Episode 100: “Love Me Do” by the Beatles
A History of Rock Music in 500 Songs
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Peter Sellers Beyond the Fringe and More
George Martin was in the back books of Lem Ward, the managing director of EMI. For several years Martin had been having an affair with his secretary. Ward had very strict religious views and discovered Martin's infidelity. Not only that, but Martin was getting far too big for his boots. He was pushing to get an actual royalty on the records he produced. And so in order to shut Kim Bennett at Hardmore and Beachwood up, George Martin was ordered, against his own better instinct, to offer a contract to the Beatles.
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