The Beatles & Elvis Presley - the pop culture of it all
Jason Hawes & JV Johnson welcome the BBC's Spencer Leigh to talk about the recently passed 40th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. How did Elvis impact the world of music and the world in general. Also, were the Beatles the greatest band to ever exist and what did they do to change history? 9/6/2017 - Beyond Reality Radio with Jason Hawes & JV Johnson
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he's written a lot of books about many of those musicians including Elvis Presley caught in the trap The Beatles book. The sacking of Pete Best the cavern club rise of The Beatles and morose he beat Simon and Garfunkel together alone. And Frank Sinatra an extraordinary life among many many others his website is Spencer Lee Lee is spelled LE IGH. Dot CEO. Dot UK now. We originally going to have Spencer on where this and August 16 which was. The fortieth anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley . But due to some complications in the fact he's in the UK we couldn't make it work for that date so. We've rescheduled it and we're gonna do that here tonight so it's going to be a great discussion. I can't wait to get into this with Spencer. I'll be talking about Elvis will be talking about beetle The Beatles and not many other artists debt really shaped pop culture from music perspective. That's all coming up on beyond reality radio I'm
but maybe two weeks ago. On the anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley because you've done a lot of work. On Dan made by. Chronicling his life and the trials and tribulations of slow what you know became to be a tragic story. But at this time you've done a lot of work when it's not just Elvis but The Beatles . You you wrote about Simon and Garfunkel you've written about Frank Sinatra really really curious as to how you got started because I'm a bit jealous. Like well I mean I did what in
and talking about pop culture stuff in the seven's two mile music. Elvis Presley's anniversary of his death it came out just a few weeks ago and it was fortieth anniversary very tragic loss of a very big story in pop industry in fact. Is the king a rock and roll. Is what these four are usually known ask. And we're talking about Deborah also document other experiences Spencer has by the way his books. Are numerous including Elvis Presley caught in the trap The Beatles book the sacking of Pete Best the cavern club rise of The Beatles emirates he beat. Simon and Garfunkel together alone and Frank Sinatra an extraordinary life in check stuff out. On Spencer Lee Lee is spelled LE IGH. Dot CO dot UK. Now we're gonna talk about Elvis and we're gonna get there but I wanna ask you about The Beatles a little bit he wrote a book American pop before The Beatles . Can you and continue in a nutshell. Tell us what your view of American pop prior to The Beatles was and then what do was after. A lot of people that this is sixteen just seem to think that nothing happened to popular music between say 1959. But by the colleague died. I'm elvis' in the army that. I'm to go to riches had to become an indispensable least things that happened and Chuck Berry was in jail so. All these things the top of the main players in the locker local scene splinter that you'll and a lot of people think that nothing happened between 59 and 62. When The Beatles came along but. I I think that's absolutely ridiculous because of the a lot of great stepped up and put all this
