Your Own Personal Beatles (Jack Pelling & Robin Allender)

Comedian, writer and Beatles superfan, Mae Martin joins Jack & Robin this week to talk about formative Beatles records, the relationship between music and comedy, and her Beatles tattoo. We also discover Jack and Mae's least favourite Beatles song.

Check out all the tracks in this episode on our Spotify playlists (we know, Paul's Boutique came out in 1989, not 1986).

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Jon Ronson discusses his personal Beatles with Jack and Robin this week. There's also chat about 'Paul is Dead' conspiracy theories, outsider art, and one of the great rock n roll anecdotes involving Keith Richards, Concorde and M and S vouchers. The book we discussed at length is Craig Brown's One, Two, Three, Four: The Beatles in Time.

Photo: Emli Bendixen

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This week, comedian, writer and 1/3 of Sheeps, Jonno joins us to share his Personal Beatles, revisionist Paul and Only Fools and Horses in a hilarious episode recorded IRL* and CIH**.

*In real life **Cans in hand.

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It's a YOPB Christmas special! And as a festive treat, we're joined by comedian, broadcaster and Beatle-skeptic, John Robins for a very merry, can-fuelled session. Will we convert John into a Beatlemaniac and get him to renounce Queen? Seems unlikely, but you'll have to listen to find out.

We also offer our thoughts on Paul McCartney's new Lockdown album, McCartney III. Merry Christmas and enjoy the show.

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Surprise! As a Christmas treat, here's more from our festive chat with John Robins, in which John talks about his favourite Beatles songs, more cans are consumed, and everything gets a little bit silly.

Contains language that might make Santa sad.

Happy Christmas and thanks for listening. J & R.

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We're back! Jack & Robin are returning for another series of Your Own Personal Beatles with more amazing guests.

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Your Own Personal Beatles returns for series 2 on Tuesday 6th July 2021.

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David and Peter Brewis of Field Music join Jack & Robin to discuss their personal Beatles. There's special love for Ringo, how Happiness is a Warm Gun shaped their sound, and the enduring influence of The Beatles and George Martin on their music.

Field Music are a rock band from Sunderland who have been releasing music since 2004. Their latest album, Flat White Moon, is available now on Memphis Industries.

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This week's guests is the fantastic comedian and writer, Shappi Khorsandi. Jack & Robin chat to Shappi over a glass of wine about her introduction to The Beatles, which includes a Beatles-themes school play about an Ealing shopping centre, and the Fab Four's place in our shared cultural identity.

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Award winning broadcast, podcaster and Beatles superfan Geoff Lloyd joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. There's fantastic chats about Beatle fandom, what it's like interviewing Paul, and what made The Beatles the GOAT.

Check out Geoff's podcast, Beatle Juice wherever you get your podcasts.

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On the show this week is the fantastic comedian and host of The Mash Report, Nish Kumar.

Nish reveals his love of the Beatles Anthology, notably the gigantic silver book, and how his love for the Beatles and the music of the 60s shaped his musical taste, with lots of chat about Jimi Hendrix and Bob Dylan.

Amongst many other things, we discuss George's Indian influence, butchering Blackbird as amateur guitarists, and the joy of Abbey Road side 2.

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Comedian, broadcaster and 1/3 of the fantastic sketch group, Pappy's, Matthew Crosby joins us this week to talk in depth about Yellow Submarine, Beatles for Sale, and Richard Curtis's Yesterday, amongst many other things.

You can also hear Jack make a pig's ear of the introduction to Mr Moonlight. Enjoy the show!

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Music journalist and author Laura Barton joins Jack & Robin to discuss growing up in the Beatles heartland of North West England. In a very sprawling chat, we cover everything from the intensity of being a music fan 17, the joy of sad songs, the ever-changing relationship with Beatles albums, and her experiences interviewing some musical heroes including Yoko Ono and Van Morrison.

There is also chat about Laura's former fat cat, Paul McCartney, and why The Beatles never got rubbish.

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Folk singer and songwriter Jim Moray pops in this weeks to chat about his personal Beatles. In a fascinating and rambling chat, Jim talks about the presence of Beatles songs in the folk cannon, the 'Sgt Pepper of folk', Bright Phoebus by The Watersons, and we take a deepish dive into the Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello demos from the 1980s.

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American academic, Christine Feldman-Barrett joins us this week to discuss her personal Beatles and her new book, A Women's History of the Beatles.

Christine is a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia, and chats to Jack and Robin about the how her love of the Beatles and her connections to Hamburg and the epicentre of grunge, informed her musical passions and academic work on youth culture history.

Includes fascinating chats about reassessing the depiction of women in Beatles history, the media's relationship with the 'Beatle Wives', and the integral and overlooked role that women played in the fab four phenomenon and beyond.

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Jeremy Pritchard of the band Everything Everything joins Jack and Robin this week to reveal his personal Beatles and take a deep dive into Paul's bass playing.

We chat about what makes a McCartney bass lines special, the influences on Everything Everything's approach to songwriting, and Jeremy offers his 'controversial Beatles opinion'.

Everything Everything are on tour in 2022, and their most recent album, Re-Animator, is out now on AWAL.

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This week, Jack and Robin are joined by Alasdair MacLean of the band The Clientele. 

We discuss the impact Twist and Shout and Strawberry Fields had on Alasdair, slightly dodgy Beatles compilations including Beatles Ballads and the Rock n Roll Music albums of the 70s, the book, Songwriting Secrets of the Beatles, and a whopping controversial Beatles opinion. 

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Johnny Lynch AKA Pictish Trail joins us this week from the Isle of Eigg to share his Personal Beatles. We chat about his formative Brit Pop years, his first exposure to The Beatles in second hand CD shops in America, and how he set up is record label, Lost Map. 

Johnny’s critically acclaimed latest album as Pictish Trail, Thumb World, is available now on Fire Records.

We also have an extended chat about the upcoming Get Back films on Disney+. 

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Jack and Robin are back with the first of our post-series extra podcasts. This week, Belfast-based author Wendy Erskine joins us to share her personal Beatles, as well as discussing her recent interview with Paul McCartney: The Lyrics editor, poet Paul Muldoon, and her own short stories including 2018's Sweet Home.

We also have an extended intro in which Jack and Robin discuss Paul's new book and his recent live Q and A with Paul Muldoon at the Royal Festival Hall.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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Musician, Ben Jacobs AKA Max Tundra joins Jack and Robin this week to share his personal Beatles. Under the name Max Tundra, Ben's critically acclaimed and influential solo records have recently been reissued on Domino, and he has worked with an array of artists from Arca to Daphne and Celeste.

Ben chats about the Beatles influence on this solo work, early Beatles memories, his unique approach to writing and recording, and providing a song for video game sensation, Trombone Champ, amongst many other things. Please find some Tundra-esque links below.

Reissues: 

https://maxtundra.ffm.to/reissues

Bandcamp:

https://maxtundra.bandcamp.com

Daphne & Celeste Save The World:

https://daphneandceleste.tv

Trombone Champ:

https://trombonechamp.com

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Musician and songwriter Ed Dowie joins Jack and Robin to discuss his Personal Beatles. Ed chats about emotive music (notably She's Leaving Home), songwriting techniques and processes, and what makes music good - there's an easy one. 

There's also some Weekly Wings and Robin gets a preview of the re-release Concert for George.

Find out more about the Concert for George here: https://www.concertforgeorge.com/

Interview with the She's Leaving Home harpist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhC4imHiJUM&t

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It's our belated Christmas special! Friend of the show, comedian and musician Johnny White Really-Really returns to take part in our second Beatles Cover Challenge.

We pick a Beatles track for each other, have one month to record it, and reunite to discuss the results and what we've learned about the songs by recreating them.

You can find the full versions of the songs at https://www.personalbeatles.com/episodes/cover-challenge-vol-2.

Thanks for listening, and we'll be back later in the year.

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Guy Chambers is one of the UK's most successful songwriters, having written numerous number one hits, most notably songs like Angels, Let Me Entertain You, and Millennium with his long-time collaborator, Robbie Williams.

As a producer, he has worked with everyone from Diana Ross to Kylie, and even one Sir Paul McCartney. Guy chats to Jack and Robin about his time at John Lennon's school in Liverpool, The Beatles' influence on his career, and what it was like producing Paul in the studio.

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Epidemiologist, author and host of the brilliant 'Say Why to Drugs' podcast, Dr. Suzi Gage joins Jack and Robin this week to talk about her own personal Beatles. Suzi chats about her early Beatles influences, drugs and creativity, and living in Liverpool as a Beatles fan.

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The journey begins. In our introductory episode, Jack and Robin discuss their personal Beatles, as we begin to try and unpack the mystery of how this rock n roll band can still mean so much to us half a century on. 

They also attempt to answer one of the most important cultural questions of the 20th century: who had the best beard?

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This week, Jack & Robin are joined by Welsh stand-up and broadcaster, Elis James. Elis is a massive Beatles fan and is perhaps best known for his work with John Robins on Radio X and BBC 5Live.

We chat about the Beatles touring years, bishop gossip, meeting Paul, and which Beatle would you not want to fight?

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