Introduction

The Beatles came closer than most people realized to never making a record. Until the publication of Mark Lewis and seminal biography, all those years volume 1, tune in. This episode is going to be a long one, much longer than normal. I won't know the precise length until after I've recorded and edited it, but I'm getting it's going to be about 90 minutes. John Matt Paul at Walton Village Fade in 1957, and Paul joined the Quarrymen, who later became the Beatles. They played Hamburg and made a demo, and after the Beatles demo was turned down by Decker, their manager Brian Epstein shopped it around every record label without success. Finally George Martin heard