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Shea Stadium was a happening.
You couldn't hear any music at all.
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But then it just became
like lip-syncing, miming.
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Sometimes things would break down
and nobody'd know.
:28:31
Last month, 75 teenagers
from Pennsylvania...
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petitioned Her Majesty, the Queen,
to have the Beatles knighted.
:28:37
Well, this hasn't happened.
:28:38
But today, I'm pleased to say
that they have been made members...
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of the most honorable
Order of the British Empire.
:28:44
Congratulations, John, George,
Ringo, and Paul.
:28:47
How did you all react to this?
:28:49
Well, I went...
:28:51
Which means in sound?
:28:53
Whoopee.
:28:56
You all live in, well, good
domestic splendor.
:28:59
Has this affected your writing,
Paul and John?
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No, it's easier to write with cushions,
I'm sure...
:29:05
than on pieces of hard bench.
:29:08
But you know we were on hard benches
before we met...
:29:11
a known terror of Liverpool.
It's much easier on a nice cushion.
:29:15
From obscurity in a cellar
in Liverpool four years ago...
:29:18
and now to Buckingham Palace.
:29:20
We're all delighted.
:29:21
- Thank you very much.
- Congratulations.
:29:27
The Beatles arrived in Japan today,
as their tour of the Far East continues.
:29:32
Across the Pacific, in the United States,
a furor is developing over comments...
:29:36
John Lennon made: "Christianity will go.
:29:39
"It will vanish and shrink.
We are more popular than Jesus. "
:29:45
Here in Tokyo, violence broke out
when right-wing fanatics...
:29:48
demonstrated against the Beatles
and their effect on Japanese youth.
:29:54
This is Tommy Charles.
:29:56
If you, as an American teenager,
are offended by statements...
:29:59
from a group of foreign singers,
which strike...