{"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":"#97- Author, radio star Laurie Kaye on talking to Lennon, McCartney, Harrison, more (with clips)!","slug":"97-author-radio-star-laurie-kaye-on-talking-to-lennon-mccartney-harrison-more-with-clips","published_at":"2025-05-19T05:21:56+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858/97-author-radio-star-laurie-kaye-on-talking-to-lennon-mccartney-harrison-more-with-clips","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/beatles-news-briefs-12858","url":"https://marinucci.podbean.com/e/97-laurie-kaye-raw-audio/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/mipbzp7a8nbmveq4/97_-_Laurie_Kayewithshowintro6fo0l.mp3","summary":"In her years of radio work, Laurie Kaye has talked to such rock luminaries as Paul McCartney (with wife Linda), George Harrison, Beatles producer George Martin, Little Richard, Mick Jagger, Bob Weir, The Ramones, Talking Heads and more. But it was her interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono on Dec. 8, 1980, the night he was murdered, that is the focus of her book \"Confessions of a Rock 'n' Roll Name Dropper: My Life Leading Up to John Lennon's Last Interview.\" She talks about the Lennon interview, her Beatles interviews (with excerpts from each of her vintage Beatles interviews featured in this show) and more in this episode. We hope you enjoy the show! (Photos on YouTube: Book by Laurie Kaye/RKO Radio Team). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------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 your suggestions to beatlesnewsbriefs@gmail.com and we may use them to add to the playlist.","meta_description":"In her years of radio work, Laurie Kaye has talked to such rock luminaries as Paul McCartney (with wife Linda), George Harrison, Beatles producer George M…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2477,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/beatles-news-briefs-12858/episodes/97-author-radio-star-laurie-kaye-on-talking-to-lennon-mccartney-harrison-more-with-clips/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-12858/97-author-radio-star-laurie-kaye-on-talking-to-lennon-mccartney-harrison-more-with-clips.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}