Speeches-Ant-1.txt



Speeches:

We were four guys ... that's all

We were four guys, that, eh... I met Paul, said, "Do you wanna join my band", you know, and then George joined, 
and then Ringo joined. We were just a band that made it very, very big, that's all.

Sometimes I'd borrow ... those still exits

Sometimes I'd borrow a tape recorder, a gurndig with a little green eye and we'd sort of go round to my house and 
tried to record little things such as... I remember 'Hallelujah, I Just Love Her So', 'cause I had the Eddie Cochran 
record. But those were very much home demos, very bad quality. I think a couple of those still exits.

First of all ... it didn't do a thing here

First of all we made a recording with a fella called Tony Sheridan. We were working in a club called 
'The Top Ten Club' in Hamburg and we made a recording with him called 'My Bonnie' which got to number Five
in the German hit parade, but, it never, it didn't do a thing over here

Brian was a beautiful guy ... he presented us well 

Brian was a beautiful guy, Brain Epstein, and he was a, an intuitive, theatrical guy and he knew we 
had something. He presented us well.

I secured them ... a Beatle drink even then

I secured them an audition at Decca on New Year's Day, 1962. They came to London and stayed at the Royal
Hotel paying 27 shillings a night for bed and breakfest. They were poor and I wan't rich but we all 
celebrated with Rum, Scotch and Coke which was becoming a Beatle drink even then.

Well, the recording test ... by my artists

Well, the recording test came and went. The people that decide about these things at Decca said 'No'. 
Well, you can imagine I was more worried about what I was going to say to the boysm having built up 
their hopes.So I allowed myself a final 24 hours t oexhaust the remaining disc companies and I booked 
into the Green Park Hotel. In the morning I took a cab to the EMI Office Block in Manchester Square, 
London, to meet the man who would within less than 2 years produce 16 number One discs by my artists.

We were performers ... in Britain

We were performers in Liverpool, Hamburg and round the dance halls, you know and what we generated was 
fantastic. When  we played Straight Rock and there was nobody to touch us in Britain, you know.