Q: "We heard
reports that, maybe, the
plane was late and they
wouldn't let them into
Canada. Why?"
John: "Because of
the hair. Have to be
deloused before you can
get in."
(laughter)
Paul: "Ewww."
John: (jokingly)
"Well, it's a thought,
Paul. It's just a
thought."
Paul: (giggles)
"It's a thought, John."
Q: "What held you
up on your way here? Why
wouldn't they let you
into Canada? Seriously."
George: "'Cuz the
pilot didn't have a
little stamp on his bit
of paper."
John: "We got
here and... had to go
back."
Paul: "There was
one little thing missing
on the paper."
Q: "That happened
while you were in the
air over Vancouver?"
George: "We were
almost here, and he
turned 'round... went
back... got a little
thing stamped on his
passport, and then..."
John: "and we had
MORE chicken
sandwiches."
(laughter)
George: "and then
we came again. and then
the police took us for a
forty minute tour of
the... of the city."
John: "Because
they weren't ready
here."
Paul: "There was
something not ready, you
know."
George: "Apart
from that we were on
time."
Q: "How did you
like it?"
John: "Very good.
Only we were starving,
you know."
(laughter)
Q: "On a
percentage basis these
days, what are you
taking out of America
compared with Britain,
in earning power?"
Paul: "Money.
Money."
John: "I haven't
a clue."
Q: "Money, I'm
aware."
Paul:
"Definitely. No we don't
know how much, you know.
Really."
John: (jokingly)
"Do you get more in
America?"
Paul: "You won't
believe us, but..."
John: "I figure
we get more here, 'cuz
it's so far away from
home."
(laughter)
Paul: "The only
reason..."
Q: "There's a
rumor you own a bank in
England. Is that
correct?"
Paul and George:
"No."
John: "No, we
just borrow it now and
then."
(laughter)
Q: "What's your
deal with..."
Paul: "John.
John."
John: "What?"
Paul: "Just
gettin' it clear, John."
John: (giggles)
"Oh."
Paul: "John."
Q: "What is your
deal with EMI which, of
course, is Capitol
Records?"
Paul: "Yeah."
Q: "Is it a
long-term contract, and
if so, how long?"
Paul: "No, it
actually, I think it
expires next year."
John: (at same
time as Paul) "I think
it expires next year or
something like that."
George: "It
expires any year now."
Q: "Will you
remain with them?"
John: "Depends
what they say."
George: "Who
knows?"
Q: "Oh, you'll
buy them."
Beatles: (laugh)
Q: "What are your
plans for movies?"
Paul: "We've got
to do a new one in
February.
Februar-ar-ary. There
aren't... we haven't
made any plans for it as
yet. We talked to the
director."
Q: "No plans?"
Paul: "No,
nothing."
George: "No
title, no script."
Ringo: (jokingly)
"No script - No actors."
Q: "Are you gonna
do any more (vocal)
solos, Ringo, on any
future records?"
Ringo: "Umm... I
suppose so, you know."
Q: "When are you
going to retire,
fellas?"
Ringo: "About ten
minutes."
(laughter)
Q: "In a past
interview, you once said
that you didn't mind
being in the spotlight
twenty-four hours a day.
Isn't there the odd time
that you do enjoy doing
common things, and just
having it all to
yourself?"
John: "When we're
asleep."
(laughter)
Q: "When is
that?"
John: (giggles)
"I don't know."
Ringo: "Next
Thursday."
Paul: "Very
busy."
Q: "Are you going
to immigrate to the
States, fellas?"
Beatles: "No."
Q: "Why?"
George: "'Cuz we
like England."
Q: "Who are your
favourite recording
artists?"
John: "Uh, Little
Richard's one."
Ringo: "Marvin
Gaye, Mary Wells, The
Exciters."
George: "Jackie
DeShannon."
Paul: "The
Miracles."
George:
(jokingly) "Derek
Taylor."
Ringo: "Chuck
Jackson."
Q: "When you
people were initially
starting did The
Crickets have any
influence in your sound
at all?"
John: "When they
were with Buddy Holly,
yeah."
Ringo: "Marian
Williams."
Q: "How about the
name, did that have any
influence? --The
Crickets and The
Beatles?"
John: "Can't
remember, it could've.
You know, it's so long
ago."
Q: "What's the
most unusual request
you've ever had from a
fan?"
John: "Well, I
wouldn't like to say,
really!"
(laughter)
Q: "Are you
fellas identified with
either the mods or the
rockers?"
John: "Uh...
well, the rockers think
we're mods, and then the
mods think we're
rockers, I think."
Q: "Do you enjoy
beating off girls?"
John: "We don't
do it, the police do
it."
(laughter)
Q: "Do you feel
safe riding in an
airplane?"
John: "Not
really. As safe as you
can be in an airplane, I
suppose."
Q: "Are you going
to write another book,
John?"
John: "Uhh...
well, yes."
Q: "When is it
coming out?"
John: "I don't
know. I can't seem to be
able to..."
Q: "What are you
going to call it?"
John: "I don't
know that either."
Q: "Does every
city look the same?"
John: "No. Some
have trees, some don't."
Q: "What are your
plans for the next ten
years?"
John: (in a deep
voice) "What are your
plans, son?"
Ringo: (in
elderly voice) "Can you
speak up, please!"
(laughter)
Ringo: "I haven't
planned anything. I just
keep going, you know...
see what happens. It's
more fun."
Q: "Ringo, are
you engaged to Maureen
Cox?"
Ringo: "No!"
Q: "Are you going
to be?"
Ringo: "No!
Anything else?"
(laughter)
Q: "Do you think
overexposure with movies
and too many record
releases perhaps could
damage your career at
all?"
John: "We don't
release any more records
than anybody else, it
just so happens..."
Ringo: "We've
only made one movie."
John: "...they
make everything we make
into a single over
here."
Paul: "In fact,
we... we..."
John:
(interrupting Paul)
"We've made three
albums."
Paul: "...sorry."
John: "Tell
him... sorry, Paul."
(laughter)
George:
(interrupting Paul) "In
England, we made three
albums!"
(laughter)
George: "and
they've got seven out
over here, or about
seven."
Ringo: "So work
that out for
yourselves."
John: "They just
make 'em up."
Paul: "In fact,
we've made less records
than most people. So
there. We've only
made... I think we've
only ever made seven
singles, and it seems to
me like thousands, you
know."
John: "Seven
singles and three
albums."
Q: "Over here, we
get one every day."
Paul: "Over here,
yeah."
Ringo: "Lucky."
Paul: "Well, we
only made seven, you
know."
Q: "I notice none
of you smoke, do you
have any drinking
habits?"
Beatles: "We do
smoke."
Q: "You do?"
John: (shows
cigarettes) "What's
this?"
Q: "Ahh, right."
John: "It's not
peanuts, you know! Ha ha
ha!"
(laughter)
Paul: "We drink.
Drink, too."
Q: "How many of
the quartet are the
original Beatles?"
John: "The three
of us."
Paul: "Ringo..."
Q: "Who was the
boy that was ahead
of..."
Paul: "A fella
called Pete Best."
Ringo: "I'm the
one that died."
John: (laughs)
Q: "Why did he
quit?"
John: "We threw
him out."
Paul: "He really
was... It's one of those
things, you know.
Recording manager said
he wasn't..."
Q: "How long does
your show last?"
John: "Thirty
minutes."
Q: "Thirty
minutes?"
Paul: "Just a bit
over thirty, yeah."
Q: "What's
worse... facing the kids
or a mob like this?"
John: (comically)
"Mmmmmmmm."
(laughter)
Paul: "No,
it's... We enjoy it, you
know. This, even."
Ringo: "Even."
Paul: "Even
this!"
(laughter)
Q: "Has the press
been unkind to you at
any time, do you feel?"
John: "Some of
them."
Paul and Ringo:
"Sometimes."
George: "The
majority have been
good."
Q: "In which
area?"
Ringo: "American
magazines."
Paul: "Movie-type
magazines and secrets
and 'The Truth Behind
The Rumors,' and all
that."
Q: "You don't
have any secrets?"
Paul: "Yeah, you
know. But they're not
the ones that get into
the magazines, anyway."
Q: "Do you feel
responsible for making
Britannia rule the
airwaves?"
John: "No."
Paul: "Ooh. Ohh.
You worked that one out,
didn't you?"
(laughter)
Q: "What is the
best city you've ever
played?"
John: "I don't
know."
Ringo: "It's
impossible, you know."
Paul: "Actually,
one of the wildest
audiences was, I think,
Glasgow."
Ringo: "Glasgow,
Scotland."
Q: "With all the
money you make, is it
true you had 19-cent
hamburgers from Kings
for dinner tonight?"
Beatles: "Yeah."
Q: "Paul, did you
bring along your dad?"
Paul: "No. Well,
actually my dad's having
a better time than I am.
He's got a... he's got a
house, a race horse.
He's just been for a
week in Athens. I wish I
was him."
(laughter)
Q: "How much
time-off do you get in a
year?"
Paul: "About..."
John: "We get
good enough holidays,
when we get 'em."
Ringo: "Couple of
months."
Paul: "Three or
four weeks a year."
Q: "How can you
enjoy them, when I hear
that in Hawaii you had
to leave after just a
few days?"
John: "We weren't
going to Hawaii, we were
just passing through,
you see."
George: "We only
stayed there the night
on the way to Tahiti."
Q: "Did you like
it?"
Paul: "Yeah."
John: "What?
Hawaii?"
Q: "Yeah,
Hawaii."
John: "It was
alright."
George: "But we
were only staying there
the night on the way to
Tahiti."
(laughter)
Paul: "Say it
again, George."
George: "He's got
it."
Q: "Have any of
the political parties in
England tried to carry
favor with you and use
you for their own
benefit?"
John: "No. They
all give us a mention
just in case."
(laughter)
George: "We had
our pictures taken with
Bessie Braddock and
Harold Wilson, though."
Paul: "Yeah, but
we don't know enough
about politics to
support one or the
other, you know."
Q: "You're all
Torries, is that
correct?"
Ringo: "We're
nothing."
Paul: "Not
really."
John: (jokingly)
"Whoever gives us the
most money, you know. We
vote for them."
(laughter)
Q: "Do you date
any of your teenage
fans?"
Paul: "Yeah,
whenever we get the
chance, but you don't
often get the chance to.
But we do, you know."
Q: "Will you be
able to here in
Vancouver?"
Paul: "I doubt
it. No."
Q: "What do you
do with all the stuff
that gets sent to the
rooms?"
Paul: "We try to
keep as much of it as we
can, but we can't always
keep it. So a thing like
a big cake we sent to a
hospital or something,
because we can't carry
cakes around with us,
you know."
Q: "How many
people do the Beatles
employ, as a group? The
organization, The
Beatles, Limited?"
Paul: "Oh, us? I
don't know, you see,
because much of the
people that work with
us..."
George: "I think
'we' only employ about
two people."
Paul: "Most of
the people that work
with us work for 'NEMS,'
which is our manager's
company."
George: "We
employ two, and that's
it."
Paul: "and they
have artists like Gerry
and the Pacemakers,
Cilla Black, and alot of
other people, you
know... Billy J.
Kramer."
John: "We have
two permanently with us.
One press agent and one
road manager... Oh no,
and a heavy."
Paul: "There he
is. This one - with the
mic."
Q: "You do carry
a bodyguard, then?"
Beatles: "No."
John: "You don't
need to with all those
police!"
(laughter)
Q: "Do you find
that you're losing your
popularity in England?"
John: "No, not
according to record
sales."
Q: "Then it's all
just rumors?"
Paul: "Yeah.
Actually, we heard
before..."
John: "They've
been knocking us off
since the third record."
Paul: "...before
we went to Liverpool
last time, for the
Northern Premiere of the
film, you know, we'd
been down in London
alot, because we'd been
doing the film and TV
and things, and
everybody was saying,
'I've just been up to
Liverpool, and they hate
you up there, and it's
terrible. Nobody likes
you anymore.' and we
believed 'em, you know,
'cuz we read the paper,
same as anyone else. and
we went up there, and it
was the most ridiculous
reception we've had
anywhere, you know. So I
give-in believing these
rumors."
Q: "Can I ask you
if you've ever had a
press reception in a
more uncomfortable
room?"
(laughter)
John: (giggles)
"Yeah."
Paul: "I don't
know."
Q: "Where?"
John: "I don't
know."
Q: "How do you
feel being compared to
Dave Clark Five?"
John: "We're
compared to everybody."
Paul: "Don't
mind."
Q: "How about
your horse, how's it
doing... your race
horse."
Paul: "Great! The
first time out... It's
not mine, it's my dad's,
you know. It's nothing
to do with me. First
time out it came second,
and the last time out it
won."
John: "and then
it died."
(laughter)
Q: "Does this mob
of police protection
come out of your take,
or is the management
here to accept
responsibility for
paying them?"
John: "I don't
know who pays 'em, but
we don't."
Paul: "The last
place we played at, it
was the management of
the place. I don't know,
it may be the same now."
George: "But we
just tour, we don't do
all that."
Q: "You'd miss
them, though."
Paul: "Oh, yeah."
Ringo: "Really."
John: "Yeah. Well
I mean, if we can't get
in a place, we can't go,
can we? It's the
promoter's money."
Q: "How long will
you be on the road
before you go home?"
Paul: "About four
more weeks."
Q: "What is the
best group of teenagers,
well-behaved, you've
ever had?"
Paul: "Um... I
don't know. They're
about the same all over
the world. Just got
different accents."
Q: "What city
have you had your worst
time in?"
Paul: "Don't
know, because, you
know... things that some
people think are the
worst time, we think are
the best, you know. But
I can't remember a worst
time."
Q: "You've been
roughed-up and jostled
in various places you've
been. Can you think of
one in particular that
was worse than the
others?"
Paul: "No, you
know. Not..."
John: "We've not
been really roughed at
all, you know."
Q: "Where do you
think the biggest
reception crowd has
been?"
John: "Biggest
crowd was Liverpool."
Ringo:
"Liverpool."
Q: "How many?"
John: "I don't
know."
George: "Alot."
John: "Just more
than the other..."
Q: "Sydney was
the biggest, wasn't it?"
Paul: "Sydney?"
John: "Ah, well."
Paul: "I don't
know, but there was alot
in Liverpool."
Q: "How long did
it take you to make your
movie?"
John: "Eight
weeks, was it?"
Paul: "Yes."
John: "They were
trying to make it in
three, but we argued."
Q: "Do you like
the movie?"
Paul: "It's good,
you know."
Q: "How's it
doing where it's
showing, do you know?"
Ringo: "It's
doing well."
John: "It's
breaking records, I've
heard. I don't want to
brag."
(laughter)
Q: "Is it true
that some of your
birthday mail went in
the fire and you didn't
even see it?"
George: "No,
untrue. Well, I think
so. Actually, it was,
umm..."
Paul: "I don't
think that was the rumor
anyway, you know."
John: "The rumor
was it went in the bin.
By the time it gets over
here, it's on fire."
Paul: "Some
people found some
mail... and I think it
was about two letters
out of thousands, you
know... which had been
unopened. They'd been
sent to the fan clubs,
and the fan club was
supposed to open and
read 'em and then throw
'em. and there were
about two that they'd
forgotten to open, so
this was a great big
scandal, you know. It
was just a slip-up."
Q: "Ringo, do
your families see your
shows when you are in
England?"
Ringo:
"Sometimes, when we play
Liverpool and 'round
about there. We did the
premiere in London, they
came down there. They
come down and I go up."
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