The Beatles Used To Like Each Other

Lost Interview Airs on BBC

July 1, 2008, 11:30 PM

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For those of us who were not around back then, it is difficult to imagine The Beatles being young artists just starting to live the dream. Lennon died before I was born and Paul McCartney's solo music has never been very good. But I would hear about The Beatles and how they changed music forever. Almost seems like mythology.

A lost interview from April 30, 1964 was recently discovered sitting in a film canister in an abandoned London garage. The interview was conducted for a Scottish television station and has never been broadcast outside of Scotland. The audio portion of the 9 minute interview was found to be usable and the BBC aired it on Tuesday.

The tape features much younger versions of Lennon and McCartney, who had just returned from their first trip to the United States where they appeared on The Ed Sullivan show and played at the Washington Coliseum, events that would later be considered historic. The two artists discuss how they met and what their songwriting process is like, often speaking fondly of each others abilities. They spoke excitedly about being famous and how much they enjoyed the attention. It is strange to hear such a thing, knowing that the band had a major falling out only a few short years later, resenting each other and their situation.

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