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
205: Countdown to Break-Up
With so many conflicting accounts and blame laid for the series of events that led to The Beatles' split, it's hard to detect a coherent narrative that, fifty years on, makes any sense as to exactly …
01:28:10 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
204: The Guest List Part 2
Back in May 2020, my guest Gary Wenstrup and I presented the first half of our conversation, where we offered up our respective lists of what people in Beatle world we would like to be able to sit do…
01:41:32 |
Wed 21 Oct 2020
203: In The Studio 1968 with Jerry Hammack part two
As you may recall: back in July, SATB featured the first part of a conversation covering The Beatles in the studio in 1968, during the White Album sessions and just before. Here's the continuation, f…
01:15:19 |
Mon 05 Oct 2020
SATB Bonus show: JEM Records Celebrates John Lennon
Coming on what would've been the 80th anniversary of his birth, this collection of Lennon material - Beatles and solo - is being presented by a number of artists associated with Beatles music, among …
01:35:19 |
Mon 28 Sep 2020
202: Sylvie Simmons
You may know her as the award-winning veteran rock journalist (Creem, Kerrang!, Mojo, and so forth) who also penned the best-selling biography of Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohe…
01:23:28 |
Fri 25 Sep 2020
201: The Break-Up and "John vs Paul" with Erin Weber
In which this returning SATB fave (The Beatles and The Historians) and I expand from previous discussions focusing on books to cover the media specifically around the time of the break-up, and how th…
01:58:27 |
Sat 19 Sep 2020
200: A Conversation with Ethan Russell (part two)
For SATB's 200th episode (more or less), we're doing something special: returning with guest photographer/writer Ethan Russell, one of this most storied individuals in rock history through his iconic…
01:21:58 |
Fri 11 Sep 2020
199: Credit Where Due with Luther Russell
In which my returning guest and I discuss this: what if The Beatles' songwriting credits were more accurately apportioned to reflect actual significant contributions from not-credited bandmates? Thei…
01:20:04 |
Thu 20 Aug 2020
198: Chip Madinger/Plastic Ono Band
Presented as forerunner of the inevitable show revisiting John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band to come later this year as part of the 50th anniversary, returning guest Chip Madinger (Eight Arms To Hold You, …
01:13:20 |
Thu 13 Aug 2020
197: Collecting The Beatles Part Three
Previous guest Russ Lease returns with stories from the world of top end collecting: vehicles (including the Magical Mystery Tour bus), attire (shoes, boots, jackets), paper (a Brian Epstein contract…
01:15:10 |
Mon 27 Jul 2020
196: In The Studio 1968 w/ Jerry Hammack Part One
In his return to the show, we discuss 1968 and the making of the "White Album" (mostly), as explored in his most recent work, The Beatles' Recording Reference Manual Volume 4. Joining us is another r…
01:17:16 |
Sat 11 Jul 2020
195: Little Richard Remembered
It seems particularly fitting at the time we find ourselves in to be discussing the art and career of rock pioneer Little Richard, who passed recently at 87. He represented a marginalized group in so…
01:21:32 |
Sun 07 Jun 2020
194: The Guest List Part 1
So an idea came up: who would SATB like to talk to in Beatle world and sit down for an interview? Qualifications: first, they have to be among the living (as of this taping); Second, they have to be …
01:51:51 |
Mon 25 May 2020
193: On The Beat with Spencer Leigh
Rock historian and radio interviewer Spencer Leigh has been chronicling the music scene generally and The Beatles specifically from his native Merseyside for decades. He has penned well over two doze…
01:16:58 |
Thu 07 May 2020
192B: Ringo Forensics Part Two
The continuation of my conversation with musician/singer/songwriter/producer Luther Russell - whom you may recall (SATB 192) as one half of Those Pretty Wrongs, a duo with Jody Stephens (ex-Big Star)…
01:04:15 |
Sat 18 Apr 2020
192 Part One: Ringo Forensics
My guest today is musician/singer/songwriter/producer Luther Russell - you may recall him (SATB 192) as one half of Those Pretty Wrongs, a duo with Jody Stephens (ex-Big Star). As a devout fan from b…
01:16:35 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
191: Jenny Boyd
You may know her as the muse who inspired Donovan's "Jennifer Juniper"; maybe you know her as Pattie Boyd's sister who went to Rishikesh with The Beatles. She may be known to some as the one-time fla…
01:21:11 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
190B: Memo To Peter Jackson Part Two
The January 1969 sessions at Twickenham and Apple Studio are The Beatles gift that keeps on giving. Thoroughly taped and filmed, it is a rich vein of material to analyze, especially as it has been ch…
01:43:35 |
Sun 08 Mar 2020
190A: Memo To Peter Jackson Part One
The January 1969 sessions at Twickenham and Apple Studio are The Beatles gift that keeps on giving. Thoroughly taped and filmed, it is a rich vein of material to analyze, especially as it has been ch…
01:36:53 |
Sun 08 Mar 2020
189: A Conversation with Robert Rosen
My guest today is best known in Beatles world for having published Nowhere Man (originally in 2000 but since revised in 2015), a book in part drawn from Rosen's exclusive access to John Lennon's diar…
01:43:28 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
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