E' il 29 agosto del 1966. I Beatles salgono per l'ultima volta insieme sul palco di Candlestick Park, il mega stadio sulla costa occidentale della baia di San Francisco. Sarà l'ultimo concerto che faranno come gruppo prima della loro ufficiale separazione. "La Storia siamo noi" dedicata alla band di Liverpool, un ritratto inedito dell'epopea beatlesiana vista da vicino, con le testimonianze - fra gli altri - dell'addetto stampa Tony Barrow e del manager Brian Epstein
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00:06Music
00:56It was very stimulating to be alongside the Beatles
00:59They gave the impression of being free
01:03You don't want a cigarette, do you?
01:06They had gone from school desks to the status of the most famous band in the world
01:10On the Beatles' terms
01:12How did you react when the girls broke through the barriers?
01:16They were the first to be shocked
01:20We could hang out with them, have a drink together, interview them.
01:24Can you imagine doing something like that with the Rolling Stones today, Madonna?
01:41I don't think I've ever been as tired as I was with the Beatles.
01:44And I really don't know how they managed to hold on.
01:52I'm Paul, this is Ringo, John
01:55I am Giorgio
01:56Good night
01:56I was sitting next to Ringo and he told me
01:59You know, Dick, I'd love to be down the street drinking a beer with my dad.
02:06Can you burn Beatles records?
02:08Of course it burns them
02:09I immediately realized that something was wrong.
02:15They came and physically threatened you
02:17No come on, you speak
02:18I couldn't believe what was happening
02:22From then on everything slowly began to fall apart.
02:25You know I feel alright
02:29George Harrison sat down next to me and said
02:32Here we go, from today I'm no longer a Beatle
02:36And it's June 6, 1962
02:39Four young men from Liverpool
02:41They crossed the threshold of EMI's Abbey Road recording studios for the first time
02:47In London
02:48Together with them, an appliance dealer who acts as their manager
02:53A little over a year later from that day
02:56Those four unknown provincial musicians will be the most famous group in the history of pop music
03:05And the extraordinary epic of the Beatles
03:07And this is also the story of a revolution
03:10Four young people who gave voice to a neglected and misunderstood audience
03:16From previous generations
03:18A band that with the power of music alone marked the birth of the modern live concert industry
03:26But above all of mass youth culture
03:31But it's also a story made up of arguments, jealousy, dilettantism, alienation and melancholy.
03:37A group of kids who never imagined they would change the world
03:43And that instead thanks to their passion and talent they have changed the history of all of us forever.
04:16A group of kids who would never have
04:40A group of kids who would never have
04:51It's August 29, 1966
05:00The Beatles take the stage for the final date of their third wild American tour
05:08Since releasing their first single just 4 years earlier, they have performed over a thousand times
05:14in front of over 10 million adoring fans, from Memphis to the Philippines
05:21But this will be the Beatles' last live concert.
05:28The summer of 1966 was a memorable tour.
05:50Nobody imagined that it would be their last tour and that Candlestick Park would be their last concert since
05:57live
06:03We were exhausted, worn out
06:05We really couldn't take it anymore
06:07We would have given everything
06:09For that thing to end
06:14There was no official announcement that they would never tour again.
06:2125,000 people attend the final date of the Beatles' third American tour
06:28No official footage of the concert was taken.
06:31But a 15-year-old boy, who brought his camera with him, creates an extraordinary historical document
06:42I arrived at Candlestick Park early that day, just as the fog was starting to clear.
06:48Nobody came to tell me that I couldn't be there, that I couldn't film or anything.
06:54Nobody comes to me, not even fleetingly
07:01The Beatles' fame as the greatest band in music history
07:05It is also due to a quantity of live performances that was unprecedented in the 60s.
07:10But at Candlestick Park, not even the group preceding the Beatles
07:14He knows that this will be the last live performance of Scarafatti
07:21Yet, the images shot by Barry Hood at Candlestick Park
07:25They convey the flavour and melancholy of the end of an adventure.
07:41At the beginning of their career, the Beatles were a cover band with a vast rock and roll repertoire.
07:47But outside the small venues of Hamburg and North West England
07:51They are also complete strangers
07:53At least until their young and stubborn manager, Brian Epstein, offers them a unique opportunity.
08:01Four years before Candlestick Park, June 6, 1962
08:05The Beatles arrive at Abbey Road, the Emmy's London recording studio
08:12They have to audition for producer George Martin
08:15But neither Martin nor his sound engineer, Norman Smith, were particularly impressed by their performance.
08:23It certainly wasn't an exceptional audition.
08:31When they were finished, from the studio, we have them come to the control room
08:37And George, George Martin, gave him a nice little speech about what we would expect from them.
08:45In the hypothetical case that they had signed a contract with Emmy, the largest record company in the world
08:53After finishing the speech, George Martin asked, do you want to say something?
08:57Silence, all silent
09:01Then, out of the blue, George Harrison, who had never stopped watching George Martin at me, says to him
09:10Yes, I don't like his tie
09:15The irreverent self-confidence that the Beatles maintain is an element that displaces, that strikes.
09:20And which will ultimately win over an entire generation of post-war teenagers and professional journalists.
09:27Bored by the conformism of the big stars of the 50s
09:31I heard Ted Heath said he can't understand you, that you don't speak proper English.
09:35It's me who doesn't understand
09:37I don't understand how Teddy could say something like that.
09:41I will not vote for Ted
09:43We must remember that in those days pop singers did not have opinions of their own.
09:48What was Cliff Richard's idea? I don't know, often they didn't even have their real names.
09:53They rarely wrote their own songs, they did whatever their manager told them to do.
09:57They were very humble, they bought a nice house for their mother, they were grateful to life and to their fans
10:03The Beatles were none of these things.
10:07You don't happen to want a cigarette, do you?
10:09Yes, do you have it?
10:10I had one, yes
10:11When they arrived they turned everything upside down.
10:14A thousand thanks
10:15Thank you
10:17It was very stimulating to be alongside the Beatles
10:20They gave the impression of being free
10:22They were not forced to behave as the society of those years imposed.
10:42The Beatles' image appears as a studied, radical and daring move
10:47But anyone who knows them privately like Tony Bramwell knows that in reality they were simply themselves.
10:53Apart from us, who were their close group of friends and collaborators, the Beatles didn't hang out with anyone, they didn't know anyone
11:01no so-called normal people, they lived in a somewhat strange dimension, they had never had a job, a higher education,
11:08a working life, they had gone from school desks to the condition of the most famous band in the world, to the condition of
11:14Beatles
11:15You see your photos, you read the articles about George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul and John, but it's not like you think,
11:23eh, that's me, that's me in the newspaper, it's funny, it's like it's someone else
11:29person
11:36Just a year after their disappointing Emmy audition, the Beatles are already the most famous group in England.
11:44But paradoxically, it is precisely their determination not to be overwhelmed by the growing popularity that makes them a phenomenon.
11:55The whole massive phenomenon of Beatlemania was based on the fact that they were four very normal boys from Liverpool.
12:04The lack of any diva attitude was part of their charm, of their enormous power of attraction.
12:19In the summer of '63 we took a series of weeks' holidays to various sailing resorts all over England
12:45We were sunbathing and playing in the hotel pool, a group of Liverpool kids on holiday.
13:14It was practically the first time in a year that they spent more than a day in the same place.
13:20They could finally repack their bags in the hotel room and have proper meals, maybe even go out.
13:25Even if this was no longer possible, since we are in the era of She Loves You and it was already
13:31the end of the world
13:43Released on August 23, 1963, She Loves You is the third single in a row to reach number one
13:50in the rankings
13:50The Beatles are now a full-fledged band
13:53It is a huge sales success and is also the result of a grueling schedule of live performances.
13:58Between 1963 and 1964, accompanied by a small entourage of friends who have known each other since childhood
14:06They play over 200 concerts across England
14:09We moved around in the famous white van
14:12We laughed, we sang, we found the pieces
14:14Sometimes Johnson would come out wanting to drive himself.
14:18Which he absolutely couldn't do because he couldn't see from here to there, but he
14:23I want to drive
14:25I remember one time we were coming down the Horseshoe Pass in Wales
14:29With John Lennon at the wheel, blind as a bat, driving zigzags
14:48Despite the desire to open up to an ever wider audience
14:52The screams of fans at concerts make it almost impossible to hear their music.
14:58Since the summer of 1963, no one has been able to hear the Beatles play properly anymore.
15:02It's a shame that the aspect of their technical prowess has been lost.
15:11Are you doing it on purpose to provoke all those screams from the audience?
15:14No, when we arrive at the theater where we have to play
15:17The audience is already outside waiting
15:19Then a policeman comes and tells us not to look out the window
15:22Otherwise they get too excited
15:31Sunday, October 13, 1963
15:34The Beatles arrive at the London Palladium
15:37The climate of hysteria that has been created around the event is unprecedented.
15:48They were the first to be shocked
15:50They didn't expect to be able to fill a hall like the Palladium in London.
16:06At the end of the concert I was in the dressing room with them and they said
16:09And now where do we go?
16:11They knew they would create pandemonium wherever they went.
16:14And John told me
16:15Let's go to your house
16:27A red-haired girl also came with us.
16:31An actress named Jane Asher
16:32There it annoyed that I only had two bottles of Matheus Rosé
16:36This is what we drank in the 60s
16:47Then the next morning I go to Kings Road
16:50I buy newspapers, open them and read
16:56Damn, they're the same ones that were in my apartment last night.
17:0518 months after entering Abbey Road Studios
17:08Like a provincial band without a contract
17:10The Beatles find themselves at the centre of a mass hysteria
17:14Which in turn will trigger profound social changes
17:17In post-war England and beyond
17:22People ask us how long you think you'll last.
17:25And who knows?
17:26One can also be presumptuous and say
17:28We will last ten years for sure
17:30But in reality he knows very well that he is lucky
17:33If he can survive three months
17:37In the summer of 1964
17:39Accompanied by manager Brian Epstein
17:41The small staff of friends and collaborators
17:44And from Lennon's aunt, Mimi
17:45The Beatles embark on an international tour
17:48Culminating with a series of concerts in Australia
17:51Of course the Beatles traveled first class.
17:53And we in economics
17:55But they invited us up to their place
17:57There were big sofas, matchbooks
17:59And the hostess who brought you drinks
18:02It felt like being on a cruise ship
18:04Very classy stuff
18:07Oh!
18:08Someone is attacking us
18:10Who is?
18:10Oh, what a long beard
18:12I think it's John
18:13That old joker John
18:23In the entertainment industry
18:25The Beatles gain fame as artists
18:27More available on hand
18:29Compared to other fellow musicians
18:32Let's pretend to ignore it
18:34He always does this
18:36When it's time to joke
18:38John is always ready
18:39You knew if you said hello to them
18:41They would have answered you
18:42Hi, how are you?
18:43You could always have exchanged a few words.
18:45A joke
18:45Instead with people like Elvis Presley
18:47Cliff Richard
18:48Or other characters like that
18:49It would never have been possible
18:51They were stars
18:53Do you think you'll get a chance to do some sightseeing?
18:56I hope
18:57The landing was terrible
18:59We were in the middle of a storm
19:01And the plane was tossed around
19:03Everyone was screaming
19:04When we finally touched down
19:06We breathed a sigh of relief
19:08But here comes the plane approaching
19:11Unfortunately I have to stop commenting here.
19:13Why is there such a din around me
19:15That you wouldn't hear a single word
19:26The Beatles arrive in Sydney on Thursday, June 11, 1964
19:33But instead of rushing in
19:35In a comfortable limousine
19:37Like any other rock star would have done
19:39The Beatles armed with umbrellas
19:41They are perched on the open van
19:44Provided by their promoter
19:45And they say goodbye to the fans
19:59They were thrilled to enjoy such consideration
20:04At the time it was still a cheerful experience
20:06Joyful
20:07Without shadows and without great tensions
20:09They were all having a great time
20:20The Beatles are happy
20:21But also a little disoriented
20:23From the discovery that their fame
20:24It even reached the other side of the planet
20:26How did you react?
20:28When the girls broke through the barriers?
20:30It was a quiet thing
20:31They didn't mean to hurt us.
20:37You get up in the morning and you're immediately on a plane
20:39It's not exciting to be constantly on the road.
20:42But it's nice to get to these places
20:43And give fans the chance to see us live
20:53I haven't met any strange people that I didn't like.
20:55Even those who threw eggs turned out to be nice guys.
20:58Stay down, we're on TV
21:04What did you like most here?
21:06The girls are amazing
21:07I love these girls
21:09Have a good trip back
21:09A thousand thanks
21:10And take your hands off my knee
21:17The Beatles were disoriented by what was happening
21:20They had become the most famous characters in the Anglo-Saxon world.
21:23And in less than two years
21:30The Beatles prove to be the group with the most box office potential
21:33Highest in the history of music
21:35The next step is to tackle the largest and most profitable market ever
21:43Paul, what do you think of all these journalists?
21:45What are they always doing to you, bothering you?
21:47The bright side is that, at least on a plane, we can trust you.
21:52Larry Kane and Ivor Davis are part of a group of journalists
21:56Invited to take part in the most ambitious adventure
21:58That the Beatles ever undertook
22:02We could hang out with them, have a drink together, interview them.
22:06Can you imagine doing something like that with the Rolling Stones today?
22:09Madonna or anyone else
22:11You find 35 security guards blocking you
22:14On that trip with the Beatles we went up to them instead
22:18And we asked him all the questions we wanted.
22:20The tour in the United States was organized at a very hectic pace, to say the least.
22:2433 dates in 24 cities
22:33A grueling experience
22:35I was exhausted
22:36I don't think I've ever been as tired as I was with the Beatles.
22:39And I really don't know how they managed to hold on.
22:46The Beatles follow without a word the hectic schedule of commitments drawn up in haste and fury
22:51On the back of an envelope from the man who with his imagination
22:54His stubbornness, his recklessness and his courage
22:58He brought them from the small clubs of Hamburg and Liverpool
23:01To the greatest theaters in the world
23:05Manager Brian Epstein
23:07I had no experience in the pop world.
23:11Neither in management
23:12Nor as an agent for pop artists
23:17For me it was a completely unknown world
23:23The thing that surprised me most about Epstein
23:25It was his unconditional trust
23:27He once told me that kids in 2000 would still be listening to the Beatles
23:32And it was 1964
23:34I never had any doubts that they would become the biggest stars in the world.
23:45I am Paul
23:47This is Ringo
23:48HI
23:48I am Giorgio
23:50Good night
23:50We're done
23:51In just two years
23:53As the owner of a small provincial record shop
23:57Epstein finds himself organizing the most pharaonic and profitable tour in the history of music
24:03But already from the first concert at the Cow Palace in San Francisco
24:06It is clear that the undertaking is dangerously beyond his reach.
24:1018,000 people at the Cow Palace for two concerts
24:14A crowd like this had never been seen before
24:16And the situation was in danger of getting out of control.
24:20I'm gonna tell that Mary
24:22My Uncle John
24:23He said he had to miss it
24:25But he had a lot of fun
24:26Oh baby
24:28Yeah now baby
24:31Oh baby
24:33Some for the night
24:37A song to John
24:38A long, tall telly
24:40Star Mary coming in the dubbing in the alley
24:43Oh baby
24:44Yeah now baby
24:49When Paul Attacked Long Tall Sally
24:52We started walking towards the limo
24:55Once the song was over, the Beatles had to jump into the car.
24:58Before the crowd reached them
25:07At the Empire Stadium in Vancouver
25:0929,000 paying spectators
25:11The stage was stormed by at least 10,000 people
25:14Some fans began to come onto the stage
25:17And the mounted police had to intervene.
25:19He made me run
25:20Everyone was running
25:21I remember the mounted policemen
25:22The fan
25:30And more often than not
25:31We were dealing with
25:33With local authorities
25:35Which then did not have
25:37Of sufficient law enforcement
25:45At the Dallas Motoring Cabane
25:47The crowd pressed against a large glass window
25:50And finally he broke through
25:51Three boys were seriously injured
26:01It wasn't a joke
26:04It wasn't the set of Hard Day's Night
26:06There he made himself heard
26:20There is always some downside to the work you do
26:23In our case
26:24The only thing that bothers us
26:26Because everything else is perfect.
26:27It's just that we don't have enough privacy
26:33Under siege by the crowd of fans
26:35Hotel rooms and airplanes
26:37They become the Beatles' refuge
26:39And their prison
26:43They were so popular
26:45That they couldn't leave the hotel
26:47In Las Vegas for example
26:48They brought the slot machines to his room
26:50We often played cards
26:52And sometimes tempers flared.
26:55I remember that once
26:57George and I even came to blows.
26:59We were flying to America
27:01And there was a great tension
27:03We got into a fistfight
27:04It was the effect of stress
27:08Of being forced into such small spaces
27:13Paradoxically
27:14He was the most quarrelsome of the Beatles.
27:16John Lennon
27:17To realize that the tension
27:19It was getting out of control
27:20And who intervened to divide us
27:23Thank you, thank you very much John Lennon
27:25Thanks to you Larry
27:27And God bless you
27:28Sometimes he would throw cigarette ash on my head.
27:31I didn't like it
27:32Well anyway
27:33Just kidding Larry
27:34He put ice cubes on my back
27:37He would throw spoonfuls of puree on my hair
27:40You always put a good face on a bad situation.
27:42Hey Larry
27:44The Beatles' first American tour
27:46It's a project dominated by total chaos
27:49But enormously profitable
28:00It is on this occasion
28:02That the metamorphosis of the four Beatles is also completed
28:05Until yesterday, musicians were unpretentious
28:07And today the most famous people on the planet
28:10In America the concerts had proportions
28:13That the world of entertainment
28:15He had never seen it before
28:17We were truly the pioneers
28:19Of a new era of pop rock concerts
28:26The Beatles had no time
28:28To get infected by that madness
28:30For them it was a normal thing
28:31How to be a cashier in a department store
28:34From bull
28:34Only they were the Beatles for a living.
28:39When they return to America the following year
28:44But the Beatles are expecting something a little less confusing.
28:55In 65 they were starting to get tired
28:58Of all that madness
28:59Of improvisation
29:01They wanted a more reasonable tour
29:03With a more acceptable schedule
29:05And they got it.
29:07We did 14 cities in 28 days
29:09Or something like that
29:10The biggest concert
29:12It was the one at Shea Stadium in New York
29:16At the opening concert
29:18Of the 1965 American tour
29:21The Beatles perform in front
29:23To a record crowd
29:24Of 55,000 spectators
29:27It's the highest point
29:28Of their career up to that point
29:30But also an unequivocal demonstration
29:32How frustrating it is
29:34Performing in a similar context
29:38It was the height of enthusiasm
29:40But the worst from an acoustic and musical point of view
29:52The audience was very far away
29:54It had a strange effect
29:56And I think for the Beatles too.
29:57It was almost 300 meters away
30:08Just a few years before
30:09They could have taken a lit cigarette
30:12From one of the girls in the front row
30:13Take a few puffs
30:15And give it back to him
30:16Think of the emotion for those young people
30:22When they arrived at Shea Stadium
30:24They felt almost annihilated
30:27At the thought of being able to make yourself heard
30:29From those 56,000 fans
30:32Crowded down there
30:33On the stands
30:35John was the most worried
30:38From the fact that the music couldn't be heard
30:40When he got off the stage
30:41He said
30:41All those harmonies that me and Paul came up with
30:44It's impossible that they heard them
30:46I couldn't hear myself either
30:54We proved that people can hear us
30:56And scream about it at the same time
30:58If they want to shout they are free to do so
31:01They paid the ticket to come
31:03Who are we to tell them what to do once they get in?
31:05The Beatles respect the devotion of their fans
31:08But the concert at Shea Stadium
31:10He highlighted some shortcomings
31:12Probably impossible to correct adequately
31:15The most exciting moment of their career
31:17It also marks the beginning of the end for the Beatles.
31:20As a live band
31:21From then on everything slowly began to fall apart.
31:25The climate went bad
31:26The problems became increasingly acute
31:28We were no longer a happy, carefree bunch.
31:34The Beatles' problems on tour
31:36They don't just limit themselves to performing on stage
31:38These four twenty-year-olds attract tens of thousands of spectators
31:42And they earn more than any other band
31:45Yet their organizational machine
31:47He can't even get them a proper plane.
31:53We were leaving from the Minneapolis and Paul metro area
31:56Everything was hectic
31:57And we couldn't wait to get on the plane.
32:00Here's Larry Kane flying with the Beatles over America
32:04The pilot was a guy with a cowboy hat
32:07A bottle of whiskey
32:08And the feet on the control panel
32:10In the back they played cards
32:11The Beatles and Brian Epstein
32:15I looked out and saw a blinding flash
32:17And I noticed that the right engine was on fire.
32:19I got up very calmly
32:21And I went into the cockpit
32:23But the two pilots were not there
32:24They were out back having a whiskey and soda with the Beatles.
32:28Paul said
32:29That engine is on fire
32:31At that point everyone looked outside
32:33And they saw that it was true
32:36The plane had caught fire
32:40Lennon stood up and walked towards the tailgate
32:42I explained to him that he couldn't open the hatch.
32:44While we were at almost 4000 meters altitude
32:47That he would have killed himself
32:48And he said
32:48Better, so I go to heaven with Buddy Holly
32:55The story of the burning engine
32:57It is a symptom of serious organizational deficiencies
32:59Of the Beatles' tours
33:02Of a naivety and an ease
33:04Which may seem pleasant at first
33:06But which in the long run appear unacceptable
33:10Nobody had realized
33:12How much the Beatles were worth
33:14In America Epstein couldn't believe it
33:16To be able to pay for the hotel rooms in the plaza
33:19They entered the suite and were left speechless.
33:22How wonderful
33:23It's no surprise that they chartered a plane for him.
33:27Who should have retired years ago
33:30And in fact no one was surprised
33:32When one of the engines caught fire
33:34The strangest thing is that on that plane
33:37Nobody cared much
33:39Aside from George
33:48September 1965
33:50The Beatles split their time between chaotic tours abroad
33:54And a celebrity life in England
33:58It seems like a century has passed
34:00From the concert season in the province
34:02Combined with seaside holidays
34:05In reality, only two years have passed
34:10At the time I was working for the New Musical Express
34:13Morris Keen, the owner
34:15He threw huge parties for the jet set.
34:17In his apartment in Sloan Square, Knightsbridge
34:20When Morris threw a party
34:21I had to bring the Beatles
34:23And they always made stories
34:25They didn't feel comfortable that way.
34:30A night on the plane
34:31During one of the tours in America
34:33She was sitting next to Ringo
34:35And he told me
34:36Saidic, I would really like to be at the pub downstairs
34:39Having a beer with my dad
34:55The Beatles are getting tired of these endless tours
34:59When they entered the studio to record the album Rubber Soul
35:03One month after returning from the United States
35:06They seem increasingly distant from each other
35:08Both as musicians and as friends
35:20I immediately realized that something was wrong.
35:23There was no longer the old feeling of once upon a time
35:26Especially between Paul and John
35:30There was no longer that old family atmosphere
35:33I thought, I don't like it, there's a problem here.
35:44Different interests were developing
35:47George loved India
35:49John just wanted to stay in a hotel room
35:52To read strange books
35:53Paul only thought about the stage
35:56He wanted to be Elvis Presley
35:59Paul was the only one who had a clear vision
36:02About one's role in the entertainment world
36:05From the very beginning he had told Brian Epstein
36:08If for whatever reason the Beatles don't take off
36:12I will continue alone
36:14And you will be my agent
36:21Regardless of how much money you make
36:23Do you like to be always traveling around the world?
36:26Sometimes it's not pleasant, sometimes it is.
36:29As with any job
36:30For us it's not a holiday
36:32We don't expect to see monuments or have fun.
36:34If we happen to have fun while we're on tour
36:37Welcome
36:39By 1966, each of the four Beatles had embarked on their own personal journey.
36:45But despite the frustrations and the poor musical quality of the live performances
36:50Brian Epstein is planning an even more ambitious schedule than his previous ones
37:01In June of that year the Beatles are in Japan
37:04Where a security plan has been put in place that appears exaggerated
37:08Even for the biggest music group in the world
37:13The Beatles imagined that the gigantic security apparatus
37:18It was to protect them from the fans
37:20In reality it wasn't like that at all.
37:26The Beatles had to be protected from death threats from a student group
37:31Who said that the Budokan arena in Tokyo was too sacred a place
37:36To be desecrated by a rock band
37:41If a Japanese dance troupe comes to England
37:44Nobody here would dream of saying that he is breaking some law or tradition.
37:48Nor does it mean to offend British cultural heritage.
37:51We came here simply to sing
37:54Because they asked us to
37:56That's all
37:57I want to watch someone singing rather than someone fighting
37:59Japanese security forces impose suffocating protective measures
38:05In the Philippines, however, the Beatles received a completely different treatment.
38:10Did they come and physically threaten you?
38:13No, come on, you speak.
38:14We arrived at the airport and the road manager had a lot of difficulty loading the equipment
38:20Why were the escalators blocked?
38:22They put us in the passenger lounge and then started tossing us around.
38:28And then we...
38:29You are normal passengers!
38:31Normal passengers they told us!
38:32But a normal passenger doesn't get kicked out
38:35In Manila we offended very seriously and completely unintentionally.
38:41First Lady of the Philippines Imelda Marcos and her husband President Ferdinand Marcos
38:48Why we didn't show up at a reception at the presidential palace
38:53Maybe they wanted to make us pay knowing that we couldn't react
38:57A hate campaign was unleashed against us in the Philippines
39:02Some henchmen sent by the palace tried to make our stay hell.
39:08Will you be returning to Manila again, Giorgio?
39:10Oh no, I didn't even want to go before.
39:12Because I had heard it was a terrible place
39:15And then we had proof of it.
39:33For George Harrison, always considered the quietest of the Beatles
39:37After the experience in Japan and the Philippines, the measure is full
39:47George Harrison hated flying
39:49With the Beatles he took the plane only because it was the only way to go around the world
39:54To do all those concerts
39:57George just couldn't take it anymore
39:59He had stage fright.
40:01He suffered from airsickness
40:02As time went by, things got worse and worse.
40:05And the accumulated discomfort turned into real depression.
40:11Harrison is also the first to fully realize the technical and musical limitations of that kind of performance since
40:17live
40:17George was a very careful musician
40:21He realized that by continuing with all those tours
40:24The Beatles would not have grown musically
40:36But the Beatles have already signed a contract for another tour of the United States.
40:40And the problem of security, already very serious for those who have to deal with it
40:45It becomes even more pressing with the appearance of a new danger
40:49It all started with an article published in a London newspaper
40:55Journalist Maureen Cleave, who has been around the Beatles for years
40:59John Lennon interview for the London Evening Standard
41:03The article was published on March 4, 1966
41:07That day I went to visit John and I started wandering around his house a bit.
41:12John had a lot of weird stuff, like a suit of armor he called Sidney.
41:16Or a sick dog
41:18He told me that he was very interested in religion at that time.
41:21Who was reading books on the subject
41:23And finally he came out with that sentence
41:37He said that in his opinion Jesus was smart.
41:39It was his disciples who were rude and ignorant.
41:42Then he said, I don't know which will go first, whether it's rock'n'roll or Christianity.
41:48In London and England, when it is published
41:52Maureen Cleave's article goes almost unnoticed
41:55Four months later though
41:56When they bank two weeks before the start of the Beatles' third tour of the United States
42:01It is re-proposed by an American magazine for young people
42:04The controversies are heated
42:16Book and record burnings in Longview, Texas
42:19The Ku Klux Klan takes advantage of the occasion to demonstrate all its Christian fervor
42:24The guiding principles of the Ku Klux Klan have always been in support of Christianity.
42:30I couldn't believe what was happening
42:33It was not clear what the point of the matter was
42:36English public opinion was disoriented by such a reaction.
42:40Here we are almost all Christians and we believe in God
42:44And I'm not used to certain things.
42:46Can you burn Beatles records?
42:47Of course I burn them
42:49Are you really going to do it?
42:50I've already burned them to be honest
42:58Don't be afraid that this religious controversy
43:01Could you please aspire more to your arrival in the United States?
43:04Yes, of course I'm worried
43:06But I hope that, as they say, everything will work out for the best.
43:09Do you think it will be a problematic tour like the one in the Philippines?
43:13Oh no, no, no
43:14No, it will be fine
43:16How can you tell?
43:17I'm telling you it's going to be okay
43:18You'll see, it will be magnificent
43:23When they arrive in Chicago for the first date of the tour
43:26The Beatles have already been the target of death threats
43:30Radio boycotts
43:32And public burnings of their records
43:34Press Officer, Tony Barrow
43:36Prepare a heartbreak for John Lennon
43:38To a very hostile reception
43:43There was a meeting at the hotel
43:44In Brian Epstein's suite
43:46To talk about this very thing
43:47It was just me, Brian Epstein and John
43:50John said
43:51Tell me how I should handle it
43:53I'll say everything you think I should say
43:55But I'm not going to apologize
43:57Because I don't think I have anything to apologize for
43:59At one point John was so upset
44:02Who held his head in his hands
44:04And he was swallowing
44:06He was crying
44:06She was crying her eyes out, really.
44:10First question, please.
44:12Mr. Lennon
44:13Can you tell us what exactly you meant by that sentence?
44:18I told that thing confidentially to someone I knew.
44:21And who is also a journalist
44:23The considerations I made
44:24They were born from things I was reading at that time
44:26And which concerned Christianity
44:28I just tried to express them in the simplest way possible.
44:31Which is my natural way of speaking.
44:34And so it happened that I said those things
44:35More famous than Jesus, etc.
44:38The journalist reported them literally
44:40Those who know me have understood their true meaning.
44:42Because he knows that I talk that way
44:43That I didn't want to compare myself or the group to Jesus or religion at all
44:48But I just wanted to express a complex concept simply.
44:51And as I'm trying to do now
45:01John's somewhat convoluted explanation
45:03It arrives out of time
45:04And it's still too ambiguous
45:05To appease the spirits of the Christian communities
45:08More conservative and fundamentalist
45:10As a religious order
45:11The Ku Klux Klan will be present the night they play at the Colosseum
45:15And will try to prevent their performance
45:17Theirs is pure and simple blasphemy.
45:29During the bus transfer
45:32Towards the Mid-South Colosseum
45:34They told us to stay crouched
45:36And not to let us be seen from the windows
45:38Because they feared the presence of some sniper
45:45While the Beatles were on their third song
45:49Someone threw a firecracker from the tunnel
45:51Which exploded in mid-air
45:53We all turned to John on stage.
45:56And the other three Beatles too
45:58They instinctively turned towards him.
46:00It was as if we expected to see him on the ground
46:04Hit by a bullet
46:11The concert is over
46:14After 60 seconds
46:16They were already on the bus
46:18With the towels
46:19Because they were soaked in sweat
46:21And the bus took off like a rocket
46:24If the experiences in Japan and the Philippines
46:26They made George Harrison go through
46:28The desire to go on tour
46:29Now also another member of the Beatles
46:31He's starting to get tired of this life on the road.
46:35It's not a problem if some people
46:37They don't like our records
46:38Or our appearance
46:40Or what we say
46:41They have every right to say they don't like us.
46:43As we have the right to decide
46:45Not to have anything to do with these people
46:47Or not to consider them
46:48Everyone has their own rights
46:52But beyond the death threats
46:54And to the protests
46:56The most profitable band in history
46:58He is the victim of yet another scam
47:01Once again
47:02To the detriment of the most basic safety conditions
47:04In a live performance
47:06The promoter who organized the St. Louis concert
47:09He hadn't wanted to pay out $400.
47:12To mount a cover on the stage
47:15It was raining that evening
47:16And the Beatles were soaked
47:18As well as all the instrumentation
47:19Between Paul and the microphone
47:21Sparks could be seen
47:22Every time he touched the microphone
47:25Or it was close.
47:26He got a little shock
47:27To our rodi Ed Freeman
47:30They ran the power cable
47:33Wrapped in a towel
47:34They told me
47:36That as long as it was just small tremors
47:38Everything was fine
47:39But if I saw him fall to the ground
47:42I had to pull the plug right away
47:44If it was dangerous
47:46Of course it was dangerous.
47:48They could have left their skin there
47:49Thinking back on it today
47:51You realize how amateurish it all was.
48:05August 29, 1966
48:07The Beatles arrive at Candlestick Park
48:10In the San Francisco Bay
48:11For the last date of the American tour
48:13As they prepare for their final performance
48:16Barry Hood
48:17A teenager passionate about cinema
48:18He's there with his camera
48:20His video is the document
48:22Which best illustrates
48:23The unpreparedness and amateurism of the event
48:25For the Beatles there are no more doubts
48:28That concert will be the last of their career.
48:31There was a violent argument
48:34Between the instrumentation manager
48:37And the manager of the Candlestick Park plant
48:41Who feared that the truck with the equipment
48:43It would have ruined the turf
48:46And so all the instrumentation
48:49She was carried by hand onto the stage
48:53It worked like this
48:54There were only three of us on the tour
48:55And in the end we managed to do a bit of everything.
48:58I didn't know anything
48:59I was a folk singer from Boston
49:00And I had never mounted a drum kit
49:02I had no idea how to do it
49:04I had never touched an electric guitar in my life
49:08I didn't know a damn thing about what I was doing.
49:11The modern live concert industry
49:14She was born a quarter of an hour after the end of that tour
49:18All the equipment for those concerts
49:20It fit into a single stretched van
49:22Today you wouldn't even put the drums in there
49:26It was all so amateurish
49:28So on a smaller scale
49:33The other bands can't know this.
49:36But the concert at Candlestick Park
49:37It will go down in history
49:39The Beatles in fact
49:41They have decided that for them it is the headpiece
49:45While we were going to the studio
49:47Paul asked me if I had brought my tape recorder
49:50I answered yes, of course.
49:52And he
49:53Do you mind recording the concert for me this evening?
49:59Paul would have liked to continue
50:01But the audience didn't hear anything
50:02They didn't see their fan's faces
50:04They couldn't play properly
50:09After the evening at Candlestick Park
50:11We went down the California coast
50:14Up to Los Angeles
50:16I remember Paul leaning out of the seat in front of me
50:19And he said
50:20Did you record everything?
50:23George Harrison sat down next to me
50:26And he said
50:27Here we are
50:28From today I am no longer a Beatle
50:45Although the Beatles had no intention
50:48To change the world
50:49Their passion for live music
50:51He changed history
50:52From the chaos of their organized tours
50:55In such an amateurish way
50:56The modern live concert industry was born
50:59Their journey gave voice to an overlooked and misunderstood audience.
51:03From previous generations
51:06With the Beatles tours
51:08Mass youth culture was born
51:10As we know it today
51:16Baby, you're the rich man
51:19Baby, you're the rich man too
51:25You keep all your money in a big round bag
51:30It's time to do
51:32A lot of things to do
51:36Baby, you're the rich man
51:39Baby, you're the rich man
51:41Baby, you're the rich man too
51:47Baby, you're the rich man too
51:50Baby, you're the rich man too
51:52Baby, you're the rich man too
51:52Baby, you're the rich man too
51:52Baby, you're the rich man too
51:52Baby, you're the rich man too
51:53Baby, you're the rich man too
51:53Baby, you're the rich man too
51:55Baby, you're the rich man too
51:55Thank you.
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