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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

Ed Chen and Jon Stone

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

A weekly Music podcast
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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

Ed Chen and Jon Stone

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

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When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

Ed Chen and Jon Stone

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

A weekly Music podcast
 4 people rated this podcast
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Martin Quibell and Sam Whiles (Paul or Nothing) join to discuss the final Wings show of the summer 1973 tour.      If your experience of Wings Live begins with Jimmy McCulloch, you are in for quite a different experience.     Excerpts have been
Martin Quibell joins this week as we discuss the recent "fan mixed" Underdubbed version of "Red Rose Speedway".    Sorry Paul, the term still is not going to catch on among the general public.        This mix is probably more accurately referre
Welll...It's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go!    George "Don't Call It a Comeback" Harrison joined his buddy Carl Perkins and his other buddies Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton to pay tribute to their friend an
A grand old painter died last night.     I must've done something wrong.    More life, more lyrics from McCartney and Muldoon.     Lonnie Pena and I run through three more episodes of the "Life in Lyrics" podcast, talking about their talking, b
Paul McCartney and Paul Muldoon return for the second season of the "Life in Lyrics" podcast.    We sit down to consider the first two episodes of the new season ("Love Me Do" and "Band on the Run"), and talk about the slight stylistic change b
It was Sixty Years Ago Today...   Beatlemania finished its reach as the Fab Four use New York City, Miami Beach and the Ed Sullivan Show to broadcast across the United States.    We not discuss the Fab Four, but Fred Kaps, Mitzi Gaynor, Rossi a
Before he jetted off to New York, and then Vegas, Sir Paul and his team dropped the fiftieth anniversary release of "Band on the Run", highlighted by the "Underdubbed edition."     This week we consider the new release and look at what is under
Lonnie Pena and I consider the recent production "The Beatles and the BBC".     An interesting collection of BBC clips ranging the Beatles years and beyond with some effort putting the "Threetles" in the historic context of the band they once w
Marv and I finish our review of episodes nine to twelve of the McCartney "Life and Lyrics" podcast and look forward to what we might find in the second series which is expected in the coming weeks!    Magical Mystery Tour (roll up), The Birds o
Lonnie Pena and I sit down to consider the John Lennon episode of "A Life in Ten Pictures".     One hour is barely enough time to give an overview of a "regular person's" life, much less a complex superstar.     How well did the BBC accomplish
More from the Muldoon and McCartney Life in Lyrics podcast.     "Penny Lane", "Here Today", "Uncle Albert" and "Live and Let Die".     A study in how Paul McCartney thinks about characters, both his own and those given to him for a song.   Mart
Time continues to march on as Jon Stone, Martin Quibell and I (Naturally!) move through the latter half of 2023.    Not just "Now and Then", but a number of tremendous books, a new Ringo EP, more touring from Sir Ringo and Sir Paul and collabor
The "Gab Four" are together again for the first show of 2024.    A lot of Ringo, some chat on Beatle books from the first half of the year and "in memoriam" to folks like Royston Ellis, Chas Newby and Caroline Buckman.
This week: The "When They Was Fab" Christmas spectacular.     Three of the "Gab Four" review the 1995 "Rubber Band" album from Dutch band the Beatmas (featuring Soren Dahlberg).    The Fab Four were not the first to do Beatles-styled Christmas
Sam Whiles (Paul or Nothing) steps in as we discuss the life, loves and trousers of Denny Laine.    Also joining is Darin Murphy (who gets a few more words in than Roger McGough, the man who actually knew the Rutles).    Merry Happy Holidays to
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 forwar
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
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 f
"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
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 sto
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 w
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
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 S
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 R
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
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