File:The Beatles Live on Ready, Steady, Go! (Around The Beatles Full Concert Set)

Beatles recorded the television special Around The Beatles between 9pm and 10.15pm, at Studio 5AB at Rediffusion’s Wembley Studios, London.

The group arrived at the studios at 11am to take part in final rehearsals, although during the day they also gave interviews to Swedish radio, speaking to visiting host Klas Burling.

The hour-long show featured, along with The Beatles, PJ Proby, the Vernons Girls, Long John Baldry, Millie, The Jets, and NEMS artists Cilla Black and Sounds Incorporated. It was first broadcast in the UK on the ITV network on 6 May from 9.45pm, and in the US by ABC on 15 November.

The Beatles took part in two segments in the show: a musical set and a spoof of Act V Scene I of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. John Lennon, Paul McCartney and George Harrison also mimed a trumpet fanfare at the start of the show, before Ringo Starr appeared with a flag to set off a cannon ball. The group also introduced PJ Proby’s performance.

The songs performed by The Beatles in the show were ‘Twist And Shout’, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’, ‘I Wanna Be Your Man’, ‘Long Tall Sally’ and ‘Can’t Buy Me Love’, as well as a special medley of their earlier hits – ‘Love Me Do’, ‘Please Please Me’, ‘From Me To You’, ‘She Loves You’ and ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’ – and finally a version of The Isley Brothers’ 1959 song ‘Shout’.

The music had been pre-recorded at London’s IBC Studios on 19 April 1964, and The Beatles mimed during the show.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Introduction 0:44 Twist and Shout 3:10 Roll Over Beethoven 5:01 I Wanna Be Your Man (Short Clip) 5:02 Long Tall Sally (Short Clip) 5:36 Medley of Love Me Do, Please Please Me, From Me To You, She Loves You and I Want To Hold Your Hand 9:37 Cant Buy Me Love (Short Clip) 9:50 Shout!