The Beatles: The British Invasion, with Conan O’Brien (Part 2)
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Hello everyone and welcome back to a Rest Is History Beatles themed special and this is part two. It's the blue album to the red album of part one. We left you on an absolute cliffhanger John Lennon has made unwise comments about Jesus and provoked outrage in the Bible Belt in the United States. The problem for him is that the Beatles are due to go on a tour to the United States. Conan O'Brien, who has replaced Dominic on this show because Dominic refuses to talk about the Beatles. What we didn't perhaps go into in great detail in the first episode was the actual music. Before the Beatles go on the tour that will bring them to America and all the Jesus kerfuffle, they have recorded an album that many now see as their greatest album, Revolver.
Are you a particular fan of Revolver? Huge fan of Revolver. Revolver is very interesting because the Beatles are now recording music that would be very difficult to perform live. And live performance is a huge part of the Beatles engine. Eleanor Rigby. Tomorrow Never Knows. Tomorrow Never Knows. Which is kind of playing things backwards.
Turn up your mind, relax and float downstream. This is not dying
These are all very difficult, if not impossible. Now it could be done with modern technology, but they've become real recording geniuses and artists and it's taking them in this other direction. So they finished Revolver and enough time has gone by because I think people used to say, well, Sergeant Pepper or Abbey Road is their greatest and those are obviously fantastic. But Revolver, I think if you asked one of the Beatles, they might have the greatest fondness for Revolver. And there's a kind of tension between now what they can do in a studio but not reproduce on a stage. And the fact that they are starting to get a bit fed up with touring. Because it's not only that they can't reproduce the musical effects that they've got on Revolver on stage.
It's also the fact that they can't barely hear themselves play. And they know that most people in their audience, because they're all screaming, they can't really hear them either. So that's frustrating. We just became like lip syncing, you know, miming.
And we didn't, we almost, sometimes things would break down and nobody would know.
so it wasn't wasn't doing the music any good and then after they finish revolver they go on a world tour and they go to japan and then they go to the philippines and they have a kind of awful run-in with emelda marcos yes famous for her shoe collection yes i was just there i was just in the philippines and i went to the manila hotel which is where the beatles stayed but you didn't turn down an invitation to tea with the head of the philippines and get in trouble. I did, I did. And I was bullied at the airport. Like the Beatles were. Like the Beatles were. No, that was totally not the Beatles' fault. The Marcoses announced that the Beatles will be appearing at the palace and having tea and then greeting a bunch of children, but no one asked the Beatles.
And they're, as you guys would say, knackered. Yeah, they were knackered. They were knackered. They just wanted to use the loo and then take a lift.
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4 chapters
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–12:20
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How did John Lennon's comments about Jesus impact the Beatles' tour in America?
12:20–15:20
3
What makes the Beatles' album 'Revolver' significant in their musical evolution?
15:20–26:38
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What challenges did the Beatles face during their world tour in the Philippines?
26:38–53:25
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