SUMMARY: In our final episode of Fine Tuning, we summarize our conclusions, respond to listener feedback, issue corrections, share our hopes and fears for future books and offer our thoughts and predictions on the future of Beatles scholarship.

Fine Tuning: Ep 10 Unseen Paul

Dec 31st, 2023 2h 30m

SUMMARYUnseen Paul builds on our earlier episodes by sharing even more quotes, stories, and insights about young Paul McCartney, who deserves a nuanced and dynamic portrait in any Beatles biography. We explore some of his more overlooked ch

Fine Tuning: Ep 9 WTF?

Dec 13th, 2023 2h 7m

SUMMARY: In our 9th episode, we tackle a handful of loose ends from Tune In and pose the question: WTF?Why The Farting?Where's Talented Friend?Washboard To FenderWeird, Those Fruits!Women-Type FansWhores They F*cked?Wow, That's Fabricat

May in December: AKOM Talks w/ May Pang Pt. 2

Dec 8th, 2023 25m 54s

SYNOPSIS: In her second appearance on AKOM, May Pang talks with Phoebe about Yoko enlisting Paul’s help during the Lost Weekend, John & Yoko’s Tittenhurst Safe Room, The (not) Malibu Dream House and Primal Therapy.The Lost Weekend: A Love St

Fine Tuning: Ep 8 No Greater Buddy

Dec 6th, 2023 1h 42m

SYNOPSIS: No Greater Buddy examines how Tune In handles the naughty behavior of its resident Bad Boy, John Lennon. This is a study of Lewisohn’s coverage of John’s bad behavior (rather than the behavior itself).PLAYLISTBad Boy LARRY WILLIAMS

Fine Tuning: Ep 7 Spanner in the Works

Nov 29th, 2023 2h 33m

SYNOPSIS: Spanner in the Works shows how Paul is portrayed as uniquely difficult to manage and unjustifiably obstructive, even to the point of sabotaging the band. We use Tune In’s reporting of the early friction between Paul and Brian Epstein

The Fifth Beatle: AKOM Talks w/ Vivek Tiwary

Nov 22nd, 2023 1h 1m

SYNOPSIS: Phoebe talks with Vivek Tiwary, author of “The Fifth Beatle: The Brian Epstein Story,” a graphic novel celebrating its 10th Anniversary with a new edition!https://thefifthbeatle.com/graphic-novel/https://twitter.com/fifthbeatlehtt

Fine Tuning: Ep 6 A Prolonged Jealousy

Nov 17th, 2023 2h 56m

SYNOPSIS: In A Prolonged Jealousy, we tackle one of Tune In’s main talking points: that Paul McCartney is a fundamentally jealous person whose obsessive, one-sided jealousy of and over John Lennon was brought to a boil by the presence of Stuart

The Mal Evans Story: AKOM Talks w/ Ken Womack

Nov 10th, 2023 1h 4m

SYNOPSIS: Phoebe Lorde and Allison Bumsted talk with Kenneth Womack about “LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND: the Mal Evans Story.”We discuss several of the amazing topics raised in this wonderful book; Elvis, cowboys, Allen Klein being horrible, the

Fine Tuning: Ep 5 Leader Lennon

Nov 8th, 2023 2h 41m

SUMMARY: Leader Lennon examines Tune In's major thesis, that John Lennon was and is the leader and implicit owner of The Beatles forever. We take a hard look at Tune In’s obvious affection for hierarchy and dominance and how this pervades its

Fine Tuning: Ep 4 Shells & Barriers

Oct 31st, 2023 2h 40m

SYNOPSIS: This episode explores Tune In’s unequal treatment of John Lennon and Paul McCartney's childhoods, with particular attention paid to the disparate coverage of their childhood stressors and the deaths of their mothers, Julia and Mary.W

Fine Tuning: Ep 3 Creative Whirlwind

Oct 25th, 2023 2h 21m

SYNOPSIS: In Creative Whirlwind, we take a look at how Tune In reports and characterizes young Lennon and McCartney as budding artists. We’ll show that Tune In significantly downplays and shortchanges (and sometimes even ignores) crucial aspe

Fine Tuning: Ep 2 Shoulder to Shoulder

Oct 20th, 2023 1h 42m

SYNOPSIS: This is a look at Tune In’s most positive descriptions of John and Paul respectively. All examined passages will be from the text, i.e. the author’s own depictions of John and Paul.By comparing how Lewisohn chooses to describe John v

Fine Tuning: Ep 1 Intro & Syllabus

Oct 17th, 2023 42m

SYNOPSIS: Welcome to Fine Tuning, an Examination of Mark Lewisohn’s Tune In.This episode presents an overview of our 11-part series including its impetus, our objectives and summaries of the upcoming installments.PLAYLISTJohnny B. Goode THE

Introducing - McCartney: A Life in Lyrics

Oct 11th, 2023 22m 48s

ELEANOR RIGBY lives in a dream, waits at the window, died in the church and was buried alone with her name!!!This is an episode of McCartney: A Life in Lyrics, a new podcast with Sir Paul McCartney himself from iHeartMedia, MPL, and Pushkin I

AKOM Mailbag: There Will Be an Answer 2/2

Sep 19th, 2023 2h 12m

SUMMARY Phoebe and Daphne answer more listener mail! In Part 2 they tackle: the controversial production of Strawberry Fields Forever, an alternate theory on Paul and Jane’s breakup, what Mick Jagger and Pattie Boyd know about India, Projecti

AKOM Mailbag: There Will Be An Answer 1/2

Jul 3rd, 2023 2h 34m

SUMMARYThe AKOM Team tackles a variety topics including: the upcoming "Now and Then" release, Why Allen Klein Is Still Trash, possible undercover hookups, the challenges of friendship, LSD, Elvis, betrayal and SO MUCH MORE!Full List of Topic

Dr Frankensong! AKOM Talks w/ Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair

May 26th, 2023 1h 39m

DR FRANKENSONG! AKOM talks w/ Adrian Sinclair and Allen KozinnSummary: Authors of the McCartney Legacy Vol 1, Adrian Sincalir and Allen Kozinn speak with Daphne and Phoebe about Paul McCartney’s “Frankensongs,” dynamic compositions that consis

Reclaimed Weekend: AKOM Talks w/ May Pang

Apr 3rd, 2023 1h 10m

SUMMARYAKOM talks with the fabulous May Pang about “The Lost Weekend: A Love Story” and a variety of big and small topics including: John praising Cynthia’s parenting, meeting Paul and Linda in the 1980s, visiting David Bowie w/ Paul and Linda

Strange Bedfellows: Ep 4 A Real Story About Real Human Beings

Mar 3rd, 2023 2h 40m

SUMMARYWelcome to STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, an AKOM series about Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney after John Lennon's death.It's the new millennium! Paul and Yoko get real and the truth comes out! Will it draw them and their families closer together? Or

Strange Bedfellows: Ep 3 Hiroshima Sky

Feb 16th, 2023 2h 21m

SUMMARYWelcome to STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, an AKOM series about Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney after John Lennon's death.Episode Three covers the 1990s, a decade that sees some of the most significant highs and lows between Ono and McCartney. Goodwil

Strange Bedfellows: Ep 2 Sticky Situations w/Joe Hagan

Feb 2nd, 2023 2h 14m

SUMMARYWelcome to STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, an AKOM series about Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney after John Lennon's death.In Episode 2 we welcome author Joe Hagan for a loose, candid and wide-ranging conversation centered around Paul, Yoko and Jann We

Strange Bedfellows: Ep1 It’s Contentious

Jan 26th, 2023 2h 28m

SUMMARYWelcome to STRANGE BEDFELLOWS, an AKOM series about Yoko Ono and Paul McCartney after John Lennon's death. Episode 1 delves deep into the 1980s! Discussed in this episode: Paul’s grief and Yoko’s peculiar comments in the aftermath of

McCartney and Mozart, con spirito!

Dec 14th, 2022 1h 42m

SUMMARYIs Paul McCartney the 20th Century’s Mozart? Phoebe and Daphne tackle this question with radio host and classical music programmer, Valerie Ing.We discuss the similar biographies, artistic processes and whimsical spirits of these two c

A Woman Who Understands: AKOM talks w/Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett

Nov 30th, 2022 1h 40m

AKOM welcomes Dr. Christine Feldman-Barrett, author of A Women’s History of the Beatles.Phoebe, Daphne and Christine discuss: how the Beatles have inspired generations of women, effective labor, fandom, diversity in Beatles scholarship, Livin