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1.       The sound of a bird's wings is heard both on this video and on the original version of "Across the Universe."
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2.       The opening sound effects and flight effects throughout could represent "Flying," "And Your Bird Can Sing," "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)," "Blue Jay Way," and "Blackbird."
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3.       "In My Life," the lads as lads. Top row, John, George and Ringo. Bottom row Paul.
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4.       Fly and butterfly may represent "Flying"
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5.       More of the lads as lads. Left to right, Paul, John, Ringo, & George. There's an "Old Brown Shoe" in front of George.
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6.       The cat. "I'm Only Sleeping"
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7.       "Here Comes the Sun"
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8.       Liverpool's River Mersey
There are places I remember. "In My Life"
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9.       Royal Liver Buildings (pronounced Lye-ver)
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10.   Liverpool Docks
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11.   John Paul George & Ringo with the crowd in the "Rain"
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12.   The Cavern Club. The bouncer has a flat top "Come Together"
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13.   Its very hard to see the top half of the girl who's waiting in the doorway to enter the Cavern.
This leads some to tell her "I'm Looking Through You"
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14.   The Beatles perform "Some Other Guy" at the Cavern
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15.   External Cavern. Police restrain fans from approaching the Beatles, and a girl who resembles Linda McCartney
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16.   Strawberry Field, "Strawberry Fields Forever"
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17.   John? Walking through Strawberry Field
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18.   Silver Hammer Hardware Store, from "Maxwell's Silver Hammer"
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19.   See how they run, "Lady Madonna"
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20.   Foreground: "I Want To Hold Your Hand"
Background: I am the eggman, "I Am the Walrus"
Above the Eggman's truck is a sign that says Ringo.
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21.   Paul, Ringo & George cross the street
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22.   Anybody got a bit of money? Ah ah, Mister Wilson, ah ah, Mister Heath; "Taxman"
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23.   Ringo
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24.   Paul
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25.   George
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26.   John
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27.   At left, a barrow in the marketplace "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" At right, the barber, "Penny Lane"
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28.   A pretty nurse is selling poppies from a tray, "Penny Lane"
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29.   And though she feels as if she's in a play, "Penny Lane"
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30.   Every head he's had the pleasure to know. Notice photo of the Beatles in foreground of window.
"Penny Lane"
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31.   The Barber, "Penny Lane"
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32.   I'll have another cigarette, "I'm So Tired"
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33.   "Help" on a sign in the window.
Mandy Rice-Davies & Christine Keeler, the ladies of the 1963 Profumo scandal in Britain.
Some have suggested that Rice-Davies, in the shiny black coat, may be "Polythene Pam."
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34.   Ringo stands in the door of the "Penny Lane" bakery
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35.   John & Yoko embrace in back of car, "Why Don't We Do It In the Road?"
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36.   John, Paul, Ringo & George
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37.   On the right, the future cover of Anthology 3
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38.   In the centre, an early look at the cover of Anthology 2
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39.   At the left, the cover of Anthology 1
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40.   You say its your "Birthday." The cake has two digits on it, "When I'm Sixty-Four"
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41.   George arrives at Apple headquarters
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42.   Dr. Robert's office, conveniently located at 3 Saville Row
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43.   Ringo has his camera
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44.   A crowd of people stood and stared, including John. "A Day In the Life"
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45.   He blew his mind out in a car. "A Day In the Life."
You were in a car crash. "Don't Pass Me By"
The license plate is either YEE 7 or YFE 7.
One suggestion was that it means "Wifey 7," and refers to the seven Beatle wives.
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46.   He likes to keep his fire engine clean. It's a clean machine. "Penny Lane"
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47.   Pretty policeman standing in a row, "I Am the Walrus"
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48.   I go back to the top of the slide, "Helter Skelter"
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49.   "Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite"
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50.   The ladder leads up to a leg disappearing where "She Came In Through the Bathroom Window
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51.   The flowers that grow so incredibly high "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds"
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52.   "Piggies", also See how they run like pigs from a gun, "I Am the Walrus"
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53.   Like a Lizard on a Window Pane, "Happiness is a Warm Gun"
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54.   "Paperback Writer" and the clock reads 10:10, which is "One After 909"
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55.   John, a bowl of shiny green Granny Smith apples, and the Beatles on Sullivan. Also a newspaper headline about 4,000 holes found in Blackburn, Lancashire, "A Day In the Life".
And a box of "Savoy Truffle." On the floor, to the right of the truffles, is a portrait of the Queen, "Penny Lane" & "Her Majesty"
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56.   On the window, a picture of Chairman Mao "Revolution"
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57.   A blue meanie peeks out while the man is "Fixing a Hole"
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58.   On the left side of the street, being walked is "Hey Bulldog"
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59.   Newspaper taxis appear "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds"
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60.   She goes out "For No One, " and carrying pictures of Chairman Mao "Revolution" And Max, the Blue Meanie, does an encore. Sleeps in a hole in the road, "Mean Mr. Mustard"
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61.   John & Yoko waltz, from "I Me Mine" segment of Let It Be, Bus at end of street from Magical Mystery Tour
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62.   Bungalow Bill, his elephant and gun, in case of accidents he always took his mum. "The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill"
Ringo is at right.
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63.   Ravi Shankar? Lets just say he represents the influence of Indian music.
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64.   Brian Epstein puts on his scarf to leave,
"I Don't Want To Spoil The Party"
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65.   "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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66.   Stu Sutcliffe on the James Dean cutout, and Maharishi Mahash Yogi?
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67.   Mother Mary from "Let It Be" or "Lady Madonna"
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68.   "Eleanor Rigby." September 12th.
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69.   Father Mackenzie from "Eleanor Rigby"
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70.   "Martha My Dear" and Father Mackenzie
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71.   "The Fool on the Hill"
"She's Leaving Home"
"The Long and Winding Road"
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72.   "Lovely Rita," filling in a ticket in her little black book.
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73.   Abbey Road
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74.   Paul in A Hard Day's Night
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75.   John & George in A Hard Day's Night
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76.   Ringo in A Hard Day's Night
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77.   The curtain falls, "The End." The performer plays a Banjo-Uke, and is George Formby, a British music hall performer of the 30s & 40s. Formby was known to say "it's turned out nice again," which is the backwards message heard at the end of the song.
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