One Two Three Four – The Beatles In Time

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One Two Three Four - The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown: 5. Strawberry Fields Forever

One Two Three Four - The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown

5. Strawberry Fields Forever

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The Beatles hair became a trademark. Locks of it are still available to buy, at a price.

How the Beatles’ legacy lives on in unexpected ways like moptops and imitation wigs. Concluded by Mark McGann and Craig Brown.

It’s hard to pinpoint whose idea it was, but the characteristic moptop became a Beatles trademark, spawning thousands of imitation wigs. 

Their legacy lives on in unexpected ways. 

Craig Brown presents a series of kaleidoscopic glimpses of the Beatles through time. 

Drawing on interviews, diaries, anecdotes, memoirs and gossip, he offers an entertaining series of vignettes that capture the mood of an era. 

It’s a journey that takes us from 9th November 1961 when Brian Epstein first heard the four young men in a sweaty basement, via their mop top haircuts, to the jaw-dropping prices paid for the most trivial of memorabilia. 

And along the way there is the music, always the exuberant, the playful and ever-changing music.

Read by Mark McGann and Craig Brown

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters 

A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in March 2021.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

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Drama: Biographical

Music: Classic Pop & Rock

A fascinating biography of the Fab Four that echoes the frenetic hurly-burly of an era.

Craig Brown's fascinating, hilarious, kaleidoscopic biography of the Fab Four. Read by Mark McGann.

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