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M H Welcome

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to Induction Vault, a production of I

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Heart Radio and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

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few partnerships in music have had the

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impact that John Lennon and Paul McCartney

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had in their time together as members of

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the Beatles. Emotions

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were high when Paul inducted his songwriting

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partner and close his friend into the Rock

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and Roll Hall of Fame. For Paul,

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this is a moment to talk to his

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friend in a raw, honest, open

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letter, despite John's death fifteen

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years earlier. He holds

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back tears as he reminisces about meeting

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John and those small yet meaningful

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moments between them which

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Paul holds dear to his heart. As

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John's widow, Yoko Ono, accepts the honor,

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she delivers a brief emotional speech

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about her husband, who was not only a part

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of a band that was quote bigger than Buddha,

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but whose solo career of political activism,

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experimentation, and honest personal

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reflection put him ahead of his time.

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His music and message resonates as the

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world continues to imagine peace

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living together as one.

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Thank you, Thank

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you New York, thank

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you. It's

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a privilege for me to be able to do this to

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night and come here. So I've got

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some random memories in the

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form of a letter to John. Dear

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John, I

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remember when we us met in Walton, the

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village Face. It was a beautiful summer day and

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I walked in there and I saw you on the stage

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and you were singing come Go with Me by the del

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Vikings, but you didn't

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know the words, so you

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made them up, come

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go with Me to the Penitentiary.

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It's not in the lyrics, remember

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right in our first songs together. We

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used to go to my house, a

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dad's house, um,

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and we used to smoke Tai Fu ti

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uh with this pipe my

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dad kept in a drawer. Didn't

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do much for us, but got

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us on the road. We wanted to be famous. I

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remember the visits to

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your mom's house, Julia. It

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was a very handsome woman, very beautiful

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woman. She had long red hair and she played a uku

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lele. I've never seen

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a woman and who could do that. I

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remember having to tell you the guitar chords

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because he used to play the ukulele chords. And

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then on your twenty one birthday,

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you got a hundred pounds of one of your

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rich relatives up in Edinburgh. Yeah,

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so we we decided we go to Spain.

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So we hit chiked out of Liverpool. We

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got as far as Paris. We decided

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to stop there for a week and

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eventually got a hair cut by fellow

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called Jurgen and that ended

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up being the Beatle Haircup. Ah.

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Remember introducing you to my inmate George,

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my schoolmates um

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and him getting into the group by playing launchy

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on the top deck of the bus. You

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were impressed. And

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when we met Ringo, who had been

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working a whole season at Butland's holiday

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camp. He was a

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season professional. But

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the beard had to go and it did.

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Later on we we got to get at the Cavern

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Club in Liverpool, which was officially

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a blues club, and we

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didn't really know any blues numbers. We love the blues,

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we didn't know any blues numbers, so

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we had to do announcements like ladies, gentlemen,

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this is a great big Bill Bruns number called wake

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up Little Susie. They

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kept passing up little notes, this is not the blues,

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this is not the blueness. This

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is We kept going

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and then we ended up touring and

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there's a blog called Larry Ponds who gave us

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our first tour. Thank

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you Larry. And

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remember we all changed our names for that tour

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and I changed mind to Paul Ramont.

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George became Carl Harrison,

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and although people think John didn't really change his

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name, I seem to remember he was long John

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Silver for the duration of that

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tour. Bengo is

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another miss Um

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and we'd be on the van touring later and

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we'd have the kind of night with the windscreen would

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break. Would be on the motorway going up back

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up to Liverpool. It was freezing, so

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we'd have to lie on top of each other in

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the back of the van, creating a Beatles

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sandwich. We

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got to know each other. These were the

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ways we got to know each other. We

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got to Hamburg and met

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the likes of little Richard Gene

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Vincent's. Yeah,

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I remember a little Richard inviting us back to his hotel.

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He was looking at ringos ring. He said, I love that ring.

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He said, I've got a ring like that. I could give

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you a ring like that. So we all went back to the hotel

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with him and we

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never got a ring. Yeah,

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we went back with Jean Vincent to his hotel

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once and he it was

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all going fine until he reached in his bedside

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drawing he pulled out a gun. We

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said, well, we gotta go, Gene, We've got to

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go, and we got out quick, and

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then came the USA, New York City,

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where we met up with Phil Spector,

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the Ronett's Supremes,

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AH Our Heroes are Heroines.

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And then later in in l A we met

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up with Elvis Presley Um

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for one great evening we

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saw the boy, you know, we saw him on his home

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territory and he was the first person I ever

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saw with a remote control on a TV. Boy.

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He was a hero man and

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then later Ed Sullivan. By

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now we wanted to be famous. Now we were getting

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really famous. I mean,

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I mean imagine meeting Mitzi Gainer in

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Miami and

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later after that recording

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at Abbey Road. I still

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remember doing I Love Me Do, because

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John officially had the vocal love Me

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Do, but because

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he played the harmonica. George Martin,

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in the middle of the session suddenly said, will you

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sing the line love Me do? Like

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the crucial line. I said, um, okay,

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and I can still hear it to this day.

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John let

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me do Um

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nerveus man. I remember doing the vocal

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to Kansas City. Well, I

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couldn't quite get it because it's hard

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to do all that stuff, you know, screaming out the top of

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your head. And John come down from the control

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room, he said, he took me to one side, he said,

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he said, you can do it. You know, you just gotta scream

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out to leave the top of your head. You know

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you can do it. So thank

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you, thank you for that. I did it. Um.

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Remember writing Day in the Life

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with him, and the little look

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we give each other as we wrote the

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line I'd love to turn you on. We

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kind of knew what we were doing, you know, sneaky

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little look, oh

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boy. And after

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that there was this girl call

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Yoko Yoko Ono. Yeah.

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I showed up at my house one day and it

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was John Cage's birthday, and

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she said she wanted to get

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hold of our manuscript to give to

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John Cage of various

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composers, and she wanted one from me and John. So

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I said, well, it's okay with me, but you'll

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you'll have to go and see John. She

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did. After

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that, I set up a couple of machines. We used to have

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these Brunel recording machines

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that I set up a couple of them and they s it

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up all night and they recorded two

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virgins on that you

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took the cover yourselves nothing to do with

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me. And

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then after that there were the phone calls

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to you. The joy

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for me of after

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all our business ship that we've gone

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through, actually getting back together

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and communicating once again, and

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the joy as you told me about how

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you were baking bread now and

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how you were playing with your little

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baby Sean. That

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was great for me because it

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gave me something to hold onto. So

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now years on, here we are, all

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these people here, we are assembled to

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thank you for everything that you mean

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to all of us. This

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letter comes with love from your friend

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Paul John Lennon, you made

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it tonight. You're in the Rock and Roll

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Hall of Fame. God bless you. Kah.

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After the break, we'll hear from Yoko

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Ono on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

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Boult okay

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mm hm. I

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first like to thank Paul for being

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here tonight. I

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think John would have been

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very pleased. It's really

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Grandfaul, thank you, and

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h being inducted

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as a Beatle for John was

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to be expected, after

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all, the Liverpool

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band was bigger than Buddha.

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M h

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m m m

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h. But

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being inducted for

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his solar effort would

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have made John very happy because

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it had a very special place

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in his heart. So

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I'm very thankful on behalf

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of John. I would like to thank

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all the people who voted for him.

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Thank you, Kay,

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good ya.

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