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Ken Bruce is live from Abbey Road studios to celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Beatles’ iconic album and the launch of Radio 2 Beatles, a four-day pop-up DAB radio station.

Ken has a special live music performance from Gabrielle Aplin performing music from her new album Dear Happy, which is released in 2020. Gabrielle also performs an exclusive cover of The Beatles' classic Here Comes The Sun.

Plus Grammy Award winning producer, composer and artist Alan Parsons picks his Tracks of My Years with songs from The Beatles and Pink Floyd. Alan was second engineer on the last two albums by The Beatles, Abbey Road and Let It Be. After that he became a fully-fledged recording engineer and went on to work with Paul McCartney and The Hollies, among many others. However it was his contribution as engineer on Pink Floyd’s classic The Dark Side Of The Moon that really got him the world’s attention. That soon led to striking successes as a producer, notably with Pilot, John Miles and Steve Harley. He also produced the hugely successful Year Of The Cat album with Al Stewart and two albums with American prog rock band Ambrosia.

In 1975 he met Eric Woolfson who not only became his manager, but joined forces with Alan as a songwriting and performing partner for what became known as The Alan Parsons Project. Alan’s long time hobby has been performing magic and his brand new album, The Secret, showcases his own passion for the craft. The album sees a return to the pop rock sound with symphonic and progressive rock interludes which the Alan Parsons Project was known for.

Plus he has another edition of the PopMaster music quiz with a special nod to The Beatles. There's also the record and album of the week.

If you want to contact the show, just email - ken.bruce@bbc.co.uk