July 5, 2022 • 15 mins
George Noory and entertainment reporter Ivor Davis recount his memories covering Elvis Presley, when Elvis met the Beatles and President Richard Nixon, his early career that transformed rock n roll, and his tragic death due to drug abuse.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on
iHeart Radio and welcome back to Coast to Coast. George
Norri with you, I bore Davis with us. I've or
when you met Elvis? Did you like him? He? Did
he have that explosive chemistry? Um? Well, before I answer
that question, George, i'm I can tell you you've made
my year because I can't wait to see George Norri
(00:23):
sings Elvis Presley October the eighth. Anyway, you know, the
interesting thing is when I first met Elvis on the
film set, it was before well actually it was after
I went with him to meet the Beatles, and he
was charming. He was a gentleman. He kept calling me sir,
(00:46):
although I was two or three years younger than him,
and I felt he was He was an interesting guy.
He did not appear explosive. He was in the middle
of shooting. And the funny story that I happened was
that after we chatted for fifteen minutes and he was
talking about his leading lady called Donna Douglas, and how
(01:07):
they got along so well because they actually read the
Bible together during lunch breaks. He after fifteen minutes of
general chit chat, nothink of great importance. Somebody came in
and said, ell they need you on the film set.
So I said, well, maybe I could come and watch
Elvis shoot the film. And the guy said, who was
(01:28):
one of his Memphis Matthis, Oh, Elvis doesn't really like
people coming in. It's a close set. So I said, goodbye, Elvis,
A pleasure to meet you. I went, and as I
left the studio at Paramount, I heard a shouting, noisy
group of guys playing football in the parking lot and
there was Elvis throwing the football around among his his
(01:48):
Memphis Matthia baddies. So that was my second encounter with Elvis,
which much I'd be very happy to tell you about
my first encounter with Elvis, as I was the fly
on the wall when the Beatles went along to see
him in nineteen sixty five. It was August sixty five.
They really wanted to meet him, didn't they. They wanted
(02:09):
to meet him. But in retrospect, and when you know
the moment, you just absorb it when it happens. What
happened was John was a great fan of Elvis, and
I believe in retrospect that it was Colonel Tom Parker,
who decided that this would be a great idea to
put Elvis together with the Beatles in Elvis's house. So
(02:31):
in nineteen sixty four they never quite made it. The
Beatles were on tours criss crossing the country, Elvis was
making another movie, and then in nineteen sixty five, Elvis
and Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, got together at the
Beverly Hills Hotel said let's make it happen now. The
problem was for Colonel Parker in a way that Brian
(02:52):
said later on, we don't want any press there. We
don't want to make this an extravaganza. So no press,
no tape recorders, no photographers, I mean, can you believe
no photographers for historic meeting. And when they finally met,
it took a long time for them to kind of
gel and and then again in retrospect. I didn't know
(03:14):
at the time, but Elvis was jealous of the Beatles.
First of all, they'd knocked him off the purchase a
number one hit Parade Guy, and then number two. Well,
Elvis had not appeared live anywhere, and then four days
before they met at Elvis's house, the Beatles appeared at
Shays Stadium in New York and played to an ecstatic
(03:36):
crowd of fifty five sold out crowd, sold out crowd,
and Elvis had seen this, and so you know, there
was a certain resentment. Elvis had been in the army,
he'd come out. He was struggling with making these movies,
which were kind of copycup movies with different songs, mainly
to sell to sell the songs. So he wasn't too
(03:58):
warm towards him. He was he wasn't bending over backwards
to meet them. And for the first ten minutes it
was a very awkward situation. I saw Elvis fiddling with
the remote control. The Beatles saddle around, and nobody introduced them.
I mean, it's saying it. I mean, it's amazing to
think of it. Nobody introduced the Beatles to Elvis. Finally, Elvis,
(04:20):
in the silence, listening what the sides of the jukebox
was going, the television was playing, he jumped up and said, hey,
you guys, I'm going to bed unless you came here
to jam. And of course that broke the ice, and
they got on a bit better after that, and then
they said they would meet each other again, but they
never did. And then if you want to flash forward,
(04:42):
and what aggravated the Beatles about Elvis was that several
years later, Elvis went to the White House to meet
Richard Nixon. And Elvis decided that he was going to
get Nixon young voters. So he persuaded the Nixon White
House to let him meet to Nixon. And I saw
the letter that Elvis wrote, and it was kind of
(05:03):
a rambling letter because Elvis was high when he flew
in from Palm Springs to Washington, DC. Anyway, the Nixon
White House had come along Elvis. Elvis showed up, and
I think people have seen that picture. Elvis presented Richard
Nixon with a sort of an antique gun, and Richard
Nixon gave Elvis his federal agent's drug enforcement badge. Kind
(05:28):
of ironic really, because Elvis wanted that, I suppose because
he ever got picked up riding along in the streets
of wherever, and he could flash his federal badge at
the police and they would wave him on his way.
So that was it. And one other thing, if I
might add George, at the time that Elvis met Nixon,
(05:49):
he said to Nixon, the Beatles are terrible guys. They
earn all this money in America, they go back to
England and they bad mouth America. Well, that honestly was
never the case. So by that time, the Beatles were
totally unhappy with Elvis, and you know, Elvis went on
to you know what, and to the tragic end. Absolutely.
(06:14):
Now he was thirty three years old, Ibar when he
came back from his comeback in nineteen sixty eight. Wow, yeah, yes,
are you talking about George when he came back from
the military or when he did his comeback concert in
nineteen sixty eight sixty eight? Okay, Well, that's another interesting story,
which I'm sure you know about because it's featured very
(06:34):
heavily in the in the movie by Baz Luhrman. But
the other day I had a long conversation with a
guy called Steve Binder, and Steve Binder was the director
of the Elvis comeback concert, and he said to me.
Binder said to me that Nelvis, Elvis was very nervous
about doing a live comeback concert. He was he'd been
(06:56):
away for so long. Go ahead, George, wouldn't you know?
You're right, he was very nervous when he came back.
And he even told the crowd, and once again they
all cheered him. Yes he did, and that was being
so honest. But the interesting story I felt about the
background to the story was as Steve Binder told me
that Elvis had come to him and said, look, I've
(07:17):
been away, what do you think of my career, Steve,
And Steve was a young producer director who really didn't
care what he said. He said, Elvis, your career is
in the toilet, and Elvis smiled and said, well, nobody's
ever told me that. Thank you, And Binder said he
kind of nurse made him through the comeback spashal and
(07:38):
if anybody's seen the Comeback Special, and anybody's seen the
recreation of the Comeback Special on the Baslerman movie Elvis,
we'll see Elvis was magnificent in his black leather outfit
with a live audience. It was quite a sensational show
and Elvis. It saved Elvis's life until, of course, he
(07:59):
got back onto the drugs and then as you described him,
he was forgetting his lyrics and the slide downhill continued
until the end. During the eight months before he died
in nineteen seventy seven, his doctor had prescribed him ten
thousand dulces of sedatives, meth amphetamines and narcotics ten thousand ivore.
(08:24):
That is so I mean, when you put it that way, George,
it is stunning. It's criminal almost, isn't it. Because the
doctor was his awful enabler. And I mean, no human
being could survive that now, surely, absolutely not. And that's
so tragic. At forty two, he adored his mother, didn't he.
(08:45):
He adored his mother his father in the movie, and
I didn't know his father. Vernon in the movie comes
across as a bit of a hay seed. His mother
comes across as somebody who was crazy about a son,
of course, and he was crazy about her. And when
she died, of course, he was shattered, not surprisingly, and um,
you know, Vernon moved in with with Missus with his
(09:10):
wife and into into Gracelands after they'd lived a fairly
you know, a lot of poverty stricken life, if you like.
And Graceland, well, that was quite a it's quite a museum,
isn't it. What God Elvis on the charts, he watch
into Sam Phillips record shop called Sun Records with producer
Sam Phillips, and they wanted in African American music to
(09:34):
a wider audience, didn't they They did? And look, the
interesting background story is that Elvis was influenced by Black
American music, as were believing or not in the early
days of Beatles. Paul McCartney always talks about what Elvis
talks about, how he loved Long, Tall Sally and roll
(09:55):
Over Beethoven, which were which were done by black entertainer
of the period. And Elvis he loved Chuck Berry, didn't he. Oh,
he loved Chuck Berry, of course absolutely, And chuck Berry
is shown in the movie. Elvis loved that music. And
when Colonel Parker saw Elvis or heard her, was for
(10:16):
the first time he thought he was a black singer,
and then he discovered he wasn't. And the film actually
of Elvis shows how, you know, it was sort of
metamorphosis into Elvis the King, which is rather than an
intriguing element of the film. I felt, which I didn't
know that much about. I knew Chuck Berry because he
(10:38):
was from the Saint Louis area and I had a
little company that produced video programs and he came in
one day stumbling around. Nobody knew who he was, and
he was trying to get dubs of all these videotapes
he had in his hand, and he just walked right in.
He didn't even stop at the reception desk, and I
had to go and get him because you know who
(11:00):
who's this guy turned to run? It's Chuck Berry. I said, oh,
mister Barry, what do you need? And he said, I
want some dubs of these and I said, well we can't.
There's there are movies and you were not allowed to
and he went oh. He took him in left. Well,
George was Chuck Berry, the Chuck. Was he the star
at that time of Oh? Yeah, yeah he was. He
(11:21):
was big time star. It was probably toward the last
three fourths of his career when I were an end
to him. Yes, well, that's an interesting story. I've never
heard you know before, But certainly it goes to the
roots of rock and roll, isn't it? In a way
the history of rock and rolls? Absolutely. This kid who
played the Elvis in this movie did a pretty good job. Oh,
(11:45):
I mean Austin Butler is his name, and he's a
kid from Orange County, California. And he apparently as soon
as he knew he was in line for Elvis. He
buried himself for months and months in Elvis Mania or
Elvis everything, and it showed because I think, you know,
(12:05):
maybe you and I can talk next year when the
Oscars come out, because I think Austin will get a nomination. Now,
whether he wins or not, I don't know. Great and
I think even Tom Hanks as the Best Supporting Actor nomination. Again,
I don't know whether he will win, but Hollywood and
the Academy do like actors who dress up in outfits
(12:27):
that makes them look totally different, and Tom Hanks certainly
certainly did that. Let me ask you something if I may,
I'm sorry, I know it's your show. But did you
ever run into Colonel Tom Parker? No? I never did,
did not know him, did not run into him at all.
But did he was he the one that truly made
Elvis the superstar that he became? Well, I know, I
(12:52):
mean Elvis had the talent obviously, but absolutely. I think
it's an interesting question. And you can you can cut
the nation in half or in quarters on this one.
I think Tom Hanks I saw called Tom Parker a
diabolical genius or but he was he a con man? Yes?
(13:13):
He was? Was he a carnival man, yes he was,
but he did nurse Elvis through the early periods and
he loved making money off of Elvis. Right, Oh, absolutely,
I think there's no doubt whatsoever, because Parker was a
very much a money man. I mean, the story that
Barbara Steizen told me when I when I went on
The Star Is Born was that they wanted Elvis to
(13:36):
play the rock star. And Elvis was dying to play
the rock star. And he went along and spoke to
John Peters who was the producer, and Barbara streisand and
was and they wanted him, but Colonel Parker said no.
And I think the reason Colonel Parker said no to
that was number one, Barbara Streisand would have got star billing,
(13:57):
and number two, Elvis would have been playing a washed out,
drunken rock star. And Parker didn't want to take any chances.
He didn't want to let him do it because some
people might think that Elvis was like that. Now, when
Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan Show, is it a
true story that they were? They were the technicians the
(14:18):
camera people were told, do not shoot below the belt.
We don't want to see him wiggling. I think I
think to some extent that was true. I mean Ed
Sullivan was pretty in a strange way, was very straight laced,
and so I think maybe I mean he told the
girls when the beetles showed up not to scream. But
(14:39):
so I think there's a certain element of truth to that.
And don't forget at the time, and I remember I
was in England. People said Elvis to Pelvis, I mean
his lewd and ascivious, which is kind of ridiculous when
you think of it, But so would I would concur
with what you just said that Ed Sullivan said to
the camera crew, you know, play careful. We have a
(15:02):
Middle American audience and we don't want to offend them. Well,
I think when Sullivan had the doors on and they
were singing Light by Fire, there was that version that says, girl,
we you know, couldn't get much higher or something we
whatever that was he didn't want. He didn't want that
phrase in there. No, No, I think so. And you know,
I don't know where you were, you know how young
(15:25):
you were at the time of the Ed Sullivan Show,
but it was must watching every Sunday night. I think
it was Sunday night and millions I mean seventy four
million people tuned into the Beatles, and maybe the same
amount or less for Elvis. Listen to more Coast to
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Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on
iHeart Radio and welcome back to Coast to Coast. George
Norri with you, I bore Davis with us. I've or
when you met Elvis? Did you like him? He? Did
he have that explosive chemistry? Um? Well, before I answer
that question, George, i'm I can tell you you've made
my year because I can't wait to see George Norri
(00:23):
sings Elvis Presley October the eighth. Anyway, you know, the
interesting thing is when I first met Elvis on the
film set, it was before well actually it was after
I went with him to meet the Beatles, and he
was charming. He was a gentleman. He kept calling me sir,
(00:46):
although I was two or three years younger than him,
and I felt he was He was an interesting guy.
He did not appear explosive. He was in the middle
of shooting. And the funny story that I happened was
that after we chatted for fifteen minutes and he was
talking about his leading lady called Donna Douglas, and how
(01:07):
they got along so well because they actually read the
Bible together during lunch breaks. He after fifteen minutes of
general chit chat, nothink of great importance. Somebody came in
and said, ell they need you on the film set.
So I said, well, maybe I could come and watch
Elvis shoot the film. And the guy said, who was
(01:28):
one of his Memphis Matthis, Oh, Elvis doesn't really like
people coming in. It's a close set. So I said, goodbye, Elvis,
A pleasure to meet you. I went, and as I
left the studio at Paramount, I heard a shouting, noisy
group of guys playing football in the parking lot and
there was Elvis throwing the football around among his his
(01:48):
Memphis Matthia baddies. So that was my second encounter with Elvis,
which much I'd be very happy to tell you about
my first encounter with Elvis, as I was the fly
on the wall when the Beatles went along to see
him in nineteen sixty five. It was August sixty five.
They really wanted to meet him, didn't they. They wanted
(02:09):
to meet him. But in retrospect, and when you know
the moment, you just absorb it when it happens. What
happened was John was a great fan of Elvis, and
I believe in retrospect that it was Colonel Tom Parker,
who decided that this would be a great idea to
put Elvis together with the Beatles in Elvis's house. So
(02:31):
in nineteen sixty four they never quite made it. The
Beatles were on tours criss crossing the country, Elvis was
making another movie, and then in nineteen sixty five, Elvis
and Brian Epstein, the Beatles manager, got together at the
Beverly Hills Hotel said let's make it happen now. The
problem was for Colonel Parker in a way that Brian
(02:52):
said later on, we don't want any press there. We
don't want to make this an extravaganza. So no press,
no tape recorders, no photographers, I mean, can you believe
no photographers for historic meeting. And when they finally met,
it took a long time for them to kind of
gel and and then again in retrospect. I didn't know
(03:14):
at the time, but Elvis was jealous of the Beatles.
First of all, they'd knocked him off the purchase a
number one hit Parade Guy, and then number two. Well,
Elvis had not appeared live anywhere, and then four days
before they met at Elvis's house, the Beatles appeared at
Shays Stadium in New York and played to an ecstatic
(03:36):
crowd of fifty five sold out crowd, sold out crowd,
and Elvis had seen this, and so you know, there
was a certain resentment. Elvis had been in the army,
he'd come out. He was struggling with making these movies,
which were kind of copycup movies with different songs, mainly
to sell to sell the songs. So he wasn't too
(03:58):
warm towards him. He was he wasn't bending over backwards
to meet them. And for the first ten minutes it
was a very awkward situation. I saw Elvis fiddling with
the remote control. The Beatles saddle around, and nobody introduced them.
I mean, it's saying it. I mean, it's amazing to
think of it. Nobody introduced the Beatles to Elvis. Finally, Elvis,
(04:20):
in the silence, listening what the sides of the jukebox
was going, the television was playing, he jumped up and said, hey,
you guys, I'm going to bed unless you came here
to jam. And of course that broke the ice, and
they got on a bit better after that, and then
they said they would meet each other again, but they
never did. And then if you want to flash forward,
(04:42):
and what aggravated the Beatles about Elvis was that several
years later, Elvis went to the White House to meet
Richard Nixon. And Elvis decided that he was going to
get Nixon young voters. So he persuaded the Nixon White
House to let him meet to Nixon. And I saw
the letter that Elvis wrote, and it was kind of
(05:03):
a rambling letter because Elvis was high when he flew
in from Palm Springs to Washington, DC. Anyway, the Nixon
White House had come along Elvis. Elvis showed up, and
I think people have seen that picture. Elvis presented Richard
Nixon with a sort of an antique gun, and Richard
Nixon gave Elvis his federal agent's drug enforcement badge. Kind
(05:28):
of ironic really, because Elvis wanted that, I suppose because
he ever got picked up riding along in the streets
of wherever, and he could flash his federal badge at
the police and they would wave him on his way.
So that was it. And one other thing, if I
might add George, at the time that Elvis met Nixon,
(05:49):
he said to Nixon, the Beatles are terrible guys. They
earn all this money in America, they go back to
England and they bad mouth America. Well, that honestly was
never the case. So by that time, the Beatles were
totally unhappy with Elvis, and you know, Elvis went on
to you know what, and to the tragic end. Absolutely.
(06:14):
Now he was thirty three years old, Ibar when he
came back from his comeback in nineteen sixty eight. Wow, yeah, yes,
are you talking about George when he came back from
the military or when he did his comeback concert in
nineteen sixty eight sixty eight? Okay, Well, that's another interesting story,
which I'm sure you know about because it's featured very
(06:34):
heavily in the in the movie by Baz Luhrman. But
the other day I had a long conversation with a
guy called Steve Binder, and Steve Binder was the director
of the Elvis comeback concert, and he said to me.
Binder said to me that Nelvis, Elvis was very nervous
about doing a live comeback concert. He was he'd been
(06:56):
away for so long. Go ahead, George, wouldn't you know?
You're right, he was very nervous when he came back.
And he even told the crowd, and once again they
all cheered him. Yes he did, and that was being
so honest. But the interesting story I felt about the
background to the story was as Steve Binder told me
that Elvis had come to him and said, look, I've
(07:17):
been away, what do you think of my career, Steve,
And Steve was a young producer director who really didn't
care what he said. He said, Elvis, your career is
in the toilet, and Elvis smiled and said, well, nobody's
ever told me that. Thank you, And Binder said he
kind of nurse made him through the comeback spashal and
(07:38):
if anybody's seen the Comeback Special, and anybody's seen the
recreation of the Comeback Special on the Baslerman movie Elvis,
we'll see Elvis was magnificent in his black leather outfit
with a live audience. It was quite a sensational show
and Elvis. It saved Elvis's life until, of course, he
(07:59):
got back onto the drugs and then as you described him,
he was forgetting his lyrics and the slide downhill continued
until the end. During the eight months before he died
in nineteen seventy seven, his doctor had prescribed him ten
thousand dulces of sedatives, meth amphetamines and narcotics ten thousand ivore.
(08:24):
That is so I mean, when you put it that way, George,
it is stunning. It's criminal almost, isn't it. Because the
doctor was his awful enabler. And I mean, no human
being could survive that now, surely, absolutely not. And that's
so tragic. At forty two, he adored his mother, didn't he.
(08:45):
He adored his mother his father in the movie, and
I didn't know his father. Vernon in the movie comes
across as a bit of a hay seed. His mother
comes across as somebody who was crazy about a son,
of course, and he was crazy about her. And when
she died, of course, he was shattered, not surprisingly, and um,
you know, Vernon moved in with with Missus with his
(09:10):
wife and into into Gracelands after they'd lived a fairly
you know, a lot of poverty stricken life, if you like.
And Graceland, well, that was quite a it's quite a museum,
isn't it. What God Elvis on the charts, he watch
into Sam Phillips record shop called Sun Records with producer
Sam Phillips, and they wanted in African American music to
(09:34):
a wider audience, didn't they They did? And look, the
interesting background story is that Elvis was influenced by Black
American music, as were believing or not in the early
days of Beatles. Paul McCartney always talks about what Elvis
talks about, how he loved Long, Tall Sally and roll
(09:55):
Over Beethoven, which were which were done by black entertainer
of the period. And Elvis he loved Chuck Berry, didn't he. Oh,
he loved Chuck Berry, of course absolutely, And chuck Berry
is shown in the movie. Elvis loved that music. And
when Colonel Parker saw Elvis or heard her, was for
(10:16):
the first time he thought he was a black singer,
and then he discovered he wasn't. And the film actually
of Elvis shows how, you know, it was sort of
metamorphosis into Elvis the King, which is rather than an
intriguing element of the film. I felt, which I didn't
know that much about. I knew Chuck Berry because he
(10:38):
was from the Saint Louis area and I had a
little company that produced video programs and he came in
one day stumbling around. Nobody knew who he was, and
he was trying to get dubs of all these videotapes
he had in his hand, and he just walked right in.
He didn't even stop at the reception desk, and I
had to go and get him because you know who
(11:00):
who's this guy turned to run? It's Chuck Berry. I said, oh,
mister Barry, what do you need? And he said, I
want some dubs of these and I said, well we can't.
There's there are movies and you were not allowed to
and he went oh. He took him in left. Well,
George was Chuck Berry, the Chuck. Was he the star
at that time of Oh? Yeah, yeah he was. He
(11:21):
was big time star. It was probably toward the last
three fourths of his career when I were an end
to him. Yes, well, that's an interesting story. I've never
heard you know before, But certainly it goes to the
roots of rock and roll, isn't it? In a way
the history of rock and rolls? Absolutely. This kid who
played the Elvis in this movie did a pretty good job. Oh,
(11:45):
I mean Austin Butler is his name, and he's a
kid from Orange County, California. And he apparently as soon
as he knew he was in line for Elvis. He
buried himself for months and months in Elvis Mania or
Elvis everything, and it showed because I think, you know,
(12:05):
maybe you and I can talk next year when the
Oscars come out, because I think Austin will get a nomination. Now,
whether he wins or not, I don't know. Great and
I think even Tom Hanks as the Best Supporting Actor nomination. Again,
I don't know whether he will win, but Hollywood and
the Academy do like actors who dress up in outfits
(12:27):
that makes them look totally different, and Tom Hanks certainly
certainly did that. Let me ask you something if I may,
I'm sorry, I know it's your show. But did you
ever run into Colonel Tom Parker? No? I never did,
did not know him, did not run into him at all.
But did he was he the one that truly made
Elvis the superstar that he became? Well, I know, I
(12:52):
mean Elvis had the talent obviously, but absolutely. I think
it's an interesting question. And you can you can cut
the nation in half or in quarters on this one.
I think Tom Hanks I saw called Tom Parker a
diabolical genius or but he was he a con man? Yes?
(13:13):
He was? Was he a carnival man, yes he was,
but he did nurse Elvis through the early periods and
he loved making money off of Elvis. Right, Oh, absolutely,
I think there's no doubt whatsoever, because Parker was a
very much a money man. I mean, the story that
Barbara Steizen told me when I when I went on
The Star Is Born was that they wanted Elvis to
(13:36):
play the rock star. And Elvis was dying to play
the rock star. And he went along and spoke to
John Peters who was the producer, and Barbara streisand and
was and they wanted him, but Colonel Parker said no.
And I think the reason Colonel Parker said no to
that was number one, Barbara Streisand would have got star billing,
(13:57):
and number two, Elvis would have been playing a washed out,
drunken rock star. And Parker didn't want to take any chances.
He didn't want to let him do it because some
people might think that Elvis was like that. Now, when
Elvis was on the Ed Sullivan Show, is it a
true story that they were? They were the technicians the
(14:18):
camera people were told, do not shoot below the belt.
We don't want to see him wiggling. I think I
think to some extent that was true. I mean Ed
Sullivan was pretty in a strange way, was very straight laced,
and so I think maybe I mean he told the
girls when the beetles showed up not to scream. But
(14:39):
so I think there's a certain element of truth to that.
And don't forget at the time, and I remember I
was in England. People said Elvis to Pelvis, I mean
his lewd and ascivious, which is kind of ridiculous when
you think of it, But so would I would concur
with what you just said that Ed Sullivan said to
the camera crew, you know, play careful. We have a
(15:02):
Middle American audience and we don't want to offend them. Well,
I think when Sullivan had the doors on and they
were singing Light by Fire, there was that version that says, girl,
we you know, couldn't get much higher or something we
whatever that was he didn't want. He didn't want that
phrase in there. No, No, I think so. And you know,
I don't know where you were, you know how young
(15:25):
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but it was must watching every Sunday night. I think
it was Sunday night and millions I mean seventy four
million people tuned into the Beatles, and maybe the same
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