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Award winning author and journalist Ivor Davis accompanied the Beatles on their first tour of America in 1964. Later, he was present when they met Elvis and Bob Dylan. He reminisces about his time with the band and discusses the hit single and title song from their first movie, A Hard Day's Night.

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Alan G. Parker is an multiple Emmy-nominated director of music documentary films, including It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper and Beyond. He is currently working on Borrowed Time, a feature documentary covering John Lennon's last ten years. Here he discusses one of the Beatles' enduring masterpieces, A Day in the Life.

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It Was Fifty Years Ago Today! The Beatles: Sgt Pepper and Beyond
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Dafydd Rees is the author of the Beatles in 1963, a day by day account of an extraordinary 12 months in rock and roll history. Dafydd discusses the sumptuous harmonies and thrilling soulful melody of one of John Lennon's first and finest ballads, This Boy.

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The Beatles in 1963 is published by Omnibus Press in the UK on 28th Oct 2022 and in North America on 26th January 2023.

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Gary Van Scyoc was the bass player and songwriter with Elephant's Memory, who played live and recorded with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the early 1970s. He talks to host Tim Tucker about one of the Beatles' finest ballads, If I Fell.

Find Gary Van Scyoc's recordings, books, lessons and merchandise: http://www.garyvanscyoc.com

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Jude Southerland Kessler is the author of a multi-volume Lennon biography. She discusses John's hymn to a love he lost forever, Yes It Is.

Find all the books in Jude's biography series on John Lennon: https://www.johnlennonseries.com

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Mark Cunningham is a music industry author, journalist and designer who got involved with Apple Corps during the Anthology project. In this episode he discusses one of the Beatles' most acclaimed pieces, the mighty Strawberry Fields Forever.

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Matt Howell is a podcaster, musician and co-host of the Werewolf by Night podcast. He discusses the intriguing and painful paean for a fictional dream partner, John Lennon's Girl from Rubber Soul.

Hear Matt on the Werewolf by Night podcast: https://www.instagram.com/werewolf_by_night_podcast/
Listen to his band the Ex-Hustlers on Bandcamp: https://ex-hustlers.bandcamp.com/
Listen to That's Cool That's Trash podcast: http://www.thatscoolthatstrash.com/ 

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Jacob Balcom is a musician, DJ and co-host of the wonderful Werewolf by Night podcast. He discusses one of John Lennon's most passionate and intimate love songs, Don't Let Me Down.  

Hear Jacob on the Werewolf by Night podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/werewolf-by-night-podcast/id1528913747

Listen to Jacob's album So Long Everybody on Bandcamp: https://jacobbalcom.bandcamp.com/

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Dominic Pedler is a writer, journalist and musician. He is the author of The Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, in which he reveals fascinating insights into the chords, melodies, harmonies, rhythms and arrangements of The Beatles' self composed songs.

It's one of my all-time favourite Beatles books, and well worth a read for anyone interested in how the Beatles' songwriting works.

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Neville Marten is the editor of Guitar Techniques magazine. Since 1983 he has played guitar with Marty Wilde & the Wildcats, one of the first generation of British stars to play American rock and roll in the 1950s. Neville discusses the complex masterpiece from the Beatles' White Album, Happiness is a Warm Gun. 

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