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- [Voiceover] Some of the
fences hold, others do not.

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A minor miracle is
mounted by the fact

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that there are no
injuries spread

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among the near-hysterical crowd.

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This, truly, is a social
document for our time.

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(soft, slow music)

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- What interests me?

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How do I pick my subjects?

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It very often comes from

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little clippings I see in
a newspaper or something,

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and I've always kept clippings
of things that interested me.

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I just cut them out.

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I put them, I have
files of these things.

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And if I find I get
quite a lot of them,

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I think, well
that's interesting.

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I think it was McCullen
who actually said

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that David was interested
in tinsel society.

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I find it much more fun
looking at something

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like ballroom dancing, you know,

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which masses of people do,

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but I was fascinated to find
out why they wanted to do it.

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(soft music)

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- [Voiceover]
(laughs) Look at you.

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- I just wanted to go
in for the simple things

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that people did on the split.

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Most of my life is
what I call seeing,

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looking,

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and recording.

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My name is David Hurn,
and I'm a photographer.

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(soft, inspiring music)

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(piano music)

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- [Voiceover] With
Magnum since 1965,

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the Welsh photographer
rediscovered his homeland

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after years traveling
around the world,

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exploring dance halls,
remote villages,

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English suburbs
and Hollywood sets.

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A photographer on a continuous
quest for new ventures

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and answers to
every day questions.

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David Hurn's photo
features are portraits

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of daily life, full of
creativity and curiosity.

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A glowing career, starring
in the Hungarian war of 1956.

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- If you see somebody
hanging upside-down

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by their feet and
somebody kicking them,

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it doesn't take much to think

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that that's worth photographing,

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you know.

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So I shot these pictures,
they got me out of Budapest,

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and, you know, I had
one picture published

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in European edition of Life

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and then pictures get
distributed around,

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and a few pictures were
picked up by Picture Post

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and the Observer, and

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and I'd suddenly found
myself leaping to the top

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of the ladder, you know.

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And so you cling on like that.

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(upbeat music)

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- [Voiceover] The year is 1964,

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and at the top of the
European charts are the songs

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of a group that,
more than any other,

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reflects the vital energy
of this new decade.

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These are the Beatles.

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Their music, breaking
the bounds of convention,

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is lively and authentic.

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Their lyrics,
simple and carefree,

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tell about common, everyday
desires and disappointments.

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Their voices blend
into harmonies

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and create effects
that are irresistible.

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(slow rock beat)

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With "Please, Please Me,"
they achieve success.

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With "She Loves You," they set

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the absolute record for sales.

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With "I Want to Hold Your Hand,"

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in February of 1964, they
lifted the American spirit,

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suffering from great depression,

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shaking up the sounds on
the other side of the Pond.

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(cheers and applause)

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- Well, I met them
while doing the film

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A Hard Day's Night,
which was a movie

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really based on their
music, loosely written

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around the music.

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And, to be honest,
I didn't really know

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that much about them.

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It hadn't been a particular,

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they hadn't been a
particular interest to me,

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so it was really an
assignment, to be honest.

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It's only in hindsight
that you look back,

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or I look back, and
realize how extraordinary

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these songs were.

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Dick Lester, the director,
did this very strange thing,

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which I mean, in
hindsight, was ludicrous.

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Was that decided to shoot
the whole thing on a train.

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So they hired a train,
and every morning,

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they all got on the train,
and went from Marylebone

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down to the west coast,

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and then stopped, and
then came back again.

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And it was one of those
old fashioned trains,

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which you wouldn't
have seen, but it had

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sort of individual compartments,

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of which four people could
sit opposite four people.

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Now, I mean, they're very tiny.

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And if you had the four
Beatles, usually, in there,

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with a film crew and a director,

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the last person they wanted
in there was somebody

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with a still camera, you know.

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(upbeat guitar music)

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But the train had to
stop at certain times,

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and I elected to leap out
and try and do pictures.

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I had to be very
careful that I could get

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back on the train,
otherwise it'd be gone.

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So, I have quite a lot
of pictures like this,

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of the crowds,

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you know, this adoration.

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I found that much
more interesting,

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frankly, than themselves.

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- [Voiceover] Crowds
of frenzied fans

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will follow the group every
time they go out in public.

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Amidst screams and
scenes of delirium,

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the music of the Beatles
amplifies a social phenomenon

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and fad that will come to
be known as "Beatlemania."

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The advent of the group
coincides with the fall

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of the British
Conservative Party.

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During the years when the
liveliness of the youth market

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and employment bring
about a consumption boom

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and all caution and moderation
are thrown out the window.

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The music of the
Liverpool Fab Four

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brings British pop
culture to the fore

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all over the world, not
only for its musical sounds,

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but also creating an
authentic, inspirational model.

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- Remember I would
go out in the car,

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and I'd drive my car, and if
they were in the car with me,

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you could not stop at
a red traffic light.

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If you stopped at a red
traffic light, you were mobbed.

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So, we learned that you just had

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to go through the
traffic lights.

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and the police, if they saw you,

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they'd let you
through, you know.

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I mean, it is extraordinary.

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I mean, why these people
are not terrified,

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I have no idea.

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Because mobs of people

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become extraordinary.

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Visually, people, you know,
went and cut their hair

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like the Beatles
did, they wore suits,

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but I would've
thought no more than,

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say, the Rolling Stones.

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It's just that you had a
different type of audience,

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so that if you went
and saw the Beatles,

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I've always felt
that the audience was

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visually almost like going
to a Billy Graham meeting.

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It was almost like
a religious fervor.

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Whereas, if you went
to the Rolling Stones,

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it was a much more
sexual kind of audience.

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The fervor was a sexual thing.

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And with the more famous groups,

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I think you could see that.

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I suppose I like the
aggressiveness of the Stones

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more than the Beatles.

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Again, people don't realize that

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the Beatles were the tidy ones.

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They were the ones
that mums quite liked.

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You know, they, by
and large, wore suits

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and things, and
even if their hair

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was a little bit long,
it was tidy long,

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you know, they didn't look
like rough-necks, etc.

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They were fun to meet, etc.

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They had very distinct
personalities.

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I got on with Ringo
more than any of them.

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I think cause,

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I guess his background
was more me.

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Paul was strange.

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Paul was slightly aloof.

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John was obviously the
bright, brainy one.

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And George was interested in
being the greatest musician

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in the world, I
mean, he was the one

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that really played well
and went out of his way

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to learn to play
better and better.

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(upbeat rock music)

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- [Voiceover] From the
moment you meet him,

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David Hurn conveys a sense
of instant friendliness

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and total trust.

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He must have charmed the
Beatles with his spirit,

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like would take place
over the following years

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with his portraits
of great stars

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such as Clint Eastwood,
Ursula Andress,

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Sean Connery and Jane Fonda,

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whom he followed during
the shooting of Barbarella.

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David Hurn soon made
a name for himself,

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motivated by a passion
for photography

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that was kindled during
his military service

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at the Sandhurst Academy.

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- At Sandhurst, obviously
there was a kind of,

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indoctrination is
too big a word, but,

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you know, you were
kind of taught

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that all Russians eat
their children, basically,

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and they're all
very nasty people,

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and they're our
enemies, etc, etc.

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Whilst I was there,
I was looking through

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some Picture Post
magazines that were there,

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and I saw

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a series of photographs over,

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I think over four issues.

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I've got, but this
is the key one.

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Basically, what we had
was a series of pictures

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called The Camera in Russia, and

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this is, I think, issue
three of the four.

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It turns out, in hindsight,
they were photographed

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by somebody called
Henri Cartier-Bresson.

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They looked real.

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They looked as though, hang on,

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this is a Russia that
looks not that different.

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The people in these pictures
don't look that different.

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During the second world
war, my father was away,

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he was in the army.

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When he came back
in '45, was it,

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I remember the
first thing he did

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was to take my
mother, and me in tow,

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to Howells in Cardiff, which
is a big department store,

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and he bought her a hat.

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And it was one of my
really joyous memories,

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was the love between my
father and my mother,

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and the whole act
of buying the hat

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was obviously a joyous thing.

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Imagine my surprise

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when, in the Picture Post,

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down in the corner
here is a picture

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of a Russian army officer
buying his wife a hat.

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I remember distinctly,
when I saw that picture,

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I started to cry,
and cry seriously,

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because it brought back
that first joyous memory.

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And I believed in this picture.

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I really believed
in this picture.

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This, to me, was
much more important

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than anything I was
being told about Russia.

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This seemed authentic.

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And literally, I mean,
it's so stupidly romantic,

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but I did, at that
moment, say to myself,

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that's what I want to spend
the rest of my life doing.

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I want to go and photograph

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officers buying their wives
hats or the equivalent.

00:14:02.999 --> 00:14:05.200
(soft piano music)

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(laughing)

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(people murmuring to each other)

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And from the past,
I've done a book

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on 100 people in Wales
that I thought were,

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enriched my life, I
said at that time.

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And one of them was
a milliner, hat-maker

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called Alison Tod.

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And they're wonderfully
extravagant and over-the-top,

00:14:52.560 --> 00:14:54.999
and there's something
slightly surreal about

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in the middle of Wales, this
woman making these exotic hats

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and she has, always
has these wonderfully,

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these very young
assistants who all look

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as though they've been
to finishing school,

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and they're so
polite, and they're so
confident and elegant.

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(soft piano music)

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(soft, upbeat music)

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- [Voiceover] During
a pause in the filming

00:15:54.999 --> 00:15:56.280
of the movie, on
April 16th, 1964,

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the Beatles record the song

00:15:59.999 --> 00:16:01.400
that will give
the film its name.

00:16:01.560 --> 00:16:03.999
The phrase had been
uttered by Ringo Starr

00:16:04.000 --> 00:16:06.400
at the end of a
taxing day of filming.

00:16:06.560 --> 00:16:08.999
Instead, the song had been
penned hurriedly by Lennon

00:16:09.040 --> 00:16:12.600
at their hotel as a
response to the success

00:16:12.760 --> 00:16:15.120
of "Can't Buy Me Love,"
composed by McCartney,

00:16:15.280 --> 00:16:18.160
which was already at the top
of the international charts.

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The opening chords of the
song will forever remain

00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:24.200
one of the cornerstones
of their musical legend.

00:16:24.360 --> 00:16:27.400
(upbeat music)

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The album, the first to
contain only original songs,

00:16:36.400 --> 00:16:39.320
would confirm the power
of the Lennon-McCartney

00:16:39.480 --> 00:16:41.800
song-writing partnership.

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The film will be
a solemn tribute

00:16:44.999 --> 00:16:46.720
to the Beatlemania phenomenon.

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- Is there a visual
relationship between the fans

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and the Beatles?

00:16:59.800 --> 00:17:01.400
Cause the fans are
out-of-control, in a way,

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and the Beatles are, in
theory, under control.

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And so, in a way,
you have that tension

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between

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the famous

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and the people that are
trying to be connected

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to the famous in some way.

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(low beat)

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- [Voiceover] This passion for
music will enable David Hurn

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not only to catch
original, private moments

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and characteristics
of the Beatles,

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but will also guide
him in later works,

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such as his famous photo feature

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on the Isle of Wight
pop concert in 1969,

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an event where music
and emancipation
are brought together

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in his color shots
with a brilliant,
slightly ironic style.

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- The Isle of Wight pop
concert was, you know,

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Bob Dylan coming over, it
was a pretty obvious thing

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to go to, in any case.

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It was slightly posher for
me, because at that time,

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I was extremely friendly
with Jane Fonda, you know,

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and so we flew in by
helicopter (laughs)

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which is a pretty
grand way to be there,

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which meant that, you
know, one was backstage

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and all that sort of stuff.

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And then I did a
professional job,

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you know, I didn't just sit
down and listen to the music,

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I photographed.

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(cheerful guitar music)

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There were everybody
on the beach,

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and suddenly, somebody decided
to take their clothes off,

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and then everybody
took their clothes off,

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and it was really funny,
because the camera crews

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felt embarrassed to be
filming with everybody,

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so they all take
their clothes off,

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so you had this wonderful thing.

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(electric guitar solo)

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- [Voiceover] Once again,
he responds to his instinct,

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which takes him into
the right situation

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in a privileged position,
as had already happened,

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a few years earlier, in the
studios on Abbey Road when,

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during a break, the
Beatles found themselves

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all together around a piano,
studying the lyrics of a song,

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as Hurn's camera
clicks around them.

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- If you're on an assignment,

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or if I guess you're not on,
if you're on a self-assignment,

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one of the things that
you have to think about

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is what is the key picture
that you know you have to get?

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In the case of the Beatles,
you had four people,

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and it's obviously important
that you have all four of them

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at some point in the picture,

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and not only do you have
all four in the picture,

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you need to be able to see,
recognize all four of them,

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and I arrived at the
studio, where they were

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not only recording music,
at Abbey Road studio,

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the famous studio, but
they were also going

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through on the piano,
talking about music

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and the script, etc.

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And I realized that the four
of them were there together,

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and therefore, I was
searching, searching, searching

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for this thing, and
they go into the studio,

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and they're around the piano,

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and I'm just having to move
six inches to the left,

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six inches to the right,
trying to get the four of them

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into some kind of
geometric design,

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which projects a
kind of feeling.

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That's what you're
doing all the time.

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Pictures are about content.

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And then out of that happens
to come what we call style,

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so you're moving around all
the time, trying to get it,

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but when you look at
these very subtly,

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it becomes pretty obvious
to me that this is

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the clearest picture

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that works as a
geometric design.

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(energetic music)

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And I suppose it's become,

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Iconic is a really
overused word,

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but it's become a very
well-known Beatles picture,

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I think because nobody
else has pictures of them

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in that natural
situation, which worked

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quite as well as this
particular picture.

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And so, it's become, for
older generations of people

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when they make lots of money,
it's been one of the pictures

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that sells as, in
corners, an art print,

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you know, it's the picture from
the whole thing I was doing

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that I needed, and you can see

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how difficult it is to do,

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because there's one
of it, you know.

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(birds chirping)

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- [Voiceover] That same
attention to detail

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that will mark the future of
the Beatles will accompany Hurn

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in all his works, until
the main, but above all,

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existential, photography
turning point.

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Wales.

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The land of his father, where
he moved in the early 1990's.

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He will not only
renew distant ties,

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but will find meaning
in the traditions,

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times and colors that form
the local lives and culture.

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- I was in Wales, my country,

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and we very often talk
about Welsh culture,

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and I said to myself,

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"What is Welsh culture?"

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So, I thought I
would try to explore

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what the word
culture means to me.

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So, I thought that,
"I'm a photographer,

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"if I just went
and photographed,

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"then within these things,
perhaps I would end up

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"with a picture
puzzle for the book."

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And that would be, for
me, what is my culture.

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I made the choice
that I would prefer

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to meander around
Wales most of my life.

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(soft music)

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And so when I get
up in the morning,

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you know, what do I do?

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I come back, I put on a CD
and I listen to somebody

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that I hope, somebody
that's enriched my life.

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And I enjoy making coffee,

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I enjoy the fact that
the best takes 21 seconds

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for the coffee to come through.

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And that's very
scientific in a way,

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because related
to the dark room,

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where you put a negative
in, and you put light to it

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for a very precise
amount of time.

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That scientific thing
of getting the balance

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of everything right,

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and I've always
enjoyed that sort of,

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trying to get that
balance right.

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(guitar music)

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(soft, inspiring music)