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Messages Sorry about this repeat thread guardians I know this has been discussed many times before ad nauseum , but I just watched the Beatles Anthology again, I guess my interest in the group re-stirred after watching the movie "Yesterday".
I know more than one factor was involved in the Beatles breaking up but what was the 1? Here's a list of ones I can think of: 1. John's obsession with Yoko Ono and bringing her into the studio.
Cocaine gave us Sgt. And certainly heroin was baleful as hell. The guy who figured out a way to ditch out of Rishikesh, and then did the same thing with Janov? And then bailed on his marriage? And then bailed on his separation? Is that person someone who could show H who was boss? Or is a rock star with an image to protect? How is this any different than a million other celeb stories, from Fatty Arbuckle to Charlie Sheen? Makes perfect sense, though. Lest anybody think this is overly harsh, my feeling is that The Beatles were no more or less savvy about chemical use than the rest of their generation, so many of whom were wrecked or died.
Linda must have had a lot of stamina and patience. That said, some of his behavior still sickens me. Rishikesh and Janov were demanding some hard, scary work — given his past, it would take a lot of patience, energy, and support to bear what might be revealed. Would he have made as much? No end to those questions. They had thrown away something special, and the man they chose to align themselves with, accountant and manager Allen Klein, turned out to be somebody they lost faith in.
After that happened, they again had Paul McCartney to thank, because his legal actions at the end probably saved their legacy. But the other Beatles never apologized to McCartney for how they handled him in Some things healed with time, but some losses were eternal. I regret a bad taste to it. Clearly, their music outshines the disaster and it always will. A Day in the Life: Photos of the Beatles in The end of the Beatles was convoluted and acrimonious, but it was also transcendent: No matter their problems, no matter how much they viewed one another with suspicion in their last year or two, the Beatles still knew how to talk to each other through their music, and nobody else has truly matched that heart-to-heart they achieved.
Their music was bigger than they were. That presence went well beyond the confines of room; it was a presence in the world at that time. Better than that, it was a force in history; it made possible the world we now live in, and nothing will ever unmake that. I will always be grateful to have lived in the time of the Beatles. Next: Gilmore breaks down the breakup into choice Beatles quotes.
But I found this a hard story to let go of, and because of that, I decided to document my obsession with some pictures of my notebooks and many of the books I utilized. Below are some moments and quotes that I thought were worth perusing while I was writing the story — the list amounts to a sort of timeline of the Beatles as they moved toward their end.
John's decision to have Yoko continually by his side at Abbey Road must have rankled the other three members of the group. And, as far as I can tell, there was little discussion between John and the other three about their new addition. One day Yoko was simply there. By his actions, John was straining his relationship with the rest of the band. But somehow the group finished the White Album, which was released on November 22, The plan was to film the group rehearsing new songs in preparation for a live concert.
It was Paul's idea, as he thought they should "get back" to their roots by doing concerts in small clubs. Which wasn't a bad idea, and under different circumstances it might have worked. I've always thought that one of the problems with Get Back is that it followed so quickly on the heels of the White Album.
Work finished on the White Album in mid-October, and just two and a half months later they were rehearsing and recording their new album!
I think the group probably needed a longer break from each other, they probably should have taken six months off! But anyway, the Beatles were back, and Paul was excited, even if no one else was. So, if no one else was as excited as Paul, why did they agree to the project?
Again, it simply seems to be that no one offered any alternative ideas. That's always been a paradox of the Beatles' break-up, the story is that Paul was "bossy," but no one else was standing up and offering alternative plans.
What was Paul to do? The Get Back sessions made the White Album sessions look like fun. On January 10th, just a week into the sessions, George Harrison quit the group. George came back, but on the condition that the concert idea be dropped.
It's easy to understand why George was pissed off with the group. He was tired of only getting one song per album side, especially since he was writing songs that were just as good as John and Paul's. On the White Album , George got exactly one song on each side. George felt marginalized and neglected by both John and Paul. Although much is made of George's resentment of Paul's bossiness, see the Let It Be clip where George tells Paul, "I'll play whatever it is you want me to play.
According to the Rolling Stone article, on January 10th, the day George quit, "Harrison and Lennon got into a fight that they later had to deny came to blows. Somehow the band was able to put things aside long enough to play an impromptu concert on the roof of the Apple building on January 30th, their last live performance.
The Get Back project was left not-quite finished, and the group kept recording new material throughout the spring.
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