Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)
EMPIRE LINES27 Loka 2022

Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965)

James Marriott traces the flows of Britain's global oil empire in the 20th century, from a village in Nigeria to The Beatles' 1965 vinyl, Drive My Car.

Penned by Paul McCartney and John Lennon in 1965, ‘Drive my Car’ transported The Beatles on their way to international success. It is the soundtrack of the British empire of the 1960s, characterised by pop culture domination and high-powered men in business suits, rather than top hats and general's uniforms. This ‘late empire’ was built on petrol, plastics, airplanes and vinyl records - which permeated British homes and everyday lives. Tracing the crude oil connections between Ogoni in Nigeria to refineries in Wales, and the colonial heritage of businesses like Shell-BP, James Marriott exposes the pipeline politics underlying Britain’s global empire of oil.

PRESENTER: James Marriott, writer and activist at Platform. He is the co-author of Crude Britannia: How Oil Shaped a Nation with Terry Macalister, published by Pluto Press in 2021. He is executive producer of THE OIL MACHINE (2022), a documentary film screening across the UK in November 2022.

ART: Vinyl Record of Drive My Car, The Beatles (1965).

IMAGE: 'Women at the EMI factory packing the Rubber Soul album'.

SOUNDS: Atlas Sound.

PRODUCER: Jelena Sofronijevic.


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