Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Sophie B. Hawkins joined host Kenneth Womack to talk about the "beautiful space" that the Beatles create, the intimacy of "I Want to Hold Your Hand," her new album and much more on the season 5 finale 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.
Hawkins, the artist behind such '90s hits as "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover," "As I Lay Me Down" and "Right Beside You," says her grandmother was a pianist who wanted to take her to lessons when she was a child, but her parents wouldn't allow it. As she explained to Womack, it wasn't because they didn't want her to play music, but because "they listened to the Beatles and the Stones, and they wanted me to be free — without the confines of lessons."
