Social life in Liverpool brings the musicians into a group and informs its artistic sensibility.
The band plays at parties, dances and pubs as it forges a style.
A club in Hamburg is the proving ground where the Beatles hone skills; Brian Epstein becomes the band's manager.
Within one year, the Fab Four goes from British pop group to worldwide phenomenon.
The end of touring brings artistic triumph, tension, then dissolution.
Dante J. Pugliese
Producer