John Lennon's funny interviews in 1964

First clip from British Embassy, Washington D.C. 2/11/1964

Q: "Which one are you?"

JOHN: "Eric."
(to person off-camera) "It's not for me, it's for Paul. I'm doing the sh-"

Q: (gesturing to the TV camera) "Eric, here is the American public..."

JOHN: "I'm John."

Q: "You're John?"

JOHN: "It was only a joke."

Q: "Well John, here is the American public. Forty million American viewers..."

JOHN: "It only looks like one man to me. Oh, it's the camera man."

Q: "What is your impression of the American public? You've been here for a while, now."

JOHN: "They are the wildest."

Q: "Why?"

JOHN: "I don't know. Tonight was, you know, marvelous. Ridiculous. Almost eight-thousand people all shouting at once, and we were trying to shout louder than them with microphones, and we still couldn't beat 'em."


Second clip from AP & CBS News, Plaza Hotel 2/10/1964

Q: (reading from newspaper) "...[a music critic] said that you had 'unresolved leading tones, a false modal frame ending up as a plain diatonic.' What would you say to that?"

JOHN: "We got to see a doctor about that."

(laughter)

PAUL: "No, he's just copying the fella in the London Times."


Third clip from Press Conference in Sydney Australia 6/11/1964

JOHN: it's just rock and roll, you know. It just happens we write it."

Q: "Well, what do you think made the difference that suddenly pushed you up above the other groups?"

JOHN: "Well..."

GEORGE: "We got a record contract."

(laughter)