Conan O'Brien and Tom Holland Trace Complete Beatles History at Abbey Road
Conan O'Brien joined historian Tom Holland at Abbey Road Studios for a complete-history episode of The Rest Is History podcast, exhaustively narrating the Beatles' story with personal trivia—including Paul McCartney's score for The Family Way. O'Brien won a trivia contest against Holland on site. The conversation followed Holland and Dominic Sandbrook's appearance on O'Brien's podcast Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend. O'Brien draws on works by Mark Lewisohn, Ian Leslie, and Ian MacDonald, portraying the Beatles as avatars of a 1960s mental revolution. Sandbrook, a Beatles skeptic, skipped the session. The episode is available on YouTube.
Key facts
- Conan O'Brien discussed the complete history of the Beatles with Tom Holland on The Rest Is History podcast at Abbey Road Studios.
- The episode is available on YouTube.
- O'Brien supplied most of the band's story details, including Paul McCartney's score for The Family Way.
- O'Brien won a trivia contest against Holland at Abbey Road Studios.
- Holland and Dominic Sandbrook appeared on Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend last fall.
- O'Brien praised Mark Lewisohn's three-part Beatles biography and Ian Leslie's John & Paul: A Love Story in Songs.
- The discussion reflects Ian MacDonald's Revolution in the Head concept of the sixties as a mental revolution.
- Sandbrook did not participate in the Abbey Road discussion.
Entities
Artists
- Conan O'Brien
- Tom Holland
- Dominic Sandbrook
- Paul McCartney
- John Lennon
- Mark Lewisohn
- Ian Leslie
- Ian MacDonald
- George Martin
- Colin Marshall
Institutions
- The Rest Is History
- Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
- Serious Jibber-Jabber
- Abbey Road Studios
- YouTube
- Books on Cities
Locations
- Seoul
- South Korea
- Abbey Road Studios