George Martin considered recording their debut album live, and even went to Liverpool to see them at the Cavern (they'd already done two singles by then). Obviously he eventually decided to record Please Please Me in the studio in a day, just like the Decca songs (which took just an hour or so).

So you had two label representatives following a broadly similar path, but ending up with ...]]> Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:35:44 +0000 http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/it-was-50-years-ago-today-1/#p49236 Yesterday... and today http://www.beatlesbible.com/forum/yesterday-and-today/it-was-50-years-ago-today-1/#p49236 Decca were probably right to turn them down but there was little difference in what the beatles offered that day, which is all you can go on at an audition, and the music being released in 1961. If the beatles hadnt of gotten anywhere and the tape had been leaked years later i doubt many people looking back would have seen it as a big loss, again based on that single audition.

Wow! That's crazy. Now 50 years later, their music is still being played all over the world, all the time!

Thanks for sharing! 

And...      Decca turned them down!

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Thanks for sharing!