November 63 - Part One

Nothing Is Real - A Beatles Podcast

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🗓️ 1 November 2023

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Between October 31st and December 1st 1963, the Beatles pushed the envelope from being the biggest pop group in the country to something even… bigger. In a year when they just kept getting more extraordinary, by the end of November 63, the world was theirs for the taking.

Live on tape from Dublin, it’s Nothing Is Real.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nothing Isreal a podcast about the Beatles.
0:05.9	Everybody thinks they know the Beatles, but how much do we really know?
0:18.0	My name is Jason Carty.
0:19.8	My name is Stephen Cockcroft. name's Stephen Crockroft.
0:21.0	And we are live on tape from Dublin.
0:23.6	In the Beatles universe, time has a very elastic meaning.
0:26.3	They got a lot more done in a day than many people would get done in a week,
0:29.6	and their months would often match people's years.
0:32.2	And one month in particular, where they go in one end as one thing
0:35.5	and come out the other end, another thing, is November, 1963. That's a very important month, wouldn't you say? The birth of Beatlemania.
0:43.6	Well, it is the birth of Beatlemania and so at the start of the month, like as a big overall view,
0:48.2	they kind of get right to the end of October. They've put the With the Beatles album in the
0:53.1	can, although it's not in the shops yet. They head out on a big tour and then by the end of October. They've put the With the Beatles album in the can, although it's not in the shops yet.
0:55.5	They head out on a big tour and then by the end of the month, albums out, singles out, Beatlemania.
1:03.2	It's an incredible transformation. This is the big year for the UK where they just become, they
1:09.9	move from being a band that just had a couple of hit singles to being a sort of social phenomenon.
1:14.6	Yeah. So, you know, I'm sure everybody listening to Nothing Is Real knows the general state of affairs, but obviously, you know, in the 12 months leading up to November 63, they put out their first single, they put out their second single, they put out their album, they put out another single, and they are big pop stars.
1:30.2	We know that, you know, the Please Please Me album is number one in the charts for 30 consecutive weeks.
1:34.0	It lands there at the start of the summer and stays there for the rest of the year.
1:37.6	And those singles have been, Love Me Do and Please Please Me and From Me to You, and now She Loves You is the big hit single.
1:46.6	And they're a big act but what people probably aren't really preparing for is the fact that they're going to be
1:52.7	the biggest act i think that's it you know up to this point pop stars have a short shelf life
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