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The Beatles (Pt. 1): Stoned with Dylan, Dosed with Acid, Outrunning Knife Wielding Maniac, and Driving the World to the Brink with Beatlemania · DISGRACELAND

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Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about
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Speaker 1: the Beatles are insane. In their early years as a band,
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Speaker 1: they swallowed more speed than food. They inspired a generation
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Speaker 1: and provoked insanity, driving one fan to slash a hotel
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Speaker 1: maid to pieces when she wouldn't disclose which rooms the
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Speaker 1: band were staying in. They pulled America, an entire country,
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Speaker 1: out of a deep state of mourning and skyrocketed youth
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Speaker 1: culture into a new era. They tried marijuana for the
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Speaker 1: first time with none other than Bob Dylan. By accident.
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Speaker 1: They were turned on by lsd dosed with a drug
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Speaker 1: that would shape their musical creativity in world changing ways.
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Speaker 1: And through all the drugs and all of the screams,
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Speaker 1: they made great music, quite literally, some of the greatest
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Speaker 1: music ever made, truly exciting rock and roll music. Music
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Speaker 1: you heard at the top of the show that wasn't
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Speaker 1: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron
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Speaker 1: called Oompa Pantomime MK.
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Speaker 2: Two.
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Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the
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Speaker 1: rights to love Letters in the Sand by Pat Boone,
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Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of
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Speaker 1: heartbreak cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the
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Speaker 1: number one song in America on July sixth, nineteen fifty seven,
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Speaker 1: and that was the day that John Lennon and Paul
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Speaker 1: McCartney met, sparking a friendship that would change.
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Speaker 2: Popular music forever.
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Speaker 1: On this part one of a special two part episode,
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Speaker 1: Pep Pills, dosing dentists, violent obsessed fans, and four lads
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Speaker 1: who shook the world with excitement, The Beatles. I'm Jake
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Speaker 1: Brennan and this is Disgrace Land. Hundreds of years from now,
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Speaker 1: Beatles songwriter Paul McCartney will be regarded as one of
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Speaker 1: the greatest composers of all time, right up there with
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Speaker 1: Johannes Sebastian Bach, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington. Paul McCartney
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Speaker 1: enjoys the reverence of genius songwriting peers like Brian Wilson
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Speaker 1: and Paul Simon, as well as respect from stellar next
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Speaker 1: generation icons like Bruce Springsteen and Bono, and to this
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Speaker 1: day McCartney is rightly regarded as a living treasure, held
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Speaker 1: in the highest esteem by today's biggest stars Taylor Swift, Rhianna,
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Speaker 1: Kanye West and others, and for good reason, his band
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Speaker 1: The Beatles are the greatest rock and roll band of
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Speaker 1: all time. There I said it, as much as it
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Speaker 1: pains me to do so. The Beatles, not the Rolling Stones,
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Speaker 1: more than the Stones, more than the Dead, the Doors,
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Speaker 1: and more so than Cross, Stills, Nash and whoever the fuck.
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Speaker 1: The Beatles wrote and recorded generation defining pop music that
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Speaker 1: is as influential and successful today as it was when
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Speaker 1: it was released over a half a century ago. The
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Speaker 1: Beatles sold more than one point six billion singles in
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Speaker 1: the United States alone. Worldwide album sales for the Beatles
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Speaker 1: are north of six hundred million. The band have racked
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Speaker 1: up more number one singles in any other band in
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Speaker 1: the history of music. The McCartney penned Beatles single Hey
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Speaker 1: Jude Hung Tough in the number one slot for a
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Speaker 1: staggering twenty three weeks. Upwards of three thousand artists have
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Speaker 1: covered another McCartney composition yesterday, making it the most covered
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Speaker 1: song of all time. Beyond all the statistical data, the Beatles,
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Speaker 1: first in Britain and then upon arriving in the United
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Speaker 1: States for the first time in January of nineteen sixty four,
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Speaker 1: caused something approaching mass hysteria, with Beatlemania inspiring millions of
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Speaker 1: new fans to flood streets, airports, train stations and hotels,
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Speaker 1: all in an effort to get a real life glimpse
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Speaker 1: of Paul McCartney and his three Liverpool bandmates, his songwriting
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Speaker 1: partner John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Throughout their
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Speaker 1: recording career, the Beatles created numerous controversies over innocuous comments
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Speaker 1: about drugs, god and whatever else crossed their minds while
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Speaker 1: under the harsh glare of public scrutiny, and when they
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Speaker 1: broke up in nineteen seventy, the public wouldn't accept it.
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Speaker 1: Rumors of their impending return never ceased until John Lennon
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Speaker 1: was gunned down by a crazed lunatic with a Holden
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Speaker 1: Coffield complex in nineteen eighty. Paul McCartney, some twenty something
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Speaker 1: years after the Beatles broke up, was asked by an
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Speaker 1: interviewer to sum up the Beatles after all the sales
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Speaker 1: and success and scandal. McCartney, perhaps with a tinge of
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Speaker 1: false modesty but accurate nonetheless told the interviewer that when
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Speaker 1: all was said and done, quote, the Beatles were always
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Speaker 1: a great little band, nothing more, nothing less. Who knows
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Speaker 1: what he was actually thinking when he gave that answer,
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Speaker 1: but I like to think that it was more than
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Speaker 1: the style. There is an intoxicating type of excitement a
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Speaker 1: band enjoys upon their earliest ascent.
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Speaker 2: It is unlike anything else.
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Speaker 1: This excitement happens for most bands of any notoriety, even
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Speaker 1: bands you've never heard of but who put themselves on
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Speaker 1: a track towards success or stardom. Of course, most of
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Speaker 1: them never make it, but still that feeling during their initial.
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Speaker 2: Rise cannot be denied. It's real, and it's palpable, heady, addictive.
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Speaker 1: Every day brings a new surprise, someone else wants you
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Speaker 1: for one amazing opportunity or another, And of course, at
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Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's showtime when you take
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Speaker 1: the stage to deafening applause and set off a new
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Speaker 1: type of energy with your playing that is somewhere between
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Speaker 1: sexual ecstasy and godliness. This isn't hyperbole. It's common. Bands
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Speaker 1: spend their careers chasing this feeling, trying to relive it.
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Speaker 1: That early excitement cannot be beaten again. This feeling isn't
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Speaker 1: reserved just for bands that go on to be famous.
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Speaker 1: Bar bands, even cover bands experience some level of this
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Speaker 1: type of excitement. So imagine what the this type of
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Speaker 1: excitement was like for the Beatles. Imagine what Paul McCartney
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Speaker 1: was really getting at when he said that the Beatles
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Speaker 1: were always a.
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Speaker 2: Great little band, nothing more, nothing less.
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Speaker 1: It's a type of excitement that you and I will
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Speaker 1: never really know. It doesn't matter how successful any of
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Speaker 1: us become, or how close our seats have been at
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Speaker 1: various rock shows and concerts, or how many backstages we've
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Speaker 1: been lucky enough to scammer our way into, or how
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Speaker 1: many rock stars or groupies we've slept with, we will
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Speaker 1: never experience anything like the excitement the Beatles experience during
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Speaker 1: their rise as pop stars, when they were just a
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Speaker 1: quote unquote.
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Speaker 2: Great little band, nothing more, nothing less.
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Speaker 1: Paul McCartney knew when he uttered those words that even
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Speaker 1: he would never experience that excitement again. Spring nineteen sixty five,
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Speaker 1: the Beatles were on set in London filming their second
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Speaker 1: feature film, Help and the story from John and George
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Speaker 1: was a welcome distraction from the boredom of film making.
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Speaker 1: John couldn't shut up about it. Even George, normally short
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Speaker 1: on words, was eager to recount the previous night's incredible events.
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Speaker 1: Ringo listened to them eagerly, and Paul he wasn't jealous,
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Speaker 1: he was annoyed. He missed out on something big the
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Speaker 1: night before, and he knew it. George's friend, the dentist,
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Speaker 1: was a better host than any of those present.
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Speaker 2: Thought he'd peak.
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Speaker 1: Doctor John Riley strathn Place flat was cozy, posh, of course,
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Speaker 1: and the dinner and drinks that he served his guests,
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Speaker 1: George Harrison, his girlfriend Patty Boyd, John Lennon and his
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Speaker 1: wife Cynthia were a notch above most English fair even
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Speaker 1: from London's finest restaurants at the time. John could have
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Speaker 1: done without the Burt Bacharac solo album being played over
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Speaker 1: and over again, but John was inclined to bite his
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Speaker 1: sharp tongue and let the dentist's voluptuous wife have her
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Speaker 1: way with the turntable if it meant he got to
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Speaker 1: keep watching her bend over in front of it to
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Speaker 1: repeatedly flip the record. Dinner was over and the three
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Speaker 1: couples were lounging about, having already drunk their postmeal cups
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Speaker 1: of coffee, a normal ritual made strange by the bizarre
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Speaker 1: way of the dentists dropped the sugar cubes into their cups.
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Speaker 2: He made such a big show of it.
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Speaker 1: Like he was giving them communion or something, trying hard
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Speaker 1: to impress, as most now did. When in the presence
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Speaker 1: of the Beatles, John would never get used to it.
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Speaker 1: It was a particularly annoying and alienating effect of fame.
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Speaker 1: If George was annoyed, he didn't show it. Cynthia and
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Speaker 1: Patty were too polite to show anything but gratitude. But
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Speaker 1: now the four guests were all feeling the same sensation,
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Speaker 1: a subtle chest swell of excitement brimming.
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Speaker 2: Up in all of them at the same time. But
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Speaker 2: for what seconds ago?
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Speaker 1: They were planning their polite escape out of the hip
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Speaker 1: dentist flat and away from his curvy but boring wife,
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Speaker 1: towards somewhere more exciting, perhaps the Pickwick Club. It was London,
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, swinging. Surely there was something more happening
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Speaker 1: going on. D and his wife turned the record over again.
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Speaker 1: Bacarex twenty four hours from Tulsa came crackling out of
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Speaker 1: the speakers for what seemed like the millionth time that evening.
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Speaker 1: John couldn't keep quiet, for fuck's sake, Bert leave some
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Speaker 1: for Geene Pitney. As far as John Lenning quips go,
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Speaker 1: this one wasn't all that witty or humorous. Nonetheless, George, Patty, Cynthia,
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Speaker 1: and John tore themselves up with laughter they couldn't stop.
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Speaker 1: John literally fell out of his chair, snot ran from
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Speaker 1: George's nose. Patty swore she wet herself, and Cynthia kept
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Speaker 1: trying to suppress her laughter, and the more she did,
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Speaker 1: the more she broke up. So to John, George and Cynthia.
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Speaker 1: In seconds, they were all a mess, tears streaming from
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Speaker 1: their eyes, non stop belly laughs. George was helpless to
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Speaker 1: make his laughter cease. He kept trying to mount the
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Speaker 1: words stop to John, who was now adding to the
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Speaker 1: hilarity by making bizarre faces at the group to propel
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Speaker 1: them further into hysterics. Oddly, the dentist and his wife
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Speaker 1: did not find the situation all that funny. They looked
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Speaker 1: on at the two Beatles and their dates with the
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Speaker 1: amusement incisive grins on their faces. Despite his current state,
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Speaker 1: whatever it was, John Lennon was too smart, too observant,
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Speaker 1: not to notice that his hosts were on about something.
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Speaker 2: Well. He asked, did the good.
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Speaker 1: Dentist and his wife find mister Bacarak beyond reproach? And
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Speaker 1: the dentist answered insecurely, no, maybe not quite well. Then
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Speaker 1: George asked, why the long tooth, I mean face more giggles,
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Speaker 1: We're just observing, his wife answered the humor. John was
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Speaker 1: feeling a moment ago quickly turned to annoyance, almost anger.
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Speaker 1: Observing what he asked the effects. The dentist replied, effects
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Speaker 1: of what they all wanted to know? The LSD came
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Speaker 1: the answer from the dentist, of course, John thought, ignoring
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Speaker 1: the anger settling in his stomach. George immediately caught on too,
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Speaker 1: the sugar cubes and the coffee, he blurted out. The
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Speaker 1: dentist nodded, so did his wife. Their grins widened with madness.
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Speaker 1: The anger John was feeling quickly turned to fear. Cynthia
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Speaker 1: felt the chill coming off of her husband, and she
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Speaker 1: nearly pissed herself.
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Speaker 2: Like Patty.
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Speaker 1: Patty's brain went in a full on paranoid overdrive. She
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Speaker 1: heard about this drug, how it was used for orgi's
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Speaker 1: in America by Timothy Leary's weird cult. She wasn't about
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Speaker 1: to get into bed with the dentist and his wife,
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Speaker 1: and of course not with John and Cynthia. John's survival
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Speaker 1: instincts kicked in. He leaped from the floor, grabed Cynthia
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Speaker 1: their coats. George and Patty followed suit. Right then Doc
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Speaker 1: time to go. As they made their way to the door,
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Speaker 1: panic set in through the recently dosed. The fear was
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Speaker 1: driven by both the unknown and thenme the unknown. What
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Speaker 1: would this new drug the head unwittingly taken due to them?
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Speaker 1: The rumors about its effects were already the stuff of
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Speaker 1: urban legend. Would they jump out of the window of
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Speaker 1: the good dentists flat and try to fly? Would they
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Speaker 1: turn into sex crazed maniacs? Would their brains ever return
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Speaker 1: to normal after the drug wore off? Would it even
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Speaker 1: wear off? Would they laugh themselves to death? The known
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Speaker 1: LSD in nineteen sixty five was a big no no.
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Speaker 1: It wasn't yet illegal in the UK, but would be soon.
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Speaker 1: Rumors of its power and danger pretty much made it illicit.
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Speaker 1: If the press were to get win of two of
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Speaker 1: the world's four lovable mop tops tripping the life fantastic
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Speaker 1: like drug crazed American beat Nicks, then there would surely
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Speaker 1: be some sort of unknown hell to pay for their
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Speaker 1: non crime. John and George, despite their paranoia, also knew this.
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Speaker 2: They were in for one.
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Speaker 1: Hell of a ride for the next seven hours. It
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Speaker 1: was all terribly exciting. Eventually I had do the Mini Cooper.
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Speaker 1: Both Beatles and their dates scrammed out of Dr Riley's
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Speaker 1: flat against his protests. What would they go? What would
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Speaker 1: they do? How would they survive without him as their guide?
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Speaker 1: Through tangerine trees and Martin Laite's guies. They had no answers,
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Speaker 1: but they knew they needed to lose the dentist and
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Speaker 1: his wife. They ran downstairs and out to the sidewalk
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Speaker 1: with the dentists hot on their heels. They jammed themselves
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Speaker 1: into George's Mini Cooper, knowing full well there would be
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Speaker 1: no room for their former host and his wife in
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Speaker 1: the tiny car.
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Speaker 2: George stepped on the gas and furiously.
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Speaker 1: Started making his way through the tiny streets of London
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Speaker 1: at breakneck speeds, the dentist and his wife trailed in
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Speaker 1: his jagged roadster. The chase scene they found themselves in
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Speaker 1: led hilarity. Inside the mini they were cutting up again
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Speaker 1: as George dodge pedestrians and ignored traffic signs. He channeled
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Speaker 1: James Bond and Goldfinger out running the bad guys outside.
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Speaker 1: The passing lights grew long tails tracers. The wind of
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Speaker 1: the mini's engine morphed into a low roar. John looked
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Speaker 1: back at the dentist gaming on them. He heard the
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Speaker 1: flying monkey stem from the Wizard of Oz Phil his head,
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Speaker 1: Dump da barada, Dump da barada. George florded, Patty and
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Speaker 1: Cynthia locked eyes in mutual support. The faces on the
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Speaker 1: pedestrians outside grew long, morphed by fear into psychedelic munchion screams.
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Speaker 2: John heard the horror in his head.
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Speaker 1: Now building, building, building, The sound was piercing, rise and peeking,
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Speaker 1: and then.
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Speaker 2: Nothing.
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Speaker 1: George had braked, the car had come to a full stop.
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Speaker 1: They were outside the Pickwick Club. A crowd of London's
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Speaker 1: swinging us were queued up for entry. Patty, Clouds and
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Speaker 1: Gibson were performing inside, and the buzz was that the
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Speaker 1: Trio were destined to be the next big thing, possibly
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Speaker 1: dethroning the Fab four. George and John were not worried,
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Speaker 1: but their curiosity drove them here, perhaps subliminally, to see
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Speaker 1: what all the fuss was about John Cynthia. George and
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Speaker 1: Patty bounded out of the mini and hot stepped it
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Speaker 1: toward the club's entrance. Cynthia spotted the dentist jag rounding
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Speaker 1: the corner and bee lining it toward them, and they
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Speaker 1: moved faster. The crowd recognized them, and despite their hipness,
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Speaker 1: took their cues from last year's A Hard Day's Night
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Speaker 1: and started to swarm the two couples, who bulldozed their
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Speaker 1: bodies into the assembling mass and further toward the entrance.
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Speaker 1: George Patty John Cynthia. They were overcome by the smells
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Speaker 1: expensive perfume after shape, hairspray, greasy pommade, cigarette, smoke, grass.
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Speaker 1: It all melded into an invasive pope poie of excitement
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Speaker 1: that propelled them forward into the smothering crowd toward the
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Speaker 1: Pickwick Club's front door to get inside to see to
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Speaker 1: hear what all the hype was about. To get away
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Speaker 1: from the dentist, who was now out of his park
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Speaker 1: jag and hot on their heels out on the street,
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Speaker 1: they needed to get into the Hulla balloo in front
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Speaker 1: of the jukebox.
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Speaker 2: Hurry.
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Speaker 1: They needed to hear Paddy Klaus and Gibson, who were
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Speaker 1: surely the next big thing.
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Speaker 2: Look at this crowd.
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Speaker 1: The Beatles were sunk, but it didn't matter. They had
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Speaker 1: each other, the four of them. They'd move further out
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Speaker 1: into the country, live off the land, like true working
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Speaker 1: class heroes. Leave the good dentist and Burt Bacharach and
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Speaker 1: the tedium of filmmaking and pressures of pop stardom and
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Speaker 1: the sweaty smart set smell of success filling their nostrils,
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Speaker 1: and the screaming pedestrians and the whining mini coopers and
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Speaker 1: growling jaguars and James Bond and Timothy Leary and the
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Speaker 1: flying monkeys.
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Speaker 2: They'd leave it all behind, all of it.
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Speaker 1: They just needed to get away from the wicked dentist
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Speaker 1: and his boring wife and through this crowd inside the
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Speaker 1: Pickwick Club to hear Paddy, Klows and Gibson and accept
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Speaker 1: their fate, grab their tails, tucked them between their legs,
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Speaker 1: and head out into oblivion to never be heard from again.
16:03
Speaker 1: But what about Paul and Ringo? With that thought, John
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Speaker 1: George and their dates made it to the entrance and
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Speaker 1: were granted entries.
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Speaker 2: Straight away by the door man.
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Speaker 1: Finally, immediately upon entering, all eyes were on them, and
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Speaker 1: they were frozen still, and the paranoia nearly swallowed them.
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Speaker 1: They each felt the walls of their skulls closing in,
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Speaker 1: as every eye in the club landed on them, judging them,
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Speaker 1: casting them out, banishing them to the lies of obscurity
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Speaker 1: they deserved. John felt that the worst was justified for
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Speaker 1: the sin of pop stardom. Patty, Clous and gibbson raged
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Speaker 1: on stage like the holy Trinity of rock and roll.
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Speaker 1: Nowdness that they were barreling through their new original track,
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Speaker 1: rejected to the pleasure of most every swinging dick and
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Speaker 1: miniskirt in the club. But John, George, Cynthia, and Patty
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Speaker 1: heard something quite different. They heard the walls closing in.
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Speaker 1: They heard the dentist and his boring wife breathing down
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Speaker 1: their necks. They heard the tolling bell time to go.
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Speaker 1: They heard Paul and ring go in their heads, berating them.
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Speaker 1: They heard their future calling there was music to make
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Speaker 1: after all, Patty, Klous and Gibson, this wasn't music. This
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Speaker 1: was a Brian Epstein pr stunt masquerading his music. John George,
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Speaker 1: they were suddenly never more certain of their ability of
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Speaker 1: their voice, the importance of what they had to say,
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Speaker 1: and now somehow the doors to their own perception of
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Speaker 1: what was possible musically had been flung wide open, and
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Speaker 1: there was nothing that was going to stop them from
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Speaker 1: beginning what they'd set out to become four years earlier
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Speaker 1: on stage within the sweaty confines of Liverpool's Cavern Club,
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Speaker 1: A great little band, nothing more, nothing less. Paul couldn't
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Speaker 1: be leave what he was hearing. The bit about the
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Speaker 1: car chase with the dentist and Patty Klow's and Gibson
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Speaker 1: bombing at the Pickwick was interesting, but to him, what
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Speaker 1: was more interesting was what happened later in the evening
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Speaker 1: when John and George retreated back to John's place in
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Speaker 1: the suburbs. Spurred by LSD, John and George each had
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Speaker 1: different explosions of creativity, George with his guitar, John with
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Speaker 1: his drawing. George played some of the things he'd worked up,
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Speaker 1: and John shared his illustrations and Ringo quickly snatched them.
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Speaker 1: Paul was less moved by the output and more inspired
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Speaker 1: by the excitement and his bandmate's retelling of their separate
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Speaker 1: creative experiences, and Paul wanted in this had been brimming
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Speaker 1: for some time, the promise of creative expression beyond their
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Speaker 1: wildest imaginations through the use of illicit drugs. At first
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Speaker 1: back in Hamburg and then in Liverpool, they were aided
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Speaker 1: by the pills, but the creative possibilities through drug use
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Speaker 1: didn't emerge until a year ago, when they were introduced
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Speaker 1: to Bob Dylan America August nineteen sixty four. The screams
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Speaker 1: never stopped, neither did the police sirens, at least not
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Speaker 1: when they were outside the hotel. It was screaming from
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Speaker 1: the lobby to the car, screaming from the car to
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Speaker 1: the venue, screaming non stop while they played on stage,
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Speaker 1: screaming from the stage to the exiting vehicle. At Forest
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Speaker 1: Hills Tennis Stadium, thousands of screaming fans watched their beloved
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Speaker 1: Beetles exit the facility, this time in a helicopter. Chopper
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Speaker 1: Blades a welcome respite from the screams, and there were
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Speaker 1: more screams heard when the band transitioned from their helicopter
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Speaker 1: to the armored truck to taxi back to their hotel,
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Speaker 1: and when they arrived at New York City's Delmonica Hotel
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Speaker 1: on Park Avenue, in fifty ninth. They were of course
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Speaker 1: greeted by more screaming fans, and the Beatles sprinted inside
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Speaker 1: to the service entrance and were met yet again with
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Speaker 1: more screams. Once upstairs and into their adjoining suites, the
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Speaker 1: screams were replaced by barely muffled, excitable murmurs from the
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Speaker 1: awaiting groupies, assembled by their road manager, who had put
19:58
Speaker 1: the girls to work ironing the boys cl It was.
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Speaker 2: Intense and exciting.
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Speaker 1: The pills kept them one step ahead of the fans,
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Speaker 1: and there was no time to reflect on the insanity
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Speaker 1: of it all. The pressure was non stop and the
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Speaker 1: success unprecedented. And they were bigger than Elvis, bigger than
20:14
Speaker 1: Sinatra as soon they make the mistake of believing they
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Speaker 1: were bigger even than Jesus. But despite their fame, they
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Speaker 1: weren't as experienced as Zimmerman. Bob Dylan's entrance into the
20:27
Speaker 1: inner sanctum of Beetlemania was negotiated by a friendly journalist,
20:32
Speaker 1: and while a sizable amount of Americans worried about the
20:35
Speaker 1: Beatles corrupting the American youth, Bob Dylan worried about corrupting
20:39
Speaker 1: the Beatles possession of marijuana in New York City in
20:42
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four was a serious offense.
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Speaker 2: It was a serious.
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Speaker 1: Offense anywhere in the USA under mandatory federal sentencing laws.
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Speaker 1: It carried two to ten years in penalties up to
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Speaker 1: twenty grand for possession. Plus it made you grow hair
20:55
Speaker 1: on your bombs and masturbate like a furious cage monkey.
20:58
Speaker 2: I kid.
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Speaker 1: Bob Dylan did not kid, and he didn't care about
21:01
Speaker 1: the legality of marijuana, but the Beatles did. They were
21:05
Speaker 1: afraid of the illicit drug. It wasn't the Harry palms
21:08
Speaker 1: and the masturbating like a monkey stuff.
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Speaker 2: They were pretty sure Ringo was already guilty of both.
21:12
Speaker 1: But the Beatles ignorance in nineteen sixty four was such
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Speaker 1: that they saw no distinction between pot and heroin. People
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Speaker 1: who used either were horrible junkies. Pot wasn't like pills.
21:22
Speaker 1: Pills were issued over the counter by little old men
21:24
Speaker 1: and white pharmacist coats, all very proper. Pot was smuggled
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Speaker 1: into your hotel room by sketchy beat poets who avoided
21:31
Speaker 1: eye contact, which was exactly what Bob Dylan was doing
21:34
Speaker 1: at the moment. His very large and very domineering personal
21:37
Speaker 1: assistant barreled him through the crowd of fans outside the hotel.
21:41
Speaker 1: Once inside the lobby, he commandeered two police officers to
21:44
Speaker 1: take them upstairs to the Beatles, explaining that he was
21:47
Speaker 1: there with the Bob Dylan and that they were invited,
21:49
Speaker 1: and the cops did what they were told. They hit
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Speaker 1: the elevator, then the hall, then knocked on the doors
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Speaker 1: outside the Beatles suite. Two more cops opened the door.
21:58
Speaker 1: Dylan was shocked hanging out.
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Speaker 2: With pop stars.
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Speaker 1: They entered in the first room nearest Sea entrance, a
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Speaker 1: crowd of hangers on that included Peter, Paul and Mary,
22:08
Speaker 1: a group that existed for the sole purpose of commercializing
22:11
Speaker 1: the songs that he Bob Dylan wrote, a couple members
22:14
Speaker 1: of the Kingston Trio, some newspapermen, and a few godily
22:17
Speaker 1: dress dudes that could only be disc jockeys, and Dylan
22:20
Speaker 1: ignored them all. His assistant kept him moving through the
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Speaker 1: adjoining rooms and back into the Beatles' personal suite, where
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Speaker 1: a alone were relaxing post show with their manager, Brian Epstein.
22:31
Speaker 1: The introductions were awkward, Drinks were arranged, pills were offered,
22:35
Speaker 1: Dylan refused and offered some pot instead. All four of
22:39
Speaker 1: the Beatles' faces went blank. Brian explained that that just
22:43
Speaker 1: wasn't the sort of thing that they did. Dylan pressed
22:46
Speaker 1: John Lennon, wanting him to explain his song then with
22:49
Speaker 1: the lyrics I get high, I Get high. John defended himself,
22:53
Speaker 1: those aren't the words. It go as I can't hide,
22:55
Speaker 1: I can't hide. And Dylan did that little thing with
22:58
Speaker 1: his head, a slow tilt to his left, perfectly timed
23:01
Speaker 1: with a wry smile, as if to say, so, do
23:04
Speaker 1: you want to smoke some pot or what? John was
23:08
Speaker 1: eager to experiment Paul, George and Ringo as well. Dylan
23:12
Speaker 1: nodded to his man, who nodded to Brian Epstein, who
23:14
Speaker 1: then set about securing the room doors shut locks, bolted, drapes, drawn,
23:20
Speaker 1: towels pressed to the space between the doors and the floors.
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Speaker 2: It was all terribly exciting.
23:25
Speaker 1: There were, after all, two policemen two rooms away.
23:29
Speaker 2: Dylan pulled out his stash and began rolling a joint.
23:32
Speaker 1: When he finished, he lit the giant, drew a hit
23:34
Speaker 1: from it, and held it, exhaled, and then explained to
23:36
Speaker 1: the group how to do just as he had done
23:38
Speaker 1: in order to smoke it. Correctly for its desired effect.
23:42
Speaker 1: John impatiently snatched the joint from Dylan's hand and brought
23:45
Speaker 1: it near to his lips, but then thought better of
23:47
Speaker 1: it and passed it to Ringo, who he deemed his
23:49
Speaker 1: quote unquote royal taster. Ringo smoked the whole thing. Dylan smiled,
23:55
Speaker 1: rolled more joints and passed them all around, and the
23:57
Speaker 1: smell was undeniable. The feeling was mores. Everything fell away,
24:02
Speaker 1: the screams, the swirl of the helicopter blades, the pressure,
24:05
Speaker 1: the insanity. It was all replaced by laughter, near NonStop laughter.
24:11
Speaker 1: And then, inevitably, the question hit each of them, John, Paul,
24:14
Speaker 1: George and Ringo at different points during their comedown, How
24:18
Speaker 1: the hell had this happened to them? Ensconced away in
24:21
Speaker 1: a five star hotel suite, hidden away from fans who
24:24
Speaker 1: were ready to tear them, limb from limb, Bigger than Elvis,
24:27
Speaker 1: higher than Dylan, suddenly much more than just a great
24:30
Speaker 1: little band.
24:39
Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word word word.
24:47
Speaker 1: The damn airplane wouldn't move. They'd been on the tarmac
24:50
Speaker 1: for an eternity for what. Paul McCartney didn't know, but
24:54
Speaker 1: it looked like more delays. Out his pressure treated plane window,
24:58
Speaker 1: he could see a small group of fans breaking past
25:00
Speaker 1: airport security, young rabbit girls sprinting and screaming across the tarmac,
25:04
Speaker 1: straight toward their plane. At first, Paul was merely amused,
25:08
Speaker 1: but as the group grew nearer and he saw their faces,
25:10
Speaker 1: he started to feel something else.
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Speaker 2: Fear.
25:14
Speaker 1: These fans were determined and they weren't stopping. Furthermore, each
25:17
Speaker 1: had that rabid look about them, possessed. This was something
25:21
Speaker 1: more than fandom. It was obsession, and sometimes obsession could
25:24
Speaker 1: be dangerous. Paul learned this that morning over breakfast at
25:28
Speaker 1: the hotel the Beatles had spent the previous night in
25:30
Speaker 1: in Houston. Blood was everywhere and the body of the
25:36
Speaker 1: young chambermaid was slashed to ribbons. She was just doing
25:39
Speaker 1: her job cleaning hotel rooms, professional that she was, when
25:43
Speaker 1: the Kriz Beatles fan came upon her in the hotel
25:46
Speaker 1: hallway the night before and demanded to know which rooms
25:48
Speaker 1: the Beatles were staying in. She of course refused to
25:51
Speaker 1: tell It would prove to be a fatal decision. Whatever
25:56
Speaker 1: emotions Paul McCartney had over the incident to a back
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Speaker 1: seat to the matter at hand. The handful of crazed
26:03
Speaker 1: fans climbing all over the plane trying to violently gain
26:06
Speaker 1: entry to smother their Beatles, and they pried at the door,
26:10
Speaker 1: They smashed coke bottles at the windows. They of course screamed,
26:12
Speaker 1: and then screamed some more until airport's security ultimately pried
26:16
Speaker 1: them off and the Beatles plane was allowed to finally
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Speaker 1: taxi toward takeoff. It was jarring, but not nearly as
26:24
Speaker 1: jarring as a few months prior in New York City
26:27
Speaker 1: on February ninth, nineteen sixty four, the day of the Beatles'
26:30
Speaker 1: first live performance on American television on the widely popular
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Speaker 1: Ed Sullivan Show. It was a performance that would be
26:37
Speaker 1: seen by an incredible audience of seventy three million people.
26:41
Speaker 1: Seventy three million people at a time in American history
26:45
Speaker 1: when the entire country's population was roughly only one hundred
26:48
Speaker 1: and eighty nine million, meaning that more than a third
26:50
Speaker 1: of the entire nation watched the Beatles performance. Whatever hope
26:55
Speaker 1: the country had for its future, it was shot down
26:57
Speaker 1: by an assassin in Dallas to an hour and a
27:00
Speaker 1: half months prior, on November twenty second, nineteen sixty three,
27:04
Speaker 1: America's Prince President, John F. Kennedy was taken out, and
27:07
Speaker 1: so too were America's hopes and dreams. That December was bleak.
27:13
Speaker 1: America mourned, but on December tenth, CBS Evening News they
27:17
Speaker 1: aired a five minute piece about a new phenomenon from
27:19
Speaker 1: England called Beatlemania, four kids with long mop top hairdos
27:24
Speaker 1: who were creating a sensation with driving backbeats and undeniable hooks.
27:28
Speaker 1: Their first US single, I Want to Hold Your Hand
27:31
Speaker 1: was released in the States on December twenty sixth, nineteen
27:34
Speaker 1: sixty three, and it was an instant hit, selling so
27:37
Speaker 1: many copies in its first three days of release that
27:40
Speaker 1: the Beatles US record label, Capitol Records, had a contract
27:43
Speaker 1: with competitors Columbia and RCA Records to press copies of
27:47
Speaker 1: the single to keep up with demand. And by the
27:50
Speaker 1: time the Beatles hit the stage at CBS Studio fifty
27:53
Speaker 1: in Times Square that night for Ed Sullivan's audience, Americans
27:57
Speaker 1: far and wide were poised to be wrapped on high. Certainly,
28:01
Speaker 1: America's youth were paying attention. Juvenile delinquency in New York
28:06
Speaker 1: City in nineteen sixty four had nearly doubled over the
28:09
Speaker 1: ten years prior. Baby Boomers were coming of age, and
28:13
Speaker 1: they were violent and angry in their adolescence. But on
28:16
Speaker 1: that night they say that crimes stopped in New York City,
28:19
Speaker 1: at least crimes committed by those under eighteen. And there
28:23
Speaker 1: were no hub caps being stripped off of Bonneville's and
28:25
Speaker 1: Bay Ridge, no purse snatchings in forest Hills, no muggings
28:29
Speaker 1: and harmum, no rapes, no rumbles in the park. The
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Speaker 1: streets were dull and quiet that night, but living rooms
28:37
Speaker 1: were alight with the look and the sound and the
28:39
Speaker 1: excitement of the Beatles. Germany, nineteen sixty two. It was
29:03
Speaker 1: the Beatles' second stint to the post war city of
29:05
Speaker 1: sin Neon lip brothels, live, sex shows, alcohol andm fhetamines,
29:10
Speaker 1: rock and roll music, John Paul, George and Ringo. That
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Speaker 1: were boys when they arrived and they'd be men when
29:16
Speaker 1: they left. Fame wasn't yet part of the equation Hamburg,
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Speaker 1: the Star Club and before that the kaiser Keller. It
29:23
Speaker 1: was all about learning their craft, eight hours a night
29:27
Speaker 1: on stage playing early rock and roll tinpan alley in
29:30
Speaker 1: rhythm and blue standards to rowdy German thieves, American gis, prostitutes,
29:35
Speaker 1: and visiting tourists. The experience made them as a band.
29:39
Speaker 1: It fused them from a group of musicians into a
29:41
Speaker 1: singular creative machine, into apt showmen, quick witted song and
29:45
Speaker 1: dance men capable of doing just about anything to keep
29:49
Speaker 1: the inebriated locals entertained. Speed was an occupational necessity, and
29:54
Speaker 1: fetamines are prellies as they were called, were as important
29:57
Speaker 1: to the Beatles on stage as alcohol was to the
30:00
Speaker 1: audience off stage.
30:02
Speaker 2: It kept the band fueled and fearless.
30:04
Speaker 1: Night after night, they barreled through song after song with
30:07
Speaker 1: supernatural energy and charisma. The drug made them invincible, injected
30:12
Speaker 1: their personalities with even more confidence than the four charismatic
30:15
Speaker 1: young the Vpudians already had, which was saying something to
30:18
Speaker 1: begin with. Neither John, Paul, George or Ringko were short
30:21
Speaker 1: on confidence, and the speed pushed it all over the top.
30:28
Speaker 1: Inspired by Astard Kirchner, the German girlfriend of former bandmates
30:32
Speaker 1: to Suckcliffe, the band began taking their fashion cues from
30:35
Speaker 1: the hip existentialist movement of a few decades prior, which
30:39
Speaker 1: to the rest of the world. In nineteen sixty two, meant.
30:42
Speaker 1: They dressed like aliens in mourning, female aliens in mourning
30:46
Speaker 1: at that, with long hair that shagged over their ears
30:49
Speaker 1: and was combed down over their eyebrows, and their clothes
30:52
Speaker 1: all black slacks, pipe fitter, tight leather, no lapels on
30:55
Speaker 1: their jackets, and pointy heeled, shiny black boots. They made
30:58
Speaker 1: Elvis Presley and Little Richard looked downright conservative by comparison.
31:03
Speaker 1: Soon local German art students started to hear about this
31:06
Speaker 1: wild young band entertaining the very drunk adults down in
31:09
Speaker 1: the same Poli district, and started frequenting their shows. A
31:13
Speaker 1: buzz began. The Beatles were beginning to draw. The energy
31:16
Speaker 1: of the band was as obvious as the promise of
31:19
Speaker 1: vice was in the air. On stage, the band would
31:22
Speaker 1: do anything to keep their audience entertained, and with eight
31:24
Speaker 1: hour sets, oftentimes the Beatles would do anything to keep
31:27
Speaker 1: themselves entertained, perhaps more than any of the other band members.
31:31
Speaker 1: The speed fueled John to extreme ends. One night, John
31:36
Speaker 1: Lennon emerged on stage at the Star Club naked, with
31:39
Speaker 1: his little Winston hanging out there for the world to see.
31:41
Speaker 2: In a toilet seed hanging around his neck.
31:44
Speaker 1: John Nazi Goose stepped across the stage and seek Hoyle
31:47
Speaker 1: the German audience for added insult. Half the crowd was uncomfortable,
31:51
Speaker 1: in the other half in hysterics, but most important, John
31:54
Speaker 1: cut himself up, as well as Paul George and Ringo.
31:58
Speaker 1: The long nights made short mornings, and Sunday mornings for
32:02
Speaker 1: John Lennon were the worst. The band's living quarters were
32:05
Speaker 1: next to a Catholic church, and that tolling bell for
32:08
Speaker 1: Sunday Mass.
32:09
Speaker 2: Was beyond annoying.
32:10
Speaker 1: And for what to remind the repressed nuns that it
32:13
Speaker 1: was time for church? It was Sunday morning, for Christ's sake?
32:16
Speaker 1: Didn't they already know? Couldn't they set an alarm?
32:19
Speaker 2: John would show them.
32:20
Speaker 1: His balcony was on the second story, just above the
32:23
Speaker 1: nuns path to the church. The Catholics were going to
32:26
Speaker 1: disrupt his sleep, then he was going to disrupt their commune.
32:29
Speaker 1: He filled condoms with water and bombed the nuns as
32:32
Speaker 1: they made their way to Mass, and one morning, while
32:34
Speaker 1: particularly annoyed, he urinated on the nun's uniformed heads from
32:38
Speaker 1: his balcony. It was a total lack of respect. The
32:42
Speaker 1: only thing John Lennon respected and the only thing the
32:45
Speaker 1: young Beatles cared about was music, rock and roll. That backbeat,
32:50
Speaker 1: the jumped up jangle of the guitars, the driving rhythm
32:53
Speaker 1: and all that shouting. The response from the audience, the
32:56
Speaker 1: looks from the women, the constant promise of sex, the
32:59
Speaker 1: constat out of violence, the speed that drank the last.
33:02
Speaker 1: It was all highly addictive, and it was a conduit
33:05
Speaker 1: to the world, beyond the dreariness of Germany, to the
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Speaker 1: promise of America, to the excitement of Elvis Presley and
33:10
Speaker 1: Little Richard and Buddy Hawley, rock and roll. The feeling
33:13
Speaker 1: it gave John, Paul George and Ringo it coursed through them.
33:17
Speaker 1: It was electric, more exciting than sex, and had been
33:20
Speaker 1: that way as far as they could remember, even before Hamburg.
33:24
Speaker 1: Going back to their earliest days in Liverpool, Brian Epstein,
33:33
Speaker 1: just twenty six years old, was dressed impeccably, as was
33:37
Speaker 1: his nature. Youth would not get in the way of
33:39
Speaker 1: his ambition. He was destined to something beyond managing his
33:43
Speaker 1: family's North End music shop on Walton Road in Liverpool.
33:47
Speaker 1: The group he'd heard about, the one, the handsome teenage
33:49
Speaker 1: boy with the dirt beneath his fingernails. Had requested a
33:51
Speaker 1: single from his shop, a single that had turned out
33:54
Speaker 1: didn't really exist, yet had better be worth a trip
33:57
Speaker 1: to this god forsaken piss and vomit stench east side
34:00
Speaker 1: section of Liverpool. His smart leather shoes were spit shine
34:05
Speaker 1: before this journey and were now mud splattered and soiled
34:08
Speaker 1: beyond saving. Garbage was strewn about the ground. Old produce
34:12
Speaker 1: from the fruit factory and discarded newspaper littered the cobblestones.
34:15
Speaker 1: Beneath his feet was so unevenly set that each new
34:18
Speaker 1: footfall brought a new type of pain to his lower back.
34:22
Speaker 1: Men shouted in thick, ugly working class accents as they
34:25
Speaker 1: unloaded trucks outside of merchant shops. The sound of their
34:28
Speaker 1: rough voices gave him a charge that he subconsciously suppressed
34:32
Speaker 1: on the menacing squawk of the seagulls, the cops barking
34:35
Speaker 1: out orders on their beat cars racing through tiny roadways
34:38
Speaker 1: en route god knows where with such haste, their beaters
34:41
Speaker 1: coming to within inches of the pedestrians moving about sidewalks
34:44
Speaker 1: that were too small to handle. The bustling seaport's lunch
34:47
Speaker 1: hour foot traffic horns, beeping steamships, steaming tugboats, tugging cruise
34:52
Speaker 1: ships cruising in and out of the port to the Atlantic.
34:55
Speaker 1: And just as the minute in our hands of Brian
34:57
Speaker 1: Epstein's black leather strapped rose gold water converged at the
35:01
Speaker 1: number twelve, hordes of teenage kids began tearing past him
35:04
Speaker 1: on the sidewalk and down Matthew.
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Speaker 2: Street toward the Fruit Factory.
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Speaker 1: The school was out lunchtime in Liverpool in nineteen sixty one.
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Speaker 1: That meant one thing, an opportunity to get lost in
35:17
Speaker 1: the sound of the mercy beat. It was the same
35:19
Speaker 1: sound the handsome boy in Bryant's record shop had sought out,
35:23
Speaker 1: and its purveyors were exactly who Brian was seeking out.
35:26
Speaker 1: Right now, it seemed too that scores of roughneck Liverpool
35:30
Speaker 1: teenagers were doing the same. He reached the club, if
35:34
Speaker 1: you could call it that. A ramshackle sign affixed to
35:37
Speaker 1: the Fruit Factory wall made it official, but for all
35:39
Speaker 1: intents and purposes, the Cavern Club, as it was named,
35:42
Speaker 1: was more cavern than club. It didn't matter. The line
35:47
Speaker 1: outside swelled instantly, and the muffled beat from inside blasted
35:51
Speaker 1: out onto the street. Every time the door opened and
35:54
Speaker 1: a new pair of paying teenage customers were allowed entry.
35:58
Speaker 1: Girls online anxiously checked their made up in their compacts,
36:01
Speaker 1: boys dragged heavy on cigarettes, stood on their tiptoes, wondering
36:04
Speaker 1: what the weight was all about. Shouted to the doorman
36:07
Speaker 1: to get his head out of his ars, and all
36:09
Speaker 1: of them bounced abs and mindedly from one foot to
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Speaker 1: the other, eager to get inside before the show was over.
36:14
Speaker 1: And the muffled music stopped for all of four seconds
36:17
Speaker 1: and was replaced by rabbit applause, and then the beat
36:19
Speaker 1: kicked back in again full force. It seemed all of
36:22
Speaker 1: Matthew Street was brimming with impatience. Brian felt the cocktail
36:26
Speaker 1: of anxiety and excitement wash over him. Little did he
36:30
Speaker 1: know this exact feeling would intoxicate him from this moment
36:33
Speaker 1: on for the rest of his years. Finally he reached
36:36
Speaker 1: the doorman he had called ahead to insure entry. The
36:39
Speaker 1: doorman's boss made sure the young music shop owner was obliged,
36:43
Speaker 1: and the door of the Cavern club opened.
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Speaker 2: The light from the street.
36:47
Speaker 1: Behind him cast a shadow on the condensation soak wall
36:50
Speaker 1: ahead of him.
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Speaker 2: The door slam shut and the sound pummeled.
36:53
Speaker 1: Him a mix of electrified rock and roll and hopped
36:57
Speaker 1: up teenagers shouting to be heard over the music. Brian
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Speaker 1: followed the music down the eighteen slippery stone steps into
37:03
Speaker 1: the subterranean den of two hundred cramp dancing teenagers, all
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Speaker 1: wrapped in excitement.
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Speaker 2: Brian Epstein immediately.
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Speaker 1: Heard and saw what they saw his future in theirs,
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Speaker 1: the future of rock and roll.
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Speaker 2: He saw the Beatles.
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