Episodes

  • Sgt. Pepper album cover designer Jann Haworth

    Sgt. Pepper album cover designer Jann Haworth
    Apr 22 2025
    Jann and Peter Blake designed what Rolling Stone called the “greatest album cover of all time.” The story behind that album cover is fascinating. Remarkably, Jann and Peter never heard the album before designing the cover, how the faces were chosen is surprising, and Jann explodes quite a few myths surrounding the Sgt. Pepper cover. A must listen.

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    44 mins
  • "John & Paul" Author Ian Leslie

    "John & Paul" Author Ian Leslie
    Apr 8 2025
    Ian Leslie has written a new book titled “John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs” where he puts forth a fascinating premise: That John and Paul communicated to each other via song lyrics - during the Beatles years. Leslie says that Lennon and McCartney was an intense relationship, but while they wrote incredible songs together, they were unable to communicate their deep friendship to each other - so they camouflaged those feelings in songs. It’s a terrific read. Here’s a link to purchase the book.

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    41 mins
  • Yoko Ono biographer David Sheff

    Yoko Ono biographer David Sheff
    Mar 24 2025
    Yoko Ono is known for breaking up the Beatles - but what if we told you that Yoko actually kept the Beatles together. Author David Sheff has written a fascinating new book on Yoko, and he reveals how she kept the band together until the Abbey Road album. Hear David explain how that came to be, and why you should re-evaluate your idea of Yoko Ono.

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    50 mins
  • Paul Saltzman meets The Beatles in India

    Paul Saltzman meets The Beatles in India
    Mar 10 2025

    Back in 1968, 24-year-old Paul Saltzman went to India. He was nursing a broken heart, and made his way to the Maharishi’s ashram. He didn’t know it, but the Beatles were inside. Paul has great stories about the time he spent with them, and took famous photos of the Beatles in Rishikesh.


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    45 mins
  • Apple Records Creative Director John Kosh

    Apple Records Creative Director John Kosh
    Feb 19 2025

    Kosh designed the Let It Be and Abbey Road album covers, along with many Beatle solo LPS, and reveals some nuggets about those albums I’ve never heard before. He has great stories of his time at Apple, and Kosh also tells us about designing some of the most classic rock albums of all time, including Hotel California.


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    35 mins
  • Canadian Beatles historian Piers Hemmingsen

    Canadian Beatles historian Piers Hemmingsen
    Jan 31 2025

    Not many people know that Canada discovered the Beatles one full year before the States did. Piers Hemmingsen is probably the foremost Canadian expert on the Beatles, and he is a curator of the "From Me To You: The Beatles in Canada 1964-1966" exhibit at the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta.


    And he has a great story to tell.

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    44 mins
  • Dion

    Dion
    Jan 17 2025
    Dion is one of only five people still alive who are on the cover of Sgt. Pepper. He was one of John Lennon’s musical heroes. Dion was also supposed to be on the plane with Buddy Holly that fateful night in 1959 - and he tells us that heartbreaking story. He also gives the best description of Buddy Holly that I’ve ever heard.

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    45 mins
  • May Pang

    May Pang
    Jan 4 2025
    May had an 18-month relationship with John Lennon when he separated from Yoko in the mid-70s. She tells us about her relationship with John & Yoko, how John had one of his most fruitful musical periods with her, and how she found out John had been murdered on that fateful night.

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    57 mins
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