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 is Jason Carty.

My name's Stephen Cockcroft.

We're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

On the 23rd of March 1970, Phil Spector took a selection of Beatles tapes into Abbey Road to fashion an album from them.

Ten days later on April the 2nd, he was done, and the Let It Be album came out just a month later on the 8th of May, 1970.

It was a rapid fire sequence of events that was not wholly under the full control of John, Paul, George and Ringo.

Famously, John Lennon called it the shittiest load of badly recorded shit.

Well, good news, everybody, because today the Let It Be box set was announced.

Five CDs and one Blu-ray, or five LP vinyl with 100-page books and other sorts of permutations.

So, Stephen, I'm going to start with a theory slash question.

Get back, let it be.

Is it cursed?

The floor is yours.

The floor is mine.

But thank you for that introduction.

That was a marvellous introduction with virtually no notice whatsoever.

Is it cursed? It certainly gives the impression of being cursed from, you know, the terrible

sessions in January 69, the falling out over the strings, the beautiful full-spect of strings.

And yeah, and now this. Yeah yeah because i think an awful lot of fans

were thinking you know when the first round of announcements were made in january 2019 that we were

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