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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 Cockcroft.

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

Today we're going to focus in on another year in beetle history.

And the year we're going to look at is 1974.

A year when all four beetles are ferociously busy and interacting with each other in different ways.

And it's an interesting year, isn't it? Stephen, because we come off 1973, which is the first time when

they're interacting with each other, but the balance of who's doing well and who's not doing well is

kind of all over the place. It is. I mean, they really confined that expectations. So in the run-up to 1973, beginning of 74, Ringo was having huge chart success. We talked in our Ringo episode about that album that came out in 1973, that there were three top 10 US singles there. George has Living in the Material World, which produced a number one single,

Red Rose Speedway from Paul, My Love, Live and Let Die, Helen Wheels, Mind Games, and Mind Games, the

single. So there's a lot going on in 1973. They're dominating the charts. They're collaborating on the Ringo album.

And we're coming into 1974,

which is the 10th anniversary of the Ed Sullivan show

and is presenting capital with an opportunity to capitalize.

I see what I did there.

On that anniversary, we've had the red album, the blue album at the end of, in 1973. So there's every expectation that they're going to continue to

dominate the charts going into 74. Yeah, it's interesting. I mean, it's full steam ahead. They're all spinning off in different directions.

And as you say, you know, there's no reason to think, well, this is it now.

We're in the post Fab Four universe.

They're all doing their own solo thing.

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