Wings released their debut album in 1971 and then nothing but a few non-album singles until Red Rose Speedway in 1973. During this time, they toured in the UK and Europe and released a few non-album singles while preparing the release of Red Rose Speedway.

This is basically what an album by Wings in 1972 could have looked like, based on the new material they were playing in their setlists and songs we know they recorded/released that year.

I've been listening to it again while putting the artwork together and I think it's a fun little album. Enjoy!

Track Listing

Side A (22:40)

1. Soily [Venus And Mars (Archive Collection)]
2. The Mess [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
3. Seaside Woman [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
4. 1882 [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
5. When The Night [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]

Side B (20:40)

1. Best Friend [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
2. Little Lamb Dragonfly [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
3. Mama's Little Girl [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
4. I Would Only Smile [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]
5. Hi, Hi, Hi [Red Rose Speedway (Archive Collection)]

u/Rock_Electron_742's recent The Band/Eric Clapton fan album reminded me of a solo Richard Manuel fan album I posted here a while back. The album was based around songs Richard Manuel sang lead on, or wrote or co-wrote, on Music From Big Pink and The Basement Tapes. For some reason I threw in some of the covers he performed on The Band's covers album Moondog Matinee rather than use the songs he co-wrote on The Band's self titled album (the Brown Album). I don't think the artwork I made for it was great either, so I decided to re-do the album using some of the Brown Album tracks with new artwork.

Track Listing

Side A (23:08)

1. Tears of Rage [Music From Big Pink]
2. Katie's Been Gone [The Basement Tapes]
3. Whispering Pines [The Band]
4. We Can Talk [Music From Big Pink]
5. Long Distance Operator [The Basement Tapes]
6. Jawbone [The Band]

Side B (20:31)

1. Across The Great Divide [The Band]
2. Lonesome Suzie [Music From Big Pink]
3. In A Station [Music From Big Pink]
4. Orange Juice Blues [The Basement Tapes]
5. Ruben Remus [The Basement Tapes]
6. I Shall Be Released [Music From Big Pink]

Total Length = 43 minutes, 39 seconds.

A recent post about the Beatles' third album over on the main sub got me thinking about this again. A Hard Day's Night really isn't far off being a solo John record. Paul has three songs on lead vocals, George has one but even this was primarily written by John as far as I know. I thought I'd try and make a solo John album out of his songs on AHDN and basically swapping out the Paul/George songs with other songs we know were written/recorded with him on lead vocals around the same time.

It's not the most original album but I think you end up with a pretty fun record. To refrain from using too many covers - after all, AHDN was notable for being the first Beatles album with no cover songs - I've chosen to make this a twelve-track, US-style album. Cover art inspired by The Lemonheads' compilation Laughing All The Way To The Cleaners which I just picked up.

Track Listing

Side A

1. A Hard Day's Night
2. I Should Have Known Better
3. If I Fell
4. I Call Your Name
5. Slow Down
6. Tell Me Why

Side B

1. No Reply
2. I'll Cry Instead
3. Any Time At All
4. When I Get Home
5. You Can't Do That
6. I'll Be Back

I was quite pleased with how my last fan album turned out so I thought I'd make a follow-up and develop the story a little further.

The Beatles' first album, Meet The Beatles, is released in 1960 and is a success in West Germany, with it rising in the charts following the success of the single "Ain't She Sweet" (c/w "Long Tall Sally"). However, all was not well concerning the group - all but Stuart Sutcliffe, who had found love with local left Hamburg following trouble with the law. The rest of the group would eventually return a few months later in 1961, however it was around this time that Stuart Sutcliffe was starting to set his sights on a promising art career rather than to continue playing in the Beatles. Sutcliffe left the group, leaving McCartney to begrudgingly take over as bassist.

Despite the turmoil, the band were able to secure an arrangement to record a second album. Like their first, it was largely dominated by covers, with the band still developing their stockpile of original compositions. It was preceded by the single "I Saw Her Standing There" (c/w "Some Other Guy"), which became an unexpected hit in West Germany and boosted the group's confidence in their original material.

Track Listing

Side A (15:44)

1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Some Other Guy [Live At The BBC]
3. I Got A Woman [Live At The BBC]
4. A Taste Of Honey [Live At The BBC]
5. Chains [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol. 2)]
6. Too Much Monkey Business [Live At The BBC]
7. I'll Be On My Way [Live At The BBC]

Side B (16:51)

1. Carol [Live At The BBC]
2. Cry For A Shadow [Anthology 1]
3. Matchbox [Live At The BBC]
4. Slow Down [Live At The BBC]
5. You Really Got A Hold On Me [Live At The BBC]
6. Please Mister Postman [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol. 2)]
7. Everybody's Trying To Be My Baby [Live At The BBC]

The album was a success when it was released in West Germany later in the year, by which point the Beatles had already returned to Liverpool; here, they were also experiencing a boom in popularity, having become the city's hottest live band since they first returned from the continent. When Liverpudlians began asking local record store businessman Brian Epstein for albums and singles by a band called The Beatles, he knew he had to see them for himself to understand what the fuss was about...

And from there, who knows what the Beatles' career could have looked like. I don't want to drag this out for too long, so this will be the last album in this two-part series.

One fan album theme I seem to return to often is the idea that the Beatles record an album at some point before their debut came out in our timeline (1963).

We know that the Beatles were active under some name or line-up since 1956, when John Lennon formed the Quarrymen which over time came to include Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Stuart Sutcliffe, and Pete Best, with the latter two dropping out of the line-up before Ringo Starr's entry in 1962, resulting in The Beatles as we know them.

This fan album focuses on one particular point in the band's early history: their Hamburg period. This is where it's said the band refined their live act, performing for hours on end under the influence of substances. They left Liverpool a somewhat sloppy band who struggled for gigs; when they returned, those who knew the band were shocked at how tight they had become. It's a very interesting time in the history of the Beatles, plus a BBC television drama series based on this time period titled Hamburg Days has recently been announced, so it has been on my mind lately.

This is kind of a what-if based around what an album recorded by the Hamburg iteration of the band could have looked like. The track listing is based on the original compositions we know existed at the time, and songs that may have been in the Beatles' repertoire at the time.

Everything here is by The Beatles except for the "Stuart Sutcliffe" version of "Love Me Tender", which has been debunked but given that it was his vocal spot I wanted to include it. I've used live versions where possible to give the album a slightly rougher edge.

Enjoy!

Track Listing

Side A (16:42)

1. Twist And Shout [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol. 2)]
2. I'm Gonna Sit Right Down And Cry (Over You) [Live At The BBC]
3. To Know Her Is To Love Her [Live At The BBC]
4. Kansas City / Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey [Live At The BBC]
5. Roll Over Beethoven [Live At The BBC]
6. I'll Follow The Sun [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol. 2)]
7. Besame Mucho [Anthology 1]

Side B (17:22)

1. One After 909 [Anthology 1]
2. Nothin' Shakin' [Live At The BBC]
3. Till There Was You [Live At The BBC]
4. Ain't She Sweet [Anthology 1]
5. I'm Talking About You [On Air - Live At The BBC (Vol. 2)]
6. Love Me Tender [Stuart Sutcliffe - Love Me Tender]
7. Long Tall Sally [Live At The BBC]

A very quick fan album I threw together.

The new single "Home To Us" from Paul McCartney's upcoming album has garnered a lot of attention, primarily because the song is a duet with his old bandmate Ringo Starr. Paul and Ringo have collaborated frequently over the years, moreso than any of the ex-Beatles did with each other after the band broke up - obviously this is partly due to the fact that Paul and Ringo are the only ones left with us.

I thought I'd assemble a fan album of songs which feature Paul and Ringo collaborating to some extent. It's not a comprehensive list, just a collection of twelve songs spanning their careers. I've included some details about the nature of the collaborations below.

Track Listing

1. Home To Us
2. Take It Away
3. Attention
4. Walk With You
5. Ballroom Dancing
6. Really Love You
7. Six O'Clock
8. Average Person
9. Stardust
10. So Bad
11. Wanderlust
12. Grow Old With Me

Notes

• Home To Us - as I'm sure we all know, this is the new single from Paul's upcoming album The Boys Of Dungeon Lane; and as I'm sure you know if you've listened to it or heard any of the press surrounding it, this is a duet between Paul and Ringo. Paul wanted Ringo to contribute to the track, but initially Ringo only supplied vocals for a few lines of the song. Paul had to ask Ringo to record more, as he wanted the song to be a duet between them. He thought it was fitting because it was about their hometown, specifically the time they both grew up in.
• Take It Away - from Paul's 1981 album Tug Of War. Ringo plays drums on this one and appears in the song's music video. I used the single version here because the album version has the transition from Tug Of War at the beginning of the track, which sounds a little awkward in this context.
• Attention - a song Paul wrote for Ringo's album Stop And Smell The Roses, their first collaboration in five years when Paul submitted the song "Pure Gold" for Ringo's Rotogravure. Paul produced the track and performed bass, piano, and backing vocals. McCartney also appears on two other songs on the album in the same roles.
• Walk With You - Paul plays bass and sings backing vocals on this 2012 collab with Ringo.
• Ballroom Dancing, Average Person, So Bad, Wanderlust - I've grouped these tracks together simply because I don't have as much to say about them as the other songs. They were all recorded roughly around the same time (most of Pipes Of Peace was recorded in the Tug Of War sessions), Ringo plays drums on all of them.
• Really Love You - recorded for Paul's album Flaming Pie. This song was the result of a jam between Paul, Ringo, and Jeff Lynne. The final result was credited to McCartney-Starkey, the first song credited to the duo!
• Six O'Clock - a song from Ringo's first rock album, Ringo (1973). This was the first time Paul and Ringo collaborated since the Beatles' break-up (although not the first time they collaborated on a solo album - more on that later). Apparently Ringo convinced Paul to help him out on the album after informing him that John and George would also be contributing to the sessions. The song is credited to Paul and Linda, and Ringo flew out to London from L.A. (where most of the album was recorded) to ensure that Paul would be able to take part in the recording - he was unable to visit the States at the time.
• Stardust - technically the first solo collaboration between Paul and Ringo, on the latter's debut solo album Sentimental Journey. This was an album of covers of old pop standards, songs Ringo had learned through his mother's fondness for them. Ringo aimed to have each song arranged by a different musician, ranging from Richard Perry (who later produced Ringo and Goodnight Vienna), Maurice Gibb, George Martin, Quincy Jones, and Paul McCartney, who arranged this song. Apparently the album was originally going to be titled Ringo Starrdust after this track.
• Grow Old With Me - written by John Lennon, and released on his posthumous album Milk And Honey, which was also his final collaborative album with Yoko. Apparently the song was among the ones given to the remaining three Beatles by Yoko at the start of the Anthology project. The song was ultimately not recorded for that project, but over twenty years later Ringo decided to record his own version, which featured Paul on bass guitar and backing vocals.

A successor to the Beatles' 1977 compilation Love Songs. That album was - you guessed it - a compilation of love songs the Beatles recorded throughout their career, shared across two discs. This fan album serves as a compilation of love songs the former Beatles recorded as solo artists, spanning 1970-1980.

With each member releasing albums throughout the decade there will obviously be tracks that didn't make the cut on this double-LP. That being said, I aimed to include some of the obvious picks ("Silly Love Songs", "What Is Life", "Maybe I'm Amazed", etc.) alongside a few personal favourites.

The cover art is my own. I tried to recreate the artwork for the original Love Songs album as faithfully as possible, using images of the band members from the 1970-1980 period instead of the 1967 shots on the original cover.

Track Listing (Total Runtime = 1 hour, 28 minutes)

Side A (22:18)

1. My Love [Wings - Red Rose Speedway]
2. Woman [John Lennon, Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy]
3. Dark Sweet Lady [George Harrison - George Harrison]
4. Jealous Guy [John Lennon - Imagine]
5. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long [George Harrison - Living in the Material World]
6. Photograph [Ringo Starr - Ringo]

Side B (21:59)

1. Love [John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band]
2. Silly Love Songs [Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound]
3. Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) [John Lennon - Walls and Bridges]
4. Beautiful Girl [George Harrison - Thirty Three & 1/3]
5. Every Night [Paul McCartney - McCartney]
6. If Not For You [George Harrison - All Things Must Pass]

Side C (22:52)

1. You [George Harrison - Extra Texture (Read All About It)]
2. Out The Blue [John Lennon - Mind Games]
3. Maybe I'm Amazed [Paul McCartney - McCartney]
4. Only You (And You Alone) [Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna]
5. (Just Like) Starting Over [John Lennon, Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy]
6. The Back Seat Of My Car [Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney - Ram]

Side D (21:13)

1. What Is Life [George Harrison - All Things Must Pass]
2. I'm Carrying [Wings - London Town]
3. Oh My Love [John Lennon - Imagine]
4. Stardust [Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey]
5. Arrow Through Me [Wings - Back To The Egg]
6. Learning How To Love You [George Harrison - Thirty Three & 1/3]

Inspired by u/Anxious-Raspberry-54's recent post. A little while back I made a Rock And Roll Music compilation using the Beatles' solo work. At the time, I was considering following that up with a solo Beatle version of the Love Songs album. If you're not familiar, this was a compilation released in the 70s of - you guessed it - love songs recorded by the Beatles. It's a double album that spanned their whole recording career - you can read up on it here.

I didn't end up going through with the idea, but after seeing the aforementioned post on this sub, I thought I'd resurrect it. Like the original Love Songs album, this is a double-LP of love songs members of the Beatles recorded during their solo careers. I will only be counting each member's solo output while all four ex-Beatles were alive, meaning this spans 1970-1980. I have tried to recreate the original Love Songs artwork, using images of the Beatles from this specific time frame, as faithfully as possible.

There are only so many love songs I can include and I'm sure some people will be keen to point out some that I have missed; I cannot please everyone so don't take it to heart if a track you like isn't on here. I tried to include some of the obvious ones ("My Love", "What Is Life", "Maybe I'm Amazed", "Love", etc.) and a few of my personal favourites. There are a few covers on here, but the original album included "Words Of Love" so I don't feel like they're out of place.

Enjoy!

Track Listing

Side A (22:18)

1. My Love [Wings - Red Rose Speedway]
2. Woman [John Lennon, Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy]
3. Dark Sweet Lady [George Harrison - George Harrison]
4. Jealous Guy [John Lennon - Imagine]
5. Don't Let Me Wait Too Long [George Harrison - Living in the Material World]
6. Photograph [Ringo Starr - Ringo]

Side B (21:59)

1. Love [John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band]
2. Silly Love Songs [Wings - Wings at the Speed of Sound]
3. Surprise Surprise (Sweet Bird of Paradox) [John Lennon - Walls and Bridges]
4. Beautiful Girl [George Harrison - Thirty Three & 1/3]
5. Every Night [Paul McCartney - McCartney]
6. If Not For You [George Harrison - All Things Must Pass]

Side C (22:52)

1. You [George Harrison - Extra Texture (Read All About It)]
2. Out The Blue [John Lennon - Mind Games]
3. Maybe I'm Amazed [Paul McCartney - McCartney]
4. Only You (And You Alone) [Ringo Starr - Goodnight Vienna]
5. (Just Like) Starting Over [John Lennon, Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy]
6. The Back Seat Of My Car [Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney - Ram]

Side D (21:13)

1. What Is Life [George Harrison - All Things Must Pass]
2. I'm Carrying [Wings - London Town]
3. Oh My Love [John Lennon - Imagine]
4. Stardust [Ringo Starr - Sentimental Journey]
5. Arrow Through Me [Wings - Back To The Egg]
6. Learning How To Love You [George Harrison - Thirty Three & 1/3]

I just saw this picture and I was shocked because I've never seen it before. I've been a Beatles fan for 8 years. They look great here! This might be one of my favourite photos of the couple together now. Share your favourite John&Yoko pics if you feel so inclined

I was going to post this on r/HarryNilsson, but given that I need moderator approval to post on there, I thought this would be the next best place to ask.

I've been on a bit of a Nilsson deep dive recently and I'm curious about what was apparently a Yoko Ono covers album which never came to be.

Harry has released four Yoko Ono covers: three on the tribute album Every Man Has A Woman (Silver Horse, Loneliness, Dream Love) and one posthumously on Losst and Found (Listen, The Snow Is Falling). All of those except for Dream Love are available on YouTube or through streaming, which is why I'm hoping to find a CD copy of EMHAW so that I can listen to it (not sure why it hasn't been uploaded with the others - maybe due to copyright reasons).

Apparently there are a number of other covers of Yoko's songs which Harry recorded that haven't been officially released, although they were supposedly intended for a kind of "Harry Sings Yoko" album in the 80s. According to this blog post, there may be versions of Never Say Goodbye, Toy Boat, and Smile - a song which is apparently being debated on whether or not Yoko actually wrote it as she hasn't released her version - floating around somewhere.

I was wondering if anyone knew where I could access these? I've not been able to find them online. I don't know what the crossover of Nilsson/Yoko fans is but if anyone can point me in the right direction I'd appreciate it!

And if you're not familiar with Harry's covers, I'll link them below so you can check them out if you're interested

• Listen, The Snow Is Falling
• Silver Horse
• Loneliness

Recently I rewatched Harry's performance on BBC's In Concert for the umpteenth time. It got me thinking about how an MTV Unplugged performance featuring Harry might have looked. Harry died in 1994 so this performance is set in the early 1990s. I didn't have a specific year in mind, but the photos on the front and back cover were taken from a mimed TV performance of Without You from 1990 so we'll go with that.

I've used outtakes or demos available on various Nilsson compilations in an effort to choose the most stripped-down versions of the songs wherever possible. Obviously Harry's voice was different leading up to his death and many of the songs likely wouldn't have sounded the same in live performance. There are a million reasons why this wouldn't have happened, or why it wouldn't have worked if it did, but remember that this is pure fantasy.

All albums were released by Harry Nilsson.

Track Listing (Total Runtime = 54 minutes, 30 seconds)

1. All I Think About Is You [Knnilssonn]
2. Down - Demo [Nilsson Session 1971-1973]
3. Gotta Get Up - Live 1971 [Before the Mornin' Comes]
4. Bath [Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968]
5. Remember (Christmas) [Son of Schmilsson]
6. I Guess the Lord Must Be in New York City [Harry]
7. Joy - Alternate Version [Nilsson Sessions 1968-1971]
8. Without Her [Before the Mornin' Comes]
9. Coconut [Before the Mornin' Comes]
10. Save the Last Dance for Me [Sessions 1967-1975]
11. One [Aerial Pandemonium Ballet]
12. Don't Forget Me [Pussy Cats]
13. Together [Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968]
14. Without You [Nilsson Session 1971-1973]
15. 1941 [Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968]
16. I Said Goodbye to Me - Alternate Version [Nilsson Sessions 1967-1968]
17. Perfect Day [Knnilssonn]

I was pleased to see that the first post in this timeline had such a positive reception. One commenter suggested that I make a post for the Lennon & McCartney albums - the duo that John and Paul form in the aftermath of the Beatles' break-up. I was actually planning on posting these and I even had the Wiki article for the duo prepared. This morning I finished up the album artworks and now it's ready to go!

John and Paul go their own ways in 1968 so this post contains all their albums up to that point. Again, you can check out the chart positions at the bottom.

1965

Songs of Lennon & McCartney - Track Listing

Side A (17:32)

1. I've Just Seen A Face
2. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
3. Ticket To Ride
4. Michelle
5. The Word
6. Wait
7. Girl

Side B (16:47)

1. The Night Before
2. You've Got To Hide Your Love Away
3. Yes It Is
4. I'm Looking Through You
5. Another Girl
6. We Can Work It Out
7. I'm Down

1966

Magic Circle - Track Listing

Side A (14:36)

1. Paperback Writer
2. Doctor Robert
3. Here, There and Everywhere
4. Rain
5. For No One
6. Yellow Submarine

Side B (15:13)

1. Good Day Sunshine
2. I'm Only Sleeping
3. She Said She Said
4. Got To Get You Into My Life
5. And Your Bird Can Sing
6. Tomorrow Never Knows

1967

Pendulum - Track Listing

Side A (19:03)

1. All Together Now
2. Penny Lane
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
4. Getting Better
5. Strawberry Fields Forever
6. She's Leaving Home

Side B (18:38)

1. Lovely Rita
2. Fixing A Hole
3. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
4. When I'm Sixty-Four
5. Good Morning Good Morning
6. A Day In The Life