2 - Episode 2 – Someone To Love, Someone Like You

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Episode 2 – Someone To Love, Someone Like You It wasn’t just that the Beatles wanted to be on Parlophone: it was also that Parlophone was desperate to find a good beat group. Possibly, the Beatles had a recording contract before they even set foot in Abbey Road. The reocrdings from their first session are played and it’s self-evident that Pete Best’s drumming was adrift on ‘Love Me Do’, prompting George Martin to tell Brian Epstein he would be using a session drummer next time. He didn’t know that the group had doubts about Pete anyway and this was the last straw. The Beatles heard the US visitors Bruce Channel and Delbert McClinton, who were riding high with ‘Hey! Baby’, and McClinton describes how Lennon wanted harmonica tips, an instrument he had stolen from a shop during his first journey to Hamburg. Willy Russell describes the magic of being 14 and hearing the Beatles at the Cavern. Marty Wilde recalls fans telling him of the Beatles when he came to the Empire. Joe Brown and his Bruvvers played on Merseyside for a few days in August, arranged by Brian Epstein with the Beatles in support. ‘I knew their trick,’ says Joe, ‘They wanted the audience standing up and screaming so hard that the main act couldn’t get on. They were a hard act to follow, but we did it.’ Then Pete Best was sacked. Why was he sacked and why was he replaced by Ringo? A range of views and maybe George Melly’s is not the most accurate, but it’s the most amusing. Then there’s ‘How Do You Do It’. We hear Barry Mason’s original recording and the thoughts of songwriter Mitch Murray. We hear the Beatles lack-lustre version and how the song got to Gerry and the Pacemakers. Although the Beatles had a new drummer, Ringo Starr, Parlophone booked a London session drummer, Andy White, married to Vernons girl, Lyn Cornell. We hear their first attempt at ‘Please Please Me’ with Andy White. The episode concludes with details of the new management contract for the Beatles.

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