Chords for George Harrison TV Interview

Though his days as a Beatle belong to another generation, it's a mantle he can never entirely shake.
Today, music reporter Rona Elliott is here with the third part of her interview with the man they used to call the Baby Beatle.
[D#] Good morning, Jane.
It is hard to believe, but [F#] the official breakup of the Beatles was 16 years ago today.
The legacy they [G#] left us, though, remains as strong and as magic [D#] as ever.
Ringo Starr!
_ _ [E] _ [G] But why _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ always choose it?
I hoped I had enough money to go into [G#] [F#] business on my own by the time we, _ _ um_ _
[D] There's gotta be a fast beat, you can't lose it, [A] you gotta use [B] it.
Has success changed your [A] life?
Yes.
[E] There's gotta be rock'n'roll music, if you wanna [A] dance with [Bm] me.
Help!
I need [G] somebody.
Help!
Not just [F#] anybody.
[E] Help!
It was during those Beatle [Bm] days that George Harrison first became involved in filmmaking.
[A] A Hard Day's Night, Help, and Yellow [C#m] Submarine further established their [F#m] artistic credentials,
and his comedies helped define [G] the kind of movie [F#m] producer George Harrison would become with his own company, [F#] and made films.
Their latest movie, Water, which deals with greed on a small Caribbean [F#m] island,
features a finale helped [G#] along by Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton,
[E] and would have fit [F#m] nicely into the Beatle brand of irreverent love.
For many of us [E] in our [C#] generation, our lives were defined by the [D#] years of your initial [N] prominence.
How have you managed not to be stuck in time, to just keep your life going? _ _ _ _
I don't know, there's no other thing to do except, um, as the man said,
the only thing I knew how to do was to keep on keeping on like a bird that flew.
[G#]
Anyway, you just keep going and, uh, past, you know, the past is gone.
That's another thing this guy who built my [F#] house said,
past is gone, cance not that [D#] we call, [F#] future is not, may not be [G#] at all,
present is, improve the [F] flying hour, present only is within [N] my power.
So, I mean, if that's all there is to it, there isn't anything, nothing [F#] exists except now.
You know, the past is gone and the future [D#] doesn't exist until you get to it, and then it, the now.
So you just have to be here now and, um, _ do your best.
There are a number of private schools in New York now that, alongside 16th [N] Century Madrigals and Beethoven,
they teach Beatles songs.
Is that a tremendous stature for you?
Well, it's nice, it's nice, but I mean, I [F#] think Beatles had its part and has its part [G#] in life, just as everybody else does.
I don't think the Beatles was that big a thing, you know, it was good, it was okay, but, um, you know, maybe [F#] being in them,
I saw it [G] differently, you know, I thought they wrote [F#] some nice tunes and we made some nice [G#] records and we had a laugh
and we tried to be as honest as [N] possible, but, um, you know, I think [F#] if they're going to have Mozart and all them [N] other people,
might as well have the Beatles. _
In the better, late than never department, just now, the Russians have put on sale A Hard Day's Night and A Taste of Honey
and 300,000 copies were sold immediately.
Just on [C] a, well, who knows, another 20's and they get out of Afghanistan.
[F#] _ _ You once said, actually you probably said it dozens and dozens [D] of times, that the Beatles would have been just fine
hanging around together if the [G#] press weren't around.
Could you elaborate on that a little bit?
[N] Well, everything we ever did, you know, um, just made the newspapers, it just made it very difficult, you know,
I mean, if something, if we did have a row, instead of it just being a private row, it always got in the papers
and, um, it just put us all in positions that opposed each other and made it much more difficult [F#] to actually, um,
you know, say, alright, [F] forget it, you know, that was that and, [N] uh, you know, it made everything much bigger than it actually was.
Was it hard to separate reality from what you were reading in the papers then or not?
Yeah, sometimes.
Recently, you flew from Maui to Honolulu to see Julian Lennon perform, was that exciting?
I didn't, I didn't actually, no, it said that in the newspaper, in the magazine, I forget that magazine, what it's called,
_ but they also said, I'd like to just use this opportunity, I don't [Dm] have a toilet that sings [F#m] Lucy in the Sky with Thymes,
it costs $39, [N] whatever, it's absolutely rubbish and I don't know where they got it from, but, um, you know,
so will they stop writing that, please?
To clarify that, the quote was $3 [G#],500.
Yeah, was it?
Well, I don't have it, yeah.
[N] And you didn't see Julian?
No, I just called him on the phone.
Can't go to Honolulu anymore, though, can you?
From Maui or just in general?
No, just because _ Marcus_
Oh, yes, well, we heard today that he might be on his way_
Well, he tried to kill us, President Marcus.
Yes, but you want to review that?
Yeah, well, we went to _ Manila back in the 60s, the Beatles on a tour, and we did the concert.
_ The next morning, we were in bed and somebody knocked on our door, the hotel suite, saying,
come on, you're supposed to be at the Palace, [G#] and we said, no, we're not, we didn't have any [G] engagement anywhere,
but somebody, some smart guy said, sure, [F#] I'll get the Beatles up to the Palace.
And they said, turn on the TV, we turned the television [N] on, and there he was, this big palace with lines of people,
and the guy saying, well, they're still not here yet, and we watched ourselves not arrive [D#] at the Palace.
But we were never supposed to be [C#] there, and so what they did was they [N] said, Beatles, snub, first family,
which I'm glad we did see, even in those days we had taste. _ _
_ And so consequently, he set the mob on us and tried to beat us up, which they did,
they beat up a lot of people with us, and wouldn't let the airplane leave Manila until Epstein, our manager,
had to get off the plane and give back the money we earned at the concert.
So that's what I think of Marcus, how twat he was. _ _ _
_ Tomorrow in our final part of our interview, George [Em] Harrison talks about his [F#] music and what he sees for his future.
So far, George, has validated my own good taste, I [F] should think.
They were some good tunes.
We'll be back after these messages.