John, Paul, George, Ringo ... and Bert (Original Cast Recording)

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It is a very funny show. Exhilarating at times. It is no publicity job for The Beatles. Their warts, indiscretions and mistakes are there for all to see — so are their exploiters. The dialogue hits pretty hard; there’s nothing phoney about it.” George Harrison stated that he saw the play with Derek Taylor. He disliked it. [3] He walked out while of the London premiere and withdrew his permission to use his song " Here Comes the Sun". [4] It was replaced with " Good Day Sunshine". [5] While working as a teacher, Willy Russell continued to write for the theatre and for television. He produced several television dramas for the BBC, including Our Day Out, which was first broadcast in 1977. Much of his early theatre work was produced at the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, including: Arthur was well placed to portray the role of Bert a fictitious character representing all the people who were involved with The Beatles in their early years, as Arthur had long been the best friend of George Harrison. In a 1987 interview, Creem Magazine asked George what he thought of the musical John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Bert, which debuted in Liverpool in 1974 and then made its way to London. George didn’t have anything nice to say about the musical based on The Beatles.

Antony Sher, who has died at the age of 72, was a man of staggering versatility. As well as being a brilliant actor, he was an accomplished artist and writer. But, far from being separate, his three careers all fed into each other: you only to have to look at his sketches of Richard III in his book Year of the King to see how his draughtsman’s eye enriched his performance. Gifted in numerous ways, Sher also saw his acting career as one that evolved from impersonation to embodiment of a character. You also had lots of people who were performers and writers, and although they weren't writing 'Folk Music', that milieu provided a wonderful opportunity for them to present literate songs, trying to say something. The Philistine's poem that ran "I hate theatre, I hate ballet, I hate art galleries - but I like arts council' They say No'!". Shirley Valentine's recollection of her son's uproarious apperance in the school nativity play and an extract from one of Russell's two forthcoming novels were delivered with a breezy confidence that matched any of the Fringe's excess of stand-up comics.No AI program will ever generate that sort of loony insight. And if it did, it would be the product of data volume and/or randomness, not of the singular musical mind of a man who knew how to play best with others. After all, John Lennon wasn’t just rebellious. He was also the Goofy one, the Knowing one, the Searching one. During the 1980s, Willy Russell wrote Educating Rita for the Royal Shakespeare Company, which premiered in London. The play has been performed all over the world and was made into a film starring Julie Walters and Michael Caine. The screenplay was written by Willy Russell. Willy Russell's first novel, The Wrong Boy, was published in 2000. Russell has provided the musical scores for the feature films, Shirley Valentine, Dancin' Thru The Dark and Mr Love, as well as for the TV series Connie and the television play Terraces. Willy Russell released his first album, Hoovering the Moon, in 2003. The Willy Russell archive

I was widening my writing into other forms, and I wanted to take what I'd learned and what I loved about folk music into those other forms.”

Even at the time, without any benefit of hindsight one just knew what an extraordinary company of visceral young actors Alan Dossor had assembled at the Everyman. As well as Bernard Hill and Tony Sher there was Johnathan Pryce, Alison Steadman, George Costigan, Trevor Eve, Liz Estensen, Phil Joseph, Matthew Kelly, Pete Postlethwaite, Julie Walters, Bill Nighy... awesome really.”

Poets Roger McGough, Brian Patten and Adrian Henri, who were accompanied by singer-guitarist Andy Roberts, are seasoned Fringe performers and they delivered their warm, witty and wise verses and devastating one-liners with accustomed aplomb - but it was playwright Willy Russell who stole the show. George Harrison was not a fan of the 1974 musical John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Bert. He hated when people ripped The Beatles off. However, sometimes, Beatles musicals and films only happened because the band didn’t look after their interests following their split. Actors in the 1974 musical ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo and Bert’ | Wiggy/Mirrorpix/Getty Images George Harrison on the musical ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo, and Bert’ The archive is an excellent resource for research into modern theatre, graphic design, creative writing, literature and linguistics. The collection has been catalogued and is available for access.The more you make the more you want to make, until you become so greedy that ultimately you put a foot wrong. And even though Sgt. Pepper is no doubt a financial success, I think it’s damaged their images, their careers, and they didn’t need to do that. It’s just like the Beatles trying to do the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones can do it better.” It was five actors with minimal lighting, in front of 150 truculent schoolkids who’d been dragged there reluctantly, but they’d do the Marilyn Monroe song and – silence. And then laughter… laughing at actors being 14-year-olds, saying dirty stuff and doing all those embarrassingboy-girl things. And then at the end, even just with a mimed gun, these kids were blown away. Dossor then asked Russell to adapt a play by Alan Plater called The Tigers Are Coming OK about Hull City FC to make it relevant to Liverpool. Russell turned it into a play called When the Reds about the history of Liverpool FC. He then went off to become a schoolteacher. With his Cavalier Spaniel hair style, the author of 'Educating Rita', 'Blood Brothers' and 'Shirley Valentine' was making his first Fringe appearance since 1972. Willy Russell is a playwright and musician whose work has enjoyed worldwide success and acclaim.He is best known for plays Educating Rita (1980), Shirley Valentine (1986), Our Day Out (1977) and the musical Blood Brothers (1983). Willy Russell’s works have been translated intonumerous languages and won multiple awards for both theatre and film.