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Ah! Hello and welcome to I'm the Egg Pots with me Chris Shaw.

The Egg Pots take a jaunty stroll through Pepperland, discussing the Beatles and solo

Beatle albums with a popery of delicious guests. this episode it's a joy to welcome writer, broadcaster, presenter

and podcaster Sam Delaney, hello. Hi, hi Chris. Lovely to meet you. I'm a big fan of Top Flight

Tynosene and it's just saying it's a joy to see the Vita Modula in his full glory.

Well, yeah, Vita Modula is my little podcasting studio I have here in my back garden and where I record my own podcasts.

And yeah, I'm very happy in it.

It's my own little sanctuary and it's not unheard of for me to listen to a bit of Beatles music here alone in the daytime.

When did you first discover the Beatles? Can you remember? Oh, I would have been very young because obviously my parents would have certainly played it in the house.

It would have been my mum.

My dad wasn't really around.

He kind of left when I was quite small,

but I did see a lot of him.

And he had been,

both of my parents had been in and around music in the 60s.

My dad and his brothers had a rock and roll club

in Harrow, Weald, in in North London when they were quite young

and it was very popular in the area and they used to book rock and roll bands to come and play there

it was at the Harrow World Memorial Hall and it was called the Big Beat Club I think it was every

Friday and they booked the Who when they were still the high numbers they I think it was every Friday and they booked the Who when they were still the high numbers

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