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69: The Beatles: Help! - Jay Foreman

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Arts, Performing Arts, Music, Music Commentary

4.8467 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, presenter and songwriter Jay Foreman discusses the original motion picture soundtrack of The Beatles' Help! with Chris Shaw

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0:00.0

One, two, three, four.

0:04.0

Yeah. Hello and welcome to Iron the Egg Pot with me Chris Shaw.

0:35.1

The Egg Pots take a jaunty straw through Pepperland,

0:37.7

discussing the Beatles and solo Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests. In this episode,

0:43.3

I'm joined by comedian, and host of Unfinished London, Politics Unboring, and Map Men with Mark Cooper

0:49.3

Jones, is Jay Fortman. Hello, Chris. How are you? I'm fine. How are you? I'm really well. Thank you so much for having me back, by the way.

0:56.1

I'm really pleased that I was able to get my foot in the door of this podcast so early on

1:00.8

and get in an album that I actually know very well indeed, and I did Revolver all those years ago.

1:06.7

The bad news is that now that it's been such a long time since we last saw each other, we've

1:11.1

had to do a little bit of barrel scraping for this one.

1:14.9

Is it barrel scraping or is it a unique new, reflective look?

1:19.1

Well, it's hard to say because a good two-thirds of the song on this album that I've brought in

1:24.0

today are really great songs and there's lots to say about them.

1:27.1

And then the rest of it, do they really count as Beatles songs? I mean, I guess we'll find out

1:31.3

when we discuss them in more detail. We will, we will. I have to apologize to this well.

1:36.0

I phoned you up the other day and you said you were backstage about to go on stage. So you're

1:40.7

doing live performances again. Yeah, that's right. I was at my first gig in just over a year,

1:45.7

and I was extremely nervous.

1:47.3

It's the first time that I've been that nervous before a show

1:49.6

probably since I started,

1:50.9

because I was completely out of practice.

1:53.5

And I was forgetting all the chords.

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