JOHN: "Congratulations, do you like it?"

Q: "I certainly do! John, you've written this book..."

JOHN: "Yeah."

RINGO: (jokingly) "It's my book."

JOHN: "Oh! That's Ringo's copy, but I wrote it."

Q: "Tell me about this please, John, because it says 'In His Own Write' and this means quite something."

RINGO: "He writed it himself, you see."

JOHN: (correcting) "Wroted it! Wroted it! (jokingly to the interviewer, about Ringo) He's very higgorant."

GEORGE: "This is George speaking. This is my first trip to London."

JOHN: "That's rude, that... George."

Q: "Tell me your impressions of London, George."

GEORGE: "Yeah well, it's very nice, you know. I thought there'd be more..."

JOHN: "Not as hot as Sydney."

GEORGE: "Yeah, it's not as hot as Sydney, but Dave was pretty cool, wasn't he?"

JOHN: "Yeah. And Arthur's very hot, I believe."

Q: "Oh Ringo, I've just realized... I've got to show you something." (shows her ring)

RINGO: "It's marvellous. I was looking at it, actually. What does it mean?"

Q: "It's a dragon."

JOHN: (narrating for the audio-only interview) "They're looking at the ring on Bernice's hand at the moment. It's a sort of green dragon... and a gold thingy."

GEORGE: "Funny looking... Like a dragon."

JOHN: "On her left hand - the second finger from the little one. Have you got the picture, Cobber?"

RINGO: "What do you call them charms you're wearing 'round your neck."

Q: "'Round my neck? I haven't got any charms."

GEORGE: "That's called a sweater."

RINGO: "What do you call them?"

JOHN: "I call them Eric."

GEORGE: "Arthur."

JOHN: "Bernice."

RINGO: "I don't know what they're called... the little green idols you wear."

JOHN: "There's a little yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu."

RINGO: "I give up!"

Q: "I'm having a ball! Now tell me something. How do you people manage to live? You cannot walk anywhere without people trying to tear you apart."

GEORGE: "Well it's like this, Bernice."

BEATLES: (singing together) "We could never walk down this street before. We could never walk down this street before."

GEORGE: (from the song 'From Me To You') "If there's anything that you want. If there's anything I can do..."

JOHN: "That's without echo chambers."

RINGO: "That's without backing."

JOHN:" Don't be put off. We're only joking, Cobbers."

Q: "Oh you're 'with it' now."

JOHN: "...'ello Cobber! That's all I can say."

Q: "The thing that I've loved about the interviews I've heard with you two is that you have sent everybody sky high."

RINGO: "There's three of us."

Q: "Yes I know."

JOHN: "Well, we don't take much notice of Ringo."

Q: "Ringo, you're being beautifully talkative tonight. Someone told me you'd only say 'yup' and 'nope.'"

RINGO: "Well I'm learning, you see. They're teaching me more words now."

JOHN: "Say the bit..."

RINGO: "Which one?"

JOHN: "The bourgeois..."

RINGO: "Oh! (from 'A Hard Day's Night' movie) There you go, hiding behind a smokescreen of bourgeois cliches!"

JOHN: "That's his line."

RINGO: "I don't go messing about with your tape recorder, do I?"

JOHN: "Carry on the interview."

RINGO: "Why John, why? I mean, I'm talking, aren't I? Don't stop me now."

JOHN: "Rolf Harris, your mate from Australia, is standing for Parliament over here. And we hope he gets in."

RINGO: "Nice lad. We were on a show together."

JOHN: "Do you know Rolf? You must know Rolf Harris..."

Q: "I've met Rolf!"

JOHN: "Well there you go. I'm only lying, of course, but it's a nice way to get Rolf in the story, you know."

Q: "Tell me something now... you've written a number. And I met the two lads who are singing it." (referring to Peter And Gordon's recording of Lennon/McCartney's 'World WIthout Love.')

RINGO: "Oh yes."

JOHN: "Oh... Peter and Go-Go! Well that number's very old. We wrote that when we were teenage school buddies. Paul and I did. Paul's not here. He said Hi or Hello. But luckily I'm here to tell you about it. Bighead talking, John. Hand you over to George. Pinhead."

GEOREG: "Pinhead?"

JOHN: "Yeah. Pinhead."

GEORGE: "Did you know Ringo was an Aborigine?"

Q: "Now tell me about this, George..."

GEORGE: "We found him. He was a bald Aborigine. And he was cycling..."

JOHN: "Before we made it."

GEORGE: "Yeah. He was cycling 'round the Eclipse of Wales, wasn't he?"

RINGO: "He was."

GEORGE: "With a bone through his tooth. And we saw him, sort of..."

JOHN: "From afar."

GEORGE: "...passing percussive persuasions through the bongos."

RINGO: "There you go, hiding behind a smokescreen of bourgeois cliches!"

GEORGE: "So we found him there and he fitted into the group, you see. But since then we've cleaned him up a bit, and growed his hair a mighty mass."

JOHN: "You're not going to change the basic rugged concept of my personality, are you?"

Q: "It's Ringo's personality."

JOHN: "No, that's another... We're doing lines from the film, you see."

RINGO: "Just remembering lines from the film."

JOHN: "You see what a boring film it's gonna be... all that rubbish in it."

GEORGE: "At the moment we're flicking our ash."

JOHN: "...on Brian Epstein's carpet. That's our manager. But we don't care."

RINGO: "We bought it."

Q: "Hey tell me kids... Have they written a script for you?"

RINGO: "Kids?"

GEORGE: "Oh aye!"

RINGO: "Alun Owen wrote the script."

JOHN: "Alun Owen. A fella that writes plays about Liverpool and Ireland and that."

GEORGE: "He writes many plagues and music halls."

JOHN: "They let us loose a bit, you know. We changed a lot of it but they've got a basic thing."

Source: Transcribed by www.beatlesinterviews.org from audio copy of the interview