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George, with Brian in the background, photographed during a press conference in the Minnesota Room of Metropolitan Stadium, Minneapolis on the 21st August, 1965. George was given a present of a new Rickenbacker 360-12, an electric 12-string guitar in a Fireglo red sunburst finish by radio station WDGY, along with Ron Butwin and Randy Resnick from local music shop, B-Sharp Music. He later played the guitar on If I Needed Someone.
The Beatles at a press conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 21, 1965.
Q: “Would you ever start your own label, and if so, where is it going to be?”
JOHN: “We’d never start our own label. It’s too much trouble, you know.”
[…]
Q: “I’d like to ask you all a personal question about your hair. How can you sleep at night with it that long?”
JOHN: “Well, when you’re asleep you don’t notice.”
(laughter)
PAUL: “True, true. Ha! That told him.”
GEORGE: “How do you sleep with your arms and your legs still attached? It’s the same.”
RINGO: “You get used to it.”
GEORGE: “Maybe that’s why we’ve been up every night.”
PAUL: “Yeah, maybe THAT’S why we have parties. That’s it. We can’t sleep with this long hair.”
(chuckles from reporters)
PAUL: “Great!”
JOHN: “People have only had short hair since the world war. So they’ve been sleeping for all those thousands of years with long hair.”
PAUL: “It’s not a problem, I tell ya. It’s just as much a problem as having short hair, which to you seems like normal.”
JOHN: “It’s more of a problem having short hair, having to keep it short.”
[…]
BOY: “Ringo?”
RINGO: “Yes?”
BOY: “I got my start playing drums from you. Ever since I listened to you, I started playing them.”
RINGO: (jokingly) “Ahh, you’ll never get anywhere if you listen to me!”
(laughter)
RINGO: “Yeah, go on.”
BOY: “I was wondering how long you’ve been playing your drums?”
GEORGE: (jokingly) “Thirty years, isn’t it?”
(chuckles)
RINGO: “No, it’s about seven years now.”
PAUL: “How old are you?”
BOY: “I’m fourteen.”
PAUL: “You’re the same age as us. Great!”
JOHN: (jokingly, to the others) “By the time he learns it, they’ll have a machine do it.”
[Excerpts from the Beatles press conference in Minneapolis, 21st August, 1965. From Beatles Interviews [x] ]
Pic: Bill Carlson
