JOHN EMMS MUSIC REVIEWS

THIS CD SET IS  HISTORICAL

And if you dont’ have it..

SANTA is coming

But there is a lesson to be learned here.

Listen up you bar band players and reality tv show contestants.. Do you think THE BEATLES just became instant celebrities?

No they did not get great from  getting votes, or not practising, and most of all not writing their own songs

Hard Work

They became the band that would write the greatest songs of all time because they worked at it.

Heck, they toured Hamburg and played 7 hour gigs when everyone in the crowd was drunk and out of their heads.

That was before they were famous

But they made the connection, because they not only played with passion but started to write their own songs.

They did not use a computer or backing tapes to help them perform.live

They played their own instruments, and sang their own harmonies.

Even when they ended  it.

On the roof playing live.

Ending the biggest most influential band in the World

LIVE ON A ROOFTOP..WOW…

But here is the real deal.

I don’t usually do this in my reviews but please..

check out this press release..and the quote from GEORGE HARRISON and RINGO STARR

The group played 88 distinct songs in their BBC sessions – some were recorded many times; others performed just once. At the time, three national BBC stations provided all daytime radio broadcasting in the U.K. Only the Light Programme network might occasionally play a record. Most broadcast music was live music. Consequently, to promote their releases, The Beatles had to play live at the BBC. “Everything was done instantly,” remembered George Harrison, “But before that, we used to drive 200 miles in an old van down the M1, come into London, try and find the BBC and then set up and do the programme. Then we’d probably drive back to Newcastle for a gig in the evening!”

Between March 1962 and June 1965, no less than 275 unique musical performances by The Beatles were broadcast by the BBC in the U.K. The group played songs on 39 radio shows in 1963 alone. Ringo Starr said in 1994, “You tend to forget that we were a working band. It’s that mono sound. There were usually no overdubs. We were in at the count-in and that was it. I get excited listening to them.” On their busiest BBC day, 16 July 1963, The Beatles recorded 18 songs for three editions of their Pop Go The Beatles series in fewer than seven hours.

My highlights and notes.

The BBC Broadcasts were recorded live to tape..

Which means the band could do another take

I hear a vocal overdub here and there.

But, unlike today this is it.

The Beatles Live

Money That’s What I Want-John Lennon tearing it up, Ringo kicking in the backbeat

I Saw Her Standing There..Listen as the other Beatles urge Paul on-George rips the lead gtr

Pop profiles of the whole band-..separate..in depth interviews-priceless..has to be heard to be believed

RARE-i’ll Be On My Way-Lennon and Macca original-live tape..wow

She Loves You…live in the studio…………so hip…are you kidding me?

My review of Paul McCartney’s NEW..is also here on my blog

JOHN EMMS is a veteran music journalist, radio host and singer songwriter with the hard working and original rockers

THE SHAFTMEN

check out Apple iTunes to hear John and the band on their brand new SINGLE-MY BABY SAYS

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/my-baby-says-single/id646408621

OR THE JOHN LENNON INFLUENCED SHELTER FROM THE STORM-TRACK 6

https://itunes.apple.com/ca/album/close-another-door/id392307439