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n n nah n n n n
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next to this quarry a group called The
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Quarry men performed at a village fate
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there are no plaques or signposts but at
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the side of this picturesque Quarry is
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one of the most significant sites in the
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whole history of rock and roll because
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this in this ground here is where poor
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McCartney first saw John Lennon perform
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with the Quarry men where they first got
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together and from here the whole history
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of rock and roll was to change and
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Liverpool was to become the rocking City
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create a type of rock and roll and take
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it right back to the home of rock and
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roll in
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America I'm here at St Pet's Village
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Hall just a short walk away from the
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village fate where the Quarry Men played
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about 20 yards from the gravestone of a
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certain Elena Rigby and In This Very
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Room rock and roll was
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redefined when Paul sat down to chat
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with John and John started playing some
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cords on his guitar and Paul started
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writing out some lyrics for him and the
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two of them began to chat realized that
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they had a closeness between them almost
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straight away and as a result the huge
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explosion and exciting new rock and roll
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hit the world in the 60s and it was all
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born In This Very Room the two of them
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got together met were kindred spirits
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and soon after one of John's friends
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went up to Paul and said John wants you
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to join the
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group in the Liverpool home where he
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lived with his a and Uncle John linen
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dreamed of becoming a rockar like Elvis
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Presley just down the road lived Paul
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McCartney whose father once played in a
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Ragtime
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Band George Harrison who lived in this
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house and rode the bus to school every
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day with Paul idolized guitarist Dwayne
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Eddie growing up near the city's docks
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Ringo Star played drum comes with
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Liverpool's biggest rock band the
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Hurricanes until he met the Beatles in
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Hamburg
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Germany none of them had been abroad
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before and suddenly where in this
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neonlit street was all sorts of sex
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shops and
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gangsters uh on the door and they were
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just bugled
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died they served their musical
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apprenticeship in Hamburg they worked
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sometimes from uh 6:00 at night till
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3:00 in the morning and they exploded on
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stage the bouncers thought oh my God
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there's a fight and it wasn't it was the
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explosion of The
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Beatles and then we went back to
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Liverpool and got a quite a few bookings
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you know they all thought we were German
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know we Builders from Hamburg and they
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all said you speak good English and
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Brian suggested that we just sort of
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wore ordinary suits so we just got what
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we thought were quite good
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suits just got rid of the other
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bands like ourselves and the Beatles And
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The Big Three and the Searchers and
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every on we all tried to be unique and
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play our own type of music what we liked
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and tried to get our own sound and
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because we all were resident at the
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cavern Club it was uh that was the place
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to come and see all the bands it wasn't
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just the music when you went to see The
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Beatles you knew you were you were going
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to come out on a high an absolute high
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this is uh Matthew Street this is where
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the cabin Club was a really Raven Place
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in the' 60s um started off as a tread
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jazz club and then uh The Swinging blue
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jeans made the place very popular with
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the blue jeans uh night out and then the
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Beatles started to play here and all the
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other groups like The Searchers and
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Jerry and The Pacemakers and uh this is
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where the cavern was um people ask me
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about the cavern and I always tell them
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that it was sweaty and smelled but to me
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it was the best rock and roll place that
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uh ever was you know and in the early
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60s it was a place where kids could rock
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and roll and have fun without anybody
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getting on their backs and it was a
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tremendous atmosphere and I don't know
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why but I always thought that the
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Beatles sounded better at the cavern
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than anywhere you know they were a lot
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more ballsy than the
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records Brian Epstein when he went down
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to the cabern which is Brian hung out in
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a completely different world he was rich
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he had a successful family successful
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Furniture business that had a small
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record store in it which is how people
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kept coming in saying he you got that um
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that record of The Beatles and Tony
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sherid and that my Bonny Lies over there
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have you got that record and after like
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the 40th time of kids coming in asking
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him for the record well you know maybe I
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better get this record and he stocked
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the record in he sold it out he got
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another thousand he sold that out and he
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said what who are these kids and so well
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they're playing at this place called the
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cavern why don't you go down and check
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them out the Beatles
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were then just Four Lads on that rather
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dimly lit stage I was immediately struck
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by the their music their beat and uh
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their sense of humor actually on stage
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and even afterwards when I met them I
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was struck again by their personal
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charm and uh it was there that really it
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all
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started we do like the fans and enjoy
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reading the publicity about us but from
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time to time you don't realize that it's
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actually about yourself and once when
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the boys came for me they popped in to
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see me Mom and me dad you know we had to
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go the back cuz you know there's 20 or
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30 outside and they wouldn't believe me
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but you know they knock in saying can we
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have the
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autographs the beaters came down
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themselves about uh half 2 in the
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morning 3:00 and they were talking to us
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and um signing autographs and then they
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went to away and then we sort of all sat
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down and some of the lazy ones sort of
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fell asleep but the rest of us just kept
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awake on coffee and dreams with the
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Beetles take it a baby
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The Beatles were like gift from God I
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was just at the perfect age for that
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14 gave us all an
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idenity
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and I I've thought before just for the
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the music it was such a bonus that the
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music was like the best music
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ever I was Beatles all the way and I was
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my my bedroom wall was in fact
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completely covered the walls ceilings
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doors any any Beetle pictures were stuck
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on my wall and I and I I used to have
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these fantasies of poor McCartney
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marrying my sister and all this kind of
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crazy stuff you know and how wonderful
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it all was you're going over to the
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states early in the new year and you're
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going to top the bill on the Ed Sullivan
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Coast to Coast show John so far all
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British pop stars have not made a
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tremendous impact on the states how do
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you think you're going to Fair well I
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can't really say can I I mean is it up
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to mean no I mean I just hope we go all
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right you know are you going to vary
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your act at all for the American
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audience no I mean we haven't really got
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an act so we'll just do what we do I
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went to New York with the boys and you
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would see men of you know middle-aged
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men walking down Fifth Avenue with
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Beetle wigs on their heads and no matter
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where you turned your dial on your radio
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at any time in the day you would hear a
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beetle song it was complete
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saturation I think life for the beetle
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in the early days was very tough once
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the success had come once they were not
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only a success in England but also broke
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the breaches in
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America then they lived in a giant
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goldfish bowl and they couldn't
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escape the British Invasion this time
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goes by the code name Beetle Mania D-Day
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has been common knowledge for months and
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this was the
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day the Beatles are coming The Beatles
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are coming it got bigger and bigger and
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bigger and bigger still finally we got
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to the point where they landed at the
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airport in New York and there was like
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50,000 people there it was
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unbelievable I said this is it it's all
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over but the shouting we had never seen
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an airport that you couldn't get to
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because of kids standing out there
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screaming we'd never seen kids fainting
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like that at concerts we never heard
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screams like that that you couldn't even
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hear the music while the guys and you
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knew they were playing
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we knew that there was a problem and it
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just landed I knew that they were they
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were different and I knew they that
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their voices Blended together and I knew
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they had a great talent and I knew they
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were going to be big and I hated them
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for
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that what do you think of the comment
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that you're nothing but a bunch of
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British Elvis Presley it's not true it's
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not
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true are you going to get a haircut
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while you're here no no I had one
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yesterday that's no
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lie I remember I came downstairs one day
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I comb my hair down beet little haircut
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my father laughed he thought that was so
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funny and then when he realized that I
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wasn't going to comb it back again he
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got really pissed off
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these girls were losing their minds I
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mean this this appealed to me in a very
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fundamental way I think I was about 13
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or 14 and these girls were going nuts I
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was pregnant with Kenya my daughter when
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the Beatles thing swept okay and I
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remember I want to hold your hand and
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I'd be in the kitchen just just sweeping
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and cooking and taking care of the
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babies and singing I Want to Hold Your
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Hand I was so taken with I Want to Hold
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Your Hand that I stayed up all night cuz
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I didn't have a copy of it and I wanted
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to hear it but they played it once an
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hour I think we when we saw what
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happened with The Beatles we got
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together and had a me said look now what
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are we going to do here we're we're
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we're getting eclipsed by a group called
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The Beatles from London oh my God if you
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we were completely jealous as hell I
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guess we might to turn our Motors on try
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to get something happening where we
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would be better musically Than the
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Beatles we always take my car it's never
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been beat and we never missed yet with
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the girls we
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meet none of the guys go steady cuz it
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wouldn't be right to leave the best girl
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home now it's Saturday night
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I'm
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make get around I get yeah
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get the Beach Boys were hugely
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important demonstrating what you could
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do in a studio and what you couldn't do
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in a studio and opening up that and
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mtown had already done that to some
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extent you know mtown had actually uh
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shown that black pop dance music R&B
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dance music could just be
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extraordinarily beautiful to listen to
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and beautifully produced and
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elegant and um was very very big
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influence when we first started to
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make a bunch of
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hits in
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Detroit and we called it The mtown
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Sound people were coming from Africa
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they were coming from England they were
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coming from Chicago and New York and
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Nashville and
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Memphis to record their people in
