- In the late 50s, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Richard Starkey were just four Liverpool teenagers who wanted to play music. With no formal training or ability to read or write music, they imitated their American pop heroes. Within a few years, the four would change music history -- and the world -- forever. Freiman traces the birth of the Beatles from their days as the Quarrymen to their first visit to EMI Studios and the recording of "Love Me Do."
- Beatles expert Scott Freiman details the origins of the band that conquered the world, from their musical influences to the "real people" (Mona Best, Bruno Koschmider, Astrid Kirchherr, Klaus Voorman) who crossed their trail between 1957 and the summer of 1962.
Extremely rare audio and video clips include a brief sound recording of John Lennon's school band, The Quarrymen, performing at a church hall fete on July 6, 1957 -- the very day he met Paul McCartney. After Paul joined the Quarrymen, they recorded a record in a storefront -- Percy Phillips' Electrical Shop in Liverpool -- that consisted of Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day" backed with a McCartney original, "In Spite of All the Danger" (based on an Elvis cut, "Tryin' to Get to You") which is now worth in the neighborhood of 200,000 pounds.
Gigs in Mona Best's Casbah Club, Allan Williams's The Jacaranda, as well as the better-known Hamburg junkets and the Cavern Club (again, with video evidence of the band in performance), are all covered. There's plenty of trivia the average Beatlemaniac may not know, from the producer who recorded Tony Sheridan's "My Bonnie" backed by the Beatles with Pete Best (Bert Kaempfert, future composer of "Strangers In the Night"), to the fact that George Martin never heard the Beatles' first attempt to audition for EMI because he was on vacation.
You'll hear clips of early recordings ("September in the Rain," and George singing "Three Cool Cats" and "The Sheik of Araby" for their Jan. 1, 1962 audition for Decca; a rendition of Roy Orbison's "Dream Baby (How Long Must I Dream)" on the BBC Live on March 7, still three months before they will meet George Martin), and hear how Martin was assigned to record the Beatles as punishment by his superiors and tried to duck the job by handing it off to his assistant, Ron Richards.
This first presentation of Freiman's "second season" of "Deconstructing the Beatles" talks has a running time of two hours, as opposed to the 90-minute run times of "Deconstructing Sgt. Pepper...", the White Album, Revolver, and Rubber Soul from 2016-17.
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