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What’s Goin’ On

The Beatles

ABC Theatre Blackpool

1 August 1965

into how The Beatles sounded as a live unit without the overbearing screaming of their fanbase. was broadcast on TV to promote the album, and the crowd enthusiasm was somehow mixed to a minimum so we can hear just how tight they’d become, a little over a year before they would retire from the stage. In under 20 minutes, , , , and a McCartney solo with his mic’d Epiphone Texan for the TV debut of . They sound incredible and incredibly human – fluffing the odd lyric, jiving along with the dancers during the credits and cracking jokes throughout.

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