Magical Mystery Talk

Alternative Beatles researchers Matt Sergiou and Desiree Hall rejoin host Mark Devlin for the third instalment of roundtable chats exploring occult and conspiratorial aspects of the most fascinating pop group of them all.

Up for discussion this time are the 50th anniversary of the group’s official break-up, the recent passing of German photographer Astrid Kircherr who played a key role in the Beatles’ early image, and was engaged to bass player Stuart Sutcliffe until his own extremely early death, Paul McCartney’s apparent bad memory, the connection into the Black Lives Matter narrative of the song ‘Penny Lane,’ and the co-opting of Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ into a kind of socialist anthem for these times, the postponement of the upcoming Peter Jackson ‘Let It Be: Get Back’ movie, and the claims of plagiarism levelled against the recent Beatles-themed movie ‘Yesterday.’

Alternative Beatles researchers Matt Sergiou and Desiree Hall rejoin host Mark Devlin for the second instalment of roundtable chats exploring occult and conspiratorial aspects of the most fascinating pop group of them all.

Up for discussion this time around are the 50th anniversary of the release of ‘Abbey Road’ and the ‘Paul Is Dead’ rumours, the deaths of George Harrison and John Lennon, plus the recent passing of Robert Freeman, the photographer responsible for some of the Beatles’ most iconic and symbolic record sleeves.

A new occasional podcast series, in which Mark Devlin plays host to two of the foremost bloggers on all matters Beatles-related, from an alternative/ conspiratorial/ occult perspective. Matt Sergiou, proprietor of The Occult Beatles and Desiree Hall, of the Number Nine blog, get together to discuss topical aspects of The Beatles and their mindblowing ongoing legacy.

In this first show, we discuss some of the possible underlying elements of the new Danny Boyle/ Richard Curtis movie ‘Yesterday.’ Does this film contain subtle nods to the Paul McCartney replacement theory? We also use Quentin Tarantino’s new ‘Once Upon A Time In Hollywood’ as the springboard to chat about some of the loose, synchro-mystical links between the Beatles and the LA/ Laurel Canyon/ counter-culture scene of the late 1960s.

Desiree and Matt’s blog sites can be found on the following links:

https://thenumbernineblog.wordpress.com/

https://theoccultbeatles.wordpress.com/