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No, it's easier to write with cushions,
I'm sure...
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than on pieces of hard bench.
:29:08
But you know we were on hard benches
before we met...
:29:11
a known terror of Liverpool.
It's much easier on a nice cushion.
:29:15
From obscurity in a cellar
in Liverpool four years ago...
:29:18
and now to Buckingham Palace.
:29:20
We're all delighted.
:29:21
- Thank you very much.
- Congratulations.
:29:27
The Beatles arrived in Japan today,
as their tour of the Far East continues.
:29:32
Across the Pacific, in the United States,
a furor is developing over comments...
:29:36
John Lennon made: "Christianity will go.
:29:39
"It will vanish and shrink.
We are more popular than Jesus. "
:29:45
Here in Tokyo, violence broke out
when right-wing fanatics...
:29:48
demonstrated against the Beatles
and their effect on Japanese youth.
:29:54
This is Tommy Charles.
:29:56
If you, as an American teenager,
are offended by statements...
:29:59
from a group of foreign singers,
which strike...
:30:02
at the very basis of our existence
as God-fearing, patriotic citizens...
:30:06
then we urge you to take
your Beatles records...
:30:08
pictures and souvenirs
to the pick-up points about to be named.
:30:11
And on the night of the Beatles'
appearance in Memphis, August 19...
:30:15
they will be destroyed
in a huge public bonfire...
:30:18
at a place to be named soon. Stay tuned
to Rocky for further developments.
:30:22
Now this religious controversy...
:30:24
I know that you don't want
to say too much about it...
:30:26
does it worry you it's gonna
boil up when you get to the States?
:30:28
It worries me, yes, but I hope everything
will be all right in the end, as they say.
:30:34
I think the Beatles
are a real talented group...
:30:36
but I think they need to watch
what they say because...
:30:39
they're in such a position
that a lot of teenagers...
:30:42
really think of them
as something really big.
:30:44
When they say things like that...
:30:46
some teenagers are gonna just believe
anything they say.
:30:48
I'm not saying that we're better
or greater...
:30:51
or comparing us with Jesus Christ
as a person...
:30:54
or God as a thing, or whatever it is.
:30:56
I just said what I said, and it was wrong,
or was taken wrong. And now it's all this.