{"podcast":{"title":"Beatles News Briefs","slug":"beatles-news-briefs-12858","podcast_index_feed_id":12858,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/marinucci/feed.xml","website_url":"https://marinucci.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/922934/AI_LOGO1400sq7sewg.jpg","author":"Steve Marinucci","episode_count":121,"summary":"The latest Beatles news and thought-provoking talk from veteran pioneer Beatles reporter Steve Marinucci, the founder of Abbeyrd’s Beatles Page, the first true Beatles news website online in 1995. Our show is not like other shows but generally focuses on topical Beatles subjects and news that fans are talking about. A frequent guest on our show is distinguished author Candy Leonard, the author of ”Beatleness: How The Beatles and their Fans Remade the World,” an acclaimed book on Beatle history and fandom. Join our pages on Facebook -- Beatles News And Information and Beatles News Briefs - The Podcast. Send your comments, suggestions and questions for the show to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We’d love to hear from you. Be seeing you.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858"},"episode":{"title":"#110 - Piers Hemmingsen on the new ”The Beatles in Canada (Blue Book)” and Beatlemania in Canada","slug":"110-piers-hemmingsen-on-the-new-the-beatles-in-canada-blue-book-and-beatlemania-in-canada","published_at":"2026-01-08T20:08:59+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858/110-piers-hemmingsen-on-the-new-the-beatles-in-canada-blue-book-and-beatlemania-in-canada","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858","url":"https://marinucci.podbean.com/e/steve-marinucci-s-zoom-meeting-with-piers-hemmingsen/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/tmazrgwxfkkcewsw/26_-2.mp3","summary":"Canadian Beatles history authority Piers Hemmingsen and host Steve Marinucci discuss the recently published Blue Book volume of his \"The Beatles In Canada\" series and some of the ways that Beatlemania in Canada differed from America. We also talk about the unreleased Beatles '65 Toronto soundboard. Among the other things we discuss are the Canadian Broadcasting Company's archival show \"How the Beatles Changed the World.\" You can hear it here: How the Beatles Changed the World | CBC.ca Another program that Piers and I discuss is this short report on the Sgt. Pepper album. And there's a third CBC program we found, this one from Oct. 4, 1964, called Beatlemania Takes Toronto in 1964. (Note: This video version of our podcast is our first one and somewhat of an experiment. Let us know what you think at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. The video version of the podcast is available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/B8IStqFy4UA. The audio version is available in all the usual places where you get your podcasts. #Beatles #Beatlemania #PiersHemmingsen #Canada #JohnLennon #PaulMcCartney #GeorgeHarrison #RingoStarr @followers ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You can binge listen to all of our episodes free at Podbean, on YouTube or on our Beatles News Briefs blog page.CONTACT INFO: You can contact us about the show at beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com. We'd love to hear from you with your thoughts and feedback on our shows. We hope you enjoy the shows and we thank you very much for listening. We really appreciate you!NEW! We've created a really fab (we think so!) Beatles News Briefs playlist on Spotify to go with the show that you can contribute to. Send you…","meta_description":"Canadian Beatles history authority Piers Hemmingsen and host Steve Marinucci discuss the recently published Blue Book volume of his \"The Beatles In Canada…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3792,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beatles-news-briefs-12858/episodes/110-piers-hemmingsen-on-the-new-the-beatles-in-canada-blue-book-and-beatlemania-in-canada/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858/110-piers-hemmingsen-on-the-new-the-beatles-in-canada-blue-book-and-beatlemania-in-canada.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}