We’re Baaack….

And no, we haven’t aged that much. (At least not Erin.) Erin and I are happy to announce the relaunch of our podcast on September 23, with a discussion of Peter Jackson’s Get Back. We intend to link future podcasts here because a) Spotify, our new platform, doesn’t allow for commentary, and b) we want to hear from you!

Stay tuned.

15 thoughts on “We’re Baaack….”

  10. Baboomska McGeesk says:
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    Welcome back!

    I’d love to know what McCartney makes of this latest news. Wenner’s gatekeeping empire was dismissive (and sometimes insulting) to women artists, and lots of Black performers were marginalized because Jann found them uninteresting. It reminds me of the “progressive” rock radio station I used to hear in the 1970s.

    Jann Wenner, the co-founder of Rolling Stone magazine, has been removed from the board of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which he also helped found, one day after an interview with him was published in The New York Times in which he made comments that were widely criticized as sexist and racist.

    The foundation — which inducts artists into the hall of fame and was the organization behind the creation of its affiliated museum in Cleveland — made the announcement in a brief statement released Saturday.

    “Jann Wenner has been removed from the board of directors of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Foundation,” the statement said. Joel Peresman, the president and chief executive of the foundation, declined to comment further when reached by phone.

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    • Erin says:
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      The Wenner interview/fallout was certainly interesting. That Wenner held those views was completely unsurprising (Joe Hagan’s excellent biography of Wenner makes it clear that Wenner’s fanboy preferences — which included a massive lack of ethnic, racial and musical diversity — and transactional relationships with artists significantly dictated the coverage of his magazine). What’s more interesting to me is that Wenner continued to publicly espouse these comments after he’d been overtly criticized for them by Hagan, and was aware of and felt stung by Hagan’s criticisms.

      It’s one thing to mess up. It’s another thing to mess up, repeatedly, and deliberately, over the decades. It’s still another to be publicly called out and criticized for your errors by your biographer and, years later, demonstrate that you refuse to acknowledge that criticism, digging yourself a rhetorical hole in the process. Wenner didn’t even attempt to paint a false veneer in the interview that ultimately got him removed.

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  11. Erin says:
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    Thanks to everyone who responded to this announcement, and to everyone else, commenting or not, who is pleased to hear the news that our hiatus is ending.

    The primary health issue in my extended family that required my hiatus is not entirely resolved; however, it has eased to the extent that I now have some time and opportunity to starting delving back into Beatles scholarship and this blog. Karen and I hope to resume a roughly monthly schedule of podcasts/reviews, and there are other discussions/interviews either in the pipeline or that I’ve already done and simply need to post here on our page!

    I’m genuinely looking forward to exploring the nuances of Beatles history and historiography once again and corresponding with our posters and commenters. We may take a little time to get back into gear, but we hope to get back (pun not intended: I didn’t even think about it until I’d typed it out) to the discussions we so enjoyed with all of you.

    Thanks,
    Erin

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  12. Baboomska McGeesk says:
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    My wife and I were watching The Price Is Right (as senior citizens do) and I was startled when one of the prizes was a trip to the “John and Yoko Suite” where J&Y did their famous bed-in for peace.

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