Fans On The Run: A Podcast Made By, For And About Beatles Fans
Created and hosted by Ethan Alexanian.
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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!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
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
https://www.facebook.com/vinylbenjy
https://www.youtube.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!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
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!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Fred and Mixology:https://linktr.ee/backtomono
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Friday Jan 12, 2024
Friday Jan 12, 2024
We've re-arrived, and to prove it we're here - it's finally time for a new episode of Fans On The Run!
Joining me for the first episode of the new run, is a New Orleans musician, and the co-host of the popular pod "Ranking The Beatles", Jonathan Pretus!
We talk about the "Tomorrow Never Knows" segment of The Compleat Beatles, the curation of vault of Beatle outtakes, the brief coexistence of the UK and US configurations of the catalog on different formats, the good and bad sides of AI generated "new Beatles songs", the eternal wisdom of Mike Love and Donovan, and how John Lennon "blew the load too early" with a track from Beatles For Sale.
All this and more, this is an episode not to be missed!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Jonathan and Ranking The Beatles:https://linktr.ee/rankingthebeatles
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Friday Sep 22, 2023
Friday Sep 22, 2023
It’s time for a very, very special episode of Fans On The Run. Special guest co-host, Piers Hemmingsen, joins me in sitting down for a rare podcast interview with the celebrated, bestselling author behind the 1968 authorized biography of The Beatles, Hunter Davies OBE. This episode is not one you’ll want to miss!
This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Piers:
http://www.thebeatlesincanada.com/
https://twitter.com/beatlesincanada
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
It's Friday, so once again, it's time for a new episode of Fans On The Run! Joining me today is content-creator and the current holder of the title "CEO of Beatles TikTok", Brooke Bellamy!
We covered a lot of ground, including "Beatles gossip", the Microsoft Zune, Michael Jackson's Moonwalker for the Sega Genesis, an explanation and demonstration of a "hot take", the absolute chaos of Paul McCartney's life, and a possible connection between "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" and Fraggle Rock!
All this and more? You won't want to miss it! This episode is available to stream wherever good podcasts can be heard!
Keep up with Brooke:https://linktr.ee/perhapsbrooke
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
It's time for my second "comeback show" of the year, which means it's time for a return to Fans On The Run! Joining me today is longtime member of tribute group Them Beatles, and the man behind The Poppermost, Joe Kane!
Our conversation included, but was not limited to, poorly-copied cassettes dubbed from 45s, Brian Matthews impressions, Lucozade, Sgt. Pepper costumes, tribute bands, the naming of an album, drum microphones, Vox amps, the reign of King Charles III, and of course, those loveable Beatles.
All this and more? You won't want to miss it!
Keep up with Joe and The Poppermost:https://linktr.ee/ThePoppermost
The Poppermost's recordings can be found athttps://thepoppermost.bandcamp.com/
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Excerpts of the song "Hits To Spare" by The Poppermost appear courtesy of Joe Kane and The Poppermost.
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Friday Jan 13, 2023
Subtitle - "The Semi-Grand Return"
What is this? It's the return of Fans On The Run! Joining me for this "grand return" are the four co-hosts of pod-friends-of-the-show Blotto Beatles! Crack open a cold one if you wish, as we talk about Anthology, the cultural re-evaulation of John Lennon, cheap books, blueberry cobbler, and of course, The Beatles.
Keep up with Blotto Beatles:https://linktr.ee/blottobeatles
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