Conferencia de prensa junior: Warwick Hotel, Nueva York

Q: Paul McCartney, are you going to get married with Jane Asher?JOHN: Yay! Tee-hee!McCartney: Erm, I’m probably gonna get married with Jane.Q: I want to know who your favourite American group is.Lennon: Just one? There’s a lot of them.McCartney: There’s quite a few of them, you know. Beach Boys, Lovin’ Spoonful, Byrds, Mamas And Papas.Q: I’d like to know, John, are you making a movie without the other Beatles?Lennon: Yes.Q: When?Lennon: When I get home from doing this.Q: Are you gonna have a lead part?Lennon: No.Q: A small part?Lennon: It’s… you know. I wouldn’t take a lead part. I wouldn’t like to.Q: Will they put your name in the mo.. you know in the um…Lennon: I’m big enough to get a mensh.Q: I’d like to ask Paul when the whole group is going to make their next picture.McCartney: The next picture, we’ll probably make it, I think, early next year. But at the moment the man’s writing a script, and it depends on the script, you know, when we make it.Q: I’d like to ask John – Is it true he went around London in a gorilla suit?Lennon: No. That was a film called Morgan. I’ve got a gorilla suit, which I’ve worn about twice to frighten a few people, and it’s too hot.Q: I’d like to know, do you mean all the lyrics that you write?McCartney: We mean them as lyrics. But I mean, if we write ‘We all live in a yellow submarine,’ we don’t really mean that.Q: Paul, is Eleanor Rigby cryptic? Does it got a hidden meaning?McCartney: No, no. No. It’s just a straight song.Lennon: That aint no hidden meaning, baby.Q: I wonder, being in a group with four people and becoming famous so young, how you managed to evolve with separate personalities.Paul McCartney: The main thing is, it’s true that we’re a group of four people together with an image, but we don’t believe that. We don’t take that bit of us too seriously.John Lennon: We’re still us, you know.McCartney: We’re still individuals.Q: I’d like to wish John a happy wedding anniversary.Lennon: Oh, thank you!Q: I want to know if any of you know Patricia Flater in Cumberland, England.McCartney: Patricia who?Q: Flater. F.L.A.T.E.R.PAUL: Suuuure!Q: I’d like to ask Paul, who is Eleanor Rigby? I read in The Beatles Book that she is a person. Who is she?McCartney: No, she isn’t. It was just a name. It was nearly gonna be Daisy Hawkins.Q: I read that she was someplace with you fellas, that she met you.McCartney: No, it’s not a real person. It’s only imagination.Q: In the beginning of your album, right before Taxman, there’s a lot of squeaking.George Harrison: It’s just the bit before we recorded it, what happened to be on the tape. That part usually gets cut off. We thought you’d like to hear it.Q: I want to know – How come you don’t have the same Help! movie and Hard Day’s Night movie here in the United States. It’s not as long. Why did you cut it?Harrison: United Artists cut the pieces out of it. Not us.McCartney: It’s got nothing to do with us, you see. Other people do that, cut it. We just make it.Q: I heard that Sid Bernstein offered you to come back next year. Are you looking forward to it?Lennon: We never heard about it.Q: What do you think of miniskirts, and do you think they will go higher?McCartney: Well, I like miniskirts. I think they’re fine. The thing is, at the moment it’s miniskirts, but in Victorian times people were ashamed to show their ankles, you know.McCartney: It’s just got a bit higher, now. It may go even higher. Whoopie!Q: George, do you have a cousin named Maggie?Harrison: No.Q: I’d like to know what you think of the boys that followed you from the airport last night.Lennon: We didn’t notice them.Q: I’d like to ask any of you – Have you seen the Beatles cartoon show?Ringo Starr: Yeah.Q: What do you think of it?Starr: It’s OK.Q: Do you think it’s a good portrayal of your character?McCartney: It’s not really like us, but it’s fun.Q: I’d like to know if this press conference was your idea or if you’re just here because of…Lennon: Ours.McCartney: Yeah.Starr: Everybody’s having a good time.Q: Ringo, where do you get all your rings?Starr: Erm, people buy them for me, you know.Q: I’d like to know, how do you decide who is going to sing the lead in any of your songs?Lennon: Whoever knows most of the words.