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George Harrison's sister Louise Harrison on the release of the early Beatles recordings and the evolution of the band.
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-- but -- very special guest believe it or not it has been fifty years now since John pollen George made their first Beatles recordings.
Ringo joined later on in the ban would become -- best selling group in all history.
Well now those early recordings are available in a special set.
Here to talk about The Beatles first recordings and a lasting popularity of the band is the sister of the late George Harrison Louise Harrison.
Ms.
Harrison we have -- -- -- passed today -- thank you very much I was listening to cue the music into stocks that I'll tell you a modern Beatles fan might not realize that this is early Beatles music.
Mainly because you have a different singer Tony Sheridan from what -- -- actually singing the lead in some of these songs from its special nonetheless.
Yeah well of course he wasn't one of the -- he was of star in his own right at that time.
And they would just a back up plan and scalability and to back up his -- And I than the getting Canada from my brother and about the time and this all happened.
And he was really excited he said but can -- the produced -- the record producer has gotten us on -- to move to a recording.
-- was really excited about it today -- finally said he'll be able to an -- gives it jokingly explaining what the what would happen he said.
Now we will be able to sing a song.
And people will be able to -- singing the song even when announcing in the some.
We got in early sixty -- my how times -- change if significant personnel.
Change up right and still be -- force we've come to know and love and it door.
How did this sort of the losing it sounds more like Elvis music then the typical Beatles sound to talk to me about this evolution with the personnel -- and -- coming on.
Yeah what a little bit later well to Begin with of course they were heavily influenced by Elvis.
And in fact it was when George first saw Elvis on TV and all the -- screaming that he actually asked my mom to buy and can talk as you said I think that's the kind of job I could do it.
But when they first started out there was some onto heroes in Liverpool who knew of people in Hamburg you -- that a hotel.
Business owners and Hummer and so they managed to get some gigs for Liverpool -- into Hamburg.
And that -- -- -- going to their first gig in Hamburg they didn't have a drama.
And they needed -- drama so they knew this kid whose mother had just put in the drum set.
And so they called on him -- said hey would you come to Hamburg where that's and so that's -- -- -- gotten patents at.
But then later on when they actually got a recording content and he said to them out getting going to be -- abandoning OK my -- yeah.
Fasting -- -- -- charming parts of this box that it was about the street is there actually hand written copper be.
And you really get an early look at he really came through their entire career yeah I mean you're -- these are written in their setting your numbers to see but.
I was chuckling -- biography talks about his education he mentions that he was thrown out that didn't read that he's just in one of this very studious very well written he had very -- penmanship with.
Today by the way is the tenth anniversary of your brother's passing -- sodas aren't we still -- For him we do -- but it's fascinating -- ago he'd had enough of the nonsense on this planet.
What do you mean by that at the cutting confident because continued since -- -- it's gotten worse so he just joking when you think.
I think if the rest need to -- is part of it because sentence to that sound music's.
That you know if you driving on the -- with some radio song comes on any Beatles -- people -- -- they turn out.
That volume -- something about the resonance I think the message that they hash and then came.
Down act still has been such a positive -- and that -- people.
