The Beatles Anthology: episodes 5 and 6 (original version)

On we go from Shea Stadium to Sgt Pepper. We see how George Harrison, Ringo Starr and Neil Aspinall remember the incident in Manila differently to Paul McCartney, and we put forward the idea that these episodes contain the Beatles' two imperial phases. We ask why George in the 1990s is still annoyed with Paul for making himself LSD spokesman in 1967, and we look in detail at Paul's chipped tooth: did it change everything?

• The Beatles Anthology DVD boxset is available to buy.
• Maybe this is Meryl Streep at Shea Stadium, maybe it isn't. Why not spend your valuable time arguing with strangers on the internet in an attempt to resolve the matter? https://youtu.be/x6aNSHLg18Y
• Read more about the idea of a band's imperial phase: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_phase
• Of course, only an idiot would confidently claim George won Best Rock Video at the 1988 MTV Music Video Awards for Got My Mind Set On You, not least because that award didn't exist until 1989. He was nominated for both Best Male Video and Best Special Effects in a Video for that song but he won nothing, despite When We Was Fab also picking up several nominations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_George_Harrison#MTV_Music_Video_Awards
• The producer at the A Day in the Life session who announced "I just can't believe it ... I give up", was Ron Richards, producer of the Hollies, according to Mark Lewisohn's The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions.
• John Bishop is a Liverpudlian comedian and presenter: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bishop We tried and failed to find a clip of the question he asked Paul that annoyed him at the Eight Days a Week premiere, but if you ever meet Paul, don't call the Beatles "an overnight success".

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