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 Corkrawl.

And we are live on tape from Dublin.

Today we are going to talk about one song and one song only,

and that song is,

I want to hold your hand.

And, you know,

we've wondered whether one song could sustain an entire podcast.

And of course,

there's many Beatles songs we could pick apart.

But we've chosen I want to hold your hand

because it's, in many ways, a pivotal song.

And depending on which part of the world

your first experience the

Beatles in it can mean a slightly different thing to you and also it's it's good to talk about

the early part of the Beatles career because I sometimes think Stephen that that kind of early

part of the career we don't focus on as much as the later part of the career because it's just

busy and successful all the time I think so so. I think the more mature albums,

they have a more modern sound,

so people gravitate to those.

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