Your Own Personal Beatles – Details, episodes & analysis

It's our belated Christmas special! Friend of the show, comedian and musician Johnny White Really-Really returns to take part in our second Beatles Cover Challenge.

We pick a Beatles track for each other, have one month to record it, and reunite to discuss the results and what we've learned about the songs by recreating them.

You can find the full versions of the songs at https://www.personalbeatles.com/episodes/cover-challenge-vol-2.

Thanks for listening, and we'll be back later in the year.

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Musician and songwriter Ed Dowie joins Jack and Robin to discuss his Personal Beatles. Ed chats about emotive music (notably She's Leaving Home), songwriting techniques and processes, and what makes music good - there's an easy one. 

There's also some Weekly Wings and Robin gets a preview of the re-release Concert for George.

Find out more about the Concert for George here: https://www.concertforgeorge.com/

Interview with the She's Leaving Home harpist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC4imHiJUM&t

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As a little festive treat, here is our bonus episode from earlier this year. Johnny White Really-Really returns to the podcast as we challenge each other to cover some Beatles songs!

Listen to us pick each other's songs, discuss the process of recording and producing them, and then hear the results in full!

Many thanks to James Whiting for mixing and production on Jack's song and to Joe Ryan for playing drums on Robin's track.

Find out more about Jame's production work at jameswhiting.co.uk and on his Instagram @fishislandstudio.

Joe's Bandcamp can be found here: https://heartfeltrhythms.bandcamp.com/ and you can visit his website here: https://www.heartfeltrhythms.com/.

You can find some of Johnny White Really-Really's music as 'Xmas' on his Bandcamp here: https://xmas.bandcamp.com/releases

SPOILER ALERT:

You can listen to the final versions of the songs on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNNKB4VToUGJOkxONjYTFg

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Broadcaster Shaun Keaveny joins Jack and Robin this week to chat about his love of the Beatles. Shaun chats to Jack and Robin about his experiences with the band growing up, interviewing Paul and Ringo for Eight Days a Week, and we take a deep dive into the Super Deluxe re-release of Let It Be.

Jack and Robin also offer some more thoughts on The Beatles: Get Back.

Apologies for the slightly poor audio quality during the intros and outros, we had some technical problems.

You can vote for us for Pod Bible's Best Music Podcast in the 2021 winners poll here: http://podbiblemag.com

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Comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton joins us to share his Personal Beatles. In this suitably rambling chat, Jack and Robin talk to Adam about everything from the Stars on 45 Beatles medley, the 2000 TV movie Two of US, recording his version of How Do You Sleep, and of course, interviewing Sir Paul on his podcast.

You can also hear some unheard audio from Adam and Joe's Vinyl Justice sketch with Ray Manzarek, in which The Doors keyboard player talks to Adam about Rubber Soul.

And if that wasn't enough, we also offer our (spoiler free) thought's on Peter Jackson's Get Back!

The Beatles: Get Back is available to stream on Disney+ now.

Vote for us (and Adam!) at the Pod Bible Poll Winners 2021: https://podbiblemag.com/pod-bible-poll-winners-2021-vote/

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Jack and Robin are back with the first of our post-series extra podcasts. This week, Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine joins us to share her personal Beatles, as well as discussing her recent interview with Paul McCartney: The Lyrics editor, poet Paul Muldoon, and her own short stories including 2018's Sweet Home.

We also have an extended intro in which Jack and Robin discuss Paul's new book and his recent live Q and A with Paul Muldoon at the Royal Festival Hall.

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Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail joins us this week from the Isle of Eigg to share his Personal Beatles. We chat about his formative Brit Pop years, his first exposure to The Beatles in second hand CD shops in America, and how he set up is record label, Lost Map. 

Johnny’s critically acclaimed latest album as Pictish Trail, Thumb World, is available now on Fire Records.

We also have an extended chat about the upcoming Get Back films on Disney+. 

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This week, Jack and Robin are joined by Alasdair MacLean of the band The Clientele. 

We discuss the impact Twist and Shout and Strawberry Fields had on Alasdair, slightly dodgy Beatles compilations including Beatles Ballads and the Rock n Roll Music albums of the 70s, the book, Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, and a whopping controversial Beatles opinion. 

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