Последнее североамериканское турне Битлз. 12 - 29 августа 1966

Q: "I'd like to ask John Lennon a question-- I hope I get a chance to ask him a second one. This is sort of double-barreled. I'd like to know your motivation in this. Money? I'd like to think it's enjoyment, and I'd like to think you're having as much fun as you seem to be when you're doing it."
JOHN: "Well, when I look as though I'm having fun-- I am, you know. When I'm not-- I'm not, usually. So it varies."
Q: "Do I get another chance? One more chance? I have this little prediction that in 25 years you're going to be a great writer. I'd like to talk to you about it sometime."
JOHN: "Well, I mean, we're between 25 years then."
Q: "I'll make you a date."
JOHN: "OK."
GEORGE: "See ya, Penny Lane."

Q: "I'd like to address this question to anybody in the group. What about the next movie? --heard alot of stories --nothing's confirmed. Has there been anything decided?"
PAUL: "Nothing."
GEORGE: "Somebody gave us a good idea, so we told him to go and write it into a script. So we won't really be able to tell if we're gonna make the film until we've read the script. And as he hasn't finished the script, we haven't read the script-- so we won't know yet until about Christmas, maybe. But if it is a good one and we like it, we'll probably start it 'round about January, February, or March... or December."
Q: "I have three questions, if I can. For one-- Do you think the audience that your music attracts has changed from say the thirteen and fourteen year old girls to more of the college age, and if so, do you like it better that way?"
PAUL: "Uhh, I think it's probably got a bit older. I don't know how old. And it's nice."
Q: "Did you intend it that way?"
PAUL: "No. We don't intend anything, you know. That's the trouble." (laughs)
JOHN: "It all happens..."

Q: "Also, Paul-- Since your rumors were denied, then what are you doing after the show?"
(laughter)
PAUL: "I don't know... marrying you, probably!"
(laughter)
Q: "How are the attendance on this tour compared to past American tours?"
PAUL: "It's been... apparently been more at the shows than there were last time."
Q: "Do you think that the so-called adverse publicity hurt or helped in this?"
PAUL: "No idea, you know. We haven't been able to tell really because we... You know, the press keeps saying, 'I see it's hurt you.' And our managers keep saying it hasn't. So, you know, who do we believe?"
Q: "John and Paul, I'd like to know if all the songs that are said to be written by Lennon and McCartney are always written by both of you, or do you ever do one all by yourself?"
JOHN: (jokingly, to Paul) "Don't they buy 'Datebook'?"
PAUL: "No, we do them seperately and together."

Q: "Your music used to be mostly composed of guitar backgrounds, and recently you've come around to strings and harpsichords and alot of weird things like that. Is there any purpose in this evolution?"
PAUL: "Yeah."
JOHN: (at same time as Paul) "No."
PAUL: (laughs)
GEORGE: "Just to use something else besides guitars."
PAUL: "And because those things aren't... it's not necessarily sort of 'coming around to them' you know, like we're giving-in to 'em. It's finding them again."
Q: (dressed as a 'Jolly Green Giant') "I don't know if there is a Jolly Green Giant in England, fellows, but I come with good wishes from Vancouver. You played there a short while ago. And we were wondering whether you are coming back to Vancouver."
PAUL: "Maybe. Brian decides where we go. So, maybe."

Q: "All the people in Vancouver wanted to wish John a happy 4th anniversary a few days ago, John."
JOHN: "Thank you. Well, you thank them... Jolly Green Giant."
(laughter)
Q: "...and a question. George, where do you get your sitars?"
GEORGE: "Where do I get them? Or where do people generally get them?"
Q: "Where can people generally get a sitar?"
GEORGE: "India."
(laughter)
Q: "Paul, before, you said that there were some songs that you 'have to' write. Could you explain what you mean by 'have to' write?"
PAUL: "Hmmm. No see, I just said that in passing. I just meant that there was an LP due. And when an LP is due we write songs, you know. We do it like that more than write all the time. We don't write all the time. We write more 'to order.' You know, if we've got fourteen tracks to fill, then we've got fourteen songs to write. That's what I mean."

"In Seattle, Paul was questioned by journalists over a rumour that he was about to get married. Gossip had spread through the city suggesting that Jane was due to fly in to join Paul. The word was that a wedding cake had been ordered and a bridal suite reserved at a local hotel. A reporter said: 'Mr McCartney, would you please confirm or deny reports that you plan to marry Jane Asher here in Seattle this evening.' Playing along at first, Paul grinned broadly and said: 'It's tonight, yeah!' Then he added more seriously: 'No, she's not coming in tonight, as far as I know. I do hope it's not true. I'm going back to Los Angeles tonight so if Jane flies in I'm not even going to see her, let alone marry her!"
Tony Barrow
"John, Paul, George, Ringo & Me"

До этого Битлз уже однажды играли на Coliseum - 21 августа 1964, во время из первого полномасштабного американского турне.

Лишь 8,000 из 15,000 билетов было продано на дневной концерт. На вечернем концерте был аншлаг.

На второй концерт в Сиэттле Битлз надели светлые костюмы.

После концерта Битлз должны были в 11pm вылететь обратно в Лос-Анджелес, чтобы провести там еще два дня отдыха, однако вылет был отложен, поскольку выяснилось, что одно из шасси их самолета неисправно и требует ремонта.

Day off in Los Angeles
12.00pm, пятница 26 августа 1966

За время финального североамериканского турне 1966 Битлз у ребят было три дня отдыха, и все они были проведены в Лос-Анджелесе. Это был их второй выходной.
Они вернулись в дом 7655 на Curson Terrace в Беверли-Хиллс, где уже останавливались два дня назад, и на этот раз оставались в этой вилле до следующего концерта в лос-анджелесском Dodger Stadium 28 августа.
(на фото: Битлз отдыхают в Лос-Анджелесе 26-27 августа 1966.)

Битлз на отдыхе 26-28 августа 1966, Лос-Анджелес.