In this episode:
- 50th anniversary of the Beatles coming to America,
- Ringo Starr’s hair and sunglasses,
- “Queenie Eye” by Paul McCartney,
- old rockers making new bad music,
- our review of The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to The Beatles,
- not having the Beatle kids play together with Paul and Ringo,
- Adam Levine’s backstory,
- twee music,
- Katy Perry’s muumuu,
- too much Dave Grohl is annoying,
- Annie Lennox scares us,
- today’s fake country music accent,
- Beatles tribute impersonation band The Fab Four/Wingsband,
- Ardy Sarraf,
- sound fonts and “Coming Up” as a Sega Genesis song,
- Konami arcade game Mikie (1984) using Beatles music,
- Simon Cowell returns to England,
- Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton wedding jams,
- fantastic Atari video game artwork,
- Adam Sandler resembles Don Flamenco,
- a Windows 95 infomercial starring Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry,
- This is the End (2013) reviewed again,
- and Would You Rather (2012) starring Jeffrey Combs.
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Hey… you guys really need to check this out (unless you already heard this). This guy happened to get Paul McCartney on his podcast! https://soundcloud.com/paul-mecurio-show/the-paul-mecurio-show-24-paul
ARGH! Paul Mecurio is a comic, I’ve seen him on TV a few times. He warms up for The Daily Show, so I suppose that’s probably where he ran into McCartney. Kept cutting Sir Paul off though in the interview.
Yeah, but I did think it was pretty cool given what you would think would be the most unlikely chance that McCartney would ever agree to be interviewed on a podcast like this. I thought it was way too short, but well worth hearing him describe the humble early days of the Beatles!…:)
i recently rewatched the beatles anthology series. you cannot deny the songs and recording innnovations 1965 – 1966 was their imperial phase in my opinion. for me, living so close to liverpool, the beatles are just part of the furniture over here, kind of like the royal family – they are just there and the brits just take them for granted maybe. i also used to work with people who knew them personally in the early 60s – one lady let george harrison use her phone, and this somewhat demystifies them, but also humanises them; gets past the icon status.
George Harrison used her phone? Reminds me of being told as a kid how George Washington spent a night in a little dump of a house near the river in our town. House still exists.
yes – her house phone; she must have been well-to-do in comparison to george’s then street urchin status. yes, i remember yourselves and frank nora talking about the george washington story – very interesting bit of local lore.
David, do the British view the colonists like George Washington, Thomas Jefferosn, Ben Franklin, etc. as traitors?
rob – i very much doubt so; however, i think the majority of the great unread would not really know who they were. those who do, i would think there would be a minority of union jack wavers who would judge them as ‘traitors’. i think most literate brits who know both sides of the argument just see them as enlightened and rallied against a just cause. i think the modern patriotic briton is mourning the loss of influence on the global stage via the empire.