(Part 1)
Brian: I secured them an audition at Decca on New Years Day 1962. They came to London, and stayed at the Royal Hotel paying 27 shillings a night for bed and breakfast. They were poor, and I wasn't rich, but we all celebrated with rum and scotch and c__e, which was becoming a Beatle drink even then.

(Part 2)
Brian: Well, the recording test came and went. The people that decide about these things at Decca said, "No". Well you can imagine I was more worried about what I was going to say to the boys having built up their hopes, so I allowed myself a final 24 hours to exhaust the remaining disc companies, and I booked into the Green Park Hotel. In the morning I took a cab to the EMI office block in Manchester Square, London, to meet the man who, would within less than two years, produce 16 number one discs by my artists.

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