In February 1963 The Beatles were ascendant: their second single enters the top ten, they have an album ready to come out, and they are touring in a bus with Helen Shapiro & Kenny Lynch. What else is there to do but write a hit? The song that arrives is From Me To You, their first stand-alone single, and first number one (sort of). 

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S04E02: The Ed Sullivan Shows - Part Two

The Beatles landed in New York on 7th February, with 3,000 fans at the airport and a single at number one in the US charts. They were about to perform to the largest tv audience in history. After that, it was all sunshine and palm trees. And BTS. 

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S04E01: The Ed Sullivan Shows - Part One

On February 9th 1964, The Beatles took to the stage of CBS Studio 50 as the headliners of that week’s Ed Sullivan Show. The legend of that broadcast has overtaken how it came to pass - a mixture of perseverance, timing, and good luck.

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S03E13: The Nothing Is Real Review of 2020

Steven and Jason closeout 2020 with a review of all Beatle activity from the year which began with everyone expecting one thing (the Get Back movie) but ended up with everyone getting something else entirely (the McCartney III album). Plus Producer Ado is back with listener Q&As.

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S03 Bonus Episode: McCartney III

Today is the day that Paul McCartney releases McCartney III the album that’s been “Made in Rockdown”. Steven & Jason have stayed up late to reveal their initial impressions of the album and walk through it, track by track. 

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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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