When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

2022.b03 Toppermost of the Poppermost - October 1962

Episode 1 of Toppermost of the Poppermost!      "Love Me Do", Elvis, Buddy, Chris Montez and more.   Please like, subscribe, review and give both WTWF and Toppermost five-start ratings on Apple podcasts or your provider of choice.      Only two more episodes will be included on the "When They Was Fab" feed.

 

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/toppermost-of-the-poppermost/id1656605625

2022.r49 A Year of Get Back (Part 1)

Thanksgiving 2022 brought "The Beatles Get Back" to the world.     Not just the monumental three-part documentary from Peter Jackson, but also the book, the SuperDeluxeEdition CD set, the streaming rooftop concert and eventually the unenhanced DVD/Blu-Ray set.    This week and next we look all of these, the different ways things play between each unique set of media, and compare the book transcription to the Nagras we have had for "All These Years."

2022.r48 McCartney Singles, RIngo’s new video and more!

A look into the world of the singles from McCartney, Wings and more along with some thoughts on Ed Rudy, Ken Mansfield and Ringo's latest.      In a most un-Thanksgiving mode, we may be a little down on the Liverpool Lads (not the real ones), feet (comma, Ringo's), Freedom (the song), a Wonderful Christmastime (Jon only), and "Peace and Love" (as an overused sentiment in Ringo's lyrics).

2022.b02 Toppermost of the Poppermost Episode 0 (trailer)

A new project from Ed Chen, Kit O'Toole and Martin Quibell.     We all know the Beatles dominated the charts in both the UK and US through the sixties, but what of the others.    John Lennon described the Beatles as "being in the crow's nest".     This new show will look at those that influenced them, the bands they knew, toured and work with and how those songs sat alongside the Beatles own progress.     Subscribe soon, but all 2022 episodes will appear in our collective feeds.

2022.r47 Revolver SDE Pt.4 (Sessions Two)

We'd like to be ... under the sea ... in a Yellow Submarine, with you.      Week four of our look at the Revolver Super Deluxe Editions.    This week, sessions disc two.       Picking up from Disc One last week, we discuss even more "And Your Bird Can Sing" through to "She Said, She Said", and wonder how song choices were made by Giles, The Beatles and UMe.

2022.r46 Revolver SDE Pt.3 (Sessions One)

Continuing our deep dive into the Revolver Super Deluxe Edition, this week we go into the first Sessions disc.    Lots of "Love You To" and "Got to Get You Into My Life", but also both sides of the single ("Rain" at the original speed!), "Doctor Robert" and "And Your Bird Can Sing."      While we always want more, this is a nice selection of new, interesting and important material.

2022.r45 Revolver SDE Pt. 2 (Kit O’Toole, Lonnie Pena)

Part two of our look at the Revolver SDE.    Kit O'Toole and Lonnie Pena return for our dive into the album proper (both the new remix and the mono).    

2022.r44 Revolver SDE Pt. 1 (Kit O’Toole, Lonnie Pena)

The first part of the WTWF view of Revolver.      This week: The book, the cover, assorted memories of the era and the EP.      Coming soon - part 2 - the album proper.

2022.43 Ringo Starr on ”Saturday Night Live”, December 8, 1984.

Live, from New York!    No, not those guys.    Not those other guys either.     It's Lonnie Pena and me, and we are not even "live on tape".    In this show, we travel back to a Saturday Night thirty Eight years ago, when we were invited to see Ringo being sold at a Sotheby's-alike, acting as the foil for Ed Grimley, and engage in "The Pajama Game" with Barbra in Fernando's Hideaway.

2022.r42 In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono (Madeline Bocaro)

An hour with author Madeline Bocaro.    Her Book? "In Your Mind - The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono."      Madeline has unique insight into the life and art of Yoko Ono, and ultimately those are the things she delivers in her book, and gives us a taste of in this show!