Surfing the Wee, Wee Hours

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0:00:03 > 0:00:04Hello, brother!

0:00:04 > 0:00:07I want you to listen to me and listen to me real close.

0:00:07 > 0:00:10I want each...and every...

0:00:10 > 0:00:11CHEERING

0:00:11 > 0:00:16..person to get a match and when I raise my hand,

0:00:16 > 0:00:19I would like for everybody to light their match

0:00:19 > 0:00:23when we get to the second chorus of this song.

0:00:23 > 0:00:27MUSIC STARTS # In the wee, wee hours

0:00:27 > 0:00:31# That's when I yearn for you

0:00:35 > 0:00:37# Yes, in the wee, wee hours... #

0:00:37 > 0:00:39Lights out!

0:00:39 > 0:00:44Let's lights out! Let's put all of 'em out now, till we get ready.

0:00:44 > 0:00:45# That's when I think of you... #

0:00:45 > 0:00:48Lights out!

0:00:48 > 0:00:52'Wee Wee Hours, I mean, say no more. It's got to be dark.'

0:00:52 > 0:00:54It's one of my favourite Chuck Berry tracks of all time.

0:00:54 > 0:00:58The guy was amazing. He could play that guitar like ringin' a bell.

0:01:00 > 0:01:01Go, go.

0:01:01 > 0:01:04'We're getting ready, now.'

0:01:04 > 0:01:07# In a wee, little room

0:01:09 > 0:01:13# That's where I yearn for you

0:01:18 > 0:01:21# In a wee, little room... #

0:01:21 > 0:01:23Get your match ready now!

0:01:23 > 0:01:26# That's when I yearn for you

0:01:29 > 0:01:32# Yes, and I wonder if you still remember

0:01:35 > 0:01:38# All the sweet things we used to do... #

0:01:38 > 0:01:40Now, everybody, light up!

0:01:41 > 0:01:44Hold it high! Hold it high!

0:01:44 > 0:01:46Hold it high!

0:01:48 > 0:01:51MUSIC CONTINUES

0:02:05 > 0:02:06That's beautiful.

0:02:10 > 0:02:11Peace!

0:02:13 > 0:02:14Love!

0:02:17 > 0:02:18And light.

0:02:21 > 0:02:23Look out, now!

0:02:25 > 0:02:26TENSE MUSIC

0:02:31 > 0:02:34I love the sky at night when you can see it, yeah.

0:02:34 > 0:02:37I mean, the stars are amazing.

0:02:37 > 0:02:44I know my Pleiades and North Star stuff and Venus and stuff,

0:02:44 > 0:02:46and occasionally Mars.

0:02:46 > 0:02:48I mean, it's not like I'm fanatical about it,

0:02:48 > 0:02:50but there's something you see up there at night,

0:02:50 > 0:02:54which you're never going to see in the day, you know?

0:02:54 > 0:02:56The Rolling Stones. See ya.

0:02:59 > 0:03:05# Sun turning round with graceful motion

0:03:07 > 0:03:13# We're setting off with soft explosion

0:03:15 > 0:03:21# Bound for a star with fiery oceans

0:03:23 > 0:03:27# It's so very lonely

0:03:27 > 0:03:32# You're 100 light years from home... #

0:03:37 > 0:03:41Navigation would have been curtailed

0:03:41 > 0:03:43if it wasn't for guys staring at the stars at night.

0:03:47 > 0:03:51You can work out a few things from the sun and the moon.

0:03:51 > 0:03:56Really, it takes intense study of the night sky to be able to know

0:03:56 > 0:03:58where the hell you are on this planet.

0:03:58 > 0:04:02# It's so very lonely

0:04:02 > 0:04:07# You're 1,000 light years from home... #

0:04:07 > 0:04:09Sailing was...

0:04:09 > 0:04:14I'm still amazed by the fact that they trawled those boats through,

0:04:14 > 0:04:17those lumps of oak, actually made them work.

0:04:17 > 0:04:20It's far more amazing to me than the computer.

0:04:27 > 0:04:31# Bell flight 14, you now can land

0:04:35 > 0:04:40# See you on Aldebaran

0:04:43 > 0:04:48# Safe on the green desert sand

0:04:51 > 0:04:54# It's so very lonely

0:04:54 > 0:04:59# You're 2,000 light years from home

0:05:06 > 0:05:10# It's so very lonely

0:05:10 > 0:05:15# You're 2,000 light years from home. #

0:05:43 > 0:05:46Listen, I'm going to nip next door to make a cuppa.

0:05:46 > 0:05:48Check this out while I'm gone.

0:05:48 > 0:05:52It's some old interlude I found in the old BBC vaults.

0:05:55 > 0:05:56Be right back.

0:06:02 > 0:06:04MYSTERIOUS PIANO MUSIC

0:07:10 > 0:07:12CREAKING

0:07:21 > 0:07:25KNOCKING AND WHIRRING

0:07:32 > 0:07:35MUSIC BOX PLAYS

0:07:47 > 0:07:49DOLL SQUEAKS AND WHIRS

0:07:59 > 0:08:01YAPPING

0:08:21 > 0:08:23WHIRRING

0:08:32 > 0:08:34CREAKING

0:09:05 > 0:09:06CRASH!

0:09:17 > 0:09:18TRAIN WHISTLES

0:09:18 > 0:09:20DRAMATIC MUSIC

0:09:37 > 0:09:38YELPING

0:09:55 > 0:09:56SQUAWKING

0:09:59 > 0:10:02DRAMATIC MUSIC BUILDS

0:10:12 > 0:10:14CALM MUSIC

0:10:25 > 0:10:27So, what do you think? It's weird, right?

0:10:28 > 0:10:30CHEERING

0:10:30 > 0:10:31All aboard!

0:10:31 > 0:10:33All aboard...

0:10:33 > 0:10:34for Night Train!

0:10:34 > 0:10:36MUSIC STARTS

0:10:38 > 0:10:39# Miami, Florida

0:10:42 > 0:10:45# Atlanta, Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia... #

0:11:33 > 0:11:35CHEERING

0:11:44 > 0:11:46# Atlanta, Georgia

0:11:46 > 0:11:48# Raleigh, North Carolina

0:11:48 > 0:11:50# Washington, DC

0:11:50 > 0:11:52# Richmond, Virginia too now

0:11:52 > 0:11:53# Baltimore, Maryland

0:11:53 > 0:11:55# Philadelphia

0:11:55 > 0:11:58# New York City, take it home

0:11:58 > 0:11:59# Aaaargh!

0:11:59 > 0:12:01# New Orleans, the home of the blues

0:12:01 > 0:12:03# Here I come... #

0:12:03 > 0:12:06MUSIC STOPS, CHEERING One more time for the Night Train!

0:12:09 > 0:12:11Are you ready for the Night Train?!

0:12:14 > 0:12:16Are you ready for the Night Train?!

0:12:19 > 0:12:21Are you ready for the Night Train?!

0:12:21 > 0:12:23CHEERING

0:12:23 > 0:12:26Are you ready for the Night Train?!

0:12:28 > 0:12:30Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:30 > 0:12:31Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:31 > 0:12:32Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:32 > 0:12:34Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:34 > 0:12:35Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:35 > 0:12:36Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:36 > 0:12:37Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:37 > 0:12:39Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:12:39 > 0:12:42MUSIC RESUMES, CHEERING

0:12:56 > 0:12:58CHEERING

0:13:11 > 0:13:13MUSIC STOPS One more time for the Night Train!

0:13:13 > 0:13:16CHEERING

0:13:16 > 0:13:18Are you ready for the Night Train?

0:13:20 > 0:13:21Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:21 > 0:13:23Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:23 > 0:13:24Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:24 > 0:13:26Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:26 > 0:13:27Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:27 > 0:13:30Night! AUDIENCE: Train!

0:13:30 > 0:13:31MUSIC RESUMES, CHEERING

0:13:57 > 0:13:59CHEERING

0:14:23 > 0:14:25CHEERING

0:14:44 > 0:14:46CHEERING

0:15:06 > 0:15:08CHEERING

0:15:11 > 0:15:14MUSIC: Astronomy Domine by Pink Floyd

0:15:34 > 0:15:36INTERVIEWER: Swinging London, what's your take on that?

0:15:36 > 0:15:38I wasn't there for a lot of it,

0:15:38 > 0:15:42because, just as it started to take off...

0:15:42 > 0:15:46suddenly, you know, we're...we're working in America.

0:15:46 > 0:15:49Then we come back into London,

0:15:49 > 0:15:56and it...and it was a moving thing in '65, '66, '67.

0:15:56 > 0:16:00I mean, it was... Every time you came back, it had already...

0:16:00 > 0:16:03everything had changed or expanded. Yeah.

0:16:03 > 0:16:05I mean, I remember in '65,

0:16:05 > 0:16:09walking down Oxford Street with a lump of hash under my arm.

0:16:09 > 0:16:10There was some accident

0:16:10 > 0:16:13and there were cops all around it and everything,

0:16:13 > 0:16:19and, er, I had this plank of Afghani Primo and I said,

0:16:19 > 0:16:23"Well, you know, how do I get around this blockage?"

0:16:23 > 0:16:25"Well, sir, you just go around there,

0:16:25 > 0:16:28"and then I suggest you turn left, there."

0:16:30 > 0:16:33It was that innocent in those days.

0:16:33 > 0:16:35A year later, forget about it.

0:16:35 > 0:16:41This is from that time and it's got Boris Karloff in it!

0:16:42 > 0:16:44You know, you're going to love it!