Author, filmmaker and narrator Jamie Bernstein – daughter of legendary composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein – joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about meeting the Beatles, becoming neighbors with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, “Maestro” (which was based on her memoir, “Famous Father Girl”) and much more on “Everything Fab Four.” The podcast is co-produced by me and Womack, a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon, and distributed by Salon.
Bernstein, who says growing up with a “larger than life” father certainly “wasn’t boring,” told Womack that her Beatles fandom began at age 11 – and that she and her dad shared an interest in their music. “They were already on my radar, so by the time February 1964 hit [when the band played “The Ed Sullivan Show”] I was obsessed. I was dreaming about them. I was a capital B ‘Beatlemaniac’ and was the exact right age to witness their parade of albums in real time.”
