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Originally Released December 2021

Rubber Soul - Part Three

To get Rubber Soul finished The Beatles pull an all-nighter and raid the Abbey Road cupboard for leftover tracks. Then the album needs a name, a cover, and a totally different American version.

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Originally Released December 2021

Rubber Soul - Part Two

With an album due on shop shelves in six weeks, and less than half of it recorded, it makes total sense for The Beatles to take part in a TV variety special.

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Originally Released December 2021

Rubber Soul - Part One

It’s October 1965 and the Beatles have 14 sessions to record a new album - plus an extra day for the single. The album is due in the shops on December 3rd. That album turns out to be Rubber Soul. How did that happen?

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Back To The Irish on BBC Sounds

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To close out out Anthology Reissue week celebrating the reissue of the Anthology, here's polymath Kevin Godley telling us about his involvement with the project. Taken from an episode originally released in October 2020. Listen to the full thing here: https://play.acast.com/s/nothing-is-real-a-beatles-podcast/nothingisreal-season3episode5-thekevingodleyinterview

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Back To The Irish on BBC Sounds

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Originally Released October 2020

The Beatles Anthology - The Aftermath, 1995 and beyond

In November 1995 The Beatles Anthology was born into the world in record stores and on tv screens. In the aftermath of its release were the Beatles back together, or had they spilt up again, or was it something in between? 

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

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Originally released August 2020

The Beatles Anthology: The Making Of, 1992-1995

After 25 year long & winding road of The Long & Winding Road documentary, The Beatles Anthology starts to become a real thing at the end of 1992. But there are mountains to climb, decisions to be made, egos to soothe... this long & winding road remains a bumpy one.  

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First Released June 2020

The Road to Anthology 1968-1993

By the time The Beatles Anthology finally appeared in 1995, it had taken over 25 years to produce. To celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2020, Nothing Is Real made three episodes looking at the acclaimed documentary.

In this episode Steven and Jason navigate the years from 1968, when the idea arose through to 1992 when the cameras started rolling.

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Look outside and you'll find it's Beatles Anthology Reissue week. The records, the book, and the tv show are getting all dressed up for their 30th anniversary. Never wanting to feel left out, we will be reissuing some Anthology-adjacent NIR content this week to get you in the mood. Here's an edit of Mark Lewisohn chatting to us back in 2019 discussing his involvement with Apple and the Anthology. Listen to the full two part interview here:

https://shows.acast.com/nothing-is-real-a-beatles-podcast/episodes/nothingisreal-episode14-themarklewisohninterview-part1

https://shows.acast.com/nothing-is-real-a-beatles-podcast/episodes/nothingisreal-episode15-marklewisohnpart2

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Live with Mark Lewisohn: 60 Years of A Hard Day’s Night - Part Two 

We are concluding our May 2024 live chat with Mr Mark Lewisohn. Will A Hard Day’s Night get released? Will it be a hit? What will the reviews say? Tune in to find out…

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S08 Live with Mark Lewisohn: 60 Years of A Hard Day’s Night - Part One 

It’s been 60 years since A Hard Day’s Night hit the silver screen. In the intervening years, many myths have risen about how this film came together, and who better to bust those myths than Mr Mark Lewisohn.

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Nothing Is Real Live 2023 - The Q&A Sessions

At each of the Nothing Is Real live shows in 2023 we had a Q&A session. As a taster for the whole event, here are the sessions for Belfast on October 23rd (Before Now & Then) and Dublin on November 9th (After Now & Then).

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S08 Bonus: The Beatles Last Tour NIR Live 2023 Part Two

When The Beatles landed for their North American tour in August 1966 only the innermost of inner circles knew that the last gig was nigh. 

What was the environment that the group was performing in, and was it really the end?

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The Beatles First Tour (NIR Live 2023 Part One)

NIR went on tour in 2023, so it seems fitting to tell the story of The Beatles’ first and last tours. In the beginning there was Johnny Gentle,

a singing star with enough capital to play venues in the rural highlands of Scotland with the untested Beatles. What could possibly go right?

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Review of 2023

You boy! What day is it? Ending the year in the NIR log cabin looking back at 2023 - our fifth annual review. Did anything to do with the Beatles happen this year? That’s right, the third anniversary of McCartney III. Oh, and a little tune called Now & Then. Includes a special Christmas guest! 

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The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame

1988 was an unusual time: The biggest Beatle was George, rock stars were dealing with the unthinkable (their forties),

people were paying attention to Mike Love, and the rebellion of rock & roll had been replaced by a gentlemen’s club.  

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Live at the Roundhouse - Part Two

In December 1968, Michael Lindsay-Hogg directed a TV special where the kings of British rock gathered to play their new material. 

Unfortunately, it was with the Rolling Stones. Whither The Roundhouse? What happened next and what could have happened?

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Live at the Roundhouse - Part One

After filming the Hey Jude promo, and in the midst of recording the White Album, somehow The Beatles decide to eye up a return to the stage in the heart of London. So where should that be, and how will they pull it off?

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In 1991, when so many acts from the 60s were lucratively touring, George Harrison decided to dip his toes in the water.

Why? Money. Where? Japan. Who? Clapton. What…could possibly go wrong?

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The plan for a quick live-in-the-studio album gradually morphs into something more 80s, more produced. Hello to Hugh Padgham. Warning: Contains Spies Like Us. 

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Or….

Press to Play

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…

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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?

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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.  

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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? 

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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? 

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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?”

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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…

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Stuart Sutcliffe - Part Two

As a group, the Beatles were changed by Hamburg. 

Individually each Beatle got something different from their time

in the city and it would shape the rest of their lives …and for Stuart it was Astrid and art. 

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Stuart Sutcliffe - Part One

Stuart Sutcliffe was the star pupil at the Liverpool College of Art, and also John Lennon’s flatmate.

By becoming a Beatle, he demonstrated that the band was a state of mind.

To be a Beatle was to be something…other. Then they got the call up for Hamburg.

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Stop & Smell The Roses

When work began on Ringo’s eighth album in May 1980, the outlook was good. John, Paul and George came on board to contribute, trying to rekindle the magic of 1973’s Ringo album. By the time the album came out at the end of 1981, it was a different world. 

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Derek Taylor, Part Two

Returning into the Beatleverse via Apple, Derek Taylor settles into his peacock chair at Saville Row,

with a ciggie in hand, to dispense drinks and bon mots … but who is sending him all those narky messages?

Answers on a postcard…

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Derek Taylor, Part One

In May 1963, Derek Taylor was sent to review a Beatles concert, an event that spun his world off its axis. 

For the next 34 years, he would be connected to the band, even as he went from working for them in London to being a free man in Los Angeles.  

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Mark Lewisohn Returns

In January 2023 Mark Lewisohn came to Belfast to present his Evolver: 62 show. For dessert, Steven & Jason joined Mark on stage for a mixture of audience questions, chat, and Beatle diversions. 

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August 23rd - Part Three

In the whirlwind of the Beatleverse, three short years connect the golden date of August 23rd from their last live concert to the first day of the rest of their lives. 

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August 23rd - Part Two

Our continuing evidence for August 23rd as the greatest Beatle date - a little single called She Loves You and the next stop: The Hollywood Bowl.

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August 23rd - Part One

Looking through everything the Beatles managed to get done in the sixties, there is one date that means more than any other - August 23rd, of course. 

The course of their very existence pivots on events related to this date. Starting in Hamburg…

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Some Time In New York City - Part 2

In 1972 John Lennon entered a New York studio to record the follow-up to his transatlantic chart-topping ‘Imagine’ album.

With him were Yoko Ono, Phil Spector, and the Plastic Ono Elephants Memory Band. Things would never be quite the same again. 

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Sometime In New York City - Part 1

In August 1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono left the U.K. and traveled to New York City. Personal circumstances and political intrigue would ultimately make the city their permanent home; in the meantime, there was Beatle business to resolve, causes to fight, and work to be done.

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Allen Klein - Part Five

From Brian to Klein (slight return). Despite our best efforts, some loose ends still remain in the Ballad of Allen Klein. How does he navigate the Beatles once they all stop being in the same room? Well… see you in court! 

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S07E00: Welcome to Season Seven

*Taps mic* Is this thing on? Hello and welcome to season seven of Nothing Is Real. Another cornucopia of Beatleness awaits - but what’s the overarching theme of Season Seven… only one way to find out. 

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Throw another disappointment box on the fire and pull up a seat with your wooden box set of choice - it’s the Nothing Is Real Christmas episode. A look at the year just gone by, your questions answered, and Def Leppard. 

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October 5th - International Beatles Day

October 5th, 1962 was the day Love Me Do was released. 60 years later, are we any better at understanding the events of 1962 and the magic of what The Beatles and Brian managed to make happen that year? 

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Let It Be - Part Two

And in the end…when the Let It Be single came out at the start of March 1970, the Let It Be album didn’t even exist yet. Cue Phil Spector and a flurry of Abbey Road activity. After all that, Steven & Jason review the accounts after 18 months of Allen Klein. Season Finale

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Let It Be - Part One

By October 1969, The Beatles were in a very different state from how they entered the year - thanks to Allen Klein. Wanting to realise the new financial benefits of releasing Beatle records, The Fab Four+1 had a stack of tapes from January to consider.  

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Allen Klein - Part Four

With Paul McCartney being set as a man apart for not signing the Klein contract, The Beatles still need to negotiate the Summer of ‘69 while Northern Songs plays out and Abbey Road comes into view. 

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Paul Is Live

Paul is back on tour! North American Correspondent William Hinson joins us again to talk of set lists, traffic jams, free tickets, and what it feels like to see Macca sing with John Lennon live in 2022. 

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

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Allen Klein - Part Three

Once Allen Klein arrived in Savile Row, many business decisions suddenly came into focus. One set of decisions are still being fought over in the 21st century: Northern Songs.

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Allen Klein - Part Two

Within 24 hours of his audience with John & Yoko, Allen Klein got a meeting with all four Beatles. This kick-started a chain of events that would permanently alter The Beatle Universe. What will it take to get Paul McCartney on board?

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