The Beatles Review of History

Julian Zelizer recommends: 'Personal Politics' by Sara Evans (1979).

In the early 1970s, John Lennon noticed that women were conspicuously absent from the meetings he had with the underground folks.

Aug 5 • 

Rob Geurtsen

Confessions from a ‘Beatles book mad’ (2)

Text, I love you.

Aug 1 • 

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July 2025

Paradoxes from a ‘Beatles book mad’ (1)

The risk of orthodoxy in The Beatles experience

Jul 30 • 

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$ 895 for a nose bleed ticket at McCartney’s ‘Got Back’ tour in the USA? #2

Joe Mayo doesn't like that a lot of people complain on 'his' channel

Jul 20 • 

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$ 45.000 for a front-row ticket at McCartney’s Got Back tour in the USA?

Tom Hunyady says ‘don’t complain’.

Jul 17 • 

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June 2025

Global Inequality: Branko Milanovic

Talking with the guy down the hall

Published on Paul Krugman • Jun 14

Count me out/in

See you on June 14th 2025?

Jun 3 • 

Rob Geurtsen

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May 2025

'I look forward to their lazy, ride-hitching arses returning to the pits of intellectual and linguistic mediocrity from whence they came'

Eimear McBride on prose style

Published on Auraist. The best writers on Substack. • May 25

December 2024

Studying ‘Blackbird’, part 3.b

Disdain?

Dec 30, 2024 • 

Rob Geurtsen

November 2024

Studying ‘Blackbird’, by Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith, part 3.a

N sinnii be

Nov 19, 2024 • 

Rob Geurtsen

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Experiencing ‘Blackbird’, by Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith, part 2

The Blackbirds crying in the dead of the night.

Nov 8, 2024 • 

Rob Geurtsen

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Reviewing 'Blackbird - How Black musicians sang The Beatles into being-and sang back to them ever after' by Katie Kapurch and Jon Marc Smith…

Ray Charles in Newport 1958.

Nov 1, 2024 • 

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