Thursday, February 12, 2009

Beatles Press Conference & Interview: Jacksonville 9/11/64


Q: "Do you have any nicknames among yourselves?"

PAUL: "Nicknames?"

JOHN: "Well, I call George, Ray Coleman."

GEORGE: "I call Ringo, Dave. But apart from that we don't."

PAUL: "We're lying, of course."

Q: "Are you concerned about the rumor that's going around that the Rolling Stones are more important than the Beatles?"

JOHN: "Is it worrying us? No."

RINGO: "No."

PAUL: "It doesn't worry us, 'cuz you get..."

JOHN: "We manage our grief."

PAUL: (giggles) "You get these rumors every so often, you know. I mean..."

JOHN: "Dave Clark."

PAUL: "Dave Clark was bigger than us a couple of months ago. It doesn't always have to mean an awful lot."

GEORGE: "Every two months we hear of 'em taking over."


JEAN MORRIS: "Paul, you're the only unmarried Beatle, or are you the only married Beatle?"

PAUL: "You've got it mixed up, Jean. John's the only married one. All the rest of us are unmarried and single and free, and everything."

JEAN: "And you're available."

PAUL: "Yes."

JOHN: "You can get him on H.P."

GEORGE: "Hello."

JEAN: "Hi. You're not married."

GEORGE: "No, I'm George. Haaaaaaaaaa."

JEAN: "Did you write (This Boy Instrumental) 'Ringo's Theme'?

GEORGE: "No. Did you?"

JOHN: "Where have you been, Jean?"

JEAN: "No, I think it's BEAUTIFUL."

GEORGE: "You haven't been reading the little bits of paper, have you. It SAYS who writes Ringo's Theme and..."

PAUL: "Actually, it was John and I who wrote Ringo's Theme."

JEAN: "It's a BEAUTIFUL piece."

PAUL: "Thank you. Thank you, Jean."

JEAN: (to John) "And you're the married one, right?"

JOHN: (full-out laughing) "That's me, Jean."

PAUL: (giggles)

JEAN: "What does your wife think about your traveling away all the time?"

JOHN: (comically) "Well, she don't like it, Jean, much. But she doesn't mind too much because it makes a lot of money for her, eh, Jean?"

JEAN: "Why don't you come to Tampa and see US sometime?"

JOHN: "Come where?"

JEAN: "Tampa, Florida."

JOHN: "Oh, I thought you said something else. Well, we'd LOVE to. We'd love to do that, Jean. Maybe we will one day."

JEAN: "We'll be looking for you."

GEORGE: "Great, there's Ringo."

JEAN: "Well, Hi Ringo. Where are your drums?"

RINGO: "Probably at the place we're gonna play tonight, Whatever it's called."

JEAN: "The Gator Bowl."

RINGO: "The Gator Bowl."

JEAN: "Do you always eat on the run like this?"

RINGO: "No, we sit down like this."

(laughter)

JEAN: "No, I mean, with all these people don't you get indigestion?"

RINGO: "Well, we usually eat in the room, but seeing the hotel's got no room for us, we have to eat here, you see."

JOHN: "That was unfortunate, that."

RINGO: "Unfortunate."

JEAN: "Do all of the teenagers oustide, in the mobs that you have, that are always around... Do they bother you?"

RINGO: "No, never. Not yet. They may do when I get old, but I'm pretty young yet."

JEAN: (laughing) "Thank you very much."

JOHN AND PAUL: "Thank you, Jean."

JOHN: "Okay, Jean."

PAUL: "See ya, Jean."

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