7: The White Album pt 1: David Quantick

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

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🗓️ 23 September 2018

⏱️ 58 minutes

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White Album 50th Anniversary Special - Part 1

Emmy Award winning journalist, radio and screenwriter, David Quantick discusses The White Album 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 a very special episode of I am the Eggpot, hosted by me, Chris Shaw.
0:39.2	The Eggpods take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums
0:43.9	with a popery of delicious guests.
0:46.6	November 2018 sees the 50th anniversary of the album entitled The Beatles, but universally
0:52.1	known as the White Album.
0:54.0	To talk about that very album, I'm delighted to welcome our very special guest, Emmy Award
0:58.8	winning journalist, radio and screenwriter, David Quantick.
1:02.8	Hello, Chris.
1:03.7	Hello, David. I'm A-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha If you are interested in this album, you may want to check out the book, David wrote, Revolution, The Story of the White album, which is phenomenal, and I can't really say much more than that.
1:49.6	Have your opinions changed at all since you wrote that book?
1:53.1	No, I still love the Beatles. I still love the White Album. It's still my Desert Island disc.
1:59.0	Or Discs and Paul is still my favourite Beatle, because he's just the best.
2:05.0	I mean, he writes the best rock songs, the best ballads.
2:08.2	He's extremely inventive.
2:11.1	And the continuity, of course, the fact that he is, you know, still with us, still making great records.
2:19.2	Makes a huge difference.
2:24.1	I can still remember the moment when I was a teenager watching Top of the Pops and I just got into the Beatles and suddenly realizing that the Paul on television in Wings was Paul McCartney
2:31.3	from the Beatles. And that was it. That was just a massive connection.
2:34.8	And he didn't have long hair and he didn't have a beard.
2:37.1	He had a mullet.
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