Fans On The Run: A Podcast Made By, For And About Beatles Fans

Roll up! roll up! for a new episode of Fans On The Run - the podcast made by, for, and about Beatles fans! Joining me today is a supremely talented musician who co-hosts the "Gear, There And Everywhere" pod, and is the man behind the "Beatles Reconstructed" YouTube channel: my friend, Michael Sokil!   In this wide-ranging chat, we talk about audio separation software, the "I Want To Hold Your Hand...

It's Friday, and it's once again time for another episode of Fans On The Run!   Joining me today is music writer/critic/historian, co-host of "Unveiling the Legends: Dolls of the 60s and 70s", and host of the "Vinyl Monday" series, my friend Abigail Devoe!   In our free flowing conversation, we talk about The Sonics, Pattie Boyd's timeless style, how to store a record collection (and how not to!),...

Miss us? It's time for a return to the podcast made by, for, and about Beatles fans - Fans On The Run! Joining me for this first episode back, is my dear friend Paul Perigo!   In a very far-reaching conversation, we talk about a few notable censored Beatle records, the tangibility of music, preparing Paul McCartney TV specials for Australian broadcast, forgotten British psych-pop, taping The Beatl...

And we’re back! Back from the dead, it’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is a guest, who as a part of a YouTube collective called TheBeatleScruffs influenced yours truly as a young fan. Making her first Beatle-y content appearance in many years, please welcome Elise H!   In this episode we touch on a little bit of everything from our McCartney concert experiences, an...

It's time for another episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is another fellow young-er Beatle fan, musician/influencer Mary Devlin! (aka @beatledirt)   We cover a lot, including making friends on The Beatles' Facebook page back in the day, posing out front of the Apple store with the Beatle standees when they went to iTunes, Ethan's "Now And Then" Abbey Road Studios story, the evolution of...

Welcome back to one of the Beatle podcasts of all time, Fans On The Run! Would it really be FoTR without an unexplained months-long episode delay? (School, that's the explanation)   Joining me today is somebody who influenced me as a young(er) fan back when she was a part of the YouTube fan-collab-channel "The Beatle Submarine".  She has come out of "retirement" to appear on this very show and tal...

Dear Beatle People, it's time for a very fab, gear, and overall special episode of Fans On The Run: The Podcast Made By, For, And About Beatles Fans!   Today's episode has been a long time coming, but as they say, "good things come to those who wait". Our guest today was a member of The Beatles inner circle, in various roles for ten whole years, from 1962 to 1972. From the Cavern Club and the earl...

It's time for a new episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is a true one-of-a-kind musical talent, sometimes he's under the alias of "Chissum Worthington", but today's he's just Mike Schnee!    In a wide ranging chat, we talk The Lemon Twigs, One Hand Clapping, Mike's system of identifying Beatle albums before he could read, The White Album at Christmas '68, the genesis of Chissum Worthingto...

It's time for new, vibrant, colourful (well, as colourful as an audio-only-podcast can be) episode of Fans On The Run!   Joining me on today's show is Brooklyn artist, silent-film-enthusiast, Saturday Night Live graphic-design-alumni, counterculture Xerox artist and personal friend - Marlene Weisman!   We talk "Sprockets", the first and only album from The Fool, Keith Haring, a private Paul McCart...

It is in fact, time for the new episode of Fans On The Run! The show made by, for, and about Beatles fans - and today we lean into fandom as our guest today quite literally "wrote the book" on Beatles fandom. He's the author of "The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia", Dr. Richard Mills!   Besides sex, death and progressive nostalgia, we talk about "The Grey Album" by Danger...

It’s time for another far-out, cosmic episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is the former co-host of fellow-pod Nothing Is Real, Steven Cockcroft!   In this conversational trip around the astral planes, we talk about the booklet that came with the Magical Mystery Tour album, the good and bad of the Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road, the feeling of retribution when a favourite song becomes very...

It’s time to spin a new episode of Fans On The Run! My guest for today is social-media content-creator, and fellow record-collector, Vinyl Benjy!   We talk about export pressings, the “olden days” of buying CDs at Best Buy, the best deals we’ve found record shopping, the effect of certain YouTubers on record prices, whether to recommend Let It Be or Get Back to new Beatles fans, Freda Kelly, The M...

It's time for another episode of Fans On The Run, the "raccoon in the garbage bin" of Beatle podcasts!   Joining me today (technically it was a while ago, but today is when it is posted!) is one of the co-hosts of fellow pod 'Another Kind Of Mind', Phoebe Lorde!   In this wide-ranging chat we discuss the genesis of AKOM, the 1987 documentary "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today", A Beatle book neither o...

It's once again time (about time!) for another episode of Fans On The Run!   Joining me today is my friend, and the host of "Mixology: The Mono/Stereo Differences Podcast", Frederick French-Pounce!   In what turned out to be the longest gap between recording a show, and posting it, this episode covers everything from the pros/cons of records made in the US/UK, Cilla Black's 1969 single "Surround Y...

We've re-arrived, and to prove it we're here - it's finally time for a new episode of Fans On The Run!   Joining me for the first episode of the new run, is a New Orleans musician, and the co-host of the popular pod "Ranking The Beatles", Jonathan Pretus!   We talk about the "Tomorrow Never Knows" segment of The Compleat Beatles, the curation of vault of Beatle outtakes, the brief coexistence of t...

It’s time for a very, very special episode of Fans On The Run. Special guest co-host, Piers Hemmingsen, joins me in sitting down for a rare podcast interview with the celebrated, bestselling author behind the 1968 authorized biography of The Beatles, Hunter Davies OBE. This episode is not one you’ll want to miss! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!   Keep up wi...

It's Friday, so once again, it's time for a new episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is content-creator and the current contender for the title "CEO of Beatles TikTok", Brooke Bellamy! We covered a lot of ground, including "Beatles gossip", the Microsoft Zune, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Sega Genesis, an explanation and demonstration of a "hot take", the absolute chaos of Paul McC...

It's time for my second "comeback show" of the year, which means it's time for a return to Fans On The Run! Joining me today is longtime member of tribute group Them Beatles, and the man behind The Poppermost, Joe Kane!  Our conversation included, but was not limited to, poorly-copied cassettes dubbed from 45s, Brian Matthews impressions, Lucozade, Sgt. Pepper costumes, tribute bands, the naming o...

Subtitle - "The Semi-Grand Return"   What is this? It's the return of Fans On The Run! Joining me for this "grand return" are the four co-hosts of pod-friends-of-the-show Blotto Beatles! Crack open a cold one if you wish, as we talk about Anthology, the cultural re-evaulation of John Lennon, cheap books, blueberry cobbler, and of course, The Beatles.   Keep up with Blotto Beatles: https://linktr.e...

And now for the thrilling conclusion to this Fans On The Run episode with the man behind Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas Walsh! Will we talk about The Beatles? Yes! Will we talk about other bands? Also yes! What else will we talk about? You’ll just have to tune in and find out for yourself! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!   Keep up with Thoma...

It’s once again time for Fans On The Run, the show by, for, and about Beatles fans! Joining me for the first of a two-parter show (first in almost two years!) that almost sticks to the show’s premise, is the man behind Pugwash and The Duckworth Lewis Method, Thomas Walsh! Will we talk about The Beatles? Yes! Will we talk about other bands? Also yes! What else will we talk about? You’ll just have t...

After a bit of a break, Fans On The Run is back! Joining me on today’s show is the author of the new book “Take a Sad Song - The Emotional Currency of 'Hey Jude.'”, James Campion! We talk Warren Zevon, The Rolling Stones, the subconscious, McCartney, and of course the Fab Four and the song of the hour. All that and more, you’re not going to want to miss this!   This episode is available to stream...

It’s time for a new episode of Fans On The Run, the Beatle podcast that tries it’s hardest to remember to talk about The Beatles! It’s a very special show today, as I’m joined by fellow Rickenbacker enthusiast, and member of the legendary XTC, Dave Gregory!   We talk about radios, winter, home recording, “My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow, Rose Morris Rickenbackers, and (of course) The Beatles.   All...

It’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run, and much like last episode, this was recorded on location! For the first time in FoTR history, I got the chance to talk with TWO people at the same time; a sort of Beatles TikTok (BeatleTok) Mount Rushmore if you will. Joining me today are Skylar Moody and Jamie Ortiz!   In what may be the most “Gen Z” episode of the show yet we talk about impulse...

It’s been a while, but it’s time for another episode of FoTR. There are few people who I have wanted to have on my show as much as our guest today, so in a way, one of my dreams has come true! Join me on location in Jersey City at The Fest For Beatles Fans to speak to the world’s foremost Beatle historian, Mark Lewisohn!   You’re not going to want to miss this one.   This episode is available to s...