Jeremy Deller on The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein
Great Lives
BBC
4.2 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 May 2019
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Turner Prize Winner Jeremy Deller believes the music entrepreneur and The Beatles' manager Brian Epstein, has never been properly credited for his role within popular culture.
He's arguing that if Brian hadn't have lived, The Beatles might never have left Liverpool.
Jeremy and presenter Matthew Parris are joined by The Beatles' historian Mark Lewisohn, author of 'Tune In’, to discuss the deeply turbulent - but highly successful life of Brian Epstein, who died aged just 32.
Producer: Eliza Lomas
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2019.
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| 0:26.0 | Julie, at your service, listen to all episodes on BBC Sales. Is there anyone alive in Britain today who hasn't heard of The Beatles? But there's a character |
| 0:42.4 | in the story of the four lads from Liverpool whose name |
| 0:45.3 | is nowhere near as familiar, but without whom the band might never have reached the record-breaking |
| 0:51.0 | success they did. That person is the subject of today's great lives, |
| 0:56.7 | the Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Joining me to talk about the life of the musical entrepreneur and manager is the |
| 1:04.7 | Turner Prize winning artist Jeremy Della. Jeremy had you even been born when Epstein |
| 1:10.6 | died? I was one I was been one years old. I was born in 66 so I was one and a half. |
| 1:17.2 | Your work will indirectly have touched all our listeners but they won't all have heard of you. Much of it's ephemeral. You aren't mainly in the business of marketing objects. You like living artworks. You've staged recreations of battles during the miners' strike. You've helped make music that fuses brass band with |
| 1:34.6 | Acid House. |
| 1:35.6 | You're an artist yourself, a creative person, so I'm intrigued as to where the fascination |
| 1:41.9 | with the man behind the band comes from. |
| 1:44.4 | Why not stop at the creative front, the band themselves? |
| 1:47.6 | I am into the band as well, but I was always interested in this person who seemed in the background who really didn't get the recognition he |
| 1:56.5 | deserved. I always felt that without him they wouldn't, I believe there wouldn't have been |
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