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BBC to show rare Beatles footage

Unheard out-takes from The Beatles’ final recording sessions in Abbey Road will be broadcast for the first time as part of a BBC Fab Four season.

The programme, The Beatles On Record, will include studio chat from the band as they pieced together the album, which contained their final sessions as a band. It also features what the BBC says is “rare footage”, as well as excerpts from 60 songs.

It will be screened next month during a week-long season as the world prepares for the release of the band’s remastered back catalogue and the much-anticipated Beatles Rock Band computer game.

The Beatles On Record has been directed by Bob Smeaton, who worked on the Beatles Anthology project which traced the story of the band and was screened on TV in 1995 to tie in with a series of albums of the same name...
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