Rare recording shows John Lennon's true thoughts on the Beatles

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Beatlemania swept Britain, reveals how the band did not consider themselves good musicians but hoped they could get rich quick before their fame subsided.

The recording has come to light almost 60 years after a student blagged his way into a press conference before a gig in hull in 1974- Hull Live reports.

Tasked to report for his student magazine, 18-year-old John Hill paid to get into the , where the concert was taking place. He then bluffed his way into the room where members of the band were talking to the press and found himself interviewing John Lennon. READ MORE: John Lennon and George Harrison had 'fist fight' amid Beatles split John said: “I couldn’t do shorthand so I had borrowed a Fi-Cord, an early portable reel to reel tape recorder, from a friend and took that along, I was the youngest person in the room and the only one with a microphone.

That got John Lennon’s attention – he was really interested in the machine – and we ended up in a corner doing an interview with passing newsmen throwing in the odd question. ”Beatlemania had been raging for a year when the band rolled into Hull for the latest stop on their month-long UK tour, on Friday, October 16, 1964.