I’d love to be the voice of reason here.” I happened to be on my way to the Caribbean, so, passing through New York, I rang John up. "We went to America, we had huge success. But I felt it was time. We got one. . We were talking about doing a Beatles movie a couple of years ago: slinging in home movies and old outtakes, adding narration – the definitive Beatles story. John was living out in Weybridge with his wife and child at the time, and I was bein’ the bachelor in London – living on my own, going to the theater, checking out the International Times, Allen Ginsberg. And I have a beautiful piece of footage from that Dezo Hoffmann photo session with the Beatles on the beach in old-fashioned bathing suits. Was it like the group sitting around all dropping acid, and you . I knew him and loved him. Watch Janis Joplin Stun at Woodstock for Qello Summer Festival. Some loll on the grass, sharing joints. I mean, still, after all those years of Martin Luther King and everything, they’re still buggerin’ around with black and white. . And video nasties – I Drill Your Brain, I Spit on Your Grave. I used to make 8-mm home movies and show them one frame at a time – flick, flick, flick – which made them last about an hour, when they only should have been ten minutes, you know? If you like what you are seeing, share it on social networks and let others know about The Paul McCartney Project. I remember showing them to Antonioni – I think he was in town filming Blow-Up – and Keith Richards. Yeah, I really didn’t like that. Any copyright owner who wants something removed should contact us and we will do so immediately. Do you still indulge? A shield. I’d still like to do that movie. – a little light went on – and I said, “No, this is wrong.” So I was very lucky. I go see them every time they come out ’cause they’re just a great, great band," he said before comparing them to the Fab Four. And I’m very surprised to find that, more often than not, I really do. What really happened? John came over and said, “Jeez, I’m trippin’.” And we all went, “Ahhh . Another caption says, “Paul goes to Hollywood” – and then he’s apparently written in the margin, “To cut Yoko and John out of the film.” He often thought that we were tryin’ to cut Yoko out of things, to cut her out of Let It Be. But thank God, at the very end, we suddenly realized that all we had to do was not mention Apple if we phoned each other. it’s still weird even to say, “before he died.” I still can’t come to terms with that. It’s fabulous, ’cause John is doing this beautiful Charleston – which his mother taught him how to do. We asked Dick Lester to direct it, but he said no one would be interested. . I don’t talk about stuff like that no more – it’s too crazy. I think maybe the manner of doing it I regret now – I wish it had been a little kinder, or with the others’ approval. 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