When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles

When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About the Beatles


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2024.08 The Ed Sullivan Show, Feb 9 and 16
February 18, 2024

It was Sixty Years Ago Today... Beatlemania finished its reach as the Fab Four use New York City, Miami Beach and the Ed Sullivan Show to broadcast across the United States. We not discuss the Fa

2024.07 Band on the Run Underdubbed (Review/Overview)
February 11, 2024

Before he jetted off to New York, and then Vegas, Sir Paul and his team dropped the fiftieth anniversary release of "Band on the Run", highlighted by the "Underdubbed edition." This week we consid

2024.06 Beatles and the BBC (review/overview)
February 04, 2024

Lonnie Pena and I consider the recent production "The Beatles and the BBC". An interesting collection of BBC clips ranging the Beatles years and beyond with some effort putting the "Threetles" in

2024.05 Muldoon and McCartney, Life in Lyrics Podcast episodes 9-12
January 28, 2024

Marv and I finish our review of episodes nine to twelve of the McCartney "Life and Lyrics" podcast and look forward to what we might find in the second series which is expected in the coming weeks!

2024.04 John Lennon - Life in Ten Pictures (review)
January 21, 2024

Lonnie Pena and I sit down to consider the John Lennon episode of "A Life in Ten Pictures". One hour is barely enough time to give an overview of a "regular person's" life, much less a complex sup

2024.03 Muldoon and McCartney, Life in Lyrics Podcast episodes 5-8
January 14, 2024

More from the Muldoon and McCartney Life in Lyrics podcast. "Penny Lane", "Here Today", "Uncle Albert" and "Live and Let Die". A study in how Paul McCartney thinks about characters, both his o

2024.02 2023 in Review (July - December) and upcoming for 2024.
January 07, 2024

Time continues to march on as Jon Stone, Martin Quibell and I (Naturally!) move through the latter half of 2023. Not just "Now and Then", but a number of tremendous books, a new Ringo EP, more tour

2024.01 2023 in Review (Jan - June)
December 31, 2023

The "Gab Four" are together again for the first show of 2024. A lot of Ringo, some chat on Beatle books from the first half of the year and "in memoriam" to folks like Royston Ellis, Chas Newby and

2023.52 The Beatmas (review)
December 24, 2023

This week: The "When They Was Fab" Christmas spectacular. Three of the "Gab Four" review the 1995 "Rubber Band" album from Dutch band the Beatmas (featuring Soren Dahlberg). The Fab Four were n

2023.51 Denny Laine (featuring Darin Murphy and Sam Whiles)
December 17, 2023

Sam Whiles (Paul or Nothing) steps in as we discuss the life, loves and trousers of Denny Laine. Also joining is Darin Murphy (who gets a few more words in than Roger McGough, the man who actually