The Beatles: Abroad (VR-03)

The Beatles Abroad, August 30th 1965.

Brian Matthew joined The Beatles entourage from the August 15th - August 20th 1965 to report on this stage of the group's North American tour. Brian Epstein gave permission to the BBC Transcription Service to record interviews with The Beatles for a documentary programme. The material taped was compiled into a 45 minute documentary "The Beatles Abroad" broadcast by the Light Programme on Monday August 30th 1965 - a bank holiday in England, Wales. Northern Ireland and the Channel Islands. Scotland did not hear the broadcast until Monday January 3rd 1966. 

Previously this has only appeared in poor quality on Strawberry Records' impressive Mythology box set in edited form. Here is the complete broadcast in best quality to date! This version originates from a reel to reel tape, and was missing the first two seconds containing the words "The Beatles Abroad", which were spliced in from the Strawberry release of the same show. Just to make this the most complete version.

As bonustracks we have included a portion of the recently discovered tape of The Beatles appearing on Jukebox Jury as rebroadcasted by the BBC on May 4th 2002, and an interview where Paul gets a bit carried away with revealing the plot to Help...


(1.) Introduction 
(2.) Chat with John & Paul about the Shea concert 
(3.) Twist and Shout 
(4.) Interview with fans
(5.) Tell Me What You See 
(6.) Chat with John about Shea 
(7.) I'm Down 
(8.) George tells about the helicopter ride
(9.) John talks about eggs and chips, performing and "not being sad" 
(10.) I've Just Seen A Face  
(11.) George talks 
about customs 
(12.) Interview with Sounds Corporated 
(13.) Sounds Incorporated - Maria 
(14.) George talks about fame and discos 
(15.) You Like Me Too Much 
(16.) Chat with Ringo about drummers, wives and marridge 
(17.) Act Naturally (fades out)
(18.) The news 
(19.) Act Naturally (fades in) 
(20.) Chat with Paul about fame 
(21.) Yesterday 
(22.) George playing guitar, talking about America and tuning 
(23.) Dizzy Miss Lizzy 
(24.) Outro 
(25.) Help 
(26.) Credits

Bonustracks:

(27.) The Lost Jukebox Jury Tape 
(28.) Wink Martindale Interview