Paul McCartney: 1968 Interview - BBC Documentary




Questions and videoscript by Salvador Frasquet Portes, AP2

1. why didn´t he want to listen to classical music?


2. what did the taxi driver said to him?why?


3. what did Paul use to think about classical music?


4. what did he realise?


5. who are the last people to know about their songs?


6. how do they see themselves?


7. what´s the desire they don´t have in their heads?


8. who had that desire?


9. what´s the right thing to do with power?


10. what has to be the whole world movement?


11. where did John and George have a nice holiday?


12. how long did they stay there?


13. what colour is the submarine he names at the end?

VIDEOSCRIPT

Paul: I was always frightened of classical music, and I never wanted to listen to it because it was Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and some big words like that, Schoenberg...You know, I always thought...I mean someone like a taxi driver the other day had some sheet music of a Mozart thing and I said What´s that you know, and he said: Oh, I would say that´s the high class stuff, you won´t like that. He said: no, no, you won´t like that . I said: but what is it? you know, he said: oh no, you won´t like it . You know, it´s high class there, it´s very high class, high brand. And that kind of way I always used to think of it, I used to think: well, you know, that is, that´s very clever all that stuff, and it isn´t, you know, it´s just exactly what´s going on in Pop at the moment. Pop music is the classical music of now.People just take our music and, you know, in a line and we just sort of say yeah . She was just seventeen , and they just...they read everything into that, you know, she was a seventeen year old nymphomaniac working on the streets of Broadway, but you know, all we meant is she´s just seventeen, but it might mean all the other as well, I don´t know, you know, I have no idea if there´s any Aeolian cadences and, you know, Miasmic climaxes and all of that. And we were the last people to know about our songs, because the Pop world never heard the Pop world as such, ´cause we can´t, you know, it´s like if you look at a snapshot of yourself and you´re looking at what tie you were wearing or whether you are looking nice in the snapshot, but anyone else would just take the snapshot and say: oh, that´s good, that´s a snapshot, it´s only, you know, it´s alright .We really just always think of ourselves as just happy little songwriters, just little rockers, you know, just playing in a rock group, but it gets more important than that after you´ve been over to America and you´ve...got knighted.And when we were touring, when it was at the sort of peak of hysteria, instead of just thinking oh , you know, that´s nice, we could have just thought: aha! , click! , you know, let´s use this, and for evil...you know. There´s no desire in any of our heads to sort of take over the world, you know, that was Hitler, that´s what he wanted to do. There is, however, a desire to get power in order to use it for good.Indian: The whole world movement has to be a cooperative enterprise ahahaha...John: I don´t know what level he´s on, but we had a nice holiday in India and came back rested to play Business-man . We were there for a month or so, George and I were, we lost 13 pounds and we looked a day older.Indian: In the midst of this activity and the world´s attention and interest for intel meditation, I don´t get a moment to think of silence ahahaha...Paul: If you got power, you gotta use it for the good. Because like everyone else, we read the papers, we go through all the things that most people go through, so if everyone wants to say a thing at a certain time, it´s handy being a songwriter, you know, you can put your finger on it, like The yellow submarine , you know that.