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An official Beatles BBC album was being planned as early as 1982, [9] and it was reported that "EMI was preparing an album" of the BBC material by late 1991. [10] To supplement the archive he had partially rebuilt for The Beeb's Lost Beatles Tapes, BBC Radio producer Kevin Howlett sought out additional sources, such as tapes kept by people involved in the original sessions; others had ...
Most of the songs performed live on the album are taken from the Beatles' first four LPs Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Day's Night and Beatles for Sale.Many of the other songs performed are the band's covers of early rock and roll classics by American artists such as Little Richard, Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly, many of which were never recorded in a studio or released on a Beatles ...
Four songs have only appeared in two of the groups' films: one in Magical Mystery Tour (1967) and three in Let It Be (1970). The first release of new recordings was Live at the BBC in 1994, which features live performances of mostly cover songs that were recorded on various BBC Light Programme radio shows between 1963 and 1965. [97]
This article lists songs and whole discographies which have been banned by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) over the years. During its history, the corporation has banned songs from a number of high-profile artists, including Cliff Richard, Frank Sinatra, Noël Coward, the Beatles, Ken Dodd, Elvis Presley, Bing Crosby, the BBC Dance Orchestra, Tom Lehrer, Glenn Miller, and George Formby.
The Beatles performed for fifty-two BBC Radio programmes, beginning with an appearance on the series Teenager's Turn—Here We Go, recorded on 7 March 1962, and ending with the special The Beatles Invite You to Take a Ticket to Ride, recorded on 26 May 1965; in total, 275 performances of 88 different songs were broadcast. [4]
Song Year Beatles album Original artist Ref. "Anna (Go to Him)" 1963 Please Please Me: Arthur Alexander "Chains" The Cookies "Boys" The Shirelles "Baby It's You" The Shirelles "A Taste of Honey" Billy Dee Williams "Twist and Shout" The Top Notes "Till There Was You" With the Beatles: Sue Raney "Please Mr. Postman" The Marvelettes "Roll Over ...
List of songs recorded by the Beatles; The Beatles albums discography; The Beatles videography; Outline of the Beatles; The Beatles timeline; Apple Records discography, the albums and singles of the Beatles' record label, many of which had involvement by members of the Beatles; The Beatles bootleg recordings; The Beatles' recording sessions
[5] [6] Unterberger rates the Beatles' performance of the song as "fabulous," calling it probably "the greatest gem" on Live at the BBC. [7] Unterberger enumerates a number of ways in which the Beatles' recording differs from the original, such as the Beatles playing the main riff on guitar, while on Alexander's recording the riff was played on ...