207: John Leckie/Plastic Ono Bands
This episode features a conversation between Luther Russell and I with producer John Leckie – if you aren’t familiar with his name
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206: Performing The Beatles
Returning guest Jack Petruzzelli of The Fab Faux has been playing Beatles music onstage all over the world since 1998. In this conversation, he goes into detail about what goes into the effort to replicate heavily-produced recordings not necessarily intended for live performance, by a core of five members. Given the current conditions, the band …
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205: Countdown to Break-Up
With so many conflicting accounts and blame laid for the series of events that led to The Beatles’ split, it’s hard to detect a coherent narrative that, fifty years on, makes any sense as to exactly what went down and how. But Dr. Duncan Driver, in an article published earlier this year in Beatlefan magazine, has …
204: The Guest List Part 2
Back in May 2020, my guest Gary Wenstrup and I presented the first half of our conversation, where we offered up our respective lists of what people in Beatle world we would like to be able to sit down and interview: insiders who knew The Beatles well – worked with and for them – and …
203: In The Studio 1968 with Jerry Hammack part two
As you may recall: back in July, SATB featured the first part of a conversation covering The Beatles in the studio in 1968, during the White Album sessions and just before.
SATB Bonus show: JEM Records Celebrates John Lennon
Coming on what would’ve been the 80th anniversary of his birth, this collection of Lennon material – Beatles and solo – is being presented by a number of artists associated with Beatles music, among them The Weeklings and The Gripweeds.
202: Sylvie Simmons
You may know her as the award-winning veteran rock journalist (Creem, Kerrang!, Mojo, and so forth) who also penned the best-selling biography of Leonard Cohen: I’m Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen (2011), as well as Debbie Harry’s memoir, Face It (2019).
201: The Break-Up and “John vs Paul” with Erin Weber
In which this returning SATB fave (The Beatles and The Historians) and I expand from previous discussions focusing on books to cover the media specifically around the time of the break-up, and how the nonsensical “John vs Paul – who was the greater genius?” discussion got fueled and put forth into the world. The role …
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200: A Conversation with Ethan Russell (part two)
For SATB’s 200th episode (more or less), we’re doing something special: returning with guest photographer/writer Ethan Russell, one of this most storied individuals in rock history through his iconic visual documentation of The Beatles
