Something About the Beatles
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.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 208
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
309: Some Fun Tonight with Chuck Gunderson
We are now sixty years on from the crest of The Beatles' touring years, if you figure the August 15, 1965 Shea Stadium show that kicked off their second North American tour as "the top of the mountai…
01:20:28 |
Fri 12 Sep 2025
SATB Special: Power To WHAT People? - Canceling Lennon in 2025 with Candy Leonard
This special episode is, in effect, a part two of episode 308 (The Politics of Beatles), again with Candy Leonard, as an examination of the decision made by Universal Music Group (with the tacit app…
01:13:39 |
Sat 30 Aug 2025
SATB Special: Ribbons of Rust Book Launch with John Leckie, Sibbie O'Sullivan and Richard Mills
Ribbons of Rust: The Beatles' Recording History in Context is this first installment of a multi-volume series, building out the history of everything The Beatles did in the recording studio to reveal…
01:02:58 |
Thu 14 Aug 2025
308: The Politics of Beatles with Candy Leonard
In 2014, sociologist Candy Leonard published Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade The World. It was a groundbreaking work, representing a serious exploration into the phenomenon of fando…
02:19:22 |
Mon 21 Jul 2025
307: Borrowed Time with Alan G. Parker
Director Alan G. Parker's newest film is a personal expression of gratitude toward John Lennon for being a figure that helped him through some difficult years when he was growing up. Borrowed Time: L…
01:15:49 |
Wed 02 Jul 2025
306: Beatles Olympiad - Glyn Johns' Get Back with Gary Wenstrup
In late May 1969, producer Glyn Johns turned in a draft album, culled from hours of tape recorded in January 1969 during the Get Back/Let It Be sessions. His work reflected the original concept: catc…
01:35:54 |
Fri 13 Jun 2025
305: Contentious Credits
In recent years, the quality of Beatles scholarship has risen considerably, and the old days of accepting and repeating any old data (even coming from sources that should be credible) - without exami…
02:17:55 |
Sun 25 May 2025
304: Badfinger's Head First with Bob Jackson
Beatle proteges Badfinger were an Apple band that simultaneously produced some of the finest pop/rock of their era while beset by management malfeasance leading directly to their decimation by suicid…
01:55:56 |
Wed 07 May 2025
303: John and Paul - A Love Story in Songs with Ian Leslie
My guest has produced one of those rare books in The Beatles' literary canon not penned by an insider (or by someone named Lewisohn) that has arrived with a tidal wave of press; in advance and since.…
01:22:45 |
Tue 22 Apr 2025
SATB SPECIAL: ONE TO ONE with Gary Wenstrup
On April 10, 2025, the film One To One: John and Yoko was released in US theaters. Gary Wenstrup (SATB Olympiad series) attended a screening, and in this SATB Special, have a discussion on what we sa…
01:07:02 |
Sat 19 Apr 2025
302: TeenSet and Rock Fan Magazines with Allison Bumsted
An important part of understanding both rock history generally and The Beatles' history specifically is contained in a study of the fan magazines produced throughout the 50s and 60s. For the purposes…
01:45:25 |
Sat 05 Apr 2025
301: The Beatles' Bag of Tricks Volume 2 with Jack Petruzzelli and Cameron Greider
Returning guests Cameron Greider and Jack Petruzzelli (both of the RPM-School.com) are on hand to discuss more of what The Beatles used in their songcraft: 6th and minor 3rds. If ths sounds like inde…
01:24:48 |
Mon 24 Mar 2025
300: Something About The Beatles' 300th Episode
YOU the loyal listeners decided what your fave moments of the show were, and based on your input, SATB runs down moments from the past 7+ years, featuring only a sampling of the many guests we've had…
03:21:07 |
Wed 26 Feb 2025
299: Ringo's Beats and Threads with Gary Astridge
For most whose lives were changed by The Beatles, it can only remain a dream that they would one day meet one, much less work alongside one and develop a key role in that Beatle's life and develop a …
01:30:30 |
Sat 01 Feb 2025
SATB Extra: Magical Mystery Camp 2025
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00:22:55 |
Thu 30 Jan 2025
296: The Beatles and Fandom with Richard Mills
Beatles scholar Richard Mills is the author of The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Fandom (published by Bloomsbury). We discuss the unique and enduring aspects that of the group's mult…
01:29:08 |
Fri 24 Jan 2025
298: May the Second - The Found Weekend with May Pang
Returning guest May Pang has had a busy couple of years, both with the presentation of her story in the acclaimed documentary, The Lost Weekend: A Love Story, as well as her ongoing touring photograp…
01:47:16 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
297: All I Want Is The Truth with David Whelan and Robert Rosen
2024 winds down with the merging of two guests that have appeared on the show this year, in a spirited discussion of David Whelan's investigation into John Lennon's murder as presented in Mind Games.…
02:26:35 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
FEED DROP: Crime Capsule
Staten Island is known as the mystifying borough, and it is home to numerous ghosts and eerie tales. The Alice Austin House was once home to a pioneering photographer, but ghostly images of a differe…
00:38:33 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
295: Beatles '64 with David Tedeschi and Margaret Bodde
Many of you have by now seen the new doc, re-presenting the February 1964 footage of The Beatles' two-week jaunt in NYC, Washington and Miami, shot by Albert and David Maysles. As you know, producer …
01:13:18 |
Mon 02 Dec 2024
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