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Episode 3

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It's 1974, and The Beatles have reformed for one last album. What are they up to? Paul Merton thinks he knows...

The year is 1974. Labour's Harold Wilson is Britain's Prime Minister, and Richard Nixon is in the White House. Abba win Eurovision, Germany win the World Cup and a new writer called Stephen King publishes his first novel.

After 5 years of tension, ill feeling and fraught negotiation the four Beatles have buried their individual hatchets and are moving tentatively towards a full scale reunion, hopefully culminating in their first new album since 1969.

As a warm up for the recording sessions, the Beatles - and some of their famous friends - have come together once more for a surprise concert, their first time live on stage since 1966 when they gave up live appearances after a show at Candlestick Park in San Francisco.
Join Paul Merton on the commentator's microphone as the Fab Four take to the boards once more....

Well, kind of. Well, all right, not at all. Not really.

Like all of us, Paul Merton is a huge Beatles fan and like all Beatle fans his mind often turns to the "What if's..." of their career.

What if they'd never broken up? What if they were still playing live? What if they made another album?

This four part series is Paul's attempt to answer those questions, and to put forward a fantastical version of Beatle history.

Based on the known facts, and using the recordings available, he imagines the concert that the Beatles could have given, and follows it up with the album that they could have made.

The result is a fascinating look into an alternative reality, but also a clear eyed examination of the strengths and of the forces that drove - and drove apart - the greatest band of all time.

It never happened, but it could have. Couldn't it?

In this week's episode, Paul imagines the return of the Beatles to the recording studio, and plays us the first half of this imaginary album, which he calls...."All Made Up" !

In this week's episode, Paul imagines the return of the Beatles to the recording studio, and suggests the cover songs that they could have recorded for this warm up session before revealing the album itself in next week's final show.

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Mon 12 Jun 2017 22:00
大象传媒 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Paul McCartney

    Be What You See

    • Tug Of War.
    • Parlophone.
    • 5.

  • John Lennon

    I Don't Wanna Face It

    • Anthology.
    • Capitol.
    • 7.

  • George Harrison

    Cockamamie Business

    • Best Of Dark Horse 1976-1989.
    • Warner Bros.
    • 4.

  • Paul McCartney

    Ram On

    • Ram.
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Ringo Starr

    Step Lightly

    • Ringo.
    • Apple.
    • 2.

  • John Lennon

    Ain't That A Shame

    • Rock'n'Roll.
    • Apple.
    • 5.

  • Paul McCartney

    No Other Baby

    • Single.
    • Parlophone.
    • 1.

  • Ringo Starr

    Fading In Fading Out

    • Single.
    • CNR Records International.
    • 1.

  • John Lennon

    Steel & Glass

    • Walls & Bridges.
    • Apple.
    • 3.

  • Wings

    Hi Hi Hi

    • Paul McCartney & Wings - Wingspan.
    • Parlophone.

  • George Harrison

    Horse To The Water, (feat. Jools Holland)

    • Small World Big Band.
    • Warner Special Projects.
    • 2.

  • John Lennon

    #9 Dream

    • GIMME SOME TRUTH. (Deluxe).
    • Calderstone.

  • Wings

    Morse Moose & The Grey Goose

    • London Town.
    • MPL.
    • 6.

  • John Lennon

    Oh My Love

Broadcast

  • Mon 12 Jun 2017 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 2