Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

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Talking Mal Evans with Ken Womack Oct 20, 2023

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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 Oct 17, 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 Oct 10, 2023

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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 Oct 03, 2023

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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 Sep 26, 2023

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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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STINYC Live Jam Jason Mix Sep 08, 2023

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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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Nothing Is Real - Season 7 Episode 12 - Stuart Sutcliffe Part 2 Mar 22, 2023

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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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Nothing Is Real - Season 7 Episode 11 - Stuart Sutcliffe Part 1 Mar 15, 2023

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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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Nothing Is Real - Season 7 Episode 10 - Stop & Smell The Roses Mar 08, 2023

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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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Nothing Is Real - Season 7 Episode 9 - Derek Taylor Part 2 Mar 01, 2023

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Derek Taylor, Part Two

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