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After the huge success* of Give My Regards to Broad Street, Paul McCartney wants to get back to basics. Kicking back in a small band with Eric (not that one) this is a broth that attracts many cooks…

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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November 63 - Part Two

As the Beatles move through the month, beyond the Royal Variety Performance they continue to pack houses up and down the UK.

What recordings are waiting in the wings? I Want To Hold Your Hand and With The Beatles. Not too shabby. 

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Between October 31st and December 1st 1963, the Beatles pushed the envelope from being the biggest pop group in the country to something even… bigger. In a year when they just kept getting more extraordinary, by the end of November 63, the world was theirs for the taking. 

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Harrison/Starkey

George and Ringo always had a special bond. 

As the sixties became the seventies, was there an opportunity for the

Beatles to give the world a second magnificent song-writing partnership?

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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Bonus Episode!

Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack

Kenneth Womack is a writer, historian, and critic, who has written some of the best books about The Beatles and their inner circle. 

To this list, he is about to add Living The Beatles Legend, The Untold Story of Mal Evans, the first of two books about big Mal,

which comes out in November 2023.  

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast & New Jersey, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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Mal Evans

Mal Evans had a front-row seat to the entire Beatles experience, and the Beatles were happy to have him there.

Whether it was as an extra in A Hard Day’s Night or co-writing a song on the Ringo album, he remains an indelible part of their landscape. Contains anvils. 

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Bigger Than Jesus - Part Two

Four months passed between John Lennon free-associating about Christianity to a trusted journalist,

and touching down in the US for a North American tour. The “Bigger Than Jesus” controversy hung over the tour,

but was it really that big of a deal? 

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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Bigger Than Jesus - Part One

John Lennon never actually said that the Beatles were “bigger than Jesus”, but that wasn’t the point.

When you’re free-associating to a trusted journalist, what’s to stop your words being lost in translation as they cross the Atlantic? 

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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Welcome to Season Eight

Full steam ahead for the eighth(!) season of Nothing is Real. We need to tell you about live shows, the new season,

the world’s most difficult Beatles quiz, and ask the burning question of “Where’s that new Beatles single?”

Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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S07 Bonus: STINYC Live Jam Jason Mix

The Fillmore tapes have been remixed and repurposed, so in telling the tale, let’s do some remixing and repurposing…

Live on tape from Dublin, Belfast, The Fillmore, and The Lyceum, it’s Nothing Is Real. 

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