Excerpts: Beatles press conference
(CNN) -- The Beatles arrived in America with wits blazing. Here are some excerpts from the group's press conference at New York's Kennedy Airport, February 7, 1964:
FEMALE FAN: Would you please sing something?
BEATLES: NO!
(laughter)
RINGO: Sorry.
M.C: Next question.
Q: There's some doubt that you CAN sing.
JOHN: No, we need money first.
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Q: How many of you are bald, that you have to wear those wigs?
RINGO: All of us.
PAUL: I'm bald.
Q: You're bald?
JOHN: Oh, we're all bald, yeah.
PAUL: Don't tell anyone, please.
JOHN: And deaf and dumb, too.
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Q: Was your family in show business?
JOHN: Well, me dad used to say me mother was a great performer.
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Q: What do you think of the campaign in Detroit to stamp out the Beatles?
PAUL: We've got a campaign of our own to stamp out Detroit.
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Q: What do you think of Beethoven?
RINGO: Great. Especially his poems.
