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Artists re-make Beatles album for anniversary
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British soul singer Beverley Knight has brought an attempt to recreate The Beatles' epic 10-hour recording session of their album Please Please Me - to mark its 50th anniversary, to a close.
She performed the classic album's final song Twist And Shout, accompanied by a full choir of backing singers.
She told the BBC: "It's a huge, raucous song which everybody knows."
Other stars who joined the recording at London's Abbey Road studios included Mick Hucknall and Joss Stone.
The Fab Four recorded almost all of the album in a day-long recording session 50 years ago, on 11 February 1963.
By the end of the long day, Lennon - who had struggled with a cold - performed what is the now legendary cover version of The Isley Brothers' track Twist And Shout.
Knight said: "You can hear after the first verse that he's done, he's spent but he's still giving it.
"I heard he ripped his shirt off cause he was so hot and was getting down and dirty and that's what you want, you can hear he's giving every last drop."
"I got here this morning and what struck me was that there are so many people here - bands, crews, journalists - and how different it must have been that morning 50 years ago when the Beatles arrived in their van.
"I'm fascinated whether they knew they were changing the history of the world. Did they have an inkling? I wonder if McCartney knew?"
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Please Please Me recently placed #1 in a list of the Most Influential Albums in Rock 'n' Roll History
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