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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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So when I bend down
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I hope they don't split open.
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JOHN: Paul's all right,
he's got his jacket on.
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Don't be nervous, John.
I'm not.
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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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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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♪ 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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♪ 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
people thought we were
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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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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
or anything,
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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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♪ 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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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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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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‐ 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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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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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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♪ 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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This is the BBC Home Service.
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Here is the news,
read by Frank Phillips.
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Thousands of teenagers
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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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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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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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Marsha, the microphone here on
The Carroll James Show
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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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♪ 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 ♪
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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 ♪
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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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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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Apparently they're gonna make
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a concerted effort to get
through into the building.
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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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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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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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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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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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RALPH PAUL: And now,
here he is, Ed Sullivan!
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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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♪ 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.
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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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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.
345
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You know, and they
were fucking amazing.
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The Beatles gave me this idea
that everybody was welcome.
347
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If you weren't the hippest
kid in the neighborhood,
348
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it didn't matter because
you could be a Beatle fan,
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and I liked that.
350
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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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Fresh after their appearance
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on The Ed Sullivan Show,
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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
359
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when they got
to the Plaza Hotel.
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RINGO: We had the
whole floor in the Plaza.
361
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And the four of us ended
up in the bathroom,
362
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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,
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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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‐
‐ WOMAN: Hello?
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Yes, long distance calling
for the manager of the Beatles.
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May we have his name, please?
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WOMAN: Their manager's
name is Mr. Brian Epstein.
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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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00:20:03,120 --> 00:20:08,220
When Brian was 27, he was
a grownup, and he had a car.
390
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,860
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.
393
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His parents ran a record shop.
394
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Seems a funny sort of world
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for a young man
like you to be in.
396
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How did you get into it?
How did you start?
397
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I heard about them through a lad
398
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who was asking
for a record by them
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in one of my stores,
or my family's stores,
400
00:20:39,960 --> 00:20:42,890
in October, 1961.
401
00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:46,990
Growing up, my mom always
wanted me to talk proper.
402
00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:48,690
You know, all of us, really.
403
00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:50,960
You know, like, I talk
like I'm from Liverpool.
404
00:20:50,970 --> 00:20:54,770
Fuck you, I'm tellin' you,
don't give me any hard time.
405
00:20:54,780 --> 00:20:58,340
PAUL: Whereas Brian
was very well‐mannered,
406
00:20:58,350 --> 00:21:01,010
very well‐spoken, so we
felt we could trust him.
407
00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:03,010
EPSTEIN: I went down
to see them in Liverpool
408
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at the Cavern Club.
409
00:21:04,490 --> 00:21:07,980
EMCEE: The Beatles
will sing "Some Other Girl."
410
00:21:14,830 --> 00:21:17,190
EPSTEIN: They were fresh,
and they were honest,
411
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and they had what I thought
was a sort of presence,
412
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and there's this terrible
vague term, star quality.
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Whatever that is, they had it.
414
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♪ Some other guy now
415
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♪ Has taken my love away from me
416
00:21:35,220 --> 00:21:36,670
♪ Some other guy now
417
00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:40,440
♪ Has taken away
my sweet desire, oh no ♪
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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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00:21:46,790 --> 00:21:50,250
a vision of us
that was beyond the vision
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we had of ourselves.
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EPSTEIN: Backstage,
they were playing
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around the clubs in Liverpool.
424
00:22:01,680 --> 00:22:03,530
Rather scruffily dressed,
425
00:22:03,540 --> 00:22:05,570
black leather jackets and jeans,
426
00:22:05,580 --> 00:22:09,040
and rather untidy
stage presentation,
427
00:22:09,050 --> 00:22:11,410
but having great fun.
428
00:22:11,420 --> 00:22:13,010
But I don't think
they would have bothered
429
00:22:13,020 --> 00:22:15,410
to do anything about it,
because young,
430
00:22:15,420 --> 00:22:19,550
inexperienced people
are not really very good
431
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,290
at presenting themselves
properly
432
00:22:21,300 --> 00:22:24,690
in the right sort of quarters.
433
00:22:24,700 --> 00:22:27,930
He took us to a tailor...
434
00:22:27,940 --> 00:22:29,930
and we went to this guy,
435
00:22:29,940 --> 00:22:31,910
and he made us up suits,
you know.
436
00:22:35,180 --> 00:22:36,330
I'm not sure exactly what time
437
00:22:36,340 --> 00:22:37,670
we'll be back in Washington.
438
00:22:37,680 --> 00:22:39,000
We're going
to Washington tomorrow,
439
00:22:39,010 --> 00:22:41,040
and we'll be coming back
on Wednesday.
440
00:22:41,050 --> 00:22:42,670
Bye.
441
00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,620
PAUL: Brian
kept us together as a team.
442
00:22:50,460 --> 00:22:51,950
What place do you think
443
00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:53,580
this story of the Beatles
is gonna have
444
00:22:53,590 --> 00:22:56,020
in the history
of Western culture?
445
00:22:56,030 --> 00:22:58,220
You must be kiddin'
with that question.
446
00:22:58,230 --> 00:22:59,820
Culture, it's not culture.
447
00:22:59,830 --> 00:23:01,550
‐ REPORTER: What is it?
‐ It's a good laugh.
448
00:23:04,970 --> 00:23:06,660
This is Carroll James,
449
00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:10,270
and now, from the
Washington, D. C., Coliseum,
450
00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:12,800
the world's most exciting group,
451
00:23:12,810 --> 00:23:17,380
Capitol recording stars,
the Beatles.
452
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PAUL: You know, the suits.
453
00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,450
It's the simplest of ideas.
454
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It suddenly made us one person.
455
00:23:27,430 --> 00:23:29,400
A four‐headed monster.
456
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,890
Thank you.
457
00:24:00,900 --> 00:24:04,450
Thank you very much, everybody,
458
00:24:04,460 --> 00:24:08,170
and good evening, how do you do?
459
00:24:09,200 --> 00:24:11,700
We would like to sing a song
460
00:24:11,710 --> 00:24:15,400
which we recorded
on an LP that we made,
461
00:24:15,410 --> 00:24:16,730
and that's English for album,
462
00:24:16,740 --> 00:24:18,900
an album that we made,
and we'd like you,
463
00:24:18,910 --> 00:24:20,610
we'd like you, if you would,
464
00:24:20,620 --> 00:24:23,310
to sort of join in
and clap your hands, you know,
465
00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:25,050
and stamp your feet.
466
00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,450
The song's called
"I Saw Her Standing There."
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00:24:30,460 --> 00:24:31,950
One, two, three, four!
468
00:24:37,460 --> 00:24:39,860
♪ Well, she was just 17
469
00:24:39,870 --> 00:24:42,630
♪ You know what I mean
470
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:44,500
♪ And the way she looked
471
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♪ Was way beyond compare
472
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:53,970
♪ How could I dance with another
473
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♪ When I saw her standing there
474
00:25:00,220 --> 00:25:02,780
♪ She looked at me
475
00:25:02,790 --> 00:25:05,650
♪ And I, I could see
476
00:25:05,660 --> 00:25:11,690
♪ That before too long,
I'd fall in love with her
477
00:25:11,700 --> 00:25:16,760
♪ She wouldn't dance
with another
478
00:25:16,770 --> 00:25:23,200
♪ When I saw her standin' there
479
00:25:23,210 --> 00:25:25,800
♪ Well my heart went boom
480
00:25:25,810 --> 00:25:28,770
♪ When I crossed that room
481
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♪ And I held her hand in mine
482
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,490
♪ Well, we danced
through the night
483
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♪ And we held each other tight
484
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,320
♪ And before too long
485
00:25:45,330 --> 00:25:48,860
♪ I fell in love with her
486
00:25:48,870 --> 00:25:55,300
♪ Now I'll never dance
with another
487
00:25:55,310 --> 00:26:00,210
♪ Since I saw her standing there
488
00:26:24,840 --> 00:26:27,470
♪ We danced through the night
489
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:29,970
♪ And we held each other tight
490
00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:35,440
♪ And before too long
I fell in love with her
491
00:26:35,450 --> 00:26:40,850
♪ Now I'll dance with another
492
00:26:40,860 --> 00:26:47,520
♪ Since I saw her standin' there
493
00:26:47,530 --> 00:26:53,020
♪ Well, since I saw her
standing' there
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♪ Since I saw her
standin' there ♪
495
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‐ REPORTER: Which one are you?
‐ Eric.
496
00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,560
Eric?
497
00:27:29,570 --> 00:27:33,360
It's not for me, it's for Paul.
498
00:27:33,370 --> 00:27:35,930
I'm doing a sh‐‐
499
00:27:35,940 --> 00:27:38,640
Eric, here is
the American public.
500
00:27:38,650 --> 00:27:40,340
‐ I'm John.
‐ You're John?
501
00:27:40,350 --> 00:27:41,840
It was only a joke.
502
00:27:41,850 --> 00:27:43,240
Yes, well John, here
is the American public.
503
00:27:43,250 --> 00:27:45,410
40 million American viewers
staring you‐‐
504
00:27:45,420 --> 00:27:47,650
‐ Only looks like one man to me.
‐ Staring you right in the face.
505
00:27:47,660 --> 00:27:49,080
Oh, it's the camera man.
506
00:27:49,090 --> 00:27:50,480
What is your impression
of the American public?
507
00:27:50,490 --> 00:27:51,620
You've been here
for a while now.
508
00:27:51,630 --> 00:27:52,720
They are the wildest.
509
00:27:52,730 --> 00:27:54,250
‐ Why?
‐ I don't know.
510
00:27:54,260 --> 00:27:57,350
Tonight was,
the mob was ridiculous.
511
00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,160
All those 8,000 people
all shouting at once,
512
00:28:00,170 --> 00:28:01,860
and we were trying to shout
louder than them
513
00:28:01,870 --> 00:28:03,530
with microphones,
and we still couldn't beat 'em.
514
00:28:03,540 --> 00:28:05,960
Was America something like
what you though it would be?
515
00:28:05,970 --> 00:28:07,600
No, nothing like. We thought it
would be much quieter.
516
00:28:07,610 --> 00:28:09,800
We thought, you know,
we'd have to grow on everybody,
517
00:28:09,810 --> 00:28:12,000
and everybody
seems to know us all
518
00:28:12,010 --> 00:28:15,040
as if we've been here
for years, it's great.
519
00:28:15,050 --> 00:28:16,910
I love the Beatles for them
and I'll always love them,
520
00:28:16,920 --> 00:28:19,640
even when I'm
a 105‐year‐old grandmother,
521
00:28:19,650 --> 00:28:21,110
I'll love 'em,
and Paul McCartney,
522
00:28:21,120 --> 00:28:23,650
if you are listening,
Adrian from Brooklyn
523
00:28:23,660 --> 00:28:25,650
loves you with all her heart.
524
00:28:27,330 --> 00:28:29,590
PAUL: It's a romantic
thing to us, being in America,
525
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,120
playing to our American fans.
526
00:28:32,130 --> 00:28:35,030
‐ Ringo has a sexy nose!
‐ A sexy nose?
527
00:28:35,040 --> 00:28:36,590
George has got sexy eyelashes.
528
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:37,630
Who has?
529
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:38,960
George has got sexy eyelashes.
530
00:28:38,970 --> 00:28:41,830
‐ Which one is George?
‐ That one.
531
00:28:41,840 --> 00:28:44,200
He's got sexy eyelashes.
532
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,310
PAUL: The very
earliest records were all
533
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:52,510
pleas to the fans, and it
was all personal articles.
534
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:55,750
JOHN: In the early days,
we didn't count lyrics at all,
535
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:58,620
as long as it had some vague
theme.
536
00:28:58,630 --> 00:29:02,290
She loves you and he loves
him and they love each other.
537
00:29:02,300 --> 00:29:05,790
♪ So hold, hold, me tight,
me tight
538
00:29:05,800 --> 00:29:08,630
♪ Tonight, tonight,
tonight, tonight
539
00:29:08,640 --> 00:29:12,500
♪ It's you
540
00:29:12,510 --> 00:29:16,630
♪ You, you, you ♪
541
00:29:16,640 --> 00:29:18,940
It's all direct,
it's kind of conscious.
542
00:29:18,950 --> 00:29:21,440
We were actually
appealing to girls.
543
00:29:21,450 --> 00:29:23,910
We're young boys,
we're appealing to girls
544
00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:25,680
to get our fan base.
545
00:29:25,690 --> 00:29:29,280
♪ You ♪
546
00:29:29,290 --> 00:29:31,020
In those days has, yeah.
547
00:29:31,030 --> 00:29:34,420
‐ ‐ Go on.
548
00:29:34,430 --> 00:29:37,920
You, yourselves, you write
very good songs. Don't you?
549
00:29:37,930 --> 00:29:39,690
Oh, thank you, thank you.
550
00:29:39,700 --> 00:29:40,730
How do you write songs?
551
00:29:41,900 --> 00:29:44,130
Well, you know, it just depends.
552
00:29:44,140 --> 00:29:45,660
Sometimes we write them
on old pianos,
553
00:29:45,670 --> 00:29:47,330
and anything
that's lying around.
554
00:29:47,340 --> 00:29:50,770
Normally we sit down
and try and bash one out.
555
00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:53,140
But then again,
there's no formula,
556
00:29:53,150 --> 00:29:55,370
'cause he can come up
with one one day,
557
00:29:55,380 --> 00:30:00,980
completely finished, we still
say we both wrote it though.
558
00:30:00,990 --> 00:30:05,680
♪ I got ever reason
on Earth to be mad
559
00:30:05,690 --> 00:30:10,590
♪ 'Cause I just lost
the only girl I had ♪
560
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:12,290
JOHN: We got a single
every three months
561
00:30:12,300 --> 00:30:14,590
and we'd have be writing
literally in the hotel
562
00:30:14,600 --> 00:30:16,390
or in the van.
563
00:30:16,400 --> 00:30:17,760
We wrote on the road.
564
00:30:17,770 --> 00:30:18,930
Mainly me and John.
565
00:30:18,940 --> 00:30:21,100
George developed
as a writer later,
566
00:30:21,110 --> 00:30:22,670
and became
an unbelievable writer,
567
00:30:22,680 --> 00:30:25,170
but at the beginning
it was mainly me and John.
568
00:30:25,180 --> 00:30:28,710
So we'd be in a hotel
room with two twin beds,
569
00:30:28,720 --> 00:30:32,810
and he'd have his acoustic
guitar, I'd have mine,
570
00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:34,440
sit opposite each other,
and because
571
00:30:34,450 --> 00:30:35,950
I was left‐handed,
he was right‐handed.
572
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,750
It was like
looking in the mirror.
573
00:30:37,760 --> 00:30:42,120
And we'd just start something
and ricochet of each other.
574
00:30:42,130 --> 00:30:44,860
He'd do a line, I'd do a line,
we'd just write it down.
575
00:30:44,870 --> 00:30:46,490
And when we were finished,
576
00:30:46,500 --> 00:30:48,430
we didn't have a manuscript,
but we had a sheet of paper
577
00:30:48,440 --> 00:30:52,030
with the words,
and we remembered the chords.
578
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,270
Yeah, it's number one
in Cashbox and Billboard.
579
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:02,340
Yeah, you know,
in New York, three records,
580
00:31:02,350 --> 00:31:03,970
"Please Please Me,"
"She Loves You,"
581
00:31:03,980 --> 00:31:05,940
and "I Want to Hold Your
Hand" are all number one.
582
00:31:07,690 --> 00:31:10,150
Paul, John, yeah.
Thanks.
583
00:31:10,160 --> 00:31:12,420
But we'll see you, you know,
in two weeks, I suppose.
584
00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:22,160
My relationship
with John was very close.
585
00:31:22,170 --> 00:31:26,230
Musically, you know, we looked
after each other, really.
586
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:28,730
It's like someone you kind
of looked up to a little bit.
587
00:31:28,740 --> 00:31:33,040
When I first met him,
I talked to people in my life,
588
00:31:33,050 --> 00:31:34,240
and they say,
what do you like to do,
589
00:31:34,250 --> 00:31:36,170
What are your hobbies and stuff?
590
00:31:36,180 --> 00:31:37,340
And I sort of said,
I like songwriting,
591
00:31:37,350 --> 00:31:38,980
I've written a couple of songs.
592
00:31:38,990 --> 00:31:41,150
And they'd all go,
Oh, yeah, great.
593
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,280
What did you think
about the football?
594
00:31:43,290 --> 00:31:45,750
And I'd go, oh, okay,
nobody interested.
595
00:31:45,760 --> 00:31:49,450
When I said that to John,
he said, oh, so am I.
596
00:31:49,460 --> 00:31:52,320
I go, wow, wait a minute,
big connection here.
597
00:31:52,330 --> 00:31:55,130
I'd never met anyone
who'd written songs.
598
00:31:55,140 --> 00:31:58,060
So that's how we started.
599
00:31:58,070 --> 00:32:00,630
I think it's something like
just short of 300 songs
600
00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:02,170
John and I wrote together.
601
00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:26,390
♪ She loves you,
yeah, yeah, yeah
602
00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,760
♪ She loves you, yeah,
yeah, yeah ♪
603
00:32:28,770 --> 00:32:33,600
♪ With a love like that,
you know you should be glad ♪
604
00:32:33,610 --> 00:32:36,470
My mother's father,
who was from Liverpool.
605
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:40,540
There was that pride thing,
they were from Liverpool.
606
00:32:40,550 --> 00:32:41,870
And nine years old.
607
00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,410
When your favorite group
is the Beatles,
608
00:32:44,420 --> 00:32:46,380
it is like supporting
a winning football team,
609
00:32:46,390 --> 00:32:49,310
because they just keep
winning the cup.
610
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:51,520
You'd wait all week
to hear the hit parade show
611
00:32:51,530 --> 00:32:53,650
so that you would hear,
for sure, the Beatles' song,
612
00:32:53,660 --> 00:32:55,450
because they would
get to number one.
613
00:32:55,460 --> 00:32:58,790
Top British vocal group,
top four records of the year,
614
00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:02,730
the world's leading
vocal group, the Beatles!
615
00:33:12,710 --> 00:33:15,810
♪ Can't buy me love
616
00:33:15,820 --> 00:33:17,740
♪ Love
617
00:33:17,750 --> 00:33:20,680
♪ Can't buy me love
618
00:33:20,690 --> 00:33:23,180
♪ I'll buy you a diamond ring,
my friend
619
00:33:23,190 --> 00:33:26,280
♪ If it makes you
feel all right
620
00:33:26,290 --> 00:33:28,150
♪ I'll get you anything,
my friend
621
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:30,820
♪ If it makes you
feel all right
622
00:33:30,830 --> 00:33:33,490
♪ 'Cause I don't care
too much for money
623
00:33:33,500 --> 00:33:36,330
♪ Money can't buy me love ♪
624
00:33:36,340 --> 00:33:38,260
For some reason,
whatever we were putting out,
625
00:33:38,270 --> 00:33:41,200
they were loving it.
626
00:33:41,210 --> 00:33:43,370
And they loved us
wherever we went.
627
00:33:43,380 --> 00:33:45,600
It was a surprise to us, too.
628
00:33:45,610 --> 00:33:48,970
MAN: John, Paul,
George o Ringo. The Beatles!
629
00:33:56,620 --> 00:33:58,120
It was a different kind of fame,
630
00:33:58,130 --> 00:33:59,420
because we didn't have
social media,
631
00:33:59,430 --> 00:34:01,820
we didn't have
satellite television,
632
00:34:01,830 --> 00:34:03,090
and yet the word would spread
633
00:34:03,100 --> 00:34:04,660
that this group would be coming.
634
00:34:04,670 --> 00:34:07,300
Once it was big in one country,
it got bigger in the next.
635
00:34:11,270 --> 00:34:12,600
JOHN: Australia,
there was more people
636
00:34:12,610 --> 00:34:14,530
come to see us there
than anywhere.
637
00:34:14,540 --> 00:34:16,000
I mean, it looked like, I think,
638
00:34:16,010 --> 00:34:18,370
the whole of Australia
was there.
639
00:34:18,380 --> 00:34:19,700
Along the nine‐mile route
640
00:34:19,710 --> 00:34:21,570
from Adelaide Airport
to the city,
641
00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:25,340
almost a quarter of a million
people lined the street.
642
00:34:25,350 --> 00:34:28,450
My picture of it,
there was a ship
643
00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:31,050
going to discover the New World.
644
00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:33,280
And the Beatles
were in the crow's nest,
645
00:34:33,290 --> 00:34:35,650
and we just said land ho.
646
00:34:35,660 --> 00:34:40,160
♪ The second time
I caught you talking to him
647
00:34:40,170 --> 00:34:42,230
♪ Do I have to tell you
one more time
648
00:34:42,240 --> 00:34:43,790
♪ I think it's a sin
649
00:34:43,800 --> 00:34:46,660
♪ I'm gonna let you down
650
00:34:46,670 --> 00:34:47,480
♪ Let you down
651
00:34:47,480 --> 00:34:48,830
♪ Gonna leave you flat
652
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,240
♪ Gonna let you down
and leave you flat
653
00:34:51,250 --> 00:34:53,840
♪ Because I told you before
654
00:34:53,850 --> 00:34:56,570
♪ Oh, you can't do that ♪
655
00:34:56,580 --> 00:34:58,440
And so we were all
on this ship in the sea,
656
00:34:58,450 --> 00:35:00,650
not just Beatles,
but our movement
657
00:35:00,660 --> 00:35:04,750
and our generation,
and we went somewhere.
658
00:35:06,860 --> 00:35:09,390
And of course,
next most extraordinary thing
659
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,390
is the fantasy version
of the Beatles from '64,
660
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:15,190
you know, Hard Day's Night.
661
00:35:17,510 --> 00:35:20,600
♪ It's been a hard day's night
662
00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:24,130
♪ And I've been workin'
like a dog
663
00:35:24,140 --> 00:35:27,370
♪ It's been
a hard day's night
664
00:35:27,380 --> 00:35:30,780
♪ I should be sleepin'
like a log ♪
665
00:35:30,790 --> 00:35:32,840
MAN: You fancy yourselves
as actors then, do you?
666
00:35:32,850 --> 00:35:36,450
No, definitely not,
but we enjoyed making the film,
667
00:35:36,460 --> 00:35:38,650
and especially
with the director.
668
00:35:38,660 --> 00:35:40,220
The director was great, you see,
669
00:35:40,230 --> 00:35:42,850
and it made it
much easier for us.
670
00:35:42,860 --> 00:35:44,490
United Artists said,
671
00:35:44,500 --> 00:35:46,860
"You ought to be able
to make a good, quick,
672
00:35:46,870 --> 00:35:49,290
low‐budget film with them,
673
00:35:49,300 --> 00:35:52,330
as long as it's
in the cinemas by July,
674
00:35:52,340 --> 00:35:55,070
because we think they'll
be probably a spent force
675
00:35:55,080 --> 00:35:57,200
by the end of the summer."
676
00:35:57,210 --> 00:36:00,040
‐ Give us a kiss.
‐ I shall call a guard.
677
00:36:00,050 --> 00:36:05,110
Ah, but what? They don't take
kindly to insults, you know.
678
00:36:05,120 --> 00:36:06,810
The only thing that was a plan
679
00:36:06,820 --> 00:36:08,980
through the seven weeks
of the shoot
680
00:36:08,990 --> 00:36:11,780
is that sense of protection.
681
00:36:11,790 --> 00:36:15,690
Being protective when they had
to be supporting one another
682
00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:17,420
in a family way.
683
00:36:17,430 --> 00:36:20,500
♪ It's been a hard day's night ♪
684
00:36:21,690 --> 00:36:23,830
One of the things
about Hard Day's Night,
685
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:25,560
and everything you
heard about the Beatles
686
00:36:25,570 --> 00:36:28,260
is the lack of self‐pity,
that we had a feeling
687
00:36:28,270 --> 00:36:30,660
they were adoring what
was happening to them,
688
00:36:30,670 --> 00:36:34,060
and that made it like
a completely virtuous circle.
689
00:36:34,070 --> 00:36:39,040
Fan, Beatles,
fun, excitement, music.
690
00:36:39,050 --> 00:36:41,270
And of course,
everybody in the world
691
00:36:41,280 --> 00:36:43,480
could buy tickets to see them.
692
00:36:49,560 --> 00:36:51,180
MALCOLM GLADWELL: What
you're seeing is the emergence
693
00:36:51,190 --> 00:36:53,950
of this international
teen culture.
694
00:36:53,960 --> 00:36:59,790
If you're 14 in 1964, who are
you looking to for cues?
695
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:01,500
Not your parents.
696
00:37:02,700 --> 00:37:03,830
♪ I should be sleepin' ♪
697
00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:05,300
Beatles hysteria is sort of
698
00:37:05,310 --> 00:37:07,500
a muscle flexing
of that generation.
699
00:37:07,510 --> 00:37:09,170
The baby boom.
700
00:37:09,180 --> 00:37:11,470
It's no accident you see all
this kind of youth culture
701
00:37:11,480 --> 00:37:13,340
coming out of that time,
because quite literally,
702
00:37:13,350 --> 00:37:16,840
the society is dominated
by teenagers.
703
00:37:16,850 --> 00:37:19,840
♪ You know I feel all right ♪
704
00:37:40,740 --> 00:37:46,100
♪ Gonna write a little letter,
mail it to my local DJ
705
00:37:46,110 --> 00:37:47,510
♪ It's a rocking little record
706
00:37:47,520 --> 00:37:51,480
♪ I want my jockey to play
707
00:37:51,490 --> 00:37:52,880
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
708
00:37:52,890 --> 00:37:57,320
♪ Gotta hear it again,
today
709
00:37:57,330 --> 00:37:58,820
♪ You know
my temperature's rising
710
00:37:58,830 --> 00:38:02,490
♪ And the jukebox
blows a fuse
711
00:38:02,500 --> 00:38:03,860
♪ My heart beating rhythm
712
00:38:03,870 --> 00:38:07,890
♪ While my soul
is singin' the blues
713
00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:09,390
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
714
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:13,870
♪ Dig these rhythm and blues ♪
715
00:38:28,690 --> 00:38:31,620
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
716
00:38:31,630 --> 00:38:34,020
♪ Roll over,
Beethoven
717
00:38:34,030 --> 00:38:37,060
PAUL: The first time
we went to America
718
00:38:37,070 --> 00:38:40,260
it was just 10 days,
so when we came back,
719
00:38:40,270 --> 00:38:46,300
they were waiting for us.
720
00:38:46,310 --> 00:38:47,730
Tell me, several people
721
00:38:47,740 --> 00:38:50,070
on these radio programs
want to know,
722
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,970
what do you plan to do
when the bubble bursts?
723
00:38:52,980 --> 00:38:54,240
Aw, shut up, Fred.
724
00:38:56,450 --> 00:38:59,040
We're gonna have a laugh.
725
00:38:59,050 --> 00:39:01,480
The biggest question in 1964
726
00:39:01,490 --> 00:39:04,250
was when is
the bubble gonna burst?
727
00:39:04,260 --> 00:39:07,990
WFUN South Miami.
728
00:39:08,000 --> 00:39:11,590
I was 21 years old, news
director of a station in Miami,
729
00:39:11,600 --> 00:39:14,530
WFUN, Fun in the Sun Radio.
730
00:39:17,770 --> 00:39:20,330
We got word that the Beatles
were gonna come to America,
731
00:39:20,340 --> 00:39:23,500
and I wrote a letter asking
for an interview with them,
732
00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:25,870
and I sent it to
Brian Epstein, their manager.
733
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:29,340
I got this letter back,
inviting me on the tour.
734
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:37,550
And I said, I'm not goin'.
735
00:39:37,560 --> 00:39:39,120
We got the war
in Vietnam escalating,
736
00:39:39,130 --> 00:39:40,620
the president just died,
737
00:39:40,630 --> 00:39:43,520
Muhammad Ali is training
three blocks from our studio,
738
00:39:43,530 --> 00:39:45,490
the Ford Mustang
is being released.
739
00:39:45,500 --> 00:39:47,690
It's one of
the biggest news years
740
00:39:47,700 --> 00:39:48,960
in the history of the world.
741
00:39:48,970 --> 00:39:51,930
Why would I, a news guy,
want to travel
742
00:39:51,940 --> 00:39:55,230
with a band that will
be here in October
743
00:39:55,240 --> 00:39:56,840
and go on in November?
744
00:39:59,480 --> 00:40:02,570
My boss had said, you gotta go.
745
00:40:02,580 --> 00:40:05,810
My father pulled me aside
before I went on tour,
746
00:40:05,820 --> 00:40:07,550
and he said, watch your back,
747
00:40:07,560 --> 00:40:09,840
these men are
a menace to society.
748
00:40:12,730 --> 00:40:15,850
♪ It's been a hard day's night
749
00:40:15,860 --> 00:40:19,990
♪ And I've been workin'
like a dog ♪
750
00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:22,490
This is Larry Kane,
on tour with the Beatles.
751
00:40:22,500 --> 00:40:24,130
Let me give you
a little description
752
00:40:24,140 --> 00:40:25,960
of the dangers of being
with the Beatles.
753
00:40:25,970 --> 00:40:27,770
When we drove up
to the stage door,
754
00:40:27,780 --> 00:40:30,370
the Beatles were
almost crushed completely
755
00:40:30,380 --> 00:40:32,770
by youngsters
who will mash themselves
756
00:40:32,780 --> 00:40:36,170
against the wall,
broke about 50 windows,
757
00:40:36,180 --> 00:40:41,050
throwed rocks, jelly beans,
undershirts, sandals.
758
00:40:41,060 --> 00:40:42,810
The situation
was one of sheer havoc,
759
00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:47,120
even though the police
did their best to stop it.
760
00:40:47,130 --> 00:40:51,090
The first couple of days,
there was a bewilderment.
761
00:40:51,100 --> 00:40:52,720
There was a wondrousness.
762
00:40:52,730 --> 00:40:54,090
Is this really happening to us?
763
00:40:54,100 --> 00:40:56,230
One girl stuck
her hand through the window
764
00:40:56,240 --> 00:40:57,760
and grabbed at my face.
765
00:40:57,770 --> 00:41:00,900
I'm okay, don't worry,
people, I'm all right.
766
00:41:00,910 --> 00:41:03,740
Four cities later,
in Vancouver, British Columbia,
767
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:07,750
7,000 kids rushed the stage.
768
00:41:24,430 --> 00:41:25,890
Thank you, folks!
769
00:41:25,900 --> 00:41:28,730
Before we do the next song.
770
00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:30,860
DEREK TAYLOR: Excuse me,
ladies and gentlemen,
771
00:41:30,870 --> 00:41:33,670
the Beatles have come
a long way to do this show.
772
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:35,830
We have to cut it short
unless you move back.
773
00:41:35,840 --> 00:41:38,470
They're very worried about
the situation in the front.
774
00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,570
Back, back, back.
775
00:41:41,580 --> 00:41:44,940
240 kids wound up
in the hospital.
776
00:41:44,950 --> 00:41:48,080
None of the police
in any of these cities
777
00:41:48,090 --> 00:41:49,780
were prepared for this.
778
00:41:49,790 --> 00:41:51,650
Nobody was prepared for this.
779
00:41:51,660 --> 00:41:54,220
Wouldn't you say, Derek,
that police departments
780
00:41:54,230 --> 00:41:56,660
don't realize how bad it is?
781
00:41:56,670 --> 00:41:57,820
I think that's true.
782
00:41:57,830 --> 00:41:59,730
They've all seen crowds before.
783
00:41:59,740 --> 00:42:01,830
I mean, they all say,
we know our own people,
784
00:42:01,840 --> 00:42:03,390
we know the police potential,
785
00:42:03,400 --> 00:42:04,960
and we're going
to be able to handle it.
786
00:42:04,970 --> 00:42:06,830
But what they've never seen
is a Beatle crowd.
787
00:42:06,840 --> 00:42:09,540
This is the biggest thing
that's ever happened.
788
00:42:09,550 --> 00:42:11,370
There's no question about it.
789
00:42:11,380 --> 00:42:12,740
It's like nothing before.
790
00:42:12,750 --> 00:42:14,070
It's not like Presley,
not like Sinatra,
791
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,970
it's not like the late
President Kennedy.
792
00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:18,640
It's the Beatles,
and they are without precedent.
793
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:21,980
Thank you!
794
00:42:21,990 --> 00:42:24,280
Thank you very much,
everybody, ciao.
795
00:42:24,290 --> 00:42:26,720
You're wonderful, thank you.
796
00:42:26,730 --> 00:42:31,890
Singin' a song from the first
album that we ever made,
797
00:42:31,900 --> 00:42:33,990
a song which
was originally recorded
798
00:42:34,000 --> 00:42:36,600
by a group called the Shirelles,
799
00:42:36,610 --> 00:42:38,130
just a little chicken.
800
00:42:38,140 --> 00:42:40,170
Yeah, yeah.
801
00:42:40,180 --> 00:42:43,230
Singin' a song
called "Boys," Ringo!
802
00:42:49,590 --> 00:42:52,680
♪ I've been told
when a boy kiss a girl
803
00:42:52,690 --> 00:42:55,880
♪ Take a trip
around the world, hey, hey
804
00:42:55,890 --> 00:42:58,080
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop
805
00:42:58,090 --> 00:42:58,990
♪ Oh, now
806
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,120
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop
807
00:43:01,130 --> 00:43:02,030
♪ Hey, hey
808
00:43:02,030 --> 00:43:03,590
♪ Bop shoo‐wop,
bop bop shoo‐wop
809
00:43:03,600 --> 00:43:08,030
♪ Whoa, yeah
she say you do, yeah ♪
810
00:43:08,040 --> 00:43:10,700
I was way in the back,
way at the top,
811
00:43:10,710 --> 00:43:13,360
surrounded by lots of girls
812
00:43:13,370 --> 00:43:19,400
really crying, real tears,
and so beside themselves.
813
00:43:19,410 --> 00:43:22,210
I felt as much as
a girl can feel.
814
00:43:22,220 --> 00:43:23,940
I was in love with John.
815
00:43:23,950 --> 00:43:27,980
I remember spending all day
putting my hair in beer cans
816
00:43:27,990 --> 00:43:30,620
to make sure it was straight,
'cause I had curly hair.
817
00:43:30,630 --> 00:43:32,150
Picking up the dress,
because of course,
818
00:43:32,160 --> 00:43:36,790
they would see me,
along with 15,000 girls.
819
00:43:36,800 --> 00:43:39,930
It was this sense
of world music,
820
00:43:39,940 --> 00:43:43,160
that we were all loving
them all over the world.
821
00:43:43,170 --> 00:43:46,160
♪ My girl says
when I kiss her lips ♪
822
00:43:46,170 --> 00:43:47,630
This is Larry Kane onboard
823
00:43:47,640 --> 00:43:49,130
the Beatle Bird, as I call it.
824
00:43:49,140 --> 00:43:50,970
I have with me George Harrison.
How you doin' George?
825
00:43:50,980 --> 00:43:52,900
GEORGE: I'm very well,
Larry, and how are you?
826
00:43:52,910 --> 00:43:54,340
LARRY: Fine, you glad
to be back in America?
827
00:43:54,350 --> 00:43:55,970
GEORGE: Yeah, it's great.
828
00:43:55,980 --> 00:43:58,510
This is Larry Kane with the
Beatles, flying across America.
829
00:43:58,520 --> 00:43:59,880
With me I have Ringo Starr.
830
00:43:59,890 --> 00:44:02,550
Right over Kansas,
3,000 feet in the air.
831
00:44:02,560 --> 00:44:03,620
We're on our way to Cincinnati.
832
00:44:03,630 --> 00:44:05,020
They had a wild one yesterday.
833
00:44:05,030 --> 00:44:07,920
On his exciting,
25‐city coast‐to‐coast tour.
834
00:44:07,930 --> 00:44:09,720
Atlantic City, Philadelphia,
but let's talk a little bit
835
00:44:09,730 --> 00:44:11,890
about the crowds
at Indianapolis.
836
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:14,160
Back and forth again. The stage
set for Milwaukee tonight.
837
00:44:14,170 --> 00:44:15,830
You can hear the buzz
and excitement
838
00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:17,260
here at the Chicago
Amphitheater.
839
00:44:17,270 --> 00:44:18,830
Now in Detroit, Michigan.
840
00:44:18,840 --> 00:44:20,770
The Beatles really shook
up the crowd in Toronto.
841
00:44:20,780 --> 00:44:22,230
In Montreal, Canada.
842
00:44:22,240 --> 00:44:24,000
Hi, this is Larry Kane,
travelling with the Beatles.
843
00:44:24,010 --> 00:44:27,070
Let me explain to you
the type of feeling
844
00:44:27,080 --> 00:44:29,780
that you get
after 15 performances
845
00:44:29,790 --> 00:44:32,180
watching the Beatles in action,
846
00:44:32,190 --> 00:44:34,010
and watching the crowds.
847
00:44:34,020 --> 00:44:35,750
It's a chilling feeling inside
848
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:37,650
because you know
you are experiencing
849
00:44:37,660 --> 00:44:41,320
a phenomenon that is
the only one of its kind
850
00:44:41,330 --> 00:44:43,760
in this century thus far,
and it probably
851
00:44:43,770 --> 00:44:45,220
will go down in history
as the greatest
852
00:44:45,230 --> 00:44:51,000
show business example
of music and admiration
853
00:44:51,010 --> 00:44:54,800
in many, many hundreds of years.
854
00:44:54,810 --> 00:44:57,070
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys
855
00:44:57,080 --> 00:44:59,440
‐ ♪ Don't you know I mean boys
‐ ♪ Yeah, yeah, boys
856
00:44:59,450 --> 00:45:01,670
♪ Talkin' about boys now
857
00:45:01,680 --> 00:45:03,140
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys
858
00:45:04,420 --> 00:45:05,780
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys
859
00:45:05,790 --> 00:45:07,450
♪ Talkin' about boys now
860
00:45:07,460 --> 00:45:08,950
♪ Yeah, yeah, boys
861
00:45:08,960 --> 00:45:15,120
♪ What a bundle of joy ♪
862
00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:16,130
Thank you!
863
00:45:19,070 --> 00:45:21,160
Remember, too, that in 1964,
864
00:45:21,170 --> 00:45:23,660
there were riots
throughout the South
865
00:45:23,670 --> 00:45:27,230
because of
the civil rights movement.
866
00:45:27,240 --> 00:45:30,300
You started to feel
a social change happening.
867
00:45:30,310 --> 00:45:32,940
‐ Civil rights or civil war!
‐ This is Larry Kane.
868
00:45:32,950 --> 00:45:34,540
The big question mark
still with Jacksonville
869
00:45:34,550 --> 00:45:37,340
not knowing whether
they will be able to perform.
870
00:45:37,350 --> 00:45:40,210
I had received a report from
my station that the Gator Bowl
871
00:45:40,220 --> 00:45:42,410
in Jacksonville
was gonna be segregated,
872
00:45:42,420 --> 00:45:45,020
so I mentioned it
to them in the interview.
873
00:45:45,030 --> 00:45:47,490
What about this comment
that I heard about
874
00:45:47,500 --> 00:45:52,060
concerning racial integration
at the various performances?
875
00:45:52,070 --> 00:45:53,860
PAUL: We don't like it
if there's any segregation
876
00:45:53,870 --> 00:45:56,230
or anything, because
it just seems mad to me.
877
00:45:56,240 --> 00:45:58,030
LARRY: And I could see
Brian at the corner of the room
878
00:45:58,040 --> 00:45:59,400
goin' like, oh my God.
879
00:45:59,410 --> 00:46:01,200
Well, you're gonna play
Jacksonville, Florida.
880
00:46:01,210 --> 00:46:03,440
Do you anticipate any kind
of difference in that opinion?
881
00:46:03,450 --> 00:46:04,770
PAUL: I don't know, really,
882
00:46:04,780 --> 00:46:06,970
it'd be a bit silly
to segregate people
883
00:46:06,980 --> 00:46:09,410
'cause you know, it's
really stupid, isn't it?
884
00:46:09,420 --> 00:46:11,880
You can't treat other
human beings like animals.
885
00:46:11,890 --> 00:46:13,240
GEORGE: That's the way
we all feel.
886
00:46:13,250 --> 00:46:14,880
PAUL: That's the way
we all feel,
887
00:46:14,890 --> 00:46:16,350
and a lot of people
in England feel that way,
888
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:17,980
you know, because there's
never any segregation
889
00:46:17,990 --> 00:46:19,550
in concerts in England,
and in fact if there was,
890
00:46:19,560 --> 00:46:21,430
we wouldn't play 'em, you know.
891
00:46:23,730 --> 00:46:25,220
During that same summer,
892
00:46:25,230 --> 00:46:28,290
we had the three civil
rights workers in the South
893
00:46:28,300 --> 00:46:32,910
who were missing,
and then found dead.
894
00:46:35,540 --> 00:46:37,700
I was 15,
895
00:46:37,710 --> 00:46:41,110
living in segregation.
896
00:46:41,120 --> 00:46:43,940
It was an apartheid
that's probably difficult
897
00:46:43,950 --> 00:46:46,650
for a lot of people
to even picture.
898
00:46:46,660 --> 00:46:51,220
The only white person
I would even have contact with
899
00:46:51,230 --> 00:46:55,420
was a salesman who would
come into the community.
900
00:46:55,430 --> 00:46:58,660
It was ripe for something
different I think,
901
00:46:58,670 --> 00:47:05,360
at the time I heard that
the Beatles were coming to town.
902
00:47:05,370 --> 00:47:06,500
All of them, by the way,
903
00:47:06,510 --> 00:47:08,530
were very emphatic
about Jacksonville.
904
00:47:08,540 --> 00:47:11,070
They said that if there
was going to be segregation
905
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:13,270
of any kind, we're not going.
906
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:16,740
We play to people,
that's what we did.
907
00:47:16,750 --> 00:47:18,910
We didn't play to, like,
those people,
908
00:47:18,920 --> 00:47:20,710
or that people,
you know what I mean?
909
00:47:20,720 --> 00:47:23,520
We just played to people.
910
00:47:23,530 --> 00:47:25,720
It was amazing
that the four of them,
911
00:47:25,730 --> 00:47:27,850
young men seeing the world,
912
00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:30,890
started to act up
and blow back on this
913
00:47:30,900 --> 00:47:33,560
very, very hot
and sensitive issue
914
00:47:33,570 --> 00:47:37,960
knowing that it would really
irritate a lot of Americans.
915
00:47:37,970 --> 00:47:41,430
We had to all decide,
we agreed on a thing,
916
00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:43,100
before we'd do it.
917
00:47:43,110 --> 00:47:46,100
That is one of the classic
things about the Beatles.
918
00:47:46,110 --> 00:47:49,810
Four votes had to be carried
919
00:47:49,820 --> 00:47:52,610
for any idea to go trough.
920
00:47:52,620 --> 00:47:54,310
JOHN: Instead of going
for an individual thing,
921
00:47:54,320 --> 00:47:57,980
we went for the strongest
format, for equals.
922
00:47:57,990 --> 00:48:00,820
That was one thing
to be said about us,
923
00:48:00,830 --> 00:48:03,890
we were very, very close
to each other.
924
00:48:03,900 --> 00:48:05,860
We'd always stick together.
925
00:48:05,870 --> 00:48:09,190
PAUL: We all had to agree,
so there is a strong decision.
926
00:48:09,200 --> 00:48:10,200
You know,
the proof's in the puddin',
927
00:48:10,210 --> 00:48:12,030
it worked really well.
928
00:48:15,440 --> 00:48:19,400
It was my first concert,
and I went by myself.
929
00:48:19,410 --> 00:48:22,340
The only catch in my breath
that I got
930
00:48:22,350 --> 00:48:25,280
was when I went to my seat,
and there were
931
00:48:25,290 --> 00:48:27,380
all those other people
around me,
932
00:48:27,390 --> 00:48:30,380
and I still can feel that
to this day,
933
00:48:30,390 --> 00:48:32,880
that there were all these
white people around,
934
00:48:32,890 --> 00:48:34,950
but I remember standing up
with everybody,
935
00:48:34,960 --> 00:48:39,430
and just yelling
as loud as I could
936
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,300
and singin' along.
937
00:48:50,380 --> 00:48:53,570
That was
the first experience I had
938
00:48:53,580 --> 00:48:55,270
where it was possible
to be around people
939
00:48:55,280 --> 00:48:57,840
who were different,
and at least for a while,
940
00:48:57,850 --> 00:48:59,950
those differences
could disappear.
941
00:49:01,260 --> 00:49:03,050
♪ If I fell in love with you
942
00:49:03,060 --> 00:49:05,920
♪ Would you promise to be true
943
00:49:05,930 --> 00:49:07,920
♪ And help me
944
00:49:07,930 --> 00:49:09,520
♪ Understand
945
00:49:09,530 --> 00:49:11,260
♪ 'Cause I've been
in love before ♪
946
00:49:11,270 --> 00:49:12,790
The people
who ran the Gator Bowl
947
00:49:12,800 --> 00:49:15,060
integrated
for the first time ever,
948
00:49:15,070 --> 00:49:17,200
which from my historical
perspective and study,
949
00:49:17,210 --> 00:49:21,530
ended all that in most of
the big stadiums in the South.
950
00:49:21,540 --> 00:49:23,100
And the next eight days
are probably
951
00:49:23,110 --> 00:49:24,640
the most grueling of the tour.
952
00:49:24,650 --> 00:49:27,710
It looks like the Beatles
are holding up strong.
953
00:49:27,720 --> 00:49:30,540
Every night on the airplane
they would go up,
954
00:49:30,550 --> 00:49:34,150
up to the front of the plane
where the opening acts were,
955
00:49:34,160 --> 00:49:36,450
and kneel down and talk to them.
956
00:49:36,460 --> 00:49:39,080
Every single night,
they would ask them
957
00:49:39,090 --> 00:49:40,990
if they were okay,
because they were
958
00:49:41,000 --> 00:49:42,520
being ignored by the crowd.
959
00:49:42,530 --> 00:49:45,360
This is Larry Kane
traveling with the Beatles,
960
00:49:45,370 --> 00:49:47,060
and they're looking forward
to going back to England,
961
00:49:47,070 --> 00:49:48,530
because they'll be there
for two weeks,
962
00:49:48,540 --> 00:49:51,000
where they'll record records,
and do music,
963
00:49:51,010 --> 00:49:52,200
and that's believe it or not,
964
00:49:52,210 --> 00:49:54,330
another month‐long tour,
this time
965
00:49:54,340 --> 00:49:56,770
in their own country,
sometimes just by bus,
966
00:49:56,780 --> 00:49:59,540
and that's pretty hard.
967
00:49:59,550 --> 00:50:03,010
My mother died
in the summer of 1964,
968
00:50:03,020 --> 00:50:04,640
and somehow or another,
it got to them
969
00:50:04,650 --> 00:50:06,450
that she had passed away,
970
00:50:06,460 --> 00:50:10,520
and Paul and John
both consoled me.
971
00:50:10,530 --> 00:50:13,520
PAUL: John and I,
we both lost our mothers.
972
00:50:13,530 --> 00:50:16,720
Mine had died of cancer,
and his had died
973
00:50:16,730 --> 00:50:18,460
in a terrible road accident,
974
00:50:18,470 --> 00:50:21,290
so that kind of
pulled us together a lot.
975
00:50:21,300 --> 00:50:22,590
You know, bein' teenagers,
we each needed
976
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:24,760
to do something
that would get us away
977
00:50:24,770 --> 00:50:29,300
from this tragedy, and so
songwriting was it, really.
978
00:50:29,310 --> 00:50:33,810
♪ 'Cause I couldn't
stand the pain ♪
979
00:50:33,820 --> 00:50:36,710
They were very, very sensitive
to other people's feelings.
980
00:50:36,720 --> 00:50:38,410
All four of them.
981
00:50:38,420 --> 00:50:41,710
They were intelligent people
who cared about other people,
982
00:50:41,720 --> 00:50:44,350
who had a sense of themselves.
983
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,280
They also liked
making fun of me.
984
00:50:46,290 --> 00:50:47,890
John, last night
you were very kind,
985
00:50:47,900 --> 00:50:50,420
and Derek was very kind to
invite us up to see the movie,
986
00:50:50,430 --> 00:50:51,990
which we have seen twice.
987
00:50:52,000 --> 00:50:53,320
JOHN: I never
invited him at all.
988
00:50:53,330 --> 00:50:55,290
I just saw him sittin' there
listenin'.
989
00:50:55,300 --> 00:50:56,330
LARRY: Well, anyway.
990
00:50:56,340 --> 00:50:58,930
JOHN: Only kiddin', Larry.
991
00:50:58,940 --> 00:51:00,270
This has been Larry Kane
992
00:51:00,280 --> 00:51:02,610
traveling with the Beatles.
993
00:51:12,390 --> 00:51:14,280
It's extraordinary,
when you think about it
994
00:51:14,290 --> 00:51:18,220
that they were touring
in this kind of circus of life.
995
00:51:18,230 --> 00:51:20,750
The sort of madness
of all that jamboree
996
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,220
of excitement and hysteria.
997
00:51:23,230 --> 00:51:25,790
And yet,
they were able to express
998
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:28,530
the way they were feeling,
the weirdness of it,
999
00:51:28,540 --> 00:51:31,800
because inside
those Beatles suits,
1000
00:51:31,810 --> 00:51:33,730
were composers.
1001
00:51:33,740 --> 00:51:34,970
They were writers.
1002
00:51:39,410 --> 00:51:42,810
RINGO: Comin' in the wrong,
half way through the song.
1003
00:51:42,820 --> 00:51:45,610
Well was it a 12‐bar?
1004
00:51:47,490 --> 00:51:49,550
The studio was like
our little haven.
1005
00:51:49,560 --> 00:51:53,630
Once we got back there,
we knew we could experiment.
1006
00:51:58,770 --> 00:52:00,260
Hear ourselves.
1007
00:52:00,270 --> 00:52:04,160
And we would write songs
that would be a progression,
1008
00:52:04,170 --> 00:52:06,600
and that would be fun to record.
1009
00:52:11,050 --> 00:52:12,740
Brian Epstein and I
1010
00:52:12,750 --> 00:52:15,910
worked together very closely
planning their future.
1011
00:52:15,920 --> 00:52:17,640
We agreed that we should put out
1012
00:52:17,650 --> 00:52:22,080
a single every three months,
and an album every six months.
1013
00:52:22,090 --> 00:52:26,420
♪ Baby's good to me,
you know she's happy as can be
1014
00:52:26,430 --> 00:52:29,790
♪ You know, she said so
1015
00:52:29,800 --> 00:52:35,160
♪ I'm in love with her
and I feel fine ♪
1016
00:52:35,170 --> 00:52:36,730
I was under pressure
1017
00:52:36,740 --> 00:52:39,400
because I got sucked
into the time difference.
1018
00:52:39,410 --> 00:52:41,070
I would say to Brian, you know,
1019
00:52:41,080 --> 00:52:43,940
I need more time in the studio,
and he would dole out time,
1020
00:52:43,950 --> 00:52:46,440
like giving scraps to a mouse.
1021
00:52:46,450 --> 00:52:49,010
One of the great things
about our recording
1022
00:52:49,020 --> 00:52:50,540
was the schedule.
1023
00:52:50,550 --> 00:52:52,480
You go in at 10 o'clock
in the morning,
1024
00:52:52,490 --> 00:52:54,980
tune up, have a ciggy,
have a cup of tea or something,
1025
00:52:54,990 --> 00:52:58,920
and then John and I, mainly,
would present the song
1026
00:52:58,930 --> 00:53:01,290
that we'd written to everyone.
1027
00:53:10,310 --> 00:53:12,100
Just go through it, anyway.
1028
00:53:12,110 --> 00:53:14,800
Make mistakes,
just to practice it.
1029
00:53:14,810 --> 00:53:16,400
Try to remember,
John, and if I don't,
1030
00:53:16,410 --> 00:53:19,810
well, it's just too bad, okay?
1031
00:53:19,820 --> 00:53:21,310
Is it just me and you?
1032
00:53:21,320 --> 00:53:23,140
One, two, three, four.
1033
00:53:31,530 --> 00:53:33,520
One, two, three, four.
1034
00:53:33,530 --> 00:53:37,230
♪ Ooh ♪
1035
00:53:40,240 --> 00:53:43,390
♪ Ooh I need your love, babe ♪
1036
00:53:43,400 --> 00:53:46,700
♪ Yes you know it's true ♪
1037
00:53:46,710 --> 00:53:50,240
Ringo'd tap along,
George just sussed the chords,
1038
00:53:50,250 --> 00:53:52,400
and then George Martin
would go, oh
1039
00:53:52,410 --> 00:53:54,210
that's half nice,
that's marvelous.
1040
00:53:54,220 --> 00:53:55,610
It'd take about 20 minutes
to do that.
1041
00:53:55,620 --> 00:53:57,910
♪ Hold me, love me ♪
1042
00:53:57,920 --> 00:53:59,380
PAUL: George,
what did it sound like
1043
00:53:59,390 --> 00:54:01,050
with the base
doin' a funny thing?
1044
00:54:01,060 --> 00:54:03,550
Did it sound any good, or did it
sound just a lovely crap?
1045
00:54:08,260 --> 00:54:09,290
GEORGE MARTIN: Take three.
1046
00:54:09,300 --> 00:54:10,890
GEORGE: One, two three four.
1047
00:54:14,540 --> 00:54:16,190
At the very beginning,
George Martin
1048
00:54:16,200 --> 00:54:20,200
was the only man that could
press the button to record.
1049
00:54:20,210 --> 00:54:24,470
We'd just play it and do it,
oh did you get that, George?
1050
00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,140
I'm giving up here.
1051
00:54:26,150 --> 00:54:28,570
‐ JOHN: Wonderful, Paul.
‐ GEORGE MARTIN: Very lovely.
1052
00:54:28,580 --> 00:54:31,510
PAUL: Ah, keep that one.
Mark it fab.
1053
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:34,010
Do you want to have a listen
before we go on to the next one?
1054
00:54:35,060 --> 00:54:36,880
George had recorded The Goons.
1055
00:54:36,890 --> 00:54:38,780
That was like a cult thing
that we all loved,
1056
00:54:38,790 --> 00:54:40,090
and we all knew it.
1057
00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:43,460
GEORGE MARTIN: At that time
I was a comedy producer
1058
00:54:43,470 --> 00:54:45,720
recording Spike Milligan
and Peter Sellers,
1059
00:54:45,730 --> 00:54:48,160
and a lot of English
comedy actors.
1060
00:54:48,170 --> 00:54:49,730
So he picked up our humor,
1061
00:54:49,740 --> 00:54:53,260
he picked up our camaraderie,
you know.
1062
00:54:53,270 --> 00:54:57,000
We thought, he's mad,
we love him.
1063
00:54:57,010 --> 00:54:58,940
JOHN: We'll just have
to have a go of it, you see.
1064
00:54:58,950 --> 00:55:00,270
GEORGE MARTIN: Oh, you're
a right keeper, aren't you?
1065
00:55:00,280 --> 00:55:02,370
JOHN: I know.
1066
00:55:02,380 --> 00:55:05,540
On the early record,
George Martin was a god.
1067
00:55:05,550 --> 00:55:07,780
GEORGE MARTIN: To begin with,
I was very much in charge.
1068
00:55:07,790 --> 00:55:10,550
I was the kind of schoolmaster
teaching them everything,
1069
00:55:10,560 --> 00:55:12,550
and they had to do
what I told them.
1070
00:55:12,560 --> 00:55:14,420
PAUL: You had
one‐and‐a‐half hours
1071
00:55:14,430 --> 00:55:17,060
from 10:30
to finish that song.
1072
00:55:17,070 --> 00:55:18,070
Boom.
1073
00:55:18,070 --> 00:55:19,530
So that focused you.
1074
00:55:19,540 --> 00:55:21,290
That was a great discipline.
1075
00:55:23,070 --> 00:55:24,830
‐ Hit it, Declan.
‐ JOHN: We'll do it again.
1076
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:26,830
PAUL: We'll try
and get it good, too.
1077
00:55:26,840 --> 00:55:28,430
I'm just gonna start recording.
1078
00:55:28,440 --> 00:55:30,600
John, whenever you like,
the red light's on.
1079
00:55:30,610 --> 00:55:34,440
Every minute of the day,
someone wanted something.
1080
00:55:34,450 --> 00:55:37,310
You know, drive to EMI
to do a record.
1081
00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:43,450
Down here to SoHo
to do a photo shoot.
1082
00:55:43,460 --> 00:55:46,080
Ride back to do some TV show.
1083
00:55:46,090 --> 00:55:49,860
♪ I'm a loser
1084
00:55:49,870 --> 00:55:53,360
♪ And I'm not
what I appear to be
1085
00:55:53,370 --> 00:55:54,790
♪ Of all... ♪
1086
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:57,360
JOHN: I was singing
the wrong words there.
1087
00:55:57,370 --> 00:55:59,130
Drive to Birmingham to do a gig.
1088
00:56:00,910 --> 00:56:02,870
End up in a nightclub.
1089
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:06,300
We were just doin'
four or five things a day,
1090
00:56:06,310 --> 00:56:07,670
but we had each other.
1091
00:56:07,680 --> 00:56:09,610
And we brought that
to the music.
1092
00:56:10,850 --> 00:56:13,780
♪ Oh, I need your love, babe
1093
00:56:13,790 --> 00:56:17,320
♪ Yes, you know it's true
1094
00:56:17,330 --> 00:56:21,050
♪ Hope you need my love, babe
1095
00:56:21,060 --> 00:56:24,190
♪ Just like I need you
1096
00:56:24,200 --> 00:56:25,660
♪ Hold me, love me ♪
1097
00:56:25,670 --> 00:56:27,290
The thing
about the scale is that
1098
00:56:27,300 --> 00:56:30,160
writing lots of songs
is not particularly difficult.
1099
00:56:30,170 --> 00:56:31,660
Volume is not the thing.
1100
00:56:31,670 --> 00:56:32,830
The extraordinary thing
about the Beatles
1101
00:56:32,840 --> 00:56:35,130
is the amount of great songs.
1102
00:56:35,140 --> 00:56:36,740
Schubert wrote about 800 songs,
1103
00:56:36,750 --> 00:56:39,470
of which probably 100 are
absolutely beautiful melodies.
1104
00:56:39,480 --> 00:56:41,240
The other 700, pretty good.
1105
00:56:41,250 --> 00:56:44,140
The only comparison with that
kind of level of melody
1106
00:56:44,150 --> 00:56:45,640
may be Mozart.
1107
00:56:45,650 --> 00:56:48,380
Very, very, high volume
of very good melodies.
1108
00:56:48,390 --> 00:56:50,220
You have to wait
a long time, then,
1109
00:56:50,230 --> 00:56:52,780
'til you get someone
who's up in the hundreds,
1110
00:56:52,790 --> 00:56:54,350
and that's when
you hit the Beatles.
1111
00:56:54,360 --> 00:56:56,760
Which is why I think you can
compare them in some ways,
1112
00:56:56,770 --> 00:56:58,620
because of the sheer
volume of the invention.
1113
00:56:58,630 --> 00:57:02,660
♪ I ain't got nothin'
but love, girl
1114
00:57:02,670 --> 00:57:04,870
♪ Eight days a week
1115
00:57:06,540 --> 00:57:08,940
♪ Eight days a week ♪
1116
00:57:23,220 --> 00:57:25,680
BRIAN EPSTEIN: Hello again
from Hullabaloo, London.
1117
00:57:25,690 --> 00:57:27,820
Ladies and gentlemen,
Mr. Richard Lester.
1118
00:57:32,570 --> 00:57:34,560
What do you think
we could tell them
1119
00:57:34,570 --> 00:57:36,430
about the new Beatles flick?
1120
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:39,130
First of all, it's going to be
different from the last one.
1121
00:57:39,140 --> 00:57:40,500
It will be in color,
1122
00:57:40,510 --> 00:57:42,670
it'll be a film
that has a lot of plot,
1123
00:57:42,680 --> 00:57:44,170
and a lot of entertainment
about it,
1124
00:57:44,180 --> 00:57:46,370
and Ringo's in trouble again.
1125
00:57:46,380 --> 00:57:47,570
We need protection.
1126
00:57:47,580 --> 00:57:49,140
We've got a record
to do tomorrow.
1127
00:57:49,150 --> 00:57:50,610
I need protection.
1128
00:57:50,620 --> 00:57:51,620
And you shall have it.
1129
00:57:51,620 --> 00:57:53,090
Get me Protection.
1130
00:57:56,530 --> 00:58:02,950
♪ You don't realize
how much I need you
1131
00:58:02,960 --> 00:58:09,630
♪ Love you all the time
and never leave you
1132
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:13,130
♪ Please come on back to me
1133
00:58:13,140 --> 00:58:16,700
♪ I'm lonely as can be
1134
00:58:16,710 --> 00:58:20,370
♪ I need you ♪
1135
00:58:20,380 --> 00:58:23,070
We'd enjoyed very much
doing Hard Day's Night.
1136
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:28,110
We'd kinda taken it
seriously, but the film Help!
1137
00:58:28,120 --> 00:58:30,680
We were kind of
pretty disinterested.
1138
00:58:30,690 --> 00:58:33,490
You know, we were now
doing it again,
1139
00:58:33,500 --> 00:58:36,420
and so it couldn't be quite
as exciting as the first time.
1140
00:58:36,430 --> 00:58:38,220
Nothing is.
1141
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,660
The main thing I remember,
we all had meetings
1142
00:58:43,670 --> 00:58:47,530
about tax structure,
and they would sort of say,
1143
00:58:47,540 --> 00:58:51,400
oh you gotta put your money
in the Bahamas or somewhere.
1144
00:58:51,410 --> 00:58:53,870
So where we were asked
about the film,
1145
00:58:53,880 --> 00:58:56,010
we'd say, can we go
to the Bahamas?
1146
00:58:56,020 --> 00:58:58,640
We were told, you're
gonna film in the Bahamas.
1147
00:58:58,650 --> 00:58:59,860
You write a scene.
1148
00:59:08,000 --> 00:59:13,600
♪ I get high when I see you go by ♪
1149
00:59:15,270 --> 00:59:16,560
♪ My oh my ♪
1150
00:59:16,570 --> 00:59:19,200
In 1965,
they invited me to Nassau
1151
00:59:19,210 --> 00:59:21,270
to watch them film
the movie Help!
1152
00:59:21,280 --> 00:59:24,440
I walked into the house, and I
saw something very unusual.
1153
00:59:24,450 --> 00:59:27,970
They were all high on marijuana.
1154
00:59:27,980 --> 00:59:29,740
And I'd never seen this before.
1155
00:59:29,750 --> 00:59:32,240
‐ Hey, Paul. How you doin'?
‐ JOHN: Hello, Larry.
1156
00:59:32,250 --> 00:59:34,780
‐ LARRY: Good to see you again.
‐ PAUL: Lovely to see you again.
1157
00:59:34,790 --> 00:59:40,590
LARRY: Hey, John.
How are you doin'?
1158
00:59:42,260 --> 00:59:44,830
What is this
"anything can happen" business?
1159
00:59:50,940 --> 00:59:52,800
‐ Thanks a lot.
‐ JOHN: Anything, Larry.
1160
00:59:52,810 --> 00:59:54,300
We'll be talking to you.
1161
00:59:56,140 --> 01:00:00,470
In all truthfulness,
we spent a lot of that film
1162
01:00:00,480 --> 01:00:02,170
slightly stoned.
1163
01:00:14,300 --> 01:00:17,920
Things were spiraling
like crazy during Help!
1164
01:00:17,930 --> 01:00:20,690
There were people coming
in with contracts for
1165
01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:24,130
bubble gum royalties
and being condescending.
1166
01:00:24,140 --> 01:00:26,670
And then the press
were getting aggressive.
1167
01:00:26,680 --> 01:00:28,230
They owned all of us.
1168
01:00:28,240 --> 01:00:29,970
JOHN: There's
no switching off.
1169
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:31,500
The elevator man
wants a little piece of you
1170
01:00:31,510 --> 01:00:33,000
on your way back to your room.
1171
01:00:33,010 --> 01:00:36,110
The maid wants a piece
of you back at the hotel.
1172
01:00:36,120 --> 01:00:38,010
I don't mean sexually,
I mean a piece of your time
1173
01:00:38,020 --> 01:00:39,040
and your energy.
1174
01:00:39,050 --> 01:00:40,280
And it's like a politician.
1175
01:00:40,290 --> 01:00:42,850
You're on 24 hours a day.
1176
01:00:42,860 --> 01:00:44,950
LARRY: I think that
John got fed up first.
1177
01:00:44,960 --> 01:00:47,390
He became agitated or frustrated
1178
01:00:47,400 --> 01:00:52,690
about what was being written,
particularly from 1965 onward.
1179
01:00:52,700 --> 01:00:55,930
Richard Lester had said,
we need a song.
1180
01:00:55,940 --> 01:00:57,900
And John started it.
1181
01:00:57,910 --> 01:01:01,730
So by the time I came
to see him, he had a lot of it.
1182
01:01:01,740 --> 01:01:03,670
And it said to me,
you know, this is
1183
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:05,440
kind of autobiographical.
1184
01:01:05,450 --> 01:01:08,170
You know, "When I was younger,
so much younger than today."
1185
01:01:08,180 --> 01:01:12,610
I knew what he meant, and I
knew now he was more insecure,
1186
01:01:12,620 --> 01:01:14,550
'cause we were all
a bit more insecure
1187
01:01:14,560 --> 01:01:16,210
than we'd been when we were 17.
1188
01:01:16,220 --> 01:01:18,480
‐ ‐ One, two, three, four!
1189
01:01:18,490 --> 01:01:19,490
♪ Help ♪
1190
01:01:19,500 --> 01:01:20,500
♪ I need somebody ♪
1191
01:01:20,500 --> 01:01:21,650
♪ Help ♪
1192
01:01:21,660 --> 01:01:23,190
♪ Not just anybody ♪
1193
01:01:23,200 --> 01:01:24,100
♪ Help ♪
1194
01:01:24,100 --> 01:01:26,390
♪ You know I need someone ♪
1195
01:01:26,400 --> 01:01:28,290
♪ Help ♪
1196
01:01:28,300 --> 01:01:33,300
♪ When I was younger, ♪
♪ so much younger than today ♪
1197
01:01:33,310 --> 01:01:38,400
♪ I never needed ♪
♪ anybody's help in any way ♪
1198
01:01:38,410 --> 01:01:40,370
♪ But now these days are gone ♪
1199
01:01:40,380 --> 01:01:43,740
♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪
1200
01:01:43,750 --> 01:01:45,480
♪ Now I find ♪
♪ I've changed my mind ♪
1201
01:01:45,490 --> 01:01:48,080
♪ And opened up the door ♪
1202
01:01:48,090 --> 01:01:53,080
♪ Help me if you can, ♪
♪ I'm feelin' down ♪
1203
01:01:53,090 --> 01:01:58,060
♪ And I do appreciate ♪
♪ you bein' round ♪
1204
01:01:58,070 --> 01:02:02,930
♪ Help me get ♪
♪ my feet back on the ground ♪
1205
01:02:02,940 --> 01:02:08,800
♪ Won't you please, ♪
♪ please help me ♪
1206
01:02:08,810 --> 01:02:10,800
♪ And now my life has changed ♪
1207
01:02:10,810 --> 01:02:14,410
♪ In oh so many ways ♪
1208
01:02:14,420 --> 01:02:18,640
♪ My independence ♪
♪ seems to vanish in the haze ♪
1209
01:02:18,650 --> 01:02:20,810
♪ But now these days are gone ♪
1210
01:02:20,820 --> 01:02:23,780
♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪
1211
01:02:23,790 --> 01:02:25,980
♪ Know that ♪
♪ I just need your light ♪
1212
01:02:25,990 --> 01:02:28,520
♪ I've never done before ♪
1213
01:02:28,530 --> 01:02:33,360
♪ Help me if you can, ♪
♪ I'm feelin' down ♪
1214
01:02:33,370 --> 01:02:37,230
JOHN: I always liked "Help!"
because I meant it, it's real.
1215
01:02:37,240 --> 01:02:39,700
The lyric is as good now
as it was then.
1216
01:02:39,710 --> 01:02:41,070
It's no different.
1217
01:02:41,080 --> 01:02:43,740
It was just me singing help,
and I meant it.
1218
01:02:43,750 --> 01:02:47,740
♪ Won't you please, ♪
♪ please help me ♪
1219
01:02:47,750 --> 01:02:50,310
♪ Help me, help me ♪
1220
01:02:58,560 --> 01:03:01,790
We were not gettin'
a lot of money from records.
1221
01:03:01,800 --> 01:03:03,520
We had the worst deal
in the world,
1222
01:03:03,530 --> 01:03:05,460
but we had a deal
and we were on vinyl,
1223
01:03:05,470 --> 01:03:07,090
and that's all that mattered.
1224
01:03:07,100 --> 01:03:10,900
You gotta remember,
we made our money playin' live.
1225
01:03:10,910 --> 01:03:13,330
♪ Well, he took some honey ♪
1226
01:03:13,340 --> 01:03:15,330
♪ From a tree ♪
1227
01:03:15,340 --> 01:03:18,240
♪ Dressed it up ♪
♪ and they called me ♪
1228
01:03:18,250 --> 01:03:20,340
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪
1229
01:03:20,350 --> 01:03:23,010
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪
1230
01:03:23,020 --> 01:03:26,510
♪ Everybody's trying to be ♪
♪ my baby now ♪
1231
01:03:26,520 --> 01:03:28,750
RINGO: It just got bigger,
and bigger, and bigger.
1232
01:03:28,760 --> 01:03:29,880
♪ Woke up last night ♪
1233
01:03:29,890 --> 01:03:31,220
♪ Half past four ♪
1234
01:03:31,230 --> 01:03:33,790
♪ Fifty women ♪
♪ knocking on my door ♪
1235
01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:36,390
♪ Everybody's trying ♪
♪ to be my baby ♪
1236
01:03:36,400 --> 01:03:38,760
♪ Everybody's ♪
♪ trying to be my baby ♪
1237
01:03:38,770 --> 01:03:43,660
♪ Everybody's trying ♪
♪ to be my baby, now, yeah ♪
1238
01:03:43,670 --> 01:03:48,670
Then it got crazy.
1239
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:50,200
They went back to America,
1240
01:03:50,210 --> 01:03:51,870
they started
playing the stadiums.
1241
01:03:51,880 --> 01:03:54,770
Places like Portland,
San Francisco,
1242
01:03:54,780 --> 01:03:57,710
Metropolitan Stadium
in Minneapolis.
1243
01:03:57,720 --> 01:04:00,980
Chicago White Sox Park.
1244
01:04:00,990 --> 01:04:03,250
♪ Last night, ♪
♪ I didn't stay late ♪
1245
01:04:03,260 --> 01:04:06,180
♪ 'Fore home ♪
♪ I had 19 dates ♪
1246
01:04:06,190 --> 01:04:07,950
There were lots of other
groups touring at this point,
1247
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:10,190
but nothing like this.
1248
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:12,360
The money they were making,
night after night,
1249
01:04:12,370 --> 01:04:17,400
compared to other acts,
was unprecedented.
1250
01:04:17,410 --> 01:04:20,070
The fact is,
they had to play stadiums.
1251
01:04:20,080 --> 01:04:23,000
Promoters and local police
had to be begging Brian Epstein,
1252
01:04:23,010 --> 01:04:24,970
telling him, you know,
you can't go
1253
01:04:24,980 --> 01:04:26,970
and play a 5,000‐seat theater
1254
01:04:26,980 --> 01:04:30,740
and have 50,000 teenagers
going crazy outside.
1255
01:04:30,750 --> 01:04:37,080
It would be impossible
to control.
1256
01:04:37,090 --> 01:04:38,450
This was massive.
1257
01:04:38,460 --> 01:04:41,550
The first big stadium tour
in history.
1258
01:04:41,560 --> 01:04:45,370
And the biggest show
of them all was New York.
1259
01:04:49,170 --> 01:04:51,630
There was the announcement
of this concert,
1260
01:04:51,640 --> 01:04:53,130
and I was like, can we?
1261
01:04:53,140 --> 01:04:57,140
And my mom was like, We don't
have the money for this.
1262
01:04:57,150 --> 01:04:59,610
And then something,
1263
01:04:59,620 --> 01:05:02,310
I don't know how she did it,
1264
01:05:02,320 --> 01:05:05,480
I don't know,
I don't know how she did it,
1265
01:05:05,490 --> 01:05:08,190
but she got two tickets.
1266
01:05:09,420 --> 01:05:11,720
And she didn't tell me.
1267
01:05:11,730 --> 01:05:14,190
So this is what happened.
1268
01:05:14,200 --> 01:05:16,120
She said, "We need to go."
I said, "Where are we going?"
1269
01:05:16,130 --> 01:05:19,220
She said, "I'll let you know
when we get there." Okay.
1270
01:05:19,230 --> 01:05:22,390
So we're on the train, and I'm
not paying any attention.
1271
01:05:22,400 --> 01:05:24,200
And we get up, and I say,
where are we?
1272
01:05:24,210 --> 01:05:27,300
And she said,
we're at Shea Stadium.
1273
01:05:27,310 --> 01:05:29,740
And I said, why?
1274
01:05:29,750 --> 01:05:31,140
And she held up two tickets,
1275
01:05:31,150 --> 01:05:33,770
and all I remember
is my head going poof.
1276
01:05:42,360 --> 01:05:44,420
GEORGE: It was just amazing,
we don't believe it.
1277
01:05:44,430 --> 01:05:47,390
Biggest thing ever,
56,500, someone said.
1278
01:05:47,400 --> 01:05:52,890
It's fantastic. It just
knocked you out, you know.
1279
01:05:52,900 --> 01:05:55,360
Shea Stadium
is an enormous place.
1280
01:05:55,370 --> 01:05:57,830
I mean, that was
the first time it was used
1281
01:05:57,840 --> 01:05:59,400
for a rock concert.
1282
01:05:59,410 --> 01:06:04,370
Vox made us special,
big amplifiers for that tour,
1283
01:06:04,380 --> 01:06:06,540
and they were, like,
a hundred watts.
1284
01:06:08,120 --> 01:06:10,550
It just obviously,
you know, wasn't enough.
1285
01:06:13,290 --> 01:06:18,450
Ladies and gentlemen,
here are the Beatles!
1286
01:06:43,150 --> 01:06:45,990
Hello! Hey!
1287
01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:49,550
Hello!
1288
01:06:49,560 --> 01:06:51,090
Hello, John.
1289
01:06:54,300 --> 01:06:57,460
We'd like to do a song
1290
01:06:57,470 --> 01:07:01,860
off our LP album,
Beatles VI, I think.
1291
01:07:01,870 --> 01:07:03,510
Can you hear me?
1292
01:07:05,010 --> 01:07:06,270
Hello?
1293
01:07:08,310 --> 01:07:10,900
It's called "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"!
1294
01:07:30,100 --> 01:07:33,060
♪ You make me dizzy,
Miss Lizzy
1295
01:07:33,070 --> 01:07:36,330
♪ The way you
rock and roll
1296
01:07:36,340 --> 01:07:39,900
♪ You make me dizzy,
Miss Lizzy
1297
01:07:39,910 --> 01:07:43,300
♪ When we do the stroll
1298
01:07:43,310 --> 01:07:46,300
♪ Come on, come on,
come on, come on Lizzy
1299
01:07:46,310 --> 01:07:50,240
♪ Love me
before I grow too old
1300
01:07:50,250 --> 01:07:53,140
♪ Gonna tell you, mama
1301
01:07:53,150 --> 01:07:55,250
♪ I want you to be my bride ♪
1302
01:07:55,260 --> 01:07:56,620
One of the most
remarkable things about
1303
01:07:56,630 --> 01:07:59,420
the Beatles playing live
is how in tune they are.
1304
01:07:59,430 --> 01:08:02,050
Because, they can't possibly
hear themselves.
1305
01:08:02,060 --> 01:08:03,760
I don't think they had monitors.
1306
01:08:03,770 --> 01:08:05,160
They don't sound very big,
1307
01:08:05,170 --> 01:08:06,830
even if they were
cranked to the max,
1308
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:08,790
they're not that loud.
1309
01:08:08,800 --> 01:08:10,700
I mean, Shea Stadium
being the most extreme,
1310
01:08:10,710 --> 01:08:13,200
because I don't even think
there's a P. A. at Shea Stadium.
1311
01:08:13,210 --> 01:08:14,930
They're going
through the Tannoy,
1312
01:08:14,940 --> 01:08:16,270
which must have sounded like
1313
01:08:16,280 --> 01:08:19,180
a thousand transistor radios
detuned.
1314
01:08:24,150 --> 01:08:27,450
♪ Just a‐rockin' and a‐rollin'
1315
01:08:27,460 --> 01:08:32,580
♪ Girl I wish you were mine ♪
1316
01:08:32,590 --> 01:08:35,050
We did the house P. A.,
you know,
1317
01:08:35,060 --> 01:08:37,660
"And on first base
is Willy Wonka,"
1318
01:08:37,670 --> 01:08:40,660
whatever they said,
that's the equipment we had.
1319
01:08:41,870 --> 01:08:44,060
♪ When you rock and roll ♪
1320
01:08:44,070 --> 01:08:45,700
I could not hear anything.
1321
01:08:45,710 --> 01:08:48,570
I'd be watching John's ass,
Paul's ass,
1322
01:08:48,580 --> 01:08:51,400
his foot's tapping,
his head's nodding,
1323
01:08:51,410 --> 01:08:54,940
to see where we were
in the song.
1324
01:08:54,950 --> 01:09:00,150
♪ I wanna be your lovin' man ♪
1325
01:09:05,390 --> 01:09:08,090
PAUL: We played for
56,000 people at Shea Stadium.
1326
01:09:08,100 --> 01:09:11,090
After that, you know, you just
sort of think to yourself,
1327
01:09:11,100 --> 01:09:14,460
what more could you do?
1328
01:09:14,470 --> 01:09:17,900
I remember George bringin'
up the subject with Brian.
1329
01:09:17,910 --> 01:09:21,730
Hey, is this touring
gonna be an annual event?
1330
01:09:21,740 --> 01:09:23,670
And I think he was the first one
1331
01:09:23,680 --> 01:09:29,340
that brought up the idea of,
Hey, I've had enough of this.
1332
01:09:29,350 --> 01:09:31,340
That was the good thing
about being four together.
1333
01:09:31,350 --> 01:09:32,980
We're not like Elvis, you know.
1334
01:09:32,990 --> 01:09:35,410
I always felt sorry for Elvis
'cause he was on his own.
1335
01:09:35,420 --> 01:09:38,350
He had his guys with him,
but there's only one Elvis.
1336
01:09:38,360 --> 01:09:40,820
Nobody else
knew what he felt like.
1337
01:09:40,830 --> 01:09:44,500
But for us,
we all shared the experience.
1338
01:09:48,640 --> 01:09:51,100
They came back to England
late summer of '65.
1339
01:09:54,580 --> 01:09:56,500
The last time the Beatles
played in Britain
1340
01:09:56,510 --> 01:09:59,740
was that winter, you know,
seven or eight days.
1341
01:09:59,750 --> 01:10:02,240
My grandparents bought me
tickets to see them,
1342
01:10:02,250 --> 01:10:05,440
and my parents
refused to let me go.
1343
01:10:05,450 --> 01:10:08,950
♪ Got a good reason
1344
01:10:08,960 --> 01:10:11,520
♪ For takin' the easy way out ♪
1345
01:10:11,530 --> 01:10:13,380
The Beatles
captured my imagination
1346
01:10:13,390 --> 01:10:15,420
like no other group
at that point.
1347
01:10:15,430 --> 01:10:18,590
It was the way that I began
to interpret the world.
1348
01:10:18,600 --> 01:10:21,460
Each new record was built
on the record before,
1349
01:10:21,470 --> 01:10:23,430
you had this wonderful
storyline advancing
1350
01:10:23,440 --> 01:10:25,630
through with the Beatles.
1351
01:10:25,640 --> 01:10:26,970
By the end of the year,
we'd been told
1352
01:10:26,980 --> 01:10:28,830
there would be
more records forthcoming.
1353
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:35,420
And they went back into studio.
1354
01:10:40,020 --> 01:10:41,450
GEORGE: The light's on.
1355
01:10:41,460 --> 01:10:43,920
You might as have a go
and sing one song.
1356
01:10:43,930 --> 01:10:46,450
JOHN: See if we're all
in tune when we play, George.
1357
01:10:46,460 --> 01:10:49,660
"Girl," take one.
1358
01:10:49,670 --> 01:10:54,930
♪ Is there anybody
going to listen to my story
1359
01:10:54,940 --> 01:10:58,330
♪ All about the girl
who came to stay ♪
1360
01:10:58,340 --> 01:11:01,470
The first reaction
to the new, innovative sound
1361
01:11:01,480 --> 01:11:03,570
of Rubber Soul was,
I don't like this.
1362
01:11:03,580 --> 01:11:05,840
I think they've
lost their minds.
1363
01:11:05,850 --> 01:11:07,670
♪ Girl, girl ♪
1364
01:11:07,680 --> 01:11:10,040
What are they thinking?
You know, what's this?
1365
01:11:10,050 --> 01:11:13,040
♪ She's the kind of
girl who'll put you down
1366
01:11:13,050 --> 01:11:14,480
♪ When friends are there
1367
01:11:14,490 --> 01:11:16,750
♪ You feel a fool ♪
1368
01:11:16,760 --> 01:11:18,280
I kind of went from being a kid
1369
01:11:18,290 --> 01:11:20,050
to being a teenager,
so some of those things
1370
01:11:20,060 --> 01:11:23,320
felt like the right thing,
but it was still surprising,
1371
01:11:23,330 --> 01:11:25,690
this group I liked
changed so much.
1372
01:11:25,700 --> 01:11:29,390
♪ Girl ♪
1373
01:11:29,400 --> 01:11:31,400
There's a big jump
from "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1374
01:11:31,410 --> 01:11:32,860
to, Well, she told
when she was young
1375
01:11:32,870 --> 01:11:34,700
when pain
would lead to pleasure.
1376
01:11:34,710 --> 01:11:36,400
♪ Was she told
when she was young
1377
01:11:36,410 --> 01:11:39,710
♪ That pain
would lead to pleasure
1378
01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:44,440
♪ Did she understand it
when they said ♪
1379
01:11:44,450 --> 01:11:46,080
I couldn't understand it
at all when I first heard it.
1380
01:11:46,090 --> 01:11:47,380
I didn't think it was any good.
1381
01:11:47,390 --> 01:11:48,950
And then, six weeks later,
1382
01:11:48,960 --> 01:11:50,920
you couldn't live without
the record, and that's good.
1383
01:11:50,930 --> 01:11:52,520
That's when you trust the
people that make music
1384
01:11:52,530 --> 01:11:55,320
to take you somewhere
you haven't been before.
1385
01:11:57,830 --> 01:11:59,590
VINTAGE REPORTER: Formal
occasion at Buckingham Palace
1386
01:11:59,600 --> 01:12:01,460
on a foggy October morning.
1387
01:12:01,470 --> 01:12:04,300
The ceremony is bestowing
awards of honor,
1388
01:12:04,310 --> 01:12:06,470
a ceremony hallowed
by a tradition
1389
01:12:06,480 --> 01:12:09,900
going back over the centuries.
1390
01:12:09,910 --> 01:12:15,170
Members of the Most Excellent
Order of the British Empire.
1391
01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:16,370
MAN: Do you think the Beatles
1392
01:12:16,380 --> 01:12:17,940
should have been
awarded the MBE?
1393
01:12:17,950 --> 01:12:19,180
MAN ♪2: Well, I think
the Beatles have probably
1394
01:12:19,190 --> 01:12:20,680
done as much for popular music
1395
01:12:20,690 --> 01:12:22,880
than people like Rodgers
& Hammerstein and Gershwin did.
1396
01:12:22,890 --> 01:12:24,750
The only difference being,
the Beatles have done it
1397
01:12:24,760 --> 01:12:26,320
in a matter
of two or three years,
1398
01:12:26,330 --> 01:12:29,120
where it took most
other people a lifetime.
1399
01:12:29,130 --> 01:12:33,760
REPORTER: What's the MBE going
to do your teenage rebel image?
1400
01:12:33,770 --> 01:12:36,930
Who's got a teenage rebel image?
1401
01:12:36,940 --> 01:12:39,130
Have any of you
any ambitions left at all?
1402
01:12:39,140 --> 01:12:40,870
I'd like to be a duke.
1403
01:12:44,910 --> 01:12:46,640
JON SAVAGE: They had
achieved something,
1404
01:12:46,650 --> 01:12:48,240
and there were,
if you like, influencers,
1405
01:12:48,250 --> 01:12:50,910
but at the same time they
were prisoners of their fame.
1406
01:12:50,920 --> 01:12:52,610
And I think they were
beginning to chafe
1407
01:12:52,620 --> 01:12:54,890
at people's expectations.
1408
01:13:05,030 --> 01:13:07,660
The first three months
had been lopped off
1409
01:13:07,670 --> 01:13:09,730
to do whatever the Beatles'
third film was going to be.
1410
01:13:09,740 --> 01:13:11,530
And then it didn't happen.
1411
01:13:11,540 --> 01:13:13,360
And so for the first time
since they'd
1412
01:13:13,370 --> 01:13:18,040
become successful and famous,
they had three months off.
1413
01:13:23,950 --> 01:13:26,650
GEORGE: It had been
four years for us
1414
01:13:26,660 --> 01:13:29,620
of legging around in this mania,
1415
01:13:29,630 --> 01:13:32,680
and we were tired,
we needed to rest.
1416
01:13:32,690 --> 01:13:34,620
♪ I once had a girl
1417
01:13:34,630 --> 01:13:36,790
♪ Or should I say
1418
01:13:36,800 --> 01:13:40,160
♪ She once had me ♪
1419
01:13:40,170 --> 01:13:42,030
You know, the thing is
that we're all interested
1420
01:13:42,040 --> 01:13:44,500
in other things
before the Beatles,
1421
01:13:44,510 --> 01:13:45,730
and we didn't really have time,
1422
01:13:45,740 --> 01:13:48,600
but we were always
looking around.
1423
01:13:48,610 --> 01:13:50,870
I got involved
with a gallery owner.
1424
01:13:50,880 --> 01:13:53,940
We'd go to Paris
and we'd buy paintings.
1425
01:13:53,950 --> 01:13:56,820
We'd go to the dealer.
So it was very exciting.
1426
01:13:58,350 --> 01:14:02,250
Of course, George had developed
an interest in Indian music.
1427
01:14:09,000 --> 01:14:11,890
GEORGE: I just wanna carry
on progressing with music,
1428
01:14:11,900 --> 01:14:16,160
you know, writing more
and just learning more about it.
1429
01:14:16,170 --> 01:14:18,930
I've written so many songs
that I've just thrown away
1430
01:14:18,940 --> 01:14:21,370
as I've been writing
them, because I've wanted,
1431
01:14:21,380 --> 01:14:24,040
when I finally
recorded one of mine,
1432
01:14:24,050 --> 01:14:27,210
I wanted it to be
worth putting on the LP
1433
01:14:27,220 --> 01:14:29,170
alongside Paul and John.
1434
01:14:29,180 --> 01:14:33,240
I feel now I've got more idea
about how to write songs.
1435
01:14:36,390 --> 01:14:37,880
We bought this house
in the country
1436
01:14:37,890 --> 01:14:41,320
on this estate,
Maureen and Zach, my son,
1437
01:14:41,330 --> 01:14:43,460
and John was up the road.
1438
01:14:43,470 --> 01:14:46,530
We started to grow up,
and we started
1439
01:14:46,540 --> 01:14:48,990
to have families, and we started
1440
01:14:49,000 --> 01:14:53,260
to put less energy
into the Beatle bag.
1441
01:14:53,270 --> 01:14:54,970
We all, kind of, were very aware
1442
01:14:54,980 --> 01:14:57,870
that we didn't live in
each other's pockets anymore.
1443
01:14:57,880 --> 01:15:01,110
We all had separate existences.
1444
01:15:01,120 --> 01:15:02,910
There's an interview
that John Lennon gives
1445
01:15:02,920 --> 01:15:06,080
to Morning Cleave,
which is publish in March '66
1446
01:15:06,090 --> 01:15:07,980
where he talks
about his reading.
1447
01:15:07,990 --> 01:15:10,120
He says I'm not really sure
what I'm going to do next,
1448
01:15:10,130 --> 01:15:11,720
this isn't everything,
which is not
1449
01:15:11,730 --> 01:15:14,190
what a pop star
was supposed to say.
1450
01:15:15,800 --> 01:15:19,220
That same month, March,
they were doing a photo shoot.
1451
01:15:19,230 --> 01:15:21,830
JOHN: By then, we were really
sort of beginning to hate it.
1452
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:23,560
A photo session
was a big ordeal,
1453
01:15:23,570 --> 01:15:25,630
and you had to try
and look normal,
1454
01:15:25,640 --> 01:15:27,700
and you didn't feel it.
1455
01:15:27,710 --> 01:15:29,100
PAUL: Bob Whitaker
was one of the photographers
1456
01:15:29,110 --> 01:15:31,700
who took our pictures,
and he came up with,
1457
01:15:31,710 --> 01:15:33,870
we all put on white lab coats
1458
01:15:33,880 --> 01:15:36,880
and we pretend
to be mad professors.
1459
01:15:36,890 --> 01:15:39,680
JOHN: The photographer's
a bit of a surrealist, you know?
1460
01:15:43,490 --> 01:15:44,880
We really got into it,
1461
01:15:44,890 --> 01:15:47,650
and that's when we felt,
like, yeah.
1462
01:15:47,660 --> 01:15:52,060
♪ To say about the things
that you do ♪
1463
01:15:52,070 --> 01:15:53,790
PAUL: To us, you know,
this wasn't a big deal, really,
1464
01:15:53,800 --> 01:15:56,560
because these kind of
shocking things
1465
01:15:56,570 --> 01:15:58,830
were part of the art scene.
1466
01:15:58,840 --> 01:16:02,570
♪ About the good things
that we can have
1467
01:16:02,580 --> 01:16:04,570
♪ If we close our eyes ♪
1468
01:16:04,580 --> 01:16:06,000
JOHN: I especially wished
1469
01:16:06,010 --> 01:16:08,340
for it to be an album cover,
you know.
1470
01:16:08,350 --> 01:16:10,380
It got out in America,
1471
01:16:10,390 --> 01:16:12,780
and there was some kind of fuss.
1472
01:16:12,790 --> 01:16:14,110
They were like, what?
1473
01:16:14,120 --> 01:16:15,480
My beloved Beatles?
1474
01:16:15,490 --> 01:16:16,680
No!
1475
01:16:16,690 --> 01:16:19,350
This must stop.
1476
01:16:19,360 --> 01:16:20,790
MAN: Sorry.
1477
01:16:20,800 --> 01:16:23,620
JOHN: Are you gonna
keep that one, please.
1478
01:16:23,630 --> 01:16:25,120
GEORGE: Yeah, just
leave it out again then.
1479
01:16:25,130 --> 01:16:26,360
PAUL: Okay.
1480
01:16:26,370 --> 01:16:29,660
GEORGE: I'll just
have to vamp it up a bit.
1481
01:16:29,670 --> 01:16:31,700
JOHN: Now he tells me.
1482
01:16:31,710 --> 01:16:33,970
RINGO: We're having
more fun in the studio.
1483
01:16:33,980 --> 01:16:35,870
It was getting
more experimental.
1484
01:16:35,880 --> 01:16:38,700
The songs were getting
better, more interesting.
1485
01:16:38,710 --> 01:16:42,670
♪ When I wake up
early in the morning
1486
01:16:42,680 --> 01:16:44,710
♪ Lift my age
1487
01:16:44,720 --> 01:16:46,110
♪ And I'm still ♪
1488
01:16:46,120 --> 01:16:47,210
JOHN: Hey?
1489
01:16:47,220 --> 01:16:48,950
RINGO: They weren't,
like, big plans.
1490
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:52,520
You know,
sometimes they just unfolded.
1491
01:16:52,530 --> 01:16:54,060
Complete fluke.
1492
01:16:56,430 --> 01:16:59,630
JOHN: Okay, ready.
1493
01:16:59,640 --> 01:17:01,790
John was
not mechanically minded,
1494
01:17:01,800 --> 01:17:05,630
and he took a tape home,
and the tape would run off
1495
01:17:05,640 --> 01:17:08,070
to the other reel,
and he put it on
1496
01:17:08,080 --> 01:17:11,470
like it was the start,
but it was the end of the song,
1497
01:17:11,480 --> 01:17:12,870
and that's when the guitar came.
1498
01:17:15,450 --> 01:17:18,610
And he brings it in,
man, you gotta hear this.
1499
01:17:18,620 --> 01:17:21,650
We said, great,
we gotta do that.
1500
01:17:21,660 --> 01:17:25,220
Fall in the boffins.
1501
01:17:25,230 --> 01:17:32,420
♪ Lay down and surrender
to the void
1502
01:17:32,430 --> 01:17:36,390
♪ It is shining ♪
1503
01:17:36,400 --> 01:17:39,300
And I always remember
being in Brian Epstein's house
1504
01:17:39,310 --> 01:17:43,070
and John playing it to Brian,
and to George Martin,
1505
01:17:43,080 --> 01:17:45,140
and saying,
What do you think of this?
1506
01:17:45,150 --> 01:17:49,040
You can see there's a puzzlement
going across their faces.
1507
01:17:49,050 --> 01:17:52,310
But instead of saying,
oh, come on guys,
1508
01:17:52,320 --> 01:17:54,480
I think you really oughta
put another chord in,
1509
01:17:54,490 --> 01:17:57,680
he knew to
leave us alone by then.
1510
01:17:57,690 --> 01:18:02,190
♪ It is shining ♪
1511
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:03,660
Slow down or speed up the tape,
1512
01:18:03,670 --> 01:18:05,360
even putting backwards tape in,
1513
01:18:05,370 --> 01:18:06,890
put in electronic sounds,
and this is the kind of
1514
01:18:06,900 --> 01:18:08,390
thing you can do in a recording,
1515
01:18:08,400 --> 01:18:10,460
which you obviously
couldn't possibly do live
1516
01:18:10,470 --> 01:18:13,140
because it is, in fact,
making up music as you go along.
1517
01:18:20,450 --> 01:18:22,710
"Tomorrow Never Knows"
breaks so many barriers,
1518
01:18:22,720 --> 01:18:24,210
musically speaking,
1519
01:18:24,220 --> 01:18:26,680
and does so many things
that no one had done before.
1520
01:18:26,690 --> 01:18:28,010
It's got a drone
all the way through,
1521
01:18:28,020 --> 01:18:29,620
which is something that
happens in Indian music
1522
01:18:29,630 --> 01:18:32,750
and used to exist in Western
music in the 12th century.
1523
01:18:32,760 --> 01:18:35,350
So it sort of triggered
a whole movement
1524
01:18:35,360 --> 01:18:37,690
that popular music would
start to bring in these
1525
01:18:37,700 --> 01:18:38,790
other records
from the avant garde,
1526
01:18:38,800 --> 01:18:40,530
put them into mainstream songs,
1527
01:18:40,540 --> 01:18:43,290
into an album that millions
of people would hear.
1528
01:18:43,300 --> 01:18:49,800
♪ Love is all
and love is everyone
1529
01:18:49,810 --> 01:18:53,140
♪ It is knowing ♪
1530
01:18:53,050 --> 01:18:54,240
RINGO: You know,
when we first started,
1531
01:18:54,250 --> 01:18:55,640
we were the nice, clean mop‐tops
1532
01:18:55,650 --> 01:18:58,410
and every mother's son
and everyone loved us.
1533
01:18:58,420 --> 01:19:00,810
And suddenly
there were a few things
1534
01:19:00,820 --> 01:19:02,820
that they don't understand.
1535
01:19:02,830 --> 01:19:04,320
It's just, we're men now.
1536
01:19:04,330 --> 01:19:07,890
We're a bit older than
those lads that started out.
1537
01:19:07,900 --> 01:19:10,820
You can't live all your life
by what they want.
1538
01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:12,490
We can't go on forever
1539
01:19:12,500 --> 01:19:16,760
as four teens with mop‐tops
playing "She Loves You."
1540
01:19:16,770 --> 01:19:19,930
♪ Of the beginning
1541
01:19:19,940 --> 01:19:23,740
♪ Of the beginning
1542
01:19:23,750 --> 01:19:27,340
♪ Of the beginning ♪
1543
01:19:27,350 --> 01:19:29,640
When we were back on the road,
1544
01:19:29,650 --> 01:19:32,910
we got on a train
and went up to Hamburg.
1545
01:19:32,920 --> 01:19:36,080
GEORGE: By then, I don't
think we wanted to be anywhere.
1546
01:19:36,090 --> 01:19:38,380
It was like automatic pilot,
you know.
1547
01:19:38,390 --> 01:19:41,020
There was so much
more pressure from the press
1548
01:19:41,030 --> 01:19:43,120
trying to get at you, you know,
1549
01:19:43,130 --> 01:19:47,760
for whatever reason.
1550
01:19:47,770 --> 01:19:49,100
We're not horrid snobby.
1551
01:19:49,110 --> 01:19:50,130
Yes, you are.
1552
01:19:50,140 --> 01:19:52,100
That's your version.
1553
01:19:52,110 --> 01:19:53,700
That's only in your mind.
1554
01:19:53,710 --> 01:19:57,100
GEORGE: Because we're
not flattering you.
1555
01:19:57,110 --> 01:19:59,210
You know, you all expect
sort of nice answers
1556
01:19:59,220 --> 01:20:00,770
to all the questions,
1557
01:20:00,780 --> 01:20:02,510
but the questions
aren't nice questions.
1558
01:20:02,520 --> 01:20:04,310
We don't have to have
nice answers.
1559
01:20:04,320 --> 01:20:06,110
And if we don't give
nice answers,
1560
01:20:06,120 --> 01:20:09,580
it doesn't mean we're snobby,
it just means we're natural.
1561
01:20:12,800 --> 01:20:14,950
Everything was
hit‐and‐run in those days,
1562
01:20:14,960 --> 01:20:17,420
and I think the next day
after the Hamburg concert
1563
01:20:17,430 --> 01:20:20,030
we had a flight to Tokyo.
1564
01:20:24,440 --> 01:20:25,770
It's amazing security.
1565
01:20:25,780 --> 01:20:27,800
I've ever seen
so many people guarding.
1566
01:20:27,810 --> 01:20:30,600
MAN: But we don't
want you to be hurt‐‐
1567
01:20:30,610 --> 01:20:33,010
GEORGE: No.
MAN: We're trying our best.
1568
01:20:34,550 --> 01:20:37,680
GEORGE: Everywhere
we were going, it was
1569
01:20:37,690 --> 01:20:39,980
a demonstration
of one thing or another.
1570
01:20:39,990 --> 01:20:41,550
In Japan, people
were demonstrating
1571
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:43,150
because the Budokan
was supposed to be
1572
01:20:43,160 --> 01:20:45,790
a special spiritual hall
1573
01:20:45,800 --> 01:20:50,360
and only reserved for
martial arts, not pop music.
1574
01:20:51,900 --> 01:20:56,100
Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome the Beatles!
1575
01:21:13,590 --> 01:21:17,080
GEORGE: It was very strange.
The audience were very reserved.
1576
01:21:17,090 --> 01:21:18,750
Respectful.
1577
01:21:18,760 --> 01:21:22,220
Very quiet to what we
had become accustomed to.
1578
01:21:22,230 --> 01:21:23,430
Very quiet.
1579
01:21:28,270 --> 01:21:30,060
"Nowhere Man."
1580
01:21:30,070 --> 01:21:31,160
Two, three, four.
1581
01:21:31,170 --> 01:21:34,470
♪ He's a real nowhere man
1582
01:21:34,480 --> 01:21:38,240
♪ Sitting in his nowhere land
1583
01:21:38,250 --> 01:21:41,910
♪ Making all his nowhere plans
1584
01:21:41,920 --> 01:21:44,910
♪ With no one ♪
1585
01:21:44,920 --> 01:21:47,510
RINGO: We were playing crap.
1586
01:21:47,520 --> 01:21:50,280
We were just sort of surviving.
1587
01:21:50,290 --> 01:21:53,920
♪ Knows not where he's going to
1588
01:21:53,930 --> 01:21:59,690
♪ Isn't he a bit
like you and me? ♪
1589
01:21:59,400 --> 01:22:02,900
PAUL: We had a day off
in the Philippines, in Manila,
1590
01:22:02,910 --> 01:22:04,360
and then somebody said
1591
01:22:04,370 --> 01:22:08,300
"You're supposed
to be visiting the Palace."
1592
01:22:08,310 --> 01:22:11,610
RINGO: Madam Marcos
had invited us to dinner.
1593
01:22:11,620 --> 01:22:13,510
Brian had told her no.
1594
01:22:13,520 --> 01:22:15,410
Then the next morning,
someone brought the newspapers.
1595
01:22:15,420 --> 01:22:18,990
"Beatles Snub President."
1596
01:22:20,690 --> 01:22:23,850
By late '66,
it felt dangerous, you know?
1597
01:22:23,860 --> 01:22:26,920
Because everybody
was out of hand.
1598
01:22:26,930 --> 01:22:29,190
Even the cops were out of line.
1599
01:22:29,200 --> 01:22:32,990
They were all just caught up
in the mania.
1600
01:22:33,000 --> 01:22:35,200
The build‐up of tension,
1601
01:22:35,210 --> 01:22:38,430
and also dissatisfaction
and frustration,
1602
01:22:38,440 --> 01:22:40,900
and now they went straight
into the complete nightmare.
1603
01:22:40,910 --> 01:22:42,370
Now, this religious controversy.
1604
01:22:42,380 --> 01:22:43,840
I know you don't want to
say too much about it,
1605
01:22:43,850 --> 01:22:45,210
but does it worry you that
it's going to fall out
1606
01:22:45,220 --> 01:22:46,370
when you get to the stage?
1607
01:22:46,380 --> 01:22:47,710
Well, it worries me, yes,
1608
01:22:47,720 --> 01:22:49,810
but I hope everything
will be all right
1609
01:22:49,820 --> 01:22:51,380
in the end, as they say.
1610
01:22:51,390 --> 01:22:53,110
Do you think this is going
to be a controversial tour
1611
01:22:53,120 --> 01:22:54,210
like the Philippines was?
1612
01:22:54,220 --> 01:22:55,450
Oh no, no, no.
1613
01:22:55,460 --> 01:22:57,820
No, it's going to be fine.
1614
01:22:57,830 --> 01:22:58,990
What makes you say that?
1615
01:22:59,000 --> 01:23:00,850
Oh, it'll be fine.
You watch.
1616
01:23:00,860 --> 01:23:02,060
It'll be great.
1617
01:23:10,110 --> 01:23:12,430
♪ Good day sunshine ♪
1618
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:14,230
It was all
because of that interview
1619
01:23:14,240 --> 01:23:16,640
John had given
while on vacation.
1620
01:23:16,650 --> 01:23:19,540
It was reprinted
in America months later.
1621
01:23:19,550 --> 01:23:22,980
"Lennon says the Beatles
are bigger than Christ."
1622
01:23:24,660 --> 01:23:29,250
At that time, churches were
losing their congregations.
1623
01:23:29,260 --> 01:23:32,460
People were going to church
less and less and less.
1624
01:23:36,170 --> 01:23:38,230
John was saying,
we're so famous,
1625
01:23:38,240 --> 01:23:40,290
we're so, oh you won't
believe the fame.
1626
01:23:40,300 --> 01:23:43,730
I mean, like,
we're bigger than Jesus.
1627
01:23:43,740 --> 01:23:46,570
It was a harmless remark
in the middle of an article,
1628
01:23:46,580 --> 01:23:49,570
and it never made
the front page in England.
1629
01:23:49,580 --> 01:23:51,440
That unleashed a firestorm
1630
01:23:51,450 --> 01:23:53,440
in the United States.
1631
01:23:53,450 --> 01:23:56,780
It was almost like the plot
of Help! had become real,
1632
01:23:56,790 --> 01:23:58,680
and they actually
had a lot of people
1633
01:23:58,690 --> 01:24:00,780
who suddenly wanted
to dismember them.
1634
01:24:00,790 --> 01:24:02,520
This is
The Layton and Charles Show
1635
01:24:02,530 --> 01:24:05,090
on WAQY Radio, broadcasting
at 1220 on your dial
1636
01:24:05,100 --> 01:24:07,190
until about nine o'clock
this morning.
1637
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:08,690
We'd like to urge you to
take your Beatle records
1638
01:24:08,700 --> 01:24:11,960
and your Beatlemania to any one
of our 14 pickup points
1639
01:24:11,970 --> 01:24:13,860
anywhere in Birmingham, Alabama.
1640
01:24:13,870 --> 01:24:17,230
Don't forget the destruction
of those Beatle records
1641
01:24:17,240 --> 01:24:18,570
will take place
in just a few days,
1642
01:24:18,580 --> 01:24:22,040
and we'll keep you
informed of all of that.
1643
01:24:22,050 --> 01:24:24,500
They were just stunned.
1644
01:24:24,510 --> 01:24:25,910
You have to really put
it into perspective.
1645
01:24:25,920 --> 01:24:28,210
I mean, the whole
scandal was very serious,
1646
01:24:28,220 --> 01:24:30,080
partly because of the violence
1647
01:24:30,090 --> 01:24:32,010
that was in America at the time.
1648
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:38,120
We'd just had the Texas sniper,
Charles Whitman,
1649
01:24:38,130 --> 01:24:41,420
who'd just shot dead 20 people.
1650
01:24:41,430 --> 01:24:44,290
This was the same country
only three years before
1651
01:24:44,300 --> 01:24:47,960
where the President
had been assassinated.
1652
01:24:47,970 --> 01:24:53,170
It had got dangerous,
and we were threatened.
1653
01:24:53,180 --> 01:24:56,340
We knew we weren't
being blasphemous.
1654
01:24:56,350 --> 01:24:58,910
We weren't anti‐Jesus.
1655
01:24:58,920 --> 01:25:02,480
In fact, we all had pretty
religious upbringings, really.
1656
01:25:02,490 --> 01:25:05,610
But you do see John
as sort of a broken man,
1657
01:25:05,620 --> 01:25:08,220
because you realize
he had to apologize.
1658
01:25:08,230 --> 01:25:10,880
I was the only thing
that would stop this.
1659
01:25:10,890 --> 01:25:14,560
I pointed out that fact
in reference to England,
1660
01:25:14,570 --> 01:25:17,960
that we meant more
to kids than Jesus did,
1661
01:25:17,970 --> 01:25:19,860
or religion at that time.
1662
01:25:19,870 --> 01:25:21,560
I wasn't knocking it
or putting it down,
1663
01:25:21,570 --> 01:25:24,160
I was just saying it as a fact.
1664
01:25:24,170 --> 01:25:28,740
And it sort of is true, better
more for England than here.
1665
01:25:28,750 --> 01:25:31,740
I'm not saying that
we're better or greater
1666
01:25:31,750 --> 01:25:34,810
or comparing us with
Jesus Christ as a person,
1667
01:25:34,820 --> 01:25:37,280
or God as a thing,
whatever it is,
1668
01:25:37,290 --> 01:25:38,680
you know, I just said
what I said,
1669
01:25:38,690 --> 01:25:40,980
and it was wrong,
or was taken wrong,
1670
01:25:40,990 --> 01:25:42,580
but now it's all this.
1671
01:25:42,590 --> 01:25:46,550
He's longing to break
out of it and do a joke,
1672
01:25:46,560 --> 01:25:48,060
but he knows he can't.
1673
01:25:48,070 --> 01:25:51,290
If it had said television is
more popular than Jesus,
1674
01:25:51,300 --> 01:25:53,160
I might have got away with it.
1675
01:25:54,540 --> 01:25:56,460
I just happened to be
talking to a friend,
1676
01:25:56,470 --> 01:25:59,700
they used the word
Beatles as a remote thing,
1677
01:25:59,710 --> 01:26:01,540
not as what I think,
because Beatles
1678
01:26:01,550 --> 01:26:04,670
as those other Beatles,
like other people see us,
1679
01:26:04,680 --> 01:26:07,910
I just said they are
having more influence
1680
01:26:07,920 --> 01:26:09,280
on kids and things
1681
01:26:09,290 --> 01:26:11,880
than anything else,
including Jesus.
1682
01:26:11,890 --> 01:26:13,550
I said it in that way,
1683
01:26:13,560 --> 01:26:15,950
which is the wrong way,
yep, yep.
1684
01:26:15,960 --> 01:26:19,320
PAUL: He was scared.
We were all pretty scared.
1685
01:26:19,330 --> 01:26:22,490
Most of the people
in the room understood it.
1686
01:26:22,500 --> 01:26:25,060
It's like one of those lines.
1687
01:26:25,070 --> 01:26:27,060
It didn't hold us back at all.
1688
01:26:28,570 --> 01:26:30,000
MAN: Concert tomorrow night
is far below a sell‐out.
1689
01:26:30,010 --> 01:26:31,010
How do you feel about‐‐
1690
01:26:31,010 --> 01:26:32,930
JOHN: Very rich.
1691
01:26:42,420 --> 01:26:46,650
♪ I know that she knows ♪
1692
01:26:46,660 --> 01:26:49,450
There were three
road managers, roadies,
1693
01:26:49,460 --> 01:26:53,320
on the tour, period,
in '66, that was it.
1694
01:26:53,330 --> 01:26:55,020
I was friends
with the opening act.
1695
01:26:55,030 --> 01:26:56,660
They said, Do you wanna do it?
1696
01:26:56,670 --> 01:26:59,160
I didn't even know how to
set up a drum kit at the time.
1697
01:26:59,170 --> 01:27:00,560
I had no idea.
1698
01:27:00,570 --> 01:27:03,560
I was a musician in Boston,
a folk singer.
1699
01:27:03,570 --> 01:27:05,930
I had no qualifications at all.
1700
01:27:05,940 --> 01:27:08,470
We only ever had
a couple of roadies.
1701
01:27:08,480 --> 01:27:09,940
Didn't matter where we were.
1702
01:27:09,950 --> 01:27:14,270
Biggest band in the land,
that's all we had.
1703
01:27:14,280 --> 01:27:16,110
And in Cleveland,
the sound was so bad
1704
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:17,980
that everybody rushed the stage.
1705
01:27:17,990 --> 01:27:20,650
REPORTER: Cleveland Stadium
has been absolutely riots.
1706
01:27:20,660 --> 01:27:22,520
The whole place went wild here,
1707
01:27:22,530 --> 01:27:25,650
broke the barriers,
came through the police cordon.
1708
01:27:25,660 --> 01:27:27,620
We managed to get
the Beatles off the stage,
1709
01:27:27,630 --> 01:27:29,960
they were even
all over the stage.
1710
01:27:29,970 --> 01:27:33,690
ED: I really thought
I was gonna get hurt.
1711
01:27:33,700 --> 01:27:36,430
We get to Memphis and
there's been a bomb scare,
1712
01:27:36,440 --> 01:27:38,870
and we had to delay the show,
I think the
1713
01:27:38,880 --> 01:27:42,700
bomb‐sniffing dogs
throughout the whole theater.
1714
01:27:42,710 --> 01:27:44,370
That kind of stuff
was happening all the time.
1715
01:27:44,380 --> 01:27:45,940
It was terrifying.
1716
01:27:45,950 --> 01:27:48,780
Some people would set off
firecrackers in the hall
1717
01:27:48,790 --> 01:27:51,890
and you'd think one
of the others had got shot.
1718
01:27:54,060 --> 01:27:58,430
And we flew off to St. Louis,
and it was pouring rain.
1719
01:28:04,330 --> 01:28:08,700
My job was to sit backstage
with my hand on the plug,
1720
01:28:08,710 --> 01:28:11,570
and the instructions were,
if one of them fell down,
1721
01:28:11,580 --> 01:28:13,230
like knocked out by the shock,
1722
01:28:13,240 --> 01:28:17,500
then you should pull the plug,
and that would stop the show.
1723
01:28:17,510 --> 01:28:19,020
It was a joke.
1724
01:28:24,690 --> 01:28:25,950
This was three weeks
that they just
1725
01:28:25,960 --> 01:28:27,880
took a deep breath
and said, okay,
1726
01:28:27,890 --> 01:28:30,090
let's just do this and
we'll make a lot of money.
1727
01:28:34,830 --> 01:28:37,790
RINGO: A lot of the time we
were going through the motions,
1728
01:28:37,800 --> 01:28:41,490
and we all started
to get pretty fed up.
1729
01:28:41,500 --> 01:28:44,880
George particularly was
quite vocal about that.
1730
01:28:46,840 --> 01:28:49,040
GEORGE: I was saying,
"I don't wanna do this anymore.
1731
01:28:49,050 --> 01:28:50,700
I don't like this."
1732
01:28:50,710 --> 01:28:53,170
I certainly
felt that that was it.
1733
01:28:53,180 --> 01:28:57,090
You know, that we weren't
going to tour again like that.
1734
01:29:22,550 --> 01:29:24,170
There was no enjoyment in it.
1735
01:29:24,180 --> 01:29:27,340
The music wasn't being heard.
It wasn't dong anything.
1736
01:29:27,350 --> 01:29:29,420
It was just a sort of
freak show.
1737
01:29:32,190 --> 01:29:34,110
The Beatles were the show,
and the music
1738
01:29:34,120 --> 01:29:35,830
had nothing to do with it.
1739
01:29:38,830 --> 01:29:42,760
As we were musicians, we felt,
if we're gonna be Beatles,
1740
01:29:42,770 --> 01:29:45,190
the only reason to be a Beatle
is to make music,
1741
01:29:45,200 --> 01:29:46,900
and not be in a circus.
1742
01:29:53,480 --> 01:29:55,600
And when we were finished,
I remember
1743
01:29:55,610 --> 01:29:59,510
just being piled in
the back of this meat wagon,
1744
01:29:59,520 --> 01:30:02,950
which was steel,
and nothing else inside.
1745
01:30:04,090 --> 01:30:06,250
We're all in this,
sort of sliding around
1746
01:30:06,260 --> 01:30:08,950
as it went around the corners,
1747
01:30:08,960 --> 01:30:12,090
and we're all really mad
at the whole bloody thing.
1748
01:30:12,100 --> 01:30:15,360
John started, and George,
like, oh that's it.
1749
01:30:15,370 --> 01:30:17,560
I've had enough, you know.
1750
01:30:17,570 --> 01:30:21,230
And we all agreed.
1751
01:30:21,240 --> 01:30:22,560
We were just sitting in the van,
1752
01:30:22,570 --> 01:30:25,110
saying, That's enough of that.
1753
01:30:39,390 --> 01:30:42,120
We all knew, to survive,
we had to
1754
01:30:42,130 --> 01:30:45,390
get back in the studio
and get to know each other
1755
01:30:45,400 --> 01:30:47,990
and play again.
1756
01:30:48,000 --> 01:30:50,260
I'm not holding back, George.
1757
01:30:50,270 --> 01:30:52,530
I'm giving my all.
1758
01:30:52,540 --> 01:30:53,960
GEORGE: It used to make
us laugh when we'd read
1759
01:30:53,970 --> 01:30:56,430
people saying,
the problem with the Beatles
1760
01:30:56,440 --> 01:30:58,370
is that while
we were all growing up,
1761
01:30:58,380 --> 01:31:00,300
they were all on tour,
and so they missed
1762
01:31:00,310 --> 01:31:02,000
the growing‐up period.
1763
01:31:02,010 --> 01:31:05,940
But the truth to it was, we
were snatched out of our youth.
1764
01:31:05,950 --> 01:31:07,980
We were force‐grown like rhubarb
1765
01:31:07,990 --> 01:31:10,510
when you grow it
under hothouse conditions.
1766
01:31:10,520 --> 01:31:13,320
You make it grow much quicker
than it would naturally.
1767
01:31:13,330 --> 01:31:14,850
JOHN: Oh, God, now?
1768
01:31:14,860 --> 01:31:16,650
Broken another string.
1769
01:31:16,660 --> 01:31:19,190
PAUL: I think it'll probably
be another day singin' in.
1770
01:31:19,200 --> 01:31:20,890
GEORGE: And what
you can do with the bits
1771
01:31:20,900 --> 01:31:23,460
where you can't get it 'cause
you haven't got enough breath.
1772
01:31:23,470 --> 01:31:26,300
‐ PAUL: Take over.
‐ All right, let's go.
1773
01:31:26,310 --> 01:31:29,630
In one way it was good because
we went into the recording scene
1774
01:31:29,640 --> 01:31:31,470
and really, sort of,
expressed ourselves
1775
01:31:31,480 --> 01:31:32,800
through the records, then,
1776
01:31:32,810 --> 01:31:34,740
because we could no longer
do it outside.
1777
01:31:34,750 --> 01:31:40,210
♪ Living is easy ♪
♪ with eyes closed ♪
1778
01:31:40,220 --> 01:31:45,110
♪ Misunderstanding all you see ♪
1779
01:31:45,120 --> 01:31:49,580
♪ It's getting hard to be ♪
♪ someone but it all works out ♪
1780
01:31:49,590 --> 01:31:50,950
♪ It doesn't matter much to me ♪
1781
01:31:50,960 --> 01:31:54,160
I got this idea for us
all to be someone else,
1782
01:31:54,170 --> 01:31:57,360
because we were so fed up
with being what we were,
1783
01:31:57,370 --> 01:31:59,960
we had to get out of it,
one way or another.
1784
01:31:59,970 --> 01:32:01,060
GEORGE: Righty‐o!
1785
01:32:01,070 --> 01:32:03,230
JOHN: However you like.
1786
01:32:03,240 --> 01:32:06,370
You know, feel it.
1787
01:32:06,380 --> 01:32:09,640
PAUL: One, two, three, four.
1788
01:32:18,390 --> 01:32:21,350
I just said to everyone,
we're not the Beatles.
1789
01:32:21,360 --> 01:32:23,390
It was to liberate us.
1790
01:32:23,400 --> 01:32:25,320
We gotta think of
a new name for ourselves.
1791
01:32:25,330 --> 01:32:26,960
Gotta think up
a new way of being,
1792
01:32:26,970 --> 01:32:28,520
a new way of recording,
a new everything,
1793
01:32:28,530 --> 01:32:29,090
just to be fresh.
1794
01:32:30,100 --> 01:32:31,790
♪ So may I introduce to you ♪
1795
01:32:32,300 --> 01:32:35,260
♪ The act you've known ♪
♪ for all these years ♪
1796
01:32:35,270 --> 01:32:40,440
♪ Sergeant Pepper's ♪
♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band ♪
1797
01:32:41,450 --> 01:32:42,900
PAUL: I'll be
overpowering this time.
1798
01:32:42,910 --> 01:32:44,140
JOHN: I'll go.
1799
01:32:44,150 --> 01:32:45,610
I like it when you do, Paul.
1800
01:32:45,620 --> 01:32:48,580
PAUL: Quiet
in the studio, please.
1801
01:32:54,090 --> 01:32:58,020
♪ Picture yourself in
a boat on a river ♪
1802
01:32:58,030 --> 01:33:00,160
Just go right in with it.
1803
01:33:00,170 --> 01:33:01,560
Do those quicker.
1804
01:33:01,570 --> 01:33:03,930
♪ Cellophane flowers ♪
♪ of yellow and green ♪
1805
01:33:03,940 --> 01:33:06,000
♪ Yellow and green ♪
1806
01:33:06,010 --> 01:33:07,260
JOHN: Okay.
1807
01:33:07,270 --> 01:33:11,470
♪ Cellophane flowers of ♪
♪ yellow and green ♪
1808
01:33:12,580 --> 01:33:16,940
♪ Towering over your head ♪
1809
01:33:17,450 --> 01:33:21,710
♪ Look for the girl ♪
♪ with the sun in her eyes ♪
1810
01:33:21,720 --> 01:33:25,410
♪ And she's gone ♪
1811
01:33:25,420 --> 01:33:29,980
♪ Lucy in the sky ♪
♪ with diamonds ♪
1812
01:33:29,990 --> 01:33:32,420
♪ Lucy in the sky with diamonds ♪
1813
01:33:32,430 --> 01:33:33,960
JOHN: It was the music
that was interesting.
1814
01:33:33,970 --> 01:33:35,420
That was important.
1815
01:33:35,430 --> 01:33:38,330
As long as we were going
forward and going somewhere,
1816
01:33:38,340 --> 01:33:39,530
it didn't matter.
1817
01:33:52,320 --> 01:33:57,880
♪ I read the news today, ♪
♪ oh boy ♪
1818
01:33:57,890 --> 01:34:03,650
♪ About a lucky man ♪
♪ who made the grade ♪
1819
01:34:03,660 --> 01:34:05,120
PAUL: There was
a lot of faith involved
1820
01:34:05,130 --> 01:34:07,420
in everything that we did.
1821
01:34:07,430 --> 01:34:10,530
And the people around us
had to share that faith,
1822
01:34:10,540 --> 01:34:12,560
or it wouldn't have worked.
1823
01:34:12,570 --> 01:34:14,260
♪ Now they know ♪
♪ how many holes it takes ♪
1824
01:34:14,270 --> 01:34:17,800
♪ To fill the Albert Hall ♪
1825
01:34:17,810 --> 01:34:20,500
Brian had to have faith in us.
1826
01:34:20,510 --> 01:34:23,340
George Martin
had to have faith in us.
1827
01:34:23,350 --> 01:34:26,240
This is how it was
for the Beatles.
1828
01:34:26,250 --> 01:34:28,140
You had to have faith.
1829
01:34:28,150 --> 01:34:31,520
We had to have faith
in each other.
1830
01:35:51,180 --> 01:35:56,500
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1831
01:35:56,510 --> 01:36:02,580
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1832
01:36:02,590 --> 01:36:08,380
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1833
01:36:08,390 --> 01:36:13,750
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1834
01:36:13,760 --> 01:36:19,160
♪ Nobody ever loved me like she does ♪
1835
01:36:19,170 --> 01:36:21,430
♪ Oh, she does ♪
1836
01:36:21,440 --> 01:36:26,300
♪ Yeah, she does ♪
1837
01:36:26,310 --> 01:36:31,840
♪ And if somebody loved me like she does ♪
1838
01:36:31,850 --> 01:36:34,780
♪ Oh, she does ♪
1839
01:36:34,790 --> 01:36:39,880
♪ Yeah, she does ♪
1840
01:36:39,890 --> 01:36:45,620
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1841
01:36:45,630 --> 01:36:51,930
♪ Don't ♪
♪ let me down ♪
1842
01:36:51,940 --> 01:36:57,330
♪ Don't let me down ♪
1843
01:36:57,340 --> 01:37:02,770
♪ Don't ♪
♪ let me down ♪
1844
01:37:02,780 --> 01:37:08,740
♪ I'm in love ♪
♪ for the first time ♪
1845
01:37:08,750 --> 01:37:14,450
♪ Don't you know ♪
♪ it's gonna last ♪
1846
01:37:14,460 --> 01:37:21,160
♪ It's a love ♪
♪ that lasts forever ♪
1847
01:37:21,170 --> 01:37:24,700
♪ It's a love ♪
♪ that has no past ♪
1848
01:37:31,980 --> 01:37:37,140
♪ I got a feelin' ♪
♪ that keeps me on my toes ♪
1849
01:37:37,150 --> 01:37:39,980
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1850
01:37:39,990 --> 01:37:43,410
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪
1851
01:37:43,420 --> 01:37:45,710
♪ I got a feelin' ♪
1852
01:37:45,720 --> 01:37:48,250
♪ I think that everybody knows ♪
1853
01:37:48,260 --> 01:37:52,190
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪
1854
01:37:52,200 --> 01:37:55,990
♪ Oh yeah, yeah ♪
1855
01:37:56,000 --> 01:37:59,460
♪ Yeah ♪
1856
01:37:59,470 --> 01:38:02,710
♪ I've got a feeling, yeah ♪
1857
01:38:07,080 --> 01:38:09,540
♪ Everybody had a hard year ♪
1858
01:38:09,550 --> 01:38:12,410
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ had a good time ♪
1859
01:38:12,420 --> 01:38:15,580
♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪
1860
01:38:15,590 --> 01:38:17,650
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ saw the sunshine ♪
1861
01:38:17,660 --> 01:38:19,310
♪ Oh yeah, oh yeah ♪
1862
01:38:19,320 --> 01:38:24,150
♪ Oh yeah, ♪
♪ oh yeah ♪
1863
01:38:24,160 --> 01:38:27,490
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪
1864
01:38:27,500 --> 01:38:29,690
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ let their hair down ♪
1865
01:38:29,700 --> 01:38:32,460
♪ Everybody pulled ♪
♪ their socks up ♪
1866
01:38:32,470 --> 01:38:35,130
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ put their foot down ♪
1867
01:38:35,140 --> 01:38:36,840
♪ Oh yeah ♪
1868
01:38:45,280 --> 01:38:47,610
♪ Woo‐hoo ♪
1869
01:38:47,020 --> 01:38:49,210
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪
1870
01:38:49,220 --> 01:38:52,150
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ had a hard time ♪
1871
01:38:52,160 --> 01:38:55,120
♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪
1872
01:38:55,130 --> 01:38:57,850
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ saw the sunshine ♪
1873
01:38:57,860 --> 01:39:00,960
♪ Everybody had a good year ♪
1874
01:39:00,970 --> 01:39:03,860
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ let their hair down ♪
1875
01:39:03,870 --> 01:39:06,800
♪ Everybody pulled ♪
♪ their socks up ♪
1876
01:39:06,810 --> 01:39:08,960
♪ Everybody ♪
♪ put their foot down ♪
1877
01:39:08,970 --> 01:39:10,180
♪ Oh, yeah ♪
1878
01:39:13,650 --> 01:39:17,640
♪ I got a feelin' ♪
1879
01:39:17,650 --> 01:39:23,010
♪ I got ♪
♪ a feelin' ♪
1880
01:39:23,020 --> 01:39:25,560
♪ I got a feelin' ♪
1881
01:39:37,400 --> 01:39:39,800
PAUL: What a suitable
ending, I think.