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Following Imagine, the Beatles spent 1972 with their solo work. Earlier in 1971, John and Yoko moved to Edinburgh, Scotland where soon enough, they gained custody of Yoko's child, Kyoko Ono. In June 1972, Lennon released the album Sometime In Edinburgh, a double album including songs unused from Imagine such as Cold Turkey, Oh Yoko!, and I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama. While having a few decent songs, much of the album was lambasted by critics and failed to chart even the top 10, the first for a Beatle.

Meanwhile, George gained major success with his debut album, Living In the Material World, a triple album with songs that can rival any song by The Beatles. The consensus from day one was it was the best solo album by any Beatle and perhaps one of the greatest albums of all time.

But as 1973 rolled in, the band was ready to make music again as they released the single Live and Let Die for the James Bond movie of the same name. In late August 1973, the Beatles left for Lagos, Nigeria to make their newest album. Alongside them were musicians Billy Preston, Paul's wife Linda McCartney, and Denny Laine, whom Paul introduced to the band back in 1971. The seven Beatles entered Nigeria unknowingly heading into what John called "a total fucking mess". The trip is infamous for many things including the blackout incident, John and Yoko's mugging, and Paul's bronchial spasm. But what came out of Nigeria were 23 songs that producer George Martin used to make a coherent story revolving around themes of freedom and escape. A concept album.

In November 1973, Band On The Run would release, becoming one of their greatest albums ever made. All of their hard work payed through as critics gave the album glowing reviews and it quickly headed to No. 1, cementing it as one of the greatest album by The Beatles ever.

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Band On The Run (1973)

Side 1

1. Band On The Run

2. Jet

3. I'm The Greatest

4. I Found Out

5. Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

6. Bluebird

Side 2

7. Mrs. Vanderbilt

8. Gimme Some Truth

9. Run Of The Mill

10. Beware Of Darkness

11. It's So Hard

12. Mind Games

Side 3

13. Not Guilty

14. Behind That Locked Door

15. No Words

16. Be Here Now

17. Isolation

Side 4

18. Working Class Hero

19. Photograph

20. One Day (At a Time)

21. Hear Me Lord

22. Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)

23. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five

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Main Personnel

John Lennon - lead, harmony and backing vocals, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, handclaps

Paul McCartney - lead and backing vocals, bass, acoustic and electric guitars, piano, percussion

George Harrison - lead and backing vocals, electric and acoustic guitars, slide guitar

Ringo Starr - lead vocals (tracks 3 and 19), drums; percussion

Billy Preston - keyboard, organ

Linda McCartney - harmony and backing vocals, organ, keyboards, percussion

Denny Laine - harmony and backing vocals, co-lead vocals (tracks 15 and 22), acoustic and electric guitars, percussion

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Runtime: 1 hour, 29 minutes

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Band On The Run

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 - 23 September 1985) was a Soviet rocket engineer who served as chief designer for the Soviet Union's space program during the Space Race between it and the United States from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He invented the R-7 rocket, Sputnik 1, and was involved in launching the first dog, Laika, into orbit, the first man-made object to land on another celestial body, the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit, the first person to walk in space, Alexei Leonov, and the first Russian and third man to walk on the moon, also Leonov, a mere two weeks after the launch of Apollo 8.

Born in modern day Ukraine in the Russian Empire, Korolev evaded death in the late 1930s working at the infamous Kolyma labor camp. After his release, he quickly gained recognition as a rocket scientist and became a key figure in developing the Soviet ICBM program. He designed the first such ICBM, the R-7 Semyorka and later directed the Soviet space program, overseeing it officially from 1955 until his retirement in 1979. He oversaw the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok programs as well as the short-lived Voshod program. After U.S. president John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon by the year 1970, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev would quickly assigned the space program to start on their own moon program with the N-1-L3, the most powerful rocket at the time.

Korolev faced conflict with other engineers in the program for the 1960s, only conceding in some aspects such as his desire of an all-up test of the vehicle, instead going with an incramental test of each aspect. In August 1969, two weeks after the launch of Apollo 8, the first Soviet manned landing on the moon, Zvezda 5 would launch. Alexei Leonov became the third man to walk on the moon and the first Soviet to do so. After the Zvezda program ended in 1975, Korolev stayed on as chief designer, reccomending a mission to Mars that was developed only after his death. He served until his retirement from failing health in 1979. He died in 1985 at the age of 78. His name was put out to the Soviet public and outside world for the first time after his death.

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The AS-204 fire, more popularly known as the Apollo fire, was an incident that occured on January 19, 1967. Initially meant as the first manned mission of the Apollo Program, launching on February 21, 1967, the Command and Service Module, CSM-012, given the callsign Liberty, had caught fire on Launch Complex-34 during an uncrewed test meant as a "dry-run". The crew, Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, were training in a simulator away from the capsule when the fire occured. In the pure oxygen atmosphere of the capsule, a fire broke out that burned for several minutes before pad workers were able to open the hatch. The program was put on pause, only launching unmanned flights of the Saturn V and Lunar Module on newly named Apollos 1, 2, and 3 before the first manned flight, Apollo 4, was launched in October 1968, carrying the backup crew, Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham.

Well delayed Part 2 of this!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AlternateHistory/s/bK60pvMS7o

"Chud and Chudette" - A commentor from r/chainsawfolk

Asaden forever.

Frick me for taking pics instead of screenshots.

Inspired by 'The Fingerprints of Epstein by QTXAdsy on the alternate history forum.

Brainwashed Now And Then: How Final Beatles Album Shapes Their Legacy by Rolling Stone, May 1st, 2004

The Beatles' final album is here!

For one final bow, the Fab Four and their pals bring a new record for the scores of fans and normal folk alike with a tearjerker of an album, Brainwashed. How did we get here? Why now? Today, we will delve into a brief history on the band, their image, and above all, their music and the culmination of it all, Brainwashed.

The Beatles formed all the way in 1960. Founding members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison would cycle from Hamburg tours and the Cavern Club in Liverpool before meeting their manager, Sir Brian Epstein. With a final addition in the form of one Ringo Starr, the Fab Four would release their first single, Love Me Do, in October 1962.

Their popularity grew in the United Kingdom particularly after their debut album, Please Please Me, released in early 1963. On February 9th, 1964, Beatlemania hit America when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. They toured the world until 1966, when they took a five year break on touring, releasing hits such as Sgt. Pepper's, Abbey Road, Get Back, and All Things Must Pass. They had also founded the company Apple Corps, now a hugely successful entertainment company specializing in the music, film, animation, and tech industry with artists such as Queen, Pete Best, Nirvana, Chumbawamba, and Oasis signed on. Finally in 1971, they went on tour of the UK and Europe following Imagine and after, came the Concert for Bangladesh with new session musicians Billy Preston, Beatle wife turned organist Linda McCartney, and guitarist/bassist Denny Laine, amusingly named the Three Fifth Beatles.

But it wasn't until 1973, when The Beatles would release their monster hit, Band On The Run, the best selling album of all time for nearly a decade, being adapted to film staring the band in 1984. It started a hot streak of albums accompanied by a highly publicized tour through 1975 to 1976 with new destinations added such as South Africa, Taiwan, Peru, and the Philippines until it abruptly stopped with the release of London Town in 1977 after Lennon decided to take a break to raise his second son, Sean and reconnect with his first son, Julian with Lennon's wife, May Pang.

In 1980, all four Beatles reunited at Lennon's home in Edinburgh to reminisce which would result in their first singles in over five years in 1982 and 1983, Ebony and Ivory, and Four Guys respectively. Then came Live Aid where the Fab Four and Preston played six songs from each decade such as Day Tripper, Hey Jude, Band On The Run, and Four Guys. The next obvious thing was an album and tour, which would take shape in the form of Return to Pepperland and the 1987 to 1988 tour with the highlight being their two sold out shows in the USSR.

Afterwards, the band was now again in the swing of things, recording and touring through the early 90s before The Beatles Anthology released in 1995 and 1996, comprising of six compilation albums and acompanying series.

But by the late 90s, things began to slow down as the Quiet Beatle was diagnosed with cancer just before the launch of their album, Flaming Pie. After their 1998 world tour and appearance at Glastonbury, they went on a four year break from playing together until Harrison called for one final album together.

Harrison battled on until October 7th, 2003, when he passed away from the disease in Lennon's home in Edinburgh. The remaining Beatles and Epstein made an announcement following his death, mourning him and assuring the press that indeed a final album was in the works. One year later, that album has arrived.

Brainwashed is a unique album, with it's production kept to a minimal with no reverb, no overdub, and there's nothing that is, as Harrison described in an interview in 2002, "high tech" about the album. It has no underlying themes but each track is charming and uniting and of course, sad.

Tracks such as Stuck Inside A Cloud, Never Without You, Friends To Go, and Grow Old With Me are ones where it can be hard to keep emotions together knowing the context behind each track. While not inventing new music styles, it is poignant, endearing, charming, and beautiful.

Ultimately, Brainwashed, while not as innovative as other albums, is a haunting but beautiful album that deserves to be remembered for generations and is a fitting swan song by the four lads from Liverpool that changed the world forever.

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Tracks:

1. Any Road (Harrison)

2. Fine Line (Lennon-McCartney)

3. Never Without You (Lennon-McCartney-Starkey)

4. Love (Lennon-McCartney)

5. Pisces Fish (Harrison)

6. Marwa Blues (Harrison)

7. Stuck Inside A Cloud (Harrison)

8. Grow Old With Me (Lennon-McCartney)

9. Rising Sun (Harrison)

10. Friends To Go (Lennon-McCartney)

11. Magic (Lennon-McCartney)

12. Never Get Over You (Harrison)

13. Now And Then (Lennon-McCartney)

14. Brainwashed (Harrison-Lennon-McCartney-Starkey)

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Brainwashed is set to release next week on the seventh of May. Sir Brian Epstein has stated that a so-called "concert for George" is planned for the one year anniversary of Harrison's death.

Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 - 23 September 1985) was a Soviet rocket engineer who served as chief designer for the Soviet Union's space program during the Space Race between it and the United States from the 1950s to the early 1980s. He invented the R-7 rocket, oversaw the development of Sputnik 1, and was involved in launching the first dog, Laika, into orbit, the first man-made object to land on another celestial body, the first man, Yuri Gagarin, into orbit, the first person to walk in space,Alexei Leonov, and the first Russian and third man to walk on the moon, also Leonov, a mere two weeks after the launch of Apollo 8.

Born in modern day Ukraine in the Russian Empire, Korolev evaded death in the late 1930s working at the infamous Kolyma labor camp. After his release, he quickly gained recognition as a rocket scientist and became a key figure in developing the Soviet ICBM program. He designed the first such ICBM, the R-7 Semyorka and later directed the Soviet space program, overseeing it officially from 1955 until his retirement in 1979. He oversaw the early successes of the Sputnik and Vostok programs as well as the short-lived Voshod program. After U.S. president John F. Kennedy challenged the nation to land a man on the moon by the year 1970, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev would quickly assign the space program to start on their own moon program with the N-1-L3, the most powerful rocket at the time, by early 1963.

Korolev faced conflict with other engineers in the program for the 1960s, only conceding in some aspects such as his desire of an all-up test of the vehicle, instead going with an incramental test of each rocket stage after an incident involving a dynamic test vehicle in early 1966. In August 1969, two weeks after the launch of Apollo 8, the first Soviet manned landing on the moon, Zvezda 5 would launch. Alexei Leonov became the third man to walk on the moon and the first Soviet to do so. After the Zvezda proxu,rgram ended in 1975, Korolev stayed on has chief designer, reccomending a mission to Mars that was developed only after his death. He served until his retirement from failing health in 1979. He died in 1985 at the age of 78. His name was put out to the Soviet public and outside world for the first time after his death.

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The AS-204 fire, more popularly known as the Apollo fire, was an incident that occured on January 19, 1967. Initially meant as the first manned mission of the Apollo Program, launching on February 21, 1967, the Command and Service Module, CSM-012, given the callsign Liberty, had caught fire on Launch Complex-34 during an uncrewed test meant as a "dry-run". The crew, Command Pilot Gus Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White, and Pilot Roger Chaffee, were training in a simulator away from the capsule when the fire occured. In the pure oxygen atmosphere of the capsule, a fire broke out that burned for several minutes before pad workers were able to open the hatch. The program was put on pause, only launching unmanned flights of the Saturn V, and Lunar Module on the newly renamed Apollos 1, 2, and 3 before the first manned flight, Apollo 4, was launched in October 1968, carrying the backup crew, Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham.

The Apollo Program was NASA's third human spaceflight program which lasted from 1960 to 1976. It successfully landed the first humans, Neil Armstrong and Fred Haise, on the moon in 1969. Created in 1960 as a planned follow-up for Project Mercury by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, it was later dedicated to President John F. Kennedy's national goal of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the Earth in an address to Congress on May 25th, 1961. It encompassed his eight year term as President as well as the terms of Nelson Rockerfeller, and Robert Kennedy. It focused on both Lunar and Earth orbital missions and was succeded by the Voyager and Selene programs that landed men on Mars and established a permanent lunar outpost respectively using technologies derived from the program. In it's 17 years of existence, 34 men walked on the moon.

Hello! Welcome to yet another "Apollo Lives" timeline! You read the title, you know what it said on the tin, we're looking at a better timeline. This is a story of a better Apollo Program and a better NASA. It strictly follows the format, meaning the text will be as if it is from Wikipedia in this alternate timeline. This is semi non linear as it will also talk about the post Apollo world of NASA a bit such as it's successor programs. So sit back, relax, and let us see a certain Ukrainian man who just recovered from surgery in early 1966.