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Coming Up on the Beatles Network


Welcome to the Beatles experience you’ve been waiting for, with the largest collection of Beatles recordings ever assembled.—SiriusXM.com, the Beatles Channel home page

Thank you for being a loyal fan of the Beatles Network, the satellite-radio station that brings you Beatles, Beatles, and more Beatles, “eight days a week.” By subscribing to our e-newsletter, you’ve made us say, “Yeah, yeah, yeah”! Also, “Hey Bulldog”!

Though the Fab Four recorded only thirteen albums and two hundred and thirteen original songs together, it’s impossible to overstate their cultural and musical impact. But don’t worry—we will never stop trying.

We know you love to hear the Beatles’ music, and we know you love to hear people talk about it. And why not? There may be a finite number of songs, but there are infinite ways to enjoy them. That’s been the logic behind our countdown shows such as “The Beatles: All the Songs in Alphabetical Order,” “The Beatles: All the Songs in Chronological Order,” and “The Beatles: All the Songs in Reverse Alphabetical Order”—to say nothing of our special interview shows, featuring new and archival commentary by the Beatles, the people who knew them best, and other people who didn’t know them as well.

And here’s a news flash: in the coming months, we’re rolling out a whole new slate of shows that are, in a word, Beatlemaniacal. So get ready for exclusive Beatles Network programs like these:

“The Beatles: All the Songs Grouped by First Letter but Not Alphabetized Beyond That”
A more casual approach.

“The Beatles: Desert-Island Tracks”
If you were marooned on a desert island and could have only two hundred of the Beatles’ two hundred and thirteen songs to listen to, which would you choose? We’ll play our suggestions, followed by thirteen others you might also want to consider.

“ ‘With the Beatles’ (U.K.) vs. ‘Meet the Beatles!’ (U.S.)”
Same cover photograph, two significantly different LPs. We’ve taken the best tracks from each, sequenced them carefully, and created the album that never was: “Meet with the Beatles.”

“The Beatles at Shea Stadium: I Was There”
Stories and anecdotes about the legendary concert, from fans who were lucky enough to attend. A lot of them couldn’t hear very much, though.

“The Beatles: The Vowel Years”
Our survey of Beatles songs whose lyrics contain at least one vowel. The follow-up to last year’s popular “Consonants Countdown.”

“The Beatles: Songs That Lesser Musicians Claim to Have Given Them the Idea For”
There were a lot of other artists on that retreat with the Maharishi. If one of them says that he urged John to write “Glass Onion” when it was only the two of them in the Sivananda room, there’s just not much we can do about it.

“Paul McCartney Mentions That He Can’t Read Music”
This ninety-minute special is comprised solely of excerpts from interviews in which Paul remarks that he can’t read music.

“The Beatles: All the Songs in the Order in Which You First Heard Instrumental Versions of Them in the Supermarket and Another Little Piece of You Died”
You really have to hand it to our research staff for putting this one together.

“The Beatles: Tuning Up Between Takes”
With most bands, eavesdropping on something as mundane as them tuning their instruments wouldn’t offer much insight into the creative process. With all bands, actually.

“The Rolling Stones: Better Musicians Than the Beatles?”
Wash your mouth out with soap.

“Movie Stars Talk About How the Beatles Influenced Their Mediocre Vanity Albums”
Without “Rubber Soul,” would Robert Downey, Jr.,’s “The Futurist” even exist? It’s too late to find out.

“Pete Best’s Beatles: What I Would Have Done Differently”
The Beatles’ original drummer, Pete Best, d.j.’s all two hundred and thirteen songs and tells you what’s wrong with the drum track on each one of them.

“The Beatles: Slang of the Sixties”
“Gear” meant great, women were “birds,” and you sure didn’t want to be “naff”! O.K., that pretty much covers it.

“The Beatles: As Sung By . . .”
A weekly hour of Beatles songs that have been recorded by other artists. The covers are never as good as the originals, though, so we just play those.

“The Beatles: All Two Hundred and Thirteen Songs, Ranked by the Previously Uncontacted Kawapura Amazon Tribe Upon Hearing Them for the First Time”
The hunter-gatherer Kawapura reside in a corner of the rainforest so remote that they’d never heard any recorded music—until we arrived. Sadly, they’d never built up any immunity to the common cold, either. Like the Beatles, they will be missed.



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