Beatles Story, The

Last Edited: 17-Oct-2019 A Global British Comedy Collaborative document. Edited by John Lucas
Broadcast source is BBC Radio Four unless otherwise indicated. Recording quality is considered good unless otherwise indicated.
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BBC R1
09-Jun-1973
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 		PART ONE: "THE BIRTH OF THE LIVERPOOL SOUND"
  1. Jezebel / Cry / Rock Around The Clock / Heartbreak Hotel / All Shook Up / Rock Island Line /
    Rock Me Daddy-O / Please Please Me / All My Loving / Help / Norwegian Wood / Yellow
    Submarine / Sgt. Pepper / Obladi Oblada / Come Together / Let It Be (5:58)
  2. John / Paul / George / Maggie Mae / Bill Harry / Lucille / I Forgot To Remember To Forget (7:51)
  3. Allan Williams / Bruno Koschmider / Allan Williams / Twist And Shout / Bruno Koschmider /
    Roll Over Beethoven / Ted Knibbs / Bob Wooler / Long Tall Sally / Tony Bramwell 16:35)
  4. Peter Eckhorn / Dizzy Miss Lizzy / Tony Sheridan / Alfred Shacht / Cry For A Shadow / Tony
    Sheridan / My Bonnie / Tony Sheridan / Ain't She Sweet 13:13)
  5. Love Me Do (Hollywood Strings) (2:08)
narrated by Brian Matthew
produced by Johnny Beerling 		5 files
45:47, 41.9 MB, S
BBC R1
16-Jun-1973
 		PART TWO: GETTING IT ONTO WAX
  1. 1. Introduction (0:41)
  2. From Us To You / Bob Wooler / My Bonnie / Brian Epstein / Slow Down / Alistair Taylor / Bob
    Wooler / Alistair Taylor / Clive Epstein / Rock N' Roll Music / Brian Epstein / Bob Wooler / I Saw
    Her Standing There / Bob Wooler / Paul (16:19)
  3. Horst Fascher / Bad Boy / George Martin / Please Mr Postman / Arther Howes / George Harrison
    (Liverpool Echo) / Queenie Epstein / Clive Epstein (12:17)
  4. Some Other Guy / Ringo / I Wanna Be Your Man / Ringo / Dick James / Norman Smith /
    PS I Love You / Bob Wooler / George Martin / Love Me Do (13:41)
  5. Please Please Me (Hollywood Strings) (2:45)

5 files
45:43, 41.8 MB, S
BBC R1
23-Jun-1973 		PART THREE: CHART SUCCESS AND THE PACKAGE TOURS BEGIN
  1. Introduction / Paul / Beatles / Love Me Do / Tony Barrow (3:34)
  2. Love Me Do / David Jacobs / Beatles / We Can Work It Out / Vi Caldwell / Horst Fascher / You
    Really Got A Hold On Me (12:15)
  3. Dick James / Plsease Please Me / Dick James / Arthur Howes / Helen Shapiro / Please Please Me /
    Dick James / Thank You Girl / Tony Bramwell / From Me To You / Tony Barrow (15:24)
  4. Chains / George Martin / Boys / George Martin / Do You Want To Know A Secret / Paul / There's
    A Place / Norman Smith / Twist And Shout / John / Bob Wooler (12:26)
  5. I Want To Hold Your Hand (Hollywood Strings) (1:59)

5 files
45:39, 41.8 MB, S
BBC R1
30-Jun-1973 		PART FOUR: THE START OF BEATLEMANIA
  1. Introduction (0:54)
  2. Hunter Davis / Freda Kelly / Tony Barrow / Beatles / All Together Now / She Loves You / Paul /
    George Martin / She Loves You / I'll Get You / Brian Somerville / Klaus Berling / It Won't Be
    Long (12:41)
  3. Reg Abbis / Back In The USSR / Beatles / George Martin (Liverpool Echo) / John / I Want To
    Hold Your Hand / Tony Bramwell / All My Loving / George / Don't Bother Me (17:55)
  4. She Loves You / I Want To Hold Your Hand / Brian Sommerville / Till There Was You / Tony
    Hall / Brian Sommerville / All You Need Is Love / Chris Denning / Misery / Sid Berstein (12:43)
  5. Can't Buy Me Love (Hollywood Strings) (1:14)

5 files
45:25, 41.6 MB, S
BBC R1
07-Jul-1973
 		PART FIVE: THE WORLD SURRENDERS
  1. Introduction / Sid Bernstein / Ed Sullivan (2:49)
  2. Any Time At All / Al Aronowitz / Murry The K / Tell Me Why / George / Beatles / Murry
    The K / I'm Happy Just To Dance With You / George Harrison (Liverpool Echo) / Brian
    Epstein (12:19)
  3. You Can't Do That / Sid Bernstein / Things Ws Said Today / Hugh Moran / Beatles / Richard
    Lester / If I Fell / Ringo (11:43)
  4. I Should Have Known Better / Helen Shapiro / John / Paul / Can't Buy Me Love / George
    Martin / I'll Cry Instead / George Martin / And I Love Her / Richard Lester / George
    Martin / Paul (14:30)
  5. A Hard Day's Night / I Feel Fine (Hollywood Strings) (4:08)

5 files
45:30, 41.6 MB, S
BBC R1
14-Jul-1973 		PART SIX: THE LIFE AND REWARDS OF SUCCESS
  1. Introduction (0:42)
  2. A Hard Day's Night / Beatles / I Feel Fine / Ringo / Paul / Bess Coleman / Eight Day's A
    Week / Jay Nelson / I'll Follow The Sun / Bess Coleman / Kansas City / Irving Candell (18:52) 
  3. Beatles / Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby / Beatles / She's A Woman / Paul / Ringo (9:31)
  4. I'm A Loser / Tony Barrow / Another Beatles Christmas Record / Alistair Taylor / Jimmy
    Saville / Baby's In Black / Beatles / Yesterday / Beatles / Ticket To Ride (16:11)
  5. Drive My Car (Hollywood Strings) (0:58)

5 files
46:16, 42.3 MB, S
BBC R1
21-Jul-1973 		PART SEVEN: WHEN THE TOURING HAD TO STOP
  1. Introduction (0:46)
  2. George / Help / John / Beatles / Act Naturally / Beatles / Help / Paul / Beatles / You've Got To
    Hide Your Love Away (11:14)
  3. Alf Bicknell / Tony Barrow / George / Ticket To Ride / All My Loving / Can't Buy Me Love /
    I'm Down / John / Laura Cohen / Run For Your Life / Day Tripper / Beatles / Her Majesty /
    George Martin / Norwegiam Wood / Girl / Norman Smith (16:29)
  4. Nowhere Man / Beatles / Michelle / Paperback Writer / Vic Lewis / Tony Barrow / Eleanor
    Rigby (13:36)
  5. Tony Barrow / George / Penny Lane (Hollywood Strings) (3:33)

5 files
45:38, 41.7 MB, S
BBC R1
28-Jul-1973 		PART EIGHT: THE PSYCHEDELIC CHAPTER
  1. Introduction (0:48)
  2. John / Penny Lane / George Martin / Strawberry Fields Forever / John / Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
    Hearts Club Band / John / Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds / Kenny Everett (13:41)
  3. Good Morning Good Morning / John / When I'm 64 / John / George Martin / A Day In The
    Life / Al Aronowitz / Paul (12:21)
  4. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi / Sexy Sadie / Hunter Davies / George Harrison (Liverpool Echo) /
    Beatles / Joanne Neufield / Here There And Everywhere / Alistair Taylor / Hello Goodbye /
    Alistair Taylor (17:40)
  5. I'm A Loser (Hollywood Strings) (1:22)

5 files
45:55, 42.0 MB, S
BBC R1
04-Aug-1973 		PART NINE: MEDITATION AND CORPORATION
  1. Introduction (0:48)
  2. Magical Mystery Tour / John / Paul / The Fool On The Hill / John / I Am The Walrus (10:45)
  3. Cottonfields / John / Don't Pass Me By / Paul And Jane Asher / Lady Madonna / Derek
    Taylor / Hey Jude / George Martin / Yellow Submarine / Tony Bramwell (18:13)
  4. Revolution 1 / George / Glass Onion / George / While My Guitar Gently Weeps /
    Revolution 9 / George Martin / John (14:21)
  5. Taxman (Hollywood Strings) (1:30)

5 files
45:36, 41.7 MB, S
BBC R1
11-Aug-1973
 PART TEN: HELLO GOODBYE OR COME TOGETHER
  1. Introduction (0:55)
  2. John / Paul / Piggies / Alistair Taylor / Let It Be / George / Derek Taylor / Allen Klein /
    Polythene Pam / Allen Klein / Get Back / John / Ringo (13:05)
  3. The Ballad Of John And Yoko / Give Peace A Chance / John / Blue Suede Shoes / John /
    Ritchie York / Dizzy Miss Lizzy / Come Together / George (14:19)
  4. Maxwell's Silver Hammer / George / Here Comes The Sun / John / Carry That Weight /
    John / Cold Turkey / Allen Klein / Something (14:59)
  5. Here Comes The Sun (Hollywood Strings) (2:26)
5 files
45:43, 41.8 MB, S
BBC R1
18-Aug-1973
 PART ELEVEN: THE END OF THE BEATLES
  1. Introduction (0:49)
  2. George / Instant Karma / John / Let It Be / George / Paul (11:35)
  3. Tony Bramwell / Maybe I'm Amazed / George / That Would Be Something / George / Man We
    Was Lonely / Two Of Us / George / Across The Universe / The Long And Winding Road (15:55)
  4. Beau coups Of Blue / What Is Life / George / Isn't It A Pity / Well Well Well / Love / Paul (15:40)
  5. George / Let It Be (Hollywood Strings) (1:37)
5 files
45:37, 41.7 MB, S
BBC R1
25-Aug-1973		 PART TWELVE: THE JOHN PAUL GEORGE AND RINGO SHOW
  1. Introduction (0:56)
  2. John / Vic Lewis / George / My Sweet Lord / Allen Klein / Ringo / Loser's Lounge / Paul /
    Another Day / Allen Klein / John (5:03)
  3. Power To The People / Ringo / It Don't Come Easy / Allen Klein / Uncle Albert / John /
    Peter Asher (11:40)
  4. Paul / Back Seat Of My Car / Too Many People / How Do You Sleep / John / Imagine / John /
    Paul / Mumbo / Paul (16:31)
  5. Another Day (Hollywood Strings) (1:43)
5 files
45:53, 42.0 MB, S
BBC R1
01-Sep-1973		 PART THIRTEEN: JOHN AND PAUL TODAY, THE EX-BEATLES STORY
  1. Introduction (0:29)
  2. Cripple Inside / Well (Baby Please Don't Go) / Happy Xmas (War Is Over ) / Yoko /
    Approximately Infinite Universe / Mind Games (16:53)
  3. Paul / Linda / Hi Hi HI / Paul / C Moon / Paul / My Love / Paul / Live And Let Die (19:16)
  4. Paul / Band On The Run / Paul (7:19)
  5. Jet (2:46)
5 files
46:45, 42.8 MB, S
BBC R1
08-Sep-1973
 PART FOURTEEN: GEORGE AND RINGO TODAY, THE EX-BEATLES STORY
  1. Introduction (0:29)
  2. Eah Eah / Allen Klein / Here Comes The Sun / George / Bangla Desh (13:40)
  3. Give Me Love / Living In The Material World / Ringo / Back Off Boogaloo / Ringo /
    I'm The Greatest (20:10)
  4. Elton John / The End / Mick Jagger / Dig It / Neil Diamond / She's Leaving Home / David
    Cassidy / Roger Greenaway (11:07)
  5. Paul / Love Me Do (Hollywood Strings) (2:38)
5 files
48:00, 43.9 MB, S