At some point during the session (which was spent working on Ringo's
"Don't Pass Me By"), the Beatles were visited in the studio by Kenny Everett,
who was granted a group interview for broadcast in the last edition (for now) of his
weekly BBC Radio 1 series The Kenny Everett Show, on Sunday 9 June (10:00
am-12:00 noon). Even more bizarre than his preivous encounters withthem on an individual
basis, this "interview" was utterly chaotic from the first second to the last.
Like Everett himself, the Beatles were anarchically unruly, barely uttering anything of
any value and happily dropping into perverse, brief ad-lib parodies of the Beach Boys'
'Cotton Fields' and Nilsson's 'River Deep, Mountain High' (John) and Ray Noble's 1931
dance-band shuffler 'Goodnight Sweetheart' (Ringo). Paul and John together, and then Paul
and Ringo together, also recorded jingles for Everett's show.
George wasn't heard in the Radio 1 transmission but he was evident,
along with much more of the recording, when the "interview" was pressed as a
seven-inch disc by Apple and distributed, for some peculiar reason, as a promotional item
in Italy (Una Sesazionale Intervista Dei Beatles). The disc was more listenable
than Everett's Radio 1 broadcast because that had suffered from his typical surfeit of
echo and effects.
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