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

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Corkroft.

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

And this is the third part of our triple podcast about that great triple album.

All Things Must Pass.

And we've already looked at George Harrison's road to his starting work on the album in May 1970. We focused in on

the big hit song, My Sweet Lord. And today we're going to pick up the album, give it a shake

and see what falls out. It's a Herculean task, isn't it, Stephen? It is, but it's an enjoyable

task. And it's what we've been waiting for across three whole series. It's all been leading to this moment.

And, you know, like they say, when you're eating an elephant,

you just have to take a one bite at a time.

Is that what they say?

That is, that is a very famous phrase.

So let's eat the elephant that is, all things must pass.

And, you know, we're going to look at the individual component parts of the album. It's curious that we don't really have a Mark Lewison type overview of the structure

of what happened.

We know that he did his demos for Phil in May 1970.

They recorded until about October 1970.

The album comes out at the end of November.

But we don't really have a strict chronology of events.

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