Fact #52389
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Short story:
The first of two days is spent recording the TV special The Music Of Lennon and McCartney, at Studio 6, Granada TV Centre, Manchester, England, UK, Europe. Performing artists include The Beatles, Lulu, Billy J. Kramer, Peter Sellers, Cilla Black, Marianne Faithfull, Henry Mancini, Esther Phillips and Peter And Gordon.
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Johnny Hamp (BBC TV producer) : I'd just done a special called The Bacharach Sound, so I suggested to Epstein that we could do the same thing for John and Paul, getting as many different versions of their songs as possible. Once I had his agreement, I went to Lennon's flat in London and they played me tapes of fifteen new songs, from which we selected Day Tripper and We Can Work It Out as the ones they would do on the show.
Tony Bramwell (head of presentation, NEMS) : Paul was particularly excited by the show. He was the one who saw himself as a songwriter in the old Tin Pan Alley tradition. He felt that when The Beatles thing blew over, people would ring him up and ask for songs and that would be his life.
Fritz Spiegl (session musician) : They were famous to the weenyboppers, but The Beatles didn't mean a lot to us serious, grown-up musicians who played in the Philharmonic. I remember though, walking across the Granada Studios car park between the rehearsal and the actual show, when a horde of screaming teeny boppers broke through the gate. It was like being caught in a stampede. They were just hysterical. It was obscene.
Billy J. Kramer : I had been the first person to cover one of their songs. I was sitting in my dressing room when Brian Epstein walked in with John and Paul, and Paul actually said, 'Thank you for believing in our songs before anybody else did.' Then they gave me some cash, which I think was to compensate for the fact that my royalty rates from EMI on Do You Want To Know A Secret? were so lousy.
Lulu : I hadn't actually recorded any Beatles songs but when I talked to Johnny Hamp I was very keen to be part of it. Left to myself, I'd have gone for Love Me Do, but John apparently wanted me to sing I Saw Her Standing There, so I dashed off into a studio and recorded it specially, so I could go on the show.
Tony Bramwell : Peter Sellers did his mock-Shakespearian version of A Hard Day's Night, and he was stoned out his mind the whole time, but it was during this show that he and Ringo struck up a real friendship.
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Tony Bramwell (head of presentation, NEMS) : Paul was particularly excited by the show. He was the one who saw himself as a songwriter in the old Tin Pan Alley tradition. He felt that when The Beatles thing blew over, people would ring him up and ask for songs and that would be his life.
Fritz Spiegl (session musician) : They were famous to the weenyboppers, but The Beatles didn't mean a lot to us serious, grown-up musicians who played in the Philharmonic. I remember though, walking across the Granada Studios car park between the rehearsal and the actual show, when a horde of screaming teeny boppers broke through the gate. It was like being caught in a stampede. They were just hysterical. It was obscene.
Billy J. Kramer : I had been the first person to cover one of their songs. I was sitting in my dressing room when Brian Epstein walked in with John and Paul, and Paul actually said, 'Thank you for believing in our songs before anybody else did.' Then they gave me some cash, which I think was to compensate for the fact that my royalty rates from EMI on Do You Want To Know A Secret? were so lousy.
Lulu : I hadn't actually recorded any Beatles songs but when I talked to Johnny Hamp I was very keen to be part of it. Left to myself, I'd have gone for Love Me Do, but John apparently wanted me to sing I Saw Her Standing There, so I dashed off into a studio and recorded it specially, so I could go on the show.
Tony Bramwell : Peter Sellers did his mock-Shakespearian version of A Hard Day's Night, and he was stoned out his mind the whole time, but it was during this show that he and Ringo struck up a real friendship.
(Source : not known)