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Episode #19 – ‘Hamburg Spring ’62 – Lennon’s Original Lost Weekend’
Episode #19 – ‘Hamburg Spring ’62 – Lennon’s Original Lost Weekend’
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Length:
20 minutes
Released:
Sep 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Just over a decade before his ‘Lost Weekend’ in L.A., John had a full dress rehearsal during The Beatles’ third stint in Hamburg. It was April 1962, his friend and former bandmate Stu Sutcliffe had just died from a brain hemorrhage at age 21 and Lennon went off the rails – much as he would after separating from Yoko in ’73. Some episodes have acquired mythical status – and been embellished courtesy of numerous retellings. Yet, the truth still outstrips the legend.
Here was Lennon unleashed – Lennon the rocker, Lennon the madman, onstage and off, dealing with grief and loss in his habitually loving, cruel, hilarious, hysterical, sometimes violent way. And helping us to paint that multicoloured, multilayered picture is Mark Lewisohn, reading passages from his unrivalled The Beatles: All These Years – Tune In.
The music:
Too Much Monkey Business
I’m Talking About You
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
I Just Don’t Understand
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Ain’t She Sweet
Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
I Got a Woman
Soldier of Love
Sweet Little Sixteen
You should’a been there!
Here was Lennon unleashed – Lennon the rocker, Lennon the madman, onstage and off, dealing with grief and loss in his habitually loving, cruel, hilarious, hysterical, sometimes violent way. And helping us to paint that multicoloured, multilayered picture is Mark Lewisohn, reading passages from his unrivalled The Beatles: All These Years – Tune In.
The music:
Too Much Monkey Business
I’m Talking About You
I’m Gonna Sit Right Down and Cry (Over You)
I Just Don’t Understand
A Shot of Rhythm and Blues
Ain’t She Sweet
Lonesome Tears in My Eyes
I Got a Woman
Soldier of Love
Sweet Little Sixteen
You should’a been there!
Released:
Sep 26, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (80)
Episode #16 – ‘She Loves You—Anatomy of a Song’: Such was the growing British interest surrounding The Beatles by mid-1963 that, on 1st July, fans gathered outside the EMI Studios on Abbey Road where the group was recording both sides of its next single: ‘She Loves You’ and ‘I’ll Get You’. by The Beatles Naked