Fans On The Run: A Podcast Made By, For And About Beatles Fans
Created and hosted by Ethan Alexanian.
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Friday Jan 24, 2025
Friday Jan 24, 2025
It's time for another episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is another fellow young-er Beatle fan, musician/influencer Mary Devlin! (aka @beatledirt)
We cover a lot, including making friends on The Beatles' Facebook page back in the day, posing out front of the Apple store with the Beatle standees when they went to iTunes, Ethan's "Now And Then" Abbey Road Studios story, the evolution of online Beatles fandom, Pattie Boyd's everlasting style, another round of praising "Revolver", the existential dread of being "cringe", drawing a gap in your teeth on with makeup, and so much more!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
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Friday Jan 03, 2025
Friday Jan 03, 2025
Welcome back to one of the Beatle podcasts of all time, Fans On The Run! Would it really be FoTR without an unexplained months-long episode delay? (School, that's the explanation)
Joining me today is somebody who influenced me as a young(er) fan back when she was a part of the YouTube fan-collab-channel "The Beatle Submarine". She has come out of "retirement" to appear on this very show and talk with yours truly, give a big FoTR welcome to Karen Castro!
We talk about nearly everything, including the path that led to this very episode, "gameifying" the official Beatles website, a new honourable term for somebody who pirates music, falling in love with The Beatles' music on a broken set of speakers, the trials and tribulations of being a teenage content creator, the popularity of rock 'n' roll in Latin & South America, the horns on 'Savoy Truffle', yet another rant about the booklet from the 'Magical Mystery Tour' LP, the 2023 'Red' and 'Blue' remixes, general Gen-Z shenanigans, and a new fourth-wall-shattering record for most asides to you, the listener!
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Friday Aug 30, 2024
Friday Aug 30, 2024
Dear Beatle People, it's time for a very fab, gear, and overall special episode of Fans On The Run: The Podcast Made By, For, And About Beatles Fans!
Today's episode has been a long time coming, but as they say, "good things come to those who wait". Our guest today was a member of The Beatles inner circle, in various roles for ten whole years, from 1962 to 1972. From the Cavern Club and the early days with Brian Epstein, to the Magical Mystery Tour of the days of Apple Corps. Please give a big Fans On The Run welcome to Freda Kelly!
This is a very special episode, so you won't want to miss it!
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Friday Aug 23, 2024
Friday Aug 23, 2024
It's time for a new episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is a true one-of-a-kind musical talent, sometimes he's under the alias of "Chissum Worthington", but today's he's just Mike Schnee!
In a wide ranging chat, we talk The Lemon Twigs, One Hand Clapping, Mike's system of identifying Beatle albums before he could read, The White Album at Christmas '68, the genesis of Chissum Worthington, the similarities to some Beatle album-track-bookends, "The Beatles: An Illustrated Record", seeing the Magical Mystery Tour film at a "revival theatre", the strange reality of The Beatles playing Baby's In Black live, and a new jingle for the show!
With all that AND more? You won't wanna miss it!
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https://wormstew.bandcamp.com/https://www.youtube.com/@chissumworthington
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Friday Aug 16, 2024
Friday Aug 16, 2024
It's time for new, vibrant, colourful (well, as colourful as an audio-only-podcast can be) episode of Fans On The Run!
Joining me on today's show is Brooklyn artist, silent-film-enthusiast, Saturday Night Live graphic-design-alumni, counterculture Xerox artist and personal friend - Marlene Weisman!
We talk "Sprockets", the first and only album from The Fool, Keith Haring, a private Paul McCartney concert at the Saturday Night Live studios, Mary Quant, Mary Quant knockoffs in the windows of New York department stores, the let-down of the real Carnaby Street, Richard Hamilton's designs for the White Album, the "computer room" of the NBC Art Department, Ben Weisman (Marlene's songwriter cousin), and the pop-art genius of Peter Blake.
All that and more; you won't want to miss it!
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Keep up with Marlene:https://www.marleneweismandesign.com/
https://www.marleneweisman.com/
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Friday Jul 12, 2024
Friday Jul 12, 2024
It is in fact, time for the new episode of Fans On The Run! The show made by, for, and about Beatles fans - and today we lean into fandom as our guest today quite literally "wrote the book" on Beatles fandom. He's the author of "The Beatles and Fandom: Sex, Death and Progressive Nostalgia", Dr. Richard Mills!
Besides sex, death and progressive nostalgia, we talk about "The Grey Album" by Danger Mouse, applying Freudian psychological concepts to The Beatles Monthly, the hopes and fears around A.I., The Beatles in the internet age, a fourth-wall break in the "Free As A Bird" music video, capitalism, electricity, pondering what John Lennon would think of modern Beatles books, and much, much more!
All that and more? You won't wanna miss it!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Richard:https://x.com/runkerryhttps://www.instagram.com/drrichardmills/
Get "The Beatles and Fandom":https://www.bloomsbury.com/beatles-and-fandom-9781501346644/
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Friday Jun 14, 2024
Friday Jun 14, 2024
It’s time for another far-out, cosmic episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is the former co-host of fellow-pod Nothing Is Real, Steven Cockcroft!
In this conversational trip around the astral planes, we talk about the booklet that came with the Magical Mystery Tour album, the good and bad of the Moog synthesizer on Abbey Road, the feeling of retribution when a favourite song becomes very popular, why the White Album should have been three discs, Mark Lewisohn, bending the rules of the “desert-island picks” scenario, the most polite protest song of all time, and the perfect sentiment for the chaotic world we find ourselves in: what would Donovan do?
You will not want to miss this!
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Listen back to Nothing Is Real:https://www.nothingisrealpod.com/podcast-links
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Friday May 31, 2024
Friday May 31, 2024
It’s time to spin a new episode of Fans On The Run! My guest for today is social-media content-creator, and fellow record-collector, Vinyl Benjy!
We talk about export pressings, the “olden days” of buying CDs at Best Buy, the best deals we’ve found record shopping, the effect of certain YouTubers on record prices, whether to recommend Let It Be or Get Back to new Beatles fans, Freda Kelly, The Monkees, vinyl cuttings, why we collect so many copies of the same album, and the least effective game of show-and-tell ever recorded! All of that, AND more!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Benjy:https://www.instagram.com/vinylbenjy/
https://www.tiktok.com/@vinylbenjy
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Friday Mar 29, 2024
Friday Mar 29, 2024
It's time for another episode of Fans On The Run, the "raccoon in the garbage bin" of Beatle podcasts!
Joining me today (technically it was a while ago, but today is when it is posted!) is one of the co-hosts of fellow pod 'Another Kind Of Mind', Phoebe Lorde!
In this wide-ranging chat we discuss the genesis of AKOM, the 1987 documentary "It Was Twenty Years Ago Today", A Beatle book neither of us know the name of, why the term "granny music" needs to die, The Beatles' covers of songs by the girl-groups, the "too many cooks" situation at Capitol Records circa 1965, and a certain denim-outerwear related phrase. All that AND more!
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Keep up with Phoebe and Another Kind Of Mindhttps://anotherkindofmind.com/
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Friday Jan 26, 2024
Friday Jan 26, 2024
It's once again time (about time!) for another episode of Fans On The Run!
Joining me today is my friend, and the host of "Mixology: The Mono/Stereo Differences Podcast", Frederick French-Pounce!
In what turned out to be the longest gap between recording a show, and posting it, this episode covers everything from the pros/cons of records made in the US/UK, Cilla Black's 1969 single "Surround Yourself With Sorrow", the YouTube videos on The Beatles that captured our imaginations, a Kinks album with no lead vocals, the vinyl resurgence, the rumours about a "potential reissue of the '1962-1966' and '1967-1970' albums" and much, much more! In fact, so much more, that from time to time, the spooky voices of future-Ethan and future-Fred reflect on stuff that happened between when we recorded the show, and now!
You will NOT want to miss this!
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Keep up with Fred and Mixology:https://linktr.ee/backtomono
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