1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:13,040 Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis. The stories about 2 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,120 Speaker 1: the Beatles are insane. In their early years as a band, 3 00:00:17,440 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: they swallowed more speed than food. They inspired a generation 4 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:24,800 Speaker 1: and provoked insanity, driving one fan to slash a hotel 5 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:27,639 Speaker 1: maid to pieces when she wouldn't disclose which rooms the 6 00:00:27,680 --> 00:00:31,800 Speaker 1: band were staying in. They pulled America, an entire country, 7 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:34,920 Speaker 1: out of a deep state of mourning and skyrocketed youth 8 00:00:34,960 --> 00:00:38,360 Speaker 1: culture into a new era. They tried marijuana for the 9 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:41,720 Speaker 1: first time with none other than Bob Dylan. By accident. 10 00:00:41,760 --> 00:00:44,680 Speaker 1: They were turned on by lsd dosed with a drug 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,640 Speaker 1: that would shape their musical creativity in world changing ways. 12 00:00:49,280 --> 00:00:51,760 Speaker 1: And through all the drugs and all of the screams, 13 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:55,320 Speaker 1: they made great music, quite literally, some of the greatest 14 00:00:55,400 --> 00:01:00,240 Speaker 1: music ever made, truly exciting rock and roll music. Music 15 00:01:00,320 --> 00:01:02,400 Speaker 1: you heard at the top of the show that wasn't 16 00:01:02,440 --> 00:01:05,880 Speaker 1: great music. That was a preset loop from my melotron 17 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:08,320 Speaker 1: called Oompa Pantomime MK. 18 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:09,240 Speaker 2: Two. 19 00:01:10,240 --> 00:01:12,640 Speaker 1: I played you that loop because I can't afford the 20 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:15,440 Speaker 1: rights to love Letters in the Sand by Pat Boone, 21 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:18,800 Speaker 1: And why would I play you that specific slice of 22 00:01:18,880 --> 00:01:23,280 Speaker 1: heartbreak cheese? Could I afford it? Because that was the 23 00:01:23,360 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: number one song in America on July sixth, nineteen fifty seven, 24 00:01:27,959 --> 00:01:30,039 Speaker 1: and that was the day that John Lennon and Paul 25 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:33,480 Speaker 1: McCartney met, sparking a friendship that would change. 26 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,640 Speaker 2: Popular music forever. 27 00:01:35,920 --> 00:01:38,960 Speaker 1: On this part one of a special two part episode, 28 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:43,560 Speaker 1: Pep Pills, dosing dentists, violent obsessed fans, and four lads 29 00:01:43,600 --> 00:01:48,080 Speaker 1: who shook the world with excitement, The Beatles. I'm Jake 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:02:12,760 Speaker 1: Brennan and this is Disgrace Land. Hundreds of years from now, 31 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:16,000 Speaker 1: Beatles songwriter Paul McCartney will be regarded as one of 32 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:18,880 Speaker 1: the greatest composers of all time, right up there with 33 00:02:18,960 --> 00:02:23,800 Speaker 1: Johannes Sebastian Bach, George Gershwin and Duke Ellington. Paul McCartney 34 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:27,679 Speaker 1: enjoys the reverence of genius songwriting peers like Brian Wilson 35 00:02:27,680 --> 00:02:31,080 Speaker 1: and Paul Simon, as well as respect from stellar next 36 00:02:31,120 --> 00:02:34,920 Speaker 1: generation icons like Bruce Springsteen and Bono, and to this 37 00:02:35,120 --> 00:02:39,240 Speaker 1: day McCartney is rightly regarded as a living treasure, held 38 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,639 Speaker 1: in the highest esteem by today's biggest stars Taylor Swift, Rhianna, 39 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:48,239 Speaker 1: Kanye West and others, and for good reason, his band 40 00:02:48,280 --> 00:02:50,600 Speaker 1: The Beatles are the greatest rock and roll band of 41 00:02:50,639 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 1: all time. There I said it, as much as it 42 00:02:53,600 --> 00:02:56,480 Speaker 1: pains me to do so. The Beatles, not the Rolling Stones, 43 00:02:56,919 --> 00:02:59,040 Speaker 1: more than the Stones, more than the Dead, the Doors, 44 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,760 Speaker 1: and more so than Cross, Stills, Nash and whoever the fuck. 45 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:05,720 Speaker 1: The Beatles wrote and recorded generation defining pop music that 46 00:03:05,840 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 1: is as influential and successful today as it was when 47 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,760 Speaker 1: it was released over a half a century ago. The 48 00:03:11,800 --> 00:03:14,800 Speaker 1: Beatles sold more than one point six billion singles in 49 00:03:14,800 --> 00:03:18,320 Speaker 1: the United States alone. Worldwide album sales for the Beatles 50 00:03:18,320 --> 00:03:20,800 Speaker 1: are north of six hundred million. The band have racked 51 00:03:20,880 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 1: up more number one singles in any other band in 52 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,519 Speaker 1: the history of music. The McCartney penned Beatles single Hey 53 00:03:26,600 --> 00:03:28,880 Speaker 1: Jude Hung Tough in the number one slot for a 54 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:32,920 Speaker 1: staggering twenty three weeks. Upwards of three thousand artists have 55 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,920 Speaker 1: covered another McCartney composition yesterday, making it the most covered 56 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:41,800 Speaker 1: song of all time. Beyond all the statistical data, the Beatles, 57 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:44,400 Speaker 1: first in Britain and then upon arriving in the United 58 00:03:44,400 --> 00:03:47,680 Speaker 1: States for the first time in January of nineteen sixty four, 59 00:03:47,960 --> 00:03:52,560 Speaker 1: caused something approaching mass hysteria, with Beatlemania inspiring millions of 60 00:03:52,600 --> 00:03:56,280 Speaker 1: new fans to flood streets, airports, train stations and hotels, 61 00:03:56,600 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 1: all in an effort to get a real life glimpse 62 00:03:58,840 --> 00:04:02,520 Speaker 1: of Paul McCartney and his three Liverpool bandmates, his songwriting 63 00:04:02,560 --> 00:04:06,800 Speaker 1: partner John Lennon, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. Throughout their 64 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:11,360 Speaker 1: recording career, the Beatles created numerous controversies over innocuous comments 65 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,600 Speaker 1: about drugs, god and whatever else crossed their minds while 66 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,800 Speaker 1: under the harsh glare of public scrutiny, and when they 67 00:04:17,839 --> 00:04:21,159 Speaker 1: broke up in nineteen seventy, the public wouldn't accept it. 68 00:04:21,720 --> 00:04:25,080 Speaker 1: Rumors of their impending return never ceased until John Lennon 69 00:04:25,160 --> 00:04:27,719 Speaker 1: was gunned down by a crazed lunatic with a Holden 70 00:04:27,760 --> 00:04:33,520 Speaker 1: Coffield complex in nineteen eighty. Paul McCartney, some twenty something 71 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:36,320 Speaker 1: years after the Beatles broke up, was asked by an 72 00:04:36,360 --> 00:04:39,239 Speaker 1: interviewer to sum up the Beatles after all the sales 73 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:43,520 Speaker 1: and success and scandal. McCartney, perhaps with a tinge of 74 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 1: false modesty but accurate nonetheless told the interviewer that when 75 00:04:47,640 --> 00:04:50,400 Speaker 1: all was said and done, quote, the Beatles were always 76 00:04:50,400 --> 00:04:55,039 Speaker 1: a great little band, nothing more, nothing less. Who knows 77 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:57,640 Speaker 1: what he was actually thinking when he gave that answer, 78 00:04:57,720 --> 00:04:59,520 Speaker 1: but I like to think that it was more than 79 00:04:59,560 --> 00:05:03,680 Speaker 1: the style. There is an intoxicating type of excitement a 80 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:05,960 Speaker 1: band enjoys upon their earliest ascent. 81 00:05:06,640 --> 00:05:07,920 Speaker 2: It is unlike anything else. 82 00:05:08,600 --> 00:05:12,360 Speaker 1: This excitement happens for most bands of any notoriety, even 83 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:14,839 Speaker 1: bands you've never heard of but who put themselves on 84 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:18,599 Speaker 1: a track towards success or stardom. Of course, most of 85 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,280 Speaker 1: them never make it, but still that feeling during their initial. 86 00:05:22,000 --> 00:05:26,720 Speaker 2: Rise cannot be denied. It's real, and it's palpable, heady, addictive. 87 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:29,600 Speaker 1: Every day brings a new surprise, someone else wants you 88 00:05:29,600 --> 00:05:32,040 Speaker 1: for one amazing opportunity or another, And of course, at 89 00:05:32,080 --> 00:05:34,560 Speaker 1: the end of the day, it's showtime when you take 90 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,240 Speaker 1: the stage to deafening applause and set off a new 91 00:05:37,279 --> 00:05:39,920 Speaker 1: type of energy with your playing that is somewhere between 92 00:05:39,960 --> 00:05:45,320 Speaker 1: sexual ecstasy and godliness. This isn't hyperbole. It's common. Bands 93 00:05:45,360 --> 00:05:48,520 Speaker 1: spend their careers chasing this feeling, trying to relive it. 94 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:51,920 Speaker 1: That early excitement cannot be beaten again. This feeling isn't 95 00:05:51,920 --> 00:05:54,200 Speaker 1: reserved just for bands that go on to be famous. 96 00:05:54,720 --> 00:05:57,560 Speaker 1: Bar bands, even cover bands experience some level of this 97 00:05:57,680 --> 00:06:00,440 Speaker 1: type of excitement. So imagine what the this type of 98 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:04,320 Speaker 1: excitement was like for the Beatles. Imagine what Paul McCartney 99 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,120 Speaker 1: was really getting at when he said that the Beatles 100 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:07,720 Speaker 1: were always a. 101 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,480 Speaker 2: Great little band, nothing more, nothing less. 102 00:06:11,400 --> 00:06:13,599 Speaker 1: It's a type of excitement that you and I will 103 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: never really know. It doesn't matter how successful any of 104 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:18,840 Speaker 1: us become, or how close our seats have been at 105 00:06:18,880 --> 00:06:22,000 Speaker 1: various rock shows and concerts, or how many backstages we've 106 00:06:22,040 --> 00:06:24,320 Speaker 1: been lucky enough to scammer our way into, or how 107 00:06:24,360 --> 00:06:27,159 Speaker 1: many rock stars or groupies we've slept with, we will 108 00:06:27,200 --> 00:06:31,000 Speaker 1: never experience anything like the excitement the Beatles experience during 109 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:33,480 Speaker 1: their rise as pop stars, when they were just a 110 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:34,839 Speaker 1: quote unquote. 111 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:36,559 Speaker 2: Great little band, nothing more, nothing less. 112 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:40,400 Speaker 1: Paul McCartney knew when he uttered those words that even 113 00:06:40,440 --> 00:06:50,440 Speaker 1: he would never experience that excitement again. Spring nineteen sixty five, 114 00:06:51,040 --> 00:06:53,760 Speaker 1: the Beatles were on set in London filming their second 115 00:06:53,760 --> 00:06:57,599 Speaker 1: feature film, Help and the story from John and George 116 00:06:57,640 --> 00:07:00,440 Speaker 1: was a welcome distraction from the boredom of film making. 117 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:04,679 Speaker 1: John couldn't shut up about it. Even George, normally short 118 00:07:04,680 --> 00:07:08,560 Speaker 1: on words, was eager to recount the previous night's incredible events. 119 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:12,600 Speaker 1: Ringo listened to them eagerly, and Paul he wasn't jealous, 120 00:07:12,640 --> 00:07:16,080 Speaker 1: he was annoyed. He missed out on something big the 121 00:07:16,160 --> 00:07:23,560 Speaker 1: night before, and he knew it. George's friend, the dentist, 122 00:07:23,720 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 1: was a better host than any of those present. 123 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 2: Thought he'd peak. 124 00:07:26,800 --> 00:07:30,920 Speaker 1: Doctor John Riley strathn Place flat was cozy, posh, of course, 125 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: and the dinner and drinks that he served his guests, 126 00:07:33,440 --> 00:07:36,680 Speaker 1: George Harrison, his girlfriend Patty Boyd, John Lennon and his 127 00:07:36,720 --> 00:07:40,560 Speaker 1: wife Cynthia were a notch above most English fair even 128 00:07:40,560 --> 00:07:44,120 Speaker 1: from London's finest restaurants at the time. John could have 129 00:07:44,160 --> 00:07:47,000 Speaker 1: done without the Burt Bacharac solo album being played over 130 00:07:47,040 --> 00:07:49,520 Speaker 1: and over again, but John was inclined to bite his 131 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:52,640 Speaker 1: sharp tongue and let the dentist's voluptuous wife have her 132 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,000 Speaker 1: way with the turntable if it meant he got to 133 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,080 Speaker 1: keep watching her bend over in front of it to 134 00:07:57,120 --> 00:08:01,320 Speaker 1: repeatedly flip the record. Dinner was over and the three 135 00:08:01,360 --> 00:08:04,840 Speaker 1: couples were lounging about, having already drunk their postmeal cups 136 00:08:04,880 --> 00:08:08,440 Speaker 1: of coffee, a normal ritual made strange by the bizarre 137 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,360 Speaker 1: way of the dentists dropped the sugar cubes into their cups. 138 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 2: He made such a big show of it. 139 00:08:13,800 --> 00:08:16,960 Speaker 1: Like he was giving them communion or something, trying hard 140 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,760 Speaker 1: to impress, as most now did. When in the presence 141 00:08:19,760 --> 00:08:22,920 Speaker 1: of the Beatles, John would never get used to it. 142 00:08:22,920 --> 00:08:25,960 Speaker 1: It was a particularly annoying and alienating effect of fame. 143 00:08:26,520 --> 00:08:29,640 Speaker 1: If George was annoyed, he didn't show it. Cynthia and 144 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,680 Speaker 1: Patty were too polite to show anything but gratitude. But 145 00:08:33,840 --> 00:08:36,559 Speaker 1: now the four guests were all feeling the same sensation, 146 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:39,880 Speaker 1: a subtle chest swell of excitement brimming. 147 00:08:39,600 --> 00:08:41,680 Speaker 2: Up in all of them at the same time. But 148 00:08:41,760 --> 00:08:43,400 Speaker 2: for what seconds ago? 149 00:08:43,520 --> 00:08:45,719 Speaker 1: They were planning their polite escape out of the hip 150 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,800 Speaker 1: dentist flat and away from his curvy but boring wife, 151 00:08:49,040 --> 00:08:53,559 Speaker 1: towards somewhere more exciting, perhaps the Pickwick Club. It was London, 152 00:08:53,679 --> 00:08:57,559 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty five, swinging. Surely there was something more happening 153 00:08:57,600 --> 00:09:02,320 Speaker 1: going on. D and his wife turned the record over again. 154 00:09:02,880 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: Bacarex twenty four hours from Tulsa came crackling out of 155 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,720 Speaker 1: the speakers for what seemed like the millionth time that evening. 156 00:09:09,160 --> 00:09:12,320 Speaker 1: John couldn't keep quiet, for fuck's sake, Bert leave some 157 00:09:12,440 --> 00:09:15,720 Speaker 1: for Geene Pitney. As far as John Lenning quips go, 158 00:09:15,880 --> 00:09:21,120 Speaker 1: this one wasn't all that witty or humorous. Nonetheless, George, Patty, Cynthia, 159 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,800 Speaker 1: and John tore themselves up with laughter they couldn't stop. 160 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:27,679 Speaker 1: John literally fell out of his chair, snot ran from 161 00:09:27,720 --> 00:09:30,959 Speaker 1: George's nose. Patty swore she wet herself, and Cynthia kept 162 00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:33,080 Speaker 1: trying to suppress her laughter, and the more she did, 163 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:36,280 Speaker 1: the more she broke up. So to John, George and Cynthia. 164 00:09:36,600 --> 00:09:39,559 Speaker 1: In seconds, they were all a mess, tears streaming from 165 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:42,880 Speaker 1: their eyes, non stop belly laughs. George was helpless to 166 00:09:42,920 --> 00:09:45,120 Speaker 1: make his laughter cease. He kept trying to mount the 167 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,480 Speaker 1: words stop to John, who was now adding to the 168 00:09:47,520 --> 00:09:50,160 Speaker 1: hilarity by making bizarre faces at the group to propel 169 00:09:50,240 --> 00:09:55,000 Speaker 1: them further into hysterics. Oddly, the dentist and his wife 170 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,199 Speaker 1: did not find the situation all that funny. They looked 171 00:09:58,200 --> 00:10:00,199 Speaker 1: on at the two Beatles and their dates with the 172 00:10:00,280 --> 00:10:05,079 Speaker 1: amusement incisive grins on their faces. Despite his current state, 173 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:08,520 Speaker 1: whatever it was, John Lennon was too smart, too observant, 174 00:10:08,559 --> 00:10:11,079 Speaker 1: not to notice that his hosts were on about something. 175 00:10:12,200 --> 00:10:13,800 Speaker 2: Well. He asked, did the good. 176 00:10:13,720 --> 00:10:17,280 Speaker 1: Dentist and his wife find mister Bacarak beyond reproach? And 177 00:10:17,400 --> 00:10:22,319 Speaker 1: the dentist answered insecurely, no, maybe not quite well. Then 178 00:10:22,480 --> 00:10:26,520 Speaker 1: George asked, why the long tooth, I mean face more giggles, 179 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:30,800 Speaker 1: We're just observing, his wife answered the humor. John was 180 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,400 Speaker 1: feeling a moment ago quickly turned to annoyance, almost anger. 181 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,600 Speaker 1: Observing what he asked the effects. The dentist replied, effects 182 00:10:39,640 --> 00:10:44,040 Speaker 1: of what they all wanted to know? The LSD came 183 00:10:44,080 --> 00:10:50,240 Speaker 1: the answer from the dentist, of course, John thought, ignoring 184 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,440 Speaker 1: the anger settling in his stomach. George immediately caught on too, 185 00:10:53,720 --> 00:10:56,480 Speaker 1: the sugar cubes and the coffee, he blurted out. The 186 00:10:56,559 --> 00:11:00,640 Speaker 1: dentist nodded, so did his wife. Their grins widened with madness. 187 00:11:00,840 --> 00:11:03,920 Speaker 1: The anger John was feeling quickly turned to fear. Cynthia 188 00:11:03,960 --> 00:11:05,920 Speaker 1: felt the chill coming off of her husband, and she 189 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:06,959 Speaker 1: nearly pissed herself. 190 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:07,480 Speaker 2: Like Patty. 191 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:10,880 Speaker 1: Patty's brain went in a full on paranoid overdrive. She 192 00:11:10,960 --> 00:11:13,480 Speaker 1: heard about this drug, how it was used for orgi's 193 00:11:13,480 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 1: in America by Timothy Leary's weird cult. She wasn't about 194 00:11:16,440 --> 00:11:18,120 Speaker 1: to get into bed with the dentist and his wife, 195 00:11:18,160 --> 00:11:21,720 Speaker 1: and of course not with John and Cynthia. John's survival 196 00:11:21,760 --> 00:11:24,760 Speaker 1: instincts kicked in. He leaped from the floor, grabed Cynthia 197 00:11:24,800 --> 00:11:27,600 Speaker 1: their coats. George and Patty followed suit. Right then Doc 198 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,400 Speaker 1: time to go. As they made their way to the door, 199 00:11:30,720 --> 00:11:33,679 Speaker 1: panic set in through the recently dosed. The fear was 200 00:11:33,760 --> 00:11:39,280 Speaker 1: driven by both the unknown and thenme the unknown. What 201 00:11:39,320 --> 00:11:41,920 Speaker 1: would this new drug the head unwittingly taken due to them? 202 00:11:42,240 --> 00:11:44,760 Speaker 1: The rumors about its effects were already the stuff of 203 00:11:44,880 --> 00:11:47,120 Speaker 1: urban legend. Would they jump out of the window of 204 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:49,440 Speaker 1: the good dentists flat and try to fly? Would they 205 00:11:49,480 --> 00:11:52,720 Speaker 1: turn into sex crazed maniacs? Would their brains ever return 206 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:54,920 Speaker 1: to normal after the drug wore off? Would it even 207 00:11:54,920 --> 00:11:59,040 Speaker 1: wear off? Would they laugh themselves to death? The known 208 00:11:59,559 --> 00:12:02,360 Speaker 1: LSD in nineteen sixty five was a big no no. 209 00:12:02,679 --> 00:12:05,520 Speaker 1: It wasn't yet illegal in the UK, but would be soon. 210 00:12:06,000 --> 00:12:09,040 Speaker 1: Rumors of its power and danger pretty much made it illicit. 211 00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,800 Speaker 1: If the press were to get win of two of 212 00:12:10,800 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: the world's four lovable mop tops tripping the life fantastic 213 00:12:13,960 --> 00:12:16,960 Speaker 1: like drug crazed American beat Nicks, then there would surely 214 00:12:17,000 --> 00:12:19,079 Speaker 1: be some sort of unknown hell to pay for their 215 00:12:19,120 --> 00:12:26,079 Speaker 1: non crime. John and George, despite their paranoia, also knew this. 216 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:28,040 Speaker 2: They were in for one. 217 00:12:28,040 --> 00:12:30,720 Speaker 1: Hell of a ride for the next seven hours. It 218 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:35,200 Speaker 1: was all terribly exciting. Eventually I had do the Mini Cooper. 219 00:12:38,400 --> 00:12:40,959 Speaker 1: Both Beatles and their dates scrammed out of Dr Riley's 220 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: flat against his protests. What would they go? What would 221 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 1: they do? How would they survive without him as their guide? 222 00:12:46,120 --> 00:12:49,760 Speaker 1: Through tangerine trees and Martin Laite's guies. They had no answers, 223 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:51,640 Speaker 1: but they knew they needed to lose the dentist and 224 00:12:51,679 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 1: his wife. They ran downstairs and out to the sidewalk 225 00:12:55,000 --> 00:12:57,560 Speaker 1: with the dentists hot on their heels. They jammed themselves 226 00:12:57,559 --> 00:12:59,760 Speaker 1: into George's Mini Cooper, knowing full well there would be 227 00:12:59,760 --> 00:13:01,920 Speaker 1: no room for their former host and his wife in 228 00:13:01,920 --> 00:13:02,600 Speaker 1: the tiny car. 229 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:06,080 Speaker 2: George stepped on the gas and furiously. 230 00:13:05,520 --> 00:13:07,880 Speaker 1: Started making his way through the tiny streets of London 231 00:13:07,880 --> 00:13:10,960 Speaker 1: at breakneck speeds, the dentist and his wife trailed in 232 00:13:11,000 --> 00:13:14,080 Speaker 1: his jagged roadster. The chase scene they found themselves in 233 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,280 Speaker 1: led hilarity. Inside the mini they were cutting up again 234 00:13:17,320 --> 00:13:21,160 Speaker 1: as George dodge pedestrians and ignored traffic signs. He channeled 235 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:25,439 Speaker 1: James Bond and Goldfinger out running the bad guys outside. 236 00:13:25,480 --> 00:13:29,360 Speaker 1: The passing lights grew long tails tracers. The wind of 237 00:13:29,440 --> 00:13:32,559 Speaker 1: the mini's engine morphed into a low roar. John looked 238 00:13:32,600 --> 00:13:35,920 Speaker 1: back at the dentist gaming on them. He heard the 239 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,559 Speaker 1: flying monkey stem from the Wizard of Oz Phil his head, 240 00:13:38,760 --> 00:13:44,520 Speaker 1: Dump da barada, Dump da barada. George florded, Patty and 241 00:13:44,559 --> 00:13:47,560 Speaker 1: Cynthia locked eyes in mutual support. The faces on the 242 00:13:47,600 --> 00:13:52,679 Speaker 1: pedestrians outside grew long, morphed by fear into psychedelic munchion screams. 243 00:13:52,880 --> 00:13:54,240 Speaker 2: John heard the horror in his head. 244 00:13:54,280 --> 00:13:58,199 Speaker 1: Now building, building, building, The sound was piercing, rise and peeking, 245 00:13:58,240 --> 00:13:58,840 Speaker 1: and then. 246 00:14:00,120 --> 00:14:00,480 Speaker 2: Nothing. 247 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,480 Speaker 1: George had braked, the car had come to a full stop. 248 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:09,960 Speaker 1: They were outside the Pickwick Club. A crowd of London's 249 00:14:09,960 --> 00:14:13,080 Speaker 1: swinging us were queued up for entry. Patty, Clouds and 250 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:15,800 Speaker 1: Gibson were performing inside, and the buzz was that the 251 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:18,600 Speaker 1: Trio were destined to be the next big thing, possibly 252 00:14:18,640 --> 00:14:22,160 Speaker 1: dethroning the Fab four. George and John were not worried, 253 00:14:22,200 --> 00:14:26,080 Speaker 1: but their curiosity drove them here, perhaps subliminally, to see 254 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:31,160 Speaker 1: what all the fuss was about John Cynthia. George and 255 00:14:31,160 --> 00:14:33,160 Speaker 1: Patty bounded out of the mini and hot stepped it 256 00:14:33,160 --> 00:14:36,840 Speaker 1: toward the club's entrance. Cynthia spotted the dentist jag rounding 257 00:14:36,880 --> 00:14:39,120 Speaker 1: the corner and bee lining it toward them, and they 258 00:14:39,200 --> 00:14:42,600 Speaker 1: moved faster. The crowd recognized them, and despite their hipness, 259 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:45,000 Speaker 1: took their cues from last year's A Hard Day's Night 260 00:14:45,080 --> 00:14:47,560 Speaker 1: and started to swarm the two couples, who bulldozed their 261 00:14:47,600 --> 00:14:50,720 Speaker 1: bodies into the assembling mass and further toward the entrance. 262 00:14:51,440 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: George Patty John Cynthia. They were overcome by the smells 263 00:14:55,200 --> 00:15:00,000 Speaker 1: expensive perfume after shape, hairspray, greasy pommade, cigarette, smoke, grass. 264 00:15:00,360 --> 00:15:03,320 Speaker 1: It all melded into an invasive pope poie of excitement 265 00:15:03,320 --> 00:15:06,480 Speaker 1: that propelled them forward into the smothering crowd toward the 266 00:15:06,480 --> 00:15:09,480 Speaker 1: Pickwick Club's front door to get inside to see to 267 00:15:09,560 --> 00:15:11,920 Speaker 1: hear what all the hype was about. To get away 268 00:15:11,920 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: from the dentist, who was now out of his park 269 00:15:13,840 --> 00:15:15,680 Speaker 1: jag and hot on their heels out on the street, 270 00:15:16,080 --> 00:15:18,160 Speaker 1: they needed to get into the Hulla balloo in front 271 00:15:18,160 --> 00:15:18,800 Speaker 1: of the jukebox. 272 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:19,120 Speaker 2: Hurry. 273 00:15:19,200 --> 00:15:21,520 Speaker 1: They needed to hear Paddy Klaus and Gibson, who were 274 00:15:21,560 --> 00:15:22,800 Speaker 1: surely the next big thing. 275 00:15:23,200 --> 00:15:24,160 Speaker 2: Look at this crowd. 276 00:15:24,360 --> 00:15:26,880 Speaker 1: The Beatles were sunk, but it didn't matter. They had 277 00:15:26,920 --> 00:15:29,280 Speaker 1: each other, the four of them. They'd move further out 278 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:32,000 Speaker 1: into the country, live off the land, like true working 279 00:15:32,000 --> 00:15:35,080 Speaker 1: class heroes. Leave the good dentist and Burt Bacharach and 280 00:15:35,120 --> 00:15:37,800 Speaker 1: the tedium of filmmaking and pressures of pop stardom and 281 00:15:37,840 --> 00:15:41,040 Speaker 1: the sweaty smart set smell of success filling their nostrils, 282 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:43,840 Speaker 1: and the screaming pedestrians and the whining mini coopers and 283 00:15:43,880 --> 00:15:46,680 Speaker 1: growling jaguars and James Bond and Timothy Leary and the 284 00:15:46,680 --> 00:15:47,480 Speaker 1: flying monkeys. 285 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,360 Speaker 2: They'd leave it all behind, all of it. 286 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,520 Speaker 1: They just needed to get away from the wicked dentist 287 00:15:51,640 --> 00:15:54,200 Speaker 1: and his boring wife and through this crowd inside the 288 00:15:54,200 --> 00:15:57,240 Speaker 1: Pickwick Club to hear Paddy, Klows and Gibson and accept 289 00:15:57,240 --> 00:15:59,920 Speaker 1: their fate, grab their tails, tucked them between their legs, 290 00:16:00,160 --> 00:16:02,760 Speaker 1: and head out into oblivion to never be heard from again. 291 00:16:03,840 --> 00:16:07,360 Speaker 1: But what about Paul and Ringo? With that thought, John 292 00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:09,480 Speaker 1: George and their dates made it to the entrance and 293 00:16:09,520 --> 00:16:10,720 Speaker 1: were granted entries. 294 00:16:10,480 --> 00:16:11,840 Speaker 2: Straight away by the door man. 295 00:16:12,360 --> 00:16:17,960 Speaker 1: Finally, immediately upon entering, all eyes were on them, and 296 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:21,400 Speaker 1: they were frozen still, and the paranoia nearly swallowed them. 297 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:24,280 Speaker 1: They each felt the walls of their skulls closing in, 298 00:16:24,320 --> 00:16:27,200 Speaker 1: as every eye in the club landed on them, judging them, 299 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:30,400 Speaker 1: casting them out, banishing them to the lies of obscurity 300 00:16:30,440 --> 00:16:34,120 Speaker 1: they deserved. John felt that the worst was justified for 301 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:37,680 Speaker 1: the sin of pop stardom. Patty, Clous and gibbson raged 302 00:16:37,720 --> 00:16:39,880 Speaker 1: on stage like the holy Trinity of rock and roll. 303 00:16:39,960 --> 00:16:43,080 Speaker 1: Nowdness that they were barreling through their new original track, 304 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:45,840 Speaker 1: rejected to the pleasure of most every swinging dick and 305 00:16:45,880 --> 00:16:49,160 Speaker 1: miniskirt in the club. But John, George, Cynthia, and Patty 306 00:16:49,240 --> 00:16:52,360 Speaker 1: heard something quite different. They heard the walls closing in. 307 00:16:52,520 --> 00:16:55,040 Speaker 1: They heard the dentist and his boring wife breathing down 308 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,600 Speaker 1: their necks. They heard the tolling bell time to go. 309 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:01,520 Speaker 1: They heard Paul and ring go in their heads, berating them. 310 00:17:01,680 --> 00:17:04,240 Speaker 1: They heard their future calling there was music to make 311 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:07,679 Speaker 1: after all, Patty, Klous and Gibson, this wasn't music. This 312 00:17:07,840 --> 00:17:12,160 Speaker 1: was a Brian Epstein pr stunt masquerading his music. John George, 313 00:17:12,200 --> 00:17:14,520 Speaker 1: they were suddenly never more certain of their ability of 314 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:16,920 Speaker 1: their voice, the importance of what they had to say, 315 00:17:17,040 --> 00:17:20,159 Speaker 1: and now somehow the doors to their own perception of 316 00:17:20,160 --> 00:17:23,000 Speaker 1: what was possible musically had been flung wide open, and 317 00:17:23,080 --> 00:17:24,879 Speaker 1: there was nothing that was going to stop them from 318 00:17:24,920 --> 00:17:27,480 Speaker 1: beginning what they'd set out to become four years earlier 319 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:30,879 Speaker 1: on stage within the sweaty confines of Liverpool's Cavern Club, 320 00:17:31,400 --> 00:17:59,840 Speaker 1: A great little band, nothing more, nothing less. Paul couldn't 321 00:17:59,840 --> 00:18:02,119 Speaker 1: be leave what he was hearing. The bit about the 322 00:18:02,160 --> 00:18:05,160 Speaker 1: car chase with the dentist and Patty Klow's and Gibson 323 00:18:05,240 --> 00:18:08,080 Speaker 1: bombing at the Pickwick was interesting, but to him, what 324 00:18:08,240 --> 00:18:11,080 Speaker 1: was more interesting was what happened later in the evening 325 00:18:11,080 --> 00:18:13,919 Speaker 1: when John and George retreated back to John's place in 326 00:18:13,960 --> 00:18:18,120 Speaker 1: the suburbs. Spurred by LSD, John and George each had 327 00:18:18,160 --> 00:18:22,320 Speaker 1: different explosions of creativity, George with his guitar, John with 328 00:18:22,359 --> 00:18:25,280 Speaker 1: his drawing. George played some of the things he'd worked up, 329 00:18:25,320 --> 00:18:28,760 Speaker 1: and John shared his illustrations and Ringo quickly snatched them. 330 00:18:29,240 --> 00:18:32,040 Speaker 1: Paul was less moved by the output and more inspired 331 00:18:32,080 --> 00:18:35,000 Speaker 1: by the excitement and his bandmate's retelling of their separate 332 00:18:35,040 --> 00:18:39,640 Speaker 1: creative experiences, and Paul wanted in this had been brimming 333 00:18:39,720 --> 00:18:43,399 Speaker 1: for some time, the promise of creative expression beyond their 334 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:48,040 Speaker 1: wildest imaginations through the use of illicit drugs. At first 335 00:18:48,119 --> 00:18:50,720 Speaker 1: back in Hamburg and then in Liverpool, they were aided 336 00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:54,240 Speaker 1: by the pills, but the creative possibilities through drug use 337 00:18:54,560 --> 00:18:57,680 Speaker 1: didn't emerge until a year ago, when they were introduced 338 00:18:58,119 --> 00:19:05,960 Speaker 1: to Bob Dylan America August nineteen sixty four. The screams 339 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: never stopped, neither did the police sirens, at least not 340 00:19:09,359 --> 00:19:12,640 Speaker 1: when they were outside the hotel. It was screaming from 341 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:15,000 Speaker 1: the lobby to the car, screaming from the car to 342 00:19:15,040 --> 00:19:17,960 Speaker 1: the venue, screaming non stop while they played on stage, 343 00:19:18,119 --> 00:19:21,359 Speaker 1: screaming from the stage to the exiting vehicle. At Forest 344 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,680 Speaker 1: Hills Tennis Stadium, thousands of screaming fans watched their beloved 345 00:19:24,680 --> 00:19:28,560 Speaker 1: Beetles exit the facility, this time in a helicopter. Chopper 346 00:19:28,560 --> 00:19:31,520 Speaker 1: Blades a welcome respite from the screams, and there were 347 00:19:31,560 --> 00:19:34,320 Speaker 1: more screams heard when the band transitioned from their helicopter 348 00:19:34,359 --> 00:19:36,640 Speaker 1: to the armored truck to taxi back to their hotel, 349 00:19:37,040 --> 00:19:39,439 Speaker 1: and when they arrived at New York City's Delmonica Hotel 350 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:42,200 Speaker 1: on Park Avenue, in fifty ninth. They were of course 351 00:19:42,240 --> 00:19:45,560 Speaker 1: greeted by more screaming fans, and the Beatles sprinted inside 352 00:19:45,560 --> 00:19:47,840 Speaker 1: to the service entrance and were met yet again with 353 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:52,000 Speaker 1: more screams. Once upstairs and into their adjoining suites, the 354 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:55,119 Speaker 1: screams were replaced by barely muffled, excitable murmurs from the 355 00:19:55,119 --> 00:19:58,000 Speaker 1: awaiting groupies, assembled by their road manager, who had put 356 00:19:58,040 --> 00:20:01,560 Speaker 1: the girls to work ironing the boys cl It was. 357 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:03,000 Speaker 2: Intense and exciting. 358 00:20:03,359 --> 00:20:05,840 Speaker 1: The pills kept them one step ahead of the fans, 359 00:20:06,200 --> 00:20:08,520 Speaker 1: and there was no time to reflect on the insanity 360 00:20:08,520 --> 00:20:11,040 Speaker 1: of it all. The pressure was non stop and the 361 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:14,439 Speaker 1: success unprecedented. And they were bigger than Elvis, bigger than 362 00:20:14,440 --> 00:20:17,199 Speaker 1: Sinatra as soon they make the mistake of believing they 363 00:20:17,200 --> 00:20:20,640 Speaker 1: were bigger even than Jesus. But despite their fame, they 364 00:20:20,680 --> 00:20:27,959 Speaker 1: weren't as experienced as Zimmerman. Bob Dylan's entrance into the 365 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:31,919 Speaker 1: inner sanctum of Beetlemania was negotiated by a friendly journalist, 366 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:35,080 Speaker 1: and while a sizable amount of Americans worried about the 367 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:39,200 Speaker 1: Beatles corrupting the American youth, Bob Dylan worried about corrupting 368 00:20:39,240 --> 00:20:42,680 Speaker 1: the Beatles possession of marijuana in New York City in 369 00:20:42,760 --> 00:20:45,360 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty four was a serious offense. 370 00:20:45,760 --> 00:20:46,919 Speaker 2: It was a serious. 371 00:20:46,520 --> 00:20:50,000 Speaker 1: Offense anywhere in the USA under mandatory federal sentencing laws. 372 00:20:50,040 --> 00:20:52,359 Speaker 1: It carried two to ten years in penalties up to 373 00:20:52,400 --> 00:20:55,640 Speaker 1: twenty grand for possession. Plus it made you grow hair 374 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,040 Speaker 1: on your bombs and masturbate like a furious cage monkey. 375 00:20:58,520 --> 00:20:59,040 Speaker 2: I kid. 376 00:20:59,440 --> 00:21:01,800 Speaker 1: Bob Dylan did not kid, and he didn't care about 377 00:21:01,840 --> 00:21:05,520 Speaker 1: the legality of marijuana, but the Beatles did. They were 378 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:08,480 Speaker 1: afraid of the illicit drug. It wasn't the Harry palms 379 00:21:08,480 --> 00:21:10,119 Speaker 1: and the masturbating like a monkey stuff. 380 00:21:10,160 --> 00:21:12,480 Speaker 2: They were pretty sure Ringo was already guilty of both. 381 00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:15,359 Speaker 1: But the Beatles ignorance in nineteen sixty four was such 382 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,320 Speaker 1: that they saw no distinction between pot and heroin. People 383 00:21:19,359 --> 00:21:22,679 Speaker 1: who used either were horrible junkies. Pot wasn't like pills. 384 00:21:22,720 --> 00:21:24,840 Speaker 1: Pills were issued over the counter by little old men 385 00:21:24,880 --> 00:21:28,480 Speaker 1: and white pharmacist coats, all very proper. Pot was smuggled 386 00:21:28,480 --> 00:21:31,160 Speaker 1: into your hotel room by sketchy beat poets who avoided 387 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:34,520 Speaker 1: eye contact, which was exactly what Bob Dylan was doing 388 00:21:34,560 --> 00:21:37,880 Speaker 1: at the moment. His very large and very domineering personal 389 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:41,000 Speaker 1: assistant barreled him through the crowd of fans outside the hotel. 390 00:21:41,560 --> 00:21:44,680 Speaker 1: Once inside the lobby, he commandeered two police officers to 391 00:21:44,720 --> 00:21:47,040 Speaker 1: take them upstairs to the Beatles, explaining that he was 392 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:49,560 Speaker 1: there with the Bob Dylan and that they were invited, 393 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,120 Speaker 1: and the cops did what they were told. They hit 394 00:21:52,160 --> 00:21:54,760 Speaker 1: the elevator, then the hall, then knocked on the doors 395 00:21:54,760 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 1: outside the Beatles suite. Two more cops opened the door. 396 00:21:58,520 --> 00:22:00,880 Speaker 1: Dylan was shocked hanging out. 397 00:22:00,800 --> 00:22:01,640 Speaker 2: With pop stars. 398 00:22:02,160 --> 00:22:05,600 Speaker 1: They entered in the first room nearest Sea entrance, a 399 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:08,280 Speaker 1: crowd of hangers on that included Peter, Paul and Mary, 400 00:22:08,320 --> 00:22:11,320 Speaker 1: a group that existed for the sole purpose of commercializing 401 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,320 Speaker 1: the songs that he Bob Dylan wrote, a couple members 402 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:17,160 Speaker 1: of the Kingston Trio, some newspapermen, and a few godily 403 00:22:17,240 --> 00:22:20,040 Speaker 1: dress dudes that could only be disc jockeys, and Dylan 404 00:22:20,080 --> 00:22:23,520 Speaker 1: ignored them all. His assistant kept him moving through the 405 00:22:23,520 --> 00:22:26,520 Speaker 1: adjoining rooms and back into the Beatles' personal suite, where 406 00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:30,200 Speaker 1: a alone were relaxing post show with their manager, Brian Epstein. 407 00:22:31,040 --> 00:22:35,160 Speaker 1: The introductions were awkward, Drinks were arranged, pills were offered, 408 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:39,840 Speaker 1: Dylan refused and offered some pot instead. All four of 409 00:22:39,840 --> 00:22:43,760 Speaker 1: the Beatles' faces went blank. Brian explained that that just 410 00:22:43,920 --> 00:22:46,919 Speaker 1: wasn't the sort of thing that they did. Dylan pressed 411 00:22:46,960 --> 00:22:49,439 Speaker 1: John Lennon, wanting him to explain his song then with 412 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:53,159 Speaker 1: the lyrics I get high, I Get high. John defended himself, 413 00:22:53,160 --> 00:22:55,320 Speaker 1: those aren't the words. It go as I can't hide, 414 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:58,199 Speaker 1: I can't hide. And Dylan did that little thing with 415 00:22:58,240 --> 00:23:01,600 Speaker 1: his head, a slow tilt to his left, perfectly timed 416 00:23:01,640 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 1: with a wry smile, as if to say, so, do 417 00:23:04,480 --> 00:23:08,359 Speaker 1: you want to smoke some pot or what? John was 418 00:23:08,440 --> 00:23:12,280 Speaker 1: eager to experiment Paul, George and Ringo as well. Dylan 419 00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,840 Speaker 1: nodded to his man, who nodded to Brian Epstein, who 420 00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:20,480 Speaker 1: then set about securing the room doors shut locks, bolted, drapes, drawn, 421 00:23:20,720 --> 00:23:23,520 Speaker 1: towels pressed to the space between the doors and the floors. 422 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,440 Speaker 2: It was all terribly exciting. 423 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: There were, after all, two policemen two rooms away. 424 00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:32,120 Speaker 2: Dylan pulled out his stash and began rolling a joint. 425 00:23:32,400 --> 00:23:34,320 Speaker 1: When he finished, he lit the giant, drew a hit 426 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:36,760 Speaker 1: from it, and held it, exhaled, and then explained to 427 00:23:36,800 --> 00:23:38,440 Speaker 1: the group how to do just as he had done 428 00:23:38,480 --> 00:23:41,240 Speaker 1: in order to smoke it. Correctly for its desired effect. 429 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:45,200 Speaker 1: John impatiently snatched the joint from Dylan's hand and brought 430 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,199 Speaker 1: it near to his lips, but then thought better of 431 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:49,359 Speaker 1: it and passed it to Ringo, who he deemed his 432 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:54,880 Speaker 1: quote unquote royal taster. Ringo smoked the whole thing. Dylan smiled, 433 00:23:55,160 --> 00:23:57,679 Speaker 1: rolled more joints and passed them all around, and the 434 00:23:57,720 --> 00:24:01,840 Speaker 1: smell was undeniable. The feeling was mores. Everything fell away, 435 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,320 Speaker 1: the screams, the swirl of the helicopter blades, the pressure, 436 00:24:05,400 --> 00:24:10,120 Speaker 1: the insanity. It was all replaced by laughter, near NonStop laughter. 437 00:24:11,119 --> 00:24:14,680 Speaker 1: And then, inevitably, the question hit each of them, John, Paul, 438 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:18,040 Speaker 1: George and Ringo at different points during their comedown, How 439 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:21,159 Speaker 1: the hell had this happened to them? Ensconced away in 440 00:24:21,200 --> 00:24:24,080 Speaker 1: a five star hotel suite, hidden away from fans who 441 00:24:24,080 --> 00:24:27,119 Speaker 1: were ready to tear them, limb from limb, Bigger than Elvis, 442 00:24:27,240 --> 00:24:30,440 Speaker 1: higher than Dylan, suddenly much more than just a great 443 00:24:30,520 --> 00:24:31,560 Speaker 1: little band. 444 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:42,879 Speaker 2: We'll be right back after this word word word. 445 00:24:47,119 --> 00:24:50,359 Speaker 1: The damn airplane wouldn't move. They'd been on the tarmac 446 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:53,919 Speaker 1: for an eternity for what. Paul McCartney didn't know, but 447 00:24:54,000 --> 00:24:57,959 Speaker 1: it looked like more delays. Out his pressure treated plane window, 448 00:24:58,080 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: he could see a small group of fans breaking past 449 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:04,880 Speaker 1: airport security, young rabbit girls sprinting and screaming across the tarmac, 450 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,640 Speaker 1: straight toward their plane. At first, Paul was merely amused, 451 00:25:08,680 --> 00:25:10,880 Speaker 1: but as the group grew nearer and he saw their faces, 452 00:25:10,920 --> 00:25:12,520 Speaker 1: he started to feel something else. 453 00:25:13,160 --> 00:25:13,440 Speaker 2: Fear. 454 00:25:14,359 --> 00:25:17,800 Speaker 1: These fans were determined and they weren't stopping. Furthermore, each 455 00:25:17,880 --> 00:25:21,000 Speaker 1: had that rabid look about them, possessed. This was something 456 00:25:21,040 --> 00:25:24,920 Speaker 1: more than fandom. It was obsession, and sometimes obsession could 457 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,560 Speaker 1: be dangerous. Paul learned this that morning over breakfast at 458 00:25:28,560 --> 00:25:30,960 Speaker 1: the hotel the Beatles had spent the previous night in 459 00:25:30,960 --> 00:25:36,600 Speaker 1: in Houston. Blood was everywhere and the body of the 460 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:39,840 Speaker 1: young chambermaid was slashed to ribbons. She was just doing 461 00:25:39,880 --> 00:25:43,360 Speaker 1: her job cleaning hotel rooms, professional that she was, when 462 00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,040 Speaker 1: the Kriz Beatles fan came upon her in the hotel 463 00:25:46,080 --> 00:25:48,680 Speaker 1: hallway the night before and demanded to know which rooms 464 00:25:48,680 --> 00:25:51,359 Speaker 1: the Beatles were staying in. She of course refused to 465 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:56,879 Speaker 1: tell It would prove to be a fatal decision. Whatever 466 00:25:56,880 --> 00:26:00,400 Speaker 1: emotions Paul McCartney had over the incident to a back 467 00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,240 Speaker 1: seat to the matter at hand. The handful of crazed 468 00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,440 Speaker 1: fans climbing all over the plane trying to violently gain 469 00:26:06,640 --> 00:26:09,960 Speaker 1: entry to smother their Beatles, and they pried at the door, 470 00:26:10,000 --> 00:26:12,920 Speaker 1: They smashed coke bottles at the windows. They of course screamed, 471 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,280 Speaker 1: and then screamed some more until airport's security ultimately pried 472 00:26:16,320 --> 00:26:18,600 Speaker 1: them off and the Beatles plane was allowed to finally 473 00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:24,560 Speaker 1: taxi toward takeoff. It was jarring, but not nearly as 474 00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:27,080 Speaker 1: jarring as a few months prior in New York City 475 00:26:27,119 --> 00:26:30,760 Speaker 1: on February ninth, nineteen sixty four, the day of the Beatles' 476 00:26:30,800 --> 00:26:34,440 Speaker 1: first live performance on American television on the widely popular 477 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,600 Speaker 1: Ed Sullivan Show. It was a performance that would be 478 00:26:37,640 --> 00:26:40,840 Speaker 1: seen by an incredible audience of seventy three million people. 479 00:26:41,400 --> 00:26:45,240 Speaker 1: Seventy three million people at a time in American history 480 00:26:45,240 --> 00:26:48,320 Speaker 1: when the entire country's population was roughly only one hundred 481 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:50,800 Speaker 1: and eighty nine million, meaning that more than a third 482 00:26:50,840 --> 00:26:55,280 Speaker 1: of the entire nation watched the Beatles performance. Whatever hope 483 00:26:55,320 --> 00:26:57,760 Speaker 1: the country had for its future, it was shot down 484 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,080 Speaker 1: by an assassin in Dallas to an hour and a 485 00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:04,120 Speaker 1: half months prior, on November twenty second, nineteen sixty three, 486 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,800 Speaker 1: America's Prince President, John F. Kennedy was taken out, and 487 00:27:07,880 --> 00:27:12,800 Speaker 1: so too were America's hopes and dreams. That December was bleak. 488 00:27:13,280 --> 00:27:17,399 Speaker 1: America mourned, but on December tenth, CBS Evening News they 489 00:27:17,400 --> 00:27:19,800 Speaker 1: aired a five minute piece about a new phenomenon from 490 00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:24,240 Speaker 1: England called Beatlemania, four kids with long mop top hairdos 491 00:27:24,240 --> 00:27:28,240 Speaker 1: who were creating a sensation with driving backbeats and undeniable hooks. 492 00:27:28,920 --> 00:27:31,359 Speaker 1: Their first US single, I Want to Hold Your Hand 493 00:27:31,480 --> 00:27:34,159 Speaker 1: was released in the States on December twenty sixth, nineteen 494 00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:37,439 Speaker 1: sixty three, and it was an instant hit, selling so 495 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,119 Speaker 1: many copies in its first three days of release that 496 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,639 Speaker 1: the Beatles US record label, Capitol Records, had a contract 497 00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,560 Speaker 1: with competitors Columbia and RCA Records to press copies of 498 00:27:47,560 --> 00:27:50,560 Speaker 1: the single to keep up with demand. And by the 499 00:27:50,600 --> 00:27:53,520 Speaker 1: time the Beatles hit the stage at CBS Studio fifty 500 00:27:53,560 --> 00:27:57,320 Speaker 1: in Times Square that night for Ed Sullivan's audience, Americans 501 00:27:57,359 --> 00:28:01,280 Speaker 1: far and wide were poised to be wrapped on high. Certainly, 502 00:28:01,640 --> 00:28:06,640 Speaker 1: America's youth were paying attention. Juvenile delinquency in New York 503 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:09,840 Speaker 1: City in nineteen sixty four had nearly doubled over the 504 00:28:09,880 --> 00:28:13,119 Speaker 1: ten years prior. Baby Boomers were coming of age, and 505 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: they were violent and angry in their adolescence. But on 506 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:19,119 Speaker 1: that night they say that crimes stopped in New York City, 507 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:23,080 Speaker 1: at least crimes committed by those under eighteen. And there 508 00:28:23,080 --> 00:28:25,800 Speaker 1: were no hub caps being stripped off of Bonneville's and 509 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:29,840 Speaker 1: Bay Ridge, no purse snatchings in forest Hills, no muggings 510 00:28:29,840 --> 00:28:33,359 Speaker 1: and harmum, no rapes, no rumbles in the park. The 511 00:28:33,400 --> 00:28:36,959 Speaker 1: streets were dull and quiet that night, but living rooms 512 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:39,720 Speaker 1: were alight with the look and the sound and the 513 00:28:39,800 --> 00:29:03,320 Speaker 1: excitement of the Beatles. Germany, nineteen sixty two. It was 514 00:29:03,360 --> 00:29:05,840 Speaker 1: the Beatles' second stint to the post war city of 515 00:29:05,920 --> 00:29:10,240 Speaker 1: sin Neon lip brothels, live, sex shows, alcohol andm fhetamines, 516 00:29:10,320 --> 00:29:13,600 Speaker 1: rock and roll music, John Paul, George and Ringo. That 517 00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:16,120 Speaker 1: were boys when they arrived and they'd be men when 518 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:20,840 Speaker 1: they left. Fame wasn't yet part of the equation Hamburg, 519 00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,720 Speaker 1: the Star Club and before that the kaiser Keller. It 520 00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:26,960 Speaker 1: was all about learning their craft, eight hours a night 521 00:29:27,040 --> 00:29:30,160 Speaker 1: on stage playing early rock and roll tinpan alley in 522 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:35,120 Speaker 1: rhythm and blue standards to rowdy German thieves, American gis, prostitutes, 523 00:29:35,160 --> 00:29:39,200 Speaker 1: and visiting tourists. The experience made them as a band. 524 00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:41,880 Speaker 1: It fused them from a group of musicians into a 525 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 1: singular creative machine, into apt showmen, quick witted song and 526 00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:48,960 Speaker 1: dance men capable of doing just about anything to keep 527 00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:54,240 Speaker 1: the inebriated locals entertained. Speed was an occupational necessity, and 528 00:29:54,320 --> 00:29:57,360 Speaker 1: fetamines are prellies as they were called, were as important 529 00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,320 Speaker 1: to the Beatles on stage as alcohol was to the 530 00:30:00,400 --> 00:30:02,000 Speaker 1: audience off stage. 531 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 2: It kept the band fueled and fearless. 532 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:07,360 Speaker 1: Night after night, they barreled through song after song with 533 00:30:07,440 --> 00:30:12,040 Speaker 1: supernatural energy and charisma. The drug made them invincible, injected 534 00:30:12,040 --> 00:30:15,360 Speaker 1: their personalities with even more confidence than the four charismatic 535 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 1: young the Vpudians already had, which was saying something to 536 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:21,480 Speaker 1: begin with. Neither John, Paul, George or Ringko were short 537 00:30:21,480 --> 00:30:24,640 Speaker 1: on confidence, and the speed pushed it all over the top. 538 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:32,480 Speaker 1: Inspired by Astard Kirchner, the German girlfriend of former bandmates 539 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,680 Speaker 1: to Suckcliffe, the band began taking their fashion cues from 540 00:30:35,680 --> 00:30:39,080 Speaker 1: the hip existentialist movement of a few decades prior, which 541 00:30:39,120 --> 00:30:42,080 Speaker 1: to the rest of the world. In nineteen sixty two, meant. 542 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 1: They dressed like aliens in mourning, female aliens in mourning 543 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:48,960 Speaker 1: at that, with long hair that shagged over their ears 544 00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,000 Speaker 1: and was combed down over their eyebrows, and their clothes 545 00:30:52,080 --> 00:30:55,280 Speaker 1: all black slacks, pipe fitter, tight leather, no lapels on 546 00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:58,880 Speaker 1: their jackets, and pointy heeled, shiny black boots. They made 547 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:02,680 Speaker 1: Elvis Presley and Little Richard looked downright conservative by comparison. 548 00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:06,440 Speaker 1: Soon local German art students started to hear about this 549 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:09,720 Speaker 1: wild young band entertaining the very drunk adults down in 550 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:13,280 Speaker 1: the same Poli district, and started frequenting their shows. A 551 00:31:13,320 --> 00:31:16,880 Speaker 1: buzz began. The Beatles were beginning to draw. The energy 552 00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:18,960 Speaker 1: of the band was as obvious as the promise of 553 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,000 Speaker 1: vice was in the air. On stage, the band would 554 00:31:22,040 --> 00:31:24,720 Speaker 1: do anything to keep their audience entertained, and with eight 555 00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:27,840 Speaker 1: hour sets, oftentimes the Beatles would do anything to keep 556 00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:31,320 Speaker 1: themselves entertained, perhaps more than any of the other band members. 557 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:36,080 Speaker 1: The speed fueled John to extreme ends. One night, John 558 00:31:36,160 --> 00:31:39,160 Speaker 1: Lennon emerged on stage at the Star Club naked, with 559 00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,960 Speaker 1: his little Winston hanging out there for the world to see. 560 00:31:41,960 --> 00:31:44,080 Speaker 2: In a toilet seed hanging around his neck. 561 00:31:44,680 --> 00:31:47,560 Speaker 1: John Nazi Goose stepped across the stage and seek Hoyle 562 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:51,600 Speaker 1: the German audience for added insult. Half the crowd was uncomfortable, 563 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,840 Speaker 1: in the other half in hysterics, but most important, John 564 00:31:54,880 --> 00:31:58,840 Speaker 1: cut himself up, as well as Paul George and Ringo. 565 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:02,360 Speaker 1: The long nights made short mornings, and Sunday mornings for 566 00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,520 Speaker 1: John Lennon were the worst. The band's living quarters were 567 00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:08,360 Speaker 1: next to a Catholic church, and that tolling bell for 568 00:32:08,480 --> 00:32:09,680 Speaker 1: Sunday Mass. 569 00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:10,560 Speaker 2: Was beyond annoying. 570 00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,560 Speaker 1: And for what to remind the repressed nuns that it 571 00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,320 Speaker 1: was time for church? It was Sunday morning, for Christ's sake? 572 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,480 Speaker 1: Didn't they already know? Couldn't they set an alarm? 573 00:32:19,640 --> 00:32:20,600 Speaker 2: John would show them. 574 00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:23,360 Speaker 1: His balcony was on the second story, just above the 575 00:32:23,440 --> 00:32:26,200 Speaker 1: nuns path to the church. The Catholics were going to 576 00:32:26,240 --> 00:32:29,040 Speaker 1: disrupt his sleep, then he was going to disrupt their commune. 577 00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:32,000 Speaker 1: He filled condoms with water and bombed the nuns as 578 00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:34,400 Speaker 1: they made their way to Mass, and one morning, while 579 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:38,120 Speaker 1: particularly annoyed, he urinated on the nun's uniformed heads from 580 00:32:38,160 --> 00:32:42,680 Speaker 1: his balcony. It was a total lack of respect. The 581 00:32:42,720 --> 00:32:45,240 Speaker 1: only thing John Lennon respected and the only thing the 582 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:50,000 Speaker 1: young Beatles cared about was music, rock and roll. That backbeat, 583 00:32:50,200 --> 00:32:53,360 Speaker 1: the jumped up jangle of the guitars, the driving rhythm 584 00:32:53,360 --> 00:32:56,400 Speaker 1: and all that shouting. The response from the audience, the 585 00:32:56,440 --> 00:32:59,320 Speaker 1: looks from the women, the constant promise of sex, the 586 00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:02,760 Speaker 1: constat out of violence, the speed that drank the last. 587 00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:05,240 Speaker 1: It was all highly addictive, and it was a conduit 588 00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,000 Speaker 1: to the world, beyond the dreariness of Germany, to the 589 00:33:08,040 --> 00:33:10,840 Speaker 1: promise of America, to the excitement of Elvis Presley and 590 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:13,840 Speaker 1: Little Richard and Buddy Hawley, rock and roll. The feeling 591 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:17,320 Speaker 1: it gave John, Paul George and Ringo it coursed through them. 592 00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:20,560 Speaker 1: It was electric, more exciting than sex, and had been 593 00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:23,720 Speaker 1: that way as far as they could remember, even before Hamburg. 594 00:33:24,040 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 1: Going back to their earliest days in Liverpool, Brian Epstein, 595 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:37,480 Speaker 1: just twenty six years old, was dressed impeccably, as was 596 00:33:37,480 --> 00:33:39,800 Speaker 1: his nature. Youth would not get in the way of 597 00:33:39,840 --> 00:33:43,120 Speaker 1: his ambition. He was destined to something beyond managing his 598 00:33:43,160 --> 00:33:46,400 Speaker 1: family's North End music shop on Walton Road in Liverpool. 599 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:49,440 Speaker 1: The group he'd heard about, the one, the handsome teenage 600 00:33:49,440 --> 00:33:51,920 Speaker 1: boy with the dirt beneath his fingernails. Had requested a 601 00:33:51,920 --> 00:33:54,480 Speaker 1: single from his shop, a single that had turned out 602 00:33:54,600 --> 00:33:57,280 Speaker 1: didn't really exist, yet had better be worth a trip 603 00:33:57,320 --> 00:34:00,480 Speaker 1: to this god forsaken piss and vomit stench east side 604 00:34:00,480 --> 00:34:05,320 Speaker 1: section of Liverpool. His smart leather shoes were spit shine 605 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,280 Speaker 1: before this journey and were now mud splattered and soiled 606 00:34:08,320 --> 00:34:12,000 Speaker 1: beyond saving. Garbage was strewn about the ground. Old produce 607 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:15,600 Speaker 1: from the fruit factory and discarded newspaper littered the cobblestones. 608 00:34:15,640 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 1: Beneath his feet was so unevenly set that each new 609 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:21,440 Speaker 1: footfall brought a new type of pain to his lower back. 610 00:34:22,120 --> 00:34:25,359 Speaker 1: Men shouted in thick, ugly working class accents as they 611 00:34:25,400 --> 00:34:28,640 Speaker 1: unloaded trucks outside of merchant shops. The sound of their 612 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:32,000 Speaker 1: rough voices gave him a charge that he subconsciously suppressed 613 00:34:32,320 --> 00:34:35,160 Speaker 1: on the menacing squawk of the seagulls, the cops barking 614 00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:38,480 Speaker 1: out orders on their beat cars racing through tiny roadways 615 00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:41,720 Speaker 1: en route god knows where with such haste, their beaters 616 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:44,839 Speaker 1: coming to within inches of the pedestrians moving about sidewalks 617 00:34:44,880 --> 00:34:47,720 Speaker 1: that were too small to handle. The bustling seaport's lunch 618 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:52,440 Speaker 1: hour foot traffic horns, beeping steamships, steaming tugboats, tugging cruise 619 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:54,920 Speaker 1: ships cruising in and out of the port to the Atlantic. 620 00:34:55,360 --> 00:34:57,520 Speaker 1: And just as the minute in our hands of Brian 621 00:34:57,560 --> 00:35:00,920 Speaker 1: Epstein's black leather strapped rose gold water converged at the 622 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,799 Speaker 1: number twelve, hordes of teenage kids began tearing past him 623 00:35:04,800 --> 00:35:07,080 Speaker 1: on the sidewalk and down Matthew. 624 00:35:06,719 --> 00:35:08,280 Speaker 2: Street toward the Fruit Factory. 625 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,960 Speaker 1: The school was out lunchtime in Liverpool in nineteen sixty one. 626 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:17,239 Speaker 1: That meant one thing, an opportunity to get lost in 627 00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 1: the sound of the mercy beat. It was the same 628 00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,879 Speaker 1: sound the handsome boy in Bryant's record shop had sought out, 629 00:35:23,040 --> 00:35:26,160 Speaker 1: and its purveyors were exactly who Brian was seeking out. 630 00:35:26,239 --> 00:35:30,120 Speaker 1: Right now, it seemed too that scores of roughneck Liverpool 631 00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,120 Speaker 1: teenagers were doing the same. He reached the club, if 632 00:35:34,160 --> 00:35:37,160 Speaker 1: you could call it that. A ramshackle sign affixed to 633 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:39,759 Speaker 1: the Fruit Factory wall made it official, but for all 634 00:35:39,760 --> 00:35:42,720 Speaker 1: intents and purposes, the Cavern Club, as it was named, 635 00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:47,719 Speaker 1: was more cavern than club. It didn't matter. The line 636 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,960 Speaker 1: outside swelled instantly, and the muffled beat from inside blasted 637 00:35:51,960 --> 00:35:54,120 Speaker 1: out onto the street. Every time the door opened and 638 00:35:54,160 --> 00:35:57,120 Speaker 1: a new pair of paying teenage customers were allowed entry. 639 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:01,279 Speaker 1: Girls online anxiously checked their made up in their compacts, 640 00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,720 Speaker 1: boys dragged heavy on cigarettes, stood on their tiptoes, wondering 641 00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:06,920 Speaker 1: what the weight was all about. Shouted to the doorman 642 00:36:07,000 --> 00:36:09,200 Speaker 1: to get his head out of his ars, and all 643 00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:11,480 Speaker 1: of them bounced abs and mindedly from one foot to 644 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,959 Speaker 1: the other, eager to get inside before the show was over. 645 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,080 Speaker 1: And the muffled music stopped for all of four seconds 646 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:19,719 Speaker 1: and was replaced by rabbit applause, and then the beat 647 00:36:19,800 --> 00:36:22,520 Speaker 1: kicked back in again full force. It seemed all of 648 00:36:22,600 --> 00:36:26,880 Speaker 1: Matthew Street was brimming with impatience. Brian felt the cocktail 649 00:36:26,920 --> 00:36:29,920 Speaker 1: of anxiety and excitement wash over him. Little did he 650 00:36:30,040 --> 00:36:33,000 Speaker 1: know this exact feeling would intoxicate him from this moment 651 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,080 Speaker 1: on for the rest of his years. Finally he reached 652 00:36:36,080 --> 00:36:39,440 Speaker 1: the doorman he had called ahead to insure entry. The 653 00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,680 Speaker 1: doorman's boss made sure the young music shop owner was obliged, 654 00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,960 Speaker 1: and the door of the Cavern club opened. 655 00:36:46,040 --> 00:36:47,400 Speaker 2: The light from the street. 656 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:50,000 Speaker 1: Behind him cast a shadow on the condensation soak wall 657 00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:50,719 Speaker 1: ahead of him. 658 00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,560 Speaker 2: The door slam shut and the sound pummeled. 659 00:36:53,160 --> 00:36:57,240 Speaker 1: Him a mix of electrified rock and roll and hopped 660 00:36:57,280 --> 00:37:00,560 Speaker 1: up teenagers shouting to be heard over the music. Brian 661 00:37:00,640 --> 00:37:03,799 Speaker 1: followed the music down the eighteen slippery stone steps into 662 00:37:03,840 --> 00:37:07,440 Speaker 1: the subterranean den of two hundred cramp dancing teenagers, all 663 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,480 Speaker 1: wrapped in excitement. 664 00:37:09,760 --> 00:37:11,680 Speaker 2: Brian Epstein immediately. 665 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:14,280 Speaker 1: Heard and saw what they saw his future in theirs, 666 00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:15,959 Speaker 1: the future of rock and roll. 667 00:37:16,280 --> 00:37:18,160 Speaker 2: He saw the Beatles. 668 00:37:19,440 --> 00:37:23,600 Speaker 1: I'm Jake Brennan in this episode of Disgraceland is to 669 00:37:23,719 --> 00:37:35,480 Speaker 1: be continued. Disgraceland was created by Yours Truly and is 670 00:37:35,520 --> 00:37:39,120 Speaker 1: produced in partnership with Double Elvis. 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