Over the opening credits, we hear
, which will be reprised over the closing credits. As John, Paul, George and Ringo travel on the train to London, Paul's grandfather starts to demonstrate his capacity for trouble-making, and to keep him a bit under control he is shut into a baggage car. The lads join him, and sing
, with John singing lead and including a harmonica break.
When they reach their hotel room, Norm tells them to start answering their fan mail, so they promptly escape to hit the town. The four Beatles are seen having a good time while samples of three different songs are played.
, a song that Lennon-McCartney had previously given to the Rolling Stones, had Ringo on lead vocal;
featured George, while
gave Paul a chance to show his stuff vocally.
Mel and Shake manage to get them to the cocktail reception for the television show that is going to be recorded, where we hear a lot of funny lines, but no songs until they escape from the crush and go to the sound stage where the performance is to be. There the boys pick up their instruments and play
. The super-stressed musical director of the television show insists they leave the stage, and they exit a fire escape (to the strains of
) to find themselves in a large field where they cavort until being confronted by an angry property manager.
Back inside, the boys have their makeup sorted before returning to the sound stage, where we see a troupe dancing to an instrumental version of
, which the band performs themselves after Paul first sings
. After Grandfather convinces Ringo that he is missing out on real life, we see Ringo wandering aimlessly around the city while 'Ringo's Theme' (an instrumental version of
plays. After he innocently gets in trouble, the police plan to charge him with a number of minor offences, but the rest of the group rescue him, and they all make it back to the studio in time for the television show.
The show gives fans a chance to see the Beatles sing four songs (while a studio audience full of teenage girls screams and swoons). The first is
, during which we see the musical director being sucked in, and singing along as he watches. Next come reprises of 'If I Fell' and 'I Should Have Known Better'. Their final number is
, with the familiar staging of John on one mike, with Paul and George leaning into a shared mike to provide the "Whooo" and shake their hair.
