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Paul McCartney: 'If You'll Shut Up About It I Will'

Tony Barrow, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

ON THE evening of Monday June 19, thirty six hours after the British press had reported and examined Paul McCartney's statement regarding LSD (originally contained in a lengthy interview given by the Beatle to Thomas Thompson for Life magazine), Independent Television News sent a reporter to Paul's home to film a follow-up interview on the subject. This was broadcast throughout the UK via the commercial TV network at nine o'clock the same evening.

The following is a direct verbatim transcript of the TV conversation:

Total word count of piece: 900

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