Beatles: Rock Band … The missing buttons

(Paul Kaufman contemplates exciting new hacks for the Beatles simulation game.)

VH1 is in full promotional mode for the release of the The Beatles: Rock Band game. I’m an unabashed fan of the band, and I’m generationally marked as one who never tires of hearing these tunes and seeing the film footage. Seth Schiesel of the New York Times raves that “by reinterpreting an essential symbol of one generation in the medium and technology of another, The Beatles: Rock Band provides a transformative entertainment experience.”

I like that idea in concept, and teaching a new generation about this music via today’s electronic vernacular is a great idea. But somehow, hitting color-coded buttons in time to the music strikes me as a rather limited goal. As the technology grows, these are the buttons I’d like to be able to push:

Photographers mob Ringo’s tonsillectomyElectronic Flu: On one early Scandinavian tour, a tonsillectomy sidelined Ringo, and the band brought in a temporary replacement. Think of the possibilities! Hit the blue button, and your band member of choice is bedridden for the session.

Replacements could either be timely (Hendrix and Keith Moon are the obvious “what-if” scenarios), but I’d also like the time-travel option: Cheetah Chrome, Patti Smith and Glen Matlock come to mind.

Oh, Yoko: She and John rarely left each other’s sides in 1968, a great inspiration for John but an enormous source of tension for the band. But what if they had met earlier? Hit the green button and find out how “Revolver” would have changed.

Of course, John wasn’t the only guy in the band, and hitting the orange button would allow you to explore the impact of other Beatle romances on the recordings. Favorite scenarios might include Paul and Ringo insisting that Barbara Streisand and Mama Cass, respectively, sit in on the “Rubber Soul” session. Again, the time-travel button adds extra fun; all hell breaks loose when George shows up with Nancy Spungen.

The overdose death of Brian Epstein was obviously traumatic, and also raised the thorny question of who would manage the band. Hit the purple button and pick one. Colonel Tom Parker makes for an interesting choice, resulting in massive weight gains, elaborate sequined costumes and a long series of B-movie contracts.

What would you add?

— Paul Kaufman

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90 thoughts on “Beatles: Rock Band … The missing buttons”

  2. Ringo can decide it is better to stick it out with Rory Storm And The Hurricanes, so it is Pete Best all the way — with George Martin constantly trying to get them to use session drummers.

    Paul has the option of not agreeing to switch over to bass (or Stu Sutcliffe lives on and stays in the band)….and years before Lynryd Skyrnyrd and Molly Hatchett we enjoy a 3-guitar Beatles.

    Syd and Marty Krofft can be hired to make Yellow Submarine, making it a live-action costume spectacular.

    John really does say “I buried Paul”…because Paul can be replaced by a replicant.

    The Beatles can agree with George Martin that “How Do You Do It” would indeed make a fab first single.

    Other producers can be brought in to salvage Let It Be, other than Phil Spector. Frank Zappa comes to mind…

    Or perhaps Joe Meek signs them and becomes their producer before the Parlophone audition?

    A ‘no-mind-altering’ version of the band? Yesterday Never Knows.

    Instead of collarless suits and moptops they can decide to go the Kafka route and simply dress up like actual beetles.

    They can continue to tour and gig extensively after ’66.

    Plus: A special option to NOT break up the band at the dawn of the ’70’s..

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  4. >….and years before Lynryd Skyrnyrd and Molly Hatchett we enjoy a 3-guitar Beatles.

    Opting to skip “Free as a Bird” and move right into “Freebird”.

    >Other producers can be brought in to salvage Let It Be, other than Phil Spector. Frank Zappa comes to mind…

    Yes! Especially if he brings his bass clarinet-playing friend along to form Captain Beefheart’s Magic Hat Club Band.

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  5. >>Yes! Especially if he brings his bass clarinet-playing friend along to form Captain Beefheart’s Magic Hat Club Band.

    A long and winding squid,
    In a polyeth … ylene bag …

    or

    High Ella Guru Deva Ommmmm …

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  6. They did have that “Zapple” record label (Zappa and Apple collaboration) going..George Harrison released his magnum-noodle-opus Electronic Sound on that….wasn’t the first Alice Cooper LP released on Zapple?

    Another tangental vid-game….Apple Records money-pitch.
    You can create absolutely ridiculous schemes and pitch it to Neil Aspinall and the Beatles.
    “I’m making a flying machine, man, and you adjust the altitude with your MOOD!…and I’m creating a museum that houses everything that is OUTSIDE the museum — get it?
    …and I’m also working on an albumen…it’s like a regular record album, but it’s made entirely of eggs….because I really am The Eggman…” etc.
    If they don’t go for it all the money goes to James Taylor and Magic Alex.

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  8. As a lifelong Beatles fanatic, I’m loving the ideas here.

    I’m not quite sure how I feel about the Guitar Hero/Rock Band phenomena. A large part of me thinks that if I’m going to spend hours upon hours exercising the manual dexterity it takes to play a virtual instrument (and believe me, it takes skill to play these games), I would be better off playing a real instrument. Kids tell me that guitarists are not as good at Guitar Hero and Rock Band, because they need to relearn the fretboard. Any dual players out there care to respond?

    In any case, the opening animation for the Beatles Rock Band is incredible. A true work of art:

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  10. Shows how much I get out these days!

    Ok, wiz kid programmers out there, get to work on these Rock Bands:

    The Morlocks- “Your friends are all running the show!”

    The Pretty Things- “Banned in Australia”

    The Germs- “Darby, pick up the microphone!”

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  11. >>Kids tell me that guitarists are not as good at Guitar Hero and Rock Band, because they need to relearn the fretboard. Any dual players out there care to respond?

    Ray: It’s funny … When I first tried to play Guitar Hero with my kids, I was overly aware that I was using a Wii controller snapped into a guitar-shaped plastic chassis. I cinched the strap up higher than I’m used to playing, and I kind of stood up straight … More Tom Ward’s classic playing posture than mine.

    I sucked! But I improved a great deal when I rearranged the guitar/controller to do my normal spazzy stage moves — strap lower, feet wide apart, making faces. You’re right that the fingering is still an impediment, but if I let muscle memory of playing onstage take care of the rest of my body, I can rock out and pretty much keep up with my non-guitar-playing kids. (Plus, I look funnier to them, so the overall entertainment value rises.) 🙂

    Paul: BRILLIANT idea about hacking the thing into an actual music-creation system!

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  12. My friend Libe Goad did a nice interview with Grandmaster Flash where he talked about DJ Hero. I liked his response to recent criticism by Jimmy Page and Jack White that these games degrade music-making:

    “Jimmy Page? The Jimmy Page?” After we assure him that we’re talking about Led Zeppelin’s influential guitarist he continues. “For Jimmy Page and Jack White, I respect their opinion, but I don’t play a guitar. So I guess I can understand what they’re talking about.”

    “[But],” he adds, “There are some people that don’t know who Jimmy Page is still, so it’s people like Grandmaster Flash who goes into the Salvation Army to find old records. Who goes into the momma and pop shops to find old records with them great breaks that Jimmy Page played guitar on? It’s us that made them heroes. When I play the White Stripes song, he needs to see what that song does [to the crowd].”

    I share Flash’s view, and I do play guitar. I like the egalitarian ethos he expresses. It’s not the same as playing instruments, but I don’t think it detracts at all.

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  14. The gender bender button that changes the boys into mini-skirted pixie girls whose charisma causes boys in sold-out arenas to swoon and cry with longing.

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  18. >>Don’t you think he would have enjoyed concert halls filled with dewy mop top boys?

    Rutles liner notes:

    Leggy Mountbatten’s Mother: Mrs. Iris Mountbatten. (from an interview with Brian Fowl of Rutland Weekend Television.)

    Mrs. Mountbatten: “Leggy told me he’d been to see these young men in a dark cellar. He was always very interested in young men-- youth clubs, boy scouts , that sort of thing. But these he said were different.”
    Brian Fowl: “In what way?”
    Well, their hair, their music, their presence.
    He liked it?
    No, he hated it.
    What did he like?
    Well……their trousers.
    What about their trousers?
    Well they were very…….tight.
    Tight?
    Yes, you could see quite clearly. . .
    Oh I see.
    Everything. Outlines. The lot.
    Oh. Yes thank you.
    Clear as day.
    Thank you very much.
    Nothing left to the imagination.
    Yes thank you very much indeed, Mrs. Mountbatten.
    Not at all.

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  19. The boy band button that shows the band doing synchronized pop and lock routines. This is especially fun for selections from “Magical Mystery Tour” and “The White Album.” “Glass Onion” presented a challenge for the programmers.

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  21. “>>I’m not quite sure how I feel about the Guitar Hero/Rock Band phenomena. A large part of me thinks that if I’m going to spend hours upon hours exercising the manual dexterity it takes to play a virtual instrument…”

    Amen to that.

    We, ( music educators), are at an all time low right now with 70-80% of secondary ed. students opting out of music classes altogether.

    I’m still in favor of providing good public school music programs, and sitting down one-on-one with a private teacher.

    Might soon be a thing of the past!

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  22. Y’know, I’ve been thinking about this a lot since reading Paul’s post, and there’s something a little … Unnerving … About the recent efforts to extend the Beatles franchise by turning them into cyberpuppets.

    There was:

    • The recent PSA that sampled John Lennon’s voice and image to deliver a first-person appeal for laptops to underprivileged kids;
    • This game with attendant commercials showing John and George (a k a “the dead ones”) interacting with a contemporary crowd;
    • The plans to create a CGI remake of “Yellow Submarine”

    I bet there’s more.

    It’s interesting … Digital manipulation has let dead people hawk product for years. However, this seems easily the most concerted effort to date to create a youthful simulacrum of an ensemble in which half the members are deceased and half are … Not youthful.

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  23. Any post with the word “simulacrum” is a good post!!

    Lots of cyberpuppets though -- Nat King Cole, UNFORGETTABLE, with Natalie cole, James Dean superimposed in a New Yorker ad for windows, the New Abbey Road street crossing commercial.

    Hey, if Clay is around…nice to see him appear today on Cliffs Facebook photo album. I can finally put a face to a name…MCC!

    Now, back to the Beatles!

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  25. Like “Howl’s Moving Castle,” I envision the Beatles marketing machine lumbering on and on, decades after the band it was built to house has vacated the premises. The image of Beatles loyalists like Neil Aspinall maintaining a vigil over Apple Corps. is … kinda poignant, kinda spooky.

    It’s weird: Certainly from the time they stopped touring 43 years ago — and indisputably by the time they broke up 40 years ago* — the Beatles exoskeleton kind of took over from the band itself. The fact that they left “Yellow Submarine” to voice talent demonstrates the band wasn’t shy about letting stand-ins extend the franchise!

    *Footnote I just noted: According to Wikipedia, August 20, 1969, marked the last time all four members were in the studio together. After that, it was all lawyers, technicians … and cyberpuppets.

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  26. I’ve never read a biography/history related to the Beatles, but I assume that they received a lot of help in writing and playing their music??

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  27. someone tell cliff if he’s going to use my picture he has to accept my facebook request for friendship that i submitted weeks earlier……

    i’m so hurt.

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  28. must be an oversight Clay! I will tell him promptly though. You NEED to see all the cool SD Punk, especially, early punk stuff he has up.

    I will make it so…right now!

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  32. Spent some quality time listening to various Beatles home demos last night…Altho George Martin clearly had a major arranging influence on their finished records, the demos give one amazing insight into how they developed the songs. Along the way ideas are picked up or dropped and you can hear the direction of a particular piece shift, and then there will be something from the final version making it’s first appearance. There are these beautiful experiments — using tape loops and mellotron (a keyboard that plays banks of tape loops, the first sampler) and I realized that these guys were already sampling themselves in ’66! There’s one amazing track that features somebody manipulating a mellotron flute “easter egg” loop (the same one used by the Kinks at the beginning of “Phenomenal Cat” on ‘Village Green’ btw), and while you hear the beginnings of the Strawberry Fields vibe there is also a pure joy that comes thru just in creating completely new textures and a delight in artifice. If ever there was a band that created a body of work that deserves consistent rediscovery and reinvention, and perhaps re-make and re-model, it is these Quarreyman, Los Paranoias, Johnny and the Silver Beetles, Sgt Pepsi, etc. They seemed comfortable continually reinventing themselves and not content to rest within any of their many personas or sonic landscapes. As far as mining a vast reperatoire, hearing fresh listens like these wonderful demos makes me think they are still nearly a renewable energy source.

    Another example of mellotron ‘easter eggs’: the spanish guitar solo at the end of ‘Wild Honey Pie’, that’s a single phrase hidden away on a high note on the keyboard. The fabs drew inspiration from anything they could get their hands on. How many other bands from that time, other than the Mothers, were working musique concrete into pop records?

    Perhaps the notion of them being forever resampled isn’t that bad an idea, nothing wrong with more smart alec’s entering the lexicon.
    I could see total mashup cuisinart Beatle fun ahead…once we get the taste for it…but I agree the way it is and will be marketed has a lot to do with a perception of a fair shake, and that means a lot.
    They already had one Seltaeb debacle early in their career, hopefully whomever’s dangling the strings now does right with their puppet legacy.

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  35. Love that bollyvid!
    “We also create false promises” is a masterful lyric, must admit it’s an arguable improvement on “and when I touch you I feel happy, inside”, but you need the first to leave a place for the second.

    Matthew, I’ll see you, and I’ll raise ya, but we’re headed down a wrong and grinding road:

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  36. >>Matthew, I’ll see you, and I’ll raise ya, but we’re headed down a wrong and grinding road

    Dave: What the hell was that?? LOL … Wow! They haven’t programmed that into Guitar Hero yet.

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  38. I have truly found my people here. Growing up, my closest friends were always Beatles nerds. We’d have endless discussions about chord changes, guitar solos, vocal parts, unreleased versions of songs, mindless trivia about their lives etc., etc. I have met hundreds of such like-minded folk over the years, and continue to meet them. We come from disparate cultures, speak different languages and transcend generations. What is it about the group that inspires such obsession?

    A few Beatles confessions:

    -I actually enjoy the Beatles “Love” album, quite a bit. It’s not the kind of thing I can listen to over and over, but it is such an affectionate tribute to the band, a way of winking and nodding to fans such as ourselves who are able to recognize the phrases out of context.

    -In 1979 I paid good money earned flipping burgers at Jack-in-the-Box to see Beatlemania at the Fox Theater downtown. I wonder how many of you were there too?

    -Eric Bacher reminded me of this the other day: I was hanging out with Chris Gast one Saturday afternoon in 1982 or 3 when we decided to swing by Tower Records out on College Blvd. As we arrived, we found out they were holding a Beatles look alike contest! The winner for each Beatle would receive a Beatles box set of casette tapes. On the spur of the moment, we decided to enter--Chris wisely chose George (he had slim competition) and for some reason I chose John. Chris won his category handily, while I lost to a guy who had perfected the White album John, complete with round, wire-framed glasses. The real winner was a dead-ringer for the Beatles’ drummer, that is, if Ringo had been Pakistani. On the way home I realized that a box of Beatles cassettes would hardly make up for resembling Richard Starkey.

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  40. Also the times may have had a lot to do with it. Born in ’59, I grew up with older brothers always coming home with brand new Beatles albums…Revolver, Rubber Soul, White Album, Abbey Road….always something completely new. The soundtrack of an era.

    I don’t know if the Beatles were speaking to a generation or creating one.

    Whether British Invasion Mods or the ultimate hippies: did the Beatles follow the times or did the times follow them?

    It’s hard to compare any modern music to this BAND, if that’s the correct term: more like a cultural phenomenon that could have, perhaps, only happened at this one time in history.

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  41. Ray- I had not seen the David Lee Roth mashup before! That’s going to keep me laughing for about a week. It makes you appreciate the Beatles even more for keeping their shirts buttoned.

    I did not see Beatlemania, but I did do a stint at Jack-in-the-Box, during the heady “summer of Frings”- 1981.

    http://www.10news.com/news/471884/detail.html

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  42. >In 1979 I paid good money earned flipping burgers at Jack-in-the-Box to see Beatlemania at the Fox Theater downtown. I wonder how many of you were there too?

    I was there with a friend whose actual name was Loretta Martin.

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  43. >>I was there with a friend whose actual name was Loretta Martin.

    Speaking of mashups, I have long wanted to hear “Get Back” performed by “Transformer”-era Lou Reed.

    I saw “Beatlemania” with my cousin at the Winter Garden Theater in NY in 1978. Bet I still have the playbill somewhere!

    More proof of genius at work in our ranks … Dave Fleminger, Rob Labbe and Ho Hos guitarist Steve Lam did a superfly cover band focused on the ’60s and specializing in painstaking Beatlery. Their name? The Butcher Covers. 🙂

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  46. The Butcher Covers is a brilliant name for a Beatles cover band. Carl Rusk used to joke that Beatles cover bands had used all of the available band names, and said he wanted to start one called “Aunt Mimi.”

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  47. Beatles Memories…

    First cinema I ever saw was the Seattle primier of “Yellow Submarine” when I was 3. I then spent the entire next month singing “Wee-OH Wee-OH Wee OH” trying to manage the chorus to the title song.

    And yeah…I was at the Fox theater. Good seats as I remember. Beatlemania was silly but fun.

    I wore my “I Love George” button to school every day for the entire 8th grade. One year later I cut all my hair off and the rest is history…or something.

    Patrick Works
    Fan

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  48. Yes! I also attended the Yellow Submarine movie as a four-year old, I think it was my first movie, certainly the first I remember. Thoroughly enjoying it, I’m glad I was too young to recognize that voice actors were being used. Yellow Submarine my first record, too.

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  49. Saw Beatlemania in NY in ’78 and again at the Fox in SD.

    At Summer camp in ’78 the cooks had a band that would practice in the auditorium and I’d hide out watch and wonder how all that crazy sound came out of those guitar planks of wood with wires strung up on them.
    The night before the camp talent show (I was gonna play 2 Beatles tunes on piano) I had a dream that I was onstage with a band dressed in full Pepper regalia, banging it out on guitar (which I didn’t play)…we closed with “A Little Help From My Friends” and I turn around and realize that my friends the cooks had been playing the actual music and I had been unknowningly lipsynching to it.
    From that moment on it was all about get yourself an electric guitar, take some time ‘n learn how to play.
    Yet another blame-it-on-the-Beatles story…

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  52. back to what Bruce said awhile back:
    “I’m still in favor of providing good public school music programs, and sitting down one-on-one with a private teacher.”

    Amen to that. I’ve been thinking about this-
    What do you think is more corrosive to kids learning music:

    -the computer-based instruments in video games
    or
    -the “American Idol”-ification of the music world, where solo vocal delivery of other people’s songs is portrayed as the ultimate musical achievement?

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  54. Oh God…don’t get me started!

    There’s been a lot of “American Idol”-ification discussion on this blog elsewhere…and I seem to be on the losing end of this topic.

    There is a BIG difference between educated musicians and “entertainers”, though they don’t HAVE to be mutually exclusive. You can be both.

    BUT, the >>”solo vocal delivery of other people’s songs” is a real sore point for me. Many popular “artists” in the music business now are only what Paul and Matt alluded to.

    The Beatles, Beach Boys, yes, even the Carpenters, actually wrote, performed, recorded, and innovated music and music culture.

    Too many Hannah Montanas and JT’s for me…dumbing down of music and art culture.

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  55. I heard on NPR today that there are already pirated versions of the game. In one, the music sounds a lot like the Beatles but is just not as good. It’s called Wings Rock Band.

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  58. Tangent Piece #9 (Sympathy for the Yoko): I enjoy a John-and-Yoko giggle as much as the next wiseguy, but I should mention that Yoko was always legit in my household.

    By the time she met John, she was already a well-regarded presence in avant-garde art circles, most closely aligned with the Fluxus art movement and with folks like Nam Jun Paik and John Cage and Allen Kaprow.

    On a much smaller scale, some early-’60s Ono fans found her association with John as iffy as Beatles fans did, except they were coming from the other direction: “Yoko was cool until John got his hooks into her!” 🙂

    Just an interesting perspective that’s consistently swamped by the Beatlemania wave.

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  60. the simple fact that yoko could’ve never imagined selling the entire catalog to michael jackson.
    though not a member….she was an upholder of a conscience sorely lacking in others when most needed.

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  62. Clay,
    To be fair, McCartney and Yoko were both trying to raise money for the purchase of the catalog, but failed. This is from snopes.com:

    “In 1984, ATV’s 4,000-song music catalog was put up for sale, and Michael Jackson (who had coincidentally been introduced to the benefits of song ownership by Paul McCartney himself) eventually outbid all other prospective buyers for it, including Paul McCartney, who wanted to buy back the rights to the Beatles’ songs but was apparently unable or unwilling to raise enough money to pay for the thousands of other songs in the ATV catalog as well. So, for $47.5 million, Jackson acquired the publishing rights to most of the Beatles songs. (The four songs issued on the Beatles’ first two singles — “Love Me Do” b/w “P.S. I Love You” and “Please Please Me” b/w “Ask Me Why” — were not part of the package since they were published before the formation of Northern Songs, and the rights to those songs are now controlled by McCartney’s MPL Communications. ATV also did not own the rights to George Harrison songs published after Harrison’s songwriting contract with Northern Songs expired in 1968, but they did hold the rights to various other Lennon-McCartney songs not recorded by the Beatles.) . . .

    snip

    “Another key point here is that although Michael Jackson received 50% of the royalties generated by Beatles songs by virtue of his ownership of the publishing rights, Paul McCartney and John Lennon (and Lennon’s estate, now that he’s dead) have always received their 50% songwriter’s share of the royalties for all Lennon-McCartney songs. Neither ATV’s nor Michael Jackson’s acquisition of Northern Songs changed that, and Michael Jackson did not receive royalties that would otherwise be going to the Beatles had he not acquired the publishing rights to their songs (except that, obviously, if Paul McCartney had managed to outbid Jackson for the publishing rights to the Beatles catalog, he and Lennon’s estate would be splitting 100% of the royalties rather than 50%).”

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  64. Let’s get meta! How about a video game in which you have to create a video-game version of the Beatles??

    That new video-game version could then spawn another, smaller version, and so on … Properly architected, it could set up a recursive loop into which you ultimately disappear, kind of like the vacuum-cleaner monster in “Yellow Submarine”!

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  68. gives greater appreciation of something as simple as a song……

    and the girl who didn’t like it.

    RIP LUCY*~*~**~*~*~**~**~

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  73. An odd thought experiment: What solo tracks would likely have made it into the next Beatles album if they’d stayed together?

    I think the guy’s reaching a lot … I also have always had the feeling that “Abbey Road” (despite its charms) portended a less-than-stellar decade for the band. The rock-opera stylings and synthesizer bits could have metastasized pretty rapidly — I’d still have embraced punk. 🙂

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  74. It’s a paradoxical situation; the question doesn’t really make sense. The great genius of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band album (in my view, the greatest of all the post Beatle efforts) was in large part the cathartic rejection of what had gone on before. I DON’T BELIEVE IN BEATLES! It’s hard to imagine how shocking that must have sounded.

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  76. Here’s another, more-elaborate effort … I’ve heard these guys are actually great.

    U.S. band to perform “Beatles album” that never was
    Edith Honan
    NEW YORK
    Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:25am EST

    NEW YORK (Reuters) -- A group of New York musicians is planning to do what the Beatles never did — perform the songs the Fab Four might have recorded as their final album had they stayed together just a little longer.

    The Beatles tribute band The Fab Faux — made up of some of the New York’s leading professional musicians — will perform the songs they think would have been on that album on Tuesday and Wednesday.

    The performance at New York’s Webster Hall consists of material from the original Fab Four’s early solo careers.

    All of the tracks will be performed with distinctive Beatles-type arrangements, rather than the spartan feel of Lennon’s early recordings and McCartney’s first solo effort, recorded at his home almost as a demo tape.

    “It’s totally on a lark because it didn’t happen. It wouldn’t have happened,” keyboardist and guitarist Jack Petruzzelli said.

    The Fab Faux’s set will include the John Lennon songs “Jealous Guy,” “Instant Karma,” “Mother,” “Remember” and “Gimme Some Truth.” From Paul McCartney comes “Maybe I’m Amazed,” “Every Night,” “Another Day,” “Hot as Sun/Glasses” and “Oo You.” They’ll also perform George Harrison’s tunes “All Things Must Pass” and his solo hit “My Sweet Lord” and “What is Life.”

    And no late Beatles album would be complete without a Ringo Starr song, in this case, “It Don’t Come Easy.”

    Many of the songs were tried out by the Beatles while they were together. But the Fab Faux chose December 1970 as the cutoff date for when a song had to be started to give them the best material to work with. The Beatles officially split in April 1970, when McCartney said he was leaving the band.

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  77. Jay Allen Sanford has a hardback (I think) edition of his Beatles comic book series coming out soon as well! I was surprised to see that his comics are available in Finland! I was at the library and looking through the rock biography section, and saw a bunch of his comics!

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  81. >>“The Vatican has forgiven The Beatles on the 40th anniversary of their break-up”

    … A year after Israel apologizes for denying the Beatles permission to play there! Before we know it, the Philippines will be exchanging ambassadors with Apple Corps.

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  84. Amazing, the musicianship and attention to the guitar tones and drum sound is quite impressive. I never got into the Beatlemania show, but I would pay to see these guys.

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