Here is your invitation so make your reservation to join me, "Everybody's Favorite Tour Guide", james d. jones as I take you on a Magical Mystery Tour through The Beatle Years and Beyond...
Today we are celebrating Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in the first hour! Hear the music that turned you onto wanting to hear more from The Beatles. Experience Pepper like no other! I've got it and it's your for the listening...
2nd Hour is Pure Solo Effort Years Bliss on Tap! Hear the vinyl pops as I dig deep into the vinyl and liberate such hard to find tracks that you have not heard in oh so long... That's the bargain I am striking up with you, the listener. Are You Ready? Headphones maketh the experience even more so, if not loud volumes can get you closer... Enjoy and Thank You as always... Peace & Love Always... james d. jones

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Here is your invitation so make your reservation to join me,"Everybody's Favorite Tour Guide",james d. jones as I take you through The Beatle Years & Beyond...
Today I have for your listening pleasure plenty of rarities and good times galore... Enjoy a band that really enjoyed doing what they did! The 2nd hour is all about The Solo Effort Years and lots great tracks await you, some I s'pect you have not heard for ages... that's where I come in... Enjoy the experience...

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A 2 hour Beatles Fantasy Reunion Concert!!! This is where I give you Front Row Seats to The Best Concerts That Never Were... Experience What Could Have Been, Should Have Been and now is yours to experience at will... Headphones maketh the Experience even more so... Enjoy!!!

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"Just imagine the Beatles getting together again..." January 1977 - April 2015
After five years away from the limelight taking care of his toddler son Sean, John Lennon returned to the music business in the fall of 1980 with the new album Double Fantasy. He had just begun doing interviews in promotion of the album when he was shot and killed outside his New York City home. The other Beatles reacted with shock and sadness. George invited Paul and Ringo to appear on his song "All Those Years Ago", released in early 1981 in tribute to their fallen friend. In 1982, Paul recorded the song "Here Tody", his own tribute to John.
Reunion rumours contined to plague the remaining three Beatles as Ringo sporadically performed with either Paul or George in the 1980s and early 90s. The rumours finally came true in 1995, when the three reunited fr the Anthology project. Theproject consisted of three double albums made up of old outtakes and live performances, two new songs based on John Lennon demos from the 1970s, and a 12 hour documentary, an edit of which was broadcast internationally as a three-part miniseries. All three Anthology albums reached #1 in the U.S. The documentary was one of the most watched television programmes of the year. "Free As A Bird" was a Top Ten hit worldwide, and "Real Love" reached the Top Twenty.
Not long after the conclusion of the Anthology project, George Harrison was diagnosed with cancer. He died in 2001. A concert organized by George's good friend Eric Clapton was performed on the first Anniversary of George's death, called The Concert For George. Among other, it featured both surviving ex Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, along with a plethora of "fifth Beatles", including Clapton, Billy Preston, Jeff Lynee, and Klaus Voormann. Since then, Paul and Ringo have reunited from time to time, most recently in 2015 for Ringo's solo induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Though their time as an active band haas passed, the Beatles continue to influence musicians and interest music fans to the present day.
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"We just ended up for a while at each other's throats..."
In the aftermath of the Beatles' breakup, each ex Beatle went into the recording studio to make a new album. Paul's homemade affair, McCartney, coincided with the break up announcement, and it peaked at #2 in the U.K. & #1 in the U.S. George's All Things Must Pass, released in November 1970, was a worldwide#1, and John's Plastic Ono Band, released in December, reached the Top 10. Only Ringo's Beaucoups of Blues flopped, reaching #65 in the U.S. and failing to chart in the U.K.
The breakup wound its' way through the legal system and there was occasional bickering between John and Paul through the press. John's 2nd LP, 1971'a Imagine, included the track "How Do You Sleep?", the lyrics of which pointedly derided Paul's talent. John claimed that the track was in response to Paul's more veiled jabs aimed at him on Ram. The feud was put to bed with Paul's "apology" track, Dear Friend", released at the end of the years on Wings' debut album Wild Life.
In August 1971, George tried to put the feuding aside and invited each of the ex Beatles to participate in the Concert For Bangladesh. Paul declined, for fear of fueling rumors, John initially agreed, but backed out after George's insistence that Yoko be excluded. Only Ringo ultimately joined George for the 2 concert at Madion Square Garden.
In 1972, John, George, and Ringo at last gave Allen Klein the boot. John even wentnso far as to sourly admit that Paul had probably right about Klein all along. Reunion rumours and offers increasingly plagued the ex-bandmates. All four Beatles played on the seesions for Ringo's 1973 LP Ringo, adding fuel to the fire. When John, George and Ringo reunited for the track "I'm the Greatest", George suggested forming a band called "The Ladders" with Billy Preston and Klaus Voormann, but John rejested the idea.
On 5 January 1976, roadie Mal Evans was killed by the L.A.P.D. after an argument. By then, John and Yoko were parents to newborn Sean, and John had taken a hiatus from the music business.
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"After Brian died, we collasped..." October 1969 - April 1970.
In September1969, John Lennon received a phone call from Canada, inviting him to emcee a concert festival in Toronto at which would be performing several of Lennon's rock and rll heroes of the 1950s.
John one-upped the request and agreed to perform, hastily assembling new "Plastic Ono Band" consisting of himself, Yoko, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann and Alan White. The resultset was released as the album Live Peace in Toronto, which reached #10 in the U.S.
Shortly after returning to London, John and Paul were attending an Apple business meeting when John announced he wanted a "divorce" and was leaving the Beatles.
No statement was made at the time, and the individual Beatles played coy in the press interactions over the following months. In October, John and Paul gave interviews to deflect the "Paul is Dead" rumour, failing to mention the breakup. In November, each Beatle seperately recorded a piece for the Beatles' annual fan club Christmas record, business as usual. In December, George and the others including Eric Clapton joined John and Yoko onstage for a Plastic Ono Band performance in support of UNICEF fundraiser at the Lyceum Ballroom in London. The result was released years later on Sometime in New York City.
In January1970, Pau, George and Ringo recorded "I Me Mine" for inclusion on the forthcoming Let It Be album. The tapes were then handed to producer Phil Spector in order to edit and remix them for release. Producer Glyn Johns had been given three attempts at mixing an album, but the Beatles were unhappy with the results each time. When Spector was finished, all but Paul was satisfied with Let It Be, and Paul later used this as a legal basis for dissolving the Beatles as a group.
On 10 April 1970, Paul McCartney's first proper solo album was released, entitled McCartney. Tht day, he issued a press release, saying he didn't foresee ever working with John Lennn again. The press ran with the news. It was over. The Beatles Had broken up.

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"We made it in Abbey Road..." February - September 1969.
In Febraury1969 Ringo began work at Twickenham Film Studios on the Magic Christian. On March 2nd, Yoko and John performed an avant gard rock and roll piece for an audience at Cambridge University, which became part of their 2nd album Life with the Lions. George would release an avant gard album of his own in May called Electric Sound. On Mrch 12th, Paul went down to a registry office in London to marry girlfriend Linda Eastman. Eight days after that, John and Yoko flew to Gibraltar and got married there. None of the other Beatles attended either wedding.. Get Back was released as a singleon April 11th and went straight to #1.
John and Yoko took the opportunity of the press coverage of their recent nuptials to stage a "Bed In", a publicity stunt to promote peace, where they held day long press conferences for a week from their bed in the honeymoon suite at the Amsterdam Hilton. The experience inspired the next Beatles' single quickly recorded "The Ballad of John and Yoko" another #1.
A 2nd honeymon followed in the form of a similiar Bed In in Montreal, picked because John was refused entry into the United States due to his recent drug bust. From their Montral bed, John and Yoko recorded "Give Peace a Chance" with assistance from Derek Taylor, Tommy Smothers and others. The first "Plastic Ono Band" single reached #2 in the U.K. charts.
Dissappointed with the results of the January recording sessions, the Beatles agreed to make one more record the"old way" with George Martin firmly at the helm. For this, they resurrected several half finished songs dating back as far as the Rishikesh days, and assembled a medley out of them. Abbey Road was recorded over the course of the summer of 1969 without any animosity, unlike Let It Be and The White Album before it. This was borne out of a sense that this was going to be their last time doing this, and it truly was.
When released in September of 1969, Abbey Road was another worldwide#1!!!

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That period was the low of all time... January 1969...
The making of the White Album had been an unpleasant experience for many of those involved. Paul McCartney wanted to wash away the bad blood, have the Beatles get back to their roots and perform somewhere, anywhere, live once again. His idea was to film a making of television special concert, after which would be a live broadcast of the band performing for an audience for the first time since 1966. They would release the result as an album. For this purpose, Twickenham Film Studios were booked for 30 days in January of 1969, but that's about as far as plans got. The Beatles picked upi right from where they had left off at the end of the White Album sessions. Nobody was in the mood for each other, and they had just exhausted all their best material. Rehearsing in a strange place while being constantly watched and filmed wore on them, and George quit the band. After a few days away, he came back, but only after the live concert idea was dropped. They finished off the songs they were rehearsing and recorded them for an album, recruiting keyboardist Billy Preston as the 5th Beatle. For some dramatic flair to end the documentary, now destned for theaters in stead of television, the band played a few of the new songs from the tp of the Apple Corps building in London. It proved to be their last live performance of The Beatles' career as a band. At the end of January, the group went their seperate ways again, and two of them got married. It was a hectic time to be a Beatle.
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Hear The Beatles' story from themselves in their own words!!! The Magic is Here Once Again through the Power of Radio... So today we will hear the tales from May of 1968 to late October 1968. It's all about The White Album Era and the various styles of music created by The Beatles except for the most part indivually... Listen In now and Experience The Beatles Anthology Revisited... Enjoy.

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Hear the Beatles tell their story in their own words! February through July of 1968. This was the time The Beatles went on an adventure to India and came back with massive amoounts of material that later went on to becoming The White Album. Some great stories within this episode...Enjoy!

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