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
187: 1973
My (returning) guest is Andrew Grant Jackson, author of the newly-published 1973: Rock at the Crossroads. He makes the case for this period being a time of tremendous conflict: AM vs FM - 60s giants …
01:14:59 |
Wed 29 Jan 2020
186: Fly on the Wall Two: Holiday Edition
In which SATB listener favorite Jeff Martin returns, and where we honor you, the listener, by running down nearly three hours' worth of your suggested events to revisit (as winged insects). Loads h…
02:30:14 |
Wed 25 Dec 2019
185: Ringo's White Album
My guests Alex Cain and Terry McCusker are back, presenting a discussion of their newest work, Ringo's White Album. Building on their previous work, Ringo Starr and The Beatles' Beat, this work exami…
01:12:42 |
Sat 21 Dec 2019
184: "Yesterday" and the Myth of Meritocracy
2019's Danny Boyle rom-cam featuring a Beatles subtext has inspired a lot of discussion among fans this year, given the pretext of a struggling English musician apparently being the only person on Ea…
00:47:00 |
Sat 07 Dec 2019
183: McGear with Mike McCartney
Special guests don't come much more special: today, a man who needs no introduction. His 1974 album, McGear, was produced with a little help from his big brother ("Our Kid" to you). It features contr…
02:03:07 |
Wed 27 Nov 2019
182: Here We Go Again (1)
In what will be an ongoing feature of SATBs going forward, I welcome to the show Gary Wenstrup. In addition to being a regular listener, Gary is a college-level teacher and lecturer, whose expertise …
01:35:22 |
Sat 16 Nov 2019
181: Erin Weber and The Beatles
It's the return of our favorite Fab historian. In this lengthy dialogue, we discuss an array of literature from the Beatles historical canon: among the works, Many Years From Now - The Love You Make …
02:11:27 |
Mon 04 Nov 2019
165: The Beatles as Performers on the White Album
Last year - upon the 50th anniversary of the release of The Beatles; that eponymous double album issued as the group's Apple debut - a symposium was convened at Monmouth College in New Jersey, as man…
01:03:28 |
Tue 29 Oct 2019
180: "...I Buried Paul..."
Fifty years on and the "Paul is dead" hoax has lost none of its power to fascinate on so many levels. Perhaps the most compelling angle for examination is how did something so clearly nonsensical in …
01:06:19 |
Sun 20 Oct 2019
179: You Made Me Such A Big Star (A Conversation with Those Pretty Wrongs)
What happens when the surviving member of a legendary American power pop band and a Los Angeles musician whose lineage includes two giants of the Great American Songbook, both steeped in Beatles, get…
01:44:44 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
178: Chris Carter
The host of the longest running Beatles program on US radio, Carter's passion for The Beatles has taken many forms through the years: buying the records as a child - becoming a musician himself - get…
01:22:16 |
Tue 08 Oct 2019
177: Being Ray Connolly 2 - Beatles '69
Anybody hear anything about a newly-revealed taped Apple meeting from September 1969 that's been public knowledge since the 1970s? You will now, with the return of journalist/writer Ray Connolly. Ray…
01:07:11 |
Mon 23 Sep 2019
176B: Critiquing The Critics - A Case Study with Wings
This show represents a deep (3 hour) dive into examining the evolving language of rock criticism: the ideology employed - the fluid definitions of "rock" and "pop" - the application of "authenticity"…
01:22:09 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
176A: Critiquing The Critics - A Case Study with Wings
This show represents a deep (3 hour) dive into examining the evolving language of rock criticism: the ideology employed - the fluid definitions of "rock" and "pop" - the application of "authenticity"…
01:22:02 |
Fri 13 Sep 2019
175 Beatle Jazz with Ramsey Lewis
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An area heretofore unexplored on SATB is jazz: specifically, which artists took raw material from The Beatles and took it in a new direction. It is our good fortune to have within rea…
01:02:56 |
Mon 26 Aug 2019
174: Once Upon A Time with Ivor Davis
[powerpress] 1969 was a tremendous year, in the world generally and with The Beatles as well. We find ourselves commemorating (if not celebrating) a number of 50th anniversaries this year, among th…
00:57:32 |
Sun 18 Aug 2019
173: Being Ray Connolly
Few professional scribes received access to The Beatles like Ray Connolly. As a journalist with the Evening Standard, he found himself in the right place at the right time to cover the group during t…
01:26:01 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
172: Collecting The Beatles Part Two with Terry Crain
Back in 2017, SATB first explored of Beatles collectors. This year, a terrific addition to Beatle literature arrived with the publication of Terry Crain's new book, NEMS and the Business of Selling B…
01:00:57 |
Fri 02 Aug 2019
171: An Accidental Studio - George's HandMade Films
Beginning in 1978, George Harrison became drawn into a vocation he'd only dabbled in previously: filmmaker. HandMade Films came into being serendipitously, simply because he wanted to see Monty Pytho…
01:11:50 |
Wed 17 Jul 2019
170: The Maharishi and The Beatles
The full story of The Beatles' Rishikesh visit and their relationship with Maharishi Mahesh Yogi had never been explored in detail and from the inside before - until now. Susan Shumsky spent over twe…
01:05:25 |
Mon 01 Jul 2019
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