"(gentle music)" "(footsteps echoing)" "(amplifier static)" "(knocking)" "PAUL:" "Ringo." "RINGO:" "Wait 'til we get on there and it dies a death." "George." "(murmuring)" "GEORGE: (mumbling) so when I bend down" "I hope they don't split open." "(mumbling) he's got his jacket on." "(murmuring)" "(drumming) and all the walls of Rome couldn't stop me." "pickled onion." "PAUL:" "I remember so vividly showing up at the show and then you'd take out of your little suitcase and then finally your Beatle boots... there we are." "(crowd screaming) yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪" "♪ You think ♪ ♪ you've lost your love ♪" "I saw her yesterday ♪" "♪ It's you she's thinkin' of ♪" "♪ And she told me what to say ♪" "♪ She said she loves you ♪" "♪ And you know ♪ ♪ that can't be bad ♪" "♪ She loves you ♪" "♪ And you know ♪ ♪ you should be glad ♪" "♪ She said you hurt her so ♪" "♪ She almost lost her mind ♪" "♪ But now she says she knows ♪" "♪ You're not the hurting kind ♪" "♪ She said she loves you ♪" "♪ You know that can't be bad ♪" "♪ She loves you and you ♪ ♪ know you should be glad ♪" "♪ Ooh ♪ yeah ♪ yeah ♪ yeah. where an epidemic called Beatlemania has seized the teenage population." "MAN:" "Usual here at London Airport." "Hundreds and hundreds of young Beatles fans." "The younger generation is going to hell." "Just gorgeous." "‐ MAN:" "They're what?" "‐ They're gorgeous." "they're setting a new fashion." "their hair." "They sound different." "they're natural." "They sort of represent the teenage people." "(audience screaming and cheering) yeah things were really simple." "everybody." "Thank you." "Thank you very much!" "PAUL:" "A lot of people thought we were an overnight sensation." "We weren't." "People didn't realize we had all this development." "They just saw these four things and they knew how to play. because that's what we'd been doing all those years previously." "JOHN:" "I had a group." "I was the singer and the leader. and then George joined." "We were great live performers then." "I don't think anybody in the world saw us outside of Liverpool and the few places because that's when we had to perform live to a small audience in the dance hall." "We had to hold them." "PAUL:" "We were just playing all the time." "and that was a real slog." "eight hours a day." "I was right in the middle of the naughtiest city in the world at 17 years old." "It was kind of exciting." "RINGO:" "I was with Rory Storm. this guy in Hamburg decided to come to Liverpool and take all the bands to Germany to play." "and that was it." "PAUL:" "I still remember that moment the first time" "Ringo played with us." "he kicks in." "And it was an Oh My God moment." "and we're all looking at each other this is it." "I'm getting very emotional. and sort of do it professionally." "I'm an only child." "I felt like I suddenly had three brothers." "RINGO:" "We just wanted to play." "Playin' was the most important thing." "to sleep all huddled together in one room. but then we'd had practice because we didn't have a bathroom at home. and they would answer. when the group was going nowhere where we goin' fellas?" "And they'd go‐‐" "Johnny." "fellas? Johnny." "cheer up." "We were always kinda a little nervous but we didn't realize what was to come." "("Please Please Me" playing)" "♪ Last night I said these words to my girl ♪ they've led the way from the cellars of Liverpool to the national limelight." "VINTAGE REPORTER:" "Do you have any fears that your public eventually will move on to a new favorite?" "PAUL:" "It's stupid to worry about things like that." "GEORGE:" "It's not worth missing your sleep for it." "‐ No." "‐ No. we could have quite a run." "(audience cheers and applauds) and the Beatles came to Sweden." "I went day after day and I just remember seeing their figures on a balcony." "the Beatles would come out and wave." "my name's Paul McCartney and I play bass guitar." "people there." "yeah." "and I play drums." "and play better guitar." "(laughter)" "CURTIS:" "They were like a gang." "Do you know what I mean?" "They each had their little characteristic." "John was surprisingly fearless." "Paul was surprisingly cute." "Ringo was cheeky and irresistible." "And George was the one that my sister was in love with." "You're tremendously lively and full of zing on the stage." "How difficult is it for you to keep up this zest?" "we do the zest we can." "(laughter) laughing at their jokes and all the new stuff that they find really funny." "The Beatles were kind of the dream of how you might be with your friends as you went through life." "yes." "why do they scream?" "I don't know." "I couldn't tell you." "(laughs) there's a louder cheer from all the people." "it's the equivalent of scoring a goal." "(indistinct) who screams the loudest?" "Do you see what I mean?" "yes I do understand." "and they scream." "(playing "Twist and Shout")" "(crowd screaming)" "now" "♪ Shake it up baby" "♪ Twist and shout" "♪ Twist and shout now" "♪ Come on baby" "♪ Come on and work it on out" "♪ Work it on out" "♪ Well you twist your little girl" "♪ Twist your little girl" "♪ You know you twist so fine" "♪ Twist so fine" "♪ Come on and twist a little closer now" "♪ Twist a little closer" "♪ And let me know hat you're mine" "♪ Let me know you're mine baby" "♪ Shake it up baby baby now" "♪ Shake it up baby baby now" "♪ Shake it up baby" "♪ Yeah ♪" "(audience screaming)" "(bells toll)" "VINTAGE NARRATOR:" "This is the BBC Home Service." "read by Frank Phillips." "FRANK PHILLIPS:" "Thousands of teenagers who had been waiting for more than 12 hours in Liverpool to book for a Beatles show were disappointed." "At one time the queue was stretched and the police had to seal off side streets to traffic. most of them suffering from exposure to the rain." "many young girls burst into tears." "More rain is forecast for... this is Leonard Parkin calling radio newsreel from Washington." "President Kennedy and Governor John Conally were shot today from an ambush as President Kennedy's motorcade where the President was on a speaking tour." "(somber music)" "PAUL:" "It was disturbing for us. where the world was at." "It was scary. being in a band." "we were lads. and things have been falling to place outside of our consciousness." "Even the first trip to America." "There was no plan." "You could not plan it." "PAUL:" "I'd been very fussy about America." "we can't go to America having failed. we'll be kings." "Marsha Albert has the honor an exclusive here at WWDC." "the microphone here on The Carroll James Show is yours. here are the Beatles singing "I Want to Hold Your Hand." "("I Want to Hold Your Hand" playing)" "I'll tell you somethin'" "♪ I think you'll understand" "♪ When I say that somethin' ♪ we were in Paris playing at the Olympia." "♪ I wanna hold your hand ♪ boys." "Number one in America." "it was like ah! ran around and just partied round and round just screaming." "♪ I wanna hold your hand here we come." "♪ And when I touch you ♪ (radio chatter)" "♪ I feel happy inside" "♪ It's such a feelin' that my love" "♪ I can't hide ♪ we were in America before the plane landed." "I could feel New York." "It was an incredible sensation." "boys." "♪ I want to hold your hand ♪ (cheering)" "VINTAGE REPORTER:" "The Beatles have left the airplane. there's that fabulous hairdo." "And one of them is waving!" "(announcer shouting excitedly)" "all of us. everything was American." "MALE REPORTER:" "Apparently they're gonna make a concerted effort to get through into the building." "Beatles! a scheduled press conference will begin." "EDDIE IZZARD:" "America's always seen as the motherland for any performer in the world." "MALE REPORTER:" "What about the reports that you guys are nothing but a bunch of" "British Elvis Presleys?" "it's not true!" "(laughter)" "What that is is what any comedian would want to do." "The trick of dealing with heckles is to say the first thing that comes into your brain." "And they'd already got to that place." "And they could all do it." "MALE REPORTER:" "I got a question here." "Are you going to get a haircut at all?" "‐ No." "‐ No thanks." "I had one yesterday." "(laughter)" "That's no lie. being able to talk back to the people who are telling you what to do." "and I think people in the world like that." "it's just brazen." "MALE REPORTER:" "Why does your music excite them so much?" "really." "we'd form another group and be managers." "(laughter)" "Ed Sullivan!" "(jazz music)" "(audience cheers)" "ED SULLIVAN:" "Thank you very much." "our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers and these veterans agree with me that the city never has witnessed the excitement stirred by these youngsters from Liverpool who call themselves the Beatles." "you're gonna twice be entertained by them." "and again in the second half of our show." "the Beatles!" "(audience screams and applauds)" "♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you" "♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you" "♪ Remember I'll always be true" "♪ And then while I'm away" "♪ I'll write home every day" "♪ And I'll send all my lovin' to you ♪ my brother and mom and I." "It wasn't even a question." "that's what we'd do." "man I'd never seen anybody that looked like them." "♪ Close your eyes and I'll kiss you" "♪ Tomorrow I'll miss you" "♪ Remember I'll always be true ♪" "It was like a revelation." "you don't know but it was like the whole world lit up." "Suddenly I felt like I could be friends with them." "And I'm black." "(laughs)" "♪ All my loving" "♪ All my lovin'" "♪ All my lovin' I will send to you ♪" "(screams and applause)" "(gentle music) you think you wanna be white?" "You like those guys?" "I never thought of them really they were the Beatles." "They were colorless." "and they were fucking amazing." "(crowd chattering)" "The Beatles gave me this idea that everybody was welcome. and I liked that." "And that sort of carried me into these older days" "I am my own person. and I got that specifically from them." "MALE ANNOUNCER:" "Fresh after their appearance" "the four English musical stars with their pudding bowl haircuts" "000 shrieking teenagers when they got to the Plaza Hotel." "RINGO:" "We had the whole floor in the Plaza." "(murmuring) just to get a break from the incredible pressure." "Let me on it." "Let me on it." "let me." "‐ Me!" "me!" "me!" "‐ You." "‐ Me." "you." "‐ Me." "sir." "‐ Cut." "RINGO:" "But we loved it." "To pick up a small transistor radio‐‐ it was the first time in New York‐‐ it was mind‐blowing'." "this is John Lennon of the Beatles on 1010 W‐I‐N‐S. they're telling us what to play." "‐ (phone ringing) ‐ WOMAN:" "Hello?" "long distance calling for the manager of the Beatles." "please?" "WOMAN:" "Their manager's name is Mr. Brian Epstein." "(gentle music) it was Brian Epstein." "really." "Brian was class." "That was what Brian was." "He was like Liverpool class." "and he had a car." "(laughs) working class people that had been through a war." "Our playgrounds were bombsites." "His parents ran a record shop." "VINTAGE REPORTER:" "Seems a funny sort of world for a young man like you to be in." "How did you get into it?" "How did you start?" "I heard about them through a lad who was asking for a record by them 1961." "my mom always wanted me to talk proper." "really." "I talk like I'm from Liverpool." "don't give me any hard time. so we felt we could trust him." "EPSTEIN:" "I went down to see them in Liverpool at the Cavern Club." "EMCEE:" "The Beatles will sing "Some Other Girl." "(audience screams and claps)" "(playing "Some Other Girl") star quality." "they had it." "♪ Some other guy now" "♪ Has taken my love away from me" "♪ Some other guy now oh no ♪" "PAUL:" "He was looking at our stage presence." "it was clear that he had a vision of us that was beyond the vision we had of ourselves." "(classical music) they were playing around the clubs in Liverpool. but having great fun." "But I don't think they would have bothered inexperienced people are not really very good at presenting themselves properly in the right sort of quarters." "He took us to a tailor... you know." "I'm not sure exactly what time we'll be back in Washington. and we'll be coming back on Wednesday." "Bye." "PAUL:" "Brian kept us together as a team." "REPORTER:" "What place do you think this story of the Beatles is gonna have in the history of Western culture?" "You must be kiddin' with that question." "it's not culture." "‐ REPORTER:" "What is it?" "‐ It's a good laugh." "(screams and applause) the Beatles." "the suits." "It's the simplest of ideas." "It suddenly made us one person." "A four‐headed monster." "Thank you. how do you do?" "We would like to sing a song and stamp your feet." "The song's called "I Saw Her Standing There." "four!" "(playing "I Saw Her Standing There")" "she was just 17" "♪ You know what I mean" "♪ And the way she looked" "♪ Was way beyond compare" "♪ How could I dance with another" "♪ When I saw her standing there" "♪ She looked at me" "I could see" "I'd fall in love with her" "♪ She wouldn't dance with another" "♪ When I saw her standin' there" "♪ Well my heart went boom" "♪ When I crossed that room" "♪ And I held her hand in mine" "we danced through the night" "♪ And we held each other tight" "♪ And before too long" "♪ I fell in love with her" "♪ Now I'll never dance with another" "♪ Since I saw her standing there" "♪ We danced through the night" "♪ And we held each other tight" "♪ And before too long I fell in love with her" "♪ Now I'll dance with another" "♪ Since I saw her standin' there since I saw her standing' there" "♪ Since I saw her standin' there ♪" "(audience screams and claps)" "(people chattering)" "‐ REPORTER:" "Which one are you?" "‐ Eric." "Eric?" "it's for Paul." "I'm doing a sh‐‐ (laughs) here is the American public." "‐ I'm John." "‐ You're John?" "It was only a joke." "here is the American public." "40 million American viewers staring you‐‐" "‐ Only looks like one man to me." "‐ Staring you right in the face." "it's the camera man." "What is your impression of the American public?" "You've been here for a while now." "They are the wildest." "‐ Why?" "‐ I don't know." "the mob was ridiculous. and we were trying to shout louder than them and we still couldn't beat 'em." "Was America something like what you though it would be?" "nothing like." "We thought it would be much quieter. and everybody seems to know us all it's great." "Adrian from Brooklyn loves you with all her heart." "(cheering) playing to our American fans." "‐ Ringo has a sexy nose!" "‐ A sexy nose?" "George has got sexy eyelashes." "Who has?" "George has got sexy eyelashes." "‐ Which one is George?" "‐ That one." "He's got sexy eyelashes." "(screaming)" "PAUL:" "The very earliest records were all and it was all personal articles. as long as it had some vague theme." "She loves you and he loves him and they love each other." "me tight tonight" "♪ It's you you ♪ it's kind of conscious." "We were actually appealing to girls." "we're appealing to girls to get our fan base." "♪ You ♪ yeah." "‐ (laughs) ‐ Go on." "you write very good songs." "Don't you?" "thank you." "WOMAN:" "How do you write songs?" "(laughter) it just depends. and anything that's lying around." "Normally we sit down and try and bash one out. we still say we both wrote it though." "♪ I got ever reason on Earth to be mad" "♪ 'Cause I just lost the only girl I had ♪" "JOHN:" "We got a single every three months and we'd have be writing literally in the hotel or in the van." "We wrote on the road." "Mainly me and John. but at the beginning it was mainly me and John. and because he was right‐handed." "It was like looking in the mirror." "And we'd just start something and ricochet of each other." "we'd just write it down. but we had a sheet of paper and we remembered the chords." "(singing happily) it's number one in Cashbox and Billboard. and "I Want to Hold Your Hand" are all number one." "(laughter) yeah." "Thanks." "I suppose." "(harmonium music)" "My relationship with John was very close." "really." "It's like someone you kind of looked up to a little bit." "What are your hobbies and stuff? I've written a couple of songs." "great." "What did you think about the football?" "nobody interested." "so am I." "big connection here." "I'd never met anyone who'd written songs." "So that's how we started." "I think it's something like just short of 300 songs" "John and I wrote together." "(crowd singing "She Loves You" in unison)" "yeah you know you should be glad ♪ who was from Liverpool." "they were from Liverpool." "And nine years old. because they just keep winning the cup." "You'd wait all week to hear the hit parade show because they would get to number one. the Beatles!" "(screams and applause)" "♪ Can't buy me love" "♪ Love" "♪ Can't buy me love my friend" "♪ If it makes you feel all right my friend" "♪ If it makes you feel all right" "♪ 'Cause I don't care too much for money" "♪ Money can't buy me love ♪ they were loving it." "And they loved us wherever we went." "too." "George o Ringo." "The Beatles!" "(screaming) and yet the word would spread that this group would be coming." "it got bigger in the next." "there was more people come to see us there than anywhere. the whole of Australia was there." "MALE REPORTER:" "Along the nine‐mile route almost a quarter of a million people lined the street." "there was a ship going to discover the New World. and we just said land ho." "♪ The second time I caught you talking to him" "♪ Do I have to tell you one more time" "♪ I think it's a sin" "♪ I'm gonna let you down" "♪ Let you down" "♪ Gonna leave you flat" "♪ Gonna let you down and leave you flat" "♪ Because I told you before you can't do that ♪ but our movement and we went somewhere." "(screaming) next most extraordinary thing Hard Day's Night." "("A Hard Day's Night" playing)" "♪ It's been a hard day's night" "♪ And I've been workin' like a dog" "♪ It's been a hard day's night" "♪ I should be sleepin' like a log ♪ do you? and especially with the director. and it made it much easier for us. because we think they'll be probably a spent force by the end of the summer." "‐ Give us a kiss." "‐ I shall call a guard." "you know." "The only thing that was a plan through the seven weeks of the shoot is that sense of protection." "Being protective when they had to be supporting one another in a family way." "♪ It's been a hard day's night ♪" "and everything you heard about the Beatles that we had a feeling and that made it like a completely virtuous circle." "music." "everybody in the world could buy tickets to see them." "MALCOLM GLADWELL:" "What you're seeing is the emergence of this international teen culture." "who are you looking to for cues?" "Not your parents." "♪ I should be sleepin' ♪" "Beatles hysteria is sort of a muscle flexing of that generation." "The baby boom." "It's no accident you see all this kind of youth culture the society is dominated by teenagers." "♪ You know I feel all right ♪" "(cheering and screaming)" "Beethoven" playing)" "mail it to my local DJ" "♪ It's a rocking little record" "♪ I want my jockey to play" "Beethoven today" "♪ You know my temperature's rising" "♪ And the jukebox blows a fuse" "♪ My heart beating rhythm" "♪ While my soul is singin' the blues" "Beethoven" "♪ Dig these rhythm and blues ♪" "(audience cheering)" "(laughter)" "Beethoven" "Beethoven" "PAUL:" "The first time we went to America they were waiting for us." "several people what do you plan to do when the bubble bursts?" "Fred." "(laughter)" "We're gonna have a laugh." "The biggest question in 1964 was when is the bubble gonna burst?" "MALE ANNOUNCER:" "WFUN South Miami." "Fun in the Sun Radio." "(upbeat music) their manager." "inviting me on the tour." "(helicopters whirring)" "I'm not goin'. the Ford Mustang is being released." "It's one of the biggest news years in the history of the world." "want to travel with a band that will be here in October and go on in November?" "(bell dinging) you gotta go. these men are a menace to society." "♪ It's been a hard day's night" "♪ And I've been workin' like a dog ♪ on tour with the Beatles." "Let me give you a little description of the dangers of being with the Beatles. the Beatles were almost crushed completely by youngsters who will mash themselves sandals. even though the police did their best to stop it." "there was a bewilderment." "There was a wondrousness." "Is this really happening to us?" "One girl stuck her hand through the window and grabbed at my face." "I'm all right. 000 kids rushed the stage." "folks!" "Before we do the next song. the Beatles have come a long way to do this show." "We have to cut it short unless you move back." "They're very worried about the situation in the front." "back." "240 kids wound up in the hospital." "None of the police in any of these cities were prepared for this." "Nobody was prepared for this." "that police departments don't realize how bad it is?" "DEREK TAYLOR:" "I think that's true." "They've all seen crowds before. and we're going to be able to handle it." "But what they've never seen is a Beatle crowd." "This is the biggest thing that's ever happened." "There's no question about it." "It's like nothing before. it's not like the late President Kennedy." "and they are without precedent." "(crowd screaming)" "Thank you!" "ciao." "thank you. a song which was originally recorded just a little chicken." "yeah." "Ringo!" "(playing "Boys")" "♪ I've been told when a boy kiss a girl hey bop bop shoo‐wop now bop bop shoo‐wop hey bop bop shoo‐wop yeah ♪ surrounded by lots of girls and so beside themselves." "I felt as much as a girl can feel." "I was in love with John." "I remember spending all day putting my hair in beer cans 'cause I had curly hair. 000 girls. that we were all loving them all over the world." "♪ My girl says when I kiss her lips ♪" "LARRY KANE:" "This is Larry Kane onboard as I call it." "I have with me George Harrison." "How you doin' George?" "and how are you?" "you glad to be back in America?" "it's great." "flying across America." "With me I have Ringo Starr." "000 feet in the air." "We're on our way to Cincinnati." "They had a wild one yesterday." "25‐city coast‐to‐coast tour." "but let's talk a little bit about the crowds at Indianapolis." "Back and forth again." "The stage set for Milwaukee tonight." "You can hear the buzz and excitement here at the Chicago Amphitheater." "Michigan." "The Beatles really shook up the crowd in Toronto." "Canada." "travelling with the Beatles." "Let me explain to you the type of feeling that you get after 15 performances and watching the crowds." "It's a chilling feeling inside because you know you are experiencing a phenomenon that is the only one of its kind and it probably will go down in history as the greatest show business example of music and admiration many hundreds of years." "boys boys" "♪ Talkin' about boys now boys" "(vocalizing) boys" "♪ Talkin' about boys now boys" "♪ What a bundle of joy ♪" "Thank you! there were riots throughout the South because of the civil rights movement." "You started to feel a social change happening." "‐ Civil rights or civil war!" "‐ This is Larry Kane." "The big question mark still with Jacksonville not knowing whether they will be able to perform." "I had received a report from my station that the Gator Bowl so I mentioned it to them in the interview." "What about this comment that I heard about concerning racial integration at the various performances?" "PAUL:" "We don't like it if there's any segregation because it just seems mad to me." "LARRY:" "And I could see Brian at the corner of the room oh my God." "Florida." "Do you anticipate any kind of difference in that opinion? it'd be a bit silly to segregate people isn't it?" "You can't treat other human beings like animals." "GEORGE:" "That's the way we all feel. because there's never any segregation you know. we had the three civil rights workers in the South and then found dead. living in segregation." "It was an apartheid that's probably difficult for a lot of people to even picture." "The only white person I would even have contact with was a salesman who would come into the community. at the time I heard that the Beatles were coming to town. were very emphatic about Jacksonville." "They said that if there was going to be segregation we're not going." "that's what we did. you know what I mean?" "We just played to people. started to act up and blow back on this very hot and sensitive issue knowing that it would really irritate a lot of Americans. before we'd do it." "That is one of the classic things about the Beatles." "Four votes had to be carried for any idea to go trough. for equals. very close to each other." "We'd always stick together." "so there is a strong decision. it worked really well." "(rock music) and I went by myself." "The only catch in my breath that I got and there were and just yelling as loud as I could and singin' along." "That was the first experience I had where it was possible to be around people those differences could disappear." "(cheering)" "♪ If I fell in love with you" "♪ Would you promise to be true" "♪ And help me" "♪ Understand" "♪ 'Cause I've been in love before ♪" "The people who ran the Gator Bowl ended all that in most of the big stadiums in the South." "And the next eight days are probably the most grueling of the tour." "It looks like the Beatles are holding up strong. and kneel down and talk to them." "they would ask them because they were being ignored by the crowd. this time and that's pretty hard. it got to them and Paul and John both consoled me." "we both lost our mothers." "and his had died so that kind of pulled us together a lot." "we each needed to do something that would get us away really." "♪ 'Cause I couldn't stand the pain ♪ very sensitive to other people's feelings." "All four of them. who had a sense of themselves." "They also liked making fun of me. which we have seen twice." "JOHN:" "I never invited him at all." "I just saw him sittin' there listening'." "anyway." "(laughs)" "Larry." "LARRY:" "This has been Larry Kane traveling with the Beatles." "when you think about it that they were touring in this kind of circus of life." "The sort of madness of all that jamboree of excitement and hysteria." "they were able to express were composers." "They were writers." "(indistinct voices) half way through the song." "Well was it a 12‐bar?" "(guitar playing)" "The studio was like our little haven." "we knew we could experiment." "Hear ourselves. and that would be fun to record." "(amplifier static)" "GEORGE MARTIN:" "Brian Epstein and I worked together very closely planning their future." "We agreed that we should put out and an album every six months." "you know she's happy as can be she said so" "♪ I'm in love with her and I feel fine ♪" "DEREK TAYLOR:" "I was under pressure because I got sucked into the time difference. like giving scraps to a mouse." "One of the great things about our recording was the schedule. would present the song that we'd written to everyone." "(guitar music playing)" "anyway." "just to practice it. okay?" "Is it just me and you?" "four." "(singing) indistinct remarks) four." "♪ Ooh ♪" "babe ♪" "♪ Yes you know it's true ♪ that's marvelous." "It'd take about 20 minutes to do that." "love me ♪ what did it sound like with the base doin' a funny thing?" "or did it sound just a lovely crap?" "(indistinct responses)" "GEORGE MARTIN:" "Take three." "two three four." "(singing)" "George Martin was the only man that could press the button to record." "George?" "GEORGE MARTIN:" "I'm giving up here." "Paul." "‐ GEORGE MARTIN:" "Very lovely." "keep that one." "Mark it fab." "Do you want to have a listen before we go on to the next one?" "(whirring)" "George had recorded The Goons. and we all knew it." "GEORGE MARTIN:" "At that time I was a comedy producer and a lot of English comedy actors. you know." "we love him." "you see." "aren't you?" "JOHN:" "I know." "George Martin was a god." "I was very much in charge. and they had to do what I told them." "PAUL:" "You had one‐and‐a‐half hours from 10:30 to finish that song." "Boom." "So that focused you." "That was a great discipline." "(whirring)" "Declan." "‐ JOHN:" "We'll do it again." "too." "GEORGE MARTIN:" "I'm just gonna start recording." "the red light's on." "someone wanted something." "drive to EMI to do a record." "Down here to SoHo to do a photo shoot." "Ride back to do some TV show." "♪ I'm a loser" "♪ And I'm not what I appear to be" "♪ Of all... ♪" "JOHN:" "I was singing the wrong words there." "Drive to Birmingham to do a gig." "(crowd screaming)" "End up in a nightclub. but we had each other." "And we brought that to the music." "("Eight Days a Week" playing) babe you know it's true babe" "♪ Just like I need you love me ♪" "The thing about the scale is that writing lots of songs is not particularly difficult." "Volume is not the thing." "The extraordinary thing about the Beatles is the amount of great songs. of which probably 100 are absolutely beautiful melodies." "pretty good." "The only comparison with that kind of level of melody may be Mozart." "high volume of very good melodies. and that's when you hit the Beatles. because of the sheer volume of the invention." "girl" "♪ Eight days a week" "(cheers and applause)" "London." "Mr. Richard Lester." "(applause)" "What do you think we could tell them about the new Beatles flick?" "it's going to be different from the last one. and Ringo's in trouble again." "We need protection." "We've got a record to do tomorrow." "I need protection." "And you shall have it." "Get me Protection." "♪ You don't realize how much I need you" "♪ Love you all the time and never leave you" "♪ Please come on back to me" "♪ I'm lonely as can be" "♪ I need you ♪" "We'd enjoyed very much doing Hard Day's Night." "but the film Help!" "We were kind of pretty disinterested. and so it couldn't be quite as exciting as the first time." "Nothing is." "(organ music) we all had meetings oh you gotta put your money in the Bahamas or somewhere. can we go to the Bahamas?" "you're gonna film in the Bahamas." "You write a scene." "♪ I get high when I see you go by ♪" "♪ My oh my ♪ they invited me to Nassau to watch them film the movie Help!" "and I saw something very unusual." "They were all high on marijuana." "And I'd never seen this before." "Larry." "‐ LARRY:" "Good to see you again." "‐ PAUL:" "Lovely to see you again." "John." "How are you doin'?" "(laughs)" "What is this "anything can happen" business?" "Larry." "LARRY:" "We'll be talking to you." "(John laughs) we spent a lot of that film slightly stoned." "(squeaking)" "Things were spiraling like crazy during Help!" "There were people coming in with contracts for bubble gum royalties and being condescending." "And then the press were getting aggressive." "They owned all of us." "JOHN:" "There's no switching off." "The elevator man wants a little piece of you on your way back to your room." "The maid wants a piece of you back at the hotel." "I mean a piece of your time and your energy." "And it's like a politician." "You're on 24 hours a day." "LARRY:" "I think that John got fed up first." "He became agitated or frustrated particularly from 1965 onward." "we need a song." "And John started it." "he had a lot of it." "this is kind of autobiographical." "so much younger than today. 'cause we were all a bit more insecure than we'd been when we were 17." "four!" "♪ Help ♪" "♪ I need somebody ♪" "♪ Help ♪" "♪ Not just anybody ♪" "♪ Help ♪" "♪ You know I need someone ♪" "♪ Help ♪" "♪ ♪ so much younger than today ♪" "♪ I never needed ♪ ♪ anybody's help in any way ♪" "♪ But now these days are gone ♪" "♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪" "♪ Now I find ♪ ♪ I've changed my mind ♪" "♪ And opened up the door ♪" "♪ ♪ I'm feelin' down ♪" "♪ And I do appreciate ♪ ♪ you bein' round ♪" "♪ Help me get ♪ ♪ my feet back on the ground ♪" "♪ ♪ please help me ♪" "♪ And now my life has changed ♪" "♪ In oh so many ways ♪" "♪ My independence ♪ ♪ seems to vanish in the haze ♪" "♪ But now these days are gone ♪" "♪ I'm not so self‐assured ♪" "♪ Know that ♪ ♪ I just need your light ♪" "♪ I've never done before ♪" "♪ ♪ I'm feelin' down ♪ it's real." "The lyric is as good now as it was then." "It's no different." "and I meant it." "♪ ♪ please help me ♪ help me ♪" "(audience screaming)" "We were not gettin' a lot of money from records. and that's all that mattered." "we made our money playin' live." "he took some honey ♪" "♪ From a tree ♪" "♪ Dressed it up ♪ ♪ and they called me ♪" "♪ Everybody's ♪ ♪ trying to be my baby ♪" "♪ Everybody's ♪ ♪ trying to be my baby ♪" "♪ Everybody's trying to be ♪ ♪ my baby now ♪ and bigger." "♪ Woke up last night ♪" "♪ Half past four ♪" "♪ Fifty women ♪ ♪ knocking on my door ♪" "♪ Everybody's trying ♪ ♪ to be my baby ♪" "♪ Everybody's ♪ ♪ trying to be my baby ♪ yeah ♪" "Then it got crazy. they started playing the stadiums." "Metropolitan Stadium in Minneapolis." "Chicago White Sox Park." "♪ ♪ I didn't stay late ♪" "♪ 'Fore home ♪ ♪ I had 19 dates ♪ but nothing like this. was unprecedented." "they had to play stadiums. you can't go" "000‐seat theater 000 teenagers going crazy outside." "It would be impossible to control." "This was massive." "The first big stadium tour in history." "And the biggest show of them all was New York. can we?" "We don't have the money for this. but she got two tickets." "And she didn't tell me." "So this is what happened." "Where are we going?" "I'll let you know when we get there." Okay." "and I'm not paying any attention." "where are we?" "we're at Shea Stadium." "why? and all I remember is my head going poof." "(laughs)" "(crowd screaming)" "(helicopter whirring) we don't believe it." "someone said." "you know." "Shea Stadium is an enormous place." "that was the first time it was used for a rock concert. a hundred watts." "(laughs) wasn't enough." "here are the Beatles!" "(fans screaming)" "Hello!" "Hey!" "Hello!" "John." "We'd like to do a song" "I think." "Can you hear me?" "Hello?" "It's called "Dizzy Miss Lizzy"!" "(playing "Dizzy Miss Lizzy")" "Miss Lizzy" "♪ The way you rock and roll" "Miss Lizzy" "♪ When we do the stroll come on Lizzy" "♪ Love me before I grow too old mama" "♪ I want you to be my bride ♪" "One of the most remarkable things about the Beatles playing live is how in tune they are." "they can't possibly hear themselves." "I don't think they had monitors. they're not that loud. because I don't even think there's a P. A. at Shea Stadium. which must have sounded like a thousand transistor radios detuned." "(tinny sound)" "♪ Just a‐rockin' and a‐rollin'" "♪ Girl I wish you were mine ♪ that's the equipment we had." "(laughs)" "♪ When you rock and roll ♪" "RINGO:" "I could not hear anything. to see where we were in the song." "♪ I wanna be your lovin' man ♪" "(crowd screaming) 000 people at Shea Stadium. what more could you do?" "I remember George bringin' up the subject with Brian." "is this touring gonna be an annual event?" "And I think he was the first one" "I've had enough of this." "That was the good thing about being four together." "you know." "I always felt sorry for Elvis 'cause he was on his own." "but there's only one Elvis." "Nobody else knew what he felt like." "we all shared the experience." "They came back to England late summer of '65." "(crowd screaming)" "The last time the Beatles played in Britain seven or eight days. and my parents refused to let me go." "♪ Got a good reason" "♪ For taking' the easy way out ♪" "The Beatles captured my imagination like no other group at that point." "It was the way that I began to interpret the world. you had this wonderful storyline advancing through with the Beatles." "we'd been told there would be more records forthcoming." "(crowd screaming)" "And they went back into studio." "(Paul speaking indistinctly)" "GEORGE:" "The light's on." "You might as have a go and sing one song." "George." "take one." "♪ Is there anybody going to listen to my story" "♪ All about the girl who came to stay ♪ innovative sound" "I don't like this." "I think they've lost their minds." "girl ♪ what's this?" "♪ She's the kind of girl who'll put you down" "♪ When friends are there" "♪ You feel a fool ♪" "I kind of went from being a kid so some of those things this group I liked changed so much." "♪ Girl ♪" "There's a big jump from "I Want to Hold Your Hand she told when she was young when pain would lead to pleasure." "♪ Was she told when she was young" "♪ That pain would lead to pleasure" "♪ Did she understand it when they said ♪" "I couldn't understand it at all when I first heard it." "I didn't think it was any good. and that's good." "That's when you trust the people that make music to take you somewhere you haven't been before." "(rock music)" "VINTAGE REPORTER:" "Formal occasion at Buckingham Palace on a foggy October morning. a ceremony hallowed by a tradition going back over the centuries." "Members of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire." "MAN:" "Do you think the Beatles should have been awarded the MBE?" "I think the Beatles have probably done as much for popular music than people like Rodgers amp;" "Hammerstein and Gershwin did." "the Beatles have done it where it took most other people a lifetime." "REPORTER:" "What's the MBE going to do your teenage rebel image?" "Who's got a teenage rebel image?" "Have any of you any ambitions left at all?" "I'd like to be a duke." "(laughter) but at the same time they were prisoners of their fame." "And I think they were beginning to chafe at people's expectations." "The first three months had been lopped off to do whatever the Beatles' third film was going to be." "And then it didn't happen." "And so for the first time since they'd they had three months off." "(soft guitar music)" "GEORGE:" "It had been four years for us we needed to rest." "♪ I once had a girl" "♪ Or should I say" "♪ She once had me ♪ the thing is that we're all interested but we were always looking around." "I got involved with a gallery owner." "We'd go to Paris and we'd buy paintings." "We'd go to the dealer." "So it was very exciting." "George had developed an interest in Indian music." "(sitar music) writing more and just learning more about it." "I've written so many songs that I've just thrown away I wanted it to be worth putting on the LP alongside Paul and John." "I feel now I've got more idea about how to write songs." "(violin music)" "We bought this house in the country and John was up the road." "and we started and we started to put less energy into the Beatle bag." "were very aware that we didn't live in each other's pockets anymore." "We all had separate existences." "There's an interview that John Lennon gives which is publish in March '66 where he talks about his reading. which is not what a pop star was supposed to say." "(camera clicking) they were doing a photo shoot." "we were really sort of beginning to hate it. and you didn't feel it." "PAUL:" "Bob Whitaker was one of the photographers we all put on white lab coats and we pretend to be mad professors." "you know?" "(upbeat music) yeah." "♪ To say about the things that you do ♪ because these kind of shocking things were part of the art scene." "♪ About the good things that we can have" "♪ If we close our eyes ♪" "JOHN:" "I especially wished you know. and there was some kind of fuss." "what?" "My beloved Beatles?" "No!" "This must stop." "MAN:" "Sorry." "please." "just leave it out again then." "PAUL:" "Okay." "GEORGE:" "I'll just have to vamp it up a bit." "JOHN:" "Now he tells me." "RINGO:" "We're having more fun in the studio." "It was getting more experimental." "more interesting." "♪ When I wake up early in the morning" "♪ Lift my age" "♪ And I'm still ♪" "JOHN:" "Hey?" "big plans." "sometimes they just unfolded." "Complete fluke." "ready. and the tape would run off and he put it on and that's when the guitar came." "(imitating warbling) you gotta hear this." "we gotta do that." "Fall in the boffins." "♪ Lay down and surrender to the void" "♪ It is shining ♪" "And I always remember being in Brian Epstein's house What do you think of this?" "You can see there's a puzzlement going across their faces. he knew to leave us alone by then." "♪ It is shining ♪ and this is the kind of which you obviously couldn't possibly do live making up music as you go along. and does so many things that no one had done before. which is something that happens in Indian music" "and used to exist in Western music in the 12th century." "So it sort of triggered a whole movement that popular music would start to bring in these into an album that millions of people would hear." "♪ Love is all and love is everyone" "♪ It is knowing ♪ clean mop‐tops and every mother's son and everyone loved us." "And suddenly there were a few things that they don't understand." "we're men now." "We're a bit older than those lads that started out." "You can't live all your life by what they want." "We can't go on forever as four teens with mop‐tops playing "She Loves You." "♪ Of the beginning" "♪ Of the beginning we got on a train and went up to Hamburg." "I don't think we wanted to be anywhere." "you know." "There was so much more pressure from the press for whatever reason." "We're not horrid snobby." "you are." "That's your version." "That's only in your mind." "GEORGE:" "Because we're not flattering you." "you all expect sort of nice answers but the questions aren't nice questions." "We don't have to have nice answers. it just means we're natural." "(applause) and I think the next day after the Hamburg concert we had a flight to Tokyo." "(man speaking Japanese)" "It's amazing security." "I've ever seen so many people guarding." "MAN:" "But we don't want you to be hurt‐‐" "GEORGE:" "No." "MAN:" "We're trying our best." "(crowd chattering) it was a demonstration of one thing or another." "people were demonstrating because the Budokan was supposed to be a special spiritual hall not pop music." "(crowd screaming) welcome the Beatles!" "(crowd screaming)" "(amplifier static)" "GEORGE:" "It was very strange." "The audience were very reserved." "Respectful." "Very quiet to what we had become accustomed to." "Very quiet." "Nowhere Man." "four." "♪ He's a real nowhere man" "♪ Sitting in his nowhere land" "♪ Making all his nowhere plans" "♪ With no one ♪" "RINGO:" "We were playing crap." "We were just sort of surviving." "♪ Knows not where he's going to" "♪ Isn't he a bit like you and me?" "♪ and then somebody said" "You're supposed to be visiting the Palace." "RINGO:" "Madam Marcos had invited us to dinner." "Brian had told her no." "someone brought the newspapers." "Beatles Snub President." "you know?" "Because everybody was out of hand." "Even the cops were out of line." "They were all just caught up in the mania. and now they went straight into the complete nightmare." "this religious controversy. but does it worry you that it's going to fall out when you get to the stage? but I hope everything will be all right as they say." "Do you think this is going to be a controversial tour like the Philippines was?" "no." "it's going to be fine." "What makes you say that?" "it'll be fine." "You watch." "It'll be great." "("Good Day Sunshine" playing)" "♪ Good day sunshine ♪" "It was all because of that interview" "John had given while on vacation." "It was reprinted in America months later." "Lennon says the Beatles are bigger than Christ." "(bells tolling) churches were losing their congregations." "People were going to church less and less and less. oh you won't believe the fame." "we're bigger than Jesus. and it never made the front page in England." "LARRY:" "That unleashed a firestorm in the United States. and they actually had a lot of people who suddenly wanted to dismember them." "This is The Layton and Charles Show broadcasting at 1220 on your dial until about nine o'clock this morning." "We'd like to urge you to take your Beatle records and your Beatlemania to any one of our 14 pickup points" "Alabama." "Don't forget the destruction of those Beatle records and we'll keep you informed of all of that." "They were just stunned." "You have to really put it into perspective. partly because of the violence that was in America at the time." "(shots whistling) who'd just shot dead 20 people." "This was the same country only three years before where the President had been assassinated." "and we were threatened." "We knew we weren't being blasphemous." "We weren't anti‐Jesus." "really. because you realize he had to apologize." "I was the only thing that would stop this. or religion at that time." "I was just saying it as a fact." "better more for England than here." "I'm not saying that we're better or greater but now it's all this. but he knows he can't." "I might have got away with it." "(laughter) because Beatles I just said they are having more influence on kids and things including Jesus. yep." "PAUL:" "He was scared." "We were all pretty scared." "Most of the people in the room understood it." "It's like one of those lines." "It didn't hold us back at all." "(screaming)" "MAN:" "Concert tomorrow night is far below a sell‐out." "How do you feel about‐‐" "JOHN:" "Very rich." "(upbeat music)" "♪ I know that she knows ♪ that was it." "I was friends with the opening act." "Do you wanna do it?" "I didn't even know how to set up a drum kit at the time." "I had no idea." "a folk singer." "I had no qualifications at all." "We only ever had a couple of roadies." "Didn't matter where we were." "that's all we had." "the sound was so bad that everybody rushed the stage." "REPORTER:" "Cleveland Stadium has been absolutely riots. came through the police cordon. they were even all over the stage." "ED:" "I really thought I was gonna get hurt." "I think the bomb‐sniffing dogs throughout the whole theater." "That kind of stuff was happening all the time." "It was terrifying." "Some people would set off firecrackers in the hall and you'd think one of the others had got shot." "and it was pouring rain. and that would stop the show." "It was a joke." "(crowd screaming)" "This was three weeks that they just let's just do this and we'll make a lot of money." "(somber music) and we all started to get pretty fed up." "George particularly was quite vocal about that." ""I don't wanna do this anymore." "I don't like this." "I certainly felt that that was it." "that we weren't going to tour again like that." "There was no enjoyment in it." "The music wasn't being heard." "It wasn't dong anything." "It was just a sort of freak show." "and the music had nothing to do with it. and not be in a circus." "I remember and nothing else inside." "sort of sliding around and we're all really mad at the whole bloody thing." "oh that's it." "you know." "And we all agreed." "That's enough of that." "(piano music) we had to get back in the studio and get to know each other and play again." "George." "I'm giving my all." "GEORGE:" "It used to make us laugh when we'd read the problem with the Beatles and so they missed the growing‐up period." "we were snatched out of our youth." "We were force‐grown like rhubarb when you grow it under hothouse conditions." "You make it grow much quicker than it would naturally." "now?" "Broken another string." "PAUL:" "I think it'll probably be another day singing' in." "GEORGE:" "And what you can do with the bits where you can't get it 'cause you haven't got enough breath." "let's go." "In one way it was good because we went into the recording scene expressed ourselves because we could no longer do it outside." "♪ Living is easy ♪ ♪ with eyes closed ♪" "♪ Misunderstanding all you see ♪" "♪ It's getting hard to be ♪ ♪ someone but it all works out ♪" "♪ It doesn't matter much to me ♪ one way or another." "GEORGE:" "Righty‐o!" "JOHN:" "However you like." "feel it." "four." "("Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" playing)" "we're not the Beatles." "It was to liberate us." "We gotta think of a new name for ourselves. just to be fresh." "♪ So may I introduce to you ♪" "♪ The act you've known ♪ ♪ for all these years ♪" "♪ Sergeant Pepper's ♪ ♪ Lonely Hearts Club Band ♪" "PAUL:" "I'll be overpowering this time." "JOHN:" "I'll go." "Paul." "please." "("Lucy in Sky with Diamonds" playing)" "♪ Picture yourself in (laughs) a boat on a river ♪" "PAUL:" "Just go right in with it." "Do those quicker." "♪ Cellophane flowers ♪ ♪ of yellow and green ♪" "♪ Yellow and green ♪" "JOHN:" "Okay." "♪ Cellophane flowers of ♪ ♪ yellow and green ♪" "♪ Towering over your head ♪" "♪ Look for the girl ♪ ♪ with the sun in her eyes ♪" "♪ And she's gone ♪" "♪ Lucy in the sky ♪ ♪ with diamonds ♪" "♪ Lucy in the sky with diamonds ♪" "JOHN:" "It was the music that was interesting." "That was important. it didn't matter." "("A Day in the Life" playing)" "♪ ♪ oh boy ♪" "♪ About a lucky man ♪ ♪ who made the grade ♪" "PAUL:" "There was a lot of faith involved in everything that we did. or it wouldn't have worked." "♪ Now they know ♪ ♪ how many holes it takes ♪" "♪ To fill the Albert Hall ♪" "Brian had to have faith in us." "George Martin had to have faith in us." "This is how it was for the Beatles." "You had to have faith." "We had to have faith in each other." "(indistinct remarks)" "(gentle rock music)" "(indistinct applause)" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Nobody ever loved me like she does ♪ she does ♪ she does ♪" "♪ And if somebody loved me like she does ♪ she does ♪ she does ♪" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Don't ♪ ♪ let me down ♪" "♪ Don't let me down ♪" "♪ Don't ♪ ♪ let me down ♪" "♪ I'm in love ♪ ♪ for the first time ♪" "♪ Don't you know ♪ ♪ it's gonna last ♪" "♪ It's a love ♪ ♪ that lasts forever ♪" "♪ It's a love ♪ ♪ that has no past ♪" "♪ I got a feelin' ♪ ♪ that keeps me on my toes ♪ yeah ♪ oh yeah ♪" "♪ I got a feelin' ♪" "♪ I think that everybody knows ♪ oh yeah ♪ yeah ♪" "♪ Yeah ♪ yeah ♪" "♪ Everybody had a hard year ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ had a good time ♪" "♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ saw the sunshine ♪ oh yeah ♪" "♪ ♪ oh yeah ♪" "♪ Everybody had a good year ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ let their hair down ♪" "♪ Everybody pulled ♪ ♪ their socks up ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ put their foot down ♪" "♪ Oh yeah ♪" "♪ Woo‐hoo ♪" "♪ Everybody had a good year ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ had a hard time ♪" "♪ Everybody had a wet dream ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ saw the sunshine ♪" "♪ Everybody had a good year ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ let their hair down ♪" "♪ Everybody pulled ♪ ♪ their socks up ♪" "♪ Everybody ♪ ♪ put their foot down ♪ yeah ♪" "♪ I got a feelin' ♪" "♪ I got ♪ ♪ a feelin' ♪" "♪ I got a feelin' ♪" "(applause)" "I think." "("Eight Days a Week" playing) babe ♪ you know it's true ♪ babe ♪" "♪ Just like I need you ♪ love me ♪" "♪ ♪ love me ♪ babe ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪ girl ♪" "♪ Always on my mind ♪ girl ♪" "♪ Love you all the time ♪ love me ♪" "♪ ♪ love me ♪ girl ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "♪ Eight days ♪ ♪ a week ♪" "♪ I love you ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "♪ Is not enough to show I care ♪ babe ♪ you know ♪ ♪ it's true ♪" "♪ ♪ babe ♪" "♪ Just like I need you ♪ love me ♪" "♪ ♪ love me ♪ babe ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "♪ Eight days ♪ ♪ a week ♪" "♪ I love you ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "♪ Is not enough ♪ ♪ to show I care ♪ girl ♪" "♪ Always on my mind ♪ girl ♪" "♪ Love you all the time ♪ love me ♪" "♪ ♪ love me ♪ babe ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "♪ Eight days ♪ ♪ a week ♪" "♪ Eight days a week ♪" "this is John speaking with his voice." "We're all very happy to be able to talk to you like this on this little bit of plastic." "This record reaches you at the end and it's all due to you." "When we made our first record on Parlophone we hoped that everybody would like what would already been our type of music for several years already." "But we had no idea of all the gear things in store for us." "when "Please Please Me heave the mo'." "I suppose it must have been top of the bill at the London Palladium and then only a couple of days later being invited to take part in the Royal Variety Show." "we're all dead chuffed that so many things have happened in between already. (Paul barking like a small dog)" "I'd like to say thank you to all the Beatle people in October. but I just haven't enough pens." "In the meantime." "PAUL:" "This is Paul here." "too." "Especially the bit about birthday cards 'cause all our homes and offices got sacks of mail last June." "Ow!" "(laughs)" "When it was my birthday." "we're all dead pleased and we're trying to do everything we can to please you with the type of songs we write and record next year." "lots of people asked us what we enjoyed best:" "concerts and television or recording. anyway‐‐ is going into the recording studio." "we enjoy it very kindly." "PAUL:" "To make new records." "Which is what we'd been doing all day before we started on this special message." "what we like to hear most is one of our songs one of the ones what John and I have written." "And then listening to the tapes afterwards you see." "Ringo." "Ringo here." "I was the last member to join the Beatles." "I started to play drums in the group 1962." "(laughs)" "I've been in a couple of other groups." "Ow!" "PAUL:" "Just wish the people merry happy." "for Christmas." "Christmas. and may everything you wish be granted." "King Wenceslas." "RINGO:" "Wenceslas." "♪ Well ♪" "(spirited cheers) we'll phone you." "(laughter)" "I'm George Harrison." "Nobody else has said anything yet Anne Collingham and Bettina Rose." "(laughter)" "Freda Kelly in Liverpool." "JOHN:" "Good old Freda!" "I'd just like to say" "Bettina and Freda and we just hope we can go on pleasing you for a long time." "It's your reaction to our records that really matters." "And I'd just like to say... ♪ Brightly was ♪ ♪ the shone that night ♪" "♪ Though the winter cruel ♪" "♪ When a pork pie came in sight ♪" "♪ Gathering winter gruel ♪ everybody!"