"The Beatles get back to their roots" Switched On Pop
Okay, I lied to myself, I want to make one more post! I decided to do another episode from Nate Sloan and Charlie Harding’s podcast Switched On Pop. This time, I chose the episode “The Beatles get back to their roots.” The biggest focus of this post is on the Beatles’ final album Let it Be. Something I did not know before this podcast was that the Beatles fought a lot over this album and almost broke up because of it. Nevertheless, 2021 is the year that this album makes its 50th anniversary, which I think is so cool! The podcast talks about how they used to just be a live band, but after a few performances where it was so loud they could not hear themselves, they became a studio band.
The song “Strawberry Fields” is heard in this podcast. Nate and Charlie go on to explain that this song was used to try and help the Beatles find their sound. There was a lot of experimentation around some of these songs as they are trying to find something that suits them. Another thing I found that was cool was that they experimented with more than their sounds and songs. They experimented with recording. The band recorded their songs live, and one of their songs was recorded from the rooftop of an Apple Studio building where they recorded their previously mentioned song, “Strawberry Fields.” They did not want to overdub their songs anymore. We find out that the Beatles were becoming sick of each other and tried many tactics to try and find their spark again. They did covers of songs that they loved as kids, trying to find the rock that they once loved so much. I think this was a pretty cool podcast, and I definitely learned from it!
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