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Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out Podcast
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A podcast by two brothers: Garry ranks Beatles recordings and beyond - Paul offers info/sighs.

Season 4: THE BIG SIXTIES SORT OUT continues soon

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As we're in #Beatles #Anthology season, here's a piece of artwork depicting everyone's favourite talking head from the series - dear old Neil Aspinall.

This was drawn by Paul's partner, Lorraine, and some of you may have seen this as part of the wonderful @teatles.bsky.social 'Trumps' card game.
Pen drawing of Neil Aspinall, in a shirt, sweater and hat, as depicted in the 1990s in Beatles Anthology.
November 21, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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It’s gonna cost you a fortune in razor blades and little bits of tape
Black and white photo of man at an old Ampex tape editing machine
November 19, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Pretty sure it's the Across The Universe session on 4th February 1968. Some marvellous Beatles clobber on display.
John, George and Paul around the microphone in Abbey Road, Feb 1968.
November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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More tea activity - milk distribution from Mal in the same session.
Paul McCartney at an Organ, John , Ringo and Mal in the background having tea. Abbey Road, circa 1968.
November 19, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Happy International Men’s Day, if you are an international man. As you can see here, in this photo we (Paul - L and Garry - R) are in Menorca, therefore qualifying for International Men status.
Two sweaty English idiots on holiday in Menorca stood by some art that says OK in neon.
November 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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GEORGE'S MARVELLOUS SHIRT!

How is both too bright and too dull at the same time? Magic.
Photograph of the Threetles and George Martin at the mixing desk as seen in the Anthology. Harrison's shirt is simultaneously too bright and too dark.
November 18, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Relevant illustrations for social media for the 1968 selection today...
Cover of the NME from 1968 showing a doe-eyed Tom Jones. Inset is the headline Tom Jones Is Sued and a grab of some dancing penguins from a 1990s John Smiths advert. Barry Ryan sits in front of a colourful ceramic fruit sculpture bowl thing. Headline is At Home With Barry Ryan. Inset is a snap from the NME of Barry Ryan with his arms around his mum Marian.
November 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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When there’s nothing else to do, sit on the floor, put The Beatles’ Mono Masters on and luxuriate in your library space.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Marge Simpson holding a potato and saying I Just Think They're Neat!
November 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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Apple Music just gave up animating the album art and has created a series of space transporter fly machine crossover Beatle amalgams
The cover of Let It Be, but the four portraits have been overlaid in different combinations, so Ringo and George are combined, John and a slightly different sized John, George and Paul and George and John.
November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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In our newest episode, we posit the idea that The Hollies would have made for a great cast of a gritty heist or gang drama.
Mock up of a Guy Ritchie style SNATCH poster, but featuring the Hollies in 1966 from the cover of their I Can't Let Go sheet music.
November 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Here’s this week’s most important accompanying image. THE HOLLIES in a gritty new British crime drama!
Photograph of the Hollies in 1966 taken from the cover of their Can’t Let Go sheet music. They look like the cast of a gritty gang crime drama.
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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"Oh boy"
Len Barry in a 60s portrait photo from the NME, looking slightly like he's just been Quantum Leapt into.
November 4, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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And here's the players from this week's game of THE SIXTIES. The future? The past? The present?
Advert for The Exciting Yardbirds, described as Hit Recorders of For Your Love 1965 photograph of the Everly Bros in the Evening Standard and clippings about their 1965 tour with Cilla and Billy J. We're Not Worried, say Everly brothers, tour programmes will be four foot long. NMExclusive interview with Len Barry, reads the headline in a 1965 NME. Barry is photographed looking very smart.
November 3, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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Just remembered a did a Spooky version of the podcast theme tune for promoting the Halloween episodes!
October 31, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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FAB
Cartoon of a group of mainly girls in a crowd together. One says to another I Never Heard The Beatles But We Were Fab! Leicester Chronicle 29 Nov 1963
October 29, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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B-E-A-T-L-E-S
Be "With It" Beatle Fans - for the latest feminine Beatle Hair Style come to Artiste Ragene in Hair where you can sit and listen to the b e a t l e s. Leicester Chronicle 29 Nov 1963.
October 29, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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BEATLES
BEATLES
BEATLES
Beatles Beatles Beatles Get your 'Beatle' Fashions from the trend-setters, The Irisih Manufacturing Co. Leicester Chronicle, 29th Nov 1963
October 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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The Liverpool Echo referred back to that significant anniversary - 28th October 1961 (3pm, specifically!) when previewing Brian Epstein's Cellarful of Noise on 21st Nov 1964.
Snippet from Liverpool Echo, 21st November 1964. The headline Who Are The Beatles refers to Brian Epstein being unaware of the group when Raymond Jones came to call. The short article advertises that the book will be excerpted in the Echo starting the next week.
October 28, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Stay fresh, pop fans!
Illustration of a packet of chewing gum called Anglo Beatmint 3D Eight Pieces, plus the tagline Strictly From Wowsville!
October 27, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Just about here, as the maps show us!
Google Maps image looking down Elswick Street, the street from the sitcom Bread, towards the Mersey.
October 23, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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Has he decanted his Tomato Ketchup into a ramekin?
Close up of what appears to be a bowl of ketchup on the table with Ringo as he eats breakfast
October 23, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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I love seeing a photo I've not seen before, especially if I can become obsessed with some weird detail, like what is that picture (?) and lamp (?) on the side behind Ringo? The lamp looks like a cross between a storm lantern and a jar of spaghetti.
Crop of the corner of a picture of Ringo eating breakfast. It highlights a weird tall yellow lamp, possibly, and maybe a picture.
October 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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It’s miserable and rainy here, the buses are too busy to get on and so I needed a plan. What better plan than popping to Ye Cracke to pass the time?
Paul from Big Sort stood by the Welcome to Ye Cracke sign inside the pub. He has a pint of Ossett Silver King.
October 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Illustrative newspaper extracts for this episode. Note especially: CHUBBY CHECKER - CHROMAKEY INNOVATOR!
Advert from Disc magazine. Congratulations Mr Acker Bilk 1st Trad Musician to top the hit parade charts and win a silver disc with stranger on the shore. From Back stage magazine, Videotape Centre uses new Chroma-Key Magic in Chubby Checker Commercial. Photo shows a shrunk down Checker in amongst a display of shoes. Inset photo of Kenny Ball. Caption is ...top of the charts. Other advert from Billboard Everybody is playing BALL (Kenny Ball That Is) it's a hit March Of The Siamese Children. Photo in Evening Standard from 1962, Joe Brown, head resting on hand, caption, "I'm a bit of a scruffy nit"
October 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM