Beatles: First Radio Interview, 10/28/62

MONTY: It's a very great pleasure for us this evening to say hello to an up-and-coming Merseyside group, The Beatles. I know their names, and I'm going to try and put faces to them. Now, you're John Lennon, aren't you?"

JOHN: "Yes, that's right."

MONTY: "What do you do in the group, John?"

JOHN: "I play harmonica, rhythm guitar, and vocal. That's what they call it."

MONTY: "Then, there's Paul McCartney. That's you?"

PAUL: "Yeah, that's me. Yeah."

MONTY: "And what do you do?"

PAUL: "Play bass guitar and uhh, sing? ...I think! That's what they say."

MONTY: "That's quite apart from being vocal?"

PAUL: "Well... yes, yes."

MONTY: "Then there's George Harrison."

GEORGE: "How d'you do."

MONTY: "How d'you do. What's your job?"

GEORGE: "Uhh, lead guitar and sort of singing."

MONTY: "By playing lead guitar does that mean that you're sort of leader of the group or are you...?"

GEORGE: "No, no. Just... Well you see, the other guitar is the rhythm. Ching, ching, ching, you see."

PAUL: "He's solo guitar, you see. John is in fact the leader of the group."

MONTY: "And over in the background, here, and also in the background of the group making alot of noise is Ringo Starr."

RINGO: "Hello."

MONTY: "You're new to the group, aren't you Ringo?"

RINGO: "Yes, umm, nine weeks now."

MONTY: "Were you in on the act when the recording was made of 'Love Me Do'?"

RINGO: "Yes, I'm on the record. I'm on the disc."

(the group giggles)

RINGO: (comic voice) "It's down on record, you know?"

MONTY: "Now, umm..."

RINGO: "I'm the drummer!"

(laughter)

MONTY: "What's that offensive weapon you've got there? Those are your drumsticks?"

RINGO: "Well, it's umm... just a pair of sticks I found. I just bought 'em, you know, 'cuz we're going away."

MONTY: "When you say you're going away, that leads us on to another question now. Where are you going?"

RINGO: "Germany. Hamburg. For two weeks."

MONTY: "You have standing and great engagements over there, haven't you?"

RINGO: "Well, the boys have been there quite alot, you know. And I've been there with other groups, but this is the first time I've been there with the Beatles."

MONTY: "Paul, tell us. How do you get in on the act in Germany?"

PAUL: "Well, it was all through an old agent."

(laughter)

PAUL: (chuckles) "We first went there for a fella who used to manage us, and Mr. Allan Williams of the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool. And he found the engagements so we sort of went there, and then went under our own..."

JOHN: "Steam."

PAUL: "Steam... (laughs)

JOHN: "...as they say."

PAUL: "As they say, afterwards, you know. And we've just been going backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards."

MONTY: (surprised) "You're not busy at all?"

PAUL: "Well yes, actually. Yes. It's been left-leg in all the war."

(laughter)

MONTY: "George, were you brought up in Liverpool?"

GEORGE: "Yes. So far, yes."

MONTY: "Whereabouts?"

GEORGE: "Well, born in Wavertree, and bred in Wavertree and Speke-- where the airplanes are, you know."

MONTY: "Are you all 'Liverpool types,' then?"

RINGO: "Yes."

JOHN: "Uhh... types, yes."

PAUL: "Oh yeah."

RINGO: "Liverpool-typed Paul, there."

MONTY: "Now, I'm told that you were actually in the same form as young Ron Wycherley..."

RINGO: "Ronald. Yes."

MONTY: "...now Billy Fury."

RINGO: "In Saint Sylus."

MONTY: "In which?"

RINGO: "Saint Sylus."

JOHN: "Really?"

RINGO: "It wasn't Dingle Bay like you said in the Musical Express."

PAUL: "No, that was wrong. Saint Sylus school."

MONTY: "Now I'd like to introduce a young disc jockey. His name is Malcolm Threadgill, he's 16-years old, and I'm sure he'd like to ask some questions from the teenage point of view."

MALCOLM: "I understand you've made other recordings before on a German label."

PAUL: "Yeah."

MALCOLM: "What ones were they?"

PAUL: "Well, we didn't make... First of all we made a recording with a fella called Tony Sheridan. We were working in a club called 'The Top Ten Club' in Hamburg. And we made a recording with him called, 'My Bonnie,' which got to number five in the German Hit Parade."

JOHN: "Ach tung!"

PAUL: (giggles) "But it didn't do a thing over here, you know. It wasn't a very good record, but the Germans must've liked it a bit. And we did an instrumental which was released in France on an EP of Tony Sheridan's, which George and John wrote themselves. That wasn't released here. It got one copy. That's all, you know. It didn't do anything."

MALCOLM: "You composed 'P.S. I Love You' and 'Love Me Do' yourself, didn't you? Who does the composing between you?"

PAUL: "Well, it's John and I. We write the songs between us. It's, you know... We've sort of signed contracts and things to say, that now if we..."

JOHN: "It's equal shares."

PAUL: "Yeah, equal shares and royalties and things, so that really we just both write most of the stuff. George did write this instrumental, as we say. But mainly it's John and I. We've written over about a hundred songs but we don't use half of them, you know. We just happened to sort of rearrange 'Love Me Do' and played it to the recording people, and 'P.S. I Love You,' and uhh, they seemed to quite like it. So that's what we recorded."

MALCOLM: "Is there anymore of your own compositions you intend to record?"

JOHN: "Well, we did record another song of our own when we were down there, but it wasn't finished enough. So, you know, we'll take it back next time and see how they like it then."

(long pause)

JOHN: (jokingly) "Well... that's all from MY end!"

(laughter)

MONTY: "I would like to just ask you-- and we're recording this at Hume Hall, Port Sunlight-- Did any of you come over to this side before you became famous, as it were? Do you know this district?"

PAUL: "Well, we played here, uhh... I don't know what you mean by famous, you know.

(laughter)

PAUL: "If being famous is being in the Hit Parade, we've been over here-- we were here about two months ago. Been here twice, haven't we?"

JOHN: "I've got relations here. Rock Ferry."

MONTY: "Have you?"

JOHN: "Yes. Oh, all sides of the water, you know."

PAUL: "Yeah, I've got a relation in Claughton Village-- Upton Road."

RINGO: (jokingly) "I've got a friend in Birkenhead!"

(laughter)

MONTY: "I wish I had."

GEORGE: (jokingly) "I know a man in Chester!"

(laughter)

MONTY: "Now, that's a very dangerous thing to say. There's a mental home there, mate. Peter Smethurst is here as well, and he looks like he is bursting with a question."

PETER: "There is just one question I'd like to ask. I'm sure it's the question everyone's asking. I'd like your impressions on your first appearence on television."

PAUL: "Well, strangely enough, we thought we were gonna be dead nervous. And everyone said, 'You suddenly, when you see the cameras, you realize that there are two million people watching,' because there were two million watching that 'People And Places' that we did... we heard afterwards. But, strangely enough, it didn't come to us. We didn't think at all about that. And it was much easier doing the television than it was doing the (live musical performance) radio. It's still nerve-wracking, but it was a bit easier than doing radio because there was a full audience for the radio broadcast."

MONTY: "Do you find it nerve-wracking doing this now?"

(laughter)

PAUL: (jokingly) "Yeah, yeah."

MONTY: "Over at Cleaver Hospital, a certain record on Parlophone-- the top side has been requested. So perhaps the Beatles themselves would like to tell them what it's going to be."

PAUL: "Yeah. Well, I think it's gonna be 'Love Me Do.'"

JOHN: "Parlophone R4949."

(laughter)

PAUL: "'Love Me Do.'"

MONTY: "And I'm sure, for them, the answer is P.S. I love you!"

PAUL: "Yeah."

Beatles Interview: Pop Chat 7/30/63

Q: "Our guests this week on 'Pop Chat' are The Beatles-- John, Paul, George and Ringo. Let's start off with you, Ringo. Everybody knows that the Beatles are a Liverpool group, but were you all actually born in Liverpool?"

RINGO: "Yes, every one of us."

Q: "Are you keeping your homes in Liverpool, or do you plan to move into London, or anything like that?"

RINGO: "I don't think any of us are moving. We must have a base in London, you know, because we're there more than we are in Liverpool at the moment. But we're not moving our houses."

Q: "John, over to you for a minute. You do alot of songwriting of late. Do you always work as a team?"

JOHN: "Well, mainly. All the better songs that we have written-- the ones that anybody wants to hear-- those were co-written."

Q: "Do you write the words and music together, or does one of you write the words?"

JOHN: "Yeah, well... Sometimes half the words are written by me and he'll finish them off. We go along a word each, practically."

Q: "Did you write your new record release?"

JOHN: "Uhh... 'She Loves You'? Yeah."

PAUL: "Yeah."

JOHN: "We wrote that two days before we recorded it, actually."

PAUL: "We wrote it in a hotel room in Newcastle."

Q: "This brings me to a question from one of your fans. How did the distinctive hairstyle come about?"

GEORGE: "Well, umm... I don't think any of us had been bothered with having haircuts, and it was always long. Paul and John went to Paris and came back with it-- something like this. And I went to the baths and came out with it like this."

Q: "Another fan was anxious to know how you manage to get any private life. I mean-- If you take a girl out, how do you avoid being recognized, Paul?"

PAUL: "Uhh, I don't know... just sort of run."

Q: "Now, John, I know you have very little time for anything but music at the moment. But if you had spare time-- What sort of hobbies and sports do you enjoy?"

JOHN: "Well, none of us are very sporty, you know. The only sport we do bother with is swimming. We don't count it as a sport, but... And hobbies are just writing songs."

Beatles Interview: Klas Burling, Bournemouth 8/23/63

KLAS: "On my left is a boy... sounding like what?"

RINGO: "Uhh, Ringo. That's me. You know me. (imitates drums) Ting-cha, bump bah-bump!"

KLAS: "This would be the drums."

RINGO: "Yeah, that's... Well..."

KLAS: "Well.."

(Beatles giggle)

KLAS: "And after that we've got..?"

GEORGE: "George Harrison."

KLAS: "Playing..?"

GEORGE: "Guitar."

KLAS: "Solo guitar."

GEORGE: "Yes. (imitates guitar) Dee deena-lee, deena-lee dee dee."

(laughter)

KLAS: "Next in line is..?"

JOHN: (imitates guitar) "Ja-jing jing jing, ja-ja jing jing."

(laughter)

JOHN: "John."

RINGO: "Lennon."

JOHN: "Rhythmus."

(Beatles giggle)

KLAS: "And on my right side is..?"

PAUL: (imitates bass) "boom bah-boom boom, bah-boom boom. Paul McCartney."

KLAS: "All from Liverpool, known as..?"

PAUL & JOHN: "The Beatles."

KLAS: "Yeah, that's right. You've had some hits in Sweden, and have you ever thought about coming to Sweden?"

RINGO: "Well, we'd like to, you know. But we're so busy at the moment. I don't think we'll get there until sometime next year, if we go at all."

PAUL: "Actually, you know, we want to come because we've heard about the girls in Sweden. All gorgous blondes. you know."

GEORGE & JOHN: "Yeah."

KLAS: "That's Paul, and he's supposed to be the sweet boy in this family, no?"

PAUL: (jokingly) "Aww, shuttup."

(laughter)

JOHN: "His dad was a Mars bar."

PAUL: (laughs)

KLAS: "And George, you would like to go..."

GEORGE: "I would like to go to Sweden, yes."

KLAS: "By the side, by the way, is Michael Cox. An old fried of yours..."

RINGO: "Yeah...!"

JOHN: (loudly) "Hello, Michael Cox!"

PAUL: "He's from Liverpool, too."

GEORGE: "How is he?"

MICHAEL COX: "Fine, fine."

KLAS: "And he has told you a lot about Sweden, and so on."

GEORGE: "Yes."

KLAS: "You're still interested?"

BEATLES: "Yeah!"

RINGO: "More than ever."

KLAS: "After this we'll get to your recording of 'Twist And Shout.' I watched you, and John you are singing..."

JOHN: "Shouting it."

KLAS: "Yeah, you're shouting it, really. How do you feel from that... the throat?"

JOHN: "Well, ehm, at first it was hard. But when I do it twice a night, it's easy." (imitates dog barking)

(laughter)

JOHN: (giggling) "It's quite easy now. Practice, you know, if I keep shouting every night. But a year ago I couldn't sing it."

KLAS: "And another thing in your stage act, John, is all that SICK humor. You've got funny hands, and..."

JOHN: "Well, I thought it was quite healthy."

KLAS: (laughs)

RINGO: "It's not sick. He's just a cripple."

(laughter)

JOHN: (giggling) "I'm not, I'm not!"

(laughter)

JOHN: "I'm quite normal, my Swedish friends."

(laughter, the Beatles recording of 'Twist And Shout' is played)

KLAS: "The songwriters in the Beatles, they are John Lennon and Paul McCartney."

JOHN: (monotone) "Hurray."

KLAS: "Tell us something about how you find a song... how you get the idea about a song, to write it down."

JOHN: "Well, sometimes it's the words first, and then the music after."

KLAS: "Very often you've got a title, you know... Me and you, and everything like that?"

PAUL: "Yeah. We try to do that, to make it personal so it's... so we really mean it. When we sing a thing about 'I love you,' it's easier."

JOHN: (singing) "'And don't you forget it!'"

JOHN & PAUL: (singing together, jokingly) "'I love you and don't you forget it!'"

PAUL: "Well, you see, it's easier than singing something about the cat that lives on the hill, man."

(laughter)

PAUL: "It's a lot easier just to sing about what you feel yourself."

KLAS: "And you've given a lot of nice numbers to Billy J. Kramer."

JOHN: (loudly) "Well, he's our good friend and mate... buddy... pal... friend."

PAUL: "Yeah. Listen to 'Bad To Me,' folks."

KLAS: "Your latest recording is called..?

PAUL: "It's called 'She Loves You.' And there's story to this one, how we wrote it. We were on tour with Roy Orbison, and Gerry and the Pacemakers. And we were in Newcastle, up north of England, and we were in a hotel room. We had about three days left in which to write a song. We had a recording date set for three days from this date. So we went to the hotel and we booked in a room, and we just decided that we have to write a song very quickly. So we sat down, no ideas came for a bit. But eventually we got an idea. 'She Loves You' came, you know. It was just lucky."

KLAS: "But from the start that was supposed to be the B-side, John?"

JOHN: "The B-side of 'She Loves You' was meant to be the A-side. And the same for 'From Me To you.' The B-Side of 'From Me To You' was the A-side, and then we wrote another song after."

KLAS: "Well, it..."

JOHN: "Came out better."

PAUL: "Yeah, see, we write one song, then we can get going then after that and get more ideas after having written one song. So we wrote 'I'll Get You' which is the B-side, first. And then 'She Loves You' came after that, you know. We got ideas from that, and we recorded it."

KLAS: "Yes."

PAUL: "And there ya go."

KLAS: "It sounds very easy, all of it."

JOHN: "Sometimes it's easy. Sometimes it's hard."

RINGO: (jokingly) "We find it difficult sometimes!"

(laughter)

KLAS: (jokingly) "Thanks Ringo."

(John and Paul giggle)

KLAS: "Well, singing too. All of you. You're singing, actually."

PAUL: "Yeah, we all sing."

JOHN: "The Singing Dogs."

RINGO: "You know me... 'Boys.'"

(Beatles laugh)

PAUL: "We've written a new song for Ringo which we are gonna do on our new LP."

KLAS: "Yes, what about that new LP? When?"

JOHN: "It's September, isn't it?"

PAUL: "No, it's November."

JOHN: (jokingly perturbed at being corrected) "Okay, okay!"

(laughter)

PAUL: "Don't know when it'll get to Sweden, though, but we hope it'll get there in November. (nasal voice) And we hope it sells!"

KLAS: "Alright."

PAUL: "That's all I can say."

KLAS: "Alright. RIght now, we'll listen to 'She Loves You.'"

(Beatles yell 'Hurray!' and applaud)

PAUL: "More!"

RINGO: "Play it twice."

('She Loves You' is played)

Beatles Interview: Manchester Dressing Room 8/28/63

JOHN: "The best thing was (Love Me Do) came to the charts in two days. And everybody thought it was a fiddle because our manager's stores send in these... what is it... record things."

GEORGE: "Returns."

JOHN: "Returns. And everybody down south thought 'Oh, aha! He's buying them himself or he's just fiddlin' the charts,' you know, but he wasn't."

GEORGE: "Actually we'd been at it a long time before that. We'd been to Hamburg. I think that's where we found our style... we developed our style because of this fella. He used to say, 'You've got to make a show for the people.' And he used to come up every night, shouting 'Mach schau! Mach schau!' So we used to mach schau, and John used to dance around like a gorilla, and we'd all, you know, knock our heads together and things like that. Anyway, we got back to Liverpool and all the groups there were doing 'Shadows' type of stuff. And we came back with leather jackets and jeans and funny hair-- maching schau-- which went down quite well."

JOHN: "We just wore leather jackets. Not for the group-- one person wore one, I can't remember-- and then we all liked them so it ended up we were all on stage with them. And we'd always worn jeans 'cuz we didn't have anything else at the time, you know. And then we went back to Liverpool and got quite a few bookings. They all thought we were German. You know, we were billed as 'From Hamburg' and they all said, 'You speak good English.' (smiles) So we went back to Germany and we had a bit more money the second time, so we wore leather pants-- and we looked like four Gene Vincents, only a bit younger, I think. (smiles) And that was it, you know. We just kept the leather gear till Brian (Epstein) came along."

PAUL: "It was a bit, sort of, old hat anyway-- all wearing leather gear-- and we decided we didn't want to look ridiculous going home. Because more often than not too many people would laugh. It was just stupid. We didn't want to appear as a gang of idiots. And Brian suggested that we just, sort of, wore ordinary suits. So we just got what we thought were quite good suits, and got rid of the leather gear. That was all."

(Next, the topic of discussion turned to the present fame of the group, and the sudden glare of media attention.)

GEORGE: "We do like the fans and enjoy reading the publicity about us, but sometimes you don't realize that it's about yourself. You see your pictures and read articles about George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Paul and John-- but you don't actually think 'Oh, that's me. There I am in the paper.' (smiles) It's funny. It's just as though it's a different person."

RINGO: "When we go home, we go in early in the morning when we've finished a job, and the kids don't know you're at home. But if they find out, where I live, they get the drums out and beat it out! (laughs) 'Cuz it's a play street and, you know, there's no traffic or nothing bothering them. Once when the boys came for me-- they popped in to see me Mum and me Dad, you know-- we had to go out the back 'cuz there were twenty or thirty outside. And they wouldn't believe me mother, you know, knocking and saying 'Can we have their autographs.' So it built up so much. There was about two hundred kids all around the door, peeping through the window and knocking."

(Beatles giggling)

RINGO: (laughs) "In the end, me mother was ill, you know-- terrified out of her life-- with just all these kids and boys and girls, you know."

GEORGE: "They send us alot of Jellybabies and chocolates and things like that, just because somebody wrote in one of the papers about presents and things that we'd had given to us. And John said he'd got some Jellybabies and I ate them. But ever since that we've been inundated. We get about two-ton a night. (smiles) But the main trouble is they tend to throw them at us when were on stage. (laughs) And, uhh, once I got one in my eye which wasn't very nice. (holds finger to eye) In fact I haven't been the same since."

JOHN: "It all sounds complaining, but you know, we're not. We're just putting the point that it affects your home more than it does yourself, you know, because you know what to expect but your parents and family don't know what's happening."

(The Beatles were then asked what they saw in their own future, and how long their fame might last.)

JOHN: "'How long are you gonna last?' Well, you can't say, you know. You can be big-headed and say, 'Yeah, we're gonna last ten years.' But as soon as you've said that you think, 'We're lucky if we last three months,' you know."

PAUL: "Well, obviously we can't keep playing the same sort of music until we're about forty-- sort of, old men playing 'From Me To You'-- nobody is going to want to know at all about that sort of thing. You know, we've thought about it, and probably the thing that John and I will do, uhh, will be write songs-- as we have been doing as a sort of sideline now-- we'll probably develop that a bit more we hope. Who knows. At forty, we may not know how to write songs anymore."

GEORGE: "I hope to have enough money to go into a business of my own by the time we, umm, do 'flop.' (laughs) And we don't know-- it may be next week, it may be two or three years. But I think we'll be in the business, either up there or down there, for at least another four years."

RINGO: "I've always fancied having a ladies hairdressing salon."

(Beatles giggling)

RINGO: (undeterred) "You know, a string of them, in fact! Strut 'round in me stripes and tails, you know. 'Like a cup of tea, Madam?'"

Beatles Interview: The Public Ear 10/3/63

PAUL: "It wasn't so much that we forsaw a big success. We just never thought that anything particularly bad would happen to us. We never felt... never sat down at one particular point at all and, sort of, worried about anything. We've always thought that something would turn up sometime."

GEORGE: "We have been misquoted -- people saying we make 7,000 a week, and all that."

PAUL: "I wish we did."

GEORGE: "We probably do make quite a bit but we don't actually see it, because record royalties, things like that, take months before they come in. And anyway..."

JOHN: "Hotel cost a fortune."

GEORGE: "Yeah, my mother cost a fortune."

(Beatles laugh)

GEORGE: "But we've also got an accountant and a company, Beatles Limited. They see the money. The thing is, indirectly, we are and we aren't doing it for the money, really, because don't forget -- We played for about three or four years or maybe longer just earning hardly anything. Well, we wouldn't have lived on that. If we were doing it for the money, we wouldn't have lasted out all those years. But the money does help, let's face it. Yeah, we all love being on-stage and..."

JOHN: "I haven't got the patience to practice to become a 'perfect' guitarist, you know. I'm more interested in the combination of my voice and the guitar I know, and to write songs, than I am in the instrument. So I never go through a day hardly without playing it whether I'm performing or not, you know."

PAUL: "George is the one of us who is interested in the instrument.

GEORGE: "Well, I don't PRACTICE."

PAUL: "But the other three of us are more interested in the sound of the group."

GEORGE: "To be a guitarist, you're supposed to practice a couple of hours a day. But, I mean, I don't do that."

RINGO: "To be ANYTHING, you're supposed to practice a couple of hours a day."

PAUL: "Yeah."

GEORGE: "Well you know, I mean, the thing is... Individually we're all... (pause) I suppose we're all crummy musicians, really."

Beatles Interview: With Dusty Springfield 10/4/63

DUSTY: "Paul, I've got some questions to ask you here. Please could you tell me the name of your racing greyhound?"

PAUL: "Uhh, I haven't got one, actually."

DUSTY: "You haven't?"

PAUL: "No. Well, a girl sent in a letter to me, and she said, 'Would you like a gra... a gracing rayhound!' And I said 'Yeah!' but she hasn't sent it yet."

DUSTY: "She hasn't? Awww."

CROWD: (in exaggerated sympathy) "Awwww!!"

DUSTY: "I'm sure she loves you."

PAUL: "She hasnt sent it yet, but I hope she does though."

DUSTY: "Is it true you sleep with you eyes open?"

PAUL: "Umm, well you know, I haven't seen myself do it..."

(laughter)

PAUL: "But actually, the fellas say that I do. They've, sort of, seen me sleeping with my eyes open."

DUSTY: "How can you do that?"

PAUL: "I don't know, you know... just sort of half open."

DUSTY: "You're just clever... you're just Brilliant, Paul."

(crowd giggles)

DUSTY: (reading) "Please ask Paul if he plucks his well-shaped eyebrows."

(laughter)

PAUL: "Umm, no."

DUSTY: "You don't. It doesn't look so. You're absolutely beautiful. Paul, do you mind girls screaming all through your act?"

PAUL: "Uhh, no. We like 'em screaming, generally, all of us. But it's a bit much all the way through. But we love 'em screaming."

JOHN: (comically) "Hear, hear!"

(the girls cheer and applaud in approval)

DUSTY: (turning to John) "This is a question which you've been asked a thousand times before but you always, all of you, give different versions or different answers. So you've got to tell me now... How did the Beatles get their name?"

JOHN: "I just thought of it." (comically proud facial expression)

(crowd cheers)

DUSTY: "Were they called anything else before?"

JOHN: "They were called the Quarrymen." (comically giggles)

DUSTY: "You rugged character! ...Oh John, listen. (reading) Do you have false teeth, as they always look so even?"

JOHN: "No! (scratches front teeth with fingernail) They're all chipped and battered."

(laughter)

DUSTY: "Girls, would you say his teeth were chipped and battered?"

CROWD: (in unison) "NO!"

JOHN: "No, they're real."

DUSTY: "Is it true that, when you were a kid, you were shot at for stealing apples?"

JOHN: "Yeah."

(laughter)

DUSTY: (gesturing to the side of his face) "Is that what these beautiful marks are?"

JOHN: "No, they're scabs."

(laughter)

DUSTY: "There's nothing there at all, really. He's got a quite beautiful complexion."

JOHN: (suggestively, joking with Dusty) "Let me see YOUR scabs!"

PAUL: (objecting comically) "HEY!"

(laughter)

Beatles Interview: Playhouse Theatre, London 10/16/63

Q: "Well lads... Almost unknown in January, and now going to the Royal Command Performance in November. This is quite a rise even for 'your' business, isn't it Paul?"

PAUL: "Yes a bit. It's been very quick and we have been very lucky."

Q: "How much of this is due, do you think, to your musical talent?"

PAUL: "Uhh, dunno. No Idea. You just can't tell, you know. Maybe a lot of it, maybe none of it."

Q: (to john) "How much would you have said?"

JOHN: "I agree with Paul, you know."

Q: "How much of this is getting popularity by acting the fool a bit and playing around?"

JOHN: "Well I mean, that's just natural. We don't... We do it anyway, whether we're on-stage or not."

Q: "But your funny haircuts aren't natural?"

JOHN: (comical voice) "Well, we don't think they're funny, ya see... cobber?"

(laughter)

Q: "George, can I turn to you now? How long do you think you're going to be successful? You've had this monumental rise. Obviously this sort of thing can't go on, but do you think you can settle down to a life in show business?"

GEORGE: "Well, we're hoping to. I mean, not necessarily a 'life' in show business, but at least a couple more years."

Q: "A long run."

GEORGE: "Yeah. I mean, if we do as well as Cliff (Richards) and The Shadows have done up to now, well I mean, we won't be moaning."

RINGO: "Very happy."

GEORGE: "I mean, naturally, it can't go on as it has been going the last few months. It'd just be ridiculous."

Q: "How do you find all this business of having screaming girls following you all over the place?"

GEORGE: "Well, we feel flattered."

JOHN: "...and flattened."

(Beatles laugh)

GEORGE: (giggling) "Yeah, and flattened. But I mean, if the screaming fans weren't there then we wouldn't be here, would we."

Q: "Paul, coming quickly back to you again. Mister Edward Heath, the Lord Privy Seal, has said that the other night he found it hard to distinguish what you were saying as Queen's English."

PAUL: "Ah, yes."

Q: "Now, are you going to try and lose some of your Liverpool dialect for the Royal show?"

PAUL: "No, are you kidding. No, we wouldn't bother doing that."

GEORGE: "We just won't vote for him."

(Beatles laugh)

PAUL: (jokingly, in upperclass dialect) "We don't all speak like them BBC posh fellas, you know?"

Q: "Right well, with that, I better wish you good luck in the show. What song will you be singing most there, do you think?"

PAUL: (upperclass dialect) "Well, I don't know, but I should imagine we'd do 'She Loves You.'"

(Beatles errupt in stuffy, mock-upperclass laughter)

PAUL & JOHN: "Jolly good, jolly good."