Danny Says Page #4

- A friend of The Beatles,

Had done in England.

And they had.

Paul McCartney saying,

"It's a lousy country where

anyone black is a dirty n*gger!"

Whoa, that was nice.

And John Lennon said,

- "I don't know what'll go first,

- rock 'n' roll or Christianity!"

"We're more popular than Jesus."

- And here I was.

- With this magazine,

I was competing with 16,

I didn't wanna do,

you know, how nice

is Herman to his family,

or you know, something,

or this secret of Paul Revere's

- you know, favorite color.

- (man laughs)

I just wanna do

something different!

I said, "Well, let's just,

hey, put it out.

See what happens,

maybe we'll get famous."

Ha-ha.

If I had said, "We're more...

"Television is

more popular than Jesus,"

I might've got away with it.

(laughing)

- I just happened to be talking.

- To a friend, I used.

The word "Beatles"

as a remote thing,

not as what I think,

as Beatles as those

other Beatles,

like other people see us.

I just said they are having more

influence on kids and things

- than anything else,

- including Jesus.

But I said it in that way,

which is the wrong way. Yap-yap.

Danny:
The magazine came out

on the eve of the Beatles tour,

in the summer of 1966.

Some proper little.

Christian teenager saw...

this thing about Christianity,

the word "Christ,"

whatever gets these people

juicing or drooling, whatever.

- (man laughs)

- I just cannot understand

why I have to share

this country with them.

- And she got all in a thing...

- Man:
Socialist experiment?

Twat steaming and

ran to a disk jockey in...

Don't you know, there's

three States it could be?

In Alabama.

And he got outraged,

and he went on

the radio on his show and

called attention to...

this blasphemy

on the part of the

beloved Beatles because...

Remember, guys didn't like them

because they looked like

girly-girly with that hair!

If you, as an American teenager,

are offended by statements from

a group of foreign singers which

strike at the very basis

of our existence,

as god-fearing,

patriotic citizens,

- then we urge you.

- To take your Beatles' records,

Pictures and souvenirs,

to the pick-up points

about to be named,

and on the night of the Beatles'

appearance in Memphis, Aug 19th,

they will be destroyed

- in a huge public bonfire.

- At a place to be named soon.

- Stay tuned to WAQY.

- For further developments.

Danny:
They were playing

stadiums and giant things,

- it was 10 days in America,

- I think,

And they flew into Memphis,

and someone, as they say,

looked out the window and said,

- "Wow, there's snow.

- On the ground!"

Wow, it's Memphis, you know,

the beloved city

of Elvis and Sun Studios.

And they got closer,

and someone said,

"That's not snow!

It's the KKK!"

The Beatles made a statement

in all the newspapers that

they're getting more better

than Jesus himself and

the Ku Klux Klan,

being a religious order,

is gonna come out here,

the night that they appear

at the coliseum here,

and we're gonna

demonstrate with...

different ways and tactics

to stop this performance.

We're known as a terror

organization, I think we have...

A terror organization?

- We have ways and means.

- To stop this.

- f this is gonna.

- Be the case, yeah.

What ways and means?

Oh, I don't wanna say this but

there'll be a lot of surprises

on Monday night, I believe,

when they get here.

What did I do...

really?

I didn't have to put Jesus.

Christ on the top of the page,

and the word n*gger on...

- When's the last time.

- You saw the word n*gger.

On the cover of a magazine

for 11-year-olds?

For anybody?

Anybody!

He's saying it like...

that's bad to call

someone a n*gger.

You know,

what's wrong with that?

I didn't love them that much,

but I certainly loved them

more than Jesus.

You know, I mean, they're

more important to me

than to Jesus, right?

I mean than Jesus was.

What did Jesus

ever f***ing do for me?

If you think I did that to be...

To cause them trouble.

No.

Only but in the sense that...

it's about time...

You know...

Look at Lenny Bruce,

it's about time

more people got in trouble

for saying the right things.

Look what Dylan is doing.

You know, it's all emerging now.

I wanted to make some trouble,

I didn't want them to have

to live through a week of...

death threats.

I wouldn't want that for anyone!

Mm, mm...

Uh...

- I wouldn't want them.

- To be killed.

- But I think.

- Some death threats would be...

I can think of some people who

could use some death threats.

- You know what.

- The happy ending is,

- Lightning hit the radio station,

- in Alabama and it fell down.

- Man:

- Is that the ending to the story?

- Danny:
That's true.

- Isn't that great?

So anyhow, the real end is that

many years later when I...

for a while...

- was acquainted.

- With Paul socially.

- Because he was married to.

- My dear friend,

Linda Eastman McCartney.

And I said to him once,

"You know, Paul,

remember with the magazine,

with the "more popular..."

"Yeah."

I said, "That was me."

- And he said,

- "So you're the one."

Because they really did

never perform again.

After that Sunday night

at Candlestick Park...

- Man:
So you, Danny Fields,

- broke the Beatles up?

- Danny:
No, I didn't!

- Man:
That's what you told me!

Danny:
No.

- Man:
Don't be backtracking.

- Now that we're on the air!

Danny:
Look, if you had to sell

a candy bar in 20 words or less.

- I want to ask you if.

- You think that prediction.

Was accurate, by the way.

- I don't know what'll go first,

- rock 'n' roll or Christianity.

- Somehow I think.

- t's rock 'n' roll.

("Break On Through"

(by The Doors plays)

The first time I heard

they had a cute lead singer was

a friend of mine named Pat.

Hartley who was a movie actress,

and she came screaming

into Max's one night and said,

"Ooh, there's the cutest lead

singer of a new group

- playing at Ondines.

- Called The Doors,".

At which point I said,

"Yee, I promised their person

I would go in and look at them!"

- And there was.

- This little small audience,

And you could stand or sit

or just mill around,

and then there were maybe two

dozen people paying attention.

- Steve Harris:

- I came from the Dick Clark era.

If you saw somebody

that was really attractive,

Dick would play it.

- Jim Morrison,

- when I saw his picture, I said,

- "If he could read.

- The phone book on key,

You're gonna make millions."

I met Danny when I went

to see the group rehearsing.

- Danny:
And I said,

- "I'm the New York.

Press agent for The Doors."

- He said,

- "How wonderful, a press agent!

- We've never had a press agent.

- Connected...

Woman:
But who decided

- that you were the press agent.

- For The Doors?

Danny:
I did!

Steve:
He kind of appeared to be

a hippie yenta.

I told Jac that I met somebody

that knew everything,

and could wind up,

with his knowledge,

going after

specific types of acts.

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