Beatles News Briefs

Canadian Beatles history authority Piers Hemmingsen and host Steve Marinucci discuss the recently published Blue Book volume of his "The Beatles In Canada" series and some of the ways that Beatlemania in Canada differed from America. We also talk about the unreleased Beatles '65 Toronto soundboard.

Among the other things we discuss are the Canadian Broadcasting Company's archival show "How the Beatles Changed the World." You can hear it here: How the Beatles Changed the World | CBC.ca   Another program that Piers and I discuss is this short report on the Sgt. Pepper album. And there's a third CBC program we found, this one from Oct. 4, 1964, called Beatlemania Takes Toronto in 1964.

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On this special show, we take a look back at some memorable moments from the shows we did in 2025. You'll hear from Joey Molland, Bruce Spizer, Piers Hemmingsen, Jude Southerland Kessler, Cha-Chi Loprete, Chris O'Dell, Gary Von Scyoc, Candy Leonard, Michele Wood Marotta, Al Sussman, Madeline Bocaro, Laurie Kaye, Rob Frith, Alan Weiss, Andru Reeve, Simon Weitzman, Alan G. Parker, Susan Ryan, Jeff Fisk, Tom Craig, Fred Velez and Bob Gannon, plus a portion of a press conference with Ringo Starr and members of the All-Starr Band. We hope hearing all these special moments from the shows will make you want to listen to the full shows. You can hear all of our shows at http://podbean.marinucci.com or  http://bystevemarinucci.blogspot.com or search for them on Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page.

CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!

NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to.   Send your suggestions to [email protected] and we may use them to add to the playlist.

On Dec. 8, 1980, journalist Alan Weiss, a local TV news producer on WABC-TV in New York City,  headed out on his motorcycle into the night. A crash with a taxi landed him in Roosevelt Hospital in New York City, where, lying on a gurney, he thought he heard a conversation that indicated that John Lennon had been shot and was in the emergency room next to him. How an injured Weiss managed to confirm the story and pass it first to his local news department, which then passed it on to the ABC network is part of the focus of our discussion in which we also examine how the local station and the network reacted to the story. The tragic news became one of the top stories of the year, for which Weiss won an Emmy. That and more on this edition of Beatles News Briefs hosted by Steve Marinucci. We hope you enjoy the show!    

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CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!

NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to.   Send your suggestions to [email protected] and we may use them to add to the playlist.

In the first of two shows on the new documentary "Borrowed Time: Lennon's Last Decade," which debuts in the U.S. Dec. 8, we talk to its writer-director Alan G. Parker, who takes us behind the scenes of the making of the film that includes previously unseen and unheard details of a lavish tour planned by John Lennon and Yoko Ono to promote their "Double Fantasy" album. According to Parker, Lennon said the tour was designed to give Mick Jagger and Elton John "ulcers." We'll also bring you up to speed with some late-breaking Beatles news briefs and share our thoughts on the Anthology Collection, with a special focus on Anthology 4. We hope you enjoy the show! #JohnLennon #Beatles #BorrowedTime

 

 

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You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page.

CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!

NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to.   Send your suggestions to [email protected] and we may use them to add to the playlist.

In 1970, George Harrison and Pattie Boyd visited Florida to see relatives. While locals had passed on stories of the trip, no photos had emerged until recently. Jeff Fisk of the Deerfield Historical Society, along with photographer Tom Craig who prepared the photos for display, Margot Winick of the Beatles In Florida Facebook page and Sara Schmidt of the Meet the Beatles for Real website talk about how the photos were discovered and put on display. Jeff Fisk will also discuss his upcoming a free lecture Nov. 19 on the photos. You can see some of the pictures of George's visit at Pierwalkdeerfieldbeach.com, on YouTube, on Meet the Beatles For Real and on Instagram. Be sure to follow us, like us and review us (nicely, we hope!). (Poster here from exhibit just held. Courtesy Deerfield Beach Historical Society.)

 

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You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page.

CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!

NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to.   Send your suggestions to [email protected] and we may use them to add to the playlist.