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Shorts: Celluloid Heroes
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Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Welcome back to Rock N Roll Archaeology! Got another RNRA Short Podcast for you. This one is named after the Kinks song “Celluloid Heroes.”
Rock N Roll goes to the movies (and television) in this one. We’ll take a look at three shows that feature fictional Rock bands: the movies “Almost Famous” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” and the television miniseries “Daisy Jones & The Six.”
Visit our website for more about this and all our other podcast episodes, and for links to our Patreon and Social Media. Keep up the Rockin’!
Dramatis Personae
Kellen Reiche played Danny Failson
Lynly Ehrlich played Liz Limer
Jerry Danielsen played Joe Conrad
Courtney M. Anderson played Heller Joseph
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Rock N Roll goes to the movies (and television) in this one. We’ll take a look at three shows that feature fictional Rock bands: the movies “Almost Famous” and “This Is Spinal Tap,” and the television miniseries “Daisy Jones & The Six.”
Visit our website for more about this and all our other podcast episodes, and for links to our Patreon and Social Media. Keep up the Rockin’!
Dramatis Personae
Kellen Reiche played Danny Failson
Lynly Ehrlich played Liz Limer
Jerry Danielsen played Joe Conrad
Courtney M. Anderson played Heller Joseph
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Released:
Aug 21, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (34)
Episode 7: Meet The Beatles Part 1: Arrival: we begin the show on February 7th, 1964, in the first-class cabin aboard Pan American Airlines Flight 101 from London to New York City. It’s a raucous, party atmosphere, but John Lennon, for a moment anyway, feels alone in a crowd. A door opens, pandemonium ensues, and a new era arrives. Some housekeeping, and we move on to the Soho District, West London, and lay some foundation for today’s story—and for future discussions. Then we pull back a bit, and look at some of the political, economic, and cultural forces at play in 1950s England. We then move on to Liverpool, late 1950s, and meet John Lennon and Paul McCartney, before they was fab. Then we pull back once again, and talk about alchemy and catalysts—and about a shared bond of shared loss. One catalyst comes in the form of a person: Paul’s school chum George Harrison, the baddest young guitar-slinger in Liverpool. John, Paul and George settle in together in the spring of 1958, and b by Rock N Roll Archaeology