The Beatles first radio interview (10/27/1962)
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- The Beatles (John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr) with Monty Lister at their first radio interview, 27 October 1962. Before their fourth and final live appearance at the Hulme Hall in Birkenhead, The Beatles recorded a radio interview for Radio Clatterbridge. It's the first surviving spoken-word interview.
- Hudba
"Do you plan to record any more songs of your own?"
Just. You. Fucking. Wait.
Lol...great comment!
Here... Hold my beer... 😁
@@phillipgreen59uk Hold my guitar.
@@hyzercreek Or maybe, hold my hand?
"John is infact the leader of the group" - Paul. Shows how much respect he has for Lennon. Amazing piece of history.
In 1962 John was the leader. Paul took control in 1966/1967. Even John alredy said it on an interview.
@@rafaelvieirasanchessampaio7435
That is true, but only because John ceded control. It was still John's doing ultimately.
@@nthdegree1269 I don't believe he ceded control. I think he wasn't able to be the leader at that time, cause of drugs and his personal problems.
@@rafaelvieirasanchessampaio7435 Keep up the narrative idiot.
Love this, real history.x
1:00 "ringo you're new to the group now"
"yes its only been 9 weeks"
I was like oh my goodness😅😅😅😅what a far cry from now...!!! Little they did know, they would be music icons😊😊😊😊
@Hirkey Shmirkey a little over 2 months
Heart melts
That jumped out at me too.
It was after Ringo joined the band to replace Pete as a drummer
They had NO IDEA what was coming.
nobody did.
You took the words out of my mouth.
Michael Powell . . ... . . . ,. . .. .","
V. Bob Dylan Trouble no more TV special
How could they?.....
Maybe they did know?!
2:24 When 19 year old George says he was bred in Speke.. "Where the aeroplanes are", it's crazy to think that the little airport he's referring to would eventually be renamed 'John Lennon International Airport'.
Extra poignant is that it happens the year of George's own death.
Only because yoko paid x million to name it
Still it’s a coincidence usher chose that airports
Just lokked up that airport and heck it's true it's named after john.
@@michaelsrowland absolutely nonsense.. She didn’t pay for it
@@michaelsrowland Hate that woman. I hate how Paul & Ringo are still friendly with her. pretty disrespect to George and honestly even John. Paul & Ringo should of stopped talking to her decades ago.
“Up and coming” ... UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY
PaulMcCartney4Ever12 how so? At the time, they were “up and coming”... that was their first radio interview.
i will yeet on ur feet what??
@@ChristinaBrophyBUBBLESxOo because they up and came the greatest band ever
@@houseofleaves126 I didn’t say they didn’t
"Up and ca...coming"
george was 19
paul was 20
ringo and john were 22
This whole interview should've been included on Anthology 1.
Part of the interview was in Anthology 1
@@fishsticks407 Yeah, but he said the whole interview should have been included.
Yes! You should be a record executive. You have a gift.
Beatles Live book free flexidisc ... it had already been released by the time of Anthology.
I would love to see Paul or Ringo's reaction to hearing this today. It must feel like a lifetime away.
It was a lifetime away.
It was. The world is definitley not the same as it was then.
I thought he was 15, as he was born in 1947
I hope they do one day!
@@anwarchowdhury1104 Who? None of the Beatles were born in 1947. All born between 1940 and 1943.
Interesting to note that Paul States, "John is, in fact, the leader of the group."
Of course, John has always been the Leader of The Beatles.
In fact when Epstein died Paul became the leader; he gave them a purpose with the Magical Mystery Tour; otherwise they would have split; at the beginning John was the leader; at the end Paul took up the part...Paul has always been the spokesman.
Bounoua Evelyne I've been thinking a lot about the early days of the Beatles rise to fame. There is so much written and spoken about those times that I've decided to go straight to the collective horses mouths to read what it was really like back then. I just finished reading Brian Epstein's "Cellar Full Of Noise" (very good!) and now I'm reading "All You Need Is Ears" by George Martin to get his take on things. After that I'm going to read George Harrison's "I, Me, Mine" and after that the Beatles Anthology.
Have you read : Many Years From Now? It's a very good biography....
Bounoua Evelyne I don't think they would have split (if Paul hadn't become the leader). At least not right away. They just wouldn't have made as many records. By the end, Paul was dragging the other three into the studio...
John sounds the most confident out of all of them even at 22 he knew they were going to make it. You can hear it in his voice
They were so incredibly nervous and still managed to keep it together SO well.
Paul says "I sing I think"
Perhaps the greatest pop singer ever!
Omg George is nineteen here...I just realized.
I know! Just think they were all UNDER 30 when they SPILT UP!!!
They've sold more Albums than people like Elton John and Michael Jackson who played their entire lives...The Beatles were together for LESS THAN 10 YEARS!
He's my age here OMG
George was just 27 when they were disbanded, just imagine how it felt being one of the most recognizable persons in the world with millions of dollars in the bank at that age...
Howdy doo
Paul: "...John is in fact the leader of the group..."
That's about the only time I have ever heard that!!!
The more one listens to the early music, the clearer it is. Lennon was the really key vocalist on most songs. And when he sang, he put everything into it. McCartney has great voice and was undeniably a great musician. Just don't think he put same passion Lennon did into the music.
Everybody knows That John was the leader
@@AtomicLobotomy But that's just it -- in the early music John was the leader. But by the mid 60's, namely by Sgt. Pepper, Paul was cited as the musical leader. John was going through a lot emotionally, especially with drugs, in the later 60s that prevented him from staying the leader. Ultimately, they're both the most successful songwriting partners ever and equally important -- they just had different kinds of passion. It doesn't mean one is less than the other.
Of course Paul was just as passionate about music - how stupid. After the breakup it was only Paul who continued to live and breathe music. He is consumed by it for better or worse. The others developed other interests and this was evident even before the breakup so no point in blaming Paul for their lack of motivation.
Katy Definitely agree! They wouldn’t have found their musical backbone if it hadn’t been for Paul. In the early days with his extreme diligence and in latter half with his crazy musical curiosity. It was Paul who led them to the avant-garde scene of the 60s. Paul is so passionate. I think that dummies who like to hold John Lennon way above Paul, when they were BOTH equally important, are insecure for some reason 🤷♀️ Some wanna see John, who was quick to tear himself down in a song or wear his heart-on-his-sleeve, as the ONLY form of genius. How boringly untrue, when there’s different kinds of genius in writing music. Like Paul who looked out at the world and could write songs about all kinds of people/concepts, and intricately added himself into the mix, who hopped around all kinds of genres because of how passionate he is about music. You’re right in your phrasing “for better or worse” music literally has him hostage, and in a completely different way than the other Beatles.
In "Get Back" with that hidden mic, even THEN Paul says, "John, you've always been the boss"
does he say "but if you think i'm signing with klein, you're mistaken?"...it's wonderful to hear them this early on. thanks.
I like how humble Paul is making it clear that John is the leader of the group, which is true.
Paul always had ultimate respect for John - flaws and all. But sadly, John broke Pauls heart, at the end of the Beatles days.
Well John was two years older, which when you are young, seems like a lot
Not after John died though.
Once John had died (and could not answer back), then Paul and his buddy Barry Miles put out a totally revisonistic and false book "Many Years From Now" where Paul falsely claims credit for a lot of John-written songs, and portrays himself as "the leader", and even claims to be the "avant garde", artsy guy in the band -- when it was John who was the one who had gone to Art School, wrote books with wild cartoon art and stories, and wrote all The Beatles really weird, and surrealistic and psychedelic song material. (Paul's music was almost the most commercial and radio-friendly in the band). During the 1990s - early 2000s, Paul would even do Concerts playing his Beatles songs, while also sneaking in the John-Lennon-written Beatles songs -- with no proper acclamation ever given at anytime to John, leaving the impression that these were also Paul songs . But if he did a George Beatle song, then he would always give proper acclamation to George.
So Paul lost any humility that he once may have had (in the worst way possible), and really pulled the wool over the public's eyes, and got everyone to believe that he was the Beatle guy "who did Everything", and began to get all the credit for almost everything that the Beatles ever did. Another disappointment was that the Threetles Anthology film also did not even use all the many incisive and interesting and funny John Lennon audio and interview clips available, but somehow found a bunch passive and low energy, boring clips from John that did not illustrate the full power and force of Lennon's personality (and his talents).
Paul's actions (to take credit for everything) was not only wrong, and unfair to John, but also totally unnecessary ....as Paul is a mega-multi-Billionaire, who is probably the most fawned after, and fan worshiped person in the whole World (even today).
In the last 5 years or so, he has mellowed out, and is a little bit more balanced again, and more forthcoming with positive commentary about John. But he had about 30 years there where he was determined to portray himself as "Mr. Beatle", and "the man with all the ideas", and he would have never gotten away with it at all if John Lennon were still alive.
@@allymayful bullshit, he just left the beatles..
@@EchoBravo370 Ringo was even older..and to be honest he had considerable status amongst the merseybeat generation.
I think these young boys might make it big one day
id give em a few years but yeah
Don't you mean these "youngsters"?
This interview is historical on so many levels.
AND PRICELESS
It's sad that John and George were taken from us so early on
This was marvelous. It doesn’t seem possible that they went on to do everything they did in only 8 years. My goodness, how they worked! And how they changed in that relatively short period of time! They not only changed themselves, they changed the whole world.
Steady on- The world didn't change much with the addition of a fem more beatles. Mount Everest is still there. So is Penny Lane. There's a lot more plastic in the world. But that's plastic and not the world. Not unless you have an inflatable plastic globe world.
@@MikeGreenwood51 the world of art changed drastically. They also contributed greatly to the changing of culture. Stop being silly.
@@TheJayson8899 They deeply moved and inspired a generation.
They changed the world with their music. They were so young here just beginning. 🥲
Paul and Ringo : same voice until today
especially Ringo. Paul has aged
John and George sound the same to me, minus their different tones.
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6:44
interviewer: “do you find it nerve wracking doing this now?”
Beatles: *implodes*
😂😂
Nice bunch of lads, high hopes for these boys, exited for what they do in the future
The fact they left the mark they did in what was effectively 7-8 years in the public eye is absolutely astonishing. The volume of their output and the growth and development in their musicianship, the fact it had effectively came and went before any of them had even turned 30. Can't wrap my head around it.
Almost 60 *YEARS* ago.
Not only so much rock history in the last 6 decades but personal history of all four members of the “up and coming” band. Not to mention the *WORLD HISTORY* since.
This is an *AWESOME* find! 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽
This is a very revealing and interesting interview they hadn't a clue what was in store for them
Thanks for posting
Nobody did. How could anybody know? Except for maybe Brian Epstein.
6:43 here in this picture George had a black eye which he got while protecting Ringo. When Ringo replaced Pete Best in the group, people went crazy and they attacked Ringo. George tried to protect him and got a black eye consequencly...
In the case of what happened to Ringo and George, we can say that Pete was the best and a more good looking man than Ringo. But little did they know that Pete was not as a good drummer and a talented man like him.
Wow.
MONTY: It's a very great pleasure for us this evening to say hello to an up-and-coming Merseyside group, The Beatles. I know their names, and I'm going to try and put faces to them. Now, you're John Lennon, aren't you?"
JOHN: "Yes, that's right."
MONTY: "What do you do in the group, John?"
JOHN: "I play harmonica, rhythm guitar, and vocal. That's what they call it."
MONTY: "Then, there's Paul McCartney. That's you?"
PAUL: "Yeah, that's me. Yeah."
MONTY: "And what do you do?"
PAUL: "Play bass guitar and uhh, sing? ...I think! That's what they say."
MONTY: "That's quite apart from being vocal?"
PAUL: "Well... yes, yes."
MONTY: "Then there's George Harrison."
GEORGE: "How d'you do."
MONTY: "How d'you do. What's your job?"
GEORGE: "Uhh, lead guitar and sort of singing."
MONTY: "By playing lead guitar does that mean that you're sort of leader of the group or are you...?"
GEORGE: "No, no. Just... Well you see, the other guitar is the rhythm. Ching, ching, ching, you see."
PAUL: "He's solo guitar, you see. John is in fact the leader of the group."
MONTY: "And over in the background, here, and also in the background of the group making alot of noise is Ringo Starr."
RINGO: "Hello."
MONTY: "You're new to the group, aren't you Ringo?"
RINGO: "Yes, umm, nine weeks now."
MONTY: "Were you in on the act when the recording was made of 'Love Me Do'?"
RINGO: "Yes, I'm on the record. I'm on the disc."
(the group giggles)
RINGO: (comic voice) "It's down on record, you know?"
MONTY: "Now, umm..."
RINGO: "I'm the drummer!"
(laughter)
MONTY: "What's that offensive weapon you've got there? Those are your drumsticks?"
RINGO: "Well, it's umm... just a pair of sticks I found. I just bought 'em, you know, 'cuz we're going away."
MONTY: "When you say you're going away, that leads us on to another question now. Where are you going?"
RINGO: "Germany. Hamburg. For two weeks."
MONTY: "You have standing and great engagements over there, haven't you?"
RINGO: "Well, the boys have been there quite alot, you know. And I've been there with other groups, but this is the first time I've been there with the Beatles."
MONTY: "Paul, tell us. How do you get in on the act in Germany?"
PAUL: "Well, it was all through an old agent."
(laughter)
PAUL: (chuckles) "We first went there for a fella who used to manage us, and Mr. Allan Williams of the Jacaranda Club in Liverpool. And he found the engagements so we sort of went there, and then went under our own..."
JOHN: "Steam."
PAUL: "Steam... (laughs)
JOHN: "...as they say."
PAUL: "As they say, afterwards, you know. And we've just been going backwards and forwards and backwards and forwards."
MONTY: (surprised) "You're not busy at all?"
PAUL: (jokingly) "Well yes, actually. Yes. It's me left leg. You know. The war."
(laughter)
MONTY: "George, were you brought up in Liverpool?"
GEORGE: "Yes. So far, yes."
MONTY: "Whereabouts?"
GEORGE: "Well, born in Wavertree, and bred in Wavertree and Speke -- where the airplanes are, you know."
MONTY: "Are you all 'Liverpool types,' then?"
RINGO: "Yes."
JOHN: "Uhh... types, yes."
PAUL: "Oh yeah."
RINGO: "Liverpool-typed Paul, there."
MONTY: "Now, I'm told that you were actually in the same form as young Ron Wycherley..."
RINGO: "Ronald. Yes."
MONTY: "...now Billy Fury."
RINGO: "In Saint Sylus."
MONTY: "In which?"
RINGO: "Saint Sylus."
JOHN: "Really?"
RINGO: "It wasn't Dingle Vale like you said in the Musical Express."
PAUL: "No, that was wrong. Saint Sylus school."
MONTY: "Now I'd like to introduce a young disc jockey. His name is Malcolm Threadgill, he's 16-years old, and I'm sure he'd like to ask some questions from the teenage point of view."
MALCOLM: "I understand you've made other recordings before on a German label."
PAUL: "Yeah."
MALCOLM: "What ones were they?"
PAUL: "Well, we didn't make... First of all we made a recording with a fella called Tony Sheridan. We were working in a club called 'The Top Ten Club' in Hamburg. And we made a recording with him called, 'My Bonnie,' which got to number five in the German Hit Parade."
JOHN: "Ach tung!"
PAUL: (giggles) "But it didn't do a thing over here, you know. It wasn't a very good record, but the Germans must've liked it a bit. And we did an instrumental which was released in France on an EP of Tony Sheridan's, which George and John wrote themselves. That wasn't released here. It got one copy. That's all, you know. It didn't do anything."
MALCOLM: "You composed 'P.S. I Love You' and 'Love Me Do' yourself, didn't you? Who does the composing between you?"
PAUL: "Well, it's John and I. We write the songs between us. It's, you know... We've sort of signed contracts and things to say, that now if we..."
JOHN: "It's equal shares."
PAUL: "Yeah, equal shares and royalties and things, so that really we just both write most of the stuff. George did write this instrumental, as we say. But mainly it's John and I. We've written over about a hundred songs but we don't use half of them, you know. We just happened to sort of rearrange 'Love Me Do' and played it to the recording people, and 'P.S. I Love You,' and uhh, they seemed to quite like it. So that's what we recorded."
MALCOLM: "Is there anymore of your own compositions you intend to record?"
JOHN: "Well, we did record another song of our own when we were down there, but it wasn't finished enough. So, you know, we'll take it back next time and see how they like it then."
(long pause)
JOHN: (jokingly) "Well... that's all from MY end!"
(laughter)
MONTY: "I would like to just ask you-- and we're recording this at Hume Hall, Port Sunlight-- Did any of you come over to this side before you became famous, as it were? Do you know this district?"
PAUL: "Well, we played here, uhh... I don't know what you mean by famous, you know.
(laughter)
PAUL: "If being famous is being in the Hit Parade, we've been over here-- we were here about two months ago. Been here twice, haven't we?"
JOHN: "I've got relations here. Rock Ferry."
MONTY: "Have you?"
JOHN: "Yes. Oh, all sides of the water, you know."
PAUL: "Yeah, I've got a relation in Claughton Village-- Upton Road."
RINGO: (jokingly) "I've got a friend in Birkenhead!"
(laughter)
MONTY: "I wish I had."
GEORGE: (jokingly) "I know a man in Chester!"
(laughter)
MONTY: "Now, that's a very dangerous thing to say. There's a mental home there, mate. Peter Smethurst is here as well, and he looks like he is bursting with a question."
PETER: "There is just one question I'd like to ask. I'm sure it's the question everyone's asking. I'd like your impressions on your first appearance on television."
PAUL: "Well, strangely enough, we thought we were gonna be dead nervous. And everyone said, 'You suddenly, when you see the cameras, you realize that there are two million people watching,' because there were two million watching that 'People And Places' that we did... we heard afterwards. But, strangely enough, it didn't come to us. We didn't think at all about that. And it was much easier doing the television than it was doing the (live musical performance) radio. It's still nerve-wracking, but it was a bit easier than doing radio because there was a full audience for the radio broadcast."
MONTY: "Do you find it nerve-wracking doing this now?"
(laughter)
PAUL: (jokingly) "Yeah, yeah."
MONTY: "Over at Cleaver Hospital, a certain record on Parlophone-- the top side has been requested. So perhaps the Beatles themselves would like to tell them what it's going to be."
PAUL: "Yeah. Well, I think it's gonna be 'Love Me Do.'"
JOHN: "Parlophone R4949."
(laughter)
PAUL: "'Love Me Do.'"
MONTY: "And I'm sure, for them, the answer is P.S. I love you!"
PAUL: "Yeah."
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Reading this is just as good as listening to it. Thnx 🌹
oh my god THANK YOU SO MUCH!! as a non native english speaker i appreciate this enormously. thank you for taking the time to type it!!
You deserve a medal of honor, bro.
Even back then Paul was always the spokesman of the group. The passion has never left
This is a gem a real GEM the Beatles are still rather unknown and a bit shy not so funny and outgoing than a year later. But the reporter is far from shy asking almost too many questions, a year later the tables turn and The Beatles are in control and really themselves. Wow great job to load up this Gem.
I think Paul always acknowledged John to be the "leader of the group". None of the others had any problems with that...at least in the EARLY days!
Yes, but later on it was Paul who would show up at the recording studio with 10 or 12 new songs on him. He was 'the' workaholic, and always at Abbey Road.
Lennon burnt out by 67.
It never was a problem for Paul. In the Get Back documentary he said to John again
John was the first, he asked Paul to join The Quarrymen in 1957. Then George joined a bit later. They were just kids.
'I know a man in Chester'
Fucking brilliant George 😂
Up and coming really is an understatement! They had no idea the storm they were about to unleash!
nice bit of early Beatles charm and group identity
"You're new to the the group..."
"Yes, 9 weeks now..."
So...Sept '62.....amazing...
Amazing! Interview for a hospital radio 📻 and George was so polite.
I just love them always and forever 🙏
Me,too!💖
This is really a quite incredible interview when you think about it. The Beatles here still weren't sure they were going to hit the big time. Confident...but still waiting for the big break. Here in late 1962 they still hadn't even recorded their first album Meet The Beatles...with the huge groundbreaking single 'I Wanna Hold your Hand'. All they really had here of note was the 'Love Me Do' single with new drummer Ringo hoping for "the" big hit. Which of course they got. And in less than 7 years from this day...the tent would be completely folded on the Beatles. The 'Let It Be' album music and the iconic filmed London rooftop concert was done in January 1969 and their last studio album Abbey Road was recorded and released in August of 1969. Just after this the Beatles officially called it quits. So many amazing albums.. including Meet The Beatles... A Hard Days Night...Help.....Rubber Soul...Sgt. Peppers....Magical Mystery Tour....The White Album and last but not least...Abbey Road. Unbelievable they accomplished all the great music as well as their global political ,cultural, spiritual and fashion influence in only 6 years and a few months. And then...poof... they were gone.
The first album was Please, Please Me.
@@BleedBNG Was “Please, Please Me”. released just in England, or for us in USA, also?? Because I thought the first album released from the Beatles, here in the states, was “Meet the Beatles” ?? That was the first one I bought, back in 64.
@@foofookachoo1136 The US and UK releases were quite different up until about Sgt. Pepper. The Beatles' first US LP release was for the independent VeeJay label and was called Introducing the Beatles. The first US Capitol album was Meet the Beatles. Capitol later released an album called The Early Beatles with much of the VeeJay material. It's worth noting that the UK albums generally had 14 tracks, but the US ones only had 12. That's at least partially why the releases in the 2 countries vary.
@@notthatyouasked6656 Thanks for the info! Yes, they varied quite a bit! I thought I had read before, that the releases were different for USA and Britain.
@@foofookachoo1136 Meet The Beatles was released in England as "With The Beatles." England had already met them.
Less than five years later, they would be releasing Sgt Peppers. Mind blowing.
A true piece of history. Great stuff
This group seems quite promising. I think we're going to hear more from them!
Maybe even bigger than Billy Fury
@@steveshattah To interviewer: YA THINK??!!!
“I know a man in Chester”.
“That’s a very dangerous thing to say, there’s a mental home there mate”.
That escalated quickly.
So young and such darlings.🥰
Beautiful, beautiful boys.💖
So glad they came along.💕
Fascinating… just two weeks later they’d be doing their iconic performance at the Star Club in Hamburg
brilliant post - Paul saying John is the leader and "we have about 100 songs" are noteworthy!
John probably was the de-facto leader up until Pepper or so when Paul began to really steer the group
Yes, the "100 songs" bit... There always seemed to be a lot of creative license in that number.
@@johnnhoj6749 Most great songwriters will tell you they write hundreds of them before they get 1 good one to record and become a possible hit. so I think the batting average would be 1 or 2 hits per 100 songs...amazing: if you average 3 hits pet 100 at bats in the sport of baseball you'll get to the Hall Of Fame!!
@@timburr4453even in the later years John was still boss. Paul just initiated stuff
Amazing piece of history, I love delving into the true geniuses of culture in their early days where they were completely untouched by the pressure and economics of prominence. They weren't "working" as such, just pure creativity and love for their craft. It is true inspiration for me.
DECCA ....." Guitar groups are on their way out "! What a load of decca heads they were !! 🤣 Fantastic piece of history wonderful and evocative of the most amazing musicians on the planet ...rave on Silver Beatles. Thankyou for downloading this .
It's amazing at this point they weren't even sure about themselves as singers by saying "sort of".
A piece of Rock n Roll History
First time I've heard this interview. The calm before the storm.
Wow this is super early, before they even released "Please please me" I guess that's the song John was talking about that wasn't finished. Amazing, just think: In a little over a year later they would be the biggest group in the world, #1 in Europe and the USA, everywhere.
I'm sure you're right
@GeorgeThumbs George was only nineteen in this interview. It's so hard to believe,like you said, a year later they we're musical legends. They still are today.They were just kids,it's mind-bogoling.
@@georgeparasol4602 Lennon said even at school he knew he was a genius and wondered why he hadn't been discovered
@@georgeparasol4602 George once said "At nineteen I was playing clubs in Hamburg, and at twenty four I was doing Sgt Peppers", (or something like that).
IT’S MINDBOGOLING!!!!
I wonder how the 60’s would have panned out if the guys not have formed, now there’s a mystery
Amazing. In about 46 months, John will write, "Strawberry Fields Forever".
and 57 years later some people still won't think it's any good. maybe i should cite "the ballad of john and yoko"!!!???
first podcast of the history
Their rise was so fast and so quick its hard to fathom how 4 young men could handle that level of success so quickly. I think John and Paul really wanted it and so did George. But Ringo probably thought he would be some backround drummer for several Liverpool rock bands. Id bet this their rise was most shocking for him. In america at first he was easily the most famous Beatle.
They were great to hear young and sincere ❤
Incredible hearing this knowing where they would be in exactly one year after this.
omg george literally was 19 here i cant even handle it. he was a baby
And we had no idea what was coming..... the world was about to be shaken. Malcolm Threadgill interviewing, what a memory for him. Is he still around?
Paul: "John is the leader" then proceeds to do 90% of the talking in this interview! 😄 😄 😄 ❤️ ❤️ ❤️
Paul was the boss so he pointed out who the leader was. Looking at the history of this guys I concluded that John was actually an introvert that learned how to be extrovert as Paul.
@ghost mall AGREE!!!!!
John was the founder, not the leader.
Paul seemed to always be the best spokesman. That's not exactly the same as being a leader, although he basically took on that role as well, later on
@Kate yeah Paul was very discreet , Paul is my favorite Beatle , his personality is naturally compassionate .
This is cool. nine weeks only with Ringo. its surely the first interview and they don't know whats coming.they said they had written 100 songs already.
only famous because on the hit parade they said.
I would sure like to hear the other 50 they did nothing with!!!
Wow! Back then they already had the wit and humor to charm the world.
They were intelligent and charming.
I’ve always noticed how as The Beatles became more famous - the cut of the cloths and weaves etc of their suits- just got better and better as the climbed the ladder 🪜 of success - to the very toppermost of the poppermost. By 64 they were all sporting quality Saville Row clobber. Bless em….
Wow great to hear them so early in their careers.
3:00 "I'm sure you'd like to ask some questions from the teenage point of view". Well George was still 19 at the time.
I like the way being on the same class as Billy Fury was a talking point. Imagine having been in that class!
What a fascinating and historically significant interview! The Beatles at the threshold of stardom, little realizing what was in store for them. Very honest, thoughtful and interesting responses to the interviewer's questions, not the sort of flippant joking responses they would later give during the Beatlemania era. And some intelligent questions and comments from the interviewer as well. And some great and rare photos as well, many of them I which have not seen before, and all seeming to date from late 1962, immediately after Ringo joined. The song that Lennon said needed a little more work must have been "Please Please Me".
At 4:55 John references a song still in the works to be recorded -- that was "Please Please Me"!
"We did record one song while we were down there but it wasn't finished enough. So, we'll take it back next time and see how they like it then." I hear they liked it. Great trivia question (if the title of this video is to believed). Who was the first DJ to interview The Beatles? The great Malcom Threadgill. He was 16 then, if he's still around that would make him 75 today. Wonder how life turned out for young Malcom? I imagine having bragging rights on being a part of The Beatles first interview gave him some pretty cool street cred with the other kids a bit later. Well played Malcom.
4:48- "Is there any more of your own compositions you intend to record?"
Just you wait, son.... ;)
Great historical interview, thanks for posting!
The lads respond, "'Hold our beer"!
WoW! Fantastic.. Paul does most of the talking.
Ringo just in 9 weeks !!
In an interview on the "Tonight Show" John was asked, by Garagiola..."John, you're the spokesman for the group right?" John replayed, "well when his spokes are working he is, when mine are , I am"
3:16-3:33 is from The Beatles Anthology 1 CD.
Entire interview was a bonus disc included with Mark Lewisohn's first book, The Beatles Live.
Paul McCartney: “John (Lennon) is in fact the leader of the group.”
That settles it forever in my eyes!
That sure changed later on!
@@robd1329 Not really. Paul was surely the motivating force and its defacto leader, but when it came to decisions within the band or who George and Ringo follow, it was always John. He was for Klein so were the others, they always looked up to him, pity he didn't make more out of it
I think they all just looked up to him. I think Paul was always the musical leader as much as John was and that only increased starting with Sgt Pepper when John got more and more disinterested in the band.
@@Kelvinack YES!!! I do wish John WOULD HAVE made more out of it. He should have respected them more, for holding SO MUCH high regard for him!!
@@ewest14 That’s how I see it, too!!
I nearly flipped out of my chair when Paul Said" That He and John had written nearly 100 songs".I know that a several of them were rehearsed, by the Beatles in January 1969,during The Get Back Sessions.
Yeah they had written a lot of songs, but they just weren't good
And fortunately we can see and hear them playing many of those in the PJ docu! Brilliant ❤
@@BeatlemaccaAR which is?
What a piece of world history.
Very interesting to hear the very young Beatles..
At the time, their claim to fame was one of them was in the class as Billy Fury!
On the threshold of an amazing dream.
And to think this was 60 years ago…wow.
Thanks for posting this. Rare pictures, also!
It all went by so fast
incredible-time machine interview
'All Liverpool types then?' 'Yes, types' lol
I thought him saying “types” was a strange way to put it!!! I would have said “Are u all from Liverpool?” Or, “Are u all Liverpool lads, or Liverpool guys?” That was just so different! Maybe it’s a British thing.
@@foofookachoo1136 The interviewer doesn't really know how to engage with young males from Liverpool, especially as he probably perceives them in a particular way: the British class system in the early sixties. I love how George makes a mockery of the way the interviewer stumbles through :-) Cheers La :-)
Tony
@@tonydeltablues Thanks for the info! Yes, George is very smart, clever, and bold!! They ALL have VERY, VERY good comebacks!! ALWAYS!! U sound like u might be from Britain??
@@foofookachoo1136 Yep, Liverpool.
“The Beatles have no future in show business.”
- Decca Records
That statement ALWAYS cracks me up!!!!
14 months later they would make their first film and appear on the Ed Sullivan show in America, becoming internationally famous.
The rest is history.
First film? Do you mean ‘movie’? Edit: their 1st movie (or ‘film’ if you wish) ‘Help!’ Released in 1965, preceded by their appearance on Ed Sullivan show in 1964.
No, he meant a thin substance resting atop a surface
@@JimzAuto actually they were called talkies back then
subg88 you’re funny... looking :)
zorroon milkavitch you’re funny... looking :)
John 22 by a few weeks, Ringo 22 a few months before, George 19 turning 20 following Feb and Paul 20 previous June. They probably knew they were a tight band but felt they weren't going to last much longer than a year. It's just jarring.
So it’s settled, John was the leader of the group.
Keep that dream alive boys, one day you guys will make it
Ringo, 9 weeks in.... and boom goes the dynamite.
The Beatles rise to world acclaim is nothing short of extraordinary. As a pragmatic atheist, I’m not inclined towards magical tales of fate and wonder, but The Beatles story has me doubting my conviction that there isn’t a higher power at play.
The fact that a music group in the 60s made great music and got really really popular makes you think there might be a god? That's kinda weird, mate.
@@Rascarrr Not at all what he said, but way to completely misrepresent what he said bellend.
@@drdre4397 are you daft? it is exactly what he said. at the absolute worst it would be 'pretty much' what he said. in what way was what i said a complete misrepresentation?
I thought he meant higher power as in the powers that be controlling things tavistock institute rather than God
@@florrie8767 go look up what the words 'atheist' and 'higher power' mean and then re-read his comment. you can do this, florrie! good luck
John the leaderr.
Very promising group as I can hear.
you guys will be very very big next year..
Paul says:
"John is in fact the leader of the group"
So precious ❤
John plugs the single, adding the catalogue number too ... "Parlophone R4949"
He’s ALWAYS thinking!!
Their influence is sill ongoing.