44: Wings: Wild Life - Diana Erickson

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Arts, History, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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Beatles expert Diana Erickson discusses Wings' 1971 debut album, Wild Life, with Chris Shaw.

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0:00.0	One, two, three, four.
0:04.0	One, two, three, four.
0:06.0	Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot with me, Chris Shaw.
0:35.0	The Eggpots take a jaunty stroll through Peppeland, discussing the Beatles and
0:39.0	solo Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests. In this first transatlantic episode, I'm joined
0:45.8	by Beatles expert and co-host of the fascinating Another Kind of Mind podcast, Diana Erickson.
0:53.0	Hello. Hi, Chris. How are you?
0:56.2	I'm fine. I'm fine. How's lockdown life in the US for you?
1:02.0	Well, it's a little crazy. It's a little up and down right now. There's lots happening.
1:06.3	But yeah, other than that, it's fine. Thank you. I've been enjoying your episodes. Oh, thank you. And yours,
1:12.9	I have to say, right, egg podders, have a listen to this, another kind of mine podcast. It's a
1:18.3	fascinating analysis of the relationship between John and Paul. What more can you tell us?
1:25.2	About the podcast? Well, it's, I think there's a couple things that we started it because we were a group of
1:32.5	friends who, you know, were all massive Beatles fans.
1:36.8	We'd almost all done an obsessive level of research and thinking on the Beatles.
1:40.7	And we were really dissatisfied with how the Beatles story was being told,
1:45.7	you know, because it has been told and retold and retold in the same way. And we felt there was
1:51.4	such a critical lack of imagination and diversity in the discourse about the Beatles. And we felt
1:59.3	like there was just so much insight that was being missed by constantly
2:04.1	only seeing things through one lens. And, you know, in our intro episode, I mentioned a quote
2:10.1	by Cynthia Lennon. And she talks about the fact that what's in the Beatles books is often
2:15.4	factually right, but emotionally wrong. And that's our
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