The Beatles

Released: November 30, 1994

Featuring: Brian Matthew

Songwriter: The Beatles John Lennon Ringo Starr Paul McCartney George Harrison Brian Matthew

Producer: Bernie Andrews

[Verse 1]
[Brian Matthew] The next few minutes, we're in the lap of the gods and the hands of the Beatles In my young days, when I was a lad, they used to have actors in films and now that they--
[Paul] Yes?
[John] Hey! Listen!
[Paul] It's all changed, now, Brian They're not doing that, no actors
[John] It's all changed, now
[Brian] But this is what I wonder In those days, the actors used to say their best bits were left on the cutting room floor, did you find that?
[John] No, no, no, those were the good bits in the film You should have seen the rest

[Verse 2]
[Brian] Yes?
[John] Rubbish!
[Brian] Was it, really?
[John] Even worse, yes
[Brian] Who was worst?
[John] Oh, Paul
[Brian] I see
[Paul] I think John was about the worst
[John] No, it was you

[Verse 3]
[Paul] Oh, Ringo was very good, he was, he's a good lad
[Brian] He was. They're saying he's a new Charlie Chaplin Do you think that's right?
[John] He was miming
[Paul] You, too, with Jason
[John] Oh, yes, he's an old one. Okay, Ring?
[Brian] Beginning to look like that Now, then--
[Ringo] All right, John. Can you hear me?

[Verse 4]
[Paul] Can you hear him? Hello!
[Brian] Not really I hope not I hope not!
[John] We brought you the flowers, Ring
[Brian] He's not allowed to talk
[Ringo] Eh?
[John] We brought you the flowers

[Verse 5]
[Ringo] Oh, good
[John] And the grapes
[Ringo] Oh, I like grapes
[Paul] He likes grapes
[George] We've been to Portugal
[Brian] Guess who's, guess who's top of the pops in Portugal, then

[Verse 6]
[All] Who?
[Brian] Los Beatles
[John] Los Beatles? Great, great laugh
[Brian] I don't suppose you know the title of your film in Portuguese?
[John] No Crinsk dee Night?
[Brian] Could be, let's hear the number, shall we?
[John] Right

The Beatles are arguably the most famous, critically-acclaimed, and successful rock band of all time—certainly the preeminent group of the 20th century. They started out as four teenagers playing grimy basement clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg, but they progressed to become world-beating rock stars who are still influential to this day.

John Lennon first formed a skiffle group called The Quarrymen in March 1957. A fifteen-year-old Paul McCartney joined shortly thereafter, eventually inviting his friend George Harrison to audition for the band. After finally impressing John with his guitar skills, George was asked to join—but this juncture would be short-lived as John’s departure to college signaled the other quarrymen to go their separate ways.

By 1960, Lennon, McCartney, and Harrison had re-branded from ‘Johnny & the Moondogs’ to ‘The Silver Beetles’ at the behest of their new bass player, Stuart Sutcliffe. The name would eventually evolve into ‘The Silver Beatles’ by July of that year, before settling on ‘The Beatles’ come August—just in time for their trip to Hamburg with new drummer, Pete Best. Though club residencies in Germany would prove fundamental to the group’s progress as a whole, the tour turned out to be a blessing and a curse, following the deportation of a then-seventeen-year-old George Harrison, and the eventual tragic death of Stuart Sutcliffe.

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