Hosted by award-winning author Robert Rodriguez, Something About The Beatles is an intelligent but entertaining examination of The Beatles' music and career. Smart, funny and surprising - just like the Fab Four.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 19 days 15 hours 13 minutes
85: Magical Mystery Tour – The Film
The Beatles' 1967 self-produced TV special/film has been pilloried from day one as their first critical disaster; a creative overreach that critics saw as proof of how lost they were when operating out of their element.
84: Beatles Christmas
Most fans are pretty familiar with the Beatles Christmas messages: the annual holiday greetings delivered on flexi-discs to fan club members from 1963 through 1969.
83: John Lennon Memorialized
It has been 36 years since the December night when we lost John. On this show, Robert and Richard discuss the array of musical tributes to the slain former Beatle that came from peers and admirers alike, some many years later.
82: Our Favorite Solo George Songs
For an artist with such a deep and diverse catalog of top-flight material, George remains "the Quiet Beatle" - as his most familiar songs seem to be those from two albums in particular (while the remaining eight are routinely overlooked).
81: SATB’s Beatles Live Anthology
It occurred to us, as it must have with everyone else, that the release of Eight Days A Week really called for an accompanying soundtrack, or at least a parallel collection of music spanning the whole of The Beatles' documented live performing career.
80: Blueprinting The Beatles’ White Album
At the suggestion of Executive Producer Rick Wey, Richard and Robert discuss "the Kinfauns Tapes" (or "the Esher Demos"): 27 new songs composed by John, Paul and George mostly in Rishikesh,
78: Beatles ’78
Reminisce with Robert and Richard through a post-Beatles year where residual mania was still rampant, taking the form of two motion pictures - two television specials - two albums from ex-Beatles -
79: Beatle Politics
Given the imminent wind-down of the current political season, Richard and Robert thought it timely to examine the political interests connected to The Beatles, both during and after their collective career.
77: Death and The Beatles
In this episode, Robert and Richard explore mortality as experienced by the members of the Beatles: friends, family, acquaintances
76: Solo-Beatle Collaborations Deconstructed with Anthony Robustelli
In this episode, Richard and Robert talk with the host of the Multitrack Meltdown podcast, author/musician Anthony Robustelli (I Want To Tell You: Volume 1 1962/1963; Steely Dan FAQ).