Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles.

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

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Corkroft.

And today we're going to be talking about Please Please Me, the debut album from The Beatles.

And as we mentioned in our I Want to Hold Your Hand episode, sometimes people focus in on the latter

half of the Beatles career because there's lots of intrigue and lots of things taking a long period

of time.

But really, the early part of the Beatles' career is just as worthy of discussion.

And Please Please Me is a very unique album.

And even if the Beatles had only done their 1963 work and then disappeared,

I think we'd still be talking about them today as a very fantastic curiosity.

So please, please me, I'm assuming you're a fan of the album, Stephen.

I am.

I am. And ahead of recording this, I'm assuming you're a fan of the album student. I am, I am.

And ahead of recording this, I went back and I listened to it again in its various sort of iterations,

the original vinyl, the 1987 CD and the 2009 remaster. And I was, it's an album that I keep rediscovering.

I keep forgetting just how good it is.

Yeah.

And I think one key reason I wanted to talk about it today is that I feel that often it's

written that it's the rubber sole revolver, Sergeant Pepper, Axis, that the Beatles became an album's act.

And I don't think that's true.

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