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
129B: “Acoustic Beatles” with Dave Mirkin 2 (This Time It’s Personal)
Picking up where we left off, we discuss an array of topics and songs, mostly adhering to the “acoustic Beatles” theme. (For some reason, we seemed to gravitate to the White Album a lot…)
But there…
01:15:44 |
Mon 15 Jan 2018
129A: “Acoustic Beatles” with Dave Mirkin
Back in September, I first talked Beatles with this Renaissance man, in the context of The Beatles with The Simpsons. As you listeners will remember, Dave had a lot to say about the Beatles well beyo…
00:53:36 |
Fri 12 Jan 2018
128: The Beatles, Paul McCartney (and added Attraction)
In 1978 – the year he joined Elvis Costello in The Attractions – bassist Bruce Thomas was personally selected by Paul McCartney to participate in the Rockestra – an all-star ensemble assembled for a …
00:51:03 |
Wed 20 Dec 2017
127: John Lennon, “Invisible Guitarist”
John once observed that, in his opinion, Paul was “…an egomaniac about everything else about himself, but his bass playing” – which was as influential as it was innovative. It is therefore a deliciou…
01:17:25 |
Mon 04 Dec 2017
126: 70s Beatle Fandom, etc…
SATB began as a conversation between two Beatle friends who happened to be writers; this episode began as a conversation about being a Beatles fan in the 70s. But in both instances, some unexpected t…
01:31:05 |
Fri 24 Nov 2017
125: Roy Orbison, Tom Petty and the Traveling Wilburys
The unexpected loss of The Heartbreakers’ leader (and “Charlie T./Muddy Wilbury”) presents an opportunity to look back on the career of the accidental supergroup: the Traveling Wilburys, whose debut …
01:21:55 |
Thu 02 Nov 2017
124: Finding The Fourth Beatle with David Bedford
You may already know the author of Liddypool and The Fab 104 for his meticulous research in already well-trod grounds. But with his latest work, David Bedford reveals new revelations – some of them s…
01:21:21 |
Sun 22 Oct 2017
123: All About That Bassist
In something of a departure from the usual, SATB presents a conversation with Arion Salazar, original bass player with Third Eye Blind (“Semi-Charmed Life” – “Losing A Whole Year” – “How’s It Going T…
01:00:49 |
Tue 17 Oct 2017
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