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7.35pm
18 April 2013
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This is from a Playboy interview in 1980:
“The car had arrived to take us to the studio. On the way out, a young girl accosted John with ‘When are you going back with the Beatles?’ John snapped, ‘When are you going back to high school?’
LOL.
Does anyone have any more stories of fans with dumb questions?
"If you're ever in the shit, grab my tit.” —Paul McCartney
7.37pm
14 February 2013
Offline Of course there is the old “standby” of them asking George what he called his haircut and him answering “Arthur” – a classic!
I KNOW that I just read a bunch while reading “Into the Sky With Diamonds” – but can’t remember them at the moment…..
"....take a sad song & make it Meilleur"....
9.16pm
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1 May 2011
Offline A US press conference in 1966 when they were asked “what do you dream off?” (im paraphrasing). John finally snapped at that after a series of inane questions. If you want to find stupid questions they were asked just read the press conference transcripts, there are tons in there.
"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)
12.56am
12 November 2012
Offline People didn’t think that the Beatles’ fame would last very long, which is why so many stupid questions were asked during the early part of the Beatles’ career. The reporters must have regretted not asking something more serious.
2/7/1964 JFK Airport
Q: “Does all that hair help you sing?”
PAUL:
“What?”
Q: “Does all that hair help you sing?”
JOHN:
“Definitely. Yeah.”
Q: “You feel like Sampson? If you lost your
hair, you’d lose what you have? ‘It’?”
JOHN: “Don’t know. I don’t
know.”
PAUL: “Don’t know.”
"The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke."-George Harrison
1.34am
18 April 2013
Offline thewordislove94 said
People didn’t think that the Beatles’ fame would last very long, which is why so many stupid questions were asked during the early part of the Beatles’ career. The reporters must have regretted not asking something more serious.2/7/1964 JFK Airport
Q: “Does all that hair help you sing?”
PAUL:
“What?”
Q: “Does all that hair help you sing?”
JOHN:
“Definitely. Yeah.”
Q: “You feel like Sampson? If you lost your
hair, you’d lose what you have? ‘It’?”
JOHN: “Don’t know. I don’t
know.”
PAUL: “Don’t know.”
Hahahaha, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read all day!
"If you're ever in the shit, grab my tit.” —Paul McCartney
1.41am
17 January 2013
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There was a really funny short one with Paul, I’ve been trying to find it on Youtube but can’t. I just remember at the end the reporter was like “I just have to ask, did Yoko break up the Beatles?” Paul does this little chuckle, and with a nice amount of sass, he’s like “No”, giving her this look like, “Are you really asking me that?”.
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"Please don't bring your banjo back, I know where it's been.. I wasn't hardly gone a day, when it became the scene.. Banjos! Banjos! All the time, I can't forget that tune.. and if I ever see another banjo, I'm going out and buy a big balloon!"
1.44am
18 April 2013
Offline LongHairedLady said
Expert Textpert: Nice new picture!
Thanks, it’s from September, 1980.
"If you're ever in the shit, grab my tit.” —Paul McCartney
10.56pm
21 November 2012
Offline A while ago I’ve gone through some press conferences and interviews on some website, and in most of them I was stunned because of the amount of stupid questions. I’ll look if I can find some. Must be plenty of them in there.
9.15am
3 May 2012
Offline I love this, and will never get tired of it. Taken from the interview that mmm mentioned above:
Q: “I’d like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, ‘Time’ magazine put down Pop music. And they referred to ‘Day Tripper ‘ as being about a prostitute…”
PAUL: (nodding jokingly) “Oh yeah.”
Q: “…and ‘Norwegian Wood ‘ as being about a lesbian.”
PAUL: (nodding) “Oh yeah.”
Q: “I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the ‘Time’ magazine criticizm of the music that is being written today.”
PAUL: “We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that’s all.”
– – –
Q: “May I ask about the song ‘Eleanor Rigby ?’ What was the motivation or inspiration for that?”
JOHN: “Two queers.”
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
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4.43am
6 December 2012
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Here are some stupid questions:
Q: “Ringo, would you show us your grey hair?”
RINGO: “No.”
~~~
Q: “Have you ever measured your hair to see whose is the longest?”
BEATLES: “No!”
GEORGE: “I think mine is anyway, ‘cuz it grows faster than the others.”
JOHN: “I’m usually a close second.”
~~~
Q: “Paul, I saw a picture of your father and I notice that he has thinning hair.”
PAUL: “Mmm-hmm.”
RINGO: “But he’s 65, what do you expect!”
(laughter)
Q: “When your hair starts thinning, what will you do?”
PAUL: (laughs) “Let it thin, you know.”
GEORGE: “Grow a beard.”
~~~
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.”
~~~
What is it with reporters and The Beatles’ hair?!
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2.22pm
27 December 2012
Offline The hair the hair the hair, it even confuses the reporters, they couldn’t tell who is who. But these days if the Beatles donned the hair today, people will say Bieber here. So I ditched Arthur for the Abbey Road look.
8.20pm
14 December 2009
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I occasionally wonder if it was only the Beatles who faced all those stupid questions from the media in those days, or if they were typical of the standard. Like, did Elizabeth Taylor or Frank Sinatra receive questions about what they thought about the arms race and African independence? Was it only the pop stars who got all the inane “What’s your favourite colour?”-type questions?
If that’s the case, then it’s really no surprise that the reporters all focused on the hair in ’64 – that would clearly be the most interesting thing they could possibly think of asking.
Paul: Yeah well… first of all, we’re bringing out a ‘Stamp Out Detroit’ campaign.
9.21am
3 May 2012
Offline I think the general idea was that they were young men who didn’t have an opinion on anything beyond the latest fashion, or whatever. I doubt it crossed their minds to ask them about anything more serious than when they last had their hair cut. People like E. Taylor or Sinatra weren’t in the pop business where you were lucky if you lasted more than a year and, perhaps more importantly, they were older and, therefore, could talk about ”grown up” subjects.
Moving along in our God given ways, safety is sat by the fire/Sanctuary from these feverish smiles, left with a mark on the door.
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17 January 2013
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Love you, Johnny! 
"Please don't bring your banjo back, I know where it's been.. I wasn't hardly gone a day, when it became the scene.. Banjos! Banjos! All the time, I can't forget that tune.. and if I ever see another banjo, I'm going out and buy a big balloon!"
5.21pm
14 February 2013
Offline That was awesome! Pure John <3
"....take a sad song & make it Meilleur"....
1.04am
5 November 2011
Offline fabfouremily said
I love this, and will never get tired of it. Taken from the interview that mmm mentioned above:Q: “I’d like to direct this question to messrs. Lennon and McCartney. In a recent article, ‘Time’ magazine put down Pop music. And they referred to ‘Day Tripper ‘ as being about a prostitute…”
PAUL: (nodding jokingly) “Oh yeah.”
Q: “…and ‘Norwegian Wood ‘ as being about a lesbian.”
PAUL: (nodding) “Oh yeah.”
Q: “I just wanted to know what your intent was when you wrote it, and what your feeling is about the ‘Time’ magazine criticizm of the music that is being written today.”
PAUL: “We were just trying to write songs about prostitutes and lesbians, that’s all.”
– – –
Q: “May I ask about the song ‘Eleanor Rigby ?’ What was the motivation or inspiration for that?”
JOHN: “Two queers.”
Lol, I, too, could never get tired of this.
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