Occult, cult comedian, Andrew O'Neill joins Jack & Robin this week to reveal their Personal Beatles. We also chat about Andrew's Heavy Metal-influenced stand-up, The Beatles' influence on heavy music and 70's counter culture, and Paul's monumental set at Glastonbury 2022. There's also new Weekly Wings and a new feature: Robin's Fascinating Breakdown, in which Robin spews forth on the different reversed guitar solos on the different versions of Revolver.

Recorded at Soho Radio: https://sohoradiolondon.com/

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Rapper, comedian and actor Ben Bailey Smith AKA Doc Brown joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Ben chats about growing up with Abbey Road, this eclectic formative music tastes, and how his career has seen him navigate the different worlds of comedy, music and acting. You can currently see Ben is the new Star Wars series, Andor, on Disney+.

You can hear the track by Saigon which samples The Beatles' Girl, here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkvWj9E4CnQ

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Writer John Higgs joins Jack & Robin this week to share this Personal Beatles and chat about his new book, Love and Let Die: Bond, The Beatles and the British Psyche. We chat about the two biggest British pop culture phenomena of the second half of the 20th Century, why they have endured, and what they continue to mean to the country and the world over half a century later.

Love and Let Die is available now here: https://geni.us/LoveAndLetDie

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Comedian Ania Magliano joins Jack and Robin this week off the back of sold out stand-up runs in Edinburgh and Soho. The second guest to have a cat named after Paul McCartney, Ania chats to us about fabs-fuelled car journeys, her bizarre youth theatre production of a Beatles musical at the Royal Albert Hall, and her love of A Hard Day's night.

Tickets for Ania's show, Absolutely No Worries If Not, at the Leicester Square Theatre are available here: https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/ania-magliano-absolutely-no-worries-if-not/

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We're back! Your Own Personal Beatles returns for its third series, and kicking things off is a fascinating conversation with Architects front man, Beatles obsessive, and one of the loveliest blokes in metal, Sam Carter!

We chat to Sam about The Beatles' influence on metal, doing a live album in Abbey Road's studio 2, and his touring hobby of digging for rare Beatles gems in all corners of the world.

It's good to be back. If you'd like to get ad-free episodes of the podcast before everyone else, as well as other goodies, you can sign up to our Patreon. www.patreon.com/personalbeatles

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It's the YOPB Christmas Special! Jack & Robin are joined by some friends of the podcast to chat about Get Back as we bid farewell to series 2.

Guests popping in include James Acaster, Christine Feldman-Barrett, John Bradley, Sam Carter, Matthew Crosby, Elis James, Geoff Lloyd, Josie Long, Pictish Trail, John Robins, Jon Ronson, Matthew E White and Josh Widdicombe.

Don't forgot you can vote for us for in the Best Music Podcast and Oh My Pod categories in Pod Bible's Poll Winners 2021 here: podbiblemag.com.

Thanks for listening and see you 'round the clubs.

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It's another Xmas bonus podcast! Before we wrap up the show with our festive Get Back special, here's our trip to Abbey Road from August.

On an unforgettable summer's evening, Jack, Robin and friend of the show, Elis James, fulfil a life-long dream of stepping over the zebra crossing and through the famous doors of Abbey Road studios.

In this special bonus podcast, we do our very best to recount the emotional experience of walking down those steps into Studio 2, meeting all the iconic instruments and gear that The Beatles used to create timeless music, and generally doing our very best not to get completely overwhelmed.

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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 playing drums on Robin's track.

Find out more about Jame's production work at jameswhiting.co.uk and on his Instagram @fishislandstudio.

Joe's Bandcamp can be found here: https://heartfeltrhythms.bandcamp.com/ and you can visit his website here: https://www.heartfeltrhythms.com/.

You can find some of Johnny White Really-Really's music as 'Xmas' on his Bandcamp here: https://xmas.bandcamp.com/releases

SPOILER ALERT:

You can listen to the final versions of the songs on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoNNKB4VToUGJOkxONjYTFg

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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 audio quality during the intros and outros, we had some technical problems.

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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 Manzarek, in which The Doors keyboard player talks to Adam about Rubber Soul.

And if that wasn't enough, we also offer our (spoiler free) thought's on Peter Jackson's Get Back!

The Beatles: Get Back is available to stream on Disney+ now.

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