Hello folks, First off, because you are all here and appreciated for the ongoing support, I want to present something cool that I’ve shared in the past, but not in the newsletter. In 1975 – 50 years ago – I was a very, very young Beatles fan. People around at that time will tell you …
Hello all, Welcome to the SATB Newsletter, to subscribers new and legacy. Who knew this would become the year of the drummer? 2025 started strong with Ringo in Nashville with Look Up, his shows and TV special, before news of the death of Blondie’s Clem Burke (also Judas Priest’s Les Binks), coinciding with the announced …
Hello folks and welcome to Monday! (Though I acknowledge that it’s already Tuesday in some places this is being read…) Not a ton of new news to report but a couple of things warrant attention. First, buried in the shock of Clem Burke’s passing was news about another drummer: Pete Best. On Sunday April 6, …
Hello folks; Welcome to another week. I was hoping to make it two in a row without something sad to report but might as well get this out of the way now: the passing of drummer Clem Burke, best known for his work with Blondie (but he’s played with an astonishing array of artists nearly beyond …
In recent years, the quality of Beatles scholarship has risen considerably, and the old days of accepting and repeating any old data (even coming from sources that should be credible) – without examining it deeper to see if it really stands up – are long gone. With The Beatles, music is always at the heart …
Beatle proteges Badfinger were an Apple band that simultaneously produced some of the finest pop/rock of their era while beset by management malfeasance leading directly to their decimation by suicide. It was fifty years ago that Pete Ham, their songwriter responsible for “No Matter What,” “Day After Day” and “Baby Blue” and co-writer with Tommy …
My guest has produced one of those rare books in The Beatles’ literary canon not penned by an insider (or by someone named Lewisohn) that has arrived with a tidal wave of press; in advance and since. Ian Leslie, who in the past has written about psychology, has put together a thesis examining the singular …
303: John and Paul – A Love Story in Songs with Ian Leslie Read More »
An important part of understanding both rock history generally and The Beatles’ history specifically is contained in a study of the fan magazines produced throughout the 50s and 60s. For the purposes of this discussion, Dr. Allison Bumsted’s newly-published TeenSet, Teen Fan Magazines and Rock Journalism: Don’t Let The Name Fool You is THE roadmap …
302: TeenSet and Rock Fan Magazines with Allison Bumsted Read More »
Hello all; Since the newsletter doesn’t aspire to serve as Grim Reaper, we’ll save the casualties for last, shall we? Instead, we go with the current Beatles-in-the-news story, RE that “find” in Canada of a reel containing the January 1, 1962 Decca audition. The 15-song set has only officially been made available in excerpted form …
Returning guests Cameron Greider and Jack Petruzzelli (both of the RPM-School.com) are on hand to discuss more of what The Beatles used in their songcraft: 6th and minor 3rds. If ths sounds like indecipherable music theory, hang on – it isn’t and once you become aware of it, you’ll recognize it everywhere – how often and …
