Q: "I saw the Beatles in May in London, and you had suntans and everything."
PAUL: "Yeah."
Q: "And now you look pale. Ringo in particular."
(Ringo reacts comically)
Q: "No, you look fine."
RINGO: "Thank you."
(laughter)
Q: "It was just three days before you became ill, and I wondered... I've heard reports about you may have to go back to the hospital and you may need an operation. I wonder how things are."
RINGO: "I'm fine. They just want to take the tonsils out in case they cause any more trouble, you see. There's nothing wrong with them now. But they... you know. It could happen again."
Q: "Have you been singing on this tour?"
RINGO: "Every night."
Q: "Would you advocate sending all the young boys your age to Vietnam?"
PAUL: "No... (pause) Not unless they wanted to, you know."
Q: "Paul, how have you found Boston so far, as compared with other cities?"
PAUL: "We haven't seen a lot of it, actually. We just saw..."
Q: "The people here."
PAUL: "People?"
JOHN: "What people?"
PAUL: "I dunno. They're just... Americans, you know. Fine. Very nice. We can't really compare 'em, you know, 'cuz we haven't met a lot of people here, either. Very nice, though."
Q: "Paul, what's your first reaction to the gentleman within this building who thinks he is you?"
PAUL: "Oh yeah. (laughs) That's some fella. Oooo."
(laughter)
PAUL: "As long as he isn't, I don't mind."
Q: "There's one that says he looks like Paul, and one that says he looks like Ringo."
RINGO: "God help him."
(laughter)
Q: "There were some very unhappy press at the airport arrival early this morning, and we understand that you people are not for all of the security. It was to the point where a picture was not even taken of you. Do you draw a line..."
JOHN: "That was ridiculous last night."
PAUL: "We promised to do a TV interview, you know, and we just got out to the cars and we couldn't get in."
RINGO: "We couldn't get in the cars."
JOHN: "It's good security, but it was just a bit too much, you know."
Q: "Who does this?"
JOHN: "It's usually the local police, you know. But I mean, they're not really to blame because they don't know what's going to happen. (comically, with grinning expression) It was just unfortunate they couldn't take photos last night, like."
PAUL: (gesturing) "Mind you, there's nothing wrong with THESE police."
RINGO: "No."
GEORGE: "Very nice."
(laughter)
PAUL: "Very nice police."
Q: "John, do you plan to do anymore (short story) writing?"
JOHN: "Yes."
Q: "How soon?"
JOHN: "I just do it when I feel like, you know."
Q: "You don't have any immediate plans?"
JOHN: "No, I just do it now and then."
Q: "It looks like it."
JOHN: "Well, thank you."
DEREK TAYLOR: "Explain that last remark."
Q: (damage control) "I just mean that it doesn't look like something where you sit down and say alright, I'm gonna write..."
PAUL: "Ooooooooo."
Q: "Do you plan to have another movie in the near future?"
RINGO: "Yes. We start it in February. We don't know what it's going to be about yet."
Q: "Do you feel that you're setting a new trend in music?"
BEATLES: "No."
Q: "Do the boys honestly believe that they will continue in this vein, making the wonderful money they are, and all these performances... or will they fade like the miniature golf courses of a few years ago."
(crowd and Beatles laugh)
JOHN: (giggles) "Yeah."
RINGO: "You're just picking on my size."
PAUL: (giggles)
JOHN: "We probably will. But we'll get out before we fade."
PAUL: "We make more money than miniature golf courses, anyway."
(laughter)
Q: "When do you get a chance to write your music, your lyrics?"
PAUL: "Normally days off, or at night in hotel bedrooms, or... (pause) I dunno. Anytime we've got off or anytime we've got a chance."
Q: "What's your favorite sport?"
PAUL: "None of us are very keen on sport. Swimming's good. Waterskiing."
Q: "Can you tell me if the next movie will be based on 'A Hard Day's Night'... of the same type?"
PAUL: "I don't think so."
GEORGE: "What would the point be, you know. We wouldn't want to do one the same."
RINGO: "Another two days out of their lives, you know, it'd be silly."
Q: "How many more months or years do you expect to continue at your present peak?"
GEORGE: "We don't think about it."
PAUL: "About six months ago, somebody else asked us that. And they said, 'You can't go any farther from here, can ya. This is it.'"
Q: "Arthur Fiedler of the Boston Pops Orchestra finds your music very relaxing. How do you find their music?"
(laughter)
JOHN: "Depends what tunes he plays, you know."
PAUL: (giggles)
Q: "Have you ever heard of him?"
BEATLES: "Yeah."
PAUL: "He's very relaxing."
JOHN: "Boston Pops, I Want To Hold Your..."
Q: "Have you heard his version of Beatle music?"
BEATLES: "Yes."
Q: "Do you like?"
PAUL: (pause, then jokingly) "Good change."
(laughter)
Q: "I heard that the four of you come from poor homes in your background in England. Now that you're millionaires..."
JOHN: "We're not millionaires..."
Q: "...are you planning on giving to charity?"
RINGO: "We've given a fortune to charity."
JOHN: "We're not millionaires, though."
PAUL: "And we were never really poor, anyway."
RINGO: "No."
PAUL: "All of us were just average."
GEORGE: "The story they wrote in America was VERY wrong. That's untrue."
PAUL: "And we've already given a fortune. The thing is, when we give it we don't shout about it, like a lot of people do."
Q: "Did I hear Ringo say that his tonsils are coming out?"
RINGO: "Not yet."
(laughter)
Q: "I hear you have on offer on them."
JOHN: (giggling, to Ringo) "Yeah, tell him about somebody... Some fan wrote in saying, could she have them."
(laughter)
RINGO: "She can have them. They're no good to me."
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