Welcome to Nothing Israel a podcast about the Beatles.

Everybody thinks they know the Beatles.

How much do we really know?

My name is Jason Carty.

My name is Stephen Cockcroft.

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

And you're joining us for the second part of our chat with Lawrence Tuber.

The album comes out in June 79 and there's this odd kind of gap where the tour doesn't happen,

which is a UK tour, until November of that year.

And it always seems that there's kind of a, maybe this is unfair, a bit of momentum lost

during the summer, that there isn't a tour ready to go, or was that ever an option?

Well, there was a, what happened was Steve and I were deputized to go do the promo for the album.

So we did a run around Europe doing radio and TV interviews and stuff.

And then we went to New York and did a whole bunch of stuff there to promote the record.

I think that because they didn't want to take the kids on the road,

and the ideal scenario would have been an album comes out with an immediate tour.

But that would have meant taking the kids out on the road during the summer holidays.

And funnily enough, I mean, for, you know, for a number of the gigs when we did do the tour, they did have the kids with them.

But I think it was just, just okay let's put the album out

and then take the summer off kind of thing yes meanwhile Paul you know Paul's

working on McCartney too and when do you find that out oh we were aware of that I

mean it wasn't like a secret I think and again this is speculation but he had made a multi-album deal with Colombia.

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