Welcome to "When They Was Fab" (WTWF), the podcast formerly known as "Beatling About."    This week, the first part of our interview with Dean Ken Womack of Monmouth University about the commercial rerelease of his "Beatles Encyclopedia", and his forthcoming two-volume George Martin biography "Maximum Volume".      Along the way, we touch on George Martin's 1962 visit to the Cavern, whether "Please Please Me" could have been a live album, that other sixties icon, the Houston Astrodome and whether Sonny and Cher blocked a Beatles appearance in 1964.      From there to here, Happy New Year!