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Tuesday, November 12, 1963
TV interview • Interview of Paul McCartney
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Q: “Are you beginning to find the strain of this going around the country at this tremendous speed getting you down a bit?”
BEATLES: (laughing) “NO!!”
JOHN: (giggling) “No, we like it. It’s great.”
PAUL: “You know us.”
Q: “You don’t find it frightening, this business of being mobbed and having to go through all these rigamaroles to get here?”
JOHN: “No. The police get mobbed, we don’t.”
PAUL: “It’s always well organized, you know. Tonight was very good.”
Q: “How did you get here tonight?”
PAUL: “A van.”
Q: “You’re getting so much publicity these days, and even the ‘egghead’ papers are writing about you. Have you been just a little bit worried that you might be going over the top fairly soon?”
JOHN: “No, you know. When you gotta go, you gotta go.”
(Beatles laugh)
Q: “What are you going to do when your time comes?”
GEORGE: “Sail on me yacht.”
(laughter)
JOHN: “Yeah.”
RINGO: “We don’t know. We haven’t got any definite ideas what we’re all gonna do.”
JOHN: (gesturing to Ringo’s scarf) “Been to college, have you?”
RINGO: “Yeah, it’s me school scarf. Borstal High.”
(laughter)
Q: (to Ringo, referring to the reason for the scarf) A touch of throat?”
RINGO: “Yeah. (coughs, then continues jokingly) There’s nothing wrong with it!!”
(laughter)
RINGO: “I always talk like this.”
Q: “You’re not thinking of giving up the Big Beat stuff and going in for some harmony singing? Because one or two people said you’re very good harmony singers.”
JOHN: “Well, we do it, you know. There’s harmony in the big beat. It just happens to have a beat as well. All of our records have had some kind of harmony on them.”
Q: “I noticed in the Royal show that you did one ballad number. Is this something you’re going to do more of?”
JOHN: “We’ve been singing it for about five years, and we’ve always done numbers like that. It’s just that we’re known for faster numbers.”
Q: “Do you like the ballads?”
JOHN: “If they’re good. You know, there’s good ballads and good beats.”
Q: “How did you enjoy the Royal Variety show?”
GEORGE: “It was great. Fabulous. It was very good, you know. The audience was much better than we expected.”
JOHN: (jokingly) “Much taller.”
GEORGE: “Yeah.”
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