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Podcast: FRUMESS
Episode: How The Beatles Found Success Through Failure - Decca Records Audition 1/1/1962 | Frumess
Description: The Beatles are one of the most successful bands of all time in numerous ways. One could argue that many of those successes can be traced back to a moment in their musical history before John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison brought in Ringo Starr aka Richard Starkey. When their drummer was still Pete Best and Brian Epstein was hoping that he could deliver what he had promised when he signed on as their manager: A recording contract with Decca Records. This watershed moment took place on their New Years Day Audition 1962. They would be rejected then in...