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Ah! Hello and welcome to I'm the Eggpot with me Chris Shaw.

The Eggpots take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles

and solo Beatle albums with a potpoury of delicious guests. In this episode, I'm joined at the

Hard Days Night Hotel in Liverpool, hence the clattering plates and whatnot in the background.

I'm joined by hosts of the excellent songwriting podcast, Soda Jerker, Simon Barber, and Brian O'Connor.

Hello. Hello. Hello. Lovely to have you here.

Nice to be here. You've interviewed everyone, really, haven't you? You've recently done the McCartney double.

Yes. Paul and Mike. Yeah, yeah.

How did you feel when you got the green light with Paul?

Well, I think it had been such a long time that we tried to make that happen that it was sort of a sense of relief.

Yeah.

And victory.

It was.

I mean, it's obviously tremendously exciting, but I mean, me personally being an eternal pessimist,

like, until we got in the room with him, I was kind of convinced that, this won't happen.

Something will, you know, there'll be a spanner in the work somewhere along the way.

And we just, it won't happen.

So until we actually got in there, I'd sort of, you know, I was bracing myself

for disappointment. But, you know, but obviously it was tremendously exciting as well. I think

I spent a few weeks leading up to it just kind of in a constant daydream about it, you know?

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