albums chart–Jack’s first ever recorded effort to do so–and was the highest charting solo debut and biggest selling vinyl album of 2012 in the U.S. Supported by a world tour met with equal fervor, Blunderbuss also hit #1 in the UK, Canada and Switzerland, and more recently received a GRAMMY nomination for the night’s top honor, Album of the Year as well as Best Rock Album and Best Rock Song Freedom at 21.Comedy legend (and serious Beatle fan) Conan O’Brien has just interviewed Beatle legend (and serious Beatle fan) Mark Lewisohn on his chat show “Serious Jibber-Jabber.” It’s well worth a listen. “Most of the books you have read, upon which you base your knowledge,” Lewisohn begins, “in terms of biography they only skim the surface.
And in that time, they’ll do six to nine months of research, six to nine months of interviews, and then they’ll write. I always felt this was a subject that would merit much deeper research. Particularly the documents tell a radically different story.” And it’s shown, because I found so many people who’d never been a book before, who tell completely different stories. Said it before, I’ll say it again: we all owe Mark Lewisohn a tremendous debt. If his three-book advance runs out before he’s done, I’ll run a Kickstarter to get it finished. He’s in a sweet spot - the Beatles story is pretty much concluded, but many of the most important sources are still alive. Now is the time that the history should be codified.Īnyway, go watch it at Team Coco. This is a very good interview, I’ve watched it twice now, sitting in my mountain lodge caught in torrents of rain for a few days. What I really like about an interview like this, that it undermines most fan-phantasies based on nothing but air.
The best thing both Conan and Lewisohn concluded was that the Beatles started to separate the moment they got together, because of their curious personalities – and of course the stopped at their best moment,: they wanted to stop, ok, McCartney didn’t want to stop, and other configurations would have been possible. They’ve stopped, and that’s good.Ībout Kickstarter. Well Michael, I suggest to kickstart your kickstarter because quite a few times Mark Lewisohn has explained that the research needed for the level of quality he aims for is very hard to achieve on his own. He doesn’t have a supporting staff, and that’s what he might need. It is easy a few millions in the long run (over ten years) My financial instinct suggest $ 200.000,- per year is needed to raise the level of research to what would make all of us very very happy. When asked to address the matter, an NBC spokeswoman said only, “We are not commenting.” Reps for Leno and Weinberg have yet to get back to us.Maybe–but the speculation is happening anyway–it’s unavoidable. Though several members of Weinberg’s band will be joining O’Brien during his live summer tour, Weinberg himself is conspicuously absent from the list. When O’Brien’s show was still located in New York, Weinberg would send interns to do gardening work at his house on the New Jersey shore, and would involve staffers in his pay disputes with the network - at one point, even enlisting an intern to tabulate every minute of screen time Weinberg had racked up over two years in an argument for a salary raise. Still, we hear that despite his long association with O’Brien, Weinberg was less than beloved by staffers. I didn't know about the heart surgery until just now, but there's also this:
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