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The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out

Musician brothers Paul and Garry Abbott discuss and rank their favourite Beatles and 60s records. The first three seasons covered everything Beatles, including the core catalogue, the movies and extras, and even the 70s solo singles. In season 4 they are looking at the wider musical landscape by ranking all the UK 60s Number 1s! Please enjoy and keep in touch on Blue Sky using @bigbeatlessortout.bsky.social or Instagram @big_sort or email us at BigBeatlesSortOut@Gmail.com

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01:22:56

The Big 60s Sort Out - Disc Special

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/12/22

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! We have looked at the NME and Melody Maker unique hits, and now we are turning our attention to the Disc magazine chart in this one off special, covering several songs that haven't

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01:00:53

The Big 60s Sort Out - Melody Maker Special

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/12/15

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! We have looked at the NME unique hits, and now we are turning our attention to the Melody Maker chart in this one off special, covering several songs that haven't yet appeared anywhere

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00:52:42

Big BEATLES Sort Out - Anthology Reissue Special!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/12/08

Hello! We are taking a small detour from looking at the 60s UK number 1s to chat about the recent reissue of the Beatles Anthology documentary on Disney +, plus some other recent news about the casting of the upcoming movies, and a whole new Hamburg centric drama coming to the BBC.In this episode we mentioned a website by a chap called Daniel Earwicker who has taken on the mammoth task of comparing the original DVD release with the Disney+ versions. His website can be found

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01:05:02

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 8

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/12/01

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:04:20

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 7

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/11/24

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:07:38

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 6

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/11/17

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:01:18

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 5

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/11/10

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:05:11

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 4

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/11/03

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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00:50:22

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 3

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/10/27

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:02:41

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 2

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/10/20

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul

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01:00:18

The Big 60s Sort Out - NME Chart Ep 1

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/10/13

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.However! There is more! In this mid-season season, we are looking at the songs that topped the NME chart but missed out on the 'official' top spot of the Record Retailers chart (don't worry, Paul explains it all

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00:55:56

BBSO Hamburg Special!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/09/22

Hello! We are back with a special report from our recent visit to Hamburg!We spent 3 nights in Hamburg in early September 2025 visiting some of the Beatle sights and the amazing City itself, and this is our thoughts on what we found, recorded out and about and debriefing in the hotel.We hope you enjoy - it's a first for us doing a travel episode like this, so excuse us if we ramble on a bit here and there, it was a lot to take in!We will be back again soon looking at the NME number 1s and

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00:46:22

BBSO Free As A Bird Remix Special!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/09/08

Hello! We are back with a special listening to the new remixed version of Free As A Bird featuring the 'cleaned up' Lennon vocals using the same MAL technology used on 'Now And Then' - Is it a change for the better? Listen to find out what we thought and for a general catch up on all things Beatles doing the rounds at the moment! To listen along, here is the original 1995 version:https://music.apple.com/gb/song/free-as-a-bird-1995-mix/1441152324And here is the 2025 new

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00:58:50

BBSO Beatles Cartoon Special Vol 2!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/08/09

We are back with another mid season extra - this time we are discussing Episode 5 of the Beatles Cartoon, featuring the songs 'Baby's in Black', 'Misery', 'I'll Get You' and 'Chains' along to lots of silly antics involving vampires, mostly.At the time of publishing, this link was a good place to watch the episode: https://archive.org/details/ep5_20240123We hope you enjoy our little chat and we will be back with more specials over the coming weeks and

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00:12:14

BBSO Special Report - Lawrence Wright Music Catalogue

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/07/29

This episode is a mini-documentary made by Paul that was originally featured in episode 54 of the fantastic Winter Of Discontent podcast. That show looks in forensic detail at the Nagra tapes of the Get Back sessions and Paul contributed this research package - all about the Lawrence Wright music catalogue, to the show. It's a ten minute look into the background of why Dick James was so excited to share news of this publishing purchase coup with the boys, as seen in the Get Back documentary. If

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01:24:32

The Big 60s Sort Out Ep 62- Series Wrap Up Episode!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/06/30

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we have taken a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.We are done! And in this special 'wrap up' episode, we listen to some of your 1969 album recommendations, Paul reveals his Top 10, and we ponder if we have actually reached any conclusions about the

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00:11:16

The Big 60s Sort Out - The 'Whoops! No Episode!',...

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/06/23

Hello. Just a quick one this week to let you know we haven't got ten around to recording our round-up show as promised, so here is a quick ten minutes chat about Birthday's, Beach Boys and questionable Buzzards.We will, all being well, be back soon with our series round up before we go on a bit of a break for the summer.

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00:48:28

The Big 60s Sort Out Ep 60: 1969 Albums Special Part 2!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/06/16

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we are taking a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.Please joins us as we try and sort out, the 60s!We have finished the ranking of the UK No 1 singles but our journey is not yet over as we look at the No 1 Albums of 1969 in two specials! Part 2 features:Jim

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00:54:20

The Big 60s Sort Out Ep 60: 1969 Albums Special Part 1!

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/06/09

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we are taking a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.Please joins us as we try and sort out, the 60s!We have finished the ranking of the UK No 1 singles but our journey is not yet over as we look at the No 1 Albums of 1969 in two specials! Part 1 features:The

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01:17:35

The Big 60s Sort Out Ep 59: 1969 Oct - Dec

The Big Beatles and 60s Sort Out ·

2025/06/02

The Big Beatles Sort Out Presents: The Big 60s Sort Out!Yes, for season 4 we are taking a look at the decade that made (or was made?) by The Beatles, by ranking every UK number one, looking for sneaky Beatles links, and generally putting ourselves in the world where they crafted their legacy.Please joins us as we try and sort out, the 60s!Songs this episode:Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin - Je T'Aime... Moi Non PlusBobbie Gentry - I'll Never Fall In Love AgainThe Archies - Sugar SugarIf you

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