May 25, 2020
So an idea came up: who would SATB like to talk to in
Beatle world and sit down for an interview? Qualifications: first,
they have to be among the living (as of this taping); Second, they
have to be completely honest and not fall back on deflection or
"professional Beatle fan" chatter: stories they've entertained with
for years that may or may not be factually accurate. Last, they
have to be people on the inside who have either not told their
stories at all or not told them to death.
Though mortality hangs over us all, there are still folks out
there who, to the best of my knowledge, range to speaking on record
only sparingly or not at all; have written books,
but if we discussed them here, it's because their books didn't go
deep enough or raised more
questions.)
Joining in the conversation is a returning guest (182 and
188), retired academic Gary Wenstrup. He came up with his list, I
came up with mine, and together we covered as much ground as we
could in this, the first of a two-parter (at
least).