1 00:00:18,790 --> 00:00:21,160 Here, set of aluminium saucepans. 2 00:00:21,160 --> 00:00:23,660 Never seen daylight, moonlight or Fanny By Gaslight. 3 00:00:35,540 --> 00:00:37,410 Growing up in London, me and my mates 4 00:00:37,410 --> 00:00:41,500 used to hear our parents talking about "the good old days." 5 00:00:41,500 --> 00:00:44,500 We asked ourselves, "What was so good about them?" 6 00:00:44,500 --> 00:00:47,370 MUSIC: Dead End Street by The Kinks 7 00:00:47,370 --> 00:00:51,250 # There's a crack up in the ceiling 8 00:00:51,250 --> 00:00:55,000 # And the kitchen sink is leaking 9 00:00:55,000 --> 00:00:58,580 # Out of work and got no money 10 00:00:58,580 --> 00:01:02,830 # A Sunday joint of bread and honey 11 00:01:02,830 --> 00:01:06,450 # What are we living for? 12 00:01:06,450 --> 00:01:10,540 # Two-roomed apartment on the second floor 13 00:01:10,540 --> 00:01:14,500 # No money coming in 14 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:17,250 # The rent collector's knocking, trying to get in... # 15 00:01:17,250 --> 00:01:20,370 There was depression, unemployment, 16 00:01:20,370 --> 00:01:22,700 World War II, the Blitz. 17 00:01:22,700 --> 00:01:25,290 And even when it was all over, food was rationed. 18 00:01:25,290 --> 00:01:28,830 # Hey, hey, people live on dead end street 19 00:01:28,830 --> 00:01:32,450 # Hey, hey, people are dying on dead end street 20 00:01:32,450 --> 00:01:35,000 # Hey, hey, gonna die on dead end street... # 21 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,290 The Cockneys were always looked upon kindly in England, 22 00:01:37,290 --> 00:01:38,790 but in the way you look kindly upon 23 00:01:38,790 --> 00:01:41,330 Mickey Mouse or puppets, you know? Yeah, yeah. 24 00:01:41,330 --> 00:01:43,910 They say, "Oh, aren't they nice? Aren't they clever?" You know? 25 00:01:43,910 --> 00:01:46,000 As though they've wound you up and you do something. 26 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:49,370 Well, along came a generation of which I'm probably about the oldest. 27 00:01:49,370 --> 00:01:51,580 I feel like a grandfather with most of them. 28 00:01:51,580 --> 00:01:53,200 I'm 33. 29 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:56,750 We decided that we weren't going to be Mickey Mouse any more, 30 00:01:56,750 --> 00:01:58,700 at least, we'd be people, you know, 31 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:01,330 whether they liked it or not, and that's what we did. 32 00:02:01,330 --> 00:02:03,580 MUSIC: Waterloo Sunset by The Kinks 33 00:02:03,580 --> 00:02:05,750 BOAT HORN DRONES 34 00:02:11,620 --> 00:02:16,040 # Dirty old river, must you keep rolling 35 00:02:16,040 --> 00:02:20,500 # Flowing into the night? 36 00:02:20,500 --> 00:02:25,160 # People so busy, make me feel dizzy 37 00:02:25,160 --> 00:02:29,540 # Taxi light shines so bright 38 00:02:29,540 --> 00:02:38,410 # But I don't need no friends 39 00:02:38,410 --> 00:02:45,250 # As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise... # 40 00:02:48,540 --> 00:02:50,620 For the first time in British history, 41 00:02:50,620 --> 00:02:56,160 the young working class, people like me, stood up for ourselves and said, 42 00:02:56,160 --> 00:03:01,750 "We are here, this is our society and we are not going away." 43 00:03:01,750 --> 00:03:03,870 # Waterloo sunset's fine 44 00:03:03,870 --> 00:03:09,660 # Waterloo sunset's fine. # 45 00:03:17,620 --> 00:03:20,080 What was it all about? 46 00:03:20,080 --> 00:03:21,830 I'm going to show you. 47 00:03:21,830 --> 00:03:24,000 MUSIC: My Generation by The Who 48 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:29,290 # People try to put us d-down Talkin' 'bout my generation 49 00:03:29,290 --> 00:03:34,080 # Just because we get around Talkin' 'bout my generation 50 00:03:34,080 --> 00:03:39,000 # Things they do look awful c-c-cold Talkin' 'bout my generation 51 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:43,000 # I hope I die before I get old Talkin' 'bout my generation 52 00:03:43,000 --> 00:03:45,500 # This is my generation 53 00:03:45,500 --> 00:03:48,950 # This is my generation, baby 54 00:03:48,950 --> 00:03:53,790 # Why don't you all f-fade away Talkin' 'bout my generation 55 00:03:53,790 --> 00:03:56,500 # And don't try dig what we all s-s-say 56 00:03:56,500 --> 00:03:58,620 # Talkin' 'bout my generation 57 00:03:58,620 --> 00:04:01,410 # I'm not trying to cause a big s-s-sensation 58 00:04:01,410 --> 00:04:03,040 # Talkin' 'bout my generation 59 00:04:03,040 --> 00:04:05,370 # My generation 60 00:04:05,370 --> 00:04:08,620 # This is my generation, baby 61 00:04:26,080 --> 00:04:31,040 # People try to put us d-down Talkin' 'bout my generation 62 00:04:31,040 --> 00:04:33,540 # Just because we get around 63 00:04:33,540 --> 00:04:35,330 # Talkin' 'bout my generation 64 00:04:35,330 --> 00:04:38,250 # My generation. # 65 00:04:43,540 --> 00:04:47,330 You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off! 66 00:04:47,330 --> 00:04:51,580 Britain in the 1950s was stable, conventional, 67 00:04:51,580 --> 00:04:54,080 predictable and dull. 68 00:04:54,080 --> 00:04:56,410 But that's the way our parents liked it. 69 00:04:56,410 --> 00:04:59,830 My generation demanded a new beginning. 70 00:04:59,830 --> 00:05:02,120 MUSIC: Something In The Air by Thunderclap Newman 71 00:05:07,250 --> 00:05:11,700 # Call out the instigators 72 00:05:11,700 --> 00:05:17,040 # Because there's something in the air 73 00:05:17,040 --> 00:05:22,660 # We've got to get together sooner or later 74 00:05:22,660 --> 00:05:27,040 # Because the revolution's here 75 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:29,410 # And you know it's right 76 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:38,120 # And you know that it's right 77 00:05:40,870 --> 00:05:46,370 # We have got to get it together 78 00:05:46,370 --> 00:05:51,450 # We have got to get it together now. # 79 00:05:55,410 --> 00:05:57,790 I wasn't always Michael Caine. 80 00:05:57,790 --> 00:06:00,120 I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. 81 00:06:01,370 --> 00:06:04,330 My mother was a charlady, a cleaner. 82 00:06:04,330 --> 00:06:07,450 And my father was a Billingsgate fish market porter. 83 00:06:07,450 --> 00:06:10,410 I was expected to follow in his footsteps, 84 00:06:10,410 --> 00:06:12,000 but I hated the smell of fish. 85 00:06:13,750 --> 00:06:15,700 Maurice Micklewhite, are you? 86 00:06:15,700 --> 00:06:17,120 Yes, I am. 87 00:06:17,120 --> 00:06:18,750 No. 88 00:06:18,750 --> 00:06:21,410 Oh, my God, aren't you like your father? 89 00:06:21,410 --> 00:06:24,330 Cos I didn't think anybody would be left down here. 90 00:06:24,330 --> 00:06:26,830 Your mother and I were very good friends. 91 00:06:26,830 --> 00:06:29,790 Yes, you were, indeed. And your dear old father. Yes. 92 00:06:29,790 --> 00:06:33,000 The times we used to pick up old Mrs Faulkner. 93 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:35,620 Yeah! Off the floor. 94 00:06:35,620 --> 00:06:37,410 You remember those times, 95 00:06:37,410 --> 00:06:39,120 don't you, boy? Yeah, I remember. I do. 96 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,000 ARCHIVE: As an English child grows, 97 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:45,540 he becomes aware he has already been assigned a place in a large game, 98 00:06:45,540 --> 00:06:48,910 a system as intricate and elaborate as a maze. 99 00:06:48,910 --> 00:06:51,120 A maze of tradition, 100 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,580 outmoded rules about who should succeed 101 00:06:54,580 --> 00:06:57,290 in the eyes of the establishment. 102 00:06:57,290 --> 00:07:02,750 Discipline is indispensable to a progressive and mature society. 103 00:07:02,750 --> 00:07:05,910 Given discipline in the home and school, 104 00:07:05,910 --> 00:07:08,200 in college and at the work bench, 105 00:07:08,200 --> 00:07:11,000 the foundations for happiness are well-established. 106 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,160 # In this dirty old part of the city 107 00:07:14,160 --> 00:07:18,200 # Where the sun refused to shine 108 00:07:18,200 --> 00:07:21,870 # People tell me there ain't no use in tryin' 109 00:07:26,250 --> 00:07:30,250 # Now my girl, you're so young and pretty 110 00:07:30,250 --> 00:07:34,500 # And one thing I know is true 111 00:07:34,500 --> 00:07:38,700 # You'll be dead before your time is due, I know 112 00:07:41,870 --> 00:07:44,950 # Watch my daddy in bed a-dyin'... # 113 00:07:44,950 --> 00:07:46,910 My dad was just an East End lad. 114 00:07:46,910 --> 00:07:49,750 My mum wanted something better for us. 115 00:07:49,750 --> 00:07:53,540 # He's been workin' and slavin' his life away 116 00:07:53,540 --> 00:07:55,040 # Oh, yes, I know it... # 117 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:57,580 My dad was a very talented musician 118 00:07:57,580 --> 00:07:59,080 but he had to go out and work. 119 00:08:01,620 --> 00:08:03,790 As I'm sure your parents did. They did, yeah. 120 00:08:03,790 --> 00:08:06,450 So, all his dreams about becoming a musician 121 00:08:06,450 --> 00:08:07,700 went out the window. 122 00:08:12,790 --> 00:08:16,370 # We gotta get out of this place 123 00:08:16,370 --> 00:08:20,330 # If it's the last thing we ever do 124 00:08:20,330 --> 00:08:23,620 # We gotta get out of this place 125 00:08:23,620 --> 00:08:27,620 # Cos, girl, there's a better life for me and you 126 00:08:29,000 --> 00:08:32,040 # Believe me, baby 127 00:08:32,040 --> 00:08:34,160 # I know it, baby 128 00:08:34,160 --> 00:08:36,250 # You know it too. # 129 00:08:38,370 --> 00:08:40,080 As a kid, me and my friends 130 00:08:40,080 --> 00:08:42,620 spent as much time as possible in the cinema. 131 00:08:43,700 --> 00:08:48,330 But the films we saw had nothing to do with our lives. 132 00:08:48,330 --> 00:08:50,290 No heroes we could relate to. 133 00:08:53,160 --> 00:08:54,450 From the way they talked, 134 00:08:54,450 --> 00:08:56,750 I thought all the actors were dukes and duchesses. 135 00:08:56,750 --> 00:08:58,200 Pure satin. 136 00:08:58,200 --> 00:09:00,370 Satin? Lace, actually. 137 00:09:00,370 --> 00:09:03,160 No, Major, I meant your voice. 138 00:09:03,160 --> 00:09:05,080 I'm so desperately in love with you. 139 00:09:05,080 --> 00:09:08,160 Well, you really think you are. I can't eat or sleep for thinking of you. 140 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:10,080 You know Mr Gore-Brown, my new boss. How do you do? 141 00:09:10,080 --> 00:09:12,450 Sir Henry Hazelrigg and Major D'Arcy Davenport. How do you do? 142 00:09:12,450 --> 00:09:14,580 Well, welcome to the toughest way of earning a living 143 00:09:14,580 --> 00:09:16,540 in this so-called civilised world, Mr Gore-Brown. 144 00:09:21,370 --> 00:09:23,870 Not that my East End mates would go and see Brief Encounter 145 00:09:23,870 --> 00:09:26,620 but, for some reason, I saw it. 146 00:09:27,660 --> 00:09:30,540 It was a love story about a middle-aged couple. 147 00:09:31,500 --> 00:09:32,790 And it was funny. 148 00:09:32,790 --> 00:09:33,910 I love you. 149 00:09:33,910 --> 00:09:35,000 "I love you." 150 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:36,160 You love me, too. 151 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:37,200 "I love you, too." 152 00:09:37,200 --> 00:09:38,700 Yes. 153 00:09:38,700 --> 00:09:41,870 I don't want to pretend anything, either to you or to anyone else. 154 00:09:41,870 --> 00:09:43,330 What did she say? 155 00:09:43,330 --> 00:09:44,830 And the other one says, 156 00:09:44,830 --> 00:09:46,540 "She says, 'I love you.' 157 00:09:46,540 --> 00:09:47,870 "Shut up." 158 00:09:47,870 --> 00:09:51,040 I look down on him because I am upper class. 159 00:09:52,080 --> 00:09:55,870 I look up to him because he is upper class. 160 00:09:55,870 --> 00:09:58,790 But I look down on him because he is lower class. 161 00:10:00,700 --> 00:10:01,750 I am middle class. 162 00:10:05,330 --> 00:10:07,290 I know my place. LAUGHTER 163 00:10:10,450 --> 00:10:12,580 We were supposed to respect our betters - 164 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:16,450 the nobs, the toffs, the people who had all the power. 165 00:10:16,450 --> 00:10:18,700 The establishment, as we knew them. 166 00:10:18,700 --> 00:10:22,700 # The changing of the guard is part of our tradition 167 00:10:22,700 --> 00:10:24,660 # But now we find it's been applied to us... # 168 00:10:24,660 --> 00:10:28,160 We were all brought up to be servants. 169 00:10:28,160 --> 00:10:30,580 I mean, we were never going to be the masters. 170 00:10:30,580 --> 00:10:34,160 # And no-one can afford a chauffeur-driven Rolls 171 00:10:34,160 --> 00:10:37,910 # If we ever get invited to the palace 172 00:10:37,910 --> 00:10:41,160 # Then we'll all go there by bus. # 173 00:10:41,160 --> 00:10:43,870 Lady Lewisham, what do you think about our teenagers? 174 00:10:43,870 --> 00:10:45,790 I think they're splendid, 175 00:10:45,790 --> 00:10:47,750 and I'm delighted you asked me that question, 176 00:10:47,750 --> 00:10:50,750 cos I sometimes think they get rather a raw deal. 177 00:10:50,750 --> 00:10:53,620 This was the first generation that had 178 00:10:53,620 --> 00:10:55,700 the potential to make a mark at the time. 179 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:00,160 But the older generation 180 00:11:00,160 --> 00:11:02,080 still clung to the days 181 00:11:02,080 --> 00:11:04,870 when Britain ruled over half the civilised world. 182 00:11:07,200 --> 00:11:10,870 We will rise like lions and get our Empire back. 183 00:11:10,870 --> 00:11:13,160 The bloody Great British Empire 184 00:11:13,160 --> 00:11:15,330 that your bloody Labour rubbish give away to, 185 00:11:15,330 --> 00:11:17,500 to the people it belonged to. 186 00:11:20,870 --> 00:11:23,000 HAROLD MACMILLAN: And whether we like it or not, 187 00:11:23,000 --> 00:11:25,950 the wind of change is blowing through this continent. 188 00:11:29,290 --> 00:11:31,910 But we don't need generals any more. 189 00:11:31,910 --> 00:11:33,290 There isn't a war going on. 190 00:11:33,290 --> 00:11:36,750 I wasn't prepared to follow any of the principles, 191 00:11:36,750 --> 00:11:39,290 morals, outlooks on life 192 00:11:39,290 --> 00:11:43,750 of what were, I laughingly call "my betters." 193 00:11:43,750 --> 00:11:45,750 And which is what I was actually taught at school, 194 00:11:45,750 --> 00:11:47,580 I was taught all about my betters. 195 00:11:47,580 --> 00:11:50,950 I never understood who my betters were supposed to be. 196 00:11:52,000 --> 00:11:55,160 I've never seen any of my betters. 197 00:11:55,160 --> 00:11:57,910 I've seen a lot of my equals, 198 00:11:57,910 --> 00:11:59,830 but I've still never seen any of my betters. 199 00:12:01,080 --> 00:12:02,790 For my generation, 200 00:12:02,790 --> 00:12:05,160 the Labour government coming in in '45... 201 00:12:05,160 --> 00:12:08,700 Yeah, yeah. ..the Health Service, the change of diet, 202 00:12:08,700 --> 00:12:10,790 the change of health care... Yeah. 203 00:12:10,790 --> 00:12:15,000 ..and good education for everybody - I think that set the '60s up. 204 00:12:15,000 --> 00:12:17,500 I mean, you got a very good education, too. 205 00:12:17,500 --> 00:12:21,200 Yeah, yeah. We didn't have to pay for education. 206 00:12:21,200 --> 00:12:24,370 I loved it and I was very glad to go to a grammar school. 207 00:12:24,370 --> 00:12:27,120 I did. Did you? Grammar school boys! Grammar school. 208 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:29,370 Come on! Give it up for grammar school. 209 00:12:29,370 --> 00:12:32,200 Well, I always say to people, you know, I got this real posh education 210 00:12:32,200 --> 00:12:34,290 for nothing. 211 00:12:34,290 --> 00:12:36,870 I always wanted to be an actress 212 00:12:36,870 --> 00:12:38,870 and my father said, "No, no, you can't be an actress. 213 00:12:38,870 --> 00:12:41,620 "It's terrible. It's a terrible profession. 214 00:12:41,620 --> 00:12:43,830 "And I want you to go to a secretarial school 215 00:12:43,830 --> 00:12:47,120 "and find a good man, get married and have a nice life." 216 00:12:48,450 --> 00:12:51,370 There was this kind of science teacher when I was about 12, 217 00:12:51,370 --> 00:12:53,580 he showed me how to develop film. 218 00:12:53,580 --> 00:12:55,040 So I used to go down my mum's cellar. 219 00:12:55,040 --> 00:12:57,580 I used to nick the chemicals from school 220 00:12:57,580 --> 00:13:01,410 and process film from my mother's Brownie 221 00:13:01,410 --> 00:13:03,540 to see if I could photograph birds. 222 00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:04,830 Birds? 223 00:13:04,830 --> 00:13:06,700 Oh, I was quite interested in ornithology. 224 00:13:06,700 --> 00:13:08,830 Oh, I thought... Oh, sorry, I mistook that. No, no. 225 00:13:08,830 --> 00:13:11,450 LAUGHTER OK, I get it now, yeah. 226 00:13:14,120 --> 00:13:16,250 When I saw Elvis, it did something to me. 227 00:13:16,250 --> 00:13:18,330 And it wasn't just the song, 228 00:13:18,330 --> 00:13:20,910 and it wasn't just the fact that everybody was talking about it. 229 00:13:20,910 --> 00:13:23,660 There was something animalistic. 230 00:13:23,660 --> 00:13:25,410 # Well, I found a new place to dwell... # 231 00:13:25,410 --> 00:13:29,000 For the first time in my life, I'd seen someone that was free. 232 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:31,660 Completely and utterly free. 233 00:13:31,660 --> 00:13:34,410 And I thought, "I've got to do that. I've got to do... I've got to be... 234 00:13:34,410 --> 00:13:37,000 "That's what I want to do." 235 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,910 # I'll be so lonely, I could die 236 00:13:41,120 --> 00:13:44,370 # Well, the bellhop's tears keep flowin' 237 00:13:44,370 --> 00:13:46,790 # And the desk clerk's dressed in black 238 00:13:46,790 --> 00:13:49,870 # Well, they've been so long on Lonely Street... # 239 00:13:49,870 --> 00:13:52,330 I wanted to be an actor from the age of ten 240 00:13:52,330 --> 00:13:56,620 but, I mean, people with my accent and background 241 00:13:56,620 --> 00:13:58,120 hardly ever became actors. 242 00:13:59,160 --> 00:14:02,120 But I was in a school play 243 00:14:02,120 --> 00:14:03,830 and when I came on, 244 00:14:03,830 --> 00:14:06,580 I immediately got a laugh 245 00:14:06,580 --> 00:14:08,200 because my flies were undone. 246 00:14:09,330 --> 00:14:11,370 But 247 00:14:11,370 --> 00:14:13,120 I was hooked. 248 00:14:13,120 --> 00:14:14,620 So, you know, when he was working, 249 00:14:14,620 --> 00:14:17,410 he was always miles away, you know, dreaming what he was going to be 250 00:14:17,410 --> 00:14:19,870 and what he wasn't going to be and 251 00:14:19,870 --> 00:14:22,950 we used to think he was a bit cranky. We used to think he was a nutcase, 252 00:14:22,950 --> 00:14:24,950 didn't we? Let's face it. Yeah. 253 00:14:24,950 --> 00:14:27,200 To be honest, I was happy 254 00:14:27,200 --> 00:14:29,870 just to make a few quid being an actor in repertory. 255 00:14:30,950 --> 00:14:33,040 Playing in draughty theatres, 256 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:35,200 living in draughty rooms. 257 00:14:36,370 --> 00:14:39,790 I never thought that I would be famous. 258 00:14:39,790 --> 00:14:41,040 Never. 259 00:14:41,040 --> 00:14:43,410 # Now, one man and his ale 260 00:14:43,410 --> 00:14:45,290 # What he wants is Watneys 261 00:14:45,290 --> 00:14:47,290 # What he wants is... Watneys Pale! 262 00:14:47,290 --> 00:14:49,370 # What he wants is Watneys! # 263 00:14:49,370 --> 00:14:51,000 And so you've got a long way to go. 264 00:14:52,750 --> 00:14:54,410 Don't become too good too early. 265 00:15:00,750 --> 00:15:04,120 So, I was in rep, doing a play up in Liverpool 266 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,330 and we used to go out and have coffee and sandwiches 267 00:15:06,330 --> 00:15:08,620 at lunchtime at this coffee bar. 268 00:15:08,620 --> 00:15:10,660 And it was always smothered in girls. 269 00:15:10,660 --> 00:15:13,540 MCCARTNEY: That's going to get you down there. Yeah. 270 00:15:13,540 --> 00:15:15,330 That was us, yeah. 271 00:15:15,330 --> 00:15:17,120 # Some other guy now 272 00:15:17,120 --> 00:15:19,790 # Has taken my love away from me, oh, now 273 00:15:19,790 --> 00:15:22,250 # Some other guy now 274 00:15:22,250 --> 00:15:25,410 # Has taken my love just like I'm gone, oh, now 275 00:15:25,410 --> 00:15:27,200 # Some other guy now 276 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:30,290 # Has taken my love away from me, oh, now 277 00:15:30,290 --> 00:15:31,910 # I'm the lonely one 278 00:15:31,910 --> 00:15:35,620 # As lonely as I can feel all right 279 00:15:35,620 --> 00:15:37,790 # Oh ho ho-ho. # 280 00:15:40,540 --> 00:15:43,790 To get in, you had to kind of bluff a bit. 281 00:15:43,790 --> 00:15:46,250 It was officially a blues club. Yeah. 282 00:15:46,250 --> 00:15:47,750 We didn't know any blues. 283 00:15:47,750 --> 00:15:49,620 It was all rock and roll, what we knew. Yeah, sure. 284 00:15:49,620 --> 00:15:51,910 We were getting notes from the guy. 285 00:15:51,910 --> 00:15:54,040 "This is not blues!" 286 00:15:54,040 --> 00:15:55,540 Anyway, we bluffed it. 287 00:15:57,660 --> 00:16:00,870 I mean, I had my guitar. Mick Jagger had his in London, 288 00:16:00,870 --> 00:16:03,290 and Eric Burdon was up in Newcastle 289 00:16:03,290 --> 00:16:05,540 and we're all going through the same changes at once. 290 00:16:05,540 --> 00:16:08,250 And you could make it without 291 00:16:08,250 --> 00:16:11,160 college and education and all those things, you know? 292 00:16:12,250 --> 00:16:14,370 LIVE ROCK AND ROLL 293 00:16:35,700 --> 00:16:37,330 Of course, with being very poor. 294 00:16:37,330 --> 00:16:39,660 there was no way I was going to be able to buy a guitar. 295 00:16:39,660 --> 00:16:42,120 Yeah, how do you start? You got to get musical instruments. 296 00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:45,700 Yeah, so I went out and bought some wood like so many of our guys did. 297 00:16:45,700 --> 00:16:47,790 We all went out and made our first guitars. 298 00:16:47,790 --> 00:16:50,370 Made them? We made them, yeah. We made them. 299 00:16:50,370 --> 00:16:53,830 And they weren't very good. And they didn't last very long. 300 00:16:53,830 --> 00:16:57,540 But all you needed to do was have something that made a noise. 301 00:16:57,540 --> 00:16:58,660 Really? 302 00:16:58,660 --> 00:17:01,830 And if you learnt three chords you can play many, many songs. 303 00:17:06,660 --> 00:17:08,950 And after they learned those three chords, 304 00:17:08,950 --> 00:17:12,160 most kids headed for London. 305 00:17:12,160 --> 00:17:16,160 It's where everybody who wanted to be somebody wanted to be. 306 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:19,120 You might be out of work, you might be broke, 307 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:21,040 but it was cheap 308 00:17:21,040 --> 00:17:24,620 and you lived within two miles of Buckingham Palace. 309 00:17:24,620 --> 00:17:26,330 Oh, that was a great time. 310 00:17:26,330 --> 00:17:29,080 We all used to just go round London in our cars 311 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:31,750 and meet each other and talk about music. 312 00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:33,870 And we were very close to the Stones. 313 00:17:33,870 --> 00:17:35,830 I spent a lot of time with Brian and Mick. 314 00:17:35,830 --> 00:17:37,540 And I admired them, you know. 315 00:17:37,540 --> 00:17:39,870 I dug them the first time I saw them in Richmond. 316 00:17:42,370 --> 00:17:44,910 And you know we wrote their first number one? 317 00:17:44,910 --> 00:17:46,660 Wait a minute, what one was that? 318 00:17:46,660 --> 00:17:50,040 So, one day, me and John were in Charing Cross Road 319 00:17:50,040 --> 00:17:52,790 cos that was where all the guitar shops were. Yeah, I remember that. 320 00:17:52,790 --> 00:17:54,700 Yeah. And we used to go down. That was like our mecca. 321 00:17:54,700 --> 00:17:57,200 And we were coming out of a shop one day 322 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,540 and we saw this taxi with Rolling Stones 323 00:17:59,540 --> 00:18:00,910 and we were, "Hey!" 324 00:18:00,910 --> 00:18:02,870 So, we got in, and we're talking, and they say, 325 00:18:02,870 --> 00:18:05,620 "Oh, we got a record contract with Decca, you know? Great." 326 00:18:05,620 --> 00:18:08,120 And Mick said, "Trouble is, we haven't got a song." 327 00:18:08,120 --> 00:18:10,080 And I go, "Drr-drr-drr!" Yeah. 328 00:18:10,080 --> 00:18:11,790 I go, "Well, we've got one." 329 00:18:11,790 --> 00:18:13,540 I said, "Will that suit you?" 330 00:18:13,540 --> 00:18:16,200 HE SINGS: Well, I wanna be your lover, baby. 331 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,200 # I wanna be your man 332 00:18:19,200 --> 00:18:22,160 # I wanna be your lover, baby 333 00:18:22,160 --> 00:18:25,080 # I wanna be your man 334 00:18:25,080 --> 00:18:27,870 # Tell me that you love me, baby 335 00:18:27,870 --> 00:18:30,700 # Tell me you understand 336 00:18:30,700 --> 00:18:32,450 # Tell me that you love me, baby... # 337 00:18:32,450 --> 00:18:34,620 I thought the Stones wrote that one themselves. 338 00:18:34,620 --> 00:18:36,500 No, we wrote that when we were so high. 339 00:18:38,410 --> 00:18:40,500 How do you compare your group with The Beatles? 340 00:18:42,040 --> 00:18:44,410 I don't know. How do you compare it with The Beatles? 341 00:18:44,410 --> 00:18:46,660 I don't compare it at all, you know. There's no point. 342 00:18:46,660 --> 00:18:48,620 Well, let's get right down to the brass tacks. 343 00:18:48,620 --> 00:18:50,330 Do you think you're better than they are? 344 00:18:50,330 --> 00:18:53,500 At what? You know, it's not the same group. 345 00:18:53,500 --> 00:18:55,580 It was part of a movement. Yeah. 346 00:18:55,580 --> 00:18:57,700 Because while we were still up in Liverpool, 347 00:18:57,700 --> 00:19:00,620 we were seeing people like you, 348 00:19:00,620 --> 00:19:03,580 Albert Finney, Courtenay, 349 00:19:03,580 --> 00:19:05,370 who were ordinary, working-class boys, 350 00:19:05,370 --> 00:19:07,040 who talked with regional accents. 351 00:19:07,040 --> 00:19:09,370 I've only clocked you, that's all, you're... 352 00:19:09,370 --> 00:19:12,120 You're Crafty Arthur from the Basin. 353 00:19:12,120 --> 00:19:15,330 I shouldn't worry too much, sir. We can always shut down a reactor. 354 00:19:15,330 --> 00:19:16,950 Yes. 355 00:19:16,950 --> 00:19:18,450 Pity if we had to, though. 356 00:19:18,450 --> 00:19:20,370 Don't let the bastards grind you down! 357 00:19:20,370 --> 00:19:22,910 That's one thing I've learned. 358 00:19:22,910 --> 00:19:25,660 Ordinary lads, you know, and they were now making it. 359 00:19:25,660 --> 00:19:28,410 You were expected to sort of talk posh. Yeah. 360 00:19:28,410 --> 00:19:31,040 And we didn't or couldn't, and didn't want to. 361 00:19:32,540 --> 00:19:34,660 My real name was Maurice Micklewhite, 362 00:19:34,660 --> 00:19:36,660 which is a bit of a mouthful for an actor, 363 00:19:36,660 --> 00:19:39,580 so I changed it to Michael White. 364 00:19:39,580 --> 00:19:41,080 Then I came to London 365 00:19:41,080 --> 00:19:44,000 and every night I used to go to Leicester Square, 366 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:45,410 in a phone booth, 367 00:19:45,410 --> 00:19:47,620 and call my agent to see if there was any work. 368 00:19:47,620 --> 00:19:49,950 And one night she said, "I've got a job for you. 369 00:19:49,950 --> 00:19:51,450 "It's on television." 370 00:19:51,450 --> 00:19:54,040 She said, "And you've got to join Equity, the trade union." 371 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:56,950 So I said, "OK, I'll join it." She said, "But you've got to change your name." 372 00:19:56,950 --> 00:19:59,080 She said, "Because there's another Michael White 373 00:19:59,080 --> 00:20:02,080 "already in Equity. So, I want the name now." 374 00:20:02,080 --> 00:20:04,160 She said, "Obviously, you can keep the name Michael, 375 00:20:04,160 --> 00:20:05,870 "but I want another surname." 376 00:20:05,870 --> 00:20:07,950 So, I looked round Leicester Square at the cinemas 377 00:20:07,950 --> 00:20:11,370 and there was my favourite actor, Humphrey Bogart 378 00:20:11,370 --> 00:20:13,910 in The Caine Mutiny. And I thought, "This is fantastic." 379 00:20:13,910 --> 00:20:17,080 So I said, "Michael Caine." She said, "How do you spell it?" 380 00:20:17,080 --> 00:20:19,750 I said, "C-A-I-N-E." 381 00:20:19,750 --> 00:20:21,750 And that's how I became Michael Caine. 382 00:20:21,750 --> 00:20:24,290 If I'd have gone to the cinema next door 383 00:20:24,290 --> 00:20:27,620 I would've been "Michael 101 Dalmatians." 384 00:20:27,620 --> 00:20:29,910 Music in this country was very watery and weak 385 00:20:29,910 --> 00:20:31,370 and not really worth talking about. 386 00:20:31,370 --> 00:20:33,120 Then all of a sudden, you know, 387 00:20:33,120 --> 00:20:36,790 the kids in England were thinking for themselves, you know. 388 00:20:36,790 --> 00:20:40,540 They were beginning to sort of build up their own ideas about fashion. 389 00:20:40,540 --> 00:20:43,370 And build up their own ideas about music. 390 00:20:47,750 --> 00:21:00,370 # I can't get no satisfaction 391 00:21:00,370 --> 00:21:05,500 # Cos I try and I try and I try 392 00:21:05,500 --> 00:21:07,200 # And I try 393 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,000 # I can't get no 394 00:21:10,620 --> 00:21:12,330 # I can't get no 395 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,580 # When I'm drivin' in my car 396 00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:21,700 # And the man comes on the radio 397 00:21:21,700 --> 00:21:24,540 # He's tellin' me more and more 398 00:21:24,540 --> 00:21:28,160 # About some useless information 399 00:21:28,160 --> 00:21:31,620 # Supposed to fire my imagination 400 00:21:31,620 --> 00:21:35,040 # I can't get no 401 00:21:35,040 --> 00:21:37,330 # No, no, no... # 402 00:21:37,330 --> 00:21:40,790 I really don't care whether they think we're a load of yobs or not. 403 00:21:40,790 --> 00:21:42,450 It doesn't worry me. 404 00:21:42,450 --> 00:21:45,000 Cos maybe I am. I don't really care. I'm just what I am. 405 00:21:47,160 --> 00:21:53,000 # I can't get no satisfaction 406 00:21:54,200 --> 00:21:59,910 # I can't get no satisfaction 407 00:21:59,910 --> 00:22:05,160 # Cos I try and I try and I try 408 00:22:05,160 --> 00:22:06,870 # And I try 409 00:22:06,870 --> 00:22:08,410 # I can't get no 410 00:22:10,410 --> 00:22:12,250 # I can't get no 411 00:22:13,870 --> 00:22:15,370 # No, no, no 412 00:22:17,250 --> 00:22:19,540 # Hey, hey, hey 413 00:22:20,540 --> 00:22:21,910 # That's what I say... # 414 00:22:21,910 --> 00:22:24,250 It was like slaughtering a beast. 415 00:22:24,250 --> 00:22:26,790 The thing used to howl, it used to scream. 416 00:22:26,790 --> 00:22:28,910 It was doing all kinds of noises... 417 00:22:28,910 --> 00:22:31,450 ..that you could only do by smashing it. 418 00:22:31,450 --> 00:22:34,410 We were living through that period of the Cold War 419 00:22:34,410 --> 00:22:36,750 where we were... Exactly! With the Cuban Crisis. Yeah. 420 00:22:36,750 --> 00:22:39,450 We had three minutes to live. You just did everything now. 421 00:22:41,790 --> 00:22:44,290 # No satisfaction 422 00:22:45,370 --> 00:22:47,580 # No satisfaction... # 423 00:22:47,580 --> 00:22:49,830 EXPLOSION, SONG FADES 424 00:22:49,830 --> 00:22:51,950 RINGING WHITE NOISE 425 00:23:01,500 --> 00:23:04,040 20 years ago, it was music, 426 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:06,160 it was melody, you wanted to dance to it. 427 00:23:07,410 --> 00:23:10,120 ARCHIVE: This is London calling the British Empire. 428 00:23:10,120 --> 00:23:12,250 This is the BBC Light Programme. 429 00:23:12,250 --> 00:23:14,620 Here is the ten o'clock news. Ladies and gentlemen... 430 00:23:19,330 --> 00:23:22,200 This is the BBC Home and Forces Programme. 431 00:23:22,200 --> 00:23:23,620 Here is the news. 432 00:23:31,200 --> 00:23:33,330 When I was a kid, the bloke who read the news 433 00:23:33,330 --> 00:23:36,410 on the BBC, he wore an evening suit. 434 00:23:37,580 --> 00:23:39,580 And that was on the radio. 435 00:23:40,870 --> 00:23:43,580 And that attitude still existed 436 00:23:43,580 --> 00:23:45,700 among the stiffs who ran the place. 437 00:23:45,700 --> 00:23:49,000 They didn't want us to be exposed to the evils 438 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:50,500 of the pop music 439 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:54,500 of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who. 440 00:23:54,500 --> 00:23:58,660 But whenever the old guard told us what we couldn't do, 441 00:23:58,660 --> 00:24:01,580 we always found a way to do it. 442 00:24:01,580 --> 00:24:03,660 MUSIC: Ode To A Stone by Reg Tilsley 443 00:24:20,830 --> 00:24:23,120 We've records on t' radio. Lovely! 444 00:24:26,330 --> 00:24:28,660 This is Radio Caroline, 445 00:24:28,660 --> 00:24:31,620 three and a half miles off the coast of Britain. 446 00:24:31,620 --> 00:24:34,790 The last free radio station in the world. 447 00:24:37,790 --> 00:24:39,580 Good morning! This is Radio Caroline, 448 00:24:39,580 --> 00:24:42,000 broadcasting on 259 metres in the medium wave. 449 00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,950 And welcome to the show! You're with the Admiral Robbie Dale 450 00:24:44,950 --> 00:24:48,870 through till 9:00 this evening. Remember, of course, it's 259... 451 00:24:48,870 --> 00:24:51,120 ALL: We want food! We want food! 452 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,790 All broadcasting, ultimately, is responsible to the government, 453 00:25:03,790 --> 00:25:05,700 to the representatives of the government. 454 00:25:05,700 --> 00:25:09,790 Now, these people are not. They are a law unto themselves. 455 00:25:09,790 --> 00:25:13,660 They are, in fact, pirates. The word is a correct one. 456 00:25:13,660 --> 00:25:15,910 They are pirates. They are, in fact, outlaws. 457 00:25:17,580 --> 00:25:21,330 If a new animal comes into a group of animals 458 00:25:21,330 --> 00:25:24,950 that are already together, the other animals will attack it. 459 00:25:24,950 --> 00:25:27,250 Because they don't know it, and they're afraid of it. 460 00:25:27,250 --> 00:25:30,290 The pirates are a menace, and I don't believe at all 461 00:25:30,290 --> 00:25:34,040 that the public wouldn't support action to enforce the law. 462 00:25:34,040 --> 00:25:36,580 We broadcast 24 hours a day 463 00:25:36,580 --> 00:25:39,950 to Britain, France, Holland, many other European countries. 464 00:25:39,950 --> 00:25:41,500 We fight for freedom. 465 00:25:41,500 --> 00:25:45,120 And we will fight until we are physically put down. 466 00:25:57,290 --> 00:25:59,620 The old rule book was being torn up 467 00:25:59,620 --> 00:26:01,200 and thrown away. 468 00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:03,040 It was happening in my profession, too. 469 00:26:03,040 --> 00:26:06,250 I was up for a big film, to play a Cockney Corporal. 470 00:26:08,540 --> 00:26:10,700 And I had to go to the audition 471 00:26:10,700 --> 00:26:12,500 and I didn't have a phone at that time. 472 00:26:12,500 --> 00:26:14,040 And when I got to the audition, 473 00:26:14,040 --> 00:26:16,160 the director said, "I'm terribly sorry." 474 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:17,910 He said, "We couldn't get in touch with you. 475 00:26:17,910 --> 00:26:21,200 "We've cast that part already." You know? So, I was turned down. 476 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,370 But I'd been turned down so many times it didn't matter. 477 00:26:23,370 --> 00:26:25,040 And the room was very long, 478 00:26:25,040 --> 00:26:27,000 which was fortunate for my movie career, 479 00:26:27,000 --> 00:26:29,040 cos by the time I got to the door, 480 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,000 the director said, "Come back a minute. Come here." 481 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:36,040 Now, I was very slim, 6'2", long, blond hair. 482 00:26:36,040 --> 00:26:39,000 He said, "You sort of look like 483 00:26:39,000 --> 00:26:41,700 "an officer type, you know?" 484 00:26:41,700 --> 00:26:45,370 So I said, "Thank you." He said, "Can you do a posh accent?" 485 00:26:46,620 --> 00:26:49,790 I said, "I have been in rep for nine years, 486 00:26:49,790 --> 00:26:51,660 "I can do any accent you want." 487 00:26:53,370 --> 00:26:55,200 I was very nervous, I remember. 488 00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,620 I remember Cy Endfield, when he did the first take, 489 00:26:58,620 --> 00:27:01,410 said "Cut!" halfway through the very first take 490 00:27:01,410 --> 00:27:02,750 and he said, "Michael," 491 00:27:02,750 --> 00:27:05,120 he said, "your voice has gone up about three octaves." 492 00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:08,660 And my voice was up here with nerves and they could hardly record it. 493 00:27:08,660 --> 00:27:11,370 And we had to start again, and then I brought my voice down. 494 00:27:11,370 --> 00:27:13,660 But what had happened was is everybody had come out 495 00:27:13,660 --> 00:27:16,540 because they were sure this Cockney couldn't speak like that. 496 00:27:16,540 --> 00:27:18,120 Who said you could use my men? 497 00:27:20,250 --> 00:27:22,580 They were sitting around on their backsides doing nothing. 498 00:27:24,700 --> 00:27:26,790 Rather you asked first, old boy. 499 00:27:26,790 --> 00:27:30,000 That's how I got a starring role in a movie for the first time. 500 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,290 The thing is if that director hadn't been an American 501 00:27:35,290 --> 00:27:37,830 but had been a British director, 502 00:27:37,830 --> 00:27:40,950 through no malice or no fault of his own, 503 00:27:40,950 --> 00:27:42,540 he would never 504 00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:46,120 have cast this Cockney boy as an officer, 505 00:27:46,120 --> 00:27:47,450 not in a million years. 506 00:27:48,830 --> 00:27:52,660 That's how strong the class system was in England back then. 507 00:27:52,660 --> 00:27:54,950 MUSIC: Pictures Of Matchstick Men by Status Quo 508 00:28:14,370 --> 00:28:16,330 And suddenly, people realised 509 00:28:16,330 --> 00:28:19,500 that the working class wasn't as thick as it looked. 510 00:28:19,500 --> 00:28:20,870 And it had talent. Yeah. 511 00:28:20,870 --> 00:28:23,200 There was very talented people. 512 00:28:23,200 --> 00:28:24,540 It was a revolution. 513 00:28:24,540 --> 00:28:27,120 # I rush home to bed, I sunk my head 514 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:29,000 # I see your face underneath... # 515 00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,790 And I don't agree with anything that they do. 516 00:28:31,790 --> 00:28:33,660 Young people are like they are 517 00:28:33,660 --> 00:28:37,160 because our society is throwing up this sort of problem. 518 00:28:38,330 --> 00:28:40,580 I think the whole thing is a lot of unfresh rubbish. 519 00:28:42,160 --> 00:28:45,080 I just thought there was more of us than there was of them. 520 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:47,000 Do you know, that never occurred to me? 521 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:49,120 HE LAUGHS 522 00:28:50,700 --> 00:28:52,750 It appears to me 523 00:28:52,750 --> 00:28:54,290 that a good time is... 524 00:28:55,290 --> 00:28:58,830 ..is much easier had by all now than ever before. 525 00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:07,410 Any one thing that's preached by our people in particular 526 00:29:07,410 --> 00:29:09,660 it's that you do what you want to do, when you want. 527 00:29:11,790 --> 00:29:14,500 This isn't the first generation that's questioned the moral values 528 00:29:14,500 --> 00:29:16,000 of the last generation. 529 00:29:24,450 --> 00:29:26,250 You know, on recent trips to London 530 00:29:26,250 --> 00:29:30,120 you don't see any people older than 25 or 30. 531 00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:32,200 It's as though they lock them up somewhere. 532 00:29:32,200 --> 00:29:34,790 Yeah, I think they've all moved out and left it to the teenagers. 533 00:29:34,790 --> 00:29:37,540 London, as far as I'm concerned, as far as I can see, 534 00:29:37,540 --> 00:29:40,290 it's all young people the whole time now. 535 00:29:40,290 --> 00:29:42,290 Taste no longer comes down from the rich. 536 00:29:42,290 --> 00:29:44,330 It often rises from the young, 537 00:29:44,330 --> 00:29:46,540 many of them from the working classes. 538 00:29:46,540 --> 00:29:49,410 They now seem the pace-setters. They set the taste. 539 00:29:51,330 --> 00:29:54,950 In fact, the whole strength of this came from the young themselves. 540 00:29:54,950 --> 00:29:58,080 They knew what they wanted. They didn't want to imitate sort of 541 00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,160 Countess Biggleswade, you know? They had their own ideas. 542 00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,000 I looked at the cover of Time magazine 543 00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,750 and I read this article just talking about 544 00:30:06,750 --> 00:30:09,290 what was going on in London, the nightclubs, 545 00:30:09,290 --> 00:30:11,540 the restaurants, the clothes, 546 00:30:11,540 --> 00:30:15,540 and I thought, "How do I get to London, you know, like, tomorrow?" 547 00:30:15,540 --> 00:30:17,500 You know, when people say 548 00:30:17,500 --> 00:30:20,540 The Beatles made swinging sixties, they didn't. 549 00:30:20,540 --> 00:30:22,410 London made The Beatles. 550 00:30:22,410 --> 00:30:25,290 Never before had so many young people 551 00:30:25,290 --> 00:30:26,700 lived away from home. 552 00:30:27,750 --> 00:30:29,620 Their parents began to worry about them. 553 00:30:30,750 --> 00:30:33,000 If their kids when to art school, 554 00:30:33,000 --> 00:30:35,330 they would've worried even more. 555 00:30:35,330 --> 00:30:38,330 I don't know whether they learned anything about painting, 556 00:30:38,330 --> 00:30:42,330 but they certainly had the prettiest girls and the best parties. 557 00:30:42,330 --> 00:30:44,000 The pop art scene 558 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,540 began to transform the face of London. 559 00:30:47,870 --> 00:30:50,160 People said, "It's a dull, grey world." 560 00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:52,910 Or "Everything's black and white post-war." 561 00:30:52,910 --> 00:30:55,200 Even though people said that, it was literally true. 562 00:30:55,200 --> 00:30:56,830 Everything was dull and grey 563 00:30:56,830 --> 00:31:00,040 and we wanted colour, we wanted to introduce colour into London. 564 00:31:00,040 --> 00:31:04,450 If we could have had coloured concrete, coloured cement, we'd have used it. 565 00:31:04,450 --> 00:31:07,660 The world of pop art. The world of the popular imagination. 566 00:31:07,660 --> 00:31:11,410 The world of film stars, the twist. 567 00:31:11,410 --> 00:31:13,700 Art schools were the centre of everything. 568 00:31:13,700 --> 00:31:17,160 Well, they provoked so much excitement and interest. 569 00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,200 And we didn't even know you could have art students. 570 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:22,950 It was wonderful thinking you could use anything. 571 00:31:22,950 --> 00:31:25,700 Paintings based on a packet of tea, 572 00:31:25,700 --> 00:31:28,040 just because the packets of tea were there. 573 00:31:29,330 --> 00:31:31,370 And I used to write on the paintings then. 574 00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:35,870 A lot of graffiti. Some of it I remember finding 575 00:31:35,870 --> 00:31:39,250 on the toilets in Earl's Court tube station. 576 00:31:42,000 --> 00:31:43,910 I often take the moment 577 00:31:43,910 --> 00:31:46,160 before something has actually happened. 578 00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:48,370 And you don't know if it's going to be terrible 579 00:31:48,370 --> 00:31:50,080 or it might be very funny. 580 00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:53,580 The sort of stuff that I'm doing is absolute ephemera. 581 00:31:53,580 --> 00:31:58,080 It's do it today and I want to forget about it by midnight. 582 00:31:58,080 --> 00:31:59,910 And I'm on to something else. 583 00:31:59,910 --> 00:32:01,410 This is how I see. 584 00:32:01,410 --> 00:32:03,790 You know, if anything is pop, it's pop for the minute. 585 00:32:08,870 --> 00:32:13,580 It's much easier for a girl to drift into trouble in London. 586 00:32:13,580 --> 00:32:17,450 The streets themselves, it's true, are clear. 587 00:32:17,450 --> 00:32:19,870 But there are more temptations, 588 00:32:19,870 --> 00:32:23,750 it's more easier for anybody who wants to exploit a girl 589 00:32:23,750 --> 00:32:25,120 to sweep her underground. 590 00:32:26,830 --> 00:32:28,750 "I just happened to be there, that's all." 591 00:32:28,750 --> 00:32:30,450 That's a Bob Dylan line. 592 00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:35,750 They said, "Would you like to come to a party in London?" 593 00:32:35,750 --> 00:32:38,250 And I said, "Oh, I've never been to a party in London." 594 00:32:39,330 --> 00:32:42,200 Pretty girl with a lot of very pretty friends. 595 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:44,290 Yeah. My friends were gorgeous, you know. 596 00:32:44,290 --> 00:32:47,290 We all went to this convent and we were fabulous looking, 597 00:32:47,290 --> 00:32:49,700 and my God, the role model was the Virgin Mary. 598 00:32:49,700 --> 00:32:50,910 Yeah, exactly. 599 00:32:50,910 --> 00:32:52,950 That's what made convent girls so sexy. 600 00:32:55,080 --> 00:32:56,870 And hard to get. Yeah. 601 00:32:56,870 --> 00:32:58,580 Don't know about that. 602 00:32:58,580 --> 00:33:02,120 The Rolling Stones were there and Millie and The Crystals, 603 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,870 and all these people, 604 00:33:03,870 --> 00:33:06,000 and I was looking very shabby. 605 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,370 Very, very... So shabby. It was awful. 606 00:33:09,370 --> 00:33:11,080 I was stood there. 607 00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:14,540 And then people started whispering and sort of saying, you know, 608 00:33:14,540 --> 00:33:16,750 being very embarrassing for me. 609 00:33:16,750 --> 00:33:18,700 And they came up and said to the person I was with, 610 00:33:18,700 --> 00:33:20,620 "And can she sing?" 611 00:33:20,620 --> 00:33:23,750 Andrew Oldham, you are the person who discovered Marianne Faithfull 612 00:33:23,750 --> 00:33:25,040 at that party. 613 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:28,000 Is it literally possible to go to a party and pick out someone 614 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:31,750 with no evident talents and make a star of them? 615 00:33:31,750 --> 00:33:34,160 Um, yes. How? 616 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,330 Um, I think the first thing is you have to be drunk. 617 00:33:37,330 --> 00:33:39,160 He had an instinct, I think. Yes. 618 00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:41,120 That's what Andrew... I was very good at that. 619 00:33:41,120 --> 00:33:42,410 And he guided you through... 620 00:33:42,410 --> 00:33:45,250 He guided me through nothing. Really? 621 00:33:45,250 --> 00:33:48,950 He knew whatever it was I had he could market it. 622 00:33:48,950 --> 00:33:52,870 He just saw what he always called a "commercial face". 623 00:33:52,870 --> 00:33:55,120 Which you did... Yeah. I mean, you were so pretty. 624 00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:58,250 If you can see that perspective. I can't see it myself. 625 00:33:58,250 --> 00:33:59,950 Take my word for it. OK. 626 00:33:59,950 --> 00:34:02,290 THEY LAUGH 627 00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:03,950 I fell in love with Mick. 628 00:34:03,950 --> 00:34:07,580 Mick was young, rich and a rock star. 629 00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:10,330 Bailey, the same. Probably you had your moments, too. 630 00:34:10,330 --> 00:34:12,000 Though you took your work very seriously. 631 00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:13,250 I did, indeed. 632 00:34:13,250 --> 00:34:16,830 It was a whole team of very, very naughty boys, really. Very naughty. 633 00:34:16,830 --> 00:34:18,580 Yeah, well, we couldn't help it. 634 00:34:20,620 --> 00:34:22,580 Where I grew up, it was a bit like 635 00:34:22,580 --> 00:34:26,450 Sicily in terms of morals and sex. 636 00:34:26,450 --> 00:34:29,040 If you kissed a girl, her brothers'd come round with a shotgun 637 00:34:29,040 --> 00:34:30,660 and say you've got to get married. 638 00:34:30,660 --> 00:34:33,160 Well, all that went out of the window. 639 00:34:33,160 --> 00:34:35,290 HE CHUCKLES 640 00:34:35,290 --> 00:34:37,160 Women also were something of voyeurs. 641 00:34:37,160 --> 00:34:39,410 They also liked the look of men. 642 00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:42,250 Given the Pill was the only contraception that actually worked, 643 00:34:42,250 --> 00:34:45,450 a woman could then really be in charge of her own life. 644 00:34:45,450 --> 00:34:47,870 It's smaller than an aspirin tablet 645 00:34:47,870 --> 00:34:50,910 and it is commonly and widely called "the Pill". 646 00:34:50,910 --> 00:34:52,660 A revolution is on the way. 647 00:34:52,660 --> 00:34:56,410 All over the country, young girls are sprouting, shouting and shaking. 648 00:34:56,410 --> 00:34:59,000 And if they terrify you, they mean to. 649 00:34:59,000 --> 00:35:01,000 I wanted to run and jump and dance 650 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:03,540 and go on at night, straight away to a nightclub and dance. 651 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:08,830 A friend of mine said he was going to take me 652 00:35:08,830 --> 00:35:11,620 to the best disco in the whole world. 653 00:35:11,620 --> 00:35:13,540 It was at the top of a very high building, 654 00:35:13,540 --> 00:35:15,500 just behind Leicester Square, 655 00:35:15,500 --> 00:35:17,370 in a club called The Ad Lib. 656 00:35:19,790 --> 00:35:23,540 And I'm looking round to see what sort of people we've got here. 657 00:35:23,540 --> 00:35:26,950 On the dance floor, every single Rolling Stone 658 00:35:26,950 --> 00:35:29,250 and every single Beatle. 659 00:35:29,250 --> 00:35:32,450 And I thought, "Boy, this must be the place." 660 00:35:32,450 --> 00:35:36,450 # Well, I feel so good, everything is getting high 661 00:35:36,450 --> 00:35:39,620 # Better take it easy cos the place is on fire 662 00:35:39,620 --> 00:35:42,580 # Been a hard day and I had some work to do 663 00:35:42,580 --> 00:35:45,540 # We made it baby, and it happened to you 664 00:35:45,540 --> 00:35:49,580 # And I'm so glad we made it 665 00:35:49,580 --> 00:35:51,870 # So glad we made it 666 00:35:51,870 --> 00:35:56,660 # You got to gimme some lovin' Gimme, gimme some lovin' 667 00:35:56,660 --> 00:35:59,700 # Gimme some lovin' Gimme, gimme some lovin' 668 00:35:59,700 --> 00:36:02,120 # Gimme some lovin' every day... # 669 00:36:02,120 --> 00:36:05,080 I met Albert Finney, I met Michael Caine, 670 00:36:05,080 --> 00:36:07,080 I met Sean Connery. 671 00:36:07,080 --> 00:36:10,370 I met Stevie Winwood, Jimi Hendrix and Brian Jones. 672 00:36:10,370 --> 00:36:13,750 John Lennon was there. I met Julie Christie there. 673 00:36:13,750 --> 00:36:15,370 That was insane. 674 00:36:16,620 --> 00:36:18,540 And they were all mates, weren't they? 675 00:36:18,540 --> 00:36:21,750 It was all mates. I taught Nureyev how to twist at The Ad Lib, yeah. 676 00:36:21,750 --> 00:36:25,290 And he was very stiff. I mean, he could do all that Swan Lake shit, 677 00:36:25,290 --> 00:36:26,870 but he couldn't do the twist. 678 00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:29,040 THEY LAUGH 679 00:36:33,040 --> 00:36:36,580 We didn't have cellphones in those days. 680 00:36:36,580 --> 00:36:40,910 We didn't text each other. We talked to each other face-to-face. 681 00:36:40,910 --> 00:36:43,290 And that's what bred creativity 682 00:36:43,290 --> 00:36:47,540 because people could meet each other and exchange ideas. 683 00:36:47,540 --> 00:36:50,290 And anyone with talent could be a part of it. 684 00:37:02,040 --> 00:37:05,540 We started a shop in the King's Road called Bazaar. 685 00:37:05,540 --> 00:37:09,330 It just hit the spot from the first day. 686 00:37:09,330 --> 00:37:12,080 Why was that, then? Was that because of the miniskirt? 687 00:37:12,080 --> 00:37:14,250 Because I made the skirts much shorter 688 00:37:14,250 --> 00:37:16,290 than anyone had seen at that time. 689 00:37:16,290 --> 00:37:17,790 They were provocative, you know? 690 00:37:19,250 --> 00:37:21,620 Well, I can't say that I particularly approve 691 00:37:21,620 --> 00:37:25,040 of some of the styles and particularly the more outre ones. 692 00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:29,040 But I do appreciate that they're the expression of... What shall I say? 693 00:37:29,040 --> 00:37:31,200 The exuberance of affluent youth. 694 00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:32,830 City gents 695 00:37:32,830 --> 00:37:35,250 on their way to work used to bash on the window and shout, 696 00:37:35,250 --> 00:37:38,330 "Disgusting! Outrageous! They should not be allowed!" 697 00:37:38,330 --> 00:37:42,080 and all the rest of it, you know. I'd have thought they'd have been sitting outside watching. 698 00:37:42,080 --> 00:37:43,160 Yeah, you're right. 699 00:37:43,160 --> 00:37:45,750 I had the shortest skirts ever. 700 00:37:45,750 --> 00:37:48,870 So short I had knickers made to match my skirts. 701 00:37:48,870 --> 00:37:51,450 Yeah, micro-mini. They were like a belt. 702 00:37:51,450 --> 00:37:55,410 One day in the '60s, my mother said to me, she said, 703 00:37:55,410 --> 00:37:58,370 "I keep reading and hearing about all these miniskirts." 704 00:37:58,370 --> 00:38:01,160 She said, "I've never seen a girl in a miniskirt." 705 00:38:01,160 --> 00:38:03,500 I said, "Right, Mum, I'll show you," I said. 706 00:38:03,500 --> 00:38:06,450 So, what I did is I took her to King's Road in Chelsea 707 00:38:06,450 --> 00:38:08,620 on a Saturday afternoon, 708 00:38:08,620 --> 00:38:11,950 and we got out of the car and of course, almost immediately, 709 00:38:11,950 --> 00:38:14,790 there's a young girl in a miniskirt. 710 00:38:14,790 --> 00:38:19,160 I turned to my mother and I said, "Well, Mum, what do you think?" 711 00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:23,370 And she said, "If it's not for sale, you shouldn't put it in the window." 712 00:38:24,830 --> 00:38:26,370 That about sums her up. 713 00:38:29,660 --> 00:38:32,910 Oh, well, fabrics are made flat and women are round 714 00:38:32,910 --> 00:38:36,290 and there's this terrible problem of putting the two together, you know? 715 00:38:36,290 --> 00:38:39,660 Which is why I want to make round clothes 716 00:38:39,660 --> 00:38:41,080 with no seams, 717 00:38:41,080 --> 00:38:43,540 so that we can be rounder and smoother than we are. 718 00:38:46,450 --> 00:38:49,620 The whole young London thing was happening. 719 00:38:50,950 --> 00:38:52,410 In a big way. 720 00:38:52,410 --> 00:38:54,290 And I was working with Mary Quant 721 00:38:54,290 --> 00:38:57,250 and she was working with us. 722 00:38:57,250 --> 00:38:59,160 I was doing her show, she was doing ours, 723 00:38:59,160 --> 00:39:01,870 and we were developing this whole thing, in a sense, together. 724 00:39:03,370 --> 00:39:07,000 I was walking down Bond Street 725 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:09,700 and there was this stunning photograph of a girl 726 00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:13,120 with her hair cut short and it said, "Vidal Sassoon." 727 00:39:13,120 --> 00:39:15,910 And I went up the steps and right at the top, 728 00:39:15,910 --> 00:39:17,950 there was a kind of kitchen. 729 00:39:17,950 --> 00:39:19,450 Vidal was cutting hair. Yeah. 730 00:39:20,700 --> 00:39:22,870 Cuts. SCISSORS SNIP 731 00:39:22,870 --> 00:39:24,830 Great noise, that scissor. 732 00:39:24,830 --> 00:39:28,290 And he was chopping hair and it was flying everywhere. 733 00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:30,290 And he was such a show-off, as you can imagine. 734 00:39:30,290 --> 00:39:33,040 No, I know. I knew him well, yeah. Yes. 735 00:39:33,040 --> 00:39:35,750 Do you remember when we were open one week in 108? 736 00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:36,910 Right. 737 00:39:36,910 --> 00:39:39,330 And in those days, 738 00:39:39,330 --> 00:39:42,410 when we first opened, we used to write our name in script 739 00:39:42,410 --> 00:39:44,000 because we thought it was very chic 740 00:39:44,000 --> 00:39:46,540 and it was going to look marvellous, you know? 741 00:39:46,540 --> 00:39:49,290 And, um, the postman... 742 00:39:49,290 --> 00:39:52,120 You couldn't tell whether the Fs were Ls or Ss. 743 00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,750 You couldn't tell what they were. 744 00:39:53,750 --> 00:39:55,700 Do you remember this, Bob? That's right, yeah. 745 00:39:55,700 --> 00:39:58,160 The postman came up with the first letter 746 00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,950 and he'd walked up three flights of stairs, and he opened the door 747 00:40:00,950 --> 00:40:03,080 and in broad Cockney, he looked around and said, 748 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:06,000 "Here, which one of you lot's Vifal Faffoon?" 749 00:40:06,000 --> 00:40:08,040 MUSIC: I Feel Free by Cream 750 00:40:19,750 --> 00:40:22,080 Vidal Sassoon invented the geometric, 751 00:40:22,080 --> 00:40:23,790 angled style of hairdressing. 752 00:40:23,790 --> 00:40:27,790 It was cut almost like a fabric and it was treated like a texture 753 00:40:27,790 --> 00:40:30,660 and it was free and alive. 754 00:40:30,660 --> 00:40:33,700 And so he did the hair and, you know, I did the other pieces. 755 00:40:33,700 --> 00:40:37,750 # Feel when I dance with you 756 00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:42,790 # We move like the sea 757 00:40:44,500 --> 00:40:49,790 # You, you're all I want to know 758 00:40:49,790 --> 00:41:05,660 # I feel free 759 00:41:05,660 --> 00:41:08,200 # I can walk down the street, there's no-one there 760 00:41:08,200 --> 00:41:11,080 # Though the pavements are one huge crowd 761 00:41:11,080 --> 00:41:13,750 # I can drive down the road, my eyes don't see 762 00:41:13,750 --> 00:41:16,870 # Though my mind wants to cry out loud 763 00:41:16,870 --> 00:41:20,540 # Ah, ah ah ah, ah... # 764 00:41:20,540 --> 00:41:24,910 Very often, when somebody's had one of our haircuts, 765 00:41:24,910 --> 00:41:26,290 they come back again. 766 00:41:26,290 --> 00:41:28,750 And in two weeks' time they've changed their shoes 767 00:41:28,750 --> 00:41:30,700 and their skirts are a little shorter. 768 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:33,120 And within six months, their whole look has changed. 769 00:41:33,120 --> 00:41:35,830 I think the point of clothes 770 00:41:35,830 --> 00:41:37,750 for women should be 771 00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:39,330 one, that you're noticed. 772 00:41:39,330 --> 00:41:42,330 Two, that you look sexy. 773 00:41:42,330 --> 00:41:44,250 And three, that you feel good. 774 00:41:45,700 --> 00:41:47,790 I can't see that we wear them to keep warm. 775 00:41:49,450 --> 00:41:51,700 # I can walk down the street, there's no-one there 776 00:41:51,700 --> 00:41:54,660 # Though the pavements are one huge crowd 777 00:41:54,660 --> 00:41:56,910 # I can drive down the road, my eyes don't see 778 00:41:56,910 --> 00:41:59,330 # Though my mind wants to cry out loud 779 00:41:59,330 --> 00:42:02,500 # Though my mind wants to cry out loud 780 00:42:02,500 --> 00:42:07,250 # Dance floor is like the sea 781 00:42:08,500 --> 00:42:11,910 # Ceiling is the sky 782 00:42:13,450 --> 00:42:18,040 # You're the sun and as you shine on me 783 00:42:19,410 --> 00:42:24,080 # I feel free I feel free 784 00:42:24,080 --> 00:42:30,080 # I feel free 785 00:42:30,080 --> 00:42:34,700 # I feel free... # 786 00:42:34,700 --> 00:42:37,080 It's all got to stop. They've had enough. 787 00:42:37,080 --> 00:42:38,540 The worms are turning. 788 00:42:38,540 --> 00:42:41,700 The rebellion of the long hairs is getting under way. 789 00:42:41,700 --> 00:42:45,750 We've had comments like "Darling!" and "Can I carry your handbag?" 790 00:42:45,750 --> 00:42:48,500 thrown at us. I think it just had to stop now. 791 00:42:48,500 --> 00:42:51,080 I don't like men with long hair. 792 00:42:51,080 --> 00:42:52,830 Or curlers. 793 00:42:52,830 --> 00:42:54,080 I like them normal. 794 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,370 Well, I find it terribly difficult 795 00:42:56,370 --> 00:42:58,790 with some of these long-haired young men 796 00:42:58,790 --> 00:43:00,580 to differentiate between the sexes. 797 00:43:00,580 --> 00:43:03,660 And this could be a matter of considerable inconvenience. 798 00:43:03,660 --> 00:43:05,830 I think they're absolutely atrocious. 799 00:43:05,830 --> 00:43:07,410 I like men to look like men. 800 00:43:07,410 --> 00:43:09,330 Why not for a man? Why not? 801 00:43:09,330 --> 00:43:12,330 Tell me why not for a man? It's all right if your colours go together. 802 00:43:12,330 --> 00:43:14,750 Why not for a man? Any colours go together. 803 00:43:14,750 --> 00:43:16,870 That's beautiful. What's wrong with that? 804 00:43:18,540 --> 00:43:21,950 Our parents didn't have much sex before marriage. 805 00:43:21,950 --> 00:43:24,450 A lot of 'em didn't have a lot of sex after marriage. 806 00:43:24,450 --> 00:43:26,370 And by the time they made a bit of money, 807 00:43:26,370 --> 00:43:27,830 it was too late to enjoy it. 808 00:43:29,450 --> 00:43:32,750 It can't have been easy for them to see us having so much more fun 809 00:43:32,750 --> 00:43:34,500 than they ever thought possible. 810 00:43:41,080 --> 00:43:42,450 David? 811 00:43:42,450 --> 00:43:43,700 You up there? 812 00:43:45,410 --> 00:43:48,370 Nice! Good girl. Good. 813 00:43:48,370 --> 00:43:51,040 That's good. Hold it. Good. 814 00:43:52,370 --> 00:43:53,950 Good. Make that... Let me... 815 00:43:53,950 --> 00:43:55,660 No, Deb, who told you to move? 816 00:43:55,660 --> 00:43:57,040 Go back to where you were. 817 00:43:57,040 --> 00:43:59,080 Come on. Back to where you were. Good. 818 00:43:59,080 --> 00:44:01,910 And that flipping hand. 819 00:44:02,950 --> 00:44:05,370 Yeah. Good. There. That's good. 820 00:44:05,370 --> 00:44:06,500 Stay like that. 821 00:44:07,750 --> 00:44:10,870 I was very much influenced also by the photographers at the time. 822 00:44:10,870 --> 00:44:15,290 The new, I suppose, typically young Cockney photographers 823 00:44:15,290 --> 00:44:17,500 that were happening and were our great friends. 824 00:44:17,500 --> 00:44:20,580 And I'm sure we sort of bounced ideas off each other. 825 00:44:20,580 --> 00:44:22,870 It's the easiest thing in the world to be a photographer. 826 00:44:22,870 --> 00:44:24,330 All you have to be is a bit rude, 827 00:44:24,330 --> 00:44:26,250 grow your hair long and wear a leather jacket 828 00:44:26,250 --> 00:44:29,200 and buy a Pentax and you're a photographer, cos there's no union. 829 00:44:29,200 --> 00:44:31,250 The winsome David Bailey. 830 00:44:31,250 --> 00:44:34,580 This is marvellous. Good. Open your mouth slightly. Good. 831 00:44:34,580 --> 00:44:36,410 David was famous for a saying. 832 00:44:36,410 --> 00:44:39,540 "David Bailey makes love daily." 833 00:44:39,540 --> 00:44:42,540 He wore a vest, jeans, Cuban heels 834 00:44:42,540 --> 00:44:44,870 and had a cheese sandwich for lunch. 835 00:44:44,870 --> 00:44:48,250 And he photographed the most beautiful women in the world. 836 00:44:48,250 --> 00:44:49,750 Lucky bugger! 837 00:44:49,750 --> 00:44:52,370 Bailey was extremely attractive. 838 00:44:52,370 --> 00:44:54,160 And every woman in the world 839 00:44:54,160 --> 00:44:56,790 seemed to want to have a little bit of him. 840 00:44:56,790 --> 00:44:59,580 Well, a particular bit of him. 841 00:44:59,580 --> 00:45:01,370 Just stand with your legs apart and face me. 842 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,950 He came to New York 843 00:45:11,950 --> 00:45:14,660 to collect me, to take me to London. 844 00:45:14,660 --> 00:45:17,660 Completely fell in love with him within about five minutes. 845 00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:19,160 It was pathetic. 846 00:45:19,160 --> 00:45:21,620 He sort of rang the doorbell at my house. 847 00:45:21,620 --> 00:45:23,790 My mother came to the door, 848 00:45:23,790 --> 00:45:25,750 and as soon as she saw it was Bailey, 849 00:45:25,750 --> 00:45:27,870 she tried to slam the door in his face. 850 00:45:27,870 --> 00:45:30,830 He said, "Don't worry about it, love. Could've been worse. 851 00:45:30,830 --> 00:45:32,910 "It could've been a Rolling Stone." 852 00:45:32,910 --> 00:45:35,700 That was it. I grabbed my suitcase and I was gone. 853 00:45:35,700 --> 00:45:38,500 Just stay like that and bring this, 854 00:45:38,500 --> 00:45:40,290 slowly bring this hand down. 855 00:45:40,290 --> 00:45:43,040 More, more, more. And put it there. 856 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:45,790 Go on. No, lower down, on your thigh, or whatever it's called. 857 00:45:45,790 --> 00:45:47,080 Good. That's good. 858 00:45:47,080 --> 00:45:49,000 And look at me, like... Don't twist away. 859 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:50,540 Just keep where you are. Good girl. 860 00:45:50,540 --> 00:45:52,580 Good. There. That's lovely. 861 00:45:52,580 --> 00:45:54,450 Good, angel. Yeah. 862 00:45:54,450 --> 00:45:57,040 And it's nearly right, if that hand was nicer. 863 00:45:57,040 --> 00:45:59,370 To the public, the camera doesn't lie. 864 00:45:59,370 --> 00:46:02,120 And therefore the best photographer is the biggest liar. 865 00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:07,000 There certainly is a school of English photographers. 866 00:46:07,000 --> 00:46:12,450 I call them the "black trinity" of Duffy, Donovan and Bailey. 867 00:46:12,450 --> 00:46:15,410 Keep your legs... Swing your arms away from your body. 868 00:46:16,450 --> 00:46:18,790 Move your legs out. 869 00:46:18,790 --> 00:46:21,580 No, you've moved. Come up, come up, come up, come up, come up. 870 00:46:21,580 --> 00:46:24,330 And what one's trying to do is to try and make her look beautiful. 871 00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:26,000 If you don't do that, then you lose out. 872 00:46:28,290 --> 00:46:30,410 And she loses out, and then it's a bore. 873 00:46:30,410 --> 00:46:35,120 I think there is an actual pleasure in making someone look beautiful. 874 00:46:35,120 --> 00:46:36,790 Duffy's great to work with, cos he's... 875 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:41,040 You go in there and sort of three hours later 876 00:46:41,040 --> 00:46:43,040 when you've finished all the bottles of wine 877 00:46:43,040 --> 00:46:44,660 that are lying around, you know... 878 00:46:45,910 --> 00:46:47,830 and you've sort of talked about everything, 879 00:46:47,830 --> 00:46:49,700 listened to 100 records of old war songs... 880 00:46:51,830 --> 00:46:55,410 Somebody arrives with a sort of handful of clothes, you know. 881 00:46:55,410 --> 00:46:57,120 Out come all the paper flowers. 882 00:46:58,620 --> 00:47:00,290 And he's standing there with a camera 883 00:47:00,290 --> 00:47:01,910 and you have to go on talking. 884 00:47:01,910 --> 00:47:03,950 He makes... He makes you sing, you know. 885 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:07,500 He won't take the shot and he gets bolshy. 886 00:47:07,500 --> 00:47:10,160 "I'm not taking the picture unless you sing. Go on, sing." 887 00:47:10,160 --> 00:47:13,290 So you have to sing. Stand there, singing in the studio. It's great. 888 00:47:13,290 --> 00:47:16,370 So all the pictures are sort of dodgy birds with teeth showing, 889 00:47:16,370 --> 00:47:18,330 but they're natural. 890 00:47:18,330 --> 00:47:20,370 MUSIC: You Really Got Me by the Kinks 891 00:47:25,500 --> 00:47:28,250 # Girl, you really got me goin' 892 00:47:28,250 --> 00:47:30,500 # You got me so I don't know what I'm doin' 893 00:47:32,450 --> 00:47:35,250 # Yeah, you really got me now 894 00:47:35,250 --> 00:47:37,580 # You got me so I can't sleep at night 895 00:47:39,540 --> 00:47:42,250 # Yeah, you really got me now 896 00:47:42,250 --> 00:47:46,000 # You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now 897 00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,080 # Oh, yeah, you really got me now 898 00:47:49,080 --> 00:47:51,500 # You got me so I can't sleep at night 899 00:47:51,500 --> 00:47:54,870 # You really got me You really got me 900 00:47:54,870 --> 00:47:56,580 # You really got me... # 901 00:47:56,580 --> 00:47:58,830 If women are attractive, 902 00:47:58,830 --> 00:48:01,000 doesn't matter what they're wearing. 903 00:48:01,000 --> 00:48:02,750 It's only packaging. 904 00:48:02,750 --> 00:48:05,000 Like wrapping up soap in something. 905 00:48:05,000 --> 00:48:07,370 It's not any more complicated than that. 906 00:48:07,370 --> 00:48:09,290 It's nicely wrapped, you look. 907 00:48:09,290 --> 00:48:10,620 If not, you don't bother. 908 00:48:16,910 --> 00:48:19,660 # See, don't ever set me free 909 00:48:19,660 --> 00:48:22,200 # I always wanna be by your side 910 00:48:24,040 --> 00:48:26,750 # Girl, you really got me now 911 00:48:26,750 --> 00:48:29,370 # You got me so I can't sleep at night 912 00:48:31,080 --> 00:48:33,750 # Yeah, you really got me now 913 00:48:33,750 --> 00:48:37,410 # You got me so I don't know what I'm doin', now 914 00:48:37,410 --> 00:48:40,700 # Oh, yeah, you really got me now 915 00:48:40,700 --> 00:48:42,910 # You got me so I can't sleep at night 916 00:48:42,910 --> 00:48:46,160 # You really got me You really got me 917 00:48:46,160 --> 00:48:49,040 # You really got me. # 918 00:48:52,330 --> 00:48:56,910 An ideal woman? Well, that's sort of difficult, cos I think 919 00:48:56,910 --> 00:48:59,410 every woman is sort of my ideal woman. 920 00:48:59,410 --> 00:49:00,910 I mean, they're all lovely. 921 00:49:01,950 --> 00:49:04,660 Some are just lovelier than others. 922 00:49:04,660 --> 00:49:07,660 Which brings us to Jean Shrimpton. Yeah. 923 00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,830 # Well, no-one told me about her 924 00:49:12,830 --> 00:49:14,450 # The way she lied 925 00:49:15,580 --> 00:49:19,330 # Well, no-one told me about her 926 00:49:19,330 --> 00:49:21,160 # How many people cried... # 927 00:49:21,160 --> 00:49:24,000 Half the studio and there was Duffy, photographing this girl. 928 00:49:24,000 --> 00:49:26,500 He put up a blue background, sky blue background. 929 00:49:26,500 --> 00:49:29,370 She had these incredible blue eyes. 930 00:49:29,370 --> 00:49:32,830 # Well, no-one told me about her 931 00:49:32,830 --> 00:49:34,540 # What could I do? # 932 00:49:34,540 --> 00:49:38,540 When I looked at her, I could see through to the background. 933 00:49:38,540 --> 00:49:40,580 And I said, "Who's that?" 934 00:49:40,580 --> 00:49:42,290 He said, "Oh, it's just a girl I booked." 935 00:49:42,290 --> 00:49:43,540 He said, "Do you like her?" 936 00:49:43,540 --> 00:49:44,910 I said, "Yeah." 937 00:49:44,910 --> 00:49:47,250 He said, "Oh, she's too posh for you, mate." 938 00:49:47,250 --> 00:49:49,910 I said, "Oh, we'll see about that." He was probably right. 939 00:49:49,910 --> 00:49:51,950 And so I booked her and then... 940 00:49:53,250 --> 00:49:54,870 I sort of fell in love with her, really. 941 00:49:54,870 --> 00:49:56,250 You did, didn't you? Yeah. 942 00:49:56,250 --> 00:49:58,750 Being with him is an influence, you know. 943 00:49:58,750 --> 00:50:01,250 He began to influence my movement and my dress. 944 00:50:01,250 --> 00:50:02,910 And then when he'd get me on the set, yeah, 945 00:50:02,910 --> 00:50:04,410 he'd put me into shape, you know. 946 00:50:04,410 --> 00:50:06,500 And he'd encourage certain expressions. 947 00:50:06,500 --> 00:50:09,700 Then I began to feel something inside which I didn't know existed. 948 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:12,040 I photographed her every day for about three years. 949 00:50:12,040 --> 00:50:14,000 # Well, let me tell you 'bout the way she looked 950 00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,080 # The way she'd act and the colour of her hair 951 00:50:17,080 --> 00:50:19,040 # Her voice was soft and cool 952 00:50:19,040 --> 00:50:20,620 # Her eyes were clear and bright 953 00:50:20,620 --> 00:50:24,040 # But she's not there... # 954 00:50:24,040 --> 00:50:26,450 Vogue wouldn't publish the pictures in the beginning. 955 00:50:26,450 --> 00:50:28,750 What, of people? My pictures, yeah. 956 00:50:28,750 --> 00:50:32,290 They always wanted a tree in the background or an armchair or... 957 00:50:32,290 --> 00:50:35,370 If I've got Jean Shrimpton, why do I want a palm tree in the background? 958 00:50:35,370 --> 00:50:37,620 There was even models in the '60s Vogue wouldn't use 959 00:50:37,620 --> 00:50:39,950 because they said, "Oh, can't possibly use her. 960 00:50:39,950 --> 00:50:41,830 "Have you listened to her accent?" 961 00:50:41,830 --> 00:50:43,080 But she'll go on 962 00:50:43,080 --> 00:50:45,410 until the fashions change 963 00:50:45,410 --> 00:50:47,790 or else some other star 964 00:50:47,790 --> 00:50:51,040 will suddenly come along and take her place. 965 00:50:53,250 --> 00:50:57,540 But you were the first obviously Cockney young lady 966 00:50:57,540 --> 00:51:01,080 to become a model. Yeah. I mean, we heard you talk. 967 00:51:01,080 --> 00:51:04,450 I mean, mostly you didn't hear models speak, you know. No. 968 00:51:04,450 --> 00:51:07,040 But then you did. I mean, there was a whole personality... 969 00:51:07,040 --> 00:51:09,120 And they've never shut me up! 970 00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:11,040 THEY LAUGH 971 00:51:11,040 --> 00:51:14,410 I was at school and I wanted to be a model, you know. 972 00:51:14,410 --> 00:51:18,000 Cos I was thin and that. And, um... 973 00:51:18,000 --> 00:51:19,950 People said, "You ought to try it." 974 00:51:19,950 --> 00:51:23,580 And I thought it would be, you know, very glamorous 975 00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:25,450 and all lovely clothes 976 00:51:25,450 --> 00:51:28,700 and very easy, you know, not much to do, and lots of money. 977 00:51:28,700 --> 00:51:31,410 But it's not, really. I mean, it's very hard work. 978 00:51:31,410 --> 00:51:34,200 If you go out on location in the winter 979 00:51:34,200 --> 00:51:36,830 in a bathing suit or a little summer dress, 980 00:51:36,830 --> 00:51:38,330 it's blooming freezing. 981 00:51:39,370 --> 00:51:41,290 Bit more. There. Perfect. 982 00:51:41,290 --> 00:51:42,870 Perfect. Marvellous. 983 00:51:42,870 --> 00:51:45,250 Twiggy's success was phenomenal. 984 00:51:45,250 --> 00:51:47,620 It went far beyond just being a model. 985 00:51:47,620 --> 00:51:50,870 In less than a year, her name, her look, her brand 986 00:51:50,870 --> 00:51:52,330 had conquered the world. 987 00:51:52,330 --> 00:51:56,120 Do you feel out of place as a success 988 00:51:56,120 --> 00:51:59,540 because you started from ordinary working class beginnings? 989 00:51:59,540 --> 00:52:00,950 No. 990 00:52:00,950 --> 00:52:02,910 No, why should I? 991 00:52:02,910 --> 00:52:04,910 And The Beatles broke down the barrier, 992 00:52:04,910 --> 00:52:06,870 you know, the class barrier and all that. 993 00:52:06,870 --> 00:52:08,620 Yeah, I don't think it really matters 994 00:52:08,620 --> 00:52:10,540 what class of family you come from. 995 00:52:10,540 --> 00:52:14,580 If you're good enough in your job, you know, you make it anyway. 996 00:52:14,580 --> 00:52:17,660 She's happened because of all that rubbish 997 00:52:17,660 --> 00:52:19,540 about swinging London. 998 00:52:19,540 --> 00:52:21,500 Yeah, I think she's a lovely model. 999 00:52:21,500 --> 00:52:24,080 Super. I mean, she's money in the bank for photographers. 1000 00:52:24,080 --> 00:52:27,660 # It's a hard world to get a break in 1001 00:52:28,910 --> 00:52:31,660 # All the good things have been taken 1002 00:52:32,950 --> 00:52:35,870 # But girl, there are ways to make certain things pay 1003 00:52:35,870 --> 00:52:38,410 # Though I'm dressed in these rags 1004 00:52:38,410 --> 00:52:42,830 # I'll wear sable some day... # 1005 00:52:42,830 --> 00:52:44,910 What are your views on serious matters? 1006 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,290 Like what? 1007 00:52:47,290 --> 00:52:49,830 Well, I don't know. Who's your favourite philosopher? 1008 00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:53,000 I haven't got one. I don't know any. 1009 00:52:54,120 --> 00:52:55,540 Who's yours? 1010 00:52:55,540 --> 00:52:58,370 Oh, I... You know, I like them all. 1011 00:52:58,370 --> 00:52:59,580 Who? 1012 00:52:59,580 --> 00:53:01,910 All your basic philosophers. Who? 1013 00:53:01,910 --> 00:53:03,160 Just all of them. 1014 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:06,160 I don't know their names, though. What are their names? 1015 00:53:06,160 --> 00:53:08,620 Oh, gee, there's a host of them. You... 1016 00:53:08,620 --> 00:53:10,370 # Remember Remember 1017 00:53:10,370 --> 00:53:13,950 # It's my life and I'll do what I want 1018 00:53:13,950 --> 00:53:17,700 # It's my mind and I'll think what I want 1019 00:53:17,700 --> 00:53:20,750 # Show me I'm wrong, hurt me some time... 1020 00:53:20,750 --> 00:53:22,870 England, where it all began. 1021 00:53:30,370 --> 00:53:32,790 I'm going to establish it real quick. 1022 00:53:34,250 --> 00:53:37,870 Portland Street is the headquarters of Twiggy Enterprises. 1023 00:53:41,080 --> 00:53:44,830 As short a time as six weeks ago, we were here selling coats. 1024 00:53:44,830 --> 00:53:46,410 And here you are, you see Twiggy. 1025 00:53:47,830 --> 00:53:51,120 Something's been produced in its tens and tens of thousands. 1026 00:53:51,120 --> 00:53:52,700 Just too fantastic an operation. 1027 00:53:53,750 --> 00:53:55,040 Don't you think? 1028 00:53:55,040 --> 00:53:57,040 Have you seen all the places we've sold to? 1029 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:58,790 Got one in Hong Kong! 1030 00:54:00,500 --> 00:54:02,500 Today, these youngsters have got a know-how. 1031 00:54:03,700 --> 00:54:05,200 You know? 1032 00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:08,120 And that's something that you can't take away from them. 1033 00:54:08,120 --> 00:54:09,830 # Here come the nice 1034 00:54:09,830 --> 00:54:12,120 # Looking so good 1035 00:54:12,120 --> 00:54:15,620 # He makes me feel like no-one else could... # 1036 00:54:15,620 --> 00:54:17,910 I used to save my pocket money up 1037 00:54:17,910 --> 00:54:21,500 and every Saturday, we'd run down the road 1038 00:54:21,500 --> 00:54:25,660 and we'd buy something at Biba, cos it was just, like, amazing. 1039 00:54:26,700 --> 00:54:30,330 # Here come the nice It's understood 1040 00:54:30,330 --> 00:54:34,370 # Here come the nice He'll make me feel good 1041 00:54:34,370 --> 00:54:36,120 # I'd be just like him 1042 00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:39,040 # If I only could... # 1043 00:54:41,200 --> 00:54:43,910 Anybody over 30 would never dare go in there. 1044 00:54:43,910 --> 00:54:45,620 They used to just stay outside. 1045 00:54:47,290 --> 00:54:51,620 And if clothes were being done for girls, it was done by a woman. 1046 00:54:51,620 --> 00:54:52,790 Excuse me. 1047 00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:56,250 It wasn't done by a whole load of men in suits. 1048 00:54:57,660 --> 00:55:00,370 As a tourist attraction, we were number two 1049 00:55:00,370 --> 00:55:02,910 after the Tower of London. 1050 00:55:02,910 --> 00:55:05,500 And Buckingham Palace was number three. 1051 00:55:05,500 --> 00:55:08,250 I think that's terribly funny, you know. 1052 00:55:12,870 --> 00:55:15,290 I told you before to be careful where you put your legs. 1053 00:55:15,290 --> 00:55:17,120 I was only trying to be helpful. 1054 00:55:17,120 --> 00:55:18,160 I can help meself. 1055 00:55:20,500 --> 00:55:21,750 Hello. 1056 00:55:23,500 --> 00:55:26,000 They never make these cars big enough, do they? 1057 00:55:27,500 --> 00:55:29,370 Well, are you all settled in? 1058 00:55:29,370 --> 00:55:31,500 Right, we can begin. My name is... 1059 00:55:31,500 --> 00:55:33,200 Alfie? 1060 00:55:33,200 --> 00:55:35,620 When I became an actor, I didn't see myself like 1061 00:55:35,620 --> 00:55:38,250 playing Hamlet or King Lear. 1062 00:55:38,250 --> 00:55:40,000 All I wanted was a chance 1063 00:55:40,000 --> 00:55:44,000 to get a true Cockney character on the big screen. 1064 00:55:44,000 --> 00:55:45,500 And I got the chance to do it. 1065 00:55:47,790 --> 00:55:49,790 There is a little bit of Alfie in everybody 1066 00:55:49,790 --> 00:55:51,830 and people saw things in themselves, 1067 00:55:51,830 --> 00:55:54,580 even if it was something they didn't like. I... 1068 00:55:54,580 --> 00:55:56,830 I found a lot of things in Alfie. 1069 00:55:56,830 --> 00:55:59,410 Especially, as I say, I am a bachelor. 1070 00:56:00,370 --> 00:56:01,870 How do you want me? 1071 00:56:01,870 --> 00:56:04,080 How do I want you? Well, I've got two positions. 1072 00:56:04,080 --> 00:56:07,290 Straight up or sideways, depending on your nationality. 1073 00:56:07,290 --> 00:56:09,750 I tell you what, I'll have you against the ships. 1074 00:56:09,750 --> 00:56:12,120 All right, I've always been partial to the Navy. 1075 00:56:13,830 --> 00:56:15,580 Now, you look a real treat there, you do. 1076 00:56:15,580 --> 00:56:17,410 But you see, of course, you can't play Alfie 1077 00:56:17,410 --> 00:56:19,540 and be Alfie at the same time, 1078 00:56:19,540 --> 00:56:22,410 because playing those parts, it takes up too much of your time. 1079 00:56:22,410 --> 00:56:23,790 You have to go to bed early. 1080 00:56:23,790 --> 00:56:25,250 I don't think I went out with one girl 1081 00:56:25,250 --> 00:56:26,620 the whole time I was making Alfie. 1082 00:56:28,200 --> 00:56:29,290 I did when I was finished. 1083 00:56:32,160 --> 00:56:34,790 We used to call girls - I know it's very male chauvinist, 1084 00:56:34,790 --> 00:56:36,660 and I'm sorry, ladies, I don't do it any more - 1085 00:56:36,660 --> 00:56:38,580 we used to call girls "birds". 1086 00:56:38,580 --> 00:56:42,160 Or in rhyming slang, "Richards", which is Richard IIIs, birds. 1087 00:56:42,160 --> 00:56:43,410 Coffee, love? 1088 00:56:44,660 --> 00:56:47,410 And my flatmate was very much a ladies' man. 1089 00:56:47,410 --> 00:56:50,410 He had all the Richards. So, our flat became like an airport. 1090 00:56:50,410 --> 00:56:52,450 The birds came flying through there 1091 00:56:52,450 --> 00:56:54,700 and I became a sort of flight controller, 1092 00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:56,750 bringing 'em in and getting 'em out safely, 1093 00:56:56,750 --> 00:56:59,000 and so that no-one saw each other and all that. 1094 00:57:02,200 --> 00:57:04,620 I was living with my then girlfriend, Jane Asher. 1095 00:57:04,620 --> 00:57:06,950 Who I made Alfie... And I met you on the set 1096 00:57:06,950 --> 00:57:08,830 cos you used to come on the set for lunch. 1097 00:57:08,830 --> 00:57:10,750 You did Alfie with her, yeah. 1098 00:57:10,750 --> 00:57:14,540 And so I was staying at Jane's and going out with her. 1099 00:57:14,540 --> 00:57:17,120 But I had a piano. I was living up at the top of the house 1100 00:57:17,120 --> 00:57:19,000 and I had a little piano in there. 1101 00:57:19,000 --> 00:57:22,290 So, John might write one on his own, I might write one on my own, 1102 00:57:22,290 --> 00:57:23,870 so that started to happen. 1103 00:57:23,870 --> 00:57:26,830 But we'd always bring it back to each other and finish it together. 1104 00:57:28,080 --> 00:57:30,000 We thought after 1105 00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,000 following Buddy Holly records and seeing how they were made 1106 00:57:33,000 --> 00:57:34,870 through playing them, you know, 1107 00:57:34,870 --> 00:57:37,160 "Oh, maybe we can write this, you know?" 1108 00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:40,450 Well, maybe instead of singing Going back to Alabam', 1109 00:57:40,450 --> 00:57:43,290 we can sing something about Liverpool, you know? 1110 00:57:43,290 --> 00:57:46,080 So it was just after we'd learnt how to, you know... 1111 00:57:46,080 --> 00:57:49,250 Oh, you do this, and you do this and how to make the music, 1112 00:57:49,250 --> 00:57:51,750 we thought, "Oh, we'll write about ourselves," you know? 1113 00:57:51,750 --> 00:57:55,000 And of course, the first efforts were more dumb 1114 00:57:55,000 --> 00:57:57,410 or childish than the later efforts. 1115 00:57:57,410 --> 00:57:59,160 We'd sit down to write. 1116 00:57:59,160 --> 00:58:02,790 And I think we wrote just short of 300 songs together 1117 00:58:02,790 --> 00:58:04,750 over the period. 1118 00:58:04,750 --> 00:58:07,700 And whenever we had a writing session, 1119 00:58:07,700 --> 00:58:10,200 always come up with these songs every time. 1120 00:58:10,200 --> 00:58:13,870 We never left a session going, "We'll finish it tomorrow." 1121 00:58:13,870 --> 00:58:16,120 All these songs just came out of me, you know? 1122 00:58:17,160 --> 00:58:18,450 I didn't sit down to think 1123 00:58:18,450 --> 00:58:20,790 I'm going to write about this, that or the other. 1124 00:58:20,790 --> 00:58:22,080 They all came out, you know, 1125 00:58:22,080 --> 00:58:25,660 like all the best work of anybody's ever does, you know? 1126 00:58:25,660 --> 00:58:27,450 No sense of competition or anything? 1127 00:58:27,450 --> 00:58:29,700 Oh, no, there was a big sense of competition. 1128 00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:32,040 Oh, there was? Oh, yeah. Really? 1129 00:58:32,040 --> 00:58:35,790 Oh, yeah. Come on! Young guys, both writers. Yeah. 1130 00:58:35,790 --> 00:58:37,620 No, it was great. It was really good for us, 1131 00:58:37,620 --> 00:58:39,870 and you know, John would say later, he'd say, 1132 00:58:39,870 --> 00:58:42,040 "Bloody hell!" You know, he'd hear one of my songs 1133 00:58:42,040 --> 00:58:44,500 and go, "Bloody hell, I've got to write a better one." 1134 00:58:44,500 --> 00:58:46,000 It was like a nuisance. Yeah. 1135 00:58:46,000 --> 00:58:49,330 And then I'd hear one of his and go, "Oh, bollocks!" 1136 00:58:49,330 --> 00:58:54,160 The taxi driver the other day had some sheet music of a Mozart thing, 1137 00:58:54,160 --> 00:58:55,750 and I said, "What's that?" You know. 1138 00:58:55,750 --> 00:58:58,660 And he said, "Oh..." He said, "Oh, that's the high-class stuff. 1139 00:58:58,660 --> 00:59:01,410 "You won't like that." He said, "No, no, you won't like that." 1140 00:59:01,410 --> 00:59:03,080 And I said, "Well, what is it?" You know. 1141 00:59:03,080 --> 00:59:04,790 He said, "Oh, no, you won't like it. 1142 00:59:04,790 --> 00:59:08,200 "You know, it's high-class, that. It's very high-brow." 1143 00:59:08,200 --> 00:59:11,500 And that kind of way, I always used to think of it. 1144 00:59:11,500 --> 00:59:14,620 I used to think, "Well, you know, that's very clever, all that stuff." 1145 00:59:14,620 --> 00:59:15,830 And it isn't, you know. 1146 00:59:15,830 --> 00:59:18,540 It's just exactly what's going on in pop at the moment. 1147 00:59:18,540 --> 00:59:21,870 Pop music is the classical music of now. 1148 00:59:21,870 --> 00:59:24,950 All of a sudden, there was a bunch of people in London 1149 00:59:24,950 --> 00:59:29,660 who were considered the most interesting and glamorous people on the planet. 1150 00:59:29,660 --> 00:59:32,540 And when people became famous in Britain, 1151 00:59:32,540 --> 00:59:34,620 they had one thought in mind - 1152 00:59:34,620 --> 00:59:36,200 America. 1153 00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:38,660 And they took the party across the pond. 1154 00:59:38,660 --> 00:59:41,000 And the British invasion didn't just include bands. 1155 00:59:41,000 --> 00:59:45,750 It was writers, designers, artists, actors like myself. 1156 00:59:45,750 --> 00:59:49,250 MUSIC: Strawberry Fields Forever by the Beatles 1157 00:59:49,250 --> 00:59:52,910 # Let me take you down, cos I'm going to... # 1158 00:59:52,910 --> 00:59:54,290 Here they come! 1159 00:59:54,290 --> 00:59:57,000 # ..Strawberry Fields 1160 00:59:59,580 --> 01:00:01,910 # Nothing is real 1161 01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,410 # And nothing to get hung about 1162 01:00:07,830 --> 01:00:10,790 # Strawberry Fields forever 1163 01:00:13,080 --> 01:00:17,080 # Living is easy with eyes closed 1164 01:00:18,370 --> 01:00:20,950 # Misunderstanding all you see 1165 01:00:23,700 --> 01:00:28,950 # It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out 1166 01:00:28,950 --> 01:00:31,750 # It doesn't matter much to me 1167 01:00:34,410 --> 01:00:37,000 # Let me take you down 1168 01:00:37,000 --> 01:00:42,620 # Cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields 1169 01:00:44,700 --> 01:00:47,200 # Nothing is real 1170 01:00:48,450 --> 01:00:50,910 # And nothing to get hung about 1171 01:00:52,290 --> 01:00:54,750 # Strawberry Fields forever... # 1172 01:00:54,750 --> 01:00:56,910 The people that started the English invasion, 1173 01:00:56,910 --> 01:00:59,750 the effect here in the United States, phenomenal. 1174 01:00:59,750 --> 01:01:03,620 # No-one I think is in my tree 1175 01:01:04,870 --> 01:01:07,450 # I mean, it must be high or low 1176 01:01:10,040 --> 01:01:14,700 # That is you can't, you know, tune in, but it's all all right 1177 01:01:14,700 --> 01:01:18,000 # That is I think it's not too bad 1178 01:01:20,250 --> 01:01:22,330 # Let me take you down 1179 01:01:22,330 --> 01:01:27,830 # Cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields 1180 01:01:30,370 --> 01:01:32,700 # Nothing is real 1181 01:01:34,250 --> 01:01:37,540 # And nothing to get hung about... # 1182 01:01:37,540 --> 01:01:41,580 And now, to be Cockney is right at the top, isn't it? 1183 01:01:41,580 --> 01:01:43,450 Yeah, it helps a little. Yeah, yeah. 1184 01:01:43,450 --> 01:01:46,540 It's not doing me any harm in America. I know. 1185 01:01:46,540 --> 01:01:49,620 # Sometimes think it's me 1186 01:01:49,620 --> 01:01:52,000 # But you know, I know when it's a dream... # 1187 01:01:52,000 --> 01:01:53,830 His name is Michael Caine. 1188 01:01:53,830 --> 01:01:55,540 Michael Caine. 1189 01:01:55,540 --> 01:01:57,870 # I think a no, I mean, a yes 1190 01:01:57,870 --> 01:01:59,540 # But it's all wrong 1191 01:02:00,620 --> 01:02:03,000 # That is, I think I disagree 1192 01:02:05,540 --> 01:02:07,950 # Let me take you down 1193 01:02:07,950 --> 01:02:13,500 # Cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields 1194 01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:18,580 # Nothing is real 1195 01:02:19,870 --> 01:02:22,080 # And nothing to get hung about 1196 01:02:23,910 --> 01:02:27,700 # Strawberry Fields forever 1197 01:02:27,700 --> 01:02:30,160 # Strawberry Fields forever... # 1198 01:02:30,160 --> 01:02:32,790 I don't know, you know, if you can say that war's no good 1199 01:02:32,790 --> 01:02:35,330 and a few people believe you, then it may be good. I don't know. 1200 01:02:35,330 --> 01:02:37,500 You can't say it too much, though, that's the trouble. 1201 01:02:37,500 --> 01:02:39,040 Seems a bit silly to be in America 1202 01:02:39,040 --> 01:02:41,910 and for none of them to mention Vietnam as if nothing was happening. 1203 01:02:43,250 --> 01:02:45,120 And the kids want to be free, man. 1204 01:02:45,120 --> 01:02:47,330 Like, that's where it's at. 1205 01:02:47,330 --> 01:02:49,620 Youth is always an exciting time. 1206 01:02:49,620 --> 01:02:53,080 Well, it's certainly more exciting than it ever was before. 1207 01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:55,870 You can do anything, that makes it exciting. 1208 01:02:55,870 --> 01:02:59,450 Everything's constantly changing and attitudes are constantly changing. 1209 01:02:59,450 --> 01:03:01,080 Well, everything is happening. 1210 01:03:01,080 --> 01:03:03,410 Everything is happening all over the world. 1211 01:03:06,660 --> 01:03:08,580 Right over there, the little girl running down, 1212 01:03:08,580 --> 01:03:10,330 the famous model just came here from Europe. 1213 01:03:10,330 --> 01:03:11,870 What do you think of her? 1214 01:03:11,870 --> 01:03:13,830 What do I think of her? I think she's cute but I... 1215 01:03:13,830 --> 01:03:16,120 I think she's cute, except she's... 1216 01:03:16,120 --> 01:03:17,660 It'll last... 1217 01:03:17,660 --> 01:03:20,410 I don't know. It'll last a couple of weeks, like everything else. 1218 01:03:20,410 --> 01:03:21,450 Will it? 1219 01:03:22,660 --> 01:03:24,660 To think that our next generation 1220 01:03:24,660 --> 01:03:26,540 is supposed to be taking care of this country. 1221 01:03:26,540 --> 01:03:28,950 They don't take no pride in anything, hardly. 1222 01:03:28,950 --> 01:03:32,450 I think we have to find out who is to blame for it all. 1223 01:03:32,450 --> 01:03:35,580 When they look at me, and I happen to have long hair 1224 01:03:35,580 --> 01:03:38,330 and wear kind of freaky clothes, they really hate me. 1225 01:03:38,330 --> 01:03:40,910 You can look and you see this hatred in their eyes. 1226 01:03:52,750 --> 01:03:56,040 Back home, all was not as it seemed. 1227 01:03:56,040 --> 01:04:01,700 # Sunshine came softly through my window today... # 1228 01:04:03,120 --> 01:04:05,910 It became clear that there was now a campaign 1229 01:04:05,910 --> 01:04:09,660 to bring down those the establishment were thinking 1230 01:04:09,660 --> 01:04:11,410 were corrupting youth. 1231 01:04:11,410 --> 01:04:13,870 The youth didn't need much corrupting, actually. 1232 01:04:13,870 --> 01:04:17,250 They were corrupting themselves all up and down the country, 1233 01:04:17,250 --> 01:04:18,790 in the new-found freedom, 1234 01:04:18,790 --> 01:04:20,500 communicating with music 1235 01:04:20,500 --> 01:04:22,000 and smoking a bit of dope. 1236 01:04:23,450 --> 01:04:25,450 A brain under the influence of marijuana 1237 01:04:25,450 --> 01:04:28,120 distorts the sense of space and time. 1238 01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:32,160 Whether it's pills or LSD or cannabis, 1239 01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:34,910 the use of drugs as a central part of youth culture 1240 01:04:34,910 --> 01:04:37,910 becomes very important in the last two or three years. 1241 01:04:37,910 --> 01:04:39,750 I only smoked marijuana once 1242 01:04:39,750 --> 01:04:41,830 and I laughed for five hours. 1243 01:04:43,580 --> 01:04:45,290 I couldn't get a taxi home. 1244 01:04:45,290 --> 01:04:46,540 I had to walk. 1245 01:04:47,790 --> 01:04:49,500 I never smoked marijuana again. 1246 01:04:50,410 --> 01:04:51,580 Honest. 1247 01:04:53,290 --> 01:04:55,620 It was the Mods who started it, you know. 1248 01:04:55,620 --> 01:04:59,000 Purple hearts, amphetamines, speed. 1249 01:04:59,000 --> 01:05:00,700 But there was nothing new in that. 1250 01:05:00,700 --> 01:05:03,330 People used to take them in the war to stay awake. 1251 01:05:03,330 --> 01:05:05,950 But they used to take one or two tablets. 1252 01:05:05,950 --> 01:05:07,870 The Mods took them by the jarful. 1253 01:05:09,250 --> 01:05:11,790 All I really cared about in those days was being... 1254 01:05:11,790 --> 01:05:13,000 the band being good. 1255 01:05:13,000 --> 01:05:14,660 I'd started this band. 1256 01:05:14,660 --> 01:05:16,750 And I couldn't take them. They used to dry me up. 1257 01:05:16,750 --> 01:05:18,290 And so I couldn't sing. Really? 1258 01:05:18,290 --> 01:05:20,660 I thought, "Well, these are no good for me, I can't sing. 1259 01:05:20,660 --> 01:05:22,870 "There's no point doing this." So, I had to be straight. 1260 01:05:24,160 --> 01:05:27,580 We played one gig, it was just so bad. 1261 01:05:27,580 --> 01:05:30,750 The band had been up for three days. 1262 01:05:30,750 --> 01:05:33,200 They'd started to take more and more pills. 1263 01:05:33,200 --> 01:05:34,950 The songs are getting faster and faster 1264 01:05:34,950 --> 01:05:37,080 so I can't get the words in. 1265 01:05:37,080 --> 01:05:41,290 I mean, oh, my God, the state of us. Literally, it was so awful. 1266 01:05:41,290 --> 01:05:45,120 I came off the stage in just a terrible temper. 1267 01:05:49,120 --> 01:05:51,410 I've been on pills since I was 15 or... 1268 01:05:51,410 --> 01:05:53,580 no, since I was 17. 1269 01:05:53,580 --> 01:05:55,870 Since I became a musician. 1270 01:05:55,870 --> 01:05:59,000 The only way to survive in Hamburg, to play eight hours a night, 1271 01:05:59,000 --> 01:06:00,160 was to take pills. 1272 01:06:00,160 --> 01:06:02,660 I've always needed a drug to survive. 1273 01:06:02,660 --> 01:06:04,620 I can't... You know. The others, too. 1274 01:06:04,620 --> 01:06:07,950 But I always had more, you know. I always took more pills 1275 01:06:07,950 --> 01:06:10,330 and more of everything, cos I'm more crazy. 1276 01:06:10,330 --> 01:06:12,200 Do you rely on drugs to keep you going? 1277 01:06:12,200 --> 01:06:13,870 No, it just means that, 1278 01:06:13,870 --> 01:06:16,700 you know, there are certain things which... 1279 01:06:16,700 --> 01:06:20,450 more levels of perception which are opened up by certain drugs. 1280 01:06:20,450 --> 01:06:23,000 ARCHIVE NARRATOR: To many youngsters, the glamour drugs 1281 01:06:23,000 --> 01:06:24,750 are those which produce hallucinations. 1282 01:06:24,750 --> 01:06:28,080 The best known are marijuana and LSD. 1283 01:06:28,080 --> 01:06:29,910 Huxley wrote these two books. 1284 01:06:29,910 --> 01:06:31,410 He wrote Heaven and Hell 1285 01:06:31,410 --> 01:06:32,910 and Doors of Perception. 1286 01:06:32,910 --> 01:06:34,160 And of the two, 1287 01:06:34,160 --> 01:06:37,450 people have taken Heaven and Hell as the symbol, 1288 01:06:37,450 --> 01:06:39,620 and they've taken the wrong one. 1289 01:06:39,620 --> 01:06:44,160 Because the one that... the really explicit phrase 1290 01:06:44,160 --> 01:06:47,540 is "doors of perception", and that is what drugs are. 1291 01:06:47,540 --> 01:06:49,200 They are the doors. 1292 01:06:49,200 --> 01:06:50,700 They're not anywhere. 1293 01:06:50,700 --> 01:06:54,410 I mean, you don't go anywhere. You just see a crack, 1294 01:06:54,410 --> 01:06:55,790 like I'm looking through, 1295 01:06:55,790 --> 01:06:59,250 that the state that we should be in is perfection 1296 01:06:59,250 --> 01:07:01,290 and that the reason we're here is to find it. 1297 01:07:01,290 --> 01:07:03,410 MUSIC: Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles 1298 01:07:03,410 --> 01:07:08,580 # Turn off your mind, relax and float downstream 1299 01:07:09,950 --> 01:07:12,080 # It is not dying 1300 01:07:13,450 --> 01:07:16,330 # It is not dying 1301 01:07:18,160 --> 01:07:23,540 # Lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void 1302 01:07:24,910 --> 01:07:28,160 # It is shining 1303 01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:31,950 # It is shining 1304 01:07:33,450 --> 01:07:37,870 # That you may see the meaning of within 1305 01:07:39,830 --> 01:07:43,160 # It is being 1306 01:07:44,250 --> 01:07:47,000 # It is being... # 1307 01:07:56,540 --> 01:07:59,580 If you haven't heard of LSD, you will. 1308 01:07:59,580 --> 01:08:01,290 They can take it if they want, 1309 01:08:01,290 --> 01:08:04,120 we can't prevent them, but they're really fooling with dynamite. 1310 01:08:08,160 --> 01:08:10,910 Giving us a world we can't handle as it is... 1311 01:08:12,330 --> 01:08:14,290 ..so we're going to change it. 1312 01:08:14,290 --> 01:08:18,160 Because they have shaped their world, our world, 1313 01:08:18,160 --> 01:08:21,000 into what it is with guns and bombs. 1314 01:08:21,000 --> 01:08:26,080 It's obvious to our generation, their way doesn't work. 1315 01:08:26,080 --> 01:08:28,040 It hasn't worked. It isn't going to work. 1316 01:08:29,290 --> 01:08:31,870 So, a change has to be made. 1317 01:08:31,870 --> 01:08:35,040 And if somebody has to get turned upside-down to do it... 1318 01:08:36,080 --> 01:08:38,660 ..well, then. SHE LAUGHS 1319 01:08:38,660 --> 01:08:42,160 The people who lived through the LSD experience went through 1320 01:08:42,160 --> 01:08:45,080 a complete facet of learning, you know. 1321 01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:48,910 And it's just, you know, it must have been done some other way 1322 01:08:48,910 --> 01:08:50,660 when me father was a kid. 1323 01:08:50,660 --> 01:08:52,790 Maybe they did it by going to war. 1324 01:08:52,790 --> 01:08:55,620 The kids who take LSD aren't going to fight your wars, 1325 01:08:55,620 --> 01:08:58,450 middle-class, middle-aged, whisky-drinking generals. 1326 01:08:58,450 --> 01:09:01,200 Uh, they're not going to join your corporations, 1327 01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:05,200 middle-class, middle-aged, whisky-drinking corporation presidents. 1328 01:09:05,200 --> 01:09:10,120 MUSIC: It's All Over Now, Baby Blue by Bob Dylan 1329 01:09:10,120 --> 01:09:11,870 # You must leave now 1330 01:09:11,870 --> 01:09:15,250 # Take what you need, you think will last 1331 01:09:18,620 --> 01:09:24,250 # But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast 1332 01:09:27,700 --> 01:09:32,080 # Yonder stands your orphan with his gun 1333 01:09:36,160 --> 01:09:41,040 # Crying like a fire in the sun.. # 1334 01:09:45,910 --> 01:09:51,410 They need to come down and sort these bastards out. Get 'em out! 1335 01:09:51,410 --> 01:09:54,120 Bring them down the canal and drown them. 1336 01:09:54,120 --> 01:09:56,290 Drown them, that's what you want to do with these. 1337 01:09:57,790 --> 01:10:01,290 Communist muck. Get rid of them. 1338 01:10:01,290 --> 01:10:04,950 # The highway is for gamblers 1339 01:10:04,950 --> 01:10:07,700 # Better use your sense 1340 01:10:10,870 --> 01:10:15,830 # Take what you have gathered from coincidence 1341 01:10:19,250 --> 01:10:24,410 # The empty-handed painter from your streets... # 1342 01:10:29,160 --> 01:10:32,750 I haven't got their morals, and they haven't got mine. 1343 01:10:32,750 --> 01:10:34,410 CHANTING 1344 01:10:34,410 --> 01:10:36,540 They've got all these rules for everything. 1345 01:10:36,540 --> 01:10:40,290 Rules of how to live, how to paint, how to make music. 1346 01:10:40,290 --> 01:10:42,500 And it's just not true any more. 1347 01:10:42,500 --> 01:10:44,290 The government doesn't exist for us, 1348 01:10:44,290 --> 01:10:45,910 they exist for themselves. 1349 01:10:45,910 --> 01:10:48,000 Sooner or later, the government is going to find that 1350 01:10:48,000 --> 01:10:50,660 there's something going on that they've got no control over at all. 1351 01:10:51,700 --> 01:10:54,910 They haven't been fucked since Cromwell, man. 1352 01:10:54,910 --> 01:10:57,660 Youth thinks itself wise 1353 01:10:57,660 --> 01:11:01,040 just as drunk men think themselves sober. 1354 01:11:02,450 --> 01:11:06,330 Youth knows nothing about anything except on massive cliches. 1355 01:11:06,330 --> 01:11:10,120 The permissive society is considered by some youngsters 1356 01:11:10,120 --> 01:11:12,040 to be trendy and with it. 1357 01:11:12,040 --> 01:11:17,750 Personally, I consider it condones moral laxity and promiscuity, 1358 01:11:17,750 --> 01:11:20,950 it leads to uncertainty and instability, 1359 01:11:20,950 --> 01:11:24,330 a soggy mind and mental impoverishment 1360 01:11:24,330 --> 01:11:26,870 and contains all the disruptive elements 1361 01:11:26,870 --> 01:11:31,500 which would tear down the pillars of our society. 1362 01:11:31,500 --> 01:11:33,200 It really is about time 1363 01:11:33,200 --> 01:11:37,660 we realised that the fault lies in the fact that we have created 1364 01:11:37,660 --> 01:11:39,410 a permissive society. 1365 01:11:40,790 --> 01:11:44,870 Now, the epidemic drug taking in this country 1366 01:11:44,870 --> 01:11:48,830 is now so extensive that many of you, 1367 01:11:48,830 --> 01:11:52,120 whatever your jobs, will have come across it. 1368 01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:56,450 We must rid the country of this insidious disease of "don't care". 1369 01:12:02,750 --> 01:12:04,620 And I was the first to be busted. 1370 01:12:11,290 --> 01:12:12,950 What do you know of this Donovan? 1371 01:12:14,370 --> 01:12:18,080 I've had him on the special attention list for some time. Right. 1372 01:12:18,080 --> 01:12:21,450 That next day, when we were let out at 4:00 in the morning, 1373 01:12:21,450 --> 01:12:23,450 the phone rang, and it was George Harrison. 1374 01:12:23,450 --> 01:12:26,660 And he said, "Is everything all right?" 1375 01:12:26,660 --> 01:12:29,870 I said, "Yeah, we're out." 1376 01:12:29,870 --> 01:12:31,620 He said, "What you going to do?" 1377 01:12:31,620 --> 01:12:34,660 I said, "We're going to go away for a while." 1378 01:12:34,660 --> 01:12:38,580 He said, "If you want £10,000 by 12 noon..." 1379 01:12:38,580 --> 01:12:41,370 I said, "No, I'm OK with the money. 1380 01:12:41,370 --> 01:12:43,790 "We're going to go to Scotland until it blows over." 1381 01:12:44,790 --> 01:12:47,540 He said, "It'll never blow over, Don. 1382 01:12:47,540 --> 01:12:49,160 "We'll be next." 1383 01:12:49,160 --> 01:12:51,450 Paul, how often have you taken LSD? 1384 01:12:53,580 --> 01:12:54,870 About four times. 1385 01:12:55,700 --> 01:12:58,080 And where did you get it from? 1386 01:12:58,080 --> 01:13:00,540 Oh, you know, I mean, if I was to say where I'd got it from, 1387 01:13:00,540 --> 01:13:03,500 you know, it's illegal and everything. It's silly to say that, 1388 01:13:03,500 --> 01:13:04,870 so I'd rather not say that. 1389 01:13:04,870 --> 01:13:06,910 Don't you believe that this was a matter 1390 01:13:06,910 --> 01:13:08,950 which you should have kept private? 1391 01:13:08,950 --> 01:13:11,790 I mean, you're spreading this now, at this moment. 1392 01:13:11,790 --> 01:13:14,540 This is going into all the homes, you know, in Britain. 1393 01:13:15,580 --> 01:13:17,620 And I'd rather it didn't, you know. 1394 01:13:17,620 --> 01:13:19,410 But you're asking me the question. 1395 01:13:19,410 --> 01:13:21,950 You want me to be honest. I'll be honest, you know? 1396 01:13:21,950 --> 01:13:24,700 But as a public figure, surely you've got a responsibility 1397 01:13:24,700 --> 01:13:26,330 to lots and lots of teenagers? 1398 01:13:26,330 --> 01:13:28,500 No, it's you've got the responsibility. 1399 01:13:28,500 --> 01:13:31,790 You've got the responsibility not to spread this now. 1400 01:13:31,790 --> 01:13:35,370 You know, I'm quite prepared to keep it as a very personal thing. 1401 01:13:35,370 --> 01:13:37,160 If you will, too. 1402 01:13:37,160 --> 01:13:40,500 What I do with things is I look at examples 1403 01:13:40,500 --> 01:13:41,870 of people who do things. 1404 01:13:41,870 --> 01:13:45,870 If I saw somebody who took drugs who became 1405 01:13:45,870 --> 01:13:49,660 more intelligent, nicer, earned more money, more handsome, 1406 01:13:49,660 --> 01:13:53,120 a better lover or got a better physique through it 1407 01:13:53,120 --> 01:13:54,750 and he set a good example, 1408 01:13:54,750 --> 01:13:58,080 I would be the first to take drugs, and suggest everybody else should. 1409 01:13:58,080 --> 01:14:01,500 But most of the people I know who've taken drugs over a period of time 1410 01:14:01,500 --> 01:14:04,290 seem to have gone to rack and ruin and I don't want to go there. 1411 01:14:04,290 --> 01:14:07,040 I never wanted to talk about drugs in public 1412 01:14:07,040 --> 01:14:10,040 because I don't want to influence anybody 1413 01:14:10,040 --> 01:14:11,870 in anything. 1414 01:14:11,870 --> 01:14:14,620 But if you ask me, I guess I have to say that 1415 01:14:14,620 --> 01:14:17,790 of course I took drugs, like everyone. 1416 01:14:17,790 --> 01:14:19,450 But not because of everyone. 1417 01:14:19,450 --> 01:14:24,750 MUSIC: Theme from The Ipcress File 1418 01:14:28,370 --> 01:14:31,950 It came from the FBI to MI5 to the... Really? 1419 01:14:31,950 --> 01:14:35,580 Yes! It's like one of your films, man. It sounds like it! 1420 01:14:42,910 --> 01:14:45,750 You know, we say there were 300 people in the '60s 1421 01:14:45,750 --> 01:14:48,580 and all the people who said they were at the Redlands bust, 1422 01:14:48,580 --> 01:14:51,750 we would have had to have a marquee on the lawn, you know. 1423 01:14:51,750 --> 01:14:54,200 It was basically a party 1424 01:14:54,200 --> 01:14:57,160 where good friends got together to take a bit of LSD. 1425 01:15:04,120 --> 01:15:05,830 That was one of my first trips. 1426 01:15:05,830 --> 01:15:08,870 It was a pretty rough experience, actually... Yeah. 1427 01:15:08,870 --> 01:15:10,540 ..to have 25 cops walk in. 1428 01:15:10,540 --> 01:15:15,160 Is that what happened? Yeah, and I was rather naughty, too. 1429 01:15:15,160 --> 01:15:16,700 I'd gone to have a bath. Yeah. 1430 01:15:18,120 --> 01:15:20,660 I was in a fur rug. And nothing else? 1431 01:15:20,660 --> 01:15:23,410 And I dropped the fur rug. 1432 01:15:23,410 --> 01:15:26,370 And gave a flash at the constabulary. At the coppers? 1433 01:15:26,370 --> 01:15:29,000 And they were so stunned, you know. 1434 01:15:29,000 --> 01:15:30,370 I was showing off, wasn't I? 1435 01:15:30,370 --> 01:15:33,580 Yeah, obviously. And why not? You were young, beautiful. 1436 01:15:33,580 --> 01:15:36,250 I was beautiful, I was naked, I was in a fur rug. 1437 01:15:36,250 --> 01:15:37,750 Hey! 1438 01:15:37,750 --> 01:15:39,500 And I was naughty and defiant. 1439 01:15:41,290 --> 01:15:44,370 Evidence that an unnamed naked woman 1440 01:15:44,370 --> 01:15:47,000 was sitting on a sofa with a rug around her 1441 01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:51,330 when police raided Keith Richards' house at West Wittering 1442 01:15:51,330 --> 01:15:53,000 was given in court today. 1443 01:15:53,000 --> 01:15:56,200 First of all, they don't like young kids with a lot of money, you know? 1444 01:15:56,200 --> 01:15:58,950 They don't like that anyway. But as long as you're sort of... 1445 01:15:58,950 --> 01:16:01,660 cool and do your, you know, and don't... 1446 01:16:03,620 --> 01:16:05,080 ..bother them, you know. 1447 01:16:05,080 --> 01:16:06,290 But we bothered 'em. 1448 01:16:06,290 --> 01:16:08,830 You know, we bothered them 1449 01:16:08,830 --> 01:16:11,910 because of the way we look, because of the way we act, because... 1450 01:16:11,910 --> 01:16:14,620 And we never showed any reverence for them whatsoever. 1451 01:16:14,620 --> 01:16:19,040 This is not Golden Gate Park or Central Park - 1452 01:16:19,040 --> 01:16:22,000 this is Hyde Park in London. 1453 01:16:22,000 --> 01:16:24,000 And these are British hippies 1454 01:16:24,000 --> 01:16:26,660 gathered to protest the heavy sentences 1455 01:16:26,660 --> 01:16:28,750 against two Rolling Stones - 1456 01:16:28,750 --> 01:16:33,250 Mick Jagger, for having four tablets of Benzedrine in his pocket 1457 01:16:33,250 --> 01:16:36,370 and Keith Richards, for allowing his premises 1458 01:16:36,370 --> 01:16:38,580 to be used for the smoking of marijuana. 1459 01:16:40,830 --> 01:16:45,540 And then I started getting poisonous letters, 1460 01:16:45,540 --> 01:16:49,080 basically saying, "The sooner you die, the better." 1461 01:16:50,370 --> 01:16:53,080 You know, "You are a contamination on our island's shores." 1462 01:16:55,000 --> 01:16:57,750 And I took all this very much to heart. 1463 01:16:57,750 --> 01:17:02,080 # I saw her today at the reception 1464 01:17:04,120 --> 01:17:08,330 # A glass of wine in her hand 1465 01:17:09,620 --> 01:17:14,250 # I knew she was going to meet her connection... # 1466 01:17:14,250 --> 01:17:17,200 And I thought I would die and I almost welcomed it. 1467 01:17:17,200 --> 01:17:19,870 But I started to get into hard drugs 1468 01:17:19,870 --> 01:17:21,620 and that's what did it. 1469 01:17:21,620 --> 01:17:24,000 # You can't always get what you want... # 1470 01:17:24,000 --> 01:17:27,540 There was a feeling that something special was over. 1471 01:17:27,540 --> 01:17:28,950 We'd pushed for change. 1472 01:17:30,120 --> 01:17:32,500 Now change was pushing us. 1473 01:17:34,160 --> 01:17:36,910 Maybe, for some of us, 1474 01:17:36,910 --> 01:17:39,200 the party had gone on too long. 1475 01:17:39,200 --> 01:17:41,580 # But if you try sometimes 1476 01:17:41,580 --> 01:17:44,120 # Well, you might find 1477 01:17:44,120 --> 01:17:45,370 # You get what you need... # 1478 01:17:45,370 --> 01:17:50,000 We'd sort of done everything we'd wanted to do. We were getting 1479 01:17:50,000 --> 01:17:53,000 a bit fed up of having to have a group mentality, 1480 01:17:53,000 --> 01:17:55,830 so we were pissing each other off. 1481 01:17:55,830 --> 01:17:59,950 # And I went down to the demonstration 1482 01:18:01,250 --> 01:18:04,660 # To get my fair share of abuse 1483 01:18:06,290 --> 01:18:10,660 # Singing, "We're gonna vent our frustration 1484 01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:15,620 # "If we don't, we're gonna blow a 50-amp fuse" 1485 01:18:15,620 --> 01:18:17,200 # Sing it to them! 1486 01:18:17,200 --> 01:18:20,910 # You can't always get what you want 1487 01:18:23,000 --> 01:18:27,450 # You can't always get what you want... # 1488 01:18:27,450 --> 01:18:30,660 Although it was a shock when it actually happened, 1489 01:18:30,660 --> 01:18:34,040 nobody was really that surprised, you know. 1490 01:18:34,040 --> 01:18:35,540 Everybody knows people that... 1491 01:18:35,540 --> 01:18:38,040 You just have that feeling that they're not going to be, 1492 01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,370 they're not going to be 70 years old, ever, you know. 1493 01:18:40,370 --> 01:18:42,700 Not everybody makes it, you know. 1494 01:18:47,410 --> 01:18:50,790 Looking back, what strikes me most about the '60s 1495 01:18:50,790 --> 01:18:54,250 is that it was a time, maybe the first time, 1496 01:18:54,250 --> 01:18:57,410 when the future was shaped by young people. 1497 01:18:57,410 --> 01:19:00,830 We were utterly convinced that it was our time. 1498 01:19:00,830 --> 01:19:02,410 The best time of our lives. 1499 01:19:05,370 --> 01:19:07,540 Youth is not a time of life, 1500 01:19:07,540 --> 01:19:09,160 it's a state of mind. 1501 01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,200 # You get what you need... # 1502 01:19:25,910 --> 01:19:28,870 So, they, whoever they are, don't stand a chance, 1503 01:19:28,870 --> 01:19:30,290 because they can't beat love. 1504 01:19:45,870 --> 01:19:49,370 Never look back in anger, always look forward in hope. 1505 01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:54,580 And never, ever, ever dream small. 1506 01:20:27,410 --> 01:20:32,120 MUSIC: Sunshine Superman by Donovan 1507 01:20:42,250 --> 01:20:47,000 # Sunshine came softly through my 1508 01:20:47,000 --> 01:20:48,410 # Window today 1509 01:20:49,870 --> 01:20:55,160 # Could've tripped out easy but I've changed my ways 1510 01:20:57,290 --> 01:20:59,410 # It'll take time, I know it 1511 01:21:01,290 --> 01:21:04,120 # But in a while 1512 01:21:04,120 --> 01:21:07,540 # You're gonna be mine, I know it 1513 01:21:07,540 --> 01:21:10,000 # We'll do it in style 1514 01:21:11,250 --> 01:21:17,370 # Cos I made my mind up you're going to be mine 1515 01:21:17,370 --> 01:21:18,870 # I'll tell you right now 1516 01:21:18,870 --> 01:21:22,500 # Any trick in the book now, baby 1517 01:21:22,500 --> 01:21:25,620 # All that I can find 1518 01:21:25,620 --> 01:21:31,660 # Superman or Green Lantern ain't got nothin' on me... #