BWTB #8 - My 1980 Victor Spinetti interview

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BWTB #8 - My 1980 Victor Spinetti interview

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Jul 16, 2022

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A few minutes from the 8th ‘Buskin with The Beatles’ episode - ‘Victor Spinetti: The Man Who Could make the Clouds Disappear’ - featuring the first interview I ever conducted, never heard by anyone but me until now.

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Jul 16, 2022

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The ultimate Beatles podcast: Deep research, unconventional topics, probing interviews and hard-hitting info that doesn't pull any punches. Hosted by Erik Taros and Richard Buskin.

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Episode #1: 'John Lennon's White Album': Who else but The Beatles could produce multiple landmark albums within a landmark album? While A Hard Day’s Night was the only Fab Four long player to be penned solely by Lennon and McCartney, the ‘White Album’ can be enjoyed and analyzed as either a c... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #11: ‘White Heaven – Reviewing The Beatles Super Deluxe 50th Anniversary Edition’: A remixed White Album, the complete stereo Esher Demos, a wide array of high-quality, previously unheard outtakes… and the album in 5.1 surround. Need we say more? Actually, we do, according this historic release the attention and analysis it so richly... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #3: ‘George & Ringo’s White Album’: In this final installment of the STTS ‘White Album’ trilogy, Erik and Richard team up with musician Craig Bartock and musicologist Allan Kozinn to discuss the contributions by The Beatles’ lead guitarist and drummer – as well as what might have been in... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #6: 'Beatles U.S. vs. Beatles U.K.’: Back in the 1960s, courtesy of Capitol Records executive Dave Dexter, Jr., American Beatles fans bought different records and often heard very different mixes to those enjoyed by their British counterparts: ones bathed in reverb and converted into fake... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #13 – ‘Multicoloured Mirrors – The Beatles Christmas Records’: At the suggestion of press officer Tony Barrow, The Beatles ended their first year of national fame by thanking the members of their UK fan club with a flexi-disc single containing a specially recorded Christmas message. by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #25 – ‘Help! - The Beatles’ Seminal Pop/Pot Movie’: The Fab Four’s second film, shot in vivid colour, captured a very different group demeanor to that in A Hard Day’s Night. For that first effort they’d been pumped up on pills; this time around, they were laid back on the “herbal jazz cigarettes”. by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #4: 'The Profumo Affair - Sex, Lies... and Beatlemania': Pimps, drug dealers, call girls, kinky orgies involving members of the ruling class, a government minister sharing a mistress with a Russian spy, a suicide… and the Prime Minister’s resignation. This was the scandal that rocked Britain in 1963—along wi... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #7: ‘Jesus and the Mob – The Beatles in the Windy City’: The Beatles played five shows in Chicago between 1964 and 1966—more than any other American city—and there was no little drama: from the total hysteria of their first gig at the International Amphitheater and staying at a Mob-run hotel during their sec... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #12: ‘'The Lennon and McCartney White Albums' (live at Monmouth University): This is a new phase STTS episode… Essential to the concept of the ‘International White Album Symposium’ at Monmouth University, New Jersey, was that we recorded the show in front of an audience, revisiting and merging the much-discussed topics of Epis... by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #5: 'The Trip: from Rubber Soul to Revolver - How LSD Impacted The Beatles'.: "I don't see too much difference between Rubber Soul and Revolver," George said in the 'Beatles Anthology' documentary. "To me, they could be Volume One and Volume Two." Many might think he should have paired Revolver with Sgt. Pepper. But, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #24 – ‘Walking on Thin Ice – Did Yoko Really Help to Break Up The Beatles?’: 50 years after The Beatles’ demise, Yoko Ono is still portrayed online and by the media as the quintessential witch who broke up a famous relationship and ruined a great thing. But did she really earn this reputation? And, if not, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #10: ‘Geoff Emerick – Channeling The Beatles’ Creativity’: A tribute to the recording engineer whose in-studio innovations helped shape The Beatles’ sound—and alter the course of popular music. Geoffrey Emerick (born 5th December 1945, died 2nd October 2018) was just 16-years-old when, on 6th June 1962, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #29 – ‘Paul McCartney’s Vocal Journey’: It’s one of the greatest rock voices of all time: alternately melodic, raw, sweet and supercharged while also extremely versatile and infused with different characters. Paul McCartney’s lead, harmony and backing vocals have graced tender ballads, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #22 – ‘Leaving the Material World – The Last Years of George Harrison’: Physically fighting cancer and a crazed attacker while mentally preparing for his transition to the next phase of his spiritual journey, the youngest Beatle navigated the last stage of his earthly existence with characteristic faith, bravery… and humour. by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #30 – ‘It’s All Too Much - David Stark, the Beatles Zelig’: Sitting directly behind—and chatting with—The Beatles at the Yellow Submarine premiere, also gatecrashing that for The Magic Christian, photographed behind John and Yoko walking into court following their pot bust, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #32 – ‘Girl – Anatomy of a Song’: Lennon the storyteller, the cynic, the victim—of his own insecurities and desires, controlled by the woman of his dreams…and nightmares. The last song recorded for The Beatles’ Rubber Soul album, ‘Girl’ is one of its main composer’s most intriguing, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #9: ‘The Beatles – Politically (In)Correct’: The cripple impersonations, the Nazi salutes, the MBEs (received and returned), the groupies, the ‘Butcher cover’, the ‘bigger than Jesus’ controversy, the drugs, the love anthem, the naked album cover, the politically-charged lyrics, the peace campaign, by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #40 – ‘Stu Sutcliffe – The Abstract Beatle’: The Beatles’ diminutive co-founder, man of mystery, king of cool, abstract artist, fragile angel, tragic hero. Stuart Sutcliffe’s short life has been well documented, based on the recollections of some who knew him. by The Beatles Naked
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Episode #26 - 'Some Other Guys – The Beatlesque Recordings': There have been fakers and imitators, tributes and rip-offs, but no one sounds like The Beatles on record—including the ex-Beatles. Nevertheless, some efforts have come closer than others, the most successful being those that have managed to capture th... by The Beatles Naked
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BWTB #8 - My 1980 Victor Spinetti interview

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