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Arsalan Mohammad, host of Albumtoalbum, the David Bowie albums podcast, describes how his Beatles story started when his cousin flipped over her copy of Ebony and Ivory. Here he talks about his love for that song, Rainclouds, by Paul McCartney. The discussion covers elemental lyrics, Paddy Moloney's uilleann pipes solo, and the studio session on the day Paul learnt John had been shot.

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Music journalist and author Eoghan Lyng is back to talk about Mull of Kintyre, the Wings single Paul McCartney wrote with Denny Laine. Drawing from his own 2018 interview with Laine, Eoghan talks about the Campbeltown Pipe Band recording outdoors in one take, the elegant simplicity of the song, and why it remains the biggest-selling non-charity single in the UK ever.

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Nick Coates writes Alice and the Eggmen, a Substack that digs into the tangled links between The Beatles and Lewis Carroll. Here he takes on Glass Onion, from the White Album, and makes the case that its refrain – 'looking through a glass onion' – is really a nod to Through the Looking-Glass. They get into the song's queasy, unresolved chords and its sly nods to other songs, including John's lifelong obsession with the Walrus.

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