Nothing Is Real - Season 2 Episode 6 - Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Part 1

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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S02E06: Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band - Part One

When the Beatles put out their eighth album in May 1967, the consensus was that nobody needed to release any more records ever - it was just that good. In this episode, the first of two parts, Steven & Jason look at how the album came together.

Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real.

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0:00.0	Nothing is Real. A Beatles podcast is powered by ACAST.
0:06.6	Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles. Everybody thinks they know the Beatles,
0:10.2	but how much do we really know?
0:23.4	My name is Jason Carty.
0:24.8	My name is Stephen Cotcroft.
0:26.4	And we're live on tape from Dublin.
0:36.1	Dubbed the mic on the piano quite low because today we are talking about Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, the eighth album by the Beatles, or 14th, if you were living in the USA at the time.
0:39.3	And what can be said about this album that hasn't been said already?
0:40.6	There have been books written about it.
0:42.3	There's been documentaries made about it.
0:44.8	There's even been a movie made about it, which we're not going to talk about.
0:49.3	But I personally think it's underrated, and we've all forgotten how good it is.
0:50.0	But I would say that.
0:52.1	Stephen, are you a Sergeant Pepper fan?
0:54.3	I am a Sergeant Pepper fan? I am a Sergeant Pepper fan.
0:54.6	Oh, good.
0:57.3	So that's why I'm here today.
0:59.7	Yeah, it's not their best album.
1:00.5	Okay.
1:02.6	It's certainly in the top five.
1:05.0	Okay, so it's in the top tier of Beatles.
1:06.6	I would, I mean... Top half.
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