Thursday, November 6, 2008
The End (of The Beatles)
I've come to the end of my book and I have to admit, even though I already knew what was coming, it was really sad. Everyone knows how The Beatles came to end. The terrible fighting, the awful girlfriends, and the crisis of money and Apple Corp. It's sad to look back on the early days when they were all so young and excited and happy to be making music and think that by the end everyone hated each other and it was more about money than anything else. Of course there's the infamous Yoko Ono situation, the crazy "artist" girlfriend of John Lenon who was constantly manipulating and causing issues among the band members. Then there were the sessions for their final album Let It Be in which they could barely stand to be in the same room with each other, so they recorded most all of their parts separately. At one point it got so bad that Ringo Starr actually quit the band temporarily and had to be coxed back by George Harrison, the other most level headed member of the band. Finally, the thing that caused most of the problems with in the band was the company they had started Apple Corp. Apple was intended to be a house for everything Beatles, but a lack of business knowledge had caused the company to cost them loads and loads of money. John Lenon eventually couldn't take it anymore and told Paul he was quitting. Paul however convinced Lenon to stick around till they could get their affairs in order and make an official announcement to the public. Then, in a move of bold back-stabbery, Paul told the press that he was leaving and The Beatles were no more.
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