The Beatles Are Back With New BBC Music

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The Beatles “On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2”, is being released in 2CD and 180-gram vinyl packages with a 48-page booklet. On Air’s 63 tracks, none of […]

The Beatles “On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2”, is being released in 2CD and 180-gram vinyl packages with a 48-page booklet. On Air’s 63 tracks, none of which overlaps with The Beatles’ first BBC release, include 37 previously unreleased performances and 23 previously unreleased recordings of in-studio banter and conversation between the band’s members and their BBC radio hosts.

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Ten of On Air’s songs were never recorded by the group for EMI in the 1960s, including two making their debuts with the new release: The Beatles’ direct-to-air performance of Chuck Berry’s “I’m Talking About You” and a rocking cover of the standard “Beautiful Dreamer.” On Air also includes different versions of six rarities heard on the 1994 BBC collection: Little Richard’s “Lucille,” Chuck Berry’s “Memphis, Tennessee,” Chan Romero’s “The Hippy Hippy Shake,” Ray Charles’ “I Got A Woman,” and two songs they learned from records by Carl Perkins, “Glad All Over” and “Sure To Fall.” The Beatles’ tribute to the BBC’s most important pop show of the early ’60s – “Happy Birthday, Dear Saturday Club” – is another surprise. As John Lennon recalled in 1980:

“We did a lot of tracks that were never on record for Saturday Club – they were well recorded, too.” Paul remembers, “We’d been raised on the BBC radio programs. One of the big things in our week was Saturday Club – this great show was playing the kind of music we loved, so that was something we really aspired to.”


Between March 1962 and June 1965, no fewer 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, July 16, 1963, The Beatles recorded 18 songs for three editions of their Pop Go The Beatles series in fewer than seven hours. The group played 88 distinct songs in their BBC sessions – some were recorded many times; others performed just once.

“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 program. Then we’d probably drive back to Newcastle for a gig in the evening!”

On Air also features BBC recordings of 30 well-loved songs from The Beatles’ catalogue, including five number ones and other favorites such as: “I Saw Her Standing There,” “Twist And Shout,” “Do You Want To Know A Secret,” “Boys,” “Please Mister Postman,” “Money,” “And I Love Her,” and “If I Fell.” Like its critically acclaimed predecessor, On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2 includes audio of The Beatles talking to DJs Brian Matthew and Alan Freeman and Pop Go The Beatles hosts Lee Peters and Rodney Burke. When first broadcast, pop fans were amazed to hear such witty irreverence on the rather formal BBC and it is great fun to hear these extracts now. In addition, On Air releases, for the first time, the group’s candid interviews for the Pop Profile series recorded in November 1965 and May 1966.

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Track listing:

1. And Here We Are Again (Speech)

2. WORDS OF LOVE

3. How About It, Gorgeous? (Speech)

4. DO YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET

5. LUCILLE

6. Hey, Paul… (Speech)

7. ANNA (GO TO HIM)

8. Hello! (Speech)

9. PLEASE PLEASE ME

10. MISERY

11. I’M TALKING ABOUT YOU

12. A Real Treat (Speech)

13. BOYS

14. Absolutely Fab (Speech)

15. CHAINS

16. ASK ME WHY

17. TILL THERE WAS YOU

18. LEND ME YOUR COMB

19. Lower 5E (Speech)

20. THE HIPPY HIPPY SHAKE

21. ROLL OVER BEETHOVEN

22. THERE’S A PLACE

23. Bumper Bundle (Speech)

24. P.S. I LOVE YOU

25. PLEASE MISTER POSTMAN

26. BEAUTIFUL DREAMER

27. DEVIL IN HER HEART

28. The 49 Weeks (Speech)

29. SURE TO FALL (IN LOVE WITH YOU)

30. Never Mind, Eh? (Speech)

31. TWIST AND SHOUT

32. Bye, Bye (speech)

33. John – Pop Profile (Speech)

34. George – Pop Profile (Speech)

35. I SAW HER STANDING THERE

36. GLAD ALL OVER

37. Lift Lid Again (Speech)

38. I’LL GET YOU

39. SHE LOVES YOU

40. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE

41. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SATURDAY CLUB

42. Now Hush, Hush (Speech)

43. FROM ME TO YOU

44. MONEY (THAT’S WHAT I WANT)

45. I WANT TO HOLD YOUR HAND

46. Brian Bathtubes (Speech)

47. THIS BOY

48. If I Wasn’t In America (Speech)

49. I GOT A WOMAN

50. LONG TALL SALLY

51. IF I FELL

52. A Hard Job Writing Them (Speech)

53. AND I LOVE HER

54. Oh, Can’t We? Yes We Can (Speech)

55. YOU CAN’T DO THAT

56. HONEY DON’T

57. I’LL FOLLOW THE SUN

58. Green With Black Shutters (Speech)

59. KANSAS CITY/HEY-HEY-HEY-HEY!

60. That’s What We’re Here For (Speech)

61. I FEEL FINE (STUDIO OUTTAKE)

62. Paul – Pop Profile (Speech)

63. Ringo – Pop Profile (Speech)

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