Beatles' Day-by-Day History : The Beatles returned to England from Their Asia Tour

FRIDAY, 8 JULY 1966 (45 YEARS AGO)

Following their Asia Tour, The Beatles returned to England on this day.
They arrived on London Airport at 6am. A brief press conference was held.
The following is a transcript of The Beatles' interview with the ITV network about their mistreatment while touring in Manila, Philippines.

(Q): Question/Interviewer
(M): Paul McCartney
(L): John Lennon
(H): George Harrison

(Q): "At the airport, did they come up and start physically threatening you?"

(M): "We got to the airport and our road managers had a lot of trouble trying to get the equipment in because the escalators had been turned off, and things. So we got there, and we got put into the transit lounge. And we got pushed around from one corner of the lounge to another, you know."

(L): (impersonating, and demonstrating by shoving Paul repeatedly in the shoulder)
"'You're treated like an ordinary passenger!! Ordinary passenger!!' ...Ordinary passenger, what, he doesn't get kicked, does he?"
(Beatles laughed)
(M): (laughs) "And so they started knocking over our road managers and things, and everyone was falling all over the place."

(Q): "That started worrying you, when the road manager got knocked over."

(M): "Yeah, and I swear there were thirty of 'em."

(Q): (turning back to John) "What do you say there were?"

(L): "Well, I saw sort of five in sort of outfits, you know, that were doing actual kicking and booing and shouting."

(Q): "Did you get kicked any?"

(L): (giggling) "No, I was very delicate and moved every time they touched me."
(Beatles laughed)
(L): "But I was petrified... I could have been kicked and not known it, you know. We'll just never go to any nuthouses again."

(Q): "Would you go to Manila again, George?"

(H): "No, I didn't even want to go that time."

(L): "Me too."

(H): "Because we'd heard that it was a terrible place anyway, and when we got there... it was proved."