Beatles talk to Peter Sellers

[BariAndolini]

there's unfortunately a wee blip in the sound at the funniest part of this video...

Yoko says "Shooting is exercise" & Ringo replies "Especially for the rabbits" ;)

[Solon1]

It's not just you. Thinking that also brought me here. :)

[jaylias]

LMAO first words out of Lennon's mouth is about weed :D

[KUTVgroucho]

Sellers does a Kubrick imitation in Lolita when Claire Quilty tails Humbert and Lolita to the hotel. This is Sellers' actual voice heard here. BTW, this clip was shot in January 1969, years after Strangelove or Lolita.

[69realstar2]

petey was great comedy genius but sad 2say.. that doesnt add-up 2 a great human being very empty man..could be anyone but him self god rest the evil bastard.. 

[Rockstaralan]

Very interesting footage. It even appears to be black and white Video footage, instead of the color film footage shot for the "Let It Be" documentary. Am I right or wrong?

[TheMarcio2014]

Que época maravilhosa! Beatles juntos com o grande Peter Sellers! Hoje só resta Lady Gaga & Justin Biba.Quantas fezes!

[iluvme4never]

John Lennon sounds a bit like Sir Alec Guinness.

[lapislazuli7]

@iluvme4never Listening to both of them for ages, to my ears there is no resemblence. Sir Alec was no Liverpudlian, a different generation and a trained stage actor. Well, it's all in the ear of the beholder...

[iluvme4never]

@lapislazuli7 Thanks for your opinion.

[TROUSERFLAP]

Sellers reminds me of Sellers in this whereas Lennon looks a bit like John Lennon.

[krashboombang]

Sounds like Peter is doing an American character with his accent. Brilliant.

[MultiSuperstring]

Yepp,I agree, Ingridthepoet, (are you a poet?) Similar eyes, similar noses, they must be related...or not...perhaps people can look alike without being related closely, or perhaps we are all related...

[deepinmyass]

Weak.

[tapestrystarr]

peter sellers even sounds like john lennon here, or is he just imitating their liverpool accent? he was a master at voices and accents.....the two great peters, sellers and cook... brilliant masters of their art....what a loss, both gone too soon .. 

[sTeVie4TV]

@tapestrystarr  well said

[TJae1]

wow ~ john ~ could really meditate ~ great showman ~

[THECLARENCES]

Amazing!

xoxo

The Clarences

[WoopaTV]

So many legends in the same room!

[TROUSERFLAP]

This clip reminds me of a clip I saw once where The Beatles meet Peter Sellers during the Get Back sessions.

[Stube437]

@TROUSERFLAP huh? that's when this was

[lhcarter]

Sellers always reminded me of Lennon.

[evangelistabjj]

WAT

[meridian2002]

At the end Paul says "Come home, man, all is forgiven."

in 2005 Paul's song "Fine Line" has the lyric "Come home brother, all is forgiven."

[MacJaxonManOfAction]

When Paul keeps saying "Can you dig it?" I just want to punch him.

[KarloR27]

I wonder did peter ever impersonate the beatles. It would be hilarious.

[malarbusto]

@KarloR27 He did "hard day's night", in medieval garb, sitting on a throne, in the style of a Shakespearean soliloquy (using the metallic vocal delivery of Laurence Olivier's Richard III ). I'm sure it's on YT somewhere

[dunskie]

Shooting up is exercise Yoko?

Clever little witch.

[joedenmark99]

@dunskie she fucked them up good

[petsounds]

how embarrasing and fucking awful was that ? BAD Beatle moment

[Ingridthepoet]

I think John lennon and Peter Sellers look a lot a like....but maybe it's just me thinking that

[lumbago12]

You're not alone. I've always thought that. Personality wise too.

[Ingridthepoet]

Yes exactley :O :D

[BobbyColePopMusic]

@Ingridthepoet Your not alone. Certain shots they could pass as brothers. I've always thought that.

[zthetha]

@Ingridthepoet  I think John looks a lot like Lennon and Peter remarkably like Sellers.

[BariAndolini]

@Ingridthepoet

Yeah! I'm a big fan of both & have notice that too... especially when they're being interviewed both of them are very articulate.

[nietzsche71]

that was fascinating

[dunskie]

"Shooting is exercise"?

Good one Yoko.

I have heard John, in interviews, admit to using heroin, but only sniffing it. Never using needles.

I wonder.

[martybow1]

Thought she meant shooting a film lol

[aovint63]

Shooting is indeed great exercise, especially for foxes, bunnies and friends of Dick Cheney.

[boomstickblues]

aovint63: Ah...I was under the impression that John was referring to 'shooting up', considering his smack habit.

Odd bit of footage, not sure what to make of it. I liked it. I think.

Peter putting on one of his convincing American accent's - that man always seemed to be ON.

And as others have said, John does look a bit like Peter, like John's his little northern brother.

A pair of geniuses, whatever the case.

[thesids]

They must have really went on eachothers nerves here. You can see how John kicked Paul in his boot at 1:29.

[Morganism3444]

I don't think he kicked him..

That looked like it would hurt, and Paul didn't react.

I dunno, perhaps he missed.

[tripper85]

paul is not even sitting beside john..its ringo to john's right..and anways..john was just having his other leg up..while doing tat..his leg hit the floor or something

[ahgzz]

Thanks for wasting 5 seconds of my life, John...

[jimrock63]

5 legends in a room.

[JumboProductionsUTD]

ringo isnt a legend. just the luckiest sonufsbitch who ever lived

[jimrock63]

@JumboProductionsUTD , have you ever heard the drumming on strawberry fields forever, rain, a day in the life, she said she said, the end, long tall sally, come together, polythene pam ?

[JumboProductionsUTD]

I know more about the beatles and their music than you will ever know. Period. Yes I know of the drumming on those songs. Ringo was just that. A pretty good drummer. He was never, EVER by no means a musical genius.

[jimrock63]

yeah he couldn't write songs, but melody harmony and rhythm together make music and ringo had a perfect understanding of the rhythm part.

[dunskie]

"He was never, EVER by no means a musical genius"

In this statement, you are actually saying that Ringo IS a musical genius.

Genius.

[owenhunt]

@dunskie This observation is genial. Cheers for making me Laugh-Out-Loud. You made my day boyo.

[Helt91]

asking him to join the band after best's exit. calling him the greatest drummer in the world. begging him to return after he left in 68. working with him on numerous occasions during their solo careers.

that's what the other three thought of ringo.

jumboproductions will soon stun the world with his groundbreaking music. quoted as a major influence on generations of percussionists for decades to come, he will forever eclipse the horrible work of the bumbling amateur that is ringo.

dipshit

[JumboProductionsUTD]

First off, just because I didn't change the music industry like the beatles did, doesn't mean I automatically can't criticize it. You'd learn that the first day of any debate course. I suppose I also couldn't say Xmen 3 was a crappy movie because I have never directed an X men movie? You idiot.

"Ringo isn't even the best drummer in The Beatles".- John Lennon. they never called him the greatest drummer ever. You are incorrect.

oh and also they chose him as their drummer because he was ugly.

[damienom]

I quite liked x-men 3

[danguitar142]

was john the best drummer in the band i thought it was mccartney

[lulicious2]

how many shut up you have to receive to shut up????

[bezbzatrag]

oh do shut up,john was an asshole....ringo is a great man and thats it...

[JumboProductionsUTD]

Oh, that and I never said the beatles never wanted to work with him. I never suggested his work was horrible, and I never referred to him as a bumbling amateur. Allow me to rearrange my mouth the fit all the words you've stuffed into it. You failed on just about every conceivable point you made. That's the last I'm going to discuss of this.

... Dipshit.

[Helt91]

did you just equate x-men 3 to the beatles?

btw you should take a look at the anthology series

[michaelwright999]

Crazy drugy days

[tomes55moon]

People I have a crazy thing here, I 'think' (but i know really) the American accent he is doing is Stanley Kubrick. seriously, any Kubrick fan who's heard him talk will know this, and Sellers probably just came off a Kubrick film quite recently when this was done, i really think this is Sellers doing Kubrick x

[Stube437]

@tomes55moon yeah. Sellard did Kubricks voice for Strangleove. i don't think he'd just come off a Kubrik film in 69 though

[tomes55moon]

@Stube437 good point sir :-) . wow i can t believe i wrote that two years ago. 

[bellpawt]

a gem ..he died emaciated and near deaths door ,,poor john ,,,his mum and dad `n all

[freklfacejpgr]

weird...

[beatles4ever]

Wow. They looked so sad. John especially.

[Macclenn]

Why is Peter Sellers speaking with an American accent? Damn, I thought I was finally going to hear his actual voice.

[KittyKattyYukiLvr]

@Macclenn I'm sure he felt the same way...:(

[Mclenarr]

What does Yoko mean ..Shooting is exercise...Heroin???

btw

theres a Fansite called beatles number 9 if anyone's intersted in joining i can highly recomend it

Mclnarr

[Manwithcam]

Yeah.  Heroin.

Pretty sure John hadn't kicked the addiction yet and they were joking around about how it's either a choice between drugs or exercise to find relaxation, but - alas - shooting heroin IS exercise.

[byan85]

Shooting film??

[FanFiltration]

This off-the-cuff segment was shot on January 14th 1969 just days after George Harrison walked out and quit the group on the 10th. You can see George is not there, and the other Beatles are down in the dumps. Peter Sellers was there at the Twickenham Film Studio that day in connection with the film "The Magic Christian". George did return to the group on January 22nd, when the group moved filming over to the Apple Studios.

[sparklerofalbion]

Heard audio of this before but did not know it was also filmed. Thanks for this rare little gem!

[bennnose]

how strange