Schmoozin'

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Schmoozin' is an episode of Absolutely Fabulous, first aired 28 October 2003 and based on the premise that some tapes of The Beatles had been rediscovered.

Robert Lindsay played a fictional tape engineer who used to work at Abbey Road Studios during the time that The Beatles worked there, and who had found some unreleased tapes.

A long scene was filmed in the Abbey Road Studios number two studio: Joanna Lumley pressed the record button by mistake on the reel-to-reel recorder whilst she was looking for a second bottle of champagne in the control room, and Jennifer Saunders unknowingly sang over the tapes, and so they were lost forever.

This episode also starred Elton John, who was invited to a party to celebrate the finding of the tapes. He was invited because he had worked with Lennon, but was only invited because he was expected to "tinkle the ivories" (play piano) in the background, to which he strongly objected. (This was one of Elton's rare forays into the acting world.) Robert Lindsay played the tapes at the party, and, after realising that they were lost forever, promptly collapsed on the floor.

[edit] See also

• List of Absolutely Fabulous episodes
• British Television