On January 30th, 1969 John Lennon ended the Beatles’ filmed concert on the roof of their Apple headquarters in London by joking: “Thank you very much. We hope we passed the audition”. It was the last time the four would be seen playing together. But what would have happened if six and a half years earlier, in the summer of 1962, the Beatles hadn’t impressed at their all important last chance to sign a record deal at Parlophone? What would the future have held for John, Paul, George and Ringo if producer George Martin had said “No”?
