Beatles Press Conference: Vancouver & Seattle - 1964 & 1966

RED:Hi,my name is Red Robinson

Since 1954,I've been at the center of rock n' roll

I was there when rock was born

Rock n' roll went to a soft period in the early sixties

And then was reborn

The British never stop rocking

and by the mid-sixties invade the North America with a solid sound of rock n' roll

and have been last for number of years

And we now refer to those years as the”British invasion”

It was spirit-headed by the Beatles

who give rock n' roll a new breath of life

The fifties launched the new sound

and the sixties enhanced it60

The Beatles's music took the sound into a new height of appreciation

adding millions of new fans along the way

In 1964,Beatlemania swiped North America and the world

It was the birth of the mercy sound

It was only a matter of time before the chief proponent of British rock would take the music on tour

The first Beatles tour of North America took place in 1964

The circuit included the Pacific Northwest and the city of Vancouver

It was entirely inproperate that the Beatles should make an appearance in Vancouver

Where that city had welcomed the king of rock n' roll Elvis Presley in 1957

More than twenty thousand fans assembled at the Empire stadium on Saturday,August 22nd

Eight-nine newsmen crowded into a room designed for forty

including the travelling Beatles expert from the Liverpool Echo and the London Daily Mirror

And the tennis-match press conference began with the Beatles winning the match

GEORGE: Cuz the pilot didn't have a little stamp on his bit of paper

JOHN:We got here and had to go back

PAUL:There was one little thing missing on the paper

Q:That happened while you were in the air over Vancouver

GEORGE: We were almost here

and he turned 'round went back

got a little thing stamped on his passport, and then

JOHN: And we had more chicken sandwiches

GEORGE: And then we came again

And then the police took us for a forty minute tour of the of the city

JOHN: Because they weren't ready here

PAUL: There was something not ready, you know

GEORGE: Apart from that we were on time

Q: How did you like it

JOHN: Very good Only we were starving, you know

Q: On a percentage basis these days

what are you taking out of America compared with Britain, in earning power

_Money Money

JOHN: I haven't a clue

Q: Money, I'm aware

PAUL: Definitely No we don't know how much, you know Really

JOHN: Do you get more in America

PAUL: You won't believe us, but

JOHN: I figure we get more here, 'cuz it's so far away from home

PAUL: The only reason

Q: There's a rumor you own a bank in England Is that correct

PAUL AND GEORGE: No

JOHN: No, we just borrow it now and then

Q: What's your deal with

PAUL: John John

JOHN: What

_Just gettin' it clear, John

JOHN: Oh

PAUL: John

Q: What is your deal with EMI which, of course, is Capitol Records

PAUL: Yeah

Q: Is it a long-term contract, and if so, how long

PAUL: No, it actually, I think it expires next year

JOHN: I think it expires next year or something like that

GEORGE: It expires any year now

Q: Will you remain with them

JOHN: Depends what they say

GEORGE: Who knows

Q: Oh, you'll buy them

Q: What are your plans for movies

PAUL: We've got to do a new one in February Februar-ar-ary

There aren't we haven't made any plans for it as yet We talked to the director

Q: No plans

PAUL: No, nothing

GEORGE: No title, no script

RINGO: No script-- No actors

Q: Are you gonna do any more (vocal) solos, Ringo, on any future records

RINGO: Umm I suppose so, you know

Q: When are you going to retire, fellas

RINGO: About ten minutes

Q: In a past interview

you once said that you didn't mind being in the spotlight twenty-four hours a day

Isn't there the odd time that you do enjoy doing common things, and just having it all to yourself

JOHN: When we're asleep

Q: When is that

JOHN: I don't know

RINGO: Next Thursday

PAUL: Very busy

Q: Are you going to immigrate to the States, fellas

BEATLES: No

Q: Why

GEORGE: 'Cuz we like England

Q: Who are your favourite recording artists

_Uh, Little Richard's one

_Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, The Exciters

_Jackie DeShannon

_The Miracles

_Derek Taylor

_Chuck Jackson

Q: When you people were initially starting did The Crickets have any influence in your sound at all

_When they were with Buddy Holly, yeah

_Marian Williams

Q: How about the name, did that have any influence

The Crickets and The Beatles

JOHN: Can't remember, it could've You know, it's so long ago

Q: What's the most unusual request you've ever had from a fan

JOHN: Well, I wouldn't like to say, really!

Q: Are you fellas identified with either the mods or the rockers

JOHN: Uh well, the rockers think we're mods

and then the mods think we're rockers, I think

Q: Do you enjoy beating off girls

JOHN: We don't do it, the police do it

Q: Do you feel safe riding in an airplane

JOHN: Not really As safe as you can be in an airplane, I suppose

Q: Are you going to write another book, John

JOHN: Uhh well, yes

Q: When is it coming out

JOHN: I don't know I can't seem to be able to

Q: What are you going to call it

JOHN: I don't know that either

Q: Does every city look the same

JOHN: No Some have trees, some don't

Q: What are your plans for the next ten years

JOHN:What are your plans, son

RINGO:Can you speak up, please!

RINGO: I haven't planned anything I just keep going, you know

see what happens It's more fun

_Ringo, are you engaged to Maureen Cox

RINGO: No!

Q: Are you going to be

RINGO: No! Anything else

Q: Do you think overexposure with movies and too many record releases perhaps could damage your career at all

JOHN: We don't release any more records than anybody else, it just so happens

RINGO: We've only made one movie

JOHN: they make everything we make into a single over here

PAUL: In fact, we we

JOHN: We've made three albums

PAUL: sorry

_Tell him sorry, Paul

GEORGE: In England, we made three albums!

GEORGE: And they've got seven out over here, or about seven

RINGO: So work that out for yourselves

JOHN: They just make 'em up

PAUL: In fact, we've made less records than most people So there We've only made

I think we've only ever made seven singles

and it seems to me like thousands, you know

Q: Over here, we get one every day

PAUL: Over here, yeah

RINGO: Lucky

PAUL: Well, we only made seven, you know

Q: I notice none of you smoke, do you have any drinking habits

BEATLES: We do smoke

Q: You do

JOHN: What's this

Q: Ahh, right

JOHN: It's not peanuts, you know! Ha ha ha!

PAUL: We drink Drink, too

RED:One of the press representatives asks at this point

How many of the quartet are the original Beatles

JOHN: The three of us

PAUL: Ringo

Q: Who was the boy that was ahead of

_A fella called Pete Best

RINGO: I'm the one that died

Q: Why did he quit

JOHN: We threw him out

PAUL: He really was It's one of those things, you know

Recording manager said he wasn't

Q: How long does your show last

JOHN: Thirty minutes

Q: Thirty minutes

PAUL: Just a bit over thirty, yeah

Q: What's worse facing the kids or a mob like this

JOHN: Mmmmmmmm

PAUL: No, it's We enjoy it, you know This, even

RINGO: Even

PAUL: Even this!

Q: Do you feel responsible for making Britannia rule the airwaves

JOHN: No

PAUL: Ooh Ohh You worked that one out, didn't you

Q: What is the best city you've ever played

JOHN: I don't know

RINGO: It's impossible, you know

PAUL: Actually, one of the wildest audiences was, I think, Glasgow

RINGO: Glasgow, Scotland

RED:Here our reporter asked Paul if he brought along his dad

PAUL: No Well, actually my dad's having a better time than I am He's got a

he's got a house, a race horse He's just been for a week in Athens I wish I was him

Q: How much time-off do you get in a year

PAUL: About

JOHN: We get good enough holidays, when we get 'em

RINGO: Couple of months

PAUL: Three or four weeks a year

Q: How can you enjoy them, when I hear that in Hawaii you had to leave after just a few days

JOHN: We weren't going to Hawaii, we were just passing through, you see

GEORGE: We only stayed there the night on the way to Tahiti

Q: Did you like it

PAUL: Yeah

JOHN: What Hawaii

Q: Yeah, Hawaii

JOHN: It was alright

GEORGE: But we were only staying there the night on the way to Tahiti

PAUL: Say it again, George

GEORGE: He's got it

Q: Have any of the political parties in England tried to carry favor with you and use you for their own benefit

JOHN: No They all give us a mention just in case

GEORGE: We had our pictures taken with Bessie Braddock and Harold Wilson, though

PAUL: Yeah, but we don't know enough about politics to support one or the other, you know

Q: You're all Torries, is that correct

RINGO: We're nothing

PAUL: Not really

JOHN: Whoever gives us the most money, you know We vote for them

RED:One of the most fascinating questions in this conference was the number of people employed by Beatles at that time

Q: How many people do the Beatles employ, as a group The organization, The Beatles, Limited

PAUL: Oh, us I don't know, you see, because much of the people that work with us

GEORGE: I think 'we' only employ about two people

PAUL: Most of the people that work with us work for 'NEMS,' which is our manager's company

GEORGE: We employ two, and that's it

PAUL: And they have artists like Gerry and the Pacemakers, Cilla Black, and alot of other people, you know Billy J Kramer

JOHN: We have two permanently with us One press agent and one road manager Oh no, and a heavy

PAUL: There he is This one-- with the mic

Q: You do carry a bodyguard, then

BEATLES: No

JOHN: You don't need to with all those police!

Q: Do you find that you're losing your popularity in England

JOHN: No, not according to record sales

Q: Then it's all just rumors

PAUL: Yeah Actually, we heard before

JOHN: They've been knocking us off since the third record

PAUL: before we went to Liverpool last time

for the Northern Premiere of the film, you know

we'd been down in London alot

because we'd been doing the film and TV and things

and everybody was saying

I've just been up to Liverpool

and they hate you up there

and it's terrible Nobody likes you anymore

And we believed 'em, you know, 'cuz we read the paper, same as anyone else

And we went up there

and it was the most ridiculous reception we've had anywhere, you know

So I give-in believing these rumors

Q: Can I ask you if you've ever had a press reception in a more uncomfortable room

JOHN: Yeah

PAUL: I don't know

Q: Where

JOHN: I don't know

Q: How do you feel being compared to Dave Clark Five

JOHN: We're compared to everybody

PAUL: Don't mind

Q: How about your horse, how's it doing your race horse

PAUL: Great! The first time out It's not mine, it's my dad's

you know It's nothing to do with me First time out it came second, and the last time out it won

JOHN: And then it died

Q: Does this mob of police protection come out of your take

or is the management here to accept responsibility for paying them

JOHN: I don't know who pays 'em, but we don't

PAUL: The last place we played at, it was the management of the place I don't know, it may be the same now

GEORGE: But we just tour, we don't do all that

Q: You'd miss them, though

PAUL: Oh, yeah

RINGO: Really

JOHN: Yeah Well I mean, if we can't get in a place, we can't go, can we It's the promoter's money

Q: How long will you be on the road before you go home

PAUL: About four more weeks

Q: What is the best group of teenagers, well-behaved, you've ever had

PAUL: Um I don't know They're about the same all over the world Just got different accents

Q: What city have you had your worst time in

PAUL: City，Don't know, because

you know things that some people think are the worst time, we think are the best

you know But I can't remember a worst time

Q: You've been roughed-up and jostled in various places you've been

Can you think of one in particular that was worse than the others

PAUL: No, you know Not

JOHN: We've not been really roughed at all, you know

Q: Where do you think the biggest reception crowd has been

JOHN: Biggest crowd was Liverpool

RINGO: Liverpool

Q: How many

JOHN: I don't know

GEORGE: A lot

JOHN: Just more than the other

Q: Sydney was the biggest, wasn't it

PAUL: Sydney

JOHN: Ah, well

PAUL: I don't know, but there was alot in Liverpool

Q: How long did it take you to make your movie

JOHN: Eight weeks, was it

PAUL: Yes

JOHN: They were trying to make it in three, but we argued

Q: Do you like the movie

PAUL: It's good, you know

Q: How's it doing where it's showing, do you know

RINGO: It's doing well

JOHN: It's breaking records, I've heard I don't want to brag

Q: Is it true that some of your birthday mail went in the fire and you didn't even see it

GEORGE: No, untrue Well, I think so Actually, it was, umm

PAUL: I don't think that was the rumor anyway, you know

JOHN: The rumor was it went in the bin By the time it gets over here, it's on fire

PAUL: Some people found some mails and I think it was about two letters out of thousands

you know which had been unopened They'd been sent to the fan clubs

and the fan club was supposed to open and read 'em

and then throw 'em And there were about two that they'd forgotten to open

so this was a great big scandal, you know It was just a slip-up

Q:Thank you very much!

JOHN:Than you!

RED:We joined the Beatles two years later in 1966 in Seattle,Washington,the date is August 27th

Another city,and another press conference,it’s 8 pm

Fifteen thousand fans are vailing for the night performance in the Seattle Colosseum

Meanwhile the presses again talking with Beatles

Leading up to B-Day,rumours had abounded that Paul Cartney is going to marry long-time girlfriend Jane Asher,

Sister of Peter Asher of Peter&Gordon fame,but it turned out to be just that rumours

MC: Can we have the first question, please

Q: John, could you please tell me something about your new movie, 'How I Won The War

JOHN: Oh, I don't know anything about it except for I'm in it

and it's about the last world war

Q: I'd like to address a question to Paul McCartney

Would you confirm or deny the report of your marriage to Jane Asher in Seattle this evening

PAUL: It's tonight, yeah

Q: What time and where

PAUL: Tonight-- I can't tell you that, now can I

PAUL: I couldn't tell ya it's a secret

GEORGE: OK, it's a secret We don't want all the people there, do we

Q: You are confirming the report

PAUL: No, not really It was it's a joke

Who started this Anyone know Does anyone know I just got in today and found out I was getting married tonight

No, she is not coming in tonight as far as I know

GEORGE: And if she does, we are going out tonight anyway cause we'll miss her

Q: I'd like to direct this to any of the Beatles Do you believe that you represent a different type of morality

or a new type of morality-- than, say, the 'Rolling Stones' or the protest groups

JOHN: Are they a protest group Since when

Q: No 'OR a protest group

PAUL: OR a protest group! No We don't represent anything like that

It's the 'Cyrkle' that do that

_'Turn Down Day' I think you've heard that one, haven't you! Folk song!

Q: I'd like to ask John Lennon a question

I hope I get a chance to ask him a second one This is sort of double-barreled I'd like to know your motivation in this Money I'd like to think it's enjoyment

and I'd like to think you're having as much fun as you seem to be when you're doing it

JOHN: Well, when I look as though I'm having fun

I am, you know When I'm not-- I'm not, usually So it varies

Q: Do I get another chance One more chance I have this little prediction that in 25 years you're going to be a great writer

I'd like to talk to you about it sometime

_Well, I mean, we're between 25 years then

Q: I'll make you a date

JOHN: OK

GEORGE: See ya, Penny Lane

Q: I'd like to address this question to anybody in the group

What about the next movie

heard alot of stories

nothing's confirmed Has there been anything decided

PAUL: Nothing

GEORGE: Somebody gave us a good idea

so we told him to go and write it into a script

So we won't really be able to tell if we're gonna make the film until we've read the script

And as he hasn't finished the script, we haven't read the script

so we won't know yet until about Christmas

maybe But if it is a good one and we like it

we'll probably start it 'round about January, February, or March or December

Q: I have three questions, if I can For one

Do you think the audience that your music attracts has changed from say the thirteen and fourteen year old girls to more of the college age

[15:03.35]and that if so, do you like it better that way

PAUL: Uhh, I think it's probably got a bit older I don't know how old And it's nice

Q: Did you intend it that way

PAUL: No We don't intend anything, you know That's the trouble

JOHN: It all happens

_Also, Paul-- Since your rumors were denied

then what are you doing after the show

PAUL: I don't know, marrying you, probably!

Q: How are the attendance on this tour compared to past American tours

PAUL: It's been apparently been more at the shows than there were last time

Q: Do you think that the so-called adverse publicity hurt or helped in this

PAUL: No idea, you know We haven't been able to tell really because we You know the press keeps saying

'I see it's hurt you' And our managers keep saying it hasn't So, you know, who do we believe

Q: John and Paul, I'd like to know if all the songs that are said to be written by Lennon and McCartney are always written by both of you

or do you ever do one all by yourself

JOHN:Don't they buy 'Datebook

PAUL: No, we do them seperately and together

Q: Your music used to be mostly composed of guitar backgrounds

and recently you've come around to strings and harpsichords and a lot of weird things like that Is there any purpose in this evolution

PAUL: Yeah

JOHN: No

GEORGE: Just to use something else besides guitars

PAUL: And because those things aren't it's not necessarily sort of 'coming around to them' you know,

like we're giving-in to 'em It's finding them again

RED:As the director of radio station CFUN in Vancouver

I had decide let where my DJs to cover this 1966 press conference in label Seattle

I selected a giant of a man called John Turner

Who stood 6 foot

And then some in this stocking feet

And during those top forty CFUN days

We referred to him on the era of Jolly John

And for this particular press conference

He dressed his tall frame in a Jolly green giant costume

Complete with Robin Hood booties

How imagine you will

The Beatles reaction to this strange,blooming figure

Q:I don't know if there is a Jolly Green Giant in England, fellows

but I come with good wishes from Vancouver in Canada

You played there a short while ago

And we were wondering whether you are coming back to Vancouver

PAUL: Maybe Brian decides where we go So, maybe

Q：All people from Vancouver are wishing John a happy forth anniversary

A few days ago,John

JOHN: Thank you Well, you thank them Jolly Green Giant

Q: and a question George, where do you get your sitars

GEORGE: Where do I get them Or where do people generally get them

Q: Where can people generally get a sitar

GEORGE: India

Q:In India

Q:I hear that you are world’s greatest sitar player

Q: Paul, before, you said that there were some songs that you 'have to' write

Could you explain what you mean by 'have to' write

PAUL: Hmmm No see, I just said that in passing I just meant that there was an LP due And when an LP is due we write songs

you know We do it like that more than write all the time,We don't write all the time

We write more 'to order' You know

if we've got fourteen tracks to fill

then we've got fourteen songs to write That's what I mean

Seattle,Washington,1966

That night,the Beatles went out to the with fifteen thousand frantic fans

These were the really innocent years for the Beatles

They were just about to lead into a new face of their careers

The late 60s were used as the revolution in term

And the Beatles were certainly in the guard of the new wave

Some would say that the new demensions that they’ve added to the popular music

Were the most important contributions to musical history

But apart from those earlier years

The fun and the energy

Those were the moments

That would be remembered for the generation that lived through those times

On this album package

We tried to present the best of the Beatles

The stories of the Beatles is best told by hearing them in action

The Marks Bothers were unique

And so were the Beatles

They give you the frantic feeling and friendly of a Beatles concert

During those healthy days of the mid-sixties

We’d like you to hear the Beatles on stage

In front of over twenty-thousand fans

Now twice during the concert

The quartet of mob-tops were interrupted

once by myself

And minutes later by thier manager Brian Abeles

As the screaming fans pressed against the front of the open-air stage of Empire Stadium

Police were frightened that the fans would get crashed

As it happened in so many soccer matches in England

And else where in Europe

You’ll mind what the audience feel of the Beatles in concert

MC:Crowd can you be quiet just for a minute please

I would like to say right now that you’ve been a small crowd here tonight so lets keep up the good work

And it’s going to be a great deal of pleasure having the CNN and the CFUN to present

The Beatles!

Thank you

Thank you very much everybody

Thanks

And good evening

How are you

Okay

Alright

We’d like to come around

To the song

Which was on the first album that we’ve made

Hope you like the song

It’s called Oh!My loving

Thank you folks

The next song we’re gonna do

It’s another whole LP

And it’s called She loves you

Lets cut it down

Now,it’s a quite a new song

I think it’s on the new album over here

It’s called The things you said today

Thank you very much everybody

Thank you

We’d like to

I hate to

Like we’re gotta back some of the people up

There have been two kids crashed already

Or we have to cancel the show

All that,down

Everybody down

Or no show

The Beatles wanna perform

But they can’t do it if you don’t sit down

Let’s sit down,they wanna perform,com’on

We’d like to ask you dude help us

With our next song

Hello

We’d like to ask you

If you’ll join in

Will you with us next one

Okay alright listen

Stand easy

All you have to do is clap your hands

Or stamp you feet

Something like that

Do everything you like

The song’s called Can’t buy me,love

Thank you folks

Before we do the next song

I’m gonna hang down a minute while John changes his guitar

And the song we’re going to do next

Is a slow song from the film we’ve just made,All days nights

And it’s from the new album we’ve just made

And it’s called,If I fell

Thank you very much folks indeed,thank you

We’d like now

To do something,do something yeah

We’d like to do something that we don’t often got

Much of a chance to do

We’d like to feature some of you

Who doesn’t sing very often but is gonna sing now

Yes,sing a song called By swingo

Next song we’re going to do is from our latest record

Is the title song for the film called

Half day night叫Half day night

Join me later ladies and gentleman

The Beatles had come a long way

With us

with me

To do this show

And will have to cut this show unless you move back

I’m very worry about this situation

Back

Back back

Thank you very much everybody

We’d like to thank you now

For coming along tonight and being a marvelous audience

Thank you