George Harrison on John Lennon and The Beatles | The Dick Cavett Show

is this confusing you a little bit there's all these cameras don't know which one I'm supposed to be looking at must be exciting for you to be next to famous person yeah I don't do this every night you know no I do unfortunately no I you probably know what we were looking at George saw the lights go on over the cameras which give me the lead into the commercial actually I don't think the audience at home cares what we're looking at I mean they're more interested in and what we're not gonna know who what's looking at me really you know you like to check it out where there is you don't have to they always say you don't have to worry about what cameras on that they'll find you yes that's how I big brother is watching him whatever Yoko said in that very clear well I bet many people have sat in what a lot of people have said in it but I was I saw the show is very nice did you see that yeah yeah it was one thing they forgot to plug so I thought so I thought that plug it for them and that's the new Christmas record we wish you Merry Christmas war is over get yours now thank you is there such a record yes he made it after he was on the show so he didn't get a chance to talk about it is there a slight undercurrent of hostility between you and L no no the members really know me you know I'm not gonna tell anywhere all right I just thought I'd take the opportunity and promote his record for him yeah it's war is over if you wanted happy Christmas yeah and Apple Records well are you in any sense in contact with each other I mean yeah I saw him last night actually at the premiere of raga which is what we should talk about maybe okay but I mean what did you say I said hi hello dears writers who think of these things or they just have them ready and you can snap them right out we have writers home and their wedding so love them what did he come back with right away with hi G this oughta be was there more or did that get you one it's pretty don't reborn people you know to talk to on your show I'm probably the biggest boy I've ever had on the show really mm-hmm you think yeah well I'll be the judges oh listen I'll tell you well I don't really you know they asked me do you want to come on the Dick Cavett show and I said yeah I got nothing to talk about really yeah I said I'll think of something you know anything so I thought okay we're going to talk about ragga which is film mm-hmm you mean that's it when we're done talking about that then then I go yeah you don't like to talk then well not really sometimes if there's something to say but there's really nothing to say these days you know I have that feeling too people think that I must love to talk and that I would love to go to parties and yak my head off and I could go for months without talking well you told every not to need I know and I've never liked it I mean I've never I don't crave conversation I could sit in an empty room for days and days I'd have to leave occasionally but not to talk I mean I don't know the words I don't have a terrific appetite for talking the reason I'm rattling on like this is that you've just frightened me by telling me if you don't and I figure I may have well I have to fill then this hour you just talk and I'll watch okay well we will let you talk about the film and then well before we get to that they says we may run out let's get to something else when you if you and you and John and Yoko do meet though you're not really no no living your team you know we're good friends yeah well all of that about her being the problem with the group is exit slightly silly that that one woman could be so much of a problem no the group had problems long before Yoko came along many problems folks can you remember who was the first to say you know I bet we'll break up one day but this won't go on that this is sort of a dream that we can't also you know I don't really remember anything about the Beatle days it seems like this sort of you know previous incarnation when I think about it and a long time ago like another life yeah yeah do you regret any of it no no don't regret really anything you know mm-hmm I mean that's what happened and it was good you know it was good but it was also good to carry on do something else in fact it was a relief sometimes they say you in some people can't understand like you know because Beatles was such a big deal they can't understand why we should actually enjoy splitting up but there's a time you know there's a time when people grow up and they leave home or whatever they do and they go for a change you know and it was really time for a change yeah I think a lot of people just indeed the idea of being world celebrities though and you know some people you know would go on and on forever singing the same tune and name the same gig if they were making some money you know yeah but uh I think we'd all rather give that up and try going on our own and try doing something we really want to do and if we don't make it then I'd look like as it happens we've all got such a lot of like goodwill hanging over from Dean beetles yeah I mean ooh probably wouldn't have me on the show if I hadn't have been one let's face it now you wouldn't get here and looks alone do you really will return after smell station just because that comes on doesn't mean you have to do it right away huh if you like doing it now I just did it oh oh I say four or five minutes we would he's right folks we will return after this message for my local station see when you say it the man talking with George Harrison who wants to know if it's over yet they do you think you might have been the most anxious of the four to get out I get that impression from reading about maybe it maybe when you were saying well because over the years you know I had such a lot of songs mounting up that I really wanted to do but I only got my quota of one or two tunes per album and that way I would have had to record it about a hundred beat loud ins just to get out the tunes I had in 1965 were you held down by the other fellas uh well very subtly yes yeah I would not be in it they didn't strap me down or anything by that yeah but uh oh it was just the way things happened you know they it started off I didn't write they wrote then I started to write and it was sort of trying to push in a bit you don't you don't actually read or write music do you know well then huh when you say write well alright if you have a tune it hits you how do you get it down just keep it in your head you know just work it out on the piano on the guitar at the end of your tape it or what preserves I'm sometimes putting on tape but usually you can remember it in your hair if you don't I write the words down and remember the tune in my head do you wish you'd studied composition and know oh they don't need it well I maybe maybe it would help somewhere I probably wouldn't have to pay a copyist yeah but you don't miss it I mean you can no no it's it would just help make this really sort of music you know yeah it's like I mean there's a difference between people who write music and classical things and big arrangements to the sort of thing I do it's just really it's very simple and the other the other guys most of the melodies were worth John's or Paul's that were done yeah done on the album that was funny when John was on every time he had a commercial break and then came back part 20 and they keep playing Paul's songs just put our guests at ease that yes what we do it but they always talk about you as the real musician of the group and if you haven't studied music what do they mean by that did that you're more serious you've seen it no because I didn't smile so much be a real musician you have to be sour yeah there was also the theory that you attracted more girls by being the quiet one in the same sense that a guy at a party who sits in the corner will have the girl comércio aww what's the matter it's just this was not a calculator tearoom philosophy yeah was it just a rumor yeah yeah I think Paul used to get them all over this you know that do nerves hit you badly none of them and I sometimes I sit down like before the show and try and figure out what it is inside that starts all this attention where's it coming from I don't know no idea otherwise I could control it they used to say that's a way to get rid of tension is if you can traders cynics think exactly where it is is it in your stomach or what gives you that wave Vince comes from everywhere all at the same time that's the problem you can't sit it's sort of abstract someone knows the world the way nerves act upon you there's any kind of meditation help before yes but that's a sort of different thing you know to this I mean you can't you can meditate and get peaceful but then the moment they say the Dick Cavett show and then so this happened when you're watching the show or just whenever yeah if the yes it does just thinking about it you know I didn't know I've probably given you the beginnings of an ulcer yes so you wouldn't use meditation as a tool to calming it down if it was the most important thing I think that's why some people go into it though yes I've tried everything I take tablets I I mean maybe I'm more calm now than I would have been a few years ago I don't know but it's still love there's still something about the idea of this you know Big Brother and all them people tuned in okay what's he gonna say and so you know you're done at har we'd have to take a station break and what and what else Unseld some more oranges no root you read the whole thing and we'll be back that's the important part [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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Id: Rd3U0GGwP_A

Length: 11min 15sec (675 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 02 2019

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I miss me some George.....