john lennon. >> everybody that we interviewed, and there were a lot, every one said he's a nice person. not capable of doing something like this. >> it was a tragic conclusion to an extraordinary life. john lennon, co-founder of the legendary beatles, was gone. ♪ during the 1960s, the beatles were the biggest rock group in the world. their influence and popularity were unparalleled. >> i think the beatles spoke to young people in the '60s in a way that no other band did. they influenced people in so many different ways. not just muzcally but socially, politically, culturally. they were the touchstone for everything that was going on in the '60s. >> among the millions of american kids who worshipped the beatles was a shy, reclusive teenager named mark david chapman. he was an especially fervent fan of john lennon. during their heyday, the beatles were open about their experiences with psychedelic drugs. like his idols, chapman begins experimenting. >> the defendant described there was periods of tim

john lennon. i was totally shocked. i threw him up against the wall. i said you did what? >> former beatle john lennon has been shot with .38 caliber bullets at short range. police rush him to roosevelt hospital but it's too late. he was pronounced dead. >> john lennon was gunned down as he entered -- >> john lennon, shot and killed in the dakota apartment building. >> it was really shocking. 40 years old, john lennon of the beatles. how could he be dead? how could this have happened? the city was in shock, not just people, my generation that grew up listening to their music in the '60s. i think just about everybody felt on so many levels it was wrong. >> it was terrible, so many people didn't even know john. it hit me so much more because he befriended me and he didn't have to befriend me. >> laura came up with new facts about john lennon's killer. >> killer was identified as mark david chapman, a 25-year-old fan and drifter from hawaii. >> nothing from his background set off or would have caused

that night i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george mccartney and john lennon for three shows forr white guys that were british, to come out of nowhere and be everywhere was unbelievable. >> the beatles are a butch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then. but liverpool was a port town and port towns become place where is contraband gets exchanged. one of them at that point was great music. >> a lot of the sailors coming back to america were bringing back these records. some were race records because they were by black artists. ♪ >> the level of influence that american rock 'n' roll, blues, country and western, motown had on those kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ >> so i would listen to buddy holly and gene vincent, jerry lee lewis, all the great rock 'n' rollers. ♪ on blueberry hill >> it was like a new language for us. the power of the jukebox, there's nothing like it. >> the beatles took a bunch of those strains, the everly brothers from the '50s, was a big influence for them. ♪ wake up, little suzy, wake up

and that night, i booked ringo starr, paul mccartney, george harrison and john lennon for three showsor four white guys who are british, they come out of nowhere and be everywhere was quite unbelievable. >> the beatles are a bunch of guys from liverpool. i mean, people in london would have looked down at liverpool back then, but liverpool was a port town, and these port towns become places where all sorts of contraband gets exchanged, and one of them at that point was great music. >> a lot of the sailors and people coming back to america were bringing back these records. some were pop records some were called race records because they were by black artists ♪ maybelline, can't you be true ♪ >> the level of influence that american rock and roll, blues, country and western, motown had on those kids growing up in england was really amazing. ♪ all my love, all my kisses, you don't know what you've been missing, oh, boy ♪ ♪ when you're with me, oh, boy >> so, i would listen to buddy holly and gene vincent and jerry lee lewis, all of the great rock and rollers. ♪ blueberry hill >> it was a n

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john lennon shot and killed in the dakota apartment building where he lived. >> the suspect is identifiedolized lennon. that new year's eve he locks himself in his room at his parents' house. drinks peach brandy. plays his guitar and wallows in his own misery. ♪ sometime during the night, hinckley writes in his diary, john lennon is dead. forget it. it's just going to be insanity. i still think about jodie all the time. anything i might do in 1981 would be solely for jodie foster's sake. i want to tell the world that i love her. [ male announcer ] this is the story of the dusty basement at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did. in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪ ♪ this magic moment with olive garden's plebest 2 for $25 yet choose two melt-in-your mouth entrees lik

john lennon shot and killed in the dakota apartment building where he lived. >> the suspect is identifiedhapman. >> hinckley idolized lennon. that new year's eve he locks himself in his room at his parents' house. drinks peach brandy. plays his guitar and wallows in his own misery. ♪ sometime during the night, hinckley writes in his diary, john lennon is dead. forget it. it's just going to be insanity. i still think about jodie all the time. anything i might do in 1981 would be solely for jodie foster's sake. i want to tell the world that i love her. i took my son fishing every year. we had a great spot, not easy to find, but worth it. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better. and that means...fish on! [ female announcer ] symbicort is for copd including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. it should not be taken more than twice a day. symb

who of music's finest, including george harrison in 1973 for "the concert for bangladesh" and to john lennonble fantasy." >> thank you for remembering, alicia. >> these are this year's fabulous nominees for album of the year. "the blessed unrest," sara bareilles. "random access memories," daft punk. "good kid, m.a.a.d city," kendrick lamar. "the heist," macklemore and ryan lewis. "red," taylor swift. and the grammy goes to: "random access memories," thomas bangalter, guy-manuel de homem-christo, julian casablancas, dj falcon, todd edwards, chilly gonzales, giorgio moroder, panda bear, nile rodgers, paul williams, pharrell williams. >> whooo! pharrell. wow! this is, what, this is the most insane thing ever. >> you know, i used to imagine things that weren't there and were frightening and then i got sober and two robots called me and asked me to make an album. (laughter) >> we are-- we are random access memories, some of us more random than others. you know, i just got a message from the robots. and what they wanted me to say is that as elegant and as classy as the grammy has ever been, is the

john lennon, george harrison, and ringo came over. ohn state was jayne mansfield. >> not a bad date if you can get it. [laughter] >> so elmer took me over and introduced me, and later on we met them about a year later in europe and i've laid a place in london, and all four of them came. -- i played a place in london. >> to have people of that stature to just come and hang out with you. >> gina lola brigitta or cary ,rant dancing in front of you it was unbelievable. i kind of got used to it and almost took it for granted. it was a thrill. >> what made the whiskey such a fertile place for these live recordings? >> it could have actually been done anywhere. we had it going there so we brought in the remote trout. you only had days three tracks to record. we didn't have enough tracks to mike the audience, although the audience was clapping and singing along. we would have to go in the studio and bring along a bunch to simulate the audience reaction that we had live in the club. what are you most looking forward to about this gig, 50 years

and a couple days before that i had heard the john lennon version.o i approached roger and i said, "hey man, if we come back down here with some recording equipment and some cameras, we'd love to record you and film you playing "stand by me". why roger? well the thing about music is that sometimes the best music in the world is just in the moment. its not always famous musicians or things you hear on the radio or

who of music's finest, including george harrison in 1973 for "the concert for bangladesh" and to john lennon982 for "double fantasy." >> thank you for remembering, alicia. >> these are this year's fabulous nominees for album of the year. "the blessed unrest," sara bareilles. "random access memories," daft punk. "good kid, m.a.a.d city," kendrick lamar. "the heist," macklemore and ryan lewis. "red," taylor swift. and the grammy goes to: "random access memories," thomas bangalter, guy-manuel de homem-christo, julian casablancas, dj falcon, todd edwards, chilly gonzales, giorgio moroder, panda bear, nile rodgers, paul williams, pharrell williams. >> whooo! pharrell. wow! this is, what, this is the most insane thing ever. >> you know, i used to imagine things that weren't there and were frightening and then i got sober and two robots called me and asked me to make an album. (laughter) >> we are-- we are random access memories, some of us more random than others. you know, i just got a message from the robots. and what they wanted me to say is that as elegant and as classy as the grammy has ever

. ♪ beautiful beautiful beautiful boy ♪ >>> well, john lennon's timeless tune, very appropriate becauseg "the pulse" with two special birth announcements. >> not one, but two new babies, first our co-anchor diana perez with her new bundle of joy, dylan mack. diana and her husband ducis who is a sports anchor at our philadelphia station welcomed baby dylan yesterday. >> devin getting a better look. >> congratulations to diana and her family. >> in a wonderful coincidence, former anchor of this show paula faris was also in the maternity ward yesterday. here's mom with little landon. >> this little guy makes three for paula, older sister caroline and here's landon with his big brother j.j. now, of course, we know people are asking. you can see all these pictures at atmfans.com. >>> and speaking of babies, i want you to check out this little guy, apparently getting a head start for a future on the stage. >> yeah, have a listen. he perks up at the sound of "wrecking ball," adorable kid-friendly version of the miley cyrus hit. ♪ i will always want you i came in like a wrecking ball ♪ ♪ i neve

in a day reduced america's cardinal put many celebrities like john lennon's wife and son trash it israck my mother then the crowd follows. >> they do. powerfully they sway natalie their followers like when george clooney spotted off on global warming says something, it goes global. unlike the and on celebrities who cannot get the word out quite as effectively. they are a great power. john: james hirsen. by the way ed begley, jr. said he either does coervation from his conservative father it was wrong to waste any resource. we also reached out to every actor about the hypocrisy but not one responded. hollywood makes millions selling stuff to us but at the same time they say they despise profit. >> it is a filthy word. >> reid. another word forÑ@ç@çpçpçpç÷ >> let's use the wrd capitalism. john: capitalism it is a curse the opinion of some local celebrities that hollywood does vilify capitalism and movies it creates killer viruses and they sacrifice people. they spread leukemia. capitalist chop down the last rd for stand poison people and hollywood thrives because ofcapitalism. they

in a day reduced america's cardinal put many celebrities like john lennon's wife and son trash it is frack my mother then the crowd follows. >> they do. powerfully they sway natalie their followers like when george clooney spotted off on global warming says something, it goes global. unlike the and on celebrities who cannot get the word out quite as effectively. they are a great power. john: james hirsen. by the way ed begley, jr. said he either does conservation from his conservative father it was wrong to waste any resource. we also reached out to every actor about the hypocrisy but not one responded. hollywood makes millions selling stuff to us but at the same time they say they despise profit. >> it is a filthy word. >> reid. another word for [ me announcer ] this is the story of the dusty basement at 06 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall f roble avenue. ♪ this magic momt it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those o believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the w

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love --need is -- not 14 million pounds to buy john lennon's home.les frame -- to live in this home. it is thought that he wrote a number of the tracks on the album "sergeant peppers lonely house club band -- hearts club band" in the house. i don't know if that factors into the nearly 14 million pound price for this house. the view was good. included in the statement from havestate agent, they landscaped gardens and grounds and it enjoys uninterrupted views. it should say of what, i assume, is what i assume. he bought the luxury home for 20,000 pounds in 1964. in 1964 that was a lot of money. for almostoing to go 14 million pound i also like that the home has been refurbished. like graceland. where elvis presley lived. in --t i'm interested >> would you be inspired by it? >> the house actually has a cast of famous history of it. it is called kenwood because it is named after can -- ken wood who invented the food mixer. >> an excuse to bring you some cake. if the cake on, by the way? she brought in a christmas cake. >> i thought i would inflict it on

we have all kinds of fabulous beatles artifacts including john lennon. >> do you want to ask me to pickll pick from this era. all this great music that was coming out of america. they did a great cover of smokey robinson and the miracles you really got a hold on me. i love that because it shows they had their ears to the ground. they were in love with american music. they wanted to figure out how it was made. i love that idea that they were dialling into motown and came to the u.s. >> they're hit it. from rock 'n' roll hall of fame, thank you so much for joining me. see how it all unfolded. the british invasion premiers tonight here on cnn. >> breaking news. a death sentence. the heaviest punishment for what some say was the most vicious crime possible. the indiscriminate last april on boylston street. now we are learning from the attorney general eric holder that he is allowing the feds to seek a possible death penalty for the bombing suspect. he and his older brother allegedly set off two pressure cooker bombs near the finish line of that storied race. three people were killed. days l

die toono religion imagine all the people peace life in ♪ winning singerd- and actress performing john lennonine." it is the mayor's favorite song. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. >> singer, actor and civil rights activist harry belafonte opened wednesday's inaugural ceremony. crocs when bill de blasio stepped into the campaign -- >> when bill de blasio stepped into the campaign to determine who would be the leader of the city of new york, he stated that he would not let this city remain a community divided. this cityo longer let wenger in this -- linger in the shadows as a parallel story of charles dickens "a tale of two cities." us, we inspired listened, and overwhelmingly responded with a joyous sense that all things were possible. we made him our man. know it is encouraging to that the statistics have indicated a recent drop in our city's murder rate, new york, alarmingly, place a tragic role in the fact that our nation has the largest risen population in the world. -- prison population in the world. lots of that problem stems from issues of race perpetuated by indifference to policie

yet, many celebrities like, john lennon's wife, and son, trash it. ♪ don't frack my mother ♪ don't frackollow. >> they certainly do. they actually powerfully sway not only their followers, but others. when some celebrity like george clooney who recently spouted off on global warming says something, it, it goats global. unlike a noncelebrity who can't get the word out quite as effectively. they are a resource. they're a great power. >> thank you, james hirsin. ed begley jr. told us he learned about conversation from his conservative father who told him it was wriong to waste any resource. we'll reach out to any celebrity, about their hip kaypy if they had a comment. coming up. hollywood makes millions selling stuff to us. at the same time. celebrities say they despise profit. >> i say profit its a filthy word. >> greed. just another word for it. our ow! and my customers are really liking your flat rate shipping. fedex one rate. really makes my life easier. maybe a promotion is in order. good news. i got a new title. and a raise? management couldn't make that happen. [ male announcer ] int

. >> i didn't like that kid looking like, you know, john lennon or kurt cobain.on't have a problem with rolling stone putting the pope on the cover. it gets people talking about the religion and the catholic church and their own spirituality. >> well their impression of what the pope stands for is apparently not the vaticans take on thing. they're not happy with this article. >> no, that's the interesting thing about pope francis. he has a subjective quality to him. it's one of those, he's charismatic and interesting and a very compassionate person and people abstract from him what they want so it's the marc of someone or something that's truly transscendant. >> the tsarnaev thing was like the embodiment of evil and so go with the embodiment of good. >> esquire named pope francis the best man of the year in 2013. >> which shocks me. >> yeah, exactly. there weren't too many -- believe me if i could wear the exact same thing every day it would be all grey cardigans. >> but your point is its all good marketing anyway because here we are talking about it. >> people a

literature in the case of john lennon. there was such an across the board cultural impact that, yeah, i don't -- it's hard to think of anyone having, you know, that degree of force in their career. >> hard to believe it's 50 years. anthony decurtis, thank you very much. much. >> certainly. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> you are in the "cnn newsroom." i'm miguel marquez in new york. we can now put a face to the name of the maryland mall shooter. police just released this photograph of darion marcus aguilar, 19 years old from college park, maryland. he walked into a mall yesterday in columbia, maryland. he had a shotgun and two homemade bombs in a backpack. he shot a woman and a man to death in a store, then he killed himself. police still don't know his motive or even if he knew 21-year-old brianna benlolo or the 25-year-old also killed, tyler johnson. cnn's erin mcpike is outside the mall now. >> reporter: miguel, at a press briefing within the last hour, the police chief said that they did find a journal in agu

butler and personal staff and a state of the art recording studio with the mixing console that john lennonsong "imagine," which is appropriate because it costs $15,000 to $20,000 per night to stay in this place. we all have to imagine. >> so you mentioned things like crystal clear beaches and butlers. the thing that got him was whiskey bar. thanks for watching "street signs." >> "closing bell" starts right now. >>> and welcome to "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange on a thursday. >> i'm bill griffith. we're watching a bit of a sea saw market today. the jobless claims number a little less than expected, which is a good thing. waiting for the big jobs number tomorrow. alcoa earnings out after the bell. your first time on "closing bell." a lot to talk about coming up. also, this press conference that went nearly two hours earlier today and now a visit to

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you heard her say she knew how far to go with john lennon. nt because he thought she was paying more attention to the moody blues during the concert tour. the other three said are you crazy? he had to come back to her and beg her to come back. he even got down on one knee. that was definitely a memory she loved. she also read all of the fan mail and tried to respond to it. she said, you know, some requests from the girls were madness. she loved it. she has so many great memories of being with them ten years. >> just madness. i can only imagine what the requests were. i find it fascinated so many people are still interested in the beatles this many years later. >> i said that to her. i said, why doing we have this fascination five decades later for them? she said it was about the music with them. they were -- she called them innovative. at that time she met them when they were playing in a bar in liverpool. she would go there to have her lunch. she was a secretary. she said they were friendly, would interact with the crowd, had this wide eyed i

she is no john lennon. the president is talking about let's give peace a chance and then rand came out with a tweet essentially saying he rolled the united states. the quote is our relationship with the world is based upon iranians' interest in hash tag geneva interest, world powers surrender to iranian nations will. we win, you lose. >> and then put a wreath on the grave. here is president obama telling democrats don't you dare put sanctions in place in six months should these talks fall apart you'll poison the well before we can actually drink from it. then iran, on the other hand, says the deal is in place. we won. they capitulated. are we sitting on two sets of rules here or what? in six months, if you're not sincere, sanctions will be worse. that strengthens the president's hand. he actually says he'll veto it. and iron cares so little about -- and iran cares so little about perception they make those statements. they are spitting in our face. >> jay carney said yesterday this was rouhani appealing. no

>> john lennon had to die to get a grammy. none of the beatles got a grammy until john lennon died!u got to get a roller for him. >> it's all political. >> did not like liverpool. >> all right. >>> coming up on "morning joe," we will be talking to nbc political director chuck todd and later, a conversation with legendary music producer herb ashle albert. we had a great talk with him. up next top stories in the political playbook. >> north florida could get snow and they are freaking out down there. you have winter weather heading your way. first let me get you out the door. the areas of snow this morning be careful out towards buffalo and syracuse. snow squalls rolling through and also near pittsburgh. the brutal cold is back in the northern plains. a dangerous day. they cancelled school in a lot of areas. minus 37 in minneapolis and minus 19 chicago. and indianapolis just dropped to minus 18. a brutal day in the midwest heading for the great lakes but here is the big story. snow, sleet and freezing rain possible, houston, new orleans, mobile, montgomery, and look out in the carolin

john lennon then wife cynthia couldn't believe her eye or ears. >> as soon as we got off i thought it of jet engine. it wasn't. it was thousands and thousands of these fans. it was freaky. >>reporter: 4000 fans. several skeptical reporters. >> these funny looking guy from liverpool. fly by night musician. who was to know. >>reporter: marvin scott interviewed them throughout 1964 and remembers that first press conference. >> they went in. they had a news conference and they were poised and they were funny. >> we did a press conference and they all shouted at us and we shouted back the new york way and we found out later that's why they loved us because the press actually were coming to bury us. because we shouted back. >>reporter: great example ringo reaction to the charge that nothing but a bunch of british elvis presley. >> that's true. >> unbelievable. press absolutely amazed joking with the boys and liverpool humor. totally blew their brains. >> when they arrived at the plaza hotel thousands more were gathered outside the hotel. screaming. screeching. beatles. it was absolutely l,

studio with the mixing console that john lennon used to record the song "imagine," which is appropriate because it costs $15,000 to $20,000 per night to stay in this place. we all have to imagine. >> so you mentioned things like crystal clear beaches and butlers. the thing that got him was whiskey bar. thanks for watching "street signs." >> "closing bell" starts right now. >>> and welcome to "closing bell." i'm kelly evans at the new york stock exchange on a thursday. >> i'm bill griffith. we're watching a bit of a sea saw market today. the jobless claims number a little less than expected, which is a good thing. waiting for the big jobs number tomorrow. alcoa earnings out after the bell. your first time on "closing bell." a lot to talk about coming up. also, this press conference that went nearly two hours earlier today and now a visit to ft. lee, new jersey, where it all went wrong for new jersey governor chris christie. we have a live report from ft. lee where that town's mayor is not very happy that the new jersey governor is making that -- those of you in iowa, why do you care? thi

>> let's listen in melissa ethridge singing john lennon's "imagine." >> make it the best one ever. ♪ing for today ♪ ♪ imagine there's no countries it isn't hard to do ♪ ♪ nothing to kill or die for and ♪ ♪ ♪dreamer, oh no ♪ ♪ but i am not the only one ♪ ♪ i hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one ♪ ♪ imagine no possessions ♪ ♪ i wonder if you can ♪ ♪ they'll be no need for greed or hunger ♪ ♪ just a brotherhood of man ♪ ♪ imagine all the people sharing all the world ♪ ♪ you may say that i'm a dreamer, but oh, no, i am not the only one ♪ ♪ i hope someday you'll join us and the world will live as one ♪ >> happy new year! [ cheers ] >> we are about 50 seconds away from the start of the new year. justice sonia sotomayor has begun the ball drop. >> you've met her, yes? >> i have. she's a very interesting, very smart lady. there is the ball drop. >> from brooklyn. a new yorker. >> and we wish you a very happy and healthy 2014 as we count down these last seconds of 2013. >> i love when the crowd yells. a million people yelling. >> and let's count it down together everybod

she told us this story once about how john lennon fired her because he thought she was paying more attention beatles. so he told her she had to go. the other three said, are you nuts? so she said he came back and got down on one knee and asked her to come back to work. >> there's only a few women who can say that. >> she cherishes that memory, definitely, she does. >> good interview. >> and you can see much more on the baeeatles' first visit to t states, cnn's special "the british invasion" airs at 9:00 p.m. eastern tonight on cnn. >>> coming up, we've got the good stuff for you. it's all been pretty good stuff. high school basketball stuff. [ male announcer ] imagine this cute blob is metamucil. and this park is the inside of your body. see, the special psyllium fiber in metamucil actually gels. and that gelling helps to lower some cholesterol. metamucil. 3 amazing benefits in 1 super fiber. >>> good stuff. high school basketball star is back on the court thanks to a big assist from his friends. he's got a rare form of cancer. treatment kept him off the court and out of school. then great n

and i was one of the character witnesses for john lennon when he was being deported because of an oldey don't escalate the charges against him or if he's not charged with a felony in connection with the egg throwing incident, justin bieber should be fined. but i think the real danger is he's so entitled now and so spoiled that he's going to do something that is truly self-destructive. it's inevitable. >> it looks like it. >> drinking, expired license. >> all that. >> sorry about your bentley. >> wowgate. >> they didn't plow the republican neighborhoods in manhattan. >> good start, mr. mayor. >> straight ahead on this friday, a new scandal at the irs. the agency once again targeting conservatives? wasn't that supposed to stop? >> plus our education system going to pot. we're going to tell but a class teaching kids how to grow it. >> no word yet whether justin will be charged with a felony or mr. bieber. that is pending. but he did admit to police that he drank alcohol, smoked pot and took prescription drugs that night. which i think -- that may just have been his way of announcing he's

in the rock star garage and get this, state-of-the-art recording studio with a console used by john lennonimagine." this place, a little expensive, $15,000 to $20,000 per night. >> when i stayed there, the water in the pool was a little cloudy. >> just one butler? there's -- the evening butler and the morning butler are the same person? >> at the rock star villa? >> for $20,000 a night you should get a butler and four full-time groupies. >> what's the evening guy know about getting you ready in the morning? it's ridiculous. >> is there a pool guy. >> there probably are lots of guys. eden rock is crawling with staff. anyway -- >> i'll put that on my wish list. >> all these places at 80 degrees or above. that was my main requirement and there's still vacancies. >> wow. >> are planes taking off right now? do we know -- >> from here or from there? >> from here. >> some of these places are hard to get there commercially, too. >> i think now that most of the storms are past. >> i'm not talking about teet teeterborough. >> i did talk with net jets. they gave me a list, palm springs, california, n

and you were thinking more about a global -- >> i was thinking, right, more about the beatles and john lennon>> they finally did it, intel finally underpromised. i saw the headline. i said, oh, flat, thank you. how many times i've been on the call with intel when they said it's going to be fabulous! this time they didn't say it. so, this year's now set up for a good year. >> a big point of some of the upgrades earlier in the week is that the guidance would get more real listy, jpmorgan on tuesday upped it to an overweight, but some were looking for some signs that maybe there would be pc stabilizati stabilization. that wasn't there as much. >> the ceo did everything, the cfo, they did exactly what you want, which is to say, you know, i mean, this year is not going to be that great a year. if you go back and look at the first quarter and fourth quarter of last year, what they did was they had this we're all going to be backended, it's going to be great, and all the analysts were, like, are you kidding me? how are you going to do that? they said don't worry about it, we'll get it done. they did

. >> there are all of those dynamics to the old john lennon, mccartney, ringo.'s got the shades on and moving, feeling it. >> got the hat. >> the other moment was taylor swift. they put up the five nominees for album of the year. i want you to watch the lower right box. she thinks she's got it locked up, but not so much. >> and the grammy goes to -- random access memories. >> let's see that again. >> the alicia keys part again. >> and the guys behind her. oh. they're ready to clap and celebrate. >> you got the one guy behind does this. >> oh, it was so bad. but it was tough to watch. but so i did think about you guys last night just briefly. okay. i need a little therapy on this. i called my friend sylvia, my best friend actually sleeping in my guest room but i called her. daft punk, you couldn't hear them, you couldn't see their faces, but i thought they were the sexiest thing. i had like this 12 grades of shade -- what's the movie? >> fifty shades -- >> things were so amazingly handsome. and they didn't show their faces or say a word. is that weird? >> they're