It's 1963. The year of the Profumo scandal the Great Train Robbery the rise of teenage consumerism and sexual emancipation and Kennedy's assassination . . . and the birth of Beatlemania. In the beginning The Beatles were a band of brothers who really did make Britain twist and shout. This is the unprecedented story of the Beatles' remarkable journey from Liverpool dance hall favourites to becoming the biggest band in the world in the space of just twelve rollercoaster months. From playing to fewer than twenty people in January in the remote Scottish Highlands to being met by a tsunami of screams from 10000 fans at London Airport in November. It was a year lived at breakneck pace. Two number one albums four number one singles almost 300 gigs countless radio and TV sessions and the astonishing transformation of four lives into something less ordinary.