Nothing Is Real - Season 4 Episode 1 - The Ed Sullivan Shows - Part One
Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast
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🗓️ 17 March 2021
⏱️ 59 minutes
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S04E01: The Ed Sullivan Shows - Part One
On February 9th 1964, The Beatles took to the stage of CBS Studio 50 as the headliners of that week’s Ed Sullivan Show. The legend of that broadcast has overtaken how it came to pass - a mixture of perseverance, timing, and good luck.
Live on tape from Dublin & Belfast, it’s Nothing Is Real.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to season four of nothing is real. |
| 0:02.1 | We've got a couple of things lined up for this season, don't we, Stephen? |
| 0:05.5 | One or two. |
| 0:06.4 | One or two. |
| 0:07.3 | And, you know, we're going to continue with what seasons two and three brought us, |
| 0:11.3 | which is a couple of deep dives where we kind of go a little bit longer than anyone thought possible on certain topics. |
| 0:17.4 | Yes, mostly George topics. |
| 0:19.0 | We're just going to do 10 episodes on George Harrison albums. |
| 0:22.1 | Yeah, we figure there's a couple of things about all things must pass that were left unsaid. |
| 0:25.6 | And of course, the big five-parter on Give My Regards to Broad Street. But no, we plan on doing more and of the same and beyond, basically. |
| 0:35.0 | And beyond. With a few extra bits and pieces out there. |
| 0:37.6 | So thank you for listening to everything so far. |
| 0:39.9 | And let's get stuck in. |
| 0:44.2 | Welcome to Nothing is Real, a podcast about the Beatles. |
| 0:46.9 | Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know? |
| 1:09.2 | Yeah. My name's Jason Carty. My name's Stephen Crockroft. |
| 1:11.2 | And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast. |
| 1:14.7 | On Sunday, February 9, 1964, the Beatles took to the stage of the Studio 50 building on Broadway and West 54th Street in Manhattan as the headline Bill Topping guest stars of that that week's edition of The Ed Sullivan Show. |
| 1:26.4 | And it was the culmination of an |
| 1:27.6 | unimaginable series of events for a band that only played their last show at the Cavern about six |
| 1:32.2 | months earlier. The Beatles were number one in the US charts that night with I Wanna Hold |
| 1:36.3 | Your Hand, but if that song was defused, then their Ed Sullivan appearance was the full explosion, |
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