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Host Chris Carter takes the KLOS version on the road just about every Sunday while the daily show, heard on SiriusXM’s Beatles Channel, airs Monday through Friday. That’s six days of shows but he’s also heard twice on weekends on SXM’s Little Steven’s Underground Garage with Chris Carter’s British Invasion so he’s literally on the air playing Beatles and Beatles-related music eight days a week!

Chris has hosted more than 1,800 episodes of BWTB on SXM, and 1100 on terrestrial radio to date.  On both SXM and broadcast radio he’s played Beatles records (both by the group and individual members) 262,120 times.. give or take a song. 

Upcoming in person broadcasts before live audience for the remainder of the year are as follows:

Nov. 5 - Hard Rock Cafe - Hollywood

Nov. 12 - Kobe Bistro - Seal Beach

Dec. 3 - Hard Rock Cafe - Hollywood

Dec. 10 - Kobe Bistro Seal - Beach

Dec. 17 - Casino Morongo - Cabazon (the 2080th episode of BWTB on terrestrial radio since inception)

Guests have included Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Sir George Martin, Julian Lennon, Lawrence Juber, Pete Best Billy Preston, Olivia Harrison, Pattie Boyd, Brian Wilson, Peter Asher, the Bangles, Paul Stanley, Gary Wright, Carmine & Vinnie Appice, Joey Holland, Billy J. Kramer, Freda Kelly, Peter Toro, The Smithereens, Jackie Lomax, Jim Keltner, Denny Sewell, Neil Innes, Eric Idle, Victor Spinetti, Dick Caveat, Ter Brown, Little Steven Van Zandt, Mark Hudson, Ken Scott, May Pang, Spencer Davis, Ian Gillian, Joe Elliott, Johnny Rivers, Dave Davies, Focal Point, Bruce Spizer, Jon Anderson, Brute Force, Terry Sylvester, Amber Lee, Brian Ray, Rusty Anderson, Larry Kane, Micky Dolenz, Richard Perry, Raspberries, The Fab Four, Geoff Emerick, Susanna Hoffs & Matthew Sweet, Sparks, Mick Brown, Tom Petty, Denny Laine, The Fab Faux, Home Simpson (Dan Castellaneta), The Naked Brothers, Jack “Apple” Oliver, Davy Jones, Jason Falconer, Ian McLagan, Ace Freely, Dhani Harrison, Klaus Voormann, The Quarry Men, Donovan, Graham Nash, Dr. Demento, Todd Rundgren, Gene Simmons, Ethan Russell, The Rutles and others. 

The Beatles were the biggest rock band of the 20th century, and their music lives on all over the world. The Los Angeles radio program Breakfast With the Beatles has helped ensure that longevity as it's been celebrating the fab four every Sunday from 9 to noon since 1983. The show is marking its 40th anniversary with a series of brunch parties—at the Hard Rock Café in Hollywood and Kobe Bistro in Seal Beach—featuring host Chris Carter (pictured above with Paul McCartney).

Deidre O’Donoghue started the show at KMET until the station crashed from hard rock to become The Wave in 1987. She landed at KNX, then took the show to KLSX, the classic rock channel which became the local home of The Howard Stern Show for many years. O’Donoghue died in 2001 and Beatles expert Chris Carter took over the show, which has since moved to KLOS and Sirius XM satellite radio and is now the longest-running show if its type on L.A. radio, and the longest continually running Beatles-themed radio program in the world.

Famous fans of the show over the years have included Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, filmmaker Cameron Crowe, and who’d have guessed? Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr. “Over the years, this guy turned the show from a Sunday morning appetizer into a hot-house lab for Beatle passion,” Crowe said in 2006. Praising the show’s “Beatle rarities, way-inside Beatle news, brilliant set-lists and a place where music fandom in general could flourish."

Carter founded the alternative rock group Dramarama in the 1980s and managed the pop band Wondermints in the ’90s. He supervised the music for the films Mayor of the Sunset Strip, about DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, and Factory Girl, about Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol.

"There's the long-standing idea that a monkey could host a Beatles show because the songs are all good," Carter told the Pasadena Star-News. "You string a bunch of them together, and you have a show. But I've tried to take it up a few notches. I love putting a great set together and sharing it with an audience."

Meanwhile, babies born the day that John Lennon met Paul McCartney can start collecting Social Security next week.