1 00:00:56,473 --> 00:00:58,475 (KNOCK ON DOOR, DOOR OPENS) 2 00:00:59,101 --> 00:01:00,148 JOHN: Ringo! 3 00:01:00,269 --> 00:01:02,363 RINGO: Wait till we get on there and it dies a death. 4 00:01:03,689 --> 00:01:04,906 PAUL: Thank you. 5 00:01:05,023 --> 00:01:06,491 JOHN: You all right, George? 6 00:01:07,150 --> 00:01:09,369 GEORGE: Something's going on with these big boots. 7 00:01:09,486 --> 00:01:10,863 JOHN: I'm going on in Dougie's pants, 8 00:01:10,988 --> 00:01:13,787 so when I bend down, I hope they don't just split open. 9 00:01:14,575 --> 00:01:16,077 GEORGE: You need a light? 10 00:01:16,201 --> 00:01:18,078 JOHN: Paul's all right, he's got his jacket on. 11 00:01:18,203 --> 00:01:19,876 RINGO: Anyone have a towel? Excuse me. 12 00:01:19,997 --> 00:01:21,715 - PAUL: Don't be nervous, John. - JOHN: I'm not, Macca. 13 00:01:21,832 --> 00:01:24,176 PAUL: Cases are still within the door. 14 00:01:27,713 --> 00:01:31,388 JOHN: I get something in me head, and all the walls of Rome couldn't stop me. 15 00:01:32,134 --> 00:01:33,852 PAUL: All right, pickled onion. 16 00:01:34,970 --> 00:01:38,144 PAUL: (PRESENT DAY) I remember so vividly showing up at a show, 17 00:01:38,265 --> 00:01:40,438 and you'd be in your ordinary clothes, 18 00:01:40,559 --> 00:01:42,778 and then you'd take out of your little suitcase 19 00:01:42,894 --> 00:01:45,818 your suit, and your shirt, 20 00:01:45,939 --> 00:01:48,112 and put 'em on, 21 00:01:48,233 --> 00:01:51,032 and then finally your Beatle boots. 22 00:01:52,279 --> 00:01:54,031 And you'd stand up. 23 00:01:54,156 --> 00:01:58,787 And you just looked at each other like, "Yeah, there we are." 24 00:01:59,411 --> 00:02:00,412 One, two. 25 00:02:01,079 --> 00:02:06,882 # She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah 26 00:02:07,002 --> 00:02:11,553 # She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah 27 00:02:12,633 --> 00:02:15,307 # You think you've lost your love 28 00:02:15,427 --> 00:02:18,522 # Well, I saw her yesterday 29 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:21,609 # It's you she's thinking of 30 00:02:21,725 --> 00:02:24,103 # And she told me what to say 31 00:02:24,227 --> 00:02:26,446 # She says she loves you 32 00:02:26,563 --> 00:02:28,986 # And you know that can't be bad 33 00:02:30,901 --> 00:02:32,403 # She loves you 34 00:02:32,527 --> 00:02:35,451 # And you know you should be glad 35 00:02:37,240 --> 00:02:40,244 # She said you hurt her so 36 00:02:40,369 --> 00:02:43,248 # She almost lost her mind 37 00:02:43,372 --> 00:02:46,421 # Now she says she knows 38 00:02:46,541 --> 00:02:49,260 # You're not the hurting kind 39 00:02:49,378 --> 00:02:50,880 # Because she loves you 40 00:02:51,004 --> 00:02:53,177 # And you know that can't be bad 41 00:02:55,550 --> 00:02:57,018 # She loves you 42 00:02:57,135 --> 00:02:59,854 # And you know you should be glad 43 00:03:00,472 --> 00:03:01,473 # Ooh... 44 00:03:01,598 --> 00:03:04,147 # She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah 45 00:03:05,018 --> 00:03:06,395 # She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah... # 46 00:03:06,520 --> 00:03:09,148 REPORTER 1: 'Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are The Beatles, those are, 47 00:03:09,272 --> 00:03:12,071 'and this is Beatleland, formerly known as Britain, 48 00:03:12,192 --> 00:03:16,538 'where an epidemic called Beatlemania has seized the teenage population.' 49 00:03:16,655 --> 00:03:19,249 REPORTER 2: 'Such confusion here at London airport. 50 00:03:19,366 --> 00:03:21,789 'Hundreds and hundreds of young Beatle fans.' 51 00:03:21,910 --> 00:03:23,787 The younger generation is going to hell! 52 00:03:23,912 --> 00:03:24,913 Just gorgeous. 53 00:03:25,038 --> 00:03:26,335 - They're what? - They're gorgeous. 54 00:03:26,456 --> 00:03:29,130 It's their haircuts, and the clothes, they're settin' a new fashion. 55 00:03:29,251 --> 00:03:32,755 The way they sing, their clothes, their hair. They sound different. 56 00:03:32,879 --> 00:03:34,597 But they're confident, they're natural. 57 00:03:34,715 --> 00:03:36,592 They sort of represent the teenage people. 58 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:39,470 # Be glad 59 00:03:41,138 --> 00:03:43,687 # Yeah, yeah, yeah 60 00:03:44,516 --> 00:03:47,486 # Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah # 61 00:03:56,570 --> 00:04:00,165 PAUL: By the end, it became quite complicated. 62 00:04:00,282 --> 00:04:03,456 But at the beginning, things were really simple. 63 00:04:04,411 --> 00:04:06,334 Thank you very much everybody! 64 00:04:07,247 --> 00:04:10,171 - Thank you, yeah. - Thank you very much. 65 00:04:13,628 --> 00:04:16,598 PAUL: A lot of people thought we were an overnight sensation. 66 00:04:16,715 --> 00:04:18,058 We weren't. 67 00:04:18,175 --> 00:04:21,395 People didn't realise we'd had all this development. 68 00:04:21,511 --> 00:04:26,438 They just saw these four things that looked alike with this haircut, 69 00:04:26,558 --> 00:04:28,185 and they knew how to play, 70 00:04:28,310 --> 00:04:29,937 and they were a bit of a laugh, 71 00:04:30,061 --> 00:04:33,941 you know, 'cause that's what we'd been doing all those years previously. 72 00:04:38,153 --> 00:04:39,530 JOHN: I had a group. 73 00:04:39,654 --> 00:04:41,998 I was the singer and the leader. 74 00:04:42,532 --> 00:04:44,876 I met Paul and said, "Do you want to join me band", you know? 75 00:04:45,327 --> 00:04:47,750 And then George joined. 76 00:04:48,288 --> 00:04:50,211 We were great live performers then. 77 00:04:50,332 --> 00:04:52,881 I don't think anybody in the world ever saw us outside of Liverpool 78 00:04:53,001 --> 00:04:54,719 and a few places where we travelled to, 79 00:04:54,836 --> 00:04:58,215 because that's when we had to perform live to a small audience in a dance hall, 80 00:04:58,340 --> 00:04:59,466 we had to hold them. 81 00:05:00,926 --> 00:05:03,349 PAUL: We were just playing, all the time. 82 00:05:03,470 --> 00:05:05,143 Then we went out to Hamburg, 83 00:05:05,263 --> 00:05:07,561 and that was a real slog. 84 00:05:09,476 --> 00:05:12,355 We were playing, sometimes eight hours a day. 85 00:05:13,939 --> 00:05:17,910 GEORGE: I was right in the middle of the naughtiest city in the world, 86 00:05:18,026 --> 00:05:19,494 at 17 years old. 87 00:05:19,611 --> 00:05:21,909 It was kind of exciting. 88 00:05:23,657 --> 00:05:25,159 (WHISTLING) 89 00:05:27,661 --> 00:05:28,913 RINGO: I was with Rory Storm. 90 00:05:29,037 --> 00:05:30,914 We were like the top band in Liverpool, 91 00:05:31,039 --> 00:05:34,464 and for some reason, this guy in Hamburg decided to come to Liverpool 92 00:05:34,584 --> 00:05:37,758 and take all the bands to Germany to play. 93 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:41,258 We went to see these punks, and that was it. 94 00:05:42,676 --> 00:05:46,726 PAUL: I still remember that moment, the first time Ringo played with us. 95 00:05:46,847 --> 00:05:49,066 Bang, he kicks in and it's like... 96 00:05:49,182 --> 00:05:50,684 And it was an oh, my God moment, 97 00:05:50,809 --> 00:05:53,733 we're like... I remember looking, and we're all looking at each other, like, 98 00:05:53,854 --> 00:05:55,982 "Yeah, this is it." 99 00:05:57,315 --> 00:05:58,942 I'm getting very emotional. 100 00:06:03,572 --> 00:06:07,122 GEORGE: Once we got Ringo, we started to do better 101 00:06:07,242 --> 00:06:10,041 and sort of do it professionally. 102 00:06:10,161 --> 00:06:11,834 RINGO: You know, for me, I'm an only child, 103 00:06:11,955 --> 00:06:14,549 I felt like I suddenly had three brothers. 104 00:06:18,003 --> 00:06:20,051 We just wanted to play. 105 00:06:20,922 --> 00:06:23,345 Playing was the most important thing. 106 00:06:24,759 --> 00:06:27,387 GEORGE: Hamburg was a bit messy, you know, 107 00:06:27,512 --> 00:06:30,106 I mean, to sleep all huddled together in one room. 108 00:06:30,223 --> 00:06:31,850 You know, no bathroom or anything, 109 00:06:31,975 --> 00:06:35,104 but then we'd had practice, because we didn't have a bathroom at home. 110 00:06:36,062 --> 00:06:39,692 JOHN: We used to have this saying that I used to chant and they would answer, 111 00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:41,284 when they were depressed, you know, 112 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:43,119 and thinking the group was going nowhere, 113 00:06:43,236 --> 00:06:46,490 and this is a shitty deal, and we're in a shitty dressing room. 114 00:06:46,615 --> 00:06:48,743 I say, "Where are we going, fellows?" And they'd go: 115 00:06:48,867 --> 00:06:50,835 GEORGE: To the top, Johnny. 116 00:06:50,952 --> 00:06:52,795 JOHN: And I'd say, where's that, fellows? And they'd say: 117 00:06:52,913 --> 00:06:55,382 GEORGE: To the toppermost of the poppermost, Johnny. 118 00:06:55,498 --> 00:06:59,219 JOHN: And I'd say, "Right!" And we'd all sort of cheer up. 119 00:07:01,755 --> 00:07:04,349 GEORGE: We were always kinda, you know, a little nervous 120 00:07:04,466 --> 00:07:07,219 before each step we went up the ladder. 121 00:07:08,178 --> 00:07:11,273 But we didn't realise what was to come. 122 00:07:11,890 --> 00:07:14,564 (# THE BEATLES: "PLEASE PLEASE ME") 123 00:07:19,356 --> 00:07:24,487 # Last night I said these words to my girl... # 124 00:07:24,611 --> 00:07:25,658 REPORTER: 'The Beatles. 125 00:07:25,779 --> 00:07:28,407 'In one meteoric year, they've led the way 126 00:07:28,531 --> 00:07:31,410 'from the centres of Liverpool to the national limelight.' 127 00:07:31,534 --> 00:07:32,956 INTERVIEWER: Do you have any fears 128 00:07:33,078 --> 00:07:35,627 that your public eventually will move on to a new favourite? 129 00:07:35,747 --> 00:07:37,499 PAUL: It's stupid to worry about things like that. 130 00:07:37,624 --> 00:07:39,718 It's not worth missing your sleep for, is it? 131 00:07:39,834 --> 00:07:42,007 - No. - No. 132 00:07:42,128 --> 00:07:44,506 - What do you think? - It could, it could happen tomorrow 133 00:07:44,631 --> 00:07:46,304 and we could have quite a run. 134 00:07:51,680 --> 00:07:54,604 RICHARD CURTIS: I was living in Sweden, and The Beatles came to Sweden. 135 00:07:54,724 --> 00:07:56,601 I remember I went day after day 136 00:07:56,726 --> 00:07:59,195 and stood outside the hotel at the end of school. 137 00:08:00,981 --> 00:08:04,827 And I just remember seeing their figures on the balcony. 138 00:08:04,943 --> 00:08:07,537 Once a day, The Beatles would come out and wave. 139 00:08:08,154 --> 00:08:11,124 Hello, my name's Paul McCartney and I play bass guitar. 140 00:08:11,241 --> 00:08:12,743 Hello, people there, 141 00:08:12,867 --> 00:08:16,167 I'm George Harrison and I play solo guitar, yeah. 142 00:08:16,287 --> 00:08:18,631 This is Ringo Starr and I play drums. 143 00:08:18,748 --> 00:08:20,796 And this is John Lennon, and I play better guitar. 144 00:08:22,127 --> 00:08:24,255 CURTIS: They were like a gang, do you know what I mean? 145 00:08:24,379 --> 00:08:26,302 They each had their little characteristic. 146 00:08:26,423 --> 00:08:28,801 I mean, John was surprisingly fearless. 147 00:08:28,925 --> 00:08:31,053 Paul was surprisingly cute. 148 00:08:31,177 --> 00:08:33,771 Ringo was cheeky and irresistible. 149 00:08:33,888 --> 00:08:36,437 And George was the one that my sister was in love with. 150 00:08:36,558 --> 00:08:39,607 Now, you're tremendously lively and full of zing on the stage, 151 00:08:39,728 --> 00:08:42,527 how difficult is it for you to keep up this zest? 152 00:08:42,647 --> 00:08:44,445 Well, we do the zest we can. 153 00:08:46,484 --> 00:08:48,782 CURTIS: I've spent my whole career, in a way, 154 00:08:48,903 --> 00:08:52,282 trying to recapture in things that I write, 155 00:08:52,407 --> 00:08:55,661 the hilarity of four friends, 156 00:08:55,785 --> 00:08:58,584 one drink down, age 19, 157 00:08:58,705 --> 00:09:03,802 laughing at their jokes and all the new stuff that they find really funny. 158 00:09:03,918 --> 00:09:07,764 The Beatles were kind of the dream of how you might be with your friends 159 00:09:07,881 --> 00:09:09,133 as you went through life. 160 00:09:09,257 --> 00:09:11,510 All screaming, screaming, that's the man of the year, 161 00:09:11,634 --> 00:09:13,762 and you say, "Why do they scream?" 162 00:09:14,304 --> 00:09:15,977 - I don't know. - No. 163 00:09:16,097 --> 00:09:17,940 I couldn't tell you. 164 00:09:19,309 --> 00:09:21,152 If somebody scores a goal, 165 00:09:21,269 --> 00:09:25,274 there's a louder cheer from all the people, 166 00:09:25,398 --> 00:09:28,823 so if we shake our heads, it's the equivalent of scoring a goal, 167 00:09:28,943 --> 00:09:32,493 and that's when the screams are loudest. Do you see what I mean? 168 00:09:32,614 --> 00:09:34,867 Yes, yes I do understand. You do that and they scream. 169 00:09:34,991 --> 00:09:38,586 (# THE BEATLES: "TWIST AND SHOUT") 170 00:09:42,957 --> 00:09:44,209 # Ah... 171 00:09:44,876 --> 00:09:47,385 # Ah... 172 00:09:52,509 --> 00:09:56,480 - # Well, shake it up, baby, now - # Shake it up, baby 173 00:09:57,055 --> 00:10:00,150 - # Twist and shout - # Twist and shout 174 00:10:00,266 --> 00:10:02,610 # Come on, come on, come on, come on, baby, now 175 00:10:02,727 --> 00:10:03,899 # Come on, baby 176 00:10:04,020 --> 00:10:06,273 # Come on and work it on out 177 00:10:06,397 --> 00:10:07,614 # Work it on out 178 00:10:07,732 --> 00:10:11,362 - # Well, you twisty little girl - # Twisty little girl 179 00:10:11,486 --> 00:10:14,956 - # You know you twist so fine - # Twist so fine 180 00:10:15,073 --> 00:10:19,044 - # Come on and twist a little closer now - # Twist a little closer 181 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,585 - # And let me know that you're mine - # Let me know you're mine 182 00:10:22,705 --> 00:10:25,208 # Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now 183 00:10:25,333 --> 00:10:26,755 # Shake it up, baby 184 00:10:26,876 --> 00:10:28,799 # Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now 185 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:30,547 # Shake it up, baby 186 00:10:30,672 --> 00:10:33,095 # Well, shake it, shake it, shake it, baby, now 187 00:10:33,216 --> 00:10:35,560 # Shake it up, baby... ooh! 188 00:10:36,177 --> 00:10:41,809 # Ah... 189 00:10:41,933 --> 00:10:44,027 # Yeah # 190 00:10:54,988 --> 00:10:58,117 (GONG) 'This is the BBC Home Service. 191 00:10:58,241 --> 00:11:00,869 'Here is the news read by Frank Phillips. 192 00:11:01,452 --> 00:11:05,457 'Thousands of teenagers who had been waiting for more than 12 hours in Liverpool 193 00:11:05,582 --> 00:11:07,880 'to book for a Beatle show were disappointed. 194 00:11:08,585 --> 00:11:11,384 'At one time, the queue stretched for over a mile 195 00:11:11,504 --> 00:11:14,724 'and the police had to seal off side streets to traffic. 196 00:11:14,841 --> 00:11:17,640 'Ambulance men dealt with more than a hundred casualties, 197 00:11:17,760 --> 00:11:20,934 'most of them suffering from exposure to the rain. 198 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:25,060 'When the tickets ran out, many young girls burst into tears. 199 00:11:25,185 --> 00:11:28,109 'More rain is forecast for most of Scotland...' 200 00:11:28,646 --> 00:11:30,614 'Hello, London, this is Leonard Parkin 201 00:11:30,732 --> 00:11:32,951 'calling Radio News Reel from Washington. 202 00:11:33,067 --> 00:11:37,038 'President Kennedy and Governor John Connally 203 00:11:37,155 --> 00:11:39,032 'were shot today from an ambush 204 00:11:39,157 --> 00:11:43,207 'as President Kennedy's motorcade Ieft the centre of Dallas 205 00:11:43,328 --> 00:11:45,626 'where the President was on a speaking tour.' 206 00:11:48,750 --> 00:11:50,502 PAUL: It was disturbing for us. 207 00:11:52,086 --> 00:11:54,214 It was a mixture of all these sort of strange things. 208 00:11:56,633 --> 00:11:58,510 Where the world was at. 209 00:11:59,552 --> 00:12:01,020 It was scary. 210 00:12:03,932 --> 00:12:07,607 But in all truthfulness, we were more in our own heads. 211 00:12:08,645 --> 00:12:10,397 You know, being in a band. 212 00:12:17,195 --> 00:12:19,323 RINGO: You know, we were lads. 213 00:12:19,447 --> 00:12:24,169 It was like, this is our journey, and things are being put in place. 214 00:12:24,285 --> 00:12:25,707 Outside of our consciousness. 215 00:12:26,829 --> 00:12:29,673 Even the first trip to America. 216 00:12:29,791 --> 00:12:31,543 There was no plan. You could not plan it. 217 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:35,304 PAUL: I'd been very fussy about America. 218 00:12:35,421 --> 00:12:40,268 I'd said, "We can't go to America, and come back having failed. 219 00:12:40,385 --> 00:12:44,231 "If we ever get a number one there, then we can really go in, 220 00:12:44,347 --> 00:12:46,020 "and you know, we'll be kings!" 221 00:12:46,140 --> 00:12:47,608 REPORTER: 'So Marsha Albert 222 00:12:47,725 --> 00:12:50,148 'has the honour of introducing something brand new, 223 00:12:50,270 --> 00:12:52,364 'an exclusive here at WWDC. 224 00:12:52,480 --> 00:12:54,778 'Marsha, the microphone here on the Carroll James Show is yours.' 225 00:12:55,358 --> 00:12:58,783 MARSHA: 'Ladies and gentlemen, for the first time on the air in the United States, 226 00:12:58,903 --> 00:13:01,247 'here are The Beatles singing, I Want to Hold Your Hand. ' 227 00:13:01,364 --> 00:13:03,082 (# THE BEATLES: "I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND") 228 00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:10,290 # Oh, yeah, I 229 00:13:10,415 --> 00:13:12,713 # Tell you something 230 00:13:12,834 --> 00:13:15,508 # I think you'll understand 231 00:13:15,628 --> 00:13:16,800 # When I... # 232 00:13:16,921 --> 00:13:19,845 PAUL: I remember, we were in Paris, playing at the Olympia. 233 00:13:19,966 --> 00:13:22,765 # I want to hold your hand... # 234 00:13:22,885 --> 00:13:26,014 A telegram came through and said, "Congratulations, boys, 235 00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:30,690 "number one in America, Hold YourHand." It was like, Ah! 236 00:13:30,810 --> 00:13:33,734 We just jumped on each other's backs, ran around 237 00:13:33,855 --> 00:13:37,860 and just partied round and round this little room for hours, 238 00:13:37,984 --> 00:13:39,736 just screaming. 239 00:13:41,738 --> 00:13:45,743 It was like visas, passports, America, here we come! 240 00:13:45,867 --> 00:13:48,211 REPORTER: 'The Beatles are on their way to America. 241 00:13:48,328 --> 00:13:52,299 'Come back, Ringo, come back all, George and John, and come back, Paul.' 242 00:13:52,915 --> 00:13:57,170 # It's such a feeling that, my love... # 243 00:13:57,295 --> 00:13:59,718 RINGO: When we came, I know this for myself, 244 00:13:59,839 --> 00:14:02,638 and I know because we talked to each other, 245 00:14:02,759 --> 00:14:05,603 we were in America before the plane landed. 246 00:14:05,720 --> 00:14:07,563 I could feel New York. 247 00:14:07,680 --> 00:14:09,933 It was an incredible sensation, 248 00:14:10,058 --> 00:14:12,060 it was like "Come on down, boys." 249 00:14:12,894 --> 00:14:15,317 REPORTER: 'There they are! It's just wild here. 250 00:14:16,314 --> 00:14:18,612 'The four Beatles have left the airplane! 251 00:14:18,733 --> 00:14:20,735 'They're standing on the airway. 252 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,204 'There's that fabulous hairdo. 253 00:14:23,321 --> 00:14:25,494 'And one of them is waving his fingers. 254 00:14:25,615 --> 00:14:28,494 'Oh, look at him wiggle! Look at him wiggle! 255 00:14:28,618 --> 00:14:29,710 'Look at him wiggle!' 256 00:14:32,538 --> 00:14:34,506 JOHN: We all knew America, all of us, you know? 257 00:14:34,624 --> 00:14:35,921 I mean, through all those movies. 258 00:14:36,042 --> 00:14:39,967 Whether it was Disneyland or Doris Day and Rock Hudson, or whatever, 259 00:14:40,088 --> 00:14:42,967 you know, James Dean, Marilyn. Everything was American. 260 00:14:44,092 --> 00:14:46,720 REPORTER: 'Apparently they're gonna make a concerted effort 261 00:14:46,844 --> 00:14:48,892 'to get through into the building, 262 00:14:49,013 --> 00:14:53,484 'where, in just a few moments, a scheduled press conference will begin.' 263 00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:58,982 EDDIE IZZARD: America's always seen as the mother lode 264 00:14:59,107 --> 00:15:01,781 for British performers, maybe for any performer in the world. 265 00:15:01,901 --> 00:15:03,244 REPORTER: What about the reports 266 00:15:03,361 --> 00:15:05,784 that you guys are nothing but a bunch of British Elvis Presleys? 267 00:15:05,905 --> 00:15:07,873 It's not true, it's not true. 268 00:15:10,326 --> 00:15:13,296 IZZARD: What that is, is what any comedian would want to do. 269 00:15:13,413 --> 00:15:14,835 The trick of dealing with heckles 270 00:15:14,956 --> 00:15:17,584 is to say the first thing that comes into your brain, 271 00:15:17,708 --> 00:15:19,676 and they'd already got to that place. 272 00:15:20,420 --> 00:15:21,637 And they could all do it. 273 00:15:21,754 --> 00:15:24,303 REPORTER: I got a question here. You hope to get a haircut at all? 274 00:15:24,424 --> 00:15:25,767 - No. - Nope, no thanks. 275 00:15:25,883 --> 00:15:27,430 I had one yesterday. 276 00:15:29,220 --> 00:15:31,018 And that's no lie, it's true. 277 00:15:31,139 --> 00:15:32,732 IZZARD: The Beatles were cheeky. 278 00:15:32,849 --> 00:15:35,898 It's kind of what every kid wants to be, a lot of adults want to be, 279 00:15:36,018 --> 00:15:39,693 being able to talk back to people who are telling you what to do. 280 00:15:39,814 --> 00:15:42,784 They were cheeky, and I think people in the world liked that. 281 00:15:42,900 --> 00:15:44,618 It's not aggressive, it's not nasty. 282 00:15:44,735 --> 00:15:46,737 It's just brazen. 283 00:15:46,863 --> 00:15:48,331 REPORTER: Why does your music excite them so much? 284 00:15:48,448 --> 00:15:49,825 We don't know really. 285 00:15:49,949 --> 00:15:52,702 If we knew, we'd form another group and be managers. 286 00:15:55,663 --> 00:15:58,837 ANNOUNCER: And now, here he is, Ed Sullivan! 287 00:15:58,958 --> 00:16:01,381 (# MUSICAL INTRO) 288 00:16:03,087 --> 00:16:05,181 SULLIVAN: Thank you very much. 289 00:16:05,298 --> 00:16:07,972 Now, yesterday and today our theatre's been jammed with newspapermen 290 00:16:08,092 --> 00:16:09,844 and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, 291 00:16:09,969 --> 00:16:11,892 and these veterans agree with me that the city 292 00:16:12,013 --> 00:16:15,313 never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool 293 00:16:15,433 --> 00:16:16,730 who call themselves The Beatles. 294 00:16:16,851 --> 00:16:19,855 Now tonight, you're gonna twice be entertained by them. 295 00:16:19,979 --> 00:16:21,981 Right now, and again in the second half of our show. 296 00:16:22,106 --> 00:16:24,200 Ladies and gentlemen, The Beatles! 297 00:16:25,443 --> 00:16:27,195 One, two, three, four! 298 00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,540 # Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 299 00:16:30,656 --> 00:16:33,409 # Tomorrow I'll miss you 300 00:16:33,534 --> 00:16:37,755 # Remember I'll always be true 301 00:16:39,040 --> 00:16:41,839 # And then while I'm away 302 00:16:41,959 --> 00:16:44,803 # I'll write home every day 303 00:16:44,921 --> 00:16:48,516 # And I'll send all my loving to you... # 304 00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,680 WHOOPI GOLDBERG: We watched Ed Sullivan every Sunday night, 305 00:16:53,804 --> 00:16:54,930 my brother, my mum and I. 306 00:16:55,056 --> 00:16:58,026 It wasn't even a question, it was just, that's what we'd do. 307 00:16:58,142 --> 00:17:01,612 And man, I had never seen anybody that looked like them. 308 00:17:02,230 --> 00:17:05,279 # Close your eyes and I'll kiss you 309 00:17:05,399 --> 00:17:08,243 # Tomorrow I'll miss you 310 00:17:08,361 --> 00:17:12,537 # Remember I'll always be true... # 311 00:17:14,075 --> 00:17:15,292 It was like a revelation. 312 00:17:15,409 --> 00:17:18,538 And when you're a little kid, you don't know it's a revelation, but it was like... 313 00:17:18,663 --> 00:17:20,711 the whole world lit up. 314 00:17:20,831 --> 00:17:24,381 Suddenly I felt like I could be friends with them. 315 00:17:25,002 --> 00:17:27,096 And I'm black, you know? 316 00:17:28,631 --> 00:17:30,850 # All my loving 317 00:17:30,967 --> 00:17:34,016 # Ooh, all my loving 318 00:17:34,136 --> 00:17:37,140 # I will send to you # 319 00:17:45,731 --> 00:17:47,324 GOLDBERG: People would say to me, 320 00:17:47,441 --> 00:17:49,535 "You think you want to be white? You like those guys?" 321 00:17:49,652 --> 00:17:53,407 It was like, I never thought of them really as white guys. 322 00:17:54,073 --> 00:17:55,495 They were The Beatles. 323 00:17:55,616 --> 00:17:58,210 They were colourless, you know? 324 00:17:58,327 --> 00:18:00,796 And they were fucking amazing. 325 00:18:02,582 --> 00:18:05,836 The Beatles gave me this idea 326 00:18:05,960 --> 00:18:07,803 that everybody was welcome. 327 00:18:09,463 --> 00:18:12,216 If you weren't the hippest kid in the neighbourhood, 328 00:18:12,842 --> 00:18:15,846 it didn't matter, because you could be a Beatle fan, 329 00:18:15,970 --> 00:18:17,392 and I liked that. 330 00:18:17,513 --> 00:18:20,642 And that sort of carried me into these older days 331 00:18:20,766 --> 00:18:23,189 where it's like, I am my own person. 332 00:18:23,978 --> 00:18:26,572 I can look the way I want, I can be the way I want, 333 00:18:26,689 --> 00:18:29,067 and it's OK. 334 00:18:29,191 --> 00:18:33,321 And I got that specifically from them. 335 00:18:33,446 --> 00:18:36,450 REPORTER: 'Fresh after their appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show, 336 00:18:36,574 --> 00:18:38,542 'where over half the country was watching, 337 00:18:38,659 --> 00:18:41,503 'the four English musical stars with their pudding-bowl haircuts 338 00:18:41,621 --> 00:18:44,420 'were mobbed by about 4,000 shrieking teenagers 339 00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:46,713 'when they got to the Plaza Hotel.' 340 00:18:46,834 --> 00:18:48,962 RINGO: We had the whole floor in the Plaza. 341 00:18:49,086 --> 00:18:51,965 - WOMAN: It's been press, no press. - No press, you fool. 342 00:18:52,089 --> 00:18:56,014 RINGO: And the four of us ended up in the bathroom, 343 00:18:56,135 --> 00:18:59,355 just to get a break from the incredible pressure. 344 00:19:00,056 --> 00:19:01,774 No, let me on it. Let me on it. 345 00:19:01,891 --> 00:19:03,484 No! Me! 346 00:19:03,601 --> 00:19:05,820 No! Me! Me! 347 00:19:05,936 --> 00:19:07,984 - Television! Me! - It's me! 348 00:19:08,105 --> 00:19:09,231 - You! - It's me. 349 00:19:09,357 --> 00:19:10,404 - No, you. - No, it's me. 350 00:19:10,524 --> 00:19:12,401 - After you, sir. - Cut. 351 00:19:12,526 --> 00:19:14,119 RINGO: But we loved it. 352 00:19:14,236 --> 00:19:18,582 To pick up a small transistor radio - it was the first time in New York - 353 00:19:18,699 --> 00:19:20,417 and hear you coming out the radio... 354 00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:22,286 Ah! It was mind blowing. 355 00:19:22,411 --> 00:19:26,507 JOHN: 'This is John Lennon of The Beatles on 1010 WIMS.' 356 00:19:26,624 --> 00:19:29,673 PRESENTER: 'Now we just want to tell everybody this was The Beatles station! 357 00:19:29,794 --> 00:19:32,138 'They're takin' over, they're telling us what to play.' 358 00:19:32,254 --> 00:19:33,255 Hello? 359 00:19:33,381 --> 00:19:35,850 WOMAN: 'Yes, I'm just calling for the manager of The Beatles. 360 00:19:35,966 --> 00:19:37,639 'May we have his name, please?' 361 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:40,604 Their manager's name is Mr Brian Epstein. 362 00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:47,778 PAUL: Looking back now, it was Brian Epstein. 363 00:19:47,895 --> 00:19:49,613 He was the guy who got us famous, really. 364 00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:58,743 Brian was class. 365 00:19:59,323 --> 00:20:00,449 That was what Brian was. 366 00:20:00,574 --> 00:20:02,497 He was like Liverpool class. 367 00:20:05,496 --> 00:20:07,965 Well, Brian was 27. 368 00:20:08,082 --> 00:20:10,505 He was a grown-up. He had a car. 369 00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:15,135 The Beatles' parents were Liverpudlian, 370 00:20:15,256 --> 00:20:18,726 working-class people that had been through a war. 371 00:20:19,635 --> 00:20:21,729 Our playgrounds were bomb sites. 372 00:20:23,723 --> 00:20:26,192 His parents ran a record shop. 373 00:20:26,308 --> 00:20:29,687 REPORTER: Well, it seems a funny sort of world for a young man like you to be in. 374 00:20:29,812 --> 00:20:32,986 How did you get into it? How did you start? 375 00:20:33,107 --> 00:20:34,529 EPSTEIN: I heard about them 376 00:20:34,650 --> 00:20:38,905 through a lad who was asking for a record by them 377 00:20:39,029 --> 00:20:40,155 in one of my stores, 378 00:20:40,281 --> 00:20:44,502 or my family's stores, in October, 1961. 379 00:20:45,453 --> 00:20:49,424 Growin' up, my mum always wanted me to talk proper. 380 00:20:49,540 --> 00:20:51,087 You know, all of us, really. 381 00:20:51,208 --> 00:20:53,381 You know, I could talk like I'm from Liverpool. 382 00:20:53,502 --> 00:20:57,132 Fuck you, I'm tellin' you, don't give me any hard time. 383 00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,936 PAUL: Whereas Brian was very well-mannered, very well-spoken, 384 00:21:02,052 --> 00:21:04,146 so we felt we could trust him. 385 00:21:04,263 --> 00:21:06,812 EPSTEIN: I went down to see them in Liverpool at The Cavern Club. 386 00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:09,560 MC: The Beatles sing Some Other Guy. 387 00:21:17,401 --> 00:21:19,779 EPSTEIN: They were fresh and they were honest. 388 00:21:19,904 --> 00:21:23,750 And they had what I thought was a sort of presence. 389 00:21:23,866 --> 00:21:27,587 And this is a terrible, vague term, "star quality." 390 00:21:27,703 --> 00:21:29,546 Whatever that is, they had it. 391 00:21:32,541 --> 00:21:33,884 # Some other guy now 392 00:21:34,001 --> 00:21:37,471 # Has taken my love away from me, oh now 393 00:21:37,588 --> 00:21:39,056 # Some other guy now 394 00:21:39,173 --> 00:21:41,722 # Has taken away my sweet desire... # 395 00:21:42,968 --> 00:21:45,437 PAUL: He was looking at our stage presence. 396 00:21:46,263 --> 00:21:50,734 In the early days, it was clear that he had a vision of us 397 00:21:50,851 --> 00:21:54,105 that was beyond the vision we had of ourselves. 398 00:22:00,569 --> 00:22:04,039 EPSTEIN: At that stage, they were playing around the clubs in Liverpool, 399 00:22:04,156 --> 00:22:05,999 rather scruffily dressed. 400 00:22:06,116 --> 00:22:08,039 Black leather jackets and jeans, 401 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,039 and a rather untidy stage presentation. 402 00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,791 But having great fun. 403 00:22:13,916 --> 00:22:16,840 But I don't think that they would have bothered to do anything about it, 404 00:22:16,961 --> 00:22:22,058 because young, inexperienced people are not really very good 405 00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:26,395 at presenting themselves properly in the right sort of quarters. 406 00:22:27,096 --> 00:22:30,600 PAUL: He took us to a tailor, Beno Dorn, 407 00:22:30,724 --> 00:22:34,524 and we went to this guy, and he made us up suits, you know. 408 00:22:37,439 --> 00:22:40,033 I'm not sure exactly what time we'll be back from Washington. 409 00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:42,778 We're going to Washington tomorrow and then coming back on Wednesday. 410 00:22:43,404 --> 00:22:44,656 Good night. 411 00:22:45,072 --> 00:22:47,746 Brian kept us together as a team. 412 00:22:52,788 --> 00:22:55,883 REPORTER: What place do you think this story of The Beatles is gonna have 413 00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:57,968 in the history of Western culture? 414 00:22:58,627 --> 00:23:00,550 You must be kidding with that question. 415 00:23:00,671 --> 00:23:02,173 Culture? It's not culture. 416 00:23:02,298 --> 00:23:03,550 - What is it? - It's a good laugh. 417 00:23:07,678 --> 00:23:08,895 This is Harold James. 418 00:23:09,013 --> 00:23:12,267 And now, from the Washington D.C. Coliseum, 419 00:23:12,391 --> 00:23:15,361 the world's most exciting group, 420 00:23:15,477 --> 00:23:18,902 Capitol Recording stars, The Beatles. 421 00:23:21,984 --> 00:23:23,577 PAUL: You know, the suits. 422 00:23:23,694 --> 00:23:25,742 It's the simplest of ideas. 423 00:23:25,863 --> 00:23:28,742 It suddenly made us one person. 424 00:23:29,825 --> 00:23:31,452 A four-headed monster. 425 00:23:37,541 --> 00:23:38,963 Hello. 426 00:23:59,563 --> 00:24:01,065 Thank you. 427 00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:06,704 Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody, 428 00:24:06,820 --> 00:24:10,450 and good evening, how do you do? 429 00:24:11,492 --> 00:24:13,995 We would like to sing a song 430 00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,714 which we recorded on an LP that we made. 431 00:24:17,831 --> 00:24:20,801 That's English for "album". An album that we made. 432 00:24:20,918 --> 00:24:22,920 And we'd like you, if you would, 433 00:24:23,045 --> 00:24:25,514 to sort of join in and clap your hands, you know, 434 00:24:25,631 --> 00:24:27,133 and stamp your feet. 435 00:24:30,803 --> 00:24:32,805 The song's called I Saw Her Standing There. 436 00:24:32,930 --> 00:24:34,352 One, two, three, four. 437 00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:41,647 # Well, she was just seventeen 438 00:24:42,439 --> 00:24:44,362 # You know what I mean 439 00:24:45,317 --> 00:24:49,823 # And the way looked was way beyond compare 440 00:24:51,448 --> 00:24:55,453 # How could I dance with another 441 00:24:55,577 --> 00:24:59,957 # Whoo... Since I saw her standing there 442 00:25:02,543 --> 00:25:05,262 # Well, she looked at me 443 00:25:05,379 --> 00:25:08,053 # And I, I could see 444 00:25:08,173 --> 00:25:09,925 # That before too long 445 00:25:10,050 --> 00:25:12,644 # I'd fall in love with her 446 00:25:14,388 --> 00:25:18,518 # She wouldn't dance with another 447 00:25:18,642 --> 00:25:23,022 # Whoo... When I saw her standing there 448 00:25:25,482 --> 00:25:28,156 # Well, my heart went boom 449 00:25:28,277 --> 00:25:30,905 # When I crossed that room 450 00:25:31,030 --> 00:25:37,413 # And I held her hand in mine 451 00:25:39,872 --> 00:25:42,967 # Whoa, we danced through the night 452 00:25:43,083 --> 00:25:46,087 # And we held each other tight 453 00:25:46,211 --> 00:25:51,217 # And before too long I fell in love with her 454 00:25:52,468 --> 00:25:56,018 # Now, I'll never dance with another 455 00:25:56,847 --> 00:26:01,728 # Whoo... Since I saw her standing there 456 00:26:01,852 --> 00:26:03,069 # Whoa 457 00:26:26,877 --> 00:26:29,175 # We danced through the night 458 00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:32,599 # And we held each other tight 459 00:26:32,716 --> 00:26:37,142 # And before too long I fell in love with her 460 00:26:38,639 --> 00:26:43,190 # Now, I'll never dance with another 461 00:26:43,310 --> 00:26:47,816 # Whoo... Since I saw her standing there 462 00:26:49,733 --> 00:26:53,328 # Well, since I saw her standing there 463 00:26:55,697 --> 00:27:00,043 # Well, since I saw her standing there # 464 00:27:27,688 --> 00:27:28,905 Which one are you? 465 00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:30,615 - Eric. - Eric? 466 00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:34,578 It's not for me, it's for Paul. 467 00:27:35,779 --> 00:27:37,281 I'm doing this... 468 00:27:38,448 --> 00:27:41,577 - Eric, here is the American public. - I'm John. 469 00:27:41,702 --> 00:27:43,500 - You're John? - It was only a joke. 470 00:27:43,620 --> 00:27:45,543 Yes, well, John, here is the American public. 471 00:27:45,664 --> 00:27:47,291 40 million American viewers... 472 00:27:47,416 --> 00:27:49,589 - It only looks like one man to me. - ...staring you right in the face. 473 00:27:49,710 --> 00:27:50,711 Oh, it's the cameraman. 474 00:27:50,836 --> 00:27:52,713 What is your impression of the American public? 475 00:27:52,838 --> 00:27:55,182 - You've been here for a while now. - They're the wildest. 476 00:27:55,299 --> 00:27:56,721 - Why? - I don't know. 477 00:27:56,842 --> 00:28:00,437 Tonight was, you know, marvellous, ridiculous. 478 00:28:00,554 --> 00:28:02,602 All those 8,000 people all shouting at once, 479 00:28:02,723 --> 00:28:04,646 and we were trying to shout louder than them with microphones, 480 00:28:04,766 --> 00:28:05,938 and we still couldn't beat them. 481 00:28:06,059 --> 00:28:08,403 Was America something like what you thought it would be like? 482 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:10,238 No, nothing like it. We thought it'd be much quieter. 483 00:28:10,355 --> 00:28:12,699 We thought it, you know, we'd have to grow on everybody. 484 00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:15,239 But everybody seems to know us all, you know, 485 00:28:15,360 --> 00:28:17,408 as if we've been here for years. It's great. 486 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,577 I love The Beatles for them and I'll always love 'em, 487 00:28:19,698 --> 00:28:22,747 even when I'm 105 and an old grandmother, I'll love 'em. 488 00:28:22,868 --> 00:28:24,791 And Paul McCartney, if you are listening, 489 00:28:24,912 --> 00:28:27,916 Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you with all her heart. 490 00:28:29,249 --> 00:28:30,967 PAUL: It was a romantic thing for us, 491 00:28:31,084 --> 00:28:34,338 being in America, playing to our American fans. 492 00:28:34,463 --> 00:28:37,262 - Ringo has a sexy nose. - A sexy nose? 493 00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:39,225 George has got sexy eyelashes. 494 00:28:39,343 --> 00:28:41,391 - Who has? - George. He's got sexy eyelashes. 495 00:28:41,511 --> 00:28:42,854 - Which one is George? - Sexy eyelashes. 496 00:28:42,971 --> 00:28:45,019 - That one. - That one, he's beautiful. 497 00:28:45,140 --> 00:28:47,063 He's got sexy eyelashes. 498 00:28:47,768 --> 00:28:52,365 PAUL: The very earliest records were all pleas to the fans. 499 00:28:52,481 --> 00:28:54,984 And it was all personal article. 500 00:28:55,108 --> 00:28:57,361 JOHN: In the early days, we didn't count lyrics at all, 501 00:28:57,486 --> 00:29:01,116 you know, as long as it had some vague theme. 502 00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,119 She loves you, and he loves him, and they love each other. 503 00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:06,416 - # So, hold - # Hold 504 00:29:06,536 --> 00:29:08,083 - # Me tight - # Me tight 505 00:29:08,205 --> 00:29:11,800 - # Tonight - # Tonight 506 00:29:11,917 --> 00:29:14,716 # It's you 507 00:29:14,836 --> 00:29:17,510 # You, you, you... # 508 00:29:18,924 --> 00:29:21,018 PAUL: It's all direct. It was kind of conscious. 509 00:29:21,134 --> 00:29:23,887 We were actually appealing to girls. 510 00:29:24,012 --> 00:29:26,231 We were young boys who were appealing to girls, you know, 511 00:29:26,348 --> 00:29:27,474 to get our fan base. 512 00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:30,481 # You... # 513 00:29:31,812 --> 00:29:32,859 In those days... 514 00:29:36,149 --> 00:29:37,742 - Go on. - You yourselves, 515 00:29:37,859 --> 00:29:39,782 you know, you write very good songs. 516 00:29:39,903 --> 00:29:41,997 - Don't you? - Oh, thank you. Thank you. 517 00:29:42,114 --> 00:29:44,913 - How do you write songs? - Well, you know... 518 00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:46,626 We... it just depends. 519 00:29:46,743 --> 00:29:49,747 Sometimes we write them on old pianos and anything that's lying round, you know. 520 00:29:50,247 --> 00:29:53,968 Normally we sit down and try and bash one out, sort of thing. 521 00:29:54,084 --> 00:29:55,677 But then again, there's no formula, 522 00:29:55,794 --> 00:29:59,139 because he can come up with one one day, completely finished, 523 00:29:59,256 --> 00:30:00,803 we still say we both wrote it then. 524 00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:06,514 # I got every reason on earth to be mad 525 00:30:08,390 --> 00:30:12,065 # Cos I just lost the only girl I had... # 526 00:30:12,853 --> 00:30:14,776 JOHN: There's been a single every three months, 527 00:30:14,896 --> 00:30:18,617 and we'd have to be writing literally in the hotel or in a van. 528 00:30:18,734 --> 00:30:21,328 PAUL: We wrote on the road. Mainly me and John. 529 00:30:21,445 --> 00:30:25,370 George developed as a writer later and became an unbelievable writer. 530 00:30:25,490 --> 00:30:27,117 But at the beginning, it was mainly me and John. 531 00:30:27,743 --> 00:30:31,418 So we would be in a hotel room with two twin beds, 532 00:30:31,538 --> 00:30:36,669 and he'd have his acoustic guitar, I'd have mine, sit opposite each other, 533 00:30:36,793 --> 00:30:38,966 and because I was left-handed, he was right-handed, 534 00:30:39,087 --> 00:30:40,259 it was like looking in a mirror. 535 00:30:41,089 --> 00:30:44,639 And we'd just start something and ricochet off each other. 536 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. 537 00:30:48,055 --> 00:30:50,183 And when we were finished, we didn't have a manuscript, 538 00:30:50,307 --> 00:30:52,560 but we had a sheet of paper with the words, 539 00:30:52,684 --> 00:30:54,231 and we remembered the chords. 540 00:30:54,353 --> 00:30:57,072 (# INDISTINCT SINGING) 541 00:30:58,231 --> 00:31:00,654 That's number one in Cashbox and Billboard. 542 00:31:01,276 --> 00:31:04,371 Yeah. You know, in New York, three records, 543 00:31:04,488 --> 00:31:06,866 Please Please Me, She Loves You, and I Want to Hold YourHand 544 00:31:06,990 --> 00:31:08,333 are all number one. 545 00:31:10,035 --> 00:31:11,662 All joined, yeah. 546 00:31:11,787 --> 00:31:15,508 Thanks. Well, we'll see you in two weeks, I suppose. 547 00:31:15,624 --> 00:31:17,046 (# PLAYS HARMONICA) 548 00:31:20,921 --> 00:31:22,013 Yeah, in a minute. 549 00:31:22,130 --> 00:31:25,851 PAUL: My relationship with John was very close, musically, 550 00:31:25,967 --> 00:31:28,595 you know, we looked after each other, really. 551 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,564 He was like someone you kinda looked up to a little bit, you know. 552 00:31:31,681 --> 00:31:35,311 When I first met him, I talked to people in my life, 553 00:31:35,435 --> 00:31:37,733 and they said, "What do you like to do? What are your hobbies and stuff?" 554 00:31:37,854 --> 00:31:41,529 And I sort of said, "I like songwriting. I've written a couple of songs." 555 00:31:41,650 --> 00:31:43,573 And they'd all go, "Oh, yeah? Great. 556 00:31:43,693 --> 00:31:45,491 "What did you think about the football?" 557 00:31:45,612 --> 00:31:48,161 And I'd go, "Oh, OK, nobody interested." 558 00:31:48,281 --> 00:31:51,251 When I said that to John, he said, "Oh, so have I." 559 00:31:51,868 --> 00:31:54,747 I go, "Whoa, wait a minute. Big connection here." 560 00:31:54,871 --> 00:31:57,465 I'd never met anyone who'd written songs. 561 00:31:58,250 --> 00:31:59,752 So that's how we started. 562 00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:04,344 I think it's something like just short of 300 songs John and I wrote together. 563 00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:07,308 # I think it's only fair 564 00:32:07,426 --> 00:32:10,430 # Pride can hurt you too 565 00:32:10,554 --> 00:32:12,932 # Apologise to her 566 00:32:13,056 --> 00:32:14,649 # Because she loves you 567 00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:17,645 # And you know that can't be bad 568 00:32:19,312 --> 00:32:20,780 # Yes, she loves you 569 00:32:20,897 --> 00:32:23,992 # And you know you should be glad 570 00:32:24,109 --> 00:32:25,326 # Ooh... 571 00:32:25,444 --> 00:32:31,622 # She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah 572 00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:35,541 # And with a love like that you know you should be glad # 573 00:32:35,662 --> 00:32:38,040 ELVIS COSTELLO: My mother's father was from Liverpool. 574 00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:42,590 There was that pride thing that they were from Liverpool, you know. 575 00:32:42,711 --> 00:32:44,133 I'm nine years old. 576 00:32:44,629 --> 00:32:46,802 When your favourite group is The Beatles, 577 00:32:46,923 --> 00:32:48,800 you know, it is like supporting the winning football team, 578 00:32:48,925 --> 00:32:50,973 because it's like they just keep winning the cup. 579 00:32:51,887 --> 00:32:53,981 You'd wait all week to hear the hit parade show 580 00:32:54,097 --> 00:32:56,395 so that you would hear, for sure, The Beatles' songs, 581 00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:57,859 because they would get to number one. 582 00:32:57,976 --> 00:33:01,776 Top British vocal group, top four records of the year, 583 00:33:01,897 --> 00:33:04,946 the world's leading vocal group, The Beatles. 584 00:33:15,035 --> 00:33:18,460 # Can't buy me love 585 00:33:18,580 --> 00:33:20,127 # Love 586 00:33:20,248 --> 00:33:23,502 # Can't buy me love 587 00:33:23,627 --> 00:33:27,803 # I'll buy you a diamond ring, my friend, if it makes you feel all right 588 00:33:28,757 --> 00:33:32,603 # I'll get you anything, my friend, if it makes you feel all right 589 00:33:33,428 --> 00:33:36,181 # Cos I don't care too much for money 590 00:33:36,306 --> 00:33:38,729 # Money can't buy me love... # 591 00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:41,319 RINGO: For some reason, whatever we were putting out, 592 00:33:41,436 --> 00:33:44,110 they were loving, you know? 593 00:33:44,231 --> 00:33:48,077 And they loved us wherever we went. I mean, it was a surprise to us, too. 594 00:33:48,193 --> 00:33:50,070 John, Paul, George, or Ringo? 595 00:33:50,195 --> 00:33:51,287 The Beatles! 596 00:33:51,404 --> 00:33:53,623 (ANNOUNCERS, SHOUTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES) 597 00:33:59,162 --> 00:34:00,664 COSTELLO: It was a different kind of fame, 598 00:34:00,789 --> 00:34:04,134 because we didn't have social media, we didn't have satellite television, 599 00:34:04,251 --> 00:34:07,050 and yet the word would spread that this group were coming. 600 00:34:07,170 --> 00:34:09,468 Once it was big in one country, it got bigger in the next. 601 00:34:13,260 --> 00:34:14,261 JOHN: Australia, 602 00:34:14,386 --> 00:34:17,230 there was more people came to see us there than anywhere. 603 00:34:17,347 --> 00:34:20,191 I mean, it looked like, I think the whole of Australia was there. 604 00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:23,862 REPORTER: 'Along the nine-mile route from Adelaide Airport to the city, 605 00:34:23,979 --> 00:34:27,199 'almost a quarter of a million people lined the streets.' 606 00:34:27,941 --> 00:34:29,909 JOHN: My picture of it now is... 607 00:34:30,026 --> 00:34:33,326 There was a ship, going to discover the new world, you know? 608 00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:35,699 And The Beatles were in the crow's nest, 609 00:34:35,824 --> 00:34:38,077 and we just said, "Land ho!" 610 00:34:38,952 --> 00:34:42,547 # It's the second time I've caught you talking to him 611 00:34:42,664 --> 00:34:45,918 # Do I have to tell you one more time, I think it's a sin 612 00:34:46,042 --> 00:34:49,842 - # I'm gonna let you down - # Let you down 613 00:34:49,963 --> 00:34:53,593 - # Leave you flat - # Gonna let you down and leave you flat 614 00:34:53,717 --> 00:34:56,095 # Because I've told you before 615 00:34:56,219 --> 00:34:58,972 # Oh, you can't do that # 616 00:34:59,097 --> 00:35:00,815 JOHN: And so we were all on this ship in the '60s, 617 00:35:00,932 --> 00:35:04,607 not just Beatles but our movement, our generation, 618 00:35:04,728 --> 00:35:06,947 and we went somewhere. 619 00:35:09,441 --> 00:35:11,910 COSTELLO: And of course the next most extraordinary thing 620 00:35:12,027 --> 00:35:15,748 is the fantasy version of The Beatles from '64. 621 00:35:15,864 --> 00:35:17,491 You know, A Hard Day's Night. 622 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:19,914 (# THE BEATLES: "A HARD DAY'S NIGHT") 623 00:35:20,035 --> 00:35:23,335 # It's been a hard day's night 624 00:35:23,455 --> 00:35:26,675 # And I've been working like a dog 625 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:30,136 # It's been a hard day's night 626 00:35:30,253 --> 00:35:33,052 # I should be sleeping like a log... # 627 00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:35,392 REPORTER: You fancy yourselves as actors then, do you? 628 00:35:35,508 --> 00:35:36,930 GEORGE: No, definitely not. 629 00:35:37,052 --> 00:35:38,804 But we enjoyed making the film, 630 00:35:38,928 --> 00:35:41,056 and especially with the director. 631 00:35:41,181 --> 00:35:44,230 The director was great, you see, and it made it much easier for us. 632 00:35:45,226 --> 00:35:46,853 RICHARD LESTER: United Artists said, 633 00:35:46,978 --> 00:35:51,609 "You ought to be able to make a good, quick, low-budget film with them, 634 00:35:51,733 --> 00:35:54,657 "as long as it's in the cinemas by July, 635 00:35:54,778 --> 00:35:58,999 "because we think they'll be probably a spent force by the end of the summer." 636 00:35:59,658 --> 00:36:01,251 Give us a kiss. 637 00:36:01,368 --> 00:36:04,087 - I shall call the guard. - Ah, but what? 638 00:36:04,204 --> 00:36:06,081 They don't take kindly to insults, you know. 639 00:36:07,499 --> 00:36:11,345 LESTER: The only thing that was apparent, through the seven weeks of the shoot, 640 00:36:11,461 --> 00:36:13,634 is that sense of protection. 641 00:36:14,381 --> 00:36:16,600 Being protective when they had to be, 642 00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:19,765 supporting one another in a family way. 643 00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,856 # It's been a hard day's night... # 644 00:36:22,972 --> 00:36:25,771 RICHARD CURTIS: One of the things about A Hard Day's Night 645 00:36:25,892 --> 00:36:27,565 and everything you heard about The Beatles 646 00:36:27,686 --> 00:36:29,063 is the lack of self-pity, 647 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:32,487 that we had a feeling they were adoring what was happening to them, 648 00:36:32,607 --> 00:36:35,861 and therefore that made it like a completely virtuous circle. 649 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:39,865 Fans, Beatles, fun, excitement, music. 650 00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:44,995 And of course, everybody in the world could buy tickets to see them. 651 00:36:51,000 --> 00:36:52,627 MALCOLM GLADWELL: What you're seeing is 652 00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:55,722 the emergence of this international teen culture. 653 00:36:56,339 --> 00:36:58,762 If you're 14 in 1964, 654 00:36:58,883 --> 00:37:01,511 who are you looking to for cues? 655 00:37:01,636 --> 00:37:03,809 Not your parents. 656 00:37:05,598 --> 00:37:10,980 Beatles hysteria is kind of a muscle flexing of that generation, the Baby Boom. 657 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, 658 00:37:14,315 --> 00:37:18,445 because quite literally the society is dominated by teenagers. 659 00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:21,619 # You know I feel all right # 660 00:37:27,746 --> 00:37:30,465 (# THE BEATLES: "ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN") 661 00:37:44,304 --> 00:37:47,899 # Gonna write a little letter, mail it to my local DJ 662 00:37:49,768 --> 00:37:53,489 # It's a rockin' rhythm record I want my jockey to play 663 00:37:55,273 --> 00:37:58,868 # Roll over Beethoven, gotta hear it again today 664 00:38:00,653 --> 00:38:04,624 # You know my temperature's rising, the jukebox blows a fuse 665 00:38:06,367 --> 00:38:09,496 # My heart beating rhythm and my soul is a-singing the blues 666 00:38:11,581 --> 00:38:14,630 # Roll over Beethoven, dig these rhythm and blues... # 667 00:38:32,227 --> 00:38:34,776 # Roll over Beethoven 668 00:38:34,896 --> 00:38:37,524 # Yeah, roll over Beethoven... # 669 00:38:38,316 --> 00:38:42,913 PAUL: The first time we went to America, it was just 10 days, 670 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:45,578 so when we came back, we knew they were waiting for us. 671 00:38:49,994 --> 00:38:53,874 REPORTER: Tell me, several people on these radio programmes want to know, 672 00:38:53,998 --> 00:38:56,296 what do you plan to do when the bubble bursts? 673 00:38:56,417 --> 00:38:58,135 Not sure, Fred. 674 00:38:58,628 --> 00:38:59,800 But we really want to know. 675 00:38:59,921 --> 00:39:02,344 We're gonna have a laugh. 676 00:39:02,465 --> 00:39:04,843 LARRY KANE: The biggest question in 1964 was, 677 00:39:04,968 --> 00:39:07,562 "When is the bubble gonna burst?" 678 00:39:07,679 --> 00:39:10,899 RADIO: 'WFUN South Miami.' 679 00:39:11,724 --> 00:39:13,067 I was 21 years old, 680 00:39:13,184 --> 00:39:17,906 news director of a station in Miami, WFUN, Fun in the Sun Radio. 681 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:19,865 RADIO: 'WFUN.' 682 00:39:21,317 --> 00:39:23,911 We got word that The Beatles were gonna come to America, 683 00:39:24,028 --> 00:39:26,872 and I wrote a letter asking for an interview with them, 684 00:39:26,990 --> 00:39:29,789 and I sent it to Brian Epstein, their manager. 685 00:39:29,909 --> 00:39:33,379 I got this letter back inviting me on the tour. 686 00:39:37,333 --> 00:39:38,425 And I said, "I'm not going. 687 00:39:41,087 --> 00:39:43,636 "We've got the war in Vietnam escalating, the president just died, 688 00:39:43,756 --> 00:39:47,010 "Muhammad Ali is training three blocks from our studio, 689 00:39:47,135 --> 00:39:49,012 "the Ford Mustang has been released, 690 00:39:49,137 --> 00:39:52,437 "it's one of the biggest news years in the history of the world. 691 00:39:52,557 --> 00:39:56,607 "Why would I, a news guy, want to travel with a band 692 00:39:56,728 --> 00:40:00,028 "that will be here in October and gone in November?" 693 00:40:00,148 --> 00:40:02,150 MAN: Seconds out, round one. 694 00:40:02,901 --> 00:40:04,699 KANE: My bosses said, "You gotta go." 695 00:40:05,987 --> 00:40:09,332 My father pulled me aside before I went on tour, 696 00:40:09,449 --> 00:40:10,996 and he said, "Watch your back. 697 00:40:11,117 --> 00:40:13,791 "These men are a menace to society." 698 00:40:16,331 --> 00:40:19,130 # It's been a hard day's night 699 00:40:20,084 --> 00:40:22,633 # And I've been working like a dog... # 700 00:40:23,379 --> 00:40:25,882 KANE: 'This is Larry Kane, on tour with The Beatles. 701 00:40:26,007 --> 00:40:29,432 'Let me give you a little description of the dangers of being with The Beatles. 702 00:40:29,552 --> 00:40:31,554 'When we drove up to the stage door, 703 00:40:31,679 --> 00:40:34,398 'The Beatles were almost crushed completely 704 00:40:34,515 --> 00:40:37,735 'by youngsters who amassed themselves against the wall, 705 00:40:37,852 --> 00:40:39,820 'broke about 50 windows, 706 00:40:39,938 --> 00:40:44,569 'throwed rocks, jelly beans, undershirts, sandals. 707 00:40:44,692 --> 00:40:46,444 'The situation was one of sheer havoc, 708 00:40:46,569 --> 00:40:49,118 'even though the police did their best to stop it.' 709 00:40:50,865 --> 00:40:54,335 The first couple days, there was a bewilderment. 710 00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,125 There was a wondrousness. 711 00:40:56,245 --> 00:40:57,588 "Is this really happening to us?" 712 00:40:57,705 --> 00:41:01,005 'One girl stuck her hand through the window and grabbed at my face. 713 00:41:01,125 --> 00:41:03,503 'I'm OK, don't worry, people, I'm all right.' 714 00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,136 Four cities later, in Vancouver, British Columbia, 715 00:41:07,256 --> 00:41:10,931 7,000 kids rushed the stage. 716 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:30,830 Thank you, folks. Before we do the next song... 717 00:41:32,073 --> 00:41:34,326 DEREK TAYLOR: Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen. 718 00:41:34,450 --> 00:41:36,953 The Beatles have come a long way to do this show, 719 00:41:37,078 --> 00:41:39,627 and we'll have to cut it short unless you move back, 720 00:41:39,747 --> 00:41:41,795 cos they're very worried about the situation in the front. 721 00:41:41,916 --> 00:41:44,886 Back. 722 00:41:45,003 --> 00:41:48,473 KANE: 240 kids wound up in the hospital. 723 00:41:48,589 --> 00:41:53,186 None of the police in any of these cities were prepared for this. 724 00:41:53,302 --> 00:41:54,519 Nobody was prepared for this. 725 00:41:54,637 --> 00:41:56,389 REPORTER: Wouldn't you say, Derek, 726 00:41:56,514 --> 00:41:59,984 that police departments don't realise how bad it is? 727 00:42:00,101 --> 00:42:01,353 TAYLOR: I think that's true. 728 00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:03,775 They've all seen crowds before. I mean, they all say, 729 00:42:03,896 --> 00:42:06,740 "We know our own people. We know the police potential, 730 00:42:06,858 --> 00:42:08,405 "and we're going to be able to handle it." 731 00:42:08,526 --> 00:42:10,244 But what they've never seen is a Beatle crowd. 732 00:42:10,361 --> 00:42:12,864 This is the biggest thing that's ever happened. 733 00:42:12,989 --> 00:42:15,538 There's no question about it. It's like nothing before. 734 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. 735 00:42:19,537 --> 00:42:22,336 It's The Beatles, and they are without precedent. 736 00:42:23,791 --> 00:42:24,917 Thank you. 737 00:42:25,585 --> 00:42:27,553 Thank you very much, everybody. Ta. 738 00:42:27,670 --> 00:42:28,842 It's wonderful, thank you. 739 00:42:30,089 --> 00:42:32,308 Um, singing a song 740 00:42:32,425 --> 00:42:35,395 from the first album that we ever made. 741 00:42:35,511 --> 00:42:40,062 A song which was originally recorded by a group called The Shirelles. 742 00:42:40,183 --> 00:42:42,686 - Just a minute, checking. - Yeah. 743 00:42:42,810 --> 00:42:43,857 Yeah. 744 00:42:43,978 --> 00:42:46,231 Singing a song called Boys. Ringo! 745 00:42:53,112 --> 00:42:56,491 # I been told when a boy kiss a girl 746 00:42:56,616 --> 00:42:59,290 # Take a trip around the world, hey, hey 747 00:42:59,410 --> 00:43:01,538 # Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop 748 00:43:01,662 --> 00:43:04,461 - # Hey, now - # Bop shuop, bop-bop shuop 749 00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:06,425 - # Hey, hey - # Bop shuop 750 00:43:06,542 --> 00:43:08,465 # Whoa, she say you do 751 00:43:08,586 --> 00:43:10,213 # Bop shuop, yeah... # 752 00:43:11,589 --> 00:43:14,058 SIGOURNEY WEAVER: I was way in the back, way at the top, 753 00:43:14,175 --> 00:43:17,224 surrounded by lots of girls 754 00:43:17,345 --> 00:43:21,725 really crying real tears and so beside themselves. 755 00:43:22,934 --> 00:43:25,778 I felt as much as a girl can feel. 756 00:43:25,895 --> 00:43:27,363 I was in love with John. 757 00:43:28,064 --> 00:43:31,534 I remember spending all day putting my hair in beer cans 758 00:43:31,651 --> 00:43:33,949 to make sure it was straight, cos I had curly hair. 759 00:43:34,070 --> 00:43:35,196 Picking out the dress. 760 00:43:35,321 --> 00:43:40,293 Because of course they would see me, along with 15,000 girls. 761 00:43:40,409 --> 00:43:42,912 It was this sense of world music 762 00:43:43,037 --> 00:43:45,210 that we were all loving them, all over the world. 763 00:43:47,041 --> 00:43:49,669 # My girl says when I kiss her lips... # 764 00:43:49,794 --> 00:43:52,422 KANE: This is Larry Kane on-board the Beatle Bird, as I call it. 765 00:43:52,547 --> 00:43:54,345 I have with me George Harrison. How ya doin', George? 766 00:43:54,465 --> 00:43:56,308 I'm very well, Larry. And how are you? 767 00:43:56,425 --> 00:43:58,473 - Fine, are you glad to be back in America? - Yeah, it's great. 768 00:43:58,594 --> 00:44:01,814 This is Larry Kane with The Beatles, flying across America. 769 00:44:01,931 --> 00:44:03,274 With me I have Ringo Starr. 770 00:44:03,391 --> 00:44:06,941 Right over Kansas, 23,000 feet in the air, on our way to Cincinnati. 771 00:44:07,061 --> 00:44:08,813 They had a wild one yesterday. 772 00:44:08,938 --> 00:44:11,441 On this exciting 25-city, coast-to-coast tour. 773 00:44:11,566 --> 00:44:13,068 Atlantic City, Philadelphia. 774 00:44:13,192 --> 00:44:15,286 Well, let's talk a little bit about the crowds at Indianapolis. 775 00:44:15,403 --> 00:44:17,997 Back and forth, again. The stage set for Milwaukee tonight. 776 00:44:18,114 --> 00:44:20,492 You can hear the buzz and excitement here in the Chicago Amphitheater. 777 00:44:20,616 --> 00:44:21,708 Now Detroit, Michigan. 778 00:44:21,826 --> 00:44:24,124 The Beatles really shook up the crowds in Toronto. 779 00:44:24,245 --> 00:44:25,497 In Montreal, Canada. 780 00:44:25,621 --> 00:44:28,090 Hi, this is Larry Kane, travelling with The Beatles. 781 00:44:28,207 --> 00:44:33,429 Let me explain to you the type of feeling that you get after 15 performances, 782 00:44:33,546 --> 00:44:36,766 watching The Beatles in action and watching the crowds. 783 00:44:37,717 --> 00:44:39,344 It's a chilling feeling inside, 784 00:44:39,468 --> 00:44:42,938 because you know you are experiencing a phenomenon 785 00:44:43,055 --> 00:44:46,685 that is the only one of its kind in the century thus far 786 00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:48,652 and that probably will go down in history 787 00:44:48,769 --> 00:44:54,026 as the greatest show business example of music and admiration 788 00:44:54,150 --> 00:44:56,949 in many, many hundreds of years. 789 00:44:57,069 --> 00:44:58,867 # Ah... boys 790 00:44:58,988 --> 00:45:00,490 # Yeah, yeah, boys 791 00:45:00,615 --> 00:45:03,539 - # Don't you know I mean boys - # Yeah, yeah, boys 792 00:45:03,659 --> 00:45:06,333 - # Talking about boys now - # Yeah, yeah, boys 793 00:45:06,454 --> 00:45:09,458 - # Aah, ah! - # Yeah, yeah, boys 794 00:45:09,582 --> 00:45:12,335 - # Talking about boys now - # Yeah, yeah, boys 795 00:45:12,460 --> 00:45:14,713 # What a bundle of joy # 796 00:45:18,424 --> 00:45:19,801 Thank you! 797 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,975 KANE: Remember, too, that in 1964 there were riots throughout the South 798 00:45:27,099 --> 00:45:29,227 because of the Civil Rights Movement. 799 00:45:30,811 --> 00:45:33,781 And you started to feel a social change happening. 800 00:45:35,524 --> 00:45:38,323 'This is Larry Kane, and the big question mark still is Jacksonville, 801 00:45:38,444 --> 00:45:40,947 'not knowing whether they will be able to perform.' 802 00:45:41,072 --> 00:45:42,949 I'd received a report from my station 803 00:45:43,074 --> 00:45:46,044 that the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville was gonna be segregated, 804 00:45:46,160 --> 00:45:48,709 so I mentioned it to them in the interview. 805 00:45:48,829 --> 00:45:53,255 'What about this comment that I heard about, uh... concerning racial integration 806 00:45:53,376 --> 00:45:55,470 'at the various performances?' 807 00:45:55,586 --> 00:45:57,805 PAUL: 'We don't like it if there's any segregation or anything, 808 00:45:57,922 --> 00:45:59,674 'because it just seems mad to me.' 809 00:45:59,799 --> 00:46:02,803 KANE: And I could see Brian in the corner of the room going like, "Oh, my God." 810 00:46:02,927 --> 00:46:04,679 'Well, you're gonna play Jacksonville, Florida. 811 00:46:04,804 --> 00:46:07,102 'Do you anticipate any kind of difference of that opinion?' 812 00:46:07,223 --> 00:46:10,477 PAUL: 'I don't know, really. You know, it'd be a bit silly to segregate people, 813 00:46:10,601 --> 00:46:13,150 'cos, you know, I mean, obviously it's stupid, you know. 814 00:46:13,271 --> 00:46:15,399 'You can't treat other human beings like animals.' 815 00:46:15,523 --> 00:46:17,696 - JOHN: 'That's the way we all feel.' - PAUL: 'That's the way we all feel, 816 00:46:17,817 --> 00:46:19,490 'and a lot of people in England feel that way, you know. 817 00:46:19,610 --> 00:46:22,238 'cos there's never any segregation in concerts in England, 818 00:46:22,363 --> 00:46:24,957 'and in fact if there was, we wouldn't play 'em, you know.' 819 00:46:27,410 --> 00:46:29,162 KITTY OLIVER: During that same summer, 820 00:46:29,287 --> 00:46:33,008 we had the three civil rights workers in the South who were missing, 821 00:46:34,959 --> 00:46:36,176 and then found dead. 822 00:46:39,046 --> 00:46:43,347 I was 15, living in segregation. 823 00:46:44,635 --> 00:46:50,187 It was an apartheid that's probably difficult for a lot of people to even picture. 824 00:46:50,308 --> 00:46:54,654 The only white person I would even have contact with 825 00:46:54,770 --> 00:46:58,616 was a salesman who would come into the community. 826 00:46:59,525 --> 00:47:02,369 I was ripe for something different, I think, 827 00:47:02,486 --> 00:47:06,241 by the time I heard that The Beatles were coming to town. 828 00:47:08,784 --> 00:47:12,163 KANE: All of them, by the way, were very emphatic about Jacksonville. 829 00:47:12,288 --> 00:47:16,714 They said if there was going to be segregation of any kind, we're not going. 830 00:47:17,251 --> 00:47:19,128 RINGO: We played to people, that's what we did. 831 00:47:20,212 --> 00:47:24,012 We didn't play to, like, those people, or that people, you know what I mean? 832 00:47:24,133 --> 00:47:25,601 We just played to people. 833 00:47:27,219 --> 00:47:31,599 KANE: It was amazing that the four of them, young men, seeing the world, 834 00:47:31,724 --> 00:47:37,276 started to act up and blow back on this very, very hot and sensitive issue, 835 00:47:37,396 --> 00:47:40,320 knowing that it would really irritate a lot of Americans. 836 00:47:41,567 --> 00:47:46,619 PAUL: We had to all decide that we agreed on a thing before we'd do it. 837 00:47:46,739 --> 00:47:49,492 That is, like, one of the classic things about The Beatles. 838 00:47:49,617 --> 00:47:55,374 Four votes had to be carried for any idea to go through. 839 00:47:56,207 --> 00:47:57,880 JOHN: Instead of going for an individual thing, 840 00:47:58,000 --> 00:48:01,800 we went for the strongest format and for equals. 841 00:48:01,921 --> 00:48:04,140 GEORGE: That was one thing to be said about us. 842 00:48:04,256 --> 00:48:07,226 We were very, very close to each other. 843 00:48:07,343 --> 00:48:08,970 We'd always stick together. 844 00:48:09,637 --> 00:48:12,607 PAUL: We all had to agree, so it was a strong decision. 845 00:48:12,723 --> 00:48:15,397 RINGO: You know, the proof's in the pudding. It worked really well. 846 00:48:19,063 --> 00:48:22,863 OLIVER: It was my first concert, and I went by myself. 847 00:48:22,983 --> 00:48:28,240 The only catch in my breath that I got was when I went to my seat 848 00:48:28,364 --> 00:48:30,833 and there were all those other people around me. 849 00:48:30,950 --> 00:48:33,920 And I still can feel that, to this day, 850 00:48:34,036 --> 00:48:36,209 that there were all these white people around, 851 00:48:36,330 --> 00:48:38,674 but everyone standing up with everybody, 852 00:48:38,791 --> 00:48:43,467 and then just yelling as loud as I could and singing along. 853 00:48:45,714 --> 00:48:48,217 # Me, I'm just the lucky kind 854 00:48:48,926 --> 00:48:50,894 # Love to hear you say 855 00:48:51,011 --> 00:48:53,890 # That love is luck, and though we may... # 856 00:48:54,014 --> 00:48:57,518 OLIVER: That was the first experience I had 857 00:48:57,643 --> 00:49:00,647 where it was possible to be around people who were different, 858 00:49:00,771 --> 00:49:04,651 and at least for a while those differences could disappear. 859 00:49:04,775 --> 00:49:06,948 # If I fell in love with you 860 00:49:07,069 --> 00:49:09,242 # Would you promise to be true 861 00:49:09,363 --> 00:49:13,869 # And help me understand... # 862 00:49:14,493 --> 00:49:18,418 KANE: The people who ran the Gator Bowl integrated for the first time ever, 863 00:49:18,539 --> 00:49:20,962 which, from my historical perspective and study, 864 00:49:21,083 --> 00:49:24,087 ended all that in most of the big stadiums in the South. 865 00:49:25,129 --> 00:49:28,759 'And the next eight days are probably the most gruelling of the tour. 866 00:49:28,883 --> 00:49:30,760 'Looks like The Beatles are holding up strong.' 867 00:49:31,469 --> 00:49:35,349 Every night on the airplane, they would walk up to the front of the plane 868 00:49:35,473 --> 00:49:37,567 where the opening acts were 869 00:49:38,142 --> 00:49:40,110 and kneel down and talk to them. 870 00:49:40,227 --> 00:49:43,822 Every single night, they would ask them if they were OK. 871 00:49:43,939 --> 00:49:45,361 Because they were being ignored by the crowd. 872 00:49:46,275 --> 00:49:48,778 'This is Larry Kane, travelling with The Beatles. 873 00:49:48,903 --> 00:49:50,621 'And they're looking forward to going back to England, 874 00:49:50,738 --> 00:49:54,333 'because they'll be there for two weeks, where they'll record records of new music, 875 00:49:54,450 --> 00:49:57,124 'and then believe it or not, another month-long tour, 876 00:49:57,244 --> 00:49:58,871 'this time of their own country, 877 00:49:58,996 --> 00:50:01,590 'sometimes just by bus, and that's pretty hard.' 878 00:50:03,250 --> 00:50:06,345 My mother died in the summer of 1964, 879 00:50:06,462 --> 00:50:09,887 and somehow or other it got to them that she had passed away, 880 00:50:10,007 --> 00:50:13,352 and Paul and John both consoled me. 881 00:50:14,261 --> 00:50:16,980 PAUL: John and I, we'd both lost our mothers. 882 00:50:17,097 --> 00:50:18,690 Mine had died of cancer 883 00:50:18,807 --> 00:50:22,107 and his had died in a terrible road accident. 884 00:50:22,770 --> 00:50:24,818 So that kind of pulled us together a lot. 885 00:50:24,939 --> 00:50:27,533 You know, being teenagers, we just needed to do something 886 00:50:27,650 --> 00:50:29,778 that would get us away from this tragedy, 887 00:50:29,902 --> 00:50:32,200 and so songwriting was it, really. 888 00:50:33,030 --> 00:50:36,500 # Cos I couldn't stand the pain... # 889 00:50:37,451 --> 00:50:40,421 KANE: They were very, very sensitive to other people's feelings. 890 00:50:40,538 --> 00:50:41,835 All four of them. 891 00:50:42,331 --> 00:50:44,959 They were intelligent people who cared about other people, 892 00:50:45,084 --> 00:50:47,132 who had a sense of themselves. 893 00:50:47,878 --> 00:50:49,676 They also liked making fun of me. 894 00:50:49,797 --> 00:50:52,550 'John, last night, you were very kind and Derek was very kind 895 00:50:52,675 --> 00:50:55,224 'to invite us up to see the movie, which I have seen twice.' 896 00:50:55,344 --> 00:50:56,721 JOHN: 'I never invited him at all. 897 00:50:56,845 --> 00:50:58,813 'I just saw him sitting there, listening to us.' 898 00:50:58,931 --> 00:51:02,231 - KANE: 'Well, anyway, uh...' - JOHN: 'Only kidding, Larry.' 899 00:51:02,351 --> 00:51:04,900 KANE: 'This has been Larry Kane, travelling with The Beatles.' 900 00:51:16,115 --> 00:51:18,709 HOWARD GOODALL: It's extraordinary, when you think about it, 901 00:51:18,826 --> 00:51:22,000 that they were touring in this kind of circus of life. 902 00:51:22,121 --> 00:51:25,341 The sort of madness of all that jamboree, of excitement, 903 00:51:25,457 --> 00:51:26,959 and hysteria. 904 00:51:27,084 --> 00:51:30,554 And yet, they were able to express the way they were feeling, 905 00:51:30,671 --> 00:51:32,093 the weirdness of it, 906 00:51:32,214 --> 00:51:37,846 because inside those Beatle suits were composers. They were writers. 907 00:51:39,763 --> 00:51:41,356 - JOHN: Now I told you. - PAUL: It was you, too George. 908 00:51:41,473 --> 00:51:43,100 JOHN: I said we'd miss out on the middle eight. 909 00:51:43,225 --> 00:51:46,479 PAUL: Ah, you're coming in the wrong... Halfway through the solo. 910 00:51:46,604 --> 00:51:50,074 - JOHN: What was it, 12 bar? - Yeah... 911 00:51:51,108 --> 00:51:53,202 PAUL: The studio was like our little haven. 912 00:51:53,319 --> 00:51:56,914 Once we got back there, we knew we could experiment. 913 00:52:02,119 --> 00:52:03,120 We could hear ourselves. 914 00:52:03,245 --> 00:52:07,500 And we would write songs that would be a progression 915 00:52:07,625 --> 00:52:09,252 and that would be fun to record. 916 00:52:14,506 --> 00:52:16,349 GEORGE MARTIN: Brian Epstein and I 917 00:52:16,467 --> 00:52:19,641 worked together very closely planning their future. 918 00:52:19,762 --> 00:52:23,608 We agreed that we should put out a single every three months 919 00:52:23,724 --> 00:52:26,022 and an album every six months. 920 00:52:26,143 --> 00:52:27,861 # Baby's good to me, you know 921 00:52:27,978 --> 00:52:31,699 # She's happy as can be, you know, she said so 922 00:52:34,068 --> 00:52:37,914 # I'm in love with her and I feel fine... # 923 00:52:38,822 --> 00:52:42,793 MARTIN: I was under pressure because I'd got such little time with them. 924 00:52:42,910 --> 00:52:45,834 I would say to Brian, you know, "I need more time in the studio." 925 00:52:45,954 --> 00:52:49,834 And he would dole out time like giving scraps to a mouse. 926 00:52:49,958 --> 00:52:53,838 One of the great things about our recording was the schedule. 927 00:52:53,962 --> 00:52:55,885 You'd go in a 10 o'clock in the morning, 928 00:52:56,006 --> 00:52:58,509 tune up, have a ciggy, have a cup of tea or something, 929 00:52:58,634 --> 00:53:04,641 and then John and I mainly would present the song that we'd written to everyone. 930 00:53:05,432 --> 00:53:06,979 It goes... 931 00:53:14,316 --> 00:53:16,159 Just go through it anyway, if it makes... 932 00:53:16,276 --> 00:53:18,244 Make mistakes... just to practice it. 933 00:53:18,362 --> 00:53:19,454 Try to remember, John, 934 00:53:19,571 --> 00:53:22,620 and if I don't, well, it's just too bad, isn't it? OK? 935 00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:24,793 Is it just me and you? 936 00:53:24,910 --> 00:53:26,662 One, two, three, four. 937 00:53:26,787 --> 00:53:29,666 # Ooh... # 938 00:53:31,458 --> 00:53:33,927 - Oh, no, that's too much. - You daft git! 939 00:53:34,044 --> 00:53:36,718 - Take two! - One, two, three, four. 940 00:53:36,839 --> 00:53:40,389 # Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh 941 00:53:40,509 --> 00:53:43,433 # Ooh, ooh 942 00:53:44,054 --> 00:53:47,524 # Ooh, I need your love, babe 943 00:53:47,641 --> 00:53:50,144 # Guess you know it's true 944 00:53:50,269 --> 00:53:51,816 PAUL: Ringo would tap along, 945 00:53:51,937 --> 00:53:55,237 George would just suss the chords, and then George Martin would go, 946 00:53:55,357 --> 00:53:57,530 "Oh, yeah, that's half nice, it was marvellous," 947 00:53:57,651 --> 00:53:59,528 and then it would take about 20 minutes to do that. 948 00:53:59,653 --> 00:54:01,121 # Love me... # 949 00:54:01,238 --> 00:54:02,410 JOHN: What are you doing? 950 00:54:02,531 --> 00:54:04,625 PAUL: George, what did it sound like with the bass doing a funny thing? 951 00:54:04,742 --> 00:54:06,415 Did it sound good or did it sound just utterly crap? 952 00:54:06,535 --> 00:54:09,038 MARTIN: Thank you, I think it's a good idea. 953 00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:11,211 ALL: No, no... 954 00:54:11,707 --> 00:54:14,586 - MARTIN: Take three. - PAUL: One, two, three, four. 955 00:54:14,710 --> 00:54:16,553 # Ooh... # 956 00:54:18,464 --> 00:54:19,761 RINGO: At the very beginning, 957 00:54:19,882 --> 00:54:23,762 George Martin was the only man who could press the button to record. 958 00:54:23,886 --> 00:54:26,730 We'd just play it and do it. "Ah, did you get that, George?" 959 00:54:28,474 --> 00:54:29,817 MARTIN: I'm getting that, yes. 960 00:54:29,933 --> 00:54:31,981 - JOHN: Wonderful. - MARTIN: That's lovely. 961 00:54:32,102 --> 00:54:34,901 PAUL: Keep that one. Mark it "fab". 962 00:54:35,022 --> 00:54:37,445 JOHN: You wanna have a listen before we go onto the next one? 963 00:54:38,275 --> 00:54:41,404 PAUL: George had recorded the Goons. 964 00:54:41,528 --> 00:54:43,747 That was like a cult thing that we all loved and we all knew it. 965 00:54:44,490 --> 00:54:46,913 MARTIN: At that time, I was a comedy producer, 966 00:54:47,034 --> 00:54:49,162 recording Spike Milligan and Peter Sellers 967 00:54:49,286 --> 00:54:51,539 and a lot of English comedy actors. 968 00:54:51,663 --> 00:54:53,290 PAUL: So he picked up our humour, 969 00:54:53,415 --> 00:54:56,669 he picked up our camaraderie, you know. 970 00:54:56,794 --> 00:54:59,263 We thought, "Well, he's mad. We love him." 971 00:54:59,379 --> 00:55:00,505 MARTIN: Ready yet in there? 972 00:55:00,631 --> 00:55:02,429 JOHN: Oh, we'll just have to have a go of it. 973 00:55:02,549 --> 00:55:04,893 - MARTIN: Oh, you're right... - JOHN: I know. 974 00:55:05,928 --> 00:55:08,932 On the early records, George Martin was a god. 975 00:55:09,056 --> 00:55:11,229 MARTIN: To begin with, I was very much in charge, 976 00:55:11,350 --> 00:55:14,069 because I was a kind of schoolmaster teaching them everything. 977 00:55:14,186 --> 00:55:15,904 And they had to do what I told them. 978 00:55:16,021 --> 00:55:20,322 PAUL: You had one and a half hours from 10:30 to finish that song. 979 00:55:20,442 --> 00:55:22,911 Boom. So that focused you. 980 00:55:23,028 --> 00:55:24,621 That was a great discipline. 981 00:55:27,533 --> 00:55:30,161 - PAUL: We'll do it again. - JOHN: So, we'll try and get it good, too. 982 00:55:30,285 --> 00:55:31,787 MARTIN: I'm just gonna start recording you. 983 00:55:31,912 --> 00:55:33,914 Red light's on. 984 00:55:34,039 --> 00:55:35,632 RINGO: Every minute of the day, 985 00:55:36,416 --> 00:55:38,339 someone wanted something, you know? 986 00:55:38,460 --> 00:55:40,633 Drive to EMI to do a record, 987 00:55:40,754 --> 00:55:44,099 down here to Soho to do a photo shoot. 988 00:55:46,927 --> 00:55:49,430 Drive back to do some TV show. 989 00:55:49,555 --> 00:55:53,355 # I'm a loser 990 00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:56,820 # And I'm not what I appear to be 991 00:55:56,937 --> 00:55:58,405 # Of all... # 992 00:55:58,522 --> 00:56:00,820 I was singing the wrong words there. 993 00:56:00,941 --> 00:56:03,114 Drive to Birmingham to do a gig. 994 00:56:04,194 --> 00:56:05,867 End up in a nightclub. 995 00:56:05,988 --> 00:56:09,618 We were just doing four or five things a day, you know, 996 00:56:09,741 --> 00:56:13,211 but we had each other. And we brought that to the music. 997 00:56:14,413 --> 00:56:17,212 # Ooh, I need your love, babe 998 00:56:17,749 --> 00:56:20,093 # Guess you know it's true 999 00:56:21,253 --> 00:56:24,302 # Hope you need my love, babe 1000 00:56:24,423 --> 00:56:27,097 # Just like I need you... # 1001 00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:30,850 GOODALL: The thing about the scale is 1002 00:56:30,971 --> 00:56:33,440 that writing lots of songs is not particularly difficult. 1003 00:56:33,557 --> 00:56:35,230 Volume is not the thing. 1004 00:56:35,350 --> 00:56:38,399 The extraordinary thing about The Beatles is the amount of great songs. 1005 00:56:38,520 --> 00:56:40,147 Schubert wrote about 800 songs, 1006 00:56:40,272 --> 00:56:43,025 of which probably 100 are absolutely beautiful melodies. 1007 00:56:43,150 --> 00:56:44,777 The other 700, pretty good. 1008 00:56:44,902 --> 00:56:48,907 The only comparison with that kind of level of melody, maybe Mozart? 1009 00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:52,080 Very, very high volume and very good melodies. 1010 00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:53,793 You have to wait a long time, then, 1011 00:56:53,911 --> 00:56:56,209 till you get someone who's up in the hundreds, 1012 00:56:56,330 --> 00:56:58,048 and that's when you get The Beatles. 1013 00:56:58,165 --> 00:57:00,167 Which is why I think you can compare them in some ways, 1014 00:57:00,292 --> 00:57:02,010 because the sheer volume of the invention. 1015 00:57:02,544 --> 00:57:06,048 # I ain't got nothing but love, girl 1016 00:57:06,506 --> 00:57:08,133 # Eight days a week 1017 00:57:10,010 --> 00:57:12,433 # Eight days a week... # 1018 00:57:26,735 --> 00:57:29,079 EPSTEIN: Hello again from Hullabaloo, London. 1019 00:57:29,196 --> 00:57:31,870 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Richard Lester. 1020 00:57:36,787 --> 00:57:40,007 Richard, what do you think we could tell them about the new Beatles flick? 1021 00:57:40,123 --> 00:57:42,546 Well, first of all, it's going to be different from the last one. 1022 00:57:42,668 --> 00:57:43,965 It'll be in colour. 1023 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, 1024 00:57:47,756 --> 00:57:49,349 and Ringo's in trouble again. 1025 00:57:50,133 --> 00:57:52,761 We need protection, we've got a record to do tomorrow. 1026 00:57:52,886 --> 00:57:53,978 I need protection. 1027 00:57:54,096 --> 00:57:56,394 And you shall have it. Get me protection. 1028 00:57:56,515 --> 00:57:58,643 (# THE BEATLES: "I NEED YOU") 1029 00:57:59,977 --> 00:58:04,403 # You don't realise how much I need you 1030 00:58:06,984 --> 00:58:11,364 # Love you all the time and never leave you 1031 00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:16,790 # Please come on back to me 1032 00:58:16,910 --> 00:58:20,084 # I'm lonely as can be 1033 00:58:20,205 --> 00:58:21,627 # I need you... # 1034 00:58:24,042 --> 00:58:27,137 PAUL: We'd enjoyed very much doing A Hard Day's Night. 1035 00:58:27,254 --> 00:58:29,552 We had kinda taken it seriously, 1036 00:58:29,673 --> 00:58:34,053 but with the film Help! we were kinda pretty disinterested. 1037 00:58:34,553 --> 00:58:36,521 You know, we were now doing it again, 1038 00:58:37,347 --> 00:58:40,817 and so it couldn't be quite as exciting as the first time. Nothing is. 1039 00:58:44,813 --> 00:58:49,660 The main thing I remember is, we all had meetings about tax structure 1040 00:58:49,776 --> 00:58:51,403 and they would sorta say, 1041 00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,998 oh you've gotta put your money in the Bahamas or somewhere. 1042 00:58:55,115 --> 00:58:57,618 So when we were asked about the film, 1043 00:58:57,743 --> 00:58:59,461 we would say, "Can we go to The Bahamas?" 1044 00:58:59,578 --> 00:59:03,082 We were told, you're gonna film in the Bahamas. Write a scene. 1045 00:59:03,206 --> 00:59:05,629 (# THE BEATLES: "IT'S ONLY LOVE") 1046 00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:16,520 # I get high when I see you go by 1047 00:59:18,638 --> 00:59:19,810 # My oh my... # 1048 00:59:19,931 --> 00:59:24,778 KANE: In 1965, they invited me to Nassau to watch them film the movie Help! 1049 00:59:24,895 --> 00:59:27,865 I walked into the house and I saw something very unusual. 1050 00:59:27,981 --> 00:59:30,700 They were all high on marijuana. 1051 00:59:31,526 --> 00:59:33,244 And I'd never seen this before. 1052 00:59:33,361 --> 00:59:35,739 - KANE: Hey Paul, how you doin'? - PAUL: Hello, Larry. 1053 00:59:35,864 --> 00:59:38,162 - KANE: Good to see you again. - PAUL: Lovely to see you, yes. 1054 00:59:38,283 --> 00:59:40,502 KANE: Hey, John. How are you doin'? 1055 00:59:45,874 --> 00:59:48,047 What is this everything... anything can happen business? 1056 00:59:54,466 --> 00:59:56,343 - KANE: Thanks a lot. - GEORGE: Anything. Larry? 1057 00:59:56,468 --> 00:59:59,096 - KANE: We'll be talking to you. - (LAUGHING) 1058 00:59:59,805 --> 01:00:05,403 PAUL: In all truthfulness, we spent a lot of that film slightly stoned. 1059 01:00:11,233 --> 01:00:13,736 (# THE BEATLES: "TICKET TO RIDE") 1060 01:00:18,115 --> 01:00:20,994 Things were spiralling like crazy during Help! 1061 01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:26,047 There were people coming in with contracts for bubblegum royalties 1062 01:00:26,164 --> 01:00:27,586 and being condescending, 1063 01:00:27,707 --> 01:00:29,550 and then the press were getting aggressive. 1064 01:00:30,293 --> 01:00:31,840 They owned all of us. 1065 01:00:31,962 --> 01:00:33,384 JOHN: There's no switching off. 1066 01:00:33,505 --> 01:00:36,429 The elevator man wants a little piece of you on the way back to your room. 1067 01:00:36,550 --> 01:00:39,554 The maid wants a little piece of you back at the hotel. 1068 01:00:39,678 --> 01:00:42,477 And I don't mean sexually, I mean a piece of your time and your energy, 1069 01:00:42,597 --> 01:00:45,601 and it's like a politician, you're on 24 hours a day. 1070 01:00:46,518 --> 01:00:48,566 KANE: I think that John got fed up first. 1071 01:00:48,687 --> 01:00:52,317 He became agitated or frustrated about what was being written, 1072 01:00:52,440 --> 01:00:55,034 particularly from 1965 onward. 1073 01:00:56,319 --> 01:00:58,822 PAUL: Richard Lester had said we need a song, 1074 01:00:59,573 --> 01:01:01,416 and John started it, 1075 01:01:01,533 --> 01:01:05,083 so by the time I came to see him, he had a lot of it, 1076 01:01:05,203 --> 01:01:08,958 and he said to me, you know, this is kind of autobiographical. 1077 01:01:09,499 --> 01:01:11,627 You know, "When I was younger, so much younger than today..." 1078 01:01:11,751 --> 01:01:13,173 I knew what he meant, 1079 01:01:13,295 --> 01:01:16,094 you know, and I knew now he was more insecure 1080 01:01:16,214 --> 01:01:19,684 cos we were all a bit more insecure than we'd been when we were 17. 1081 01:01:20,552 --> 01:01:21,804 One, two, three, four! 1082 01:01:21,928 --> 01:01:22,975 # Help! 1083 01:01:23,096 --> 01:01:25,144 - # I need somebody - # Help! 1084 01:01:25,265 --> 01:01:27,688 - # Not just anybody - # Help! 1085 01:01:27,809 --> 01:01:29,402 # You know I need someone 1086 01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:30,987 # Help! 1087 01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:36,701 # When I was younger, so much younger than today 1088 01:01:37,235 --> 01:01:41,035 # I never needed anybody's help in any way 1089 01:01:42,574 --> 01:01:47,080 # But now these days are gone, I'm not so self-assured 1090 01:01:47,204 --> 01:01:49,502 # Now I find I've changed my mind 1091 01:01:49,623 --> 01:01:51,967 # And opened up the doors 1092 01:01:52,083 --> 01:01:55,804 # Help me if you can, I'm feeling down 1093 01:01:56,504 --> 01:02:00,850 # And I do appreciate you being round 1094 01:02:02,302 --> 01:02:06,648 # Help me get my feet back on the ground 1095 01:02:06,765 --> 01:02:10,360 # Won't you please, please help me 1096 01:02:12,896 --> 01:02:16,867 # And now my life has changed in oh so many ways 1097 01:02:18,026 --> 01:02:21,496 # My independence seems to vanish in the haze 1098 01:02:23,198 --> 01:02:26,668 # But now these days are gone I'm not so self-assured 1099 01:02:27,994 --> 01:02:32,044 # I know that I just need you like I've never done before 1100 01:02:32,707 --> 01:02:36,587 # Help me if you can, I'm feeling down... # 1101 01:02:37,128 --> 01:02:40,803 JOHN: I always liked Help, because I meant it, it's real. 1102 01:02:40,924 --> 01:02:44,724 The lyric is as good now as it was then, there's no difference to it. 1103 01:02:44,844 --> 01:02:47,063 It was just me singing "Help," and I meant it. 1104 01:02:47,180 --> 01:02:50,650 # Won't you please, please help me 1105 01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:55,648 # Help me, help me, ooh # 1106 01:03:02,279 --> 01:03:05,328 RINGO: We were not getting a lot of money from records. 1107 01:03:05,448 --> 01:03:07,041 We had the worst deal in the world, 1108 01:03:07,158 --> 01:03:10,002 but we had a deal and we were on vinyl, and that's all that mattered. 1109 01:03:10,954 --> 01:03:14,254 You've gotta remember, we made our money playing live. 1110 01:03:14,374 --> 01:03:16,502 # Well, they took some honey 1111 01:03:17,043 --> 01:03:18,044 # From a tree 1112 01:03:19,337 --> 01:03:21,806 # Dressed it up and they called it me 1113 01:03:21,923 --> 01:03:24,301 # Everybody's trying to be my baby 1114 01:03:24,426 --> 01:03:26,929 # Everybody's trying to be my baby 1115 01:03:27,053 --> 01:03:29,932 # Everybody's trying to be my baby, now... # 1116 01:03:30,056 --> 01:03:32,058 RINGO: It just got bigger and bigger and bigger. 1117 01:03:32,183 --> 01:03:34,777 # Well half past nine, half past four 1118 01:03:34,894 --> 01:03:37,192 # Fifty women knocking on my door 1119 01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:39,858 # Everybody's trying to be my baby 1120 01:03:40,483 --> 01:03:42,861 # Everybody's trying to be my baby 1121 01:03:42,986 --> 01:03:46,081 # Everybody's trying to be my baby, now, yeah... # 1122 01:03:46,698 --> 01:03:47,950 And then it got crazy. 1123 01:03:52,120 --> 01:03:55,215 They went back to America and started playing stadiums, 1124 01:03:55,332 --> 01:03:58,256 places like Portland, San Francisco, 1125 01:03:58,376 --> 01:04:01,300 the Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis, 1126 01:04:01,421 --> 01:04:03,844 the Chicago White Sox's Kaminski Park. 1127 01:04:04,341 --> 01:04:07,220 # Went out last night, I didn't stay late 1128 01:04:07,344 --> 01:04:09,688 # 'Fore I got home I had nineteen dates... # 1129 01:04:09,804 --> 01:04:12,102 KANE: There were lots of other groups touring at this point, 1130 01:04:12,223 --> 01:04:13,600 but nothing like this. 1131 01:04:13,725 --> 01:04:15,819 The money they were making night after night 1132 01:04:15,935 --> 01:04:18,905 compared to other acts was unprecedented. 1133 01:04:21,191 --> 01:04:23,614 The fact is, they had to play stadiums. 1134 01:04:23,735 --> 01:04:26,864 Promoters and local police had to be begging Brian Epstein, 1135 01:04:26,988 --> 01:04:30,333 telling him, you know, you can't go and play a 5,000-seat theatre 1136 01:04:30,450 --> 01:04:34,205 and have 50,000 teenagers going crazy outside. 1137 01:04:34,329 --> 01:04:36,297 It will be impossible to control. 1138 01:04:40,627 --> 01:04:41,844 This was massive. 1139 01:04:41,961 --> 01:04:45,056 The first big stadium tour in history, 1140 01:04:45,173 --> 01:04:48,643 and the biggest show of them all was New York. 1141 01:04:52,764 --> 01:04:55,108 GOLDBERG: There was the announcement of this concert 1142 01:04:55,225 --> 01:04:56,602 and I was like, "Can we go?" 1143 01:04:56,726 --> 01:05:00,026 And my mum was like, "We don't have the money for this." 1144 01:05:00,814 --> 01:05:05,194 And then, something... I don't know how she did it. 1145 01:05:06,069 --> 01:05:07,821 I don't know... 1146 01:05:07,946 --> 01:05:11,541 I don't know how she did it, but she got two tickets. 1147 01:05:12,826 --> 01:05:14,419 And she didn't tell me. 1148 01:05:15,245 --> 01:05:17,589 So, this is what happened. 1149 01:05:17,705 --> 01:05:19,673 She said, "We need to go," and I said, "Where are we going? 1150 01:05:19,791 --> 01:05:21,759 She said, "I'll let you know when we get there." 1151 01:05:21,876 --> 01:05:24,925 OK, so we're on the train and I'm not paying any attention. 1152 01:05:25,964 --> 01:05:27,887 And we get up and I ask, "Where are we?" 1153 01:05:28,007 --> 01:05:30,601 And she says, "We're at Shea Stadium." 1154 01:05:30,718 --> 01:05:32,265 And I said, "Why?" 1155 01:05:33,179 --> 01:05:37,184 And she held up two tickets, and all I remember is my head going poof. 1156 01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:47,868 JOHN: It's just amazing, it's unbelievable. 1157 01:05:47,986 --> 01:05:53,117 - RINGO: The biggest thing ever. - PAUL: 56,500 someone said. It's fantastic. 1158 01:05:53,241 --> 01:05:54,993 GEORGE: It just knocks you out, you know? 1159 01:05:56,536 --> 01:05:58,630 Shea Stadium is an enormous place. 1160 01:05:58,746 --> 01:06:03,047 I mean, that was the first time it was used for a rock concert. 1161 01:06:03,168 --> 01:06:07,799 Vox made us special big amplifiers for that tour 1162 01:06:07,922 --> 01:06:10,300 and they were like a hundred watts... 1163 01:06:11,676 --> 01:06:13,849 And it just obviously, you know, wasn't enough. 1164 01:06:16,890 --> 01:06:18,892 ED SULLIVAN: Now ladies and gentlemen, 1165 01:06:19,809 --> 01:06:21,652 here are The Beatles. 1166 01:06:30,028 --> 01:06:31,450 Here they come. 1167 01:06:45,502 --> 01:06:46,503 - Hello. - Oh, oh! 1168 01:06:46,628 --> 01:06:48,221 - Hello! - Hey! 1169 01:06:48,338 --> 01:06:50,056 - Hello! - Hey, hey, hey! 1170 01:06:50,590 --> 01:06:51,591 Hello! 1171 01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:54,268 - Hello, Paul. - Hello, John. 1172 01:06:57,805 --> 01:07:00,900 We'd like to do a song from... What LP is it on? 1173 01:07:01,017 --> 01:07:05,147 Off our LP album, Beatles VI, I think. 1174 01:07:05,271 --> 01:07:07,365 Can you hear me? 1175 01:07:08,274 --> 01:07:09,821 Hello? 1176 01:07:11,778 --> 01:07:13,780 And it's called, Dizzy Miss Lizzy. 1177 01:07:33,591 --> 01:07:36,060 # You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy 1178 01:07:36,886 --> 01:07:39,230 # The way you rock and roll 1179 01:07:40,223 --> 01:07:42,646 # You make me dizzy, Miss Lizzy 1180 01:07:43,768 --> 01:07:46,237 # When we do the stroll 1181 01:07:47,021 --> 01:07:49,399 # Come on, come on, come on, come on, Lizzy 1182 01:07:50,108 --> 01:07:52,076 # Love me before I grow too old 1183 01:07:53,778 --> 01:07:56,827 # Run and tell your mama 1184 01:07:56,948 --> 01:07:58,416 # I want you to be my bride... # 1185 01:07:58,533 --> 01:08:01,286 COSTELLO: One of the most remarkable things about The Beatles playing live is 1186 01:08:01,411 --> 01:08:02,958 how in tune they are, 1187 01:08:03,079 --> 01:08:05,457 because they can't possibly hear themselves. 1188 01:08:05,582 --> 01:08:07,175 I don't think they had monitors. 1189 01:08:07,292 --> 01:08:08,509 Amps aren't very big. 1190 01:08:08,626 --> 01:08:11,425 Even if they were cranked to the max they're not that loud. 1191 01:08:12,505 --> 01:08:14,507 I mean, Shea Stadium being the most extraordinary... 1192 01:08:14,632 --> 01:08:16,600 because I don't even think there's a P.A. at Shea Stadium. 1193 01:08:16,718 --> 01:08:18,311 They're going through the Tannoy, 1194 01:08:18,428 --> 01:08:21,898 which must have sounded like a thousand transistor radios to each ear. 1195 01:08:22,015 --> 01:08:23,437 # Miss Lizzy 1196 01:08:24,267 --> 01:08:26,486 # Girl, you look so fine 1197 01:08:27,979 --> 01:08:30,903 # Just a-rocking and a-rolling 1198 01:08:31,024 --> 01:08:34,073 # Girl I said I wish you were mine... # 1199 01:08:36,362 --> 01:08:38,364 RINGO: We did the house P.A., you know, 1200 01:08:38,489 --> 01:08:42,289 and on first base is Willy Wonka, or whatever they said. 1201 01:08:42,410 --> 01:08:44,412 That's the equipment we had. 1202 01:08:45,246 --> 01:08:47,340 # When you rock and roll... # 1203 01:08:47,457 --> 01:08:49,175 RINGO: I could not hear anything. 1204 01:08:49,292 --> 01:08:52,296 I'd be watchin' John's arse, Paul's arse, 1205 01:08:52,420 --> 01:08:54,798 his foot's tappin', his head's noddin', 1206 01:08:54,922 --> 01:08:56,515 to see where we were in the song. 1207 01:08:56,633 --> 01:08:58,226 # Come on, come on, Lizzy 1208 01:08:58,343 --> 01:09:01,313 # I wanna be your lover man # 1209 01:09:08,978 --> 01:09:11,822 PAUL: Playing to 56,000 people at Shea Stadium, 1210 01:09:11,939 --> 01:09:15,944 after that, you just sort of think to yourself, what more can you do? 1211 01:09:17,987 --> 01:09:20,410 NEIL ASPINALL: I remember George bringing up the subject with Brian, 1212 01:09:20,531 --> 01:09:24,411 "Hey, is this touring gonna be an annual event?" 1213 01:09:25,328 --> 01:09:28,457 And I think he was the first one that brought up the idea of, 1214 01:09:28,581 --> 01:09:30,754 "Hey, I've had enough of this." 1215 01:09:32,794 --> 01:09:35,172 GEORGE: That was the good thing about being four together. 1216 01:09:35,296 --> 01:09:36,889 You're not like Elvis, you know? 1217 01:09:37,006 --> 01:09:39,100 I always felt sorry for Elvis cos he was on his own. 1218 01:09:39,217 --> 01:09:41,970 He had his guys with him, but there's only one Elvis. 1219 01:09:42,095 --> 01:09:44,314 Nobody else knew what he felt like. 1220 01:09:45,014 --> 01:09:47,733 But, for us, we all shared the experience. 1221 01:09:52,355 --> 01:09:54,699 JON SAVAGE: They came back to England late summer '65. 1222 01:09:58,111 --> 01:10:01,160 The last time The Beatles played in Britain was that winter, 1223 01:10:01,280 --> 01:10:03,408 you know, seven or eight dates. 1224 01:10:03,533 --> 01:10:05,581 My grandparents bought me tickets to see them, 1225 01:10:05,702 --> 01:10:07,921 and my parents refused to let me go. 1226 01:10:09,038 --> 01:10:11,132 # Got a good reason 1227 01:10:12,375 --> 01:10:14,924 # For taking the easy way out... # 1228 01:10:15,044 --> 01:10:18,799 The Beatles captured my imagination like no other group at that point. 1229 01:10:18,923 --> 01:10:21,267 It was the way that I began to interpret the world. 1230 01:10:22,343 --> 01:10:25,096 Each new record was built on the record before. 1231 01:10:25,221 --> 01:10:29,317 You had this wonderful storyline advancing through with The Beatles. 1232 01:10:29,434 --> 01:10:33,064 By the end of the year we were being told there would be more records forthcoming. 1233 01:10:36,816 --> 01:10:38,284 And they went back in the studio. 1234 01:10:41,696 --> 01:10:44,324 (INDISTINCT CHATTER) 1235 01:10:47,535 --> 01:10:49,833 JOHN: See if we're all in tune when we play, George. 1236 01:10:49,954 --> 01:10:51,126 MARTIN: Girl, take one. 1237 01:10:53,458 --> 01:10:59,010 # Is there anybody going to listen to my story 1238 01:10:59,130 --> 01:11:02,555 # All about the girl who came to stay... # 1239 01:11:02,675 --> 01:11:05,929 COSTELLO: The first reaction to the new, innovative sound of Rubber Soul was, 1240 01:11:06,053 --> 01:11:08,602 I don't like this. I think they've lost their minds. 1241 01:11:09,140 --> 01:11:11,268 # Girl, girl... # 1242 01:11:11,392 --> 01:11:13,565 What are they thinking, you know, what's this? 1243 01:11:14,061 --> 01:11:18,032 # She's the kind of girl who puts you down when friends are there 1244 01:11:18,149 --> 01:11:20,151 # You feel a fool... # 1245 01:11:20,276 --> 01:11:23,200 I kinda went from being a kid to being a teenager, so... 1246 01:11:23,321 --> 01:11:25,540 some of those things felt like the right thing, 1247 01:11:25,656 --> 01:11:28,876 but it was still surprising, this group I like kinda change so much. 1248 01:11:28,993 --> 01:11:31,291 # Girl... # 1249 01:11:32,955 --> 01:11:35,424 There's a big jump from I Want To Hold YourHand to 1250 01:11:35,541 --> 01:11:37,635 "Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure." 1251 01:11:38,377 --> 01:11:43,133 # Was she told when she was young that pain would lead to pleasure 1252 01:11:43,716 --> 01:11:47,311 # Did she understand it when they said... # 1253 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. 1254 01:11:50,848 --> 01:11:53,442 And then six weeks later, you couldn't live without the record. 1255 01:11:54,018 --> 01:11:56,612 And that's good. That's when you trust the people who make music 1256 01:11:56,729 --> 01:11:58,652 to take you somewhere that you hadn't been before. 1257 01:12:01,567 --> 01:12:04,821 RADIO: 'Formal occasion at Buckingham Palace on a foggy October morning. 1258 01:12:05,655 --> 01:12:07,623 'The ceremony is bestowing awards of honour, 1259 01:12:07,740 --> 01:12:11,790 'a ceremony hallowed by tradition going back over the centuries. 1260 01:12:13,496 --> 01:12:16,921 'Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.' 1261 01:12:18,626 --> 01:12:20,845 'Do you think The Beatles should have been awarded the M.B.E.?' 1262 01:12:20,962 --> 01:12:23,886 MAN: 'Well, I... I think The Beatles have probably done as much for popular music 1263 01:12:24,006 --> 01:12:26,634 'as people like Rodgers and Hammerstein and Gershwin did, 1264 01:12:26,759 --> 01:12:28,636 'the only difference being that The Beatles have done it 1265 01:12:28,761 --> 01:12:29,933 'in a matter of two or three years, 1266 01:12:30,054 --> 01:12:31,897 'whereas it took most other people a lifetime.' 1267 01:12:33,599 --> 01:12:37,194 INTERVIEWER: 'What's the M.B.E. going to do to your teenage rebel image?' 1268 01:12:37,311 --> 01:12:39,279 - Who's got a teenage rebel image? - Well, you have. 1269 01:12:39,397 --> 01:12:40,444 - Have we? - No. 1270 01:12:40,565 --> 01:12:42,408 Have any of you any ambitions left at all? 1271 01:12:42,525 --> 01:12:44,277 - John? - I'd like to be a duke. 1272 01:12:45,695 --> 01:12:48,539 # Have you heard the word is love... # 1273 01:12:48,656 --> 01:12:51,876 SAVAGE: They had achieved the summit, and they were, if you like, emperors, 1274 01:12:51,993 --> 01:12:54,542 but at the same time they were prisoners of their fame, 1275 01:12:54,662 --> 01:12:57,962 and I think they were beginning to chafe at people's expectations. 1276 01:13:08,759 --> 01:13:11,308 The first three months had been lopped off 1277 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. 1278 01:13:15,266 --> 01:13:19,521 And so for the first time since they'd become successful and famous, 1279 01:13:19,645 --> 01:13:21,272 they had three months off. 1280 01:13:21,397 --> 01:13:23,695 (# THE BEATLES: "NORWEGIAN WOOD") 1281 01:13:27,570 --> 01:13:32,997 GEORGE: It had been four years for us of legging around in this mania, 1282 01:13:33,951 --> 01:13:36,204 and we were tired. We needed a rest. 1283 01:13:36,329 --> 01:13:39,048 # I once had a girl 1284 01:13:39,165 --> 01:13:41,008 # Or should I say 1285 01:13:41,125 --> 01:13:43,048 # She once had me... # 1286 01:13:44,003 --> 01:13:46,552 PAUL: The thing is that we were all interested in other things 1287 01:13:46,672 --> 01:13:47,924 before The Beatles. 1288 01:13:48,591 --> 01:13:51,970 And we didn't really have time, but we were always lookin' around. 1289 01:13:52,094 --> 01:13:53,971 I got involved with a gallery owner 1290 01:13:54,096 --> 01:13:57,600 and when we'd go to Paris and buy paintings. 1291 01:13:57,725 --> 01:14:00,069 We'd go to the dealer. So it was very exciting. 1292 01:14:02,313 --> 01:14:05,112 And of course, George had developed an interest in Indian music. 1293 01:14:07,109 --> 01:14:09,532 (# SITAR PLAYS) 1294 01:14:12,615 --> 01:14:15,710 GEORGE: I just wanna carry on progressing with music, 1295 01:14:15,826 --> 01:14:19,080 you know, writing more and just learning more about it. 1296 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 1297 01:14:23,793 --> 01:14:27,798 because I've wanted, when I finally recorded one of mine, 1298 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. 1299 01:14:33,094 --> 01:14:36,564 I feel now I've got more idea about how to write songs. 1300 01:14:39,976 --> 01:14:42,820 RINGO: We bought this house in the country on this estate, 1301 01:14:42,937 --> 01:14:46,066 Maureen and Zak, my son, and John was up the road. 1302 01:14:47,108 --> 01:14:49,531 We started to grow up, 1303 01:14:49,652 --> 01:14:51,620 and we started to have families, 1304 01:14:51,737 --> 01:14:55,867 and we started to put less energy into The Beatle bag. 1305 01:14:56,659 --> 01:14:58,457 We all kind of were very aware 1306 01:14:58,577 --> 01:15:01,330 that we didn't live in each other's pockets anymore. 1307 01:15:01,455 --> 01:15:03,878 We all had separate existences. 1308 01:15:05,126 --> 01:15:08,221 SAVAGE: There's an interview that John Lennon gives to Maureen Cleave 1309 01:15:08,337 --> 01:15:11,762 which is published in March '66 where he talks about his reading, 1310 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," 1311 01:15:15,261 --> 01:15:17,434 which is not what a pop star is supposed to say. 1312 01:15:18,973 --> 01:15:22,523 That same month, March, they were doing a photo shoot. 1313 01:15:23,060 --> 01:15:25,313 JOHN: By then we were really sort of beginning to hate it. 1314 01:15:25,438 --> 01:15:27,406 This photo session was a big ordeal 1315 01:15:27,523 --> 01:15:30,572 and you had to try to look normal, you know, and you didn't feel it. 1316 01:15:31,360 --> 01:15:34,580 PAUL: Bob Whitaker was one of the photographers who took our pictures 1317 01:15:34,697 --> 01:15:37,325 and he came up with, we'd all put on white lab coats 1318 01:15:37,450 --> 01:15:40,329 and we'd pretend to be mad professors. 1319 01:15:40,453 --> 01:15:43,047 JOHN: The photographer's a bit of a surrealist, you know? 1320 01:15:47,293 --> 01:15:50,547 We really got into it, and that's how we felt, like, "Yeah." 1321 01:15:51,130 --> 01:15:55,556 # To say about the things that you do... # 1322 01:15:55,676 --> 01:15:57,849 PAUL: To us, you know, this wasn't a big deal, really, 1323 01:15:57,970 --> 01:16:01,520 because these kind of shocking things were part of the art scene. 1324 01:16:02,308 --> 01:16:08,486 # About the good things that we can have if we close our eyes... # 1325 01:16:08,606 --> 01:16:11,826 JOHN: I expressly pushed for it to be an album cover, you know? 1326 01:16:11,942 --> 01:16:13,740 It'd gone out in America, 1327 01:16:13,861 --> 01:16:15,579 and there was some kind of fuss. 1328 01:16:16,489 --> 01:16:19,038 PAUL: It was like, "What? My beloved Beatles? 1329 01:16:19,158 --> 01:16:21,001 "No! This must stop!" 1330 01:16:22,828 --> 01:16:23,829 MARTIN: Sorry. 1331 01:16:23,954 --> 01:16:25,831 JOHN: Well, are you gonna keep that one, please? 1332 01:16:25,956 --> 01:16:28,379 - MARTIN: Why don't you leave that one on? - GEORGE: Yeah, just leave it out again. 1333 01:16:28,501 --> 01:16:29,844 PAUL: OK. 1334 01:16:29,960 --> 01:16:32,008 JOHN: I'll just have to vamp it up a bit. 1335 01:16:33,130 --> 01:16:35,053 Now he tells me. 1336 01:16:35,174 --> 01:16:37,393 RINGO: We're having more fun in the studio. 1337 01:16:37,510 --> 01:16:38,978 It's getting more experimental. 1338 01:16:39,095 --> 01:16:42,065 The songs were gettin' better, more interesting. 1339 01:16:42,181 --> 01:16:45,685 # When I wake up early in the morning 1340 01:16:46,519 --> 01:16:48,066 # Lift my... 1341 01:16:48,604 --> 01:16:50,277 # And I'm still... # 1342 01:16:50,397 --> 01:16:52,570 RINGO: There weren't, like, big plans. 1343 01:16:52,691 --> 01:16:55,820 You know, sometimes it just unfolded. 1344 01:16:55,945 --> 01:16:57,367 Complete fluke. 1345 01:16:59,740 --> 01:17:00,957 JOHN: OK, ready? 1346 01:17:03,244 --> 01:17:05,246 RINGO: John was not mechanically minded, 1347 01:17:05,371 --> 01:17:07,294 and he took a tape on, 1348 01:17:07,414 --> 01:17:10,634 and the tape had run off to the other reel, 1349 01:17:10,751 --> 01:17:13,550 and he put it on like it was the start, 1350 01:17:13,671 --> 01:17:16,550 but it was the end of the song and that's when the guitar came. 1351 01:17:16,674 --> 01:17:18,472 (IMITATES SOUND) 1352 01:17:19,218 --> 01:17:21,971 And he brings it in, "Ah, you've gotta hear this." 1353 01:17:22,096 --> 01:17:25,225 And we said, great, we've gotta do that, so... 1354 01:17:25,349 --> 01:17:26,896 Call in the boffins. 1355 01:17:28,978 --> 01:17:34,735 # Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void 1356 01:17:36,402 --> 01:17:39,781 # It is shining # 1357 01:17:39,905 --> 01:17:42,829 PAUL: And I always remember being in Brian Epstein's house 1358 01:17:42,950 --> 01:17:46,671 and John playing it to Brian and to George Martin, 1359 01:17:46,787 --> 01:17:48,585 and saying, "What do you think of this?" you know. 1360 01:17:48,706 --> 01:17:52,961 But you could see this puzzlement going across their faces, 1361 01:17:53,085 --> 01:17:54,712 but instead of saying, 1362 01:17:54,837 --> 01:17:57,807 "Ah, come on, guys, I think you really oughta put another chord in," 1363 01:17:57,923 --> 01:18:01,052 he knew to leave us alone by then. 1364 01:18:01,177 --> 01:18:04,147 # It is shining... # 1365 01:18:05,389 --> 01:18:07,187 You can slow down or speed up the tape. 1366 01:18:07,308 --> 01:18:10,027 You can put it in backwards time. You can put in electronic sounds. 1367 01:18:10,144 --> 01:18:11,942 And this is the kind of thing you can do on a recording, 1368 01:18:12,062 --> 01:18:14,156 but you obviously couldn't possibly play it live 1369 01:18:14,273 --> 01:18:16,446 because it is, in fact, making up music as you go along. 1370 01:18:24,325 --> 01:18:26,828 GOODALL: Tomorrow Never Knows breaks so many barriers, 1371 01:18:26,952 --> 01:18:30,001 musically speaking, and does so many things that no one had done before. 1372 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, 1373 01:18:33,626 --> 01:18:36,596 and used to exist in Western music in the 12th century. 1374 01:18:36,712 --> 01:18:38,885 So, it sort of triggered a whole movement 1375 01:18:39,006 --> 01:18:42,180 that popular music would start to bring in these influences from the avant-garde 1376 01:18:42,301 --> 01:18:44,144 and put them into mainstream songs, 1377 01:18:44,261 --> 01:18:46,184 into an album that millions of people would hear. 1378 01:18:47,014 --> 01:18:52,236 # That love is all and love is everyone 1379 01:18:53,938 --> 01:18:57,067 # It is knowing... # 1380 01:18:57,191 --> 01:18:59,819 RINGO: You know, when we first started, we were the nice, clean mop tops, 1381 01:18:59,944 --> 01:19:02,572 and every mother's son and everyone loved us. 1382 01:19:02,696 --> 01:19:06,997 And then suddenly, you know, there's a few things that they don't understand. 1383 01:19:07,117 --> 01:19:08,539 It's just, we're men now, you know? 1384 01:19:08,661 --> 01:19:11,210 We're a bit older than those lads that started out. 1385 01:19:12,248 --> 01:19:14,842 You can't live all your life by what they want. 1386 01:19:14,959 --> 01:19:19,089 You know, we can't go on forever as four clean little mop tops 1387 01:19:19,213 --> 01:19:20,214 playing, She Loves You. 1388 01:19:20,756 --> 01:19:23,231 # Of the beginning 1389 01:19:28,347 --> 01:19:30,816 # Of the beginning... # 1390 01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:33,311 GEORGE: Then we were back on the road. 1391 01:19:33,936 --> 01:19:37,691 We got on a train and went up to Hamburg. 1392 01:19:37,815 --> 01:19:40,159 RINGO: By then I don't think we wanted to be anywhere. 1393 01:19:40,276 --> 01:19:42,574 It was like automatic pilot, you know? 1394 01:19:42,695 --> 01:19:47,075 There was so much more pressure from the press trying to get at you, 1395 01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:48,826 you know, for whatever reason. 1396 01:19:51,870 --> 01:19:54,248 - We're not horrid snobby. - Yes, you are. 1397 01:19:54,373 --> 01:19:55,920 - No, we seem like... - That's your version. 1398 01:19:56,041 --> 01:19:57,918 Maybe it's only in your mind that we are. 1399 01:19:58,043 --> 01:20:00,045 Because we're not flattering you. 1400 01:20:01,422 --> 01:20:04,551 You know, you expect sort of nice answers to all the questions, 1401 01:20:05,175 --> 01:20:08,770 but if the questions aren't nice questions, they don't have to have nice answers. 1402 01:20:08,887 --> 01:20:11,640 And if we don't give nice answers, it doesn't mean we're snobby. 1403 01:20:11,765 --> 01:20:13,483 It just means we're natural. 1404 01:20:13,600 --> 01:20:15,398 (CLAPPING) 1405 01:20:17,104 --> 01:20:19,232 GEORGE: Everything was hit-and-run in those days, 1406 01:20:19,356 --> 01:20:21,575 and I think the next day after the Hamburg concert, 1407 01:20:21,692 --> 01:20:23,194 we had a flight to Tokyo. 1408 01:20:23,986 --> 01:20:25,488 (MAN SPEAKS JAPANESE) 1409 01:20:28,782 --> 01:20:30,250 RINGO: It's amazing security. 1410 01:20:30,367 --> 01:20:32,586 I've never seen so many people guarding us. 1411 01:20:32,703 --> 01:20:35,206 MAN: So we don't want you to be hurt or anything, 1412 01:20:35,331 --> 01:20:37,208 so we're trying our best. 1413 01:20:38,959 --> 01:20:42,213 GEORGE: Everywhere we were going, it was a demonstration 1414 01:20:42,338 --> 01:20:44,136 of one thing or another. 1415 01:20:44,256 --> 01:20:46,054 In Japan, the people were demonstrating 1416 01:20:46,175 --> 01:20:49,975 because the Budokan was supposed to be a special, spiritual hall 1417 01:20:50,095 --> 01:20:52,689 and only reserved for martial arts, 1418 01:20:52,806 --> 01:20:54,433 not pop music. 1419 01:20:55,976 --> 01:20:57,774 Ladies and gentlemen, 1420 01:20:57,895 --> 01:21:00,489 we welcome... The Beatles. 1421 01:21:17,790 --> 01:21:19,007 GEORGE: It was very strange. 1422 01:21:19,124 --> 01:21:21,092 The audience were very reserved, 1423 01:21:21,210 --> 01:21:23,087 respectful, 1424 01:21:23,212 --> 01:21:26,341 very quiet to what we had become accustomed to. 1425 01:21:26,465 --> 01:21:27,466 Very quiet. 1426 01:21:33,514 --> 01:21:35,357 One, two, three, four! 1427 01:21:35,474 --> 01:21:39,024 # He's a real nowhere man 1428 01:21:39,144 --> 01:21:42,899 # Sitting in his nowhere land 1429 01:21:43,023 --> 01:21:48,029 # Making all his nowhere plans for nobody # 1430 01:21:48,821 --> 01:21:50,823 RINGO: We were playing crap. 1431 01:21:51,824 --> 01:21:53,417 We were just sort of surviving. 1432 01:21:54,660 --> 01:21:58,164 # Knows not where he's going to 1433 01:21:58,288 --> 01:22:02,668 # Isn't he a bit like you and me... # 1434 01:22:05,003 --> 01:22:08,098 PAUL: We had a day off in the Philippines, in Manila, 1435 01:22:08,215 --> 01:22:12,345 and then somebody said, you're supposed to be visiting the palace. 1436 01:22:13,345 --> 01:22:16,940 RINGO: Madam Marcos had invited us to dinner, 1437 01:22:17,057 --> 01:22:18,900 and Brian had told her no. 1438 01:22:19,017 --> 01:22:21,520 Then the next morning someone brought the newspapers, 1439 01:22:21,645 --> 01:22:24,694 "Beatles Snub President." 1440 01:22:26,400 --> 01:22:29,529 GEORGE: By '66, it felt dangerous, you know? 1441 01:22:29,653 --> 01:22:32,247 Because everybody was out of hand, 1442 01:22:32,364 --> 01:22:34,662 and even the cops were out of line. 1443 01:22:34,783 --> 01:22:36,911 You know, they were all just caught up in the mania. 1444 01:22:38,412 --> 01:22:40,631 SAVAGE: It's a build-up of tension, 1445 01:22:40,747 --> 01:22:43,967 and also, dissatisfaction and frustration. 1446 01:22:44,084 --> 01:22:46,257 And now they went straight into a complete nightmare. 1447 01:22:46,378 --> 01:22:47,971 Now, this religious controversy, 1448 01:22:48,088 --> 01:22:49,590 I know you don't want to say too much about it, 1449 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? 1450 01:22:52,092 --> 01:22:54,390 Well, it worries me, yes, but I... 1451 01:22:54,511 --> 01:22:56,639 I hope everything will be all right in the end, as they say. 1452 01:22:56,763 --> 01:22:58,857 Do you think this is going to be a controversial tour, 1453 01:22:58,974 --> 01:23:00,100 like the Philippines was? 1454 01:23:00,225 --> 01:23:01,647 Oh, no, no. 1455 01:23:01,768 --> 01:23:03,486 No, it's gonna be fine. 1456 01:23:03,604 --> 01:23:05,447 - What makes you say that, Paul? - Oh, it will be fine. 1457 01:23:05,564 --> 01:23:07,282 You watch, yeah, great. 1458 01:23:07,399 --> 01:23:09,527 (# THE BEATLES: "GOOD DAY SUNSHINE") 1459 01:23:15,449 --> 01:23:17,827 # Good day sunshine... # 1460 01:23:17,951 --> 01:23:22,001 KANE: It was all because of that interview John had given while on vacation. 1461 01:23:22,122 --> 01:23:25,092 It was reprinted in America months later. 1462 01:23:25,209 --> 01:23:28,179 "Lennon says The Beatles are bigger than Christ." 1463 01:23:30,255 --> 01:23:34,556 PAUL: At that time, churches were losing their congregations, 1464 01:23:34,676 --> 01:23:37,020 people were going to church less and less and less. 1465 01:23:41,683 --> 01:23:45,608 John was saying, "We're so famous! You wouldn't believe the fame. 1466 01:23:45,729 --> 01:23:48,653 "I mean, like, we're bigger than Jesus." 1467 01:23:49,441 --> 01:23:52,115 It was a harmless remark in the middle of an article, 1468 01:23:52,236 --> 01:23:55,365 and it never made the front page in England. 1469 01:23:55,489 --> 01:23:59,039 KANE: That unleashed a firestorm in the United States. 1470 01:23:59,159 --> 01:24:02,379 SAVAGE: It was almost like the plot of Help! had become real, 1471 01:24:02,496 --> 01:24:06,342 and they actually had a lot of people who suddenly wanted to dismember them. 1472 01:24:06,458 --> 01:24:08,552 This is the Layton and Charles show on WAQY radio, 1473 01:24:08,669 --> 01:24:12,469 broadcasting at 1220 on your dial, until about nine o'clock this morning, 1474 01:24:12,589 --> 01:24:15,809 and we'd like to urge you to take your Beatle records and your Beatlemania 1475 01:24:15,926 --> 01:24:19,851 to any one of our 14 pickup points anywhere in Birmingham, Alabama. 1476 01:24:19,972 --> 01:24:21,440 And don't forget, the destruction... 1477 01:24:21,557 --> 01:24:24,151 the destruction of those Beatle records will take place just a few days, 1478 01:24:24,268 --> 01:24:26,566 and we'll keep you informed on all of that. 1479 01:24:27,396 --> 01:24:29,865 They were just stunned. 1480 01:24:29,982 --> 01:24:31,609 You have to really put it in perspective, 1481 01:24:31,733 --> 01:24:34,282 I mean the whole scandal was very serious, 1482 01:24:34,403 --> 01:24:37,202 partly because of the violence that was in America at the time. 1483 01:24:41,159 --> 01:24:43,287 You just had the Texas Sniper, Charles Whitman, 1484 01:24:43,412 --> 01:24:45,210 who just shot dead 20 people. 1485 01:24:47,040 --> 01:24:50,544 This was the same country only three years before 1486 01:24:50,669 --> 01:24:53,548 where the President had been assassinated. 1487 01:24:53,672 --> 01:24:57,427 It had got dangerous, and we were threatened. 1488 01:24:58,719 --> 01:25:01,814 PAUL: We knew we weren't being blasphemous, 1489 01:25:01,930 --> 01:25:04,524 we weren't anti-Jesus. 1490 01:25:04,641 --> 01:25:07,815 In fact, we all had pretty religious upbringings, really, 1491 01:25:07,936 --> 01:25:10,940 but you do see John as sort of a broken man, 1492 01:25:11,481 --> 01:25:13,529 cos he realised, he had to apologise. 1493 01:25:13,650 --> 01:25:16,324 It was gonna be the only thing that would stop this. 1494 01:25:16,445 --> 01:25:20,120 I was pointing out that fact, in reference to England, 1495 01:25:20,240 --> 01:25:23,244 that we meant more to kids than Jesus did, 1496 01:25:23,368 --> 01:25:25,416 or religion, at that time. 1497 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. 1498 01:25:30,000 --> 01:25:34,346 And it sort of... it is true, especially more for England than here. 1499 01:25:34,463 --> 01:25:37,307 But I'm not saying that we're better or greater, 1500 01:25:37,424 --> 01:25:40,348 or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, 1501 01:25:40,469 --> 01:25:42,642 or God as a thing, or whatever it is. 1502 01:25:42,763 --> 01:25:45,357 You know, I just said what I said, and it was wrong, 1503 01:25:45,474 --> 01:25:47,351 or was taken wrong, and now it's all this. 1504 01:25:48,226 --> 01:25:51,901 PAUL: He's longing to break out of it, and do a joke, 1505 01:25:52,022 --> 01:25:53,524 but he knows he can't. 1506 01:25:53,649 --> 01:25:56,823 If I had said television is more popular than Jesus, 1507 01:25:56,943 --> 01:25:58,786 I might have got away with it. 1508 01:25:59,780 --> 01:26:02,033 You know, but as I just happened to be talking to a friend, 1509 01:26:02,157 --> 01:26:04,330 I used the word Beatles, 1510 01:26:04,451 --> 01:26:06,294 as a remote thing, not as what I think, 1511 01:26:06,411 --> 01:26:10,166 because Beatles, as those other Beatles, like other people see us. 1512 01:26:10,290 --> 01:26:11,633 I just said they are... 1513 01:26:11,750 --> 01:26:15,220 are having more influence on kids and things 1514 01:26:15,337 --> 01:26:17,010 than anything else, including Jesus, 1515 01:26:17,130 --> 01:26:19,553 but I said it in that way, 1516 01:26:19,675 --> 01:26:21,473 which is the wrong way, yep, yep. 1517 01:26:21,593 --> 01:26:22,765 PAUL: He was scared. 1518 01:26:22,886 --> 01:26:24,809 We were all pretty scared. 1519 01:26:24,930 --> 01:26:27,809 RINGO: Most of the people in the room understood it. 1520 01:26:27,933 --> 01:26:30,277 It's like one of those lines. 1521 01:26:30,394 --> 01:26:32,237 But it... it didn't hold us back at all. 1522 01:26:33,063 --> 01:26:36,317 REPORTER: Concert tomorrow night is far below a sell-out, how do you feel about... 1523 01:26:36,441 --> 01:26:38,068 Very rich. 1524 01:26:43,407 --> 01:26:45,501 # My love don't give me presents 1525 01:26:48,453 --> 01:26:51,297 # I know that she's no peasant... # 1526 01:26:52,499 --> 01:26:55,469 ED FREEMAN: There were three road managers, roadies, 1527 01:26:55,585 --> 01:26:58,589 on the tour, period, in '66, that was it. 1528 01:26:58,714 --> 01:27:02,014 I was friends with the opening act. They said, "You want to do it?" 1529 01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:04,728 and I didn't even know how to set up a drum kit at the time. 1530 01:27:04,845 --> 01:27:05,892 I had no idea. 1531 01:27:06,012 --> 01:27:08,891 I was a musician in Boston, I was a folk singer. 1532 01:27:09,015 --> 01:27:11,313 I had no qualifications at all. 1533 01:27:11,893 --> 01:27:13,770 RINGO: We only ever had a couple of roadies. 1534 01:27:13,895 --> 01:27:15,613 Didn't matter where we were, 1535 01:27:15,731 --> 01:27:18,234 biggest band in the land, that's all we had. 1536 01:27:19,651 --> 01:27:23,372 In Cleveland, the sound was so bad that everybody rushed the stage. 1537 01:27:23,488 --> 01:27:26,162 REPORTER: 'Cleveland Stadium has been absolutely riots, 1538 01:27:26,283 --> 01:27:28,251 'the whole place went wild here, 1539 01:27:28,368 --> 01:27:31,212 'broke the barriers, came through the police cordon. 1540 01:27:31,329 --> 01:27:33,331 'We managed to get The Beatles off the stage. 1541 01:27:33,457 --> 01:27:35,459 'They were even all over the stage.' 1542 01:27:35,584 --> 01:27:37,586 FREEMAN: I really thought I was gonna get hurt. 1543 01:27:39,337 --> 01:27:42,090 We get to Memphis, and there's been a bomb scare, 1544 01:27:42,215 --> 01:27:44,217 and we had to delay the show 1545 01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:47,186 while they put bomb-sniffing dogs throughout the whole theatre. 1546 01:27:48,221 --> 01:27:51,316 GEORGE: That kind of stuff was happening all the time. It was terrifying. 1547 01:27:51,433 --> 01:27:54,403 Some people would set off firecrackers in the hall, 1548 01:27:54,519 --> 01:27:57,068 and you'd think someone of the others got shot or something. 1549 01:27:59,608 --> 01:28:03,454 FREEMAN: Then we flew off to St. Louis, and it was pouring rain. 1550 01:28:03,570 --> 01:28:06,198 # She was a day tripper 1551 01:28:07,324 --> 01:28:09,998 # One way ticket, yeah... # 1552 01:28:10,118 --> 01:28:14,339 My job was to sit backstage with my hand on the plug, 1553 01:28:14,456 --> 01:28:15,708 and the instructions were 1554 01:28:15,832 --> 01:28:19,257 if one of them fell down, like knocked out by the shock, 1555 01:28:19,377 --> 01:28:22,096 then you should pull the plug, and that would stop the show. 1556 01:28:22,923 --> 01:28:24,596 It was a joke. 1557 01:28:30,180 --> 01:28:32,729 This was three weeks that they just took a deep breath and said, 1558 01:28:32,849 --> 01:28:35,318 "OK, well, let's just do this, and we'll make a lot of money." 1559 01:28:40,357 --> 01:28:42,951 PAUL: A lot of the time we were going through the motions, 1560 01:28:43,068 --> 01:28:46,948 and we all started to get pretty fed up. 1561 01:28:47,072 --> 01:28:50,246 George particularly was quite sort of vocal about that. 1562 01:28:52,452 --> 01:28:56,298 GEORGE: I was saying, "I don't want to do this anymore. I don't like this." 1563 01:28:56,414 --> 01:28:58,792 I certainly felt that that was it, 1564 01:28:58,917 --> 01:29:02,091 you know, that we weren't gonna tour again like that. 1565 01:29:27,737 --> 01:29:29,535 JOHN: There was no enjoyment in it, you know. 1566 01:29:29,656 --> 01:29:31,658 The music wasn't being heard. 1567 01:29:31,783 --> 01:29:35,162 It wasn't doing anything, it was just a sort of freak show. 1568 01:29:37,956 --> 01:29:41,051 The Beatles were the show, and the music had nothing to do with it. 1569 01:29:44,671 --> 01:29:46,173 As we were musicians, 1570 01:29:46,298 --> 01:29:48,141 we felt, if we're gonna be Beatles, 1571 01:29:48,258 --> 01:29:50,477 the only reason to be Beatles is to make music, 1572 01:29:50,594 --> 01:29:52,722 and not be in a circus. 1573 01:29:59,477 --> 01:30:01,104 PAUL: And when we were finished, 1574 01:30:01,229 --> 01:30:04,984 I remember just being piled in the back of this meat wagon, 1575 01:30:05,108 --> 01:30:08,112 which was steel, and nothing else inside. 1576 01:30:09,738 --> 01:30:14,460 We were all in there, sorta sliding around as it went around the corners. 1577 01:30:14,576 --> 01:30:17,455 And we're all like really mad at the whole bloody thing. 1578 01:30:17,579 --> 01:30:20,173 John started like, you know, George... 1579 01:30:20,290 --> 01:30:22,008 "That's it, I've had enough, you know." 1580 01:30:23,168 --> 01:30:24,795 And we all agreed. 1581 01:30:26,504 --> 01:30:30,350 RINGO: You know, we're just in the band, saying, "That's enough of that." 1582 01:30:39,726 --> 01:30:42,229 (# PIANO PLAYS) 1583 01:30:46,191 --> 01:30:48,990 RINGO: We all knew, I mean, to, like, survive, 1584 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. 1585 01:30:54,658 --> 01:30:56,831 Well, I'm not holding back, George. 1586 01:30:56,952 --> 01:30:59,171 I'm giving my all. 1587 01:30:59,287 --> 01:31:02,211 GEORGE: It used to make us laugh when we'd read people saying, 1588 01:31:02,332 --> 01:31:03,754 "The problem with The Beatles is 1589 01:31:03,875 --> 01:31:06,594 "that when we were all growing up, they were all on tour, 1590 01:31:06,711 --> 01:31:08,964 "and so they missed the growing up period." 1591 01:31:09,089 --> 01:31:12,514 But the truth to it was that we were snatched out of our youth. 1592 01:31:12,634 --> 01:31:14,011 We were forced grown, 1593 01:31:14,135 --> 01:31:17,309 like rhubarb when you grow it under hothouse conditions, 1594 01:31:17,430 --> 01:31:19,683 you make it grow much quicker than it would naturally. 1595 01:31:20,183 --> 01:31:21,856 JOHN: Oh, God. Mal! 1596 01:31:21,977 --> 01:31:23,320 GEORGE: Broken another string? 1597 01:31:23,436 --> 01:31:25,734 PAUL: I think it will probably be another day, singing it. 1598 01:31:25,855 --> 01:31:28,449 GEORGE: And what you could do, with the bits where you can't get it 1599 01:31:28,566 --> 01:31:31,115 - cos you haven't got enough breath... - PAUL: Take over, yeah. 1600 01:31:31,236 --> 01:31:33,113 JOHN: All right, let's go. 1601 01:31:33,238 --> 01:31:36,412 In one way it was good, because we went into the recording scene, 1602 01:31:36,533 --> 01:31:39,503 and really sort of expressed ourselves through the records then, 1603 01:31:39,619 --> 01:31:41,371 because we could no longer do it outside. 1604 01:31:42,038 --> 01:31:46,134 # Living is easy with eyes closed 1605 01:31:47,502 --> 01:31:50,301 # Misunderstanding all you see 1606 01:31:52,424 --> 01:31:56,429 # It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out... # 1607 01:31:57,178 --> 01:32:01,103 PAUL: I'd got this idea for us to all be someone else. 1608 01:32:01,224 --> 01:32:04,148 Because we were so fed up with being what we were. 1609 01:32:04,269 --> 01:32:06,567 We had to get out of it, one way or another. 1610 01:32:06,688 --> 01:32:09,066 - JOHN: Righty-o! - GEORGE: How fast, John? 1611 01:32:09,190 --> 01:32:11,739 JOHN: However you like, you know. Feel it. 1612 01:32:11,860 --> 01:32:13,612 MARTIN: Here we go, stand by. 1613 01:32:13,737 --> 01:32:16,240 PAUL: One, two, three, four. 1614 01:32:25,331 --> 01:32:27,299 I just said to everyone, we're not The Beatles. 1615 01:32:28,001 --> 01:32:29,469 It was to liberate us. 1616 01:32:30,086 --> 01:32:32,384 We're gonna think up a new name for ourselves, 1617 01:32:32,505 --> 01:32:35,304 gonna think up a new way of being, a new way of recording, a new everything. 1618 01:32:35,425 --> 01:32:36,802 Just to be fresh. 1619 01:32:36,926 --> 01:32:38,724 # So may I introduce to you 1620 01:32:39,220 --> 01:32:41,689 # The act you've known for all these years 1621 01:32:41,806 --> 01:32:45,356 # Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band... # 1622 01:32:48,521 --> 01:32:49,738 I'll be overpowering this time. 1623 01:32:49,856 --> 01:32:52,575 JOHN: Oh, good. I like it when you're brutal. 1624 01:32:52,692 --> 01:32:54,660 PAUL: Quiet in the studio, please. 1625 01:32:55,695 --> 01:32:58,448 (# THE BEATLES: "LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS") 1626 01:33:01,326 --> 01:33:04,876 # Picture yourself in a boat on a... # 1627 01:33:04,996 --> 01:33:07,044 PAUL: Just come right in with it now. 1628 01:33:07,165 --> 01:33:08,462 I think that was quicker. 1629 01:33:08,583 --> 01:33:11,462 # Cellophane flowers of yellow and green 1630 01:33:11,586 --> 01:33:12,838 # Yellow and green... # 1631 01:33:12,962 --> 01:33:14,134 - JOHN: OK. - PAUL: Anyway... 1632 01:33:14,255 --> 01:33:19,386 # Cellophane flowers of yellow and green 1633 01:33:19,511 --> 01:33:23,311 # Towering over your head 1634 01:33:24,557 --> 01:33:29,529 # Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes and she's gone 1635 01:33:32,315 --> 01:33:35,535 # Lucy in the sky with diamonds 1636 01:33:37,612 --> 01:33:39,489 # Lucy in the sky... # 1637 01:33:39,614 --> 01:33:42,367 JOHN: It was the music that was interesting, that was important. 1638 01:33:42,492 --> 01:33:46,338 As long as we were going forward, and going somewhere, it didn't matter. 1639 01:33:46,454 --> 01:33:49,458 (# THE BEATLES: "A DAY IN THE LIFE") 1640 01:33:59,342 --> 01:34:03,563 # I read the news today, oh boy 1641 01:34:05,431 --> 01:34:09,902 # About a lucky man who made the grade... # 1642 01:34:10,854 --> 01:34:13,528 PAUL: There was a lot of faith involved in everything we did. 1643 01:34:14,566 --> 01:34:18,287 And the people around us had to share that faith 1644 01:34:18,403 --> 01:34:19,495 or it wouldn't have worked. 1645 01:34:20,071 --> 01:34:24,042 # Now they know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall... # 1646 01:34:25,451 --> 01:34:27,328 Brian had to have faith in us. 1647 01:34:27,453 --> 01:34:30,081 George Martin had to have faith in us. 1648 01:34:30,999 --> 01:34:33,001 This is how it was for The Beatles. 1649 01:34:33,126 --> 01:34:35,299 You had to have faith. 1650 01:34:35,420 --> 01:34:38,139 We had to have faith in each other. 1651 01:34:39,048 --> 01:34:41,346 (# ORCHESTRAL CRESCENDO) 1652 01:35:00,153 --> 01:35:02,030 (# ORCHESTRA STOPS) 1653 01:35:02,155 --> 01:35:04,658 (# PIANO CHORD) 1654 01:35:36,648 --> 01:35:39,276 (INDISTINCT CHATTERING) 1655 01:35:59,921 --> 01:36:02,549 (# THE BEATLES: "DON'T LET ME DOWN") 1656 01:36:04,300 --> 01:36:07,019 # Don't let me down 1657 01:36:10,181 --> 01:36:12,684 # Don't let me down 1658 01:36:16,145 --> 01:36:18,989 # Don't let me down 1659 01:36:21,943 --> 01:36:24,412 # Don't let me down 1660 01:36:26,823 --> 01:36:31,329 # Nobody ever loved me like she does 1661 01:36:32,537 --> 01:36:34,289 # Ooh, she does 1662 01:36:35,415 --> 01:36:37,838 # Yes, she does 1663 01:36:39,794 --> 01:36:44,049 # And if somebody loved me like she does 1664 01:36:45,133 --> 01:36:46,601 # Ooh, she does 1665 01:36:48,177 --> 01:36:50,020 # Yes, she does 1666 01:36:53,308 --> 01:36:55,686 # Don't let me down 1667 01:36:59,230 --> 01:37:01,653 # Don't let me down 1668 01:37:05,194 --> 01:37:07,993 # Don't let me down 1669 01:37:10,908 --> 01:37:13,661 # Don't let me down 1670 01:37:15,872 --> 01:37:19,126 # I'm in love for the first time 1671 01:37:22,295 --> 01:37:25,344 # Don't you know it's gonna last 1672 01:37:28,217 --> 01:37:31,061 # It's a love that lasts forever 1673 01:37:34,057 --> 01:37:37,436 # It's a love that has no past 1674 01:37:45,568 --> 01:37:46,694 # I've got a feeling 1675 01:37:47,695 --> 01:37:51,165 # That keeps me on my toes, oh yeah 1676 01:37:52,950 --> 01:37:54,167 - # Oh, yeah - # Oh, yeah 1677 01:37:56,954 --> 01:37:59,002 # I've got a feeling 1678 01:37:59,123 --> 01:38:02,468 # I think that everybody knows, oh yeah 1679 01:38:04,587 --> 01:38:06,806 - # Oh, yeah - # Oh, yeah 1680 01:38:07,632 --> 01:38:09,225 # Oh, yeah 1681 01:38:09,342 --> 01:38:12,312 # Yeah, yeah 1682 01:38:12,970 --> 01:38:15,439 # I've got a feeling, yeah 1683 01:38:19,936 --> 01:38:22,405 # Everybody had a hard year 1684 01:38:23,064 --> 01:38:24,737 # Everybody had a good time 1685 01:38:25,858 --> 01:38:28,452 # Everybody had a wet dream 1686 01:38:28,986 --> 01:38:30,533 # Everybody saw the sunshine 1687 01:38:30,655 --> 01:38:32,123 - # Oh, yeah - # Oh, yeah 1688 01:38:32,240 --> 01:38:34,789 # Oh, yeah, oh, yeah 1689 01:38:36,452 --> 01:38:39,331 - # Well... - # Everybody had a good year 1690 01:38:40,331 --> 01:38:42,584 # Everybody let their hair down 1691 01:38:43,251 --> 01:38:46,004 - # Everybody pulled their socks up - # Yeah 1692 01:38:46,129 --> 01:38:48,632 # Everybody put their foot down, oh, yeah 1693 01:38:54,303 --> 01:38:56,305 # Yeah 1694 01:38:58,641 --> 01:39:00,109 # Woo-hoo 1695 01:39:00,560 --> 01:39:02,938 - # I've got a feeling - # Everybody had a good year 1696 01:39:03,062 --> 01:39:06,236 - # A feeling deep inside, oh, yeah - # Everybody had a hard time 1697 01:39:06,357 --> 01:39:09,236 - # Everybody had a wet dream - # Oh, yeah 1698 01:39:09,360 --> 01:39:11,283 # Everybody saw the sunshine 1699 01:39:12,238 --> 01:39:14,457 - # I've got a feeling - # Everybody had a good year 1700 01:39:14,574 --> 01:39:17,874 - # A feeling I can't hide, oh, no - # Everybody let their hair down 1701 01:39:17,994 --> 01:39:20,838 - # Everybody pulled their socks up - # Oh, no, no 1702 01:39:20,955 --> 01:39:23,504 - # Everybody put their foot down - # Yeah 1703 01:39:23,624 --> 01:39:25,592 # Yeah... 1704 01:39:26,836 --> 01:39:28,838 # I've got a feeling 1705 01:39:31,132 --> 01:39:34,136 - # I've got a feeling - # Oh, yeah 1706 01:39:36,721 --> 01:39:38,974 # I've got a feeling 1707 01:39:39,098 --> 01:39:41,647 # Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah # 1708 01:39:51,194 --> 01:39:53,117 What a suitable ending, I think. 1709 01:39:53,237 --> 01:39:55,285 (# THE BEATLES: "EIGHT DAYS A WEEK") 1710 01:40:00,244 --> 01:40:03,669 # Ooh, I need your love, babe 1711 01:40:03,789 --> 01:40:05,962 # Guess you know it's true 1712 01:40:07,293 --> 01:40:10,638 # Hope you need my love, babe 1713 01:40:10,755 --> 01:40:12,883 # Just like I need you 1714 01:40:14,217 --> 01:40:15,719 # Hold me 1715 01:40:15,843 --> 01:40:17,470 # Love me 1716 01:40:17,595 --> 01:40:19,268 # Hold me 1717 01:40:19,388 --> 01:40:20,856 # Love me 1718 01:40:20,973 --> 01:40:24,102 # I ain't got nothing but love, babe 1719 01:40:24,936 --> 01:40:26,734 # Eight days a week 1720 01:40:28,022 --> 01:40:31,026 # Love you every day, girl 1721 01:40:31,484 --> 01:40:33,612 # Always on my mind 1722 01:40:34,820 --> 01:40:37,915 # One thing I can say, girl 1723 01:40:38,366 --> 01:40:40,539 # Love you all the time 1724 01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:43,420 # Hold me 1725 01:40:43,538 --> 01:40:45,085 # Love me 1726 01:40:45,206 --> 01:40:46,833 # Hold me 1727 01:40:46,958 --> 01:40:48,380 # Love me 1728 01:40:48,501 --> 01:40:51,596 # I ain't got nothing but love, girl 1729 01:40:52,547 --> 01:40:54,299 # Eight days a week 1730 01:40:55,550 --> 01:40:58,099 # Eight days a week 1731 01:40:58,886 --> 01:41:01,685 # I love you 1732 01:41:02,598 --> 01:41:05,101 # Eight days a week 1733 01:41:05,935 --> 01:41:09,189 # Is not enough to show I care 1734 01:41:09,313 --> 01:41:12,487 # Ooh, I need your love, babe 1735 01:41:12,984 --> 01:41:15,078 # Guess you know it's true 1736 01:41:16,445 --> 01:41:19,289 # Hope you need my love, babe 1737 01:41:19,907 --> 01:41:22,160 # Just like I need you 1738 01:41:22,285 --> 01:41:24,913 # Oh, hold me 1739 01:41:25,037 --> 01:41:26,710 # Love me 1740 01:41:26,831 --> 01:41:28,333 # Hold me 1741 01:41:28,457 --> 01:41:29,959 # Love me 1742 01:41:30,084 --> 01:41:33,179 # I ain't got nothing but love, babe 1743 01:41:34,088 --> 01:41:35,840 # Eight days a week 1744 01:41:37,174 --> 01:41:39,848 # Eight days a week 1745 01:41:40,511 --> 01:41:43,264 # I love you 1746 01:41:44,181 --> 01:41:46,650 # Eight days a week 1747 01:41:47,518 --> 01:41:50,863 # Is not enough to show I care 1748 01:41:50,980 --> 01:41:53,984 # Love you every day, girl 1749 01:41:54,609 --> 01:41:56,737 # Always on my mind 1750 01:41:58,154 --> 01:42:01,033 # One thing I can say, girl 1751 01:42:01,616 --> 01:42:03,789 # Love you all the time 1752 01:42:05,077 --> 01:42:06,624 # Hold me 1753 01:42:06,746 --> 01:42:08,419 # Love me 1754 01:42:08,539 --> 01:42:10,132 # Hold me 1755 01:42:10,249 --> 01:42:11,671 # Love me 1756 01:42:11,792 --> 01:42:14,921 # I ain't got nothing but love, babe 1757 01:42:15,838 --> 01:42:17,590 # Eight days a week 1758 01:42:19,258 --> 01:42:21,010 # Eight days a week 1759 01:42:22,678 --> 01:42:24,476 # Eight days a week # 1760 01:42:33,314 --> 01:42:36,158 JOHN: Hello, this is John speaking with his voice. 1761 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. 1762 01:42:40,321 --> 01:42:43,325 This record reaches you at the end of a really gear year for us, 1763 01:42:43,449 --> 01:42:44,917 and it's all due to you. 1764 01:42:45,034 --> 01:42:48,789 When we made our first record on Parlophone towards the end of 1962, 1765 01:42:48,913 --> 01:42:51,462 we hoped everybody would like what had already been our type of music 1766 01:42:51,582 --> 01:42:53,425 for several years already. 1767 01:42:53,542 --> 01:42:56,170 But we had no idea of all the gear things in store for us 1768 01:42:56,295 --> 01:42:59,174 It all happened really when Please Please Me became a number one hit, 1769 01:42:59,298 --> 01:43:01,926 and after that, well, 'cor the blimeys, heave the mo'. 1770 01:43:02,051 --> 01:43:03,303 Our biggest thrill of the year, well, 1771 01:43:03,427 --> 01:43:05,429 I suppose it must have been topping the bill at the London Palladium 1772 01:43:05,554 --> 01:43:06,976 and then, only a couple of days later, 1773 01:43:07,098 --> 01:43:09,317 being invited to take part in the Royal Variety Show. 1774 01:43:09,433 --> 01:43:11,106 This time last year, we were all dead chuffed 1775 01:43:11,227 --> 01:43:13,150 because Love Me Do got into the Top Twenty, 1776 01:43:13,270 --> 01:43:17,275 and we can't believe, really, that so many things have happened in between already. 1777 01:43:17,400 --> 01:43:19,903 Just before I pass you over to Paul, 1778 01:43:20,027 --> 01:43:21,950 I'd like to say thank you to all the Beatle people 1779 01:43:22,071 --> 01:43:23,539 who have written to me during the year, 1780 01:43:23,656 --> 01:43:25,954 and everyone who sent me gifts and cards for my birthday, 1781 01:43:26,075 --> 01:43:28,169 which I'm trying to forget, in October. 1782 01:43:28,285 --> 01:43:31,380 I'd love to reply personally to everyone, but I just haven't enough pens. 1783 01:43:31,497 --> 01:43:33,750 - JOHN: In the meantime... - PAUL: This is Paul here. 1784 01:43:33,874 --> 01:43:35,797 Everything that John said goes for me too, 1785 01:43:35,918 --> 01:43:38,216 especially the bit about birthday cards and the parcels, 1786 01:43:38,337 --> 01:43:40,931 cos all our homes and offices got stacks of mail last June... 1787 01:43:41,048 --> 01:43:42,265 Ow! 1788 01:43:43,050 --> 01:43:44,393 ...when it was my birthday. 1789 01:43:44,510 --> 01:43:48,981 Anyway, we're all dead pleased by the way you've treated us in 1963, 1790 01:43:49,098 --> 01:43:51,100 and we try to do everything we can to please you 1791 01:43:51,225 --> 01:43:53,478 with the type of songs we write and record next year. 1792 01:43:53,602 --> 01:43:57,698 Oh, yeah, lots of people asked us what we enjoy best, you see, 1793 01:43:57,815 --> 01:43:59,533 concerts and television or recording? 1794 01:43:59,650 --> 01:44:01,243 We like doing stage shows cos it's, you know, 1795 01:44:01,360 --> 01:44:03,488 it's great to hear an audience enjoying themselves. 1796 01:44:03,612 --> 01:44:05,910 But the thing we like best, I think so, anyway, 1797 01:44:06,031 --> 01:44:07,704 is going into the recording studio... 1798 01:44:07,825 --> 01:44:10,544 - JOHN: Yes, we enjoy that very kindly! - PAUL: ...to make new records, 1799 01:44:10,661 --> 01:44:12,038 which is what we've been doing all day 1800 01:44:12,163 --> 01:44:13,710 before we started on this special message. 1801 01:44:13,831 --> 01:44:16,129 Well, what we like to hear most is one of our songs, you know, 1802 01:44:16,250 --> 01:44:17,968 taking shape in a recording studio, 1803 01:44:18,085 --> 01:44:19,962 one of the ones that John and I have written, 1804 01:44:20,087 --> 01:44:24,058 and then listening to the tapes afterwards to hear how it all worked out, you see. 1805 01:44:24,175 --> 01:44:25,927 - MAN: Ja, Ringo! - RINGO: Hello, Ringo here. 1806 01:44:26,051 --> 01:44:28,304 As you know, I was the last member to join The Beatles. 1807 01:44:28,429 --> 01:44:31,308 I started to play drums in the group 1962. 1808 01:44:31,432 --> 01:44:33,810 I've been in a couple of other groups... 1809 01:44:33,934 --> 01:44:38,940 PAUL: Oh, just wish the people a merry, happy, go on, for Christmas, Christmas. 1810 01:44:39,064 --> 01:44:40,611 RINGO: Merry, happy New Year, 1811 01:44:40,733 --> 01:44:43,111 and folks, happy Christmas, and may... 1812 01:44:43,235 --> 01:44:44,862 may everything you wish be granted. 1813 01:44:44,987 --> 01:44:47,035 PAUL: Sing, sing us Wenceslas, King Wenceslas. 1814 01:44:47,156 --> 01:44:48,157 RINGO: King Wenceslas. 1815 01:44:48,282 --> 01:44:50,330 - PAUL: Well...! - JOHN: Hurray, Paul! 1816 01:44:50,451 --> 01:44:52,670 GEORGE: Thank you, Ringo! Thank you, Ringo! 1817 01:44:52,787 --> 01:44:54,380 We'll phone you! 1818 01:44:55,122 --> 01:44:56,624 I'm George Harrison. 1819 01:44:56,749 --> 01:44:59,093 Nobody else has said anything yet about our fan club secretaries, 1820 01:44:59,210 --> 01:45:01,633 Ann Collingham and Bettina Rose, 1821 01:45:01,754 --> 01:45:04,052 not to mention Freda Kelly in Liverpool. 1822 01:45:04,173 --> 01:45:05,265 JOHN: Good old Freda! 1823 01:45:05,382 --> 01:45:06,929 GEORGE: So on behalf of us all, 1824 01:45:07,051 --> 01:45:09,179 I'd just like to say a great, big thank you 1825 01:45:09,303 --> 01:45:11,806 to Ann, Bettina and Freda for all the hard work they've done, 1826 01:45:11,931 --> 01:45:14,730 and we just hope you can go on pleasing you for a long time, 1827 01:45:14,850 --> 01:45:18,445 cos it's gonna cause it to your reaction to our records that really matters, 1828 01:45:18,562 --> 01:45:20,735 and I'd just like to say... 1829 01:45:20,856 --> 01:45:23,075 # Brightly was the schon at night 1830 01:45:23,192 --> 01:45:25,115 # Though the winter cruel 1831 01:45:25,236 --> 01:45:27,238 # When a pork pie came inside 1832 01:45:27,363 --> 01:45:31,209 # Gathering winter cruel # 1833 01:45:31,325 --> 01:45:34,078 ALL: Merry Christmas, everybody!