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It was 50 years ago today!
19 October 2011
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MikeFromDetroit
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Now would be a good time to subscribe to my blog, which describes what the Beatles were doing/thinking exactly 50 years ago, on an ongoing basis.  (They haven't yet met Brian Epstein, but they will soon!)

 

http://beatlesplus50.blogspot.com/

 

And thanks, Beatles Bible, for being such a great source of information about the Fabs.

1 January 2012
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MikeFromDetroit
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50 years ago, New Year's Day.  The Beatles are down in London making their recording test with Decca Records.  Beatles Plus 50

2 January 2012
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oh wow. I was excited about it before New Years, then completely forgot about it a-hard-days-night-ringo-13 Thanks for reminding me though. 

I am very happy, and one reason is because I have The Beatles. Thank you!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

5 January 2012
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Wow! That's crazy. Now 50 years later, their music is still being played all over the world, all the time!

Thanks for sharing! 

All day long I'm sitting singing songs for everyone.

8 January 2012
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Sgt. Pepper said:

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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8 January 2012
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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.

"I told you everything I could about me, Told you everything I could" ('Before Believing' - Emmylou Harris)

12 January 2012
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Decca's Mike Smith saw them play at the Cavern before the audition. From what I can tell, the label was disappointed with how they sounded in the studio (inexperienced compared with their live show).

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 the opposite conclusions. I find that quite interesting.

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19 August 2012
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It was 50 years ago today…That debuted the proper quartet of John, Paul, George and Ringo.  Here’s a nice firsthand piece as relayed through music genius Alan Cross:

 
http://ajournalofmusicalthings…..urs-debut/

E is for 'Ergent'.

19 August 2012
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SatanHimself said
…That debuted the proper quartet of John, Paul, George and Ringo.  Here’s a nice firsthand piece as relayed through music genius Alan Cross:

 

http://www.alancross.ca/a-jour…..debut.html

You’ve just jumped 200 million metres up my good books for knowing Alan Cross.

As if it matters how a man falls down.'

'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.

19 August 2012
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Yeah, I know him.  I literally KNOW him (not in the Biblical sense).  He mentioned me on his site just last week.

 

We’ve talked back and forth for over a decade.  The guy is an idiot savant of music knowledge.  I’m a HUGE fan of his former radio documentary series, ‘The Ongoing History Of New Music’. 

E is for 'Ergent'.

19 August 2012
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Seriously? You know him!?!?!? I love his show!! We still get that show in Ottawa.

As if it matters how a man falls down.'

'When the fall's all that's left, it matters a great deal.

19 August 2012
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Yeah, he’s a really approachable guy.  He literally answers almost all of his emails from fans.

We’re both fans of Sloan, and I know the guys from Sloan, so it was this whole “Your chocolate’s in my peanut butter” thing.

He’s a real class act.  Exactly as genuine as you’d think he is.

E is for 'Ergent'.

21 August 2012
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What a great article – it gave me chills.

I never in my wildest dreams thought I would ever type the following words…thank you SatanHimself.

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To the fountain of perpetual mirth, let it roll for all its worth. And all the children boogie.

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