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This is the story behind those songs, the hits, the misses and the demos that the group never released: ‘The Songs The Beatles Gave Away’.</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">2023 marks 60 years since The Beatles’ first performances in Southampton. Join us for an evening of conversation and film with the BBC’s <a%20href="https://www.bobharris.org/"%20style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;color:#ff3366;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">Bob Harris</span></a> and author/music journalist <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">Colin Hall</span>. Based around their mutual love and appreciation of The Beatles, tonight includes previously unseen footage from Bob Harris’ <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Old Grey Whistle Test</em> meeting with John Lennon.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">‘Whispering’ Bob Harris, OBE has been at the very heart of UK music scene for the best part of fifty years. He has established a worldwide reputation as one of the most trusted and influential broadcasters of his generation. The Radio Times called him ‘…one of the greats of British contemporary music broadcasting’, and ‘a national treasure’ by The Mail on Sunday.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">For the past 20 years, Colin Hall has been the custodian at John Lennon’s childhood home, ‘Mendips’. He has guided the likes of Bob Dylan, Yoko Ono and James Taylor around the property. He’s written two books on The Fab Four and presented a BBC Radio 4 documentary with Alexei Sayle titled <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">The Lennon Visitors</em>. Colin was – incredibly – in the audience at the Village Fete where John was first introduced to Paul..!</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;">Colin and Bob have worked on several projects together before. This includes the upcoming film <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Pre:Fab</em> (which focuses on the band’s early days as The Quarrymen), a WBBC production of <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">The Songs The Beatles Gave Away</em> and 2007’s Sony Award winning <em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">The Day John Met Paul</em>.</p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><em style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;">Colin (Hall) is perhaps the world’s greatest Beatle authority.</em> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">Bob Harris</span></p><p style="margin-bottom:1.5rem;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:16px;background:#ffffff;border:0px;color:#000000;font-family:'open sans', arial, sans-serif;"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">IN ADVANCE: £20</span>, Friends <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">£18</span>, students &amp; under 18s<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;"> £10 </span><br /><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">ON THE DAY: £22</span>, Friends <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">£19.80</span>, under 18s &amp; students <span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;border:0px;font-weight:700;">£11</span></p><p><br /></p>"^^http://purl.org/xtypes/Fragment-XHTML
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