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OTB 0017 (1CD) Sunday 25 May 1986, 1-2pm Mark Lewisohn Hard to say why it took so long but Mark Lewisohn was my first live guest. He was also my first repeat guest, having appeared in OTB 0005, an interview recorded at the Beatles Convention. There were five copies of The Beatles Live! to be given away. I had asked the listeners for questions and Mark had no advance knowledge. They presented no problems at all and he talks with authority about the writing of ‘Nowhere Man’; when they became the Beatles; when they were first wore suits; Jim McCartney’s jazz band; the Beatles at the David Lewis Theatre; the Beatles’ view of the Hollies (There was an early headline, ‘Lennon blasts Hollies’: ML says “The Hollies were contemporaries of the Beatles and came along because of the Beatles.”); the Litherland Town Hall performance of the Beatmakers: Johnny Gus playing bass for the Beatles at St John’s Hall while Paul went into the audience with a mike; Bernard Purdie’s claim in Modern Drummer that he played on 21 Beatle records: the two versions of ‘Love Me Do’; Monty Lister’s questions to the Beatles; the NME said that they had recorded ‘Keep Your Hands Off My Baby’ for EMI (erroneously); a gig in Portsmouth that was cancelled because Paul had flu; the Beatles at Little Theatre, Southport: the value of Beatles autographs on a napkin (“£50 perhaps”); the sacking of Pete Best (“jealousy, drumming ability and shyness”); the fact that Paul wants sight of questions before an interview “but he can speak for two minutes and you would be none the wiser”; why Pete Best didn’t make it (“Some people are cut out for fame and some aren’t.”): why didn’t the Beatles record in America (“They nearly did in Memphis”); why the Hollywood Bowl album did not come out at the time (The Beatles didn’t want it out); the Beatles’ last performance and last song at the Liverpool Empire (‘I’m Down’, Liverpool Empire, 5 December 1965). Mark chooses the prize-winners: Neil Foster, Bob Rankine, Brian Bowman, Bill Williamson, Geoffrey Davis. Gosh, that’s a full and informative programme. There was a passing comment from Kenny Johnson that Sonny Webb and the Cascades for £7.50 for playing the Grafton Rooms. He wanted to know what the Beatles were paid: Mark said that it depended on which show it was. The Beatles had played the Grafton three times and got £30, £100 and £300. Beatle quotes Live T

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