Details
- Published: Nov 29, 1963
- Interview by: Gordon Kaye
Timeline
Previous interview Nov 13, 1963 • Interview in Plymouth
Concert Nov 28, 1963 • United Kingdom • Lincoln
Concert Nov 29, 1963 • United Kingdom • Huddersfield
Interview Nov 29, 1963 • Interview in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
Single Nov 29, 1963 • "I Want To Hold Your Hand / This Boy" by The Beatles released in the UK
Concert Nov 30, 1963 • United Kingdom • Sunderland
Next interview Dec 07, 1963 • The Beatles interview for BBC
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Huddersfield • ABC Cinema • United Kingdom
Nov 29, 1963 • United Kingdom • Huddersfield • ABC Cinema
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Q: “What do you think of (the fans) coming in and then screaming..?”
GEORGE: “Well, they’ve payed the money so they can scream, can’t they. I mean, if they haven’t payed and they were screaming, it’d be a liberty, wouldn’t it!”
(Beatles laugh)
PAUL: “Oh aye, oh aye.”
RINGO: “Would, that, Georgie.”
Q: “What is your, sort of, ‘perfect touch’ in music? Beethoven, for instance?”
GEORGE: “No. I like trad jazz, you know, Kenny Ball and all that.”
PAUL: (to George) “You don’t… you told me you didn’t.”
GEORGE: “I do. I changed. Washington Square, got it.”
Q: “Now then, let’s know a little bit about your personal life. What do you like to do in your spare time when you get it?”
PAUL: “Spare time? Ehh, Go to the pictures or watch telly, or umm read. (laughs) Read comics, you know.”
(Beatles giggle)
Q: “What sort of films do you like?”
PAUL: “What sort of films… uhh, just ordinary films like ‘The Trial,’ ‘The Servants.'”
(Beatles laugh)
PAUL: (laughing, jokingly) “Just ordinary, you know… Love Walt Disney. You know, ‘The Trial’ by Walt Disney.”
Q: “Mmm.”
PAUL: “It’s great.”
Q: “What sort of music do you like personally?”
PAUL: “Just, I like everybody else. Stravinsky, Beethoven, all that.”
(Beatles laugh)
PAUL: (laughs) “No, American groups actually, I listen to.”
Q: “Female groups..?”
PAUL: “But mainly American records generally.”
Q: “Now then George, what do YOU like to do on your spare time?”
GEORGE: “Umm. (pause) Well, I umm, uhh. (to the others) What do I do?”
PAUL: “What does he do? I’ll tell ya what George does. He goes to the pictures.”
GEORGE: “I go to the pictures, yeah.”
PAUL: “He reads Tolstoy.”
GEORGE: “I read Telstar.”
PAUL: “Tolstoy.”
GEORGE: “And umm…”
RINGO: “Beethoven’s poems.”
(Beatles laugh)
GEORGE: “And play records and play the banjo!”
PAUL: “Beethoven’s poems.”
Q: (laughs) “What have you got ambitions in, George?
GEORGE: “Umm, to join the Navy.”
JOHN: (laughs)
GEORGE: “I want to join the Navy and be a lieutenant commander on HMS Queen Victoria.”
Q: (to the group, regarding their upcoming TV appearance in December) “You’ve never been on ‘Juke Box Jury’ before?”
RINGO: “Oh no. John’s been on.”
JOHN: (yelling, from a distance) “I’VE been ON! I was ON!”
Q: “How long?”
JOHN: “For twenty minutes!!”
(laughter)
