This Thursday, October 8th, 2026, we’re dedicating the show to The Beatles, with music from across the extraordinary career of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr.

We’ll revisit the songs, recordings, and Liverpool story of the Fab Four while also turning our attention to one of the most important albums in their musical development, Rubber Soul, and the continuing interest in hearing the Beatles catalogue through new mixes and restored recordings.

We’ll take a closer look at Rubber Soul, the Beatles’ sixth UK studio album, and the creative leap the group made during this period. With songs such as “Drive My Car,” “Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown),” “Nowhere Man,” “Michelle,” “In My Life,” “If I Needed Someone,” and “You Won’t See Me,” the album found the Beatles expanding their songwriting, instrumentation, and studio experimentation. Author and musician John Kruth will help us explore the story behind the album through his book This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul.

We’ll also celebrate John Lennon’s birthday on Friday, October 9th, remembering his music, songwriting, humor, personality, and enormous contribution to the Beatles and popular music. John would have turned 86 this year. His sister Julia Baird will share personal memories of John and their Liverpool connections, while John Kruth will also discuss Hold On World: The Lasting Impact of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band: Fifty Years On and the creative partnership between Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Liverpool remains at the heart of this story. Tony Cook will take us through Beatles landmarks and his work as a Magical Mystery Tour guide, while filmmaker Simon Weitzman joins us to discuss Real Love: The Story of International Beatleweek, documenting how a local Beatles gathering developed into a worldwide celebration and pilgrimage for fans.

From Liverpool and Rubber Soul to John Lennon’s life and the enduring international Beatles community, we have plenty of music and memories to share.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, October 8th. 2026

Don’t miss it!

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Thursday, October 8th, 2026

🚌 Tony Cook

Tony Cook is a Liverpool Beatles tour guide who introduces visitors from around the world to the places connected with John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and the early history of The Beatles.

As a guide for Liverpool’s Magical Mystery Tour, Tony will talk about the Beatles landmarks that continue to bring fans to the city and the stories behind the places where the Fab Four grew up, met, performed, and began their remarkable journey.

🎬 Simon Weitzman

Simon Weitzman is a filmmaker who joins us to discuss the new Beatles documentary Real Love: The Story of International Beatleweek, exploring the history and remarkable growth of Liverpool’s annual Beatles celebration.

The documentary traces the festival’s beginnings in the late 1970s and its development into an international destination for Beatles fans.

It also marks 40 years since Cavern City Tours took over the organization of the event and looks at how a relatively small gathering developed into one of the world’s major celebrations of Beatles music and culture.

❤️ Julia Baird

Julia Baird, John Lennon’s sister, joins us for a particularly meaningful conversation as we celebrate John’s birthday on October 9th.

Julia will share personal memories of her brother and talk about their family connections and the Liverpool places that formed part of John’s early life.

Her perspective brings us closer to the person behind the music and to the city that helped shape the young John Lennon before The Beatles changed popular music forever.

📚 John Kruth

John Kruth is a singer-songwriter, musician, and author who joins us to explore two important chapters in the Beatles and John Lennon story.

His book This Bird Has Flown: The Enduring Beauty of Rubber Soul takes us behind the scenes of the Beatles’ landmark 1965 album and examines the songwriting, performances, influences, and musical experimentation that made Rubber Soul such an important turning point for the band.

John will also discuss Hold On World: The Lasting Impact of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s Plastic Ono Band: Fifty Years On, revisiting Lennon and Ono’s relationship, their creative collaborations, and the intensely personal music that emerged from this period of John Lennon’s post-Beatles career.

This Monday, October 5th, 2026, The History of Rock and Roll is back with another Rock Music Spotlight, taking us across the Atlantic for music and stories from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

We’ll travel from the American roots of rock and roll to Liverpool, London, and New York City, exploring the artists, songs, and musical movements that connected the US and UK during three remarkable decades of popular music.

We’ll begin in Liverpool with musician Clark Gilmour, whose repertoire reaches from the rock and roll pioneers who inspired The Beatles to the Fab Four’s earliest Quarrymen days, Hamburg performances, BBC sessions, studio years, and later solo careers.

Along the way, we’ll celebrate music from Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, and many more. Clark will also take us inside Liverpool’s continuing Beatles tradition and his involvement with International Beatleweek.

Then we’ll head to London with journalist and historian Keith Badman for a look at the British rock scene and the extraordinary artists who emerged from the UK. We’ll talk Beatles, Queen, and other British performers while exploring the music and culture that made London one of the centers of the rock world during the 1960s and 70s.

Finally, we’ll cross back to New York City with author Mitchell Cohen and his new book, Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the ’60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake.

We’ll explore a city where folk, R&B, rock and roll, blues, girl groups, and Brill Building pop collided to create an extraordinary musical era. From Bob Dylan and Simon & Garfunkel to The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Rascals, The Blues Project, Vanilla Fudge, The Shangri-Las, Laura Nyro, Bobby Darin, and Dion, New York had a sound and energy all its own.

Mark your calendars as we travel through three decades of American and British rock music history.

Don’t miss it!

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Monday, October 5th, 2026

🎸 Clark Gilmour

Originally from Glasgow and now based in Liverpool, Clark Gilmour is a singer and musician with an extensive repertoire rooted in The Beatles and the rock and roll music that inspired them.

His performances journey from The Quarrymen and the Beatles’ early days in Hamburg through their famous recordings and into the solo careers of John, Paul, George, and Ringo.

Clark specializes not only in the familiar hits but also in rarities and lesser-heard material from the Decca audition, BBC sessions, B-sides, album tracks, and Anthology outtakes.

His repertoire also embraces the Beatles’ musical roots, including Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, and Carl Perkins, along with Bob Dylan and British groups including The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Gerry & The Pacemakers, and The Searchers.

Clark has portrayed John Lennon in Beatles tribute productions since 2009, including Them Beatles, Beatlemania, and The Magic of The Beatles. He has also performed as a stand-in with The Cavern Club Beatles and is involved in organizing International Beatleweek in Liverpool.

🇬🇧 Keith Badman

Keith Badman is a London-based journalist, author, and music historian whose research has documented some of the most important artists and events in British popular music.

Keith joins us to explore the history of rock music in London and the wider British music scene, including stories surrounding The Beatles, Queen, and other major UK artists.

We’ll look back at a period when Britain became one of the creative centers of popular music and British artists transformed rock on both sides of the Atlantic.

 

Keith Badman

📚 Mitchell Cohen

New York author and music historian Mitchell Cohen joins us to discuss his new book, Wake Me, Shake Me: New York City, the ’60s & the Pop-Rock Youthquake, an exploration of the extraordinary musical world that developed in New York during the 1960s.

It was a city where folk music, R&B, blues, rock and roll, girl groups, and the songwriters of the Brill Building existed side by side and constantly influenced one another.

Mitchell will take us into that scene through artists including The Lovin’ Spoonful, The Rascals, The Blues Project, Vanilla Fudge, The Shangri-Las, Simon & Garfunkel, Laura Nyro, Bob Dylan, Bobby Darin, and Dion, revealing how New York became one of the defining centers of the 1960s pop-rock revolution.

 

There will be no live radio podcast on Monday, September 28th or Thursday, October 1st. In the meantime, I’ve picked three recorded shows filled with great music, stories, and special guests for you to enjoy.

British Music Lads from Liverpool features Terry Sylvester of The Hollies, a treasured conversation with the late Joey Molland of Badfinger, and Billy J. Kramer.

 

 

Then, 60s Music, The Box Tops & The Buckinghams brings together Gary Talley, Carl Giammarese, Rick Levy, and Dave Zane for more memories from the decade.

 

 

Finally, enjoy 60s Flower Power Music with Gene Cornish and Felix Cavaliere of The Rascals.

 

 

I hope these shows keep the music playing while I’m away. I’ll be back on the air Monday, October 5th, 2026 with more rock & roll memories. Don’t miss it!

Show Topic: Queen – Celebrating the Music & Freddie Mercury at 80

This Thursday, September 24th, 2026, we’re celebrating the extraordinary music of Queen, one of Britain’s greatest and most distinctive rock bands. Formed in London in 1970, Queen brought together the talents of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor, and later John Deacon, creating a sound that could move effortlessly from progressive and hard rock to pop, theatrical productions, and massive arena anthems.

Throughout the show, it’s all Queen, with classics including “Killer Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Tie Your Mother Down,” “Somebody to Love,” “We Will Rock You,” “We Are the Champions,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” and many more.

We’ll follow Queen’s musical journey through the 1970s and beyond, remembering the albums, songs, and spectacular live performances that transformed the band into a worldwide phenomenon.

Queen never seemed interested in staying within a single musical style. Their recordings combined Brian May’s unmistakable guitar sound, elaborate vocal harmonies, ambitious studio production, and Freddie Mercury’s remarkable songwriting and performances, creating records that still sound unmistakably like Queen.

This show will also be a special celebration of Freddie Mercury, who would have turned 80 on September 5th, 2026.

As Queen’s lead singer, pianist, songwriter, and electrifying frontman, Freddie helped redefine what a rock performer could be. He wrote some of the band’s most enduring songs, including “Killer Queen,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Somebody to Love,” “We Are the Champions,” “Don’t Stop Me Now,” and “Crazy Little Thing Called Love.”

We’ll also remember unforgettable moments from Queen’s live career, especially Freddie’s extraordinary connection with audiences and the band’s legendary performance at Live Aid in 1985.

2026 also marks 35 years since Freddie Mercury’s passing on November 24th, 1991, but his voice, songwriting, theatrical style, and influence remain an essential part of rock history.

From the ambitious early recordings to the stadium anthems heard around the world, this is a celebration of Freddie Mercury and the music of Queen.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, September 24th, and join us as we turn up some of the greatest Queen recordings ever made.

Don’t miss it!

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No guest featured for this episode. This special broadcast is dedicated to the music and remarkable legacy of Queen, while celebrating what would have been Freddie Mercury’s 80th birthday and remembering him during the 35th anniversary year of his passing.

Show Topic: The Birth of Rock & Roll – Celebrating Buddy Holly at 90

This Thursday, September 3rd, 2026, we’re going back to where it all began with a special look at the Birth of Rock & Roll and the revolutionary sounds of the 1950s.

We’ll hear rock and roll, pop, doo-wop, and rockabilly from the artists who helped create a musical revolution, including Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Ritchie Valens, The Platters, The Coasters, Dion and the Belmonts, Wanda Jackson, Buddy Knox, and many others.

At the heart of this special show, we’ll honor Buddy Holly, who would have celebrated his 90th birthday on September 7th, 2026. In a career that lasted only a few short years, Holly became one of rock and roll’s most important singer-songwriters and guitarists. With The Crickets and as a solo artist, recordings including “That’ll Be the Day,” “Peggy Sue,” “Everyday,” “Oh, Boy!” and “Not Fade Away” helped establish a sound and songwriting approach that would influence generations of musicians.

We’ll follow Holly’s remarkable story from The “Chirping” Crickets and appearances on The Ed Sullivan Show to tours of Australia and the United Kingdom and the final Winter Dance Party tour. His life ended tragically at only 22 years old in the February 3rd, 1959 plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, alongside Ritchie Valens and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson—a tragedy that Don McLean would later memorialize as “the day the music died” in “American Pie.” Yet Buddy Holly’s musical story was far from over.

We’ll hear plenty of Buddy Holly’s music and explore the extraordinary influence he left behind. Bob Dylan, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, The Hollies, Elvis Costello, Elton John, and countless other artists followed paths that Holly helped open.

No guest featured for this episode. This special broadcast is dedicated to the Birth of Rock & Roll and to celebrating the music, life, and extraordinary legacy of Buddy Holly as we commemorate what would have been his 90th birthday.

Mark your calendars as we return to the roots of rock and roll and celebrate what would have been Buddy Holly’s 90th birthday. Don’t miss it!

Show Topic: The Monkees - Celebrating 60 Years & the M60 Convention

This Monday, August 31st, 2026, we’re celebrating The Monkees as we get ready for a very special weekend marking the group’s 60th anniversary. We’ll be featuring the music of Micky Dolenz, Michael Nesmith, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones while looking back at the songs, television series, personalities, and lasting legacy that turned The Monkees into one of the most beloved pop-rock groups of the 1960s.

We’ll also preview the upcoming M60 Convention, taking place September 4th–6th, 2026, at the Clarion Inn in North Haven, Connecticut. The convention brings Monkees fans and special guests together to celebrate six decades since The Monkees television series and the music that became an essential part of 1960s pop culture. It promises to be a memorable weekend for longtime fans as well as those who continue to discover the group today.

Joining us are four guests with their own connections to the Monkees story. We’ll hear from drummer Rich Dart about performing with the Monkees and continuing to play with Micky Dolenz; archivist and author Joe Russo about his remarkable collection of rare Monkees material and his book The Monkees: Smoke-Filled Dreams; and Connecticut musician Mick Lawless, who will share his memories of the group and his musical tribute to Michael Nesmith with Loose Salute to Nez.

New Jersey musician Scott Ringle will also join us to share his perspective on the Monkees and their place in the classic pop and rock music of the era.

From “Last Train to Clarksville” and “I’m a Believer” to the group’s deeper catalogue and the distinctive songwriting and musical vision of Michael Nesmith, there’s much more to the Monkees story than television and Beatlemania-era pop.

Mark your calendars for Monday, August 31st, as we celebrate 60 years of Monkees music, memories, and fandom—and get ready for the M60 Convention in Connecticut.

Don’t miss it!

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Monday, August 31st, 2026

🥁 Rich Dart

Rich Dart is a drummer who has provided the backbeat for numerous bands throughout his career and has a special connection to the Monkees story. He toured with The Monkees and continues to perform with Micky Dolenz.

Rich will share some of his experiences performing the music live, working with Micky, and being part of the continuing Monkees legacy as fans prepare to celebrate the group’s 60th anniversary.

📚 Joe Russo

Joe Russo is a longtime Monkees fan, archivist, and pop-culture historian who has assembled an extensive private collection of rare and previously unpublished materials documenting the history of The Monkees.

We’ll discuss his hardcover photo book, The Monkees: Smoke-Filled Dreams: The Unseen Archive of Joe Russo, which opens his remarkable archive to fans. Joe is also the host of The Monkees Pad, a YouTube show and podcast devoted to exploring the group’s music, television history, and cultural legacy through conversations with musicians, authors, historians, and other special guests.

The Monkees Pad on YouTube

🎸 Mick Lawless

Mick Lawless is a Connecticut-based singer-songwriter and musician with a longstanding appreciation for The Monkees and their music.

Mick will share some of his Monkees memories and discuss his particular appreciation for Michael Nesmith, including his work with Loose Salute to Nez, a musical tribute celebrating Nesmith’s songs and distinctive contribution to The Monkees and beyond.

🎤 Scott Ringle

Scott Ringle is a New Jersey singer and musician whose repertoire spans pop and rock favorites from the 1950s, 60s, 70s, and 80s. A former member of the Blue Meanies, Scott continues to perform at local venues, libraries, community events, and private gatherings throughout New Jersey and surrounding areas.

Scott joins us to talk about The Monkees, their music, and the enduring appeal of the songs that helped make them one of the most recognizable groups to emerge from the 1960s.

Scott Ringle on Facebook

Show Topic: Rock Music Spotlight – From 50s Rock & Roll to the Beatles, Garage Rock & The Monkees

This Thursday, August 27th, 2026, we’re back with another Rock Music Spotlight, featuring great music and stories from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. We’ll travel through the golden decades of rock and roll, with a mix of classic rock, pop, folk rock, garage rock, psychedelic sounds, and some of the artists and movements that helped shape popular music.

This week’s four guests give us plenty to talk about. We’ll revisit the excitement surrounding The Beatles and the Fest for Beatles Fans in Chicago, explore the Pacific Northwest rock scene and the remarkable career of former Paul Revere & the Raiders member Jim Valley, and head back into the psychedelic garage-rock era with Peppy Castro, founding member of the Blues Magoos.

We’ll also turn our attention to The Monkees as their 60th anniversary approaches. Peppy Castro will share memories of the 1960s, the Blues Magoos, garage rock, and his appearances at Monkees conventions, while Charles Rosenay will preview the upcoming M60 Convention, celebrating 60 years of The Monkees over Labor Day weekend in North Haven, Connecticut.

From the British Invasion and American garage bands to folk rock, Beatles fandom, Paul Revere & the Raiders, the Blues Magoos, and The Monkees, we have a lot of rock and roll history to cover. Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 27th, and join us for the music, memories, and stories behind some of rock’s most colorful decades. Don’t miss it!

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Thursday, August 27th, 2026

🎥 TVRabbi Doug

Chicago-based TVRabbi Doug is an interviewer and television personality whose work with Chicago and Suburban TV can also be found on YouTube. His interviews cover entertainment, personalities, events, and live music performances throughout the Chicago area.

We’ll talk about his experiences covering rock music and especially the Fest for Beatles Fans in Chicago, where generations of Beatles fans, musicians, authors, collectors, and special guests come together to celebrate the enduring legacy of the Fab Four.

TVRabbi Doug on YouTube

🎸 Jim Valley

Jim Valley is a folk-rock singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and important figure in the history of Pacific Northwest rock and roll. His early career included the Viceroys and Don and the Goodtimes, and he wrote and recorded the Northwest garage-rock favorite “Little Sally Tease.”

In 1966, Jim joined Paul Revere & the Raiders during one of the group’s most successful periods, associated with classics including “Kicks,” “Hungry,” “Good Thing,” “The Great Airplane Strike,” “Ups and Downs,” and “Him or Me – What’s It Gonna Be?” After leaving the Raiders, Jim continued as a solo singer-songwriter before eventually establishing a remarkable second career creating and performing children’s music through his Rainbow Planet project.

We’ll discuss his experiences during the golden age of Northwest rock, his time with Paul Revere & the Raiders, his evolution as a songwriter and performer, and music from his own catalogue, including albums such as Hidden Gems and Toward the Sacred.

jimvalley.com

🎤 Peppy Castro

Peppy Castro is a singer, guitarist, songwriter, and one of the early pioneers of the psychedelic garage-rock era. At just 17 years old, he became a founding member of the legendary Blues Magoos, whose success placed the band at the forefront of the emerging psychedelic rock movement of the 1960s.

Peppy’s career later took him to Broadway in the original production of Hair, while his songwriting has reached far beyond his own recordings, with songs recorded by artists including Diana Ross, KISS, and Cher.

We’ll talk about his memories of the 1960s, the rise of garage and psychedelic rock, his years with the Blues Magoos, and his appearances at Monkees fan conventions, including the M60 celebrations.

peppycastro.com

🎙️ Charles Rosenay

Connecticut-based Charles Rosenay of Liverpool Productions is an entertainer, DJ, producer, author, and tour organizer with decades of experience producing fan events and celebrations centered around classic music and entertainment.

Charles will preview the upcoming M60 Convention, celebrating the 60th anniversary of The Monkees. The event takes place September 4th–6th, 2026, at the Clarion Inn in North Haven, Connecticut, bringing together fans and special guests for a weekend celebrating the music, television history, and enduring cultural legacy of The Monkees.

Show Topic: Classic Rock Bands – The Legendary Sounds of the 60s & 70s

This Monday, August 24th, 2026, we’re turning up the volume for a Classic Rock Bands edition of Rock Music Spotlight, celebrating the groups that helped define the sound of the 1960s and 70s.

From the British Invasion and psychedelic experimentation to blues rock, soft rock, Southern rock, and hard rock, we’ll travel through two extraordinary decades when bands transformed popular music and created some of rock and roll’s most enduring recordings.

We’ll feature legendary British groups including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Cream, Led Zeppelin, and Queen, alongside American favorites such as The Byrds, The Raspberries, ZZ Top, Chicago, The Allman Brothers Band, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and many more.

We’ll also hear the revolutionary guitar-driven sound of The Jimi Hendrix Experience and revisit the powerful 1970s rock of Bad Company.

These bands didn’t all sound alike—and that’s what made the era so remarkable. Some built their music around vocal harmonies and unforgettable melodies, while others pushed amplification, guitar playing, songwriting, and studio production in entirely new directions.

From psychedelic sounds and extended blues improvisations to radio-friendly soft rock and the heavier riffs that helped shape hard rock, the 60s and 70s gave us an extraordinary range of styles that remain at the heart of classic rock radio today.

Whether your favorites came from Liverpool, London, Chicago, California, Texas, or the American South, this show is about the bands, songs, and musicians who made classic rock what it is. Mark your calendars for Monday, August 24th, and join us for two decades of unforgettable rock and roll. Don’t miss it!

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No guest featured for this episode. This special broadcast is dedicated to the Classic Rock Bands of the 1960s and 1970s and the many styles of rock music they helped create, develop, and bring to audiences around the world.

Show Topic: The Beatles Spotlight – Celebrating International Beatleweek in Liverpool

This Thursday, August 20th, 2026, we’re heading back into the extraordinary world of The Beatles with an entire show devoted to the music of the Fab Four.

We’ll celebrate the songs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr while also turning our attention to International Beatleweek in Liverpool, when Beatles fans and performers from around the world come together in the city where it all began.

Our guests reflect just how international the Beatles phenomenon remains more than six decades after Beatlemania swept the world. We’ll meet Beatles performers from Luxembourg, Hungary, Austria, and Scotland, each bringing a different approach to celebrating this remarkable catalogue.

From intimate acoustic interpretations and authentic recreations of the early hits to an ambitious live presentation of the Beatles’ groundbreaking studio years from 1966 through 1970, we’ll explore how musicians continue to bring this music to new generations of fans.

We’ll also return to one of John Lennon’s greatest compositions, “Strawberry Fields Forever.” Spanish Beatles author and researcher J. Adolfo Iglesias will take us back to 1966, when Lennon was in Almería, Spain, filming How I Won the War and began developing the song that would become one of the Beatles’ defining psychedelic masterpieces. It’s another fascinating example of how places and experiences far beyond the recording studio became part of Beatles history.

From Liverpool and the Cavern Club to the experimental studio years and the continuing worldwide community of Beatles musicians and fans, this episode celebrates both the history and the enduring life of the Fab Four’s music.

Mark your calendars for Thursday, August 20th, as we get ready for International Beatleweek with Beatles music, stories, performances, and history. Don’t miss it!

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Thursday, August 20th, 2026

🎸 Guy Noel

Known as GuyNoelBeatles, Guy Noel is a singer-songwriter from Luxembourg and a passionate Beatles tribute artist who brings the music of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr to audiences through intimate acoustic performances.

His interpretations celebrate the songwriting and melodies at the heart of the Beatles catalogue, demonstrating how these timeless songs continue to connect with audiences around the world. We’ll talk with Guy about his passion for the Fab Four, performing their music, and the international community that gathers in Liverpool to celebrate their legacy.

GuyNoelBeatles on Facebook

🎶 Auguszt Bario Band

Representing Hungary and Austria, Auguszt Bario Band celebrates the Beatles with an emphasis on authentic sound, close attention to musical detail, and, above all, the sheer enjoyment of performing the Fab Four’s music.

The group was invited to perform during International Beatleweek in Liverpool in 2023, including appearances at the legendary Cavern Club.

Their live repertoire travels through the Beatles years with favorites including “From Me to You,” “I Want to Hold Your Hand,” “Nowhere Man,” “Yesterday,” “Get Back,” and “Hey Jude,” alongside selections for dedicated Beatles fans who know the catalogue inside and out.

beatlescover.eu

🎻 Across the Universe

Scotland’s Across the Universe takes on one of the most ambitious challenges in Beatles performance: recreating the extraordinary music of the band’s 1966–1970 studio years with a live band and orchestra.

This period produced some of the most innovative recordings in popular music history, as the Beatles transformed the studio itself into a creative instrument and experimented with new recording techniques, instrumentation, arrangements, and musical genres. Many of these recordings were never designed to be performed onstage, making Across the Universe’s live interpretation of this era an especially fascinating celebration of the Beatles’ musical innovation.

acrosstheuniverse6670.com

📚 J. Adolfo Iglesias

Spanish Beatles author and researcher J. Adolfo Iglesias joins us to explore the remarkable Spanish origins of one of John Lennon’s most celebrated compositions, “Strawberry Fields Forever.”

We’ll travel back to Almería, Spain, in 1966, where Lennon was working on Richard Lester’s film How I Won the War. During his time there, Lennon began developing the song inspired by his childhood memories of Strawberry Field in Liverpool.

J. Adolfo Iglesias will discuss his research into this important period and how Lennon’s experiences in Spain became intertwined with the creation of a recording that would help define the Beatles’ psychedelic era.

Show Topic: Beatles Solo Years – John, Paul, George & Ringo Beyond the Fab Four

This Monday, August 17th, 2026, we’re continuing our Beatles journey by exploring what happened after the Fab Four went their separate ways.

Beatles Solo Years celebrates the remarkable individual careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, with music from the 1970s and beyond that proved the end of The Beatles was also the beginning of four very different musical stories.

We’ll follow John Lennon from the raw and deeply personal Plastic Ono Band period through his years in New York, with memorable recordings including “Instant Karma!,” “Imagine,” “Jealous Guy,” “(Just Like) Starting Over,” and “Woman.”

We’ll revisit Paul McCartney as he established himself as a solo artist and then formed Wings, producing classics such as “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “Live and Let Die,” “Band on the Run,” “Silly Love Songs,” and “Coming Up.”

We’ll also celebrate George Harrison, whose landmark 1970 triple album All Things Must Pass and worldwide hit “My Sweet Lord” established him immediately as a major solo artist.

His extraordinary post-Beatles story would include The Concert for Bangladesh, a prolific recording career, and eventually the Traveling Wilburys alongside Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne.

And we won’t forget Ringo Starr, whose solo career brought us favorites including “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Photograph,” along with decades of recording and live performances.

Joining me once again is multi-instrumentalist Tommy Montalbano, who performs vocals, guitar, and keyboards in the new Beatles tribute production Beyond the Beatles: The Solo Years.

We’ll talk about how the show brings the four individual musical journeys together through iconic hits, deeper album cuts, cinematic visuals, audience interaction, and a full live production.

Mark your calendars as we go beyond The Beatles and rediscover the extraordinary music John, Paul, George, and Ringo created on their own. Don’t miss it!

 

Guest(s) for our show:

Date: Monday, August 17th, 2026

🎹 Tommy Montalbano

Returning to the show is Tommy Montalbano, a multi-instrumentalist performing vocals, guitar, and keyboards in the new Beatles tribute production Beyond the Beatles: The Solo Years.

Rather than recreating a single period in Beatles history, Beyond the Beatles: The Solo Years explores the extraordinary individual careers of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr after the breakup of The Beatles.

The theatrical music experience brings their four musical journeys together through famous solo hits, deep cuts, cinematic visuals, audience interaction, and the excitement of a full live production.

Tommy will discuss the concept behind the show, the challenge of bringing such a diverse collection of post-Beatles music to the stage, and how the production celebrates the distinctive musical personalities of all four former Beatles while reconnecting their individual stories.

beyondthebeatles.com

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