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Ah! Hello and welcome to I am the Eggpot hosted by me Chris Shaw.

The Edpods take a jaunty stroll through pepperland discussing the

beetles and solo beetle albums with a popery of delicious guests in this episode it's a welcome

return to friend of the podcast journalist broadcaster and 1960s aficionado samira amit i was alive in the

60s just yeah. Yeah, just.

Just.

Do you want to hear my notes?

Yeah, what we've got.

It's like a menu of what we might talk about.

Okay, this is what I've written down about please, please me.

I've written down Rosebud, Panto, R&B, the Churrells, harmonies, orgasms, sugar puffs, buying LPs, conceives slash to me, boys dash gender, Anna dash V Bobby V.

That sounds like my Christmas present list.

And today we're going to be discussing the Beatles debut album, Please Please Me.

So first of all, why did you pick this one?

Well, actually, after doing A Hard Days Night, you're having so much fun,

I guess I was partly surprised at how so many people are doing the much later albums and the solo albums,

when it seems to me the early albums are the ones that

are full of the most joy and beauty. And I also said on Twitter to you that if I thought

about the album I listen to most often and I put on, and I have brought in my vinyl copy,

which I must have bought in the 90s because it's got, on the back, it tells you that it's

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