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Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Egg Pod with me Chris Shaw. The Eggpods take a

jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and solo

Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm joined by Frontman

of the Lightning Seeds, singer, songwriter and music producer Ian Brody. Hello. Hiya. And we're

recording it on John Lennon's birthday. Wow, is that right? It was his birthday today?

Yeah. I'm not very good at even remembering anyone I know's birthday. So, is that right? It was his birthday today? Yeah. I'm not very good at even remembering

anyone I know his birthday, so I'm not likely to know that, to be honest. Sorry, John, and posthumous

happy birthday from me. Lovely. And you've got a new book coming out tomorrow's here today.

Yeah, well, it's, it was originally intended to be a book of anecdotes, really, because I was

kind of thinking that, you know, you suddenly turn around and it's been 35 years, lightning

seeds, longer than that, you know, making record. I think I made my first record with a bank called

Big in Japan. Yeah, In like 1970. Yeah.

So a long time ago.

And you think the world's changed so much and you kind of don't notice.

And then I used to be chatting and maybe sometimes telling stories to pals.

And they were like, you should get all this down because it doesn't exist that world anymore. So it started from that.

And then it became just a lot of anecdotes and then it actually it's sort of changed.

It's been fleshed out now with a lot more detail and information, which I'm in two minds

about whether I like that or not, but that's how it is.

I'll keep it in.

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