Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 8 - 1971-73 , Part II Red Rose Speedway Jul 31, 2019

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1972 was the first year in his career that Paul McCartney didn’t put out an album. That doesn’t mean he wasn’t busy: Wings became a live band with tours in the U.K. and Europe; they released a scattering of stand-alone singles; and they worked towards the release of Red Rose Speedway, the second Wings album, which came out in 1973.

There’s so much more to explore: the single album that blossoms as a double album, the contractual obligation tv special, the live film they tried to suppress (due to cartoon mice).

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 7 - Wings 1971-73 Part I Jul 23, 2019

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In 1971, Paul McCartney decided his third post-Beatles album would be as a band, and the band was called Wings. He was 29. Through Wings he would live the fantasy he had suggested to The Beatles when they started the Get Back project in January 1969: be a real band, start from scratch and hit the road.

In December 2018 an 11-disc boxset came out celebrating Wings 1971-73. In this two part episode, Steven and Jason start with the debut album, Wild Life, and guess which one is a fan?

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 6 - Songs The Beatles Wrote About Each Other Part II Jul 09, 2019

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In the second and final part, Steven and Jason look at more songs The Beatles wrote about each other. Starting at the end of 1971, Paul McCartney’s Dear Friend was the first musical peace offering. After the death of John Lennon, these songs evolved into tributes and warm reminiscences.

Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. Spotify Playlist: http://tiny.cc/NIR1 Follow us on Twitter: @BeatlesPod Facebook Group: http://tiny.cc/NIRFBG

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 5 - Songs The Beatles Wrote About Each Other Part I Jun 25, 2019

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As the years went by, and there seemed like there were no worlds left to conquer, The Beatles started to create songs about the subject they knew best: Themselves. Over the years these songs were direct, opaque, angry, conciliatory, happy and sad. Nothing Is Real hosts Steven Cockcroft & Jason Carty trace the lineage of these songs from the Beatle days and into the solo years. Part one of two. Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. Spotify Playlist: http://tiny.cc/NIR1 Follow us on Twitter: @BeatlesPod Facebook Group: http://tiny.cc/NIRFBG

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 4 - The Paperback Writers Jun 18, 2019

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Books about the Beatles are a genre onto themselves. In this bonus episode, Nothing Is Real hosts Steven Cockcroft and Jason Carty are here to offer an introductory overview, and maybe help you choose some holiday reading. What’s the best biography? What’s the best book by a Beatle? What’s the book to avoid? Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. Follow us on Twitter: @BeatlesPod Facebook Group: https://tinyurl.com/NIRFBGroup

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 3 - 1970 Jun 11, 2019

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On the first weekend of 1970, Paul, George and Ringo went to Abbey Road Studio Two and, with George Martin behind the production desk, cut a new Beatles song: I Me Mine. The last one. Then they finished off Let It Be. And then they were done. But this session was an outlier. It had been four months since all four had recorded together, finishing up the Abbey Road album in August 1969. In this episode Steven Cockcroft & Jason Carty look at the timeline of events and hypothesise about this session - were the Beatles really finished? Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real. Follow us on Twitter @BeatlesPod

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Nothing Is Real - Episode 2 - Magical Mystery Tour May 28, 2019

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At the end of 1967, the Magical Mystery Tour came to town, presented by The Beatles as a TV special and novel double EP. In the USA, the six-song EP was turned into an 11-track album. Nowadays it’s become an official Beatles album in the canon. Does this non-Beatles-sanctioned compilation stand up as possibly their best? Was there another album that could have been released in December 1967? Hosts Jason Carty and Steven Cockcroft are coming to take you away. Get in touch. Twitter: @BeatlesPod

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Nothing is Real - Episode 1 - Help May 14, 2019

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Episode 1 - Help Me If You Can Why is the Beatles Help! album, the home of Yesterday and Ticket to Ride, never spoken about with the same hushed tones as Rubber Soul or Abbey Road? Hosts Jason Carty and Steven Cockcroft think it over.

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Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast May 05, 2019

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50 years on, the world is still in love with The Beatles. Join Nothing Is Real hosts Jason Carty & Steven Cockroft as they continue the never-ending conversation about the greatest band the world has ever known. Each episode puts a tiny piece of the Beatles story under the microscope to try and make sense of it all. Coming at you live, on tape, from Dublin. Fortnightly.

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