Interview with BBC Television

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When the Beatles returned to London after their first visit to America in early 1964 they were interviewed by David Coleman of BBC Television. The interview included the following exchange:

• Interviewer: “Now, Ringo, I hear you were manhandled at the Embassy Ball. Is this right?”
• Ringo: “Not really. Someone just cut a bit of my hair, you see.”
• Interviewer: “Let’s have a look. You seem to have got plenty left.”
• Ringo: (turns head) “Can you see the difference? It’s longer, this side.”
• Interviewer: “What happened exactly?”
• Ringo: “I don’t know. I was just talking, having an interview (exaggerated voice). Just like I am NOW!”
• (John and Paul begin lifting locks of his hair, pretending to cut it)
• Ringo: “I was talking away and I looked ’round, and there was about 400 people just smiling. So, you know – what can you say?”
• John: “What can you say?”
• Ringo: “Tomorrow never knows.”
• (John laughs)