Episode 8: You Know I Want Long Blue Pepper

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out

Welcome to the Big Beatles Sort Out, a show in which I, author and musician Garry Abbott, attempt to finally decide my favourite Beatles recordings by scoring each and every one for lyrical content, musicality and production. I am assisted in this venture by my brother and resident Beatles expert, Paul Abbott, with a deep knowledge of the Beatles and the wider context in which they operated. Each episode we explore and score 5 songs from the Beatles full recording catalogue. The songs are drawn at random to try and avoid any album or era prejudices skewing the results. So please join us as we try and sort out, The Beatles. Episode 8 Songs: Blue Jay Way, Sgt Pepper's Reprise, You Know My Name (Look Up the number), I Want You (She's So Heavy), Long Long Long. Please let anyone know about this podcast who might be interested! You can contact me on Twitter @big_sort or @Garry_Abbott, or via my website www.garryabbott.co.uk. Please listen out for Paul's other Podcasts, 'The Head Ballet' - all about novelty music, and 'Hark! 87th Precinct Podcast' - all about Ed McBain's seminal police procedural novel series. You can listen along to the songs featured in this episode on this handy Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5WvezvXAyk8aEJPwmAoEzW?si=tNVCKuHnTw-nS4lztkzBhQ Keep up with the scoring charts, or start your own using the blank-master, with this handy google sheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Qc7mHMeBBM9LSPUV0L6zrYrF2Rib9eX-Xssua-Wox3g/edit?usp=sharing