Neil Aspinall

There was a bathtub filled with water brought into the studio, and chains were dragged around inside of it.

And then the last chorus of the song featured the band, George Martin, Neil Aspinall, Marian Faithfull, Patti Boyd, and Mal Evans.

And Mal Evans is said to have had a bass drum strapped to his chest, and I think they all went around dancing around the studio singing the last chorus of the song.

I think that's what you hear at the end of the song.

He tells the story himself later as the moment he should have understood what was happening.

The Beatles leave Liverpool on New Year's Eve in a van driven by Neil Aspinall, who gets lost in the snow.

The trip ends up taking 10 hours.

They reach London at 10 p.m., in time, as John Lennon puts it, to watch the drunks jumping into the fountain in Trafalgar Square.

Got you.

And Ringo yells at Neil Aspinall about the food.

He says, I can afford real chicken, you know, this looks bloody horrible.

Aspinall said, but you asked for chicken sandwiches.

What are you going to do? What are you going to do? And finally, the executive for ABC set up a meeting in London for Wednesday.

He says, you've got to be there Wednesday because Neil Aspinall is going to meet you on Wednesday.

And I understand.

I don't have an idea.

of the Hey Jude album.

Oh, by the way, the word is, and this is according to Neil Aspinall, who Andre Gardner would say is someone you can trust on all things Beatle.

He said that the photos were reversed.

The Klein had gotten... backwards and that the back was the front the front was the back and i thought that was an interesting little thing and and kosh was the album designer can you believe that kosh was kosh yeah john kosh who does all the album designs had the podcast that was on pantheon when we were there yeah whoa i'm like freaking out because i look inside my album and it says the beatles again on the label

Well, that's it.

I think in like the anthology, Neil Aspinall, the road manager sort of says that they never got any time to themselves.

Like the only time they might be in like the hotel room or maybe a little bit before like a concert and then that was it.

But I kind of like the idea that this is just rinse and repeat the same day over and over again.

Yes.

Yeah.

And then Neil Aspinall would go on to manage Apple and things like that.

And he kind of kept the legacy going after they split up.

You stay in England.

You'll have it like we did for, for, uh, Neil, Neil Aspinall.

Hmm.

And you stay in England and just take care of our business.

B- and then by the time, sort of f- about four days down the line, the next hotel, "No, there's no booking." And I didn't actually dare to say, "Was there ever a booking, and was it canceled?" I didn't think at the time to ask that.

I just said, "Have you, have you got anything?" They said, "No, the town is so busy." I said, "Can you phone around another hotel?" And they said, "There's nothing in town because it's a big Beatles concert." [upbeat music] I mean, we knew Neil and Mal Evans very w- again, very well because we used to sit in the dressing rooms a lot together.

I mean, we even used to have this sort of a, this little factory, this little line conveyor belt of, of doing autographs, which at the time I was sort of, I wondered a bit, 'cause I actually got an original one.

Lucky I have a picture of John sort of signing my signed picture-

So morally I thought, "Well, it's, it's sort of cheating," but then I thought, "If I was a young girl and I'd put my ..." Book in at the stage door.

Would I rather get it back empty or some very, very ...

They could have hit lucky and got an original, but there was also myself, Neil, Mal, Tony Bramwell, whoever was around, and we'd all, you know, they, they had a set there and we copied them-

Oh, so you did them as well