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The Story

The making of Beyoncé — by friends, family and Team Bey insiders

The Story

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Politics, Unknown, Daily News, News

41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

As Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter tour comes to the UK, we chart the rise of a shy schoolgirl from Texas who became a record-breaking billionaire. 


This podcast was brought to you thanks to the support of readers of The Times and The Sunday Times. Subscribe today: http://thetimes.com/thestory


Guest: Megan Agnew.

Host: Luke Jones.

Producer: Hannah Varrall.

Further reading: The making of Beyoncé — by friends, family and Team Bey insiders

Clips: CMA Awards 2016, The Howard Stern Show, YouTube/@bvconcerts, Youtube/@Kamala Harris. Thanks to Parkwood Entertainment/Columbia, Warner Chappell Music, Pulse Publishing Administration, Sony Music Publishing.

Photo: Getty Images.

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0:00.0

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1:04.0

From The Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Luke Jones.

1:13.4

When you were embarking on this profile, did you even put in an interview request for Beyonce?

1:14.7

No.

1:23.3

It was like one of the most intense weeks I've ever had in my career.

1:28.0

I spoke with this producer, Symbolic One, and he worked on the four album.

1:30.6

I was part of a song called Best Thing I Never Had.

1:34.9

Megan Agnew has been trying to get to know a cultural icon.

1:39.9

I can say it was intense and stressful because she had so much music.

1:48.2

And he said that when he turned up to produce some of this album, Beyonce had already recorded 75 tracks.

1:55.4

She was basically like, okay, so I have these five songs that I really love the songs, but I don't care for the production.

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