Okay, we are live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show.

I'm a very special guest. He comes to us from the UK, actually from Wales. I think my first guest or one of my few guests from Wales.

His name is Mark Brake, B-R-A-K-E. And if you're watching this on Rumble, Rockfin, or X, you will see the cover to his new book.

It was just released in Amazon in States two days ago.

And the full title of the book is The Science of the Beatles, the Technology, and Theory behind the Music and Lyrics.

And it should be something of interest to anybody I grew up listening

the Beatles the wide album so many of these songs still about but this is not mark's first book

he's actually written he tells me this is his 28th book and you can see some of them I'll put a

link to his Amazon page here in the US but he's written on a lot of topics that I'm interested in.

Some of the other titles are Science of Star Wars,

the Science of Harry Potter, the Science of Star Trek,

the science of Doctor Who,

Science of James Bond, Jurassic World.

These are all science-themed books on these great subjects,

The Science of Sherlock, Sherlock Holmes. But these great subjects, the science of Sherlock,

Sherlock Holmes. But like I said, Science of the Mandalorian. Today, we're going to be talking

about the science of the Beatles. Still one of the most important bands ever, really. And there's

a lot to talk about. So Mark Brake, welcome to the show. Thank you very much, William.

For people who haven't heard of your other books, your background, you said that you were a professor as well. Maybe you can talk about your background, your books, and what led up to

the research and writing of this book, The Science of the Beatles. Yeah, well, I, the professorial chair that I occupied at university was, the topic was, I was a professor of science communication.

So that's very much about science in the public domain.

And in particular, my interest was looking at fact and fiction and the science that fact and

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