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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out

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https://linktr.ee/bigsort A podcast by two brothers: Garry ranks Beatles recordings and beyond - Paul offers info/sighs. Season 4: THE BIG SIXTIES SORT OUT continues soon S-O-T/L'Pool

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 17d

BONUS EPISODE: during our recent trip to Hamburg, we kept a little audio diary of our activities - Beatley and otherwise! Find it in the podcast apps today!

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#beatles #podcast #hamburg

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 6m

No, other direction. Maybe I’ll go there later!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 41m

An interesting instrument in its own right… nicely restored/maintained. I’ve never seen a five string banjo with the fifth string fed through the neck from the headstock rather than on a side peg!

Neck join and drum of the Quarrymen banjo

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 42m

Unfortunately I wasn’t part of the tour group today, but everyone seemed to be having a marvellous time!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 43m

…but also their newest instrument donation - the Quarrymen banjo, as played by Rod Davis and donated by its current owner Ashley Davie.

A fantastic piece of musical history, as played by John when he’d break one of his own strings at gigs!

Five string banjo in display case at Strawberry Fields

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 45m

Strawberry Field was unveiling not only their wonderful photomosaic wall today on @johnlennonofficial.bsky.social’s birthday (are you on there?)…

Photograph of a wall of pictures arranged as a mosaic to make the face of John Lennon

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 47m

Guess where I’ve been this morning…

(P)

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yes, that famous vinyl retailer!

It's kind of insane how records are infiltrating so much again - becoming a hugely fashionable thing. Only a couple of years ago the Books Stall that visits our work was mainly that - books - now boxes of records are taking over.

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly not. I shall have to use my own!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose there comes a time in every Beatles fan’s life where they find themselves buying Press To Play and Rotogravure on record. My time is now! (P)

Paul from Big Sort holding up vinyl copies McCartney’s Press To Play and Ringo’s Rotogravure.

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

I should have answered, "Because MUSIC is brilliant and changes and enhances life in a million ways, also we're teaching people how to use the technology that affects you every time you watch a film, use your phone, put on the TV, switch on a radio... (and it's all taught in context as well)"

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

And reminds me of when I taught Music Technology in a college, one of the more senior lecturers from a different discipline could not understand WHY. She'd characterise it as 'playing guitars and that' and do a stupid air-strum gesture. I'm still mad about it now, years later!

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

Could happen!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 1d

Not just yet! That'll be coming along in the new year... we've quite a few orders of business to attend to first!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 2d

Recording for the next block of episodes for the ongoing epic that is Series 4, The Big Sixties Sort Out, begins today!

We'll be back soon.

Photograph of the Beatles in 1967 taken from the NME. The headline pasted on the photograph reads BEATLES Have They Gone Too Far?

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Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 4d

For three years in the mid-sixties, The Beatles had their own cartoon series - from the same team who went on to make Yellow Submarine - and now everyone pretends it doesn't exist. So I joined Paul and Garry on @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social for a chat about it...

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The Big Beatles Sort Out: The Beatles Cartoon

I join Paul and Garry Abbott on The Big Beatles Sort Out for a chat about the long-forgotten animated adventures of the Fab Four.

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 3d

The Allerton Oak in Calderstones Park, Liverpool.

Black and white photograph of the Allerton Oak. A 500 year old tree with branches supported by steel beams.

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 6d

Enjoying our @bigsort.bsky.social pod excursion to watch @threebeansaladpod.bsky.social live! I wonder if this many people would turn up if we ever did a live show? (Maybe if all of them came and brought a friend?)

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 7d

Gosh, I love this silly fizzy guitar tone so much! (P)

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The Beatles - Fixing A Hole - Isolated Guitar Solo

YouTube video by Rock Band Stems

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 7d

If you haven't caught up with our 'between proper bits' episodes, you've got a little time. We'll be back recording soon for the next phase of Season 4!

Hear what we got up to in Hamburg here. Hear here. Hear hear!

The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 17d

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 7d

Don't be confused, pals. We've shortened our Bluesky handle to just @bigsort.bsky.social for ease of telling people about it.

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Ben Baker @benbaker.bsky.social · 8d

For those who might not know, I'm part of a small community station called Noisebox Radio. We play music you know, music you might not and music you haven't heard for ages. If you've never tried it, tonight is an excellent time to start - not least of all because I'm on at 8pm. :) noiseboxradio.com

Noisebox Radio

Making a noise about great music

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 9d

when the late afternoon
drifts into the woods, when
nothing matters specially.

[Brian Patten / Travelling Between Places / The Mersey Sound]

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 9d

Leaving nothing and nothing ahead;
when you stop for the evening
the sky will be in ruins,

when you hear late birds
with tired throats singing
think how good it is that they,

knowing you were coming,
stayed up to greet you
who travels between places (...)

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 9d

Oh this is sad news. The Mersey Sound remains my most revisited book of poetry.

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 9d

RIP Liverpool poet Brian Patten, aged 79. I still have an original copy of the Penguin Mersey Sound paperback, which I bought as a teenager. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Liverpool poet Brian Patten dies at 79

His poetry often explored love and relationships and he wrote books for children including Gargling With Jelly

www.theguardian.com

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The Big Beatles & Sixties Sort Out @bigsort.bsky.social · 9d

I'd love to know what colours the shirts and logos were.