Welcome to Nothing As Real a podcast about the Beatles.

Everyone thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Cockcroft My name's Stephen Crock.

And we are live on tape from Lapland because we are retired to the holiday Christmas cottage for nothing is real.

Throw another disappointment box on the fire.

I think it's time to look at 2022 and see what happened.

A good year to be a Beatles fan, Stephen?

It was a quiet year to be a Beatles fan, Stephen? It was a quiet year to be a Beatles fan, I think.

It did seem relatively quiet. Normally I say every year is a good year to be a Beatles fan.

But surprisingly, putting this list together or having a thought about what 2022 meant,

there wasn't quite as much in it as there seemed to be last

year. Maybe last year we were spoiled, because as we'll keep seeing, it's, you know, last year was

all Peter Jackson and let it be and get back and all the rest. But 2022, I mean, there was stuff,

but a bit sort of, you know, ephemeral in a way.

I think we were built up.

Our expectations were built up at the end of 2022,

and we were all keyed up for, you know,

getting to rewatch get back in real time.

Yeah.

We were keyed up for the Blu-ray with all the extras that were coming.

It was going to be great.

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