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  • George Harrison.

  • Thanks for inviting us round to you to your beautiful home.

  • Can you tell us a little bit about how the Beatles first formed is, of course, about 30 years ago.

  • And I think John Lennon was doing the garden fate or something, you know, needs playing with his band, the Quarrymen.

  • Andi, I think Paul McCartney was just there that day, and they just, you know, one of those amazing things, you know, chance.

  • You know, they bumped into each other on day, formed a band.

  • I think just then it was just a silver Beatles.

  • I don't know, but along the way, you know, you got the people I think I was the next to doing after that.

  • Does Stewart seductive and Pete best?

  • You know, we went to Hamburg and still decided to stay out there.

  • Andi, Pete Best.

  • He left the group, You know, he wasn't really wasn't was in the best drama, but we got gringo, you know?

  • Yeah, it was good to have a fun time, you know, very happy memories.

  • You know, you certainly lost you your Liverpool accent, but I don't really have any hats into total, you know, traveled so much, I suppose, if anything, I got a bit of a West Coast trying, you know, because I lived in Hollywood for a while.

  • You're often associate ID with India?

  • Yes.

  • I don't know what this is.

  • Well, I mean, you spent all the time?

  • Oh, yes, yes, of course.

  • It's been well documented.

  • The Beatles took a famous sabbatical with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.

  • And I know some of the guys really got into it, but I didn't really have any lasting impression on me, But with him, you don't know Fancy some Blackie.

  • No, no, no, I I had some great notes before I left home.

  • What are your vegetarian?

  • A lovely talk.

  • Okay.

  • Port your last solo album, Flaming Pie.

  • I'm sick of talking about flaming flaming pie while anyone ever wants to ask me about is me some local here?

  • Well, you want LSD when you recorded spies like ALS?

  • What's the hidden message at the end of simply having a wonderful Christmas time?

  • You know something?

  • 30 years ago, I was in a band called the Beatles.

  • We made him crack and stuff.

  • No one ever mentions that.

  • Really?

  • Well, I mean, if you're happy I would be.

  • I'd love to talk about the baby.

  • You just saying that.

  • Really?

  • I mean, I've always wanted to know how you got the opening sound to strawberry fields.

  • No, you just bought it in me.

  • Oh, yes, I know the front called us Redefine music.

  • But they make a record called the White Album.

  • You know, I know I'm a huge fan.

  • I mean, to be honest, I didn't really know me neither.

  • It's rubbish.

  • Pretty mediocre.

  • I mean, when when you see things that you did is the bigger you get the sense of fun.

  • You know, when you watch, like Hard Day's Night On and, hell, you know something?

  • I completely forgot about those.

  • You know, most people think my film career began and ended would give my regards to Broad Street if you're happy to talk about the Beatles and maybe we can talk a little about your relationship with John Lennon, you know, that's not this thing.

  • No one ever mentions him.

  • Now, George, since leaving the Beatles, you've had you've had a very successful career, including a little dabble in politics is that, um, the Natural Law Party are seen by many.

  • To be honest, this is unelectable.

  • I mean, they're not really taken very seriously.

  • You know, this is I'm aware of this, and I think this is a great shame, because I believe the natural Law Party has a great deal to off people.

  • Really?

  • Yes.

  • Let me take you through our manifesto.

  • Policy number one.

  • But the 1942 all yogurt will be set free.

  • Policy number two, all cats.

  • Much weapon dramas in bed.

  • Unless, of course, they have a specialist.

  • A difficult of dispensation from myself and policy number three, No ceilings, right.

  • What about the yogurt flying that we that we all saw on your election broadcasts?

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, it wasn't really flying a touch you no more.

  • Just a form of glorified bomb jumping.

  • Good night.

  • They bomb jumping with the tooth.

  • Marty, Ringo, You're the last person to join the Beatles.

  • Do you ever sit down and think about how different things might have been?

  • Well, Jamie, who knows?

  • Maybe I just be an ordinary guy with an ordinary job.

  • Maybe I'd be sitting at home right now with me feet open.

  • A committee watching this show said Thomas.

  • Was it any moment when you ever thought that the Beatles were going to become the biggest band ever on No, not in a 1,000,000 years.

  • There were a lot of bounds around at the time.

  • The swinging blue jeans, Gerry and the pacemakers.

  • AirAsia.

  • We were just part of the Mersey scene.

  • We were just a bunch of guys having a laugh.

  • No one thought it would last any longer than a week.

  • And with that James the red engine sped off down the truck as fast it his wheels would take him.

  • Yes, as you got Maura and Maur famous.

  • Obviously the pressure grew.

  • Did being in the Beetle still remained fun at that time?

  • One day, Thomas realize one of his funnels was blocked.

  • Oh, dear, said Thomas.

  • I'm all banged up.

  • I'd better go and see the fat controller.

  • He'll know what's to be done about such things.

  • Ringo's there any chance that just for the time being we can just focus on your time in the Beatles?

  • Maybe, you know, we could We could talk about the Thomas the Tank engine stuff a little bit later, okay?

  • Oh, yes, of course.

  • Face apologize will talk about the Beatles.

  • So, Thomas.

  • No, no, no more that Thomas.

  • I do apologize.

  • Side Thomas.

  • No, I am.

  • Thomas is representative on Earth.

  • He speaks through May.

  • Sometimes he tells me to do good things.

  • Sometimes he tells me to go bad things.

  • What do you mean?

  • Bad things?

  • Don't Tellem, Ringo.

  • He'll never know.

  • With you will burn down that shed.

  • Ah, however, the engine must die.

  • George.

  • Over the past 20 years or so, you've been producing films that right I founded Handmade Filling, which was a great success.

  • But then it folded.

  • Why was that?

  • They were not unfortunate.

  • I mean, I think the British film industry is very conservative, You know, if it's not chariots of fire or room with a view or broccoli soup that just not interested.

  • I mean, I have a whole host of scripts I've written upstairs in my left, which could be massive, huge box office.

  • What kind of?

  • Well, there's one I've just written about a man who falls in love with his own sandal.

  • It's kind of romantic comedy.

  • I think maybe Tom Hanks as the man and I'd liketo have probably Anton Rodgers as the sandal on music by let loose, right?

  • What's that gonna be called?

  • Really got to go.

  • Any other plans?

  • Very.

  • There's go home, Gideon, which is about a very unhappy office chair, you know, and it's very unsatisfied with his job with the bank and then go to bed one night and he wakes up in the middle of the night and he has this kind of epiphany.

  • This is no life for a chair, he says.

  • So I applied for a transfer the next day to another branch.

  • What you much prefers.

  • Air conditioning.

  • People are nice, much nearer to the shop tells Great.

  • Yeah, kind of.

  • Ah, VP butt of jokes and songs.

  • You know, like a horror movie, but said involved with anything else?

  • Yes.

  • I'm writing a trilogy about a naughty dog.

  • Writes letters to people.

  • Is that it?

  • No.

  • He enters the toward the front on Dhe.

  • Does he win?

  • No, he the dog.

  • You can ride a bike.

  • You know something?

  • You're really, really weird.

  • Ringo, when you say that you're Thomas the Tank Engine's representative on Earth.

  • What do you mean by that?

  • Oh, there said Thomas.

  • The interviewer is a nonbeliever.

  • What do we do with non believers.

  • Ringo, they Most people near smiles there.

  • Uh, hello.

  • I was listening at the door.

  • I must apologize.

  • Kringle gets a little confused sometimes.

  • Isn't that Barbara back from the spiral of May House?

  • Thomas?

  • Yes, said Ringo.

  • That's my beautiful While you'll see.

  • Ever since the Beatles finished over 30 years ago, the only thing Ringo has done is the voices for Thomas the Tank Engine.

  • And even then that was only the first serious.

  • Michael Angelis did it after that.

  • It's very sad.

  • He's no longer able to connect with reality.

  • It must be very difficult for you.

  • It's very difficult.

  • Yes, I mean, I have enough to be getting on with what with my workers.

  • Agent Triple X with the KGB, Strong boat must be stopped.

  • He is planning to build his own underwater kingdom.

  • What must reach Leningrad?

  • The die after microfilms.

  • He's planning to strike Moscow first and all went quiet in the des Beaux Night night.

  • Everybody, my mind.

  • Well, thank you very much.

  • Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach.

  • She's gone a bit off since the spiral of May.

  • As in Shane.

  • I'm sorry, said Thomas Dick around, and my love will flow, but I don't know.

  • I don't know.

  • I don't know.

  • I don't know Something in the sky and she moved me Boca's.

George Harrison.

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