Kenneth Womack

quest for deconstructing music, Beatles, and everything.

Today on T-Flex, we're going to re-welcome inside the music, re-welcome Scott Fryman, who with his new author partner, Professor Kenneth Womack, is going inside the music of Four Lads we all thought we knew rather well.

Well, hang on to your John Lennon caps.

Our guest is a Beatles author, lecturer, composer, and musician, as I mentioned, Scott Fryman.

And he's also the creator of the acclaimed Deconstructing the Beatles series, which has taken audiences deep inside some of the most famous recordings in popular music history.

Scott joins us to talk about his fascinating new book co-written with noted Beatles historian and author Professor Kenneth Womack.

The book is called The Beatles Touring Era Inside the Fab Four's Musical Artistry, Song by Song, 62 to 66.

Being published by Bloomsbury Academic in November, you can pre-order it now at Beatles Eras, like as in Taylor Swift, Eras, BeatlesEras.com. And despite the title, this isn't simply another book about Beatlemania, Screaming Fans, Life on the Road, and the rest of it.

Yes, and they were notable for being a two-songwriter group, a bit like the early Beatles before George got involved.

Their story is told quite broadly in the Mal Evans book, the recent Ken Womack's distillation of Mal's diaries, because Mal was...

so keen to be their manager and their mentor and he did kind of help them out but he also was kind of stung by the whole bad finger business and was kind of sidelined when he probably would have been a much more caring and more um uh maybe effective manager producer for them he wanted to be a writer for them i think as well didn't he mal had aspirations to be a

Because Mal has got some co-writing.

They let Mal do it, although I'm sure they were suitably concerned about Mal.

And we will get that story from Ken Womack before too long, I'm sure.

Absolutely.

Coming soon.

Writers who works have shaped how I think about music, culture, and storytelling.

Warren Zanes, Peter Carlin, David Leaf, Kenneth Womack, Craig Colby, Ann Abel, Yixin Lin, David Wilde, Ruth Bradley, Sarah Heppola, and Sarah Kofina Goodman have all joined me to share their insights and their craft, and their passion.

Each conversation reminded me how lucky I am to sit at the crossroads of fandom and creativity where authors, journalists, and thinkers bring their stories to the Set Lusting Bruce community.

Through it all, the tours, the albums, the films, the debates, the joys, the losses, the surprises, you've been here listening, sharing, showing up, bringing your stories, your passion, your heart.

And she does all kinds of things.

She holds seminars online and she does some of them with Ken Womack.

And always a delight to have on this show, Kid O'Toole.

Welcome.

Okay, so for those of you happy about Season of Glass being reissued, now it's all right.

It's coming out.

And a brand new book is now out, Starting Over with John and Yoko by Roger Farrington and Ken Womack.

Something very interesting.

Writers whose works have shaped how I think about music, culture, and storytelling.

Warren Zanes, Peter Carlin, David Leaf, Kenneth Womack, Craig Colby, Ann Abell, Yi-Hsien Lin, David Wilde, Ruth Bradley, Sarah Heppola, and Sarah Kofina Goodman have all joined me to share their insights their craft, and their passion.

Each conversation reminded me how lucky I am to sit at the crossroads of fandom and creativity where authors, journalists, and thinkers bring their stories to the Set Lusting Bruce community.

Through it all, the tours, the albums, the films, the debates, the joys, the losses, the surprises, you've been here listening, sharing, showing up, bringing your stories, your passion, your heart.

You guys do two hours.

We'll get Kit and you know Ken Womack will be there.

Oh, absolutely.

That's one of the cool things I look forward to seeing in there is the revised studio.

Unless our good friend Keith Kenneth Womack is the next president of the United States.

I'm going to start that campaign right now.

Ken Womack for president.

Yes, I would second it, but I'm not a citizen.