A future episode will focus on their most interesting ones. In this show, we run through some of their best recorded performances in front of an audience during the touring years-on radio, TV and in concert. But during 19 they were still on fire onstage, feeding off the energy of their rabid fans-before ultimately feeling like they were being fed to those same fans.

That’s why we never improved as musicians: we killed ourselves then to make it. The Beatles’ music died then, as musicians. We were feeling shit already because we had to reduce an hour two’s playing-which we were glad about in one way-to 20 minutes every night. “The music was dead before we even went on the theatre tour of Britain. The set comprised eleven songs and lasted just over 30 minutes. “As soon as we made it, we made it, but the edges were knocked off,” he told Rolling Stone. Their current single, 'Paperback Writer', was included, but as with the few selections from Rubber Soul they performed live 'Nowhere Man' and 'If I Needed Someone' the Beatles were unable to capture the intricacies of the multi-track recording in concert. Whereas, according to John in 1970, The Beatles “used to jump around and do all the things they’re doing now, like going on stage with toilet seats and shitting and pissing” when they were in Hamburg, everything changed when fame and fortune came knocking.