Your Own Personal Beatles

It's our belated Christmas special! Friend of the show, comedian and musician Johnny White Really-Really returns to take part in our second Beatles Cover Challenge.We pick a Beatles track for each other, have one month to record it, and reunite to discuss the results and what we've learned about the songs by recreating them.You can find the full versions of the songs at https://www.personalbeatles.com/episodes/cover-challenge-vol-2. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back later in the year. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Musician and songwriter Ed Dowie joins Jack and Robin to discuss his Personal Beatles. Ed chats about emotive music (notably She's Leaving Home), songwriting techniques and processes, and what makes music good - there's an easy one. There's also some Weekly Wings and Robin gets a preview of the re-release Concert for George.Find out more about the Concert for George here: https://www.concertforgeorge.com/Interview with the She's Leaving Home harpist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC4imHiJUM&tKBO! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Musician, Ben Jacobs AKA Max Tundra joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Under the name Max Tundra, Ben's critically acclaimed and influential solo records have recently been reissued on Domino, and he has worked with an array of artists from Arca to Daphne and Celeste.Ben chats about the Beatles influence on this solo work, early Beatles memories, his unique approach to writing and recording, and providing a song for video game sensation, Trombone Champ, amongst many other things. Please find some Tundra-esque links below.Reissues: https://maxtundra.ffm.to/reissuesBandcamp:https://maxtundra.bandcamp.comDaphne & Celeste Save The World:https://daphneandceleste.tvTrombone Champ:https://trombonechamp.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Occult, cult comedian, Andrew O'Neill joins Jack & Robin this week to reveal their Personal Beatles. We also chat about Andrew's Heavy Metal-influenced stand-up, The Beatles' influence on heavy music and 70's counter culture, and Paul's monumental set at Glastonbury 2022. There's also new Weekly Wings and a new feature: Robin's Fascinating Breakdown, in which Robin spews forth on the different reversed guitar solos on the different versions of Revolver.Recorded at Soho Radio: https://sohoradiolondon.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rapper, comedian and actor Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Ben chats about growing up with Abbey Road, this eclectic formative music tastes, and how his career has seen him navigate the different worlds of comedy, music and acting. You can currently see Ben is the new Star Wars series, Andor, on Disney+.You can hear the track by Saigon which samples The Beatles' Girl, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvWj9E4CnQ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Writer John Higgs joins Jack & Robin this week to share this Personal Beatles and chat about his new book, Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche. We chat about the two biggest British pop culture phenomena of the second half of the 20th Century, why they have endured, and what they continue to mean to the country and the world over half a century later.Love and Let Die is available now here: https://geni.us/LoveAndLetDieTo support the show and get ad-free, early access to episodes and bonus podcasts, subscribe via Apple podcasts or visit http://atreon.com/personalbeatles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian Ania Magliano joins Jack and Robin this week off the back of sold out stand-up runs in Edinburgh and Soho. The second guest to have a cat named after Paul McCartney, Ania chats to us about fabs-fuelled car journeys, her bizarre youth theatre production of a Beatles musical at the Royal Albert Hall, and her love of A Hard Day's night.Tickets for Ania's show, Absolutely No Worries If Not, at the Leicester Square Theatre are available here: https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/ania-magliano-absolutely-no-worries-if-not/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back! Your Own Personal Beatles returns for its third series, and kicking things off is a fascinating conversation with Architects front man, Beatles obsessive, and one of the loveliest blokes in metal, Sam Carter!We chat to Sam about The Beatles' influence on metal, doing a live album in Abbey Road's studio 2, and his touring hobby of digging for rare Beatles gems in all corners of the world.It's good to be back. If you'd like to get ad-free episodes of the podcast before everyone else, as well as other goodies, you can sign up to our Patreon. www.patreon.com/personalbeatles Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the YOPB Christmas Special! Jack & Robin are joined by some friends of the podcast to chat about Get Back as we bid farewell to series 2. Guests popping in include James Acaster, Christine Feldman-Barrett, John Bradley, Sam Carter, Matthew Crosby, Elis James, Geoff Lloyd, Josie Long, Pictish Trail, John Robins, Jon Ronson, Matthew E White and Josh Widdicombe. Don't forgot you can vote for us for in the Best Music Podcast and Oh My Pod categories in Pod Bible's Poll Winners 2021 here: podbiblemag.com.Thanks for listening and see you 'round the clubs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Broadcaster Shaun Keaveny joins Jack and Robin this week to chat about his love of the Beatles. Shaun chats to Jack and Robin about his experiences with the band growing up, interviewing Paul and Ringo for Eight Days a Week, and we take a deep dive into the Super Deluxe re-release of Let It Be.Jack and Robin also offer some more thoughts on The Beatles: Get Back.Apologies for the slightly poor audio quality during the intros and outros, we had some technical problems.You can vote for us for Pod Bible's Best Music Podcast in the 2021 winners poll here: http://podbiblemag.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian and podcaster Adam Buxton joins us to share his Personal Beatles. In this suitably rambling chat, Jack and Robin talk to Adam about everything from the Stars on 45 Beatles medley, the 2000 TV movie Two of US, recording his version of How Do You Sleep, and of course, interviewing Sir Paul on his podcast.You can also hear some unheard audio from Adam and Joe's Vinyl Justice sketch with Ray Manzarek, in which The Doors keyboard player talks to Adam about Rubber Soul.And if that wasn't enough, we also offer our (spoiler free) thought's on Peter Jackson's Get Back!The Beatles: Get Back is available to stream on Disney+ now.Vote for us (and Adam!) at the Pod Bible Poll Winners 2021: https://podbiblemag.com/pod-bible-poll-winners-2021-vote/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jack and Robin are back with the first of our post-series extra podcasts. This week, Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine joins us to share her personal Beatles, as well as discussing her recent interview with Paul McCartney: The Lyrics editor, poet Paul Muldoon, and her own short stories including 2018's Sweet Home.We also have an extended intro in which Jack and Robin discuss Paul's new book and his recent live Q and A with Paul Muldoon at the Royal Festival Hall.rykFUxlNnBIqRWIAma9H Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail joins us this week from the Isle of Eigg to share his Personal Beatles. We chat about his formative Brit Pop years, his first exposure to The Beatles in second hand CD shops in America, and how he set up is record label, Lost Map. Johnny’s critically acclaimed latest album as Pictish Trail, Thumb World, is available now on Fire Records.We also have an extended chat about the upcoming Get Back films on Disney+.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Jack and Robin are joined by Alasdair MacLean of the band The Clientele. We discuss the impact Twist and Shout and Strawberry Fields had on Alasdair, slightly dodgy Beatles compilations including Beatles Ballads and the Rock n Roll Music albums of the 70s, the book, Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, and a whopping controversial Beatles opinion.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Wisbey of the superb Beatles Books podcast joins Jack and Robin to talk about the highlights of his collection of over 400 books about The Beatles. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Actor and Beatles super-fan, John Bradley joins Jack & Robin this week. John chats about Beatle fandom past and present, the love for the band on the set of Game of Thrones, and how the Paul is Dead rumours ignited his passion for the Fab Four. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Pritchard of the band Everything Everything joins Jack and Robin this week to reveal his personal Beatles and take a deep dive into Paul's bass playing. We chat about what makes a McCartney bass lines special, the influences on Everything Everything's approach to songwriting, and Jeremy offers his 'controversial Beatles opinion'.Everything Everything are on tour in 2022, and their most recent album, Re-Animator, is out now on AWAL.You can hear an extended, ad-free version of this podcast by joining our Patreon. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

American academic, Christine Feldman-Barrett joins us this week to discuss her personal Beatles and her new book, A Women's History of the Beatles.Christine is a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and chats to Jack and Robin about the how her love of the Beatles and her connections to Hamburg and the epicentre of grunge, informed her musical passions and academic work on youth culture history.Includes fascinating chats about reassessing the depiction of women in Beatles history, the media's relationship with the 'Beatle Wives', and the integral and overlooked role that women played in the fab four phenomenon and beyond. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Folk singer and songwriter Jim Moray pops in this weeks to chat about his personal Beatles. In a fascinating and rambling chat, Jim talks about the presence of Beatles songs in the folk cannon, the 'Sgt Pepper of folk', Bright Phoebus by The Watersons, and we take a deepish dive into the Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demos from the 1980s. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Music journalist and author Laura Barton joins Jack & Robin to discuss growing up in the Beatles heartland of North West England. In a very sprawling chat, we cover everything from the intensity of being a music fan 17, the joy of sad songs, the ever-changing relationship with Beatles albums, and her experiences interviewing some musical heroes including Yoko Ono and Van Morrison.There is also chat about Laura's former fat cat, Paul McCartney, and why The Beatles never got rubbish.You can hear an extended version of this episode by signing up to our Patreon: http://patreon.com/personalbeatles Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.