Beatles Radio Special - Queen's Birthday Weekend

MEDIA RELEASE --- AVAILABLE FOR PUBLISHING FROM 25TH MAY 2017

1 HOUR RADIO SPECIAL TO CELEBRATE THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE BEATLES SGT. PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND ALBUM

1st June 1967 was the release date of one of the biggest concept albums of the 1960's - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles.

To coincide with the release by The Beatles of a suite of lavishly presented ‘Sgt. Pepper’ Anniversary Edition packages, during Queen's Birthday Weekend several local radio stations across New Zealand will be playing a special 1 hour programme to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the album's release.

This programme is written, produced and presented by US radio host and Beatles fan Archer, who hosted a 2 hour weekly Beatles show in 2008 and 2009 called The Beatles Basement, which ran on Radio 1XX in the Bay Of Plenty.

The 1 hour radio special is a behind the scenes journey through the recording sessions for the Sgt. Pepper album, with insights from The Beatles themselves, along with the album's engineer and also its producer, the late Sir George Martin, as well as some other guests who there at the time and got a sneak peak at what The Beatles were up to in 1966/1967, while they were putting this masterpiece album together. The show contains original mono mixes and well as new stereo mixes of some songs for the special 2017 album package.

The Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Album 50th Anniversary Radio Special with Archer will run on the following local New Zealand stations:

· Magic Music FM : 88.3FM & 107.1FM Whangarei - www.magicmusicfm.co.nz
Saturday 3rd June 7pm & Sunday 4th June 2pm

· Big River FM : 98.6FM Dargaville, 88.2FM Ruawai & Aranga - www.bigriverfm.co.nz
Saturday 3rd June 6pm

· Heads FM : 104.6FM Mangawhai - www.headsfm.co.nz
Thursday 1st June 11am & 11pm

· Holiday FM : 106.8FM Orewa - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· East FM : 88.1FM & 107.1FM Howick / East Auckland - www.eastfm.co.nz
Sunday 4th June 7pm

· Mountaiside FM : 88.3FM & 107.3FM East and South Auckland, Piha, Helensville and Orewa - Sunday 4th June 2pm

· Unforgettable Music : 107.1 FM Massey (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· West FM : 106.8FM Helensville (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Radio Wairau : 106.9FM North Shore (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Bay Radio : 106.9FM Blockhouse Bay (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Unforgettable Music : 106.7FM Papatoetoe (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Radio 24 : 106.9FM Henderson (Auckland) - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· West Coast Radio : 87.6FM & 87.9FM Auckland - www.wcrfm.co.nz
Thursday 1st June & Friday 2nd June 2pm, Sunday 8pm

· Free FM : 89.0FM Hamilton - www.freefm.org.nz
Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th June 9pm

· Unforgettable Music : 107.0FM Te Aroha - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Big Valley Radio : 107.4FM Thames - Sunday 4th June 3pm

· Gold FM - 96.4FM Waihi, Coromandel, Matarangi / 99.4FM Waihi Beach / 99.1FM Whitianga / 88.0FM Thames & Paeroa - www.goldfm.co.nz
Thursday 1st June 7pm, Sunday 4th June 1pm

· Kool FM : 97.9FM Whangamata - www.koolfmnz.com
Sunday 4th June 12pm

· 1XX - One Double-X : 90.5FM & 1242AM Whakatane / Bay Of Plenty, 92.9FM Ohope - www.1xx.co.nz and www.iheartradio.co.nz
Sunday 4th June 3pm

· Radio Evergreen : 107.3FM Taupo - Saturday 3rd June 2pm

· Raupo Radio : 1170AM King Country - Sunday 4th June 3pm.

· Radio Hikurangi : 107.0FM & 107.7FM Taumaranui - Sunday 4th June 10am & 9pm

· Radio Dannevirke : 107.0FM Dannevirke - Saturday 3rd June 9am

· Central FM : 105.2FM & 106.0FM Waipukurau / Central Hawke's Bay,
99.4FM Dannevirke - www.centralfm.co.nz
Saturday 3rd June 7pm & Sunday 4th June 8am

· The Wireless : 1530AM Hawke's Bay - Sunday 4th June 3pm

· Arrow FM : 92.7FM - Masterton / Wairarapa www.arrowfm.co.nz
Friday 2nd June 9:30pm

· Beach FM : 106.3FM Paraparaumu / Horowhenua-Kapiti Coast / Wanganui / Palmerston North - www.beachfm.co.nz
Friday 2nd June 6pm & Sunday 4th June 3pm

· Fresh FM : 104.8FM Nelson/Tasman, 107.2FM Nelson CBD, 95.0FM Eastern Golden Bay, 88.9FM Blenheim - www.freshfm.net
Saturday 3rd June 9am, Sunday 4th June 8pm

· Karamea Radio : 107.5FM Karamea - Sunday 4th June 12pm

· Just FM : 107.7FM Kaiapoi - www.justfm.nz
Sunday 4th June 5pm

· Loft FM : 107.1FM Hornby (Christchurch) - Saturday 3rd June 7:30pm

· Radio Waitaki : 104.0FM Oamaru - www.104fm.co.nz
Friday 2nd June 9pm & Saturday 3rd June 9pm

· Radio Dunedin : 1305AM Dunedin, 106.7FM (City), 95.4FM Mosgiel - www.radiodunedin.co.nz
Thursday 1st June 10am & 8pm

· Cave FM : 106.40FM Gore - http://caveman4music.vpweb.co.nz
Saturday 3rd June 12pm

· Radio Southland : 96.4FM Invercargill - http://radiosouthland.org.nz
Saturday 3rd June 12pm & Sunday 4th June 11pm

The programme is distributed in New Zealand by AB Soundbites, which is based in sunny Whakatane in the Bay Of Plenty.

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