to me ♪ 1242 00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:27,840 [♪ music concludes] 98096