Listen to Snippets from the Beatles' 1965 Playboy Interview

As reported here recently, tapes of the Beatles' Playboy interview, conducted in October 1964 and published in the mag's February 1965 issue, are up for sale via Omega Auctions.

You can listen to a bit of them here:

Details:

Five Sony C-90 cassette tapes, containing a complete recording of an interview conducted by American journalist Jean Shepherd with The Beatles in late October 1964. A much abridged transcript of the recording would be appear in the published article, which appeared in Playboy magazine, Feb 1965. Notably the tapes also include recordings made by Jean Shepherd at the Beatles' concert at the Exteter ABC, with recordings of the crowd and performance interspersed with Shepherd's commentary. Shepherd would interview the group at their Torquay hotel following the concert.

The full interview lasts for approx 1h40. There are approx 15 minutes of recordings from the concert. Snippets of songs heard inc Money, Can't Buy Me Love, Things We Said Today, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You, If I Fell, I Wanna Be Your Man.

The Beatles eventually warm up into good form during the interview despite a somewhat frosty initial exchange. Notable quotes / features inc: Lennon and McCartney talking about their parents, joking about buying sunset strip or even (Lennon) 'buying America', McCartney using less than sanitary language to describe a hostile journalist and making a quip about marrying Ringo.



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