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
169: In The Studio; 1967 part two, plus
In which I resume the conversation with engineer/producer Jerry Hammack, begun earlier this year. This time, our sounding board is writer/musician/engineer/producer/podcaster/returning guest Anthony…
01:13:02 |
Sat 22 Jun 2019
168: Mary Hopkin
The first break-out star at Apple Records was, of course, Mary Hopkin with "Those Were The Days." A huge international hit, it typed her as a cheery ingénue, somewhat removed from her folk roots (and…
00:51:49 |
Fri 31 May 2019
167: Apple Jam
Apple Jam is a Seattle-based recording and performing outfit specializing in Beatles music; specifically, songs written by Lennon-McCartney and Harrison that, for the most part, went unrecorded/relea…
00:47:23 |
Sat 25 May 2019
166: The Magic of Collaboration Part One
It is not a unique observation to note that bandleader Duke Ellington and The Beatles shared some commonalities, creativity-wise. They were unclassifiable musically, and a great deal of what made the…
00:58:48 |
Fri 17 May 2019
164: George Martin's Sound Pictures with Ken Womack
Back in 2017, SATB featured a conversation with Ken Womack on the publication of volume one of his George Martin biography, Maximum Volume (here). In late 2018, volume two emerged, this one taking up…
01:02:16 |
Mon 08 Apr 2019
163: Fly On The Wall Moments with Jeff Martin
He’s back, and with a terrific topic: each of us choosing 7 moments in the history of The Beatles that we would’ve liked to have been around to witness as a fly on the wall. The criteria being, occas…
02:09:09 |
Tue 02 Apr 2019
162: A Conversation with Ethan Russell (part one)
You know him as the photographer responsible for one Beatles album cover (two in the US); their last group photo shoot, and as the official photographer on the “Get Back” / Let It Be project (his pho…
01:16:37 |
Wed 27 Mar 2019
161: January 1969 part two – Into the Nitty-Gritty with Dan Rivkin
This is the second part of a discussion begun with Doug Sulpy (co-author of Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image/Get Back), this time with blogger Dan Rivkin. His blog, They May Be Parted, is a detail…
01:53:30 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
160: The Redhead on the Roof
You know him as the human music stand kneeling before John Lennon for “Dig A Pony” during the rooftop session of January 1969. But Kevin Harrington was much more than that: coming into The Beatles’ o…
01:29:44 |
Sat 09 Mar 2019
159: Eight Arms To Hold You Revisited
Back in 2000, Chip Madinger and Mark Easter produced an exhaustive study of every extant recording of the solo Beatles, up to that very year: studio sessions, live concerts and broadcasts. Eight Arms…
01:09:39 |
Sun 24 Feb 2019
158: January 1969 part one – An Overview with Doug Sulpy
Two words: Peter Jackson
Remember the “Winter of Discontent”? My guest today is Doug Sulpy, co-author (with Ray Schweighardt) of Drugs, Divorce and a Slipping Image (AKA Get Back: The Unauthorized C…
01:35:58 |
Tue 12 Feb 2019
05: Fifty Years of US Releases
In this episode, Robert and Richard discuss some of the Beatle novelty recordings of fifty years ago, plus the new box set release of all their American albums.
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01:08:17 |
Wed 06 Feb 2019
157: In the Studio; 1967 (The Ben and Jerry Show)
It’s the return of Jerry Hammack – creator of the Beatles Recording Reference Manual series. Volume 3, covering the end of 1966 (“Strawberry Fields Forever”) through the whole of Sgt. Pepper (plus Ma…
01:14:16 |
Thu 24 Jan 2019
156: A Conversation with Vic Flick
In a slight departure from the SATB norm, I present an account of the career of a Beatles peer: session guitarist Vic Flick, whose work appeared in 1960s music charts alongside The Beatles. Every Fab…
01:02:07 |
Sun 13 Jan 2019
155: 1968 with Candy Leonard
First off, listeners: kindly indulge the first 15 minutes, which represents an audio document of 1968 (January through end of August). It’s one thing to know what happened that year, but it’s quite a…
01:55:20 |
Fri 04 Jan 2019
154: IT’S CHRIS ThoMAS TIME!
The long-awaited conversation with producer Chris Thomas, recorded at the White Album Symposium in Monmouth University. Audio deficiencies with the sound due to the electrical system; deficiencies in…
01:01:23 |
Tue 25 Dec 2018
153: Lon Looks Back (And Forward)
In general, you can tell how well a conversation went by how long the show runs. At just past the two hour mark, you get an idea of how well things went with Lon Van Eaton, one-time Apple recording a…
01:36:28 |
Mon 24 Dec 2018
152: Best of SATB 2018
As a sonic landscape to accompany your holiday season demands: driving places – online shopping – gift-wrapping, and so forth, SATB presents an end-of-year look at the highlights of this years’ shows…
01:53:17 |
Sat 08 Dec 2018
151: On The Roof with Ken Mansfield
In the 2nd of a quartet of shows recorded (in part) at the White Album Symposium at Monmouth University (as well as the 2nd in a trio of shows covering Apple in its 50th year), I speak with my friend…
01:20:19 |
Fri 30 Nov 2018
150: Behind The Esher Demos
In the first of what will be a series of shows originating from the White Album symposium held at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, I am presenting my opening remarks, followed by …
00:46:58 |
Thu 22 Nov 2018
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