Episode 100: “Love Me Do” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
00:00
Lennon and McCartney's Second Performance
Astonishingly, some audio recording actually exists of the Quarrymen's second performance that day. They did two sets and this second one comes just after Lennon met McCartney rather than just before. The recording only seems to exist in a very fragmentary form which has snatches of Lennon singing Baby Let's Playhouse and Loy Danigans hit Putting On The Style. But that even those fragments have survived given how historic a day this was is almost miraculous.
Transcript
Play full episode
