Boston Harold Podcast

Author Elizabeth Thomson on her new Joan Baez biography, updating the Dylan/Shelton book, and more (Boston Harold Video Podcast) B y Harold Lepidus ©   November 5, 2020   On today’s Boston Harold Video Podcast ,  my special guest is journalist and author Elizabeth Thomson.      Ms Thomson’s accomplishments include restoring critic and mentor Robert Shelton’s original manuscript for his book, No Direction Home - The Life and Music of Bob Dylan ; compiling anthologies of writings about Dylan, John Lennon, and David Bowie; her (Covid-excluded) annual Village Trip Festival, which celebrates “ the history and heritage of New York’s Greenwich Village;” interviews and articles for numerous publications; and much more, a list of which which can be found on her website .     I first interviewed Ms Thomson in 2011 about the expanded Shelton biography of Dylan - which was included in my book, Friends and Other Strangers: Bob Dylan Examined . This time, we talked about how she became a journalist

 BOSTON HAROLD PODCAST: Talkin' with journalist Steve Marinucci about the Beatles, Monkees, Johnny Carson, the Who, and Strat-O-Matic. By Harold Lepidus (c) 2020  On today’s Boston Harold Video Podcast , my special guest is music journalist and Beatles columnist Steve Marinucci. Mr. Marinucci inspired me to return to writing about music at the end of the last century.  In this wide ranging interview, we discuss Steve’s early authoritative Beatles website AbbeyRd , growing up in the Boston area, building his own website, how he became a journalist, interactions with people in the Beatles inner and outer circle, seeing the legendary 1973 concert by the Who at the Cow Palace when Keith Moon passed out, meeting and/or interviewing each of the individual Monkees, attending two tapings of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on his honeymoon, surviving a San Francisco earthquake while attending a Giants game, and much more. Mr. Marinucci is a freelance writer, featured in Billboard