When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles


Latest Episodes

2024.19 Mind Games EP, McCartney Life in Lyrics 9-10
May 12, 2024

Marv, Lonnie and I talk the new Record Store Day Mind Games EP and two more episodes from the "Life In Lyrics" podcast. A nice preview of the box set coming later this summer, and we return to Paul M

2024.18 The Lagos Tape and Crooked Boy!
May 05, 2024

A review of the Geoff Emerick Lagos tape as auctioned off last September. Two high-profile "Dutch Imports" have hit the market recently (confusingly, each coming from a different dub of the Emeric

2024.17 Around the Beatles
April 28, 2024

Kit O'Toole joins the show this week as we run through the voluminous Beatles news from the past week (Record Store Day, Ringo, Let It Be) and discuss the Beatles portion of "Around the Beatles."

2024.16 Wings in Kampuchea - December 29, 1979
April 21, 2024

Lonnie Pena and I discuss Wings at the Hammersmith Odeon - the Concert(s) for the People of Kampuchea. Through circumstance, December 29, 1979 would end up being the final Wings concert ever.

2024.15 Oops - all Ringo! (and Rob Sheffields list)
April 14, 2024

Marv and I sit down and chat about the Ringo selections on Rob Sheffield's "100 Best Solo Beatles Songs" list. As Dana Carvey might say, "isn't it conveeeeenient" that each claims one of the top fo

2024.14 Life in Lyrics Season 2 - episodes 6_7 and_8
April 07, 2024

More of our thoughts on the "Life in Lyrics" podcast. Martin Quibell and I discuss Episodes 6, 7, and 8. The episodes are entitled "Silly Love Songs", "A Day in the Life" and "Hey Jude". How

2024.13 The Beatles Forever (not that one) - 1977
March 31, 2024

A Beatles special you might not know about. In 1977, NBC purchased "The Beatles Forever", a variety-entertainment special from ITC Entertainment (aka: The company led by Sir Lew Grade). The Top

2024.12 Wings in Newcastle - July 10, 1973
March 24, 2024

Martin Quibell and Sam Whiles (Paul or Nothing) join to discuss the final Wings show of the summer 1973 tour. If your experience of Wings Live begins with Jimmy McCulloch, you are in for quite a

2024.11 Red Rose Speedway (sort-of Underdubbed)
March 17, 2024

Martin Quibell joins this week as we discuss the recent "fan mixed" Underdubbed version of "Red Rose Speedway". Sorry Paul, the term still is not going to catch on among the general public.

2024.10 Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session
March 10, 2024

Welll...It's one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready now go cat go! George "Don't Call It a Comeback" Harrison joined his buddy Carl Perkins and his other buddies Ringo Starr and Er