Q: "Ringo, welcome to Australia. How do you feel about being here?"
RINGO: "Oh, it's great. It's good fun, you know. I'm glad I'm off that plane."
Q: "How long have you been on it?"
RINGO: "Thirty-four hours."
Q: "Well, you must be... just about had it."
RINGO: "No, I had a sleep, you know. I feel fine. Fit and everything." (laughs)
Q: "How's your throat now that they put you in hospital and made you miss the start of the Australian tour?"
RINGO: "The throat's fine now, you know. (jokingly, in hoarse voice) 'Everything's alright...'"Q: (laughs)
RINGO: "It's fine. Just gotta take it easy a few days and then we'll be back to normal."
Q: "You're still able to bash the drums?"
RINGO: "Oh yeah. Still bash 'em."
Q: "And have you missed the other boys?"
RINGO: "Yeah, terrible! Haven't half-missed you, fellas, if you're watching... or if you do watch."
Q: "You're looking forward to joining up with them this afternoon?"
RINGO: "Yeah, can't wait. 'Cuz you know, we've been together, you know, (elderly voice) for ninety years."
Q: (laughs)
RINGO: "For so long, I don't know. It's funny being without them. 'Cuz even if, you know, when we're not playing-- if we go out, at least two of us go out together as a rule. So it's a bit funny being on your own."
Q: "Can you give us a look at these rings which you got your name from?"
RINGO: (holds fist up suddenly to the reporters face) "There you go."
Q: (laughs) "They say that fans have sent you alot."
RINGO: "Uhh, not too many actually. No. (comically) I haven't got two-thousand six-hundred seventy-one as some reporter wrote."
(laughter)
Q: "What are you looking forward to most seeing in Australia?"
RINGO: "I don't know. Everything in general, you know. Glad to see a few Maoris and that. And a few kangaroos, I suppose."
Q: "And Brian, coming over to you. Can you tell us when you first met The Beatles?"
RINGO: (looks at watch)
(laughter)
BRIAN EPSTEIN: (laughs) "Oh, 1961. October, I think."
Q: "And whereabouts did you see them?"
BRIAN: "In the Cavern Club in Liverpool."
Q: "And what did you think when you first saw them?"
BRIAN: "Oh, I was sufficiently knocked out."RINGO: "Load of rubbish, that's what you told me."
(laughter)
Q: "And what was the next step from there?"
BRIAN: "Well, then we got to know each other and eventually worked out a bit of idea of management."
RINGO: (laughs)
BRIAN: (jokingly, to Ringo) "See?"
RINGO: "I know. I was away at the time, you see, I joined later... after Brian." (smiles)
BRIAN: (laughing)
Q: "At any time did you have a feeling that you might reach this dizzy height of success that you..."
BRIAN: "No. Well, I don't know about the dizzy height, but I always thought they were going to be pretty big. Very big."
Q: "What's the hardest problem you encounter trying to manage the Beatles?"
BRIAN: "Well, none really. But I think traveling around and going around the world and making arrangements for moving around is the most difficult thing, 'cuz you don't know what's going to happen."
Q: "Do you have any trouble keeping them in control? Do they try and escape from you?"
BRIAN: "Oh no-- (laughing) No no no no no."
RINGO: "Never! never!"
(laughter as Ringo walks off-camera)
Q: "And on the subject of money, how do you go about financing their weekly pocket money? What happens about that?"
BRIAN: "Uhh... They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company."
Q: "And Ringo, do you miss anything now being a Beatle-- or do you think you've got everything now?"
RINGO: "Umm, no. I don't miss anything, you know. Well, I can't remember. I just have a good time. It's good fun, you know."
Q: "Yesterday in Adelaide, the three were talking about what they were gonna do when they weren't Beatles. And they said you were going to open a chain of women's hairdressing salons. Is that correct?"
RINGO: "Yes. Well, I thought of that a few months ago, you know, so I'm still thinking about it. But I could change. Oh, I could change, you know."
Q: "Is there anything that you'd like to ask about Australia?"
RINGO: "Ask about? No, I don't think so. Seems quite nice to me."
Q: "So, it was quite a good reception."
RINGO: "It was a marvelous reception, I loved it. How many were there?"
Q: "I think it was about three or four thousand."
RINGO: (comically, to someone off-camera) "There you go! Seven, he said!" (laughs)
Q: (long pause, then to film crew) "...how are we doing?"
RINGO: (looking into the camera, regarding the reporter) "He's getting worried now, isn't he? He's run out of questions!!"
(laughter)
RINGO: "Doesn't know what's happening! (jokingly, to the reporter) Have you been at it long?"
Q: (laughs)
(laughter)
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