a hypothetical 2016 tally hall album (and their first ever double album), which partially parallels the beatles white album.

spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3yN9kSi1kdzNja9USxvOOJ

length: 94 minutes

disk 1:

isle unto thyself (hawley) [from miracle musical - hawaii part ii]

i’m gonna win (hawley-cantor) [from rob cantor - not a trampoline]

miss melody (horowitz) [from edu - sketches 3D]

bring her along (hawley) [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

white ball (hawley) [from miracle musical - hawaii part ii]

lemons and pears (horiwitz) [from edu - sketches 3D]

garden of eden (cantor)[from rob cantor - not a trampoline]

black people white people (hawley) [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

HEY YOU! (horowitz) [from edu - sketches 3D]

perfect (cantor) [from rob cantor - not a trampoline]

the apologue of hot rod duncan (hawley) [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

fishes (horowitz) [from edu - MONSTERS]

time machine/moon waltz (cantor-hawley-karaca) [from miracle musical - hawaii part ii and cojum dip - cojum dip respectively]

disk 2:

daisy fingers (horowitz) [from edu - sketches 3D]

rotary park (hawley-sedghi) [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

old bike (cantor) [from rob cantor - not a trampoline]

“the medley” (hawley-cantor)

- bahamian rap city [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

- variations on a cloud [from miracle musical - hawaii part ii]

- welcome to tally hall (reprise) [unreleased but demoed tally hall song, uses original track from tally hall - marvin’s marvelous mechanical museum as placeholder]

just a friend (cover) [from tally hall - just a friend]

hummingbird (horowitz) [from edu - sketches 3D]

the mind electric (hawley) [from miracle musical - hawaii part ii]

the rainbow connection (cover) [from edu - sketches 3D]

aristole’s denial (hawley-karaca, hidden track) [from joe hawley - joe hawley joe hawley]

Spotify Playlist Link: Somewhere In England

Other albums in this timeline:

Abber Road - 1969
Let It Be - 1970
Isolation - 1970
Wild Life - 1972
Loup - 1973
Band On The Run - 1974
Rock 'N' Roll - 1975
Thirty Three & 1/3 - 1976
Starting Over - 1980

I have never been a fan of Phil Spector's production. Luckily, the ATMP Super Deluxe has given me the ability to fix this and letting the original, raw beauty of George's songs shine through. Here's the compilation I came up with, mostly adhering to the structure of the OG ATMP including some tweaks and additions.

Side A:

1. Wedding Bells (Are Breaking Up That Old Gang Of Mine) (Take 1)*

2. My Sweet Lord (Day 1 Demo)

3. Going Down To Golders Green (Day 1 Demo)

4. What Is Life (Session Outtakes and Jams) (Take 1)

5. Isn't It A Pity (Session Outtakes and Jams) (Take 27)

Side B:

1. If Not For You (Day 1 Demo)**

2. Mama You've Been On My Mind (Demo)**

3. Behind That Locked Door (Day 1 Demo)

4. Let It Down (Session Outtakes and Jams) (Take 1)

5. I'd Have You Anytime (Day 1 Demo)***

6. Run Of The Mill (Day 2 Demo)

Side C:

1. Beware of Darkness (Day 2 Demo)

2. Ballad Of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) (Day 1 Demo)

3. I Dig Love (Day 1 Demo)

4. Awaiting On You All (Day 1 Demo)

5. Art Of Dying (Day 2 Demo)

6. Woman Don't You Cry For Me (Take 5)

Side D:

1. Apple Scruffs (Day 1 Demo)

2. Dehra Dun (Day 1 Demo)

3. I Live For You (Day 1 Demo)

4. All Things Must Pass (Day 1 Demo)

5. Beautiful Girl (Day 2 Demo)

6. Cosmic Empire (Day 2 Demo)

All tracks written by George Harrison except

* by Fain-Kahal-Raskin

** by Dylan

*** by Harrison-Dylan

Playlist Link: Ringo Rarities

This is the FOURTH and FINAL installment of my Beatles “rarities” series where I show the more obscure songs of their time together and apart. This time it’s Sir Ringo Starr’s turn at the plate!!

SIDE ONE:

1. If You’ve Got Troubles - The Beatles Anthology 2
2. Bye Bye Blackbird - Sentimental Journey
3. Cookin’ (In The Kitchen Of Love) - Ringo’s Rotogravure
4. All By Myself - Goodnight Vienna
5. English Garden - Ringorama
6. After All These Years - Time Takes Time
7. Coochy Coochy - Non-album Single

SIDE TWO:

1. Stop & Take The Time To Smell The Roses - Stop & Smell The Roses
2. Harry’s Song - Liverpool 8
3. Gypsies In Flight - Ringo The 4th
4. Whispering Grass - Sentimental Journey
5. Easy For Me - Goodnight Vienna
6. Gave It All Up - Ringo The 4th
7. You & Me (Babe) - Ringo

Bonus Track: Octopus’s Garden (Rehearsal)

(This is the third album of an eight-album series. Each album will focus on one Beatle during a specific time period.)

TopMajor recently did a series of Beatles “solo” albums that was just great. I did one about a year ago. Similar idea…The Beatles begin solo careers at a much earlier time.

I have gone over my old series and made changes. TopMajor has graciously offered his help with artwork to give my series a bold, exciting look. I can’t thank him enough for that.

Here is a fictional backstory for this series...

(There is no A Hard Day’s Night film in this alternate timeline.)

On January 29, 1964, The Beatles showed up to record their third album, tentatively titled A Hard Day’s Night. To the surprise of producer George Martin, 23-year-old John Lennon and 21-year-old Paul McCartney showed up with 13 brand new original songs. Their goal? An album of all original songs.

When George Martin informed the suits at EMI of the material for the next Beatles album, the suits refused to go along with the idea. They would not release an album of all original songs written by 2 boys barely out of their teens. They told The Beatles that they had to record at least five covers of American R&B hits on their new album, as they had done on previous albums.

Seeing no other way to resolve this situation and in order to get their own music released, Lennon discussed the idea of leaving the group. The other Beatles were heartbroken.

A final meeting with EMI did not go well. One exec told Brian Epstein, “They’re a pop group. Plenty of them around.”

Soon after, the Beatles broke up, and they began pursuing solo careers.

The Beatles remained good friends. They performed on each other’s albums occasionally but never reconvened as a performing group again, except for a one-off performance in 1967.

(Note: Paul uses the Sgt. Pepper idea, but in a different way)

For No One - A Paul 1967 “Solo” Album

1. Sgt. Pepper (featuring Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

2. Penny Lane

3. Got To Get You Into My Life

4. Hello Goodbye

5. Here There Everywhere

6. Getting Better (John/Paul co-write, John on rhythm guitar and vocal)

7. Paperback Writer (Ringo on drums)

8. Fixing A Hole (George on lead guitar)

9. Your Mother Should Know

10. For No One

11. The Fool On The Hill

12. Lovely Rita

13. Magical Mystery Tour (John on guitar, vocals)

14. Sgt. Pepper Reprise (featuring Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)

Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is…

Paul McCartney - bass, lead vocal

Brian Jones - guitar, backing vocals

Eric Clapton - guitar

Ringo Starr - drums

David Crosby - backing vocals

Mick Jagger - backing vocals

For No One - A Paul 1967 “Solo” Album (Spotify)

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/54jhYAunZrk1SkDQ7ujzv6?si=3c329df032ef4a31)

For No One - A Paul 1967 “Solo” Album (Apple Music

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/beatles-for-no-one-a-1967-paul-solo-album/pl.u-jV890v9saDKeRMN?ls)

Other albums in this series…

From A Window - A Paul 1965 “Solo” Album

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/42ottRbl5ljhn2SF9uQIDP?si=wCd-aZSYSmy3320E1g4nAw&pi=Vx-XlAUgSDiAA)

From A Window - A Paul 1965 “Solo” Album (Apple Music Link)

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/beatles-from-a-window-a-1965-paul-solo-album/pl.u-kv9l2M5C4Jm3PNK?ls)

Day Tripper - A John 1965 “Solo” Album

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2nrQCIyMvOnAX3paRk5gt0?si=118a79a8d04240a2)

Day Tripper - A John 1965 “Solo” Album (Apple Music Link)

https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/beatles-day-tripper-a-1965-john-solo-album/pl.u-gxblgEDuxb1Rmkz?ls)

Please check out my YouTube channel for Beatles fan albums, Groovin’ Up Slowly!! Over 40 episodes now!!

https://www.youtube.com/@GroovinUpSlowlyMusic

In the past year or so I’ve uploaded so many albums here, but unfortunately I’ve bulldozed some of those playlists with my newer ones, so in order to make it up to you all, here’s a collection of fan-albums that deserve some attention and look overs! (which I previously bulldozed for renovations)

Break Away: 1970

This album was published a bit over a year ago with the main idea that the overbearing Lennon-McCartney duo let George Harrison become a bit more loose by allowing more album runtime.

SIDE A:

1. My Sweet Lord (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
2. Hot As Sun/Glasses • McCartney 1
3. Los Paranoias [Jam] • White Album Deluxe
4. Cold Turkey • Non-album Single
5. Teddy Boy • McCartney 1
6. Apple Scruffs (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass

SIDE B:

1. Imagine • Imagine
2. Isn’t It A Pity [Ver. 2] (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
3. Maybe I’m Amazed • McCartney 1
4. Have I Told You Lately? • Sentimental Journey
5. Instant Karma! • Non-album Single
6. All Things Must Pass (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass

Playlist Link: click 1

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Let It Roll (Across the Floor): 1971

This album was a sequel of sorts to Break Away that focused on a more heavy rock sound by the band and a deeper artistic expression. In hindsight it needed more John…

SIDE A:

1. Plug Me In [Jam] • All Things Must Pass
2. Eat At Home • RAM
3. I Found Out • Plastic Ono Band
4. Wah-Wah (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
5. Monkberry Moon Delight • RAM
6. It Don’t Come Easy • Concert For Bangladesh

SIDE B:

1. Uncle Albert/Admiral Hasley • RAM
2. Smile Away • RAM
3. Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
4. Well Well Well • Plastic Ono Band
5. Down & Out • Ringo (1973)
6. I Don’t Wanna Be A Solider • Imagine

Playlist Link: click 2

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RAM: 1971

My own take on an Imagine/RAM thing that isn’t connected to any other of the albums, just a fun goof. It’s also just okay…

SIDE A:

1. Cosmic Empire (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass 50th Deluxe
2. God Save Us • Imagine Deluxe
3. Ram On • RAM
4. Dear Boy • RAM
5. How? • Imagine
6. Crippled Inside • Imagine

SIDE B:

1. Have I Told You Lately? • Sentimental Journey
2. What Is Life? (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
3. Gimme Some Truth • Imagine
   4 Wah-Wah (Harrison) • All Things Must Pass
4. Ram On [Reprise] • RAM
5. Smile Away • RAM
6. Tomorrow • Wild Life

Playlist Link: click 3

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WiLD: 1973 (?)

WiLD is also its own thing with the basic idea of jam style tracks being the bread and butter of it all (lazy idea I know). I would put the track listing for this album on here, but it’s really long so the back cover will be provided instead.

Playlist Link: click 4

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Band On The Run: 1973

Ah yes, the Band On The Run that every other person and their mother has made. The basic idea is that McCartney wants to branch off as his own writer which John is fine with considering how good those compositions are, but he still wants the Beatles to help transport those ideas.

SIDE A:

1. Band On The Run • Band On The Run
2. Tight A$ • Mind Games
3. I’m The Greatest • Ringo (1973)
4. Living In The Material World (Harrison) • Living In 5. The Material World
5. New York City • Sometime In New York City

SIDE B:

1. Oh My My • Ringo (1973)
2. Don’t Let Me Wait Too Long (Harrison) • Living In The Material World
3. Let Me Roll It • Band On The Run
4. Meat City • Mind Games
5. 1985 • Band On The Run
6. Helen Wheels • Non-album Single

Playlist Link: click 5

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Parody!: 1975 (?)

Parody! is easily one of my sloppiest albums I’ve made, but you just gotta love it. It’s my attempt at Crackerbox Palace but with a smaller understanding of their solo career (as seen with the lack of Ringo). Also Bob Dylan is here for some reason.

SIDE A:

1. Silly Love Songs • Speed Of Sound
2. Letting Go • Venus & Mars
3. Tangled Up In Blue [Live] • Bootleg Vol. 5
4. Whatever Gets You Through The Night • Walls & Bridges
5. Crackerbox Palace (Harrison) • 33 & 1/3

SIDE B:

1. Snookeroo • Goodnight Vienna
2. Magneto & Titanium Man • Venus & Mars
   3 This Song (Harrison) • 33 & 1/3
3. Beef Jerky • Walls & Bridges
4. The Pirate Song (Harrison) • ???

Playlist Link: click 6

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Free As A Bird: 1978 (?)

This album has no true background to it, there was just a hole in my heart that wanted a 1978 album without any research into it (ahh good times).

SIDE A:

1. Whatever Gets You Through The Night • Walls & Bridges
2. Free As A Bird • Anthology 1
3. Crackerbox Palace (Harrison) • 33 & 1/3
4. Bless You • Walls & Bridges
5. Heart On My Sleeve • Bad Boy (sorry anyone without that Ringo album)

SIDE B:

1. Backwards Traveller/Cuff Link • London Town
2. Real Love • Anthology 2
3. This Song (Harrison) • 33 & 1/3
4. No. 9 Dream • Walls & Bridges
5. Famous Groupies • London Town
6. Mull Of Kintyre • Non-album Single

Playlist Link: click 7

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(Just Like) Starting Over: 1980

Much like Band On The Run, this concept has been done to death, but it was relatively fresh when I made this album roughly a year ago. The boys are back in the studios!

SIDE A:

1. Just Like Starting Over • Double Fantasy
2. Coming Up [Live] • The 7” Singles
3. Temporary Secretary • McCartney 2
4. Faster (Harrison) • George Harrison
5. Stop & Smell The Roses • Stop & Smell The Roses
6. Blow Away (Harrison) • George Harrison
7. On The Way • McCartney 2

SIDE B:

1. Watching The Wheels • Double Fantasy (Stripped Down)
2. Wrack My Brain • Stop & Smell The Roses
3. Love Comes To Everyone (Harrison) • George Harrison
4. Woman • Double Fantasy
5. Dark Sweet Lady (Harrison) • George Harrison
6. Grow Old With Me • Lennon Anthology
7. Summer Day’s Song • McCartney 2

Playlist Link: click 8

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Long Gone: 1993 (?)

My attempt at an Anthology era album remembering John Lennon after his death in December of 1980.

SIDE A:

1. Free As A Bird • Anthology 1
2. Nobody Told Me • Milk & Honey
3. Calico Skies • Flaming Pie
4. Here Today [Live] • Amoeba Gig
5. Great Day [Home Recording] • Flaming Pie (Archive Collection)
6. All Things Must Pass [Demo] (Harrison) • Anthology 3

SIDE B:

1. I’m Stepping Out • Milk & Honey
2. Fish On The Sand (Harrison) • Cloud Nine
3. Borrowed Time • Milk & Honey
4. Photograph [Live] • Live On Tour
5. When We Was Fab (Harrison) • Cloud Nine
6. Now & Then • Non-album Single

Playlist Link: click 9

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)]

this hypothetical is fairly simple, what if smile and sgt peppers switched places?

in 1967, after a very complicated process of making the album, almost shelving it completely for a multitude of reasons, the beach boys release their long awaited follow up to pet sounds, smile. while not being popular immediately, it would soon be regarded as one of the best records of the 60s, and an early concept album.

however, things did not go so well for the beatles. during the sgt pepper sessions, john falls off the roof, injuring himself. after this they decide to shelve the album, but not before releasing its first single, strawberry fields forever/penny lane

later that year, the beatles released hearty heart, featuring some new tracks, the aforementioned single, and some very pared down tracks from the original sgt peppers.

HEARTY HEART

side 1:

strawberry fields forever

when i’m 64

i will

wild honey pie

only a northern song

side 2:

penny lane

the fool on the hill

lucy in the sky with diamonds

hello goodbye

fixing a hole

baby you’re a rich man

SMiLE:

side 1:

our prayer/gee

heroes and villains

vege-tables

wind chimes

i’m in great shape

the old master painter

cabin essence

side 2:

good vibrations

do you like worms

child is the father of the man

wonderful

the elements

you’re welcome

surfs up

In an alternate universe, Capitol never released Magical Mystery Tour as an album, nor Yellow Submarine’s soundtrack (MMT wasn’t released in the U.S, and they didn’t think YS had enough original material to release). So, instead of releasing the “Hey Jude” compilation after Abbey Road, since Let It Be was behind schedule, they cobbled together most of the original songs from MMT, all of the originals from YS, and some other 1967 singles from MMT’s b-side. and Magical Submarine Tour was born!

I tried replicating a Capitol album by having a nonsensical tracklisting and cobbling two albums together.

Side A:

1. Magical Mystery Tour (2:49)
2. All Together Now (2:11)
3. Flying (2:16)
4. The Fool On The Hill (3:00)
5. Hey Bulldog (3:13)
6. Baby, You’re a Rich Man (3:01)
7. All You Need Is Love (3:49)

Side B:

1. It’s All Too Much (6:27)
2. Only a Northern Song (3:25)
3. I Am The Walrus (4:36)
4. Strawberry Fields Forever (4:07)

Side A total: 20:19

Side B total: 18:35

Overall total: 38:54

Band on the Run

Seventeenth studio album by The Beatles

Released: November 30, 1973

Genre: Rock • pop rock • folk rock

Producer: George Martin • The Beatles

>SIDE ONE:

>1. Band On The Run

>2. Going Down On Love

>3. Jet

>4. Photograph

>5. The Light That Has Lighted The World

>6. Let Me Roll It

>

>SIDE TWO:

>1. Out The Blue

>2. Far East Man

>3. No Words

>4. Steel And Glass

>5. Picasso's Last Words (Drink To Me)

>6. Nineteen Hundred And Eighty Five

The Beatles had managed to receive positive reception of Mind Games but did not achieve the massive success as Imagine had gotten. Not long after the album’s release, The Beatles shortly embarked on a short UK tour for the first time since their final concert at the NME Annual Poll-Winners’ show in May 1966. They would play around 23 tour dates across in Britain and the tour’s setlist would be filled with Beatle classics such as “Come Together”, “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”, “It Don’t Come Easy” and “Maybe I’m Amazed” as well as performing new songs and in there for their latest album and unreleased material that would later end up on future projects and ending off the shows with a classic Beatle cover that was a staple of their live set of Little Richard’s “Long Tall Sally”. Despite its announcement being low at the time from the media personnel, the reception for the concerts were fairly positive. But the Beatles were growing concerned about their popularity and their artistic status as a group, and thought about if they attempted to keep things ongoing like this, it would immediately cause their split as a whole. And after the final show for the Britain tour at the Newcastle City Hall on 10 August, John and Paul forged out a plan that would definitely change for the band’s recording career.

“We thought it’d be good to get out of the country to record, so we asked EMI where they had studios around the world. There were some amazing countries where they had studios and I thought ‘Lagos… Africa… rhythms… yeah’, cause me and Paul especially were huge fans of African music and thought it would be really amazing to record there.”

• John Lennon, 1980.

For the first time since 1973, The Beatles were keen to record outside the United Kingdom as they were starting to get tired of recording in the same studios that they have been for the past couple of years. They would request from EMI a list of their international recording studios and after months of planning and searching out, they would all select Lagos in Nigeria to record their next album. When asked why the band had picked the location to record there in 1988, George Harrison recalled it would be a glamorous and exotic location where he and the band could sun on the beach during the day and record at night. However at the time Nigeria was run by a military government with corruption and disease commonplace, after the end of a civil war in 1970.

The band arrived in Lagos on August 30th, 1973. Recording for the album began two days later after their arrival and soaking around in the country, with initial overdubbing and mixing made to it only three weeks later. EMI’s studio, located on Wharf Road in the suburb of Apapa, was ramshackle and under-equipped. The control desk was faulty and there was only one eight-track tape machine. The band wouldn’t bring any session musicians, aside from their usual producer George Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick and saxophonist Howie Casey and also bringing their wives in there sans Lennon, who instead invited his then-partner and assistant May Pang following his split from Yoko Ono due to the couple going through martial problems and he would bring his then 10-year old son, Julian which would be the first time that Lennon would start to reconnect to his son since his divorce with Cynthia Lennon in 1968.

Most of the album’s material were written in the year earlier and despite not being a concept album similar to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band; its lyric themes reflect with escape, freedom and also reflecting with forgiveness and loneliness with primary examples of “Going Down On Love” and “Far East Man”. While the songs are individually credited by each member in the band respectively, there were a few songs that are credited by two members. “Photograph” was written by both Ringo Starr and George Harrison while on a luxury yacht in South France in early 1971 and was intended for its inclusion for Imagine and Mind Games, but were thankfully saved up for this album. “Far East Man” was written by Harrison and Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood in late 1972, during a period of their estranged marriages with their wives. Most famously, “Let Me Roll It”, “No Words”, “Four Walls” and “Picasso’s Last Words (Drink To Me)” were credited under the old Lennon-McCartney songwriting partnership and marking the first time that the pair had worked together since “Gimme Some Truth” on Imagine.

The recording sessions were still laid-back and lightweight similar to last time though it would come to no surprise for all four of them facing with the most challenging draw-backs that they had to deal with while in Lagos. Aside from the challenges presented by the substandard studio, various incidents plagued the Beatles' stay in Lagos. After the second week, McCartney was confronted by Afrobeat pioneer and political activist Fela Kuti who publicly accused the group of being in Africa to exploit and steal African music after they visited his club. Though when Kuti went to the studio one day to confront the band, Lennon and McCartney played their songs for him to show that they contained no local influence. Famously, while out walking one night against advice, Paul and Linda McCartney were robbed at knifepoint. The assailants made off with all of their valuables, stealing a bag containing a notebook full of handwritten lyrics and songs, and cassettes containing demos for songs to be recorded. Though the notebook would be retrieved thankfully, the tape would be lost for almost 50 years, until it was discovered for nearly a decade and would be sold at an auction for around $400,000 in 2024. The following day after the mugging, George Harrison would collapse in the studio and was sent to the hospital. The official diagnosis was that he had suffered a bronchial spasm brought on by too much smoking and McCartney was confronted by Afrobeat pioneer and political activist Fela Kuti who publicly accused the group of being in Africa to exploit and steal African music after they visited his club. Following the hospital incident, The Beatles hosted a beach barbecue to celebrate the end of recording and later playing and jamming some old rock and roll covers that the group were familiar with attended by Cream drummer Ginger Baker and Nigerian musician Remi Kabaka, and on 23 September 1973, they flew back to England, where they were met by fans and journalists. Upon returning to London, the group received a letter from EMI dated before the band had left England, warning them not go to Lagos due to an outbreak of cholera.

“I remember that we were confronted by an Afrobeat musician named Fela Kuti and if I recall from Paul’s story, he told us that we were stealing their music influence when we arrived in Africa and we were confronted and we had to playback our songs to him to prove that we weren’t trying to take it. And the following day, we had our valuables stolen by an army of gang people and then the next day after that horror, I’ve fainted in the studio because I wasn’t able to breathe and couldn’t feel air in there and it was definitely a nightmare and it seemed that death was looming to me.”

• George Harrison, 1987.

Not long after returning and recording the majority of the basic tracks in Lagos, The Beatles would spend October 1973 to finish the album and transfer many of the eight-track recordings made in Nigeria to sixteen-track George Martin’s AIR Studios in London. They continued overdubbing the Lagos recordings throughout October and all of the album’s orchestral arrangements were conducted by George Martin and were taped at AIR in a single day on 17 October. The final stereo mixing was briefly done at the more familiar EMI Studios London by the end of October.

Band on the Run would release on 30 November 1973 in the UK, releasing one week later in the US on 7 December. The album was undoubtedly a commercial and critical success, debuting at #9 in the UK Albums Chart and #7 in the US Billboard 200 before eventually topping at #1 one week later and it stayed there in the charts for 7 weeks. The reception of Band on the Run was immediately positive from music critics, while others praising the album as one of the greatest albums in the early part of the 70s. Writing for the NME, Charles Shaar Murray stated: “Band on the Run is a great album. If anybody ever puts down The Beatles in your presence, bust them in the snoot and play them this. They will thank you for it afterwards.” Retrospective reviews were Yet, knowing that this was their greatest album since Abbey Road, The Beatles had finally regained their artistic status and the album made the group know that they were still keeping up for the early 70s and still thinking about where their next step would go on next. In 2012, it was ranked at #127 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.

It took me a while to make this album, especially the back cover. Everything I did looked like the cover; one of them was the four of them waving in a hallway, but Paint.NET crashed and closed before I could save it :(

Anyway, I'm glad I did it. I've had this tracklist in mind for a while now, and it's interesting to think about which of Lennon's demos could have become official songs.

For the Lennon songs on Spotify, I used the covers done by Claus Nielsen. His voice isn't that similar to John's, but he's still a great singer, and the sound he gave to these songs fits the album I put together very well.

I hope you liked the result! :)

Spotify Playlist Link: Thirty Three & 1/3

Other albums in this timeline:

Abber Road - 1969
Let It Be - 1970
Isolation - 1970
Wild Life - 1972
Loup - 1973
Band On The Run - 1974
Rock 'N' Roll - 1975
Starting Over - 1980

Previous Album: [1966] Rain - The Beatles

Spotify Link: [1967] Nothing is Real - The Beatles

After the previous record Rain was released and highly praised critically and generally, the Beatles seeked out an even more technical studio sound and absurd unique lyrical style. This all comes together in the presented before you.

SIDE A:

1. Strawberry Fields Forever - Magical Mystery Tour [MMT]
2. The Fool On The Hill - MMT
3. Flying - MMT
4. Fixing A Hole - Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band [SPLHCB]
5. Blue Jay Way (Harrison) - MMT
6. She’s Leaving Home - SPLHCB
7. I Am The Walrus - MMT

SIDE B:

1. Within You & Without You (Harrison) - SPLHCB
2. Good Day Sunshine - Revolver
3. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds - SPLHCB
4. Getting Better - SPLHCB
5. Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite - SPLHCB
6. Penny Lane [Remix] - Anthology 2
7. A Day In The Life - Beatles Blue Album (1967-1970)

I hope you lot enjoy this new installment of the series, the album art work was a real pain to come up with so please enjoy this one! Peace+Love ☮️❤️

What if, in 1967, The Beatles released not two albums, but a weird cross between them?

I picked my favorite songs from each, slightly tipped more to MMT because I somewhat prefer that album, and tried to put them into a good sounding album flow!

Side A

1. Magical Mystery Tour (2:49)
2. Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds (3:29)
3. Strawberry Fields Forever (4:07)
4. Blue Jay Way (3:56)
5. She’s Leaving Home (3:26)
6. Your Mother Should Know (2:29)
7. Being For The Benefit of Mr. Kite! (2:40)

Side A total: 22:56

Side B

1. I Am The Walrus (4:36)
2. Lovely Rita (2:46)
3. Penny Lane (3:01)
4. Fixing a Hole (2:39)
5. All You Need is Love (3:49)
6. Flying (2:15)
7. A Day In The Life (5:32)

Side B total: 24:38

Total: 47:34

Apple Music link (I don’t have spotify): https://music.apple.com/ca/playlist/sgt-peppers-magical-mystery-tour

Please leave thoughts below if you liked this!! This is my first attempt at one of these!

Side A

1. All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
2. Instant Karma! (We All Shine On) – John Lennon
3. Maybe I’m Amazed – Paul & Linda McCartney
4. It Don’t Come Easy – Richard Starkey
5. Beware of Darkness – George Harrison
6. Every Night – Paul & Linda McCartney

Side B

1. Working Class Hero – John Lennon
2. What Is Life – George Harrison
3. Junk – Paul & Linda McCartney
4.  Gimme Some Truth– John Lennon
5. Isn’t It a Pity – George Harrison

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

After being an acclaimed session guitarist in the early 60s, releasing several psychedelic rock albums from 1965-1967 and introducing the west to Indian classical music in a collaboration with mentor Ravi Shankar in 1968 George Harrison releases his best album yet, Everest which produces 4 different #1 singles and is known as one of the best albums of the 1960s.

Tracklist:

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Something
3. Not Guilty
4. Behind That Locked Door
5. I’d Have You Anytime (duet with Bob Dylan)
6. Isn’t It A Pity?

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1. Here Comes The Sun
2. I Me Mine
3. For You Blue
4. What Is Life
5. Long, Long, Long (with Ravi Shankar on sitar)
6. All Things Must Pass

Length: 45 minutes

Release date: September 26th 1969

Producer: George Martin *Abbey Road style

During the production of Revolver in mid-1966, Brian Epstein reportedly became concerned that the group’s increasingly experimental sound could alienate part of their younger pop audience. According to EMI studio rumors, the Beatles briefly agreed to assemble a companion “bridge” album intended to ease fans from the Beatlemania years into the more sophisticated direction of Revolver.

Inspired by American vocal groups such as The Ronettes and The Miracles, the idea evolved into a full LP featuring interpretations of Beatles songs performed by Pattie Boyd, Cynthia Lennon, Maureen Starkey and Jane Asher. Alongside helping promote Revolver, the project was also intended to present the women surrounding the Beatles as creative personalities (Cynthia drawings in the back cover) in their own right rather than simply public figures of the Beatlemania phenomenon.

Produced by Mickie Most and Terry Melcher, and engineered by Geoff Emerick, “Beatles Girls Singing Beatles' Hits” was released by Parlophone in October 1966 as a promotion piece to Revolver.

Every girl gets to sing lead on at least one song (mentioned on the tracklisting). All song have backing vocals/harmonies by the rest of the group, and when mentioned more than one girl means a lead part it's sang by two or more girls. The order of the names shown represents who sings more parts/principal singers on songs

Hey! This is the fourth part of my “The Beatles In The 70s” series, where I’ll be imagining the band’s career if they didn’t break up. Here it is:

The Concert For Bangladesh (1972):

In 1971, Ravi Shankar asked George if he could perform with The Beatles in a beneficent concert to help the people of Bangladesh by raising some money from the concert. George, after convincing the rest of the boys, confirmed the presence of The Beatles. I’d be their first paid concert since 1966, and their first major public appearence since the rooftop concert in 1969.

They also called some friends to help: Bob Dylan, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and Denny Laine also perfomed at the event.

The concert was at the Madison Square Garden and was one of the boys’ (if not their) biggest crowds! It was a blast and it’s still considered one of the best live sets ever. The Beatles played old and new songs.

In February 1972, the double live album was released, featuring the whole set of all artists, including two sides only for The Beatles. It was a big hit and reached no. 1 in the USA and in the UK. No singles were released with it. All the money raised with the record was also given to charity.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0FbhG5fSyxP4wCZTkXT0uO?si=SjS1899wQDC-GR4u7-8VZA&pi=dR-ddQhyQ8GJs

Previous Parts:

Friar Park (1970): https://www.reddit.com/r/beatlesfanalbums/comments/1svsw12/friar\_park\_1970/

RAM (1971): https://www.reddit.com/r/beatlesfanalbums/comments/1t0v6i1/ram\_1971/

Long Live London Snow (1971): https://www.reddit.com/r/beatlesfanalbums/comments/1t8mxa0/long\_live\_london\_snow\_1971/?solution=161977e8b07bc3d4161977e8b07bc3d4&js\_challenge=1&token=bbbe4bf1c9a2b5160829c4be34da5861a27c49521062a3f62ac1470c830e2a20&jsc\_orig\_r=

After doing guitar work in the early 60s, releasing several psychedelic rock albums in 1965-1967 and introducing the west to Indian classical music in a collaboration with mentor Ravi Shankar in 1968 George Harrison releases his biggest and best album yet, Everest.

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Everest Tracklist:

1. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
2. Something
3. Not Guilty
4. Behind That Locked Door
5. I’d Have You Anytime feat. Bob Dylan on vocals and acoustic guitar
6. Isn’t It A Pity?

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1. Here Comes The Sun
2. I Me Mine
3. For You Blue feat. John Lennon on steel guitar
4. What Is Life
5. Long, Long, Long feat. Ravi Shankar on sitar
6. All Things Must Pass feat. Billy Preston on piano

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Artist: George Harrison

Title: Everest

Format: Vinyl LP

Length: ~45 minutes

Release date: September 26th 1969

Producer: George Martin *Abbey Road style

Main instrumentalists: Eric Clapton - Electric Guitar, Ringo Starr - Drums, Alan White - Drums, Klaus Voorman - Bass, George Martins Orchestra - Orchestral Arrangements

Chart success:

While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Savoy Truffle - #2

Something / For You Blue - #1

What Is Life / Behind That Locked Door - #3

Everest - #1

Here Comes The Sun / I Me Mine - #1

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Tracks 1 and 11 can be found on The Beatles (1968)

Tracks 2 and 7 can be found on Abbey Road (1969)

Track 3 can be found on The Beatles (Super Deluxe Edition) (2018)

Tracks 4, 5, 6, 10 and 12 can be found on All Things Must Pass (1970)

Tracks 8 and 9 can be found on Let It Be (1970)