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THE CREATIVE TEAM

Born on August 29, 1964, Aaron Badgley (host, producer and writer for Beatles Universe radio show) shared his second birthday with the Beatles last concert at Candlestick Park, San Francisco.  Sadly, his mother did not allow him to go, as he was 5,000 miles away in Oshawa, Ontario.

 

Aaron grew up surrounded by music of all kinds, but what stuck with him most was the Beatles.  From a very early age Aaron listened to the Twist and Shout album, The Beatles Second Album and his favourite, Beatles '65.

 

Aaron went to Centennial College where he earned a diploma in Radio and Television and promptly went into radio.  Combined with his love of the Beatles and everything associated with the Beatles he wrote radio shows and produced commercials.  After four years in radio, Aaron moved on to University where he earned several degrees, non of which had anything to do with the Beatles.

 

During the past few years, Aaron has written for many online prublications (Allmusic.com being just one) as well as magazines.  He has written about the music of the '80s and of course the Beatles.

Aaron Badgley  (Host, Producer & Writer)

Eric Walker (Engineer, Mixer, Co-Producer)

The first thing I remember musically was learning Harry Belafonte songs on the ukulele when I was about 10 years old. I followed the ukulele with piano, guitar and trumpet.  By high school, I was in a Beatles cover band, the Condor Fesents. I've always been drawn to music with great vocal harmonies — the Beatles, Crowded House, Indigo Girls — just to name a few. I developed an interest in jazz when a friend of my parents gave me about 20 jazz albums they were getting rid of.

 

Through the 70s, 80s and 90s, I was in various bands in Toronto. The first band, Mentlbloc, started as a cover band but we wanted to start doing original music. My interest was in writing music so I sought out lyricists. I used this model until 1999 when I decided to get serious about songwriting and attended a songwriting course at Humber College. This was my initial motivation to start writing lyrics. Since that original course, I've taken a more intensive 7-day course at Humber College (with facilitators like Rik Emmet and Andy Kim) as well as other songwriting workshops with Ian Thomas and Sylvia Tyson. My most intense study was the Gordon Dalimont three-year music composition course studied under Andy Krehm.

 

In 2003, I released my first CD — Random — by the Eric Walker Band.  I continue to perform with my band (renamed Random). I've also composed music for corporate videos, most recently for the Education Quality Advisory Office (EQAO) of Ontario. My influences include Sting, Steely Dan and Billy Joel.