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The early recording — and a remixed version of the song — are being shared ahead of a 50th anniversary edition of the band's penultimate studio album, Abbey Road.

Jazz musicians RED RODNEY and SONNY SHARROCK. They're both important jazz figures who recently died. We will rebroadcast previous interviewsO RODNEY was a trumpeter and band leader. He rose through the big band ranks and played in Charlie Parker's quintet. He was known as one of jazz's best improvisers. And he was known for regaling journalists with his stories-- often of dubious veracity. (The interview with SHARROCK will replace the arts review.)REV.:SONNY SHARROCK was a guitarist. His genre was the free-jazz movement of the late 1960's Jon Pareles said in the New York Times that SHARROCK'S "guitar solos streaked and clanged, using blistering speed and raw noise to create music that had both the openness of jazz and power of rock."

2: Singer-songwriter-poet-performance artist MAGGIE ESTEP. ESTEP calls herself "an angry, sweaty girl." As a teenager, she settled in New York City, and she's been in rock bands since the age of 17. Her current back-up band is called "I love Everybody." She was the cover girl on the February 1994 issue of "High Times" magazine; the article inside called her "the leader of the spoken word pack." She recently had a sold-out one-woman show at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Her debut album is called "No More Mr. Nice Girl." (NuYO Re

2: Drummer and drum historian MAX WEINBERG. For over a decade, WEINBERG was the drummer for Bruce Springstein's E Street Band. Now he leads the 7-piece band on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on NBC. WEINBERG co-authored The Big Beat: Conversations with Rock's Great Drummers (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984). Now, he has produced and annotated a three-volume compilation of music performed by his favorite rock 'n roll drummers of the 50's, 60's and 70's. (MAX WEINBERG PRESENTS: LET THERE BE DRUMS, VOLS. 1-3. on the Rhino label. Available on compact disc and cassette.) (Interview with MAX WEINBERG continues after ATC P

The early 1970s glam-punk band the New York Dolls are known for wearing both makeup and leather — and playing a raw, aggressive style of rock that has since influenced many bands. Singer David Johnansen discusses their new live CD.

Host Bob Edwards talks with music commentator Miles Hoffman about the history and beauty of Moravian church music, which was first played in America during colonial times. A Moravian music festival is now under way in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. {Music played in the segment: Most of the music in this piece, including the introductory music and the ending music, comes from Lost Music of Early America - Music of the Moravians. Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman, director (Telarc CD-80482) The lively cut of the wind ensemble (which Bob describes as "very festive") is from David Moritz Michael: Parthien 10-14 Pacific Classical Winds (New World Records 80580-2) The cut of the Civil War Moravian band is from A Storm in the Land Music of the 26th N.C. Regimental Band, CSA. The American Brass Quintet Brass Band. (New World Records, 80608-2)

All Songs Considered co-hosts Bob Boilen and Robin Hilton are joined by NPR Music's Stephen Thompson to discuss their favorite music from the first half of 2014.

In June, the mega-popular K-pop group had already announced a hiatus. On Monday, the band's label and management company announced that all seven BTS members will be enlisting in the military.

The Indian jazz fusion band stops by the Tiny Desk for a historical performance.

Frontperson Missy Dabice talks about the Philadelphia band's new album, I Got Heaven.