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re: Unpopular (likely) McCartney opinion
Posted on 1/22/24 at 9:03 am to Big Scrub TX
Posted on 1/22/24 at 9:03 am to Big Scrub TX
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The thing I like to avoid is pretending they would have been suspended in the relatively negative state they were in at any point in time. I think it's abundantly clear that they would have gone on to be entirely healed and would have been highly functional adults, kind to each other and creating beautiful things.
Great thoughts. It could have happened that way. But, there's a very important factor in the break-up that is often forgotten. That factor is John Lennon's heroin use and perhaps addiction during those years. His heroin use coincided in time with his growing boredom and dissatisfaction with The Beatles.
Had John never been a heroin user, the break-up might not have happened.
Legal issues also contributed to the break-up.
But, still, IMHO George is right in that any "The Beatles" album published for sale in the 1973 or so time-frame would have had a lot of Paul Songs that would have been very similar to the Wings songs of that time-frame. No problem, though. Beatles albums were eclectic. It would have been another eclectic Beatles album, perhaps similar to The White Album.
Finally, of course Paul and the others should defend one another when any commentator bashes one or the whole group. Commentators do lots of evil things to gather attention and sales money.
This post was edited on 1/22/24 at 9:05 am
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Posted on 1/22/24 at 11:22 am to Champagne
quote:I'm not sure what you're saying. Lennon was greatly affected by "h" as he called it from the late 60s until well after the breakup. Sure, maybe they would have never broken up without that. I'm not convinced. But what's your point? MY point is that even net of all that, they would have healed and done great things as mature adults. Even at the time of John's murder, he and Paul had moved things along quite well.
It could have happened that way. But, there's a very important factor in the break-up that is often forgotten. That factor is John Lennon's heroin use and perhaps addiction during those years. His heroin use coincided in time with his growing boredom and dissatisfaction with The Beatles.
It's crazy that when they broke up, George was like 27. Just think of how immature you still were at 27...without having gone through the blender that was the blur of the Beatles!
Posted on 1/22/24 at 4:13 pm to Champagne
quote:There's a disconnected you're missing. (at least to me)
But, still, IMHO George is right in that any "The Beatles" album published for sale in the 1973 or so time-frame would have had a lot of Paul Songs that would have been very similar to the Wings songs of that time-frame. No problem, though. Beatles albums were eclectic. It would have been another eclectic Beatles album, perhaps similar to The White Album.
The fab4, The boys from Liverpool, to Sgt. Pepper's, and so on... were a progression. The skiffle gave way to pop to progressive and that propelled them. So to me they would have matured and not regressed had they been allowed to keep bouncing ideas off each other.
Because that Wings was the other direction for a lot of people. Wrong thread to say this perhaps; however I don't see them doing pop when they could be widening their legacy. As for George taking the high road in a question, that's no surprise, it's a trait that many stars possess.
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