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Beatles News Briefs

Beatles News Briefs

Written by: Steve Marinucci
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The latest Beatles news and most informative, thought-provoking talk from veteran pioneer Beatles reporter Steve Marinucci, the founder of Abbeyrd’s Beatles Page, the first true Beatles news website online in 1995. Our show focuses on topical Beatles subjects and news that fans are talking about. A frequent guest on our show is the distinguished author Candy Leonard, author of ”Beatleness: How The Beatles and their Fans Remade the World,” an acclaimed book on Beatle history and fandom. Join our pages on Facebook -- Beatles News And Information and Beatles News Briefs - The Podcast and FOLLOW US! Send your comments, suggestions and questions for the show to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you. You can see and hear all of our shows, both video and audio, at Beatles News Briefs - Steve Marinucci's Archive.

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  • #112 - Author Madeline Bocaro reviews Yoko Ono's life and her legacy for her 93rd birthday

    #112 - Author Madeline Bocaro reviews Yoko Ono's life and her legacy for her 93rd birthday
    Feb 18 2026

    Author Madeline Bocaro, author of the Yoko Ono biography "In My Mind: The Infinite Universe of Yoko Ono," talks with veteran Beatles reporter Steve Marinucci as they celebrate Yoko's 93rd birthday on Feb. 18, 2026, and discuss what, despite the criticism and negative press she has received in the past, what her legacy should look like in Beatles history. And make no mistake about it -- it looks to be a bright one.

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page. CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you! NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to. Send your suggestions to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com and we may use them to add to the playlist.
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    39 mins
  • #111 - Imagining All the People - An interview with author and poet Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley

    #111 - Imagining All the People - An interview with author and poet Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley
    Jan 29 2026

    Imagine if the people in the Beatles' songs were real? That's what author Marcus Benjamin Ray Bradley's new book, "Imagining All the People" is all about -- a poetic re-telling of the people imagined in the lyrics of the Beatles in their songs. Bradley discusses the idea behind the book, the cooperative effort that put it together and his work in writing it. It's a geeky idea that takes the Beatles' songs places you'd never thought they'd go. Plus we have some late-breaking Beatles News Briefs. Have a listen! (You can find a video version on YouTube.)

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page. CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you! NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to. Send your suggestions to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com and we may use them to add to the playlist.
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    45 mins
  • #110 - Piers Hemmingsen on the new ”The Beatles in Canada (Blue Book)” and Beatlemania in Canada

    #110 - Piers Hemmingsen on the new ”The Beatles in Canada (Blue Book)” and Beatlemania in Canada
    Jan 8 2026

    Canadian Beatles history authority Piers Hemmingsen and host Steve Marinucci discuss the recently published Blue Book volume of his "The Beatles In Canada" series and some of the ways that Beatlemania in Canada differed from America. We also talk about the unreleased Beatles '65 Toronto soundboard.

    Among the other things we discuss are the Canadian Broadcasting Company's archival show "How the Beatles Changed the World." You can hear it here: How the Beatles Changed the World | CBC.ca Another program that Piers and I discuss is this short report on the Sgt. Pepper album. And there's a third CBC program we found, this one from Oct. 4, 1964, called Beatlemania Takes Toronto in 1964.

    (Note: This video version of our podcast is our first one and somewhat of an experiment. Let us know what you think at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. The video version of the podcast is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/B8IStqFy4UA. The audio version is available in all the usual places where you get your podcasts.

    #Beatles #Beatlemania #PiersHemmingsen #Canada #JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney #GeorgeHarrison #RingoStarr @followers

    --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page. CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you! NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to. Send your suggestions to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com and we may use them to add to the playlist.
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    1 hr and 3 mins
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