Showing posts with label The Beatles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Beatles. Show all posts

Saturday, December 28, 2024

Past Vapour Trails

A view of a sky, criss-crossed by vapour trails.

I got asked if any of the Vapour Trails episodes I'd done in the past are still available, and to my surprise, I found most are. In fact, I think actually all of them are there apart from a special Stephen D Brooks and I did on Klaus Voormann in 2024, and the Manfred Mann special that we recorded early in 2024, but were unable for technical reasons to put out, so no-one got to hear it. 
This is the first one I did, 'I Bet You They Won't Play This Song On The Radio', where I look at songs and artists I think unjustly neglected. This one includes both Linus and Spy '51. 
After Neil Innes died at the end of 2019, Steve Brooks allowed me back to do a second show, to look at Innes' career.
COVID put a bit of a block on our plans, but in 2021 I was back with an epic track by track study of Revolver, where we just talk about how awesome it all is. 
Then at the end of 2021, we marked twenty years since the death of George Harrison with a special.
Finally in 2022 we did a two-part Beatles special, looking at some of the more obscure bits of Beatles and Beatles-related music. This is Part 1. And here is Part 2.

Friday, July 01, 2022

Vapour Trails guest appearance, part 2

Here's the second half of me talking about The Beatles on Vapour Trails, including why you should listen to more Yoko Ono, why McCartney (1970) is the first post-Beatles album, and how Paul wrote a song for Cilla Black that The Beatles couldn't have done justice to. Once again, thanks to Steve Brooks for having me on.

Friday, June 24, 2022

Vapour Trails guest appearance

I've been talking about The Beatles on Vapour Trails again, complete with an RIP to Alan White, why there was a musical reason for sacking Pete Best, and why Gerry Marsden didn't do Lennon-McCartney songs. Thanks to Steve Brooks for having me on once again.