🎙️ Show Topic: Beatles Books – From the Fab Four to the Solo Years
This Monday, September 8th, 2025, we’re opening the covers on the Beatles’ story, told through the books that map their rise, the split, and the rich solo eras that followed. 📚🎶
We’ll talk research, rare photos, session details, and first-person histories that bring new color to familiar songs. From Ringo’s trailblazing drum parts to Paul’s post-Beatles studio craft, from stadium-shaking moments to deep archival work, this one’s for readers, listeners, and lifelong Beatles obsessives alike.
Our guests include veteran authors and historians who’ve documented the band and beyond – the shows, the sessions, the cultural shockwaves – and the solo careers that kept the magic evolving.
🕰️ Tune in for a page-turning night of music history, book talk, and Beatles lore you’ll want to bookmark.
📅 Mark your calendars: Monday, September 8th, 2025 – stack your books, cue the records, and join us live.
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Guest(s) for our show:
Date: Monday, September 8th, 2025
1. 📖 Al Sussman
Writing about The Beatles, music, and pop culture since 1968, from a town-newspaper column and a mid-’70s “Collectors’ Q&A” in Sounds Fine to decades with Beatlefan (New York correspondent and Executive Editor since the ’80s).
Al contributes news, commentary, and historical perspectives, and authored Changin’ Times: 101 Days That Shaped a Generation (Nov 22, 1963–Mar 1, 1964).
He worked in retail record stores in the ’70s/’80s, has been part of The Fest For Beatles Fans since 1974, served as a radio analyst at ASCAP (1991–2006), co-hosted the podcast Things We Said Today (2014–2017), and since 2017 has contributed to Bruce Spizer’s Beatles Album Series.
2. 🥁 Mitch Kozera
Author of Play It Like Ringo! How He Propelled The Sound of The Greatest Band of All Time — a detailed study of Ringo Starr’s groundbreaking drumming in band context, featuring over 100 drum charts for students and fans of the Beatles’ catalog.
3. 🏟️ Dave Schwensen
Cleveland-based author focusing on the landmark August 15, 1965 concert: The Beatles at Shea Stadium, 55,600 fans, a seismic moment in rock history, and a turning point in live music production and culture.
4. 📚 Luca Perasi
Italian author and researcher whose works span Beatles and solo careers, including Paul McCartney: Recording Sessions 1969–2013 (quoted by Rolling Stone’s David Fricke in the Wild Life Deluxe Edition book, 2018).
In 2021, he was appointed one of the official Italian translators for Paul McCartney’s The Lyrics (Rizzoli); in 2022, collaborated with MPL on research for The 7” Singles Box label copy; and in 2023 published Paul McCartney: Music
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