I have started a new podcast called “Every Sound There Is: Exploring The Beatles’ Songs”. I know you’ve got friends and family who love The Beatles. Tell them about it!

My blog has been silent since I retired at the end of last year. It wasn’t my intention to switch it off, and I will resume making occasional posts at some point, but I’ve been busy with many things. One thing, in particular, has occupied the time when I might have been writing blog posts: my new podcast.

I’ve been a Beatles fan since I was 10. As well as their untouchable music, they have the best stories and the most amazing history. About 10 years ago, I had the idea of creating a podcast about The Beatles’ songs. Once I retired in December 2025, I started working on it seriously. Having built up a bit of a backlog of scripts, I released the first episode in July. I’ve now got three episodes out.

I cover one song in detail in each episode, and the songs are in random order. Within each episode, I provide some background and context for the song, and then I talk about its songwriting, the music, the lyrics, the recording process, the instruments played, the versions and mixes that have been released, whether The Beatles played it live (together or solo), cover versions by other acts, and so on.

It’s not aimed at casual listeners. It’s for fans who love getting into the details. I know there are lots of those.

A fun aspect has been that I’ve set up an Editorial Board for the podcast. These are a set of Beatles experts from around the world who advise me and help me in various ways. It includes a very successful Beatles podcaster, Steven Cockroft (from Northern Ireland); the author of one of my favourite Beatles books, Greg Armstrong (from Melbourne); a classical musician (cello), Stefan Koch (from the US), a rock musician and Beatles tribute band member, Marcus Phelan (from Sydney); and another rock musician and Beatles tribute band member, Garry Stanton (from Scotland). It’s been such a pleasure to have them on board, and sharing our mutual passion for The Beatles. Marcus and Stefan created the amazing theme music that starts and ends each episode.

If you think you might like it, check it out https://everysoundthereis.net/ and spread the word.

Further reading

Pannell, D.J. (2023). Quantitative analysis of the evolution of The Beatles’ releases for EMI, 1962 – 1970, The Journal of Beatles Studies, Spring/Autumn, https://doi.org/10.3828/jbs.2023.5

Blog posts

The Beatles: Get Back. Comments on the Peter Jackson documentary.

172 Beatles Albums Ranked. My personal ranking of all the Beatles, solo and collaboration albums, with comments about each one.

Beatles Tourism. An outline of my Beatles tourism holiday in 2016, including Liverpool, London and Montreal, with extensive commentary.

Capitol Records’ shameful handling of The Beatles. Some spleen venting about Capitol’s many sins.

It Was 50 Years Ago Today. My summary of the background/history of The Beatles first single, published on the 50th anniversary of its release.