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1. Your first stop is a grubby club called the Indra Club. The Beatles play onstage for nearly seven hours and they look grubby and unwashed. Unusually, they drink, eat and smoke onstage. Once, John leaves in the middle of a song to go to the bathroom. What city are you in?
2. You get back in the time machine and fly forward in time. You are on a street in London, looking up. You can hear strains of "Get Back" and crowds of people are gathering. It is a cold January day and you can just make out the bodies of the Beatles up on a roof. What year is it and where are you?
3. You hop back in the Time Machine and go back in time again. You step out into a television studio. The room is colorful and filled with flowers and people. Among the people sitting on the floor you spot Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful. The Beatles are sitting on stools playing a song on the first ever worldwide satellite hookup. What song are they playing?
4. You get back in the time machine and head to another television studio. Only this time the Beatles stand on a stage alone and they wear suits. Hundreds of girls scream and cry for them and you can barely hear the music. This is the 1964 broadcast of "The Ed Sullivan Show". What are two songs featured in the set list?
5. You continue on to the set of the Beatles first movie, "A Hard Day's Night". You get to see the Beatles act and laugh at their own mistakes. You witness the filming of the first scene of the film in the train. What is the first line of the movie?
6. You hop back in the time machine. This time you fly far into the future. The Beatles are outside Abbey Road Studios, in the process of taking a photograph for their new album. They walk across a crosswalk many times, trying to get the perfect shot. Later, the clothes the men wear are meant to represent the members of a funeral procession. Name the Beatle whose work clothes are supposed to represent the gravedigger?
7. You hop back in the machine and travel back only a little bit in time. The Beatles are still at Abbey Road Studios, but this time inside. They are recording "The White Album". For the first time in their long career Ringo is singing two songs for the album instead of one. What are these two songs?
8. The next trip sends you whirling into an executive meeting where men are deciding to release "We Can Work It Out" and one other song as a Double A-Side single. What is the other song?
9. You get back in the time machine and travel forward in time to the creation of the album "Rubber Soul". The Beatles work hard to create the perfect songs for the folksy album. One song called "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" is in the making. George Harrison has added the Indian sitar as an after thought to the album. He will continue with the instrument and take lessons. What is the first song that George will write specifically for the instrument?
10. Your final stop in the time machine is the release party for "Sgt. Pepper". Everyone is laughing, drinking and having a good time. You stop and pick up a copy of the album, studying the cover. You look at all of the famous cutouts behind the Beatles and the wild and vibrant colors of the bands' uniforms. But the thing that really catches your eye is the doll on the right side of the cover. The words written on its shirt are interesting. What does it say?
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