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 is Stephen Crockroft.

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

When John Lennon arrived in Abbey Road in July 1969 with a brand new song for Beatles,

he might not have thought that he was not only delivering their next single,

but commencing on an odd series of events that would lead to a solo rock and roll album in the mid-70s and ending in the US courts in 1977 because come together has a very kind of odd

afterlife, doesn't it, Stephen?

It does, which it leads into litigation, which is always a good thing.

We like litigation.

Always.

So yeah, so what begins as a kind of, you know,

just another day at the studio where John rocks in and as we'll see a song that gets put down

quite quickly without any particular drama, does end up spinning into Lenin having obligations

to shady characters and all the rest. And in some ways, you know, if anybody remembers our episodes from last year about

my sweet lord and how my sweet lord turned into an entire cottage industry that put many

legal families through school, this episode will deliver more of the same.

But it starts with good intentions because, you know, if we go back to 1969,

you know, the end of May, John and Yoko are doing their second bed in and they meet Timothy Leary.

And that's, you know, the seed, isn't it, where come together comes from? That's really the start

of this song. So originally the song was composed for Timothy Leary's

campaign as governor of California. He was standing against, uh, Ronald Reagan at that time. And he,

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