Your Own Personal Beatles

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 p...

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 a...

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...

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...

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...

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.c...

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 rec...

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 wor...

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 informa...

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 als...

Comedian, broadcaster and 1/3 of the fantastic sketch group, Pappy's, Matthew Crosby joins us this week to talk in depth about Yellow Submarine, Beatles for Sale, and Richard Curtis's Yesterday, amongst many other things. You can also hear Jack make a pig's ear of the introduction to Mr Moonlight. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the show this week is the fantastic comedian and host of The Mash Report, Nish Kumar. Nish reveals his love of the Beatles Anthology, notably the gigantic silver book, and how his love for the Beatles and the music of the 60s shaped his musical taste, with lots of chat about Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan. Amongst many other things, we discuss George's Indian influence, butchering Blackbird as amat...

Felicity Ward, the fantastic Australian comedian and actor joins Jack & Robin this week to discuss her Personal Beatles. In this fantastically wandering chat, topics up for discussion include Felicity loves of The White Album and Abbey Road, formative musical loves including Urge Overkill, British Big Beat acts of the 90s, and Wilco. We also lean some Aussie slang from the bush-rave scene and...

Award winning broadcast, podcaster and Beatles superfan Geoff Lloyd joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. There's fantastic chats about Beatle fandom, what it's like interviewing Paul, and what made The Beatles the GOAT. Check out Geoff's podcast, Beatle Juice wherever you get your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week's guests is the fantastic comedian and writer, Shappi Khorsandi. Jack & Robin chat to Shappi over a glass of wine about her introduction to The Beatles, which includes a Beatles-themes school play about an Ealing shopping centre, and the Fab Four's place in our shared cultural identity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David and Peter Brewis of Field Music join Jack & Robin to discuss their personal Beatles. There's special love for Ringo, how Happiness is a Warm Gun shaped their sound, and the enduring influence of The Beatles and George Martin on their music. Field Music are a rock band from Sunderland who have been releasing music since 2004. Their latest album, Flat White Moon, is available now on Memphi...

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Surprise! As a Christmas treat, here's more from our festive chat with John Robins, in which John talks about his favourite Beatles songs, more cans are consumed, and everything gets a little bit silly. Contains language that might make Santa sad. Happy Christmas and thanks for listening. J & R. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a YOPB Christmas special! And as a festive treat, we're joined by comedian, broadcaster and Beatle-skeptic, John Robins for a very merry, can-fuelled session. Will we convert John into a Beatlemaniac and get him to renounce Queen? Seems unlikely, but you'll have to listen to find out. We also offer our thoughts on Paul McCartney's new Lockdown album, McCartney III. Merry Christmas and enjoy t...

It's the final show, and it' a little bit different this week as we're joined by musician, Benoit Pioulard in an ambient hidden track to end the series. Our very sincere thanks to everyone who has joined us and especially those who’ve shared their personal Beatles with us. If you’ve enjoyed the podcast and would like to see us return for more, why not give us a 5 star rating or donate below? For n...

Josh Widdicombe is here to share his personal Beatles in a bumper episode. In addition to Josh's relationship with the Fab Four, we chat about Glastonbury, the danger of becoming a music dweeb, persisting with Pet Sounds, and being pranked by Trout Mask Replica. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's a Yoko Ono special! Actor and comedian Gabby Best joins us to talk about her love for Yoko Ono, and particularly her Twitter feed. Other topics of discussion include reassessing Yoko and her work, musical theatre audition nightmares, roasted baguettes, and the 1993 power ballad from the film The Three Musketeers. We also hear the details of Gabby's dream lunch with 'Yokes' and mention The Bea...

Musician, producer and founder of Spacebomb records, Matthew E. White joins Jack and Robin from Richmond, VA to chat about The Beatles and George Martin's impact on his sound and career. Matt also talks about his eclectic musical influences, the Lady Madonna piano in Abbey Road, and the ingenious arrangement on Ob-Lad-Di-Ob-La-Da. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.