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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's Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Corkroft.

And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

This is the second half of our discussion about what the Beatles got up to in 1974.

And it's all starting to come together.

We've made it halfway through the year.

And it's June 1974.

Paul is number one in the US with Band on the Run, the third single from the album Band

on the Run, which also goes back up to number one in the USA.

And John goes back into the studio to start working on what becomes walls and bridges.

And this is a different kind of session to what he's been doing out in LA.

He's now back in New York

and there's a bit more order on things, isn't there?

Yes, I mean, this is, he's taking stock

and this is a very professionally run setup.

He's demoing, he's in a studio demoing the material. And some of these demos turned up

in 1986 on the album, Menlob Avenue. It's a kind of odd album. I don't know if you've got that.

Yeah, it's kind of disappeared off the radar. Milk and Honey, the first posthumous album, is now

part of the canon. But Menlob Avenue is this other thing and it's gone, really.

It is. I mean, there was that album and there was live in New York City and they've sort of dropped off the radar. But one side of Menloff Avenue were the demos. And I have to say, I really enjoy that side of Menlove Avenue. The other side is a sort of mishmash of some of the Spector sessions.

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