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Ringo!
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Wait till we get on there
and it dies a death.
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Thank you.
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You all right, George?
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Something's going on with these big boots.
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I'm going on in Dougie's pants,
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so when I bend down,
I hope they don't just split open.
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You need a light?
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Paul's all right, he's got his jacket on.
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Anyone have a towel? Excuse me.
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- Don't be nervous, John.
- I'm not, Macca.
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Cases are still within the door.
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I get something in me head,
and all the walls of Rome couldn't stop me.
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All right, pickled onion.
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I remember so vividly
showing up at a show,
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and you'd be in your ordinary clothes,
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and then you'd take out
of your little suitcase
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your suit, and your shirt,
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and put 'em on,
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and then finally your Beatle boots.
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And you'd stand up.
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And you just looked at each other like,
"Yeah, there we are."
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One, two.
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# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
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# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
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# You think you've lost your love
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# Well, I saw her yesterday
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# It's you she's thinking of
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# And she told me what to say
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# She says she loves you
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# And you know that can't be bad
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# She loves you
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# And you know you should be glad
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# She said you hurt her so
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# She almost lost her mind
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# Now she says she knows
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# You're not the hurting kind
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# Because she loves you
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# And you know that can't be bad
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# She loves you
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# And you know you should be glad
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# Ooh...
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# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
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# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah... #
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'Yeah, yeah, yeah,
those are The Beatles, those are,
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'and this is Beatleland,
formerly known as Britain,
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'where an epidemic called Beatlemania
has seized the teenage population.'
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'Such confusion here at London airport.
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'Hundreds and hundreds
of young Beatle fans.'
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The younger generation is going to hell!
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Just gorgeous.
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- They're what?
- They're gorgeous.
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It's their haircuts, and the clothes,
they're settin' a new fashion.
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The way they sing, their clothes, their hair.
They sound different.
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But they're confident, they're natural.
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They sort of represent the teenage people.
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# Be glad
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# Yeah, yeah, yeah
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# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #
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By the end, it became quite complicated.
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But at the beginning,
things were really simple.
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Thank you very much everybody!
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- Thank you, yeah.
- Thank you very much.
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A lot of people thought
we were an overnight sensation.
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We weren't.
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People didn't realise
we'd had all this development.
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They just saw these four things
that looked alike with this haircut,
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and they knew how to play,
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and they were a bit of a laugh,
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you know, 'cause that's what we'd
been doing all those years previously.
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I had a group.
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I was the singer and the leader.
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I met Paul and said,
"Do you want to join me band", you know?
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And then George joined.
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We were great live performers then.
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I don't think anybody in the world
ever saw us outside of Liverpool
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and a few places where we travelled to,
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because that's when we had to perform
live to a small audience in a dance hall,
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we had to hold them.
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We were just playing, all the time.
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Then we went out to Hamburg,
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and that was a real slog.
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We were playing,
sometimes eight hours a day.
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I was right in the middle
of the naughtiest city in the world,
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at 17 years old.
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It was kind of exciting.
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I was with Rory Storm.
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We were like the top band in Liverpool,
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and for some reason, this guy in Hamburg
decided to come to Liverpool
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and take all the bands to Germany to play.
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We went to see these punks,
and that was it.
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I still remember that moment,
the first time Ringo played with us.
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Bang, he kicks in and it's like...
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And it was an oh, my God moment,
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we're like... I remember looking,
and we're all looking at each other, like,
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"Yeah, this is it."
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I'm getting very emotional.
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Once we got Ringo, we started to do better
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and sort of do it professionally.
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You know, for me, I'm an only child,
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I felt like I suddenly had three brothers.
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We just wanted to play.
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Playing was the most important thing.
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Hamburg was a bit messy, you know,
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I mean, to sleep
all huddled together in one room.
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You know, no bathroom or anything,
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but then we'd had practice, because
we didn't have a bathroom at home.
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We used to have this saying that
I used to chant and they would answer,
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when they were depressed, you know,
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and thinking the group was going nowhere,
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and this is a shitty deal,
and we're in a shitty dressing room.
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I say, "Where are we going, fellows?"
And they'd go:
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To the top, Johnny.
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And I'd say, where's that, fellows?
And they'd say:
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To the toppermost
of the poppermost, Johnny.
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And I'd say, "Right!"
And we'd all sort of cheer up.
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We were always kinda,
you know, a little nervous
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before each step we went up the ladder.
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But we didn't realise what was to come.
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# Last night
I said these words to my girl... #
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'The Beatles.
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'In one meteoric year, they've led the way
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'from the centres of Liverpool
to the national limelight.'
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Do you have any fears
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that your public eventually
will move on to a new favourite?
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It's stupid
to worry about things like that.
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It's not worth missing your sleep for, is it?
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- No.
- No.
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- What do you think?
- It could, it could happen tomorrow
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and we could have quite a run.
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I was living in Sweden,
and The Beatles came to Sweden.
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I remember I went day after day
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and stood outside the hotel
at the end of school.
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And I just remember
seeing their figures on the balcony.
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Once a day, The Beatles
would come out and wave.
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Hello, my name's Paul McCartney
and I play bass guitar.
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Hello, people there,
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I'm George Harrison
and I play solo guitar, yeah.
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This is Ringo Starr and I play drums.
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And this is John Lennon,
and I play better guitar.
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They were like a gang,
do you know what I mean?
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They each had their little characteristic.
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I mean, John was surprisingly fearless.
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Paul was surprisingly cute.
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Ringo was cheeky and irresistible.
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And George was the one
that my sister was in love with.
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Now, you're tremendously lively
and full of zing on the stage,
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how difficult is it for you
to keep up this zest?
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Well, we do the zest we can.
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I've spent my whole career, in a way,
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trying to recapture in things that I write,
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the hilarity of four friends,
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one drink down, age 19,
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laughing at their jokes and all the
new stuff that they find really funny.
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The Beatles were kind of the dream
of how you might be with your friends
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as you went through life.
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All screaming, screaming,
that's the man of the year,
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and you say, "Why do they scream?"
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- I don't know.
- No.
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I couldn't tell you.
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If somebody scores a goal,
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there's a louder cheer
from all the people,
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so if we shake our heads,
it's the equivalent of scoring a goal,
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and that's when the screams are loudest.
Do you see what I mean?
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Yes, yes I do understand.
You do that and they scream.
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# Ah...
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# Ah...
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- # Well, shake it up, baby, now
- # Shake it up, baby
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- # Twist and shout
- # Twist and shout
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# Come on, come on,
come on, come on, baby, now
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# Come on, baby
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# Come on and work it on out
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# Work it on out
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- # Well, you twisty little girl
- # Twisty little girl
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- # You know you twist so fine
- # Twist so fine
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- # Come on and twist a little closer now
- # Twist a little closer
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- # And let me know that you're mine
- # Let me know you're mine
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# Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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# Shake it up, baby
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# Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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# Shake it up, baby
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# Well, shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby, now
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# Shake it up, baby... ooh!
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# Ah...
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# Yeah #
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'This is the BBC Home Service.
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'Here is the news read by Frank Phillips.
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'Thousands of teenagers who had been
waiting for more than 12 hours in Liverpool
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'to book for a Beatle show
were disappointed.
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'At one time,
the queue stretched for over a mile
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'and the police had to
seal off side streets to traffic.
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'Ambulance men dealt with
more than a hundred casualties,
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'most of them suffering
from exposure to the rain.
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'When the tickets ran out,
many young girls burst into tears.
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'More rain is forecast
for most of Scotland...'
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'Hello, London, this is Leonard Parkin
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'calling Radio News Reel from Washington.
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'President Kennedy
and Governor John Connally
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'were shot today from an ambush
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'as President Kennedy's motorcade
Ieft the centre of Dallas
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'where the President
was on a speaking tour.'
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It was disturbing for us.
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It was a mixture of all these
sort of strange things.
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Where the world was at.
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It was scary.
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But in all truthfulness,
we were more in our own heads.
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You know, being in a band.
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You know, we were lads.
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It was like, this is our journey,
and things are being put in place.
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Outside of our consciousness.
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Even the first trip to America.
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There was no plan. You could not plan it.
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I'd been very fussy about America.
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I'd said, "We can't go to America,
and come back having failed.
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"If we ever get a number one there,
then we can really go in,
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"and you know, we'll be kings!"
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'So Marsha Albert
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'has the honour of introducing
something brand new,
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'an exclusive here at WWDC.
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'Marsha, the microphone here
on the Carroll James Show is yours.'
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'Ladies and gentlemen, for the
first time on the air in the United States,
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'here are The Beatles singing,
I Want to Hold Your Hand. '
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# Oh, yeah, I
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# Tell you something
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# I think you'll understand
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# When I... #
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I remember, we were in Paris,
playing at the Olympia.
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# I want to hold your hand... #
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A telegram came through and said,
"Congratulations, boys,
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"number one in America,
Hold YourHand." It was like, Ah!
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We just jumped on each other's backs,
ran around
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and just partied round and round
this little room for hours,
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just screaming.
234
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It was like visas, passports,
America, here we come!
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'The Beatles are on their way to America.
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'Come back, Ringo, come back all,
George and John, and come back, Paul.'
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# It's such a feeling that, my love... #
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When we came, I know this for myself,
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and I know because
we talked to each other,
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we were in America
before the plane landed.
241
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I could feel New York.
242
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It was an incredible sensation,
243
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it was like "Come on down, boys."
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'There they are! It's just wild here.
245
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'The four Beatles have left the airplane!
246
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'They're standing on the airway.
247
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'There's that fabulous hairdo.
248
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'And one of them is waving his fingers.
249
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'Oh, look at him wiggle!
Look at him wiggle!
250
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'Look at him wiggle!'
251
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We all knew America, all of us, you know?
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I mean, through all those movies.
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Whether it was Disneyland or Doris Day
and Rock Hudson, or whatever,
254
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you know, James Dean, Marilyn.
Everything was American.
255
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'Apparently they're gonna make
a concerted effort
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'to get through into the building,
257
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'where, in just a few moments,
a scheduled press conference will begin.'
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America's always seen as the mother lode
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for British performers,
maybe for any performer in the world.
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What about the reports
261
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that you guys are nothing but
a bunch of British Elvis Presleys?
262
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It's not true, it's not true.
263
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What that is,
is what any comedian would want to do.
264
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The trick of dealing with heckles
265
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is to say the first thing
that comes into your brain,
266
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and they'd already got to that place.
267
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And they could all do it.
268
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I got a question here.
You hope to get a haircut at all?
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- No.
- Nope, no thanks.
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I had one yesterday.
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And that's no lie, it's true.
272
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The Beatles were cheeky.
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It's kind of what every kid wants to be,
a lot of adults want to be,
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being able to talk back to people
who are telling you what to do.
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They were cheeky, and I think
people in the world liked that.
276
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It's not aggressive, it's not nasty.
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It's just brazen.
278
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Why does your music excite them so much?
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We don't know really.
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If we knew, we'd form another group
and be managers.
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And now, here he is, Ed Sullivan!
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Thank you very much.
283
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Now, yesterday and today our theatre's
been jammed with newspapermen
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and hundreds of photographers
from all over the nation,
285
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and these veterans agree with me
that the city
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never has witnessed the excitement
stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool
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who call themselves The Beatles.
288
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Now tonight, you're gonna twice
be entertained by them.
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Right now, and again
in the second half of our show.
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Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles!
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One, two, three, four!
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# Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
293
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# Tomorrow I'll miss you
294
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# Remember I'll always be true
295
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# And then while I'm away
296
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# I'll write home every day
297
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# And I'll send all my loving to you... #
298
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We watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday night,
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my brother, my mum and I.
300
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It wasn't even a question,
it was just, that's what we'd do.
301
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And man, I had never seen anybody
that looked like them.
302
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# Close your eyes and I'll kiss you
303
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# Tomorrow I'll miss you
304
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# Remember I'll always be true... #
305
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It was like a revelation.
306
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And when you're a little kid, you don't know
it's a revelation, but it was like...
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the whole world lit up.
308
00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:24,381
Suddenly I felt like
I could be friends with them.
309
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And I'm black, you know?
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# All my loving
311
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# Ooh, all my loving
312
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# I will send to you #
313
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People would say to me,
314
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"You think you want to be white?
You like those guys?"
315
00:17:49,652 --> 00:17:53,407
It was like, I never thought of them
really as white guys.
316
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They were The Beatles.
317
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They were colourless, you know?
318
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And they were fucking amazing.
319
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The Beatles gave me this idea
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that everybody was welcome.
321
00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:12,216
If you weren't the hippest kid
in the neighbourhood,
322
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it didn't matter,
because you could be a Beatle fan,
323
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and I liked that.
324
00:18:17,513 --> 00:18:20,642
And that sort of carried me
into these older days
325
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where it's like, I am my own person.
326
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I can look the way I want,
I can be the way I want,
327
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and it's OK.
328
00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:33,321
And I got that specifically from them.
329
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'Fresh after their appearance
on the Ed Sullivan Show,
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'where over half the country was watching,
331
00:18:38,659 --> 00:18:41,503
'the four English musical stars
with their pudding-bowl haircuts
332
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'were mobbed by about
4,000 shrieking teenagers
333
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'when they got to the Plaza Hotel.'
334
00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:48,962
We had the whole floor in the Plaza.
335
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- It's been press, no press.
- No press, you fool.
336
00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:56,014
And the four of us
ended up in the bathroom,
337
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just to get a break
from the incredible pressure.
338
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No, let me on it. Let me on it.
339
00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:03,484
No! Me!
340
00:19:03,601 --> 00:19:05,820
No! Me! Me!
341
00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:07,984
- Television! Me!
- It's me!
342
00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:09,231
- You!
- It's me.
343
00:19:09,357 --> 00:19:10,404
- No, you.
- No, it's me.
344
00:19:10,524 --> 00:19:12,401
- After you, sir.
- Cut.
345
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But we loved it.
346
00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:18,582
To pick up a small transistor radio -
it was the first time in New York -
347
00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:20,417
and hear you coming out the radio...
348
00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:22,286
Ah! It was mind blowing.
349
00:19:22,411 --> 00:19:26,507
'This is John Lennon of The Beatles
on 1010 WIMS.'
350
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'Now we just want to tell
everybody this was The Beatles station!
351
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'They're takin' over,
they're telling us what to play.'
352
00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:33,255
Hello?
353
00:19:33,381 --> 00:19:35,850
'Yes, I'm just calling
for the manager of The Beatles.
354
00:19:35,966 --> 00:19:37,639
'May we have his name, please?'
355
00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,604
Their manager's name is Mr Brian Epstein.
356
00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:47,778
Looking back now, it was Brian Epstein.
357
00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:49,613
He was the guy who got us famous, really.
358
00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:58,743
Brian was class.
359
00:19:59,323 --> 00:20:00,449
That was what Brian was.
360
00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,497
He was like Liverpool class.
361
00:20:05,496 --> 00:20:07,965
Well, Brian was 27.
362
00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:10,505
He was a grown-up. He had a car.
363
00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:15,135
The Beatles' parents were Liverpudlian,
364
00:20:15,256 --> 00:20:18,726
working-class people
that had been through a war.
365
00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:21,729
Our playgrounds were bomb sites.
366
00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:26,192
His parents ran a record shop.
367
00:20:26,308 --> 00:20:29,687
Well, it seems a funny sort of
world for a young man like you to be in.
368
00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:32,986
How did you get into it?
How did you start?
369
00:20:33,107 --> 00:20:34,529
I heard about them
370
00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:38,905
through a lad
who was asking for a record by them
371
00:20:39,029 --> 00:20:40,155
in one of my stores,
372
00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:44,502
or my family's stores, in October, 1961.
373
00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:49,424
Growin' up, my mum
always wanted me to talk proper.
374
00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,087
You know, all of us, really.
375
00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:53,381
You know, I could talk
like I'm from Liverpool.
376
00:20:53,502 --> 00:20:57,132
Fuck you, I'm tellin' you,
don't give me any hard time.
377
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,936
Whereas Brian was very
well-mannered, very well-spoken,
378
00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:04,146
so we felt we could trust him.
379
00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:06,812
I went down to see them
in Liverpool at The Cavern Club.
380
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:09,560
The Beatles sing Some Other Guy.
381
00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,779
They were fresh and they were honest.
382
00:21:19,904 --> 00:21:23,750
And they had what I thought
was a sort of presence.
383
00:21:23,866 --> 00:21:27,587
And this is a terrible, vague term,
"star quality."
384
00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,546
Whatever that is, they had it.
385
00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:33,884
# Some other guy now
386
00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,471
# Has taken my love away from me, oh now
387
00:21:37,588 --> 00:21:39,056
# Some other guy now
388
00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:41,722
# Has taken away my sweet desire... #
389
00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:45,437
He was looking at our stage presence.
390
00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:50,734
In the early days,
it was clear that he had a vision of us
391
00:21:50,851 --> 00:21:54,105
that was beyond the vision
we had of ourselves.
392
00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:04,039
At that stage, they were
playing around the clubs in Liverpool,
393
00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:05,999
rather scruffily dressed.
394
00:22:06,116 --> 00:22:08,039
Black leather jackets and jeans,
395
00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,039
and a rather untidy stage presentation.
396
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,791
But having great fun.
397
00:22:13,916 --> 00:22:16,840
But I don't think that they would have
bothered to do anything about it,
398
00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:22,058
because young, inexperienced people
are not really very good
399
00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:26,395
at presenting themselves properly
in the right sort of quarters.
400
00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:30,600
He took us to a tailor, Beno Dorn,
401
00:22:30,724 --> 00:22:34,524
and we went to this guy,
and he made us up suits, you know.
402
00:22:37,439 --> 00:22:40,033
I'm not sure exactly what time
we'll be back from Washington.
403
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:42,778
We're going to Washington tomorrow
and then coming back on Wednesday.
404
00:22:43,404 --> 00:22:44,656
Good night.
405
00:22:45,072 --> 00:22:47,746
Brian kept us together as a team.
406
00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,883
What place do you think
this story of The Beatles is gonna have
407
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,968
in the history of Western culture?
408
00:22:58,627 --> 00:23:00,550
You must be kidding with that question.
409
00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:02,173
Culture? It's not culture.
410
00:23:02,298 --> 00:23:03,550
- What is it?
- It's a good laugh.
411
00:23:07,678 --> 00:23:08,895
This is Harold James.
412
00:23:09,013 --> 00:23:12,267
And now, from
the Washington D.C. Coliseum,
413
00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:15,361
the world's most exciting group,
414
00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:18,902
Capitol Recording stars, The Beatles.
415
00:23:21,984 --> 00:23:23,577
You know, the suits.
416
00:23:23,694 --> 00:23:25,742
It's the simplest of ideas.
417
00:23:25,863 --> 00:23:28,742
It suddenly made us one person.
418
00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,452
A four-headed monster.
419
00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:38,963
Hello.
420
00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:01,065
Thank you.
421
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,704
Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody,
422
00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:10,450
and good evening, how do you do?
423
00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,995
We would like to sing a song
424
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,714
which we recorded on an LP that we made.
425
00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:20,801
That's English for "album".
An album that we made.
426
00:24:20,918 --> 00:24:22,920
And we'd like you, if you would,
427
00:24:23,045 --> 00:24:25,514
to sort of join in and clap your hands,
you know,
428
00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:27,133
and stamp your feet.
429
00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:32,805
The song's called I Saw Her Standing There.
430
00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:34,352
One, two, three, four.
431
00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:41,647
# Well, she was just seventeen
432
00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:44,362
# You know what I mean
433
00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:49,823
# And the way looked
was way beyond compare
434
00:24:51,448 --> 00:24:55,453
# How could I dance with another
435
00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:59,957
# Whoo... Since I saw her standing there
436
00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:05,262
# Well, she looked at me
437
00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:08,053
# And I, I could see
438
00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:09,925
# That before too long
439
00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:12,644
# I'd fall in love with her
440
00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:18,518
# She wouldn't dance with another
441
00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:23,022
# Whoo... When I saw her standing there
442
00:25:25,482 --> 00:25:28,156
# Well, my heart went boom
443
00:25:28,277 --> 00:25:30,905
# When I crossed that room
444
00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:37,413
# And I held her hand in mine
445
00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:42,967
# Whoa, we danced through the night
446
00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,087
# And we held each other tight
447
00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:51,217
# And before too long
I fell in love with her
448
00:25:52,468 --> 00:25:56,018
# Now, I'll never dance with another
449
00:25:56,847 --> 00:26:01,728
# Whoo... Since I saw her standing there
450
00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:03,069
# Whoa
451
00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:29,175
# We danced through the night
452
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,599
# And we held each other tight
453
00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:37,142
# And before too long
I fell in love with her
454
00:26:38,639 --> 00:26:43,190
# Now, I'll never dance with another
455
00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:47,816
# Whoo... Since I saw her standing there
456
00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:53,328
# Well, since I saw her standing there
457
00:26:55,697 --> 00:27:00,043
# Well, since I saw her standing there #
458
00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:28,905
Which one are you?
459
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:30,615
- Eric.
- Eric?
460
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,578
It's not for me, it's for Paul.
461
00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:37,281
I'm doing this...
462
00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:41,577
- Eric, here is the American public.
- I'm John.
463
00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,500
- You're John?
- It was only a joke.
464
00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:45,543
Yes, well, John,
here is the American public.
465
00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:47,291
40 million American viewers...
466
00:27:47,416 --> 00:27:49,589
- It only looks like one man to me.
- ...staring you right in the face.
467
00:27:49,710 --> 00:27:50,711
Oh, it's the cameraman.
468
00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:52,713
What is your impression
of the American public?
469
00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:55,182
- You've been here for a while now.
- They're the wildest.
470
00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:56,721
- Why?
- I don't know.
471
00:27:56,842 --> 00:28:00,437
Tonight was, you know,
marvellous, ridiculous.
472
00:28:00,554 --> 00:28:02,602
All those 8,000 people
all shouting at once,
473
00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:04,646
and we were trying to shout louder
than them with microphones,
474
00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:05,938
and we still couldn't beat them.
475
00:28:06,059 --> 00:28:08,403
Was America something like
what you thought it would be like?
476
00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,238
No, nothing like it.
We thought it'd be much quieter.
477
00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:12,699
We thought it, you know,
we'd have to grow on everybody.
478
00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:15,239
But everybody seems to know us all,
you know,
479
00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,408
as if we've been here for years.
It's great.
480
00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,577
I love The Beatles for them
and I'll always love 'em,
481
00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:22,747
even when I'm 105
and an old grandmother, I'll love 'em.
482
00:28:22,868 --> 00:28:24,791
And Paul McCartney, if you are listening,
483
00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:27,916
Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you
with all her heart.
484
00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:30,967
It was a romantic thing for us,
485
00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:34,338
being in America,
playing to our American fans.
486
00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:37,262
- Ringo has a sexy nose.
- A sexy nose?
487
00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:39,225
George has got sexy eyelashes.
488
00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:41,391
- Who has?
- George. He's got sexy eyelashes.
489
00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:42,854
- Which one is George?
- Sexy eyelashes.
490
00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:45,019
- That one.
- That one, he's beautiful.
491
00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:47,063
He's got sexy eyelashes.
492
00:28:47,768 --> 00:28:52,365
The very earliest records
were all pleas to the fans.
493
00:28:52,481 --> 00:28:54,984
And it was all personal article.
494
00:28:55,108 --> 00:28:57,361
In the early days,
we didn't count lyrics at all,
495
00:28:57,486 --> 00:29:01,116
you know, as long as it had
some vague theme.
496
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,119
She loves you, and he loves him,
and they love each other.
497
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,416
- # So, hold
- # Hold
498
00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:08,083
- # Me tight
- # Me tight
499
00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:11,800
- # Tonight
- # Tonight
500
00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:14,716
# It's you
501
00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:17,510
# You, you, you... #
502
00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,018
It's all direct. It was kind of conscious.
503
00:29:21,134 --> 00:29:23,887
We were actually appealing to girls.
504
00:29:24,012 --> 00:29:26,231
We were young boys
who were appealing to girls, you know,
505
00:29:26,348 --> 00:29:27,474
to get our fan base.
506
00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:30,481
# You... #
507
00:29:31,812 --> 00:29:32,859
In those days...
508
00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:37,742
- Go on.
- You yourselves,
509
00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:39,782
you know, you write very good songs.
510
00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:41,997
- Don't you?
- Oh, thank you. Thank you.
511
00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,913
- How do you write songs?
- Well, you know...
512
00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:46,626
We... it just depends.
513
00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:49,747
Sometimes we write them on old pianos
and anything that's lying round, you know.
514
00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,968
Normally we sit down
and try and bash one out, sort of thing.
515
00:29:54,084 --> 00:29:55,677
But then again, there's no formula,
516
00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:59,139
because he can come up with one
one day, completely finished,
517
00:29:59,256 --> 00:30:00,803
we still say we both wrote it then.
518
00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:06,514
# I got every reason on earth to be mad
519
00:30:08,390 --> 00:30:12,065
# Cos I just lost the only girl I had... #
520
00:30:12,853 --> 00:30:14,776
There's been a single every three months,
521
00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:18,617
and we'd have to be writing
literally in the hotel or in a van.
522
00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:21,328
We wrote on the road. Mainly me and John.
523
00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:25,370
George developed as a writer later
and became an unbelievable writer.
524
00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,117
But at the beginning,
it was mainly me and John.
525
00:30:27,743 --> 00:30:31,418
So we would be in a hotel room
with two twin beds,
526
00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:36,669
and he'd have his acoustic guitar,
I'd have mine, sit opposite each other,
527
00:30:36,793 --> 00:30:38,966
and because I was left-handed,
he was right-handed,
528
00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:40,259
it was like looking in a mirror.
529
00:30:41,089 --> 00:30:44,639
And we'd just start something
and ricochet off each other.
530
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,934
He'd do a line, I'd do a line.
And we'd just write it down.
531
00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:50,183
And when we were finished,
we didn't have a manuscript,
532
00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:52,560
but we had a sheet of paper
with the words,
533
00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:54,931
and we remembered the chords.
534
00:30:58,231 --> 00:31:00,654
That's number one in Cashbox
and Billboard.
535
00:31:01,276 --> 00:31:04,371
Yeah. You know, in New York,
three records,
536
00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:06,866
Please Please Me, She Loves You,
and I Want to Hold YourHand
537
00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:08,333
are all number one.
538
00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:11,662
All joined, yeah.
539
00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:15,508
Thanks. Well, we'll see you
in two weeks, I suppose.
540
00:31:20,921 --> 00:31:22,013
Yeah, in a minute.
541
00:31:22,130 --> 00:31:25,851
My relationship with John
was very close, musically,
542
00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:28,595
you know,
we looked after each other, really.
543
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,564
He was like someone you kinda
looked up to a little bit, you know.
544
00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:35,311
When I first met him,
I talked to people in my life,
545
00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:37,733
and they said, "What do you like to do?
What are your hobbies and stuff?"
546
00:31:37,854 --> 00:31:41,529
And I sort of said, "I like songwriting.
I've written a couple of songs."
547
00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:43,573
And they'd all go, "Oh, yeah? Great.
548
00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:45,491
"What did you think about the football?"
549
00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:48,161
And I'd go, "Oh, OK, nobody interested."
550
00:31:48,281 --> 00:31:51,251
When I said that to John,
he said, "Oh, so have I."
551
00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,747
I go, "Whoa, wait a minute.
Big connection here."
552
00:31:54,871 --> 00:31:57,465
I'd never met anyone who'd written songs.
553
00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,752
So that's how we started.
554
00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:04,344
I think it's something like just short of
300 songs John and I wrote together.
555
00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:07,308
# I think it's only fair
556
00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:10,430
# Pride can hurt you too
557
00:32:10,554 --> 00:32:12,932
# Apologise to her
558
00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:14,649
# Because she loves you
559
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:17,645
# And you know that can't be bad
560
00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:20,780
# Yes, she loves you
561
00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:23,992
# And you know you should be glad
562
00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,326
# Ooh...
563
00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:31,622
# She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
564
00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:35,541
# And with a love like that
you know you should be glad #
565
00:32:35,662 --> 00:32:38,040
My mother's father was from Liverpool.
566
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:42,590
There was that pride thing
that they were from Liverpool, you know.
567
00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,133
I'm nine years old.
568
00:32:44,629 --> 00:32:46,802
When your favourite group is The Beatles,
569
00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:48,800
you know, it is like supporting
the winning football team,
570
00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:50,973
because it's like
they just keep winning the cup.
571
00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:53,981
You'd wait all week
to hear the hit parade show
572
00:32:54,097 --> 00:32:56,395
so that you would hear,
for sure, The Beatles' songs,
573
00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:57,859
because they would get to number one.
574
00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,776
Top British vocal group,
top four records of the year,
575
00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:04,946
the world's leading vocal group,
The Beatles.
576
00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,460
# Can't buy me love
577
00:33:18,580 --> 00:33:20,127
# Love
578
00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:23,502
# Can't buy me love
579
00:33:23,627 --> 00:33:27,803
# I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend,
if it makes you feel all right
580
00:33:28,757 --> 00:33:32,603
# I'll get you anything, my friend,
if it makes you feel all right
581
00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,181
# Cos I don't care too much for money
582
00:33:36,306 --> 00:33:38,729
# Money can't buy me love... #
583
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:41,319
For some reason,
whatever we were putting out,
584
00:33:41,436 --> 00:33:44,110
they were loving, you know?
585
00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:48,077
And they loved us wherever we went.
I mean, it was a surprise to us, too.
586
00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,070
John, Paul, George, or Ringo?
587
00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:51,287
The Beatles!
588
00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:00,664
It was a different kind of fame,
589
00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:04,134
because we didn't have social media,
we didn't have satellite television,
590
00:34:04,251 --> 00:34:07,050
and yet the word would spread
that this group were coming.
591
00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,468
Once it was big in one country,
it got bigger in the next.
592
00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,261
Australia,
593
00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:17,230
there was more people
came to see us there than anywhere.
594
00:34:17,347 --> 00:34:20,191
I mean, it looked like,
I think the whole of Australia was there.
595
00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:23,862
'Along the nine-mile route
from Adelaide Airport to the city,
596
00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:27,199
'almost a quarter of a million people
lined the streets.'
597
00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:29,909
My picture of it now is...
598
00:34:30,026 --> 00:34:33,326
There was a ship, going to discover
the new world, you know?
599
00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:35,699
And The Beatles were in the crow's nest,
600
00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,077
and we just said, "Land ho!"
601
00:34:38,952 --> 00:34:42,547
# It's the second time
I've caught you talking to him
602
00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:45,918
# Do I have to tell you one more time,
I think it's a sin
603
00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:49,842
- # I'm gonna let you down
- # Let you down
604
00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:53,593
- # Leave you flat
- # Gonna let you down and leave you flat
605
00:34:53,717 --> 00:34:56,095
# Because I've told you before
606
00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,972
# Oh, you can't do that #
607
00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:00,815
And so we were all
on this ship in the '60s,
608
00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:04,607
not just Beatles but our movement,
our generation,
609
00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:06,947
and we went somewhere.
610
00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:11,910
And of course
the next most extraordinary thing
611
00:35:12,027 --> 00:35:15,748
is the fantasy version
of The Beatles from '64.
612
00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,491
You know, A Hard Day's Night.
613
00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:23,335
# It's been a hard day's night
614
00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:26,675
# And I've been working like a dog
615
00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:30,136
# It's been a hard day's night
616
00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,052
# I should be sleeping like a log... #
617
00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:35,392
You fancy yourselves
as actors then, do you?
618
00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:36,930
No, definitely not.
619
00:35:37,052 --> 00:35:38,804
But we enjoyed making the film,
620
00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:41,056
and especially with the director.
621
00:35:41,181 --> 00:35:44,230
The director was great, you see,
and it made it much easier for us.
622
00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:46,853
United Artists said,
623
00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:51,609
"You ought to be able to make a good,
quick, low-budget film with them,
624
00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:54,657
"as long as it's in the cinemas by July,
625
00:35:54,778 --> 00:35:58,999
"because we think they'll be probably
a spent force by the end of the summer."
626
00:35:59,658 --> 00:36:01,251
Give us a kiss.
627
00:36:01,368 --> 00:36:04,087
- I shall call the guard.
- Ah, but what?
628
00:36:04,204 --> 00:36:06,081
They don't take kindly to insults,
you know.
629
00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:11,345
The only thing that was apparent,
through the seven weeks of the shoot,
630
00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:13,634
is that sense of protection.
631
00:36:14,381 --> 00:36:16,600
Being protective when they had to be,
632
00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:19,765
supporting one another in a family way.
633
00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,856
# It's been a hard day's night... #
634
00:36:22,972 --> 00:36:25,771
One of the things about A Hard Day's Night
635
00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:27,565
and everything you heard about The Beatles
636
00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:29,063
is the lack of self-pity,
637
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,487
that we had a feeling they were adoring
what was happening to them,
638
00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:35,861
and therefore that made it like
a completely virtuous circle.
639
00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:39,865
Fans, Beatles, fun, excitement, music.
640
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:44,995
And of course, everybody in the world
could buy tickets to see them.
641
00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,627
What you're seeing is
642
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:55,722
the emergence
of this international teen culture.
643
00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:58,762
If you're 14 in 1964,
644
00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,511
who are you looking to for cues?
645
00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,809
Not your parents.
646
00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:10,980
Beatles hysteria is kind of a muscle flexing
of that generation, the Baby Boom.
647
00:37:11,104 --> 00:37:14,199
It's no accident you see all this kind of
youth culture coming out of that time,
648
00:37:14,315 --> 00:37:18,445
because quite literally the society
is dominated by teenagers.
649
00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:21,619
# You know I feel all right #
650
00:37:44,304 --> 00:37:47,899
# Gonna write a little letter,
mail it to my local DJ
651
00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:53,489
# It's a rockin' rhythm record
I want my jockey to play
652
00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:58,868
# Roll over Beethoven,
gotta hear it again today
653
00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:04,624
# You know my temperature's rising,
the jukebox blows a fuse
654
00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:09,496
# My heart beating rhythm
and my soul is a-singing the blues
655
00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:14,630
# Roll over Beethoven,
dig these rhythm and blues... #
656
00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:34,776
# Roll over Beethoven
657
00:38:34,896 --> 00:38:37,524
# Yeah, roll over Beethoven... #
658
00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:42,913
The first time we went to America,
it was just 10 days,
659
00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:45,578
so when we came back,
we knew they were waiting for us.
660
00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:53,874
Tell me, several people
on these radio programmes want to know,
661
00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:56,296
what do you plan to do
when the bubble bursts?
662
00:38:56,417 --> 00:38:58,135
Not sure, Fred.
663
00:38:58,628 --> 00:38:59,800
But we really want to know.
664
00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:02,344
We're gonna have a laugh.
665
00:39:02,465 --> 00:39:04,843
The biggest question in 1964 was,
666
00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:07,562
"When is the bubble gonna burst?"
667
00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,899
'WFUN South Miami.'
668
00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:13,067
I was 21 years old,
669
00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:17,906
news director of a station in Miami,
WFUN, Fun in the Sun Radio.
670
00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:19,865
'WFUN.'
671
00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,911
We got word that The Beatles
were gonna come to America,
672
00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:26,872
and I wrote a letter
asking for an interview with them,
673
00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:29,789
and I sent it to Brian Epstein,
their manager.
674
00:39:29,909 --> 00:39:33,379
I got this letter back
inviting me on the tour.
675
00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:38,425
And I said, "I'm not going.
676
00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,636
"We've got the war in Vietnam escalating,
the president just died,
677
00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:47,010
"Muhammad Ali is training
three blocks from our studio,
678
00:39:47,135 --> 00:39:49,012
"the Ford Mustang has been released,
679
00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:52,437
"it's one of the biggest news years
in the history of the world.
680
00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:56,607
"Why would I, a news guy,
want to travel with a band
681
00:39:56,728 --> 00:40:00,028
"that will be here in October
and gone in November?"
682
00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:02,150
Seconds out, round one.
683
00:40:02,901 --> 00:40:04,699
My bosses said, "You gotta go."
684
00:40:05,987 --> 00:40:09,332
My father pulled me aside
before I went on tour,
685
00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:10,996
and he said, "Watch your back.
686
00:40:11,117 --> 00:40:13,791
"These men are a menace to society."
687
00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:19,130
# It's been a hard day's night
688
00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:22,633
# And I've been working like a dog... #
689
00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:25,882
'This is Larry Kane,
on tour with The Beatles.
690
00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:29,432
'Let me give you a little description of
the dangers of being with The Beatles.
691
00:40:29,552 --> 00:40:31,554
'When we drove up to the stage door,
692
00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:34,398
'The Beatles
were almost crushed completely
693
00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:37,735
'by youngsters who amassed themselves
against the wall,
694
00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:39,820
'broke about 50 windows,
695
00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:44,569
'throwed rocks, jelly beans,
undershirts, sandals.
696
00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:46,444
'The situation was one of sheer havoc,
697
00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:49,118
'even though the police
did their best to stop it.'
698
00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:54,335
The first couple days,
there was a bewilderment.
699
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,125
There was a wondrousness.
700
00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:57,588
"Is this really happening to us?"
701
00:40:57,705 --> 00:41:01,005
'One girl stuck her hand through
the window and grabbed at my face.
702
00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:03,503
'I'm OK, don't worry, people,
I'm all right.'
703
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,136
Four cities later, in Vancouver,
British Columbia,
704
00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:10,931
7,000 kids rushed the stage.
705
00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:30,830
Thank you, folks.
Before we do the next song...
706
00:41:32,073 --> 00:41:34,326
Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen.
707
00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,953
The Beatles have come
a long way to do this show,
708
00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:39,627
and we'll have to cut it short
unless you move back,
709
00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:41,795
cos they're very worried
about the situation in the front.
710
00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,886
Back.
711
00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:48,473
240 kids wound up in the hospital.
712
00:41:48,589 --> 00:41:53,186
None of the police in any of these cities
were prepared for this.
713
00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:54,519
Nobody was prepared for this.
714
00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:56,389
Wouldn't you say, Derek,
715
00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:59,984
that police departments
don't realise how bad it is?
716
00:42:00,101 --> 00:42:01,353
I think that's true.
717
00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:03,775
They've all seen crowds before.
I mean, they all say,
718
00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:06,740
"We know our own people.
We know the police potential,
719
00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,405
"and we're going to be able to handle it."
720
00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:10,244
But what they've never seen
is a Beatle crowd.
721
00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:12,864
This is the biggest thing
that's ever happened.
722
00:42:12,989 --> 00:42:15,538
There's no question about it.
It's like nothing before.
723
00:42:15,658 --> 00:42:19,413
It's not like Presley, it's not like Sinatra,
it's not like the late President Kennedy.
724
00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:22,336
It's The Beatles,
and they are without precedent.
725
00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:24,917
Thank you.
726
00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:27,553
Thank you very much, everybody. Ta.
727
00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:28,842
It's wonderful, thank you.
728
00:42:30,089 --> 00:42:32,308
Um, singing a song
729
00:42:32,425 --> 00:42:35,395
from the first album that we ever made.
730
00:42:35,511 --> 00:42:40,062
A song which was originally recorded
by a group called The Shirelles.
731
00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:42,686
- Just a minute, checking.
- Yeah.
732
00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:43,857
Yeah.
733
00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,231
Singing a song called Boys. Ringo!
734
00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:56,491
# I been told when a boy kiss a girl
735
00:42:56,616 --> 00:42:59,290
# Take a trip around the world, hey, hey
736
00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:01,538
# Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop
737
00:43:01,662 --> 00:43:04,461
- # Hey, now
- # Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop
738
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,425
- # Hey, hey
- # Bop shuop
739
00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:08,465
# Whoa, she say you do
740
00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:10,213
# Bop shuop, yeah... #
741
00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:14,058
I was way in the back, way at the top,
742
00:43:14,175 --> 00:43:17,224
surrounded by lots of girls
743
00:43:17,345 --> 00:43:21,725
really crying real tears
and so beside themselves.
744
00:43:22,934 --> 00:43:25,778
I felt as much as a girl can feel.
745
00:43:25,895 --> 00:43:27,363
I was in love with John.
746
00:43:28,064 --> 00:43:31,534
I remember spending all day
putting my hair in beer cans
747
00:43:31,651 --> 00:43:33,949
to make sure it was straight,
cos I had curly hair.
748
00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,196
Picking out the dress.
749
00:43:35,321 --> 00:43:40,293
Because of course they would see me,
along with 15,000 girls.
750
00:43:40,409 --> 00:43:42,912
It was this sense of world music
751
00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:45,210
that we were all loving them,
all over the world.
752
00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:49,669
# My girl says when I kiss her lips... #
753
00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,422
This is Larry Kane on-board
the Beatle Bird, as I call it.
754
00:43:52,547 --> 00:43:54,345
I have with me George Harrison.
How ya doin', George?
755
00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:56,308
I'm very well, Larry. And how are you?
756
00:43:56,425 --> 00:43:58,473
- Fine, are you glad to be back in America?
- Yeah, it's great.
757
00:43:58,594 --> 00:44:01,814
This is Larry Kane with The Beatles,
flying across America.
758
00:44:01,931 --> 00:44:03,274
With me I have Ringo Starr.
759
00:44:03,391 --> 00:44:06,941
Right over Kansas, 23,000 feet in the air,
on our way to Cincinnati.
760
00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:08,813
They had a wild one yesterday.
761
00:44:08,938 --> 00:44:11,441
On this exciting 25-city,
coast-to-coast tour.
762
00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:13,068
Atlantic City, Philadelphia.
763
00:44:13,192 --> 00:44:15,286
Well, let's talk a little bit
about the crowds at Indianapolis.
764
00:44:15,403 --> 00:44:17,997
Back and forth, again.
The stage set for Milwaukee tonight.
765
00:44:18,114 --> 00:44:20,492
You can hear the buzz and excitement
here in the Chicago Amphitheater.
766
00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:21,708
Now Detroit, Michigan.
767
00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:24,124
The Beatles really shook up
the crowds in Toronto.
768
00:44:24,245 --> 00:44:25,497
In Montreal, Canada.
769
00:44:25,621 --> 00:44:28,090
Hi, this is Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.
770
00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:33,429
Let me explain to you the type of feeling
that you get after 15 performances,
771
00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:36,766
watching The Beatles in action
and watching the crowds.
772
00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:39,344
It's a chilling feeling inside,
773
00:44:39,468 --> 00:44:42,938
because you know you are experiencing
a phenomenon
774
00:44:43,055 --> 00:44:46,685
that is the only one of its kind
in the century thus far
775
00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:48,652
and that probably will go down in history
776
00:44:48,769 --> 00:44:54,026
as the greatest show business example
of music and admiration
777
00:44:54,150 --> 00:44:56,949
in many, many hundreds of years.
778
00:44:57,069 --> 00:44:58,867
# Ah... boys
779
00:44:58,988 --> 00:45:00,490
# Yeah, yeah, boys
780
00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:03,539
- # Don't you know I mean boys
- # Yeah, yeah, boys
781
00:45:03,659 --> 00:45:06,333
- # Talking about boys now
- # Yeah, yeah, boys
782
00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:09,458
- # Aah, ah!
- # Yeah, yeah, boys
783
00:45:09,582 --> 00:45:12,335
- # Talking about boys now
- # Yeah, yeah, boys
784
00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:14,713
# What a bundle of joy #
785
00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:19,801
Thank you!
786
00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,975
Remember, too, that in 1964
there were riots throughout the South
787
00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,227
because of the Civil Rights Movement.
788
00:45:30,811 --> 00:45:33,781
And you started to feel
a social change happening.
789
00:45:35,524 --> 00:45:38,323
'This is Larry Kane, and the big
question mark still is Jacksonville,
790
00:45:38,444 --> 00:45:40,947
'not knowing whether
they will be able to perform.'
791
00:45:41,072 --> 00:45:42,949
I'd received a report from my station
792
00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:46,044
that the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville
was gonna be segregated,
793
00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,709
so I mentioned it to them
in the interview.
794
00:45:48,829 --> 00:45:53,255
'What about this comment that I heard
about, uh... concerning racial integration
795
00:45:53,376 --> 00:45:55,470
'at the various performances?'
796
00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,805
'We don't like it if there's
any segregation or anything,
797
00:45:57,922 --> 00:45:59,674
'because it just seems mad to me.'
798
00:45:59,799 --> 00:46:02,803
And I could see Brian in the corner
of the room going like, "Oh, my God."
799
00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:04,679
'Well, you're gonna play
Jacksonville, Florida.
800
00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:07,102
'Do you anticipate any kind of difference
of that opinion?'
801
00:46:07,223 --> 00:46:10,477
'I don't know, really. You know,
it'd be a bit silly to segregate people,
802
00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:13,150
'cos, you know, I mean,
obviously it's stupid, you know.
803
00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:15,399
'You can't treat other human beings
like animals.'
804
00:46:15,523 --> 00:46:17,696
- 'That's the way we all feel.'
- PAUL: 'That's the way we all feel,
805
00:46:17,817 --> 00:46:19,490
'and a lot of people in England
feel that way, you know.
806
00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:22,238
'cos there's never any segregation
in concerts in England,
807
00:46:22,363 --> 00:46:24,957
'and in fact if there was,
we wouldn't play 'em, you know.'
808
00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:29,162
During that same summer,
809
00:46:29,287 --> 00:46:33,008
we had the three civil rights workers
in the South who were missing,
810
00:46:34,959 --> 00:46:36,176
and then found dead.
811
00:46:39,046 --> 00:46:43,347
I was 15, living in segregation.
812
00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:50,187
It was an apartheid that's probably difficult
for a lot of people to even picture.
813
00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:54,654
The only white person
I would even have contact with
814
00:46:54,770 --> 00:46:58,616
was a salesman who would come
into the community.
815
00:46:59,525 --> 00:47:02,369
I was ripe for something different, I think,
816
00:47:02,486 --> 00:47:06,241
by the time I heard that
The Beatles were coming to town.
817
00:47:08,784 --> 00:47:12,163
All of them, by the way, were
very emphatic about Jacksonville.
818
00:47:12,288 --> 00:47:16,714
They said if there was going to be
segregation of any kind, we're not going.
819
00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,128
We played to people, that's what we did.
820
00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:24,012
We didn't play to, like, those people,
or that people, you know what I mean?
821
00:47:24,133 --> 00:47:25,601
We just played to people.
822
00:47:27,219 --> 00:47:31,599
It was amazing that the four
of them, young men, seeing the world,
823
00:47:31,724 --> 00:47:37,276
started to act up and blow back
on this very, very hot and sensitive issue,
824
00:47:37,396 --> 00:47:40,320
knowing that it would really irritate
a lot of Americans.
825
00:47:41,567 --> 00:47:46,619
We had to all decide that
we agreed on a thing before we'd do it.
826
00:47:46,739 --> 00:47:49,492
That is, like, one of the classic things
about The Beatles.
827
00:47:49,617 --> 00:47:55,374
Four votes had to be carried
for any idea to go through.
828
00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:57,880
Instead of going for an individual thing,
829
00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,800
we went for the strongest format
and for equals.
830
00:48:01,921 --> 00:48:04,140
That was one thing to be said about us.
831
00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:07,226
We were very, very close to each other.
832
00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:08,970
We'd always stick together.
833
00:48:09,637 --> 00:48:12,607
We all had to agree,
so it was a strong decision.
834
00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,397
You know, the proof's
in the pudding. It worked really well.
835
00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:22,863
It was my first concert,
and I went by myself.
836
00:48:22,983 --> 00:48:28,240
The only catch in my breath that I got
was when I went to my seat
837
00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:30,833
and there were
all those other people around me.
838
00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:33,920
And I still can feel that, to this day,
839
00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:36,209
that there were
all these white people around,
840
00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,674
but everyone standing up with everybody,
841
00:48:38,791 --> 00:48:43,467
and then just yelling as loud as I could
and singing along.
842
00:48:45,714 --> 00:48:48,217
# Me, I'm just the lucky kind
843
00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:50,894
# Love to hear you say
844
00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:53,890
# That love is luck,
and though we may... #
845
00:48:54,014 --> 00:48:57,518
That was the first experience I had
846
00:48:57,643 --> 00:49:00,647
where it was possible to be around
people who were different,
847
00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:04,651
and at least for a while
those differences could disappear.
848
00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:06,948
# If I fell in love with you
849
00:49:07,069 --> 00:49:09,242
# Would you promise to be true
850
00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:13,869
# And help me understand... #
851
00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:18,418
The people who ran the Gator Bowl
integrated for the first time ever,
852
00:49:18,539 --> 00:49:20,962
which, from my historical perspective
and study,
853
00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:24,087
ended all that in most
of the big stadiums in the South.
854
00:49:25,129 --> 00:49:28,759
'And the next eight days are probably
the most gruelling of the tour.
855
00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:30,760
'Looks like The Beatles
are holding up strong.'
856
00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:35,349
Every night on the airplane,
they would walk up to the front of the plane
857
00:49:35,473 --> 00:49:37,567
where the opening acts were
858
00:49:38,142 --> 00:49:40,110
and kneel down and talk to them.
859
00:49:40,227 --> 00:49:43,822
Every single night,
they would ask them if they were OK.
860
00:49:43,939 --> 00:49:45,361
Because they were being ignored
by the crowd.
861
00:49:46,275 --> 00:49:48,778
'This is Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.
862
00:49:48,903 --> 00:49:50,621
'And they're looking forward
to going back to England,
863
00:49:50,738 --> 00:49:54,333
'because they'll be there for two weeks,
where they'll record records of new music,
864
00:49:54,450 --> 00:49:57,124
'and then believe it or not,
another month-long tour,
865
00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:58,871
'this time of their own country,
866
00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:01,590
'sometimes just by bus,
and that's pretty hard.'
867
00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,345
My mother died in the summer of 1964,
868
00:50:06,462 --> 00:50:09,887
and somehow or other it got to them
that she had passed away,
869
00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:13,352
and Paul and John both consoled me.
870
00:50:14,261 --> 00:50:16,980
John and I, we'd both lost our mothers.
871
00:50:17,097 --> 00:50:18,690
Mine had died of cancer
872
00:50:18,807 --> 00:50:22,107
and his had died
in a terrible road accident.
873
00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:24,818
So that kind of pulled us together a lot.
874
00:50:24,939 --> 00:50:27,533
You know, being teenagers,
we just needed to do something
875
00:50:27,650 --> 00:50:29,778
that would get us away from this tragedy,
876
00:50:29,902 --> 00:50:32,200
and so songwriting was it, really.
877
00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:36,500
# Cos I couldn't stand the pain... #
878
00:50:37,451 --> 00:50:40,421
They were very, very sensitive
to other people's feelings.
879
00:50:40,538 --> 00:50:41,835
All four of them.
880
00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:44,959
They were intelligent people
who cared about other people,
881
00:50:45,084 --> 00:50:47,132
who had a sense of themselves.
882
00:50:47,878 --> 00:50:49,676
They also liked making fun of me.
883
00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:52,550
'John, last night, you were very kind
and Derek was very kind
884
00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:55,224
'to invite us up to see the movie,
which I have seen twice.'
885
00:50:55,344 --> 00:50:56,721
'I never invited him at all.
886
00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:58,813
'I just saw him sitting there,
listening to us.'
887
00:50:58,931 --> 00:51:02,231
- 'Well, anyway, uh...'
- JOHN: 'Only kidding, Larry.'
888
00:51:02,351 --> 00:51:04,900
'This has been Larry Kane,
travelling with The Beatles.'
889
00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:18,709
It's extraordinary,
when you think about it,
890
00:51:18,826 --> 00:51:22,000
that they were touring
in this kind of circus of life.
891
00:51:22,121 --> 00:51:25,341
The sort of madness
of all that jamboree, of excitement,
892
00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:26,959
and hysteria.
893
00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:30,554
And yet, they were able to express
the way they were feeling,
894
00:51:30,671 --> 00:51:32,093
the weirdness of it,
895
00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:37,846
because inside those Beatle suits
were composers. They were writers.
896
00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:41,356
- Now I told you.
- It was you, too George.
897
00:51:41,473 --> 00:51:43,100
I said we'd miss out on the middle eight.
898
00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:46,479
Ah, you're coming in the wrong...
Halfway through the solo.
899
00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:50,074
- What was it, 12 bar?
- Yeah...
900
00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:53,202
The studio was like our little haven.
901
00:51:53,319 --> 00:51:56,914
Once we got back there,
we knew we could experiment.
902
00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:03,120
We could hear ourselves.
903
00:52:03,245 --> 00:52:07,500
And we would write songs
that would be a progression
904
00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:09,252
and that would be fun to record.
905
00:52:14,506 --> 00:52:16,349
Brian Epstein and I
906
00:52:16,467 --> 00:52:19,641
worked together very closely
planning their future.
907
00:52:19,762 --> 00:52:23,608
We agreed that we should
put out a single every three months
908
00:52:23,724 --> 00:52:26,022
and an album every six months.
909
00:52:26,143 --> 00:52:27,861
# Baby's good to me, you know
910
00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:31,699
# She's happy as can be, you know,
she said so
911
00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:37,914
# I'm in love with her and I feel fine... #
912
00:52:38,822 --> 00:52:42,793
I was under pressure
because I'd got such little time with them.
913
00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:45,834
I would say to Brian, you know,
"I need more time in the studio."
914
00:52:45,954 --> 00:52:49,834
And he would dole out time
like giving scraps to a mouse.
915
00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:53,838
One of the great things
about our recording was the schedule.
916
00:52:53,962 --> 00:52:55,885
You'd go in a 10 o'clock in the morning,
917
00:52:56,006 --> 00:52:58,509
tune up, have a ciggy,
have a cup of tea or something,
918
00:52:58,634 --> 00:53:04,641
and then John and I mainly would present
the song that we'd written to everyone.
919
00:53:05,432 --> 00:53:06,979
It goes...
920
00:53:14,316 --> 00:53:16,159
Just go through it anyway, if it makes...
921
00:53:16,276 --> 00:53:18,244
Make mistakes... just to practice it.
922
00:53:18,362 --> 00:53:19,454
Try to remember, John,
923
00:53:19,571 --> 00:53:22,620
and if I don't, well,
it's just too bad, isn't it? OK?
924
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,793
Is it just me and you?
925
00:53:24,910 --> 00:53:26,662
One, two, three, four.
926
00:53:26,787 --> 00:53:29,666
# Ooh... #
927
00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,927
- Oh, no, that's too much.
- You daft git!
928
00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:36,718
- Take two!
- One, two, three, four.
929
00:53:36,839 --> 00:53:40,389
# Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh
930
00:53:40,509 --> 00:53:43,433
# Ooh, ooh
931
00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:47,524
# Ooh, I need your love, babe
932
00:53:47,641 --> 00:53:50,144
# Guess you know it's true
933
00:53:50,269 --> 00:53:51,816
Ringo would tap along,
934
00:53:51,937 --> 00:53:55,237
George would just suss the chords,
and then George Martin would go,
935
00:53:55,357 --> 00:53:57,530
"Oh, yeah, that's half nice,
it was marvellous,"
936
00:53:57,651 --> 00:53:59,528
and then it would take about
20 minutes to do that.
937
00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:01,121
# Love me... #
938
00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:02,410
What are you doing?
939
00:54:02,531 --> 00:54:04,625
George, what did it sound like
with the bass doing a funny thing?
940
00:54:04,742 --> 00:54:06,415
Did it sound good
or did it sound just utterly crap?
941
00:54:06,535 --> 00:54:09,038
Thank you, I think it's a good idea.
942
00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:11,211
No, no...
943
00:54:11,707 --> 00:54:14,586
- Take three.
- One, two, three, four.
944
00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:16,553
# Ooh... #
945
00:54:18,464 --> 00:54:19,761
At the very beginning,
946
00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:23,762
George Martin was the only man
who could press the button to record.
947
00:54:23,886 --> 00:54:26,730
We'd just play it and do it.
"Ah, did you get that, George?"
948
00:54:28,474 --> 00:54:29,817
I'm getting that, yes.
949
00:54:29,933 --> 00:54:31,981
- Wonderful.
- That's lovely.
950
00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:34,901
Keep that one. Mark it "fab".
951
00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:37,445
You wanna have a listen
before we go onto the next one?
952
00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:41,404
George had recorded the Goons.
953
00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:43,747
That was like a cult thing
that we all loved and we all knew it.
954
00:54:44,490 --> 00:54:46,913
At that time, I was a comedy producer,
955
00:54:47,034 --> 00:54:49,162
recording Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers
956
00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:51,539
and a lot of English comedy actors.
957
00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:53,290
So he picked up our humour,
958
00:54:53,415 --> 00:54:56,669
he picked up our camaraderie, you know.
959
00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:59,263
We thought, "Well, he's mad. We love him."
960
00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:00,505
Ready yet in there?
961
00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,429
Oh, we'll just have to have a go of it.
962
00:55:02,549 --> 00:55:04,893
- Oh, you're right...
- I know.
963
00:55:05,928 --> 00:55:08,932
On the early records,
George Martin was a god.
964
00:55:09,056 --> 00:55:11,229
To begin with, I was very much in charge,
965
00:55:11,350 --> 00:55:14,069
because I was a kind of schoolmaster
teaching them everything.
966
00:55:14,186 --> 00:55:15,904
And they had to do what I told them.
967
00:55:16,021 --> 00:55:20,322
You had one and a half hours
from 10:30 to finish that song.
968
00:55:20,442 --> 00:55:22,911
Boom. So that focused you.
969
00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:24,621
That was a great discipline.
970
00:55:27,533 --> 00:55:30,161
- We'll do it again.
- So, we'll try and get it good, too.
971
00:55:30,285 --> 00:55:31,787
I'm just gonna start recording you.
972
00:55:31,912 --> 00:55:33,914
Red light's on.
973
00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:35,632
Every minute of the day,
974
00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:38,339
someone wanted something, you know?
975
00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:40,633
Drive to EMI to do a record,
976
00:55:40,754 --> 00:55:44,099
down here to Soho to do a photo shoot.
977
00:55:46,927 --> 00:55:49,430
Drive back to do some TV show.
978
00:55:49,555 --> 00:55:53,355
# I'm a loser
979
00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:56,820
# And I'm not what I appear to be
980
00:55:56,937 --> 00:55:58,405
# Of all... #
981
00:55:58,522 --> 00:56:00,820
I was singing the wrong words there.
982
00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:03,114
Drive to Birmingham to do a gig.
983
00:56:04,194 --> 00:56:05,867
End up in a nightclub.
984
00:56:05,988 --> 00:56:09,618
We were just doing
four or five things a day, you know,
985
00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:13,211
but we had each other.
And we brought that to the music.
986
00:56:14,413 --> 00:56:17,212
# Ooh, I need your love, babe
987
00:56:17,749 --> 00:56:20,093
# Guess you know it's true
988
00:56:21,253 --> 00:56:24,302
# Hope you need my love, babe
989
00:56:24,423 --> 00:56:27,097
# Just like I need you... #
990
00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:30,850
The thing about the scale is
991
00:56:30,971 --> 00:56:33,440
that writing lots of songs
is not particularly difficult.
992
00:56:33,557 --> 00:56:35,230
Volume is not the thing.
993
00:56:35,350 --> 00:56:38,399
The extraordinary thing about The Beatles
is the amount of great songs.
994
00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,147
Schubert wrote about 800 songs,
995
00:56:40,272 --> 00:56:43,025
of which probably 100
are absolutely beautiful melodies.
996
00:56:43,150 --> 00:56:44,777
The other 700, pretty good.
997
00:56:44,902 --> 00:56:48,907
The only comparison with that kind of level
of melody, maybe Mozart?
998
00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:52,080
Very, very high volume
and very good melodies.
999
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,793
You have to wait a long time, then,
1000
00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:56,209
till you get someone
who's up in the hundreds,
1001
00:56:56,330 --> 00:56:58,048
and that's when you get The Beatles.
1002
00:56:58,165 --> 00:57:00,167
Which is why I think
you can compare them in some ways,
1003
00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:02,010
because the sheer volume of the invention.
1004
00:57:02,544 --> 00:57:06,048
# I ain't got nothing but love, girl
1005
00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:08,133
# Eight days a week
1006
00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:12,433
# Eight days a week... #
1007
00:57:26,735 --> 00:57:29,079
Hello again from Hullabaloo, London.
1008
00:57:29,196 --> 00:57:31,870
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Richard Lester.
1009
00:57:36,787 --> 00:57:40,007
Richard, what do you think we could
tell them about the new Beatles flick?
1010
00:57:40,123 --> 00:57:42,546
Well, first of all, it's going to be
different from the last one.
1011
00:57:42,668 --> 00:57:43,965
It'll be in colour.
1012
00:57:44,086 --> 00:57:47,636
It'll be a film that has a lot of plot,
a lot of entertainment about it,
1013
00:57:47,756 --> 00:57:49,349
and Ringo's in trouble again.
1014
00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:52,761
We need protection,
we've got a record to do tomorrow.
1015
00:57:52,886 --> 00:57:53,978
I need protection.
1016
00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:56,394
And you shall have it. Get me protection.
1017
00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:04,403
# You don't realise how much I need you
1018
00:58:06,984 --> 00:58:11,364
# Love you all the time
and never leave you
1019
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:16,790
# Please come on back to me
1020
00:58:16,910 --> 00:58:20,084
# I'm lonely as can be
1021
00:58:20,205 --> 00:58:21,627
# I need you... #
1022
00:58:24,042 --> 00:58:27,137
We'd enjoyed very much doing
A Hard Day's Night.
1023
00:58:27,254 --> 00:58:29,552
We had kinda taken it seriously,
1024
00:58:29,673 --> 00:58:34,053
but with the film Help!
we were kinda pretty disinterested.
1025
00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,521
You know, we were now doing it again,
1026
00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:40,817
and so it couldn't be quite as exciting
as the first time. Nothing is.
1027
00:58:44,813 --> 00:58:49,660
The main thing I remember is,
we all had meetings about tax structure
1028
00:58:49,776 --> 00:58:51,403
and they would sorta say,
1029
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,998
oh you've gotta put your money
in the Bahamas or somewhere.
1030
00:58:55,115 --> 00:58:57,618
So when we were asked about the film,
1031
00:58:57,743 --> 00:58:59,461
we would say, "Can we go to The Bahamas?"
1032
00:58:59,578 --> 00:59:03,082
We were told, you're gonna film
in the Bahamas. Write a scene.
1033
00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:16,520
# I get high when I see you go by
1034
00:59:18,638 --> 00:59:19,810
# My oh my... #
1035
00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:24,778
In 1965, they invited me to Nassau
to watch them film the movie Help!
1036
00:59:24,895 --> 00:59:27,865
I walked into the house
and I saw something very unusual.
1037
00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:30,700
They were all high on marijuana.
1038
00:59:31,526 --> 00:59:33,244
And I'd never seen this before.
1039
00:59:33,361 --> 00:59:35,739
- Hey Paul, how you doin'?
- Hello, Larry.
1040
00:59:35,864 --> 00:59:38,162
- Good to see you again.
- Lovely to see you, yes.
1041
00:59:38,283 --> 00:59:40,502
Hey, John. How are you doin'?
1042
00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:48,047
What is this everything...
anything can happen business?
1043
00:59:54,466 --> 00:59:56,343
- Thanks a lot.
- Anything. Larry?
1044
00:59:56,468 --> 00:59:58,496
We'll be talking to you.
1045
00:59:59,805 --> 01:00:05,403
In all truthfulness,
we spent a lot of that film slightly stoned.
1046
01:00:18,115 --> 01:00:20,994
Things were spiralling
like crazy during Help!
1047
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:26,047
There were people coming in
with contracts for bubblegum royalties
1048
01:00:26,164 --> 01:00:27,586
and being condescending,
1049
01:00:27,707 --> 01:00:29,550
and then the press
were getting aggressive.
1050
01:00:30,293 --> 01:00:31,840
They owned all of us.
1051
01:00:31,962 --> 01:00:33,384
There's no switching off.
1052
01:00:33,505 --> 01:00:36,429
The elevator man wants a little piece
of you on the way back to your room.
1053
01:00:36,550 --> 01:00:39,554
The maid wants a little piece of you
back at the hotel.
1054
01:00:39,678 --> 01:00:42,477
And I don't mean sexually, I mean
a piece of your time and your energy,
1055
01:00:42,597 --> 01:00:45,601
and it's like a politician,
you're on 24 hours a day.
1056
01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:48,566
I think that John got fed up first.
1057
01:00:48,687 --> 01:00:52,317
He became agitated or frustrated
about what was being written,
1058
01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,034
particularly from 1965 onward.
1059
01:00:56,319 --> 01:00:58,822
Richard Lester had said we need a song,
1060
01:00:59,573 --> 01:01:01,416
and John started it,
1061
01:01:01,533 --> 01:01:05,083
so by the time I came to see him,
he had a lot of it,
1062
01:01:05,203 --> 01:01:08,958
and he said to me, you know,
this is kind of autobiographical.
1063
01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:11,627
You know, "When I was younger,
so much younger than today..."
1064
01:01:11,751 --> 01:01:13,173
I knew what he meant,
1065
01:01:13,295 --> 01:01:16,094
you know, and I knew now
he was more insecure
1066
01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:19,684
cos we were all a bit more insecure
than we'd been when we were 17.
1067
01:01:20,552 --> 01:01:21,804
One, two, three, four!
1068
01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:22,975
# Help!
1069
01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:25,144
- # I need somebody
- # Help!
1070
01:01:25,265 --> 01:01:27,688
- # Not just anybody
- # Help!
1071
01:01:27,809 --> 01:01:29,402
# You know I need someone
1072
01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:30,987
# Help!
1073
01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:36,701
# When I was younger,
so much younger than today
1074
01:01:37,235 --> 01:01:41,035
# I never needed anybody's help in any way
1075
01:01:42,574 --> 01:01:47,080
# But now these days are gone,
I'm not so self-assured
1076
01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:49,502
# Now I find I've changed my mind
1077
01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:51,967
# And opened up the doors
1078
01:01:52,083 --> 01:01:55,804
# Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
1079
01:01:56,504 --> 01:02:00,850
# And I do appreciate you being round
1080
01:02:02,302 --> 01:02:06,648
# Help me get my feet back on the ground
1081
01:02:06,765 --> 01:02:10,360
# Won't you please, please help me
1082
01:02:12,896 --> 01:02:16,867
# And now my life has changed
in oh so many ways
1083
01:02:18,026 --> 01:02:21,496
# My independence
seems to vanish in the haze
1084
01:02:23,198 --> 01:02:26,668
# But now these days are gone
I'm not so self-assured
1085
01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:32,044
# I know that I just need you like
I've never done before
1086
01:02:32,707 --> 01:02:36,587
# Help me if you can,
I'm feeling down... #
1087
01:02:37,128 --> 01:02:40,803
I always liked Help,
because I meant it, it's real.
1088
01:02:40,924 --> 01:02:44,724
The lyric is as good now as it was then,
there's no difference to it.
1089
01:02:44,844 --> 01:02:47,063
It was just me singing "Help,"
and I meant it.
1090
01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:50,650
# Won't you please, please help me
1091
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:55,648
# Help me, help me, ooh #
1092
01:03:02,279 --> 01:03:05,328
We were not getting
a lot of money from records.
1093
01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:07,041
We had the worst deal in the world,
1094
01:03:07,158 --> 01:03:10,002
but we had a deal and we were on vinyl,
and that's all that mattered.
1095
01:03:10,954 --> 01:03:14,254
You've gotta remember,
we made our money playing live.
1096
01:03:14,374 --> 01:03:16,502
# Well, they took some honey
1097
01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:18,044
# From a tree
1098
01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:21,806
# Dressed it up and they called it me
1099
01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,301
# Everybody's trying to be my baby
1100
01:03:24,426 --> 01:03:26,929
# Everybody's trying to be my baby
1101
01:03:27,053 --> 01:03:29,932
# Everybody's trying
to be my baby, now... #
1102
01:03:30,056 --> 01:03:32,058
It just got bigger and bigger and bigger.
1103
01:03:32,183 --> 01:03:34,777
# Well half past nine, half past four
1104
01:03:34,894 --> 01:03:37,192
# Fifty women knocking on my door
1105
01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:39,858
# Everybody's trying to be my baby
1106
01:03:40,483 --> 01:03:42,861
# Everybody's trying to be my baby
1107
01:03:42,986 --> 01:03:46,081
# Everybody's trying
to be my baby, now, yeah... #
1108
01:03:46,698 --> 01:03:47,950
And then it got crazy.
1109
01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,215
They went back to America
and started playing stadiums,
1110
01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:58,256
places like Portland, San Francisco,
1111
01:03:58,376 --> 01:04:01,300
the Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis,
1112
01:04:01,421 --> 01:04:03,844
the Chicago White Sox's Kaminski Park.
1113
01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:07,220
# Went out last night, I didn't stay late
1114
01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:09,688
# 'Fore I got home I had nineteen dates...
#
1115
01:04:09,804 --> 01:04:12,102
There were lots of other groups
touring at this point,
1116
01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:13,600
but nothing like this.
1117
01:04:13,725 --> 01:04:15,819
The money they were making
night after night
1118
01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,905
compared to other acts was unprecedented.
1119
01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:23,614
The fact is, they had to play stadiums.
1120
01:04:23,735 --> 01:04:26,864
Promoters and local police
had to be begging Brian Epstein,
1121
01:04:26,988 --> 01:04:30,333
telling him, you know, you can't go
and play a 5,000-seat theatre
1122
01:04:30,450 --> 01:04:34,205
and have 50,000 teenagers
going crazy outside.
1123
01:04:34,329 --> 01:04:36,297
It will be impossible to control.
1124
01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:41,844
This was massive.
1125
01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:45,056
The first big stadium tour in history,
1126
01:04:45,173 --> 01:04:48,643
and the biggest show of them all
was New York.
1127
01:04:52,764 --> 01:04:55,108
There was the announcement of this concert
1128
01:04:55,225 --> 01:04:56,602
and I was like, "Can we go?"
1129
01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,026
And my mum was like,
"We don't have the money for this."
1130
01:05:00,814 --> 01:05:05,194
And then, something...
I don't know how she did it.
1131
01:05:06,069 --> 01:05:07,821
I don't know...
1132
01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:11,541
I don't know how she did it,
but she got two tickets.
1133
01:05:12,826 --> 01:05:14,419
And she didn't tell me.
1134
01:05:15,245 --> 01:05:17,589
So, this is what happened.
1135
01:05:17,705 --> 01:05:19,673
She said, "We need to go,"
and I said, "Where are we going?
1136
01:05:19,791 --> 01:05:21,759
She said, "I'll let you know
when we get there."
1137
01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:24,925
OK, so we're on the train
and I'm not paying any attention.
1138
01:05:25,964 --> 01:05:27,887
And we get up and I ask, "Where are we?"
1139
01:05:28,007 --> 01:05:30,601
And she says, "We're at Shea Stadium."
1140
01:05:30,718 --> 01:05:32,265
And I said, "Why?"
1141
01:05:33,179 --> 01:05:37,184
And she held up two tickets,
and all I remember is my head going poof.
1142
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:47,868
It's just amazing, it's unbelievable.
1143
01:05:47,986 --> 01:05:53,117
- The biggest thing ever.
- 56,500 someone said. It's fantastic.
1144
01:05:53,241 --> 01:05:54,993
It just knocks you out, you know?
1145
01:05:56,536 --> 01:05:58,630
Shea Stadium is an enormous place.
1146
01:05:58,746 --> 01:06:03,047
I mean, that was the first time
it was used for a rock concert.
1147
01:06:03,168 --> 01:06:07,799
Vox made us special big amplifiers
for that tour
1148
01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:10,300
and they were like a hundred watts...
1149
01:06:11,676 --> 01:06:13,849
And it just obviously,
you know, wasn't enough.
1150
01:06:16,890 --> 01:06:18,892
Now ladies and gentlemen,
1151
01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:21,652
here are The Beatles.
1152
01:06:30,028 --> 01:06:31,450
Here they come.
1153
01:06:45,502 --> 01:06:46,503
- Hello.
- Oh, oh!
1154
01:06:46,628 --> 01:06:48,221
- Hello!
- Hey!
1155
01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:50,056
- Hello!
- Hey, hey, hey!
1156
01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:51,591
Hello!
1157
01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:54,268
- Hello, Paul.
- Hello, John.
1158
01:06:57,805 --> 01:07:00,900
We'd like to do a song from...
What LP is it on?
1159
01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:05,147
Off our LP album, Beatles VI, I think.
1160
01:07:05,271 --> 01:07:07,365
Can you hear me?
1161
01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:09,821
Hello?
1162
01:07:11,778 --> 01:07:13,780
And it's called, Dizzy Miss Lizzy.
1163
01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:36,060
# You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy
1164
01:07:36,886 --> 01:07:39,230
# The way you rock and roll
1165
01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:42,646
# You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy
1166
01:07:43,768 --> 01:07:46,237
# When we do the stroll
1167
01:07:47,021 --> 01:07:49,399
# Come on, come on, come on,
come on, Lizzy
1168
01:07:50,108 --> 01:07:52,076
# Love me before I grow too old
1169
01:07:53,778 --> 01:07:56,827
# Run and tell your mama
1170
01:07:56,948 --> 01:07:58,416
# I want you to be my bride... #
1171
01:07:58,533 --> 01:08:01,286
One of the most remarkable
things about The Beatles playing live is
1172
01:08:01,411 --> 01:08:02,958
how in tune they are,
1173
01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:05,457
because they can't possibly
hear themselves.
1174
01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:07,175
I don't think they had monitors.
1175
01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:08,509
Amps aren't very big.
1176
01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:11,425
Even if they were cranked to the max
they're not that loud.
1177
01:08:12,505 --> 01:08:14,507
I mean, Shea Stadium
being the most extraordinary...
1178
01:08:14,632 --> 01:08:16,600
because I don't even think
there's a P.A. at Shea Stadium.
1179
01:08:16,718 --> 01:08:18,311
They're going through the Tannoy,
1180
01:08:18,428 --> 01:08:21,898
which must have sounded like a thousand
transistor radios to each ear.
1181
01:08:22,015 --> 01:08:23,437
# Miss Lizzy
1182
01:08:24,267 --> 01:08:26,486
# Girl, you look so fine
1183
01:08:27,979 --> 01:08:30,903
# Just a-rocking and a-rolling
1184
01:08:31,024 --> 01:08:34,073
# Girl I said I wish you were mine... #
1185
01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:38,364
We did the house P.A., you know,
1186
01:08:38,489 --> 01:08:42,289
and on first base is Willy Wonka,
or whatever they said.
1187
01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:44,412
That's the equipment we had.
1188
01:08:45,246 --> 01:08:47,340
# When you rock and roll... #
1189
01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:49,175
I could not hear anything.
1190
01:08:49,292 --> 01:08:52,296
I'd be watchin' John's arse, Paul's arse,
1191
01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:54,798
his foot's tappin', his head's noddin',
1192
01:08:54,922 --> 01:08:56,515
to see where we were in the song.
1193
01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:58,226
# Come on, come on, Lizzy
1194
01:08:58,343 --> 01:09:01,313
# I wanna be your lover man #
1195
01:09:08,978 --> 01:09:11,822
Playing to 56,000 people at Shea Stadium,
1196
01:09:11,939 --> 01:09:15,944
after that, you just sort of think
to yourself, what more can you do?
1197
01:09:17,987 --> 01:09:20,410
I remember George bringing up
the subject with Brian,
1198
01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:24,411
"Hey, is this touring
gonna be an annual event?"
1199
01:09:25,328 --> 01:09:28,457
And I think he was the first one
that brought up the idea of,
1200
01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:30,754
"Hey, I've had enough of this."
1201
01:09:32,794 --> 01:09:35,172
That was the good thing
about being four together.
1202
01:09:35,296 --> 01:09:36,889
You're not like Elvis, you know?
1203
01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:39,100
I always felt sorry for Elvis
cos he was on his own.
1204
01:09:39,217 --> 01:09:41,970
He had his guys with him,
but there's only one Elvis.
1205
01:09:42,095 --> 01:09:44,314
Nobody else knew what he felt like.
1206
01:09:45,014 --> 01:09:47,733
But, for us, we all shared the experience.
1207
01:09:52,355 --> 01:09:54,699
They came back to England late summer '65.
1208
01:09:58,111 --> 01:10:01,160
The last time The Beatles
played in Britain was that winter,
1209
01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,408
you know, seven or eight dates.
1210
01:10:03,533 --> 01:10:05,581
My grandparents
bought me tickets to see them,
1211
01:10:05,702 --> 01:10:07,921
and my parents refused to let me go.
1212
01:10:09,038 --> 01:10:11,132
# Got a good reason
1213
01:10:12,375 --> 01:10:14,924
# For taking the easy way out... #
1214
01:10:15,044 --> 01:10:18,799
The Beatles captured my imagination
like no other group at that point.
1215
01:10:18,923 --> 01:10:21,267
It was the way that I began
to interpret the world.
1216
01:10:22,343 --> 01:10:25,096
Each new record
was built on the record before.
1217
01:10:25,221 --> 01:10:29,317
You had this wonderful storyline
advancing through with The Beatles.
1218
01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:33,064
By the end of the year we were being told
there would be more records forthcoming.
1219
01:10:36,816 --> 01:10:38,284
And they went back in the studio.
1220
01:10:47,535 --> 01:10:49,833
See if we're all in tune
when we play, George.
1221
01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:51,126
Girl, take one.
1222
01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:59,010
# Is there anybody
going to listen to my story
1223
01:10:59,130 --> 01:11:02,555
# All about the girl who came to stay... #
1224
01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:05,929
The first reaction to the new,
innovative sound of Rubber Soul was,
1225
01:11:06,053 --> 01:11:08,602
I don't like this.
I think they've lost their minds.
1226
01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:11,268
# Girl, girl... #
1227
01:11:11,392 --> 01:11:13,565
What are they thinking,
you know, what's this?
1228
01:11:14,061 --> 01:11:18,032
# She's the kind of girl
who puts you down when friends are there
1229
01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:20,151
# You feel a fool... #
1230
01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:23,200
I kinda went from being a kid
to being a teenager, so...
1231
01:11:23,321 --> 01:11:25,540
some of those things
felt like the right thing,
1232
01:11:25,656 --> 01:11:28,876
but it was still surprising,
this group I like kinda change so much.
1233
01:11:28,993 --> 01:11:31,291
# Girl... #
1234
01:11:32,955 --> 01:11:35,424
There's a big jump from
I Want To Hold YourHand to
1235
01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:37,635
"Was she told when she was young
that pain would lead to pleasure."
1236
01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:43,133
# Was she told when she was young
that pain would lead to pleasure
1237
01:11:43,716 --> 01:11:47,311
# Did she understand it
when they said... #
1238
01:11:48,429 --> 01:11:50,727
I didn't understand it at all when I heard it.
I didn't think it was any good.
1239
01:11:50,848 --> 01:11:53,442
And then six weeks later,
you couldn't live without the record.
1240
01:11:54,018 --> 01:11:56,612
And that's good. That's when you trust
the people who make music
1241
01:11:56,729 --> 01:11:58,652
to take you somewhere
that you hadn't been before.
1242
01:12:01,567 --> 01:12:04,821
'Formal occasion at Buckingham
Palace on a foggy October morning.
1243
01:12:05,655 --> 01:12:07,623
'The ceremony is bestowing
awards of honour,
1244
01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:11,790
'a ceremony hallowed by tradition
going back over the centuries.
1245
01:12:13,496 --> 01:12:16,921
'Members of the Most Excellent Order
of the British Empire.'
1246
01:12:18,626 --> 01:12:20,845
'Do you think The Beatles
should have been awarded the M.B.E.?'
1247
01:12:20,962 --> 01:12:23,886
'Well, I... I think The Beatles have
probably done as much for popular music
1248
01:12:24,006 --> 01:12:26,634
'as people like Rodgers and Hammerstein
and Gershwin did,
1249
01:12:26,759 --> 01:12:28,636
'the only difference being
that The Beatles have done it
1250
01:12:28,761 --> 01:12:29,933
'in a matter of two or three years,
1251
01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:31,897
'whereas it took most other people
a lifetime.'
1252
01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:37,194
'What's the M.B.E.
going to do to your teenage rebel image?'
1253
01:12:37,311 --> 01:12:39,279
- Who's got a teenage rebel image?
- Well, you have.
1254
01:12:39,397 --> 01:12:40,444
- Have we?
- No.
1255
01:12:40,565 --> 01:12:42,408
Have any of you any ambitions left at all?
1256
01:12:42,525 --> 01:12:44,277
- John?
- I'd like to be a duke.
1257
01:12:45,695 --> 01:12:48,539
# Have you heard the word is love... #
1258
01:12:48,656 --> 01:12:51,876
They had achieved the summit,
and they were, if you like, emperors,
1259
01:12:51,993 --> 01:12:54,542
but at the same time
they were prisoners of their fame,
1260
01:12:54,662 --> 01:12:57,962
and I think they were beginning to chafe
at people's expectations.
1261
01:13:08,759 --> 01:13:11,308
The first three months had been lopped off
1262
01:13:11,429 --> 01:13:15,150
to do whatever The Beatles' third film
was going to be, and then it didn't happen.
1263
01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:19,521
And so for the first time since
they'd become successful and famous,
1264
01:13:19,645 --> 01:13:21,272
they had three months off.
1265
01:13:27,570 --> 01:13:32,997
It had been four years for us
of legging around in this mania,
1266
01:13:33,951 --> 01:13:36,204
and we were tired. We needed a rest.
1267
01:13:36,329 --> 01:13:39,048
# I once had a girl
1268
01:13:39,165 --> 01:13:41,008
# Or should I say
1269
01:13:41,125 --> 01:13:43,048
# She once had me... #
1270
01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:46,552
The thing is that we were all
interested in other things
1271
01:13:46,672 --> 01:13:47,924
before The Beatles.
1272
01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:51,970
And we didn't really have time,
but we were always lookin' around.
1273
01:13:52,094 --> 01:13:53,971
I got involved with a gallery owner
1274
01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:57,600
and when we'd go to Paris
and buy paintings.
1275
01:13:57,725 --> 01:14:00,069
We'd go to the dealer.
So it was very exciting.
1276
01:14:02,313 --> 01:14:05,112
And of course, George had developed
an interest in Indian music.
1277
01:14:12,615 --> 01:14:15,710
I just wanna carry on
progressing with music,
1278
01:14:15,826 --> 01:14:19,080
you know, writing more
and just learning more about it.
1279
01:14:19,997 --> 01:14:23,672
I've written so many songs that I've just
thrown away as I've been writing them
1280
01:14:23,793 --> 01:14:27,798
because I've wanted,
when I finally recorded one of mine,
1281
01:14:27,922 --> 01:14:32,519
I wanted it to be, you know, worth puttin'
on the LP alongside Paul and John's.
1282
01:14:33,094 --> 01:14:36,564
I feel now I've got more idea
about how to write songs.
1283
01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:42,820
We bought this house
in the country on this estate,
1284
01:14:42,937 --> 01:14:46,066
Maureen and Zak, my son,
and John was up the road.
1285
01:14:47,108 --> 01:14:49,531
We started to grow up,
1286
01:14:49,652 --> 01:14:51,620
and we started to have families,
1287
01:14:51,737 --> 01:14:55,867
and we started to put less energy
into The Beatle bag.
1288
01:14:56,659 --> 01:14:58,457
We all kind of were very aware
1289
01:14:58,577 --> 01:15:01,330
that we didn't live
in each other's pockets anymore.
1290
01:15:01,455 --> 01:15:03,878
We all had separate existences.
1291
01:15:05,126 --> 01:15:08,221
There's an interview that
John Lennon gives to Maureen Cleave
1292
01:15:08,337 --> 01:15:11,762
which is published in March '66
where he talks about his reading,
1293
01:15:11,882 --> 01:15:15,136
he sorta says, "I'm not sure what
I'm going to do next, this isn't everything,"
1294
01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:17,434
which is not what a pop star
is supposed to say.
1295
01:15:18,973 --> 01:15:22,523
That same month, March,
they were doing a photo shoot.
1296
01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,313
By then we were really sort of
beginning to hate it.
1297
01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:27,406
This photo session was a big ordeal
1298
01:15:27,523 --> 01:15:30,572
and you had to try to look normal,
you know, and you didn't feel it.
1299
01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:34,580
Bob Whitaker was one of the
photographers who took our pictures
1300
01:15:34,697 --> 01:15:37,325
and he came up with,
we'd all put on white lab coats
1301
01:15:37,450 --> 01:15:40,329
and we'd pretend to be mad professors.
1302
01:15:40,453 --> 01:15:43,047
The photographer's
a bit of a surrealist, you know?
1303
01:15:47,293 --> 01:15:50,547
We really got into it,
and that's how we felt, like, "Yeah."
1304
01:15:51,130 --> 01:15:55,556
# To say about the things that you do... #
1305
01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:57,849
To us, you know,
this wasn't a big deal, really,
1306
01:15:57,970 --> 01:16:01,520
because these kind of shocking things
were part of the art scene.
1307
01:16:02,308 --> 01:16:08,486
# About the good things
that we can have if we close our eyes... #
1308
01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:11,826
I expressly pushed for it
to be an album cover, you know?
1309
01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:13,740
It'd gone out in America,
1310
01:16:13,861 --> 01:16:15,579
and there was some kind of fuss.
1311
01:16:16,489 --> 01:16:19,038
It was like, "What? My beloved Beatles?
1312
01:16:19,158 --> 01:16:21,001
"No! This must stop!"
1313
01:16:22,828 --> 01:16:23,829
Sorry.
1314
01:16:23,954 --> 01:16:25,831
Well, are you gonna keep that one, please?
1315
01:16:25,956 --> 01:16:28,379
- Why don't you leave that one on?
- Yeah, just leave it out again.
1316
01:16:28,501 --> 01:16:29,844
OK.
1317
01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,008
I'll just have to vamp it up a bit.
1318
01:16:33,130 --> 01:16:35,053
Now he tells me.
1319
01:16:35,174 --> 01:16:37,393
We're having more fun in the studio.
1320
01:16:37,510 --> 01:16:38,978
It's getting more experimental.
1321
01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:42,065
The songs were gettin' better,
more interesting.
1322
01:16:42,181 --> 01:16:45,685
# When I wake up early in the morning
1323
01:16:46,519 --> 01:16:48,066
# Lift my...
1324
01:16:48,604 --> 01:16:50,277
# And I'm still... #
1325
01:16:50,397 --> 01:16:52,570
There weren't, like, big plans.
1326
01:16:52,691 --> 01:16:55,820
You know, sometimes it just unfolded.
1327
01:16:55,945 --> 01:16:57,367
Complete fluke.
1328
01:16:59,740 --> 01:17:00,957
OK, ready?
1329
01:17:03,244 --> 01:17:05,246
John was not mechanically minded,
1330
01:17:05,371 --> 01:17:07,294
and he took a tape on,
1331
01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:10,634
and the tape had run off to the other reel,
1332
01:17:10,751 --> 01:17:13,550
and he put it on like it was the start,
1333
01:17:13,671 --> 01:17:16,950
but it was the end of the song
and that's when the guitar came.
1334
01:17:19,218 --> 01:17:21,971
And he brings it in,
"Ah, you've gotta hear this."
1335
01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:25,225
And we said, great,
we've gotta do that, so...
1336
01:17:25,349 --> 01:17:26,896
Call in the boffins.
1337
01:17:28,978 --> 01:17:34,735
# Lay down all thoughts,
surrender to the void
1338
01:17:36,402 --> 01:17:39,781
# It is shining #
1339
01:17:39,905 --> 01:17:42,829
And I always remember
being in Brian Epstein's house
1340
01:17:42,950 --> 01:17:46,671
and John playing it to Brian
and to George Martin,
1341
01:17:46,787 --> 01:17:48,585
and saying, "What do you think of this?"
you know.
1342
01:17:48,706 --> 01:17:52,961
But you could see this puzzlement
going across their faces,
1343
01:17:53,085 --> 01:17:54,712
but instead of saying,
1344
01:17:54,837 --> 01:17:57,807
"Ah, come on, guys, I think
you really oughta put another chord in,"
1345
01:17:57,923 --> 01:18:01,052
he knew to leave us alone by then.
1346
01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:04,147
# It is shining... #
1347
01:18:05,389 --> 01:18:07,187
You can slow down or speed up the tape.
1348
01:18:07,308 --> 01:18:10,027
You can put it in backwards time.
You can put in electronic sounds.
1349
01:18:10,144 --> 01:18:11,942
And this is the kind of thing
you can do on a recording,
1350
01:18:12,062 --> 01:18:14,156
but you obviously
couldn't possibly play it live
1351
01:18:14,273 --> 01:18:16,446
because it is, in fact,
making up music as you go along.
1352
01:18:24,325 --> 01:18:26,828
Tomorrow Never Knows
breaks so many barriers,
1353
01:18:26,952 --> 01:18:30,001
musically speaking, and does so many
things that no one had done before.
1354
01:18:30,497 --> 01:18:33,501
It's got a drone all the way through, which
is something that happens in Indian music,
1355
01:18:33,626 --> 01:18:36,596
and used to exist in Western music
in the 12th century.
1356
01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:38,885
So, it sort of triggered a whole movement
1357
01:18:39,006 --> 01:18:42,180
that popular music would start to bring in
these influences from the avant-garde
1358
01:18:42,301 --> 01:18:44,144
and put them into mainstream songs,
1359
01:18:44,261 --> 01:18:46,184
into an album
that millions of people would hear.
1360
01:18:47,014 --> 01:18:52,236
# That love is all and love is everyone
1361
01:18:53,938 --> 01:18:57,067
# It is knowing... #
1362
01:18:57,191 --> 01:18:59,819
You know, when we first started,
we were the nice, clean mop tops,
1363
01:18:59,944 --> 01:19:02,572
and every mother's son
and everyone loved us.
1364
01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:06,997
And then suddenly, you know, there's
a few things that they don't understand.
1365
01:19:07,117 --> 01:19:08,539
It's just, we're men now, you know?
1366
01:19:08,661 --> 01:19:11,210
We're a bit older than those lads
that started out.
1367
01:19:12,248 --> 01:19:14,842
You can't live all your life
by what they want.
1368
01:19:14,959 --> 01:19:19,089
You know, we can't go on forever
as four clean little mop tops
1369
01:19:19,213 --> 01:19:20,214
playing, She Loves You.
1370
01:19:20,756 --> 01:19:23,231
# Of the beginning
1371
01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,816
# Of the beginning... #
1372
01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:33,311
Then we were back on the road.
1373
01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:37,691
We got on a train and went up to Hamburg.
1374
01:19:37,815 --> 01:19:40,159
By then I don't think
we wanted to be anywhere.
1375
01:19:40,276 --> 01:19:42,574
It was like automatic pilot, you know?
1376
01:19:42,695 --> 01:19:47,075
There was so much more pressure
from the press trying to get at you,
1377
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,826
you know, for whatever reason.
1378
01:19:51,870 --> 01:19:54,248
- We're not horrid snobby.
- Yes, you are.
1379
01:19:54,373 --> 01:19:55,920
- No, we seem like...
- That's your version.
1380
01:19:56,041 --> 01:19:57,918
Maybe it's only in your mind that we are.
1381
01:19:58,043 --> 01:20:00,045
Because we're not flattering you.
1382
01:20:01,422 --> 01:20:04,551
You know, you expect sort of
nice answers to all the questions,
1383
01:20:05,175 --> 01:20:08,770
but if the questions aren't nice questions,
they don't have to have nice answers.
1384
01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:11,640
And if we don't give nice answers,
it doesn't mean we're snobby.
1385
01:20:11,765 --> 01:20:13,483
It just means we're natural.
1386
01:20:17,104 --> 01:20:19,232
Everything was hit-and-run in those days,
1387
01:20:19,356 --> 01:20:21,575
and I think the next day
after the Hamburg concert,
1388
01:20:21,692 --> 01:20:23,194
we had a flight to Tokyo.
1389
01:20:28,782 --> 01:20:30,250
It's amazing security.
1390
01:20:30,367 --> 01:20:32,586
I've never seen so many people
guarding us.
1391
01:20:32,703 --> 01:20:35,206
So we don't want you
to be hurt or anything,
1392
01:20:35,331 --> 01:20:37,208
so we're trying our best.
1393
01:20:38,959 --> 01:20:42,213
Everywhere we were going,
it was a demonstration
1394
01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:44,136
of one thing or another.
1395
01:20:44,256 --> 01:20:46,054
In Japan, the people were demonstrating
1396
01:20:46,175 --> 01:20:49,975
because the Budokan was supposed to be
a special, spiritual hall
1397
01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:52,689
and only reserved for martial arts,
1398
01:20:52,806 --> 01:20:54,433
not pop music.
1399
01:20:55,976 --> 01:20:57,774
Ladies and gentlemen,
1400
01:20:57,895 --> 01:21:00,489
we welcome... The Beatles.
1401
01:21:17,790 --> 01:21:19,007
It was very strange.
1402
01:21:19,124 --> 01:21:21,092
The audience were very reserved,
1403
01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:23,087
respectful,
1404
01:21:23,212 --> 01:21:26,341
very quiet to what we had
become accustomed to.
1405
01:21:26,465 --> 01:21:27,466
Very quiet.
1406
01:21:33,514 --> 01:21:35,357
One, two, three, four!
1407
01:21:35,474 --> 01:21:39,024
# He's a real nowhere man
1408
01:21:39,144 --> 01:21:42,899
# Sitting in his nowhere land
1409
01:21:43,023 --> 01:21:48,029
# Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody #
1410
01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:50,823
We were playing crap.
1411
01:21:51,824 --> 01:21:53,417
We were just sort of surviving.
1412
01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:58,164
# Knows not where he's going to
1413
01:21:58,288 --> 01:22:02,668
# Isn't he a bit like you and me... #
1414
01:22:05,003 --> 01:22:08,098
We had a day off
in the Philippines, in Manila,
1415
01:22:08,215 --> 01:22:12,345
and then somebody said,
you're supposed to be visiting the palace.
1416
01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:16,940
Madam Marcos had invited us to dinner,
1417
01:22:17,057 --> 01:22:18,900
and Brian had told her no.
1418
01:22:19,017 --> 01:22:21,520
Then the next morning
someone brought the newspapers,
1419
01:22:21,645 --> 01:22:24,694
"Beatles Snub President."
1420
01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,529
By '66, it felt dangerous, you know?
1421
01:22:29,653 --> 01:22:32,247
Because everybody was out of hand,
1422
01:22:32,364 --> 01:22:34,662
and even the cops were out of line.
1423
01:22:34,783 --> 01:22:36,911
You know, they were all just caught up
in the mania.
1424
01:22:38,412 --> 01:22:40,631
It's a build-up of tension,
1425
01:22:40,747 --> 01:22:43,967
and also, dissatisfaction and frustration.
1426
01:22:44,084 --> 01:22:46,257
And now they went straight
into a complete nightmare.
1427
01:22:46,378 --> 01:22:47,971
Now, this religious controversy,
1428
01:22:48,088 --> 01:22:49,590
I know you don't want to say
too much about it,
1429
01:22:49,715 --> 01:22:51,968
but does it worry you that it's going to
boil up when you get to the States?
1430
01:22:52,092 --> 01:22:54,390
Well, it worries me, yes, but I...
1431
01:22:54,511 --> 01:22:56,639
I hope everything will be all right
in the end, as they say.
1432
01:22:56,763 --> 01:22:58,857
Do you think this is going to be
a controversial tour,
1433
01:22:58,974 --> 01:23:00,100
like the Philippines was?
1434
01:23:00,225 --> 01:23:01,647
Oh, no, no.
1435
01:23:01,768 --> 01:23:03,486
No, it's gonna be fine.
1436
01:23:03,604 --> 01:23:05,447
- What makes you say that, Paul?
- Oh, it will be fine.
1437
01:23:05,564 --> 01:23:07,282
You watch, yeah, great.
1438
01:23:15,449 --> 01:23:17,827
# Good day sunshine... #
1439
01:23:17,951 --> 01:23:22,001
It was all because of that interview
John had given while on vacation.
1440
01:23:22,122 --> 01:23:25,092
It was reprinted in America months later.
1441
01:23:25,209 --> 01:23:28,179
"Lennon says The Beatles
are bigger than Christ."
1442
01:23:30,255 --> 01:23:34,556
At that time, churches
were losing their congregations,
1443
01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:37,020
people were going to church
less and less and less.
1444
01:23:41,683 --> 01:23:45,608
John was saying, "We're so famous!
You wouldn't believe the fame.
1445
01:23:45,729 --> 01:23:48,653
"I mean, like, we're bigger than Jesus."
1446
01:23:49,441 --> 01:23:52,115
It was a harmless remark
in the middle of an article,
1447
01:23:52,236 --> 01:23:55,365
and it never made the front page
in England.
1448
01:23:55,489 --> 01:23:59,039
That unleashed a firestorm
in the United States.
1449
01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:02,379
It was almost like
the plot of Help! had become real,
1450
01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:06,342
and they actually had a lot of people
who suddenly wanted to dismember them.
1451
01:24:06,458 --> 01:24:08,552
This is the Layton and Charles show
on WAQY radio,
1452
01:24:08,669 --> 01:24:12,469
broadcasting at 1220 on your dial,
until about nine o'clock this morning,
1453
01:24:12,589 --> 01:24:15,809
and we'd like to urge you to take
your Beatle records and your Beatlemania
1454
01:24:15,926 --> 01:24:19,851
to any one of our 14 pickup points
anywhere in Birmingham, Alabama.
1455
01:24:19,972 --> 01:24:21,440
And don't forget, the destruction...
1456
01:24:21,557 --> 01:24:24,151
the destruction of those Beatle records
will take place just a few days,
1457
01:24:24,268 --> 01:24:26,566
and we'll keep you informed on all of that.
1458
01:24:27,396 --> 01:24:29,865
They were just stunned.
1459
01:24:29,982 --> 01:24:31,609
You have to really put it in perspective,
1460
01:24:31,733 --> 01:24:34,282
I mean the whole scandal was very serious,
1461
01:24:34,403 --> 01:24:37,202
partly because of the violence
that was in America at the time.
1462
01:24:41,159 --> 01:24:43,287
You just had the Texas Sniper,
Charles Whitman,
1463
01:24:43,412 --> 01:24:45,210
who just shot dead 20 people.
1464
01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:50,544
This was the same country
only three years before
1465
01:24:50,669 --> 01:24:53,548
where the President had been assassinated.
1466
01:24:53,672 --> 01:24:57,427
It had got dangerous,
and we were threatened.
1467
01:24:58,719 --> 01:25:01,814
We knew we weren't being blasphemous,
1468
01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:04,524
we weren't anti-Jesus.
1469
01:25:04,641 --> 01:25:07,815
In fact, we all had
pretty religious upbringings, really,
1470
01:25:07,936 --> 01:25:10,940
but you do see John
as sort of a broken man,
1471
01:25:11,481 --> 01:25:13,529
cos he realised, he had to apologise.
1472
01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:16,324
It was gonna be
the only thing that would stop this.
1473
01:25:16,445 --> 01:25:20,120
I was pointing out that fact,
in reference to England,
1474
01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,244
that we meant more to kids than Jesus did,
1475
01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:25,416
or religion, at that time.
1476
01:25:25,537 --> 01:25:29,883
I wasn't knocking it or putting it down,
I was just saying it, as a fact.
1477
01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:34,346
And it sort of... it is true,
especially more for England than here.
1478
01:25:34,463 --> 01:25:37,307
But I'm not saying
that we're better or greater,
1479
01:25:37,424 --> 01:25:40,348
or comparing us
with Jesus Christ as a person,
1480
01:25:40,469 --> 01:25:42,642
or God as a thing, or whatever it is.
1481
01:25:42,763 --> 01:25:45,357
You know, I just said what I said,
and it was wrong,
1482
01:25:45,474 --> 01:25:47,351
or was taken wrong, and now it's all this.
1483
01:25:48,226 --> 01:25:51,901
He's longing to break out of it,
and do a joke,
1484
01:25:52,022 --> 01:25:53,524
but he knows he can't.
1485
01:25:53,649 --> 01:25:56,823
If I had said television
is more popular than Jesus,
1486
01:25:56,943 --> 01:25:58,786
I might have got away with it.
1487
01:25:59,780 --> 01:26:02,033
You know, but as I just happened
to be talking to a friend,
1488
01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:04,330
I used the word Beatles,
1489
01:26:04,451 --> 01:26:06,294
as a remote thing, not as what I think,
1490
01:26:06,411 --> 01:26:10,166
because Beatles, as those other Beatles,
like other people see us.
1491
01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:11,633
I just said they are...
1492
01:26:11,750 --> 01:26:15,220
are having more influence
on kids and things
1493
01:26:15,337 --> 01:26:17,010
than anything else, including Jesus,
1494
01:26:17,130 --> 01:26:19,553
but I said it in that way,
1495
01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:21,473
which is the wrong way, yep, yep.
1496
01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:22,765
He was scared.
1497
01:26:22,886 --> 01:26:24,809
We were all pretty scared.
1498
01:26:24,930 --> 01:26:27,809
Most of the people in the room
understood it.
1499
01:26:27,933 --> 01:26:30,277
It's like one of those lines.
1500
01:26:30,394 --> 01:26:32,237
But it... it didn't hold us back at all.
1501
01:26:33,063 --> 01:26:36,317
Concert tomorrow night is far
below a sell-out, how do you feel about...
1502
01:26:36,441 --> 01:26:38,068
Very rich.
1503
01:26:43,407 --> 01:26:45,501
# My love don't give me presents
1504
01:26:48,453 --> 01:26:51,297
# I know that she's no peasant... #
1505
01:26:52,499 --> 01:26:55,469
There were three road managers, roadies,
1506
01:26:55,585 --> 01:26:58,589
on the tour, period, in '66, that was it.
1507
01:26:58,714 --> 01:27:02,014
I was friends with the opening act.
They said, "You want to do it?"
1508
01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:04,728
and I didn't even know
how to set up a drum kit at the time.
1509
01:27:04,845 --> 01:27:05,892
I had no idea.
1510
01:27:06,012 --> 01:27:08,891
I was a musician in Boston,
I was a folk singer.
1511
01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:11,313
I had no qualifications at all.
1512
01:27:11,893 --> 01:27:13,770
We only ever had a couple of roadies.
1513
01:27:13,895 --> 01:27:15,613
Didn't matter where we were,
1514
01:27:15,731 --> 01:27:18,234
biggest band in the land,
that's all we had.
1515
01:27:19,651 --> 01:27:23,372
In Cleveland, the sound was so bad
that everybody rushed the stage.
1516
01:27:23,488 --> 01:27:26,162
'Cleveland Stadium
has been absolutely riots,
1517
01:27:26,283 --> 01:27:28,251
'the whole place went wild here,
1518
01:27:28,368 --> 01:27:31,212
'broke the barriers,
came through the police cordon.
1519
01:27:31,329 --> 01:27:33,331
'We managed to get The Beatles
off the stage.
1520
01:27:33,457 --> 01:27:35,459
'They were even all over the stage.'
1521
01:27:35,584 --> 01:27:37,586
I really thought I was gonna get hurt.
1522
01:27:39,337 --> 01:27:42,090
We get to Memphis,
and there's been a bomb scare,
1523
01:27:42,215 --> 01:27:44,217
and we had to delay the show
1524
01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:47,186
while they put bomb-sniffing dogs
throughout the whole theatre.
1525
01:27:48,221 --> 01:27:51,316
That kind of stuff was happening
all the time. It was terrifying.
1526
01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:54,403
Some people would set off firecrackers
in the hall,
1527
01:27:54,519 --> 01:27:57,068
and you'd think someone of the others
got shot or something.
1528
01:27:59,608 --> 01:28:03,454
Then we flew off to St. Louis,
and it was pouring rain.
1529
01:28:03,570 --> 01:28:06,198
# She was a day tripper
1530
01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,998
# One way ticket, yeah... #
1531
01:28:10,118 --> 01:28:14,339
My job was to sit backstage
with my hand on the plug,
1532
01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:15,708
and the instructions were
1533
01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:19,257
if one of them fell down,
like knocked out by the shock,
1534
01:28:19,377 --> 01:28:22,096
then you should pull the plug,
and that would stop the show.
1535
01:28:22,923 --> 01:28:24,596
It was a joke.
1536
01:28:30,180 --> 01:28:32,729
This was three weeks that they
just took a deep breath and said,
1537
01:28:32,849 --> 01:28:35,318
"OK, well, let's just do this,
and we'll make a lot of money."
1538
01:28:40,357 --> 01:28:42,951
A lot of the time we were going
through the motions,
1539
01:28:43,068 --> 01:28:46,948
and we all started to get pretty fed up.
1540
01:28:47,072 --> 01:28:50,246
George particularly was quite
sort of vocal about that.
1541
01:28:52,452 --> 01:28:56,298
I was saying, "I don't want to
do this anymore. I don't like this."
1542
01:28:56,414 --> 01:28:58,792
I certainly felt that that was it,
1543
01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:02,091
you know, that we weren't gonna
tour again like that.
1544
01:29:27,737 --> 01:29:29,535
There was no enjoyment in it, you know.
1545
01:29:29,656 --> 01:29:31,658
The music wasn't being heard.
1546
01:29:31,783 --> 01:29:35,162
It wasn't doing anything,
it was just a sort of freak show.
1547
01:29:37,956 --> 01:29:41,051
The Beatles were the show,
and the music had nothing to do with it.
1548
01:29:44,671 --> 01:29:46,173
As we were musicians,
1549
01:29:46,298 --> 01:29:48,141
we felt, if we're gonna be Beatles,
1550
01:29:48,258 --> 01:29:50,477
the only reason to be Beatles
is to make music,
1551
01:29:50,594 --> 01:29:52,722
and not be in a circus.
1552
01:29:59,477 --> 01:30:01,104
And when we were finished,
1553
01:30:01,229 --> 01:30:04,984
I remember just being piled
in the back of this meat wagon,
1554
01:30:05,108 --> 01:30:08,112
which was steel, and nothing else inside.
1555
01:30:09,738 --> 01:30:14,460
We were all in there, sorta sliding around
as it went around the corners.
1556
01:30:14,576 --> 01:30:17,455
And we're all like really mad
at the whole bloody thing.
1557
01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:20,173
John started like, you know, George...
1558
01:30:20,290 --> 01:30:22,008
"That's it, I've had enough, you know."
1559
01:30:23,168 --> 01:30:24,795
And we all agreed.
1560
01:30:26,504 --> 01:30:30,350
You know, we're just in the band,
saying, "That's enough of that."
1561
01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:48,990
We all knew, I mean, to, like, survive,
1562
01:30:49,110 --> 01:30:53,991
we had to get back in the studio
and get to know each other and play again.
1563
01:30:54,658 --> 01:30:56,831
Well, I'm not holding back, George.
1564
01:30:56,952 --> 01:30:59,171
I'm giving my all.
1565
01:30:59,287 --> 01:31:02,211
It used to make us laugh
when we'd read people saying,
1566
01:31:02,332 --> 01:31:03,754
"The problem with The Beatles is
1567
01:31:03,875 --> 01:31:06,594
"that when we were all growing up,
they were all on tour,
1568
01:31:06,711 --> 01:31:08,964
"and so they missed
the growing up period."
1569
01:31:09,089 --> 01:31:12,514
But the truth to it was
that we were snatched out of our youth.
1570
01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:14,011
We were forced grown,
1571
01:31:14,135 --> 01:31:17,309
like rhubarb when you grow it
under hothouse conditions,
1572
01:31:17,430 --> 01:31:19,683
you make it grow much quicker
than it would naturally.
1573
01:31:20,183 --> 01:31:21,856
Oh, God. Mal!
1574
01:31:21,977 --> 01:31:23,320
Broken another string?
1575
01:31:23,436 --> 01:31:25,734
I think it will probably be
another day, singing it.
1576
01:31:25,855 --> 01:31:28,449
And what you could do,
with the bits where you can't get it
1577
01:31:28,566 --> 01:31:31,115
- cos you haven't got enough breath...
- Take over, yeah.
1578
01:31:31,236 --> 01:31:33,113
All right, let's go.
1579
01:31:33,238 --> 01:31:36,412
In one way it was good,
because we went into the recording scene,
1580
01:31:36,533 --> 01:31:39,503
and really sort of expressed ourselves
through the records then,
1581
01:31:39,619 --> 01:31:41,371
because we could no longer do it outside.
1582
01:31:42,038 --> 01:31:46,134
# Living is easy with eyes closed
1583
01:31:47,502 --> 01:31:50,301
# Misunderstanding all you see
1584
01:31:52,424 --> 01:31:56,429
# It's getting hard to be someone,
but it all works out... #
1585
01:31:57,178 --> 01:32:01,103
I'd got this idea for us
to all be someone else.
1586
01:32:01,224 --> 01:32:04,148
Because we were so fed up
with being what we were.
1587
01:32:04,269 --> 01:32:06,567
We had to get out of it,
one way or another.
1588
01:32:06,688 --> 01:32:09,066
- Righty-o!
- How fast, John?
1589
01:32:09,190 --> 01:32:11,739
However you like, you know. Feel it.
1590
01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:13,612
Here we go, stand by.
1591
01:32:13,737 --> 01:32:16,240
One, two, three, four.
1592
01:32:25,331 --> 01:32:27,299
I just said to everyone,
we're not The Beatles.
1593
01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:29,469
It was to liberate us.
1594
01:32:30,086 --> 01:32:32,384
We're gonna think up
a new name for ourselves,
1595
01:32:32,505 --> 01:32:35,304
gonna think up a new way of being,
a new way of recording, a new everything.
1596
01:32:35,425 --> 01:32:36,802
Just to be fresh.
1597
01:32:36,926 --> 01:32:38,724
# So may I introduce to you
1598
01:32:39,220 --> 01:32:41,689
# The act you've known for all these years
1599
01:32:41,806 --> 01:32:45,356
# Sgt. Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band... #
1600
01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:49,738
I'll be overpowering this time.
1601
01:32:49,856 --> 01:32:52,575
Oh, good. I like it when you're brutal.
1602
01:32:52,692 --> 01:32:54,660
Quiet in the studio, please.
1603
01:33:01,326 --> 01:33:04,876
# Picture yourself in a boat on a... #
1604
01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:07,044
Just come right in with it now.
1605
01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:08,462
I think that was quicker.
1606
01:33:08,583 --> 01:33:11,462
# Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
1607
01:33:11,586 --> 01:33:12,838
# Yellow and green... #
1608
01:33:12,962 --> 01:33:14,134
- OK.
- Anyway...
1609
01:33:14,255 --> 01:33:19,386
# Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
1610
01:33:19,511 --> 01:33:23,311
# Towering over your head
1611
01:33:24,557 --> 01:33:29,529
# Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
and she's gone
1612
01:33:32,315 --> 01:33:35,535
# Lucy in the sky with diamonds
1613
01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:39,489
# Lucy in the sky... #
1614
01:33:39,614 --> 01:33:42,367
It was the music that was
interesting, that was important.
1615
01:33:42,492 --> 01:33:46,338
As long as we were going forward,
and going somewhere, it didn't matter.
1616
01:33:59,342 --> 01:34:03,563
# I read the news today, oh boy
1617
01:34:05,431 --> 01:34:09,902
# About a lucky man
who made the grade... #
1618
01:34:10,854 --> 01:34:13,528
There was a lot of faith involved
in everything we did.
1619
01:34:14,566 --> 01:34:18,287
And the people around us
had to share that faith
1620
01:34:18,403 --> 01:34:19,495
or it wouldn't have worked.
1621
01:34:20,071 --> 01:34:24,042
# Now they know how many holes it takes
to fill the Albert Hall... #
1622
01:34:25,451 --> 01:34:27,328
Brian had to have faith in us.
1623
01:34:27,453 --> 01:34:30,081
George Martin had to have faith in us.
1624
01:34:30,999 --> 01:34:33,001
This is how it was for The Beatles.
1625
01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:35,299
You had to have faith.
1626
01:34:35,420 --> 01:34:38,139
We had to have faith in each other.
1627
01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:07,019
# Don't let me down
1628
01:36:10,181 --> 01:36:12,684
# Don't let me down
1629
01:36:16,145 --> 01:36:18,989
# Don't let me down
1630
01:36:21,943 --> 01:36:24,412
# Don't let me down
1631
01:36:26,823 --> 01:36:31,329
# Nobody ever loved me like she does
1632
01:36:32,537 --> 01:36:34,289
# Ooh, she does
1633
01:36:35,415 --> 01:36:37,838
# Yes, she does
1634
01:36:39,794 --> 01:36:44,049
# And if somebody loved me like she does
1635
01:36:45,133 --> 01:36:46,601
# Ooh, she does
1636
01:36:48,177 --> 01:36:50,020
# Yes, she does
1637
01:36:53,308 --> 01:36:55,686
# Don't let me down
1638
01:36:59,230 --> 01:37:01,653
# Don't let me down
1639
01:37:05,194 --> 01:37:07,993
# Don't let me down
1640
01:37:10,908 --> 01:37:13,661
# Don't let me down
1641
01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:19,126
# I'm in love for the first time
1642
01:37:22,295 --> 01:37:25,344
# Don't you know it's gonna last
1643
01:37:28,217 --> 01:37:31,061
# It's a love that lasts forever
1644
01:37:34,057 --> 01:37:37,436
# It's a love that has no past
1645
01:37:45,568 --> 01:37:46,694
# I've got a feeling
1646
01:37:47,695 --> 01:37:51,165
# That keeps me on my toes, oh yeah
1647
01:37:52,950 --> 01:37:54,167
- # Oh, yeah
- # Oh, yeah
1648
01:37:56,954 --> 01:37:59,002
# I've got a feeling
1649
01:37:59,123 --> 01:38:02,468
# I think that everybody knows, oh yeah
1650
01:38:04,587 --> 01:38:06,806
- # Oh, yeah
- # Oh, yeah
1651
01:38:07,632 --> 01:38:09,225
# Oh, yeah
1652
01:38:09,342 --> 01:38:12,312
# Yeah, yeah
1653
01:38:12,970 --> 01:38:15,439
# I've got a feeling, yeah
1654
01:38:19,936 --> 01:38:22,405
# Everybody had a hard year
1655
01:38:23,064 --> 01:38:24,737
# Everybody had a good time
1656
01:38:25,858 --> 01:38:28,452
# Everybody had a wet dream
1657
01:38:28,986 --> 01:38:30,533
# Everybody saw the sunshine
1658
01:38:30,655 --> 01:38:32,123
- # Oh, yeah
- # Oh, yeah
1659
01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,789
# Oh, yeah, oh, yeah
1660
01:38:36,452 --> 01:38:39,331
- # Well...
- # Everybody had a good year
1661
01:38:40,331 --> 01:38:42,584
# Everybody let their hair down
1662
01:38:43,251 --> 01:38:46,004
- # Everybody pulled their socks up
- # Yeah
1663
01:38:46,129 --> 01:38:48,632
# Everybody put their foot down, oh, yeah
1664
01:38:54,303 --> 01:38:56,305
# Yeah
1665
01:38:58,641 --> 01:39:00,109
# Woo-hoo
1666
01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,938
- # I've got a feeling
- # Everybody had a good year
1667
01:39:03,062 --> 01:39:06,236
- # A feeling deep inside, oh, yeah
- # Everybody had a hard time
1668
01:39:06,357 --> 01:39:09,236
- # Everybody had a wet dream
- # Oh, yeah
1669
01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:11,283
# Everybody saw the sunshine
1670
01:39:12,238 --> 01:39:14,457
- # I've got a feeling
- # Everybody had a good year
1671
01:39:14,574 --> 01:39:17,874
- # A feeling I can't hide, oh, no
- # Everybody let their hair down
1672
01:39:17,994 --> 01:39:20,838
- # Everybody pulled their socks up
- # Oh, no, no
1673
01:39:20,955 --> 01:39:23,504
- # Everybody put their foot down
- # Yeah
1674
01:39:23,624 --> 01:39:25,592
# Yeah...
1675
01:39:26,836 --> 01:39:28,838
# I've got a feeling
1676
01:39:31,132 --> 01:39:34,136
- # I've got a feeling
- # Oh, yeah
1677
01:39:36,721 --> 01:39:38,974
# I've got a feeling
1678
01:39:39,098 --> 01:39:41,647
# Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah #
1679
01:39:51,194 --> 01:39:53,617
What a suitable ending, I think.
1680
01:40:00,244 --> 01:40:03,669
# Ooh, I need your love, babe
1681
01:40:03,789 --> 01:40:05,962
# Guess you know it's true
1682
01:40:07,293 --> 01:40:10,638
# Hope you need my love, babe
1683
01:40:10,755 --> 01:40:12,883
# Just like I need you
1684
01:40:14,217 --> 01:40:15,719
# Hold me
1685
01:40:15,843 --> 01:40:17,470
# Love me
1686
01:40:17,595 --> 01:40:19,268
# Hold me
1687
01:40:19,388 --> 01:40:20,856
# Love me
1688
01:40:20,973 --> 01:40:24,102
# I ain't got nothing but love, babe
1689
01:40:24,936 --> 01:40:26,734
# Eight days a week
1690
01:40:28,022 --> 01:40:31,026
# Love you every day, girl
1691
01:40:31,484 --> 01:40:33,612
# Always on my mind
1692
01:40:34,820 --> 01:40:37,915
# One thing I can say, girl
1693
01:40:38,366 --> 01:40:40,539
# Love you all the time
1694
01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:43,420
# Hold me
1695
01:40:43,538 --> 01:40:45,085
# Love me
1696
01:40:45,206 --> 01:40:46,833
# Hold me
1697
01:40:46,958 --> 01:40:48,380
# Love me
1698
01:40:48,501 --> 01:40:51,596
# I ain't got nothing but love, girl
1699
01:40:52,547 --> 01:40:54,299
# Eight days a week
1700
01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,099
# Eight days a week
1701
01:40:58,886 --> 01:41:01,685
# I love you
1702
01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:05,101
# Eight days a week
1703
01:41:05,935 --> 01:41:09,189
# Is not enough to show I care
1704
01:41:09,313 --> 01:41:12,487
# Ooh, I need your love, babe
1705
01:41:12,984 --> 01:41:15,078
# Guess you know it's true
1706
01:41:16,445 --> 01:41:19,289
# Hope you need my love, babe
1707
01:41:19,907 --> 01:41:22,160
# Just like I need you
1708
01:41:22,285 --> 01:41:24,913
# Oh, hold me
1709
01:41:25,037 --> 01:41:26,710
# Love me
1710
01:41:26,831 --> 01:41:28,333
# Hold me
1711
01:41:28,457 --> 01:41:29,959
# Love me
1712
01:41:30,084 --> 01:41:33,179
# I ain't got nothing but love, babe
1713
01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:35,840
# Eight days a week
1714
01:41:37,174 --> 01:41:39,848
# Eight days a week
1715
01:41:40,511 --> 01:41:43,264
# I love you
1716
01:41:44,181 --> 01:41:46,650
# Eight days a week
1717
01:41:47,518 --> 01:41:50,863
# Is not enough to show I care
1718
01:41:50,980 --> 01:41:53,984
# Love you every day, girl
1719
01:41:54,609 --> 01:41:56,737
# Always on my mind
1720
01:41:58,154 --> 01:42:01,033
# One thing I can say, girl
1721
01:42:01,616 --> 01:42:03,789
# Love you all the time
1722
01:42:05,077 --> 01:42:06,624
# Hold me
1723
01:42:06,746 --> 01:42:08,419
# Love me
1724
01:42:08,539 --> 01:42:10,132
# Hold me
1725
01:42:10,249 --> 01:42:11,671
# Love me
1726
01:42:11,792 --> 01:42:14,921
# I ain't got nothing but love, babe
1727
01:42:15,838 --> 01:42:17,590
# Eight days a week
1728
01:42:19,258 --> 01:42:21,010
# Eight days a week
1729
01:42:22,678 --> 01:42:24,476
# Eight days a week #
1730
01:42:33,314 --> 01:42:36,158
Hello, this is John speaking
with his voice.
1731
01:42:36,275 --> 01:42:40,200
We're all very happy to be able to talk to
you like this on this little bit of plastic.
1732
01:42:40,321 --> 01:42:43,325
This record reaches you
at the end of a really gear year for us,
1733
01:42:43,449 --> 01:42:44,917
and it's all due to you.
1734
01:42:45,034 --> 01:42:48,789
When we made our first record
on Parlophone towards the end of 1962,
1735
01:42:48,913 --> 01:42:51,462
we hoped everybody would like
what had already been our type of music
1736
01:42:51,582 --> 01:42:53,425
for several years already.
1737
01:42:53,542 --> 01:42:56,170
But we had no idea of all the gear things
in store for us
1738
01:42:56,295 --> 01:42:59,174
It all happened really when Please
Please Me became a number one hit,
1739
01:42:59,298 --> 01:43:01,926
and after that, well,
'cor the blimeys, heave the mo'.
1740
01:43:02,051 --> 01:43:03,303
Our biggest thrill of the year, well,
1741
01:43:03,427 --> 01:43:05,429
I suppose it must have been topping the bill
at the London Palladium
1742
01:43:05,554 --> 01:43:06,976
and then, only a couple of days later,
1743
01:43:07,098 --> 01:43:09,317
being invited to take part
in the Royal Variety Show.
1744
01:43:09,433 --> 01:43:11,106
This time last year,
we were all dead chuffed
1745
01:43:11,227 --> 01:43:13,150
because Love Me Do
got into the Top Twenty,
1746
01:43:13,270 --> 01:43:17,275
and we can't believe, really, that so many
things have happened in between already.
1747
01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:19,903
Just before I pass you over to Paul,
1748
01:43:20,027 --> 01:43:21,950
I'd like to say thank you
to all the Beatle people
1749
01:43:22,071 --> 01:43:23,539
who have written to me during the year,
1750
01:43:23,656 --> 01:43:25,954
and everyone who sent me
gifts and cards for my birthday,
1751
01:43:26,075 --> 01:43:28,169
which I'm trying to forget, in October.
1752
01:43:28,285 --> 01:43:31,380
I'd love to reply personally to everyone,
but I just haven't enough pens.
1753
01:43:31,497 --> 01:43:33,750
- In the meantime...
- This is Paul here.
1754
01:43:33,874 --> 01:43:35,797
Everything that John said goes for me too,
1755
01:43:35,918 --> 01:43:38,216
especially the bit about birthday cards
and the parcels,
1756
01:43:38,337 --> 01:43:40,931
cos all our homes and offices
got stacks of mail last June...
1757
01:43:41,048 --> 01:43:42,265
Ow!
1758
01:43:43,050 --> 01:43:44,393
...when it was my birthday.
1759
01:43:44,510 --> 01:43:48,981
Anyway, we're all dead pleased
by the way you've treated us in 1963,
1760
01:43:49,098 --> 01:43:51,100
and we try to do everything we can
to please you
1761
01:43:51,225 --> 01:43:53,478
with the type of songs
we write and record next year.
1762
01:43:53,602 --> 01:43:57,698
Oh, yeah, lots of people asked us
what we enjoy best, you see,
1763
01:43:57,815 --> 01:43:59,533
concerts and television or recording?
1764
01:43:59,650 --> 01:44:01,243
We like doing stage shows
cos it's, you know,
1765
01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:03,488
it's great to hear an audience
enjoying themselves.
1766
01:44:03,612 --> 01:44:05,910
But the thing we like best,
I think so, anyway,
1767
01:44:06,031 --> 01:44:07,704
is going into the recording studio...
1768
01:44:07,825 --> 01:44:10,544
- Yes, we enjoy that very kindly!
- ...to make new records,
1769
01:44:10,661 --> 01:44:12,038
which is what we've been doing all day
1770
01:44:12,163 --> 01:44:13,710
before we started on this special message.
1771
01:44:13,831 --> 01:44:16,129
Well, what we like to hear most
is one of our songs, you know,
1772
01:44:16,250 --> 01:44:17,968
taking shape in a recording studio,
1773
01:44:18,085 --> 01:44:19,962
one of the ones that John and I
have written,
1774
01:44:20,087 --> 01:44:24,058
and then listening to the tapes afterwards
to hear how it all worked out, you see.
1775
01:44:24,175 --> 01:44:25,927
- Ja, Ringo!
- Hello, Ringo here.
1776
01:44:26,051 --> 01:44:28,304
As you know, I was the last member
to join The Beatles.
1777
01:44:28,429 --> 01:44:31,308
I started to play drums in the group 1962.
1778
01:44:31,432 --> 01:44:33,810
I've been in a couple of other groups...
1779
01:44:33,934 --> 01:44:38,940
Oh, just wish the people a merry,
happy, go on, for Christmas, Christmas.
1780
01:44:39,064 --> 01:44:40,611
Merry, happy New Year,
1781
01:44:40,733 --> 01:44:43,111
and folks, happy Christmas, and may...
1782
01:44:43,235 --> 01:44:44,862
may everything you wish be granted.
1783
01:44:44,987 --> 01:44:47,035
Sing, sing us Wenceslas, King Wenceslas.
1784
01:44:47,156 --> 01:44:48,157
King Wenceslas.
1785
01:44:48,282 --> 01:44:50,330
- Well...!
- Hurray, Paul!
1786
01:44:50,451 --> 01:44:52,670
Thank you, Ringo! Thank you, Ringo!
1787
01:44:52,787 --> 01:44:54,380
We'll phone you!
1788
01:44:55,122 --> 01:44:56,624
I'm George Harrison.
1789
01:44:56,749 --> 01:44:59,093
Nobody else has said anything yet
about our fan club secretaries,
1790
01:44:59,210 --> 01:45:01,633
Ann Collingham and Bettina Rose,
1791
01:45:01,754 --> 01:45:04,052
not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool.
1792
01:45:04,173 --> 01:45:05,265
Good old Freda!
1793
01:45:05,382 --> 01:45:06,929
So on behalf of us all,
1794
01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:09,179
I'd just like to say a great, big thank you
1795
01:45:09,303 --> 01:45:11,806
to Ann, Bettina and Freda
for all the hard work they've done,
1796
01:45:11,931 --> 01:45:14,730
and we just hope you can go on
pleasing you for a long time,
1797
01:45:14,850 --> 01:45:18,445
cos it's gonna cause it to your reaction
to our records that really matters,
1798
01:45:18,562 --> 01:45:20,735
and I'd just like to say...
1799
01:45:20,856 --> 01:45:23,075
# Brightly was the schon at night
1800
01:45:23,192 --> 01:45:25,115
# Though the winter cruel
1801
01:45:25,236 --> 01:45:27,238
# When a pork pie came inside
1802
01:45:27,363 --> 01:45:31,209
# Gathering winter cruel #
1803
01:45:31,325 --> 01:45:34,078
Merry Christmas, everybody!
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