• The setlist from the final stop of the group’s long-delayed but unprecedentedly successful world tour…
(…Unofficially known as the ’Spanish Indecision Tour’ due to another Ringo malapropism)
…At Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium, backed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra:
- Back in the USSR
- She Loves You
- I Am the Walrus
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps / Isn’t It a Pity
- Got To Get You Into My Life
- Help!
- Boys
- Come Together
- Strawberry Fields Forever / Penny Lane
- Sgt. Pepper / With a Little Help From My Friends
Encore:
- In My Life
- Maybe I’m Amazed
- Here Comes the Sun
- Let It Be / Imagine
- …And ending with a “Birthday” (in honor of Starr’s recent birthday)
- Starr also appeared in the big budget disaster epic The Poseidon Adventure…
- …as well as Ooh… You Are Awful, a British farce….
- Rumors of a new studio album are starting surface, as Lennon, Harrison, and Starr were seen entering the Abbey Road studios multiple times over the past few months.
- During a Rolling Stone interview, when asked whether any of the Beatles will release more solo albums, Harrison replied, ‘Yeah, that’s always a possibility, but I think the group will continue be the main priority.’
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Nice! My only fear is that in this alternate timeline, Paul and Linda did not release “Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey”. 😬 That would be a sad timeline.
For that matter, I heard “Too Many People” on my way to work and I think it’s my earworm for today.
This got me thinking about whether or not I would have actually wanted the Beatles to continue if given the choice. If I am honest, when I think of the Beatles as the most formative and important band of my lifetime, I’m never focused on the last two albums and I never listen to them these days. And if the solo output of John and Paul is any indication at all of what an additional album or two by the band would have sounded like, aside from a few songs here and there, I’m good. Probably not what most people would say, but I think we got what we got and it was just enough.
I have wondered this many times, myself. Would the musical quality have stayed strong? Were Lennon and McCartney just better together than they were separately (although I love a ton of the solo stuff). Would George Harrison have become a more important part of the writing team? Or would the wonderful stuff they had already done been tarnished by a bunch of mediocre follow-ups?
All in all, I’m glad that we have what we have. But…who knows?
As much as I love The Beatles and Abbey Road, I’m happy the story ended where it did as well. Quality control isn’t really an issue for me, Let It Be has its problems but there was a lot going on with that one. Had they carried on I’m sure there would have been more times when inspiration was lacking.
I don’t know if being born after the break up has anything to do with it. I can happily accept what was left behind for me to discover without wishing that they’d carried on. In their solo work, Paul especially, there’s been so much more to find. Whereas I feel more loss for bands that have broken up in my lifetime, or poasibly worse, have carried on but with the creative muse having departed.
Agreed, rb. I’ll keep up with this alternative universe at least through 1980 to see where it leads. I can’t wait to incorporate the ‘Lost Weekend,’ the band’s serious rivalry with Led Zep, the incorporation of another ‘5th Beatle’ (Jeff Lynne), and their wholehearted embrace of disco.
If The Beatles were playing on home turf at Anfield, they definitely should have been including Maggie Mae. I can see John giving it a quick bash to appease the crowds while George fiddles about tuning his guitar.
If they’d stayed together would The Rutles have happened? What a loss that could have been.
The professional and personal intertwining of the Beatles and Idle’s Monty Python (ha!) will be something that bears watching as we move forward.