Interview at the Hilton Hotel, Tokyo • Thursday, June 30, 1966

Interview

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Q: “My name is Eric. Good to meet you.”

PAUL: “Hello Eric.”

BEATLES: “Hello.”

Q: “Welcome to Japan. Well, I’ll be the emcee for your show. And well, I have a few questions here. Did you have a good sleep?”

PAUL: “Yes.”

RINGO: “Yes, fine.”

Q: “Did you have any knowledge about Japan before coming here?”

JOHN: “A little.”

PAUL: “Yes a little bit, you know. Not much though.”

GEORGE: “About as much as we know about most places we go to.”

Q: “I see. Well, how are the Japanese fans?”

PAUL: “Great. Seem very great, yeah. We get lots of letters from Japan.”

Q: “You didn’t meet them at the airport?”

RINGO: “No. We came…”

JOHN: (jokingly) “We couldn’t see a thing through the television lights.”

RINGO: “It’s AMAZING security, you know. I’ve never seen so many people guarding us.”

Q: “We don’t want you to be hurt or anything.”

RINGO: “No.”

Q: “So we’re trying our best.”

RINGO: “But we don’t want the security to hurt the fans, you know. Don’t get too rough with them.”

Q: “Mmmm. I understand you’ve met your Queen.”

RINGO: “Yeah.”

Q: “What was the impression?”

RINGO: “Uhh, she’s okay. Very good.”

PAUL: (jokingly) “Yes, yes, one of the best.”

Q: “How did you feel when you received the (MBE) medal?”

RINGO: “It was nice.”

JOHN: “Nervous.”

GEORGE: “Tired. It was early in the morning, about ten o’clock.”

RINGO: “We don’t like to get up too early, ‘cuz we don’t go to bed ’til late.”

Q: “What musician and composer do you respect most?”

PAUL: “No I don’t know, really. (pause) John Lennon!”

JOHN: (comically, shyly) “…Paul McCartney.”

PAUL: (jokingly, exaggerated) “Ha, Ha, Ha!!”

Q: “And uhh, Paul’s marriage…”

PAUL: “Yes, it’s not true. It’s wrong. It’s George’s marriage.”

Q: “George is married.”

PAUL: (gesturing to the others) “These three are married.”

Q: “How many times do you wash your hair in a week?”

RINGO: “About once. It depends, you know.”

JOHN: “Depends how hot it is… how dirty it gets, you know.”

RINGO: “Depends what you’re doing.”

Q: “Do you cut it often?”

RINGO: “That’s the same, you know. Whenever you feel like. You don’t do it every week or you don’t do it every month, you know. It just happens.”

JOHN: (sings as they depart) “Now we say goodbye!! Da-dah, da-da-dah!!”