Beatles Los Angeles Press Conference 1966

well somebody's given us an idea and he's working on the script and if the script's nice then we may do it one question we like in hollywood like to know how you compare movie working to say the concert tour or recording sessions mine will work and stuff like that we don't compare it much uh would you rather play the hollywood bowl again in dodger stadium we don't really mind one of your countrymen was here yesterday or the day before before he returned to england veroni's arrival in england he said he thought uh american women were out of style for not wearing mini skirts and that they're because they didn't wear many skirts their legs were ugly uh i'd like to ask you what you think about american women's well if they don't wear many skirts how does he know their legs are ugly you know on your uh album cover that was family whose idea was it well the photographer took it and what was this i mean was there anything this religious issue is answered once and for all would you clarify and repeat uh the answer that you gave in chicago i can't repeat it again because i don't know what it's said you know well would you clarify the remarks that were attributed to you you tell me what you think i meant and i'll tell you whether i agree or concerning the remark that you made comparing the relative popularity of the beatles with jesus christ and that the beatles were more popular this created quite a controversy in a furore in this country as you are obviously aware do you know that john you created it now uh would you uh clarify the remark well i've clarified it about 800 times you know i could have said tv or something else you know and that's as clear as it can be i just use people's because i know about them a bit more than tv i could have said any number of things wouldn't have got as much publicity though my question my question is directed at all of you do you think this uh this controversy has hurt your careers or has helped you professionally obviously you're quite aware of it it hasn't helped or hinted it i don't think i think most sensible people took it for what it was and it was only the um bigots that took it up and thought it was you know on their side they thought haha here's something to get them for but when they read it uh they saw that you know there was nothing wrong with it really it's just that they thought that bio's saying uh by john saying that we were more popular than jesus they thought ah you know he's bound to be arrogant did you see the fella on telly last night he said it i'd like to direct this question to mrs lennon and uh mccartney in a recent article time magazine put down pop music and they referred to uh daytripper as being about a prostitute and norwegian wood about as being about a lesbian no i just wanted to know what what your intent was when you wrote it and what's what you're feeling is about the time magazine criticism of the music that is being written today we're just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians first of all i'd like to say hi to you all again really good to see you and go on i like to ask a question that you've never been asked before well what are you going to do when the bubble bursts go for it no that's a personal injury he used to ask it at every press conference to keep the party going outside in hollywood tonight you had to arrive in an armored truck and the truck was swarmed by adoring fans what is the situation wherever you go do you ever have a an opportunity to walk out in the street without being recognized or can you walk into a theater to see a movie by yourself if you go when the lights are down we can do that in england it's easier in england than it is here and it's mainly because we know england better it'd also be easier to do it if we were on tour you know because we're on tour people know where we are that's why we have a crowd many of the top artists and musicians in the pop field today i said the beatles have been a major influence in their music are there any other artists who have an important influence on you you create oh yes nearly everyone you know we we pinch as much from other people as they pinch from us you know yeah i may ask about the song uh eleanor rigby what was the motivation or inspiration for that too quiz did you ever meet cast in the mamas and papa's yes since he's great when i'm seeing this at night it's good yeah she's good uh have you ever trained or used beetle double as decoys no no no no we tried to get brian epstein to do he wouldn't do it uh ringo uh one question uh how much did you contribute to what goes on and are you contributing to any other lennon mccartney competition well i words to what goes on and i've done a thing since like the dresses to john and paul uh you write a lot of stuff that other people steal from you and also purchase from you and different arrangements uh ella fitzgerald and the a lot of these boston pots and stuff like that when you listen to this on the radio or records and stuff how do you feel about them using your pieces and changing them around to suit their styles depends how they're doing the thing is they don't steal it no i know that well you just said they did well sometimes i mean you know once we've done a song and it's published anyone can do it so you know whether we like it or not depends on whether they've done it to our taste you know well then let's ask it this way who do you think does it the best the beatles songs both who oh i'd like to direct this question to george harrison mma george uh before you left england you made a statement that um you were going now to america to be beaten up by americans uh do you do you mean to say in so many words that you feel that the american fan is more a hostile fan no not at all or more enthusiastic actually i did i said that when we arrived back from manila they said what are you gonna do next and i said we're going to rest up before we go and get beaten up over there merely beating up is just really we just got sort of shoved around a bit jostled around in cars and playing so you know that's all it is what do you think that's more an enthusiastic fan and a hostile fan would you say i think uh there's definitely more enthusiastic fans but if anyone we have beat us up it's not the fans yeah the fan thing i think they proved it themselves you know after this we found out that there are a lot of fans who are great and all the ones we lost i think we don't really mind anyway because if they can't make up the minds who needs them thank you yeah i wanted to ask about the uh your image the image scrimmage and i'll direct this to anybody uh how has your image changed since uh 63 is it uh a little more uh is it the same an image is how you feel so you know you can only answer that you're the only one that knows who's that oh oh well no i want to get your opinion it's a little tarnish now is it more realistic or what would you say it is i know i have my opinion for our opinion we can't tell you our image you know we can only our image is what we read in the newspapers and that's the same as you read you know do we know our real image which is nothing like our image forget it and what i meant to say was i like take two bricks who is the young man with the lengthy haircut to your right rear right really it's for the old days where is he who is it from the uh vern amazing ahoy are you ever planning to record in the united states and why haven't you yet we tried uh actually but it was a financial matter a bit of trouble over that one no we tried but uh mr lennon is it true you're planning to give up music for a career in the field of comparative religion no is that another of the jokes going on sure you've all heard of the many beetle burnings in beetle bonfires and i was wondering do you think american girls are fickle all girls are fickle well the boaters we saw of them were sort of middle-aged djs and burn in a pile of lp couples this question is directed to paul and john you have written uh quite a few numbers for peter and gordon and i understand they don't like it because they think that it's you writing a song that makes it popular do you plan to write any more songs for them they you know if we write songs for they ask us to write songs for them if we would do it i mean they don't mind it they like it but it's people come up and say ah we see you just getting in on the lennon mccartney bandwagon that's that's why um they did that one with with our names not on it woman because everyone sort of thinks that's the reason they get hits it's not true really uh gentlemen uh what do you think would happen to uh you four if uh you came to an appearance without the armored truck and without police we'd get into easier we wouldn't make it we couldn't do it it depends you know sometimes we could have easily made it much better without the armature but today probably we wouldn't you think you'd be physically harmed oh probably what do you think yes i think so it could be i want to make these the last three questions hi john i was wondering under what condition did you write in his own right that sort of wild uh those kicky words i mean how did you uh you know put the piece them together i don't know and do you have any more books coming oh well um yes and i can't answer that you know it's just the way it happens is this the last question are all of your news conferences like this no well uh that's nothing i'm talking about all of the uh all of the reporters or would be reporters or semi reporters that show up are you besieged by these kind of people throughout the tours that you travel here in the united states you can't always tell the would be from the real thing is it this way when you travel in europe yes but what's wrong with the what's wrong with the crowd nothing i'm just wondering if you have this many reporters everywhere you go not always some of them are just onlookers tomorrow this is the last question tomorrow never comes is the last cut on the second side right tomorrow never knows never knows thank you uh could you give me a vague idea of some of the tape manipulate manipulation you use when your voice drops into the track john is that sung backwards by any chance and then recorded forward no it's not from backwards it's just it's just uh recorded pretty straight you know there's nothing really uh there's tape loops on it which are a bit different and the words are from the tibetan book of the dead so there fairly nearly oh well right uh now can we do the presentation that we were going to do slightly earlier from the three president steak branding irons which are made specially for each of the that beatles oh yeah the presentation by capitol records is as i said earlier the effective finale for the press conference so far as everyone except the television crews are concerned may i ask for your cooperation now in clearing the room of everyone today but unfortunately he wasn't able to attend so we'll just get a few questions and later dub my voices right over here first of all could you give us some ideas what you like to do in the spare time when you get any time what do you like to do uh just relax nothing more play music and relax and eat what what type of music do you prefer um sort of honky tonk and uh country and west and uh congo rhythms out of all the country in western american stars uh do you have a favorite uh yeah booty holly he's pretty good what do you think of the number one country and western singer in this country buck owens oh yeah ringo likes him a lot yeah dick clark out of all the sections of the country you've been in uh do you have a favorite yeah i like uh california naturally because it's nice and sunny sunny and hot and swimming pool very nice what about the girls here in los angeles do you think that they're a little bit different or possibly from other sections of the country i haven't seen any girls in los angeles only at a distance if you had a night off tonight and had an opportunity to go anywhere you would like to go here in los angeles where do you think he would attend um i don't know i think i'd go to hollywood bowl out of all the american entertainers if you had a favorite who would you like to see tonight if it were possible at the hollywood bowl glenn bowie thank you very much that's fine is that the name of a group the word the action is where the action is worthy like worthy of something the worthy actions can i get just a few questions certainly what time of day do you prefer to write your tunes what time of day yes it's certainly daytime anyway or night time certainly something like that just anytime really any time

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Length: 16min 41sec (1001 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 31 2011