‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, OBE has been at the very heart of UK music scene for the best part of 50 years. lets not forget, The Rolling Stones who were bequeathed ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, a tune from a teenage McCartney, that was finished in 20 minutes in the studio as The Stones were recording! The Merseybeat boom of 1963 & 1964 gave them a tailor made outlet and among the many recipients of these songs were Cilla Black, Billy J Kramer (who both offer candid insights) Tommy Quickly, and…. This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’, and includes previously unseen footage from Bob’s Old Grey Whistle Test meeting with John Lennon in 1974.īy 1963 Lennon and McCartney had written so many songs they simply couldn’t all be accommodated on just their own Beatles releases, so it made artistic and economic good sense to be offered to other artists for recording. In particular they tell how Lennon, McCartney, and to a lesser extent Harrison, gifted their tunes to others. BBC legend Bob Harris and author/music journalist Colin Hall host an intimate evening based around their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles.
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