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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  vocalizing  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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<font color="#00CDCD">(fingers snapping)</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  vocalizing continues  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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You up for listening to a bit of music?

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Yeah. What have you got?

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Here's a little number.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  All my loving  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I will send to you  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  All my loving  ♪♪</font>
This is John.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Darling, I'll be true  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#00CDCD">(indiscernible)</font>

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Country.
Yeah.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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This is John's rhythm thing.

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<font color="#00CDCD">(imitates drumbeat)</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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Unusual choice.

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You try doing that for three minutes.

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Yeah.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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That brought it alive,
I remember him doing that.

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Yeah.
So I'll do this.

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And did that just happen in the studio?

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Yeah.
Or this was when you played live?

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In the studio?
Studio.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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Wait.

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<font color="#00CDCD">(audience cheering)</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Close your eyes and I'll kiss you  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Tomorrow I'll miss you  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Remember I'll always be true  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And then while I'm away  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I'll write home every day  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And I'll send all my loving  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  To you  ♪♪</font>

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL McCARTNEY:</font></b> It's a difficult part.
Yeah.

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And, and nobody would play it.

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It's just an unusual musical choice.

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But then, when you get back
to the more regular jink‐junk,

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it sounds amazing.
Yeah. Yeah.

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Just from the contrast.
Yeah.

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No, that was, that was a really good thing
that did happen.

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We all knew we had
the freedom to goof around.

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Yeah.

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That's an example of one that
I, I had the words before the song.

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We were on a tour bus,
and nothing much happening.

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I'm thinking... <font color="#00CDCD">(humming)</font>

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like, you know,
"Hey, honey, I'll be home.

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I'll send all my love,"
and, you know‐‐

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There was no recording devices,

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so you had to remember them.

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But you'd kinda wake up,
and it would be there in the morning,

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so you'd play it again to fix it.

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Yeah.

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And John would have
remembered it anyway.

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So we realized, you know,
we were writing songs

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that were memorable.

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Not 'cause we wanted them
to be memorable.

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Yeah. You had to remember‐‐
But because we had to remember them.

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You know, it was
a very practical reason, really.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  light piano music playing  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK RUBIN:</font></b> What was the music
that was played in your house?

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Did your dad listen to music in the house?

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My dad was a pianist too,
an amateur pianist.

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So he played our piano in the house.

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What type of music did he play?

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He would play...
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Chicago, Chicago  ♪♪</font>

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Like show tunes.
<font color="#00CDCD">(Paul humming)</font>

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Yeah.
He played at home,

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so it was lovely hearing
someone play piano at home.

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His main thing was New Year's Eve,
big family party.

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And he would get on the piano
and just play all evening. There was no‐‐

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b>
Did he play and sing too or just play?

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> No, he would just play.

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And then everyone else would sing.

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> I see.
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> It was a sing‐along.

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All the ladies,
they've got their little drinks,

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and they're all sitting, right,
with the chairs around the thing.

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And they're all...
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Red, red, robin  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Comes bob, bob, bobbing along  ♪♪</font>

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And they're all singing.

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But he got arthritis in his hands,

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hence me doing exercises all the time.

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But he couldn't play the piano.

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So I kind of took over.

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Do you feel like you were graduating
in the family,

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like going from the kid watching...
Yeah.

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to all of a sudden taking the chair?

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Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah.
That's exciting.

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Um, daunting too, because
I didn't know all the songs.
Yeah!

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But it was great,

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you know, it was
a very nice atmosphere.

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And I‐it's funny, I say to people,

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I always thought
everyone had loving families,

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and everyone was very nice to each other.

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And of course later
I found that's not true.

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Yeah.
And some people are very unfortunate.

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John was very unlucky,
'cause he had, his dad left

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his home when he was three,

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and John didn't see him
until he was famous.

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And also John's mum got killed.

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You know, so this was
an eye‐opener to me.

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It was like, "Wow, I thought
everyone lived like we did."

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Yeah.
But‐‐

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It also speaks to the difference
in temperaments as grownups...

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Yeah.
...that different experience
really changes everything.

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That's true. You know,
you think about it, John‐‐

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It makes perfect sense.
John had a very defensive way.

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He had a chip on his shoulder,
it sounds like.

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Which was beautiful.
Yeah.

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It's how he got through that childhood.

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But I was much more open and just,

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"Oh, everything's great."
You know, optimistic.

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So as a team, that worked.
Yeah.

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Because, you know, I would write, um,

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  It's getting better all the time  ♪♪</font>

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And he would go...
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  It couldn't get much worse  ♪♪</font>

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Which is like the perfect foil
for that song, you know.

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So I loved the way he would always add,

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like, a little cynicism to the songs.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Try to see it my way  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Do I have to keep on talking
till I can't go on?  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  While you see it your way  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Run the risk of knowing
that our love may soon be gone  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  We can work it out  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  We can work it out  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life is very short  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And there's no time  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  For fussing and fighting,
my friend  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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Thinking back on it, it's crazy
because he wore glasses,

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and I didn't.

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So if we got into an argument,
I would call him four eyes.

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You know, "Four eyes."

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And he would go, "Pigeon chest."

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<font color="#00CDCD">(laughter)</font>

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My chest is not as developed
as his or whatever.

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So, you know, we did all that.

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But these things obviously
bring you together.

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> Yeah.

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You probably did everything
together in those days.

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> Yeah, you did. Yeah.

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We spent a lot of time together.
<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> Mm.

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Also, we played guitar together.

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So any chord John knew, I knew.

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And if we learned a new chord,

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I remember George and I walking
into the local music shop.

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It was called Hessy's, Frank Hessy.

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And there's a guy called Jim Gretty,

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who was a bit of a jazz player.

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And he was filling in,
working in the shop.

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But we watched him play once
and he did this.

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<font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>

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And me and George went, "What is that?"

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He goes... <font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>
"Well, it's F," something.

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I don't remember.
I don't even know what it is to this day.

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<font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>

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But it was like, "Wow.
Show us how you do that."

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<font color="#00CDCD">(strumming)</font>

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So we got it. So now me
and George knew this chord.
Yes.

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So we'd show that to John.
"Look at this," you know.

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Yeah.
And so now we all knew this chord.

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I used it in...

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  playing Michelle  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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Amazing.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

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<font color="#00CDCD">(laughs)</font>

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John was at art school by this time.

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So they had great art parties,
and there'd be great girls.

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John would kind of invite us.

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We were his little friends,
you know,

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which was a little bit embarrassing
at that age.

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So I would wear, like,
a black turtleneck sweater,

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and we were all trying to be French.

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We were trying to be, you know,
we loved the French artists,

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particularly the girls, Juliette Gréco.

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She was like, "Wow, look at that."

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Brigitte Bardot, you know.
These were our favorite ladies.

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But I would sit in a corner
and think, you know,

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"Well, if I work
the black turtleneck and play guitar,

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"then they might think I'm French,

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and therefore, they'd be attracted to me."

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So I'd be kinda going...

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Bonjour  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#00CDCD">(singing in French)</font>

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"Hi, baby."
<font color="#00CDCD">(continues singing)</font>

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And years later, John said,

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"Remember that crazy little French song
you used to do at the parties?"

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I said, "Oh, yeah." He said,
"You should finish that."

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The other thing was,

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because I had this
Frenchie thing in my mind,

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Edith Piaf did a record Milord,

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<font color="#00CDCD">(Rick singing softly)</font>
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Milord  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Je chante les milords  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Qui n'ont pas eu de chance!  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Regardez‐moi, Milord  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Vous ne m'avez jamais vue  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Mais vous pleurez, Milord?  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ça je l'aurais jamais cru!  ♪♪</font>

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b>
I was kinda going off the back of that.

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Milord, Michelle, and then
I had a very good friend,

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actually the guy
who introduced me to John, Ivan.

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He was married by this time.

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And his wife, Jan, was a French teacher.

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I said, "Oh, Jan, listen,
you got to help me.

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What's a, what's a rhyme
for Michelle?"

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She said, "Ma belle."

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I said, "What's that mean?"
She went, "My beautiful."

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I said, "Great, Michelle, ma belle."

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And then how do you say,

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"These are words
that go together well," in French?

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"Sont les mots qui vont
tres bien ensemble."

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"Okay, you'd better write that one out."

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But, um, so between her and John
reminding me to do the song,

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um, I had Michelle.

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<b><font color="#FF7F50">JOHN LENNON:</font></b> <font color="#00CDCD">(on recording)</font>
One, two, three, four.

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Michelle playing  ♪♪</font>

224
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

225
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> <font color="#00CDCD">(on recording)</font>
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Michelle  ♪♪</font>

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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ma belle  ♪♪</font>

227
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There's that chord.

228
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  These are words
that go together well  ♪♪</font>

229
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  My Michelle  ♪♪</font>

230
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Are you getting the chord?

231
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Michelle  ♪♪</font>

232
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ma belle  ♪♪</font>

233
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sont des mots qui  ♪♪</font>‐‐

234
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F demented.

235
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<font color="#00CDCD">(laughing)</font>

236
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Très bien ensemble  ♪♪</font>

237
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I love you,
I love you, I love you  ♪♪</font>

238
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The harmony's overdone.

239
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  That's all I want to say  ♪♪</font>

240
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> Where's your bass part?

241
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Until I find a way  ♪♪</font>

242
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It's working again.
Yeah.

243
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This is nice.

244
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  ...the only words
I know that you'll understand...  ♪♪</font>

245
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I was good when I found that,
you know, I thought.

246
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Michelle  ♪♪</font>
<font color="#00CDCD">(humming along)</font>

247
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ma belle  ♪♪</font>

248
00:11:11,901 --> 00:11:16,406
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sont les mots qui vont
très bien ensemble  ♪♪</font>

249
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> So, would you have, would you
have had the bass part worked out

250
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in advance of the studio?
No, no.

251
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So you went in with just a guitar song?
I tell you, man‐‐

252
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Yeah, you know, that really was‐‐

253
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I say, looking back...
Yeah.

254
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I astound myself.

255
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Spur of the moment.
Yeah.

256
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  My Michelle  ♪♪</font>

257
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Now you hear, at this point,
it slows down

258
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a little.
Yeah.

259
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No one could figure that out.

260
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It was‐it was our attempt
to be like the Milord record,

261
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which she slows.

262
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Milord  ♪♪</font>
<font color="#00CDCD">(hums)</font>

263
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But we didn't dare do that.

264
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So we just slowed down a little bit.
A little bit.

265
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It just sounds like we,
we got it wrong.

266
00:11:54,068 --> 00:11:55,737
Yeah.
You know?

267
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We had one and a half hours
to make that track.

268
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Yeah.

269
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Which is pretty economical.

270
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Come into the studio,
playing it for the guys.

271
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Are you already thinking
about what else it needs?

272
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No, that's all live
in the studio. That's‐‐

273
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Right then?
Yeah.

274
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  vocalizing  ♪♪</font>

275
00:12:11,836 --> 00:12:14,505
Yeah, we wouldn't‐I mean, you'd think
we would've got together

276
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and worked out those harmonies.
Yeah.

277
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> Of course,
George Martin, our producer,

278
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was very helpful with that too.

279
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George would sort of say,
"Okay, Paul, your line is‐‐"

280
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<font color="#00CDCD">(plays piano keys)</font>

281
00:12:28,561 --> 00:12:29,520
Or whatever.
Yeah.

282
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And then he said,
"Okay, George, yours is..."

283
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<font color="#00CDCD">(plays keys)</font>

284
00:12:35,902 --> 00:12:38,571
And George would do... <font color="#00CDCD">(humming)</font>
Or whatever.

285
00:12:38,571 --> 00:12:41,282
There'd be strange
little lines, unrelated,

286
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but you just had to remember them.
Yeah.

287
00:12:43,368 --> 00:12:45,745
Or else the grownup would tell you off.

288
00:12:45,745 --> 00:12:47,288
Wow.
<font color="#00CDCD">(Paul laughs)</font>

289
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Were there any inspirations,

290
00:12:48,790 --> 00:12:51,167
like other bands, that you
would listen to for harmonies

291
00:12:51,167 --> 00:12:52,710
besides the Everly Brothers?

292
00:12:53,086 --> 00:12:56,756
Beach Boys, I think, was
a big influence on the harmony.

293
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Good Vibrations playing  ♪♪</font>

294
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  harmonizing  ♪♪</font>

295
00:13:03,137 --> 00:13:06,349
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I don't know where
but she sends me there  ♪♪</font>

296
00:13:06,349 --> 00:13:09,894
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Oh, my my, what a sensation  ♪♪</font>

297
00:13:09,894 --> 00:13:12,438
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> There was a little
intercontinental rivalry,

298
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mainly Brian, his writing.

299
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I think he'd heard one of our albums

300
00:13:18,528 --> 00:13:21,406
and thought, "I've got
to do better," you know.

301
00:13:21,406 --> 00:13:24,242
And that was Pet Sounds, which I loved.

302
00:13:24,242 --> 00:13:27,161
It was like, it's still one
of my big albums, you know.

303
00:13:27,662 --> 00:13:31,416
So atmospheric and different.
Yes.

304
00:13:31,416 --> 00:13:33,376
And yet, it was
the Beach Boys still, you know?

305
00:13:33,376 --> 00:13:35,545
Yeah.
And we heard Pet Sounds and thought,

306
00:13:35,545 --> 00:13:37,505
"Right, we've got to do
something better than that."

307
00:13:37,505 --> 00:13:39,841
Yeah.
So we did Sgt. Pepper.

308
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
playing  ♪♪</font>

309
00:13:44,220 --> 00:13:48,016
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

310
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> <font color="#00CDCD">(on recording)</font>
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  It was 20 years ago today  ♪♪</font>

311
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<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sergeant Pepper taught
the band to play  ♪♪</font>

312
00:13:56,733 --> 00:13:59,235
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  They've been going
in and out of style  ♪♪</font>

313
00:13:59,235 --> 00:14:01,613
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  But they're guaranteed
to raise a smile  ♪♪</font>

314
00:14:01,946 --> 00:14:03,948
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  So may I introduce to you  ♪♪</font>

315
00:14:04,532 --> 00:14:07,160
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  The act you've known
for all these years?  ♪♪</font>

316
00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:11,873
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band  ♪♪</font>

317
00:14:12,540 --> 00:14:14,459
I was on a plane with our roadie,

318
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and we were eating,

319
00:14:15,793 --> 00:14:18,546
and he said,
"Could you pass the salt and pepper?"

320
00:14:19,297 --> 00:14:21,049
And I thought he said Sgt. Pepper.

321
00:14:21,507 --> 00:14:23,301
I said, "What?"
He said, "Salt and pepper."

322
00:14:23,301 --> 00:14:25,386
I said, "Oh, I thought
you said Sgt. Pepper."

323
00:14:26,137 --> 00:14:27,347
So we had a laugh about that.

324
00:14:27,347 --> 00:14:28,932
But then, more I thought about it,

325
00:14:28,932 --> 00:14:31,851
"Sgt. Pepper,
that's kind of a cool character."

326
00:14:31,851 --> 00:14:35,271
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

327
00:14:35,271 --> 00:14:39,526
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band  ♪♪</font>

328
00:14:40,235 --> 00:14:41,486
Rocking hard.

329
00:14:41,903 --> 00:14:42,862
Yeah.

330
00:14:42,862 --> 00:14:45,073
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

331
00:14:45,073 --> 00:14:46,991
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Sergeant Pepper's lonely...  ♪♪</font>

332
00:14:46,991 --> 00:14:49,536
And yet, because
it's Sgt. Pepper's band,

333
00:14:49,536 --> 00:14:51,371
they're putting,
you know, brass in.

334
00:14:51,371 --> 00:14:52,622
The other instruments.
Tubas.

335
00:14:55,124 --> 00:14:57,502
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  It's wonderful to be here  ♪♪</font>

336
00:14:57,502 --> 00:14:59,379
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  It's certainly a thrill  ♪♪</font>

337
00:15:00,630 --> 00:15:02,966
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> I said, "It'd be great
to make an album like

338
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we're alter egos of ourselves."

339
00:15:06,135 --> 00:15:09,180
So we don't have to think
this is like The Beatles making an album.

340
00:15:09,180 --> 00:15:13,101
There's no pressure of what do
The Beatles need to do now.

341
00:15:13,101 --> 00:15:14,686
Yes.
This is just some other band.

342
00:15:14,686 --> 00:15:16,813
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And he wants you all to sing along  ♪♪</font>

343
00:15:16,813 --> 00:15:18,815
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  So let me introduce to you  ♪♪</font>

344
00:15:19,357 --> 00:15:21,901
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  The one and only Billy Shears  ♪♪</font>

345
00:15:21,901 --> 00:15:27,073
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And Sergeant Pepper's
Lonely Hearts Club Band, yeah  ♪♪</font>

346
00:15:27,073 --> 00:15:30,785
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

347
00:15:30,785 --> 00:15:32,245
<font color="#00CDCD">(crowd cheering)</font>

348
00:15:32,245 --> 00:15:37,500
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Billy Shears  ♪♪</font>

349
00:15:37,500 --> 00:15:40,086
Nice bass sound. The bass sound was‐‐

350
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<b><font color="#FF7F50">RINGO STARR:</font></b> <font color="#00CDCD">(on recording)</font> <font color="#FF9966">♪♪  What
would you think if I sang out of tune?  ♪♪</font>

351
00:15:44,424 --> 00:15:48,052
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Would you stand up
and walk out on me?  ♪♪</font>

352
00:15:50,388 --> 00:15:51,931
Little picky on the end.

353
00:15:53,099 --> 00:15:56,936
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And I'll try not to sing
out of key  ♪♪</font>

354
00:15:56,936 --> 00:16:00,982
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Oh, I get by with a little help
from my friends  ♪♪</font>

355
00:16:01,983 --> 00:16:04,110
Were these written as one?
Was it written‐‐

356
00:16:04,110 --> 00:16:07,947
Yeah. Uh, no. Two songs.

357
00:16:07,947 --> 00:16:11,242
Because it really leads in,
like that's the way it's supposed to be.

358
00:16:11,242 --> 00:16:14,871
And that was one
of the fun things to figure out...
Yeah.

359
00:16:14,871 --> 00:16:17,123
...how you're going to get
from there to there.
Yeah.

360
00:16:17,665 --> 00:16:20,585
Maybe have a bridge chord
or something, you know.

361
00:16:22,837 --> 00:16:25,465
We wanted a Ringo song on our albums,

362
00:16:25,465 --> 00:16:27,592
because he had millions of fans.

363
00:16:27,592 --> 00:16:29,761
So they always wanted
to hear a Ringo song.

364
00:16:30,220 --> 00:16:32,472
And in the early days, he did covers,

365
00:16:32,472 --> 00:16:36,017
a country song called
Act Naturally, which is great.
Yes.

366
00:16:36,017 --> 00:16:37,852
Very, very Ringo.

367
00:16:37,852 --> 00:16:40,563
But we said, "Well, let's wait.
We could write one."

368
00:16:40,563 --> 00:16:42,482
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Mmm, gonna try with a little help  ♪♪</font>

369
00:16:42,482 --> 00:16:44,025
Again, the chords are simple,

370
00:16:44,025 --> 00:16:47,862
but the bass is keeping it active
and moving all the time.

371
00:16:49,447 --> 00:16:51,658
Yeah, we sync the bass
and keep it moving.

372
00:16:52,700 --> 00:16:54,494
And then the rest is pretty straight.

373
00:16:54,494 --> 00:16:55,453
But that's the good thing,

374
00:16:55,453 --> 00:16:58,331
you can do that straight stuff
and play off it.

375
00:16:58,331 --> 00:16:59,582
Yeah! Yes.
Bom.

376
00:16:59,582 --> 00:17:01,125
But you need the straight stuff.

377
00:17:01,125 --> 00:17:03,044
Yeah, if everybody was playing off it,

378
00:17:03,044 --> 00:17:04,212
you wouldn't hear the song.

379
00:17:04,212 --> 00:17:05,463
It's like...

380
00:17:07,257 --> 00:17:09,175
It's like lead bass, essentially.

381
00:17:11,010 --> 00:17:14,556
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  What do you see
when you turn out the light?  ♪♪</font>

382
00:17:14,556 --> 00:17:17,976
<font color="#00CDCD">(singing along)</font> <font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I can't tell you,
but I know it's mine  ♪♪</font>

383
00:17:18,309 --> 00:17:22,230
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Oh, I get by with a little help
from my friends  ♪♪</font>

384
00:17:22,939 --> 00:17:27,068
Sgt. Pepper's, was that the first one
that you took an extended time to make?

385
00:17:27,068 --> 00:17:32,782
Yeah. I think we'd sort of taken
six months period in which to do it.

386
00:17:33,366 --> 00:17:36,077
The big musical papers
were starting to say,

387
00:17:36,077 --> 00:17:37,662
"Well, what's happened to The Beatles?

388
00:17:38,121 --> 00:17:39,497
They've dried up."

389
00:17:39,497 --> 00:17:41,165
But we're busily working away

390
00:17:41,165 --> 00:17:42,542
in Abbey Road...
<font color="#00CDCD">(imitating metallic clinking)</font>

391
00:17:42,542 --> 00:17:44,878
like little Snow White's elves.

392
00:17:44,878 --> 00:17:45,837
<font color="#00CDCD">(imitating metallic clinking)</font>

393
00:17:45,837 --> 00:17:47,964
And you stopped touring,
so that gave you more time.

394
00:17:47,964 --> 00:17:50,758
Yeah, and also the songs
were getting more complicated.

395
00:17:51,509 --> 00:17:55,221
But it was very exciting knowing
we were doing Sgt. Pepper's.

396
00:17:55,221 --> 00:17:55,930
Yeah.

397
00:17:55,930 --> 00:17:59,058
There's stories of people driving
through Laurel Canyon that weekend

398
00:17:59,058 --> 00:18:01,477
and anywhere you drove,

399
00:18:01,477 --> 00:18:04,856
all you heard was the Sgt. Pepper album
coming from everywhere.

400
00:18:04,856 --> 00:18:06,024
Yeah.
Yeah.

401
00:18:06,566 --> 00:18:09,611
So, that weekend was like
a hot weekend summer.

402
00:18:10,486 --> 00:18:11,738
And then our record just come.

403
00:18:11,738 --> 00:18:15,033
So everyone's got it for Friday night.

404
00:18:15,033 --> 00:18:18,036
They've got it for Saturday,
and they're all getting stoned

405
00:18:18,036 --> 00:18:20,288
and getting drunk and everything to it.

406
00:18:20,747 --> 00:18:24,417
And on Sunday,
Jimi Hendrix was doing a concert.

407
00:18:24,792 --> 00:18:28,838
So Jimi came on,
and he opens with Sgt. Pepper.

408
00:18:28,838 --> 00:18:31,007
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

409
00:18:31,007 --> 00:18:33,760
He learned it only two days before.

410
00:18:34,427 --> 00:18:36,846
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Hey, I don't really want
to stop the show  ♪♪</font>

411
00:18:37,472 --> 00:18:39,933
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  But I think you might like to know  ♪♪</font>

412
00:18:39,933 --> 00:18:42,268
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  That the singer's
gonna sing a song  ♪♪</font>

413
00:18:42,602 --> 00:18:44,646
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And he wants you all
to join along  ♪♪</font>

414
00:18:45,230 --> 00:18:46,523
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  So let me introduce to you  ♪♪</font>

415
00:18:46,523 --> 00:18:51,945
He did a great version of it.
Real wacky, loud, and beautiful.

416
00:18:51,945 --> 00:18:55,448
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

417
00:18:55,448 --> 00:18:58,159
He's using his vibrator arm,
his Bigsby arm,

418
00:18:58,743 --> 00:19:02,121
and he's going...
<font color="#00CDCD">(imitating electric guitar)</font>

419
00:19:02,121 --> 00:19:06,459
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

420
00:19:06,459 --> 00:19:08,419
"You know," I said,
"That put you out of tune."

421
00:19:08,419 --> 00:19:10,672
So he starts kinda tuning up a little bit,

422
00:19:11,047 --> 00:19:13,341
and the guitarists in the audience go,

423
00:19:14,217 --> 00:19:15,677
"There's no way back, Jim.

424
00:19:16,302 --> 00:19:19,013
"You know, you're going to have
to just stand there and tune it."
Yeah.

425
00:19:19,013 --> 00:19:20,473
"Even though it's your second number."

426
00:19:20,473 --> 00:19:22,183
Yeah.
"You can't just crack on."

427
00:19:22,183 --> 00:19:22,850
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

428
00:19:22,850 --> 00:19:25,353
And he leans in on the mic,
he says, "Is Eric out there?"

429
00:19:25,687 --> 00:19:26,855
<font color="#00CDCD">(laughs)</font>

430
00:19:26,855 --> 00:19:28,106
Looking for Eric Clapton.

431
00:19:29,065 --> 00:19:30,400
To tune it for him?
Yeah.

432
00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:31,484
<font color="#00CDCD">(laughs)</font>

433
00:19:31,484 --> 00:19:33,403
Eric's out there. Eric's hiding.

434
00:19:34,654 --> 00:19:37,073
He doesn't want to be seen
in the audience.

435
00:19:37,574 --> 00:19:39,033
"Would you tune this for me, man?"

436
00:19:39,033 --> 00:19:40,577
It's so funny.

437
00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:44,914
Yeah. It was a big, big release.

438
00:19:44,914 --> 00:19:46,541
<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b>
Your first gatefold as well.

439
00:19:46,541 --> 00:19:47,458
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> Yeah.

440
00:19:47,458 --> 00:19:49,752
It had the gatefold,
with the big picture in the center,

441
00:19:49,752 --> 00:19:51,462
and I remember it had cutouts.

442
00:19:51,462 --> 00:19:52,964
It had little cutouts and everything.
It had a lot of stuff.

443
00:19:52,964 --> 00:19:54,841
Yeah.
And the thing is, you know,

444
00:19:54,841 --> 00:19:56,676
the sort of thing
I was thinking that time,

445
00:19:56,676 --> 00:19:59,137
and I knew the others thought similarly,

446
00:19:59,679 --> 00:20:01,764
was that when we'd been in Liverpool

447
00:20:01,764 --> 00:20:03,808
and you'd bought an album,

448
00:20:03,808 --> 00:20:05,518
it was a, it was a huge event,

449
00:20:06,144 --> 00:20:07,979
actually buying a vinyl album,

450
00:20:07,979 --> 00:20:10,732
because number one, you had
to save up lots of money to get it.

451
00:20:11,149 --> 00:20:13,484
Then I had a half‐hour bus ride.

452
00:20:13,484 --> 00:20:15,737
So you'd take it out
of its brown paper bag,

453
00:20:15,737 --> 00:20:18,489
and you'd study it on the way home.
Yeah.

454
00:20:18,489 --> 00:20:20,825
And you'd read every little liner note

455
00:20:20,825 --> 00:20:22,118
and every little photo.

456
00:20:22,577 --> 00:20:27,207
So we wanted to do something
that was really value for money.

457
00:20:27,207 --> 00:20:29,167
Yeah.
And then, if you're on that bus ride,

458
00:20:29,584 --> 00:20:32,420
you'd need a few bus rides
to check this thing out.

459
00:20:32,420 --> 00:20:35,131
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

460
00:20:35,131 --> 00:20:38,009
When we were kids,
I used to get on the bus.

461
00:20:38,009 --> 00:20:40,094
On the next stop, George would get on.

462
00:20:40,762 --> 00:20:42,555
We were going to the same school.

463
00:20:42,972 --> 00:20:45,975
It was called the Liverpool Institute
High School for Boys,

464
00:20:45,975 --> 00:20:48,019
where there were a thousand boys.

465
00:20:48,561 --> 00:20:50,230
That was it. No girls.

466
00:20:50,855 --> 00:20:52,857
Anyway, on one of these journeys,

467
00:20:52,857 --> 00:20:54,692
there was a free seat next to me.

468
00:20:55,151 --> 00:20:58,112
And he sat down,
and we started talking.

469
00:20:58,112 --> 00:21:01,199
And we talked
about what we loved,

470
00:21:01,616 --> 00:21:04,994
music and guitars,

471
00:21:04,994 --> 00:21:07,163
because George was very into guitars.

472
00:21:08,289 --> 00:21:09,332
<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> If you were guessing,

473
00:21:09,874 --> 00:21:13,086
how many other kids
on the bus cared about music?

474
00:21:13,086 --> 00:21:15,672
I would guess one, if you were lucky.

475
00:21:16,256 --> 00:21:17,757
So you felt a connection
to him right away

476
00:21:17,757 --> 00:21:20,468
just because you had guitar
in common, and it was rare.
Yeah. We both used to‐‐

477
00:21:20,468 --> 00:21:22,053
It was quite rare. Yeah.

478
00:21:22,762 --> 00:21:24,889
So we got to know each other really well.

479
00:21:24,889 --> 00:21:27,141
<b><font color="#FF7F50">RICK:</font></b> Mm‐hmm.
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> And we used to hitchhike,

480
00:21:27,642 --> 00:21:30,270
and the guy who'd give you
a lift, "Great, great."

481
00:21:30,270 --> 00:21:33,189
So you'd get this lift, and he'd say,
"Well, I can't go any further than this.

482
00:21:33,189 --> 00:21:35,692
I now go over here." So he'd drop us.

483
00:21:35,692 --> 00:21:38,236
And what we'd do is
we'd go to a little shop,

484
00:21:38,236 --> 00:21:42,532
and we would buy a tin of rice pudding.

485
00:21:43,116 --> 00:21:44,492
It was called Ambrosia.

486
00:21:44,909 --> 00:21:47,203
And I, very resourcefully,

487
00:21:47,203 --> 00:21:49,956
had brought along with me
a little camping stove.

488
00:21:49,956 --> 00:21:50,748
Wow.

489
00:21:50,748 --> 00:21:52,375
So we're at the side of the road

490
00:21:53,334 --> 00:21:54,711
trying to hitch, like...

491
00:21:54,711 --> 00:21:56,296
We've got this little open can.

492
00:21:56,296 --> 00:21:57,422
Wow.

493
00:21:57,422 --> 00:21:59,132
We weren't Beatles. We weren't anything.

494
00:21:59,132 --> 00:22:01,718
But if you look back, it's quite amazing,

495
00:22:01,718 --> 00:22:04,178
"There's two of The Beatles
eating rice cream."

496
00:22:04,178 --> 00:22:04,929
On the side of the road.

497
00:22:04,929 --> 00:22:06,764
Really, on the side of the road, yeah.
Yeah.

498
00:22:07,265 --> 00:22:09,392
And then... <font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>
we'd go to the pictures,

499
00:22:09,392 --> 00:22:11,352
we'd go to the cinema together often.

500
00:22:11,811 --> 00:22:14,856
Uh, that was sort of
the great, you know, entertainment.

501
00:22:15,273 --> 00:22:17,942
And there used
to be an advert... <font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>

502
00:22:17,942 --> 00:22:20,653
for furniture,
and it was Link furniture.

503
00:22:21,070 --> 00:22:24,032
And so the advert said,
"Thinking of linking?"

504
00:22:25,033 --> 00:22:27,243
So me and George used to like that,

505
00:22:27,243 --> 00:22:28,536
"Thinking of linking?

506
00:22:28,536 --> 00:22:30,371
"I mean, if that was
a Buddy Holly song,

507
00:22:30,371 --> 00:22:31,664
it would be kind of a good one."

508
00:22:31,664 --> 00:22:32,790
So we kinda wrote this.

509
00:22:32,790 --> 00:22:36,377
<font color="#00CDCD">(playing guitar)</font>

510
00:22:36,377 --> 00:22:40,131
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Thinking of Linking playing  ♪♪</font>

511
00:22:40,131 --> 00:22:44,177
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Well, I've been thinking of linking
my love with you  ♪♪</font>

512
00:22:44,719 --> 00:22:48,056
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Thinking of linking,
our love so true  ♪♪</font>

513
00:22:48,723 --> 00:22:52,685
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Thinking of linking
can only be done by two  ♪♪</font>

514
00:22:52,685 --> 00:22:56,022
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

515
00:22:59,192 --> 00:23:00,318
Fantastic.

516
00:23:00,318 --> 00:23:01,903
So those little things,
you know, just‐‐

517
00:23:01,903 --> 00:23:04,739
And we only remembered that
when we were doing The Beatles anthology.

518
00:23:05,615 --> 00:23:07,116
George said to me, "Do you remember this?"

519
00:23:07,116 --> 00:23:08,701
<font color="#00CDCD">(strums guitar)</font>

520
00:23:08,701 --> 00:23:11,204
"What? It's Thinking of Linking."

521
00:23:11,579 --> 00:23:12,580
Yeah.

522
00:23:12,580 --> 00:23:15,667
So, you know, those things, I say,
all of that brought you together.

523
00:23:16,042 --> 00:23:20,505
Uh, and then I did the whole
sort of thing with John, similar songs

524
00:23:20,505 --> 00:23:22,715
and hitchhiking and all of that.

525
00:23:23,508 --> 00:23:26,052
So by the time we came
to be a recording group...

526
00:23:26,052 --> 00:23:27,011
Mm.

527
00:23:27,011 --> 00:23:30,723
I think this is why we could,
so quickly, just put together a lick.

528
00:23:30,723 --> 00:23:32,433
Yeah.
You know?

529
00:23:32,433 --> 00:23:37,438
Um, and, and that made it,
uh, more joyful.

530
00:23:38,064 --> 00:23:39,858
<b><font color="#FF7F50">GEORGE HARRISON:</font></b> <font color="#00CDCD">(on recording)</font>
One, two, three, four.

531
00:23:40,275 --> 00:23:44,445
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  While My Guitar Gently Weeps playing  ♪♪</font>

532
00:23:44,445 --> 00:23:46,990
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

533
00:23:56,749 --> 00:23:59,586
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I look at you all  ♪♪</font>

534
00:24:00,336 --> 00:24:04,340
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  See the love there
that's sleeping  ♪♪</font>

535
00:24:06,175 --> 00:24:10,763
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  While my guitar gently weeps  ♪♪</font>

536
00:24:11,723 --> 00:24:14,726
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> George developed later
as a songwriter.

537
00:24:15,435 --> 00:24:17,604
In the beginning, I don't think
he was that interested.

538
00:24:18,187 --> 00:24:20,023
He just kinda just left it to me and John.

539
00:24:20,690 --> 00:24:22,901
But he became one of the greats.

540
00:24:22,901 --> 00:24:27,947
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Still my guitar gently weeps  ♪♪</font>

541
00:24:27,947 --> 00:24:29,699
From the little guy I met on the bus.

542
00:24:29,699 --> 00:24:30,408
Yeah.

543
00:24:30,408 --> 00:24:33,578
A little guy with a little quiff,
you know, with his hair

544
00:24:33,578 --> 00:24:35,371
and a little guitar player,

545
00:24:35,371 --> 00:24:37,999
he turned to be a very wise man.

546
00:24:38,958 --> 00:24:42,378
So when I use the word magical,
that's sorta what I mean, you know.

547
00:24:42,962 --> 00:24:44,422
It's like that didn't have to happen.

548
00:24:45,006 --> 00:24:48,301
We could have had five years
and gone back to the factory.

549
00:24:49,010 --> 00:24:50,887
Which probably was what was expected.

550
00:24:50,887 --> 00:24:52,805
Yeah. Really, nobody,

551
00:24:52,805 --> 00:24:56,809
no groups were supposed
to last more than a few years.

552
00:24:56,809 --> 00:25:01,314
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Still my guitar gently weeps  ♪♪</font>

553
00:25:02,815 --> 00:25:06,653
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

554
00:25:16,120 --> 00:25:18,706
This is where Eric Clapton
came in and played.

555
00:25:19,332 --> 00:25:22,752
Was that the first time
a known non‐Beatle played on record?

556
00:25:22,752 --> 00:25:24,671
Yeah.
Had you met him before?

557
00:25:24,671 --> 00:25:27,006
Yeah. So he was on the scene.

558
00:25:27,382 --> 00:25:30,176
Did you think of him as George's friend
or as the guy from Cream?

559
00:25:30,760 --> 00:25:32,303
George's friend. Yeah.
Okay.

560
00:25:33,054 --> 00:25:35,014
Well, we just knew he was
a great guitar player.
Yeah.

561
00:25:35,014 --> 00:25:36,933
Once the music starts playing,
everything else‐‐

562
00:25:36,933 --> 00:25:38,476
Yeah. It's true.

563
00:25:38,476 --> 00:25:40,770
Yeah.
It's funny 'cause I worked with him

564
00:25:40,770 --> 00:25:43,439
maybe a couple of years ago
in the same studio,

565
00:25:43,439 --> 00:25:44,732
Abbey Road, number two.

566
00:25:45,233 --> 00:25:47,277
I said to him, "Wow.

567
00:25:47,652 --> 00:25:51,531
We haven't been in this studio together
since Guitar Gently Weeps."

568
00:25:51,531 --> 00:25:52,699
He said, "Yeah, I know."

569
00:25:54,492 --> 00:25:58,204
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I don't know how  ♪♪</font>

570
00:25:58,705 --> 00:26:01,124
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  You were inverted  ♪♪</font>

571
00:26:02,792 --> 00:26:05,753
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  No one alerted you  ♪♪</font>

572
00:26:05,753 --> 00:26:08,423
<b><font color="#FF7F50">PAUL:</font></b> I mean, you think about it,
it's very generous of George

573
00:26:08,423 --> 00:26:11,217
to give Eric this moment

574
00:26:11,217 --> 00:26:12,594
when he could have had it
for himself.

575
00:26:12,594 --> 00:26:13,553
Absolutely.

576
00:26:13,553 --> 00:26:15,805
But it's just like,
George was very like that.

577
00:26:15,805 --> 00:26:17,682
He was, he was very open.

578
00:26:19,183 --> 00:26:22,645
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Still my guitar gently weeps  ♪♪</font>

579
00:26:22,645 --> 00:26:24,856
Alright. Doesn't even sound like a bass.

580
00:26:24,856 --> 00:26:28,109
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

581
00:26:28,109 --> 00:26:31,863
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I don't know why  ♪♪</font>

582
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,616
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Nobody told you  ♪♪</font>

583
00:26:36,367 --> 00:26:38,244
Very aggressive sound, isn't it?

584
00:26:38,578 --> 00:26:42,582
Con‐considering...
it's accompanying this.

585
00:26:42,582 --> 00:26:43,583
Yeah.

586
00:26:44,876 --> 00:26:48,379
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  I don't know how  ♪♪</font>

587
00:26:48,922 --> 00:26:52,050
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Someone controlled you  ♪♪</font>

588
00:26:52,550 --> 00:26:55,345
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  bass guitar playing  ♪♪</font>

589
00:26:55,345 --> 00:26:57,388
I've never heard
a bass sound like that before.

590
00:26:57,388 --> 00:26:58,473
Very unusual.

591
00:26:59,641 --> 00:27:03,478
It's almost like two songs
are happening simultaneously.

592
00:27:03,478 --> 00:27:04,354
Yeah.

593
00:27:04,354 --> 00:27:05,605
Do you know what I'm saying?
Yeah.

594
00:27:05,605 --> 00:27:08,566
It's like... two whole‐‐

595
00:27:09,067 --> 00:27:09,943
Yeah.

596
00:27:09,943 --> 00:27:11,819
Either one of them, great.
Yeah.

597
00:27:11,819 --> 00:27:14,322
And then right on top
of each other, it's fasc‐‐

598
00:27:14,322 --> 00:27:16,908
This is another.
It's another song here.

599
00:27:16,908 --> 00:27:17,492
Yeah.

600
00:27:17,492 --> 00:27:23,456
<font color="#00CDCD">(singing hard rock, indistinct)</font>

601
00:27:24,749 --> 00:27:25,667
Or‐‐

602
00:27:26,125 --> 00:27:29,212
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Still my guitar gently weeps  ♪♪</font>

603
00:27:29,212 --> 00:27:30,338
Fascinating.

604
00:27:30,338 --> 00:27:31,965
Yeah.
You know, it's just amazing.

605
00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:35,677
That's interesting you bring that up.

606
00:27:36,261 --> 00:27:38,638
I was not conscious of that
till I listened to it now.

607
00:27:38,638 --> 00:27:39,264
No.

608
00:27:39,264 --> 00:27:42,976
I hear that tone on it,
and it's like, "Wow."

609
00:27:43,643 --> 00:27:45,395
If you had a studio musician come in,

610
00:27:45,395 --> 00:27:48,356
the best musician in the world
to play on your new song,

611
00:27:48,773 --> 00:27:49,899
he would not play that.

612
00:27:49,899 --> 00:27:50,942
He would never do that.

613
00:27:50,942 --> 00:27:52,652
No, because it's not‐‐

614
00:27:53,027 --> 00:27:54,529
He'd be much more sensible.

615
00:27:54,529 --> 00:27:55,989
<font color="#00CDCD">(both laugh)</font>

616
00:27:56,823 --> 00:27:59,826
It's just fascinating
to see it come together.

617
00:28:00,493 --> 00:28:03,371
You guys were essentially blending styles,

618
00:28:03,371 --> 00:28:06,374
but not by mixing two genres,

619
00:28:06,374 --> 00:28:08,877
but really by mixing two fields.

620
00:28:08,877 --> 00:28:09,711
Yeah.

621
00:28:09,711 --> 00:28:13,923
Like when The Beatles played
a reggae‐influenced number,

622
00:28:13,923 --> 00:28:16,009
it doesn't sound like reggae,
it sounds like The Beatles.

623
00:28:16,009 --> 00:28:17,093
Right. Yeah, yeah.

624
00:28:17,093 --> 00:28:18,761
So it becomes something new.

625
00:28:19,053 --> 00:28:20,430
Yeah. That's, um‐‐

626
00:28:20,847 --> 00:28:23,892
I think that's a nice fact
of music is,

627
00:28:23,892 --> 00:28:26,185
even though you're inspired
by something,

628
00:28:26,686 --> 00:28:28,104
it's going to sound like you.

629
00:28:28,813 --> 00:28:32,233
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐La‐Di, Ob‐La‐Da playing  ♪♪</font>

630
00:28:32,233 --> 00:28:35,987
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

631
00:28:39,407 --> 00:28:43,161
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Desmond has a barrow
in the market place  ♪♪</font>

632
00:28:43,453 --> 00:28:46,331
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Molly is the singer in a band  ♪♪</font>

633
00:28:47,707 --> 00:28:51,419
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Desmond says to Molly,
"Girl, I like your face"  ♪♪</font>

634
00:28:51,419 --> 00:28:54,881
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And Molly says this
as she takes him by the hand  ♪♪</font>

635
00:28:55,632 --> 00:28:57,800
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐la‐di, Ob‐la‐da  ♪♪</font>

636
00:28:57,800 --> 00:29:00,428
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life goes on, bra  ♪♪</font>

637
00:29:00,428 --> 00:29:02,889
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  La‐la how their life goes on  ♪♪</font>

638
00:29:04,140 --> 00:29:06,267
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐la‐di, Ob‐la‐da  ♪♪</font>

639
00:29:06,267 --> 00:29:08,645
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life goes on, bra  ♪♪</font>

640
00:29:08,895 --> 00:29:11,773
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  La‐la how their life goes on  ♪♪</font>

641
00:29:13,358 --> 00:29:16,778
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Desmond takes a trolley
to the jeweler's store  ♪♪</font>

642
00:29:17,320 --> 00:29:20,198
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Buys a 20‐carat golden ring  ♪♪</font>

643
00:29:20,198 --> 00:29:21,366
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  A ring  ♪♪</font>

644
00:29:21,366 --> 00:29:25,286
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Takes it back to Molly
waiting at the door  ♪♪</font>

645
00:29:25,286 --> 00:29:28,498
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And as he gives it to her
she begins to sing  ♪♪</font>

646
00:29:28,498 --> 00:29:29,457
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  To sing  ♪♪</font>

647
00:29:29,457 --> 00:29:31,543
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐la‐di, Ob‐la‐da  ♪♪</font>

648
00:29:31,543 --> 00:29:33,962
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life goes on, bra  ♪♪</font>

649
00:29:33,962 --> 00:29:36,965
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  La‐la how their life goes on  ♪♪</font>

650
00:29:37,840 --> 00:29:39,968
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐la‐di, Ob‐la‐da  ♪♪</font>

651
00:29:39,968 --> 00:29:42,595
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life goes on, bra  ♪♪</font>

652
00:29:42,595 --> 00:29:45,265
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  La‐la how their life goes on  ♪♪</font>

653
00:29:45,723 --> 00:29:46,849
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Yeah  ♪♪</font>

654
00:29:47,350 --> 00:29:51,563
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  In a couple of years,
they have built a home sweet home  ♪♪</font>

655
00:29:51,563 --> 00:29:53,606
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪</font>

656
00:29:55,817 --> 00:29:59,070
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  With a couple of kids
running in the yard  ♪♪</font>

657
00:29:59,445 --> 00:30:02,574
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Of Desmond and Molly Jones  ♪♪</font>

658
00:30:02,574 --> 00:30:03,950
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ha ha ha ha  ♪♪</font>

659
00:30:03,950 --> 00:30:07,912
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Happy ever after
in the market place  ♪♪</font>

660
00:30:07,912 --> 00:30:11,082
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Desmond lets the children
lend a hand  ♪♪</font>

661
00:30:12,125 --> 00:30:15,879
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Molly stays at home
and does her pretty face  ♪♪</font>

662
00:30:15,879 --> 00:30:19,299
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  And in the evening
she still singing with the band  ♪♪</font>

663
00:30:19,299 --> 00:30:19,924
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Yes  ♪♪</font>

664
00:30:19,924 --> 00:30:22,218
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Ob‐la‐di, Ob‐la‐da  ♪♪</font>

665
00:30:22,218 --> 00:30:24,888
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Life goes on, bra  ♪♪</font>

666
00:30:24,888 --> 00:30:27,515
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  La‐la how their life goes on  ♪♪</font>

667
00:30:28,057 --> 00:30:28,766
<font color="#FF9966">♪♪  Yeah  ♪♪</font>