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Q: "Welcome back, boys. How does this reception here compare with America?"
RINGO: "Oh, it was great! It was every bit as good."
JOHN: "It was better."
PAUL: "Better."
RINGO: "It was better."
Q: "I must say even you boys looked surprised as you came down the aircraft steps."
PAUL: "Yeah."
JOHN: "Well, wouldn't you be?"
GEORGE: "It's so early in the morning."
JOHN: "Yeah, we only just got up."
RINGO: "We haven't got up, we haven't been to bed yet. Don't forget, it's four o'clock in the states now."
Q: "What do you think about America? Is it very different from your point of view?"
RINGO: "It's bigger."
Q: "Did you get lost then, George?"
RINGO: (jokingly) "I'll pass you on to George now."
GEORGE: "No, I didn't get lost, George."
PAUL: "Nobody let him out, you know. He was in the hotel the whole time."
GEORGE: "Yeah, as soon as we got there they strapped me up in bed."
(laughter)
PAUL: "But it's a marvelous place. We loved it."
Q: "Is it very different for performance over there than performing here?"
GEORGE: "Yeah."
Q: "In what way?"
GEORGE: "You don't play theatres over there, you know. The places we played-- Carnegie Hall and this place in Washington."
RINGO: "A big stadium."
GEORGE: "Yeah, a big stadium with the audience all around and the acoustics were terrible."
JOHN: "So we sparred up, you know, before we got..."
RINGO: "Yeah, it was good."
GEORGE: "But it was good for, you know-- It was quite a novelty, wasn't it, John?"
JOHN: "Yeah it was. (jokingly) I'll pass you on to Paul."
(laughter)
PAUL: "It was, too. Yes."
Q: "Now Ringo, I hear you were manhandled at the Embassy Ball. Is this right?"
RINGO: "Not really. Someone just cut a bit of my hair, you see."
Q: "Let's have a look. You seem to have got plently left."
RINGO: (turns head) "Can you see the difference? It's longer, this side."
Q: "What happened exactly?"
RINGO: "I don't know. I was just talking, having an interview (exaggerated voice) Just like I am NOW!"
(John and Paul begin lifting locks of his hair, pretending to cut it)
RINGO: "I was talking away and I looked 'round, and there was about 400 people just smiling. So, you know-- what can you say!"
JOHN: "What can you say!"
RINGO: "Tomorrow never knows."
JOHN: (laughs)
Q: "George, how do you like being described as the Prime Minister's secret weapon?"
GEORGE: "It's great, yeah. The thing is-- I didn't get the bit where they said, 'Earning all these dollars for Britain,' like, are we sharing it out or something?"
(laughter)
Q: "But we're told that you've come back from America millionaires."
PAUL: "Naw, you're kidding."
JOHN: "Next time."
Q: "Now what about Miami? I mean, you were in the millionaire's playground."
RINGO: "Oh, that was marvelous-- Miami!"
Q: "You lived well, did you?"
PAUL: "Yeah. Well, we borrowed these houses, you see. These people rang-up and said, 'Do you want our house, lad?' So we said, (American accent) 'By gum, we do!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "And we went across there, and we all water-skied, and fishing."
(Paul gestures a two-foot fish with his hands. John demonstrates a one-inch fish with his fingers)
RINGO: "He caught a monster!"
Q: "How did it compare with New Brighton?"
PAUL: (laughs) "With New Brighton? It wasn't as sunny, of course, as New Brighton."
RINGO: "Of course, we missed the docks."
JOHN: "And the people didn't have as much money."
GEORGE: "And there was more oil on the sand in Miami."
Q: "We'd like to hear what you thought about (meeting) Mister Clay." (Cassius Clay, aka Mohammed Ali)
JOHN: "Very tall."
RINGO: "Oh, he's a big lad."
PAUL: "He's a great laugh, more than anything. He's a big lad."
GEORGE: "He's gonna get Sonny Liston in three."
JOHN: "...he said."
RINGO: "So he said."
PAUL: "That's what he said. I don't think he will, though."
Q: "I hear you were creeping up to Harry Carpenter in the training camp, Paul, and whispering things to him."
PAUL: "Yeah. Well you see, the only thing was-- He asked me who was going to win! And I would have told him out that I thought Liston was gonna win."
JOHN: (jokingly) "You coward!"
PAUL: (laughs) "I'm a coward! And it was in Clay's camp, you see, and there was all these big fellas around. I had to whisper, you know."
JOHN: (starts singing, and Paul joins in) "'Liston, do you want to know a secret.'"
(laughter)
RINGO: "Pluggin' you know. We're still trying to sell!"
Q: "How did Clay compare with you?"
RINGO: "He's bigger than all of us put together."
Q: "We're told that he was acting in a way that even the Beatles couldn't match."
PAUL: "Yeah. He was, actually."
RINGO: "He was good."
JOHN: "He was saying, 'I'z beautiful, and you'z beautiful, too!!'"
(laughter)
PAUL: "Yeah, he's a showman."
RINGO: "Oh, definitely."
Q: "Well now that you're back, you're out of the Top Ten for the first time for a long time."
JOHN: (comical choking sound)
Q: "What about it."
PAUL: "Uhh, I don't know."
JOHN: "What do you suggest?"
Q: "Have you got anything on the way?"
JOHN: "We could go straight, couldn't we."
GEORGE: "I'm going to try tap-dancing."
PAUL: "And Ringo's doing comedy on the high-wire."
Q: "But have you got anything on the way, apart from the film?"
PAUL: "We're doing recording next week."
JOHN: (to Paul) "Shhh!!"
RINGO: "Don't tell 'em."
PAUL: "We're not! It's a lie! Sorry! (whispers) We're recording next week."
Q: "We daren't ask you where."
PAUL: "No!"
RINGO: "We couldn't tell you."
JOHN: "Oh no. --DECCA!"
(laughter)
Q: "What about your impression of American adults? I mean, we hear your impression of teenagers and so on. I saw you, Ringo, being quoted as saying something about this."
RINGO: "What did I say?"
Q: "You tell me."
RINGO: (jokingly) "I don't know. You know, I'm quoted so much it's just ridiculous."
(laughter)
Q: "You tell him what he said, Paul."
PAUL: "I don't remember. About adults?"
RINGO: "They're older than I am!"
(laughter)
Q: "You said the adults were a bigger problem than the teenagers."
RINGO: "Oh, yeah. Well, you know, they've sort of gone potty."
PAUL: "Yeah, they were."
RINGO: "I mean, the teenagers will ask for the autograph, and take it, and leave it at that. But the adults want to know where you've been, and..."
PAUL: "Yeah. Cut your hair, too."
RINGO: "Yeah. Well, I don't know if it was an adult, but somebody did."
Q: "Did you manage to get much time away from all this, and really get away by yourselves?"
JOHN: "We got three days at the end, after the 'Ed Sullivan in Miami,' you know, we stayed on. Was it three days?"
PAUL: "Yeah."
RINGO: "It was around that."
JOHN: "Three days, you know... nearly three."
Q: "Anyway, nice to see you back, boys. Thanks very much..."
PAUL: "Thank you."
RINGO: "Good to see you. Keep kicking."
JOHN: (giggling to Ringo) "Keep kicking."