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

My name is Jason Carty. My name's Stephen

Corkroft. And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast. Today is the second part of our discussion

about the Beatles song, Revolution. And we went down some interesting roads in part one, but we

focused in mainly on the song that we came to know and love as Revolution One, which was the

white album track.

But as we all know, there are other versions of revolution that we need to talk about today.

And so in terms of timeline, you know, when we left things at the end of the last episode, Stephen,

we were giving a very detailed discussion about the Irish tourism in the West of Ireland in 1968.

Yes.

When at the end of June, 1968, John took the original mixes of the Revolution One album track off to Ireland to be played to people.

But we need to maybe go back a little bit because, as we said in part one, Revolution 1 and Revolution 9 were born from the same

10-minute recording session, this take 18 of revolution that originally got put down on May

the 30th, 1968. So there's a decision made at the start of June to split this Take 18 into

Revolution 1 and Revolution 9.

And there's a couple of key dates then for when we try and get what we now know as Revolution

9 off the ground.

And the start of it is really to do with the sound effects, really.

It is.

So if we go all the way back to June the 6th, this is really where work began

preparing the tapes, loops, sound effects that they were going to use on Revolution 9. This is also

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