1969 THE END IS COMING
Insert body text here ...
IN 1970 IT WAS FOUR INDIVIDUALS INSTEAD OF "THE BEATLES" JOHN HAD YOKO,PAUL HAD LINDA,BOTH GEAOGE AND RINGO HAD MARRIED. IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS TIMEW TO BE ADULTS AND GO OUT ON YOUR OWN.
PAUL HAD ANNOUNCED THAT HE WAS LEAVING THE GROUP,AFTER ASKING JOHN NOT TO STATE THAT HE WAS LEAVING. THIS WAS JUST ANOTHER INCIDENT THAT STRAINED THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THEM FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
JOHN HAD RELEASED 'LIVE PEACE' IN JANUARY AND "PLATIC ONO BAND" IN DECEMBER.
PAUL HAD RECORDED" McCARTNEY' AND WOULD RELEASE IT IN APRIL.
GEORGE RELEASED HIS CLASSIC MULTI RECORD SET "ALL THINGS MUST PASS' IN DECEMBER.
ONLY RINGO DID NOT RELEASE AN LP,BUT IN APRIL OF 1971 HE DID RELEASE HIS WORLDWIDE HIT "IT DON'T COME EASY".
THE RELEASES OF 1970 PRETTY MUCH PUT A PERIOD AT THE END OF THE BEATLES AS A GROUP. FOR YEARS AFTER THE RUMOURS OF A REUNION WOULD SURFACE AT LEAST ONCE A YEAR. BEHIND THE SCENES AND OUT OF VIEW THE GROUP GRADUALLY MENDED THE FENCES AND RESOLVED MUCH OF THE HURT THAT THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE DEMISE OF THE GROUP. DURING THE LATE 70'S JOHN & PAUL HAD BECOME FRIENDS AGAIN, AND WHILE THEY WERE NO LONGER A ROCK BAND THEY DID BECOME FRIENDS, SOMETHING THAT PROBABLY HAD BEEN LOST IN THE STRANGE WORLD OF "BEATLEMANIA".
FOUR YOUNG MEN FROM A PROVINCIAL BACKGROUND IN THE NORTH OF ENGLAND,WHO IN 1970 HAD ONLY BEEN FAMOUS AROUND THE WORLD FOR ABOUT 7 YEARS. LEAVING THAT INSULATED WORLD OF BEING A BEATLE MUST HAVE BEEN QUITE AN EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE.
WHILE THEY ALL CONTINUED TO MAKE MUSIC IT WAS FROM START TO FINISH THEIR PRODUCT AND IT WOULD
AT LEAST FOR JOHN,PAUL AND GEORGE,BE COMPARED TO THE OTHERS.
PAUL'S "McCARTNEY" HAS STOOD THE TEST OF TIME AS HAS "ALL THINGS MUST PASS' AND IN 1971 JOHN PUT OUT HIS FIRST SOLO STUDIO LP "IMAGINE", WHO'S TITLE TRACK IS ONE OF THE MOST USED POST BEATLE SONGS.
RELEASED APRIL 20,1970
MAY 6,1970 HIT #1 ON BILLBOARD LP CHARTS.
HIT SINGLE "MAYBE I'M AMAZED"
"LIVE PEACE" RECORDED SEPTEMBER 13,1969 IN TORONTO, CANADA. BAND MEMBERS:JOHN LENNON,YOKO ONO,ERIC CLAPTON,KLAUS VOORMAN,ALAN WHITE. LP WAS RELEASED ON DECEMBER 12,1969.
"ALL THINGS MUST PASS" RELEASED ON NOVEMBER 27,1970. PRODUCED BY GEORGE HARRISON AND PHIL SPECTOR. HAD MANY CLASSIC TRACKS INCLUDING "MY SWEET LORD", "WHAT IS LIFE" AMONG THEM. THE MOST AMBITIOUS FIRST SOLO LP BY THE BEATLES AND STILL A CLASSIC 36 YEARS LATER.
