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Bio.Beat: Beatles’ Biggest Secrets
Premieres 14 February 2011, Monday @ 9pm
This 14th February is not merely a celebration for love birds, also an important date for Beatles’ fans. Catch Beatles Biggest Secrets at 9pm on BIO (channel 731) to learn more about the best and worst moments of the band.
Using a combination of new and exclusive interviews, Beatles Biggest Secrets delves into the inside story of the world’s greatest ever pop group, carrying explosive revelations about the extraordinary life (and behaviour) of Liverpool’s favourite sons. This is the Beatles at their best – and their worst, the first fully rounded portrait to appear anywhere on television.
The film begins with Lennon’s death in 1980, but then tracks back to the early 1960’s at the time of the group’s formation and their early days in Liverpool. The story then travels forward through their careers from learning their craft in dingy strip joints to global domination as the world’s greatest ever pop icons. It covers their sexual adventures, romances, McCartney’s paternity suits, rumours of Lennon’s gay interlude, the drugs, the money, the rivalry, and the break up of the band. The film makes its way back to 1980 and Lennon’s death.
The programme features many interviews with significant individuals who were part of The Beatles phenomena. Allan Williams, The Beatles first manager, talks about his duty to keep the band’s girlfriends a secret from the press, paying off women who had affairs with the band to keep them quiet, Tony Barrow, The Beatles PR man adds to this, “There are women in Liverpool who had children fathered by Beatles, they just never kissed and told.” Barrow also talks about Lennon’s relationship with his homosexual manager Brian Epstein, “Lennon was an intrepid sexual adventurer,” says Barrow, “He would have tried out anything.” Major musicologists celebrate their brilliance, but the film also charts those incidents their publicists would prefer to be kept quiet. Other interviews included from their Chauffeurs, concert promoters, PA’s and family & friends.
The Beatles songs are played throughout – sometimes to add emotional counterpoint but on other occasions to explain the inspiration or origins of the composition e.g. George Harrison’s ‘Taxman’, written in protest against a tax regime where the Beatles paid 98p in the pound.
This is a film about sex, drugs and rock and roll, and as ever with the music industry, it’s also about lawyers and money.
The Beatles’ Women, 10.30pm
Next at 10.30pm, viewers get to know more about the ladies surrounding the world famous band, Beatles.
From Yoko Ono to Linda Eastman, from Pattie Boyd to Barbara Bach and Heather Mills, they were in and out of love with the most famous foursome of the Twentieth Century. And, there were others, May Pang, John Lennon’s lost weekend companion, Cynthia Lennon, his first wife, Jane Asher, Paul McCartney’s posh girlfriend during the band’s heyday, Maureen Cox, Ringo’s first wife, and Olivia Trinidad Arias whom George married in 1978.
They were the muses behind some of rock’s greatest songs, rock royalty in their own right. Each of these interesting – and beautiful – women has a story of her own. From John to Paul to Ringo to George, we’ll look at the women in behind and, at times, in front of the Beatles.
This program is available in Bahasa Malaysia and Chinese subtitles.
