Double Elvis.

Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about the Beatles are insane.

In their early years as a band, they swallowed more speed than food.

They inspired a generation and provoked insanity driving one fan to slash a hotel made to pieces

when she wouldn't disclose which rooms the band were staying in.

They pulled America, an entire country, out of a deep

state of mourning, and skyrocketed youth culture into a new era. They tried marijuana for the first time

with none other than Bob Dylan. By accident, they were turned on by LSD, dosed with a drug that

would shape their musical creativity in world-changing ways.

And through all the drugs and all of the screams, they made great music, quite literally

some of the greatest music ever made. Truly exciting rock and roll music. And that music you

heard at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Umpapantamime, MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to love letters in the sand by Pat Boone.

And why would I play you that specific slice of heartbreak cheese, could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on July 6, 1957.

And that was the day that John Lennon and Paul McCartney met,

sparking a friendship that would change popular music forever.

On this, part one of a special two-part episode,

pep pills, dosing dentists, violin-obsessed fans,

and four lads who shook the world with excitement,

The Beatles.

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