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One Sweet Dream: A Beatles Podcast Diana Erickson
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4.7 • 288 Ratings
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One Sweet Dream provides a fresh take on the music, people, and narrative of the Beatles. This is the Beatles, through a new lens. The podcast includes 5 major series: (1) The Breakup Series: Revisiting the roots and causes of the Beatles' Breakup. (2) The Aftermath Series: Revisiting the events following the Beatles' Breakup. (3) The New Lens Series: Exploring key themes through interviews and deep dives. (4) The Get Back Series: Exploring all elements of the Get Back Documentary through a new lens. (5) The Hidden Gems Series: Examining Beatles and Post-Beatles songs through a new lens. Diana Erickson hosts and is joined by a group of guests and core contributors.
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did George Harrison Live in 1966? Pt 2
In part two of Cleave's profile of George Harrison, Diana, and Duncan explore the second half of the interview, which includes topics such as George's home, his home life with his wife Pattie, his thoughts on war, the old guard, and religion.
In this interview, George is amusingly blunt and endearingly earnest. Originally posted in the Evening Standard, these interviews provide rare, intimate glimpses of the Beatles in 1966.
Many thanks to Dr. Duncan Driver! @drduncd
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did George Harrison Live In 1966. Pt 1
In this two-part episode, Diana and Dr. Duncan Driver explore Cleave's profile of George Harrison. In the first installment, they discuss the first segments of the interview where Harrison is remarkably candid and forthcoming. Originally featured in the Evening Standard during the spring of 1966, these extraordinary interviews offer a rare peek into the lives of The Beatles at the height of their fame.
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did Paul McCartney Live in 1966? Part 2
In this episode, Diana and Dr. Duncan Driver dive into the second half of Maureen Cleave's interview with Paul McCartney as it appeared in the Evening Standard in 1966.
This interview captures McCartney when he is on top of the world and fully immersed in the counterculture and avant-garde scene, depicting a period when he and the Beatles reigned supreme. These exceptional interviews provide us with a rare glimpse into the Beatles' world in 1966.
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did Paul McCartney Live in 1966? Part 1
This is part one of the Cleave profile on Paul McCartney. In this episode, Diana and Dr. Duncan Driver explore the first half of Cleave's interview with McCartney.
This interview series was originally titled "How A Beatle Lives" and appeared in the Evening Standard. They are remarkable because they give us a rare glimpse into the world of the Beatles in 1966.
This fascinating interview with McCartney supports his account in the book Many Years From Now. It captures McCartney when he is on top of the world and immersed in the counterculture scene.
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did John Lennon Live In 1966? Part 2
This is part two of the Maureen Cleave interview with John Lennon. In this episode, Diana and Dr. Duncan Driver dig into the second half of the Cleave interview visiting John's library, exploring his Phantom V Rolls Royce, and accompanying him to the doctor. John, as always, is entertaining and opinionated on the subject of money, power, and his future. This profile was originally written for the Evening Standard, and was titled, "How Does A Beatle Live? John Lennon Lives Like This".
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Encore: The Cleave Series: How Did John Lennon Live in 1966? Part 1
In this episode, host Diana Erickson and regular guest Dr. Duncan Driver dive into the first part of Maureen Cleave's 1966 profile of John Lennon, originally published in The Evening Standard under the title "How A Beatle Lives." These extraordinary interviews offer unique insight into the Beatles' world and lives at this time. John Lennon captivates with his swagger and charm.
These contemporaneous portraits hold significant value because they challenge some of the dominant stories about the Beatles at this time. So much of our understanding of the Beatles has been informed by what the Beatles said after the breakup, and this close reading allows us to consider what they actually said at that time.
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Customer Reviews
Refreshing perspective on a sad tale
Such a refreshing perspective on this period of musical history — which seems impossible given the hundreds and hundreds of books written on the topic, and yet somehow it is true. So many authors bend over backwards and twist in every direction to find convoluted explanations for John’s actions that fit into the pre-prescribed narrative of “He was disinterested in the band (and Paul), and only had eyes for Yoko and #Peace,” even though they largely don’t make any sense in that context — and all it would take is to look even a centimeter under the surface to find the much simpler and human explanation for the actual emotional motivations that drove The Beatles, and the Lennon/McCartney partnership, into the ground.
The Beatles ending has always been a sad story, but somehow the even more devastating undercurrent of it has been largely ignored for over 50 years—so I am glad to have such a thoughtful and emotionally-cognizant deep dive available that gives attention to what, in the end, boils down to a tragic mismatch in wants and needs between two people who had great love for each other.
Reruns
I’m hoping everyone is okay. It seems like recent content are re-uploads of previous episodes. Maybe some serious research is taking place behind the scenes for an upcoming mega series…
Really refreshing and reasonable
As one of the many fans who have read dozens of Beatles books, I find the work these women have done/are doing an extremely welcome breath of fresh air. As my mind absorbs the revelatory hours of Peter Jackson’s Get Back, all those tired old characterizations I learned in the 80s, 90s and Aughts seem stuck in a PR loop of nostalgia rather than actual assessments of the words and art of the artists who were Beatles. The eye-locks that Lennon & McCartney sink into whenever they start working together are worth the reassessment all by themselves.
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