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John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Pete Best arrived at the audition, formally known as a "commercial test", to be headed by Mike Smith with Decca staff, on 1 January 1962 at 10 a.m. However, Smith was late, suffering from a New Year's party hangover as well as cuts and bruises from a car crash three days before Christmas ...
The Beatles did not pass the audition, but their manager, Brian Epstein, kept the reel-to-reel tapes to present to other record producers. Epstein arranged for the recordings to be pressed onto monoacetate discs, one of which was later heard by Parlophone producer George Martin , who offered them an audition which would turn out to be successful.
Since the first release of their music on CD during 1987–1988, the Beatles' studio albums have been standardised worldwide to the following albums: [31] [32] Please Please Me (original UK album) With the Beatles (original UK album) A Hard Day's Night (original UK album) Beatles for Sale (original UK album) Help! (original UK album)
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
The diary begins with the band's first recording session at EMI Recording Studios on 6 June 1962, while drummer Pete Best was still in the band, and finishes on 8 May 1970 with the release of the album Let It Be. [S 2] The book includes a one-page preface by Ken Townsend and a ten-page interview between Lewisohn and Paul McCartney. [S 3]
2. "Come and Get It" by Badfinger. 1969 Written and produced by Paul McCartney, this song became a top 10 hit for Badfinger, a band signed to the Beatles’ Apple label.
Anthony F. J. Barrow (11 May 1936 – 14 May 2016) [1] [2] was an English press officer who worked with the Beatles between 1962 and 1968. [3] He coined the phrase "the Fab Four", first using it in an early press release.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The core lineup of the band comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr.They are widely regarded as the most influential band in Western popular music and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and the recognition of popular music as an art form.