The Nose

As we've seen, Brian Matthew interviewed George and John in November 1965 for BBC Radio's Pop Profile. Six months later, he sat down with the other half of the group, beginning with Ringo on May 2nd, 1966.

This is the original, complete and unedited Overseas Transcription Disc recording of the interview:

Ringo - Pop Profile

Sweden 1963

CBM, 1973

The first complete (but middling quality) issue of the great Stockholm radio performance from October 1963. Impressed bootleg collector John Lennon upon initial hearing. Side 2 is useless filler from Washington DC and From Us To You.

Side 1:

- I Saw Her Standing There

- From Me To You

- Money (That's What I Want)

- Roll Over Beethoven

- You Really Got A Hold On Me

- She Loves You

- Twist And Shout

Side 2:

- Till There Was You

- I Want To Hold Your Hand

- Roll Over Beethoven

- All My Loving

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- From Us To You

I Think Of Wink

After touring the UK, France, and US in a four-month period, followed by two months spent filming A Hard Day's Night, The Beatles took the month of May 1964 off. Paul and Ringo headed for the Virgin Islands with their girlfriends Jane Asher and Maureen Cox.

John and his wife Cynthia accompanied George and Pattie to Hawaii, en route to Tahiti. As they departed Honolulu Airport on May 5th, George expressed his displeasure at the intrusions of the American press during their brief stay:

Honolulu Airport

Three weeks of sun, surf, and sand in Tahiti seemed to lift his spirits. When he and John connected through Los Angeles on the way back home May 25th, they were in a silly mood as they recorded greetings for radio station KFWB-AM and their DJs Joe Yocum and Wink Martindale. John recognized Wink's name from his hit single "Deck Of Cards", which he parodied as "Deck Of Dubs":

KFWBeatles

This brief recording was pressed onto a souvenir single sold at a Los Angeles-area music store in June, with "You Can't Do That" on the B-side.

Live At Abbey Road Studios

no label, 1984

A Tobe Milo-associated release, containing an audience recording of the soundtrack to the 1983 multimedia presentation The Beatles at

Abbey Road. This was the first Beatleg appearance of many alternate studio takes.

Side 1:

- Love Me Do

- How Do You Do It

- I Saw Her Standing There

- Twist And Shout

Side 2:

- One After 909

- Don't Bother Me

- A Hard Day's Night

- Leave My Kitten Alone

- I'm A Loser

- She's A Woman

- Ticket To Ride

- Help!

Side 3:

- Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)

- I'm Looking Through You

- Paperback Writer

- Rain

- Penny Lane

- Strawberry Fields Forever

Side 4:

- A Day In The Life

- Hello Goodbye

- Lady Madonna

- Hey Jude

- While My Guitar Gently Weeps

- Because

- #9 Dream

Zappled Right Between The Eyes

By request, here is a recording of John and Yoko promoting their new Zapple LP, Unfinished Music No. 2: Life With The Lions. On or about May 8th, 1969, they spoke with BBC Radio's Pete Drummond, most likely from their office at Apple HQ in London. This may have been the only time "No Bed For Beatle John" was aired on BBC Radio!

Life With The Lennons

Sessions

Parlophone/EMI, 1985

Not an EMI release, of course, but copied from a tape of a cancelled EMI release, by the Yellow Dog folks. An exciting Beatleg at the time, but nearly all of these same mixes (unfortunately - the editing is atrocious) ended up on the Anthology CDs.

Side 1:

- Come And Get It

- Leave My Kitten Alone

- Not Guilty

- I'm Looking Through You

- What's The New Mary Jane

Side 2:

- How Do You Do It

- Besame Mucho

- One After 909

- If You've Got Trouble

- That Means A Lot

- While My Guitar Gently Weeps

- Mailman Bring Me No More Blues

- Christmas Time Is Here Again

Dance, Tony, Dance!

With George in the USA, Ringo moving into a new home, and John by Yoko's side in hospital, it fell to Paul McCartney to promote The Beatles (aka the "White Album") on Radio Luxembourg.

To this end, DJ Tony Macarthur recorded a track-by-track examination of the double album at Paul's London home on November 20th, 1968. Except that Paul only felt comfortable talking about his own compositions, although he does touch on "Happiness Is A Warm Gun" and a few other songs.

Here is a composite, mostly from a so-so off-air recording (it aired November 21st) but with a couple of excerpts from a very good quality source tape spliced in. Who out there has the complete upgrade?

Paul and Tony do it in the road

Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da

Thames, 1986

Notable at the time for the title track, the "Oh! Darling" vocal tape, and an 8 minute version of "Dig It". The rest is filler repeated from File Under: Beatles and elsewhere; also a bit skimpy on the total running time.

Side 1:

- Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da/Christmas Time Is Here Again

- Cannonball/Not Fade Away/Hey Little Girl/Bo Diddley

- Oh! Darling

- Dig It

Side 2:

- We Can Work It Out

- Let It Be

- Christmas Time Is Here Again

Mersey Sound Meets Puget Sound

Seattle, Washington was the third city on the summer 1964 North American Beatles tour.

When they landed at Seattle-Tacoma airport on August 21st, local TV news was there to film a few words from Paul. So was Larry Kane, who chatted with Ringo as he deplaned.

Kane also spoke with press officer Derek Taylor and interviewed fans hanging around outside the Edgewater Inn, where the group stayed and fished out the window of their suite overlooking Elliott Bay in Puget Sound.

Prior to their show that night at Seattle Coliseum, The Beatles met the media for a typical press conference, livened only by John's reluctant reading of his poem "Good Dog Nigel".

Snaps 'N' Trax

Geritol Records, 1982

A listenable compilation, half Beatles-era and half solo-era. Everything is copied from other boots, but the side 2 material is fairly obscure.

Side 1:

- I Got A Woman

- Honey Don't

- Act Naturally

- It's All Too Much

- Yer Blues

- Hound Dog

Side 2:

- Too Many Cooks

- I Love My Suit

- My Carnival

- The Pirate Song

- Say Darling

- Soundstage Of Mind

- Twenty Flight Rock

Psychedelic Freakouts

On January 18th, 1967, a few weeks into the Sgt. Pepper sessions, Freddie Prinze - er, I'm sorry, Paul McCartney sat down for a filmed interview to discuss the burgeoning psychedelic scene for the benefit of Granada TV's viewers. Excerpts of the interview were used in the Scene Special documentary "It's So Far Out, It's Straight Down", aired March 7th.

Another snippet appeared in a 1971 Guinness Book TV special, The Record Makers, and more recently further extracts were issued on a DVD. I've stitched all the available bits together into a recording lasting 6:41:

Far Out

Kum Back

no label, 1970

A knock-off of the earliest Beatleg, with a couple of mono tracks ("One After 909" and "Dig It") inserted into the stereo lineup.

Side 1:

- Get Back

- The Walk

- Let It Be

- One After 909

- Teddy Boy

- Two Of Us

Side 2:

- Don't Let Me Down

- I've Got A Feeling

- The Long And Winding Road

- Dig It

- For You Blue

- Dig A Pony

- Get Back

Hernia and Odeon, take 2

In listening to the fabulous new Unsurpassed Broadcasts set, I realized it contains a slightly longer version of the Dibbs Mather Doncaster interview, with a few more lines of John's "The Neville Club" reading. So, in the interest of completeness, here it is:

Dateline London

Come Back Johnny!

Melvin, 1979

Another of Melvin's entertaining Beatlegs, albeit not as eclectic as usual. Most of the LP consists of the One-To-One concert (a mix of audience and broadcast tapes), with a healthy dose of Lennon media appearances sprinkled throughout.

Side 1:

- Comment to a Bleary-eyed Bob Dylan

- Power To The People

- New York City

- It's So Hard

- Woman Is The Nigger Of The World

- Listen to This Radio Spot

- Well Well Well

- Instant Karma!

- Goodnight Vienna radio spot

Side 2:

- Monday Night Football

- Mother

- Come Together

- Cold Turkey

- Hound Dog

- Well (Baby Please Don't Go)/Rock Island Line/Maybe Baby/Peggy Sue

- Johnny B. Goode

- Imagine

Hernia and Odeon

On December 10th, 1963, The Beatles' Autumn Tour stopped by Doncaster for a pair of shows. Backstage at the Gaumont, they were visited by Australian broadcaster Dibbs Mather, who interviewed them for Dateline London, a BBC Overseas Transcription show.

This is one of the longer and more in-depth 1963 Beatle interviews, as well as one of the most entertaining, largely thanks to John, who reads his newly-minted poem "The Neville Club" but is reticent to answer many questions.

Dateline London

Spare Parts

Bird Brain Records, 1987

An aptly-named concoction, full of unrelated tracks from other bootlegs. Bird Brain was better known as Starlight Records.

Side 1:

- That's All Right Mama

- I Saw Her Standing There

- Lonesome Tears In My Eyes

- Do You Want To Know A Secret

- And I Love Her

- Honey Don't

- Dizzy Miss Lizzy

- Ticket To Ride

Side 2:

- I'm Looking Through You

- I Am The Walrus

- Act Naturally

- Birthday

- Dig It

- Her Majesty

A Delaide Drummer

The Beatles spent the first week of their June 1964 Australasian tour a man short. Jimmy Nicol filled in admirably on drums while Ringo recuperated from inflamed tonsils back in London.

By the 13th, he was declared fit enough to travel and, accompanied by Brian Epstein, made the arse-numbing journey from London to Adelaide, via San Francisco and Honolulu. He chatted with an ITV reporter before setting off.

Other than a brief stopover in Los Angeles by John and George the previous month, this was the first Beatle visit to US soil since their history-changing February tour. Naturally, the San Francisco press descended upon Ringo, although this reporter seemed to bear a grudge for having to cover the event.

Meanwhile back in Adelaide that day, John, Paul and George killed time waiting for their bandmate by bantering with Bob Rogers and, uh... looking at kangaroo pelts.

Return To Abbey Road

no label, 1986

A nice Abbey Road-themed compilation, pairing the No. 3 Abbey Road NW8 tape with various "Get Back" session rehearsals.

Side 1:

- Something

- Maxwell's Silver Hammer

- Oh! Darling

- Octopus's Garden

Side 2:

- Because

- You Never Give Me Your Money

- Sun King

- Mean Mr. Mustard

- Polythene Pam

- She Came In Through The Bathroom Window

- Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight

- Her Majesty

The Witty Beatle

Here is the second in the series of Beatle Pop Profiles done by Brian Matthew for BBC Radio. The Beatle under scrutiny this time is John, in a conversation recorded November 30th, 1965. Again, this is the complete uncut program from Transcription Disc.

John - Pop Profile

Pittsburgh, PA

On September 14th, 1964, The Beatles flew to Pittsburgh for a concert at the Civic Arena, where fans had been lining up since the previous evening. When they arrived at the airport, a few mischievous kids lobbed tomatoes in their direction, but the performance went off without a hitch.

Here's a lengthy (and low-fi) recording of the pre-show press conference as aired on radio station KQV-AM.

Cinelogue III: A Hard Day's Night

Instant Analysis, 1974

Pretty straightforward - a copy of the complete soundtrack to the first Beatles movie, A Hard Day's Night, obviously taped off a TV speaker during a broadcast of the film. In the days before home video, this was a fun way to revisit the dialogue and musical score.

Side 1:

- A Hard Day's Night

- I Should Have Known Better

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- Don't Bother Me

Side 2:

- All My Loving

- If I Fell

- Can't Buy Me Love

Side 3:

- And I Love Her

- I'm Happy Just To Dance With You

Side 4:

- Can't Buy Me Love

- Tell Me Why

- If I Fell

- I Should Have Known Better

- She Loves You

- A Hard Day's Night

Ringalong Singalong

Each of the Beatles gave individual interviews to promote Abbey Road in the autumn of 1969. John's turn came in September when he spoke with Tony Macarthur of Radio Luxembourg. In addition to commenting on each track on the LP, John discussed his recent performance at the Toronto Rock And Roll Revival concert, the Moog synthesizer, and other current topics. The interview was aired September 27th.

Renaissance Minstrels Volume II

no label, 1970

A mono copy of an earlier stereo bootleg, Homogenized Beatles.

Side 1:

- The Walk

- Teddy Boy

- Two Of Us

- I've Got A Feeling

- The Long And Winding Road

- For You Blue

- Dig A Pony

Side 2:

- Across The Universe

- The Inner Light

- Let It Be

- Don't Let Me Down

- Get Back

- I'm Down

- Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)

Egg And Spoon

Just a quickie recording of some TV interviews from the Munich press conference on June 23rd, 1966.

Renaissance Minstrels Volume I

no label, 1970

A very frustrating release, with the first appearance of Ed Sullivan Show material, but in scrambled order and with nearly every song extended by 30 seconds to a minute by editing in repeated verses and choruses.

Side 1:

- From Me To You

- Twist And Shout

- This Boy

- I Saw Her Standing There

- She Loves You

Side 2:

- I Want To Hold Your Hand

- Please Please Me

- All My Loving

- She Loves You

Sock It To 'Em, Johnny!

Apple Records was launched in America with a blaze of publicity from Lennon and McCartney. In May 1968, they flew to New York City to give interviews to local and national reporters, and to appear on public TV and NBC's Tonight Show. On the 14th, they held a press conference at the Americana Hotel, with Apple's new spokesman Derek Taylor fielding questions.

Here is a composite recording of the event, from newsreels and WABC radio's coverage.

Candlestick Park

Beatlive Records, 1984

The first appearance of Tony Barrow's cassette of the final Beatles concert - unfortunately missing the final song, "Long Tall Sally". Filling out the LP is the TV broadcast of the 1964 Melbourne show. An early effort from Yellow Dog.

Side 1:

- Rock And Roll Music

- She's A Woman

- If I Needed Someone

- Day Tripper

- Baby's In Black

- I Feel Fine

- Yesterday

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- Nowhere Man

Side 2:

- Paperback Writer

- You Can't Do That

- All My Loving

- She Loves You

- Can't Buy Me Love

- Twist And Shout

- Long Tall Sally

Alps!

On March 13th, 1965, location shooting for Help! moved to Austria. The Beatles and co-star Eleanor Bron flew from London Airport to Salzburg, arriving at W. A. Mozart Airport. A press conference followed at the hotel Österreichischer Hof.

Both the arrival and conference were covered by WDR Radio for broadcast two days later across West Germany.

Yin Yang

Bag Records, 1984

The second in NEMS Records' occasional Bag series of Lennon/Ono LPs (culminating in the Lost Lennon Tapes series). A nice collection of excellent-quality solo tracks.

Side 1:

- Serve Yourself

- Mucho Mungo

- Stand By Me

- Slippin' And Slidin'

- Yer Blues

- Whole Lotta Yoko

Side 2:

- Mucho Mungo

- Imagine

- Radio Peace

- Love

- Walking On Thin Ice

- Give Peace A Chance

Crazy Little Women

"In the fall of 1964 Finley was in the doghouse in Kansas City because of his seemingly constanct efforts to move the team someplace else–it was Dallas one day, Seattle the next, Oakland every third Wednesday, etc.–and to gain fan approval he engineered a concert with the Beatles in Kansas City. Finley saw that the Beatles did not have a Kansas City stop on their first U.S. tour, and he tracked down manager Brian Epstein at the Cow Palace in San Francisco to try to bring the band to Municipal Stadium. He offered $50,000 for an appearance, but Epstein said that the going price was $100,000 so Finley countered with a $150,000 offer.

Epstein agreed to divert the band’s tour to Kansas City for an additional concert date at the Kansas City Municipal Stadium, and they played on September 17, 1964 for only 31 minutes to a crowd of about 20,208 fans. Drew Dimmel recalled that “When confirmation was announced on my local ‘rock’ station, WHB, that tickets were going on sale to see The Beatles, live, at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City I persuaded my dad to drive me down to the ticket booth. I bought two field-level tickets, paying $6.50 apiece; one for my little brother and one for me. I was 15 and he was 12.” In actuality, the standard ticket price for this concert was $8.50, making it the highest in the 1964 tour, except for one concert in New York City. But Finley also had a $2.00 ticket, which is one of the lowest admission prices of any Beatles concert. Never shy about publicity, the back of the $8.50 tickets featured Charlie Finley wearing a Beatles Wig as a joke.

Jim Schaaf, who ran the A’s promotions department in Kansas City, recalled the excitement surrounding that first Beatles tour through the U.S. The band “came in early in the morning, and there was all kind of people at the Muelbach Hotel. I mean, people lined up all over the place…young kids out there when the Beatles came in, and then…When these guys came in, they got in about 2:00am…and they were a bunch of fun guys. They didn’t go to sleep.” The next morning they held a press conference, inviting all of the high school journalists in the Kansas City area to meet the Beatles. Schaaf recalled trying to get them out of bed, “I felt a heck of a lot of pressure because they wouldn’t get up!” Schaaf knew this was something that Finley prized, and he eventually pushed the press conference back to noon and it turned out well. Finley was delighted. Schaaf concluded, “I thought we had a big crowd because we had people sitting on the infield.”

The Beatles began their set with the song “Kansas City/Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey,” and the crowd went wild. Some fans rushed the stage but stage manager Derek Taylor settled them down. The Beatles then continued their show. Because it did not sell out, Finley did not make back his promotion of the concert. Of course, some did make money on the deal, especially the two people who acquired the sheets on the beds of the Beatles rooms in their hotel. They cut them into small squares and sold them as souvenirs. They netted $159,000 for their efforts."

Source: http://launiusr.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/the-beatles-and-charles-o-finley-owner-of-the-kansas-city-as-in-the-1960s/

Here are a few recordings from The Beatles' only Kansas City visit:

press conference

Larry Kane interviews

KHB-AM interviews

Shout

Manto Records, 1982

An obscure Beatleg, with some true rarities on side 2; most of the solo material made its debut on this album. Side 1 includes a common BBC Radio session, but with a unique introduction from a later re-airing.

Side 1:

- From Us To You

- Can't Buy Me Love

- Till There Was You

- Roll Over Beethoven

- All My Loving

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- Kansas City/Hey Hey Hey Hey!

Side 2:

- Hey Jude

- Shades Of Orange

- Loving Sacred Loving

- Waltzing Matilda/Yesterday

- Eleanor Rigby

- Simple Life ads

- Give Peace A Chance

- Boys

- Dark Horse

A Light At The Local

Paul and Linda took a delayed honeymoon to Corfu on May 16th, 1969. The day before they departed, Paul was visiting relatives in Liverpool and consented to an interview with former Liverpool Institute schoolmate Roy Corlett. An edited version of the conversation, taped at Jim McCartney's home in Heswall, was aired on BBC Radio's Light And Local.

Here is the raw tape of the complete interview.

Shea The Good Old Days

no label, 1971

One of the earliest issues of the Hollywood Bowl acetate (not Shea).

Side 1:

- Twist And Shout

- You Can't Do That

- All My Loving

- She Loves You

- Things We Said Today

- Roll Over Beethoven

Side 2:

- Can't Buy Me Love

- If I Fell

- I Want To Hold Your Hand

- Boys

- A Hard Day's Night

- Long Tall Sally

Where It's At

By request, here are more Kenny Everett-Beatle interviews for BBC Radio's Where It's At.

First, some Sgt. Pepper promotion from the May 20th, 1967 edition; the interviews may have been taped at the Pepper launch party the previous day, although that wouldn't explain George's absence.

Kenny also spoke with Paul the week following the Our World telecast, for the July 1st, 1967 edition of Where It's At. Paul reveals that he wrote a song for the occasion (possibly "Your Mother Should Know") which had yet to be recorded (thus it can't be "All Together Now").

More Get Back Session

no label, 1971

Very early Beatleg taken from the soundtrack of the film Let It Be.

Side 1:

- Maxwell's Silver Hammer

- Besame Mucho

- Two Of Us

- One After 909

- Rip It Up/Shake Rattle And Roll

- Get Back

- Dig A Pony

Side 2:

- Jazz Piano Song

- Suzy Parker

- I Me Mine

- I've Got A Feeling

- Let It Be

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N!

On February 19th, 1964, The Beatles were in the middle of a relaxing week of fun in the sun on Miami Beach. After performing live on The Ed Sullivan Show the previous Sunday, they had four free days to enjoy the warmer climes of Florida before flying back to London via New York on Friday the 21st.

One of the only interviews they granted during their precious days off was to Lee Alan, a disc jockey from Detroit's KNUZ-AM. The lads were in a happy and silly mood as they chatted about their impressions of the US and their love for Motown artists. Later that year, the interview was split across both sides of a limited-edition single, A Trip To Miami:

Lee Alan interview

Get Back

Lemon Records, 1970

One of the earliest Beatlegs, sort of a hybrid of Kum Back (albeit in mono) and the Silver Album. Does not contain "Across The Universe", which is listed on the slipsheet.

Side 1:

- One After 909

- The Walk

- Don't Let Me Down

- Dig A Pony

- I've Got A Feeling

- Get Back

Side 2:

- For You Blue

- Teddy Boy

- Two Of Us

- Dig It

- Let It Be

- The Long And Winding Road

Starrlets

On September 13th, 1965, Ringo and Maureen Starkey welcomed their first child into the world. Zak Starkey was destined to become a drummer like his father, but Ringo certainly didn't know that at the time of these interviews, conducted the following day:

ITV News

BBC News

Two years later, on August 19th, 1967, the second Starkey son was born. Ringo spoke about Jason the following day:

ITV News interview

Live Paris Olympia

CBM, 1973

The first bootleg containing the evening Paris concert of June 20th, 1965. Now found in far superior quality on both videotape and CD.

Side 1:

- Twist And Shout

- She's A Woman

- Ticket To Ride

- Can't Buy Me Love

- I'm A Loser

Side 2:

- I Wanna Be Your Man

- A Hard Day's Night

- I Feel Fine

- Baby's In Black

- Rock And Roll Music

- Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby

- Long Tall Sally

You've Got A Lucky Face

April 23rd, 1964 was a busy day for John Lennon and his bandmates.

After partying the previous night at the Ad-Lib Club with DJ Murray "the K" Kaufman, they had to be on location early in the morning to film portions of the "field scene" in A Hard Day's Night. Murray taped this brief interview while they were setting up the next shot:

Isleworth (not Twickenham)

Nursing a hangover, John then accompanied his wife Cynthia to the Dorchester for a luncheon in his honor, hosted by Foyles bookshop. Despite the wit and wordplay evident in his book In His Own Write, this was all John could manage when asked to give a speech in front of the assembled guests:

Lucky face

The evening was spent rehearsing for the TV special Around The Beatles, at Remembrance Hall. Murray recorded over 20 minutes of the proceedings as The Beatles practiced miming the musical numbers and ran through lines for their Midsummer Night's Dream adaptation:

Muffy the Cow