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

Welcome back to another fab, gear and [insert hyperbole heree] episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is music journalist, internet personality, "CD Junkie" and my friend, Steve Schnee! 

We cover so much ground in this episode that I don't think I'd even be able to do my usual recap blurb here. Just listen to the show, it's a good one!

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Keep up with Steve:

https://www.youtube.com/c/StephenSchnee/

https://www.mixcloud.com/stephen-schnee/

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It’s time for another mysterious episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is the “Rock And Roll Detective” and author of books like ‘Black Market Beatles’ and the instant-classic ‘The Beatle Who Vanished’, Jim Berkenstadt!

We talk about intriguing research around the 1964 Toronto concert, being recommended by George to the rest of the surviving Beatles at one of his last Apple meetings, a nickname christened by Neil Aspinall, the experience of the premiere of the Love show, work on the last “deluxe” edition of ‘All Things Must Pass’, the film rights of his book, lots of bootleg talk, the ancient Beatlefest “room”, the mysterious 2003 non-rerelease of the ‘Let It Be’ film, the psychological impact of being in The Beatles for such a short period of time, and the final word on the ‘Paul is dead’ mystery! All that and more.

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Jim’s links:

http://www.thebeatlewhovanished.com/

https://www.facebook.com/RockAndRollDetective

https://twitter.com/rockdetective

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Pardon the week-and-a-day delay, but Fans On The Run is here once more! Joining me today is the Associate Editor at the ‘Octopus’ Garden’ fanzine, and who has contributed to many great Beatle books with her “red pen”, Janet Davis!

We talk about 1970s New York radio, cheap little Beatle books as gateway drugs, the Beatlefest of old compared to the Fest of new, a big rambling rant about the construction of the ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ album jacket, going to Formula 1 races to try and see George, a lot of talk about the band XTC, the literary classification of the big Anthology book, talk of some new exciting upcoming Beatle books!

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Octopus’ Garden:

https://www.facebook.com/Octopus-Garden-Fanzine-131218046932029

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It’s time for another fab episode of Fans On The Run! This episode is a bit of a reunion of sorts, with special guest Lonnie Peña! We talk Beatles promotional items, the lost joys of Beatle flea-market hunting, working on new music, working in his dad’s car shop to buy 45s, paying tons for bootlegs before somebody else can buy ‘em, Lonnie’s poster collection, an interpretation of my theme song, buying (some) butcher cover(s), and much more!

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Knock knock! Who’s there? A new episode of Fans On The Run, that’s who! Joining me today is the brains behind the @cynthialennondaily Instagram page, and the host of the ‘She Loves You’ podcast: Natalia Cardenas!

We talk about the differences between older Gen Z Beatle fans and younger Gen Z Beatle fans, Beatle authors I’m afraid of, our fathers giving us both thumbsticks with the same set of Beatles recordings (of questionable legality!), ‘The Beatles RockBand’, a very curious Peruvian pressing of ‘A Hard Day’s Night’, Beatle fandom in the age of the Instagram, trying to describe the women in The Beatles’ story in a single word, favourite Kinks songs, and what made Cynthia Lennon so special.

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Natalia’s links:

https://www.instagram.com/cynthialennondaily/

https://www.instagram.com/shelovesyoupodcast/

https://open.spotify.com/show/67QG6lt5WFrl9Oolu9NS4m

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What's better than a normal episode of Fans On The Run? An unexpected episode of Fans On The Run!

In a bit of a change of form, Max Comeau (FoTR, Ep. 57) and I go track by track through the album that just celebrated it's 50th birthday (RAM!)

This bonus episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Max’s links:

https://maxcomeau.bandcamp.com/

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Friday doesn’t only mean the start of the weekend; it means it’s time for another new episode of Fans On The Run! My guest today is the co-host of ‘BC The Beatles’, Erika White!

We talk about being in the audience of the ‘Get Back’ concert film, the mystery of the paper bag that housed the ‘Two Virgins’ album, a cherished doll head, imagining a parallel universe where the butcher cover was never recalled, a Beatle autograph family heirloom, the male bias of Beatle academia, Super Mario Bros 2, the ugly covers of the 1980 Capitol budget reissues of ‘Rock ‘N’ Roll Music’ and a FoTR exclusive (for now) story surrounding The Ed Sullivan Show!

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Erika’s links:

https://bcthebeatles.podbean.com

https://twitter.com/bcthebeatles

https://twitter.com/beatlepeedle

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Welcome back to another fab, gear (and all the other pimply hyperboles) episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is history professor and author of the book ‘Joy and Fear: The Beatles, Chicago and the 1960s’, John F. Lyons!

We talk about some of the underground magazines in Chicago, WLS (the World’s Largest Store/World’s Loudest Station) and it’s role in Beatlemania, the origins of the infamous ‘Plaster Caster’, dragging along the family on vacation to libraries for Beatle research, the first time his brother ever showed him an LP, what the inspiration for ‘Joy and Fear’ was, early Beatle books, and the treasure-trove of obscure Beatle interviews from 60s magazines. All that and much more! After this week, FoTR will transition over to a bi-weekly format, with the next episode coming on May 14th.

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John’s links:

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Joy-and-Fear/John-F-Lyons/9781682619322

https://twitter.com/johnflyons2

https://www.facebook.com/johnflyonsbeatles

https://www.instagram.com/johnflyons.beatles/

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To borrow a TV term welcome to a "spin-off"!

This is a monthly installment where two music geeks (Andy & Ethan) discuss their favourite albums by artists other than the Beatles. (What a refreshing idea!) 

As we are both hardcore Who fans (Ethan = 60s Who, Andy = 70s Who) we decided our first show should center in on the Who's 3rd studio LP "The Who Sell Out". Tying in with the recently released Super Deluxe Box Set celebrating the album we felt this was a good starting point.  

We also discuss the post "Sell Out" but pre-Tommy period of 1968 and what an odd ball period it was for the group.  

We may actually like the jingles better than the songs! Impersonations, accents, bad singing it's all here.

"What's for tea mum?'

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It’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run, and today it’s going to get a little abstract! Joining me is the new youngest Beatle podcast host on the block, Hudson Ranney of ‘I Know I Know: A Solo Beatles Videocast’. We talk about wearing out a mint ’67 pressing of Sgt. Pepper, yours truly warbling out the lyrics to ‘If I Had A $1,000,000’ by The Barenaked Ladies, record stores with bad Beatles sections, sentimental attachments to certain Paul McCartney albums, the now-out-of-print LP of ‘Live In Japan’, a distracted host texting his friend about the aforementioned ‘Live In Japan’ LP, how modern Beatle fans about “that one John Lennon song with the n-word in the title”, and puns, puns, puns and puns. Oh, so many puns. It’s a wild ride, so strap in, and don’t miss it!

This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!

Hudson’s channel:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5fGypDlqHTtu2CuGZ5bIiQ

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