New Podcast Reveals Untold Beatles Tour Stories from 1960s Music Journalist

She’s With The Band: A Love Letter to Rock and Roll, produced by Dover Street Productions, tells the extraordinary life story of Sue Mautner, a pioneering music journalist who had a front-row seat to the rise of the world’s biggest bands.

Mautner, who wrote for the likes of NME, Beatles Monthly, Rolling Stones Monthly and Boyfriend Magazine, spent the 1960s and ‘70s immersed in rock and roll’s inner circle. Her career began by chance in 1964 with a spontaneous on-air appearance on Ready Steady Go!, and from there she bluffed and battled her way into the heart of the music scene.

The nine-part series is filled with first-hand tales of backstage chaos, industry secrets, and the kind of unfiltered anecdotes that only an insider could share. Beatles fans will be especially intrigued by the opening episodes, which focus on the Fab Four at the height of Beatlemania.

Episode one, The Beatles’ Dynamics, offers an intimate perspective on the band’s relationships, both their brotherly bonds and the backstage tensions hidden from the public eye. Episode two revisits The Beatles’ infamous 1966 German tour, where Mautner experienced the frenzy of stampeding fans, guard dogs, and the darker side of global superstardom.

Later episodes expand to wild parties with Brian Jones and Tom Jones, surreal adventures in Morocco, and Mautner’s eventual move to California, where she mingled with Hollywood’s elite and music legends like The Who and Eric Clapton.

Now in her late seventies, Mautner is finally telling her story “raw, unfiltered, and filled with jaw-dropping details,” after more than six decades of keeping many of these experiences to herself.

The series is hosted by actress Olivia Reed, produced by Graeme A. Scott and Kathy A. LoPrimo, and edited by musician Dean Kader.

She’s With The Band: A Love Letter to Rock and Roll launches on Thursday 24th August 2025 across all major podcast platforms.