The other day, when writing about the upcoming Beatles documentary from director Peter Jackson, I mentioned guys I knew from Northwestern who were major Beatles mavens – Wally Podrazik and Harry Castleman. (I’ve mentioned Wally a few times here, as curator of the Museum of Broadcast Communication in Chicago, and teaching media and TV history at the University of Illinois, Chicago.) Harry is a lawyer in Boston, specializing in business, real estate, probate, and intellectual property law (for those taking notes about all this). Together, though, they’ve written four books on the history of television, and three on the Beatles. Which is why I brought them up, needless to say. And they periodically have done lectures together over the decades – the past year over Zoom. Interestingly, I was mentioning all this to a friend over the weekend, and she said that she’d actually just “attended” a lecture by them the week before on the Beatles, about the band’s manager Brian Epstein. And earlier, she’d done one of their webinars on TV. And was surprised to learn that I actually knew them. And had since college. As a bonus specifically for those who are lifelong Beatles fans and are interested in such things, I thought I'd embed their webinar on the Beatles and Brian Epstein, which got posted online after the fact. This, and the other webinar my friend "attended" were done for Moment Magazine. And to give full credit, I didn’t come up with the title of this piece, but it’s in their joint biography about becoming friends at Northwestern. (We all worked at the radio station there, WNUR. I think Wally was the Program Director.) In the screen shot below, Wally is the fairly formal and meticulous one. Harry is the one who is...well, not. You figure out which is which.
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Harry Castleman
10/17/2021 04:53:38 pm
Hey, I was at least wearing a nice shirt for the photo! :)
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Robert Elisberg
10/17/2021 05:54:58 pm
I did not say you weren't well-dressed or even properly dressed. You were! Just not "fairly formal and meticulous." I am going to guess that you plan on leaving that lane to Wally.
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