Q: “Have you got an agreement that Jimmy mustn’t speak?”
(laughter)
GEORGE: “Ask him a question.”
JIMMY: “I can’t answer questions that, umm, I don’t know anything about.”
Q: “What’s the group you play with in England, Jimmy?”
JIMMY: “Well, I’ve played with alot of groups in England. Just before I left, I was playing with a rhythm and blues band.”
Q: “You were in the Blue Flames for a while weren’t you?”
JIMMY: “Yeah, that’s right… well, only for a matter of days. I played on Friday, I didn’t even know what I was doing just on Wednesday, you know.”
Q: “Does Brian Epstein manage you?”
(long pause)
JIMMY: “…nobody… No, he doesn’t.”
BEATLES: (laugh)
JOHN: “You’d know it if he did.”
(laughter)
Q: “Jimmy, what was your first reaction when you were told that you were going to play with the Beatles?”
JIMMY: “I couldn’t believe it. Really.”
Q: “Did you have to do much rehearsal with the boys to get their sound?”
JIMMY: “No, we only rehearsed about five or six numbers, which took half-an-hour.”
Q: “And away you went.”
JIMMY: “Yeah.”
Q: “Pretty frightening?”
JIMMY: “The first show very pretty frightening, yeah. But, uhh, they reassured me.”
PAUL: “He did grand.”
JOHN: (in comical voice) “He did grand job.”
