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

It’s Friday, so it can only mean one thing, it’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run!

Joining me today is a longtime music journalist, and author of the ‘Let It Be’ installment of the 33 1/3 series of books, Steve Matteo! We cover a lot of topics including the joys of Graham Nash, the age old fear of the tape recorder not working during an important interview, lavish box sets from John Mayall and King Crimson, a cancelled 2004 DVD release of the ‘Let It Be’ film, the slow collapse of The Beatles and their inner circle, the Shea Stadium concert recording and why it hasn’t been released properly in a long time, potential dream Beatle releases, the pack mentality of the music press, and in a roundabout way, the first ever FoTR call in!

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

Steve’s book:

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-beatles-let-it-be-9780826416346/

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https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

Contact: [email protected]

No rest for the wicked, Fans On The Run is back! Joining me as my guest for today is a fan, an author and one of very few outsiders to appear on a Beatle record, Lizzie Bravo! We talk about camping out in the cinema to watch a Beatles film clip over and over, moving to London in February of 1967 because of the fabulous foursome, spending her free time hanging around EMI Studios, being in the audience for the Hendrix concert at the Saville two days after Pepper’s release, her story of how she got to be on the Across The Universe recording, meeting Paul at his house to borrow a tape player, and much more! Much, much more!

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

Lizzie’s links:

https://www.lizziebravo.com/

https://twitter.com/lizziebravo

https://www.instagram.com/lizzie_bravo/

https://www.facebook.com/Lizzie-Bravo-325282004328347

Find us elsewhere:

https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

Contact: [email protected]

I recently had the opportunity to sit down again with my friend “Whispering Bob” Harris for another wonderful chat! We talked about the sixties British pirate radio stations, the last radio performance of Syd Barrett, the origins of the Time Out magazine, the vinyl release of Stand By Me 2020, a trivia game about Bob’s favourite record label, and much more! Check it out, why don’t you?

This interview is available everywhere podcasts can be heard!

Bob's Links:

https://www.bobharris.org/

https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

It’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run, and sadly it’s gonna be the last for about a month! I’ll be taking a much needed break, and not use my vocal chords the entire duration of it (or something like that). That being said, today’s (should have been yesterday, but oh well) episode is a great one. Joining me is the host of New England’s Breakfast With The Beatles, Cha-Chi Loprete! We talk about gifted butcher covers, mailing records to George Harrison to be signed, the expensive (for 1970) “All Things Must Pass” box, dinner at John Eastman’s house with Paul, how he got started in radio, the DJs he remembers that inspired him, and so much more! Much like James Bond, FoTR will return.

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

Cha-Chi’s links:

https://twitter.com/ChachiBeatles

https://www.facebook.com/BreakfastWithTheBeatlesChaChi/

https://breakfastwiththebeatleschachi.com/

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https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

Contact:

[email protected]

Oh, hey there, it’s time for another episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is singer/songwriter/fellow Canadian, Max Comeau! We talk about a re-introduction to The Beatles thru “Reel Music”, memories of the hype surrounding “Free As A Bird” and “Anthology”, Sam The Record Man, ruining a concert experience with setlist websites, the influence of Paul on Max’s music, getting to know yourself through a Beatles song, “Dear Eloise” by The Hollies, and a rather shaky attempt at pandering to my Québec audience!

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

Max’s links:

https://maxcomeau.bandcamp.com/

https://www.facebook.com/maxcomeauofficialpage/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0kP9MgCjaJAIFH96wi6tvc

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Contact:

[email protected]

It’s time for another groovy episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is the co-host of BC The Beatles, the fabulous Allison Boron! We’re all over the place here talking about the 1993 fatboy jewel-case versions of the Red and Blue albums, old Angelfire domain names, getting into The Beatles through The Monkees, the early Beatles internet fan community, the everlasting appeal of the story of Brian Epstein, price-gouged Woodstock box sets, sexism in the Beatle-world, the late great Limewire, and much, much more!

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

Allison’s links:

https://bcthebeatles.podbean.com

https://twitter.com/bcthebeatles

https://twitter.com/ajoboaugogo

https://www.instagram.com/ajoboaugogo

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https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

Contact:

[email protected]

Woohoo, it’s Friday! Time for a new episode of everybody’s favourite (citation needed) Beatles podcast, Fans On The Run!

 Joining me today for what is now the longest single part episode of the show, is a member of the tribute band BeatleBeat, and veteran of the Floridian Beatles tribute scene, Charlie De Cosa! We talk about a lot of things in this episode, like we really cover a lot of ground. We talk about not getting used to hearing Sgt. Pepper with pops or crackles, reflecting on purging a vinyl collection back in the era of CDs, a brief lesson on the history of NRBQ, the scattered re-runs of The Beatles cartoon in the Eighties, ‘Kiss Meets The Phantom Of The Park’, learning to love your Höfner, separating the art from the artist, guilty pleasure bands, cheating in Nickelodeon phone-in competitions, the mystical world of Parrothead-ism, the stereotype of the “florida man”, the chaotic nature of The Who’s early music videos, and for the first time in the show’s history, a joke so offensive I had to bleep it out.  

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

Keep up with Charlie and BeatleBeat!

https://soundcloud.com/charlie-de-cosa

https://www.facebook.com/beatlebeattribute/

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https://linktr.ee/fansontherun 

Contact:

[email protected]

Friday is here once again, and so is Fans On The Run. Joining me today is the author of the long-awaited forthcoming book “Little Wing: The Jimmy McCulloch Story”, Paul Salley, and much like Jimmy himself, this episode is short but sweet! (by FoTR standards) We talk about some notorious Jimmy myths including “that photo from that one book”, the paradox of owning a Beatle calendar before listening to their music, the Wingspan documentary, the moniker of “that Beatles kid” at school being passed down through the generations, how Jimmy joined, then subsequently left The Small Faces in less than a year, the magic of the band One In A Million, and of course some talk about that one band (hint: Denny Laine was in it for a while) and much more!

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

Keep up with Paul and the book!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/littlewingjm

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Contact:

[email protected]

It’s time for another episode of the show that doesn’t stop, Fans On The Run! Joining me today is a veteran of YouTube’s “vinyl community”, Marvin Gee, also known as Beatlevinyl85! We have an absolute vinyl-geek-fest today talking about everything from the social dynamic of the local record store, seeing the Free As A Bird video for the first time, the allure of imports, the absolute anomaly that is “The Beatles In Italy”, holy grails, the perks of being a second generation collector, “The Beatles Vs. The Four Seasons”, Canadian records with alternate mixes, the true stereo version of "Yesterday and Today", and much, much more!

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

Marv’s links:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3-Cwnaiz0jexbUZC9Rki5w

https://www.instagram.com/beatlevinyl/

https://www.facebook.com/myvinyl2

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https://linktr.ee/fansontherun

Contact: [email protected]

It’s time for another “fab” episode of Fans On The Run! It is Friday, after all. I’m joined by my co-host over on “When They Was Fab: Electric Arguments About The Beatles”, Ed Chen! (Although, this episode was recorded before I was officially announced as a co-host)

In this episode we talk about the supply and demand of Rutles 8 Track Tapes, the Bee Gees’ Sgt. Pepper “selling gold, and returning platinum”, attractive hype stickers, the origins of the term “Dutch Import” in terms of bootlegs, nefarious laughing, the post Beatlefest ratings boost for the Beatle podcats, the laziness of the 1988 Imagine movie, “My Ding-A-Ling”, a plugging misfire, and three different technical failures that were fixed in the edit! All that and more, you absolutely need to listen!

This episode (as well as When they Was Fab) can be streamed anywhere good podcasts can be heard!)

https://whentheywasfab.podbean.com/

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