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 Crockroft.

And we're live on tape from Dublin and Belfast, but only this bit is live on tape from Dublin and Belfast, because what we're about to present is something live, literally live from Belfast.

Literally live from Belfast. It's the best place to be live from Belfast.

Yes. If you have to be alive live from Belfast. Yes.

If you have to be alive anywhere, Belfast is a good place.

And it is the welcome return of, I think we can officially call him friend of the show, Mark Lewison.

Exciting.

It is exciting.

And it's one of the miracles of Nothing is real is that we are now known to Mark Lewison and he's a very nice chap and he's very friendly chap and he's he's a friend to Beatles fans everywhere. He's very friendly. He's

very generous with this time and it really boggles the mind that he knows who we are and has

heard of this podcast and is prepared to

come back a second time. Yes, and listens to the podcast occasionally, he tells us. But anyway,

Mark Lewis and everybody listening here, I'm assuming knows who Mark Lewisin is. He is the

Beatles biographer and historian Beyond Compare. He has written his first volume. Everyone's asking him

when he's going to write the second volume of the definitive Beatles biography all these years. And we're

going to spend an hour asking him that question, except we're not. No. No. No. And he very

graciously, we first crossed past with him back in 2019 in the before times when the

podcast was very young and new and he came on and gave us an awful lot of time, did a good

interview which I really listened to when I was driving up to Belfast this time to talk to him.

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