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 Crockroft.

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

Today we're going to talk about Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band.

And Eagle-Eared listeners will realize that we've spoken about Sergeant Pepper's Lonely

Hearts Club band before.

But there's always more to say, particularly when we've decided to talk about Sergeant

Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band, The Movie, which is quite an extraordinary,

well, I'm slow to call it art, Stephen.

I thought you were going to say which is quite an extraordinary decision for us to have made.

Can we hear ourselves over the sound of people's wireless as being switched off at this point

sometimes you know we you know every now and then we like to throw a curveball and also we have

an idea to discuss something that shouldn't be discussed but it kind of does need to be discussed

it needs to be discussed it needs to be discussed. It's a public service.

And we're going to touch upon some other parts of that arcane world of how the Beatles were represented in the 70s through various different shows and, you know, that crazy world where people didn't really know how a band should exist if they weren't actually together or how they should be represented.

And, you know, as we'll see, the Beatles didn't really have a voice to try and control some of

these things. So it's a very wild journey. Yes. Well, you know, I'm here for you.

Thanks. Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band is what we call in the business a Robert Stigwood

joint, you know?

And it's a 1978 American musical comedy directed by Michael Schultz.

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