To celebrate 20 years as a presenter on 88.3 Southern FM, TONIGHT Wednesday 30th March 8-10pm, I will be presenting : a tribute to the late Beatle’s prodcuer Sir George Martin. I will play a 15 minute extract from our exclusive 3 hours of interviews. It’s a MUST for any Beatle’s fan. I will be joined by Richard Lush (Beatle
Read morePurple Haze presenter Mark Copolov has secured this exclusive and rare interview with Abbey Road recording engineer Richard Langham. Richard was a second sound recording engineer at Abbey Road Studios, working with the Beatles from 1963-1964, then again from 1969-1970. Richard helped record all the incredible songs that will be heard in the broadcast. Richard also, during his long career, worked with
Read moreThis podcast is about ‘Kaleidoscope Eyes, a wonderful coffee table book of more than 220 never-published photos of the Beatles. It comes with four limited edition prints and a contact sheet reproduction. This limited edition is of 1967 copies. Mark firstly interviews his old friend Richard Lush, who as seconding recording engineer for The Beatles, worked on 55 Beatle songs,
Read moreHi Everyone, I’ve decided to start loading up to our podcast page some of my past interviews (with music) with major recording artists from my last 18 years on 88.3 Southern FM, here in Melbourne, Australia. I selected Ringo Starr to go first, seeing that I’m one of the
Read moreJimmie Nicol with The Beatles at Abbey Road Studios (rehearsals) In this podcast, 88.3 Southern FM ‘Purple Haze’ presenter Mark Copolov interviews Jim Berkenstadt about his new book, ‘The Beatle Who Vanished’. Jimmie Nicol replaced Ringo Starr for 13 days on The Beatles first world tour, whilst Ringo was recovering from tonsillitis. Jimmie played
Read moreThis Sunday, 15th December between 4 and 5pm, Mark Copolov will interview Mike Heatley, one of the producers of the new Beatles double cd “On Air – Live at the BBC Volume 2”. They will talk about how the cd set came about, what Mike’s role was in the production, as well as talking about & playing many of the
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