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.

We're taking a little mid-series break, but before we go, here's a bonus episode from last year, in which Al Roberts and Jonno for the superb comedy sketch group, Sheeps drop in to chat about Paul McCartney's 1984 film, Give My Regards to Broad Street. The film (and its accompanying video game) are amongst the most critically derided Paul McCartney works, but is it as bad as everyone says it is? Have a listen to find out. You can watch the film on YouTube here:...

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&t KBO! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Comedian and writer Alexandra Haddow joins the pod this week to share her Personal Beatles. Alex is one of the most exciting young comedians on the comedy circuit and has written for NME and Time Out, and Jack and Robin chat to her about dancing to The Beatles at her Indie Disco, getting caught up in a Beatles-based Twitter storm, and the nostalgia of record digging and rarities. There is also chat about My Love in Weekly Wings, hidden song meanings, and recurring Beatley motifs hidden in...

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/reissues Bandcamp: https://maxtundra.bandcamp.com Daphne & Celeste Save The World: https://daphneandceleste.tv Trombone 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/LoveAndLetDie To 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.

It's another Xmas bonus podcast! Before we wrap up the show with our festive Get Back special, here's our trip to Abbey Road from August. On an unforgettable summer's evening, Jack, Robin and friend of the show, Elis James, fulfil a life-long dream of stepping over the zebra crossing and through the famous doors of Abbey Road studios. In this special bonus podcast, we do our very best to recount the emotional experience of walking down those steps into Studio 2, meeting all the iconic instruments and gear that The Beatles used to create timeless music, and generally doing our very best not to get completely overwhelmed. Vote for us for Pod Bible's music podcast of the year here: http://podbiblemag.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As a little festive treat, here is our bonus episode from earlier this year. Johnny White Really-Really returns to the podcast as we challenge each other to cover some Beatles songs! Listen to us pick each other's songs, discuss the process of recording and producing them, and then hear the results in full! Many thanks to James Whiting for mixing and production on Jack's song and to Joe Ryan for playing drums on Robin's track. Find out more about Jame's production work at jameswhiting.co.uk and on his Instagram @fishislandstudio. Joe's Bandcamp can be found here: https://heartfeltrhythms.bandcamp.com/ and you can visit his website here: https://www.heartfeltrhythms.com/. You can find some of Johnny White Really-Really's music as 'Xmas' on his Bandcamp here: https://xmas.bandcamp.com/releases SPOILER ALERT: You can listen to the final versions of the songs on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNNKB4VToUGJOkxONjYTFg 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.

There's no full episode this week, but in our absence, we thought we'd offer you a taste of our latest bonus episode with Jonno and Al Roberts from Sheeps, in which we discuss Paul McCartney's 1984 film, Give My Regards to Broad Street. If you like what you hear, you can sign up for bonus podcasts and extended episodes via our Patreon at patreon.com/personalbeatles. Normal service resumes next week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out 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.