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We don't know, it may be next week, it may be two or three years

but I think we'll be in the business for at least another four years

You can be big-headed and say yeah, we're going to last 10 years

but when you've said it, you think we're lucky if we last three months

Probably the thing that John and I will do

will be write songs, as we've been doing, as a sort of sideline

We'll hope to develop that a bit more

When we go home early in the morning, when we've finished the job

The kids don't know you at home

but if they find out-well, where I live, they'll get the drums out!

It was getting really big - we noticed as we moved around town

and started being noticed in the street

I was grateful that we had a kind of staircase to climb

First it was making it big in Liverpool, then being the best in the county

then the best in England, then we'd go to Scotland and break them in

Then it was well, what's left? Er... radio

We wanted to be on Brian Matthews' Saturday Morning Club, a huge show

The thing I loved would be to wake after a week of school or whatever...

I had a radio by my bed and would lie in until about 11

The most delicious lie in of your life, those teenage lie-ins, Saturday

Lie in, feeling great, turn the radio on

and this programme would be on for another hour

We really wanted to be on that. We knew there was a huge audience

Many tracks for Saturday Club were never put on record

Some good stuff we'd done at the Cavern or Hamburg, well recorded

We come along on Saturday morning, greeting everybody with a smile

Isn't that nice - thank you, dear Beatles

Your goal is always just a few yards ahead rather than right up there

Neil Aspinall Road Manager When we used to tour-do those...

Arthur Howe touring shows with quite a number of people on the bill

Roy Orbison, Tommy Roe, Gerry and the Pacemakers

Helen Shapiro... there'd be a number of people on the bill

and everybody got 12 minutes, 15, 20 minutes, whatever

In that time all anybody could do was plug their hit records

The ones the audience knew

With Helen Shapiro it was really embarrassing

We were happy just to be on the first nationwide tour of the theatres

She was established, she'd been around and had a bunch of hits

We were happy just to be on the tour, but it was embarrassing

because Please Please Me got to number 1 while we were on the road

and all the people coming to the show were waiting for the Beatles

It was embarrassing, because she was very nice

I think it was the tour after that when it was Tommy Roe

and Chris Montez and the Beatles

They moved us to being... actually closing the first half of the show

George Martin Record Producer Let's go back a bit. The first record we issued was Love Me Do

The second was Please Please Me

which was only arrived at after much doubt on my part

that they could ever write a hit song

From that moment they blossomed, they became wonderful songwriters

But before they showed evidence of that, I still had to have an album out

I'd been to the Cavern and seen what they could do

I knew their repertoire, what they were able to perform

I said, let's record every song you've got

We'll whistle through them in a day

We knew those songs, that was the act we did all over the country

Basically this album was just what we did in the clubs

We just kept running through songs: "What about this... or this?"

We'd play and he'd say, "What else have you got?"

And 10.30 that evening, John sang Twist and Shout

His voice was going all day

He knew he could only give it one or two goes and it would just rip it

Which it did - you can hear it on the record

I couldn't sing the damn thing, I was just screaming

I heard they were coming to the Manchester Odeon

Derek Taylor Beatles' Press Officer We theatre critics, so-called

didn't cover one-night stands of pop stars as there was no continuity

Anyway, I bought tickets at �1 each, I think

Gerry and the Pacemakers and Roy Orbison preceded the Beatles

It was hard to keep up with that man, he really put on a show

They all did, but Orbison had that fantastic voice

We'd be on the tour bus and Roy would be at the back

He wrote something like Pretty Woman and played it to us-great song

So a bit of competition came in - we had to write one as good

So we were just trying to improve all the time

We listened to other songs and tried to beat them

By the time we got to From Me To You... it was nice

I was very pleased with the chord in the middle, which was different...

That minor chord was something we hadn't done before

We'd always know when we were going to be on the radio

Brian would say "Hello boys, it's going to be on at 7.20"

We'd all be in the car and we'd stop so we could listen to it

The Beatles and From Me to You, their third single release

which is this week sitting at the top of the hit parade

Every time it moved in the charts, we'd have a celebratory dinner

If you look at the Beatles, from their first 18 months, they went...

because we were eating all this food

That's where I discovered smoked salmon

I'd only ever had tinned salmon until I was 22!

We never stopped anywhere

If we were in Elgin on a Thursday

and we needed to be in Portsmouth on Friday, we'd just drive

We didn't know how to stop this van

Neil would drive and there'd be the passenger seat

and three of us would sit on the bench seat-whichever three

We'd sit on this bench seat, which was pretty miserable

We'd go everywhere in the van. We'd kip on the amps

Some nights were so foggy, you'd be doing one mile an hour

and you'd still just keep going

We were like homing pigeons. You have to keep getting home

We got Mal when Neil couldn't come because he was sick

We had to go down to do a radio show in London

We knew this guy Mal. He worked for the GPO

and he used to be a part-time bouncer at the Cavern

We got to know him and somebody suggested he drive for us

He drove us a couple of times when Neil couldn't make it

Then there was so much happening, we employed him full-time

Once, on the motorway

the windscreen got knocked out by a pebble

Mal Evans Beatles' Roadie So Mal put his hat on backwards, punched the windscreen out and drove

This was winter in Britain and it was freezing and foggy

We had to look for the kerb all the way to Liverpool, 200 miles

We were very, very cold

I remember we lay on each other

With a bottle of whisky

When the one on top was so cold, hypothermia was setting in

it was his turn to get on the bottom

We would warm each other up that way and keep swigging the whisky

It was quite an image

People think stardom, and it's glamorous

and there's us freezing, lying literally on top of each other

Oh yeah, we were tight

That was one thing to be said about us, we were really tight as friends

We could argue a lot amongst ourselves but we were very close

In the early days, we'd make a record in about 12 hours

A single every 3 months meant we'd have to write in the hotel or in a van

The demand on us was tremendous

I remember sitting on a pair of twin beds in a hotel bedroom

We had a day off so we were going to write a song

Our early songs, Please Please ME, From ME to YOU, P.S. I Love YOU

They were always very personal - Thank YOU girl

And we hit on the idea of doing a kind of reported conversation

"I saw her yesterday, she told me what to say, she said SHE loves YOU"

It gave us another little dimension, just meant that the song

was something different from what we and others had written before

Half a million advance orders have been made

for the Beatles' latest single, She Loves You

It looks likely to be three number ones in a row for the Liverpool boys

We were the first working class singers

that stayed working class and pronounced it

Didn't try and change our accents which in England were looked down upon

Cathy - A Fan from the Cavern Club The Beatles are Liverpudlians. They belong to us and to the Cavern

Yes, let the rest of the country have them and enjoy them

but please let them come back to us, at least once

just to be the same as they used to be

It would be fantastic

It was impossible to go home

If you're in our business, you go to London

The recordings are there, the places to be seen are there

Where it's happening is there, it's just a natural move

George and I shared an apartment off Park Lane, �45 a week, a fortune

We'd go to the Saddle Rooms. It used to be a club

They used to have this horse and coach outside

Two little drunken Beatles in the back were being taken home

This is two shit kickers from Liverpool and this is far out news

"Oh, let's take the carriage"

It was great, we were kings and were all just at the prime

We used to go round London in our cars and meet each other

and talk about music with The Animals and Eric

and we were very close to The Stones

This song we're going to play, I Wanna Be Your Man

We virtually finished it in front of them because they needed a record

They'd put out Come On by Chuck Berry and needed a quick follow-up

They did it first - we did it with Ringo after

We were always nervous before each step we went up the ladder

but we always had that comfort of being four together

Not like Elvis, you know

I always felt sorry later for Elvis because he was on his own

There was only one Elvis - nobody else knew what he felt like

But for us, we all shared the experience

The Beatles, The Beatles... no, it couldn't catch on

Big Night Out TV Show Hey, Bern! Is the tea ready yet?

Good evening and welcome to Big Night Out

The Morecambe And Wise Show It's the Kay Sisters! Fabulous!

The Kay Sisters? This is the Beatles!

Hello, Beatle... where is he?

There he is. Hello, Bongo!

That's Ringo! - Is he there as well? Oh great!

As you can gather, this is Eric. Say hello to Eric

I remember you, you're the one with short, fat, hairy legs

No, he's the one with short, fat, hairy legs

We're the ones with the big, fat, hairy heads

Get out of that!

What's it like, being famous? - It's not like in your day, you know

That's an insult, that is. What do you mean, not like in my day?

My dad used to tell me about you - In the old days

You've only got a little dad, have you?

All right, Bonzo?!

It's Ringo! - Yeah, him as well

Get 'em off, they've done enough. I'm getting insulted

Let's do a number with the boys - One their dad will remember

You go and get changed

What should we do, boys? Something suitable for Eric's age?

Moonlight Bay. OK, you go and get changed

On television for the first time, Morecambe and Wise and the Beatles

presenting that wonderful old fashioned number, Moonlight Bay

OK fellas, that's great, you look marvellous. Are you ready?

Right, we'll take it from the top

Have the Beatles gone? - No, they're here

What are you doing? - It's murder... I can't keep up

I haven't got one... - Take 4!

I can't breathe after all that mouth organ. Can we skip it?

I couldn't hear what chords they were going...

A bit less of George

I feel like I'm singing in a sock... a one, two, three, four...

You've done it again

You made a mistake

Do it slower - No!

Ready - Ringo... keep your bit dead

Ringo! - We're taping

No, the first one a loud attack, the second one not quite so loud

Rhythm and Blues, part nine

Paul forgot to sing - God, I'm sorry

I was just watching George...

What happened? - It's every time you jump like that

Don't slow down for christ sakes...

or I'm giving you no more drugs

Been for a shit I see, Megan?

Take 1- No reply

Stop

I just can't get anywhere near light so he'll have to do it

I'll try to remember, John, and if I don't it's just too bad, in't it?

You daft get!

George, what did the bass sound like? Good? Or utterly crap?

Did it? Well let's see how you like it

Take 13

When I was playing in the living room with Eddie Clayton

my mother's friend Annie McGuire would say:

"See you on the Palladium, son! See your name in lights"

That was the place to get to, the London Palladium!

Nothing bigger in the world than making it to the Palladium

And I said "Yeah, sure, Annie, that's where we're going to go"

So it was one of my things too: "To the Palladium!"

That was as far as I was looking

And I was sick

"Here they are..." - and I spewed up and went on

I was just nervous, craziness, you know, tension

We played the gig and we got on that roundabout and it was dynamite

This was it, you know what I mean

Anyone who knew you was so... fucking hell... hey, look at this!

It was just pretty far out, the Palladium

We like the fans and enjoy reading the publicity about us

but from time to time you don't realise it's actually about yourself

You see your pictures and read articles

about George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Paul and John

but you don't actually think, "Oh, that's me in the paper"

It's funny, it's just as though it's a different person

It all sounds complaining but we're not, we're just putting the point

It affects your home more than it does yourself

You know what to expect but your parents and family don't

We were treated differently and we had to get used to that

Then you found yourself in a weird land

All these people you've grown up with and lived with -

suddenly it was the one place you didn't want to change

It all changed after that

You were never sure who your friends were unless you had them before

People are so in awe of fame

All you have to do is go on the radio or television once

and people see you in the street and act differently

But the Beatles were in the papers every day for a year or so

Everybody changes, they're so impressed by it

People forget how to act normal

The one absolute, clear vision:

I was at my aunty's, where I'd been a thousand times before

We were having a cup of tea one night

It may have been after one of those shows

Somebody knocked the table and my tea went in my saucer

Suddenly it was "He can't have that, we have to tidy it up"

That would never have happened before

I thought, things are changing. It was like an arrow to the brain

Drop In TV Show Sweden 3rd November 1963

London Airport 31st October 1963

The Beatles return from Sweden to what the press call 'Beatlemania'

We'll see what the Queen Mother thinks of Beatlemania

when the Beatles perform at the Royal Variety Show on November 4th

I was sent to pursue them...

to harass them in September '63

by the News Editor of the Daily Express, who said they'd had it

They'd betray their young fans by appearing on the Royal Variety Show

Go and get them. Get a quote

Get them to condemn themselves by saying:

"We shouldn't be doing it, we're betraying our fans"

We all turned up: the Daily Mail, the Express, the Mirror

They were very defiant. Ringo did the perfect quote:

"I want to play my drums for the Queen Mum"

John, in this Royal Variety Show, you're appearing before royalty

Your language has to be good

and this thing with Ted Heath saying he couldn't understand you

I can't understand Teddy saying that at all really

I'm not going to vote for Ted

Paul, any changes in the act or will it be the usual routine?

No, we'll have to change it. Hey, stop hitting me

We can't do the same thing all the time

We haven't thought about it - Suits with collars, parted hair?

You never know. We may not wear suits. We've no idea

Prince of Wales Theatre 4th November 1963

Thank you very much indeed

The next song we'd like to sing is a bit slower

This is from the show The Music Man

It's also been recorded

by our favourite American group, Sophie Tucker

For our last number, I'd like to ask your help

Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands

and the rest of you, if you'd just rattle your jewellery

Thank you. We'd like to sing a song called Twist and Shout

We wanted to give people their money's worth with our records

Our policy was to put 14 tracks a side-it was brand new

and never put singles on the albums

Everybody else who had a hit single made an album around it

With the Beatles was a sort of 'first songbook'

They gave me a list of their songs

They were all thinking in terms of singles still

We weren't thinking of an album being an entity by itself

It was a collection of songs

All we did was to record singles

and the ones that weren't too good we'd put on an album

which is what With the Beatles was

Robert Freeman, who took this picture

copied, on request actually, Astrid Kirchherr's photographs

We showed him the pictures Astrid took and said do it like this

With the Beatles has broken the record for advance sales of an LP

It has an advance of a quarter of a million

The previous record was held by Elvis Presley's Blue Hawaii

Brian Epstein could well be right in his prediction

that the Beatles one day will be bigger than Elvis Presley

One of the cheekiest things we ever did was say to Brian Epstein:

"We're not going to America till we've got a number 1 "

We'd seen a lot of people, like Adam Faith, Cliff Richard -

quite big stars in Britain -

go to America and be 3rd or 4th on the bill after Frankie Avalon

or Fabian and people like that who were one hit wonders to us

So we thought, that's the kiss of death to go over to America

Take a downward step in your career. We didn't want to do that

So we told Brian we wouldn't go until we have a number 1 record

We were trying to get into America all the time

I really thought She Loves You would have broken the American market

but if you think of our frustration here

we were being turned down by the company, which EMI actually owned

I was so frustrated, I said if they're not going to put it out -

From Me To You was the first one we offered them -

they can't deny us other people putting them out

I would take the record back and try and get it out with another label

I did negotiations with Swan and with VJ

each of whom, tiny labels in the States, took one or other title

They put those records out in America

Of course, being small labels, they didn't make a great deal of success

That was the way it worked out. We released Please Please Me - Flop

From Me to You - Flop. Changed labels, released She Loves You

In England they'd all been number 1. All of them flops-nothing

By this time the news from England and Europe was overwhelming

that they were a hit group and they had to take them more seriously

Also the Swan and VJ labels were selling by this time

So Capitol were forced to release I Want To Hold Your Hand

It wasn't made for the American market but it was a great record

Le Bourget Airport, Paris 14th January 1964

The funny thing about France was it was boys screaming

I think the girls were heavily chaperoned because it was boys

Yeah oui, OK, you know. Dear me, a funny crowd

We went down kind of medium. We were on the bill with Trini Lopez:

If he had a hammer - if you remember

I didn't know Trini was on that show. I thought it was Sylvie Vartan

It was very strange because suddenly...

we had all these boys chasing us all over Paris

We had visions of all these French girls, ooh la la, and all that

But the opening night audience were tuxedoed elderly French people

Hanging round the stage door, all seemed to be a bunch

of slightly gay looking boys, shouting "Ringo, Ringo"

We didn't go down that well but we built it up over a few days

Eventually it was a bit of a success

But we were used to a little bit more instant success than that

We got a telegram at the hotel after one of the shows

It came from Capitol Records

Congratulations, lads, number 1 in US charts or something

We all hit the roof. I remember riding around on Mal Evans's back

He was happy to bear me. It was just very high hysterics

Brian rang me about half past one in the morning:

"I know you won't mind being woken." I said I wasn't asleep anyway

He said "I've just heard from America. We're number 1!"

Fantastic! He said "Do you want to come round?" Not half!

So we went round and had a great drink up. No bed that night!

It was a great feeling because we were booked to go there

directly after Paris, so it was handy to have a number 1

British pop stars haven't made much impact on the US. How will you fare?

Well, I can't really say, can I?

Is it up to me? No. I just hope we go all right

London Airport 7th February 1964

I know on the plane over I was thinking "Oh, we won't make it"

We knew we would wipe them out

It was like flying into the unknown, we didn't know what to expect

We were going to America

It was the first time for everyone, except George

I remember before landing, it was so exciting

As the plane flew over New York It felt like some sci-fi movie

and a big octopus grabbed the plane and was dragging us down to New York

and it was all so exciting. This was America

Things we'd dreamt about and all the music we'd loved came from here

All the music we'd loved came from there so just to be there was exciting

but because we'd made this condition of being number 1 before we went

it was like going as princes

Millions of kids at the airport, which nobody expected

We heard about it mid-air as I recall

There were journalists on the plane and the pilot radioed ahead

He said tell the boys there's a big crowd waiting for them

We never expected anybody

We didn't expect to sell records here so we were just amazed

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