On "Everything Fab Four," Shaffer reflects on how "Rubber Soul" changed his mind about the band as a whole
Published
April 8, 2026 3:10PM (EDT)
Paul Shaffer (Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for IMDb)
Legendary musician, band leader, actor and comedian Paul Shaffer joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about whether he would have passed on The Beatles as a “guitar group” and much more on our eighth season premiere of “Everything Fab Four,” a podcast co-produced by me and Womack (a music scholar who also writes about pop music for Salon) and distributed by Salon.






