Bonus Round
The Beatles
articles, audio, references

Riley commentary
- “Nobody Told Me There’d Be Days Like These,” Copper magazine #152, Dec 20, 2021
- Get Back and Acrimony, The Conversation, Dec 3, 2021
- New documentary explores the ups and downs of The Beatles’ Let It Be sessions, Here and Now, WBUR-FM Boston, Nov 23, 2021 (link above)
- Switched-On Pop podcast: interview on Peter Jackson’s Get Back; 70m complete
- Delaware Public Media interview
- Why did the Beatles break up? History.com, by Stephen Wood
- Emerson Today: Q&A

elsewhere
- "The Banality of Genius: Notes on Get Back," Ian Leslie in The Ruffian newsletter
- Aimee Mann on One Sweet Dream podcast, Jan 2022
- Matt Hurwitz on "The Making of The Beatles' Let It Be and Peter Jackson's Get Back" in Sound & Vision, Dec 3, 2021
- Peter Jackson on Something About the Beatles podcast #224abc, December, 2021
- Peter Jackson on Things We Said Today podcast #355, Nov 24, 2021: a fan's notes
- 60 Minutes, Peter Jackson interview, November 14, 2021
- Get Back, Peter Jackson film, Disney+.
- "Let It Be Special Edition": Burnishing an Album’s Tarnished Image, by Allan Kozinn, Wall Street Journal, November 17, 2021
- "Know How the Beatles Ended? Peter Jackson May Change Your Mind," by Ben Sisario, The New York Times, November 11, 2021
- "McCartney, With and Without Lennon," by David Hajdu, New York Times Book Review on The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present (Liveright, 2021), November 6, 2021
- "Why 'Don't Let Me Down' Is the Whole Beatles Story in One Song," by Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, October 22, 2021
- "Four Moptop Yobbos," by Ian Penman, London Review of Books, June 17, 2021
- Maureen Cleave 1934-2021, The Guardian
previous Riley clips
- Beatles Books interview, October 2021
- I’ve Got a Beatles Podcast interview, February 2021
- Book review, The Beatles in Context, edited by Kenneth Womack (Oxford University Press, 2021), in Music and Letters, June 2021
- Tell Me Why: A Beatles Commentary (Da Capo, 2002)
- Lennon: The Man, The Myth, The Music–The Definitive Life (Hachette, 2011)
- What Goes On: The Beatles, Their Music, and Their Time (Oxford University Press, 2019)
Boston Book Festival Keynote 2011
choice titles
(backwards chronologically…)
All Things Must Pass Away: Harrison, Clapton, & Other Assorted Love Songs by Ken Womack and Jason Kruppa (Chicago Review Press, 2019)
Dreaming the Beatles: The Love Story of One Band and the Whole World by Rob Sheffield. (Dey Street Books, 2018)
Tune In: The Beatles: All These Years by Mark Lewisohn. (Crown, 2012)
Magic Circles: The Beatles in Dream and History by Devin McKinney. (Harvard, 2004)
Remembering Buddy: The Definitive Biography of Buddy Hollyby John Goldrosen and John Beecher. (Music Sales+ Corporation, 1996)
Daddy, Come Home: The True Story of John Lennon and His Father by Pauline Lennon. (Angus & Robertson, 1990)
The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions: The Official Story of Abbey Road by Mark Lewisohn and Paul McCartney. (Hamlyn, 1988)
The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock’n’Roll First edition, edited by Jim Miller. “The Beatles” essay by Greil Marcus, and “Buddy Holly” essay by Jonathan Cott (Rolling Stone Press, 1976)
Love Me Do! The Beatles’ Progress, by Michael Braun (Graymalkin, 1964)