Something About the Beatles

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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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Aug 16, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min
240: The Beatles on Drugs: Riding So High
Returning guest Terry Zobeck ( ) spent his career studying drug addiction and its effects. With a PhD in anthropology besides, this Beatles scholar is uniquely qualified to discuss the Joe Goodenn's book, Riding So High: The Beatles and...
Aug 6, 2022 · 50 min
239: Get Back to Kevin Harrington
In the time since publishing his memoir, The Redhead on the Roof and first appearing on SATB (), Beatles equipment manager Kevin Harrington has now become known to millions of fans by his ubiquitous presence captured on film and presented in...
Jul 29, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
238: Remembering the 70s with Chris O'Dell and Nancy Lee Andrews
As part of the Fab4ConJam online fan event, I convened these two Beatles insiders to take questions and reminisce. Chris O'Dell came from Tucson, AZ (yes! home of Jo Jo AND Linda) and was pulled into the Apple Press Office by Derek Taylor. She was a...
Jul 17, 2022 · 1 hr 9 min
237: The Dream is Over with Dan Richter
He's known to millions, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, as “The most famous unknown actor in the world.” Richter was a mime (and a poet) during the 1960s, but also gained cinematic immortality as "Moonwatcher" in the iconic "Dawn...
Jul 2, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
236: The Beatles' Bag of Tricks
One of the things that's kept Beatles fans captivated was their refusal to stay still and how each album felt like a progression into new territory. That said, as you delve deeper into the structures and configurations of the band's music across their...
Jun 29, 2022 · 1 hr 27 min
235: Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson at 80
Two master craftsmen of pop/rock, born two days apart; both possessing a good number of commonalities as well as some major diverging paths. My returning guest, journalist Glenn Greenberg () and I discuss their friendship and rivalry, as well as what...
Jun 16, 2022 · 1 hr 13 min
234: Paul McCartney at 80 - The Lyrics
In the latest effort in a line of works presenting his side of his own history (which include Many Years From Now, Wingspan, the McCartney 3 2 1 docuseries as well as Anthology), Paul McCartney published The Lyrics: 1956...
May 31, 2022 · 1 hr 20 min
233: The Brits' Get Back with John Leckie, Ian McNabb and Derek Forbes
After shows post-Get Back with guests representing American musicians, multi-generation female fans, and the film's maker (Peter Jackson), conspicuously missing from the SATB conversation to this point has been the POV of British fans/musicians....
May 21, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
232: Sam Brown and the Concert for George
Long on the list of my coveted guests has been singer-songwriter Sam Brown. The daughter of Joe Brown - an early UK rock legend - and Vicki Brown - an astonishingly gifted singer herself - Sam's career as an artist kicked off in 1988 with Stop!, the...
May 13, 2022 · 1 hr 7 min
231B Beatles Olympiad: Help! & Rubber Soul + part 2
The conclusion of the discussion Gary Wenstrup and I had in rating individual tracks on the albums named here, as well as the 1966 Capitol release, "Yesterday"...and Today. I think, is so overlooked, both message-wise and musical...
May 6, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
231 Beatles Olympiad: Help! & Rubber Soul +
In which Gary Wenstrup and I return where we left off in offering our picks in ranking Bronze, Silver and Gold tracks off of The Beatles' 1965 releases, as well as a little beyond. This show represents the first hour of our conversation - part two...
Apr 16, 2022 · 1 hr 15 min
230: Erin Weber Q&A
Given Beatles author and historian Erin Weber's recently announced sabbatical from Beatling these days, I wanted to share with SATB listeners the Q&A we held last year for Fab4ConJam, where she fielded questions on the Beatles' literary...
Mar 27, 2022 · 1 hr 3 min
228B: A Woman's History of The Beatles part two
"Every aspect of what they put out there just became so attractive to people who encountered it, whether it was in the 60s, (when) it was all new, or later generations interfacing with that material, and still being dazzled by all the aspects of it....
Mar 23, 2022 · 1 hr 17 min
229: Something Deconstructed
A new phase SATB episode: audio with full video accompaniment! My guests are returning musician Jack Petruzzelli (Fab Faux, Joan Osborne, Patti Smith), joined by Cameron Greider (Freedy Johnston, Sean Lennon, Rufus Wainwright), who in the past year...
Mar 14, 2022 · 59 min
228A: A Woman's History of The Beatles part one
My guest today is Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett, author of A Women's History of The Beatles - an essential new work exploring the group's story through the lens of the women they interacted with and influenced, as well as how they were...
Feb 19, 2022 · 1 hr 4 min
227B The Girls' Get Back part two
In this continuation of the conversation with Debbie Gendler (1st US Beatles fan) and cartoonist/author Carol Tyler (Fab 4 Mania), Dr. Allison Bumsted and I explore the 1st generation fan's perspectives on: Supporting players in Get Back Mal...
Feb 13, 2022 · 1 hr 2 min
227A: The Girls' Get Back part one
In the latest of the SATB series examining Peter Jackson's Get Back, we bring on returning guests Debbie Gendler (first in heard in 121: ); the first US Beatles fan, plus cartoonist/author Carol Tyler (first heard in 146: ). In so doing, we present a...
Jan 30, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
226C The Musician's Get Back part three
In this concluding hour of the conversation with Dennis Diken (The Smithereens), Pat Sansone (Wilco), Arion Salazar (ex-Third Eye Blind) and Luther Russell (Those Pretty Wrongs), we discuss: The Get Back film as therapy for fans (and the world) ...
Jan 22, 2022 · 1 hr 5 min
226B: The Musician's Get Back part two
Our panel of Pat, Arion, Luther and Dennis continues their conversation on Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary. Among the topics: The rooftop performance The "Flowerpot conversation" Bass stuff The road to Abbey Road Let It Be...
Jan 15, 2022 · 1 hr 16 min
226A: The Musician's Get Back part one
Any analysis of the Get Back documentary would be remiss in not factoring in insights gleaned from those who've followed in The Beatles' professional footsteps: working musicians. To that end, I assembled a panel of some illustrious pros who also...

Something About the Beatles

240: The Beatles on Drugs: Riding So High

239: Get Back to Kevin Harrington

238: Remembering the 70s with Chris O'Dell and Nancy Lee Andrews

237: The Dream is Over with Dan Richter

236: The Beatles' Bag of Tricks

235: Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson at 80

234: Paul McCartney at 80 - The Lyrics

233: The Brits' Get Back with John Leckie, Ian McNabb and Derek Forbes

232: Sam Brown and the Concert for George

231B Beatles Olympiad: Help! & Rubber Soul + part 2

231 Beatles Olympiad: Help! & Rubber Soul +

230: Erin Weber Q&A

228B: A Woman's History of The Beatles part two

229: Something Deconstructed

228A: A Woman's History of The Beatles part one

227B The Girls' Get Back part two

227A: The Girls' Get Back part one

226C The Musician's Get Back part three

226B: The Musician's Get Back part two

226A: The Musician's Get Back part one