S03E11: The Beatles at Christmas: The 1970s - Part One

The first Christmas of the seventies had the world dealing with its first post-Beatles festive season. Going through this solo decade, each Christmas provides a snapshot of how things evolved. This first part goes from 1970 when All Things Must Pass is number one, to 1973 when an album called Band on the Run appears. 

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S03E10: All Things Must Pass at 50 Part 3 : The Album

On 27th November 1970, George Harrison released All Things Must Pass: Three records, 23 tracks and 106 minutes of music, it was a culmination of his life’s work to date. He was 27 years old.  

What stories lurk inside that 12 inch box? Steven and Jason break it down, track-by-track. 

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S03E09: All Things Must Pass at 50 Part 2 : My Sweet Lord

At the end of 1970 the debut single from George Harrison announced a very different world from the colourful 1960s that the Beatles had soundtracked. Its popularity and influence was immense, and defined how the All Things Must Pass album was received.  

However, after the song left the charts, it spent the rest of the decade in the courts.

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S03E08: All Things Must Pass at 50 Part 1 : The Road to ATMP

In May 1970, George Harrison succumbed to the inevitable and started putting together his debut solo album. He started by recording demos of the songs he had been stockpiling as a Beatle. What was the path that took him from his first composition, Don’t Bother Me in 1963, to this point?

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S03E07: The Films of Ringo Starr, or, Ringo Movie Starr

After the Beatles first film, A Hard Day’s Night, came out in 1964, the general consensus was that Ringo was destined for the silver screen - all he had to do was act naturally.  

Between 1968 and 1981 he made a collection of movies that managed to prove that everyone right, and also wrong. 

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McCartney, the debut album from Paul McCartney, came out in April 1970 just as the headlines announced that he had quit The Beatles. At what point did this album become a solo declaration of intent? At what point did it even become an album? What does Elaine Paige have to do with anything?

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S03E05: The Kevin Godley Interview

Kevin Godley left art school in 1968 and headed straight to the Beatles’ Apple Corp to pitch a musical with his partner Lol Creme. So began a career that would often overlap with the Beatles, culminating with being chosen to direct the Real Love video in 1995. In 2020 he’s as creative as ever, and is about to release his debut solo album, Muscle Memory. 

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S03E04: The Anthology at 25 - Part 3 - The Aftermath

In November 1995 The Beatles Anthology was born into the world in record stores and on tv screens. In the aftermath of its release were the Beatles back together, or had they spilt up again, or was it something in between? 

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S03E03: Revolution - Part Two

Once the Beatles had recorded the song that would become known as Revolution 1, they were only getting started. Revolution 9 is crafted from in-studio jamming, and with the usual need for a single looming, John sets out to record the song again from scratch. 

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In 1968 the world was in a tumultuous state while The Beatles remained the biggest band in the world What would they have to say about it all? In the Indian foothills, John Lennon crafted a response.  

The only problem was figuring out how to present the song to the world. 

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