I always wanted to know if David Sheff was inspired to have John go through his Beatles songs in that 1980 Playboy interview by something John said during his 1970 Rolling Stone interview: "If you give me the albums I can tell you exactly who wrote what, and which line". Perhaps Sheff had a copy of Lennon Remembers and that quote sparked the idea

38:00 Er...because the Beatles have eight feet, lads, like Eight Arms To Hold You.

Quite the change from John and Paul making the final decisions on The White Album in November 1968 to George and Phil Spector making the final decisions on Let It Be in February 1970

Fool On the Hill is in top 20 songs in Beatles catalog. What in the Lords name are you on about. :D And Blue Jay Way has incredible atmosphere. Foggy and mysterious. One of George's best

The whole reputation is based on the fact that it has covers. And that is a superficial issue. It's always been among my top three with "Rubber Soul" and "The Beatles". It's unique because it shows where they came from, and where they were going. No one who actually LISTENS to it and HEEARS what they're doing can consider it a bad LP. It is warm, and despite the enormously busy year, it is relaxed. And their tribute to Buddy Holly -- "Words of Love" -- is tender, affectionate, gorgeous.

Wow. Side 1 is rockin’, so good! Side 2 so different. Boring, slow, and domestic. Just my take.

"Love" is my favorite song on the album. His voice is angelic, and the chord progressions and lyrics are really interesting. Very beautiful. I actually like the piano fade in and out, I find it original and poetic.

Something about the Beatles by Stackridge

Wonderful podcast! Great how you create a precise timeline and then place and connect the facts and annecdotes on them and take us on a great journey.

We will never know if Brian died accidentally or was murdered. It wasn't a suicide. Suicides take handfuls of pills, the pill doseage found inside Brian was only marginally “too much”. The problem is that ultimately it was respiratory arrest that killed Brian: he stopped breathing. The coroner put down the reason for him to stop breathing was a long term buildup of the drug Carbital in his system, because no other cause could be found. It's not at all impossible but he actually stopped breathing because he was being asphyxiated. And we know that his friends/assistants cleaned up the scene, removing things like pornography and illegal drugs from his home. If Brian was murdered, it stopped being solvable before the police were ever notified. It's all just very sad.

I remember when Brian's secretary Joanne Petersen’s book There's a Beatle in My Closet was anticipated to be published 9 March 2004 by Angus & Robertson. It had even been assigned an ISBN number when it disappeared, presumably in accordance with the wishes of the same person who arranged for the 2023 non-publication of Gregory Martin's recently planned biography of the intimate Beatles entanglement of his father George Martin. I expect that Joanne now abides by terms of a McCartney initiated Non Disclosure Agreement, she can't be expected to speak about this. But even mentions of the suppressed book have been censored in comments by pro-censorship Australia media corporation ABC broadcasting. We the people are grateful to independent media <3

The range of the White album is unsurpassed.

Agreed, Run for Your Life is the precursor to "Last Train to Clarksville"

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Great episode, thabk you.

Pretty sure the Stones have been there, I think they did a session in Chess studios in the early 60s if memory serves.

Mark Lewisohn is a treasure and I appreciate his historian's approach. However, as much as he attempts an unbiased view, there is of course really no such thing, just as Truth with a capital T as he puts it does not exist. An aspect of Mark's bias is simply his blind adoration of the Beatles. For instance, I've heard Mark say numerous times that the Beatles never did anything they didn't want to do, but Brian refused to allow the Beatles to comment on Vietnam or for reporters to ask about it, which John for one did not want. Mark's undiluted adoration may be somewhat diplomatic on his part, as a way to sidle up to impartiality, but to call it Truth belies an essential problem.

lavatory brush??

It is never going to be released - Nor was it ever intended to be.

Is it true that the continuation of ' Tune In ' won't be going ahead? That's very sad for me and I'm sure for many others who have read the first volume in this series. Apple are missing a huge opportunity for the Beatles storyline to be told in the best and most informative content that it will ever be told. I'm just so disappointed that they are not engaging you anymore Mark. An utter disgrace really

I am Jewish and Jewish children learn business very young... and he grew up around a very wealthy Jewish father.. who instilled that in him as he was growing up

It's really interesting hearing about the Maharishi. My uncle studied under Mahesh Yogi and went on to manage one of the largest TM retreats in North America. Being exposed to that environment for even a little while as a child was a spiritual experience in my life that nothing else has ever replicated.

This is a great analysis and series.

I quite often don't agree with particular things you say , but I could listen to you two blether on for hours.

I’m coming to this podcast late! Is this the final episode? Will there be more?

Swift sucks

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48:38. For my future listens, the drama!

More misinformation. Ringo had only had 4 top ten hits by 1980. Ringo had 3 #1 hits, all of them in Canada, Photograph being #1 in the UK and Canada, and no #1 in USA. The highest charting single from Ringo in the states was Back off Boogaloo, which hit #2 in the USA.

It’s hilarious coming back to listen to these shows and hearing the serious anti-Paul, especially when listening to the Beatles in ‘74 episode where you are such apologists for George during the Dark Horse era. You go so easy on him in a way you would never go on Paul for releasing “sub-par” material. You really are still trapped in the pre-modern era of lionizing John, and George and Ringo to a lesser degree, and blaming and hating everything Paul did. Sad.

Paul said/blamed John for the break up on Howard Stern radio show very 'sheepishly' As with all Beatles stories NOTHING was straight forward!

As of Aug 10,2024, im over 300 books on the Beatles.

I'm binging out on you guys here in August 2024. All this year you two have been an alternative to the toxic political scene in USA. And I worked as an arranger for 40n years and was in a semi-famous 80's band called NU SHOOZ. We were on Top Of The Pops, (which was one of the most embarrassing moments of my 80's fame moment. Worst outfit in a decade of worst outfits.) And I was seven years old in 1962. My mother worked in a bowling alley. She was friendly with the guy who replaced the 45s in the juke box. That's how I ended up with an early copy of a Beatles 45...I got money...to buy you things...That lyric struck me in particular...the way John said 'things.'

Run for your life is a great song.

Mick and Keith tried to warn The Beatles, John & Paul from what I’ve read about Klein because he stole or somehow acquired their Nanker Phelge publishing company.

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Paul’s main reluctance was all based on Kleins reputation which he knew (stealing Sam Cookes and the Stones publishing for instance, extending the payout of the Decca bonus to the Stones he bragged about in 1966 for twenty years, spreading his own tax liability across his partners and paying himself off the gross, etc) and Pauls desire to sign no piece of paper that tied him to Klein who had offered up his Kingsway shares as collateral to buy Northern Songs. I’d fucking stall my ass off. You add the fact that Klein tried to physically bully Paul who had arguably written 40% of their hits and there is no way Klein walks away as nothing more than a greedy animal.

Not Guilty was first released as a new reworked version on George's self-tilted 1979 album. Despite the 100 plus takes the original version wasn't great, it felt ploddy and flat. The fact they tried over 100 takes seems to lay waste to the myth the band not giving his songs a decent go. And McCartney actually helped him with each of his recordings with great contributions (bass, guitar,piano, harmonies), whilst Lennon barely bothered turning up for his later songs.

I'm going back over this as I reread things about Klein. I think the biggest thing everyone misses about Klein is this: His job was to make his clients money. He should be primarily judged on that. Also, this is the best take on Klein I have listened to on the Internet. Period. The best sources I have found on Klein are: Goodman; "Allen Klein: The man who bailed out the Beatles, made the Stones ..."; Dogget: "You Never Give Me Your Money; " ; Southall and Perry: "Northern Songs....". Now, onto my final take on your take. Klein's job is to make his clients money. He is a financial manger, not a personal manager and the distinction is important. The Beatles are also looking to secure more of their publishing and copyrights and contracts as they can. Klein's forte as manger , prior to the Beatles was in gaining more money for his clients and in creating more revenue streams for them and himself. The positive take on his career prior to the Beatles was that Klein definitely was making more money for his clients. He was also creating new revenue streams of them to make money with. The biggest criticism of Klein was that he not sharing many of those new revenue streams with his clients and that some of those revenue stream she created for himself would not have existed without his relationship with his clients. This is why the distinction between personal manager and business manager is important. For a business manger, using your clients to make yourself more money is beside the point. If you have made your clients money, your job with them is done, what you do with your own money is your own business. Even if that includes using the capital of your clients that is lying idle . That is what a bank does and there is nothing wrong with it. If one is a personal manager, then using that money should be done to enhance your clients and your own financial position. I think the Marine Faithful quote is nonsense. Either it didn't happen or if it did, it had no impact on Lennon's decision to meet with Klein on January 27th. Lennon and Ono's meeting with Klein is where Lennon makes the decision to go with him full stop. Going forward, I'm not sure if Jagger had all his ducks in a row for him to make the shift from Klein to himself/Lowenstein as the Stones business managers in January of 1969. Jagger is already working with Lowenstien in 1968 (according to Goodman) , so I think Jagger is already thinking of dumping Klein at that point in 1968. In fall of 1969, Klein is not helping the Stones with their American tour, as he did in the past, so the split between Jagger/Klein is already happening at that point. Of course, by early February 1969, Klein isn't paying the Stones much attention anyhow.

James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is the truth no matter what!

James Paul McCartney died in car crash on September 11 1966 and was replaced by William (Billy). This is the truth no matter what!

Horribale voice overe accents.

Don Arden is Sharon Osbourne's Father, not Father-in-law!!!!!!

I'd love to hear more about the beef between George and Geoff. I've read Geoffs book, and I went "Whoa, he really didn't like George much!" What was the deal?

Brilliant.

I'm here because recently (May 2024) Will Smith said "It's 2019, nothing is real." and I googled those words.

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Excellent 4th part. So insightful. Thank You!

This is incredible!!! Thank you so much for sharing this insightful information helping explain the business side of The Beatles.

Some contentious claims being made here. Just goes to show that no one is perfect, not even The Beatles. The adulation of George is somewhat over the top, IMO. His best work gave him exclusive songwriting credits, and could have provided a template for a70s Beatles - if he hadn't been so grumpy. Unlike the Lennon/McCartney melodrama where those two were for better or worse fused together. Ringo has acknowledged that Paul's work ethic kept The Beatles going, thereby helping to create some of their greatest works. So much for bossy Paul. The thing some die-hard commentators can't acknowledge is that George had a limited vocal repertoire and couldn't solo. And he had uncomfortable body language on stage going right back to the early days. That's why he never really had a solo career, and never liked public performance. Both Paul (and John) helped sweeten up George's greatest works - Gently Weeps, Here Comes The Sun, If I needed Someone, Something. So much gor Paul being selfish. And one more thing, although Mark Lewison has many, many writing credits on the Paul bashing topic he is not the 5th Beatle and, in contrast to Beatle Paul - doesn't have a god-given right to fashion a career out of this self-appointed gig.