One Two Three Four – The Beatles In Time

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One Two Three Four - The Beatles In Time by Craig Brown: 3. Magical Mystery Tour

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3. Magical Mystery Tour

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The Beatles embark on their American adventure.

The Beatles embark on their American adventure, where the moral majority generally disdain their music. Read by Mark McGann.

The American moral majority disdained The Beatles music, but a reception at the British embassy proved to be startlingly enthusiastic.

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. 

Abridged by Isobel Creed and Jill Waters .

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

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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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