Since 2003, Ringo Starr has been producing an incredibly prolific run of releases: albums and EPs, plus live recordings. With him on this journey of multiple producers and supporting musicians has been engineer Bruce Sugar, the one constant. Bruce comes with stories and observations about working with the world’s most...

It may be beyond argument that the two most successful and influential pop/rock acts of the 1960s were The Beatles and Bob Dylan: one, an English ensemble from Liverpool who turned out evergreen standards and evolved seemingly without effort; the other an American from the upper midwest, initially cast as...

The cinematic treatment of the 2022 Mark Lewisohn lectures on the first year of The Beatles’ recording career has been given a terrific cinematic treatment (see it on Amazon Prime). This episode features my conversation with the film’s director, Chris Purcell, and its producer, Simon Weitzman. BOTH filmmakers have produced...

One doesn’t immediately connect The Beatles with the world of comic books but there’s plenty there. Besides musical references to Captain Marvel and “Magneto and Titanium Man,” the group themselves have been regularly represented in the pages of comic books, beginning in 1964; sometimes as plot figures. Then we also...

This month George Harrison would’ve turned 83. The “quiet Beatle” holds the record for THE most streamed Beatles song, his 1969 composition, “Here Comes The Sun,” but to the general public (and not the hardcores), he may remain in the shadow of Lennon and McCartney, despite his key contributions to...

The Beatles’ Olympiad series of shows is nearing its end point, with Gary Wenstrup and myself assessing their final group project for Olympic honors. Where will the bronze, silver and gold land among the 17 tracks? You’ll have to tune in to find out (and discover some unexpected developments). This...