Simply Red‘s Mick Hucknall and Gabrielle Aplin have also put their names down for the challenge, which will eventually see a host acts aiming to complete the entire album within a 12-hour time period.
“The re-creation of ‘Please Please Me’ promises to be one of Radio 2’s stand-out moments of 2013,” Bob Shennan, controller of BBC Radio 2 and 6Music has said. “Hearing those tracks brought to life again with a contemporary twist will have the network buzzing as much as the original did. It’s one album that changed the world of pop music and I think the 50th anniversary is a timely moment to remind everyone why.”
The marathon session is due to take place on February 11th at Abbey Road studios in London.