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 12 days
- Average duration
- 82 minutes
- Episodes
- 209
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
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…
01:03:10 |
Sat 02 Jul 2022
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 (Paul McCar…
01:27:09 |
Wed 29 Jun 2022
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 publi…
01:13:07 |
Thu 16 Jun 2022
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 poi…
01:20:54 |
Tue 31 May 2022
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 care…
01:04:25 |
Sat 21 May 2022
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 overloo…
01:07:13 |
Fri 13 May 2022
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 represen…
01:05:18 |
Fri 06 May 2022
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 field…
01:15:43 |
Sat 16 Apr 2022
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,…
01:03:33 |
Sun 27 Mar 2022
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, Se…
01:17:50 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
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 …
00:59:06 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
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 perspecti…
01:04:22 |
Sat 19 Feb 2022
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: New York Stories); the first US Beatles fan, plus cartoonist/a…
01:02:02 |
Sun 13 Feb 2022
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…
01:05:08 |
Sun 30 Jan 2022
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 …
01:05:19 |
Sat 22 Jan 2022
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 asse…
01:16:18 |
Sat 15 Jan 2022
225B: Beatles Olympiad II
In which returning guest Gary Wenstrup and I continue our ranking conversation of faves, discussing A Hard Day's Night and Beatles For Sale. Along the way, we analyze their vocals and blendings, as …
00:51:47 |
Sat 01 Jan 2022
225A: Beatles Olympiad
In which we pull away from the Get Back film for a while and converse about something completely different. Returning guest Gary Wenstrup and I conduct a conversation going through the first four Bea…
01:07:29 |
Sat 25 Dec 2021
224C The Making of Get Back part three with Peter Jackson
In the third and final hour, Dan Rivkin (They May be Parted blog) and I explore more of the Get Back project with its director. Among the subjects discussed: ~ Coordination between the Get Bac…
01:00:31 |
Mon 20 Dec 2021
224B: The Making of Get Back part two with Peter Jackson
Dan Rivkin (They May Be Parted blog) and I continue our conversation with director Peter Jackson about the innovation used to create the film - some technique used to advance the story - and a numbe…
01:02:08 |
Mon 13 Dec 2021
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