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Something About the Beatles

Something About the Beatles

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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.Parading Press 音楽
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  • 330: Working For The Beatles with Merle Frimark

    330: Working For The Beatles with Merle Frimark
    2026/07/27
    Imagine having our world rocked by The Beatles as a 1st-gen fan living in New York City. You are a budding musician yourself, and with every release, they inspire you as they advance their art. You see them live - twice - the first time at a renowned event caught on film. One day, deciding to check out something you've heard, you knock on a door downtown and get invited in to interview for a job, working for them. Before you know it, you are swept up into their world, mentored by Derek Taylor and getting to know Mal Evans, Peter Brown, and becoming lifelong friends with Freda Kelly. Tommy Smothers takes an interest in you and guides you toward a career that sustains you ever on after The Beatles split up. But it is the one day in July 1969 where Derek secures you an invitation to witness the band at work on Abbey Road that might be the sweetest moment of all, as you spend time as a fly on the wall, with your camera in hand, as the greatest entertainment phenomenon of the 20th century works on their final collective project. If you are Merle Frimark, this was your life, and you are here to tell the rest of us all about it. Check out Merle's articles here:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/24/from-sorting-fan-mail-to-seeing-abbey-road-being-made-my-life-as-a-teenage-beatles-employee https://www.culturesonar.com/looking-back-at-beatlemania-in-the-us-60-years/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 24 分
  • 329: A Hard Day's Night Re-Examined with Samira Ahmed

    329: A Hard Day's Night Re-Examined with Samira Ahmed
    2026/07/06
    Sixty two years ago, The Beatles cinematic debut arrived , putting the world on notice that their charm and talents were adaptable to virtually any medium. A Hard Day's Night, directed by Richard Lester, has gone down in film history as "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals," a stunning work as fresh and captivating as the day it was premiered, and yet it was done on a small budget with novices as the film's leads, with no certainty whatsoever that anyone would be interested in them by years' end. Thankfully, the joy that the group projected has continued on into the 21st century with new fans being coined daily. But what is it about this film that has made it so evergreen? UK journalist (and 2nd gen fan) Samira Ahmed took a deep dive into a film she loved and what she uncovered about the making of this project uncovered much more than the sum of its collective talents. A Hard Day's Night continues to charm because of a perfect storm of timing, talent and standards set by all the parties involved. Her book for the British Film Institute shines light on what was intended as a quickie cash-in that far outstripped the studio's goals. Checkout our conversation and her book - no matter how many times you've seen this film, you'll never experience it the same way again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 45 分
  • 328: Meat - The Beatles with Erika White

    328: Meat - The Beatles with Erika White
    2026/06/25
    On March 25, 1966, photographer Robert Whitaker - a surrealist - took The Beatles into his studio to capture a concept piece he called "A Somnamulant Adventure," envisioned as a triptych commentary on the group's fame. But the project slid away from him when one frame, depicting The Beatles with slabs of meat and doll parts, was sent to the US for Capitol to use on their latest compilation album. The blowback was fierce and Whitaker never got to complete his work, but the so-called "butcher cover" became an interesting piece of folklore (and collectible), the first of many controversies for the group that year. Beatles scholar Erika White details the entire history of not just the shoot, but Whitaker's association with The Beatles, as well as the path that made the group amenable to his concept and what the repercussions were in her forthcoming book, Meat The Beatles: The Butcher Cover - The Complete, Untold Story of the Fab Four's Most Controversial Album Artwork. This episode sponsored by DistroKid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 34 分
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