Последнее североамериканское турне Битлз. 12 - 29 августа 1966

Q: I got a tough question for Ringo. Your boy is a year old next month, right? September?
Starr: Yeah.
Q: What kind of gifts does he want for his birthday?
Starr: Well, how do I know? He's not talking yet.
Q: Do you feel responsible for the mod fashion revolution in the United States?
All: No.
Lennon: We haven't noticed it.
Harrison: We're not responsible for ourselves, never mind fashions.
Lennon: Mental as well, eh?
Q: A couple of years ago, you said that you were most influenced by people such as Chuck Berry, LaVern Baker etcetera. Now that they're more or less over the hill as far as pop music is concerned...
Lennon: They were then.
Q: ...who do you admire now? You mentioned Indian music. Are there any pop stars in the United States today that still influence you?
Lennon: We like a lot of American groups, still, you know.
Harrison: Elvis.
Lennon: We still like Chuck Berry. I haven't burned his records or anything. The Lovin' Spoonful are nice.
McCartney: Beach Boys are great.
Starr: Mamas And The Papas.
Lennon: We like a lot of things, and are influenced by everything that's going on.
McCartney: Especially Bill Haley.
Q: What about the downfall?
McCartney: What about it?
Harrison: Well, the downfall won't be a downfall for us because we won't really...
Lennon: ...feel down.
Harrison: If we'll have a downfall it will only be for all those people who think, Hee hee, the Beatles aren't making hit records anymore. We won't particularly be worried. So it won't be a downfall.
Q: You're looking forward to it? Getting out of all this?
McCartney: No, we're not.
Lennon: We don't sort of dread it. It's just something that'll happen.
Harrison: When it happens, we'll accept it.
Q: Ringo, do you have any comment on fatherhood?
Starr: Ah, it's OK! You know, that's about all. I like it.
Tony Barrow: This must be the last question, I'm afraid, time-wise.
Q: One of the disc jockeys in the local area said that one of the songs, I believe it was Rain, was recorded backwards. Is this true?
Lennon: It is true. After we'd done the session on that particular song - it ended at about four or five in the morning - I went home with a tape to see what else you could do with it. And I was sort of very tired, you know, not knowing what I was doing, and I just happened to put it on my own tape recorder and it came out backwards. And I liked it better. So that's how it happened.

Junior press conference: Warwick Hotel, New York City
2.00pm, понедельник 22 августа 1966

После первой пресс-конференции с журналистами Битлз провели вторую пресс-конференцию. На этот раз они отвечали на вопросы своих молодых фанатов.
Идея проведения молодежной пресс-конференции принадлежала самим Битлз. Им хотелось отойти от обычного формата подобных мероприятий, и они надеялись услышать какие-нибудь новые вопросы. Молодежная пресс-конференция была организована совместными усилиями нью-йоркской радиостанции WMCA и американским фан-клубом Битлз. Радиоведущим Гэри Стивенс предложил слушателям присылать на радио открытки с именами, адресами и номерами телефонов.
Пришло около 50,000 открыток, из которых случайным образом были отобраны 75 победителей. Подобный конкурс провел и американский фан-клуб Битлз. Таким образом, на молодежную пресс-конференцию в Warwick Hotel всего прибыло 150 юных поклонников группы.
Каждому прибывшему фанату вручался подарочный набор от Битлз, в который входили и фотографии Джона, Пола, Джорджа и Ринго, с автографами. Когда в помещение вошли Битлз, поднялся крик, который не прекращался до самого конца пресс-конференции.

Q: Paul McCartney, are you going to get married with Jane Asher?
JOHN: Yay! Tee-hee!
McCartney: Erm, I'm probably gonna get married with Jane.
Q: I want to know who your favourite American group is.
Lennon: Just one? There's a lot of them.
McCartney: There's quite a few of them, you know. Beach Boys, Lovin' Spoonful, Byrds, Mamas And Papas.
Q: I'd like to know, John, are you making a movie without the other Beatles?
Lennon: Yes.
Q: When?
Lennon: When I get home from doing this.
Q: Are you gonna have a lead part?
Lennon: No.
Q: A small part?
Lennon: It's... you know. I wouldn't take a lead part. I wouldn't like to.
Q: Will they put your name in the mo.. you know in the um...
Lennon: I'm big enough to get a mensh.
Q: I'd like to ask Paul when the whole group is going to make their next picture.
McCartney: The next picture, we'll probably make it, I think, early next year. But at the moment the man's writing a script, and it depends on the script, you know, when we make it.
Q: I'd like to ask John - Is it true he went around London in a gorilla suit?
Lennon: No. That was a film called Morgan. I've got a gorilla suit, which I've worn about twice to frighten a few people, and it's too hot.

Q: I'd like to know, do you mean all the lyrics that you write?
McCartney: We mean them as lyrics. But I mean, if we write 'We all live in a yellow submarine,' we don't really mean that.
Q: Paul, is Eleanor Rigby cryptic? Does it got a hidden meaning?
McCartney: No, no. No. It's just a straight song.
Lennon: That aint no hidden meaning, baby.
Q: I wonder, being in a group with four people and becoming famous so young, how you managed to evolve with separate personalities.
Paul McCartney: The main thing is, it's true that we're a group of four people together with an image, but we don't believe that. We don't take that bit of us too seriously.
John Lennon: We're still us, you know.
McCartney: We're still individuals.
Q: I'd like to wish John a happy wedding anniversary.
Lennon: Oh, thank you!
Q: I want to know if any of you know Patricia Flater in Cumberland, England.
McCartney: Patricia who?
Q: Flater. F.L.A.T.E.R.
PAUL: Suuuure!
Q: I'd like to ask Paul, who is Eleanor Rigby? I read in The Beatles Book that she is a person. Who is she?
McCartney: No, she isn't. It was just a name. It was nearly gonna be Daisy Hawkins.
Q: I read that she was someplace with you fellas, that she met you.
McCartney: No, it's not a real person. It's only imagination.
Q: In the beginning of your album, right before Taxman, there's a lot of squeaking.
George Harrison: It's just the bit before we recorded it, what happened to be on the tape. That part usually gets cut off. We thought you'd like to hear it.
Q: I want to know - How come you don't have the same Help! movie and Hard Day's Night movie here in the United States. It's not as long. Why did you cut it?
Harrison: United Artists cut the pieces out of it. Not us.
McCartney: It's got nothing to do with us, you see. Other people do that, cut it. We just make it.
Q: I heard that Sid Bernstein offered you to come back next year. Are you looking forward to it?
Lennon: We never heard about it.

Q: What do you think of miniskirts, and do you think they will go higher?
McCartney: Well, I like miniskirts. I think they're fine. The thing is, at the moment it's miniskirts, but in Victorian times people were ashamed to show their ankles, you know.
McCartney: It's just got a bit higher, now. It may go even higher. Whoopie!
Q: George, do you have a cousin named Maggie?
Harrison: No.
Q: I'd like to know what you think of the boys that followed you from the airport last night.
Lennon: We didn't notice them.
Q: I'd like to ask any of you - Have you seen the Beatles cartoon show?
Ringo Starr: Yeah.
Q: What do you think of it?
Starr: It's OK.
Q: Do you think it's a good portrayal of your character?
McCartney: It's not really like us, but it's fun.
Q: I'd like to know if this press conference was your idea or if you're just here because of...
Lennon: Ours.
McCartney: Yeah.
Starr: Everybody's having a good time.
Q: Ringo, where do you get all your rings?
Starr: Erm, people buy them for me, you know.
Q: I'd like to know, how do you decide who is going to sing the lead in any of your songs?
Lennon: Whoever knows most of the words.

В конце этой пресс-конференции Джону Леннону была презентована изготовленная на заказ гитара, подарок от расположенной в Хобокене, штат Нью-Джерси, Guild Guitar Company.
Это была 12-струнная электрическая гитара Guild Starfire XII, изготовленная древесины клена с позолоченными металлическими частями. Этот уникальный музыкальный инструмент был вручен Джону Марком Дронджем, сыном основателя компании Альфреда Дронджа. Марка на пресс-конференцию провел один фотограф, знакомый рекламного агента, работавшего с Guild Guitar Company.

«Я встал, направился к Битлз и прошел мимо Джорджа. Он увидел, что я приближаюсь, и решил, что ему собираюсь гитару дарить. Я заметил, как он скривился, но я рядом с ним даже не остановился, и вручил гитару Джону. Я думал, Джон играл на электрической двенадцатиструнке. Короче, когда я отдал ее Джону… Боюсь и предполагать, что обо мне тогда подумал Джордж. О судьбе этой гитары я ничего не знал, пока через много лет не увидел ее в Hard Rock Café на Гавайях».
Марк Дрондж
(The Beatles' Gear, Andy Babiuk)
Через какое-то время эта гитара попала в руки Тони Кокса, бывшего мужа Йоко Оно, который и продал ее сети Hard Rock Café. О том, использовалась ли она на записях в студии, не известно.

Сохранилась не вся аудиозапись молодежной пресс-конференции, а в том, что сохранилось, во многих частях ничего не слышно из-за криков фанов.

1966 22 августа, Нью-Йорк.

Live: Shea Stadium, New York
7.30pm, вторник 23 августа 1966

Битлз вернулись на нью-йоркский Shea Stadium чуть позже, чем через год после своего первого триумфального выступления на этом стадионе.
Билеты были проданы не все. 11,000 мест из 55,600 остались свободны. Тем не менее, на этот раз группа заработала больше денег по сравнению с выступлением в 1965: они получили $189,000, то есть 65 % от всего дохода в $292,000.
"Как ни парадоксально, на второй концерт на стадионе «Шей» непроданными остались одиннадцать тысяч билетов. Это был тревожный сигнал. И на фоне этих событий они заявили: «Ладно, хватит с нас. Сначала отдохнем, а потом снова приступим к записям».
Джордж Мартин
«Антология»
(на фото: Битлз везут из гостиницы на стадион "Шей")

На разогреве выступали The Remains, Bobby Hebb, The Cyrkle and The Ronettes. The Beatles исполнили 11 песен: Rock And Roll Music, She's A Woman, If I Needed Someone, Day Tripper, Baby's In Black, I Feel Fine, Yesterday, I Wanna Be Your Man, Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer и Long Tall Sally.

Во время исполнения Day Tripper сотни фанов вырвались за ограждение и ринулись к сцене. Все они были перехвачены службой охраны и ни один до кумиров не добрался.

1966 23 августа Shea Stadium.