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George Martin, staff producer for Parlophone Records, had been looking for a pop group to record, to expand Parlophone's repertoire. (Most of their records up to that time were classical or regional music, original-cast albums of stage shows, or comedy records with Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan or Peter Ustinov.)

Engineer Jim Foy of EMI's London store referred Beatles manager Brian Epstein to Martin, after Epstein had a test record made of The Beatles' Decca audition tape. (They failed the audition, but were given a copy of the tape to shop to other labels; it transpired years later that Epstein had actually paid Decca for the session.) Martin wasn't blown away by their early music, but was willing to give them a chance.

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