The Beatles: After The Break-Up, The Beatles: Off the Record, Good Times, Bad Times: TheKeith BadmanMacmillan
The status of the Beatles hasn’t changed much since then. Only now, bitterness and mistrust have begun to set in. For if they have indeed “broken up,” the break took place well before Paul McCartney released his new album, and announced he was leaving. In the words of John Lennon,...
When the surviving Beatles asked Jackson to get involved, he wasn’t sure he was up to the job. “As a longtime Beatles fan, I really wasn’t looking forward to it,” he says. “I thought, ‘If what we’ve seen is the stuff they allowed people to see, what are the other 55 ho...
John Lennon had quit The Beatles on September 20, 1969 announcing his decision to leave the band at a meeting in London. This was kept quiet because they had just signed a huge royalty increase with Capitol Records. This letter was 4 days before Paul told the world that The Beatles were ...
Lennon felt the band's days were numbered from August 27, 1967, when Brian Epstein died. Epstein was the band's manager, and the man who discovered The Beatles down a dusty alleyway in Liverpool, UK. He pushed them to change their look, replaced their drummer with Ringo Starr, and got...
. 1966 ~George HarrisonofThe Beatlesmarried Patricia (Patty) Anne Boyd in Surrey, England. The two met on the set of the movie,“A Hard Day’s Night”. . 1970 ~ ABC-TV presented “The Johnny Cash Show” in prime time. Previously, the show had been a summer replacement. The regular...
The animosity between them became public in the wake of the Beatles’ breakup. McCartney took a shot at Lennon and Ono on his song “Too Many People,” leveling the charge that Lennon “took [his] lucky break and broke it in two.” Lennon responded, rather more viciously, with “How Do...
In the same interview, McCartney said that the idea that he had instigated the break-up was a “hurtful” misconception. Speaking to the BBC most recently, McCartney said: “I had to fight, and the only way I could fight was in suing the other Beatles, because they were going with ...
I was so excited to share these photos that I didn't want to wait until December (but I will wait to share the backstage images). Now I realize that these are TERRIBLE quality. They are so dark and you can barely make out the Beatles in some of them. But these prove that there ar...
April 1970- The Beatles announce their break up May 1970- The Kent State shooting September 1970- Jimi Hendrix dies October 1970- Janis Joplin dies November 1970- I was born **For me personally, the nine year run Prince had from PRINCE in 1979 to SIGN O’ THE TIMES in 1987 is as ...