Something About the Beatles – Details, episodes & analysis

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Something About the Beatles

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Frequency: 1 episode/14d. Total Eps: 233

Hosted by award-winning author Robert Rodriguez, Something About The Beatles is an intelligent but entertaining examination of The Beatles' music and career. Smart, funny and surprising - just like the Fab Four.

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🇨🇦 Canada - musicHistory
20/08/2026
#27
🇬🇧 Great Britain - musicHistory
20/08/2026
#16
🇺🇸 USA - musicHistory
20/08/2026
#19
🇨🇦 Canada - musicHistory
19/08/2026
#21
🇬🇧 Great Britain - musicHistory
19/08/2026
#19
🇺🇸 USA - musicHistory
19/08/2026
#21
🇨🇦 Canada - musicHistory
18/08/2026
#18
🇬🇧 Great Britain - musicHistory
18/08/2026
#28
🇩🇪 Germany - musicHistory
18/08/2026
#91
🇺🇸 USA - musicHistory
18/08/2026
#23

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https://www.beatlesrecordingreferencemanuals.com/
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/304-badfingers-head-first-with-bob-jackson/id1483392342?i=1000706620569
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https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/130-the-beatles-and-charles-manson/id1483392342?i=1000453334078
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288: Band On The Run (Hand Clapping) with Luca Perasi

Saturday, August 31, 2024 • Duration 01:13:25

My guest, Luca Perasi, first appeared on the show in 2023 (262). He is the McCartney historian based in Italy, whose previous works include Paul McCartney: Music Is Ideas 1970 - 1989 as well as his newest, Paul McCartney and Wings Band On The Run: The Story of A Classic Album. You can check out all his works on his site here. In this conversation, we discuss the tumultuous creation of Paul's post-Beatles breakthrough album, as well as 1974's One Hand Clapping project, just released as an album in 2024 and soon to be in theatres. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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287: The Historian and Get Back with Erin Weber

Saturday, August 10, 2024 • Duration 01:51:39

In the years since Peter Jackson's epic re-imagining of the January 1969 saga landed, SATb has examined it through a number of angles: from Brits - women - musicians - authors - and so forth. But this will be the first time I have actually had a conversation about it with a professional historian, your friend and mine, Erin Weber. This conversation analyzes the film through the prism of (secondary) source material, and brings into focus how the work should be viewed by fans of a more serious scholarly bent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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279: The Mal Evans Project Part One with Ken Womack

Thursday, April 25, 2024 • Duration 01:21:59

At last: the SATB conversation with the man who brought The Beatles’ road manager’s long missing manuscript to press. Living The Beatles Legend is the story Mal wanted to tell before his life ended at 40 in Los Angeles in a hail of gunfire in 1976. But perhaps the wait was worth it to get his insider eye-witness story augmented by research and interviews Ken has conducted to fully flesh out the story. This talk covers the first volume of this must-read book. Another volume, presenting the Evans photo archive and diaries, is due out later this year Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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199: Credit Where Due with Luther Russell

Thursday, August 20, 2020 • Duration 01:20:04

In which my returning guest and I discuss this: what if The Beatles' songwriting credits were more accurately apportioned to reflect actual significant contributions from not-credited bandmates? Their recording career began with a singular "McCartney-Harrison" credit for "In Spite of All The Danger" - one can make the case (and we do) that their career was book-ended by "I Me Mine," which might have rightfully have bore the same credit. Anyway, as always, it leads down many rabbit holes... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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198: Chip Madinger/Plastic Ono Band

Thursday, August 13, 2020 • Duration 01:13:20

Presented as forerunner of the inevitable show revisiting John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band to come later this year as part of the 50th anniversary, returning guest Chip Madinger (Eight Arms To Hold You, Lennonology) and I discuss some of the assorted odds and sods produced (or proposed) by John Lennon under the Plastic Ono Band brand circa 1969/1970. The POB debut year gave us the singles "Give Peace A Chance" and "Cold Turkey," but what about the other announced releases? ("Laughing"/"Whispers"; "You Know My Name"/"What's The New Mary Jane," and the mysterious instrumental, "Rock Peace"). Chip knows the work and chronology better than anyone when it comes to the solo Beatles and John Lennon in particular. He presents some astonishing information about what was originally planned for 1970 (and about the original form of "How Do You Sleep"). This one's a treasure trove for Lennononistas... Check out his work at https://www.lennonology.com/ (including the current special). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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197: Collecting The Beatles Part Three

Monday, July 27, 2020 • Duration 01:15:10

Previous guest Russ Lease returns with stories from the world of top end collecting: vehicles (including the Magical Mystery Tour bus), attire (shoes, boots, jackets), paper (a Brian Epstein contract) and vinyl. Russ was the founder of Beatles Suits, the go-to resource for Fab tailoring; he was also the auctions columnist for Beatleology magazine. Lastly: he is a partner in Fab Four Exhibitions, the traveling Beatles museum of artifacts. Russ has a lot to say about the back story on a lot of familiar Beatle items that have come up for auction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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196: In The Studio 1968 w/ Jerry Hammack Part One

Saturday, July 11, 2020 • Duration 01:17:16

In his return to the show, we discuss 1968 and the making of the "White Album" (mostly), as explored in his most recent work, The Beatles' Recording Reference Manual Volume 4. Joining us is another returning guest, recording artist/performer/producer Luther Russell (Those Pretty Wrongs, The Freewheelers, solo). Because we covered so much ground, I am presenting the conversation spread over two parts (the conclusion to follow later....) Check out Jerry's work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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195: Little Richard Remembered

Sunday, June 7, 2020 • Duration 01:21:32

It seems particularly fitting at the time we find ourselves in to be discussing the art and career of rock pioneer Little Richard, who passed recently at 87. He represented a marginalized group in society, and his breakthrough, as unlikely as it was, carried with it resonance relevant to the present day. Add to that his absolutely key role in the development of The Beatles - going back to The Quarry Men days, really - and you can see why he is a subject worthy of a deep discussion. But the springboard for this show is the article published online at Vulture just after Richard's passing; it was written by returning guest, journalist Bill Wyman and really is essential reading: https://www.vulture.com/2020/05/little-richard-put-wild-sex-into-the-top-40-for- good.html The salacious aspects of Little Richard's life must be discussed in any thorough conversation about his life, but there's much more to the story. And as this is SATB, you can count on any number of other topics coming up, including Motown - touring - Elton John - David Bowie - the record industry - even The Replacements and The Ramones. (We also sneak in a word or two about The Beatles...) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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194: The Guest List Part 1

Monday, May 25, 2020 • Duration 01:51:51

So an idea came up: who would SATB like to talk to in Beatle world and sit down for an interview? Qualifications: first, they have to be among the living (as of this taping); Second, they have to be completely honest and not fall back on deflection or "professional Beatle fan" chatter: stories they've entertained with for years that may or may not be factually accurate. Last, they have to be people on the inside who have either not told their stories at all or not told them to death. Though mortality hangs over us all, there are still folks out there who, to the best of my knowledge, range to speaking on record only sparingly or not at all; have written books, but if we discussed them here, it's because their books didn't go deep enough or raised more questions.) Joining in the conversation is a returning guest (182 and 188), retired academic Gary Wenstrup. He came up with his list, I came up with mine, and together we covered as much ground as we could in this, the first of a two-parter (at least). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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193: On The Beat with Spencer Leigh

Thursday, May 7, 2020 • Duration 01:16:58

Rock historian and radio interviewer Spencer Leigh has been chronicling the music scene generally and The Beatles specifically from his native Merseyside for decades. He has penned well over two dozen books, half of them on Beatles-specific subjects. In this conversation, we discuss an array of topics, including writing and researching The Beatles; Bob Wooler; Liverpool bands; Bob Dylan, and Ken Dodd, among other topics. Check out Spencer's work here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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