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My guests are three very special ladies who have all appeared on the show before, but this time, all three have memoirs out. Debbie Gendler was the first to appear on SATB (121: New York Stories) and her story as the 1st US fan (as far as I’m concerned) was initially laid out there. But now HER memoir has been published, I Saw Them Standing There: Adventures of an Original Fan During Beatlemania and Beyond.
Debbie joins returning guests Carol Tyler (146: Fab 4 Mania) and Sibbie O’Sullivan (273: My Private Lennon) as they react to each other’s books. What ensued though was something bigger than what we anticipated, as the notion of collating their stories and those of other 1st-generation fans into something bigger and grander took shape.
Something About The Beatles is now an Evergreen podcast.
Is it coincidence that this story broke 3 days before this episode was posted?
https://www.audacy.com/1010wins/news/local/family-remembers-adrienne-from-brooklyn-beatlemania-fan
Yes, though some would say there are no coincidences.
Hey Robert, which performance of ‘Mother’ was this, the voice sounded familiar, Shelby Lynne? But the organ arrangement I don’t know from her… who is it who is it?
haha this is very good Robert Rodriguez – just finishing an essay series about Sibbie’s book, refering to Beatleness, Erin’s book, Christine Feldman-Barrett’s and I Carol Tyler’s magnificent Fab4Mania graphic memoir … to be honest ladies… Carol Tyler gives the best emotional real live expression of what The Beatles meant… Just re-read it – over the weekend until yesterday evening. Candy Leonard’s Beatleness was the one that opened up the pearly gates for me to understanding fandom… almost ten years ago, and what Beatles meant in the lives of many, including my own … In June I will be back in the Austrian mountains restructuring the whole thing and prepare publishing… thank you Sibbie O’Sullivan for the inspiration in April 2023 when I found your paperback… Reading it made me write 100K words…
Robert, now I will listen again to all the conversations with the females on SATB to get inspiration again and find the right ‘tone’ and attitude… Ladies you are my inspiration… now that I am old; as Yoko’s feminism did to me in the early seventies – 50 years ago today… thanks for the ideas, the impulse, the lessons, the revelations. May you all have more moments of happiness – and the capacity to sustain the bad moments and suffering. Love y’all. Keep up the good work Robert.