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PAUL: Ringo.

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RINGO: Wait 'til we get
on there and it dies a death.

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JOHN: You're on, George.

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(murmuring)

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GEORGE: (mumbling)
so when I bend down

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I hope they don't split open.

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(mumbling)

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JOHN: Paul's all right,
he's got his jacket on.

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(murmuring)

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(drumming)

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JOHN: I get something
in me head, you know,

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and all the walls of
Rome couldn't stop me.

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JOHN:
All right, pickled onion.

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PAUL: I remember so
vividly showing up at the show

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and you'd be
in your ordinary clothes,

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and then you'd take out
of your little suitcase

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your suit and your shirt,

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and put 'em on, and then
finally your Beatle boots...

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and you'd stand up, and you
just looked at each other,

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like, yeah, there we are.

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(crowd screaming)

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♪ She loves you, ♪
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ She loves ♪
♪ you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ She loves you, ♪
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ You think ♪
♪ you've lost your love ♪

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♪ Well, I saw her yesterday ♪

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♪ It's you she's thinkin' of ♪

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♪ And she told me what to say ♪

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♪ She said she loves you ♪

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♪ And you know ♪
♪ that can't be bad ♪

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♪ She loves you ♪

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♪ And you know ♪
♪ you should be glad ♪

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♪ She said you hurt her so ♪

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♪ She almost lost her mind ♪

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♪ But now she says she knows ♪

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♪ You're not the hurting kind ♪

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♪ She said she loves you ♪

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♪ You know that can't be bad ♪

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♪ She loves you and you ♪
♪ know you should be glad ♪

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♪ Ooh ♪

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♪ She loves you, ♪
♪ yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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♪ She loves ♪
♪ you, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Those are the Beatles,
those are,

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and this is Beatleland,
formally known as Britain,

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where an epidemic
called Beatlemania

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has seized
the teenage population.

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MAN: Usual
here at London Airport.

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Hundreds and hundreds
of young Beatles fans.

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The younger generation
is going to hell.

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Just gorgeous.

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‐ MAN: They're what?
‐ They're gorgeous.

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Their haircuts and clothes,
they're setting a new fashion.

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The various things,
their clothes, their hair.

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They sound different.

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They're confident,
they're natural.

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They sort of represent
the teenage people.

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(audience screaming
and cheering)

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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah

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♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah ♪

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PAUL: By the end,
it became quite complicated,

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but at the beginning,
things were really simple.

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Thank you very much, everybody.

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Thank you.

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Thank you very much!

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PAUL: A lot of
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an overnight sensation.

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We weren't.

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People didn't realize
we had all this development.

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They just saw these four things

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that looked alike
with this haircut,

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and they knew how to play.

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And they were a bit
of a laugh, you know,

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because that's
what we'd been doing

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all those years previously.

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JOHN: I had a group.

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I was the singer and the leader.

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I met Paul, said do you
wanna join me band, yeah,

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and then George joined.

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We were great
live performers then.

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I don't think anybody
in the world saw us

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outside of Liverpool
and the few places

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where we traveled to,
because that's when

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we had to perform live
to a small audience

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in the dance hall.

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We had to hold them.

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PAUL: We were
just playing all the time.

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Then we went out to Hamburg,
and that was a real slog.

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We were playing, sometimes,
eight hours a day.

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I was right in the middle
of the naughtiest city

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in the world at 17 years old.

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It was kind of exciting.

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RINGO: I was with Rory Storm.

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We were like
the top band in Liverpool,

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and for some reason,
this guy in Hamburg

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decided to come to Liverpool
and take

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all the bands
to Germany to play.

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Well, we went to see these
punks, and that was it.

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PAUL: I still remember
that moment the first time

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Ringo played with us.

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Bang, he kicks in.

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And it was an Oh My God moment.

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I remember looking, and we're
all looking at each other

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like, yeah, this is it.

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Whoo, I'm getting
very emotional.

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JOHN: Once we got
Ringo, we started to do better,

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and sort of
do it professionally.

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You know, for me,
I'm an only child.

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I felt like I suddenly
had three brothers.

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RINGO:
We just wanted to play.

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Playin' was
the most important thing.

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GEORGE: Hamburg was
a bit messy, I mean, to sleep

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all huddled together
in one room.

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There were no bathroom
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but then we'd had
practice because

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we didn't have a bathroom
at home.

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JOHN: We used to have this
saying that I used to chant,

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and they would answer.

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When they were depressed,
you know,

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when the group was going nowhere

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and this was a shitty deal,
we're in a shitty dressing room,

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I'd say, where we goin' fellas?
And they'd go‐‐

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GEORGE: To the top, Johnny.

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JOHN: And I'd say,
where's that, fellas?

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And they'd say,

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GEORGE: To the toppermost
of the poppermost, Johnny.

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JOHN: I'd say, right,
and we'd all say, cheer up.

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We were always kinda
a little nervous

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before each step
we went up the ladder,

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but we didn't realize
what was to come.

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("Please Please Me" playing)

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♪ Last night I said
these words to my girl ♪

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VINTAGE NARRATOR: The Beatles.
In one meteoric year,

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they've led the way
from the cellars of Liverpool

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to the national limelight.

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VINTAGE REPORTER: Do you have
any fears that your public

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eventually will move on
to a new favorite?

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PAUL: It's stupid to
worry about things like that.

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GEORGE: It's not worth
missing your sleep for it.

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‐ No.
‐ No.

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It could happen tomorrow,

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and it could, you know,
we could have quite a run.

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(audience cheers and applauds)

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I was living in Sweden,
and the Beatles came to Sweden.

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I remember, I went day after day

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and stood outside
the hotel at the end of school,

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and I just remember seeing
their figures on a balcony.

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Once a day, the Beatles
would come out and wave.

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PAUL: Hello,
my name's Paul McCartney

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and I play bass guitar.

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GEORGE: Hello, people there.

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I'm George Harrison
and I play solo guitar, yeah.

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RINGO: This is
Ringo Starr, and I play drums.

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JOHN: And this is John Lennon,
and play better guitar.

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(laughter)

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CURTIS: They were like a gang.
Do you know what I mean?

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They each had their
little characteristic.

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I mean, John was
surprisingly fearless.

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Paul was surprisingly cute.

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Ringo was cheeky
and irresistible.

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And George was the one that
my sister was in love with.

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You're tremendously lively
and full of zing on the stage.

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How difficult is it for
you to keep up this zest?

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Well, we do the zest we can.

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(laughter)

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‐ I've spent my whole career,
in a way,

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trying to recapture
in things that I write,

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the hilarity of four
friends one drink down,

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age 19, laughing at their
jokes and all the new stuff

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that they find really funny.

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The Beatles were kind of
the dream of how you might be

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with your friends
as you went through life.

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Oh, screaming, screaming.
That's reminded me, yes.

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Do you say, why do they scream?

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I don't know.
I couldn't tell you.

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(laughs)

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If somebody scores a goal,

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there's a louder cheer
from all the people.

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If we shake our heads,
it's the equivalent

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of scoring a goal.

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(indistinct)
who screams the loudest?

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Do you see what I mean?

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Yes, yes I do understand.

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You'll do that, and they scream.

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(playing "Twist and Shout")

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(crowd screaming)

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♪ Shake it up baby, now

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♪ Shake it up baby

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♪ Twist and shout

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♪ Twist
and shout

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♪ Come on, come on, come
on, come on baby, now

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♪ Come on baby

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♪ Come on and work it on out

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♪ Work it on out

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♪ Well you twist
your little girl

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♪ Twist your little girl

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♪ You know you twist so fine

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♪ Twist so fine

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♪ Come on and twist
a little closer now

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♪ Twist a little closer

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♪ And let me know
hat you're mine

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♪ Let me know you're mine

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♪ Well shake it, shake it,
shake it, baby

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♪ Shake it up baby

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♪ Shake it, shake it, shake
it, shake it, baby now

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♪ Shake it up baby

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♪ Well shake it, shake
it, shake it, baby now

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♪ Shake it up baby

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♪ Yeah ♪

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(audience screaming)

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(bells toll)

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VINTAGE NARRATOR:
This is the BBC Home Service.

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Here is the news,
read by Frank Phillips.

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FRANK PHILLIPS:
Thousands of teenagers

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who had been waiting
for more than 12 hours

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in Liverpool to book for a
Beatles show were disappointed.

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At one time the queue
was stretched

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for over a mile,
and the police had to seal off

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side streets to traffic.

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Ambulance men dealt
with more than 100 casualties,

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most of them suffering
from exposure to the rain.

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When the tickets ran out,
many young girls

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burst into tears.

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More rain is forecast for...

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LEONARD PARKIN: Hello,
London, this is Leonard Parkin

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calling radio newsreel
from Washington.

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President Kennedy
and Governor John Conally

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were shot today from an ambush

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as President Kennedy's motorcade

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left the center of Dallas,
where the President

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was on a speaking tour.

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(somber music)

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PAUL:
It was disturbing for us.

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It was a mixture of all
these sort of strange things,

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you know,
where the world was at.

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It was scary.

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But in all truthfulness,
we were more in our own heads,

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you know, being in a band.

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You know, we were lads.

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It was like,
this is our journey,

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and things have been
falling to place

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outside of our consciousness.

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Even the first trip to America.

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There was no plan.
You could not plan it.

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PAUL: I'd been very fussy
about America.

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I'd said, we can't go to America
having failed.

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If we ever get a number one
there, then we can really go in,

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and, you know, we'll be kings.

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CARROLL JAMES:
So, Marsha Albert has the honor

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of introducing
something brand‐new,

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an exclusive here at WWDC.

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<i>Marsha, the microphone here on
The Carroll James Show</i>

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is yours.

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MARSHA: Ladies and gentlemen,

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for the first time on
the air in the United States,

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here are the Beatles singing
"I Want to Hold Your Hand."

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("I Want to Hold Your Hand"
playing)

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♪ Oh, yeah,
I'll tell you somethin'

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♪ I think you'll understand

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♪ When I say that somethin' ♪

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PAUL: I remember,
we were in Paris

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playing at the Olympia.

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♪ I wanna hold your hand ♪

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A telegram came through,
and it said,

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Congratulations, boys.
Number one in America.

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"Hold Your Hand,"
it was like ah!

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We just jumped
on each other's backs,

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ran around and just
partied round and round

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this little room for
hours, just screaming.

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♪ I wanna hold your hand

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♪ I wanna
hold your hand ♪

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PAUL: Like visas, passports,
America, here we come.

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♪ And when I touch you ♪
(radio chatter)

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♪ I feel happy inside

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♪ It's such a feelin'
that my love

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♪ I can't hide ♪

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When we came,
I know this for myself,

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and I know because we
talked to each together,

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we were in America
before the plane landed.

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I could feel New York.

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It was an incredible sensation.

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It's like, come on down, boys.

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♪ I want to hold your hand ♪
(cheering)

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VINTAGE REPORTER: The Beatles
have left the airplane.

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They're standing
on the stairway,

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there's that fabulous hairdo.

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And one of them is waving!

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(announcer shouting excitedly)

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GEORGE: We all knew
America, all of us.

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And we'd been
through all those movies,

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whether it was Disneyland,
or Doris Day and Rock Hudson,

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or whatever, you know,
James Dean, Marilyn,

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everything was American.

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MALE REPORTER:
Apparently they're gonna make

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a concerted effort to get
through into the building.

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MAN IN CROWD:
We love you, Beatles!

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MALE REPORTER: Where,
in just a few moments,

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a scheduled press
conference will begin.

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EDDIE IZZARD: America's
always seen as the motherland

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for British performers,
for any performer in the world.

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MALE REPORTER:
What about the reports

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that you guys
are nothing but a bunch of

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British Elvis Presleys?

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It's not true, it's not true!

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(laughter)

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What that is is what
any comedian would want to do.

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The trick of dealing
with heckles

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is to say the first thing
that comes into your brain.

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And they'd already
got to that place.

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And they could all do it.

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MALE REPORTER:
I got a question here.

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Are you going to get
a haircut at all?

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‐ No.
‐ No thanks.

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I had one yesterday.

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(laughter)

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That's no lie.

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The Beatles were cheeky, kind
of where every kid wants to be,

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couple of adults want to be,

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being able to talk back
to the people

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who are telling you what to do.

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They were cheeky, and I think
people in the world like that.

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It's not aggressive, it's
not nasty, it's just brazen.

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MALE REPORTER: Why does
your music excite them so much?

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We don't know, really.

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If we knew, we'd form
another group and be managers.

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(laughter)

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RALPH PAUL: And now,
here he is, Ed Sullivan!

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(jazz music)

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(audience cheers)

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ED SULLIVAN:
Thank you very much.

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Now yesterday and today,
our theater's been jammed

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with newspapermen and hundreds
of photographers

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from all over the nation,
and these veterans agree with me

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that the city never
has witnessed the excitement

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stirred by these youngsters
from Liverpool

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who call themselves the Beatles.

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Now tonight, you're gonna
twice be entertained by them.

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Right now, and again in
the second half of our show.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
the Beatles!

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(audience screams and applauds)

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♪ Close your eyes
and I'll kiss you

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♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you

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♪ Remember I'll always be true

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♪ And then while I'm away

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♪ I'll write home every day

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♪ And I'll send
all my lovin' to you ♪

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WHOOPI GOLDBERG: We watched
Ed Sullivan every Sunday night,

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my brother and mom and I.

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It wasn't even a question.

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It's just, that's what we'd do.

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And, man I'd never seen
anybody that looked like them.

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♪ Close your eyes
and I'll kiss you

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♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you

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♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪

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It was like a revelation.

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And when you're a little
kid, you don't know

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it's a revelation, but it was
like the whole world lit up.

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Suddenly I felt like
I could be friends with them.

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And I'm black.
(laughs)

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♪ All my loving

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♪ All my lovin'

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♪ All my lovin'
I will send to you ♪

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(screams and applause)

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(gentle music)

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People would say to me,
you think you wanna be white?

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You like those guys?

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It's just like, I never
thought of them really

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as white guys,
they were the Beatles.

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They were colorless.

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You know, and they
were fucking amazing.

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(crowd chattering)

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The Beatles gave me this idea
that everybody was welcome.

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If you weren't the hippest
kid in the neighborhood,

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it didn't matter because
you could be a Beatle fan,

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and I liked that.

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And that sort of carried
me into these older days

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where it's like,
I am my own person.

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I can look the way I wanna,
I can be the way I want,

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and it's okay, and I got
that specifically from them.

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MALE ANNOUNCER:
Fresh after their appearance

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<i>on The Ed Sullivan Show,</i>

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where over half the country
was watching,

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the four English musical stars
with their pudding bowl haircuts

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were mobbed by about
4,000 shrieking teenagers

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when they got
to the Plaza Hotel.

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RINGO: We had the
whole floor in the Plaza.

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(murmuring)

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And the four of us ended
up in the bathroom,

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just to get a break
from the incredible pressure.

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Let me on it.
Let me on it.

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‐ No, let me.
‐ Me!

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Me, me!

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Television, me!

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‐ You.
‐ Me.

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‐ No, you.
‐ Me.

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‐ After you, sir.
‐ Cut.

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RINGO: But we loved it.

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To pick up a small
transistor radio‐‐

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it was the first time
in New York‐‐

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and hear you comin'
out the radio,

401
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it was mind‐blowin'.

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JOHN LENNON: Hey, this is
John Lennon of the Beatles

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on 1010 W‐I‐N‐S.

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MURRAY THE K: Now,
we just wanna tell everybody,

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this was the Beatles' station,
they're taking over,

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they're telling us what to play.

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‐ (phone ringing)
‐ WOMAN: Hello?

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Yes, long distance calling
for the manager of the Beatles.

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00:18:35,220 --> 00:18:36,745
May we have his name, please?

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WOMAN: Their manager's
name is Mr. Brian Epstein.

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(gentle music)

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PAUL: Looking back now,
it was Brian Epstein.

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He was the guy
who got us famous, really.

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Brian was class.

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That was what Brian was.

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He was like Liverpool class.

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00:19:03,661 --> 00:19:08,551
When Brian was 27, he was
a grownup, and he had a car.

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00:19:08,561 --> 00:19:10,633
(laughs)

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00:19:10,643 --> 00:19:13,003
The Beatles' parents
were Liverpudlian,

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working class people that
had been through a war.

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Our playgrounds were bombsites.

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His parents ran a record shop.

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VINTAGE REPORTER:
Seems a funny sort of world

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for a young man
like you to be in.

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00:19:26,993 --> 00:19:30,213
How did you get into it?
How did you start?

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00:19:30,222 --> 00:19:33,598
I heard about them through a lad

427
00:19:33,607 --> 00:19:35,718
who was asking
for a record by them

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in one of my stores,
or my family's stores,

429
00:19:38,988 --> 00:19:41,797
in October, 1961.

430
00:19:41,807 --> 00:19:45,729
Growing up, my mom always
wanted me to talk proper.

431
00:19:45,739 --> 00:19:47,360
You know, all of us, really.

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00:19:47,369 --> 00:19:49,537
You know, like, I talk
like I'm from Liverpool.

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00:19:49,546 --> 00:19:53,191
Fuck you, I'm tellin' you,
don't give me any hard time.

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00:19:53,201 --> 00:19:56,613
PAUL: Whereas Brian
was very well‐mannered,

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very well‐spoken, so we
felt we could trust him.

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00:19:59,184 --> 00:20:01,093
EPSTEIN: I went down
to see them in Liverpool

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at the Cavern Club.

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00:20:02,511 --> 00:20:05,857
EMCEE: The Beatles
will sing "Some Other Girl."

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00:20:05,867 --> 00:20:07,872
(audience screams and claps)

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00:20:07,881 --> 00:20:12,417
(playing "Some Other Girl")

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00:20:12,426 --> 00:20:14,689
EPSTEIN: They were fresh,
and they were honest,

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and they had what I thought
was a sort of presence,

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and there's this terrible
vague term, star quality.

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00:20:22,503 --> 00:20:24,488
Whatever that is, they had it.

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♪ Some other guy now

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♪ Has taken my love away from me

447
00:20:31,979 --> 00:20:33,368
♪ Some other guy now

448
00:20:33,377 --> 00:20:36,985
♪ Has taken away
my sweet desire, oh no ♪

449
00:20:36,994 --> 00:20:40,120
PAUL: He was looking
at our stage presence.

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The early days,
it was clear that he had

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00:20:43,073 --> 00:20:46,390
a vision of us
that was beyond the vision

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00:20:46,400 --> 00:20:47,992
we had of ourselves.

453
00:20:48,002 --> 00:20:51,463
(classical music)

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EPSTEIN: Backstage,
they were playing

455
00:20:55,847 --> 00:20:57,342
around the clubs in Liverpool.

456
00:20:57,352 --> 00:20:59,126
Rather scruffily dressed,

457
00:20:59,135 --> 00:21:01,083
black leather jackets and jeans,

458
00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:04,409
and rather untidy
stage presentation,

459
00:21:04,419 --> 00:21:06,682
but having great fun.

460
00:21:06,692 --> 00:21:08,217
But I don't think
they would have bothered

461
00:21:08,226 --> 00:21:10,518
to do anything about it,
because young,

462
00:21:10,527 --> 00:21:14,488
inexperienced people
are not really very good

463
00:21:14,497 --> 00:21:16,157
at presenting themselves
properly

464
00:21:16,166 --> 00:21:19,417
in the right sort of quarters.

465
00:21:19,427 --> 00:21:22,522
He took us to a tailor...

466
00:21:22,532 --> 00:21:24,441
and we went to this guy,

467
00:21:24,449 --> 00:21:26,340
and he made us up suits,
you know.

468
00:21:29,476 --> 00:21:30,578
I'm not sure exactly what time

469
00:21:30,588 --> 00:21:31,864
we'll be back in Washington.

470
00:21:31,873 --> 00:21:33,139
We're going
to Washington tomorrow,

471
00:21:33,148 --> 00:21:35,094
and we'll be coming back
on Wednesday.

472
00:21:35,104 --> 00:21:36,658
Bye.

473
00:21:36,668 --> 00:21:39,486
PAUL: Brian
kept us together as a team.

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00:21:44,129 --> 00:21:45,556
REPORTER:
What place do you think

475
00:21:45,566 --> 00:21:47,120
this story of the Beatles
is gonna have

476
00:21:47,130 --> 00:21:49,460
in the history
of Western culture?

477
00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:51,568
You must be kiddin'
with that question.

478
00:21:51,578 --> 00:21:53,104
Culture, it's not culture.

479
00:21:53,114 --> 00:21:54,513
‐ REPORTER: What is it?
‐ It's a good laugh.

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00:21:54,522 --> 00:21:58,032
(screams and applause)

481
00:21:58,041 --> 00:21:59,662
CARROLL JAMES:
This is Carroll James,

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00:21:59,672 --> 00:22:03,125
and now, from the
Washington, D. C., Coliseum,

483
00:22:03,135 --> 00:22:05,551
the world's most exciting group,

484
00:22:05,560 --> 00:22:09,942
Capitol recording stars,
the Beatles.

485
00:22:12,062 --> 00:22:13,711
PAUL: You know, the suits.

486
00:22:13,721 --> 00:22:15,763
It's the simplest of ideas.

487
00:22:15,772 --> 00:22:18,716
It suddenly made us one person.

488
00:22:19,580 --> 00:22:21,469
A four‐headed monster.

489
00:22:48,855 --> 00:22:51,664
Thank you.

490
00:22:51,674 --> 00:22:55,079
Thank you very much, everybody,

491
00:22:55,089 --> 00:22:58,646
and good evening, how do you do?

492
00:22:59,635 --> 00:23:02,032
We would like to sing a song

493
00:23:02,042 --> 00:23:05,579
which we recorded
on an LP that we made,

494
00:23:05,590 --> 00:23:06,855
and that's English for album,

495
00:23:06,864 --> 00:23:08,935
an album that we made,
and we'd like you,

496
00:23:08,944 --> 00:23:10,576
we'd like you, if you would,

497
00:23:10,586 --> 00:23:13,165
to sort of join in
and clap your hands, you know,

498
00:23:13,174 --> 00:23:14,833
and stamp your feet.

499
00:23:17,585 --> 00:23:20,010
The song's called
"I Saw Her Standing There."

500
00:23:20,020 --> 00:23:21,449
One, two, three, four!

501
00:23:21,459 --> 00:23:25,333
(playing "I Saw Her
Standing There")

502
00:23:26,733 --> 00:23:29,034
♪ Well, she was just 17

503
00:23:29,043 --> 00:23:31,691
♪ You know what I mean

504
00:23:31,701 --> 00:23:33,484
♪ And the way she looked

505
00:23:33,493 --> 00:23:37,445
♪ Was way beyond compare

506
00:23:37,455 --> 00:23:42,564
♪ How could I dance with another

507
00:23:42,574 --> 00:23:46,228
♪ When I saw her standing there

508
00:23:48,558 --> 00:23:51,012
♪ She looked at me

509
00:23:51,022 --> 00:23:53,767
♪ And I, I could see

510
00:23:53,776 --> 00:23:59,557
♪ That before too long,
I'd fall in love with her

511
00:23:59,567 --> 00:24:04,419
♪ She wouldn't dance
with another

512
00:24:04,428 --> 00:24:10,595
♪ When I saw her standin' there

513
00:24:10,605 --> 00:24:13,088
♪ Well my heart went boom

514
00:24:13,097 --> 00:24:15,935
♪ When I crossed that room

515
00:24:15,945 --> 00:24:21,449
♪ And I held her hand in mine

516
00:24:24,364 --> 00:24:27,174
♪ Well, we danced
through the night

517
00:24:27,183 --> 00:24:30,108
♪ And we held each other tight

518
00:24:30,118 --> 00:24:31,806
♪ And before too long

519
00:24:31,816 --> 00:24:35,199
♪ I fell in love with her

520
00:24:35,208 --> 00:24:41,375
♪ Now I'll never dance
with another

521
00:24:41,384 --> 00:24:46,084
♪ Since I saw her standing there

522
00:25:09,703 --> 00:25:12,225
♪ We danced through the night

523
00:25:12,235 --> 00:25:14,623
♪ And we held each other tight

524
00:25:14,632 --> 00:25:19,868
♪ And before too long
I fell in love with her

525
00:25:19,877 --> 00:25:25,053
♪ Now I'll dance with another

526
00:25:25,063 --> 00:25:31,450
♪ Since I saw her standin' there

527
00:25:31,460 --> 00:25:36,725
♪ Well, since I saw her
standing' there

528
00:25:36,735 --> 00:25:41,375
♪ Since I saw her
standin' there ♪

529
00:25:42,756 --> 00:25:46,400
(audience screams and claps)

530
00:25:56,124 --> 00:25:59,011
(people chattering)

531
00:26:07,583 --> 00:26:09,491
‐ REPORTER: Which one are you?
‐ Eric.

532
00:26:09,501 --> 00:26:11,765
Eric?

533
00:26:11,775 --> 00:26:15,408
It's not for me, it's for Paul.

534
00:26:15,418 --> 00:26:17,873
I'm doing a sh‐‐ (laughs)

535
00:26:17,882 --> 00:26:20,472
Eric, here is
the American public.

536
00:26:20,481 --> 00:26:22,101
‐ I'm John.
‐ You're John?

537
00:26:22,111 --> 00:26:23,538
It was only a joke.

538
00:26:23,548 --> 00:26:24,882
Yes, well John, here
is the American public.

539
00:26:24,891 --> 00:26:26,963
40 million American viewers
staring you‐‐

540
00:26:26,972 --> 00:26:29,111
‐ Only looks like one man to me.
‐ Staring you right in the face.

541
00:26:29,121 --> 00:26:30,482
Oh, it's the camera man.

542
00:26:30,492 --> 00:26:31,825
What is your impression
of the American public?

543
00:26:31,835 --> 00:26:32,918
You've been here
for a while now.

544
00:26:32,928 --> 00:26:33,973
They are the wildest.

545
00:26:33,982 --> 00:26:35,439
‐ Why?
‐ I don't know.

546
00:26:35,448 --> 00:26:38,412
Tonight was,
the mob was ridiculous.

547
00:26:38,422 --> 00:26:41,107
All those 8,000 people
all shouting at once,

548
00:26:41,117 --> 00:26:42,737
and we were trying to shout
louder than them

549
00:26:42,747 --> 00:26:44,338
with microphones,
and we still couldn't beat 'em.

550
00:26:44,348 --> 00:26:46,669
Was America something like
what you though it would be?

551
00:26:46,678 --> 00:26:48,242
No, nothing like. We thought it
would be much quieter.

552
00:26:48,251 --> 00:26:50,351
We thought, you know,
we'd have to grow on everybody,

553
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,460
and everybody
seems to know us all

554
00:26:52,470 --> 00:26:55,376
as if we've been here
for years, it's great.

555
00:26:55,386 --> 00:26:57,170
I love the Beatles for them
and I'll always love them,

556
00:26:57,180 --> 00:26:59,787
even when I'm
a 105‐year‐old grandmother,

557
00:26:59,797 --> 00:27:01,196
I'll love 'em,
and Paul McCartney,

558
00:27:01,206 --> 00:27:03,632
if you are listening,
Adrian from Brooklyn

559
00:27:03,642 --> 00:27:05,550
loves you with all her heart.

560
00:27:05,559 --> 00:27:07,152
(cheering)

561
00:27:07,161 --> 00:27:09,328
PAUL: It's a romantic
thing to us, being in America,

562
00:27:09,338 --> 00:27:11,754
playing to our American fans.

563
00:27:11,764 --> 00:27:14,545
‐ Ringo has a sexy nose!
‐ A sexy nose?

564
00:27:14,555 --> 00:27:16,042
George has got sexy eyelashes.

565
00:27:16,051 --> 00:27:17,039
Who has?

566
00:27:17,048 --> 00:27:18,314
George has got sexy eyelashes.

567
00:27:18,323 --> 00:27:21,066
‐ Which one is George?
‐ That one.

568
00:27:21,076 --> 00:27:23,337
He's got sexy eyelashes.

569
00:27:23,347 --> 00:27:24,556
(screaming)

570
00:27:24,565 --> 00:27:27,279
PAUL: The very
earliest records were all

571
00:27:27,289 --> 00:27:31,307
pleas to the fans, and it
was all personal articles.

572
00:27:31,315 --> 00:27:34,413
JOHN: In the early days,
we didn't count lyrics at all,

573
00:27:34,422 --> 00:27:37,166
as long as it had some vague
theme.

574
00:27:37,176 --> 00:27:40,684
She loves you and he loves
him and they love each other.

575
00:27:40,694 --> 00:27:44,042
♪ So hold, hold, me tight,
me tight

576
00:27:44,051 --> 00:27:46,764
♪ Tonight, tonight,
tonight, tonight

577
00:27:46,774 --> 00:27:50,476
♪ It's you

578
00:27:50,485 --> 00:27:54,437
♪ You, you, you ♪

579
00:27:54,446 --> 00:27:56,651
It's all direct,
it's kind of conscious.

580
00:27:56,661 --> 00:27:59,048
We were actually
appealing to girls.

581
00:27:59,058 --> 00:28:01,416
We're young boys,
we're appealing to girls

582
00:28:01,426 --> 00:28:03,116
to get our fan base.

583
00:28:03,125 --> 00:28:06,567
♪ You ♪

584
00:28:06,577 --> 00:28:08,236
In those days has, yeah.

585
00:28:08,246 --> 00:28:11,496
‐ (laughs) ‐ Go on.

586
00:28:11,505 --> 00:28:14,853
You, yourselves, you write
very good songs. Don't you?

587
00:28:14,862 --> 00:28:16,549
Oh, thank you, thank you.

588
00:28:16,558 --> 00:28:17,546
WOMAN:
How do you write songs?

589
00:28:17,555 --> 00:28:18,659
(laughter)

590
00:28:18,668 --> 00:28:20,807
Well, you know, it just depends.

591
00:28:20,817 --> 00:28:22,274
Sometimes we write them
on old pianos,

592
00:28:22,284 --> 00:28:23,874
and anything
that's lying around.

593
00:28:23,884 --> 00:28:27,174
Normally we sit down
and try and bash one out.

594
00:28:27,183 --> 00:28:29,447
But then again,
there's no formula,

595
00:28:29,455 --> 00:28:31,585
'cause he can come up
with one one day,

596
00:28:31,594 --> 00:28:36,965
completely finished, we still
say we both wrote it though.

597
00:28:36,974 --> 00:28:41,472
♪ I got ever reason
on Earth to be mad

598
00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:46,181
♪ 'Cause I just lost
the only girl I had ♪

599
00:28:46,190 --> 00:28:47,809
JOHN: We got a single
every three months

600
00:28:47,819 --> 00:28:50,016
and we'd have be writing
literally in the hotel

601
00:28:50,026 --> 00:28:51,741
or in the van.

602
00:28:51,751 --> 00:28:53,054
We wrote on the road.

603
00:28:53,064 --> 00:28:54,178
Mainly me and John.

604
00:28:54,188 --> 00:28:56,259
George developed
as a writer later,

605
00:28:56,269 --> 00:28:57,763
and became
an unbelievable writer,

606
00:28:57,773 --> 00:29:00,161
but at the beginning
it was mainly me and John.

607
00:29:00,171 --> 00:29:03,556
So we'd be in a hotel
room with two twin beds,

608
00:29:03,565 --> 00:29:07,487
and he'd have his acoustic
guitar, I'd have mine,

609
00:29:07,497 --> 00:29:09,051
sit opposite each other,
and because

610
00:29:09,061 --> 00:29:10,499
I was left‐handed,
he was right‐handed.

611
00:29:10,509 --> 00:29:12,225
It was like
looking in the mirror.

612
00:29:12,235 --> 00:29:16,415
And we'd just start something
and ricochet of each other.

613
00:29:16,425 --> 00:29:19,042
He'd do a line, I'd do a line,
we'd just write it down.

614
00:29:19,052 --> 00:29:20,605
And when we were finished,

615
00:29:20,615 --> 00:29:22,466
we didn't have a manuscript,
but we had a sheet of paper

616
00:29:22,475 --> 00:29:25,917
with the words,
and we remembered the chords.

617
00:29:25,927 --> 00:29:29,408
(singing happily)

618
00:29:29,418 --> 00:29:31,901
<i>Yeah, it's number one
in Cashbox and Billboard.</i>

619
00:29:31,911 --> 00:29:35,803
Yeah, you know,
in New York, three records,

620
00:29:35,812 --> 00:29:37,367
"Please Please Me,"
"She Loves You,"

621
00:29:37,377 --> 00:29:39,104
and "I Want to Hold Your
Hand" are all number one.

622
00:29:39,113 --> 00:29:40,924
(laughter)

623
00:29:40,934 --> 00:29:43,293
Paul, John, yeah.
Thanks.

624
00:29:43,303 --> 00:29:45,471
But we'll see you, you know,
in two weeks, I suppose.

625
00:29:45,481 --> 00:29:47,809
(harmonium music)

626
00:29:52,164 --> 00:29:54,811
My relationship
with John was very close.

627
00:29:54,820 --> 00:29:58,712
Musically, you know, we looked
after each other, really.

628
00:29:58,722 --> 00:30:01,110
It's like someone you kind
of looked up to a little bit.

629
00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,243
When I first met him,
I talked to people in my life,

630
00:30:05,253 --> 00:30:06,394
and they say,
what do you like to do,

631
00:30:06,404 --> 00:30:08,246
What are your hobbies and stuff?

632
00:30:08,255 --> 00:30:09,367
And I sort of said,
I like songwriting,

633
00:30:09,377 --> 00:30:10,940
I've written a couple of songs.

634
00:30:10,949 --> 00:30:13,021
And they'd all go,
Oh, yeah, great.

635
00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:15,064
What did you think
about the football?

636
00:30:15,073 --> 00:30:17,432
And I'd go, oh, okay,
nobody interested.

637
00:30:17,441 --> 00:30:20,979
When I said that to John,
he said, oh, so am I.

638
00:30:20,988 --> 00:30:23,730
I go, wow, wait a minute,
big connection here.

639
00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:26,426
I'd never met anyone
who'd written songs.

640
00:30:26,436 --> 00:30:29,235
So that's how we started.

641
00:30:29,245 --> 00:30:31,700
I think it's something like
just short of 300 songs

642
00:30:31,709 --> 00:30:33,177
John and I wrote together.

643
00:30:33,187 --> 00:30:36,254
(crowd singing "She Loves You"
in unison)

644
00:30:53,496 --> 00:30:56,403
♪ She loves you,
yeah, yeah, yeah

645
00:30:56,413 --> 00:30:58,675
♪ She loves you, yeah,
yeah, yeah ♪

646
00:30:58,685 --> 00:31:03,317
♪ With a love like that,
you know you should be glad ♪

647
00:31:03,327 --> 00:31:06,068
My mother's father,
who was from Liverpool.

648
00:31:06,077 --> 00:31:09,970
There was that pride thing,
they were from Liverpool.

649
00:31:09,980 --> 00:31:11,246
And nine years old.

650
00:31:11,256 --> 00:31:13,682
When your favorite group
is the Beatles,

651
00:31:13,692 --> 00:31:15,572
it is like supporting
a winning football team,

652
00:31:15,581 --> 00:31:18,381
because they just keep
winning the cup.

653
00:31:18,390 --> 00:31:20,500
You'd wait all week
to hear the hit parade show

654
00:31:20,510 --> 00:31:22,542
so that you would hear,
for sure, the Beatles' song,

655
00:31:22,552 --> 00:31:24,267
because they would
get to number one.

656
00:31:24,277 --> 00:31:27,471
Top British vocal group,
top four records of the year,

657
00:31:27,481 --> 00:31:31,249
the world's leading
vocal group, the Beatles!

658
00:31:31,259 --> 00:31:34,039
(screams and applause)

659
00:31:40,820 --> 00:31:43,792
♪ Can't buy me love

660
00:31:43,801 --> 00:31:45,644
♪ Love

661
00:31:45,653 --> 00:31:48,462
♪ Can't buy me love

662
00:31:48,472 --> 00:31:50,860
♪ I'll buy you a diamond ring,
my friend

663
00:31:50,870 --> 00:31:53,833
♪ If it makes you
feel all right

664
00:31:53,842 --> 00:31:55,626
♪ I'll get you anything,
my friend

665
00:31:55,635 --> 00:31:58,185
♪ If it makes you
feel all right

666
00:31:58,195 --> 00:32:00,746
♪ 'Cause I don't care
too much for money

667
00:32:00,755 --> 00:32:03,470
♪ Money can't buy me love ♪

668
00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:05,320
For some reason,
whatever we were putting out,

669
00:32:05,329 --> 00:32:08,139
they were loving it.

670
00:32:08,149 --> 00:32:10,220
And they loved us
wherever we went.

671
00:32:10,229 --> 00:32:12,358
It was a surprise to us, too.

672
00:32:12,368 --> 00:32:15,591
MAN: John, Paul,
George o Ringo. The Beatles!

673
00:32:15,601 --> 00:32:17,009
(screaming)

674
00:32:22,926 --> 00:32:24,363
It was a different kind of fame,

675
00:32:24,373 --> 00:32:25,610
because we didn't have
social media,

676
00:32:25,620 --> 00:32:27,912
we didn't have
satellite television,

677
00:32:27,922 --> 00:32:29,130
and yet the word would spread

678
00:32:29,139 --> 00:32:30,636
that this group would be coming.

679
00:32:30,645 --> 00:32:33,167
Once it was big in one country,
it got bigger in the next.

680
00:32:36,975 --> 00:32:38,249
JOHN: Australia,
there was more people

681
00:32:38,259 --> 00:32:40,100
come to see us there
than anywhere.

682
00:32:40,109 --> 00:32:41,509
I mean, it looked like, I think,

683
00:32:41,519 --> 00:32:43,782
the whole of Australia
was there.

684
00:32:43,792 --> 00:32:45,057
MALE REPORTER:
Along the nine‐mile route

685
00:32:45,067 --> 00:32:46,852
from Adelaide Airport
to the city,

686
00:32:46,861 --> 00:32:50,466
almost a quarter of a million
people lined the street.

687
00:32:50,476 --> 00:32:53,447
My picture of it,
there was a ship

688
00:32:53,457 --> 00:32:55,942
going to discover the New World.

689
00:32:55,952 --> 00:32:58,081
And the Beatles
were in the crow's nest,

690
00:32:58,089 --> 00:33:00,352
and we just said land ho.

691
00:33:00,361 --> 00:33:04,678
♪ The second time
I caught you talking to him

692
00:33:04,688 --> 00:33:06,663
♪ Do I have to tell you
one more time

693
00:33:06,672 --> 00:33:08,157
♪ I think it's a sin

694
00:33:08,167 --> 00:33:10,911
♪ I'm gonna let you down

695
00:33:10,920 --> 00:33:11,697
♪ Let you down

696
00:33:11,697 --> 00:33:12,992
♪ Gonna leave you flat

697
00:33:13,002 --> 00:33:15,303
♪ Gonna let you down
and leave you flat

698
00:33:15,312 --> 00:33:17,795
♪ Because I told you before

699
00:33:17,805 --> 00:33:20,413
♪ Oh, you can't do that ♪

700
00:33:20,423 --> 00:33:22,206
And so we were all
on this ship in the sea,

701
00:33:22,216 --> 00:33:24,325
not just Beatles,
but our movement

702
00:33:24,334 --> 00:33:28,257
and our generation,
and we went somewhere.

703
00:33:28,267 --> 00:33:30,270
(screaming)

704
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:32,707
And of course,
next most extraordinary thing

705
00:33:32,717 --> 00:33:36,541
is the fantasy version
of the Beatles from '64,

706
00:33:36,551 --> 00:33:38,268
<i>you know, Hard Day's Night.</i>

707
00:33:38,277 --> 00:33:40,483
("A Hard Day's Night" playing)

708
00:33:40,493 --> 00:33:43,456
♪ It's been a hard day's night

709
00:33:43,466 --> 00:33:46,842
♪ And I've been workin'
like a dog

710
00:33:46,852 --> 00:33:49,948
♪ It's been
a hard day's night

711
00:33:49,958 --> 00:33:53,217
♪ I should be sleepin'
like a log ♪

712
00:33:53,227 --> 00:33:55,195
MAN: You fancy yourselves
as actors then, do you?

713
00:33:55,205 --> 00:33:58,655
No, definitely not,
but we enjoyed making the film,

714
00:33:58,665 --> 00:34:00,765
and especially
with the director.

715
00:34:00,775 --> 00:34:02,269
The director was great, you see,

716
00:34:02,279 --> 00:34:04,793
and it made it
much easier for us.

717
00:34:04,803 --> 00:34:06,365
United Artists said,

718
00:34:06,374 --> 00:34:08,638
"You ought to be able
to make a good, quick,

719
00:34:08,647 --> 00:34:10,968
low‐budget film with them,

720
00:34:10,978 --> 00:34:13,884
as long as it's
in the cinemas by July,

721
00:34:13,893 --> 00:34:16,510
because we think they'll
be probably a spent force

722
00:34:16,520 --> 00:34:18,552
by the end of the summer."

723
00:34:18,562 --> 00:34:21,277
‐ Give us a kiss.
‐ I shall call a guard.

724
00:34:21,286 --> 00:34:26,137
Ah, but what? They don't take
kindly to insults, you know.

725
00:34:26,147 --> 00:34:27,768
The only thing that was a plan

726
00:34:27,778 --> 00:34:29,849
through the seven weeks
of the shoot

727
00:34:29,858 --> 00:34:32,534
is that sense of protection.

728
00:34:32,543 --> 00:34:36,283
Being protective when they had
to be supporting one another

729
00:34:36,293 --> 00:34:37,943
in a family way.

730
00:34:37,952 --> 00:34:40,896
♪ It's been a hard day's night ♪

731
00:34:42,037 --> 00:34:44,089
<i>One of the things
about Hard Day's Night,</i>

732
00:34:44,252 --> 00:34:45,749
and everything you
heard about the Beatles

733
00:34:45,759 --> 00:34:48,338
is the lack of self‐pity,
that we had a feeling

734
00:34:48,346 --> 00:34:50,639
they were adoring what
was happening to them,

735
00:34:50,648 --> 00:34:53,898
and that made it like
a completely virtuous circle.

736
00:34:53,908 --> 00:34:58,674
Fan, Beatles,
fun, excitement, music.

737
00:34:58,684 --> 00:35:00,812
And of course,
everybody in the world

738
00:35:00,822 --> 00:35:02,934
could buy tickets to see them.

739
00:35:08,762 --> 00:35:10,316
MALCOLM GLADWELL: What
you're seeing is the emergence

740
00:35:10,326 --> 00:35:12,973
of this international
teen culture.

741
00:35:12,983 --> 00:35:18,572
If you're 14 in 1964, who are
you looking to for cues?

742
00:35:18,581 --> 00:35:20,212
Not your parents.

743
00:35:21,363 --> 00:35:22,446
♪ I should be sleepin' ♪

744
00:35:22,455 --> 00:35:23,855
Beatles hysteria is sort of

745
00:35:23,864 --> 00:35:25,965
a muscle flexing
of that generation.

746
00:35:25,975 --> 00:35:27,566
The baby boom.

747
00:35:27,576 --> 00:35:29,772
It's no accident you see all
this kind of youth culture

748
00:35:29,781 --> 00:35:31,566
coming out of that time,
because quite literally,

749
00:35:31,575 --> 00:35:34,921
the society is dominated
by teenagers.

750
00:35:34,931 --> 00:35:37,799
♪ You know I feel all right ♪

751
00:35:37,808 --> 00:35:43,916
(cheering and screaming)

752
00:35:43,926 --> 00:35:46,736
("Roll Over, Beethoven" playing)

753
00:35:59,375 --> 00:36:04,515
♪ Gonna write a little letter,
mail it to my local DJ

754
00:36:04,525 --> 00:36:05,866
♪ It's a rocking little record

755
00:36:05,876 --> 00:36:09,673
♪ I want my jockey to play

756
00:36:09,683 --> 00:36:11,015
♪ Roll over, Beethoven

757
00:36:11,025 --> 00:36:15,275
♪ Gotta hear it again,
today

758
00:36:15,284 --> 00:36:16,712
♪ You know
my temperature's rising

759
00:36:16,721 --> 00:36:20,231
♪ And the jukebox
blows a fuse

760
00:36:20,241 --> 00:36:21,545
♪ My heart beating rhythm

761
00:36:21,555 --> 00:36:25,409
♪ While my soul
is singin' the blues

762
00:36:25,418 --> 00:36:26,847
♪ Roll over, Beethoven

763
00:36:26,857 --> 00:36:31,144
♪ Dig these rhythm and blues ♪

764
00:36:31,153 --> 00:36:33,580
(audience cheering)

765
00:36:42,507 --> 00:36:45,346
(laughter)

766
00:36:45,355 --> 00:36:48,164
♪ Roll over, Beethoven

767
00:36:48,174 --> 00:36:50,466
♪ Roll over,
Beethoven

768
00:36:50,476 --> 00:36:53,381
PAUL: The first time
we went to America

769
00:36:53,391 --> 00:36:56,450
it was just 10 days,
so when we came back,

770
00:36:56,460 --> 00:37:02,241
they were waiting for us.

771
00:37:02,251 --> 00:37:03,614
MALE REPORTER:
Tell me, several people

772
00:37:03,624 --> 00:37:05,857
on these radio programs
want to know,

773
00:37:05,866 --> 00:37:08,638
what do you plan to do
when the bubble bursts?

774
00:37:08,647 --> 00:37:09,855
Aw, shut up, Fred.

775
00:37:09,865 --> 00:37:11,965
(laughter)

776
00:37:11,975 --> 00:37:14,459
We're gonna have a laugh.

777
00:37:14,468 --> 00:37:16,798
The biggest question in 1964

778
00:37:16,808 --> 00:37:19,455
was when is
the bubble gonna burst?

779
00:37:19,464 --> 00:37:23,040
MALE ANNOUNCER:
WFUN South Miami.

780
00:37:23,050 --> 00:37:26,492
I was 21 years old, news
director of a station in Miami,

781
00:37:26,502 --> 00:37:29,313
WFUN, Fun in the Sun Radio.

782
00:37:29,322 --> 00:37:32,409
(upbeat music)

783
00:37:32,419 --> 00:37:34,873
We got word that the Beatles
were gonna come to America,

784
00:37:34,883 --> 00:37:37,914
and I wrote a letter asking
for an interview with them,

785
00:37:37,924 --> 00:37:40,187
and I sent it to
Brian Epstein, their manager.

786
00:37:40,197 --> 00:37:43,514
I got this letter back,
inviting me on the tour.

787
00:37:43,523 --> 00:37:47,705
(helicopters whirring)

788
00:37:47,715 --> 00:37:51,387
And I said, I'm not goin'.

789
00:37:51,397 --> 00:37:52,891
We got the war
in Vietnam escalating,

790
00:37:52,901 --> 00:37:54,329
the president just died,

791
00:37:54,339 --> 00:37:57,112
Muhammad Ali is training
three blocks from our studio,

792
00:37:57,121 --> 00:37:59,000
the Ford Mustang
is being released.

793
00:37:59,010 --> 00:38:01,109
It's one of
the biggest news years

794
00:38:01,119 --> 00:38:02,328
in the history of the world.

795
00:38:02,337 --> 00:38:05,176
Why would I, a news guy,
want to travel

796
00:38:05,186 --> 00:38:08,341
with a band that will
be here in October

797
00:38:08,350 --> 00:38:09,884
and go on in November?

798
00:38:09,894 --> 00:38:12,406
(bell dinging)

799
00:38:12,416 --> 00:38:15,380
My boss had said, you gotta go.

800
00:38:15,390 --> 00:38:18,485
My father pulled me aside
before I went on tour,

801
00:38:18,495 --> 00:38:20,154
and he said, watch your back,

802
00:38:20,164 --> 00:38:22,351
these men are
a menace to society.

803
00:38:25,120 --> 00:38:28,112
♪ It's been a hard day's night

804
00:38:28,122 --> 00:38:32,083
♪ And I've been workin'
like a dog ♪

805
00:38:32,093 --> 00:38:34,481
This is Larry Kane,
on tour with the Beatles.

806
00:38:34,491 --> 00:38:36,052
Let me give you
a little description

807
00:38:36,062 --> 00:38:37,809
of the dangers of being
with the Beatles.

808
00:38:37,819 --> 00:38:39,545
When we drove up
to the stage door,

809
00:38:39,554 --> 00:38:42,036
the Beatles were
almost crushed completely

810
00:38:42,046 --> 00:38:44,338
by youngsters
who will mash themselves

811
00:38:44,348 --> 00:38:47,600
against the wall,
broke about 50 windows,

812
00:38:47,609 --> 00:38:52,279
throwed rocks, jelly beans,
undershirts, sandals.

813
00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:53,965
The situation
was one of sheer havoc,

814
00:38:53,975 --> 00:38:58,099
even though the police
did their best to stop it.

815
00:38:58,109 --> 00:39:01,907
The first couple of days,
there was a bewilderment.

816
00:39:01,916 --> 00:39:03,471
There was a wondrousness.

817
00:39:03,480 --> 00:39:04,784
Is this really happening to us?

818
00:39:04,793 --> 00:39:06,835
One girl stuck
her hand through the window

819
00:39:06,845 --> 00:39:08,302
and grabbed at my face.

820
00:39:08,312 --> 00:39:11,313
I'm okay, don't worry,
people, I'm all right.

821
00:39:11,322 --> 00:39:14,037
Four cities later,
in Vancouver, British Columbia,

822
00:39:14,047 --> 00:39:17,882
7,000 kids rushed the stage.

823
00:39:33,877 --> 00:39:35,276
Thank you, folks!

824
00:39:35,285 --> 00:39:38,001
Before we do the next song.

825
00:39:38,011 --> 00:39:40,042
DEREK TAYLOR: Excuse me,
ladies and gentlemen,

826
00:39:40,052 --> 00:39:42,736
the Beatles have come
a long way to do this show.

827
00:39:42,747 --> 00:39:44,808
We have to cut it short
unless you move back.

828
00:39:44,817 --> 00:39:47,340
They're very worried about
the situation in the front.

829
00:39:47,349 --> 00:39:50,313
Back, back, back.

830
00:39:50,322 --> 00:39:53,543
240 kids wound up
in the hospital.

831
00:39:53,553 --> 00:39:56,556
None of the police
in any of these cities

832
00:39:56,565 --> 00:39:58,185
were prepared for this.

833
00:39:58,195 --> 00:39:59,979
Nobody was prepared for this.

834
00:39:59,989 --> 00:40:02,443
Wouldn't you say, Derek,
that police departments

835
00:40:02,452 --> 00:40:04,784
don't realize how bad it is?

836
00:40:04,794 --> 00:40:05,896
DEREK TAYLOR:
I think that's true.

837
00:40:05,906 --> 00:40:07,727
They've all seen crowds before.

838
00:40:07,737 --> 00:40:09,741
I mean, they all say,
we know our own people,

839
00:40:09,751 --> 00:40:11,236
we know the police potential,

840
00:40:11,245 --> 00:40:12,742
and we're going
to be able to handle it.

841
00:40:12,751 --> 00:40:14,536
But what they've never seen
is a Beatle crowd.

842
00:40:14,545 --> 00:40:17,134
This is the biggest thing
that's ever happened.

843
00:40:17,143 --> 00:40:18,889
There's no question about it.

844
00:40:18,899 --> 00:40:20,202
It's like nothing before.

845
00:40:20,212 --> 00:40:21,477
It's not like Presley,
not like Sinatra,

846
00:40:21,487 --> 00:40:23,299
it's not like the late
President Kennedy.

847
00:40:23,308 --> 00:40:25,860
It's the Beatles,
and they are without precedent.

848
00:40:25,869 --> 00:40:27,653
(crowd screaming)

849
00:40:27,663 --> 00:40:29,062
Thank you!

850
00:40:29,072 --> 00:40:31,267
Thank you very much,
everybody, ciao.

851
00:40:31,277 --> 00:40:33,608
You're wonderful, thank you.

852
00:40:33,617 --> 00:40:38,566
Singin' a song from the first
album that we ever made,

853
00:40:38,575 --> 00:40:40,580
a song which
was originally recorded

854
00:40:40,590 --> 00:40:43,082
by a group called the Shirelles,

855
00:40:43,092 --> 00:40:44,549
just a little chicken.

856
00:40:44,559 --> 00:40:46,507
Yeah, yeah.

857
00:40:46,516 --> 00:40:49,439
Singin' a song
called "Boys," Ringo!

858
00:40:49,449 --> 00:40:55,529
(playing "Boys")

859
00:40:55,538 --> 00:40:58,502
♪ I've been told
when a boy kiss a girl

860
00:40:58,511 --> 00:41:01,569
♪ Take a trip
around the world, hey, hey

861
00:41:01,579 --> 00:41:03,680
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop

862
00:41:03,690 --> 00:41:04,554
♪ Oh, now

863
00:41:04,563 --> 00:41:06,595
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop

864
00:41:06,604 --> 00:41:07,467
♪ Hey, hey

865
00:41:07,467 --> 00:41:08,964
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop

866
00:41:08,973 --> 00:41:13,222
♪ Whoa, yeah
she say you do, yeah ♪

867
00:41:13,232 --> 00:41:15,783
I was way in the back,
way at the top,

868
00:41:15,792 --> 00:41:18,332
surrounded by lots of girls

869
00:41:18,342 --> 00:41:24,124
really crying, real tears,
and so beside themselves.

870
00:41:24,134 --> 00:41:26,818
I felt as much as
a girl can feel.

871
00:41:26,828 --> 00:41:28,477
I was in love with John.

872
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:32,352
I remember spending all day
putting my hair in beer cans

873
00:41:32,361 --> 00:41:34,884
to make sure it was straight,
'cause I had curly hair.

874
00:41:34,893 --> 00:41:36,349
Picking up the dress,
because of course,

875
00:41:36,359 --> 00:41:40,801
they would see me,
along with 15,000 girls.

876
00:41:40,810 --> 00:41:43,810
It was this sense
of world music,

877
00:41:43,819 --> 00:41:46,909
that we were all loving
them all over the world.

878
00:41:46,919 --> 00:41:49,784
♪ My girl says
when I kiss her lips ♪

879
00:41:49,794 --> 00:41:51,195
LARRY KANE:
This is Larry Kane onboard

880
00:41:51,204 --> 00:41:52,633
the Beatle Bird, as I call it.

881
00:41:52,642 --> 00:41:54,397
I have with me George Harrison.
How you doin' George?

882
00:41:54,406 --> 00:41:56,249
GEORGE: I'm very well,
Larry, and how are you?

883
00:41:56,259 --> 00:41:57,629
LARRY: Fine, you glad
to be back in America?

884
00:41:57,639 --> 00:41:59,193
GEORGE: Yeah, it's great.

885
00:41:59,202 --> 00:42:01,627
This is Larry Kane with the
Beatles, flying across America.

886
00:42:01,637 --> 00:42:02,941
With me I have Ringo Starr.

887
00:42:02,951 --> 00:42:05,502
Right over Kansas,
3,000 feet in the air.

888
00:42:05,512 --> 00:42:06,528
We're on our way to Cincinnati.

889
00:42:06,537 --> 00:42:07,870
They had a wild one yesterday.

890
00:42:07,879 --> 00:42:10,651
On his exciting,
25‐city coast‐to‐coast tour.

891
00:42:10,661 --> 00:42:12,379
Atlantic City, Philadelphia,
but let's talk a little bit

892
00:42:12,388 --> 00:42:14,459
about the crowds
at Indianapolis.

893
00:42:14,469 --> 00:42:16,635
Back and forth again. The stage
set for Milwaukee tonight.

894
00:42:16,645 --> 00:42:18,237
You can hear the buzz
and excitement

895
00:42:18,247 --> 00:42:19,607
here at the Chicago
Amphitheater.

896
00:42:19,617 --> 00:42:21,113
Now in Detroit, Michigan.

897
00:42:21,123 --> 00:42:22,974
The Beatles really shook
up the crowd in Toronto.

898
00:42:22,984 --> 00:42:24,374
In Montreal, Canada.

899
00:42:24,383 --> 00:42:26,070
Hi, this is Larry Kane,
travelling with the Beatles.

900
00:42:26,080 --> 00:42:29,015
Let me explain to you
the type of feeling

901
00:42:29,024 --> 00:42:31,613
that you get
after 15 performances

902
00:42:31,622 --> 00:42:33,914
watching the Beatles in action,

903
00:42:33,924 --> 00:42:35,669
and watching the crowds.

904
00:42:35,678 --> 00:42:37,338
It's a chilling feeling inside

905
00:42:37,347 --> 00:42:39,160
because you know
you are experiencing

906
00:42:39,170 --> 00:42:42,679
a phenomenon that is
the only one of its kind

907
00:42:42,688 --> 00:42:45,019
in this century thus far,
and it probably

908
00:42:45,028 --> 00:42:46,419
will go down in history
as the greatest

909
00:42:46,429 --> 00:42:51,962
show business example
of music and admiration

910
00:42:51,971 --> 00:42:55,605
in many, many hundreds of years.

911
00:42:55,615 --> 00:42:57,783
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys

912
00:42:57,792 --> 00:43:00,056
‐ ♪ Don't you know I mean boys
‐ ♪ Yeah, yeah, boys

913
00:43:00,065 --> 00:43:02,194
♪ Talkin' about boys now

914
00:43:02,203 --> 00:43:03,602
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys

915
00:43:03,612 --> 00:43:04,822
(vocalizing)

916
00:43:04,832 --> 00:43:06,136
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys

917
00:43:06,145 --> 00:43:07,736
♪ Talkin' about boys now

918
00:43:07,745 --> 00:43:09,175
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys

919
00:43:09,184 --> 00:43:15,092
♪ What a bundle of joy ♪

920
00:43:15,101 --> 00:43:16,061
Thank you!

921
00:43:18,878 --> 00:43:20,883
Remember, too, that in 1964,

922
00:43:20,893 --> 00:43:23,281
there were riots
throughout the South

923
00:43:23,290 --> 00:43:26,703
because of
the civil rights movement.

924
00:43:26,713 --> 00:43:29,647
You started to feel
a social change happening.

925
00:43:29,657 --> 00:43:32,179
‐ Civil rights or civil war!
‐ This is Larry Kane.

926
00:43:32,189 --> 00:43:33,713
The big question mark
still with Jacksonville

927
00:43:33,723 --> 00:43:36,398
not knowing whether
they will be able to perform.

928
00:43:36,408 --> 00:43:39,151
I had received a report from
my station that the Gator Bowl

929
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,261
in Jacksonville
was gonna be segregated,

930
00:43:41,270 --> 00:43:43,762
so I mentioned it
to them in the interview.

931
00:43:43,772 --> 00:43:46,132
What about this comment
that I heard about

932
00:43:46,141 --> 00:43:50,514
concerning racial integration
at the various performances?

933
00:43:50,524 --> 00:43:52,241
PAUL: We don't like it
if there's any segregation

934
00:43:52,250 --> 00:43:54,513
or anything, because
it just seems mad to me.

935
00:43:54,522 --> 00:43:56,239
LARRY: And I could see
Brian at the corner of the room

936
00:43:56,249 --> 00:43:57,553
goin' like, oh my God.

937
00:43:57,562 --> 00:43:59,279
Well, you're gonna play
Jacksonville, Florida.

938
00:43:59,289 --> 00:44:01,427
Do you anticipate any kind
of difference in that opinion?

939
00:44:01,436 --> 00:44:02,702
PAUL: I don't know, really,

940
00:44:02,711 --> 00:44:04,812
it'd be a bit silly
to segregate people

941
00:44:04,821 --> 00:44:07,151
'cause you know, it's
really stupid, isn't it?

942
00:44:07,160 --> 00:44:09,520
You can't treat other
human beings like animals.

943
00:44:09,529 --> 00:44:10,824
GEORGE: That's the way
we all feel.

944
00:44:10,833 --> 00:44:12,397
PAUL: That's the way
we all feel,

945
00:44:12,406 --> 00:44:13,806
and a lot of people
in England feel that way,

946
00:44:13,816 --> 00:44:15,370
you know, because there's
never any segregation

947
00:44:15,379 --> 00:44:16,875
in concerts in England,
and in fact if there was,

948
00:44:16,884 --> 00:44:18,678
we wouldn't play 'em, you know.

949
00:44:20,883 --> 00:44:22,312
During that same summer,

950
00:44:22,322 --> 00:44:25,255
we had the three civil
rights workers in the South

951
00:44:25,264 --> 00:44:29,686
who were missing,
and then found dead.

952
00:44:32,207 --> 00:44:34,280
I was 15,

953
00:44:34,289 --> 00:44:37,549
living in segregation.

954
00:44:37,558 --> 00:44:40,264
It was an apartheid
that's probably difficult

955
00:44:40,273 --> 00:44:42,861
for a lot of people
to even picture.

956
00:44:42,870 --> 00:44:47,245
The only white person
I would even have contact with

957
00:44:47,254 --> 00:44:51,271
was a salesman who would
come into the community.

958
00:44:51,281 --> 00:44:54,378
It was ripe for something
different I think,

959
00:44:54,388 --> 00:45:00,803
at the time I heard that
the Beatles were coming to town.

960
00:45:00,812 --> 00:45:01,895
All of them, by the way,

961
00:45:01,905 --> 00:45:03,842
were very emphatic
about Jacksonville.

962
00:45:03,851 --> 00:45:06,279
They said that if there
was going to be segregation

963
00:45:06,288 --> 00:45:08,389
of any kind, we're not going.

964
00:45:08,398 --> 00:45:11,716
We play to people,
that's what we did.

965
00:45:11,726 --> 00:45:13,797
We didn't play to, like,
those people,

966
00:45:13,807 --> 00:45:15,523
or that people,
you know what I mean?

967
00:45:15,533 --> 00:45:18,217
We just played to people.

968
00:45:18,227 --> 00:45:20,326
It was amazing
that the four of them,

969
00:45:20,337 --> 00:45:22,370
young men seeing the world,

970
00:45:22,380 --> 00:45:25,283
started to act up
and blow back on this

971
00:45:25,293 --> 00:45:27,844
very, very hot
and sensitive issue

972
00:45:27,853 --> 00:45:32,063
knowing that it would really
irritate a lot of Americans.

973
00:45:32,073 --> 00:45:35,392
We had to all decide,
we agreed on a thing,

974
00:45:35,401 --> 00:45:36,992
before we'd do it.

975
00:45:37,001 --> 00:45:39,870
That is one of the classic
things about the Beatles.

976
00:45:39,879 --> 00:45:43,426
Four votes had to be carried

977
00:45:43,436 --> 00:45:46,112
for any idea to go trough.

978
00:45:46,121 --> 00:45:47,743
JOHN: Instead of going
for an individual thing,

979
00:45:47,753 --> 00:45:51,262
we went for the strongest
format, for equals.

980
00:45:51,271 --> 00:45:53,984
That was one thing
to be said about us,

981
00:45:53,994 --> 00:45:56,929
we were very, very close
to each other.

982
00:45:56,939 --> 00:45:58,819
We'd always stick together.

983
00:45:58,829 --> 00:46:02,010
PAUL: We all had to agree,
so there is a strong decision.

984
00:46:02,020 --> 00:46:02,980
You know,
the proof's in the puddin',

985
00:46:02,989 --> 00:46:04,736
it worked really well.

986
00:46:04,746 --> 00:46:07,995
(rock music)

987
00:46:08,004 --> 00:46:11,802
It was my first concert,
and I went by myself.

988
00:46:11,812 --> 00:46:14,622
The only catch in my breath
that I got

989
00:46:14,632 --> 00:46:17,441
was when I went to my seat,
and there were

990
00:46:17,451 --> 00:46:19,454
all those other people
around me,

991
00:46:19,463 --> 00:46:22,331
and I still can feel that
to this day,

992
00:46:22,340 --> 00:46:24,728
that there were all these
white people around,

993
00:46:24,738 --> 00:46:26,713
but I remember standing up
with everybody,

994
00:46:26,722 --> 00:46:31,009
and just yelling
as loud as I could

995
00:46:31,018 --> 00:46:32,802
and singin' along.

996
00:46:41,510 --> 00:46:44,568
That was
the first experience I had

997
00:46:44,578 --> 00:46:46,198
where it was possible
to be around people

998
00:46:46,208 --> 00:46:48,664
who were different,
and at least for a while,

999
00:46:48,673 --> 00:46:50,687
those differences
could disappear.

1000
00:46:50,696 --> 00:46:51,933
(cheering)

1001
00:46:51,942 --> 00:46:53,659
♪ If I fell in love with you

1002
00:46:53,669 --> 00:46:56,411
♪ Would you promise to be true

1003
00:46:56,420 --> 00:46:58,329
♪ And help me

1004
00:46:58,339 --> 00:46:59,864
♪ Understand

1005
00:46:59,874 --> 00:47:01,531
♪ 'Cause I've been
in love before ♪

1006
00:47:01,541 --> 00:47:03,000
The people
who ran the Gator Bowl

1007
00:47:03,009 --> 00:47:05,176
integrated
for the first time ever,

1008
00:47:05,186 --> 00:47:07,228
which from my historical
perspective and study,

1009
00:47:07,237 --> 00:47:11,380
ended all that in most of
the big stadiums in the South.

1010
00:47:11,389 --> 00:47:12,886
And the next eight days
are probably

1011
00:47:12,895 --> 00:47:14,362
the most grueling of the tour.

1012
00:47:14,372 --> 00:47:17,306
It looks like the Beatles
are holding up strong.

1013
00:47:17,316 --> 00:47:20,020
Every night on the airplane
they would go up,

1014
00:47:20,030 --> 00:47:23,482
up to the front of the plane
where the opening acts were,

1015
00:47:23,492 --> 00:47:25,686
and kneel down and talk to them.

1016
00:47:25,696 --> 00:47:28,207
Every single night,
they would ask them

1017
00:47:28,217 --> 00:47:30,040
if they were okay,
because they were

1018
00:47:30,050 --> 00:47:31,507
being ignored by the crowd.

1019
00:47:31,517 --> 00:47:34,230
This is Larry Kane
traveling with the Beatles,

1020
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:35,862
and they're looking forward
to going back to England,

1021
00:47:35,871 --> 00:47:37,270
because they'll be there
for two weeks,

1022
00:47:37,279 --> 00:47:39,640
where they'll record records,
and do music,

1023
00:47:39,649 --> 00:47:40,791
and that's believe it or not,

1024
00:47:40,801 --> 00:47:42,833
another month‐long tour,
this time

1025
00:47:42,843 --> 00:47:45,173
in their own country,
sometimes just by bus,

1026
00:47:45,182 --> 00:47:47,830
and that's pretty hard.

1027
00:47:47,839 --> 00:47:51,157
My mother died
in the summer of 1964,

1028
00:47:51,167 --> 00:47:52,720
and somehow or another,
it got to them

1029
00:47:52,730 --> 00:47:54,454
that she had passed away,

1030
00:47:54,464 --> 00:47:58,358
and Paul and John
both consoled me.

1031
00:47:58,368 --> 00:48:01,234
PAUL: John and I,
we both lost our mothers.

1032
00:48:01,244 --> 00:48:04,302
Mine had died of cancer,
and his had died

1033
00:48:04,311 --> 00:48:05,973
in a terrible road accident,

1034
00:48:05,982 --> 00:48:08,685
so that kind of
pulled us together a lot.

1035
00:48:08,694 --> 00:48:09,932
You know, bein' teenagers,
we each needed

1036
00:48:09,942 --> 00:48:12,013
to do something
that would get us away

1037
00:48:12,023 --> 00:48:16,367
from this tragedy, and so
songwriting was it, really.

1038
00:48:16,376 --> 00:48:20,690
♪ 'Cause I couldn't
stand the pain ♪

1039
00:48:20,700 --> 00:48:23,472
They were very, very sensitive
to other people's feelings.

1040
00:48:23,481 --> 00:48:25,102
All four of them.

1041
00:48:25,112 --> 00:48:28,266
They were intelligent people
who cared about other people,

1042
00:48:28,275 --> 00:48:30,799
who had a sense of themselves.

1043
00:48:30,808 --> 00:48:32,648
They also liked
making fun of me.

1044
00:48:32,658 --> 00:48:34,192
John, last night
you were very kind,

1045
00:48:34,202 --> 00:48:36,618
and Derek was very kind to
invite us up to see the movie,

1046
00:48:36,628 --> 00:48:38,124
which we have seen twice.

1047
00:48:38,134 --> 00:48:39,400
JOHN: I never
invited him at all.

1048
00:48:39,410 --> 00:48:41,290
I just saw him sittin' there
listenin'.

1049
00:48:41,299 --> 00:48:42,287
LARRY: Well, anyway.
(laughs)

1050
00:48:42,296 --> 00:48:44,778
JOHN: Only kiddin', Larry.

1051
00:48:44,788 --> 00:48:46,064
LARRY:
This has been Larry Kane

1052
00:48:46,073 --> 00:48:48,309
traveling with the Beatles.

1053
00:48:57,687 --> 00:48:59,499
It's extraordinary,
when you think about it

1054
00:48:59,508 --> 00:49:03,278
that they were touring
in this kind of circus of life.

1055
00:49:03,287 --> 00:49:05,704
The sort of madness
of all that jamboree

1056
00:49:05,714 --> 00:49:08,072
of excitement and hysteria.

1057
00:49:08,082 --> 00:49:10,536
And yet,
they were able to express

1058
00:49:10,546 --> 00:49:13,164
the way they were feeling,
the weirdness of it,

1059
00:49:13,173 --> 00:49:16,300
because inside
those Beatles suits,

1060
00:49:16,309 --> 00:49:18,151
were composers.

1061
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:19,340
They were writers.

1062
00:49:19,349 --> 00:49:21,046
(indistinct voices)

1063
00:49:23,596 --> 00:49:26,856
RINGO: Comin' in the wrong,
half way through the song.

1064
00:49:26,865 --> 00:49:29,541
Well was it a 12‐bar?

1065
00:49:29,551 --> 00:49:31,336
(guitar playing)

1066
00:49:31,345 --> 00:49:33,320
The studio was like
our little haven.

1067
00:49:33,331 --> 00:49:37,232
Once we got back there,
we knew we could experiment.

1068
00:49:42,162 --> 00:49:43,589
Hear ourselves.

1069
00:49:43,599 --> 00:49:47,330
And we would write songs
that would be a progression,

1070
00:49:47,340 --> 00:49:49,669
and that would be fun to record.

1071
00:49:49,679 --> 00:49:53,928
(amplifier static)

1072
00:49:53,937 --> 00:49:55,557
GEORGE MARTIN:
Brian Epstein and I

1073
00:49:55,566 --> 00:49:58,598
worked together very closely
planning their future.

1074
00:49:58,607 --> 00:50:00,257
We agreed that we should put out

1075
00:50:00,267 --> 00:50:04,513
a single every three months,
and an album every six months.

1076
00:50:04,522 --> 00:50:08,675
♪ Baby's good to me,
you know she's happy as can be

1077
00:50:08,685 --> 00:50:11,908
♪ You know, she said so

1078
00:50:11,918 --> 00:50:17,058
♪ I'm in love with her
and I feel fine ♪

1079
00:50:17,068 --> 00:50:18,562
DEREK TAYLOR:
I was under pressure

1080
00:50:18,572 --> 00:50:21,123
because I got sucked
into the time difference.

1081
00:50:21,132 --> 00:50:22,724
I would say to Brian, you know,

1082
00:50:22,733 --> 00:50:25,476
I need more time in the studio,
and he would dole out time,

1083
00:50:25,486 --> 00:50:27,873
like giving scraps to a mouse.

1084
00:50:27,882 --> 00:50:30,338
One of the great things
about our recording

1085
00:50:30,347 --> 00:50:31,804
was the schedule.

1086
00:50:31,814 --> 00:50:33,665
You go in at 10 o'clock
in the morning,

1087
00:50:33,675 --> 00:50:36,063
tune up, have a ciggy,
have a cup of tea or something,

1088
00:50:36,072 --> 00:50:39,841
and then John and I, mainly,
would present the song

1089
00:50:39,851 --> 00:50:42,114
that we'd written to everyone.

1090
00:50:42,124 --> 00:50:44,424
(guitar music playing)

1091
00:50:50,762 --> 00:50:52,479
Just go through it, anyway.

1092
00:50:52,489 --> 00:50:55,068
Make mistakes,
just to practice it.

1093
00:50:55,077 --> 00:50:56,604
Try to remember,
John, and if I don't,

1094
00:50:56,613 --> 00:50:59,873
well, it's just too bad, okay?

1095
00:50:59,882 --> 00:51:01,312
Is it just me and you?

1096
00:51:01,321 --> 00:51:03,065
One, two, three, four.

1097
00:51:03,075 --> 00:51:07,966
(singing)

1098
00:51:07,975 --> 00:51:11,102
(overlapping,
indistinct remarks)

1099
00:51:11,111 --> 00:51:13,019
One, two, three, four.

1100
00:51:13,029 --> 00:51:16,578
♪ Ooh ♪

1101
00:51:19,464 --> 00:51:22,484
♪ Ooh I need your love, babe ♪

1102
00:51:22,494 --> 00:51:25,658
♪ Yes you know it's true ♪

1103
00:51:25,668 --> 00:51:29,052
Ringo'd tap along,
George just sussed the chords,

1104
00:51:29,062 --> 00:51:31,124
and then George Martin
would go, oh

1105
00:51:31,133 --> 00:51:32,859
that's half nice,
that's marvelous.

1106
00:51:32,869 --> 00:51:34,202
It'd take about 20 minutes
to do that.

1107
00:51:34,212 --> 00:51:36,408
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

1108
00:51:36,418 --> 00:51:37,816
PAUL: George,
what did it sound like

1109
00:51:37,826 --> 00:51:39,419
with the base
doin' a funny thing?

1110
00:51:39,429 --> 00:51:41,816
Did it sound any good, or did it
sound just a lovely crap?

1111
00:51:41,825 --> 00:51:46,323
(indistinct responses)

1112
00:51:46,332 --> 00:51:47,321
GEORGE MARTIN: Take three.

1113
00:51:47,330 --> 00:51:48,855
GEORGE: One, two three four.

1114
00:51:48,864 --> 00:51:52,345
(singing)

1115
00:51:52,355 --> 00:51:53,937
At the very beginning,
George Martin

1116
00:51:53,946 --> 00:51:57,783
was the only man that could
press the button to record.

1117
00:51:57,792 --> 00:52:01,876
We'd just play it and do it,
oh did you get that, George?

1118
00:52:01,886 --> 00:52:03,478
GEORGE MARTIN:
I'm giving up here.

1119
00:52:03,488 --> 00:52:05,809
‐ JOHN: Wonderful, Paul.
‐ GEORGE MARTIN: Very lovely.

1120
00:52:05,818 --> 00:52:08,628
PAUL: Ah, keep that one.
Mark it fab.

1121
00:52:08,638 --> 00:52:11,025
Do you want to have a listen
before we go on to the next one?

1122
00:52:11,035 --> 00:52:12,022
(whirring)

1123
00:52:12,032 --> 00:52:13,778
George had recorded The Goons.

1124
00:52:13,788 --> 00:52:15,600
That was like a cult thing
that we all loved,

1125
00:52:15,609 --> 00:52:16,855
and we all knew it.

1126
00:52:16,864 --> 00:52:20,086
GEORGE MARTIN: At that time
I was a comedy producer

1127
00:52:20,096 --> 00:52:22,254
recording Spike Milligan
and Peter Sellers,

1128
00:52:22,264 --> 00:52:24,594
and a lot of English
comedy actors.

1129
00:52:24,604 --> 00:52:26,098
So he picked up our humor,

1130
00:52:26,108 --> 00:52:29,484
he picked up our camaraderie,
you know.

1131
00:52:29,494 --> 00:52:33,070
We thought, he's mad,
we love him.

1132
00:52:33,079 --> 00:52:34,930
JOHN: We'll just have
to have a go of it, you see.

1133
00:52:34,939 --> 00:52:36,207
GEORGE MARTIN: Oh, you're
a right keeper, aren't you?

1134
00:52:36,216 --> 00:52:38,219
JOHN: I know.

1135
00:52:38,228 --> 00:52:41,260
On the early record,
George Martin was a god.

1136
00:52:41,269 --> 00:52:43,408
GEORGE MARTIN: To begin with,
I was very much in charge.

1137
00:52:43,418 --> 00:52:46,064
I was the kind of schoolmaster
teaching them everything,

1138
00:52:46,073 --> 00:52:47,981
and they had to do
what I told them.

1139
00:52:47,991 --> 00:52:49,776
PAUL: You had
one‐and‐a‐half hours

1140
00:52:49,785 --> 00:52:52,307
from 10:30
to finish that song.

1141
00:52:52,316 --> 00:52:53,275
Boom.

1142
00:52:53,275 --> 00:52:54,676
So that focused you.

1143
00:52:54,685 --> 00:52:56,362
That was a great discipline.

1144
00:52:56,372 --> 00:52:58,061
(whirring)

1145
00:52:58,070 --> 00:52:59,759
‐ Hit it, Declan.
‐ JOHN: We'll do it again.

1146
00:52:59,768 --> 00:53:01,676
PAUL: We'll try
and get it good, too.

1147
00:53:01,686 --> 00:53:03,209
GEORGE MARTIN:
I'm just gonna start recording.

1148
00:53:03,218 --> 00:53:05,291
John, whenever you like,
the red light's on.

1149
00:53:05,301 --> 00:53:08,972
Every minute of the day,
someone wanted something.

1150
00:53:08,982 --> 00:53:11,726
You know, drive to EMI
to do a record.

1151
00:53:11,735 --> 00:53:17,614
Down here to SoHo
to do a photo shoot.

1152
00:53:17,624 --> 00:53:20,134
Ride back to do some TV show.

1153
00:53:20,144 --> 00:53:23,760
♪ I'm a loser

1154
00:53:23,770 --> 00:53:27,115
♪ And I'm not
what I appear to be

1155
00:53:27,124 --> 00:53:28,486
♪ Of all... ♪

1156
00:53:28,496 --> 00:53:30,951
JOHN: I was singing
the wrong words there.

1157
00:53:30,961 --> 00:53:32,648
Drive to Birmingham to do a gig.

1158
00:53:32,658 --> 00:53:34,346
(crowd screaming)

1159
00:53:34,355 --> 00:53:36,234
End up in a nightclub.

1160
00:53:36,244 --> 00:53:39,524
We were just doin'
four or five things a day,

1161
00:53:39,533 --> 00:53:40,838
but we had each other.

1162
00:53:40,848 --> 00:53:42,699
And we brought that
to the music.

1163
00:53:42,708 --> 00:53:43,878
("Eight Days a Week" playing)

1164
00:53:43,888 --> 00:53:46,697
♪ Oh, I need your love, babe

1165
00:53:46,706 --> 00:53:50,091
♪ Yes, you know it's true

1166
00:53:50,101 --> 00:53:53,669
♪ Hope you need my love, babe

1167
00:53:53,679 --> 00:53:56,678
♪ Just like I need you

1168
00:53:56,688 --> 00:53:58,090
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

1169
00:53:58,099 --> 00:53:59,653
The thing
about the scale is that

1170
00:53:59,663 --> 00:54:02,404
writing lots of songs
is not particularly difficult.

1171
00:54:02,413 --> 00:54:03,843
Volume is not the thing.

1172
00:54:03,852 --> 00:54:04,964
The extraordinary thing
about the Beatles

1173
00:54:04,974 --> 00:54:07,170
is the amount of great songs.

1174
00:54:07,180 --> 00:54:08,714
Schubert wrote about 800 songs,

1175
00:54:08,723 --> 00:54:11,332
of which probably 100 are
absolutely beautiful melodies.

1176
00:54:11,341 --> 00:54:13,030
The other 700, pretty good.

1177
00:54:13,039 --> 00:54:15,811
The only comparison with that
kind of level of melody

1178
00:54:15,820 --> 00:54:17,249
may be Mozart.

1179
00:54:17,258 --> 00:54:19,877
Very, very, high volume
of very good melodies.

1180
00:54:19,886 --> 00:54:21,640
You have to wait
a long time, then,

1181
00:54:21,650 --> 00:54:24,096
'til you get someone
who's up in the hundreds,

1182
00:54:24,105 --> 00:54:25,600
and that's when
you hit the Beatles.

1183
00:54:25,609 --> 00:54:27,911
Which is why I think you can
compare them in some ways,

1184
00:54:27,921 --> 00:54:29,695
because of the sheer
volume of the invention.

1185
00:54:29,705 --> 00:54:33,568
♪ I ain't got nothin'
but love, girl

1186
00:54:33,578 --> 00:54:35,689
♪ Eight days a week

1187
00:54:37,289 --> 00:54:39,590
♪ Eight days a week ♪

1188
00:54:49,545 --> 00:54:53,274
(cheers and applause)

1189
00:54:53,285 --> 00:54:55,643
BRIAN EPSTEIN: Hello again
from Hullabaloo, London.

1190
00:54:55,653 --> 00:54:57,696
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Richard Lester.

1191
00:54:57,706 --> 00:55:02,241
(applause)

1192
00:55:02,250 --> 00:55:04,160
What do you think
we could tell them

1193
00:55:04,169 --> 00:55:05,954
about the new Beatles flick?

1194
00:55:05,963 --> 00:55:08,541
First of all, it's going to be
different from the last one.

1195
00:55:08,551 --> 00:55:09,855
It will be in color,

1196
00:55:09,865 --> 00:55:11,937
it'll be a film
that has a lot of plot,

1197
00:55:11,946 --> 00:55:13,374
and a lot of entertainment
about it,

1198
00:55:13,383 --> 00:55:15,484
and Ringo's in trouble again.

1199
00:55:15,493 --> 00:55:16,635
We need protection.

1200
00:55:16,645 --> 00:55:18,141
We've got a record
to do tomorrow.

1201
00:55:18,151 --> 00:55:19,550
I need protection.

1202
00:55:19,559 --> 00:55:20,518
And you shall have it.

1203
00:55:20,518 --> 00:55:21,928
Get me Protection.

1204
00:55:25,227 --> 00:55:31,383
♪ You don't realize
how much I need you

1205
00:55:31,392 --> 00:55:37,788
♪ Love you all the time
and never leave you

1206
00:55:37,798 --> 00:55:41,145
♪ Please come on back to me

1207
00:55:41,154 --> 00:55:44,567
♪ I'm lonely as can be

1208
00:55:44,577 --> 00:55:48,088
♪ I need you ♪

1209
00:55:48,097 --> 00:55:50,676
<i>We'd enjoyed very much
doing Hard Day's Night.</i>

1210
00:55:50,686 --> 00:55:55,509
<i>We'd kinda taken it
seriously, but the film Help!</i>

1211
00:55:55,518 --> 00:55:57,974
We were kind of
pretty disinterested.

1212
00:55:57,984 --> 00:56:00,669
You know, we were now
doing it again,

1213
00:56:00,679 --> 00:56:03,477
and so it couldn't be quite
as exciting as the first time.

1214
00:56:03,487 --> 00:56:05,204
Nothing is.

1215
00:56:05,214 --> 00:56:08,053
(organ music)

1216
00:56:08,063 --> 00:56:10,421
The main thing I remember,
we all had meetings

1217
00:56:10,431 --> 00:56:14,132
about tax structure,
and they would sort of say,

1218
00:56:14,142 --> 00:56:17,843
oh you gotta put your money
in the Bahamas or somewhere.

1219
00:56:17,853 --> 00:56:20,212
So where we were asked
about the film,

1220
00:56:20,222 --> 00:56:22,264
we'd say, can we go
to the Bahamas?

1221
00:56:22,273 --> 00:56:24,786
We were told, you're
gonna film in the Bahamas.

1222
00:56:24,796 --> 00:56:25,955
You write a scene.

1223
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:39,130
♪ I get high when I see you go by ♪

1224
00:56:40,733 --> 00:56:41,970
♪ My oh my ♪

1225
00:56:41,980 --> 00:56:44,500
In 1965,
they invited me to Nassau

1226
00:56:44,510 --> 00:56:46,486
<i>to watch them film
the movie Help!</i>

1227
00:56:46,495 --> 00:56:49,526
I walked into the house, and I
saw something very unusual.

1228
00:56:49,535 --> 00:56:52,911
They were all high on marijuana.

1229
00:56:52,920 --> 00:56:54,608
And I'd never seen this before.

1230
00:56:54,617 --> 00:56:57,004
‐ Hey, Paul. How you doin'?
‐ JOHN: Hello, Larry.

1231
00:56:57,014 --> 00:56:59,441
‐ LARRY: Good to see you again.
‐ PAUL: Lovely to see you again.

1232
00:56:59,451 --> 00:57:05,012
LARRY: Hey, John.
How are you doin'?

1233
00:57:05,022 --> 00:57:06,605
(laughs)

1234
00:57:06,614 --> 00:57:09,078
What is this
"anything can happen" business?

1235
00:57:14,937 --> 00:57:16,722
‐ Thanks a lot.
‐ JOHN: Anything, Larry.

1236
00:57:16,731 --> 00:57:18,161
LARRY:
We'll be talking to you.

1237
00:57:18,170 --> 00:57:19,914
(John laughs)

1238
00:57:19,924 --> 00:57:24,076
In all truthfulness,
we spent a lot of that film

1239
00:57:24,086 --> 00:57:25,705
slightly stoned.

1240
00:57:25,715 --> 00:57:28,314
(squeaking)

1241
00:57:37,338 --> 00:57:40,809
<i>Things were spiraling
like crazy during Help!</i>

1242
00:57:40,819 --> 00:57:43,466
There were people coming
in with contracts for

1243
00:57:43,475 --> 00:57:46,764
bubble gum royalties
and being condescending.

1244
00:57:46,773 --> 00:57:49,201
And then the press
were getting aggressive.

1245
00:57:49,210 --> 00:57:50,695
They owned all of us.

1246
00:57:50,705 --> 00:57:52,364
JOHN: There's
no switching off.

1247
00:57:52,374 --> 00:57:53,831
The elevator man
wants a little piece of you

1248
00:57:53,841 --> 00:57:55,270
on your way back to your room.

1249
00:57:55,280 --> 00:57:58,253
The maid wants a piece
of you back at the hotel.

1250
00:57:58,262 --> 00:58:00,074
I don't mean sexually,
I mean a piece of your time

1251
00:58:00,084 --> 00:58:01,062
and your energy.

1252
00:58:01,072 --> 00:58:02,251
And it's like a politician.

1253
00:58:02,261 --> 00:58:04,715
You're on 24 hours a day.

1254
00:58:04,725 --> 00:58:06,729
LARRY: I think that
John got fed up first.

1255
00:58:06,739 --> 00:58:09,068
He became agitated or frustrated

1256
00:58:09,078 --> 00:58:14,150
about what was being written,
particularly from 1965 onward.

1257
00:58:14,161 --> 00:58:17,258
Richard Lester had said,
we need a song.

1258
00:58:17,268 --> 00:58:19,148
And John started it.

1259
00:58:19,158 --> 00:58:22,820
So by the time I came
to see him, he had a lot of it.

1260
00:58:22,829 --> 00:58:24,680
And it said to me,
you know, this is

1261
00:58:24,689 --> 00:58:26,377
kind of autobiographical.

1262
00:58:26,387 --> 00:58:28,995
You know, "When I was younger,
so much younger than today."

1263
00:58:29,004 --> 00:58:33,252
I knew what he meant, and I
knew now he was more insecure,

1264
00:58:33,262 --> 00:58:35,113
'cause we were all
a bit more insecure

1265
00:58:35,122 --> 00:58:36,705
than we'd been when we were 17.

1266
00:58:36,714 --> 00:58:38,880
‐ (crowd screaming)
‐ One, two, three, four!

1267
00:58:38,890 --> 00:58:39,849
♪ Help ♪

1268
00:58:39,858 --> 00:58:40,819
♪ I need somebody ♪

1269
00:58:40,819 --> 00:58:41,921
♪ Help ♪

1270
00:58:41,931 --> 00:58:43,399
♪ Not just anybody ♪

1271
00:58:43,408 --> 00:58:44,271
♪ Help ♪

1272
00:58:44,271 --> 00:58:46,466
♪ You know I need someone ♪

1273
00:58:46,476 --> 00:58:48,289
♪ Help ♪

1274
00:58:48,299 --> 00:58:53,093
♪ When I was younger, ♪
♪ so much younger than today ♪

1275
00:58:53,102 --> 00:58:57,983
♪ I never needed ♪
♪ anybody's help in any way ♪

1276
00:58:57,993 --> 00:58:59,873
♪ But now these days are gone ♪

1277
00:58:59,882 --> 00:59:03,103
♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪

1278
00:59:03,113 --> 00:59:04,773
♪ Now I find ♪
♪ I've changed my mind ♪

1279
00:59:04,782 --> 00:59:07,267
♪ And opened up the door ♪

1280
00:59:07,277 --> 00:59:12,060
♪ Help me if you can, ♪
♪ I'm feelin' down ♪

1281
00:59:12,070 --> 00:59:16,837
♪ And I do appreciate ♪
♪ you bein' round ♪

1282
00:59:16,846 --> 00:59:21,505
♪ Help me get ♪
♪ my feet back on the ground ♪

1283
00:59:21,516 --> 00:59:27,134
♪ Won't you please, ♪
♪ please help me ♪

1284
00:59:27,143 --> 00:59:29,052
♪ And now my life has changed ♪

1285
00:59:29,062 --> 00:59:32,515
♪ In oh so many ways ♪

1286
00:59:32,524 --> 00:59:36,571
♪ My independence ♪
♪ seems to vanish in the haze ♪

1287
00:59:36,581 --> 00:59:38,651
♪ But now these days are gone ♪

1288
00:59:38,661 --> 00:59:41,500
♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪

1289
00:59:41,509 --> 00:59:43,610
♪ Know that ♪
♪ I just need your light ♪

1290
00:59:43,619 --> 00:59:46,044
♪ I've never done before ♪

1291
00:59:46,053 --> 00:59:50,687
♪ Help me if you can, ♪
♪ I'm feelin' down ♪

1292
00:59:50,696 --> 00:59:54,398
JOHN: I always liked "Help!"
because I meant it, it's real.

1293
00:59:54,407 --> 00:59:56,766
The lyric is as good now
as it was then.

1294
00:59:56,775 --> 00:59:58,079
It's no different.

1295
00:59:58,089 --> 01:00:00,641
It was just me singing help,
and I meant it.

1296
01:00:00,650 --> 01:00:04,475
♪ Won't you please, ♪
♪ please help me ♪

1297
01:00:04,485 --> 01:00:06,940
♪ Help me, help me ♪

1298
01:00:06,950 --> 01:00:09,960
(audience screaming)

1299
01:00:14,851 --> 01:00:17,949
We were not gettin'
a lot of money from records.

1300
01:00:17,957 --> 01:00:19,608
We had the worst deal
in the world,

1301
01:00:19,618 --> 01:00:21,467
but we had a deal
and we were on vinyl,

1302
01:00:21,477 --> 01:00:23,031
and that's all that mattered.

1303
01:00:23,040 --> 01:00:26,684
You gotta remember,
we made our money playin' live.

1304
01:00:26,694 --> 01:00:29,014
♪ Well, he took some honey ♪

1305
01:00:29,023 --> 01:00:30,932
♪ From a tree ♪

1306
01:00:30,942 --> 01:00:33,723
♪ Dressed it up ♪
♪ and they called me ♪

1307
01:00:33,732 --> 01:00:35,736
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪

1308
01:00:35,746 --> 01:00:38,296
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪

1309
01:00:38,305 --> 01:00:41,653
♪ Everybody's trying to be ♪
♪ my baby now ♪

1310
01:00:41,663 --> 01:00:43,801
RINGO: It just got bigger,
and bigger, and bigger.

1311
01:00:43,811 --> 01:00:44,885
♪ Woke up last night ♪

1312
01:00:44,894 --> 01:00:46,168
♪ Half past four ♪

1313
01:00:46,178 --> 01:00:48,634
♪ Fifty women ♪
♪ knocking on my door ♪

1314
01:00:48,644 --> 01:00:51,127
♪ Everybody's trying ♪
♪ to be my baby ♪

1315
01:00:51,136 --> 01:00:53,400
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪

1316
01:00:53,409 --> 01:00:58,098
♪ Everybody's trying ♪
♪ to be my baby, now, yeah ♪

1317
01:00:58,108 --> 01:01:02,903
Then it got crazy.

1318
01:01:02,913 --> 01:01:04,369
They went back to America,

1319
01:01:04,379 --> 01:01:05,971
they started
playing the stadiums.

1320
01:01:05,980 --> 01:01:08,753
Places like Portland,
San Francisco,

1321
01:01:08,763 --> 01:01:11,572
Metropolitan Stadium
in Minneapolis.

1322
01:01:11,581 --> 01:01:14,707
Chicago White Sox Park.

1323
01:01:14,717 --> 01:01:16,885
♪ Last night, ♪
♪ I didn't stay late ♪

1324
01:01:16,894 --> 01:01:19,694
♪ 'Fore home ♪
♪ I had 19 dates ♪

1325
01:01:19,704 --> 01:01:21,390
There were lots of other
groups touring at this point,

1326
01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:23,539
but nothing like this.

1327
01:01:23,548 --> 01:01:25,620
The money they were making,
night after night,

1328
01:01:25,630 --> 01:01:30,452
compared to other acts,
was unprecedented.

1329
01:01:30,461 --> 01:01:33,013
The fact is,
they had to play stadiums.

1330
01:01:33,023 --> 01:01:35,822
Promoters and local police
had to be begging Brian Epstein,

1331
01:01:35,832 --> 01:01:37,712
telling him, you know,
you can't go

1332
01:01:37,721 --> 01:01:39,628
and play a 5,000‐seat theater

1333
01:01:39,638 --> 01:01:43,244
and have 50,000 teenagers
going crazy outside.

1334
01:01:43,254 --> 01:01:49,323
It would be impossible
to control.

1335
01:01:49,333 --> 01:01:50,638
This was massive.

1336
01:01:50,647 --> 01:01:53,611
The first big stadium tour
in history.

1337
01:01:53,620 --> 01:01:57,273
And the biggest show
of them all was New York.

1338
01:02:00,919 --> 01:02:03,276
There was the announcement
of this concert,

1339
01:02:03,286 --> 01:02:04,715
and I was like, can we?

1340
01:02:04,725 --> 01:02:08,560
And my mom was like, We don't
have the money for this.

1341
01:02:08,570 --> 01:02:10,929
And then something,

1342
01:02:10,939 --> 01:02:13,518
I don't know how she did it,

1343
01:02:13,528 --> 01:02:16,558
I don't know,
I don't know how she did it,

1344
01:02:16,567 --> 01:02:19,158
but she got two tickets.

1345
01:02:20,336 --> 01:02:22,541
And she didn't tell me.

1346
01:02:22,550 --> 01:02:24,911
So this is what happened.

1347
01:02:24,920 --> 01:02:26,761
She said, "We need to go."
I said, "Where are we going?"

1348
01:02:26,770 --> 01:02:29,733
She said, "I'll let you know
when we get there." Okay.

1349
01:02:29,742 --> 01:02:32,774
So we're on the train, and I'm
not paying any attention.

1350
01:02:32,783 --> 01:02:34,508
And we get up, and I say,
where are we?

1351
01:02:34,518 --> 01:02:37,481
And she said,
we're at Shea Stadium.

1352
01:02:37,490 --> 01:02:39,820
And I said, why?

1353
01:02:39,830 --> 01:02:41,164
And she held up two tickets,

1354
01:02:41,174 --> 01:02:43,686
and all I remember
is my head going poof.

1355
01:02:43,696 --> 01:02:44,933
(laughs)

1356
01:02:44,942 --> 01:02:47,559
(crowd screaming)

1357
01:02:47,569 --> 01:02:51,913
(helicopter whirring)

1358
01:02:51,922 --> 01:02:53,898
GEORGE: It was just amazing,
we don't believe it.

1359
01:02:53,908 --> 01:02:56,746
Biggest thing ever,
56,500, someone said.

1360
01:02:56,755 --> 01:03:02,021
It's fantastic. It just
knocked you out, you know.

1361
01:03:02,031 --> 01:03:04,388
Shea Stadium
is an enormous place.

1362
01:03:04,398 --> 01:03:06,758
I mean, that was
the first time it was used

1363
01:03:06,768 --> 01:03:08,264
for a rock concert.

1364
01:03:08,274 --> 01:03:13,030
Vox made us special,
big amplifiers for that tour,

1365
01:03:13,039 --> 01:03:15,110
and they were, like,
a hundred watts.

1366
01:03:15,120 --> 01:03:16,615
(laughs)

1367
01:03:16,625 --> 01:03:18,956
It just obviously,
you know, wasn't enough.

1368
01:03:21,582 --> 01:03:26,530
Ladies and gentlemen,
here are the Beatles!

1369
01:03:26,539 --> 01:03:28,362
(fans screaming)

1370
01:03:50,217 --> 01:03:52,939
Hello! Hey!

1371
01:03:54,253 --> 01:03:56,353
Hello!

1372
01:03:56,363 --> 01:03:57,829
Hello, John.

1373
01:04:00,908 --> 01:04:03,938
We'd like to do a song

1374
01:04:03,947 --> 01:04:08,159
off our LP album,
Beatles VI, I think.

1375
01:04:08,168 --> 01:04:09,739
Can you hear me?

1376
01:04:11,178 --> 01:04:12,386
Hello?

1377
01:04:14,343 --> 01:04:16,826
It's called "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"!

1378
01:04:16,836 --> 01:04:21,831
(playing "Dizzy Miss Lizzy")

1379
01:04:35,238 --> 01:04:38,076
♪ You make me dizzy,
Miss Lizzy

1380
01:04:38,086 --> 01:04:41,212
♪ The way you
rock and roll

1381
01:04:41,222 --> 01:04:44,635
♪ You make me dizzy,
Miss Lizzy

1382
01:04:44,644 --> 01:04:47,895
♪ When we do the stroll

1383
01:04:47,905 --> 01:04:50,772
♪ Come on, come on,
come on, come on Lizzy

1384
01:04:50,782 --> 01:04:54,550
♪ Love me
before I grow too old

1385
01:04:54,560 --> 01:04:57,331
♪ Gonna tell you, mama

1386
01:04:57,341 --> 01:04:59,355
♪ I want you to be my bride ♪

1387
01:04:59,365 --> 01:05:00,667
One of the most
remarkable things about

1388
01:05:00,677 --> 01:05:03,354
the Beatles playing live
is how in tune they are.

1389
01:05:03,363 --> 01:05:05,875
Because, they can't possibly
hear themselves.

1390
01:05:05,885 --> 01:05:07,516
I don't think they had monitors.

1391
01:05:07,526 --> 01:05:08,858
They don't sound very big,

1392
01:05:08,867 --> 01:05:10,459
even if they were
cranked to the max,

1393
01:05:10,469 --> 01:05:12,338
they're not that loud.

1394
01:05:12,348 --> 01:05:14,171
I mean, Shea Stadium
being the most extreme,

1395
01:05:14,180 --> 01:05:16,568
because I don't even think
there's a P. A. at Shea Stadium.

1396
01:05:16,578 --> 01:05:18,227
They're going
through the Tannoy,

1397
01:05:18,236 --> 01:05:19,512
which must have sounded like

1398
01:05:19,522 --> 01:05:22,301
a thousand transistor radios
detuned.

1399
01:05:23,203 --> 01:05:27,057
(tinny sound)

1400
01:05:27,067 --> 01:05:30,231
♪ Just a‐rockin' and a‐rollin'

1401
01:05:30,241 --> 01:05:35,150
♪ Girl I wish you were mine ♪

1402
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:37,520
We did the house P. A.,
you know,

1403
01:05:37,530 --> 01:05:40,021
"And on first base
is Willy Wonka,"

1404
01:05:40,031 --> 01:05:42,899
whatever they said,
that's the equipment we had.

1405
01:05:42,909 --> 01:05:44,051
(laughs)

1406
01:05:44,060 --> 01:05:46,159
♪ When you rock and roll ♪

1407
01:05:46,168 --> 01:05:47,732
RINGO:
I could not hear anything.

1408
01:05:47,742 --> 01:05:50,485
I'd be watching John's ass,
Paul's ass,

1409
01:05:50,495 --> 01:05:53,197
his foot's tapping,
his head's nodding,

1410
01:05:53,207 --> 01:05:56,593
to see where we were
in the song.

1411
01:05:56,603 --> 01:06:01,590
♪ I wanna be your lovin' man ♪

1412
01:06:01,599 --> 01:06:06,604
(crowd screaming)

1413
01:06:06,613 --> 01:06:09,203
PAUL: We played for
56,000 people at Shea Stadium.

1414
01:06:09,212 --> 01:06:12,080
After that, you know, you just
sort of think to yourself,

1415
01:06:12,089 --> 01:06:15,311
what more could you do?

1416
01:06:15,321 --> 01:06:18,610
I remember George bringin'
up the subject with Brian.

1417
01:06:18,620 --> 01:06:22,282
Hey, is this touring
gonna be an annual event?

1418
01:06:22,292 --> 01:06:24,143
And I think he was the first one

1419
01:06:24,152 --> 01:06:29,579
that brought up the idea of,
Hey, I've had enough of this.

1420
01:06:29,589 --> 01:06:31,498
That was the good thing
about being four together.

1421
01:06:31,507 --> 01:06:33,070
We're not like Elvis, you know.

1422
01:06:33,080 --> 01:06:35,400
I always felt sorry for Elvis
'cause he was on his own.

1423
01:06:35,410 --> 01:06:38,220
He had his guys with him,
but there's only one Elvis.

1424
01:06:38,230 --> 01:06:40,588
Nobody else
knew what he felt like.

1425
01:06:40,597 --> 01:06:44,117
But for us,
we all shared the experience.

1426
01:06:48,087 --> 01:06:50,447
They came back to England
late summer of '65.

1427
01:06:50,457 --> 01:06:53,774
(crowd screaming)

1428
01:06:53,784 --> 01:06:55,625
The last time the Beatles
played in Britain

1429
01:06:55,634 --> 01:06:58,732
was that winter, you know,
seven or eight days.

1430
01:06:58,742 --> 01:07:01,129
My grandparents bought me
tickets to see them,

1431
01:07:01,138 --> 01:07:04,196
and my parents
refused to let me go.

1432
01:07:04,206 --> 01:07:07,564
♪ Got a good reason

1433
01:07:07,574 --> 01:07:10,027
♪ For takin' the easy way out ♪

1434
01:07:10,037 --> 01:07:11,811
The Beatles
captured my imagination

1435
01:07:11,821 --> 01:07:13,768
like no other group
at that point.

1436
01:07:13,777 --> 01:07:16,808
It was the way that I began
to interpret the world.

1437
01:07:16,817 --> 01:07:19,560
Each new record was built
on the record before,

1438
01:07:19,570 --> 01:07:21,449
you had this wonderful
storyline advancing

1439
01:07:21,458 --> 01:07:23,558
through with the Beatles.

1440
01:07:23,568 --> 01:07:24,843
By the end of the year,
we'd been told

1441
01:07:24,852 --> 01:07:26,627
there would be
more records forthcoming.

1442
01:07:26,636 --> 01:07:30,883
(crowd screaming)

1443
01:07:30,893 --> 01:07:32,945
And they went back into studio.

1444
01:07:35,726 --> 01:07:37,347
(Paul speaking indistinctly)

1445
01:07:37,356 --> 01:07:38,728
GEORGE: The light's on.

1446
01:07:38,738 --> 01:07:41,095
You might as have a go
and sing one song.

1447
01:07:41,105 --> 01:07:43,523
JOHN: See if we're all
in tune when we play, George.

1448
01:07:43,533 --> 01:07:46,600
GEORGE MARTIN:
"Girl," take one.

1449
01:07:46,609 --> 01:07:51,655
♪ Is there anybody
going to listen to my story

1450
01:07:51,665 --> 01:07:54,914
♪ All about the girl
who came to stay ♪

1451
01:07:54,924 --> 01:07:57,926
The first reaction
to the new, innovative sound

1452
01:07:57,935 --> 01:07:59,941
of Rubber Soul was,
I don't like this.

1453
01:07:59,950 --> 01:08:02,116
I think they've
lost their minds.

1454
01:08:02,126 --> 01:08:03,871
♪ Girl, girl ♪

1455
01:08:03,881 --> 01:08:06,144
What are they thinking?
You know, what's this?

1456
01:08:06,153 --> 01:08:09,021
♪ She's the kind of
girl who'll put you down

1457
01:08:09,031 --> 01:08:10,401
♪ When friends are there

1458
01:08:10,411 --> 01:08:12,578
♪ You feel a fool ♪

1459
01:08:12,588 --> 01:08:14,046
I kind of went from being a kid

1460
01:08:14,056 --> 01:08:15,743
to being a teenager,
so some of those things

1461
01:08:15,752 --> 01:08:18,879
felt like the right thing,
but it was still surprising,

1462
01:08:18,888 --> 01:08:21,151
this group I liked
changed so much.

1463
01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:24,699
♪ Girl ♪

1464
01:08:24,708 --> 01:08:26,627
There's a big jump
from "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1465
01:08:26,636 --> 01:08:28,026
to, Well, she told
when she was young

1466
01:08:28,036 --> 01:08:29,790
when pain
would lead to pleasure.

1467
01:08:29,800 --> 01:08:31,420
♪ Was she told
when she was young

1468
01:08:31,430 --> 01:08:34,594
♪ That pain
would lead to pleasure

1469
01:08:34,604 --> 01:08:39,130
♪ Did she understand it
when they said ♪

1470
01:08:39,139 --> 01:08:40,702
I couldn't understand it
at all when I first heard it.

1471
01:08:40,712 --> 01:08:41,950
I didn't think it was any good.

1472
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:43,455
And then, six weeks later,

1473
01:08:43,465 --> 01:08:45,344
you couldn't live without
the record, and that's good.

1474
01:08:45,354 --> 01:08:46,879
That's when you trust the
people that make music

1475
01:08:46,888 --> 01:08:49,563
to take you somewhere
you haven't been before.

1476
01:08:49,573 --> 01:08:51,962
(rock music)

1477
01:08:51,971 --> 01:08:53,658
VINTAGE REPORTER: Formal
occasion at Buckingham Palace

1478
01:08:53,668 --> 01:08:55,451
on a foggy October morning.

1479
01:08:55,461 --> 01:08:58,174
The ceremony is bestowing
awards of honor,

1480
01:08:58,184 --> 01:09:00,256
a ceremony hallowed
by a tradition

1481
01:09:00,266 --> 01:09:03,545
going back over the centuries.

1482
01:09:03,554 --> 01:09:08,600
Members of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire.

1483
01:09:08,609 --> 01:09:09,750
MAN: Do you think the Beatles

1484
01:09:09,760 --> 01:09:11,254
should have been
awarded the MBE?

1485
01:09:11,264 --> 01:09:12,444
MAN ♪2: Well, I think
the Beatles have probably

1486
01:09:12,454 --> 01:09:13,883
done as much for popular music

1487
01:09:13,893 --> 01:09:15,992
than people like Rodgers
&amp; Hammerstein and Gershwin did.

1488
01:09:16,002 --> 01:09:17,786
The only difference being,
the Beatles have done it

1489
01:09:17,795 --> 01:09:19,290
in a matter
of two or three years,

1490
01:09:19,300 --> 01:09:21,976
where it took most
other people a lifetime.

1491
01:09:21,986 --> 01:09:26,424
REPORTER: What's the MBE going
to do your teenage rebel image?

1492
01:09:26,434 --> 01:09:29,463
Who's got a teenage rebel image?

1493
01:09:29,473 --> 01:09:31,573
Have any of you
any ambitions left at all?

1494
01:09:31,583 --> 01:09:33,243
I'd like to be a duke.

1495
01:09:33,252 --> 01:09:37,107
(laughter)

1496
01:09:37,117 --> 01:09:38,776
JON SAVAGE: They had
achieved something,

1497
01:09:38,786 --> 01:09:40,309
and there were,
if you like, influencers,

1498
01:09:40,319 --> 01:09:42,871
but at the same time they
were prisoners of their fame.

1499
01:09:42,880 --> 01:09:44,500
And I think they were
beginning to chafe

1500
01:09:44,510 --> 01:09:46,686
at people's expectations.

1501
01:09:56,410 --> 01:09:58,931
The first three months
had been lopped off

1502
01:09:58,941 --> 01:10:00,918
to do whatever the Beatles'
third film was going to be.

1503
01:10:00,927 --> 01:10:02,644
And then it didn't happen.

1504
01:10:02,654 --> 01:10:04,398
And so for the first time
since they'd

1505
01:10:04,407 --> 01:10:08,887
become successful and famous,
they had three months off.

1506
01:10:08,897 --> 01:10:11,102
(soft guitar music)

1507
01:10:14,553 --> 01:10:17,143
GEORGE: It had been
four years for us

1508
01:10:17,153 --> 01:10:19,992
of legging around in this mania,

1509
01:10:20,001 --> 01:10:22,924
and we were tired,
we needed to rest.

1510
01:10:22,934 --> 01:10:24,785
♪ I once had a girl

1511
01:10:24,795 --> 01:10:26,866
♪ Or should I say

1512
01:10:26,876 --> 01:10:30,097
♪ She once had me ♪

1513
01:10:30,107 --> 01:10:31,890
You know, the thing is
that we're all interested

1514
01:10:31,900 --> 01:10:34,260
in other things
before the Beatles,

1515
01:10:34,269 --> 01:10:35,438
and we didn't really have time,

1516
01:10:35,447 --> 01:10:38,191
but we were always
looking around.

1517
01:10:38,201 --> 01:10:40,367
I got involved
with a gallery owner.

1518
01:10:40,377 --> 01:10:43,312
We'd go to Paris
and we'd buy paintings.

1519
01:10:43,321 --> 01:10:46,074
We'd go to the dealer.
So it was very exciting.

1520
01:10:47,539 --> 01:10:51,281
Of course, George had developed
an interest in Indian music.

1521
01:10:51,291 --> 01:10:54,042
(sitar music)

1522
01:10:57,752 --> 01:11:00,525
GEORGE: I just wanna carry
on progressing with music,

1523
01:11:00,534 --> 01:11:04,618
you know, writing more
and just learning more about it.

1524
01:11:04,628 --> 01:11:07,275
I've written so many songs
that I've just thrown away

1525
01:11:07,284 --> 01:11:09,615
as I've been writing
them, because I've wanted,

1526
01:11:09,625 --> 01:11:12,176
when I finally
recorded one of mine,

1527
01:11:12,185 --> 01:11:15,216
I wanted it to be
worth putting on the LP

1528
01:11:15,225 --> 01:11:17,095
alongside Paul and John.

1529
01:11:17,104 --> 01:11:20,998
I feel now I've got more idea
about how to write songs.

1530
01:11:21,008 --> 01:11:24,008
(violin music)

1531
01:11:24,018 --> 01:11:25,447
We bought this house
in the country

1532
01:11:25,456 --> 01:11:28,744
on this estate,
Maureen and Zach, my son,

1533
01:11:28,754 --> 01:11:30,797
and John was up the road.

1534
01:11:30,807 --> 01:11:33,741
We started to grow up,
and we started

1535
01:11:33,751 --> 01:11:36,100
to have families, and we started

1536
01:11:36,110 --> 01:11:40,195
to put less energy
into the Beatle bag.

1537
01:11:40,204 --> 01:11:41,833
We all, kind of, were very aware

1538
01:11:41,843 --> 01:11:44,615
that we didn't live in
each other's pockets anymore.

1539
01:11:44,625 --> 01:11:47,721
We all had separate existences.

1540
01:11:47,731 --> 01:11:49,448
There's an interview
that John Lennon gives

1541
01:11:49,458 --> 01:11:52,489
to Morning Cleave,
which is publish in March '66

1542
01:11:52,499 --> 01:11:54,311
where he talks
about his reading.

1543
01:11:54,320 --> 01:11:56,363
He says I'm not really sure
what I'm going to do next,

1544
01:11:56,373 --> 01:11:57,896
this isn't everything,
which is not

1545
01:11:57,906 --> 01:12:00,266
what a pop star
was supposed to say.

1546
01:12:00,275 --> 01:12:01,800
(camera clicking)

1547
01:12:01,809 --> 01:12:05,088
That same month, March,
they were doing a photo shoot.

1548
01:12:05,098 --> 01:12:07,591
JOHN: By then, we were really
sort of beginning to hate it.

1549
01:12:07,601 --> 01:12:09,252
A photo session
was a big ordeal,

1550
01:12:09,261 --> 01:12:11,235
and you had to try
and look normal,

1551
01:12:11,245 --> 01:12:13,221
and you didn't feel it.

1552
01:12:13,230 --> 01:12:14,564
PAUL: Bob Whitaker
was one of the photographers

1553
01:12:14,573 --> 01:12:17,056
who took our pictures,
and he came up with,

1554
01:12:17,066 --> 01:12:19,138
we all put on white lab coats

1555
01:12:19,147 --> 01:12:22,023
and we pretend
to be mad professors.

1556
01:12:22,033 --> 01:12:24,708
JOHN: The photographer's
a bit of a surrealist, you know?

1557
01:12:24,718 --> 01:12:28,352
(upbeat music)

1558
01:12:28,362 --> 01:12:29,693
We really got into it,

1559
01:12:29,703 --> 01:12:32,351
and that's when we felt,
like, yeah.

1560
01:12:32,361 --> 01:12:36,580
♪ To say about the things
that you do ♪

1561
01:12:36,590 --> 01:12:38,239
PAUL: To us, you know,
this wasn't a big deal, really,

1562
01:12:38,249 --> 01:12:40,894
because these kind of
shocking things

1563
01:12:40,903 --> 01:12:43,072
were part of the art scene.

1564
01:12:43,081 --> 01:12:46,658
♪ About the good things
that we can have

1565
01:12:46,668 --> 01:12:48,576
♪ If we close our eyes ♪

1566
01:12:48,585 --> 01:12:49,947
JOHN: I especially wished

1567
01:12:49,956 --> 01:12:52,191
for it to be an album cover,
you know.

1568
01:12:52,200 --> 01:12:54,147
It got out in America,

1569
01:12:54,156 --> 01:12:56,449
and there was some kind of fuss.

1570
01:12:56,459 --> 01:12:57,724
They were like, what?

1571
01:12:57,734 --> 01:12:59,037
My beloved Beatles?

1572
01:12:59,046 --> 01:13:00,188
No!

1573
01:13:00,198 --> 01:13:02,750
This must stop.

1574
01:13:02,758 --> 01:13:04,129
MAN: Sorry.

1575
01:13:04,139 --> 01:13:06,843
JOHN: Are you gonna
keep that one, please.

1576
01:13:06,853 --> 01:13:08,283
GEORGE: Yeah, just
leave it out again then.

1577
01:13:08,293 --> 01:13:09,472
PAUL: Okay.

1578
01:13:09,482 --> 01:13:12,636
GEORGE: I'll just
have to vamp it up a bit.

1579
01:13:12,645 --> 01:13:14,592
JOHN: Now he tells me.

1580
01:13:14,602 --> 01:13:16,770
RINGO: We're having
more fun in the studio.

1581
01:13:16,779 --> 01:13:18,591
It was getting
more experimental.

1582
01:13:18,601 --> 01:13:21,305
The songs were getting
better, more interesting.

1583
01:13:21,315 --> 01:13:25,111
♪ When I wake up
early in the morning

1584
01:13:25,121 --> 01:13:27,067
♪ Lift my age

1585
01:13:27,076 --> 01:13:28,410
♪ And I'm still ♪

1586
01:13:28,419 --> 01:13:29,463
JOHN: Hey?

1587
01:13:29,473 --> 01:13:31,132
RINGO: They weren't,
like, big plans.

1588
01:13:31,142 --> 01:13:34,557
You know,
sometimes they just unfolded.

1589
01:13:34,566 --> 01:13:36,032
Complete fluke.

1590
01:13:38,305 --> 01:13:41,373
JOHN: Okay, ready.

1591
01:13:41,383 --> 01:13:43,446
John was
not mechanically minded,

1592
01:13:43,455 --> 01:13:47,127
and he took a tape home,
and the tape would run off

1593
01:13:47,137 --> 01:13:49,467
to the other reel,
and he put it on

1594
01:13:49,477 --> 01:13:52,729
like it was the start,
but it was the end of the song,

1595
01:13:52,738 --> 01:13:54,070
and that's when the guitar came.

1596
01:13:54,079 --> 01:13:56,536
(imitating warbling)

1597
01:13:56,545 --> 01:13:59,574
And he brings it in,
man, you gotta hear this.

1598
01:13:59,584 --> 01:14:02,491
We said, great,
we gotta do that.

1599
01:14:02,501 --> 01:14:05,912
Fall in the boffins.

1600
01:14:05,922 --> 01:14:12,819
♪ Lay down and surrender
to the void

1601
01:14:12,828 --> 01:14:16,625
♪ It is shining ♪

1602
01:14:16,634 --> 01:14:19,416
And I always remember
being in Brian Epstein's house

1603
01:14:19,425 --> 01:14:23,030
and John playing it to Brian,
and to George Martin,

1604
01:14:23,039 --> 01:14:25,015
and saying,
What do you think of this?

1605
01:14:25,025 --> 01:14:28,755
You can see there's a puzzlement
going across their faces.

1606
01:14:28,765 --> 01:14:31,890
But instead of saying,
oh, come on guys,

1607
01:14:31,899 --> 01:14:33,970
I think you really oughta
put another chord in,

1608
01:14:33,980 --> 01:14:37,040
he knew to
leave us alone by then.

1609
01:14:37,049 --> 01:14:41,364
♪ It is shining ♪

1610
01:14:41,373 --> 01:14:42,775
Slow down or speed up the tape,

1611
01:14:42,784 --> 01:14:44,404
even putting backwards tape in,

1612
01:14:44,414 --> 01:14:45,872
put in electronic sounds,
and this is the kind of

1613
01:14:45,882 --> 01:14:47,309
thing you can do in a recording,

1614
01:14:47,319 --> 01:14:49,295
which you obviously
couldn't possibly do live

1615
01:14:49,304 --> 01:14:51,866
because it is, in fact,
making up music as you go along.

1616
01:14:58,875 --> 01:15:01,042
"Tomorrow Never Knows"
breaks so many barriers,

1617
01:15:01,052 --> 01:15:02,480
musically speaking,

1618
01:15:02,490 --> 01:15:04,849
and does so many things
that no one had done before.

1619
01:15:04,859 --> 01:15:06,123
It's got a drone
all the way through,

1620
01:15:06,133 --> 01:15:07,668
which is something that
happens in Indian music

1621
01:15:07,677 --> 01:15:10,670
and used to exist in Western
music in the 12th century.

1622
01:15:10,680 --> 01:15:13,163
So it sort of triggered
a whole movement

1623
01:15:13,173 --> 01:15:15,407
that popular music would
start to bring in these

1624
01:15:15,417 --> 01:15:16,461
other records
from the avant garde,

1625
01:15:16,470 --> 01:15:18,130
put them into mainstream songs,

1626
01:15:18,140 --> 01:15:20,778
into an album that millions
of people would hear.

1627
01:15:20,787 --> 01:15:27,020
♪ Love is all
and love is everyone

1628
01:15:27,029 --> 01:15:30,797
♪ It is knowing ♪

1629
01:15:30,807 --> 01:15:31,947
RINGO: You know,
when we first started,

1630
01:15:31,957 --> 01:15:33,290
we were the nice, clean mop‐tops

1631
01:15:33,299 --> 01:15:35,947
and every mother's son
and everyone loved us.

1632
01:15:35,957 --> 01:15:38,248
And suddenly
there were a few things

1633
01:15:38,257 --> 01:15:40,175
that they don't understand.

1634
01:15:40,184 --> 01:15:41,613
It's just, we're men now.

1635
01:15:41,622 --> 01:15:45,038
We're a bit older than
those lads that started out.

1636
01:15:45,048 --> 01:15:47,847
You can't live all your life
by what they want.

1637
01:15:47,857 --> 01:15:49,448
We can't go on forever

1638
01:15:49,458 --> 01:15:53,543
as four teens with mop‐tops
playing "She Loves You."

1639
01:15:53,552 --> 01:15:56,583
♪ Of the beginning

1640
01:15:56,592 --> 01:16:00,236
♪ Of the beginning

1641
01:16:00,246 --> 01:16:03,689
♪ Of the beginning ♪

1642
01:16:03,699 --> 01:16:05,894
When we were back on the road,

1643
01:16:05,904 --> 01:16:09,031
we got on a train
and went up to Hamburg.

1644
01:16:09,041 --> 01:16:12,070
GEORGE: By then, I don't
think we wanted to be anywhere.

1645
01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:14,274
It was like automatic pilot,
you know.

1646
01:16:14,284 --> 01:16:16,807
There was so much
more pressure from the press

1647
01:16:16,817 --> 01:16:18,821
trying to get at you, you know,

1648
01:16:18,831 --> 01:16:23,269
for whatever reason.

1649
01:16:23,279 --> 01:16:24,554
We're not horrid snobby.

1650
01:16:24,564 --> 01:16:25,542
FEMALE REPORTER:
Yes, you are.

1651
01:16:25,552 --> 01:16:27,431
That's your version.

1652
01:16:27,441 --> 01:16:28,966
That's only in your mind.

1653
01:16:28,975 --> 01:16:32,225
GEORGE: Because we're
not flattering you.

1654
01:16:32,235 --> 01:16:34,248
You know, you all expect
sort of nice answers

1655
01:16:34,258 --> 01:16:35,745
to all the questions,

1656
01:16:35,754 --> 01:16:37,414
but the questions
aren't nice questions.

1657
01:16:37,423 --> 01:16:39,140
We don't have to have
nice answers.

1658
01:16:39,150 --> 01:16:40,866
And if we don't give
nice answers,

1659
01:16:40,876 --> 01:16:44,194
it doesn't mean we're snobby,
it just means we're natural.

1660
01:16:44,203 --> 01:16:47,272
(applause)

1661
01:16:47,281 --> 01:16:49,343
Everything was
hit‐and‐run in those days,

1662
01:16:49,352 --> 01:16:51,713
and I think the next day
after the Hamburg concert

1663
01:16:51,722 --> 01:16:54,215
we had a flight to Tokyo.

1664
01:16:54,224 --> 01:16:58,433
(man speaking Japanese)

1665
01:16:58,442 --> 01:16:59,718
It's amazing security.

1666
01:16:59,727 --> 01:17:01,666
I've ever seen
so many people guarding.

1667
01:17:01,675 --> 01:17:04,350
MAN: But we don't
want you to be hurt‐‐

1668
01:17:04,359 --> 01:17:06,660
GEORGE: No.
MAN: We're trying our best.

1669
01:17:06,670 --> 01:17:08,128
(crowd chattering)

1670
01:17:08,138 --> 01:17:11,140
GEORGE: Everywhere
we were going, it was

1671
01:17:11,150 --> 01:17:13,345
a demonstration
of one thing or another.

1672
01:17:13,355 --> 01:17:14,851
In Japan, people
were demonstrating

1673
01:17:14,861 --> 01:17:16,384
because the Budokan
was supposed to be

1674
01:17:16,394 --> 01:17:18,917
a special spiritual hall

1675
01:17:18,927 --> 01:17:23,299
and only reserved for
martial arts, not pop music.

1676
01:17:23,309 --> 01:17:24,765
(crowd screaming)

1677
01:17:24,775 --> 01:17:28,802
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome the Beatles!

1678
01:17:28,812 --> 01:17:31,880
(crowd screaming)

1679
01:17:43,273 --> 01:17:45,565
(amplifier static)

1680
01:17:45,574 --> 01:17:48,920
GEORGE: It was very strange.
The audience were very reserved.

1681
01:17:48,930 --> 01:17:50,521
Respectful.

1682
01:17:50,531 --> 01:17:53,849
Very quiet to what we
had become accustomed to.

1683
01:17:53,859 --> 01:17:55,010
Very quiet.

1684
01:17:59,650 --> 01:18:01,369
"Nowhere Man."

1685
01:18:01,379 --> 01:18:02,423
Two, three, four.

1686
01:18:02,433 --> 01:18:05,596
♪ He's a real nowhere man

1687
01:18:05,606 --> 01:18:09,213
♪ Sitting in his nowhere land

1688
01:18:09,223 --> 01:18:12,731
♪ Making all his nowhere plans

1689
01:18:12,740 --> 01:18:15,608
♪ With no one ♪

1690
01:18:15,617 --> 01:18:18,101
RINGO: We were playing crap.

1691
01:18:18,111 --> 01:18:20,758
We were just sort of surviving.

1692
01:18:20,767 --> 01:18:24,248
♪ Knows not where he's going to

1693
01:18:24,258 --> 01:18:30,643
♪ Isn't he a bit
like you and me? ♪

1694
01:18:30,652 --> 01:18:34,010
PAUL: We had a day off
in the Philippines, in Manila,

1695
01:18:34,019 --> 01:18:35,410
and then somebody said

1696
01:18:35,420 --> 01:18:39,188
"You're supposed
to be visiting the Palace."

1697
01:18:39,198 --> 01:18:42,362
RINGO: Madam Marcos
had invited us to dinner.

1698
01:18:42,371 --> 01:18:44,184
Brian had told her no.

1699
01:18:44,194 --> 01:18:46,006
Then the next morning,
someone brought the newspapers.

1700
01:18:46,016 --> 01:18:49,439
"Beatles Snub President."

1701
01:18:51,068 --> 01:18:54,099
By late '66,
it felt dangerous, you know?

1702
01:18:54,108 --> 01:18:57,043
Because everybody
was out of hand.

1703
01:18:57,052 --> 01:18:59,220
Even the cops were out of line.

1704
01:18:59,230 --> 01:19:02,864
They were all just caught up
in the mania.

1705
01:19:02,874 --> 01:19:04,983
JON SAVAGE:
The build‐up of tension,

1706
01:19:04,992 --> 01:19:08,080
and also dissatisfaction
and frustration,

1707
01:19:08,090 --> 01:19:10,450
and now they went straight
into the complete nightmare.

1708
01:19:10,460 --> 01:19:11,858
Now, this religious controversy.

1709
01:19:11,868 --> 01:19:13,268
I know you don't want to
say too much about it,

1710
01:19:13,278 --> 01:19:14,582
but does it worry you that
it's going to fall out

1711
01:19:14,591 --> 01:19:15,694
when you get to the stage?

1712
01:19:15,704 --> 01:19:16,979
Well, it worries me, yes,

1713
01:19:16,988 --> 01:19:18,993
but I hope everything
will be all right

1714
01:19:19,002 --> 01:19:20,499
in the end, as they say.

1715
01:19:20,508 --> 01:19:22,158
Do you think this is going
to be a controversial tour

1716
01:19:22,168 --> 01:19:23,213
like the Philippines was?

1717
01:19:23,222 --> 01:19:24,402
Oh no, no, no.

1718
01:19:24,411 --> 01:19:26,673
No, it's going to be fine.

1719
01:19:26,682 --> 01:19:27,795
What makes you say that?

1720
01:19:27,805 --> 01:19:29,579
Oh, it'll be fine.
You watch.

1721
01:19:29,589 --> 01:19:30,739
It'll be great.

1722
01:19:30,748 --> 01:19:34,805
("Good Day Sunshine" playing)

1723
01:19:38,459 --> 01:19:40,684
♪ Good day sunshine ♪

1724
01:19:40,693 --> 01:19:42,409
It was all
because of that interview

1725
01:19:42,419 --> 01:19:44,720
John had given
while on vacation.

1726
01:19:44,730 --> 01:19:47,502
It was reprinted
in America months later.

1727
01:19:47,512 --> 01:19:50,799
"Lennon says the Beatles
are bigger than Christ."

1728
01:19:50,809 --> 01:19:52,403
(bells tolling)

1729
01:19:52,412 --> 01:19:56,812
At that time, churches were
losing their congregations.

1730
01:19:56,821 --> 01:19:59,890
People were going to church
less and less and less.

1731
01:20:03,450 --> 01:20:05,425
John was saying,
we're so famous,

1732
01:20:05,434 --> 01:20:07,399
we're so, oh you won't
believe the fame.

1733
01:20:07,409 --> 01:20:10,699
I mean, like,
we're bigger than Jesus.

1734
01:20:10,709 --> 01:20:13,422
It was a harmless remark
in the middle of an article,

1735
01:20:13,431 --> 01:20:16,299
and it never made
the front page in England.

1736
01:20:16,309 --> 01:20:18,092
LARRY:
That unleashed a firestorm

1737
01:20:18,101 --> 01:20:20,010
in the United States.

1738
01:20:20,020 --> 01:20:23,212
It was almost like the plot
of Help! had become real,

1739
01:20:23,222 --> 01:20:25,033
and they actually
had a lot of people

1740
01:20:25,043 --> 01:20:27,048
who suddenly wanted
to dismember them.

1741
01:20:27,057 --> 01:20:28,717
<i>This is
The Layton and Charles Show</i>

1742
01:20:28,726 --> 01:20:31,180
on WAQY Radio, broadcasting
at 1220 on your dial

1743
01:20:31,189 --> 01:20:33,194
until about nine o'clock
this morning.

1744
01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:34,633
We'd like to urge you to
take your Beatle records

1745
01:20:34,642 --> 01:20:37,769
and your Beatlemania to any one
of our 14 pickup points

1746
01:20:37,779 --> 01:20:39,591
anywhere in Birmingham, Alabama.

1747
01:20:39,601 --> 01:20:42,822
Don't forget the destruction
of those Beatle records

1748
01:20:42,831 --> 01:20:44,107
will take place
in just a few days,

1749
01:20:44,117 --> 01:20:47,435
and we'll keep you
informed of all of that.

1750
01:20:47,444 --> 01:20:49,794
They were just stunned.

1751
01:20:49,804 --> 01:20:51,145
You have to really put
it into perspective.

1752
01:20:51,155 --> 01:20:53,351
I mean, the whole
scandal was very serious,

1753
01:20:53,361 --> 01:20:55,144
partly because of the violence

1754
01:20:55,153 --> 01:20:56,995
that was in America at the time.

1755
01:20:57,004 --> 01:21:00,389
(shots whistling)

1756
01:21:00,398 --> 01:21:02,854
We'd just had the Texas sniper,
Charles Whitman,

1757
01:21:02,864 --> 01:21:06,018
who'd just shot dead 20 people.

1758
01:21:06,028 --> 01:21:08,770
This was the same country
only three years before

1759
01:21:08,780 --> 01:21:12,290
where the President
had been assassinated.

1760
01:21:12,299 --> 01:21:17,285
It had got dangerous,
and we were threatened.

1761
01:21:17,295 --> 01:21:20,326
We knew we weren't
being blasphemous.

1762
01:21:20,336 --> 01:21:22,791
We weren't anti‐Jesus.

1763
01:21:22,801 --> 01:21:26,214
In fact, we all had pretty
religious upbringings, really.

1764
01:21:26,223 --> 01:21:29,214
But you do see John
as sort of a broken man,

1765
01:21:29,224 --> 01:21:31,717
because you realize
he had to apologize.

1766
01:21:31,727 --> 01:21:34,268
I was the only thing
that would stop this.

1767
01:21:34,278 --> 01:21:37,797
I pointed out that fact
in reference to England,

1768
01:21:37,807 --> 01:21:41,057
that we meant more
to kids than Jesus did,

1769
01:21:41,066 --> 01:21:42,879
or religion at that time.

1770
01:21:42,889 --> 01:21:44,510
I wasn't knocking it
or putting it down,

1771
01:21:44,520 --> 01:21:47,003
I was just saying it as a fact.

1772
01:21:47,012 --> 01:21:51,394
And it sort of is true, better
more for England than here.

1773
01:21:51,404 --> 01:21:54,271
I'm not saying that
we're better or greater

1774
01:21:54,281 --> 01:21:57,215
or comparing us with
Jesus Christ as a person,

1775
01:21:57,225 --> 01:21:59,584
or God as a thing,
whatever it is,

1776
01:21:59,594 --> 01:22:00,927
you know, I just said
what I said,

1777
01:22:00,937 --> 01:22:03,132
and it was wrong,
or was taken wrong,

1778
01:22:03,142 --> 01:22:04,667
but now it's all this.

1779
01:22:04,677 --> 01:22:08,473
He's longing to break
out of it and do a joke,

1780
01:22:08,483 --> 01:22:09,923
but he knows he can't.

1781
01:22:09,932 --> 01:22:13,019
If it had said television is
more popular than Jesus,

1782
01:22:13,029 --> 01:22:14,812
I might have got away with it.

1783
01:22:14,822 --> 01:22:16,125
(laughter)

1784
01:22:16,135 --> 01:22:17,977
I just happened to be
talking to a friend,

1785
01:22:17,986 --> 01:22:21,083
they used the word
Beatles as a remote thing,

1786
01:22:21,092 --> 01:22:22,849
not as what I think,
because Beatles

1787
01:22:22,858 --> 01:22:25,849
as those other Beatles,
like other people see us,

1788
01:22:25,859 --> 01:22:28,956
I just said they are
having more influence

1789
01:22:28,966 --> 01:22:30,269
on kids and things

1790
01:22:30,278 --> 01:22:32,762
than anything else,
including Jesus.

1791
01:22:32,772 --> 01:22:34,363
I said it in that way,

1792
01:22:34,373 --> 01:22:36,665
which is the wrong way,
yep, yep.

1793
01:22:36,675 --> 01:22:39,898
PAUL: He was scared.
We were all pretty scared.

1794
01:22:39,907 --> 01:22:42,937
Most of the people
in the room understood it.

1795
01:22:42,946 --> 01:22:45,402
It's like one of those lines.

1796
01:22:45,411 --> 01:22:47,319
It didn't hold us back at all.

1797
01:22:47,329 --> 01:22:48,757
(screaming)

1798
01:22:48,767 --> 01:22:50,138
MAN: Concert tomorrow night
is far below a sell‐out.

1799
01:22:50,148 --> 01:22:51,107
How do you feel about‐‐

1800
01:22:51,107 --> 01:22:52,949
JOHN: Very rich.

1801
01:22:52,959 --> 01:22:56,228
(upbeat music)

1802
01:23:02,049 --> 01:23:06,105
♪ I know that she knows ♪

1803
01:23:06,115 --> 01:23:08,790
There were three
road managers, roadies,

1804
01:23:08,799 --> 01:23:12,501
on the tour, period,
in '66, that was it.

1805
01:23:12,510 --> 01:23:14,132
I was friends
with the opening act.

1806
01:23:14,142 --> 01:23:15,705
They said, Do you wanna do it?

1807
01:23:15,714 --> 01:23:18,101
I didn't even know how to
set up a drum kit at the time.

1808
01:23:18,111 --> 01:23:19,443
I had no idea.

1809
01:23:19,453 --> 01:23:22,320
I was a musician in Boston,
a folk singer.

1810
01:23:22,330 --> 01:23:24,592
I had no qualifications at all.

1811
01:23:24,602 --> 01:23:27,028
We only ever had
a couple of roadies.

1812
01:23:27,038 --> 01:23:28,438
Didn't matter where we were.

1813
01:23:28,447 --> 01:23:32,590
Biggest band in the land,
that's all we had.

1814
01:23:32,599 --> 01:23:34,354
And in Cleveland,
the sound was so bad

1815
01:23:34,363 --> 01:23:36,148
that everybody rushed the stage.

1816
01:23:36,158 --> 01:23:38,708
REPORTER: Cleveland Stadium
has been absolutely riots.

1817
01:23:38,718 --> 01:23:40,501
The whole place went wild here,

1818
01:23:40,510 --> 01:23:43,501
broke the barriers,
came through the police cordon.

1819
01:23:43,511 --> 01:23:45,392
We managed to get
the Beatles off the stage,

1820
01:23:45,402 --> 01:23:47,635
they were even
all over the stage.

1821
01:23:47,645 --> 01:23:51,212
ED: I really thought
I was gonna get hurt.

1822
01:23:51,222 --> 01:23:53,841
We get to Memphis and
there's been a bomb scare,

1823
01:23:53,850 --> 01:23:56,180
and we had to delay the show,
I think the

1824
01:23:56,190 --> 01:23:59,853
bomb‐sniffing dogs
throughout the whole theater.

1825
01:23:59,862 --> 01:24:01,454
That kind of stuff
was happening all the time.

1826
01:24:01,463 --> 01:24:02,960
It was terrifying.

1827
01:24:02,969 --> 01:24:05,683
Some people would set off
firecrackers in the hall

1828
01:24:05,692 --> 01:24:08,665
and you'd think one
of the others had got shot.

1829
01:24:10,747 --> 01:24:14,937
And we flew off to St. Louis,
and it was pouring rain.

1830
01:24:20,595 --> 01:24:24,784
My job was to sit backstage
with my hand on the plug,

1831
01:24:24,794 --> 01:24:27,537
and the instructions were,
if one of them fell down,

1832
01:24:27,546 --> 01:24:29,129
like knocked out by the shock,

1833
01:24:29,139 --> 01:24:33,222
then you should pull the plug,
and that would stop the show.

1834
01:24:33,232 --> 01:24:34,681
It was a joke.

1835
01:24:36,244 --> 01:24:40,109
(crowd screaming)

1836
01:24:40,118 --> 01:24:41,326
This was three weeks
that they just

1837
01:24:41,336 --> 01:24:43,176
took a deep breath
and said, okay,

1838
01:24:43,186 --> 01:24:45,296
let's just do this and
we'll make a lot of money.

1839
01:24:48,183 --> 01:24:49,831
(somber music)

1840
01:24:49,840 --> 01:24:52,680
RINGO: A lot of the time we
were going through the motions,

1841
01:24:52,689 --> 01:24:56,228
and we all started
to get pretty fed up.

1842
01:24:56,238 --> 01:24:59,478
George particularly was
quite vocal about that.

1843
01:25:01,359 --> 01:25:03,467
GEORGE: I was saying,
"I don't wanna do this anymore.

1844
01:25:03,477 --> 01:25:05,060
I don't like this."

1845
01:25:05,070 --> 01:25:07,428
I certainly
felt that that was it.

1846
01:25:07,438 --> 01:25:11,188
You know, that we weren't
going to tour again like that.

1847
01:25:35,601 --> 01:25:37,154
There was no enjoyment in it.

1848
01:25:37,164 --> 01:25:40,195
The music wasn't being heard.
It wasn't dong anything.

1849
01:25:40,205 --> 01:25:42,189
It was just a sort of
freak show.

1850
01:25:44,846 --> 01:25:46,686
The Beatles were the show,
and the music

1851
01:25:46,696 --> 01:25:48,336
had nothing to do with it.

1852
01:25:51,212 --> 01:25:54,981
As we were musicians, we felt,
if we're gonna be Beatles,

1853
01:25:54,990 --> 01:25:57,311
the only reason to be a Beatle
is to make music,

1854
01:25:57,321 --> 01:25:58,952
and not be in a circus.

1855
01:26:05,262 --> 01:26:07,293
And when we were finished,
I remember

1856
01:26:07,304 --> 01:26:11,044
just being piled in
the back of this meat wagon,

1857
01:26:11,054 --> 01:26:14,342
which was steel,
and nothing else inside.

1858
01:26:15,435 --> 01:26:17,507
We're all in this,
sort of sliding around

1859
01:26:17,516 --> 01:26:20,095
as it went around the corners,

1860
01:26:20,105 --> 01:26:23,108
and we're all really mad
at the whole bloody thing.

1861
01:26:23,117 --> 01:26:26,242
John started, and George,
like, oh that's it.

1862
01:26:26,252 --> 01:26:28,352
I've had enough, you know.

1863
01:26:28,362 --> 01:26:31,870
And we all agreed.

1864
01:26:31,879 --> 01:26:33,146
We were just sitting in the van,

1865
01:26:33,155 --> 01:26:35,591
saying, That's enough of that.

1866
01:26:44,385 --> 01:26:50,522
(piano music)

1867
01:26:50,532 --> 01:26:53,151
We all knew, to survive,
we had to

1868
01:26:53,160 --> 01:26:56,286
get back in the studio
and get to know each other

1869
01:26:56,295 --> 01:26:58,778
and play again.

1870
01:26:58,788 --> 01:27:00,954
I'm not holding back, George.

1871
01:27:00,964 --> 01:27:03,132
I'm giving my all.

1872
01:27:03,142 --> 01:27:04,504
GEORGE: It used to make
us laugh when we'd read

1873
01:27:04,514 --> 01:27:06,871
people saying,
the problem with the Beatles

1874
01:27:06,881 --> 01:27:08,733
is that while
we were all growing up,

1875
01:27:08,743 --> 01:27:10,584
they were all on tour,
and so they missed

1876
01:27:10,594 --> 01:27:12,213
the growing‐up period.

1877
01:27:12,223 --> 01:27:15,991
But the truth to it was, we
were snatched out of our youth.

1878
01:27:16,001 --> 01:27:17,947
We were force‐grown like rhubarb

1879
01:27:17,957 --> 01:27:20,374
when you grow it
under hothouse conditions.

1880
01:27:20,384 --> 01:27:23,068
You make it grow much quicker
than it would naturally.

1881
01:27:23,079 --> 01:27:24,536
JOHN: Oh, God, now?

1882
01:27:24,546 --> 01:27:26,261
Broken another string.

1883
01:27:26,270 --> 01:27:28,698
PAUL: I think it'll probably
be another day singin' in.

1884
01:27:28,707 --> 01:27:30,327
GEORGE: And what
you can do with the bits

1885
01:27:30,337 --> 01:27:32,792
where you can't get it 'cause
you haven't got enough breath.

1886
01:27:32,801 --> 01:27:35,515
‐ PAUL: Take over.
‐ All right, let's go.

1887
01:27:35,524 --> 01:27:38,708
In one way it was good because
we went into the recording scene

1888
01:27:38,719 --> 01:27:40,473
and really, sort of,
expressed ourselves

1889
01:27:40,483 --> 01:27:41,748
through the records, then,

1890
01:27:41,758 --> 01:27:43,608
because we could no longer
do it outside.

1891
01:27:43,617 --> 01:27:48,853
♪ Living is easy ♪
♪ with eyes closed ♪

1892
01:27:48,862 --> 01:27:53,553
♪ Misunderstanding all you see ♪

1893
01:27:53,563 --> 01:27:57,839
♪ It's getting hard to be ♪
♪ someone but it all works out ♪

1894
01:27:57,848 --> 01:27:59,152
♪ It doesn't matter much to me ♪

1895
01:27:59,162 --> 01:28:02,230
I got this idea for us
all to be someone else,

1896
01:28:02,240 --> 01:28:05,300
because we were so fed up
with being what we were,

1897
01:28:05,310 --> 01:28:07,793
we had to get out of it,
one way or another.

1898
01:28:07,802 --> 01:28:08,848
GEORGE: Righty‐o!

1899
01:28:08,858 --> 01:28:10,928
JOHN: However you like.

1900
01:28:10,938 --> 01:28:13,939
You know, feel it.

1901
01:28:13,948 --> 01:28:17,075
PAUL: One, two, three, four.

1902
01:28:17,084 --> 01:28:22,167
("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts
Club Band" playing)

1903
01:28:25,465 --> 01:28:28,304
I just said to everyone,
we're not the Beatles.

1904
01:28:28,313 --> 01:28:30,259
It was to liberate us.

1905
01:28:30,269 --> 01:28:32,109
We gotta think of
a new name for ourselves.

1906
01:28:32,119 --> 01:28:33,683
Gotta think up
a new way of being,

1907
01:28:33,692 --> 01:28:35,178
a new way of recording,
a new everything,

1908
01:28:35,188 --> 01:28:36,877
just to be fresh.

1909
01:28:36,887 --> 01:28:38,507
♪ So may I introduce to you ♪

1910
01:28:38,516 --> 01:28:41,355
♪ The act you've known ♪
♪ for all these years ♪

1911
01:28:41,365 --> 01:28:47,857
♪ Sergeant Pepper's ♪
♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band ♪

1912
01:28:47,866 --> 01:28:49,255
PAUL: I'll be
overpowering this time.

1913
01:28:49,265 --> 01:28:50,444
JOHN: I'll go.

1914
01:28:50,454 --> 01:28:51,855
I like it when you do, Paul.

1915
01:28:51,864 --> 01:28:54,704
PAUL: Quiet
in the studio, please.

1916
01:28:54,713 --> 01:28:59,977
("Lucy in Sky with Diamonds"
playing)

1917
01:28:59,987 --> 01:29:03,756
♪ Picture yourself in
(laughs) a boat on a river ♪

1918
01:29:03,765 --> 01:29:05,808
PAUL:
Just go right in with it.

1919
01:29:05,818 --> 01:29:07,149
Do those quicker.

1920
01:29:07,159 --> 01:29:09,422
♪ Cellophane flowers ♪
♪ of yellow and green ♪

1921
01:29:09,432 --> 01:29:11,409
♪ Yellow and green ♪

1922
01:29:11,418 --> 01:29:12,617
JOHN: Okay.

1923
01:29:12,626 --> 01:29:17,612
♪ Cellophane flowers of ♪
♪ yellow and green ♪

1924
01:29:17,622 --> 01:29:21,803
♪ Towering over your head ♪

1925
01:29:21,812 --> 01:29:26,376
♪ Look for the girl ♪
♪ with the sun in her eyes ♪

1926
01:29:26,385 --> 01:29:29,925
♪ And she's gone ♪

1927
01:29:29,934 --> 01:29:34,306
♪ Lucy in the sky ♪
♪ with diamonds ♪

1928
01:29:34,315 --> 01:29:36,647
♪ Lucy in the sky with diamonds ♪

1929
01:29:36,657 --> 01:29:38,122
JOHN: It was the music
that was interesting.

1930
01:29:38,132 --> 01:29:39,523
That was important.

1931
01:29:39,533 --> 01:29:42,313
As long as we were going
forward and going somewhere,

1932
01:29:42,322 --> 01:29:43,463
it didn't matter.

1933
01:29:43,473 --> 01:29:46,571
("A Day in the Life" playing)

1934
01:29:55,729 --> 01:30:01,061
♪ I read the news today, ♪
♪ oh boy ♪

1935
01:30:01,070 --> 01:30:06,593
♪ About a lucky man ♪
♪ who made the grade ♪

1936
01:30:06,603 --> 01:30:08,003
PAUL: There was
a lot of faith involved

1937
01:30:08,013 --> 01:30:10,208
in everything that we did.

1938
01:30:10,217 --> 01:30:13,191
And the people around us
had to share that faith,

1939
01:30:13,200 --> 01:30:15,139
or it wouldn't have worked.

1940
01:30:15,149 --> 01:30:16,769
♪ Now they know ♪
♪ how many holes it takes ♪

1941
01:30:16,778 --> 01:30:20,163
♪ To fill the Albert Hall ♪

1942
01:30:20,173 --> 01:30:22,753
Brian had to have faith in us.

1943
01:30:22,762 --> 01:30:25,474
George Martin
had to have faith in us.

1944
01:30:25,484 --> 01:30:28,255
This is how it was
for the Beatles.

1945
01:30:28,264 --> 01:30:30,078
You had to have faith.

1946
01:30:30,088 --> 01:30:33,318
We had to have faith
in each other.

1947
01:31:34,565 --> 01:31:36,405
(indistinct remarks)

1948
01:31:36,415 --> 01:31:39,494
(gentle rock music)

1949
01:31:47,205 --> 01:31:49,792
(indistinct applause)

1950
01:31:55,556 --> 01:32:00,657
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1951
01:32:00,667 --> 01:32:06,488
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1952
01:32:06,497 --> 01:32:12,051
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1953
01:32:12,061 --> 01:32:17,200
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1954
01:32:17,210 --> 01:32:22,388
♪ Nobody ever loved me like she does ♪

1955
01:32:22,397 --> 01:32:24,564
♪ Oh, she does ♪

1956
01:32:24,573 --> 01:32:29,234
♪ Yeah, she does ♪

1957
01:32:29,244 --> 01:32:34,545
♪ And if somebody loved me like she does ♪

1958
01:32:34,554 --> 01:32:37,366
♪ Oh, she does ♪

1959
01:32:37,376 --> 01:32:42,256
♪ Yeah, she does ♪

1960
01:32:42,266 --> 01:32:47,760
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1961
01:32:47,770 --> 01:32:53,811
♪ Don't ♪
♪ let me down ♪

1962
01:32:53,821 --> 01:32:58,989
♪ Don't let me down ♪

1963
01:32:58,999 --> 01:33:04,206
♪ Don't ♪
♪ let me down ♪

1964
01:33:04,216 --> 01:33:09,930
♪ I'm in love ♪
♪ for the first time ♪

1965
01:33:09,940 --> 01:33:15,406
♪ Don't you know ♪
♪ it's gonna last ♪

1966
01:33:15,416 --> 01:33:21,841
♪ It's a love ♪
♪ that lasts forever ♪

1967
01:33:21,851 --> 01:33:25,236
♪ It's a love ♪
♪ that has no past ♪

1968
01:33:32,215 --> 01:33:37,165
♪ I got a feelin' ♪
♪ that keeps me on my toes ♪

1969
01:33:37,174 --> 01:33:39,887
♪ Oh, yeah ♪

1970
01:33:39,897 --> 01:33:43,177
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪

1971
01:33:43,186 --> 01:33:45,382
♪ I got a feelin' ♪

1972
01:33:45,392 --> 01:33:47,818
♪ I think that everybody knows ♪

1973
01:33:47,827 --> 01:33:51,597
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪

1974
01:33:51,606 --> 01:33:55,241
♪ Oh yeah, yeah ♪

1975
01:33:55,250 --> 01:33:58,567
♪ Yeah ♪

1976
01:33:58,577 --> 01:34:01,684
♪ I've got a feeling, yeah ♪

1977
01:34:05,874 --> 01:34:08,233
♪ Everybody had a hard year ♪

1978
01:34:08,242 --> 01:34:10,985
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ had a good time ♪

1979
01:34:10,995 --> 01:34:14,025
♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪

1980
01:34:14,035 --> 01:34:16,010
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ saw the sunshine ♪

1981
01:34:16,020 --> 01:34:17,603
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪

1982
01:34:17,612 --> 01:34:22,244
♪ Oh yeah, ♪
♪ oh yeah ♪

1983
01:34:22,253 --> 01:34:25,447
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪

1984
01:34:25,456 --> 01:34:27,556
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ let their hair down ♪

1985
01:34:27,565 --> 01:34:30,212
♪ Everybody pulled ♪
♪ their socks up ♪

1986
01:34:30,222 --> 01:34:32,772
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ put their foot down ♪

1987
01:34:32,782 --> 01:34:34,411
♪ Oh yeah ♪

1988
01:34:42,505 --> 01:34:44,739
♪ Woo‐hoo ♪

1989
01:34:44,749 --> 01:34:46,848
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪

1990
01:34:46,858 --> 01:34:49,669
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ had a hard time ♪

1991
01:34:49,678 --> 01:34:52,516
♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪

1992
01:34:52,526 --> 01:34:55,134
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ saw the sunshine ♪

1993
01:34:55,144 --> 01:34:58,117
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪

1994
01:34:58,126 --> 01:35:00,897
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ let their hair down ♪

1995
01:35:00,906 --> 01:35:03,717
♪ Everybody pulled ♪
♪ their socks up ♪

1996
01:35:03,727 --> 01:35:05,789
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ put their foot down ♪

1997
01:35:05,799 --> 01:35:06,958
♪ Oh, yeah ♪

1998
01:35:10,285 --> 01:35:14,111
♪ I got a feelin' ♪

1999
01:35:14,121 --> 01:35:19,260
♪ I got ♪
♪ a feelin' ♪

2000
01:35:19,270 --> 01:35:21,707
♪ I got a feelin' ♪

2001
01:35:26,567 --> 01:35:29,090
(applause)

2002
01:35:33,059 --> 01:35:35,360
PAUL: What a suitable
ending, I think.

2003
01:35:35,370 --> 01:35:41,921
("Eight Days a Week" playing)

2004
01:35:41,930 --> 01:35:44,768
♪ Oh I need your love, babe ♪

2005
01:35:44,778 --> 01:35:47,990
♪ Yes, you know it's true ♪

2006
01:35:48,000 --> 01:35:51,422
♪ Hope you need my love, babe ♪

2007
01:35:51,432 --> 01:35:54,656
♪ Just like I need you ♪

2008
01:35:54,665 --> 01:35:58,107
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

2009
01:35:58,117 --> 01:36:01,338
♪ Hold me, ♪
♪ love me ♪

2010
01:36:01,347 --> 01:36:04,791
♪ I ain't got nothin' ♪
♪ but love, babe ♪

2011
01:36:04,801 --> 01:36:08,060
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2012
01:36:08,070 --> 01:36:11,485
♪ Love you every day, girl ♪

2013
01:36:11,494 --> 01:36:14,648
♪ Always on my mind ♪

2014
01:36:14,658 --> 01:36:17,852
♪ One thing I can say, girl ♪

2015
01:36:17,862 --> 01:36:21,236
♪ Love you all the time ♪

2016
01:36:21,246 --> 01:36:24,411
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

2017
01:36:24,421 --> 01:36:27,642
♪ Hold me, ♪
♪ love me ♪

2018
01:36:27,652 --> 01:36:31,410
♪ I ain't got nothin' ♪
♪ but love, girl ♪

2019
01:36:31,419 --> 01:36:34,776
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2020
01:36:34,785 --> 01:36:37,432
♪ Eight days ♪
♪ a week ♪

2021
01:36:37,442 --> 01:36:41,392
♪ I love you ♪

2022
01:36:41,402 --> 01:36:43,953
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2023
01:36:43,963 --> 01:36:47,761
♪ Is not enough to show I care ♪

2024
01:36:47,771 --> 01:36:51,125
♪ Oh, I need your love, babe ♪

2025
01:36:51,135 --> 01:36:54,358
♪ Yes, you know ♪
♪ it's true ♪

2026
01:36:54,367 --> 01:36:57,781
♪ Hope you need my love, ♪
♪ babe ♪

2027
01:36:57,791 --> 01:37:01,013
♪ Just like I need you ♪

2028
01:37:01,022 --> 01:37:04,724
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

2029
01:37:04,733 --> 01:37:07,629
♪ Hold me, ♪
♪ love me ♪

2030
01:37:07,638 --> 01:37:11,378
♪ I ain't got nothin' ♪
♪ but love, babe ♪

2031
01:37:11,388 --> 01:37:14,322
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2032
01:37:14,332 --> 01:37:17,391
♪ Eight days ♪
♪ a week ♪

2033
01:37:17,401 --> 01:37:20,950
♪ I love you ♪

2034
01:37:20,959 --> 01:37:24,172
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2035
01:37:24,181 --> 01:37:27,699
♪ Is not enough ♪
♪ to show I care ♪

2036
01:37:27,709 --> 01:37:31,152
♪ Love you every day, girl ♪

2037
01:37:31,161 --> 01:37:34,315
♪ Always on my mind ♪

2038
01:37:34,325 --> 01:37:37,614
♪ One thing I can say, girl ♪

2039
01:37:37,624 --> 01:37:41,067
♪ Love you all the time ♪

2040
01:37:41,076 --> 01:37:44,202
♪ Hold me, love me ♪

2041
01:37:44,212 --> 01:37:47,405
♪ Hold me, ♪
♪ love me ♪

2042
01:37:47,415 --> 01:37:51,374
♪ I ain't got nothin' ♪
♪ but love, babe ♪

2043
01:37:51,384 --> 01:37:54,472
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2044
01:37:54,482 --> 01:37:58,510
♪ Eight days ♪
♪ a week ♪

2045
01:37:58,519 --> 01:38:00,850
♪ Eight days a week ♪

2046
01:38:08,501 --> 01:38:11,244
JOHN: Hello, this is John
speaking with his voice.

2047
01:38:11,253 --> 01:38:13,574
We're all very happy to be
able to talk to you like this

2048
01:38:13,584 --> 01:38:15,081
on this little bit of plastic.

2049
01:38:15,090 --> 01:38:16,873
This record reaches you
at the end

2050
01:38:16,883 --> 01:38:19,653
of a really gear year for us,
and it's all due to you.

2051
01:38:19,663 --> 01:38:21,639
When we made our first record
on Parlophone

2052
01:38:21,648 --> 01:38:23,270
towards the end of 1962,

2053
01:38:23,279 --> 01:38:25,063
we hoped that everybody
would like what would already

2054
01:38:25,073 --> 01:38:27,593
been our type of music
for several years already.

2055
01:38:27,603 --> 01:38:30,403
But we had no idea of all
the gear things in store for us.

2056
01:38:30,413 --> 01:38:32,331
It all happened, really,
when "Please Please Me"

2057
01:38:32,341 --> 01:38:34,411
became a number one hit,
and after that, well,

2058
01:38:34,421 --> 01:38:36,071
cor' the blimeys, heave the mo'.

2059
01:38:36,080 --> 01:38:37,605
Our biggest thrill of
the year‐‐ well, I suppose

2060
01:38:37,614 --> 01:38:39,397
it must have been top of the
bill at the London Palladium

2061
01:38:39,407 --> 01:38:41,067
and then only
a couple of days later

2062
01:38:41,076 --> 01:38:42,822
being invited to take part
in the Royal Variety Show.

2063
01:38:42,831 --> 01:38:44,547
This time last year,
we're all dead chuffed

2064
01:38:44,556 --> 01:38:46,955
because "Love Me Do"
got in the top 20,

2065
01:38:46,964 --> 01:38:48,585
and we can't believe, really,
that so many things

2066
01:38:48,594 --> 01:38:50,502
have happened
in between already.

2067
01:38:50,511 --> 01:38:52,133
Just before I pass you
over to Paul,

2068
01:38:52,142 --> 01:38:53,513
(Paul barking like a small dog)

2069
01:38:53,523 --> 01:38:55,145
I'd like to say thank you
to all the Beatle people

2070
01:38:55,154 --> 01:38:56,582
who have written to me
during the year,

2071
01:38:56,591 --> 01:38:59,238
and everyone who sent me
gifts and cards for my birthday,

2072
01:38:59,248 --> 01:39:01,320
which I'm trying to forget,
in October.

2073
01:39:01,329 --> 01:39:02,718
I'd love to reply
personally to everyone,

2074
01:39:02,728 --> 01:39:04,264
but I just haven't enough pens.

2075
01:39:04,273 --> 01:39:05,376
In the meantime.

2076
01:39:05,385 --> 01:39:06,689
PAUL: This is Paul here.

2077
01:39:06,699 --> 01:39:08,099
Everything that John
said goes for me, too.

2078
01:39:08,109 --> 01:39:09,728
Especially the bit
about birthday cards

2079
01:39:09,738 --> 01:39:11,781
and the parcels, 'cause
all our homes and offices

2080
01:39:11,790 --> 01:39:13,288
got sacks of mail last June.

2081
01:39:13,297 --> 01:39:15,070
Ow! (laughs)

2082
01:39:15,080 --> 01:39:16,480
When it was my birthday.

2083
01:39:16,490 --> 01:39:18,493
Anyway, we're all dead pleased

2084
01:39:18,503 --> 01:39:20,709
by the way you've treated us
in 1963,

2085
01:39:20,719 --> 01:39:22,694
and we're trying to do
everything we can to please you

2086
01:39:22,704 --> 01:39:25,188
with the type of songs
we write and record next year.

2087
01:39:25,198 --> 01:39:28,927
Oh, yeah, lots of people
asked us what we enjoyed best:

2088
01:39:28,936 --> 01:39:31,296
concerts and television
or recording.

2089
01:39:31,305 --> 01:39:33,020
We like doing stage shows,
'cause it's, you know,

2090
01:39:33,030 --> 01:39:34,689
it's great to hear
an audience enjoying themselves,

2091
01:39:34,699 --> 01:39:37,279
but the thing we like best‐‐
I think so, anyway‐‐

2092
01:39:37,288 --> 01:39:39,522
is going
into the recording studio.

2093
01:39:39,532 --> 01:39:40,827
JOHN: Yes, we enjoy it
very kindly.

2094
01:39:40,836 --> 01:39:42,112
PAUL: To make new records.

2095
01:39:42,122 --> 01:39:43,388
Which is what we'd
been doing all day

2096
01:39:43,397 --> 01:39:44,767
before we started on this
special message.

2097
01:39:44,777 --> 01:39:46,562
Well, what we like to hear
most is one of our songs

2098
01:39:46,571 --> 01:39:49,055
taking shape
in the recording studio,

2099
01:39:49,065 --> 01:39:50,972
one of the ones what John
and I have written.

2100
01:39:50,981 --> 01:39:52,641
And then listening
to the tapes afterwards

2101
01:39:52,650 --> 01:39:54,492
to hear how it all
worked out, you see.

2102
01:39:54,502 --> 01:39:55,461
Ja, Ringo.

2103
01:39:55,461 --> 01:39:56,984
RINGO: Hello, Ringo here.

2104
01:39:56,994 --> 01:39:58,941
As you know, I was the last
member to join the Beatles.

2105
01:39:58,951 --> 01:40:01,147
I started to play drums
in the group 1962.

2106
01:40:01,157 --> 01:40:02,651
(laughs)

2107
01:40:02,661 --> 01:40:04,762
I've been in a couple
of other groups. Ow!

2108
01:40:04,772 --> 01:40:06,968
PAUL: Just wish the people
merry happy.

2109
01:40:06,978 --> 01:40:09,115
Go on, for Christmas.
Christmas.

2110
01:40:09,124 --> 01:40:10,688
RINGO:
Merry happy New Year,

2111
01:40:10,697 --> 01:40:12,511
and folks, happy Christmas,

2112
01:40:12,521 --> 01:40:14,907
and may everything
you wish be granted.

2113
01:40:14,917 --> 01:40:16,797
PAUL: Sing us Wenceslas,
King Wenceslas.

2114
01:40:16,806 --> 01:40:18,111
RINGO: Wenceslas.

2115
01:40:18,121 --> 01:40:19,079
♪ Well ♪

2116
01:40:19,079 --> 01:40:20,153
(spirited cheers)

2117
01:40:20,163 --> 01:40:23,097
GEORGE: Thank you, Ringo,
we'll phone you.

2118
01:40:23,107 --> 01:40:24,603
(laughter)

2119
01:40:24,613 --> 01:40:27,286
I'm George Harrison. Nobody else
has said anything yet

2120
01:40:27,296 --> 01:40:28,573
about our fan club secretaries,

2121
01:40:28,583 --> 01:40:30,586
Anne Collingham
and Bettina Rose.

2122
01:40:30,596 --> 01:40:31,669
(laughter)

2123
01:40:31,678 --> 01:40:33,308
Not to mention,
Freda Kelly in Liverpool.

2124
01:40:33,318 --> 01:40:35,092
JOHN: Good old Freda!

2125
01:40:35,102 --> 01:40:36,406
GEORGE: So on behalf of
us all, I'd just like to say

2126
01:40:36,416 --> 01:40:38,841
a great big thank‐you to
Anne, Bettina and Freda

2127
01:40:38,851 --> 01:40:40,443
for all the hard work
that they've done,

2128
01:40:40,453 --> 01:40:42,869
and we just hope we can go on
pleasing you for a long time.

2129
01:40:42,878 --> 01:40:45,716
It's your reaction
to our records

2130
01:40:45,726 --> 01:40:47,127
that really matters.

2131
01:40:47,137 --> 01:40:48,853
And I'd just like to say...

2132
01:40:48,863 --> 01:40:51,058
♪ Brightly was ♪
♪ the shone that night ♪

2133
01:40:51,067 --> 01:40:53,178
♪ Though the winter cruel ♪

2134
01:40:53,187 --> 01:40:55,126
♪ When a pork pie came in sight ♪

2135
01:40:55,135 --> 01:40:59,190
♪ Gathering winter gruel ♪

2136
01:40:59,200 --> 01:41:01,980
THE BEATLES:
Merry Christmas, everybody!