Magical Mystery Talk - episode 8 - 2022: A Year in the Life.

This podcast was recorded on January 16th 2023.

From 2023:

There was a lot that myself - Matt Sergiou - and my fellow Magical Mystery Talk hosts, Mark Devlin and Desiree Hall, agreed had to be covered in this episode of Magical Mystery Talk, which is an episode reviewing Beatles-related events, news and happenings from 2022…

With the ‘rona still being in the news during 2022, you perhaps won’t be surprised to learn that it gets some attention in this episode (and as it has in previous editions), with the spotlight in this regard being set on the Starkeys – as in Ringo Starr (his birth-name being: Richard Starkey, of course) and his bass-playing grand-daughter, Tatia. According to media reports in March last year, she was fined £440 by a court in London for breaking England’s lockdown rules in February 2021. Reportedly, on being handed the fine, she asked the judge if it could be waived in the light of particular misdemeanours committed by the then-British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson! Find out what she is reported to have been referring to, by listening to this episode. Her ex-Beatle – and jabbed – grand-father meanwhile found himself having to put a halt to his live concert tour of North America and Canada during ’22 because of the ‘rona.

Elsewhere…

The other pervading news-event of 2022 was of course the situation between Ukraine and Russia, and in April, John Lennon’s son, Julian, released his own online version of perhaps his father’s best-known solo song, ‘Imagine,’ in a reply to the tensions, and was performed in conjunction with ‘Stand Up for Ukraine,’ a campaign organised by ‘Global Citizen,’ an organisation that has, over the years, received support from names that might make your eyebrows rise with suspicion, names including Canadian Premier Justin Trudeau, French President (and One World Order fan) Emmanuel Macron, as well as Bill and Melinda Gates (to name some). During this episode of Magical Mystery Talk, I look into all of this briefly, and myself and Desiree call out signs of possible hypocrisy over news last year that Paul McCartney has axed a song from his live setlist that had, up to that point, been a staple in his concert-shows, that being ‘Back in the USSR,’ originally released with The Beatles in 1968. According to “a source” in one particular media report, “the song is such a massive crowd favourite but with the horrors unfolding in Ukraine, it was a simple decision by Paul to make. It would be perverse to be singing a jaunty Rock ‘n’ Roll song about Russia. Paul couldn’t in all conscience sing those lyrics when so many are being brutally massacred at the hands of Russia.” McCartney was also seen waving the flag of Ukraine whilst on stage with his band last year during his ‘Got Back’ concert-tour. So why the possible hypocrisy? Well, for example, as both Desiree and I point out, when ‘Back in the USSR’ was originally recorded and released, a number of countries were suffering at the hands of the Soviet Union – and so, what’s the difference between then and now?

Paul’s last live date of 2022 took place in June, it was his headline appearance at the massive Glastonbury Festival in the village of Pilton in the English county of Somerset. From what I understand, his long-time support-DJ played a set there as well, a guy by the name of Chris Holmes, whose apparent interest in esotericism/the occult is talked about during this edition of Magical Mystery Talk. As for the magickal, there’s no doubting the fact that his wife, Melinda Lee Holm, is closely connected with that, as I highlight in this episode. She’s described herself as a “professional witch,” and she is also friends with George Harrison’s widow, Olivia. I also mention Chris’s association with the film-director and self-described disciple of Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger.

Crowley also gets a mention during mine and Desiree’s and Mark’s nod to the 1966 Beatles album ‘Revolver’ which was re-released in deluxe box-set form in 2022. I go into some length about some of the other titles that were discussed as possibles for this selection of songs by the band back in ‘66, titles with an occultic nature. I also go in quite deep into the inspirations (and possible social-engineered reasons) behind one of the LP’s tracks, ‘Tomorrow Never Knows.’

Also talked about during this episode of Magical Mystery Talk, Stella McCartney’s involvement with the ‘climate change’ event ‘COP,’ the ongoing imprisonment of Lennon’s said assassin, Mark David Chapman – and – an article released in December 2022 by ‘Rolling Stone,’ the decades-old mainstream music-news and articles source. You can read a version of it in the link below. Apparently, so it suggests rather boldly, to be into Beatles-related occult/conspiratorial areas of research, is to be a Right-wing, ‘QAnon’-supporting, tin-foil hat-wearing nut-job:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/qanon-followers-arguing-beatles-were-225501555.html?guccounter=1