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Unplugged
It was 1962. In January the infamous Decca session went badly: possibly nerves, possibly because of not using their own equipment, possibly through not using their best material. Certainly because their current USP of raw live energy was totally lost in an alien studio. So: no signing. In June they do sign to EMI thanks to the huge amount of hard work by Brian Epstein; in July Ringo joins the group and in December the lads do their final ever nights in Hamburg. Throughout the year regular live appearances occur mainly in Liverpool. Love Me Do and Please, Please Me are recorded and released.
"It was common in those days to find material for artists...and what I wanted for the Beatles was a hit...I was convinced that How Do You Do It was a hit song. In the end I went with Love Me Do but would still have issued How Do You Do It had they not persuaded me to listen to another version of Please, Please, Me." George Martin, The Anthology.
Meanwhile elsewhere: At the cinema: Dr No, Lolita and Lawrence of Arabia; The Cuban Missile Crisis; Satirical magazine Private Eye starts; The Thalidomide scandal.
That’s another reason we love The Beatles.
Reason 1: Story-tellers; 2: Sgt. Pepper; 3: Eternally optimistic; 4: Still cool; 5: George Harrison.; 6: Love Me Do
7: Work Ethic ;8: Synchronicity; 9: The Roof-top Concert; 10: Candlestick Park; 11: Lennon & McCartney
12: I Saw Her Standing There; 13: Liverpool; 14: Black & White; 15: Album Covers; 16: John Lennon
17: Lennon & McCartney; 18: Rock 'n Roll; 19: They Never Made it Easy; 20: Ringo
21: Meditation & Massage; 22: The Back of a Commer Van; 23: George Martin.
24: Simply Different
25: A Time to Think
26: Revolver
27: Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
28: The B Side
29: The Philosophy
30: December 1960: A Turning Point
31: What really, really motivated The Beatles?
32: 1961
33: Their last rock 'n roller.
35: The Magnum Opus
36: Mr Brian Epstein