The 60s: The Beatles DecadeTV Show

In April 1967 The Beatles produced the drug fuelled Sgt Peppers, an Album that was to change everything. The Beatles had turned to eastern mysticism and become distant from their mentor, Epstein, who died suddenly. Britain was undergoing a radical transformation from the legalisation of homosexuality and abortion to the relaxation of theatre censorship and introduction of the 'no contest' divorce. But soon the social revolution was overtaken by political revolt on the streets against the Vietnam War. At the beginning of 1968 the Beatles took control of their own careers. They had a grand vision of a media empire and set up a number of companies under the name Apple. It proved to be a disaster. Privately the Beatles were arguing - about Yoko, about what they should record, about the future. Outwardly they were still sensationally successful. But there was trouble brewing.