White Album Sessions

June 6, 1968

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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Complete Session Tape

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Recording Sessions

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