Welcome to Nothing Israel 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 Corkroft.

And we are live on tape from Dublin and Belfast.

Today we are looking at the Ballad of John and Yoko

while they follow a new life in New York City.

They spend some time in New York City.

And we're going to look at that year after they moved in August 1971, which also resulted in the album of the same name. And it's a very

fertile and unusual period in their lives and a very sudden right turn from what they

were actually doing at the time. It is. This is probably the most, is it too controversial to say this is the most

creative period of John's life? Is it creative? It's certainly, it's certainly inspired. He has a

certain injection of beliefs or performance and he's very visible and he's doing a lot. He's doing a lot of stuff.

He's doing a lot of stuff.

The jury might be out on whether the stuff is any good or palatable to a mainstream

audience might be the nice, the better way of putting it.

Who are we to judge then?

We have a podcast.

So we are to judge.

So we are.

We are judge jury. Judge Judy and a podcast, so we are to judge. So we are. We are judge jury,

judge Judy and executioner, as they say. Um, uh, so all of this kind of activity, this kind

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