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 Crock.

And we're live on tape from Dublin.

And Belfast, in 1986, Paul McCartney put out a ground-changing album called Press to Play,

which many years later is still celebrated as, are we really doing a press-to-play episode, Stephen?

Has it come to this?

Is this the sound of a nothing is real barrel being scraped?

Or do we actually have a point to make? We actually have a point to make. I'm not saying the barrel

isn't being scraped, but no, we have a point to make. We definitely have a point to make and we are

in the way of nothing is real. Going to completely change everyone's opinion about this album.

Yes, and sometimes the bottom of the barrel is where the tasty stuff resides, I find.

I see what you're saying.

But where our aim is to rehabilitate this album in the eyes of the listeners

and in the ears of Paul McCartney.

Yes, we want Paul to fall in love with the album again because we know he listens. And

this probably, I think we're approaching this in a way where

perhaps we thought it might be fun to do a press to play episode. And then

once you start scratching the story apart, like actually this is an

interesting story and it has just as much of a story to tell as any other record.

And its reputation isn't quite as deserved as it is,

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