When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

2023.50 Red Album 2023 CD2 Overview and Review

We continue with our look at the 2023 remixes of "The Beatles 1962-1966".    As with disc one, the percussion blows us away.     Join Martin Quibell and I as we consider the remixes and discuss some of the recent announcements as we look forward to 2024.

2023.49 Red Album 2023 CD1 Overview and Review

Now we are channeling the SuperDeluxeEdition energy!    Nineteen new mixes on the first CD of 1962-1966.    Hear Ringo playing the bongos on "A Hard Day's Night".    Claves, handclaps, and drums as far as you can hear.    Martin Quibell (and a bit of Lonnie Pena) join as we talk the wonders of MAL and the ears of Giles Martin.

2023.48 Macca in Mexico City

Paul McCartney's "Got Back" tour hit Mexico City in mid-November 2023.    This is Paul and the band's first visit to "Ciudad de Mexico" in six years.     Despite being highly similar to the 2022 US version, a splendid time is still guaranteed for all, particularly with crowds like those we shared the evening with!

2023.47 Blue Album 2023 Review

"Now and Then" was followed up by the sort-of 50th anniversary of "Red and Blue".     This week we look at three albums of goodness from the folks at Universal Music.      The blue album is very much a compilation in the traditional sense -  a nice sampler for the Giles Martin post-2017 remixes.     This week we consider the additions to the collection, other choices that might have been made and what is that sound in "Hey Bulldog"

2023.46 Living the Beatles Legend - Ken Womack

The hits just keep on coming!    This week, friend of the show Doctor Kenneth Womack joins the show to discuss his just-released book "Living the Beatles Legend: The Untold Story of Mal Evans."    "Big Mal" has been both part of the Beatles story, and a figure in the background.     What drove the "Gentle Giant", and what was it like to be the friend, confidante and guy who found socks, bowties and guitar strings for John, Paul, George and Ringo.

2023.45 Now and Then

I know it's true.     There's a new Beatles song and video and short documentary out in the wild.     Lonnie and I are joined by Kit O'Toole (Queen of all Beatles Media!), Tom Hunyady (one of the two legs) and Erika White (BC the Beatles), as we go through the single (does clear count as a color?), the song, the documentary, the video and the T-shirt.      

2023.44 A Life in Lyrics podcast (review, overview, summary)

Lonnie Pena and I go through the first four episodes of the Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon podcast "A Life in Lyrics".    Paul goes through Eleanor Rigby, Back in the USSR, Let It Be, When Winter Comes and Mull of Kintyre.    Old stories, new stories and you might even learn something!

2023.43 Ringo (Side B)

The record is flipped as we travel through "Devil Woman", the how's why's and extended versions of "Six O'Clock", right through to a bit more of the legend of Jack Nitzsche, Klaus Voorman, Vini Poncia, David Hentschel and the inimitable Ringo Starr.    We'd like to thank you for making that little bit of plastic.  

2023.42 Ringo (side 1)

Clarence "Frogman" Henry, Harry Nilsson, Klaus Voorman, John Lennon and Ringo Starr join together to answer the question "What Shall we do with a Drunken Sailor"?    Tune in as Marv and I discuss and celebrate 49 years and 50-ish weeks of the Ringo Starr album "Ringo."

2023.41 - Fashioning the Beatles

Jon Stone co-hosts as we chat with Deirdre Kelly, author of "Fashioning the Beatles: The Looks that Shook the World."   The topic is John Lennon as influencer, both inside and outside of the Beatles.    John Lennon liked to say that the Beatles were not necessarily the originators of their style (both musically and not), but "the ones in the crow's nest."    This week we discuss the taste and style of the Lads - and how their choices in that arena are still echoed to the present day!