:17:01
it was the first time that he actually
called me in quite a long time.
:17:06
It was an exciting thing for me to go
and see him again...
:17:08
after not seeing him for such a while.
:17:11
And at the time, I was living in...
:17:16
I won't say a small house, but it
was a completely different situation.
:17:20
It was on a street
with lots of houses, lots of friends.
:17:23
And Tittenhurst was this enormous...
:17:26
palace-like place with 99 acres...
:17:30
golf-cart buggies, a lake, a little island
in the middle of the lake...
:17:38
It was like a house of fun.
:17:40
It was a completely different experience.
:17:43
It was wonderful. I loved the place.
:17:46
I don't remember seeing him as a child.
:17:48
It was the height of the Beatle thing
so I was working all the time.
:17:51
I never considered what it was
doing to him. I didn't even count it.
:17:54
The mother was at home. I was away.
:17:57
Like most guys at 24 or 25, they're too
intent on their career really, you know.
:18:02
John, as a father, was forced,
I'm afraid, to be a part-time dad.
:18:06
He wrote to me saying that...
:18:07
"I'm so sad and I'm so sorry
that I've missed the fact...
:18:12
"that Julian has been growing up...
:18:14
"that he is now a little man
and I miss him dreadfully.
:18:17
"And I've been a right bastard...
:18:18
"because I've taken no notice of him...
:18:20
"and I've read the papers
and pushed him out of the room...
:18:23
"because he's been making noises."
:18:24
That was the point when he suddenly
realized that he was a father...
:18:28
Julian was a special little person...
:18:31
not just a figment of his imagination
when he came home in the early days.
:18:36
You're going over to the States
early in the new year...
:18:38
and you're going to top the bill
on the Ed Sullivan coast-to-coast show.
:18:42
John, so far, all
British pop stars have not
:18:44
made a tremendous
impact on the States.
:18:46
How do you think you're gonna fare?
:18:48
Well, I can't really say, can I?
I mean, is it up to me? No.
:18:52
I mean, I just hope we go all right.
:18:54
Are you going to vary your act at all
for the American audience?
:18:56
No. We haven't really got an act,
so we'll just do what we do.