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and the Metropolitan know about this,
do you think?
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Do they know that culture has changed,
that there's a new generation?
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Well, they have been in the foreground...
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of showing all this new pop art themselves,
you know.
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Warhol will be there in Albert Hall,
and Warhol's on the walls...
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of the Museum of Modern Art
for the last five years.
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There were signs of new life,
of another generation picking up...
:32:24
a revolution in consciousness.
A bloodless revolution.
:32:27
You know, like the first revolution
that never shed any blood.
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That was the important thing.
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I had just been kicked out of Cuba...
:32:34
for just talking privately...
:32:35
about Castro's persecution of gay people.
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Then went to Czechoslovakia,
was elected King of May on May Day.
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A week later was kicked out by the Minister
of Education and deported to London...
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and then I landed around the time
of Dylan's concerts at Albert Hall.
:32:53
There was a very exciting scene,
back at the hotel...
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and Dylan was down the hall
with the Beatles.
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Then a message came
that I was supposed to come in there.
:33:04
So I came into the room
and everybody was sitting there...
:33:07
totally stone-cold silent, frozen, paranoid.
:33:10
Not quite knowing my place, knowing Bob...
:33:13
I sat down on the side of his armchair.
:33:16
John Lennon said snidely,
"Why don't you sit a little closer?"
:33:20
I suddenly realized they were just so naive,
they were young.
:33:24
So I actually, I fell over laughing
on to John's lap...
:33:29
looking up at him and asked him,
"Do you ever read William Blake?"
:33:32
He said, "Never heard of him".
And his wife said, "Oh, John, stop lying".
:33:36
Then everybody began laughing,
and then the scene sort of broke up.
:33:38
You know, the ice was broken.
:33:41
It stuck me as funny
that these guys at the summit of power...
:33:44
spiritual power, musical power,
world fame...
:33:48
'65, May... June...
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were so unsure...
:33:53
of their minds and speech.