Welcome to Nothing Usreal 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 Cockcroft.

And we are live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

In the past four episodes, we have been looking at the man and the legend that is Alan Klein,

the steps he has taken to September 1969, where he has renegotiated the EMI deal with the Beatles. And from this point on,

something that we often refer to as Schrodinger's Beatles takes place where there's a band

and not a band happening at the same time. So we want to look at the steps of Alan Klein in charge

that lead up to the release of the album let it be in May 1970. But I think we have to start, in case people haven't been listening to the last four episodes,

to take stock of where Alan Klein is in this kind of September, 1969 place.

So he's done the main job that everyone wanted him to do, which was to streamline Apple.

Hooray.

Hooray, yes.

He has. He's got rid of the dead wood. Hooray, yes. He has.

He's got rid of the dead wood.

The leeches are gone.

Yeah.

And everything else, we have had a heated debate about Northern songs and NEMs,

but he has reached a point of finality with them, you could say.

Yes, yes.

So, I mean, I think what I would say about Apple, first of all, is he's done what everybody

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