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Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles. My name's Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Cotcroft.

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

Last year in season one, we looked at the fortunes of the Beatles across all the Christmases of the 1960s when they were a unit living and working out of each other's pockets.

And today, we're going to take a different

trek. We're going to look at how they evolved through their Christmases in the 1970s. It tells a

tale very different to the one in the 1960s, where they went from finding themselves in Hamburg

to losing each other by the end of the decade. And it's the last decade when all four of them

were fully active and had stuff to to do really, didn't they?

Yep, I think so. The last, before they all turned 30.

Well, exactly. And it's, it tells another interesting story when you kind of break it down and look at it year on year just to see exactly how they all evolve and spin off into different

directions and kind of form the versions of John Paul, Ringo and George that we know of today.

So we're going to look at from 1970 to 1979, and this is going to be a two-parter.

So we're going to look at the top of the decade, as DJ say.

And a reminder that when we get to Christmas 1970,

on Christmas Day, 1970,

just to make everybody feel bad about themselves,

John Lennon is only 30, Ringo Starr is only 30,

Paul McCartney is 28,

and on Christmas Day, 1970,

George Harrison is 27 years old.

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