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00:00I'll never find a gem of mine
00:07I'll open up the doors
00:09Help me if you can
00:11I'm feeling bad
00:30We were like in the eye of the hurricane
00:32So we were just in this little goldfish bowl in the middle
00:36And one didn't really have time to think what was going on
00:39It was just going on so fast
00:40Ted Sullivan had seen us in England
00:43And all the time and life
00:45And Newsweek had all put covers of the Beatles
00:47On their magazines prior to us arriving
00:50So it was a surprise though
00:52Because we thought we'd have to work a little bit
00:56For this notoriety
00:57When we arrived here we knew how to handle press
01:00The British press are the toughest in the world
01:02We could handle anything
01:03We were all right
01:05The press they started shouting at us
01:10They like being just shouted back at
01:13You know and we did do it with humor
01:15Could you please sing something?
01:17No
01:17Sorry
01:19Next question
01:20No we need money first
01:22There's a question here
01:26How many are bald that you have to wear those big?
01:28To all of us
01:29I'm bald
01:30You're bald?
01:30Oh we're all a bald
01:31Don't tell anyone please
01:32I got a question here
01:33Do you want to get a haircut at all?
01:35No
01:35No thanks
01:36I had one yesterday
01:37That's no lie
01:40Absolutely
01:42What do you think does to these people?
01:46I don't know
01:47Well
01:47Pleases them I think
01:49Well they must do because they're buying it
01:50Why does it excite us so much?
01:52We don't know really
01:53Absolutely
01:54We can form another group and be managers
01:56Everybody in Liverpool thinks they're a comedian
01:58And when you just transposed it into New Yorkism
02:01It was great
02:03I mean we were just being hard-faced really
02:05And they loved it
02:07I remember for instance the great moment of going into the limo
02:14And putting on the radio
02:16And there we were on American Radio
02:18I don't know
02:21And the horror party of an exciting morning on Wednesday's Brad Phillips
02:27As the battles of the Beatles
02:29The biggest hit on all the groups in the world
02:31Yeah
02:31Yeah
02:32I don't know
02:33All the radio over there
02:35And TV
02:36The Beatles made their own poetry
02:38On a documentary Meet the Beatles
02:40Oh no
02:41Oh really?
02:42I don't get that
02:43I don't understand this
02:44Tomorrow night from 7 to 8
02:46Europe wins
02:46We ain't written no poetry
02:48It's on the post
02:50It's on the post
02:51It's on the post
02:51It's on the post
02:52Oh yeah
02:53Oh yeah
02:53Oh look
02:54They've got a tremendous crowd there
02:56That's the kids
02:56Are we going to get in?
02:57That's the kids
02:57I'm missing a fag shot
02:58Hey, I'm missing the kids
03:00Go on
03:00I'm putting the crowd
03:01Hey, how are we going to get in then?
03:07Hey, the party
03:08How are you?
03:08Lucky door
03:09Lock the door
03:10Hey
03:11Hello
03:12Hi, kids
03:13Well, hi, girls
03:16And look at this old man there going, Posse
03:22See?
03:23That is it
03:24Oh, he's a good old fellow
03:29But the foes would run
03:30Hell yeah
03:36Get the balls
03:41Come on
03:42Come on
03:42It's okay, he's going to get the horses behind us
03:48Come on, that's all
03:49I don't know
03:50Anybody new?
03:53This is a good old man there going, Posse
04:02Come on, that's all
04:03I'm going to get him near the house
04:05Is this it?
04:06Get in quick
04:07we had this huge suite of rooms in the plaza hotel
04:14and we had radios with the earpieces so we could phone in mori the k and we could listen to him
04:23talking on the radio this is all so fascinating to me it was just too far out we were so overawed
04:29by american radio they had epstein our manager had to stop us we phoned every radio in town
04:34just saying will you play the ronettes doing this i mean we want to hear the music we didn't ask for
04:38our own records we asked for the people's okay this is john lennon of the beatles on 1010 w-i-n-s
04:45now we just want to tell everybody this was the beatles station they're taking over they're telling
04:49us what to play i got one more week to this and i'm going to become the fifth beetle david well i like
04:54murray he was a real good guy there was him and cousin bruce and he became the so-called fifth
05:00because he was really big on our record you know he helped make it a hit pa suppose you tell him
05:07what we got next baby we were very impressed with him and uh so we used to ring his radio show when
05:13he was on and he'd say i'm the biddles there and i've got an exclusive interview and here we are
05:16and we'd be ringing up hello excuse me oh it's george hi george how are you doing and we'd you know
05:22give him all the exclusives it's because we loved him you know okay this is paul mccartney
05:2711 10 10 w-i-n-s and it's marvin kate the idiot singing pride and joy
05:33yeah baby you guys
05:38and i just love you
05:50love you darling
05:51like a baby boy
05:54loves his story
05:55you've got kisses
05:57sweeter than honey
06:00and i work seven days a week
06:02to give you all my money
06:04and that's why you are my pride and joy
06:09and i'm telling the world you're my pride and joy
06:14it's me you know me yes
06:17no we're waiting for a very important call from london which you're blocking the line on
06:22hello john
06:25hello glion
06:26what are your first impressions of arrival in america
06:29well i don't know the sort of the wild
06:33they're all wild they just seem to get wilder than they are here in england
06:37well it seemed like it maybe it's just the first impression
06:39yeah they just seem all out of their minds
06:42did you get home at all john between leaving paris and starting again for the states
06:46yeah we were well we were in london for two days you know we got to england
06:50you didn't go up to liverpool there
06:51no george went up there
06:54yeah but he's regretting it he still hasn't slept
06:56is george there now
06:58yeah do you want to speak to him
06:59yes in a moment but john is there anything you want to say to the fans back here at home
07:03first
07:04yeah well tell them not to forget we're only away for 10 days
07:07and we'll be back you know we're thinking of them
07:10now let's have a word with ringo could we
07:11hello bro
07:12hello how are you
07:14fine
07:14what was the first thing you did when you got to your hotel ringo
07:18um well we had this big mass press interview with oh about 100 people there you know
07:25and then um we got out of that and then we we had a cadillac each
07:30marvelous cars
07:32what sort of things do they want to know at the press reception
07:34oh all things are we bald you know and what do we do with our money
07:39all the usual things
07:41you prove that you don't wear wigs i hope
07:43yeah
07:43and what did you do
07:44we took them off
07:45well cheerio ringo and the best of luck to you
07:50cheerio give our regards to everyone
07:52there's george now
07:54hello george
07:55hello how are you brian
07:57fine thanks how are you
07:58uh not so bad
07:59uh the first thing you'll be doing over there is the ed sullivan show isn't it
08:02yeah we rehearse that tomorrow
08:04and then uh do the show on sunday
08:08but what will you be doing on the show
08:09uh i think we'll be doing you know i want to hold your hand
08:13she loves you please please me
08:14you know the usual ones
08:16uh-huh how many of your records are in the american hip parade at the moment
08:19we've got six in the hundred
08:23and uh we it's we've got i want to hold your hand
08:26she loves you please please me from me to you
08:29my bonnie which is a laugh
08:31and i saw her standing there
08:33you know in in new york
08:35the um three records uh please please me she loves you and i want to hold your hand
08:41they're all number one
08:43well that's marvelous and we're all very proud of you
08:45the very best of luck to all of you
08:47yeah
08:47and we're looking forward to seeing you back home again
08:49yeah thanks
08:50well we'll see you you know in two weeks i suppose
08:53i had this throat thing because when you see the photographs
08:57that they all went out and did a publicity
09:00shots in central park
09:02there's pictures of just the three of them with the new york skyline behind them
09:07now yesterday and today our theater's been jammed with news papemen and hundreds of dogs
09:13and all over the nation and these veterans agree with me that the city
09:15never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from liverpool
09:18who call themselves the beatles now tonight you're gonna twice be entertained by them
09:23right now and again on the second half of our show ladies and gentlemen
09:26the beatles bring them on
09:28one two three five five
09:34close your eyes and i'll kiss you
09:38tomorrow i'll miss you
09:41remember i'll always miss you
09:45and then while i'm away
09:49i'll ride home every day
09:52and i'll send all my loving to you
09:57i'll pretend that i'm kissing
10:01the lips i am missing
10:05and hope that my dreams will come true
10:10and then while i'm away
10:14i'll ride home every day
10:17and i'll send all my loving to you
10:22all my loving i will send you through
10:28all my loving darling i'll be true
10:34close your eyes and i'll kiss you
10:48close your eyes and i'll kiss you
10:50tomorrow i'll miss you
10:53remember i'll always be true
10:58and then while i'm away
11:02i'll ride home every day
11:06and i'll send all my loving to you
11:10well it's still supposed to be the largest viewing audience ever in the states you know
11:17and the states being the biggest showbiz town ever
11:22it was very important
11:24i still get people talking to me about it now
11:26you know it's like where were you when kennedy was shot
11:28later they said there was the least reported or there was no reported crime
11:37even the criminals had a rest for for like 10 minutes while we were on
11:44you know something very nice happened and the beatles got a great kick out of it
11:49we just received a wire they did
11:50from elvis presley and colonel tom parker wishing them a tremendous success in our country
11:55i think that was very very nice
11:58and then we did the train ride to uh washington
12:10and that's where we got to know quite a few of the press guys and that's where they
12:19started to get friendly and let us know that they were out there actually to kill us and
12:24as we shouted at them they loved us
12:27god knows what would happen if we hadn't shouted
12:31two four four
12:33two four seven
12:35two five one
12:37roger
12:39and before it is
12:42hi
12:43it's great being here in new york
12:45okay
12:47oh is that the place i don't know washington
12:50i'm just moving so fast
12:52there may be a controversy over the beatles apparel and their hairdos but there's no debate
12:57about one thing they sure have got talent
13:01the washington gig there was like ten twelve thousand people that was a hell of a lot of
13:05people in those days that you were playing to
13:08good evening how do you do
13:12we'd like to thank everybody here in america washington america for
13:20we'd like to thank everybody for uh buying this particular record and starting this thing off
13:33in america and giving us the chance to come here and see you all in washington thank you
13:37song
13:40she loves you yeah
13:44loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah
13:47she loves you yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
13:52thank you bless your love
13:55well i saw her yesterday
13:58it's who she's thinking of
14:00and she told me what to say
14:05she said she loves you
14:08and you know that can be fair
14:10but she loves you
14:13and you know you should be glad
14:18she said you heard her soul
14:20she almost lost her mind
14:25She says, you know, you're not the hurtin' guy
14:30She says she loves you, and you know that can't be mine
14:35Yes, she loves you, and you know you should be glad
14:41She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
14:45She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
14:48With a love like that, you know you should be glad
14:55You know it's up to you
14:57I think it's only fair
15:01I've done her too, I apologize to her
15:07Because she loves you, and you know that can't be mine
15:11She loves you, and you know you should be glad
15:18She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
15:22She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah
15:25With a love like that, you know you should be glad
15:29With a love like that, you know you should be glad
15:36With a love like that, you know you should be glad
15:44Yeah!
15:46Yeah!
15:48Yeah!
15:51Yeah!
15:52Yeah!
15:58We did that in Washington show.
16:00It was like a boxing ring.
16:02Right, with people all around.
16:04Every song, you'd go to a different side of the stage, right?
16:08And so you had to move the mics all the time, you know,
16:12was sitting on a like this round thing in the middle of the stage that his drums were on so
16:17you had to turn that round to face whichever way the band were playing and the bloody thing got stuck
16:31you know so there's all this chaos going on and whatever but it was a good show
16:42the songs go I saw her standing there one two three
16:50when she was just 17 you know what i mean
16:57i know where she was way beyond compare
17:03how could i dance with another
17:08and i saw her standing there
17:14oh she looked at me
17:16and i i perceived that before too long i fall in love with her
17:25she wouldn't dance with another
17:31and i saw her standing there
17:40when i crossed and drove
17:44and i held her hand in my
17:48and i saw her standing there
17:57when we dance through the night
17:59and we held each other aside
18:01and before too long i fell in love with her
18:03and i'll never dance with another
18:09and that's all her standing there
18:15and that's all her standing there
18:17when we dance through the night
18:32and we held each other
18:34and we held each other
18:38and before too long i fell in love with her
18:53and before too long i fell in love with her
18:57and we were surrounded by the kids
19:17and with it being america the parents sort of went along with the kids more than they did in england
19:23i loved it i absolutely loved it
19:26we didn't think whether we're that good or not you're going to think you're good to
19:31to do what we did you know last thing i remember was playing music in a club and the next minute this
19:36but we never thought about it too much because it was an ongoing thing
19:39it was happening to us and it was hard to see you know we were just in the middle being ushered from room to room
19:45yeah the british embassy it was there was a kind of party you know so that so this was one of the
19:51things that was starting to happen because we now were conquering america obviously the british
19:57ambassador could play a role in this and it would be good publicity for him probably you know silly i know
20:04uh but but there were a lot of hooray henry's there and we'd never really met them yet we hadn't
20:10played many sort of arts balls or cambridge may balls or that kind of thing we'd heard about
20:16these guys who got a little bit stroppy after a few drinks i say you know play regmann north
20:21piano concerto we were standing around saying hi it's very nice here and having a drink
20:28and uh one of them uh came up behind me and snipped a piece of my hair off you know it got me angry so
20:35i just swung out the hell do you think it's okay i was having just you know bullshit bullshit some
20:41for the animal cut ringo's hair you know in the middle of i walked out of that you know swearing
20:47not all of them and i just left in the middle of it really one day you look and then we eventually
21:02just say got down to miami which was well i mean that was just like paradise because i mean we'd never
21:07been to anywhere there was palm trees and we took a lot of photos you know we were like tourists and we
21:13had our pentax cameras i was the one but tomorrow may rain so i'll follow the sun and now the time has
21:26come and so my love i must go and though i lose a friend in the end you will know oh one day you'll find
21:43that i have gone but tomorrow may rain so i'll follow the sun
21:57this was just the most brilliant place i'd ever been to and people were lending us yachts or anything
22:02we wanted i mean this family lent us their boat and they let me drive about a 60-foot yacht
22:08you know speed boats which i proceeded to bring in to port head on
22:17not really knowing much about driving speed boats and so you know they have those pretty rails on the
22:24front hanging up well this one just bent the the bugger all over the place but they didn't seem to mind
22:31you know they were just happy we had a great time there we we stayed in the hotel most of the time and
22:35sort of looked down on the sand where the kids the fans would write i love john on the sand you know
22:42so you could read it from your hotel room and i remember playing at one of the hotels
22:48and they would have cabarets and now from the stage of the doville hotel here he is ed sullivan
23:04so thank you very very much thank you
23:12well you know so very nice to be here thank you ralph renyx for that very nice intro
23:17and now this has happened again last sunday on our show in new york the beatles played to the
23:23greatest tv audience that's ever been assembled in the history of american tv now tonight here in
23:30miyama beach again the beatles face our record-busting audience ladies and gentlemen
23:40here are four of the nicest youngsters we've ever had on our stage the beatles bring them on
23:48the beatles
23:56fast forward
24:01took my love away
24:07he'll regret it someday
24:10but this boy wants you back again
24:24that boy
24:28isn't good for you
24:34though he may want you too
24:40this boy
24:42this boy wants you back again
24:49oh
24:50and this boy
24:52could be happy
24:57just to love you
25:00but oh my
25:02that boy
25:07won't be happy
25:10i
25:18use the mess won't you
25:20hacking
25:22well come on then
25:28you got to stick everything
25:33these youngsters from liverpool england
25:43and their conduct over here not only as fine professional singers
25:47but as a group of fine youngsters will leave an imprint with everyone over here who's met them okay
25:54let's go
25:54let's go
25:57and nobody ever so made it in america and we were dying to be the first
26:01a lot of people who had tried and failed in america we were just very confident confidence was at an all-time high
26:08i felt we've conquered america
26:12it was sort of an attitude we had okay we've conquered sweden we've conquered france yes america was ours now
26:18now
26:25oh yeah i tell you something
26:30i think you'll understand
26:32what did you most like about the trip ringo oh i just loved all of it you know especially miami the sun you know
26:40i didn't know what it meant until i went over there don't you get it up in liverpool
26:57no they're finished up there you know
27:00cut it out
27:02did you ever have a chance john to just get away on your own without anybody recognizing you we borrowed a couple of millionaires houses you know
27:10well we did you could afford to buy a couple of millionaires houses couldn't you no
27:14oh yeah no yeah but sooner borrow them it's cheaper and we did a bit of water skiing
27:19well sort of anyway yeah we had a great time did you did your wife enjoy it over there yeah she loved it
27:23who who don't tell him he's married it's a secret oh i'm sorry yeah i'm sorry about that i didn't mean
27:29that what about the uh taste of the fans over there did you find same stuff you never yeah
27:35yeah if uh we expected them to be very different but they weren't at all yeah
27:43the accent was the only thing you know it was the only difference lovely did they reckon you sang in
27:47an english accent or american no some fella said i'll come because you're from britain and you're
27:52still singing american accent or something yeah funny we've been trying to explain it to him
27:57that it's a liverpool accent you know believe what you believe oh it's funny i hear anyway the four
28:02of you are going to be millionaires by the end of the year oh that's nice have you got time
28:06have you got time to have you got time to actually spend this money what money
28:21a hard day is night i should be sleeping like a love but when i get home to you i find the things
28:29that you do will make me feel all right we'd always you know i'm talking about this progression with the
28:36beatles from you know little stevedores and dockers union cavern better clubs you know so so films
28:45was one that we'd always thought we loved the girl can't help it and we knew that in rock and roll you
28:50could get in a film how do you reckon that one out i would love the the pictures as a kid you know i used
28:57to go a hell of a lot to the beresford and the gormans you know up in liverpool uh great memories
29:05from the saturday morning pictures uh you know whatever it was if it was a pirate movie i would
29:11be a pirate you know if it was a western saturday morning after the movie i would come home as a cowboy
29:17i mean it was was great fantasy land for me movies uh as a kid well we were interested in films and
29:24what happened was um brian started talking to people knowing of our interest and um he came up with
29:32dick lester's name and what he did the running jumping standing still film it's a short with spike
29:38milliger classic little sort of comedy shorts about five minutes or something but i don't know if it's
29:42that funny now but it was very funny then so they got hold of dick lester and we we were really
30:07pleased and dick came around he was a bit of a musician he could play a bit of jazz piano
30:11so uh he was even more interesting um he was american but he'd been working in britain and he'd
30:18worked with the goons so that was kind of enough for us and he got hold of alan owen who was a welsh
30:24playwright and so he was a very likable welsh bloke and he came and he hung out with us for a few
30:28days which was great because he picked up all the little sort of things he's very clean isn't he
30:33picked up all the little sort of jokes and the sarcasm you know the sort of the beetle way the humor you
30:38know john's wit and each one of us ring goes laconic human you know so he picked up our characters
30:45which was good normally in pictures you do things back to front like the end you you make a film of
30:51that on one day and then the next day you do the beginning but in this one we almost did it in
30:56sequence so it was very exciting we got on a train at maryland station one day and so the train took off and
31:01we were in a film excuse me have you seen that little old man we were with and there were these
31:07little girls school girls in gym slips who were actually models and we of course were quite
31:13fascinated with them and george married one patty patty boyd was one of the girls on the train
31:28the whole of the train bit we're just in going to pieces you know so embarrassed about it all
31:43it's all so romantic with these lights and you know coming to work in the limo i mean they're getting
31:49up early in the morning wasn't the best thing we could do and uh especially i mean the scene in hard
31:56days night where the one i actually got really good credit for was the walking on the beach
32:02on the beach by the canal uh with the camera and that like the lonely guy scene
32:15that came about because you know i came directly to work very unprofessional straight from a nightclub
32:21and i was a little hungover to say the least you know i was just so out of it so we said well let's
32:28do anything and uh my version i was i said well just let me walk around and and film me
32:36and why i look so cold and dejected is because i felt like shit you know so that's not like no acting
32:44going on that's just felt so bad i was less embarrassed than the others you know that enough
32:50but i think john also got into the movie too hello hello oh wait a minute no i'm not oh you are i'm not
33:02oh you are i know you are i'm not no you look just like him do i you're the first one that said that
33:10ever yes you do look now my eyes are lighter all right noddy who knows yes your nose is very
33:19is it well i would have said so oh you know i'm better though i do not he's only a casual
33:24acquaintance that's what you say what have you heard it's all over the place is it is it really
33:31hmm but i wouldn't have it i still could play it i knew i could rely on you thanks
33:41you don't look like him at all
33:43she looks more like him than i do
33:59alan owen tried to write a scene of us being harassed by the press which was part of our daily
34:06duty really and they were saying things you must have seen a hard day's night saying things like
34:11how did you find america turn left to greenland what do you call that hairstyle has success changed
34:19your life yeah i think it did because they say alan hung around with us and was careful
34:24to to try and put words into our mouths that we he might have heard us speak or that he thought
34:30so i think he did a very good script
34:34leave them drums alone oh surely i could just have a little touch you so much as breathe heavy on them
34:40and i'm out on strike aren't you being rather arbitrary there you go hiding behind a smoke screen
34:45of bourgeois cliches i don't go messing about your earphones do i spoil sport well
34:53he's very fussy about his drums you know they loom large in his legend
34:57what's up oh he's sulking again i'll show him if i fell in love with you would you promise to be true
35:08and help me understand cause i've been in love before and i found that love was more
35:18they didn't really get totally immersed in record production until later on when they stopped touring
35:23there wasn't time they would dash into the studio put down their tracks and they'd leave all the work
35:28really to us i mean they were they were they were incredibly busy during those first years
35:42if you look at our itinerary some of those years where we we did uh maybe a tour of england a tour of
35:48europe a tour of america two albums about four eps and three singles and we made a movie all in the
35:56same year you think jesus how did we do that okay ready oh they're running a one two three four
36:07you if you break my heart i'll go but i'll be back again
36:23the next few minutes are in the lap of the gods and the hands of the beatles which means anything
36:26can happen we're going to hear sort of versions of songs from their film gather round famous film stars
36:32another lads then all right now look in my young days when i was a lad they used to have actors in
36:38films and that yeah hey listen it's all changed now well this is what i want doing that no actors
36:43in those days the actors used to say their best bits were left on the cutting room floor did you
36:46find that no no no those are the good bits in the film you said there's in the rest yes rubbish was
36:52it really even worse yes who was worse oh paul i think john was about the worst no it was you oh
36:59ringo was very good he was he's a good land they're saying he's a new child chaplain you think
37:03that's right yeah he's an old one what can buy me love i found it exciting i i loved it because there
37:13was a lot of comedy in it people say no you know the the young marx brothers i think there's nothing
37:18else to there's never been a group of four people i suppose doing comedy besides them but i think that was
37:23part of the thing that the beatles were very funny i mean they actually were funny too much for money
37:30money can buy me love well all of us like the the bit in the field we all jump about like lunatics
37:37because that's pure film as the director told us you know it's just pure filming and we could have
37:42been anybody but we enjoy that i don't care too much for money money can't buy me love
37:49can't buy me love everybody tells me so can't buy me love no no no no no say you don't need no diamond rings
38:04and i'll be satisfied and i'll be satisfied tell me that you want the kind of things that money just can't
38:11buy i don't care too much for money money can't buy me love
38:34can't buy me love
38:47i don't care too much for money money can't buy me love
39:03love can't buy me love
39:11well john i believe you've written a book and this book's called john lennon
39:24in his own right folks john lennon in his own right w-r-i-t is here to laugh
39:30to laugh a minute with john lennon some of you might uh find it a bit difficult to understand because
39:36you see it's in a sort of funny lingo well we get it you see it's it's full of laughs
39:43and uh i don't really know how you could describe it but i've never read anything like it you know
39:49the stories are so funny and ha ha many little drawings which will make you laugh we also have
39:55the wrestling dog once upon a time in a far off distant land far across the sea miles away from anyway
40:01over the hills of the crow bark 39 people live miles away from anywhere on a little island on a
40:08distant land when harvest down came along all the people celebrated with a mighty feast and dancing
40:13and that it was perry's perry was the loud mer job to provide and perry's great pleasure i might
40:19act i knew an exciting and usually it was thrill and spectacular performer sometimes a dwarf was used
40:26this year perry had surpassed himself by getting a wrestling dog
40:32but who would fight this wondrous beast i wouldn't feel a kicker well get me fighting it dudley
40:40but when we said you'd just written it have you in fact just done it did it a long time ago it's been
40:44a long time long time how long about 40 years or so i think come off it how long ago did you write
40:49it's a couple of years you know some of it's old some of it's new something borrowed something brown
40:53so is this is this the start of a big literary career for lennon i'm hoping to go straight yes i
41:01i mean you've heard you've heard of literary lions and we should have a literary lennon in future
41:07i get it you're with me uh have this been away yes
41:11yes 27 28. uh provisional subject hello yes this is coming for the manager of the beatles
41:20what is his name may we have his name please their manager's name is mr brian epstein brian epstein
41:27epstein what was the first name b-r-y-a-n the manager's name is brian epstein well he needed
41:35someone to write a book he needed someone to write what was called his autobiography i mean he
41:39was only 29. well then i went to talk to you with brian for four days to write this potpoiler with him
41:45a cellar full of noise and he said the third day i had a lovely lovely idea derek i wanted to join us
41:51well i thought this is incredible this is the idea that i'd given up on the idea of joining them for
41:57the time being thinking if it happens it happens so uh after about 15 years on newspapers i just
42:06dropped out and joined the beatles i was his uh brian's personal assistant and then eventually their
42:12press officer remember we played in amsterdam was when derek first became like on tour with us it was
42:21all very exciting and wonderful but uh i think only a madman would have volunteered to join such a thing
42:41baby we nearly didn't do that to him yes i was desperately ill i uh was having my tonsils out
42:53yeah george is a very loyal person and he said if ringo is not part of the group
42:59it's not people's he said i don't see we should do it i'm not gonna go what a guy i never knew that
43:04how many beatles does it take to change a light bulb see four on uh anyway i could yeah i i really
43:12despised the way we couldn't ever make a decision for ourselves it was always like no sorry no but
43:21ringo must go with us sorry we'll get a new drummer
43:36got it got it jimmy we got it got it and it was very strange and uh you know because i wasn't well
43:45and they'd taken jimmy nichols and i thought they didn't love me anymore you know all that stuff went
43:49through my head
44:19well
44:21well
44:23long tall sally mill
44:25put his twitches on everything that uncle don't need oh baby
44:30yeah now baby
44:32oh baby
44:35someone and i
44:38i
44:40i
44:44i
44:46i
44:48i
44:50i
44:52i
44:54i
44:56i
44:58i
45:00i
45:02you're on jimmy where whether you find
45:30it difficult to take over the role of ringo
45:35uh
45:37no not really no
45:39as far as ringo i can never um i can never make up for what ringo is you know i just try
45:45to do this um until next thursday
45:48yes for your sort of understanding yes i am you think of a great break oh yes
45:52excellent everything you're good
45:57how is ringo by the way
45:58his throat is so sore
46:00you're trying to live on jelly and ice cream and i was a smoker in those days and i was smoking the
46:05next day
46:07and that was pretty rough
46:09because i
46:11told you once before goodbye
46:15but i came back again
46:20i love you so
46:24i'm the one who wants you
46:26yes i'm the one who wants you
46:34you
46:35could find better things to do
46:39than to break my heart again
46:41always good for a gag is john you know what do you expect to do
46:48hong kong
46:50well bob
46:52well bob in hong kong um
46:55you know just sort of
46:57see what's happening you know it's very different isn't it someone
47:01i've never seen before i should imagine you think you'll get an opportunity to do any side
47:05of the scene
47:06okay
47:07well you could find better things to do
47:13than to break my heart again
47:18hong kong was different it was all army personnel
47:22it was very funny we'd expected all asian people it was all british army personnel
47:30i wanna go
47:31it was all these british people there weren't any chinese there at that time
47:37you know i hate to leave you
47:44it was a slightly sort of flat show as i say it was in a smallish place
47:48they also behaved themselves and they all looked like they looked like a khaki audience you
47:54know slightly strange but we just played i don't think we enjoyed the show too much
48:01but we had these capes that were disasters when we hit australia and the rain hit them and the dye
48:21started coming out and they put the beatles on back of this you know uh flatback truck right with
48:28umbrellas right in these and they were wearing these
48:32capes right i was okay i was in the cab the driver wouldn't go any faster i kept saying go faster
48:39it's pouring down and he'd say these kids have been waiting here you know for 24 hours to see
48:45these guys got to the hotel and everybody was blue because the dye had soaked off these coats that were
48:53they played amsterdam hong kong and i met them in australia
49:22and australia was great of course because you know the flight is just horrendous to australia
49:27it still is it's you know they may have shaved a couple of hours off the flight but it's still
49:31a hell of a long way and i remember getting off the plane and just feeling like a disaster area
49:39but australia was fabulous i mean it was great being back with the boys and back in the band and
49:44they bought me presents in hong kong yeah it was a that was a really nice moment in in the whole deal
49:52that's it one more thing it's very nice for all of us to have back with us now ringo
50:00and then while i'm awake i'll ride home every day
50:13i'll pretend that i'm kissing
50:35and hope that my dreams will be free
50:44and then while i'm awake i'll ride home every day
50:48i'll ride home every day
50:59i will train the world
51:01all my loving darling
51:06i'll be free
51:07yeah
51:09the news from down under is that when the beatles arrived in adelaide
51:14they were greeted by 300 000 fans which isn't surprising when you consider that the beatles
51:19occupy the top six placings on the australian chart
51:23it looked as though australia is truly in the grip of beatlemania hurry home boys
51:31that was like heroes welcome that was that was the kind of thing where you'd go to the town hall
51:36and they'd all be in the center we quite enjoyed all that stuff could get a bit wearing but that
51:42that certainly wasn't when there was that many people you know you were just flabbergasted yeah
51:48shocked and stunned just happy that it was the you know oh we're still popular down here too nice
51:54feeling everybody said oh there's more people here than came to see the queen
51:58well she thinks so she didn't have any hit records you know it's funny but there was more people
52:03came to see us there than anywhere i mean it looked like i think the whole of australia was there
52:08well we were on the roof of uh
52:11some hotel i don't know if it was sydney or adelaide or where it was but it was australian
52:16there was thousands thousands and thousands of kids and one of the things that stuck out in my
52:22mind was that uh or in my memory was there was a there was some guy on crutches i don't know why i
52:29just was focused in on this guy at the time and uh he was shouting and getting all excited and i actually
52:36saw him like throw his crutches away you know sort of like he was healed and he he fell right in his face
52:44i mean he just fell over so before we go we'd like to say um to all of you here tonight and to
52:53everybody who's sort of come along to see us on this tour we'd like to say thank you all very much
52:59i've got something to say that might cause you pain
53:15i've got you talking to that boy again i'm gonna let you down
53:22i'll leave you glad
53:26because i told you before oh you can't do that
53:31you can't do that
53:44you can't do that
53:51you can't do that
53:52i can't help my feelings
54:17even though we felt yes we're established and we've conquered all these countries and
54:42we're selling a lot of records and they all love us you know i don't think we ought to i didn't feel
54:49like it's still going to go on forever
54:58and when you first see yourself on a big screen you just watch yourself you're thinking oh look at
55:03look at that ear oh look at my nose you know look at my hair stick and each one of us did that
55:22and it's worth it just to hear you say
55:24you're gonna give me
55:33you're gonna give me everything
55:37so why are you not should i'm home
55:39cause when i get you alone you know i feel okay
55:43when i'm home
55:45everything seems to be right
55:47they're very supportive the liverpool people
56:13they loved us getting on you know well they felt we were traitors when we left but the
56:20the whole town was behind us we heard that we're finished in liverpool you see and after a bit we
56:25began to believe it we thought we don't want to go home you know if they're going to do that
56:29we'll just sneak home to our houses
56:32and you know they kept going on people saying oh i've been down the cabin they don't like anymore
56:37of course they're talking to people that didn't even know us then anyway we went back and it was it
56:41was one of the best ever
56:52you say you will love me if i have to go you'll be thinking of me somehow i will know
57:04some day when i'm lonely wishing you weren't so far away then i will remember things we said today
57:18you say you'll be mine girl till the end of time
57:25you say you'll be mine girl till the end of time
57:29these days such a kind girl seems so hard to find
57:34someday when we're dreaming deep in love not a lot to say
57:42then we will remember then we will remember things we said today
57:49me i'm just the lucky kind love to hear you say that love is love
57:57and though we may be blind love is here to stay and that's enough to make you mine
58:06girl be the only one love me all the time girl we'll go on and on
58:16i'm just the lucky kind love to hear you say that love is love
58:25and though we may be blind love is here to stay and that's enough to make you mine
58:26and i'm just the lucky kind love to hear you say that love is love
58:30and though we may be blind love is here to stay and that's enough to make you mine
58:48girl be the only one love me all the time girl we'll go on and on
58:58someday when we're dreaming deep in love not a lot to say
59:06then we will remember things we said today
59:28you
59:30you
59:34you
59:36you
59:38you
59:40you
59:42you
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