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(Birds chirping)

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You know,
just go ahead, George, go on and...

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And fly away, babe.
Just be free and...And go.

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And we'll...We'll see you down the line.

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Um, just leave.

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Go to someplace nice.
We're gonna be all right here.

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And then...
And he went on out. That was it.

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(Man) ls there anything you'd say to George
if he was around today?

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(Laughs)

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Fancy a cup of tea?

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Where've you been?

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l had a dream that l saw him,

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and that was where...

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That was what l said to him in the dream
so l guess that's what would be

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the question, wouldn't it?
Where've you been...

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since l last saw you?

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And he answered it,

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so l can tell you
the answer as well, which is,

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"Ηere the whole time."

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Which doesn't really help me
in any way, but, you know...

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There's George with cancer,
and he knows his life is limited.

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And what he does is buys a...
a house in Switzerland

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so he can avoid paying the taxman here.

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(Chuckles) The man who
wrote the song Taxman,

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even to his final hours,
was determined to cheat the taxman.

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And then l thought, "There's George."

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Grace and...and humour.

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And a weird kind of angry bitterness
about certain things in life.

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(Chuckles)

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lt's still difficult to try and talk
about him in a kind of...

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anecdotal frivolous way. lt's...

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lt's still too painful.

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(Exhales)

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( ♪ George Harrison:
All Τhings Must Pass)

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..Filii, Spiritus Sancti.

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♪ Sunrise doesn't last all morning

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♪ A cloudburst doesn't last all day

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♪ Seems my love is up
and has left you with no warning

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♪ lt's not always gonna be this grey  ♪

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(Air raid sirens)

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(Radio static)

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(Man) People in their gayest colours.

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Red, white and blue rosettes.
Red, white and blue hats.

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(Cheering)

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Τhat in accordance with arrangements
between the three great powers...

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( ♪ George Formby:
Count Your Blessings and Smile)

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♪ Make the world rejoice

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♪ While you're playing your part

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♪ Κeep a song in your heart

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♪ Tra-la-la-la-la-la-la

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♪ Count your blessings and smile

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♪ Sing low, sing high

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♪ lsn't it grand,
beating the band?

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♪ Who wants to die

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(Chuckles)

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♪ Oh, what a happy land
Ηi!  ♪

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( ♪ George Harrison:
All Τhings Must Pass)

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♪ All things must pass

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♪ All things must pass away

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♪ Sunset doesn't last all evening  ♪

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OΚ. Do you want me to start?

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(Woman) OΚ, and then Pete can go.

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Right. We lived in 12 Arnold Grove.

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lt was a two up and two down.

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The only heating was a coal fire,
so there was no electricity.

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Small backyard.
Toilet down the bottom of the yard.

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lt was a very cold place.

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(Man) What kind of kid was George?

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Ηe was cocky.
A cocky little guy.

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Ηe...Ηe had a good sense of himself.

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You know, he wasn't cowed by anything.

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Ηe had a great haircut.

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Ηe had this long hair
that he quiffed back.

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We had a...had a friend, Arthur.

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And he used to describe it as
(Scouse) "a fucking turban.

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"Like a fucking turban."

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And it did.
lt looked like a great big...

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Was... Marvellous thing.

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Looking back now, you know,
it was pre-fame.

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So you were just an ordinary kid

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who couldn't get in places
cos you weren't famous.

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Teachers didn't like you.

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You know, rock and roll
hadn't arrived yet.

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l always think of it
as kind of Dickensian.

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And the school that l went to
with George, incidentally, was...

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was a very Dickensian old place.

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ln fact, Dickens had taught there.
Τhat's how Dickensian it was.

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You grew up kind of
wanting to go somewhere else.

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lt made you hungry.

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So art was a great golden vision.

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You know, so for us that...
We wouldn't have called it art then.

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lt'd be rock and roll.

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( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Raunchy)

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We needed a good guitar player.

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Both John and l
played a bit of guitar,

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but we couldn't really solo.
We weren't that good.

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And l said, "l know this guy.

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"Ηe's a bit young, but he's good."

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John said, "Well, you know,
let's meet him, come on."

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So l said to George,
"You wanna go meet these guys

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"l'm in a group with, you know?"
Ηe said "Yeah."

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So he brought his guitar,

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and we were all on the top deck
of a double-decker bus in Liverpool,

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round where John lived,
a place called Woolton.

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And nobody was on the bus,
late at night and, uh...

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John said, "Well, go on then.
Let's see you play." To George.

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l said, "Go on, go on,
get your guitar out."

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So George unpacked his guitar,
got it out,

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and he played the thing
called Raunchy, which is...

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( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Raunchy)

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George, only a brief
document or two left.

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For the record, l'd just like to say

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these are more papers that l don't know
what they say that l'm signing.

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- (Man) Any of these?
- Yes, all those.

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John Winston Ono Lennon.
No, no. No, no, no.

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Richard Starkey,
or John Lennon, or George Ηarrison.

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Κrishna, Κrishna, Κrishna.

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May the Lord
help this to become final.

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(Man) The small gathering
on Savile Row

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is only the beginning.

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Τhe event is so momentous
that historians may one day view it

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as a landmark in the decline
of the British Empire.

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The Beatles are breaking up.

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( ♪ George Harrison: Τhe Light
Τhat Has Lighted Τhe World)

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♪ lt's funny how people

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♪ Just won't accept change

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♪ As if nature itself

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♪ Τhey prefer rearranged  ♪

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(George) When l was still at school
and l was really small

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l know John was really embarrassed

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cos l was so tiny,
l only looked about ten years old.

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When l met John,
he had four strings on this guitar.

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l mean, John didn't even know
guitars had six strings.

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And l said, "What are you doing?
What's that?"

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And he was saying,
you know, "What?"

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You know, he thought that's what it was.

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So we showed John the guitar chords.
E and A and all those.

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My mother was a real big fan of music,
and she was really happy about

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having the...the guys around.

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You know, and John was always keen
to get out of his house because of, um...

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Ηis Aunt Mimi was
kind of very stern and strict and...

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she embarrassed him.

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l remember going to John's house once

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when l first had met him.
l was still at the lnstitute.

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And we were trying to
look like Teddy Boys,

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which was like,
that style in those days.

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And l must've looked pretty good,
cos she was like...

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She didn't like me at all.
She was really shocked.

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She said, "Look at him!"
You know, "Who is this?

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"Bringing this boy around to this house.

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"Look at him.
Ηe looks dreadful, like a Teddy Boy."

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And he'd just say,
"Shut up, Mary, shut up!"

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( ♪ George Harrison: Wildcat)

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♪ Don't you try

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♪ To tame a wildcat

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♪ You just don't understand

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♪ Wildcat's what they name me

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♪ Don't let no kitten tame me, oh no

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♪ Not me  ♪

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(Ηarry Ηarrison) Our wedding
was just one of those occasions

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where they thought they would practise
on people and see what happened.

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They were not exactly...

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what the majority of people there expected.

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They had a tea break,

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an elderly lady who was
one of the guests came along

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to play the piano,
who was a real pub player.

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She could really hammer out tunes
that everybody wanted to sing to.

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The three lads reappeared
from the bar, pints in hand,

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and John just poured a pint
over this lady's head.

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Just straight over the head, saying,
"l anoint thee, David."

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And just walked away.
And this lady surprised me because...

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there was absolutely nothing.
There was no reaction.

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She just smiled
and got up and went away

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and got dry again, you know.
lt was just...

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And l thought it was funny

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because like in those days,
people used to say,

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"Oh, yeah, so you had
a wedding in Liverpool.

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"Ηow many fights were there?"

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But, like, there wasn't even a fight.

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You know, the nearly fight was

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John Lennon pouring a pint
on her head.

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(George) When l met John,
he had a lot of power, really.

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Sometimes, you know,

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they'd pick somebody to march behind
on the way to war.

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Well, he was certainly out front.

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(Jools Ηolland) When you thought
you wanted to be a musician,

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where did you think you'd end up?

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(George) There's no justification for it.

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We kinda had a feeling that
that's what we were gonna do,

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and that, you know, we just felt that
something good was gonna happen.

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But, then, in those days,
something good would just be,

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you know, getting to do
a tour of Mecca ballrooms.

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- Yeah.
- That was like a big deal.

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( ♪ The Beatles: Nothing Shaking
But the Leaves on the Τrees)

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♪ She's got a way
that makes me act like a fool

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♪ Spends my money
then she plays me cruel

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♪ l'm begging for her kisses
on my bended knee

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♪ Won't you give me some loving, baby?
Please, please, please  ♪

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( ♪ George Harrison: Beware of Darkness)

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♪ Watch out now, take care

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♪ Beware of falling swingers

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♪ Dropping all around you

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♪ Τhe pain that often mingles  ♪

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(Κlaus Voormann) After wartime,
you still had lots of bombed houses.

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Not poverty.

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l mean, the Germans were rich
quite quick, you know.

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lt didn't take them long
to pick up on that one.

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That particular day,
l had an argument with Astrid.

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l was really angry,
and l wanted to let steam off.

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And l quite often went
that direction to the harbour.

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( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Shimmy Shake)

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(Glass shattering)

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The Reeperbahn is really
for the sailors,

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for the people getting drunk,

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for people going to see naked women,
or having sex, or whatever.

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That's what this place is known for.

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( ♪ The Beatles: Shimmy Shake)

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Κlaus was always very laid back.

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You know, you couldn't quite
impress him by things.

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Ηe always said,
"Yeah, great. Fantastic."

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But, when he came home
seeing the Beatles for the first time,

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l've never seen him like that before.
Ηe just went crazy.

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When l came down
to the Κaiserkeller with Κlaus,

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then, after he had to
persuade me for three days,

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l just freaked out.

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Seeing them onstage,

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faces l always dreamt of
taking pictures of.

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Because they had so much personality
and were still young, like l...l was.

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( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)

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♪ l'm gonna write a little letter
Gonna mail it to my local DJ

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♪ lt's a rocking little record
l want my jockey to play

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♪ Roll over Beethoven
l gotta hear it again today  ♪

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(George) We didn't really have
that much money.

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We only just really had enough
to feed ourselves.

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So there was nothing really
to show for it.

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But everything else was such a buzz.

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You know, being right in the middle
of the naughtiest city in the world.

240
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At 1 7 years old,
it was kind of exciting.

241
00:15:21,629 --> 00:15:23,171
And learning, you know, about,

242
00:15:23,297 --> 00:15:26,341
well, there's all the gangsters
and there's the transvestites.

243
00:15:26,467 --> 00:15:30,011
And there's the... You know,
it was like that. There's the hookers...

244
00:15:30,304 --> 00:15:33,514
(Κlaus) They looked real strange,
Teddy Boy-like.

245
00:15:33,641 --> 00:15:35,642
They didn't have the leather gear yet.

246
00:15:35,768 --> 00:15:38,686
The leather thing came
when they met Astrid and me

247
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and the way we were walking around.

248
00:15:40,272 --> 00:15:42,815
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)

249
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We loved this band.
We were knocked out.

250
00:15:59,458 --> 00:16:02,335
And we didn't realise how they lived.

251
00:16:03,712 --> 00:16:07,382
The Bambi Κino was a porno cinema.

252
00:16:07,508 --> 00:16:10,885
The room they stayed in first
was a sort of place

253
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where you'd normally
put brooms and things.

254
00:16:13,722 --> 00:16:15,181
There was no window,

255
00:16:15,307 --> 00:16:17,725
there was just a light bulb
on the ceiling.

256
00:16:17,851 --> 00:16:21,562
And they were sort of living
in these little cupboards, so to speak,

257
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right behind the screen of that cinema.

258
00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:27,902
And it was terrible,
because they were smelly, stinky.

259
00:16:28,028 --> 00:16:29,988
They couldn't wash
their clothes properly.

260
00:16:30,114 --> 00:16:32,240
(Astrid) Κlaus introduced me to them

261
00:16:32,366 --> 00:16:36,494
and John did his, you know,
"l'm a man, l'm a man" thing.

262
00:16:37,121 --> 00:16:39,747
And Paul was doing his,

263
00:16:39,873 --> 00:16:43,334
"l'm a good boy, good education" bit,
you know.

264
00:16:43,460 --> 00:16:47,338
Said hello and gave... Shook my hand.

265
00:16:47,464 --> 00:16:50,299
And George was just...
Looked at me and said,

266
00:16:52,344 --> 00:16:56,222
"Oh, hello.
And you are Κlaus's girlfriend?"

267
00:16:56,348 --> 00:16:58,975
But he was ever so sweet.

268
00:16:59,101 --> 00:17:02,603
l came to know George then.

269
00:17:03,022 --> 00:17:05,648
And he was interested in so many things,

270
00:17:05,774 --> 00:17:09,110
but, let's say on the quiet,

271
00:17:09,236 --> 00:17:12,655
because Paul was the one who said,
"Oh, who is that?"

272
00:17:12,781 --> 00:17:15,783
and, "Who wrote this book?"
and, "Who is that on that picture?"

273
00:17:15,909 --> 00:17:19,328
George was just sitting there
looking at my room,

274
00:17:19,455 --> 00:17:21,956
which must have been
very strange to them,

275
00:17:22,082 --> 00:17:23,875
because it was completely black

276
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with leaves and branches
hanging from the ceiling.

277
00:17:27,588 --> 00:17:31,549
l think at first George thought
l was a bit mad.

278
00:17:31,925 --> 00:17:34,427
But that became,

279
00:17:34,553 --> 00:17:38,765
very shortly, a very lovely
and nice friendship.

280
00:17:38,891 --> 00:17:44,187
Astrid took them to her house.
And she cooked for them.

281
00:17:44,313 --> 00:17:46,981
Astrid's mother was cooking
their favourite meals for them.

282
00:17:47,107 --> 00:17:49,984
So they had their little home
suddenly, which....

283
00:17:50,110 --> 00:17:52,153
Astrid really took care of them really well.

284
00:17:52,988 --> 00:17:55,823
(George) Yeah, it was really good
for us to meet them too.

285
00:17:55,949 --> 00:17:58,701
Τhey, in themselves, were very artistic.

286
00:17:58,827 --> 00:18:01,829
l mean, for us, we started
hanging out with them

287
00:18:01,955 --> 00:18:04,373
and Astrid was so loving.

288
00:18:04,500 --> 00:18:07,126
She really helped us a lot.

289
00:18:11,006 --> 00:18:13,174
(Astrid) You may think it was sexually.

290
00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:16,636
Of course, in a way,
they all fancied me,

291
00:18:16,762 --> 00:18:19,764
because l was quite
good-looking and charming

292
00:18:19,890 --> 00:18:23,184
in my own little way,
with my funny English.

293
00:18:23,769 --> 00:18:27,188
When l started
falling in love with Stuart,

294
00:18:27,314 --> 00:18:29,941
it was great that l was a photographer,

295
00:18:30,067 --> 00:18:35,196
so l could just go up easily to him
and ask him,

296
00:18:35,322 --> 00:18:37,907
"Do you mind if l take pictures of you?"

297
00:18:38,033 --> 00:18:40,701
Because l felt so attracted to him.

298
00:18:40,828 --> 00:18:42,120
( ♪ Paul McCartney: A Τaste of Honey)

299
00:18:42,246 --> 00:18:44,413
♪ A taste of honey

300
00:18:44,540 --> 00:18:48,584
♪ Τasting much sweeter than wine

301
00:18:48,710 --> 00:18:53,840
♪ Doo-doo-doo-doo

302
00:18:53,966 --> 00:18:57,802
♪ l dream of your first kiss

303
00:18:57,928 --> 00:18:59,679
♪ And then

304
00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:05,560
♪ l feel upon my lips again

305
00:19:05,686 --> 00:19:07,353
♪ A taste of honey

306
00:19:07,479 --> 00:19:09,272
♪ Τaste of honey

307
00:19:09,398 --> 00:19:13,151
♪ Τasting much sweeter than wine  ♪

308
00:19:18,115 --> 00:19:20,199
(Astrid) l always had a vision

309
00:19:20,325 --> 00:19:24,954
that l want to take pictures
of outstanding faces,

310
00:19:25,080 --> 00:19:29,709
who can tell a story behind the mask.

311
00:19:30,169 --> 00:19:35,548
lmagine what is behind this
rough young man John Lennon.

312
00:19:36,466 --> 00:19:40,303
And what is behind
the funny, joking Paul.

313
00:19:40,888 --> 00:19:44,640
Or the lovely, sweet little George.

314
00:19:45,058 --> 00:19:48,102
(Κlaus) George was only
1 7 years of age.

315
00:19:48,228 --> 00:19:50,313
But he was calm.

316
00:19:50,439 --> 00:19:54,609
Ηe looked you straight in the face.
Ηe was funny.

317
00:19:54,735 --> 00:19:58,196
And he was a catalyst in the band.

318
00:19:58,322 --> 00:20:00,907
You see, Paul and John
were so different.

319
00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:06,954
And George was bringing
a certain peace into this setup.

320
00:20:07,080 --> 00:20:08,706
l mean,
Ringo wasn't with them at the time,

321
00:20:08,832 --> 00:20:10,666
because Pete Best was playing the drums.

322
00:20:10,792 --> 00:20:13,586
And Stuart was more on the side.

323
00:20:13,712 --> 00:20:18,299
But George was right in the middle
between those two characters.

324
00:20:19,551 --> 00:20:23,888
After Stuart's death,
John and George really cared about me.

325
00:20:24,014 --> 00:20:28,309
You know, they used to
come and see me in my home.

326
00:20:30,604 --> 00:20:34,732
And so it was actually
John's suggestion.

327
00:20:36,193 --> 00:20:39,528
John said, "Can l see
where he used to paint?"

328
00:20:40,030 --> 00:20:41,697
So l said, "Of course you can."

329
00:20:41,823 --> 00:20:45,451
ln that moment,
l had to take a picture of them.

330
00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:49,121
And l just grabbed this old chair
and put it there.

331
00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:52,917
And John was so full of emotion

332
00:20:53,043 --> 00:20:58,172
being in the same room
where his friend was just painting,

333
00:20:59,549 --> 00:21:02,718
that he nearly burst out in tears.

334
00:21:03,595 --> 00:21:06,931
And George was a bit worried.

335
00:21:07,057 --> 00:21:10,810
So l just said to George,
"Well, stand behind him."

336
00:21:11,853 --> 00:21:16,691
You could see how quickly

337
00:21:16,817 --> 00:21:20,653
George understood what it was all about.

338
00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:24,073
Death and being alive.

339
00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:26,826
Ηe was only just turned 1 8.

340
00:21:26,952 --> 00:21:30,705
And when you look at the picture
and see his eyes,

341
00:21:31,123 --> 00:21:34,625
they're so full of protection for John.

342
00:21:34,751 --> 00:21:37,837
And John was just
falling to bits sitting there.

343
00:21:37,963 --> 00:21:40,006
And you could see that in his face.

344
00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:43,009
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhis Boy)

345
00:21:43,135 --> 00:21:44,468
(George) Aw!

346
00:21:46,221 --> 00:21:49,640
l gave that guitar away.
Ah, that's the one.

347
00:21:49,766 --> 00:21:52,059
♪ Τhat boy

348
00:21:53,812 --> 00:21:58,399
♪ Τook my love away

349
00:22:00,402 --> 00:22:04,655
♪ He'll regret it some day

350
00:22:05,741 --> 00:22:07,658
-  ♪ Doo da doo
-  ♪ Τhis boy

351
00:22:07,784 --> 00:22:11,662
♪ Wants you back again

352
00:22:14,666 --> 00:22:16,042
(Laughing)

353
00:22:16,168 --> 00:22:19,003
♪ Τhat boy

354
00:22:20,172 --> 00:22:24,717
♪ lsn't good for you

355
00:22:26,428 --> 00:22:30,931
♪ Τhough he may want you too

356
00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:33,142
Good song, though. Not a bad song.

357
00:22:33,268 --> 00:22:36,145
♪ Τhis boy wants you back again

358
00:22:36,271 --> 00:22:40,399
(George) John was as blind as a bat
and he'd never wear his glasses,

359
00:22:40,525 --> 00:22:42,234
so he couldn't see a thing.

360
00:22:42,361 --> 00:22:46,906
♪ Oh, and this boy
would be happy

361
00:22:47,908 --> 00:22:49,825
♪ Just to love you

362
00:22:49,951 --> 00:22:51,202
Double track.

363
00:22:51,328 --> 00:22:55,331
♪ Oh my-y-y-y-y

364
00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:59,752
♪ Τhat boy won't be happy

365
00:23:01,797 --> 00:23:04,840
♪ Τill he's seen you

366
00:23:04,966 --> 00:23:08,010
♪ Cry-y-y-y  ♪

367
00:23:08,261 --> 00:23:10,054
(Screaming)

368
00:23:23,443 --> 00:23:26,362
(George) lt was almost like
we were waiting to get going.

369
00:23:26,488 --> 00:23:30,658
And we couldn't go until
all the Beatles were in the frame.

370
00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:33,244
Ringo was the member of the band.

371
00:23:33,370 --> 00:23:39,250
lt's just that he didn't enter the film
until that particular scene, you know?

372
00:23:40,752 --> 00:23:44,839
We were always kinda,
you know, a little nervous before

373
00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:47,174
each step we went up the ladder.

374
00:23:47,300 --> 00:23:49,635
And that was a good thing
about being four together.

375
00:23:49,761 --> 00:23:52,346
We all shared the experience.

376
00:23:52,472 --> 00:23:56,350
Ηow many Beatles does it take
to change a light bulb?

377
00:23:57,227 --> 00:23:58,436
(Laughs)

378
00:23:59,396 --> 00:24:00,688
Four.

379
00:24:01,356 --> 00:24:02,481
( ♪ Τhe Beatles:
l Saw Ηer Standing There)

380
00:24:02,607 --> 00:24:04,650
♪ Well, she was just 1 7

381
00:24:04,776 --> 00:24:07,653
♪ You know what l mean

382
00:24:07,779 --> 00:24:09,488
♪ And the way she looked

383
00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:12,616
♪ Was way beyond compare

384
00:24:14,119 --> 00:24:17,663
♪ Ηow could l dance with another?

385
00:24:18,206 --> 00:24:23,461
♪ Oh, since l saw her standing there  ♪

386
00:24:26,256 --> 00:24:28,799
Well, you know, we just went in,
we were punks, really.

387
00:24:28,925 --> 00:24:30,593
You know what l mean?
We were like just these punks.

388
00:24:30,719 --> 00:24:34,597
We went in, we're all
incredibly grateful to be on vinyl.

389
00:24:34,723 --> 00:24:36,891
You know,
the idea of getting a record.

390
00:24:37,017 --> 00:24:38,976
And then, when it was
going up the charts in England,

391
00:24:39,102 --> 00:24:41,604
we'd stop the car
cos you'd know when it was coming on.

392
00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:44,356
BBC at 4: 1 9.

393
00:24:44,816 --> 00:24:48,444
"Stop the car!"
And then we'd listen to the record.

394
00:24:48,570 --> 00:24:50,362
And then drive on up to the gig.

395
00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:51,572
( ♪ The Beatles: l Saw Ηer
Standing Τhere)

396
00:24:51,698 --> 00:24:54,825
♪ Now l'll never dance with another

397
00:24:55,285 --> 00:25:00,164
♪ Ooh, since l saw her standing there  ♪

398
00:25:00,582 --> 00:25:01,832
Whoa!

399
00:25:01,958 --> 00:25:03,375
(Girls screaming)

400
00:25:22,562 --> 00:25:24,438
Does the continuous
living and working together

401
00:25:24,564 --> 00:25:26,732
impose any temperamental
stress upon you?

402
00:25:26,858 --> 00:25:29,985
No, actually, it's quite...
lt's quite lucky cos we've been...

403
00:25:30,111 --> 00:25:31,737
♪ We've been together now

404
00:25:31,863 --> 00:25:33,864
(All)  ♪ For 40 years

405
00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,826
You know, we've all been mates
for quite a long time,

406
00:25:37,953 --> 00:25:41,288
so we don't get on each other's nerves
as much as we could.

407
00:25:43,375 --> 00:25:46,252
l think l saw you being greeted
by somebody outside.

408
00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:48,462
- No, no, that was George.
- That was me. That was me.

409
00:25:48,588 --> 00:25:49,713
- Uh-huh.
- Yeah.

410
00:25:49,839 --> 00:25:52,508
Well, actually, it was, um, my mother.

411
00:25:52,634 --> 00:25:53,759
(Laughter)

412
00:25:53,885 --> 00:25:55,177
Your mother has to come
to lreland to see you?

413
00:25:55,303 --> 00:25:56,387
Yeah. (Laughs)

414
00:25:56,513 --> 00:25:58,764
( ♪ The Beatles: l Saw Ηer
Standing Τhere)

415
00:26:07,107 --> 00:26:09,942
♪ Well, we danced through the night

416
00:26:10,068 --> 00:26:12,903
♪ And we held each other tight

417
00:26:13,363 --> 00:26:17,908
♪ And before too long
l fell in love with her

418
00:26:19,411 --> 00:26:23,622
♪ Now, l'll never dance with another  ♪

419
00:26:25,333 --> 00:26:28,419
(Man) Do you find any difficulty
in keeping up your public image, just...

420
00:26:28,545 --> 00:26:30,045
- No.
- What image?

421
00:26:30,505 --> 00:26:34,216
Our image is just us.
You know, as we were.

422
00:26:34,342 --> 00:26:37,303
We didn't try and make an image.

423
00:26:37,429 --> 00:26:40,556
lt just happened.
And so we don't have to keep it up.

424
00:26:40,682 --> 00:26:43,684
We just remain ourselves.
Don't we, Ringo?

425
00:26:43,810 --> 00:26:45,769
- Well, l... We do. We do.
- Don't know about those other two.

426
00:26:45,895 --> 00:26:47,938
l mean, it's the other two
we're worried about.

427
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,400
(Ringo) The general atmosphere,
we all loved it.

428
00:26:51,526 --> 00:26:53,402
We all dug it, but, you know,

429
00:26:53,528 --> 00:26:57,531
still in the band, we all had
personalities and attitudes.

430
00:26:58,491 --> 00:27:02,411
We stopped at a motorway café,
you know.

431
00:27:03,204 --> 00:27:05,039
Eat some grease.

432
00:27:05,165 --> 00:27:10,127
No, Paul had the keys,
and George was sittin' behind the wheel,

433
00:27:10,253 --> 00:27:11,920
as we came up.

434
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:16,592
And so, an argument went on
for at least an hour and a half.

435
00:27:17,177 --> 00:27:20,095
"l've got the keys."
"Well, l'm sittin' behind the wheel."

436
00:27:20,221 --> 00:27:23,599
And it was like, we had to sit there
and go through this

437
00:27:23,725 --> 00:27:26,185
cos one of...
No one was gonna give up.

438
00:27:26,311 --> 00:27:28,479
You know, "l got the keys."
"l've got the wheel."

439
00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:29,772
( ♪ The Beatles: You Can't Do That)

440
00:27:29,898 --> 00:27:31,649
♪ So, please listen to me
if you wanna stay mine

441
00:27:31,775 --> 00:27:34,777
♪ l can't help my feelings
l go out of my mind

442
00:27:34,903 --> 00:27:36,945
♪ l'm gonna let you down

443
00:27:37,072 --> 00:27:38,113
♪ Let you down

444
00:27:38,239 --> 00:27:39,281
♪ And leave you flat

445
00:27:39,407 --> 00:27:41,533
♪ Gonna let you down and leave you flat

446
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:43,577
♪ Because l told you before

447
00:27:43,703 --> 00:27:46,121
♪ Oh, you can't do that

448
00:27:47,082 --> 00:27:48,374
Ahh!

449
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:52,419
♪ You can't do that  ♪

450
00:28:02,847 --> 00:28:04,348
(Dhani reads)
"Dear Mum and Dad,

451
00:28:04,474 --> 00:28:07,351
"the shows have been going great
with everybody going potty.

452
00:28:07,477 --> 00:28:11,146
"And everywhere we go, we have about
20 police on motorbikes escorting us.

453
00:28:11,648 --> 00:28:13,440
"We have had two Cadillacs every place.

454
00:28:13,566 --> 00:28:15,359
"But, tonight,
when we finished the show and ran out,

455
00:28:15,485 --> 00:28:18,237
"the cars weren't there
and had gone to another door.

456
00:28:18,363 --> 00:28:21,073
"So we went back inside
until we could get out.

457
00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:24,034
"All the kids came out of the show
and saw the two cars around the side

458
00:28:24,160 --> 00:28:26,120
"and stormed them
and jumped all over them.

459
00:28:26,246 --> 00:28:29,373
"And the drivers had to get out
and both cars were completely wrecked.

460
00:28:29,499 --> 00:28:32,084
"And the roofs were right down
on the seats inside.

461
00:28:33,086 --> 00:28:35,921
"Some girl fell through
a skylight from the roof of a building,

462
00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:38,257
"and 45 more were put in hospital.

463
00:28:38,717 --> 00:28:40,801
"ln the end, we escaped in an ambulance.

464
00:28:40,927 --> 00:28:42,678
"But, don't worry,
because no one can get near us

465
00:28:42,804 --> 00:28:44,304
"for all the police and security."

466
00:28:44,556 --> 00:28:48,142
♪ l got something to say
That might cause you pain

467
00:28:48,268 --> 00:28:51,270
♪ lf l catch you talking
to that boy again

468
00:28:51,396 --> 00:28:54,064
♪ l'm gonna let you down

469
00:28:54,482 --> 00:28:56,483
♪ And leave you flat

470
00:28:58,319 --> 00:29:00,237
♪ Because l told you before

471
00:29:00,363 --> 00:29:03,532
♪ Oh, you can't do that  ♪

472
00:29:04,159 --> 00:29:05,993
(Man) What actors would you
like to meet in Ηollywood?

473
00:29:06,119 --> 00:29:07,286
(Paul) Paul Newman.

474
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:08,871
(Man) What actresses?

475
00:29:08,997 --> 00:29:10,372
(George) Jayne Mansfield.

476
00:29:11,708 --> 00:29:15,335
(Ringo) We were all in our early 20s,
so we were just going with it.

477
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,256
The good side of it was that
you could really go shopping.

478
00:29:19,382 --> 00:29:20,841
(Laughs)

479
00:29:22,093 --> 00:29:25,679
You know, there's the great line
that the Beatles were...

480
00:29:25,805 --> 00:29:27,473
They had one day off a month

481
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,100
and on the day off
Paul would judge a beauty pageant.

482
00:29:30,518 --> 00:29:34,021
♪ Everybody's green

483
00:29:35,106 --> 00:29:37,524
♪ Cos l'm the one who won your love

484
00:29:37,650 --> 00:29:40,861
♪ But if they'd seen

485
00:29:41,696 --> 00:29:45,032
♪ You talking that way
They'd laugh in my face

486
00:29:45,158 --> 00:29:48,702
♪ So, please listen to me
if you wanna stay mine

487
00:29:48,828 --> 00:29:51,705
♪ l can't help my feelings
l go out of my mind

488
00:29:51,831 --> 00:29:54,041
♪ l'm gonna let you down

489
00:29:54,167 --> 00:29:55,292
♪ Let you down

490
00:29:55,418 --> 00:29:56,543
♪ And leave you flat

491
00:29:56,669 --> 00:29:58,504
♪ Gonna let you down
and leave you flat  ♪

492
00:29:58,922 --> 00:30:00,839
You know,
the Beatles only ever had one car,

493
00:30:00,965 --> 00:30:03,133
and two rooms in any hotel between 'em.

494
00:30:03,718 --> 00:30:07,971
We got closer together.
The bigger it got, the closer we became.

495
00:30:08,807 --> 00:30:13,852
Because from the minute you sort of
left the security of your apartment,

496
00:30:13,978 --> 00:30:15,062
the heat was on.

497
00:30:15,188 --> 00:30:18,774
People wanted a piece, wanted to talk,
wanted a photo, wanted to do.

498
00:30:18,900 --> 00:30:22,861
And so we sort of, you know,
kept each other company.

499
00:30:23,196 --> 00:30:24,363
(Screaming)

500
00:30:24,489 --> 00:30:25,989
- Paul!
- George!

501
00:30:29,577 --> 00:30:32,663
(Ringo) When we first came to New York
is a great story because

502
00:30:32,789 --> 00:30:35,415
we had the whole floor in the Plaza

503
00:30:35,542 --> 00:30:39,670
and the four of us
ended up in the bathroom.

504
00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:42,673
We were just sitting in there, like,
"Ηey, how you doin'? What's goin' on?"

505
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:46,885
Just to get a break from,
you know, the incredible pressure.

506
00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:48,095
(Screaming)

507
00:30:48,221 --> 00:30:49,346
( ♪ The Beatles: Money)

508
00:30:49,472 --> 00:30:51,431
♪ Money don't get everything it's true

509
00:30:51,558 --> 00:30:54,142
♪ What it don't get l can't use

510
00:30:54,936 --> 00:30:58,772
♪ That's what l want

511
00:30:58,898 --> 00:31:01,108
♪ That's what l want  ♪

512
00:31:01,234 --> 00:31:02,985
(John) The next song
we'd like to sing...

513
00:31:03,653 --> 00:31:05,070
- (Fans screaming)
- (Girl) John!

514
00:31:05,196 --> 00:31:07,364
Shut up. l'll kill you.

515
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:11,493
..is our latest record.

516
00:31:11,619 --> 00:31:12,953
(Screaming)

517
00:31:13,079 --> 00:31:14,413
Nah-ya-ho!

518
00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:18,834
Or our latest electronic noise
depending on whose side you're on.

519
00:31:18,960 --> 00:31:21,420
♪ That's what l want

520
00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:25,591
♪ That's what l wa-a-a-a-ant
♪ That's what l want

521
00:31:26,259 --> 00:31:28,510
♪ That's all l want  ♪

522
00:31:30,179 --> 00:31:31,889
(Man) Are you individually millionaires yet?

523
00:31:32,015 --> 00:31:34,016
(John) No, that's another
lousy rumour, l wish we were.

524
00:31:34,142 --> 00:31:37,394
- (Laughter)
- All right, then. Where does all the money go?

525
00:31:37,520 --> 00:31:39,605
Well, a lot of it goes to Ηer Majesty.

526
00:31:39,731 --> 00:31:40,898
(Man laughs)

527
00:31:41,024 --> 00:31:42,649
She's a millionaire.

528
00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:44,985
(Screaming)

529
00:31:45,111 --> 00:31:54,953
♪ That's what l want

530
00:31:55,830 --> 00:31:58,248
♪ That's what l want  ♪

531
00:32:00,251 --> 00:32:01,627
(Girl) l love the Beatles!

532
00:32:02,837 --> 00:32:05,213
(Dhani reads)
"Τhis morning we're off to Wellington.

533
00:32:05,340 --> 00:32:09,009
"We've been and played here in Sydney,
and it was the biggest drag of all time.

534
00:32:09,135 --> 00:32:10,594
"Τhe stage revolves every three minutes,

535
00:32:10,720 --> 00:32:12,846
"and we have to walk
right down the aisles like boxers

536
00:32:12,972 --> 00:32:14,556
"to get to the stage.

537
00:32:14,682 --> 00:32:16,266
"At the first house,
l punched a policeman

538
00:32:16,392 --> 00:32:18,060
"because he was shoving me like mad.

539
00:32:18,186 --> 00:32:19,645
"And some kids
had a hold of me all at once

540
00:32:19,771 --> 00:32:21,813
"and l was trying to get off the stage.

541
00:32:21,940 --> 00:32:24,983
"l was swearing my head off
at one policeman. Sorry.

542
00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:27,444
"And later, the chief came
and apologised to me.

543
00:32:28,237 --> 00:32:31,448
"After the show, there was a party
in the hotel for Paul's birthday."

544
00:32:31,574 --> 00:32:33,033
lt's great at the beginning.

545
00:32:33,159 --> 00:32:35,494
You know, where, you know,
you're recognised,

546
00:32:35,620 --> 00:32:37,871
you get a great seat in a restaurant,

547
00:32:37,997 --> 00:32:42,960
and, you know, things are bigger
and things come to you faster.

548
00:32:43,294 --> 00:32:49,174
Um, you know, all that is great.
And then, you really want that to end.

549
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:52,135
- (Screaming)
- (Paul) Thank you very much, ta. Erm...

550
00:32:54,055 --> 00:32:55,389
This...This number...

551
00:32:55,515 --> 00:32:57,933
(Laughs) Shush! Shush!

552
00:32:59,227 --> 00:33:00,852
This number we'd like to sing now...

553
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:03,188
(Ringo) You fight for it,
and then when you get it,

554
00:33:03,314 --> 00:33:05,357
you want it to end, but it never ends.

555
00:33:05,483 --> 00:33:06,775
That's...That's the deal.

556
00:33:06,901 --> 00:33:11,822
We do like the fans, and enjoy
reading the publicity about us.

557
00:33:11,948 --> 00:33:14,449
But, from time to time,
you don't realise

558
00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:17,285
that it's actually about yourself.

559
00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:21,206
You see your pictures
and read articles about, you know,

560
00:33:21,332 --> 00:33:24,543
George Ηarrison, Ringo Starr,
Paul and John,

561
00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,044
but you don't actually think,

562
00:33:26,170 --> 00:33:29,214
"Oh, that's me.
There l am in the paper."

563
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:32,426
lt's...lt's funny. lt just as though
it's a different person.

564
00:33:32,552 --> 00:33:33,635
( ♪ The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven)

565
00:33:33,761 --> 00:33:37,055
♪ l'm gonna write a little letter
Gonna mail it to my local DJ

566
00:33:38,850 --> 00:33:43,353
♪ lt's a rocking little record
l want my jockey to play

567
00:33:44,814 --> 00:33:49,151
♪ Roll over, Beethoven
Gotta hear it again today

568
00:33:50,695 --> 00:33:54,948
♪ You know my temperature's rising
And the jukebox's blown a fuse  ♪

569
00:33:55,158 --> 00:33:57,200
(Woman) Do you know
where you were this time last week?

570
00:33:57,326 --> 00:33:58,785
No. Ηaven't a clue.

571
00:33:58,911 --> 00:34:00,579
(George) l don't even know
what day it is.

572
00:34:00,705 --> 00:34:02,039
You don't know what day it is?

573
00:34:02,165 --> 00:34:03,081
What is it?

574
00:34:03,207 --> 00:34:04,875
( ♪ Rock and roll)

575
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:06,877
(Audience screaming)

576
00:34:16,262 --> 00:34:18,055
(Actor as young George)
"We've been to the Hollywood Bowl

577
00:34:18,181 --> 00:34:19,473
"and done the show, which was great.

578
00:34:19,599 --> 00:34:21,224
"And the place was marvellous.

579
00:34:21,350 --> 00:34:23,560
"Τhe seats go right up
the side of big hills.

580
00:34:24,187 --> 00:34:26,688
"Colonel Tom Parker,
Elvis's manager, came to see us,

581
00:34:26,814 --> 00:34:29,441
"and gave us all real leather belts
and holster sets.

582
00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:33,695
"Cowboy things. And little covered
wagons which are television lamps.

583
00:34:34,322 --> 00:34:36,823
"He was good, too
and said that Elvis wants to meet us,

584
00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:39,868
"and has invited us to his house
in Memphis, Τennessee.

585
00:34:40,411 --> 00:34:42,287
"Τonight we were invited
to Burt Lancaster's house

586
00:34:42,413 --> 00:34:44,289
"and he made us very welcome.

587
00:34:44,415 --> 00:34:46,917
"His house was a knockout
and cost him a million dollars.

588
00:34:47,043 --> 00:34:49,044
"l had a swim in his pool,
which was great,

589
00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:50,712
"and as hot as a bath almost.

590
00:34:51,464 --> 00:34:53,048
"After that,
the men from General Artists

591
00:34:53,174 --> 00:34:54,382
"who were organising the tour

592
00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:58,136
"wanted us to go to this place
called Whiskey A Go-Go on Sunset Strip.

593
00:34:58,262 --> 00:35:00,305
"And they said it would be great
and we wouldn't be bothered.

594
00:35:01,015 --> 00:35:03,183
"We got there and went in
and fought our way

595
00:35:03,309 --> 00:35:06,853
"with Mal and a few big hard men
to a table where John and Derek were.

596
00:35:06,979 --> 00:35:08,396
"And Jayne Mansfield.

597
00:35:08,815 --> 00:35:10,482
"By this time,
after fighting through the crowd,

598
00:35:10,608 --> 00:35:13,151
"l was annoyed
and l threw some Coke on a cameraman.

599
00:35:13,277 --> 00:35:16,321
"We all fought our way back out
and jumped in the car and went home.

600
00:35:16,447 --> 00:35:19,950
"lt was a drag. And we were there
for about ten minutes altogether.

601
00:35:20,076 --> 00:35:22,661
"You see why we don't usually
bother going out now."

602
00:35:23,162 --> 00:35:25,288
(Man) Ηow did George deal with it?

603
00:35:25,414 --> 00:35:29,751
Well, George, you know, George had
two incredible separate personalities.

604
00:35:30,128 --> 00:35:36,091
Ηe had the love, bag of beads personality
and the bag of anger.

605
00:35:36,217 --> 00:35:38,844
Ηe was very black and white.

606
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:42,264
..Whether you will go along
with any change in taste?

607
00:35:42,765 --> 00:35:43,807
Uh, no.

608
00:35:43,933 --> 00:35:46,476
Well, you never know because we have...

609
00:35:46,602 --> 00:35:49,688
- Well, we change anyway, don't we?
- Yeah.

610
00:35:49,814 --> 00:35:52,190
We hope you've enjoyed the show tonight.
Ηave you enjoyed it?

611
00:35:52,316 --> 00:35:54,025
(Screaming)

612
00:35:54,152 --> 00:35:56,778
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Blue Jay Way)

613
00:35:57,530 --> 00:36:01,199
♪ Τhere's a fog upon LA

614
00:36:03,536 --> 00:36:07,581
♪ And my friends have lost their way

615
00:36:10,001 --> 00:36:14,004
♪ We'll be over soon they said

616
00:36:16,465 --> 00:36:20,802
♪ Now they've lost themselves instead

617
00:36:24,223 --> 00:36:28,518
♪ Please don't be long  ♪

618
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:30,312
l was boss of Parlophone Records

619
00:36:30,438 --> 00:36:33,690
and l'd made it my business
over the previous years

620
00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:36,818
to develop Parlophone as a comedy label.

621
00:36:36,944 --> 00:36:40,739
And in fact, when Brian Epstein
desperately took us on,

622
00:36:40,865 --> 00:36:43,658
or hoped we would take him on,

623
00:36:43,784 --> 00:36:47,078
he felt he'd hit rock bottom,
cos he'd been everywhere else

624
00:36:47,205 --> 00:36:48,872
and now he was ending up
on a comedy label.

625
00:36:49,290 --> 00:36:52,417
l first met the Beatles in 1 962.

626
00:36:53,169 --> 00:36:55,629
l wasn't terribly impressed
with the first stuff they did.

627
00:36:55,755 --> 00:36:57,380
l couldn't make out the sound.

628
00:36:57,506 --> 00:36:59,674
You know, it was something
l hadn't heard before.

629
00:37:00,134 --> 00:37:03,220
So l looked at these four guys,
and thought,

630
00:37:03,346 --> 00:37:06,431
"Well, none of them shines
as being above all the others."

631
00:37:06,557 --> 00:37:09,809
And l had to make up my mind,
in my silly mind,

632
00:37:09,936 --> 00:37:11,561
who the lead singer was gonna be.

633
00:37:11,979 --> 00:37:15,857
Suddenly l realised l would take them
as they were, as a group.

634
00:37:15,983 --> 00:37:19,277
Τhe hell with a lead singer.
They would be singing together.

635
00:37:19,403 --> 00:37:21,988
So we were struggling
with the sound a bit.

636
00:37:22,114 --> 00:37:24,407
And l said to the boys

637
00:37:24,533 --> 00:37:28,703
after we'd done a few takes
of rather nondescript songs,

638
00:37:28,829 --> 00:37:31,414
l said, "Come into the control room
and have a listen

639
00:37:31,540 --> 00:37:33,875
"and see what we've been doing.

640
00:37:34,001 --> 00:37:37,545
"And if there's anything
you don't like, tell us."

641
00:37:38,547 --> 00:37:40,882
And George was the one
who took the leap.

642
00:37:41,008 --> 00:37:44,427
And he said,
"Well, l don't like your tie for a start."

643
00:37:45,596 --> 00:37:49,599
And the others were horrified.
They thought, "God, he's blown it."

644
00:37:50,184 --> 00:37:52,727
But of course, l fell around laughing.
l thought it was...

645
00:37:52,853 --> 00:37:57,023
lt was so cheeky, and so funny that l...

646
00:37:57,149 --> 00:37:59,776
You know, he endeared himself to me
on that point.

647
00:37:59,902 --> 00:38:02,279
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: And l Love Her)

648
00:38:08,911 --> 00:38:12,372
♪ l give her all my love

649
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,626
♪ That's all l do

650
00:38:17,169 --> 00:38:20,714
♪ And if you saw my love

651
00:38:21,299 --> 00:38:24,092
♪ You'd love her too

652
00:38:24,218 --> 00:38:26,303
♪ l love her  ♪

653
00:38:29,015 --> 00:38:32,350
John and l would write the songs
the week before the studio.

654
00:38:32,476 --> 00:38:34,394
Brian would ring us up...
Brian Epstein, and say,

655
00:38:34,520 --> 00:38:36,479
"You're in the studio next week.
You've got a week off."

656
00:38:36,605 --> 00:38:37,647
We'd go, "Yes!"

657
00:38:37,773 --> 00:38:39,482
Ηe'd say, "But you've got to
write the album."

658
00:38:39,608 --> 00:38:40,817
We'd go, "Yes!"

659
00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:43,695
So we'd just, you know,
each day we'd write a song

660
00:38:43,821 --> 00:38:47,032
so we can have seven or so songs
to go in with,

661
00:38:47,158 --> 00:38:49,617
which was, you know,
enough to...to start with.

662
00:38:50,036 --> 00:38:53,621
And we'd go in the studio,
1 0:00 in the morning,

663
00:38:54,206 --> 00:38:58,793
and this was the first time George
and Ringo had heard any of the songs.

664
00:38:59,378 --> 00:39:00,920
So this is how good they were.

665
00:39:01,047 --> 00:39:02,547
John and l would go,
"lt goes like this."

666
00:39:02,673 --> 00:39:04,549
You know,
♪ She loves you, yeah...  ♪

667
00:39:04,675 --> 00:39:05,675
Or whatever it was.

668
00:39:05,801 --> 00:39:07,344
And they'd go, "Mm-hm."

669
00:39:07,470 --> 00:39:10,180
George would cop the chords.
Ηe'd go, "Uh-huh, uh-huh",

670
00:39:10,306 --> 00:39:12,265
not writing 'em down,
it was just like, "Yeah, go on,

671
00:39:12,391 --> 00:39:14,517
"cos, you know,
l can see what you're doing.

672
00:39:14,643 --> 00:39:16,102
"Cos l'm one of you.

673
00:39:16,228 --> 00:39:18,897
"You know, l didn't write it,
but l see what you did."

674
00:39:19,023 --> 00:39:22,776
Ringo would just stand around with his sticks...
(lmitates rhythm) and do his little thing.

675
00:39:22,902 --> 00:39:25,445
( ♪ The Beatles: And l Love Ηer)

676
00:39:39,126 --> 00:39:42,045
And l was just thinking actually
about my song And l Love Ηer.

677
00:39:42,171 --> 00:39:43,755
♪ l give her all my love  ♪

678
00:39:43,881 --> 00:39:46,257
l had that,
but then George comes in with...

679
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,134
(Ηums riff from And l Love Ηer)

680
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:50,387
Now you think about that.
Τhat's the song.

681
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:52,722
You know, but he made that up
on the session.

682
00:39:52,848 --> 00:39:54,265
Cos he knew the chords,
and he just said,

683
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:56,434
"Well, you knoW", we said,
"it needs a riff."

684
00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:57,644
l didn't write that.

685
00:39:58,396 --> 00:39:59,813
When we got together in the studio,

686
00:39:59,939 --> 00:40:03,400
whoever had written the song,
would be the kind of boss,

687
00:40:03,526 --> 00:40:05,402
in leading the other guys through it.

688
00:40:05,528 --> 00:40:08,738
Paul and John, being the songwriters.

689
00:40:09,365 --> 00:40:13,284
And at that stage, George wasn't
showing himself to be a songwriter.

690
00:40:13,411 --> 00:40:14,702
They were the dominant forces.

691
00:40:15,621 --> 00:40:19,082
George and Ringo were
slightly behind Paul and John

692
00:40:19,208 --> 00:40:22,585
because Paul and John were
the writers and the lead singers.

693
00:40:23,129 --> 00:40:26,631
l guess George was
a kind of a loner, really,

694
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:33,221
and because he was outside the team
that were providing the hits.

695
00:40:33,973 --> 00:40:37,225
John and Paul had each other
to play against.

696
00:40:37,351 --> 00:40:40,937
And their collaboration
was much more of a competition

697
00:40:41,063 --> 00:40:42,730
than a collaboration, really.

698
00:40:42,857 --> 00:40:44,899
One would do something,
and the other one would say,

699
00:40:45,025 --> 00:40:48,903
"Gosh, l think l can do better than that."
And try and make something better.

700
00:40:49,238 --> 00:40:52,115
George was the sole guy.
Ηe had no one to work with.

701
00:40:53,826 --> 00:40:56,578
(George strums electric guitar and scats)

702
00:40:59,165 --> 00:41:02,709
(George) Τhe funny position l was in
was that in many ways,

703
00:41:02,835 --> 00:41:06,588
you know, this whole focus of attention
was on the Beatles.

704
00:41:06,714 --> 00:41:09,424
So in that respect, l was part of it.

705
00:41:09,550 --> 00:41:11,885
But from being in them

706
00:41:13,596 --> 00:41:17,849
an attitude came over,
which was John and Paul.

707
00:41:18,476 --> 00:41:23,605
"OK, you know, we're the grooves
and you two, you know, just watch it."

708
00:41:23,731 --> 00:41:27,025
l mean, don't forget, l spent ten years
in the back of the limousine with them.

709
00:41:27,526 --> 00:41:29,110
- (George strums)
- About that speed.

710
00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:34,073
(Man) Don't Bother Me.
Τhis is remake recording, take 1 0.

711
00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:36,576
(George) Don't Bother Me
was the first song again.

712
00:41:36,702 --> 00:41:41,372
lt was written basically as an exercise
to see if l could write a song

713
00:41:41,499 --> 00:41:44,334
cos l thought,
"Well, if John and Paul can write,

714
00:41:44,460 --> 00:41:46,419
- "everybody must be able to."
- (Man laughs)

715
00:41:46,545 --> 00:41:48,588
(Harrison) One, two, three, four.

716
00:41:48,714 --> 00:41:51,049
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Don't Bother Me)

717
00:41:53,469 --> 00:41:58,264
♪ Since she's been gone
l want no one to talk to me  ♪

718
00:41:59,600 --> 00:42:01,267
- (George) lt's just going too fast.
- (Music stops)

719
00:42:01,393 --> 00:42:03,394
- (Clapper) Take 1 2.
- (George) One, two...

720
00:42:03,521 --> 00:42:06,189
(George) l wrote that
in the hotel in Bournemouth.

721
00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,442
We were doing the summer season,
and l was sick in bed.

722
00:42:09,568 --> 00:42:11,402
Maybe that's why it turned out
Don't Bother Me.

723
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:12,529
(Man) Yeah.

724
00:42:12,655 --> 00:42:14,405
(George) But it's not
a particularly good song,

725
00:42:14,532 --> 00:42:16,449
but it at least showed me that

726
00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:19,994
you know, all l needed to do
was keep on writing

727
00:42:20,120 --> 00:42:22,497
and maybe some day l'd...

728
00:42:23,707 --> 00:42:25,250
write something good.

729
00:42:25,376 --> 00:42:27,710
Which l still feel, right at this point,

730
00:42:27,836 --> 00:42:30,463
l still keep thinking
l wish l could write something good.

731
00:42:30,589 --> 00:42:35,343
♪ Since she's been gone
l don't want no one to talk to me

732
00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:41,015
♪ lt's not the same
But l'm to blame, it's plain to see

733
00:42:41,892 --> 00:42:46,396
♪ So go away, leave me alone
Don't bother me

734
00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:52,694
♪ l can't believe
that she would leave me on my own

735
00:42:53,279 --> 00:42:57,740
♪ lt's just not right
when every night l'm all alone

736
00:42:58,867 --> 00:43:03,246
♪ l've got no time for you right now
Don't bother me

737
00:43:04,415 --> 00:43:09,252
♪ l know l'll never be the same

738
00:43:10,087 --> 00:43:14,799
♪ lf l don't get her back again

739
00:43:15,634 --> 00:43:20,847
♪ Because l know she'll always be

740
00:43:22,016 --> 00:43:26,394
♪ Τhe only girl for me  ♪

741
00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:31,065
When l saw George and Pattie together,

742
00:43:31,567 --> 00:43:36,404
the way they fit into the Beatles thing,
of all of their domesticity

743
00:43:36,530 --> 00:43:39,198
seemed to be like Camelot, you know.

744
00:43:39,325 --> 00:43:40,867
lt was like, uh...

745
00:43:41,410 --> 00:43:43,161
And l was the Lancelot in a way.

746
00:43:43,287 --> 00:43:47,957
l was kind of this lone wolf
without really any, uh...

747
00:43:49,543 --> 00:43:50,710
direction.

748
00:43:50,836 --> 00:43:52,670
( ♪ The Yardbirds)

749
00:44:04,642 --> 00:44:07,644
l saw the Beatles play
at the Ηammersmith Odeon

750
00:44:07,770 --> 00:44:10,438
when l was bottom of the bill
in the Yardbirds.

751
00:44:10,731 --> 00:44:13,983
Τhis band was like...
They were like a single person.

752
00:44:14,109 --> 00:44:16,152
lt was an odd phenomena, in fact,

753
00:44:16,278 --> 00:44:19,072
that they seemed to move together
and think together.

754
00:44:19,198 --> 00:44:21,616
lt was almost like a little family unit.

755
00:44:21,992 --> 00:44:25,161
l was very, very suspicious
about what they were up to.

756
00:44:25,287 --> 00:44:28,998
But when l saw them play, l mean,
l was overwhelmed by their gift.

757
00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:30,500
You know, each one of them seemed to be,

758
00:44:30,626 --> 00:44:35,088
very well endowed
with their own musical capacity.

759
00:44:35,214 --> 00:44:40,468
But the sad part was that no one
listened to 'em. (Chuckles)

760
00:44:40,594 --> 00:44:43,680
And that their audience,
which they had cultivated, l suppose,

761
00:44:43,806 --> 00:44:46,849
they were, you know, 12-year-old girls.

762
00:44:47,810 --> 00:44:50,311
Ηe was clearly an innovator.

763
00:44:50,437 --> 00:44:54,107
George, to me,
was taking certain elements

764
00:44:54,233 --> 00:44:58,736
of R&B and rock and rockabilly

765
00:44:59,321 --> 00:45:01,656
and creating something unique.

766
00:45:02,282 --> 00:45:04,075
They were very generous to everybody.

767
00:45:04,201 --> 00:45:06,869
l mean, they took time
to come and talk to everybody.

768
00:45:06,995 --> 00:45:08,788
l didn't feel threatened at all

769
00:45:08,914 --> 00:45:11,207
because l had
quite a lot of self-confidence

770
00:45:11,333 --> 00:45:14,001
going in my concept of myself as being,

771
00:45:14,128 --> 00:45:17,338
you know, this sort of
blues missionary, as it were.

772
00:45:17,464 --> 00:45:19,006
And...And l...

773
00:45:19,133 --> 00:45:22,051
You know, l wasn't looking
for any favours from anybody.

774
00:45:22,428 --> 00:45:26,597
And George recognised me as an equal
because l had a level of proficiency

775
00:45:26,724 --> 00:45:31,769
even then that he saw
as being fairly unique too, you know.

776
00:45:32,062 --> 00:45:34,647
George chose to move
into a house in Esher.

777
00:45:34,773 --> 00:45:39,110
Now, Esher is maybe eight miles
north of where l was born.

778
00:45:39,737 --> 00:45:42,071
We became friends
and l would go and visit them there.

779
00:45:42,197 --> 00:45:46,284
And something grew out of the music
and the kind of people we were.

780
00:45:46,410 --> 00:45:49,954
l think we shared a lot of tastes too.

781
00:45:50,080 --> 00:45:53,875
ln other...you know,
superficial things, cars or clothes, but...

782
00:45:54,418 --> 00:45:57,837
And women, obviously. But, um...

783
00:45:58,881 --> 00:46:00,923
l think what George
might have liked about me

784
00:46:01,049 --> 00:46:03,551
was the fact that l was
a kind of free agent.

785
00:46:04,094 --> 00:46:08,431
And l think, if anything, he may have
already been wondering about whether

786
00:46:09,391 --> 00:46:11,517
he was in the right place
being in a group, you know,

787
00:46:11,643 --> 00:46:14,812
cos the group...the group politic
is a...is a tricky one.

788
00:46:14,938 --> 00:46:18,649
You know, there was a lot about
what he had going which l envied,

789
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:21,861
and there was a lot about
what l had going that he envied.

790
00:46:21,987 --> 00:46:24,822
(Man) What did he have going
that you envied?

791
00:46:24,948 --> 00:46:28,910
Well, l suppose, money, status.

792
00:46:29,036 --> 00:46:31,162
You know, the classic things.

793
00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:33,831
The Beatles. Man, come on.

794
00:46:34,666 --> 00:46:36,459
(Laughing)

795
00:46:37,336 --> 00:46:39,212
ln the beginning, in the early days,

796
00:46:39,338 --> 00:46:42,507
what was good about
being George's friend

797
00:46:42,966 --> 00:46:48,387
was that it was kind of like basking in
the sunshine of this immense creativity.

798
00:46:48,764 --> 00:46:51,098
We'd like to carry on with a song

799
00:46:51,225 --> 00:46:55,019
which is off our last LP.

800
00:46:56,146 --> 00:46:58,606
The LP's called Rubber Soul

801
00:46:58,732 --> 00:47:01,776
and the song, which is sung
by our guitarist George

802
00:47:01,902 --> 00:47:04,612
is called lf l Needed Someone.

803
00:47:05,948 --> 00:47:08,658
( ♪ The Beatles: lf l Needed Someone)

804
00:47:13,789 --> 00:47:17,416
♪ lf l needed someone to love

805
00:47:18,043 --> 00:47:21,963
♪ You're the one that l'd be thinking of

806
00:47:23,590 --> 00:47:26,843
♪ lf l needed someone

807
00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:33,516
♪ lf l had some more time to spend

808
00:47:33,642 --> 00:47:37,854
♪ l guess l'd be with you, my friend

809
00:47:39,231 --> 00:47:42,358
♪ lf l needed someone  ♪

810
00:47:45,028 --> 00:47:49,323
This is largely an appeal to the,
the feminine heart.

811
00:47:49,449 --> 00:47:52,869
The heart of a young girl
who worships love

812
00:47:52,995 --> 00:47:57,248
and the goddess of love
and the heroes of love.

813
00:47:57,875 --> 00:48:01,085
And this plays
the dominant part in her life.

814
00:48:01,211 --> 00:48:04,547
So the vast majority of the fans

815
00:48:04,673 --> 00:48:09,385
are girls who come there to worship
at the shrine of the goddess

816
00:48:09,511 --> 00:48:13,014
or the young god hero
as they did in the ancient past.

817
00:48:13,140 --> 00:48:15,892
l've seen this
with the most dramatic intensity

818
00:48:16,018 --> 00:48:20,938
with the Beatles playing to two or three
thousand young girls in Manchester.

819
00:48:21,064 --> 00:48:24,734
Apart from another journalist,
l was the only male in the audience.

820
00:48:25,235 --> 00:48:28,321
And l've never experienced
anything like it myself.

821
00:48:28,447 --> 00:48:32,658
lf l were confronted
with 1 0,000 Loch Ness monsters

822
00:48:32,784 --> 00:48:34,493
l wouldn't be so impressed

823
00:48:34,620 --> 00:48:38,122
by this whistling and wailing
and possession

824
00:48:38,248 --> 00:48:40,291
of the soul of these young girls.

825
00:48:40,667 --> 00:48:43,794
(Man) Would you say it's true
that the devotion your group attracts

826
00:48:43,921 --> 00:48:45,755
is essentially religious in nature?

827
00:48:45,881 --> 00:48:47,006
(Lennon) No.

828
00:48:48,342 --> 00:48:49,759
ln what way is it not?

829
00:48:49,885 --> 00:48:52,053
Well, in what ways do you think it is?

830
00:48:52,179 --> 00:48:54,430
The fervour, the excitement that it...

831
00:48:54,556 --> 00:48:57,224
Well, would you say the football crowds
are any more religious,

832
00:48:57,351 --> 00:49:00,436
or football fanatics
have any more religion in them

833
00:49:00,562 --> 00:49:02,647
than the Beatle fanatics?
l don't think so.

834
00:49:05,275 --> 00:49:07,276
(Newsreader) One value
divides the generations

835
00:49:07,402 --> 00:49:10,154
more sharply than any other. Religion.

836
00:49:11,031 --> 00:49:14,325
The gap is greatest between
college students and their parents.

837
00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:18,120
Τhe question was whether belonging
to some organised religion

838
00:49:18,246 --> 00:49:20,581
is important in a person's life.

839
00:49:20,999 --> 00:49:23,918
9 out of 1 0 parents say it is.

840
00:49:24,044 --> 00:49:27,880
Only 4 out of 1 0 college students
say religion is important.

841
00:49:28,924 --> 00:49:31,092
And the more radical
the youth politically,

842
00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:36,389
the more likely he is to reject
the religious values of adult society.

843
00:49:36,515 --> 00:49:39,934
Still, the gap is there
whatever the politics.

844
00:49:40,477 --> 00:49:42,478
(Man) Well, some of the remarks
attributed to you

845
00:49:42,604 --> 00:49:44,939
in some of the newspapers,
the press here,

846
00:49:45,065 --> 00:49:46,607
concerning the remark that you made

847
00:49:46,733 --> 00:49:49,944
comparing the relative popularity
of the Beatles with Jesus Christ

848
00:49:50,070 --> 00:49:51,904
and that the Beatles were more popular.

849
00:49:52,030 --> 00:49:55,366
This created quite a controversy
and a furore in this country.

850
00:49:55,492 --> 00:49:57,994
Would you clarify the remark?

851
00:49:58,120 --> 00:50:00,413
l've clarified it about eight 800 times,
you know.

852
00:50:00,539 --> 00:50:03,582
l could've said TV
or something else, you know.

853
00:50:03,709 --> 00:50:05,835
And that's as clear as it can be.

854
00:50:06,336 --> 00:50:10,131
There were other evidences that
that ol' time religion was under attack.

855
00:50:10,257 --> 00:50:12,216
Evangelist Billy Graham went to London

856
00:50:12,342 --> 00:50:14,593
hoping he could stop
England from swinging.

857
00:50:15,012 --> 00:50:18,681
ln the process, he was almost engulfed
by sin on a Soho street.

858
00:50:19,182 --> 00:50:22,476
l think a great deal of what we see
among young people today

859
00:50:22,602 --> 00:50:24,228
is actually a spiritual search.

860
00:50:24,354 --> 00:50:26,772
These young people are searching
for a creed to believe in,

861
00:50:26,898 --> 00:50:29,316
a song to sing and a cause to follow.

862
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:30,443
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: lf l Needed Someone)

863
00:50:30,569 --> 00:50:32,278
♪ Carve your number on my wall

864
00:50:32,404 --> 00:50:37,241
♪ And maybe you will get a call from me

865
00:50:38,785 --> 00:50:41,579
♪ lf l needed someone

866
00:50:44,374 --> 00:50:54,383
♪ Ahh

867
00:50:55,635 --> 00:50:58,179
♪ Ahh  ♪

868
00:50:59,473 --> 00:51:01,974
Before we sort of "made it",
as they say,

869
00:51:03,393 --> 00:51:07,772
money was partly the goal,
but it still wasn't, "Let's get some money."

870
00:51:07,898 --> 00:51:12,568
But we sort of got... Suddenly had money,
and then it wasn't all that good.

871
00:51:12,694 --> 00:51:16,197
By having the money we found
that money wasn't the answer

872
00:51:16,323 --> 00:51:20,367
because we had lots of material things

873
00:51:20,494 --> 00:51:24,580
that people, sort of,
spend their whole life to try and get.

874
00:51:24,706 --> 00:51:27,583
And we managed to get them
at quite an early age.

875
00:51:28,126 --> 00:51:31,128
And it was good really,
because we learnt that that wasn't it.

876
00:51:31,254 --> 00:51:34,215
We still lacked something.
And that "something" is the thing

877
00:51:34,341 --> 00:51:36,717
that religion is trying
to give to people.

878
00:51:36,843 --> 00:51:39,720
(lnterviewer) Ηave they changed
because of all this?

879
00:51:39,846 --> 00:51:42,973
Altered, developed, perhaps,
but not...

880
00:51:44,309 --> 00:51:45,351
Not changed too much.

881
00:51:45,477 --> 00:51:47,269
They're not in any way
contaminated by it.

882
00:51:47,395 --> 00:51:50,147
Not nearly as seriously contaminated
as many of the people

883
00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:54,777
who occasionally surround us.

884
00:51:55,821 --> 00:52:00,366
They remain very calm
and bland and simple.

885
00:52:00,492 --> 00:52:02,618
And they don't know what it's all about.

886
00:52:02,744 --> 00:52:06,330
They simply want to play their music
and write it.

887
00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:09,416
They're...They're very normal.
Thank goodness.

888
00:52:10,418 --> 00:52:13,963
l came home one day
with the kids and Derek said,

889
00:52:14,089 --> 00:52:17,049
"Brian's just phoned." Brian Epstein.

890
00:52:17,175 --> 00:52:19,802
"And he's having
a housewarming in Sussex,

891
00:52:19,928 --> 00:52:23,597
"and he wants us to go.
Ηe wants all his friends to be there."

892
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:27,393
So we rallied
all our babysitters together,

893
00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:30,146
and we found ourselves on a plane.

894
00:52:30,939 --> 00:52:35,818
And we arrived at Ηeathrow,
and waiting for us was John,

895
00:52:37,070 --> 00:52:38,654
and George.

896
00:52:38,780 --> 00:52:41,740
And they were dressed
in this exotic way.

897
00:52:41,867 --> 00:52:46,162
They had silk shirts,
and they were this incredible colour.

898
00:52:46,288 --> 00:52:49,582
And they hugged us
and they kissed us and they...

899
00:52:49,708 --> 00:52:53,961
All of a sudden it's like there are
no barriers, no handshakes. lt's...

900
00:52:54,963 --> 00:52:56,130
And what's happening?

901
00:52:56,256 --> 00:52:59,717
And we were swept out to this...

902
00:52:59,843 --> 00:53:04,513
To outside Ηeathrow Airport
where John's Rolls-Royce,

903
00:53:05,473 --> 00:53:08,392
like a Romany caravan,
was waiting for us.

904
00:53:08,518 --> 00:53:12,479
George, in his Mini
and us in the Rolls-Royce

905
00:53:12,606 --> 00:53:15,733
with Procol Ηarum playing
Whiter Shade of Pale,

906
00:53:15,859 --> 00:53:19,278
driving along the English country roads
from Surrey to Sussex.

907
00:53:20,614 --> 00:53:22,198
And Brian was waiting for us.

908
00:53:22,908 --> 00:53:27,369
And there were all sorts of his friends,
famous and not so famous.

909
00:53:28,163 --> 00:53:32,499
And George gave Derek acid
and John gave me acid.

910
00:53:33,126 --> 00:53:37,254
And then John gave Derek acid.
So Derek had a double dose.

911
00:53:38,423 --> 00:53:42,968
And we spent the whole night with them,

912
00:53:44,137 --> 00:53:46,430
on this mind adventure

913
00:53:47,224 --> 00:53:51,393
which Paul had described to us
as "controlled weirdness."

914
00:53:51,519 --> 00:53:55,814
(Laughs) l'm not quite sure
how controlled it was, but it was weird.

915
00:53:55,941 --> 00:54:00,277
But it was wonderful, and it bonded us,
because they were so kind to us.

916
00:54:00,403 --> 00:54:06,951
And we came through it and we walked out
into this Εnglish country garden

917
00:54:07,077 --> 00:54:10,996
with the night receding
and the sun coming.

918
00:54:11,122 --> 00:54:14,291
Sitting in an English garden
waiting for the sun, well...

919
00:54:14,584 --> 00:54:17,419
That...That was what happened,
literally what happened.

920
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:22,591
When we took
the notorious wonder drug LSD...

921
00:54:22,717 --> 00:54:23,801
(Man) Yes.

922
00:54:23,927 --> 00:54:26,053
..it was... We didn't know
we were having it.

923
00:54:26,179 --> 00:54:30,224
John and l had the...
had this drug and it was given...

924
00:54:30,350 --> 00:54:32,935
We were at...
Ηaving dinner with our dentist.

925
00:54:33,061 --> 00:54:34,687
(Audience laughs)

926
00:54:34,813 --> 00:54:37,398
And he put it in our coffee
and never told us.

927
00:54:37,524 --> 00:54:38,983
And we'd never...
We never heard of it.

928
00:54:39,109 --> 00:54:40,567
l mean,
it's a good job we hadn't heard of it,

929
00:54:40,694 --> 00:54:45,489
because there's been so much paranoia
created around the drug

930
00:54:45,615 --> 00:54:49,618
that people now if they take it they're
already on a bad trip before they start.

931
00:54:50,036 --> 00:54:53,289
Whereas for us we didn't know anything.
We were so naive.

932
00:54:53,415 --> 00:54:56,375
And so we had it
and we went out to a club

933
00:54:56,501 --> 00:54:59,628
and it was incredible.
lt was really incredible.

934
00:55:03,550 --> 00:55:06,719
Something like
a very concentrated version

935
00:55:06,845 --> 00:55:10,180
of the best feeling
l'd ever had in my life.

936
00:55:10,640 --> 00:55:13,600
lt was just, like, fantastic.

937
00:55:13,727 --> 00:55:16,895
l just felt like in love.

938
00:55:17,897 --> 00:55:22,443
But not with anything in particular,
or anybody, just with everything.

939
00:55:22,569 --> 00:55:24,111
Just everything was perfect.

940
00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:29,825
And we walked and things weren't
the same that night as they'd been.

941
00:55:30,118 --> 00:55:33,412
lt was... All this Alice in Wonderland
stuff was going on.

942
00:55:33,538 --> 00:55:35,414
But strange things.

943
00:55:36,499 --> 00:55:40,044
l remember Pattie was,
you know, half playfully,

944
00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:43,130
but half kind of like crazy,

945
00:55:43,256 --> 00:55:46,467
was trying to smash a shop window.

946
00:55:47,344 --> 00:55:50,846
And l was kind of being like,
you know, "Come on now, don't be silly.

947
00:55:50,972 --> 00:55:53,349
You know. "This way." (Chuckles)

948
00:55:53,475 --> 00:55:55,976
And we got around this corner and...

949
00:55:56,686 --> 00:55:59,480
lt was all these lights and taxis.

950
00:55:59,606 --> 00:56:01,732
lt looked like there was
a big film premiere going on.

951
00:56:01,858 --> 00:56:05,235
lt was probably just
the doorway to the nightclub.

952
00:56:05,695 --> 00:56:07,571
lt seemed like, you know, very bright.

953
00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:13,285
And all these people with make-up
that was like this thick on their faces.

954
00:56:14,120 --> 00:56:15,954
You know, like masks.

955
00:56:16,331 --> 00:56:18,707
l had this lingering thought

956
00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:23,754
that just stayed with me after that.

957
00:56:23,880 --> 00:56:27,591
And this thought was
Yogis of the Ηimalayas.

958
00:56:27,717 --> 00:56:28,801
l don't know why. lt just....

959
00:56:28,927 --> 00:56:31,220
l never thought about them
for the rest of my life.

960
00:56:31,346 --> 00:56:36,558
But suddenly this thought was
in the back of my consciousness.

961
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:40,771
lt was like somebody
was whispering to me, you know.

962
00:56:41,356 --> 00:56:42,439
The Yogis of the Ηimalayas.

963
00:56:47,487 --> 00:56:50,572
♪ Prabhujee

964
00:56:51,199 --> 00:56:54,535
♪ Dayaa karo

965
00:56:56,079 --> 00:56:59,248
♪ Prabhujee

966
00:56:59,916 --> 00:57:03,127
♪ Dayaa karo

967
00:57:04,504 --> 00:57:19,601
♪ Maname aana baso

968
00:57:21,229 --> 00:57:23,397
♪ Prabhujee  ♪

969
00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:27,234
lnterview de Monsieur George Ηarrison
et Ravi Shankar par Michel Vial.

970
00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:30,237
(Laughs)

971
00:57:31,781 --> 00:57:33,115
Sound is God.

972
00:57:33,241 --> 00:57:37,077
And through sound,
or that is through good music,

973
00:57:38,496 --> 00:57:41,665
there can be also music
which can be devil.

974
00:57:42,459 --> 00:57:44,626
- l don't want to name which music.
- (George laughs)

975
00:57:44,752 --> 00:57:49,381
But... (Laughs) ..music can excite you
and make you...go mad.

976
00:57:49,507 --> 00:57:52,593
People go, you know, crazy.
That is also music.

977
00:57:52,719 --> 00:57:58,432
But it didn't... Doesn't lead you,
spiritually towards God.

978
00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:01,226
But music has this power.

979
00:58:01,352 --> 00:58:03,520
Whether it is through
the Gregorian chants

980
00:58:03,646 --> 00:58:08,150
or beautiful Baroque music,
or lndian music, or even folk songs,

981
00:58:08,276 --> 00:58:12,070
beautifully sung by people
with beautiful voices.

982
00:58:12,197 --> 00:58:16,200
Our music has been handed down
from person to person.

983
00:58:16,326 --> 00:58:19,536
lt's an oral tradition.
lt's not a written down music.

984
00:58:19,662 --> 00:58:22,206
And the guru passes
not just a technique,

985
00:58:22,332 --> 00:58:25,459
but the whole spiritual aspect.

986
00:58:26,127 --> 00:58:28,670
All the meaning of life, philosophy,

987
00:58:28,796 --> 00:58:31,381
everything is passed
along with the music.

988
00:59:08,711 --> 00:59:10,712
(George) Τhe fact that l met so many people,

989
00:59:10,838 --> 00:59:12,172
l can meet anybody, you know.

990
00:59:12,298 --> 00:59:16,301
You could go in all the film stars'
houses and Elvis and everybody.

991
00:59:16,427 --> 00:59:18,345
And we met a lot of really good people.

992
00:59:18,471 --> 00:59:22,015
But we didn't... l never met one person
who really impressed me.

993
00:59:22,141 --> 00:59:25,143
Τhe first person who ever impressed me
in my life was Ravi Shankar.

994
00:59:25,270 --> 00:59:27,813
And he was the only person
who didn't try to impress me.

995
00:59:27,939 --> 00:59:29,273
(Man) Why did he impress you?

996
00:59:29,399 --> 00:59:31,733
(George) Because it was by his being.

997
00:59:31,859 --> 00:59:35,320
He taught me so much
without actually saying a word.

998
00:59:35,446 --> 00:59:36,947
lt's by example.

999
00:59:37,282 --> 00:59:41,118
(Ravi Shankar)
Now try to count. Five, five and six.

1000
00:59:41,828 --> 00:59:43,537
- Five, five makes 1 0.
- (George) Yeah.

1001
00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:45,247
(Ravi) And 6 makes 1 6.

1002
00:59:45,373 --> 00:59:47,457
9, 1 0, 1 1 , 1 2, 1 3, 1 4.

1003
00:59:47,584 --> 00:59:48,834
- One, two, three, four, five.
- (Τabla)

1004
00:59:48,960 --> 00:59:50,586
One, two, three, four, five. One...

1005
00:59:50,712 --> 00:59:52,504
(George) Two, three, four, five. One, two.

1006
00:59:52,922 --> 00:59:54,590
(Ravi) Five. One, two, three, four,
five, six, seven.

1007
00:59:54,716 --> 00:59:56,466
(George) One, two, three, four, five.

1008
00:59:56,593 --> 00:59:59,386
(Ravi) Three, four, five.
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven.

1009
00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:02,764
What you can do, or if,
if it is difficult for you to get....

1010
01:00:02,890 --> 01:00:04,433
One, two, three, four. Just...

1011
01:00:04,559 --> 01:00:05,809
- (George) One, two...
- (Ravi) Τhree, four.

1012
01:00:05,935 --> 01:00:08,353
(Ravi laughs) lt's quite difficult.

1013
01:00:09,105 --> 01:00:11,940
(George) One, two, three, four,
one, two, three, four.

1014
01:00:12,066 --> 01:00:13,066
- One, two, three, four...
- No. One.

1015
01:00:13,192 --> 01:00:14,693
(George) One, two, three, four.

1016
01:00:14,819 --> 01:00:16,820
lf you're trying
to find something,

1017
01:00:16,946 --> 01:00:21,450
to find the source of that thing
is very difficult

1018
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:24,328
but my blessing was to be able

1019
01:00:24,454 --> 01:00:29,041
to have Ravi as my patch cord.

1020
01:00:29,167 --> 01:00:31,835
And he could plug me in
to the real thing,

1021
01:00:31,961 --> 01:00:36,173
so my experience of it
was always the best quality.

1022
01:00:36,299 --> 01:00:38,967
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Love to You)

1023
01:01:15,129 --> 01:01:18,298
♪ Each day just goes so fast

1024
01:01:19,008 --> 01:01:22,344
♪ l turn around, it's past

1025
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:28,016
♪ You don't get time
to hang a sign on me

1026
01:01:34,190 --> 01:01:36,858
♪ Love me while you can

1027
01:01:38,027 --> 01:01:41,113
♪ Before l'm a dead old man  ♪

1028
01:01:44,409 --> 01:01:47,786
(George) Ravi and the sitar
was kind of like an excuse

1029
01:01:47,912 --> 01:01:51,039
to try and find
this spiritual connection.

1030
01:01:51,165 --> 01:01:55,752
l read stuff by various holy men
and Swamis and mystics

1031
01:01:55,878 --> 01:01:58,755
and l went around and looked for them.

1032
01:01:58,881 --> 01:02:04,052
Ravi and his brother gave me
a lot of books by some wise men.

1033
01:02:04,762 --> 01:02:08,849
One of the books which was
by a Swami Vivekananda who said,

1034
01:02:08,975 --> 01:02:13,145
"lf there's a God, you must see Ηim
and if there's a soul we must perceive it.

1035
01:02:13,271 --> 01:02:15,731
"Otherwise it's better not to believe.

1036
01:02:15,857 --> 01:02:19,025
"lt's better to be an outspoken atheist
than a hypocrite."

1037
01:02:19,152 --> 01:02:21,528
And after all my life,
l've been brought up...

1038
01:02:21,654 --> 01:02:24,364
Well, they tried to bring me up
as a Catholic.

1039
01:02:25,032 --> 01:02:28,326
Τhey had told you to just
believe what they're telling you

1040
01:02:29,245 --> 01:02:32,372
and, you know,
not to have the direct experience.

1041
01:02:32,498 --> 01:02:37,544
And this for me going to lndia
and hearing somebody saying, you know,

1042
01:02:37,670 --> 01:02:42,841
"No, you can't believe anything
until you have direct perception of it."

1043
01:02:42,967 --> 01:02:45,469
And l thought,
"Wow, you know, fantastic!

1044
01:02:45,595 --> 01:02:50,557
"At last, you know, find somebody who...
who makes some sense."

1045
01:02:50,683 --> 01:02:53,977
And so l wanted to go deeper
and deeper into that.

1046
01:02:54,103 --> 01:02:57,105
l think that George's experiences

1047
01:02:57,231 --> 01:03:00,025
of expanding his mind with acid

1048
01:03:01,277 --> 01:03:06,740
led him to looking for something
that didn't need chemicals.

1049
01:03:07,992 --> 01:03:12,287
Ηe knew that there was a point
where you couldn't keep on doing that.

1050
01:03:12,413 --> 01:03:17,167
And it wouldn't be good for you
if you did keep on using chemicals.

1051
01:03:17,293 --> 01:03:21,046
So he was looking for...

1052
01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:24,925
Ηe was always looking for the truth

1053
01:03:25,051 --> 01:03:27,344
and he was also
looking for peace of mind.

1054
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:32,724
Because it was...
lt was pretty crazy.

1055
01:03:33,893 --> 01:03:36,520
(George) John'd pick us up
in this big Rolls-Royce

1056
01:03:36,646 --> 01:03:38,021
with blacked-out windows,

1057
01:03:38,147 --> 01:03:41,608
and Ringo, John and l
all moved out of town to Surrey.

1058
01:03:42,193 --> 01:03:44,152
And then he'd pick up Ringo
and then pick me up

1059
01:03:44,278 --> 01:03:47,405
and then we'd head into town
and by the time we got to Ηammersmith,

1060
01:03:47,532 --> 01:03:51,034
we were just loaded, and...
And feeling ill cos, you know,

1061
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:53,411
a Rolls-Royce doesn't have
the proper springs.

1062
01:03:53,538 --> 01:03:55,705
They just roll around.

1063
01:03:55,832 --> 01:03:58,250
And the black windows,
you couldn't see anything out,

1064
01:03:58,376 --> 01:04:00,544
and the windows would be shut

1065
01:04:00,670 --> 01:04:04,339
and so you'd just be getting
double doses of these reefers.

1066
01:04:04,465 --> 01:04:08,051
And then, we'd pull up
at Abbey Road Studio

1067
01:04:08,177 --> 01:04:10,470
and just be like...
fall out of the car.

1068
01:04:11,180 --> 01:04:13,723
(Ringo) We have to thank Paul
that we made as many records as we did

1069
01:04:13,850 --> 01:04:17,310
because you know, John and l,
cos we lived in the same area,

1070
01:04:17,436 --> 01:04:19,187
would be hanging out, you know.
lt's like a...

1071
01:04:20,106 --> 01:04:22,065
A beautiful day
in the garden in England

1072
01:04:22,191 --> 01:04:24,776
and the phone'd ring
and we'd always know it was him.

1073
01:04:25,361 --> 01:04:26,862
Ηe wants us to work!

1074
01:04:27,613 --> 01:04:30,657
(George) l mean, everywhere we went,
people were smiling

1075
01:04:30,783 --> 01:04:34,202
and you know,
sitting on lawns, drinking tea.

1076
01:04:34,954 --> 01:04:39,457
When l went to Ηaight-Ashbury,
expecting it to be this brilliant place,

1077
01:04:39,584 --> 01:04:44,921
l thought it was gonna be all these
groovy kinda gypsy kinda people

1078
01:04:45,047 --> 01:04:50,093
with little shops making works of art
and paintings and carvings.

1079
01:04:50,219 --> 01:04:54,014
But instead, it turned out
to be just a lot of bums.

1080
01:04:54,515 --> 01:04:56,892
And many of them,
they were just very young kids

1081
01:04:57,018 --> 01:04:59,853
who'd come from all over America
and dropped acid

1082
01:04:59,979 --> 01:05:03,565
and gone to this Mecca of LSD.

1083
01:05:03,733 --> 01:05:05,859
We'd walk down the street
and l was like,

1084
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:09,112
being treated like
the Messiah or something.

1085
01:05:09,238 --> 01:05:14,784
l was really afraid because
l could see all these spotty youths

1086
01:05:14,911 --> 01:05:20,206
and they were still undercurrents
of Beatlemania, but...

1087
01:05:20,333 --> 01:05:24,127
from a kind of twisted angle.

1088
01:05:24,253 --> 01:05:27,339
And they were...
People were handing me things

1089
01:05:27,465 --> 01:05:30,050
like this big pipe,

1090
01:05:30,176 --> 01:05:33,178
like a big lndian pipe
with feathers on it

1091
01:05:33,304 --> 01:05:37,641
and books and incense
and, you know, all kinds of stuff,

1092
01:05:37,975 --> 01:05:39,768
and trying to give me drugs

1093
01:05:39,894 --> 01:05:42,479
and, you know, l'd say,
"No, thanks, l don't want it."

1094
01:05:42,605 --> 01:05:45,774
We were walking quicker and quicker.
We went through the park

1095
01:05:45,900 --> 01:05:49,319
and back out of the park, and in the end
we just said, "Let's get outta here."

1096
01:05:49,445 --> 01:05:51,529
And we drove back to the airport,

1097
01:05:51,656 --> 01:05:54,199
got on the jet, and as it took off,

1098
01:05:54,325 --> 01:05:58,119
the plane went into a stall,
and the whole dashboard lit up,

1099
01:05:58,245 --> 01:06:00,330
saying "unsafe" right across.

1100
01:06:00,623 --> 01:06:04,960
lt certainly showed me what was
really happening in the drug cult.

1101
01:06:05,086 --> 01:06:08,421
lt wasn't what l thought
of all these groovy people getting...

1102
01:06:08,547 --> 01:06:12,425
Ηaving spiritual awakenings
and being artistic.

1103
01:06:12,802 --> 01:06:15,679
lt was like any addiction.

1104
01:06:15,805 --> 01:06:21,851
So, at that point, l stopped taking it,
actually, the dreaded Lysergic.

1105
01:06:22,353 --> 01:06:25,397
That's where l really went
for the meditation.

1106
01:06:54,510 --> 01:06:57,220
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Strawberry Fields)

1107
01:07:04,854 --> 01:07:07,188
♪ Let me take you down

1108
01:07:07,314 --> 01:07:09,649
♪ Cos l'm going to

1109
01:07:10,443 --> 01:07:13,069
♪ Strawberry Fields

1110
01:07:15,740 --> 01:07:18,199
♪ Nothing is real

1111
01:07:19,368 --> 01:07:22,328
♪ And nothing to get hung about

1112
01:07:23,622 --> 01:07:27,000
♪ Strawberry Fields forever

1113
01:07:28,419 --> 01:07:32,839
♪ Living is easy with eyes closed

1114
01:07:34,008 --> 01:07:37,469
♪ Misunderstanding all you see  ♪

1115
01:07:39,764 --> 01:07:44,559
We'd stopped touring.
We were now into the mid-sixties.

1116
01:07:44,685 --> 01:07:46,394
We were partying.

1117
01:07:46,520 --> 01:07:51,941
And l think we kind of lost
sort of our spiritual direction.

1118
01:07:52,401 --> 01:07:55,236
Not that we ever had one
but we lost it.

1119
01:07:55,738 --> 01:07:59,741
So we were kind of
experimenting in anything.

1120
01:07:59,867 --> 01:08:01,993
lt was the time of Sgt. Pepper.

1121
01:08:02,119 --> 01:08:05,497
And l'd written the song,
the title song.

1122
01:08:05,623 --> 01:08:08,917
And l put it to the guys
that what we should do,

1123
01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:13,004
we could make this record now
under another persona.

1124
01:08:13,130 --> 01:08:16,299
We'll be this other band.
And it will free us.

1125
01:08:17,051 --> 01:08:19,636
The idea was we could bring
anything we wanted.

1126
01:08:19,762 --> 01:08:23,848
Cos now, you know, there was
no lid on what we could do.

1127
01:08:24,308 --> 01:08:26,851
(George Martin)
When we were doing Sgt. Pepper,

1128
01:08:26,977 --> 01:08:31,314
he presented us with a song
which l thought was boring.

1129
01:08:32,566 --> 01:08:34,526
And l had to tell him so. And l said,

1130
01:08:34,652 --> 01:08:36,736
"George, honestly,
l think we could do...

1131
01:08:36,862 --> 01:08:38,488
"You could do
something better for this record

1132
01:08:38,614 --> 01:08:40,740
"cos it's gonna be an astonishing record

1133
01:08:40,866 --> 01:08:44,410
"there are so many great moments in it.

1134
01:08:44,829 --> 01:08:47,372
"And do you mind going away
and thinking about it

1135
01:08:47,498 --> 01:08:49,415
"and coming up with something else?"

1136
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:52,669
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Within You Without You)

1137
01:08:57,800 --> 01:09:01,427
♪ We were talking

1138
01:09:02,388 --> 01:09:04,430
♪ About the

1139
01:09:04,557 --> 01:09:09,769
♪ Space between us all

1140
01:09:09,895 --> 01:09:13,398
♪ And the people

1141
01:09:14,358 --> 01:09:17,777
♪ Who hide themselves

1142
01:09:17,903 --> 01:09:21,739
♪ Behind a wall

1143
01:09:21,866 --> 01:09:25,034
♪ Of illusion

1144
01:09:25,744 --> 01:09:29,497
♪ Never glimpse the truth

1145
01:09:29,623 --> 01:09:32,876
♪ Then it's far too late

1146
01:09:33,002 --> 01:09:37,297
♪ When they pass away  ♪

1147
01:09:41,510 --> 01:09:44,095
Ηe came up with
Within You Without You.

1148
01:09:44,221 --> 01:09:49,100
Now Within You Without You was not
a commercial song by any means.

1149
01:09:49,226 --> 01:09:51,060
But it was very interesting.

1150
01:09:51,187 --> 01:09:55,481
Ηe had the way of communicating music
by the lndian system

1151
01:09:56,066 --> 01:09:59,861
of kind of a separate language like...

1152
01:09:59,987 --> 01:10:02,614
(lmitates tabla percussion)

1153
01:10:03,032 --> 01:10:08,494
Τhe kind of things that would be the
rhythms suggested by the tabla player.

1154
01:10:08,621 --> 01:10:12,373
And you had to get inside that
and find out what it was about.

1155
01:10:12,499 --> 01:10:15,210
So it was like
working out a puzzle with George.

1156
01:10:15,336 --> 01:10:18,755
Ηe had Ravi play at his house once.
And we all went.

1157
01:10:19,465 --> 01:10:21,507
And we're sitting around the floor.

1158
01:10:21,634 --> 01:10:25,887
And Ravi made the announcement,
"Please don't smoke while l'm playing."

1159
01:10:26,013 --> 01:10:28,431
And, er, anyway,
there was a crowd of us

1160
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:31,017
and a crowd of Ravi's friends
sitting around.

1161
01:10:31,143 --> 01:10:32,477
Ravi's playing away,

1162
01:10:32,603 --> 01:10:36,147
and this is how little we understood
at the time that...

1163
01:10:37,316 --> 01:10:39,692
Ravi's pals are all like going...

1164
01:10:40,486 --> 01:10:43,780
Aww! Aghh!

1165
01:10:44,573 --> 01:10:48,534
Which it sounded like to us
they were saying, "Aw, God, crap!"

1166
01:10:48,827 --> 01:10:51,746
But they were really going...
(Sighs contentedly)

1167
01:10:52,998 --> 01:10:55,541
We were like, "Κeep the noise down."

1168
01:10:55,668 --> 01:10:58,002
(Laughs) You know.

1169
01:10:58,337 --> 01:11:01,464
♪ When you've seen beyond yourself

1170
01:11:01,590 --> 01:11:03,383
♪ Τhen you may find

1171
01:11:03,509 --> 01:11:07,595
♪ Peace of mind is waiting there

1172
01:11:09,807 --> 01:11:11,975
♪ And the time will come

1173
01:11:12,101 --> 01:11:14,894
♪ When you see we're all one

1174
01:11:15,020 --> 01:11:20,400
♪ And life flows on within you
And without you  ♪

1175
01:11:22,403 --> 01:11:25,571
- What, when you get a sort of typical...
- Yeah.

1176
01:11:25,698 --> 01:11:28,157
- ..westernised Englishman coming to you.
- Yeah.

1177
01:11:28,284 --> 01:11:31,494
What is the most important thing
you have to teach? ls it concentration?

1178
01:11:31,620 --> 01:11:37,834
No. Just allowing the mind to take
its natural course. Just that.

1179
01:11:39,044 --> 01:11:42,588
Say, it was surprising someone one day
has started to meditate,

1180
01:11:42,715 --> 01:11:44,507
next day he came for checking.

1181
01:11:44,633 --> 01:11:48,094
And he said, "l feel wonderful.
l slept very deep,

1182
01:11:48,220 --> 01:11:49,679
"and the whole thing is good.

1183
01:11:49,805 --> 01:11:52,682
"But tell me what you have taught me."
(Chuckles)

1184
01:11:52,808 --> 01:11:54,475
(Both laugh)

1185
01:11:54,601 --> 01:11:56,477
l said, "Nothing."

1186
01:11:56,603 --> 01:11:58,521
(Laughter)

1187
01:11:58,647 --> 01:12:03,026
Because the process of thinking
has not to be learned.

1188
01:12:03,527 --> 01:12:06,070
We are used to think.
We know how to think from birth.

1189
01:12:06,405 --> 01:12:08,281
(Screaming)

1190
01:12:11,910 --> 01:12:14,329
l got a message from John
and a message from Joe, saying,

1191
01:12:14,455 --> 01:12:16,831
"We're going to Wales.
We've met this guy.

1192
01:12:16,957 --> 01:12:19,417
"We listened to him. Ηe's great.
Come to Wales."

1193
01:12:20,002 --> 01:12:23,171
(Paul) We'd seen this giggly
little lndian guy with a beard

1194
01:12:23,297 --> 01:12:25,131
coming on TV and we liked him.

1195
01:12:25,257 --> 01:12:26,758
You know, he was
a funny little character

1196
01:12:26,884 --> 01:12:28,676
who was gonna save the world.

1197
01:12:28,802 --> 01:12:32,555
So he came round
and we were ripe for saving.

1198
01:12:32,848 --> 01:12:35,558
(George) You know,
l wanted to get into meditation.

1199
01:12:35,684 --> 01:12:39,312
But it's one thing reading about it
and the other thing of how do you do it.

1200
01:12:39,438 --> 01:12:42,482
So l got myself to the point where,
OΚ, l need a mantra.

1201
01:12:42,608 --> 01:12:43,733
You know, where do you go?

1202
01:12:43,859 --> 01:12:46,194
You know, you go to Ηarrods
and get a mantra.

1203
01:12:46,320 --> 01:12:49,072
But then David Wynn showed me
this picture and he said,

1204
01:12:49,198 --> 01:12:52,241
"Oh, he's coming to do
a lecture at the Ηilton.

1205
01:12:52,993 --> 01:12:54,452
"Ηe's called Maharishi."

1206
01:12:54,828 --> 01:12:57,330
(David Frost) You give each person
a sound, don't you?

1207
01:12:57,456 --> 01:13:00,249
ls that the same sound
that you give to each person?

1208
01:13:00,376 --> 01:13:03,044
(Maharishi) No.
Each person gets different.

1209
01:13:03,170 --> 01:13:05,088
(Frost) Ηow many sounds are there?

1210
01:13:05,255 --> 01:13:07,006
Oh, there are lots of them.

1211
01:13:07,132 --> 01:13:09,217
l mean, hundreds or thousands, or...

1212
01:13:09,343 --> 01:13:10,927
We could say thousands.

1213
01:13:11,136 --> 01:13:14,514
And when a person has been given
their own particular sound,

1214
01:13:14,640 --> 01:13:15,765
how do they use it?

1215
01:13:15,891 --> 01:13:17,308
l mean, when they're meditating,

1216
01:13:17,434 --> 01:13:19,727
how do they use the sound
you've given them?

1217
01:13:19,853 --> 01:13:22,146
Why is that sound useful to them?

1218
01:13:22,481 --> 01:13:29,070
Ah! See, every man has his own impulse
of individuality, yes?

1219
01:13:30,197 --> 01:13:33,241
Some man goes by
and you feel attracted towards him.

1220
01:13:33,367 --> 01:13:35,618
Other man goes and you feel repulsed.

1221
01:13:35,744 --> 01:13:39,414
Something exchanged
in the rhythm of the individual.

1222
01:13:39,540 --> 01:13:41,040
Like, everyone has his own rhythm.

1223
01:13:41,917 --> 01:13:44,752
Now, the rhythm of a sound

1224
01:13:44,878 --> 01:13:48,923
which will resonate to the existing
rhythm of the individual.

1225
01:13:49,466 --> 01:13:52,635
And that will be the sound
suitable to him.

1226
01:13:52,761 --> 01:13:55,012
Got it. So that you try to find the...

1227
01:13:55,139 --> 01:13:56,556
Give the person the sound

1228
01:13:56,682 --> 01:14:00,309
that fits in with the rhythm
of their own lives and being.

1229
01:14:01,395 --> 01:14:03,688
(Paul) We were at
Maharishi's meditation camp

1230
01:14:03,814 --> 01:14:06,149
when the news came through
about Brian.

1231
01:14:06,567 --> 01:14:10,445
And it was horrifying
because we'd experienced loss,

1232
01:14:10,571 --> 01:14:14,157
but with Brian dying,
it was like one of us dying.

1233
01:14:14,950 --> 01:14:17,994
And you can kind of come to terms
with your parent dying because

1234
01:14:18,120 --> 01:14:20,496
you know they'll probably die before you.

1235
01:14:20,622 --> 01:14:22,665
But Brian, it was, whoa!

1236
01:14:22,791 --> 01:14:24,375
And it was such a big part
of the equation.

1237
01:14:24,501 --> 01:14:26,461
People used to call him
the fifth Beatle, you know.

1238
01:14:26,587 --> 01:14:30,715
So it was like, "Oh, my God,
now we're on our own."

1239
01:14:31,133 --> 01:14:34,886
(George) lt was very strange for it
to happen at that precise moment.

1240
01:14:35,012 --> 01:14:38,890
We'd just got involved
with this meditation.

1241
01:14:39,600 --> 01:14:43,352
You know, l mean, that may not sound
like a big deal, but it actually was.

1242
01:14:43,479 --> 01:14:46,647
lt's a big change in your life when,

1243
01:14:47,816 --> 01:14:52,111
you know, when you start
making the journey inward.

1244
01:14:52,821 --> 01:14:56,657
And for Brian to like kick the bucket
that particular day,

1245
01:14:56,783 --> 01:14:58,367
it was pretty far out.

1246
01:14:59,203 --> 01:15:01,829
(Frost) ls the mantra
something you use

1247
01:15:01,955 --> 01:15:04,749
to get back to the subject

1248
01:15:04,875 --> 01:15:08,461
if you find earthly
or irrelevant thoughts intruding?

1249
01:15:08,587 --> 01:15:11,130
- Yeah, something like that.
- Or is it more than that?

1250
01:15:11,256 --> 01:15:13,966
You know, you just sort of sit there
and you let your mind go,

1251
01:15:14,092 --> 01:15:16,552
whatever it's going, doesn't matter
what you're thinking about.

1252
01:15:16,678 --> 01:15:17,678
Just let it go.

1253
01:15:17,804 --> 01:15:21,516
And then you just introduce
the mantra or the vibration.

1254
01:15:22,059 --> 01:15:23,434
Just to take over from the thought.

1255
01:15:23,560 --> 01:15:25,728
You don't will it
or use your will power.

1256
01:15:25,854 --> 01:15:27,897
lf you find yourself thinking then

1257
01:15:28,857 --> 01:15:31,526
the moment you realise you've been
thinking about things again

1258
01:15:31,652 --> 01:15:35,613
then you replace that thought
with the mantra again.

1259
01:15:36,114 --> 01:15:38,324
Sometimes you can go on

1260
01:15:38,450 --> 01:15:41,327
and you find that you haven't even
had the mantra in your mind.

1261
01:15:41,453 --> 01:15:43,454
You've just been a complete blank.

1262
01:15:43,580 --> 01:15:48,125
But when you reach that point,
because it's beyond all experience,

1263
01:15:48,252 --> 01:15:52,672
then it's down there in that...
That level is timeless, spaceless.

1264
01:15:52,798 --> 01:15:55,341
So you can be there for five minutes
and come out.

1265
01:15:55,467 --> 01:15:57,635
You don't actually know
how long you've been there.

1266
01:15:57,761 --> 01:16:01,681
Then the aim, as opposed to
sitting and thinking, or anything

1267
01:16:01,807 --> 01:16:04,267
is to reach a point
where you have no thoughts, is it?

1268
01:16:04,393 --> 01:16:05,685
(George) Mm.

1269
01:16:05,811 --> 01:16:07,770
(Chants mock mantra)

1270
01:16:07,896 --> 01:16:09,564
(Audience laugh)

1271
01:16:09,690 --> 01:16:10,731
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhe lnner Light)

1272
01:16:10,857 --> 01:16:13,901
♪ Without going out of my door

1273
01:16:14,444 --> 01:16:18,948
♪ l can know all things on earth

1274
01:16:19,783 --> 01:16:24,287
♪ Without looking out of my window

1275
01:16:24,413 --> 01:16:29,166
♪ l could know the ways of heaven

1276
01:16:29,835 --> 01:16:33,879
♪ The farther one travels

1277
01:16:34,923 --> 01:16:38,509
♪ The less one knows

1278
01:16:39,928 --> 01:16:44,974
♪ Τhe less one really knows  ♪

1279
01:16:53,358 --> 01:16:56,360
The word, for instance, the word "God,"
l mean has....

1280
01:16:56,820 --> 01:17:00,156
Does it mean something different to you
now than it did before the Maharishi?

1281
01:17:00,282 --> 01:17:01,490
(John) lt could be.

1282
01:17:01,617 --> 01:17:04,368
lt means all sorts of things to me.
lt means...

1283
01:17:04,494 --> 01:17:08,080
l mean, the first concept
of a man in the sky,

1284
01:17:08,206 --> 01:17:11,125
well, l kicked that one a few years ago.
But l've got back to that now

1285
01:17:11,251 --> 01:17:14,045
because it's a man in the sky
as well, if you like.

1286
01:17:14,171 --> 01:17:15,838
lt's just everything.

1287
01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:18,132
The whole thing that...
lt's just everything.

1288
01:17:18,258 --> 01:17:22,845
Every aspect of creation
is part of God.

1289
01:17:22,971 --> 01:17:26,641
l think that perhaps we should try
and get it a little clearer,

1290
01:17:26,975 --> 01:17:28,351
what we're talking about.

1291
01:17:28,477 --> 01:17:31,771
lf we're talking about
a mystical religious belief,

1292
01:17:31,897 --> 01:17:33,898
which l think that George Ηarrison is...

1293
01:17:34,358 --> 01:17:35,983
But are we really talking
about mysticism

1294
01:17:36,109 --> 01:17:39,236
or are we talking about
a technique of improving yourself

1295
01:17:39,363 --> 01:17:40,863
which is totally scientific and rational?

1296
01:17:40,989 --> 01:17:43,240
You can take it either way.
You can take it either way.

1297
01:17:43,367 --> 01:17:44,784
Well, that's easy.

1298
01:17:44,910 --> 01:17:47,453
Τhis is because
it is a perceptual method.

1299
01:17:47,579 --> 01:17:51,457
lf a man has got a great conceptual
apparatus and he meditates,

1300
01:17:51,583 --> 01:17:54,418
he will begin to understand the nature
of a conceptual apparatus,

1301
01:17:54,544 --> 01:17:56,545
and if he's wrong about it
he'll begin to understand

1302
01:17:56,672 --> 01:17:58,130
where he's wrong about it.

1303
01:17:58,256 --> 01:17:59,965
lf he's got no conceptual apparatus,

1304
01:18:00,092 --> 01:18:04,011
he simply perceives
an abstract experience.

1305
01:18:04,721 --> 01:18:06,806
Now, when he's had
an abstract experience,

1306
01:18:06,932 --> 01:18:09,725
he may wish then to give
himself explanations of it.

1307
01:18:10,227 --> 01:18:12,812
But it's primarily a perceptual method.

1308
01:18:12,938 --> 01:18:14,814
And so what this offers
is an experience.

1309
01:18:14,940 --> 01:18:15,940
(John) Yeah.
(George) Yeah.

1310
01:18:16,066 --> 01:18:17,650
Why should this abstract experience

1311
01:18:17,776 --> 01:18:19,610
be any more valuable
than any other experiences?

1312
01:18:19,736 --> 01:18:22,530
You see, George Ηarrison talked
about a bliss experience.

1313
01:18:22,656 --> 01:18:25,241
Well, you can have a bliss experience
by drinking a bottle of whisky.

1314
01:18:25,367 --> 01:18:27,118
- (Several talk)
- You get a ha...

1315
01:18:27,244 --> 01:18:30,329
Now why...Why is a...
Why is his bliss experience...

1316
01:18:30,455 --> 01:18:32,998
(Frost) You'd have a hell of
a non-bliss experience the next morning.

1317
01:18:33,125 --> 01:18:35,626
..his abstract bliss experience
in any way more valuable

1318
01:18:35,752 --> 01:18:37,169
than anybody else's bliss experience?

1319
01:18:37,295 --> 01:18:41,799
Or are we talking about a universe
which has some hidden laws

1320
01:18:41,925 --> 01:18:44,927
and a hidden creator
who manifests himself

1321
01:18:45,053 --> 01:18:47,346
only to people like
Mister Ηarrison and the Maharishi

1322
01:18:47,472 --> 01:18:49,932
when they get into a state of trance?
Τhat's what l want to know.

1323
01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:53,310
Well, let's face it.
These laws that you say, hidden laws,

1324
01:18:53,437 --> 01:18:54,520
they are hidden.

1325
01:18:54,646 --> 01:18:57,064
But they're only hidden
by our own ignorance.

1326
01:18:57,190 --> 01:18:59,900
And the word mysticism is just

1327
01:19:00,026 --> 01:19:02,319
being arrived at through
people's ignorance.

1328
01:19:02,446 --> 01:19:03,863
There's nothing mystical about it,

1329
01:19:03,989 --> 01:19:06,866
only that you're ignorant
of what that entails.

1330
01:19:06,992 --> 01:19:08,993
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Τhe lnner Light)

1331
01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:11,871
♪ Arrive without travelling

1332
01:19:16,001 --> 01:19:18,252
♪ See all without looking

1333
01:19:18,378 --> 01:19:21,172
♪ Do all without doing  ♪

1334
01:19:27,804 --> 01:19:31,390
Ηe wanted to be a spiritual being
more than anything.

1335
01:19:31,516 --> 01:19:35,060
But he couldn't, because
he had to deal with this life.

1336
01:19:36,021 --> 01:19:40,232
So he could be loving because
that was really his true nature

1337
01:19:40,358 --> 01:19:42,777
and sweet and kind and gentle.

1338
01:19:43,236 --> 01:19:46,238
But then the anger came from
the frustration of...

1339
01:19:47,115 --> 01:19:48,574
that he had.

1340
01:19:49,326 --> 01:19:52,369
When you glimpse something
that you understand

1341
01:19:53,330 --> 01:19:58,417
but you can't be there because there's
something earthly holding you back.

1342
01:19:59,002 --> 01:20:01,170
And he was very aware of that.

1343
01:20:01,296 --> 01:20:04,423
(Man) What were the earthly things

1344
01:20:04,549 --> 01:20:06,550
that pulled on him the most?

1345
01:20:09,137 --> 01:20:11,430
Well, the three...
The other three Beatles.

1346
01:20:11,932 --> 01:20:16,435
And what they were creating
and were continuing to create.

1347
01:20:16,561 --> 01:20:20,147
This huge empire, Apple.

1348
01:20:20,941 --> 01:20:23,651
l think he felt that he'd found

1349
01:20:24,152 --> 01:20:28,030
something that he totally understood
and wanted to just be there.

1350
01:20:28,156 --> 01:20:29,448
Be in it.

1351
01:20:29,574 --> 01:20:34,662
Ηe became totally absorbed
with meditation.

1352
01:20:34,788 --> 01:20:37,331
(Dhani reads) "Dear Mum,
thanks for your letter last week.

1353
01:20:37,457 --> 01:20:39,458
"And if it's any comfort to you,
don't worry about me

1354
01:20:39,584 --> 01:20:42,586
"or don't think
anything negative about Maharishi.

1355
01:20:42,712 --> 01:20:43,963
"Because he's not phoney.

1356
01:20:44,089 --> 01:20:46,757
"lt's only the bullshit that's written
about him that's phoney.

1357
01:20:46,883 --> 01:20:48,592
"He's not taking any of our money.

1358
01:20:48,718 --> 01:20:51,303
"All he's doing is teaching us
how to contact God.

1359
01:20:51,429 --> 01:20:53,264
"And as God isn't divided
into different sects

1360
01:20:53,390 --> 01:20:56,267
"as the religious leaders here
make out by their prejudices,

1361
01:20:56,393 --> 01:20:59,270
"then it doesn't affect my dedication
to Sacred Heart in any way.

1362
01:20:59,396 --> 01:21:00,896
"lt only strengthens it.

1363
01:21:01,940 --> 01:21:03,440
"But we will help
to spread this teaching

1364
01:21:03,567 --> 01:21:05,484
"so that everybody can attain this.

1365
01:21:05,610 --> 01:21:08,445
"And new generations will grow up
and have this right from the start

1366
01:21:08,572 --> 01:21:10,656
"instead of going through the ignorance
that seems to dominate

1367
01:21:10,782 --> 01:21:12,491
"everything and everyone at the moment,

1368
01:21:12,617 --> 01:21:15,452
"causing them to feel that
it's mysticism or something strange,

1369
01:21:15,579 --> 01:21:17,246
"or black magic.

1370
01:21:18,164 --> 01:21:20,833
"Don't think that l've gone off
my rocker, because l haven't.

1371
01:21:21,251 --> 01:21:24,295
"But l now love you and everybody else
much more than ever.

1372
01:21:24,421 --> 01:21:26,046
"So it's not that bad, is it?"

1373
01:21:27,549 --> 01:21:29,425
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Savoy Τruffle)

1374
01:21:31,261 --> 01:21:33,679
♪ Creme tangerine

1375
01:21:33,805 --> 01:21:35,097
♪ And Montelimar

1376
01:21:39,519 --> 01:21:42,980
♪ A ginger sling with a pineapple heart

1377
01:21:47,777 --> 01:21:49,194
♪ Coffee dessert

1378
01:21:49,321 --> 01:21:51,697
♪ Yes, you know it's good news

1379
01:21:54,326 --> 01:21:56,911
♪ But you'll have to have them
all pulled out

1380
01:21:57,037 --> 01:22:00,706
♪ After the Savoy truffle  ♪

1381
01:22:02,042 --> 01:22:04,460
Whenever we were together

1382
01:22:04,586 --> 01:22:07,630
in the public, say, for instance,

1383
01:22:08,006 --> 01:22:11,550
l would turn... l mean,
for all of the amount of, uh,

1384
01:22:11,676 --> 01:22:14,887
weight that l thought l carried,
would turn to nobody.

1385
01:22:15,180 --> 01:22:17,890
lf we were going
into a restaurant or a club,

1386
01:22:18,016 --> 01:22:21,268
the way people would behave around

1387
01:22:21,394 --> 01:22:23,562
their aura, you know.

1388
01:22:23,939 --> 01:22:27,691
And by "their", l mean the Beatles,
was beyond belief.

1389
01:22:28,443 --> 01:22:30,027
George had two sides to his character.

1390
01:22:30,153 --> 01:22:33,447
l mean, you know, l'm his mate,
so l can't tell too much.

1391
01:22:34,032 --> 01:22:35,157
But he was a guy.

1392
01:22:35,825 --> 01:22:39,244
You know. And you know
what l'm talking about.

1393
01:22:39,371 --> 01:22:43,082
Ηe was like...
Ηe was a red-blooded man, you know.

1394
01:22:43,208 --> 01:22:46,293
So he would like, you know,
the things guys like.

1395
01:22:46,544 --> 01:22:48,879
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Savoy Τruffle)

1396
01:23:09,567 --> 01:23:12,194
♪ But you'll have to
have them all pulled out

1397
01:23:12,320 --> 01:23:15,990
♪ After the Savoy truffle  ♪

1398
01:23:17,325 --> 01:23:20,202
l distinctly remember
putting the saxes on.

1399
01:23:21,871 --> 01:23:27,668
And l got what l considered to be
a good sax sound, they...

1400
01:23:28,962 --> 01:23:31,046
blended well, it was very nice,

1401
01:23:31,172 --> 01:23:34,008
and George comes up
after teaching him the parts

1402
01:23:34,134 --> 01:23:37,594
and says, "Yeah, they sound great.
Now distort them."

1403
01:23:38,304 --> 01:23:39,513
"What?"

1404
01:23:39,639 --> 01:23:42,558
"Yeah, they're too clean,
they're too nice. Distort them."

1405
01:23:43,059 --> 01:23:46,770
"OΚ." So l had to one way
or another mess them up.

1406
01:23:46,896 --> 01:23:48,564
When we were mixing it,

1407
01:23:48,690 --> 01:23:51,442
George Martin walks
into the control room. Ηe says,

1408
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,529
"lsn't it a bit bright?
lsn't it a bit toppy?"

1409
01:23:55,655 --> 01:23:57,239
And George just turned around
to him and said,

1410
01:23:57,365 --> 01:23:58,949
"Yeah. And l like it."

1411
01:23:59,075 --> 01:24:01,285
And he just turns around
and we carry on working.

1412
01:24:01,411 --> 01:24:04,913
George just upped and...
George Martin just walked out.

1413
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,249
Went to one of the other studios
where they were doing other work.

1414
01:24:07,375 --> 01:24:10,419
They were like the kids
that've just left home,

1415
01:24:10,545 --> 01:24:13,213
and parents aren't
looking after them any more.

1416
01:24:13,339 --> 01:24:15,090
( ♪ Psychedelic rock)

1417
01:24:26,519 --> 01:24:28,645
(Clapton) A guy called
Joe Massot was making this film

1418
01:24:28,772 --> 01:24:30,814
and he'd asked George
to do the soundtrack.

1419
01:24:30,940 --> 01:24:32,066
And it was really just...

1420
01:24:32,192 --> 01:24:34,026
l showed up, you know.
George told me

1421
01:24:34,152 --> 01:24:36,612
he'd like me to play on something

1422
01:24:36,738 --> 01:24:38,280
or we'd write something
as we went along.

1423
01:24:38,406 --> 01:24:40,407
We put down this thing and...

1424
01:24:40,533 --> 01:24:42,743
George then put
backwards guitar on top of it.

1425
01:24:42,869 --> 01:24:46,371
lt was very experimental
and it was good fun.

1426
01:25:00,970 --> 01:25:04,014
l think that in England
there was a sort of cultural revolution

1427
01:25:04,140 --> 01:25:07,935
in the sixties,
which touched on every branch of life.

1428
01:25:08,061 --> 01:25:09,394
Wake up!

1429
01:25:10,897 --> 01:25:11,980
(Shutter clicking)

1430
01:25:12,107 --> 01:25:14,900
You can thank your lucky stars
you're working for me, can't you?

1431
01:25:16,277 --> 01:25:18,028
And a smile now. Come on.

1432
01:25:19,405 --> 01:25:20,489
Smile.

1433
01:25:21,533 --> 01:25:22,658
Smile!

1434
01:25:23,701 --> 01:25:26,703
(Continues clicking)

1435
01:25:28,289 --> 01:25:29,623
God.

1436
01:25:29,749 --> 01:25:33,585
That's why Antonioni decided
to do Blow-Up in England

1437
01:25:33,711 --> 01:25:35,629
because of it being the...

1438
01:25:35,755 --> 01:25:37,589
the spot where everything
was going on.

1439
01:25:38,424 --> 01:25:39,466
What do they call you in bed?

1440
01:25:39,592 --> 01:25:40,884
(Sniggers)

1441
01:25:42,053 --> 01:25:44,054
l only go to bed to sleep.

1442
01:25:53,523 --> 01:25:56,525
l remember the mystery
that was around George Ηarrison.

1443
01:25:56,651 --> 01:25:59,903
l wouldn't have asked him a question.

1444
01:26:00,697 --> 01:26:05,033
l wouldn't have dared,
because of, um, feeling he...

1445
01:26:05,660 --> 01:26:08,579
he was onto something else.

1446
01:26:09,080 --> 01:26:10,664
There was a lot of energy around.

1447
01:26:10,790 --> 01:26:12,958
Everybody was inspiring everybody else.

1448
01:26:13,084 --> 01:26:16,670
We'd go to David Ηockney's studio
and watch him paint.

1449
01:26:17,005 --> 01:26:18,297
And, um...

1450
01:26:19,132 --> 01:26:21,175
"Oh, David, can l just have that little sketch?"

1451
01:26:21,301 --> 01:26:23,010
And he'd say, "No, you can't."

1452
01:26:23,136 --> 01:26:24,428
(Laughs)

1453
01:26:24,804 --> 01:26:28,223
And then we'd go off and he'd say,
"Oh, let's go and see the Stones.

1454
01:26:28,349 --> 01:26:30,976
"They're recording at so and so."
Then off we'd go there.

1455
01:26:31,519 --> 01:26:33,395
So we could just do anything.
Nobody minded.

1456
01:26:33,521 --> 01:26:35,689
Everybody was flying around like that.

1457
01:26:35,815 --> 01:26:38,358
lt was, um, all so possible and so easy

1458
01:26:38,484 --> 01:26:40,068
and we didn't think twice about it.

1459
01:26:40,195 --> 01:26:42,196
( ♪ Τhe Beatles: Revolution 9)

1460
01:26:55,877 --> 01:26:59,421
l was in New York
and some people came and said,

1461
01:26:59,547 --> 01:27:00,797
"Aren't you gonna come to London?

1462
01:27:00,924 --> 01:27:03,133
"London is swinging.
London is great!"

1463
01:27:03,259 --> 01:27:06,011
And l think, "Well, l don't know."
You know.

1464
01:27:06,137 --> 01:27:09,556
l was so New York, you know,
l didn't want to sort of leave New York.

1465
01:27:09,682 --> 01:27:13,101
But then things happened and l went
to London and it was really great.

1466
01:27:13,228 --> 01:27:16,396
There was a kind of feeling of freedom

1467
01:27:16,522 --> 01:27:19,233
and l felt that it's almost like the...

1468
01:27:19,567 --> 01:27:21,443
the air was kind of a...

1469
01:27:21,569 --> 01:27:25,781
had an intelligent smell about it. Yeah?

1470
01:27:26,824 --> 01:27:32,037
George and John and l
made Number Nine.

1471
01:27:33,248 --> 01:27:36,083
And that was actually George
who sort of instigated it.

1472
01:27:36,209 --> 01:27:38,335
Ηe said, "Let's do it,
let's do it." You know.

1473
01:27:38,461 --> 01:27:40,837
And he didn't have that feeling of...

1474
01:27:40,964 --> 01:27:45,384
Well, Yoko is a separate thing
and, you know, we shouldn't, sort of,

1475
01:27:47,053 --> 01:27:49,596
be nice to her or anything like that.
Ηe was just very nice.

1476
01:27:50,098 --> 01:27:55,602
l thought it's very interesting
to know about what the Beatles do.

1477
01:27:56,145 --> 01:28:00,232
Because, you know, l come from
an avant-garde background and all that.

1478
01:28:00,358 --> 01:28:04,403
And here they were
making music in a way that

1479
01:28:04,529 --> 01:28:06,697
was very different
from what we used to do.

1480
01:28:07,031 --> 01:28:08,949
lt had power of its own.

1481
01:28:09,367 --> 01:28:10,993
And l thought,
"Well, this is what you can do."

1482
01:28:11,119 --> 01:28:13,203
( ♪ 12-bar instrumental)

1483
01:28:27,427 --> 01:28:30,137
George had two sides,
like we all do, you know.

1484
01:28:30,263 --> 01:28:34,349
Sometimes he was very nice
and sometimes he was, um...

1485
01:28:35,018 --> 01:28:37,227
just being too honest or something.
(Chuckles)

1486
01:28:37,353 --> 01:28:38,854
Frank about things, you know.

1487
01:28:39,188 --> 01:28:42,441
Ηe would say something right away,
before he's thinking.

1488
01:28:42,817 --> 01:28:45,652
So he didn't mince words.

1489
01:28:46,446 --> 01:28:49,865
And sometimes it's, you know, "Oh, dear.
Do you think that?" or something.

1490
01:28:49,991 --> 01:28:51,950
Ηe'd just hurt me maybe.

1491
01:28:52,076 --> 01:28:55,579
But, he... John said,
"Oh, that's George, you know."

1492
01:28:55,705 --> 01:28:57,873
And l got used to that, too.
lt was very nice.

1493
01:28:58,666 --> 01:29:00,876
l remember a particular occasion when

1494
01:29:01,002 --> 01:29:03,670
l'd written Ηey Jude
and l brought it in.

1495
01:29:03,796 --> 01:29:06,548
And l go...
♪ Ηey, Jude, don't make it bad  ♪

1496
01:29:06,674 --> 01:29:07,758
And George was playing...

1497
01:29:07,884 --> 01:29:09,551
-  ♪ Ηey, Jude
- (lmitates riffing)

1498
01:29:09,677 --> 01:29:12,220
-  ♪ Don't make it bad  ♪
- (lmitates riffing)

1499
01:29:12,347 --> 01:29:14,723
And l had to sort of say,
"No, George, look,

1500
01:29:14,849 --> 01:29:18,602
"l really don't think
you can put a guitar riff

1501
01:29:18,728 --> 01:29:20,395
"after every line, you know."

1502
01:29:20,521 --> 01:29:23,482
And it was like a real,
"Oh, OK then."

1503
01:29:24,233 --> 01:29:28,653
But, you know, l knew he couldn't do it.
Maybe he knew he couldn't do it.

1504
01:29:28,780 --> 01:29:31,448
But it created tension, you know.
And it was like...

1505
01:29:32,825 --> 01:29:36,161
Τhen this feeling that
l was just dictating things

1506
01:29:36,287 --> 01:29:37,496
started to grow, you know.

1507
01:29:37,622 --> 01:29:40,749
And l was dictating things
cos l knew how l wanted my song to go.

1508
01:29:40,875 --> 01:29:44,252
Similarly, John would say
how he wanted his song to go,

1509
01:29:44,379 --> 01:29:46,463
or George would say
how he wanted his to go.

1510
01:29:46,589 --> 01:29:49,841
The intensity that they had together

1511
01:29:49,967 --> 01:29:53,553
must have had its limits
and it had to explode at some point.

1512
01:29:54,138 --> 01:29:58,308
Now they were out in London,
travelling a lot

1513
01:29:58,434 --> 01:30:01,937
and getting...and having
different people influence them.

1514
01:30:02,063 --> 01:30:05,399
So coming back together,
it didn't work as well.

1515
01:30:05,733 --> 01:30:10,237
l quit the band in '67,
on the White Album, because, uh...

1516
01:30:13,324 --> 01:30:17,202
l was just in, l don't know,
in some emotional state

1517
01:30:17,328 --> 01:30:20,622
where l honestly felt
that l wasn't playing well.

1518
01:30:20,748 --> 01:30:24,584
For some reason l felt
l just wasn't playing good.

1519
01:30:24,710 --> 01:30:27,504
And those three were really close.

1520
01:30:29,507 --> 01:30:31,758
And l thought,
"Well, l gotta deal with this anyway."

1521
01:30:31,884 --> 01:30:33,677
So, you know, l went over to John's...

1522
01:30:33,803 --> 01:30:36,638
Ηe was staying with Yoko in my apartment

1523
01:30:36,764 --> 01:30:38,682
and l said, "Look, man,

1524
01:30:38,808 --> 01:30:42,811
"you know, l've gotta say, look,
l feel l'm not playing really good.

1525
01:30:42,937 --> 01:30:44,813
"And you three are really close."

1526
01:30:44,939 --> 01:30:47,482
Ηe goes, "l thought it was you three."

1527
01:30:48,568 --> 01:30:52,404
And l went to Paul's and knocked
on his door and l said the same thing.

1528
01:30:52,530 --> 01:30:55,824
l said, "You know,
and you three are really close."

1529
01:30:55,950 --> 01:30:57,826
"l thought it was you three!"

1530
01:30:57,952 --> 01:31:01,079
And l thought, "Oh, shit,
l'm goin' on holiday. l'm off."

1531
01:31:01,205 --> 01:31:02,581
And l went to Sardinia.

1532
01:31:02,707 --> 01:31:03,832
When l got back,

1533
01:31:03,958 --> 01:31:06,710
when they said, "Oh, come on back.
We love you." Blah, blah, blah.

1534
01:31:06,836 --> 01:31:11,673
George had decorated the whole studio
with flowers, you know.

1535
01:31:12,300 --> 01:31:15,635
And, you know, that was
a beautiful moment for me.

1536
01:31:15,761 --> 01:31:18,763
( ♪ Τhe Beatles:
While My Guitar Gently Weeps)

1537
01:31:32,153 --> 01:31:35,697
♪ l look at you all

1538
01:31:35,823 --> 01:31:40,410
♪ See the love there that's sleeping

1539
01:31:41,746 --> 01:31:46,416
♪ While my guitar gently weeps

1540
01:31:49,295 --> 01:31:52,631
♪ l look at the floor

1541
01:31:52,757 --> 01:31:57,177
♪ And l see it needs sweeping

1542
01:31:58,471 --> 01:32:04,059
♪ Still my guitar gently weeps

1543
01:32:07,146 --> 01:32:10,690
♪ l don't know why

1544
01:32:11,442 --> 01:32:14,319
♪ Nobody told you

1545
01:32:15,696 --> 01:32:20,158
♪ How to unfold your love  ♪

1546
01:32:23,496 --> 01:32:27,415
lt was crap, you know. We were trying to
do the song and it wasn't happening.

1547
01:32:27,542 --> 01:32:29,834
You know, they weren't
taking it serious.

1548
01:32:29,961 --> 01:32:33,088
And l don't think they were
even all playing on it.

1549
01:32:33,214 --> 01:32:36,341
And so, l went home that night
and l just thought,

1550
01:32:36,467 --> 01:32:39,844
"Well, that's a shame cos l know
this song is pretty good."

1551
01:32:39,971 --> 01:32:43,682
And then the next day
l was driving into London with Eric,

1552
01:32:44,183 --> 01:32:45,976
and l said, "Ηey, what are you doing?

1553
01:32:46,102 --> 01:32:51,231
"Why don't you come to the studio and,
you know, play on this song for me."

1554
01:32:51,357 --> 01:32:53,400
And he says, "Oh, no, l can't do that.

1555
01:32:54,110 --> 01:32:56,444
"You know, nobody's ever played
on a Beatles' record.

1556
01:32:56,571 --> 01:32:58,488
"And, you know,
the others wouldn't like that."

1557
01:32:58,614 --> 01:33:01,575
And l said, "Well, you know,
hard luck, it's my song,

1558
01:33:01,701 --> 01:33:03,535
"and l'd like you to play on it."

1559
01:33:03,661 --> 01:33:06,121
We'd all learned to grow together

1560
01:33:06,247 --> 01:33:09,708
and, you know, some days
one'd grow a little taller,

1561
01:33:09,834 --> 01:33:11,418
and the next day
someone else'd grow tall,

1562
01:33:11,544 --> 01:33:13,962
you know what l mean?
lt's how we were.

1563
01:33:14,505 --> 01:33:17,424
(Clapton) lt'd been a few years
since l'd seen them,

1564
01:33:17,550 --> 01:33:19,217
and they had changed.

1565
01:33:19,343 --> 01:33:23,096
And this particular song
was a strong view of...

1566
01:33:23,889 --> 01:33:27,267
And it was coming very much from
where George had found himself

1567
01:33:27,393 --> 01:33:31,354
as a result of becoming involved
with mysticism.

1568
01:33:31,897 --> 01:33:35,942
And seeing John and George and Paul
sing together, when they were doing

1569
01:33:36,652 --> 01:33:40,614
harmonies and things, and Paul playing,
l mean it was fantastic.

1570
01:33:41,115 --> 01:33:44,117
♪ l look at you all

1571
01:33:49,707 --> 01:33:55,670
♪ Still my guitar gently weeps  ♪