I can't wait to hear the follow up about the white influences on The Beatles.

Gosh, Katie has an annoying accent

Thank you gentlemen, excellent post

I think Lewisohn's work is great but not perfect. I think he get's the Pete Best story wrong for example. When he gets challenged on it he quickly gets pissy about it because he knows he's wrong. I've seen it many times now. It's an important story to get right. The idea that "we always wanted Ringo" was to cover that, at best (pun intended), they settled on Ringo. He of course worked out but it wasn't like Lewisohn says.

could someone please explain me the joke startingo on 41:57? 😊

We all thought it was Paul the master of ballads but is really John that again and again made one after the other, even as solo artist.

On 1:13:21 the fact recording people love those 60's plug-ins (if they are good ones) doesn't have to do with experimentation but sound quality... The machinery available on those days sounded already good so there were room for experimentation as Beatles and the crew did... Nowadays you need very expensive equipment to sound as good as they used to and that's the value of these plug-ins that allowes you to have it in a cheaper way... By the way: experimantaion is always required as you would need it to get any particular sound... Most of all when you combine them as reverb with delay and compressor, for example... Practice makes perfect here.

I'd kill for all those details about recording, mics, and stuff 😢😢😢

Mark has been quiet for a while now. Hopefully he's writing volume 2?

Beatles For Sale is a very sad album... apart from a couple of rock & rolls and, even those other that are suppose to "sheer up", you can notice some sadness on the voice or melody... You need to hear those 5 albums one after the other (Please Please Me to Rubber Soul) and surely will agree.

This one is a jewel

These interviews are amazing! Talking about John & Paul meeting each other, have you (people) ever saw a photo called "22nd June 1957 - The Quarrymen at Rosebery Street" where someone looking like Paul can be seen in front of the Quarryman like one more of the public? Could this guy be really Paul?

Hi Mark. I've only just discovered this channel. Are you aware of the Mike Williams Sage of Quay channel? He preposterously claims they didn't write any of their own material until 1967 and that it was all session musicians playing on their albums. I would like to know your thoughts on this?

Mark Lewisohn is so ridiculously pro John. His agenda seems to be to make John THE Beatles.

Electrocution? That's hilarious.

Who's Billy they're talking about? *Edit* It's Billy Joel. The whole podcast is about his We Didn't Start The Fire and all the historical references in it

I used to like Katie on the uk tv show The Word. Mark is a great writer and orator.

I can listen to Mark all day. I sometimes do

Ken michaels might easily be my least favorite interviewer. His line of questioning is weak and even after answering a question Ken will continue to push in the wrong direction. Far Side push to open door

Mark Lewisohn is a conman in my opinion. He has been pussyfussing for years concerning the release of Volume 2, finding all sorts of feeble excuses (the lack of funds being one). He also claims to be scholalastic (which he most certainly is not). I read his Volume 1. Yes, his work abounds with a plethora of obscure and irrelevant details (the result of painstaking research, granted) but it is far from critical and analytical in the true tradition of scholarly discourse. He is essentially an archaelogist digging, unearthing and presenting. His work is, in the final analysis, a lumping together of many personal and intimate minutiae (often vulgar and offensive) without interrogating these details to present a synthesis and objective assessment as the scholarly historian ought to. How far should the historian go in respecting the privacy of his subjects? I doubt whether the Beatles - Lennon in particular - would be very impressed. McCartney has also expressed reservations about Lewisohn's work. I shall give Volume 2 (if it ever sees the light of day) a categorical miss. I shall spend the time, instead, listening to the music of my beloved band.

I was only 9, soon going on 10, when The Beatles arrived in NYC, just 25 miles from where my family lived in the suburbs of NY. I didn't know anyone who was able to attend their first appearance on the Ed Sullivan show, unfortunately. It was always on Sunday evening, so whoever was able to be there was especially lucky. I also couldn't go to the Shea Stadium concerts. Parents were very protective back then.... 💖✨The closest I ever got to The Beatles was meeting a British couple in 1987 in Arlington, Virginia, who had heard them play at The Cavern.

I believe the "old man" in the Rockshow film is Paul's dad, Jim.

I think appreciation for the Beatles keeps growing because with every passing year, it becomes more and more apparent that they cannot and will not be topped or rivalled. There was a brief moment in the 70s where Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd nipped at their heels, and then again in the 80s with Michael Jackson. Even the 90s had Nirvana… but now nearly 60 years later, it’s becoming clear that musically, culturally, and philosophically- no musical act will ever come close to the Beatles. And as such, reverence for what they achieved increases. They are not a phenomenon in musical history. They are a phenomenon in human history.

Mark of course is great but the interviewer is fantastic too. He has a great turn of phrase.

Dick James was looking after the interests of Dick James until the end

Mark, the fifth Beatle - in his own mind! 😂

Dreadful video!

Andre and I were friends in HS. We drifted apart over the years. I'm still amazed that his enthusiasm for radio and especially the Beatles (saw Paul McCartney and Wings with him) has never wained. Would love to hear from you, Andre.

Dick James and his buddy Silver, made a *_lot_* of money from other people's efforts - parasites contributing virtually nothing. None of _The Beatles_ actually met Silver, who made millions out of them. George Martin recommended James to Epstein. Was there a brown envelope under the table here from James? People say James got _The Beatles_ TV appearances, so promoted them. _The Beatles_ were already getting TV and radio time. _Please Please Me_ did not need James to push the song, the song at the time was so catchy anyone would have grabbed _The Beatles_ with both hands for radio and TV appearances. *_James and Silver got 50% of Northern Songs?_* What sharks! Well those naive _"Norveners"_ got rid of him in the end - not before he made a fortune by taking their money by doing sweet nothing. After Epstein died _The Beatles_ decided to take all under one umbrella forming Apple, getting rid of financial parasites. I noticed that after Epstein died, Martin's involvement with _The Beatles_ dropped sharply. The White Album was mainly produced by all four Beatles with Martin at times not going into the studio. Let it Be was not produced by Martin. It was strange they went back to Martin for the final Abbey Rd album. Was Brian Epstein naive? He was actually in the music business having some idea of how it works at the time. You did not need to go to a publishing company, as a quick analysis tells you they were not really needed in the radio and TV age. Immediately Epstein should have seen that these companies were parasitical with most of them adding little value, creating his own publishing company and keeping full ownership of the songs. Dick James was just one of the rip off artists that fleeced musicians in the 1960s and 70s. And boy were many stripped of their wealth.

In the early days of the _internet_ anything put on it was vox pop being available for anyone to use. Putting up material without permission was out of order. Then the money men in suits came along hijacking this medium talking *copyright.* If the money men want to make money out of a computer _internet,_ then they can make their own.

The interviewer needs electrocution lessons.

Alan Williams was such an idiot, he never played back the tape he recorded to see if it worked before travelling to Holland and Germany. Duh!

It was mentioned that in Liverpool there would be cross banter between the band and audience. This was not just _The Beatles._ Liverpool people have a highly developed sense of wit as US reporters found out when first interviewing _The Beatles_ in the USA. _The Beatles_ would say something to the girls with a 16 year girl coming back cutting them down with sharp remark. This was pretty normal. If they didn't like a band or the songs they were singing, they would start singing their own. When John Lennon was in an LA club drunk with Harry Neilson, they were thrown out as John was calling out to the act on stage, which was deemed as insulting and out of order. In his inebriated state John was only reverting back to Liverpool. I am sure he was surprised the band on stage never responded, as in his mind they should have. Why were they up there!

I read this on Kindle on my laptop. Like Kfir Alfia I would pause then listen to song mentioned that I was unfamiliar with, and put addresses into Google Map street view seeing the places Mark was writing about. It comes to life.

Having read the first book I couldn't put it down.All other books on The Beatles is Heresay..in the first book he captured the environment of their background. A must read ! As far as the following books it remains to be seen how it will be approached..their story is so complex..we have become to believe Beatle lore/ myths..I can't wait for the next volume. And I've read many a book on them and he is doing his research.!!!!

Wow...couldn't get past the first 10 mins or so of this. If anyone needed to hear the difference in cultures/characteristics between the US and England then this would be perfect. The reserved, polite and quiet Englishman goes up against two strident, brash, loud and howling Americans. Lol...not for me thanks.

Fascinating...thanks. I could listen to Mark Lewisohn all day long.

But yet there are ads...

Paul also said he saw him in a chip shop once

For the love of god ask a question.

Lastly, THANK YOU, Ethan.

Since Mark listed his favorite album as Please Please Me, I found this deliciously interesting from Wikipedia- “Before deciding on the title Please Please Me, Martin considered calling the album Off the Beatle Track, a title he would later use for his own orchestral album of Beatles songs. The album was recorded on a two-track BTR tape machine with most of the instruments on one track and the vocals on the other, allowing Martin to better balance the two in the final mono mix. A stereo mix was also made with one track on the left channel and the other on the right, as well as an added layer of reverb to better blend the two tracks together. The two tracks generally divided the instrumental track from the vocals, with the exception of "Boys", in which the close proximity of Ringo's drums to his vocal microphone placed the drums (but not the other instruments) on the vocal channel”.

What great questions! These are not average, mundane questions! I throughly enjoyed the back and forth. Especially about George/Paul, plus the key other- Beatles biographers. So many great informative topics and descriptions. I love Mark Lewisohn and his brilliant hard work! Thank you.

These recordings online with Mark Lewisohn are so incredible. There are so many sides to the Beatles story, and it is a great story.Everyone in time gets their due. Alan Williams is part of it. I had heard of him, but never knew how original, bohemian, and unique he was. He had married mix-race and had the grace to endure the taunts of haters.

I don’t think he actually plans on doing volume 2. As he has said the money has run out and he is under no obligation to his publisher. I think he plans on being a resource for other writers.

I am not sure who I am writing to on this channel. In the blurb you call this a Mark Lewisohn homage channel but then you use his name "Mark Lewisohn, a Beatles historian" with his profile picture and even pin an approval on a comment below - which if you are not Mark Lewisohn is quite an arrogation because you are using his name and photo to imply what comment he would approve. Are you or are you are not Mark Lewisohn? If you are or have the endorsement can you explain the set up on this channel?

He is very open in other interviews. Why is he so clammed up in this one?

Thank you for uploading these. Superb.

Awful interviewer and lame questions

33:52 the lack of bladder control was also mentioned in the Stones documentary 'Charlie Is My Darling' about their '65 tour of Ireland.