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Text by Jonathan Cott and David Dalton

Things as they are there. You can glide down from Ringo: . Paul: As a dream the roof on a one shot on to . . . just sit back in a wide shot, As they are as a dream Ringos face, float around, being then go to someone, like a news careful not to miss anything. Its event. Paul: I think were getting the like Warhols things; he goes to Ringo: Id like it like a Country wrong idea about the film. Its the other extreme, but he reckons programme where you have one like in the Stones Circus. theres a pace in Empire. Even a camera, just step in and do your I couldnt really get into that. It Tunisian amphitheatre can be bit, like on the Grand Ol Opery, was an event and that kind of boring. I dont dig Flatt and Scruggs; theyd all thing is all over. I say, just stick underestimating whats here. If it move in when their solo came on it and leave it. Just leave the s going to be scenery, we should around and take the centre so shot and the whole bit and not go the whole way and get they acted out the shots. just this excellent little galloping horses. You should get Paul: It bugs me when they zoom movement. Like on really close up, like right into one Ringo. He does this and he in and out. Id like it to be like an of Johns eyes. Can you do that? old movie. If you want to say does that and its all great, and That direction, rather than John that to music. anything, you walk up to the and the moon. Linda: The world camera. The only thing that Linda: Like a study. is dying to see them. Ive never doesnt need to move is the Paul: A study, yeah, like seen a study of them. You want camera. Its like oriental medicine Picasso paints. You just saw the to be there. Lindsay-Hogg: I just and western medicine. We whole thing right there. These thought of going to Africa prescribe for the symptoms; they songs are our paintings. Get very because we colonised it. are into preventing it. Its like a bright lights so you see Paul: But we could have like a switch—get us to do the everything, instead of moody game of musical chairs, a movement. lighting, that kind of thing. With computer set up with chairs. You Ringo: They asked some people everything here, it hardly needs ve got the scenery here. Its like to stand by a wall, just stand scenery. Really, it all should be The Potters Wheel; theyd make there, not do anything, but they about him and his . Look a pot before your eyes. The couldnt do it. They all had to do at his drum kit, it really looks camel wont be doing anything their bit, all the old jokes we used great live; youll be lucky if you catch to do and that .. . Kids always win beautiful sitting there. Then John him crapping on camera. on those. Paul: Dreaming in and his guitar and his amp, sitting Linda: Its like being a great public is the thing. You know there, actually showing it at that photographer. Like there are those dreams where you go down minute. The scenery would just be only certain men Im a Helter Skelter? And the scene the other things around, like the interested in photographing. I changes? But doing that awake. scaffolding, the other cameras. Its cant women at all; The latest thing from Apple! like in a news event. The man it doesnt involve me .. . Well, shooting is maybe like . Paul: news, not the man on the ground If you go away, youre going to afterwards. Id really like to look at be hamstrung by the scenery. If Pete Townshends face; he you could shoot the steadiness, fascinates me . . . like on Jude like youre flying over... the little screams were more Lindsay-Hogg: What was your interesting than the postman. If favourite of the TV shows? you can think slow, not bang! bang! bang! Instead of getting all the pacing, a chair lift, the flow, the pace is already Paul: Hi Ringo. Hi lads. always think that sounds Paul: Can you play that back Ringo: Hi. Happy New funny, like having trumpeters. now, Glyn? New Year. singing) Glyn: Coming up. Paul: Its the happiest belated Dont let me down .. . Paul: The thing I dont want hogmany for marmalade. f you could have Dont let is a TV show. They always seem John: Its a feeling . . . its me down, say, twice at the to have that farty little sound on enough to make a haggis grow beginning. It sounds like a TV. legs; but tonight well celebrate middle 8 all the time. I wouldnt ; Glyn: Dont forget youre on Irish Whiskey said Gene crap that; use it somewhere near hearing it on a TV speaker, which is a grotty speaker, but Pitney, the only Sassenach in the end. you can get a good sound. the group. John: Well do it a couple of more times right through. Paul: But even so, whenever Paul: I tried to call you this George: Do you want us to you used to get Cool for Cats, morning. sing in unison or harmony? when they played the record or John: I know, I complained to Paul: Harmony. anything, youd hear the the operator about it. George: Well need three mikes old mine shelves, in the old days. Paul: I get the horrors every then. Dont let me down morning about 9:00 when I get Paul: Something like (singing): Dont let me down .. . my toast and tea .. . Love for the first time JUMBLE OF VOICES So dont you let it get away (Tuning up, drums, cymbals tintinabulating, a gets It lasts forever and a day moving. John, Paul, and George Start off with a corny one. singing I Shall Be Released) John: I think the words should They say everything can be replaced be corny cos theres no clever They say every distance is not near words in it. Yet I remember every face Paul: Just repeat what you were Of every man who put me here. doing, but not as high as we were George: Its echoing; we have doing it. (singing) a bit of echo. We could get a Im in love for the first time in PA like in the Top Ten Hamburg. Dont you know its going to last. John: (singing) Dont bring George: The corny bits I me down .. . thought were the notes, how Paul: Its the first time I thought we were doing it, not the words. it was this high; I thought it was Paul: Lets try it again and see if low before. John: I think its its all right. when youre trying to sing over . . Dont let me down . You see Ive no order for it at Dont let me down all—for all the bits. Im just going George: That bit is even cornier; to see which should come where . . . Dont bring me . . . Paul: The the harmony—its too pretty. point is, are we going to do it, Paul: We can make it better as can we do it? John: Weve been we go along. Do it once more. I, trying. Paul: I think we should 2, 3, 4, learn it then, see whats needed. Im in love for the first time The idea of a does limit it. George: That one was great. Try this, its these three, 1st 2nd 3rd fret, an open bottom E .. . Dont let me down In a Play Anyway Date: little group of chairs that floats 2nd like Hucks raft on the blue- black ektachrome floor. The Location: Twickenham director, Lindsay-Hogg, Film Studios in a brown pin-striped suit, Cast: smoking an early Hollywood cigar, wears his 30s. Yokos Paul McCartney in black, visible, invisible, silently present. Her hair, Noh curtains. Drinking tea from a styrofoam cup, Director: picking nervously at her hands, a Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Bird of Paradise perching for a moment on an electric wire. Glyn, immersed in Linda Eastman sound. Indispensible Mal, Sound Engineer: Beatles oracle, Where are the , machines from EMI, Mal? Malcolm Evans Get me some more of these Scene: A large sound stage at heavy gauge strings, a friendly Twickenham. At one end, a giant giant. semi-circular backdrop screen, Lindsay-Hogg: Cut! I curling around 180 of space, with take 2 silent turnover colour like light under water. The colours on the backdrop screen John: (singing: his voice like glow side by side: red, green, a nasal organ) purple bands, a technicolor Dont let me down rainbow. A spacious platform is Dont let me down set up in the centre. Ringo, Dont let me down wearing a turtleneck, is sitting high Dont let me down up on the drum rostrum above a Im in love for the first time pyramid of drums and cymbals, Please don t let me down Below, a triangle of chairs facing Dont let me down Dont inward. George with moustache, let me down Dont let me beside him a table with a bowl of down Dont let me down flowers. He is wearing a pinstriped Nobody ever loved me like shirt and a red scarf that reminds You do you of the cowboy photos of him If somebody loved me in the first Beatle concert book. Half as much as you do me John, dressed in white, wearing As you do .. . sneakers, peers through glass like (The sound is hypnotic. Words a wise old fish, like St. Augustine, drift sleeping into each other— like John Lennon. Paul has not yet azure doomy (as you do me). arrived. In the half-light, the crew Paul arrives, bristling black move about furtively, four camera beard, in a grey overcoat, men, clapper, grip, boom men, disguised as God. This camouflage around the rostrum and the allows him to travel undetected into town on the 74 bus from St. Johns Wood.) Charity Begins at Home Paul: I as possible. But I think we need in on it until you get it how you mean weve been very negative a bit more if we are going to get want it. since Mr. Epstein passed away. on with it. Paul: Last year you were telling Thats why. We havent been George: Well, if thats what me: you can do anything you positive. Thats why all of us in doing it is, I dont want to do want, Paul; anything you desire turn have been sick of the group, anything. you can do. you know. Theres nothing Paul: Well, you see nowadays George: But you have to desire positive in it. It is a bit of a drag. youve grown up and dont have to do it. The only way for it not to be a bit to do that any more. You dont Paul: But these days you are of a drag is for the four of us to have to put the pancake on and saying were not going to be able think, should we make it positve go out front and sweat and shake to do it, you know, were going to or should we forget it. your heads because were not come out a compromise. Now I John: The whole point of it is that any more. Weve grown up a dont think that, I really dont. I communication. Weve got a bit. So what I mean is, we did it think weve got it. I really think we chance to smile, like All You then, but it doesnt mean to do it re very good. And we can get it Need is Love. So thats me again we have to do all that. I together if we think that we want incentive for doing it. Lindsay- think weve gone a bit shy. I think to do these songs, great, we can Hogg: Ive got a bit shy of certain things. just do it great, you know. But I and Hey Jude did Lindsay-Hogg: I guess the think thinking its not going to communicate. difficulty is getting up in front of come out great, well, thats like Paul: Of course they did .. . an audience with all youve done meditation where you just get into There really is no one there to in front of you. Trying to get a . . . and you come out of it, you say Do it!, whereas there always something as good, but maybe dont go through it. So youre sick used to be and we would say not the same thing. Its a very of playing the drums; weve all got forget it. But its us that have got hard thing to get back In other to say it. Its all the same and we to get us up ahead now ... Its like words, you musnt think of getting ve got to go through it. when youre growing up and then back what you had. Lindsay-Hogg: Well I think one of your daddy goes away at a Paul: Desire to do it. Its like with those things thats wrong about certain point in your life and then all these songs; there are some doing the show here is that its too you stand on your own feet. really great songs, and I just hope easy. Like when we are in the car Daddy has gone away now, you we dont blow any of them. looking for locations and glorified know, and we are on our own Because you know how often on boutiques, I think thats wrong. little holiday camp. You know, I we sometimes blow one But just doing it in the backyard. I think we either go home or we do of your songs because we come mean its literal. Its almost your it. Its discipline we need. Its like in in the wrong mood and you say backyard, Twickenham. Theres everything you do, you always this is how it goes. Ill be back, no balls to the show at all. I mean need discipline. Weve never had and we are all just going theres no balls in any of us, Im discipline. Mr. Epstein, he said, chugachugachugachuga .. . included, and thats why I think we sort of Get suits on and we did. George: Really, I dont want to do are being soft about it. You are And so we were always fighting any of the songs on the show the Beatles; you arent four jerks. that discipline a bit. But now its because they always turn out You know what I mean. silly to fight that discipline if its awful like that. They come out like Paul: The only thing about that is our own. Its self-imposed these a compromise whereas in a that we dont want to go away. days, so we do as little studio they can put work Lindsay-Hogg: I know, I know, I place in Chelsea where they had with anything, is always know. I know if I say it again Im an Arts Festival or something, out incidental. Hiding behind the going to get a big left hander, in the parks, where they built chords of a tune, or something. but... marquees. And the BBC said But we dont actually come out George: You know its going to Why dont you do a TV show? like All You Need is Love. We be the same thing there as Why dont you let us do a TV ve got our props. Weve got our here—its going to be a bit show. So they eventually gave ying-yangs and our flowers and nicer place to be in, but its them twenty minutes. And it was that. And saying All you need is going to be even more incredible, really. There was just Love which is, you know, very to complicated trying to plug in on this fellow, sitting there, watching the point. all the mikes and tapes and all himself on a monitor screen, sort Paul: Yeah. But the thing is, that crap. of drinking a cup of tea. But for a I mean, OK. I mean if you put us Lindsay-Hogg: First of all long time, you know. A bit long playing in the main gallery at the visually the thing that interests for Telly. For about five minutes, Houses of Parliament—youve me . . . naturally . . . Think of the with Revolution playing over got it there. Could you get it? helicopter shot over the him. And there was just this one Could you get it for us, the amphitheatre with the water with shot of the fellow, just held dead Houses of Parliament? We the lights and the water, torchlit, straight and the camera on the should do the show in a place 2,000 Arabs. You know what I monitors zooming in and out on where we are not allowed to do mean. Visually its fantastic. him. And, you know, hes picking it. Like we should trespass. Go Paul: But if it was a fan club up a cup of tea and that. And its in. Set up and get moved, and show. You remember the like all the students have sort of that should be the show. Get Wembley, or the Wimbledon taken over, you know. Its like forcibly ejected. Still trying to one where we were in a cage, anarchy. And they got hold of play your numbers and the and like people were filing BBC-2 for a bit. And then they police lifting you. You have to past; it was just a different kind just started to shout to a couple take a bit of violence. Lindsay- of thing from what we ever of people. They werent very good Hogg: I think thats too did. It was terrible. Thats not it. about it all. They were a bit dangerous. I mean thats an But that kind of thing made that studenty about it. A bit interesting thought if you are show different because it was like embarrassed to be on. They didn going to be beaten up. But what playing to a thing, like a fan club. t really take hold of the about a hospital? Lindsay-Hogg:... And its one opportunity and do it. But its that John: Manilla or Memphis? of the first times in history when kind of opportunity weve got for Ringo: Cathedral. you had heroes of your own an hour. Paul: Its like going once, going age. You think about that. George: Lets do a political twice, going three times and thats Because prior to , broadcast. it. Its even, I think, like charity, heroes were like Valentino, and Paul: Jude is political. Thats you see; we oughtnt to do it for there werent many. the thing We dont like party money, but equally we oughtnt to Paul: Did any of you see on political broadcasts as such. do it just for the 500 seats. But BBC-2 when the students took Weve never liked them. I there is somewhere in between. over Late Night Line Up? always turn them off when Those are the two ends of the Lindsay-Hogg: No, but I they come on. I try and find scale, either 500 seats, or just wanted to. Go on. another channel, and there paying customers. There ought to Paul: They just had a little bit never is. be somewhere in between. of normal Line Up interview; George: Its incidental. Orphanage going downhill. then they went down to this Whatever we have to say, to do George: We could make it like requests, as if they were all special. Each is aimed at Whats it for? Cant be for the Somebody Spoke somebody. This one is for Enoch money. I mean, why are you I Went Into a Dream Powell. here? Im here because I want to George: Maybe we should Lindsay-Hogg: Do you do a show. But I dont really feel learn a few new songs. remember that one of the ideas an awful lot of support. I mean, is John: Actually I started one was like . . . you know, this is for anyone here cos he wants to do a last night; It goes something the girl who was next to George show, or am I just . . . The best like this: (sings) on the 52 bus? George: Id like to idea is straight entertainment. The You are definitely inclined dedicate this one to Harold most entertaining show of all towards it Wilson, the Singing Nun, and times. Thats right. Thats what Although sometimes I doubt it. General Washington. Its called .. viewers want to see, sitting right (John begins singing with the . John: Up your pipe. Lindsay- at home in New York. Straight, voice of the old man in the Hogg: John, how does all this great, fantastic, touching beautiful mountain) strike you? rock and rolly, poignant Everybody had a hard year John: Im warming up to the entertainment . . When we get Everybody had a good time idea of an asylum. together, we Everybody had a wet dream Paul: We should send planes to just seem to talk about the past. Everybody saw the sun shine Biafra, and rescue all the people George: Well, the Beatles have Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah and then play at the airport as been in the doldrums for about a Paul: (singing) Ive got a feeling they come in. Do a show for year. A feeling deep inside (oh yeah) I them. Biafrans. Paul: Its silly for us at this ve got a feeling George: Dont they say point to crack up. A feeling I cant hide (oh yeah) Charity begins at home? Ive got a feeling Paul: So we will do it at (singing like Little Richard, piling Georges house. up words Helter-Skelter style) All Ringo: Lets do the show right these years I been wandering here. around George: (sings and strums) Wonderin how come nobody Any day now told me Any day now All I been looking for is somebody I shall be released. who looked like you. Paul: Say we were doing it in an (At this point, George plays airport. You could stop the people a guitar break, going down a fifth from coming and going. Theyve step by step sol fa mi re do) all got planes to catch. Like you George: Still theres a bit of doubt get a lot of people all the time among us about that break. going for planes and looking. It Paul: Its coming down too fast, would be a scene. Or in a hospital; the note: there shouldnt be any they cant get up—except at the recognizable jumps. You see finale, when John walks over to that would be okay if you .. . the little girl and says Come ye (demonstrates going down a and she gets up and walks. I dont fifth, playing quicker than see why any of you, talking to George has done) Its got to be whoever it is, is going to get like pain; at the moment its a himself into this. riff. George: You cant do that and that speech. Read the News Today, have it clipped at the same time. John: Cause it was gonna Oh Boy Paul: Just do like anything happen. Daily Telegraph so that its crying. Its like Paul: Some nut, too, some U THANT A POP SINGER da da dada instead of da dada. white nut. REPLY SHOCKS CARADON George: It will never go. Paul: John: But its not nuts, its Ignorance of the United Nations It would be great if you hung on business. in Britain was so great that in a to that bit, that E like Pete Yoko: He was like a poet. poll, U Thant, Secretary-General, Townshend. (sings) Oh please Paul: (sings I Got a Feeling) was described as a pop singer believe me Free at last, free at last. John: while some people thought he Id hate to miss the train ( I have a feeling, I had a was a submarine, Lord Caradon, oh yeah) dream—we could make it our Minister of State, and Britains And if you leave me last single. permanent representative at the I wont be Ive got a feeling UN said in London yesterday. Ive got a feeling That keeps me on my toes George: Its more like country. I Ive got a feeling Daily Mirror dig country and western. Paul: If That everybody knows STOLEN 200 MILES OF SUPER we can sort of relax enough to Ive got a feeling SAUSAGE SKINS realize we can get more feeling John: Got to admit its getting THREE COUPLES GET into it if its softer, play if soft. better. TOGETHER TO TEST A John: Its not heavy. Paul: Got to admit its getting THEORY ABOUT MARRIED Paul: I dont know if I can relax worse. PEOPLE LOOKING ALIKE enough to sing falsettos; its as Lindsay-Hogg: Why dont we The Financial Times TURKEY clear as that. take a break here? PRICES SLASHED TO CLEAR John: George: Could I have a cup CHRISTMAS GLUT Everybody had a hard year of tea, love? Everybody put their feet up Paul: Do you want one of Evening Standard Everybody let their hair down those rock cakes, George? ( VITAMIN JABS APPEAR TO Everybody pulled their socks up George and Ringo sit down WORK Oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah Paul: I on the edge of the drum NEW ARIEL GIVES WASHDAY had a dream, I had a dream rostrum. John continues RIVAL THE this afternoon, we shall all be playing his guitar, Evening News united. Pauls sitting on one THE BEATLES, TOM JONES John: Did you hear Martin Luther of the chairs reading a ON TOP OF THE WORLD King when they shot him . . . I newspaper. In his tee-shirt and had a dream this afternoon, bristling black beard, he looks children, I dreamt the black and like the sailor on a pack of US HAS YEAR WITHOUT white kids are gonna be together. Players cigarettes.) EXECUTION Paul: He got shot after that; Daily Mail that was the speech. BY APPOINTMENT, MARZIPAN John: No wonder they got him. AND NOISETTE MAKER TO THE Just like a poet; he was just like QUEEN MOTHER Tennyson and that kind of thing. It can be revealed today Paul: I was dreading throughout what the papers say BACKGROUND NOISES AND LAUGHTER Paul: (in disembodied voice) Paul: Today all of them find Half of What I Say acute embarrassment at the The awful tension of being locked Paul: (singing, operatic voice) in each others arms snapped last stories of one anothers The blue horizon just for you .. . adventures and conduct. night at TV rehearsal, and Ringo: Lets make it U film. ( Harrisons escapades with his Beatles John, George and Laughter) favourite mystic from India .. . Harold . . . A few vicious phrases Lindsay-Hogg: Thats the first John: (singing) took place. thing you ever said to me, in Hold my baby as tight as I can John: He, the mystical one Chiswick Park years ago when Tonight shes gonna be a big who lost so much of the we did something, you said what fat man Beatles magic, she the nudy .. . kind of a tree is that? and I said, Oh baby with your rhythm and Paul: Its only the suddenness of Its a Yew and you said, No its blues their decline from the status of not, its a me, and I thought that boys next door to the category Everybodys rockin tonight was so funny. God, I couldnt of weirdies .. . SINGER AND SPEAKER TRYING stop myself from laughing. John: (singing drowns out words) TO DROWN EACH OTHER OUT George: I dont think thats Early in the morning Paul: Drugs, divorce, and funny at all. Im giving you the warning slipping image play desperately Lindsay-Hogg: Wisteria? Dont you step on my blue suede on their minds and it appeared Paul: We should take some shoes. to them all that the public was instamatic shots of the crew. Paul: It would be about the being encouraged to hate them .. Well, Im an MI 5 agent and middle of the 1960s . capacity to earn is largely tied little does he know that I know (next few words inaudible) up in their performances as a that he .. . began to have a few spots group and until they are either Yes, and the crew is reading of rust. I would deliberately read rich enough .. . Playboy. MUSIC DROWNS OUT VOICE ... Ringo out of it, because he never Lindsay-Hogg: Lets make a developed any fetish towards the irrevocably doomed . . .all over . . . they will never be exactly the silent movie, yesslow and bizarre. Lennon was married speed it up when we play it happily, McCartney was going same again. back, as theyre always funny to steady and George Harrison was about to marry. Everything in the watch. Beatle garden was rosy. But that Paul: An X film starring the was a long time ago. Having Maharishi. scaled every known peak of John: (pontifical TV voice) Well, I show business the Beatles quite would say thats a pretty concise deliberately . . never came home opinion of the youth today. Now again. They went their own we are going on to another private way, found their own different groupa generation gap, friends and became less reliant and we have with us in the studio on each other for guidance and today Tumble Starker. Now what comradeship . . SINGING do you think about mock tudor DROWNS houses in Weybridge and places OUT SPEECH like that? Ringo: Well, I dont mind John: (singing) them being in Weybridge. Early in the evening Its just when they put them in Im giving you the feeling London I think they get in the Everybodys nothing And nothing to lose. way of all the traffic. You are Paul: We could do a detective Canaries in the Morning, so right, yes. film, not waste all this film like Balloons at Night John: You said yesterday, this. Ringo: Were playing now like neither your arms nor your John: Right ho. The story so far. four years ago. elbow, Ill never forget Paul: Just, you know, this Lindsay-Hogg: Like were all it. Well, its a chance to speak, its afternoons filmjust a little twenty-eight now. the only chance we get. Ringo: It adventure story, and drunks, the Ringo: How can we bring rock s only Cliff doing his bit. Paul: police come and investigate the and roll to Tripoli? Lindsay: Well, I left the clergy about 59 . . . matter . . . cliff hangers .. . Clifford Hogg: Its either Tunisia or the kids. who peddled drugs and turned Tahiti or Tripoli. Ringo: What Ringo: It all started with Rosie. straight in the end. about Gibraltar? (stonily) Lindsay-Hogg: Ringo as a John: Well, a lot of us started George: You know its just teacher, kindly and wise. with Rosie. Actually, it was impractical to try and get all Ringo: That was this morning. rehearsal rules .. . these people and equipment there. Lindsay-Hogg: I know, I was Paul: Okay, yes, Im sure we could Ringo: . . . funny dog collars. trying to revive it. From then on in I never looked set it up, but its like were doing a John: Guest star Glyn Johns who live show and were doing it in back. played a Mormon Cathedral. Arabia and its like whoever has John: Now you will notice Lindsay-Hogg: George can be all been waiting to see the lads rocking this bit of scaffolding that keeps those things; Vicar and head of again. So Ill tell you what, Ill come leaping about the roof. Its Scotland Yard too. Paul: The story in with you as long as you get a modern technology. opens one bleak morning in couple of boats, like the QE2 and Ringo: Watch out for the December. John: Once upon a give away the tickets here, as you spy mikes. tarmac there lived a small would have done, but tickets John: Since then the group has baggage who suffered incredible include a boat journey as well. become the hottest property in distortion on his right leg. He took Right! We get a nice time and a bit Japan due to being locked in a it to all the doctors and they said of sun. sauna bath by Her Royal Majesty that . . . One day .. . happy ever John: I just find a good feeling Ho Ching Ming. Out tomorrow is after .. . about singing in the sun, you our disc Come on in you will get Yoko: (giggles) know, and singing as the sun pneumonia. Your chance to win a goes down and the moon comes fab free Beatlesend in 39 disc up. It would be like on the roof in tops. Lindsay-Hogg: (moving in India, but we would be with camera) Give me a very fully equipped, you know, just wide shot here. the sun. Paul: Everywhere the hero Lindsay:Hogg: If you say Yes went he was on film... and if you get it together, then peeping tom .. . will you go? Lindsay-Hogg: (framing shot) John: If we say Yes to that Yes, like that, yes. then dont bother about it, lets Paul: . . . for no apparent leave it in the air and just think reason he was on film and the about it. little booms came. John: Yeh, but I mean we can John: This is life. say Yes now and suddenly Paul: This is cinema. John: No thank you, Ive already seen it. decide No tomorrow; its not done an at EMI, we ask Councillor McCartney Tells going to make any odds, lets Why are we stuck in here? We Them Where Its At. just think about it. could be doing it in a lake in Ringo: Ill be watching Tele. France, and every time we do it, Paul: (sings) George: I think the idea of the and here we are again building Sweet Loretta Martin thought she boat is completely insane. another bloody castle around us. was a woman Its very expensive and insane. And not only would we be doing it But she was another man. John: They have a fore and aft, making an album, but it would All the girls around her said you know. First class and below take all that weight of Whats-the- shes got it coming with the sheep pens. gimmick off of us. Gods the But she gets it while she can. George: Itll have to be a bloody gimmick. We could time it so that Get back Loretta big boat, itll have to be bigger the sun came up just on the Get back home than the Royal Iris. middle eight, just like that. John: Aristotles yacht, you Get back to where you once Lindsay-Hogg: Who votes to belonged : know. go? Wheres one? Paul: I originally wrote this as a George: Thats too small. Ringo: I move You-go-Slavia. political song .. . Ringo: I want a liner, not Lindsay-Hogg: Sleep on it then. (sings) just a boat. Paul: Cheerio, goodnight lads. Paul: Hold on, here comes John: Dont forget: a boat load of Dont dig no Pakistanis takin all France. mental deficiency and three the peoples jobs George: France, I cant go to dwarfs. Wilson said to the immigrants France. Ringo: For Friday. Youd better get back to your Paul: No, no, thats your Paul: Goodnight everybody. Commonwealth homes Yeh- code name. George: Goodnight Russia. yeh-yeh youd better get BACK George: I smelt some garlic HOME once. I dont think that youre Now Enoch Powell well he said going to get a perfect acoustic to the folks .. . place by the water out of doors. Meanwhile back at home John: I can just see us singing a Too many Pakistanis number at sunset or dawn. Just gentle, or at moonlight, the Living in a council flat smoke coming up. Councillor . . . Macmillan Glyn: Well take a three days George: What about: boat trip to Tripoli . . . the Councillor McCartney tells beautiful sand. them where its at. Lindsay-Hogg: Were going to Paul: But this song has turned Africa! Were off on a boat! Ringo: into something else. For a rock and roll group? John: (sings) Yes, I think we can Joe Joe was a man who thought do rock and roll, and we can he was a loner have the change of day over But he knew it couldnt last something like this. We can Joe Joe left his home in Tucson do rock and roll there if we can Arizona get the right audience, because if Bought some California grass. they swing, weve got the GET BACK GET BACK right audience. Every time weve Get back to where you once belonged Get back home Paul: It should have rock and woman waiting for you, with My mother was of the sky. My John: Hallo Mudda Hallo Fadda high-heeled shoes and lipstick, father was of the earth. But I Hallo Brudda. (mumbles) get back to Tucson. am of the universe Ginger Rogers . Joe Joe left his home in Tucson, And you know what its worth Paul: Morning George. Arizona but he knew it couldnt last John: Hes very pink, clean and Question: Last of all, John, Paul: No, that wont do .. . class, even washed in order. what do you think of the idea of bass, mass, what about looking George: I thought Id produce seeing each of the Beatles for another blast. Ringo: the talent of the day. I hear as part of ones mind? George, Thought it was going to be a gas. yesterday was good. the spiritually aggressive part; Paul: Hoping he would find a gal. John: It was good you, the socially antagonistic and Paul: Its just a little production ( George: Good vibes, man. sings) psychologically exploring part; Paul, a kind of sweet and Paul: Yeah, good. Oh Commonwealth? Glyn: It was just a complete John: (sounding like a Boston lonesome part; and Ringo, a high level down-to-earth blank this morning, you matron) Yes? know, it was just .. . Paul: Can you hear me, domestic part. Its like the four parts of a persons mind. George: Mental block. Commonwealth? Glyn: Yeah, got up, you know, John: Yes. John: Yeh! When we make it we re one. When we dont, were one leapt out of bed about half past Paul: person in turmoil. When George eight, Took Guy to school and I went to Pakistani, I went to India I that, and then .. . been to old Calcutta and to walked out of the Twickenham rehearsal one day after a sulking George: Dragged a comb sunny Africa disagreement with John, the across me head. Im coming back to England town. newspapers reported the next Glyn: Yeah, and I was just (sigh) John: Yes? Welcome. day that fisticuffs took place. Its Paul: Whats that? never come to that, George A medley of songs: reminded John the next day, Hippy Hippy Shake except for that plate at dinner in High Heeled Sneakers Hamburg. Then everyone When Irish Eyes Are Smiling sang You Are My Sunshine, an On Our Way Home upbeat rocking version with Georges guitar soaring. Four MUSIC persons coming together, to 21 take I themselves and to each other in Paul: Just for the time being, music. (If I dont play, when it goes funny, Ill give John said once during a song, you a wink and well do four I lose myself). in a bar. Its one of those George: The apple wagon places where thatll fit. It goes again hits the road. into like a waltz or something, John: Oh how I love that youll get the idea. One, two, 12 bar blues. three, four: George: Its so basic, but there Two of us riding nowhere arent two twelve bars the same. Spending someones hard John: Just like a drone. earned pay. Paul: (singing the blues) Sunday driving I woke up this morning Not arriving On our way bock home (wink) Milk cow at my door Were on our way home Were on our way home Were going home. Paul: Try to tart it up a bit The Queen of Sheba Wore Two of us sending postcards on those guitar breaks, George. Falsies. Writing letters on my wall I know I said not to, but its Paul: Come home, mum, all You and me burning matches Friday today. Riffs are the only is forgiven. Lifting latches thing that will help all of us. Do John: Well, its been lots of fun. On our way back home. something four in the bar with a Paul: This is where its at now You and I have memories little kick to it. team worka good defence and Longer than the road that Two of us riding nowhere .. . a line of forwardsa good strong stretches .. . (Ringo plays drum riff from pair of boots. OK, it goes to B-flat, B-flat, D- Peggy Sue as backing) John: You play ball with me and I minor, G-minor, A-minor-stay Paul: Its a rough middle eight. play ball with you. on A-minor. A-minor 7th to D. Much better. Not so Sandie Shaw, Paul: Dont swing the lead You and me wearing raincoats its more Maureen Boswell now. sonny. Every cloud has a Standing solo in the sun John: It needs sort of leg silver .. . Two of us getting nowhere movement. Paul: Mouthpiece Chasing paper Paul: (singing) John: Bognor Regis is a tartan In the sun everyone .. . that Yorkshire. Rutland is On our way back home Ive got to got to the smallest county. On our way home I feel so good inside Scarborough is a college scarf . . Were going home. And still the boon wasnt over, Middle A to B-flat. (to tune of Going Home ) Can you stop playing, John, while Im the Queen of Sheba wore You and I have memories telling you about this falsies. Longer than the road that stretches arrangement. Ringo: I didnt know that. John: out ahead John: Sure . . . Soo-oon be Didnt you know that? You Two of us wearing raincoats home. werent there at the time. (John Standing solo in the sun .. . (George plays long guitar solo and Ringo doing ventriloquist Whenever it goes On our way Foxy Lady with Yoko wailing) and dummy) Cleopatra was a home well just have to learn John: (sings) carpet manufacturer. that. Its supposed to be in Ringo: I didnt know that. In the middle of the ocean harmony. Its a bit faceless. John: John Lennon... Theres a tiny Bossa Nova John: Yeah, itd make a good Ringo: A patriot. demo for the group Grapefruit. Creating quite a commotion Baby its still you Im waiting for. Paul: John: I didnt know that. Paul: No, its all right, the song, it John and Paul: (together) s just that were not very . John: Grooving on a Sunday Goodnight, Dick. interested in it yet. John: That was Lennon- John: On the recording we could afternoon . . . only make believe. Paul: McCartney . . . Great Western use an acoustic. For the electric Railway songs for all functions weve got to think of something. Through a London window Ross-upon-Wye .. . The problem is always the same My guitar and I Ilford 2, Western Midlothians and the answer is always the We sit and serenade terrible. same. Theres got to be a solution Till the dawn goes by. Paul: This the typical end that stops it going dum-de-dum- product of an actors career. de-dum. (sings) Two-of-us-ri-ding- John: Alexander the Great nowhere (stiffly) Imagine Stevie was a big head or a fireplace. Wonder singing it, but looser. ( Why did they call it Great John carressingly slides into the Britain? How long is it going line.) to go on? Fantastic France; What We Did On and be one. But I dont think Id Amazing America; Huge Spain. Our Holidays dig that too much. Id just go out Ringo: Ill drink to that. When is Paul: I was looking at the film and look at it . . . The Film opens a door not a door? I did at the Maharishis. Just with all the people who were Ringo: Two flies on a door, to see what we were doing, its thereCyn and Jane and Patty, which one was sick? incredible. the little American girl, its all the John: I dont know. Ringo: What were you doing? same shot, everyone sitting Ringo: on the panel. John: Yeh, what were we against the sky. Then theres a John: I dont blame him. Why did doing? big white flurr, because its a change of reel. It burns out white the chicken cross the road? Paul: I dont really know. and then the sound track should Ringo: To get to the other side. But like we totally put our John: Youve heard it before. start. John: (singing) own personalities under for the Flew in from Miami BOAC Ringo: What goes under sake of it, and you can really water, over water, and never Didnt get to bed last night Paul: ( see that. laughing) Yeh, its like that, and gets wet? John: We were writing all Paul: All right, we cant carry then Mike comes in. In the next those songs. I filmed the scene, it burns out white again on like this . . . can we? helicopter. Ringo: I beg you .. . and then theres just this monkey Paul: Yeh, I saw you doing that. that comes up and humps this Paul: We cant carry on like John: Each of my reels says: this indefinitely. other monkey. Its great. It really John Lennons Reel, like gets in there, and then they just Ringo: We seem to be. subtitles. Paul: We seem to be but we jump off and walk away. John Paul: Theres a long shot of comes off the roof, and you look cant. you, John, walking around. We John: I specialize in that field, like a student of philosophy werent really very truthful with your tape recorder, John. you know. there. I mean, things like Paul: Tops in his field. John: I have all the sound sneaking behind his back tracks, too, I think. John: Oh, yes, 9th best dressed and saying, Its a bit like male pop star in the world, you Paul: We should have .. . school, isnt it? But you can John: Been ourselves. know, youre talking to-no mean see on the film that it was cityyes. George: Thats the biggest very like school, and that, joke, to be yourselves. That Paul: No nervous breakdowns. really, we should have said it. John: Look out, Tom Jones, I was the purpose. John: We should call it: John: Well, we found out. say. (LAUGHTER DROWNS What We Did On Our CONVERSATION) George: And if you were really Holidays. yourself you wouldnt be any of Paul: Theres a long shot of you who we are now. sort of walking with him, John: , then. and its just not you. (Laughing). John and Paul (singing): More a sort of : Tell me, old Gonna put me in the movie Gonna Master . . . Linda was watching make a big star out of me the film and was asking: sitting on the roof, didnt you want to get out in it? In the villages, the bit that 95 per cent of them were doing, digging that place, all of them except for the converts on the hill. If you want to be a missionary, you go out Transcript Poem no. I Blues . . . Again. ROLL 101 Slate 190 CAMERA A John: Dont Let Me Down the Date : 9.1.69. Road Again Blues Short Fat Fannie Youre My Desire. MUSIC 13/50 Paul: (crooning) SONG . . . come on home .. I left my heart in San Francisco 50/246 I got loaded in the bay BEATLE Whos gonna play I took my heart to Vegas sax... And this is what she say SONG/SPEECH INAUDIBLE Get out of Vegas with your craps OVER MUSIC 270/288 . . . let and your dice MUSIC 270/288 .. , let it be 288/326 Transcript Poem no. 3 Why SONG contd . . . 328/ Rabbits Dont Fly John: BEATLE C to F. Youll get it, Shooting is exercise. Paul: its dead easy. I, 2, 3, 4 .. . Oh yes, especially for the SONG cont d .. . birds. John: We have given it up. Yoko: That is beautiful. John: Transcript Poem No. 2 Brer , pretty sweet, she Sausage, Brer Bacon got everything Uncle John need, Lindsay-Hogg: Where did you oh baby. Paul: Um, pheasants get those drum boots? Ringo: dont fly. John: Neither do Pierre Cardin, Par-ee, France. rabbits. Paul: When they take John: Brer Sausage, Brer off, people shoot them, thats the Bacon. Were both so country. only time they ever fly, when Paul and John (singing) Were they get shot at or when they going ho-oo-me. beat them out of the bush. Come Paul: I started off as a chippy, as on lets get shot up. They are a carpenter, 15 bob a week. I walking birds, they walk through was a regular kid with a dog all the undergrowth, and those under your arm, singing I miss fellas go in go beat, beat, beat, that mother of mine, how can and there is nothing left to do but you miss? to fly . . . Shot! And you should Paul: (singing) see them fly, just horrible, very Come on now come on get it slow at first so you can just get together come on come on now your aim and youve come on now John now come on now get it together. John: (singing) got to wait until they are above Shoot me when Im evil the tree tops, then shoot. John: Shoot me when Im Never fly if they are beating the Shoot me when Im hungry bush around you; that is why And shoot me when Im rabbits survive. You see, they Ringo: What did you call that refuse to fly. Paul: This is a one in your sleep, John? Paul: documentary of how The Beatles Dont Let Me Down work. A Harry Song. grasp them firm even while they are still here? To whatever the soul of man (Confessions of St. Augustine: turns, unless towards God, it Bk. IV, Chapter IX) cleaves to sorrow, even though the things outside God and Afternoon. outside itself to which it turns may George twanging, drums amble be things of beauty. They rise and on like lazy thunder, set: in their rising they begin to be, conversations without words. and they grow towards perfection, George whistles, Ringo catches and once come to perfection they it, rockin pneumonia; bang! into grow old, and they pass away. Short Fat Fanny, a flash. The Therefore when they rise and tend guitar leans into the first note, towards being, the more haste howling, bending it, extending it, they make toward fullness of like a scream from an electric being, the more haste they make fan. George singing: Slippin n towards ceasing to be. That is slidin with Long their law. You have given them to Tall Sally, be parts of a whole: they are not Peekin n hidin back in the alley all existent at once, but in their Gotta rip it up, gonna dance departures and successions with Sally .. . constitute the whole of which they Shes my Tutti Frutti are parts. Our own speech, which I love the chile so we utter by making sounds She watch me like a Houndog signifying meanings, follows the Everywhere I go .. . same principles. For there never Then slide into Midnight Special could be a whole sentence unless . A country rain is falling, the one word ceased to be when its guitar gently weeps, in the syllables had sounded and distance a train whistle whines another took its place. In all such round the horizon like a coyote. things let my soul praise You, John is singing: Wake up in the Creator of all things, but let it not morning cleave too close in love to them Hear the ding dong ring through the senses of the body. Go walkin on the table For they go their way and are no Hear the same damn thing .. . more; and they rend the soul with Let the midnight special desires that can destroy it, for it Shine its ever lovin light on me. longs to be one with the things it Clikin down that lonesome loves and to repose in them. But in them is no place of repose, track into the last verse, because they George ends with an R B riff. do not abide. They pass, and who John: B. B. King? can follow them with any bodily George: Have you heard about sense? Or who can them? Albert King is the rocker one on Stax. He says hes B. B.s brother and B. B. says no hes not my brother, baby. One sings a song called Lucy about his guitar, and the other sings one about his guitar Sunset doesnt last all evening Paul: I know they got the 8 called Lucille! The Mind can blow those clouds track out for ( Ringo: My guitar by Henry away. Texan voice:) n if they Gibson. After all this, my love is up got it owt fer the Beach Boys .. . My guitar, plays so sweet, And must be leaving George: (singing) Really knocks me off my feet. Its not always been that grey. Sunrise doesnt last all morning, Thank you. A cloudburst doesnt last all day ... George: I got a few slow ones All things must pass away. George: Its like Tim Leary, I down here if you want. All things must pass suppose; in his psychedelic Paul: Yeah, well weve got None of lifes strings can last. prayers he had one . . . I one down here we havent done So I must be on my way remember this from years ago: Sunrise doesnt last all morning yet. (Greyhound tour guide voice: To face another day. ) Its all down on your schedules. that gave me the idea for this Darkness only stays a night-time thing, apart from life . . . giving me (now Father McCartney:) If you With the morning, it will fade will all turn to page 33 . . . All the idea, that is. You see, the away. thing I feel about the motion of it Things Must Pass. Now, if youll The light of day is good all turn to begin at Sunrise, Id is, its very Bandy. Rick, the one At arriving at the right time very much appreciate it. John: 1s who wrote really all the best ones, this a Harry song? George: No its not always his thing is like . . (sings like The Theres no solo or anything Gonna be that grey. Weight) la la la la la complicated about it; its purely All things must pass Paul: (playing sanctimoniously rhythmical and vocal. If only we All things must pass away. on the organ) Welcome ladees had a Lowrie organ. Paul: We George: Hell! (George gets n genImen to the LA Drive-In- Church .. . suddenly have one. George: Oh! an electric shock from his guitar) George: Drive-In-Drugstore. Paul: (as fairy godmother:) Paul: Shoctric shocks! (as With my magic wand. Paul: . . . this morning, Father Musicians Union spokesman) Anthony Langeles will preach a George: Its E, Fm, Am, A, and for GenImen, oid loik to draw yer the end of the verse, All things small sermon, he hopes will be attention to ere .. . must pass. Things Bm, must A, of interest to you and yours. ( . . . actually though, its E . . . its George: Just got a belt man. sings): like playing with open Es all the Paul: Now we boys in the MU . . . Darkness doesnt last all day Got time. Paul: Straight through, then, goin to be some trouble over this to get some sleep anyway Ill try and follow you. one. If this boy ere dies, yer George: See that thing, that one George: Youve got to pretend to gonna cop it .. . (LAUGHTER). (points out organ peddal to be on this one. John: I George: You know Id really like John) do that with your toe. ( Weird wah wah moans come out have been on all of them. George: to do this one on acoustic. ( of the organ, like Jonah wailing (sings) George pronounces this word like the call of an exotic tropical bird). underneath the sea.) This guy Sunrise doesnt last all morning, who Paul is looking like from A cloudburst doesnt last all day. But howll we do it for the show, Glyn? The Band, hes the organ, Seems my love is up fantastic, hes into that sound so And has left you with no warning. Glyn: You can put it through the PA. much, it sounds like Its not always been that grey. All George: Are we getting an a because the notes things must pass 8 track? bend. The drummer is fantastic, All things must pass away. John: Phone America, theyre he plays the guitar really, Levon quick. Helm he s called, hes Paul: What about EMI? Glyn: Theyve only got 4 track. really like Coates cum up from Billy the Kid in eternity. Its just Somerset, and like hes got no the idea of two people on stage neck and all these these whiskers and all this audience of and a happy smiling face. (To different people overhearing Ringo) You would go down a what theyre saying. Jean bomb, you know, its all Country Harlow says: "Before you can and Western, their favourite track pry any secrets from me, first was Ringos because thats their you must find the real me. scene, living up in the woods, just Which one will you pursue?" It singing their songs .. . ends where she just sits Paul: Looks like rain, doesnt it? on his knee, and then she sits in George: On the vocal, after each the chair and spreads her legs .. . time it says been that grey, Id George: (singing) like the backing group to sing like Darkness only stays the night time the Raelets, all things must pass With the morning it will fade away lingering on. Paul: Do that bit The light of day is good again then. (They sing All Things At arriving at the right time. Must Pass like Silent Night) Paul: Its one of those, its Paul: If John sings what youre easy but theres so much you singing, and I do the harmony, could do with it. thatll be the Raelets. Have you George: Yeah, but its mainly heard that bit in this rhythmical thing. (They sing where we did just those voices? It the whole song through. The really sounded like a trick. stressed words are like the George: The Band: the reason all crests of a wave that break those people are singing different smoothly as they move through lines is they all want to be the the lines.) singer, but where theyre all Sunset doesnt last all evening singing together it gets like The wind can blow those clouds discipline where nobody is away crowding anybody else out. You After all this, my love is up dig, baby? Paul: Yeah. And must be leaving George: Youre so full of Its not always been that grey. bull, man. Paul: (Brooklyn) In the begining Paul: What? wuz de woid and de woid wuz .. . George: Before you can pry John: Go. any secrets from me, first you Paul: . . . and he went. must find the real me. Which (They do an R B version of one will you pursue . . . Did All Things Must Pass) you see that? John: Tie it to me, tie it to me! Paul: What? Paul: Shirt it to me, shirt it to me! George: The Beard John: You did introduce Oxford Paul: No. bags to this country didnt you? George: Its Jean Harlow and Paul: I am an innovator in many ways. John: Apart from your part time work, what are you doing? Mnum mnum mnum mnum mnum In Which Doris Gets Paul: I do a lot of dramatic work mnum Her Oats. in and out of the country. Get a job Lindsay-Hogg: 1s there Presently I am working on a Paul: (playing the organ, Welsh TV series called Land for anything else youre writing? singing Piece of my Heart John: I was going to do On Weken in which I appear as a like a lullaby) Danish singer of royal blood who the Road to Marakesh, which John: We spend a month doing is a sweet number, baby, a turned to folk singing due to a this, get to a good peak of disaster in the last war when the sweet number. I was going to playing and then we split. Paul: use a big thirties , but Nazis bombed his house and he We should organize our career had to move to Norway I think it I dont think Ive got the now. Like the idea is to get us so energy. So I was going to use was we quite enjoy this . . . then what I was born on the train between Hawaiian guitar, I was going to would you like to do next? Would bring my little Hawaiian guitar Ostergrad and Finsborough. you like to do a live show, lads? John: Jamaica? for George. But I did Dig a George: Its like hard work really Pony instead. (singing) Id like Paul: Sometimes. (Paul be ins to do it. Its a drag cos I dont singing a gospel type song to be wanna work really .. . have to get Underneath the sea .. . Carry that weight .. . up at 8.00 and get into my guitar John: Woke up this morning, felt John: 1s that a wide-angle lens? . . . Youve got to play your Lindsay-Hogg: Just a little wider a weight upon my head .. . and I guitar now and youre not ready found out it was my head. Paul: than regular. for it. But weve got to do that in John: I like distortion .. . OK, This song its like the sort of order to get the goods in . . . we normal troubles that everyone I dig a Pony Shemamma ve got to go through that bit of Sheguggy. has. Youve got everything and crap at the meetings until we get ( opening) everything is going fine, but like together again. this morning, one of my eggs Paul: I see it as just us working. John: ! Do it like broke . . . right shoes a bit tight. George: Theres so much to get The Beatles now. Remember (singing:) out, and theres no one better to your poom de-deh-de-deh-de Boy youre gonna carry that weight. get it out with than us. Paul : poom! How could you forget it? Many times Ive been alone Many Yeah. Ill never forget. times Ive cried .. . Paul: Have you George: Its like when you write Paul: (sings) any idea for the second verse. a song I get into it completely, I All I want is you. John: Many ways Ive tried .. . feel as if I wrote it. That was John: (sings) Paul: Thats all right then .. . what was so good about the last I uh ha-ha uh hai-hai dig a pony Many ways Ive tried. (They sing album, its the only album so far You can celebrate anything you the song over again.) George: 1s Ive tried to really get involved in. want this where we drop out? John: What time shall we get You can celebrate anything you John: Yes. together tomorrow? want Paul: Then we go into Paul: 10.00? John: In I dig a Pony, Ringo, something encouraging. Ringo: Thinks 1 1.00, thinks 12.00. the tick-tock . . . its no good John: (singing) ticking on any cymbal unless its Yip yip yip yip yip yip yip Sha la la the high hat, cos each has got to la Sha la la la la Ba dum be as loud as the other, you know, like a clock . . I hi-hi hi-hi dig a groundhog You can penetrate any place you go You can penetrate any place Paul: (managers voice) you go Richard Rogers has nothing Ringo: It used to be I dig on this boy, absolutely nothing .. a skylight. . Lorenz Hart has nothing on his John: Yeh, but I changed it to boy either. groundhogit had to be John: (sings) rougher. I dont care if skylight I hi-hi hi-hi dug a boney was prettier. You can syndicate every boat I pick a moondog you row You can radiate everything you are You can syndicate every boat You can radiate everything you are I you row roll a stoney ALL I WANT IS YOU You can imitate everyone you know John: Could do better. You can imitate everyone you know George: Have done. I feel the wind glove Paul: See me. You can indicate everything you see John: We never seem to hit it You can indicate everything you see together. We did it straight at the John: We got lost, you know. After end and cockeyed at the we got to wind glove I went beginning. berserk. Paul: Its got a funny time. John: Paul: Like the wind he blew away. Shall we do the beginning George: I hear the wind glove? straight. (does simple riff) or John: Yeah, Ive changed it to wind surprise them (baroque phrasing) glove now. I just make it up as I go ? along . . . I dig a low bugadoo, I dig Paul: I dunno. a groundhog. Ringo: (screeching) Is that how you do it! John: Toss a coin. Lindsay-Hogg: What was the George: Straight. I l l make it one about icon? straight if it sounds better. John: Oh, I con a Lowrie, but it John: (sings) didnt sing well, so I changed it I dig a pony to Dug a Pony. Its got to be ds You can celebrate anything you and ps, you know. want Ringo: Its his fault. Its his You can celebrate anything you fault all the time. want John: I Dig a Pony by Charles All I want is you Dawtrey and the Deaf Aids. Everything has got to be Phase One in which Doris gets Just like you want it to. her oats. Paul: Oh sometimes, John, I dont know. Ringo: That tonguell be the death of you. John: (musing) Slither wildly like a blind dog . . . as he crept away across my underpants. Oh Im a lyricist all right. I was alone, I took a ride, its a fast one well git it . . . But Maybelline, Johnny B. Goode, I didnt know what I would there are other presences here in , Little find there. the brightly illuminated Queenie, , Another road where maybe I subterranean studio; summoned, , Singing could see another kind of mind conjured out of the darkness of The Blues, Midnight Special, there. past time: , Jerry Lee Michael Row The Boat Ashore, Lewis, His Majesty Richard , Devil In Her If it werent for the rocks in its Penniman, Antoine Domino, Larry Heart, You Cant Do That, bed, the stream would have no Williams, and The King, Elvis, Hitchhike, Money, Three Cool song. eigth wonder of the world, Cats, Good Rockin Tonight, (Carl Perkins, radiating in his gold lame suit. The All Shook Up, Dont Be Cruel, 7th Dec. 1968) spirits of Dylan, Mick, Pete Lucille, Send Me Some Lovin, Townshend, and The Band attend Dizzy Miss Lizzy, BeBop A Lula, ALTERNATE-SIDE PARKING also. Now somewhere in the black Lotta Lovin, House Of The Rising IN EFFECT mountain hills of Dakota .. . John Sun, Tea For Two, Blowin In The A history note: putting on Jerry Lees nasal yodel: Wind, I Shall Be Released, All Today is the fifth anniversary of The nooze is owht ahl over towen Along The Watchtower, High the arrival on these shores of or Carl Perkins: Heeled Sneakers, Its Only Make four strange-looking young men Luvin you (deep growl) Believe, Come On Everybody, who called themselves Is the natchral thong to doo Something Else, Bad Boy, The Beatles. (John and Paul doing a country , Third Man No official celebration is planned. ( harmony) Theme, Piece Of My Heart, New York Post, 7th Feb. 1969) Paul putting on Little Richards Good Golly Miss Molly. Back at Apple are ecstatic squeal: Paul: We have got the same completing tracks for their new Looseeya, Looseeya .. . problem. Its the same thing over album anxiously awaited by their Little Richards also present in and over. Youre wailing and Im millions of fans. We some of the new songs. His wailing but I suspect you may not drop in on them now during a phenomenal piling up of words be wailing about the same thing, so lull between takes: to the bar: I wont quite say it, I never quite George: We should do an Paul: said it. album of old favourites. Arent Well all these years Ive been Sometime I hope to say it, we going to do any oldies but wanderin around I may never say it, if I dont, if I goodies on the show? Wondering how come nobody do, its like I said to you last Paul: Could do. told me week, you know it may take a George: In America, ya know, All that I was looking for was long time to get round to it, but they dont want all new ones . . somebody who looked like you. you will say it for me, you will they need something to identify eventually say something that I A list of oldies played during the with aside from us. meant to say, I know you will rehearsals by the Beatles: Stand John: Ive been doing a lot of say it. By Me, Baby I Dont Care, Thirty Help recently. Days, Hippy Hippy Shake, Short Paul: Every Little Thing. George: Fat Fanny, Fools Like Me, You Good Golly Miss Molly. Paul: Win Again, Turn Around, Blue Lucille. Suede Shoes, True Love, Wrong John: When I do it for the fans I Yo Yo, Sure To Fall, Tennesee, m slinging it like a jerky. Meanwhile Is thinkin . . . if its a slow one well omit it . . . if Yesterday, He dont want to go to school . to learn to read and write My baby said shes travelling on just sits around the house and the one after 909 plays that rock and roll music Move over honey, Im travelling all night. on that line John was quizzical, studied Move over once, move over twice physical science in the home Come on baby dont be cold as ice Late nights all alone with a test Said shes travelling on the one tube oh oh oh after 909. Maxwell Edison majoring in Youre only fooling round, youre medicine, calls him on the phone only fooling round with me Move Can I take you out to the pictures, over once, move over twice Come on John, a-a-on baby, dont be cold as ice Said shes But as hes getting ready to go travelling on the one a knock comes on the door after 909. Bang bang Maxwells silver hammer Pick up your bag, run to the came down upon his head station Bang bang Maxwells silver hammer Railman said youve got the made sure that he was dead. Back in wrong location school again Maxwell Pick up your bag, run right home, plays a fool again, teacher gets Then you find you got the annoyed number wrong. Wishing to avoid an unpleasant Paul: Im really pleased with scene that, its from one of the first She tells Max to stay when the songs we ever wrote. class has gone away so he waits Glyn: John wrote it when he behind was about 15, didnt he? Writes a thousand lines Paul: Yeah, we used to sag off And as hes getting ready to go she every school day, go back to my creeps up from behind house and the two of us would Bang bang Maxwells silver hammer write: , Too Bad came down upon his head About Sorrows. Theres a lot from Bang bang Maxwells silver hammer then. We have about a hundred made sure that he was dead. In that we never reckoned because Pauls imaginary country theyre all very unsophisticated even death is painless. Reality songs. (singing in a very dumb has not been issued a visa, voice) for this is Arcadia, the mirror They said that our love was image of the real world, where birds sing, and lyrics grow on just fun, trees. The day that our friendship begun, Theres no blue moon that Ill be on my way To where the winds dont blow can see and golden rivers flow Theres no blue moon in history and This way go we just thought great, too much, but we hated the As the June-light words to 909. turns to moonlight. Paul McCartney, champion way. The old tunes have a certain is everybody singing together, of the softedge, a knight errant way of going (plays a few singing to the blackbird waiting rescuing discarded sentiments, chords on the piano) never for the millenium. re-habilitating sensibilities that change. Dont know too much Blackbird singing in the dead time has hardened into cliches, about it myself, Dad knows. of night animating, Paul and John: (singing) Take these broken wings and For well you know that its a fool, Whats the use of getting sober learn to fly. who plays it cool, Only to get drunk again. All your life by making his world a little colder. The singing in the pub, tinkling the You were only waiting for this The components of Pauls songs ivories, ways of summoning the moment to arise. are lovingly assembled like the spirit of happiness, the craft of the All Pauls songs take place on parts in a vintage car. All the busker, the songand-dance man: the boards, on stage, but the machinery is polished (its a clean this musician Paul has raised to Beatles have made the world a machine). Their excellence is how the level of magic. Roll uproll stage. The stage, the song, art, they are put together; all the up for the are only possibilities, pieces fit beautifully. Crazy, lazy, Mystery Tour alternatives, to a life of anxiety, frantic, Atlantic; words evoking a All ballrooms, music halls are imagination alone tells me what whole era. Bottled 20s essence; situated in paradise; Arcadia, the can be, said Andre Astaire, talkies, the Black Bottom, Lyceum, Orpheus, the Arcade. At Breton in the surrealist Mickey Mouse is born. the play, in the ballroom, each manifesto. Can not the dream , , one enjoys the possession of all. also be applied to the solution Maxwells Silver Hammer, (Intimate JournalsBaudelaire) of the fundamental problems of Honey Pie, Joe-Joe, the fireman Vaudeville, valley of the river Vire, life? with an hourglass, Sgt. Pepper, an artificial paradise where the When I wake up early in the Desmond and Molly Jones entertainers are the happy morning, live in this magic landscape: shepherds. It is also an Lift my head, Im still yawning. Happy Valley, White Christmas, exposure; the society in the When Im in the middle of a Brigadoon, the imaginary country bawdy skit, the exposure of the dream, in which all holidays, weddings, body in the chorus line. The Stay in bed, float upstream honeymoons and good times take exposure of the hypocrasy (float upstream), place. Brief festivals of love set in of the society that confines Please dont woke me, no, dont the drab day-to-day world. Penny wonder and happiness to a shake me, Lane Saturday night booze-up. The Leave me where I am, Im only has its opposite in the real world: music hall artiste, stepping onto sleeping. 1967 was the year of the month of the boards, contrasting the Music is the great refusal to Sundays, an attempt to regain the misery of his real existence with accept the limitations imposed on golden age under the banner of magic of the show; freedom and happiness by the so- Sgt. Pepper. Gather round all you clowns called reality principle. Fantasy is The chords, the progressions for Let me hear you say the primeval, the ultimate and bringing back the good old days, Hey, youve got to hide your most audacious synthesis of all people and things that went before capabilities, in which all mental are as fixed as the forms of the love away opposites as well as the conflict raga. Hey, youve got to hide your between the internal and external Paul: The Indians are satisfied love away. world are united (Jung) Theres with that one drone. If youre Jude is terribly political, Paul nothing you can do that satisfied with it, its purer in a says, and he means it literally. cant be done Political in the sense that Jude Nothing you can sing that cant Over and Over be sung. Paul: When we finish this, Ive Paul McCartney: maker of got a feeling that were just dreams that can be inhabited, going to go off, like we did after builder of bridges that we have the last album. used to cross into the world of John: Just give me a day or two the possible. to finish off the bits and pieces. Ancient Welsh saying: A fo Paul: We still havent got any aim bid bont. He who would be for what were doing now except head, let him be the bridge. It an album again. Our only aim is somes from the myth of an album, which is like a very Be Bendigeidfran, who bridged non-visual thing. John: Albums is the Irish Sea with his own body what were doing at the moment. so that his people could cross Paul: Were into albums as over. Paul, a bridge between the four of us, but I really think Sgt. Pepper and Maxwell Silver we can be into other things, but Hammer, the the Waltz and the every time I talk about it I really Watusi, and sound like Im the show biz Strawberry Fields, Eleanor correspondent trying to hustle us Rigby and Molly Jones, George to do a Judy Garland comeback, Formby and Stockhausen, when really all I mean is, well Revolution and Rain, art and the look, lets go into a studio, a commercial, salt and pepper, vision studio, after weve learned yes and no, the dish and spoon all of these songs; a studio just that will one day link arms, And as good hand in hand, on the edge as this for sound. I mean, we got of the sand, much better takes after we moved They will dance by the light of from Twickenham to Apple. John: the moon, Here I like, its like home. Paul: The moon, The thing that puts us in it, and the The moon, only thing thats ever put us in it, is a novelty: we work on novelty. Theres a new approach: if he says Take we Take, for the first time. It s going to be very hard to better the stuff weve got, even Teddy Boy not having words, theres so much in that. I said to Michael, just blacken this place one day and when we come in in the morning, what is it? You know, youve got to be sneaky or else well go on forever in a circle. Well never get out of it. and Stravinsky doesnt sort of numbers one afternoon at the When you ask George what he get up and play his Joanna for Saville to some people, or all day, wants to get out of it, he says them anymore, you know. He or as in Hair, just setting up, No films. But its very wrong just writes it and maybe rehearsing as the people walk in, that, and this is a film and now occasionally conducts it. sit down, get sandwiches and he doesnt mind this. What he John: George wants to do a happy drink, and when we want to do a means is, No Help, no Hard show with Dylan and Presley or take wed do sort of a take. Then Days Night, and I agree. But what and that would be a lot. we could do a couple of other like no TV shows, no Paul: Thats us again, us going small shows until we hit it and get audiences! . . . When we came silly again. over our nervousness with an back from Hamburg and John: It isnt. I think we audience. John: I think it would be did Coventry or wherever it was, might do it. daft of us not to play tomorrow we played the Ballroom, worst first Paul: But do that one even if its a grand dress rehearsal. night thing, we were all nervous after we do one. I mean, there See how it goes, lets look how we and it was terrible. Then we is a show to be had out of what looked, lets look at the rushes of played another concert the next weve got here thats so seven songs. If it turns out to be night and it got a little bit better. incredible, and you dont have to half the show, half the end product, all right. If it doesnt, its no Next night, uhm, and the next: go on the roof or go anywhere. different from any other day. If we uhuum-oohm, too much. You really only have to sing the had We got over that hang-up of the songs. And combined with the audience, it was like there was another month to do all documentary material leading up fourteen songs, it would still be no one there, it was like a new to it, its just an unbelievable thing, sort of thing and there was nice to do the seven now. We because youve got the two some fellow up front watching havent time to do another seven how you were playing and we elements. The only thing we since Ringo has to go in two were right into it. If you couldve havent got for every song is the weeks. recorded those things, they song. John: Tomorrow is the day George (arriving): I think would have been the greatest. we have to sing the six or seven its going to take months to get it Were numbers. like that. We should film it while good at that, once we get over Paul: The easiest way to finish were recording ,but lets get it the nervousness. But the hurdle this show is just to sit here for done. of nervousness is there. And we another few days, rehearse, Glyn: Yesterday you were cant get over that now unless rehearse, and rehearse all the playing the same song over and we go to Albert Hall and get into numbers and today start over. You were slogging it to a black bag. rehearsing the numbers one at a death. So today we tried to get Theres no other way. We cant time and as George said, get a you to do three songs in one go think our way out of it. And the programme of whats going to so you had to think: whats the only alternative to that is to say follow what. Just knock it off, just key. That way you cant get we will never do it to an audience do it. We really have to want to bored. again. But if we intend to keep do a show at the end of it. I was Lindsay-Hogg: Yesterday, any kind of contact on that scene saying to Mal this morning, you got terribly close to getting it . . . I do understand George just because he had a dream last right on a couple of the numbers, saying, Well theres no point, you night of us doing the show, and but as soon as you got that, it know, because its like he just said it was would have meant one other Stravinsky and its in the music incredible, and I said Id love take. to do that, just to play all these John: It was tiredness on my have done the number. part. It was a great strain to George: Do you want us to get through Dont Let Me record these numbers? Down and the other one, Paul: If were going to do just singing at that pace, being so fourteen numbers, lets get every tired. If we didnt have the chord off the fourteen numbers weekend we couldnt have even now and stop remembering that attempted yesterday. And I dont were still rehearsing. George: want to use the energy I used You want us to do what we ve yesterday today because been doing for two weeks. yesterday ruined today. George: Paul: Yeh, but get it together Thats if youre planning on now instead of talking about the working up to doing it like this, show. So that weve got fourteen playing again and again. Were songs and so that when weve just going to drop. We could have got it, we can either let it go, recorded all these songs on tape. jump up, in the words of the Lindsay-Hogg: At the moment, famous song, we can do the documentarys like No Exitit anything, we can do anything we s going around and around. like with it once weve got it. We George: Its like a lot of the re talking about this abstract footage, its got to be thrown thing were hoping to get, and by away. talking about it were not going to Lindsay-Hogg: Theres lots of get it. John: Lets do it. Were good footage, but theres no story trying to do what youre saying yet. Theres no payoff yet. Paul: and were trying to do what Weve done the film, weve done George was saying, but the numbers enough. George: sometimes we cant cos were Lets get it down on tape. too tired. So we might have a Paul: Glynn will get it down on bit more sleep. tape. Hell take it when he thinks. Paul: Weve done our songs. John: If George wants to think We just collect all our thoughts that while were doing it were on them and check through making a record and if you want to make sure you know the chords to think that were rehearsing, and that I know the bass notes. theres no answer. Paul: We John: When weve got the mustnt do Get Back for three fourteen numbers off well be so hours, its just (plays bass riff). secure in that that maybe thats There are four individuals who are the time well say: Oh, anywhere strong individually. If we were you want, well do them. doing Thank Your Lovely Stars Lindsay-Hogg: Shall we go on wed just go in and wed do it. I filming until we leave here? know thats a silly analogy, but Paul: What were doing is still wed just do it. and wed rehearsing and well get it together. George: Well collect our thoughts On The Roof milling members of the crowd and you collect yours about where Hello to The Drifters offered their reactions to the well do the concert. Lindsay- Carl Perkins and Free) concert: Hogg: What about the roof Bloody stupid place to have a tomorrow? Thursday: 30th Jan. 1969 concert. It just is. Paul: Well do the numbers. BEATLES ROCK APPLE ROOF You cant beat them. Style of Were the band. At lunchtime today, the Beatles their own. Lovely crowd. Jolly George: Ill do it if youve surprised passing office workers good, nice thing to see at the got us on the roof. and mid-day shoppers with an end of the day. John: Id like to go on the roof. impromtu concert on the roof of Nice to have something free Ill record the songs when you their Apple headquarters at 3 in this country. want to do it. George: Anytime . And a woman named Eleanor is paradise. John: Anytime at Joined by organist , listened to a song and said: I all. You suggest where: the Beatles performed : Get cant bear them. I cant see that Pakistan, the Moon, Ill still be Back, Dont Let Me Down, One it makes sense. They woke me there till you dont let me After 909, Ive Got a Feeling, up out of my sleep. down. Youll be surprised at the and All I Want is You, a few of When I wake up early in the story that will come out of this. Ill the songs they had filmed while morning, tell you what Id rehearsing at Twickenham Lift my head, Im still yawning. like to do. Ive got so many Studios during the first two When Im in the middle of a tunes, Ive got my tunes for weeks of January and, the the next ten years of albums. previous two weeks, at their dream, Id like to do an album of songs. It Apple studio. Stay in bed, float upstream would be nice mainly to get all After playing for about 40 (float upstream), those songs out of the way. And minutes, the police arrived in Please dont wake me, no, dont secondly to hear what mine are response to complaints about shake me, like all together. noise and were admitted to the Leave me where I am, Im Any of us can do separate things building. The concert ended only sleeping. as well and that way it also without interruption. On behalf of The Moon says goodbye, preserves the Beatles bit. All the group, a Beatle said, we The Sun says hello. these songs of mine I could give hoped we passed to people who could do them the audition. good, but I suddenly realised, well With the wind sweeping the . . . all that, Im going to do me for roof and blowing through the a bit. With all these tunes, I could Beatles hair, it seemed as if do them in a week at the most the roof concert were occurring record them all, remix, because on shipdeck, Paul stomping on theyre all very simple. I dont the wooden planks, middle aged think they need much. I mean with men and women on an adjoining a Leslie, its too much, just one roof waiting for the boat to arrive, guitar. boys and girls (singing) on nearby buildings lying against Because youre sweet and the roof slopes and waving, the lovely, girl Beatles smiling and singing to I love you .. . each other and the wind: you can syndicate any boat you row. In the streets below,