re: Last new Beatles song to be released Thursday, November 2nd, 20023

Can you imagine coming from a dive bar to today as Paul and Ringo?

Never in their wildest dreams could they have imagined the way things went. For the good and bad.

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Loved it. Also, it's 12 minutes long but Peter Jackson released a short film about the song today as well.

It's a must watch when you have the time:

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When they played John's vocals, isolated, in this I shed some tears and had a pit in my stomach. I was always sad that he was taken too soon and we never would hear what music he would have made. Now, 40+ years later, we get a new song by him. It just hit me hard.
I always get disadvantage thinking of the rockers that left too soon. Morrison, Joplin, Hendricks, Croce, Lennon, Cobain....

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Yeah, it is interesting to think about the kind of music Lennon would have created if he had lived into the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s. Or what type of music the Beatles might have created together in those decades. I feel pretty certain that they would have reunited to record and play again at some point. Definitely taken too soon.

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Despite a few grudges held longer than I would have imagined, they all showed a great capacity for growth and healing. I'm reading the new book about Harrison presently, and it talks about how he and McCartney didn't really make up until the late 80s. And one of Paul's final acts was to secretly get Harrison to an estate he had outside of LA as Harrison was dying so he could do it without the media camped out.

I think it's close to 100% Lennon would have been good-naturedly right in the mix with all of them making some good stuff. I actually think Lennon would be making good EDM right now.

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Yeah, it is interesting to think about the kind of music Lennon would have created if he had lived into the 80’s, 90’s, 00’s.

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if you take only the Lennon songs from double fantasy and milk and honey (delete the yoko songs) you get his best solo album and one of the best solo Beatles albums ever made. And if you take the best three songs from all of the solo albums the four made just in 70 and 71 you get the best Beatles album aver made.

we got a lot of great music from those guys after abbey road, more and better than just about any other band.

I do think that at some point they probably would have all recorded again together but remember that none of them needed the money and none of them wanted the media circus back in their lives, so it would have been something like a charity single or similar.

George Martin once said that the Beatles existed in the past, and couldn’t possibly exist in the same way ever again

And that’s OK

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And if you take the best three songs from all of the solo albums the four made just in 70 and 71 you get the best Beatles album ever made.

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Something like this maybe (assuming George would get as many songs as John and Paul):

Instant Karma
Maybe I'm Amazed
My Sweet Lord
It Don't Come Easy
Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey

Imagine
What is Life
Another Day
Jealous Guy
Isn't it a Pity

There would be plenty for a double album as well.

I like Paul, but IMO he was the weakest songwriter of the three after their breakup.