1 - Episode 1 – Teenagers’ Turn

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1 - Episode 1 – Teenagers’ Turn

Episode 1 – Teenagers’ Turn The series is completely set in 1962. It starts on New Year’s Day with their unsuccessful audition for Decca Records. Decca preferred Brian Poole and the Tremeloes from Barking: on any other day of the week, they would have been a fine choice. The Beatles returned to Liverpool but only a month later another Liverpool band, Howie Casey and the Seniors, was signed by Fontana and made a twist album. Their lead singer was Freddie Starr. On 2 January 1962, the TV series, Z-Cars started, the antidote to Dixon of Dock Green. It was fictitiously set in Newtown but filmed in Kirkby. The Beatles passed the BBC audition and played on the radio show Teenagers’ Turn. I had comments from the BBC’s files about this. Brian Epstein asked his tailor to make suits for the Beatles. Walter Smith recalls, “Their language was rather coarse and I had to say to them, ‘Could I ask you to moderate your language and remember you are in a tailor’s shop?’” Horst Fascher describes how the Beatles returned to Hamburg for the opening of the Star-Club, which coincided with the death of Stuart Sutcliffe. Bryan Biggs from the Bluecoat assesses his artistic talent. Roy Young was given an offer to join the Beatles and he did record with them in Hamburg.

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